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Please, please, you must come quick.

2
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There's a woman lying dead
out on the moors.

3
00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:33,700
It's alright, miss.
No need for you to take another look.

4
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Ruber. Alice. Mrs.

5
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I'd say she's been dead
for no more than two hours.

6
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Say four o'clock at the outside
for time of death.

7
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Hercules Parrot, sir.

8
00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,300
Poirot, mademoiselle.

9
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Pucker your lips as though
about to bestow a kiss! Poi-rot.

10
00:04:06,500 --> 00:04:08,900
Morning, Poirot.
I hope you have good news.

11
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This case has been hanging fire
for four months.

12
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No, I'm afraid
it's one of those rare cases

13
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where an insurance company must, er...

14
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laugh and lump it.

15
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Very well.

16
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The usual 100 guineas, I take it?

17
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By the way, Poirot...
Take a look at this.

18
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It is the property of Sir Horace Blatt.

19
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He is seeking to insure it with us
for £50,000.

20
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Well, on the face of it...
it seems to be worth every penny of...

21
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£38 pounds...
seven shillings and sixpence.

22
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You are of course quite right.
It is paste.

23
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The question is why should
a millionaire industrialist

24
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perpetrate such an obvious fraud?

25
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Precisely. He must have known
the stone would be examined.

26
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So you see...
there is something of a mystery.

27
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Rest assured, with Hercule Poirot...
mysteries never last for long.

28
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Exactly. We were wondering if you would
undertake to investigate the matter.

29
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You know that you can count on
my discretion.

30
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Very well, I will see Sir Horace...
this afternoon.

31
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Hardly this afternoon, I think.
He's on his yacht, the Jolly Roger...

32
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in the south of France.
Would a further £200 meet the case?

33
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Guineas.

34
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It will make my forthcoming holidays
even more attractive.

35
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So that's your game, is it?

36
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You come out here and as near as dammit
accuse me, Horace Blatt, of fraud?

37
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Do you seriously think
that I'd cheat the insurance company

38
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over one bloody jewel?
I am worth millions, Poirot.

39
00:06:24,500 --> 00:06:27,800
Nevertheless, I'm afraid
it's quite worthless, messieur.

40
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God, I could wring her bloody neck!

41
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If you would care to confide in me...
I should be most honoured.

42
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Alright, I'll tell you this much.

43
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A couple of months back...
I met a certain lady in New York.

44
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She told me she was
so madly in love with me

45
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that she'd leave the show she was in...
She was an actress, you know.

46
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And come back to England with me
on the Queen Mary and marry me.

47
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So I bought her this stone
from Tiffany's.

48
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Halfway across the Atlantic, she changed
her mind and ran off with another man.

49
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I wouldn't have minded...
only she took the jewel with her.

50
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That wasn't a fair do.

51
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You see, I had given her it
in contemplation of marriage.

52
00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,000
And, frankly...
$100,000 is a bit much to pay

53
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for three days' fumbling
on the high seas.

54
00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,100
Oh, messieur, who can put a price on
les affaires de coeur?

55
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I bloody can.

56
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And this was too high.

57
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So, three weeks ago...
I went after her and demanded it back.

58
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Of course she tried to put me off, but
after a week or so she gave it to me

59
00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,600
and I sent it along to be insured and...

60
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She'd had the bloody thing copied...
hadn't she?

61
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It would appear to be
the only explanation, messieur.

62
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Well, she's not gonna make
a chump out of me.

63
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I happen to know that in three days'
time she'll be down at Daphne's place

64
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for a little holiday.

65
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I'll give her a little holiday!

66
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Daphne's place?

67
00:07:50,100 --> 00:07:52,900
Yes, you know, Daphne Castle.

68
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She was a mistress of
the King of Tyrania for years...

69
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then when he upped and married
the present queen

70
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he gave Daphne
an old summer palace to keep her quiet.

71
00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:06,800
She's turned it into one of those
exclusive la-di-da hotels

72
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where the nobs and nancies
come to squawk at each other.

73
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I can't stand it meself...
but she's good sort.

74
00:08:12,500 --> 00:08:16,300
Anyway, you'd better come with me.
We can sail tonight.

75
00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:18,200
Alas, messieur.

76
00:08:18,300 --> 00:08:22,200
Ever since I was a small boy...
I have suffered from le mal de mer.

77
00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,700
It needed all my courage
to make this small trip.

78
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I will take the train
and join you there.

79
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Mes compliments à messieur Jerome.

80
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Waiter?

81
00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,900
Could I have another brandy
and the bill, please?

82
00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,300
Patrick!
You haven't got time for another!

83
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- The steamer leaves at 11:00!
- Of course I have!

84
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You have the baggage sent down
while I wait for the changes.

85
00:08:57,900 --> 00:09:00,100
Why do I always have to do everything?

86
00:09:04,300 --> 00:09:08,400
Messieur Poirot, your reservation
on the night train has been confirmed.

87
00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:10,800
The tickets will be at the desk.

88
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Thank you. Er...

89
00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:37,200
I must go.
I've got to catch that damn boat

90
00:10:04,900 --> 00:10:07,600
What on earth's wrong, Rex?
You look fearfully glum.

91
00:10:07,700 --> 00:10:12,200
You're supposed to be enjoying yourself.
God knows you're paying enough for it!

92
00:10:12,300 --> 00:10:14,000
Don't I know it?

93
00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:18,200
As a matter of fact, Daphne...
I was wondering if you would care

94
00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,800
to trade my bill
for a super piece in New Yorker?

95
00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,000
You know the sort of thing.
"Farewell courtesan, hello inn-keeper."

96
00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:30,100
Darling, I'd love to help. But it's not
publicity I need, it's the cash.

97
00:10:30,300 --> 00:10:32,400
Oh, good God, darling, don't we all?

98
00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,400
How are the Gardeners this morning?

99
00:10:34,500 --> 00:10:38,700
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale...
their infinite vulgarity.

100
00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,900
Good morning, Gardeners.
Everything tickety-boo?

101
00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,200
Good morning.

102
00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,600
Sure, Daphne.
But I could wish that my shower worked

103
00:10:46,700 --> 00:10:49,800
as snappily as the one that
I've got back home in New York City.

104
00:10:49,900 --> 00:10:52,800
Oh, you can't expect American plumbing
in the Adriatic.

105
00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,000
I guess not.
Well, at least we've got a shower.

106
00:10:56,100 --> 00:11:00,000
A cousin of Odell's was at
some place in Yugoslavia last year

107
00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,100
and had to wash in a kind of shack
in a field. Isn't that so, Odell?

108
00:11:04,300 --> 00:11:07,700
It wasn't my cousin, Myra...
it was my aunt.

109
00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000
It was your cousin, Thelma Snatchball.

110
00:11:10,100 --> 00:11:12,700
OK, if you insist.
But there were two shacks.

111
00:11:13,100 --> 00:11:14,900
One for the guests
and one for the staff.

112
00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,200
It was very... stylish.

113
00:11:17,300 --> 00:11:20,700
Boat's coming in, Daphne.
Prepare to repel boarders.

114
00:11:22,700 --> 00:11:24,200
That'll be Arlena.

115
00:11:24,900 --> 00:11:26,600
Do you mean Arlena Stuart?

116
00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,700
No, Arlena Marshall.
She remarried a couple of months ago.

117
00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:33,800
Oh, good God, darling, I didn't know
she was coming. Oh, how marvellous!

118
00:11:33,900 --> 00:11:36,500
I am her greatest fan.
It will just make my vacation.

119
00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:40,400
Did any of you happen to see that
last show of hers, Hail and Farewell?

120
00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:45,500
Hail and farewell, I'll never tell
You've cast a spell over me...

121
00:11:45,700 --> 00:11:49,500
We produced it. Remember, dear?

122
00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:53,500
Oh, good God, darlings, I plumb forgot.

123
00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:58,200
Isn't that the one that
she walked out on after just three weeks

124
00:11:58,200 --> 00:11:59,900
and your biggest hit in years?

125
00:12:00,100 --> 00:12:02,400
You know damn well it was.

126
00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,000
And just what was that?
A sudden breakdown in health?

127
00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,100
More like a sudden attack of
gold digging.

128
00:12:09,900 --> 00:12:13,400
Which rather turned it into
"Sail and Farewell", eh?

129
00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:16,100
Funny man.

130
00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:25,600
Well, if that's Arlena, she must be
being dressed by Woolworths these days.

131
00:12:26,100 --> 00:12:31,700
Oh, that's the Redferns. Patrick
and Christine, I seem to remember.

132
00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,600
Excuse me, I must put my hostess hat on.

133
00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,900
Anyway, darlings...
it must have cost you a pretty bundle

134
00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:39,800
closing a hit show like that.

135
00:12:40,100 --> 00:12:41,900
Would either of you care to comment?

136
00:12:42,100 --> 00:12:44,000
Why don't you go and play with yourself?

137
00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:45,400
Excessively.

138
00:12:46,300 --> 00:12:49,900
Is coarseness a substitute for wit...
I ask myself.

139
00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:56,000
Hello! I'm Daphne Castle.
Welcome to the island.

140
00:12:56,100 --> 00:12:57,300
How do you do?

141
00:12:57,300 --> 00:12:59,500
Looks lovely. I'm sure
we'll have a nice time here.

142
00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:03,600
Oh. And a naughty one, too, I hope.

143
00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,500
- Would you care to sign in?
- Naughty?

144
00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:08,200
What are the holidays for...

145
00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:11,200
if you can't do a spot of flirting
and get a bit pissy boots?

146
00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,800
Quite right. Do you fancy a walk
around the island before lunch, dear?

147
00:13:15,100 --> 00:13:18,600
Patrick! You know perfectly well
that I've got a splitting headache

148
00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:20,400
and I've got all the unpacking to do.

149
00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,800
Andrea will show to your room,
if you like.

150
00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:25,000
Thank you.

151
00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,100
After two days
on that suffocating steamer

152
00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,200
I would have really thought that
you'd have more consideration for me.

153
00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:32,600
Anyway, I'm no good at...

154
00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,300
Thank you for those three hours
of pure and unadulterated hell.

155
00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,300
This may come as a nasty surprise
to you...

156
00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:21,200
but shock absorbers have been standard
on motorised vehicles for 30 years.

157
00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,200
Stop playing boules with my Vuitton!

158
00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,500
Linda, you gormless oaf, do something!

159
00:14:34,900 --> 00:14:36,200
Like what?

160
00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:38,500
Like stop them, cretin.

161
00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:40,600
Kenneth! This is a nightmare.

162
00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,000
Take it easy, Arlena.
We'll soon be there.

163
00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,000
Soon can't be soon enough for me.

164
00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,700
Of all the dreadful journeys...

165
00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,300
Isn't that the absurd little man
we saw in the station at Tirana?

166
00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,000
Pinched the only decent taxi
from under your nose.

167
00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,600
Yes, I do believe it is.

168
00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:05,500
Good morning.

169
00:15:05,500 --> 00:15:08,100
Since we are all obviously going
to Daphne's island...

170
00:15:08,300 --> 00:15:09,700
I'd better introduce myself.

171
00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:12,300
I'm Kenneth Marshall
and this is my wife, Arlena.

172
00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:15,200
- Hercule Poirot. Enchantée, madame.
- Charmed.

173
00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,400
This is my stepdaughter, Linda.

174
00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,700
Do stop standing there like a coughdrop
and say good morning to messieur Poirot.

175
00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:23,300
- Morning.
- Bonjour.

176
00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:26,600
Was your journey as frightful as ours,
messieur Poirot?

177
00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,900
Alas, I fear the sea
more than the land, madame.

178
00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,500
Oh, Mr Marshall,
I implore you not to spoil them.

179
00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,300
We have to pay double
on the way home.

180
00:15:36,300 --> 00:15:37,900
It's only a 20-minute boat trip.

181
00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,400
You'll find it all worthwhile
once we get to the island, I assure you.

182
00:15:41,500 --> 00:15:43,200
You mean you've been there before?

183
00:15:43,300 --> 00:15:46,000
Yes, I was there for a few days
three years ago.

184
00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:48,100
After the death of my first wife.

185
00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:03,600
God's teeth!

186
00:16:03,700 --> 00:16:06,500
Don't worry, darling.
It's only the noonday gun.

187
00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,600
The noonday gun?

188
00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:10,800
Yes, it's fired every day
at 12 o'clock

189
00:16:10,900 --> 00:16:15,400
to commemorate the glorious victory of
Kosovo-Metohija in 1193.

190
00:16:15,900 --> 00:16:19,900
I am reliably informed that
a mere handful of Tyranian cavalry

191
00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:24,000
routed over 50,000
barbarous Bosnian fanatics.

192
00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,200
The only military success
in their entire history.

193
00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,000
One success too many.

194
00:16:46,500 --> 00:16:49,700
Arlena! Arlena, darling, I love you!

195
00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,200
That tub was even more uncomfortable
than that damned taxi.

196
00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,900
What if the bitch
refuses to do the show?

197
00:17:26,900 --> 00:17:29,000
We'll lose all our backers, that's what.

198
00:17:29,100 --> 00:17:31,500
After all,
we sell the show on her name.

199
00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,600
To think our futures
are riding on that snake-eyed hussy!

200
00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,500
Welcome to the island,
everybody!

201
00:17:46,500 --> 00:17:50,300
Kenneth, oh, it's marvellous to see you!

202
00:17:50,500 --> 00:17:52,200
Absolutely marvellous.

203
00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,600
It must be at least two years
since you were last on the island.

204
00:17:55,700 --> 00:18:00,200
It's three, actually. Wonderful to be
here. You never met Linda, did you?

205
00:18:00,300 --> 00:18:01,800
No! No, I didn't.

206
00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,000
Hello! Hello, Linda.
Welcome to the island.

207
00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:08,400
And I don't think you know Arlena.

208
00:18:08,700 --> 00:18:12,300
Oh! Oh, yes. Yes, I do.

209
00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:14,900
Arlena and I are old sparring partners.

210
00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,300
Hello, Daphne.

211
00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:25,100
- Oh, it's been years.
- Well, a little time, yes.

212
00:18:25,900 --> 00:18:27,300
Years.

213
00:18:28,100 --> 00:18:31,100
Arlena and I were in
the chorus of a show together...

214
00:18:31,300 --> 00:18:33,300
not that I could ever compete.

215
00:18:33,500 --> 00:18:37,100
Even in those days, she could always
throw her legs up in the air

216
00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,500
higher than any of us...

217
00:18:39,700 --> 00:18:41,300
and wider.

218
00:18:42,300 --> 00:18:44,500
Kenneth, this is such a surprise.

219
00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,000
When you told me of an island
run by a quaint little landlady

220
00:18:48,100 --> 00:18:50,600
I had no idea it was Daphne Castle.

221
00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:55,000
Yes, quite. Daphne,
I wonder if we could go to our rooms.

222
00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,600
It's been a long journey.

223
00:18:56,700 --> 00:18:58,700
Oh. Certainly.

224
00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:10,900
Andreas!

225
00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:17,300
If you're short-staffed,
Kenneth can easily carry the bags.

226
00:19:17,500 --> 00:19:19,200
They'll be brought up in a minute.

227
00:19:19,300 --> 00:19:21,700
There'll be cocktails tonight
at eight o'clock.

228
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:27,700
Do have a good, long, peaceful rest,
Arlena.

229
00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:41,800
You must be Sir Horace Blatt's friend.
Perhaps... Perhaps you'll sign in.

230
00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,300
Oh, so you're the famous
Hercule Poirot, eh?

231
00:19:57,300 --> 00:20:00,100
- You are too amiable, madame.
- Perhaps.

232
00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:04,300
I hope you haven't come to practise
your sleuthing games on my guests.

233
00:20:04,300 --> 00:20:07,200
They've all got far too many
skeletons in their cupboards

234
00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:08,800
to join in with enthusiasm.

235
00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:12,100
It's not my intention to derange
you or your guests, madame.

236
00:20:12,100 --> 00:20:15,200
Pendant les vacances
my desires are simply a good valet...

237
00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,800
a... tisane de menthe poivrée

238
00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,100
at eight o'clock in the morning
precisely...

239
00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:26,600
and of course some wax,
some beeswax for my shoes. That's all.

240
00:20:27,900 --> 00:20:31,600
Actually, Gilbert had nothing
to do with the success this season.

241
00:20:31,900 --> 00:20:35,600
Oh, my God, I really don't know
what we are going to do about them.

242
00:20:35,700 --> 00:20:39,400
I really do think that
the Millers have gone too far.

243
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,900
Gilly is my oldest friend, Rex.

244
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,400
Oh, God, I didn't know that!

245
00:20:43,500 --> 00:20:47,300
- Gilly is Myra's oldest friend.
- I just told him, Odell.

246
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,000
Did you hear what Gilbert said
about the Queen?

247
00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:52,200
No.

248
00:20:52,300 --> 00:20:53,700
Well, you see...

249
00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:05,700
Enjoying it?

250
00:21:05,900 --> 00:21:10,300
I couldn't have one. This was
delicious, if I could... Thank you.

251
00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,500
How about a cocktail, messieur Poirot?

252
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,000
White Lady, a Sidecar,
Mainbrace or Between the Sheets?

253
00:21:17,100 --> 00:21:21,300
No, if I could have a crème de Cassis
or a sirop de banane.

254
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:25,600
- Do you have banana syrup?
- Certainly.

255
00:21:25,700 --> 00:21:27,300
Oh, my!

256
00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:30,100
I'm the last to arrive!

257
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,100
Have a sausage, dear.

258
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,300
You must be famished, having to wait
all that time in your room.

259
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:42,500
Have you... Have you met the Redferns?
Christine and Patrick.

260
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,900
- Arlena, darling...
- Arlena, my favourite leading lady!

261
00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:50,900
Why, if it isn't Odell and Myra!

262
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,300
What on earth are you two doing here?

263
00:21:53,500 --> 00:21:56,800
It's wonderful to see you, Arlena.
We have a fabulous show for you.

264
00:21:56,900 --> 00:21:58,900
Oh, it's a real humdinger, honey!

265
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:04,100
Odell insisted that we both come over
here together to see you personally.

266
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:08,300
Well, it's very sweet of you.
But I'm sort of retired, you know.

267
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,900
This is my new audience.
Have you met my husband?

268
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000
How do you do?

269
00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:16,500
How do you do? You'll change your mind.
You won't be able to resist this one!

270
00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:20,700
Keeler's mad to do it. But we're
holding her off until you have a look.

271
00:22:20,900 --> 00:22:23,000
And Kern,
he's done some of the best music...

272
00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:26,300
Arlena, darling, it's simply
sensational to see you again!

273
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,100
- Hello, Rex.
- How do you do? I'm Kenneth Marshall...

274
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,600
Excuse me.
I must talk to you, Arlena darling.

275
00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:33,900
Not now, Rexy-poo.

276
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:35,600
Thank you.

277
00:22:35,900 --> 00:22:37,000
Cheers.

278
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,900
Good morning, Linda.
How is your lovely mother?

279
00:23:23,100 --> 00:23:25,600
She's not lovely
and she's not my mother.

280
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,100
Darling, didn't anyone ever tell you

281
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,800
that peevishness is unbecoming
in young ladies?

282
00:23:32,900 --> 00:23:37,200
No. But they told me not to
talk to very strange men.

283
00:23:39,900 --> 00:23:41,100
Morning, Gardeners!

284
00:23:41,300 --> 00:23:43,900
- Good morning.
- Oh, good morning, Arlena.

285
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,300
I think it's gonna be a hot day.

286
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,700
Good morning Mrs Redfern.

287
00:23:57,700 --> 00:24:00,100
Well, well, she's in wonderful shape.

288
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,400
Yeah. How much was it we paid
Kleinfield, Klausewitz and Stummerhoppen

289
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,200
to contest
that phoney doctor's certificate?

290
00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:09,200
$20,000.

291
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,000
Arlena, darling,
you look quite divine in that outfit.

292
00:24:13,100 --> 00:24:15,100
Say no more. It's yours. Next question?

293
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,500
There is something
frightfully important

294
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,400
- I have to talk to you about.
- So talk.

295
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:20,500
It's a bit private.

296
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,300
You heard the little man, Linda.
Scram!

297
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,200
Well, what is it?

298
00:24:29,500 --> 00:24:30,900
Arlena, I was wondering

299
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,800
if you've had a chance to read
the proofs of the biography yet?

300
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,300
Indeed I have, Rex.
I simply couldn't put it down.

301
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,300
I knew you'd love it.

302
00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:43,700
What a busy bee you've been researching
exactly where I was born... and when.

303
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,500
Well, there aren't too many stars

304
00:24:45,500 --> 00:24:48,100
were born in Tooting Bec
at the turn of the century.

305
00:24:48,100 --> 00:24:51,300
And the sweet way you wrote about
how I landed my first leading role

306
00:24:51,700 --> 00:24:54,800
in Flames of Eternity.
However did you find out?

307
00:24:54,900 --> 00:24:55,900
I bribed his wife.

308
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,300
Naughty Rex!

309
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:02,700
Ah, the days of my youth. But I've
shoved all that behind me now, Rex.

310
00:25:02,900 --> 00:25:05,500
Which is exactly what you're going to do
with your lousy book.

311
00:25:06,100 --> 00:25:09,000
But, Arlena darling, you promised.
When we were in New York.

312
00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:12,100
I've spent the advance.
I simply must have that release.

313
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:13,100
Forget it.

314
00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:16,100
You're not going to barbecue me
to keep yourself in sailor suits.

315
00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:21,600
But, Arlena, angel, you must.

316
00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:25,400
I said forget it, I'm not going to
sign that release. And that's final.

317
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,500
You're going to regret this, Arlena.

318
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,100
That's a promise.

319
00:25:35,100 --> 00:25:39,000
Good morning, Mrs Marshall.
Good morning, Mr Brewster.

320
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:53,500
Hello.

321
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:54,600
Oh, hello.

322
00:25:54,700 --> 00:25:58,300
Oh, Linda, what are doing here?
Acting as chaperone, gooseberry or spy?

323
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,600
I just wanted a chat.
I don't seem to be having much fun.

324
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,600
If it's fun you're looking for,
go play with the jellyfish.

325
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,000
Oh, my God!
She runs like a dromedary with dropsy.

326
00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:15,700
Bonjour, madame.

327
00:26:22,700 --> 00:26:23,800
Bitch!

328
00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:29,500
No, no, put me down!

329
00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:34,300
Put me down! No, no, no, no!

330
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,600
I shall cry! I shall, I shall cry!

331
00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:48,600
You do not care for the aquatic sports
or the sunbathing, madame.

332
00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:53,100
I wish I could. But I don't go brown.
I sort of resemble a cassata.

333
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,300
Pink skin, white blisters,
and green in the face.

334
00:26:56,500 --> 00:26:59,000
Unlike your husband, I observe.

335
00:26:59,100 --> 00:27:01,400
No, he manages those things rather well.

336
00:27:01,700 --> 00:27:04,500
Sometimes I think he must think
I'm an awful goose.

337
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,700
But why, madame?
I do not indulge in those sports myself

338
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:12,500
and yet I assure you,
I am very far from being... a goose.

339
00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:14,700
Ah, there you are, messieur Poirot.

340
00:27:27,300 --> 00:27:30,500
I've just had a telephone call
from your friend, Sir Horace.

341
00:27:30,700 --> 00:27:33,900
He says he's having trouble with his...
piffle valve?

342
00:27:34,700 --> 00:27:37,900
Ha! Such a valve still
has to be invented, madame.

343
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,400
Well, I dare say you're right,
I wasn't paying attention.

344
00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:43,100
Anyway, the result is,
he'll be 24 hours late.

345
00:27:43,900 --> 00:27:45,300
Good morning, Kenneth.

346
00:27:51,700 --> 00:27:52,900
Are you going for a swim?

347
00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:55,400
The water is so hot,
the lobsters are coming out red.

348
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,100
Good morning.

349
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,400
Come along, Daddy, you promised
to come for a walk with me.

350
00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:58,400
Patrick... aren't you getting
a little tired of rowing?

351
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,400
That was last night.
And this morning he starts all over...

352
00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:14,700
Andre... Andre... I don't care.

353
00:29:14,700 --> 00:29:17,200
I don't care if messieur Poirot
wants cement on his sausages

354
00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:19,700
or boot-blacking on his butter,
just give it to him!

355
00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:23,400
That finicky little Belgian fart
will find it all on his bill anyhow.

356
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,200
- With a vengeance!
- Very well, madame.

357
00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:37,600
I'm so sorry. Are we late? Patrick
insisted he row me around the island.

358
00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:40,000
It's bigger than I thought.
Poor darling, he's exhausted.

359
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:41,700
Not in the least surprised.

360
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,000
I'm sorry we didn't take you with us,
my dear.

361
00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:47,500
The sun would have been
much too strong for you. You know that.

362
00:29:51,900 --> 00:29:55,000
Arlena, here you are,
it's the script that I promised you.

363
00:29:55,100 --> 00:29:58,200
No, I thought I told you last night.
I've given up the theatre.

364
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,200
These two are all
I'm concerned with now.

365
00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:06,200
- What's it called anyway?
- It's Not Right And It's Not Fair.

366
00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:08,300
Sounds like a black man's left leg.

367
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:36,400
- It's alright, Mr Poirot.
- Pardon, madame. Je m'excuse.

368
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:38,400
Please stay.

369
00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:45,100
I'm just being silly.

370
00:31:45,700 --> 00:31:49,700
I wish I had more self-control,
didn't show what I feel.

371
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,100
Well, that is sometimes
not easy for the ladies.

372
00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:57,800
Do you know what I am most sick of
in this place?

373
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,500
- What, madame?
- Pity.

374
00:31:59,700 --> 00:32:01,300
I can't bear to be pitied.

375
00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:05,600
Everyone round here
seems to feel so sorry for me.

376
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,500
I can tell it
by the way they look at me.

377
00:32:08,700 --> 00:32:11,100
"Poor little thing," they're saying.

378
00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:14,700
"What she has to put up with, with
that poor fool of a husband of hers."

379
00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:18,500
"What a pity she's not strong enough
to compete for what she wants."

380
00:32:19,700 --> 00:32:22,500
Will you allow me to tell you something,
madame?

381
00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:26,500
The Arlena Stuarts of this world
do not count.

382
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,000
Their domination is of the moment.

383
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:35,400
Really, to count, a woman
must have either goodness or brains.

384
00:32:35,500 --> 00:32:39,700
You can't actually believe that men care
for either of those things, can you?

385
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,600
Oh, yes, I do, madame.

386
00:32:42,500 --> 00:32:44,600
Your husband loves you.

387
00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:46,900
I know that.

388
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,700
Come, let us take a little promenade.
Hmm?

389
00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:14,900
How I wish I could do that,
just lie in the sun.

390
00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:16,800
Mais pourquoi, madame?

391
00:33:16,900 --> 00:33:20,500
Look at them lying in rows,
like corpses in the morgue!

392
00:33:20,700 --> 00:33:23,800
They are not men and women.
Nothing personal about them.

393
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:28,300
They're just bodies, butcher's meat,
steaks grilling in the sun.

394
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,700
I'm sorry, Mr Poirot,
I suffer from vertigo.

395
00:33:34,900 --> 00:33:37,000
I can't bear to look down from a height.

396
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,200
I'm better now.
In fact I am determined to enjoy myself.

397
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:47,400
It's so blissful here, so tranquil,
so far from all violence and trouble.

398
00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:51,100
Yes, you are right, madame.

399
00:33:51,900 --> 00:33:54,700
The sky is blue, the sun is shining...

400
00:33:54,900 --> 00:34:01,400
and yet you forget that everywhere
there is evil under the sun.

401
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,900
You're going to be late for dinner,
you know.

402
00:34:33,100 --> 00:34:34,900
Yes, I know.

403
00:34:35,300 --> 00:34:37,000
Just having a bit of a think.

404
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,000
About Arlena?

405
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,500
I suppose it's no use
saying it's your own fault.

406
00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:47,100
- Not much...
- No, it never is.

407
00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:50,900
How about, "You've made your bed,
now you must lie on it"?

408
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,100
- Worse.
- Thought it might be.

409
00:34:54,700 --> 00:34:57,800
- Poor Kenneth. You do pick 'em.
- Oh, I can cope.

410
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,400
- Do you think Linda can?
- What do you mean?

411
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,500
She's always on at that poor child,
bitching the hell out of her.

412
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,300
Yes. Yes, a pity about that.

413
00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:11,600
Linda's like... like her mother,
you see, she takes things hard.

414
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,700
- Why don't you do something about it?
- Like what?

415
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,000
Like fixing up a divorce, for instance.
People do it all the time.

416
00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:21,000
With most of my friends
it's a full-time occupation.

417
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,300
Arlena's alright.
She just adores to flirt, that's all.

418
00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:27,200
There's nothing in it.
It's all on the spur of the moment.

419
00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:31,300
Spur of the moment?
You really are blind.

420
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:36,100
Who the hell do you think booked Patrick
Redfern in here in the first place?

421
00:35:36,900 --> 00:35:38,600
You don't mean...?

422
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,000
I'm afraid so.

423
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,300
Even so. With me, a deal is a deal.

424
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,100
I don't approve of quick marriage
and easy divorce.

425
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,800
Arlena is my wife.
That's all there is to it.

426
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,800
Till death do you part?

427
00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:00,100
Exactly.

428
00:36:02,700 --> 00:36:03,900
I see.

429
00:36:12,700 --> 00:36:14,000
Well?

430
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,800
I could just kill that cow!

431
00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:30,700
Well, what the hell do we do now, Odell?

432
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,500
Just leave it to me.

433
00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:37,000
- I'll think of something.
- Hm! My hero.

434
00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:41,800
I swear, if you were a man,
I would divorce you.

435
00:36:45,300 --> 00:36:48,500
Hello, darling! You'd better get
a move on. Where have you been?

436
00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:51,800
I've just been having a word
with Daphne.

437
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,100
You get on like a house on fire
with her, don't you?

438
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:56,800
She's a nice lady.

439
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:02,000
Yes, I suppose she is.
As hotel proprietors go.

440
00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:09,500
And you get on rather well with Redfern,
don't you?

441
00:37:10,300 --> 00:37:11,700
He's a nice fellow.

442
00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:15,500
Yes, I suppose he is, as gigolos go.

443
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:17,600
What's that supposed to mean?

444
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,500
You liked him well enough
when you met him in London.

445
00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:22,500
I never set eyes on the man before.

446
00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:26,000
Really?
I could have sworn you were there.

447
00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:28,600
It must have been
your regimental dinner.

448
00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:30,500
Well, anyway, what does it matter?

449
00:37:30,700 --> 00:37:33,500
He just happens to be a guest here
who took me for a boat ride.

450
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,200
He just happens to be a guest here,
Arlena...

451
00:37:36,700 --> 00:37:38,700
because you just happened
to book him in.

452
00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:42,000
The bitch Daphne!

453
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,700
Christine,
I refuse to talk about it!

454
00:37:49,900 --> 00:37:52,700
That's rich!
You don't want to talk about it?

455
00:37:52,700 --> 00:37:56,000
Look here,
I can't even speak to a woman

456
00:37:56,100 --> 00:37:58,800
without you jumping to the conclusion
that I'm having an affair!

457
00:37:58,900 --> 00:38:02,200
Aren't you? You leave me
here alone and go off with her.

458
00:38:02,300 --> 00:38:04,100
I'm the laughing stock of the hotel.

459
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,500
Of course you're not!
How ridiculous!

460
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,000
Arlena and I are just good friends,
that's all!

461
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,100
I don't believe you!
Please, let's just go away.

462
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,100
I absolutely refuse.
Here we are and here we stay!

463
00:38:15,100 --> 00:38:17,700
- If you don't like it you can...
- Yes, what can I do?

464
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,600
Well, I'm looking forward to having
a nice little chat with you, Patrick.

465
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,500
Oh, Myra, that is so beautiful.

466
00:38:31,500 --> 00:38:33,700
- How's your drink?
- Incredible.

467
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,400
How are you?

468
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,100
Too much sun?

469
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:10,900
Good!

470
00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:14,700
That's enough, Linda.
It's adult time. Off to bed.

471
00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:17,900
Come on, darling. Let her stay.
She is on holiday after all.

472
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:19,800
Scram, Cinderella.

473
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:30,600
You're the top

474
00:39:32,700 --> 00:39:35,100
You're the Colosseum

475
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:37,900
You're the top

476
00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:41,400
You're the Louvre Museum

477
00:39:42,700 --> 00:39:46,800
You're the nimble tread
Of the feet of Fred Astaire

478
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,600
You're the National Gallery
You're Garbo's salary

479
00:39:49,700 --> 00:39:52,200
You're camembert

480
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,700
You're the Nile

481
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,000
You're the Tower of Pisa

482
00:40:01,100 --> 00:40:07,300
You're the smile on the Mona Lisa

483
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:12,600
I'm a worthless cheque, a total wreck
A flop

484
00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:17,400
But if, baby, I'm the bottom
You're the top

485
00:40:20,900 --> 00:40:22,300
You're the top

486
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,600
You're a new invention

487
00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:28,700
You're the top

488
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,500
You're the fourth dimension

489
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:41,200
I'm a frog without a log
on which to hop

490
00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:46,000
But if, baby, I'm the bottom

491
00:40:46,100 --> 00:40:48,200
- Sorry.
- You're the top

492
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,100
That was terrific!

493
00:40:56,100 --> 00:40:58,200
Isn't she wonderful?

494
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,800
Wonderful! Wonderful!

495
00:41:21,100 --> 00:41:22,700
Mademoiselle!

496
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,900
Abracadabra!

497
00:41:55,300 --> 00:41:57,000
I know how you did that.

498
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,200
The egg's in your top pocket.

499
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,100
I'm not five years old, you know.

500
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,600
- Been for a bathe, darling?
- What's it look like?

501
00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:18,800
Darling, there is no need to be snappy

502
00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:22,200
just because you went to bed
bright and early last night.

503
00:42:32,900 --> 00:42:34,900
I always keep mine behind my ear.

504
00:42:36,100 --> 00:42:37,300
What?

505
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,500
Oh, there you are!
I was looking for you.

506
00:42:49,900 --> 00:42:52,500
I'm going sketching at Gull Cove.
Would you like to come?

507
00:42:52,700 --> 00:42:54,100
Yes, I'd love to.

508
00:42:54,100 --> 00:42:56,000
I'll see you down in the hall
in ten minutes.

509
00:42:57,800 --> 00:42:59,600
Ah, hello, Mr Poirot.

510
00:43:27,500 --> 00:43:31,200
Messieur Poirot, just the man!

511
00:43:31,300 --> 00:43:34,600
Would you be very kind
and help me push this out?

512
00:43:35,100 --> 00:43:37,500
You require assistance, madame?

513
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,500
It's like trying to launch
the Mauritania.

514
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,000
Without the Champagne!

515
00:43:49,300 --> 00:43:51,500
Thank you so much. Oh...

516
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:55,800
And, messieur Poirot, please
don't tell anyone where I've gone.

517
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,200
- Everyone will keep following me about.
- Everyone, madame?

518
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,700
Perhaps some people more than others,
but I just want to be alone.

519
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,000
- Voilà.
- Enjoy your swim.

520
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,500
There she goes.
Not a care in the world!

521
00:44:58,600 --> 00:44:59,800
I'll make her care.

522
00:44:59,900 --> 00:45:02,500
Oh, what do you know about care?
If it'd been up to you...

523
00:45:02,500 --> 00:45:05,500
the good Samaritan would've passed by
on the other side.

524
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,500
I have an idea,
but I need to work it out.

525
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,500
Well, don't forget about my cousin,
Hatty Heimenheimer.

526
00:45:10,700 --> 00:45:13,300
It took her so long
to "work out an idea"...

527
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,700
they finally had to stash her away
in the booby hatch!

528
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:18,400
Odell?

529
00:45:23,500 --> 00:45:24,900
Odell!

530
00:45:39,100 --> 00:45:41,800
- Hey, hey, hey. Where's the fire?
- Sorry.

531
00:45:42,500 --> 00:45:45,000
- Have you had your breakfast?
- Had a piece of toast.

532
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,500
Linda, you really are naughty.

533
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,200
Andreas goes to all the trouble of
preparing decent English breakfasts

534
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:57,300
instead of those weedy
continental things and you eat toast.

535
00:45:57,500 --> 00:45:59,300
I'm sorry, I just wasn't hungry.

536
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:02,500
What's the matter?

537
00:46:04,700 --> 00:46:05,900
Is it Arlena?

538
00:46:06,900 --> 00:46:11,800
- She's so beastly.
- You don't want to worry about her.

539
00:46:12,900 --> 00:46:15,000
Things have a habit of working out.

540
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,600
- I promise you.
- Yes, if you make them.

541
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,000
Would you like to come for a stroll
to the lighthouse?

542
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,400
This must be my lucky day.
I've never been in such demand.

543
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:26,200
I'd like to, but I can't.

544
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,800
I've got a date
to go sketching with Christine.

545
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,900
That's alright.
I'm glad to see you're making friends.

546
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,800
- Good morning, Kenneth.
- Ah, good morning.

547
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:38,600
Morning, darling.

548
00:46:38,700 --> 00:46:41,500
There's a letter for you.
The boatman brought it over.

549
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:42,800
Ah, thank you.

550
00:46:43,100 --> 00:46:45,500
Seeing your daughter
has just turned me down...

551
00:46:45,500 --> 00:46:49,300
would you like to come for a walk with
me, before my staff meeting at 11:30?

552
00:46:49,500 --> 00:46:53,900
I'd love to, but I'm afraid I can't.
This must be answered straight away.

553
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,500
This isn't my lucky day, Linda.

554
00:46:56,500 --> 00:47:00,900
You can't get away from me at 12:30.
We're playing tennis. Remember?

555
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:01,900
I remember.

556
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,400
By the way, Linda,
have you seen your mother?

557
00:47:05,500 --> 00:47:08,300
- No, thank God.
- Linda, I won't tell you again...

558
00:47:08,900 --> 00:47:12,800
Clean it, clean it.
Don't just lean on the thing.

559
00:47:17,300 --> 00:47:18,900
Here we all are.

560
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:24,400
Well... Well, what a...
colourful outfit!

561
00:47:24,700 --> 00:47:27,400
Oh! Oh, I'm so glad you like it.

562
00:47:27,700 --> 00:47:30,400
Linda and I
are going off sketching, Mr Marshall.

563
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:34,300
Don't worry, I'll take good care of her.
See you on the tennis courts at 12:30.

564
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,300
- Bye, Daddy.
- Have a nice time.

565
00:47:39,500 --> 00:47:41,800
Morning, Poirot. Been swimming?

566
00:47:42,300 --> 00:47:44,200
- You saw me?
- No.

567
00:47:44,300 --> 00:47:46,200
Yes, I have been swimming!

568
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,800
There's nothing like the shock of
cold water and rhythmic movement

569
00:47:49,900 --> 00:47:52,000
to stimulate the little grey cells.

570
00:47:52,100 --> 00:47:55,400
Yes, of course. I don't suppose
you've seen my wife about, have you?

571
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,100
- Madame Marshall?
- Hmm.

572
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:02,300
- What, she rose so early?
- She's not in our rooms.

573
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,600
Oh, by the way, I was looking for
that fellow Redfern earlier.

574
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:08,400
I don't suppose you've seen him?

575
00:48:08,700 --> 00:48:10,300
Is someone taking my name in vain?

576
00:48:12,300 --> 00:48:14,400
A very good morning to you, gentlemen.

577
00:48:29,500 --> 00:48:31,500
What kind of paintings do you do,
Mrs Redfern?

578
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,700
- Call me Christine.
- Thank you.

579
00:51:09,500 --> 00:51:11,600
Hi, Patrick! Going for a spin?

580
00:51:13,500 --> 00:51:15,200
How about taking me along?

581
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:18,000
Er... well...

582
00:51:35,100 --> 00:51:36,500
What time is it, dear?

583
00:51:39,700 --> 00:51:40,700
Five to 12.

584
00:51:40,900 --> 00:51:43,100
Lord, I must fly.

585
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,200
I'm playing tennis at 12:30.

586
00:52:03,500 --> 00:52:05,100
That's a fine boat!

587
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:07,500
I think it belongs to Sir Horace Blatt.

588
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:12,000
Odell and I were on it once, I think.

589
00:52:21,500 --> 00:52:24,600
Look. I wonder who that is.

590
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,800
You know exactly who it is,
you naughty boy!

591
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,200
Would you be a sport
and take the boat back?

592
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:33,200
I'll come back with Arlena, I'll walk.

593
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,400
Are you kidding?
I don't know how to work this thing.

594
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:38,800
Look, it's simple,
this lever puts you in gear

595
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:40,600
and all you have to do is steer.

596
00:52:40,700 --> 00:52:44,000
Well, just this once.
But don't get me involved.

597
00:52:44,100 --> 00:52:45,800
You're a sport.

598
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:01,600
Boo!

599
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:03,300
Hey, come on, wake up!

600
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:19,400
Oh, my God!

601
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:22,500
What's the matter?

602
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:24,300
She's dead!

603
00:53:25,300 --> 00:53:26,700
She's been murdered!

604
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,000
- Strangled!
- Strangled?

605
00:53:32,300 --> 00:53:35,600
- It's just not possible.
- We'd better get some help!

606
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:41,000
- I'll go. You'll stay with the body.
- Are you kidding? I can't do that!

607
00:53:41,300 --> 00:53:44,600
You're right. The murderer
may still be about somewhere.

608
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:48,600
- Can you make it back to the hotel?
- In a flash. This thing's no problem.

609
00:53:48,700 --> 00:53:50,300
You'd better hurry!

610
00:54:08,500 --> 00:54:10,700
Madame Marshall
has been strangled.

611
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:16,300
There are contusion marks on the head
and the neck. This much is evident.

612
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:19,300
We must now send for the police

613
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:23,000
and acquire a doctor
in order to establish the time of death.

614
00:54:23,100 --> 00:54:26,200
Have you ever met a Tyranian doctor,
messieur Poirot?

615
00:54:26,300 --> 00:54:30,400
The limit of their skill is determining
the fitness of an ox to pull a cart.

616
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,400
That may be so, madame, but...

617
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:37,600
Dear messieur Poirot,
a word in your ear.

618
00:54:38,300 --> 00:54:42,700
The whole world knows that you are a man
of enormous discretion and gallantry...

619
00:54:42,900 --> 00:54:46,400
a man not only privy to the secrets of
kings and prime ministers...

620
00:54:46,500 --> 00:54:50,400
but also a man who would never willingly
stand by and see a lady in trouble

621
00:54:50,500 --> 00:54:51,800
without rushing to her aid.

622
00:54:51,900 --> 00:54:55,200
I appeal to you now, as just such
a frail woman, in need of help.

623
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,600
In fact I throw myself on your mercy.

624
00:54:57,700 --> 00:55:01,000
Couldn't we make this
a private investigation?

625
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,200
You know how peculiar people can be
about a spot of murder.

626
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:07,800
The scandal of a famous stage star...

627
00:55:08,300 --> 00:55:10,800
being murdered here
would ruin my hotel.

628
00:55:12,900 --> 00:55:14,100
I'm very sorry, madame...

629
00:55:14,100 --> 00:55:16,800
but there is no way to
avoid this becoming...

630
00:55:17,100 --> 00:55:19,200
an official matter.

631
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:23,300
In due course of time,
of course I quite agree...

632
00:55:23,500 --> 00:55:25,900
when it can be released
in the proper manner.

633
00:55:26,100 --> 00:55:29,700
But consider, just think what everyone
will say if they were to discover

634
00:55:29,900 --> 00:55:32,000
that you were here
ahead of the police...

635
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:35,400
and failed to solve the crime.

636
00:55:37,300 --> 00:55:41,300
I mean, messieur Poirot,
both our reputations are at stake.

637
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:48,400
I bet it pongs something rotten
in there.

638
00:55:48,500 --> 00:55:51,400
Only of the breath of the sea.

639
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:54,600
Oh, how poetic you are, messieur Poirot.

640
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:58,200
You have the true soul of France.

641
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:00,400
The true soul of Belgium, madame.

642
00:56:00,500 --> 00:56:03,500
Yes, of course.
How mortifyingly stupid of me!

643
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:07,200
- Oh, do please forgive me.
- In due course of time.

644
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:10,000
What do you say, messieur?

645
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:14,900
Will you bring your colossal brain power
to the aid of a lady in distress?

646
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:17,600
Will you clear up this hideous mess
for me

647
00:56:17,700 --> 00:56:22,400
with all the brilliance and discretion
for which you are world famous?

648
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:26,500
One moment, madame. I must carry out
a little investigation of my own

649
00:56:26,500 --> 00:56:28,600
before answering your question.

650
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:30,800
Messieur Redfern.

651
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:34,000
At what time did you
and Madame Gardener find the body?

652
00:56:34,300 --> 00:56:36,000
It was 12 o'clock exactly.

653
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:39,000
That bloody gun went off as we
were coming round these rocks there.

654
00:56:39,500 --> 00:56:41,900
I sent Mrs Gardener back
for help immediately.

655
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:44,400
I touched nothing except
to check she was dead.

656
00:56:44,500 --> 00:56:46,500
Oh, yes, you acted quite correctly.

657
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,700
Well, since I was the last person
to see Madame Marshall alive...

658
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:56,700
when I pushed her off in her pedalo at
about 10:20, it means the time of death

659
00:56:56,800 --> 00:57:01,100
can be established as being
between 10:30 and 12 noon.

660
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:04,800
How absolutely brilliant!

661
00:57:05,900 --> 00:57:08,600
A doctor after all could only give us
an approximate time

662
00:57:08,900 --> 00:57:13,800
and how she was killed, which I know.
I don't need the help of a doctor.

663
00:57:14,500 --> 00:57:16,000
Messieurs!

664
00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:42,900
It's a terrible tragedy, Poirot.
It's terrible.

665
00:57:45,100 --> 00:57:49,800
She may have been a bit flighty, Arlena,
but no one would've wished this on her.

666
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:52,200
Just between ourselves...

667
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:55,200
you may have guessed,
but she was the lady in question.

668
00:57:55,300 --> 00:57:59,900
- That was not too difficult to guess.
- I suppose it bloody wasn't.

669
00:58:00,900 --> 00:58:05,000
Well, I'd best chalk it all up
to experience and be on me way.

670
00:58:05,100 --> 00:58:09,100
There's no point in intruding
in the grief of the new husband

671
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:10,400
and all that sort of thing.

672
00:58:10,500 --> 00:58:13,300
You had no chance
to speak to Madame Arlena?

673
00:58:14,500 --> 00:58:17,200
Of course not.
I've only just arrived, haven't I?

674
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:18,600
Yes, of course.

675
00:58:18,700 --> 00:58:21,600
There's only one thing
that puzzles me in that case.

676
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:25,700
You remember the false diamond
I left in your possession?

677
00:58:26,100 --> 00:58:27,000
Yes.

678
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:31,600
How did I happen to find it once again
on the beach near the dead woman?

679
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:40,900
Oh, dammit, Poirot.
I'd make a right murderer, wouldn't I?

680
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,000
Leaving clues all over the place, eh?

681
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:47,600
- Alright, I confess
- You confess?

682
00:58:47,700 --> 00:58:50,700
I mean I confess I had a word with her.

683
00:58:51,100 --> 00:58:55,400
I was coming in on the boat and I saw
Arlena on one of them pedal things

684
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,500
going into a beach along there.

685
00:58:57,500 --> 00:59:00,400
Anyway, I stopped the boat
and I rowed meself over.

686
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:05,500
It's better than confronting her
in front of her husband, you know.

687
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:10,100
We had a bit of a barney, what with her
pretending to be all surprised and that.

688
00:59:10,700 --> 00:59:13,500
Anyroad, she promised to sort it out
by tonight.

689
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:16,500
She did not tell you
where the real jewel was?

690
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:18,400
No, dammit, she didn't.

691
00:59:18,700 --> 00:59:21,200
If you don't mind,
I'd like to get changed.

692
00:59:21,300 --> 00:59:23,800
I'm getting a little chilly,
what with the shock and everything.

693
00:59:24,700 --> 00:59:27,600
I was very fond of Arlena,
as you well know.

694
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:30,100
Yes, you may well have been, messieur.

695
00:59:30,300 --> 00:59:33,700
And yet there are cases of men
that have killed those women

696
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:38,700
who made it impossible for them to
return to the wives they really loved.

697
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:41,100
Well, I assure you,
that is not the case here.

698
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:43,100
I could have taken off
at any time I wanted.

699
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:45,300
Anyway you know I had
nothing to do with it.

700
00:59:45,900 --> 00:59:49,500
You yourself saw me from the terrace
go off in the boat with Mrs Gardener.

701
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:51,500
Oui, c'est exacte.

702
00:59:51,900 --> 00:59:55,600
It would seem
that I am your alibi, messieur.

703
00:59:56,300 --> 00:59:57,900
Please go and get changed.

704
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:06,200
So, that young man's been
sniffing round Arlena, has he?

705
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:08,300
Can't say I blame him.

706
01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:11,800
I'm sorry, Sir Horace,
but it's my duty to put it to you

707
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:14,000
that you were furious
with Madame Arlena...

708
01:00:14,300 --> 01:00:16,800
that you were determined
to get your jewel back...

709
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:18,900
you came up here in order to demand it.

710
01:00:19,100 --> 01:00:20,700
She laughed in your face.

711
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:23,900
You lost your temper,
you strangled her...

712
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,700
That is poppycock!
That is bloody poppycock!

713
01:00:26,700 --> 01:00:28,300
If it is poppycock...

714
01:00:28,900 --> 01:00:31,800
then it's most regrettable
that you said in front of me

715
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:34,900
that you would willingly
"wring her neck".

716
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,600
Oh, that were...
That was just a bit of chat, that's all.

717
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:47,400
Look. All I did was tell her that
she couldn't make a monkey out of me

718
01:00:47,500 --> 01:00:49,000
and I threw that bit of glass at her.

719
01:00:49,900 --> 01:00:52,700
Look, if I had killed her, my crew
would have seen me, wouldn't they?

720
01:00:52,700 --> 01:00:54,800
They were all on deck, watching.

721
01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:57,500
Not averse to clocking
a decent bit of crumpet, my lads.

722
01:00:57,500 --> 01:00:59,200
It's the only thing that wakes them up.

723
01:00:59,300 --> 01:01:01,500
So, if you don't believe me, ask them.

724
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:08,000
Très bien. All the same, I must ask you
not to leave the island for the moment.

725
01:01:09,100 --> 01:01:10,400
If you insist.

726
01:01:10,500 --> 01:01:16,100
But if I were you, Poirot,
I would cherchez le hubby.

727
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:21,500
You'll find they're favourite when
dealing with the Arlenas of this world.

728
01:01:29,500 --> 01:01:32,400
It's a little difficult to accept
your condolences, Poirot...

729
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:35,700
when in the same breath
you accuse me of murdering my wife

730
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:36,900
because she was unfaithful.

731
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:39,100
I can understand that, of course.

732
01:01:39,300 --> 01:01:42,000
But I hope you realise that
I'm rather easier to get on with

733
01:01:42,100 --> 01:01:44,800
than the Tyranian police would be.

734
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:46,400
And therefore I will ask you

735
01:01:46,500 --> 01:01:49,700
where you were between
11:00 and 12:00 this morning.

736
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:51,800
Very simple. I was in here typing.

737
01:01:51,900 --> 01:01:54,000
I changed for tennis
a few minutes after 12:00.

738
01:01:54,100 --> 01:01:55,800
How very curious.

739
01:01:56,000 --> 01:02:02,400
Because, you know, when I passed by your
door at what must have been about 11:15...

740
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:05,100
- I heard no sound.
- I can't help that.

741
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:08,300
One does occasionally pause to think,
you know.

742
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:13,100
Here. This is what I typed.

743
01:02:13,700 --> 01:02:16,100
As you can see, it would have taken
at least an hour to do.

744
01:02:16,300 --> 01:02:19,300
With respect messieur, you could've typed
that yesterday, brougt it in with you.

745
01:02:19,500 --> 01:02:22,000
There's no proof
that you typed it this morning.

746
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,100
Excuse me, messieur Poirot...

747
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:27,800
I just couldn't help overhearing.
I have the proof you need.

748
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:30,000
- You do, madame?
- Yes.

749
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:33,400
Every week it's my custom
to collect all my staff together...

750
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:35,200
give them a collective
boot up the bum.

751
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:38,200
It does no end of good,
particularly the Eyeties.

752
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:41,400
Keeps them up to snuff,
as my old papa used to say.

753
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:44,100
Anyway, that meeting was this morning
at 11:30...

754
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:47,600
and just before it I came up here to
have a wash and I poked my nose in here

755
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:51,500
and I saw Kenneth hard at it,
so I... I just didn't disturb him.

756
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:56,200
But, madame,
you cannot see the desk from the door.

757
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:03,700
I saw him in the mirror.

758
01:03:05,500 --> 01:03:07,200
In the mir...

759
01:03:07,900 --> 01:03:09,200
Oh, in the mirror!

760
01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:18,800
My goodness, you do type fast, Ken.

761
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:21,400
You must be the Horowitz of
the Remington.

762
01:03:23,100 --> 01:03:26,200
Tell me, madame,
how many fingers am I holding up?

763
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:31,700
Three.

764
01:03:33,500 --> 01:03:35,700
Yes. And now how many?

765
01:03:41,900 --> 01:03:44,700
Well, that...
that's not fair, you're hiding.

766
01:03:44,900 --> 01:03:48,000
You cannot see in the mirror
someone seated at the desk.

767
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:51,600
It is not me that is hiding,
it is you who are lying.

768
01:03:52,700 --> 01:03:58,100
Now, messieur Marshall, are you,
by any chance, lying also?

769
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:02,200
It should be fairly obvious, Poirot,
that that letter, all eight pages of it...

770
01:04:02,300 --> 01:04:04,800
is in reply to this one
from my stockbroker...

771
01:04:04,900 --> 01:04:07,900
which arrived by this morning's post
at about 10:30.

772
01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:10,500
It should, therefore, be equally obvious

773
01:04:10,500 --> 01:04:12,900
that I must have typed it
when I said I did.

774
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:15,900
Yes, it would appear so.

775
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:18,500
Now to revert to
you again, madame.

776
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:20,700
I would like to ask
you a question

777
01:04:20,700 --> 01:04:23,600
about your promenade
to the lighthouse this morning.

778
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:25,200
You went alone, I believe?

779
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:27,000
Yes, I did.

780
01:04:27,300 --> 01:04:31,600
And you must have passed the bay
on which Arlena was murdered?

781
01:04:32,500 --> 01:04:36,700
Yes. Yes, I did.
I also saw Arlena sunning herself.

782
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:37,800
Oh!

783
01:04:38,900 --> 01:04:41,500
But then you must have
taken the same path home.

784
01:04:41,500 --> 01:04:43,900
There is no logical alternative.

785
01:04:44,100 --> 01:04:46,000
And I am suggesting to you...

786
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:48,200
you could have gone down to the beach...

787
01:04:48,300 --> 01:04:50,400
murdered Arlena Marshall

788
01:04:50,500 --> 01:04:55,100
and still been in time
for your staff meeting at 11:30.

789
01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:59,100
What utter balderdash! You can't
possibly think I'd want to kill Arlena

790
01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:02,000
just because the silly cow
succeeded on the boards and I didn't.

791
01:05:02,500 --> 01:05:04,200
No, that I do not think.

792
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:08,000
But there is a certain tenderness
between you and messieur Marshall.

793
01:05:08,100 --> 01:05:11,900
Otherwise why take that absurd risk
of trying to protect him just now?

794
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:14,200
What if there is? What does it matter?

795
01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:18,100
It matters because
Madame Arlena was in the way.

796
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:20,900
Messieur Poirot, you have
the French obsession...

797
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:24,000
I'm sorry, Belgian obsession,
with crime passionnel.

798
01:05:24,300 --> 01:05:26,000
But you're barking up the wrong tree.

799
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:28,900
You see, I know, I know who did it.

800
01:05:29,100 --> 01:05:29,800
Oh!

801
01:05:30,700 --> 01:05:31,700
You do, madame?

802
01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:33,900
Of course. It was Sir Horace Blatt.

803
01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:37,200
When I came back here
from my walk at about 11:15...

804
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:39,200
I saw him down on the beach.

805
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:42,400
He was jumping up and down
and screaming blue murder at Arlena.

806
01:05:43,100 --> 01:05:44,900
I've never seen a fellow in such a fury.

807
01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:48,100
Why did not you tell me this before,
madame?

808
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:51,500
He is an old chum, isn't he? I didn't
know then you were going to start

809
01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:53,900
hurling accusations at me and Kenneth.

810
01:05:54,500 --> 01:05:57,900
But he is the chap you want. Why
don't you run along and question him?

811
01:05:58,400 --> 01:05:58,900
Yes.

812
01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:00,800
I already have done, madame.

813
01:06:01,300 --> 01:06:03,600
And he is exonerated by his crew.

814
01:06:04,300 --> 01:06:07,100
All the same,
his story does confirm yours.

815
01:06:07,100 --> 01:06:10,100
Without knowing it, you have
corroborated your own alibi.

816
01:06:10,100 --> 01:06:11,500
Bravo, madame.

817
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:16,500
I'm sorry, Kenneth.
I nearly put you in it.

818
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:18,500
I was only trying to help.

819
01:06:18,700 --> 01:06:19,700
I know.

820
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:22,000
I forgive you.

821
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:28,800
I don't want
to hear any more, Patrick.

822
01:06:28,900 --> 01:06:31,600
If you hadn't been poodlefaking
with that awful woman...

823
01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:34,200
you wouldn't have been there
in the first place.

824
01:06:34,300 --> 01:06:35,500
Oh, madame.

825
01:06:37,100 --> 01:06:40,300
May I have a quick word with you?
About how you spent this morning.

826
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:44,200
Why me?
I've got nothing to do with all this.

827
01:06:44,900 --> 01:06:48,300
You had no reason to love
Arlena Marshall, madame.

828
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:50,100
Perhaps not.

829
01:06:51,100 --> 01:06:52,900
But I was with Linda all morning.

830
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:54,500
I went to her room early
to ask her

831
01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:57,700
to come to Gull Cove to do
some sketching, she wasn't there.

832
01:06:57,900 --> 01:07:01,100
I mean, she came along a few moments
later. She'd been swimming.

833
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:04,600
And then we set off
and we were there all morning.

834
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:07,400
If you don't believe me, ask Linda.
She'll tell you...

835
01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:08,800
Calmez vous, madame.

836
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:10,700
Mr Poirot, I'm alright now

837
01:07:10,700 --> 01:07:14,700
I want you to think about this
very, very carefully.

838
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:18,900
At what time precisely did you
leave the cove this morning?

839
01:07:19,500 --> 01:07:22,600
I was there until 12 o'clock
and I went off for my tennis game.

840
01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:25,600
- You had a watch?
- No. No, I didn't.

841
01:07:25,700 --> 01:07:27,900
Then how did you know it was
precisely 12 o'clock?

842
01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:33,500
Because, well, when I climbed to the top
of the cliff and was waving to Linda...

843
01:07:33,500 --> 01:07:36,000
who'd gone for a swim,
that awful gun went off.

844
01:07:36,100 --> 01:07:38,600
The one they fire at noon every day.

845
01:07:40,300 --> 01:07:42,100
What did you do then, madame?

846
01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:44,600
Well, I was late, you
see, for my tennis

847
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:46,300
which was fixed for 12:30...

848
01:07:46,300 --> 01:07:48,700
so I simply tore back to the hotel
as fast as I could

849
01:07:49,100 --> 01:07:50,900
and changed into my tennis things.

850
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:53,000
And I went to the court
where I met the others.

851
01:07:53,500 --> 01:07:56,100
Mr Marshall, Mrs Castle
and Mr Gardener.

852
01:07:56,900 --> 01:07:58,500
I played with Mr Gardener.

853
01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:00,400
- I'm sorry I'm late.
- Not at all, my dear.

854
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:03,200
I was sketching at Gull Cove.
Lost track of the time.

855
01:08:03,300 --> 01:08:06,500
Don't worry. It's only a matter of
four minutes exactly.

856
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:08,500
I'm afraid you have to play with me.

857
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:09,900
We'd barely started

858
01:08:09,900 --> 01:08:13,100
when the news about Arlena came.

859
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:15,600
Of course,
it's a dreadful thing, Mr Poirot...

860
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:17,600
but I can't pretend that I'm not...

861
01:08:18,100 --> 01:08:19,900
A little relieved.

862
01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:22,200
Well, I can understand that.

863
01:08:22,900 --> 01:08:25,700
Is there anything else you want to ask?

864
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:28,300
Not for the time being.

865
01:08:35,400 --> 01:08:36,500
Come in.

866
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:41,100
- Hello.
- Hello.

867
01:08:42,900 --> 01:08:46,900
Excuse me, mademoiselle,
for intruding into your grief.

868
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:49,600
Grief? That's a good one.

869
01:08:49,900 --> 01:08:51,900
Why should I be
sorry for Arlena?

870
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:54,600
You hated her so much?

871
01:08:54,700 --> 01:08:57,100
I'm glad she's dead
if that's what you mean.

872
01:08:57,400 --> 01:09:00,000
She was horrid to me
and beastly to my daddy.

873
01:09:02,900 --> 01:09:05,800
Would you mind if I ask you
a few questions about this morning?

874
01:09:05,900 --> 01:09:06,900
Why should I?

875
01:09:07,400 --> 01:09:09,300
I was with Christine Redfern.

876
01:09:09,700 --> 01:09:12,900
She wanted to go to Gull Cove
to draw some stupid cliffs.

877
01:09:13,700 --> 01:09:14,700
And did she?

878
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:18,300
Oh, yes. She sat under her big hat
while I sunbathed.

879
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:21,100
She gets all blistered
if she sits out in the sun.

880
01:09:21,100 --> 01:09:22,800
- Yes.
- It's bad luck really.

881
01:09:23,700 --> 01:09:25,800
Here it is. She gave it to me.

882
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:27,400
It's not bad really.

883
01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:31,200
No, she has talent, that one.
These are undeniably, er...

884
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:33,500
cliffs.

885
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:35,500
When did she leave you?

886
01:09:35,700 --> 01:09:38,200
- Five to 12.
- How can you be so sure?

887
01:09:38,500 --> 01:09:40,000
Because she asked me.

888
01:09:41,100 --> 01:09:42,900
What time is it, dear?

889
01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:46,800
Five to 12.

890
01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:50,900
Lord, I must fly!
I'm playing tennis at 12:30.

891
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:53,800
She got into a fearful panic
about being late for tennis

892
01:09:53,900 --> 01:09:55,600
and rushed off back to the hotel.

893
01:09:55,700 --> 01:09:58,400
- Would you like this?
- Thanks. It's super.

894
01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:01,700
I'll see you later after my swim.

895
01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:05,800
I remember I was halfway down the beach
when Christine called after me.

896
01:10:05,900 --> 01:10:07,400
Don't forget your bathing cap!

897
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:08,700
I'd forgotten my bathing cap...

898
01:10:08,700 --> 01:10:11,900
so I had to come back and put it on.
What a bore!

899
01:10:15,600 --> 01:10:18,100
Did you see anyone else
while you were swimming?

900
01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:20,300
No, no one.

901
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:23,700
Apart that is from Christine
waving from the top of the cliff.

902
01:10:28,700 --> 01:10:33,300
Look! Why don't you stop asking me all
these silly questions about Christine?

903
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:36,700
She couldn't have murdered Arlena.
Neither could I.

904
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:39,900
That slimy Rex Brewster's
the one you should be talking to.

905
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:43,600
He hated Arlena. He's the one
who really wanted her dead.

906
01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:47,300
How can you say that?
He admired her so much.

907
01:10:47,300 --> 01:10:48,700
Don't be daft!

908
01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:52,300
He'd written this filthy book about her
which she wouldn't allow him to publish.

909
01:10:52,900 --> 01:10:55,300
Excuse me, mademoiselle,
but how do you know all this?

910
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:58,400
I heard them having a row about it
on the beach yesterday.

911
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:01,300
They thought I'd gone away,
but I hadn't.

912
01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:05,300
Maybe he won't be able to publish it
if he's hanged for murder first.

913
01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:10,000
If I can't see you faces shining
in every knife, fork and spoon...

914
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:11,700
I'll have your guts for
garters, understood?

915
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:15,500
Madame! Have you any idea
where I can find messieur Brewster?

916
01:11:15,500 --> 01:11:19,000
Rex? I thought I saw him
go out into the garden.

917
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:20,100
Oh, but...

918
01:11:20,700 --> 01:11:22,000
He's not the one you want.

919
01:11:22,300 --> 01:11:24,000
You should cherchez la femme.

920
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:25,500
Really, madame?

921
01:11:25,500 --> 01:11:28,600
Absolutely, I have been having
a little think, and I worked it all out.

922
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:32,100
If Horace Blatt is in the clear
and Kenneth Marshall is in the clear

923
01:11:32,100 --> 01:11:34,000
and I'm... I'm in the clear...

924
01:11:34,100 --> 01:11:38,300
and Patrick Redfern is in the clear and
Myra Gardener because she was with him.

925
01:11:38,700 --> 01:11:41,700
Then it's all down to
little Miss Cringe, isn't it?

926
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:43,700
Miss Cringe?

927
01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:44,600
Yes.

928
01:11:45,100 --> 01:11:47,700
The jealous wife,
Christine Redfern.

929
01:11:47,900 --> 01:11:50,600
Don't believe all that
about her being too weedy.

930
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:53,300
Women fight like tigers
when losing their husbands.

931
01:11:53,400 --> 01:11:55,800
Not that I've had much experience
of that sort of things myself.

932
01:11:55,900 --> 01:11:59,800
But what is your theory?
I mean, how did Madame Christine do it?

933
01:11:59,900 --> 01:12:03,100
I don't know. Probably battered
Arlena with a bit of driftwood...

934
01:12:03,100 --> 01:12:06,800
then finished her off with a little
pressure on the... carotid artery?

935
01:12:06,900 --> 01:12:09,100
The artery there, yes, yes.

936
01:12:09,300 --> 01:12:11,900
Everyone knows that.
It's in all the crime novels.

937
01:12:11,900 --> 01:12:16,000
In fact, only the other day a child of
11 did something like that, in Hungary.

938
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:19,900
Or was it Crete? I don't know...
Anyway, she used a pair of nutcrackers.

939
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:23,100
I know. Perhaps I'd better go
and see if any are missing...

940
01:12:23,100 --> 01:12:27,800
No Madame, unfortunately, there are
no nutcracker marks on the throat.

941
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:31,900
And Madame Christine
could not possibly have done it.

942
01:12:31,900 --> 01:12:38,300
Her alibi had been confirmed by
Mademoiselle Linda, and vice versa.

943
01:12:39,700 --> 01:12:41,600
How very irritating!

944
01:12:42,300 --> 01:12:48,200
"Under the high... lazy...

945
01:12:49,500 --> 01:12:54,300
noonday Adriatic sun...

946
01:12:54,700 --> 01:12:58,700
the body lay on its back,
arms outstretched...

947
01:12:59,200 --> 01:13:04,800
parodying in death a position
she so often occupied in life."

948
01:13:04,900 --> 01:13:07,700
Oh. That is marvellous, that's...

949
01:13:09,700 --> 01:13:10,700
Oh.

950
01:13:11,300 --> 01:13:14,500
So, you've come, messieur Poirot,
to question me about poor Arlena.

951
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:18,500
I am shattered.
I am absolutely shattered.

952
01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:23,800
She was so wonderfully funny,
so very generous...

953
01:13:23,900 --> 01:13:25,700
Not generous enough
to give you a release

954
01:13:25,700 --> 01:13:27,800
so that you could publish
that manuscript, eh?

955
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:30,000
Who told you that?

956
01:13:30,100 --> 01:13:32,300
Never mind, but it is the truth,
n'est-ce pas?

957
01:13:32,300 --> 01:13:33,800
You cannot libel the dead.

958
01:13:33,900 --> 01:13:39,500
Now you are free to publish
your saucy tales and reap the reward.

959
01:13:39,900 --> 01:13:43,900
Well, I would admit, from that
point of view, I have benefitted.

960
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:48,900
Oh, but I assure you, messieur,
that the loss of so radiant a performer

961
01:13:48,900 --> 01:13:52,200
infinitely exceeds
any possible gain to myself.

962
01:13:53,200 --> 01:13:55,000
You must believe that.

963
01:13:55,500 --> 01:13:59,300
The time of death has been narrowed
to between 11:30 and 12:00.

964
01:13:59,500 --> 01:14:01,100
Where were you at this time?

965
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:06,000
I was on a pedalo.

966
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:07,900
A pedalo?

967
01:14:08,500 --> 01:14:09,800
Whereabouts?

968
01:14:11,400 --> 01:14:14,500
How should I know?
I wasn't carrying a chart at the time.

969
01:14:14,900 --> 01:14:17,800
Oh, que c'est amusant.
How amusing that is!

970
01:14:18,500 --> 01:14:21,700
Chart or no chart, it was perfectly
possible for you to have watched

971
01:14:21,700 --> 01:14:27,000
Sir Horace Blatt's boat leave and then
to have pedaloed into Ladder Bay...

972
01:14:27,100 --> 01:14:31,000
there to find
the unsuspecting Arlena asleep...

973
01:14:31,100 --> 01:14:33,900
and then you strangled her.

974
01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:37,900
Messieur Poirot, are you aware
that it would take nearly two hours

975
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:41,000
to paddle around the island
from Ladder Bay to Gull Bay?

976
01:14:41,100 --> 01:14:42,500
At 12 o'clock precisely...

977
01:14:43,500 --> 01:14:46,800
as that boring old gun went off
I pedalled into Gull Bay.

978
01:14:46,900 --> 01:14:48,800
Linda was there, swimming.

979
01:14:49,300 --> 01:14:53,300
In fact I nearly hit her, she was
splashing around like a deaf seal.

980
01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:56,100
You say that you saw Mlle Linda

981
01:14:56,100 --> 01:14:58,100
swimming in Gull Bay at 12 o'clock?

982
01:14:58,700 --> 01:15:01,600
Certainly, I asked her
to help me pedal back...

983
01:15:01,700 --> 01:15:03,400
but the little charmer refused.

984
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:05,400
What do you want?

985
01:15:09,200 --> 01:15:10,500
What did you say?

986
01:15:10,600 --> 01:15:14,500
I said, Good god, darling.
Help me pedal this damned thing back.

987
01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:15,900
My legs are killing me.

988
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:17,400
Pedal it back yourself.

989
01:15:21,800 --> 01:15:25,600
So you see, darling,
I simply could not have killed Arlena.

990
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:30,500
Messieur, if you are so anxious
to find a murderer...

991
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:33,100
why don't you find out
who tried to murder me?

992
01:15:34,700 --> 01:15:36,100
Murder you?

993
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:38,500
What do you mean?

994
01:15:39,300 --> 01:15:43,900
Well, after I'd been left by that lazy
little cow Linda to rupture myself...

995
01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:45,100
I pedalled off.

996
01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:48,600
About ten minutes later,
a bottle came whizzing over the cliff

997
01:15:48,900 --> 01:15:51,200
and smacked down in the water
right next to me.

998
01:15:51,500 --> 01:15:53,600
The damned thing missed my head
by inches.

999
01:15:54,300 --> 01:15:56,100
I looked up, there's nobody around.

1000
01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:04,400
I must congratulate you on that highly
interesting and imaginative story.

1001
01:16:04,500 --> 01:16:09,300
I refer of course to your visit, your
fictional visit, to Gull Bay at noon.

1002
01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:13,300
What do you mean "fictional"? Linda!

1003
01:16:13,300 --> 01:16:16,000
Mademoiselle Linda denies
having seen anyone there at the time.

1004
01:16:16,300 --> 01:16:17,500
What?

1005
01:16:17,700 --> 01:16:19,900
Oh, that lousy little hoyden!

1006
01:16:20,300 --> 01:16:24,500
I... know she loathes me because I
adored Arlena, but this is ridiculous.

1007
01:16:24,600 --> 01:16:26,200
You just wait till I catch her...

1008
01:16:26,600 --> 01:16:28,000
You! Linda!

1009
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:32,800
Linda. You... You just wait!
Stay right...

1010
01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:35,900
Linda! You tell messieur Poirot

1011
01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:39,400
that I was with you this morning
when you were swimming in Gull Cove.

1012
01:16:39,500 --> 01:16:41,400
Why should I? You weren't.

1013
01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:44,200
You lying little brat!

1014
01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:47,600
You just tell him that you saw me
on the pedalo.

1015
01:16:47,700 --> 01:16:51,000
You tell him that you refused to
help me pedal back! You tell him!

1016
01:16:52,200 --> 01:16:54,900
- You tell him!
- Take your hands off my daughter!

1017
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:57,400
Then you tell her
to tell him the truth!

1018
01:16:58,400 --> 01:17:00,800
Well, Linda, did you see Mr Brewster

1019
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:02,800
when you were bathing in Gull Cove
this morning?

1020
01:17:07,300 --> 01:17:09,500
Oh, alright then, yes, I did.

1021
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:12,700
Linda, you mustn't tell lies.

1022
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:14,700
You can get people into serious trouble.

1023
01:17:14,900 --> 01:17:17,700
Serious trouble? Hell, darling!
You can get them hanged!

1024
01:17:18,500 --> 01:17:21,300
That was rather the idea,
was it not, mademoiselle?

1025
01:17:22,700 --> 01:17:23,900
I'm sorry.

1026
01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:31,700
Kindly accept my apologies, messieur.

1027
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:34,800
Incidentally, I accept your alibi.

1028
01:17:36,300 --> 01:17:38,300
That's real white of you, Mr P!

1029
01:17:47,700 --> 01:17:50,800
No, messieur Poirot,
I am not as lucky as my dear wife.

1030
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:53,500
I have absolutely no alibi.

1031
01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:57,700
I was sitting over there
on a stone bench reading my book

1032
01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:02,200
and between the hours of
11:00 and 12:15 I didn't move.

1033
01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:04,400
Now, I'm well aware, messieur Poirot...

1034
01:18:04,500 --> 01:18:07,600
that in your world,
when a murder takes place

1035
01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:11,300
everyone automatically
comes up with a watertight alibi.

1036
01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:18,400
However, I belong to that great world
of millions of innocent men and women

1037
01:18:18,500 --> 01:18:21,800
who, curiously enough,
don't have the foresight

1038
01:18:21,800 --> 01:18:24,000
to provide themselves with an alibi

1039
01:18:24,300 --> 01:18:28,000
when a murder is taking place
of which they know absolutely nothing.

1040
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:31,100
Consequently, as I...

1041
01:18:31,700 --> 01:18:33,900
was guilelessly reading my book...

1042
01:18:33,900 --> 01:18:39,000
there was no gardener to come trotting
by respectfully touching his forelock

1043
01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:42,800
and registering the time
on his grandfather's turnip watch.

1044
01:18:42,900 --> 01:18:44,400
In short, messieur Poirot...

1045
01:18:44,900 --> 01:18:47,200
I don't have the
ghost of an alibi.

1046
01:18:47,500 --> 01:18:51,800
Of course, I could have scampered over
the top of that peak...

1047
01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:54,300
like a mountain goat, and...

1048
01:18:54,700 --> 01:18:58,600
swarmed down the famous steps
we've all heard about...

1049
01:18:59,100 --> 01:19:00,700
and then crept up on Arlena

1050
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:04,400
and strangled her
with these powerful hands of mine.

1051
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:08,000
But, unfortunately for you,
I did no such thing.

1052
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:11,900
You see, I have a big fat motive
but no alibi.

1053
01:19:16,500 --> 01:19:17,700
Next question?

1054
01:19:18,500 --> 01:19:20,600
Next question is what did you do

1055
01:19:20,700 --> 01:19:24,400
when you had finished
being unobserved in the garden?

1056
01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:30,000
I went up to my room, again unobserved,
to change for tennis.

1057
01:19:30,300 --> 01:19:34,100
I was rather thirsty and so I rang
the bell. Naturally, no one answered.

1058
01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:37,000
Where the goddamn staff
had disappeared to was a mystery...

1059
01:19:37,100 --> 01:19:39,600
and worthy even of your talents,
messieur Poirot.

1060
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:43,600
I turned on the tap,
but there was no water, not a drop.

1061
01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:47,600
Someone was running a bath
down the hall fit to float Noah's Ark.

1062
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:50,900
"Damned odd time for a bath,"
I'd have said.

1063
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:53,100
Anyway, I changed

1064
01:19:53,100 --> 01:19:56,700
and appeared suitably attired
in my Fred Perry outfit

1065
01:19:57,000 --> 01:20:00,200
on the tennis court
at precisely 12:30

1066
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:03,000
to join Daphne and Marshall.

1067
01:20:03,900 --> 01:20:06,100
Mrs Redfern came a few minutes later.

1068
01:20:07,700 --> 01:20:09,600
And that, messieur Poirot...

1069
01:20:10,200 --> 01:20:12,400
concludes the case for the defence.

1070
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:18,200
You make pleasantries, messieur,
but no alibi is still...

1071
01:20:20,900 --> 01:20:22,300
no alibi.

1072
01:20:33,300 --> 01:20:35,500
If you're looking for that,
I've got it in here.

1073
01:20:36,400 --> 01:20:39,500
I've been using it to
sort everything out for you.

1074
01:20:39,500 --> 01:20:41,900
I was wrong about cherchez la femme.
Orry about that...

1075
01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:44,400
But it's quite obviously
cherchez le fruit.

1076
01:20:44,500 --> 01:20:47,400
Rexy is the only one unaccounted for.
Look, I'll show you.

1077
01:20:47,500 --> 01:20:51,300
At 11:30 Arlena Marshall was left here
alive by Horace Blatt...

1078
01:20:51,300 --> 01:20:55,800
who then sailed on down here. At the
same time, Myra and Patrick were here...

1079
01:20:55,900 --> 01:20:58,300
Linda and Christine were here,
Kenneth was here

1080
01:20:58,700 --> 01:21:00,300
and I was in my staff meeting.

1081
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:04,300
So it has just got to be
our genial columnist.

1082
01:21:04,500 --> 01:21:06,200
And, what's more, I know how he did it.

1083
01:21:06,700 --> 01:21:08,000
Oh, you do, madame?

1084
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:11,900
Absolutely! Recently I was reading a
magazine story about a woman in Malaya

1085
01:21:11,900 --> 01:21:16,300
who was drowned by a huge moray eel
which darted out of a hole...

1086
01:21:16,500 --> 01:21:20,900
dragged her to the floor of the ocean,
its teeth buried in her throat.

1087
01:21:20,900 --> 01:21:23,000
Now that's what gave me
the clue I needed.

1088
01:21:23,100 --> 01:21:27,800
Rex... Rex Brewster could've been
lurking in the water off Ladder Bay...

1089
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:31,200
and when Arlena appeared on her pedalo,
he could have leapt up...

1090
01:21:31,500 --> 01:21:33,000
pulled her off it...

1091
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:38,000
Very interesting, madame. The only snag
is that Madame Marshall was not drowned.

1092
01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:41,300
Far less was she gnawed to death...

1093
01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:45,100
And perhaps even more damaging
to your theory is the fact

1094
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:49,700
that it has been established that
messieur Brewster was here in Gull Cove

1095
01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:52,400
with Mademoiselle Linda at 12 o'clock.

1096
01:21:52,600 --> 01:21:55,900
He could not possible have pedalled
all the way from Gull Cove

1097
01:21:56,000 --> 01:21:58,800
to Ladder Bay in half an hour.

1098
01:21:59,700 --> 01:22:01,600
That's very inconvenient of him.

1099
01:22:02,500 --> 01:22:04,900
I mean, if he didn't do it, who did?

1100
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:08,200
I just don't see who could have.
Everyone has an alibi.

1101
01:22:08,200 --> 01:22:09,800
Oh, no, they do not, madame.

1102
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:13,400
Messieur Gardener does not have an
alibi, seems rather proud of the fact.

1103
01:22:13,700 --> 01:22:16,600
Oh, but he does, dear, most definitely.

1104
01:22:17,600 --> 01:22:19,200
What are you telling me, madame?

1105
01:22:19,300 --> 01:22:21,600
At half past 11
I was having my staff meeting...

1106
01:22:22,100 --> 01:22:25,900
giving the hired help
a pleasing stream of the old rancid...

1107
01:22:26,400 --> 01:22:28,500
and in particular
pointing out to Andreas

1108
01:22:28,600 --> 01:22:32,100
that there was absolutely no point
in making your curry de poulet vindaloo

1109
01:22:32,100 --> 01:22:35,200
so hot that it raised welts
on the surface of your tongue...

1110
01:22:35,500 --> 01:22:39,200
when I looked out of the window
and there was Odell reading a book.

1111
01:22:39,900 --> 01:22:43,700
He stayed there throughout
the entire meeting. I'm positive of it.

1112
01:22:44,300 --> 01:22:46,700
What's the matter?
Have I said something?

1113
01:22:46,700 --> 01:22:48,400
You've said a great deal, madame.

1114
01:22:50,300 --> 01:22:52,900
Oh, I... I see what you mean.

1115
01:22:53,900 --> 01:22:56,200
You... You mean nobody did it.

1116
01:22:57,800 --> 01:23:01,400
And yet we still have a body, madame.

1117
01:24:52,100 --> 01:24:57,100
- Ah, Rigoletto
- Correct. Ah, Verdi. Quelle élégance!

1118
01:24:57,400 --> 01:25:00,800
It's funny to think, if Giuseppe Verdi
had been an Englishman...

1119
01:25:01,300 --> 01:25:04,400
his name would have been Joe Green.

1120
01:25:04,900 --> 01:25:06,900
Yes, I suppose it would, yes.

1121
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:09,400
It used to make the boys laugh

1122
01:25:09,500 --> 01:25:12,400
when I was trying to din some Latin
into them when I was a teacher.

1123
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:14,700
Little boys laugh easily
if it keeps them away...

1124
01:25:14,700 --> 01:25:16,800
even for a moment,
from their study of Latin.

1125
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:25,200
Messieurs-Dames, please forgive me
for interrupting the cocktail hour...

1126
01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:28,700
but there are two questions
which I must put to you.

1127
01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:30,000
First of all...

1128
01:25:30,700 --> 01:25:33,800
did anybody here throw a bottle
into the sea this morning?

1129
01:25:36,300 --> 01:25:37,400
No?

1130
01:25:37,500 --> 01:25:41,700
Secondly, did any of you take a bath
at 12:15 today?

1131
01:25:41,800 --> 01:25:44,100
An odd time for ablutions.

1132
01:25:46,200 --> 01:25:47,800
How remarkable!

1133
01:25:48,200 --> 01:25:51,500
A bath which nobody admits having taken

1134
01:25:51,700 --> 01:25:54,400
and a bottle which flies by itself.

1135
01:25:56,700 --> 01:25:58,700
Joe Green...

1136
01:25:58,700 --> 01:26:01,200
It's rather more amusing
than at first I thought.

1137
01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:40,400
- Morning, Sir Horace!
- Hello, enjoy your swim?

1138
01:27:40,400 --> 01:27:44,300
Yes. Sorry I'm puffed, the water was
freezing and I'm running to get warm.

1139
01:27:44,900 --> 01:27:47,800
Crying his eyes out?
Tell him to pull himself together.

1140
01:27:47,800 --> 01:27:49,300
Hello, Daph!

1141
01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:53,300
That reminds me of a lady policeman.
She's all out of breath.

1142
01:27:53,600 --> 01:27:56,300
She's telling her friends
how she caught a burglar.

1143
01:27:56,800 --> 01:28:00,800
"I chased him past the grocer's,
and the butcher's, and the baker's."

1144
01:28:00,900 --> 01:28:03,700
And then she said,
"I finally caught him by the cobbler's"

1145
01:28:06,200 --> 01:28:08,500
Sorry, I don't find that
remotely funny, Sir Horace.

1146
01:28:09,500 --> 01:28:11,800
Oh, I stand corrected, Daph.

1147
01:28:12,200 --> 01:28:13,700
I'll tell you what I don't find funny...

1148
01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:16,000
hanging around
waiting for the great detective!

1149
01:28:16,200 --> 01:28:17,900
Oh, good morning, messieur Poirot!

1150
01:28:18,300 --> 01:28:22,800
Listen here, Poirot. Not only
have you not find Arlena's killer...

1151
01:28:22,900 --> 01:28:26,000
but you haven't found my diamond.
So I'm off of this hole, thank you.

1152
01:28:26,500 --> 01:28:29,400
The Gardeners and the Redferns
want to go, too.

1153
01:28:29,800 --> 01:28:32,700
I can't say I blame them.
The place is like a morgue.

1154
01:28:33,300 --> 01:28:34,800
Oh, I am so sorry.

1155
01:28:35,400 --> 01:28:38,300
Madame, there is nothing like
a good night's rest

1156
01:28:38,300 --> 01:28:40,600
to clear the little grey cells.

1157
01:28:41,700 --> 01:28:44,500
Kindly ask all our friends
to forgather in the lounge

1158
01:28:44,800 --> 01:28:46,800
after they have finished
their petit déjeuner.

1159
01:28:47,300 --> 01:28:50,700
- When all will be revealed,
- What?

1160
01:28:50,900 --> 01:28:52,100
You mean you know?

1161
01:28:52,400 --> 01:28:53,200
Oh, yes.

1162
01:28:54,000 --> 01:28:55,900
Give us a few clues!

1163
01:28:56,100 --> 01:29:00,200
Alright, I wish you to consider
very carefully, a bathing cap, a bath...

1164
01:29:00,200 --> 01:29:04,800
a bottle, a wrist watch, the diamond,
the noonday gun, the breath of the sea

1165
01:29:05,300 --> 01:29:06,700
and the height of the cliff.

1166
01:29:07,400 --> 01:29:09,800
From that you should be able to
solve it yourselves.

1167
01:29:11,000 --> 01:29:12,800
We meet again in one hour.

1168
01:29:13,400 --> 01:29:16,100
Now I am going to
have my œ à la coque.

1169
01:29:19,500 --> 01:29:23,500
There goes the most insufferable man
in the world.

1170
01:29:23,600 --> 01:29:27,200
"Ôuf à la coque." That's about
his mark, it's what he talks mostly.

1171
01:29:48,900 --> 01:29:52,700
Mesdames, mademoiselle, messieurs...

1172
01:29:53,600 --> 01:29:57,300
The reason I asked you to meet me here
this morning... please, messieur...

1173
01:29:58,500 --> 01:30:00,800
is that I, Hercule Poirot...

1174
01:30:01,400 --> 01:30:05,200
have discovered the identity of
the murderer of Madame Marshall.

1175
01:30:05,500 --> 01:30:07,500
This need surprise no one.

1176
01:30:09,200 --> 01:30:10,900
Are you all comfortable?

1177
01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:15,300
Even the murderer?

1178
01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:20,400
This has been a most unusual crime...

1179
01:30:21,100 --> 01:30:24,700
in that apparently nobody had
the opportunity of committing it.

1180
01:30:25,200 --> 01:30:29,200
Madame Marshall was killed
between 11:30 and 12 noon yesterday

1181
01:30:29,400 --> 01:30:32,100
and yet every single one of you
had a perfect alibi...

1182
01:30:32,200 --> 01:30:35,400
including you, messieur Gardener,
without knowing it.

1183
01:30:35,700 --> 01:30:38,300
I'm very sorry
if I have disappointed you.

1184
01:30:39,300 --> 01:30:41,900
We had undeniably a body...

1185
01:30:42,100 --> 01:30:44,400
which meant that
somebody was lying.

1186
01:30:45,500 --> 01:30:46,500
Who?

1187
01:30:47,800 --> 01:30:50,500
After exercising
considerable reflection...

1188
01:30:51,300 --> 01:30:54,600
I came to the conclusion
that it was you...

1189
01:30:58,500 --> 01:31:00,100
Madame Redfern.

1190
01:31:02,500 --> 01:31:03,600
Me?

1191
01:31:04,700 --> 01:31:06,700
But I didn't lie to you, I swear it.

1192
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:08,200
Oh, yes, you did, madame.

1193
01:31:08,500 --> 01:31:11,200
When I asked you at what time
you left Gull Cove yesterday...

1194
01:31:11,200 --> 01:31:13,100
you said it was 12 o'clock.

1195
01:31:13,300 --> 01:31:15,000
You knew this, you said...

1196
01:31:15,000 --> 01:31:18,500
because you heard
that awful gun go off

1197
01:31:18,700 --> 01:31:21,700
when you were standing
on top of the cliffs waving at Linda

1198
01:31:21,700 --> 01:31:23,800
who was swimming in the water below.

1199
01:31:27,100 --> 01:31:30,800
But messieur Brewster was in the bay
at the same time.

1200
01:31:30,800 --> 01:31:33,500
It is very curious
that you did not mention him.

1201
01:31:33,600 --> 01:31:36,600
And it's even more curious
that when I confronted M Brewster

1202
01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:40,400
with the fact that his story about
entering the bay on his pedalo

1203
01:31:40,400 --> 01:31:44,100
at the very moment that the midday gun
went off was denied by Linda

1204
01:31:44,300 --> 01:31:46,700
he lost his temper.
He attacked the poor girl.

1205
01:31:46,800 --> 01:31:51,500
It would've been so much easier to have
called his second witness. You, madame.

1206
01:31:51,500 --> 01:31:54,000
He must have seen you
standing on top of the cliff

1207
01:31:54,600 --> 01:31:56,900
and yet he made no mention of it.
Why not?

1208
01:31:57,100 --> 01:31:58,400
The answer is obvious...

1209
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:00,400
you were not there.

1210
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:05,000
But I was there.

1211
01:32:05,500 --> 01:32:07,500
And I did wave and
Linda waved back.

1212
01:32:07,600 --> 01:32:10,500
- Tell him, Linda!
- It's true. She did wave, honestly.

1213
01:32:10,700 --> 01:32:14,700
Yes, she probably waved
but there was no noonday gun, was there?

1214
01:32:14,900 --> 01:32:16,300
I don't remember it. No.

1215
01:32:16,300 --> 01:32:20,100
No, there was no noonday gun for a
very good reason. It was not 12 o'clock.

1216
01:32:20,200 --> 01:32:23,500
But she asked me the time, I looked
at my watch and it was five to 12!

1217
01:32:23,600 --> 01:32:26,000
The watch, now that is very important.

1218
01:32:26,200 --> 01:32:28,700
Let us go back to yesterday morning,
shall we?

1219
01:32:28,700 --> 01:32:31,800
I was having breakfast on the terrace,
an egg...

1220
01:32:31,900 --> 01:32:35,400
and in the course of performing
some act of léger de main for you...

1221
01:32:35,500 --> 01:32:39,300
Mademoiselle, I happened to notice
that you were not wearing a watch.

1222
01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:42,200
Not particularly surprising
as you had been swimming...

1223
01:32:42,200 --> 01:32:46,100
a fact that could be noted by anyone
looking out of a hotel window.

1224
01:32:46,500 --> 01:32:51,000
You, Madame Redfern, actually told me
you went to her room early

1225
01:32:51,100 --> 01:32:55,400
to ask her to come with you
to Gull Cove to do some sketching.

1226
01:32:55,700 --> 01:32:58,200
But that she was not there.

1227
01:32:58,500 --> 01:33:00,200
What a perfect opportunity

1228
01:33:00,200 --> 01:33:04,100
to put Mademoiselle Linda's watch
forward... 20 minutes?

1229
01:33:05,800 --> 01:33:08,000
A few moments later, as you told me...

1230
01:33:08,100 --> 01:33:12,500
Linda appeared in the corridor,
as you knew she would.

1231
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:15,500
And you invited her to accompany you.

1232
01:33:15,700 --> 01:33:17,800
- Would you like to come?
- Yes, I'd love to.

1233
01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:19,800
Alright, see you
in the hall in ten minutes.

1234
01:33:21,400 --> 01:33:22,900
Hello, Mr Poirot.

1235
01:33:26,100 --> 01:33:30,500
Your plan to make Linda
your false alibi was now in motion.

1236
01:33:31,200 --> 01:33:32,900
This is pure
supposition, Poirot.

1237
01:33:33,400 --> 01:33:34,800
I've never heard such twaddle.

1238
01:33:34,900 --> 01:33:38,700
Twaddle or not, it is the only
explanation which fits all the facts.

1239
01:33:38,900 --> 01:33:40,600
Now if you will be a little patient...

1240
01:33:40,600 --> 01:33:44,900
I will explain to you
exactly what happened next at Gull Cove.

1241
01:33:45,100 --> 01:33:48,900
Madame Redfern, unseen by Linda,
consulted her own watch...

1242
01:33:49,000 --> 01:33:51,700
which she was wearing
but kept concealed

1243
01:33:51,800 --> 01:33:54,900
under the sleeve of that
strange voluminous outfit

1244
01:33:54,900 --> 01:33:57,000
she chose to protect her from the sun.

1245
01:33:57,200 --> 01:34:00,400
It is of course 25 to 12.

1246
01:34:00,800 --> 01:34:06,000
She then asked Linda the time,
who naturally said it was five to 12.

1247
01:34:06,500 --> 01:34:11,300
Linda then starts to go down
to the sea. While her back is turned...

1248
01:34:11,300 --> 01:34:14,900
Madame Redfern returns Linda's watch
to the correct time...

1249
01:34:14,900 --> 01:34:20,700
then calls Linda back, telling her
she has forgotten her bathing cap.

1250
01:34:21,000 --> 01:34:25,100
Why should she bother to do that,
you may ask?

1251
01:34:25,300 --> 01:34:27,200
The answer is simple.

1252
01:34:27,300 --> 01:34:31,000
Remember, at 12 o'clock
the noonday gun is due to go off.

1253
01:34:31,300 --> 01:34:35,800
And she can take no chance of
Linda hearing and noting it.

1254
01:34:36,100 --> 01:34:38,800
A girl splashing about in the sea

1255
01:34:38,800 --> 01:34:43,500
and wearing a bathing cap
would hear nothing.

1256
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:46,800
So let us exactly see what happened

1257
01:34:46,800 --> 01:34:51,000
as Madame Redfern hurried up
from the cove to the top of the cliff.

1258
01:34:51,100 --> 01:34:55,900
It is 11:40. She pauses to wave.

1259
01:34:56,100 --> 01:34:57,900
Linda waves back.

1260
01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:00,300
But there is no Mr Brewster.

1261
01:35:00,300 --> 01:35:02,300
No noonday gun.

1262
01:35:02,700 --> 01:35:05,900
Madame Redfern now turns

1263
01:35:05,900 --> 01:35:09,800
and runs across the path which
separates Gull Cove from Ladder Bay.

1264
01:35:09,900 --> 01:35:13,300
That takes her six or seven minutes,
no more.

1265
01:35:13,800 --> 01:35:16,600
She arrives at Ladder Bay
at about a quarter to 12

1266
01:35:16,600 --> 01:35:19,000
and sees Madame Arlena
sitting impatiently...

1267
01:35:19,000 --> 01:35:21,400
awaiting the arrival
of Patrick Redfern...

1268
01:35:21,500 --> 01:35:24,100
with whom, I am convinced,
she had a rendezvous.

1269
01:35:25,900 --> 01:35:27,700
Oh, Christ!

1270
01:35:27,800 --> 01:35:31,500
Suddenly, to her great chagrin
she sees you, madame...

1271
01:35:31,500 --> 01:35:33,900
about to come down the ladder

1272
01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:37,000
But I couldn't have!
I suffer from vertigo.

1273
01:35:37,200 --> 01:35:38,300
You know that.

1274
01:35:38,400 --> 01:35:42,100
I only know that because you took
good care to stage an incident

1275
01:35:42,200 --> 01:35:44,400
showing me that you suffer from vertigo.

1276
01:35:44,700 --> 01:35:47,400
The day before yesterday,
on the terrace.

1277
01:35:48,800 --> 01:35:51,600
As we were having a stroll
and I was drawing your attention

1278
01:35:51,600 --> 01:35:55,400
to the sunbathing figures on the beach
below us, you suddenly fell against me

1279
01:35:55,400 --> 01:35:58,600
and stepped back,
saying you suffered from vertigo.

1280
01:35:59,100 --> 01:36:01,800
But she does have it, Poirot.
She's always had it.

1281
01:36:01,900 --> 01:36:03,400
That is not the case, messieur.

1282
01:36:03,400 --> 01:36:05,200
Your wife only pretended to have it

1283
01:36:05,200 --> 01:36:08,300
in order to prove that she
could not have climbed down the ladder.

1284
01:36:09,600 --> 01:36:11,900
But, yesterday afternoon...

1285
01:36:11,900 --> 01:36:15,400
I myself stood on the cliff
overlooking Gull Cove

1286
01:36:15,500 --> 01:36:19,200
and I discovered something
rather interesting.

1287
01:36:19,900 --> 01:36:25,600
In order to have seen Linda
in the water below and to wave to her...

1288
01:36:25,700 --> 01:36:29,700
you would have had to stand
right on the very edge.

1289
01:36:30,400 --> 01:36:33,100
Although I do not suffer from vertigo...

1290
01:36:33,100 --> 01:36:34,700
I myself...

1291
01:36:35,400 --> 01:36:37,200
was quite dizzy.

1292
01:36:39,100 --> 01:36:43,600
For you, madame, had you suffered from
vertigo, it would have been impossible.

1293
01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:49,500
Let us now resume the story from the
point at which you descended the ladder.

1294
01:36:49,700 --> 01:36:52,700
Madame Arlena decided to avoid
a confrontation

1295
01:36:52,800 --> 01:36:54,500
and was about to leave the beach

1296
01:36:54,600 --> 01:36:58,500
when she noticed a small grotto
at the base of a cliff.

1297
01:36:59,100 --> 01:37:02,400
You may well ask
how I knew she had been in there.

1298
01:37:02,600 --> 01:37:07,000
Yesterday afternoon, not only
did I discover the false diamond

1299
01:37:07,000 --> 01:37:09,200
that Horace Blatt had returned to her...

1300
01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:12,300
but my excellent wine taster's nose

1301
01:37:12,500 --> 01:37:15,800
had detected, not as you put it,
Madame Castle, a pong...

1302
01:37:16,000 --> 01:37:19,600
but Souffle de Mer,
"the breath of the sea"...

1303
01:37:19,900 --> 01:37:25,300
which, as you know, messieur Marshall,
was her favourite perfume.

1304
01:37:26,800 --> 01:37:28,800
But I am digressing.

1305
01:37:29,400 --> 01:37:33,300
You ran down on to the beach,
but Madame Arlena had disappeared.

1306
01:37:33,700 --> 01:37:35,100
Arlena!

1307
01:37:36,300 --> 01:37:37,900
Where are you?

1308
01:37:39,300 --> 01:37:41,000
I know you're here.

1309
01:37:42,600 --> 01:37:44,000
I want to talk to you!

1310
01:37:45,100 --> 01:37:46,400
Be with you in a minute.

1311
01:37:48,400 --> 01:37:49,800
Well, what is it?

1312
01:38:02,200 --> 01:38:04,900
Look here, Poirot.
Haven't we heard enough of this blarney?

1313
01:38:05,000 --> 01:38:08,200
Arlena was not murdered with a blunt
instrument, she was strangled.

1314
01:38:08,600 --> 01:38:11,400
And if you would care to bend
those beady Belgian eyes of yours

1315
01:38:11,400 --> 01:38:16,200
on Christine's hands, you'll see they
are too small to have strangled anyone.

1316
01:38:16,400 --> 01:38:21,000
Yes, I quite agree. In fact that was
a major stumbling block to my theory.

1317
01:38:21,100 --> 01:38:24,500
Redfern's right,
this knocks your theory out of court.

1318
01:38:25,000 --> 01:38:27,400
Odell, please, you
weren't even there...

1319
01:38:27,600 --> 01:38:28,900
and I was.

1320
01:38:28,900 --> 01:38:31,700
Remember,
I saw her lying there strangled.

1321
01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:33,600
Christine couldn't have done it.

1322
01:38:33,700 --> 01:38:37,100
I am absolutely of your opinion, madame.
In fact, she did not do it.

1323
01:38:37,200 --> 01:38:39,300
The murder was committed by...

1324
01:38:39,900 --> 01:38:42,600
her husband, Patrick Redfern.

1325
01:38:45,200 --> 01:38:47,500
Now you really are
talking out of the top of your hat!

1326
01:38:48,000 --> 01:38:52,300
Oh, for God's sakes. Patrick couldn't
have done it, any more than his wife.

1327
01:38:52,500 --> 01:38:56,500
Don't forget I was with him
the whole time between 11:30 and 12:00

1328
01:38:56,600 --> 01:38:59,400
when we came into the bay
and saw her lying there.

1329
01:38:59,400 --> 01:39:01,900
That is the whole point, madame.

1330
01:39:02,500 --> 01:39:06,300
One moderately well-made young woman
is very much like another.

1331
01:39:06,300 --> 01:39:08,900
Two brown arms, two brown legs

1332
01:39:09,000 --> 01:39:11,900
and a little piece of bathing suit
in between.

1333
01:39:12,200 --> 01:39:16,400
What exactly did you see from your
place in the boat, Madame Gardener?

1334
01:39:16,800 --> 01:39:19,200
The ardent young lover, M Redfern...

1335
01:39:19,500 --> 01:39:22,600
bending over the body
with suntanned limbs

1336
01:39:22,600 --> 01:39:25,500
wearing Arlena's white
bathing costume...

1337
01:39:25,700 --> 01:39:28,800
and a red Chinese hat.

1338
01:39:29,600 --> 01:39:32,200
As I pointed out
a couple of days ago...

1339
01:39:32,200 --> 01:39:35,000
all bodies lying on the beach
are alike.

1340
01:39:35,200 --> 01:39:37,200
"They are not men and women," I said.

1341
01:39:37,200 --> 01:39:39,800
"There is nothing personal about them,"
I said.

1342
01:39:39,800 --> 01:39:44,600
"They are like rows of butcher's meat
grilling in the sun," I said.

1343
01:39:44,900 --> 01:39:48,800
No wonder you were fooled
into imagining that you had seen

1344
01:39:48,900 --> 01:39:50,800
the corpse of Madame Marshall...

1345
01:39:50,800 --> 01:39:53,000
when what you had actually seen

1346
01:39:53,100 --> 01:39:56,600
was the live body of
Madame Christine Redfern.

1347
01:39:57,500 --> 01:40:00,300
That is why the murderer
had to conceal the face...

1348
01:40:00,400 --> 01:40:04,300
because it was not the murder victim
lying there, but somebody else.

1349
01:40:04,300 --> 01:40:07,100
And who else would help
messieur Redfern..

1350
01:40:07,200 --> 01:40:09,300
But his own wife?

1351
01:40:10,000 --> 01:40:14,000
And now the performance
for the benefit of the witness is over.

1352
01:40:14,300 --> 01:40:18,300
Madame Gardener departs
from the bay by boat to fetch help.

1353
01:40:18,700 --> 01:40:22,100
And what do you think happened,
Madame Gardener...

1354
01:40:22,500 --> 01:40:26,500
as soon as you had disappeared?

1355
01:40:29,400 --> 01:40:32,000
Why, the corpse leaps to her feet

1356
01:40:32,100 --> 01:40:36,300
and runs into the grotto to repace
Madame Arlena's bathing costume...

1357
01:40:36,300 --> 01:40:39,000
which she had stripped off
the unconscious woman

1358
01:40:39,400 --> 01:40:42,100
and worn to play her part as a corpse.

1359
01:40:42,400 --> 01:40:46,200
I've got a point, Poirot,
which will scupper all your whole case.

1360
01:40:46,800 --> 01:40:51,500
Christine is as pale as
pasteurised milk. Now the question is...

1361
01:40:51,500 --> 01:40:55,600
how could I have possibly mistaken
her arms and legs for Arlena's?

1362
01:40:55,900 --> 01:40:57,900
This covers nothing at all, madame.

1363
01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:00,400
In answer to your question,
I would ask you to consider

1364
01:41:00,400 --> 01:41:04,900
the bizarre nature
of Madame Redfern's beach apparel.

1365
01:41:05,800 --> 01:41:08,700
When I saw Madame Redfern
in the lobby yesterday morning...

1366
01:41:08,700 --> 01:41:11,500
she was wearing
a totally exaggerated garment

1367
01:41:11,600 --> 01:41:14,900
which completely covered her
from wrist to neck.

1368
01:41:15,500 --> 01:41:19,300
No mere fear of the sun could have
occasioned such a choice of dress.

1369
01:41:19,600 --> 01:41:23,300
She had to wear such an all-concealing
outfit because underneath...

1370
01:41:23,700 --> 01:41:25,800
she was brown as a nut

1371
01:41:26,200 --> 01:41:30,200
In the grotto, after having
climbed into the unconscious

1372
01:41:30,200 --> 01:41:32,200
Madame Arlena's swimming costume...

1373
01:41:32,500 --> 01:41:36,100
all she had to do was
to stain her hands and neck...

1374
01:41:36,300 --> 01:41:39,200
something she could not have done
earlier. Why?

1375
01:41:39,300 --> 01:41:41,800
Because Linda would have noticed.

1376
01:41:42,400 --> 01:41:45,100
She puts on the earrings

1377
01:41:46,100 --> 01:41:48,200
and then she runs
out of the grotto

1378
01:41:48,700 --> 01:41:54,400
and onto the beach,
settles herself on Arlena's towel

1379
01:41:54,600 --> 01:41:59,000
and puts her great big Chinese hat
over her face

1380
01:41:59,500 --> 01:42:02,900
and lies still to await the arrival of
her husband and yourself.

1381
01:42:03,600 --> 01:42:04,500
Dead...

1382
01:42:05,200 --> 01:42:07,100
on cue, as it were.

1383
01:42:08,700 --> 01:42:13,200
And this, I must admit,
he stage-managed superbly...

1384
01:42:13,300 --> 01:42:15,200
timing his appearance at Ladder Bay

1385
01:42:15,200 --> 01:42:20,000
exactly to coincide
with the sound of the noonday gun.

1386
01:42:26,300 --> 01:42:27,900
The rest was easy.

1387
01:42:28,100 --> 01:42:30,900
She now changed back
into her original costume.

1388
01:42:31,500 --> 01:42:33,600
It was about five past 12.

1389
01:42:33,900 --> 01:42:38,600
Madame Redfern bids her husband a
hurried farewell. The clock is ticking.

1390
01:42:38,900 --> 01:42:41,800
She runs back across the island
to rejoin the path

1391
01:42:41,900 --> 01:42:44,200
leading from Gull Bay to the hotel.

1392
01:42:44,400 --> 01:42:47,200
She has one more task to perform.

1393
01:42:47,300 --> 01:42:51,300
She must get rid of the
incriminating bottle of suntan stain.

1394
01:42:51,400 --> 01:42:54,600
The bottle that
no one would admit throwing.

1395
01:42:54,800 --> 01:42:57,800
So she hurls it over the cliff.

1396
01:42:58,500 --> 01:43:03,300
But has the bad luck to have the event
witnessed by messieur Brewster...

1397
01:43:03,300 --> 01:43:05,300
whom it almost hit.

1398
01:43:05,700 --> 01:43:08,900
She reaches the hotel,
arriving there about 12:15.

1399
01:43:09,100 --> 01:43:11,200
I myself timed the journey.

1400
01:43:11,300 --> 01:43:16,300
But then I was not running like
a young gazelle, for obvious reasons.

1401
01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:20,900
Madame Redfern now takes the bath,
heard by messieur Gardner...

1402
01:43:20,900 --> 01:43:26,500
the bath no one would admit to taking,
in order to wash off the suntan.

1403
01:43:27,100 --> 01:43:30,700
She changes into tennis clothes
and appears on the court

1404
01:43:30,700 --> 01:43:34,100
a few minutes late it is true,
but unruffled and smiling...

1405
01:43:34,100 --> 01:43:35,700
a picture of innocence.

1406
01:43:39,800 --> 01:43:41,900
Yes, messieur and Madame Redfern...

1407
01:43:41,900 --> 01:43:46,500
I blame myself for not having seen
through your little charades earlier.

1408
01:43:46,600 --> 01:43:50,400
But then, unfortunately,
not even Hercule Poirot is perfect.

1409
01:43:51,100 --> 01:43:52,700
From the moment you arrived...

1410
01:43:52,700 --> 01:43:56,400
you started playing out a series
of carefully rehearsed scenes...

1411
01:43:56,600 --> 01:43:59,800
in such a manner
that all might hear or see.

1412
01:44:00,100 --> 01:44:02,900
Together, there were
scenes of hysterical jealousy

1413
01:44:02,900 --> 01:44:05,000
played close to open windows.

1414
01:44:05,100 --> 01:44:06,800
You don't want to talk!

1415
01:44:06,900 --> 01:44:10,000
Look here! Can't I even speak
to a pretty woman without you

1416
01:44:10,200 --> 01:44:12,000
jumping to the
conclusion that I'm...

1417
01:44:12,300 --> 01:44:13,900
having an affair with her?

1418
01:44:13,900 --> 01:44:15,200
But you are, aren't you?

1419
01:44:15,200 --> 01:44:18,000
A part, you, madame,
took every opportunity

1420
01:44:18,100 --> 01:44:19,200
to give the impression

1421
01:44:19,200 --> 01:44:22,500
that you are a physically frail woman
who's no good at sports

1422
01:44:22,600 --> 01:44:25,200
and who had to hide her skin away
from the sun

1423
01:44:25,500 --> 01:44:28,800
because it blistered
and made her look like, what was it?

1424
01:44:28,800 --> 01:44:30,900
An Italian ice cream?

1425
01:44:31,400 --> 01:44:37,200
And who was altogether to be pitied as
a poor little helpless abandoned wife.

1426
01:44:37,600 --> 01:44:39,000
Whilst you, messieur...

1427
01:44:39,000 --> 01:44:42,700
took elaborately indiscreet pains
to advertise your romance...

1428
01:44:42,700 --> 01:44:47,900
instead of trying to conceal it
as any prudent lover would.

1429
01:44:48,800 --> 01:44:52,600
I think you will all agree
that it was a most audacious plan...

1430
01:44:53,000 --> 01:44:54,800
brilliantly executed.

1431
01:44:54,800 --> 01:44:56,500
Oh, yes, brilliantly.

1432
01:44:56,900 --> 01:45:00,800
But the one thing you have failed to
supply, messieur Poirot, is motive.

1433
01:45:01,800 --> 01:45:04,100
Why on earth should I kill Arlena?

1434
01:45:05,100 --> 01:45:06,900
I absolutely adored her.

1435
01:45:09,100 --> 01:45:11,000
Adultery may be reprehensible...

1436
01:45:11,500 --> 01:45:13,200
but it certainly
is not criminal.

1437
01:45:15,200 --> 01:45:18,700
No, messieur, you did not adore her,
you adored her money.

1438
01:45:19,000 --> 01:45:24,100
And, more especially, the magnificent
diamond offered her by Sir Horace Blatt.

1439
01:45:25,500 --> 01:45:30,000
Those who teach Latin to small boys
are not exactly overpaid.

1440
01:45:30,900 --> 01:45:34,100
You're not at all the romantic figure
you like to present.

1441
01:45:34,100 --> 01:45:38,200
You are a hardened adventurer
and a vicious swindler...

1442
01:45:38,600 --> 01:45:41,400
who had absolutely no moral compunction

1443
01:45:41,400 --> 01:45:44,900
in borrowing the diamond
from Madame Arlena

1444
01:45:45,200 --> 01:45:46,300
and of

1445
01:45:46,900 --> 01:45:49,500
substituting a paste copy.

1446
01:45:50,200 --> 01:45:53,000
Oh, pray, do continue, messieur Poirot.

1447
01:45:53,600 --> 01:45:57,500
Oh, yes, messieur, politeness
is very much part of the act.

1448
01:45:58,000 --> 01:46:00,800
You knew that
your deception would be discovered.

1449
01:46:01,000 --> 01:46:02,400
Too bloody right.

1450
01:46:02,500 --> 01:46:06,500
And you had to eliminate the
only witness capable of exposing you.

1451
01:46:06,500 --> 01:46:08,500
And what better opportunity
than on holiday...

1452
01:46:09,500 --> 01:46:11,400
in a small exclusive island...

1453
01:46:11,700 --> 01:46:15,100
where you could plan
and execute her murder?

1454
01:46:16,900 --> 01:46:19,900
Picture to yourself the scene,
mes amis.

1455
01:46:20,100 --> 01:46:21,900
The half-lit grotto.

1456
01:46:21,900 --> 01:46:25,100
Madame Arlena
slowly returning to consciousness

1457
01:46:25,300 --> 01:46:31,800
and the so solicitous messieur Patrick
preparing le moment juste to strike.

1458
01:46:33,100 --> 01:46:35,100
Oh, Patrick.

1459
01:46:36,700 --> 01:46:39,400
Suddenly, his hands
are around her throat.

1460
01:46:39,600 --> 01:46:41,600
She struggles...

1461
01:46:41,700 --> 01:46:45,600
and it is the end of poor, foolish...

1462
01:46:45,800 --> 01:46:51,400
beautiful, gullible Arlena Marshall.

1463
01:46:56,500 --> 01:47:01,100
And that, mesdames,
mademoiselle, messieurs

1464
01:47:01,300 --> 01:47:04,200
is the story of the murder of
Arlena Marshall.

1465
01:47:05,000 --> 01:47:07,400
The only thing they had not foreseen

1466
01:47:07,500 --> 01:47:12,200
was the presence on this island
of Hercule Poirot.

1467
01:47:18,300 --> 01:47:20,600
The well-known romancer
and teller of tales.

1468
01:47:20,600 --> 01:47:26,200
Excellent plot line. Imaginatively
conceived. Good, clear narrative style.

1469
01:47:26,600 --> 01:47:28,600
I'll give you nine out of ten, Poirot.

1470
01:47:28,800 --> 01:47:33,800
I'm deducting one mark
for total absence of proof.

1471
01:47:36,000 --> 01:47:37,500
Is that true?

1472
01:47:37,500 --> 01:47:41,600
We've sat here and listened to all that
and you can't prove a word of it?

1473
01:47:44,000 --> 01:47:47,400
Unfortunately, messieur Redfern
is absolutely right.

1474
01:47:47,900 --> 01:47:50,100
I haven't a shred of evidence.

1475
01:47:50,100 --> 01:47:53,100
Although that is
unquestionably what happened.

1476
01:47:53,200 --> 01:47:55,100
I don't think we need to sit here

1477
01:47:55,200 --> 01:47:58,700
and be insulted by
this fanciful little mountebank.

1478
01:47:59,400 --> 01:48:01,900
Come along, darling.
Shall we go and pack?

1479
01:48:04,600 --> 01:48:07,000
Just give us five minutes, Mr Poirot...

1480
01:48:07,000 --> 01:48:09,500
and I'm sure we'll be able to work out
how you did it.

1481
01:48:16,200 --> 01:48:19,600
After all, where were you
at the time of the murder?

1482
01:48:25,700 --> 01:48:29,500
You've let that pair get off scot-free
and I haven't even got my diamond back!

1483
01:48:30,300 --> 01:48:32,300
You've made a right cock-up, Poirot.

1484
01:49:25,400 --> 01:49:28,000
Oh, how very kind of you to see us off!

1485
01:49:28,400 --> 01:49:31,000
Well, goodbye, my dear friends.

1486
01:49:31,700 --> 01:49:34,400
I don't think there'll be any necessity
to leave a forwarding address.

1487
01:49:34,400 --> 01:49:36,600
Just a moment, Mr Redfern.

1488
01:49:37,200 --> 01:49:39,100
Haven't you forgotten something?

1489
01:49:39,400 --> 01:49:42,400
Why pay, Patrick?
They've done nothing but insult us.

1490
01:49:43,000 --> 01:49:44,800
Oh, we must pay it, darling.

1491
01:49:45,000 --> 01:49:49,000
After all, we wouldn't want anybody to
think we were cheats now, would we?

1492
01:49:51,000 --> 01:49:53,200
- I know you'll take a cheque.
- Certainly.

1493
01:49:53,600 --> 01:49:59,700
Of course, I also know that you're
thinking the cheque may well bounce...

1494
01:50:00,700 --> 01:50:05,200
but I'm afraid
that's as good as it gets.

1495
01:50:08,200 --> 01:50:13,600
Here you are, dear. I've put
a little extra on for the inconvenience.

1496
01:50:14,100 --> 01:50:15,600
Thank you so much.

1497
01:50:18,100 --> 01:50:20,300
Would you mind me saying something,
Miss Castle?

1498
01:50:20,700 --> 01:50:23,900
Your ensemble does
absolutely nothing for you.

1499
01:50:24,600 --> 01:50:25,800
Goodbye.

1500
01:50:27,100 --> 01:50:29,500
Un instant, s'il vous plaît,
messieur Ruber.

1501
01:50:31,100 --> 01:50:33,500
- Messieur Felix Ruber?
- Who did you say?

1502
01:50:33,600 --> 01:50:36,500
- Ruber?
- Who the hell is Ruber?

1503
01:50:36,800 --> 01:50:40,000
Felix Ruber is the widower of
Alice Ruber...

1504
01:50:40,100 --> 01:50:43,400
whose strangled body had been
discovered on the Yorkshire moors

1505
01:50:43,500 --> 01:50:44,500
some months ago.

1506
01:50:44,500 --> 01:50:49,700
I was called in by the Trojan Insurance
Company to examine the police report.

1507
01:50:50,000 --> 01:50:52,500
In the event of Mrs Ruber's death...

1508
01:50:52,600 --> 01:50:55,700
her husband was a beneficiary of
a large sum of money.

1509
01:50:55,900 --> 01:51:00,100
The police were satisfied that it was
the work of a madman or a tramp

1510
01:51:00,200 --> 01:51:03,200
and so was I,
since the only possible suspect...

1511
01:51:03,200 --> 01:51:06,100
the husband, had a cast-iron alibi...

1512
01:51:06,500 --> 01:51:10,300
which had been established
by a woman-hiker

1513
01:51:10,300 --> 01:51:12,900
who had found the body
earlier in the day.

1514
01:51:13,200 --> 01:51:15,600
But last night I asked myself.

1515
01:51:16,000 --> 01:51:17,500
A strangulation...

1516
01:51:17,500 --> 01:51:20,900
an innocent witness, a change of time.

1517
01:51:21,100 --> 01:51:24,600
Could the similarity in the pattern of
the events here on the island

1518
01:51:24,600 --> 01:51:27,900
and those on the moors
be a mere coincidence?

1519
01:51:28,800 --> 01:51:30,700
No, mes amis, the lonely hiker

1520
01:51:30,900 --> 01:51:33,800
was none other than
Madame Christine Redfern.

1521
01:51:33,900 --> 01:51:36,300
While messieur Ruber was on a train...

1522
01:51:36,300 --> 01:51:41,900
undoubtedly attracting attention to his
presence before potential witnesses.

1523
01:51:43,200 --> 01:51:46,000
The bigamous messieur Ruber
was now free

1524
01:51:46,000 --> 01:51:49,700
to return to his surviving wife,
Madame Redfern.

1525
01:51:54,300 --> 01:51:59,100
You were clever enough to avoid putting
your signature in the hotel register...

1526
01:51:59,100 --> 01:52:02,800
but, you know, the signature on
this cheque is really quite good enough.

1527
01:52:03,800 --> 01:52:08,400
Different names, of course.
Here on the claim form

1528
01:52:08,400 --> 01:52:12,700
for Alice Ruber's insurance policy,
it appears as Felix Ruber...

1529
01:52:12,800 --> 01:52:15,900
and here on the hotel cheque
it appears as Patrick Redfern.

1530
01:52:16,000 --> 01:52:22,300
Different names, but, messieur,
undeniably the same handwriting.

1531
01:52:23,800 --> 01:52:25,800
My God.

1532
01:52:26,400 --> 01:52:29,800
You were wrong to tell me that
little joke about Giuseppe Verdi

1533
01:52:29,800 --> 01:52:32,400
being called Joe Green in English...

1534
01:52:32,600 --> 01:52:36,200
or that you had once you taught Latin
to small boys.

1535
01:52:36,400 --> 01:52:39,100
It was at that moment that I realised

1536
01:52:39,100 --> 01:52:40,500
that in that language

1537
01:52:41,100 --> 01:52:42,400
"Felix Ruber"

1538
01:52:42,900 --> 01:52:44,700
is "Red Fern".

1539
01:52:46,000 --> 01:52:49,700
You see, it is folly
to try and trick Hercule Poirot...

1540
01:52:49,800 --> 01:52:51,700
even in a dead language.

1541
01:52:51,800 --> 01:52:55,700
Do you think anyone's going to believe
the evidence of a couple of signatures?

1542
01:52:56,100 --> 01:52:57,800
And your bloody silly word games?

1543
01:52:57,900 --> 01:53:02,400
Messieur, if my modest assumptions
are too fanciful for you...

1544
01:53:02,600 --> 01:53:07,700
then perhaps a photograph
of a hiker and the mourning husband...

1545
01:53:07,900 --> 01:53:11,500
which must have appeared in local papers
and which I of course have sent for...

1546
01:53:11,600 --> 01:53:13,600
will be enough proof to hang you, sir.

1547
01:53:14,100 --> 01:53:17,800
You will be arrested for
the murder of Alice Ruber

1548
01:53:18,000 --> 01:53:19,700
and of Arlena Marshall.

1549
01:53:23,200 --> 01:53:27,500
But before that, there is a small favour
I would like to ask of you.

1550
01:53:32,300 --> 01:53:34,900
Would you smoke the pipe

1551
01:53:34,900 --> 01:53:38,200
which has been conspicuous
by being unlit since you arrived here?

1552
01:53:40,500 --> 01:53:42,500
No?

1553
01:53:46,200 --> 01:53:47,800
Dommage.

1554
01:53:57,500 --> 01:53:58,800
As I thought.

1555
01:54:03,500 --> 01:54:07,600
Sir Horace, please be careful
to whom you give it next time.

1556
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:11,400
My God, you're a wonder, Poirot.

1557
01:54:14,000 --> 01:54:15,300
Yes?

1558
01:54:17,400 --> 01:54:19,200
Poor messieur Poirot.

1559
01:54:19,300 --> 01:54:21,300
Brave messieur Poirot.

1560
01:54:21,400 --> 01:54:25,800
I've just had a telephone call from His
Majesty and he is very pleased with...

1561
01:54:25,900 --> 01:54:27,600
The King of Tyrania?

1562
01:54:27,700 --> 01:54:31,500
He's very pleased with the matter being
cleared up so quickly and so discreetly.

1563
01:54:31,500 --> 01:54:35,600
He's so pleased that he's awarding you
the Order of St Gudrun the Inquisitive.

1564
01:54:35,800 --> 01:54:38,900
- St Gudrun the Inquisitive?
- First Class.

1565
01:54:40,300 --> 01:54:42,400
How many classes are there?