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It's such a nice village. Who would have thought it held so many dirty secrets? Starring; Joan Hickson, Michael Culver, Deborah Appleby.
It's such a nice village. Who would have thought it held so many dirty secrets? Starring; Joan Hickson, Michael Culver, Deborah Appleby.
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01:38Excuse me!
01:41Sorry to bother you. We're trying to find the furs.
01:44The furs? Good heavens! Could you be Miss Barton's new tenants?
01:48Right.
01:49Exciting!
01:50Jerry Burton, my sister Joanne.
01:52Well, I never. Maude Colstrop, my husband's vicar here.
01:56He'd be expecting to see you in church on Sunday. Everyone will. They're all dying to meet you.
02:01Lord, I suppose we disappoint them.
02:03Oh, I'm quite sure you won't.
02:05Now, let me tell you. The furs.
02:07Straight through the village, about half a mile, turn left and there you are.
02:11How very nice to see you both. And welcome to the furs.
02:23Oh, thank you.
02:24Beatrice.
02:25Oh.
02:26Thank you very much.
02:27So, you come along, girl. Go get them bags out of the car.
02:35I do hope you'll both be happy here.
02:37I'm so fond of it.
02:39Well, after all, I've lived here all my life.
02:41You get used to things, don't you?
02:43Oh, dear.
02:44I can't help feeling we're driving you out.
02:46Oh, but you mustn't.
02:48It's the war. Taxation.
02:50The cost of everything nowadays.
02:52The upkeep.
02:53I simply had to do something.
02:55Besides, it won't be forever.
02:57Now, Partridge is staying on to look after you.
03:01She's a cook housekeeper and a treasure.
03:04Then there's Beatrice.
03:06She's the maid and all that.
03:08Not very experienced, but willing.
03:10A gardener, Cleet, who comes in twice a week, has a strange wife,
03:15but you don't need to see much of her.
03:21Do forgive me, Mr. Burton, but were you hurt during the war?
03:25No, no, not a scratch, actually, no.
03:27I was a test flight for a new jet.
03:30Both engines blew at 30,000, and the ejector gear malfunctioned.
03:33I managed to bring her down all right, but I hit the deck pretty hard.
03:36Pretty lucky, I suppose.
03:38Oh, yes, I see.
03:41He's trying to tell you, Miss Barton, that he crashed his plane.
03:45Good heavens!
03:47I'm sorry.
03:48You'll have to let Owen Griffiths, our nice doctor, take care of you.
03:51Oh, I believe the hospital's already been in touch with him.
03:54Good.
03:55He's Welsh, of course, but the Welsh are so clever, aren't they?
03:58And Partridge is an excellent cook.
04:00She'll help you build up your strength.
04:02Oh, no, no. Never in this house.
04:05Oh, I'm sorry.
04:07Oh, no, you mustn't be.
04:09It's just that...
04:10Well, smoking never occurred to me.
04:13Oh, don't worry.
04:14I see he has lots of ashtrays.
04:16It's so silly of me.
04:17It all comes of never having a man about the place.
04:20The last one was my eldest sister's bone.
04:22He didn't last long.
04:24Mother took exception.
04:25To his smoking?
04:26To his accent.
04:27Wasn't quite a gentleman, she said.
04:30I thought he was rather nice.
04:32Jolly.
04:33Daphne fretted, but, as Mother told her, you never know with men.
04:38Know what, Miss Barton?
04:41Another cup of tea, my dear?
04:43Thanks so much.
04:44Mr. Barton, do forgive me if I don't offer you something stronger.
04:49Men prefer that, don't they?
04:51I remember my father did.
04:53But Mother took exception to that, too.
04:55Didn't approve.
04:57Couldn't allow it in the house.
04:59Poor father.
05:01And poor mother.
05:03She was an invalid, you see.
05:05She always managed to have her own way.
05:14Be for God, be with you.
05:16And remain with you.
05:18Always.
05:20Amen.
05:22Amen.
05:35Good morning.
05:36Good morning.
05:37Yes, Mrs. Leet.
05:38I can't you could make it, Mr.
05:40Vicar.
05:41What a simply splendid sermon.
05:44Did Maud choose the text?
05:46She must have.
05:47She did not.
05:48St. Paul, wasn't it?
05:49Let brotherly love continue.
05:51Had you our newcomers in mind?
05:54Indeed, should you encourage it?
05:56Not sure I know what you're getting here.
05:58Paul goes on to say, doesn't he,
05:59Be not forgetful to entertain strangers,
06:01for thereby some have entertained angels unaware.
06:04Oh, how delicious.
06:06Somewhat mutilated the male angel, perhaps.
06:08But the girl, she's quite a sensation,
06:11wouldn't you say?
06:12I trust not.
06:13Ah.
06:14The guy.
06:15I don't think you've met Squadron Leader Burton
06:17and his sister, have you?
06:19No.
06:20Delighted to see you here.
06:21Thank you, Father.
06:22This is a near neighbor of yours, Mr. Pye.
06:23Never believe a word he tells you.
06:25He spends his whole time laughing at the rest of us.
06:27Dear lady, how unfair.
06:29Unkind, untrue.
06:30Despite the malicious maud,
06:32you'll come and take a sherry with me at Priory Lodge,
06:34won't you?
06:35I'd love to.
06:36Look at her.
06:37Making up to that old Mr. Pye.
06:40Ah.
06:41Painted up to the eyeballs, too.
06:43And in church.
06:44Soon.
06:45Promise?
06:46Promise.
06:47Oh, dear.
06:49Symington Brood, come it.
06:51I missed away.
06:52Squadron Leader, you're on parade.
06:54Right.
06:55Miss Burton, you are an event.
06:58Ah.
06:59Sleepy old Limstone's going to love you.
07:01Bye-bye.
07:02Bye.
07:03Bye.
07:05Now, boys, run ahead with Elsie, will you?
07:07We shan't be long.
07:08Yeah.
07:09Off we go, then.
07:10Elsie, Elsie, I'm terribly hungry.
07:12You're just greedy.
07:14Oh, Elsie.
07:16No more.
07:17You said absolutely nothing about my fur.
07:19Does that mean you have no complaints?
07:21Oh, much better, dear.
07:23Still a trifle long, perhaps.
07:25I didn't see anyone asleep.
07:27You're wearing the wrong specs, guy.
07:29Your reading glasses.
07:30But they were so still.
07:32Come on, Robert.
07:33Dozing, I fear.
07:34Many of them.
07:35Come on.
07:36Good help.
07:37Then have some lunch.
07:39See you lunchtime.
07:41Megan!
07:43Oh, just look at that girl's stockings.
07:45A large potato in each heel.
07:47What a graceless child.
07:53This guy, the sermon was wonderful, but still a little long-winded.
07:56Morning.
07:57Ah, Mr. Symington.
07:58How nice to see you again.
07:59And, Mrs. Symington?
08:00How do you do?
08:01Oh, Gerry, Mr. Symington is Miss Barton's solicitor.
08:04How do you do?
08:05And there's still something Gerry has to sign, isn't there?
08:07Oh, there's no hurry.
08:08Next time you're in the high street.
08:10Just drop in.
08:11Righto, will do.
08:12Edward, we'd better be moving.
08:13The boys will be starving.
08:14Righto.
08:15Well, it's nice to have you both here.
08:19See you again soon.
08:20Guy.
08:21Maud.
08:22Edward.
08:23Jerry.
08:24Mm-hmm.
08:25There's something.
08:26I have a feeling Limson's doing you a power of good.
08:30That was supposed to be the general idea, wasn't it?
08:32It was.
08:33So?
08:34Well, remembering all those pretty nurses at the hospital and fussed and fretted and soothed
08:40at your fevered brow for months on end.
08:41And to what purpose?
08:42Well, apart from their job, had they a purpose?
08:43Whatever.
08:44You remain totally indifferent.
08:45About ten days in Limson and, um...
08:46What the hell are you talking about?
08:47Church, last Sunday.
08:48The Simington's nurse, governess.
08:49Don't think I didn't notice.
08:50You're getting better, my darling brother.
08:51You're getting better, my darling brother.
08:52You do talk to me.
08:53I don't think I was.
08:54I don't think I was.
08:55So?
08:56Well, remembering all those pretty nurses at the hospital and fussed and fretted and soothed
08:58your fevered brow for months on end.
08:59And to what purpose?
09:00Well, apart from their job, had they a purpose?
09:03Whatever.
09:04You remain totally indifferent.
09:06About ten days in Limson and, um...
09:09What the hell are you talking about?
09:12Church, last Sunday.
09:14The Simington's nurse, governess.
09:16Don't think I didn't notice.
09:18You're getting better, my darling brother.
09:20You do talk the most awful rubbish.
09:24Mind you, the talent isn't exactly thick on the ground.
09:27And say I had to choose between her and Partridge.
09:36Oh, thank you very much.
09:39Had you thought about lunch, Miss?
09:41Oh, gosh, I hadn't.
09:43You think about it for me, will you, Partridge?
09:45Well, if that's what you want, Miss.
09:47There.
09:48They'll cheer you up.
09:49Letters from abandoned lovers.
09:51Two of them are bills, Jerry.
09:53Oh, well.
09:54Count one of them all.
09:56What the devil's this?
09:57You tell me.
09:58You tell me.
10:09My God.
10:15It's one of those...
10:16What are they called?
10:17Poison pen letters.
10:20It's filthy, absolutely disgusting.
10:22No.
10:23Oh, do let's see.
10:24No, no, Jerry.
10:25I'm not sure you'd want to.
10:26But I do.
10:27Please.
10:29All right.
10:33Are they always like this?
10:35Well, how the hell should I know?
10:37Well, what shall we do?
10:38Simple.
10:39Simple.
10:44And I thought they rather liked us down here.
10:47Seems somebody doesn't.
10:48But what kind of person?
10:50It's a nutcase.
10:51It must be.
10:52Forget it.
10:53Okay.
10:55But surely there's someone we should talk to.
10:57Jane.
10:58Jane!
10:59Over here, dear.
11:00Oh, Jane.
11:01So sorry I wasn't going.
11:04It's wonderful to see.
11:06Oh, jump in, dear.
11:07Jane.
11:08Jane!
11:09Over here, dear.
11:10Jane.
11:11Jane.
11:12Jane.
11:13Jane.
11:14Jane.
11:15Jane.
11:16Jane.
11:17Jane.
11:18Jane.
11:19Jane.
11:20Jane.
11:21Jane.
11:22Jane.
11:23Jane.
11:24Jane.
11:25Jane.
11:26Jane.
11:27Jane.
11:28Jane.
11:29Jane.
11:30Jane.
11:31Jane.
11:32Jane.
11:33Jane.
11:34Jane.
11:35Jane.
11:36Jane.
11:37Jane.
11:38Jane.
11:39Jane.
11:40Jane.
11:41Jane.
11:42Jane.
11:43Jane.
11:44Jane.
11:45Jane.
11:46Jane.
11:47Jane.
11:48Jane.
11:49Jane.
11:50Jane.
11:51Jane.
11:52Jane.
11:53Jane.
11:54Jane.
11:55Jane.
11:56Jane.
11:57Dr. Griffiths, sir, called to see you.
12:07No, don't get up.
12:08On my rounds, thought it was time we met.
12:11Owen Griffith, your local quack.
12:13Good to see you, Doctor.
12:14I'm supposed to keep an eye on you.
12:16Your doctor wants weekly progress reports.
12:18You'd better ask Joanna about that.
12:20She seems to think I'm doing pretty well.
12:22Ah, done some nursing, have you?
12:24He's sending me out, Doctor.
12:26We looked for you in church last Sunday.
12:28Did you now?
12:29Well, we're chapel, you see, my sister and me.
12:32Don't pray with the big knobs.
12:34Foreigners, if you like.
12:35I'd like to give you the once-over, if that's convenient.
12:38Right, I'm off, Doctor.
12:39Take good care of him, won't you?
12:40That's my job.
12:42And, um, come and see us again soon.
12:45Once a week.
12:46Don't forget, we're foreigners too.
12:48Bye.
12:56Breathe in.
13:01Been here long, Doc?
13:02Breathe in again.
13:03Seven years.
13:06And still a stranger?
13:09Well, I wasn't born here, you see.
13:13But they're good, kindly people, mostly.
13:16Who wouldn't write unpleasant, untruthful, ugly letters about people, would you say?
13:21You've heard one, have you?
13:22Mm-hmm.
13:23In circulation, are they?
13:24Forgive me.
13:25May I ask what it said?
13:27Nor shouldn't I.
13:28Why not?
13:29No one, apparently, is deceived.
13:31The young lady you've just met is a tart, a trollop, and certainly not my sister.
13:37Oh, I give you, of course, the expurgated version.
13:39Well, indeed, I'm sorry.
13:40I hope she's not too upset.
13:43Jo spent two years on a fighter station.
13:45She's case-hardened.
13:46Upset, no, but just a nasty taste in her mouth.
13:49Mm, I can imagine.
13:51Ribs still painful?
13:52Only when I laugh.
13:53Mm-hmm.
13:53Well, you haven't got much to laugh about, have you?
13:55Right.
13:56Let's have a look at the legs.
14:02Sit down.
14:02These letters, Doctor, have there been others?
14:11Yes.
14:11Who to?
14:13Me for one.
14:14To you.
14:14Why not?
14:17The writer is pathological and indiscriminate.
14:21Push hard, please.
14:22Scattering shot far and wide.
14:25That is worrying.
14:26Why?
14:27Well, someone who just can't take it might get hit.
14:30Push again.
14:31Someone vulnerable.
14:33That could be dangerous.
14:35Stand up, please.
14:40Your right leg is a bit wasted.
14:42Okay.
14:45Exercise it.
14:46Throw away one of those sticks, will you?
14:48Rise and walk, as the good book says.
14:51So here endeth the first lesson.
14:53See you next week.
14:55Doctor.
14:58These letters.
14:59Are they much the same thing?
15:02Well, I can tell you about mine.
15:03It accused me of violating my professional relationship,
15:09of loose conduct with certain lady patients.
15:12The sexual detail was extremely lurid.
15:14That is usual, of course.
15:18What was the handwriting like?
15:19There was no handwriting.
15:21The envelope was typewritten and the letter was just printed words,
15:25cut out of an old book and pasted onto a sheet of paper.
15:27That's it.
15:28Mine too.
15:29A work of some complete illiterate, I would imagine.
15:31Would you?
15:33See you next week.
15:34Maude's told you all about it, Jane.
15:41Oh, yes, indeed.
15:43Yes, it must be very worrying for you.
15:45Very.
15:45Here you are.
15:47Oh, thank you so much.
15:48Now, Jane, excuse me if I leave you to Maude.
15:52I have to prepare the weekly sleeping pill.
15:54Oh, yes, of course, Guy.
15:57Oh, I've taken St Paul's warning on flesh and the devil,
15:59for to be carnally minded is death.
16:03Appropriate, I thought, in the circumstances.
16:05But I would have thought suitably discouraging.
16:07Keep it short, dear.
16:08Well, now, Maude, when did all this start?
16:12Well, hard to say.
16:13Villages scandalize but hate scandals when they find themselves involved.
16:18Don't like others knowing they've received, well, dirty letters.
16:23For fear the neighbors might say there's no smoke without fire, is that it?
16:26Exactly.
16:28Not that anything remains a secret for Long in Limston.
16:31Well, but poor Guy, what is he accused of?
16:33Oh, something quite disgraceful with one of the women who does the altar flowers.
16:37Well, he was flabbergasted, shocked, devastated, poor dear.
16:42How shameful.
16:43Well, you know Guy almost as well as I do.
16:45Absolutely no taste for fornication.
16:48None whatsoever.
16:50I almost wish he had.
16:51Really, Maude?
16:52A little worldly spice added to his sermons might make them more interesting.
16:55Well, you married a cleric, my dear, a classical scholar,
16:58and I've yet to find such a combination with a robust appetite for sin.
17:02Oh, I find that most reassuring.
17:04Well, now, Maude, what do you want of me?
17:09Well, it's not in your league, dear, I know.
17:12No dead bodies, no gunshots, no blunt instruments, not even a shadow of Scotland Yard.
17:18Just a lot of unhappy people I know you can help.
17:21You mean find the lady?
17:24It's not in your league, if it is one, yes.
17:27Yes, yes, of course.
17:28Are you all right?
17:41Yes, thanks.
17:42Hello.
17:43Hello.
17:44You're Mr. Burton, aren't you?
17:46Yes.
17:47Saw you after church.
17:48Is that your wife with you?
17:50No, no, no, my sister.
17:51Oh, I'm Megan.
17:52Saw you were alone.
17:53Thought I'd stop and walk with you.
17:55Had to fall off my bike, of course.
17:57Never mind.
17:58Nice of you.
17:59Look, I see you've torn your stocking.
18:01Gosh, so I have.
18:03Doesn't matter.
18:04It will once you've left school.
18:05I've left school.
18:07Oh, you have.
18:08Forgive me.
18:09How old do you think I am?
18:11Ah, the truth game.
18:12I'm 20.
18:14Sorry again.
18:16You think I ought to be more like your sister, all dolled up?
18:19No, I don't.
18:21She's awfully pretty.
18:23Isn't a bit like you, is she?
18:25Well, she's clean and presentable.
18:27I'm not a bit like me, you mean.
18:34You're a pilot, aren't you?
18:35Mm, I was.
18:37Will you always be a bit of a croc?
18:39According to my doctor, no.
18:42I was afraid you looked bad-tempered because you were crocked up for life.
18:45Bad tempered?
18:47Well, irritable, then.
18:49Well, it's only because I'm in a hurry to get fit again.
18:52Aren't you ever in a hurry for things to happen?
18:54Not much point.
18:55Nothing ever happens.
18:56Not to me.
18:57Oh, but surely your mother and your father.
18:59My father's not my father.
19:01He's my stepfather.
19:03Ah, is he?
19:05We never mentioned my real father.
19:07Disgraced himself, it seems.
19:09Disappeared.
19:10Then mummy married Mr. Symington.
19:12You've met him, haven't you?
19:13Yes.
19:14Anyway, all's well that ends well.
19:17You think?
19:18Not sure he likes me very much.
19:20Not sure mummy does either, for that matter.
19:23Now you're being morbid, girl.
19:25Am I?
19:26Fact is, I'm a bit of a bore, I suppose.
19:29And before I start boring you, I'd better be off.
19:32Bye.
19:43I just don't know what we do with a girl, Edward.
19:47She's young.
19:48She's 20.
19:50And if I may say so, your problem.
19:54Oh, no, I'm sorry, my dear.
19:56I didn't mean it like that.
19:56It's just that being a stepfather, it's...
19:59Makes it difficult for you to say what you really feel?
20:02Yes, sometimes.
20:03Well, not for me.
20:04I have our boys to consider.
20:06She wanders up by herself.
20:09She's always late for meals.
20:10Makes no attempt to help Elsie in the nursery
20:12and dresses like a tramp.
20:13What sort of example is that for them?
20:17She's just as her father was.
20:18Disruptive.
20:29Oh, good morning.
20:30I wonder, could you help me?
20:32Which Mr. Symington do I ask for?
20:34There is only one.
20:37Oh, but I thought I read Symington, Galbraith and Symington.
20:40Oh, the first Mr. Symington was the present Mr. Symington's father.
20:44He's dead.
20:44Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
20:47Well, perhaps I might see the present Mr. Symington.
20:50He's engaged at the moment.
20:51Can I help you?
20:52Oh, no, thank you.
20:53Thank you so much.
20:54No, it's a church matter.
20:55But, uh, well, perhaps I might wait.
20:57Yes, of course.
20:58Do sit down.
20:59I'll just let him know.
21:00Oh, how very kind.
21:03Would you say Miss Marple, Jane Marple?
21:06Yes, of course.
21:08Excuse me, sir.
21:10A Miss Jane Marple.
21:13Won't keep you long, Miss Marple.
21:15He has Mrs. Symington with him.
21:17Oh, well, then we mustn't disturb him, must we?
21:20Do you know, I always think that working in a solicitor's office must prove most rewarding.
21:26Oh, it is.
21:27All those different people, different problems, and finding solutions for them.
21:32Well, Mr. Symington's the one who does all that.
21:35And does he?
21:36Yes, he's really marvellous.
21:38Very patient, very kind.
21:40Simply wonderful with people.
21:41Really.
21:44Miss Marple?
21:45Ah.
21:47Do come in.
21:47Thank you so much.
21:50I'm sorry to have kept you waiting.
21:51Please sit down.
21:52Oh, no, it's I who should be asking forgiveness for interrupting a busy man.
21:56Not at all.
21:57My wife tells me you've already met.
21:59Oh, yes, yes, of course, last year at the vicarage.
22:02Yes, how are you?
22:04And how is that most interesting daughter of yours, Megan?
22:07My poor Megan.
22:09At the awkward age, I'm afraid.
22:11Oh, but she must be in her early twenties by now.
22:14But very young.
22:15Quite a child still.
22:17Most mothers think they grow up too quickly.
22:19Not me, Miss Marple.
22:20I only wish she'd do something, learn something, typing, dressmaking, even take a correspondence
22:27course, anything.
22:28If only she'd get out of, out of your home.
22:33Oh, certainly not.
22:34That's the last thing we'd want.
22:36Angela would want, isn't it, my dear?
22:37Naturally.
22:39Now, I know you ladies like to natter, but Miss Marple had a purpose in coming to see me, so...
22:43Yes, of course.
22:44Yes.
22:45Now, let me see now.
22:46Where was I?
22:46Yes.
22:47Now, Maude Colthrope wants to remind you that the Church Restoration Fund accounts...
22:52Have to be completed and submitted by next Tuesday?
22:56They are.
22:57They will be.
22:57Oh, absolutely splendid.
22:59Well, in that case, I don't care.
23:01Oh, there was one other little matter.
23:03I...
23:04Then I'd better be on my way.
23:05No, no, no, please.
23:06No, don't go on my account.
23:07No.
23:08Private matters in a solicitor's office are, I know, as invalid as a confessional.
23:12No, it was just that I...
23:14I wondered if by any chance you'd heard about these anonymous letters that have been going round.
23:20Come in.
23:23Sorry to interrupt, sir, but would it be convenient if I popped along to the stationers?
23:27We're almost out of copying paper.
23:29Why not, Miss Ginch?
23:30Off you go.
23:31Don't be long, though.
23:32Oh, you'd better leave that door ajar.
23:34Yes, sir.
23:34Thank you, sir.
23:36I'm sorry.
23:37Please go on.
23:38Mr. Symington, as a legal man, what would your advice be to someone who receives such a letter?
23:45Take it to the police immediately.
23:47And if they don't?
23:50But they do.
23:51Do?
23:52Well, at least I did.
23:54Oh, good heavens, don't tell me that you are...
23:56I'm afraid so.
23:56Oh, well, forgive an inquisitive old lady, Mr. Symington, but what was the police response?
24:03Amiable.
24:05Came from our own solid Sergeant Fowler.
24:07Not to get excited, it's probably some spinster lady getting a little overheated.
24:11I didn't inquire exactly what he meant by that.
24:14Oh, so he assumes that the writer is a woman.
24:18Well, nine times out of ten they are, apparently.
24:20Oh, yes, yes, I see.
24:25Yes, that would account for all those letters that I seem to know about being addressed to men.
24:32Yes.
24:33Well, I won't keep you any longer.
24:34Thank you for giving me so much of your valuable time.
24:36Well, goodbye.
24:37Goodbye, Miss Marvel.
24:40Oh, may I just say this?
24:42I do congratulate you on your choice of secretary.
24:45Nowadays, it's so rare to hear an employee speak so warmly of an employer.
24:49Edward seems to inspire hero worship, Miss Marvel.
24:53I rather had that impression.
24:55Goodbye.
24:56Goodbye, Miss Marvel.
24:57So you made it.
25:05Mm-hmm.
25:09There and back.
25:11Apart from a sit down in Symington's office, that's all.
25:13Meet anyone?
25:14Mm.
25:16All of Limston.
25:17And nearly knocked down into the bargain.
25:18Oh.
25:19Oh, the Symington girl on a bicycle.
25:22At the Megan we've heard about.
25:24Mm.
25:26Funny girl.
25:31I hope Mr. Burton has all excuse the liberty, but I'd like the word.
25:35Mm.
25:36Of course.
25:36That's Beatrice, sir.
25:37Beatrice?
25:39Yes, Mr. Burton.
25:40She have to go.
25:41Go where?
25:43Leave.
25:44Oh, but why?
25:46That's these letters, sir.
25:47Wicked they are.
25:49Indecent to using such words.
25:51Worse than what I've ever read in the Bible, even.
25:55Mind you, I know there weren't no truth in them.
25:57And you with them bad legs and all.
25:59Me?
26:00What are you talking about?
26:02Has Beatrice received?
26:03No, sir.
26:03George have.
26:05George did in the garage.
26:06Two of them's walking out.
26:08And there are no smoke without fire.
26:10That's what he told her.
26:12So I suspect that you would go, girl.
26:14What will the poor kid do?
26:16She's all right.
26:17She's fixed up nice.
26:19The Symington maid were married off last month,
26:21so now they've took Beatrice on.
26:24But how about you?
26:25Oh, well managed somehow.
26:28Well, I'm damned.
26:29She was always such a bright little thing.
26:31Yes.
26:32Well, she'd be better off with them.
26:35Ain't no young men round.
26:38I'll take it.
26:41Partridge?
26:44Yes, Mr. Burton?
26:45These letters.
26:46People must have some idea.
26:48Oh, they have.
26:49Have they?
26:51They have indeed.
26:53And do you mark my words,
26:54there's going to be a mischief sooner or later.
26:56You see?
26:58Folk ain't violent.
26:59Oh, come on, Partridge.
27:00In their feelings, sir.
27:01But you can't take it that seriously.
27:03There's plenty as do, sir.
27:06Young George did in the garage, for instance.
27:08So who's the front runner?
27:10The prime suspect.
27:11Well, I'm not one for gossip, sir, as well you know.
27:16But there's those that do say.
27:18That's Mrs. Cleet.
27:19Cleet?
27:20The gardener's wife?
27:22Oh, she's more than that, Mr. Burton.
27:27Exercise, long walks, rich food, no pastry.
27:30You are prescribing, of course, prison fare, Owen.
27:33I am prescribing better health and a lower blood pressure.
27:35But boring.
27:37Miss Griffith, your brother's been very cold.
27:40To be kind, Mr. Pye.
27:42Owen, you're like that old Bernard Shaw.
27:44What did Oscar say?
27:46He has no enemies and all his friends hate him.
27:49Good day to the pair of you.
27:52Oh, very witty, Mr. Pye.
27:54He's the boring one.
27:55Right.
27:56Live the lot.
27:57Yes.
27:58Avoidments.
27:59Thanks.
28:03Well, what's this?
28:04Burton, Tuesday.
28:06Phoned.
28:07Said he'd come in to save your journey.
28:08Good.
28:09Must be feeling better.
28:10Nice, is he?
28:11Hmm.
28:11Pleasant sort of chap.
28:13Not to talk about his sister, I hear.
28:15Is that so?
28:16Tarts herself up like one of these fashion models,
28:18doesn't she?
28:18Hmm.
28:19Wouldn't say that.
28:20Rather attractive, as a matter of fact.
28:22No, on reflection.
28:24Very attractive.
28:25Men.
28:27Oh, Lord.
28:27No more gossip.
28:28Last visit.
28:30And I know who, too.
28:31Oh, did you make up that prescription?
28:32Here it is.
28:34Mrs. Symington, the sedative.
28:36One to be taken midday and before retirement.
28:39Bless you, Errol.
28:40There's nothing wrong with a woman.
28:41A good dose of common sense wouldn't cure.
28:43She's very nervy, neurotic.
28:45And a nuisance to everyone, to you, her family.
28:48She needs support, Errol.
28:50Indeed she does.
28:54Oh, that poor man, her husband.
28:56He's the one I feel sorry for.
28:58Look, woman, when we first came here,
29:00Symington was very helpful, very kind to both of us.
29:03I know that.
29:05And I know you've also had a very soft spot for him.
29:08Whatever do you mean?
29:11Owen?
29:12What do you take me for?
29:14He's a married man.
29:16That's right, Errol.
29:20Oh, come now.
29:24Get on the phone to the cricketers, woman.
29:25I'm taking you out tonight.
29:29It shan't be long.
29:38Oh, a delicious sherry, Mr. Pye.
29:45And if I may say so, an exquisite house.
29:48Indeed you may, dear lady.
29:50But then you appreciate the importance of beauty.
29:53As do our young friends here.
29:55Alas, very rare in these parts.
29:57Here, where every prospect pleases.
29:59And only man is violent.
30:01Much worse.
30:02Dumb.
30:03Unbearably, impossibly dumb.
30:05Oh, I don't know.
30:07I think the villagers are rather fun.
30:09The generosity of youth, my dear.
30:11But I didn't mean the rustics.
30:13You can excuse them.
30:14They live, work and play amid pigsties
30:16with a permanent smell of manure in their nostrils.
30:18No, I meant those who should know better.
30:21Those with money and no taste.
30:23Arrogance and no sensibility.
30:25Minds devoid of imagination.
30:27Ugly, ugly, ugly people.
30:29But you, you I claim as kindred spirits.
30:33You are as eloquent, Mr. Pye, as you are gracious as a host.
30:36Dear Miss Marple, what a charming compliment.
30:39It's perhaps a little severe on your fellow men.
30:42What I don't understand, sir, is why you settled here in the first place.
30:46What were you looking for?
30:46Sanctuary.
30:48Not quite sure I follow.
30:50From the war, those terrifying doodlebugs.
30:53The dust and dirt.
30:55The smell of all these bodies sheltering in the underground.
30:58I'm not a brave man, squadron leader.
31:00You'll be folly to pretend otherwise.
31:01Bombs frighten me.
31:03I abominate all violence.
31:05So you left London, was it?
31:07I did indeed.
31:09What with the Yanks and all their GI brides to be.
31:11Running an antique shop in the Kings Road, Chelsea became quite intolerable.
31:15And when my, my partner chose to disappear into the blue,
31:21that was it.
31:22London could take it.
31:23I couldn't.
31:24I sold up, fled.
31:26And here I am.
31:27Oh dear.
31:29I think that's rather a sad little tale.
31:31Ah, beauty and sympathy in combination.
31:34Irresistible.
31:35Another glass of sherry wine.
31:37You haven't told us, Mr. Pye, did you find the sanctuary?
31:41I did, dear lady.
31:42Here, in this house.
31:45Nowhere else.
31:46Certainly not with my neighbors.
31:48Oh.
31:50Well, forgive my ignorance, but
31:53they're just a little limiting.
31:55Not if you have a passion for beauty.
31:58And don't you find that houses can be passionate?
32:01Oh yes, how interesting.
32:03It hadn't occurred to me.
32:05For example, take Emily Barton.
32:07Miss Barton?
32:08That house you're in.
32:09I mean, what is it?
32:11Nothing but a monument to her mother's perversions.
32:13A cold fortress against the masculine ego.
32:17I wouldn't know about that.
32:18Warping.
32:19She doesn't seem very warped.
32:21Well, scarred.
32:22Underneath scarred.
32:25Had it not occurred to you?
32:27Those PP letters.
32:29P-P.
32:29Poison pen.
32:33Surely you're not suggesting Miss Barton.
32:35Appearances can be deceptive, of course.
32:38Can't they just?
32:40How about that girl down at the surgery?
32:41The receptionist.
32:43The doctor's sister.
32:45All that Welsh passion expended in polishing her ugly lino.
32:48Oh, but surely somebody else does that.
32:51Possibly.
32:51But it's a thought, Miss Marple.
32:53W-w-would you not say another candidate for our PP lady?
32:57So secretive.
32:59And those flashing eyes.
33:00Wow.
33:01She sounds quite a dish.
33:03Miss Marple.
33:04Oh, no, thank you.
33:06No, really.
33:06How should I face the vicar at lunch?
33:09But tell me, Mr. Pye, talking of the PP letters,
33:14do tell me, have you ever received one yourself?
33:18Me?
33:22Whatever have I to hide that might interest the writer?
33:25Oh, I'm sure I don't know, Mr. Pye.
33:34George?
33:37George?
33:39George, you were supposed to meet me at the bus stop.
33:42Well, I changed my mind, didn't I?
33:44Why?
33:44Just tell me why.
33:46I reckon you know.
33:47Oh, don't be so daft.
33:49You're mucking at me one day off.
33:51Yours, too.
33:53Don't care.
33:54Look, it weren't my fault you were getting that letter, were it?
33:57Weren't it?
33:58I told you.
33:59He's a cripple.
34:00Walks on sticks.
34:01What can he do?
34:03He can look at you.
34:04But I've left the place.
34:07Know what you are, don't you?
34:08Barney.
34:10Yeah?
34:11I knows what you are.
34:12Oh, thank you very much, George Ellis.
34:14If that's what you think of me,
34:16I'd best go straight back to the Symingtons.
34:18You change that mind of yours again, that's where you'll find me.
34:20Hello?
34:22Megan.
34:23Hello to you.
34:25Where are you off to?
34:27Nowhere special.
34:29Just cycling around.
34:31Then come in.
34:33Come on.
34:35Come on.
34:37You sure?
34:39Joanna's around somewhere.
34:41I have done my stockings.
34:43Have you?
34:44Good show.
34:45Well, are you or aren't you, will you or won't you?
34:49Perhaps your sister's busy.
34:51She's not.
34:52She wants to meet you.
34:53Can't see why.
34:54I'm not sure.
34:55I don't know why you're special.
34:57Just cycling around.
34:58Come on.
34:59Come on.
35:00You sure?
35:01Joanna's around somewhere.
35:03I have done my stockings.
35:05Have you?
35:07Good show.
35:08Well, are you or aren't you, will you or won't you?
35:11Perhaps your sister's busy.
35:13She's not.
35:14She wants to meet you.
35:16I can't see why.
35:21Here we are.
35:22Well done.
35:23Any girl who throws herself at my brother's feet.
35:26She fell off a bicycle, Jo.
35:28You told me.
35:30Here.
35:31Not another.
35:34What is it?
35:34Dry martini.
35:35What's that?
35:36A cocktail.
35:37I've never had cocktails before.
35:39They lift you up.
35:41Makes me dizzy.
35:43I suspect you think I'm awful.
35:46Unspeakable.
35:47What are you doing about it?
35:48Tell me, what do you think?
35:50Darling, I think you're a breath of fresh air.
35:53And you and I are going to be great pals.
35:54Hmm.
35:55Everyone else thinks I'm stupid.
35:57Oh, for goodness sake.
35:58Stop imagining things.
35:59I know what goes on in their minds.
36:01In your mind?
36:03I'm not wanted, you know.
36:04Mummy doesn't like me one bit.
36:07Now you're being morbid again, child.
36:09And I'm not a child.
36:11She doesn't.
36:12I remind her of daddy.
36:14She'd like it to be just herself and the boys and their father.
36:18Megan, darling, why didn't you, well, couldn't you just leave?
36:21To do what?
36:22I'm quite useless.
36:23No money.
36:24No training.
36:25It's true.
36:26No one would miss me.
36:27I would.
36:28I'd miss those holier-than-thou stockings of yours.
36:31There you are, you see.
36:32I'm just a slob.
36:33That isn't true.
36:35That's what everyone believes.
36:37That's why I hate Limston.
36:38Hate the house I live in.
36:40Hate my mother.
36:41Hate everyone, everything.
36:43Well, that's pretty comprehensive, so...
36:45I'd better be going.
36:48Thanks, Joanna.
36:49Thanks very much.
36:50I do get up.
36:51For heaven's sake, stop being so superior, so patronizing.
36:55Patronizing?
36:57I'm sorry.
36:59Anyway, thanks to both of you.
37:06So what did I say?
37:09Do you think she'll be all right?
37:10My God, that girl's a problem child.
37:12Not a child, a woman.
37:15Now she has another problem.
37:17What's that?
37:18Oh, dear.
37:19Can't you guess?
37:27No,dalene, no.
37:38Oh, dear.
37:40And how, dear.
37:44What is her?
37:46Esper last time lives in dying house.
37:51And how, dear.
37:52I agree.
37:55I'm away, Miss Ginch.
38:03Good night, sir.
38:04Oh, that conveyance on the Alderton promise.
38:07I'll have it ready in the morning, Mr Symington.
38:09Fine. I'll see you tomorrow.
38:16Back to the table, Robert.
38:18At once.
38:19No one said you could get down.
38:21And James, don't wave your knife around like that.
38:23What would Mummy say if she saw you?
38:29Daddy's home.
38:31Now sit up properly, both of you, and behave yourselves.
38:34Robert, do you want jam all over your face?
38:36Here.
38:37Fishy face.
38:53Daddy, Daddy, I want to show you something.
39:05Hey, Daddy, I want to show you something.
39:07Hey, back up there.
39:08Back up there.
39:09You're pulling me apart.
39:11What have you two monsters been up to?
39:12We went down to the river.
39:13And look what we've caught, Daddy.
39:16Yes, look, Daddy.
39:19Look, here they are, Daddy.
39:21Oh, they're tiddlers.
39:22Where's the shark?
39:23You can't catch sharks in the river.
39:26Don't be stupid, Daddy.
39:28Sharks like warm water.
39:30Sharks are floating cold water, wouldn't they, Robert?
39:33You've seen my wife?
39:34Oh, still resting, I think, Mr Symington.
39:36Still?
39:37Well, she wasn't downstairs when we arrived home.
39:40Because I caught that.
39:41Well, I left...
39:42Try and squeeze another cup out of that pot, Elsa.
39:44No, that's not fair.
39:46You're left free.
39:47I left now.
39:48That's not fair.
39:49No, they're not...
39:50You know, you really are noisy.
39:51You stand six inches apart.
39:53You have to shout at each other.
39:54Calm down.
39:56I'll be back in a minute.
39:57Come on, boys, and help me clear up.
39:59It's bath time soon.
40:00Come on.
40:01Woo!
40:07Come on, boys.
40:37Come on, boys.
40:39Elsie!
40:41Miss Holland!
40:44Mr Symington, what is it?
40:47What's the matter?
40:48Whatever made you choose this colour, Jane?
40:52Do you disapprove?
40:54I don't comment, I inquire.
40:56Well, it's not for me, Guy.
40:58It's for my baby goddaughter.
40:59Hello, Vicarage.
41:13Yes, Maude Colthorpe speaking.
41:15Good evening, Miss Holland.
41:17Oh, dear Lord.
41:21I don't know.
41:22No.
41:27Yes, of course.
41:29My husband will come over immediately.
41:30It's Angela Symington.
41:44Oh, dear.
41:47She's not dead, is she?
41:49He's not dead.
41:51He's not dead.
41:52No.
42:01Oh, dear.
42:02God.
42:03Oh, dear.
42:05Good evening.
42:06What about you?
42:10Oh, dear.
42:10We'll see you soon.
42:11Oh, dear.
42:12I'll just help you see you soon.
42:14Bang!
42:15football.
42:15Whoa.
42:15Oh, dear.
42:16Oh, dear.
42:17Oh, let's all here.
42:17PHONE RINGS
42:47PHONE RINGS
42:49PHONE RINGS
42:56Morning. Morning.
42:59Morning, sir. Morning.
43:05Just one, I'd like to make a note for her.
43:18Most obliged, Superintendent. Carry on, please.
43:21The police have established the following, sir.
43:24Mr Symington returned to his office shortly after lunch.
43:27Miss Holland had taken the two boys off for a walk and a picnic.
43:31Mrs Symington's daughter Megan went cycling
43:35and the two servants had left because it was there half day off.
43:39Mrs Symington was alone in the house when the letter was delivered.
43:43By post?
43:44By hand. There was no stamp.
43:50This potassium cyanide, do we know where it came from?
43:53It seems the potting shed. There had been a plague of wasps.
43:57The gardener was using it to destroy the nests.
44:00Thank you, Superintendent.
44:05Doctor, how would you describe the dead woman's general state of health?
44:09She had a nervous condition which I was treating.
44:13With these sedatives she took daily.
44:16Would you consider her a neurotic?
44:19She suffered from nervous disorder, yes.
44:23And on receiving a letter of this kind,
44:25what in your estimation would be its effect on her?
44:28It would, in my judgment, prove a great shock.
44:32Even destabilizing, would you say?
44:35Quite possibly.
44:39On reading that letter, can there be any doubt
44:42that this poor woman was thrown into a state of extreme agitation?
44:46She went out into the garden,
44:47she found the cyanide,
44:49took some back into the house,
44:51threw it into a glass containing her usual sedative,
44:54and then drank it.
44:56After writing those last tragic words,
44:59I can't go on.
45:02The writer of that wicked letter is morally guilty of murder.
45:06The police, I know, will not relax their efforts
45:09until this culprit is apprehended.
45:12This court finds that Angela Margaret Symington
45:15did take her own life,
45:16whilst the balance of her mind was disturbed.
45:18Hey, Megan, wait!
45:19Hey, Megan, wait!
45:24Come on.
45:28Come on.
45:29Come on.
45:33Let us know.
45:34Hey, Megan, wait!
45:54Mr. Symington. Edward.
45:57I'm so sorry.
45:59Terrible for you, all that coming out of the letter.
46:03I just hope that whoever it is can sleep nights.
46:08If there's anything I can do...
46:11I know. Thank you.
46:17Mr. Symington, I'd better get back to the boys.
46:20Oh, yes, yes, of course. I must stay.
46:23I have to thank the coroner.
46:27Bad it is. Very bad.
46:30Well, you shouldn't have left that there cyanide line round out the cleat, should you?
46:34Here, never you go blaming me. You blame them wasps.
46:37Miss Partridge?
46:39I... I...
46:41What, girl?
46:43Tomorrow afternoon? Could I come and see you? Just for a chat?
46:47What you been up to now, then, eh?
46:50Nothing, Miss Partridge.
46:52But I do have something on my mind.
46:54Oh, you do, do you?
46:56Something bothering at me.
46:57Mm-hmm.
46:58Remember when I had that row with George?
47:00Mm-hmm.
47:01The day all this happened, you know?
47:03My stars. I wish, now, I'd never went to that there house.
47:08Yes.
47:14I just feel so alone now, Guy.
47:17I'm not sure I can face it.
47:19You will.
47:21You must, for the boys' sake.
47:25Goodbye, Angela.
47:26I know, Edward.
47:29Look.
47:31Owen believed it was cyanide.
47:34There had to be a reason, Edward.
47:38That letter.
47:39That damn filthy letter.
47:41Saying what?
47:45That our youngest, Jamie, wasn't my child.
47:48And whoever wrote it was going to tell the world who the real father was.
47:51I mean, it was all nonsense. It's sheer nonsense, Guy.
47:53You know he was our child. You christened him.
47:55Of course. Of course.
48:00If only I'd been with her.
48:04If only someone.
48:12If only she hadn't been alone.
48:19Guy will look after him. That's his job.
48:21There's nothing more we can do.
48:23Selfish and silly as she may have been,
48:25but I can hardly think she was the kind of woman to...
48:28To take her own life.
48:29But the note, I can't go on.
48:31And cyanide.
48:33Yes.
48:37Perhaps I should have seen and understood sooner.
48:40What, Jane?
48:42Maud, my dear.
48:44I'm afraid.
48:45Of what?
48:46That it was not suicide.
48:49You can't mean you...
48:52You can't, Jane.
48:54Who would want to kill her?
48:56Kill her?
48:57Well, that we've yet to find out, my dear.
49:00I'll be fine, isn't it?
49:01I won't.
49:02I won't.
49:03I'll be fine.
49:04I'll be fine.
49:05What's this, Jane?
49:06What the hell?
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