#casanova #romeoandjuliet #thescapegoat
The tyrannical patriarch of a dysfunctional but wealthy family summons his adult children for a Christmas reunion, but prior to the holiday his throat is slashed apparently by one of them. Starring: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Vernon Dobtcheff.
The tyrannical patriarch of a dysfunctional but wealthy family summons his adult children for a Christmas reunion, but prior to the holiday his throat is slashed apparently by one of them. Starring: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Vernon Dobtcheff.
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01:49We need the river for access.
01:51What about the other area downstream?
01:53We can't afford them both, Simeon.
01:55Well, we've got to.
01:57If anyone else starts prospecting, we'll have lost all that we've done over the last six months.
02:03There.
02:05That's my share for the claim.
02:20I'm off at first light.
02:23I should make Praetorian in four days.
02:25You'll be back in ten, eh?
02:27In six months...
02:30...we'll be rich.
02:33Good night, Herod.
02:36Good night.
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03:49Sit him on one of the horses, and take him back to the crawl.
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04:06Who the hell are you?
04:08Stella de Zeechter.
04:10And you?
04:12Lee.
04:14Simeon Lee.
04:16How long have I been here?
04:18This is your third day.
04:29You'd have died in half a day if we hadn't have found you.
04:35Come.
04:39Thanks.
04:45I was mauled by a lion.
04:48Yeah, I know.
04:50I took the bullet out.
04:55All right.
04:58My partner attacked me.
05:01That's what diamonds do to people, eh?
05:04Don't worry, they're safe.
05:06Don't worry, they're safe.
05:15And your map, it's a bit bloodstained, though.
05:18Do you...
05:22live out here all by yourself?
05:24My father got tired of trying to marry me off.
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06:38Simeon?
06:44Simeon?
06:55Simeon!
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07:35Happy Christmas.
07:37And to you, sir. Thank you very much.
07:40Well, that's the last decent meal I'll get till the new year, I expect.
07:43You are not looking forward to your Christmas, Chief Inspector?
07:46We're going to Mrs Japp's family in Wales.
07:49If they start singing again...
07:51I shall think of you, Chief Inspector, as I sit down to my simple repast.
07:55For Poirot, it will be a quiet Christmas,
07:58with my radio, perhaps, a book, and a box of exquisite Belgian chocolates.
08:03Well, listen, Poirot.
08:05Think of me on Christmas morning when you open this.
08:09Oh, thank you very much, Chief Inspector.
08:11Merry Christmas, Poirot.
08:12Merry Christmas to you.
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08:23Oh, yes, of course. There we are, my dear.
08:25And a very happy Christmas to you.
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09:07All right, all right, little child.
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09:11Bring him in.
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09:26Mr. Simeon Lee?
09:27Yes.
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09:31Have you got them?
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10:01Get out.
10:02Get out, all of you!
10:05Get out.
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10:19Voila.
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11:11Can I help you?
11:12Yes, Mr. Dicker?
11:13Mr. Dicker, my radiator, it has gone cold,
11:16and there is a...
11:17Boiler broken, sir.
11:18But then the boiler, it must be repaired.
11:20It will be after Christmas, sir.
11:22After Christmas?
11:23That is most unsatisfactory.
11:26I have...
11:28I see.
11:31Au revoir, Mr. Dicker.
11:39Oh.
11:44Yes?
11:45Hercule Poirot?
11:47Yes, it is I, Hercule Poirot, who speaks.
11:49I need a detective to come and stay here
11:53in my house for Christmas.
11:55Now, don't say no just like that.
11:57Hear me out.
11:58Superintendent Sugden of the Shropshire Police
12:02recommended you.
12:03I do not know him.
12:04I don't care if you don't know him.
12:05He knows you.
12:07My life is in danger.
12:10Have you received any threats, monsieur?
12:13Lee, Simeon Lee.
12:15Oh, well, you'd have to be here to understand.
12:18Tell to me, if you please, monsieur Lee.
12:20Does your house have the central heating?
12:22What?
12:23Yes, of course.
12:27Very well.
12:28Poirot will be there tomorrow.
12:31Give to me, if you please, your address.
12:34I saw three ships come sailing in
12:37On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day
12:41I saw three ships come sailing in
12:44On Christmas Day in the morning
12:47I saw three ships come sailing in
12:50And what was in the ship so pretty
12:53Thank you so much, sir.
12:55And what was in the ship so beautiful
12:59Madam, help the needy at Christmas.
13:03Oh.
13:16Are you ready to order, sir?
13:19Ah, yes, thank you very much.
13:20But please, do tell me, what is this, sir?
13:24Brown Windsor soup.
13:27Well, sir, it's soup.
13:30From Windsor.
13:32I see.
13:33Well, then, I will have this brown windsor soup.
13:36Followed by...
13:39I must have a little salad.
13:42Okay, if I share your table.
13:46Of course.
13:59Well, I'll be glad to get out of London, I don't mind telling you.
14:04It's a terrible place.
14:06But you are English, no?
14:08I've been abroad for years.
14:11What about you?
14:12I am Spanish.
14:14Did you see any of this civil war business over in Spain?
14:19I saw a bomb drop and it blew up a car.
14:24That didn't upset you?
14:26One is alive for a time in this world, yes, and then one is dead.
14:30And one's friends are sad and one's enemies rejoice.
14:34Don't you believe in forgiving your enemies, senorita?
14:40No.
14:42I do not.
14:44If I had an enemy, I would cut his throat like this.
14:52I wouldn't like to be your enemy, senorita.
15:00It does not look very delicious.
15:03Well, sir, it is brown windsor soup.
15:09What...
15:12brings you to England?
15:13I'm going to stay with my English relations.
15:16They are very rich, I think.
15:18They live in a big house called Gorston Hall.
15:21Good God.
15:25What is it?
15:27You must be Jennifer's girl.
15:31My mother's name was Jennifer.
15:34I'm Harry Lee.
15:36Jennifer was my sister.
15:40Does the family know you're coming?
15:43Oh, yes.
15:45That's more than they do with me.
16:01He's playing God, as he always does.
16:04It's the role he enjoys most.
16:07Well, I think it's extremely boring.
16:10Boring or not, it's our duty to be here, Magdalena.
16:14Moreover, it enables us to save considerably.
16:17We shouldn't have to scrimp and save like this.
16:20Well, can't you make your father give you some more money?
16:23He upped my allowance last year.
16:25What happens when he dies?
16:27The bulk of his money comes to Alfred and myself.
16:29Isn't there another brother?
16:31No, no, no. Harry left years ago.
16:33We don't talk about him, incidentally.
16:35He's a very disreputable character.
16:38Well, your father's not all that reputable, George.
16:43What on earth do you mean by that?
16:45When he gets me alone, he makes me feel quite uncomfortable.
16:48The things he says.
16:50Yes, yes. Well, one has to make allowances.
16:53It isn't only the things he says.
16:56At father's age, with his health being so bad...
17:06HE SIGHS
17:26Must you always give in to him, Alfred?
17:28He's a very old man, Lydia.
17:31Well, he'll get older and more tyrannical.
17:34Why must we have George and Magdalena for Christmas?
17:37Father hasn't seen George for a long time.
17:40He's very good to us, you know, Lydia.
17:43Oh, Alfred.
17:45Magdalena's going to be frightfully bored anyway.
17:48Why George has to go and marry a girl 20 years younger than himself,
17:52I shall never know.
17:54Always was a fool.
17:56I suppose she's been quite a help to him in his constituency.
18:00All right, what is it, Albrecht?
18:02Beg pardon, sir. Is it convenient if I take the car?
18:05Mr Lear's asked me to go to the station and meet some more guests.
18:09Some more guests?
18:20Wait a minute!
18:30Hmm.
18:40Karen!
18:43We have just seen Horbury, and he says...
18:46Ah, Lydia, my dear.
18:49What a nice colour you've got.
18:51He says there are to be more guests for Christmas.
18:54Just straighten my legs for me, would you, my dear?
19:00Hmm.
19:06It's a terrible thing to get old, Lydia.
19:10Who are these people that are coming?
19:12Well, first of all, there's my old friend Hercule Poirot.
19:17Who's he?
19:19A friend.
19:21And then there's Pilar.
19:23Pilar?
19:25Pilar Estravados, Jennifer's girl.
19:28My granddaughter.
19:31But you didn't tell me.
19:33It's going to be a grand Christmas.
19:36All my children round me.
19:41There now, Alfred, there's your clue.
19:44Guess who the other visitor is.
19:47But you haven't got any more...
19:49Your brother, Harry.
19:52Of course.
19:54HE CHUCKLES
19:58HORN HONKS
20:06What do you think of the spats?
20:09And the patent leather shoes, eh?
20:12Just the thing for a weekend in the country.
20:18And those mustachios must have enough wax in them
20:21to keep Madame Tussauds going for a fortnight.
20:29FOOTSTEPS
20:36Estravados? Yes?
20:38Mr Simeon Lee sent me to meet you.
20:40Mr Harry Lee? Sure.
20:42I'll put your bags in the boot.
20:49Mr Poirot?
20:52FOOTSTEPS
20:56You were a friend of the old bastard Simeon?
21:00I am a friend of Mr Lee, yes.
21:03There's no good you calling him Mr Lee, chump.
21:06There'd be more Mr Lees than you can shake a stick at at Gorseton, this X-mas.
21:10And I'm one of them. Harry Lee's the name.
21:15Hercule Poirot. Pardon?
21:17Poirot. Hercule Poirot.
21:19French, eh? No.
21:21I'm her long-lost uncle.
21:24Tell him your name, Pilar.
21:26Pilar Estravados.
21:29You two should get on, being foreign.
21:33TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS
21:36TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS
22:00Alfred? The car's arrived.
22:02What are you doing?
22:04A note to father, protesting in the strongest possible tone.
22:07Notes? Whatever good do you think notes are going to do?
22:19Bless my soul, if it ain't Tressillion.
22:25How are you, Tressillion?
22:29Mr Harry.
22:31Still here, eh?
22:35Hmm.
22:37Still the same ugly old dump.
22:46You don't look very tough.
22:50Hercule Poirot is a detective, not a bodyguard, monsieur.
22:54Oh, is he?
22:56Got a brain, has he?
22:58Ha-ha.
23:00Oh, good thing somebody has.
23:02All my sons are complete nincompoops.
23:05I've probably got better sons scattered all over the world.
23:08Born on the wrong side of the blanket.
23:13My family hate me, you know.
23:16It is not hard to see why, monsieur Lee.
23:19Ha! They're frightened of me.
23:22It is often the way with men who are old and rich.
23:25Anyway, I'm going to make an announcement this evening,
23:28and then they'll have good cause to hate me.
23:31What do you want?
23:32He wanted to see Miss Escrivado, sir.
23:34She's outside.
23:36All right. One more minute.
23:41What is it that you wish me to do here, monsieur Lee?
23:44Keep your eyes open. Keep your ears open.
23:47Bien. What am I looking for? What am I listening for?
23:50You'll know when it happens.
24:02Trusillian is taking your bags to your room, sir.
24:24I've been a very wicked man, Pilar.
24:27What do you think of that?
24:29The nuns say all men are wicked.
24:32The nuns?
24:34But I don't regret it.
24:36I've enjoyed every moment of it.
24:39I've cheated and I've stolen and I've lied.
24:43And the women...
24:45Are you shocked, Pilar?
24:47Why should I be shocked?
24:49Men always desire women.
24:51That is why wives are unhappy.
24:54Go to church and pray.
24:56You are the devil's rat.
24:59Well, you like me to sit here with you, grandfather.
25:02Yes, I do.
25:04It's a long time since I was close to anything as young and beautiful as you are.
25:08It warms my old bones.
25:14Ah, but you don't fool me.
25:16Don't think I don't know why you sit here listening to me droning on.
25:20Money.
25:23All right.
25:26I'll show you something.
25:46I just got these yesterday
25:50from the company museum in Pretoria.
25:56These are the first diamonds I ever took
26:01from my first mine.
26:03But they are little pebbles, that is all.
26:06They're uncut. That's how diamonds are when they're found.
26:12But why do you not have them cut?
26:14Because I like them like this.
26:18It all comes back to me.
26:22The sunshine on the ox
26:28and the smell of the veldt
26:33and the quiet of the evenings.
26:42It is unfortunate that these so-called Republicans
26:46have forced him to take the action he has taken.
26:49Take it from me. Generalissimo Franco has right on his side.
26:54Yes, it is always reassuring to hear the opinion of an expert on these matters.
27:00Could I top anybody's glass up?
27:02You're very tanned. Have you spent time in South Africa too, like your father?
27:06No, only a year or two. I've been in Argentina mostly.
27:09Well, apart from my time in Macau.
27:11I'm afraid I've been absolutely nowhere.
27:13Could I have a word, Lydia? I'm sorry.
27:16Excuse me.
27:20I've remembered who this Hercule Poirot is.
27:23He's a detective.
27:25The police? Surely not.
27:27He's one of those private detectives.
27:29But why should your father want to...
27:32Excuse me, sir.
27:34What is it, Hawberry?
27:36Mr Lee is ready to see you all now.
27:42Come in.
27:44Hello. Is that you, Charlton?
27:47Oh, yes. I'm sorry to trouble you at home, but it is rather urgent.
27:52I want you to make a new will for me.
27:55Yes. Sit down. I won't be long.
27:59Yes, well, you see, it's some time since the other will was made,
28:03and things have changed.
28:06No, no, no. I don't want to spoil your Christmas.
28:09Come over on Boxing Day.
28:11Oh, the next day. Yes, yes.
28:14I shan't be dying just yet.
28:18Goodbye.
28:23You're all looking very glum.
28:26What's the matter?
28:28Harry.
28:30I don't know you anywhere.
28:32Even after all these years,
28:34your taste in clothes hasn't improved, I see.
28:38Good to see you, Dad. You're looking well.
28:45Fortunately,
28:48I did not ask you all up here
28:50for the pleasure of seeing your smiling faces,
28:54but because I want to say
28:56that we have to reorganise things a bit now,
29:00that we have two more people living in the house.
29:03What do you mean?
29:05Pilar will make her home with us here, naturally,
29:09and Harry is home for good.
29:13Harry is coming to live here?
29:15What's wrong with that, old boy?
29:17Harry is my son too, you know, George.
29:20Of course, it is going to mean
29:22cutting back a little in other areas.
29:25Your allowance, for instance. George will have to go.
29:28You can't do that, Father.
29:30You don't understand how heavy my expenses are already.
29:33Oh? Well, let your wife do her bit, then.
29:36She could make her own clothes.
29:39Even my wife could make her own clothes.
29:41And she was one of the most stupid women it's been my sorrow to meet.
29:44You've no right to talk about our mother like that.
29:47Right?
29:49Right!
29:51You've no rights, any of you.
29:54You're just a set of manly, babby weaklings.
29:58Has any of you produced one grandson for me? No!
30:02Hold hard, Dad.
30:04I'm just sick to death of the lot of you. Get out!
30:06Get out, all of you! Get out! Get out!
30:12What's got into him?
30:14Get out!
30:41Get out!
30:57I blame you, Alfred. You've had charge of him here.
31:00What are you talking about?
31:02I think there's a case for getting a doctor in right away.
31:05A doctor? There's nothing wrong with him.
31:08He's clearly not of sound mind.
31:11Two doctors, isn't it?
31:13Ladies, shall we?
31:21Shall I announce you, Superintendent?
31:23That's all right, Drusillian. Mr Lee's expecting you.
31:30Come and have some coffee.
31:32The gentleman will be thrilled with it.
31:34Over here.
31:36It's wonderful that you could come, Pilar.
31:38It's wonderful for me, too, to meet my uncles and aunts
31:41and this grand house.
31:45It's been seven years!
31:47I've got these blokes chasing me for cash!
31:52I was having a word at cocktail party at Buffing
31:55and you know he has the ear of the PM.
32:01Who was it?
32:03Mr Sugden.
32:05Superintendent of Police.
32:08Watch what you're doing!
32:10I'm sorry, Mr Drusillian.
32:12You've got no right to go touching things.
32:15What did he want, this police superintendent?
32:18He's collecting for the police orphanage.
32:20Oh? And did he get anything?
32:23I'm sure he did.
32:34We'll be having more snow tonight, I shouldn't wonder.
32:37We'll be cut off again if we're not careful.
32:42Good night, ladies.
32:44Found you the pictures. I expect so.
33:04GLASSES CLINK
33:20GLASSES CLINK
33:33GLASSES CLINK
34:04GLASSES CLINK
34:11It's coming from Dad's room!
34:22It's locked! It's locked!
34:24Dad!
34:26Dad!
34:28I'm going to have to break the door down.
34:30Don't be a fool, it's made of solid oak!
34:33What's going on?
34:35One, two, three!
34:37What was that terrible noise?
34:39One, two, three!
34:43One, two, three!
34:47You've got to put some effort!
34:49One, two, three!
34:53One more!
34:55One, two, three!
34:58One, two, three!
35:03Dad?
35:05There's a noise here.
35:19I've forgotten my book.
35:21I didn't know that you opened it, sir.
35:23What's going on?
35:25It's upstairs, sir.
35:27Superintendent, I was just going to telephone the police.
35:29I would have used old Mr Lee's phone,
35:31but they told me not to touch anything.
35:33What?
35:35It's old Mr Lee, sir. Mr Simeon.
35:37He's been killed. Murdered.
35:39My God, what a shambles.
35:41Nothing must be touched.
35:43All right.
35:47I want this room cleared.
35:49Who are you?
35:51Police. Superintendent Sutton.
35:54Would everybody please wait downstairs?
35:59Excuse me, miss.
36:01Nothing must be touched or disturbed.
36:03She knows that.
36:05You picked up something from the floor just now.
36:07I did?
36:09It's in your hand now.
36:11Please give it to me.
36:23Ah.
36:25You must be Mr Poirot.
36:27Superintendent.
36:29Lucky we had a detective here on the spot.
36:31Perhaps.
36:33Stay in here, would you?
36:35Look.
36:37Don't touch it.
36:45It is where he kept his diamonds.
36:47They have gone.
36:53Ding dong, merrily on high
36:55In heaven the bells are ringing
36:57Ding dong, merrily the sky
36:59Is ringed with angels singing
37:01Gloria
37:03Gloria
37:05Gloria
37:07Gloria
37:09Gloria
37:11Gloria
37:13Gloria
37:15Gloria
37:17Gloria
37:19Gloria
37:21Gloria
37:23Gloria
37:25Hosanna
37:27In excelsis
37:29Gloria
37:31Gloria
37:33Gloria
37:35Gloria
37:37Hosanna
37:39In excelsis
37:41In so
37:43Here below below
37:45Let steeple bells
37:47Be swung
37:49Ah
37:51Ah
37:53Ah
37:55Gloria
37:57Gloria
37:59Gloria
38:01Gloria
38:03Hosanna
38:05In excelsis
38:07Gloria
38:09What are you doing here, Poirot?
38:11I've come to rescue you, my lady.
38:20The superintendent, Sagnon, was going to call in Scotland Yard in any case,
38:23so I suggested that as you were just across the border...
38:49It must have been the work of a lunatic.
39:05That's your theory, is it?
39:07Isn't there some mental home in the vicinity?
39:09A homicidal maniac?
39:11How do you suppose this homicidal maniac gained admittance to the house, Mr. Lee?
39:15The only door that wasn't locked was the kitchen door,
39:17and the kitchen staff didn't see any homicidal maniacs.
39:19Well, I...
39:23Pardon.
39:25No, come in, Mr. Poirot.
39:27I have the chief inspector Jap with me, superintendent.
39:29Jap?
39:31Oui.
39:33From Scotland Yard?
39:37This is a pleasure indeed, chief inspector.
39:39Thank you, sir.
39:41I expect you're used to this kind of thing, chief inspector,
39:43but murders are few and far between in this part of the country.
39:46I imagine so, sir.
39:48Well.
39:50I was just about to ask Mr. George Lee here the crucial question.
39:53Ah, yes?
39:55Which is, of course, Mr. Lee.
39:57Where were you at the time of the murder?
40:00I was in here.
40:02On the telephone.
40:04Calling my agent in Westringham, as a matter of fact.
40:08So you were actually in this room
40:11when you heard the noises from upstairs?
40:14The crashing about and screaming?
40:18Yes.
40:21Mr. Poirot tells me these diamonds have gone from the safe, sir.
40:24Yes. I'm getting a few more men in from Shrewsbury
40:27to do a thorough search of the house and grounds.
40:29But the theft of the diamonds may not be as indicative as it seems.
40:33Forgive me, but I don't understand, superintendent.
40:37Mr. Lee telephoned me yesterday afternoon.
40:40He wanted me to come over and see him at 8.15.
40:42Made a special point of the time.
40:44What's more, he told me to tell the butler
40:46that I was collecting for some police charity.
40:49Ah.
40:50Well, Mr. Lee is an important person in these parts,
40:53so I did as he said.
40:55He told me that several thousand pounds worth of uncut diamonds
40:58had been stolen from his safe.
41:00He thought.
41:01He thought?
41:02He said they definitely were missing,
41:04but that only two people could have done it.
41:06And one of them might have done it as a joke.
41:09I have yet to meet anybody in this household, superintendent,
41:12that has even the most rudimentary sense of humour.
41:14He didn't happen to name these people, did he, sir?
41:16No, he didn't, Chief Inspector.
41:18But it's odd.
41:19He wanted me to go away and come back again in about an hour.
41:22He said he'd have a clearer idea, then,
41:24about if he'd been robbed or if it was a joke.
41:27I can tell you, by this time, I was getting pretty fed up with Mr. Lee.
41:30But of the two people that he suspected,
41:32is it possible that one could be a servant
41:34and the other a member of his family?
41:36And if it was family, he didn't want to drop them in it.
41:39Well, yes.
41:40Perhaps my visit was just meant to put the frightners on them.
41:43So you left?
41:45Yes, I did.
41:46It wasn't worth my while going all the way home,
41:48so I went and sat in the car.
41:50I was just on my way back.
41:52I was to use leaving the orphanage subscription book behind as an excuse
41:56when all this hell broke loose.
42:07What's been going on in here?
42:09Simeon Lee was a man who was shrunken, old and frail, Nesper.
42:13And yet all this...
42:15It signifies, do you not think so, Chief Inspector?
42:18Looks more like a five-star riot than a simple throat cutting.
42:22This door was locked, you say?
42:24Yes.
42:25Ma'am?
42:26There are no prints on it, apart from the old man's.
42:30Come.
42:31You observed the little scratches at the end of the barrel, Chief Inspector?
42:34That's been turned from the outside.
42:36Using long-nosed pliers.
42:39But why, mon ami?
42:41So that we would think that Simeon Lee locked the door himself
42:43and that it was suicide?
42:45So suicide was strange, Nesper,
42:46who hurls around the room all the furniture and then screams,
42:49before the door opens.
42:51I don't know.
42:52I don't know.
42:53I don't know.
42:54I don't know.
42:55I don't know.
42:56I don't know.
42:57So he hurls around the room all the furniture and then screams,
42:59before he commits the act?
43:01Suppose Mr Lee put up more resistance than the murderer expected,
43:05and made such a racket that he had to get out quick
43:07before he had time to put the room to rights.
43:09He couldn't have gone out through the window.
43:11All bolted shut.
43:15This one isn't.
43:17But it's locked in that position for ventilation.
43:20But is it not a possibility that Simeon Lee did in fact commit the suicide?
43:24but wanted it to look like murder.
43:26Why would he do that?
43:27Because Simeon Lee was a man most
43:28vengeful, Chief Inspector, and had not
43:30a great love for his family.
43:33Blimey.
43:44Superintendent, what was it that Mademoiselle Estravados
43:47picked up from the floor in the room of Monsieur Simeon Lee?
43:49Oh, last night.
43:51Wait.
43:52Here.
43:59In detective stories, it's the sort of thing
44:00that solves the whole mystery.
44:04What do you think?
44:05A little wooden peg and a little rubber ring.
44:12Keep them if you like.
44:13If they've got anything to do with the murder,
44:15I'll retire from the police force.
44:18No, no, no, no.
44:19I would not deprive you of the money.
44:22Tell me, what was it that made you recommend
44:24me to Monsieur Simeon Lee?
44:26I didn't.
44:31What time was it you went out last night?
44:34Just after 8 o'clock.
44:36I went to the cinema in Oswestry.
44:38It's only 10 minutes on the bus.
44:40Anybody see that?
44:42I was with a young lady.
44:44Oh, yes?
44:46What's her name?
44:47Doris Buckle, sir.
44:49She works in the United Dairies in Markham Road.
44:52I didn't have anything to do with this, sir.
44:54What can you tell us about the diamonds
44:55Mr. Lee kept in his safe?
44:57Nothing, sir.
45:00They arrived the day before yesterday.
45:02Mr. Lee said they came from his old company museum in Africa.
45:07It's not very pleasant when a murder happens in a house.
45:11Nobody said it was.
45:17["DANCE OF THE SUGAR-PLUM FAIRY"]