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Aah!

[ Knock on door ]

Hello darling ,. Managed to slip away .

But I think I sprained my bloody wrist.

Oh, John.

How's work?

Fine. Thanks.

I'm doing a big abstract for the international exhibition.

How's yours?

Might be making some progress with Ridgeway's disease .

I have a patient at Hammersmith Hospital, a Mrs. Crabtree.

She's a drayman's wife , I believe.

She's dying of Ridgeway's ,

but she's allowed me to try some new treatments on her.

By gum, she's got some spirit,

poor frightened old thing , that she is.

And all I get from Gerda is , "Why are you out so late?"

Well, sometimes you're with me.

Mm-hmm.

But all the time, I'm married to Gerda .

,? It's what you wanted isn't it

Yes.

? Will I see you this weekend

- Yes. Are you going? - Yes.

Well, that will be lovely.

Yes.

Henrietta, come here.

LUCY: It's all going to be a complete disaster.

It's always the same when I invite Gerda .

I wish I hadn't .

The worst thing about it is she's so terribly nice.

I mean, one has to have her, of course.

It'd be so terribIy rude to invite John without her.

It does seem so odd doesn't it ,,

that someone as nice as Gerda

shouId be so devoid ? of any kind of inteIIigence

[ Moans ]

I often think if she had any spirit at aII she'd stay away ,.

Henrietta wiII heIp, of course.

It's strange how good Henrietta is with Gerda .

What are you taIking about, Lucy?

The weekend is upon us Midge ,.

The guests wiII be arriving any minute.

I'm just trusting to Henrietta to make conversation,

because weII John and Gerda -- ,,

Oh, it's a nightmare!

John and Gerda .

Lucy do you know , what time it is?

Hmm? I'm sorry.

I have absoIuteIy no idea what time it is.

It's a quarter past 6:00.

[ Gasps ] Oh Midge I am sorry ,,.

? Why didn't you teII me Come, come, come.

Go back to repose. Come on.

[ Sighs ]

There you are, Mrs. Smith.

Thank you very much, Dr. Christow.

Goodbye .

You aII right?

I'm tired .

A weekend in the country wiII make you feeI better.

Yes.

UnfortunateIy Gerda's driving ,.

Victor.

Mr. Poirot, sir. ? Have a good trip

Without incident thank you ,.

Victor...

Victor, what is that smeII?

SmeII? Can't smeII nothing, sir.

Just good country air .

The teIephone number's on the pad in the surgery .

CaII me if there's troubIe.

- Goodbye chiIdren ,. - Bye Daddy ,.

Be good .

[ Engine sputtering ]

It won't start.

Switch on the ignition Gerda ,.

[ Engine turns over ]

I'm so stupid . I'm sorry.

Let's just get there, shaII we?

I wish we couId stay at home .

The AngkateIIs frighten the Iife out of me.

Bye chiIdren! ,

- GIRL: Bye, Mummy. - BOY: Bye, Daddy.

VICTOR: Weather set fair for the weekend .

Everything's spick-and-span at the cottage.

The wife's seen to that.

I'm sure I shaII be most comfortabIe.

Be a reIief, I expect.

Escape the fumes and stink of London .

[ Speaking indistinctIy ]

[ Speaks French ]

Why must you spend so many hours at the hospitaI

when you have a perfectIy ? good surgery at home

It's research Gerda research ,,, as I've expIained before .

Why are you sIowing?

It might be about to turn red .

But it isn't, is it? It's green.

GERDA: Oh, sorry.

I've just become convinced it's suddenIy going to...

Oh.

[ Horn honking ]

[ Engine sputtering ]

Oh God Gerda ,,.

[ Sputtering continues ]

[ Horns honk ]

[ Engine continues sputtering ]

[ Horn honks ]

MIDGE: Gudgeon!

HeIIo Midge ,. Great to see you.

What a gorgeous car!

He's a Lagonda. Goes Iike the wind .

Oh thank you Gudgeon ,,.

HeIIo, Lucy.

Henrietta, wonderfuI to see you .

WeII, I suppose in the time

you've taken this magnificent steed of yours

around to the stabIe give it , a rubdown and a nose bag ,

Iunch might be ready .

[ Both Iaugh ]

- Who's coming? - The Christows.

And Edward's arriving after Iunch.

Oh good ,.

VICTOR: Looks Iike you'II have some company, Mr. Poirot.

Somebody's taken the cottage next door .

Mr. Poirot.

Enchanté, madame.

Everything is beautifuI, as usuaI.

But teII me, someone has taken up residence in Dovecotes?

FRANCES: Yes sir A Iady ,..

An actress, they say.

Oh! [ Laughs ]

? How's the dreaded dress shop

BIoody awfuI .

HeIIo, there!

MIDGE: Edward!

EDWARD: HeIIo Midge ,.

HeIIo, Henrietta.

Parfait.

TeII me, Mme. Simms,

what is this, hmm?

I did not expect any maiI to this address .

It's from Lady AngkateII up at the hoIIow.

For ce soir.

HENRIETTA: How are things at Ainswick Edward ,?

Is it just as IoveIy as ever?

? Why don't you come and see

[ Laughs ]

You're aIways weIcome.

Any time.

Any time at aII.

You are sweet.

And Ainswick is the best pIace in the worId .

Do you remember our speciaI tree?

YggdrasiI -- the secret sign we used to draw everywhere .

Fancy a breather?

Oh my God ,. YggdrasiI.

? Who drew that

You did .

[ Sighs ]

So what have you been doing , since I saw you Iast?

Nothing.

That sounds peacefuI .

You couId find peace at Ainswick with me.

I wish I wasn't so dreadfuIIy fond of you Edward ,.

It makes it so much harder to go on saying no.

What you reaIIy mean is you won't marry me

because of John Christow.

Why doesn't the feIIow ? get a divorce

- Because. - EDWARD: That's it, isn't it?

If there were no John Christow in the worId ,

you'd marry me .

MIDGE: I used to spend my hoIidays with Edward at Ainswick.

It seemed so vast .

LUCY: 14 000 acres is bound , to be vast Midge ,.

Oh, how I miss it.

,? Why didn't you inherit it Lucy

Midge you know very weII , girIs don't inherit.

It's the way the worId works .

Edward isn't even my cousin .

He's my first cousin once removed ,

but he's stiII entaiIed .

Ainswick faIIs Iike ripe fruit -- pIop -- in his Iap.

Aren't you remoteIy bitter about that?

Of course not.

I've invited that crime feIIow for dinner.

Uh, I'm sorry?

That's why I was in your bedroom so earIy this morning.

I had this premonition you see ,,

that we're aII going to be at each other's throats at dinner ,

so him being here just couId be a distraction.

What crime man, Lucy?

He was in Baghdad when Henry was high commissioner.

He stays in one of those funny IittIe cottages

down the Iane .

I remember he wore this pink fIower in his buttonhoIe,

and he was soIving something .

I can't quite remember what.

Then of course,

I'm not terribIy interested in who kiIIed who .

I mean once you're dead ,, you're dead .

,? It doesn't matter why does it

GERDA: I'm no good at anything .

I don't know why you ever married me .

You needed taken care of . That's why I married you .

I try to be a good wife John ,.

This may not be the best time to teII you --

,? You know I Iove you don't you

Of course oId girI but I ,, reaIIy have to warn you --

No one eIse, just you.

You'II never make it up ShoveI Down in third .

[ Gears grinding ]

[ Gunshots ]

Very fair shooting Edward ,.

Now, then, your turn, Henrietta.

See if you couId kiII a burgIar .

- MIDGE: WeII done! - No You onIy winged him ..

HeIIo, everyone. HeIIo, Henry.

Oh, it's the Christows.

HeIIo. So sorry we're Iate.

Not at aII. Just in time for target practice.

Nice to see you, John. Now then Gerda come aIong ,,,.

Try and put one in the buII's-eye.

Oh I've never tried ,.

- HeIIo darIing ,. - DarIing.

I think you may have met Midge HardcastIe.

And of course you know , my second cousin Edward .

- HeIIo, John. - What's going on?

Henry's got the artiIIery out.

? - Has he indeed - [ Laughs ]

HENRY: Right. Fire away.

Just keep it steady .

SIowIy squeeze the trigger. That's it.

I sprained my bIoody wrist .

HENRY: Bad Iuck .

? Did I miss I bet I missed .

My turn, is it?

Gerda how IoveIy to see you ,.

Thank you, Henry.

Come aIong Gudgeon ,.

[ Laughs ]

- I say, Lucy! - That's nothing.

Once on the Asian side , of the Bosporus,

I was jumped by a coupIe of thugs.

We were roIIing about in the dirt, we were,

and then before I knew it ,

she'd shot one in the Ieg and one in the stomach .

How she didn't hit me , God aIone knows.

It's quite simpIe.

You do it very quickIy ,

and you don't think about it, Henry.

[ Laughter ]

Zena's at baIIet dass now -- pointe shoes, the Iot.

? And Terrence

Chemistry -- aIways trying to bIow things up.

He's pIanning to make nitrogIycerin whiIe we're away.

- Don't teII John, though. - Oh, I shan't.

? And you

Oh, I've taken up Ieather craft.

Do you Iike this?

I made it .

It's so nice taIking to you.

But I suppose it'II soon be time for dinner .

Gerda ...

Why do you come here if you hate it so much?

I want John to be happy.

He couId come without you .

No he wouIdn't Iike that ,.

He wouIdn't enjoy it without me . He said so .

John is awfuIIy unseIfish.

I'd rather stay at HarIey Street, to be frank,

but he thinks it's good for me to get out into the country.

Oh, the country's aII right.

No need to throw in the AngkateIIs.

We're an odious famiIy .

Come on. Let's go in and get changed.

There's some sort of detective coming, apparentIy.

[ Laughter ]

You wouIdn't have beIieved it .

M. Poirot has abiIities that one has to say are...

quite phenomenaI.

Oh, it's true. AbsoIuteIy true. TaIk of Baghdad, they were.

M. Poirot and his IittIe green ceIIs .

Gray madame ,.

Oh pardon me ,.

But we're so awfuIIy fortunate to have him as a neighbor.

I mean, in case anything went wrong.

WouId you give it aII up if I asked you to

? and come and Iive with me

No.

No?

That's not reaIIy what you want.

CouIdn't you Iie to me just once?

- Why? - Because I Iove you, Henrietta.

But you're so -- Damn it aII.

You're so detached .

Your art your cards ,,

your friends .

I want you to think onIy of me.

? Isn't that what Gerda does

Don't teII me you care a damn about Gerda.

Why not?

I Iike Gerda .

[ Laughter ]

Dinner my Iady ,.

Oh thank you Gudgeon ,,.

PIease, M. Poirot, come this way.

Merci.

Has anyone seen John?

[ John Iaughing ]

MIDGE: WeII, the customers are awfuI.

One has to put up with far more insoIence in a dress shop

than Gudgeon or Simmons or any decent domestic does here .

It must be absoIute heII, darIing .

But does one have ? to be so proud

I mean, earning one's own Iiving

is not the be aII and end aII of everything, is it?

WeII, it's aII about seIf-esteem, sureIy.

He'd be the expert on that .

So how do you do it then ,, M. Poirot?

,? I beg your pardon mademoiseIIe

SoIve so many crimes.

[ ChuckIes ]

MereIy, I appIy the process of the thought Iogic,

and once the process , it has been appIied ,

alors, the mystery becomes édairé

and the criminaI mind , it is uncovered .

HENRIETTA: But that assumes that you are deverer

than the criminaI doesn't it ,?

I am not sure that it does , mademoiseIIe, IogicaIIy.

HENRIETTA: Oh I think it does ,.

What happens if you come across one

who is deverer than you are yourseIf?

This is not the highest probabiIity mademoiseIIe ,.

[ Laughter ]

Have you ever been to --

Henrietta has a very sharp tongue.

[ Soft Iaughter ]

After dinner, we usuaIIy pIay games.

Charades perhaps or FIip the Kipper.

But tonight I think it wouId be most appropriate

if we were to assay the murder game.

Lucy don't you think M Poirot ,. wouId be rather bored?

Someone has to pretend to be dead, murdered,

and then we aII have to find out who did it .

It's such fun.

And it usuaIIy turns out to be Gudgeon .

POIROT: Lady AngkateII ,

it is a proposition that is most deIightfuI ,

but I am one who retires earIy to his bed.

Your dinner it was superb ,.

MademoiseIIe ...

I hope that we shaII resume our conversation at another time.

I'd Iike that M Poirot ,..

Sir Henry, an evening that was most deIightfuI .

- Thank you. - Thank you.

I know. You must come to Iunch tomorrow.

Oh, yes. He must, mustn't he?

Pardon, but tomorrow I am engagé.

Nonsense.

There's absoIuteIy nothing to do around here

for miIes and miIes and miIes .

No, no. I insist you come to Sunday Iunch .

Henry, teII him

I do not take kindIy to being disobeyed .

Be very pIeased to have you oId man ,.

Bien. It wiII be my pIeasure to attend .

Thank you.

Bonne nuit.

- Night. - Good night .

Good night .

Ace of diamonds .

Why on earth did you Ieave that diamond, Gerda?

Oh, I -- Was it wrong?

Don't be absurd .

She had to Ieave the diamond . OnIy sane thing to do .

Game and rubber . WeII done.

A Iucky finesse.

You cheated .

HENRIETTA: Was it obvious?

So that Gerda wouId win .

Honesty means nothing to you, does it?

Good evening .

? Who the deviI are you

Veronica Cray, Sir Henry.

PIease forgive me for barging in upon you Iike this.

I'm in the dinky IittIe house up the Iane,

and I've had the most frightfuI catastrophe.

PIease come on in. Henry dose the window ,.

? What's happened

I have run out of matches on a Saturday night,

and I smoke Iike a chimney .

TruIy, I feeI a compIete fooI,

but there's not a match to be had at Dovecotes ,

so I've come to beg some from my onIy neighbors

within miIes and --

Oh my God ,.

HeIIo, Veronica.

My God it's John Christow ,.

Matches, was it?

This is too too extraordinary ,.

HENRY: Do you know each other?

We did a long time ago .

VERONICA: Yes John is an oId friend ,.

Why, he was the first guy I was ever in Iove with.

Midge wouId you kindIy , ring the beII?

I thought you were just wonderfuI .

And weren't we heartrendingIy in Iove?

Veronica, this is my wife.

How IoveIy to meet you.

LUCY: Oh Gudgeon ,.

TeII me do we have pIenty , of matches in the house?

A dozen boxes came today , my Iady .

ExceIIent. ? WouId you kindIy get six

Very good my Iady ,.

And um ,, ? how do you Iike Dovecotes

Oh I adore it ,.

It's so cute -- so dose to London

and yet one feeIs so gIoriousIy isoIated .

We kind of Iost touch

when I went to CaIifornia, didn't we?

You've been to CaIifornia?

VERONICA: Oh, I Iive there, actuaIIy.

I just popped over to do a IittIe pIay.

One has to keep one's hand in ,

say heIIo to Shaftesbury Avenue, aII that.

Oh my dear Lady AngkateII ,, sureIy not aII these?

LUCY: We have pIenty in the house.

Besides I aIways think , it's rather tiresome,

onIy having one of a thing, don't you?

WeII this is very kind of you ,. Thank you.

WiII you see me back to my cottage?

I want dreadfuIIy to know what you've been up to

in the years and years and years since I've seen you.

I'm so sorry to have bothered you in this pathetic way.

Good night Lady AngkateII ,.

Night-night.

That was Veronica Cray.

Indeed .

We must catch one of her pictures, Henry.

If that IittIe performance is anything to go by,

why, we wiII certainIy get our money's worth.

[ Veronica Iaughs ]

You are just incorrigibIe.

No, it's not true. It's not true.

[ Both chuckIing ]

Come on, John. Come on.

What time is it?

Um I have no idea ,.

Sorry to wake you.

I had to go in for a drink with the woman.

Oh.

Good night John ,.

JOHN: Good night .

Morning.

- Morning. - Morning.

We're shooting after breakfast.

Might bag a few pigeon.

You want to come?

No, thanks.

I feeI a bit shattered , to be honest.

For me?

It came this morning, sir.

[ Both chuckIe ]

We have to taIk about our future.

I'm -- I'm sorry?

Our future, John.

We've wasted 12 years .

I'm not going back to the States.

I'm going to make my Iife here with you.

[ ChuckIes ]

You've, um...

You've got this taped out aII wrong.

We had quite a time together Iast night,

but, Veronica, you know,

our Iives are compIeteIy divergent .

I mean, when we spIit up 12 years ago,

weII, that was just it.

We spIit up.

VERONICA: We didn't spIit up . You ditched me.

I was your fiancée, and you ditched me .

I couIdn't go with you to HoIIywood .

I had to finish med schooI .

Of course, so you couId be a doctor .

WeII, you can go on being a doctor .

My dear girI I'm married ,. I have chiIdren .

[ Laughs ]

You know I'm married myseIf , at the moment.

It's nothing that a good divorce Iawyer can't fix .

Oh John I aIways did ,, want to be your wife.

You see, I have this passion --

this overpowering passion.

We have to be together.

No, that is not going to happen!

- Last night -- - JOHN: Last night!

Look you're not a chiId ,.

Last night was a one-off.

Are you saying ? you don't Iove me

You are a very, very aIIuring woman, Veronica,

but I don't Iove you no ,.

I came aII this way to find you,

waiting in this ghastIy hoveI for the weekend you'd appear .

You see, I knew that if we couId be

just once more together, just once more --

? You -- You pIanned it

WeII, you beIong to me, John.

You're mine.

When I was a young man,

I wanted you to share my Iife , and you wouIdn't do it.

Because my career was so much more important than yours.

I mean anyone can be a doctor ,.

You're a nasty piece of work.

You Ieave me again and I reaIIy , wiII make you sorry.

So be it.

Goodbye .

I hate you more than I thought I couId hate anyone!

[ GIass shatters ]

[ Gunshots ]

[ Gunshots ]

[ Sighs ]

[ Gun cocks ]

Good day sir ,.

Lady AngkateII wouId Iike you to come to the paviIion, sir,

for a gIass of sherry.

? Out-of-doors

WouId you care to foIIow me, sir?

Merci.

? My Iady

POIROT: I see that you are pIaying the murder game.

Alors. Très bien.

I congratuIate you aII.

Henrietta.

[ Groans ]

AIIow me my Iady ,.

Give that to me Gerda ,.

MademoiseIIe do not -- ,

,? Poirot what's happened

Gerda has mur-- I mean --

John has been shot.

He's dead .

Isn't reaIIy my Iine murder ,.

But the procedure it has been , foIIowed quite correctIy .

And untiI the poIice arrive ,

aII we can do is to ensure that the body it is undisturbed ,

and that nobody tampers with the evidence .

It's a -- It's a bit chiIIy.

Be aII right if we wait in ,? the paviIion wouIdn't it

Oui. Bien sûr.

I can offer you a sherry.

Oh, no, no, no. Merci.

I think it best not to touch.

- I suppose we can smoke. - Oui.

No, no, no, no. Merci.

Very abIe feIIow, Christow, very abIe.

SIightIy too abIe,

if you take my meaning.

I just don't know what to do about Iunch .

It seems so heartIess to be sitting around a tabIe

stuffing oneseIf as though nothing had happened .

Don't worry on my account, Lucy.

BIess you dear Edward ,.

Say what you wiII murder , is a very awkward thing.

It upsets the servants so.

Puts the whoIe routine out.

And worst of aII, it was duck for Iunch --

my very, very favorite.

,? Midgie moo what about Gerda

Oh, perhaps something on a tray wouId be good.

I've pIaced sandwiches and some coffee

in the dining room my Iady ,.

Oh Gudgeon thank you ,,.

Gudgeon reaIIy is a jeweI , you know.

Proper substantiaI sandwiches , are just as good as Iunch.

And there's nothing remoteIy heartIess about them,

if you know what I mean.

Oh Lucy don't ,,. It's aII so awfuI.

Oh Midge ,.

EDWARD: Don't cry LittIe Midge ,.

- That'II do . - Good.

HENRY: M. Poirot, this is Inspector Grange.

I expect you've heard of M. Poirot.

- I most certainIy have. - Inspector.

May I ask what brings you ? to this neck of the woods

WeII, I visit this neck of the woods Inspector ,,

for the weekends .

My friends persuaded me to purchase a cottage.

It is the second one that way , aIong the Iane.

Are you fond of the countryside , are you, sir?

The paysage is most agreeabIe,

except the trees have this untidy habit

of dropping their Ieaves .

[ Laughs ]

That path Ieads to the Iane you say?

And that path Ieads to the farm .

That's the way Lady AngkateII came .

Edward AngkateII and Miss Savernake

came out of the woods separateIy,

and they were standing there ,? and there yes

Oui. It was Iike a mise en scène from the theater.

I've given Gerda some brandy .

Oh, how thoughtfuI of you, Henrietta.

Yes, I aIways remember we were given brandy for shock

when I was a IittIe girI at Ainswick.

Though, of course,

I suppose it's not exactIy shock with Gerda is it ,?

I mean, personaIIy, I don't know how one wouId feeI

if one had just murdered one's husband,

but it wouIdn't exactIy be shock, wouId it?

That means there wouId have been no eIement of surprise.

Why are you so sure ? that Gerda kiIIed John

It seems seIf-evident .

Why? ? What eIse do you suggest

Isn't it possibIe that Gerda came aIong to the pooI,

found John Iying there and had , just picked up the revoIver

when we came on the scene?

,? WeII is this what Gerda says

Yes.

Oh.

WeII, fortunateIy,

duck is quite pIeasant coId .

I couIdn't Iie down any Ionger .

I stiII can't beIieve that it's reaI,

that John is dead .

? Who couId have kiIIed him

Who couId possibIy have kiIIed John?

[ Door opens ]

This is my wife, Inspector Grange.

GRANGE: Lady AngkateII .

I was hoping to have a word with Mrs. Christow.

WeII, there she is.

- Mrs. Christow? - GERDA: Yes.

I'm Gerda Christow .

I shouId just Iike to ask you a few --

He was a wonderfuI doctor .

So kind so unseIfish ,.

The best of husbands .

Who couId have wanted to kiII him?

What exactIy happened , Mrs. Christow?

It was aII so sudden .

I went out from the house

and aIong the path to the swimming pooI.

What time was this?

About two minutes to 1:00.

I noticed the dock .

And when I got there ,

there was John Iying there... and bIood .

? Did you hear a shot

Yes.

No.

Oh I don't know ,.

Sir Henry and Edward were out shooting.

I just saw John and bIood and a revoIver ,

and I picked up the revoIver .

Why?

? I beg your pardon

GRANGE: ? Why did you pick it up

I don't know .

? ShouIdn't I have

So you have decided that .? Mme Christow shot her husband

? Don't you think she did it

It couId have happened as she said.

Yes it couId have ,,

but it's a very thin story.

They aII think she did it .

And you thought she'd done it , didn't you ,

when you first ? arrived on the scene

I am not sure what I thought.

Something was not exactement as it shouId have been .

GRANGE: What's that?

Looks Iike Ieatherwork, sir.

Oh, right.

Sir, we've got the weapon.

GRANGE: Go ahead Pick it up ..

It's been in the pooI.

Destroyed any fingerprints that might have been on it.

Yes, it comes from my coIIection.

It's my hobby, Inspector.

GRANGE: ? When did you Iast see this one

Yesterday afternoon .

We were doing some target practice.

And who actuaIIy fired the gun on that occasion?

I think we aII had at Ieast one shot with it.

? - Induding Gerda Christow - Induding Gerda Christow.

And after the shooting , it was over?

I put the firearm back in its usuaI pIace.

GUDGEON: WiII Sir Henry be requiring a Iate supper, my Iady?

There is some duck Ieft over .

No Gudgeon ,.

He's driving Mrs. Christow up to London as we speak .

He'II be staying at his dub.

Oh Gudgeon about those eggs ,,,

I meant to write the date on them, as per usuaI,

but because of the carfuffIe, couId you kindIy ask cook?

I'II see to it myseIf my Iady ,.

Oh bIess you Gudgeon ,,.

MIDGE: Do you think Gerda wiII be aII right?

Oh, yes.

She'II probabIy send for some oId schooI friend of hers .

She's probabIy got three or four.

I can just see them.

Strapping hockey-pIaying types from Tunbridge WeIIs .

What extraordinary things you do say, Lucy.

Very weII. Eastborne Iacrosse, if you insist.

I wonder if there are any Ieft .

? SchooI friends

No, poIicemen.

Don't they normaIIy Ieave one hovering in the haII

or outside peeking behind a bush watching the door

in case another murder ? is committed in the night

Oh Lucy don't ,,.

I'm so sorry. How stupid of me .

Of course Gerda's on her way , back to London .

Oh dear ,.

I didn't mean ...

Tomorrow I think it's best if you teIephone the shop

and just teII them about the inquest.

Just say you're staying on here for a few days .

I haven't said anything , but...

you do know how sorry I am .

Sorry that John Christow's gone?

You didn't Iike John .

He and I hadn't much in common .

You had me in common .

Henrietta for God's sake ,, no need to be Iike that.

? What did you think I'd be Iike

Did you think I'd sit and cry into a pocket handkerchief

? whiIe you heId my hand

You're nice enough Edward ,,

but, honestIy, you are...

inadequate .

[ TeIephone ringing ]

HeIIo? Yes?

[ CIicks tongue ]

M. Poirot, we couId use your brains .

,? - Join us wouId you - POIROT: Bon.

[ CIears throat ]

So...

which of the Iadies ? did this wrap beIong to

I take it, sir, you're referring to the cape of arctic fox.

I noticed it yesterday

when I took the sherry out to the paviIion,

but it is not the property of anyone in this estabIishment.

WeII, whose is it, then?

It might possibIy beIong to Miss Cray,

the motion-picture actress.

She paid a visit after dinner the night before Iast

for the purpose of borrowing some matches, sir.

? Did she take away six boxes

That is correct, sir.

Servants. ,? They're the deviI aren't they

StiII, Sir Henry identified the gun ,

which means that aII Mrs Christow had to do .

was to get it from the study .

Don't you agree?

? And her motive What is that?

Motive? JeaIousy I'd say ,.

La jalousie.

Peut-être.

WeII, you know these fancy doctors .

He's probabIy giving one of his rich Iady patients

a good see-to .

Lady AngkateII mentioned some troubIe with a nurse,

but she was a bit vague.

Yes she wouId be vague ,.

I'm taking the train up to London ,

drop into HarIey Street. Do you care to join me?

I don't remember any quarreIs, no.

Mrs Christow was devoted . to her husband,

quite sIavishIy so.

TyrannicaI, was he?

No but he was what I wouId caII , a seIfish man.

He took it for granted that Mrs. Christow

wouId aIways faII in with his ideas .

You organized his appointments , Miss CoIIins.

Any difficuIty with patients -- Iady patients?

He had an exceIIent manner with patients.

Yes, but any hanky-panky?

MISS COLLINS: CertainIy not.

What about MIIe. Veronica Cray?

Veronica Cray?

WeII, we beIieve she was a friend of Dr. Christow.

Do you mean the actress? I had no idea he knew her .

Have you any theories as to who .? might have kiIIed Dr Christow

AbsoIuteIy none at aII, Inspector.

When the body was discovered ,

Mme Christow was standing . beside it

with a revoIver in her hand .

Look I don't know who you are ,,

but if you think Gerda Christow kiIIed her husband ,

you are categoricaIIy wrong.

[ Knock on door door opens ] ,

It's the inspector, Mrs. Christow.

Oh, thank you, CoIIy.

Good afternoon .

My friend EIsie -- I mean, Mrs. Patterson.

Ma'am.

This is M. Poirot.

Have you found out ? who kiIIed him

No, not yet, ma'am.

Was it you, Mrs. Christow?

PATTERSON: That's unfair!

Why must you persecute the poor woman?

Excusez-moi, but perhaps Mme. Christow

wouId prefer to speak for herseIf.

It was not me. No.

It is a hard thing to kiII the one you Iove, n'est-ce pas?

A very hard thing , I shouId imagine .

I couIdn't do it .

[ Train wheeIs screech ]

BaIIistics report, sir.

Thought you'd want it right away.

Have a Iook at that, Poirot.

Merci, madame.

GRANGE: So the baIIistics report proves that the gun in the pooI

was not the one that kiIIed John Christow .

I've spoken to Sir Henry.

He says that there is a gun missing from his coIIection.

A.38 Smith & Wesson, brown hoIster.

I think this whoIe thing couId be a frame-up

set to impIicate Gerda Christow .

But if that was so,

why not Ieave the right revoIver ? Iying by the body

But she might not have picked it up .

And it is possibIe Inspector ,,

that the murderer might be someone

who wanted to kiII Dr Christow .,

but did not want to impIicate Gerda Christow.

Hmm. WeII, they're going a funny way about it.

I mean we suspected her , right from the start.

Oui, mon ami, very swiftIy, you suspected her.

Oh, now, Iook, Poirot, you were an eyewitness.

You saw everything.

Oui, I saw, but the eyes are witnesses most unreIiabIe.

Sometimes the eyes, they see what they are meant to see.

? You saying it was arranged

There was something about

the tabIeau of the peopIe around the pooI.

It was faIse and I cannot , pIace my finger on what.

There were three peopIe.

Lady AngkateII ,

M Edward AngkateII .,

and Henrietta Savernake .

Henrietta.

POIROT: And any one of these three peopIe

couId have shot Dr Christow . before Mme Christow arrived .,

couId have retreated up one of the paths

and turned around and returned .

BIimey. You're right.

But there is aIso another possibiIity, Inspector.

Someone couId have come aIong the path from the Iane,

then fired the shot ...

and gone back the same way .

You're dead right .

And that couId have been Miss Veronica Cray.

A crime of passion. Bingo.

? - You have interviewed her - GRANGE: Yes, I have.

Christow went to visit her that morning.

They had a fight . I spoke to the maid .

Cray said to him ,

"I hate you more than I ever thought I couId hate anyone " .

Very interesting.

And it was her fur coat in the paviIion?

Yes, it was.

She must have Ieft it there

when she went in to borrow the matches.

But I do not beIieve she went there to borrow the matches.

She couId have had the matches from me and saved the waIk.

No, no, she was nervous on account of you being foreign.

Eh bien.

Santé.

Oh, santé. [ GiggIes ]

You know something about human nature, don't you?

I know a IittIe about human nature.

Inspector Grange has got it into his head

that I quarreIed with John Christow

on the day he died .

? And did you

I hadn't seen John for 12 years .

But the reaI truth is so fantastic

that I'm certain a guy Iike Grange won't beIieve it.

But I think you might understand .

I am fIattered mademoiseIIe ,.

ActuaIIy I'm married ,.

Madame .

12 years ago, John was very much in Iove with me,

even obsessiveIy so.

Wanted me to give up acting ,

give up having a Iife of my own,

even a mind of my own .

Oh, he was so possessive and domineering ,

I feIt I couIdn't go through with it,

and I broke off the engagement .

I'm afraid he took that rather hard.

When we came back here on Saturday night,

the whoIe thing bIew up again.

He went mad. Quite IiteraIIy mad .

He wanted to Ieave his wife and chiIdren.

He wanted me to divorce my husband .

He wanted us to get back together.

He'd carried a torch for me aII these years.

Oh we argued and argued ,, and in the end ,

I had to send him back to the hoIIow.

Next morning he returned ,.

I toId him it was impossibIe . He insisted .

I said I didn't Iove him , I couId never Iove him ,

and I begged him not to ruin my Iife a second time.

I had to be brutaI .

Yes, I --

I did say that I hated him .

So we parted in anger and ...

now he's dead .

It is a tragedy .

Oh undoubtedIy ,.

Do you think I shouId say any of this at the inquest?

I mean, his wife...

I cannot see that it has any bearing on the inquest.

It is private,

and perhaps it shouId remain so .

Got something out of the kitchen maid sir Simmons ,,.

She says that on Sunday afternoon ,

she saw the butIer waIk across the haII

with a revoIver in his hand .

I'm very sorry, sir.

I suppose I ought to have mentioned the occurrence .

At about 5:30 p.m.,

I noticed a revoIver Iying upon the haII tabIe.

I picked it up and brought it in here .

There was a gap on the sheIf,

so I repIaced it where it beIonged .

,? Which one Gudgeon

GUDGEON: Uh...

this one, sir.

POIROT: But that is not a revoIver.

That is an automatic pistoI.

I'm very sorry, sir.

I'm afraid I'm not fuIIy cognizant with firearms.

Sir Henry, I'II have to have it checked for fingerprints .

Oh I doubt there wiII be , any fingerprints, sir.

Why not?

Because I poIished it with my handkerchief

before repIacing it, sir.

? Why the deviI did you do that

I fancied it might be dusty , sir.

LUCY: Oh!

How nice to see you, M. Poirot.

But oh dear me there's ,,, a poor girI in the kitchen

simpIy sobbing her heart out.

What have you been teIIing them ,? about a pistoI Gudgeon

Never mind . It doesn't matter .

I'II expIain everything. You may go.

Dear poor Gudgeon ,.

He tries so hard to protect us

from any kind of troubIe or annoyance.

It's reaIIy quite ,? feudaI here do you know

But he didn't find the pistoI in the haII at aII.

No, no, no, no.

He found it when he took out the eggs.

Eggs? What eggs?

You see I went down to the farm , to coIIect the eggs.

I put the pistoI in the egg basket,

and then I put the new eggs on top of the pistoI.

When I came back and saw John Iaying there,

weII -- unweII --

I had a bit of a shock and aImost dropped the Iot of it .

Dear sweet Gudgeon as per ,, usuaI, sprang to my rescue.

Later on I wanted to write , the date on the eggs.

Otherwise, you see,

you tend to eat the fresher eggs before the oIder ones ,

and that simpIy wiII not do .

And then Gudgeon toId me he had taken care of everything .

And which pistoI was that , Lady AngkateII?

That was the Mauser.25.

And why did you put it into the basket?

Oh, I knew you were going to ask me that, M. Poirot.

Of course, I must have had a reason ,

mustn't I, Henry?

I mean, there must have been some idea

whirring about in my head in order for me

to have put the Mauser into the egg basket in the first pIace.

My wife is extremeIy absentminded .

Sir Henry, if I may ask you a question,

how many peopIe in generaI know

that the poIice can identify a gun

by the IittIe marks on the buIIet?

Oh, I think that's pretty weII common knowIedge nowadays , Poirot.

[ Dog barking ]

I was just taking the dog for a waIk.

I Iove peeking in peopIe's houses.

? Do you mind if I take a Iook

CertainIy mademoiseIIe ,. Enter, if you pIease.

I wouId be most gratefuI , however,

if the dog might be kept outside.

[ Dog barking ]

How beautifuIIy tidy .

You'd hate my studio .

There's day aII over the pIace and gIaze and paint pots.

Oh but I understand ,. You're an artist.

Aren't you an artist, too, M. Poirot?

On the whoIe I wouId say ,...

No.

I have known crimes that were artistic,

supreme exercises of the imagination,

but the soIving of them, no.

No, the creative power is not what is needed.

What is required is a passion for the truth.

And once you have the truth ,

once you have knowIedge , is that enough,

or do you have to go a step further

and transIate knowIedge into action?

Why did you come here , MIIe. Savernake?

As I said I was taking the dog , for a waIk.

It is odd that I have not noticed a dog

on my visits to the AngkateIIs.

Ah.

That might be because they haven't got one.

I borrowed the gardener's .

Don't actuaIIy Iike animaIs much.

Dogs, horses -- horribIe smeIIy things.

[ Sighs ]

I'm not, M. Poirot,

terribIy truthfuI.

No.

But I think that you have integrity.

The inquest is tomorrow.

Is it necessary do you think ,,

the poIice shouId know that I was John Christow's mistress?

POIROT: You were Iovers?

I do not think that the poIice

wiII have any difficuIty in discovering this .

I suppose not.

But why shouId Gerda bear ? the added burden

She adored John, and now he's dead .

I didn't break up his married Iife .

I was one of a procession,

aIong with Veronica Cray and aII the others .

- So he was Iike that? - HENRIETTA: No.

He was a nobIe man.

A fine man.

He was doing vitaI research into a debiIitating disease.

It's caIIed Ridgeway's . There's no known cure.

He'd been working on it night and day for months .

His curiosity,

his determination .

Oh I wish I couId , make you understand .

But I do understand .

- ReaIIy? - Mmm.

You mentioned Veronica Cray .

She was aIways a friend of Dr. Christow?

They were engaged to be married 12 years ago.

- Were they? - Look, I'II make it simpIe.

Veronica was and is

a bitch of the first order .

She wanted John to give up medicine

and go and Iive with her in CaIifornia,

so he broke off the engagement

and subsequentIy married Gerda .

He had a number of affairs ,

which Gerda knew nothing about ,

but he never reaIIy got over Veronica.

And Iast Saturday night ,

they met for the first time in 12 years.

He went out to see her home,

and he returned to the hoIIow at 3:00 a.m.

.? Yes How do you know

The housemaid had a toothache .

Lucy has far too many servants.

? And how is it that you know

I was watching out my window .

With a toothache mademoiseIIe ,?

Quite another kind of ache , M. Poirot.

If you see me with a pistoI in my hand Simmons ,,

the proper thing to do is to come to me and say ,

"Mr Gudgeon ., wouId you be so kind

as to give me an expIanation?"

[ Crying ] Yes Mr Gudgeon ,..

The improper thing to do is to go babbIing to the poIice.

That is common.

[ Sobbing ]

Now where wouId her Iadyship be

if we aII ran around doing things Iike that, hmm?

Lucy why did you take , the pistoI?

I'm not entireIy sure, Henry.

I do recaII, though, waking up that morning

with some sort of a premonition that there might --

just might -- be some kind of accident .

? Who might have had an accident

WeII, obviousIy, John Christow.

One does feeI awfuI sorry , of course,

and one does tend to bIame oneseIf.

- Good God Lucy ,. - Oh, Henry.

Oh, Henry.

Oh, Henry,

I am so dreadfuIIy worried about Ainswick.

If Edward never marries --

And he won't you know ,, if Henrietta turns him down --

it'II aII die out .

It wiII.

They'II break it up

and seII it off in IittIe, tiny pieces.

Lucy.

Does it reaIIy, honestIy matter?

Of course it matters.

Ainswick is my home.

It's aII our Iand .

No somebody had , to get rid of him.

Lucy you didn't ,.

Don't be such a fooI.

Do you reaIIy beIieve for one moment

? that I wouId have shot him

I invited him here Henry ,.

One doesn't ask guests down for the weekend

and then start bumping them off.

POIROT: Did your aunt Iike John Christow?

Lucy? Lucy's a cousin, not an aunt.

Yes she Iiked him very much ,.

And your aIso cousin , M Edward AngkateII .,

.? did he Iike Dr Christow

Not particuIarIy.

.? And do they Iike Mme Christow

It's not a matter of Iiking her.

- She's famiIy. - Is she?

We're not aII rich, you know.

Gerda's from a branch of rather humbIe AngkateIIs.

She's toIerated, I think it's fair to say,

because she's one of us.

And your understanding of toIerance,

that wouId be to sIeep with her husband?

Why did you take the revoIver

out of the hand of Mme. Christow

? and drop it into the pooI

Gerda's very dumsy .

She might have fired it and hurt someone .

But you are not dumsy, are you?

Yet you dropped it .

If there were fingerprints on that revoIver --

That is to say fingerprints made on it

before Mme. Christow handIed it --

it wouId have been interesting to know whose they were.

Meaning that you think they were mine.

You're suggesting that I shot John

and then Ieft the revoIver beside him

so that Gerda couId come aIong and pick it up .

But if I'd done that give me , credit for enough inteIIigence

to have wiped my own prints off first.

MademoiseIIe you have , enough inteIIigence to know

that if there were no fingerprints on the revoIver

other than those of Mme. Christow,

it wouId have been très remarquable

because you were aII shooting the revoIver the day before.

And there is something eIse that we have just discovered .

We now know that the revoIver that was dropped into the pooI

was not the revoIver that kiIIed John Christow .

He was shot with a quite different gun .

And you think that I shot him .

When he was dying, John Christow said "Henrietta " ,.

I toId you we were Iovers .

Ah, yes, of course. He was your Iover.

So as he is dying, he says, "Henrietta."

Very touching.

I don't think there is any need to sneer .

I am not sneering but I do , not Iike being Iied to .

I've admitted that I'm not very truthfuI.

But I don't kiII peopIe , M. Poirot.

? Gerda

? Gerda

Poor dear Gerda , I am so sorry.

Not getting too IittIe sIeep, I trust.

? What is an adjournment You must be famished.

Why not come back to the hoIIow for Iunch?

I'm taking Gerda directIy home .

She needs rest and quiet , not this.

[ Engine turns over ]

EDWARD: What did they see in Christow?

That wretched woman Iooks compIeteIy heartbroken.

Poor deviI .

? Are you aII packed

I'm getting a Iift up to town. AII set.

Come on Midge ,. Bye, Edward.

Bye.

? HENRY: Edward

Ooh! Damn coId!

It is, rather.

What's this one?

It Iooks a bit Iike Gerda , cowed and hunched.

She modeIed for me .

Don't you dare teII her that's what I ended up with .

I caII it "The Worshipper."

MIDGE: WeII, who's she worshipping?

John.

Do you understand aII that ? business with the second gun

No, but it Iets Gerda off the hook doesn't it ,?

Let's have some tea and toast

and I'II run you back to your digs.

♪ I'II be content ♪

♪ In the gIoaming, by the fireside ♪

♪ Every hour wiII be weII spent ♪

♪ We'II see our... ♪

MademoiseIIe do not -- ,

LUCY: Gerda has mur-- I mean --

GERDA: John has been shot.

He's dead .

Edward, Midge, how wonderfuI to see you both .

LUCY: My, my, my.

He rescued me .

It was frightfuIIy romantic.

I was whisked out of the shop

and taken to Iunch at the Conord.

? And do you know what

I never went back.

EDWARD: I'm a duII dog I know ,. I'm not much good at anything.

I just read books putter about ,.

Midge has agreed to come to Ainswick and be my wife ,

and nothing couId make me happier .

Off-white satin, I think. Don't you?

And an ivory prayer book . What about bridesmaids?

I don't want a fuss. Just a quiet wedding .

I quite agree with you. ,? They never match do they

There's aIways one rather pIain one

who seems to ruin the whoIe effect.

AbsoIuteIy dozens of them

out there poking about in the woods,

making merry havoc with aII the pheasants.

MIDGE: Why are they stiII here?

They're searching for the missing revoIver Midge ,.

Bonjour, mademoiselle.

Good morning M Poirot ,..

,? WiII they find it do you think

POIROT: Oh quite soon I shouId say ,,.

You have returned very suddenIy from London, mademoiseIIe.

There's a party for Midge and Edward ,

who, beIieve it or not, are getting married .

? Why Did you think the murderer

was returning to the scene of the crime?

[ ChuckIes ]

You know it has seemed to me , from the very beginning

that either this crime was very simpIe --

so simpIe that it was very difficuIt

to beIieve in its simpIicity --

or eIse it was very compIex.

And that is to say

that we are contending against a mind

that is capabIe of inventions

that are intricate and ingenious ,

so that every time we seem to be heading towards the truth ,

we are actuaIIy being Ied away from it.

A mind that is subtIe and yes very ingenious ,,,

which is pIotting against us the whoIe time and succeeding .

? What is that to do with me

It is a creative mind , mademoiseIIe .

This is a strange tree.

HENRIETTA: It's YggdrasiI ,

a memento of my chiIdhood .

I draw it everywhere -- just doodIing, you know.

But I have seen it before in the paviIion by the pooI.

In the paviIion?

POIROT: Where it must have been drawn on Sunday morning .

Oh, yes, on a IittIe tabIe.

That was on Saturday afternoon .

No, no, no.

It was not there when Gudgeon brought out the sherry gIasses.

Must have been Sunday afternoon .

No.

Because Grange's men did not Ieave the area untiI dusk .

Oh, yes, I remember. It was after dinner on Saturday .

No, no, no, MIIe. Savernake.

PeopIe do not doodIe in the dark.

No, I think that you were there in the paviIion on Sunday

when Gudgeon brought out the sherry gIasses.

I think you stood by the tabIe , watching someone,

waiting for someone, and you doodIed.

I didn't go down to the pooI untiI 1:00,

just after John Christow had been shot .

But YggdrasiI testifies against you.

You were there, and you shot Dr Christow .,

or you were there, and you saw who did .

This is outrageous.

Do you think you are deverer than I?

GRANGE: And the inquest resumes tomorrow,

and aII I've got is vague suspicions Ieading nowhere .

Uh-huh. Nowhere instead of somewhere .

That is it.

Do you know, haIf the time,

I think those AngkateIIs know aII about it.

Oh they do know aII about it ,.

Henrietta Savernake?

Nothing from her either.

She went straight back to CheIsea.

I've been through her studio with a fine-tooth comb,

but there's no gun.

Just a Iot of arty-farty stuff --

scuIptures, funny-Iooking horses,

bits of wood and metaI .

,? Horses did you say

WeII, one horse, if you can caII it a horse.

A horse?

Yeah, what's so fascinating about that?

No, it is just a point of psychoIogy, Inspector.

How quickIy ? can you get me up to London

[ Wood cracking ]

What are you Iooking for, sir?

This.

The horse.

Merci.

It's quite good actuaIIy ,.

No.

No.

Merci.

Mr. Poirot?!

[ Grunting ]

MIIe. Savernake does not Iike horses .

Voilà.

I think that this wiII prove to be the murder weapon .

So Miss Savernake did it .

No.

Looks a bit bIoody IikeIy .

No, MIIe. Savernake is not,

in my estimation a murderer ,.

So Iet us keep quiet

about our discovery for the time being, Inspector,

and watch and ...

Iet us be inteIIigent.

? Is her Iadyship at home

You wiII find Lady AngkateII in the potting shed, sir.

Merci.

Sir, if I might, the inquest is conduded --

murder by person or persons unknown.

Is it necessary to troubIe ,? her Iadyship any further sir

Lady AngkateII .

Ah, M. Poirot.

TeII me, what are your views on compost?

I have come to offer you apoIogies

for aII the inconvenience you have suffered .

It's high time to put a fuII stop to the whoIe thing.

,? You do understand me don't you

I'm not sure that I do , Lady AngkateII .

Oh, come, come, Poirot.

You understand perfectIy .

Since Inspector Grange

has faiIed to find the murder weapon ,

why, he'II have to Iet the whoIe thing drop .

You I daresay won't ,,.

No I shaII not Iet it drop ,.

? What if you were toId the truth

WouId you Iike to teII me the truth?

Oh M Poirot I wouId Iove ,., to teII you the truth.

Then, of course, we couId aII agree

that, weII, John Christow is over and done with.

CouId we madame ,?

You reaIIy are very foreign, aren't you?

Are you quite sure you have not forgotten something,

? Lady AngkateII

SuddenIy it just came upon me , in a mighty rush

that you --

Henrietta, you might have overIooked it.

I couId be wrong of course ,,

and couId have deaIt with everything

absoIuteIy beautifuIIy,

but since you never mentioned it ,

- I'm a trifIe concerned that -- - What's the matter, Lucy?

- LUCY: It's the hoIster. - What?

Oh, Henrietta, the hoIster.

The gun was in the hoIster.

Yes, CoIIins.

It's Miss Savernake, ma'am.

HoIster. Gerda where is the hoIster ,?

You must give me the hoIster, and then you'II be safe .

Not compIeteIy safe.

HENRIETTA: Poirot.

How did you --

POIROT: Sometimes the fastest car

it is not fast enough, mademoiseIIe .

WeII, not when it races against the brain.

? Where are the chiIdren

EIsie's taken them to the zoo.

Thank heaven for that.

I know that you kiIIed your husband madame ,.

Yes.

I did .

,? Why did you do it Gerda

? Why did you kiII John

[ Voice breaking ] Because it was aII a Iie.

Everything.

I thought he was the nobIest man in the worId.

But I saw his face

when he foIIowed that woman that evening.

I knew he'd Ioved her before he married me ,

but I thought...

...I thought it was over.

I tried to sIeep , but I couIdn't.

It was the middIe of the night .

I had to know .

They were there.

I couId hear them .

John...

and Veronica Cray ....

[ Veronica moaning ]

Oh, John! Oh! Oh!

Oh God! ,

Yes!

I beIieved in him as though he were God .

I worshipped him .

And it was aII a Iie .

I had to kiII him .

You do see that .

I had to .

I'm not quite so stupid as everyone thinks.

I knew I couId kiII John and , the poIice wouId never know ,

because I read in his noveI

how they can teII which guns fire the buIIet.

So I took two.

Sir Henry had shown me how to Ioad and fire the day before .

It was easy.

HENRY: You shut the cyIinder back into the frame,

and you're ready for shooting .

[ Gun cocks ]

I'd shoot John with one and then hide it

and Iet them find me hoIding the other .

But I forgot about the Ieather thing,

the hoIster.

I forgot about it, too.

I aIso forgot.

The memory, it is seIective, n'est-ce pas?

And then I heard Inspector Grange

mention again this hoIster, this hoIster of Ieather,

and I remembered where I had seen it before .

GRANGE: What's that?

MAN: Looks Iike Ieatherwork, sir.

Where is your bag fuII of Ieatherwork madame ,?

Oh...

I think it's in the surgery.

The surgery?

I sit there...

in his chair.

I'II fetch it for you, shaII I?

S'il vous plaît.

But madame ,...

Oh, I'm not going anywhere.

Don't worry.

When you return to your studio , I'm afraid you wiII discover

that one of your scuIptures it has been destroyed .

It is the scuIpture of the head of the horse .

It may have worked , mademoiseIIe ,

had you not toId to me how much you detested the creatures .

I know that you were heIped by your famiIy

once they knew what you wanted done .

Henrietta.

Isn't it possibIe that Gerda came aIong to the pooI,

found John Iying there ,

and had just picked up the revoIver

when we came on the scene?

,? WeII is this what Gerda says

Yes.

POIROT: But why did you want it done mademoiseIIe ,?

Because John asked me to .

That's what he meant when he said "Henrietta " ,.

He was asking me to protect Gerda ,

and he knew that I'd do anything he wanted

because I Ioved him .

Oh.

Oui.

I began to reaIize the truth

when I saw that there was a pattern --

a pattern to impIicate everyone

other than Gerda Christow .

You deIiberateIy pIanted YggdrasiI

to catch my attention and bring yourseIf under suspicion .

I put the pistoI in the egg basket,

and then I put the new eggs on top of the pistoI.

Oh I doubt there wiII be , any fingerprints, sir.

Because I poIished it with my handkerchief

before repIacing it, sir.

And Lady AngkateII and the famiIy ,

oh they dosed ranks , and coIIuded

because there is onIy one thing to do

if you want to dear from suspicion

the person who is actuaIIy guiIty.

Suggest guiIt eIsewhere,

but never IocaIize it.

[ Thud ]

- Vite. - HENRIETTA: Oh my God! ,

Gerda!

Gerda!

? Gerda

HeIp her for God's sake ,.

It is too Iate.

Potassium cyanide .

The wife of a doctor ,

she knew exactIy what to do .

What happens to me now?

Go my chiId ,.

Your pIace is with the Iiving.

I wiII remain here with the dead .

[ Sighs ]

[ Engine turns over ]

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