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First broadcast 16th June 2013.

After a period of ill health, Miss Marple leaves St. Mary Mead for the tropical Caribbean paradise of St Honoré, where an English couple - Tim and Molly Kendall - run a quaint little resort called the Golden Palms.

Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple
Pippa Bennett-Warner as Victoria
Charity Wakefield as Molly Kendall
Robert Webb as Tim Kendall
Warren Brown as Jackson
Alastair Mackenzie as Colonel Hillingdon
Hermione Norris as Evelyn Hillingdon
Charles Mesure as Greg Dyson
MyAnna Buring as Lucky Dyson
Kingsley Ben-Adir as Errol
Antony Sher as Rafiel
Montserrat Lombard as Esther Walters
Oliver Ford Davies as Major Palgrave
Daniel Rigby as Canon Prescott
Andrea Dondolo as Mama Zogbe
Joe Vaz as Sergeant Weston
Anele Matoti as Inspector Daventry
Jeremy Crutchley as Ian Fleming
Charlie Higson as James Bond

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00:01:00Do hurry, Victoria. It's our big dinner tonight and I want everything to be just perfect.
00:01:16You worry too much, Mrs. Kendall.
00:01:17They're not hanging level, Evans.
00:01:18Mr. Kendall's son?
00:01:19No, I don't suppose I'd call myself a people person. I'm rather more interested in birds,
00:01:33actually.
00:01:34Edwards, not joking.
00:01:35Mr. and Mrs. Dyson.
00:01:36Yeah, never mind the chow chants. Bring us another round of planter's punch.
00:01:42Coming right up, Mr. Dyson.
00:01:43You're late.
00:01:44And you're ugly.
00:01:45Mr. Raphael? Ms. Astor?
00:01:47You don't have to thank him, girl. It's what he's paid to do.
00:01:50Sorry.
00:01:51... of India, the Hassan's in Persia.
00:01:52Mr. Silver?
00:01:53Big thing around these parts is zombies. Some people say that zombies are corpses who've
00:02:01come back to life. Other people say that zombies are people who've come back to life.
00:02:10Some people say that zombies are corpses who've come back to life. Other people say no, they're
00:02:16living persons who've been drugged by a bokor, a voodoo witch doctor, to do his bidding.
00:02:23It's a horrible practice, voodoo, an affront to Christianity. It should be stamped out.
00:02:26I think my first husband was one of the living dead. At least in the sack.
00:02:33I once met a fellow who claimed that he'd seen a zombie, you know. Oh, I can't imagine
00:02:38anything more terrifying. Can you?
00:02:42Mind you, the behavior of some people in our so-called civilized society is often no better.
00:02:49Drink, drugs, bed-hopping, suicides, wives murdering their husbands, husbands doing away
00:02:57with their wives. Wouldn't you agree?
00:02:59How do you find being men of God?
00:03:01I'm so sorry, were you talking to me, Major Pogret?
00:03:05Yes, it's this glass I admire. It has a mind of its own.
00:03:09Oh, no, no, no, it wasn't that. I was me gathering, I'm afraid. Miles away.
00:03:14Well, perhaps it was an unsuitable topic for dinner. But if you'll allow me to show you
00:03:21something, I think you'll find it interesting.
00:03:27Poor Miss Marple.
00:03:28Everything all right, I hope?
00:03:30Oh, what is now?
00:03:32Colonel Prescott, I saw the watercolor you've been working on. It's absolutely lovely.
00:03:36Thank you, it's really not...
00:03:38I say, Colonel Hillingdon, you've caught the sun. It suits you.
00:03:42Mrs. Hillingdon, I'm positively green with envy. He looks quite the film star.
00:03:47What a smashing dress, Mrs. Dyson. I'm so jealous I could quite tear it off your back.
00:03:52Oh, you're no such yourself, Molly. I absolutely adore the color of this shawl.
00:03:57Well, you know, you can get it in a little shop by reception.
00:04:00Really?
00:04:01Something of a hobby of mine. I call it my chamber of horrors.
00:04:06Now, look at this. Innocent-looking...
00:04:08I hope Molly's been looking after you all.
00:04:10I'm afraid not. She's been flirting with all the men except me. I feel left out.
00:04:16Let me show you something. It was sent me a few years back by an old army pal.
00:04:23It's just a snapshot showing off some whopping great striped marlin he caught out in Kenya.
00:04:28Voodoo's not a subject to be taken lightly.
00:04:31It acts as a slow poison affecting the whole of society.
00:04:35Well, a letter arrives from my chum...
00:04:38I come here every year to try and help educate people.
00:04:41I always stay here. Molly Kendall is a wonder. So kind.
00:04:45Saying that someone in the background was probably a murderer...
00:04:51who got away with it, not once but twice.
00:04:54Now, here we are.
00:04:56See this blurry figure here?
00:04:59I think it must be...
00:05:02Well, I'm damned!
00:05:04I mean...
00:05:08And the picture is seething. He's having a bad day.
00:05:11As I was saying, I'd like to have shown you those tusks in Miss Marple.
00:05:15It's the biggest elephant I've ever shot.
00:05:33Here you go, Major. It's all yours.
00:05:42That murderer, Major Palgrave!
00:05:44It was really nothing, Miss Marple. I must have made a mistake.
00:05:48I mean, things like that don't happen outside of books.
00:05:51Oh, but they do. Practically every day.
00:05:54If a murderer gets a formula that works, they won't stop.
00:05:58They go on with it.
00:05:59Like Lucretia Borgia.
00:06:01Off!
00:06:02The bride's in the bath.
00:06:04I am so sorry, Major, but we need to find Miss Marple a seat.
00:06:07Forgive me, but I think you've heard quite enough from our resident Borg.
00:06:10Thank you, Major Palgrave.
00:06:12Oh, thank you.
00:06:18Well, this is Jolene, isn't it?
00:06:20Not my sort of thing, I'm afraid. All this leaping about and carrying on.
00:06:25You know, the Major's not so bad.
00:06:28He's old and lonely and likes to remember when he was young and how he was loved.
00:06:32He's not so bad.
00:06:34He's old and lonely and likes to remember when he was young and happy.
00:06:37Well, he shouldn't drink so much. He has high blood pressure.
00:06:40He does look a rather alarming purple colour.
00:06:43I think it's a race between him and old Mr Raphael to see who will drop off their purge first.
00:06:48Bill Vulture is fantastically rich.
00:06:51He made his money in chemicals and fertilisers.
00:06:53The young woman with him is his secretary.
00:06:56Or so he says.
00:06:58And the young man?
00:07:00Max.
00:07:02Raphael would be helpless as a baby without him.
00:07:04He's a nurse, a valet and a fully trained masseur to boot.
00:07:08So nice to get everyone sorted out.
00:07:11And what brings you to St. Honorary?
00:07:13My husband is a keen bird watcher.
00:07:15I'm less keen.
00:07:17Edward's gone so far as to arrange some sort of lecture for later on in the week.
00:07:21Some fellow from the Audubon Society is coming over.
00:07:25Tell me about your friends, the American couple.
00:07:27Greg and Lucky Dyson.
00:07:29We met them here a few years ago.
00:07:31He's a photographer.
00:07:32One of the good, actually.
00:07:34Used a lot of nature and scenery for the magazines.
00:07:37Think I'll turn the inn, though.
00:08:00Rather overdone the old fire water, I fear.
00:08:02Yes, I'm not feeling 100% myself.
00:08:04Oh.
00:08:07All right.
00:08:09Excuse me.
00:08:11I say, Major Pogreve.
00:08:19I don't want to appear ungrateful.
00:08:21My nephew Raymond has gone to such expense.
00:08:23Dr. Haydock is convinced the climate will be good for my rheumatism.
00:08:27It is beautiful.
00:08:29It's tribal naughtiness.
00:08:31So many palm trees.
00:08:33But it's not like home.
00:08:36Where there's always something happening.
00:08:38This is me.
00:08:40I shall bid you good night.
00:08:42Good night.
00:08:44I do hope you're feeling more yourself tomorrow.
00:08:46Yes, well, Errol must have mixed the drinks particularly strong tonight.
00:08:52Not as young as I was.
00:09:05Who's there?
00:09:15Who's there?
00:09:25Who's there?
00:09:35Who's there?
00:09:45Who's there?
00:10:15Who's there?
00:10:33The current has washed it wrong from the point.
00:10:35Better get rid of it before any of the guests come down.
00:10:55It's not all fun and games, is it?
00:10:58Well, you can't have anything for nothing, can you?
00:11:00You certainly can't.
00:11:02Do you think it's going to be all right?
00:11:04We're making a go of it, aren't we?
00:11:06You mustn't worry so.
00:11:07You don't think people are saying it's not the same as when your folks are running the place?
00:11:11Don't be silly.
00:11:13We're a great team, you and I.
00:11:15As long as you think so.
00:11:17I worry too much, thinking what if something should go wrong?
00:11:21What could go wrong?
00:11:22I don't know.
00:11:23I'm a fool.
00:11:25You haven't had any more of those dreams, have you?
00:11:28No, I think that was the shellfish.
00:11:33Everything all right, Johnny?
00:11:41Good morning, Miss.
00:11:43Another perfect day in paradise.
00:11:44Oh, indeed.
00:11:48My dear, anything wrong?
00:11:52Well, you'll have to know.
00:11:53Everyone will have to know.
00:11:56Poor Major Palgrave died in the night.
00:11:58Oh, dear.
00:11:59Oh, I am sorry.
00:12:01He was quite old.
00:12:03And he had high blood pressure.
00:12:05I suppose he has been examined by a doctor.
00:12:09Mr. Raphael's nurse found him.
00:12:11Apparently he'd arranged for a massage this morning.
00:12:14And the local people have just been to give him a death certificate.
00:12:17It all seems quite straightforward, but it's terribly worrying to me and Tim.
00:12:21There's no need to fret.
00:12:23An elderly man like Major Palgrave with a fondness for alcohol.
00:12:27If only it hadn't been so sudden.
00:12:29Yes, it was sudden, wasn't it?
00:12:31One minute he was laughing and joking and telling stories, and the next...
00:12:38My dear, are you quite all right?
00:12:42Yes, I thought...
00:12:44It's nothing. I thought I saw something.
00:12:47Do you ever get the feeling someone is...
00:12:50I must have...
00:12:51I just imagined it.
00:12:56Yes, these things happen.
00:13:01It's bad luck for the old boy, but people can't live forever, can they?
00:13:07No, they can't.
00:13:21What do you mean by barging in here? Can't you knock?
00:13:23Sorry, sir, I did knock. I thought you might...
00:13:26Are you all right?
00:13:28Errol's drinks can have a powerful kick.
00:13:31No, no, I'm not...
00:13:33I have an upset stomach, that's all.
00:13:35Oh, poor you.
00:13:38Sorry to shout like that. I'm all out of kilter.
00:13:43I think I must have had a bad prawn last night.
00:13:54Oh, no.
00:13:56Where is he?
00:14:00There he is.
00:14:02Oh, yeah, look. There he is.
00:14:05If you're very careful, you'll spot him.
00:14:07He's a light dun colour, extremely well camouflaged.
00:14:11Yeah!
00:14:13It got me.
00:14:15Lucky, you really must try to be a little quieter.
00:14:18Hey, Greg.
00:14:19Huh?
00:14:20Take my picture. You never photograph me anymore.
00:14:23I only try to take pictures of beautiful things these days.
00:14:30Oh, aren't we comical.
00:14:36He's over there, in the swizzle stick tree.
00:14:38Ed, your wife was right. This is all too boring.
00:14:41There goes my lucky charm.
00:14:43You still love her, Greg.
00:14:46Ed, you may know all there is to know about birds,
00:14:49but you don't know the first thing about women,
00:14:51and you don't know the first thing about lucky.
00:15:02This is not as good as Frangipani, eh?
00:15:05I can't get it here.
00:15:07It's a pity.
00:15:11Are you going in for your dip now?
00:15:13I'll go in when I'm ready.
00:15:15It's gone half past eleven. Jackson says...
00:15:18Bugger what that fool says.
00:15:21Caribbean isn't what it used to be.
00:15:24Can't move a step without some old booby getting under your feet.
00:15:31Hello!
00:15:33Well, isn't this splendid?
00:15:35Splendid?
00:15:36I suppose you've heard the sad news.
00:15:39My man Jackson told me all about it.
00:15:41The poor Major.
00:15:43A ghastly old bore.
00:15:45He needn't have died if he'd looked after himself properly.
00:15:48Come now, Mr Raphael.
00:15:50Oh, look at me. The doctors gave me up years ago.
00:15:53If it wasn't for Jackson, they might have been right.
00:15:56Besides, Major Porgrave had high blood pressure.
00:15:58Who says so?
00:15:59He was very red in the face.
00:16:01So what?
00:16:03I said to him once,
00:16:04you've got to watch your blood pressure.
00:16:06He said he had nothing to look out for in that line.
00:16:09His blood pressure was very good for his age.
00:16:12Men never like to admit there's anything wrong with them.
00:16:15Poppycock.
00:16:18Talking of ailments, I don't suppose...
00:16:21I know it's a little presumptuous of me,
00:16:23but do you think your man Jackson might be able to look at my knee?
00:16:27Your knee?
00:16:29I thought perhaps the warmer weather might...
00:16:31All right, spare us the grisly details.
00:16:34What time is it?
00:16:3620 to 12?
00:16:38I ought to have had my dip long ago.
00:16:41Why can't you remind me of these things, girl?
00:16:50Old men are so ugly, aren't they?
00:16:53Sometimes I think they should all be put to death or 40.
00:16:57Perhaps 35 would be better.
00:17:01Oh, hey, Molly.
00:17:03Are you going to come for a swim after lunch?
00:17:05You're a virgin in a swim suit.
00:17:07I'd love to. I'm rather busy.
00:17:13Don't all bird watchers go around the place armed to the teeth?
00:17:20He told me it's only loaded with blanks.
00:17:22Some of these palettes aren't worth anything.
00:17:25I don't know.
00:17:27He told me it's only loaded with blanks.
00:17:29Some of these parts are pretty hairy.
00:17:31The gun's just a warning, nothing more.
00:17:33Whoa!
00:17:35I can give you some pills for the pain.
00:17:37Dental exercise will help. Otherwise...
00:17:39Just old age.
00:17:41I've offered to help with the funeral arrangements for the Major.
00:17:44Bad business.
00:17:46It seems so sad to die alone like that and so far from home.
00:17:49He didn't care for English winters.
00:17:51Can't say I blame him.
00:17:53Did he, like me, have health reasons
00:17:56that made it necessary for him to winter abroad?
00:17:58Not that I know of, but I never examined him.
00:18:01I don't believe he was alive, at least.
00:18:03But it was his blood pressure that killed him.
00:18:05I found a bottle of blood pressure pills in his room.
00:18:07Serenite.
00:18:09How wonderful science is nowadays.
00:18:11Doctors can do so much, can't they?
00:18:13All with a little pill.
00:18:15They can bring the dead back to life.
00:18:17Cheers.
00:18:19Oh, Cannon, I wonder if it's not too much bother.
00:18:22I was showing a snapshot of my nephew, Raymond,
00:18:25to the Major last night,
00:18:27and I think he might have got muddled up
00:18:29with some of his own photographs.
00:18:31You couldn't ask it's among his things, could you?
00:18:34You can't miss it.
00:18:36Raymond is holding up a very big fish.
00:18:38A marlin, I believe it's called.
00:18:42Hello?
00:18:44Cannon Prescott?
00:19:11Hello?
00:19:41Ha, ha, ha!
00:19:58You're back, then.
00:20:12Victoria?
00:20:14Victoria, you know, you know that little baby
00:20:16that I asked you about?
00:20:18I'm sorry.
00:20:20I'm sorry.
00:20:22I'm sorry.
00:20:24I'm sorry.
00:20:26I won't make it worth your while.
00:20:28Just give me the address, I'll get it myself.
00:20:30I'm sorry.
00:20:32I won't make it worth your while.
00:20:34Just give me the address, I'll get it myself.
00:20:36I'm sorry.
00:20:38I'm sorry.
00:20:40Just give me the address, I'll get it myself.
00:20:42Okay.
00:20:44Please don't tell anyone.
00:20:52Lovely evening.
00:20:54Oh, hello.
00:20:56I got a little lost looking for my bungalow.
00:20:59Well, you look busy.
00:21:01I need to clear the Major's room ready for the next guest.
00:21:04Better not tell them what happened, eh?
00:21:06No, I suppose not.
00:21:08I always think it's very sad
00:21:10having to look through the personal possessions
00:21:12of someone who's just died.
00:21:14It's the little things I find so poignant.
00:21:17Things they'll never need again,
00:21:19like their razor, their toothbrush,
00:21:22or, in the Major's case,
00:21:24his bottle of blood pressure pills.
00:21:27Things you must have seen a hundred times
00:21:29when you were cleaning his room.
00:21:31Must have.
00:21:33Oh, well, um...
00:21:35I'm sorry to have disturbed you.
00:22:02Wake up, man.
00:22:04What do you want? It's not morning.
00:22:06It's morning again.
00:22:08Give me one coffin again.
00:22:10It's bad, Errol. It's getting worse.
00:22:12Get some more medicine off Mama's arm.
00:22:14It's not enough. We need to take her to a proper doctor.
00:22:17We can't afford no doctor. We need to do something.
00:22:19It's the middle of the night.
00:22:21We can't do nothing now.
00:22:23I'll talk about it in the morning. Go to sleep.
00:22:25I can't sleep.
00:22:27My mind is going round and round and round
00:22:29like a fish in a bowl.
00:22:31The little one will be all right. It's not just that.
00:22:34Something about the major man who died.
00:22:36Something I don't like.
00:22:38Something wrong about it.
00:22:40Don't worry about that.
00:22:42He was old. He died.
00:22:44Listen, man. It's them pills.
00:22:46Them pills in his room. There's something wrong there.
00:22:48Leave it.
00:22:50Don't go looking for trouble.
00:22:52It's their business. It's got nothing to do with us.
00:23:04The man that is born of a woman
00:23:06hath but a short time to live
00:23:08and is full of misery.
00:23:10He cometh up and is cut down
00:23:12like a flower.
00:23:14He flyeth as it were a shadow
00:23:16and never continueth in one stay.
00:23:18In the midst of life,
00:23:20we are in death.
00:23:22I don't think there might have been
00:23:24a better place to die.
00:23:26I don't think there might have been
00:23:28a better place to die.
00:23:30I don't think there might have been
00:23:32I don't think there might have been
00:23:34a better turnout for the old chap.
00:23:36Well, at least he's buried somewhere
00:23:38that he loved.
00:23:40In a week or so,
00:23:42no one will even remember him
00:23:44or spare him a passing thought.
00:23:46Except you, perhaps?
00:23:48Yes.
00:23:50Yes, I suppose it is all down to me now.
00:23:52All right, Victoria. All right.
00:23:54I understand. We don't want to make a fuss
00:23:56and I certainly don't want Tim worried about this.
00:23:58About what?
00:24:02MUSIC
00:24:04MUSIC
00:24:06MUSIC
00:24:08MUSIC
00:24:10MUSIC
00:24:12MUSIC
00:24:14I'm sorry to say we could find no trace
00:24:16of your Marlin photograph among the major's things.
00:24:18Plenty of pictures of slaughtered animals
00:24:20but no fish, I'm afraid, large or small.
00:24:22Never mind. I'm sure I can get another print.
00:24:24Well, here's to the old fellow.
00:24:26He was something of a fixture
00:24:28at Golden Palms. Won't be the same next year.
00:24:30In a funny way, I think I'll miss all his stories.
00:24:32Do you recall
00:24:34what he was talking about at dinner
00:24:36the night he died?
00:24:38A lot of silly stuff about voodoo.
00:24:40I mean, after that.
00:24:42I must confess, I wasn't really listening.
00:24:44I suppose he must have told you his stories
00:24:46many times.
00:24:48He had a store of them and a photograph
00:24:50to illustrate each one,
00:24:52whether it be some poor dead tiger or...
00:24:54you know.
00:24:56Doer?
00:24:58Gossip. Anything to do with...
00:25:00you know, how shall I put it?
00:25:02S.E.X.
00:25:04Oh, come now, Canon. I'm not a nun.
00:25:06Sex may not have been
00:25:08mentioned in my day, but there was plenty
00:25:10of it about.
00:25:12I enjoyed farm more than nowadays
00:25:14where it seems to have become a kind of duty.
00:25:16Not my territory, I'm afraid.
00:25:18Sadly, my church training taught me a great deal
00:25:20about the soul but very little about the heart.
00:25:22Other than that it's all a terrible sin, of course.
00:25:24Talking of sin,
00:25:26did the Major ever talk to you about a murderer?
00:25:28I do remember something
00:25:30about a woman,
00:25:32a golden-haired Lucrezia Borgia
00:25:34who poisoned her husband and her lover,
00:25:36something like that.
00:25:38But as I say, I never really listened to him that attentively
00:25:40and you couldn't see anything in the photograph.
00:25:42A woman? Are you quite sure?
00:25:44I may not know a great deal about men and women,
00:25:46Miss Marple, but I can still tell the difference.
00:25:48Ha!
00:25:54It all sounds rather idiotic, I know,
00:25:56but as far as I can make out, Victoria has got it
00:25:58into her head that someone put
00:26:00poison tablets in the Major's...
00:26:02What's the name of that stuff?
00:26:04Sarah something bottle? I think what she said was
00:26:06that there was a bottle in there labelled Serenite.
00:26:08It's quite commonly used.
00:26:10But Victoria said she'd never seen the bottle in his room before.
00:26:12How do you mean?
00:26:14It only turned up after his death.
00:26:16If they weren't his pills, could they have poisoned him?
00:26:18No, they wouldn't do anything.
00:26:20But I mean, if they weren't his pills,
00:26:22he wouldn't have taken them in the first place, would he?
00:26:24Of course not.
00:26:26How stupid.
00:26:28Victoria had us all thinking he'd been poisoned.
00:26:32Did the Major ever show you
00:26:34a photograph of a murderer?
00:26:36A murderer?
00:26:38I don't recall him ever telling a story about a murderer.
00:26:40Plenty of tittle-tattle and gossip.
00:26:42You mean people staying at the hotel?
00:26:44You must have heard the rumours.
00:26:46I'm afraid I have. I must have forgotten it.
00:26:48Molly Kendall?
00:26:50Of course you know her mother hung herself in one of the bungalows.
00:26:52How ghastly.
00:26:54She was evidently a bit unstable.
00:26:56Runs in the family.
00:26:58I gather an uncle of hers took off all his clothes
00:27:00in one of the tube stations.
00:27:02Green Park, I think it was.
00:27:04After her mother died,
00:27:06her father sent her away to England. He couldn't cope.
00:27:08Molly had some silly dream of becoming an actress,
00:27:10only she went and started some squalid affair
00:27:12with a married man, all very messy.
00:27:14He dashed over there to straighten her out.
00:27:16But by the time he got there,
00:27:18poor, sweet, dull Tim
00:27:20had already ridden to Molly's rescue
00:27:22and the other fellow had done a bunk.
00:27:24I think he was so grateful that Molly had found
00:27:26someone more suitable, he virtually drove them
00:27:28to the church there and then.
00:27:30What a terrible word that is.
00:27:32Suitable.
00:27:34You know how these conditions can sometimes make a woman,
00:27:36you know,
00:27:38go for the men, rather.
00:27:40You've seen how Molly is. Always flirting.
00:27:42And the way she carries on with that waiter Errol.
00:27:44They grew up together.
00:27:46They were very close.
00:27:48Too close.
00:27:50If you take my meaning.
00:27:52Molly? Good Lord, no.
00:27:54There could never be any scandal or gossip about Molly.
00:27:56She's not that type.
00:27:58I think whoever told you that must have muddled her up with Lucky Dyson.
00:28:00What makes you say that?
00:28:02There are two types of blonde, Miss Marple.
00:28:04The sweet, innocent type and the fake, the bottle blonde.
00:28:06And if anyone's going to be involved in a scandal, it's the latter.
00:28:16Careful.
00:28:42We don't want you going over.
00:28:46Ed, please.
00:28:48Not now, darling.
00:28:50Well, when then?
00:28:52It seems it's not ever.
00:28:54I'm at breaking point.
00:28:56Don't be so overdramatic.
00:28:58Overdramatic?
00:29:00After what I've done for you?
00:29:02Lucky.
00:29:04Edward, wait. Stop it.
00:29:06Ed!
00:29:08Hi there.
00:29:10You've found my favourite spot.
00:29:12It's lovely here, isn't it?
00:29:14I walk up here every afternoon.
00:29:16It's really the nicest time.
00:29:32Is everything quite all right?
00:29:34Yes.
00:29:36No, I...
00:29:38I don't know.
00:29:40I don't know.
00:29:42What's the matter with me?
00:29:44I feel like I'm losing control.
00:29:46I'm just so terribly frightened.
00:29:48What are you frightened of, dear?
00:29:50Everything.
00:29:52Voices in the bushes.
00:29:54Footsteps.
00:29:58I see a dark figure in my dreams.
00:30:00Somebody hates me.
00:30:02That's what I keep feeling.
00:30:04Somebody hates me.
00:30:06No, darling.
00:30:08What has this been going on for?
00:30:10I don't know. I can't remember. I can't remember anything.
00:30:12You mean you're having blackouts?
00:30:14That sort of thing?
00:30:16I suppose so.
00:30:18I mean, sometimes...
00:30:20Say it's five o'clock,
00:30:22and I can't remember anything
00:30:24since about half-past one or two.
00:30:26Oh, dear.
00:30:28Oh, darling.
00:30:30Darling,
00:30:32you have to go and see a doctor.
00:30:34They can give you pills.
00:30:36I won't.
00:30:38I won't go near one.
00:30:42Oh.
00:30:44Good gracious,
00:30:46it's getting frightfully late.
00:30:48I ought to be getting back.
00:30:50I can't leave Tim alone to cope by himself.
00:30:52Footsteps.
00:31:04Hello.
00:31:06Hello.
00:31:08Such a lovely day.
00:31:10Why not?
00:31:12That's what we're here for, isn't it?
00:31:14So severe.
00:31:16May I?
00:31:18Of course, the weather is a very English topic for conversation.
00:31:20Perhaps you'd rather talk business.
00:31:22I'm afraid I don't know a great deal
00:31:24about the chemicals industry.
00:31:26Jackson! Esther!
00:31:28Where are those two when I need them?
00:31:30It seems so quiet without the Major here.
00:31:32The chattering old boobie
00:31:34talk too much.
00:31:36The trouble with gossip, though,
00:31:38is one can never quite pin down
00:31:40where the stories originated.
00:31:42Jackson!
00:31:44For instance, I wonder who started
00:31:46the rumour that the Major
00:31:48had high blood pressure.
00:31:50Those pills
00:31:52they found in his room
00:31:54weren't his, you know.
00:31:56Of course they weren't.
00:31:58Somebody's been clever.
00:32:00What do you mean by that?
00:32:02Well, you said so yourself.
00:32:04The Major talked too much.
00:32:06What if he said something
00:32:08he shouldn't have?
00:32:10I hope you're not suggesting
00:32:12that someone did the Major in
00:32:14because he knew about something.
00:32:16Did he ever show you a photograph
00:32:18of a murderer?
00:32:20He had hundreds of the damn things, collected them.
00:32:22Yes, I know, that's the problem.
00:32:24The one I'm interested in
00:32:26was of someone who had killed more than once.
00:32:30I vaguely recall
00:32:32some complicated story
00:32:34about a chap
00:32:36who'd lost two wives
00:32:38in the same suspicious manner.
00:32:40Suicide, apparently.
00:32:42And did you see the photograph?
00:32:44Why, he had hundreds.
00:32:46Men who killed their wives,
00:32:48wives who killed their husbands,
00:32:50mistresses who poisoned their parents.
00:32:52The other evening
00:32:54he was about to show me
00:32:56a snapshot of a murderer
00:32:58when he saw someone across the table
00:33:00and flew into a panic.
00:33:02The next thing,
00:33:04he was dead,
00:33:06and there was no sign of that photograph
00:33:08anywhere among his possessions.
00:33:10Not quite the gentle,
00:33:12fluffy old lady
00:33:14you look, are you?
00:33:16I don't know whether to take that as a compliment.
00:33:18You can take it any way you like.
00:33:20So you think Porgrave
00:33:22was murdered to shut him up?
00:33:24If our murderer
00:33:26had killed before and quite got away
00:33:28with it, there would be no need
00:33:30to go to these lengths to silence
00:33:32old Major Porgrave.
00:33:34Unless whoever it is
00:33:36was planning to do it again.
00:33:38Precisely.
00:33:40I fear another murder
00:33:42will be committed right under our noses.
00:33:56And you never saw the photograph of the murderer,
00:33:58Mrs. MacDonald? No.
00:34:00So you don't know if it was a man or a woman?
00:34:02I'm afraid not, no.
00:34:04And who certified the death certificate?
00:34:06Dr. Graham, I suppose. He didn't have any doubts, did he?
00:34:08He may have been influenced by the bottle of
00:34:10serenite tablets in the room.
00:34:12So you want me to believe that this person
00:34:14in this mysterious missing photograph
00:34:16planted the pills to make it look like a heart attack?
00:34:18They thought they could get away with
00:34:20murdering Porgrave just because he
00:34:22was old and nobody would care.
00:34:24Well, Miss Marple
00:34:26does care. I appreciate that.
00:34:28But if he didn't die of
00:34:30blood pressure, what did he die of then?
00:34:32It is possible that
00:34:34somebody put something in his drink.
00:34:36Something that would not leave any recognizable traces.
00:34:38Not everyone is so
00:34:40considerate as to use arsenic.
00:34:42With all due respect, it is a rather fanciful story.
00:34:44If you were to exhume the
00:34:46body and give it a proper post-mortem
00:34:48examination... Thank you very much for your suggestion,
00:34:50Mrs. Marple. It's Miss Marple,
00:34:52damn it.
00:34:54But we are a very busy police force
00:34:56with more pressing matters
00:34:58to deal with. I suggest that the two of you
00:35:00go back to your lovely hotel and enjoy
00:35:02the rest of your holiday. You are not listening
00:35:04to us. The professional thing
00:35:06to do... The St. Honoré police force
00:35:08has been doing perfectly fine without your help.
00:35:10Thank you very much, Mr. Ruffey.
00:35:12Times have changed.
00:35:14You British
00:35:16are no longer in charge.
00:35:18Can I just come in here and tell me what the professional
00:35:20thing to do is?
00:35:22As I was saying.
00:35:24I'm busy.
00:35:26Oh, look here.
00:35:28Let's leave the people. We have a real heart attack
00:35:30on our hands.
00:35:32Good luck, Jackson.
00:35:34I will not be spoken to
00:35:36like that by a
00:35:38funny policeman. Who does
00:35:40he think he is?
00:35:42Get to the bottom of this, Miss Marple,
00:35:44and shove the evidence right up his...
00:35:46Oh, do be careful, Jackson.
00:35:52Are you going back to the hotel, Miss M?
00:35:54No thanks, Jackson. I have some things
00:35:56I want to do in Jamestown. Okay.
00:35:58Suit yourself.
00:36:02One time Charlie
00:36:04Took my baby
00:36:06One time Charlie
00:36:08Driving me crazy
00:36:10Round the corner
00:36:12and down the street
00:36:14Whispering sweet nothings
00:36:16And I said
00:36:18I love you
00:36:20I love you
00:36:22I love you
00:36:24I love you
00:36:26I love you
00:36:28I love you
00:36:30Whispering sweet nothings
00:36:32Promised her
00:36:34A wedding ring
00:36:36In the down room, never written
00:36:38On the down, he was writing
00:36:40The first time he tried it, he was sick.
00:36:42And the second time, his hat blew off.
00:36:48Oh, right. I must be looking
00:36:50busy, Tim. Mr. Raphael will be
00:36:52wanting to take his dip.
00:36:54I don't know how you stick it, Johnny.
00:36:56He likes to play up the crotchety old man
00:36:58routine. I'm used to him.
00:37:00Besides, he pays very well indeed,
00:37:02tell your mother.
00:37:04I was lucky enough to marry him,
00:37:06Tim.
00:37:08Luck is the word, Tim.
00:37:10He's a lovely girl, your Molly.
00:37:12Don't I know it. Speaking of lucky.
00:37:14Yeah.
00:37:16All in all, the scenery around here is very agreeable.
00:37:22My purse.
00:37:24I just keep losing the damn things.
00:37:28Cheers.
00:37:30Promised her
00:37:32He loved her true
00:37:34All the others, they were true
00:37:36But the others, they never knew
00:37:38One time, Charlie
00:37:40He
00:37:42He
00:37:44He
00:37:46He
00:37:48He
00:37:50He
00:37:52He
00:37:54He
00:37:56He
00:37:58He
00:38:00He
00:38:02He
00:38:04He
00:38:06He
00:38:08He
00:38:10He
00:38:14Where did you find this?
00:38:16It is very, very special.
00:38:18It is powerful, Gregory.
00:38:20I tell you,
00:38:22in the wrong hands, it can make
00:38:24We make them for tourists.
00:38:37They stick pins in them.
00:38:40Did you find that at the hotel?
00:38:42Yes.
00:38:43How did you know?
00:38:45I saw you there.
00:38:47Have any of the other guests from Golden Palms been to visit you?
00:38:51Maybe they have.
00:38:52Maybe they haven't.
00:38:53That is between me and them.
00:38:55I will tell you one story, Miss Marple.
00:38:57Because it is about a dead man, Mr. Parker T. Witt III.
00:39:02He used to come see me when he visited the island.
00:39:05He wanted me to help him, let's say, keep up with his young wife.
00:39:10But then he stopped coming.
00:39:11Because I was dead.
00:39:13And she had married someone else.
00:39:16Her name was Lucky.
00:39:20And her new husband was Gregory Dyson.
00:39:23Are you telling me your medicine may have hastened his end?
00:39:30Not my medicine.
00:39:32Someone else's, I think.
00:39:35I only use my medicine for good.
00:40:35Have you seen my pills, darling?
00:40:49Just look for them, Gregory, don't you?
00:40:52Thank you, darling.
00:40:53I don't know how I'd get by without you.
00:40:55You'd like that, wouldn't you?
00:40:57Like what?
00:40:58Life without your lucky charm.
00:41:01And you could sniff around every stray girl in Christendom.
00:41:05I just want the old Lucky back, the one that I fell in love with.
00:41:08I miss her.
00:41:09I'm lonely without her.
00:41:12She's not coming back.
00:41:14Somewhere along the way, that young, carefree, happy thing got hit by a truck.
00:41:19Well, if you hate me so much, why don't you just leave?
00:41:21Why don't you?
00:41:22Lucky, I...
00:41:23I'll tell you why.
00:41:24Because of what we did.
00:41:26Our secret.
00:41:27We can never trust each other not to run off at the mouth.
00:41:34I didn't do anything, darling.
00:41:36You did.
00:41:39You married me.
00:41:41Yes.
00:41:43Do you really think that anyone would believe that you had no part in it?
00:41:49No, baby.
00:41:51This is it.
00:41:54And every time I look at you, I am reminded of what I did for love.
00:42:02You threw no way out.
00:42:10Now, enough that I can think of.
00:42:20What's the bloody point?
00:42:23We must keep up appearances, darling.
00:42:26That's all I've ever done, keep up appearances.
00:42:29I want to go home, Evelyn.
00:42:31Or leave lucky.
00:42:37I've known all along, one like you, I'm not a fool.
00:42:41Women tend not to be, despite what men like to believe.
00:42:47Greg, I imagine, is blissfully unaware of the whole situation.
00:42:55For my part, I'm prepared to carry on turning a blind eye.
00:43:01We're going back to England now.
00:43:03We don't want to fuel any more gossip, do we?
00:43:07I can't stick it any longer.
00:43:09You fell wildly in love with Lucky and now it's over, at least as far as she's concerned.
00:43:13No, no, there's more to it than that.
00:43:16There's something she made me do.
00:43:20If I don't get away from her, I swear I shall kill her.
00:43:24Quiet!
00:43:28I'm sorry.
00:43:30If I don't tell someone, I think I'll go mad.
00:43:33Don't be so bloody childish. I know exactly what you've done.
00:43:36You are transparent.
00:43:38But you will bury your dirty little secret deep in your heart and forget about it.
00:43:42I will not have you ruin your life.
00:43:45Why? What do you care?
00:43:47You don't love me. You never have. You've never loved anyone.
00:44:00You couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
00:44:07All I want is for them to be happy.
00:44:12Something I've never managed to achieve for myself.
00:44:16There will be no upset in their lives.
00:44:19No newspaper headlines, no unexplained tears at the breakfast table.
00:44:24They will be happy.
00:44:28There will always be some of them, and I will do whatever it takes to make it so.
00:44:34I'm not like you, Evan. I'm not strong.
00:44:37Then let me be strong for you.
00:44:41ENGINES ROAR
00:45:02Ah, Mr Fleming! Welcome to Golden Palms.
00:45:05May I introduce you to two of our guests, Miss Esther Walters and Miss Jane Marple?
00:45:09Charmed, I'm sure.
00:45:10How do you do?
00:45:11This is Mr. Ian Fleming.
00:45:12He has a villa over in Jamaica.
00:45:14Mr. Fleming is a writer.
00:45:17Well, hello, Molly.
00:45:20I'm so sorry.
00:45:23I startled you, little girl.
00:45:25I didn't hear you coming, Mr. Dyson, sir.
00:45:28It made me jump.
00:45:30Mr. Dyson?
00:45:32Very formal tonight.
00:45:34Tim and I think it's more polite not to be too handy with Christian names.
00:45:39You're not even for old times' sake.
00:45:43Craig.
00:45:45Whoa!
00:45:57What have you got there?
00:45:59Why are you hiding from me?
00:46:00Why are you so angry, man?
00:46:01What's gotten into you?
00:46:03Where did you get that?
00:46:05Huh?
00:46:07Where you get all this money?
00:46:08It ain't none of your business.
00:46:09You just give it.
00:46:10Where you get it from?
00:46:11A man gave it to me.
00:46:12Maybe he likes me.
00:46:13You seeing another man?
00:46:14What?
00:46:15And you never look at another woman?
00:46:17You my woman.
00:46:18You sure?
00:46:19You sure you don't prefer blondes?
00:46:27So, what do you write about, Mr. Fleming?
00:46:30Oh, thank you very much.
00:46:32I'm working on a little spy story.
00:46:35Just a bit of fun.
00:46:37The trouble is, I'm stuck.
00:46:39I can't think of a suitable name for my hero.
00:46:43I usually find inspiration strikes in the most unusual places, Mr. Fleming.
00:46:48Let's hope it does.
00:46:51The police aren't going to be any use.
00:46:54So it looks like it's down to the two of us.
00:46:57Yes, I think you're right.
00:46:59So what do we have?
00:47:02Major recognizes the killer in the photograph.
00:47:06Right in front of him.
00:47:08Across the table.
00:47:10Who was sitting there? Do you remember?
00:47:12Lucky and Greg Dyson.
00:47:14Even was Edward Hillington.
00:47:16And behind them, Molly, Errol, and your man Jackson.
00:47:22Ah, Jackson.
00:47:24How long has he been with you?
00:47:26Five years.
00:47:27Five years. Before that, he was out in Kenya with the army, medical corps.
00:47:32He left under something of a cloud.
00:47:35There are very big marlin to be caught out in Kenya, I hear.
00:47:39Ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I'd like to thank Colonel Hillington,
00:47:45who I'm sure is here somewhere,
00:47:47for arranging what promises to be a most unusual and interesting evening.
00:47:53Without further ado, allow me to introduce tonight's speaker,
00:47:57author of Birds of the West Indies,
00:48:00Mr James Bond.
00:48:08My name is Bond.
00:48:10James Bond.
00:48:12And tonight I'd like to tell you just a little bit
00:48:16about some of the fascinating birds to be found here
00:48:21So, one of those seven people was killed before,
00:48:26and they intend to do so again.
00:48:29Whoever it is believes they have a successful formula.
00:48:32So where do we start?
00:48:34Find the intended victim, and we find our murderer.
00:48:39That's an easy one.
00:48:41Yes?
00:48:42Proper typecasting.
00:48:44Sick men with too much money.
00:48:47Forest and even guano cliffs.
00:48:50Guano?
00:48:52Bird droppings. Pardon my French.
00:48:55They're very valuable as fertilizer.
00:48:58Now, some men might be drawn to the guano.
00:49:02I myself prefer the...
00:49:05Who'd want to see you dead?
00:49:07There are several men in London who wouldn't burst into tears
00:49:11if they read my obituary in the Times.
00:49:14How about Esther Jackson?
00:49:16Would either of them profit by your death?
00:49:20I pay Jackson enough so that I'm more valuable to him alive than dead.
00:49:25Esther's not to know it,
00:49:27but when I keel over, she'll come into a tidied sum.
00:49:32Sorry.
00:49:37I do hope tonight goes well.
00:49:39For Tim's sake.
00:49:41Ever since that bloody old Porgrave died, he's been frantic with worry.
00:49:45And Molly's not much help.
00:49:47She's been good.
00:49:51Molly!
00:49:56I don't know.
00:49:58I don't know what happened. I don't know anything.
00:50:03What's the matter with me?
00:50:05You must try to remember.
00:50:07She can't take much more.
00:50:15What did you see?
00:50:17I don't remember. I was going to meet someone.
00:50:25And then I noticed something white.
00:50:31I stopped and I pulled.
00:50:38And I tried to raise her up, but I got blood on my hands.
00:50:42Oh, her face.
00:50:45Her face.
00:50:48Victoria!
00:50:55The police will want to talk to you.
00:50:57Not until we know exactly what's going on.
00:50:59You don't believe her, do you?
00:51:16Who's there?
00:51:18Victoria?
00:51:24Come on. Come on, sweet pea.
00:51:34Have you found anything?
00:51:35Hopeless. We should knock it off and organise a proper search party in the morning.
00:51:39No. We keep looking.
00:51:41Can someone just tell me what's going on?
00:51:43What are we supposed to be looking for?
00:51:45It's Victoria, the maid.
00:51:47Molly thinks she's dead.
00:51:49There must be some mistake. We only just saw her now.
00:51:51You couldn't have?
00:51:53We did. Back along the path.
00:51:55Are you sure?
00:51:57I can't be sure of anything in the dark.
00:52:11You think it'd be pretty easy to find a body?
00:52:13I need a drink.
00:52:21Molly, darling, what's the matter?
00:52:23I'm there.
00:52:25I'm there.
00:52:27I'm there.
00:52:29I'm there.
00:52:31I'm there.
00:52:33I'm there.
00:52:35I'm there.
00:52:37I'm there.
00:52:39Molly, darling, what's the matter?
00:52:41I'm there. I saw her.
00:52:43Saw her? Saw who?
00:52:45In the mirror. I saw her.
00:52:47I saw Victoria.
00:52:49It's all right. I'll go in and look.
00:52:51Just try to calm down.
00:53:09There's no one there.
00:53:11Nothing.
00:53:33Have you taken any of these, do you know?
00:53:35I don't know.
00:53:37I don't think so.
00:53:39Something scared her.
00:53:41She's in shock.
00:53:43I'd like to give her a shot to calm her down, help her sleep.
00:53:45But if she'd already taken several of these...
00:53:47Several?
00:53:49You don't mean...
00:53:51You think she'd do something stupid?
00:53:53Don't leave her on her own.
00:53:55Watch over her.
00:53:57If she gets hysterical again, I'll give her something to knock her out for a few hours.
00:53:59Then she should be fine.
00:54:01I'll take more than a shot of happy juice.
00:54:03What?
00:54:05She needs to see a psychiatrist, Tim.
00:54:07She should be in a hospital.
00:54:09No.
00:54:11I don't want people like that monkeying around with her.
00:54:13They only make people worse.
00:54:15Oh, come on. Are you the only guy that can't see it?
00:54:17There is no dead body.
00:54:19She's crazy.
00:54:21Oh, shut up.
00:54:23You don't know anything about it.
00:54:25Don't I?
00:54:27I used to come here with my first wife
00:54:29back when Molly's folks were still running the place
00:54:31long before you came on the scene.
00:54:33And she was always pretty,
00:54:35shall we say, emotional.
00:54:37She got away with it
00:54:39because she was a looker.
00:54:41Let's face it, she'd have to be nuts to go for a guy like you.
00:54:43How dare you speak about Molly like that?
00:54:45How dare you?
00:54:47I know what you are. I know what you want.
00:54:49You think you can have every woman you like, don't you?
00:54:51But if you do anything to harm Molly,
00:54:53I will kill you.
00:54:55I swear to God, I will kill you!
00:55:03Come on.
00:55:33Come on.
00:55:47I wondered if you wanted relieving.
00:55:49Tim,
00:55:51there must be 101 things you may need to attend to.
00:55:53Oh, thank you.
00:55:55Yes, yes, you're a saviour.
00:55:57She hasn't woken all night.
00:55:59She's not mad, you know.
00:56:01There's just something in her past
00:56:03that haunts her.
00:56:05I gather you rescued her from someone
00:56:07unsuitable.
00:56:09Yes, yes. Before I met her,
00:56:11there was a married man.
00:56:13It's true,
00:56:15he didn't treat her very well.
00:56:17She would never tell me who it was.
00:56:19She didn't want me to dwell on it.
00:56:21Well, don't worry.
00:56:23I shall guard her like a liar.
00:56:31No, no, no.
00:57:01I think we need some fresh.
00:57:31Oh.
00:58:01Oh.
00:58:31Are you all right?
00:58:33Oh.
00:58:35Oh.
00:58:37My shoelaces were untied.
00:58:39I've taken quite a tumble.
00:58:41Oh, I'm afraid I'm not so steady
00:58:43on my feet these days.
00:58:45My knee doesn't help.
00:58:47Well, I'm so sorry, but I must go.
00:58:49I'm supposed to be looking after poor Molly.
00:58:51Poor Molly?
00:58:53If you ask me, it's all the big act.
00:58:55Making herself out the tragic little figure,
00:58:57pretending to see things.
00:58:59Why would one pretend to be mad?
00:59:01To cover up for stuff.
00:59:03She's probably done something awful,
00:59:05or is planning to do something.
00:59:07I heard of a woman who murdered her husband,
00:59:09claimed to be mad at the time.
00:59:11Diminished responsibility, they call it.
00:59:13She was out of prison in two years.
00:59:15I wonder where you heard that story.
00:59:17Major Pallgrave, perhaps?
00:59:19Probably.
00:59:21He was overtly interested in murders and poisonings
00:59:23and all that sort of stuff.
00:59:25I found her. Dear God, I found her.
00:59:27Found who?
00:59:29By Victoria, just like Molly said.
00:59:31Here.
00:59:53I rather really, really,
00:59:55really, really, really
00:59:57like this kind of fun
01:00:01in the Caribbean.
01:00:05We just play a song.
01:00:07We just come together
01:00:09in Castara
01:00:13as musicians.
01:00:15We out to play.
01:00:19We play all day.
01:00:21We play all day.
01:00:25Wouldn't you suppose they'll let us leave?
01:00:27I'd imagine there are worse places
01:00:29to be holed up than in Paradise.
01:00:31Mind you, having said that,
01:00:33it looks as though there's a storm elbowing
01:00:35its way into the party.
01:00:39Typical.
01:00:41We're supposed to be happy,
01:00:43and instead we're miserable.
01:00:45I blame the Major.
01:00:47Everyone blames the Major.
01:00:49I'd make a sign of the horns
01:00:51every time I thought he was looking my way.
01:00:53Do you really believe in all that?
01:00:55Magic and voodoo?
01:00:57I don't know.
01:00:59I mean, that poor girl, Victoria.
01:01:01First she was dead,
01:01:03and then she wasn't, and then she was dead again.
01:01:05We have to stick to what we know to be true.
01:01:07And we know a dead body
01:01:09cannot get up and walk about.
01:01:11It's a lot of overheated nonsense.
01:01:13The tropics has that effect.
01:01:15If only people would just behave.
01:01:19Molly.
01:01:21You're up.
01:01:23I feel so much better, darling.
01:01:27I was so tired. I think I just needed to sleep.
01:01:29I'm not sure you should be out of bed.
01:01:31I can't lie around here all day like a stuffed dummy.
01:01:33I'm going to get dressed and go out,
01:01:35have a nice walk and clear my head.
01:01:37Oh, damn.
01:01:39You were seen arguing with Victoria
01:01:41before the murder.
01:01:43We always argue.
01:01:45She's a strong woman.
01:01:47She was.
01:01:49What did you argue about?
01:01:51Some man had given her money.
01:01:53I don't know.
01:01:55I don't know.
01:01:57I don't know.
01:01:59I don't know.
01:02:01I don't know.
01:02:03I don't know.
01:02:05Some man had given her money.
01:02:07Victoria is a good woman,
01:02:09but I get jealous.
01:02:11She needed money for the child.
01:02:13The little girl is sick.
01:02:15We cannot afford medicine.
01:02:17Have you ever seen this before?
01:02:19No, I'm afraid it's very important.
01:02:21Look, I'm sorry, Inspector Daventry,
01:02:23but I am still trying to run a hotel here.
01:02:25Is there a problem, Mr. Kendall?
01:02:27Yes, there is. It looks like we're in for a storm.
01:02:29When the last big one hit, we lost the electrics for two days.
01:02:31I need to go and stock up on candles,
01:02:33and I'm afraid I'm going to miss this.
01:02:35It's all right, Mr. Kendall can leave,
01:02:37but you come straight back.
01:02:39We'll need to talk to you.
01:02:41Right, thank you.
01:02:43We'll need to talk to your wife as well.
01:02:45Yes, obviously.
01:02:59Ed?
01:03:01Sorry, I was looking for Edward.
01:03:03Face cream.
01:03:05It's very important for the skin.
01:03:07The salt water in the sun
01:03:09does dry it out awfully.
01:03:11Yeah, well,
01:03:13like you're busy and...
01:03:15You should use cream, Lucky.
01:03:17If I may say,
01:03:19you're looking a little rough around the edges.
01:03:23I bear that in mind.
01:03:25Tell Ed that...
01:03:27Tell him what?
01:03:29Yes, I do know.
01:03:31I know everything.
01:03:39He talked.
01:03:41He didn't need to.
01:03:43It wasn't exactly original what you two did.
01:03:47Edward fell for someone
01:03:49rather obvious.
01:03:51If only you would show him a little affection.
01:03:53Isn't that what you showed him?
01:03:55I gave him what he wanted.
01:03:57You led him on.
01:03:59Promised him the world.
01:04:01At least your grubby little corner of it.
01:04:03But there was one problem, wasn't there?
01:04:07Your first husband,
01:04:09Mr. DeWitt III.
01:04:11Parker was desperately ill.
01:04:13Oh, give it a rest, Lucky.
01:04:15That might have worked on Edward, but not on me.
01:04:17What did you tell him?
01:04:19You and Parker have talked about a way out of his suffering,
01:04:21but to avoid suspicion, could Edward go to the chemist
01:04:23if you needed?
01:04:25Whatever I did for Parker, I did out of kindness.
01:04:27He was in great pain.
01:04:29But I imagine it was still something of a nasty surprise
01:04:31to find himself knocking on the pearly gates.
01:04:35What difference did a few months make?
01:04:37All the same, darling,
01:04:39one doesn't do that sort of thing.
01:04:41Well, Edward did.
01:04:43And because of his guilt,
01:04:45you've used him like a dishrag
01:04:47to clean up every mess you've made.
01:04:49That is going to stop.
01:04:51Well understood.
01:05:11Hi. You there.
01:05:13Hi.
01:05:15You were calling me?
01:05:17Of course I was calling you.
01:05:19I was calling a cat.
01:05:23Please sit down.
01:05:25I want to talk to you.
01:05:27You were right about Porgrave.
01:05:31They dug him up and had a look.
01:05:33And they found?
01:05:35Traces of something that only a doctor could pronounce properly.
01:05:39Enough of the stuff to do him in
01:05:41and leave the symptoms of high blood pressure
01:05:43aggravated by overindulgence of alcohol.
01:05:45Poor old chap.
01:05:47Stick him in the ground
01:05:49and let's get on with enjoying ourselves.
01:05:51In a way,
01:05:53I'd rather have been wrong about him.
01:05:55I expect you'd rather have been wrong
01:05:57about there being another murderer as well.
01:05:59The thing of it is,
01:06:01Mr. Raphael,
01:06:03I don't believe Victoria's death
01:06:05was the one being planned by our murderer.
01:06:07I think, like the Major,
01:06:09she stumbled upon something
01:06:11and paid the price.
01:06:15Eh, it's too bad about the maid.
01:06:17She was a nice kid, too.
01:06:19Although, between you and me,
01:06:21I think she liked to dip her fingers in the honey jar.
01:06:23How do you mean, sir?
01:06:25I don't want to say too much,
01:06:27but I noticed a few little things
01:06:29went missing from my room.
01:06:31Mr. Dyson, I believe you take a preparation called serenite?
01:06:33Yeah.
01:06:35Little pink tablets.
01:06:37Blood pressure.
01:06:39And have any of your pills gone missing lately?
01:06:41It's funny you should mention that.
01:06:43That bottle did do a vanishing act the other day.
01:06:45Now, is it important?
01:06:47As things are,
01:06:49anything might be important.
01:06:51Can you account for your whereabouts at the time of the murder?
01:06:55If you can figure out what time that was,
01:06:57I'll try and figure out where I was.
01:06:59Okay.
01:07:01But you've got to admit, the whole thing's kind of confused.
01:07:03I was, uh...
01:07:05I was kind of drunk.
01:07:13Your man, Jackson, is a snooper.
01:07:15Doesn't surprise me.
01:07:17That's why they kicked him out of the army.
01:07:19Caught him rifling through the filing cabinets,
01:07:21ferreting out secrets.
01:07:25Still think he might be a suspect?
01:07:27I don't know.
01:07:29But there's something, something vital,
01:07:31something someone said,
01:07:33and it's nagging away at me.
01:07:35Now,
01:07:37I don't know what to do.
01:07:39I don't know what to do.
01:07:41No.
01:07:43I'll just have to let my guard drop
01:07:45and let it sneak up on me.
01:07:59We'll carry on in the morning.
01:08:01What a day.
01:08:03Oh, Inspector.
01:08:05Are you going to give me the third degree?
01:08:07No, no, no, no.
01:08:09But I would like to offer you an apology.
01:08:11Oh, no. There's really, really no need.
01:08:13The important thing
01:08:15is that you find the killer
01:08:17before you have another body on your hands.
01:08:39Why?
01:09:05Why?
01:09:07She must have drowned herself, Tim.
01:09:09There's nothing you could have done.
01:09:11I should have been here.
01:09:13Why would she do this?
01:09:15Turn her over.
01:09:17What?
01:09:19You can't leave her like this.
01:09:23Locky.
01:09:25She's wearing Wally's shawl.
01:09:27Oh, thank God.
01:09:29Tim.
01:09:35Wally. Darling.
01:09:39Wally.
01:09:41What happened to you?
01:09:45What have I done?
01:09:47Shh.
01:09:59I don't understand.
01:10:01Why was Locky wearing Wally's shawl?
01:10:03She admired it.
01:10:05She said she was going to get one like it.
01:10:07Evidently, she did.
01:10:09You all right, Miss Em?
01:10:11Locky Dyson left her handbag here.
01:10:13I should take it to Greg.
01:10:15I don't think you should.
01:10:23Could it be poison of some kind
01:10:25or medicine?
01:10:29It's medicine of a sort.
01:10:31Cocaine, I reckon.
01:10:33I wonder what made her so unhappy.
01:10:35She felt she needed this.
01:10:37People take drugs for all sorts of reasons.
01:10:39It's nothing new.
01:10:41Witches in the Middle Ages used to anoint themselves.
01:10:43You know, rub belladonna into their skin
01:10:45to bring on hallucinations.
01:10:47And in India,
01:10:49the young wife who admired an old husband
01:10:51didn't want to get rid of him
01:10:53and end up on the funeral pyre,
01:10:55so she'd keep him under drugs.
01:10:57Make him a semi-imbecile,
01:10:59drive him more or less off his head.
01:11:01Sounds a little like the voodoo stories
01:11:03the major was so keen on.
01:11:05Witch doctors keeping people alive with drugs
01:11:07and all that sort of thing.
01:11:09Is that what you think?
01:11:11That I'm keeping old Mr. Raphael
01:11:13going with pills and potions?
01:11:15I didn't mean to imply...
01:11:17It's his work that keeps him going.
01:11:19If he was to stop for just one day,
01:11:21I think his heart would seize up
01:11:23and he'd drop dead on the spot.
01:11:25That's rather...
01:11:27a risky prospect, then.
01:11:47Yes?
01:11:55Come in.
01:11:59I'm sorry, madame.
01:12:01I should have told you
01:12:03what you needed to know before.
01:12:05Then maybe an innocent girl
01:12:07would not have been murdered.
01:12:09I've told Victoria many times
01:12:11rich folk just bring trouble.
01:12:13It's not just poor Victoria.
01:12:15There's the major
01:12:17and our lucky Dyson, as well.
01:12:19So who was it from the hotel
01:12:21who came to see you?
01:12:23Who was it from the hotel
01:12:25who came to see you?
01:12:27Quickly. You must tell me.
01:12:29The churchman.
01:12:31Prescott.
01:12:35The Canon.
01:12:37I'm quite sure.
01:12:39He made me swear not to tell anyone
01:12:41he had been to see me.
01:12:43And what did the Canon want from you?
01:12:45He's in love with Molly Kendall.
01:12:47Yes, I've noticed.
01:12:49So he wanted some sort of love potion, did he?
01:12:51To make her feel the same about him?
01:12:53No. He wanted me to help him
01:12:55to fall out of love with her.
01:12:57So I sold him
01:12:59some juju.
01:13:05How far
01:13:07would he go, I wonder,
01:13:09to protect Molly?
01:13:11I didn't have him down as a suspect.
01:13:13He wasn't in
01:13:15the major's line of sight
01:13:17at dinner.
01:13:19Positive.
01:13:21He was there at the lecture
01:13:23when Victoria was murdered.
01:13:25But the police can't be sure exactly when she was killed.
01:13:27Though they think it could have been after the lecture.
01:13:29Well, if that's so,
01:13:31a trick has been played on all of us.
01:13:33Is it him?
01:13:35Is Canon Prescott the murderer?
01:13:37Because if it is, I will kill him.
01:13:39I will kill whoever hurt my Victoria.
01:13:41Errol, please.
01:13:43There is one final piece of this parcel I need to place.
01:13:45And until I do,
01:13:47promise me
01:13:49you won't do anything drastic.
01:13:55All right, please.
01:13:57Be quiet.
01:13:59I haven't missed anything.
01:14:01Oh, you'll never miss a thing.
01:14:03Do not worry. We'll find out if it was an accident
01:14:05or something worse.
01:14:07With everything else that's been going on around here,
01:14:09I'd say that the chances of it being an accident
01:14:11are pretty goddamn unlikely.
01:14:13I mean,
01:14:15why was she even on the beach in the first place?
01:14:17You're going to have to accept, Greg, that she was very unhappy
01:14:19and took her own life.
01:14:21Shut your mouth, Tim. You don't know anything about her.
01:14:23Somebody killed Blackie.
01:14:25I'm afraid, Mr. Dyson, if that's the case,
01:14:27then you being her husband will be the prime suspect.
01:14:29I'm not coming to any conclusions, but
01:14:31anyone in this room
01:14:33might have had a motive.
01:14:35Or somebody who isn't in this room.
01:14:37Gee, where is Molly anyway, Tim?
01:14:45I don't know.
01:15:03My Lucky is dead,
01:15:05and I know perfectly well who killed her.
01:15:07You're going to have to calm down, Greg.
01:15:09This really isn't helping.
01:15:11Lucky? She wasn't really, was she?
01:15:13Maybe she was right
01:15:15about the Major and his evil eye.
01:15:17His evil eye?
01:15:19His eye?
01:15:21Of course.
01:15:23I've been foolish and very foolish.
01:15:25I ought to have known
01:15:27from the very beginning what this was all about.
01:15:29It's so simple.
01:15:31I mean, let's face it, folks.
01:15:33There's only one person in this hotel
01:15:35unhinged enough to kill three people.
01:15:37You better watch what you're saying, Greg.
01:15:39Your goddamn crazy wife, Tim!
01:15:41I want you, Greg!
01:15:43I want you!
01:15:45Grow up, Tim, for goodness sake!
01:15:47Please calm down, Mr. Kendall.
01:15:49Why? What's the point?
01:15:51My business is ruined. It won't survive this scandal.
01:15:53And Molly...
01:15:55Why doesn't anyone say it?
01:15:57What we're all thinking?
01:15:59Molly was carrying on with a married man
01:16:01before she met you, Tim.
01:16:03The Major must have known all about it.
01:16:05It was quite obviously Greg.
01:16:07And now Lucky's out of the way,
01:16:09and I have to marry him.
01:16:15Please.
01:16:17She doesn't know what she's been doing.
01:16:19She doesn't mean it.
01:16:21She needs help, Tim.
01:16:23We'll need to talk to her, Tim.
01:16:25Yes, I understand.
01:16:27But please,
01:16:29let me see her.
01:16:31It's five minutes.
01:16:33Five minutes.
01:16:35Well,
01:16:37what do you say, Miss Marple?
01:16:39Looks like they've solved the whole thing without you.
01:17:03Molly.
01:17:05Molly, darling, it's me.
01:17:07Tim.
01:17:09Tim.
01:17:11It's all right.
01:17:13It's all right now.
01:17:15It's over.
01:17:19You must do the right thing, Molly.
01:17:23No.
01:17:25No, Tim.
01:17:27You must. No more bad dreams.
01:17:31Just pull the trigger,
01:17:33and it's finished.
01:17:35Please, Tim, I don't want to.
01:17:37Pull it, you silly little bitch.
01:17:39That's enough.
01:17:41Oh, thank God. You're just in time.
01:17:43I think she was trying to kill herself.
01:17:45Don't be a fool, Tim. I heard everything.
01:17:47No, Molly.
01:17:49This is all very similar, Tim,
01:17:51to one of the Major's stories
01:17:53about a man whose wives had a nasty habit
01:17:55of committing suicide.
01:17:57Give me the gun, Tim.
01:17:59God.
01:18:09Molly's gone insane. She's shot someone.
01:18:11No, Tim.
01:18:13I always knew
01:18:15that Molly was the intended victim.
01:18:17But up till now,
01:18:19I wasn't absolutely sure
01:18:21who the killer was, so
01:18:23I asked Errol to change
01:18:25the bullets in your gun
01:18:27to Colonel Hillingdon's blacks
01:18:29just in case.
01:18:31I think we found our murderer,
01:18:33Inspector.
01:18:35Oh.
01:18:41Let go of him!
01:18:43It's not fair, Tim!
01:18:45No! Let go of him!
01:18:47It's Molly! She's been telling lies!
01:18:49Tim, I love you!
01:18:51For God's sake, shut your mouth. Are you trying to get me hand?
01:18:53Shut that big, ugly mouth of yours.
01:18:57Molly, I...
01:18:59Molly?
01:19:21There was never anything wrong
01:19:23with you, dear.
01:19:25Tim has been drugging you.
01:19:27He put something in your face cream
01:19:29that would give you dreams
01:19:31and hallucinations.
01:19:33And he left this around,
01:19:35didn't he? Give you ideas.
01:19:37Yes, he was good at that, giving people ideas.
01:19:39The thing you feared,
01:19:41it was him, but he won't scare you anymore
01:19:43and you have friends, Molly.
01:19:45People who love you.
01:19:47It's all over now. All over.
01:19:55People come to these islands
01:19:57to play, to have affairs,
01:19:59to drink, and worse.
01:20:05They think that the normal rules
01:20:07of civilized behavior do not apply here
01:20:09and they call us savages.
01:20:11It was Tim who tried to have us believe
01:20:13there was some voodoo quality to all this.
01:20:17He borrowed some of the voodoo props
01:20:19from the party and put you off the scent.
01:20:21And this is what you did?
01:20:23He borrowed some of the voodoo props
01:20:25from the party and put you off the scent.
01:20:27And this business about the married man
01:20:29that Molly was seeing before she met Tim,
01:20:31that was just another red herring, I suppose.
01:20:33Not entirely.
01:20:35Molly was sent to England by her father
01:20:37and she did start an affair
01:20:39with a married man.
01:20:41I should imagine he started it with her.
01:20:43A naive young girl whose wealthy father
01:20:45owned a smart hotel in the Caribbean.
01:20:47She was quite a catch.
01:20:49And then Tim turned up and rescued her
01:20:51from what was the rotter.
01:20:53He cooked up a story with Molly,
01:20:55disappeared for a while,
01:20:57and then turned up under a new name.
01:20:59Her father wasn't to know the truth.
01:21:01And Tim's wife conveniently committed suicide.
01:21:03And it wasn't the first time
01:21:05he tried that little trick.
01:21:07You know, he'd done it already once
01:21:09before he met Molly,
01:21:11when he was out in Kenya.
01:21:13He was the figure in the photograph
01:21:15that the Major never quite got round
01:21:17to showing me.
01:21:19I'm damned.
01:21:21And that was what was stopping me.
01:21:23Tim hadn't been in the group
01:21:25that the Major looked at.
01:21:27But I was forgetting
01:21:29his glass eye.
01:21:31He wasn't looking at that side of the table
01:21:33at all. He was looking straight
01:21:35at Tim.
01:21:37And Tim knew.
01:21:39It was Tim in the Major's photograph.
01:21:41He was the murderer who killed before.
01:21:43And it wasn't just Molly
01:21:45he had in his sights.
01:21:47When he discovered how much money Esther
01:21:49stood to inherit, he decided
01:21:51she'd make a most suitable wife number four.
01:21:53And fearing that the Major would
01:21:55upset his plans to do away with Molly,
01:21:57went to work.
01:21:59Leading us on a trail of misdirection
01:22:01that would end up with the poisoning
01:22:03of poor old Major Pongrave.
01:22:11With the Major out of the picture,
01:22:13Tim set about covering his tracks.
01:22:15He planted Gregory Dyson's serenite
01:22:17tablets in the Major's room as a possible
01:22:19cause of death.
01:22:21The maid, Victoria, realized
01:22:23there's something not right with the pill.
01:22:25She desperately needed money for her
01:22:27sick child. And Tim
01:22:29offered it to her if she would
01:22:31go along with his plan to shake up Molly.
01:22:33He could be very persuasive.
01:22:35He fed her
01:22:37a despicable lie about Molly
01:22:39and Errol. So,
01:22:41Victoria faked her own death
01:22:43to make Molly appear mad.
01:22:47What's the matter?
01:22:49I saw her. In the mirror.
01:22:51I saw her. I saw Victoria.
01:22:57There's no one there.
01:22:59But Tim was not one to leave
01:23:01any loose ends untied.
01:23:09And of course, he had the perfect
01:23:11alibi since he was at the lecture
01:23:13at the time of her fake death.
01:23:15How did he manage to drown
01:23:17Lucky when he was nowhere
01:23:19near the hotel?
01:23:21And for that matter, why did he drown her?
01:23:23Sadly, that was a mistake.
01:23:25She was in the wrong place
01:23:27at the wrong time.
01:23:29Poor, tragic Lucky Dyson,
01:23:31who turned to drugs to obliterate
01:23:33her guilty conscience.
01:23:35Tim knew that Molly loved to
01:23:37walk up to the point every day.
01:23:39What he didn't know was that it was also
01:23:41Lucky Dyson's favourite spot.
01:23:49And the current carried
01:23:51her body round
01:23:53to the beach at Golden
01:23:55Palms.
01:23:57He was very clever. No, on the contrary.
01:23:59Like most murderers who got
01:24:01away with it once, he was stupid.
01:24:03Stupid and
01:24:05overconfident.
01:24:07Please catch them in the end.
01:24:37Oh!
01:25:03Makes no sense to me.
01:25:05All this. Why would he risk losing it
01:25:07just to get rid of Molly?
01:25:09Oh, I think your Mr. Raphael can help us there.
01:25:11Does that?
01:25:13No more secrets, Mr. Raphael.
01:25:15I don't know what you mean.
01:25:17You haven't been here on holiday at all,
01:25:19have you? You've never taken a holiday
01:25:21in your life. You've been trying
01:25:23to buy the hotel, your friend
01:25:25Nicole's company.
01:25:27Tim is not a complete fool.
01:25:29He knew that the land was far more
01:25:31valuable than the risky hotel
01:25:33business. I was
01:25:35paying some attention to the ornithological
01:25:37lecture. I should imagine
01:25:39that the guano deposits
01:25:41are worth a considerable fortune.
01:25:43And Molly
01:25:45would never sell the hotel to sentimental.
01:25:47Which is not
01:25:49something you would ever be accused
01:25:51of, Miss Marple. I've lived too long
01:25:53and seen too much of that.
01:25:55That looks
01:25:57like a young man who is still
01:25:59very much in love.
01:26:01I think he's had to accept that it's
01:26:03something he just can't fight.
01:26:05I hope it plays out for Molly.
01:26:07She deserves a little happiness now.
01:26:09Hmm.
01:26:11Prove positive, though, that Mama Zodby's
01:26:13potions were all just hogwash.
01:26:15Oh, I don't know.
01:26:17Her tea's done wonders for my knee.
01:26:19Well,
01:26:21I must be going.
01:26:23Ave Caesar.
01:26:25Nos morituri.
01:26:27Te salutamus.
01:26:29I'm afraid I don't
01:26:31know very much Latin.
01:26:33But you understand.
01:26:35Yes.
01:26:37I understand.
01:26:39It's
01:26:41been a great pleasure to know you.
01:26:43It's been a great pleasure
01:26:45to know you too, Miss Marple.