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[ Thunder crashing ]

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[ Bed creaking ]

[ Sighs ]

Sorry.

It's all right my darling ,.

I just can't believe they'd do this .

I know. I know.

Everything I touch...

You mustn't think like that.

We have each other,

our whole lives to look forward to .

I'm broke, Jackie.

What sort of a future is that?

Well, I have some put by

that will see us through for a little while.

And I'll think of something . I promise.

I promise you my darling ,.

We love each other,

and that's all that matters , yes?

♪ Mad about the boy ♪

♪ I know it's stupid to be mad about the boy ♪

♪ I'm so ashamed of it but must admit ♪ ...

She's had the most terrible luck.

When we were at school together in Paris,

her father ran off with some woman,

and then her mother lost all her money in the crash.

Jackie was left absolutely penniless.

I don't know how she's managed these past few years.

Oh, she wants something, I bet.

I've offered to help , but she won't hear of it.

Isn't it awful when one's ? friends fall on hard times

One simply has to drop them .

She sounded very excited , but then she always does ,.

It's the Latin in her.

JOANNA: The boys are back from their ramble.

England's manhood .

LINNET: You and Tim seem awfully dose .

Is there something going on ? that I don't know about

Oh good heavens no ,,.

The only woman in Tim Allerton's life is his mummy.

All far too Sophodean for my taste.

? And what about the good Iord

StiII panting for you, is he?

He's not the panting type.

According to the gossip coIumnists,

you're haIfway up the aisIe.

Oh, no, not yet. Not ever. WeII, not him, anyway.

But, darIing, he's absoIuteIy roIIing.

So am I. [ Sniffs ]

Oh so divine ,.

I bet these cost more than the house.

Looks and money. I can't beIieve I Iike you.

LINNET: Joanna darIing ,, you don't Iike anyone .

Don't I? Oh, weII.

[ Knock on door ]

Yes?

MIIe de BeIIefort . wiII be here for supper.

Thank you, Louise.

JOANNA: What on earth's wrong with her?

Look her ghastIy boyfriend , is in troubIe with the Iaw,

and can you beIieve ,,

she's asked me to stand baiI for him?

I said "On no account " ,,

and that frankIy prison's ,, the best pIace for him.

Oh dear ,.

She'II get over it.

AIIow me.

There.

God I wonder what Jackie wants ,.

The fact is darIing ,, I'm engaged .

So that's it. Who is he?

His name's Simon DoyIe,

and he's big and boyish and deIiciousIy uncompIicated .

He's been working in the city,

and now they're , weII cutting down ,,

so he's out of a job.

Oh Linnet I shaII die ,, if I can't marry him.

I shaII simpIy die .

My dear you have got it bad ,.

WeII, when I heard you bought this pIace,

I reaIized you'd be needing a Iand agent ,

and I thought Simon Oh ., darIing he'd be just perfect ,.

He Ioves the country, knows aII about estates,

and if he doesn't come up to scratch,

weII, you can aIways sack him.

Say you wiII, Linnet, pIease.

[ Laughter ]

Oh I knew you wouIdn't , Iet me down!

We want to go to Egypt for our honeymoon.

Can you imagine waIking down an avenue of sphinxes

with the man you Iove?

? CouId anything be more romantic

Bring him aIong, and I'II take a Iook .

WeII, actuaIIy, he's here.

What?

Just in case you said yes .

You'II adore him .

Simon.

This is Simon DoyIe.

Simon this is Linnet Ridgeway ,,

the most wonderfuI friend a girI couId have .

WeII, now, isn't this simpIy IoveIy?

[ BeII ringing ]

[ Speaking indistinctIy ]

[ Jazz music pIays ]

Isn't that HercuIe Poirot?

Do you mean that dwarfish-Iooking creature

? mincing down the stairs

Oh, that's not very nice, darIing .

? What on earth is he doing here

[ Laughter ]

I'd Iove someone to dance with me .

Oh, but who on this pIanet ? wouId want to dance with you

Perhaps someone may if I stayed --

And pigs might fIy .

Remember my dear ,, why you're here.

To be handy Cousin Marie ,.

PreciseIy.

After you've prepared my couchette,

you may attend to my eggnog .

You're not going to be grumpy, ,? are you darIing

If onIy there were more young peopIe around ...

Oh, whatever for?

Oh you'd Iike it , if Joanna were here.

- No I wouIdn't ,. - Mm-hmm.

In fact, I wouIdn't care if I never saw Joanna again.

I don't need Joanna when I have you.

Oh darIing ,.

[ ChuckIing ]

,? My God did you see that

Keep your voice down .

She's oId enough to be his mother.

She is his mother.

I need some air .

Ah.

Merci.

SALOME: M. Poirot?

Madame .

- SaIome Otterbourne. - Enchanté.

That GaIIic charm. You French are aII the same.

But I am BeIgian madame ,.

I was wondering if you wouId care

to trip the Iight fantastic avec moi?

Trip?

I know this is the wrong way around ,

but, after aII, we are Iiberated now .

[ Jazz music continues ]

I was a great supporter of the suffragettes, you know?

So, are you here on business?

Are there grave affairs to be deaIt with?

No, madame. I am simpIy the man of Ieisure.

[ Laughing ] EssentiaI, n'est-ce pas?

To be out of London in January .

Poor man. She's got her daws into him aIready .

I'm here for the IocaI coIor.

My new book, "Snow on the Desert's Face,"

is set in these parts.

No doubt it wiII cause another furor,

but no matter.

I speak the truth.

Why is everyone so afraid of sex?

[ ChuckIes ]

The stars of the show.

MRS ALLERTON: You'd think . she'd have some sense of shame .

TIM: Oh don't be so oId-fashioned ,.

MRS. ALLERTON: WeII, she is rather IoveIy, I must admit.

Linnet DoyIe's the onIy heiress in EngIand

that doesn't Iook Iike a horse .

HeIIo Andrew ,.

SpectacuIar.

Right over here.

Seems that everybody who is anybody

is in Egypt ce soir.

The Iure of the fIeshpots, no doubt.

- You remember Simon. - Yes.

FERGUSON: IncredibIe isn't it ,?

MiIIions unempIoyed ,

a Iunatic about to take power in Germany,

and aII we read about is how some spoiIed brat

ditched a Iord for her best friend's fiancé .

Some peopIe have everything.

Depends on what you think is worth having.

HeIIo, Simon.

- Hi, how are you? - WonderfuI .

- HeIIo, Tim. - Linnet, you Iook ravishing.

This is Andrew Pennington , my American trustee.

We just bumped into him in Cairo.

Uh yes quite a coincidence ,,.

Mother, I'm sure M. Poirot wouId Iike a rest .

No, no, no, no, no, no.

I think that is a good idea , because --

No, no, no, no, no. PIease.

Because my dinner seems a IittIe reIuctant to settIe.

If you wiII excuse me...

Of course, monsieur.

We shaII resume très bientôt.

Oui. Merci. Au revoir.

[ Music ends ]

[ Cheers and appIause ]

[ Jazz music pIays ]

Linnet!

What a simpIy divine surprise .

We just can't stop bumping into each other, can we?

HeIIo, Simon.

You Iook a IittIe tired , darIing .

Wearing you out, is she?

I'd hang on tight ducky ,.

He's a sIippery fish.

I'II be seeing you.

Are you aII right?

Yes, I'm fine.

MademoiseIIe .

I hope my mother hasn't exhausted you .

Not at aII.

I know how exhausting she can be.

Linnet DoyIe's very beautifuI, isn't she?

- Oui, mademoiselle. - And very rich, too.

I've read about her in aII the papers.

Seen her photograph everywhere.

But nothing can quite prepare you

for how IoveIy she is in the fIesh.

I don't think I've ever hated anyone so much

on first sight.

But aII that gIitters...

Not in her case.

Life is not fair, M. Poirot.

Has Iife been unfair to you, mademoiseIIe?

You've met my mother.

- M. Poirot? - Hmm?

I didn't mean to startIe you ,

but I am very anxious to speak with you.

At your service madame ,.

You know who I am, perhaps?

Oh, yes, I know exactIy who you are.

To come straight to the point,

I am a victim of an intoIerabIe persecution.

Persecution?

Perhaps if you couId expIain a IittIe further...

It's reaIIy very simpIe.

Before I met my husband ,

he was engaged to a friend of mine ,

JacqueIine de BeIIefort .

Now, they weren't remoteIy suited, and he broke it off.

She -- I'm sorry to say -- has taken it rather badIy ,

and out of pure spite ,

has chosen to hound us wherever we go.

And you are here I understand ,, on your honeymoon?

That's right.

Now she first appeared , in Venice,

and then in Brindisi, and then in Cairo and now here ,.

She simpIy cannot be aIIowed to carry on Iike this.

But she is perfectIy within her rights.

I'm sorry, did you not see ? the way she behaved just now

Oui, but she did not actuaIIy threaten you

or cause you any bodiIy harm .

No evidentIy she is ,, very much aggrieved madame ,.

If you're impIying that I stoIe my friend's fiancé ,

then I assure you, you're wrong.

She Ioved him yes ,,

but her feeIings were not reciprocated .

Even before he met me, he knew he'd made a mistake .

But was there not a moment

when you reaIized ? that you had a choice

You have everything,

but your friend , from what I understand ,

had him onIy .

Now pardon my impertinence ,, madame ,

but I suspect you are feeIing a IittIe guiIty.

CouIdn't you at Ieast try to reason with her?

Madame I am on hoIiday ,.

I'm sure that we can come to some kind of arrangement .

No madame ,...

I am sure we couId not .

[ Speaks French ]

She did threaten to kiII us , you know?

But then, she does have a tendency

to be a IittIe dramatic .

Oh.

[ Crying, sniffIing ]

I suppose you saw the IittIe fIoor show.

Oui, mademoiselle.

I'm afraid I rather Iost my head .

They serve the most IethaI martinis in this pIace.

Bury your dead mademoiseIIe ,.

Has Mrs. DoyIe sent you?

Got you on her payroII ,? aIready has she

She has approached me , that is true but I dedined ,.

You must Iook to the future.

[ Scoffs ] Oh she'd Iove that ,.

I am thinking of you.

You have before you your whoIe Iife.

Simon is my Iife.

POIROT: I couId see that you Ioved him but ,...

We Ioved each other M Poirot ,.,

and Linnet was my best friend .

? How couId she

It takes two.

She knew exactIy what she was doing ,

and he feII for it .

One of the richest women in EngIand.

No wonder it went to his head .

You know, we were even pIanning to come here

for our honeymoon.

He Ioves me, M. Poirot.

Even now?

No, not now.

Now I think he hates me.

[ SniffIes ]

Pretty, isn't it?

I'm quite a good shot actuaIIy ,.

My father taught me.

I have to admit, it crossed my mind to use it ,

but, then, I thought, "No.

WouIdn't it be much more fun

to just foIIow them wherever they went?

And just when they thought it was safe to reIax,

there I'd be , the ghost at the banquet"?

You must stop this now.

? And Iet them get away with it

Do not open your heart to eviI, mademoiseIIe.

If you do , there wiII be no turning back.

She has taken everything from me, M. Poirot,

and I want to hurt her ,

to put my gun against her head

and gentIy puII the trigger .

Oh God I'm so afraid ,,.

- [ Gasps ] - What is it?

Over there. Someone's Iistening.

POIROT: I cannot see.

I think they're gone.

I can't do what you ask , M. Poirot.

Good morning .

Bonjour, M. DoyIe. ? And how is madame

AbsoIuteIy pooped .

Said she need a bit more shut-eye.

Gosh, I'm ravenous. Isn't it marveIous?

They do an EngIish breakfast here.

I can't stand aII that brioche how-de-do .

Uh did you uh ,,...

Have you managed to speak to JacqueIine,

- Miss de BeIIefort at aII ,? - Oui.

Did you get her to see sense, or...

No. No I'm afraid not ,.

But decent girIs just don't do that sort of thing.

She's making a compIete ass of herseIf

and pIaying merry heII with Linnet's nerves.

,? And yours monsieur

Oh I'd Iike to wring her neck ,.

Between ourseIves, monsieur, I've hatched a pIan .

I'm Ietting it be known

that Linnet and I are staying put for the next coupIe days

but have, in fact, booked us on a NiIe cruise

Ieaving tomorrow morning,

under assumed names of course ,.

Of course.

Then we'II make it Iook Iike we're going on an excursion.

The maid wiII take charge of the Iuggage,

and we'II hop aboard at the Iast minute,

and Bob's your unde .

By the time JacqueIine reaIizes we won't be coming back,

it'II be too Iate.

So what do you think ,, ? good wheeze

WeII, she has the brains, monsieur.

We shaII see.

I, myseIf, wiII aIso be on the cruise.

- ReaIIy? - POIROT: Oui.

Oh, not in any way, I hope, on our account.

No, no, no, no, no, not at aII.

I make my pIans weII in advance .

That is the way to succeed in Iife, n'est-ce pas?

[ ChuckIes ] Yes, I suppose it is.

POIROT: Who is that gentIeman?

Oh a chap caIIed Pennington ,, Linnet's trustee.

Bumped into him by chance in Cairo.

I must say, he was knocked for six to find out she was married .

Care to join us?

No, no, no, no, no, no. But thank you very much.

JoIIy nice chatting to you anyway,

but deviIed kidneys beckon .

[ Air horn bIows ]

Isn't that our trunk? Do you think it'II be aII right?

Oh, wow!

WeIcome.

WeIcome aboard the S S Karnak ...

Good morning .

- I'm so sorry. ? - Do you mind

Oh! Oh, oh!

Don't Iet them touch the Iuggage.

They don't wash .

God it's a fIoating tomb! ,

Don't push me into the sea!

Oh! BIack HoIe of CaIcutta.

CORNELIA: Oh, isn't it beautifuI?

Where's my other Iuggage?

I Ieft it with the man.

Merci.

[ Air horn bIows ]

MademoiseIIe .

There's something about this pIace,

? don't you think

Something unsettIing one can't quite resist?

Oui.

I had no idea they were coming .

LINNET: Oh this is heaven darIing ,,.

[ ChuckIing ]

DarIing!

I thought you were staying at the hoteI.

WeII, what a hoot.

I'm sure we'II have an absoIute baII.

You refuse to heIp, M. Poirot, and Iook what happens.

But this is not of my making.

How couId she have known ? that we wouId be on the boat

But if you are suggesting --

I'm suggesting nothing, monsieur,

but I wiII teII you this.

,? Everybody hates me okay

I'm surrounded by enemies .

[ Jazz music pIays ]

The way some of them Iook!

After aII we've done for them .

Ah, M. Poirot.

Madame .

M. AIIerton.

Now, Mr. Poirot,

perhaps you can heIp me put a face

to one or two of the names on the passenger Iist.

Dr. Bessner, for exampIe.

Over there madame ,.

Oh, yes, the pIump one,

with the shaved head and the Bismarck moustache .

- German no doubt ,. - No, Austrian, I beIieve.

Oh, bosh, whatever.

So by process of eIimination,

the rather gIum-Iooking young gentIeman

must be Mr. Ferguson.

Oui, a progressive thinker, so I understand .

Rabid BoIshie more Iike ,.

Oh, now, there's someone

I'd throw my cap into the ring for.

Mother!

Oh, that ruthIess jaw... and extremeIy rich ,

as are most peopIe here.

My, she's ugIy.

Like something you'd unearth on a dig .

Oh! Isn't she IoveIy?

Madame .

She reaIIy knows how to make an entrance.

Good night mademoiseIIe ,.

Good night M Poirot ,..

You were surprised to find me here .

[ ChuckIes ]

I am more sorry than surprised .

You have chosen a path

that is most dangerous , mademoiseIIe .

I doubt that you wouId turn back now,

even if you couId .

Oh, weII.

One must foIIow one's star.

Love is not everything.

[ ChuckIes ]

Oh, but it is.

It is.

You must know that, M. Poirot.

SureIy you understand ,.

It is terribIe mademoiseIIe ,,

aII that I have missed in Iife .

Good night M Poirot ,..

Good night .

Oh, MIIe. Robson,

your companion -- ? she does not come ashore

You see, Cousin Marie has to be very, very carefuI

about her heaIth,

but she was frightfuIIy kind

and said it wouId be aII right for me to come.

WeII, that is most gracious of her.

Oh, yes, she is.

It's simpIy wonderfuI of her to bring me on this trip.

I'm such a Iucky girI.

I'd aIways dreamed of traveIing .

It's amazing.

Have you ever in your Iife...

Isn't it miracuIous what man can create?

PeopIe died buiIding this Iot , you know?

So, you'd prefer it if there were no sphinxes,

no beautifuI tombs, no tempIe, hmm?

It's peopIe that matter, not stones.

[ Sighs ]

[ ChuckIes ]

God, what were they actuaIIy for?

SIMON: I never reaIIy thought about it.

Perhaps they were their equivaIent of garden gnomes .

Nice try, Simon, but just a IittIe wide of the mark .

The sphinx was, in fact, a monster from Greek mythoIogy,

with a woman's head -- See? --

and a Iioness' body .

And it said -- ,? Oh don't you want to know

It said riddIes for traveIers

and kiIIed those who got them wrong.

Just sign right there.

And this is the Iease agreement for the 5th Avenue apartment.

LINNET: Yes.

Yeah, just sign right there.

Yeah it's perfectIy in order ,.

I'm sure it is, but I Iike to read everything .

Gosh I've never read , a IegaI document in my Iife .

How very sIipshod of you .

It's reaIIy quite straightforward my dear ,.

It's just a Iot of IegaI jargon.

I just sign on the dotted Iine . [ Laughs ]

Now that couId be quite risky ,, ? don't you think

DarIing, if you carry on at this rate,

we'II be here aII day .

? Why don't we do this Iater

LINNET: I think that's a very good idea .

It's getting frightfuIIy hot up here.

Where have you been?

I'm so sorry, Cousin Marie. I couIdn't find it .

You reaIIy are a hopeIess creature!

,? I can be rather stupid can't I

MARIE: You most certainIy can!

CORNELIA: Oh, you forgot your magazine.

What is the point of someone Iike that?

And that rich kid .

Signs a few documents ,

then has to rest because it's so frightfuIIy hot.

And what sets you apart , M. Ferguson?

I make peopIe aware,

and I certainIy don't swot around Iike a fop.

Why are you actuaIIy here, M. Poirot?

I'm on hoIiday . And you?

I'm studying conditions .

Oh, M. Poirot. I'm so sorry.

It's aII the motion.

I can't seem to find my sea Iegs.

It's aII this pitching and Iurching.

I think it wouId be best if you --

? Where is that wretched girI

Leaving me to suffer hour upon hour!

God I hope we don't go down ,, M. Poirot.

The thought of being nibbIed by haddock and carp .

It is a IittIe ,? too dangerous out here huh

Yes.

You might be swept overboard .

And end my days in Neptune's arms,

covered in carbundes Iike an oId wreck?

[ Air horn bIows ]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

- Oh, uh, no, thank you. - I aIready got one of those .

[ Indistinct conversations ]

No doubt it was a pIeasant surprise,

to run into Linnet DoyIe and discover she was married .

Yes. Yes, it was.

WeII, actuaIIy, she did write me about it .

I had aIready Ieft New York on the Carminic.

Oh, the Carminic.

Yes, yes.

Most fortunate, then,

that you had with you aII of her documents.

That's reaIIy none of your business.

But as you've mentioned it ,

I had them sent over after we met.

Now, if you'II excuse me...

Oh.

Don't faII down the hoIe .

The goddess Hathor is often depicted

as the winged cow of creation

who gave birth to the entire universe.

Oh, my. She did keep herseIf busy .

And, occasionaIIy, she can be mistaken for Isis,

who was magicaIIy impregnated with the seed of her own son .

Oh, heavens to Betsy.

MARIE: CorneIia!

Oh, um, I'm sorry.

A nice, curvy girI. This is what I Iike.

MARIE: You didn't bring my smeIIing saIts!

LINNET: Oh, when are we gonna ? see some more pyramids

I thought Egypt was fuII of them.

Vamoose. No you've had enough ,.

Go away, you IittIe horrors.

Oh what a wonderfuI way , to be remembered.

Maybe I'II have one buiIt on the grounds .

And you can be buried in it , too.

I say.

It'II certainIy give the IocaIs something to taIk about.

- [ RumbIing ] - [ Shouts ]

Oh!

Oh my God Simon! ,,

[ Crying ]

Madame monsieur ,.

Are you hurt?

WeII, isn't that fascinating?

The goddess Hathor was a beautifuI woman

with the head of a cow .

StiII, I suppose it's better

than being a cow with the head of a beautifuI woman.

This pIace is simpIy drenched in historicaI goodies Iike that .

- I thought that -- - Yes, monsieur, I know.

I know what you thought.

DarIing, are you sure you're aII right?

,? Dear what happened

Keep as stiII as you can, pIease.

Keep stiII!

[ CameIs grunting ]

I need a drink. These sands are so hot .

MAN: More water.

Salaam alaikum.

Bonjour.

[ Speaking Arabic ]

Pardon. Je ne comprends pas, monsieur.

Had you fooIed there Poirot ,, you oId dog .

- Oh. - RACE: How's tricks?

CoIoneI Race, I do not beIieve my eyes!

How are you?

SaddIesore fIea-ridden ,. Otherwise, tip-top.

Oh, what a big surprise to see you here.

WeII, I've been sorting out a few IocaI difficuIties .

RestIess natives, the odd assassination ,

that sort of thing.

I say that's pretty daring ,.

Oh, merci.

You know, you reaIIy must give me the name of your taiIor.

Oui. ? Where are you heading

RACE: Back upriver with you.

With me?

ShouIdn't you be on the government steamer?

WeII, in normaI circumstances, yes,

but when I heard that my oId chum Poirot was in the vicinity,

I thought that wouId be much more fun.

Something aIways seems to happen around you .

I think it might have aIready started mon ami ,.

Oh, joIIy good.

Oui.

Mme. AIIerton, Mme. Otterbourne,

permit me to introduce a very oId friend of mine --

CoIoneI Race.

[ Scoffs ]

Oh, that's where the queen was.

Thank you, partner.

Hope I get the cards this time .

MademoiseIIe .

DR. BESSNER: Ah, Miss Robson.

Where have you been?

You're unusuaIIy breathIess...

and bIotchy .

Oh, dear. I'm sorry, Cousin Marie.

I was just outside .

And what have you done with my veIvet stoIe?

Oh, shaII I see if it's in the cabin?

Oh it couIdn't possibIy be , in the cabin.

I had it in here just after dinner,

and I haven't moved since , have I, Dr. Bessner?

No, Miss Van SchuyIer.

It was on that chair, and it's not now.

I thought you must have taken it.

Oh I'm afraid I didn't ,.

It was a gift from Count Von MeckIemberg.

Miss Van SchuyIer.

Miss Robson.

Bonne nuit.

Poirot.

Ah, bonne nuit, mademoiselle.

You Iook tired M Poirot ,..

Ah, oui, oui. C'est vrai

It must, I think, be the heat.

Bonne nuit.

[ Buzzer ]

♪ Love is the sweetest thing ♪

♪ What eIse on earth couId ever bring ♪

♪ Such happiness to everything ♪

♪ Love is the sweetest thing ♪

- ♪ Ba ba ba ba ba ♪ - Ah.

CorneIia come and join me ,.

Oh, weII...

? Decided to make a night of it

No, no, I just didn't want to go to bed yet .

It's such a beautifuI night.

It is IoveIy, isn't it?

Just perfect for a honeymoon.

Oh, two Iarge gins.

Oh no I couIdn't ,,.

Oh, tish.

What's our score, Simon?

Sorry.

Uh we've made 120 , beIow the Iine...

JACQUELINE: Not bad-Iooking , don't you think?

Oh, weII, I don't know about that .

He'd better watch out there are no man-eaters around here.

I'm so sorry. I'm suddenIy very tired .

And it is getting rather rowdy in here.

Yes, time to turn in.

Are you coming, Simon?

I'II, uh... I'II just finish my drink .

- Good evening . - Good evening .

Oh, weII.

But my dear you haven't had ,, your nightcap yet.

No.

JACQUELINE: We girIs must stick together.

AbsoIuteIy gasping.

Thank you.

To Iove, marriage. Stuff Iike that.

[ Coughs ]

TeII me aII about yourseIf.

Oh dear ,.

WeII, there isn't that much to teII.

I Iive at home in Connecticut,

in a IittIe pIace caIIed BeIfieId,

and it's my first trip to Europe,

and I am just Ioving every minute.

Oh, go on.

I Iive with my mother, whose heaIth is, unfortunateIy,

a IittIe deIicate at the moment .

She sIeeps very badIy ,

and she eats onIy intermittentIy.

Some days , just a piece of fruit or two,

and other days, she'II onIy touch cereaIs.

Do go on.

Yes, yes, we're aII ears.

[ Yawns ] I must get to bed .

Don't. I want to hear more.

There isn't any more.

Oh, pIease.

CORNELIA: WeII, I Iove art,

and um I go to dasses ,,

and scuIpt a IittIe and throw pots .

Sounds a hoot .

Ring the beII, Simon.

It's after midnight .

But I need a drink .

You've had enough .

So what?

[ CIears throat ]

A bit of air.

Yes, I think that's time.

Don't Ieave, CorneIia.

You see Simon here is afraid ,.

Afraid that I might teII you the story of my Iife.

Go to bed Jackie ,.

,? Afraid of a scene are you

Want me to behave decentIy , ? Iike you behaved to me

Do you reaIIy think you can get away with this?

You're drunk .

I said I'd kiII you , and by God I meant it ,,.

Miss de BeIIefort!

I'II shoot you Iike a dog , Iike the dirty dog you are!

Aah!

Oh!

Mr. Ferguson! Mr. Ferguson!

Good God .

I didn't ...

Uh, Ferguson, someone's coming.

TeII them it's an accident . It's nothing.

Ohh!

Nothing to worry about.

Charades that's aII ,.

A game, fun, ha ha ha.

Ah, yes, yes.

WeII I don't think anyone eIse , wouId have heard it.

It sounded Iike a cork popping .

Oh what have I done ,?

It'II be aII right.

Get her out of here, for God's sake Back to her cabin ..

And don't Iet her be Ieft aIone , whatever you do.

Don't worry, Mr. DoyIe. I'II stay with her.

Get Dr. Bessner to take a Iook at it.

I'II kiII myseIf.

PIease pIease don't Iet , my wife get wind of this .

This way. Come on. It's aII right. Come on.

[ Gasping ]

Oh God! , ? What have I done

No, no, no, no, no.

No, I must!

I must.

His poor Ieg, broken and bIeeding .

Oh, God. ? What if he bIeeds to death

Oh, Miss de BeIIefort, I don't think he'II do that .

Let go of me! I want to drown myseIf .

CaIm down .

I'II get Dr. Bessner.

[ Sobbing ]

[ Snoring ]

Do you have any idea what time it is?

We need your heIp . Something's happened .

[ Sighs ]

SIMON: [ Gasping ]

Gott im Himmel!

Uhh! Uhh!

[ Grunts ]

It is bad .

The bone is fractured ,

and you have Iost a Iot of bIood.

Herr Ferguson, we must take him to my cabin.

Uhh!

GentIy.

Uhh!

Be carefuI, now.

That is the best I can do .

You have been a hero my friend ,.

And now I wiII give you something to heIp you sIeep.

? Has anyone toId Frau DoyIe

No. No. It can wait tiII morning.

You mustn't bIame Jackie.

It's my fauIt. I behaved Iike a cad .

She didn't know what she was doing .

Ja. Ja.

She might, uh, hurt herseIf.

Someone ought to stay with her.

It's aII right. Miss Robson's with her.

Good Good ..

The pistoI.

You can't Ieave it Iying around .

The stewards wiII find it .

I'II get it.

It's gone.

Are you sure?

Yes. It dropped out of her hand .

She kicked it under a chair . I saw her do it .

But it's not there.

? Who couId have taken it

[ Humming ]

- [ Knock on door ] - Entrez.

Ah my dear coIoneI ,.

What a beautifuI morning, n'est-ce pas?

I'm afraid someone's been shot .

Who?

Linnet DoyIe. Last night.

Shot through the head .

DR BESSNER: The pistoI was heId . dose against her head.

? See where the skin is scorched

Oui.

DR. BESSNER: There was no struggIe.

She was shot in her sIeep.

RACE: ? Time of death

She has certainIy been dead six hours

and probabIy not Ionger than eight.

RACE: ? Between 12:00 and 2:00

May I ask, CoIoneI,

with what authority you make these inquiries?

The cruise manager has asked me

to take matters in hand untiI we reach port.

I have some sIight officiaI standing you see ,.

We are aII at the disposaI of the coIoneI.

RACE: Yes, quite. Now, what's aII that about?

POIROT: What, this?

It seems very simpIe, ? does it not

It wouId appear that as she is dying ,,

she writes with her finger dipped into her own bIood

the initiaI of the name of the murderer .

JacqueIine de BeIIefort ,

the young Iady who , Iess than a week ago,

dedared to me that, "I wouId Iike nothing better

than to pIace my gun against her head

and gentIy puII the trigger " .

So, I suppose her husband's next door .

At the moment, he is in my cabin, asIeep.

He spent the night in your cabin, Dr. Bessner?

Ja.

I see you have not heard .

Mr. DoyIe was aIso shot Iast night.

What?

In the Ieg.

Is there anyone eIse ? we shouId know about

That is aII.

It seems that MIIe de BeIIefort .

worked herseIf up, heIped by a few drinks ,

and finaIIy took a shot at him .

The poor man is compIeteIy immobiIized .

Then she went aIong to Linnet DoyIe's cabin

and shot her as weII ,.

No, no, no, no, no. That was not possibIe.

You see, she was in an hystericaI state,

and DoyIe was most concerned she shouId not harm herseIf .

So Miss Robson stayed with her aII night.

? Who discovered the crime

It was their maid apparentIy ,. Louise Bourget.

CoIoneI, my office is ready for you sir ,.

Thank you.

If you couId be as discreet as possibIe...

WeII, that's our speciaIity, oId chap .

Yes, sir. Of course.

Now we need to speak to DoyIe . You say he's stiII asIeep?

I gave him a very strong opiate.

I wouId suggest I have my breakfast,

and then I wiII see if he is ready to wake .

Thank you, Doctor.

CoIoneI.

Hmm.

So at midnight Mme DoyIe ,. was aIive and weII.

Yes, I saw her to her cabin.

Who was remaining in the Iounge?

DoyIe Miss de BeIIefort ,, Miss Robson and myseIf ,.

? And what were you aII doing

Oh, Mr. Ferguson was reading a magazine .

And I'd got some embroidery , and Miss de BeIIefort was...

Drinking.

- Yes. - Like a fish.

And I tried to Ieave once or twice but she made me stay ,.

And I was getting very uncomfortabIe.

And so was Mr Ferguson ., who went out on deck .

It was pretty stuffy in there.

CORNELIA: Then Miss de BeIIefort puIIed out a pistoI

and shot Mr DoyIe in the Ieg ..

And I caIIed for Mr Ferguson .,

and Mr DoyIe . said not to make a fuss .

And then one of the stewards came ,

and Mr Ferguson toId him . it was aII sort of a game.

And then Miss de BeIIefort started to cry .

So we took her back to her cabin,

and I stayed with her whiIe Mr. Ferguson got Dr. Bessner.

- At what time was this? - Mercy I don't know ,.

About 20 past 12,

because it was haIf-past when I finaIIy turned in .

And you are quite certain

that MIIe de BeIIefort . ? did not Ieave the cabin

Positive.

So she couIdn't have shot Mrs. DoyIe

before, say, 20 past 12:00.

Hmm.

How Iong did you remain with her, MIIe. Robson?

Oh, I was with her aII night. She never woke once.

I think it was probabIy the drink.

Bien. So far, she has the alibi parfait.

M DoyIe I understand .,,

was most anxious that she shouId not be Ieft aIone .

Yes he was worried that , she might do something stupid .

Hmm.

She even said that she wanted to kiII herseIf.

And the pistoI -- ? what happened to that

She dropped it .

And kicked it under a chair .

But when I went to get it, it, uh, it had gone.

Gone?

Now we begin to arrive.

You are quite certain that MIIe de BeIIefort .

did not recover it before she Ieft the Iounge?

- Yes. - AbsoIuteIy.

She had no opportunity of returning to retrieve it.

So how Iong was it

between the time that you and Dr Bessner .

carried M DoyIe . out of the cabin

and when you returned to Iook for the pistoI?

- Five minutes? - Five minutes.

And in that five minutes , someone removed the pistoI ,

and that someone was not JacqueIine de BeIIefort .

And we may assume that this person had overheard

or seen something of the events preceding .

? How do you make that out

Because you toId to us that the pistoI, it was out of sight,

so it couId hardIy be discovered by accident .

WeII I saw no one eIse on deck , before the shot was fired.

On which side were you , monsieur?

Starboard I think ,.

So, if anyone was on the portside,

you couId not have seen them .

No, I suppose not.

POIROT: Did anyone hear the ,? shot apart from the steward

I doubt it .

It sounded Iike a cork popping, anyway.

Did you hear anything at aII after retiring?

I think I heard a kind of spIash just as I was dropping off.

? What time wouId that be

What's French ? for "the third degree"

Just answer the question.

1:00. 5 tiII, 5 past. Who knows?

Now, wiII that be aII?

Hmm? Oh, yes.

Thank you, monsieur, for your heIp.

Oh, by the way...

...who exactIy are you?

What a damfooI question .

Heat getting too much for you, is it?

No.

But thank you for your concern.

What a frightfuIIy rude young man.

Oh, one thing more, mademoiseIIe.

Had you ever met Mme DoyIe . before this trip?

No. Never.

Merci.

Good day .

I didn't do it .

You must beIieve me.

I was in such a state I couId've kiIIed Simon ,

but I didn't do the other .

There, there.

We know mademoiseIIe ,.

? - You do - Oh, yes.

It is proved mon enfant ,, it was not you.

[ ExhaIes sharpIy ]

Oh thank God for that ,.

So, who was it?

Oh that is where we need heIp ,.

I can't think of anyone who wanted her dead except for me .

I wanted her dead .

And she is dead .

And she died just Iike I said .

Oui. Shot through the head .

You see, I was right.

There was someone Iistening that night at the hoteI.

? Who couId he have been

Are you certain it was a man?

No I just assumed ,.

[ Knock on door ]

Entrez.

DoyIe is ready to see you .

JACQUELINE: Is he aII right?

Of course he is not aII right.

You shot him.

,? He's not going to die is he

He has the constitution of a peasant.

We wiII get him to civiIization

where he wiII have an X-ray and proper treatment.

[ Sighs ]

We now know that is was not JacqueIine de BeIIefort

who shot your wife.

So can you give to us any idea

who you think it might have been?

Did she have any enemies

or know one who bore against her a grudge?

Uh, you see, M. DoyIe,

on the first day of the cruise ,

I had a IittIe encounter with your wife.

She was upset.

She said that everybody -- everybody mark you -- hated her ,

and that she was surrounded by enemies .

Now, she was exaggerating, but...

She did mean more than one person.

There was a name on the passenger Iist.

Sir, what -- what name was that?

She didn't actuaIIy teII me .

You see, her father pIayed the markets .

SeveraI peopIe got it in the neck.

RoIIing in it one day , and in the gutter the next .

There's someone onboard whose father was one of those

that had it in for Linnet's oId man .

Oh!

She said how awfuI it was ,

everyone hating her without even knowing her.

? She did not mention a name

[ Indistinct conversations ]

[ Shouting in native Ianguage ]

TeII me, MIIe. Bourget,

what hour was it when you Iast saw aIive your mistress?

Sometime after midnight , monsieur.

POIROT: ? And what then

Then I went to my cabin, monsieur.

? You heard or saw nothing

BOURGET: ? How couId I

That is for you to say, mademoiseIIe.

My cabin is on the deck beIow on the other side .

It is not possibIe I shouId hear anything ,

unIess I couId not sIeep and came back up.

Then, perhaps, I see something.

This monster enter or Ieave my mistress's cabin.

But as it is, monsieur, I impIore you.

You see how it is? What can I say?

- CaIm down for heaven's sake! , - Shh.

You'II be aII right. I'II Iook after you.

Nobody's accusing you of anything.

Monsieur is very good .

Do you know anyone who had a grudge

against your mistress?

No, monsieur.

Everybody Ioved her .

TeII me, M. DoyIe,

did your wife have with her on this cruise

any jeweIry that was vaIuabIe?

Her pearIs.

Do you know anything about ,? these pearIs mademoiseIIe

She was wearing them Iast night.

Did you see them ? when she went to bed

Yes, monsieur.

? - POIROT: Where did she put them - On her bedside tabIe .

Were they there this morning?

I did not see, because when I come into her room,

the onIy thing I notice is madame dead!

Eh bien mademoiseIIe ,, I did see ,

and there were no pearIs

on her bedside tabIe this morning.

Merci.

I think I heard a spIash and someone running.

Or was it the other way about?

Do you know what time that was?

An hour after I went to bed .

Or maybe more.

I can't be sure.

Had you ever met Mme. DoyIe before?

No but I'd heard a Iot , about her

through a reIative of ours -- Joanna Southwood --

and through Tim of course ,, who had met her .

One more question madame ,.

Uh, did your famiIy ever suffer financiaIIy

through the deaIings of the father of Mme. DoyIe?

Oh, no.

Our famiIy finances have never suffered ,

except by dwindIing .

Our poverty has never been meIodramatic .

I was woken by Iots of different voices ,

then somebody running aIong the deck ,

then a spIash.

You're sure it was not a shot ? that you heard

WeII, it might have been.

I did hear a cork pop .

Perhaps that was the shot and I imagined the spIash .

You know, sort of thought association.

Cork popping Iiquid spIashing ,.

? And after that

ObIivion.

[ Shouting in native Ianguage ]

I heard somebody on deck and then a spIash .

Do you know what time this was?

10 after 1:00. I Iooked in my dock .

? You did not hear a shot

No I did not ,.

Have you any idea what ? might have caused the spIash

Oh, yes.

? You do

I know exactIy what it was.

I went to the door of my cabin .

The daughter of that hideous woman in the turban

was Ieaning over the raiI.

She'd just dropped something into the water.

RACE: You quite sure?

? Why eIse wouId I have said it

- [ Knock on door ] - Yes?

- [ Door opens ] - We found it CoIoneI ,.

Good show .

Is this the gun you saw at the hoteI?

POIROT: Yes, it is.

Two shots fired . This must be the weapon.

What about my stoIe? Look at the state of it!

? Where did you Iast see this

I had it in the Iounge yesterday evening.

PIease do observe ,.

Hélas.

Oh!

So the murderer

must have used this as a siIencer.

The impertinence!

Miss Van SchuyIer, ,? wouId you excuse us pIease

Count Von MeckIemberg wiII be most dispIeased.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!

It does not make sense!

If the murderer wishes us to beIieve

that JacqueIine de BeIIefort was the cuIprit,

why throw the revoIver --

the evidence that is most damning of aII --

into the River NiIe?

I toId you. I never Ieft my cabin.

POIROT: That is strange mademoiseIIe ,,

because someone said they saw you.

- Who? - MIIe. Van SchuyIer.

She Iooked out of her cabin

and saw you throw something over the side .

And what eIse does she daim to have seen?

Nothing.

But she heard something .

Someone moving about the cabin of Mme. DoyIe.

Of course mademoiseIIe ,, there might be a reason

that is perfectIy innocent

for throwing something overboard,

but, then again...

Is that what ? she was kiIIed with

Oui, mademoiselle.

Mm And you think . ? that I might have done it

MIIe. Van SchuyIer is prepared to swear

that she saw you quite dearIy in the moonIight.

It wasn't me.

I was dead to the worId ,

Iike poor Mme. DoyIe is now, in fact.

A crime passionnel, ,.? wouIdn't you say M Poirot

That girI JacqueIine -- haIf Latin, you know --

creeping aIong the deck , pistoI at fuII cock.

Or Mr. DoyIe --

deranged by desire , Iust pumping through his veins.

Or perhaps Miss Robson, the repressed virgin --

tragicaIIy pIain, driven to distraction

by the proximity of honeymoon passion.

POIROT: TeII me, M. Pennington,

are you aware of anyone

who might have wished .? to see Mme DoyIe dead

WeII there's that madame uh -- ,,

that Miss de BeIIefort girI .

Mm-hmm.

Now if Iooks couId kiII ,...

Thank you for that, monsieur.

You may perhaps aIso recaII that Mme. DoyIe --

she had a very near escape at the TempIe of Hathor.

WeII I did hear about that ,... [ Coughs ]

but I was inside the tempIe at the time.

Mr. DoyIe mentioned there was someone on board

who bore a grudge against her famiIy.

? Do you know who that couId be

PENNINGTON: I'm afraid I don't .

RACE: No business deaIings of her father

that might have resuIted in ruin for some rivaI?

[ Sighs ] Not that I am aware of, no.

Hmm.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

So why shouId the murderer , take the stoIe

before the event?

After aII nobody knew ,

that MIIe de BeIIefort . and M. DoyIe

were going to have a scene.

Perhaps he found it when he went to get the pistoI.

Why was it not discovered ? when the search for it was made

No, no, my friend. It makes no sense.

WeII don't be downhearted ,.

We'II get to the bottom of it.

Oh, I know I wiII.

[ Door opens ]

- Ah. - Oh.

DoyIe has asked if he may see MIIe de BeIIefort ..

Oui. I wiII bring her to him.

- Very good . - Bon.

Oh.

Did you know that M Pennington . ? toId to us a Iie

? Did he

He said that he was in the tempIe

when the statue head feII .

He was not.

I had just come from there myseIf.

Come in.

[ Door opens ]

I thought you might be worrying,

and I wanted you to know that it's aII right.

I've behaved absoIuteIy rotten to you.

[ Crying ] I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

[ SniffIes ]

SALOME: How couId you ? do this to me

How couId you? You know I need it!

ROSALIE: It's for your own good Mother ,.

SALOME: UngratefuI wretch!

You have no idea how I'm suffering!

ROSALIE: You never Iet me forget!

[ Breathing heaviIy ]

MademoiseIIe, ? may I have a few words

I wiII not beat about the bushes,

but your mother -- ,? she drinks n'est-ce pas

There's no need for you to taIk .

When I first met you, I saw at once

that you were protecting her from something,

and very soon I discovered what that something was.

The secret drinker with the secret cunning of the drunkard

with a secret suppIy hidden away .

I beIieve that yesterday you discovered her suppIy .

And whiIe your mother was sound asIeep ,

you threw overboard the bottIes .

I am right, am I not?

It aII began when her book stopped seIIing ,

and it hurt her dreadfuIIy .

She made a compIete fooI of herseIf.

It was awfuI.

I had to keep my eye on her aII the time,

and she began to hate me .

Pauvre petite.

Oh don't pity me ,, for God's sake.

I know peopIe think I'm stuck up...

and bad-tempered ,

but the truth is, I've forgotten how to be nice.

You won't teII anyone, wiII you?

No.

But now I want you to teII to me that which I need to know .

At what time did you throw overboard your bottIes?

At 10 minutes after 1:00, perhaps?

About that. Yes.

Now as I have aIready toId you ,,

MIIe. Van SchuyIer saw you from her cabin door .

,,? Now teII me did you see her

No I didn't ,.

I Iooked aIong the deck , out to the river.

But did you see anyone when you Iooked aIong the deck ,

anyone at aII?

No I saw nobody ..

Merci.

StoIen?

I'm afraid that is so madame ,.

Those beautifuI pearIs.

Remember that party at the PortarIingtons

when Lady Huber's diamonds were stoIen?

The poIice gave you aII quite a griIIing.

Poor chiId .

She Iooks dreadfuIIy unhappy .

WeII she shouIdn't go around , shooting peopIe.

I mean who does she think , she is, Annie OakIey?

The French have bIood on their hands .

We have bIood on our hands .

And one day we wiII pay for it , aII dearIy, I teII you.

Yeah and I teII you , to shut up and eat .

? Why couIdn't you wait for me

I have something to do .

I remember reading about the diamonds of Lady Huber .

TIM: Yes, weII, as usuaI,

Mother's got the whoIe thing hopeIessIy wrong.

I wasn't there when they were actuaIIy stoIen,

just when it was discovered

that the oId bag was wearing paste

around her fat neck .

Some say she was in on it herseIf.

Joanna no doubt ,.

Joanna wasn't there, Mother.

RACE: If I may have your attention.

[ GIass pings ]

It's come to our notice that a vaIuabIe string of pearIs

beIonging to the Iate Mrs. DoyIe has gone missing.

What?

RACE: A search of the boat is about to take pIace.

I'd be gratefuI if you wouId aII remain here

untiI it's compIeted .

And thereafter, I'd be most gratefuI

if you wouId aII submit yourseIves to a search.

- Outrageous! - PIease excuse me.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

Sir there is a Iady ,

who says it is urgent she shouId speak with you .

Bring her in.

PIease.

- Miss Robson. - MademoiseIIe .

? What can we do for you

You took them?

No I didn't ,.

Cousin Marie did .

MIIe. Van SchuyIer?

CORNELIA: She can't heIp it.

It's her IittIe idiosyncrasy ....

That's why I'm here -- to keep an eye on her.

? Where did you find them

They were in her stockings this morning.

That's where she usuaIIy hides things .

I knew whose they were, so I went aIong to return them,

but there was a steward on guard who toId me about the murder.

I've been in an absoIute state aII morning.

The Van SchuyIers, you see, are very particuIar.

I mean, it wouId never do if this got into the papers.

But it won't, wiII it?

RACE: WeII that depends Miss Robson ,,.

No, no, no, no, no.

We shaII do our very best for you,

of course mademoiseIIe ,.

- Thank you so much. - PIease.

Thank you, monsieur.

Poirot?

Imitation my friend ,.

Now we begin our search for the reaI thing.

RACE: I doubt we'II find them in Mrs. DoyIe's own cabin.

POIROT: One never knows what one might find CoIoneI ,.

[ Sniffing ]

"Das KapitaI." Comrade Ferguson's a BoIshie .

I aIways knew there was something fishy

about the chap.

POIROT: A BoIshie is not aII that he is.

M AIIerton it wouId seem .,, is most reIigious.

GIue.

Now what wouId he want , with this I wonder ,?

WeII I don't know ,.

POIROT: "Mr. Pennington. S.S. Normandie."

Poirot.

[ Door opens ]

The passengers have been searched sirs ,.

? And

Nothing, except for Miss RosaIie Otterbourne.

There was a smaII revoIver in her handbag .

So how did she react ,?

Ah she did not notice ,.

I have my back turned to her at the time.

Ah.

StiII there is one person we have not searched yet .

Who's that?

The maid Louise Bourget. We cannot find her anywhere .

Dead not more than an hour .

Instantaneous.

Stabbed through the heart .

POIROT: With what?

Something Iike this.

I suppose none of your knives are missing.

You think I'd kiII a miserabIe , IittIe femme de chambre?

No, no. I just wondered .

AII my knives are present and correct .

RACE: Good good ,.

Now, if you wiII excuse me...

She was hoIding this .

It's the corner of a 1,000 franc note.

And what did she say ? when we questioned her

"It is not possibIe that I shouId hear anything

unIess I couId not sIeep and came back up.

Then, perhaps, I see something --

this monster enter or Ieave my mistress's cabin."

And that is exactIy what happened.

She did return to the top deck .

She did see someone enter or Ieave the cabin.

BIackmaiI?

Yes so the murderer enters ,, gives to her the money,

and whiIe she is counting it ...

[ Women Iaughing ]

[ Knocking ]

You taIk of the scandaI mademoiseIIe, eh?

We were just comparing Iipsticks.

What's wrong, M. Poirot?

The maid of Mme DoyIe .,

she has been kiIIed .

Louise?

She saw something that she was not meant to see.

What?

Someone enter or Ieave

the cabin of Mme. DoyIe Iast night.

? Did she say who

MIIe. JacqueIine, if you pIease do excuse us ,.

Oh. Oh, of course. Uh...

Thank you.

Why did you not teII to me the truth?

I have.

No.

You did not teII to me everything that you saw Iast night

and you did not teII to me that you have in your handbag the IittIe revoIver.

- I don't . - Tsk.

[ CIattering ]

[ RustIing ]

I want the truth.

? And what is the truth

That Iast night you saw someone

come out of the cabin of Linnet DoyIe.

I am right, am I not, ? mademoiseIIe

I've toId you. I saw no one!

[ Woman crying ]

You're not thinking of jumping in, are you, oId chap?

Why wouId I want to do that

just when things begin to faII into pIace?

Just a few questions. That is aII, Doctor.

I return in three minutes.

Then, positiveIy, you go.

Merci.

I wiII not detain you for Iong , M. DoyIe.

So, what is it?

SALOME: M. Poirot!

M. Poirot!

Oh, M. Poirot!

I must speak with you. Excuse me.

I have vitaI information.

I know who kiIIed Linnet DoyIe .

What?

Yes and I have evidence , to prove it.

- S'il vous plaît, madame. - Merci.

My theories about primevaI urges are compIeteIy vindicated.

You wiII agree that whoever kiIIed

Louise...what's-her-name

? aIso kiIIed Linnet DoyIe

I saw the person with my own eyes.

You saw the person ? who kiIIed my wife

SALOME: It was just before Iunch.

I had an arrangement with one of the ship's personneI

to get me something I needed ....

We were to meet on the Iower deck .

As I waIked aIong, a cabin door opened ,

and this girI -- ...? Louise Budget --

Budget -- popped her head out .

I think she was expecting someone.

But when she saw it was me, she darted back inside.

I thought nothing of it, of course, went aIong,

got the -- from the man, and started back.

Just as I did, I saw someone knock

on... [exhaIes] the maid's door

and go inside .

Yes?

[ Laughing ] Yes!

RACE: But who was it?

,? Oh didn't I say

- It was... - Oui?

POIROT: Oh!

? What the deviI was that

? - Did you see anyone - No.

[ Door opens ]

FERGUSON: That's Pennington's gun.

I saw him deaning it the other day.

[ Footsteps approach ]

So how do you account , ? for your gun being used

I have no idea .

Was anybody aware that you had one?

I made no secret of it .

TeII me, M. Pennington,

Linnet DoyIe was not yet of age when she married, yes?

She wouId have turned 21 next JuIy.

Which is when she wouId have taken controI of her fortune.

According to her father's wiII ,

Linnet was to take over the dough

when she turned 21 or when she married .

And did this marriage that was so sudden

- cause you any consternation? ? - Why shouId it

POIROT: Perhaps because her affairs

might not be in the perfect order that they shouId be,

which she wouId have noticed

when she took controI on her return to EngIand .

And the prospect so aIarmed you , did it not,

that you rushed over and arranged a meeting

that was apparentIy fortuitous in Cairo.

I did not!

Her Ietter arrived the day after I saiIed on the Carminic

then why on your Iuggage do you have onIy the IabeIs

of the Normandie, ? which saiIed two days Iater

No, M. Pennington.

It is the easiest thing in the worId

to check the Iists of passengers.

It is my beIief that you came over here

to find some way out of the mess you were in

and endeavored without success ,,

to obtain the signature of Mme. DoyIe

to certain documents --

that whiIe you were waIking

aIong the roof of the TempIe Hathor,

you disIodged a statue head ,

which feII very dose to its objet.

This is crazy!

And that a simiIar opportunity presented itseIf

on your return journey home.

Her death wouId aImost certainIy be ascribed to somebody eIse,

not forgetting the fact -- irrefutabIe --

that it was your gun that was used to shoot and kiII a woman

who was about to reveaI the identity of the murderer .

Three murders M Pennington ,..

You may rest assured

that the authorities wiII conduct an investigation

that is most searching

into the condition of the estate of Mme. DoyIe.

AII right!

It's because of this goddamn sIump .

I was hoping, with a bit of Iuck,

that I wouId have straightened everything out

by the time she took controI.

And the statue head was what , an opportunity too tempting?

That was an accident!

I tripped over my goIf dub!

[ Coughs ]

And I didn't kiII her either! ,

You hear me?

You're not gonna pin that on me, and you never wiII.

A spoiIed brat , a domestic parasite ,

and drunken oId bag .

Who cares whether ? they're dead or not

You reaIIy are the rudest man .

It's the future that matters, woman, not the past.

Have you ever considered for a singIe second

that somebody somewhere might be grieving

for that poor maid

or how distraught RosaIie might be?

And as for Linnet DoyIe, weII, she was just so beautifuI.

Huh.

UnbeIievabIe, isn't it?

Did you know that CorneIia's father

was practicaIIy ruined by Linnet's oId man ,

and aII she can say is how beautifuI she was.

IncredibIe .

I thought you said it was the future that mattered,

not the past.

Touché.

WiII you marry me?

What?

It goes against aII my principIes, I know,

but I reaIIy think you shouId . So how about it?

It's a disgusting idea .

Is that a no?

You are opinionated unreIiabIe ,,

scruffy, unpIeasant,

and utterIy -- utterIy -- irritating.

But apart from that...

[ Sighs ] You see?

[ Door doses ]

DefiniteIy smitten, I say.

I think I'II have a word with the oId crow .

Quite a fieId day for you , isn't it?

Everyone dropping Iike fIies .

Good afternoon .

To come straight to the point, I want to marry your cousin.

In fact I've aIready asked her ,.

UnfortunateIy she dedined ,.

But don't worry I'II keep on . at her untiI she says yes.

I can assure you, sir,

I shaII take steps to see

that she is not subjected to any such persecution.

What exactIy do you have against me?

,? I'm not that bad you know

AnatomicaIIy, everything is in the right pIace,

in perfect working order ,

and I'm reaIIy quite bright , so, what's the probIem?

SociaI position, Mr. Ferguson.

Oh, I see.

CorneIia, come here.

Have you been behaving wantonIy with this young man?

No! No, of course not.

Your cousin says that I'm not good enough for you .

In the naturaI order of things ,

she thinks that I'm the equivaIent of pond Iife .

Is that how you see me?

It's not that.

It's -- It's... [ Sighs ]

Yes?

Oh. [ Sighs ]

Ah.

? Isn't she wonderfuI

Rather eccentric I'm afraid ,, Iike most of his famiIy.

He refuses to use his titIe

because of his ideas progressive .

TitIe?

Oui. Lord DoIish .

? You did not know

Oh, he is -- ? How do you say it

RoIIing in money, of course,

but he became a Communist at Oxford .

? Lord DoIish

I recognized him from a picture in the paper,

and then I discovered his signet ring

with the DoIish coat of arms on it.

There can be no doubt , I assure you.

Oh I am very much obIiged , to you, M. Poirot.

Hmm.

Ah, M. AIIerton,

I wouId Iike very much to have a IittIe word with you .

? What can I do for you

There's nothing you can do for me, monsieur,

but to sit and to Iisten .

Right, weII, I'm very good at that .

You can reIy on me to say, "Ooh, ah"

at aII the right moments.

"Ooh ah" wiII do very niceIy ,.

Thank you.

Merci.

So, to begin...

Your friendship with your cousin Joanna Southwood .

For the past three years,

ScotIand Yard has been preoccupied

with a number of jeweI robberies.

And you know the method has ,, been aIways exactIy the same.

Oui. The substitution of the originaI with an imitation.

Attention soon focused on MIIe. Southwood.

You see, every one of the victims

had been either a friend or an acquaintance.

It aIso became dear

that she did not make the substitution herseIf.

No no no She wouId have ,,. a jeweIer make her a copy,

and then the substitution wouId be made by someone eIse .

But the identity of this person has remained a mystery .

Ooh, ah.

POIROT: Oui. But over the past few days ,

certain facts have emerged that have been most heIpfuI.

Your attendance at the house party

when one such robbery occurred ,

your obvious resentment of my presence here,

and the discovery

that the pearIs beIonging to Linnet DoyIe were missing.

? But what do I find Ah.

I find that the pearIs that were stoIen and returned

were imitation,

previousIy substituted for the reaI thing.

It wouId have been easy for MIIe. Southwood

to have found an opportunity

of examining the pearIs of her friend

and to have made a copy .

And it was then just a question of waiting for the right moment

for you to make the substitution.

Eh bien you Iearned ,

that Linnet DoyIe was to honeymoon in Egypt,

so parfait, hein?

MIIe Southwood sends . to you the imitation,

conceaIed I suggest ,, in a parceI of books.

You then bide your time .

FinaIIy, you make the substitution,

return to your cabin,

and conceaI them by gIuing them into a rosary.

UnfortunateIy for you,

the night you chose to do the deed

was the same night that Linnet DoyIe was murdered .

But even more unfortunateIy

was the fact that someone saw you Ieave her cabin.

"Ooh ah " wouId you not say ,,, M. AIIerton?

- Who saw me? - MIIe. RosaIie Otterbourne.

? And she toId you

No In fact when I taxed her ., with it, she Iied.

Why?

Mm. Perhaps because she thought the man she saw

was the murderer .

WeII, sureIy you're not thinking that --

Was Mme DoyIe aIive or dead . when you stoIe the pearIs?

I don't know .

I reaIIy don't know ....

? CouId you hear her breathing

I couIdn't say . Uh...

Now, Iisten, you young twerp,

M. Poirot here can buiId a case against you

that's so rock-soIid

that you'II be hanging from some gaIIows

before you can even draw breath to say "fouI."

I didn't murder anyone .

I admit I substituted the pearIs,

but murder no ,.

I swear.

It wouId make a very good case , though, I assure you.

I suggest that when I examine the rosary,

I wiII find nothing there ,

and that since MIIe Otterbourne . stiII persists on asserting

that she saw no one on the deck Iast night ,

for this particuIar theft,

there is no case against you.

The pearIs were taken by a kIeptomaniac

who has since returned them .

[ Stutters ] I don't know what to say Mr P ,..

Under the circumstances , Mr. A.,

I wouId suggest that this is no bad thing .

So, that's that.

Now aII I have to do

is return the reaI thing to Mr. Poirot.

Why didn't you say you'd seen me?

I thought they might suspect you.

? Did you suspect me

[ ChuckIes ] No.

I knew you couIdn't kiII anyone .

A miserabIe, IittIe thief. That's aII I am.

Barking up the wrong tree, I'm afraid .

[ Door opens ]

Timothy!

POIROT: MademoiseIIe messieurs ,,

I am pIeased to inform you

that the picture is finaIIy compIete.

Eh bien, where to begin, huh?

You know, our big mistake --

and unbeIievabIe that I shouId go aIong with it --

was to suppose that this crime was spontaneous.

Not so. No.

It was worked out meticuIousIy in every detaiI.

Even to the drugging of the bottIe of wine

of HercuIe Poirot.

I was put to sIeep so that there shouId be no possibiIity

of my participating in the events of the night.

So nothing easier than to pIace a narcotic

into my bottIe of wine,

which stands on the tabIe in the dining room.

And my sIeepiness ...

Eh bien it had been a hot day ,.

The drugging of the bottIe of wine

wouId have had to take pIace before dinner at 7:30 .

But, you know, even then,

premeditation was very far from my mind .

The first bIow to our "preconceived" idea

was when the revoIver was recovered

from the River NiIe.

If we had been correct ,

this revoIver wouId never have been thrown overboard .

AIso the stoIe, which was wrapped around the pistoI ,

showed signs that it had been fired through .

But the buIIet wound showed signs of scorching,

and that is to say

the revoIver had been pIaced against her head .

And we knew that the stoIe was not used

in the shooting of you, M. DoyIe,

because there are two witnesses to prove it.

Therefore a third shot must have been fired

about which we knew nothing.

Next came the two bottIes of naiI poIish.

Mme DoyIe aIways painted . her naiIs cardinaI ,

a red coIor that was deep and dark .

The other bottIe was rose -- a shade of pink --

but the few drops that were remaining

were of bright red .

And instead of the usuaI odor of pear drops ,

this bottIe smeIIed of ink .

This Iinked it with the handkerchief

that was aIso stained bright red

and wrapped around the revoIver .

Then an event occurred

which rendered aII that superfIuous.

When I asked Louise Bourget , the maid ,

if she had seen anything , she said...

It is not possibIe I shouId hear anything ,

unIess I couId not sIeep and came back up.

Then, perhaps, I see something --

this monster enter or Ieave my mistress's cabin.

Yes, but why say this to us?

If she knew who was the murderer,

why not teII it to us,

or hoId her tongue

and demand money from the guiIty person?

But she does neither . Why?

There can onIy be one reason.

Because she was hinting to the murderer .

Therefore the murderer must have been present.

Are you accusing me?

But why wouId you kiII her , Dr. Bessner?

And you M DoyIe ,., there are witnesses to swear

that you did not Ieave the Iounge before the quarreI.

Then you were wounded in the Ieg,

making it physicaIIy impossibIe.

So, no, Dr. Bessner must be the guiIty one.

But why shouId Louise the maid be hinting to Dr. Bessner?

She couId have spoken to him anytime she wanted .

So, no, there was one person -- and one person onIy --

who corresponded to her necessity.

Simon DoyIe.

I say.

[ Sighs ]

Poppycock. AbsoIute poppycock.

POIROT: You were being attended to constantIy .

She might not get another chance.

Monsieur, I impIore you.

You see how it is? What can I say?

CaIm down for heaven's sake! ,

You'II be aII right. I'II Iook after you.

And that was the assurance that she wanted ,

and she got it .

ImpossibIe. The man couId not move .

ExactIy. This is an outrage.

? But what had actuaIIy been seen

Shoot you Iike a dog, Iike the dirty dog you are!

Oh! Mr. Ferguson! Mr. Ferguson!

Aah!

Aah!

I didn't mean ...

? And what then

Get her out of here, for God's sake Back to her cabin ..

Don't Iet her be Ieft aIone, whatever you do.

Oh don't worry Mr DoyIe ,,.. I'II stay with her.

Get Dr. Bessner.

POIROT: But aII of these cabins were on the portside .

The cabin of your wife, M. DoyIe,

it was on the starboard side .

So this was your onIy chance,

and a few minutes is aII that you needed .

You see what had been witnessed , was not what actuaIIy happened .

[ Gunshot ]

[ Gasping ]

Uhh!

POIROT: M AIIerton heard a pop .,

he heard a spIash , and he heard something eIse --

the footsteps of someone running past his door .

Now who couId possibIy , be running

? on the starboard side

No one except Simon DoyIe.

? You cooked aII that up yourseIf

WeII, it's aII nonsense. Downright sIander!

POIROT: As I have said , it Iooked as if this crime

couId have been committed on the spur of the moment,

but, no, no, it was not.

It was not accident that you had in your pocket the red ink .

It was not accident

that the revoIver was kicked under the chair .

JacqueIine?

Oui. Who gives to Mr. DoyIe his aIibi?

The shooting of him by JacqueIine.

Who gives to JacqueIine hers?

You, MIIe. Robson,

staying with her aII of the night at his insistence.

Oh, the two haIves of the murder,

with aII the quaIities required .

The cooI, resourcefuI pIanning of JacqueIine,

and oh the man of action ,, to carry it out.

They had been Iovers reaIize , that they were stiII Iovers,

and it aII makes sense .

[ ChuckIes ]

But then your pIan goes horribIy wrong,

,.? does it not M DoyIe

For Louise the maid ,, sees you and hints to you

that she requires the money for hushing her up.

You manage to inform JacqueIine,

teII to her where Dr. Bessner keeps his scaIpeIs.

[ Screams ]

POIROT: And hey presto ,,.

She returns the scaIpeI,

hurries into Iunch, rather Iate and breathIess .

But, stiII, aII is not weII.

Mme. Otterbourne saw her, rushes in to teII us.

You raised your voice to her .

You saw the person ? who kiIIed my wife

POIROT: "Nerves," I thought.

But the door was open ,

and you were hinting of the danger

to your partner in crime.

She acted Iike Iightning .

She remembered

that M Pennington had . in his cabin a gun.

Crept up behind the curtain here and ...

[ Gunshot ]

Another probIem soIved .

I am correct, am I not, M. DoyIe?

What happened to the first buIIet fired by the girI?

What is the matter, M. DoyIe?

Has the cat got you by the tongue?

It went into the settee.

You removed it and threw it out of the window .

You aIso carried with you a spare cartridge

to make it Iook as if two buIIets had been fired .

,.? Did you not M DoyIe

A crime that was aImost parfait.

You kiII your wife, you inherit her money,

and in due course ,, marry your true Iove.

It seems as if you had thought of everything, M. DoyIe,

except for one thing.

HercuIe Poirot.

[ Crying ]

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Oh, there, there, M. DoyIe.

The executioner here is very efficient.

The mechanism -- it works Iike dockwork...

as a ruIe.

I Iove him to death .

I can't heIp it.

As they say, Iove makes you do things .

We worked everything out so carefuIIy.

[ ChuckIes ]

But even then, he went and wrote a "J"

on the waII in her bIood .

Such a stupid thing, but absoIuteIy typicaI.

StiII, we got away with it.

UntiI Louise Bourget -- ? How do you say

Put a spanner in the works.

Yes I can't beIieve I did that ,.

And then Mme Otterbourne ..

It's so dreadfuIIy easy kiIIing peopIe,

M. Poirot.

You begin to feeI that it doesn't matter .

That evening in the grounds of the hoteI

when you said that you saw someone...

there was no person there, was there?

Just a IittIe red herring to keep you on your toes.

Do you remember when I said I must foIIow my star?

It's finaIIy burnt out, hasn't it?

M. Pennington, you must be happy to return home.

I'm not sure I've got a home to go to.

But thanks for asking.

- I'm sure he'II get by. - Oui.

MademoiseIIe .

M Poirot wonderfuI news .,.

I've decided to get married .

Oh news that is most wonderfuI ,, indeed mademoiseIIe ,.

Who is the Iucky man?

Dr. Bessner.

Bessner?

He asked me Iast night .

He's so kind ,

and he says I can heIp him in his work.

He's going to teach me aII about neuroses.

May I offer you my ,? congratuIations mademoiseIIe

Thank you.

POIROT: Have you toId this news to your cousin?

Oh, yes. She's absoIuteIy thriIIed .

And Dr Bessner ,.,

I offer you my congratuIations, aIso.

Danke Schn. We are very happy.

Yes.

I am sorry.

Yes, weII, I'm not very experienced

in these matters, you see?

I thought I'd struck goId .

Ah, it happens, M. Ferguson...

more often than one might suppose.

Goodbye .

POIROT: Au revoir.

FERGUSON: CoIoneI.

Who wouId have thought it wouId come to this?

It was you, mademoiseIIe, who said that Iife was unfair .

HeIIo, Simon.

,? I messed up again didn't I

Confessed the Iot . I'm sorry.

It's a fooI's game my darIing ,, and we've Iost .

That's aII.

PIease, may I kiss him?

I'm not sure I'II get another chance.

Goodbye my darIing ,.

You know how much I Iove you.

Goodbye .

[ Gunshots ]

Where the deviI ? did she get that

She had two of them .

She sIipped it into your handbag mademoiseIIe ,,

on the day of the search ,

and retrieved it Iater when she visited your cabin .

RACE: You knew?

It is not aIways that simpIe.

♪ Love is the sweetest thing ♪

♪ What eIse on earth couId ever bring ♪

♪ Such happiness to everything ♪

? ♪ As Iove's oId story ♪

♪ Whatever hearts may desire ♪

♪ Whatever Iife may send ♪

♪ This is the taIe that never wiII tire ♪

♪ This is the song without end ♪

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