Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) s03e09 Episode Script
The Affair at the Victory Ball
The EXPRESS OF PLYMOUTH - Yes? - Very good afternoon.
Are you new here, is not you? Does it want to speak with someone, gentleman? Good by chance I want, yes.
It would like giving a chat to my woman.
Newspaper! Newspaper! Newspaper! - Good morning, gentleman.
- Good morning.
Does it have any available suite? As how much time will we have the honor of his visit, Mr.
does It read Comte? I still do not know.
I have business to negotiate in London for indeterminate time.
- Is there some florist in the hotel? - Certainly, gentleman.
Excellent.
Suite 37.
Darling Flossie Which ray does it do here, Carrington? Florence does not want to see it.
I thought that the letter of his lawyer it had been quite explicit.
Certainly we want both to avoid some embarrassment to the Flossie with the spread of some secrets of family Disappear from here! Your voice seemed to hear me, Rupert There is no need of speaking with him, Florence.
Not so little there is need of receiving.
But I want to speak with him, father.
Only for a little time, please.
It is well.
A minute.
Then I want it out of this house.
- He never liked me.
- Do not say to me! I do not manage to imagine why Listening, Flossie as for our divorce it is really that that you want? Rupert only I agreed in speaking with you alone, to make sure of what I already feel nothing for you.
And it is the case.
- Goodbye, Rupert.
- Wait, Flossie It is well, one is what you want.
But it will be that you could - I am with some problems.
- Do you want money? Not even a cash.
You already used yourself the sufficient thing of my money, but that finished.
I find better you help me, Flossie.
What the situation was to the fastening of yesterday, in Sydney? The report of the geologist is the best, it could not be better.
But where these rumours appeared? In Paris? But who, in Paris? He sees if you stand the bank, Tommy.
When the true report it will be published, the actions are going to fire.
Yes.
It is well.
You remind of yourself of the actions that the Hacket did he advise me to buy? Which actions, Hastings? Of that mining Australian group.
Yellow Creek.
He said that they were ready doing a fabulous discovery.
Do not say to me, Hastings: they are to five shillings.
I thought that you were not interested for the Stock Exchange.
And not, Hastings.
I study psychology.
Monsieur Hacket is what one calls a congenital optimist.
In the only time that we passed by each other, it guaranteed me with all the certainty what in this afternoon would not rain since it was going to a party in the open air.
Yes, I remember.
It rained cats and dogs.
A Mr is here.
Gordon Halliday to see it, Mr.
Poirot.
"Monsieur" Gordon Halliday? - Tell it to enter, Beauty queen Lemon.
- The Australian Gordon Halliday? The millionaire what was done by own you.
He is a president of the Yellow Creek Mines "! Do you find what it will be able to advise to me? You are prohibited to speak in the subject.
The Monsieur Halliday it is here to be advised and not to advise.
Mr.
Poirot.
It is a great sympathy to receive me without marking.
Of all, of all.
In what I him can be a usefulness? It is a somewhat delicate subject You.
It reads Comte it ordered him flowers again, my lady.
Again? What says the card? I am completely distressed without his news.
It will be possible what I am condemned going to drink alone tea? Have piety, beautiful Florence.
Have piety.
He did not change anything.
Good I was making distracting well.
The money is not a problem, Mr.
Poirot.
I want to be free of him.
The Poirot does not treat this type of subjects, Mr.
Halliday.
He not only is European, Sr.
Poirot, since he is a French.
And not only he is a French, like swindler.
It is very difficult for Florence.
They all know that she is my heiress.
That frightens the decent types and it attracts the self-seeking ones.
And this such a Comte de Rochefour is he one of these self-seeking ones? He knew it so that I saw it in Paris, smelling of our turn.
Clear that Florence found it the maximum.
I was worried to get rid of him.
I found what perhaps should know someone in the high English society.
Like Honorary Rupert Carrington? Yes.
It was a worse the correction than the sonnet.
And now that she was free of him, this supposed Count appears put up in the hotel Adelphi and spending a fortune in roses.
The Poirot has not for custom potential husbands veto, Monsieur Halliday.
I am not going to be able to help it.
Only he has been saying to me what it does not do, Mr.
Poirot.
It will be that it cannot give a peep to this aldrabão, for me? The man is not a father, Poirot.
It does not do idea of the difficult thing that is to raise a daughter alone, without a wife to accompany me, nobody whom asking for advices Very well.
I give him a peep for you.
I can tell him where he will be from here the half hour.
Unless I am wrong very much, Florence will be there also.
Does not it go to the Crufts? It must be the event more exciting of this month, in London.
That is not true.
I was devastated when it left Paris, Florence.
I was completely finished.
Immense lament that one of Paris.
My father His father! Perhaps this time he sees me with other eyes.
- Why? What changed? - I have a job.
Dressing what the First National Bank of Paris have some weight even before his father.
And then, Hastings? What he says to him his instinct on the count? Very little, to say the truth.
And a "franciú" típ a typical French.
I want to say, he is a typical French of his type of French.
There that is true typical of his type.
- Actions to a bearer? - In the value for 20 thousand pounds of yours.
If the bank it trusts me to this point, his father also can trust.
And you also.
Perhaps.
This has something to do with some financial master-stroke? - Tomorrow I tell everything to him.
- Lament, but tomorrow, no.
I am going to pass on weekend it had been.
There are months that I accepted the invitation.
Since I can pass three distant days of you, now that did we meet ourselves again? It can be going to say goodbye to me, if that makes it be felt better.
I am going to catch the train of the 12.
14 H in Paddington.
The Express of Plymouth, with change in Bristol.
Come to be dismissed of me.
They are only three days.
Which jewels must I pack, my lady? I do not manage to make up my mind.
I take the box with all.
Does it find sensibly, Beauty queen Florence? Florence, I find what Do you have to use even that? With this dress? Do not be stupid, a father.
- It puts these, Jane in order.
- Do you have to take even all? You did not have to worry so much about me, papa.
Be a darling and it helps Jane to take the suitcases.
The Yellow Creek Mining Corporation.
To be sold when they are to a pound.
She is my security.
Be careful with that.
They are weighed.
The train parked in the platform 1 he is the Express of the 12.
14 H de Plymouth road Bristol.
The Express of the 12.
14 H de Plymouth road Bristol He is sure what he does not want that it keeps you? I have, yes.
It can be going to look for a place.
It is waiting for company, my lady? Clear what not.
Because it would be? Want to excuse does he know if that clock is certain? I do not do the least idea.
Is the Poirot? I want to see it immediately.
In this instant.
Florence disappeared! It will do something, Poirot.
Simply it disappeared.
- One abates, Monsieur Halliday.
- How I can?! I knew that something so it would happen! She had been going to pass on weekend it had been.
The servant tied me of Bristol.
They must have changed of train, but Florence stayed in the train, he said that it had things to negotiate.
- Did it specify which things would be? - No, no.
Only he said that he would return in the first train for Bristol and what then would be still joined.
It is not a reason for preoccupation But that was that there are three hours and there is still no her sign.
I am seeing What more preoccupies me is what when the servant entered in the carriage in Bristol, he saw a man with her.
The train that is submitting in the platform 1, it is it of the 12.
14 H, coming from Paddington.
This is the station of Plymouth.
The train that is submitting in the platform 1, it is it of the 12.
14 H, coming from Paddington.
Newspaper! Extra! Extra! Because these things happen, Poirot? You are an intelligent man, answer me.
My expensive friend immense lament.
Discover the murderer, Poirot and I will do from you a very rich man.
Halliday, my friend, it is not a question of money.
Believe that I also will not rest while it will not take the murderer to the justice.
But it is essential what speaks it more quickly possible with the servant.
It is in the room of meals.
The police officer is now questioning it.
He said already to him: I did not come seeing the face.
It costs to me believing in that She made sure of that itself you.
Carrington.
When we brought the Bristol near, she was already at the door, with the luggage in the corridor.
Only I saw it of glance, for top of her shoulder.
He was of back.
It must to me have repaired them in some thing.
He said already to him: it was high, it was wearing a dark suit and I find what I am almost sure what had dark hair, but I do not remember of more at all.
Good afternoon, Poirot.
Hastings.
They told me that it was here.
This was completely very unpleasant.
An authentic tragedy.
One allows me, Mamselle did he seem to him known? No I cannot say what yes.
It might be the husband of the Mrs.
Carrington? Only I saw it once but perhaps work hard.
Already sometime he saw a man who gives for the name of Comte de Rochefour? No, man.
Very much thank you, Mamselle.
And after having seen of glance this man who has, perhaps yes or perhaps not, I put on previously, what happened? - He said already to him.
You.
Carrington said what it had subjects to negotiate in the train and in order that I leave with the luggage and to hope for her.
You.
Halliday said to me what you.
Carrington it was taking with her a travel suitcase blue, with immense jewels.
Also did it take this suitcase? No, man.
That kept her.
What it finds, Poirot? I calculate that the suitcase of blue travel was not it found next to the body? And it makes calculations very well.
But that is not necessarily significant.
Whichever the motive was of the murderer, it would be crazy not to get a beating a suitcase full of valuable jewels.
Perhaps it was taking it to distract us of the true motive.
There is how much time was killed, when it was found in Plymouth? According to the doctor, to around three hours.
After Bristol, the train stops in Weston and only it stops again in Taunton.
According to the pathologist, she was murdered somewhat then of the train to have left Weston, or even even before.
- Before bringing the Weston near? - And possible.
The train of Plymouth goes out from the station of Paddington ás 12.
14 H, is not it so? Yes, ás 12.
14 H.
What you say to me to a realive walk for the field, Hastings? Estacão of Weston.
And to the marked hour.
There are exactamente 15.
25 H.
Excellent.
And exactamente 35 minutes after to go out from Bristol this hour in what yesterday, the Lady Carrington it was still meeting with life.
The question is, Hastings she will be the Lady Carrington was it still alive in this stopping? And if it was lively, it will be that it remained in the carriage, or it will have gone down even to the platform, perhaps to stretch the legs, to catch a little air And will there be anybody who has seen it? - We could ask a signalman.
- Yes, we could.
Or perhaps, Hastings Newspapers! Buy here your newspapers! Excuse no, thank you.
It seems to you to be an observant young person.
My mother says that yes.
One remembers of yesterday, exactamente to this hour, to have seen to go down of the train a pretty young person put on as coat and hat blue Perhaps he has bought a newspaper - The Australian lady? - One remembers, so? How could it her forget, chief? It did an enormous outcry.
- An outcry? - Yes he wanted by force the last print run of a newspaper.
He told him that it only had print runs you awake early, it did not believe them to me, it was always saying: I need a newspaper!, like if the life was depending on that.
It let to him some reason to want desperately the last print run? No, only he was saying: He is going to grow so angry! it was looking at the train, since they were waiting for her.
- And then? - Not at all, it gorged itself of bursting up to almost losing the train.
It jumped for the train practically in movement.
Very much thank you.
Morning print run, last print run.
Morning print run, last print run.
Fantastic, Beauty queen Lemon.
I knew what I would get.
The difficulties were done to be exceeded, Mr.
Poirot.
The difficulties were done to be exceeded what praiseworthy attitude.
Very well, Hastings let's divide this between us and let's examine them thoroughly The Inspector Japp.
- Inspector-chief - Poirot.
What we have here? Does it walk to the search of job? No, I know that it talked with the news-dealer.
Does it think that there can be there something? It is that that we are trying to discover, Inspector-chief.
I found that he better will see him saying what must be in the certain way as for that French man.
Apparently it left the Adelphi ás 11.
00 H of yesterday, an hour before of the Express to go out from Paddington and he did not return even after the 22.
00 H.
And nobody knows where it passed the day.
We caught it this morning, trying to catch the train.
We boarded it to be questioned and it tried to escape.
It is at this moment in the squad.
These newspapers have nothing to do.
No, not, Inspector-chief.
When we will know because the fact is that the Lady Carrington it was so anxious because of buying the last print run, we will discover the motive by which it was murdered and the one who was the person in charge.
- More one.
- Lament, but not, Mr.
Carrington.
- What it means, " do not prune "? - Because it already drank the sufficient thing and there is still the question of the count - Who is you? - Arthur Hastings.
This type does not want to give me a drink, Arthur Hastings.
To serious? Perhaps I have more luck.
Two uísques doubles, please.
- Yesterday I escaped well in Ascot.
- Do not talk to me about Ascot.
Horses! In which did it bet on that of the 15.
30 H? - Apposition that was in the "Highland Laddie"! - Yes, by chance even it was.
I hate people like you.
33 to one.
I bet everything on the "Rising Star".
" Rising Star "! All my money in that jade! To mine last opportunity.
It is necessary to have been a shock when it read the result in the newspaper.
A shock? Does he know because I am here? It is the only siege where my broker does not catch me.
I do not want to be here drinking.
Does he know that I do not even like drinking? - Because it bet on the "Highland Laddie"? - They gave me a hint.
I hate persons who receive hints.
Thank you.
I me them will be just, you are a good person.
- How he knows that I read in the newspaper? - He said that it was not in the racecourse.
Did I say that? You are an even good person.
All my money! When I looked at the newspaper I could be well an event, the capital had been.
And the hints.
There is nobody to whom could it resort for capital? Not even the only person.
Now already not.
I prefer not to speak on that.
- I demand to see the French consul.
- Completely at his time, Mr.
It reads Comte.
This is a very serious subject.
He already told him that I know nothing on the death of the Mrs.
Carrington.
- I am distressed by the piece of news.
- I am more interested in this.
- You.
Halliday arrived already.
- Tell it to enter.
Mr.
Halliday.
Monsieur Halliday, my deep feelings.
The count says what his daughter saw for the last time when they took tea in Wednesday.
Yes, they took tea joined.
The most interesting thing, Mr.
Halliday, the fact is that it was bringing this with him.
Actions to a bearer.
But the count does not want to say us which business type makes be brought by it for Paris, three days later It is obvious what was using them like a sort of security.
- Security why? - This is a subject of my bank.
I do not second them to myself they, gentleman.
I phoned they.
They are anxious to speak with you.
- Which bank does one treat? - The International Bank of Paris.
Wait there! I know already for what the security guard wanted.
There are ten days, the rumour was launched what a geological report on one of my mines it would be unfavorable.
The actions fell dizzily.
He must have done a fortune.
He must have bought them to 3 shillings and sold in the following day to the true report to be published, when they rose for 20.
Doing a profit of around 100 thousand pounds.
It seems to me a subject for the department of fraud.
Fraud? Which fraud? They are business practices perfectly normal.
It does not admire what was so anxious for the last print run.
LAST HOUR: RECUPERATION OF YELLOW CREEK He was up to Ascot and it bet everything what had in the "Rising Star".
So what he knew what the horse had lost, it asked for a loan Florence.
She refused and Good, the franciú gave to the gullet.
I knew.
He wanted to use you.
Carrington like reserve, if the plan failed - No! It had lost in the races - Run? Which races? Rupert Carrington.
" Rising Star ".
It has not to do with the Carrington.
Please, my friends! Since I can choose between both theories, if I hardly realize a word? His theory, Inspector-chief, such as I understood it, the fact is that the Comte de Rochefour it was intending to use the Lady Carrington as reserve.
If the business was running badly, money would borrow from him, so to recover the actions.
- He already admitted it.
- But the business did not run badly.
Because it would kill the Comte to obtain the jewels of the Lady Carrington? On the other side, Hastings, your theory defends what when Monsieur Carrington it discovered what the horse had lost, it demanded the money to the woman, to put an end to the brokers and what when she refused, did it kill it to keep the jewels? Exactamente! Then it explains me, Hastings, because it will be that the Monsieur Carrington is still put in the bar, drinking up to any more not being able and shuddering of fear of what could the brokers do to him? These speculations of nothing serve.
Order and method will be our guides.
I have been consulting the incredible filing cabinets of the Beauty queen Lemon.
So, Inspector-chief, choice four of his best men and they meet me to this residence, ás 21.
00 H.
Discover the jewels and it will discover the murderer.
- What is happening? - It swims.
It is knocking at the door.
Wait, someone answered.
He entered.
Who had given me knowledge what walks he conspiring.
I did not realize very well to what it comes, Sr? A friend he advised me to speak with you.
A friend? That I make friends? - He prefers to maintain the anonymity.
- Yes? I do not like a great deal of anonymous friends.
My friend is anxious because of buying pieces of jewelry store.
There are thereabouts immense shops.
- You have face of jeweller.
- And very observant, gallant.
So well.
Perhaps have read something on the theft of the day before yesterday in the Express of Plymouth? - I do not read this filth.
- And it does very well, Monsieur.
These jewels made gushing blood.
They will be very difficult to sell.
You are a character somewhat strange.
Of where it comes? Is it montenegrino? Pole? I am a Belgian, Monsieur MacKenzie.
These jewels will be broken, pulls of the frames.
Who will try to sell them, with great luck only it will get a sixth one of his value.
I do not know which his move, " monsieur.
Really I do not know.
My friend is a true one particular collector, it would not be strange at all.
It would not be preoccupied if the jewels they were in his original form.
In fact, he would prefer.
Let's wait then what is lucky.
It was deceived in the shop.
Nothing from that does sense for me.
I am seeing.
I lament not to have when he could be helped.
All of we have false hopes, Mr.
MacKenzie.
- How it ran? - It is he.
It denies any knowledge, but in the hanger a coat is equal to what you.
Carrington it was using in the height of his death.
- Why would he like an equal? - For his accomplice, Hastings.
- He did not know that it had an accomplice.
- But it is obvious that yes.
- It was therefore that I located it.
- We go to this, boys.
Open the door, she is the police officer! Knock the door down.
I want to give him a chat, Mr.
Halliday.
It was not welcome when my daughter was alive.
Now it is still less.
That does not interest me.
Because there is of to be of calm conscience? This tragedy would never have happened if it had not hidden between me and the Flossie.
The only thing what hid between you his character was this.
She saw soon the type of person who was.
He saw what you wanted what he was seeing.
Because it did not leave it alone? What is, Mason? He is the Inspector of the Scotland Yard, man.
And more some persons.
- Do we have to speak even in this? - Lament, Monsieur Halliday.
It does not serve of anything.
Be well, continue.
I continue without realizing the history of the newspaper.
To beginning, not even I, my friend.
Because Florence would be so desperate to get the newspaper? One allows me, Mamselle Perhaps his companion he was a man driven to despair to know the result of determined race.
Thank you, Mamselle.
Or perhaps his companion he was a man driven to despair to know the result of the fastening of the Stock Exchange.
What absurdity.
I massacred my brain and I made an effort all the grey cells without compassion.
Why would Florence Carrington like so desperately that newspaper? And what it went to his conclusion? My conclusion, my friend, it was what it links he did not want it! So what this concept installed, the truth became quite obvious.
I knew that Florence had been murdered because of the jewels, but also he knew something on the man who killed it.
What he knew? The man for whom it was looking he was a thief without scruples.
Able to commit the murder of a young woman.
So I looked in the filing cabinets of Beauty queen Lemon and do they know what I discovered? I discovered a thief of jewels of his name MacKenzie.
The plan was conceived in way not leaving to look what the reason for the crime it had been the jewels.
This color you is very well.
Florence Carrington it was travelling with his jewels alone and left unprotected in the Express of Plymouth.
Monsieur MacKenzie had got a beating the same train in Paddington.
So what the train it was brought near of the station of Bristol, he advanced even to his carriage.
The train brings the Bristol near.
Monsieur MacKenzie goes down for the platform, getting a beating with you not only the jewels, I eat also the luggage of the Lady Carrington.
If someone had looked for the carriage while going out from Bristol, he would have seen the Lady Carrington still with life.
As a matter of fact, in Weston she went out from the train, where it did a great outcry because of a newspaper.
But everything for is certified that the news-dealer would remember her.
But the pathologist he said that she was already killed before the train to bring the Weston near and perhaps before bringing the Bristol near.
And since it is possible? Will it be that we believe in ghosts? No.
No, we do not believe.
It did not go to Mademoiselle Florence who was seen in the train for Weston.
It did not go to Mademoiselle Florence who did that outcry in the station.
It was yes, the accomplice of the Monsieur MacKenzie, put on with a coat equally blue.
To kill a human being it is a vile act, my friends but to kill a human being with a knife it is still viler.
You are an authentic lady.
To see the eyes of the victim looking at knots.
To feel his breath in the face.
The knife for between the ribs.
The accomplice of the Monsieur MacKenzie she was a woman called Grace Kidd, what was working for the Lady Carrington under the name of Jane Mason.
Call, Mademoiselle it was even necessary what a woman who never did badly, was it dying? Could not it have been avoided? With those jewels we were keeping the solved life.
- Why will it risk? - It arrives already.
Take it from here, boys.
Poor person Florence.
Poor person dear Florence.
We found the jewels at the home of the Mr.
MacKenzie, Mr.
Halliday.
They are not mine.
I know the will of my daughter.
They belong to that creature there.
No.
I do not want them.
I do not want to make a profit with the death of the Flossie.
Regrettable.
Regrettable - I think that I can go away.
- Does he think? He cannot be a murderer, Monsieur Le Comte, but he is a swindler.
The man goes with me even to the Scotland Yard.
Expensive Mr.
Poirot: it would like thanking for him his help in this tragedy.
His logical and professional method it was something that supported me during my deep despair.
I wait that, in a near future, also I manage to find the same inner calm and perhaps to begin again.
I am going to return the house and to the memory of the happiest times.
Perhaps old friends help me living with the past.
Poor person Monsieur Halliday.
In his letter he says that he is going to return to the Australia to plunge into his work and to try to forget.
And it was extremely generous.
Poor man.
Are you new here, is not you? Does it want to speak with someone, gentleman? Good by chance I want, yes.
It would like giving a chat to my woman.
Newspaper! Newspaper! Newspaper! - Good morning, gentleman.
- Good morning.
Does it have any available suite? As how much time will we have the honor of his visit, Mr.
does It read Comte? I still do not know.
I have business to negotiate in London for indeterminate time.
- Is there some florist in the hotel? - Certainly, gentleman.
Excellent.
Suite 37.
Darling Flossie Which ray does it do here, Carrington? Florence does not want to see it.
I thought that the letter of his lawyer it had been quite explicit.
Certainly we want both to avoid some embarrassment to the Flossie with the spread of some secrets of family Disappear from here! Your voice seemed to hear me, Rupert There is no need of speaking with him, Florence.
Not so little there is need of receiving.
But I want to speak with him, father.
Only for a little time, please.
It is well.
A minute.
Then I want it out of this house.
- He never liked me.
- Do not say to me! I do not manage to imagine why Listening, Flossie as for our divorce it is really that that you want? Rupert only I agreed in speaking with you alone, to make sure of what I already feel nothing for you.
And it is the case.
- Goodbye, Rupert.
- Wait, Flossie It is well, one is what you want.
But it will be that you could - I am with some problems.
- Do you want money? Not even a cash.
You already used yourself the sufficient thing of my money, but that finished.
I find better you help me, Flossie.
What the situation was to the fastening of yesterday, in Sydney? The report of the geologist is the best, it could not be better.
But where these rumours appeared? In Paris? But who, in Paris? He sees if you stand the bank, Tommy.
When the true report it will be published, the actions are going to fire.
Yes.
It is well.
You remind of yourself of the actions that the Hacket did he advise me to buy? Which actions, Hastings? Of that mining Australian group.
Yellow Creek.
He said that they were ready doing a fabulous discovery.
Do not say to me, Hastings: they are to five shillings.
I thought that you were not interested for the Stock Exchange.
And not, Hastings.
I study psychology.
Monsieur Hacket is what one calls a congenital optimist.
In the only time that we passed by each other, it guaranteed me with all the certainty what in this afternoon would not rain since it was going to a party in the open air.
Yes, I remember.
It rained cats and dogs.
A Mr is here.
Gordon Halliday to see it, Mr.
Poirot.
"Monsieur" Gordon Halliday? - Tell it to enter, Beauty queen Lemon.
- The Australian Gordon Halliday? The millionaire what was done by own you.
He is a president of the Yellow Creek Mines "! Do you find what it will be able to advise to me? You are prohibited to speak in the subject.
The Monsieur Halliday it is here to be advised and not to advise.
Mr.
Poirot.
It is a great sympathy to receive me without marking.
Of all, of all.
In what I him can be a usefulness? It is a somewhat delicate subject You.
It reads Comte it ordered him flowers again, my lady.
Again? What says the card? I am completely distressed without his news.
It will be possible what I am condemned going to drink alone tea? Have piety, beautiful Florence.
Have piety.
He did not change anything.
Good I was making distracting well.
The money is not a problem, Mr.
Poirot.
I want to be free of him.
The Poirot does not treat this type of subjects, Mr.
Halliday.
He not only is European, Sr.
Poirot, since he is a French.
And not only he is a French, like swindler.
It is very difficult for Florence.
They all know that she is my heiress.
That frightens the decent types and it attracts the self-seeking ones.
And this such a Comte de Rochefour is he one of these self-seeking ones? He knew it so that I saw it in Paris, smelling of our turn.
Clear that Florence found it the maximum.
I was worried to get rid of him.
I found what perhaps should know someone in the high English society.
Like Honorary Rupert Carrington? Yes.
It was a worse the correction than the sonnet.
And now that she was free of him, this supposed Count appears put up in the hotel Adelphi and spending a fortune in roses.
The Poirot has not for custom potential husbands veto, Monsieur Halliday.
I am not going to be able to help it.
Only he has been saying to me what it does not do, Mr.
Poirot.
It will be that it cannot give a peep to this aldrabão, for me? The man is not a father, Poirot.
It does not do idea of the difficult thing that is to raise a daughter alone, without a wife to accompany me, nobody whom asking for advices Very well.
I give him a peep for you.
I can tell him where he will be from here the half hour.
Unless I am wrong very much, Florence will be there also.
Does not it go to the Crufts? It must be the event more exciting of this month, in London.
That is not true.
I was devastated when it left Paris, Florence.
I was completely finished.
Immense lament that one of Paris.
My father His father! Perhaps this time he sees me with other eyes.
- Why? What changed? - I have a job.
Dressing what the First National Bank of Paris have some weight even before his father.
And then, Hastings? What he says to him his instinct on the count? Very little, to say the truth.
And a "franciú" típ a typical French.
I want to say, he is a typical French of his type of French.
There that is true typical of his type.
- Actions to a bearer? - In the value for 20 thousand pounds of yours.
If the bank it trusts me to this point, his father also can trust.
And you also.
Perhaps.
This has something to do with some financial master-stroke? - Tomorrow I tell everything to him.
- Lament, but tomorrow, no.
I am going to pass on weekend it had been.
There are months that I accepted the invitation.
Since I can pass three distant days of you, now that did we meet ourselves again? It can be going to say goodbye to me, if that makes it be felt better.
I am going to catch the train of the 12.
14 H in Paddington.
The Express of Plymouth, with change in Bristol.
Come to be dismissed of me.
They are only three days.
Which jewels must I pack, my lady? I do not manage to make up my mind.
I take the box with all.
Does it find sensibly, Beauty queen Florence? Florence, I find what Do you have to use even that? With this dress? Do not be stupid, a father.
- It puts these, Jane in order.
- Do you have to take even all? You did not have to worry so much about me, papa.
Be a darling and it helps Jane to take the suitcases.
The Yellow Creek Mining Corporation.
To be sold when they are to a pound.
She is my security.
Be careful with that.
They are weighed.
The train parked in the platform 1 he is the Express of the 12.
14 H de Plymouth road Bristol.
The Express of the 12.
14 H de Plymouth road Bristol He is sure what he does not want that it keeps you? I have, yes.
It can be going to look for a place.
It is waiting for company, my lady? Clear what not.
Because it would be? Want to excuse does he know if that clock is certain? I do not do the least idea.
Is the Poirot? I want to see it immediately.
In this instant.
Florence disappeared! It will do something, Poirot.
Simply it disappeared.
- One abates, Monsieur Halliday.
- How I can?! I knew that something so it would happen! She had been going to pass on weekend it had been.
The servant tied me of Bristol.
They must have changed of train, but Florence stayed in the train, he said that it had things to negotiate.
- Did it specify which things would be? - No, no.
Only he said that he would return in the first train for Bristol and what then would be still joined.
It is not a reason for preoccupation But that was that there are three hours and there is still no her sign.
I am seeing What more preoccupies me is what when the servant entered in the carriage in Bristol, he saw a man with her.
The train that is submitting in the platform 1, it is it of the 12.
14 H, coming from Paddington.
This is the station of Plymouth.
The train that is submitting in the platform 1, it is it of the 12.
14 H, coming from Paddington.
Newspaper! Extra! Extra! Because these things happen, Poirot? You are an intelligent man, answer me.
My expensive friend immense lament.
Discover the murderer, Poirot and I will do from you a very rich man.
Halliday, my friend, it is not a question of money.
Believe that I also will not rest while it will not take the murderer to the justice.
But it is essential what speaks it more quickly possible with the servant.
It is in the room of meals.
The police officer is now questioning it.
He said already to him: I did not come seeing the face.
It costs to me believing in that She made sure of that itself you.
Carrington.
When we brought the Bristol near, she was already at the door, with the luggage in the corridor.
Only I saw it of glance, for top of her shoulder.
He was of back.
It must to me have repaired them in some thing.
He said already to him: it was high, it was wearing a dark suit and I find what I am almost sure what had dark hair, but I do not remember of more at all.
Good afternoon, Poirot.
Hastings.
They told me that it was here.
This was completely very unpleasant.
An authentic tragedy.
One allows me, Mamselle did he seem to him known? No I cannot say what yes.
It might be the husband of the Mrs.
Carrington? Only I saw it once but perhaps work hard.
Already sometime he saw a man who gives for the name of Comte de Rochefour? No, man.
Very much thank you, Mamselle.
And after having seen of glance this man who has, perhaps yes or perhaps not, I put on previously, what happened? - He said already to him.
You.
Carrington said what it had subjects to negotiate in the train and in order that I leave with the luggage and to hope for her.
You.
Halliday said to me what you.
Carrington it was taking with her a travel suitcase blue, with immense jewels.
Also did it take this suitcase? No, man.
That kept her.
What it finds, Poirot? I calculate that the suitcase of blue travel was not it found next to the body? And it makes calculations very well.
But that is not necessarily significant.
Whichever the motive was of the murderer, it would be crazy not to get a beating a suitcase full of valuable jewels.
Perhaps it was taking it to distract us of the true motive.
There is how much time was killed, when it was found in Plymouth? According to the doctor, to around three hours.
After Bristol, the train stops in Weston and only it stops again in Taunton.
According to the pathologist, she was murdered somewhat then of the train to have left Weston, or even even before.
- Before bringing the Weston near? - And possible.
The train of Plymouth goes out from the station of Paddington ás 12.
14 H, is not it so? Yes, ás 12.
14 H.
What you say to me to a realive walk for the field, Hastings? Estacão of Weston.
And to the marked hour.
There are exactamente 15.
25 H.
Excellent.
And exactamente 35 minutes after to go out from Bristol this hour in what yesterday, the Lady Carrington it was still meeting with life.
The question is, Hastings she will be the Lady Carrington was it still alive in this stopping? And if it was lively, it will be that it remained in the carriage, or it will have gone down even to the platform, perhaps to stretch the legs, to catch a little air And will there be anybody who has seen it? - We could ask a signalman.
- Yes, we could.
Or perhaps, Hastings Newspapers! Buy here your newspapers! Excuse no, thank you.
It seems to you to be an observant young person.
My mother says that yes.
One remembers of yesterday, exactamente to this hour, to have seen to go down of the train a pretty young person put on as coat and hat blue Perhaps he has bought a newspaper - The Australian lady? - One remembers, so? How could it her forget, chief? It did an enormous outcry.
- An outcry? - Yes he wanted by force the last print run of a newspaper.
He told him that it only had print runs you awake early, it did not believe them to me, it was always saying: I need a newspaper!, like if the life was depending on that.
It let to him some reason to want desperately the last print run? No, only he was saying: He is going to grow so angry! it was looking at the train, since they were waiting for her.
- And then? - Not at all, it gorged itself of bursting up to almost losing the train.
It jumped for the train practically in movement.
Very much thank you.
Morning print run, last print run.
Morning print run, last print run.
Fantastic, Beauty queen Lemon.
I knew what I would get.
The difficulties were done to be exceeded, Mr.
Poirot.
The difficulties were done to be exceeded what praiseworthy attitude.
Very well, Hastings let's divide this between us and let's examine them thoroughly The Inspector Japp.
- Inspector-chief - Poirot.
What we have here? Does it walk to the search of job? No, I know that it talked with the news-dealer.
Does it think that there can be there something? It is that that we are trying to discover, Inspector-chief.
I found that he better will see him saying what must be in the certain way as for that French man.
Apparently it left the Adelphi ás 11.
00 H of yesterday, an hour before of the Express to go out from Paddington and he did not return even after the 22.
00 H.
And nobody knows where it passed the day.
We caught it this morning, trying to catch the train.
We boarded it to be questioned and it tried to escape.
It is at this moment in the squad.
These newspapers have nothing to do.
No, not, Inspector-chief.
When we will know because the fact is that the Lady Carrington it was so anxious because of buying the last print run, we will discover the motive by which it was murdered and the one who was the person in charge.
- More one.
- Lament, but not, Mr.
Carrington.
- What it means, " do not prune "? - Because it already drank the sufficient thing and there is still the question of the count - Who is you? - Arthur Hastings.
This type does not want to give me a drink, Arthur Hastings.
To serious? Perhaps I have more luck.
Two uísques doubles, please.
- Yesterday I escaped well in Ascot.
- Do not talk to me about Ascot.
Horses! In which did it bet on that of the 15.
30 H? - Apposition that was in the "Highland Laddie"! - Yes, by chance even it was.
I hate people like you.
33 to one.
I bet everything on the "Rising Star".
" Rising Star "! All my money in that jade! To mine last opportunity.
It is necessary to have been a shock when it read the result in the newspaper.
A shock? Does he know because I am here? It is the only siege where my broker does not catch me.
I do not want to be here drinking.
Does he know that I do not even like drinking? - Because it bet on the "Highland Laddie"? - They gave me a hint.
I hate persons who receive hints.
Thank you.
I me them will be just, you are a good person.
- How he knows that I read in the newspaper? - He said that it was not in the racecourse.
Did I say that? You are an even good person.
All my money! When I looked at the newspaper I could be well an event, the capital had been.
And the hints.
There is nobody to whom could it resort for capital? Not even the only person.
Now already not.
I prefer not to speak on that.
- I demand to see the French consul.
- Completely at his time, Mr.
It reads Comte.
This is a very serious subject.
He already told him that I know nothing on the death of the Mrs.
Carrington.
- I am distressed by the piece of news.
- I am more interested in this.
- You.
Halliday arrived already.
- Tell it to enter.
Mr.
Halliday.
Monsieur Halliday, my deep feelings.
The count says what his daughter saw for the last time when they took tea in Wednesday.
Yes, they took tea joined.
The most interesting thing, Mr.
Halliday, the fact is that it was bringing this with him.
Actions to a bearer.
But the count does not want to say us which business type makes be brought by it for Paris, three days later It is obvious what was using them like a sort of security.
- Security why? - This is a subject of my bank.
I do not second them to myself they, gentleman.
I phoned they.
They are anxious to speak with you.
- Which bank does one treat? - The International Bank of Paris.
Wait there! I know already for what the security guard wanted.
There are ten days, the rumour was launched what a geological report on one of my mines it would be unfavorable.
The actions fell dizzily.
He must have done a fortune.
He must have bought them to 3 shillings and sold in the following day to the true report to be published, when they rose for 20.
Doing a profit of around 100 thousand pounds.
It seems to me a subject for the department of fraud.
Fraud? Which fraud? They are business practices perfectly normal.
It does not admire what was so anxious for the last print run.
LAST HOUR: RECUPERATION OF YELLOW CREEK He was up to Ascot and it bet everything what had in the "Rising Star".
So what he knew what the horse had lost, it asked for a loan Florence.
She refused and Good, the franciú gave to the gullet.
I knew.
He wanted to use you.
Carrington like reserve, if the plan failed - No! It had lost in the races - Run? Which races? Rupert Carrington.
" Rising Star ".
It has not to do with the Carrington.
Please, my friends! Since I can choose between both theories, if I hardly realize a word? His theory, Inspector-chief, such as I understood it, the fact is that the Comte de Rochefour it was intending to use the Lady Carrington as reserve.
If the business was running badly, money would borrow from him, so to recover the actions.
- He already admitted it.
- But the business did not run badly.
Because it would kill the Comte to obtain the jewels of the Lady Carrington? On the other side, Hastings, your theory defends what when Monsieur Carrington it discovered what the horse had lost, it demanded the money to the woman, to put an end to the brokers and what when she refused, did it kill it to keep the jewels? Exactamente! Then it explains me, Hastings, because it will be that the Monsieur Carrington is still put in the bar, drinking up to any more not being able and shuddering of fear of what could the brokers do to him? These speculations of nothing serve.
Order and method will be our guides.
I have been consulting the incredible filing cabinets of the Beauty queen Lemon.
So, Inspector-chief, choice four of his best men and they meet me to this residence, ás 21.
00 H.
Discover the jewels and it will discover the murderer.
- What is happening? - It swims.
It is knocking at the door.
Wait, someone answered.
He entered.
Who had given me knowledge what walks he conspiring.
I did not realize very well to what it comes, Sr? A friend he advised me to speak with you.
A friend? That I make friends? - He prefers to maintain the anonymity.
- Yes? I do not like a great deal of anonymous friends.
My friend is anxious because of buying pieces of jewelry store.
There are thereabouts immense shops.
- You have face of jeweller.
- And very observant, gallant.
So well.
Perhaps have read something on the theft of the day before yesterday in the Express of Plymouth? - I do not read this filth.
- And it does very well, Monsieur.
These jewels made gushing blood.
They will be very difficult to sell.
You are a character somewhat strange.
Of where it comes? Is it montenegrino? Pole? I am a Belgian, Monsieur MacKenzie.
These jewels will be broken, pulls of the frames.
Who will try to sell them, with great luck only it will get a sixth one of his value.
I do not know which his move, " monsieur.
Really I do not know.
My friend is a true one particular collector, it would not be strange at all.
It would not be preoccupied if the jewels they were in his original form.
In fact, he would prefer.
Let's wait then what is lucky.
It was deceived in the shop.
Nothing from that does sense for me.
I am seeing.
I lament not to have when he could be helped.
All of we have false hopes, Mr.
MacKenzie.
- How it ran? - It is he.
It denies any knowledge, but in the hanger a coat is equal to what you.
Carrington it was using in the height of his death.
- Why would he like an equal? - For his accomplice, Hastings.
- He did not know that it had an accomplice.
- But it is obvious that yes.
- It was therefore that I located it.
- We go to this, boys.
Open the door, she is the police officer! Knock the door down.
I want to give him a chat, Mr.
Halliday.
It was not welcome when my daughter was alive.
Now it is still less.
That does not interest me.
Because there is of to be of calm conscience? This tragedy would never have happened if it had not hidden between me and the Flossie.
The only thing what hid between you his character was this.
She saw soon the type of person who was.
He saw what you wanted what he was seeing.
Because it did not leave it alone? What is, Mason? He is the Inspector of the Scotland Yard, man.
And more some persons.
- Do we have to speak even in this? - Lament, Monsieur Halliday.
It does not serve of anything.
Be well, continue.
I continue without realizing the history of the newspaper.
To beginning, not even I, my friend.
Because Florence would be so desperate to get the newspaper? One allows me, Mamselle Perhaps his companion he was a man driven to despair to know the result of determined race.
Thank you, Mamselle.
Or perhaps his companion he was a man driven to despair to know the result of the fastening of the Stock Exchange.
What absurdity.
I massacred my brain and I made an effort all the grey cells without compassion.
Why would Florence Carrington like so desperately that newspaper? And what it went to his conclusion? My conclusion, my friend, it was what it links he did not want it! So what this concept installed, the truth became quite obvious.
I knew that Florence had been murdered because of the jewels, but also he knew something on the man who killed it.
What he knew? The man for whom it was looking he was a thief without scruples.
Able to commit the murder of a young woman.
So I looked in the filing cabinets of Beauty queen Lemon and do they know what I discovered? I discovered a thief of jewels of his name MacKenzie.
The plan was conceived in way not leaving to look what the reason for the crime it had been the jewels.
This color you is very well.
Florence Carrington it was travelling with his jewels alone and left unprotected in the Express of Plymouth.
Monsieur MacKenzie had got a beating the same train in Paddington.
So what the train it was brought near of the station of Bristol, he advanced even to his carriage.
The train brings the Bristol near.
Monsieur MacKenzie goes down for the platform, getting a beating with you not only the jewels, I eat also the luggage of the Lady Carrington.
If someone had looked for the carriage while going out from Bristol, he would have seen the Lady Carrington still with life.
As a matter of fact, in Weston she went out from the train, where it did a great outcry because of a newspaper.
But everything for is certified that the news-dealer would remember her.
But the pathologist he said that she was already killed before the train to bring the Weston near and perhaps before bringing the Bristol near.
And since it is possible? Will it be that we believe in ghosts? No.
No, we do not believe.
It did not go to Mademoiselle Florence who was seen in the train for Weston.
It did not go to Mademoiselle Florence who did that outcry in the station.
It was yes, the accomplice of the Monsieur MacKenzie, put on with a coat equally blue.
To kill a human being it is a vile act, my friends but to kill a human being with a knife it is still viler.
You are an authentic lady.
To see the eyes of the victim looking at knots.
To feel his breath in the face.
The knife for between the ribs.
The accomplice of the Monsieur MacKenzie she was a woman called Grace Kidd, what was working for the Lady Carrington under the name of Jane Mason.
Call, Mademoiselle it was even necessary what a woman who never did badly, was it dying? Could not it have been avoided? With those jewels we were keeping the solved life.
- Why will it risk? - It arrives already.
Take it from here, boys.
Poor person Florence.
Poor person dear Florence.
We found the jewels at the home of the Mr.
MacKenzie, Mr.
Halliday.
They are not mine.
I know the will of my daughter.
They belong to that creature there.
No.
I do not want them.
I do not want to make a profit with the death of the Flossie.
Regrettable.
Regrettable - I think that I can go away.
- Does he think? He cannot be a murderer, Monsieur Le Comte, but he is a swindler.
The man goes with me even to the Scotland Yard.
Expensive Mr.
Poirot: it would like thanking for him his help in this tragedy.
His logical and professional method it was something that supported me during my deep despair.
I wait that, in a near future, also I manage to find the same inner calm and perhaps to begin again.
I am going to return the house and to the memory of the happiest times.
Perhaps old friends help me living with the past.
Poor person Monsieur Halliday.
In his letter he says that he is going to return to the Australia to plunge into his work and to try to forget.
And it was extremely generous.
Poor man.