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When a young bride moves into a country manor, long-repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface. Starring: Joan Hickson, Geraldine Alexander, John Moulder-Brown.
When a young bride moves into a country manor, long-repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface. Starring: Joan Hickson, Geraldine Alexander, John Moulder-Brown.
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01:29I like the sound of it. Anyway, I've hardly seen the sea yet.
01:35Going for a paddle, Gwendolyn?
01:37I might very well. Don't be superior. It's all new to me, darling. That's what you don't understand.
01:59I've got to take a look at that.
02:11I've got to take a look at that.
02:15What?
02:16That house.
02:22Gwendolyn, what on earth would you do with a vast place like that?
02:25Live in it. It's just what I want. What I've always dreamed of.
02:31And the agents are in Dillmouth. See, I was right to come.
02:35Darling, you can't buy a house in Dillmouth when you're just married. People retire to Dillmouth.
02:39Well, I'm just an ignorant New Zealander. I can do what I want.
02:46Galbraith and Penderly in Four Street.
02:50Well, all right, if that's what you want. But it's the last house we see today.
02:54It might be the last house we're going to see. But that's all.
03:09It seems rather large. Is it seven bedrooms?
03:12Six. In my opinion, the seventh is a dressing room.
03:15It's a lovely big room, Mrs. Hangrave. But you can't see the sea.
03:32Are you a Devon man, Mr. Reid?
03:34Yes. I was born in Plymouth. But my wife has never been to England before.
03:38I just flew back last week. After three years in New Zealand.
03:42On business?
03:45Yes. The meat marketing board.
03:48My husband was with the bank.
03:50Really?
03:54And the secretary of the golf club.
03:56He was very much attached to Dillmouth.
03:59Leaning cupboards here.
04:07Is this the bathroom?
04:09Oh, yes, it is.
04:11With a mahogany surround.
04:13Oh, Giles, look, isn't that wonderful?
04:15It's quite old-fashioned, but my husband wouldn't change it.
04:18Oh, I really love it.
04:19I can just see celluloid ducts in a bath like that.
04:23I think you mean plastic, Gwendo.
04:25I was celluloid when I was little.
04:27And then there must be another bedroom here.
04:31I'm sorry, Mrs. Hangrave.
04:32It's just that I feel so at home here.
04:38Oh, my God.
04:41This is the room for me.
04:44And there's the seat.
04:46What's up?
05:01I don't know.
05:03It's like vertigo.
05:05Someone on my grave.
05:06This house isn't haunted, is it?
05:11I never heard so.
05:13But someone died here.
05:17My husband died in St. Monica's nursing home.
05:21Of course, you told us.
05:26I'm never so sorry.
05:28In a house of this age, there must have been some deaths.
05:31Miss Elworthy, from whom we purchased it seven years ago,
05:34was in excellent health.
05:37She went abroad to do missionary work.
05:40And now I expect you'll want to see the garden.
05:43We have a man who comes twice a week,
05:46but it's so difficult to get people since the war,
05:48and it's not exactly relevant.
05:50Oh, dear.
05:52Excuse me.
05:53Yes, of course.
05:56Do you think it's someone else wanting to view?
05:59Well, I doubt it.
06:00The price is pretty steep.
06:02Well, that Forsythia will have to go.
06:04It completely blocks the view.
06:06Anyway, there should be steps here down to the lawn.
06:09The steps?
06:10Gwenda, I thought this place gave you the creeps.
06:13Oh, that was just silly.
06:15I really want it, Giles.
06:16Aunt Mary's furniture will be perfect.
06:19It's 500 over the top.
06:21Make an offer, then.
06:23Do a brutal deal with Galbraith and Penderly and feel happy.
06:26We've got to get up.
06:50Why?
06:50Just because you're a man of leisure for the next two months.
06:55Oh, moving into this house is the hardest work I've ever done in my life.
07:00And the workman will be here, and Mrs Cocker.
07:03She said something yesterday about the devil and idle hands,
07:07and I think she meant you.
07:09Hi, Mrs Cocker.
07:20They make a powerful lot of dust, they workman.
07:22Yes, I know.
07:23I found this to cover the table in the dining room.
07:26It's quite valuable.
07:27Not a bit too soon, in my opinion, madam.
07:29I'll do it now, then.
07:30Oh, dear.
07:35How silly of me.
07:36I always think there's a door through here.
07:38Well, it would save a tiny bit of trouble, madam, to have a door there.
07:41Do you think so?
07:42I'll have a word with Mr Simms about it.
07:45If you could put this on the table for me,
07:47I'll take this up to my husband and get his breakfast.
07:50Very well, madam.
07:52It's from Raymond West.
07:54Who?
07:55Raymond West, my cousin in town, the writer.
07:59I told you about him.
08:00Oh, yes.
08:01What does he want?
08:03He wants us to spend a few days with them in London.
08:06He says he and Jen are dying to meet you and show you around.
08:09Oh, no, Giles.
08:11Oh, Gwendo, why not?
08:12They're perfectly harmless.
08:13It might be an idea for us to have a break.
08:16There are one or two things I should do in town.
08:20Why don't you want to go?
08:22There's too much to do here.
08:24You know, it'll be chaos.
08:26Darling, it'll be chaos anyway.
08:28Why don't we let Sims and Mrs Cocker fight it out while we take a break?
08:33No.
08:34You go if you want, darling.
08:36It's you they want to see after all these years.
08:38I'll stay here.
08:42You'll be lonely.
08:43Don't be too sure.
08:45I might have a mad affair with Reg.
08:47Reg?
08:47He's the mason.
08:49Is he now?
08:54Your good call.
08:55Oh.
08:55I know.
08:56No.
08:58What?
08:59No.
09:00No.
09:00No.
09:01look like you're going back to old times miss old times yeah come across the old steps see
09:27just like you want them now when someone planted over and covered them up that was silly of them
09:33you want a view here down to the lawn and the sea yes and they shrubs will make it dark in the
09:39earth too still they was growing a treat well the saithia ain't much but they vigilers they cost
09:46money oh but this is much nicer yeah well maybe it is mr. foster who lived here before the hangraves
09:57they didn't stay in this house very long no matter of six years or so and for them the miss ellsworthies
10:04churchy folk missions to the even who was it for that oh yes i know this is findison proper gentry
10:12she was planted most of this garden before i were born did she die here no died out in egypt or some
10:20such place but they brought her home here and she buried in the churchyard there when none of they
10:25new houses built up along then yeah changes well i suppose they have to be changes improvements
10:32well i don't see any that used to be the cottage hospital down there nice and handy and then they
10:39goes and builds that new place a mile out of town changes all the time now what's the good of that
10:44you can't do no proper planting if you don't plan ahead
10:47what do you fancy mrs reed we've got a nice candy stripe we do a lot of that one or two walls and a
10:55matching emulsion i don't know mr sims it's contemporary this won't be your room i take it
11:04well not when the other's been decorated i do like this room been the nursery at one time i fancy
11:13what it bars on the windows still i know what i want i want a wallpaper with bunches of tiny scarlet poppies
11:27and something else yes poppies and bunches of blue cornflowers
11:36to match this a white background and bunches of red and blue flowers oh mrs reed oh and another
11:44thing this is stuck even my husband couldn't get it open do you think
11:50oh been painted over a good few times
11:56i can't never see to that the redecorating will take care of any damage
12:02and it won't alter the estimate mr sims because my husband oh bless us now it got some good news
12:10for you on that scar as it happens mrs reed you have that door downstairs to the dining room you said
12:16you wanted well red scrape some plaster away he said there's been a door there before there was a
12:23door simplest thing in the world to put it back so that'll take a few pounds off what i quoted you
12:29i knew there was a door i knew there was a door common sense really but uh that wall paper you were talking
12:38about corn flares
12:40i can just see celluloid ducks in a mouth like that
12:57i think you mean plaster
12:59that door downstairs to the dining room that you said you wanted well red scrape some plaster away
13:08he said there's been a door there before
13:10make your point back all times miss
13:14all times yeah come across the old steps
13:17just like you want them now
13:19just like you want to take the other slide
13:22just like shib offline
13:27just like somebody told you I wanted to get it
13:29get the other line
13:29I want to make my point where they should have
13:33just like but if you have to help them
13:33you tell me again
13:35just like sometimes who is right
13:35I want to make every chance
13:37but I have каждый reminder
13:39I don't want to make my point
13:40that make my point
13:41this one
13:42I want to make my point
13:43and I want to make my point
13:44and I don't want to make my point
13:46to your point
13:46Brad said
13:46and I'll do it
13:48We were in the nursery one time, my fancy.
14:18We'd paint it over a good few times.
14:24My carpenter will see to that.
14:26The redecorating will take care of any damage.
14:48I want a wallpaper with bunches of tiny scarlet poppies and bunches of blue cornflowers.
15:08Hello? Hello?
15:24Giles? Are you all right, darling?
15:37Are you in London?
15:39Yes, I'm calling from the West.
15:41Look, Gwenda, they really would love you to come down just for a few days.
15:46Are you there? Gwenda?
15:49Yes. I'm here.
15:53Cop on a train. I'll see you at Paddington tomorrow. What do you say?
15:56Yes. Yes, I will.
15:58Splendid. Raymond and Joan will be chuffed.
16:01And there's someone they would like you to meet.
16:04And here she is, Aunt Jane. This is Giles' wife, Gwenda.
16:09How do you do, Miss Marple? Oh, how do you do?
16:11Do sit down. What an unusual name.
16:14It's Welsh. My mother was Welsh.
16:17Oh, but I thought Joan told me that you came from New Zealand.
16:20My mother died when I was born.
16:23We were living in India, so my father sent me out to New Zealand to live with relatives.
16:27It wasn't long before he died himself.
16:29Oh, dear me, such a treacherous climate.
16:32I know one or two old India hands in St. Berdymede. That's my village.
16:37Aunt Jane's something of a local celebrity.
16:40Oh, dear boy.
16:41He solves puzzles, and not the ones in the times.
16:44Well, I'm very fond of the crossword.
16:46What sort of puzzles, Miss Marple?
16:48Oh, well...
16:49Very murky puzzles, Giles.
16:51The things that happen in an English village would utterly amaze you.
16:54Which is why I suppose you spend so much time there, Raymond.
16:57Yes, my angel. The ambience suits me to perfection.
17:01Under the thatch of the lilacs and darjeeling, dark passions stir.
17:06Here in simple, uninhibited London, we need the arts to jazz things up.
17:09Which reminds me, we're taking you all to the court tonight.
17:12Oh, the court?
17:14It's a theatre, darling.
17:17Oh, thank goodness.
17:19More to the dark passions, actually.
17:21The Duchess of Mulfi.
17:23Where's the jam?
17:25Alas!
17:26How have these offended?
17:28The death of young wolves is never to be pitied.
17:32Fix your eyes here.
17:33Constantly.
17:34Do you not weep?
17:36Other sins only speak.
17:38Murder shrieks out.
17:40The element of water moistens the earth.
17:44But blood flies up and bedews the heavens.
17:49Cover her face.
17:51Mine eyes dazzle.
17:53She died young.
17:55I think not so.
17:57Her infelicity seemed to have years too many.
18:14She and I were twins.
18:18And should I die this instant, I had lived her time to a minute.
18:25It seems she was born first.
18:28You have bloodily approved the ancient truth
18:31that kindred commonly do worse agree than remote strangers.
18:35Let me see her face again.
18:38How do I know why she screamed?
18:41I don't see.
18:43Well, Webster was much possessed by death, of course.
18:46Oh, well done, Raymond.
18:48Personally, I loathe Jacobian drama.
18:51I suppose it was a shock.
18:53Boy, I think we should find it something much more than that, Jo.
18:58I must apologise.
19:00Gwenda's very sorry and so am I.
19:02She's gone to bed.
19:04Oh.
19:05How is she, poor dear?
19:07Well, she's still very shaken.
19:09I don't quite know what to do.
19:11It's all rather a muddle.
19:13Like one of your puzzles, Miss Marple.
19:15I don't think I should leave her alone too long.
19:18No.
19:19No.
19:20Well, I wonder.
19:21Well, I don't like to interfere, but you think I might possibly speak to her?
19:25That would be very kind.
19:26Yes, she'd like that.
19:28Oh, good.
19:29Yes, well then I'll go up, shall I?
19:30I'm pouring drinks, Aunt Jane.
19:32What do you want?
19:33Cocoa would be very nice.
19:35And hot sweet tea for Gwenda and lots of hot water bottles.
19:40You know the room?
19:47Have we any cocoa?
19:49Or hot water bottles.
19:51Dear Aunt Jane.
19:55Whiskey we have and you deserve a large one.
19:58Thanks.
19:59Gwenda's still very upset.
20:01Well, I think I'm going mad.
20:03I must be going mad.
20:06All those things that happened in the house.
20:10In Hillside.
20:12And then tonight.
20:16Yes.
20:30It happened.
20:32Quite suddenly.
20:33I was enjoying the play.
20:39Not thinking about the house or anything.
20:45And then he said those words.
20:47The Duke.
20:52Cover her face.
20:54My eyes dazzle.
20:56She died young.
20:59And I was there.
21:01On the stairs at Hillside.
21:03Looking down through the banisters.
21:05And I saw her lying there.
21:08Her hair all golden.
21:10And her face.
21:13She was strangled.
21:16There was a man.
21:18I saw his hands.
21:21They were grey.
21:26Wrinkled like monkey's paws.
21:29She was dead.
21:31Who was dead?
21:33Helen.
21:37Why did I say that?
21:39I don't know any Helen.
21:41You see, I'm mad.
21:43I want to see a psychiatrist at once.
21:45Unless it's too late.
21:47Well, you can always do that when you wish.
21:49But I think it's better to examine the simplest explanation first.
21:53Now, you say that several things about this house seem familiar.
21:57Is that right?
21:58Yes.
22:00Well, then.
22:01The easiest and most natural explanation is that you've seen them before.
22:05In another life, you mean?
22:07No, dear, no.
22:09I mean in this life.
22:11But I've never been in England until six weeks ago.
22:16My father sent me straight from India to New Zealand.
22:19And do you remember that?
22:20Do you remember the voyage to New Zealand?
22:22No.
22:24Well then, I think it's quite possible that you came to England for a time and actually lived at Hillside.
22:29And the room that you remember was probably your nursery.
22:33It was a nursery.
22:35There are bars on the window.
22:37But that's impossible.
22:40No, no.
22:41Not impossible.
22:43Just a remarkable coincidence.
22:45And in life, coincidences do happen.
22:49Remember, you chose the house.
22:52And you had no revulsion of feelings until that very definite moment when you started to come downstairs and looked into the hall.
22:59Then that's true as well.
23:02I mean, Helen?
23:04Well, dear, I think we have to face the fact that if those were memories, this is a memory too.
23:10Remember, you told me you saw the body through the banisters, just as you would have done standing on the stairs as a little child.
23:24I must speak to Aunt Alison.
23:30In New Zealand.
23:34She'll know.
23:44Oh, good morning, Miss Marple.
23:46Am I disturbing you?
23:47Oh, my dear boy, of course not. No, no, in the least.
23:49Gwenda's just coming down. She had breakfast on a train.
23:53It was pretty late before we got to bed last night.
23:56Oh, and was Gwenda able to get in touch with her relations in New Zealand?
24:00I don't think Aunt Alison quite realised it was the middle of the night here.
24:04But what you said to Gwenda was quite true.
24:07It seems her father took her to England after her mother's death.
24:10And on the way over, he met a young woman on the boat and married her in London.
24:15Oh, a stepmother.
24:16And did Aunt Alison recall her name?
24:19I gather she walked out on him quite soon.
24:21That's why Gwenda was sent to New Zealand.
24:23But Aunt Alison did remember one thing.
24:26They had a house in Devonshire.
24:29Dartmouth she thought it was, but it could have been Dilmouth.
24:32So that all fits.
24:34And did Gwenda explain to Aunt Alison why she was making all these inquiries?
24:37She said something about having a strong feeling she'd been in England before, but the line wasn't too hot.
24:43And Aunt Alison seems to have left one or two things unsaid in the past to Gwenda.
24:48Obviously it wasn't a happy marriage. I suppose she thought it best forgotten.
24:52Oh, there you are, my dear.
24:55Good morning, Miss Marple.
24:57Raymond's battering his typewriter, but where's Joan?
25:00In the studio.
25:02Has Giles told you all the news? And how brilliant you are?
25:05Oh.
25:07We just couldn't get to sleep.
25:09It seemed to explain so much, and then so much it didn't.
25:11Oh, yes, that's true now.
25:13We've got to find out, of course.
25:15Find out what?
25:17The truth.
25:18Who was Helen?
25:20And was she really murdered?
25:22I've got to know.
25:24Oh, my dear, I do advise you.
25:26I do advise you most strongly not to do that.
25:29Why?
25:31I expect it's all imagination, but Gwenda won't be happy until she knows.
25:35Giles is right, Miss Marple.
25:37I've got to see it through.
25:39Don't you understand?
25:40Oh, yes, of course.
25:41I understand.
25:42Because you're both so young and charming, and you're just beginning.
25:46And you simply can't imagine anything.
25:49Yes, I was thinking of Freddie Lovelace.
25:52He was dairyman at Home Farm,
25:55and his mother had apparently once won first prize for chrysanthemums.
25:59Oh, long before Freddie was born.
26:02Quite a triumph for her.
26:04And when she died, he tried to find the certificate to have it framed.
26:08He was so proud of her, you see.
26:10Oh, it's a grave mistake.
26:12Why?
26:13It turned out she hadn't won?
26:15Oh, no, my dear, it turned out she wasn't his mother.
26:19All I'm saying is that I wish, oh, I do so wish, that you'd leave the past alone.
26:26Was it here?
26:27A bit nearer the stairs.
26:28I think it must be true, what Miss Marple said I mean.
26:41And you can't remember anything else here in the hall?
26:44Just Helen.
26:45Well, no-one in Dylmouth seems to know anything, so it can't have been a murder.
26:51The parish registry of deaths wasn't much help.
26:56What idiots.
26:58You know who we should ask?
26:59Who?
27:01The land agents.
27:03My father must have bought this house, or at least rented it.
27:07Of course.
27:09Galbraith and Penderly.
27:11It was a Halliday.
27:14My prep school, New Yorkshire.
27:2070 years ago.
27:22Good God, I know.
27:25Why come to me?
27:27I'm an old man.
27:29Retired years ago.
27:31We thought perhaps you might remember, Mr Galbraith.
27:35Because my father came here from India.
27:37And Mr Penderly said you were out there in the First World War.
27:41India, do you say?
27:43We think Gwenda's father might have rented Hillside.
27:47Well, was it called Hillside then?
27:52Was it, chap?
27:54Young wife and a baby.
27:56Little girl.
27:58That was me.
28:00Don't say so.
28:03Well, well.
28:07Now, what was his name?
28:10Halliday.
28:12That's right, my dear.
28:13Nice fellow.
28:15Very pretty wife.
28:17Young, fair-haired.
28:19Wanted to be near her people, or something like that.
28:23Yes, very pretty.
28:26Who were her people?
28:28Hmm?
28:29No idea.
28:31No idea at all, my dear.
28:33Didn't look like you.
28:35No, well...
28:38St Catherine's.
28:40Yes, that's what the place was called.
28:42It took St Catherine's at eight guineas a week.
28:46While Mrs Findersen was out in Egypt.
28:49Didn't she run off with someone, that young girl, Halliday's wife?
28:56We thought you might tell us.
28:59Oh.
29:01I don't know, my dear. It's a devil of a long time ago anyway.
29:05You can tell Beryl I want my drink.
29:06You can tell Beryl I want my drink.
29:07I didn't dream it then.
29:08So, my stepmother was young, and she had fear here.
29:11But we still don't know her name.
29:12I don't know.
29:13I don't know.
29:14I don't know.
29:15I don't know.
29:16Well, I don't know.
29:17I don't know.
29:18I don't know.
29:19I don't know.
29:20It's okay.
29:21I don't know.
29:22Let's see.
29:23But we still don't know her name.
29:29We didn't.
29:30So, your stepmother was young, and she had fear here.
29:37But we still don't know her name.
29:42We didn't. This is from Raymond.
29:45I asked him to make a cheque form at Somerset House.
29:48What's Somerset House?
29:50The Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
29:53Yes, here it is. A duplicate of your father's certificate.
29:56Kensington Registry Office, August 7th.
30:01Kelvin James Halliday to Helen Spenlove Kennedy.
30:09But it can't have been her you saw.
30:12Galbraith said she went away.
30:16How do we know?
30:19How do we know she went away?
30:26Whoa, whoa.
30:34Whoa, whoa.
30:37Whoa, whoa, whoa.
30:41Whoa.
30:42Whoa, whoa, whoa.
30:44What's up?
30:47Oh, God.
30:50Oh, God.
30:51What's up?
30:53I thought it was you.
30:58Well, my dear, I quite a surprise to you, I'm sure.
31:00What are you doing here?
31:02Well, my doctor ordered me to the seaside for a change,
31:06and you always told me how attractive doing this was,
31:08and I have a friend who had a cook
31:11who now takes borders on the front, so I came here.
31:14Well, why didn't you come and see us?
31:16Oh, I think the old person is rather a nuisance to a young married couple.
31:19No, not you.
31:20Well, it would have made me welcome, I'm sure.
31:23Well, now, how are you both getting on?
31:25To tell you the truth, I was thinking of you only a moment ago.
31:28You were?
31:29Yes.
31:29I've been studying the local newspaper.
31:32All the source of information.
31:34Ah.
31:35Then you've seen our advertisement.
31:37I'm afraid we haven't altogether taken your advice.
31:40Well, good advice is almost certain to be ignored,
31:43but that's no reason for not giving it.
31:46Now, I always find it personal so intriguing.
31:49Will anyone with the knowledge of Helen Spendler-Helliday,
31:52Mayor Kennedy, et cetera, et cetera?
31:55So it was Helen?
31:57Yes.
31:58Yes, it was.
31:59Well, you must forgive me if I seem concerned,
32:01but my life has so few excitement.
32:04And I know you won't think being positive
32:06if I asked you to let me know how you're getting on.
32:08No, of course not.
32:10If it wasn't for you, I'd probably been a loony bin.
32:13No, we'll tell you everything.
32:14And you must come to afternoon tea and see the house.
32:17We've put the advertisement in the Times as well,
32:21so we're bound to get some answers, don't you think?
32:23Yes.
32:24I think so.
32:26I do think so, my dear.
32:29Goulds Hill, Woodley Bolton.
32:32Dear son,
32:33in answer to your advertisement in the Times,
32:36Helen Spendler-Hell Kennedy is my sister.
32:39I've lost touch with her for many years
32:41and should be glad to have news of her.
32:43Yours faithfully, James Kennedy, MD.
32:47Good Lord.
32:48You don't mean to tell me you're Gwenny.
32:51Yes.
32:52I'm Gwenny.
32:54This goes for some ceremony.
32:56We must have tea.
32:57Please sit down.
33:01So, you've bought the house in Dylmouth, have you?
33:04Yes.
33:05It's quite a strange coincidence.
33:07We bought Hillside.
33:09I believe you told me on the phone.
33:12It was for sale, you see.
33:13Hmm?
33:14It's the same house my father had all those years ago.
33:18Hillside?
33:19Oh, but surely...
33:20They changed the name, I think, just before the war.
33:23I got the right place.
33:25On the Leighampton Road, as you go down into town.
33:27Yes.
33:28It used to be called St Catherine's.
33:30Of course.
33:31Ah, Mrs Rowe, we thought we'd have some tea, some cakes, or some hot butter toast, or something.
33:42I don't usually go in for tea.
33:45What made you want to come back to St Catherine's?
33:47You can't remember much about it, surely.
33:50No, very little.
33:51But somehow it felt like home.
33:53It felt like home.
33:54So, I hoped you could tell me all about it.
33:59My father and Helen.
34:02Well, everything.
34:04Well, there's not much.
34:06Helen was coming back from India.
34:08She met your father on the boat.
34:09He'd lost his wife, fell in love with her, and she felt sorry for him.
34:14And there you are.
34:16It's hard to know how these things happen.
34:19But they married in London, and then they came down to me.
34:22I was in practice in Dilmuth then.
34:25A nice fellow, Kelvin.
34:27A bit nervy and run down, but they were very happy together then.
34:31However, in less than a year, she'd run away with someone else.
34:35You probably know about that.
34:37Who did she run away with?
34:38She didn't tell me.
34:39I wasn't in her confidence.
34:42But I'd seen, I couldn't help seeing, there was some friction between her and Kelvin.
34:48She didn't want me to know what was going on.
34:50I wouldn't have approved.
34:52Delvin had people to stay with him.
34:54I always imagined it was one of them.
34:56There wasn't a divorce then?
34:58Oh, no.
34:58Helen didn't want a divorce.
35:00Kelvin told me that.
35:02That's why I imagined, perhaps wrongly, it was a case of some married man.
35:06Someone whose wife was a Catholic, perhaps.
35:08And my father?
35:10He didn't want a divorce either.
35:13Why did he suddenly decide to send me to New Zealand?
35:17Well, I gather your people out there were pressing him, and after the breakup of the marriage...
35:21But why didn't he take me himself?
35:23I don't know.
35:25He was in rather poor health at the time.
35:28But what did he die of?
35:30I'm afraid I don't remember all the details.
35:32As I say, he was in poor health.
35:34And he went to a sanatorium somewhere on the east coast, and he died there about two years later.
35:40Where was it exactly?
35:43I'm sorry.
35:44I don't remember.
35:45Can you tell us where he was buried?
35:47You know, I don't think we should dwell on the past.
35:51It was all such a long time ago.
35:54And we rather lost touch when he left Dylmouth.
35:58I have no idea at all where your father is buried.
36:01That's strange.
36:02Well, not really.
36:03Helen was the link.
36:05I was always very fond of Helen.
36:07Tried to take care of her.
36:08She was my half-sister, you know.
36:10Much younger than I was.
36:12She got involved early on with the most unsuitable young man.
36:17And I took care of that.
36:19And then she elected to go to India to marry Walter Fane, son of Dylmouth's leading solicitor.
36:25And frankly, as dull as dishwater.
36:27When she reached Bombay and saw him again, it was all off.
36:31And then, she met your father coming home.
36:35You see what I mean?
36:36I was always worried about Helen.
36:40Do you know where she is at all?
36:42I'd like to get in touch with her again.
36:45No.
36:48No, we don't know at all.
36:50That's one of the reasons we came to see you.
36:54Oh.
36:55But I thought from your advertisement.
36:59So tell me, why did you advertise?
37:02We were hoping.
37:05We thought someone who knew her might be able to tell me something about my father.
37:12Where are you?
37:13Well, now.
37:14I'm sorry.
37:15That's all I know.
37:23What did you make of it?
37:25I think it's hiding something.
37:28I wish we'd never started this.
37:30Jim?
37:42Look what I found here in the paper.
37:46I almost strained the chips onto it.
37:48Will anyone with a knowledge of Ellen Spenlove Allarday, nay Kennedy, communicate with Mrs. Newman?
37:56Well, that's Mrs. Allarday I was in service with at Dilmuth.
38:00Her name was Ellen, right enough.
38:02And she was sister to Dr. Kennedy and Miss Cure of my Choblains.
38:07Well, you think there's any money in it?
38:09Might be a will or something.
38:10It's a powerful long time ago.
38:12Well, you don't think it could be police, do you, Jim?
38:17Whatever.
38:18Well, you know what I always thought.
38:21And I said it to Edie, but she wouldn't have it.
38:23And I'd have said a tiny bit more at the time.
38:26Only I nipped out of the pictures that night and I didn't want to draw attention to it.
38:30Now, it wouldn't likely be police.
38:32Not after all this time.
38:34But it doesn't say to your advantage.
38:38Do you think I should, Jim?
38:40Not if I was you, Lily.
38:42Why ever not?
38:45Only leads to trouble, that sort of thing.
38:53When's supper ready?
39:04I'll answer it, darling.
39:23Hello?
39:24Mr. Reid, it's Dr. Kennedy here.
39:26Hello, Dr. Kennedy.
39:27I was thinking of our talk this afternoon.
39:30There are one or two things I think you and your wife ought to know.
39:34It seems odd to be here again.
39:46Well, now,
39:47I take it you're still determined to find the sanatorium where your father died?
39:51Yes, yes, we are.
39:53That should be easy enough for you, I imagine, after what I've told you.
39:56Shall we sit down?
39:58So,
39:59I thought it better
40:00if you heard the facts from me.
40:02It won't do you or anybody any good, Gwenny.
40:06But there it is.
40:09No, no, thank you.
40:09Your father wasn't physically ill.
40:24The sanatorium in question was a mental home.
40:27A mental home?
40:28You mean he was mad?
40:32He had a very severe mental breakdown.
40:36He was suffering from delusional obsessions.
40:40What kind of delusions?
40:42He was under the impression that he'd strangled his wife.
40:46No!
40:48Strangled?
40:50And had he?
40:51What?
40:53No, no, no, no, of course he hadn't.
40:55How do you know?
40:57My dear girl,
40:58there was never any question of such a thing.
41:01He'd been in a very unbalanced state for some time.
41:05And the shock when Helen left him
41:07sent him over the edge.
41:08If a man would rather his wife was dead than unfaithful,
41:13he can persuade himself of anything,
41:16even that he killed her.
41:18So you're quite sure there's no question
41:20that he actually did what he said?
41:22Oh, quite sure.
41:24I'd had two letters from Helen.
41:26One when she went away after a week to France,
41:29and another about six months later.
41:32No, the whole thing was a delusion,
41:34pure and simple.
41:34Can you tell us about it?
41:38I tried to.
41:42He'd been having dreams,
41:44and the dreams always ended up in the same way,
41:46with throttling Helen.
41:49Well, it all came to a head one evening
41:51after I got back from the hospital.
41:54It was a Friday, I remember.
41:57Kelvin was waiting for me in my consulting room.
42:00He'd been there about a quarter of an hour.
42:01And when I came in,
42:04he looked up at me and he said,
42:06I've killed Helen.
42:09Well, I didn't know what to think,
42:12so I said,
42:12have you had another dream?
42:15He said, no, no, no.
42:17It's true.
42:18She's lying there, strangled.
42:22Well, he seemed very cool and reasonable.
42:25So I got the car out again
42:28and took him back to the house.
42:31It was quiet and dark.
42:37We went up to the bedroom.
42:38The bedroom?
42:39Yes, of course.
42:40That's where it happened.
42:41It was when we got in.
42:43There was nothing, nothing to stare at.
42:45The whole thing was a hallucination.
42:50What did my father say?
42:52He persisted in his story, of course.
42:54So I gave him a sedative
42:56and put him to bed in the dressing room.
42:59I found a note
43:00in a waste paper basket in here.
43:03It said,
43:04going away with the only man I've ever loved.
43:09Clearly, he come in and read it
43:11and experienced a severe attack
43:14of hysterical amnesia.
43:19That's all.
43:19He wasn't alone
43:24that night in the house.
43:26Oh, no, of course.
43:27You were tucked up in bed,
43:28but I questioned the housemaid.
43:32I took her upstairs into Helen's room.
43:34We went through her thing.
43:35She'd packed a suitcase and a bag
43:37before she went away.
43:39So, the next morning,
43:41I talked to Kelvin
43:41and he agreed to go into
43:44a nursing home.
43:48Now, Helen's letter came from Berlitz.
43:50She said she didn't want a divorce
43:52and she hoped that Kelvin would
43:53forget her as soon as possible.
43:56He went into
43:57the private mental home
44:00and that's where he died.
44:02And you got another letter
44:06from Helen?
44:07Oh, yes.
44:08Postal restaurant from Florence.
44:10She said if Kelvin wanted a divorce,
44:13she'd let him have the evidence.
44:15Well, I showed it to him
44:17and he said at once
44:17that he didn't.
44:18So, I wrote and told her.
44:22And that's the very last
44:23I ever heard.
44:25Of course,
44:27the war
44:28blotted out many things.
44:30I'm sorry
44:34to have to tell you this, Granny.
44:38But you had to know.
44:47Aunt Alison never breathed a word.
44:51No.
44:53No, she never did.
45:00I knew.
45:08I knew all the time.
45:10We still can't be sure.
45:11I knew it was Helen.
45:13I saw she was strangled.
45:15But Gwenda,
45:15there was no body.
45:17Your father was mistaken.
45:18You could have been mistaken too.
45:20No, Giles.
45:21Listen, Gwenda,
45:21it's the only thing
45:22that makes any sense.
45:24Supposing he came in
45:25and found her writing the note.
45:26Suppose he saw Red,
45:28grabbed a hold of her,
45:29and he got his hands
45:30around her throat
45:30and that's what you saw.
45:32And then what?
45:34Well, and then
45:35she passed out.
45:37He thought he'd killed her,
45:38rushed off to get Dr. Kennedy
45:40and, well,
45:41meantime,
45:41she recovers
45:42or her lover turns up.
45:44No.
45:44It's impossible.
45:46I know she was dead.
45:48Like a dog
45:49that throws back
45:50its head and howls.
45:51Hello.
45:52Oh, Dad.
45:54What's she doing here?
45:55I forgot to tell you.
45:56I invited her to afternoon tea.
45:57Oh, Gwenda.
45:59Come on.
45:59We've got to go through with it.
46:00All right, if you say so, darling.
46:03Oh, hello.
46:06Hello, Miss Marple.
46:09How are you enjoying Dermot?
46:11Oh, very much.
46:12Yes,
46:13I have friends
46:14who have friends here
46:15and I've received
46:16a number of pleasant invitations.
46:17That's nice.
46:19Yes, indeed.
46:19Oh, what a beautiful spot.
46:24Well, I do so hope
46:25that you've settled in by now.
46:27Well,
46:27the fact is, Miss Marple,
46:31we've just had a visitor
46:33and rather a shock for me.
46:42Well, my dears,
46:43I do see what you mean.
46:45It's what you thought in London, isn't it?
46:47I mean, you thought then
46:49that my father might be involved.
46:51Well, it occurred to me
46:52as a possibility.
46:54In a case of strangling,
46:55it's so often
46:56the husband who is involved.
46:58I wish now
46:58we'd taken your advice.
47:01But once you've started,
47:02you can't go back.
47:04No.
47:05However dangerous the journey,
47:07you can't turn back.
47:08Well, I don't see
47:09how we can go forward.
47:10Nothing makes any sense.
47:12Oh, there's always
47:14the possibility of X.
47:15X?
47:16X.
47:17The unknown factor.
47:18Someone who hasn't appeared yet,
47:20but whose presence
47:21behind the facts
47:22can be deduced.
47:24A lover, perhaps.
47:25Someone who posted
47:27those letters from abroad
47:28other than Helen.
47:30Of course,
47:30you're both too young
47:31to remember the case
47:32of Dr. Crippen
47:33when something similar occurred.
47:35We've got to visit
47:41the place
47:42where my father died.
47:44Perhaps we'll find
47:45something there.
47:45There's always a place
48:15.
48:36I, uh, I remember your father, by the way, Mrs. Pee.
48:40I wasn't in charge of the case.
48:41That was Dr. McGuire, whom superintended then.
48:44And I was his junior.
48:49Would you like to come in?
48:51Thank you, Dr. Kennedy.
49:00I, um, had Dr. Kennedy's letter.
49:05I've been going through the notes of your father's case history.
49:09Very unusual features.
49:13Most interesting.
49:15I'm afraid I really know very little about my father, Dr. Penrose.
49:18We hoped you'd tell us as much as you can.
49:21Yes.
49:23Remarkable obsession, believing he'd strangled his wife in a fit of jealous rage.
49:30The delusion itself wasn't untypical.
49:32And what was lacking was the accompanying evidence of psychotic symptoms.
49:38But what I mean is, Mrs. Reed, he wasn't mad.
49:42Or didn't appear so.
49:44How would you describe my father, Dr. Penrose?
49:46Very convincing.
49:48Invincing.
49:49Gentle.
49:50Kindly.
49:51Over-controlled.
49:52Quite frankly, at first, I was inclined to believe him.
49:56You actually believed he killed his wife?
49:59I said at first.
50:01Later, as we got deeper into Major Halliday's history,
50:05we diagnosed it as a delusional neurosis,
50:08with roots far back into his childhood.
50:11Unfortunately, we didn't have time to complete his analysis.
50:15You knew, I suppose, he committed suicide?
50:18No.
50:21No, we didn't know that.
50:25Oh.
50:26I'm sorry.
50:27I thought you'd been told.
50:29We admitted some responsibility.
50:32He'd been prescribed sleeping tablets before his admission.
50:36Clearly, he was pretending to take the nightly dose
50:40until he had sufficient.
50:42Was he so unhappy?
50:44Oh, no.
50:45It was guilt, not depression.
50:48He tried at first, you know, to call the police.
50:52Normal desire for punishment.
50:57I remember he told me
50:59that he thought at one time his wife was secretly giving him drugs.
51:03Probably related to his days in India.
51:06Cases of women driving their husbands mad with detura poisoning
51:11often appeared in the native courts.
51:13Ah.
51:14Here's a typical interview.
51:16Dr. Maguire's notes.
51:17Your father speaking.
51:18Came into the house, everything dark.
51:21Went into dining room as usual, poured drink.
51:25Then went through to drawing room.
51:27And then he said he remembers nothing
51:30till standing in bedroom looking down at Helen strangled.
51:35He knew he'd done it.
51:37How did he know?
51:39No.
51:40Question.
51:41Do you remember killing her?
51:43Answer.
51:44No.
51:45Then how do you know?
51:47Answer.
51:48Because she's dead.
51:52Same pattern.
51:53Over and over again.
51:54Impossible to convince him.
51:56Oh, he left this diary, by the way.
51:59I suppose you might like to have it.
52:01It's not especially important to the record.
52:04Medically speaking.
52:05Would you like to have it, Mrs. Reid?
52:07Yes.
52:08Yes, I should like that very much.
52:10What's true?
52:11I've written to James Kennedy.
52:13Let Helen come to see me, if she's alive.
52:34What's true?
52:36I've written to James Kennedy.
52:38Let Helen come to see me, if she's alive.
52:43He says he doesn't know where she is.
52:46But I'm not deceived.
52:48He's a good fellow.
52:50And he knows I killed her.
52:53After all the dreams, the nightmares.
52:57Because I always knew, from the very first,
53:00that there was someone else.
53:03So what's the possibility of X?
53:06The unknown factor.
53:07Someone who hasn't appeared yet,
53:09but whose presence behind the facts can be deduced.
53:12A lover, perhaps.
53:18Once you've started, you can't go back.
53:22No.
53:23However dangerous a journey,
53:25we can't turn back.
53:27This is the only way.
53:39For me.
53:40And for little Gwenny.
53:44I always knew that there was someone else.
53:48behind the scenes.
53:55There we go.
53:56We've got you all.
53:57There.
53:58There.
53:59There.
54:01There.
54:02There.
54:03There.
54:04There.
54:05There.
54:06There.
54:08There.
54:09¶¶
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