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(TYPEWRITER TAPPING)

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(DOOR OPENING)
Agatha, darling.

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So sorry to have kept you waiting
but I wanted to show you this.

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Hello, Hercule! They can't enough of
him.

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We're already on two reprints of
Roger Ackroyd.

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That's marvellous. I'm delighted.
Except you don't seem it.

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Has Gloria made you a cup of tea?
No tea, thank you, Billy.

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What did you want to speak to me
-about?
-Well, to know your plans.

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What next?

10
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Oh, I have been working on
something. Early days.

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Love early days. Carry on.

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It's about a woman, a writer, who
thinks - well, knows - her husband is
having an affair

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and that he wants to divorce her.

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-Madness, I know.
-Scandalous. Love it.

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Except she doesn't want a divorce
because she still loves him, you see?

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-Always has.
-Well, all aboard the
heartache express.

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-Ticket for Billy!
-So he has no other
choice but to kill her.

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Maybe, in fact, she just kills
herself.

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I just don't know yet.

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And that's when Hercule Poirot steps
in, am I right?

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Oh, no, it's not... It's not a
Poirot story.

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Or is it?

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Are you...? Are you telling me to put
-him in, Billy?
-Of course not.

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You're the writer.

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Only, Conan Doyle has bought half of
Sussex thanks to Sherlock Holmes.

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You know I don't care about the
money.

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Do you think, a hundred years from
now,

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anyone is going to remember the name
Agatha Christie?

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Give the people what they want -
the funny little Belgian with a
moustache.

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-I'll think about it.
-Attagirl.

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So....

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what does old Hercule P uncover this
time?

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Is it murder? Foul play?

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(DOOR CLOSES)

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(DOG BARKING)

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Chief Inspector Danders?

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Please stand back behind the rope,
ma'am. This is a crime scene.

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Dorothy L Sayers, the brains behind
the master investigator Lord Wimsey.

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-Lord who?
-Lord Peter Wimsey.

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From such hit novels as Whose Body
and Clouds Of Witness?

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Never heard of them. Now, if you'll
excuse me, Miss
Whatever-Your-Name-Was,

42
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I'm afraid I really am very busy.

43
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But who better to help you
investigate the disappearance of a
crime novelist

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that someone who understands
crime writing most intimately?
Someone like me.

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-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!
-At your
service.

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Sir, it is an honour, an honour
indeed.

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We could do with Sherlock on this
case, that's for sure.

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Dorothy L Sayers. Huge fan.

49
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Might I ask to join you? Be a Watson
to your Holmes, perhaps?

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(CHUCKLES)

51
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-Oh!
-But, Miss Sayers, Watson was a
man.

52
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Yes. I'm open to many new forms of
detection

53
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and, yes, the idea of a lady
detective may seem like the stuff of
science fiction to you and I,

54
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yet it could be invaluable to have
the mind of a lady to draw on.

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It would be an honour. How can I
help?

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Strong cup of tea and a biscuit, if
you would, Sayers.

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Now lead me to the crime scene.
This way, Sir Arthur.

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I'm not making tea.

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Now, I have to tell you, Newlands
Corner is a notorious spot for
suicides.

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Well, one thing is abundantly clear.

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This car was driven by a woman.

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Extraordinary. It's like having
Holmes himself walk amongst us.

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Well, how can you be so sure?

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Simple - the erratic parking style

65
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and the fact that the driver's side
mirror is down

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for the purposes of checking rouge
and maquilla.

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It's also registered to Agatha
Christie

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and was found with her driver's
licence inside, no?

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You seem willing to seize the first
information that comes to hand.

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Might I ask, was the car like this
when it was found?

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Yes - passenger door open, fur coat
and glove on the back seat, just so.

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A supposedly crashed car but no
out-of-control tyre tracks -

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nothing to suggest it came off the
road by accident.

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It almost looks staged.

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I would like to bring in an expert
to look at this, if I may.

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A man of science.

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(SIGHS)

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What exactly -?
Sh! You'll disturb his energy.

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Oh, sorry, it's very difficult to
get a signal from the spirit world
out here.

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You said he was a man of science.

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I'll have you know
Horace Lambardi is one of the most
highly respected psychic scientists

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in the country.

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There is an energy coming through.
It's a woman.

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Yeah, I can smell her perfume.

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Did the lady in question wear
-perfume?
-I don't know.

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It could be shampoo. Is it sham -?

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It is. She's nodding. Does the lady
in question have hair?

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-Yes!Yes!
-This is extraordinary.

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It must be Agatha.

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Oh! What is she saying, Horace?

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There's a letter coming through.
Erm...

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It might be an F.

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I. J. K. L. H...

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H, H, H...

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-Husband!
-That's it! H, H, H.

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H could mean anything. It could just
as easily mean house.

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The husband lives in a house with
Agatha,

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the same house she fled from.

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You've cracked it, Horace!
Well, that's settled.

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Tomorrow we shall head for the
Christie residence.

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I'd lay odds of two-to-one that the
husband is behind this.

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(LAUGHTER)

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Colonel Christie, Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle

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and Dorothy L, er, Sayers.

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Conan Doyle. What an absolute treat.
Huge Sherlock fan.

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Always telling Aggie,
"Come on, old girl.

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Why can't you write something
like that?"Too kind.

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Yes, I don't believe we've had
the pleasure.

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Ah, this is Nancy, Nancy Neele,
and Nancy is my blacksmith.

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-Your blacksmith?
-Yes.

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This is the '20s, you know.

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Ladies can pretty much do as they
please.

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I'm delighted to meet you, Miss
-Neele.
-Yes. Likewise.

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-I'm a friend of your wife.
-We're
assisting the police in their search
for Agatha.

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Absolutely delighted to hear it. I've
been sick with worry.

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Yes, well, I'm sorry to have to tell
you that, er...

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your wife is dead.

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-Dead?
-What?

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Yes, shocking news, I grant you,

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but as soon as we've located the
cadaver, then all will become clear.

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-Of course.
-This is madness. It's all
nonsense.

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Dorothy, can we just have a quiet
word?

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We have no evidence to suggest
Agatha is dead, Sir Arthur.

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Can't you see I was just doing it to
gauge the man's reaction?

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Oh!

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Oh, I see.

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I say! That is rather clever.
Of course it is.

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And look at him - the man's a wreck.

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(DANCE-BAND MUSIC)

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But surely -I think it best if you
just left the rest to me.

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Fine. You keep them busy. I'm going
to take a look around.

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Dorothy!

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You told the press her husband
murdered her.

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I know. Cunning, we thought, eh?

135
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Sir Arthur thought that. I didn't
think it, not once.

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Obviously, having you work with us
has been a huge honour, Sir Arthur,

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but I think it might be better for
us to part ways.

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I don't understand. Are you
-resigning?
-No.

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No, I'm not resigning.

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It's just all getting a bit out of
hand.

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00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:04,920
We've got sightings coming in from
Harrogate to Hebden Bridge.

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00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,280
-It's madness!
-And you have
investigated them?

143
00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:09,400
Oh, honestly, Miss Sayers!

144
00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,080
Most of them are in some hydro spa
place.

145
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We can't very well go barging in
when people are trying to relax.

146
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Oh, no, no. Absolutely. Indeed.

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Look, I may not have been entirely
following police protocol

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by allowing you in on the case.

149
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And now we've brought shame on the
investigation and the police force.

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By being too good, yes.

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So you would like us to carry on
but...anonymously.

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Absolutely not.

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-Just me?
-Neither of us, Arthur.
We're off the case.

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(KNOCKING)

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Sorry to bother you, sir. The
Commissioner needs to speak to you.

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If you'll excuse me.

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00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:06,360
(SIGHS)

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00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,960
Damn it! We were getting so close.

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00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,720
But I think the answer might be
right here, anyway.

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Just look.

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"And so she chose instead to head
for the very place she was meant to
be."

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Just look at the map.

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Well, the problem is that we have
been trying to solve this ourselves,

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rather than being guided by the
spirits.

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By choosing random letters, the
spirits will guide me to their
messages

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and, by association, Agatha's
corpse.

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One banana...

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L.

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Two bananas...

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I.

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-Three bananas.
-Oh, stop, please!

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M. Four bananas.

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A. L-I-M-A.

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Lima! It's Peru!

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She's not in Peru. She's in
Harrogate.

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I should book us tickets on the next
boat.

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We should be there within the year.

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00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:07,760
Well, at least you came to your
senses about that Horace Lambardi
charlatan.

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00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,280
Now, now. Horace is a man of great
talents.

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00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:14,360
Oh, please. Anyone could have got H,
H, H.

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Harrogate Hydro Hotel.

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00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,960
By God, Lambardi! You're right
again.

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Quick! To King's Cross. We must
catch the next train to Harrogate.

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And to think that you wanted us to
go all the way to Peru.

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(TRAIN CHUFFING)

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(WHISTLE BLOWS)

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I've invited all the suspects.
They're arriving on the next train.

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The spirit world may have brought us
to this place

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but it is my deductions that will
determine

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which of them killed Agatha
Christie.

191
00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,320
But what if she's not dead?

192
00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:06,640
Yes. We require two rooms

193
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and access to a drawing room that
has no secret passageways.

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00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,800
It's for an accusation and so we may
need staff on standby.

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There's sure to be a lot of
fainting.

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-Neele.
-I will make my way to the
drawing room

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and prepare for the accusation.

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00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,360
I imagine you have things to attend
to first,

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like waxing hats and that kind of
business.

200
00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:31,920
I wonder, might it possible to talk
to Miss Neele in room 414?

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Oh, the South African lady.
Certainly.

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If you can catch her between songs.
Sorry?

203
00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,680
Spent most of this week in the Palm
Room.

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Singing.

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(PIANO PLAYING)

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♪ Baby face

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♪ You've got
the cutest little baby face

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♪ There's not another one
to take your place, baby face

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♪ My h-heart is jumping
You sure have started something

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♪ Baby face

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♪ I'm up in heaven
when I'm in your fond embrace

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00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,920
♪ I didn't need a shove
Cos I just fell in love

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♪ With your pretty baby face. ♪

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You're probably wondering why I've
gathered you all here.

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Dragging me halfway across the
country

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after I expressly told you to stay
out, this had better be good, Conan
Doyle.

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00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,520
Oh, it's good, Danders.

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You see, one of the people in this
very room is guilty

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of the murder of Agatha Christie.

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What? She's... She's dead?

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♪ Yes, we have no bananas

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♪ We have no bananas today. ♪

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(CHUCKLES) Thank you.

224
00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:10,080
Hello, Agatha.

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00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:17,080
The question is, who committed the
crime?

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Was it her publisher?

227
00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:22,280
With Agatha dead, her sales would
surely sky-rocket.

228
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Or if she stayed alive

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she could just carry on writing
lots more books for us,

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so...

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Mm.

232
00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:38,440
But you're not the only one who
would benefit financially from
Agatha's death.

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Is he, Colonel Christie?

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You're a tricky woman to find.

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Not as tricky as I'd hoped,
evidently.

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00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:50,680
Well, that's the thing with us
writers.

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We can't help but leave little clues
in our writing.

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Ingenious, really, that story in
here,

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about the wife fearing murder by her
husband.

240
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It placed everyone's suspicions on
Archie.

241
00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,200
-More tea?
-Thank you. Although you've
got it quite the wrong way round.

242
00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,600
My plan was never to draw attention
to Archie.

243
00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,040
It was to draw his attention to me.

244
00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,600
I wanted him to come and find me to
show that he loved me

245
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and not her.
Nancy Neele.

246
00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:20,280
It was checking in under her surname
that confirmed to me
that you were here.

247
00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:23,600
Yes, a juvenile gesture when one is
pushed to the edge.

248
00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:25,640
I'm Mrs Christie, not her.

249
00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:31,040
You're not married, are you, Dorothy?

250
00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,600
Well, in many ways, I consider
myself

251
00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:35,600
married to my work
and Lord Peter...

252
00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:39,320
-No, I'm not married.
-It was to save
our marriage.

253
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Now look at this mess. A nationwide
manhunt.

254
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Not to mention a huge waste of
police time.

255
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Yes, thank you, Dorothy.

256
00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,120
Are you wearing my fur?

257
00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:58,800
For a decent Englishman to be
financially dependent upon his wife

258
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would be beyond the pale.

259
00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:02,240
I love Agatha.

260
00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,240
NANCY: Really?!

261
00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,200
OK. But I wouldn't kill her.

262
00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:11,400
No, you wouldn't.

263
00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:16,920
It became clear to me early on that
there was something different about
this disappearance.

264
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The cunning little clues, the staged
nature of the details.

265
00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:26,920
This, Danders, was the work of a
woman.

266
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But no woman would have the strength
to murder someone

267
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and then drag the body from a car.

268
00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:36,800
No woman.

269
00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:39,440
Except for a blacksmith.

270
00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,840
You killed her!

271
00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:45,760
Except, firstly, I'm not a
blacksmith.

272
00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:50,360
And secondly, I have an alibi for the
night of her disappearance.

273
00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:52,920
Well, I was with Archie.

274
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In bed.
(GASPS)

275
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God! The bare-faced impropriety of
it.

276
00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,960
If there wasn't a lady present I
would light my pipe right now.

277
00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,360
You can do what you like. Archie and
I are in the clear.

278
00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,880
Well, I was rather counting on it
being one of you

279
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but erm...

280
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Well, OK, but just bear with me.

281
00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:15,240
Erm... Yeah, I'll...

282
00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,720
I'll get to the bottom of this.

283
00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:19,760
Why don't you just grant him the
divorce?

284
00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:21,560
Start over again - a new chapter.

285
00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,080
Because life isn't a novel, Dorothy
dear,

286
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and there are no happy endings for
any of us, just endings.

287
00:19:28,360 --> 00:19:31,280
You can't look at it like that.
I know but it's the truth.

288
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I love him.

289
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I just...can't face starting all over
again. I just can't.

290
00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:48,040
There's always that moment, isn't
there, when you start a new novel,

291
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that mix of fear and excitement?

292
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Yes.

293
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That moment is now for you.
The page is blank.

294
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You can write anything you like with
any of the characters you choose.

295
00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,400
No, but the scandal is...

296
00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:07,720
Not necessarily.

297
00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:13,080
I think between us we can come up
with something that tidies this
whole mess under the carpet.

298
00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,280
A little collaboration, you think?

299
00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,560
Waitress, another pot, please.

300
00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:27,920
But of course, you didn't have to be
there in person to murder Agatha.

301
00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,600
You could pay somebody to commit
murder,

302
00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,200
somebody strong enough
to shove a car off the road

303
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or to haul a body away -

304
00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,520
not a man but a... but, but, but...

305
00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,680
But a great ape!

306
00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,320
I think we might be better drawing
this to a close.

307
00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:47,360
No! No, no, no, no.
Please hear me out.

308
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,480
I did it once in a Holmes story.
It's a stretch but -

309
00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,120
-Sir Arthur?Oh, Dorothy.
-Might I...?

310
00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,320
Wait. Wait a minute.

311
00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:59,120
Driven by professional jealousy.

312
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,480
A more successful writer. Eaten up
by envy.

313
00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:05,840
You killed Agatha.

314
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,360
No?

315
00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,000
Thank you for keeping everyone busy,
as we agreed.

316
00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:13,880
Did we? You're welcome.

317
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:15,920
Ladies and gentlemen,

318
00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,480
Mrs Agatha Christie.

319
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:26,680
Aggie! You're alive.

320
00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,280
What happened?

321
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,400
You'd better have a damn good
explanation, young lady.

322
00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,280
Er... I do.

323
00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:38,520
You see, I went for a drive
on the night of the disappearance.

324
00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:44,400
I veered off the road, what with
having womanly concerns on my mind.

325
00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,200
-Seems feasible so far.
-I'll say.

326
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,160
When I came to I had no idea where I
was

327
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,280
I'd entered a kind of...

328
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,280
fugue state.

329
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,000
-I wandered for miles.
-Poor lamb!

330
00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,880
I must have wandered to King's Cross
and jumped on a train

331
00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:02,000
and then I ended up

332
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:03,480
here.

333
00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,200
Well, this clears everything up.
A fugue state!

334
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,800
Of course. No wonder. An automobile
crash.

335
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:16,200
Doubtless the strain of worrying
about the damage you'd caused your
husband's car

336
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:20,280
was enough to send your poor mind
over the edge.

337
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:26,200
A fugue state.

338
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,640
Congratulations, Sir Arthur.

339
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,960
You've done it again.
(CHUCKLES)

340
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,080
Oh, goodness.

341
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,160
MEN: Agatha! Agatha!
Colonel Christie!

342
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,240
-Colonel Christie!
-Agatha!

343
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:48,840
You played Watson to my Holmes well.
He's always two steps behind.

344
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:50,480
You thought she was dead.

345
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,760
Sir Arthur, you've wrapped up another
mystery.

346
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,160
Oh, please, please.

347
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:59,800
I may have tidied up this entire
mystery into a neat little package

348
00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:01,640
but I...I didn't do it alone.

349
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:06,880
No, there was someone else here who
cracked open this entire mystery.

350
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,440
The spirit world.

351
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,440
Sir Arthur, what are your views on
the Cottingley fairies?

352
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:17,280
Well, I don't have one yet. It's an
area that requires investigation.

353
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,040
Dorothy, my bags. We haven't a
minute to lose.

354
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,640
I'm not helping you investigate
-fairies.
-Oh, come, come, my Watson.

355
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,880
The game's afoot.

356
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,000
(SIGHS)

357
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:29,160
For God's sake.

358
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,280
Fine. But I'm only coming with you
to get a lift to the station.

359
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,840
You know Cottingley is on our route
-back to London?
-No, it isn't.

360
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,320
I believe it could be.
That's the trouble with you, Arthur.

361
00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:50,600
You could believe anything.

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