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so

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wonderful wonderful his highness is

simply delighted

he's dying to meet you oh you'll

remember your highness we met her coming

through brussels last year

of course i just wanted to thank you for

so kindly aiding our charity

your impersonations are wonderful really

wonderful

oh thank you would it be trespassing on

your good nature

if i ask you to give us one more why no

not at all i'd be only too delighted

ladies and gentlemen for my last

impersonation

i would like to give you but wait a

minute

i see in the audience one of the most

popular and talented american actresses

now married into your english peerage

lady edgware

i would like to give you a slight

impression of her singing the chorus of

one of her most popular numbers

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unless of course she objects why not at

all

i'd be delighted thank you would you

play lying awake please

oh i'm sure you'll load me there thank

you

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i knew you wouldn't mind

flying awake at night streaming dreams

wondering what you want doing

crying awake at nights and scheming

schemes

that would bring me to ruin

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and shadows

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me

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breaking my heart for

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you

you know brah that was simply marvelous

almost uncounted there it's a wonderful

bit of work

no need to ask why you're here miss your

father keeping an eye on his nibs

first on his highness as you said no

objection

unnecessary perhaps scotland's quite

well able to protect our distinguished

foreign visitors

scotland yard yes especially when it is

represented by inspector

right my government wished it so i'm

here now well uh

i'll see you later i must be very good

tell me listings is that not brian

martin when we so often see in american

films

yes yes i know him slightly he whispers

very daringly to the lady

yes he's always hanging about her

nowadays she's separated from her

husband

so she's married then yes she's she's

lady edgeware in private life

i see oh will you pardon me for a minute

brian

there's somebody over there i want to

speak to

you i believe i just obviously didn't

join you

oh you frenchmen are so cute i just love

your parisian manners

and our english policeman i hope oh why

yes

my friend kept interesting how are you

doing how do you do it mr parole

i want to consult you but certainly

madam and what how shall i call on you

tomorrow oh tomorrow means nothing of my

life

only the president comes why not by all

means if you wish

we should be quite undisturbed in there

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mr farrow i've just got to get rid of my

husband

but madam getting rid of husbands is not

my specialty sure it's a lawyer you want

oh i'm sick of lawyers they may know

about the law but they don't seem to

have any kind of natural sense

and you think i have then tell me why

are you so anxious to get rid of lord

edward

because i want to get married again

surely a divorce is a thing to go for

it's as easy as buying a pound of tea

nowadays you dad are my husband

his first wife ran away from him left a

baby behind but he wouldn't have asked

her

that's his nature when she died he

married me

well i couldn't stick it i left him and

went back to the state

unnaturally madam you would not wish to

give him god if you knew my husband you

noble that would be useless

he's a fanatic and who is the man you

want to marry

but you could murder me i'm just crazy

about him

he's so odd of course he's very

religious but i dare say grow out of it

meantime lord edward stands in the way

of these romantic dreams

yeah of course if we were in chicago i

could get him bumped off quite easily

but you don't seem to run the gunman

over here no madam here we consider

human beings have a right to live

even husbands all i see

madam i cannot help you oh no no mr

farrell i don't mean that i want you to

go and kill him

captain hastings good lord i couldn't

think of it i i never killed oh

no no i want you to persuade mr far to

go around and see my husband

because if not well i guess i'll just

have to call up a taxi and go bump him

off myself

but i'm actually hate to drive you to

that extremity you mean you will see him

but certainly

oh i knew you would thank you

oh no i'm staying in the bar chester

i must go and find my partner

sorry just kept you brian say what's it

all about come on i'll tell you why

we're dancing

i say isn't she attractive very

but such people go through life in great

danger

danger yes because a woman like that

sees only one thing in life herself

and so sooner or later disaster oh i

don't know she she's vain of course

then and spilt and perhaps the a title

man

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ah lord edgware he will see us at 11 30

this morning

i phoned your secretary last night toast

thanks rather surprising he's agreeing

to see you there's nothing surprising my

dear hastings

greater men than lord eduardo found it

difficult to refuse

hercules now if it were not for my

modest and retiring nature i could tell

you

i know i know you you tell me before

excuse me sir

there's a gentleman to see mr poirot a

mr brian

martin good very good

ask him to come in

good morning captain hastings good

morning martin

how are you this is monsieur para yeah

morning

uh let me get your chair no thanks i'm

only staying a minute see him saporo

i'm hoping you didn't take lady

edgeware's request last night too

flippantly and that you'll take on a

case because

i know her and well quite frankly i'm

frightened

why because if you don't succeed with

lord edgware

she may do something desperate when i

left her last night she was frantic

she's so set on getting her freedom that

she'll stick with nothing nothing to get

it you mean i mean that she'd kill

just as easily as she drink her morning

tea

that's what i mean mr paro and that's

all i wanted to say but you will do your

very best won't you may not you find

more ladies

as my client but tell me that's all i

came to say

and good day mister good morning and

thanks again

i say the the pro chef has got it badly

we we mustn't fail

we will not fail come along where

and captain hastings isn't it you sit

down yes

i am familiar of course with your name i

understand you've come to see me on

behalf of my wife that is so lady

consulted me and uh she uh she wants a

divorce i'm quite aware of that her

suggestion was that we should discuss

the matter there's nothing to discuss

you refuse then certainly not not

come on what is all this you you don't

refuse i went to lost to understand your

astonishment was your problem you mean

you are willing to divorce your wife

certainly she knows that perfectly well

mr cortreyashi she wrote me six months

ago

urging the point i have an idea she

wanted to marry again some filmmakers i

believe

i wrote hollywood telling i was willing

you wrote and told her

she never said anything about that

pharah nevertheless i did

six months ago

why she sent you to me i can't imagine i

suppose it's a question of money

extremely curious there is something

here that i do not understand at all

curious it's it's more than curious it's

uh

it's it's odd as regards money

i have no intention of making any

financial arrangements but there is no

question of any financial arrangement

no no no no question

you must be going to marry a rich man

there is something here i do not

understand

lady edwards said she approached you

rapidly through lawyers

she did and finally as i say she wrote

to me herself

you having previously refused

marissa but on receiving her letter you

changed your mind lord edgware

i altered my view the change was

somewhat sudden what was the cause

that is my own business i see

where we must not detent you any longer

lord edward i wish you good day

good day

oh

i say she looks very upset i wonder who

she is

probably his daughter he has one are you

surprised that she's

sad where now

to the barchester

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turn

hello yes oh would you ask him to come

up right away please

thank you ellis

mr para is coming up here immediately

now i'll just go and slip on something

decent

tell him i won't be a minute

well exactly the world madam it is well

lord eduard is perfectly willing to

agree to any voice

what do you mean to say you've managed

it

isn't he a genius no madam i cannot take

compliments when they are not held

six months ago your husband wrote to you

withdrawing his opposition

what's that you say wrote me

where it was when you were in hollywood

we understand

well i never got it and to think that

i've been freddie and half crazy all

these

months aren't you surprised ellis

yes indeed the lady his lordship must

have changed a good deal since we knew

him

yes he was you cannot understand his

attitude it puzzles you

it certainly does but anyway it's of no

interest while made him change his mind

so long as he has

it may not interest you madam but it

interests me maybe

but the thing is that i'm free at the

last oh

not quite yet you know well going to be

free the duke's in paris i must cable

him right away

i'm glad that all is turning out as you

wish i will take my leave oh you must go

so soon

ellis goodbye mr farrow and thanks a lot

but i did nothing oh yes you did you

brought me the good news and i'm very

very grateful

there's nothing what is something is

what happened to that letter

about my name goodbye captain

good heavens paro what an earthly r to

have

breakfast i could not sleep my friend my

mind it was fixed on lady edgware

an interesting study that woman hastings

this single idea

herself she is shrewd in the business

sense but she has

absolutely no intellect well well aboard

you he cannot give everything

well don't eat all the breakfast i shall

be a moment dressing

regarding that letter lady edward never

received there are four solutions to

their problem

the first that it was lost in the first

this second that lady edward was lying

when she said she never received it

but i cannot see that that would be to

our advantage

the third lord edgware was lying

he never said but i cannot see the point

of such a lie

the fourth someone suppressed that

letter

someone who did not want that marriage

dissolved

as things i would give a great deal to

know what is behind this affair

yes and i'd give a great deal of one of

those cigarettes you're messing about

with oh almost

thank you there is something

someone

of whom as yet i have but had a glimpse

inspector jeff to see you sir ah le

bourge up

good day mr potter captain hastings

well my good jeff what brings you to

scissors

i'll tell you that in a word minor

murder yes lord edgware was killed in

his house last night stabbed in the neck

by his wife

by his wife yes how do you know that it

was his wife who killed him she was

recognized

recognized yes not much concealment

about it either

lady edge where drove up in a taxi a

taxi

hastings i beg of you do not repeat

everything that the good job says

it creates the irritation

she rang the bell and asked for lord

edgware it was about 10 o'clock

i'm lady edgware she says as cool as a

cucumber and with that walks into the

library and shuts the door

about five minutes later the butler

heard the front door slam

about eleven just before going to bed he

opened the library door but it was dark

so he thought that his mastered retired

for the night

this morning the body was discovered by

him stabbed in the back of the neck

by lady edward by lady edward

well you have the criminal but have you

the motive

yes wanted to marry another man also

often heard to utter threats since

everything goes so swimmingly

why come to us because i heard that you

were at lord edwards yesterday morning

oh i see

now the moment i heard that i said to

myself why does my lord want to see mr

puerto what's he afraid of so before

doing anything definite i thought i'd

come along and have a talk what do you

mean by anything definite

arresting the lady i suppose exactly you

haven't seen her yet oh yes i have i

went straight from north edge west to

the bachelor

i wasn't wasting any time and what did

she say my friend

eh say

i wouldn't say a thing without a

solicitor

and you are positive she did it positive

then how do you account for this you do

not read your morning paper

very carefully so monty you corner gave

a dinner party last night at his house

on the river at chizik

amongst the distinguished guests present

were sir george and lady fisk

mr james blunt etc etc

and the charming lady edgeware

oh press stuff send out beforehand they

always do it

you'll find our lady wasn't there or

arrived later at 11 o'clock

and now perhaps you'll tell me why lord

edge we're sent for you

lord have did not send for me my dear

shop it was i who requested him to give

me an appointment

really and for what reason

no i'm sure mr aparra will see me it's

very urgent

i've just heard this is a terrible

business

i've always dreaded it

i told you yesterday so you have jumped

to the conclusion that lady adrian

murdered her husband

do you mean i've got it wrong but she

had nothing to do with it

she did it all right perhaps you can

help us mr martinez

sure how

you see lady edgar is a friend of mine

but in a matter of this kind you cannot

allow friendship to influence you yeah

that's all very well

hang it all martin this is murder it's a

nasty business a sticky business

it isn't done yeah but you don't

understand lady edgware isn't an

ordinary murderous

she has no sense of right or wrong

that'll be a question for the jury

come come now you cannot refuse to tell

us what you know yes come come now

well i guess you're right

what do you want me to tell you i'm

informed that lady edgware wanted her

freedom

in order to marry another man you know

who that man was

yeah who the duke of merton the duke of

merton

one of the richest men in england yeah

he's rolling in money wouldn't a husband

divorce her

no he refused absolutely are you certain

of that yeah

there's your motiva

yesterday as you know and he agreed to a

divorce

he agreed that's quite correct yes well

you should have told adh where at once

i did you see it impales the motif a

little my dear shaft does it not

and now mr martin before you jump too

hastily to conclusions cast your eye

over this

yeah i've seen it but i'm afraid that

doesn't make an alibi she never went to

that dinner how do you know

well she told me she wasn't going you

see now museo poirot

don't try any of your funny theories the

cases as i say the case as you presented

my dearshop revolts the intelligence

what do you mean revolts the

intelligence it doesn't revolt mine

that you almo well mr martin i thank you

for your help i'll keep in touch

i always thought at the moment she was

crazy

well it's all clear to me but yourself

you can't tell me you're serious

here is a young woman who wishes to get

rid of her husband so she repeats before

witnesses that she's thinking of killing

him

calls that his house has herself

announced stabs him

and goes away or not rather clumsy what

clumsy

it's the imbecility well it's all to the

advantage of the police when criminals

lose their heads

we'd better get along to the biceps you

were quite right not to answer any

questions without consulting me

oh charming john

yes come sean writing ellis

oh hello this is mr marx everybody

how do you do now mr martin this is mr

yeah

jeff oh jeff pardon me who seems quite

positive that i went out last night and

killed my husband

oh why don't you sit down

yes

as lady edge was lawyer would you tell

me when this unfortunate occurrence

took place as a safe margin i should say

between 8 30 and 10 30 last night

oh that's all right i was the party at

that time

oh craps i odendu said that if at that

time last night

you were at a party lady edgware then i

can see no objection to your informing

the inspector of the fact i agree quite

soon

i only want a statement of your

movements yesterday evening lady edgeweb

i was at somatic u corners at chizik

what time did you go there man

i started about 7 30. i called in at the

piccadilly palace hotel

say goodbye to a friend who's leaving

for the states

i got a chiswick about eight o'clock or

so

would you like this happens in vara very

much madame

tell me what time did you leave oh about

11 and you came straight back here

yes and whilst you were at the dinner

party you didn't leave it well i

so you did leave it i don't know what

you mean

i was caught up on the telephone while

we were at dinner

tell me madam who found you

well i guess it was a kind of hoax

because when i lifted off the receiver

a woman's voice said is that lady

edgeware when i said yes she just

laughed and rang off

you didn't go outside the house to

telephone of course not why should i

no no of course not exactly why should

she

no no of course not how long were you

away from the dinner table

about a minute and a half i see well

all this will have to be verified

naturally you'll go ahead and verify it

it's your part

could you meet me at lord edgwares in

half an hour or so certainly

well i'll say good day mr borrow

it seems kind of lucky that i changed my

mind and went to that party after all

what is it you say madam you changed

your mind yes i'd meant to give it a

mess

what made you change your mind milady

you asked for these to be brought in as

soon as they came a lady yes just put

them down someplace

please

oh ellis why don't i change my mind and

go to that party last night

i made you my lady it doesn't do to the

get engagements

you do it much too often people don't

always forget it

they turn nasty oh no no no i

hate black anyway i never wear it i

suppose it's the correct widow i've got

to

oh look at these frightful heads

ellis will you please bring out blue

scenes and ask him to send ron a fitter

and some morning

i will wish you all well madame oh my

sephora you must go so soon

i'm sorry or what else would you say

tomorrow please

goodbye captain hastings bye

do you request the boxing thank you very

much goodbye

so nice of you all to come thank you

these

terrible hats

when mr boyle and captain hastings are

right bring them in here at once very

good sir

ah here they are i think there's

monsieur faro oh yes

would you come in sir please

ah my dear zap already here what yes

and unless the montague corner and his

guests were all lying

she couldn't have done it you mean she

was a chizzy yes

but how could she be in chizzy can hear

at the same time that's the point jack

not only did the battles here but the

secretary ms carol saw

as well they both swear that it was lady

eduardo was here between nine and ten

last night how long has the butler been

in service here six months

maybe my friend then you could never

have recognized lady eduardo since

you've never seen her before

of course not how could he well he knew

her by her pictures in the papers

that's a thought in any case the

secretary knew her she'd been with the

lord age for five or six years

she was absolutely positive well i

should just like to see the secretary

well that's easy

tell me jeff you find out some things

who comes into the title a nephew

captain ronald marsh a bitter waster so

i understand

sir ask miss carol to come and see us

just one moment

how was the lady dressed who called last

night

lady edwards in black black walking

dress small black hat

string of pearls and a pair of grey

gloves one moment

do you build the front door at night

usually sir

last night miss geraldine went to the

opera so i left it unbolted

michellein is an old chip's daughter oh

yes yes

my christmas carol

oh miss carol they want you in there who

scotland yard

please come in

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i visited

do sit down

are you absolutely certain that it was

lady edward who came here last night

of course i'm certain i saw her where

did you see her was it

in the hall where were you on the

gallery

looking down oh well i'll get you to

show me later

but first tell me how many keys are

there to the front door

how many keys yes front door keys

two lord edgewood always carried one

the other was kept on a draw in the hall

so that anyone who was going to be late

in could take it

and that's all there was there was a

third but captain marsh lost it

captain marsh the new lord edgware

did he come to the house much he used to

live here until three years ago

before the late lord edgware married his

present wife why'd he leave

i don't know he couldn't get on with his

uncle got into debt

they quarreled lord age wherefore bad in

the house

that's all thank you miss carol now i

just want to try a little experiment

will you be so good as to follow me into

the hall

please miss hastings i want you to go up

into the gallery

and look down into the hall from the

spot where miss carol saw lady edward

yes perhaps you would be so kind just to

indicate it

certainly

a little more to the right that's it

art my friend you can help us

you admitted lady edward i did sir then

please admit me

i shall be lady edward

she killed me yes sir she passed me

turned and stood there

here yes saying she would find that edge

by

i want you to keep your eyes fixed on me

she was wearing a hat

with a brim yes sir

now watch me has things

miss carol she did not turn around and

speak again to the butt

she went straight in yeah

hastings watch carefully

hastings you can come down the idea mr

poirot the idea you will see

did you notice the hose between my lips

i rose between your

i say you're not going all grecian are

you

you're unmad if you ask me but you did

not observe it

no but then i couldn't see your face

exactly neither could you manoiselle

have seen lady atria's face

you like hastings could have only seen

the back of her head back of her head

her voice her walk it's all the same

thing

i tell you i know it was lady edgware

that is all man was it

well i'd better get back to the yard see

you later

ah now look here part

oh

hastings

most dangerous witness miss carol

dangerous because inaccurate

oh i don't know a a voice in a walker

just as unmistakable no no

well i think that the most

characteristic things about therefore

they may be the most easily

counterfeited

can't defeat it cast your mind back

hastings

do you remember carlotta adam's clever

impersonations

far you don't think it's possible oh no

no that

that would be too much of a coincidence

regarded from one angle there may be no

coincidence at all

but why should carlotta adams want to

kill lord edgware she didn't even know

him how'd you know she did not know him

do not assume things hastings

you you have a theory then the

possibility of carlotta adams being

involved in this struck me from the very

beginning

will you just look at her telephone

number you think that i think of

every possibility dressed in black that

is what the butler said

but lady edgeware never wears black she

heads it

ah here we are

just make a note of our dress

hello exchange

what's the matter mr

wake up oh dude please wake up

what is it oh my god

oh my dear what is it

hello hello

we'll try them again no

hastings we are too late we must go

around at once

tell me about it she didn't ring for me

this morning as usual sir

so i only came in a little while ago i

spoke to her

she didn't answer she

she couldn't wake she kept on trying

i could see she was ill but i couldn't

wake her then quite suddenly she fell

back

dead has the doctor been yes sir he was

called away on an urgent case

he said he'd come back what did he say

overdose of sleeping draft sir

that was why i couldn't drown yes yes

did miss adams often take stop to make

her sleep

and then she'd take something if she had

a headache i didn't see her take

anything but she came back last night

she was out during the evening then

yes sir oh she was did she tell you

where she'd been

no sir leave this to me please hastings

i'm sorry how was your dice when she

went out

black dress and black hat sir any

jewelry

only the pearl knickers she always wore

and grey gloves

yes sir her gloves were gray what time

did she return

hastings please

just before midnight sir and what was

her manner then she was terribly tired

but not uh upset or distressed no very

nervous and excited in a drowsy sort of

way

she was very sleepy she wanted to add a

post script to a letter she had in her

bag

but she was too tired so she sealed it

up and sent me out to post it

when i came back she was lying asleep on

the bed

so i left her hmm did mr times take this

case with when she went out last night

yes sir you tell me that i open it yes

sir

a week

a box of makeup

is dr heath sir may i introduce myself i

am here before inspector shop of

scotland yard

my name is pual you may have heard of it

naturally

this is captain hastings how to do it i

understand you ascribe ms adam's death

to an overdose of sleeping draft yes

she had evidently taken it for some time

what makes you think so

this i took it away for safekeeping

it was in that case this look inside

look what's written inside

something engraved c a from d

paris november the 10th

november the 10th exactly and we are now

in june

which seems to show that she's been in

the habit of taking the stuff for at

least six months

paris when did you first see this box

i've never seen it before sir you've

never seen it no sir never

oh

past me i did not know that miss adams

wore glasses

but perhaps these are for reading do you

happen to know if i've never attended

her i've never seen her wear any sir

well i wish you good day the maid will

know where to find me

seems pretty positive that she did it

and then committed suicide

what sort of a man is this new way of

the capital

ronald mouse

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i say ronnie where were you last night

your promise come around have a game

poker

sorry had another date well you'd rather

let us down you know

hello ronnie telegram for you i've just

taken it off the board thanks

whiskey tell us if there's anything good

for the 315 module

great scott i know a loser no my friend

the winner

good lord my uncle lord edward

he's dead i'm awfully sorry old man

thanks come here tell him to make that

20 pound better mind 200

i say it's all right they'll take it

tell them i'm lord eduardo

right if i have time i'll get it done

they'll be off in a minute

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yes you remember we met in paris

right was your parlo well this is most

interesting glad to see you again this

is my friend captain hastings how'd you

do how do you do

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she's lying nice and handy i suppose

you've heard about lord israel's death

yes a man from scotland yard came down

and asked me a few questions would it

trouble you if i put too much not of it

ah there you are ah this is mr donald

russ it's your follower captain hastings

how did you how do you do it he was

present at my dinner party last night in

fact he sat next to lady edward you know

it was lucky for that lady she was with

you

so it seems i'm glad she was

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always away when you plenty of money

doesn't matter a hang how long was lady

edge bear out of the home while she was

pawning

two minutes at the outside i should say

and nothing happened during that evening

nothing that you would call peculiar or

odd no not unless you would call it odd

being 13 at dinner

you were 13 your evidently not

superstitious samantha you well as a

matter of fact one of the guests failed

to turn up

13 at table who got up first

i did oh whoa then by all the rules of

the game

you've got to be careful yes first to

rise first to die that's the saying

isn't it

yes

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it's full of running would you come

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through

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congratulations that's a big win exactly

because i don't need it

yes but how long before you give it all

back to the book is believe it or not

that sees me out i've got a packet there

yeah if you look for winners in future

i'm through i wonder

hello hello

yes this is inspector jab speaking

would you please tell mr parra when he

comes in

to meet me at lord edgware's at seven

o'clock this evening

very important i'll tell him sir seven

o'clock

goodbye sir

[Music]

that's right gentlemen make yourselves

comfortable

will you drink no thanks ah no mercy we

will not drink now

then what can i do for you what we want

to know lord edward is

do you know lady edward well that's

right

no i was chucked out of here three

months before she married my uncle

a beautiful woman but no subtlety

method's rather cruel don't you think

possibly i believe you think she didn't

do it

so she's got you right has she i have a

great admiration for beauty

but also for evidence evidence

perhaps you don't know lauren's where

the lady age ray was at a party at

chizik last night

the time she was supposed to have been

seen here oh

then that lets her out then i see

but there still remains the wicked

nephew

ah mr barrow i know what's in your mind

and i had a motive a very strong motive

i called to see my uncle yesterday

morning the first time i'd been in this

house for three years

i called to ask for money and i went

away without getting any

that same evening that very same evening

lord edgware dies

but the trouble is i have an alibi too

i happen to be the opera at the time of

the crime

in the box of that distinguished

financier mr dorheimer

his wife and daughter were there also

how's that

it seems an excellent alibi

one more question how long have you

known carlotta adams

why on earth should you want to know

that i was curious that was all

called adams let me see yeah no

well yes and you

liked her i like her very much

then you will be sorry sorry what about

it haven't you seen the evening paper

never read him she is dead

dead carlotta dead

but she was perfectly well the last time

i saw her when was that

the day before yesterday i think i don't

remember all the same

she is dead what was it a a street

accident no

an overdose of sleeping draft that's

right oh i

say poor kid how terribly sad

is it not yes

but she is getting on so well here she's

going to get her kid sister over from

new york

they were going to settle here you say

kid's sister yes

let's see what was her name lucy that

right

she was devoted to her do you by the

chancellor of the sisters address

yes i do because colorado's fled in new

york 107 madison buildings

and on 7th no

you better not i tell you i will see him

i will

please miss geraldine please i must

miss your partner i must speak to you

manuezer on the day before my father was

killed

you and captain hastings came to see him

didn't you yes man

why did he stand for you was he afraid

of something

please tell me i must know when was it

what passed between lord edward and

ourselves was in confidence

then it was about i mean

it must have been something to do with

the family i'm his daughter

i have a right to know what my father

dreaded just before his death

it isn't fair to leave me in the dark it

isn't fair to him

not to tell me where are you so fond of

your father man

fond of him

i hated him he was cruel and unjust

his death means freedom for me and

independence

steady now steady i'm not in the least

anxious to find his murderer

for all we know the person who killed

him may have had reasons

and for reasons that is a dangerous

principle to adopt manuel

a person who has once killed nearly

always kills again

sometimes again and again that doesn't

concern me

anyhow i can't believe it supposing i

told you that it had already happened

that all ready to save himself the

murderer had killed this

gold time no i won't have that

if you mean carlotta adams that was a

case of suicide

an overdose of sleeping drugs no my dear

rap this same hand that killed lord

edgware killed carlotta adams

don't you agree lord joy

do you ask him why should he know

who are you writing to foir i write my

dear fellow to the sister of carlotta

adams in america

i hurry because i fancy that brown

martin

will be here in a moment ah

that is probably him now inspector

i'm glad you're in i've checked up on

kalata adams

and her attache case i've checked up in

his lordship too

that was correct about the opera he was

there all right so

now about geraldine marsh she dined with

some people called west they took her to

the opera and saw her home afterwards

i see so the captain marshall ms

geraldine were both at the opera but

with different parties

so well have you arrived at any

conclusion yes i have

carlotta adams was the woman she killed

and committed suicide

anyway that's the assumption i'm going

to work on

over the way the doctor says that

wounded lord edgware's neck wasn't made

by an ordinary pen knife

something of that kind but with a

different shape of blade

and devilish sharp i see thank you job

just one more suggestion before you go

yes in addition to your inquiries

regarding miss adams

i would suggest that you visit the taxi

rank outside the covent garden opera

house

find someone who took two fares to the

neighborhood of lord israel's house on

the night of the murder a new idea eh

well it can't do any harm

goodbye mr puedo goodbye i'm sorry not

at all it's my fault i didn't see you

can i come in oh mr imagine do please

good morning

thank you for coming along so promptly

won't you sit down

thanks well uh

what can i do for mr poro there is a

point in connection with lord israel's

death which i'm very anxious to clear up

yeah six months ago you were in

hollywood i believe mr martin

yeah lady edward was there also yeah we

were we were acting together

quiet it seems that at about that time

lord edward wrote a letter to lady

edward offering her her freedom

what well lady edward never told me

anything about it

no because she never received it the

letter was intercepted

intercepted but who on earth that's just

what we've got to find out

the only person likely to intercept that

letter

would be someone who did not wish her to

obtain her freedom but

i feel that the time has come for plain

speaking i am going to suggest to you

that you for one did not wish it

what the devil do you mean i'm going to

suggest to you that you were madly in

love with lady israel well i'm worried

if i was and that you knew full well

that lady edward wished to marry the

duke of martin that it was for that

reason that she desired her freedom well

of course i knew it i told you so the

other day exactly

look here i'll advise you to be careful

of what you're saying

you're suggesting that i suppress that

letter and what if i am it's a lie

now let me tell you something monsieur

fuero even if lady edgware had obtained

her freedom

the duke of merton would never have

married her what do you mean

since you're so darn clever suppose you

find that out for yourself

what on earth did he mean by that

excuse me your grace but there is a

musia paro a detective

and a captain hastings who beg that you

will give them a moment

they telephone they say telephoned

his grace is evidently of a religious

turn of mind of course

do you not know that he is the leader of

the anglo-catholic party in this country

what you would call a pillar of the

church yes rather heavy reading i should

think

will you kind of step this way written

you may not know my name i have no

acquaintance with it

i study the psychology of crime for what

reason did you wish to see me

and the president engaged in

investigating the circumstances

connected with the death of lord edward

a blot

indeed i was not acquainted with him you

are i think uh

acquainted with his wife of the lady

edward that is sir

you are aware that she's supposed to

have had a very strong motive for

deserving the death of her husband

no i am really not aware of anything of

the kind

i should like to ask you outright your

grace are you shortly going to marry

lady edward

when i am engaged to marry anyone the

fact will be announced in the newspapers

i consider your question and

impertinence

good morning but i did not mean you guys

said

[Applause]

i say that didn't go too well on the

controller

i now know exactly how the case stands

how do you know by his manner

no by the letter he was writing in my

early days in the police force

i learned to read handwriting upside

down that letter was to lay the edge

where that i noticed

also one phrase dearest i can hardly

wait through the long months

sorry you can't do that overlook a

private letter my dear hastings we are

investigating murder but

it's it's not done it's it's not cricket

very similar my dear fellow

in each case one can be so easily what

you would call stump oh

that's jolly good

it went off wonderfully alice there were

hundreds of people at the church

there was a terrific crush at the

cemetery they were turning them away

i counted at least six cameramen they

got me going into the church and coming

out again

do you know i'm beginning to think that

black suits me after all

[Music]

it's very effective you know against

white marble

very old family that you've got mertons

i see he is the 17th holder of the title

you believe in heredity hastings you bet

i do that's how i got my money

i wouldn't have much time for the duke

though he's a self-satisfied ass

almost as bad as inspector jeff sir

charm to see you well things are moving

i congratulate you what has happened

well i found that taxi driver and hunted

up come out to adam's movements

yes i found that the lady had left

natasha case

in the third room at houston at 8 45

that night houston that's the nearest

big station to load edge wales the case

has since been identified with carnot

adams

and after she went there made up her

face in the cloakroom and then left the

case

when was it taken out again about 10 30

the truck said by the same lady

now amongst other things i've traced

that carlotta adams was in the corner

cafe in the strand between 10 and 11.

how did you discover that well the

papers have made a lot about the little

gold box with the ruby initials

and the waitress reading about it

remembered that she'd served a lady that

evening

who had just such a box in her hand she

remembered the ca on it

now i've seen the girl and i don't think

there's much doubt about it the lady

seemed to be filling in time waiting for

a friend

and after a time she gave it up and went

out it was a rendezvous

with someone who did not turn up that's

your theory mr paro

a mysterious man in the background

that's a myth

well i'll bring in that taxi man

come in

his name's jobson picked up two people

outside the upper and the night of the

crime

that's right is that one of them

tried it's lady and is that the other

couldn't swear to it it's like him

though that'll be miss geraldine and

captain marshall right

you picked him up at about 10 30am

that's right

or was it nearby 10 15.

it saw it come on now which was it

between 10 11 i see well go on well uh

they tell me to drive to regent's gate

they tell me the house when i got there

tell me to be quick too it takes you

six or seven minutes to get there that's

right

well the gentleman stopped me about

number eight lady gets out

walks down the road along the house is

on the other side

the world's numbers fifteen or sixteen

it's right

and she went into the house site and the

gentleman didn't go in

i see did after about five minutes seem

to get impatient

then after a few minutes he comes out

again with the young lady

gets into my cab tells me to drive back

to the opera

which i done you wait over there that's

all you know

that's right

and now what do you make of it my dear

did carlotta adams kill lord edward

or is the captain martial man or

wouldn't we perhaps to consider michelin

excuse me inspector this has just come

up from the yard it's from the new york

police

i shall want you again inside

read your request information call out

to adam stop

following his copy of letter to lucy

adams her sister stop

dearest little sister i'm sorry i wrote

you a scrappy bit last week but was

rather busy

the other night i met lady edgware and

she was ever so sweet about my show and

my impersonation of her

which brings me around to what i'm going

to tell you

you know that she no longer lives with

her husband i've heard a lot about him

too lately and he's no beauty i can tell

you

he treated his nephew captain marsh in

the most shameful way

by the way captain marsh enjoyed my show

very much

he said i believe it would take in lord

edward himself

look here would you take on something

for a bit i laughed and said how much

lucy darling the answer fairly took my

breath away ten thousand dollars

ten thousand dollars think of it just to

help someone win a silly bet

well then we laid our heads together and

got down to details

i'll tell you all about it next week

lots of love yours

carlata complicates things a little my

good job does it not

yes i admit i can't piece things

together yet

if carlata adams didn't do it she was in

the scheme

and captain marsh may possibly be in it

too

so it comes around to the man in the

background after all

there you are there we go i got them out

at once i want to thank you again

just every decent of you you know i'm

only too glad to help you

bless you and i wish i was worth it

talk like that you're a brick

inspector jeff and mr pardo milan

ah gentlemen

sit down yes i must warn you my lord

that anything you may

say that's why you're here inspector i

expect you'd like me to make a statement

as you please me lord so my beautiful

alibi is busted ever

taxi man i suppose that's right that's

right

well i'll tell you the truth i was in a

hole for money

i tried my uncle no good quite by chance

i met my cousin geraldine at the opera

she'd always been awfully decent and she

suggested that i should take her pearls

and the pearls were here i suppose so

off you went exactly

why did you follow her into the house

well

she was a juice of a time i got anxious

why you see those pearls were family

jewels

i had visions of lord edge where

stopping her and brow beating her

i thought i want to go in and showed her

the responsibility very noble

how did you get in she left the door a

jar uh

she was only going to be a moment i went

in

i listened to the library door expecting

to have voices there wasn't a sound

just that moment geraldine came

downstairs with the pearls

her mate had put them away we left the

house together and went straight back to

the opera

very good story you don't believe it

very well

ask geraldine

ask ms geraldine to come to the library

and what's all you've told us got to do

with your wager with miss adams

wager with miss adams what on earth are

you talking about

do you deny that you offered a ten

thousand dollars to come here and

impersonate lady edward that night

ten thousand dollars nonsense i hadn't

gotcha son

you don't seem to have much difficulty

in raising money

your cousin has told us about the pearls

about the pearls

yes i would like to know where was he

standing when you came down the stairs

in the hall he was just turning away

from the library door

good enough old age where i must ask you

to come along with me to the police

station

but he wasn't coming out of the library

he he hadn't been in

how do you know that when you're

upstairs looking for your jewels

oh come along if you're coming

but they're taking him away they believe

he did it you do too

no man was there i do not believe it

but the good job he must have his way

hello

what progress much my friend i have been

concentrating on the question of that

little gold box

the gold box which contained the

sleeping draft by which carlotta adams

met her in

yes i have cabled the french police to

make inquiries from all the jewelers in

paris you think that an idea has come to

me

why did not miss adam's maid recognize

that box

from the date on it apparently miss

adams had had it for six months

it therefore seems strange that the maid

should not have seen it does it not

yes there is then i will tell you why

she had not seen it

that date was a blind the box had only

recently been given to her

possibly the day before her death to

make it appear that she was in the habit

of taking a sleeping draft

now then who bought it and gave it to

her if we can discover that we shall be

a step forward

and now see

oh the light is much better over there

let's go

this letter is sent by lucy adams from

america an answer to my request

it is carlotta's letter we know the

contents because it was cable to the

good job by the new york police

but look at it well

do you not see the sheets except one

have a clean edge

but this one has been tough they were

double sheets

so you comprehend one page of the letter

is missing captain marsh enjoyed my show

very much he said

but it makes sense yes that is where the

cleverness of the idea comes in but read

on you will see

he said i believe it would take in lord

edward himself

you see it now the letter breaks off

where she is talking of the captain

marsh then on the new sheet she goes on

he said but a page is missing

the he of the new page may not be the he

of the old page

namely the captain marsh in fact it is

not the he of the old page

not it is another man altogether who

proposed that hoax

you see the removal of that one page on

the letter is capable of being twisted

into a damning accusation of another man

a man too who has a motive followed

edgeware's death

i was a gift the money for the coffee

too

as you say money for the oh money for

jan

[Laughter]

you were saying i was going to say he

tears the sheet off and replaces the

letter but how did the man whoever he

was get hold of the letter

that is the point and it would be as

hard to solve my dear hastings as the

problem of how he gave her that sleeping

grasp

you're going to tell jack all this no

not yet he would but say another nest of

the man

the girl hold on an odd sheet of paper

said to what can i say to that

nothing it is a thing that might have

happened i only know that it did not

happen because it is necessary

it should not figure to yourself

hastings

if only that man had had the method of

order to have cut the sheet and not done

it

we should have noticed nothing so we

deduce he's a man of careless habits

or he might have been quest for time

another point

does his name really begin with d the

initial on the box

or does the d stand for a nickname by

which he was known to her

a man whose initial is d we have got to

find him hastings yes we have got to

find him

ah this must be paris

hello hello

good news great news the box was bought

in paris ordered by letter from london

signed constance ackerly a fictitious

name no doubt

it was packed up and called for by a

woman

short middle-aged and wearing fancy now

who

who this carol she wears glasses no that

is the imbecility miss kevin's glasses

were concave these

are not now who

who else

ah we are busy tonight

hello yes who um

it's donald ross speaking yes i want to

see you

i can't very well mention names over the

phone but it's bout to remark made at

dinner just now

i've had it back to my flat to phony i

think it's got a strong bearing on lord

edgware's death

so with whom are you dining tell me

i'm afraid i can't not on the phone

hold on a minute will you hang on

hastings this promises to be intriguing

hello hello are you there

go here but he does not speak again

perhaps

hello hello

intestines there is something clear

going on i sense danger

you must go to us is petted once before

it is too late

[Applause]

stabbed at the base of the skull what

does it mean paro

it means that what this young man had to

tell me incriminated the murderer of

lord edward

that is why he had to be silenced this

beats all now my friend it simplifies

everything

i've only to find out one little point

just one little point

oh my god i've been blind foolish what

in the last time we will all meet at the

bachelor and i will tell you in one hour

oh her lady ship isn't back from the

theater yet but she will not mind that

we wait for her return

can i get you anything sir cigarette or

whiskey and soda

cigarette if you will but we are not

drinking

i'll take my work into the other room

very fine

but what a pity a little tail

really

that's not a castle that's on purpose

of course how foolish i'm here

i'll ring through to the theater and

tell her ladyship that you're here

why did you think that was a tear did i

think so

or did i want the good eddies to put on

the first name which i had substituted

those were not hers that she's also wear

with but the ones that we found in

carlotta adam's vanity bag at her flat

here are the past near that the good

ellie's put down when she let us in

but how did she see so well were the

ones you substituted because they were

originally health my dear hastings

then it was endless please admit

ah the good job not late ammo no my good

friend

what are you pursuing over the original

of the letter cable to you by the new

york police

it has been sent to me by the sister of

kalata adam well you not see

i see it's a letter yes well what about

it hastings do you remember my saying to

you that if the murder had been a man of

method and order you would have cut this

page not

on it yes i was wrong there is method an

order throughout the whole of this crime

this page had to be done not cut look

see for yourself

come on mr poirot speak up very well

jeff tell me what is the first word on

the turn page

he the man who that is where we have

been wrong the word is not he

it is she that is why the page had to be

done and not cut

to remove the first letter she so it was

a woman

ask the gordalis to come back

oh ellis monsieur pardo would like to

speak to you a moment

now look here puerto rice you recently

collected a packet from some jeweler in

paris

yes sir what was in that bucket

i hadn't an idea sir no

well thank you ellis

you limp a little are they calm

i uh i cut my foot you should be careful

at least dangerous things gone knives

well lime do you know one of the first

people i suspect then you would have

been on

it was not elise

oh me well i'm not being long have i

are they still in there uh yes my lady

mr farrow captain hastings oh i'll give

them supper downstairs

will you tell louie that i've got guests

oh wait a minute i think i'll slip into

something decent

you know the mauve dress alice with a

frill

yes i suppose it would go that way but

why

kill russ why kill ross you ask

ah that is where her alibi was our

undoing

because donald ross was a guest at that

dinner at chizik

and the conversational mental attitude

of the lady there was very different

from lady edgware's mental attitude

when he died with her alone at a later

date

something lady edgware said or did

told him that this was another woman

perhaps he told herself

that she realized that she had made a

pupa

that we can only surmise but

connecting it in some way with lord

israel's death

donald ross hurries to his flat and

telephones me

before ross can tell me on the telephone

what he feels

lady edgware is hot on his heels

scarcely has he picked up the receiver

then she knocks at his door he admits

her

then returns to the phone at that moment

she strikes

and donald ross is silenced forever you

mean to tell me that you think that she

committed all these murders

the chi i do not think my friend i know

she did

every one of them devilish cunning yes

the cunning of a monomaniac

and the cruelty and vindictiveness of a

self-centered woman

you remember what i said to you hastings

the first time i met her

i said no no madam three mothers are

quite enough

elise's call knife i thought so that was

the weapon job

well you need me so rough you might at

least consider my appearance

appearances my dear lady are definitely

against you

i can't imagine what came unstuck

everything was so carefully planned

madam you tried to pull the wool over

the eyes of hercules

and i am hanged if we can have that

under the circumstances

that's a very tactless remark