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The truth about the murders - and the poison-pen letters - gradually emerges, although Miss Marple herself is menaced. Starring; Joan Hickson, Michael Culver, Deborah Appleby.
The truth about the murders - and the poison-pen letters - gradually emerges, although Miss Marple herself is menaced. Starring; Joan Hickson, Michael Culver, Deborah Appleby.
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00:00The End
01:00Elsie!
01:15Miss Holland!
01:30The writer of that wicked letter is morally guilty of murder.
01:44This court finds that Angela Margaret Symington did take her own life,
01:49whilst the balance of her mind was disturbed.
01:51Miss Partridge!
01:55I... I...
01:57What now?
01:59Tomorrow afternoon.
02:00Could I come and see you?
02:02Just for a chat?
02:04What you been up to now, then, eh?
02:06Nothing, Miss Partridge.
02:08I do have something on my mind.
02:10I do have something on my mind.
02:26from the west, and left the lobbins in her hair,
02:37upon whose bosom snow has lain, who in term
02:45earthly lives with rain, poems are made by fools like me.
02:54Oh, Superintendent. Come along in, do it.
02:56Sorry to be true.
02:58Not at all.
02:59Oh, Mrs. Daltby, dear, just a moment. Would you mind?
03:03Oh, thank you so much.
03:06Oh, I don't think you know my friend, Jane Marple.
03:09Saw you at the inquest yesterday, didn't I, Miss Marple?
03:12Oh, yes, yes, sir.
03:14Is this the only typewriter you ladies have?
03:16The one and only. Errol, that's right, isn't it?
03:19Yes. Mr. Symington gave it to us.
03:22I see. When was that?
03:24Oh, Miss Gintz, you'd know.
03:26Oh, dear, let's see. It must have been November last year.
03:31Look, I'm holding you up.
03:32I wonder if you'd mind typing out a couple of addresses on these envelopes for me.
03:36Two fingers only, I'm afraid.
03:38Two is enough. Here they are.
03:40Oh, I don't think I quite understand that...
03:45Oh, dear, those horrid letters all had typewritten envelopes.
03:49They may have been typed on the same machine.
03:52And I dare say the superintendent is, er, trying to track it down.
03:57Just an area check.
03:58Oh, of course. Of course.
04:04Oh, er, forgive me, superintendent. I wonder, might I have a word with you?
04:07Certainly.
04:08Yesterday's verdict?
04:09Yes, Miss Marple.
04:11Er, at the inquest, did you not find it perhaps a little too simple, too easy?
04:16Easy?
04:17Suicide, as a conclusion?
04:21No, Miss Marple. I did not.
04:24Here you are.
04:25Thank you. Thank you very much.
04:28Sorry to disturb you.
04:42Gosh, what a simply perfect evening.
04:44Is there anywhere else in the world where summer days drop so slowly into night?
04:49Owen, you know you're quite an astonishing man.
04:53Astonishing? Me?
04:55Yes, you.
04:56One part cool, efficient, objective, the doctor.
05:01Another talking about summer days dropping slowly into night.
05:05Different person.
05:07Well, I'm Welsh, you see. That must be it.
05:10No, I don't see. So, tell me about Wales.
05:13Wales?
05:14Wales?
05:15I don't know if I'll be much good at that.
05:18All I know is that someday I have to go back there.
05:21Stand on the hilltop, look down across the valley.
05:26It's difficult to explain.
05:28Yes.
05:30To explain the things you love best.
05:32Hello, the first.
05:33Yes, Megan.
05:34OK.
05:35Hold on.
05:36Partridge!
05:37She may have gone to Perry.
05:38One moment, sir.
05:39She hasn't.
05:40She's on her way down.
05:41Partridge, Beatrice had tea with you. What time did she leave?
05:44She never come, Mr. Barton.
05:45But Miss Megan says...
05:46She should have.
05:47I waited tea for her because she said she was worried and wanted to talk to me.
05:49Worried?
05:50She's a fly-by-night, that one.
05:51All right, Partridge.
05:52I'm sorry to have disturbed you.
05:53Hello, Megan.
05:54I'm sorry to have disturbed you.
05:55Hello, Megan.
05:56She never turned up.
05:57Oh.
05:58Probably wasn't.
05:59She's a fly-by-night, that one.
06:00All right, Partridge.
06:01I'm sorry to have disturbed you.
06:02Hello, Megan.
06:03She never turned up.
06:04Oh.
06:05Oh.
06:06Oh.
06:07Oh.
06:08Oh.
06:09Oh.
06:10Oh.
06:11Oh.
06:12Oh.
06:13Oh.
06:14Oh.
06:15Oh.
06:16Oh.
06:17Oh.
06:18Oh.
06:19Oh.
06:20Oh.
06:21Oh.
06:22Oh.
06:23Oh.
06:24Oh.
06:25I've just turned off with that young manifest.
06:27Yes.
06:28Look, is anything wrong?
06:29You say I'm worried?
06:31Has anything happened?
06:32Look, is there anything I can do?
06:33That can be run in a minute.
06:34Thanks.
06:36I'll carry around a minute.
06:38Thanks.
06:58Beatrice?
07:06Oh, it's you, Miss Megan.
07:16Oh, Rose. Beatrice.
07:18I thought she might have come in.
07:20That's funny.
07:24She never put on her best dress.
07:26No.
07:28But avenues off, she always do.
07:36But, somebody can come and give,
07:38oh, I need to make that dress,
07:40I'd say things got more.
07:59She always wins.
08:01It's more in the middle of the street.
08:03Oh, hello. Who is it?
08:28Phone, Mr. Burton. That's Miss Megan.
08:32Coming.
08:33Urgent, you say?
08:36All right, Pudridge.
08:53Hello, Megan.
08:54Oh, Gerry, thank God.
08:56Beatrice, she's dead.
08:57Oh, my God.
08:58She's been murdered.
08:59Gerry murdered!
09:00No, listen, just try and keep calm.
09:02I'll be right over with you.
09:03All right?
09:13Corgert.
09:14Put a man on every door.
09:15No one in, no one out on further notice.
09:16Clear?
09:17Johnson?
09:18Yes?
09:19On the door.
09:37All right, sir.
09:38All right, let's take a loaf.
09:40I'd say between 15 and 20 hours.
09:43This is all yours.
09:45Bill?
09:46Sir?
09:47What's that?
09:48I told you about this here house, didn't I?
09:54Let's hear the luck.
09:55Wouldn't let me in do my work, would they?
09:56I suppose they would.
09:57I would suppose they would.
09:58This way, it's not yet.
09:59I should see.
10:12This way, it's not yet.
10:34Just one moment, sir.
10:35You can't go in there, sir.
10:37But Miss Megan phoned me.
10:38As as may be, sir, that I got my orders.
10:42Oh, Jerry!
10:53Now then, Miss, you can't come out here.
10:56I'll take her in, can't you?
10:58Oh.
10:58Oh, if you would, sir.
11:03Hold hard.
11:04She can't come out and you can't go in.
11:07I told you.
11:08Can't you see the state this girl is in?
11:09Now, either I take her in, or you take the consequences.
11:18Consequences?
11:19But she was off for the whole afternoon.
11:23No.
11:24That's what we all reckoned, you see.
11:26But George learnt me.
11:28She come back.
11:30She came back.
11:31Oh, my dear.
11:36Oh, come and sit down.
11:39Oh, there.
11:40Oh.
11:42A cup of tea, I think, Rose.
11:44And a plenty of sugar.
11:45And some brandy, if there is any.
11:46We'll find some.
11:47Oh, and after that, a couple of hot water bottles.
11:51We need to get her to bed.
11:52Yes.
11:52Oh, that's a relief.
11:56Sent the boys off to stay with their cousin.
11:58Thank goodness.
12:00What a day.
12:02Sorry.
12:03Megan, what on earth's the matter with you?
12:05Miss Holland, just give me a moment, will you?
12:11Yeah, my dear.
12:12You'll be all right soon.
12:14I'll give you a nice cup of tea, and then put you to a nice wooden bed.
12:18She's in a state of shock.
12:21Well, we all are, aren't we?
12:23But you didn't find the body, did you?
12:27How is Mr. Symington?
12:29Shaken.
12:29Very shaken.
12:31Do something for me, will you?
12:32I'll try.
12:33Good girl.
12:34Go in there, will you?
12:35Stay with him.
12:36Try to get his mind off it.
12:38I'll do my best.
12:39That's the stuff.
12:44What the devil are you doing here?
12:46Megan, phone to me.
12:48I give Johnson a strict one.
12:50How the hell did you get past him?
12:52It happens to be a bloody good thing that I did.
12:54The girl's deeply shocked, and there's no one here gives a tinker's curse.
12:57All right, all right.
12:59Oh, the squadron leader.
13:01Good God.
13:03Now, don't worry.
13:04Rose is going to bring her up in a moment.
13:07She'll look after her.
13:08Tell me, has all of Limston got past Constable Johnson?
13:12Oh, I'm so very sorry.
13:13You see, I was talking to Rose the cook.
13:15Good.
13:15Good.
13:16And I've learned something which I think is rather important.
13:19Don't you?
13:20Possibly, if you'd be good enough to tell me what it is.
13:23It's Beatrice, you see.
13:25She came back to the house.
13:26She never left the house, Miss Marple.
13:28No, no, no, I'm so sorry.
13:29I'm talking about the day poor Mrs. Symington died.
13:32Now, Beatrice quarreled with her boyfriend, George, isn't it?
13:35Down at the garage.
13:37And she came back.
13:38She was here all that afternoon.
13:40Now, that does rather change things, doesn't it?
13:44Rose didn't tell me this.
13:46Oh, really, did she not?
13:48No.
13:49Well, perhaps you never asked her.
13:52Anything else, Miss Marple?
13:55No, I don't think so.
13:56No, not at the moment.
13:58And perhaps the two of you would be good enough to leave the premises.
14:01Oh, yes, yes, of course.
14:02Come along, Miss Gordon, either.
14:03Oh, forgive me, Superintendent, but I hope that you don't find, or, how shall I put it, find me irritating.
14:18Dismiss the thought, Miss Marple.
14:20Oh, good, I'm so glad.
14:23Yes.
14:25Just a moment, madam.
14:27I got my orders.
14:28No one in, no one out.
14:32Goodness, what excitement.
14:33And the Sunday newspapers.
14:36Can't you just imagine?
14:37I don't wish to.
14:39Those journalists at the Swan, drunk every night, I hear.
14:43The pause.
14:44But confess now.
14:45Don't you feel just the teeny-weeniest little bit of a thrill?
14:48You may, Mr. Pye.
15:02Bye.
15:03I won't be touching that if I were you.
15:13What?
15:14That there machine.
15:15This typewriter.
15:16Why not?
15:17That's the one, weren't it?
15:18The one what?
15:19It was used for all them envelopes.
15:22Who told you that?
15:23Constable Johnson told my Arthur.
15:26All written down at the women's, he say, on that there machine.
15:30They can tell, you see.
15:32That's science.
15:33That's science.
15:34Mr. Symington gave us his typewriter, Mrs. Cleet.
15:37Never said otherwise.
15:39But that were a long time ago, weren't it?
15:41You were setting out the chairs, weren't you?
15:44That was a long time ago, too.
15:50Do you think it's true?
15:51It's true, all right.
15:53That old bitch has an unfailing nose for the nasty.
15:57In that case, surely all of us here aren't...
16:00Yes, we're all under suspicion.
16:22Oh, no.
16:30Partridge?
16:40Partridge?
16:56Oh, Partridge.
16:57I've done the shop and the butcher's delivered.
16:59Fine, but when's the next pass?
17:00Lemster.
17:04Right, then I must dash.
17:10Hey!
17:13Hey!
17:23In my language.
17:26Hello.
17:27I'm not going to wail.
17:28Let's just limp spin.
17:29Jump in.
17:38Bit of luck.
17:39I was going to call you.
17:40That's nice.
17:42Wondered if you might care to have dinner on Saturday.
17:44Dinner?
17:45Just the two of us?
17:46Well, your brother, Nerrell, as well, of course.
17:50Why, of course?
17:51Well, because I...
17:52Well, because I, uh...
17:53You think I might be bored?
17:54In need of a chaperone?
17:56No, not that exactly.
17:58Oh, well, I'm quite a big girl now.
18:01Hadn't you noticed?
18:02I noticed.
18:03I noticed.
18:04So?
18:05Well, you're also a very sophisticated young lady.
18:09Used to the bright lights, too.
18:11Big city.
18:12Haven't met many, you see.
18:14And that scares you?
18:15No, I wouldn't say that.
18:17It just leaves me wondering what's behind the glitter.
18:21The polish.
18:22That's what I want to know.
18:23Oh, and that's marvelous.
18:25Well, at least you're interested.
18:27In knowing where I'm supposed to be taking you.
18:30Lord, didn't I tell you?
18:31Police station.
18:32You do see my little worry, don't you, superintendent?
18:39I think so.
18:40However, the suicide note was written by Mrs. Symington.
18:43No doubt about that.
18:44On just a scrap of paper?
18:47Yes, perhaps.
18:49Unusual, I would have thought.
18:51Would you?
18:52But then suicide isn't exactly usual, is it?
18:56Oh, indeed not.
18:58But surely this is a good thing.
19:01But surely these letters are usually more formal.
19:04Perhaps in a way a justification of the act.
19:07Certainly not one sentence.
19:09I can't go on written on a scrap of paper torn at the edges.
19:13I begin to feel a bit torn at the edges myself, Miss Marple.
19:22Oh, that's you, Mr. Burton.
19:24You're back.
19:25Mm.
19:26Is Miss Joanna around?
19:27She went rushing after Lemsdon.
19:29There's nothing you'd like, sir?
19:31Oh, just a whiskey and soda, please, Partridge.
19:37Yes, of course, Miss Marple.
19:38I do take your warning, but...
19:40Excuse me, sir.
19:41Very urgent, she says, sir.
19:43Who says, Jonathan?
19:45Well, er, this young lady here, sir.
19:48Superintendent, another of those awful letters.
19:51Just arrived.
19:52Second post.
19:53Miss Marple.
19:54Oh, forgive me, please.
19:55Oh, my dear child.
19:56Of course.
19:57Oh.
19:58Oh.
19:59Forgive me, please.
20:00Oh, my dear child.
20:01Of course.
20:02Can't wait.
20:03Thank you, I'll see your wife.
20:04Oh, my dear.
20:05Oh, my dear.
20:06Oh, my dear you are.
20:07Oh, my dear.
20:23I love you, Mr. Burton.
20:24Wait.
20:25Oh, Lord.
20:27Oh, my God.
20:57You found this amongst Miss Barton's books, did you?
21:24Right.
21:25How very perceptive of you, squadron leader.
21:28Not really.
21:30It was an old book.
21:31And the print...
21:32Reminded you of the first letter that you received.
21:36Miss Barton, eh?
21:38Well, well, well.
21:39Very hard.
21:41And this envelope, addressed to Miss Burton.
21:44Well, do forgive me, Superintendent, but have you noticed
21:47the U in Burton has been altered from an A.
21:53Yes.
21:55But who on earth would want to describe Miss Barton as a painted trollop?
22:00Very odd.
22:01Very odd indeed.
22:02We need picking up for me.
22:14Right, shall do.
22:15And come back without that stick.
22:16Okay.
22:17Thanks, Jane.
22:17Good luck.
22:18Return to London, please.
22:27Yes, sir.
22:34Thank you, sir.
22:41Hello.
22:42Hello.
22:43What brings you here?
22:45Nothing.
22:46Just met Partridge.
22:48Thought I'd come and see you off.
22:50Wanted to make sure I'm going, eh?
22:51Not true.
22:53You know that.
22:54Well, in that case, you'd better come and see me off.
22:57Doing anything special in London?
23:13Monthly medical.
23:14Air ministry want to make sure that Owen the Doc isn't killing me off.
23:23Here she comes.
23:27Will you be away a very long time?
23:31No.
23:32Only as long as it takes.
23:57You will come back soon, won't you?
24:05Here.
24:07Come on.
24:10Here, watch that door.
24:13But I haven't got a ticket.
24:15We'll soon fix that.
24:16But why?
24:17What for?
24:18Because I suddenly felt like Professor Higgins.
24:20And you're going to be my Eliza Doolett.
24:22Who's she?
24:23You'll soon find out.
24:24You'll soon find out.
24:54Thanks for that.
24:55Thanks for hearing.
25:02Bye-bye.
25:04Bye-bye.
25:08Bye.
25:10We'll see you next time.
25:15Bye-bye.
25:21when I'm old and still beautiful now don't laugh at me with you now tell me is
25:50that where I'm going to finish up organizing jumble sales coffee mornings bottling
25:56Jan you're fishing girl and you're impossible yeah good night good night who was that didn't see
26:20well here you are thanks this lot ashes to ashes guess so
26:38well good night and thanks again and and it's just that you and Joanna are so kind put up with me
26:50I just like to I have to tell you I want to kiss you
26:56good night
27:05good night
27:12good night
27:14good night
27:20good night
27:24good night
27:37good night
27:43So, let's go.
28:13and whether you didn't squadron leader it's you superintendent on your way home
28:23sir yes the whole place was dark just now I was just wondering yes of course
28:28it's getting late sir and you want me on my way good night
28:36miss Holland received it this morning mark isn't it not quite so explicit as
28:45last time I mean the sex details this one I thought you should have it as soon as
28:48possible sooner the better how did miss Holland take it she's got guts that girl
28:57hasn't received one before has she no no I don't think so look Nash aren't you
29:03on to anyone yet Mary and this letter could be just the break we need well
29:08let's hope so well thanks for your help I'll get the experts on
29:27oh hold the fort miss Ginch I won't be long got a call to make very well mr.
29:32Symington where's the inspector inside sir
29:40Crawford take it for prints right away no cut-up printed words this time type
29:48written the whole lot and if it tallies up with what we've already got by God we're
29:52in business
30:06Edward hello you very busy knitting as a matter of fact Owen's on his rounds oh how stupid of me of course
30:14he is anything I can do well I don't know come in please it's those knockout powders that Owen gave
30:22me I couldn't find them I hid him somewhere in case the children might do anyway I didn't sleep a wink
30:28last night it's all right I have the prescription Owen can always write another for my records
30:33so sit down a moment
30:36thanks
30:44don't go miss laying these now Edward
30:47don't worry I've learned my lesson you know what you need now is someone to take you in hand take care
30:56of you you read all these what tax books history of British medicine once upon a time I wanted to be a
31:07doctor to you see only there wasn't enough money and Owen was the boy girls have to learn to tag along
31:15here we are don't forget only one take two and just sleep for 24 hours and how would the law in
31:26Lindstone get on them Errol yes Edward bless you you've just about saved my life
31:34miss Griffith I'd like a word please of course thank you Nash again what brings you here or you sir
31:53oh I know the need to sleep nights I see I'd prefer to talk in private it's quite all right
32:03mr. Symington's an old friend very well mean anything to you miss Griffith
32:12nothing no nothing at all and if I tell you that you were observed typing that letter at the women's
32:23institute the night before last it's ridiculous it's not what you think not think miss Griffith no
32:30superintendent if I may interrupt whatever miss Griffith may or may not have done she is entitled to
32:39legal representation as a lawyer and a friend no it would don't go away please go away but my dear girl
32:50no I don't want you to hear I don't want to see you I want you to know just go away
33:00I'll be in touch miss Griffith I have a warrant for your arrest for the matter of Beatrice Dunn down at the
33:15station you may wish to make a statement meantime you have the right to remain silent
33:19come on
33:20with a twith cone Crawford
33:28sir
33:28infatuated with Symington she certainly was I've known that for ages but to kill
33:37never couldn't not even a fly
33:41there must be something we can do there's nothing anyone can do at the moment anyway if there were
33:48he'd be doing it I know that the whole place is crawling with coppers tearing the place apart
33:54every drawer every cupboard in Errol's bedroom they've even had the carpet up now they're turning
34:00over the dispensary in the waiting room god knows what they hope to find
34:04oh the inspector say to let you know sir we're taking these away what we're from
34:14uh them books in the bookshelf sir and the dispensary pestle have you no idea what it's used for
34:21I can't rightly say myself sir but the inspector he do say that could be the murder weapon more
34:27likely thank you very much sir
34:35oh dear I'm certain they've arrested the wrong person
34:39the letter to the governors they saw her typing it they saw her
34:43poor thing what if they did proves nothing
34:46and the printed pages with the letters and the words torn out just behind the desk nothing as well
34:50well nothing much I mean after all maude dear if she had all those pages
34:54why did she type the letter none of the others were only the envelope
35:00oh I feel so frustrated so helpless so slow
35:05perhaps
35:07wonder
35:09maude I have an idea may I use your telephone
35:16of course dear
35:17yes
35:17no not yet
35:20now first you know everyone round about here
35:24I want you to tell me more about the Symington stepdaughter little miss megan
35:29you happy Elsie
35:35of course why shouldn't I be
35:39so am I
35:54I'd like a word oh yes yes of course leave us Elsie please just a minute now Elsie
36:05what did you mean by that I want some money you have your allowance isn't it enough not enough
36:23well in a few months time you'll come into your grandmother's money I want it from you do you
36:35would you mind coming to the point young lady
36:37very well I saw what you did to my mother's sedative powders in the bedroom
36:42that afternoon I don't know what you mean by that
36:48and I didn't hear it
36:54but you are of an age now I suppose you need certain things
37:00clothes and all that
37:01and all that
37:02and all that
37:03so
37:04so
37:07five hundred
37:16five thousand
37:18five thousand
37:18five thousand
37:20five thousand
37:34all right
37:42for the time being
38:04oh yes yes of course I do realize squadron leader that it is a calculated risk
38:23you see my one fear is of being dismissed as a stupid old woman in that case I shall
38:29have to rely upon a man with your sort of courage well I just hope you're right Miss
38:35Marble I'll be right over with you
38:40ah you're not finished yet Rose when I'd leave for breakfast sir then upstairs with
38:46Miss Megan's milk and after bed quick as a wink nothing he was looking for sir no no no no just
38:52a match there's a box over there on the stove sir good night good night Rose
39:13I don't have you any idea of the position you put me into should this go wrong I don't know what
39:18they'll do to you I know what they'll do to me I'll have my guts for guidance oh do try to forgive me
39:23superintendent by one wish throughout has been to help help yes help you
39:48you
39:53you
39:56you
39:58you
40:01you
40:05you
40:07PIANO PLAYS
40:37PIANO PLAYS
41:07PIANO PLAYS
41:24Gary.
41:28Ah!
41:30I'll just stand there, Tulston.
41:32Uh, yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
42:02Heart and pulse, perfectly normal. She'll soon be back with us.
42:09Thank God he didn't give her an overdose.
42:13But why he didn't?
42:15Too risky. Too obvious.
42:17Have to answer too many questions.
42:19It was his sedative, wasn't it?
42:21But a gas stove and a poor girl brooding over the loss of mum.
42:25Just the job.
42:27Well, must be on my skates.
42:29Superintendent, may I congratulate you on having had the courage?
42:33Of your convictions, Miss Marple. Thanks.
42:37Oh, by the way, Doctor, we shall be holding your sister.
42:40We know that Symington planted those cut-up pages in your waiting room.
42:43And that last letter?
42:45Ah, yes. Well, silly that. Silly girl.
42:50People not infrequently do silly things when they're very much in love, don't they?
42:55And some very evil things, like Mr Symington.
42:58Still, makes the world go round, so they tell us. Sometimes.
43:03But why did she?
43:05Ask Miss Marple.
43:07Usually has the right answers.
43:09Well, good day.
43:11One moment, Superintendent.
43:15Well?
43:17Well, perhaps it was all the chatter.
43:20The thought that Miss Holland did intend to become the second Mrs Symington.
43:25And perhaps the letter might scare her away.
43:29Oh.
43:30Oh.
43:31Megan.
43:35Megan, darling.
43:37I was so sorry.
43:42Thank you for all you did, my dear. You were very brave.
43:47Now take great care of her.
43:56Is everything all right?
43:58It is now.
44:08Ah, Miss Holland.
44:10You're off.
44:12I couldn't stay in this house a moment longer.
44:15It gives me the creeps.
44:17And besides, they'll all be saying it was my fault.
44:20And I had no idea. No idea at all.
44:23When gentlemen of a certain age fall in love,
44:27they get the disease very badly.
44:30Well, goodbye.
44:32And good luck.
44:41She'll be all right.
44:46Well, Doctor, as you predicted, the patient is once again with us.
44:50Good.
44:52Dinner tonight, please.
44:54And just with me.
44:56If that's what the doctor orders.
44:58He does.
45:01Megan, you took a terrible risk, Jane dear.
45:04Oh, I had no idea, but I just had to.
45:06And the superintendent was rather splendid, don't you think?
45:11Ah, how is she?
45:13All right, I think Owen's just making sure.
45:16What I still don't understand is when all this started.
45:19Oh, ages ago, I imagine.
45:21Soon after Miss Holland arrived.
45:23All those anonymous letters typed on that machine of his before giving it away to the Women's Institute.
45:29It was all a smokescreen, was he?
45:31He wanted everybody to suspect a woman, and they did.
45:34Everyone watching the smoke.
45:35No one seeing the fire.
45:37And, of course, his main purpose was murder.
45:42How absolutely cold-blooded.
45:45It was.
45:46He is.
45:47My envelope, the one with the A, turned into a U.
45:50Ah, well, that was originally intended for Miss Barton.
45:53But the U wasn't typed on the same machine.
45:55Now, that was a very silly mistake of his and quite unworthy of him.
45:58Jane dear, tragic little Beatrice.
46:00However, did she get involved?
46:02Because he chose to dispose of his wife on an afternoon when he knew that she'd be quite alone in the house.
46:08A Wednesday.
46:09Directly after lunch, he put cyanide in Mrs. Symington's sedative and then went back to the office.
46:14When he returned, he went to the nursery where he was given a cup of tea, which he took up to their room.
46:19He crumpled a poison pen letter, dropped it on the floor, together with the suicide note, and then raised the alarm.
46:26Oh, he is, of course, a consummate actor.
46:28But the suicide note, I can't go on.
46:30It was in her handwriting.
46:32Yes, but suicide notes aren't written on scraps of paper torn from telephone pads, are they?
46:37I can't go on what?
46:40I can't go on Friday and Saturday, perhaps.
46:43He must have found it, thought it might be useful, and kept it.
46:47I know I'm somewhat slow at this kind of thing, Jane, but I still don't understand why Beatrice...
46:52Ah, Beatrice. Now, that was a quarrel, you see.
46:55What the murderer couldn't know was that Beatrice would quarrel with her boyfriend and then return to the house.
47:01Where she saw what happened?
47:03She saw absolutely nothing.
47:06Not only no penitent boyfriend, nothing.
47:09Nothing dropped through the letterbox.
47:11No postman with the anonymous letter said to have been delivered. Nothing.
47:15Later and slowly, of course, the poor child put things together and became troubled and was going to see Partridge.
47:22And that's why she bought it.
47:24How did he manage it?
47:26Well, again, it was a Wednesday, you see.
47:28He pretended to depart for the office, but he didn't.
47:31He slammed the front door, came back into the hall and hid.
47:34All the others went off leaving poor little Beatrice, always the last, quite alone.
47:39Well, perhaps he rang the front doorbell and she came into the hall to answer it
47:43and was struck down from behind and thrust into a cupboard.
47:46No one noticed his late arrival back at the office
47:49and, of course, Partridge never learned what was troubling the poor unfortunate girl.
47:53Jane, you're quite marvellous. Isn't she, everyone?
47:57Quite. But supposing things had gone wrong, what would have happened to Meghan then?
48:01Now, Squadron Leader, you know better than most that we are not put into this world to avoid danger.
48:08Not when an innocent person's life is at stake.
48:11All right, Miss Marple. You sold Meghan the idea. I'll have to go along with that.
48:16Yes.
48:17See you later.
48:19Oh, my dear, that brother of yours.
48:22Lots of courage. They'll make a fine pair, those two.
48:25And so will you with that nice doctor upstairs.
48:29Now, Maud, do you know what I would really like?
48:31Jane, I can't imagine.
48:33But you only have to say.
48:35Well, I wonder, dare I ask, would it be possible for all of us to have a nice cup of tea?