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When a handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman, Miss Marple seeks a murderer with a penchant for nursery rhymes. Starring: Joan Hickson, Fabia Drake, Clive Merrison, Peter Davison.
When a handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman, Miss Marple seeks a murderer with a penchant for nursery rhymes. Starring: Joan Hickson, Fabia Drake, Clive Merrison, Peter Davison.
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00:00The End
00:30The End
01:00Oh, Mr. Dove.
01:09Oh, my God.
01:30Oh, my God.
01:37Oh, my God.
01:39Oh, my God.
01:43Oh, my God.
01:51Oh, my God.
01:53Oh, my God.
02:01Oh, my God.
02:03Oh, my God.
02:11Oh, my God.
02:13Oh, my God.
02:31Ah, Mrs. Dove.
02:33Good, thank you.
02:47You all right?
02:48Yes.
02:50It was you that found her, wasn't it?
02:53Yes.
02:58Do sit down.
03:01I want you to tell me what happened.
03:12Help you go.
03:15Somebody's trying to do the job, you know.
03:17Come on.
03:18Help you go.
03:19Never mind, Joel.
03:20Officer.
03:21Officer.
03:22Officer.
03:23Don't talk less.
03:25And lady, if you do not respect the integrity of this property,
03:28then we shall make arrests.
03:29There'll be no other warning.
03:31Yes.
03:32I can only repeat.
03:34There is no evidence as yet to confirm that Mrs. Fortescue's death
03:37is connected with that of her husband yesterday.
03:40We'll keep you in touch with all developments.
03:42Now, gentlemen, please.
03:49It's a relative of a family, is it, madam?
03:51Well, not exactly.
03:52Well, not exactly.
03:53No, it's the maid Gladys I'm connected with.
03:54I see.
03:55Well, only relatives are allowed, madam.
03:56And those are being vetted.
03:57Yeah, but it's very important.
03:58Her name is Gladys.
03:59I, er...
04:00Well, I understand from the papers that Inspector Neil is in charge of the case.
04:04Now, could you get a message to him?
04:06Yes, madam.
04:07Well, will you tell...
04:08Now, this is very important.
04:09No, I tell you what.
04:10No.
04:11I'll...
04:12I'll...
04:13I'll...
04:14I'll write...
04:15I'll, er...
04:16I'll write him a note.
04:17Yes.
04:18Yes, madam.
04:22Yes!
04:25Yes.
04:26Sorry, sir.
04:27Someone just arrived at the gate.
04:29A Miss Marple.
04:30Going on about the maid Gladys, sir.
04:32So?
04:35Says she wants to be let in, sir.
04:37For God's sake.
04:38Fair enough.
04:39Good.
04:40Thought I was to give you this, sir.
04:42The old lady was most insistent.
04:49So, you ordered tea for 4.30, and then you went upstairs.
04:55What time did you come downstairs again?
04:57Tea time.
05:00When I got onto the landing, I don't know why something in the garden caught my attention.
05:10Baby.
05:12You a tree lodge?
05:13Yes.
05:18Yes, it is.
05:19You Tree Lodge?
05:26Yes. Yes, it is.
05:30Oh, no.
05:32Yes.
05:34You don't believe it's been the other way. Believe me.
05:37You Tree Lodge.
05:38Oh.
05:46Who was it, Gladys?
05:49Grunk member, Miss Duff.
05:50Is tea ready?
05:52Mr Lance will be here any minute.
05:54Yes, Miss Duff.
06:05As I was spared any further matrimonial warfare
06:07between Percival and poor Jennifer,
06:09I went back to sort out the guest room
06:11before coming down again to clear the table for the tea tray.
06:14Gladys still hadn't arrived.
06:17Adele was getting impatient.
06:18Where is everyone this afternoon?
06:21Where's Jennifer?
06:22I think she's...
06:24Uh, she and Mr Percival had a disagreement.
06:27What a surprise.
06:30Rex has left her 40 grand, did you know?
06:33I expect you do.
06:35Anyway, Percy is registering his displeasure.
06:39A wife with independent means.
06:41Anyway, go and fetch her.
06:45There's a duck, Miss Duff, will you?
06:48I've got to teach her to stand up to that husband of hers.
06:51Mind you,
06:52how do you stand up to a glass of cold water?
06:55Oh, Mrs Fultescue is expecting you, Mrs Percival.
07:02Thank you, Miss Duff.
07:03Oh, Gladys.
07:19Why Gladys had suddenly abandoned the tea tray, I can't imagine.
07:24I've no doubt I'll be treated to a string of lame excuses later on.
07:28Hello.
07:29Don't tell me.
07:31You must be the excellent Miss Duff.
07:34Yes, I am the excellent Miss Duff.
07:37You must be Mr Fultescue.
07:38Do you have any more luggage?
07:40Just this.
07:41Here.
07:42Oh, really?
07:43There's no need.
07:44This was heading for the drawing room, I believe.
07:45Mrs Fultescue and Mrs Fortescue, what a pleasure.
07:55I come bearing gifts.
07:57The Throirgast sandwiches, I must say, are spectacularly absent,
08:00but we have bread, we have honey, we have fondants and fancies.
08:03We'll manage, I dare say.
08:04Oh, Gladys, it is good to see you.
08:08And you must be my beautiful stepmother, Adele.
08:15And after tea,
08:19Fortescue left the room first?
08:21Yes, Lance left first.
08:24I gather he went up to see Miss Henderson, his aunt.
08:28I heard Mrs Percival leave almost immediately.
08:32So Mrs Fortescue was left alone?
08:36Presumably.
08:37And the man in the garden?
08:41Well, I assumed that must have been Lance Fortescue.
08:43No, no, it couldn't have been.
08:44His train was left.
08:46Didn't arrive till 4.34.
08:47It's five minutes by taxi, at least, from the station.
08:52Tell me, the person you heard moving about upstairs?
08:57I'm almost certain it was Adele's room.
09:00Quite honestly, it sounded like a man.
09:03Oh, dear, oh, dear.
09:05Well, my only poor consolation, and it is a very poor one,
09:09I'm almost certainly too late anyway.
09:12So you'll be leaving now, ma'am, will you?
09:13Oh, no, no, no, no, no, certainly not.
09:28Come in.
09:32Hello, Percival.
09:34Still swatting.
09:35I wish I had something to take my mind off this horrible business.
09:45I think they're ever going to serve supper.
09:54Oh, I expect so, yes.
09:58By the way, Pat has insisted on coming down tonight.
10:01Is that all right?
10:03Well, I hope you don't mind.
10:05It's your house now, isn't it?
10:07Of course, your wife's welcome.
10:11Thanks.
10:12There.
10:14We are being civil to each other, at least.
10:19And...
10:19Yes, we are.
10:21Well, that old pussy outside the gate, won't.
10:36Oh, goodness.
10:37Sing a song of sixpence.
10:49What's that supposed to mean?
10:53I think the old girl's got an attic to rent, frankly.
10:56Ah.
11:11Mrs. Adele Fortescue.
11:14Love letters.
11:22Scented or steamy?
11:23Always in my thoughts, Vivian.
11:32Dubois.
11:33So that's what he was after.
11:35Dubois.
11:36A man in the garden.
11:39What a gold rush.
11:53Where's the missus at?
12:07Where's the missus at?
12:09She won't be a minute.
12:11She's just remembered the washing.
12:37No!
12:39No!
12:41No!
12:43No!
12:45No!
12:47No!
12:49Ah!
12:51Ah!
12:53Ah!
12:59Oh!
13:01Oh! Oh!
13:02Soons!
13:03He's dead!
13:05Strangle out the back!
13:06What are you talking about, Mrs Crump? Gladys! Oh, Gladys!
13:10Oh, no, she's got... clothes!
13:14Mrs Crump, what are you saying?
13:17They put a clothes bag on her!
13:21No!
13:35Hey.
13:37Have you gotten a note from the old lady?
13:40A maid was in the garden, hanging out the clothes. Along came a blackbird and pecked off her nose.
14:10The murderer, rising in the light, killeth the poor and needy.
14:17And in the night is as a thief.
14:24Where a testament is...
14:28There must also, of necessity, be the death of the testator.
14:34Yes.
14:37Poor Gladys.
14:40I trained her, you know.
14:43Do you want us to put you into a hotel, madam?
14:45Nonsense.
14:46She'll be staying here.
14:50That's most kind of you.
14:56There you are, Miss Martha.
14:57Oh, thank you very much.
15:05Gladys came to me from the orphanage.
15:07She was very keen on men, poor girl.
15:09But I'm afraid men didn't take much notice of her.
15:12And the other girls rather made use of her.
15:17She enjoyed going to the cinema and she was always dreaming.
15:22Things that couldn't possibly happen to her.
15:24The poor girl had obviously seen something, or noticed something.
15:33I feel to blame.
15:34It makes me very, very angry, you know.
15:38Especially that business of the clothes peg.
15:40It's a cruel and contemptuous gesture.
15:43You understood the significance of the nursery rhyme, Inspector, did you?
15:48In its broad outline, eventually.
15:50Rex, meaning king, in his counting house.
15:56And by extension, of course, his wife becomes the queen.
16:00The queen was in the parlour.
16:03Was she eating bread and honey?
16:08I don't know.
16:09The poor maid was in the garden, hanging out the clothes.
16:14You see, the first verse is the difficulty.
16:18We have the pocket full of rye, but I don't understand the blackbirds.
16:22I can see no point in them.
16:24However, they must mean something, don't you think?
16:27The birds began to sing.
16:32Honey, Miss Markle.
16:34At tea time?
16:36Come to think of it, no.
16:39There's usually some savoury sandwiches.
16:42Occasionally bread and jam.
16:44Then some cake.
16:46And biscuits only when Mrs Crump has been baking.
16:48No.
16:50I think it's the only time we'd had honey.
16:53That's very interesting.
16:54Thank you, Miss Dove.
17:04I'll clear Adele's there, sir.
17:06Who benefits?
17:08That is a question.
17:11From killing Gladys, nobody as far as I can see.
17:15Rex?
17:17Well, Adele was going to get £100,000 from his will, but...
17:22Who else?
17:25Percival gets most of the estate.
17:28Things were going wrong with the business.
17:30And he looks as if the old man was responsible.
17:33Yep.
17:35Percival benefits.
17:38And his missus.
17:39Yeah.
17:40Not too keen on her husband.
17:42Steals to get £40,000 in her own right.
17:44That would buy her freedom from her purse.
17:47She benefits.
17:49Lance Fortescue, he gets 20% of the residue.
17:52Which may not be all that much when all's said and done.
17:57Besides, he was out of the country when the first murder took place.
18:01Dubois?
18:03Certainly.
18:05If he knew Adele was going to get £100,000, he's not exactly discreet.
18:09He must have known.
18:11He benefits from killing Rex.
18:15But where's the benefit in killing the lovely Adele?
18:20Did she leave a will?
18:22Did you find anything in that lot?
18:24No, sir.
18:25It's at Ansel and Worrell's, just off the High Street.
18:31Adele didn't trust the family solicitor.
18:33I don't blame her.
18:34Bloody Billingsby is in Percy's pocket.
18:37Do you happen to know what was in Mrs Fortescue's will, madam?
18:43Well, if I were you, I'd try the Dormey House Hotel.
18:48Or the golf club.
18:52Listen, does anybody fancy a nightcap?
18:55Oh, or I'd be boring, though.
19:25I suppose it had been going on for, oh, over a year, anyway.
19:37Then...
19:38Last summer someone scooped out the inside of one of Mrs Crump's radiused pies and stuffed it with dead birds.
19:46And they were black birds, too, were they?
19:49I suppose so.
19:51It was quite revolting.
19:52Nobody was particularly concerned to establish the species.
19:56Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?
20:00Yes.
20:01Oh!
20:02Good morning, Mr Fortescue.
20:03Oh!
20:04Good morning, Mr Fortescue.
20:05Mr Fortescue.
20:07I'll go you.
20:08Then I'll try.
20:10Door me house, hotel.
20:12I'll all in one.
20:14You left the hotel about 3.30, and you returned about five.
20:19about five. Yes. And your route took you nowhere near Yew Tree Lodge. As I told
20:28you, I went across the heath, round by the sandpits and back through Curzon
20:34Woods. As you told us. And you take this walk for your pleasure. Yes. I wanted to
20:42think about Mrs. Fortescue. What was your relationship with Mrs. Fortescue?
20:49We were friends. Friends. She led me to believe that she was quite fond of me. I liked her but she
21:05was married. You didn't see much future for the affair. No, quite frankly, I didn't. So it was an
21:13affair we're talking about. Tell me, Mr. Dubois, what did you mean when you wrote? When
21:28things are different, all this will seem very small and far away. Where the hell did
21:34you get that? What things would be different? You wrote this two weeks ago. Presumably you
21:40can remember. Quite frankly, it suggests to me a future without Mr. Fortescue. And that
21:51means one of two things. Either Mrs. Fortescue will leave her husband or her husband will
21:57somehow depart from the scene. Wouldn't you agree? You can't build up a case against me,
22:02Inspector. She made a will, you know. Left you all her money. Everything she possessed. I don't want the
22:13money. I didn't want a penny of it. Of course, isn't very much. Jewelry, few furs. I imagine very little cash at all.
22:22But I thought her husband... Did you, Mr. Dubois? That's very interesting. I wondered if you knew the terms of Rex Fortescue's will.
22:34Oh. Oh, Inspector. Uh, yes, Miss Ma'am. Blackbirds? Yes, Ma'am. You are interested in blackbirds, I take it?
22:51Well, I'm more interested in Mr. Dubois at present. Oh, dear me, no. No. Do forgive me, Inspector, but you must get to the bottom of this blackbird business. Rex Fortescue was the victim of the
23:04of a series of disgusting practical jokes. Someone put dead blackbirds, some of them quite decayed, well, on his desk or on his pillow where they could. So, you see, the blackbirds must mean something.
23:19Do you know they even put some in a pie? I'll make some inquiries, Ma'am. Oh, yes. That is a relief. Thank you, Inspector.
23:33Oh, Inspector. I wonder if you would allow me to have a brief look at Gladys' room.
23:41How could I say no? Oh, thank you, yes. And I know that you'll find the blackbirds very well worth your while. Yes.
23:53I'm beginning to wonder who's in charge of this case. I'll take the family, you take the staff.
24:00I'm beginning to wonder who's in charge of this case. Thanks, Mr. Dubois for the night.
24:08I'll take care of it. Thank you, Inspector.
24:52I wonder, can you tell me anything about blackbirds, Mrs Fortescue?
25:12Blackbirds? Blackbirds, Inspector, what kind of blackbirds?
25:18Well, just blackbirds, Mrs Fortescue, dead, alive or indifferent.
25:22I've been told they've figured in the life of this household.
25:27In a pie, for example.
25:30I don't know anything about that.
25:33A very nasty, practical joke, I suppose.
25:38It annoyed Rex, really did.
25:42He had Heinrich, that's the gardener, patrol the grounds with a shotgun.
25:47He was afraid of something, not just annoyed.
25:50Oh, quite.
25:52I just think it was a silly joke.
25:59Can you tell me why your late father-in-law left you so much money in your own right?
26:05I asked him for it.
26:07Asked him for it?
26:08Yes.
26:09Just like that?
26:09Yes.
26:11And he gave it to you?
26:12Yes.
26:14I said, Rex, when you die, will you leave me a little money of my own?
26:20Because Percival is so mean.
26:23And Rex said, yes.
26:25So you're going to get your money?
26:27Yes.
26:28Isn't it nice?
26:31Tell me.
26:35Your late father-in-law's death.
26:39What were your feelings about that?
26:42I think I was quite pleased, really.
26:46We were...
26:48I was going to get my money, after all.
26:51After all?
26:53Sorry?
26:55I was going to get my money.
26:57I see.
27:00So you weren't sorry?
27:02Oh, no.
27:03He was a horrid man, you know.
27:13No wonder it's called the Gutter Press.
27:16I can't believe it's us they're writing about.
27:19I'm sorry, my darling.
27:21I'm bad luck.
27:23I warned you, you know.
27:25Don't say that.
27:26You're not to say that.
27:27It's bloody nonsense.
27:34You're the best luck I ever had.
27:36What is it, darling?
27:45Nothing.
27:53What is it, Lance?
27:55Look here, old thing.
28:01I don't think I can face this idea of being a death squalor, you know.
28:05I really don't.
28:07I mean, it's clear that Percival doesn't want me around the place.
28:10I see.
28:12Then what are you going to do?
28:15I want to go back to Africa, Pat.
28:17I hate this place.
28:19Let's go back.
28:20But how would we manage?
28:25Come in.
28:28Ah, good.
28:30Mr. Fortescue, I wonder if you could help me.
28:36Will you excuse me, Inspector?
28:40Why don't you join us later, Lance?
28:42What?
28:43Miss Marple and me for coffee.
28:47Oh, yes.
28:48Good.
28:49Why not?
28:55Yes, Inspector.
28:57What is it?
28:58Well, sir, I've been asking everybody this.
29:00I...
29:01I might as well ask you,
29:04even though you've been abroad.
29:05I wonder, could you...
29:09could you tell me anything about blackbirds?
29:15Blackbirds?
29:17Oh, you must mean the old blackbird mine.
29:20The one that Father caught a cold over.
29:23He got taken for a ride by some old digger
29:26up on the high veldt or somewhere.
29:28There was no gold in the thing,
29:30and Father damnly died of malaria for his pains.
29:32There was some scandal about his partner
29:35who actually did die of malaria.
29:37His widow tried to sue him, I think.
29:40Well, Aunt Effie, you know the details.
29:45I don't believe this was ever a happy house,
29:47in spite of all the money that's been spent.
29:51But only money, I suspect.
29:54No real affection.
29:56No.
29:58Have you noticed how nothing is really what it seems?
30:02The furniture is supposed to be Louis Sayers,
30:05but it's been made in Birmingham.
30:07The paintings are supposed to be Venetian,
30:09but they were probably knocked up in Chelsea last week.
30:12Nothing is solid or real.
30:14As if the whole house and everything in it
30:16were some kind of gigantic fake.
30:19What did you say, my dear?
30:23About it being a fake?
30:25The whole house
30:26and everything that goes on in it.
30:30I said everything in it,
30:32not that goes on in it.
30:35Oh, yes, of course.
30:37Stupid, aren't they?
30:38I wondered, Mum,
30:46if you could tell me anything about the Blackbird Mine.
30:50Oh.
30:52You got on to that, have you?
30:54That was the Marple Woman, wasn't it?
30:57I'll tell you.
31:00My late brother-in-law went into it
31:03with a man called Mackenzie.
31:05They went out to Africa together
31:07and Mackenzie died there.
31:10Rex came home.
31:12He subsequently admitted
31:14that the thing was worthless.
31:17Hurt his pride, I think.
31:18But then pride and grace
31:21ne'er dwelt in one place.
31:25Where was the mine?
31:27Oh, I don't know.
31:28Africa somewhere.
31:30Percival will know.
31:32The, uh, Mackenzie's
31:34didn't let it rest, I gather.
31:39Oh, you want the
31:41hearsay as well, do you?
31:45I'd be most grateful, Mum.
31:46Mrs. Mackenzie was
31:50an unbalanced sort of woman.
31:54We ended up in an asylum, I believe.
31:56She came here, you know,
31:58dragging along a couple of young children
32:00who looked scared to death.
32:03Accused Rex
32:04of murdering her husband.
32:07Said she'd bring up
32:08her children to take their revenge.
32:14Old sins
32:15cast long shadows.
32:23The children.
32:25How about this?
32:27As a motive, at least.
32:30Rex Fortescue
32:31swindles some bloke called Mackenzie
32:34out of his share of a gold mine.
32:36Mackenzie dies.
32:37One way or another,
32:40the widow reckons
32:42that Fortescue killed him.
32:43She becomes obsessed by revenge.
32:45She brings up the children
32:46to avenge the father.
32:48What happened to the mother?
32:50She ended up in a loony bin.
32:52She may still be there.
32:55You've got to find her.
32:57If she's alive,
32:58I want to know where she is.
33:00That's an absolute priority.
33:02And the Mackenzie children,
33:04do you reckon one of them could be here?
33:06I mean, here in the house?
33:07Yeah.
33:08Or nearby.
33:12Dubois,
33:13Mary Dove,
33:15Jennifer Fortescue,
33:16they're all about the right age.
33:18Reckon you know who it is?
33:20Yes.
33:22I do.
33:24Mackenzie's Blackbird Mine?
33:28What or where is that?
33:31I think you know very well,
33:33Miss Dove.
33:35I assure you,
33:36I'm quite in the dark.
33:38I think you know,
33:39Inspector,
33:39that it's up to you
33:40to prove I am this
33:41Miss Mackenzie,
33:43whoever she is.
33:44It will at least provide me
33:45with the continued pleasure
33:47of your company
33:47while you probe
33:48the mystery of my identity.
33:50Please don't mock me,
33:51Miss Dove.
33:52I wasn't intending to.
33:54As a matter of fact,
33:55I meant it.
33:56Despite the fact
33:57that you're keen
33:57to implicate me,
33:59however obscurely,
34:00in murder.
34:02If you continue
34:04to look into my affairs
34:05and are extremely clever,
34:07you will find certain
34:08minor discrepancies
34:10in the household accounting.
34:12I have no intention
34:13of begging like Jennifer
34:14or selling myself
34:16like poor Adele.
34:17However,
34:18if I find that you are
34:18near the heart of my secret,
34:19I shall be able
34:21to replace the money
34:22and then it will be
34:23impossible to prosecute.
34:26Do you find that immoral
34:27in such a place as this?
34:35I wish you hadn't done it.
34:37Marmalade.
34:51Marmalade.
34:51I suppose we get it analysed.
34:58It's bitter enough
34:59to disguise the poison,
35:00though, isn't it, sir?
35:01And Rex Fortescue
35:02was the only one
35:02who ever touched the stuff.
35:04Yeah, I know that,
35:05but anyone who's able
35:08to organise that part of it
35:09isn't going to get rid
35:10of the evidence
35:11by chucking it out
35:12out of the pantry window
35:13into the bushes.
35:14Yes, sir.
35:15But it was a lot of luck
35:16we were on to the taxing
35:17so quickly.
35:18They may have thought
35:18they had a day or two
35:19in hand.
35:20Yeah.
35:22And if we do find
35:23taxing in it,
35:24that opens it up a bit,
35:26doesn't it?
35:27How do you mean?
35:28Well, anyone could have done it
35:29who was in the house
35:30after the previous day's
35:31breakfast was put away.
35:32Yeah, but...
35:36Who does that include
35:37who wasn't involved before?
35:40Percival Fortescue.
35:42All right.
35:43All right, Inspector.
35:44If you're saying
35:45that my father's death
35:46was in my immediate
35:47financial interest,
35:48well, then, yes,
35:48of course, you're right.
35:49But that does not give me
35:50a motive for killing Adele.
35:52I happen to know
35:52she willed her
35:53£100,000 out of the family.
35:56What would be the point?
35:58Oh, come on, sir.
35:59If you know that,
36:01then you must have known
36:02that she had to outlive
36:03her husband by at least
36:04a month in order
36:04to inherit the stuff.
36:06If she didn't,
36:06the money reverted
36:07to the estate.
36:08In other words,
36:09you, sir.
36:10There was point, all right.
36:13Point in killing them both.
36:18With respect.
36:20So, er,
36:21so you thought
36:22that daddies had gone out
36:23to meet her young man?
36:26Well, I don't know.
36:27She seemed...
36:28She seemed, well,
36:29kind of waiting for something.
36:32Looking out the window,
36:33looking in the mirror.
36:34You know what I mean?
36:35Yes.
36:35Yes, I do, yes.
36:37Got it.
36:39Before she took the tea through,
36:41she answered the telephone.
36:42Gladys did.
36:43She didn't as a rule,
36:44but this time,
36:45she fair plummeted
36:47through that door after it.
36:48And did she say
36:49who it was?
36:51No, she said
36:52wrong number.
36:54Indeed, yes.
36:56Most interesting,
36:57Mrs. Crumb.
36:59Now,
37:00I wonder,
37:01would you think me
37:01very greedy
37:02if I helped myself
37:03to another biscuit?
37:05So what percentage
37:05of the company capital
37:07would you estimate
37:07all the African holdings
37:09to take?
37:09Oh, come off it, man.
37:10God knows.
37:12I thought I was digging
37:13you out of a hole.
37:15Now, make no mistake,
37:16I want to get out,
37:17but I've got to have
37:18some sort of prospects.
37:20I've got Pat to consider.
37:23Can't be as much
37:24as 20%.
37:25All right.
37:28All right, yes.
37:28Perhaps that was a bit
37:29churlish of me.
37:32So,
37:33you want the balance
37:34of your 20%
37:35in cash,
37:36do you?
37:38Well, we thought
37:39if you could secure us
37:40a loan
37:40or lend us $1,500
37:41a year
37:42for the next five years,
37:43something like that.
37:44Five years?
37:47All right, four.
37:49I just thought
37:50you might have things
37:50on a better footing
37:51by then, that's all.
37:53That's true.
37:55Um,
37:57do you want
37:57this wretched
37:59blackbird mine as well?
38:01Sure, sure.
38:02Throw it all in.
38:15Ah!
38:15What on earth are those?
38:33My birthright.
38:35Tight little Percy
38:36just assigned them to me.
38:37Chunk of the dark continent
38:39which Percival thinks
38:40is worth tuppence.
38:40Oh, Percy, Percy,
38:44when you find out...
38:45Come on, gorgeous.
38:48We've got a plane to catch.
38:50You're not just taking it.
39:03Certainly.
39:05First of all,
39:05the organized work.
39:07You can organize it
39:07back from the airport.
39:08She's left.
39:17She's at home.
39:26Oh!
39:27Oh!
39:30Oh!
39:32Oh!
39:32Oh!
39:33Oh!
39:34Ooh!
39:46Got anything?
39:48Mrs Mackenzie.
39:50Good.
39:51Where is she?
39:52You could walk it in a quarter of an hour.
39:54What?
39:55It's a mile or two by road, but if you cut through the woods,
39:57Burnham Ridley, the Pine Sanatorium.
40:01Come on.
40:02Come on. Let's go talk to the Mackenzie wall.
40:08How big is this place at Burnham Ridley?
40:11It's a private house. Come on, Vegas.
40:12Oh, Inspector.
40:14Yes, Miss Marple.
40:15Oh, you weren't thinking of the sanatorium,
40:18were you visiting there by any chance?
40:20Oh, not that that's important now, no, but...
40:21What isn't?
40:23Mrs Mackenzie.
40:24No, what is much more to the point is...
40:25What do you know about Mrs Mackenzie?
40:28Oh, well, just everything there is to know.
40:29It's not that there's very much, I'm afraid.
40:32I went there this morning.
40:33The poor dear's mind is completely gone.
40:35No, what is much more important is that I think I saw
40:38Lance Fortescue and his wife driving away.
40:41Now, he must be stopped, I'm afraid.
40:45Well, he had business in Paris.
40:46I saw no reason to detain him.
40:48He wasn't even in the country when the first murder...
40:50Yes, yes.
40:51Yes, I know, but I think they ought to be stopped.
40:53Well, don't ask me why.
40:56I can tell you the how.
40:57Well, not the precise how, but the general how.
40:59But the why escapes me, except, of course, that it's greed.
41:03One knows that naturally, but...
41:05No, I expect the precise why will emerge in due course, but...
41:10Oh, dear.
41:14You think they should be stopped, Miss Marple?
41:16He should.
41:19Yes.
41:23Well, Miss Marple, I failed to listen to you once and I regretted it.
41:28Put out a general call for Fortescue's car.
41:30They'll be heading towards north of Kewenheim.
41:32Right, sir.
41:33Oh, Miss Marple, perhaps he could elaborate.
41:44Oh, yes.
41:53Yeah, Bentley.
41:54Registration GXA 579.
41:57General surveillance only.
41:59Right.
42:00We found the pot of marmalade in the garden, but I can't believe...
42:05Oh, sir, that was how it was done, yes.
42:07Yes, very simple, of course.
42:10Yes, but it's such a stupid way of getting rid of the evidence.
42:14Oh, but the killer of Rex Fortescue wasn't very bright, I'm afraid.
42:19And who was that?
42:20Oh, it was Gladys Martin, of course.
42:23Oh, she didn't mean to.
42:24She put the taxine in the marmalade, but she didn't think it was poison.
42:28What did she think it was?
42:31Oh, I imagine she thought it was some form of a truth drug, you know, something like that.
42:36She was told to put it in, just as she was told to put a handful of rye in Rex Fortescue's pocket,
42:42and just as she was told to serve honey for tea.
42:45You have to keep constantly in mind that poor Gladys was not attractive.
42:49She was a lump, I'm afraid, and more importantly, still very credulous.
42:55It would have been quite easy for her to believe in a truth drug if told her by a personable young man.
43:00And who was that?
43:02Well, he called himself Albert Evans.
43:05He met her at a holiday camp.
43:07He flattered her, made love to her, and told her some story of injustice.
43:11You see, that was where the truth drug came in.
43:13And it was to have taken effect when Rex Fortescue arrived at his office.
43:18There, forced by this miracle of modern science,
43:23he was to have admitted the truth before witnesses.
43:27Her Albert got her to apply for a job here when one came up,
43:30and I must say she had very good references, even though I do say it myself.
43:35And when she knew that she had caused his death...
43:41Well, what was the first thing that she said to you when you questioned her?
43:46She said,
43:48I didn't do it.
43:49Exactly.
43:51That's exactly what she would say.
43:53If ever she broke a vase or something, you know, she would always say,
43:57I didn't do it, Miss Marple.
43:58I can't think how it happened.
44:00Poor dear.
44:01Besides which, her Albert was meeting her the next day,
44:05and she knew that he would explain everything to her.
44:07You see, that was the telephone call she took just before tea.
44:11So, she brought the tray into the hall,
44:15she saw him outside,
44:17she left the tray,
44:19she went out to meet him,
44:21and he killed her.
44:25Yes, exactly.
44:28And her Albert?
44:31Oh, I'm so sorry.
44:33Didn't I say?
44:34Lance Fortescue.
44:42There she blows.
44:43Oh, no.
45:01Please, no.
45:08Oh, no.
45:09Oh, no.
45:37Oh, my God.
46:07It was a poor, sad girl, Pat, who put me onto it.
46:16Blackbird business and a pocket full of rye.
46:19The way things fitted into the rye were all complete fake.
46:23Like much in this house, used by Lance Fortescue had heard about the blackbirds, that's all.
46:33What's happening, Lance?
46:37What have you done?
46:53Have you swindled Percival or something?
46:57What the hell do we do now?
46:59We're observing them.
47:01We were told to keep them under observation, and we are.
47:04He told me to go to hell.
47:09And he meant it.
47:12He meant hell.
47:14Who did?
47:15His own son.
47:20The bloody sadist.
47:24Well, he's finished hurting people.
47:29I thought the only way to get his hand on the money was to kill his father, and to use the nursery rhyme to cover his tracks.
47:37Just as he used poor Gladys.
47:42After I saw Aunt Effie, I slipped down the back stairs and round to the sitting room to see Adele.
47:50Well, I knew the lazy cat would be there.
47:56She said as much just by looking at me.
48:01She was waiting.
48:02I could have laced her tea five times over.
48:11It must have been more than greed to plan all that.
48:14Oh, yes.
48:16And of course, his real madness was, thinking he could do what he did, and keep the love of a girl like Pat.
48:23It was for us, you see.
48:30I wanted for us to be all right.
48:35You're the only thing I've ever really loved.
48:39The only person who really cared.
48:43I knew you'd see it through, you see.
48:48You're...
48:49You're the one.
48:53I mean, are you...
48:57Pat.
49:02I told you.
49:06I'm bad luck.
49:09I can't.
49:17Get out!
49:19Get out!
49:23Hoor瓊!
49:36Hoor瓊!
49:47Oh, that's it.
49:48Rex Fortescue was about to pull off the most spectacular coup of his life.
50:16All those dud African properties, including the famous Blackbird Mine, were practically next door to each other.
50:24In 12 months, he'd accumulated a small mountain range of high-grade uranium ore.
50:31It's worth millions.
50:33All businessmen are the victims of greed some way or another, I fear.
50:41I'd like to thank you, Miss Marple.
50:43I don't think I'd have got there without you.
50:46Oh, yes. Men like Lance, you know, always prove their own hangman.
50:51Oh, yes, you look up there.
50:53I just happen to know Gladys, and I happen to hear Mrs. Parsons little children singing, that's all.
51:00Oh, excuse me, Inspector.
51:02I just...
51:09Did you want a word, Mrs. Fortescue?
51:12Oh, no.
51:14No, no.
51:16Was it your mother's idea or yours?
51:21The nurse said you were very kind to her.
51:25Poor mummy.
51:25Yes, it was her idea.
51:30I mean, her idea.
51:32But it was you who thought of marrying Percival.
51:36Sort of.
51:37Sort of happened, really.
51:40And the Blackbirds.
51:42Was that your idea of avenging your father?
51:45Mummy made me.
51:47She did.
51:48Nevertheless, it was very naughty.
51:50Rex deserved it.
51:53He was a horrid man.
51:55Well, it's not the point.
51:59No.
52:01Well, you'll be leaving your husband now.
52:04Will you?
52:07Yes.
52:10Yes.
52:12Well, goodbye, Mrs. Fortescue.
52:15Goodbye.
52:15Goodbye.
52:20Goodbye.
52:23Well, so the Mackenzie's got their money after all.
52:27At least £40,000 worth of it.
52:32That's what she meant.
52:34Yes, I see.
52:36And all she had to do was ask for it.
52:38Old Rex just gave it to her.
52:40Oh, do you think so?
52:42I think he knew who she was.
52:45But there, we shall never really know now, will we?
52:48Well, goodbye, Inspector.
52:49Goodbye.
52:51Bye.
52:52Gary!
52:54Thank you for marry me.
53:02Bye.
53:10Bye.
53:11Bye.
53:16Bye.
53:17Bye.
53:17Bye.
53:17Bye.
53:18Bye.
53:19Bye.
53:19Bye.
53:19Bye.
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