S13 E01. Elephants Can Remember.

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First broadcast 9th June 2013.  Ariadne Oliver wishes to unravel the mystery behind the deaths of her goddaughter Celia's parents, who were found shot on their estate ten years prior.  David Suchet as Hercule Poirot Zoë Wanamaker as Ariadne Oliver Adrian Lukis as General Ravenscroft Annabel Mullion as Lady Ravenscroft Greta Scacchi as Mrs Burton-Cox Iain Glen as Doctor Willoughby Vincent Regan as Detective Inspector Beale Alexandra Dowling as Marie Vanessa Kirby as Celia Ravenscroft Caroline Blakiston as Julia Carstairs Elsa Mollien as Zelie Rouxelle Maxine Evans as Mrs Buckle Hazel Douglas as Mrs Matcham Jo-Anne Stockham as Mrs Willoughby Ferdinand Kingsley as Desmond Burton-Cox Danny Webb as Superintendent Garroway Claire Cox as Dorothea Jarrow Ruth Sheen as Madame Rosentelle Roxanne Gregory as Autograph Hunter  Sophie Holt as Au pair / Secretary  Rachel Marquez as Book Fan  Lisa Ronaghan as Autograph Hunter

Transcript

00:00:00It is with enormous pleasure that I give you our Crime Writer of the Year,

00:00:29Mrs. Ariadne Oliver.

00:00:40Surely you remember her?

00:00:42Celia Ravensworth.

00:00:44She's your goddaughter, is she not?

00:00:47See?

00:00:48It's just over, Mr. Minnie.

00:00:50Mrs. Oliver, may I have your autograph?

00:00:53Oh, that's Celia.

00:00:55I haven't seen her in a very long time.

00:01:00May I confide in you?

00:01:03There's something I really must find out.

00:01:05Something of great moment.

00:01:07A mystery.

00:01:09Celia Ravensworth, you see, intends to marry my son, Desmond.

00:01:14Why is that a mystery?

00:01:16Is there something wrong with Desmond?

00:01:18No, there's nothing wrong with Desmond.

00:01:20No.

00:01:21But it's all just very sudden.

00:01:25And one has to know about people, especially people one's welcoming into one's family.

00:01:31Mrs. Oliver, what I want to know is this.

00:01:36Did her father kill her mother, or did the mother kill the father?

00:01:42I don't think I heard you properly. Pardon?

00:01:45I know it was 12 or 13 years ago now, but it did cause a fuss at the time.

00:01:50You must remember.

00:01:52General and Mrs. Ravenscroft.

00:01:55Of course I remember.

00:01:56It's just I couldn't quite believe my ears.

00:01:58Mrs.

00:01:59Burton Cox.

00:02:00Mrs. Burton Cox.

00:02:01It has been nice meeting you.

00:02:04I must find out the truth.

00:02:09I'm at a loss to see how I can...

00:02:11But ask your goddaughter.

00:02:13Ask Celia.

00:02:14Please.

00:02:15I shouldn't dream of doing such a thing.

00:02:45I can't tell.

00:02:47What?

00:02:49Is there a place to take you?

00:02:54No, no.

00:02:55No, pleaseè.

00:02:57No, no.

00:02:59I preciso.

00:03:00I don't know, it is so elslynали corrective.

00:03:05It's, it fights 12 big hits...

00:03:07You see, she just...

00:03:10it was impossible to shake off and now this frightful one wants me to quiz Celia about it

00:03:28what do you think she's after I don't really know what I should do what would you do were you me

00:03:37that is the question most difficult madame I know how I Hercule Poirot would act in any circumstance

00:03:44but how you would act madame I do not know that I do not know that at all excuse me

00:03:50Hercule Poirot speaks ah my dear doctor if Poirot can be of any assistance

00:04:03he comes out once too sweet

00:04:08George my coat and my hat silver plate yes

00:04:17madame it is my dear friend Dr. Willoughby he has been some trouble please do forgive me

00:04:25you haven't answered my question what should I do about the dreadful Burton Cox

00:04:29the thing that you should do madame and this I advise you to do most strenuously is nothing

00:04:37rien

00:04:38yes sir thank you sir

00:04:49where may be Poirot thank god

00:05:03I am so sorry

00:05:04hello Poirot I heard you were coming

00:05:07detective sergeant Beard

00:05:10detective inspector

00:05:12was he still practicing Dr. Willoughby

00:05:16he'd been semi-retired for years in effect I run the institute

00:05:21but my father kept his office and continued his research

00:05:24you saw patients

00:05:26he hadn't treated anyone for a long time

00:05:28this it is how he was discovered

00:05:46that's correct

00:05:48seen enough

00:05:58right

00:05:59drain it off

00:06:01sir

00:06:01in your kind of work doctor is this kind of contraption normal

00:06:07i've read it procedures and the treatment of insanity were quite common

00:06:1120 years ago inspector

00:06:12i was not i'm afraid ever convinced of their efficacy but i was the junior

00:06:18and he was my father

00:06:20and your father he employed this treatment

00:06:23he gave up on it in the end

00:06:25concluded it was dangerous

00:06:27looks like he was hit on the head first

00:06:29ah

00:06:35come on

00:06:38i hope you don't mind that i call for monsieur Poirot straight away

00:06:44no i don't

00:06:45Poirot and i have worked together before

00:06:48i hope you don't mind my asking you to vouch for your movements last night

00:06:54you surely don't regard me as a suspect

00:06:56i'm just doing my job sir

00:06:58this was my own fault

00:07:00the procedure is quite standard sherry

00:07:04did you sleep at home

00:07:06no

00:07:08no my wife lives in kent with the children

00:07:12it's not always convenient for me to travel home at night

00:07:15so i keep an apartment here

00:07:17in the institute

00:07:18upstairs

00:07:19nothing glamorous

00:07:20and that's where you stayed last night

00:07:22yes

00:07:24please excuse me

00:07:30did you know your father was in the building

00:07:47no

00:07:48i had absolutely no idea

00:07:49but he keeps strange hours

00:07:51i mean he kept

00:07:53dr willoughby

00:07:55are you okay

00:07:56there's a cop on the door

00:07:58please

00:07:59don't be alarmed marie

00:08:01this is my assistant

00:08:02miss mcdermott

00:08:03who is it

00:08:04who are these guys

00:08:06what's going on around here

00:08:08it's very good to see you mrs oliver

00:08:17i think you should call me ariadne

00:08:19thank you for coming

00:08:20you said you worked nearby

00:08:22yes it's the licitor's office

00:08:24really

00:08:24we have much to catch up on

00:08:27haven't we celia

00:08:27must have seemed odd my ringing up out of the blue

00:08:31i haven't been a very conscientious godmother i know

00:08:36i don't remember coming to your confirmation

00:08:38i don't remember having one

00:08:40oh dear

00:08:41but you sent a very nice check on my 21st birthday

00:08:44so i would say your duties are done

00:08:46bizarre though i saw your photo in the paper this morning

00:08:49crime writer of the year

00:08:50now we're having tea

00:08:51yes

00:08:52well

00:08:53you see

00:08:55a woman came up

00:08:56and button-holed me

00:08:57she said i believe you have

00:08:59a goddaughter

00:09:00named celia ravenscroft

00:09:02oh

00:09:02was she a friend of mine

00:09:03a mrs burton cox

00:09:05she said she thought

00:09:06you might be going to marry her son

00:09:08douglas

00:09:10desmond

00:09:11desmond

00:09:12what does desmond do

00:09:14he's a pianist

00:09:15splendid

00:09:17making any money

00:09:19oh god no

00:09:20he's still at the academy

00:09:21he gets a recital now and then

00:09:22actually takes quite a while to become a concert pianist

00:09:25look i

00:09:26i don't know what you know but

00:09:28i'm fond of desmond

00:09:29and he's fond of me

00:09:31but his mother is something else entirely

00:09:33what did she want

00:09:35she thought that since you were my godchild

00:09:39i might be able to ask you something

00:09:42something quite delicate

00:09:44what she went on to say was

00:09:47can you find out if her father murdered her mother

00:09:51or her mother murdered her father

00:09:53for god's sake

00:09:53how dare she

00:09:54she actually said that

00:09:56a beast

00:09:57she thought i might know something about it

00:09:59but um

00:10:00at the time i was on a lecture tour of america

00:10:03and you were

00:10:03what

00:10:05fourteen

00:10:05i was twelve

00:10:06i was good friends with your mother

00:10:10we were finished together in paris

00:10:13but then i married and went somewhere

00:10:15and then she married and went somewhere

00:10:17and then your father was posted again

00:10:19was it rhodesia

00:10:21it was india but

00:10:22i was sent to school in england

00:10:24in the holidays

00:10:25in the holidays i boarded with the family in suffolk

00:10:26i

00:10:27hardly saw mummy and daddy

00:10:29until they retired

00:10:30to eastbourne

00:10:30but you weren't at eastbourne

00:10:32when it

00:10:33no

00:10:33i was aware at school

00:10:35what can you tell me

00:10:39ariadne

00:10:40have you got any inside knowledge

00:10:42no my dear

00:10:43i haven't

00:10:43i know only what i read in the papers

00:10:46no obvious motive

00:10:47no sign of a quarrel

00:10:49no evidence of attack

00:10:50from outside

00:10:51nobody knows

00:10:53well that's just it

00:10:54nobody knows

00:10:56i was shielded from it when i was young

00:10:58but i think of it constantly

00:11:00please

00:11:03please find out what happened

00:11:05not for mrs burdencox

00:11:07for me

00:11:08i have to know

00:11:09will you help me ariadne

00:11:11i have to help celia

00:11:14the girl deserves to know

00:11:15yet i can't for the life of me

00:11:18see what to do

00:11:19how may one discover anything

00:11:21years afterwards

00:11:22i know you're busy

00:11:24but will you help me look into it

00:11:26je suis désolé madame

00:11:28i have an affair of consequence

00:11:30to which i must attend

00:11:32the matter of the ravenscroft

00:11:35it is in the past

00:11:37and poirot

00:11:37he must march in the present

00:11:39give me one moment of your time

00:11:41my friend margaret ravenscroft

00:11:45died a horrible death

00:11:46i have to find out why

00:11:48what should i do

00:11:49yes sir

00:11:52madame what have you told to me

00:11:55a husband and wife who never argue

00:11:59who live in complete harmony

00:12:00whoever has heard of such a thing

00:12:02no

00:12:03there was a motive

00:12:04there is always

00:12:05a motive

00:12:06and if the police

00:12:08they could not find this motive at the time

00:12:09then

00:12:10then this motive it is

00:12:11how do you say it

00:12:12it's unorthodox

00:12:14no the answer madame

00:12:16lies in the past

00:12:16you must be delivering

00:12:17to the past

00:12:19you say they live near to eastbourne

00:12:22you have acquaintance there

00:12:24well then go

00:12:26allez-y

00:12:27allez-y

00:12:27drive about

00:12:28ask the questions

00:12:29be the possum

00:12:30with the nose

00:12:30oh i see

00:12:33and someone will remember something

00:12:34always someone remembers something

00:12:36you mean elephants

00:12:38sorry i was thinking of elephants

00:12:40at that dinner last night

00:12:41with hesitation

00:12:43i ask why

00:12:44because the meringue got stuck in my teeth

00:12:46i see

00:12:47the pathway of logic

00:12:50it is there somewhere

00:12:51meringue

00:12:52dentures

00:12:54ivory

00:12:55elephants

00:12:56must find the elephants

00:12:58elephants can remember

00:13:00well then go

00:13:09drive about

00:13:11ask the questions

00:13:11be the possum

00:13:12with the nose

00:13:13if i had to say

00:13:16which was most likely

00:13:16i should say my father

00:13:18it's more natural

00:13:20for a man to shoot someone

00:13:21isn't it

00:13:21i don't think my mother

00:13:23would have fired a gun

00:13:24who else was in the house

00:13:37when it happened

00:13:38there was an old housekeeper

00:13:40she was half blind

00:13:41and a bit deaf

00:13:42sometimes there was my aunt

00:13:43and there was a foreign girl

00:13:46an au pair girl

00:13:47she'd been my governess

00:13:48when i was young

00:13:48she'd come back to help

00:13:50mummy who'd been unwell

00:13:50where did we last meet

00:14:12the llewellyn wedding

00:14:13was it

00:14:14all the bridesmaids

00:14:15and vile shade of apricot

00:14:18funny the things one remembers

00:14:20bridesmaids

00:14:22geldings

00:14:23dogs

00:14:25other things one forgets

00:14:27i saw my goddaughter

00:14:28the other day

00:14:29celia ravenscroft

00:14:30remember the ravenscrofts

00:14:32the ravenscrofts

00:14:34wait a minute

00:14:36that was that

00:14:37very sad tragedy

00:14:38wasn't it

00:14:39yes

00:14:39it wasn't far from here

00:14:40oh i never knew them

00:14:41in sussex

00:14:42knew them in amritsa

00:14:43not in sussex

00:14:45she used to wear a wig

00:14:47do you remember

00:14:47who

00:14:48margaret

00:14:49yes

00:14:50she wore a wig

00:14:52i don't know

00:14:53if she had cancer

00:14:54or was she just bald

00:14:55she tried to persuade me

00:14:57to get one

00:14:58a bit bloody hard

00:14:59in amritsa

00:15:00awful business though

00:15:03the time of the shooting

00:15:04i was in america

00:15:05speaking engagements

00:15:07oh you're so modern

00:15:09early adney

00:15:10no one else in my circle

00:15:12has speaking engagements

00:15:15they only left the house

00:15:17to take a walk

00:15:18they didn't come back

00:15:22for their dinner

00:15:23somebody or other

00:15:26found them dead

00:15:27the revolver was lying

00:15:29by their bodies

00:15:30bloody hard on the dog

00:15:32i sought

00:15:33rotten way

00:15:34to treat an animal

00:15:36to revolver

00:15:37in the house

00:15:37military type

00:15:38they often do

00:15:39fear of the natives

00:15:41you see

00:15:41not usually a problem

00:15:43in sussex

00:15:44unfathomable things

00:15:49in everybody's lives

00:15:51she was neurotic

00:15:54always

00:15:55was she

00:15:55very nervy

00:15:57didn't like india

00:15:58at all

00:15:59odd girl

00:16:00what was that

00:16:01the other one

00:16:02i expect you heard

00:16:03the gossip

00:16:04what was the gossip

00:16:05julia

00:16:06he was writing

00:16:07his memoirs

00:16:08she was taking

00:16:09dictation

00:16:10who

00:16:11margaret

00:16:11the french girl

00:16:14she was young

00:16:17and french

00:16:19there was talk

00:16:20people thought

00:16:23he might have

00:16:23shot his wife

00:16:24because he wanted

00:16:25to marry her

00:16:26then why shoot

00:16:27himself as well

00:16:27good point

00:16:28i always thought

00:16:30it was more

00:16:31about margaret

00:16:32i can't help

00:16:33thinking there might

00:16:33have been a man

00:16:34why do you take that

00:16:36to wigs

00:16:37sexual display

00:16:38mating ritual

00:16:40i thought you said

00:16:41she had them

00:16:42because she was

00:16:42bald

00:16:43oh she was

00:16:44pretty too

00:16:45legs

00:16:46all i'm saying

00:16:48is one of them

00:16:49was having an affair

00:16:49in this part

00:16:51of the world

00:16:52ariadne

00:16:53one either hunts

00:16:54or one has

00:16:55affairs

00:16:56it is a variation

00:17:00on what the french

00:17:01called

00:17:01the bandus

00:17:02surprise

00:17:02i should say

00:17:04it's a surprise

00:17:04hot water

00:17:05followed by cold

00:17:06water

00:17:06is that right

00:17:07oui

00:17:07it's colding hot

00:17:08and the freezing cold

00:17:09the principal

00:17:11it is one of severe

00:17:12shocks to the system

00:17:13and is often used

00:17:15in conjunction

00:17:16with the electroshock

00:17:18therapy

00:17:18bloody hell

00:17:19i'm quite glad

00:17:22i'm normal

00:17:23well we may all

00:17:24be thankful

00:17:25mon ami

00:17:25that we are in

00:17:26possession of our

00:17:27minds

00:17:27and some of us

00:17:28more so than others

00:17:29but the question

00:17:31it is this

00:17:32who has brought

00:17:33le professeur

00:17:34to this place

00:17:34and secured him

00:17:36the night watchman

00:17:38said the door

00:17:38wasn't forced

00:17:39is there a key

00:17:41that is missing

00:17:42no

00:17:42everything's in order

00:17:43no fingerprints

00:17:46and dr willoughby

00:17:47himself

00:17:48the man's in shock

00:17:49i'll let him go back

00:17:51to kent

00:17:51we can interview him

00:17:52later

00:17:52oh

00:17:53hi

00:17:54you mind me coming in

00:17:56it's against regulations

00:17:57no no no

00:17:57no mademoiselle

00:17:58that too

00:17:59huh

00:18:01no

00:18:04i've never been

00:18:06down here before

00:18:07creepy isn't it

00:18:09i have the kettle boiling

00:18:12if you gentlemen

00:18:13would like a cup of tea

00:18:13do you live locally

00:18:17miss mcdermott

00:18:18james street

00:18:19it's about a ten minute walk

00:18:21and uh

00:18:22did you walk home

00:18:22on the night

00:18:23professor willoughby

00:18:24was murdered

00:18:24yes

00:18:25do you live alone

00:18:28no

00:18:29i share an apartment

00:18:30with some of the girls

00:18:30is there someone

00:18:31can vouch for you

00:18:32being at home all night

00:18:33did i say

00:18:34i was at home all night

00:18:35i don't remember that

00:18:37may i inquire mademoiselle

00:18:39from where do you originate

00:18:40boston area

00:18:41oh

00:18:42but i always wanted

00:18:43to come to london

00:18:44i guess i just had a yen

00:18:46to live in england for a while

00:18:47and do the things that english people do

00:18:50by which i do not mean

00:18:53murdering eminent professors

00:18:54of psychiatry

00:18:55so you think it was an english person

00:18:57who has done this

00:18:58you'd see the stakes are high

00:18:59wouldn't you

00:19:00how well did you know

00:19:01professor willoughby

00:19:02i didn't know him at all

00:19:04so you can't tell us anything

00:19:05about what he's currently

00:19:06working on

00:19:07look

00:19:07i'm a filing clerk

00:19:09i don't know anything

00:19:11about psychiatry

00:19:13i do the files

00:19:14from a to z

00:19:14i just

00:19:16answer the telephone

00:19:17make the tea

00:19:19if you please

00:19:20to return to the night

00:19:21of the murder

00:19:21at what hour

00:19:23did you leave your work

00:19:24usual time

00:19:26around 5 30

00:19:27and where did you go then

00:19:29i went home

00:19:31but you just said you didn't

00:19:33i don't think so

00:19:36it's a murder inquiry miss

00:19:38yeah

00:19:40okay

00:19:42i'm sorry

00:19:43uh

00:19:44i went home

00:19:46i didn't see any of the other girls

00:19:48i had sardines on toast

00:19:50and then

00:19:52i went to bed

00:19:53so nobody can corroborate your story

00:19:57i guess not

00:20:00it is strange that dr willoughby

00:20:02also has no alibi

00:20:03for the night in question

00:20:04he doesn't

00:20:05but surely his wife

00:20:07he says he spent the night here

00:20:08in his flat

00:20:09oh

00:20:10i see

00:20:12well

00:20:13i didn't know that

00:20:15i assumed he'd gone home

00:20:17does nanny matcham

00:20:30i mean mrs matcham live here

00:20:32who shall i say

00:20:33say

00:20:34miss arry adne

00:20:36come in mom

00:20:37thank you so much

00:20:38well

00:20:40well

00:20:41it must be years

00:20:43it is years

00:20:44nanny

00:20:45what a lot of photographs you have

00:20:48yes i have haven't i

00:20:50all my little boys and girls

00:20:53all over the world i went

00:20:55i know nanny

00:20:57where were you

00:20:58in india

00:20:59stimbler

00:21:00hong kong

00:21:01egypt

00:21:02that time i came out to the punjab

00:21:0520 odd years ago

00:21:07well was it the ravenscrofts you were with

00:21:10service family

00:21:12did you look after their children

00:21:13no

00:21:14not me

00:21:15no i was with the barnabys

00:21:17you need your tea

00:21:18mrs matcham

00:21:19thank you my dear

00:21:20of course

00:21:21i knew

00:21:22the ravenscrofts because they were great friends of the barnabys

00:21:26were they

00:21:27yes

00:21:28and the burton coxes

00:21:30i'll finish that

00:21:33i'll get on with the laundry mrs matcham

00:21:35thank you my dear

00:21:36you really are such a help

00:21:38did you say the burton coxes

00:21:42or did i mean the the carter foxes

00:21:47well you know who i mean

00:21:48they were great friends and

00:21:50and everybody was very friendly out there

00:21:53did you by any chance

00:21:55meet the um

00:21:57ravenscrofts when you were on that visit

00:21:59no i didn't

00:22:01what were they like

00:22:02well

00:22:04they had that trouble

00:22:08what trouble was that nanny

00:22:11oh an awful thing happened

00:22:13or

00:22:13did it

00:22:14i heard they were a nice couple

00:22:21oh

00:22:21yes

00:22:22yes they were a very nice couple

00:22:24and it was a shock

00:22:26they said that

00:22:27she'd always been touched

00:22:29and then there was that story of the

00:22:32of the baby and the river

00:22:35took the babe from its breath

00:22:39and threw it into the river

00:22:42just threw it into the river

00:22:45what was the trouble

00:22:49in amritsar nanny

00:22:51well she was in that

00:22:54mental place

00:22:55and they let her out

00:22:57it happened all over again

00:23:00what happened nanny

00:23:02well they let her have them back

00:23:03the boy and the girl

00:23:05it was the boy

00:23:07this time

00:23:07of course we all knew it was her

00:23:10who nanny

00:23:12well

00:23:12whichever one of them it was

00:23:14oh

00:23:15it's so lovely to see you again

00:23:18i remember you when you

00:23:21you had your little button boots

00:23:23and you followed me down the lane

00:23:26they

00:23:30they fell off a cliff

00:23:34didn't they

00:23:36or something of that kind

00:23:40something of that kind

00:23:41nanny

00:23:42yes

00:23:42nanny

00:23:48ah

00:23:56mrs buckle

00:23:57she's fast asleep

00:23:58perhaps you could

00:23:59oh she likes her nap

00:24:00leave her to me

00:24:00thank you

00:24:01mum

00:24:02was you asking about the general

00:24:05and his wife

00:24:05yes did you know them

00:24:06used to char for them i did

00:24:07but my day was a tuesday

00:24:09so i won't know

00:24:09do you mind if i ask you

00:24:10something rather direct

00:24:11i've had a very long day

00:24:12do you think it was a suicide pact

00:24:15nah

00:24:15not them

00:24:16they were happy

00:24:17she was a bonny woman

00:24:18always beautifully turned out

00:24:19i believe she'd taken to

00:24:20wearing a wig

00:24:21oh yeah she had several wigs

00:24:23several

00:24:24four

00:24:24proper expensive

00:24:26one was auburn

00:24:27one had little grey curls

00:24:28she used to send them to a place

00:24:29up in london

00:24:30to get them redressed

00:24:31uh eugene and something

00:24:32was she in poor health

00:24:33she was

00:24:34no i don't know what was wrong with her

00:24:35but she had to have an operation

00:24:36she went up arley street

00:24:38when she'd come back

00:24:38she was better

00:24:39and the general

00:24:40oh yeah a bit of heart trouble

00:24:42but he took his pills on that

00:24:43and he was fine

00:24:44he enjoyed it when the sister

00:24:46came to visit

00:24:46sister to who's sister

00:24:48lady ravenscroft

00:24:49i didn't know she had a sister

00:24:51sir i appreciate this is a time of loss

00:25:11but um

00:25:11you say professor willoughby was retired

00:25:15well i said semi-retired

00:25:17did he come to the institute every day

00:25:19well my father kept to his own timetable

00:25:22which was

00:25:22i concede erratic

00:25:24he'd work all night and sleep all day

00:25:26if it suited him

00:25:26was he married

00:25:27my mother passed away some years ago

00:25:29never

00:25:30remarried

00:25:31some gentlemen do

00:25:32no

00:25:33no he did not remarry

00:25:35so does the willoughby institute

00:25:36pass to you now sir

00:25:37not at all

00:25:38it's run by a trust

00:25:39i'm a trustee

00:25:40that's all

00:25:41are you aware of

00:25:43any

00:25:44resentment

00:25:45any

00:25:46animosity

00:25:47professional or otherwise

00:25:48which your father might have incurred

00:25:51my father was very highly respected

00:25:53and it was last night that you told me

00:25:55that it is many years since your father abandoned his experiments with the hydrotherapy

00:26:00yes

00:26:00that's right

00:26:01and this is not a technique that you yourself employ

00:26:03no

00:26:04no no

00:26:04no i talk to my patients

00:26:06i uh

00:26:07prescribe appropriate

00:26:08medication

00:26:09look

00:26:10the hydro room

00:26:12has been in disuse for just about as long as i can remember

00:26:15and yet the murderer knew how to use it

00:26:18so it would seem

00:26:20i think you know how to use it too don't you sir

00:26:22i thought you might need some tea

00:26:28thank you

00:26:29jacqueline

00:26:30mrs willoughby your house is charming

00:26:32thank you

00:26:34i understand you also keep a small apartment at the institute

00:26:37that's not mine

00:26:39that's his

00:26:40i've barely been in it

00:26:41sugar

00:26:49it must have been someone quite strong

00:26:53or more than one person

00:26:55to have manipulated the professor into the contraption

00:26:58either that or he got into it voluntarily

00:27:03why on earth would he do so

00:27:05je sais pas

00:27:07but it seems as though someone is giving him back a soupçon of his own medicine

00:27:13medicine he hasn't used in nigh on 20 years

00:27:16you think it's a patient with a grievance

00:27:19peut-être

00:27:21celia darling we're rehearsing

00:27:34we need to talk

00:27:35i've only got this room booked for an hour

00:27:37can you come back

00:27:38hello

00:27:46inspector beale isn't it

00:27:48good evening mrs oliver are you well

00:27:49i'm absolutely jiggered

00:27:51i've spent all day driving around sussex chasing elephants

00:27:54right

00:27:55well uh

00:27:56good luck

00:27:57no no you must think me a complete ninny

00:27:59i don't mean real elephants i mean people elephants

00:28:02i'm trying to find out if anyone can recall anything of the ravenscroft case

00:28:06eastbourne

00:28:07a couple on the clifftops

00:28:09that was a curly one wasn't it

00:28:10it still is

00:28:11i know the officer on the case

00:28:13bill garraway retired now

00:28:15may i have his number

00:28:17should have it here somewhere

00:28:23see ya

00:28:25good strong black coffee just what i need

00:28:40these are all the people i interviewed i wrote down everything that seemed pertinent but it's such a muddle

00:28:56the principal suggestions are these

00:28:58that general ravenscroft

00:29:01was writing his memoir of his india days

00:29:04and that he was smitten with a young woman who acted as his secretary

00:29:09the result being

00:29:10that he shot his wife because he hoped to marry the girl

00:29:13and then was horror-stricken by what he'd done

00:29:16and shot himself

00:29:18or

00:29:20margaret discovered the affair

00:29:23and then shot him

00:29:25and then

00:29:26and then

00:29:27oh

00:29:29and margaret had been ill

00:29:31possibly cancer

00:29:33it appears her hair had fallen out

00:29:35because she had several wigs

00:29:36oh it just says here

00:29:38she had four wigs

00:29:41four

00:29:42what do you think madame do you think that seems a little excessive

00:29:46well i do really i mean you might have one and then an extra one for when you set the other to be dressed but

00:29:51why did she have four

00:29:54i haven't got anywhere have i

00:29:58yeah

00:29:58i think it will always remain a mystery madame

00:30:02and now

00:30:03i must set myself to consider the case of professor willoughby

00:30:07i bid you good night

00:30:08i even went to see my old nanny

00:30:10she knew the ravenscrofts in india

00:30:13she was sure there was a mental case in the family

00:30:17one of them

00:30:17nanny wasn't sure which

00:30:19was unstable

00:30:20one of whom

00:30:20one of the sisters

00:30:21the sisters

00:30:22margaret had a sister

00:30:24never heard of her before

00:30:26she wasn't at margaret's wedding

00:30:28that's a hoarding itself isn't it

00:30:30continue to polish her madame

00:30:32well she was in an asylum for years

00:30:35it seems possible that she'd killed children

00:30:38even perhaps her own children

00:30:40and then she'd had treatment and

00:30:43then she was cured or paroled or released at any rate

00:30:47she went out to margaret in india where there was a

00:30:50another incident

00:30:51again connected with children which was hushed up but might that explain what's worrying mrs burton

00:30:58insanity in the family

00:31:00oh no no no madame that is conjecture merely what you discovered in sussex was merely the mirrors and the smoke nothing real no madame what is saturn is that there were a couple who were devoted to each other and live together happily so why on the evening of the most beautiful day should they take a walk together along the cliffs taking with them a revolver and a dog

00:31:15what's the dog got to do then

00:31:24what's the dog got to do then

00:31:26what's the dog got to do then

00:31:28what's the dog got to do then

00:31:29what's the dog got to do then

00:31:30what's the dog got to do then

00:31:31why yes so tell me something that was said

00:31:32well one of the elephants said that the dog was devoted to lady ravenscroft another said that it bit

00:31:40oh no no no it is nothing merely an elephant remembering a dog i can help you no further madame pardon me moi

00:31:53my name is desmond burton cox oh yes i have heard of the inquiries of your mother monsieur if you please to be brief as you can see i am very busy my mother had no right pestering mrs oliver like that

00:32:21yeah it's no concern of hers whether i marry celia or whether i don't but mothers are always concerned

00:32:26she's not really my mother i'm adopted

00:32:28ah

00:32:29why are you here monsieur

00:32:32uh someone attacked me at the music school this evening

00:32:36and you do not know who it was no i don't but um

00:32:38well the point is my mother's a little

00:32:41unhinged i fear she may have put someone up to it

00:32:44why should she wish to do that

00:32:47when i was a child

00:32:50let's just say she did some terrible things

00:32:54now she wants to stop me getting married

00:32:56she's been trying to scare celia with awful rumors

00:32:59how long have you known mademoiselle celia monsieur

00:33:02all my life

00:33:04my people were in india like hers

00:33:06i was boarded for the holidays in suffolk

00:33:09well we played together

00:33:10but why should your mother wish to stop you getting married

00:33:12because she's mean possessive

00:33:15if you go against her she's vindictive

00:33:17when i was 15 she took me to a psychiatrist

00:33:21oh quite

00:33:24i'd formed an attachment to someone and i wouldn't give it up

00:33:28my mother was livid and marched me off to dr willoughby

00:33:31please to sit

00:33:45oh darling

00:33:46what the goddamn hell have you been saying

00:33:50my wife wouldn't

00:33:50i thought you had her under control

00:33:52and who saw you that evening

00:33:54i can't remember

00:33:57i don't know if anyone saw me

00:33:58i might have gone for a walk

00:34:00i can't remember

00:34:01what was your father working on

00:34:03did he have a

00:34:05a special line of inquiry

00:34:07behavior patterns in twins

00:34:10genetic characteristics

00:34:12similar and dissimilar environments

00:34:13blood types

00:34:14pathologies

00:34:16what else would you like to know

00:34:17the name of someone who could vouch for your whereabouts

00:34:19the night of the murder doctor

00:34:20otherwise you're on a bit of a sticky wicket aren't you

00:34:34hey

00:34:37got a minute

00:34:38pardon

00:34:41may i exchange a word or two detective inspector

00:34:44if you would be so kind

00:34:48inspector garroway

00:34:50if you please to tell us everything that you know

00:34:53the raverscrofts married in 1913

00:34:56she was a well-born girl originally from kent

00:35:00she had a sister dorothea who married a captain jarrow

00:35:03they were blighted by misfortune though

00:35:06dorothea's husband died in the war leaving over two children

00:35:10the youngest a boy fell into a pond and drowned

00:35:13at first they said the older sister was to blame

00:35:18but then it turned out there was another story

00:35:22one of the neighbors said the mother herself had done it

00:35:26got angry with the boy pushed him in the pond held him under

00:35:31she breaks down under questioning

00:35:33i mean she went raving mad had to be hospitalized

00:35:38she spends years in treatment and then for some reason they pronounce her cured

00:35:44and she returns to live with the family

00:35:46so mr garroway was she staying with the ravenscrofts when they were shot

00:35:50no

00:35:51are you sure yes she died three weeks before

00:35:57she takes a lot of tranquilizers and she sleepwalks

00:36:01one night she leaves the house wanders along the cliff edge

00:36:05loses her footing and over she goes

00:36:07they don't find her till the next morning

00:36:12lady ravenscroft took it very bad

00:36:15had a bit of a breakdown herself she spends a fortnight in the sanatorium

00:36:22and then she comes back apparently better

00:36:25three days later she's dead

00:36:29no one has the first idea of a motive then or now

00:36:33the general has a good record her wife is well liked

00:36:36they play pk in the evening go for walks

00:36:40no money worries it's poor health you know but time of life

00:36:48were there fingerprints on the weapon clear prints for both of them

00:36:52but no suggestion as to who fired at last could there be a third party

00:36:57they would have had to have gotten ruddy close

00:37:00no it all points to a suicide pact and yet you know with the suicide they leave the notes

00:37:05ah exactly man could someone have stolen them out there who else was in the house on that day

00:37:14see there was a

00:37:18betsy whitaker cook housekeeper been with them since the dawn of time didn't see too clearly

00:37:23nor hear too clearly either uh there was a visitor staying a zelly ruzelle uh foreign

00:37:30don't think she understood much and the gardener his alibi stood up that's it have you interviewed

00:37:37betsy bittaker she was more concerned about the dog oh god of share what do you think happened

00:37:44superintendent i think old sins have long shadows well that's what my mother used to say

00:37:53right madam do we have the name of the supplier of the weeks why are you suddenly interested you

00:38:01didn't care tuppence before yes i've got that it's you she dan rosenthal formerly of bond street now up to

00:38:09tin beck

00:38:12good afternoon have you an appointment no i'm i'm afraid i haven't you're in luck

00:38:18monsieur eugene can do you in ten minutes is it a permanent today no no that sounds horrible

00:38:24i don't think it could be much worse than it already is do you madam let us take off the split ends at

00:38:29least no thank you i would simply like to ask you some questions about eugene and rosenthal of bond

00:38:35street hairpieces to the gentry oh the old days bond street bert remember that was the life

00:38:42no but tooting seems most pleasant what does madam want i would like to ask you about a former client

00:38:50i want to know about some wigs i'm terribly sorry we do not do wigs no more they were for a friend of

00:38:56mine a person i went to school with lady ravenscroft you was at school with lady ravenscroft yes

00:39:04yes i was where do you live now buckingham palace mayfair

00:39:14how may we be of assistance your ladyship perhaps you remember the tragedy at eastbourne 13 years ago

00:39:21well i'm looking into it on behalf of their daughter the honorable celia ravenscroft oh lady ravenscroft yes

00:39:30she was so nice and good looking too i remember reading about it in the paper she had four wigs

00:39:36didn't she do people often have four most people have two lady ravenscroft had two to begin with

00:39:43then she ordered extra did she come to bond street to collect them no i think i think it was a young

00:39:49lady french lady come up and give us all the sizes and colors and styles there was one with a pretty

00:39:55grey streak in it for parties and one with strawberry blonde curls i recall one of bert's finest

00:40:02i remember thinking when i read about the business that's bleeding odd it's only three

00:40:07weeks ago she's bought new wigs and now she's gone and shot herself imagine

00:40:11mademoiselle ravenscroft hercule poirot i assist mademoiselle i thought mrs oliver was meeting me

00:40:26here ah i see that mademoiselle she's been rather vague with her invitation no it is i that you are

00:40:32meeting mademoiselle please to permit i am a private detective and i assist mademoiselle with her

00:40:41inquiries on your behalf please to sit mademoiselle thank you

00:40:55mademoiselle monsieur desmond barton cox he has been to see me oh i thought

00:41:00he's rehearsing all day there's a concert tomorrow beverly hall it's quite important

00:41:04what's he doing talking to you no it was last night that he has come to see me mademoiselle

00:41:10he cares for you most deeply

00:41:14mademoiselle may i ask you a question that is personal look i don't know who you are

00:41:18so i i do you wish to marry desmond barton cox yes i do satisfied then nothing should prevent it

00:41:25if you are in love with monsieur desmond barton cox then that is all that matters

00:41:30the rest of your life with monsieur desmond barton cox is all that you should be concerned with

00:41:36n'est-ce pas is he well provided for financially excuse me that's damned rude

00:41:42he has a rather pitiful allowance but i i have my own means you know i work for a living

00:41:46are we p.s. you this allowance mademoiselle it is something that his mother could withhold

00:41:54what do you mean she'd cut off the money if he marries me i hadn't thought of that

00:41:58do you know who is his natural mother no no i don't does he i don't think so he doesn't worry about

00:42:04it he's not a worrying kind but you are mademoiselle may we you are

00:42:09tell to me if you please madame berton cox was she friendly with your late mother and father did

00:42:18you ever meet her as a child can you remember no i don't think i did i know she was out in india

00:42:23my people were too but i was at school or holiday in suffolk in fact that's where i met desmond in the

00:42:28care of a french girl if you post yeah yes yes zelly lovely zelly look whoever you are if i'm going

00:42:37to marry desmond and live with him forever i need to know the truth i don't want dark secrets in our

00:42:44lives i want the truth but the truth mademoiselle she can be cruel

00:42:58hercule pro speaks inspector bill i have the information you asked for excellent desmond

00:43:05burton cox's natural mother was an actress she moved to california where she found considerable

00:43:10success in moving pictures under the name katie lestrange 18 months ago katie lestrange died of a

00:43:17barbiturate overdose in pasadena she left her entire fortune several million dollars to her son

00:43:23desmond in a trust he gets it when he's 25. and who administers this trust who do you think

00:43:29mrs burton cox

00:43:33can you get for me the deed of government i'll give it a go oh and poirot

00:43:38could you come over to the willoughby institute there's been something of a turn up wait too sweet

00:43:44miss midtermann will you come in now please

00:43:59repeat to mr poirot what you said earlier i see you woman where's it

00:44:02on the night of the murder dr willoughby was with me here in his flat in bed

00:44:23he's a decent man he's trying to save my reputation

00:44:32but i can't stand by and see him swing for something he didn't do and he was with you all

00:44:37of the night till dawn then we slept a little then i went home had a bath and came back to work again

00:44:48it must have been at that time that the night watchman raised the alarm david

00:44:58dr willoughby elected to keep his mouth shut for my sake

00:45:03it is a brave thing that you do ma petite well my reputation was shot in the states

00:45:26might as well be shot here too

00:45:28i have a question siru permette it was last summer that you arrived in england

00:45:35yes six months ago on the ss france so you were still living in boston in march of this year

00:45:46yes can you remember what you were doing on the 17th

00:45:49the 17th of march

00:45:56how am i expected to remember that so you do not recall this day no i don't no idea

00:46:08do you know mademoiselle celia ravenscroft

00:46:10i've never heard of her who is she no it is of no consequence

00:46:22detective inspector may i have the use of your car

00:46:25i'm not exactly proud of myself borrow things are pretty awkward around here

00:46:38somehow jacqueline seems to find out about the whole wretched business

00:46:43you asked her to perjure herself in court and she would not

00:46:46i'm afraid that is correct

00:46:51now mademoiselle marie macdermott she provides you with the alibi and you are no longer the suspect

00:46:59she said something about the dictates of her conscience she's quite religious you know

00:47:04she is catholic irish background i believe nice girl

00:47:08tell to me mon ami about the patience of your father do you recall a dorothy at jarrow why of

00:47:18course i've treated her for quite a long time my father took a special interest she's dead now

00:47:25isn't she what can you tell to me about her treatment mrs jarrow was considered to be one of

00:47:32my father's triumphs at first her husband had died on the western front and that left her rather fragile

00:47:39i'm afraid so she was disturbed mentally no no at this point she was not thought to be but her gp

00:47:46had called in my father because she didn't seem to be getting over her bereavement in the normal way

00:47:52whatever that may be now to my father's eyes dorothea's condition presented very decided dangers

00:48:00she was prone to mood swings and acts of violence he thought she should be kept under observation

00:48:06and he was proved right because then the first incident happened why a boy he has drowned yes

00:48:12how did you know according to mrs jarrow her elder child a girl had attacked the younger a little boy

00:48:18she said she hit him with a spade and he fell into an ornamental pond and drowned

00:48:22at first mrs jarrow's version was believed and then other stories started to emerge a housemaid

00:48:30telegraph boy both said they saw mrs jarrow push her son into the water and hold him under now the court

00:48:37ruled that mrs jarrow should be committed to secure psychiatric care and she was but you see

00:48:44my poor late father subscribed to a new school of treatment which held that once certain rehabilitation

00:48:52targets had been reached targets attainable by hydrotherapy and electroshock the patient could

00:48:58resume a normal life and this treatment of hydrotherapy it was administered to dorothea yes

00:49:05and in due course two or three years home she went she was considered to be completely recovered

00:49:12shortly afterwards she went to india and stayed with her twin sister who was in amritsa that uh

00:49:18excuse me my me did you say her twin sister yes

00:49:26they were twins why yes madame jarrow and lady ravenscroft

00:49:31margaret and dorothea were twins why has no person told to me this but this was my father's special area

00:49:38research i thought you knew he was an authority on twins so perhaps margaret suffered from the same

00:49:46malady as dorothea no no no she was perfectly sane and devoted to looking after her unfortunate

00:49:51sibling you see general ravenscroft had throughout paid for his sister-in-law to receive the best

00:49:57treatment in england he was on good terms with my father when they returned from india they often had

00:50:04dorothea to stay why was he so kind to her well i think i can tell you that when he was a young

00:50:12subaltern dorothea was considered a fabulously beautiful woman alistair ravenscroft fell in

00:50:19love with her and then i think he caught a glimpse saw behind the eyes the danger zone and so he proposed

00:50:30to margaret instead

00:50:34he marries a sister but he's in love with them both the devil

00:50:37well foirot he owes to you an apology madame he is imbecile i see now that the two cases are

00:50:43connected there is a point of convergence which links them oh what is that the willoughby institute

00:50:56morning oh i forgot you'd be here one word if i may doctor please

00:51:02in your files mon ami there are many histories that are very absorbing but you know there is a

00:51:14patient that is missing and i ask about a boy who has 15 years of age a certain desmond burton cox

00:51:22where is his case file um there is no case file war

00:51:29no but the boy he has been brought to you many times yes he was but i saw him unofficially um

00:51:36i took no payment and so there is no file you took no payment well not in the usual way

00:51:45i'm sorry i do not understand she had no money poirot look self-control is not one of my stronger

00:51:51qualities i just have to live with it i see but i only ask about the boy desmond what was he like

00:52:06remarkable power of recall the smallest details of his childhood were easy to surface

00:52:13but lacking in self-confidence and i believe that he had an interest that was almost obsessional

00:52:18in i do not know who a woman or an older man a french woman i believe uh zazie or susie she was 25

00:52:26or so at the time and he 15. would you say he was in love i would say so yes not that i know very much

00:52:38about that particular emotion i've spoken to my goddaughter celia have you oh good what did she say

00:52:52first there's someone i wish you to meet uh mrs burton cox this is monsieur poirot monsieur poirot

00:52:58is my assistant

00:53:02enchanté mother you see french i can't stand the french no madame i am belgian you have concerns

00:53:10about the marriage of your son desmond with mademoiselle celia ravenscroft that is so but young

00:53:16people today they rush into things but it's important to know the background don't you think

00:53:22the psychological background but there are certain risks that one might not wish to take but the

00:53:32persons taking these risks are celia and desmond not you madame beg your pardon desmond he is not

00:53:38your son by birth oh what's that got to do with anything and when he was young did you take care

00:53:42of him personally of course i did mrs oliver please you must have had some help help why would i need

00:53:48help i'm his mother perhaps in the holidays oh yes of course in the holidays he went to stay with

00:53:55some people in suffolk and in suffolk he was in the care of a french girl zeli zeli rossel

00:54:03i've got enough of this goodbye what occurred between desmond and zeli rossel madame

00:54:12do either of you have the faintest idea what it's like

00:54:16when your own child takes one look at you and starts to scream and after a few months with that

00:54:21beloved nanny i could do nothing with him she's a she's a devious little baggage and i made jolly

00:54:29sure to intercept her letters later on he's my son and i will say what happens to him

00:54:34ladies and gentlemen five minutes till the start of the recital

00:54:42mademoiselle cilia mademoiselle do you know and please to forgive me but

00:54:52how it was that aunt dorothea died yes yes i do and your cousins the little girl and the little boy who

00:54:58was drowned we tended not to speak of them but perhaps they were also looked after during the

00:55:05holidays by your old pair zeli oh no no no zeli just had me and desmond but she returned to assist

00:55:11your mother at the end and she also takes dictations from your late father does she not yes so mademoiselle

00:55:17what was the involvement of your late father with the willoughby institute what is the willoughby

00:55:21institute it was where your aunt dorothea she was treated no i don't know anything at all i see um

00:55:29i was then pleased to think now very carefully now is it possible that there was anyone else

00:55:37staying at overcliffe at the time of the deaths of your parents anyone perhaps whom the police did not

00:55:42know about i don't know how because if there had been then he would have mentioned it wouldn't she

00:55:46yes have you remained in contact with zeli yes i wrote to her countless times but all my letters

00:55:56were sent back she simply disappeared i'd love to have seen her she was a marvelous character and

00:56:01desmond does he write to her well how could he we don't know where she lives and you yourself

00:56:07mademoiselle have you ever returned to overcliffe no why why do you think i should drive out my demons

00:56:15that sort of thing ladies and gentlemen please take your seats

00:56:25oh dear mother molly i'm so sorry it's just that they're in and seated i'm just so sorry is celia

00:56:30there yes she is yeah good that's very good no no no monsieur monsieur merci the key it is zeli of this

00:56:37i am sure yes but how do we find her

00:56:44miss ravenscroft i've got a few to come look at all those diamonds

00:56:51which is

00:57:04he's playing without music clever chap

00:57:15There was a foreign girl.

00:57:24She'd been my governess when I was young.

00:57:26She'd come back to help mummy who'd been unwell.

00:57:27I'd formed an attachment to someone and I wouldn't give it up.

00:57:30After a few months with that beloved nanny, I could do nothing with him.

00:57:34We don't know where she lives, but all my letters were sent back.

00:57:38She simply disappeared.

00:57:45Very good.

00:58:05How long is the interval?

00:58:07That is it.

00:58:08That is it.

00:58:10How could I be so stupid?

00:58:12Are you enjoying it, Ariadne Lee?

00:58:15There's a first half in the second half.

00:58:17Oh, God, I'm so much better.

00:58:26Please, don't forgive the intrusion, monsieur.

00:58:28All right.

00:58:30I really can't talk to you now.

00:58:31We're about to go on for the second half.

00:58:32No.

00:58:33It will not be possible for you to play the remainder of this concert.

00:58:39Unless you give to me the address of Mademoiselle Zelie Roussel.

00:58:42What are you talking about?

00:58:43I don't know it.

00:58:44Yes, you do know it.

00:58:46I can't remember it.

00:58:48Look, we have to go on.

00:58:49Monsieur, you play Bach from memory.

00:58:50You have the memory of an elephant.

00:58:53I demand to know the address of Mademoiselle Zelie Roussel.

00:58:55Toot suite.

00:58:57Mr. Bowden-Cox, it's time, gentlemen.

00:58:59Thank you, monsieur.

00:59:18Mr. Bowden-Cox, it's Bill Goway.

00:59:30Ah, superintendent.

00:59:32This is Spratt.

00:59:33My wife named him that.

00:59:35Then she died.

00:59:36I'm stoked with it.

00:59:38Oh, Inspector Bill told me he'll be here.

00:59:40Asked me to deliver this.

00:59:43He's been called out on a case.

00:59:44Merci.

00:59:46I'm so sorry you've been put to so much trouble.

00:59:48Oh, it's no trouble at all, sir.

00:59:49I bid you goodnight.

00:59:51Come on, Spratt.

00:59:53Superintendent.

00:59:53Lieutenant, tell to me about Spratt.

00:59:57Does he bite?

00:59:58He bites his own backside, mainly.

01:00:00Not exactly clever.

01:00:03And please to recollect, the dog that lived with the General and the Lady Ravenscroft,

01:00:07did it bite?

01:00:09Well, it's a funny thing you mentioned that, sir.

01:00:11The housekeeper said the dog had turned on its mistress a couple of days before.

01:00:16And sure enough, when we did the autopsy on Lady Ravenscroft,

01:00:19there's a couple of dog bite marks, maybe a week or two old.

01:00:24So that dog, it was clever, huh?

01:00:27Merci.

01:00:28Oh, taxi?

01:00:30Oh, where are you off to in such a hurry?

01:00:31Paris.

01:00:33Whitehaven Mansion, then Victoria Station for the boat train.

01:00:37En vitesse.

01:00:38You are, Governor.

01:01:08I will be with you in one moment, monsieur.

01:01:26Merci.

01:01:29Au revoir.

01:01:30Au revoir.

01:01:32Hercule Poirot.

01:01:42Do I have the honor to address the Mademoiselle Zelie, Orsel?

01:01:57As I said to you in my telegram, I wish to ask you about the general and the lady Ravenscroft.

01:02:02I believe that you are employed by them.

01:02:04Yes.

01:02:05I was an au pair for Celia.

01:02:08You knew also the boy Desmond, Desmond Button Cox?

01:02:11Yes, we still correspond.

01:02:13But you do so in secret, I think.

01:02:15His mother disapproves.

01:02:18There is nothing of which to disapprove.

01:02:20We are friends.

01:02:21He and Celia intend to marry?

01:02:23He has told me.

01:02:25I am pleased for them.

01:02:26But difficulties are being put in their way.

01:02:28Mademoiselle Celia is being asked to tell to the Desmond family exactly what happened at Overcliffe.

01:02:34It is now since 13 years.

01:02:36But she cannot do that.

01:02:37For she does not know.

01:02:39It was thought advisable to tell her nothing.

01:02:42She accepted it.

01:02:43She was too young to understand.

01:02:45She is old enough now to understand.

01:02:47But what is there to understand, monsieur?

01:02:49It was a double suicide.

01:02:50And you have found no reason to doubt that?

01:02:53The police found no reason to doubt it.

01:02:58So there is nothing more you can tell to me, Mademoiselle Roussel?

01:03:01I fear I cannot.

01:03:04It was a very long time ago.

01:03:06For how long were you living at Overcliffe before their deaths?

01:03:16For two months.

01:03:17And the sister of Lady Ravenscroft, Dorothea Jarrell.

01:03:21She was also living there at this time, was she not?

01:03:24How much do you know?

01:03:29I did.

01:03:36It has to end.

01:03:37You understand that?

01:03:38Yeah.

01:03:40It always ends.

01:03:43I'm so sorry, my darling.

01:03:46Guys like you are always sorry.

01:03:48But guess what?

01:03:49I'll be okay.

01:03:52May I help you?

01:03:54Yes, thank you.

01:03:55I wonder if you can.

01:03:59I wanted to see if there's anything in your files pertaining to the treatment of Mrs. Dorothea Jarrell.

01:04:04Can I ask what business this is of yours?

01:04:06She was my aunt.

01:04:07I'm Celia Ravenscroft.

01:04:08I think something funny is going on.

01:04:10Sure.

01:04:12Okay.

01:04:13Why don't we take a look?

01:04:19Dorothea Jarrell had been treated for the mental illness, but had shown some improvement, n'est-ce pas?

01:04:25Yes.

01:04:27And it was so beneficial for her to spend some time in a normal family home.

01:04:32And Dorothea and Margaret, they were fond of each other?

01:04:36There was a bond between them.

01:04:40A bond of dependence and love.

01:04:45And in many ways they were alike.

01:04:48Pardon.

01:04:49But in twins, although there is this bond of love, if something should occur to break it, then it is shattered forever.

01:05:01Oh, yes, I know.

01:05:06And love, it may easily turn to hate.

01:05:09And it is easier to hate where you have one's love than to remain indifferent.

01:05:12Do you speak from experience?

01:05:21Tell to me about Dorothea Jarrell.

01:05:22She lived in a state of terrible strain.

01:05:27She had had some advanced therapy, but it seemed not to do much good.

01:05:31She was never happy.

01:05:35And she had a great aversion to children.

01:05:38Oh, oui.

01:05:39And that led to incidents most serious, n'est-ce pas?

01:05:42I heard what happened in her early life.

01:05:44I heard what happened in India.

01:05:46Oh, I have no first-hand knowledge of them.

01:05:47No, but there are events of which you do have the first-hand knowledge of them now.

01:05:53Isn't it better to leave things when at least they have been accepted?

01:05:58Mademoiselle, what happened on that day at Dovercliffe?

01:06:02It could have been a double suicide.

01:06:04It could have been a murder.

01:06:04It could have been one of a number of possibilities.

01:06:08But from what you have just said, from that one little sentence,

01:06:13I consider that you know what happened on that day.

01:06:16And you know what happened in the weeks before.

01:06:23I cannot tell you anything.

01:06:26I'm sorry.

01:06:30Was there someone else at Dovercliffe?

01:06:33Someone of whom the police know nothing?

01:06:35No.

01:06:39I think that you lie.

01:06:42The General Ravenscroft was at first in love with Dorothea.

01:06:44Then his affections, they change.

01:06:47And he marries her twin sister, Margaret.

01:06:49Mademoiselle, what do you suppose that that has done to Dorothea?

01:06:52I suppose that it has destroyed her, Monsieur.

01:06:56And the General he has realized?

01:06:58Yes.

01:06:59He knew.

01:07:01He had a good heart.

01:07:02And you were also in love with him, I think.

01:07:07You may not speak to me like that.

01:07:09No, no, no.

01:07:10But, Mademoiselle, I do not say that you had a love affair.

01:07:13I say only that you loved him.

01:07:18One can love and serve and still be happy.

01:07:21Even if one is not loved in return.

01:07:26But you did serve him, Mademoiselle.

01:07:29You served him loyally in the great crisis of his life.

01:07:41Mademoiselle, tell to me what happened.

01:07:43I know that you know.

01:07:45You pretended to the police that you had only the little English.

01:07:49And then you left Overcliffe at once.

01:07:52But you were there.

01:07:53And I need you to tell me who else was in the house.

01:07:56Why should I tell you anything?

01:07:59My life ended that day.

01:08:01It was as if I had been shot.

01:08:03I have hidden myself away.

01:08:08Here in a back street in Paris, look at me.

01:08:10I've had no life at all.

01:08:12Why must I speak now?

01:08:16Because you have a heart, Sally.

01:08:20And because Celia and Desmond, they need to know.

01:08:23Mademoiselle, neither you nor I are married.

01:08:36Well, we may never be married.

01:08:41But they should be.

01:08:42I do hope you had a nice time in Paris.

01:09:03I've been to the shipping office.

01:09:05Here are the records you wanted.

01:09:07Merci, madame.

01:09:08And Poirot, he has also a document for you.

01:09:21This is the deed of covenant for the legacy left to Desmond by his natural mother.

01:09:28The trust, it is to be administered by Madame Platon Cox and her solicitor as trustees

01:09:35until he reaches the age of 25 or until he marries, whichever is the earlier.

01:09:44So if he marries Celia, they're coming to a fortune.

01:09:47Oui.

01:09:50But how does this fit in with Mrs. Burton Cox wanting to find out about the deaths of the Ravenscrofts?

01:09:55Madame Burton Cox, she's not concerned with the deaths of the Ravenscrofts.

01:09:58Non.

01:09:58Her sole concern is to prevent the marriage.

01:10:02Why?

01:10:02Because she's...

01:10:04Because she is stealing the money of Desmond and she has time to pay it back before he is noticed.

01:10:08So if he marries Celia now...

01:10:10Femme de partie.

01:10:11I say, excuse me.

01:10:14I've lost Celia.

01:10:15I'm worried.

01:10:15She said something about going to Eastbourne, exercising ghosts or some such nonsense.

01:10:21But this was straight after she came back from the Willoughby Institute.

01:10:23No, no, no.

01:10:24She has been to the Willoughby Institute.

01:10:26Yes.

01:10:26And now she's gone to Eastbourne?

01:10:28Well, she is in danger.

01:10:29We must hurry.

01:10:30Vite.

01:10:31Vite.

01:10:32Vite.

01:10:33Vite.

01:10:34Vite.

01:10:35Vite.

01:10:36Vite.

01:10:37Vite.

01:10:38Vite.

01:10:39Vite.

01:10:40Vite.

01:10:41Vite.

01:10:42Vite.

01:10:43Vite.

01:10:44Vite.

01:10:45Vite.

01:10:46Vite.

01:10:47Vite.

01:10:48Vite.

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01:10:56Vite.

01:10:57Vite.

01:10:58Hello?

01:11:28Excuse me.

01:11:39Excuse me.

01:11:40What are you doing here?

01:11:42Why are you...

01:11:43I'm here, sir.

01:11:52Where's the car?

01:11:53Where's the car?

01:11:55I'm here.

01:11:56I'm here.

01:11:58Come on.

01:12:03It's all right.

01:12:04We've got you.

01:12:05You're under arrest.

01:12:06It's all right.

01:12:10That.

01:12:11All safe.

01:12:12All safe.

01:12:26I missed you.

01:12:28Mademoiselle.

01:12:30The question to be put it is this.

01:12:35Was the deaths of the Ravenscrofts suicide or was it murder?

01:12:43Because one or the other must be true.

01:12:46But Poirot, he says to you that both are true.

01:12:53And I fear, Mademoiselle Celia, it is a tragedy of two people who loved each other and who died for love.

01:13:00And it will be hard for you to hear.

01:13:03I'm ready.

01:13:05When Madame Malabar set out on a visit to her old acquaintances, Poirot at first seemed to take no notice.

01:13:14Although he had another case which seemed to him infinitely more important, and for that I apologize to you, mother, for what you found out in your visits into Sussex.

01:13:24It was vital for the solving of both mysteries.

01:13:27You know who killed Professor Willoughby?

01:13:29Oh, I have my little theory, but we shall see.

01:13:33When I learned that everything it was pointing to the Willoughby Institute, I looked at the evidence in the notebooks of Madame Oliver, at these recollections, at these elephants.

01:13:45And at first, they seem to have no value, but everything has a value.

01:13:53Everyone remembers something.

01:13:57And so I take from one informant one detail, from another, another.

01:14:01And so we have, first of all, the evidence of the wigs.

01:14:06Wigs?

01:14:07Oui.

01:14:08We learned that Lady Ravenscroft, she had four wigs.

01:14:13Four.

01:14:13Now, this for Poirot was a puzzle, huh?

01:14:17Thank you, Sally.

01:14:18We know that on the day that she died, Lady Ravenscroft was wearing the wig with the curls of the color of the strawberry blonde.

01:14:24Why is that significant? She might have been wearing any of them.

01:14:27Oui, I've read it, Mademoiselle, but you see, we also have the evidence of the dog.

01:14:30Dog? What dog?

01:14:31Oh, no, no, no, please, Mademoiselle Celia, be patient.

01:14:34This dog, it is devoted to its mistress.

01:14:38But in the last few weeks of her life, this dog, it has bitten her more than once.

01:14:42You mean the dog knew she would commit suicide?

01:14:46No, no, no, it is much more simple than that.

01:14:49This dog, it knew what no one else knew.

01:14:51It knew that she was not his mistress.

01:14:53She looked like his mistress, in the clothes of Margaret, in the wig of Margaret.

01:15:02But the dog only recognizes what its nose tells to him.

01:15:05And this dog recognized that this was not his mistress.

01:15:09So, who could it be, this woman?

01:15:12Could it be her twin sister, Dorothea?

01:15:16Well, that's impossible. She was dead.

01:15:18But now I come to something else that was brought to my attention by Madame Oliver.

01:15:22The knowledge that Lady Ravenscroft had recently been in a hospital or a nursing home.

01:15:27It is believed that she suffered from cancer.

01:15:30This I learned from the evidence of Julia Castells in your notebook, Madame.

01:15:34And so her visits to the hospital pass unremarked.

01:15:37I don't think Julia Castells knew what she was talking about.

01:15:39But it does not matter, Madame.

01:15:41Because the General Alistair Ravenscroft, once he rejects Dorothea and marries her sister,

01:15:47Dorothea, she becomes very jealous, and her life, as you say, well, it goes from the rails.

01:15:54And we have reason to believe that one and possibly two children died at her hands.

01:15:58And the General, having the feelings of guilt so terrible,

01:16:01pays for her to have treatment at the Willoughby Institute.

01:16:05Are you saying, sir, that the madame shot the Ravenscroft?

01:16:08No, monsieur, that is not my solution.

01:16:15Mademoiselle Celia, I hope you will not be too dismayed by the truth.

01:16:21It was Dorothea who killed your mother.

01:16:25Often they would go for a walk together in the evenings.

01:16:28But one evening, she returned alone.

01:16:31She must have run off.

01:16:32She doesn't run off, Dorothea. She's my wife.

01:16:35What have you done with her?

01:16:38I think we should look.

01:16:39You're right. Where were you walking?

01:16:42Where we always walk.

01:16:45Something has happened to Margaret.

01:16:46Come on, Sally.

01:16:50Hey, Ravenscroft, where are you?

01:16:52Margaret!

01:16:55Margaret!

01:16:57Margaret!

01:16:58Come on, we'll take the cliff path.

01:17:11Margaret!

01:17:14Margaret!

01:17:18Margaret, what happened?

01:17:20Was it your sister?

01:17:22It isn't her fault, Alice.

01:17:24Damn her!

01:17:25What did she do?

01:17:27She pushed me.

01:17:30She doesn't know what she's doing.

01:17:33I know it's bad, Sally.

01:17:36I know I'll die.

01:17:37No.

01:17:38I'll get a doctor.

01:17:39Alice, stay.

01:17:39There's no time for a doctor.

01:17:41Please don't let her suffer for it.

01:17:44Don't let them give her that treatment again.

01:17:47Promise me, Alice.

01:17:48Promise me you'll save her.

01:17:50Sally.

01:17:51Yes?

01:17:51Please, make him do as I ask.

01:17:58I promise, Margaret.

01:18:00I promise.

01:18:01Thank you, my darling.

01:18:06Oh, Margaret.

01:18:11Margaret.

01:18:12Sally wanted to go for help, but the general, he said no.

01:18:25I made a promise.

01:18:26I must keep it.

01:18:29He decided what he would do, and he asked Sally to help him.

01:18:34Forgive me, my darling.

01:18:38Forgive me.

01:18:39Excuse me.

01:19:02You all right?

01:19:05It's better to know.

01:19:08Go on.

01:19:10Hello.

01:19:10They made a plan.

01:19:13They agreed to say that it was Dorothea who walked in her sleep and fell to her death,

01:19:18not Margaret.

01:19:20They hid her in the cottage in the Downs for a week or ten days.

01:19:23The general, Ravenscroft, put it about that his wife had suffered a nervous collapse

01:19:27and was in a sanatorium recovering.

01:19:30Zellie, she had gone to London and bought wigs to fit Dorothea from Eugene and Rosenthal of Bond Street.

01:19:36Then they brought her back.

01:19:38Good morning, Mrs. Whittaker.

01:19:41Have we something nice for lunch?

01:19:43Yes, madam.

01:19:45Everyone accepted that this was Lady Ravenscroft and thought that she was behaving oddly because she was still suffering from shock at the death of her sister.

01:19:54But how could she keep it up?

01:19:55Must have been dreadfully difficult.

01:19:57No, madam, it was not difficult because at last she had achieved what she wanted.

01:20:03She was married to General Alistair Ravenscroft.

01:20:06But how could my father bear it?

01:20:08As I said, he made a plan.

01:20:12Zellie, today is your last day of work.

01:20:16I'm sending you back to Paris.

01:20:17You're going to do that.

01:20:19I can, my dear, and I will.

01:20:21You've given Stirling service, but I do not want you mixed up in this.

01:20:24Not anymore.

01:20:26Enough is enough.

01:20:30There.

01:20:31There.

01:20:32There.

01:20:34Zellie.

01:20:35Come.

01:20:36Stop here.

01:20:45Hold this.

01:20:46Why?

01:20:47Because I want to kiss you.

01:20:55Goodbye, Dorothea.

01:20:57Where are you going?

01:20:58Hell, I expect.

01:21:00This is for Margaret.

01:21:01And this is for me.

01:21:09And this is for me.

01:21:20He had to keep his promise to his wife.

01:21:23And he did.

01:21:25I am so sorry, Mademoiselle Zellie.

01:21:33Bring her in.

01:21:34Just who are you?

01:21:49Why did you try to kill me?

01:21:50Pleased to take off her cap.

01:21:52This is Mary Jarrell, the daughter of your aunt Dorothea.

01:22:01You're my cousin.

01:22:03How did you work it out, Poirot?

01:22:05The Boston Irish, Mademoiselle.

01:22:08They venerate the 17th of March.

01:22:10St. Patrick's Day.

01:22:12Oh, wait.

01:22:12There is always the big parade.

01:22:13Everyone knows what they were doing on the 17th of March.

01:22:17Also, your accent, Mademoiselle.

01:22:19If you are from Boston, as you say that you are, in the state of Massachusetts,

01:22:25then you would pronounce the last letter at the alphabet Z.

01:22:27But no, you pronounce it Z.

01:22:29You are Canadian, Mademoiselle.

01:22:31And Poirot, he has heard this immediately.

01:22:35Also, you say that you arrived here on the SS France.

01:22:37But no, Poirot, he has examined the list of passengers.

01:22:41And there is no Mary McDermott on the France.

01:22:46But there is a Mary Jarrell.

01:22:47Your mother killed mine.

01:22:48Celia, please.

01:22:52And it is you, Mademoiselle Jarrell, who killed Professor Willoughby.

01:22:57He deserved it.

01:22:59Did you see what they did to her?

01:23:01Those appalling machines?

01:23:02No wonder she went crazy.

01:23:03But how did you know?

01:23:04She was long gone.

01:23:06When I was at school, she sent me letters.

01:23:09I still got them.

01:23:12She told me what they did to her.

01:23:14She knew I was too young to understand.

01:23:17But one day, I would understand.

01:23:22And one day, I'd come back.

01:23:25Why have you waited so long?

01:23:27I had no money.

01:23:28I was just a poor secretary.

01:23:30I had to earn enough to get to England.

01:23:32Where you take a job at the Willoughby Institute.

01:23:34To be honest, it was too easy.

01:23:38I knew the professor came to work late at night, so...

01:23:41I crawl into David's bed, and he likes a little sleep after pleasure.

01:23:48His little sleeps turn into longer sleeps.

01:23:51It was very clever, that.

01:23:53To pretend to provide an alibi for the doctor Willoughby.

01:23:57Whereas, in fact, you were providing an alibi for yourself.

01:24:00That is clever.

01:24:01Cleverer than you think, madame.

01:24:03For then she goes to Jacqueline, the wife of doctor Willoughby, and confesses her affair.

01:24:07So that this wife will not provide the alibi for her husband.

01:24:11Meanwhile, she has become friendly with Professor Willoughby.

01:24:15And no doubt you take a great interest in his work.

01:24:18I told him I was writing a book.

01:24:20I told him the Willoughby Institute was going to go down big in the history of psychiatry.

01:24:24And then you persuade the professor to show to you the Hydro Room.

01:24:31You hit him.

01:24:32You gag him.

01:24:34And then you drown him.

01:24:36Also, mademoiselle.

01:24:39I know that on the day that your mother died, you were here at Overcliffe.

01:24:43You don't know that, Poirot.

01:24:45My way, mademoiselle.

01:24:48Attonde.

01:24:53Here is my proof.

01:24:54Oh, my children.

01:25:08I was listening.

01:25:10I have heard everything that was said.

01:25:13You know it is true, Mary.

01:25:16You were here.

01:25:17Your mother sent for you.

01:25:18You arrived the day she died.

01:25:22You do remember.

01:25:23You arrived just in time to hear this.

01:25:27What are you going to do?

01:25:31I'm going to shoot her.

01:25:34And then I'm going to shoot myself.

01:25:36You know what?

01:25:41I have this overpowering feeling that that's against the law.

01:25:46Just shooting someone.

01:25:47Just killing them.

01:25:48If I could have killed him over again, I would.

01:25:52Or was it?

01:25:53Or was it you who tried to strangle me?

01:25:55All I wanted was to punish her.

01:25:58Ruin her.

01:25:59Why should her life be happy?

01:26:03Mine wasn't.

01:26:04Mademoiselle Rosette.

01:26:05I was there, Rosette.

01:26:08As soon as I knew what the general was about to do, I took Mary away very quickly.

01:26:13I thought her life would be intolerable if she stayed.

01:26:16I sent her to relations of mine in Montreal.

01:26:18I told no one.

01:26:20And I returned to Paris.

01:26:22I swore I would never speak of this.

01:26:24I have broken my vow.

01:26:28Forgive me, Mary.

01:26:29No, my Moselle.

01:26:31You have done the right thing.

01:26:34Pleased to take her away.

01:26:52Desmond?

01:26:53Desmond, where are you?

01:26:57Desmond?

01:26:58Go with that girl.

01:26:59I'll skin you alive.

01:27:00Ah, there you are.

01:27:02Come home at once.

01:27:10I hope you do not blame me, Moselle, for asking for your help.

01:27:16No, monsieur.

01:27:17I am glad.

01:27:20Look.

01:27:20Now they will have their future.

01:27:23You and I are elephants, you know.

01:27:43We're good at remembering.

01:27:44No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

01:27:46We are the human beings.

01:27:48And human beings, mercifully, they can forget.

01:27:52What?

01:27:52Go.

01:27:53Go.

01:27:56Go.

01:27:56Verse 2.

01:27:58Come.

01:27:59Move.

01:27:59, go.

01:28:00Go.

01:28:00Hold on.

01:28:01Come.

01:28:01Go.

01:28:02Go.

01:28:02, go.

01:28:07All right.

01:28:09Go.

01:28:10Go.

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