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<i><b>Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in
"The Moving Finger"</b></i>

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And so I find myself on another night, 

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In another bedroom, with another girl.

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Yet again, on the verge of oblivion.

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I'd spent several years fighting 
for King and Country.

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Several more fighting lethargy 
and drink.

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And I decided the time had come 
to do something about it.

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I rode out of town and into the night.

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And that was that.

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Or so I thought.

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THE MOVING FINGER

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FOUR MOUNTHS LATER

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"I know about your unspeakable 
lechery and so did your wife.

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It destroyed her.

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Owe no man anything 
but to love one another.

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For he that loveth another 
hath fulfilled the law.

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For this, 
thou shalt not commit adultery.

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Thou shalt not kill.

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Thou shalt not steal.

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Thou shall not bear false witness.

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Thou shall love 
they neighbour as thyself.

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Love worketh no ill to his neighbour."

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And, therefore, love...

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It was not long after that, 
the day of the colonel's funeral,

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that we arrived in Lymstock.

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Smell that country air.

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My sister Joanna had decided 
to take me in hand.

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My doctor had prescribed 
a good dose of clean living

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and sleepy village life, 

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and she was determined 
to see it through.

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A torture, in fact, for both of us, 

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as we had an absolute loathing 
for the country.

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God, a freckle. 
They'll think I'm Scottish.

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Watch out!

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Perhaps country life wasn't going to be 
so dull after all.

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What's the point of mirrors if you
can't look in them?

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Isn't it sweet?

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Things are so different nowadays.

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Taxation, of course.

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And now my stocks and shares, 
so safe, I'd always imagined, 

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but now they seem to be paying 
nothing at all.

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Foreign, needless to say.

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And really, it makes it all so difficult, 

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which is why I've decided to let.

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Where will you stay, Miss Barton?

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I shall be most comfortable, Miss Burton.

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I'm lodging with my old parlour 
maid, Florence.

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Such a nice girl.

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She lives with her husband
in the High Atreet.

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My maid Partridge has agreed to stay on 
and look after you.

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I'm sure you'll find her highly efficient.

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This is the drawing room.

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Very nice, isn't it, Jerry?

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Still exactly as it was when  
Mother was alive.

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97 she was when she died.

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How marvellous.

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One doesn't like the idea of letting 
to strangers.

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Having seen you, my dear, 

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I feel quite reassured.

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You've nothing to worry about, 
Miss Barton.

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Do you smoke, Mr Burton?

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- Like a chimney.
- Don't worry about my brother.

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He's quite harmless. 
Especially on sticks.

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He's been on his back for the past 
five months.

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- Oh, dear.         
- Came off his motorbike.

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- How did it happen?         
- His fault entirely.

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- Wasn't it, Jerry?         
- It was an accident.

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He rides like a demon.

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Needs a bit of time to get back 
to full working order.

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Doctor's orders. 
Fresh air and a quiet life.

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Then you've come to the right place.

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No slouching at the back there. 
Come on.

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Heads up, big breaths.

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Morning!

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Dinner with the Symmingtons, 
whoever they are.

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- More coffee, Miss?         
- Not for me, Peacock.

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- It's Partridge, Miss.        
- That's the one.

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And we've been invited for coffee 
at the vicarage.

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- Oh, God.         
- Now, Jerry, don't be a grump.

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And Mr Cardew Pye, 
organist of St Peters Church, 

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requests the pleasure of 
our company for afternoon tea.

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There's a jolly day.

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I can hardly contain myself.

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It'll be very nice and rather sweet.

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Whist drives and spinsters.

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The whole point is to get you well and fit.

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After all, 
nothing ever happens in the country.

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Poison-pen letters?

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Yes. Been going on for weeks.

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That's why the colonel shot himself.

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Maud, we don't know that for sure.

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Near as damn it, Jane. Always had 
an eye for the girls, you see.

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and one suspects this ghastly letter

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spelt it out in no uncertain terms.

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- But why shoot himself?         
- Hit a nerve, it seems.

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Probably accused him of betraying 
the memory of his dead wife.

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Poor woman. Dropped dead 
during evensong last year.

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- They seemed a most devoted couple.         
- Oh, yes.

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And he would see it as 
only honourable cause of action

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falling on his sword so to speak.

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<i>Et semel emissum 
volat irrevocabile verbum.</i>

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Absolutely bang on. 
All too much for the poor chap.

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Of all people, Heracles Appleton

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strikes me as the least likely 
to take his own life.

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And what type would you consider 
most likely?

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Did you know him well, Miss Marple?

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No, Miss Burton. 
He was a friend of...

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someone I used to know. 
I wanted to pay my respects, 

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and Maud very kindly invited me

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to stay at the vicarage for a short while.

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What do you think happened, then?

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I can't say, Mr Burton, as yet.

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So desperately sad, 
to be driven to the edge like that.

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Perhaps Jane can find 
the bounder who's sending them.

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- I doubt that.
- She's an expert, you know.

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Now, Maud.

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Has a nose for rotten apples.

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I'd better watch my step, then.

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Better had.

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Have you had any letters, 
Mrs Dane Calthrop?

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Yes. Very silly nonsense it was too.

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Something about my husband and 
the verger's wife.

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Quite absurd, 

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because the Reverend has absolutely 
no taste for fornication.

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Have you, Caleb?

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No, my dear.

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And he never has had. 
Good thing he's a vicar, I suppose.

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Lives entirely for his books.

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The Reverend is a great classicist.

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His knowledge of the early church 
is really quite formidable.

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Always thought 
he'd make a jolly fine saint, 

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if he hadn't been 
just a little too intellectual.

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Mrs Dane Calthrop, of course, 

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is not your average vicar's wife.

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Everyone is ever so slightly afraid of her.

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And not only because

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she looks like one of the hideous 
gargoyles above the west door.

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She's terrifyingly on the spot, 
if you get my drift,

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and represents, to an uneasy conscience, 
deity personified.

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Have you met the Reverend?

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Oh, yes.

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A being more remote from 
everyday life I have to encounter.

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He always has his nose buried

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in Horace or the younger Pliny.

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And he will insist on spouting Latin.

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I tend more towards the Greek.

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And you, Mr Burton? 
What is your inclination?

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Head first over the handlebars, 
eh, Jerry?

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Oh, a tongue with a tang.

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May I say, Miss Burton, 
what a pleasure it is

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to welcome your distinctive style 
to our little community.

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I hope you don't think me impertinent, 
but your make-up, 

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its Grecian Ivory No.2, isn't it?

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It is, actually.

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It's charming. Really charming.

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If you were a local, 

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you'd have a dab of powder 
to take the shine off your nose, 

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possibly a soupcon of lipstick, 
not well applied, 

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and would almost certaintly 
be wearing all of your eyebrows

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instead of only a quarter.

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Oh, dear! 
I'll look frightfully out of place, won't I?

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Not at all, my dear. 
They'll just think you're a little queer.

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And what, I ask, is wrong with that?

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Have you received any letters, Mr Pye?

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Letters, Mr Burton?

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Yes, of the poison-pen variety?

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I have, since you ask.

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Perfectly horrid, isn't it?

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Mrs Dane Calthrop told us about

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the poor colonel. Terrible business.

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Miss Marple thinks 
he wasn't the type to top himself.

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What do you think?

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I have no opinion on the matter.

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He certainly clammed up 
when you mentioned the letters.

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That chap could pout for England.

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Hello. I'm Megan. Megan Hunter.

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Megan, for goodness sake.

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Joanna Burton. Pleased to meet you.

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- Gosh, you're a looker.         
- Do you think so?

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She's an absolute menace on that thing.

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I'm her mother, Mona Symmington.

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- How do you do?         
- How do you do?

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Jerry Burton.

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You're the new chaps, aren't you? 
Mind if we join you?

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Awfully sorry.

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- See?         
- Came flying off yesterday.

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- Tore my stocking. Look.
- She ought to be in a circus.

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- I told you to mend that.         
- Darning's such a bore, isn't it?

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- How would you know?         
- Crashed a lot, have you?

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- It wasn't a crash.         
- It was an accident.

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I had to swerve to avoid a child.

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- Oh. Lablanche.         
- Yes, actually.

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One has to be so frightfully slim 
to carry a Lablanche.

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- And yours? Do tell.         
- This old thing...

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She's awfully pretty. Not a bit like you.

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Thank you for your invitation to dinner.

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Brothers and sisters aren't always alike.

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I suppose not. 
I'm not very like my half brothers

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and they're not like each other. 
Rum, isn't it?

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- What is?         
- The whole family thing.

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So, will you always be a bit of a crock?

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No, I won't.

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I thought that's why you looked 

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so miserable, 
being a crock as you like.

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But if it's how you always look...

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I'm impatient, that's all.

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Don't you ever get impatient?

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What about? Nothing ever happens.

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- That's not what I've heard.
- What's that?

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Someone's been busy writing letters.

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Oh, those. It's such a gossipy place.

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So, have you had one?

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- Most people have.         
- What did it say?

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Something about my real father being 
a bit of a villain, 

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and me being a lazy young bitch.

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- Charming.         
- Spot on, as it happens.

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Because people don't really like me 
around here.

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And to be honest, 
I don't much like them.

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MESSERS. GALBRAITH and SYMMINGTON, 
SOLICITORS

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Mr Symmington will see you now, sir.

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Thank you.

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- Good afternoon, Burton.         
- Good afternoon.

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Thanks for the invitation for Saturday.

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Pleasure to welcome you here.

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I've got some share certificates 
I need transferring.

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Very good. I'll take a look.

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Your er... your secretary seemed a little...

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Oh, yes. Poor old Ginch.

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Got one of those blasted letters.

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Fairly fruity, I must say.

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Apparently, we're in the middle of a hot 
and steamy affair.

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Imagine. Ginch and myself.

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Quite risible if it wasn't so nauseating.

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It's funny, isn't it?

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People say, 
''You must be bored to death

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living in the country.'' Little do they know.

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Are those your boys?

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Yes, they are. 
Little terrors, but good lads, really.

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And she's their governess?

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Yes. Yes. Miss Holland.

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Lucky boys.

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They are lucky, yes. She's very good.

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Not sure I'd be able to concentrate 
on my lessons.

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They're a bit young for that, old chap.

245
00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:56,400
Yes.

246
00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:38,300
Anything for me?

247
00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:47,500
Jerry, what is it?

248
00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:51,900
Welcome to Lymstock.

249
00:14:54,300 --> 00:14:58,500
That fancy tart is not your sister.
She's a dirty whore.

250
00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:14,300
That was quick off the mark.

251
00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:16,800
What did it say, 
if you don't mind me asking?

252
00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,900
Oh, well, it suggested that Joanna 
wasn't really my sister.

253
00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:22,800
Though in slightly 
more colourful language.

254
00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,100
Did she actually read the letter?

255
00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:26,300
Oh, yes.

256
00:15:26,300 --> 00:15:29,800
Oh, I do hope it didn't... 
didn't upset her too much.

257
00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,300
She found it quite a hoot, actually.

258
00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,600
Which I suppose 
is the best way to take it.

259
00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,500
Except when it gets out of hand, of course.

260
00:15:37,700 --> 00:15:38,800
Oh, the colonel, you mean?

261
00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:42,300
- You've heard, then?         
- Almost as soon as we arrived.

262
00:15:42,500 --> 00:15:44,200
Dreadful business.

263
00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:46,600
I must say, you know, you're tending to 

264
00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:48,800
use these as a bit of a crutch, you know

265
00:15:49,300 --> 00:15:50,600
I thought that was the general idea.

266
00:15:51,300 --> 00:15:55,100
Yes, I'm fairly sure you could do 
without them, take it easy.

267
00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:57,300
Oh, right. I see.

268
00:15:57,900 --> 00:15:59,300
Well, I'll give it a go sometime.

269
00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,500
So, the colonel, bit of a lad, I gather.

270
00:16:03,500 --> 00:16:04,800
Yes, yes.

271
00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:09,900
But it just goes to show how dangerous 
things really can be.

272
00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,000
You don't have any idea 
who's behind them, do you?

273
00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,200
No. No, unfortunately not.

274
00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,100
There was something of this kind 
in my practice up north.

275
00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:19,500
Got pretty nasty, actually.

276
00:16:20,700 --> 00:16:22,600
Yes, of course, I've received one, 

277
00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,200
as has Symmington the solicitor. 
He's had one.

278
00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:28,600
And I bet 
a few other people have had them

279
00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:30,300
but won't admit to it.

280
00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,500
So, what did yours say?

281
00:16:33,500 --> 00:16:34,800
Oh, well, the erm...

282
00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,500
you know, the kind of...

283
00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,000
- If you'd rather not...         
- Oh, not at all.

284
00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,100
No, it...it er...

285
00:16:41,700 --> 00:16:46,100
actually, it accused me 
of interfering with one of patients,

286
00:16:46,100 --> 00:16:48,500
in the most...most graphic detail.

287
00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:50,500
Ridiculous, of course, I have to say. 
Ridiculous.

288
00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,000
But I fear that it won't be too long

289
00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,600
before another one of these letters 
finds the old...

290
00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:57,700
bull's-eye.

291
00:17:00,700 --> 00:17:02,200
Well, erm...next week, then.

292
00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,000
Will he live?

293
00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:07,600
Well, he's doing frightfully well, 
Miss Burton.

294
00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:08,600
Oh, that is good news.

295
00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:12,400
Yes. Maybe he should try going 
a bit slower next time.

296
00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,000
Do you know I've never seen the point.

297
00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,100
I gather we'll see you at the Symmingtons, 
Doctor Griffith.

298
00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,500
- Oh, I-I-I-I-I...         
- I can't wait. Ciao.

299
00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,000
<i>Ciao.

300
00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:29,900
And this must not go 
beyond these four walls.

301
00:17:29,900 --> 00:17:31,600
But one has heard, 

302
00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,200
and on fairly good authority, 
it should be said, 

303
00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:37,900
that Jamie Blackwell, 
a rather cocky young farmhand, 

304
00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,400
has left his wife Mary.

305
00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,000
What, that half-witted girl 
who's expecting?

306
00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,900
- The very same.        
- But why, my dear Maud.

307
00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:47,400
Far be it from me 
to interfere in these things...

308
00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,100
At home with the Borgias.

309
00:17:49,100 --> 00:17:51,600
He received a letter suggesting

310
00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:54,100
he was not, in fact, the baby's father.

311
00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:55,000
No!

312
00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,068
And he was furious. 
He confronted the wretched girl, 

313
00:17:57,069 --> 00:17:59,640
who was unable to adequately refute it.

314
00:17:59,675 --> 00:18:02,400
- I say!        
- This is only quarter what one has heard.

315
00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,200
You're very quiet, Doctor.

316
00:18:05,500 --> 00:18:07,400
Do you find this gossip tiresome?

317
00:18:08,700 --> 00:18:10,100
Are you all right, Griffith?

318
00:18:10,300 --> 00:18:12,053
What? My darling bro? 
I should say not. 

319
00:18:12,100 --> 00:18:13,000
He's hopelessly addicted.

320
00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,900
Something went down the wrong way. 
I'm sorry.

321
00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:17,100
One can only imagine 
what he picks up in the surgery.

322
00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,700
I expect Dickie
gets a few choice nuggets too.

323
00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:22,400
I don't, you know. Really, I don't.

324
00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:24,600
And your saintly husband, 
my dear Maud, 

325
00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,800
must be privy to, well, heaven knows.

326
00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,200
Heaven may, but I don't.

327
00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:32,000
Such a pity he couldn't join us.

328
00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,100
He's battling with tomorrow's text.

329
00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:37,100
Evil communications corrupt 
good manners.

330
00:18:37,100 --> 00:18:38,100
Oh, wait, there's more.

331
00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:41,700
- Shall I clear, madam?        
- No, Agnes.

332
00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,300
We'll let you know when we're ready.

333
00:18:44,300 --> 00:18:45,300
Yes, madam.

334
00:18:48,500 --> 00:18:51,600
The letter, one hears, as I say, 
on fairly good authority,

335
00:18:51,900 --> 00:18:53,700
apparently goes further, 

336
00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,700
and implies who the father actually was.

337
00:18:56,700 --> 00:18:57,600
Gracious.

338
00:18:58,300 --> 00:18:59,100
Yes.

339
00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:03,000
Colonel Appleton.

340
00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,200
- The colonel!        
- As I live and breathe.

341
00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:06,800
Blimey, crikey.

342
00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,400
- No wonder he shot himself.        
- If indeed he did.

343
00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,500
You suspect that is right, Miss Marple?

344
00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:13,600
Whatever the truth may be, 
Mrs Symmington, 

345
00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:14,700
the poor man is dead, 

346
00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:16,400
a young man has left his wife

347
00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,600
and a baby will come into the world 
with little advantage.

348
00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:21,900
Were you close to the colonel, 
Miss Marple?

349
00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:23,200
No, but er...

350
00:19:23,500 --> 00:19:25,000
I knew his qualities.

351
00:19:25,700 --> 00:19:26,600
And his wife?

352
00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:28,400
No closer than to the colonel.

353
00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,000
By all accounts, Mrs Symmington, 

354
00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,800
Colonel Appleton was the most devoted 
and loving husband.

355
00:19:34,100 --> 00:19:35,700
A formidable bridge player.

356
00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,200
Though I always found his bidding 
a little aggressive.

357
00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:40,800
Agnes!

358
00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:41,800
Sorry, Miss.

359
00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:45,400
A farm girl's baby.

360
00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,100
It would test the forbearance of a saint.

361
00:19:48,100 --> 00:19:50,400
Time to let the poor man rest, I'd say.

362
00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:51,500
Oh, well, he'll keep.

363
00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:53,200
Oh, Megan.

364
00:19:56,700 --> 00:19:57,800
Say hello, dear.

365
00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:00,000
Hello.

366
00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,500
- I hope Mother's not boring you.        
- Megan.

367
00:20:03,500 --> 00:20:05,900
She talks all the time, but in fact, 
says very little.

368
00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:08,500
- Good night, Megan!        
- Why don't you get your milk, dear, 

369
00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,200
and go to bed.

370
00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:11,700
Good night, then.

371
00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:14,200
Good night.

372
00:20:14,900 --> 00:20:15,900
I must say, Mrs Symmington, 

373
00:20:15,900 --> 00:20:17,700
you have the most delightful daughter.

374
00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,400
- Do I?        
- Feisty. I like that.

375
00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:22,500
She's at that awkward age.

376
00:20:22,500 --> 00:20:23,500
But she's 20!

377
00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:25,000
She's been at that awkward age

378
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,000
since she was mewling in nappies.

379
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,500
If only she had some talent on looks.

380
00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:31,000
I think she has a lovely face.

381
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,100
All she does is pottering around l
ooking plain.

382
00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,100
Perhaps you could give her some tips.

383
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:40,900
Is the wine all right, Dickie?

384
00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:42,700
The girl's born idle.

385
00:20:43,300 --> 00:20:45,400
Her father was definitely a wrong 'un.

386
00:20:45,700 --> 00:20:47,500
Prison, I believe.

387
00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:49,300
For blackmail.

388
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,700
It's hardly surprising 
her mother's like she is.

389
00:20:55,700 --> 00:20:57,800
I do hope, Miss Marple, 
you've not found 

390
00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:59,400
our discussion too discomfiting.

391
00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:01,100
Not at all, Mrs Symmington.

392
00:21:01,100 --> 00:21:02,800
I merely repeats what one hears.

393
00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,400
Yes, indeed. I sometimes wonder

394
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,400
if the tale-bearer is not as guilty
as the tale-maker.

395
00:21:08,900 --> 00:21:11,200
Oops! My dear Miss Marple, 

396
00:21:11,500 --> 00:21:14,800
you are being moral and forget that 
you are among friends.

397
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,600
I would like to think I am, Mr Pye.

398
00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:41,100
Give me my plane back, Colin!

399
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,600
Miss Holland! 
Get those boys out of here!

400
00:21:44,700 --> 00:21:45,800
Yes, Mrs Symmington.

401
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,200
I've a killing head!

402
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:48,500
Come on, boys.

403
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:05,900
Mrs Symmlngton.

404
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,200
I hardly knew the woman, 

405
00:22:07,300 --> 00:22:10,500
but had decided already that 
I heartily disliked her.

406
00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:19,100
Miss Holland, on the other hand, 

407
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,700
was growing more delectable by the day.

408
00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,300
Chop, chop! Your father's here.
Hang up your jackets quickly.

409
00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:50,300
That's a good boy.

410
00:22:52,500 --> 00:22:53,500
Daddy!

411
00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:55,700
Hello, boys. 
Been behaving yourselves?

412
00:22:55,700 --> 00:22:57,700
- Yes!        
- Good evening, Miss Holland.

413
00:22:57,700 --> 00:22:58,700
Hello, Mr Symmington.

414
00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:01,300
Thank you.

415
00:23:02,100 --> 00:23:05,800
Mona? Mona?

416
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,800
You can't see Mummy until 
she's had her nap.

417
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,200
But I want to see Mummy!

418
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,800
Mr Symmington?

419
00:23:32,500 --> 00:23:35,300
I've just heard something. 
Terrible, it is. Shocking!

420
00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:37,700
Don't tell me the 
bring-and-buy's been cancelled.

421
00:23:37,700 --> 00:23:40,100
It's Mrs Symmington. She's dead.

422
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:36,200
So who sired your little 
Brat Collin not Dickie.

423
00:24:36,300 --> 00:24:39,400
You vicious Tongued bitch.

424
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,800
Tongued, tongued.

425
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:44,800
Tongued.

426
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,300
Mr Burton! Isn't it awful?

427
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,300
- Yes.        
- You've just missed the inspector.

428
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,600
You've also come to 
offer your condolences, I expect.

429
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,700
- Well...        
- Those poor boys, and Megan too.

430
00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:11,200
It'll be very hard for all of them.

431
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,700
Miss Holland is being most solicitous.

432
00:25:14,300 --> 00:25:15,900
Another suicide, Miss Marple.

433
00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:18,600
Or have they all got it wrong?

434
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,300
I would have thought 
you were clever enough 

435
00:25:20,300 --> 00:25:22,100
to work that out by yourself, Mr Burton.

436
00:25:23,500 --> 00:25:25,900
Ooh, no sticks!

437
00:25:26,500 --> 00:25:27,800
Better watch your step.

438
00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:29,800
Good morning.

439
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:31,600
Morning.

440
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:45,900
I just want to be left alone.

441
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,800
Of course. 
Well, just call if you want me.

442
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,400
I'm sorry. The door was open. I...

443
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:55,400
Sorry.

444
00:25:56,500 --> 00:25:59,500
Burton. Jerry Burton.

445
00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:01,200
Holland. Elsie.

446
00:26:02,700 --> 00:26:05,400
We keep seeing each other, 
but we've never...

447
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:06,300
No.

448
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,900
I'm afraid Mr Symmington's 
not in the mood 

449
00:26:10,900 --> 00:26:12,000
for visitors at the moment.

450
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,400
It's all been such a shock.

451
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:15,600
Yes, of course.

452
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,800
I don't wish to intrude, but erm...

453
00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:25,000
it did cross my mind, 
well, my sister Joanna's, actually,

454
00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:27,100
that maybe Megan would like to 

455
00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:28,300
come to stay with us for a few days.

456
00:26:28,300 --> 00:26:30,000
Megan? Stay with you?

457
00:26:31,100 --> 00:26:32,000
Well, why?

458
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,500
Well, we thought it might be a help.

459
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,800
She must be terribly shaken by all this.

460
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:39,700
She's such a queer. 
You never know what she's feeling.

461
00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:41,100
If you think it's presumptuous...

462
00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:43,400
No. No, it's erm...

463
00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:46,000
it's probably a very good idea.

464
00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:48,300
A very kind idea.

465
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,100
I see that you've...

466
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,400
What?

467
00:26:57,700 --> 00:26:59,200
Got rid of your sticks.

468
00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:01,800
Oh. Yes, I have.

469
00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:04,000
And you're still upright.

470
00:27:04,100 --> 00:27:05,100
Yes, I am.

471
00:27:06,300 --> 00:27:08,500
Well, I do hope you manage to stay like that.

472
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:27,700
Megan?

473
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,300
Joanna and I were wondering if maybe...

474
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,400
you'd like to stay with us for a little?

475
00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:44,700
Stay with you?

476
00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:47,500
- Yes.        
- At your house?

477
00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:48,200
That's right.

478
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,200
Oh, yes.

479
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:53,000
Take me away!

480
00:27:53,700 --> 00:27:55,100
Please take me away!

481
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000
I'm such a coward.

482
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,600
I didn't know what a coward I was.

483
00:28:02,500 --> 00:28:04,700
Yes, these things 
can be a little shattering, can't they?

484
00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:09,200
It's so awful being here 
and feeling so wicked.

485
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,500
Why should you feel wicked?

486
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,200
I don't know.

487
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,100
I'm sorry, I'm being silly.

488
00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:26,400
But, you see, it's rather dreadful 
when your mother dies.

489
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:29,300
Yes.

490
00:28:56,300 --> 00:28:57,300
If you don't like it...

491
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,100
No. It's...heaven!

492
00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:05,800
Megan! Are you all right?

493
00:29:12,100 --> 00:29:13,900
I do hope that poor Megan...

494
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,400
that she hasn't been too much upset 
by all this.

495
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,900
You know, 
losing one's mother is a dreadful thing.

496
00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:21,900
Yes, of course.

497
00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:26,700
But what I really meant 
was the unpleasantness behind it.

498
00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:28,900
Ah, the unpleasantness.

499
00:29:28,900 --> 00:29:31,500
Tell me, Miss Barton, 
do you think there might be truth in it?

500
00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:33,500
Oh, no, surely not.

501
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,400
I'm quite certain
that Mrs Symmington never...

502
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,700
That the boy wasn't...

503
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,500
I mean, it's quite untrue.

504
00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:46,500
Have you received any unwanted mail, 
Miss Barton?

505
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,500
Oh, no! No, indeed!

506
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,200
Oh, that would be dreadful!

507
00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:54,400
Mm...

508
00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:03,400
You see? Away with the fairies!

509
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,600
She looks at you sometimes 

510
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,300
as if she doesn't understand the world.

511
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,300
Perhaps she's just not interested.

512
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,600
Or one banana short of a bunch.

513
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,500
Look, if she becomes too much of a nuisance...

514
00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:16,500
No, she's no trouble.

515
00:30:17,700 --> 00:30:20,900
It's not healthy, lounging about at her age.

516
00:30:20,900 --> 00:30:22,200
It's hardly surprising.

517
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,200
Her mother treated her 
like a 12-year-old.

518
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,900
Strictly <i>"entre nous",</i> 
I couldn't stand the woman.

519
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,100
Of course, we don't want to speak ill 
of the dead, 

520
00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:33,700
but, what an acid tongue! 
Gossip was all that interested her.

521
00:30:34,100 --> 00:30:36,100
No, I'm afraid 
I didn't think very much of her.

522
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,800
But I never suspected the truth.

523
00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:44,200
Mrs Symmington was alone in the house.

524
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,300
Her husband was at his office, 
her daughter was out cycling, 

525
00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:50,300
and the governess, Miss Holland, 
with the two boys.

526
00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:53,300
- The maids, Inspector?        
- It was their day off, sir.

527
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:54,800
When did the letter arrive?

528
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:56,400
By the afternoon post, sir.

529
00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,100
Apparently, Mrs Symmington 
was so disturbed by its contents, 

530
00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:03,100
that, in a state of great agitation, 
she wrote the final words, 

531
00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:06,800
"I can't go on, '' before taking cyanide 
dissolved in water.

532
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,200
I had been treating Mrs Symmington

533
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,000
for a neuralgic condition 
for quite some time.

534
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,800
Would you say she was generally of 
a nervous disposition, Doctor?

535
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,000
Obviously, yes, I would.

536
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000
What is your estimate 
of the time of death?

537
00:31:20,300 --> 00:31:22,400
Oh, between three and four o'clock.

538
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,300
The allegation 
contained in that letter was a calumny.

539
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,200
A foul calumny.

540
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,800
Mona was the most devoted wife, 
the most loving mother.

541
00:31:32,700 --> 00:31:34,100
Her health was fragile, 

542
00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:35,700
her soul sensitive.

543
00:31:37,100 --> 00:31:40,300
Such a vile lie 
would have shocked her greatly.

544
00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:43,500
Whoever wrote this foul letter 
murdered my wife

545
00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:45,600
as surely as if they'd stabbed her 
through the heart.

546
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,400
I condemn utterly writing of these 
wicked and despicable letters.

547
00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:57,200
One death has already resulted, 
that of Colonel Appleton, 

548
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,100
and now Mrs Symmington.

549
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,600
In my opinion, 
the writer is morally guilty of murder.

550
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,400
I find that the deceased, 
Mona Patricia Symmington, 

551
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,100
committed suicide whilst being 
temporarily insane.

552
00:32:20,500 --> 00:32:21,900
So, gin's your tipple, is it?

553
00:32:22,100 --> 00:32:25,000
Absolutely. I always have one about now. 
What's yours?

554
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:26,700
Lemon barley water.

555
00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:31,600
You are nice, you know.

556
00:32:32,100 --> 00:32:35,200
You treat me like a real person. Look.

557
00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:37,300
Well done!

558
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,800
I know. 
I've made a fearful hash of it, haven't I?

559
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,900
You know, it's much better if you suck 
rather than blow.

560
00:32:45,300 --> 00:32:46,600
Yes, of course. I wasn't thinking.

561
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:49,900
People think I'm stupid.

562
00:32:50,300 --> 00:32:51,200
I don't.

563
00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:53,000
But you're not like the others.

564
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,000
They don't realise that, the inside, 

565
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,300
I know exactly what they're like, 

566
00:32:56,300 --> 00:32:58,300
and all the time I'm hating them.

567
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:00,100
Hating them?

568
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,000
You'd hate people too if you knew 
you weren't wanted.

569
00:33:03,700 --> 00:33:05,000
Mummy never liked me.

570
00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:06,800
Of course she did.

571
00:33:07,300 --> 00:33:10,300
She didn't, 
because I reminded her of my father, 

572
00:33:10,300 --> 00:33:11,800
and he was very cruel to her, 

573
00:33:12,100 --> 00:33:13,200
and what she wanted was

574
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,900
to be left alone 
with my stepfather and the boys.

575
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,200
And now she's left us alone.

576
00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:24,400
It's difficult, I know, to see things clearly...

577
00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:29,500
..but in time, 
I promise, things do get easier.

578
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:32,800
It's all out there, all to play for.

579
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:36,700
We should all remember that.

580
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,000
Do you mean leave here?

581
00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:40,400
Why not?

582
00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:41,900
You mean, earn a living?

583
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,000
If you wanted.

584
00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:45,200
What would I do?

585
00:33:46,500 --> 00:33:49,100
Well, we'd have to think of something.

586
00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:51,100
We?

587
00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:54,700
You'd have to think of something.

588
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,400
Any chance of a top-up?

589
00:34:15,700 --> 00:34:16,700
I didn't know you were here.

590
00:34:16,700 --> 00:34:17,800
Yes, yes, yes.

591
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,700
I've just popped round to take Joanna out 
for a bit of a...

592
00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:23,800
A bit of a what?

593
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,400
What? For a walk.

594
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,500
For a walk, actually.

595
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,600
Well, make sure you don't overexcite her.

596
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,200
N-N-No...

597
00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:14,500
Miss Marple.

598
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,300
Good afternoon, Mr Pye.

599
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,000
I'm afraid my fingers have forgotten 
how to dance.

600
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,800
They have of late become accustomed 
to a more funereal pace.

601
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,100
Yes. A most distressing time for you all.

602
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:28,200
Quite so.

603
00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:31,100
I understand you knew the colonel.

604
00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:33,600
A little, and many years ago.

605
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,600
He fought with a friend of mine
who was killed in Great War, 

606
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,900
and was kind enough to inform me 

607
00:35:39,900 --> 00:35:42,000
of the circumstances of his passing.

608
00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:44,700
- And you, Mr Pye?        
- Oh, I hardly knew the man.

609
00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:47,500
We occasionally locked horns 
over a rubber, 

610
00:35:47,500 --> 00:35:49,000
but that was the extent 
of our acquaintance.

611
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,600
I must confess, 
I would never have imagined

612
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,400
him taking his own life. 
Would you, Mr Pye?

613
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:56,800
The man is dead, Miss Marple.

614
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,500
Can that not be an end to the matter?

615
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,300
This village used to be 
such a peaceful little pocket.

616
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,100
That is how I see this country, 
full of little pockets.

617
00:36:07,700 --> 00:36:10,400
But tragically, this particular pocket 
has become rather grubby.

618
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,800
One rotten apple 
and we are all contaminated.

619
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,800
So you too, Mr Pye, 
have been contaminated?

620
00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:20,600
Yes, I have.

621
00:36:21,500 --> 00:36:22,800
Let them do their worst.

622
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:24,500
I'll not go under.

623
00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:28,400
No more hole-and-corner for me, 
Miss Marple.

624
00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:30,700
Goodbye.

625
00:36:36,300 --> 00:36:37,600
Poor thing.

626
00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:39,900
Poor thing.

627
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,100
Suicide's such a ghastly business.

628
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,200
Oh, you mean Mrs Symmington?

629
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,500
Ah, a heron.

630
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,500
So when you said ''poor thing'',
who did you mean?

631
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,000
The person who wrote the letters, 
of course.

632
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:55,800
Don't you understand

633
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:57,200
how desperately unhappy 
somebody must be

634
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,100
to sit down and write these things?

635
00:36:59,700 --> 00:37:00,800
How lonely, 

636
00:37:01,300 --> 00:37:03,500
how cut off from people, 

637
00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:05,700
poisoned through and through.

638
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:07,200
Poor soul!

639
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,000
Have you any idea, Mrs Dane Calthrop, 
who it might be?

640
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,600
Oh, yes, 
but then I might be wrong, mightn't I?

641
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:16,800
Poor Dickie Symmington.

642
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,100
How awful for it all 
to come out at the inquest.

643
00:37:19,100 --> 00:37:21,000
He was adamant 
there was no word of truth...

644
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,300
He'd say that, wouldn't he?

645
00:37:22,300 --> 00:37:25,100
He's a real gentleman, isn't he? 
I've known him a long time.

646
00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:27,400
Really? I thought your brother

647
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,000
only bought this practice 
a few years ago.

648
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,000
He did, but he used to come and stay 
our apartment up north.

649
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,300
I know him very well. 
He's quite reserved, 

650
00:37:34,300 --> 00:37:36,900
but proud, and he can get very jealous.

651
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,000
Perhaps that's why Mrs Symmington

652
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,400
was afraid to show him the letter.

653
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:41,700
Good heavens, Mr Burton, 

654
00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:44,700
do you seriously think 
any woman would swallow cyanide

655
00:37:44,700 --> 00:37:46,800
if the accusations weren't true?

656
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:48,800
An innocent woman would laugh it off, 

657
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,500
throw it away. That's what I...I would do.

658
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,800
We should all have a career, Mr Burton.

659
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,200
I wanted to be a doctor, 
but my parents wouldn't hear of it.

660
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,600
- I'm sorry.        
- Oh, don't be.

661
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,800
I'm one of the happiest people I know. 
Toodle-oo!

662
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,300
Good morning, Miss Burton. 
Not finding it too dull, I hope.

663
00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:06,300
Hardly.

664
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:09,200
Look.

665
00:38:12,900 --> 00:38:17,300
You painted trollop, 
go back to your bastard child.

666
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:18,800
Nice.

667
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,300
Very nice indeed.

668
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,700
Yes. The words have been cut 
from an old book.

669
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,300
Early 19th century, I'd guess.

670
00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:32,200
Probably no fingerprints distinctive

671
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,400
in the letters as the culprit is very careful 
to wear gloves.

672
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,700
Now, the envelope was typed on this.

673
00:38:37,700 --> 00:38:39,300
A Windsor Seven typewriter

674
00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:42,700
with the letters A and D 
out of alignment.

675
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,100
So, who does it belong to?

676
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:46,400
The Women's Institute.

677
00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:50,000
It's an old model donated 
by the office of Galbraith, 

678
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,300
Galbraith and Symmington.

679
00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:53,400
- So, it could be...        
- Yes. Any one of them.

680
00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:55,400
The ladies are always in there, sir.

681
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,800
You can probably tell by the touch, sir, 

682
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,700
that was typed with one finger.

683
00:39:00,700 --> 00:39:03,000
So, it's someone not used to typing?

684
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,700
Or somebody who is, 
but doesn't want us to know.

685
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,500
Well, that's interesting.

686
00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:12,300
What is?

687
00:39:12,300 --> 00:39:16,000
The U in Burton seems 
to have been changed from an A, 

688
00:39:17,900 --> 00:39:19,700
Perhaps she's not 
such a good typist after all.

689
00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:21,600
Or maybe cleverer than we think.

690
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,900
- I wonder how she feels?        
- Who knows?

691
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,600
But this little beauty is going back.

692
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,000
And mark my words,

693
00:39:30,100 --> 00:39:32,800
the pitcher 
will go to the well once too often.

694
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,300
- Can I have a word, sir?        
- What is it, Partridge?

695
00:39:55,300 --> 00:39:57,000
- That was Agnes, sir.        
- Oh, yes?

696
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,800
She was in service here.

697
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,500
And coming from the orphanage, 

698
00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:02,100
she's gotten happy to talking to me 

699
00:40:02,100 --> 00:40:03,700
so I could tell her what's what, you see.

700
00:40:03,700 --> 00:40:05,000
Get to the point, Partridge.

701
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,200
Well, she works for the Symmingtons now

702
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,800
and I wonder if you might 
give your permission for her

703
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,000
to come to tea with me this afternoon.

704
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,400
It's her day off

705
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,100
and she's got something on her mind. 
She seems a bit of upset.

706
00:40:16,100 --> 00:40:16,800
Yes, of course.

707
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:17,900
Thank you, sir.

708
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:21,700
I must go home.

709
00:40:21,900 --> 00:40:23,000
- What?        
- Today.

710
00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:24,800
Today? Why?

711
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:26,600
It's been awfully good of you having me.

712
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:28,600
I expect I've been a fearful nuisance.

713
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,200
I have enjoyed it awfully, really I have, 

714
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:35,000
only, now I must go back because 
after all, it is my home.

715
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:36,600
I can't stay away forever.

716
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:40,800
Bye.

717
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,000
We had a lovely tea with Miss Barton, 
Partridge.

718
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,200
Pleased to hear it, Miss.

719
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:50,900
How was yours with Agatha?

720
00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:52,300
Agnes, Miss.

721
00:40:52,500 --> 00:40:55,300
- That's the one.        
- She didn't turn up, Miss.

722
00:40:55,700 --> 00:40:58,100
- Oh, I am sorry.        
- Doesn't matter to me.

723
00:40:58,400 --> 00:40:59,200
Good.

724
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,700
She wanted to meet 
and then she didn't show, 

725
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:04,800
and not a word of apology either.

726
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:05,900
Perhaps she's not well.

727
00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:08,500
And perhaps she's just ill-mannered.

728
00:41:15,500 --> 00:41:16,700
What is the matter?

729
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,900
I've never been able to bear it 
when you sulk.

730
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,700
- I'm not sulking.        
- You are sulking.

731
00:41:22,500 --> 00:41:24,300
You've been sulking since Megan left.

732
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,500
In fact, you've been sulking ever since 
you were a child.

733
00:41:27,700 --> 00:41:29,800
- I haven't.        
- You have.

734
00:41:29,900 --> 00:41:31,400
You were sulky then and you're sulky now.

735
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:32,700
You're the sulky type.

736
00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:35,400
I could do with a drink.

737
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:38,500
Might cheer me up.

738
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,000
Then, why don't you have one?

739
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:42,400
I might just do that.

740
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,000
Fine. Have as many as you want, 

741
00:41:44,300 --> 00:41:46,700
and when you're so drunk 
you can't remember who you are, 

742
00:41:46,900 --> 00:41:49,700
Then why not go for a spin 
and this time make damn sure!

743
00:41:51,100 --> 00:41:51,900
It was an accident.

744
00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:54,500
You're a hopeless liar. 
It's really quite pathetic!

745
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,100
So, I'm sulky, I'm a drunk

746
00:41:57,100 --> 00:41:59,800
and I can't even lie properly.
Is it any wonder that...

747
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,200
What, Jerry? Is what any wonder?

748
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:10,500
What does it matter?

749
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:12,900
How could you do it?

750
00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:16,000
If that's what you want to believe...

751
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,400
How could you think 
it wouldn't break my heart?

752
00:42:21,500 --> 00:42:24,300
It breaks my heart now 
to think you could feel so wretched.

753
00:42:29,500 --> 00:42:31,600
You know, it strikes me 
as the most extraordinary irony

754
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,500
that you managed to survive the war 
with such flying colours, 

755
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,700
yet seem to find 
the peace so utterly defeating.

756
00:43:11,300 --> 00:43:12,700
Ghastly dump, isn't it?

757
00:43:14,500 --> 00:43:15,700
We could always go back.

758
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:19,500
And miss all the fun?

759
00:43:32,700 --> 00:43:34,200
Do you know, it's exactly a week ago

760
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:35,600
since Mrs Symmington's death?

761
00:43:37,500 --> 00:43:39,500
You'd think the police 
would have something by now.

762
00:43:40,500 --> 00:43:41,800
A fingerprint or something.

763
00:43:42,100 --> 00:43:44,300
- Exactly a week ago?        
- Mm-hm.

764
00:43:46,300 --> 00:43:48,100
Maids have one day off a week, 
don't they?

765
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:49,700
Yes.

766
00:43:49,900 --> 00:43:51,200
The same day every week?

767
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,400
That's the usual sort of thing. Apparently.

768
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:57,800
So, exactly a week ago, 

769
00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:59,900
Mrs Symmington was alone in the house

770
00:43:59,900 --> 00:44:01,700
because it was the maids' day off.

771
00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:05,900
I'm afraid the penny's refusing to drop.

772
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:17,900
Megan?

773
00:44:46,500 --> 00:44:48,200
She was supposed to come to tea 
with Partridge, 

774
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:49,300
but didn't turn up.

775
00:44:49,300 --> 00:44:51,600
Why would that be 
of particular concern to you?

776
00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:55,800
I'm not sure. I felt uneasy 
for some reason or other.

777
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,000
With every cause, it now transpires.

778
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,600
You have sensitive antennae, Mr Burton.

779
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,700
So do you, Miss Marple. 
Just passing, were you?

780
00:45:03,700 --> 00:45:05,300
Oh, Mr Burton.

781
00:45:07,500 --> 00:45:10,600
Miss Holland, I was wondering, 
is Megan all right?

782
00:45:11,300 --> 00:45:12,800
She's having a lie-down.

783
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,800
- Mr Burton?        
- Sorry.

784
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,800
Did Agnes say anything to Partridge, 
do you know?

785
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,300
She'd have been far too anxious 

786
00:45:22,300 --> 00:45:24,800
to divulge anything 
over the telephone, Inspector.

787
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:26,000
Thank you, Miss Marple.

788
00:45:28,500 --> 00:45:31,000
Agnes normally went out after lunch.

789
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,200
It appears she never left, 

790
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:35,700
because she was wearing her apron 
and cap when you found her

791
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:37,400
Any idea of the time of death?

792
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,100
Yes, between 8.00 and 1 0.30.

793
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,100
And how was she killed?

794
00:45:41,500 --> 00:45:43,200
Sharp blow to the back of the head, 

795
00:45:43,900 --> 00:45:46,400
followed by a skewer 
in the base of the skull.

796
00:45:46,700 --> 00:45:47,500
Good God!

797
00:45:47,500 --> 00:45:49,400
Quite appalling, isn't it?

798
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,100
- But why?
- Well, we may never know exactly, 

799
00:45:51,100 --> 00:45:53,000
but we can make a guess.

800
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,100
Well, she knew something, didn't she?

801
00:45:55,100 --> 00:45:57,600
That would be a fair assumption, yes.

802
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,100
On the afternoon 
that Mrs Symmington died, 

803
00:46:01,100 --> 00:46:03,300
when the two maids 
were supposed to be out, 

804
00:46:03,300 --> 00:46:05,100
Agnes, she came back rather early.

805
00:46:05,500 --> 00:46:07,500
You see, she has a boyfriend.

806
00:46:07,500 --> 00:46:09,200
Freddy Firbank from the fish shop.

807
00:46:09,300 --> 00:46:11,900
Yes, and on that particular afternoon

808
00:46:11,900 --> 00:46:13,600
they had a row when they first met.

809
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,200
I gather that young Firbank 
received a letter

810
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,000
suggesting that Agnes
had other fish to fry.

811
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,600
But there is something else.

812
00:46:23,300 --> 00:46:25,000
The letter Mrs Symmington received

813
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:26,300
was never actually posted.

814
00:46:26,300 --> 00:46:28,300
It was faked to make it look 
as though it was posted, 

815
00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:31,900
but it was pushed 
through this letterbox here

816
00:46:31,900 --> 00:46:33,500
before the afternoon delivery.

817
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:38,300
My guess is Agnes was looking through 
the window here

818
00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:40,200
waiting for her boyfriend to come 
and apologise...

819
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,200
And saw the culprit deliver the letter.

820
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:43,600
Exactly.

821
00:46:43,700 --> 00:46:46,200
But how would the letter writer know 
that she was home?

822
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,300
Well, it's a kind of miracle, Mr Burton, 

823
00:46:51,700 --> 00:46:54,100
how things get around this place.

824
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,200
I may be wrong, of course, but erm...

825
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:58,600
Temptingly simple, isn't it?

826
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:01,300
But tell me, Inspector, 

827
00:47:01,700 --> 00:47:03,900
if Agnes knew who the letter writer was, 

828
00:47:03,900 --> 00:47:06,000
then why, I wonder, 
didn't she say something?

829
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,100
Miss Holland.

830
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:23,700
Mr Burton.

831
00:47:24,500 --> 00:47:25,500
I'm sorry. I didn't mean...

832
00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:27,000
I don't know what's come over me.

833
00:47:28,500 --> 00:47:29,900
I think it's the shock.

834
00:47:29,900 --> 00:47:31,900
- Pretty grim, isn't it?        
- That poor girl.

835
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,400
Just think, it could have been any of us,

836
00:47:35,500 --> 00:47:37,100
even those two little angels, 

837
00:47:37,100 --> 00:47:39,300
murdered in their beds 
like princes in the tower.

838
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:42,000
The awful thing, Mr Burton, 

839
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,000
is that yesterday afternoon

840
00:47:44,500 --> 00:47:47,000
we were having tea with 
Mr Symmington up in the schoolroom

841
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,000
and all the time, Mr Burton, 
that poor girl was

842
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,100
squashed into that cupboard, 
dead as a dodo.

843
00:47:57,700 --> 00:47:58,600
Thank you.

844
00:48:04,500 --> 00:48:06,100
And what about the other week, 
Miss Holland?

845
00:48:08,100 --> 00:48:09,700
You can call me Elsie, you know.

846
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:11,100
Right.

847
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:15,500
I'm sorry, what did you ask?

848
00:48:15,900 --> 00:48:19,400
- What happened last week?
- The day Mrs Symmington...

849
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:21,000
Yes.

850
00:48:22,300 --> 00:48:24,300
Well, she always rested after lunch, 
you see.

851
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,800
She suffered from neuralgia 
and it would come on after meals

852
00:48:28,300 --> 00:48:31,000
so she'd take one of the cachets 
Dr Griffith had given her 

853
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:31,800
and try to sleep.

854
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:33,600
Did anyone bring up the post to her?

855
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:36,800
Turned detective, have you, Mr Burton?

856
00:48:38,700 --> 00:48:40,200
Why not call me Jerry?

857
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:41,800
Jerry.

858
00:48:43,500 --> 00:48:44,500
Yes.

859
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:48,900
Well, Jerry, she'd often 
come down and get it herself.

860
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:51,700
She didn't necessarily 
sleep the whole afternoon.

861
00:48:51,700 --> 00:48:54,300
Sometimes she'd stay down,
other times she'd go back up.

862
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,300
- The letter she received...        
- Disgusting!

863
00:48:57,500 --> 00:48:59,500
The very idea that little Colin...

864
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,200
It doesn't even bear thinking about.

865
00:49:03,900 --> 00:49:05,800
Mrs Symmington loved her husband.

866
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,300
She was a sensitive woman 
and very particular.

867
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,000
Anything of that sort 
would have appalled her.

868
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:13,800
I mean, it's evil.

869
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:32,800
Elsie, have you had any letters?

870
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:35,100
No. I haven't.

871
00:49:35,700 --> 00:49:37,300
They're not very nice to get, I know, 

872
00:49:37,300 --> 00:49:38,800
and sometimes people don't like to admit...

873
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:42,100
But I haven't. Really, I haven't.

874
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,100
Agnes's inquest 
brought no new facts to light.

875
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,200
The only possible verdict was returned -

876
00:49:55,700 --> 00:49:59,000
murder by person or persons unknown.

877
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,400
So, poor little Agnes was duly dispatched, 

878
00:50:05,700 --> 00:50:08,700
her killer, no doubt, 
witness to her passing.

879
00:50:13,500 --> 00:50:14,500
You look all in.

880
00:50:14,700 --> 00:50:16,000
Do I? Do I? I'm sorry.

881
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,100
I've rather a lot on.

882
00:50:18,900 --> 00:50:20,400
I hear you were there quite early.

883
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:21,500
Where?

884
00:50:21,500 --> 00:50:23,500
The Symmingtons', 
the morning after the murder.

885
00:50:24,100 --> 00:50:27,000
Yes. Agnes was supposed to come 
for tea but she didn't show.

886
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:30,200
So, you feared the worst. Jolly smart.

887
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,400
It's our first murder. Terrific excitement.

888
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,600
Whacked in the head, 
then stabbed through the neck.

889
00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:38,600
Such an insignificant little thing.

890
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:41,200
Looks like the boyfriend to me. 
What do you think?

891
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:42,400
I haven't a clue.

892
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:45,100
Very inbred round here, you know.

893
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:47,700
It must have given the Hunter girl 
quite a shock, 

894
00:50:47,700 --> 00:50:49,000
finding her in the cupboard.

895
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:50,100
It did.

896
00:50:50,100 --> 00:50:52,200
Not too strong 
in the head department, that girl.

897
00:50:52,500 --> 00:50:54,300
She's one of the brightest people I know.

898
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,600
Well, blah-blah fishcakes, 
but a thing like this

899
00:50:57,600 --> 00:50:59,900
could send her completely off her onion.

900
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:21,300
By the way, Miss Griffith, 

901
00:51:21,700 --> 00:51:23,900
was it you persuaded Megan 
to return home?

902
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,300
She can't shirk her responsibilities, 
Mr Burton.

903
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,400
Tongues wag, 
and I felt it my duty to drop the hint.

904
00:51:31,700 --> 00:51:33,700
I don't think for a minute 
there's anything in it, 

905
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,600
but she's young and good-looking, 
and boys will be boys.

906
00:51:38,700 --> 00:51:39,500
What do you mean?

907
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,100
A thoroughly nice girl, but people will talk.

908
00:51:44,500 --> 00:51:46,000
They're saying she has her eye on

909
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:47,200
becoming the next Mrs Symmington.

910
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,100
I feel sorry for her.

911
00:51:51,100 --> 00:51:53,500
People are saying such nasty things.

912
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,500
Which is why I'am willing to tell Megan 

913
00:51:56,500 --> 00:51:57,400
that she ought to go home.

914
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:01,400
It looks better than having Dickie 
and the girl in the same house

915
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:05,400
You look shocked, Mr Burton, 

916
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:08,800
but I'm afraid our little village likes 
to think the worst.

917
00:52:10,300 --> 00:52:11,700
All rise.

918
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:17,800
And the Lord said unto the sinful, 

919
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,800
''I will cast my net over you

920
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,300
and haul you on high in my net

921
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:30,100
and cast you into the mud and mire.''

922
00:52:33,700 --> 00:52:36,800
The village parliament! 
What would we do without it?

923
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:39,200
We're all agog,
aren't we, Miss Barton?

924
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,300
Shocking, quite shocking.

925
00:52:42,300 --> 00:52:44,200
What must you think of us, 
Miss Marple?

926
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:46,500
It strikes me 
as rather a quiet little place.

927
00:52:46,500 --> 00:52:49,400
I feel we're going to the dogs. 
First the letters, then murder.

928
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,500
You think 
the two are connected, Mr Pye?

929
00:52:51,500 --> 00:52:54,700
- One can't help but wonder.        
- Such a nice girl!

930
00:52:55,500 --> 00:52:57,700
She used to be in service with me, 
you know.

931
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:00,500
I really can't...

932
00:53:01,900 --> 00:53:03,200
If you'll excuse me.

933
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,600
Something of a period piece, 
I've always thought.

934
00:53:06,900 --> 00:53:07,800
Mm.

935
00:53:09,900 --> 00:53:11,900
Do you have a favourite suspect, Mr Pye?

936
00:53:11,900 --> 00:53:14,000
Oh, I'd rather tear out my tongue, 

937
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:15,400
Mr Burton, than commit a slander, 

938
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,600
but suffice to say that, 
as a student of abnormalities, 

939
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,200
I often find the most unlikely people

940
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,400
doing the most surprising things.

941
00:53:23,900 --> 00:53:25,200
Don't you agree, Miss Marple?

942
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:26,600
On the contrary, Mr Pye, 

943
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:28,600
I usually find 
the most likely people behaving

944
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:30,600
exactly as I would have expected.

945
00:53:31,300 --> 00:53:34,600
Morotorium te salutante.

946
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,700
Don't stand there looking pathetic, 
because it won't wash!

947
00:53:38,300 --> 00:53:41,500
But Mr Symmington, 
you know that can't be true!

948
00:53:41,500 --> 00:53:43,400
Do I? Do I, Miss Holland?

949
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:45,500
To be honest, I'm not sure I know 
anything any more!

950
00:53:45,500 --> 00:53:46,600
Dearly beloved, 

951
00:53:47,300 --> 00:53:48,700
we are gathered here today

952
00:53:49,500 --> 00:53:53,100
to pay homage to a sister of our parish, 

953
00:53:54,100 --> 00:53:56,400
Agnes Brown, known to one

954
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,200
and all for her goodness

955
00:53:58,200 --> 00:53:59,800
- and innocence.        
- What was that all about?

956
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:01,000
He's in a fearful state.

957
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:03,500
Hardly surprising. 
He's been knocked sideways

958
00:54:03,500 --> 00:54:05,100
since Mummy's death, and now Agnes.

959
00:54:05,100 --> 00:54:07,100
What did she mean 
when she said it can't be true?

960
00:54:07,900 --> 00:54:11,000
He was sort of implying 
that she's been writing the letters.

961
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:12,200
What?

962
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,100
And maybe even did for Agnes.

963
00:54:15,100 --> 00:54:16,600
That's ridiculous.

964
00:54:17,500 --> 00:54:18,400
Is it?

965
00:54:20,300 --> 00:54:21,400
Maybe you're right.

966
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:46,600
This murder's really perked things up.

967
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,400
Must be the most exciting thing 
that's happened here

968
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:51,200
since Henry VIII smashed up the priory.

969
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,000
Except for Marple, of course. 
Behaves as if she knew something

970
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,100
the rest of us are too stupid to grasp.

971
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:00,500
What did he want?

972
00:55:01,900 --> 00:55:04,100
if you mean Owen, 
he very kindly walked me home.

973
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:06,300
What's that?

974
00:55:07,100 --> 00:55:07,900
Ugh!

975
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,300
It's a photograph of a diseased spleen. 
Owen gave it me.

976
00:55:11,500 --> 00:55:12,900
Hasn't he ever heard of chocolate?

977
00:55:13,700 --> 00:55:15,100
He thought I might be interested.

978
00:55:15,700 --> 00:55:17,200
I'm not entirely frivolous, you know.

979
00:55:18,300 --> 00:55:19,500
He looked pretty ropey, I thought.

980
00:55:20,300 --> 00:55:21,600
There's something on his mind.

981
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,200
Yes, a rotting spleen, perhaps.

982
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:25,200
Or you.

983
00:55:26,300 --> 00:55:27,600
For heaven's sake, Jerry!

984
00:56:03,500 --> 00:56:04,400
Miss Barton.

985
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:10,700
About as guilty as I am.

986
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:12,100
Stupid of me.

987
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:14,200
Of course 
Miss Barton's not the type to go round

988
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:15,800
slugging young women on the head.

989
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:18,000
Don't be deceived, Mr Burton.
These little old ladies

990
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:19,500
pack quite a punch, believe me.

991
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:21,900
What was exactly Agnes hit with?

992
00:56:22,500 --> 00:56:23,700
Well, we don't know as yet, 

993
00:56:23,700 --> 00:56:26,900
but these ladies 
do carry rather large bags.

994
00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:28,700
She'll probably evict us now.

995
00:56:29,100 --> 00:56:31,100
Well, I'll have a test for fingerprints, 

996
00:56:31,100 --> 00:56:32,400
but I don't hold out much hope.

997
00:56:32,500 --> 00:56:33,600
Not having much luck?

998
00:56:33,900 --> 00:56:35,800
Slowly, slowly, catchy monkey.

999
00:56:35,900 --> 00:56:37,400
Have you been able to eliminate anyone?

1000
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:41,000
There are others 
who are more likely than less likely, 

1001
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,300
but we shouldn't leap to conclusions.

1002
00:56:43,300 --> 00:56:45,600
No, I see leaping isn't the order of the day.

1003
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:47,300
Take Aimee Griffith, for example.

1004
00:56:48,300 --> 00:56:50,400
She was due at a Brownie meeting 
the day of the murder, 

1005
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:52,100
but she arrived rather late.

1006
00:56:52,100 --> 00:56:54,400
And then, of course, there's Mr Pye.

1007
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:56,200
Didn't have an alibi for either day.

1008
00:56:56,300 --> 00:56:57,900
Said he was in the garden 
on both occasions. 

1009
00:56:57,900 --> 00:56:59,500
Very strange man, Mr Pye.

1010
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:03,700
I found he'd come to the attention 
of my colleagues in West Country.

1011
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:05,000
In relation to what?

1012
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:08,800
Matters of a...hardly savoury nature, 
shall we say.

1013
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:12,900
And then, of course,
there's Mrs Dane Calthrop.

1014
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:15,900
Said she was bird-watching apparently 

1015
00:57:15,900 --> 00:57:17,000
the day Agnes was murdered, 

1016
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,000
But we can hardly ask the bird, 
can we, sir?

1017
00:57:20,900 --> 00:57:23,100
It's incredible. 
Makes you imagine things.

1018
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,400
Yes. Awful, really, 

1019
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:27,500
wondering whether the person 
you share a pot of tea with

1020
00:57:27,500 --> 00:57:30,700
or buy your sausages from is, in fact, 
a criminal lunatic.

1021
00:57:32,300 --> 00:57:33,400
Actually, Inspector, 

1022
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:37,200
I was wondering, on the subject of 
Mrs Symmington's suicide.

1023
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,500
The powders Dr Griffith prescribed 
for her neuralgia,

1024
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:44,100
well, would an overdose have been fatal?

1025
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:46,700
Not unless she'd taken about two dozen.

1026
00:57:46,700 --> 00:57:49,500
It was cyanide that did for her. 
There's no question.

1027
00:57:49,500 --> 00:57:50,900
But if you had a choice, 

1028
00:57:50,900 --> 00:57:52,800
wouldn't a soporific be preferable 
to prussic acid?

1029
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:54,400
That would be my preference, sir.

1030
00:57:54,900 --> 00:57:57,000
Actually, on the subject of Dr Griffith, 

1031
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:01,000
a few days ago, on a visit to my sister, 
I saw him at bookcase

1032
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:05,000
browsing through a book, and, well, 
I was just wondering if...

1033
00:58:05,100 --> 00:58:06,900
He was our man?

1034
00:58:07,300 --> 00:58:08,100
Well...

1035
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:10,400
Getting a taste for it, are we, sir,

1036
00:58:10,900 --> 00:58:12,500
the old sleuthing?

1037
00:58:13,100 --> 00:58:16,000
- No. I just...        
- I can't help feeling, sir, 

1038
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,300
that in this case, our man is a woman, 

1039
00:58:20,300 --> 00:58:21,500
if you get my drift.

1040
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:47,100
Joanna?

1041
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,500
If Owen calls, I can't go on Tuesday, 

1042
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:55,100
but could manage 
Wednesday or Thursday.

1043
00:59:00,700 --> 00:59:03,200
There was something 
about Joanna's note that bothered me.

1044
00:59:04,500 --> 00:59:08,300
In fact, whole ridiculous charade 
was starting to bother me.

1045
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:50,400
I'm so sorry, Mr Burton.
I didn't mean to startle you.

1046
00:59:50,700 --> 00:59:54,100
The back door was open, 
so I took liberty of letting myself in.

1047
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:56,200
I must have dropped off.

1048
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:58,800
I thought we should have a little talk.

1049
00:59:59,500 --> 01:00:02,400
This horrid business - 
the letters and now murder.

1050
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:05,100
It really can't go on, can it, Mr Burton?

1051
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:08,500
No, it can't.

1052
01:00:09,500 --> 01:00:11,200
But I'm sure the police 
are doing their best.

1053
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:14,700
I'm sure they are, 
but as relative strangers in the village, 

1054
01:00:14,700 --> 01:00:16,500
perhaps we're at an advantage.

1055
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:18,800
I don't really see how.

1056
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:20,600
Were you dreaming just now?

1057
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:24,600
Yes, I suppose I was.

1058
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:26,700
Dreams are funny things, aren't they?

1059
01:00:27,300 --> 01:00:28,900
Mine are usually just nonsense.

1060
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:30,800
May I ask what it was?

1061
01:00:31,700 --> 01:00:34,600
Just a blur, really. 
Half-remembered memories.

1062
01:00:35,500 --> 01:00:37,800
The odd scrap of paper, 

1063
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:40,900
a telephone message, a girl's face.

1064
01:00:41,300 --> 01:00:44,500
Yes, 
I heard you mention someone's name.

1065
01:00:44,500 --> 01:00:45,900
Made no sense at all. Nonsense.

1066
01:00:46,300 --> 01:00:48,300
But then it's all nonsense, isn't it, 
Miss Marple?

1067
01:00:49,900 --> 01:00:52,800
I look around at what's going on, 
how stupid and petty, 

1068
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:53,800
and think to myself, 

1069
01:00:54,100 --> 01:00:56,100
is this really what we fought to save?

1070
01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:59,200
We should all try and see 
the good in each other, Mr Burton, 

1071
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:00,900
however much we disappoint.

1072
01:01:00,900 --> 01:01:01,700
Yes.

1073
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:04,900
Probably the whisky.

1074
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:08,300
Little bit of the old Dutch courage.

1075
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:10,300
I'm sure you're courageous enough.

1076
01:01:10,900 --> 01:01:13,100
Some of us 
aren't as brave as people think.

1077
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:16,400
Like your Colonel Appleton for instance.

1078
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:18,500
Wouldn't surprise me at all 
if he'd done away with himself.

1079
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:20,800
After all, 
who knows what he was fighting?

1080
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:24,400
Fear can come in strange disguises.

1081
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:29,000
Couldn't tempt you, could I?

1082
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:33,000
Cheers.

1083
01:01:33,300 --> 01:01:34,200
Cheers.

1084
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:36,700
Tell me, Mr Burton, 

1085
01:01:36,700 --> 01:01:38,900
you made mention 
of a telephone message, was it?

1086
01:01:39,900 --> 01:01:42,100
Oh, yes. Well, Joanna, you see...

1087
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:44,400
she left a message on the phone pad

1088
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:47,000
and there was something about it 
that bothered me.

1089
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:50,200
Would you think me very inquisitive 
if I asked what message was?

1090
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:53,300
Pretty trivial, really, along the lines of, 

1091
01:01:53,300 --> 01:01:55,400
"If Dr Griffith calls, I can't

1092
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:58,100
go on Tuesday, 
but I could go on Wednesday or Thursday."

1093
01:01:58,100 --> 01:02:01,100
I see. 
Thought it might be something like that.

1094
01:02:01,100 --> 01:02:01,900
Like what?

1095
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:03,800
Something quite ordinary.

1096
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:06,400
Another thing that's been nagging away -

1097
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:09,100
the envelope that Joanna's letter came in, 

1098
01:02:09,700 --> 01:02:12,000
the U in Burton
had been changed from an A.

1099
01:02:12,900 --> 01:02:14,600
Inspector Graves didn't think

1100
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:16,500
there was anything 
particularly significant in that, 

1101
01:02:16,500 --> 01:02:19,500
but I can't help thinking , Miss Marple, 
that it's important.

1102
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:21,300
I think you might be right.

1103
01:02:22,100 --> 01:02:23,400
You know, Mr Burton, 

1104
01:02:23,900 --> 01:02:26,200
you should have more confidence 
in yourself.

1105
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:32,100
You've received one of these letters, 
haven't you, Mr Burton?

1106
01:02:32,100 --> 01:02:35,600
Yes. Well, so have most people - 
apart from Miss Barton

1107
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:36,800
Mm, so she says, 

1108
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:40,500
but she's rather reticent 
when it comes to unpleasantness.

1109
01:02:40,700 --> 01:02:42,000
And Elsie Holland.

1110
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:44,900
- Miss Holland?
- Yes. She hasn't had one either.

1111
01:02:45,500 --> 01:02:47,800
Well, that is interesting.

1112
01:02:48,700 --> 01:02:50,800
The most interesting thing
I've heard yet.

1113
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:53,600
It wasn't Elsie, was it?

1114
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:57,800
Whose name I mentioned
when I was asleep?

1115
01:02:58,300 --> 01:03:00,600
Well, I can't be absolutely sure.

1116
01:03:01,200 --> 01:03:02,500
It sounded more like...

1117
01:03:03,700 --> 01:03:05,700
Megan.

1118
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:31,200

Billy boy?

1119
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:34,900

charming Billy?

1120
01:03:35,100 --> 01:03:38,600

she's the idol of my life

1121
01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:42,600

and cannot leave her mother

1122
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:47,700

Billy boy, Billy boy

1123
01:03:47,700 --> 01:03:51,400

charming Billy?

1124
01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:55,200

40 miles from the mill

1125
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:59,200

and cannot leave her mother

1126
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:03,000
Bravo!

1127
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:04,900
- Bow nicely, that's right.
- Well done.

1128
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:07,400
Next time you might try the right key.

1129
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,100
Thank you.
Thank you, Brian and Colin.

1130
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:14,400
And now my Harvest Soiree
takes us further back in time,

1131
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:15,800
to the ancients, in fact.

1132
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:19,300
A recitation
from our most revered Reverend, 

1133
01:04:19,300 --> 01:04:21,100
who is going to regale us with...

1134
01:04:21,100 --> 01:04:23,300
An ode, by Horace.

1135
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,200
Rectus vivas.

1136
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:27,900
You spoil us.

1137
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:34,000
Rectius vives, 

1138
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:35,600
Licini...

1139
01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:38,000
I didn't know Victorian sermons 
were up your street.

1140
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:41,400
I beg your pardon?

1141
01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:44,200
That book
 you were reading the other day, 

1142
01:04:44,500 --> 01:04:45,800
when I found you in the drawing room.

1143
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:49,400
I hope you're not suggesting that...

1144
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:52,800
"Sperat infestis, 

1145
01:04:53,500 --> 01:04:55,400
"metuit secundis

1146
01:04:56,300 --> 01:04:59,100
"alteram sortem bene

1147
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:02,700
perpetuum pectus."

1148
01:05:03,300 --> 01:05:04,900
"Informis hiemes

1149
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:07,400
"reducit Iuppiter, 

1150
01:05:07,500 --> 01:05:09,800
"Idem Summovet.

1151
01:05:10,500 --> 01:05:13,000
Non, si male nunc..."

1152
01:05:19,500 --> 01:05:20,700
Do you plan on staying?

1153
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:23,700
- At the party?        
- No, in Lymstock.

1154
01:05:23,700 --> 01:05:27,100
Oh, good heavens, no. 
Only until the boys go away to school.

1155
01:05:28,500 --> 01:05:29,300
And then?

1156
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:31,600
Who knows?

1157
01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:34,400
Another post in another town...

1158
01:05:37,300 --> 01:05:38,800
..or something else entirely.

1159
01:05:52,500 --> 01:05:54,600
- Well, you never can tell.        
- No. I...I'm sorry.

1160
01:05:54,600 --> 01:05:55,400
Don't be.

1161
01:06:11,500 --> 01:06:12,800
This might hurt.

1162
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:16,800
Sorry.

1163
01:06:17,700 --> 01:06:18,500
Stay still.

1164
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:28,200
Isn't that a bit much?

1165
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:30,800
Arabian Rose? 
My dear, it's the <i>shade du jour.</i>

1166
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:32,200
You can never wear too much.

1167
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:35,100
- I want to go home.
- Don't be silly. It's a giggle.

1168
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:38,700
"Fulgura montis."

1169
01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:44,100
Thank you, Reverend, thank you.

1170
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:47,400
No-one does Horace... quite like you.

1171
01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:49,400
A breath of air, Mr Burton?

1172
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:51,900
I had some unfinished business.

1173
01:06:52,500 --> 01:06:53,800
Is it finished now?

1174
01:06:55,300 --> 01:06:56,300
Yes, I think it is.

1175
01:06:56,300 --> 01:06:57,700
And so, ladies and gentlemen...

1176
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:00,800
Ah, Miss Barton. 
What an unexpected pleasure.

1177
01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:02,700
I didn't know you were going 
to favour us with a turn.

1178
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:07,700
I'm sorry to disappoint you, Mr Pye, 
but this is not a turn.

1179
01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:10,800
I will be very brief.

1180
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:15,000
I have lived in this village all my life.

1181
01:07:15,500 --> 01:07:17,600
It greatly saddens me, therefore, 

1182
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:20,300
to know that 
people are talking behind my back, 

1183
01:07:21,300 --> 01:07:24,000
making insinuations.

1184
01:07:24,900 --> 01:07:27,200
Yes, the book from which the pages

1185
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:30,300
were torn was found in my bookcase, 

1186
01:07:31,500 --> 01:07:34,400
but it was not I who tore them.

1187
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:39,300
I have nothing to do with 
the recent unpleasantness.

1188
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:41,800
That is all I have to say.

1189
01:07:42,300 --> 01:07:43,100
Thank you.

1190
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:45,100
Oh, Miss Barton.

1191
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:46,700
Oh, dear. Well...

1192
01:07:46,700 --> 01:07:47,700
Thank you, Miss Barton.

1193
01:07:48,700 --> 01:07:52,500
And somewhat in the same vein, 
I would like to read you a letter.

1194
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:56,400
''My dearest Cardew, 

1195
01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:59,500
it is with a heavy heart that
I write these lines, 

1196
01:08:00,200 --> 01:08:03,300
but to continue as I have been 
would be unsustainable.

1197
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:07,000
Be true to yourself as I was never able, 

1198
01:08:07,100 --> 01:08:08,800
or indeed brave enough, to be.

1199
01:08:09,500 --> 01:08:11,600
Your loving friend, Heracles Appleton.''

1200
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:14,600
I can think of 
no more appropriate moment

1201
01:08:14,600 --> 01:08:16,300
to follow the colonel's advice.

1202
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:18,700
I hope this puts an end to the rumour

1203
01:08:18,700 --> 01:08:20,600
and doubt surrounding his death.

1204
01:08:22,300 --> 01:08:25,100
There was no murder, only malice, 

1205
01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:30,100
no issue of paternity, 
only love he dared not express.

1206
01:08:34,900 --> 01:08:37,700
And I for one will always remember him.

1207
01:08:37,900 --> 01:08:39,700
Miss Holland, 
please take the boys home.

1208
01:08:42,100 --> 01:08:45,000
- More sherry, vicar?        
- Go away. Go away.

1209
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:52,400
Ready?

1210
01:09:14,500 --> 01:09:15,800
I say!

1211
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:18,300
Scrubs up well, doesn't she?

1212
01:09:19,900 --> 01:09:21,700
Sh! Don't be mean.

1213
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:23,600
Oh, the dear girl.

1214
01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:25,000
Megan, no!

1215
01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:29,100
She's so highly strung.

1216
01:09:39,500 --> 01:09:40,500
Megan?

1217
01:09:43,700 --> 01:09:44,800
Megan!

1218
01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:54,500
You wouldn't have to butt in!

1219
01:10:55,300 --> 01:10:56,300
I'm sorry.

1220
01:10:58,000 --> 01:10:59,800
I thought I saw someone.

1221
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:04,600
You did, but she scarpered.

1222
01:11:05,100 --> 01:11:06,600
Probably heard you.

1223
01:11:07,100 --> 01:11:09,500
- Why are you here?        
- Why do you think?

1224
01:11:10,700 --> 01:11:14,700
The typewriter's here. 
She daren't risk using another one.

1225
01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:16,000
So you know who did it?

1226
01:11:16,400 --> 01:11:18,500
Somebody very cunning, Mr Burton.

1227
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:20,800
Somebody who knows all the tricks.

1228
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:23,100
- Right.        
- Right.

1229
01:11:29,900 --> 01:11:31,100
Well, good night, then, sir.

1230
01:11:31,500 --> 01:11:32,200
Good night.

1231
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:51,000
Megan?

1232
01:11:53,500 --> 01:11:54,700
Megan?

1233
01:11:55,500 --> 01:11:56,500
What are you doing?

1234
01:11:57,400 --> 01:11:58,900
I just needed to clear my head. 

1235
01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:00,700
It's been a rather muddling night.

1236
01:12:03,500 --> 01:12:05,800
You haven't just been in there, 
have you?

1237
01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:08,200
- The Women's Institute?        
- Yes.

1238
01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:09,800
Why on earth would I do that?

1239
01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:12,200
I don't know.

1240
01:12:12,300 --> 01:12:13,800
What a very odd question.

1241
01:12:14,500 --> 01:12:16,100
You look jolly nice, you know.

1242
01:12:16,500 --> 01:12:19,600
Jolly nice? 
I look like Coco the Clown.

1243
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:21,600
-Megan, please   
-I'll never be accepted around here. Never.

1244
01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:22,500
Listen.

1245
01:12:24,900 --> 01:12:26,500
What I want to say is, 

1246
01:12:28,300 --> 01:12:30,200
well, I rather think you like me.

1247
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:33,100
Do I?

1248
01:12:33,500 --> 01:12:34,500
Yes.

1249
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:36,800
And I rather like you.

1250
01:12:37,900 --> 01:12:41,000
And we get along together awfully well, 
don't we? I think.

1251
01:12:41,900 --> 01:12:43,100
Sometimes.

1252
01:12:43,500 --> 01:12:46,500
So, it might be a good idea if we thought 
about perhaps, one day, 

1253
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:49,300
being together for quite a while.

1254
01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:54,000
You mean, you're in love with me?

1255
01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:57,700
Yes, I suppose I am.

1256
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:00,200
Oh.

1257
01:13:02,500 --> 01:13:03,900
But I'm not in love with you.

1258
01:13:08,500 --> 01:13:10,100
Then I'll make you love me.

1259
01:13:10,100 --> 01:13:12,200
That wouldn't do.
I don't want to be made.

1260
01:13:14,300 --> 01:13:16,300
You're one of the nicest people I know, 

1261
01:13:16,300 --> 01:13:19,100
but I'm not the right person for you.

1262
01:13:19,100 --> 01:13:20,500
I don't believe that.

1263
01:13:20,500 --> 01:13:22,600
- It's true.        
- I don't believe it.

1264
01:13:23,500 --> 01:13:25,200
I can see myself back.

1265
01:14:09,300 --> 01:14:10,300
Poor Elsie.

1266
01:14:10,300 --> 01:14:12,800
I'm surprised it's taken so long.

1267
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:14,400
What did it say?

1268
01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:18,200
The usual muck. Some about 
stepping into a dead woman's shoes, 

1269
01:14:18,300 --> 01:14:20,900
and if she didn't get out of town, 
she end up like Agnes.

1270
01:14:20,900 --> 01:14:22,300
It's like something out of a Western.

1271
01:14:22,700 --> 01:14:25,700
Yes, only, this is the real thing.

1272
01:14:29,100 --> 01:14:31,200
- Hello, inspector.
- Good afternoon, Doctor.

1273
01:14:31,500 --> 01:14:33,000
Terribly sorry to interrupt, 

1274
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:35,400
so I just wondered 
if I could have a word with your sister?

1275
01:14:35,400 --> 01:14:37,200
With my sister?

1276
01:14:37,200 --> 01:14:40,000
- What on earth for?        
- Car lights again.

1277
01:14:43,500 --> 01:14:44,800
In private, sir.

1278
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:51,500
It's ridiculous! As if I'd write this tosh!

1279
01:14:51,500 --> 01:14:52,900
Do you deny writing this, Miss Griffith?

1280
01:14:52,900 --> 01:14:54,300
Yes, of course I do.

1281
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:55,400
Then I must tell you

1282
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:58,200
that you were observed 
in the Women's Institute

1283
01:14:58,200 --> 01:15:01,000
typing this envelope between 1:00 
and 1:30 this morning.

1284
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:02,800
This is absolutely outrageous.

1285
01:15:02,900 --> 01:15:05,100
What's going on? 
Aimee, what's the matter?

1286
01:15:05,100 --> 01:15:07,400
- Would you like me to...        
- Please, Dickie. Go away.

1287
01:15:07,800 --> 01:15:10,300
- You need a solicitor.        
- Not you. I couldn't bear it.

1288
01:15:10,500 --> 01:15:11,800
Aimee, what's happened here?

1289
01:15:12,600 --> 01:15:13,900
- Aimee?        
- Please, Owen.

1290
01:15:14,500 --> 01:15:18,100
I'll get Mildmay. 
He's first class, really first class.

1291
01:15:18,300 --> 01:15:20,700
Aimee...

1292
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:28,100
It isn't true.

1293
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:31,100
I'm sure it isn't true.

1294
01:15:31,100 --> 01:15:33,600
The police were lying in wait. 
They saw her.

1295
01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:36,300
Perhaps they did.

1296
01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:38,700
And the pages torn from the book 
were found 

1297
01:15:38,700 --> 01:15:39,800
in her under-stairs cupboard.

1298
01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:42,500
It seems she likes hiding things 
under the stairs.

1299
01:15:42,500 --> 01:15:43,500
Something else.

1300
01:15:45,700 --> 01:15:47,000
I remember Griffith telling me about

1301
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:49,100
a similar story that took place up north, 

1302
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:51,800
which makes me wonder if Aimee 
had been involved

1303
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:52,900
and was at it again.

1304
01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:58,000
The torn pages, you say, 
were hidden in the house?

1305
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:00,000
- Yes.        
- That is horrible.

1306
01:16:00,700 --> 01:16:02,200
Really wicked.

1307
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:03,800
What do you mean, dear?

1308
01:16:04,600 --> 01:16:07,700
What can one do? 
There must be something.

1309
01:16:08,100 --> 01:16:09,200
You know who did it.

1310
01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:11,100
Tell us, Jane, tell us who it is.

1311
01:16:11,100 --> 01:16:12,400
Not now, dear.

1312
01:16:12,900 --> 01:16:14,200
Not now.

1313
01:16:47,700 --> 01:16:50,000
I want a word. You haven't 
been telling the truth, have you?

1314
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:51,300
I don't know what you're talking about.

1315
01:16:51,300 --> 01:16:52,400
What were you up to last night?

1316
01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:54,000
- I told you.        
- What, Megan?

1317
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:55,100
I was clearing my head.

1318
01:16:55,100 --> 01:16:55,800
I don't believe you.

1319
01:16:55,800 --> 01:16:57,700
Is this your idea of being in love?

1320
01:16:57,700 --> 01:17:00,400
I don't think Miss Marple does either. 
What did she say to you?

1321
01:17:00,500 --> 01:17:01,600
It's got nothing to do with you.

1322
01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:03,100
Tell me. I've got to know.

1323
01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:06,100
That day in your bedroom, 
when you say you felt so wicked? 

1324
01:17:06,100 --> 01:17:07,100
- Why did you say that?
- Leave me alone.

1325
01:17:07,100 --> 01:17:09,100
And hating people? 
What does that mean? Tell me!

1326
01:17:09,100 --> 01:17:11,200
Get off! Get off me! Of all people, 

1327
01:17:11,200 --> 01:17:13,900
I thought you understood, 
but you're just like the rest!

1328
01:17:38,400 --> 01:17:41,400
Quite unforgivable. 
And in front of the whole congregation.

1329
01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:44,600
You've had a dreadful time 
and everyone knows it.

1330
01:17:45,100 --> 01:17:47,700
Megan...I thought you were in bed.

1331
01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:49,000
I want to speak to you.

1332
01:17:49,500 --> 01:17:50,300
Alone.

1333
01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:52,500
Oh, I'll erm...

1334
01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:00,000
So, what is it? What do you want?

1335
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:02,600
Well?

1336
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:03,600
I want some money.

1337
01:18:04,200 --> 01:18:06,300
- Couldn't this have waited till morning?
- No, I couldn't.

1338
01:18:07,200 --> 01:18:09,200
You think your 
allowance is inadequate, do you?

1339
01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:10,700
I want much more than that.

1340
01:18:11,200 --> 01:18:13,000
After a few months, you will come of age

1341
01:18:13,100 --> 01:18:14,600
and the money entrusted by 
your grandmother 

1342
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:15,700
would be turned over to you.

1343
01:18:15,700 --> 01:18:18,300
You don't understand. 
I want money from you.

1344
01:18:21,300 --> 01:18:23,000
Nobody's ever told me much 
about my father, 

1345
01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:26,000
but I do know that he went to prison 
and I know why.

1346
01:18:26,800 --> 01:18:30,400
Well, I am my father's daughter 
and I want you to give me money, 

1347
01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:32,700
because if you don't, I shall say

1348
01:18:32,700 --> 01:18:35,100
what I saw you doing that day 
in my mother's bedroom.

1349
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:39,600
I don't know what you're talking about.

1350
01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:40,900
Yes, you do.

1351
01:18:41,300 --> 01:18:43,400
I saw you tampering with her medication, 

1352
01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:45,400
one of the powder cachets by the bed.

1353
01:18:46,500 --> 01:18:47,700
You did, didn't you?

1354
01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:52,300
You really are a very foolish girl.

1355
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:09,900
Perhaps you should buy some clothes.

1356
01:19:10,300 --> 01:19:12,300
At least try and look like a young lady.

1357
01:19:18,200 --> 01:19:19,800
Silly child.

1358
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:23,000
Jerry?

1359
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:28,200
Jerry.

1360
01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:20,300
Megan? She's the most honest person 
I've ever met!

1361
01:20:20,300 --> 01:20:21,800
Even Marple thinks she's guilty.

1362
01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:23,100
You've asked her, have you?

1363
01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:26,600
I saw her the other night 
outside the Women's Institute.

1364
01:20:26,600 --> 01:20:28,100
You're not thinking clearly, Jerry.

1365
01:20:28,400 --> 01:20:31,200
- Other things she said...        
- And It's not surprising!

1366
01:20:31,800 --> 01:20:34,000
Just suppose you've got the wrong end 
of the stick, which slaps your face

1367
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:35,800
which wouldn't be the first time.

1368
01:20:37,400 --> 01:20:40,100
- What does that mean?        
- Accusing Owen, of all people.

1369
01:20:40,100 --> 01:20:41,600
He was lurking by the bookcase.

1370
01:20:41,600 --> 01:20:42,900
And poor little Miss Barton?

1371
01:20:43,400 --> 01:20:45,000
It's her book, for God's sake.

1372
01:20:52,700 --> 01:20:53,900
Megan.

1373
01:21:19,500 --> 01:21:21,700
Just suppose that Marple's
actually trying to help Megan.

1374
01:21:22,800 --> 01:21:24,700
Rather than drinking yourself stupid 

1375
01:21:24,700 --> 01:21:26,100
and feeling sorry for yourself, 

1376
01:21:26,100 --> 01:21:27,900
why the hell don't you go round 
and find out?

1377
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:21,800
Most crimes, you see, 
are so absurdly simple.

1378
01:22:22,800 --> 01:22:24,700
Quite sane and straightforward, 

1379
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:26,500
in an unpleasant sort of way.

1380
01:22:26,900 --> 01:22:28,800
The truth was really very obvious.

1381
01:22:30,100 --> 01:22:31,700
You saw it, Mr Burton.

1382
01:22:33,200 --> 01:22:34,100
Did I?

1383
01:22:34,400 --> 01:22:36,500
But hadn't the confidence 
to put two and two together.

1384
01:22:36,900 --> 01:22:40,400
Misdirection, the conjuror's trick, 

1385
01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:42,200
making everyone look 
at the wrong thing.

1386
01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:44,400
In this case, those horrid letters.

1387
01:22:45,400 --> 01:22:48,400
The whole point was, 
there were no letters.

1388
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:49,600
Of course there were.

1389
01:22:49,600 --> 01:22:51,500
I got one and Jerry got one.

1390
01:22:51,500 --> 01:22:54,600
Yes, but they weren't real. 
They simply didn't ring true.

1391
01:22:54,600 --> 01:22:56,300
Some hit the mark, 
others were wide of it, 

1392
01:22:56,300 --> 01:22:58,000
like the letters you received, 
for instance.

1393
01:22:58,100 --> 01:23:01,100
So, if we put aside the letters, 

1394
01:23:01,100 --> 01:23:03,400
just one thing actually happened.

1395
01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:05,800
Mrs Symmington died.

1396
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:08,600
And the colonel, and Agnes, and Megan...

1397
01:23:09,400 --> 01:23:11,000
well, nearly.

1398
01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:12,400
Midnight snack, old chap?

1399
01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:15,800
Megan!

1400
01:23:15,800 --> 01:23:18,700
Richard Symmington,
I am arresting you for murder your wife, 

1401
01:23:18,700 --> 01:23:20,800
Mona Symmington and Agnes Brown.

1402
01:23:21,400 --> 01:23:24,700
And the attempted murder 
of your stepdaughter, Megan Hunter.

1403
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:26,500
Megan, are you all right?

1404
01:23:32,200 --> 01:23:33,700
Went rather well, didn't it?

1405
01:23:35,500 --> 01:23:36,700
I'm sorry.

1406
01:23:45,400 --> 01:23:47,000
What a brave girl.

1407
01:23:47,200 --> 01:23:48,500
She could have died.

1408
01:23:48,600 --> 01:23:49,700
Something had to be done.

1409
01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:52,700
There was no evidence 
against this clever

1410
01:23:52,700 --> 01:23:53,800
and unscrupulous man.

1411
01:23:53,800 --> 01:23:57,000
I needed someone to help me. 
Megan fitted the bill perfectly.

1412
01:23:57,000 --> 01:23:58,100
It was too risky.

1413
01:23:58,100 --> 01:24:00,800
Of all people, Mr Burton, 

1414
01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:02,700
you should know that we are not put
into this world

1415
01:24:02,700 --> 01:24:05,000
to avoid danger when lives are at stake.

1416
01:24:05,500 --> 01:24:06,700
As I was saying, 

1417
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:09,900
the only actual fact was 
Mrs Symmington died, 

1418
01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:12,000
and I'm afraid the very first person one

1419
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:14,300
thinks of in such a case is the husband.

1420
01:24:14,300 --> 01:24:16,600
Of course, there has to be a motive, 
usually another woman.

1421
01:24:16,900 --> 01:24:18,500
And there we have Miss Holland.

1422
01:24:19,300 --> 01:24:20,800
A radiant young creature, 

1423
01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:23,400
suddenly entering the life 
of this repressed, dry man.

1424
01:24:23,800 --> 01:24:24,800
He wanted her, 

1425
01:24:25,200 --> 01:24:28,500
but he also wanted his reputation, 
his children, 

1426
01:24:28,500 --> 01:24:31,000
his home, his respectability.

1427
01:24:31,500 --> 01:24:34,100
And the price he was prepared to pay 
for that was murder.

1428
01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:37,300
He typed all the envelopes

1429
01:24:37,300 --> 01:24:40,600
before donating the machine to 
the Women's Institute.

1430
01:24:41,300 --> 01:24:43,900
You unwittingly hit upon this, Mr Burton, 

1431
01:24:44,000 --> 01:24:45,000
when you noticed

1432
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:48,200
that U had been changed from an A 
on your sister's envelope, 

1433
01:24:48,200 --> 01:24:50,500
originally addressed to Miss Barton.

1434
01:24:50,900 --> 01:24:54,500
And taking pages from Miss Barton's 
book would have been easy.

1435
01:24:54,700 --> 01:24:57,300
He visited her 
on more than one occasion

1436
01:24:57,300 --> 01:24:59,700
to give advice on financial matters.

1437
01:25:00,900 --> 01:25:03,200
But it was what you told me

1438
01:25:03,200 --> 01:25:07,000
about Miss Holland 
that was the most important thing of all.

1439
01:25:07,700 --> 01:25:11,000
That she had never received a letter.

1440
01:25:11,300 --> 01:25:14,300
it exposed 
Mr Symmington's one weakness.

1441
01:25:15,000 --> 01:25:18,900
How could he write a foul letter 
to the girl he loved?

1442
01:25:19,400 --> 01:25:22,100
I've never believed there's such a thing 
as perfect murder.

1443
01:25:22,100 --> 01:25:24,100
There's always been something 
doesn't quite fit. 

1444
01:25:24,400 --> 01:25:26,400
That suicide note, for example.

1445
01:25:26,700 --> 01:25:28,100
It was all wrong.

1446
01:25:28,500 --> 01:25:31,500
People don't leave suicide notes 
on scraps of paper.

1447
01:25:31,500 --> 01:25:34,200
And I think that's what bothered you,

1448
01:25:34,200 --> 01:25:36,200
Mr Burton, about your sister's message.

1449
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:40,600
If Owen rings up...

1450
01:25:41,500 --> 01:25:43,000
I can't go on...

1451
01:25:43,600 --> 01:25:46,100
Tuesday, but could manage 
Wednesday or Thursday.

1452
01:25:47,700 --> 01:25:49,000
I see.

1453
01:25:49,400 --> 01:25:51,300
Mr Symmington must have come across

1454
01:25:51,300 --> 01:25:52,700
such a message from his wife, 

1455
01:25:52,700 --> 01:25:56,100
saw its possibilities 
and kept it for when the time came.

1456
01:25:56,800 --> 01:25:59,600
Finally, he decided to stage the real thing.

1457
01:26:00,300 --> 01:26:01,700
On the servants' day off.

1458
01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:03,900
Before going to work, 

1459
01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:07,700
he put cyanide in the cachet his wife

1460
01:26:07,700 --> 01:26:09,300
would have taken for her neuralgia, 

1461
01:26:09,700 --> 01:26:11,700
then he'd have got back 
to the empty house

1462
01:26:11,700 --> 01:26:14,700
at the same time as 
Miss Holland and the boys.

1463
01:26:16,600 --> 01:26:19,300
He put a little cyanide in his wife's glass

1464
01:26:19,300 --> 01:26:21,100
to make it look like suicide, 

1465
01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:25,100
planted the note, 
and threw the poison-pen letter in grate.

1466
01:26:25,700 --> 01:26:28,300
But what he didn't know was...

1467
01:26:28,300 --> 01:26:32,000
was that little Agnes had, in fact, 
come home early, 

1468
01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:34,900
after a quarrel with her young man.

1469
01:26:35,100 --> 01:26:36,300
She stood at the window, 

1470
01:26:36,300 --> 01:26:38,900
waiting for her young man to come 
and make it up.

1471
01:26:39,000 --> 01:26:41,700
- And she saw something?        
- On the contrary, she saw nothing.

1472
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:44,700
That's the point.

1473
01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:47,900
No-one came to the house. 
Not the postman, not anybody.

1474
01:26:47,900 --> 01:26:50,800
And in time she realised 
how odd this was

1475
01:26:50,800 --> 01:26:52,100
if Mrs Symmington was supposed to 

1476
01:26:52,100 --> 01:26:53,900
receive the letter that afternoon

1477
01:26:53,900 --> 01:26:55,000
Miss Partridge?

1478
01:26:55,400 --> 01:26:56,500
It's Agnes.

1479
01:26:56,500 --> 01:27:00,000
The thing is, 
last week, the day the mistress died...

1480
01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:02,000
There's something I don't understand, 

1481
01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:03,800
that don't quite add up.

1482
01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:05,300
The wretched girl 
had seen something, knew something, 

1483
01:27:05,300 --> 01:27:07,800
and he couldn't afford to 
take any chances.

1484
01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:09,500
He pretended to leave the house...

1485
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:13,700
..and waited till Agnes was alone.

1486
01:27:39,300 --> 01:27:43,000
What about Aimee? 
The police actually saw her write letter.

1487
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:46,000
Aimee Griffith has been in love with 
Mr Symmington all her life.

1488
01:27:46,500 --> 01:27:48,700
- Well, I never!        
- Poor thing!

1489
01:27:48,900 --> 01:27:51,900
Then the gossip began 
about Elsie Holland.

1490
01:27:51,900 --> 01:27:54,400
Aimee would have seen her as 
a designing minx, 

1491
01:27:54,400 --> 01:27:56,400
quite unworthy of her beloved Dickie.

1492
01:27:56,700 --> 01:28:01,000
Why not one more anonymous letter, 
frighten the girl away?

1493
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:04,200
When Mr Symmington heard the police 
had actually seen her,

1494
01:28:04,200 --> 01:28:05,400
he couldn't believe his luck.

1495
01:28:05,700 --> 01:28:08,100
After her arrest, 
he'd have found an excuse

1496
01:28:08,100 --> 01:28:11,000
to return to the Griffith house 
and plant the pages, 

1497
01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:12,400
thus clinching the case.

1498
01:28:13,100 --> 01:28:15,000
And that would seem to be that.

1499
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:18,900
An end, at last, to this frightful business.

1500
01:28:19,300 --> 01:28:21,700
Quite an eventful convalescence, Mr Burton.

1501
01:28:23,200 --> 01:28:24,300
Yes.

1502
01:28:24,300 --> 01:28:25,700
Everything mended now?

1503
01:28:26,200 --> 01:28:27,800
No bones still broken?

1504
01:28:28,300 --> 01:28:29,900
No bones broken, no.

1505
01:28:32,700 --> 01:28:34,700
COL.H.APPLETON 1892 - 1952

1506
01:29:00,700 --> 01:29:03,300
The Symmington boys start school 
next term.

1507
01:29:04,600 --> 01:29:05,700
Probably for the best.

1508
01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:06,800
Mm.

1509
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:10,000
Children are very resilient.

1510
01:29:11,400 --> 01:29:13,700
More than their elders, I often think.

1511
01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:17,000
Your sister intends staying, I gather.

1512
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:18,200
For a while, yes.

1513
01:29:19,300 --> 01:29:21,600
To see if she might take 
to being a doctor's wife.

1514
01:29:23,200 --> 01:29:24,600
Somehow I doubt it.

1515
01:29:25,300 --> 01:29:27,800
Love makes us do the strangest things.

1516
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:31,900
And you, Mr Burton, what about you?

1517
01:29:32,900 --> 01:29:33,800
I'm going away.

1518
01:29:34,600 --> 01:29:35,500
To do what?

1519
01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:37,000
Do you know, I haven't a clue.

1520
01:29:38,500 --> 01:29:40,100
I expect I'll find something.

1521
01:29:40,500 --> 01:29:44,500
Perhaps what you're looking for 
is right here under nose.

1522
01:29:44,800 --> 01:29:46,500
She doesn't want me, Miss Marple.

1523
01:29:47,400 --> 01:29:49,700
Faint heart, Mr Burton.

1524
01:29:53,200 --> 01:29:54,700
I once let someone go.

1525
01:29:55,800 --> 01:29:58,200
He had commitments, you see...

1526
01:29:59,100 --> 01:30:00,400
..a war to fight.

1527
01:30:02,300 --> 01:30:05,500
But I have often wondered if, 
under other circumstances, 

1528
01:30:05,500 --> 01:30:07,100
I would have done the same.

1529
01:30:10,200 --> 01:30:11,700
It seems to me, Mr Burton, 

1530
01:30:11,900 --> 01:30:13,600
that we should count ourselves blessed

1531
01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:17,100
if we are allowed 
just one shot at happiness.

1532
01:30:30,400 --> 01:30:31,900
Thanks for pulling me out of the oven.

1533
01:30:33,200 --> 01:30:34,100
It's all right.

1534
01:30:37,600 --> 01:30:39,200
I don't suppose 
you've changed your mind?

1535
01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:41,800
No.

1536
01:30:43,300 --> 01:30:45,600
Because I'm absolutely sure, you see, 

1537
01:30:46,900 --> 01:30:48,500
quite, quite certain, that...

1538
01:30:48,500 --> 01:30:53,300
to look after you, to make you happy
and keep you from harm, 

1539
01:30:53,700 --> 01:30:55,300
is now the purpose of my life.

1540
01:31:00,800 --> 01:31:03,300
So, there's nothing I could say or do 
to make you reconsider?

1541
01:31:09,600 --> 01:31:10,500
Not even this?

1542
01:31:48,500 --> 01:31:50,700
<i>And so I found myself 
on another morning, 

1543
01:31:51,400 --> 01:31:52,700
<i>with another girl, 

1544
01:31:53,300 --> 01:31:55,500
<i>and for the first time in my life, 

1545
01:31:56,000 --> 01:31:58,600
<i>on the verge 
of something bright and good.

1546
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:50,200
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