Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) s02e05 Episode Script

POIROT The DISAPPEARANCE OF the MR.
DAVENHEIM You.
Davenheim returned, my lady.
Thank you, Walter, I will not need of the car in weekend.
Thank you, Martha.
- It seems tired.
- Wanted, the servants.
- How it ran the meeting this morning? - More or less.
They will consult Wall Street, therefore it still will stay more a few days.
To purpose, the Lowen phoned.
He said what would catch the first train.
I do not know because it woke up in seeing it.
He usually says that he hates it.
It was not so so easy.
It is a shark and very cunningly.
It claims the director's post in the bank.
There are already several months.
Die was preferring them to me.
Gerald Lowen with a position in his bank? Now, the life wants to make me as unpleasant as possible.
And that would give him the necessary power.
Unfortunately, it has a trump on me.
what we want desperately.
What puts it in the best position to negotiate.
- One feels well? - Yes, I am the best.
Good, one comes in of 16h45, it will arrive shortly.
I will look at one or two papers before it arrives.
I lament everything this.
I want to catch the open mail, I am going to go for a walk for the village.
The Lowen must be arriving and I can to wait for it to the exit of the train.
And it will be good a little air gets a beating.
Mathew! The girl was already not inside of the chrysalis when it disappeared, this is the secret.
Even it confused Poirot during a few good ten seconds.
The key resides, naturally, in the fact of the girl.
In his interior, a net was sewed of very fine wires, but the human ones are they done from meat, no? To make them disappear on air, it is impossible.
Does it look to him? Then he did not hear in strange history of the Mr.
Davenheim.
We talk about the Mr.
Davenheim, of the Davenheim and Salmon? - It of the great bank enterprise.
- Where Davenheim was a senior partner, and a very rich man, it was not his house mirror of that.
To purpose, my expensive Inspector-chief, does it want to take anything hot before leaving? Well, since I am not on duty.
It is a very strange history.
On Friday in the afternoon there said to the wife what he was going to the village to post a few letters.
It went out from the gate and never again it was seen.
And to what hours exactamente you left.
Davenheim? We think that about 16h40.
It was waiting for a business colleague what would arrive of train in this afternoon, to discuss financial subjects.
A such one of Gerald Lowen.
A gentleman for you.
Davenheim, my lady.
- Gerald Lowen.
How it is? - Mr.
Lowen.
- It came by car, but I did not hear it arriving.
- No, I came from train.
But it arrived ahead of time and I wanted to come on foot of the station.
But my husband it had with you on foot, gentle what, they must have passed one for other in the street.
- It does not look to me.
- Of certainty.
It went out from here there is five Mrs.
Davenheim, I cannot to have passed for his husband.
The truth is that I did not pass for nobody.
I did not see anybody in the way.
Please, make itself at home.
Certainly, it will not delay.
You.
Davenheim drove the Lowen to the office of a husband and there it waited, and it waited, and it waited.
More than an hour it passed.
And Davenheim without returning.
Gerald Lowen, of finished patience, it goes out.
It is so that his husband does it treat important clients, is it? - I am really confused.
I lament - Yes.
Also I lament very much.
Very even.
Inquiries were done in the village and nothing.
To all intents and purposes, Mathew Davenheim had disappeared.
It seems that they all become Lowen.
And nobody saw Davenheim.
Lowen.
Because it will be that the name me is familiar? It is a very obscure case, my expensive Inspector-chief.
What gives me hope of deciding.
- Own I am afraid not to be seeing - But I do not see, my friend.
I close the eyes and think.
We have to always to look for the truth of the interior.
Tens times already said that to me.
Very well, Poirot.
There is a challenge.
I bet five pounds in like it does not manage to resolve this mystery, without going out from house.
I give to him seven days.
Clear what one will be over there of his magic powers Very well! Seven days.
Since the facts are brought me, and what Hastings could bring me the information which it needs, the solution becomes inevitable.
I accept.
Good night, Poirot.
Obliged by his drink.
It is how it will take a sweet from a child.
This was the way what it would do even to the village, man.
Five minutes on foot.
In what he would of passed for Lowen what would come from the station.
I can ask, what exists there below? It is going to have straightly the Brooklands, where it is the great race of cars.
A little further down there is a boy lake.
We spoke already with the policeman, and he swears that the Davenheim it never came to his hut.
- Captain Hastings.
- Inspector-chief.
- Excuse, man? - What the color was? It will be possible to remember.
- The trousers of the Mr.
Lowen? - I know that it is a strange question, but the one who asks he is quite strange someone.
Of a clear color, I find.
Grey clear.
He was always walking very elegantly.
Aside of that rude moustache.
This rivalry between them it is very ancient.
The Lowen lost actions in a bulky business, of a sea enterprise.
The poor man was almost bankrupt.
It was already that there are some years, but never it stopped pursuing the Mathew.
I believe what was coming to sell actions of the South Africa or something so, in exchange for a position in the bank.
His husband had many business in the South Africa? It was in Joanesburgo in the Winter passed, it is necessary to have been 3 months.
It brought me a few earrings of diamond lindíssimos.
It was always bringing me jewels, of many people types, whenever it was going for out.
It believes in a sixth sense, Inspector-chief? I felt it in the day of the death of my mother.
I felt it again in Friday.
The whole day I felt that something so it would be going to happen, and now did it happen, it is not? It will be that it could talk with his servant? I think that now I am going to speak with his mistress.
- Inspector-chief - Captain Hastings I am surprised because of seeing it still here, Mr.
Poirot.
I thought what it would be investigating the case Davenheim.
No, Beauty queen Lemon.
The Inspector-chief Japp bet five pounds with me, in as it was not managing to resolve this one mystery without leaving the apartment.
And I accepted.
- Does it think that it was sensible? - Perhaps not.
Thinking well, ten pounds would be a sum much more round.
I had just said what I know to an inspector of the police officer.
I have no time to count everything of new.
Of all.
I can see that he is a man very occupied, Mr.
Merritt.
- The work of the boatman does not end.
- So.
And on Friday in the afternoon? I remember well everything.
On Friday in the afternoon he is one of the most occupied days.
I remember glance for my clock, he was saying 16h45.
They passed two beggars.
And a girl of bicycle.
One of them was blind.
He was a not much pretty couple.
It seemed that they had drunk.
And it was alone, in that afternoon.
More nobody passed.
Would I be going to remember, it does not think? Well, it is better to be walking.
I do not want to delay it in his work, Mr.
Merritt.
Do not be preoccupied.
So what drying paint in this bank, I am going to give the second coat.
Grey clear, is not it, Hastings? That can be significant.
He was still liking knowing what the color of it has trousers of Lowen to do with this.
But it is obvious, Hastings.
You.
Lowen affirms that it did not pass for the Mr.
is not Davenheim in the street? Will it be that it lies, Hastings? Or you will have killed.
Davenheim? A dirty task on the national road, to be released of a body in a muddy field.
And even so it was managing to arrive the house immaculately dressed? - It seemed not much common.
- No, Hastings.
Nothing is common, in what it refers to crimes.
I call also his attention, for the fact of before going out from the room, you.
Davenheim to put touching a disc of the Opening of 1812.
- Was that also very significant? - We can be in the wrong trace, but at least it is suggestive.
- Trace, it is that.
- Gerald Lowen! - How? It usually runs with Bugattis.
He begins to gain reputation in the circuit.
Apposition that is the same type.
The races of cars, to the turns in circles.
I will never understand the passion of such a useless pastime.
It will try, Poirot.
The pure excitement, of flying with the trousers glued to the bank.
Well, Hastings, perhaps it must clean them before.
Very well, boys.
Attention, open the eyes.
Inspector-chief! Bring it here.
My God, it belongs of my husband.
More it be worth admitting, it does not manage to be here prisoner and far from the action.
It turns more and more clear.
If the body was in the lake, it would be a simple murder or an intriguing suicide.
But the clothes, and he without appearing We deal with a number of proofs what applies for a taken care dissection.
Then, because it does not give up of the bet and is not it going to exhume any thing? " I am not going to exhume any thing ", Beauty queen Lemon? We are not hunting for rabbits.
This is an exercise delicate of the art of Beauty queen Lemon, the door, please.
Mr.
Poirot Good morning, man.
I have a parrot for a Mr.
Poirrote.
No, " Poroit ".
He calls himself " Poirot ".
Excuse, chief.
I have a "Poirot" for you.
Poirrote.
But the commander Wallis one did not say anything.
It promised to me what would be going to ask for him first.
Only what would go to Scotland for a few days, and it had not anybody to take care of him.
Besides, he keeps him company, since one week is going to be here imprisoned.
It likes birds, it does not like, Mr.
Poirot? Small birds have no place in the life housekeeper of a private Belgian detective.
- Hello.
- Except like fountain of food.
With license, I look for a such one of Gerald Lowen.
It was that one.
It returns to the boxings in the end of the turn.
- Is it interested in the car? - Clear, I never saw a Bugatti flying so.
- It was always the best time of.
- Of truth? Yes, we can meet him near to the shed.
- Then did it alter the system of oil? - Yes, and also we took away the strap of transmission 224.
When it took care, man.
- And it increased the tax of the compression.
- And I improved the motor, man.
The best.
Apposition that gets one the best power with these rotations.
- This is the man interested in the car.
- He is Gerald Lowen.
Hastings The best is to go round in him.
Of truth? It is very nice on his part.
- Is he sure? - All keeps the picture.
- Yes, clear.
- Mr.
Lowen? Mr.
Lowen, excuses to bother it, but I am of the Scotland Yard.
It will be that one would not matter of answering to some questions? Colonel Brighton, this is you.
Lowen.
This is the gentleman about whom I talked to him, what is interested in buying the car.
Skirt of this car! - Captain Hastings.
- Inspector-chief.
I find what the police officer already took enough of my time, Inspector-chief.
- A moment, Mr.
Lowen.
- All the times more do they want what it repeats? I did not pass by the Davenheim in the way.
Perhaps have fallen for a hole of rabbit, and seriate well act! I presume what it links it has surprised it in the Stock Exchange one or two times? He gained some blows what it did to his you cost The fortune of the Davenheim was done at the expense of many people.
I do not think that he is the only banker in the city with something against him.
Well, he knows how it is.
And since it is, Mr.
Lowen? Shark against shark in the city? Rich and influential men what throw to the neck one of other? It is suggested that I killed it and then I shot with the cursed clothes for the lake Clothes in the lake, Mr.
Lowen? I think that we still did not say it officially.
I must have heard it in the Stock Exchange.
For God, there does not think what anything so would it be maintained in secret, it is not? Thank you, Mr.
Lowen.
Good morning.
It seems unbearably vain, Hastings.
How did he know of the clothes in the lake? In the city, they would know what we eat to the breakfast, it was important for the price of the actions.
And where we stay? - Does it think that the Davenheim was kidnapped? - Where the ticket of redemption is? A murder? Where the corpse is? And which murder is this in what the murderer takes away the clothes of the victim, and does it throw it for the lake? Those two beggars can have it when his clothes attacked, been stolen, and then, in panic, because of being able to be recognized with his clothes, they threw them for the lake and escaped.
The boatman said that he did not see anything.
But it passes most of the time to sleep.
Brave, Hastings.
It begins to use the grey cells.
Clear that his reasoning is incorrect in all the aspects.
The common thieves rarely they are murderers, Hastings.
And unless it also is member of the Magic Circle, and what it has built a secret trapdoor in the way, how did his corpse make disappearing? Please, do not fraternize with that one creature, I am still training it.
- It is only a parrot.
- I was speaking with the parrot.
Is the wealthy man still lost? It must already be in the Rio.
He is sure of what the lock was forced? Nobody knows from when.
It can to have been so from Friday.
It disappeared completely, including the jewels.
- The jewels? - Those expensive jewels what he brought.
It was completely clean.
The things walk in a clear sense.
It is impossible not to see the connecting thread.
However, there are still final tests effectuating before being sure.
Where it goes? - Only one changed of ideas and - Of all! A bet is a bet.
- Is Hastings, kept busy this afternoon? - Well I want that it helps me in a small experience.
I do not know why we are talking, with him outside, unpunished.
We cross-examined already you.
Lowen, my lady, but now not Excuse.
One matters what goes for a glass of water? - I go.
- Leave to be, own I go.
He was resolved ruining my husband.
We already know it.
And it was alone in the office, much more than what an hour.
We do not know if it was broken down in Friday in the afternoon.
Own I closed it, Inspector-chief, when the Mathew was returning the house.
We cannot have been robbed from that time.
Because they did not force do you keep at the window or carry? He can have been only someone of inside the house.
He can have been only Gerald Lowen.
I it was alone doing an experience what I am admired of not having the Japp me fastened by violation of property.
But, Hastings, it behaved magnificently.
I do not see what it tries.
Except what is necessary it forces to open that one.
The Lowen he is not, properly, a fracote.
Our expensive friend Lowen.
It suffered so much in the hands of the Mr.
Davenheim, what vow to be avenged of the devilish banker.
It kills first his adversary, and then it is going to house to loot the safe to escape with the jewels of family.
It is the only explanation that is adapted.
What not even a fish out of water.
The opening of the door of the safe, Hastings.
Since it managed to open such a lock, without doing noise? Since Hastings so well demonstrated, it is impossible.
Good, only it has of more three days.
This is very tasty.
It is an income of mine, Hastings.
Barks of nut, alpista and ground squids.
Then, what looks to him? Is Davenheim killed or not? I think that there is more behind of disappearance of the Mr.
Davenheim, of what it looks.
But call, my expensive friend, it is be my eyes and ears, what we do now? Brooklands, the final meeting of a time entusiasmante, it brings us the most fast of the cars and the great emotions of the day, in the great race, Gold Star Handicap, in a distance of fence of 32 kilometers.
A devout crowd of enthusiastic audience, it uses the pleasant Autumn to run even to the famous trace.
The drivers do the circuit and they come here to have, at least, this one it came.
But it was the speed what it attracted this crowd and Gerald Lowen, I fly with the number 3, it is necessary.
My God, that was almost one low-flying.
The Lowen raised a place when Bira is cutting on the inside, since nothing was.
The man has a merciless vein, undoubtedly.
How merciless we still will see.
We are watching it there are four days, in the hope of which it takes us to the body.
Up to now only it took us to cartels and carburators.
Scamp, the Shuttleworth still has pedaled in his Alfa Romeo.
It must have, at least, an average of 1-4.
Excuse, Japp? It was alone thinking loudly.
Japp, when it took care! I keep that.
Handcuff sergeant.
Billy Kellet, my God, there are persons whom they do not give up.
- A friend of his, sergeant? - In the Winter it was imprisoned 3 months.
For the same thing, it was stealing wallets in crowds.
It looks that mine the first one of the day was.
Hello Now, now.
- Interesting what.
- What is? Am I? It is not an inconvenient height, I wait.
Believe, Inspector Japp, what if it had caught me in an inconvenient height he would say it to him.
I thought that he would like to know the news.
We found the ring with seal of Mathew Davenheim.
What was, Kellet? The last ones did not three months in the prison arrive? Did we miss the prison, it was? The nice ones are this guests whom we receive.
They are never corrected.
They have to a great deal of food likes prison.
I am going to ask again, Kellet.
Where you arranged this ring? The wrong answer and your near stopping will be the gallows, boy.
It was with my friend Frankie.
Frankie Marks.
And he was walking along the trace of races, for Brooklands.
When it took care with the bicycle, Beauty queen! I returned alone, you shear 7h00.
It had drunk a little while, he knows, then I sat down in the bank of the road to rest.
It was almost falling asleep when I heard a noise.
Something had fallen in the leaves to my side.
And it was when I saw it.
- Is his history this? - Word by word.
" Someone had thrown the ring for the fence.
I looked and saw a man to go away.
A man with man's air, a fact grey clear and a moustache of bad one.
" Hello, Gilbert.
Call, my expensive Inspector-chief, it does not look to him an extraordinary coincidence, what the man who stole the wallet from him, also she was the principal witness, in case of our Mr.
Davenheim? A very unfortunate coincidence for him.
Yes, but for times the coincidence more simple is not what it shows.
- Is it following my reasoning? - No.
The best, and since we bet 5 pounds, he will not want what pass to explain.
And clear what he denies any knowledge.
But we are going to check his history with a line of identification.
It is not possible to exclude the possibility of being say the truth.
No, I am them unlikely, what while moving the ring of the finger of the victim, you.
Lowen was deciding to throw it suddenly for the gutter.
- Clear what - We me have to ask about them ourselves, why will it withdraw the ring of all? - And a valuable piece of commodity.
It me them would not be easy of pawning, it would be easily recognizable.
It is necessary to have been therefore what it links took away it.
What goes on, Poirot? Does not one say what already resolved everything? Perhaps but first, precise from the answers to two questions.
What existed in the cupboard of bathroom of the Mr.
Davenheim, in the day of his disappearance? And he and the woman were sleeping joined, or in separate rooms? A man is here to speak with you, my lady.
Immense lament to bother it again, Mrs.
Davenheim.
Yes, captain Hastings? Hello, Sr.
Poirot.
What so bad day outside.
Badly a span is seen at the front of the nose.
It is true.
There are days in which nobody he sees a span at the front of the nose.
When not even I, Hercule Poirot, I manage to see what it is to my front.
I think that I was given up again.
Exactamente, Beauty queen Lemon.
Is it very easy someone loses, is not it? For times, because we do not even know, of whom we are to the search.
Analysis and synthesis, Beauty queen Lemon.
There the key resides of the art of the deduction.
To examine the proofs in detail, detail for detail, to essential his, even, miraculously, all the pieces to be fitted.
And to have the complete picture, of everything what happened.
Hastings, which news does it bring me? Is the mystery resolved? Poirot knows, for times I wonder these tasks are not asked for me, to see the embarrassment what I manage to stand in an alone day.
The facts, Hastings.
They are extremely important.
Charlotte and Mathew Davenheim occupy rooms separated from the Spring.
And now we are to way of October.
Very well.
- And the cupboard of the bathroom? - Does this want to hear even everything? Hastings, does it think that I am playing? Two toothbrushes, a comb, a big-bellied pot of cream for the skin, a bottle of pills for the liver, a tube of toothpaste, a brush of the beard, a packet of blades, a bottle of pills to sleep, a spray for the nose, a bottle of drops for the eyes - Obliged Hastings, already I heard the sufficient thing.
- But there are more two pages.
- But the proofs are joined.
I wait what have no money in the bank Davenheim and Salmon? No.
- No.
- Not even I, why? Because I advise to lift it, my I make friends.
Before it is too late.
- Does it think which space to be reels? - I wait for a great fall of the market, inside a few days.
Perhaps more early.
Therefore, write a note for the Inspector-chief Japp, please.
" I advise it to withdraw all the money, deposited in the firm open to question.
" Even so it will not understand.
- Not even I know if I understand.
- As he said to beginning, when all the facts me are presented, the solution is inevitable.
Does it pray well, how he knew? Or he is going to say to me what was completely an act with mirrors? Allow me more a little of suspense, expensive Inspector-chief.
Such as I promised, resolved this mystery without going out from my apartment.
So he says it.
But I still do not know of anything.
Very well.
I am going to attract only his attention for three details what, together, they are very concluding.
First, which is significant, during the time what you.
Davenheim did it pass in the Winter in Joanesburgo? I second, because reason links and the woman they sleep in separate rooms, from this height? And third, what existed in the cupboard of the Mr.
Davenheim that did not have to be? - I give up.
- I give up.
I give up, I give up! Inspector-chief, this afternoon it is going to effectuate the line of identification, for the thief Kellet you begin to appear.
Lowen.
I think what it will find the results very much, even enough, surprising.
It is not opposed the one that goes out of my apartment, to witness the conclusion of our bet? It can come, sergeant.
When he will want, please.
- It is this.
He threw the ring for the gutter.
- His miserable one Filthy liar.
You killed the Davenheim and now it wants to blame me to me.
Confess, his disgusting tick! Take it from here! And now, what he says to me, Poirot? He would say that the Lowen is put in order.
On the contrary, expensive Inspector-chief.
A short moment of wrath.
You.
Gerald Lowen could not be more innocent in all this history.
Could not it? Perhaps be a height of explaining us what ray is going on.
You are here.
Charlotte Davenheim, man.
- Mr.
Poirot? - My lady.
I came so that I could.
What goes on? Something was discovered, for the sake of God Seize it! Very well, Kellet.
What goes on here? Or perhaps it had to to put this question.
But certainly, my expensive Inspector-chief.
I find that this farce it lasted already too much time, is not it? Sirs, I start to present them the merchant lost banker, Mathew Davenheim.
Cursed be, his Belgian! Take it to the cell.
From the beginning that intrigued me the fact of buying expensive jewels to the woman.
During years, it pawned great amounts of his bank, bankrupting it almost, I eat we come, converting the withdrawal in jewels, what it was guarding in the safe.
- Then it intended to escape with them, from the beginning.
- Very intelligently, going together first with his town arche-enemy, Gerald Lowen, what was his house in this day, why was the principal made I suspect all this unfortunate history.
Then it had already forced his safe, before going out from house in that day? Using like accomplice, the noble Mr.
Tchaikowsky.
Cunning, it uses the sound of the cannons of the music, to mask any sound what was alerting his wife.
Simulating the robbery to the safe, it steals his jewels themselves and money.
So it believes that it found, up to everything vanishing, the best hiding place.
The prison.
The fact is that during the Winter what was in Joanesburgo, you.
Davenheim raised the character Billy Kellet, passing 3 months prisoner.
It returns for the races to rob it wallet, knowing that it would be caught, and prisoner again.
And nobody would suspect anything.
Clear what always wanted that him they were finding the ring in the pocket, to be able to use it in the incrimination of the Mr.
Gerald Lowen.
And the content of the cupboard of the bathroom? The blades of the beard, Hastings.
While retaking his identity, it was forked using false beard.
To share the same room with his woman, it would be going to denounce it.
In fact, from time to time it was shaving, to become Billy Kellet again.
Why could not say what not I am a man of maintaining the word Poor person Japp.
- It is how it will take a sweet from a child.
- And since it will take a sweet from a child.
However, it is a scanty reward for seven days of seclusion at home, I will hear the office juniors screams and palreios.
But ladies and men, I want what observe something with much attention.
Hello.
At least, to try was worthwhile.
To try was worthwhile.