First broadcast 29th December 2013.
Miss Marple is in Kingston Bishop staying with her recently widowed friend Marjorie Phillpot. There she meets a handsome man, Mike Rogers.
Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple
Tom Hughes as Mike Rogers
Aneurin Barnard as Robbie Hayman
Adam Wadsworth as Pete Hayman
Joanna Vanderham as Ellie
Wendy Craig as Marjorie Phillpot
Janet Henfrey as Mrs. Lee
Tamzin Outhwaite as Mrs Rogers
William Hope as Lippincott
Glynis Barber as Cora Van Stuyvesant
Michael McKell as Frank Stanford
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Greta Anderson
Hugh Dennis as Dr Shaw
Rosalind Halstead as Claudia Hardcastle
Celyn Jones as Sergeant Keene
Caroline O'Neill as Passer-By
Stephen Churchett as Coroner
Erick Hayden as Father Jayne
Christopher Blackmore as Stable Boy
Alan Bond as Hotel Guest
Miss Marple is in Kingston Bishop staying with her recently widowed friend Marjorie Phillpot. There she meets a handsome man, Mike Rogers.
Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple
Tom Hughes as Mike Rogers
Aneurin Barnard as Robbie Hayman
Adam Wadsworth as Pete Hayman
Joanna Vanderham as Ellie
Wendy Craig as Marjorie Phillpot
Janet Henfrey as Mrs. Lee
Tamzin Outhwaite as Mrs Rogers
William Hope as Lippincott
Glynis Barber as Cora Van Stuyvesant
Michael McKell as Frank Stanford
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Greta Anderson
Hugh Dennis as Dr Shaw
Rosalind Halstead as Claudia Hardcastle
Celyn Jones as Sergeant Keene
Caroline O'Neill as Passer-By
Stephen Churchett as Coroner
Erick Hayden as Father Jayne
Christopher Blackmore as Stable Boy
Alan Bond as Hotel Guest
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00:00:00Ha-ha!
00:00:02Oi, Robbie! Look at this!
00:00:05Whoa! Whoa!
00:00:07Ha-ha-ha!
00:00:09Hey, Mike!
00:00:11What? I'll race you!
00:00:13Come on! Whoo!
00:00:15Be careful! Don't slip!
00:00:18Come on, faster!
00:00:22Oi!
00:00:24Whoa!
00:00:26Whoa!
00:00:28Pete!
00:00:35Pete!
00:00:37Pete!
00:00:39Pete! Help me!
00:00:41I've got you! I've got you!
00:00:43You're all right!
00:00:50Hold on to me, yeah? Pete!
00:00:52Oh, God, no!
00:00:54No! No, Pete! No!
00:00:56No!
00:01:22In my end is my beginning.
00:01:25That's what they say, isn't it?
00:01:27My end, my beginning.
00:01:30I miss him so much.
00:01:32I want to chat with Robbie Hayman,
00:01:34remembering Pete and talking about our plans for the future.
00:01:38I can't tell you how grateful we are.
00:01:41I didn't do anything.
00:01:43You risked your life.
00:01:45Anyone would have done the same.
00:01:50You're the best friend in the world, Mike.
00:01:54More than a friend.
00:01:56Come on, mate.
00:01:58One day, I'll repay you.
00:02:00Something really special.
00:02:03Well, when I first saw Ellie,
00:02:06insubstantial as a dream.
00:02:24Are you thinking of buying?
00:02:26Oh.
00:02:28It's out of my league, I'm afraid, madam.
00:02:30Just passing through, are you?
00:02:31Yes, madam.
00:02:32Working, I imagine?
00:02:33Driving an old couple around.
00:02:35Yes. It is such a lovely corner of the world, don't you think, Mr...?
00:02:39Rogers.
00:02:40Marple. Jane Marple.
00:02:42I'm not from these parts, either.
00:02:44I'm just staying with an old friend who's recently lost her husband.
00:02:48One can find it all too easy to lose touch.
00:02:51I'm sure one can, madam.
00:02:53There's really no need to call me madam.
00:02:55Sorry, madam, that's... There I go again.
00:02:58Yes, this is an unhappy house, one hears.
00:03:01In what way?
00:03:03I'm not the person to ask, Mr Rogers,
00:03:05but they do say that the gypsies have put a curse on it.
00:03:08Now, why would they go and do a thing like that?
00:03:11Well, it's all superstition, of course.
00:03:13The locals take it very serious.
00:03:15Jane!
00:03:16My old friend Marjorie.
00:03:19My old friend Marjorie.
00:03:20She insists on a brisk walk before lunch.
00:03:23It's been so nice to meet you, Mr Rogers.
00:03:26Miss Marple.
00:03:27Oh, Marjorie.
00:03:29I've just made the sweetest...
00:03:32A gypsy's curse.
00:03:34That was a new one.
00:03:36So I thought I'd take a peek.
00:03:43It wasn't a ruin I was looking at.
00:03:47It was my destiny.
00:03:49Gypsy's Acre.
00:03:51I'd knock it down, build the most fantastic house,
00:03:54and there you'd have it.
00:03:56My future.
00:03:58Michael Rogers' country squire.
00:04:01Sounded good to me.
00:04:09What are you up to?
00:04:12Just having a look.
00:04:14Thinking of buying?
00:04:16Yes.
00:04:18Chauffeur, are you?
00:04:21That's right.
00:04:23Best foot forward, Jane.
00:04:25The sooner we finish, the sooner we eat.
00:04:40What happened there?
00:04:41The last owners died.
00:04:43All of them.
00:04:45How?
00:04:46You're out of your depth, sonny.
00:04:48Go back to mummy.
00:04:50Tell me.
00:04:51Read your palm for sixpence.
00:04:54Go on, then.
00:04:55Hang on, then.
00:05:04Gonna be rich, am I?
00:05:07Every night and every morn,
00:05:10some to misery are born.
00:05:13Every morn and every night,
00:05:15some are born to sweet delight.
00:05:18Sixpence for that? You're having a laugh.
00:05:21Some are born to sweet delight.
00:05:24Some are born to endless night.
00:05:35I had to put my dreams of Gypsy's Acre on hold
00:05:38and return to London.
00:05:40Turn my hand to lots of things,
00:05:42but never stuck at them.
00:05:44Like I'm lazy and just sort of restless.
00:05:47All that war stuff, austerity.
00:05:50Know your place.
00:05:52Time for a change, I reckon.
00:05:54I wasn't sure how.
00:05:58Then one day, time to kill,
00:06:00I found myself in Bond Street,
00:06:02so thought I'd do a bit of window shopping.
00:06:05Then something caught my eye.
00:06:11He seemed a nice enough bloke,
00:06:13so I popped in and asked the price.
00:06:1525 grand.
00:06:17I needed a stiff one after that.
00:06:27Robbie.
00:06:28An architect?
00:06:30Yes.
00:06:31Always did have a bit of artistic bent.
00:06:34What have you been up to?
00:06:36What haven't I been up to?
00:06:39Stable boy, fruit picker, waiter,
00:06:42lifeguard.
00:06:44Lifeguard?
00:06:46I was a chauffeur for a while,
00:06:48driving these pompous old gits around here and on the continent.
00:06:51Stinking rich they were.
00:06:53Forever looking down their noses.
00:06:55But I was nice as pie.
00:06:56I can imagine.
00:06:57Always ended up with a whacking great tip.
00:07:02That's a nasty cough you got there.
00:07:04I'm not too clever.
00:07:06You should get that seen to.
00:07:09I haven't forgotten, you know.
00:07:11What?
00:07:12Trying to save Pete.
00:07:14Oh.
00:07:15That was ages ago.
00:07:19Get a load of that.
00:07:21I could build you a house.
00:07:24I know exactly what you like.
00:07:26And do you know exactly how much I got in my post office savings?
00:07:29One paw.
00:07:31Doesn't mean you have to stay a paw.
00:07:33Good old Robbie.
00:07:35For the romantic.
00:07:37I'm serious.
00:07:38It's a dream, mate.
00:07:40It's just a dream.
00:07:48So, to the gentlemen at the back.
00:07:50Now, ladies and gentlemen...
00:07:52We can't keep you away, can we?
00:07:55Oh, I'm afraid not, Miss Martin.
00:07:57Day off, is it?
00:07:59I've moved on.
00:08:00Oh, I was wondering where that smart uniform had gone.
00:08:03I'm just a humble barman now.
00:08:08Gypsy's Acre's still casting its spell, though.
00:08:11The trouble is,
00:08:13when I want something...
00:08:15Everyone has to be tenacious these days.
00:08:18Oh, and there's a cut and thrust for my liking.
00:08:21The house didn't get sold,
00:08:23so I decided to take another look.
00:08:34And that's how I came to meet Ellie.
00:08:48Sorry.
00:08:49I wasn't expecting to, uh...
00:08:51That's quite all right.
00:08:53I wasn't expecting to meet anybody either.
00:08:59Sorry.
00:09:02Such a lonely spot.
00:09:04Sort of... scary.
00:09:09Old ruins can get you like that.
00:09:11It's up for auction today.
00:09:13I've just come from there, as it happens.
00:09:15Do you know if it was sold?
00:09:17Didn't meet its reserve.
00:09:21Are you thinking of buying?
00:09:23No.
00:09:26I can't think of anything better.
00:09:28It's rather decrepit.
00:09:30Oh, yeah, but you put it all down.
00:09:32Built something really special.
00:09:37And a view.
00:09:39Whoa.
00:09:40If you cleared all this away,
00:09:42then, uh...
00:09:44Voila.
00:09:46A beautiful jewel.
00:09:49A house for lovers.
00:09:53So I told her about Robbie
00:09:55and how we'd dreamt of the future,
00:09:57how I'd tried to save his brother's life
00:09:59and how he'd offered to repay me.
00:10:01I think he's consummated.
00:10:03Oh, but that's awful.
00:10:06I'd like a house like that.
00:10:08Built out of love.
00:10:12What's your name?
00:10:15Mike.
00:10:17Mike Rogers.
00:10:19Fenella Goodman.
00:10:21But my friends call me Ellie.
00:10:23Well, uh...
00:10:26Well, it's nice to meet you, Ellie.
00:10:28Yeah.
00:10:32You're not welcome here.
00:10:34What are you playing at?
00:10:36This is gypsies' land, and they drove us off.
00:10:38I thought it was up for sale.
00:10:40Bad luck will come to whoever buys it.
00:10:42There's a curse on this land.
00:10:44Clear off if you know what's good for you.
00:10:46This is Mrs. Lee.
00:10:48She gets money out of people by telling their fortunes.
00:10:50I know things, young lady.
00:10:52It'd be wise for you to know.
00:10:54All right, then.
00:10:58Amaze me.
00:11:02What do I see?
00:11:07What is it?
00:11:09What's wrong?
00:11:11Forget this place.
00:11:13Forget you ever saw it.
00:11:15Oh, for God's sake.
00:11:17Go where you're loved.
00:11:19Where you're cared for.
00:11:21This isn't a place for you.
00:11:24Something happened up there, didn't it?
00:11:26That's why it's going cheap.
00:11:28What was it, Mike?
00:11:30Tell me.
00:11:32Apparently, the people that lived there...
00:11:34They all died.
00:11:36It was a murder.
00:11:38A man and his wife and another man.
00:11:40The husband shot the other two, and then shot himself.
00:11:43Wasn't there some doubt about the verdict?
00:11:45No doubt at all. It was all perfectly true.
00:11:47Marjorie, you're frightening the poor girl.
00:11:49I'm not.
00:11:51Marjorie, you're frightening the poor girl.
00:11:53No, I want to know.
00:11:55That place is cursed.
00:11:57Jane Marple, by the way.
00:11:59Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm forgetting my manners.
00:12:01This is Fenella Goodman.
00:12:03Fieldpot. Marjorie. Widow.
00:12:11We met a few days later in London.
00:12:13Ellie had mentioned it was her 21st in a few weeks' time.
00:12:16So I thought I'd show her I meant business.
00:12:19Happy birthday.
00:12:23Chalk and cheese.
00:12:25That's us.
00:12:27How do you mean?
00:12:29Well, you're rich, and I'm not.
00:12:31I gradually got to know more about her.
00:12:33Her parents were dead, and she couldn't stand her stepmother.
00:12:36She told me she could never do what she wanted
00:12:38and made out that money wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
00:12:41Don't you have any friends?
00:12:43I've got one. Greta.
00:12:45A sort of chaperone. She's a godsend.
00:12:48What's she like?
00:12:50Oh, she's marvellous. And she's beautiful, too.
00:12:53Was it Greta who suggested you go to Gypsy's Acre that day?
00:12:56I'm allowed some secrets, aren't I?
00:12:59Oh, I can't wait to be 21.
00:13:01After that, I'll be able to do what I like.
00:13:04Don't you think I ought to meet your family?
00:13:06No, but they've made such a fuss.
00:13:08Can we go on as we are?
00:13:10If that's what you want.
00:13:12It's just so nice to have somebody
00:13:15one can make believe with.
00:13:18And we did a lot of that.
00:13:23Then she was gone.
00:13:25Whisked off to the south of France by her family
00:13:27to celebrate her 21st birthday.
00:13:29But I couldn't settle.
00:13:31I called the auctioneers
00:13:33and heard that Gypsy's Acre had been sold.
00:13:36All those dreams all come to nothing.
00:13:39And I decided to see my mum.
00:13:46So what have you been up to?
00:13:48Less than that.
00:13:50The usual, then.
00:13:52How have you been?
00:13:54About the same.
00:14:06How many jobs since I last saw you?
00:14:11Four or five.
00:14:13Four or five?
00:14:15And what are you doing now?
00:14:17I'm a chauffeur.
00:14:19No, you're not.
00:14:21What do you mean?
00:14:23You threw in the towel, went sick.
00:14:25Dumped your clients on the continent or wherever.
00:14:28How do you know that?
00:14:30Firm rang me, wanted your address.
00:14:32Why didn't you report to them when you got back?
00:14:37I'd have a fish to fry.
00:14:39What's happened?
00:14:41Nothing.
00:14:43Something it has. I can tell.
00:14:46You know all about me, don't you?
00:14:48I know when you're up to no good.
00:14:53A girl, is it?
00:14:55In a way.
00:14:57What kind of girl?
00:14:59The right kind.
00:15:01Am I going to meet her?
00:15:03Mum.
00:15:05You're worried I'd disapprove.
00:15:09I wouldn't pay attention if you did.
00:15:11Oh, but you would, Michael.
00:15:13You take notice of me. You always have.
00:15:16I'm the only person who really knows you.
00:15:20What is it you want?
00:15:25Nothing.
00:15:27You always want something.
00:15:29Money.
00:15:33To spend on her?
00:15:35For a suit.
00:15:37To get married in.
00:15:41You're going to marry her.
00:15:47If she'll have me.
00:16:06You're never coming back, you know.
00:16:09Never.
00:16:13After Ellie got back,
00:16:15there was a confidence about her I hadn't seen before.
00:16:18And do you know that I love you?
00:16:21Of course I do.
00:16:23So...
00:16:25what are we going to do about it?
00:16:28We're going to get married
00:16:30and then live in a house on Gypsy's Acre
00:16:32that Robbie Heyman will have built for us.
00:16:35That's what you want, isn't it?
00:16:36But Ellie, I...
00:16:39I don't know how to tell you this.
00:16:41What?
00:16:43Gypsy's Acre's been sold.
00:16:45I'm so sorry.
00:16:50What's so funny?
00:16:52The look on your face.
00:16:54Silly boy.
00:16:56I know it's been sold.
00:16:58I'm the person who's bought it.
00:17:01My lawyer's set the whole thing up, ready for me to sign.
00:17:04As soon as I can engage.
00:17:06You've got lawyers?
00:17:08Of course.
00:17:10What about the deposit?
00:17:12Mike, I have a lot of money.
00:17:14I don't think you told me.
00:17:16But I mean a lot.
00:17:25So I've spoken with my lawyers
00:17:27and all it needs is for your signature.
00:17:29I think you're missing the point, Miss Goodman.
00:17:31This is not a business deal.
00:17:33It's a personal gesture of gratitude.
00:17:36And with your talent and my money,
00:17:38we can see it come to fruition.
00:17:40This isn't exactly how I imagined it.
00:17:43I do mean, Robbie.
00:17:45Would you be happy with such an arrangement?
00:17:47Of course I would.
00:17:49Because of Ellie, we can actually have what we'd only dreamt of.
00:17:52And you always get what you want.
00:17:54Don't you, Mike?
00:17:56And you always get what you want.
00:17:58Don't you, Mike?
00:18:00So how about it, Mr. Heyman?
00:18:04As you wish.
00:18:06Good.
00:18:08Mike?
00:18:13It so happens that I have drawn some preliminary sketches.
00:18:17You haven't seen the site yet?
00:18:19I popped down one weekend.
00:18:21Best be prepared, I thought.
00:18:23Rearing to go. I like that.
00:18:27You're in love with a house that might never have been built.
00:18:33Is this something that might capture your heart?
00:18:45That's it.
00:18:49That's absolutely it.
00:18:54Yes.
00:18:56Yes, it's perfect.
00:19:02You sound terrible.
00:19:04I am.
00:19:06You're very brave.
00:19:11When something is said,
00:19:14there's nothing to be brave about.
00:19:18It gives me the strangest feeling of...
00:19:21power.
00:19:24If I'm going to die anyway, I can do what I want.
00:19:29I mean...
00:19:31what's to stop me from robbing a bank?
00:19:34Even shooting someone?
00:19:36What's to stop me from walking down the streets
00:19:39and shooting anyone I choose?
00:19:41Think of that.
00:19:43Firing at random shoppers, dropping like flies.
00:19:48Well, uh...
00:19:50they'd hang you.
00:19:52If I hadn't died first.
00:19:57A handy proposition.
00:19:59Don't you think?
00:20:06Oh, this is it.
00:20:10Ellie made me give up my job.
00:20:12But before giving up my bed sit,
00:20:14she was determined to spend a night there.
00:20:18How the other half lives, I suppose.
00:20:25Robbie's kind of odd, isn't he?
00:20:28Sort of frightening.
00:20:30He didn't seem very frightened.
00:20:33The way he looked at me.
00:20:36Well, why was that?
00:20:41I don't know.
00:20:43I don't know.
00:20:46He didn't warm to me, that's all.
00:20:49I didn't notice.
00:20:51Then I expect he didn't notice the way he looked at you.
00:20:55That's what arty types do.
00:20:58They take everything in.
00:21:00I don't mean that.
00:21:02Then I don't know what you mean.
00:21:06Supposing when he's built the house,
00:21:10he came in after us,
00:21:12closed the door,
00:21:14and...
00:21:16and cut our throats.
00:21:22Where did that come from?
00:21:27Perhaps it's all the talk of a curse.
00:21:30No, no, hey.
00:21:35Trouble is, I dream too much.
00:21:39All right.
00:21:41All right.
00:21:49Dream of this.
00:22:12What is it, honey?
00:22:14What?
00:22:16That gypsy woman.
00:22:20What?
00:22:22I saw her.
00:22:26You were just dreaming.
00:22:31Mike.
00:22:36She's really got to you, hasn't she?
00:22:40I...
00:22:43Look.
00:22:45If you think we should live somewhere else...
00:22:52No.
00:22:54No, I want to live there.
00:22:57Gypsy's Acre is mine, ours.
00:23:02And that's how I want it to be.
00:23:10And so we got married,
00:23:13in a suburban registry office,
00:23:16all arranged by the beautiful Greta.
00:23:20We did the grand tour for our honeymoon
00:23:23and ended up in Rome.
00:23:29The family's going to be hopping mad.
00:23:31They'll be down on us like a cloud of vodka.
00:23:34I don't know what you're talking about.
00:23:37They'll probably try to buy you off,
00:23:39although they wouldn't put it so crudely.
00:23:41You mean I could trade you in?
00:23:43If the fancy took you.
00:23:45My stepmother, Cora, has been married four times.
00:23:48I made a fortune out of it.
00:23:50Of course, I'd rather hope you won't trade me in.
00:23:53That's a kill for a decent pint.
00:23:55I probably won't be too happy with Greta, either.
00:23:58She won't mind. She's tough.
00:24:00Why don't you stop her getting another job?
00:24:03I don't know.
00:24:05She won't need to. She'll be coming to live with us.
00:24:08No, she won't.
00:24:10What do you mean?
00:24:12I mean I don't want anyone living with us.
00:24:14But I don't know what I'd do without her.
00:24:16We wouldn't be married if it weren't for her.
00:24:18I won't have her interfering.
00:24:20You haven't even met her yet.
00:24:22And keep your voice down.
00:24:24Yeah, I know I haven't.
00:24:27But don't we want to be by ourselves?
00:24:30In our own house?
00:24:33Isn't that what you want, Ellie?
00:24:35No, my darling.
00:24:37Darling Mike.
00:24:45What are they doing here?
00:24:50Mr. Rogers!
00:24:52Miss Marple!
00:24:54Marjorie, it's Mr. Rogers.
00:24:56Who?
00:24:57You know, the young man that we had tea with at the Jaws.
00:25:00Fancy seeing you here.
00:25:02Oh, and Miss Goodman.
00:25:04Ah, yes, Goodman.
00:25:06Well, what a coincidence.
00:25:08Isn't it, though?
00:25:10Marjorie has always wanted to visit Rome.
00:25:12But the Major couldn't abide Italians.
00:25:15And it is so entrancing this time of year.
00:25:17You're Cora Van Stuyvesant's stepdaughter, aren't you?
00:25:20Yes.
00:25:21The penny suddenly dropped after I'd met you in the village.
00:25:24You know her, then?
00:25:26I do, as it happens.
00:25:28Although I can't say I like her.
00:25:30Oh, Marjorie.
00:25:31Very few people do.
00:25:33What a small world.
00:25:35You were curious about that miserable pile,
00:25:38Gypsy's Acre, as I recall.
00:25:40That's right.
00:25:42You might be interested to hear that it's been sold.
00:25:44Good riddance.
00:25:45I know.
00:25:46I bought it.
00:25:48Oh, I see.
00:25:50We've been wondering who had.
00:25:53So it won't be miserable for much longer.
00:25:55Does Cora know?
00:25:57She hasn't a clue.
00:25:59You surely don't intend living there alone?
00:26:01Oh, no.
00:26:02I'll be living there with my husband.
00:26:04I didn't know you had one.
00:26:06Well, now you do.
00:26:09And what's more, we're on our honeymoon.
00:26:11Good gracious.
00:26:13Congratulations.
00:26:15Cora didn't say.
00:26:17Cora doesn't know.
00:26:23But she will now.
00:26:27As soon as we got back to England,
00:26:30the vultures descended.
00:26:33First, we got a grilling from the family lawyer.
00:26:36Lipping hot.
00:26:40On the run?
00:26:42I was doing no such thing.
00:26:44Ha!
00:26:45What did you expect?
00:26:47If I'd done it any other way,
00:26:48there would have been the most frightful fuss.
00:26:50The people of England?
00:26:52Yes.
00:26:54The most frightful fuss.
00:26:56The people who care for you
00:26:58were bound to be a little agitated.
00:27:00Cora doesn't care for me.
00:27:02And if you think of it, Uncle Andrew,
00:27:04I've saved everybody a lot of trouble.
00:27:06Others might say you've been very deceitful.
00:27:08Aided and abetted
00:27:10by someone who should have known better.
00:27:13Greta only did what I asked her to.
00:27:15She abused her position.
00:27:17You mustn't blame Addie, sir.
00:27:19It was easier for Greta rather than me
00:27:21to get in touch with you all.
00:27:23Do you propose to live
00:27:25in this house you're building, Ellie?
00:27:27Of course I do.
00:27:29Addie's a British subject now, sir.
00:27:31Fenella can live in any country she chooses.
00:27:33She has properties all over.
00:27:35Now, if you wouldn't mind
00:27:37excusing us for a minute, my dear,
00:27:39I would like to have a little word
00:27:41with this husband of yours.
00:27:43I am so glad you're safe.
00:27:47I trust you don't mind me
00:27:49speaking frankly, Rogers?
00:27:51Call me Mike.
00:27:53Now we're family.
00:27:55She's a delightful girl.
00:27:57And in some ways,
00:27:59very, very vulnerable.
00:28:01You're not the kind of man
00:28:03I should have wished her to marry.
00:28:05As her guardian and a trustee of her affairs,
00:28:07I would have preferred someone of her own set.
00:28:10But that horse for now is bolted.
00:28:12I'm sorry.
00:28:14But that horse for now is bolted.
00:28:16Well, this horse has no intention of bolting, sir.
00:28:19In it to the finishing line.
00:28:21That's me.
00:28:23Best intentions are as good a start
00:28:26as any, I suppose.
00:28:28I'm nothing, sir. Nobody.
00:28:30My dad was a drunk,
00:28:32and my mom a slave to get me an education.
00:28:34If I'm honest,
00:28:36I think I was always a bit of a disappointment to her.
00:28:38She won't accept that I want to get on.
00:28:40But since I met Ellie,
00:28:42for the first time,
00:28:44life looks bright.
00:28:46Hmm.
00:28:48And this house that you're building?
00:28:50Oh, it's gonna be a gem, sir.
00:28:52A mate of mine, Robbie Hayman, has designed it.
00:28:54Very up-and-coming, so they say.
00:28:56Yeah, but not very well, I gather.
00:28:58You know him?
00:29:00Dying, in fact.
00:29:02You people certainly do your homework.
00:29:04It's very impressive.
00:29:06I saw it yesterday, and I also spoke to the solicitor
00:29:09who oversaw the purchase.
00:29:11He told me
00:29:13that it was acquired at a remarkably low price.
00:29:16But he did not advance an opinion
00:29:18as to why that was.
00:29:20It's got a curse on it.
00:29:22It's a... a gypsy's curse.
00:29:24Oh.
00:29:26Well, now I've heard it all.
00:29:28Shall I, uh, get Ellie back in, sir?
00:29:30Yeah, yeah. One more thing, Rogers.
00:29:32Greta Anderson.
00:29:34I presume you've met her.
00:29:36Not.
00:29:38Well, I am surprised. Was she not at your wedding?
00:29:40No, she wasn't.
00:29:42That is odd. Very odd.
00:29:44And Ellie hasn't suggested that you meet her.
00:29:47Once or twice, maybe.
00:29:49But I don't want to share her with anyone.
00:29:51Quite right.
00:29:55I don't think that Greta's companionship
00:29:58is particularly desirable.
00:30:02You gave us the most terrible shot, marrying so secretly.
00:30:05Cora, Ellie's stepmother.
00:30:07She was a two-faced bitch.
00:30:08Of course, we all know it was that Greta woman
00:30:10who put you up to it.
00:30:12Ah, Greta. What a girl.
00:30:14Frank Stanford, another of Ellie's trustees.
00:30:17He's a fishy customer.
00:30:19I can just see her in one of those hamburger bars
00:30:21in heels and leather.
00:30:24You know what I mean?
00:30:26Didn't even touch me for a few quid.
00:30:28I hope you're behaving yourself, Frank.
00:30:30As good as gold.
00:30:32Incorrigible.
00:30:34We don't want you corrupting that poor boy.
00:30:38If only we'd known how very charming
00:30:40Michael was going to be.
00:30:42Ellie had generously raised her allowance,
00:30:44which Cora knew would be stopped
00:30:46if she didn't behave herself.
00:30:48Won't you all join us for dinner?
00:30:50Hmm.
00:30:52Very kind of you, my dear.
00:30:54Well, I think, uh,
00:30:56we all must get back to town.
00:31:00So, will Fraulein Greta be moving in with you?
00:31:03I don't think so.
00:31:06You might change your mind when you see her.
00:31:20The happy couple.
00:31:22Greta.
00:31:26Greta, meet Mike.
00:31:29Nice to meet you.
00:31:35Were they too ghastly?
00:31:37They gave me the sack.
00:31:39So what will you do?
00:31:41Oh, I've got a job lined up in London.
00:31:43But are you all right?
00:31:45Darling, how can I not be
00:31:47with that lovely check you've sent me?
00:31:49You deserve every penny.
00:31:51Has the cat got your tongue?
00:31:54He's strong and silent,
00:31:56aren't you, darling?
00:31:58Like no one you've ever met.
00:32:00That does sound exciting.
00:32:02Pass me the pepper, darling.
00:32:06I can't wait for you to see our house.
00:32:08I saw it first day I got back to England.
00:32:12That architect, what a clever young man.
00:32:14You must meet him.
00:32:16I already have.
00:32:18I must say, he looks as if he will give up the ghost at any minute.
00:32:21I can't wait for us to move in.
00:32:23That would be quite soon by the look of it.
00:32:26So, Mike, tell me,
00:32:28what do you think of Ellie's so-called family?
00:32:31Well, um...
00:32:33Leeches all, believe me.
00:32:35They'll go away soon enough, darling.
00:32:37Let the poor boy speak for himself.
00:32:42Um...
00:32:46This gift.
00:32:48It's very thoughtful of Miss Marple.
00:32:50What a sweet lady she is.
00:32:53Yes.
00:32:58You do like Greta, don't you?
00:33:01Of course I do.
00:33:03I couldn't bear it if you didn't.
00:33:05You hardly said a word.
00:33:07I hardly got the chance.
00:33:09And when you did, you hardly looked at her.
00:33:12I was nervous.
00:33:14Why?
00:33:16She's quite awesome, you know?
00:33:20Like a Valkyrie.
00:33:22Mike, that's a terrible thing to say.
00:33:24Yeah.
00:33:26I just wished, uh...
00:33:31Well, I wished that you weren't quite so dependent on her.
00:33:37I suppose I'm a little bit jealous.
00:33:40Silly boy.
00:33:42It's true.
00:33:44She meant everything to me...
00:33:46till you came along.
00:33:48She meant everything to me...
00:33:50till you came along.
00:34:18Oh, Mike.
00:34:28Oh, Mike.
00:34:45Robbie?
00:34:47Robbie!
00:34:49I said he'd be here.
00:34:51It's open.
00:34:55You're supposed to carry her over the threshold.
00:34:58Where were you hiding?
00:35:00Robbie, it's beautiful.
00:35:02You're a genius.
00:35:04Here's to our new life.
00:35:07Oh.
00:35:15Let's hope you haven't started it. You mean to go on?
00:35:20I'll show you around.
00:35:23Do you like it, don't you?
00:35:25It's wonderful.
00:35:27You do, don't you, Mike?
00:35:30Of course I do.
00:35:38Take care.
00:35:40There are bad people out there.
00:35:42I know.
00:35:44I know.
00:35:46I know.
00:35:48I know.
00:35:51There are bad people out there.
00:35:55Thanks, Robbie.
00:35:58Promise kept.
00:36:00No more, no less.
00:36:09For a moment, I thought he might be losing it.
00:36:11Then I put it down to the medication.
00:36:14Well, at least he didn't cut our throats.
00:36:17He is a bit creepy, though.
00:36:19Don't you think?
00:36:21He's not very well.
00:36:23I haven't a clue what he was talking about.
00:36:25Artistic temperament or something.
00:36:29Anyway, we got what we want.
00:36:31We're safe now.
00:36:35Who the hell did that?
00:36:38Who the hell did that?
00:36:43No one.
00:36:45Ellie.
00:36:47Sweetheart.
00:36:50It's just a tiny cut.
00:36:52Just a little sliver.
00:36:54Why would anyone do that?
00:36:56It was probably local lads.
00:36:59There's something else, Mike.
00:37:01Something we don't know about.
00:37:03They want to drive us away.
00:37:05Of course they don't.
00:37:07That woman was right.
00:37:09She's crazy. She should be locked up.
00:37:11We've done exactly what she told us not to.
00:37:14No one will drive us away. Do you understand?
00:37:17No one.
00:37:27Ellie insisted on a housewarming.
00:37:29I couldn't think of anything worse.
00:37:31We'd hired staff regimented by a recently acquired manservant, Winslow.
00:37:36He'd been recommended by Andrew Lippincott.
00:37:38The family tentacles spread wide.
00:37:41And Ellie was convinced he was there to spy on us.
00:37:49She does love her food.
00:37:52Perhaps she's compensating for her loss.
00:37:55Do you know who those two are?
00:37:58Oh, yes, that's Dr Shaw.
00:38:01Somewhat of the old school, Marjorie says.
00:38:03Doesn't dispense pills like sweeties.
00:38:06And the young lady is Claudia Hardcastle.
00:38:09Very keen on horses.
00:38:11She and Ellie should get on.
00:38:13Ellie loves riding.
00:38:15Her husband was a rich American.
00:38:17Stanford, I think his name was.
00:38:20But it failed at the first hurdle.
00:38:26Corridan Stuyvesant.
00:38:28She is a little overbearing, isn't she?
00:38:32Did you know that she's looking for a house around here?
00:38:36Now, that is bad news.
00:38:41You're a fount of knowledge, Miss Marple.
00:38:44Marjorie likes to keep her ear to the craft.
00:38:47I wish I could talk to my mum like I talk to you.
00:38:54I don't think Kingston Bishop has ever seen anything quite like that before.
00:38:59Why, Greta, you look like something out of a burlesque.
00:39:09I ought to make a move.
00:39:11You've done your friend proud, Mr Heyman.
00:39:13He always was the clever one.
00:39:16Bit of a swot, and I was always getting into scrapes.
00:39:19Well, you know what they say.
00:39:21Opposites attract.
00:39:24It's ridiculous, really.
00:39:26The horses give me the most violent hay fever.
00:39:28I have the exact same thing, but I have these wonderful allergy capsules.
00:39:32If Claudia ever finds another husband, it'll probably be off a stud farm.
00:39:36Don't be so unkind, Marjorie.
00:39:39Who knows what's round the corner?
00:39:41Certainly not round the one that leads up to Gypsy's Acre.
00:39:43Strange things have happened round that corner.
00:39:46Well, there's always an explanation for everything.
00:39:48I might cut those trees down, lighten it up a bit.
00:39:51You can't go round cutting down our trees.
00:39:54They're not your trees, Marjorie.
00:39:56Mr Rogers can do what he wants.
00:39:58Oh, I detest change.
00:40:00I always have. The major was the same.
00:40:02That's why I married him.
00:40:04So I imagine you don't like this house, then.
00:40:06I certainly don't.
00:40:08It's far too modern.
00:40:10It looks like a furniture department.
00:40:12This is Sir Robbie Heyman, Marjorie.
00:40:14The architect.
00:40:19Splendid.
00:40:22Come.
00:40:25I hear old Esther Lee's been making a nuisance of herself.
00:40:28According to her, we're cursed.
00:40:30A bit dotty, I think.
00:40:32I expect she's quite harmless.
00:40:34I shouldn't have been so scared.
00:40:36As bad as that.
00:40:38Well, it's more of a threat than a warning.
00:40:40Well, that does seem a bit odd. Not like her at all.
00:40:43You know, I feel quite responsible for old Esther.
00:40:46Why's that?
00:40:48She saved my brother's life.
00:40:50Really?
00:40:52Fished a little blighter out of the pond when he'd gone through the ice.
00:40:55Oh, Mike!
00:40:59It was nothing. Let's take a look.
00:41:01No, it's nothing. Fine.
00:41:04Fine.
00:41:07It was hearing about the doctor's brother, wasn't it?
00:41:11That old gypsy managed to save him, but...
00:41:15I didn't save Pete.
00:41:20You tried your best.
00:41:22Robbie knows you did.
00:41:29I couldn't get him out.
00:41:31Help me! Hold on to me!
00:41:33Pete!
00:41:35Pete!
00:41:38Help!
00:41:50It's 18th century or 19th or something.
00:41:53I'd got what I wanted,
00:41:55but I hadn't counted on the mother-in-law.
00:41:58She'd seen a house that had taken a fancy about half an hour away.
00:42:02The thought of her come around for a cup of sugar made me heave.
00:42:05Wouldn't that be heaven?
00:42:09We were still exploring our property,
00:42:12and one day we discovered a folly hidden away in the woods.
00:42:19Which we decided to do up ourselves.
00:42:23I love it.
00:42:25Now all we need is for the path to be cleared.
00:42:27Oh, no, no. That's our secret.
00:42:30Only we need know about that.
00:42:33That is so romantic.
00:42:48Ah!
00:42:54Nothing to worry about. Just a sprain.
00:42:57I'm so glad you came, Greta.
00:42:59If you want me to stay, that is.
00:43:01That won't be necessary.
00:43:03Oh, but I'd love that.
00:43:05I would like to stay.
00:43:07Good.
00:43:09Besides, Ellie is not very strong.
00:43:11Medically qualified, are you, Miss Anderson?
00:43:13She has a delicate constitution.
00:43:15It's just a sprain.
00:43:17I did not mean her ankle.
00:43:19There has been concern about her heart.
00:43:21That was nothing.
00:43:23You never told me.
00:43:25If you'd like a check-up...
00:43:27There's no need.
00:43:29I think it's a good idea.
00:43:31Only allergy pills.
00:43:33These.
00:43:41They shouldn't do you any harm.
00:43:44I also take sleeping pills.
00:43:46No, that's not such a good idea.
00:43:49We'll take a look.
00:44:02She needs to see a proper doctor.
00:44:04He is a proper doctor.
00:44:06A specialist in dandruff.
00:44:08Ellie means the world to me.
00:44:10She means the world to me.
00:44:12That's why I married her.
00:44:14You can't help yourself, can you?
00:44:16I will leave if that is what you want.
00:44:18Please stop.
00:44:20Both of you, that's enough.
00:44:22Darling, I'm sorry.
00:44:24I didn't realize you hated each other so much.
00:44:27We don't hate each other, darling.
00:44:30You know I am a little hot in the head.
00:44:32And you know what my temper's like.
00:44:34It is only because we care for you.
00:44:36Then you must try to get along with one another.
00:44:40I promise.
00:44:42I'm so sorry to intrude.
00:44:44Miss Marple.
00:44:46I should have telephoned, I know,
00:44:48but I needed a little break.
00:44:50Is everything all right?
00:44:52Yes, yes, it's just that Marjorie has mislaid a brooch
00:44:55and it crossed her mind that she may have dropped it at your party.
00:44:58I'm sure it would have showed up by now.
00:45:00Yes.
00:45:02I will look and get Winslow to look too.
00:45:04Oh, I would be so grateful.
00:45:09Would you like a drink?
00:45:11No, no, no, thank you.
00:45:13Marjorie will be chafing at the bit for her supper.
00:45:16If we find the brooch.
00:45:18Oh, that would be so kind.
00:45:28Let's get you inside.
00:45:58Come on.
00:46:28Come on.
00:46:46Ellie seemed unsettled,
00:46:48but was always happy to go riding with Claudia,
00:46:51or sometimes by herself.
00:46:59And nearly ran someone over.
00:47:01On that corner?
00:47:03Yes, some old gypsy type.
00:47:05She was standing right in the middle of the road.
00:47:07It is a miracle I didn't hit her.
00:47:09She said we should all go back where we came from
00:47:11and shook her fist.
00:47:13Did you have a good ride?
00:47:15Yes, thank you.
00:47:17Have you seen her lately?
00:47:19No.
00:47:21That's not very sure.
00:47:23She said, I've warned them before and I shan't be late.
00:47:26She said, I've warned them before and I shan't warn them again.
00:47:29She said, it's death I see
00:47:31and their house will fall in ruins.
00:47:33Most impertinent.
00:47:35You're exaggerating.
00:47:37It is what she said.
00:47:39Silly old fool.
00:47:56I think they didn't turn there.
00:48:27Oh, Mr Rogers!
00:48:28Not now, Miss Marple.
00:48:29What's happened?
00:48:30If you must know, we're being hassled by that wretched gypsy woman.
00:48:32Mrs Lee?
00:48:33Yes. Scaring the life out of her.
00:48:34She keeps popping up all over the place.
00:48:36And this morning left a dead bird on the step
00:48:38with a threatening note attached.
00:48:39She's overstepped the mark this time.
00:48:41But, Mr Rogers...
00:48:42Please excuse me.
00:48:50Oh, Mr Rogers!
00:48:52Oh, Mr Rogers!
00:48:54Oh, Mr Rogers!
00:48:56Oh, Mr Rogers!
00:49:10Mrs Lee?
00:49:14It's not like Mrs Lee to make threats.
00:49:16Do you know if anyone's got it in for you and your wife, Mr Rogers?
00:49:18I'd say that's most unlikely.
00:49:20She has done something similar before.
00:49:23Given someone the evil eye, so to speak.
00:49:26I'd hate her to do it.
00:49:28Anyway, I'll have a word.
00:49:30Thank you, Sergeant.
00:49:31When she gets back...
00:49:33Gets back?
00:49:35She goes on walkabout.
00:49:36There's a gypsy in her.
00:49:56Oh, my God!
00:50:27A few days later, I got a note from my mother.
00:50:33I'd sent her a large cheque to use as she wanted.
00:50:40It's from her man.
00:50:42Stubborn as they come.
00:50:56She does love you, though.
00:50:58Even though she might not show it.
00:51:06You sound very certain.
00:51:10Ellie?
00:51:15No, Mike.
00:51:17Don't get mad.
00:51:19But I went to see her.
00:51:21What?
00:51:22Just didn't seem right that we hadn't met.
00:51:24Why didn't you tell me?
00:51:26I was going to.
00:51:27What did she say?
00:51:28Nothing.
00:51:30What did she say?
00:51:32She said you're afraid of her.
00:51:35Afraid?
00:51:36Because she knows too much about you.
00:51:41Well, that hit home, didn't it?
00:51:43You should have told me!
00:51:45Why are you so angry?
00:51:46Because it's a secret!
00:51:48We should have secrets from each other!
00:51:50Everybody has secrets, and you know it.
00:51:56Come on.
00:52:16I'll fix that.
00:52:23I'm sorry.
00:52:26I didn't mean to lose my temper.
00:52:33It doesn't bother me.
00:52:36I'm not afraid of you.
00:52:52To make it up to her,
00:52:54I decided to buy Ellie a real classy birthday present.
00:53:08That's lovely, Michael.
00:53:11It's Ellie's birthday next week.
00:53:14I want it to be a surprise.
00:53:17Very good taste you have.
00:53:20Is she with her German friend?
00:53:22No, she's out riding.
00:53:24Clifton's gone to London for the day of Claudia Hardcastle.
00:53:29Actually, we're meeting for tea.
00:53:32Why don't you join us?
00:53:36Do you think it's strange, though, don't you, Michael,
00:53:39that Mrs. Lee should leave her handbag
00:53:42if she was going away for a while?
00:53:44With money in it, too, and in an unlocked cottage.
00:53:47Marjorie says she never locks the door.
00:53:50I've told Sergeant Keen and he said they'll keep an eye out.
00:53:56You look worried, Michael.
00:53:58Oh, it's...
00:54:00It's just Ellie. She seems to be running rather late.
00:54:04Probably because Greta's in London.
00:54:07She's very dependent on Miss Anderson, isn't she?
00:54:11She relies on her for everything.
00:54:15Would you mind if we went back and see what's going on?
00:54:19No, no.
00:54:31That's Frank Stanford.
00:54:34Wasn't that Claudia Hardcastle with him?
00:54:37I think it was.
00:54:39Except she's not in London, after all.
00:54:41I thought you said they'd split up.
00:54:43They have. Perhaps they decided to get together again.
00:54:46I wonder why.
00:54:48Has she got money? Yes.
00:54:50There's your answer.
00:54:56Ellie? Ellie!
00:54:59She still hadn't turned up,
00:55:01so Winslow and a stable boy came with us to look for her.
00:55:04Ellie!
00:55:07Rogers! Ellie!
00:55:13Ellie's son?
00:55:15Rogers!
00:55:17Ellie?
00:55:19Ellie!
00:55:27Over here!
00:55:32Oh, my God!
00:55:35Ellie!
00:55:37Ellie!
00:55:39Ellie!
00:55:45Get Dr Shaw!
00:55:49Ellie!
00:55:58All I can say is that she's been dead for three or four hours.
00:56:02Was anything broken?
00:56:04It doesn't seem to be.
00:56:06I'll have a better idea when I've made a complete examination.
00:56:09Perhaps it was shock.
00:56:11You don't die of shock.
00:56:14Anyway, these questions will be addressed at the inquest.
00:56:17It could have been that gypsy that frightened her.
00:56:20I was walking down the road this morning and I saw her.
00:56:23You saw Mrs Lee?
00:56:25I think it was her.
00:56:27Where was she going?
00:56:29The path into the woods.
00:56:32She could have scared the horse...
00:56:34if it was her.
00:56:40And my poor Ellie.
00:56:48Gone forever.
00:56:53Within a day or two, Andrew Lippincott had flown in.
00:56:57She would want to be buried here at Gypsy's Acre.
00:57:00I'm afraid that's out of the question.
00:57:04She needs to be laid to rest with her forebears.
00:57:09We can, however, arrange for the funeral to be held...
00:57:12while you're in America dealing with the estate.
00:57:16I presume you are aware that Ellie made you the principal beneficiary.
00:57:21Didn't even know she made a will.
00:57:23Oh, yes.
00:57:25Just after you were married.
00:57:28I can arrange for a reputable lawyer to safeguard your interests.
00:57:36With a fortune like yours, you're going to need the best advice.
00:57:42Mr Rogers, you should trust nobody.
00:57:50The inquest seemed unreal.
00:57:52Dr Shaw's evidence was inconclusive.
00:57:55Did you detect any specific organic injury that might have explained her death?
00:57:59No. It's my belief she died from heart failure caused by shock.
00:58:04Greta, who'd been in a terrible state when she heard what had happened...
00:58:08was more insistent about Ellie's heart condition.
00:58:12She had a heart problem three or four years ago.
00:58:17Do you know what sort of heart problem it was, Miss Anderson?
00:58:21No.
00:58:23But her family always stressed that she should not overdo things.
00:58:30Then he called me.
00:58:32Did Mrs Lee ever threaten your wife?
00:58:37In a sense, yes.
00:58:39I never really thought she meant it.
00:58:42Did she hold any particular grudge against her?
00:58:47My wife thought so, but she couldn't see why.
00:58:51She believed our land belonged to her or a tribe, whatever they called themselves.
00:58:57Was she ever violent?
00:59:00No.
00:59:02She just banged on about putting a curse on us.
00:59:06Did she ever mention the word death?
00:59:11I think she did.
00:59:13We didn't take her seriously, at least I didn't.
00:59:16And your wife?
00:59:19Well, the old woman could be rather alarming.
00:59:24Where is Mrs Lee?
00:59:26No-one knows, sir. She hasn't been seen for several weeks.
00:59:29Did she not leave an address?
00:59:31She often goes off without telling anybody.
00:59:34So you couldn't have seen her the morning of Mrs Rogers' death?
00:59:37Maybe she popped back for the day.
00:59:39Then the coroner adjourned proceedings until they'd tracked her down.
00:59:45Do you think she's come back for the day?
00:59:47I suppose it's possible. Gypsies do go hither and thither.
00:59:51What if she planned to come back? What if she'd had a motive?
00:59:54A motive?
00:59:56Yeah. What if someone was paying her to frighten Ellie?
01:00:01That's a little dramatic, Michael. Where did you get that idea?
01:00:05Sergeant Keenan. He said it had happened once before.
01:00:09Good heavens.
01:00:11Well, I did find all that money in her cottage,
01:00:15even so, to deliberately cause an accident.
01:00:18If this person wanted to get rid of us,
01:00:20there must be some reason for wanting the land to go back on the market.
01:00:24You don't know who.
01:00:28This came through the window this morning.
01:00:38It was a woman who killed your wife.
01:00:45I think she's gone to earth cos she knows we're looking for her.
01:00:48And if someone's paying her, she'd be anxious to keep away?
01:00:51Someone else would be anxious too. This has all got a bit out of hand.
01:00:55So when Mrs Lee is found...
01:00:57She'll spill the beans.
01:00:59Someone wouldn't like that and they'd have to silence her pretty quickly.
01:01:04Are you saying Mrs Lee might have been killed?
01:01:15No.
01:01:38Hello?
01:01:45Hello?
01:02:15Hello?
01:02:17Hello?
01:02:45Can I help you?
01:02:47I am just getting my breath back.
01:02:50How did you know about this place?
01:02:53Well, poor Ellie mentioned something about it.
01:02:56Did she now?
01:02:58Yes, it's quite a walk, isn't it?
01:03:01You shouldn't be wandering the woods alone, Miss Marple.
01:03:05Well, hang on, I must detain you.
01:03:07Oh, no.
01:03:13Goodbye then, Miss Anderson.
01:03:17Goodbye.
01:03:31I'm so sorry, Mike, about your loss.
01:03:34Yes.
01:03:36I hear you're off to America quite soon.
01:03:38Who told you that?
01:03:40I simply presumed you would be.
01:03:43Anyway, there was something I wanted to ask you.
01:03:47It's just that if you're putting the house on the market,
01:03:49I'd rather like first refusal.
01:03:52I'm prepared to pay.
01:03:54I shan't be selling, Claudia, not at any price.
01:04:02You were married, were you?
01:04:05Yes.
01:04:07To Frank Stanford.
01:04:18Grant this mercy, O Lord, we beseech thee.
01:04:21For thy servant departed,
01:04:23that she may not receive in punishment
01:04:25the requital of her deeds,
01:04:27who in desire did keep thy will.
01:04:32In New York, I was out of my depth
01:04:34and couldn't wait to get back home.
01:04:37The Ellie I had known had flown,
01:04:40returned to her own kind.
01:04:43For the mercy of God, rest in peace.
01:04:57Go back where you belong, Ellie.
01:05:05My condolences.
01:05:10Thanks.
01:05:14You must be very pleased with yourself.
01:05:17You've taken everything.
01:05:19And now my little girl.
01:05:21Well done.
01:05:25She was never your little girl.
01:05:28Then it transpired that Stanford had given me some bad advice.
01:05:32Frank Stanford advised me to get rid of some mining properties
01:05:35because they're titled these dodgy.
01:05:37So I checked with the lawyer, nothing wrong with it.
01:05:39I suspect he's a crook.
01:05:41I suspect he's a crook.
01:05:43I suspect you're right.
01:05:45Would you be willing to accept power of attorney?
01:05:50As far as financial matters are concerned,
01:05:53you can trust me absolutely.
01:05:57Will you continue to live at Gypsy's Acre?
01:06:01Yes.
01:06:03A large house for one.
01:06:05I still employ Winslow, as you know.
01:06:08Brett is still there.
01:06:10Yes. Greta.
01:06:12I don't know how I would have coped without her.
01:06:17I sent you a letter.
01:06:20Well, I look forward to reading it.
01:06:22Thanks for your help.
01:06:24You have nothing to thank me for.
01:06:27By the way, do you know Claudia Hardcastle?
01:06:31A little. Why?
01:06:34She's dead.
01:06:36She was thrown from her horse a day or two ago.
01:06:40Bon voyage.
01:07:10No!
01:07:41I want to see Mike.
01:07:43You look terrible.
01:07:45Where is he?
01:07:47He won't be back until this evening.
01:07:49It's too late. I have to go to the hospital. I need to see him.
01:07:53There's nothing I can do.
01:07:55Oh, God.
01:07:57Is there a message I can pass on to him?
01:08:00No, I don't think there is.
01:08:02The thing is, Mr Heyman, I have to go out.
01:08:05I'm afraid I can't.
01:08:07The thing is, Mr Heyman, I have to go out.
01:08:10I could come in, write him a note.
01:08:12But there's no one here.
01:08:14I won't get another chance.
01:08:17You can trust me.
01:08:19We're old friends.
01:08:23There's a desk in the study. It is up the stairs.
01:08:26I know. I designed it.
01:08:37Oh, my God.
01:09:07Oh, my God.
01:09:37Oh, my God.
01:10:07I didn't see him, anyone.
01:10:33It was probably because I was dog-tired.
01:10:38I'd get Winslow to pour me a large drink and have an early night.
01:10:42There was something I had to do first.
01:10:56For old time's sake,
01:10:58darling.
01:11:01Now we have the money
01:11:04to go anywhere and have adventures.
01:11:08Wouldn't you like that, darling?
01:11:14What's the matter?
01:11:16I saw Ellie...
01:11:20walking up the road just now.
01:11:22The thing I saw her,
01:11:24I saw her.
01:11:26Walking up the road just now, the thing I saw her...
01:11:31Didn't they put her in a coffin?
01:11:33The point is, she didn't see me.
01:11:35That's because she wasn't there.
01:11:38It was like I wasn't there.
01:11:40Quit saying that.
01:11:42I wasn't there.
01:11:46This is stupid talk.
01:11:48We could have been happy, you know.
01:11:52Married to her.
01:11:56I know what this is.
01:12:00Those monsters in America.
01:12:02They have been getting into your brain.
01:12:05That is how they work.
01:12:12This came for you.
01:12:16Lippincott's writing.
01:12:18Dripping poison, no doubt.
01:12:21It's a cutting from a Hamburg newspaper.
01:12:30And the old fox knew all along.
01:12:34Not necessarily.
01:12:36Someone probably sent him this
01:12:38because they recognized me.
01:12:40Only knows we're going to be married,
01:12:42or suspended.
01:12:44I don't know.
01:12:46I don't know.
01:12:48Only knows we're going to be married, I suspect.
01:12:51Mike, you are panicking.
01:12:53He will. He's worthy.
01:12:55He knows. And I wouldn't be surprised
01:12:57if Winslow's in on it, too.
01:13:00I saw him at the window on my way over here.
01:13:02But you couldn't have.
01:13:04I let him go yesterday.
01:13:09Then who was it?
01:13:12A trick of the light.
01:13:15Something's wrong, Greta.
01:13:18We're not safe.
01:13:23You're not safe.
01:13:27Michael?
01:13:31Miss Anderson?
01:13:40Mr. Winslow?
01:13:45Michael?
01:13:47Miss Marple?
01:13:49Welcome home.
01:13:51I thought we had an intruder,
01:13:53but a false alarm.
01:13:55You seem to have a knack, don't you,
01:13:57of turning up at the right place at the wrong time?
01:14:00If this is inconvenient.
01:14:02How can I help you?
01:14:04Well, I thought you might be interested
01:14:07to hear that they've found Mrs. Marple.
01:14:10Well, I thought you might be interested to hear
01:14:13that they've found Mrs. Lee.
01:14:15She's certainly given us the runaround.
01:14:17She's dead, Michael.
01:14:19They found her in the quarry.
01:14:21It's pretty grim, isn't it?
01:14:23Yes, it is.
01:14:27Anything else, Miss Marple?
01:14:29You're quite tired after that journey.
01:14:34To be honest, I'm...
01:14:37quite tired altogether.
01:14:40Let's get married, you know.
01:14:42So soon?
01:14:44No point hanging around.
01:14:46To Greta.
01:14:48Well, I hardly know her, of course,
01:14:51but, in a way,
01:14:53that strikes me as rather a good match.
01:14:56What way would that be, Miss Marple?
01:14:59Both. Restless.
01:15:01Living your lives on the very edge of wealth.
01:15:03Most tantalising, I should imagine.
01:15:06When did you first meet her?
01:15:10Europe, was it?
01:15:12Chauffeuring your elderly clients around?
01:15:16In Hamburg.
01:15:18Yes.
01:15:19A meeting of minds.
01:15:21How lovely.
01:15:23She must have been like a breath of fresh air.
01:15:25Young, beautiful...
01:15:26Oh, you can say that again.
01:15:28And not a moral between you.
01:15:30I misjudged you, Michael.
01:15:32For a little while, anyway.
01:15:34But then you are quite a charmer.
01:15:36So they say.
01:15:40Whose idea was it?
01:15:41I don't know what you're talking about.
01:15:43No, I think you do.
01:15:45To make Ellie fall in love with you?
01:15:47Do you know something, Miss Marple? You disappoint me.
01:15:50You're just like any other old spinster, aren't you?
01:15:52Can't keep your nose out.
01:15:54I'm not a spinster.
01:15:56You're just like any other old spinster, aren't you?
01:15:58Can't keep your nose out.
01:16:00And then kill her for her money?
01:16:03The problem is, Miss Marple, you're far too easy to talk to.
01:16:08Just like Greta.
01:16:10I can put you in the way of marrying
01:16:13one of the richest girls in the world.
01:16:16I look after her for somebody.
01:16:22Play it right and she will go mad for you.
01:16:27I told her about this place.
01:16:29She thought it would be the perfect setting.
01:16:31She arranged that I'd see Ellie on the road,
01:16:34as if by accident.
01:16:36Greta was a great planner.
01:16:38But something was niggling me.
01:16:43It's not enough.
01:16:45I don't want to be kept.
01:16:47Wives do die, you know.
01:16:51You are not shocked.
01:16:56I knew you wouldn't be.
01:17:00Ellie was so sweet.
01:17:02If I'd tried, if I'd really tried,
01:17:05I could have loved her.
01:17:11But you killed her, didn't you, Michael?
01:17:14Her allergy capsule.
01:17:16You filled it with poison.
01:17:18Her allergy capsule.
01:17:20You filled it with cyanide.
01:17:22And made sure she took it the morning she died.
01:17:28How do you know that?
01:17:30I worked it out when Claudia died.
01:17:33Marjorie and I were walking on the downs and found her.
01:17:38Cyanide.
01:17:40I can smell it.
01:17:43You didn't mean her to die,
01:17:45but she'd got hold of one of the allergy capsules.
01:17:48It was in the folly, wasn't it,
01:17:51that you and Greta prepared them,
01:17:53split them in two,
01:17:55and filled them with poison.
01:17:59And Claudia, as Ellie's friend,
01:18:02went there because she dropped her lighter.
01:18:06That's ridiculous, really.
01:18:08Give me the most violent A-fever.
01:18:10Saw the capsules,
01:18:12recognised them as perfectly innocent allergy medication,
01:18:17and helped herself for the next time she went riding.
01:18:21If Claudia's body had lain in the open for too long,
01:18:25as Ellie's did,
01:18:27there would have been nothing to smell.
01:18:30Filling those capsules was tricky business.
01:18:35I thought we were so clever.
01:18:37But not clever enough.
01:18:39Ellie means the world to me.
01:18:41And that row that you and Greta had...
01:18:44It was a sham, wasn't it?
01:18:46I thought perhaps that it was staged
01:18:48in order to deflect from the fact that you were having an affair.
01:18:54I didn't know you had murder in mind.
01:18:57And the capsule, and the lighter,
01:18:59and poor Claudia's death.
01:19:01I was as certain as I could be.
01:19:04Did you kill Mrs Lee, Michael?
01:19:08You tell me.
01:19:10From what I've heard,
01:19:12I don't think she would ever have frightened Ellie
01:19:14without a bit of sweetener.
01:19:17And if Ellie was frightened,
01:19:19then when you killed her,
01:19:21it would seem more feasible that she died of shock.
01:19:25But when Mrs Lee realised what a dangerous man you were,
01:19:30she became frightened for Ellie...
01:19:32And took the cash while warning Ellie
01:19:34to have nothing to do with me.
01:19:36I couldn't have that now, could I?
01:19:46Get up!
01:19:50No!
01:19:57So Greta stood in for her a couple of times.
01:20:00Wasn't it difficult? Ellie was so suggestible back then.
01:20:04How could you say you could ever have loved that poor girl
01:20:08like all the time you were planning to kill her?
01:20:11It gets you after a while.
01:20:16It drains the life out of you.
01:20:19You know every trick in the book, don't you?
01:20:22But the path you take, Michael, is down to you.
01:20:26Where is Greta, by the way?
01:20:35Robbie! I thought... I thought you were in London.
01:20:39We'd always presumed it came off in the struggle.
01:20:43What?
01:20:45Dropped to the bottom and sank into the mud.
01:20:48What are you going on about?
01:20:50It's afternoon now.
01:20:52You look terrible.
01:20:54I found it... in a drawer.
01:20:57You're not making any sense, Robbie.
01:20:59This...
01:21:03Pete's watch.
01:21:07What the hell are you doing with it?
01:21:13You took it, didn't you?
01:21:16When he was drowning?
01:21:18No. He was never without it.
01:21:20You must have done.
01:21:22That's not true. It's not true.
01:21:24Why on earth would you steal Pete's watch?
01:21:28Why on earth would you steal it
01:21:31when you were trying to save him?
01:21:35But you weren't, were you, Michael?
01:21:43What are you doing?
01:21:45What are you doing?
01:21:52That's why you broke your glass at the party
01:21:55when Dr Shaw mentioned his brother.
01:21:57Memory was too much to bear.
01:21:59You never meant to save him, did you?
01:22:03Did you?
01:22:08You killed my little brother
01:22:11for a wristwatch.
01:22:15All this...
01:22:17one big lie.
01:22:21And I thought that you were truly my friend.
01:22:27Let me get you a doctor...
01:22:29I always thought,
01:22:31in spite of everything,
01:22:34that there might be
01:22:37a glimmer.
01:22:39Just a glimmer of light.
01:22:47But now...
01:22:51now it's too late.
01:22:57Too late.
01:23:28Marple!
01:23:32Oh, God.
01:23:40Greta was a great planner.
01:23:42That's what you said.
01:23:44Slip of the tongue.
01:23:46Why, Michael? Why?
01:23:49You get a taste for it.
01:23:52You get a taste for it.
01:23:55You get a taste for it.
01:24:05Every morn and every night.
01:24:08Some are born to endless night.
01:24:10Oh, that gypsy.
01:24:12It nerved her, didn't she?
01:24:18I can bet you told Greta you loved her, too.
01:24:25The tragedy is, Michael, you don't know how.
01:24:29You're just like my mum.
01:24:32You know everything about me, don't you?
01:24:34But you don't...
01:24:38Why was she never proud of me just once?
01:24:44Why she looked at me with those cold, cold eyes?
01:24:49Mothers are the devil.
01:24:53She means nothing to me.
01:24:57You mean nothing to me.
01:25:03So what am I going to do with you?
01:25:06I...
01:25:08I seem to have an answer for everything.
01:25:11Look, I know what you'd like to do, Michael,
01:25:13and you won't, will you?
01:25:15Because if you kill me, it will be like killing her,
01:25:18like killing your own mother.
01:25:46This is for you, Michael!
01:25:49It's all for you!
01:26:16No!
01:26:35In my end...
01:26:37is my beginning.
01:26:39That's what they say, isn't it?
01:26:41My end.
01:26:45My beginning.