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Poirot probes the disappearance of a wealthy woman's cook and soon uncovers an elaborate plot to hide an ever-darker crime. Starring: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran.
Poirot probes the disappearance of a wealthy woman's cook and soon uncovers an elaborate plot to hide an ever-darker crime. Starring: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran.
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00:00I'll see you next time
02:29No.
02:31Belgravia, an overseas bank log, absconds with fortune.
02:36How much is this fortune?
02:39Uh, 90,000 pounds.
02:43No.
02:43That's a king's ransom, Poirot.
02:45When it is used to ransom a king, it becomes interesting to Poirot.
02:52Missed typist of 21, where is Edna Field?
02:55Oh, no.
02:57There's good stuff here, Poirot.
02:59Mysterious suicide, absconding bank clerk, missing typists.
03:02Yes, but I am not greatly attracted to any of them, mon ami.
03:05I have many affairs of importance of my own to attend to.
03:10Such a house?
03:12My wardrobe, Hastings.
03:14If I mistake not, there is on my new gray suit the spot of Greece.
03:18You have noticed it, perhaps, eh?
03:19No.
03:20Well, well, it's only the one spot you understand, but it is sufficient to trouble me.
03:27Then there is my winter overcoat.
03:29I must lay him aside in the powder of Keatings.
03:31And, I think, yes, I think the moment is right for the trimming of the moustache.
03:40Also, the pomading.
03:44There's a lady to see you, Mr. Poirot.
03:47A lady?
03:47A client.
03:48Her name's Mrs. Todd.
03:52Unless the affair is one of national importance, I touch it not.
03:57I couldn't say, sir.
03:58Shall I ask her?
03:59No, no, no, no, no, Miss Lemon.
04:01Show Mrs. Todd in.
04:06We shall judge for ourselves, eh, Hastings?
04:08Oh, yes, yes.
04:12Mrs. Todd.
04:13Doesn't sound as if she's nationally important.
04:16Mind you, I knew a Mrs. Jones once who was Master of Houndsworth at Mid-Rutland.
04:19Yes.
04:21No, that's all.
04:23Funny woman.
04:26Mrs. Todd, sir.
04:31Oh, are you Mr. Poirot?
04:35I am Hercule Poirot.
04:37Yes, madam.
04:38Oh, you're not a bit how I thought you'd be.
04:41Did you pay for that bit in the paper saying what a clever detective you were, or did they put it in themselves?
04:49Madam.
04:49Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sure.
04:51But you know what newspapers are like nowadays.
04:53Nothing but puff.
04:55But no offense taken, I hope.
04:57I'll tell you what I want you to do for me.
05:02I want you to find my cook.
05:05I fear you are making a mistake, madame.
05:08Hercule Poirot is a private detective.
05:11I know that.
05:13Haven't I just told you I want you to find my cook for me?
05:15Walked out of the house on Wednesday without so much as a bar your leave and never came back.
05:19I am sorry, madame, but I do not touch that particular kind of business.
05:24I wish you a good day.
05:27So that's it, is it?
05:29Too proud, eh?
05:31Only deal with government secrets and countess's jewels.
05:35Well, let me tell you, Mr. High and Mighty Poirot, a good cook's a good cook.
05:40And when you lose one, it's as much to you as pearls are to some fine lady.
05:44Madame, you are in the right and I am in the wrong.
05:56Your remarks are just and intelligent.
06:01This case would be a novelty, Hastings.
06:04Never before have we hunted a missing domestique.
06:07Truly, here is the problem of national importance.
06:12Honourable, where do you reside, Mrs. Dodd?
06:1588, Prince Albert Road to Clapham.
06:28You say this jewel of a cook went out on Wednesday and did not return?
06:31Wednesday, yes, it was her day off.
06:33The day before yesterday.
06:35Has it occurred to you, madame, that she might have met with some accident?
06:39Have you inquired at the hospital?
06:40That's exactly what I thought yesterday.
06:43But this morning, if you please, she sent for her box.
06:46What box?
06:47Her box.
06:48Her trunk.
06:50Luggage.
06:51Oh, I see.
06:53Will you describe her to me, madame?
06:54Oh, she's most respectful.
06:57Ten years in her last place.
06:58Her middle-aged, grey-haired, thin.
07:01And her name?
07:02Dunn.
07:03Eliza Dunn.
07:05Mrs. Clapham.
07:06There's the common.
07:13Chum.
07:13You have no disagreement with her on Wednesday, madame?
07:19No, that's what makes it all so queer.
07:22How many servants do you keep?
07:24Two.
07:25Miss Dunn and the House Parliament.
07:27Annie.
07:31There we are.
07:32There's 88.
07:34All right, driver.
07:36Oh.
07:58Annie.
08:01These things, my friend, promise me one thing.
08:04What's that, Poirot?
08:05Never.
08:06But never must Chief Inspector Jap hear that I investigated such a case.
08:11Mine was the word, old boy.
08:18Now, Annie, this gentleman's a detective.
08:21He wants to ask you a few questions.
08:27Here we are, sir.
08:28Ah.
08:32Voyons, mademoiselle Annie.
08:37Sit yourself.
08:38Thank you, sir.
08:40All that you shall tell us will be of the greatest importance, Annie.
08:44You alone can shed any light on the case.
08:47Without you, I can do nothing.
08:49Oh, sir.
08:50I'm sure I'll tell you anything I can, sir.
08:52That is good.
08:54Now.
08:58First of all...
08:59What is your own idea?
09:04You are a girl of remarkable intelligence that can be seen at once.
09:08But this is a queer thing, eh?
09:11What is your own explanation of Eliza's disappearance?
09:15White slavers, sir.
09:18Ah.
09:18I've said so all along, sir.
09:22Only no one will listen.
09:24Cook was always warning me against him.
09:26Don't you go sniffing no scent, nor eating no sweets.
09:30No matter how gentlemanly the fellow.
09:33Ah, this is something we had not thought of, Hastings.
09:35No.
09:36Right.
09:38Good heavens.
09:40But would she have sent for her trunk?
09:42Beg pardon, sir?
09:44Miss Dunn sent for her trunk, I believe.
09:46Now, if she had truly been taken by these white slavers, would she have sent for her luggage?
09:53Well, I don't know, sir.
09:55She'd want her things, wouldn't she?
09:58Even in foreign parts, she'd want her things.
10:01Ah.
10:03Who came for her trunk, Annie?
10:05The carrier, sir.
10:06The men from Carter Patterson.
10:08Did you pack it for her?
10:10No, sir.
10:10It was already packed and cordied.
10:12Ah.
10:13That is interesting.
10:17That shows that when she left the house on Wednesday, already she determined not to return.
10:24You see that, do you not?
10:26Oh, I'd never thought of that.
10:29No.
10:29Tell me now, Annie.
10:35What was the very last thing Eliza said to you before she went out?
10:41She said, if there's any stewed peaches left over from the dining room, we'll have them for supper.
10:49And a bit of bacon and fried potatoes.
10:53Mad over stewed peaches, she was.
10:56I shouldn't wonder if that wasn't the way they got her.
10:59Got her?
11:00The white slivers.
11:04Ah.
11:04The stewed peaches.
11:06Quite.
11:08Thank you very much, Annie.
11:10You have been most helpful.
11:11Was she saying things about me?
11:30Not at all.
11:32Only things of the pleasantest nature.
11:34But for a woman of your intelligence, madame, it would be tiresome to bear with patience the roundabout methods we plodding detectives have to use.
11:45Oh.
11:46Oh, I see.
11:48Well, I wouldn't say there was all that much difference between us, Mr. Poirot.
11:52Mind you, I was always very good at general knowledge at school.
11:55Fair.
11:55And your husband, too, I'm sure, is the intellectual, yes?
11:59Yes.
12:00Yes, he does very well with figures.
12:02A successful businessman?
12:04With a prudential, yes, in the city.
12:08What about the other inmates of the house, madame?
12:11Oh, you mean Mr. Simpson, our paying guest?
12:13What is his profession, madame?
12:15Oh, he's in business, too, with a Belgravia and overseas bank.
12:20A young man, is he?
12:2228, I believe.
12:23A nice young fellow.
12:25Well, they'll both be in at about six, if you want to see them.
12:31An excellent suggestion, madame.
12:34Well, my colleague and I will take a turn on your famous common for one hour.
12:41It's a curious coincidence that the paying guest, Simpson, works in the same bank as the absconding clerk.
12:57Hmm.
12:57They must have known each other.
13:00Perhaps.
13:01Or possibly, Davis visited Simpson, fell in love with a cook, and he persuaded her to accompany him on his flight.
13:09Come, Hastings, let us go back to the prudential, Mr. Todd.
13:17I've heard of you, Mr. Poirot, haven't I?
13:31It's possible, Mr. Todd.
13:33Oh, yes.
13:33I follow crime, you know.
13:41Indeed.
13:42Well, perhaps you have some theories about the disappearance of your cook.
13:46Theories?
13:47No.
13:48It's hardly a crime, is it?
13:50Good cook, though.
13:51And economical.
13:52I'm very hot on economy.
13:53Admirable.
13:54Now, we would like to have a few words with your Mr. Simpson, if that's possible.
14:01For the whilst, Mr. Simpson, if that's possible.
14:08Another one after that.
14:11Just off the next landing.
14:31Mr. Simpson?
14:33Hold on.
14:41Yes, Mr. Simpson.
14:44My name is Poirot.
14:48Hercule Poirot.
14:52Oh, yes.
14:57May we have a moment of your so valuable time?
15:02Soon.
15:04Come here. Thank you.
15:14Mr. Simpson, Mrs. Todd has engaged me to find Eliza Dunn.
15:21The cook.
15:22Oh?
15:23Where is she?
15:25Well, that is what we do not know, Monsieur.
15:29You know her, of course.
15:32Well, I must have met her, I suppose.
15:37Well, it would seem that Miss Dunn has not been seen since Wednesday.
15:41Did you see her on that day?
15:45I don't think so.
15:49I don't know.
15:51You were at work as usual on Wednesday?
15:53Yes.
15:58Well, thank you, Mr. Simpson.
16:00Ah.
16:02It was most kind of you to spare us the time.
16:04Tell me, Mr. Simpson, what does a young fellow find to do around here of an evening, huh?
16:17Oh, the usual things, you know.
16:19Oh, with musical evenings, amateur theatricals, that kind of thing?
16:23Yes.
16:24I suppose so.
16:25But you do not interest yourself, hmm?
16:29Afraid not.
16:31No.
16:50I think that husband's got something to do with it.
16:53To do with the missing cook?
16:55There's something about him I don't trust.
16:57Merely because a man does not offer you a drink, Hastings, does not mean that he is necessarily guilty of other crimes.
17:07There doesn't seem to be any crime at all, as far as I can see.
17:11No.
17:12It is a curious case.
17:14Full of contradictory features.
17:19I am interested.
17:21Oh, yes.
17:23I am distinctly interested.
17:27What?
17:29What?
17:31How does she dare?
17:33What is it?
17:34As a favour.
17:35As a great favour.
17:37I agree to investigate this two-penny, half-penny affair.
17:40What is it, old chap?
17:41Read it! Read it!
17:44Mr. Todd regrets that, after all, his wife will not avail herself of Mr. Poirot's services.
17:49After talking the matter over with me, she sees that it is foolish to call in a detective about a purely domestic affair.
17:54Mr. Todd encloses a guinea for consultation fees.
17:58Is this to be believed, huh?
18:00Do they think they can get rid of Hercule Poirot like that, huh?
18:03No!
18:05No, no, no, no, no, no!
18:07Thirty-six times, no!
18:09They send me one guinea, huh?
18:11No!
18:12I will spend my own guineas! Thirty-six hundred of them, if need be!
18:17But I will get to the bottom of this matter!
18:19If Eliza Dunne will communicate with this address, she will hear something to her prophet.
18:38Advantage.
18:39Yes?
18:40Yes.
18:41Good.
18:42Do you know that, Miss Lemmon?
18:43Yes, Mr. Poirot.
18:44Put it in all the papers you can think of.
18:46She won't read the Times, I shouldn't think.
18:48No, my dear Miss Lemmon.
18:50Perhaps she will not.
18:51But perhaps her new employers will.
18:53Now run along, Miss Lemmon.
18:57And you, Hastings, do not you run away with such celerity.
19:00I have work for you too.
19:02Oh, as a matter of fact, I was thinking of popping down to Sandown this afternoon.
19:05No, no, no.
19:06You do not pop.
19:07There's a horse running a pal of mine owns a leg of.
19:10When he owns four legs, I pop with you.
19:13But now it's time for work, yes?
19:17I want you to telephone all the domestic agencies you can find
19:21and see if they have found Miss Eliza Dunne a new post.
19:28As for me,
19:31I pop to the City of London.
19:35And Mr. Simpson was at work as usual on Wednesday?
19:42Oh, yes.
19:43Mr. Simpson is an excellent timekeeper.
19:46To tell the truth, he was absent on Thursday with a cold.
19:52You have been most helpful, Mr. Cameron.
19:56Glad to be of assistance.
19:57It is an unfortunate occurrence, this business of Davis absconding.
20:07Oh, you, uh, heard about that, did you?
20:09Well, one could scarcely miss it.
20:12Well, the newspapers love scandals about banks.
20:15That is human nature, Mr. Cameron.
20:18But it is comforting for us mere motorists to know that banks, too, have their difficulties.
20:24Again, I thank you, Monsieur.
20:26Chief, it spoke to Jack. I wonder if I might ask you a few questions.
20:41You and Davis are friends, I believe, Mr. Simpson.
20:48That's right.
20:50I can't believe this of him.
20:53There must be some mistake.
20:55If I told you so the number of times I've heard that said.
20:58If you had to hazard a conjecture Mr. Simpson as to where Davis might go if he wanted to hide, where would you stand?
21:11I don't know.
21:14He was fond of broad states.
21:18Yes, I was thinking of somewhere a little more exotic than that, sir.
21:22Foreign parts, even.
21:24Oh, I don't think he's ever been abroad.
21:28You were at work as usual on Wednesday, were you, Mr. Simpson?
21:32It's Thursday you want to know about, surely.
21:35And I was away on Thursday.
21:37No, no, Mr. Simpson.
21:39Although the bonds were found to be missing on Thursday,
21:42we believe that they must have been removed from the bank on Wednesday.
21:45I was here all day Wednesday.
21:50What's up?
21:52That man.
21:58What about?
22:00He was at my diggings yesterday.
22:03Was he by George?
22:04Oh, my dear Chief Inspector Gerard.
22:05After the reward, eh, Poirot?
22:06Hmm?
22:07Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
22:08No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
22:09No, I am engaged on quite a different case.
22:10And what would this different case be like?
22:11No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
22:12No, no, no, no, no.
22:13No, no, no, no, no, no.
22:14Oh, my dear Chief Inspector Gerard.
22:29After the reward, eh, Poirot?
22:31Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
22:33No, I am engaged on quite a different case.
22:36And what would this different case be then?
22:39Oh, well, now, there is such a thing as client confidentiality, Chief Inspector.
22:46Let me just say that this case I am engaged on is of national importance.
22:52Well, I'm glad to hear it, Poirot.
22:54Someone was trying to tell me you'd gone into the missing domestics business.
22:57No, no, I said.
22:59Not Poirot, I said.
23:01Hard times or not, he wouldn't fall that far.
23:09No words from Elijah Dunn, Ms. Lemmon.
23:32No, no, Mr. Parag.
23:39Another letter from the Duchess of Wrexham.
23:56No, no, no.
23:58She sounds desperate.
24:00No.
24:02Good heavens!
24:13Mr. Parag.
24:14Mr. Parag.
24:15Mr. Parag.
24:16Yes, Miss Lemmon.
24:17Yes.
24:18There's a letter, sir.
24:19A letter from Eliza Dunn.
24:20There!
24:21Did I not tell you, Hastings?
24:22And you tried to waste Parag.
24:24Yes, Miss Lemmon, yes.
24:25There's a letter, sir.
24:26A letter from Eliza Dunn.
24:27There!
24:28Did I not tell you, Hastings?
24:30And you tried to waste Poirot's time with the Duchesses.
24:33Well, I only thought...
24:34You must learn, my friend, the patience.
24:36Read it to us, Miss Lemmon.
24:38Dear sir or madam, ref your ad in the paper.
24:41I already got my legacy if there's some mistake.
24:44Yours truly, Eliza Dunn, Miss.
24:46P.S.
24:47Thanks all the same for your trouble.
24:48What does she mean, legacy?
24:50We must talk to this woman at Fell Cottage Amdale Keswick.
24:57Keswick?
24:58That's Keswick, Mr. Poirot, in the Lake District.
25:01Ah.
25:02Are there trains to this place?
25:03Oh, yes.
25:04Oh.
25:05Come, Hastings.
25:07We have a train to catch.
25:08But...
25:09Look at it, Hastings.
25:22Not a building in sight.
25:25Not a restaurant.
25:27Not a theatre.
25:29Not an art gallery.
25:32No wasteland.
25:34I thought you liked the country.
25:37But this is not the country, my friend.
25:39The country is full of trees.
25:41And flowers.
25:43And public houses.
25:45This is a desert.
25:47I don't know why we've come all this way anyway.
25:50You've found the cook.
25:52No.
25:53The cook is but the beginning of the story, Hastings.
25:56We're on to bigger things.
26:04Look at that, Poirot.
26:19Look at that view.
26:22Yes, well, views are very nice, Hastings.
26:25But they should be painted for us,
26:28so that we may study them in the warmth and comfort of our own homes.
26:32That is why we pay the artist.
26:34For exposing himself to these conditions on our behalf.
26:36What do you mean, conditions?
26:38It's a wonderful day.
26:40Just fill your lungs with that air.
26:43No, my poor friend.
26:44This sort of air is intended for birds and little furry things.
26:49The lungs of Hercule Poirot demand something more substantial.
26:52The good air of the town.
26:59Fell cottage, I perceive.
27:02We have got the right Eliza Dunn, haven't we?
27:09I mean, what's she doing all the way up here?
27:11That is what we are here to find out.
27:19Wonderful position, Poirot.
27:22If you are a rock, it's wonderful.
27:25Yes?
27:26Miss Eliza Dunn.
27:27Yes?
27:28Miss Eliza Dunn.
27:29Yes?
27:30Formerly an employee of Mrs. Ernestine Todd at 88 Prince Albert Road Clapper.
27:36That's right.
27:37I am Hercule Poirot, Miss Dunn.
27:40You were kind enough to answer my newspaper advertisement.
27:44Oh, yes.
27:46Well, like I said in my letter, sir, I've already got my legacy.
27:50Miss Dunn, may we be permitted to come into the house for a moment?
27:53I'm sure your employer will not object.
27:57No, she won't mind.
27:59Come in.
28:01Come in.
28:02The reason I laughed, sir, I'm sorry, is I don't have no employer, see?
28:16This is my house.
28:18Oh, Miss Dunn, forgive me.
28:20That's all right, sir, you wasn't to know.
28:23This is part of my legacy, see?
28:26Oh, sit down, do.
28:37Now, Miss Dunn, you have mentioned your legacy,
28:42but Captain Hastings and I, we know nothing of this.
28:47What was the ad then?
28:48Your late mistress, Mrs. Todd, was much concerned about you.
28:51She felt some accident might have befallen you.
28:54But didn't she get my letter?
28:56No, she got no letter.
28:58She got no word of any kind.
29:01Oh, dear, sir.
29:03I gave the letter to Mr. Crotchet.
29:05I said most particularly was to give it to Mrs. Todd.
29:09Oh, dear.
29:11Well, perhaps you would recount to Captain Hastings and me the whole story?
29:16Well, Wednesdays is my day out.
29:23And it was last Wednesday that it all started like.
29:26The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of the corner.
29:31I'd been over to see my friend in Oxford.
29:32I'd been over to see my friend in Oxford and I was on my way home when a gentleman stopped me.
29:38He said he'd been asking for me at number 88.
29:42Then he told me some story about an old friend of my grandmother's in Australia leaving me a house and some money in her will.
29:52Well, I didn't believe him at first.
29:55And then he showed me this letter.
29:57It will be the stone which the builders have rejected.
30:02Who was these lawyers, Hurst and Crotchet, 127 Wentworth Way, Melbourne?
30:12Well, one of them is right here, Miss Dan.
30:19Benjamin Crotchet, attorney at law.
30:24I hope that allays your very understandable fears.
30:29Oh, yes indeed, sir. I didn't mean to doubt you.
30:35Now, Miss Dunnett, to business.
30:37I do have to tell you that the house is in Kiswick.
30:39Ah, that's just over by Acton, isn't it, sir?
30:42No, Miss Dunnett's in the north of England, near Carlisle.
30:46Oh, my good God.
30:48But before we confront that particular difficulty, there is one other stipulation that we should get out of the way.
30:53Whatever's that, sir?
30:54Well, it's of no importance as it doesn't apply in this case, thank heaven.
31:00It's just a stipulation that you should not be in domestic service.
31:03Oh.
31:04Whatever's the matter, Miss Dunn?
31:10I'm a cook, sir.
31:13Didn't I tell you at the house?
31:16My dear Miss Dunn, I had no idea.
31:22This is very unfortunate.
31:25Well, I have to lose the money, sir.
31:31At the house, sir.
31:33Sounds ever so nice.
31:36Even if it is a bit out of the way...
31:41I believe I have it.
31:44We lawyers always know a thing or two.
31:47The way out here is for you to have left your employment before we met.
31:55But we have met, sir, I mean, and I haven't.
31:58Haven't you?
31:59No.
32:01Haven't you, Miss Dunn?
32:03No.
32:04No.
32:09Oh, I see.
32:12Yes.
32:14You left your employment this morning, did you not?
32:17Before we met.
32:19Yes.
32:21I remember now.
32:23I did, as a matter of fact.
32:26There.
32:28Now.
32:29It is imperative that you take position at the house by noon tomorrow.
32:33In order to do that, you must catch the night train from King's Cross.
32:37Oh.
32:39Go along, Miss Dunn.
32:41I can adventure ten pounds or so for the fare,
32:43and you can write a note to your employer at the station,
32:45which I shall personally deliver for you.
32:48And explain everything.
32:53And was everything as Mr Crotchet had said?
32:57Oh, yes, and more, sir.
33:00Now, what about your luggage?
33:02All the things you had left at 88 Prince Albert Road.
33:05Oh, well, Mr Crotchet sent them on like he said he would,
33:08but it was all done up in brown paper-like.
33:12I don't know.
33:14I suppose Mrs Todd was angry with me and grudged me my bit of luck
33:18and wouldn't let him have my box.
33:20But Annie said the trunk was...
33:22Letter, my friend.
33:24Later.
33:25But there, you said she never got my letter.
33:28Mm-hmm.
33:30Well, I can't say as I blame her.
33:35I see.
33:37Well, thank you, mademoiselle.
33:41Oh!
33:43There had been, as you say,
33:45a little muddle about your trunk,
33:48which I will straighten out with Mrs Todd, if you would permit.
33:52Oh, thank you very much, sir.
33:54Come, Hastings.
33:56We must return to London with all possible speed.
34:06Is there nowhere you can contact the Chief Inspector Jack?
34:10Then telephone him at his home.
34:13Yes, of the greatest urgency.
34:15Tell him he should not be looking for babies.
34:18He should be looking for Simpson.
34:20Not Simpson!
34:21No!
34:22Not David!
34:23But Simpson!
34:48Take very much.
34:54Why should Jap want Simpson, officer?
34:57What's Simpson supposed to have done?
35:03Hastings, my friend.
35:05The little grey cells are not working today, huh?
35:09They take a little vacance, huh?
35:13It's to do with this Eliza, isn't it?
35:15No.
35:17Oh.
35:19We have moved beyond the petty sphere of cooks from Clapham Hastings.
35:24Then it's something to do with this Australian fellow.
35:27There is no Australian fellow.
35:30Yes, there is.
35:31She told us about him.
35:35Do you remember when we interviewed Simpson?
35:38Interviewed Simpson?
35:40No.
35:42In his little room.
35:44At the house in Clapham.
35:46Oh, right. The lodger. Yes.
35:48Do you remember I asked him if he took an interest in amateur theatricals?
35:53Yes, I do as a matter of fact.
35:55Why do you think I asked him that?
35:58Why?
36:02Well, making conversation, I suppose.
36:07I asked him that because he had recently been wearing a false beard.
36:12He had a tiny trace of gum arabic in his...
36:16What do you call it here?
36:18Sideburn.
36:20Sideburn. Yes.
36:22Do you see?
36:27Oh, right. Yes.
36:30Boom.
36:38The Australian was Simpson in a false beard.
36:40And he didn't stand in a false beard.
37:10Who are you? I am Hercule Poirot. Who are you? Sarge, there's some French gent at the door.
37:27No, no, no, no. I am not some French gent. I am some Belgian gent. Well, well, well. And if it
37:34isn't Mr. Poirot. It is. Is the lady of the house in? The chief inspector's here.
37:39Mr. Poirot. Ah, Mrs. Toad for the money. I don't know how you have the impertinence to show your face here again.
37:46But Mrs. Toad. You were paid off, Mr. Poirot. You were paid off handsomely. Well. And then look at this.
37:51We've got policewood crawling all over the house. You're not too popular in Clapham this morning, Poirot.
37:56Bit of a wild goose chase, this. As far as we can ascertain, this Mr. Simpson of yours is a perfectly respectable young bank employee
38:04who happens to have gone home to his family. We have the Shropshire constabulary checking that at the moment.
38:11I only wanted to ask... No.
38:14Well, perhaps you'd be interested to know... No, I wouldn't. Good day, Mr. Poirot.
38:23Poirot?
38:23Poirot?
38:26Poirot?
38:43Poirot?
38:44Annie, I need to ask you a question.
38:55Can you help me?
38:56I'll try, sir.
38:57Last Friday, the Qatar Patterson came to collect Eliza's trunk, yes?
39:02Her box? Yes, sir.
39:04You were here when he came?
39:05Oh, yes, sir.
39:06I had to show them up to Eliza's room for them to take it up.
39:09Boom.
39:10It was ever so heavy, sir.
39:11It took three of them to get it down the stairs.
39:17You all right, sir?
39:20Of course.
39:22Tell me, Annie, you said her box was already packed?
39:26Oh, yes, sir.
39:28Packed, locked and corded.
39:30Quite a thick rope round it and done up ever so tight.
39:33Did it have a label on it?
39:36Yes, it did, sir.
39:38With an address?
39:40Just the name.
39:41Miss Eliza Dunn, it said.
39:44Twickenham Station to be called for.
39:48Very well, Annie.
39:52Au revoir.
39:53Au revoir, sir.
39:58Excellent.
39:58Then why would Crotchet want to perpetrate such an elaborate house?
40:13Ah, that is a very good question, Hastings.
40:19But Eliza Dunn has got her house.
40:22I shall be surprised if she finds she has more than a six-month lease.
40:27So what did Crotchet want?
40:29Crotchet?
40:29Well, Simpson, then, pretending to be Crotchet.
40:32He wanted something that Eliza Dunn had.
40:36Money?
40:36The Australian legacy?
40:38He wanted a battered old tin trunk.
40:41A trunk?
40:42With nothing in it?
40:42But he could buy a trunk.
40:46Oh, but he did not want a new trunk, mon ami.
40:49He wanted a trunk of pedigree.
40:51A trunk of assured respectability.
40:54Now, look here, Poirot.
40:55What would Simpson want an old trunk for?
40:58To put the body in, of course.
41:00Send it on to Glasgow, Gov.
41:10To a white collection there.
41:12But how do you know this?
41:14You have not consulted your records.
41:15I don't need to consult my records, Gov, do I?
41:18What do you mean, body?
41:19What body?
41:20Is he with you?
41:22Whose body?
41:23I mean to say that there's going to be bodies all over the place.
41:25Do small things or will be revealed to you.
41:28Can we get on with the business in hand?
41:31By all means.
41:32I saw to it myself, didn't I?
41:34Yesterday morning.
41:36Some cove with a beard.
41:38Crotchet!
41:39You spoke to this man?
41:40Of course I spoke to him.
41:41Did he give a name?
41:43Nah.
41:44He just said this Eliza Dunn was his aunt,
41:46and she wanted the trunk sent on to Glasgow.
41:49And it's gone?
41:50You have sent it?
41:51Nah.
41:52Every Friday, the Southern Railway pays me huge amounts of money,
41:56so I won't do that sort of thing.
41:58I think he's being sarcastic, Poirot.
42:00No.
42:01No, Hastings.
42:03He is a good man.
42:05He is doing the job of great responsibility.
42:10Thank you, monsieur.
42:13I'll tell you one thing now.
42:15And what is that, monsieur?
42:25Are you looking for this bloke or something?
42:27Well, of course we're looking for him.
42:29I'm talking to the engineer, not the oil rake.
42:31Now, look here.
42:32No, no, no, Hastings.
42:34What is this one thing you will tell us, monsieur?
42:39I'll know.
42:39I'll tell you.
42:44I'll tell you where he is.
42:47There.
42:50Go on.
42:52Well, at least where I think he is.
42:53Oh, a bit less sure enough.
42:54I bet he is.
42:55I bet he's where I say.
42:56And where do you say?
43:00Bolivia.
43:02There.
43:03Bolivia.
43:04That's in South America.
43:05And what is it that makes you think he is in Bolivia?
43:10Well, going there, at least, on his way, like.
43:15He has to pay for this trunk to be sent on to Glasgow, see?
43:18I see.
43:20He takes out a water note, or choke a cart horse, it would.
43:24There's a few English notes there, which he pays what he owes me with.
43:29But I couldn't help but notice most of the other notes were Bolivian.
43:35Well, one tiny little thing was, they had Bolivia written all over them, didn't they?
43:56Here we are.
43:57This week's savings.
44:03Nothing for Bolivia today.
44:06Bolivia is a landlocked country, Hastings.
44:08Ah, that explains it, then.
44:10This one sails to Buenos Aires and goes by train from there.
44:12What lovely names they all have.
44:15Queen of Heaven, sailing for Caracas.
44:17Thank you, Miss Lemon.
44:18Can we stick to Buenos Aires, please?
44:21Ah, here we are.
44:25The SS Novonia from Southampton at 1 a.m.
44:29Well, let's go, then.
44:30Are we looking for Simpson, or the trunk?
44:38Simpson, of course.
44:40The trunk is in Glasgow.
44:42But first,
44:44Scotland Yard.
44:46And, of course, you see some sinister point in all this Arthur Simpson's activities.
45:03Well, yes, of course, Chief Inspector.
45:05Six months' rent on a house, 150 pounds to Miss Dunn.
45:09It is not much to assure the success of his plan.
45:13And this famous plan is?
45:15I mean, we've heard a lot about it, Mr. Poirot, and I'm sure it's been very entertaining, but...
45:19We are wasting time, Chief Inspector.
45:23Go on, then.
45:24His plan, of course, is to steal 90,000 pounds worth of negotiable securities from the Belgravia and overseas bank.
45:34No.
45:35That's Davis.
45:36Davis.
45:36Davis.
45:36Davis.
45:45Here it is, Sergeant.
46:02Chief Inspector Jack speaking.
46:04Oh, yes, Sergeant.
46:06Good.
46:07Good.
46:09It's Glasgow.
46:09They found the trunk.
46:11And?
46:12What do you mean, and?
46:14Have they opened it?
46:15Sergeant Henry, have you opened the trunk?
46:23Ah, yes, I see.
46:26Apparently they need a warrant up there.
46:28Oh, dear.
46:29There is a body in that trunk.
46:33A body.
46:37Look, Sergeant, there seems to be the possibility there's a body in that trunk.
46:41Yes, a dead body.
46:44You will?
46:45All right, thank you.
46:48He thinks that may expedite matters.
46:51He's going to ring me back.
46:52Now, then, what body?
46:53Whose body?
46:55Davis, of course.
46:57This is nonsense, Poirot.
46:59Davis stole those securities from the bank.
47:01Davis is the one who disappeared the day...
47:04...after.
47:04Precisely.
47:06You think what Simpson wanted you to think.
47:10Listen, Chief Inspector.
47:11Listen, Chief Inspector.
47:14On Wednesday, Simpson disguised decoys away the cook.
47:20Now, he has already removed the securities from the bank, but knows that this will not be discovered until Thursday afternoon.
47:28Now, he does not go to the bank on Thursday.
47:29Instead, he lies in wait for Davis when he comes out to lunch and asks him to come to Clapham with him.
47:38Now, it is the maids there.
47:42And then, Mrs. Todd is at the shops.
47:46There is no one in the house.
47:49Simpson kills Davis.
47:54The one difficulty for a murderer is the disposal of the body.
48:11And that is why Simpson wanted the trunk of Miss Eliza Dunn.
48:24And now, if I am not much mistaken, my friends, it is here we will apprehend our murderer.
48:40Have I got something wrong, Chief Inspector?
48:42No, no, Poirot.
48:44Can't be right every time.
48:45Mon dieu, I am wrong.
48:56I am wrong.
49:00Officer, where does the Queen of Heaven sail from tonight?
49:04Why, from Pier 5, sir, over there.
49:06Poirot, where are we going?
49:08The Queen of Heaven sails for Caracas tonight.
49:11I remember it from the time.
49:15Yes, but Caracas isn't in Bolivia, is it?
49:20What the porter saw on the banknot was not Bolivia.
49:23What was it then?
49:24It was Bolivar.
49:25And the Bolivar is the unit of currency in Venezuela.
49:29Our friend is on his way to Venezuela.
49:45Simpson!
49:45Simpson!
49:52It's not Batman!
49:54No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Miss Lemon.
50:09To the left.
50:10At least one centimeter to the left.
50:16That's better.
50:24Voila!
50:25There's nothing to which Hercule Poirot cannot turn his finger.
50:29Hand.
50:35Pay to Hercule Poirot.
50:37The sum of one guinea only, Ernest Todd.
50:41It is to me, Hastings, a little reminder.
50:45Never to despise the trivial, but the undignified.
50:50A disappearing domestic at one end,
50:53a cold-blooded murder at the other.
50:55The end, a cold-blooded murder at the other.
51:25A cold-blooded murder at the other.
51:35But I should use something to say.
51:37I took space.
51:38I
51:48could imagine you found a screen.
51:50¶¶
52:20¶¶
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