Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) s03e05 Episode Script

TRAGEDY IN the HOTEL Cursed birds! Jack! - I am here, wanted.
I am here.
- It is completely well, Susan.
I stumbled, more not at all.
You did not have to be here.
You heard Dr.
Bernard.
It still passed a little time from the operation.
I know that he said not to go out, to sleep enough.
It can be a good advice for a turtle, Susan, but not for Cursed ulcer.
You are still weak, dear.
You are going to be good, but it takes his time.
You will learn to be a patient.
What was? Susan? It is up there again.
That face You heard of again, Jack.
Do not tell me that you did not hear? That insane and awful burst of laughter.
She was up there I eat before laughing We arrived.
How it is even his name? Naughton! Samuel James Naughton! arrived-well to my hotel, this is the happiest day of my life! Your suitcases.
Thank you, Monsieur Naughton.
We receive his letter this morning and since he sees, we came soon.
I have two of the best rooms ready and to your wait, men.
Thank you, Monsieur Naughton.
He was saying in his letter, what three workers they had been poisoned, that the syringe of the doctor had disappeared and what only I, Hercule Poirot I can solve the mystery.
Right, but we have time, what about beautiful soup bowl of tea first? Nice what.
By chance do not do sandwich, it does? Monsieur Naughton! In matter of crimes there is no time to lose.
- The facts of the case, please.
- It is completely here.
At least the first ones two hundred pages.
" The Needle in the Hayloft.
The new police mystery, for Clarissa Naughton.
" I use a feminine name, since it looks what it helps to sell better.
It is an excellent argument, I am only with problems with the end.
I intended to write to him, the fact could be that it was coming to help me.
He said for my woman, " I have nothing to lose, " and diabos take me, here be! I in the letter did not say what one was treating as a book? Hastings! Good Lord! We came to the mistake! We lose the last train and only we can leave in the morning.
Be livened up, Poirot! We can do a series of things It seems amusing.
Come from there, Poirot.
" True faces of the death of local murderers.
" Interesting.
Apparently, they obtained them from molds in wax of the faces of the murderers, after his executions.
Quite obscure.
It is this snooper English passion for the observation of a series of scarecrows.
Up to now I still did not see no gross similarity.
Hastings? I lament, gentleman.
We are going to close.
I ask him to go out.
- Does it come, Hastings? - Hour of fastening, unfortunately.
- Yes, but - This way, gentleman.
They are never so real how much those of meat and bone.
- Does it grieve him? - No.
It does not need to be preoccupied, but for the sake of God, it has more taken care, Jonathan.
The ulcers can drill a hole and it is not only a question of diet.
It is prohibited to do any type of efforts.
In the post-operative period Thank you, Jeffrey.
End of lesson.
Have dinner with us.
He must want table in the restaurant.
- We stop serving ás 21 hours.
- Thank you.
I came to see a few friends.
This night I have dinner with them in the Mansion Marsdon.
I know.
Have a good night.
Mr.
did Poirot, already discover? Mine " who went? " No, Monsieur Naughton, never again I thought about that.
The brain of Hercule Poirot it is how a very well oiled motor.
It does not walk with cheap fuel and of doubtful quality! It does not do badly.
It always has bedtime reading.
I go him for the keys.
Someone returned of Africa.
Kenya, to be more right.
A memory for a person.
With license.
I bought it in that of the markets.
I found her quite perfect.
Something that another artist would appreciate.
Second looks it is a type of talisman, cursed spirits of the dead men, all these nonsenses It excuses.
It was anything that he said? Andrew, I think that it does not know Jeffrey Bernard, my doctor.
The Captain Black, a friendly old man of the family.
- Had just brought near of Africa.
- Where it was parked? - In Kenya, near to the Lake Victory.
- Do we go, when she was wanted? I have a cousin in Nairobi.
We are going to have dinner, Beauty queen Rawlinson.
Does he keep us company? Thank you, Mr.
Maltravers, but I am still tied up with the counts.
Perhaps later then? It is how if she was enjoying itself with me and suddenly it stops.
Since everything had been imagined.
Seeing if I understand.
You are saying that in the garden, on top of a tree, he survives the ghost of a dead girl? It is told that there is around 50 years, the adolescent one committed suicide in the same property.
It was despised by the lover.
It climbed even to the top of that oak enormous what is outside and one shot here down.
In spite of spending the years, the villagers He knows like these superstitions they gain roots.
My experience in these cases it points to autosuggestion.
The persons believe to have testified paranormal phenomena I know what I saw, Dr.
Bernard.
I go now to the bank.
Bye.
- Frozen morning, Danvers.
- Good morning, boss.
For all the United Kingdom, the preparations are finalized, for the national simulation of civil defense, scheduled by the Government of His Majesty for this Wednesday.
- Did it sleep well, Poirot? - Like a stone, Hastings! I passed the night every ás you return! And ás three of the morning culminating of the despair.
Monsieur Naughton, it is really incredible.
What great tangle.
I surrender.
They all have strong alibis.
Who might have committed the crimes? I know! It was that that confused me.
This time it seems that I arrived to a dead end.
It swims of worrying one.
Was the room to his taste? No, Monsieur Naughton, the room was awful! It was looking that the cushions of duck's feathers, they still had the ducks there inside.
The Captain Black also does not look to have liked the stay.
Last night it was registered for the week completely, it paid in advance and this morning it left.
Perhaps, the ghosts drove away it.
We go to the breakfast.
What about beautiful herring fresquinho? My infusion, two slices of bread, toasted only from a side, please.
- Did he speak in ghosts? - Yes.
The Mansion Marsdon is astonished.
He was there last night.
- They say that it is full of ghosts.
- Did he already see them? Well, personally it is clear that not.
- Is it how that he knows that they are fresh? - Pardon? The herrings.
Saint good fresquinhos.
We them send two times weekly of Grimsby.
Is it where he survives the hidden evil? Tracking with the spirits of the lively-dead ones? - Grimsby? - Mansion Marsdon.
My breakfast, please.
We have a train to get a beating.
You.
did not Maltravers still return? - It was needing to speak with him.
- I find that still not.
Are already they 11 hours? To take usually comes the pills to this hour.
My lady! He is you.
Maltravers! It is better to come quickly! - Move back! - What was now? Be concealed, friendly! Move back! Is not he Hercule Poirot? Even in our beards.
Nobody touched anything.
It was so that I found it.
Thank you.
The Doctor warned about us that this it might happen.
The ulcer might burst and to provoke an internal hemorrhage.
It must have suffocated with the blood itself.
If at least us of this heard and he had been careful.
Sometimes the destiny it manages to be so cruel.
Monsieur Danvers.
He tells me that it discovered the body ás 11 hours.
Before that, it is when what his lively boss saw for the last time? Around 9:30.
One sat in the bank from stone, near the fence.
It used to go even there for a siesta after the breakfast.
The bank from stone Poor the young wife.
Heart smashes me.
They were not married there are no two years.
They were known in that of those parties of society in London, a true novel flash of lightning.
If sometime two persons they fell in love - And another lady? - Beauty queen Rawlinson? It is a much more ancient history.
She is his secretary there are already almost 20 years.
I say secretary, since literalmente it is her who manages his business.
He was not a man very organized.
Even so, a terrible vision.
There was any thing in his glance.
It seemed that he had seen a ghost.
Yes We go there, my darling.
Take one of this.
Very well, let's see, let's see Where it is? What it discovered? For what it was looking.
I do not see anything Look only at this A moment! A moment! What we have here? And have more! He seems confused, Poirot.
I do not realize his doubt.
The poor thing it had problems of stomach.
He heard what the doctors said.
Internal hemorrhage.
Crystal clear.
It suffocated even to the death.
Clear, Hastings.
And the most obvious conclusion.
Perhaps too obvious.
It noticed certainly in the wreckage fallen in the grass.
Wreckage? And in the mud in the soles of the shoes? Two joins more two, Hastings and it will come to a conclusion quite disturbing.
The body of the dead man was dragged from the bank from stone, even next to the tree! My God.
It is time to take notice of an Inspector Chief Japp, of the Scotland Yard.
There are two months we were in the South of Frank one.
It was then that he got worse.
We would interrupt every holidays and to return to the haste, why could it be operated.
Since it rested, it was taking the things with calm, it might recover totally.
Jack did not manage to be put at home the day completely! It was suffocating it was going mad - My darling, good billet devises - It was she.
I am sure.
She killed it.
"Does" it "link", Lady Maltravers? It is better enrage, she is still in state of shock.
- Up there in the tree.
That awful woman laughing.
It was that that he saw.
It was that that preached Him a fright of death.
A policy of life insurance, Poirot.
It is really much money, Inspector-chief.
Think about that, Poirot.
A man holds the life for one so elevated sum of money? His health gets worse suddenly.
It becomes a bundle for his poor and young wife.
It can find that his life it already does not do sense.
What is more useful for her killed.
- Suicide? - Fraud in the insurances.
It is a hypothesis to consider.
The people of the Insurance company it has been investigating and it looks that the business of our friend Maltravers they were not walking there very well, recently.
In the height of his death, it was on the edge of the bankruptcy.
No, thank you.
What was giving Him an excellent motive to stage the death itself, to liquidate the debts and to guarantee that you.
Maltravers it had the guaranteed future.
A thing, Inspector-chief Japp.
Since the fact is that you.
Maltravers it is possible to have committed suicide, when there were no signs of violence, or injuries, at least outsides? There is no poison that fills the mouth of a man of blood.
The autopsy will say it went away of the ulcer or not.
Yes, it is still going to stay a few days.
A pathologist of Norwich came.
And let's not forget the Captain Black.
It went out from here hurriedly.
I wait what has his men in his pursuit, Inspector-chief.
We have the portrait spoken to circular in all the piscatorial villages, in spite of A great deal of the subject seems to realize.
The crime and the investigation they are very dear pastimes, I eat here you.
Poirot it will be able to confirm him.
I wrote a small list of the principal suspects, what for right Him will be very useful.
Thank you.
Monsieur Naughton, it can serve us more a little of his puree of apple divinal? - Certainly.
- Thank you.
What his conclusion is? Suicide did not go away, it was not even due to natural causes It does not believe certainly in these nonsenses on ghosts and astonished trees? I believe that it walks a malignant strength on air, whose form or shape we will be going to discover soon.
REBECCA MARY MARSDON WHEN IT DID NOT NOT DIE, WHEN IT ONLY FELL ASLEEP For times they walk during the sleep, non? And like the mistakes of the past, they return to astonish us.
He thinks that I went mad, that I lost my mind because of what he said before.
- No, not, Lady Maltravers.
Such as the lady, also I believe that there was something in the garden, what frightened his poor husband.
It was not only in the garden, Mr.
Poirot.
There was more any thing.
There are two weeks.
We were getting ready to go away to lay Jack was in the bathroom and I had finished of taking the pill to sleep I sat down in front of the mirror to brush the hair and It was her blood.
I know that it was her blood.
Lady, when his husband he walked for the garden, did he see it of the window? - I saw it leaving.
Then I stopped seeing.
It was for another side of the house.
I was painting an aquarelle of the south lawn He used to be going to sit down in front of old fence of yew.
In the Western side of the house.
And the secretary of his husband, Mademoiselle Rawlinson? It went to the bank about 9:30 and it returned ás 11 hours.
It had finished my picture.
I believe what was washing the brushes when she entered and it asked after Jack.
It was then that the Danvers it crossed the lawn to run - Excuse, Mr.
Poirot.
Excuse - Lady NATIONAL DAY OF the CIVIL DEFENSE It is prepared.
Is it any emergence? This morning Dr.
Tem many visits to the residence.
Please, Madame.
Tell him that he is Hercule Poirot.
I believe what will attend me.
Doctor, a man to say is outside what suffers of " Urcule-porroh ".
It judges to treat something quite serious.
Thank you, Margaret.
Tell it to enter.
- Mr.
Poirot - Doctor I introduce to him my collaborator, Monsieur Captain Hastings.
- How it is? - How it goes? - It is for the children.
One serves.
- Thank you.
Dr.
Bernard, like expert in the matter, billet what the problem of stomach of Was Monsieur Maltravers very serious? Regrettably, I am not a wizard, Mr.
Poirot.
Clear that we were all aware of the risk of complications.
There is always, but Jonathan was a strong man.
With a strong constitution.
It should no have had problems.
None.
But what I know? Sometimes they do not mean absolutely not at all.
Does it spoil him the teeth, he knew? Also it was prescribing the medicines the Lady Maltravers? Of times at times.
Pressed to sleep This type of things.
She accustomed - What I find strange - Some problem, Dr.
Bernard? Chloroform.
A small bottle it disappeared.
Am I? Mansion Marsdon.
Mr.
Poirot.
No, it is not.
It went to the meeting of the defense civilian in the parochial hall.
There is around an hour.
The meeting of the civil defense.
Come, Hastings.
The time is urgent! He can say lady to me where it is the parochial hall? Quick, my friend.
without being afraid of inspiring toxic gases.
In the eventuality of a sudden emergence, be certified of what the mask it is quite arranged, holding tight the strip that has behind Pardon, Lady.
Lady Maltravers! Is it there? Lady Maltra The mask of gas! Quick! Remove it! With license! You leave from smell or brandy.
And call a doctor! Captain Black Quick, Hastings! We cannot miss it! We are very hurried, are not we, gentleman? It is completely well.
Inspector! Hastings, perhaps is better to accompany Lady Maltravers, until it recovers of this trial.
- Yes, certainly.
- Thank you.
- We see each other in the hotel.
Because the fact is that it tried to escape, Captain Black? I did not try to escape.
It was going down the staircases to see it was possible to help.
I did not fill this filth with poison! Please! It would not touch an alone hair I did not do anything of reprovable one.
Then call because it disappeared what not even a ghost, in the morning of the death of the Mr.
Maltravers? It is where that it was in the last 24 hours? And as it explains his appearance I fight today, when there is an attack to the life of the young widow? Captain Black, questions will not be answered ás of the Inspector-chief Japp, perhaps answer the my one.
There is how much time is in love for the Lady Maltravers? - That is - Collaborate, Monsieur.
The truth, if one does not matter.
Is it how that it might be here? How, if each second was it a torture for me? To see them to the joined two.
I thought that it would manage to exceed it, but so that I saw it again, I realized that it was not worthwhile.
It was ashamed of what it was feeling.
In the next morning, I caught the train of turn the Tilbury, planning to return for Africa and to forget.
It was then that while reading on the death in the newspaper, I decided to return Yes! But it is clear! The newspaper! Call, Captain Black, in the night in which it reached the hotel, it was bringing with you an object wrapped up in newspaper.
Yes.
It was an African statuette a type of talisman, what I bought while touring Kenya.
Yes! And he said, I second remember, what was a present for a person Right, for Susan.
Regrettably, I believe what irritated it, she is not much superstitious with these things.
- Is this relevant, Poirot? - Relevant, Inspector-chief? Clear.
We found the solution for the death of Monsieur Jonathan Maltravers! I must admit that the colors they are marvellous.
It has a great talent, Mrs.
Maltravers.
- Thank you.
- Does one already feel even better? It was an experience so unpleasant.
I believe what needs especially of peace and peace.
It is in good hands, is not it, my darling? Captain Hastings! It would like what was keeping the picture.
For the today help.
Very much thank you! very nice on his part! Is he sure? I do not support it nor one any more night.
Alone, at the home, with her.
Beauty queen Rawlinson? I do not realize.
There is some time they had a relation.
Years before knowing it.
Clear what for the part of Jack it was completely finished, but I do not know with everything this, I already do not know any more anything.
She now frightens me.
I understand It comes to have dinner with us this night, please.
You inhale.
Poirot.
I will feel more safe.
Well then? Did They Fasten the Captain Black? The thick fog begins to vanish, Hastings, but there are still many questions because of answering.
I came to eat more any thing.
The salad nicoisse is quite good for the grey celulazinhas.
What it discovered? Was Maltravers or done not not murdered? Yes, Hastings.
It was murdered.
To coolness and in cruel way.
And you.
Maltravers? Who would have arranged chloroform in her mask? Yes the mask.
How Lady Maltravers is? Did it already recover of his trial? Yes, more or less.
It invited us to have dinner this night in the mansion.
It seems to be still preoccupied with that secretary, Miss It is the picture painted by Lady Maltravers in the morning of the tragedy? É.
They are confirmed mine the worst you suspect.
See.
It is here completely.
The picture speaks for you.
- Does not he see? - Excuse, Poirot.
It looks to me a simple painting of the garden.
And the eggs! Yes, the broken eggs There must still be! - It is how what I did not realize before? - Mr.
Poirot! The Inspector-Japp to the telephone of the squad of local police officer.
It seems that the mystery darkens Poirot? I thought that it would interest Him knowledge the quite surprising results of the autopsy.
I second it, what really it killed Jonathan Maltravers Me them as it is that he knew? Be no time to lose! It still has the police officer in the garden of the mansion? Oiça well.
Bring him the next educations Monsieur Naughton, the murderer he is the bedridden explorer.
- Serious? - It shoots a poisoned dart for the cake, from the superior window.
God uses, I think that the case resolved me.
And my friend can reward with a small favor.
Susan I Immense lament for I would return.
Do you understand? It was very nice on his part, Captain.
A gale seems to be outside.
It is normal in this height of the year.
Sufficiently strongly to wake the dead men.
- God excuse - One lets be, Lady.
One feels, please.
Do not be preoccupied! Good Lord! what goes on? It is only the wind, Lady.
More not at all.
No! The windows were locked! I locked them before the dinner! I remember perfectly It calms, Lady Maltravers.
Jack My God.
No.
It cannot be Lady.
Be bleed of the hand! No! No, Mr.
Poirot It is the blood of Jack The blood of my husband it is in my hands because I was that I killed it You shine, Hastings.
You shine! Inspector Chefe? He is brought near what he heard, Inspector-chief Japp? It finished the farce, Mrs.
Maltravers.
Between.
It had a magnificent performance Monsieur Naughton.
I am going to be able to say to my grandchildren, that I helped Hercule Poirot resolving one of his cases more surprising! Thank you, Monsieur.
Take it, Baines.
Susan? - Did you do everything this for me? - For you? I do not understand.
- This mask - A mold in wax, Mademoiselle, withdrawn of the face of the died one.
A quite macabre method, I am afraid of them to myself necessary what for the success of this farce.
But, the blood A little of red paint, what had had passed Him for the hand a few seconds before.
In the same red ink what own she used, to create the blood in the mirror of his room.
- She put - Yes.
Such as it invented the face in the oak.
It is clear what was not existing I mistreat none, not even laughter.
The wind was believing images in the leaves.
Quacking of the carrion crows it preaches departures to our ears.
The seeds of the terror began flowing in the imagination.
But why? Simply to torment the husband, to kill it.
It is remembered what it links still it was weak after the operation.
She knew that any start or shock it might be highly damaging for his health.
The insurance is paid and it has to get rid of the husband, with whom he had got married you punish for the money.
For his bad luck, you.
Maltravers it turned out to be stronger again, of what for what she was waiting, it is therefore that one decided for more drastic measures.
The small rifle to hunt for carrion crows.
The Mademoiselle Rawlinson it is in the bank.
Monsieur Danvers it works in another zone of the garden.
She used the opportunity.
The weapon of hunting for carrion crows, loaded of chumbinhos it was the weapon of the crime completed! The chumbinho stays in the brain and it is already.
The internal fatal hemorrhage.
At the moment, it hides the weapon in the fence and while doing it, it touches the nest and in the eggs of the blackbird.
His plan to rehabilitate it subsequently it goes out when it failed, because the police officer was continuing of policeman to the garden.
It drags the body for next to the tree to make us believe, what he turns something up there, what provoked the fatal attack.
It is true, with the arrival of Hercule Poirot, she panics.
There knows what suspect of murder.
And it stages the disastrous situation of the chloroform in the mask of gas, trying to make us believe that the life itself is in risk.
Completely this, to remove our suspicions of the cruel one and brutish murder of the poor husband.
Such a sweet young person.
Who would say that it was able of such an awful idea But the idea did not come from her, Inspector-chief.
It came from his admirer more in love, Captain Black.
- Does it think that they were joined in this? It swims of that, Hastings.
The newspaper, what was wrapping the present of the Captain Black.
In the first page an article was coming on an African farmer, what had had committed suicide exactamente in the same way! With the rifle of chumbinhos in the mouth.
Did not it read the title page? But Hercule Poirot sees everything and do not forget anything! - And the picture? - The shadows, Hastings, they were painted of the right wing for the left! If it had it really painted before I halve it, as he said, they would be of the left for the right wing! She had already painted the picture, to have an alibi.
- Right.
- It is better we are walking, to catch the train - No, not, it is still early.
The pretentious pieces are incredible, do not they find? To be immortalized in such a special way What it honors! What will exist this way? - Impressive.
- Incredible.
- It is a work of art.
- A true artistic work.
The curly hair Even it has the dimples in the cheeks, see! A true example of talent, does not it find?