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00:00Do you know the land where the citrus leaves in the sky the gold orange leaves?
00:16A light wind from the blue sky the Myrte is still and on the Laub steht.
00:29Do you know it?
00:36Why have you stopped reading?
00:41Dahin, dahin, möchte ich mit dir, oh mein Geliebten.
00:59Hildegard has read me many of your cases in the newspapers, but I have had to stop her.
01:06Nowadays they are the only form of literature that keeps me awake.
01:13And I need what I deferently continue to call my beauty sleep.
01:20You would care for a little cognac?
01:23Yes, please.
01:24Now, you wish me to confess to the murder of Mr... what's his name?
01:31Who can say, madame la princesse?
01:32It is I who wish to make a confession.
01:33You pay me the compliment of having read about me.
01:34I return the compliment by admitting that I have read about you.
01:38Continue.
01:39I have been accidentally reminded that you were the godmother of Mrs Armstrong, who was herself
01:45the mother of the kidnapped child Daisy.
01:52How did you become Mrs Armstrong's godmother, madame?
01:55I was the friend and admirer of her mother, the great American actress Linda Oden.
01:58Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
01:59Is that a quotation or a question?
02:01I have been accidentally reminded by admitting that I have read about you.
02:04Continue.
02:05I have been accidentally reminded that you were the godmother of Mrs Armstrong, who was herself
02:08the mother of the kidnapped child Daisy.
02:09How did you become Mrs Armstrong's godmother, madame?
02:12I was the friend and admirer of her mother, the great American actress Linda Oden.
02:19Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
02:22Is that a quotation or a question?
02:25A quotation.
02:27I saw her twice as Lady Macbeth in London.
02:30She was the greatest tragic actress of her day.
02:35Was surely she still alive, madame?
02:37Alive, but bedridden.
02:41Did she not have a second daughter younger than Mrs Armstrong?
02:45There was, but I do not recall her name when I paid a visit.
02:49She was always away at school.
02:51What became of the younger daughter?
02:54She married at Tuck.
02:56And some such we never spoke of it.
03:00What was Mrs Armstrong's maiden name?
03:03Mrs Armstrong's maiden name was Greenwood.
03:09May I text your memory and indeed your patience a little longer?
03:13There are other names in the Armstrong household that I cannot recall.
03:18Was there not a secretary?
03:19Of course there was a secretary.
03:21Her name, madame?
03:23Her name?
03:24I remember.
03:27She was a mystery body.
03:30Was there not a gallant chauffeur?
03:33There was.
03:34I never used him.
03:36I had my own.
03:37Surely he was not the only male servant.
03:40I seem to remember one other.
03:42There he was.
03:43I think you would say the colonel's Indian orderly.
03:48And Mrs Armstrong's personal maid?
03:52The one who was wrongly suspected of complicity in the kidnapping?
03:56Killed herself.
03:57I always travel with my own personal maid.
04:00There was no need to speak with Mrs Armstrong's.
04:04Doubtless Fräulein Schmidt will remember her name.
04:09Surely, Fräulein, as one lady's maid to another,
04:11you conversed as equals below stairs.
04:14Ja, ja, natürlich.
04:17But ladies' maids were often called only by their Christian names.
04:20And what was hers?
04:22Paulette.
04:24Hildegard.
04:25You will be so kind as to give me two aspirin.
04:30And you will ask the dining car attendant to bring me a glass of Russian tea.
04:34And then you may retire to your own compartment.
04:37I will ring when I need you.
04:39Jawohl, my princess.
04:46Finally, there was the nurse.
04:48I had no need of a nurse.
04:57That is an ordeal still to come.
05:03You never smile, Madame de Francis.
05:06My doctor has advised against it.
05:18There is no need for us to fatigue you further.
05:34You have been of the utmost help.
05:37Go back to the pulmon and tell Pietro someone colonel about 35 minutes.
05:41I want a word with the maid.
05:43Yes, Paolo.
05:48I wonder if I might have a word with you about a small matter in the privacy of your companion.
05:51I have to take this aspirin.
05:52We will leave the door to jail.
06:00I observed how moved you were at the mention of Mrs. Armstrong's maid, Paulette.
06:04She had a sweet nature, man her.
06:07We were deep friends.
06:08Have you a photograph of her in your position?
06:11Yes.
06:12I never traveled without my photo box.
06:14It helps to pass evenings.
06:17No, please, man her.
06:18I am strong.
06:29I don't...
06:30Be calm!
06:32This could be your salvation and that of every passenger in the carry coach, including your mistress.
06:44When did you last open the suitcase?
06:47After Belgrade.
06:49When Pierre summoned me to the princess and I took out a volume of Goethe in case she wished me to read her to sleep.
06:54Too stout for Pierre.
06:58And yes, there is a button missing from the tunic.
07:03A button found by Mrs. Hubbard.
07:06And a passkey in the trouser pocket.
07:16Here is a photo, my ma'am.
07:22And this pretty innocent girl threw herself from the window.
07:27Use this, Fraulein.
07:28I found it in the corridor and thought it must be yours because it bears the initial age.
07:34No, no, no, no.
07:35That is the handkerchief, not of a maid, but of a great lady.
07:39Like your mistress?
07:43It is her style, yeah, but not her handkerchief.
07:48I know all her linen.
07:50Besides, the initial is wrong.
07:54What is the princess's first name?
07:56Natalia, mein Herr.
07:59It is a Russian name.
08:01Then I must keep it until I find the rightful owner.
08:04Might I also keep the photograph until this evening I promise to return it?
08:08Ja, ja, that does not worry me.
08:10But this, this does.
08:13Am I to be accused of hiding it in my suitcase?
08:16Fraulein.
08:17I am sure you did not hide the uniform, as I am sure you are a good and loyal friend to your mistress.
08:25Not only a good maid, but also a good cook.
08:28Not merely a good cook, but a companion, a comfort, a solace.
08:33You see, you are a good cook, are you not?
08:36All my ladies have said so, I...
08:43Auf Wiedersehen.
08:45Anima flack is in my soup.
08:50Lines and fingers, loop-a-de-loo...
08:51Osh, oj, oj, oj, be-be-be-be-be.
08:55An-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an...
08:58Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
09:28Are you opening your dress shop?
09:43No.
09:45We are closing an inquiry. Where is Shimoga?
09:48I beg your pardon?
09:49Shimoga, where is it?
09:51Well, it's a bit off my track.
09:52I'm a Northwest Frontier man myself, but, uh,
09:55Shimoga's down south in Mysore. Why?
09:57Does it possess a mission?
09:59How the hell should I know? India's postular with missions.
10:02You're returning on leave from India to England.
10:05Yes.
10:06Why overland?
10:08Why not?
10:09Because the sea route by P&O is more usual.
10:13I chose to come overland for reasons of my own.
10:16In a murder inquiry, no suspect's reasons are exclusively his own.
10:23I stopped for one night to see Ur of the Chaldeys,
10:26and for three days in Baghdad with the AOC, who happens to be a friend of mine.
10:30The English Miss Debenham also has traveled from Baghdad.
10:37It is possible the murder was committed by a woman,
10:40or by a man and a woman in collaboration.
10:43From your, um, acquaintanceship with Miss Debenham.
10:48Would you have thought that she was, uh, capable physically or emotionally or...
10:53That's a bloody irregular question.
10:55I know, but I ask it.
10:57Miss Debenham is not a woman.
10:58She's a lady.
11:03Which precludes of him being a murderess.
11:06Damn it, the man was a perfect stranger. She'd never seen him before.
11:09Do you feel warmly in the matter?
11:11I don't know what you're driving at.
11:14Then it must be practical and dravid facts. Did you know Colonel Armstrong?
11:23Not to speak to.
11:26You see, his outfit and mine wouldn't have mixed much.
11:29I'm Indian Army. He was British Army serving in India.
11:32Royal Scots.
11:33How did you know?
11:34It was in the papers when he shot himself after the kidnapping.
11:40Yeah. It's a rotten show.
11:43Thought he'd been tougher than that.
11:46After all, he got a DSO and an MC in France.
11:54Distinguished service order.
11:58Military cross?
12:00Colonel.
12:01Colonel.
12:03Ratchett was responsible for five deaths.
12:07The suicide of the falsely accused maid.
12:12The murder of the Armstrong child.
12:16The death of Mrs. Armstrong while giving premature birth to a stillborn baby.
12:25And the ultimate suicide of Colonel Armstrong in the face of multiple and intolerable believements.
12:31I would have understood his actions if, in addition to the DSO and MC, he had been awarded a VC, which stands, as you may know, for Victoria Cross and is awarded for valour.
12:45Then, in my opinion, Ratchett deserved what he got.
12:51Though I'd sooner have seen him properly tried. By jury.
12:55Trial by twelve good men and true. It's a sound system.
12:58We believe the murder was committed at 115. What were you doing then?
13:11I was yarning with young, what's his name, McQueen, in his compartment.
13:17He was interested in the future of India. A bit impractical. He thought the British ought to move out.
13:22How long did you stay yarning after that?
13:27Till, uh, one-thirty.
13:30Well, that's what I call a three-pipe yarn.
13:34Colonel Barton, you are the only passenger in the, uh, Calicoach who smokes a peep.
13:40So it would appear.
13:43Then this must, uh, be your peep cleaner.
13:49It's the same brand.
13:51It was found in an ashtray by the dead man's bedside.
13:54Then someone planted it there. It's a used peep cleaner.
14:00Or are you suggesting that I'm fool enough to have entered Ratchett's cabin, murdered him, cleaned my peep, and dropped it in the ashtray before leaving?
14:09No, Colonel Abuthnot.
14:13Miss Debenham!
14:16Uh, can I stay?
14:18No, Colonel Abuthnot.
14:26Please be seated.
14:32Forgive me, Miss Debenham, I must be brief.
14:34You've met Colonel Abuthnot and fell in love with each other in Baghdad.
14:38Why must the English conceal even their most impeccable emotions?
14:42To answer your observations in order, of course.
14:46Yes.
14:47Yes.
14:49And I don't know.
14:51Then let me tell you what you do know.
14:52That on the Bosphorus ferry boat I overheard a part of your conversation with the Colonel.
14:56Not now.
14:57Not now.
14:58When it's all over.
14:59When it's behind us.
15:00Then.
15:02When what was all over, Miss Debenham?
15:06And when what was behind you?
15:08Was it some task that had to be performed?
15:11That had to be performed.
15:12Some ordeal that had to be endured.
15:15Some dark deed that had to be dispatched.
15:18Mr. Poirot, I'm not at liberty to answer any of those questions.
15:21Not here on this train.
15:22Perhaps.
15:23But when the Yugoslav police take over an unsolved murder case at Brody, you will not remain
15:28at liberty unless you answer the questions.
15:30I can always call my lawyers long distance.
15:32This is a private matter between the Colonel and myself.
15:35Mr. Debenham, in a murder case no matter.
15:37It is private and evasion breeds suspicion, so answer my question.
15:40When what was all over, when what was behind you?
15:43Please answer the question.
15:44You will not remain here until I get an answer.
15:47Mr. Poirot has expressly forbidden.
15:50Well, it has no right.
15:51It is out of order.
15:52Mr. Debenham.
15:53If it matters.
15:54Mr. Debenham.
15:55To answer my question.
15:57When what was all over, when what was behind you?
15:59Answer my question.
16:00Get your hands off, Miss Debenham.
16:01I was not aware that I was keeping my hands on, Miss Debenham.
16:04I asked a simple question which you have to answer.
16:06So I heard.
16:07Then perhaps you can answer it for her.
16:20Can you give me your solemn oath, as a foreigner,
16:26that if the answer has nothing to do with the murder,
16:29you'll treat it confidentially?
16:31I will.
16:37I will.
16:42Six months ago, before I'd even met Miss Debenham,
16:46my Mem Sahib,
16:47Me?
16:48My wife,
16:50expressed herself bored,
16:52not only at living in India,
16:54but at living with me,
16:56and asked me to provide her with a divorce.
17:00In view of my position,
17:02commanding officer, 12th Gurkhas,
17:03I refused.
17:05Well, had I not, I should have lost my command.
17:09My wife returned to England,
17:11where there is irrefutable evidence
17:13that she has been persistently unfaithful to me.
17:18I have therefore instituted divorce proceedings,
17:23in which she is cited as the guilty party.
17:27And when those proceedings are behind us,
17:31when those proceedings are all over,
17:33I propose to marry Miss Debenham.
17:38Meanwhile,
17:40it is of vital importance,
17:42under English law,
17:44that our behaviour
17:48should not provide evidence for counter proceedings
17:52by my wife.
17:54Does that answer your question?
18:15Well,
18:20it is certainly an answer.
18:24The doctor.
18:25Is Pierre sufficiently recovered?
18:27Pulled in.
18:28May we go?
18:29You may with my assurance
18:31that our foreigner's lips shall be sealed.
18:34Sorry if I hurt the lad.
18:36Provocation.
18:40They could have done it together.
18:41She has hidden fire.
18:42She is very strong.
18:43Why did you not ask her she'd been to America?
18:46Because I did not need to.
18:51Pierre le colonel is excused de son geste.
18:54You are a naturalised American subject.
19:03You bet.
19:04For how long?
19:05Seven years.
19:06Ah, me ricordo di giorno fritt cheese.
19:08So, quando...
19:09Thought you did respond all the dumb on him.
19:11Otherwise,
19:12he will detain you longer than you would detain him.
19:14You are a motor car salesman.
19:16You bet.
19:17American automobiles to Italians.
19:19Did you know Cassetti?
19:20Not on your sweet life.
19:21Era mafioso.
19:22He says he was mafia.
19:23Really?
19:24Yeah.
19:25Who do you, uh...
19:26Who do you think killed him?
19:27Un altro mafioso.
19:28He says another mafia.
19:29They're always killing each other.
19:30With a knife or with a gun, eh?
19:31Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa.
19:32Why did you bring this dagger from the place?
19:33Because I found it my make up bag.
19:40E. Co., what did I say.
19:42Knives or guns...
19:44Why did you bring this dagger from the place?
19:57Because I found it my makeup bag.
19:59Echo, what did I say? Knives or guns? It's a vendetta between two mafiosi.
20:03Give me the dagger.
20:05When did you last open your makeup bag?
20:14Yesterday evening when I took everything out.
20:16If you took everything out, why did you need to reopen it?
20:19Because I was putting something back in.
20:22You may set your mind at rest, Mrs. Havard.
20:27The missing button.
20:29Precisely, and I can assure you the owner of the tunic is not now on the train.
20:35Are you going back to the dining car?
20:37I'll say I am.
20:38Do you think I could face my compartment so soon after that?
20:41Would you kindly ask the chief attendant to arrange the tables and chairs...
20:46...so that Signor Bianchi, Dr. Constantine and myself...
20:49...can confront the passengers with the solution of the murder?
20:53I, uh, I help with the resolutione?
21:06Yes. If you will briefly answer two more questions.
21:09Shoot.
21:10On the night of the murder, did, uh, Mr. Beddows leave the compartment?
21:15No. No, he grunts like a pig with the pain in his teeth.
21:19And, uh, have you ever been in private service?
21:22No.
21:24Thank you, that is all.
21:26Excuse me.
21:28Yes.
21:31Enfin, Dr.
21:33This blood is human.
21:35This dagger could, in two different hands...
21:38...have inflicted all the wounds.
21:40And you know who inflicted them, huh?
21:43A last interrogation would be something of a gamble.
21:48But if it succeeds...
21:50...and no.
21:56Ah, come in, come in, please. Be seated.
22:00There.
22:01You are Cyrus B. Hardman, a theatrical agent?
22:06No.
22:08I mean, I'm, I'm not a theatrical agent.
22:11That's a phony issued to me under license by Pinkertons.
22:15Ah, the detective agency.
22:17Istanbul branch.
22:18Ratched asked them for an American bodyguard.
22:20They sent me.
22:22I didn't do so hard, huh?
22:26Can you prove this, uh, was the reason for your journey?
22:47It's Paulette.
22:48Paulette.
22:49Paulette.
22:50Paulette.
22:51Michelle.
22:52Stop pretending to be anything.
22:53It's Paulette.
22:54It's Paulette.
22:55Paulette.
22:56Paulette, Michelle.
22:57I'll stop pretending to be anything.
23:02I'll stop pretending to be anything.
23:05I'll stop pretending to be anything.
23:07Paulette, man.
23:21Oh!
23:22Oh!
23:24They sent me!
23:25Oh!
23:27Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please?
23:51May I respectfully suggest that there should be no talking
23:55while Monsieur Poirot addresses you.
23:57If anyone wishes to make a statement,
23:59he or she can do so at the meeting's end.
24:06Ladies and gentlemen, you are all aware that the repulsive murderer
24:10has himself been repulsively and perhaps deservedly murdered.
24:14How and why? Here is the simple answer.
24:18There is evidence supporting the theory that the murderer was a stranger to us all.
24:22Mrs. Hubbard was conscious of a man in her compartment soon after 1.15 a.m.
24:28She later found, near her bedside, the button of a wagon-ly conductor.
24:33Fräulein Schmidt discovered, planted in her suitcase,
24:37the uniform of a conductor which could not possibly have fitted Pierre
24:42and from which, in fact, there was a button missing.
24:45And in the trouser pocket of the uniform was a conductor's pass key.
24:52Later still, Mrs. Hubbard discovered this blood-stained dagger,
24:57which Dr. Constantine confirms could have been the murderer's weapon.
25:02The obvious implication is that the murderer, disguised as a conductor,
25:10boarded the train at Belgrade,
25:12made his way by means of the convenient pass key to Ratchet's compartment,
25:16stabbed him to death, planted the dagger and the uniform,
25:20and then departed since the train was now halted in a snowdrift.
25:24Who was he?
25:26I am inclined to agree with Mr. Fosquirelli,
25:30who believes that he was a rival member of the Mafia,
25:33exacting private vengeance for a vendetta
25:35whose precise nature the Yugoslav police will undoubtedly identify.
25:43But... is that all?
25:45No, no, no, no, no.
25:48No, it is not.
25:50I said, here is the simple answer.
25:56There is also a more complex one.
26:04But remember my first solution when I...
26:08when you've heard my second.
26:11Let us for the moment assume what is perfectly possible
26:15that the mysterious stranger did not exist.
26:18The murder must then have been committed by some person
26:22or persons in the Cali coach,
26:25and therefore not present in this dining car.
26:30Let us not for the moment ask the question how,
26:33but the question why, which will tell us how.
26:38I was not surprised that every single one of you
26:40should have heard of the notorious Armstrong case.
26:43but I confess to a mild surprise when the first passenger
26:47I interrogated Mr. McQueen.
26:51Admitted under emotional stress
26:53that he had actually known Mrs. Armstrong, albeit very slightly.
26:57She was channeled and frightened,
27:00but not too frightened to take an interest in a young man
27:02who wanted to go on the stage.
27:04Was Mr. McQueen lying when he denied ever having...
27:08knowing that Ratchet was Cassetti?
27:11Or did he become Ratchet's signatory
27:13as part of a deliberate plan
27:15to avenge Mrs. Armstrong's death?
27:19Only by interrogating the other passengers
27:21could I hope to see the light,
27:23but when I began to question them,
27:25the light, as Macbeth would have said, thickened.
27:31When I told the Princess Dragomerov
27:34that I knew she was Mrs. Armstrong's godmother,
27:37her answers to my subsequent questions
27:40meant strongly of inaccuracy and evasion.
27:44Even I knew more from reading the newspaper reports
27:48than she from her frequent visits.
27:53Was there not a chauffeur?
27:55There was, Monsieur, but I had my own.
27:58I never used him.
27:59Evasion?
28:00What was the name of Mrs. Armstrong's personal maid?
28:03I always travel with my own maid, Monsieur.
28:08There was no need to speak with Mrs. Armstrong.
28:12Evasion?
28:13I asked for particulars of the man-servant.
28:15He was, I think, the Colonel's Indian, you would say, orderly.
28:21Inaccuracy.
28:22Colonel Armstrong was an officer of the British Army in India.
28:25He would have had a British Batman, like Private Bedouin, eh?
28:30To serve his personal needs.
28:33Only officers of the Indian Army, like Colonel Arbuth,
28:36not have Indian orderlies.
28:38I asked to the name of Mrs. Armstrong's younger sister.
28:41I do not recall her name.
28:43Unbelievable evasion.
28:46I asked to the name of Mrs. Armstrong's secretary.
28:49Yes, Miss Freebody.
28:51Ah, no.
28:52It's impossible, sir.
28:54It seems he's playing the psychological game of word association.
29:01Freebody is the name of the junior partner
29:04of one of London's most famous and most opulent ladies' stores of the sort,
29:09perhaps patronized by the Princess Ascend.
29:12The name of the senior partner is Debenham.
29:16Hmm.
29:17Debenham and Freebody, eh?
29:21Was the princess covering up for our Miss Debenham,
29:24who taught shorthand in Baghdad?
29:27Can she tell us the name of Mrs. Armstrong's younger sister?
29:33Then I will tell you her Christian and her maiden name.
29:38When I asked the Princess Dragomerov if she could tell me
29:41the maiden name of her goddaughter, Mrs. Armstrong,
29:46she could not possibly add the godmother
29:48pleading ignorance of this, she replied.
29:50Greenwood.
29:52Wood.
29:54Grunewald is the German for Greenwood.
29:59The princess's hesitation persuades me
30:02that Grunewald was the true maiden name of her goddaughter,
30:05Mrs. Armstrong,
30:07and that the Countess Andreni
30:09is Mrs. Armstrong's surviving young sister.
30:18The Christian name is Helen,
30:21not Helen, you know,
30:23but Helen.
30:24And where did she lose
30:27her Christian name's initial H?
30:30She lost it under a convenient grease spot
30:33in her husband's passport.
30:36And why was the grease spot purposely applied?
30:40Because she and her husband
30:42were afraid that, uh,
30:44this handkerchief bearing the initial H
30:47might lead me to suspect her of complicity in the murder.
30:51As fair before God,
30:52and on my word of honor as a gentleman,
30:54that this handkerchief does not belong to my wife.
30:56No, no, no, no, no, no, that...
30:58Oh, no, no, no, no, no, it does not.
31:02No, nor that it belonged to Mrs. Harriet Belinda Hubbard.
31:06Nor to Fraulein Hildegard Schmid,
31:10whose finest quality is her loyalty.
31:13Loyalty is her loyalty.
31:14The initial is wrong.
31:16What is the princess's first name?
31:19Natalia, my dear.
31:21It is a Russian name.
31:23In the Russian or Kirillic alphabet,
31:26their capital N is written like our capital H.
31:33Madame la Princesse,
31:35should this costly handkerchief cease to remain an exhibit,
31:38it will be returned to your loyal maid for laundering.
31:42Or is Hildegard Schmidt really your maid?
31:45I have perhaps a nose for the order of fine food and laid a trap.
31:50You are a good cook, are you not?
31:53All my ladies have said so.
31:56If you are a lady's maid,
31:59your ladies never have a chance of discovering if you are a good cook.
32:03As good a cook as Hildegard Schmidt must have been
32:06to the Armstrong household.
32:09Finally, who do we now have here in this car
32:16that could have known or could have been involved
32:22with the Armstrong household?
32:25We have one, Mr. McQueen, who became boyishly devoted to Mrs. Armstrong
32:30at the time of the kidnapping.
32:32Two, the Princess Dragomiroff, who was Mrs. Armstrong's devoted godmother.
32:37Three, the Countess Andreni, who was Mrs. Armstrong's devoted younger sister.
32:41Four, the Count Andreni, who was Helena's devoted husband
32:44and Mrs. Armstrong's devoted brother-in-law.
32:47Five, Hildegard Schmidt, who was Mrs. Armstrong's devoted cook.
32:52Six, Mary Debenham, who was Mrs. Armstrong's devoted secretary.
32:57Miss Debenham's inclusion is pure conjecture.
32:59I did not have to ask Miss Debenham if she had ever lived in America.
33:04Because during her interrogation, she said...
33:07I can always call my lawyers long distance.
33:11An English woman who had never lived in America would have said
33:15I can always make a trunk call to my solicitors.
33:19To the mem, I must thank the pipe-smoking Colonel Abathnot for a remark
33:30which finally resolved all my confusions about this extraordinary case.
33:36I prefer to set aside the fact that he denied ever having spoken to Colonel Armstrong in India,
33:44and yet he remembered in great detail the decorations
33:48which Colonel Armstrong had won years earlier in France.
33:54I prefer to remember his views on the British Jewelry system.
33:59Trial by twelve good men and true is a sound system.
34:05The Iron Tongue of Midnight hath told twelve.
34:14Sotomayor, the number twelve began to ring in my head like a great bell.
34:22Twelve.
34:24Doctor, how many wounds were there in the ratchets' body?
34:27Twelve.
34:28Mr. McQueen, how many capital letters each inscribed by a different hand were contained
34:33in each of the two threatening messages you showed me in the ratchets' correspondence file?
34:38Twelve. Twelve?
34:40Tell Abathnot, how many persons in a jury?
34:44Twelve.
34:48Yeah, poor Michel.
34:49How many passengers in the carry coach excluding myself and the murdered man?
34:55Twelve, Monsieur.
34:56Show me your wallet.
34:59No, but report for me.
35:01Mr. Harmon, you may not speak.
35:05Ratchett never asked you to be his bodyguard.
35:08He asked me.
35:09And I, perhaps to my discredit, refused.
35:12Before you joined Pinkerton's as a private detective, you were an ordinary policeman, were you not?
35:21Eh?
35:22Eh?
35:24A, uh, cop.
35:26Hmm?
35:27Who is, uh, as is customary, with cops, fell in love with, uh, a pretty housemaid on his beat.
35:38Hmm.
35:39Yes, and would have married her, if, uh...
35:49Hmm.
35:51Your daughter, Paulette, never died of scarlet fever, did she?
35:56Eh?
35:57She killed herself when falsely accused of complicity in the kidnapping and killing of little Daisy Armstrong.
36:09We, eh...
36:10We could not have done it without you, could they?
36:29You!
36:30You, the procurer of this disguise for the mysterious member of the Mafia,
36:38who never existed any more than the owner of this kimono existed.
36:42As a real character, and not as a red herring to confuse and deceive me,
36:46although I think that. I was not deceived.
36:51I have, how shall I put it, an eye for the figure of a receding woman.
37:00Countess, your cosmopolitan accent showed an inherited ability from your actress mother.
37:11But God knows from what implausible source Miss Greta Olsen learned her English vocabulary too ludicrous to be credited.
37:25I was born backwards. That is why I work in Africa as missionary, teaching little brown babies more backwards than myself.
37:36You coined words like bedgown, and yet you understand words like emolument.
37:43I truly believe you did look after little brown babies at your mission in Shimaga, which is in India, by the way.
37:49You know, it's not Africa.
37:50But I believe you were covering it up for once, years earlier, when you were in America, having looked after a little white baby called Daisy,
38:01whose death, though, you could do nothing to prevent it, so preyed on your mind that you sought refuge in a vision of Jesus,
38:07and your future as a missionary looking after little brown babies were sealed.
38:12You were lucky only to be bound and gagged, not crushed like the man-servant.
38:21Mr. Beddles, you served with the British Army in Scotland.
38:25Colonel Armstrong was in the Royal Scots. Would you kindly give Dr. Constantine your deepest butler's bow?
38:31Yes, there is an old contusion.
38:38The result of a slight fracke in the mess, sir, with regard to the quality of a pudding known as spotted dick.
38:45Thank you. But I think you've been spotted, too.
38:49Mr. Fosquirelli, he's very knowledgeable about automobiles.
38:54I suspected that perhaps he had once been the Armstrong chauffeur.
38:58Well, I asked if he had ever been in private service.
39:01No.
39:03I think Mr. Fosquirelli's appalling English is more genuine than Miss Olsen's, but I think he meant yes.
39:08Think, monsieur?
39:09Think, think, yes, think. What else can be done on a train isolated by a snowdrift?
39:14If all these people are not implicated in the crime, then why?
39:18Have they all told me under interrogation stupid and up and unnecessary lies? Why, why, why, why?
39:23Doubtless, monsieur Poirot, because they did not expect you to be on the train.
39:27They had no time to concert their cover story.
39:31I was hoping someone other than myself would say that.
39:38Ladies and gentlemen, we now come to my own reconstruction of the Night of the Murder.
39:46The Night of the Red Herrings.
39:56I, I only wish, I, I only wish I could describe it with the, uh, incomparable panache.
40:15The consummate love, the enthralling cadences, the delicate gestures, the evocative expressions of America's greatest tragic actors, Harriet Berlin, Miss Linda Harden.
40:31I've always heard she wanted to play comedy parts, but her husband wouldn't have it.
40:36Which husband? Your second husband, Mr. Hubbard, or your first husband, Mr. Grunewald?
40:45Linda Harden, the actress, never played as difficult a role as Mrs. Hubbard, the organizer of this extraordinary revenge.
40:54Dare I deduce that the great Linda Harden has been cured of her incurable disease and is no longer bedridden?
41:04It is I who should be committed to a bed in a mental home.
41:10It is I who need a cue for being so slow to notice the tricks that were being played on me with regard to the time of the murder.
41:18Will there be anything more, sir?
41:24There will.
41:30Tell Mr. McQueen I want to see him now.
41:33No problem.
41:34Very good, sir.
41:36And six beakers.
41:37Stop.
41:38Only five, repeat five, beakers were delivered.
41:42One, repeat one, badly chipped.
41:45Which will be returned on receipt of replacement to my Paris address.
41:50Signed, Ratchet.
41:55Okay, Hector.
41:56That's all.
41:57Good night, Mr. Ratchet.
42:03Good night, Hector.
42:04Good night, Hector.
42:18How are we waiting?
42:20Wow.
42:27That was just a mistake.
42:29Good night?
42:30Good night.
42:31Good night.
42:34Good night.
42:36Good night.
42:37Good night.
42:38Good night.
42:44What a nuit.
42:45Good night.
42:47Good night, to come back.
42:48Oods has flown bigger, left and inside to the dark.
42:50Good night.
42:51Good night.
42:54Good night.
42:55Good night.
42:56Oh, my God.
43:26Oh, my God.
43:56Oh, my God.
44:26Oh, my God.
44:56Oh, my God.
45:26Oh, my God.
45:28Oh, my God.
45:30Oh, my God.
45:32Oh, my God.
45:34Oh, my God.
45:36Oh, my God.
45:38Oh, my God.
46:10Oh, my God.
46:12Oh, my God.
46:14Oh, my God.
46:16Oh, my God.
46:18Oh, my God.
46:20Oh, my God.
46:22Oh, my God.
46:24Oh, my God.
46:26Oh, my God.
46:28Oh, my God.
46:30Oh, my God.
46:32Oh, my God.
46:34Oh, my God.
46:36Oh, my God.
46:38Oh, my God.
46:40Oh, my God.
46:42Oh, my God.
46:44Oh, my God.
46:50Oh, my God.
46:52Oh, my God.
46:54By 2 o'clock, the murder was afoot and visited.
47:24By 2 o'clock, the murder was killed.
47:34My daughter. My granddaughter.
47:37In memory of Colonel Armstrong, a great soldier, an even greater friend.
47:58And for Mrs. Armstrong, they took me into their home and their hearts.
48:16For they are Daisy and mine.
48:21God forgive me.
48:28Oh, my... my sister and my niece.
48:44Mrs. Daisy.
48:47For the grief, you won't a man have it worth.
48:58For your uncle.
49:10It's fine.
49:19For my beloved goddaughter.
49:29From Mother Armstrong.
49:34From me, Hector.
49:48For my gentlemen.
49:58To Paulette.
50:01To Paulette.
50:03With love.
50:13And with mine.
50:15God raise the soul of my dear, dead daughter.
50:28To Paulette.
50:29To Paulette.
50:30To Paulette.
50:35I repeat.
50:38A repulsive murderer.
50:44To Paulette.
50:45To Paulette.
50:47I repeat.
50:48I repeat, a repulsive murderer has himself been repulsively and perhaps deservedly murdered.
51:07But in which of the two ways that I have suggested?
51:11In a simple way by the mafioso disguised as a wagon reconductor.
51:19Or in a more complex way that I have just outlined.
51:25Which involves many questions and, of course, considerable scandal.
51:34Senator Bianchi, it is for you, as the director of the line,
51:41to choose a solution that we shall offer to the police at Brad.
51:45Though I confess, I am in two minds.
51:51Though I...
51:55I think the police at Brad would prefer the simplicity of the first solution.
52:04I don't know.
52:05I don't know.
52:06I don't know.
52:07I don't know.
52:08I don't know.
52:09I don't know.
52:15We have the uniform to show the police.
52:19If we have the uniform, there must have been a man in it.
52:25So, therefore, I elect the first solution.
52:35Hear, hear.
52:55Hear, hear.
52:56Hear, hear.
53:08My friend.
53:10Now I must go and wrestle with my reports to the police,
53:14and with my conscience.
53:15Mama?
53:16I must go and wrestle with me.
53:23Mama?
53:26Mama?
53:31Mama?
53:35Mama?
53:37Mama.
53:39Mama?
53:40Mama?
53:41Mama?
53:42Mama?
53:43Mama?