Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) s02e02 Episode Script

POIROT Seize what is thieving! The BLINDFOLDED LADY They fear me, Hastings.
The criminals are afraid Hercule Poirot of such a way what repented of his iniquitous acts and they decided to return exemplary citizens.
What plays the fool, Poirot.
Look only at that schooner! Does it think that it is a nonsense, Hastings? I imagine that most do not know even Hercule Poirot.
To that it is called to hit the ceguinho, Hastings.
Who had given me what was right.
It was asking an advance reform.
But these criminals they are more and more intelligent.
I had a case to last week what certainly would please him, Poirot.
At this moment, expensive inspector, any case would please me.
Burlington Arcade, in broad daylight.
A type enters in a jewelry store, sack of a pistol and it steals a handful of jewels.
My expensive Japp, it seems to me a common crime.
Good it is still to come.
The thief only walked few meters up to being caught by two citizens what were going to pass and detained even to the arrival of the Police officer.
The policeman takes it to the squad where they find the jewels in his pocket.
An excellent work for part of two honest citizens.
Except What, Inspector? The jewels what he had in the pocket the true ones were not.
He passed the true ones for one of his partners, one of the already mentioned ones honest citizens.
- Homessa! - What he says to me to this? I wait what is condemned to ten years of prison.
Yes, very well.
But without any type of refinement, it swims more of which boldness.
Even so, an ingenious plan.
He knows, Hastings, for times it would want not to be such an honest person.
Had you had to? It does not find what Hercule Poirot would it supplant any criminal? Hercule Poirot would do use of his grey celulazinhas.
Hercule Poirot would alter his modus operandi in each crime.
The Scotland Yard it would be incompetent of catching me.
Hastings, Hastings To work from another side of the law, to vary I think that it would be quite pleasant.
Imagine only, every morning, a new crime.
Every morning, the Inspector Japp it would pull out the hairs and, to each corner, the proclamation of the ardinas: " Read the news! Monsieur Big reveals everything! " - Yes, Beauty queen Lemon? - A lady came to see it, Mr.
Poirot.
- How she was the lady, Miss Lemon? - It is there that it is, Captain Hastings.
I did not manage to see the face because of the veil that she was bringing.
Where it is does it link, Beauty queen Lemon? One said what had a subject of the biggest urgency to negotiate with you and what would be to his wait in the Hotel Athena.
- What his grace is? - One did not say his name.
- And the number of the room of hotel? - Also I do not called myself.
My business does not admire what be every time worse.
Bonjour, mademoiselle.
He must be Monsieur Poirot.
I lament not to have could wait in his office, I feel them what I am being follow, does it understand? Followed, mademoiselle? I do not find anybody what be able to help me, but I have been hearing wonders in his respect.
Perhaps manage to do the impossible thing.
The impossible thing always wakes up my attention.
Allow him to present me my colleague, the Captain Hastings.
Much pleasure.
Continue them to me, please.
He heard already of Lady Millicent Castle Vaughan? The daughter of the Count of Killarney? - I am Lady Millicent.
- For God Thank you.
Perhaps be up to date with my engagement with the Duke of Southshire.
Of course! They say that it will be the marriage of the year.
He did not know it knowing about the calendar of social events, Hastings.
This place is very public.
I am going to trust you.
Co'a brakes! It is very gentle.
There is a man, a horrible man One calls Lavington.
I wrote a letter It had only 16 years in the height.
An addressed letter to this Monsieur Lavington? No! Addressed to a young person what left in an expedition to the Orinoco.
- He never returned.
- Little what luck.
- I was liking a great deal of him.
- I understand.
It was a puerile letter, an indiscreet letter, but it swims more.
But it was containing some sentences what can be interpreted in different way.
I understand.
It was this letter that fell in the hands of Monsieur Lavington? Yes.
It threatens to send it to my fiance to less what pays to him an elevated amount.
But what rascal! Pardon, Lady Millicent And which amount is this? It is impossible! I doubt even that it gets to raise thousand pounds.
- Did the lady see the letter? - Yes, I was his house, in Wimbledon.
He her showed me.
I tried to seize it, me them he was quicker.
Where it is does it link now? He doubled it and placed it in a small box from wood.
A Chinese box-mystery, since he called him.
" Here it will be in security ", I called myself.
" The box itself is going to be hidden in an ingenious siege, " where never it will be able to find it ".
I find repugnant what he will pay a cent that is to this man! Supported! No, the subtlety of Hercule Poirot it will take his enemies of conquest.
Yes Have the kindness to ask to this man who me goes to visit.
I do not see because there is of him to hand over the letter only because he is you asking.
But what amazing girl For times, mon ami, I find that you one is amazing with great easiness.
Very much thank you.
For Whitehaven Mansions, please.
This is interesting, Poirot.
" English citizen mysteriously murdered in Holland.
" They always say the same thing, Hastings.
Later, they discover what ate canned fish and what his death it is perfectly natural.
One wants to see even the things for the negative It must not already come, that's right Mr.
Poirot? Perhaps be afraid of knots, Beauty queen Lemon.
- I can stay, they if will be wanted - No, thank you.
I and the Captain Hastings we treat the subject.
- Good night, Mr.
Poirot.
- Good night.
- Good night, Captain Hastings.
- Good night, Beauty queen Lemon.
I wait what pass a pleasant night work.
It is he! It is he! I am sure what is he! Have calm, Beauty queen Lemon.
He is a simple blackmailer.
There is something of degrading one in the blackmail, Mr.
Poirot.
In this respect, I am certain of what nothing has to be afraid.
Please, let in M.
Lavington when it will be going out.
You are here.
Lavington.
It prays very well Then he is you famous Hercule Poirot.
I am yes, Monsieur.
The Castle Vaughan said what he wanted to speak with me.
- Does she think that I am going to change of ideas? - Perhaps think.
It must judge that I am idiotic.
Perhaps be.
- Put me to the test.
- Very well.
Lady Millicent has not of 20 thousand pounds, or similar sum.
Do not call.
Only because it has title nobiliárquico it does not mean what is rich.
Certainly some gentlemen of his circle of friendships they will be given lending money to such an enchanting young person.
Especially she will know to do the things - His scoundrel! - Hastings, please.
I see that his jobman it is very impetuous.
With difficulty, Lady Millicent it can dispose of five thousand pounds.
Five thousand? It must be playing me.
Hercule Poirot does not play, Monsieur.
It looks that this conversation it does not lead to side any, gentlemen.
I have an article to sell.
Or they accept my price or they do not accept.
I do not intend to haggle.
It seems that the man is understood in these matters, Monsieur Lavington.
Very well I am going to do a good price for Lady Millicent, as soon as she is a girl so enchanting.
- Continue.
- Let's say 18 thousand pounds.
- This is not a good price.
- And to stick or to set sail.
I will leave today for Paris, but I will be of turn in Tuesday.
If I not to receive 18 thousand pounds in Tuesday at night, I will hand over the letter to a Duke.
The toute á l'heure, Messieurs.
Hastings? Hastings? Hastings? - I lost it.
- Monsieur Lavington? - It caught a taxi.
- What he wanted of him? It was going to follow it to know where it lives.
- We know where he lives.
- I do not know.
Lady Millicent said to us.
He grasps Wimbledon.
But Wimbledon it is a very big zone.
It had an aunt who was living in Wimbledon.
And an uncle also.
It used to be going to spend there a few times Accepted Buona, Cedars Avenue.
I understand.
It is a full book of informations, useful, Hastings.
Nobody thinks in looking for addresses in the telephone directory, is not it? I think, Hastings.
Because he wanted to know the address of Monsieur Lavington, Hastings? I do not know.
It was very unpleasant to way as he talked about Lady Millicent.
I fancied to give him a lesson.
And it found because of doing good in the recess of his home? What? No I do not know.
We will do them to me something.
And we are going to do, Hastings.
Go up to his house! It goes up to his house while he is in Paris! It goes up to his house while he is in Paris and be going to rob the house! - It had to enter for the bottoms.
- Comment? The traders they enter for the bottoms.
- Does it walk selling onions? - Pardon? You, the Frenchmen, now they do very much that.
- M.
Lavington he visited me.
- He is going to visit many people.
I have nothing to do with that.
I am only the housekeeper.
And I am the locksmith.
I am expert in locks on trial of theft.
He did not say anything to me on that.
But in the way as the things they walk, that does not surprise me.
- It is better to enter.
- Thank you.
Clean the feet.
This has been a pandemonium since it began the tournament of tennis.
The rabble comes completely to assist.
It is made graceful to hear them speaking, but already not even at home we feel insurances.
It is an incessant movement of people asking indications, coffees - I do not know where they judge that they are.
- I believe that not.
The situation got worse since Fred Perry gained this year again.
M.
Lavington asked for me to negotiate of a special lock while he is in Paris.
- Then was he for Paris? I never know where it walks put.
- Knife there his service - Thank you.
Monsieur Lavington forgot of saying to me his name.
- What his grace is? - Godber.
What enchanting name.
Because it decided to be a locksmith here if you are a French? - Because I am not a French.
- No? - No.
- Then, of where it came? Lady Godber, what is the country what is enclosed by mountains and divided in cantons? You cannot be a Chinese! No, not, lady.
Switzerland.
A country known by the clocks and for the locks.
He had already heard that one of the clocks.
My died husband had one, peace to his soul.
It was never a great thing.
I cannot stay here to the conversation.
I will finish my work and then to go for house, in Streatham.
I got the impression that the lady was living here.
Skies, not even to think! I release the service ás six, give there where it will give.
I will return tomorrow, to the same hour, lady.
Up to there, do not leave anybody to touch these windows, they are already tied.
- Tied? Ø electricity.
- I am not seeing the threads.
- Obviously.
Warn, Hastings! The policeman passes here with an interval of 17 minutes.
How it managed to do that? Do not light the lights.
The neighbors can see.
- Did it find anything? - No.
Not even I.
Rays! Will Hercule Poirot be defeated? Never! I looked everywhere, even inside the fruit bowl.
We are going to have calm, Hastings.
We are going to reason.
We go enfin! We are going to do use of the grey celulazinhas.
I am an idiot! In the kitchen! In the kitchen? Impossible.
The servants would finish because of finding the box.
Exactamente! he would say precisely that.
It is for this reason that the kitchen it is the ideal hiding place.
En avant! It cannot have hidden it under the coal.
One will use the eyes, he will see that I am not examining the coal.
Point to the lantern for here, Hastings.
His penknife, please.
Fantastic! It fails more low.
What extraordinary place.
Any one could have used the stumps.
In July? It was in the bottom of the battery.
What so ingenious hiding place.
I think that he is going to be one unravel to open this box.
Very well, boys, it finished the joke.
Do not cause chaos.
Mr.
Police, I can explain I and my friend are here to request of M.
Lavington It is he! That one is head of a faction! There does not interest other.
Lady Godber Up to pier completely alone of hearing to say my name.
I knew which era I link.
To use a ridiculous accent of that Very well, hustler, you go with me for the squad.
An any léria invented what was a Chinese - Lady - Which "lady", crook? What he wanted it was to inspect the house.
But I deceived it well! He told him that it was not living here.
I was been suspicious from the beginning.
See well his eyes.
It has a few wilful olhinhos.
- They do not deceive anybody.
- We go away, lad.
You are going to stop to a xelindró! - Good morning, Inspector.
- Good morning.
Is it even dubious, is not it? - But it did not cause problems.
- And too clever for that.
There are months that we want him to lay the hand.
Only he did not say to us the name.
- Is it how that he calls? - This has not been cheeping, Japp.
Nobody knows his true name.
But they all call him a " Furious Dog ".
Furious dog? A ring.
A couple of glasses of rim.
One What is this? A comb for the moustache.
A comb for the moustache? The man did not say to me that it was of this, Inspector.
Return to him the personal objects.
Only I do not realize how it arrived so early the house of the Lavington, Poirot.
- Own I only knew last night.
- Did what, Inspector know? Of the fact of the Lavington to have been murdered in Amesterdão.
- Murdered? When? - When? Last week, clear.
- Last week? - In Tuesday.
But already wise you.
Yes, clear Good morning, Hastings.
I wait what is completely well with you.
- This is impossible of opening! - I rest in seeing that it passed well the night.
It gave proofs of enormous speed last night.
And what agility while jumping for the window It left his old man friend Poirot in refinements.
One had not escaped and asked to the Japp taking away the prison, one would have to present before the Judge, this morning.
At least, he would be accused of invasion of property.
And, to say the truth, I did not pass anything well the night.
- I did not sleep a wink trying to open it.
- I feel very sorry for you, Hastings.
I think that it is not even a box.
And a solid block from wood.
To serious? I usually have great way for these gadgets.
You try.
I think that we had to use a hammer.
A moment, mon ami.
Perhaps the poor person Poirot manage to open it.
A perfection was lost arrombador when Hercule Poirot decided the biggest detective of the world is made.
Is the letter of Lady Millicent this? Does not one say what is going to read it? However he knows if the letter is of Lady Millicent if I not to read it? First, a robbery And now this.
Oui, c'est charmant.
He is she, Lady Millicent.
It wants to see it.
But - In the hotel, from here to an hour.
- She says that the hotel is not I hold.
Then, where? I knew something unusual what certainly it is going to find interesting.
- Had you had to? - M.
Lavington is killed.
Skies! In fact, already it was killed when it visited us in Friday.
It was already killed ? He is his " an English citizen murdered in Holland ".
Murdered in Holland? But like vein stops the London? - She had to be another person! - Excellent reasoning, Hastings.
Monsieur Poirot! What it amazes! How it got? Using quite reprovable methods, I lament to say it.
Skies It was a difficult and dangerous operation in which did Hastings show his value.
But certainly Monsieur Lavington he is not going to present complaints.
Do I eat I will be able to thank for you? Where it was hidden? In the Chinese box, such as he said to us.
And the Chinese box it was hidden in a stump.
And the man found it! They are both marvellous men! - Where it is does it link? - Comment? The Chinese box.
Where it is does it link? The box? I do not know.
Does not he know? Certainly it will not have lost an object of that.
Hastings, which we did with that box? Did not it throw it away? I wait that not! She was such a pretty caixinha! No, already I remember I think that it guarded it in the pocket.
Voilá! Here she is.
Is not it lovely? I find her quite common.
They are a godsend in Limehouse.
No! It would like keeping her like memory.
To remember a certain gentleman very intelligent French.
- Belgian.
- When what fancied.
And I was waiting what was leaving me to keep her.
To remember a certain lady it Anglicizes very pretty.
I intend to give him a memory, quite better in the day of my marriage.
He will see that I will be able to appear grateful, Monsieur Poirot.
The pleasure that gave to me him being able to be a usefulness it is much bigger than it of receiving a sum in cash.
I ask for him what it allows to me to keep the box.
Monsieur Poirot does not understand I need this box.
It does not look to me.
How so? Inside this box a compartment is.
This compartment it is divided in two.
Observe, please.
In that of the halves, the compromising letter was.
In another half I am not wrong, these are the jewels of the necklace stolen in Burlington Arcade.
Exactamente.
- No! - Hello, Gertie.
Rays leave! Do you know each other? She is the head of a faction of the biggest group of thieves of knick-knack of the country.
- Knick-knack? - Jewels.
- Does he know everything? - No.
I do not know how you let yourself wrap with East Lavington, Gertie.
Not even I.
It was not a flower what if it was smelling.
It walked put in blackmails.
To whom he says it.
He also betrayed us.
But it was him who gave me the hint of the robbery.
He knew of the jewelry store through one poor devil who was walking blackmailing.
- And it decided to be of use.
- Exactamente.
It convinced me being one of the citizens what was catching the Shiner.
And this Shiner handed the "knick-knacks" to the Lavington? Not more.
The Lavington accepted to be with us at his house, in Wimbledon, but that crook it did not even appear.
And I did not know where he had when the commodity was hidden.
Me them as the siege had shown off where it had hidden the letter, I thought that perhaps it had when the jewels were hidden in the same siege.
It was therefore, mademoiselle, what decided to ask the Poirot what was doing the search for you.
I heard that you were good.
You decided to weave the Lavington and you ordered your men to follow it even to Holland where they killed again, was not it? - Quietinho! - You do not leave already from here.
We have reasons to believe that you stole products of the museum.
What? - Fast! She is escaping! - Elle s'en goes! - Do you already have the box? - Forget the box! I have the jewels! - Look at the distinctive thing! - We know what you are armed.
- He is not armed.
- See well! We could not guess It is the Lavington! Swim of that! That is Joey Wetherley! Gertie made it go on for Lavington after the truthful Lavington to have been a dead man in Holland.
Wetherley! I found one of your relatives, Joey.
You know well that you do not go to manage to escape, Joey.
It is better you give yourself up, Gertie.
You walk with bad companies.
They are here somewhere, Poirot.
I believe what will be a play of patience, mon ami.
But it is not so that I like of doing the things.
I am going to order to withdraw all you are covered.
The persons in charge of the museum they are not going to like that.
That does not interest me.
Benson! Tidmarsh! They are here! - Joey! - Let's go! - Do not lift problems, Joey.
- It surrenders, Wetherley.
Not even to think, Mr.
Japp! Go there, Gertie.
It passes here the jewels.
One feels here, Hastings.
I wait what does not offend me again while saying what I am not known in the world of the crime.
But I not Up to them they employ me when they do not know to whom resorting.
- What looks to him? - Well I think that we took the certain decision.
- It is not badly at all.
- Poirot! Hastings! I thought what she was not silent.
- What looks to him? - But what beautiful boat.
- Was not he going to buy less? - I would not feel well with a boy.
Is it going to try it? The Captain Hastings did not bring it only to catch air.
Sometime it intended to set sail, Poirot? Not even to think, my friend.
This distance of the sea it is ideal for me.
I used to dream about the sea.