Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) s05e02 Episode Script

The WRONGED THING MR.
H.
TREFUSIS CHIEF OF the DEPTO.
OF CHEMISTRY My expensive Horace, we felt very sorry of not seeing it in our conference in Berlin.
England is in the danger of being isolated, does he know? Many people were discussed interesting advancements, in individual the new compound of Astoprene de Sir Reuben Astwell.
It runs the noise of which the Farben from here it is going to be authorized producing it he knows them to me like the scientists they invent rumours.
ASTOPRENE CONFIDENTIAL The man! Help me! The man is not trying, Mr.
Poirot.
Beauty queen Lemon, I know that it is totally qualified for the practice of the hypnosis, I do not reject this fact.
But with a person of so energetic character and whose intellect is so strong Think that it can be very useful for his investigations.
Very well, one is glad Continue.
Relax Relax His eyes are weighed It is going to fall asleep - What goes on here? - Please, Capitão Hastings.
Excuse.
Only he wanted to know to what hours he wants to go tomorrow morning.
To the " Cup of a Captain " in Abbot's Cross.
You.
Poirot did not talk to me about that.
I spoke yes, Beauty queen Lemon, but one forgot of beginning to appear.
Mr.
Poirot, I am trying to help.
Beauty queen Lemon, I am very grateful to him, I do not need them to myself of hypnosis.
I prefer to use the grey celulazinhas.
Hastings, obliged because of having come.
We can go for the manhãzinha.
- What is this " Cup of the Captain "? - And a trophy of golf, clear.
The event lasts two days.
A friend of mine, it Chatter Leverson, it invited me to be his partner.
It must be occupied of more to go to plays of golf, Mr.
Poirot.
I am, Beauty queen Lemon.
But there is another invitation what I do not hold out.
The uncle of the Mr.
Leverson he is Sir Reuben Astwell, and they invited us having dinner with him.
He has the best European collection of Belgian miniatures in bronze.
And the Belgian miniatures in bronze the best of the world are.
Why? Because they are the biggest.
Sir Reuben Astwell must be a man of great good taste and sensibility.
I want that letter in the I.
G.
Farben today! I was thinking, Reuben.
I do not know if it will be better To think, I am here! But, like partner, I have a right to give an opinion.
Like newer partner, you do what I order you.
Do not think in taking liberties only because you are my brother.
This is a great confusion, is not it? Fear what yes Do not say to me what was an accident! It was a great lack of care! No, Sir.
It was not an accident.
Is he sure it to be he? I have no doubts, Sir Reuben.
I saw well his face.
- We know of what he walks to the search.
- Yes, I put in the room of his brother.
It is more safe with me.
You.
Poirot stays in the room 12.
- You.
Hastings is in 13.
- Thank you.
Merci.
It seems that we have a competition strongly, Chatter.
Do not worry, my old man.
I have been practicing hours to thread and I know these greens like the palm of my hand.
- What dedication.
- It plays golf, Mr.
Poirot? Rarely, Mr.
Leverson.
I must confess that I am here more for the art of what for the sport.
- Chatter, I am here.
Good luck.
- Thank you, Lily.
She is the Beauty queen Lily Margrave, companion of my aunt.
Let him present me my partner, the Captain Hastings.
- How it is, Beauty queen Margrave? - How it is? - And this is you.
Hercule Poirot.
- Bewitched, Mademoiselle.
Since it is, Mr.
Poirot? When You it Chatter it told to me that it was coming dinner, I was very enthusiastic.
- Did the fire cause many damages? - Not at all what is not been repaired.
The Trefusis comes here this weekend to discuss what we are going to do.
He is to have dinner.
We have been already inviting to have dinner.
That is very inconvenient.
I said to you.
- They are friendly of the Charles.
- He takes many things like certainties.
With license.
Sir Reuben wants to speak with you.
- It is in the room of billiards.
- Thank you, Parsons.
Did he want to speak with me, uncle? Yes.
You know what the subject is.
You were one week old to think about that.
Yes, I thought on that.
But It means, to work in the firm is not exactamente that one that I like, is not it? And what you like? What your preference is? My idea was to become player of professional golf Player of golf? And that one your notion of work? I am quite good in the golf.
Still this morning In last year, you wanted to be a photographer! If it had lent me the money You already pulled out all the money what you would pull out of me.
Lady Astwell was judging to have left the glasses to read here.
Was it judging? She must have done confusion.
She is not the only one that does confusion, Beauty queen Margrave.
It is not the first time what to gathering here to research it my papers.
- I do not know about what he is talking.
- No? The arm frees myself, please.
I want it that it had been from here in Monday in the morning.
We did not need already his services.
Lily? Here.
I found.
- Where? - In his office.
War, Poirot, it was accustomed to war what I said, and it is accustomed to war what I want to say! And it is to arrive soon, oiça what I say to him.
With someone in special, Sir Reuben? With Germany, clear.
They are the rearmar-se, they militarized again the Renânia.
From here nothing they are for Europe completely.
They must begin for his country, Belgium.
They must not stay very much.
It will be going to forgive for me, Sir Reuben, if not I see the situation with such coolness.
Own I contacted first-hand with the horror and the destruction of the war with Germany.
I am not saying what the war it is something pleasant.
But it is a business.
The war and the chemists they walk of given hand.
There are more important things of what the business.
The business will not be the only beneficiaries.
Think about the enormous advancements what the science will be going to do.
New fuels! New leagues from metal! And it will do wonders for the economy.
There know all the unemployed people do we have nowadays? More than a million! More than a million the pedinchar subsidies! The war seems to me a solution quite drastic.
- I agree with Victor.
- What you bring into line, Nancy is natural.
You were never able of facing the facts.
Always a great actress.
We can speak on something more pleasant? What detail.
Completed.
My God Hastings, this is undoubtedly work of Auguste Clouet.
Auguste Clouet is one of more highly thought of craftsmen of Liége.
- Fascinating.
- Magnificent.
It is unbelievable! A Tindemann! A genuine Jules Tindemann! - The whole collection is magnificent! - Oh yes? I bought it at the price of the rain.
I want to sell it to obtain profit.
- How it supports the sacrifice? - Sacrifice? For me, who buying it can melt it and do scrap metal.
Ever, Hastings, I never knew such a repugnant man.
I am able to swear what the wine that gave to us it is produced in his chemists' factory.
It was not one very pleasant night, I agree.
I lament the statues.
Since it is what Philistine East does it have them in his power? - It is an insult to the art and to the justice! - Wait! I think that I am going to accompany you to the hotel.
I want to catch fresh air.
It is well.
Yes, I think that I go away to withdraw.
Obliged by this pleasant night work, Lady Astwell.
Good night, Mr.
Trefusis.
- It is completely, Parsons.
- Very well, you.
Call, Mr.
Leverson, to have the rider's degree, his uncle must have been of use a very special service, no? It was bought, like everything the rest.
The man is a monster.
A tyrant.
And a liar.
A liar, Sr.
Poirot.
I am surprised by what Lady Astwell endure that.
I am not going to work in his cursed factory.
I am going to show him.
I do not want to hear more patriotic sentimentalism.
Our business will pay and the Germans are disposed paying.
That we are going to sell them it is going to be used by war intentions.
Victor! He is unbearable! - As for the Lily - He said already to you, Nancy, she goes away and it finished.
- Have not I a word to say? Companions it is what it is not lacking.
You arrange other one.
I already endured the sufficient thing.
My God.
There are no resentments.
Good night.
There is nothing saying.
They go away.
They go away.
A blow in the head it was what it killed it, I think.
There the weapon of the crime is.
He wanted to ask him a question.
In which state were you.
Leverson when it left you last night? In a state of regrettable drunkenness.
Because it asks? It seems that it was the last thing seeing the uncle with life.
Parsons, the butler, heard you.
Leverson to talk with the uncle.
He did not manage to hear exactamente what they said.
Clear what it already questioned the Mr himself.
Leverson? Yes.
He admitted that they talked, he says them to me what finished in good.
I judge what I am going to say goodbye to the tournament of golf.
It would be indecorous not to do it.
Excuse, man.
I am going to put his room in order Answer me, please, Mr.
Astwell, to which hours did it go out from the office of Sir Reuben last night? About 23:15.
We spoke on business.
Pardon, you.
The door of the room of the Mr.
Leverson it seems to be locked.
He escaped.
It cannot have gone far.
To your cars! - Seize it.
- I caught it, Sergeant.
Go, have judgement.
Courage, Nancy.
If he killed it in an access of rage, it is a manslaughter.
Me them he did not kill it, Victor! With license.
Also it does not believe, that's right Mr.
Poirot? - In what, Lady Astwell? - That You it Chatter it killed my husband.
I know, I know, the facts are against him.
But, believe, Mr.
Poirot, he is innocent.
Because it is so certain, Lady Astwell? - Intuition.
- Yes.
The feminine intuition.
Answer me, please, in the will of his husband, to whom they were left his goods? Half for me and half for Victor.
And you.
Leverson? His mother, the sister of Reuben, knew that it was not much brainless, then it left her goods in the hands of Reuben, in his condition to give to the Charles a reasonable monthly allowance.
It was almost a promise in his bed of death.
- And did he carry out it? - Up to yesterday.
My husband threatened to leave it Chatter completely penniless if he was not working in the firm.
- I understand Call, Lady Astwell, last night it went to the office to speak with his husband on what? It was only a domestic subject.
Did they have a discussion? He was doing absurd allegations about the Lily.
It accused her of rummaging in his documents, of peeping.
The Lily is a very dear girl.
I value highly it like to a niece.
It Chatter that a great deal of her likes.
She came with the best references.
- Can I see these references? - Is that even necessary? It is alone to be satisfactory my curiosity.
I came you saw.
Naylor.
It looks that you.
Naylor it is not of moment.
I do not know when it returns.
Does it want to leave any message? He gives this to him when to return.
He is waiting for this.
Certainly, Beauty queen.
I do not know where this it is going to stop, Gladys.
There are police officers and detectives on the whole side.
Following the press must come.
Billet what my photography it appears in the newspapers, Mr.
Parsons? Mr.
Parsons, he wanted to speak with you, please.
Certainly, man.
With license.
Last night he heard a discussion between you.
Leverson and you.
Reuben.
Yes.
I heard him speaking loudly.
Then there was a deaf noise and you.
Leverson shouted "Good Lord!" It tried to inquire the reason for such a perturbation? I tried, man.
I left from my room and I put myself to the listening to the bottom of the staircase.
I heard you.
Leverson to say " There are no resentments.
" Then it went away, whistling cheerfully.
- What you did now, girl? - I cut myself.
There is a metal barb stuck on the table.
Allow me, Mademoiselle.
Be already! Mr.
Parsons, it noticed if some of the sets of cutlery is it damaged? By chance, one of the knives it is without the tip, man.
I think that it is going to find it driven on the table.
Thank you, man.
I am going to treat that.
- It is going to put a bandage there, Gladys.
- Yes, Mr.
Parsons.
I am going to wash his scarf, man.
No, not, Mademoiselle.
Thank you, but it is not necessary.
His business conversation yesterday at night with his brother, Sir Reuben, was it friendly? - Because it would not be? Because I detected a certain tension to the table Yes We had a small misunderstanding.
- A discussion? - It would not call him that.
A heated conversation.
It was because of this.
We raised a synthetic rubber, the Astoprene.
It is extraordinary, done from oil.
It has notable properties.
It is strong like soft steel.
High level of adherence.
It is ideal for tires of automobile.
Reuben was intending to authorize his production to the I.
G.
Farben.
- Did he already hear of them? - Yes, clear.
They are the biggest manufacturers of chemists of Germany.
Did the man oppose? Now it does not pass already of the theory.
I already canceled the transaction.
I already give him attention, Mr.
Poirot.
Please, Sr.
Trefusis, do not hurry up.
We know both how it is important to weigh completely with care, is not it? - I am to his to have.
- Thank you.
I am trying to check where they all were when Sir Reuben was murdered.
I was sleeping deeply.
I went to bed somewhat after the man to go.
- Did it go away early in the morning? - Yes.
Before the breakfast.
Yesterday he spoke to the dinner of the advancements scientific in Germany.
- Did I speak? - Does he speak the language fluently? He had to speak.
I worked and studied in Germany several years.
Does it have there several friends? I support myself in contact with colleagues.
Well, questions have not been any more, Mr.
Poirot Thank you, Mr.
Trefusis.
I lament to have bothered it.
One year vintage, would not he say? Here it has the order of what it was to the wait.
Thank you.
I liked my stay.
My car is here out.
Exhibition Road.
London.
He says that this Mr.
Naylor took the such one does it order with him while leaving the hotel? - Yes.
- Thank you, Hastings.
- Is this a blood, Poirot? - Yes, Hastings, but it is not mine.
Gladys, the servant, was cut in the finger while finding the tip of a knife driven on the table where Victor Astwell was sitting down.
It does not suspect him, is not it? There is no any certainty of which his friend Chatter that he is the murderer.
Lady Astwell is quite convinced of what it is not he.
He did not know what it was depositing crazy confidence in the intuition.
The intuition, Hastings, there describes very often a fact what it is so buried in the subconsciousness that the subject does not notice of his existence.
- What fact? - So, Hastings if I knew that, the case would be already resolved.
The references of Lily Margrave.
Lady Astwell ordered them by special post.
Thank you, Beauty queen Lemon.
They are in fact full of praises.
And this is undoubtedly the coat of arms of the noble Duquesa de Perthsire.
Interesting what.
He says the truth, Chatter.
What you have to lose? When I arrived of the club of golf, I went even to the office.
It was a little irritated and it wanted to take away satisfactions with that old devil.
I entered in the office and he was sitting down to the secretary.
At least, it was what it was looking.
I already endured the sufficient thing, his crossbow! " Did he hear? " It does not like what do to him front, is not it? " It does not like what do to him front, is not it? It has not anything saying Good Lord! Then when it found it, he was already even dead.
But because I shine did you escape? Well, when the servant saw the blood I panicked.
Are they seeing? I knew what were not going to believe in me.
Who would believe? Perhaps Poirot.
He knows what I cannot guarantee when they resulted, Mr.
Poirot.
I trust you, Beauty queen Lemon.
He is sleepy With great sleep His eyelids are weighed.
They are closing - Closing - This is absurd.
Relax.
It is going to fall asleep Lady Astwell, the lady is sleeping.
It is hearing me and it is going to answer ás my questions.
I am hearing it.
I am going to answer ás his questions.
We are in the night of the crime.
The lady is sitting down á table of the dinner.
Describe me what he saw and what felt.
I am very worried, preoccupied about the Lily.
Victor is looking at Reuben with an angry air.
Talk to me about Victor.
He is an enchanting man.
We love each other very much.
They passed some hours.
The lady goes to the office.
Is Victor there? No, it is going out of there.
He are pale and angry.
He is unbearable! The lady enters in the office.
It had a great discussion with his husband, was not it? - She goes away and it finished.
- Have not I a word to say? Companions it is what it is not lacking.
You arrange other one.
He is going to be murdered soon.
He knows who killed his husband, Lady Astwell? - It was not it Chatter.
- How he knows? Because of the curtain.
Have not I a word to say? Companions it is what it is not lacking.
You arrange other one.
- What has the curtain? - There was one silhouette.
- A silhouette? Is there anybody behind the curtain? Who is behind the curtain? - Mr.
Poirot, already arrives.
- Please, Mademoiselle.
She is worried! Does not he see? Lady Astwell, the curtain.
Is anybody behind her? Late of more.
She is going out from the ordeal.
Did I sleep a siesta? It is that itself.
A small siesta.
Did I say anything? Not as much as I would like.
In the night of the tragedy, it went to bed before Lady Astwell to go to the office, right? Yes.
By chance it returned going out of his room? No.
It went sometime to the office during the night? No.
Time none.
- Snooper - In what sense, Mr.
Poirot? Because I remember, in this night, it had a dress of chiffon green.
What feather to have split.
Where it found that? It went again to the office after the dinner? No! Yes Perhaps Yes, already I remember.
I went to the office in the previous night.
And it was with the same dress.
The same dress! It is pity to have tipped over in him a little of the excellent wine of Sir Reuben.
Or will it be a blood? She is going to escape, Poirot.
It must be made a list with that order.
I think that I know for where her it goes.
Exhibition Road.
It is going to catch the train of the 13.
:15.
- Is he sure of the time-table? - Absolute.
Then we have time, the car will blow them to me up.
I tell that I get for the navigation.
To which hours is it the near train for London? Exhibition Road, please.
SUPERIOR INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - Where he is the Exhibition Road, Hastings? - There in top, on the right.
- It is full of museums and institutes.
- Only one interests us.
Quick, Hastings.
A hurried departure, Mademoiselle Margrave.
If this is even his name.
My true name he is Lily Naylor.
Humphrey is my brother.
And the man, Sr.
Naylor, it is investigating here, in the Imperial College.
Yes.
Of polimerização.
The molecular forms of repeating unities We are speaking of synthetic rubber.
In this case, yes.
I did a discovery of a compound.
It was not completed, but it was almost there.
It was needing commercial investment to develop this potential.
Then I approached the Astwell Chemicals.
To beginning, they showed some interest in my work.
But past some time, Sir Reuben one said what lost the interest.
Excuse, Naylor, we are not prepared to go so far.
To the beginning, I believed in them.
But I was been suspicious due to certain small articles in scientific magazines.
They had not great meaning for whom it was not realizing of that.
I checked some things and I was sure of what Astwell it was using my investigation.
He was being wrong, but I had no proofs.
And the Mademoiselle Naylor? His references? Are they genuine? Yes, completely.
I was even contracted for the Duchess of Perthsire.
The Astwells would have recognized the name Naylor.
Then I changed my name in the references.
And with this subterfuge it got to obtain the dossier on the Astoprene.
Mr.
Astwell, is so kind of talking to us about the Mr.
Naylor.
The man and his brother did they steal his investigation? I tried to speak with Reuben, me them he said that the work of Naylor it had not been tested.
Our laboratories they were occupied of everything.
I bring into line that there were some problems because of deciding.
Let's return at night of the murder of Sir Reuben, please.
Lady Astwell, when the lady was in ordeal, he said that he saw something behind the curtain.
No, it was not of the curtain of the window.
It was of that curtain.
- Good Lord! - One abates, Lady.
Captain Hastings.
Thank you.
Perhaps be able to tell us who was hidden behind the curtain, Mr.
Naylor? - I was not.
He said already to him, after being with the Lily, I returned for the hotel.
They were to me really an intruder.
And when it entered in the office, he was not intending to kill anybody.
He only there was with the intention of looking for something.
But, suddenly, he hears the sound of voices and steps what are brought near.
And only it found a siege to be hidden.
The small room with connection to the office what you.
Astwell was using when it was working up to afternoon.
You.
Victor Astwell and Sir Reuben they enter in the office.
They do not see anybody hidden behind the curtain and they talk violently.
Victor! You.
Victor Astwell leaves, furious.
But there is no way of escaping for our intruder.
What dilemma.
If Sir Reuben to decide to pass the night in the small room, certainly it will be going to discover it.
Lady Astwell enters in the office to protest against the despedimento of the "Mademoiselle" Naylor.
Companions it is what it is not lacking.
You arrange other one.
When Lady Astwell leaves, Sir Reuben is alone.
It is the only moment in which the intruder it can escape without being detected.
But Sir Reuben hears a noise.
That I shine A thoughtless act, followed from pure panic.
Our intruder will escape.
But that does not happen.
Will not it have gone out from this room? You.
Charles Leverson it enters in the office.
It has not anything saying While seeing which Sir Reuben is killed, it goes away.
Then, Mademoiselle Naylor it enters in the office and it finds the body of Sir Reuben, using the opportunity to take the dossier what is so important for his brother.
The Lily already told him what it happened.
He wanted to be wrong, link them to me it did not kill it! My ladies and my men, I study the psychology, and, along this case, I did not look for the man or the woman with I me form, since I me form it is in you a valve of security.
No.
I looked for a patient person, what it fulfilled during much time the paper of wronged one.
What entered sorrateiramente in the office, what was hidden behind the curtain, what was hemmed in, and what finally committed the act of violence repressed there is so much time.
It was the man who was hidden behind the curtain.
It was the man whom he murdered Sir Reuben Astwell, Mr.
Trefusis.
It waited that the house it was empty and in silence.
Then it returned for his room, leaving a man killed in the ground.
That is totally absurd.
- Because it would like to kill it? - In the dossier of the Astoprene, I noticed a contract what has his signature.
It looks that the man it used like instrument the development of the invention of the Mr.
Naylor.
He was going to become a very rich man.
It was manufactured for the enterprise Astwell.
But if the process was licensed in another siege, since there was said he for his German colleagues, which value would have his contract? Absolutely none.
He was a tyrant, a liar, and a swindler.
I think that few ones would be going to disagree of his analysis of the character of Sir Reuben.
Call, Mademoiselle Naylor, his brother is satisfied with the offered terms for the Mr.
Victor Astwell? They were quite generous.
Captain Hastings, a hole with a shot.
A hole with a shot.
Beauty queen Lemon, the Captain Hastings it has the whole intellectual power Exactamente, Poirot.
I do not believe