1 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:46,040 No sign of them yet. 2 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,020 We just lost sight of the firemen at the club for two minutes. 3 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:53,560 No, 20 seconds. 4 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,340 There was a bend in the road, just inside of Datchet. 5 00:01:58,140 --> 00:01:59,140 Yes. 6 00:02:00,980 --> 00:02:03,600 No. Nobody knows at all. We kept it quiet. 7 00:02:07,900 --> 00:02:09,139 Of course we served. 8 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,820 Eventually we came on here. What else could we have done? 9 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:21,160 Here's the Prime Minister's car now. 10 00:02:21,580 --> 00:02:22,580 I'll call you back. 11 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,740 Call the yard. Tell them it's safe, then report back to me. 12 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,060 We expected you an hour ago, sir. What happened? 13 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:55,740 I'm quite all right. 14 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,960 Commander Daniels will tell you about it. I have to get some rest. 15 00:03:00,420 --> 00:03:01,420 Good night, sir. 16 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:09,840 Someone tried to hijack us. 17 00:03:10,140 --> 00:03:13,140 Probably only looked right at me for a few seconds. Oh, they got it all worked 18 00:03:13,140 --> 00:03:14,138 out. 19 00:03:14,140 --> 00:03:15,200 Diverted us down a leg. 20 00:03:15,620 --> 00:03:16,700 Gang of thugs waiting. 21 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:19,840 If it hadn't been for Egan there, I don't know what would have happened. 22 00:03:20,180 --> 00:03:21,180 What did happen? 23 00:03:21,990 --> 00:03:23,210 One or two of them had guns. 24 00:03:23,650 --> 00:03:24,870 They were right across the road. 25 00:03:25,410 --> 00:03:28,370 As soon as Egan saw them, he just put his foot down on the accelerator, drove 26 00:03:28,370 --> 00:03:30,470 straight at them. They had to jump for it, I can tell you. 27 00:03:30,890 --> 00:03:32,350 Well done, Egan. Thank you, sir. 28 00:03:33,730 --> 00:03:36,290 Unfortunately, one of them let his gun off at us as we passed. 29 00:03:37,130 --> 00:03:39,090 The bully just grazed the Prime Minister's cheek. 30 00:03:39,350 --> 00:03:40,350 Good God! 31 00:03:40,490 --> 00:03:42,470 It's all right. I got it bandaged at the hospital. 32 00:03:43,170 --> 00:03:44,430 Well done, Commander Daniels. 33 00:03:45,470 --> 00:03:46,470 Well done. 34 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,420 I wonder what they can have been after these ruffians, Hastings. 35 00:04:03,180 --> 00:04:04,360 Who can they have been? 36 00:04:04,700 --> 00:04:05,700 Well, he doesn't say. 37 00:04:05,940 --> 00:04:07,320 Just called them ruffians. 38 00:04:08,180 --> 00:04:10,120 In the next paragraph, it says thugs. 39 00:04:11,420 --> 00:04:14,700 Another half inch on the waist, Monsieur Poirot. 40 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,500 No, no, no, no, Monsieur Fingler. I am exactly the same size as I was last 41 00:04:19,579 --> 00:04:21,339 It is your equipment that is at fault. 42 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,080 My equipment is at fault. 43 00:04:26,350 --> 00:04:32,010 A person could go crazy. Every year he tells me my tape shrinks, shrinks. 44 00:04:33,090 --> 00:04:34,270 Continue, Hastings. 45 00:04:34,510 --> 00:04:37,490 No, no, that's all there is. You want to try Seville Row? 46 00:04:37,950 --> 00:04:41,230 Try Seville Row. I train those boys. 47 00:04:43,030 --> 00:04:45,790 Finish. First fitting Wednesday. 48 00:04:46,490 --> 00:04:50,650 And then we shall see if my equipment is sporty. 49 00:04:51,430 --> 00:04:53,410 Mr. Fingler, shall I tell you something? 50 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,020 Tell me, Monsieur Poirot, tell me I'm on spillages. 51 00:04:57,260 --> 00:04:59,640 You must learn not to quench. 52 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:01,760 I quench? 53 00:05:28,110 --> 00:05:29,790 why you don't go to the towel row, Poirot. 54 00:05:30,430 --> 00:05:32,170 Monsieur Fingler is an artist. 55 00:05:32,510 --> 00:05:34,350 He would like all artists. 56 00:05:34,610 --> 00:05:36,750 He must be treated with a firm hand. 57 00:05:45,770 --> 00:05:49,470 A nice thing. One cannot think this is a serious attempt at assassination. 58 00:05:50,910 --> 00:05:52,190 A bunch of ruffians? 59 00:05:52,810 --> 00:05:55,210 A charge shot with a revolver? No, no. 60 00:05:55,660 --> 00:05:57,580 Madame, this is me, Alphonti Lodge. 61 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,820 A gentleman called while you were out, Mr. Poirot. 62 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:02,520 Well, thank you, Miss Lemon. 63 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:05,340 Sir Bernard Dodge? 64 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:07,460 Do you think this is indeed an honour? 65 00:06:07,740 --> 00:06:10,940 Is it? Yes, Sir Bernard Dodge. He is permanent Under -Secretary of State at 66 00:06:10,940 --> 00:06:11,899 Foreign Office. 67 00:06:11,900 --> 00:06:14,120 He'd like you to call on him at 12 o 'clock. 68 00:06:21,580 --> 00:06:23,000 Thank you, Miss Lemon. 69 00:07:43,730 --> 00:07:47,150 Monsieur Poirot, go to a view to come. 70 00:07:48,410 --> 00:07:50,110 It is a pleasure to meet you, sir. 71 00:07:50,490 --> 00:07:55,550 And you too, of course, Lord Estelle. Our business is absolutely secret, you 72 00:07:55,550 --> 00:07:56,509 understand. 73 00:07:56,510 --> 00:07:59,650 Well, the whole of England will know soon enough anyway. We simply have to 74 00:07:59,650 --> 00:08:00,990 as quickly as possible. Very well. 75 00:08:02,070 --> 00:08:03,490 It concerns the Prime Minister. 76 00:08:04,590 --> 00:08:06,670 We are in a grave predicament. 77 00:08:07,070 --> 00:08:11,430 The injury, it is serious then. No, no. Fortunately, that attempt failed. 78 00:08:12,460 --> 00:08:14,340 I wish I could say as much for the second attempt. 79 00:08:15,180 --> 00:08:16,400 There was a second attempt? 80 00:08:16,780 --> 00:08:18,780 Yes, but of a different nature. 81 00:08:19,540 --> 00:08:21,680 The Prime Minister has been kidnapped. 82 00:08:23,660 --> 00:08:24,660 Kidnapped? 83 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:27,900 But how is this possible? 84 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:30,080 If we knew that, we'd know everything. 85 00:08:30,900 --> 00:08:31,900 Yes, of course. 86 00:08:33,539 --> 00:08:35,860 You said just now, Monsieur, that time is of the essence. 87 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:37,679 The Prime Minister's absence. 88 00:08:38,350 --> 00:08:41,370 From the League of Nations disarmament conference in Paris could be disastrous. 89 00:08:41,650 --> 00:08:45,590 His is the one voice that can unify Europe and perhaps stop Germany re 90 00:08:46,050 --> 00:08:47,050 I see. 91 00:08:47,590 --> 00:08:51,010 But perhaps this kidnapping is a direct attempt to bring about this disastrous 92 00:08:51,010 --> 00:08:52,270 outcome. Exactly. 93 00:08:52,550 --> 00:08:55,010 There are people who want Germany to go on re -arming. 94 00:08:55,250 --> 00:08:56,290 That is the possibility. 95 00:08:56,750 --> 00:08:58,530 He was on his way to Paris when it happened. 96 00:08:58,810 --> 00:09:00,470 And the conference is to be held when? 97 00:09:00,730 --> 00:09:02,230 Half past eight tomorrow evening. 98 00:09:02,910 --> 00:09:06,890 It is now quarter past twelve. 99 00:09:07,420 --> 00:09:08,480 Thirty -two hours. 100 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:10,800 And a quarter. 101 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:13,960 Do not forget the quarter, monsieur. 102 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,280 It may come in useful. 103 00:09:21,060 --> 00:09:24,720 The Prime Minister and his secretary crossed over the front in the early 104 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:25,720 of this morning. 105 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,020 An embassy car met them at Boulogne. 106 00:09:28,620 --> 00:09:30,340 They never arrived in Paris. 107 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,040 And that was the last anyone saw of it or any of its occupants? 108 00:09:34,260 --> 00:09:35,960 It was a bogus embassy car. 109 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:40,620 I must know everything, Sir Bernard. 110 00:09:41,540 --> 00:09:44,060 I must know also about the shooting affair. 111 00:09:51,580 --> 00:09:56,020 Last night, the Prime Minister, accompanied by Commander Daniels, one of 112 00:09:56,020 --> 00:09:59,700 secretaries, motored down to Windsor for an audience with the King. 113 00:10:13,550 --> 00:10:15,410 This is the main road from Windsor to Datchet? 114 00:10:15,990 --> 00:10:16,990 That's right. 115 00:10:21,010 --> 00:10:25,090 The car of the Prime Minister is forced down that lane from this main road here, 116 00:10:25,150 --> 00:10:25,629 you say? 117 00:10:25,630 --> 00:10:26,630 Apparently so. 118 00:10:28,310 --> 00:10:29,390 How was it forced? 119 00:10:29,650 --> 00:10:30,650 We don't know. 120 00:10:30,790 --> 00:10:32,710 There was a barrier across the road. 121 00:10:34,250 --> 00:10:37,030 Did you receive this information from the Secretary of the Prime Minister? 122 00:10:37,470 --> 00:10:41,430 Commander Daniels, yes. Who is this Commander Daniels? A good man. 123 00:10:41,980 --> 00:10:43,980 served with distinction in the Royal Navy. 124 00:10:44,300 --> 00:10:49,120 His father was a minister in Mr. Asquith's cabinet until they had a row 125 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:50,120 home rule. 126 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:55,620 The car following the Prime Minister, the car containing the detectives, did 127 00:10:55,620 --> 00:10:56,620 they see this barrier? 128 00:10:56,740 --> 00:10:59,700 No, the road was clear by the time we arrived. 129 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:04,300 Mr. McAdam is very impatient at any effort to protect his person. The car 130 00:11:04,300 --> 00:11:08,240 carrying the plain -clothed detectives has to follow at a discreet distance. 131 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:10,880 They lost sight of him at that bend. 132 00:11:13,070 --> 00:11:15,470 Of course, the barrier could have been removed in seconds. 133 00:11:25,570 --> 00:11:27,570 The thugs are strung out across the road. 134 00:11:27,910 --> 00:11:32,030 The chauffeur sees them. He sees their guns. He accelerates towards them, 135 00:11:32,050 --> 00:11:33,050 scattering them. 136 00:11:33,710 --> 00:11:34,710 Yes. 137 00:11:35,070 --> 00:11:38,970 One of them fires his revolver. The bullet grazes the cheek of the prime 138 00:11:38,970 --> 00:11:39,970 minister. 139 00:11:40,230 --> 00:11:41,230 Yes. 140 00:11:42,609 --> 00:11:43,609 Just think. 141 00:11:44,550 --> 00:11:47,070 One of them as good as runs a foreign office. 142 00:11:47,550 --> 00:11:49,670 The other one guards the Prime Minister. 143 00:11:50,790 --> 00:11:52,810 Why should England tremble, eh? 144 00:11:54,690 --> 00:11:57,890 There's a destroyer waiting at Dover, Monsieur Poirot, to take us to France. 145 00:11:58,470 --> 00:12:01,190 And this destroyer, it will wait for how long, Sir Mellon? 146 00:12:01,630 --> 00:12:03,530 Well, as long as necessary, of course. 147 00:12:03,730 --> 00:12:04,730 Oh. 148 00:12:08,940 --> 00:12:11,700 Yes, I know. Well, it appears he takes his time, sir. 149 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:14,280 Yes. Yes, I know, sir. 150 00:12:22,340 --> 00:12:24,680 We have done all this, you know, Poirot. 151 00:12:26,220 --> 00:12:28,640 No blood, no bullet hole. 152 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,560 Does it not strike you as strange, Chief Inspector, that there is no bullet 153 00:12:34,560 --> 00:12:36,960 hole? But the bullet hit the Prime Minister. 154 00:12:37,260 --> 00:12:39,800 No, no, Hastings, the bullet grazed the Prime Minister. 155 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:43,320 Why was there no bullet in the car? 156 00:12:44,740 --> 00:12:46,880 Where did it go after it grazed his cheek? 157 00:12:47,180 --> 00:12:48,180 No, no. 158 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,140 Mr McAdam's head was outside the car when he was shot at. 159 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:55,900 When the car slowed down, he looked out of the window to see what was wrong. 160 00:13:09,930 --> 00:13:10,930 is in a lane. 161 00:13:11,810 --> 00:13:13,910 The ruffians are barring the way. 162 00:13:15,350 --> 00:13:18,110 Monsieur McCadam realizes that something is wrong. 163 00:13:19,410 --> 00:13:20,790 He opens the window. 164 00:13:22,490 --> 00:13:23,070 He 165 00:13:23,070 --> 00:13:30,030 puts his 166 00:13:30,030 --> 00:13:31,670 head out of the window to see what is happening. 167 00:13:33,690 --> 00:13:37,850 A shot rings out. 168 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:48,420 I don't know why we're wasting time on all this, Poirot. The attempt didn't 169 00:13:48,420 --> 00:13:50,660 succeed, the kidnapping did, and that was in France. 170 00:13:53,420 --> 00:13:54,940 Now look here, Poirot. 171 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:56,940 The driver Egan, monsieur. 172 00:13:57,300 --> 00:13:59,120 Yes, sir? I want to speak with him. 173 00:14:02,740 --> 00:14:05,060 I spoke to him last night at Charing Cross. 174 00:14:05,300 --> 00:14:07,200 He is the only witness that we have, Chief Inspector. 175 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:09,560 He's off till Thursday. 176 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:13,220 His home address, if you please. 177 00:14:27,370 --> 00:14:29,270 He didn't come in at all last night. 178 00:14:29,850 --> 00:14:32,730 Wasn't I waiting up for him until after one o 'clock in the morning? 179 00:14:33,610 --> 00:14:35,690 Is he usually regular in his habits? 180 00:14:36,190 --> 00:14:37,190 At chalk work. 181 00:14:43,070 --> 00:14:47,590 Is Monsieur Egan a fellow countryman of yours, Madame Denison? 182 00:14:47,910 --> 00:14:49,890 Sure, he's from County Clare, like myself. 183 00:14:51,470 --> 00:14:55,310 He was fortunate indeed to find such a comfortable abode. 184 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:57,620 And with such a charming landlady. 185 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,660 How long has he lodged with you? 186 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:05,080 Six months next Sunday, it is, sir. 187 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,840 Mr. Egan keeps his address books in a place most convenient, eh? 188 00:15:37,930 --> 00:15:39,430 He has his own method, Sir Bernard. 189 00:15:39,870 --> 00:15:42,370 I don't want method. I want action. 190 00:15:43,090 --> 00:15:44,690 I've never known him to fail yet. 191 00:15:44,990 --> 00:15:46,390 The Prime Minister disappears. 192 00:15:47,690 --> 00:15:50,390 The Commander Daniels disappears. Monsieur Egan disappears. 193 00:15:51,990 --> 00:15:55,590 At any moment, I fully expect the entire Cabinet to disappear. 194 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:44,440 Yes, mon ami. 195 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,320 There was a small hotel back there. It looked quite comfortable. 196 00:16:49,660 --> 00:16:51,240 But the ship's waiting for us. 197 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:53,480 Ah. 198 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Where's he off to now? 199 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:08,200 Well, I think he doesn't want to go on the destroyer. You know how seasick he 200 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:09,200 gets. 201 00:17:09,619 --> 00:17:10,619 Seasick. 202 00:17:11,180 --> 00:17:13,480 I shall lose my pension if he carries on like this. 203 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,500 When they suggested him, they asked my opinion. 204 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:18,200 Oh, yes, I said. 205 00:17:18,740 --> 00:17:19,920 Just the man, I said. 206 00:17:20,780 --> 00:17:21,780 What is he doing? 207 00:17:54,540 --> 00:17:55,540 What is he doing now? 208 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:56,960 Hmm? 209 00:17:57,500 --> 00:17:58,500 He's thinking. 210 00:17:58,760 --> 00:17:59,760 Thinking. 211 00:17:59,860 --> 00:18:01,220 What on earth is he doing that for? 212 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:03,020 Europe is in crisis. 213 00:18:03,820 --> 00:18:07,700 The one man who might avert a tragedy, the Prime Minister of this country, has 214 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:10,740 been kidnapped. We're not paying you, Mr. Parrot, to think. 215 00:18:11,860 --> 00:18:13,820 Well, he's so good as to keep out of this, Chief Inspector. 216 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:15,360 He's a detective. 217 00:18:15,900 --> 00:18:19,100 And we're paying him, and paying him handsomely, I may say, to detect. 218 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:20,440 What do you expect him to do? 219 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:22,980 God, Taylor, do I have to teach him his job? 220 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:24,640 Bloodstains, fingerprints. 221 00:18:24,820 --> 00:18:25,820 He's done all that. 222 00:18:26,260 --> 00:18:28,120 Well, I haven't seen him. 223 00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:30,940 I haven't seen him so much as look through a magnifying glass. 224 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:36,200 Poirot is ready. 225 00:18:42,940 --> 00:18:45,440 Do you have that list I asked you for, Chief Inspector? 226 00:18:48,340 --> 00:18:50,280 Excellent. Back to the docks. 227 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:12,940 Don't lose sight of him, Sergeant. 228 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,020 We don't want anybody else getting kidnapped. 229 00:19:15,340 --> 00:19:16,340 Right, sir. 230 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,180 He wasn't the one who went through that awful divorce last year, was he? 231 00:19:27,420 --> 00:19:30,220 Who wasn't, Hastings? Miss Commander Daniels. 232 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:34,000 Mrs. Daniels' counter suit was utterly malicious and without foundation. 233 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:36,120 Ah, I remember. 234 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:37,640 It was in the newspapers. 235 00:19:38,020 --> 00:19:39,260 It was all over the newspapers. 236 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,100 doing. I just don't know why he's doing it. 237 00:20:08,620 --> 00:20:09,720 Well, you went up on me. 238 00:20:10,420 --> 00:20:13,420 I got him a list of all the hospitals between Datchet and London. 239 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:16,940 He's trying to find out which one they took the Prime Minister to to get his 240 00:20:16,940 --> 00:20:17,940 face bandaged. 241 00:20:22,220 --> 00:20:23,220 Not this one. 242 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,880 Onwards, driver, if you please, to Feldham. 243 00:20:50,180 --> 00:20:51,180 Yes, sir. 244 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,800 There's a college hospital mount here, Father, but it's a bit off the beat. 245 00:21:36,260 --> 00:21:37,440 And the driver was missing. 246 00:21:38,380 --> 00:21:40,840 Right. We can get back to Dover in an hour. 247 00:21:41,260 --> 00:21:42,820 We'll be in Boulogne by dawn. 248 00:21:52,380 --> 00:21:53,780 They found the car in France. 249 00:21:54,100 --> 00:21:55,160 The Bogus Embassy car? 250 00:21:55,540 --> 00:21:57,480 At an abandoned farmhouse near Crecy. 251 00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:59,480 Was there anyone inside the car? 252 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:01,300 Commander Daniels. 253 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:05,140 Bound and gagged, with a head injury from where they knocked him out. They've 254 00:22:05,140 --> 00:22:06,119 flown him back to London. 255 00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:07,120 And no sign of the Prime Minister? 256 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:08,400 Not even his body? 257 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:09,880 No, nothing. 258 00:22:10,620 --> 00:22:13,960 So I suggest that we now get over to France and join the search proper. 259 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,600 It is strange, is it not, that having tried to shoot the Prime Minister last 260 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,620 evening, they should now take so much trouble in order to keep him alive. 261 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,180 Commander Daniels will appreciate some visitors, I think. 262 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:32,720 And goes more pension. 263 00:22:44,940 --> 00:22:46,760 We've come to see Commander Danners. 264 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:57,020 Bernard Dodge and some gentlemen to see you, Commander. 265 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:58,600 Sure, Menchimo. 266 00:22:59,340 --> 00:23:01,120 Then take my bag and unpack it, will you? 267 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:03,480 Gentlemen, leave. 268 00:23:04,900 --> 00:23:05,900 Thank you. 269 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:09,460 Good to see you, Daniels. 270 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,900 Bad show, this. And I don't come out of it very well, I'm afraid, Sir Bernard. 271 00:23:14,140 --> 00:23:15,600 Nonsense, my dear chap. What could you do? 272 00:23:15,980 --> 00:23:17,600 You know Chief Inspector Jep, I believe. 273 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:18,920 We met last night. 274 00:23:19,140 --> 00:23:23,140 And this is Mr. Hercule Poirot and his colleague, Captain Hastings. How do you 275 00:23:23,140 --> 00:23:24,140 do? 276 00:23:24,620 --> 00:23:28,260 We are full of the apologies, Commander, but this is a matter of the greatest 277 00:23:28,260 --> 00:23:30,950 importance. Of course. Sit down, please. 278 00:23:42,890 --> 00:23:46,650 If you would be kind enough, Commander, to tell us what happened when you 279 00:23:46,650 --> 00:23:47,650 arrived at Boulogne. 280 00:23:48,050 --> 00:23:52,250 Well, Mr. McAdam had managed to get some sleep on the crossing, but he was still 281 00:23:52,250 --> 00:23:53,270 shaken, I could tell. 282 00:23:55,030 --> 00:23:58,370 There was a staff car waiting for us on the quay. Tell me about the driver. 283 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,000 I didn't take much notice of him. One doesn't, I'm afraid. 284 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,400 Of course. 285 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,020 We started off for Paris. 286 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,400 We passed through Nampon -Saint -Martin just as the sun was coming up. It was 287 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:09,400 about six o 'clock. 288 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:10,960 And then? 289 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,840 The last thing I remember was passing through Vran. I looked at my watch. It 290 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:17,180 ten past six. 291 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:19,440 Then nothing. 292 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:25,220 Well, nothing until four hours later when I woke up in the car in a spinny, 293 00:24:25,220 --> 00:24:27,320 efficiently tied up and gagged. 294 00:24:28,050 --> 00:24:29,270 No sign of the Prime Minister. 295 00:24:29,890 --> 00:24:30,890 Or the driver. 296 00:24:31,030 --> 00:24:32,030 Or the driver. 297 00:24:32,750 --> 00:24:36,390 I managed to get the door open with my feet, but that's as far as I'd got when 298 00:24:36,390 --> 00:24:37,390 little girl found me. 299 00:24:38,110 --> 00:24:39,810 I must have frightened the life out of her. 300 00:24:40,050 --> 00:24:41,190 Blood all over my face. 301 00:24:43,090 --> 00:24:44,770 Anyway, she got the local gendarme. 302 00:24:45,630 --> 00:24:47,590 So you remember nothing of the abduction? 303 00:24:48,330 --> 00:24:49,650 I'm afraid not. 304 00:24:50,550 --> 00:24:54,910 Well, this frequently happens, Commander, as a result of a trauma. 305 00:24:55,470 --> 00:24:57,510 But your memory, it will soon return. 306 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:02,560 If I may use your telephone? 307 00:25:03,620 --> 00:25:04,620 Yes, yes, of course. 308 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:12,920 No, 309 00:25:20,060 --> 00:25:20,959 no, no. 310 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,880 My friend, he will have retired for the night. 311 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,060 Thank you, Commander Daniels. 312 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,120 You have been most helpful. 313 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:29,400 Well, I wouldn't say that. 314 00:25:30,740 --> 00:25:32,340 I'm preparing a report, Sir Bernard. 315 00:25:32,660 --> 00:25:34,400 Good. Good show, Bernard. 316 00:25:37,260 --> 00:25:40,000 Mon Dieu, I shall forget my own funeral. 317 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,120 Commander, what hospital did you go to? 318 00:25:42,980 --> 00:25:46,080 Hospital? To get the head of the Prime Minister bandaged. 319 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Oh, yes. 320 00:25:48,140 --> 00:25:49,540 I don't know the name of it. 321 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,740 I was busy attending to Mr. McAdam. 322 00:25:52,380 --> 00:25:55,960 I told the driver to get us to a hospital, but I didn't pay much 323 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:56,960 afraid, to where we were going. 324 00:25:57,120 --> 00:25:58,120 I understand. 325 00:25:58,800 --> 00:25:59,800 Good night. 326 00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:03,260 Good night, sir. Good night. 327 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,720 Now, look here, Poirot. When we first met at noon today, I told you how urgent 328 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:15,720 this matter was. 329 00:26:17,180 --> 00:26:21,520 It seems to me you've wasted come 12 hours meandering aimlessly about the 330 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:26,240 countryside, 100 miles from where the crime took place, talking to people who 331 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,600 could have no possible connection with it. I understand your feelings, Sir 332 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:30,920 Bernard. I doubt it. 333 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,840 We've now wasted hours travelling back to London to talk to Commander Daniels, 334 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,840 who, as I could have told you, was able to tell us precisely nothing. 335 00:26:39,420 --> 00:26:41,040 On the contrary, Sir Bernard. 336 00:26:41,580 --> 00:26:43,220 Now I have to report to Lord Astaire. 337 00:26:43,900 --> 00:26:45,660 What do you mean, on the contrary? 338 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,540 Commander Daniels was able to tell me almost everything I needed to know. 339 00:26:57,140 --> 00:26:58,140 Chief Inspector. 340 00:26:59,150 --> 00:27:01,910 I wonder if you'd be kind enough to do something for me. 341 00:27:02,350 --> 00:27:03,350 If I can. 342 00:27:04,470 --> 00:27:06,490 I want you to check for me two things. 343 00:27:06,830 --> 00:27:10,810 The record of the driver, Egan, and the maiden name of the former Madame 344 00:27:10,810 --> 00:27:12,210 Daniels. Mrs. 345 00:27:12,550 --> 00:27:15,670 Daniels? What on earth can that woman have to do with anything? Now, look, 346 00:27:15,670 --> 00:27:16,670 is exactly what I mean. 347 00:27:17,250 --> 00:27:19,370 We've dealt with Egan. Egan is old news. 348 00:27:20,270 --> 00:27:21,270 Perhaps. 349 00:27:21,630 --> 00:27:25,070 But you see, the kidnappers, they always had one flaw to their plan. 350 00:27:25,670 --> 00:27:28,190 They knew it, and they did their best to conceal it. 351 00:27:28,969 --> 00:27:31,590 But the best is not good enough for Hercule Poirot. 352 00:27:32,530 --> 00:27:34,070 Good night, Sir Bernard. 353 00:27:35,030 --> 00:27:36,030 Where are you going? 354 00:27:37,690 --> 00:27:38,690 To bed. 355 00:27:39,190 --> 00:27:42,330 You don't seem to realize, Poirot, this is a national emergency. 356 00:27:43,010 --> 00:27:45,850 I do not intend to sleep until the Prime Minister is found. 357 00:27:47,290 --> 00:27:50,690 I am sure it will make you feel very virtuous, Sir Bernard, but it will not 358 00:27:50,690 --> 00:27:51,690 the Prime Minister. 359 00:27:52,970 --> 00:27:56,150 For myself, I need to restore the little gray cells. 360 00:27:58,060 --> 00:27:59,060 Chief Inspector. 361 00:28:04,420 --> 00:28:08,820 If Monsieur McAdam is still alive, he will be in Paris in time for the 362 00:28:08,820 --> 00:28:09,820 conference. 363 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,380 He never left this country, you see. 364 00:28:53,260 --> 00:28:54,260 I shall go in alone then. 365 00:28:54,860 --> 00:28:56,160 You're sure about this, are you, Paul? 366 00:28:57,820 --> 00:28:58,820 Aren't you? 367 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,000 I'm here if you need me. 368 00:29:45,530 --> 00:29:46,630 Yes, who are you? 369 00:29:48,850 --> 00:29:54,530 The Belgian detective. 370 00:29:56,470 --> 00:30:02,750 What do you want with me? 371 00:30:05,670 --> 00:30:08,930 What a treat. 372 00:30:09,330 --> 00:30:11,890 If he sent you here, you can leave right away. 373 00:30:12,210 --> 00:30:13,450 No, no, no, madame. 374 00:30:14,410 --> 00:30:16,470 Commander Daniels has no idea that I am here. 375 00:30:18,210 --> 00:30:20,330 But he is in great trouble. 376 00:30:20,890 --> 00:30:22,090 Oh, how wonderful. 377 00:30:23,790 --> 00:30:26,390 The police suspect him of a grave crime. 378 00:30:26,710 --> 00:30:27,710 The police? 379 00:30:28,750 --> 00:30:32,630 Well, he hasn't murdered me. That's the only crime I can imagine Tony being 380 00:30:32,630 --> 00:30:33,630 interested in. 381 00:30:34,210 --> 00:30:35,750 No, Madame, it is not murder. 382 00:30:37,090 --> 00:30:38,090 Not yet. 383 00:30:41,150 --> 00:30:43,450 You are being tiresomely mysterious. 384 00:30:46,330 --> 00:30:48,550 Commander Daniels had the means to commit a crime. 385 00:30:49,290 --> 00:30:51,330 He had the opportunity to commit a crime. 386 00:30:52,110 --> 00:30:55,650 But as yet, the police can find no motive for the crime. 387 00:30:57,710 --> 00:30:59,570 Now, you know him better than anybody. 388 00:31:01,090 --> 00:31:02,090 Too well. 389 00:31:04,110 --> 00:31:05,690 Perhaps you can help them? 390 00:31:07,010 --> 00:31:08,030 I wish I could. 391 00:31:09,070 --> 00:31:10,090 Would you go to jail? 392 00:31:10,290 --> 00:31:11,930 God, I'd love to see him go to jail. 393 00:31:12,150 --> 00:31:14,070 You know what that bastard did to me. 394 00:31:14,740 --> 00:31:18,180 Only what I read in the newspapers, madame. Yes, and didn't they love it? 395 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:29,800 Madame, how would you describe the politics of your ex -husband? 396 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,500 Torpid. He never had a political thought in his life. 397 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:54,279 How is Mrs. 398 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:55,280 Daniels? Formidable. 399 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,780 I would not wish to be her enemy, I think. 400 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,280 You must take care of his needs. 401 00:32:00,860 --> 00:32:01,860 How do you mean? 402 00:32:01,940 --> 00:32:03,020 I want you to wait here. 403 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,440 When she comes out, I want you to follow her. 404 00:32:05,740 --> 00:32:08,040 Do not lose sight of her for one second. 405 00:32:11,820 --> 00:32:12,820 Telephone me when you can. 406 00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:15,580 Gosselin, how did you please? 407 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:33,820 Well, it's not up to me, sir, is it? 408 00:32:35,420 --> 00:32:36,420 Well, yes. 409 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,360 Well, I thought he was just the man for the job. 410 00:32:40,860 --> 00:32:41,860 Come in! 411 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:44,679 No, sir. 412 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:49,020 Thank... Well, I couldn't agree with you there, sir. 413 00:32:52,380 --> 00:32:54,600 Now, he's not slow, he's thorough. 414 00:32:57,620 --> 00:33:00,180 Yes, well, most of our men are already in France, sir. 415 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:12,560 Guess who he was talking about. 416 00:33:14,060 --> 00:33:15,820 Modesty forbids, Chief Inspector. 417 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,180 Little grey cells rested, are they? 418 00:33:19,580 --> 00:33:20,580 Indeed. 419 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:21,800 Thank you. 420 00:33:22,860 --> 00:33:24,920 Do you have the information I asked you for? 421 00:33:25,740 --> 00:33:26,740 Ah. 422 00:33:27,300 --> 00:33:29,900 Much good it'll do you. 423 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:36,420 John Patrick Egan, born Milltown, County Clare, 1901. 424 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:41,140 Van driver for a mobiles firm until he came over to England a couple of years 425 00:33:41,140 --> 00:33:45,120 ago. Joined Ministry of Works as a driver mechanic six months later. 426 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,200 Good reference as good worker. 427 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,560 And Madame Banyers? 428 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:54,720 Maiden named Donoghue. 429 00:33:56,900 --> 00:33:58,640 Is that not also a name of Ireland? 430 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:03,080 Well, sort of. She's the third daughter of the Earl of Connemara. 431 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,320 I don't understand what you're after, Poirot. 432 00:34:11,139 --> 00:34:16,400 Chief Inspector, did you ever read about the divorce of Commander Daniels? I 433 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:17,400 should say I did. 434 00:34:17,739 --> 00:34:18,760 Very juicy. 435 00:34:21,340 --> 00:34:26,560 After such a divorce, having been dragged through the courts, humiliated 436 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:31,420 newspapers, do you think the husband would keep on his desk a framed 437 00:34:31,420 --> 00:34:32,760 of his ex -wife? 438 00:35:12,620 --> 00:35:14,420 How well do you know John Egan? 439 00:35:16,900 --> 00:35:17,900 John Egan? 440 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,280 He drove you and the Prime Minister to Windsor. 441 00:35:25,780 --> 00:35:26,780 Oh, Egan. 442 00:35:27,740 --> 00:35:28,740 Know him? 443 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:29,960 He's a driver. 444 00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:32,460 There are three or four on call for Downing Street. 445 00:35:34,340 --> 00:35:37,740 But you see, Commander, he has not been seen since he drove back the car to the 446 00:35:37,740 --> 00:35:38,740 garage that night. 447 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:41,900 Really? 448 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,380 He did not return to his lodgings? 449 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:49,360 I'm sorry. 450 00:35:53,140 --> 00:35:54,820 Oh, well, it is no matter. 451 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,760 I'm sorry to have disturbed your breakfast. 452 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,100 Erin Gopra? 453 00:37:13,630 --> 00:37:16,010 All that we can do is to wait, Chief Inspector. 454 00:37:18,790 --> 00:37:22,310 Miss Lemon, has Captain Hastings telephoned yet? No, Mr. Poirot. 455 00:37:25,050 --> 00:37:26,050 Hello. 456 00:37:27,010 --> 00:37:31,550 This is all very fine and large, Poirot, but what if Mrs. Daniels doesn't leave? 457 00:37:33,530 --> 00:37:35,710 Well, she will have left already, Chief Inspector. 458 00:37:36,790 --> 00:37:38,250 For I am the Dutchman. 459 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:49,360 Hello. Yeah. 460 00:38:50,340 --> 00:38:51,340 Yep. 461 00:38:53,740 --> 00:38:56,520 Jap. Yes, Canwell. What's happening? 462 00:38:57,720 --> 00:38:58,720 They've what? 463 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,240 Thank you, Mr. Lim. Why? 464 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:02,480 Oh. 465 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:04,120 What time is this? 466 00:39:05,540 --> 00:39:06,540 Nothing since? 467 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:08,920 Right. 468 00:39:11,740 --> 00:39:15,720 They've arrested a vagrant in some unpronounceable village. 469 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,000 A vagrant? 470 00:39:17,819 --> 00:39:19,420 Suspected of abducting the Prime Minister? 471 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,160 When in doubt, arrest a vagrant. 472 00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:24,140 Then let him go again. 473 00:40:59,850 --> 00:41:01,790 Hello, Poirot? Yes, Hastings. 474 00:41:02,390 --> 00:41:03,390 Where are you? 475 00:41:04,170 --> 00:41:05,610 I'm afraid I've lost her, Poirot. 476 00:41:05,930 --> 00:41:06,930 You've lost her? 477 00:41:07,690 --> 00:41:08,690 He's lost her. 478 00:41:09,230 --> 00:41:10,230 But where are you? 479 00:41:10,790 --> 00:41:12,850 Between Basingstoke and Andover. 480 00:41:13,190 --> 00:41:15,910 Let me get a map, Hastings. The map, if you please, Mr. Lemon. 481 00:41:16,630 --> 00:41:18,250 Between Basingstoke and Andover. 482 00:41:18,530 --> 00:41:22,130 She turned off the main road, and we went through a village called Spratling. 483 00:41:22,650 --> 00:41:24,430 She must have seen me just after that. 484 00:41:24,830 --> 00:41:26,170 I wonder if the Daniels... 485 00:41:28,310 --> 00:41:31,450 Go back to the village and ask if Commander Daniels has a house in the 486 00:41:31,450 --> 00:41:33,350 neighborhood. Oh, you could try in the name of Donoghue. 487 00:41:33,610 --> 00:41:38,370 What? That is the maiden name of Madame Daniels. Lady Imogen Donoghue. 488 00:41:38,950 --> 00:41:41,090 Yes, yes. Call me back when you've done that. 489 00:41:41,790 --> 00:41:42,790 Goodbye. 490 00:41:43,070 --> 00:41:45,770 I'll get on to the yard. Tell them to contact the Basingstoke police. 491 00:41:46,290 --> 00:41:49,950 She's the daughter of the Earl of Connemara, isn't she? You English, you 492 00:41:49,950 --> 00:41:53,390 experts in the aristocracy. No, only it was in the papers a year ago. 493 00:41:53,630 --> 00:41:54,810 No, nearly two years ago. 494 00:41:55,010 --> 00:41:56,010 What was, Miss Lemmon? 495 00:41:56,170 --> 00:41:58,830 There was a big fire. I can see the headline now. 496 00:41:59,090 --> 00:42:00,650 Oh, the mansion destroyed. 497 00:42:01,010 --> 00:42:03,810 There was a picture of him. Fine -looking man, Mr Poirot. 498 00:42:04,710 --> 00:42:07,670 I have no doubt, Miss Lemmon. But where was the house? 499 00:42:08,290 --> 00:42:09,750 It was in Berkshire. 500 00:42:10,810 --> 00:42:15,010 Good, good. It was in... Try, Miss Lemmon. 501 00:42:16,010 --> 00:42:21,310 It was called something hall in a village called... We can find that out. 502 00:42:21,910 --> 00:42:23,270 Uh, Cantwell... 503 00:42:23,580 --> 00:42:27,300 Can you find out the name of the house that belonged to the Earl of Connemara 504 00:42:27,300 --> 00:42:28,620 that burnt down a couple of years ago? 505 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:35,060 Oh, the hall was the same name as the village. It was a name like Batley. 506 00:42:35,940 --> 00:42:38,500 Batley? Like Batley. Oh. 507 00:42:41,180 --> 00:42:42,180 Batley. 508 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:44,080 Batley. 509 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:46,120 Batley. 510 00:42:46,660 --> 00:42:47,660 Batley. 511 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,400 Batley. Son of God Hall. 512 00:42:57,410 --> 00:42:59,270 Tell that to Captain Hastings with the telephone. 513 00:43:05,810 --> 00:43:09,270 Well, this isn't a wild goose chase, Poirot. No, no, no, mon ami. 514 00:43:09,730 --> 00:43:13,070 The only wild goose chase they intended us to be on was in France. 515 00:43:13,910 --> 00:43:15,530 But they have been planning this for years. 516 00:43:16,390 --> 00:43:19,670 It was only when they could get somebody sympathetic to their cause into the 517 00:43:19,670 --> 00:43:22,810 position of one of the drivers of the Prime Minister was the abduction 518 00:43:23,850 --> 00:43:25,270 But what is their cause? 519 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:26,800 German rearmament? 520 00:43:28,060 --> 00:43:29,060 Indirectly. 521 00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:33,140 There is a strong element in Ireland that does not care if Germany rearms so 522 00:43:33,140 --> 00:43:34,740 long as it causes hurt for England. 523 00:43:35,020 --> 00:43:36,460 But how did Daniels get involved? 524 00:43:36,940 --> 00:43:38,600 I understand about his wife. 525 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,240 It seems she was always a bit of a rebel. But the father of Commander 526 00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:47,040 was violently opposed to Lord Asquith in the 1914 Irish Home Rule Bill. 527 00:43:47,700 --> 00:43:49,700 That was the end of his career in politics. 528 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,860 I think that this has festered inside the Commander Daniels all of his life. 529 00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,180 He did not take so much persuading. 530 00:43:58,420 --> 00:43:59,680 Just a few hours more. 531 00:44:00,020 --> 00:44:03,660 In four hours, they'll have voted in Paris, and it'll be too late for the 532 00:44:03,660 --> 00:44:05,260 minister to do a thing about it. 533 00:44:06,500 --> 00:44:09,220 Anyway, what's it got to do with Britain if Germany re -owned? 534 00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:16,720 We're just coming into Thomas Coat now, sir. 535 00:44:17,020 --> 00:44:20,180 Right. There's a turning on the left, just on the other side of the village. 536 00:44:20,460 --> 00:44:21,460 Sir. 537 00:44:29,130 --> 00:44:32,050 I thought this place was Summerskote, not the Sol. 538 00:44:41,330 --> 00:44:42,330 They're all ready. 539 00:44:43,330 --> 00:44:44,330 Thank you, sir. 540 00:44:58,700 --> 00:44:59,700 Maybe it's your husband. 541 00:45:03,620 --> 00:45:04,720 Must have been the wind. 542 00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:19,240 From here we can see everything. 543 00:45:19,720 --> 00:45:22,460 It seems I may owe you an apology, Monsieur Poirot. 544 00:45:22,860 --> 00:45:23,900 No, no, Sir Bernard. 545 00:45:24,460 --> 00:45:26,180 You were cleverly misled. 546 00:45:27,050 --> 00:45:28,190 How did you get onto it? 547 00:45:29,090 --> 00:45:32,410 Whenever the occasion arises, Sir Bernard, to look into someone's address 548 00:45:32,530 --> 00:45:37,310 always first look under the letter X, because that is where the secrets are 549 00:45:37,310 --> 00:45:38,310 kept. 550 00:45:38,590 --> 00:45:43,110 In the address book of Monsieur Egan, which I found under his pillow, under 551 00:45:43,110 --> 00:45:45,790 letter X, there was only one number. 552 00:45:46,210 --> 00:45:48,450 No name, just X. 553 00:45:49,570 --> 00:45:51,790 It was a Mayfair number, which I thought strange. 554 00:45:52,850 --> 00:45:56,870 But when I pretended to use the telephone of Commander Daniels, I 555 00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,880 That's his number, with the same as that in the address. 556 00:46:01,900 --> 00:46:02,900 Oh, no. 557 00:46:03,780 --> 00:46:05,700 My friend, he will have retired for the night. 558 00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:09,220 An interesting connection, then, Pa. 559 00:46:32,140 --> 00:46:33,140 Excuse me, sir. 560 00:46:34,380 --> 00:46:35,480 All in place now. 561 00:46:35,740 --> 00:46:38,540 Go easy, Major. We don't want anybody getting hurt. 562 00:47:17,970 --> 00:47:18,970 Why us? 563 00:47:19,310 --> 00:47:21,150 We caught him trying to get through the cordon. 564 00:47:21,850 --> 00:47:24,770 What is all this, Daniels? Have you gone mad? 565 00:47:25,730 --> 00:47:26,870 Let me go to Imogen. 566 00:47:27,350 --> 00:47:29,250 You're a traitor, Daniels. A disgrace. 567 00:47:30,010 --> 00:47:31,250 Let me go to Imogen. 568 00:47:32,950 --> 00:47:33,950 Police. 569 00:47:34,210 --> 00:47:35,210 Police everywhere. 570 00:47:35,410 --> 00:47:37,570 And, soldiers, they sent the army out for us. 571 00:47:46,250 --> 00:47:47,990 and create a diversion for you. Come out! 572 00:47:48,810 --> 00:47:50,210 One by one! 573 00:47:51,090 --> 00:47:53,250 With your hands in the air! 574 00:47:54,110 --> 00:47:55,110 What if you do? 575 00:47:55,130 --> 00:47:56,430 There's no way out! 576 00:47:57,590 --> 00:47:59,730 I don't know. Give yourself up! 577 00:48:00,030 --> 00:48:03,390 Perhaps there's two useful things I can do for Ireland. You don't stand a 578 00:48:03,390 --> 00:48:04,670 chance! Give me the gun. 579 00:48:06,990 --> 00:48:08,910 Come on, it'll be worse if they take you with it. 580 00:48:42,730 --> 00:48:43,730 This is Daniels. 581 00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,780 I don't understand is how you knew it was a double they sent to France. 582 00:49:47,500 --> 00:49:52,060 When I ascertained that the net result of the supposed assassination attempt 583 00:49:52,060 --> 00:49:56,740 that the Prime Minister went to France with his face bound up, it was then that 584 00:49:56,740 --> 00:49:57,980 I began to comprehend. 585 00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:03,020 But the man who impersonated the Prime Minister was seen by everyone. 586 00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:08,000 No, no, I think he was not seen by anyone who knew him intimately. 587 00:50:08,980 --> 00:50:10,680 And with his face bandaged? 588 00:50:12,940 --> 00:50:15,200 But now, my ami, a far more difficult case. 589 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:17,960 A fitting with Monsieur Fingler. 590 00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,060 So the Daniel divorce was just a smokescreen. 591 00:50:35,740 --> 00:50:37,640 The purest theatre, Hastings. 592 00:50:37,980 --> 00:50:41,480 To ensure that the last thing anyone could suspect was collusion between 593 00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:42,480 two. 594 00:50:43,180 --> 00:50:47,440 They loved each other, yes, but they were willing to sacrifice that and 595 00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:49,140 everything else for their cause. 596 00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:55,360 You know, Hastings, the worst kind of fanatic is the quiet, unobtrusive 597 00:50:55,460 --> 00:50:59,120 And the worst kind of customer is the customer who can't keep still. 598 00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:05,000 Mr. Fingal, this jacket, it is too tight. 599 00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:09,880 Oh, it is too tight, is it? Yes, I shall scarcely be able to button it up. Do 600 00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:11,460 you know why it is too tight? 601 00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:16,100 Because you made it too small. No, no, no, no. Because you have grown too big. 602 00:51:16,260 --> 00:51:19,440 This jacket has been made by last year's measurements. 603 00:51:19,820 --> 00:51:22,680 Now are we having a fitting of what? 604 00:51:30,180 --> 00:51:32,220 A fitting by what means, you think?