Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) s03e01 Episode Script

HOW YOUR GARDEN GROWS? - What you do here? - It would come.
You cannot come here.
We are not informed about your presence He was having to see you, I need money.
It is well.
But here not.
Where? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr.
Poirot, a very observant choice.
Kind what, Mr.
Trumper.
Please, send the count for my residence.
Yes, certainly.
Can I ask a question? - Does it have any special opportunity? - Yes, very special, Mr.
Trumper.
I am ready becoming a pink rose.
It is not at all.
I thought that it could be food poisoning.
Skies, no.
They are digestive problems common to persons of his age.
I am going to prescribe a powder to calm the stomach.
And one remembers: It swims of chocolates, I catch and when they were fried.
His favorite food.
Katrina will be able to lift the powder this night in my surgery.
What was? I did not call you.
Katrina? - Lady? - Katrina, the mail.
Yes, Lady.
He is you.
Only two letters for the aunt.
It does not advance to annoy it with this.
She wants to read them now.
Since he wants.
And do not put itself reading the letters, yes? Poirot! Fast, they are to his wait.
Only one more moment, Hastings.
It was for the bathroom so what arrived.
It did not even read the letters.
Stranger.
- Perhaps be paint the hair.
- Me them he is a man.
- What he said, Hastings? - It swims.
Et bien.
We are going to put ourselves then the way.
I do not know because it wanted to come here; it is Mary who takes care of the garden.
- Yes, but the garden is mine.
- It was excused to say that.
The count what I received this morning of the shop of drinks also it was excused.
I spoke already on that with Henry, aunt Amelia.
Where do we go first? I do not know where you go, but I fancy to see roses.
Katrina? It is with deep honor that I greet this most beautiful rose, what shares my humble name.
Thank you.
Does Pour grind? - Merci beaucoup.
- Mr.
Poirot? I was imagining it how polyantha and not a hybrid tea.
- The perfume is more intense.
- Perhaps, but mine are lovely.
A day of sun, good company, a rose with my name What more a man can have? - Fever of the hays.
- Fever of the hays? Pouvre Hastings.
Does it have a scarf that lends me, Poirot? This one is already wet.
Unfortunately, I have not.
- I think that we did not have to leave them.
- It forgets, Henry.
What the evil is? She is that girl Will it be that there is here a bar? - Give birth, it gives birth, please.
- What was? I am indisposed, it must be of the heat.
- A glass of water goes for me.
- Clear.
Leave me here, I am seeing the seeds.
Do not be preoccupied, I stay well.
But one does not stay! - Excuse, my lady - The fault was mine.
My servant left me for a few moments.
Thank you.
He is you.
is not Poirot? - Correct.
- I was amazed.
- It is completely so lovely.
- An inspiration.
Also does it have garden? One day I wait to go for the field.
Up to there, I am content with a flower pot.
Then take these seeds, with my fulfilment.
- No, Lady - Beauty queen, Miss Barrowby.
Amelia Barrowby.
Please, I insist.
He is going to see that they are a revelation.
Mademoiselle, is very gentle.
Thank you.
Where you hid, girl? You delayed so much time.
- There were many people.
- What was? Is it well? Yes, I am the best, it does not go on at all.
I am already well.
Place this water.
And look for my husband.
Aunt, we are going to see if you devise meeting for the berms of the garden.
Fuchsia triphylla flowers scarlet.
Discovered by a French missionary in 1703.
Very interesting, Inspector-chief.
How his allergy is, Hastings? It is much good, thank you.
- Take.
- Thank you.
What is this? A gift of an admiradora, the Mademoiselle Amelia Barrowby.
Oh yes? They are not told to me to have offsprings of this packet, Poirot.
- Is not the variety good? - Yes, she is one of the best.
But the packet has no seeds.
" STOCK - STOCK " CATARINA, THE GREAT ONE It arrived already.
It was preoccupied by the dinner.
One does not preoccupy us, Lucy, no we forget of his night of rest.
- Who is going to see this week? - Ronald Coleman.
- Does beauty queen Katrina come to have dinner? - Yes.
It would would do a message.
Take, it must arrive.
Thank you.
- Good night, Beauty queen Lemon.
- Mr.
Poirot.
- It has the correspondence in the secretary.
- Very much thank you, Beauty queen Lemon.
I do not understand, I had never this problem.
I cannot say what sometime has noticed.
I already had a problem with an allergy, but Eruptions in baby? But intriguing what.
Does he know what I do not understand? Because they gave him an empty packet? Perhaps this responds to his question, Hastings.
A letter of Mademoiselle Amelia Barrowby.
Of the same woman? I find strange.
Because it did not mention this fact? Yes, it is strange.
Thank you.
Listen: " Expensive, Mr.
Poirot, " I wait what it forgives to have written to him, I me them will be careful.
" There is a time that I am suspicious that something of missed if it passes at my home.
" When I grew old, my niece, Mary, and his husband, " they accepted to take care of me and in exchange they might live at my home.
It is there completely.
The soup and the pie of fish it is in gentle fire.
Thank you, Lucy.
" Mary manages well the house, " but his husband, Henry, it has a specific weakness, " of what I disapprove totally.
" There is one year behind, " I employed a Russian young person like companion.
" It is there.
Say to my aunt what we are going to have for dinner now.
" It was guaranteed me that you it is of the biggest discretion.
" Despite everything, it costs to me describing the subject that disturbs me.
" Fear what if the wrong person he will know of my suspicion, " the consequences are terrible.
Henry! I go already, wanted! " Therefore, I will maintain my normal behaviour " I marry this person if it frightens.
" Lady? What is what he puts in these things? Agradecemo-Vos, Sir, because we are going to eat.
" If it will want to help me, " it can visit me in the residence above told so possible what.
" Sincerely, Amelia Barrowby.
" Snooper.
As for me, everything seems to me absurd.
Because he did not talk to him in the subject when it found it? The lady was alone during some moments.
It is afraid of being discovered.
And a harmless packet hands over me.
Which meaning will it have? It must have a fertile imagination, old many people are so.
Rosebank, Charman's Green.
Where it is? For south, near Surrey.
And a zone of field.
That does not please me very much.
Tomorrow, well very early, Beauty queen Lemon, it would like what was accompanying me in a visit to Mademoiselle Barrowby.
Since he wants, Mr.
Poirot.
Lady! Be removed of her! - Leave it alone! - Be removed! - She is very badly! - Good Lord! - Phone to a doctor! - What? The doctor, idiotic one! Fast! Unfortunately, she is not.
He also is not.
They were both the Charman's Green.
I am guarding the fort, because of my allergy.
How? It must have forgotten of paying.
Wait, I am going to look for the count and to check that.
Only one more moment, Mr.
Trumper.
Does one matter of waiting here? - We are going to need bill.
- Does it invoice? It will be what - What was, Mr.
Poirot? - I am not sure, Beauty queen Lemon.
Come.
But what so orderly garden.
Very much arranged.
They must to me have finished them this berm.
This makes me remember yours childlike rigmarole, Beauty queen Lemon.
" Mary, Mary, who sees you so, how your garden flowers? " With small bells " Excuse, they dropped this in his garden.
Then it was there.
It must have fallen during her - Very much thank you.
- Je vous enpris - Is Mademoiselle Barrowby? - Does not my man, know? It was last night Unfortunately, she died.
- Wait here, please.
- Very much thank you.
You are advocated.
Because that, Mademoiselle says? I thought that it had come to say that she did not know what she was doing.
It is not certain, she wrote it and his will will be carried out! Mr.
Poirot, excuses.
Allow what shows up.
- Lady.
- This is my husband.
- How it is? - Monsieur.
Beauty queen Barrowby was my aunt.
I apologise because of interfering in his suffering.
I secure him what we were not counting with his death.
Hercule Poirot, are not you the detective? - Monsieur.
- Clear, the new rose! I saw it in the exhibition of flowers.
What brings it to our house? Pardon.
Mademoiselle Barrowby it wrote to me a letter and he wanted to speak with me on a subject.
To which do I pay attention? It was of private nature.
- Did not he talk about the "red"? - Red? - Bolshevists, the communist threat.
- Henry, please.
Excuse, I thought Mr.
Poirot, can advance us more some information? - Then, Mr.
Poirot? - Unfortunately, I cannot say anything.
Excuse, I leave alone.
Au revoir, Lady.
Monsieur.
There is cat here, Beauty queen Lemon.
What is going to do the mouse? I do not do idea from what is speaking, Mr.
Poirot.
- For where we go? - You say to me Inspector-chief.
I noticed as soon as his agents they were watching the house.
The doctor of the family alerted us.
I phoned to a Captain Hastings and he told me that you came here.
I deduct what did not commit any They judge that we are waiting for the result of the autopsy.
- Is it suspicious like me? - We are doing tests in the morgue.
It does not prefer to wait in the taxi, Beauty queen Lemon? No, thank you.
I helped in the morgue of the hospital during the war.
- In the archive? - Mr.
Poirot! There is any doubt.
- Strychnine.
- A substantial dose.
What would be administered little before the death? Precisely.
We will discover what they ate to the dinner.
Beauty queen Lemon.
Soup of artichoke, in a tureen.
Pie of fish and tarte of apple.
I spoke with the servant.
She had been going to see a movie.
- The four ate the same thing.
- Excellent, Beauty queen Lemon.
The food was not poisoned.
They must have given something to the part to the lady.
No, Inspector-chief, impossible.
He is right, the strychnine is very bitter.
It is detectável in a solution of one in thousand.
- The coffee! - It did not come drinking it.
- Then I do not know how they gave it to him.
- However, Inspector-chief there is someone at that home what is a murderer to coolness.
MEDICAL SURGERY It was already afraid that it was that.
I had already come across with this situation before.
A rich old woman who gives refuge to the poor relatives, it controls the money The temptation is to push on the process native and to receive the inheritance.
money of Mademoiselle Barrowby? Completely, they had not a cash.
They were dealing with titles and actions.
The Fall affected them so much like anyone one of us.
And are the only lively relatives his? Yes.
Certainly, they are going to inherit everything.
A particular substantial income, because I know.
Excuse, Monsieur le Doctor, Mademoiselle Barrowby was it taking any medicine? With her age, there has no much doing.
It was taking a capsule before of eating to improve the digestion.
But they were not the powders.
Katrina it was guarding them with the biggest care.
- And will it will have been that it links the poisoning one? - Why? Katrina never would poison the mistress.
Surplus value to maintain it cheers and to be still employed.
" She wrote it and his will will be carried out! " - What? - It must not be at all.
that there is a criminal investigation.
- Does it come, Poirot? - For now not, Inspector-chief.
Dr.
Call, Dr.
, you.
did Barrowby have a lawyer? I understand the problem, but the will will be read only in Saturday.
She said to me: " She wrote it and his will will be carried out.
" Does it do idea from what she was meaning? Unfortunately, I cannot pronounce myself.
I do not ask for MonsieurHarrison him what betrays the confidence of a client.
However, it is regrettable what about serve the ends of a murderer! The numbers three, nine and fourteen, please.
It is a difficult, this decision.
This two are known of all, the male and the female.
They are that you were spinning.
Then, we have this colt, of foreign blood.
Not much conventional, the newly arrived one to a very shut cowshed.
And is which you erase going to be awarded a prize? The one who wins is the newly arrived one.
MonsieurHarrison, thank you.
It seems that justice was done.
Beauty queen Lemon.
Do not think that this is going to be this way.
I never knew a slower couple of unemployed persons - Inspector-chief.
- Poirot.
- I bring bad news.
- Today already I had their my quota.
The heirs of Beauty queen Barrowby She is the Russian girl, Katrina Reiger.
And she always knew it.
Are they hearing? One was not a present lady, such a big raspanete was giving to you up to making to you boiling the ears! - What happened? - They let it escape of the house! Katrina Reiger disappeared! Murder It seems impossible.
I not Henry, it must have given you ears.
Excuse.
I never trusted the moca.
- I am feeling badly.
- Calm, dear.
- Thank you, Dr.
- The best is to go to bed.
We are shocked all.
A little of Russia in our verdant land? Very interesting.
Call, Inspector-chief Does he know which saint is this? For me, these puffbirds are all equals.
- Does it do any difference? - Perhaps not.
We meet others.
- I gave him a weak sedative.
- Thank you, Dr.
It was an experience and so much.
- Mr.
Poirot.
Inspector-chief.
- Monsieur reads Doctor.
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye.
I never liked the girl, always flood of secrets.
They were suspicious what Beauty queen Barrowby had everything left him? We were not sure, but there was this possibility.
Inspector! It was in the box.
It seems to me a strychnine.
Here for me, Beauty queen Reiger only goes to receive a travel even to the chain.
- One is that this is her name.
- What it means with that? A communist.
It spreads problems, it feeds the revolution in England.
Now, my man, that does not pass of fantasy.
No, not, Inspector-chief Japp.
Check again.
It is an impossible credit a mistake in the filing cabinets of the information of the State.
She will be registered, live already here there are three years.
The comrade Estaline does not predict mistakes.
We do not know anybody called Katrina Reiger.
Thank you, it helped us immensely.
One more thing.
What was the opium of the people, second Marx? - The popular, friendly fiction.
- Yes, clear.
Thank you.
It seems that it is right, Poirot.
It was the agitating one.
Otherwise, because they would deny the presence of her? It must already be in Russia, - I think that she was not going to like that.
- But is it communist, is not it? I doubt, Inspector, so it has the image of the died Tsar in the bureau.
- But you said Her name is not Reiger.
And what we do now? At his place, Inspector, was looking the Russian church in London.
The opium of the people is the religion, since the young good knows.
And now, it is time of my tea, Beauty queen Lemon.
Inspector-chief.
You.
Trumper phoned three times, it is very much bothered.
It is better the money sends for courier.
Five guinéus arrive.
Not even to think about that, Captain, not knife swims.
- I speak with him when I will return.
- Yes, but And do not touch my archives.
Bye.
Beauty queen Lemon, imagines a history.
- How? - Imagine what is a Russian young person.
It is employed like lady of company of an old demanding one.
Old that one gains affection and it decides to leave his fortune.
The couple of this decision places it, but there is a question.
You were not it honours as for his past.
Then, the catastrophe! It is suspicious what she contracted a famous detective.
It acts fast and before the arrival of the detective, the lady dies and the money is his.
- Does it seem to him reasonable? - Unfortunately, it looks.
I agree.
If at least we knew what Beauty queen Barrowby was distrusting.
If it had left us one more trace He is sure of what it did not put anything in the packet? No.
Clear.
I am even stupid.
Poirot, here has.
The Russian church it is to a saltinho from here.
Excellent.
But, first, Does beauty queen Lemon, have two pennies? - For the tip, Mr.
Poirot? - For the telephone, Beauty queen Lemon.
Bonjour, Mademoiselle Reiger.
No, Mademoiselle.
Do not be alarmed.
This is a sanctuary, it is sure here.
Only I want to know the truth.
Because it escaped? I know what you think, they think that I poisoned it.
I know already how it is, already it me happened in Russia, when the men of the Estaline they arrived.
His family was pursued by his position? Therefore it came here.
What imports in him to you? Such as they, he wants to see me in the misery.
Call, only you touched the medication? It was preferring die.
And Beauty queen Barrowby only had dinner what we already know? Clear, otherwise they would have noticed.
It must have cost to him very much to work for another person, " go me for this, bring that one to me " when you had already created.
I am a Regimirov.
I am not afraid of the work.
And is it afraid of dying? The answer was in the packet.
Catarina, " The Great one ", or in Russian, Katrina.
I realized when it was coming here.
There he comes.
- I am going to accompany them.
- Take it and accuse her.
At least, it was quick.
Now here it is a case with an end certinho.
He does not seem to me, an Inspector-chief.
Come, Beauty queen Lemon.
No.
Hello, Poirot.
Japp.
Beauty queen Lemon.
How his allergy is, Hastings? Holy God.
This packing arrived for you.
It seems to them to be old letters.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Poirot, I do not do idea of what it is disturbing it.
The girl saw it speaking with the old one, it realized that something was going on.
It had a motive and there was the only one that had opportunity.
We know, undoubtedly, who killed it.
- Yes, I think that we know.
- What is that, Poirot? They are the letters of routine what Beauty queen Barrowby was writing to an accountant and this is the letter what it links it wrote to me.
One will notice with attention, Hastings, he will see that the handwriting has a subtle, but important difference.
It is true! Katrina exchanged the letter of the mistress for a letter written by her? Hastings, had never noticed in his powers of deduction.
No, what it bothers me it is on trial of as the murder was committed.
Do we already have the proof, have not? Captain Hastings! What is this? - I was going to explain him - He said to him not to pay the count! But you.
Trumper insisted very much.
He does not know how they are the traders.
If we will pay in cash, they do not forget us.
- They think that the cheques are bald.
- Clear! We go again to Charman's Green.
You also, Beauty queen Lemon.
- I, Mr.
Poirot? - Yes.
I want that it goes to a fishmonger.
- Did it already recover of the shock? - Yes, thank you.
It was a trial.
- Good afternoon.
- Good afternoon.
Monsieur reads Doctor.
Lady.
Mr.
Poirot, what pleasant surprise.
Obliged by his work.
Je vous en prie, Lady.
Merci, Mademoiselle.
- Please, one feels.
- Thank you, Monsieur.
An unpleasant subject and not simple at all.
Now that everything ended, does not it want to tell to us the event? Yes, it was not a plan of the Bolshevists? They are put in this, but it is not that.
Since they know, Mademoiselle Barrowby wrote to me a letter, but it did not tell everything to me with fear of intercepting the letter.
But, it astonishes of the surprises, she saw me in the exhibition and it dreamed up a short meeting.
- I apologise, Lady.
- No, the fault was mine.
- It was judging that I already had received the letter.
- Did she speak with you? Yes, but there the fact is that the problem resides.
She could be seen, someone might hear it Then, it gave me an innocent packet, a trace of his suspicions.
- A trace? - Yes.
As a matter of fact, it was something that you said what clarified me the sense of the packet.
"Stocks" (titles).
I phoned to an accountant of Beauty queen Barrowby in the City, what confirmed me what it links, in the last months, it was walking doing investments of risk, since they prove these letters sent to his broker.
But these letters were not written for Mademoiselle Barrowby.
They are a falsification it deigns of an expert.
Rascals of Bolshevists, under our noses.
It tried to confuse me with you them sweat ridiculous histories of spies.
The Mademoiselle Reiger is one Russian aristocrat, is not communist.
In fact, you tried to hide a winding murderer.
Excuse.
Mr.
Poirot, is this melodrama necessary? When I came even here for the first time, this beautiful garden reminded of me of your childlike rigmarole: " Mary, Mary, who sees you so, how your garden flowers? " With small bells, of the berbigão the conchinhas " and the girls in a line without end.
" But in this garden shells were not in use of berbigão, shells of oysters were in use, the favorite savory, me them prohibited, of his aunt, Also he saw me in the exhibition of flowers, he did not want them to me what was discovered what was walking speculating in the Stock Exchange, but this time with the money of his aunt.
You also are speculating, Mr.
Poirot.
What is done from the proof? Yes, Lady, on trial.
The fishmonger remembers of oysters buy you in this day.
He knows, Lady, it had the folly of paying with money.
- It caught us, Mary.
- Idiot! Mary! Mary! It has not as it will escape, Lady.
This miserable Russian! There to keep everything, including my garden! My garden! And therefore it put the poison in her room and her did it dictate to the death? What matters? It does not pass of a head.
Be removed! Yes, this my timid husband it tried to talk me out, but it was so delicious easy.
The aunt always adored oysters, but the doctor advised.
I proposed what was eating them in secret It swallowed them so fast what did not even notice the strychnine.
Only it was having to release me of the shells unless Lucy was giving for them.
The berm of the flowerbed was completed.
Also it served to hide the bell.
It was always touching it, continually.
- And so it reached the end! - Not properly! No, Lady, no! Whisky? It excuses, wanted.
You condemned his fool me to the prison! Brave, Mademoiselle, you are really courageous.
- And now, it is free.
- Release? His friend is to his wait.
Thank you, Mr.
Poirot, because of not betraying us.
One day we will be really free.
- For where, Beauty queen? - Take us for the "Ritz".
Now it is, seems a queen.
- Good night, Hastings.
- Hello to all.
Captain Hastings, what it is doing? - With this pollen completely - No, already I am the best.
- It was not a fever of the hays, at last.
- But it was looking.
They are remembered of I had said that I had already an allergy? I already know what it was.
An aunt of mine was liking a perfume specific French Whenever I was approaching her, it was not managing to stop spitting.
I lament, Beauty queen Lemon, it will change them to me of perfume.
I never use that I perfume when I come to work.
- No? - It would be extremely unsuitable.
But someone is using perfume, it smells me.
Perhaps be the flowers, my friend.
No, it is different.
The smell comes from here.
- Poirot! What is using? - I do not know the one that refers.
- It is using perfume.
- Stupidities, Hastings.
I bring an eau-de-Cologne, discreet and masculine.
- I bought it to a Mr.
Trumper.
- For five guinéus.
- Five guinéus? - I thought that they were the haircuts.
Be enough! The office of Poirot be shut in! Beauty queen Lemon, cover the typewriter.
To pass well, Inspector-chief.
Hastings, goes for house to treat his disease.