Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) s02e04 Episode Script

The MYSTERY OF the CORNUALHA Does one feel better, Hastings? Yes.
Yes, in fact, I am better.
It relieves the pressure in the pancreas.
The pancreas is not at all.
Of the digestive organs, the most important thing is the liver.
Take care of the liver and the life to take care if - á alone.
- His tisane, Mr.
Poirot.
- Thank you, Mrs.
Lemon.
- It is this that it needs, Hastings.
- No, thank you.
I tried Already.
- Mr.
Poirot.
- Yes, Mrs.
Lemon.
- A lady is outside.
- A client? I do not know.
When I say outside, I want to say what is in the street.
I when have I was watching it of my window.
It walks from a side for other, it stops and looks at the house.
Certainly it wants to enter.
Be going to speak with her, Mrs.
Lemon.
Tell him which Hercule Poirot not it devours ladies in this height of the year.
Mr.
Poirot! Leave the pancreas alone.
And the best advice what I can give him.
And have attention to his diet.
What he ate yesterday to the dinner? Do not say to me! It went to that Indian restaurant of what it is always speaking, was not it? The Orient has very much to teach us, Poirot.
I already warned it, Hastings.
There knows who the imported product what he pays more do I throw in Belgium? The rice.
The government of my country it is determined banishing it.
I was created eating rice! - Rice pudding was - And since one feels, Hastings? Well Yes, Hastings, but we live in a cold country.
The Indian philosopher, Rabindranath Tagor, it recommends specifically the rice like cure for all the males.
She does not want to enter, Mr.
Poirot.
To beginning, it denied to want to speak with you.
One said them what would meet with you.
Where? Do not be nervous, my lady.
It is between friends.
But I can be completely deceived regarding Edward.
A wife must not have so awful thoughts.
- But I have this terrible impression.
- Suspicion what his husband ? Mr.
Poirot, I am terrorized.
I am being poisoned.
I understand.
Because that, my lady says? I feel badly nearly always after the meals.
I feel that something is burning me this way down.
The doctor says that it is a gastritis.
But it is very strange.
Whenever Edward goes away in weekend, I feel well.
- Even Freda noticed already.
- Freda? My niece.
And, then, there is the tin of weedkiller.
The gardener says that it never used it, but it is average empty.
Where the lady and his husband live? Polgarwith.
In the Cornualha.
- Do they have children? - No.
- But does it have a niece, right? - Yes.
One calls Freda Stanton.
She is the daughter of the only sister of my husband.
There are eight years what it lives with us, at least, even to last week.
- What happened in last week? - I do not know.
One day, in last week, it got irritated and went away.
He has been renting rooms in the city.
You.
Radnor he says in order that we let it abate.
- You.
Radnor? - He is only a friend.
- A very gentle boy.
- He knows if it exists something between him and his niece? - It swims.
Absolutely not at all.
My lady.
We will be straight.
He knows because reason his husband does it want to get rid of you? Yes, I know.
Because of that blond floozy what works with him.
My husband is a dentist, Sr.
Poirot, and nothing serves him.
He says that it needs a girl it awakes what marks the consultations and prepare him the masses for the teeth.
Continue, my lady.
Well, the persons of the city comment.
It links with his hair to the snails and the white smock! Clear that he swears that there is nothing.
Be they to me, do not have? - I am frozen only of speaking so.
- Well, let's be practical.
- Does the Polgarwith return today, right? - Yes.
There is a train ás 17:00 h.
Tomorrow, the captain Hastings and I we will meet you.
- I do not want what the persons comment.
- Courage, my lady.
We will be the discretion in person.
He was one of Hastings de Wiltshire for part of father.
Then, he was Herbert what took the family to the Cornualha.
Yes Herbert was my father.
Then, who will have been his mother? Maude Hastings.
He was not Hastings up to marrying, she was Maude Willoughby.
What it is doing, Hastings? I am trying to understand these connections.
If I am going to pretend that I am the son of the cousin in according to degree of the Mrs.
Pengelley What billet of this case, Hastings? It is a sordid scheme.
Unless you.
Pengelley it has invented everything.
You do not seem to me what.
Pengelley be a hysterical woman, Hastings.
I am not wrong, we have in hands a quite serious human drama.
Polgarwith! Station of Polgarwith! It is very simple, Hastings.
In a common situation, the woman everyone would accuse less the husband.
It would defend it, against everything and against all.
This " another woman " complicates everything.
He tells me that the affection passes to hatred, when there is jealousy? - Exactamente.
Then, because it came to have with me? To prove that his suspicions were they missed? Or to prove that they were certain? In a city like this one, Hastings, cursed is the husband what will buy a tin of weedkiller.
Probably, there is only a place where it is possible to buy that.
And if the wife suffers of gastritis and it has tendency to imagine things, I think that there are going to be problems.
If you.
Pengelley is of if with the secretary, it did not choose well.
It is too much near to house.
The rooms of a side and the surgery of other.
What is this? Does he seem anybody crying? Here, Hastings.
Yes? We would like speaking with you.
Pengelley.
It is not going to be possible.
It is killed.
Dead woman? There is less than an hour.
It is up there.
Frozen.
Of what it died? - Is it foreign? - Belgian.
Be completely crazy today! What happened? It is not me who will say anything and I am not going to do it, but they all know.
- Of truth? This afternoon I saw the joined boss to the shelf of the weedkiller.
Even it jumped when one turned and saw me.
And the porridge of the lady was ready on top of the table.
While it will be at this home, I will not eat any more anything! - Even if it will die! - Jessie? - Jessie? - My God, is he! - They will go away! - Jessie? Where the doctor lives what was treating his lady? He is Dr.
Adams.
It grasps another tip of the High Street.
Who is, Jessie? Nobody, my man.
Hardly two men.
Lament to know of his tragic loss, Mr.
Pengelley.
Thank you.
- We will return in another height.
- It is well.
Thank you, my lady.
We must have coming with her yesterday, Hastings! An imbecile! I was a criminal imbecile! I boasted my grey mass and, now, I lost a human life! A life that me came to ask help! What a great nonsense! And completely a stuck nonsense! - Did he know or you did not give case? - Yes.
- I - He said or not, from the first time that I saw you.
Pengelley, which was a gastritis? Yes? Sometime I hesitated how much to the diagnosis? No, I did not hesitate.
- Undoubtedly what - This city is an alone malicious gossip.
A scandal! A group of pious women what they join and invent that God knows what! - But the fact persists - They read the vile parts of the newspapers and, for them, there is nothing better of what the poisoning of someone of his city.
- But you.
Pengelley - Because they would poison it? Dr.
Adams! Please, let me speak! Why? I already explained him.
Yesterday, you.
Pengelley it went to London to speak with me.
- It was believing to be be poisoning.
- Impossible.
Is he hearing, Hastings? I am a liar! Dr.
Adams, please, allows me.
You.
Pengelley was believing that the husband was poisoning it.
Nonsenses! I know Edward Pengelley.
It would not poison not even the dog of the grandmother.
But it was not the dog of the grandmother of the Mrs.
Pengelley that was poisoned! You.
Pengelley was thinking that the husband it was in love with the secretary.
- When he fell in love? - Yes.
Edward Pengelley is not the man's type that falls in love! We play golf joined! It was never in love in the life! And also he is the best dentist.
I am going to be short and thick, a Mr.
Poirot.
Here in Polgarwith, we do not need which strangers come to give hunches.
Only I am trying to say to him, Mr.
Dr.
, what you.
Pengelley was thinking.
One was thinking that, had to be crazy.
It must have coming to have with me.
Everything would explain him.
- To ridicule his fears? - To ridicule? Clear what not.
I believe to have an open spirit.
" To fall in love? " " Edward Pengelley is not the man's type that falls in love! " That one is obstinate like a pig.
He says that it is a gastritis and it will be a gastritis.
" Sometime I hesitated as for the diagnosis? Never! " A doctor without doubts, he is not a doctor, he is an executioner.
Poor Mrs.
Pengelley.
It was gone of mean minds.
We are in debt with her, Hastings.
We will unmask the murderer.
Let's know there the blond floozy! What is a floozy, Hastings? It is a girl's type what what is not any more than it had to be, or any similar thing.
- It is not any more than what ? - And that.
- Good Lord! - I apologise.
Yes, my man? Clear.
Well I am the second cousin of No.
Good morning.
Well, I have a toothache.
A person died.
You.
Pengelley does not give consultations today.
Yes, so.
- Will it be better to come in another height, no? - It does not do badly.
I take care of him.
- We go away, Hastings.
- What? It is well.
Then, I return in the near week.
What woman, Poirot! Do not be filled with enthusiasm, Hastings! Good morning.
- What it finds of our city? - Enchanting, my lady.
- I wait what finds us interesting.
- In fact, I find yes.
Mrs.
Stanton! A few men are here! Who are the men? - Hercule Poirot and the man? - Jacob Radnor.
Poor aunt! Clear what was a nonsense to think that the uncle Edward was poisoning it.
It is very sad.
I was the whole morning to think what it must have been more gentle and patient.
This type of remorses is common, my lady.
We me them will walk ahead.
I know, but I have a very strong temperament.
At last, the nonsense left from the aunt.
You held out very much, Freda.
What the true motive was of your misunderstanding? Well, I will go away.
I see you this night.
Bye, my men.
Thank you.
Fiancee of the Mr is.
Radnor, is not it true? It is true, I am.
How he knows? It is not necessary to be the best thing detective of the World to notice that.
I understand.
The great problem was this what I had with my aunt.
Was not it approving of your promise? It was not well that.
- Well, he knows - Yes? It seems something terrible of calling itself now now that it died.
But it will never understand, one will not say him.
Well The aunt was it was completely in love for Jacob.
For Jacob? For Jacob Radnor? Yes.
Yes, I know.
She had more than 50 years and he still has no 30.
But it is true.
It was caídinha for him.
I understand how that could to make difficult the things.
I had to say to him.
I had to tell him that it was in me that Jacob was interested.
She reacted very badly.
It did not believe in anything and it was so hard and insulting, that I lost the control.
Who had given me not to have done it.
- And did it go away? - Yes.
It was what one was waiting! Very much thank you, Mrs.
Stanton.
It was very serviceable.
- Only I wait to have found out.
- In fact.
Explained, Hastings! It looked to me completely a little you know.
- Do you know? - It does not frighten me what had gastritis.
- How? - Newer boys were coveted Mr.
Poirot? - Hello again, Mr.
Radnor! - Can I give him a chat? I can imagine what Freda it was telling him.
- Of truth? - It was regrettable.
To beginning I was glad.
I thought that the lady was helping Freda.
There happens what Well, it was completely very absurd and extremely unpleasant.
- This is my corner.
- Is it his shop? It is not bad, is not it? - Do favor, my men.
- Thank you.
- Good morning, my men.
- Good morning.
Good morning, Mr.
Radnor.
It is completely well, Mr.
Newsome, these men are with me.
- It can be going to have dinner, one will want.
- Thank you, man.
It has here a good establishment, Mr.
Radnor.
We try to give life to Polgarwith.
New things.
Better quality.
When he gets married with you.
Stanton? Soon, I wait.
- Mr.
Poirot, can I speak to the will? - Clear.
- I am going to be a franc with you.
- The best.
- He knows, I know more than Freda.
- Of truth? She thinks that his uncle is innocent.
- And you not? - I have not so much certainty.
But I can say something to him I am not going to say what I know.
I do not go away to put.
I do not want to see the uncle of my woman judged and hung by murder.
Because it tells that to me? Because I heard of you and I know that he is an observant man.
It is quite possible what discovers something against him.
But I ask about him: which advantage is there in that? Is the lady killed, is not? And she would be the last person wanting a scandal.
Perhaps be right.
Then, he wants that I stifle the case.
I admit that I am be not much selfish.
I am now beginning a small business.
It does not imagine how healthy the small cities.
Most of our are selfish, Mr.
Radnor.
Nevertheless, not even they all admit it so openly.
I will do what asks for me, but I say to him sincerely, what will not manage to stifle this.
Because not? VoxPopuli, Mr.
Radnor.
And that one the reason.
The voice of the people.
" From the land to the land, " of the ashes ás ashes, " from the powder to the powder, " in the certain and firm hope " of the Resurrection for the eternal life, for Our Sir Jesus Christ, " what will transform our vile body like His glorious body, according to the great power " We can accept this history of the Mr.
Radnor and of the Mrs.
Pengelley? Clear! It must have felt terribly embarrassed.
Perhaps.
- Or perhaps have found flatterer.
- Flatterer? The lady had age to be his mother! Well, almost.
" as well as we forgive to whom it has been offending us " and do not drop us in temptation, but you release us of the Evil.
" Ámen.
You.
Pengelley was respectable and enchanting.
Thank you, Mr.
Poirot.
If at least it had given him attention.
I thought that it was a problem of stomach without importance.
- A fate.
- A sandwich, Captain Hastings? A fate.
Gastritis.
Gastritis, pure and simply.
If one does not matter, Mr.
Pengelley, it would like reading the will.
I will be in the office before I halve it.
Yes, clear.
Do favor.
There are no secrets.
In fact, it is quite simple.
Following to the normal preamble, the lady leaves 2 thousand pounds in investment funds to his niece, the lady Freda Stanton, until this one is 40 years old.
And it leaves the rest of the inheritance, what consists of 20 thousand pounds in titles of the public debt, to his husband, the man Edward Pengelley.
It is completely.
Permission is given us.
Thank you.
I find better to take it to house.
- Is it completely very interesting, does not it think? - Interesting? It seems to me completely sordid and unpleasant.
- It does not seem to me that there is mystery.
- I agree.
There is no mystery.
You.
Pengelley had three motives to kill it.
Money.
It was in love with his spectator.
Apparently, you.
Pengelley it was in love with the Mr.
Radnor.
- I do not manage to believe in that.
- Hastings, you admire the women! It prostrates itself before all those who are pretty.
See how it was bewitched soon for the blond floozy.
- It is not true! - But, psychologically, he does not know anything about them.
- There you are! It is always so! The women always say that I understand them well the rest.
Do not call, Hastings.
It was liking what were saying that to me.
No, my expensive friend.
Hear here the Poirot and it will learn something.
In the Autumn of the life of a woman, Hastings, a less good moment arrives in what she yearns for a novel, for an adventure, before it is too late.
Even being the wife of a dentist respectable of a city of the interior.
- Billet what ? - An intelligent man it can be used of this moment.
You would not say what.
Pengelley it is so so intelligent.
It did not manage to obstruct the comments.
What intrigues me, Hastings, the fact is that the only two men what know something about the case, they want to stifle it.
It concerns a Mr.
Radnor and to a doctor? I do not see what they could have to do with the case.
Still before the vacation of August, Hastings, we will see you.
Pengelley in the bank of the culprits.
And it will be very well an act! And our mission it will be to release it of the gallows.
Go, boys.
Hoist it.
One, two, three, pull! One, two, three, pull! One, two, three, pull! One, two, three, pull! Two faces and a crown.
Two yins and a yang.
It is the number 15.
I do not manage to understand.
He is sure of what he was thinking about the Poirot? The hexagrama gives " Chi'ien ".
What it means? Modesty.
" The superior man it resolves the problems without vanity ".
It does not seem to me that he is you.
Poirot.
What it is doing, Hastings? - It swims.
- The "I Ching".
- What? - The "I Ching".
He is a very ancient Chinese oracle.
- We were guessing his future.
- Very amusing.
- His hexagrama gives " Modesty "! - How? It is adapted.
Very well.
Yes, but the lines the fact is that they are important.
His second line says: " Ten couples of turtles they cannot do to him front.
The man of the bandages in the knee scarlet it is arriving ".
Turtles? Bandages in the knee? The turtle was considered a magic animal.
It means what will be so well an event that to not even the magic will be able to obstruct it.
Hastings, already arrives of so much nonsense.
I manage to predict better the future of any what Chinese oracle, since it will note so what will see the newspaper.
- " Complete speech of Herr Hitler "? - More below.
" The Mystery of the Cornualha "! - " When you exhumed.
Pengelley "! - How much time did he say, Hastings? Did he say? He said or did not say what we would see you.
Pengelley in the bank of the culprits? - Before the vacation of August! - And when it is this vacation, Hastings? - Of Monday to two weeks.
- Exactamente.
He did not do anything! They are deceived! The persons say lies! Terrible lies! I say them what it is innocent! He is innocent! " The comments intensified in Polgarwith " when Edward Pengelley announced, there are three weeks, his engagement with his secretary of 25 years, Edwina Marks ".
What is that I said to him, Hastings? The voice of the people.
Hastings? Did it already finish his meditation? Hastings? - What was the cause of his visit? - None in special.
It was passing there very often them to see.
We were friendly.
You found.
Pengelley in this day? No.
They told me that it was in the bed.
It was again with problems of stomach.
Did it have these problems frequently? No, it was not frequent.
But there is already some time that was complaining.
Did he see the accused? Yes.
What it was doing? It was in the kitchen to prepare a porridge to lead to the wife.
I want that it explains to the court exactamente what he saw, when it entered in the kitchen.
I saw you.
Pengelley.
It was of back.
It was putting a tin in the shelf.
There was a tray and a plate of porridge on top of the table of the kitchen.
A moment, Mr.
Radnor.
This tin what you.
Pengelley it was putting in order Can he say to us what it was containing? No.
Can it describe it? It was little bigger than a tin of cocoa.
Yellow era with a few black letters.
- Or perhaps they were blue dark.
- Can we see the proof "D", please? It was this tin, Mr.
Radnor? Yes.
No! It will be that I cannot decide an alone crime? Good morning, Inspector.
We caught this case very much before the man.
- Good what cold meat! - I am radiant.
You.
Pengelley spoke with me, because it was believing to be be poisoning.
It was right.
The Poirot said what the Pengelley seriates judged before the vacation of August.
Then, because they are here? Saving.
No! He had the ways doing: the weedkiller.
It had the opportunity: she was living in same he marries and it was preparing some meals.
- Doing had the motive - The blond floozy what will not be better than will be already? And even so, Inspector, he did not do it.
I can nominate six persons whom it had motives in order that you kill.
Pengelley.
- What about you.
Stanton, for example? - The aunt left an inheritance.
Do not spoil everything, Poirot.
And a very small vacation for me.
It is an open and shut case.
They all know that it was the Pengelley.
It looks to me that not even all they use the grey mass.
It thinks that I must speak again with the niece? Undoubtedly.
The symptoms of gastritis are identic to that of poisoning for arsenic.
It was not what the pathologist said of Ministry of the Internal Administration.
No.
It is me who says to him.
The symptoms of gastritis are identic to that of poisoning for arsenic.
It was therefore what I did that diagnosis.
I do not see who will be able to save it.
Poirot is going to save it.
With the help of the vox populi, clear.
To mine to see, the vox populi he is sure what was the Pengelley.
- Exactamente.
It already realized the idea.
- Mr.
Poirot? - Mr.
Radnor! - Hello! Captain Hastings.
- This is completely very sad.
- The judgement? Yes.
I think so.
- Billet that he will be able to be absolved? - The defense still did not intervene and he can have a letter in the sleeve, as he calls himself.
It would like taking a drink with me and with the Captain Hastings in our hotel? - Thank you.
- Then, accompany us, please.
We can go for my room, Mr.
Radnor.
There we will be able to talk more to the will the complexity of this case, does not it find? - Sr.
Radnor is felt, please.
- Thank you.
Hastings, would do the kindness of serving a drink to our friend? - Sherry? - Yes, please.
- The business goes well, Mr.
Radnor? - The best, thank you.
I bought the shop of the side to annex to mine.
Well.
Is not Jacob, true? How? - Jacob Radnor? - Yes.
" Jacob " Radnor of the Fore Street, number 21 ", is not it true? What it is doing? The Captain Hastings and I have great experience in cases as this one and we believe that you.
Pengelley it has a possibility of being absolved.
Possibility? What possibility? Her of signing you this piece of paper.
What is? The confession of which he was you whom did you kill.
Pengelley.
- They must be crazy! - No, expensive friend, I am not crazy.
You.
Pengelley was well in the life, but the monthly allowance that was giving to the niece not it was sufficient for his ambitions.
One was having to release of her and of the husband, why all the money work hard for you.
Stanton.
It decided then you killed.
Pengelley and to leave that his husband it was hung by the crime.
- I am not going to be hearing here these - Hastings! They have no right of maintaining me here! However, it is going to be.
It was a very quite planned move, Mr.
Radnor.
He made love with that simple woman, of middle age.
It did so that she doubted of the loyalty of the husband.
It put arsenic in her food, always with the care of doing when the husband was present.
It was there when the husband it prepared the porridge for the wife, and it was there that it put the fatal dose.
- The rest was easy.
- Very interesting.
Very ingenious.
But because it tells that to me? Because, Mr.
Radnor, I act no, it is not the law.
I act you.
Pengelley.
It is for her because I give him hypothesis of escaping.
- Ear! This paper will be signed, I give him an advancement of 24 hours, Mr.
Radnor.
before handing over this to the police officer.
It will not manage to escape, Radnor.
Look after the window.
Those two men have orders not to lose sight of it.
Cursed! Only it has a hypothesis, Radnor.
- Which guarantees do they give me? - None.
But it will be hung, it will not be signed.
It is well.
Cursed! Poirot, I do they the sign leaving to pass? Clear.
It has 24 hours, Mr.
Radnor.
I am going to take revenge, Poirot.
One day.
He does not seem to me, an expensive friend.
It will be in a cell of prison inside two days.
It does not seem to me that we had to to miss it, Poirot.
It let a criminal escape for pure sentimentalism.
No, Hastings.
It was not a sentimentalism.
It was a realism.
We have no proofs against him.
The only solution was to frighten it in way that was confessing.
Hastings? Those two men about whom he talked - Who are they? - I do not do the least idea.
I noticed them when we entered.
That belonged of nature! Well Those practical oriental strangers, of what so much I make fun, they are doing wonders with his grey mass.
Perhaps be of the rice.
I wait that not, Hastings.
- Where we go? - Authorities take this ás.
But they still did not pass 24 hours.
It believes even that it would leave a calculating murderer escapes? - No, but - I do not understand Hastings.
It questions if I miss it and it questions if I do not miss it.
I saw it in that day, man.
He was seeing that it was passing the hand over top of the porridge of the lady.
- The hand of whom? - Erase it, man! That of the boss, man.
It had something in the hand, Mrs.
Dawlish? Yes, man.
It had, man.
Weedkiller, man! When he says weedkiller, what This is amazing! Did it warn the police officer? No.
We thought that it would be better to be the man to warn.
Just as well.
Meantime, I am going to ask that, at least, the judgement is postponed.
There is only a snag.
We promise to a Mr.
Radnor what him we would give an advancement of 24 hours.
A great deal of this is not in Peckham.
If Edward Pengelley it had killed the woman, Hastings, the fault would move it for the comments of the persons if he was announcing his engagement with you.
Edwina Marks.
No, Hastings.
A culprit would wait and it would leave calmly the Cornualha, before spreading any thing.
The Japp is there.
I do not know what he is going to say to him.
Not at all, Hastings.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news.
Soon, it will learn what his open and shut case it has the broken hinges.
Poirot! It comes to prove this! - My expensive Japp! - Poirot.
Hastings.
I will take half when it will be for London.
- Does it keep on snooping in my case? - No, Inspector.
The Captain Hastings and I we go away to withdraw.
Yes? Why? For times, more courage is necessary to admit the defeat of what to keep on battling against superior strength without glimpsing the victory.
- To serious? Then, the Pengelley goes for the gallows in spite of all his efforts? If we will want to catch the near one train, we have to hurry ourselves.
The Captain Hastings is going to take me having dinner in a magnificent restaurant what serves Indian food.
Hastings attributes this food the evolution of his grey mass.
Indian? - Hot Caril and things such what? - Yes.
Before you of what I, Poirot.
Goodbye, Inspector.
Go quickly, friendly.
I do not want to be here nearby when the Inspector Japp will know what you are going to pursue.
Radnor.
Too late.
The Inspector asks for him the favor of meeting him.
- The judgement was postponed.
- Postponed? Why? - You.
Radnor confessed, man.
- Did it confess? The murder.
It confessed to that French man.
In writing.
Poirot!