- 6/10/2025
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An attempt to bring a famed stately home back to its former glory is marred when a visiting Austrian diplomat is shot to death decades after the disappearance of a priceless diamond. Starring: Julia McKenzie, Ian Weichardt, Laura O'Toole.
An attempt to bring a famed stately home back to its former glory is marred when a visiting Austrian diplomat is shot to death decades after the disappearance of a priceless diamond. Starring: Julia McKenzie, Ian Weichardt, Laura O'Toole.
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00:00:00The End
00:00:30Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, please, please.
00:00:58No, no, no, no, no, you mustn't go in there, please, please, do not listen to what I'm saying.
00:01:05Please listen to me, no, please, please.
00:01:16Kate, my dear chap, I wouldn't ask, only it's a matter of considerable national importance.
00:01:23Oh, isn't it always?
00:01:24We've had the most tremendous approach from Vienna.
00:01:27Oh, go on.
00:01:28Well, now that the Austrians are a nice neutral bunch, they're very keen to be friends with us Brits.
00:01:33Well, what's the offer?
00:01:34Iron ore.
00:01:36We go in, help them put their heavy industry back on its feet, take home all the iron ore we need.
00:01:41The PM can scarcely believe his luck.
00:01:44Anyway, Vienna's sending over an envoy, Count Ludwig.
00:01:47I've been tasked with sitting the count down, putting pen to paper, and getting him to sign the contract.
00:01:53Somewhere green and pleasant and above all discreet.
00:01:56And you thought of chimneys?
00:01:59Well, you know, weekend house party, good food, decent cellar.
00:02:03Just like the old days, eh? What do you say? Do the eyes have it?
00:02:06Well, actually, I was thinking of going on holiday next month.
00:02:10Oh, nonsense. Nobody goes on holiday in September.
00:02:13Besides, we're practically family, you and I, once we bring that girl of yours to her senses.
00:02:18We're not as we were, the house is in some distrapeal.
00:02:25No, perfect.
00:02:26Faded grandeur, adds to the flame.
00:02:28Hmm. It'll need to be low-key.
00:02:31Indeed so.
00:02:32Intuit, discreet, one or two guests, sensitively chosen.
00:02:37Of course, these continentals are such a fearful snob.
00:02:41I'll send my best chap round to help with the setting up.
00:02:44Bill Eversley, yours to serve.
00:02:47How do you do?
00:02:47Well, why chimneys? It's years since we gave a party. Decades. Not since 32.
00:02:57Show him the letter.
00:02:59The...
00:02:59From Count Loopy.
00:03:07Here we are.
00:03:09Ah.
00:03:10Fourth para.
00:03:11Halfway down.
00:03:13I have heard that chimneys is the most prized house in England.
00:03:17And would count it a singular honor to see that jeweled palace for myself.
00:03:25It is a memory I am most eager to cherish.
00:03:28There is a droppin' unannounced.
00:03:30If you're gentle with me, then I'll be gentle with you.
00:03:36There is a droppin' unannounced.
00:03:37If you're gentle with me, then I'll be gentle with you.
00:03:51Oh, no!
00:03:52Oh, no!
00:04:03Oh, no.
00:04:04Oh, no.
00:04:09Oh, no.
00:04:13Oh, no.
00:04:14Never, ever, touch mother's bicycle again.
00:04:23Are you all right? Can you stand?
00:04:26Oh, yes, I...
00:04:27Well, that's the main thing. Once you're up on your pins, then life seems so...
00:04:31Full of possibility.
00:04:36Indeed.
00:04:39Not that I was purely concerned about poor mother's bicycle, you understand.
00:04:44Well, I should hope not.
00:04:47Well, I think the chap got the message, don't you?
00:04:54And there he was galloping into save me on his iron horse.
00:04:57I mean, he really was the most idiotically chivalrous...
00:05:01What?
00:05:02Oh, Jimmy, you are as absurdly romantic as your dear mother.
00:05:07Oh, no, no, no, no, woof woof, wrong train.
00:05:09If you honestly...
00:05:10I mean, you couldn't be more unsuitable. No cash, no prospects.
00:05:14Oh, well, then.
00:05:15Yes, quite. Case closed.
00:05:18And anyway, he's been quite standoffish of me this past week.
00:05:22I expect he's bored of me. Don't you?
00:05:24Oh, yes. Does he have a name?
00:05:27Sir Anthony K.
00:05:29Only without the knighthood.
00:05:31Oh, dear. I was just thinking. Your poor MP.
00:05:46Oh, God. George Lomax might be the least bit put off. On the contrary.
00:05:52Not another ultimatum.
00:05:53Oh, I have until Sunday night to consent to be Mrs George Lomax.
00:05:57Or what?
00:05:58He invades Poland, I suppose.
00:06:01Oh, anyway, the terms are most generous.
00:06:03He'll put Daddy up in a mansion flat in town, which is all he wants since Omar passed away.
00:06:08And he'll even pay to stop the chimneys from falling apart, which I suppose is jolly good for them.
00:06:14If you marry him.
00:06:16Oh, I should be more grateful, obviously.
00:06:19Well, I'm not sure gratitude is the basis for a happy marriage.
00:06:25Well, no, no. Not that I'm any sort of expert.
00:06:28No, no, no, no. Mummy always said you were the most eminently sensible of all her cousins.
00:06:32Oh, well, she's certainly made a splendid marriage.
00:06:37Oh, she'll be so simple, shouldn't it? Being happy.
00:06:40I mean, one ought to see it and just know.
00:06:44Well, now that I've got you here, we are going to have a riot, you and I.
00:06:49My last weekend is an eligible spinster. Are you game?
00:06:53Well, I'll do my best.
00:06:55Are you quite sure it's all right with your father having me along?
00:07:05Oh, Daddy's thrilled.
00:07:07And anyway, you have me down to St Marymead's. It's only fair I return the fate.
00:07:12Here, look. Page 17.
00:07:15Isn't he a dish?
00:07:16Oh.
00:07:20Anthony Cade.
00:07:21Some passing whim.
00:07:25Virginia's innocent, easily led. It's all part of her charm.
00:07:29Perhaps she's after a bit of fun, sir.
00:07:31Oh, Eversley, my short-trousered chum.
00:07:34We must all learn to put away childish things.
00:07:38I say, she's not bringing Cade along, is she?
00:07:40No, sir. She's coming with a Miss Marple.
00:07:42Do we know her?
00:07:43Not that I'm aware of.
00:07:44I thought you were across the guest list.
00:07:47Oh, I am. Absolutely.
00:07:49Marple. Some fresh-hatched little debutante.
00:07:54Something for you, Eversley.
00:07:58Regarding Virginia.
00:08:01I trust you harbour no ambitions of your own.
00:08:04What's the question?
00:08:05Because that wouldn't do at all, Eversley.
00:08:08One wouldn't want you to be hurt.
00:08:11No chance of that, sir.
00:08:12Yes, Treadwell?
00:08:13Your guest has arrived, sir.
00:08:14Already?
00:08:16Shoulders back.
00:08:17Cometh the hour.
00:08:18Watch and learn.
00:08:20Letters for posting on his lordship's table.
00:08:21Send them express, if you'll be so kind.
00:08:24Count Ludwig!
00:08:25Good morning.
00:08:26Oh, look.
00:08:27He's practically licking his shoes.
00:08:28The Count might think it's some sort of quaint British custom.
00:08:33Ah, es ist eine Erre. Sie in meiner bescheidenen Nation.
00:08:36Willkommen zu Heissen.
00:08:37A little earlier, but...
00:08:38So much that they have to be a good time.
00:08:39...
00:08:40...
00:08:41...
00:08:42...
00:08:43...
00:08:44...
00:08:45...
00:08:46...
00:08:47...
00:08:48...
00:08:49...
00:08:50...
00:08:52...
00:08:53It is an era that you in my married nation will come and call it a little earlier, but
00:09:05so much the better.
00:09:06The whole opposite.
00:09:07I'm too late.
00:09:12Indeed.
00:09:13A lovely house, yes.
00:09:14He seems like he's from another age.
00:09:16I wonder if he speaks any English.
00:09:18Well, how much English do you need to sign a cheque?
00:09:21Me, metal, you, baby, dollars.
00:09:31Madeline?
00:09:34Ten press-ups for parts Virginia.
00:09:37Virginia.
00:09:39Dating to pay us a visit?
00:09:41Yes.
00:09:42I didn't hear you come in.
00:09:43Hello, Daddy.
00:09:45I'm so sorry, darling.
00:09:48Ah, dear Jane.
00:09:50Oh, Clement, it's been, well...
00:09:52Yes, not since the funeral.
00:09:54Yes.
00:09:55You've been so kind to my daughter since we lost Madeline.
00:09:59No.
00:10:00How's your garden?
00:10:01Hardly thriving, I'm afraid.
00:10:03Daddy, you might have made a bit of an effort.
00:10:06Oh, pay no attention to me.
00:10:08I'm just the odd job man these days.
00:10:10Oh, look.
00:10:12I see you've invited that nice lady from National Heritage.
00:10:16Hold her blinking, sir.
00:10:18No.
00:10:19Hmm.
00:10:20No.
00:10:21Oh, no.
00:10:22Oh, no.
00:10:23Well, don't get cross.
00:10:24She was very keen to be invited.
00:10:26Well, she's banned, we agreed.
00:10:27Yes, but the National Heritage have made a very sensible offer.
00:10:31Chimneys has been in the family for centuries.
00:10:33It is family.
00:10:34Yes, but, darling, you know we can't afford to keep the place on.
00:10:37We will manage.
00:10:39We always do.
00:10:41Well, she's on good form.
00:10:45National Heritage has taken on 13 homes and gardens in the county.
00:10:51Hmm.
00:10:53A baker's dozen.
00:10:55Built for the few, fit for the many.
00:10:58That's the England I fought for.
00:11:01Oh.
00:11:02On which front were you on, Miss Lincoln-Song?
00:11:04Still, you'd be amazed how these old places fill up.
00:11:08Homes of the former great draw such a crowd, especially at weekends.
00:11:13Hmm.
00:11:14Once we get that patch sorted out.
00:11:16That patch?
00:11:18These gardens were designed by Capability Brown.
00:11:21Oh, well, dear.
00:11:23I suppose we all have our off days.
00:11:25High society, Eversley.
00:11:27What did I say?
00:11:28Embellish the scene, sir.
00:11:29Embellish the scene.
00:11:31Scientists.
00:11:32Captains of industry.
00:11:33What do you bring me?
00:11:34Mrs Mop and Mrs Bucket.
00:11:36Caterham says they're both first class.
00:11:38If you get a bit of gin down them.
00:11:39Who does he?
00:11:40Bravo?
00:11:41Not at all, sir.
00:11:43Very, er, diverse guest list.
00:11:46Good.
00:11:47I should join in.
00:11:48Is this your doing?
00:11:53George will have to take us as he finds us.
00:11:58What?
00:11:59Marry me.
00:12:01Bill.
00:12:02Never propose on an empty stomach.
00:12:05Ask me again after supper.
00:12:07Don't you have to be somewhere?
00:12:09Ask me again after supper.
00:12:10Don't you have to be somewhere?
00:12:12Don't you have to be somewhere?
00:12:14I'll do it.
00:12:16Course I can.
00:12:17I'll do it.
00:12:18I'll do it.
00:12:19I'll do it.
00:12:20Just give it a whine.
00:12:21Sultry, isn't it?
00:12:25Sultry, isn't it?
00:12:29What have you done to your hair?
00:12:31Not a thing.
00:12:33Sweet of you to notice, darling.
00:12:35You haven't forgotten that you promised me an answer by Sunday night.
00:12:39The clock is ticking.
00:12:49Forgive me, but you all look so perfect.
00:12:53Like you had stepped out of a photograph.
00:12:57Count Ludwig, allow me to introduce Clement Revel and 9th Marquis of Kitterand.
00:13:03How do you do?
00:13:04Your honour is entirely mine.
00:13:06Gnadega dame it.
00:13:08And these are your two little revels.
00:13:12Would you indulge your fading guests?
00:13:15Why not?
00:13:17I have two lefties, so why don't you try her?
00:13:21Because everyone else seems to.
00:13:33Oh, a sense of rhythm.
00:13:35Such a graceful dance.
00:13:37Well, they all are, aren't they?
00:13:39Still hardly the most practical accomplishment.
00:13:43This is your first visit to our shores.
00:13:45No, I am an inveterate itinerant, I'm afraid.
00:13:49Or I was.
00:13:51Once upon a time.
00:13:53Oh, come on, now you are laughing at me.
00:13:55No, no, no, no, no.
00:13:56It's just your English.
00:13:57Splendid.
00:13:58I had a highly disciplined teacher, you see.
00:14:01She taught me only tongue twisters.
00:14:05Inveterate itinerant.
00:14:07Inveterate itinerant.
00:14:09Inveterate itinerant.
00:14:11Inveterate itinerant.
00:14:12Inveterate itinerant.
00:14:13Your dinner is getting home.
00:14:15Ah, it'll make all.
00:14:16End second.
00:14:26Tandu, I will you lead on?
00:14:28Yes, I will.
00:14:29Miss Blenkinson, after you.
00:14:31Follow me, ladies.
00:14:32Follow me, ladies.
00:14:44Very good, your withers.
00:14:50Shall we?
00:15:02A splendid dinner, thank you.
00:15:13Yes, very filling.
00:15:15Forgive me my asking, sir, you're interested in my house.
00:15:18Is it for architecture?
00:15:19No, no, no, I have no head for grand design for architecture.
00:15:25Your paintings sold most of the decent ones.
00:15:27We still have our Van Dyke.
00:15:29So I see.
00:15:31And who is this fellow?
00:15:33Oh, some old Duke.
00:15:34Oh, Richmond, Duke old.
00:15:38Richmond, yes.
00:15:40So, if it's not the art or the architecture, then...
00:15:45Oh, history.
00:15:47Great men rumored to have met within these walls,
00:15:50treaties, affairs of state, wars even.
00:15:53The gunman ended here over coffee and cigars.
00:15:57Oh, nothing so biblical, I assure you.
00:16:00Oh, he's being modest, aren't you, Cajun?
00:16:03Chimneys had quite a reputation.
00:16:06So what happened?
00:16:08What was that?
00:16:09We ran into some bother.
00:16:13The party of 1932.
00:16:15Oh, that old young.
00:16:17Well, we'd come back from an embassy posting.
00:16:20Caracas.
00:16:21It was my last one, as it turned out.
00:16:23It was before Virginia was born.
00:16:25Anyway, it was quite a night.
00:16:27Your mother always gave wonderful parties.
00:16:30We'd have banned out in the garden.
00:16:31Oh, I remember the story, yes.
00:16:33You were there yourself, weren't you, George?
00:16:35Helping out.
00:16:36I was accompanying Lady Somerset.
00:16:39It was most instructive.
00:16:44Is this it?
00:16:45Here.
00:16:46Uh, yes.
00:16:47Where is that?
00:16:48The rose garden.
00:16:49Ah.
00:16:50Ah.
00:16:51Our lovely Viennese words.
00:16:53Ah.
00:16:53La-da-da-da-da-da.
00:16:55A charming singing voice.
00:16:57Anyway, there was a bit of what to do, because the Duchess of Somerset had borrowed a large
00:17:02brooch for the evening on home.
00:17:04Large brooch?
00:17:05Daddy, it was the Mysore diamond from India.
00:17:08Possibly the most revered diamond in the world.
00:17:12Well, whatever it was, by breakfast time it had disappeared.
00:17:16Stolen by some good-for-nothing parlour maid named Agnes.
00:17:22Parlour maid?
00:17:23What an English saga.
00:17:25The maid vanished overnight.
00:17:27Isn't that right?
00:17:28And the diamond was never, ever to be found again.
00:17:31Anyone for more coffee?
00:17:33Oh, yes, please.
00:17:34So, what sort of girl was she, this Agnes?
00:17:39Or did nobody notice?
00:17:41Well, only 19 years old.
00:17:43She must have lost her head, I suppose.
00:17:46Anyway, it meant the end of my career in the diplomatic service.
00:17:52Well, rather shameful.
00:17:57Well, if the ladies can spare us, to business.
00:18:01Indeed, yes.
00:18:03I give you business.
00:18:05You want our iron, Mr. Lomax MP?
00:18:10Well, naturally.
00:18:12I make one request.
00:18:15Chimneys.
00:18:18Give me chimneys as a personal favour.
00:18:21And in return, I guarantee you can take home all riches your heart desires.
00:18:27Well, I'm not sure that's...
00:18:29We are not for sale.
00:18:30Not for sale.
00:18:31Tell them.
00:18:32Why don't you all try a hand at bridge?
00:18:37Of course.
00:18:38Yes.
00:18:39I'll go.
00:18:40Thanks.
00:18:41You're quite sure.
00:18:43Absolutely.
00:18:44Very well.
00:18:45And Mark will cost...
00:18:46Yeah.
00:18:47I'll get my amber, but it is what I've expected to be.
00:18:55You're quite sure?
00:18:57Absolutely.
00:18:58Very well.
00:18:59Then Mark will cross.
00:19:01Yeah.
00:19:07Now, Count, be kind enough to sign.
00:19:10Yeah, we're going to pleasure.
00:19:17Mr. Lomax, sir!
00:19:32Jane, what's happening?
00:19:33I don't know.
00:19:35What time is it?
00:19:36If you'd all like to gather downstairs.
00:19:41I'm sorry to have to wake you all up,
00:19:43but one of Mr. Lomax's security staff was found unconscious.
00:19:48Is that so?
00:19:49That's right, sir.
00:19:50Roberts.
00:19:50All present and correct, Eversley?
00:19:52Indeed, sir.
00:19:53I believe we're one short.
00:19:55The Count!
00:19:56Out for the Count.
00:19:57Well, that's no surprise, considering how he was knocking it back.
00:20:00Eversley, see if you can raise him.
00:20:02He's not in his room, sir.
00:20:03What?
00:20:04Where is he?
00:20:05Perhaps we need a search party.
00:20:07Indeed.
00:20:08Jaffers, you and Roberts seal off the back door,
00:20:10bundle the old servants' quarters.
00:20:12Eversley, you and Miss Blankensop,
00:20:14the ground floor,
00:20:15and Virginia and I will look upstairs.
00:20:16Why can't Virginia come with me?
00:20:18We don't have time for this now.
00:20:19Why are you always undermining...
00:20:21Look, will you too kindly desist?
00:20:26Now, Virginia, can you run upstairs, please,
00:20:27and collect major peas medicine?
00:20:30Jane will remain here and keep an eye.
00:20:32The rest of us can just as well look by ourselves.
00:20:35Agreed?
00:20:42Count Ludwig.
00:20:48Count Ludwig!
00:20:50Count Ludwig!
00:20:53I wonder, do you think that's wise?
00:20:56Probably not.
00:20:58What about you?
00:21:00Why not?
00:21:01it seems ages since we talked you and i i think madeline rather lost touch with you over the
00:21:16years one grows apart i think i suppose still i'm so grateful that you keep an eye on virginia
00:21:24for me a father can only do so much and this past year since madeline well it's not been easy
00:21:36i gather you're hoping to move to london not if bundle can help it
00:21:43oh poor child it's any real home she's ever known you see the truth is memories are no
00:21:53consolation not even the good ones i brought your medicine thank god for my darling girls
00:22:03daddy
00:22:05george not now that sounded almost like is that a gunshot someone close that door
00:22:23well where is it any sign did you hear it i think half the county heard it well it can't
00:22:30have just vanished are there no doorways no outbuildings you don't think our little door
00:22:36oh take that should be torches on the wall yes come on jane
00:22:54what is that love looks like it
00:23:11anthony i think he's been shot
00:23:24is he breathing check his pulse can you hear me oh god it wasn't me i can't find a pulse
00:23:40i think he's dead it wasn't me
00:23:47virginia
00:23:56virginia
00:23:58virginia
00:24:00virginia
00:24:01virginia
00:24:02you're such an enchanting man
00:24:03virginia
00:24:05like it doesn't take the pipe
00:24:11who's our guest
00:24:12i'm sure there's a perfectly innocent explanation
00:24:14virginia
00:24:15i should go to it
00:24:17don't you dare
00:24:18damn it
00:24:19come back
00:24:20virginia
00:24:23anthony
00:24:23hi love
00:24:24anthony
00:24:25you can't go in there miss
00:24:25well may i at least speak to him
00:24:27i'm sorry miss
00:24:28oh please
00:24:30please
00:24:31please
00:24:31Please.
00:24:35Anthony! Anthony, what are you even doing here?
00:24:38Virginia, you must promise me something.
00:24:42Anything.
00:24:44Please, promise me you'll forget me.
00:24:49Anthony, you're scaring me!
00:24:53Anthony!
00:25:01Finch!
00:25:03Thank God.
00:25:05Good to see you again.
00:25:07Inspector Finch, the guru of Scotland Yard.
00:25:10Finch?
00:25:12Looks quite like a cat, don't you think?
00:25:15I loathe cats!
00:25:18Shh!
00:25:23I gather he has devotees all over the Home Office.
00:25:26They regard him as some sort of mystic.
00:25:29A bit like Julian of Norwich, only with powers of arrest.
00:25:33What do we know of the victim?
00:25:35Born in Vienna, 1892.
00:25:37Wealthy parents.
00:25:38Travelled about a good deal in his youth.
00:25:40Something of a wandering spirit.
00:25:42Into politics soon after the war.
00:25:44I can get my chap to find you a place in the town.
00:25:47No need. I should be staying in chimneys.
00:25:48Murder rarely keeps office hours.
00:25:50Hello.
00:25:53Bit of fresh air.
00:25:56Politically, this could be a disaster.
00:25:59With care.
00:26:00Indeed.
00:26:01So the ladies retired early.
00:26:03Uh, we had some business.
00:26:06Uh, not relevant.
00:26:08He wanted to buy chimneys.
00:26:10He wanted to buy chimneys.
00:26:11Well, the proposal was that the government would purchase the house
00:26:16and then pass it on to Count Ludwig as a gift.
00:26:19A bribe?
00:26:20Don't be upset.
00:26:21A personal bribe.
00:26:22In return for which he hands over a share of their heavy industry.
00:26:28Where do we stand on that?
00:26:30Morally?
00:26:31Well back, I'd have thought.
00:26:34Is there paperwork for this, uh, sale?
00:26:36Sign sealed and, uh, in my room on the top drawer.
00:26:42All academic now, of course.
00:26:44Understood.
00:26:46As one door closes, another stands ajar, Lord Caterham.
00:26:51Indeed.
00:26:53So you gentlemen retired at...
00:26:56About a quarter to a lump.
00:26:58Until we were woken by the fire bell.
00:27:00Mr. Lomax!
00:27:01Sir!
00:27:02At what time?
00:27:04Hmm?
00:27:0520 to midnight.
00:27:06We all met downstairs.
00:27:07No sign of the Count, so off we went looking for him.
00:27:10All save, uh, Clement, uh, and myself.
00:27:13Next thing, boom!
00:27:16The gunshot?
00:27:18He was in the passageway all along.
00:27:20Just a few yards away.
00:27:22Any fingerprints on the weapon?
00:27:25Regretably not.
00:27:27Still, we have the culprit.
00:27:29Anthony Cade.
00:27:31He has one or two questions to answer, certainly.
00:27:34May I see the body?
00:27:35I shall take you there at once.
00:27:37Or perhaps Miss...
00:27:39Uh, Marple?
00:27:40Marple.
00:27:41Yes, if it's no inconvenience.
00:27:43Oh.
00:27:44Oh.
00:27:45Not at all.
00:27:56What was he doing here?
00:27:58Almost an hour after he went to bed.
00:28:03He showed an interest over dinner in the Van Dyke portrait.
00:28:08I suppose the Count could have returned.
00:28:11Private viewing?
00:28:12I suppose.
00:28:13And chanced upon the secret door?
00:28:16Hmm.
00:28:17Except that nothing quite happens by chance, does it?
00:28:21Not really.
00:28:23Or is that my tidy-minded preference?
00:28:25I see you don't have a man with you.
00:28:40I'm sorry?
00:28:42Well, inspectors nowadays tend to have a man with them.
00:28:45Oh.
00:28:46Oh.
00:28:47Well, perhaps you prefer to muse alone.
00:28:50Perhaps no man would have me.
00:28:53Oh.
00:28:55This blood.
00:28:57He was shot.
00:28:59Here.
00:29:01And crawled, staggered, or was dragged this away, where he was found in the arms of Mr Cade. Here.
00:29:10Here.
00:29:11Before falling on Port Virginia.
00:29:13Here.
00:29:15All fairly straightforward, apparently.
00:29:16Uh-huh.
00:29:17Is it a letter?
00:29:18Not quite.
00:29:20Oh.
00:29:21A treble clef.
00:29:22A virtuoso.
00:29:24Perhaps you could take this and study it for me, Miss Marple.
00:29:47Very well.
00:29:48it for me, Miss Marple.
00:29:50Very well.
00:30:00The Count said something before he died.
00:30:02Want.
00:30:03Want.
00:30:04Want?
00:30:05Are you sure?
00:30:06Mm-hmm.
00:30:07Meaning?
00:30:09Well, I suppose we all want something, even at death's door.
00:30:13Kiss of life, perhaps.
00:30:16How did you get here?
00:30:17Well, I climbed over the wall.
00:30:18I was eager to get up to the house.
00:30:20And this gentleman was blocking the path.
00:30:22Do you mind, sir?
00:30:30Well, as I remember, I came from around here.
00:30:39Then I spotted the gentleman.
00:30:40I panicked.
00:30:42And then you hit him.
00:30:43Yes, I am sorry about that.
00:30:49Using this?
00:30:51Exactly.
00:30:56What time was that?
00:30:5711.33, precisely.
00:30:59I remember because I looked at my wristwatch.
00:31:01I envy your eyesight, Mr. Cade.
00:31:03And you see, that's the thing.
00:31:05I know because there was a light on in one of the upstairs rooms.
00:31:12It was first story and then second to the right.
00:31:15Now, I can remember because, because someone had lit a fire.
00:31:19Rather a warm night for a fire.
00:31:21Well, there was definitely smoke coming out of the chimney above.
00:31:27Anyway, at this stage, common sense sounded the retreat.
00:31:29Did you hear the warning?
00:31:30Well, sadly, common sense and I are no longer on speaking terms.
00:31:33So, I carried on along here and through the door.
00:31:41And then I came down here.
00:31:45Opened the trap door.
00:31:46And then I heard the gunshot.
00:31:54Good God.
00:31:55He'd been shot already.
00:31:57Yes.
00:31:59Any idea who shot him?
00:32:01Afraid not.
00:32:01And yet the revolver three feet from where you're standing, a victim at your heels.
00:32:05I swear, I never saw any revolver.
00:32:07Mr. Cade, may one ask what you were actually doing here?
00:32:11Yes, well, I, I did wonder when you'd get around to asking that.
00:32:16The truth is, I couldn't let Lomax have his way without putting up a fight.
00:32:20His way with Virginia, huh?
00:32:21Yes.
00:32:22I thought to myself, just sit tight and then burst in at breakfast and give you all a fright.
00:32:26Well, who so did you, Dad?
00:32:28The constable found this in your pocket.
00:32:31Oh.
00:32:32Any idea who wrote it?
00:32:36Dear Cade, come to Chimney's, there's a trap door in the garden, 11.45, shot.
00:32:42What?
00:32:43I didn't like this.
00:32:45Are you sure Mr. Cade seems to think...
00:32:47Not my style.
00:32:48A love note is not something you just dash off.
00:32:52That's what you're sniggering at.
00:32:54I'm sorry, idiot.
00:32:56May I see?
00:33:00Hand it over.
00:33:02It appears from their postmark to have been sent locally.
00:33:07Express service as late as yesterday morning.
00:33:13So none of you sent this letter?
00:33:16How's this for a hypothesis?
00:33:18Cade types the letter himself, takes the train down to the village and posts it.
00:33:23All in a cynical bid to ensnare Virginia.
00:33:27Rubbish.
00:33:28I was having tea with them yesterday morning.
00:33:30At the Lions Corner House on the Edgware Road.
00:33:32And it was very nice.
00:33:37Mr. Lomax, your room is second from the end, isn't it?
00:33:40So?
00:33:41There was a light on there last night, just before the alarm sounded.
00:33:46Rubbish.
00:33:47Says who?
00:33:49Oh, Cade.
00:33:51Blatant attempt to put you off your game, Inspector.
00:33:54Anthony!
00:33:54I told you.
00:34:12I'm not worth a sacrifice.
00:34:15I was in dread of that.
00:34:16Thank you very much.
00:34:17If you would be so good as to remain at chimneys until further notice.
00:34:22What about him?
00:34:23You're not going to let him wander about.
00:34:24Oh, we'll keep an eye on him.
00:34:26Keep an eye on all of you.
00:34:27It's quite perverse, isn't it?
00:34:45He was such a musical fellow.
00:34:51Quite a dancer.
00:34:52You know, I always say the point of a tune is to boost the morale, surely.
00:34:56Indeed.
00:34:57May I help?
00:34:58Hmm?
00:34:58Oh, Treadwell, the very man.
00:35:00Where's that musical handbook of Virginia's?
00:35:02You know the one?
00:35:03Hits of the Blitz?
00:35:04Oh, the very Nelly.
00:35:06Come.
00:35:10Oh, my God.
00:35:12Oh, my God.
00:35:15Oh.
00:35:17Hard at it, Miss Marple.
00:35:19Inspector, it's, uh, I'm a little lost.
00:35:22One can hardly see where one bar ends and the next begins.
00:35:26I'm sorry, forgive me.
00:35:34It's hardly music at all.
00:35:37Could it be?
00:35:38Oh, forgive me.
00:35:41Go on.
00:35:42Oh, well, I wonder, is it possible it is, in fact, a message of some sort?
00:35:49In code?
00:35:50One has tried to be patient by one cat.
00:35:53What were you thinking of?
00:35:59We know nothing about the man or his people.
00:36:01I know he's funny and reckless, and his mother has a jolly nice bicycle.
00:36:06Which I happen to think counts more than a dozen columns in Hoos Who.
00:36:11He ran a bar.
00:36:12Oh, philanthropic.
00:36:13In Africa.
00:36:14In Bulawayo.
00:36:15He had a friend with him.
00:36:16They were business partners.
00:36:18And does this friend have a name?
00:36:20Jimmy McGrath.
00:36:21They did rather well.
00:36:23For a time, but Jimmy liked a drink, you see.
00:36:27He gambled it all away.
00:36:28Lost it all in one sitting to a gentleman from Pretoria.
00:36:31You've known him for less than a fortnight.
00:36:34Daddy.
00:36:35Ah, Caterham.
00:36:36Knocked some sense into your daughter.
00:36:38Oh, well, it's a brave man who dared to.
00:36:41What would your mother have said?
00:36:43My mother?
00:36:45You presume to speak about.
00:36:47Always went with her heart.
00:36:48Isn't that so?
00:36:49And she raised me to do the same.
00:36:55Virginia!
00:36:56Anthony is no murderer!
00:36:59The clock is ticking.
00:37:01Oh!
00:37:01Slimy, slithering, little.
00:37:03Oh!
00:37:03George, bloody Lomax was the last man on earth.
00:37:07I'm not meant to know his maid is sweet on me.
00:37:10He sleeps with a hairnet.
00:37:11Can you imagine?
00:37:13Don't tell me that.
00:37:14Always makes me like him a little bit.
00:37:18I love Vanity and a man.
00:37:21Besides, I mean, everybody has the odd skeleton, don't they?
00:37:25Only mine tend to leap out of the closet and dance a jiggle over the bloody society pages.
00:37:31What?
00:37:32No, you're allowed to swap cards if you like.
00:37:34Well, I don't want to.
00:37:36Royal, what is it?
00:37:38Flush.
00:37:41Don't let me win.
00:37:42Just cheer me up.
00:37:43Sorry.
00:37:44Can't help myself.
00:37:47Thank God for you, sweetie.
00:37:49Like a port in a storm.
00:37:51A bit more than that, I hope.
00:37:52I mean, with George and Lord Kitchener mode.
00:37:54And as for your pal, Mr Cade.
00:37:56Don't.
00:37:57I'm sorry, darling, but it has to be said.
00:38:00Death Row is no place for a wedding.
00:38:01Not funny.
00:38:03Well, he quite obviously was in that tunnel while we were all in the house.
00:38:08Or were we?
00:38:11Or were we?
00:38:14Come on.
00:38:20What's she doing?
00:38:21Trying to prove her lover innocent.
00:38:24How does she propose to do that?
00:38:26I have no idea.
00:38:29Like it or not, Mr Cade was still there in the tunnel with a smoking gun.
00:38:33Will you arrest him?
00:38:34I'm tempted.
00:38:36He's careless.
00:38:37All the lies he tells.
00:38:38The letter.
00:38:39That business with the light on in the house.
00:38:41Man like Cade requires plenty of rope.
00:38:44Like most of us.
00:38:45Even you.
00:38:46Am I under suspicion?
00:38:48I know your secret, Miss Marvel.
00:38:51You are a puzzle-outer of mysteries.
00:38:54I muddle through one or two.
00:38:56It's a matter of association.
00:38:59My village, you see.
00:39:02It's in Mary Meath.
00:39:04Yes.
00:39:05Yes.
00:39:06It's a most pleasant community.
00:39:09And yet the whole of life seems to pass by my window.
00:39:14More than you would expect.
00:39:15Um, you're doing it again, Inspector.
00:39:19What's that?
00:39:20Standing mute so that one is forced to run on and on more than ever one would wish.
00:39:25I'm keeping you where I can see you, Miss Marvel.
00:39:28You may have disgraced half the men in my profession, but you shan't disgrace me.
00:39:32I hope not, Inspector.
00:39:35I envy you, you know, the amateur sleuth.
00:39:37One has nothing to lose somehow.
00:39:38Well, still, the salary is, er, convenient.
00:39:46Indeed.
00:39:47If it wasn't for the generosity of my nephew, Raymond.
00:39:50Raymond, as I've read in a dozen case files.
00:39:53Yes.
00:39:56Hardly a distinguished name.
00:39:59Raymond?
00:39:59No.
00:40:01Jimneys.
00:40:02Until it stands before one, and then it all makes sense.
00:40:05There are dozens of them.
00:40:09Splendid.
00:40:10That great tower standing proud so that...
00:40:15Which was the window Mr. Cade said was lit up on the night of the murder?
00:40:20Second from the right?
00:40:21The MP's room.
00:40:22Yes, and yet, as one approaches the spot where Mr. Cade stood,
00:40:26a window is obscured.
00:40:28Do you see?
00:40:30On account of the tower?
00:40:31So that what appears to be second from the right is, in fact...
00:40:34Third from the right.
00:40:37So, who was up and about moments before the gunshot?
00:40:43Miss Treadwell.
00:40:46Might I have a word, please?
00:40:52At 33 minutes past 11, your bedroom light was on 12 minutes before the gunshot.
00:40:57Yes.
00:40:58Briefly.
00:40:59Can you tell me why?
00:41:00I wished to speak to Count Ludwig.
00:41:05But noticing his bed was unoccupied, I returned to my room.
00:41:08Any particular reason for wishing to speak to him?
00:41:11Oh, he'd, um...
00:41:14Earlier in the evening, he'd asked for an extra blanket.
00:41:17So, perhaps your little fire.
00:41:20I beg your pardon?
00:41:21At the same time, 11.33.
00:41:23No fires last night, I...
00:41:27I would have known, you see.
00:41:31You know, it's funny, but yesterday, I...
00:41:34I really felt that you knew him.
00:41:40This looks a very grand affair.
00:41:42That's how they did it in those days.
00:41:44And this would be the orchestra at the back here?
00:41:48Hmm.
00:41:48What sort of music do they play?
00:41:51Waltzes, mainly.
00:41:53Viennese waltzes?
00:41:57It's him, isn't it?
00:41:58There.
00:41:59Count Ludwig.
00:42:00So he has been here before.
00:42:03And where else but in the orchestra?
00:42:09What brought you back after all these years?
00:42:12Any thoughts, Miss Treadler?
00:42:21He got no more than he deserved.
00:42:23I'm sorry?
00:42:28The girl who...
00:42:29Who disappeared?
00:42:31Agnes.
00:42:32The parlour mate, yes.
00:42:34Whatever happened to Agnes?
00:42:37That night after the party, I...
00:42:39I saw a light.
00:42:42I saw a light.
00:42:43I saw a light.
00:42:44I saw a light.
00:42:45I saw a light.
00:42:46I saw a light.
00:42:47I saw a light.
00:42:48I saw a light.
00:42:49I saw a light.
00:42:50I saw a light.
00:42:51I saw a light.
00:42:52I saw a light.
00:42:53I saw a light.
00:42:54I saw a light.
00:42:55I saw a light.
00:42:56I saw a light.
00:42:57I saw a light.
00:42:58I saw a light.
00:42:59I saw a light.
00:43:00I saw a light.
00:43:01I saw a light.
00:43:02I saw a light.
00:43:03I saw a light.
00:43:04I saw a light.
00:43:05I saw a light.
00:43:06I saw a light.
00:43:07I saw a light.
00:43:08I saw a light.
00:43:09I saw a light.
00:43:10I saw a light.
00:43:41I got it. It was down there.
00:43:54Let me help you.
00:43:56Clement, are you sure?
00:44:11Magnus.
00:44:16Her apron.
00:44:19Poor child.
00:44:21All this time, you said she was the thief.
00:44:40I think it's time you told us what happened.
00:45:01The mistress. She confided in me once.
00:45:04Madeleine?
00:45:05What did she tell you?
00:45:08She said Agnes was with him that night.
00:45:11With whom?
00:45:12A musician, a fiddle player.
00:45:15Oh, the Count.
00:45:17All these years, not a word.
00:45:21I wanted to, sir.
00:45:24I thought if I spoke out, you would contact the police and there would be more of a scandal.
00:45:30It had already ruined your career.
00:45:32And if a stolen jewel could cast such a shadow.
00:45:35And then...
00:45:36And then the theft of a life.
00:45:38I'm so sorry.
00:45:40Oh, what have I done?
00:45:42I'm so sorry.
00:45:46Well?
00:45:47She's certainly hiding something.
00:46:12Damn.
00:46:17Oh.
00:46:22Wondered if there was any...
00:46:23What?
00:46:24Cardboard.
00:46:26Wondered if there was any.
00:46:28Sorry, what are you...
00:46:29What do you want cardboard for?
00:46:30I'm making something.
00:46:31Yes, well, I can't see any, so if you wouldn't mind.
00:46:35What are you up to, Miss Blenkinsor?
00:46:37Just looking for some privacy in this big old nasty...
00:46:41...house.
00:46:42Hands off.
00:46:44Sorry.
00:46:45I'll leave you to it.
00:46:47Oh!
00:46:50Oh, it's child's play.
00:46:52It's, um...
00:46:53It's musical mathematics.
00:46:54Don't you see?
00:46:55One...
00:46:56One simply transposes the music from notes into letters.
00:46:59So, two octaves...
00:47:00Take us from A up to O, while these 11 sharps bring us all the way up to Z.
00:47:09Your coded letter.
00:47:10Oh!
00:47:11Oh!
00:47:12Oh!
00:47:13Oh!
00:47:14Oh!
00:47:15Oh!
00:47:16Oh!
00:47:17Oh!
00:47:18Oh!
00:47:19Oh!
00:47:20Oh!
00:47:21Oh!
00:47:22Oh!
00:47:23Oh!
00:47:24Oh!
00:47:25Oh!
00:47:26Oh!
00:47:27Oh!
00:47:28Oh!
00:47:29Oh!
00:47:30Oh!
00:47:31Oh!
00:47:32Oh!
00:47:33Oh!
00:47:34Oh!
00:47:35Oh!
00:47:36Oh!
00:47:37Oh!
00:47:38Oh!
00:47:39Oh!
00:47:40Oh!
00:47:41Oh!
00:47:42Oh!
00:47:43Oh!
00:47:44Oh!
00:47:45Oh!
00:47:46Richmond 20 North 3 East,
00:47:49Nope!
00:47:50In a love letter, in a men's pocket.
00:47:51Incomplete.
00:47:52If we had a couple more pages, a date would be helpful?
00:47:54Yes.
00:47:55The manuscript was written in ball point pen.
00:47:57Indeed.
00:47:58So last couple of years.
00:47:59Yes.
00:48:00Oh!
00:48:01Farewell.
00:48:03Ah!
00:48:04Ah!
00:48:05Et an alias for count Ludwig, if this affair was to be kept quiet.
00:48:10The count had a secret lover.
00:48:12Agnes.
00:48:13Perhaps.
00:48:15But what do we make of this?
00:48:16Promise me you will return one day for the greatest jewel.
00:48:21Is it possible?
00:48:22The country came here to Chimneys, not to discuss iron,
00:48:25but on a secret mission revealed within this letter
00:48:27to recover the stolen Mysore diamond located somewhere in this house.
00:48:31No wonder it's in code.
00:48:33That's why you wanted to buy Chimneys Richmond 20, North 3 East.
00:48:39The evidence was right before our eyes.
00:48:41Van Dyke.
00:48:42And the subject, the Duke of Richmond.
00:48:4818, 19, 20, 20, 20, 20.
00:48:57So?
00:48:59So?
00:49:01Now, don't torment me, Inspector.
00:49:04If you're holding something back...
00:49:05Want. Want.
00:49:07His last words.
00:49:10Unless, of course...
00:49:11Unless, of course, he was speaking not English, but his mother tongue.
00:49:17Not want, want, but Wundt, Wundt.
00:49:22Der Wundt in high German.
00:49:24Or Wundt in the Austrian dialect.
00:49:27Meaning?
00:49:27The war.
00:49:29The war.
00:49:30So, you think...
00:49:31You think the diamond is hidden somewhere, in the...
00:49:35Well...
00:49:41Bravo.
00:49:43But, you know, I think I know a gentleman who might shed a little more light on the matter.
00:49:48You were accompanying your godmother, Lady...
00:49:51Lady Somerset.
00:49:52That's right.
00:49:52We, uh...
00:49:53We all used to call her Robbie.
00:49:55It must have been quite bewitching.
00:50:01What?
00:50:02The diamond.
00:50:04Oh, I see.
00:50:06Well, it's all just coloured glass to me, Inspector.
00:50:09Uh, what have you got there?
00:50:14Notes from the investigation in 32.
00:50:18Interviews with among others yourself.
00:50:21I have no recollection of said diamond's disappearance.
00:50:25In fact, I was asleep.
00:50:26I've been charging about since dawn.
00:50:29Really, Inspector...
00:50:30I see Lady Somerset retired early as well.
00:50:32We had nothing to do with any theft, I assure you.
00:50:38The point is...
00:50:40See for yourself.
00:50:43I was a young rake.
00:50:47She was easily in bed.
00:50:51I see.
00:50:53Well, at least I have an inkling.
00:50:57And he was writing under a nom de plume.
00:51:00Count Ludwig had an alias.
00:51:01The captain.
00:51:03Odd.
00:51:04Ah, and a secret lover to boot.
00:51:06It's all in the letter.
00:51:07Who was she?
00:51:08The lover?
00:51:10Well, we wondered.
00:51:10Agnes.
00:51:11Poor Agnes.
00:51:12Not only that, the Count seems to have had a hand in the theft of the famous diamond.
00:51:16So he bumped her off, did he?
00:51:18Two thieves fighting over the spoils.
00:51:21Well, do start away, everyone.
00:51:23Yes.
00:51:24And she wasn't the only one, was she?
00:51:26The only victim, I mean.
00:51:29Uh, Bill, where is the, uh...
00:51:31Right here, my dearest.
00:51:39Chimneys.
00:51:41Not quite to scale, I'm afraid.
00:51:43Night of the murder.
00:51:44We all came downstairs.
00:51:46Yes?
00:51:47And we couldn't find the count.
00:51:48So, off we all went.
00:51:51Separately.
00:51:51Now, this is the point.
00:51:53This is where we all were.
00:51:54Uh, so, Bundle, you were upstairs in the guest wing.
00:51:58Uh, George was there also.
00:52:00Treadwell, kitchen.
00:52:02Uh, Miss Blenkenstock, I believe, was on the terrace.
00:52:04Bill, study.
00:52:05And I was upstairs, then down to the council chamber.
00:52:09We were all gone, what?
00:52:10Uh, five minutes, Bill?
00:52:12Absolutely.
00:52:13One or two at most.
00:52:14There.
00:52:15Gunshot.
00:52:16Back we all flew.
00:52:16Front door, wide open.
00:52:18Someone close that door.
00:52:20Agreed?
00:52:21Now, who's to say?
00:52:23One of us couldn't have run out of the house,
00:52:26through the garden, trap door,
00:52:28into the passage,
00:52:29shot the count,
00:52:30and then one minute to get back after the gunshot,
00:52:32in time,
00:52:33to make it look like...
00:52:34Oh!
00:52:35To make it look like
00:52:36we'd been in the house
00:52:37all along.
00:52:39Front door to the trap door is, um,
00:52:42how many strikes, Bill?
00:52:43We mentioned it.
00:52:44112?
00:52:45112.
00:52:46Five minutes there and back.
00:52:47It's possible.
00:52:48You said so yourself,
00:52:49didn't you, Bill?
00:52:50Sure.
00:52:51Why would anybody here want...
00:52:53Well, the count wanted chimneys, didn't he?
00:52:54I mean, we all heard him say that.
00:52:56And Bundle.
00:52:57I mean, you're so mortally opposed to losing the house.
00:52:59I had no idea.
00:53:00I was so pathetically grasping.
00:53:02Well, somebody killed him, didn't they?
00:53:03And that's that poor dead girl.
00:53:05My little fox, now what?
00:53:06What you need is, is, is...
00:53:08Enough.
00:53:10Quiet.
00:53:14Are you making notes, Blenkinsop?
00:53:17No.
00:53:18To think,
00:53:19what a pleasing oral history
00:53:21this will all make back
00:53:22in your municipal headquarters.
00:53:24Not at all.
00:53:24When everyone knows
00:53:25you've had your claws in chimneys for years,
00:53:27grubbing about with your letters
00:53:29and your polite notices,
00:53:31rifling through our drawers,
00:53:32tipping off our creditors.
00:53:34Mother was on her deathbed!
00:53:35Not that you lost a moment's sleep over that.
00:53:38God knows why.
00:53:39I'll tell you why.
00:53:40I caught her
00:53:41in the study,
00:53:43going through the old housekeeping records,
00:53:46weren't you?
00:53:471932?
00:53:47This is all about Agnes, isn't it?
00:53:50You knew?
00:53:51Agnes Parker was a child.
00:53:54A child!
00:53:55When she was handed over to people like you.
00:53:58Oh!
00:53:58Trusted to your care.
00:54:00And when one morning she wasn't there,
00:54:02it broke her family's heart
00:54:03and not one of you
00:54:05had the decency to ask why.
00:54:07I feel sick.
00:54:09Well, you might.
00:54:10No, I feel...
00:54:11sick.
00:54:12Oh!
00:54:14Danny?
00:54:15Oh, Clement!
00:54:16Oh, it's a sticker.
00:54:18Where's your tonic?
00:54:19Your tonic?
00:54:20Excuse me.
00:54:21There's hardly any left.
00:54:22Oh, just take a swivel.
00:54:24Excuse me.
00:54:25Damn soup!
00:54:26I'm so sorry.
00:54:33I'm so terribly sorry.
00:54:35What kind of soup is this, Miss Treadwell?
00:54:38Mushroom and sage.
00:54:40But you were quite well.
00:54:42Oh, I have no appetite by nightfall.
00:54:45One of the hidden costs of old age.
00:54:49Miss Treadwell, help me here.
00:54:51Are you quite sure in your mind
00:54:53that the count murdered poor Agnes?
00:54:57Look, if there's anything else,
00:54:58then please.
00:55:00It's been so many years.
00:55:18Can you just not wait until the morning?
00:55:20Yes.
00:55:23Fuse wire.
00:55:26Now, what's that doing there?
00:55:29Ah, indeed.
00:55:30Dear me, what a business.
00:55:34Ah!
00:55:36Fox glove, Maeve.
00:55:39Easily muddled with sage.
00:55:41Must have found their way into the soup.
00:55:44Fox glove, you see, contains...
00:55:46Digitalis, natural poison.
00:55:47I'm the indoors.
00:55:48Jane.
00:56:12Jane.
00:56:13Jane.
00:56:13he had to rebuke me
00:56:15castigate away
00:56:18oh look
00:56:21now your sister's account of last night
00:56:26please don't mind Ginny
00:56:27her nurse has shot
00:56:29I noticed that you were
00:56:32upstairs here in the guest wing
00:56:34during the search party
00:56:36I wondered what became of them
00:56:38of the legal paperwork
00:56:42drawn up last night for the sale of chimneys
00:56:44which you took from
00:56:46Lester Lomax's room
00:56:47oh that
00:56:51well
00:56:54I did it for father's sake
00:56:56in the main
00:56:57chimneys meant everything to him once
00:57:00he used to have such
00:57:02halcyon days after his
00:57:04retirement as a family
00:57:05of course with
00:57:08mama gone
00:57:09I understand he's upset
00:57:14memories and so forth
00:57:16but
00:57:16given time
00:57:18unlike the rest of my family
00:57:22I've
00:57:22I've not much use for passion
00:57:24I'm not sure it's such a great cast
00:57:27does make for a quieter life
00:57:31now
00:57:33these papers
00:57:34old maids last
00:57:41refuge isn't it
00:57:43an overweening love
00:57:45of domestic animals
00:57:47not that they ever reciprocated
00:57:52it was always
00:57:55Chadwell
00:57:56every dog and pup
00:57:58we ever had
00:57:58she used to give them
00:58:01the funniest names
00:58:02I'll see you
00:58:22There's really no need to stay, sir.
00:58:39No, I'm fine.
00:58:44She had a weak heart?
00:58:46Well, not that I knew.
00:58:48Oh, I wondered merely why the poison in the foxglove leaves
00:58:53should prove lethal for her, while the rest of us...
00:58:58Well, she was a terrible warrior.
00:59:09Shanghai, 20-something.
00:59:13She travelled about with us everywhere.
00:59:17And this one?
00:59:18Oh, do you know?
00:59:22I have no idea.
00:59:24Our friend, the captain.
00:59:26All of them.
00:59:27Looks like him.
00:59:28And not a musical goal.
00:59:30Not this one.
00:59:32Who was he writing to?
00:59:35Constance.
00:59:38She was with us for so many years,
00:59:41one forgot she even had a Christian name.
00:59:45Constance Treadwell.
00:59:47I was so sure she was holding something for us.
00:59:53Constance was Count Ludwig's lover.
00:59:55My dearest Constance,
01:00:01nine days until the party at the Palazzo del Carale.
01:00:04It feels like a prison sentence.
01:00:07It has rained every day since Caracas, the captain.
01:00:09I am mad, bedlamised with love, but the lamb is stamping her little hooves.
01:00:15I must sign off now.
01:00:16I must sign off now, be of courage, until Friday, when she is...
01:00:21A glorious reunion.
01:00:22A glorious reunion.
01:00:24I will take you in my arms.
01:00:27And we will make such light-fingered music.
01:00:31Music.
01:00:31Treadwell?
01:00:32I suppose she had much to lose.
01:00:36Her position, her livelihood.
01:00:38And when love is driven underground, it quickens its order.
01:00:42Oh, we had a case with our organist and a young page-turner at St Mary Mead.
01:00:49I see.
01:00:50Well, one mustn't talk scandal.
01:00:51Places and times.
01:00:52Venice, Caracas.
01:00:53He must have trailed her for two years at least.
01:00:56All the way to chimneys.
01:00:57Back to the party.
01:00:58A Treadwell?
01:00:59A Diamond Thief?
01:01:00Well, perhaps it was the captain who urged her to do it.
01:01:04What is the lamb?
01:01:05A Treadwell?
01:01:06A Treadwell?
01:01:07A Treadwell?
01:01:08A Treadwell?
01:01:09A Treadwell?
01:01:10A Treadwell?
01:01:11A Treadwell?
01:01:12A Treadwell?
01:01:13A Treadwell?
01:01:14A Treadwell?
01:01:15A Treadwell?
01:01:16A Treadwell?
01:01:17A Treadwell?
01:01:18What is the lamb in these letters?
01:01:21Oh, I think that...
01:01:22Oh, sorry.
01:01:23You first.
01:01:26Agnes.
01:01:27Old papist word for lamb.
01:01:29Agnes Day, lamb of God.
01:01:32Altar boy.
01:01:33We spent youth.
01:01:37So safe to conclude, Agnes Parker was the courier
01:01:39ferrying letters between Constance Treadwell and her captain.
01:01:42And then on the night of the party in 32,
01:01:45the theft of the Mysore Diamond.
01:01:47Agnes is murdered.
01:01:48Widely circumstantial, but the messenger.
01:01:51Murdered by Count Ludwig because she's planned out about the theft.
01:01:55She knew too much.
01:01:56The Count buries her in the crypt and, of course,
01:01:58everyone assumes that Agnes has stolen the diamond.
01:02:01And then, years later, the two lovers dead themselves.
01:02:06All murdered.
01:02:07Wretched soup.
01:02:08Which begs the question?
01:02:10How can the same dish kill one of us while provoking mere unpleasantness and the rest?
01:02:16But foxgloves tossed into the soup by the killer to convince us that Miss Treadwell's death was an accident.
01:02:22But in fact, she was poisoned by something else.
01:02:25But what?
01:02:26I have no idea.
01:02:27Pity.
01:02:29And who among us, I wonder, has been quickest to defend poor Agnes Parker?
01:02:34Yes.
01:02:35I was at school with her.
01:02:37They lived on our street.
01:02:41This whole business with Agnes, well, it's how they treat them, isn't it?
01:02:48You never believed Agnes stole the Mysore Diamond in 32, did you?
01:02:53Of course not.
01:02:54But I didn't knock anyone off.
01:02:56And I certainly don't know anything about any poison.
01:02:59Did she?
01:03:00Did she?
01:03:01And yet, here you are.
01:03:04On the terrace.
01:03:05Count Ludwig!
01:03:07Quite alone.
01:03:08No witnesses.
01:03:09What do we think?
01:03:10Could it be that Miss Blenkinsot climbed into the passage, fired the gunshot,
01:03:14and then back in the house?
01:03:18I don't think so.
01:03:21Not with my asthma.
01:03:23And yet you saw something, didn't you?
01:03:29Yes.
01:03:30I realise now, it must have been Cade I saw in the garden.
01:03:34It did seem odd behaviour for a security guard.
01:03:37I could have said something, cried for help.
01:03:40I could have stopped it.
01:03:42But I just stood there.
01:03:48You're absolutely right, Inspector.
01:04:01I fear Mr Cade is running out of rope.
01:04:08Mr Eversley!
01:04:09Here we are.
01:04:11Dear Cade, come to Chimneys.
01:04:14There's a trap door in the garden.
01:04:161145 sharp.
01:04:18Patent falsehood.
01:04:19Yes.
01:04:20Note the capital C.
01:04:23The letter has a little crack in it.
01:04:25Do you see?
01:04:26And again here, the same little crack.
01:04:30So?
01:04:31The note to Mr Cade appears to have been written on this very typewriter.
01:04:36Which you yourself were using on the very morning the letter was dispatched.
01:04:40Oh, I see.
01:04:43You wrote this, didn't you?
01:04:46Yes.
01:04:47Well, some of it anyway.
01:04:49But I don't remember anything about 1145.
01:04:51But your purpose in writing the letter?
01:04:55To help Mr Cade gain access to Chimneys?
01:04:59How long have you been acquainted with Mr Cade?
01:05:01A couple of weeks.
01:05:03I lost rather heavily at cards.
01:05:05My pet vice, losing heavily at cards.
01:05:08I get so crashingly bored in the office.
01:05:11There's a little room running Aldwych.
01:05:14Pontoon, poker for the die-hards.
01:05:16How much did you lose?
01:05:1997 quid.
01:05:23Anyway, him walked caved.
01:05:24Said he could cover the debt.
01:05:26Said we could help each other out.
01:05:29Go on.
01:05:33Virginia.
01:05:38I do wonder if you shouldn't dismiss George's office so lightly.
01:05:40Oh, Anthony.
01:05:41You're like a stuck record.
01:05:42You're too damn decent.
01:05:43That's your trouble.
01:05:44Virginia, please.
01:05:49I have a sort of confession.
01:05:52I'm not a good man.
01:05:54Not really.
01:05:56Oh?
01:05:57My partner.
01:05:58Jimmy McGraw.
01:06:00The fact of the matter is that...
01:06:02That they were going to shoot him if I didn't get them the diamond.
01:06:06What?
01:06:07Mr Cade.
01:06:11Listen to me.
01:06:12The number of times I've played it over and over again in my mind.
01:06:15I was so scared that I'd lose you, you see?
01:06:18And I wish it weren't like this.
01:06:19I wish we could go back to the beginning and start this dance again.
01:06:22Me on the bicycle and you.
01:06:24So beautiful that it hurts to look at you.
01:06:29Please.
01:06:30Whatever you're about to hear.
01:06:31Please, please believe me.
01:06:33That I do love you.
01:06:53So this gentleman from Pretoria who's holding your friend.
01:06:57He has a pet passion.
01:07:00Diamonds?
01:07:02Yes.
01:07:04The Mysore diamond?
01:07:09He gave me six weeks to bring him the real McCoy.
01:07:12Or Jimmy's life would be forfeit.
01:07:15So you stayed the street assault to endear yourself to Virginia?
01:07:20Yes.
01:07:22Posing as the good Samaritan to creep into the affections of an innocent young woman.
01:07:26George, please.
01:07:27My head is splitting.
01:07:29And the assailant?
01:07:36Sorry.
01:07:38But your real purpose was to gain access to chimneys where the diamond was first hidden.
01:07:43I am a decent man.
01:07:45A decent man who did a stupid thing. I had no choice.
01:07:47Ditto.
01:07:50Absolutely.
01:07:55Anthony Cade, I'm arresting you on suspicion of the murderer of Count Ludwig Von Stanner.
01:08:03Get out!
01:08:08I love you.
01:08:12And you.
01:08:13I love you.
01:08:15Ready?
01:08:21Nobody say anything.
01:08:23Please.
01:08:25Just...
01:08:29I don't know.
01:08:43I think, despite everything, that this must be my favorite room in the world.
01:08:54He's out of bounds as a boy.
01:08:57So naturally, it was where one longed to be.
01:09:00And this heraldic brute.
01:09:05Oh, the battles we fought through shot and shell.
01:09:11Armies, dragons, whole works.
01:09:15And then one summer, twelve years old, just tall enough to open his visor.
01:09:20My brother-in-arms was nothing at all. Just empty air.
01:09:22If this is you gently breaking the news that Anthony Cade is no knight in shining armor, consider me rudely awoken.
01:09:34No.
01:09:36No, no.
01:09:38No, I'm saying that love is its own adventure.
01:09:42Take no one for granted.
01:09:45Not even those closest to home.
01:09:48Jane, help me.
01:09:50No, no.
01:09:51I know what you're saying.
01:09:56Wish me luck.
01:10:05Excuse me, George.
01:10:07Sorry to barge in a matters of state.
01:10:10I accept.
01:10:13I beg your pardon?
01:10:15The offer.
01:10:16If it's still open.
01:10:18I know how sticky you are about Ultimator.
01:10:19But, er, Cade?
01:10:22Oh.
01:10:24That was a dream I had.
01:10:26I am awake now.
01:10:28Well.
01:10:30I'm, er, delighted to hear it.
01:10:35Um.
01:10:41Um.
01:10:49Well, Will.
01:10:51The first of many.
01:10:53Er, a drink.
01:10:55A champagne.
01:10:57A toast.
01:10:59Er, a drink.
01:11:01Er, champagne.
01:11:03A toast.
01:11:04A toast.
01:11:05A toast.
01:11:06A toast.
01:11:07A toast.
01:11:08A toast.
01:11:30What are you doing?
01:11:31Get off me!
01:11:38You stay there.
01:11:50A toast to us.
01:11:55Cheers.
01:11:56Cheers.
01:11:57Cheers.
01:11:58Cheers.
01:12:22What on earth was that?
01:12:24It came from inside the house.
01:12:26No, in the passageway.
01:12:33It's stuck.
01:12:40Virginia!
01:12:42Virginia!
01:12:43Mr. Cade, all this isn't going to look very bright in court.
01:12:47Virginia!
01:12:48Virginia!
01:12:49I want you to know!
01:12:51I want to give you something!
01:12:52The diamond!
01:12:54What did I give a damn?
01:12:57You are the only prize worth dying for!
01:13:00And it's got to be here somewhere!
01:13:03And when I find it, it's yours!
01:13:05Do you hear?
01:13:06Virginia!
01:13:07Anthony!
01:13:10Johnny!
01:13:16Me too!
01:13:18Get off me!
01:13:20Get off!
01:13:21He couldn't even get that right!
01:13:35What's he trying to prove?
01:13:37Well, he has proven one thing.
01:13:40Oh?
01:13:41His innocence.
01:13:43May I show you?
01:13:54I'm so sorry.
01:13:56Whenever you're ready.
01:13:57Everybody in position?
01:14:09Yes.
01:14:10Here.
01:14:11Ready?
01:14:12Yes!
01:14:15All right, Constable.
01:14:16When you're ready.
01:14:17We were all standing just where we were the moment of the fatal gunshot.
01:14:29Agreed?
01:14:30Indeed.
01:14:31Everything just as it was?
01:14:33No.
01:14:34The gunshot?
01:14:36It was too quiet.
01:14:37Yes.
01:14:38It was much quieter, Inspector.
01:14:40Like Mr. Cade's hammering a few moments ago.
01:14:43Whereas the sound we thought was the gunshot made my ears ring.
01:14:48Mr. Cade, you remember, out in the garden?
01:14:51What did he see on that warm night?
01:14:55Someone had lit a fire.
01:14:57And then that off-cut of flecks that had no business being in the compost.
01:15:02A piece of fuse, Inspector.
01:15:05The Count's killer lit something in the chimney that evening.
01:15:09On a slow fuse, timed to explode fifteen minutes later.
01:15:14To deceive us all that what we heard was a gunshot.
01:15:17When what we in fact heard was a firework.
01:15:22Now, what was it you said, Inspector?
01:15:24Like it or not, Anthony Cade was found in that tunnel with the smoking gun.
01:15:30What if the gun was not smoking?
01:15:33What if the Count was killed earlier than supposed?
01:15:37After the men retired from their business at quarter to eleven.
01:15:41But before the alarm bell almost an hour later.
01:15:45Suddenly, the killer could be any one of us.
01:15:48Are you sure?
01:15:50Well, you recall the Count's interest over dinner in the Duke of Richmond.
01:15:55No great feat to quietly invite the Count back after the rest of us were in bed.
01:16:00Show him the hidden bolt.
01:16:03Tempt him inside.
01:16:05Then shoot him and toss the gun to be found later as if abandoned by the killer.
01:16:11Sadly for the Count, he didn't die straight away.
01:16:15The murderer's only mistake if mistake it was.
01:16:18Good God.
01:16:20The poor man was still living when Mr. Cade found him sometime later.
01:16:23Go on, Jane.
01:16:27Those letters.
01:16:29I've been woefully, unforgivably naive.
01:16:33Constance and the captain are the romance of it.
01:16:37One gets swept along and yet...
01:16:40Let me pose a question.
01:16:42A pair of lovers, determined to hide their secret, might they not write under an alias?
01:16:48Indeed.
01:16:49Count Ludwig called himself the captain.
01:16:51Yes, sir, he did.
01:16:52But why just the Count and not Constance?
01:16:55Did she not fear exposure as much as him?
01:16:58Unless...
01:17:00Constance was also an alias.
01:17:04So, the Constance of the letters was not Treadwell?
01:17:10Forgive me, bundle that.
01:17:11I took this from your scrapbook.
01:17:17It's a dog, so what?
01:17:20Well, it's Mama's first mutt.
01:17:23Captain, it was called Captain.
01:17:26And it was so besotted with Treadwell, Mama used to joke they were like perfect lovers.
01:17:33Our mother must have thought of these alias as Constance and her captain.
01:17:37Our mother took the alias Constance.
01:17:41Your mother was the Count's secret lover.
01:17:51I don't understand. Are you saying that the Count and Madeline stole the diamond?
01:17:57That wretched diamond.
01:17:59We're all so bewitched by the Mysore diamond.
01:18:01We forge our theories and forget the facts.
01:18:05It is so important to see things clearly.
01:18:08As if through a pane of glass and not a prism.
01:18:11Excuse me.
01:18:14Sorry.
01:18:22Good God.
01:18:31Well, I'm afraid there's no way the Count murdered Agnes and made off with the diamond.
01:18:40Because the diamond has been with Agnes all the time.
01:18:44In the tomb.
01:18:46Just where the killer left it.
01:18:50When we found poor Agnes's bones, do you remember?
01:18:53Your histrionics in the crypt.
01:18:58You took it then, didn't you?
01:19:00Then dropped it in the fountain.
01:19:03Why else would you be drying your hands?
01:19:05Daddy?
01:19:19Why?
01:19:22The night of the party.
01:19:2432.
01:19:26I'd lost a cufflink, if you can believe me.
01:19:30I went upstairs and then...
01:19:35No, no, no.
01:19:40No, no, no, no.
01:19:41You mustn't go in there, please.
01:19:44No, please.
01:19:45You're not listening to what I'm saying.
01:19:47I'm not meant to kill her,
01:19:50but she tried to prevent me from seeing my wife
01:19:54and the fiddle player.
01:19:56And then my mind cleared.
01:19:59I took the diamond, left it with Agnes.
01:20:06Naturally it was assumed that she'd run off with it.
01:20:12Then all that remained was to tell my wife a white lie.
01:20:18You told her Agnes had been seen.
01:20:21Cavorting with the Viennese fiddler,
01:20:24who of course went on writing to her for quite some time,
01:20:28but I took care of those letters.
01:20:30They would only have caused her pain.
01:20:34You know, it's funny looking back.
01:20:38She was so easily deceived.
01:20:42These romances, so fragile.
01:20:47There's no real devotion at all.
01:20:50Not such as we all had together.
01:20:57There's a family here at Chimneys.
01:21:00She was unhappy.
01:21:03Trapped. No wonder she got ill.
01:21:05But after she died, you found the earlier letters, didn't you, from the Captain?
01:21:11She kept them safe for these years.
01:21:13Yes, indeed, every word.
01:21:18So that when Mr. Lomack showed you the letter from Count Ludwig, suggesting a visit to Chimneys,
01:21:24you knew the handwriting at once.
01:21:26A precise match of the old love letters.
01:21:29And you knew the Captain was on his way.
01:21:34But why the firework?
01:21:37Why 11.45?
01:21:40Mr. Eversley, is it possible that the letter you wrote to Mr. Cain was in fact left unsealed?
01:21:49Your guest has arrived, sir.
01:21:51Still on the desk.
01:21:53Letters for posting on his lordship's desk.
01:21:55All that remained was to add the time.
01:22:07You wrote and posted the letter to Cain yourself.
01:22:11And staged the gunshot for 11.45 to incriminate Cain.
01:22:15What better way to be rid of your enemies?
01:22:18Frame one for the killing of the other.
01:22:20Cain is no good.
01:22:22You said as much yourself.
01:22:24And as for this plan to ship you off to Africa,
01:22:27no, don't look at me like that.
01:22:29You cannot build a marriage on lies.
01:22:33Aren't you supposed to build it on love?
01:22:36And Treadwell?
01:22:37Well, as we thought.
01:22:40Poisoned not by the foxglove leaves,
01:22:43but by your tonic.
01:22:46Active ingredient digitalis.
01:22:50Huge overdose.
01:22:51No, I do regret that.
01:22:54She was a faithful servant.
01:22:56More faithful than you knew.
01:22:59You were so fearful that she would tell the inspector about the affair.
01:23:03On the contrary, she was taking measures to protect her mistress's secret.
01:23:08As soon as Agnes's bones were recovered,
01:23:11she took the letters from amongst your possessions
01:23:14to her own room.
01:23:16If I'd let her live,
01:23:20no one would have found out.
01:23:22Is that what you mean?
01:23:27Well, that's it then.
01:23:30Not quite.
01:23:32Dad?
01:23:33Return one day for the greatest jewel.
01:23:39No, stop.
01:23:41What if this jewel was a diamond of a different kind?
01:23:45Stop!
01:23:46Whatever it is, we have a right to know.
01:23:54A rose.
01:23:55Not just any rose.
01:23:58A written rose.
01:24:00Richmond 20, north 3, east.
01:24:05So the Richmond referred to is not the portrait.
01:24:08Precisely.
01:24:09The rose of Richmond.
01:24:11Well, these directions, where do they lead?
01:24:17I don't understand.
01:24:29Jane?
01:24:30The Count's last words, do you remember?
01:24:33The war.
01:24:34I don't understand.
01:24:40Jane, the Count's last words, do you remember?
01:24:44The wand, the wall.
01:24:46We thought he meant the wall in the passageway,
01:24:49but this Virginia creeper, when was it planted?
01:24:54Madeleine planted it 23 years ago
01:24:57to celebrate your birth.
01:25:01Virginia creeper.
01:25:04He knew, I'm sure he did, as he lay dying.
01:25:09The rose, the dance.
01:25:12It all made sense.
01:25:15I think your mother wrote to the Count shortly before she passed away.
01:25:22The coded letter.
01:25:25She didn't want the truth to die with her, not quite.
01:25:31So you mean?
01:25:32You were the greatest jewel.
01:25:34He'd come to take you away.
01:25:37My own little girl.
01:25:46My darling girl.
01:25:51He was my father.
01:25:53He played for me.
01:25:58My darling girl.
01:25:59No.
01:25:59No.
01:25:59No.
01:26:01No.
01:26:02No.
01:26:03No.
01:26:03No.
01:26:03No.
01:26:05No.
01:26:05No.
01:26:06It must be...
01:26:06No.
01:26:07No.
01:26:07No.
01:26:08No.
01:26:09No.
01:26:09No.
01:26:10No.
01:26:10No.
01:26:11No.
01:26:12No.
01:26:12No.
01:26:15you feel if you were to let go now i won't i'd just float off no i won't
01:26:34come on you know he's putting off the inevitable are you going to tell her or shall i
01:26:44oh i i think it's best coming from me
01:26:48link in soap
01:26:52oh dear oh dear underwear like that at all but you're not selling chimneys well one look couldn't bear to
01:27:11stay on i don't want to live here so what do you think pass the whole headache onto blankensop and
01:27:16her tea and scones why not will she be all right bundled i mean oh she'll foist herself onto
01:27:23some undeserving cause her father i suppose and you
01:27:30here they come
01:27:33happy marriage can't be that difficult can it go with your heart like mother
01:27:41i keep thinking if she loved her count so much
01:27:43why was she so quick to believe he'd run off i suppose love is an act of courage
01:27:56yes
01:27:56miss marple goodbye inspector thank you i see now i've grown too fond of my own reputation
01:28:12i was so bewitched by the blasted diamond and now look at me the latest of your casualties
01:28:18what do you think interpol want me to take it to south africa and trap this villainous fellow from
01:28:27pretoria you know inspector i don't care for it at all goodbye
01:28:42so
01:28:51so
01:28:54so
01:28:56so
01:29:02so
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