Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) s02e06 Episode Script

SINNED DOUBLE - Is not it realive, Poirot? - Realive, Hastings? - The time.
- No, it is cold and wet! Hastings, knew that the Land cools three degrees to each 12000 years? He did not know.
But, even so Is it a beautiful public drinking fountain, does not it think? It is really banal, Hastings.
Formerly, the public drinking fountains were more vigorous.
And more artistic.
I do not know which animal bit him today, Poirot.
Nothing is to his I satisfy.
- I am finished, Hastings.
- Finished? That itself.
I intend to reform.
But it is in the height of his faculties, Poirot! - It is very kind, Hastings.
- No, of all.
It has a beautiful house, dedicated friends, a brilliant run No, not, mon ami.
I am insignificant.
I have nothing of mine.
Poirot is finished.
A cent for Guy Fawkes, girl? - We are in the beginning of October.
- And to avoid the bustle of the vacation.
And where the puppet of Guy is? It was in the street.
To see comes, one does not believe.
Elderly man there below it did not let us in with him.
Scrape you, Eddie! Disappear from here! If I catch you again - We hardly turn back - It made them lose a cent.
It prays just as well.
Do not waste his money.
That stimulates them.
I will not do it, Mr.
Dicker.
Well, I have much that to do I do not know where their parents they walk with the head.
It is true.
The duty calls me, Mr.
Dicker.
So well.
Some problem will have been, quilting stitch to call.
I am preoccupied by the Poirot, Beauty queen Lemon.
He speaks in be reforming.
That is because it has not a case interesting there are five minutes.
It was needing them to me to have the keys to open the door Does it think that that is alone? That and the fact of having said that he is in the middle age.
The problem is that you.
Dicker it was not concealed He was always in the middle age.
Did he see his photographies of baptism? Yes, I know.
It seemed that it was going to speak in a meeting of direction.
He is who who seems that it is going to speak in a meeting of direction? An acquaintance of mine.
It is a funny type.
Or for other one, serious much.
And director of an enterprise - Hastings.
- To be sincere - Hastings.
- Right.
I am going to take it even to the seaside, Hastings.
His grey celulazinhas they are exhausted.
It needs rest.
Beauty queen Lemon, my tisane, please.
This is very funny.
Where the rings will be? It swims of that, Hastings.
It is still not recovered to get involved in plays.
I warn it when I will be.
It is strange to call Hotel Midland and to be situated in the North, Poirot.
Whitcombe is the appropriate siege to recover the strength.
I wait what is felt better.
- Still only we brought near that there is half an hour.
- But this air is made famous.
Notice the horses.
It will not find more brilliant hair in any siege.
They make remember a horse in what I bet on the Trophy of Cheltenham.
It began the stop to five for one and two and a room crossed the mark ás.
- I believe that this is not good.
- No, no.
And a joke, Poirot.
The best! Is he seeing? He already begins to say jokes.
One day of this, this joke has to explain me.
Co'a brakes! See this, Poirot.
" My most famous cases.
" A conversation in charge of the famous one Inspector-chief James Japp, " of the Scotland Yard.
" We are not interested, Hastings.
We have more than to do.
He was liking hearing the conversation.
" When it entered: a shilling ".
Mon Dieu! It is much money to hear the Inspector-chief Japp.
" Women's Institute, Sandringham St.
On Thursday, 20h30.
" Who would say? The old man Japp this way.
See, reasonable prices for Windermere.
You were discoursing for the one who wants to go for Windermere.
It is a very pretty siege.
Because we do not go even there? I heard of a funny hotel what serves breakfasts.
- To which hours does it break the train? - I think that it is not a train.
A bus, Hastings? Poirot does not travel of bus! Now, Poirot, is going to be amused.
- What a rude type! - He left me curious.
If the bad ways wake him the curiosity I was curious because it links the moustache is letting grow, but with weak results.
It notices the things more extraordinary.
To be able to catch a moustache is an art, Hastings.
I feel empathy with all arrange what try it.
We were very lucky in managing to arrange them.
He sees well.
Twelve miniatures of the Marshals of Napoleão, painted by Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin.
They are lovely! Each one contains a lock of hair of the person in the part from behind and the respective name carved in the ivory.
But what I find strange.
- Do you know what you will do? - Of course.
It is going to run everything well.
The box will be closed in my suitcase the way completely.
Nobody is going to see it.
Even to the certain height, clear.
He knows that it can be rested.
I know, wanted.
But yours is first great task.
That service of tea in porcelain of Sévres it was quite big.
It is true.
I was afraid that not you were managing to take it all.
In the days that run, the whole care is little.
I am ready for the travel.
Can I guard the box in my suitcase? No, no.
You do that tomorrow.
To which hours does it break the bus? To 09h30.
Do not be preoccupied.
The "Telegraph", please.
Japp! Good morning, Captain Hastings.
But what pleasant surprise.
I see that it is going to give a conversation, tomorrow.
And tonight also.
In Fleetwood.
And on Friday, in in in in Barrow-in-Furness.
It is on behalf of charities.
Good morning, Hastings.
I see that it is ready to face the rural climate of the North, Poirot.
Good morning, Inspector-chief.
Hastings, the bus leaves inside five minutes.
Which animal bit him? I will bring the Redburn ás near 12h40.
I do not want to stay around there much time.
Yes, I know.
I know that your part it is more complicated.
We will get, do not worry.
I will hope for you in the combined siege.
Since there is no confusion.
No.
I will disconnect, otherwise I lose the bus.
Yes, I also.
- Because it treated badly the Japp, Poirot? - Did I treat it badly? - Is it because of the conversations? - Do you chat? - Where we can guard the suitcases? - There behind, please.
- Again, I apologise.
- Are you blind, or what? - What a rude man! - Bonjour, mademoiselle.
- Bonjour.
- Good morning.
Does it allow me? - Thank you.
- Now that one, it does not weigh anything.
Touch entering! It works for his aunt, Beauty queen Durrant? Yes, we are specialists in quality ancient monuments.
It is clear what I am still learning the occupational hazards.
I am sure what will be successful in his profession.
Some of the ancient monuments are worth much money.
I was surprised.
My aunt has clients spread by everyone.
- In this case, it must travel enough.
- No, of all.
If someone intends to acquire a table or chair of time, or a piece from porcelain, it writes for my aunt and she it acquires it.
- It was what it happened in this case.
- How so? My aunt acquired a valuable one set of miniatures for an American collector what travelled even here them to see.
- It is put up in Windermere.
- Will it like itself of them, he is going to buy them? I wait that yes.
I will be careful in the travel of return.
I will bring 1500 pounds in my suitcase.
In cash.
With license - Had they no tisane, Hastings? - No, no - They usually have, but - It did not even ask, is not it? I was not able, Poirot.
- He never asks if they have tisanes.
- I do not know what it is a tisane.
It is a sort of tea of herbs awful.
This siege is to the wedge.
And only they have a person to serve.
Give me permission.
For where it will have gone to girl? They must be women's things.
Is she a funny girl, does not it think? Yes, it is very nice.
Did it notice his eyes? They are of a color invulgar.
A lot of invulgar, Hastings.
I believe what is called blue.
Hastings? Because the fact is that these persons do they look at me and are begun laughing? I think that they never turn nobody like you, Poirot.
Where Beauty queen Durrant is? I wait what does not lose the bus.
- She is stupid, but not to this point.
- Fool? To tell to two strangers that it goes to transport 1500 pounds in the suitcase it is not properly the height of the sagacity, mon ami.
Excuse to have disappeared, but it was preoccupied by the miniatures.
I intended to have seen a man to take away my suitcase of the bus.
I was running behind him, but tune his bad era.
- I did a sad figure.
- Is his suitcase in security? Yes, it is in the trunk.
But his suitcase was identic to mine.
Who was the subject? That very rude one.
What had a sort of moustache.
That is very interesting.
Because it looked for the suitcase? It is going to be here, in Redburn.
More and more interesting.
He paid the ticket up to Windermere.
By chance, I noticed the ticket when he showed it.
The Poirot adores mysteries.
Even when they do not exist.
My profession was this, Hastings.
Perhaps my name him do not be strange, mademoiselle.
Do not call what is that investigator! Perhaps be.
No, I am in Redburn.
No, no.
This way, it is completely running according to the combined.
I had not any problem.
It as fast as possible, for the sake of God.
The more fast to go out from here, better.
No, leave to be.
I get a beating.
No, he was only a man what wanted to take my suitcase.
Yes.
Do not stay for a long time.
Captain Hastings! Captain Hastings! Excuse A terrible thing happened! What? - They disappeared! - The miniatures? To see comes! I opened my suitcase.
The miniatures were in this case.
See! - The lock was broken down.
- Was it so when it opened it? Yes.
I do not know what to do.
Poirot Have calm, Beauty queen Durrant.
Do not go out from here.
We resolve the subject.
What we are going to do? Mon ami, I am Hercule Poirot, detective in the reform.
I feel very much, but I cannot help it.
I would pass here the night.
I looked everywhere! - Has not it any more keys any? - Clear what not! - I thought that it had a key schoolmistress.
- I not! They could accuse me of something, to suspect of me.
It will change the lock.
I cannot! You.
Poirot would not forgive me one was known to lose the keys.
I cannot pass here one more night! He says to me that the miniatures are they worth around 1500 pounds? At least! The thief is putting itself in escape while we are wasting time.
It will not go far, do not be preoccupied.
What interests is the intelligence and the subtlety, it is not the speed.
I spoke with you.
Wood, the American.
Unfortunately, it was contacted for a woman there are two hours.
You.
Wood was bewitched with the miniatures and him he bought them.
But that was before we arrived.
A fast arrived car of Redburn it would have arrived very much before us.
The fault is mine! Ear, Beauty queen Durrant Leave the case with me.
Return for Whitcombe and tell what it went on to his aunt.
Right.
I and the Agent Flagg are going to speak with you.
J.
Baker Wood.
I will ask license to my Sergeant, man.
You are fantastic! I did not even recognize you in these preparations.
The idea is this.
For the case of having discovered something.
- It is the best to see you.
- I found what we would not get.
- Did you have problems during the escape? - None.
It goes out door had been, I put the suitcase in the car and I me came though.
It was shuddering like green sticks.
It was counting to hear a scream at any moment.
- We get! - Up to now.
You are the most intelligent girl of the world and also the prettiest.
The aunt of the girl he is going to say to him of boas.
But it was tolinha.
It left that one in the bus and she ate rested.
The suitcase was in the trunk.
There are one or two details interesting in this case.
Because it are what the thief broke down the lock of the case? - To be able to take the miniatures.
- Why? It me them would not have been easier to open the suitcase of Beauty queen Durrant, to transfer the shut case for his suitcase and to escape from there, instead of wasting time breaking the lock down? She would have noticed the difference of weight when it was catching the suitcase.
And he would have had less time to escape.
Yes, so There is this detail Clear that I did not distrust anything! Because it would be suspicious? It was coming on the part of Elizabeth Penn and it was bringing the miniatures.
We can see them, Mr.
Wood? I find that yes.
We are going to need a description of the woman, man.
- Of a description? - Was it young? Pretty? No, man.
Young person was not.
And not even pretty.
It was high and old, with grey hair.
It had stains in the face and a prominent down.
- A mermaid? Not even to think! - Is it how that she reached the hotel? It arrived in the ferry of the hotel.
Here they are.
I am seeing Very pretty.
I paid seven thousand dollars for twelve wonders of this.
And I guarantee what was a find.
- I keep that, man.
- How so? - They are proofs of the crime.
- It must be playing me.
We are going to pass a receipt.
Denzil? We will know for certain who is the legitimate owner.
I am the legitimate owner.
I paid seven thousand dollars for the being! Me to decide does not fall to me.
Then, do not decide! I decide.
These miniatures me belong! It is the court that is going to decide on that.
We have obrigatoriamente to get a beating the ferry in the station of trains? The station is in another edge of the lake.
There even.
I am seeing.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
- Mr.
Arkwright? - I himself am.
It transported some old lady for the Hotel of the Lake today? I transport many old ladies.
Rise, grey hair, with down - I caught it in the station ás 13h12.
- How it can be so certain of the hour? The train of Lancaster reaches one and today one delayed ten minutes.
- Does this train stop in Redburn? - Redburn? No! This is the line of Maltbrook.
One stops in Redburn Mary Durrant brought the Redburn near about 12h10.
We know of that because we were with her.
An hour later, it arrives an old lady to Windermere with the miniatures and it directs for the hotel where Wood is.
I am certain what it the question was of the type of moustache, masked.
It might have gone through the distance in an hour, in a fast car.
But the old lady did not arrive of car, but yes of train.
And a train that does not pass for Redburn.
Hastings, because the moustache does not let grow? - What? Only I reached the facial symmetry when I let grow the moustache.
In young person, that was leaving me very unfortunate.
I do not need facial symmetry, I need help! I am reformed, Hastings.
These enigmas already do not interest me.
I think that I am going to return the Whitcombe tomorrow morning.
Very well.
Hastings? The fact of the pilot having got a beating in the station it does not implicate what she has brought near of train.
One did not come from train, is it how that here it arrived? Who knows? Hastings, it did a good work, but it is still going to waste much time with this case.
To whom he says it.
Very well.
I am going to turn the Redburn tomorrow morning.
I am going to reconstitute the crime.
To begin of the beginning.
It is the beginning of a new life.
- Now, already nothing can run badly.
- I hope for you in the car.
Here his change is, man.
Thank you.
Return always, yes? For me, everything began here.
The type of the moustache had an accomplice to the wait in a fast car what took it the Windermere while he was disguising himself as the bank from behind.
It had to be an athletic car for to go through the distance in this time.
A car as this one? - It is he! Give birth! - You do not give birth! - This one does not serve for pursuits! - Between! It is a car it patrols, not of race.
- Between! - Let's go! Skirt of the front! - Give passage! Skirt of the front! Then we settle an account! They are not going to be able to go out from this road during some time.
Only when they will bring the Beckersdale near.
- They went out from the road.
- Diabos takes me! But they will not go far.
And a road without exit.
It finishes in Hemmingscote, is not it true? I wait what does not come anybody in opposite sense.
Good Lord! Come, Sergeant.
Go out from there, my lady.
Because they do not leave me alone? He does not know what it means to love a man? Well, nonetheless.
- Sergeant? - We go away, without confusion.
Is he you again? It must already have guessed.
We go away.
- Because there would be of helping you? - To recover his money.
I am going to recover my money.
Mine lawyer is arriving of London.
- It will be what we can ? - Be well! But hurry.
We are ready.
Well then? No.
Right.
We are ready.
Take away the hat.
Well then? No.
Do not be in a hurry.
See well.
Imagine it put on woman's.
With hat, skirt These things.
It is not he.
Me them he has moustache.
You said that she had moustache! The woman who sold me the miniatures it was not so.
It had not a wart.
What wart? The wart what he has in the forehead! It would be impossible to hide it.
Wait there - Wait there! - Skies - He is Lady Amanda Manderly! - Who? Do not you read newspapers? She was going to escape with that novelist Norton Kane! Are you Norton Kane? It was very nice on his part to have come with me, Mr.
Poirot.
Now that one, my darling.
It could not leave a young person so enchanting in so great refinement.
Perhaps now that here I am be able to help to explain it this delicate subject to his aunt.
Very much thank you.
Are you, Mary? How they ran the things? You brought.
Poirot with me, Aunt Elizabeth! We returned the Whitcombe in the same bus.
You.
Poirot is a famous detective.
- Do you think that I do not know of that? - His kindness.
A terrible thing happened, Aunt Elizabeth.
I do not even know how to tell him I lament to inform what his miniatures they were stolen.
Stolen? How they can have been stolen? Where the theft happened? They were stolen of the bus when we stopped to have lunch in Redburn.
But it is rested, the scoundrels will be caught soon.
- Do not denounce us to my father.
- Clear what not.
- For where they go? - I cannot say to him.
Be livened up, Captain Hastings.
I am sure what is going to catch the thief.
Now that we lose our suspect only one, rays break me if I know since we will get a beating.
Does not it agree, Captain Hastings? I am going to begin for the soup of fish.
And, next, the eglefim.
I am going to try to revive the grey celulazinhas.
There is a thing what I do not understand.
If Norton Kane was not the woman of the down, who he was tune? It did best his, Hastings.
The famous Inspector-chief Japp it would have already given up that there has much.
- Thank you.
- Is it with envy, Poirot? Of the conversations of the Japp? Does it envy? Nom of Dieu Which interest does it have for Poirot the Institute of Women de Whitcombe? The RoyaI Society is still dug I doubt them to myself that the Inspector-chief it was invited by the RoyaI Society.
No, no.
Only the Institute of Women de Whitcombe and organizations such what the fact is that they arrange to hear it being with the laurels of Hercule Poirot.
- The Japp would not do that! - Hastings, we are going to change the subject.
The famous Inspector-chief it does not interest me.
No, thank you.
I am going to visit Mary Durrant tomorrow.
Perhaps it must gather Mademoiselle Durrant, his aunt and Monsieur J.
Baker Wood to speak on this subject.
I think that it was not going to be of use of anything.
I do not even know what I am going to say to them.
The important thing is to sleep well.
For my part, I intend to go straight for the bed after having dinner and I advise it to do the same thing.
Does it already want to ask? - Good night, man.
- Good night, Mr.
Agent.
" His daughter does not put in the stage, Mrs.
Worthington.
" A beautiful song of the Mr.
Noel Coward what is valid also for the Police officer.
Do not want to do from his son a police investigator, because it is a profession very lonely and the detectives have tendency being extremely shy persons, forgive me the expression.
In the close of an investigation, they always exist intervenient, somebody else's by force policeman, what will claim the merit of the resolution of the case.
I refer, obviously, to the scourge of the Police officer, the amateur investigator, or, worse still, to a private professional detective.
The private professional detective it is not the fascinating figure of fiction.
He is a man that, not having followed more meritorious way in the life, and having a character busybody and agitator, it decides to finish his days in a shady office, working to pay in the sordid world of the girl criminality and of the divorces.
I am due to recognize them that there is an exception.
Along my run, I had the happiness to work, in many people, and perhaps even in most of my cases, with the most extraordinary thing private detective.
That what is, using an expression of his language mother, a doyen of the Belgian Police officer, you.
Hercule Poirot.
I intend to be able to affirm, without being afraid to fall in contradiction, which Hercule Poirot has one of the most original minds of the séc.
XX.
Intelligent, courageous, sensitive, of quick reasoning, Hercule Poirot is great above of any other detective.
Co'a brakes, Beauty queen Lemon, I am very much preoccupied about the keys.
Order and method, Beauty queen Lemon.
Order and method The Lagonda has a hole, Beauty queen Lemon.
The mare is burning and the keys are doubled.
Cent tonnerres! Deux waiters sur le feu of joie.
The grey celulazinhas, Beauty queen Lemon.
Reconstitute the scene of the crime.
I reached the door.
I took away the keys of the suitcase.
I opened the door.
I entered.
The Dicker came behind me.
He was not stopping speaking.
" Do not stimulate them.
It is wasting money.
" Result! Turn out to be same! We go, Hastings, say in which foot the case is what Poirot, humildemente, helping will do the possible ones.
It is not worthwhile.
I reached an impasse.
Am I what I am going to deal with the consequences.
Well - Captain Hastings! - Hello, Miss Durrant.
- Does it have news? - Nonetheless.
I understand.
Hello, Sr.
Poirot.
- Mademoiselle.
- I still did not give up.
The shop of his aunt is very pretty, Mademoiselle.
She would adore to revise it, time will have been.
It would be a pleasure.
It is here M.
Poirot, Aunt Elizabeth.
And the Captain Hastings.
Good what.
It managed to recover already our miniatures, M.
Poirot? Pardon, but he is the Captain Hastings what is resolving this case.
But it still did not decide, unfortunately.
We already found them, but we cannot recover them.
You.
Wood says that I buy them of good-faith, and that they him belong.
- Are they still in his possession? - No, they are with the Police officer.
They are to me of rehabilitating them at his time.
It depends on the decision of the Court.
It would be a help if we were finding the thief.
Good Lord! What was, Captain Hastings? I know already! I know already! I know already! Beauty queen Penn, be going to recover his miniatures! - And perhaps be able to help me.
- With your license.
- Wait, Hastings! - Come, Poirot! - What goes on with you, Hastings? - I know already, Poirot! - Does there already know what? - The solution for this case.
It must have been of the eglefim.
I feel stupendously! - Hastings - We see each other more soon, in the hotel.
I realized so that he said it.
Whom did know what Beauty queen Durrant was it transporting the miniatures? Who knew that it would do a stopping in Redburn to have lunch? And the one who had a fast car to bring the Windermere near? - I do not know.
Who? - The own thing J.
Baker Wood! - Do not call.
- No woman had with him.
He went to Redburn and it stole the miniatures.
And the pilot? Only he said that it caught a woman in the station and what took it to the Hotel.
It must take many women daily for the Hotel.
Right, I do not know them to myself what it is going to do.
It is very simple.
The Wood does not know the Beauty queen Penn or the Beauty queen Durrant.
I asked for him to come even here.
When he that young beauty comes and the aunt in a wheelchair Yes? It is going to feel very meanly, that I guarantee him.
- To serious? - Undoubtedly.
Up to an insensible criminal it is not totally without feelings.
We go.
Come with me, please.
There is a table for two near the window.
I wait what are not been delayed.
The sense of opportunity is crucial.
As soon as it does not inform me of the progresses in his case, I cannot contribute in the form intelligent for his resolution.
You are what did not want to be been wrapped.
I was that I had the idea of joining these three persons: M.
Wood, Mlle.
Durrant and Mlle.
Penn.
- I do not remember that.
- Do not talk.
Here it is.
Quite one more plate was happening of sandwiches.
It must have made them pay.
I thought that the food to serious it would come later.
Calm.
- Attention, Sergeant.
- What was? They arrived.
The elderly woman it is in a wheelchair.
I had to be there sitting.
I am not here doing anything, I am of back.
Just as well what came, Beauty queen Penn.
One feels, Beauty queen Durrant.
But what beautiful hall.
This is the Inspector-chief Japp, of the Scotland Yard.
- Interesting what! - Much pleasure.
Because one does not sit next to M.
Poirot, Beauty queen Penn? Mademoiselle.
The Aunt Elizabeth was waiting what had good news.
- I also wait.
- And only that? Does it give hope? It is not important, Mary.
The girl asks question of looking after my well-being.
Mlle.
I can offer Penn something to eat? Or a tea? - It was thanking a tea.
- What is going on? It swims.
They are in the conversation.
We learn to be patient in a wheelchair, M.
Poirot.
I believe that yes.
The Captain got up.
He is the ianque.
It had just arrived.
- Just as well what could come.
- Does it already have the miniatures? - Completely at his time.
- One said what would recover them.
I did this way completely for nothing.
He is going to see that his time it will not be hardly employ.
I thought that this hotel it would come to spoil the scenery.
But there is heights, visa in the fog or to the sunset Mlle.
Penn, looks that the fog it begins to stand up.
I believe what does not know Beauty queen Durrant.
- Much pleasure.
- I do not feel well, Mary.
- And Beauty queen Penn.
- This is completely very pretty, but - I do not know you.
Wood - You.
Wood? We go, Mary.
- My aunt does not feel well.
- More slowly! Mlle.
Penn! Since he knew that this was you.
Wood, Mlle.
Penn? Nobody told his name.
- I did not know - He could not even know.
Unless it has been going to collect him It was she! Disguised to look the slovenly one, but it was she! Disguised so that they all thought what was a man put on woman's, n'est-ce shovels, Mlle.
Penn? It thought that it could keep the money and to recover the miniatures later.
- Wait there, it links - One was resulting, it was a flat perfection.
What he has to say on this, Beauty queen Penn? - She is escaping, Sergeant! - Catch it! It can fasten it, Sergeant.
And now, Mademoiselle? - His - Catch it also! - It calms, girl.
- Two make a present to them ás.
It links them to me I I want to say To beginning, Hastings was mixed up.
It was trying to realize like the miniatures they had been going to stop the Windermere.
It is true.
But then it discovered that never they had been in Redburn.
Brilliant, Hastings! It diagnosed the true nature of the crime.
But, unfortunately, it rode the trap to a wrong criminal.
Excuse - One forgot of his receipt.
- Merci beaucoup.
- I wait what has liked the stay.
- You had had to.
I get a beating, Poirot.
And a piece of news on you, Japp.
" The Inspector-chief Japp will give you chat for the North of the country.
" You knew! It was therefore what it brought me here! No, no.
What interests me it is from another side of the leaf " Learn to speak French like the Frenchmen.
" In Belgium, it is a lack of education to read the cutting out of newspaper of other persons.
Thank you.