Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) s02e10 Episode Script

Right wing to come back! Nova Ofensiva of the Flanders Gen.
Haig attacks Ypres To 06:20 we receive order to advance The Mysterious Case in Styles of Adapted for - He wanted to see Lieutenant Hastings.
- Hastings, yes Only a moment, Nurse.
Royal Fusiliers.
The new movie arrived.
- It must be up there seeing.
- Thank you.
He said already to him not to run, nurse.
Belgian refugees arrived-well ás our back.
Excuse, Lieutenant Hastings, it is here a man to speak with you.
Thank you.
- Do not you already recognize the friends? - Saint Deus! John Cavendish! What wonder to see yourself! I tried to enlist, they told them to me that I was too ancient.
And your brother Lawrence? Does it already practise medicine? It was not practising before the war.
I do not even know for what it took away the course.
Then they obliged it going to work for the local hospital.
- It keeps on writing them to me.
- Did it already publish anything? Histories, poems A few little things in magazines.
I presume what you know what the mother married again? Holy God, no! He did not know.
A type appeared, under pretext of being second cousin of Evie.
- Do you remember Evie? - Evie? Evie Howard.
She is the companion of the mother, his " man for the whole service ".
- It is the best, the old woman Evie.
- It must be after my time.
Be that as it may, such East of Inglethorp it appeared.
Around one month then, the mother announced what it links and Alfred were fiances.
He must be - Saint Deus! What difficult situation.
- Difficult? It is infernal! - Can you leave from this place? - Am not I a prisoner, you knew? Can you me them travel, cannot? It was going to suggest that you were going there to pass a few days.
It would adore! Quite precise of a pause far from the Army.
I can be going to have there in Saturday, way will happen.
The best! Styles St.
Mary! Styles St.
Mary! - Hastings! - John, obliged since you come for me.
I still have one or two drops of petrol.
- Thanks to the Minister of the Agriculture.
- Will they walk a great deal of car? A bit.
I visit all the fifth ones in a ray of 30 km once monthly.
It will be that we have time to go Cynthia and Lawrence? No, already they have to to have gone out from the hospital to this hour.
- Is Cynthia your woman? - No, she is the protegee of my mother.
Daughter of a colleague of the school.
It was in the misery and the mother resolved to help it.
It works in the same hospital of Lawrence, in Malmesbury.
We go.
I am afraid what you are going to find this too quiet.
My expensive friend, after the joys of France, it is everything what I want! Is she one of your neighbors? - The woman on horseback.
Lovely woman.
- Yes, I imagine what is.
No, she is you.
Raikes, widow of one of the farmers of the neighborhood.
Hello, Evie.
Here our injured hero is.
Lieutenant Hastings, Beauty queen Howard.
- How it goes? - Be careful, Lieutenant Hastings, or I recruit it to pull out weeds.
- It would be a pleasure.
- It is not educated.
Then it repents.
It will be refused, the Lady Tadminster it can open the party in the first day, and you.
Crosbie in the second one.
But and the Duchess? - Lieutenant Hastings arrived, mother.
- Mr.
Hastings! Be what a lot of years! It is already recovered of his injuries? Yes, I am very well, Mrs.
Inglethorp.
It was only a scratch.
Dear, this Alfred is you.
Hastings.
Mr.
Hastings, my husband.
- It is a pleasure, Lieutenant Hastings.
- How it goes? - Mary, Lieutenant Hastings.
- Lieutenant Hastings, I heard already very much of you.
- And I of you, Mrs.
Cavendish.
John is a man of luck.
Oh, I think up of seeds! Goodbye Cynthia.
Goodbye, Lawrence.
We are delayed.
Your mother hates that we are late for the tea.
He likes seeing all us in stop.
So, well Do we remain occupied, he knows? It helps for the troops, campaigns of armaments All the events have we been planning for the near three months, Alfred? Three bazaars and two parties.
And, clear, for sale of work.
She knows, wanted, of certainty that this cushion is wet.
Allow me.
Promptly, so it is better, queridíssima.
It cannot sit down in wet cushions.
It is so thoughtful, Alfred.
- Much good cake of seeds.
- Thank you, Dorcas.
- Here Cynthia is.
- You are very much delayed today, Cynthia.
- I lament.
The bus was delayed.
- This is you.
Hastings.
- Beauty queen Murdoch.
- How it is? - Where Lawrence is? - It rose.
He comes already.
It is better to hurry, snag is not going to have cake.
A cousin of mine is a nurse.
It looks to spend the time completely to escape of the Sister.
They are frightening! It does not do idea.
But I am not a nurse, thank goodness.
I work in the pharmacy.
- All the persons did it already poison? - Hundreds! Do not say nonsenses, Cynthia.
Please.
What it will do after the war, Lieutenant Hastings? They can laugh at me, me always I had the secret wish of being a detective.
I was in Belgium before the war and I knew a very famous detective.
- What it was doing in Belgium? - It hunts to the ducks, by chance.
The detective had come from Brussels, to investigate a murder in the village.
I think that I was suspect, since the victim it was killed by an equal weapon to mine.
- Frightening what! - No, nonetheless.
My system is based in of him, though I have progressed much more.
He was a funny little man.
A great dandy, but very clever.
- I adore a good police history.
- Dr.
Wilkins said yesterday what due to the ignorance of the poisons less common for the doctors, there are countless cases of murder what passed unnoticed.
Can we talk about another thing? My brother is not much sensitive on this, since own he is a doctor.
Do not fire! Another example of the pastoral beliefs you Anglicize.
Anagallis arvensis.
In other words, " Morrião Escarlate ".
One thinks that, when the flower is opened, it is a sign of a prolonged good time.
It is rarely open in this country.
Some problem, Will Monsieur Van give Stadt? He wants to know why we have of Englishman speaks the time completely.
It finds tiring.
Because, Monsieur Van der Stadt, in this country we are the guests.
To win the confidence of the natives, we will learn their ways.
- Men, the rest of the platoon? - It is killed, man.
They said that they were not, but the arbiter said that they would be.
Well, be released of these civilians anyway.
- Styles Court is even glorious! - Yes.
Yes, that's right.
It is going to be mine, one day.
And our house of London also.
I managed to convince the mother what the Inglethorp has no right to them.
Moral has no right, at least.
Since the things are at this moment, I keep the houses, but the Inglethorp all keeps the money.
- Cannot your brother help? - Lawrence? No, we are a gang without money.
My mother was always very good for us, I must admit it.
It means, up to now.
After marrying, clear what Walk from there, we are going to return for house.
They are remembered of the song that the British soldier taught us? Because we do not try to sing it joined? Remain in tune! - Good afternoon, Mr.
Poirot! - Good afternoon, Dr.
Wilkins.
- Good afternoon messieurs - I see what was recruited in the Cavalry.
Yes.
I am on the way of house.
It is to second time what I was killed in a month.
Say, he wants a beer, if there will be still? Non, merci.
I still do not manage to like of the British bars.
All those bottles, of sizes different, completely in the wrong order It does not seem to be bothersome his compatriots.
Of what it is of use? I try to instil them a notion of order and method, and they always disappear for the bar! Very good horse.
I thought that they had recruited all those of way for the military service.
The agricultural use is one of the exceptions, fortunately.
I ride for the whole property almost every day.
There is so somewhat to do.
- Work them to me in the land, it does not work? - Yes, but that is in the morning cedíssimo.
Generally I am ready about I halve it.
I never imagined what was a work for woman.
We are at war.
We have all to do what we will be able.
Well, the uniform is very great.
These colors turnover on the whole side Promptly.
Lovely boy.
Thank you.
Lieutenant Hastings, his leg! I did not even remember.
Is it well? Now it is already good.
I think that I do not need already this.
Take.
With the fulfilment of the British Army.
- I never saw so hot June! - We need a glass of lemon soda.
Lemon soda?! I already do not see a lemon from 1914! - A play of tennis later? - It would adore.
Mary, Hastings, come to my office a moment.
What goes on? There is an enormous confusion.
Evie talked with the Inglethorp and it goes away.
- Does it go away? It goes away.
It was dismissed.
- She saw the mother and - Well, he said what he was thinking.
- Evie, cannot be true! - It is well a truth.
I am afraid to have said some things to Emily what she will not forgive so early.
- Oh, Evie! - " You are an old woman, Emily ", I said, and there is no fool like an old fool.
It man is 20 newer years than you! " Lament, me would do them.
He was having to say to him.
I said: " I am going to warn about you, Emily, he wants that you like that he wants not.
" That man was preferring to murder you in the bed of what to look at you.
- It is a bad head of cattle! " - Saint Deus.
What she said? " Wicked slanders ", " you had lain wicked ", " wicked woman " " Dear Alfred " He said again that the more early I was going away better.
Therefore, I go.
Mr.
Hastings, the man is honest.
I can trust you.
Take care of her, Mr.
Hastings.
My poor person Emily! - They are all a few sharks! - I will do everything what will be able, Beauty queen Howard.
Only I ask him to open the eyes.
And above all, Mr.
Hastings, watch that devil! Is too much heat almost, it is not? - Too much heat? - I was not surprised what was thundering.
They are two pounds and three pence, please.
Do not say anything to anybody.
There is the one who is able to kill for so much cocoa in a week.
- I am very grateful, Lady Dainty.
And I give him chance to speak: I will be the soul of the discretion.
- Thank you, my man.
- Thank you.
Lady Dainty, already intended to organize the products for country of origin? Well no, I did not think.
It would be admired.
It leaves here to see North, South, This, Western Yes, the spices, what come from the Orient, we could around there near the door, what represents the East.
Voila! Only it was needing to remember of where each article came to put the hand in top, quick and efficiently.
I already do that, my man.
Be that as it may, for me, everything comes from the retail dealer in Malmesbury.
- Yes, but Lady Dainty - Half a dozen of stamps, please.
- Very well, man.
Hastings? Holy God! Monsieur Poirot! Hastings is, in fact, mon ami! - I spoke in you still another day! - Oh, mon ami Mon ami! This is my good friend, Monsieur Poirot.
We were already not seeing each other that there has much! - We know Monsieur Poirot.
- He did not know that he was his friend.
It is only for the charity of the Lady Inglethorp, mother of Lawrence, that I am here.
She was so kind of offering hospitality to seven of my compatriots, refugees of our birth-place.
It provides us that delicious house over there.
The house will come there No, not, pardon It will come to take tea! - Is it the appropriate expression, is not it? - Yes, very appropriate.
Bon, am I improving, no? With license.
Oh, Mr.
Poirot.
Lady Raikes.
- He said already to him! - Have nothing to do with that! I have, yes! Do not satisfy in maintaining a sordid case with this woman, I discover now that it is ruining great sums of money with her! It is not a great sum.
- Be that as it may, it is a loan.
- No.
Decide already! There does not think what my fear of one scandal between husband and woman it will detain me.
I fed it and put it on.
I put a ceiling on the head and it is so that he pays to me! He is such a dear little man.
They have been with a celebrity without knowing.
Oh, they are you.
- Does something, Aunt Emily go on? - Clear what not.
- Dorcas, it brings me stamps, please.
- Yes, my lady.
It seems very tired.
Did not it have to be resting? Yes.
No, now not! I will finish a few letters before the mail.
- Did you light the hearth in my room? - Yes, my lady.
I go for the bed soon to follow it to the dinner.
- Then does not it show me? - My expensive Mary, it has nothing to do with the subject.
- Then, show off.
- It is not what it imagines.
It has nothing to do with you.
There was a terrible discussion.
He knew of everything for Dorcas.
Yes, I know.
I had just heard Mary and you.
Inglethorp.
No, between the Aunt Emily and him.
I wait what has agreed to it finally.
Apposition that is a fighter - fortunas.
Well, Dorcas it was "by chance" near to the door.
Apparently it was a true combat.
He was liking knowing on what it was.
- Where do you go? - I go to the village.
You are going to see yours precious Mrs.
Raikes, do not you go? - For the love of God, Mary! - I am warning about you, John, I am not going to endure great this any more time.
I take the coffee in my room.
I still will treat a few papers.
I read in the newspaper what the first American divisions they must reach France in the near week.
You take the coffee you.
Inglethorp, Cynthia? Are we going to take the coffee in the living room? Between.
It lands near the bed, wanted.
Also I go away to lay shortly.
I am exhausted.
- Perhaps take a powder to sleep - It lights the lamp before going out.
Yes, from here nothing gets dark.
Thank you, Dorcas.
I will go to the village to speak with our agent because of the counts of the real estate.
They do not need of hoping for me, I take the key of the latch.
What strange hour to go out and the Denby goes to speak with! Mother! Mother! Mother! Mother! Mother! Open the door! Mother! Mother! - Open the door! - What we are going to do? - What goes on? - It seems to the mother to be having a fit.
- But it was locked on the inside.
- Try for the room of the Mr.
Inglethorp.
- Locked.
- Oh, the poor lady! - We are going to try to break the door down.
- It is already going to call the doctor.
Is there no a door of another side? Of the room of Beauty queen Cynthia? - Be always bolted, it is not? - To try is worthwhile.
- Did they already open the door? - No.
- This one also is locked.
- Rays! I do not manage to wake Cynthia.
It must have taken a powder to sleep.
Probe again.
One, two, three Again.
One, two, three.
- Annie, brings brandy of the room.
- Let us in, I managed to wake Cynthia.
- Is it well? I took a powder to sleep.
What goes on? Better now Very sudden.
I was a lout.
I was rude in closing me here inside.
It is completely well now, mother.
I feel not much better now.
Alfred Alfred No.
Is it killed? Oh, skies! Where you are.
Inglethorp? - It is not at home.
- Where it is? Mr.
Cavendish, he wanted his permission for an autopsy, then.
It is not necessary! It was certainly a heart attack! No, I lament.
You.
Inglethorp had the symptoms of poisoning for strychnine.
Do not be able to be! Do what to find necessary, Dr.
Wilkins.
These are the keys of his mother.
I locked both rooms.
I suggest what are closed for the time being.
You remember of I talk about my friend Poirot? The Belgian of the village? - What was a detective? - Yes.
It lets it call me to investigate this subject.
Is this a nonsense, they know? The Wilkins is always of flea behind of the ear because of poisons.
The poisons are his pastime, therefore he sees them on the whole side.
I am tilted giving carte blanche to Hastings, though it was preferring to wait a little.
I do not want unnecessary scandal.
You have not to preoccupy yourself with that.
The Poirot is the discretion in person! It is well.
- No, John! - I lament, Lawrence.
Holy God.
This is terrible.
My poor woman.
Where it was? Denby kept me busy up to afternoon last night, and then I discovered that it had me forgotten the key of latch.
The Denby gave me bed for I all does not wake the house.
My poor person Emily.
It was so sacrificed.
It was demanding the rest of her herself .
- It is better I to be walking.
- Yes.
Yes, clear.
Oui? Monsieur Poirot! Good morning.
Hastings! It wakes up early.
You.
Inglethorp is killed.
A moment.
I am satisfied by you, Hastings.
It has a good memory and it told to me loyally the facts.
But of the order in which he presented them I do not say anything.
It is deplorable.
But I give a discount: It is disturbed.
More late, when it will be more calm, we are going to order the facts correctly, each one at his place.
Those who are important, we put for a side, those who have not, we make them disappear.
But for more discounts than it gives, I cannot let pass the fact of what it omitted a proof of the biggest importance.
What? If you did not tell me.
Inglethorp he ate well last night.
Because I remember, almost he did not eat.
It was obviously perturbed and it had lost the appetite.
I am seeing Hastings, was dressed to the haste and his tie is from side.
We cannot become careless, Hastings.
Because if you wanted to know.
Inglethorp did he eat well last night? It is supposed that the Lady Inglethorp it died poisoned by strychnine.
- It was what it looked to me.
- Bon.
To which hours was it withdrawn the Lady Inglethorp? Very much early.
About the eight of the night.
And, however, the symptoms only if five of the morning showed ás.
Nine hours! A heavy, ingested meal at the same time as the poison, it might delay his effects, but never for so many time! And he says to me that the Lady Inglethorp he ate very much somewhat to the dinner.
Yes.
One of such curious facts, mon ami.
We put it here.
It is an awful situation, Monsieur Poirot.
Hastings explained him that we want to avoid publicity? I understand perfectly.
- Do you know that the Inglethorp returned? - Yes, I found it.
It is much difficult knowledge how negotiating.
This difficulty it will not exist for much time.
- The key of the room, please.
- Clear Merci.
Hastings, we will leave this, up to the lawyer of the Mrs.
Inglethorp to be present.
This gives for the room of Cynthia.
What is? We will see.
I think that this is a cocoa, we will send them to me for analysis.
Regard, mon ami.
The lamp is broken at two places only.
But here, the soup bowl of coffee beside him it is almost undone in powder.
I suppose that someone has trodden on it.
Yes, mon ami.
Someone trod in this soup bowl of coffee and almost it undid it in powder.
And the reason because they did it it was or because it was containing strychnine or, which is much worse, because it was not containing the strychnine.
What will be that one? This, I think, it is a fresh stain of coffee.
Eh bien, Hastings.
We have in this room six points of interest.
Are they catalogued by me or you? Well You.
Very well.
Number one: A soup bowl of coffee what was almost undone in powder.
Number two: A suitcase of dispatches with the key in the lock.
Number three: The stain of coffee in the fitted carpet.
Number four: One or two threads of dark-green cloth prisoners in the bolt of that door.
- Then it was that that it put in the envelope! - Oui, d'accord.
Number five: This.
- What is? - Wax of candle, my friend.
It must have fallen to the ground from yesterday, because a good servant would clean it.
Lawrence Cavendish brought a candle this morning.
He seemed very agitated.
He seemed to see something over there what paralysed it completely.
- In the door, billet? - No, in the hearth.
That is very interesting, mon ami.
But his candle is pink and that stain is white.
- And the sixth point? - No, the sixth point I prefer to guard for me for already.
Alors, there is any more nothing doing here, I think.
Not being The hearth lighted in the room to summer way, Hastings? The fire heats up, but also it destroys.
There can be Voila! What leaning of this, mon ami? It is a very thick paper.
- Much more of what paper of letter.
- E? A will! It can be a fragment of a will! - " Last Will and Will ".
- Exactement.
Such as I was waiting.
There says to me, Mademoiselle, his mistress did it have a dark-green dress? No, man.
Someone of the house has a dark-green dress? No, man.
What I know not.
Very well.
We leave that and we pass to the front.
It would like doing to him, one allows me, one or two questions on the afternoon of yesterday.
- Yes, man? Did his mistress have a discussion? - I do not know if it had to - My good Dorcas, the Lady Inglethorp is killed and it is necessary to know everything to be able to avenge it.
- Ámen to that, man.
And, without saying names, it is someone at this home that none of us it managed to accept.
Now And as for such a discussion? It was about four hours By chance I passed through the door of the office and I heard voices, very high and angry, when they came of inside.
It was not my intention to hear Continue, Mademoiselle.
What happened then? At five hours, you.
Inglethorp concerned the bell and it asked for me a soup bowl of tea.
- It was with the worst aspect - His tea, my lady.
- I suffered a great shock, Dorcas.
- I lament to know it, my lady.
I do not know what to do.
Scandal between husband and woman is an awful thing.
A few words and everything changed! Never trust a man, Dorcas.
They are not worthy.
Call, Mademoiselle, this paper what she had in the hand What thinks what she would do with him then? I presume what was guarding it in her that purple briefcase, it was important.
I am seeing Call, mademoiselle, probable billet what his lady has when a powder was taken to sleep yesterday? Yesterday not, man.
I know what it did not take.
It took the last dose of the tonic, but it did not take powder to sleep.
- How it can be so certain? - The box was empty, man.
It took the last thing there are two days and it did not order to do more.
Beauty queen Howard! Again is so good to see it here! It is a terrible height to return, Dorcas.
Evie! I came so that I received the telegram.
- Dorcas does to us a tea.
- I do not want tea! Here you are.
Poirot.
- It is helping in the investigation - Be nothing investigating! - Did they already take it to the prison? - Did they already get a beating who for the prison? Alfred Inglethorp, is clear! The poor person Emily never it was murdered until he arrived! Evie, do not shout so much! Anyone that are our suspicions, it is better to say the possible minimum for already.
- The inquiry is an alone Friday.
- Inquiry a talisman! The man it will have already escaped of the country then! It is not going to be here sossegadinho waiting for being hung! - Mademoiselle - That is not worthwhile completely.
You.
Alfred Inglethorp it will be hung, even if I have of trailing even to the gallows! Like thrush what you.
Inglethorp was it taking powders to sleep? Because, Hastings, I found this in the drawer of her washbasin of the room.
It was this the number six of my catalogue.
But if the last powder was taken there is two days it cannot be very important.
Probably not.
The lawyer of my mother is here.
I do not know if he wants to speak with him.
- Is he also the forensic scientist, does he know? - Yes.
Yes, thank you, Mr.
Cavendish.
Monsieur Wells, there is a thing what it wanted to ask about him, it will not go away against the professional etiquette.
In case of death of the Mrs.
Inglethorp, who would inherit her money? Completely well.
For her last will, of there are two months, it left this one and the house of London to the oldest son, John Cavendish.
The remainder of his fortune it goes for you.
Inglethorp.
And if, without knowing the man, had she done another will? It is always possible, is clear.
She did a new will.
- What? - Where it is? Burnt.
But what extraordinary coincidence, my mother to have done a will in the day itself of the death! Is he sure what was a coincidence? What it means? His mother, because I called myself, it had a violent discussion with someone yesterday afternoon.
As a consequence of this discussion, very sudden and hurriedly, it does a new will.
He did not say to nobody his content.
The will disappears and she takes his secret to the gravestone.
I am afraid that there is no coincidence here.
What it means? - It still has the keys, Mr.
Poirot? - Oui.
Voila.
- It was guarding some things here.
- It needs the key, I locked it this morning.
- Now it is not locked.
- Impossible! I had the key in my pocket the day completely! En voila adheres affaire! This lock was forked! And this door is desaferrolhada.
Why? When? There was something important in this suitcase.
- Something that ties the murderer to the crime.
- But what? That I do not know! What intriguing this case, mon ami, does not it find? It seems to me very clear.
It seems that be completely connected to the money of the Mrs.
Inglethorp.
And ás his two houses, Hastings.
Well, yes They go for John and completely the rest for her husband.
But then, they had that one terrible discussion, which Dorcas heard, and you.
Inglethorp changes the will.
- And her two children, Hastings? - I imagine what are not wrapped.
No.
It is so: The Inglethorp discovers that the will was changed, leaving everything to her son and he, and it poisons it - And the new will what she did? - He burns it.
It was the piece of paper what we found in the hearth.
It "seized" the principal of this case, Hastings.
- " I got a beating.
" - Yes? Know, Hastings, have in this case you punish two points of importance.
To serious? What they are? - The first one is the time in Tuesday.
- But it was a lovely day! Must have been 27 degrees to the shadow! There was no a cloud in the sky.
One does not forget of that, my friend.
It is the key of all the enigma.
I do not see why.
Very well, and the second point? The second point it is the important fact of you.
Inglethorp to wear clothes special, black beard and glasses.
- But that is ridiculous! - No, it is monumental! He can say Dr.
Wilkins to me how much poison you.
did Inglethorp consume? Valuing for the recovered quantity, you.
Inglethorp ingested at least three quarters of grain of strychnine, possibly a grain.
I took away a sample of the remaining cocoa in soup bowl in the room of the Mrs.
Inglethorp.
It had no strychnine.
Then it considers more probable that the drug has been administered in the coffee following to the dinner, and what, for unknown reasons, has his effect been delayed? - Yes, but the soup bowl of coffee it was so completely crushed that there was no possibility of analysing his content.
It looks to me what the death of my mother it can explain oneself for natural causes.
- To serious? Well, my mother, there is some time before the death, it was taking a tonic containing strychnine.
- That was already treated previously.
- But it is not possible that she has taken one on dose of the medicine for accident? Dressing what not, Mr.
Cavendish.
The servant, Dorcas, he already told us that only a dose was remaining in the day previous to the death.
It would be thanked if it was telling us everything what he heard of the discussion of the day previous to the death of the Mrs.
Inglethorp.
Did I hear? Yes.
Because I know, she was sitting down, reading, in the bank, abroad of the open window of the office.
Is not it so? É.
One matters of repeating what he heard of the discussion? In fact, I do not remember of hearing anything.
Does it mean what did not hear voices? Well yes, I heard the voices.
I did not hear them to myself what they were saying.
Not even a word or loose sentence? Yes, already I remember.
You.
Inglethorp he said any thing on causing a scandal between husband and woman.
- It seemed to be hiding something.
- This is true, Hastings.
- I call you.
Bore.
- And something of interest.
I swear for almighty God what the evidence what I will give it will be true, all the truth and it swims more than the truth.
Mr.
Bore, like seller described as chemists, with shop in the village of Styles St Mary, it sold recently strychnine to someone done not not authorized? Yes, man.
When it was this? On Monday, 18 of June.
About six hours.
Can he say to the one who sold it? Yes, man.
It went to a Mr.
Inglethorp.
He said that it was to poison a dog.
Even he signed the register of the poisons.
Very well.
Thank you, Mr.
Bore.
I call you.
Alfred Inglethorp.
I swear for almighty God what the evidence what I will give it will be true, all the truth and it swims more than the truth.
- Is he Alfred Inglethorp? - Yes.
In last Monday, in the afternoon, he bought strychnine to poison a dog? - No, I did not buy.
We have no dog in Styles Court.
- Also does it deny to have signed the register? - I deny.
This is not my signature.
I am seeing.
One matters of saying to us, Mr.
Inglethorp, where it was in the Monday afternoon, day 18 of June? I do not remember.
- Was it with anybody? - No.
I must gather, then, what is refused to say where it was to the hour in what you.
Bore it identified it positively I eat having entered in the shop to buy strychnine? It will want to understand each other so, yes.
Does he want to be a prisoner? It had a discussion with his woman in Tuesday in the afternoon? Excuse, but it was informed badly.
I had not any quarrel with my dear woman.
- All stow out of house the afternoon.
- Can anybody corroborate that? It has my word.
There are two witnesses who swear to have heard his misunderstanding with you.
Inglethorp.
Then these witnesses they are deceived.
Very well.
Thank you, Mr.
Inglethorp.
It is completely for now.
- Members of the jury - It put the rope to the neck! Perhaps.
Does he know who is that man at the door? He is the Inspector-detective James Japp, of the Scotland Yard.
And, except mistake, that man beside him also it is of the Scotland Yard.
The things are walking fast, my friend.
Perhaps fast too much.
Members of the jury, what the verdict is? Murder volunteer, for person or unknown persons.
And is it the verdict of all you? It is, yes.
Mon Dieu! I passed a few bad mouthful in the court, Hastings.
I did not imagine that the man was so obstinate what was refused to say it was what it was.
I do not understand for what reason the jury did not accuse Inglethorp.
Certainly it does not believe already that it is innocent? For what not, mon ami? Nothing changed.
I see that one does not remember of me, Inspector Japp.
Well, one is not Monsieur Poirot! This is Chief executive Summerhaye.
Did I already talk to him about Monsieur Poirot? - The case Abercrombie before the war.
- Right.
You.
Poirot the villain caught us in Antuérpia.
But what it does in England, Poirot? With his presence, the boches they made my uninhabitable country.
Let him introduce to me my friend, Lieutenant Hastings.
- How it goes? - How it goes? With license.
It is not necessary to ask the reason of his presence here, Inspector Japp.
No.
It is a very clear case, I must say it.
- There I disagree with you.
- Because I heard in the inquiry, you.
Inglethorp murdered the woman, so right as I to be here! I do not know, man.
I and Monsieur Poirot we were already, and I would not believe so fast in someone I eat in him.
I am not wrong, he has something in the sleeve.
Well, I say to you the next thing: To fasten Monsieur Alfred Inglethorp it will not bring them any glory.
The case against him it will be filed comme ça! I believe in you, they are to me others above of me that they cannot believe.
I, for example.
Alfred Inglethorp must not be a prisoner, Chief executive.
That I swore.
- Sometime did it go to New York? - Nova Iorque? No.
It is a lovely city.
Delimit! Each street does straight angles with each avenue.
Each avenue is numbered: First, Second, Third, Fourth It is the man who is in charge.
But here ! Since he will survive with the fact that the nature it is, au fond, dirty, out of control, anarchic, ineffective ? - But it is what it pleases me in her! Hastings, it did not seem to him strange which Lawrence Cavendish was suggesting what had the mother been poisoned by accident? I found a suggestion very natural for a layman.
Me them he is not a layman.
I called myself that he is licensed in medicine.
Yes, it is true.
I had forgotten that.
And also the Lady Cavendish.
What it found of her attitude? It seems to me inconceivable what it links it was protecting the Inglethorp.
- But it was that that looked.
- Oui, d'accord.
Many strange things they were revealed today.
- Where do we go, Poirot? - To see the lovely Lady Raikes.
It is really tremendous! Thank you.
No, not, Hastings.
I am going to see the lovely Lady Raikes.
You are too impressionable for this task in individual.
- Who is? - I do not know.
I leave for the rears.
Bonjour, Lady Raikes.
We would like what was coming even Malmesbury with us, Mr.
Inglethorp.
- The Malmesbury? - To the squad.
Are they detaining it, it is? It was already not without time! Only we want that he answers to some questions, my lady.
- A moment, Inspector Japp.
- Be quietinho, Mr.
Poirot.
Lament, Monsieur Poirot.
I understand.
Chief executive, I him beg it to leave me to ask a question a Mr.
Inglethorp.
Do there, then.
Thank you, Chief executive.
Monsieur Inglethorp, he keeps on refusing to say where six of the afternoon was ás of Monday? Fail! - Very well.
Then I speak for you.
- The man? - How it can? - I speak.
Ear.
I, Hercule Poirot, affirm what the man who bought the strychnine in Monday ás six of the afternoon, he was not Alfred Inglethorp, since ás six of the afternoon of this day, Monsieur Alfred Inglethorp it was in Tadminster.
I can present it swims less than five witnesses, what swear to have seen it and to have spoken with him there, ás six or shortly afterwards.
And, since they must know, Tadminster it is to at least 12 km of the village.
I swear him, Poirot, you are too much! Did not he say to him? These his witnesses are they all you were spinning, right? Voila.
I did a catalogue with his names and residences.
He will see that they are all perfectly genuine.
Even they include the enchanting Lady Raikes.
Did not he say to him? - We went back to square one.
- Nonetheless, mon ami.
We know now that there has a person what did not buy the poison.
We removed the manufactured traces, now we go ás true.
In the middle of the life we are in the death: To whom we can to ask for help otherwise you, Sir, what, for our sins are you just discontent? And, however, Sir God santíssimo, Almighty Sir do not drop us in the claws of the eternal death - Lieutenant Hastings? - Yes, Dorcas? I know that it is not the appropriate moment, but one remembers of the gentleman foreigner to have asked if someone had a green dress? - Continue.
I remembered of what the gallant young persons they call the " trunk of the disguises ".
It is in the loft of the front.
This is green.
No, it is too much darkness.
Holy God! Put it in the face, Hastings.
Does it think that it is same? I find.
It has exactamente the same form what the beard of the Monsieur Inglethorp.
Is the question who put it here? Someone with much intelligence, Hastings.
It opted to hide it in the only siege where his presence would not be noticed.
But we will be still more intelligent.
We will be so intelligent what do not even suspect that we are intelligent of all.
- Completely.
And in that, you will be essential, mon ami.
We go.
Well, finally it realized.
- Comment? - It went away.
It was for the hotel in Malmesbury.
- Lieutenant Hastings! - Hello, Cynthia.
Even the man whom I wanted to see.
I want to speak with you.
I can steal it, Mr.
Poirot? To steal it? Pardon.
Yes, do favor, Mademoiselle Murdoch.
Hastings, since I envy it! To be stolen for such an enchanting young person! With license.
About what he wanted to talk? - We are going to seat ourselves first.
- It is well.
Lieutenant Hastings, it was always so gentle, and know so many thing! Well, he knows I want to ask for him an advice.
He knows, the Aunt Emily always said to me what would treat me.
I suppose that she forgot or he did not think that it might die.
Be that as it may She did not treat me.
I do not know what to do.
- Does it think that I had to go away? - Saint Deus, no! - They do not want to separate of you.
- Mary wants.
She hates me.
- Does he hate it? - I do not know why.
- He also does not support me.
- Well, there I know what is deceived: - John likes very much you.
- Oh, yes But he is not John.
He was talking about Lawrence.
Not that I mind if Lawrence he hates me or not.
But even so, it is quite awful when nobody in loves, is not? They love them to me, Cynthia.
Of certainty that is deceived.
- John, the Beauty queen Howard - But Lawrence never speaks with me, it will be possible to avoid it.
And Mary almost not it manages to be educated by me and I do not know what to do Marry with me, Cynthia.
- Do not be foolish! - I am not be fool.
I am asking it to give me the honor of being my woman.
It is so perfectly dear on his part! I do not see where the joke is.
A request of marriage it has not been cheeping.
That's right.
And he had to be careful: Someone can accept of the near time.
Goodbye, Tenente Hastings.
It cheered me up infinitamente.
I do not know, perhaps I do not understand the women No, I am alone playing, clearly He is the Inspector Japp.
Hastings, who was in the bank from behind of the car with him? He seemed Lawrence Cavendish.
What goes on, Dorcas? Those wicked detectives They fastened you.
Cavendish! - Did they fasten Lawrence? - No, not you.
Lawrence.
You.
John! Judgement of murder! Read everything! Cavendish in the prison! Judgement of murder! John Wendover Cavendish, is accused of murdering his mother, you.
Emily Rose Inglethorp, in on Tuesday, 19 of June of 1917.
How is it declared? Clear.
Members of the Jury, since they all know, murder volunteer is a reason for gallows.
And what they will hear the murder reporting it is of the most awful, premeditated and to coolness.
The poisoning of a mother excessive for his son himself.
The accused and his woman were living with some luxury at his home of the mother, Styles Court, totally supported by her.
You.
Inglethorp had been his generous benefactress.
I will call witnesses what they will demonstrate that the prisoner was in the end of his financial limit.
Also they will be knowing that the accused was maintaining an intrigue with such a Mrs.
Raikes, widow of a local farmer, what had convinced his mother doing a will in his favor, and what, when he thought that she had changed this will, the new murdered and destroyed it.
I do not manage to hear any more, Hastings.
Does it look very badly, n'est-ce shovels? The Defense is good when to begin.
I do not know like Mary Cavendish it manages to be there.
It is one of those women what they show best his in the adversity.
- The jealousies and her pride - Jealousies? Yes.
It still did not notice what the Lady Cavendish does it have a few jealousies out of the normal one? He heard a fragment of her conversation with the mother-in-law, when it demanded what it links was it showing any thing? Yes.
The Lady Cavendish was believing what the letter what the mother-in-law hid it was a proof of the infidelity of John.
It was deceived, Hastings.
Such a letter was not existing.
What you.
Inglethorp discovered the fact was that John Cavendish had when the Lady Raikes lent, and I knew of this for the Mrs herself.
Raikes, a great sum of money for to buy her property of the hut.
Denial what there is something unsuitable in his relation with John Cavendish? - I deny.
- I am seeing.
- It received money of the Mr.
Cavendish? - No! Also denial what you.
Cavendish it gave him a cheque for 200 pounds in the day 21 of last June? - This was a loan! Thank you, Mrs.
Raikes.
I have not any more questions, Meritíssimo.
Very well, Dr.
Philips.
- It is a good height to shut in.
- All of foot! It is the first time what comes the London, Poirot? You.
Inglethorp it had to be very rich, with this lovely house and Styles Court.
Is all going to do that the day? I calm the nerves, more not at all.
This occupation it demands precision in the fingers.
With precision in the fingers the precision comes in the brain.
- And I never needed any more her.
- Completely.
I manage to build a castle of letters of seven floors, putting a letter in other one with mathematical precision, I do not get them to myself to find the last link of this so mysterious case! Well, it has a firm hand, I must say it.
I find what I only saw his hand to shudder once.
In an opportunity in what it was irritated, undoubtedly.
It was in the room of the Mrs.
Inglethorp, shortly afterwards of discovering the lock of the broken down briefcase.
Oh, yes.
It was near to the hearth, putting in order the ornaments, as always it does, and his hand was shuddering like green leaves.
Because it was furious.
Furious with - Mon Dieu! - What was? I have an idea, more not at all.
Mon Dieu! A garage! A garage! For the God's love, show me a garage! Someone has to take me! I have of renting a car immediately! Cannot it walk more fast? - Only an accident will want to be had.
- No, no.
Since he will want.
It is the man who knows.
The correct position of the hands in the steering wheel is two ás less ten, is not it? Mademoiselle Dorcas! Someone was in the room of Lady Inglethorp since we leave from here? Nobody.
It has been closed and we have been watching all.
- The best! - Mr.
Poirot! - Yes? - The keys! Thank you.
Institute of Pharmacology Does he see? The strychnine is already begun hurling for the bottom.
From here to someone hours, it will have formed colorless crystals.
- What are in the bottom of the liquid? What are in the bottom of the liquid.
Inspector Japp, in the course of the investigations, it reviewed the quarter of the culprit in Styles Court.
- Did it find anything? - I found.
He can say to the court what found? In the bureau of the room of the Mr.
Cavendish, under some clothes, I found a small bottle of poison.
It was empty.
Can he present to proof "D"? Is the bottle this? Yes, man.
- Did it tell to examine the bottle? - I was in charge.
It was examined for the laboratory of the Scotland Yard and they discovered what it was containing tracks of strychnine.
- Where he is? - Somewhat phoned that there is, saying that it was turning today the London.
It asked for me to call everyone.
- But what he wants? - I do not know.
It is really very bad Here he is! - No - He is the Inspector Japp! Good night.
- Where the Poirot is? - I do not know.
It disappeared this afternoon.
I received a telephone message saying in order that seven to be here ás.
Then rising is better.
Did not I still take my tea, they knew? - Good night.
- Can I ask what goes on? It can ask.
It will be received an answer says to me, it does favor.
Here he is.
What is he doing? It seems that it is giving classrooms of driving to a driver! Where it was, Poirot? Good night, Hastings.
Good night, Lady Cavendish.
Are we joined, yes? Bon.
Please.
Are we all joined ones, yes? With an exception.
I have to ask for Pardon you for to wait more for some moments for the arrival of the Monsieur Inglethorp.
- If that man enters here I leave! - No, not, Mademoiselle Howard.
It cannot do that.
One remembers, Mademoiselle, this is for good of his friendly darling, the died Lady Inglethorp.
Because I was called? What goes on? Who had given me knowledge, my expensive one.
Voilá Monsieur Inglethorp.
Asseyez-vous, Monsieur.
Mes dames et messieurs, good night! Since they know, I was invited investigating this case for John Cavendish for which today does it wait in his cell the verdict of the jury.
I examined soon the room of the died one and I discovered several signs.
To begin, a fragment of a dark-green material.
I found it imprisoned in the bolt of the door of communication between that room and the room of the Mademoiselle Cynthia.
During any time, I did not recognize what was an East material: A pulled out piece to a green armband, of " land ".
In Styles, only there was a person what was working the land, the Lady Cavendish.
So, she must have been the Lady Cavendish entering in the room through that door.
But that door was bolted on the inside! When I examined the room, Hastings, was.
But to the beginning only we had the word of her in as the door was locked.
In the confusion that followed, it had more of what time to lock it again.
No, I am convinced that the Lady Cavendish was inside the room when the died one if it felt badly.
The motive in order that she enters in the room of Lady Inglethorp it has to do with his terrible jealousies.
She had discovered the existence of a letter.
It was on this letter that it links it confronted the Lady Inglethorp, so he was thinking that it was containing the proof of the infidelity of the husband with the Lady Raikes.
At that moment, it was literalmente crazy of jealousies, the sufficient thing to enter in the room of the mother-in-law to go for this paper.
Alfred! Am I wrong, Lady? - Did you destroy the will? - No.
Only a person could have destroyed this will: The Lady herself Inglethorp! It links them to me it had done it in that same afternoon! Even so, mon ami.
The temperature in that day it was of 27 degrees to the shadow.
Yes, much heat was.
And, however, the Lady Inglethorp it told to light the hearth in the room.
- Why? - Because it wanted to burn something.
Précisément, Inspector Japp.
To the four of the afternoon the Lady Inglethorp talks with it I adopt, and it threatens to denounce it to the woman.
It is not a big sum! - Be that as it may, it is a loan.
- No.
Decide already! Do not think what my fear of a scandal between husband and woman will detain me.
It was this discussion what Dorcas heard.
Me them she thought that John Cavendish he was the Monsieur Inglethorp.
To the four and it halves, she does a new will, removing John Cavendish of the inheritance.
Now, I will conjecture, I find them to myself what my conjecture is correct.
It writes a letter to a lawyer, you.
Wells, asking that the cape to finish the new will.
It discovers that it has no stamps in her secretary, so it goes to the secretary of a husband to see if he has.
Be locked, therefore she opens it with his key itself.
It discovers a paper.
Such a paper that Mary was intending to be on trial writing of the infidelity of the husband, but what was, in fact, more serious.
Is this even necessary? Only we need of knowing who put the poison in the coffee of my mother and because it stayed doing effect.
- Yes, very much truth.
But here we have difficulties, because you.
Inglethorp did not drink the coffee.
What? The stain in the fitted carpet was of the coffee.
It must have dropped it before drinking the power, but, needing a hot drink, it heated the cocoa and drank it.
If the strychnine was not in the coffee and we know that it was not in the cocoa, where it was? Now I go the perguntinha does to you to all.
Which third way was there at the disposal? Such an appropriate way to disguise the strychnine what is absolutely extraordinary not to have thought about him? - Hastings? - I do not do idea.
No? No? Inspector Japp? Her medicine! Did anybody put strychnine in her tonic? No.
It did not need, Hastings.
Already there it was.
The strychnine that poisoned the Lady Inglethorp was same the prescribed one, with all the legitimacy, for Dr.
Wilkins.
The addition of brometo to a solution of strychnine it hurls all the strychnine in colorless crystals what fall for the bottom of the mixture.
It is probable that the last dose is fatal.
Someone gathered the powders to sleep to the tonic? Yes, Inspector.
And the last link of the chain was of paper, but it was not a will.
The fact is that, they know, our murderer wrote a letter.
Taking away this letter, more not at all it would tie it to the crime.
But the Lady Inglethorp it found the letter, it guarded it in the suitcase of dispatches, and it took it with her to the room.
It was essential the letter recovered.
Without that, our murderer it was facing the certain condemnation.
But I had locked the briefcase of the Lady Inglethorp in the morning following to her death.
At the precise moment in what it was trying to recover the letter, I was reaching the room with John and Monsieur Wells, the lawyer.
Desperately, the murderer it looks for a place to hide it.
But there is no form of destroying the letter in the room.
At a moment, it tears the letter in three long strips.
Roll them up and it places them near other rolls in the consolation of the hearth.
The murderer then opens the door for the quarter of Mademoiselle Cynthia and it escapes.
And there, mes amis, it was the letter, up to having being found by Poirot.
Oh, yes! The grey celulazinhas they worked quite today.
Un Deux Trois " It is this night.
" It is going to be good after the old woman to be killed and out of the way.
" Nobody will manage to discover that I was the author of the crime.
That one your idea on the brometo it was a genius touch.
We have of " Here the writer is interrupted.
It must heat heart, knowledge what his lover it was liking so much you what did not manage to avoid to write to him at this so important moment, Mademoiselle Howard.
I? - It has nothing to do with me.
- Have everything to do with you! I forgot of reading the title page of this letter? Forgive me " My queridíssima Evelyn " - His blockhead! Great blockhead! - Be silent, Evie! It is too late for the silence, Mr.
Inglethorp.
The letter in this letter shouts his fault.
He is a murderer without heart.
How does it dare? How does it dare doing such a accusation? Oh, Mr.
Inglethorp It disappoints me immensely.
It is well.
We love each other! Take them from here, Inspector Japp.
He thinks that we were going to stay to the wait that the old bitch was dying? We were deserving the money, anyway.
I do not repent.
I do not repent minimamente.
Mr.
Inglethorp.
My lady.
What horror! What horror! But because it was he with the letter? It did not come finishing of writing it, mon ami.
Possibly, the Lady Inglethorp it returned early and interrupted it.
Caught red-headed, it closes hurriedly the secretary to the key.
We already know the rest.
The Lady Inglethorp it discovers the letter, it decides not to say anything to a husband, they are decided to me to destroy the will what it had had just done on behalf of him.
Probably it was intending, the next day, to do a new will on behalf of John.
But the Death intervened.
It does not even imagine as it was awful.
They were the worst six weeks of my life.
Never, not even for a minute, I believed that you had been.
The Inspector Japp and the Scotland Yard they believed, Hastings.
- Poor mother.
- It already passed everything.
Just as well that we had the Monsieur Poirot.
I do not even know how to thank for him, Monsieur Poirot.
- It was not at all.
- I thought what was lost.
It will learn to have faith in Poirot.
- Monsieur Poirot.
- Lady.
We go, John.
I want to know everything what happened.
He knows, Hastings, I owe it to you final discovery on the letter.
- To serious? - Yes.
One remembers of calling myself that my hand shuddered when I straightened the ornaments in the consolation of the hearth? Yes, it is true.
- And you jumped and disappeared.
- Exactement.
I remembered myself that we had been in the room of Lady Inglethorp and I had already straightened the ornaments.
If they were already right, there was not motive to straighten them again unless, meantime, someone had moved them.
Holy God! He knows, what I do not understand it is for what reason the Inglethorp it seemed so interested in being a prisoner.
Because, mon ami, according to the law of your country, an absolved man cannot return being judged by the same crime.
He wanted to be judged.
He would present his incontestable alibi and it would be in safety forever.
Then he was same who bought the strychnine in the shop! No, not Hastings.
It did not realize that it was the Beauty queen Howard who went to the shop? - The Beauty queen Howard? - More oui! It is clear what was very much disguised.
What intelligent devils! Is it good to see them again joined, is not it? His foolish involvement with Lady forgotten Raikes - The things that are done by love! - More oui! The special thing did not explain me behaviour of Lawrence.
I will never forget his face when we entered in the room of the Mrs.
Inglethorp.
That was because he thought that he was looking at the consolation of the hearth, while he was looking for the door of the room of Cynthia, even beside the consolation of the hearth.
He saw that the door had not the bolt.
- He swore what had! - Exactement.
It was protecting it.
When Lawrence saw the door for it room of Cynthia without the bolt, it ended what she knew something on the murder.
But why? And because there would be of protecting it? Because it is in love with her, clear.
It is there that I am sure what is deceived.
I know certainly that he does not like at all her.
Oh yes? Let it explain me, mon ami.
He managed to crush the soup bowl of coffee with the feet, remembering him that it had been the Mademoiselle Cynthia taking the coffee to his mother in the previous night.
Leaving from there, insistent and superficially, it defended the theory of death for natural causes.
- I know that it is missed but - Monsieur Poirot! Lieutenant Hastings! They are so dear both! - We wanted to say to you a thing.
- We? We should have given to you the congratulations to the two, is not it? - Congratulations? - I and Cynthia are going to marry.
- Where Mary and John are? - They are Let's go! Hastings? What a marvellous woman! Never I will understand the women.
My friend consoles himself.
Perhaps one day, when this terrible war to finish, let's work again joined.
And the Poirot will explain everything him!