Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) s05e04 Episode Script

- Ten! Nine! Eight! Seven! Six! - Doctor.
The CASE OF the WILL MISSING PERSON Five! Four! Three! Two! One! - To 1926! Happy New Year! - Happy New Year.
Hear all! Please, please.
I have been a very lucky man, because of taking friends as you.
And not even they all were for the Australia and they bought on a Thursday on top of a lead of copper! Finally, I convinced Andrew doing a will, with the help of my woman, Sarah.
In the will there are several legates for some of us and a small bottom of thrift for the education of Violet.
Most of the inheritance are given, á Elinfort Medical Foundation - Good what.
of which Dr.
Pritchard.
he is the president.
It will be used by wisdom, Andrew.
I.
e.
if one day die The amount for 2 000 pounds, in a bottom of thrift, what will only be able to stand up to 18 years, it is going to be shared between Peter Baker and Robert Siddaway.
It is very generous on your part, Andrew.
I think that you know how much I like your children.
And soon they will be men, with all the responsibilities what that implicates.
And it was liking what had the secured future.
And Violet? What has Violet? She is á your policewoman.
You like a great deal of her, but you did not leave anything him.
- Sarah! Yes, me them she then marries with someone like Robert or Peter.
She is a woman, for the sake of God! My God, Andrew, for somewhat you were not saying " you punish a woman "! CAMBRIDGE Skirt of the road! - Gentlemen! - Silence, silence! The presented motion is " This camera believes what the women cannot to have an equal statute to that of the men ".
I call you.
Andrew Marsh, ancient president of the Association, to present the motion.
Mr.
President, gentlemen.
Few persons here present, it are that exists someone, it might deny to some human being, without differentiating color, creed or sex, the basic right in the respect.
Monsieur Poirot, it is a pleasure to see it again, we combined them to me ás seven hours.
My darling Mademoiselle Violet, forgive me.
It will have to blame the car what put itself á on our front in Baldock.
- I introduce to him the Captain Hastings.
- How it is? Captain Hastings, this is the Mademoiselle Violet Wilson, of whom Andrew is a guardian.
Thank you.
but the society, like the family, it is not only an individuals' set mixed at random.
To work - industrialist, politicizes and socially- both must be structured, when the one who takes decisions was divided between and the one who puts them into practice.
Between whom it leads and the one who follows.
This is the Beauty queen Campion, the director of my University.
- Lady.
- We should have hurried.
Such designations are a " status " and they are determined by a woman.
Nature is called a Mother.
Gentlemen, I call now you.
Robert Siddaway in order that motion is opposed á.
Mr.
President.
Up to now the discussion ignored someone unpleasant developments what have been happening in the real world.
There are some months, two leaders with a great "status", but without respect for nothing, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, they invaded nearby countries.
All the persons with common sense, without differentiating sexes, they manage to see that the war in Europe is imminent.
And when it will happen, we are going to wait that the women take care merely of the house, Mr.
President? Or we grant they right equals and do we ask them whom they cultivate the land? What go for the factories to produce ammunitions, of the lnstituto of the Women they go down to the valley of the death! If they let us work and parents die for ours, because they do not leave us Association belongs á? Or, God forgives us, to let us speak in a discussion?! Silence! Silence! I do not allow interruptions when they came from the gallery! If you link they continue, I tell it to evacuate.
Perhaps be afraid what we begin to speak sensatamente.
Do not mind the result, Bobby.
You spoke well.
And Andrew also.
If we will ignore what he really said! Congratulations, sir.
A deserved victory.
It is a pity that the press do not cover the discussion, Robert.
I already manage to see the title pages: " Nova Mulher Argumenta in the Association of Cambridge ".
Poirot! How it is? Andrew! My friendly darling, I lost his speech.
Forgive me, please.
But he already heard the essential thing very often, from the time of the Cavendish Clinic.
Mon Dieu, in such adversities the lasting friendships are born, nest - you shovels? We were there, Hastings, for an exchange of wisdom not much aggressive.
It was not pretty of seeing itself.
Cursed of my doctor, it never prescribes anything me for the whistling sound.
Perhaps because he says to him what does not bother it.
The ray of the man manages to see that yes, of certainty! It leaves it without breath, but not without voice.
This room it is a very laborious siege.
- Does not it agree, Hastings? - Certainly what yes.
I direct a magazine, Monsieur, called " New Prospects ".
I wait to expand it, so what finishes the course.
- Merci.
- Does it have any money? Violet! I understand what it should not invest, uncle Andrew, but someone is of doing it.
It already tried a bank, Mademoiselle Violet? If I was a man, they were doing to me a loan tomorrow So, already I talked to you on that.
The women in the business they are asking to be taken.
Right, Hastings? I cannot say what knows women in the business, clear! Proven argument.
The motion passed.
Is not three against one, Poirot? No, mon ami.
Two against two.
I know what was installed in a hotel, Poirot, but because one does not gather us for a few days, in Crabtree? Appear tomorrow to have lunch.
We will have much pleasure.
- Allow me, Mademoiselle Campion.
- Thank you.
It likes that his pupils have strong opinions, nest - you shovels? I usually encourage that, Mr.
Poirot.
John, before I forget, we can do the tomorrow meeting a little later? Because we have not lunch joined? In my office ás 12:30.
I lament, Martin, but it affects you.
I am going to alter my will.
The money is yours, Andrew.
Violet is meditated in the new will, sir? Setting your impertinence aside, Robert, it could swear that the discussion it had already ended.
Perhaps think that I did not win it in convincing way? I am sure what he did not do for evil, Andrew.
You do not content yourself with encouraging the young persons, Phyllida, you allow them completely.
I apologise, sir.
- Robert! - I speak with him, Mrs.
Siddaway.
Robert! Wait! It excuses, Violet, only because he won a rude discussion, it does not mean that his attitude is certain.
Look, it is he that is, Bobby.
And we are never going to manage to change it.
And I do not even know if I want.
You can say to your father whom I left a bag of potatoes in the gate, right? Yes.
Obliged by the driver's seat.
Andrew, was marvellous, but I have a long afternoon ahead.
Excuse if I was brusque with Bobby, I put the things right with him later.
Before going away, Andrew, it was liking examining it.
My God, man! Trifles, trifles, trifles! It had a few tiring days.
Take off the coat and roll the sleeves up.
Mrs.
Siddaway, could take me the stethoscope á library? My suitcase is in the hall.
- Good afternoon, Mrs.
Siddaway.
- Peter, which it is doing at home? Nobody is at the home and the father is on duty.
- I suppose that the mother - Yes.
His mother is in the kitchen.
- Because it is not going to look for it? - Mother! Between.
Mon ami! The doctor tells it to rest, and it ignores the councils of him, never change! It can believe what I changed, Poirot.
So, it judges that I am a hypocritical old man, saying a thing and doing other one.
Not even in dreams, mon ami.
Please, one feels.
At last, after all what he said on my health along the years, never to accept well the advices my specialist he says to me that I rays, I am not afraid of this, only I am afraid of annoying others.
He said to him that his life is in the end? Diable! There are 10 years, I did a will.
Finally, I convinced Andrew doing a will.
In the will I left several legacies.
John Siddaway, and his woman, Sarah.
Phyllida Campion received 500 pounds, what promised immediately á University for a few improvements.
My housekeeper, Margaret Baker, and his husband, Walter, the sergeant of the local police officer, they were already secured for an amount what I donated previously.
To his son, Peter Baker, and to a young person Robert Siddaway, I left to each thousand pounds to help to begin them the life.
But I left the thick of my fortune to Dr.
Pritchard, president of the Elinfort Medical Foundation.
lsto is, if one day you die! There was some consternation in this night since I exclude Violet of the will.
But tomorrow I am going to correct that.
I intend to write a new will, when Violet is leaving everything á.
The truth is that I have such pride of what she got in Cambridge in these last three years, she is worthy.
It was liking what was the executioner of a will, Poirot.
- Do it for me.
- Clear.
But why such urgency? Will who I shine be to this hour of the night? We speak better tomorrow.
- Good night.
- Bonne nuit, cher ami.
Yes? What? Now? Could not this have waited? - Good morning, Poirot.
- Good morning, Hastings.
- Bonjour, Mademoiselle.
- What it finds of the Crane? I think that it is big and what he had to be careful, Hastings.
We take the breakfast with you, Monsieur Poirot.
What marvellous building.
Andrew it restored that there are approximately 15 years.
It comes here to think.
Let's see who returns first! Wait a little, Violet.
Andrew? Violet, goes up to house.
Bring sergeant Baker and the Poirot also.
Sergeant Baker, does it allow to me that it does a search? My men did already, Sir.
They did not find anything.
Perhaps the autopsy say to us more something.
There is no reason for an autopsy.
I already examined the body.
Andrew died there is around eight hours.
I already give him the death certificate.
" Cardiac stopping " Cardiac stopping? - What has of evil? - He does not say anything to us.
Poirot, the best cardiologist of London he would say to him that Andrew It is a not much strange floor thereabouts to way of the night, does not it find? He used to go round at night, Captain.
It was helping it to sleep.
Here it has, Walter.
Last night, Andrew says to me what is going to do a new will, á midnight and a half receives a phone call, this morning it is killed.
No, this is not a coincidence, Hastings.
We will do a search.
And, Hastings, do not leave stone on stone.
Since he knows, Monsieur Poirot, it is not a will usually is read before the funeral one.
But in this case I made an exception, Thank you.
Sirs and Ladies, perhaps be better we seat ourselves.
Thank you.
It was not a complicated will, Mr.
Poirot.
We were all presents like witnesses there are ten years.
The will, Monsieur Siddaway? It does not seem to be here.
Do not be absurd, dear, it will be.
Mesdammes et Messieurs, Andrew Marsh was a good friend for all the presents in this room and, however, it seems that they want that his death is not questioned.
Not even all, Mr.
Poirot.
The will disappeared and, even so, does not it do anything, Sergeant? With all the respect, Poirot, I think that it is exaggerating.
To serious? The new will what Andrew Marsh was intending to do Mademoiselle Violet would leave everything á.
With Poirot like executioner of a will.
Very well, I am going to execute.
But when it took care, mes amis, because while doing it, with or without your help, I am going to solve the mystery of his death.
This is intolerable, Hastings.
We are dealing with a limited community where they all know the life of all.
Except the Poirot! For the time being! A moment, Poirot, this can be a donation! It means that Andrew died without will.
Obliged by this note of optimism, Hastings.
It is only to say to the court that Andrew was going to leave everything á Violet.
And billet that they accept that? The wishes of Andrew Marsh what were told me in confidence, without witnesses? I understand.
Could not Poirot, say him word? Santé! Health! He wanted that he knew that I am the biggest beneficiary of the will of Andrew what disappeared, like president of the Elinfort Foundation.
For the case only of keeping the wrong idea.
I have no idea any, Monsieur reads Docteur.
it is a good motive to kill.
And Andrew said what it was going to do a new will.
But it was not going to steal the old will, as soon as it was favoring it.
He said that Andrew told him what was going to leave everything á Violet? Did not he speak in any more anybody? Non! Because it asks? Because there is much time that I am suspicious that Andrew had a son.
Suspicion, Monsieur le Docteur, it is good, but not the sufficient thing.
Andrew, John and I we meet one night in Crabtree, the fact is necessary to have been that there are two years.
Sarah was out and Robert he had just been accepted in Cambridge.
The father was radiant, very proud.
- To Robert! - To Robert! - To Robert! - Robert! Thank you! I am very happy for you, John! I apologise to both, I am here chattering I eat if you also they had children to be made proud.
What takes it thinking that I do not understand his pride? He can be my lawyer, John, everything does not know them to me about me, is not it, Maggie? Andrew Marsh always liked very much of Margaret Baker, perhaps Peter is a son of Andrew.
I understand.
I thank for doctor him.
I walked stumbling in a room in the dark, but now it had just lighted the light.
Does he see how the things are, Hastings? I believe that he was killed because of his fortune, but the question remains: Who would be going to demand it so that he was dying? Well, there is the son about what the Pritchard talked to us, but only we have his word confirming that.
If we will find the son, mon ami, also we find the murderer, perhaps let's have soon the confirmation of Margaret Baker.
He cannot ask a question of this to a woman, Poirot! Not only I can, Hastings, since I have to! I knew it in the Australia, Sir.
It employed me for nursemaid of Violet, his daughter of the partner.
When it returned for England, it gave me the hypothesis of returning also.
What was where it knew his husband, the police officer of the village.
I do not want to offend lady Baker, but the Monsieur Andrew Marsh was it admiring it enough, nest - you shovels? Well, yes! And also a great deal of him was liking.
Yes.
And perhaps saying is correct what not only was working for him like nursemaid of Violet, since she also was his close friend.
It calms, father, I want to hear this.
He is saying that I can have a right to this fortune, it is not, Mr.
Poirot? Be silent! Go there, father, he always said that Andrew it had eye for the women.
After returning of the Australia, you.
Andrew fought for France, you were conceived while he was out.
In the height in what Andrew it had license, Peter already was three months old.
Then it worked like nursemaid of the Mademoiselle Violet while the Monsieur Andrew it was staying away.
Yes, clear what his friends they gave a hand, but the Beauty queen Campion it has not great way for children, not even you.
Siddaway, in spite of being a nurse pediátrica.
Thank you, Lady.
It has great tin in launching these suspicions, Poirot.
I have tin because a man it was murdered, Sergeant Baker, and it is refused to investigate.
Very well, the height arrived of I pass over you.
Obliged because of having come, Inspector-chief.
I see that it already knew sergeant Baker.
Yes, I must say, Poirot, what, in spite of his comments, it seems an honest type.
This way, Inspector-chief.
The Monsieur Marsh was found here.
There were no marks in the body, did not they find anything out of the normal one? Rien! Then what is this, is not one out of the normal one? Cest incroyable! It seems to me a bottle of medicines.
Own I did a meticulous search to this area.
Must to him have escaped, Poirot! Some of the local yokels did it announce the disappearance of this? No, Sir.
Lament, Sir.
I am going already to treat this, I am going to ask Dr.
Pritchard.
Pritchard? He is the president of the Elinfort Medical Foundation, Dr.
Martin Pritchard.
Poirot, still does not say to anybody that I am already here.
I am going to need of speaking with the forensic scientist.
I want an autopsy, I want to know what this was containing.
Beauty queen Campion, could it dispense us a few moments? I am not much busy, Robert.
Please, Phyllida.
It is on my mother, Beauty queen Campion, on me, and I suppose that my father is left also.
Two years in the Kings and you keep on not doing sense, my expensive boy, like many people before you.
One is not going to laugh when he will know the reason, Phyllida.
Robert needs his advice.
I find that Andrew Marsh he was my father, Miss Campion.
And you are asking about me what you must do? Because you do not ask a Mr.
Poirot? But, Robert, because you did not say this before? My alone mother told me last night.
Her courage of the part was necessary.
It does not seem to have affected you very much, Robert! After thinking well, which difference does it do? Bien, Monsieur Robert, I say to him the difference: in the lost will it would inherit a small fortune.
It will manage to be proved that it is I adopt of him, it is going to inherit a great fortune.
And now a son of Sarah Siddaway.
He said that when we should find the son, we were finding the murderer.
Certainly, Hastings, does not seriate them to me when to unmask it was appropriated in eve of the funeral one of Andrew Marsh.
He had many friends, Poirot.
Of what they serve many friends, mon ami, when we have a wicked enemy? Dr.
Pritchard.
It seems to be of good health, Inspector-chief.
Already were they known? It wants to put these gentlemen to a current one or do I put? It is well.
We know each other in London, there are 15 years, here Dr.
Pritchard.
it was directing a supposed humane group what was helping the terminal patients.
Be killing! To put an end to their suffering! We investigated his organization, we do not manage to prove them to me anything.
It is only a hunch, one would tell them what he did again from his.
No! This, in agreement with the manufacturer, it is his, a Doctor! They come with insulin, all numbered ones, why could there be control, because besides to do miracles, the insulin also can be lethal.
I do not understand! Martin Arthur Pritchard, I am fastening it for the murder of Andrew Marsh, it is not obliged declaring anything, but everything what he will say it will be written and used like proof.
The one who always waits reaches, Poirot! I knew that there was of catching it sooner or later.
Only because the solution of a crime it is simple, Poirot, it does not mean what is missed.
The Pritchard killed Andrew Marsh, final point.
But because it would be going to steal a will what was favoring it? No, Inspector-chief, it was still not found and I do not believe what sometime is.
Did it question other suspects? And Sergeant Baker? Clear what not, do not have more suspect! Robert Siddaway and Violet Wilson, the Monsieur Poirot our wait is á.
And the phone call, Inspector-chief? That one what Andrew did it receive á midnight? Of the Pritchard, clear! Honestly, when they are felt hemmed in Beauty queen Wilson and Mr.
Siddaway.
MonsieurPoirot, we thought that it had to to be the first one to know, we go for America, Robert it is going to postpone his last year in the Kings and there is a box in the Queen Mary, what leaves in the near Tuesday.
Mademoiselle Violet, Monsieur They seat Robert, please! Bien, Mademoiselle, and the end of the semester? And the ceremony of the delivery of the diplomas of the Mademoiselle Campion? Why this sudden haste, Beauty queen Wilson? We are wrong to be, the women are treated with equality in America.
With you building a worthy run and a man what I always know from he is accused silly of the death of my guardian.
Mademoiselle Violet, his guardian would not be going to want what was losing the delivery of the diplomas.
I plead for him that, before deciding, give the Poirot a little more of time, please! It is very pretty you say that the justice is slow, John, but Robert and Violet they are planning to leave parents, it is that that you want? - No, clear what not! It is so so dificil to try what one is heir of a person? What is necessary? Surpreendentemente, very little! We do an oath declaring that we are who do we say to be.
A certificate is not necessary of birth or any thing? No.
Do you apologise á Sarah for me? She invited me to have dinner in Saturday, but I go for London! I say á Sarah! Theater? Concert? No, by chance I am going to be with Hercule Poirot, I need the council of him about something.
I apologise.
Who pushed the Mademoiselle Campion of the escalators he was not Dr.
Pritchard, he is under his custody! Yes, but we still do not know if someone pushed it.
Me them he is not the murderer, Inspector-chief! The murderer continues á loose! Well, it is obvious what brought it for here very fast, at least we know that it survived.
- Thank you, nurse.
- It polices.
I need of speaking with Beauty queen Campion as soon as possible! Do not prune them to me, she suffered injuries.
It was a very ugly fall, men.
It broke the leg in two sieges.
Is it going to recover soon? I find that you.
Campion one does not let go that I lower easily.
She is a Beauty queen, Doctor! Beauty queen Campion! It called him a " Lady ".
Do they know it well? Well No, we know them to me that she is not married! Call, Doctor, it called him a " Lady " for habit or for carelessness? I apologise, it did not want to be indiscreet! Something is known, it is his must tell us, Doctor.
The Beauty queen Campion had a baby to a given height of his life.
Of Caesarian operation, you punish that.
Beauty queen Lemon, I have a task for you.
ARCHIVE OF PATIENTS Ladies and men! The end of the academic year it is something that it would never be going to lose, in spite of this time has been for somewhat! Since they know, this is always an informal opportunity.
Because while the University here in Cambridge it recognizes the strenuous work of his masculine students, it is still not adapted a delivery of diplomas for women.
Therefore I do mine own.
Brave! And while they occupy your places in the society, I wait that three years what passed here they have proved that they are more of what merecedoras of them.
Thank you, Hastings.
A triumphant smile, Beauty queen Lemon? Clear! Mesdammes et Messieurs, to begin, I think what is adapted to do a toast to our dear and died friend, Monsieur Andrew Marsh.
Andrew Marsh! The day of today would have him given much pleasure, nest - you shovels? He would have been so proud of you, Mademoiselle Violet.
Nevertheless, there is someone in this room what denied this pleasure.
Does it mean that the murderer is here? Is he one of us? In the night in which it died, you.
Andrew Marsh asked for me to be the executioner of his new will.
I believe what was murdered because of this fortune.
And what the old will it was stolen and destroyed why was he dying without a will.
Therefore, since they see, my duty unfolds in two.
First, to find the murderer.
And then, before this merciless murderer it was demanding the inheritance, to hand over it á Mademoiselle Violet, since Andrew was wanting.
Nevertheless, this murderer was already in action, even when my friend Andrew it gave me his tragic news.
My specialist said to me Rays! I am not afraid of this, only I am afraid of annoying others! Who I shine will be able to be to this hour of the night? Yes? What? Now? And so, the murderer attracted it for out of the house.
Could not this have waited? For a "brothel" in the garden.
And here, our murderer administered a dose of insulin massiva and fatal in a timid attack to a man what was ill and weakened.
But then the Poirot came, what he said that his death it was not for natural causes.
No, it was a murder! Fearing for his security, the murderer tried to accuse Dr.
Martin Pritchard, putting on the stage of the crime the bottle of insulin.
The lnspector-chief Japp arrives to help me with the investigation, it examines the place of the crime and it finds it there.
Because it was not the considered bottle in the day of the crime for Sergeant Baker? Because it was not there! No, the Poirot itself searched the area, and the Poirot never fails.
Therefore, my good friend Inspector-chief Japp, it fastened of immediate one Dr.
Martin Pritchard.
And with a man who is innocent accused of the murder, the truthful criminal it might now demand the fortune.
It was his plan.
Without lifting suspicions.
But Dr.
Martin Pritchard it had already counted to my associate, the Captain Hastings, and to own me, that Andrew had a son.
Perhaps Peter.
That does not mean that I have killed it! Or Robert! What would be in a better position to have the inheritance, nest - you shovels? Because it was believing that Andrew Marsh and his mother they were lovers! Robert was with me in the night in which Andrew died.
Violet, no! The arm that pushed Beauty queen Campion of the escalators would it be his, Peter? Or his, Robert? It was afraid it to link could it tell me? Theater? Concert? No, by chance I am going to be with Hercule Poirot.
And clear, the murderer knew of the visit the London of the "Mademoiselle" Campion to meet with Poirot.
Because the Mademoiselle Campion it had discovered, in a conversation with the lawyer John Siddaway what, for a child to demand the inheritance of the father, the true identity of the mother it was not needing to be revealed.
But the things went round such, what they revealed again a secret what own she had guarded for more than 20 years.
What you.
Poirot wants to say the fact is that the doctor who treated me he saw that I had had a baby when it was studying here.
It was a small step for my secretary, Miss Lemon, to discover the name of this baby.
Miss Lemon can read it, please.
It was born to 17 of July of 1913, of Beauty queen Phyllida Campion, a daughter called Violet.
What goes on? What is happening? It was necessary to rummage the past of the Phyllida, Poirot? It is it of Andrew who interests us! Yes, but not once we wondered if this son for whom we were looking she would be perhaps a daughter.
Then Violet is she a daughter of Andrew Marsh? Yes.
Then, Monsieur Robert, because it killed the father of the Mademoiselle Violet? - I did not kill! - I say that it killed, Monsieur! Why? Know what it links he loves it.
He knows that she wanted to go with you for America.
Then why? He already told him that it was not he! No, Lady, perhaps Robert is not the murderer, because such as we thought that it heir of Andrew was a man, also we it thought of the murderer.
The murderer was someone what stole a syringe of the suitcase of Dr.
Pritchard, and what knew the power of the insulin.
And you, it was said me, she was already a nurse pediátrica, Lady Siddaway.
It was you who convinced Robert what was a son of Andrew.
It was Robert who told him of the travel from the "Mademoiselle" Campion to London where it followed it and it pushed it of the escalators.
Because it was afraid what it links finally it was revealing the Mademoiselle Violet like heiress of right.
No! Help John me! I cannot do anything, Sarah! How he knew of Violet? It had a friend what worked in the clinic, I found it years later.
So little Tinhamos to give to Robert! Me them he was contemplated in the will, Lady! Because it stole and destroyed it? Because he wanted that he was with everything! Because it would go completely for Violet? Because Andrew Marsh was wanting it, like proof of which she was his daughter! And sweat equally! I think that it is better to come with me, Mrs.
Siddaway.
Mademoiselle Campion, Mademoiselle Violet, his magazine could not have a better name, " The New Prospects ", because it must be very fascinating for both, is not it? Certainly what yes, and the Monsieur Poirot he is going to be my first subscriber.
Thank you, Mademoiselle! The enterprises have an administrator, but in this case, it can have an administrator.
I see that not even he lacks the chair.
It is not for much time.
I take away the plaster from here one week.
And Robert? I find what I get to convince it finishing the course.
Very well.
Alors, au revoir, mesdemoiselles.
Et bonne chance! Thank you, Monsieur Poirot!