Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) s05e07 Episode Script

Ladies and men, the share 22.
A mirror of wall from forged iron, with table of support, of Edgar Brandt.
" The MIRROR OF the DEAD MAN " We are going to give beginning to the auction with 30 pounds.
Does anybody give 30 pounds? - It is this for that it comes, Poirot? - And.
To put in the courtyard, beside the door.
- How much does to offer intend? - 90 pounds.
The sufficient thing is.
- Here.
- 80 pounds.
Thank you, my lady.
Does anybody give more? The decision is his.
Sir? Sold to a Mr.
Chevenix.
It was unlucky, Poirot.
I thought what it was going to get.
- Also I, Hastings.
- Mr.
Poirot? Is he Hercule Poirot, is not it? The detective.
- I am.
- I wait what does not lead to chest.
- No.
- The best.
My card.
What he knows about contemporary art, Mr.
Poirot? I am a collector.
And seeing pictures and sculptures like profession.
I must tell him that they do not get me to deceive easily.
It lets to notice.
Perhaps surprise it, I believe myself to be them what I am being deceived.
It was liking what was investigating that.
The services of Hercule Poirot they are not cheap.
Perhaps offer the mirror.
What it finds? I have a house, Hamborough Close, near to Whimperley.
What about tomorrow? - It is out of question.
- And the next day? Say something.
- Was it not much cheeky, it does not think? - It went away, Hastings.
East Gervase Chevenix.
He will not know that Poirot is a man with a certain importance, with promises? It must think that I am an anyone.
An obedient cãozinho.
- Then I imagine what refuses the invitation.
- This would be my first instinct.
But a man so so arrogant Up to him it can be vulnerable in certain things, and he does not know it.
Besides, it offered the mirror.
That also.
Tomorrow I treat the tickets.
It accepts this man for his husband? I accept.
Promptly.
Let's see - Did they bring the alliances? - Yes.
Very well.
John Lake and Ruth Chevenix, I declare to you husband and woman.
It was liking that the things they could be different.
I love you.
Thank you.
- Mr.
Poirot? - Yes.
My name is Susan Cardwell.
Can I keep him company? Of course, Mademoiselle.
It can sit down.
- This is the Captain Hastings.
- How it is? - Does it want to take a coffee? - No, thank you.
Hugo, my fiance, looking said to me.
He is not well my fiance, at least officially.
- Hugo? - Hugo Trent, nephew of Gervase.
It goes for it to the station and it suggested that I was coming in the same train.
- It is at home of the Mr.
Chevenix? - Unfortunately.
I was only with him once and it was awful with me.
- Does not it accept it in the family? - It is not that.
It is what Gervase always wanted that Hugo he was marrying with his daughter Ruth.
- Me them he does not intend to do it.
- No.
But Ruth was adopted.
Gervase must think that, he will get married with his nephew, she him will belong more.
- He cannot oblige them marrying.
- It can try them to me.
And it is going to try.
He likes that, of manipulating others.
I do not support it.
I hate it.
And I am not going to leave what spoils my life.
- Here Hugo is.
- Susan.
He must be you.
Poirot.
- E - Arthur Hastings.
Hugo Trent.
I promised to take you the Hamborough Close, I will go on them in the studio.
Are they imported? - Clear what not.
- It is on the way.
All these are my creation.
This is something of revolutionary, Mr.
Poirot.
What it finds? I find tremendously.
- Is it completely in metal? - Steel in tubes.
Who needs wood, Captain Hastings? The wood gives of you, one spoils again and cracks.
The metal is completed.
Does he see? A triangular joining.
- There are no marks.
- I am seeing.
Only a minute, Lawrence.
Look at this.
One feels.
What it finds? I think that it was conceived in the perfect form.
This is the future, Mr.
Poirot.
- It would sell thousands, if it was not - The uncle Gervase.
Does not he finance this enterprise? To arrive up to here was already difficult.
I will pay the loans, and perhaps will sell everything to liquidate the debts.
They phoned while it was out.
They are not going to give any more time.
I will speak with them.
With license, Mr.
Poirot.
He is going to be Lawrence to take you.
Rays! It is a beautiful house.
Good afternoon, my men.
You.
Chevenix waits for you.
Between.
You are here.
Poirot.
Just as well what came.
Did it bring his secretary? He is the Captain Hastings, my partner.
Yes, clear.
I saw it in the auction.
What it finds? I hung it this morning.
Be well, it is not? In fact.
Does he want that it returns later? It can be choosing the things of Matisse.
This is the Beauty queen Lingard, my spectator.
- How it is? - Mademoiselle Lingard.
We are doing a study on the fauvismo, for the British museum of modern art.
Beauty queen Lingard, is this architect here? I think so, Mr.
Chevenix.
Tell it to enter, please.
It is not a joke.
It was how much I paid to John Lake.
- It is that that it wants to investigate? - And.
For which reason did it give him the money? For a great undertaking in London.
Shops, offices, apartments.
That is building everything, and it convinced me investing.
But, up to now, it still did not move a straw, and I think that it will never do it.
Did he want to speak with me, Gervase? Between, Lake.
I want to present him a person.
This is Hercule Poirot.
- The detective? - Yes.
Because it does not accompany it even to the garden and does it offer a tea? We see each other to the dinner.
We are in the entry to 20h15.
Be tried to delay.
The Snell gives the first sign to 20h08 and according to to 20h15.
Up to there.
It did not come here in work, that's right Mr.
Poirot? It was precisely therefore that I came.
It is typical of Gervase.
It likes doing to us surprises.
Let them present me.
- Mrs.
Vanda Chevenix.
Hercule Poirot.
- How it is? And the daughter, the Beauty queen Chevenix.
Ruth.
Hello.
For the visas, you.
Poirot it is helping your father.
- To Gervase? To serious? - Yes.
It is because of the death.
Which death, Lady Chevenix? The Saphra warned about me that there would be a death.
I called myself not to be afraid.
Who is the Saphra? It was created of Amenhotep.
- She is my spiritual guide.
- Go there, Vanda.
Of certainty what you.
Poirot he does not want to hear these histories.
On the contrary.
Poirot always one interested for subjects of the hidden one.
Does it give me permission? It is very ancient.
He is three thousand years old.
It was of her.
Was it belonging to the Saphra? It never links if it deceives.
It is better to be walking.
I go with you.
With license.
Does he want a tea? - Good night, Hugo.
- Where you go, Ruth? I lost my brooch.
It must have fallen outside.
- Did you speak with Gervase? - I spoke.
He is impossible.
Between.
- Is not it still ready? - We have immense time.
Of certainty? It was going to swear what I already heard the first sign of the gong.
Let me see.
No, they are still 20h06.
- What was this? - I do not know.
It seemed to me a shot.
Good night, Beauty queen Ruth.
Good night, Beauty queen Lingard.
Does anything go on? - I am not delayed, is not it? - Did not you hear? - What? - It seemed to me a shot.
Right now? It seemed to me the noise of a car.
What goes on? A weapon to fire seemed to hear us.
- Also I heard something.
- It came of there from above.
No, it was a car.
The noise came from there.
- Also I heard.
- Snell? - Yes, Lady? - They are 20h15.
- It is a height of the second sign.
- That's right.
Where the Monsieur Chevenix is? - He is never late.
- He was in the office, Lady.
- They will break the door down.
- Let me try.
Poirot I said to him that the Saphra it was never deceived.
- Good night, Poirot.
- Inspector-chief Japp.
- Where the body is? - This way, Inspector.
Inspector - Suicide.
- Apparently.
He would say that it is obvious.
The bullet must have passed for the leader and it reached the mirror.
Apparently.
He left a message.
"Excuse".
This says everything.
See this, Inspector.
- What is? - It is a piece from glass of the mirror.
There must be immense ones there spread.
- Who found the body? - We were we.
We hear a shot about 20h10 and then we broke the door down.
Let me see Such as I thought.
It was locked here inside.
It is completely more or less explained.
Does it find even that yes? Well, we have the body.
They heard a shot.
He was alone, with the weapon in the hand and the barred door.
And the windows? - It is locked.
- This one also.
And this one also.
Well, I am going to speak a little with you.
Chevenix.
It is not that there is much more saying.
It seems the same suicide, Poirot.
It is possible, my friend.
But there are still many things what he would like knowing.
For example: because the broken mirror was? And because there was land in the shoes of the Mademoiselle Ruth Chevenix? - Notice.
- Caught.
They are caught of lady.
In the direction of the office of the Monsieur Chevenix.
The window was locked on the inside.
But also it can be locked outside.
Notice.
It is enough to lift the latch, and while closing My God.
He knows, Inspector, the life it is one of the great illusions of the Universe.
I me them do not bring lament into line, Mrs.
Chevenix.
Gervase knew that.
He and I know each other in the same plan.
Were they on vacation? In the same spiritual plan.
He was one of the "great ones".
Also it was difficult for him to be adapted to the standards of day by day.
He was believing in me.
Regarding his death.
Did he already know of his death? Already.
The Saphra said to me.
- She knew.
- Did he know even? Mrs.
he can say Chevenix to me where I can find this Saphra? She was living in Egypt.
- One changed? - No.
Of first quality.
Hello, Sr.
Poirot.
Monsieur Trent, did he see his uncle during the afternoon? I saw, about 19 hours.
It was put on for the dinner.
I I asked for him to help me in my business.
But he did not listen to me.
He wanted what he was marrying with Ruth.
It swims of marriage, nothing of money.
It consisted in this.
Then, Monsieur Trent, it has not any motive to celebrate.
None.
It was not the man who opened this bottle of champagne? No.
It is curious.
The bottle is opened, but his content was not consumed.
Here you, Poirot is.
He knows how I can get in touch with such a Saphra? She is a friend of the Mrs.
Chevenix.
The Saphra is killed.
And her spiritual guide.
- Then I can be walking.
- Does it believe anything to have to investigate? Gervase Chevenix killed himself.
I am sure.
In this case, we return already for London.
But there are two questions which it will be able to answer me.
Clear.
First question: the Monsieur Chevenix was it skilful or esquerdino? - What another question is? - It is more simple.
If the Monsieur Chevenix killed himself Where the bullet is? - Hello, Miss Chevenix.
- You.
is Poirot? Yes, come with me.
- The Beauty queen Chevenix is here.
- Mademoiselle.
Mr.
Poirot, I need of speaking with you.
It can sit down.
It is true that Gervase contracted it in order that John Lake investigates? It is, Mademoiselle.
The Monsieur Chevenix was finding what was being deceived.
I came to say to him that this subject is shut in.
I do not know how much is what it links it offered him, I wait for them to myself that this is sufficient.
Mademoiselle, the enterprise of the Monsieur John Lake How does one call? Northgate Development.
But he said already to him that there is nothing to investigate.
One allows me, Mademoiselle, he wanted to ask him a question.
Was it very close to his guardian? It was very grateful to Gervase.
And he was not only my guardian.
He was my uncle.
But it adopted it.
I was a "natural child", since he usually calls oneself.
My father was the newest brother of him.
He died at the war, and my mother was a stenographer.
- Is it where that she is? - I do not know.
When my father died, she wrote a letter to Gervase.
Since it could no have children, he adopted me.
Want to sit down, Mademoiselle.
One says a thing: in the night of the death of the Monsieur Chevenix, where the lady was to 20h? - It was at home.
- But did it go out, no? - Did I leave? - I saw that it had land in the shoes.
It him does not escape at all.
Yes, I was outside two times.
About 18h, I got a beating daisies near to the office.
And after that? It had to pass already of 20h.
I repaired what had when the brooch was dropped and I I looked for it.
- Was it so so simple? - It can ask the Beauty queen Lingard.
To the Mademoiselle Lingard? She was in the living room when I entered.
- Mr.
Poirot - Mademoiselle Lingard.
- Captain Hastings.
- Beauty queen Lingard.
- They frightened me.
- Is it still working in the book? They paid me for being even to the end of the month.
The book is already in the end.
It would be a pity to stop now.
But this is not a painting fauvista.
It is of another time.
But it is such a pretty picture.
- So sad - It is, in fact.
I can ask him some questions on the death of the Monsieur Chevenix? In the night of his death, when we broke the door down, I repaired what was lowered to catch something.
Yes.
It was this.
- It seems a bullet.
- It was what I thought.
But it is a button of fist.
I believe what belongs to a Mr.
Trent.
It wanted to return it to him.
- Because it was at the door of the office? - I do not do idea.
- One allows me, I return it for you.
- Thank you.
A last question, Mademoiselle Lingard.
Ruth Chevenix.
What has it? He knew that he saw it even before finding the body.
Yes, soon after the shot.
It was with me in the living room.
Such as I thought.
Thank you.
This came to confirm the history of Ruth.
Call, Hastings, what the Mademoiselle Ruth found of? I do not know.
I do not know because it is so pawned in defending John Lake.
Right.
There is this the question that remains in the mind of Poirot.
He won, Poirot.
It was not a suicide.
The one that is due this change of opinion? Such as I called myself, Gervase Chevenix was skilful.
When we found it, the weapon was in the left hand.
And the bullet disappeared.
- Is not it in the wall? - None is in side.
There is something that he had to see.
The last will of Gervase Chevenix.
It leaves all his fortune, which is not little, the Vanda and Ruth Chevenix.
Half for each one.
And there is a donation for 2 thousand pounds for Hugo Trent.
Then it always received the capital.
Yes, but there is another thing.
We found this in a drawer of the secretary.
It was not locked.
He could have seen any one it.
- A second will.
- But because of signing.
- What he says? - It is completely different.
The Vanda Chevenix keeps everything if it Hugo not to marry with Ruth.
I would say that this is a good motive to murder someone.
It was what I thought.
Billet what the Monsieur Chevenix it was killed why was not he signing this will? Right.
Yes, it is possible.
But he would like knowing a thing, Poirot.
What, Inspector? What it was doing in Hamborough Close? How did it get involved in this confusion? Fraud? It was what the Monsieur Chevenix he thought.
Northgate Developments.
It was not this that was waiting, is not it? If this will be only a disguise, Captain Hastings, it was same with this that I was counting.
The door is opened.
It is very quiet.
Nobody must be here.
- This siege is deserted.
- They must already have begun to walk.
Poirot, comes to see this.
Pond Street.
It is a maquette of the undertaking.
Does not it make him remember anything, Hastings? It looks to Hamborough Close.
It was a work of the same person.
Does not it smell him to smoke? It smells.
Someone is there inside.
Japp! What was? He is John Lake.
Take it there for out.
My God, the fire is spreading! , be still Hastings me! When it took care, Captain Hastings! He does not see himself at all.
My God.
Mr.
Poirot Excuse.
I was a fool.
The Northgate wants to talk to me on Development, Monsieur Lake? Yes.
I did not know what I was to do.
This is that it is this.
It was facing many difficulties.
Of beginning, he was only an architect.
But then they offered me society.
It was not realizing anything of business, but I was flattered.
- And did it help to increase them the profits? - Yes.
They disappeared with the money and it was alone holding the boat.
Right.
When Gervase called it, I was afraid.
I panicked.
I wanted to get rid of the proofs.
And then did it set light? I operated a device with stopwatch.
What fired ahead of time.
I had not been - Mr.
Poirot - Mademoiselle.
Inspector.
I will enter.
- He cannot receive visits.
- I have to see even.
Only familiar.
They are orders of the doctor.
I am of the family, Inspector.
I am his woman.
We married that there is one week.
Can I enter? His husband waits for it.
Who would say? Ruth married with John in secret.
Only I can wish him felicidades.
But also it has plans for his marriage, Mademoiselle Susan.
And from today I am going to help Hugo with the business.
What brings it for here, Mr.
Poirot? Did it come to order something? No, Monsieur Trent.
I came to bring this.
I believe what him belongs.
Yes, it is mine.
Where it found it? In the night of the death of his uncle, did he see the Monsieur John Lake? No.
He was in the library.
- Did he hear the shot? - I heard.
And Susan also heard.
Yes, it was going down hurried for the corridor.
It seemed to me a car.
Because it was hurried, Mademoiselle? I was frightened with the sign of the gong, I was afraid of being late.
I thought that it had already given the first sign.
- I also.
- Precisely, Hastings.
However, I, Hercule Poirot, I did not hear anything.
- The case is resolved.
- Resolved? How? He did not hear the evidence of the Mademoiselle Cardwell? One does not remember of the bottle of champagne? There is going to be necessary more of what champagne to resolve this case.
And the bullet? It is already going to have the bullet, Inspector.
Soon, it will have everything.
I asked for you in order that they were joined in order that all the truth communicates you on the death of the Monsieur Chevenix.
He is not killed.
Lady? It is in a spiritual different plan.
That is alone.
Vanda First of all, we will accept the fact that it was not a suicide.
The Monsieur Chevenix does not kill himself.
It was murdered.
- And he was present someone in this room.
- It is not possible.
Nobody was here when we broke the door down.
The door was locked on the inside.
Gervase had the key.
- The windows also were locked.
- Nobody here was going to want to kill it.
That's right.
But it went to Mademoiselle Cardwell who told me that it was hating it.
It was not going to leave that anything was hiding between you and the Monsieur Hugo Trent.
That is not just.
And the Monsieur Trent was anxious to see his business being successful.
- It is true.
It was needing the money.
- Money that now has.
Money that would not have if his uncle had not died.
The Monsieur Lake also It got frightened as soon as he saw the Poirot.
Not only it set fire to the installations since it also convinced the Monsieur Chevenix paying an amount for 10 thousand pounds.
- I was not to blame.
- No? I find that the Monsieur Chevenix it would not be going to agree.
And the lady also.
The Lady Lake had all them motives to wish him the death.
It had not any motive.
And, even that it has been a murder, I could not have been.
He said already to him, Mr.
Poirot.
The Beauty queen Ruth was with me when you.
Chevenix died.
To which hours was it that? And to what hours did the Monsieur Chevenix die? We know to which hours he died.
All we hear the shot.
No, it is deceived.
To 20h, the "Monsieur" Chevenix it was, in fact, in the secretary of his office.
But it was not alone.
One turned.
The weapon had silenciador.
Nobody heard the shot.
We are going to imagine what it will have been the distance of the bullet.
Hastings, is felt here, please.
The weapon appeared in the left hand of the Monsieur Chevenix.
The best.
My card.
But, soon in the first meeting, he knew which Monsieur Chevenix was skilful.
If the bullet was shot for behind Hastings? So Since it could have reached the mirror what is from side? - It could not.
- That's right.
Let's suppose that the door of the office it was opened.
Please, Monsieur Snell.
Thank you.
Again, the weapon in this position.
It was reaching the gong.
- Then it was this noise what I heard.
- And since it is that the mirror left? The murderer he wanted that it seemed a suicide.
And if, in fact, if he heard the noise of the gong? In this case the door of the office it was opened.
Quickly, the door is closed and locked.
The weapon is put in the left hand of the dead man.
The key goes for the pocket.
The ticket of suicide with only a word is easily forged and the mirror it is broken intentionally.
When we entered here, the Inspector must remember that I found a small fragment of glass in this piece, whose base was damaged also.
It was there what I discovered.
What happened then? Is it how that the murderer left? The murderer left for the window, locking it on the side from the outside.
There they have.
And who was the murderer? In this night, who entered at home for the garden? Who would lose everything if the Monsieur Chevenix was he signing the new will? What new will? What would be going to disinherit it if he was not marrying with the Monsieur Hugo Trent.
But it was too late, so they were already married.
No, it is deceived.
They give birth to it.
No, the Monsieur Poirot it is never deceived.
The will was in his room.
He could have seen it.
But it was already late to put right what it had done.
It was married by a man what his guardian was hating.
I was going to tell him.
I hate to lie.
It was going to tell him in this night.
- It was not going to tell him.
It was going to kill it.
- It is deceived.
This history has not anything of truth.
It is a lie from beginning to end.
The one who is going to decide on that is the judge.
- Is it going to be a good, Vanda? - Yes.
Good night, Hugo.
Good night, Mrs.
Chevenix.
Poor person Ruth.
I still do not believe.
I wait what he knows what it is doing, Poirot.
Vanda It wakes up Who is? I am the Saphra, Vanda It comes here down.
Were you, Vanda.
You killed it.
- No.
- You know that it is true.
You killed Gervase.
It comes here down.
It comes.
You killed it because you were hating it.
Now you have to free yourself.
I not What you have been hiding in the necklace, Vanda? The bullet that killed your husband.
No.
You will write a letter to confess.
And then No It arrives already.
He knew that it was going to try something, Mademoiselle Lingard.
But this? This is too much.
It was having to save it.
It would save Ruth.
I know.
And, to save it, it killed the Monsieur Gervase Chevenix.
She is the truthful mother of Ruth Chevenix, is not it? The stenographer for whom the brother of the Monsieur Chevenix he fell in love.
How it discovered? There might not be another justification.
But it was in the museum that I realized it.
But it is such a pretty picture.
So sad.
It was a picture what it was showing the loss of a daughter.
It was there what I realized what you also had lost a daughter.
It came for this house to be able to take count of the daughter what it had lost.
- It assumed the post of investigating one - Yes.
And while it was working it gave of faces with the new will.
He was going to destroy her life with his I make proud and pretensiosismo.
Then it resolved to treat everything alone one.
Gervase Chevenix killed the "Monsieur", such as I described.
It went out from the office, with care, not to leave footprints.
But, unless he knew it, little then Ruth Chevenix was to look for a brooch what it had lost.
It found it and, therefore, it left footprints.
It was then necessary to continue with the farce of the suicide, and to establish an hour of the false death.
It was very intelligent while imitating the noise of a weapon.
It was for the room and it was there when Ruth Chevenix entered.
Good night, Beauty queen Ruth.
Good night, Beauty queen Lingard.
Also I repaired what one did not say that Ruth Chevenix came from the garden.
How might it to do it? It was going to incriminate it.
And only it was lacking to treat a thing.
The bullet.
I found it beside the gong when they were breaking the door down.
He wanted it put it inside the office, but I had not opportunity for doing.
And the button of fist of the Monsieur Trent? I took away it of his room.
He knew that it was going away to see catching the bullet, therefore it would have something to show him.
For somewhat it was managing to confuse Poirot.
Inspector.
Come with me, Beauty queen Lingard.
Mr.
Poirot, I do not want that Ruth sees me.
It does not interest what is going to happen me, but please do not leave what it links see.
I give him chance to speak.
Thank you.