All language subtitles for Maigret S02E01 Shadow Play_Track03-eng

{upbeat jazzy music)

- And stop quarrelling
or you'll both go to bed

(trash can clattering)

(knocking on door)

Mr. Couchet?

You all right?

{woman screaming)

{woman screaming)

(dramatic theme music)

- You found him like this?

- I saw his shadow, you see, from outside

And it was long after the
time he usually went home

and I thought he might have fallen asleep

So I came in,

and there he was.

- Take a look around, Lucas

Why'd you ring us and
not the local police?

- Because of the noise.

I didn't want them
roaring up in their vans

with their sires blaring

and clattering in with their great boots.

- There's been a murder, madame

He's been shot.

- There are more important
things than murder

at the moment.

Madame Saint-Marc.

They have the first floor
flat overlooking the square

He used to be a diplomat

She's having a baby

It started about an hour ago

It's her first and she
hasn't been at all well.

- It's a laboratory

- [Maigret] Anything in there?

- Six guinea pigs

- What?

- They use them for the serum.

- For what?

- Dr. Rivere's serum.

You must have heard of it.

It's advertised in all the papers

It prolongs life

- Oh, is he Dr. Rivere?

- Oh no, no.

The doctor's been dead for years.

That's Monsieur Couchet,
one of the partners

- Any other partners?

- Yes, Monsieur Phillipe

- His phone number?

- Pical nine, four, eight, four

- Uh no, Lucas, not that one

The back on the corner.

- [Lucas] And the local squad?

- Yes, better have them all

- Oh.

- Very hard to have a
quiet murder, madame

- Poor Madame Saint-Marc.

I'll warn her husband.

{knocking on desk)

{woman screaming)

-Ohit's me.

Police, quiet now

Come outside.

Here, sit here.

(woman crying)

He's been shot.

- Him?

- [Maigret] You vrere his wife?

- Not his wife.

- [Maigret] Has he got one?

- Yes.

They have a big flat on the Bolivar House

- [Maigret] And you?

- Hotel Pical, house Pical.

- [Maigret] Your name?

- Nina Marnall.

But how did this happen?

He had no enemies.

- Any money?

- Yes plenty

- Supported you, huh?

- No, but when [ got in trouble

I'd just ask and he'd give it to me

{sirens blaring)

- There, what did I say!

Noisy beasts!

What did I tell you?

Poor madame.

Oh, here is Monsieur
Saint-Marc coming down now

- There you go

Partners on his way, Maigret

- Good, get the photographs
and take him away.

I want the calibre of the
gun as soon as possible

- Right this way, will you

Watch it for fingerprints

- Wait here.

- If Monsieur Saint-Marc has been sent out

that means it won't be long

- Yeah.

Do you see who comes in
and out of this courtyard?

- Not unless they come in for their mail

There's no decent light, you see.

They're all shadows past the door to me

What's that?

- Just the photographer

Sorry to bother you at a
time like this, Monsieur

- Well you have your duty

- Have you been down here
earlier this evening?

- Once or twice.

One becomes rather restless
on these occasions.

- Did you notice anything unusual”?

- Unusual?

No, I wouldn't say that

Not unusual.

Excuse me.

- Quiet!

Must you make so much noise”

Hasn't the poor lady
troubles enough as it is?

- Your name, madame?

- Oh it's old Mathilde.

They live up under the roof,

Here, put the lid on!

We don't want your garbage
stinking up the courtyard

Oh, they're trying to get rid of her,

but they can't while she pays the rent.

(woman moaning)

Oh that's her sister.

Madeleine, she is.

Howls like a dog when she's left alone

- All finished?

- Let's have the photographs,
as soon as you can, will you?

- Shot through the heart
between nine and 10

as near as they can judge

- Is it true?

Is he dead?

- Monsieur?

- Phillipe

I'm Mr Couchet's partner.

- Ch thank you very much for
come so promptly, Monsieur

When did you last see Mr. Couchet?

- A fortnight ago

- Before that?

- Well he was semi-retired.

He'd come in once a week to
see how things were going

but otherwise he left it to me.

- Did you like him?

- Very much

Why is the safe open?

- Why is it empty?

- There was 60,000 francs in there

- [Man] There's the motive, bet on

- Perhaps.

- 40,000 in new notes and 20,000 in old

- Is there another way inte this place?

- Another door outside.

That leads straight into the laboratory

Beyond that are the washrooms

- I see.

Take a look around, Lucas

Take him through

I wanna know if anything's been disturbed

- Right.

After you, Monsieur

(chair scraping)

- Everything's all right

- What?

- She's had a son.

- Ch good, good

- She's sleeping now.

I do hope there won't be much more noise

- We'll do our best, madame

{upbeat jazzy music)

- Listen to those girls

I told them.

I'l go and break those
records over their heads.

- Which is their room?

- Up there

They work in an office

- Hello.

Do the rag pickers
usually work on Saturday”?

- I should hope not

Hi, you

Oh Monsieur Martin.

Are you looking for something?

- My glove.

I dropped it somewhere.

Perhaps on my way out

I came down earlier with
the rubbish, you see,

and dropped it in there.

- What time did you come down”

- Who are you?

- The police officer.

- Monsieur Couchet has been murdered.

- No,

no I don't believe it.

- And Madame Saint-Marc has had a son.

Tell your wife.

She'll be interested.

- Tell my wife?

- What does he do?

- He's a civil servant.

Works in the registrar's office, poor man

- Why poor man?

- Oh his wife goes on at him.

Nag, nag, nag

And he never answers back.

- Everything's as it should be

- Good.

- Whoever did it knew what he wanted.

- You mean the money?

- Of course.

- I don't think so.

Look.

He was sitting in his chair

Lying back, safe behind him

Do you really that somebody came in

and shot him

and then moved him out of the way,

opened the safe, took the money,

closed it and then carefully
moved it back again”

- Perhaps he came in and
found them at the safe

- And then sat down here?

- No.

What could have happened?

- Well that seems to be our problem.

I expect you've work
of your own, Monsieur?

- [Man] We have your address

- Thank you for your help

- Anything else I can do, [ will.

He was a good man

- Right.

Names of all the tenants,

Names and addresses of the lab staff.

Check on Monsieur Phillipe's record.

Numbers of the stolen notes, if any.

And a state of the company's finances

There's a concierge, get her husband

- [Man] Can't think of anything else?

- Yeah, bed

- Onion soup first?

- No, net tonight

Should be a car outside.

They'll drop you off.

- What about you?

- I'm only around the comer

I can walk home.

- Oh, you better take the key.

- Oh thanks.

- Goodnight Maigret

- Goodnight Degalle

Oh hello.

- You said to wait.

- Yes, I am sorry

I kept you waiting so long

Would you say he was a good man”?

- Oh yes

He was wonderful.

- [Maigret] Generous, huh?

- Very.

You should see the way he tipped

People used to take advantage of him

but he didn't seem to mind.

- [Maigret] Why did you come here tonight”?

- We were meeting for
dinner at the Cafe Select.

He was supposed to come along at 8:30.

Well at 10 to nine I phoned here

but the number was engaged

so I thought he must have
been kept on business

So I ate dinner

and then I came along here afterwards

{indistinct mumbling)

- What'll you do?

- I'l get a job dancing
at the Moulin Bleu.

It's where I worked before.

- But we shall still find
you at the Hotel Pical, huh?

- As long as I can afford it, yes.

Oh...

Well it's rather awkward, you see

The man was so free with his money

I never asked him for more than I needed.

I didn't want him to be too extravagant

Well, tonight I was going
to ask him for some.

- Are you broke?

- Yes.

You see I ate while I was
waiting at the Select

Oysters and l'anguest,

thinking that he'd come

Well I haven't enough money to get home

I wouldn't want you to
think I was begging

- It's all right

Pay me back sometime

- Can I come to your office”

- I should be coming to your hotel

{baby crying)

(door slamming)

(radio static buzzing)

- My glove.

- You left it behind.

- Here?

- Where do you think?

(upbeat marching band music)

{can rattling)

{gentle jazzy music)

(knocking on door)

- Yeah?

- May I come in”?

- Oh, it's you

What time is it?

- [Maigret] 9:30.

- Oh it's early for me

Don't suppose it is for you, though

Would you mind drawing the curtains?

- Um hum.

- Cafe Compleat please, one

Would you like some?

- No.

- Ne, just one

Thank you

I'm afraid I haven't got the money vet.

- Oh that's all right.

How will you get it?

- Sell those.

Not that they're worth much

- Did he give you these”?

- Yes.

Wanted to give me better ones

but I wouldn't let him.

- Why not?

- I liked him.

Besides, I wasn't worth much more

{tapping on door)

Thank you

- Did he make a will?

- I have no idea.

I shouldn't think so.

He didn't like to think about death.

He was afraid.

- Of someone?

- No.

Just of dying

{speaking in foreign language)

- Oh Nina, I'm sorry, I didn't
know you had someone in

- Oh that's all right, come in.

This is Celine.

She lives next door through there.

Haven't any cigarettes.

- Doesn't matter darling

Roger's got a visitor

- Roger's her friend.

Very early.

- And poor Roger's feeling frightful.

We were on the Eastern last night

I don't care for it really.

It's better for Roger than do

Don't you think?

- Ch undoubtedly.

- I'm a bit woozy.

You know and awful thing's happened

Roger's father's been killed

Someone shot him.

There's a ladder in
this stocking, darling

- Someone shot him?

What's Roger's other name?

- Couchet.

Oh no, wait, who are you?

- He's from the police

- [Celine] You're major--
- It's all right

He's very nice
- Why's he here?

Is it because of this?

- Did you know that
Couchet used to come here?

- Not really.

- What do you mean not really?

- You know how it is.

We keep out of each other's way

One likes to be discreet.

- Monsieur Roger?

- What the devil do you want”?

- Chief Inspector Maigret

Criminal justice

- Well get back in there
with your girlfriend

- The inspector's on the case

- The case of your father, I understand

- So?

- So, I'd like a word with you

Where were you last night?

- Out.

- You do want his
murderer found, don't you?

- I went to the Cafe Select
to look for the old man

- Did you find him?

- No, I did not

I waited around for an hour or two

and then I joined Celine
in the bar next door.

Ask her.

- [Maigret] Why did you
want to see your father?

- Familial affection.

- [Maigret] Or money?

- Same thing.

- What else are you living on?

- Money

- Whose?
- Mine.

- Really Roger, I do think you ought to

answer the inspector's questions

- Shut up you ald foal

- Where do you fit into this
picture, Monsieur Martin?

- I am Roger's stepfather

- Handsome one, isn't he?

- And your wife was
married to Couchet once?

- Yes, she was Couchet's first wife

- Now that the great detective
has finally got there

would you mind very much clearing out

befare you're thrown out?

I wanna get dressed

{suspenseful music)

- You do understand that I come here

out of a sense of duty

And not because of any
dealings that I've had

with my first husband

- Of course, madame

Do sit down.

- Thank you

He was not a man that I
ever wish to see again

- [Man] Could I have
your maiden name, please?

- Melanie Ballange

I was born at Charte

where my father was a confectioner.

In a big way of business

I mean I didn't have to
serve behind the counter.

(chuckling)

- How old were you when you
married Monsieur Couchet?

- 20, he was travelling
for a firm at the time.

- [Man] Oh, monsieur

- Oh he was full of tales
- Madame Martin.

about all the money he was going to make

Wasn't until after we were married

I found that he hadn't
a proper job at all

- [Man] What was the cause of divorce”

- Incompatibility.

Who is this?

- This is Chief Inspector Maigret

- Madame.

I've just been talking to your husband.

And your son

- You followed Martin there, how dare you!

- No, no madame

I met him quite by accident.

Tell me, did you marry Monsieur Martin

as soon as you divorced Mr. Couchet?

- Almost at once.

He had rooms in the same block.

Mind you nothing improper took place

- Well no, I can quite well believe it

- Of course if I had
known then what I know now

it would have been different.

- What do you knows now?

- That Martin is a feeble little man

who let's himself be
superseded in the office

without a word.

He'll go on earning a pittance

until he retires on a smaller one.

- [Maigret] While Couchet grew rich”?

- I can't how it can't be honestly

I can tell you it was a terrible moment

when we moved into our
flat in Plats d'Avouge

and found Couchet's
laboratory and store there

- [Maigret] Couldn't you move”?

- If we wanted to.

But you knows what it's
like finding anywhere

- Were you still on
speaking terms with Couchet?

- No, and I've never had
a soul for him either.

- How about his son?

- He ruined him by giving him money

whenever he asked for it.

And in the early days when
it would have helped not to

- Where did your present
husband go last night?

- Fora walk

- Does he often go for walks”?

- At times.

Shouldn't he?

- Well, did he find his glove?

- Well he left it behind,

if that's of any interest to you.

Really, when I came here
out of a sense of duty

I expected more sensible questions

- I haven't anything else to ask him then.

Okay?

- [Man] This way, madame.

- I'am deeply grateful to you, madame

Poor woman.

- Poor husband.

- She marries Couchet, he's go not money

So she divorces him and marries Martin.

Then not only does Martin stay poor

and Couchet grow rich

but she has to take a flat where she,

watches Couchet coining the stuff daily

Oh it's hard.

- I have the report on the firm

- Good
- Quite solid.

Big export trade

- Inspector, Madame Couchet to
see you in the waiting room

- Good, send her in

- Madame Couchet?

Is this wife number two?

- Yeah, the widow

See her in.

- [Lucas] Ah madame, this way

- My condolences, madame.

I was coming to you, but...

- To no importance, Monsieur

And I prefer to be out of the house

while they bring my poor husband

- Naturally

Well then would you let
me have your full name?

- Madeleine Couchet.

Nee Donwell.

- [Maigret] And your address”?

- 188 Boulvar Ulsman.

- [Maigret] How long
have you been married?

- We had been married five years

- Did you know his former wife?

- [Madeleine] Ne, I did not

- What did he think of her?

- He would have hated her if
he'd been capable of hatred

As it was, he felt sorry for her.

Because he said nothing
would ever satisfy her.

- I see.

Do you love your husband, madame?

- We were very happily married.

- Did you know anything about
a girl called Nina Moune?

- Nothing.

- Has a will been found yet?

- No so far.

I imagine the estate will be divided

between myself and his son.

- Oh, Roger, yes.

What do you think of your stepson?

- I only met him once

I found him lacking in charm

Raymond did not encourage
him to come to the flat

- [Maigret] He gave him money”

- Roger would turn up at
the office, I understand,

and ask for it.

Raymond was overgenerous

He used to say he'd had enough pinching

and scraping in his life

- All right.

Well thank you very much, madame

If the will should be
found, you'll let me know?

- Naturally

Good day, monsieur

- Coed day, madame

- Madame.

- Thank you

- Most impressive

- An aristocrat to bourgeois,
and a working girl

- He was quite a sociologist.

- He was quite a lad

You know, I like him

At least he kept two women happy,

which is more than you or I could do

- Well I don't know about that.

- Don't boast, Lucas

Sir?

- [Lucas] Oh, one of them
must have left it here.

- The first.

I'll take it back this afternoon.

- Do you want me to stay here?

- No, hand over to Javier

I've got another job for you

There's a picture of Roger
Couchet, the stepson

Now he says that he was up at
the Cafe Select last night

Take it up there and check.

- Anything else you
want to know about him?

- Yeah.

Find out if he murdered his father.

I'll give you a day off.

- Right.

{doorbell ringing)

- Ah monsieur.

Oh how very kind of you, inspector

Do come in, won't you?

- Thank you madame.

- I was afraid I might
have left it on a bus.

I told Martin to inquire about
it on his way to the office

- He's gone to work?

- Oh yes

He wouldn't dare to ask for a day off.

Do sit down.

- No thank you

I mustn't stay.

You see all of that,
the courtyard from here

- [Martin] Such as it is

- What a pity you weren't
looking out last night

From my point of view, I mean

It would have been terrible for you

Standing here looking down

you would have seen someone
threaten your former husband

No, you'd have seen more than that.

You'd have seen Couchet go out, I think.

Through the laboratory,
into the wash place

Yeah.

Then someone would have come in,

gone to the safe and taken the money

And then perhaps been caught with it

when Couchet returned.

Why did he sit down again?

That's the problem

I wonder if he knew the thief?

Yeah, I think that's it.

He knows him.

He sits, he accuses him

He tells him to return the money

And then I think you
would have seen him reach

for the telephone

- If I'd been at the window.

- If you'd been at the window.

{baby crying)

- That's Martin's, left her alone again.

And I know why

- Get out, you prying
devil, you'll be listening!

Get away from this door!

Both ought to be locked up

It's disgraceful.

Filthy old couple like this in a place

that's supposed to be respectable.

- Do they live above you?

- In one room.

- Wonder if they can
see into the courtyard?

- I really couldn't say.

- Nope

The roof overhangs

Blocks their view.

You seem to be the only one

- I really regret not having looked out

- I'm sure you do, madame

- Thank you for bringing my umbrella

- Oh no you don't!

Don't you dare!

You know the rules as well as I do.

No rubbish to be brought down

before seven o'clock.

- Well it's down now.

- Well then you can take it up again

Oh yes you can.

Go on!

I'll go to the police about you

I'l tell the landlords.

Then they'll be able to get rid of you

And don't [eave it on the stairs

for someone to trip over

Oh, they try it on you now.

She'd bring the rubbish
down here in the morning

if I didn't watch her.

And have these stinking all day.

- Do you have to carry the bins

out in the street in the dustmen come?

- Well, I haven't been able to

for the last two years.

Not ever since my husband died

He used to give me a hand

- Now I give the man a glass
of wine from time to time,

and they do it for me

- Inspector, telephone call.

- Well, thank you

The dustmen been today?

- Yeah, six o'clock as usual

- Thank you
(can rattling)

- I'll leave you

No, no, it's all right.

Maigret.

- Maigret, the barman at the Select

says that Roger Couchet
was there this morning.

No, no, he didn't see him last night,

but Couchet says he was there

When he asked for a drink this morning

the barman said, "What?"

And Couchet said, "A gin fizz,

same as last night

Don't you remember?"

- Did he remember?

No.

Well, I'm not surprised

he needed that alibi.

Now Lucas, I've got a
very nice job for you

I'want you to go down to
the municipal garbage depot

- Thank you, Maigret.

Which one?

- Well, the one that
covers the Plas d'Vouge

And you better get a move on

because they collected
at six this morning

- Right, what am I looking for?

I see.

Good, au revoir

Lucky, a dip in a rubbish dump.

{motor humming)

{metal clattering)

{suspenseful music)

{doorbell ringing)

- She's asleep

- I came to see how she was.

- Just for that?

- Well, I have other business here.

The concierge told me she's ill

- It's her nerves, you know

Her nerves.

- Does she often suffer from them”

- Before we were married, yes.

But now...

- Yeah?

- I understand her, you see

I know that any contradictional argument

can drive her into a frenzy.

- So always agree with her?

- Yes.

Otherwise it would be terrible.

- Last night you disagreed?

- Oh no, nothing like that.

She had a crisis.

- Over nothing?

Did she have some visitors,

her son for instance?

- Nobody but you

- What do you think of her son”

- Roger?

Oh Roger's not a bad boy

He's foolish, of course, but

- What are you talking about?

- Dear, you shouldn't have got up

Here, hang on to me

- No, what good would that be?

You have no strength

Inspector, would you?

I'm sorry to be so foolish.

Afraid it's my nerves

- I gather that you haven't had

one of these attacks for some time.

- Not for years

As a child I used to have them every week,

and my sister too

She married a worthless creature as well.

Do you know what he did?

- No the inspector doesn't--

- Ch don't interrupt mel

One day when she was having
one of these nervous crises

he had her put into a place

You understand?

- A mental home?

- Yes.

A week later she died.

That's what he wanted.

That's what he did it for.

A few months later he
married another woman.

That's a man for you

They're all alike

You work yourself to death for them

And all they want is to destroy you

- Please, please, don't
excite yourself, my dear

- Wasn't talking about you

God knows you're no better
than the rest of them

{doorbell ringing)

- Yes.

- Is the inspector here?
- Yes he's talking to my wife

- Telephone, inspector.

- I'll come down.

Look after yourself, madame

- You know really my dear,

you shouldn't have got up

- This place is a pig sty.

You've done nothing about cleaning it

- There hasn't really
been time, has there?

I haven't even had time to tell the office

why I'm absent

- Inspector.

- [Maigret] Monsieur?

- One thing about the
evening of the murder

- I'l tell them to hang on

- Thank you

Yes?

- You asked me if anything
unusual had happened,

and I said no,

but perhaps there is
something I should mention

Madame Martin.

- Yes?

- I came down soon after
eight, I suppose it was,

ta get a breath of air

And I saw her.

- What was she doing?

- She was digging about
in one of the dustbins.

- What?

Did she see you?

- Oh yes

I asked her what she was doing

and she said that a silver spoon

had been thrown out by accident.

- Thank you very much, monsieur.

Maigret.

- Your assistant told me where you were

and suggested that I spoke to you direct.

We have found a document
purporting to be a will

I say proporting

It has not been properly drawn up

and does not include his son.

He leaves his entire estate
in three equal parts,

one to myself, one to Madame
Martin, his first wife,

and one to this Nina Mouna.

I shall fight it, inspector

And sc I presume will his son

(slow jazzy music)

(coughing)

(knocking on door)

- Yes?

Oh it's you.

What do you want?

- Your father's will has been found.

- Well?

It's nothing to do with you.

Go back to sleep

- Very odd will

Your mother, your stepmother

and Nina Monauge share everything

- What, this Nina next door?

- [Maigret] Um hum.

- Well, well

- Nothing for you

You're not interested?

- No.

Cold.

- You got any money?

- I wouldn't know.

- Well, are you earning anything?

- Me, no

- Have you any savings?

- Look and see.

- 40 francs.

- I wish you'd go away.

- [Maigret] Are you
going to fight the will?

- No
- [Maigret] Why not?

- Because I'm not a fighter

- Or is the 60,000 you took
from your father's safe enough

- Say that again?

- The 60,000 francs you took
from your father's safe--

(girl screaming)

Calm down.

- Yes sir, I have

- Well what are you going
to do without money?

Can't go to your father now

Have you got a gun”

- Yes.
- Where is it?

- In my trouser pocket

Wash basin.

That's the door.

- What did he want?

- [Roger] Heard

- Thought you were gaing to hit him

- Yes, so did I for a moment

Celine?

Pretty.

- No, I'm skinny

- Yes, but pretty

- Coffee?

You know I have to get some money

We can't go on living on nothing

Two cafe complait please

I suppose I could always

Roger?

(indistinct chatter)

{Celine screaming)

- Cold.

(phone clicking)

Police headquarters, Quai d'Orfevres

- He's dead.

Why?

- It wasn't exactly the end of the road

I suppose he could see that
there was no end to it

Couchet has left you a
third of his fortune.

- Me?

- But you may have to fight for it

Maigret
(slow jazzy music)

{suspenseful music)

- You must be tired of sitting there

- I like it.

I get paid for it.

- Well I have to go now

We've people in for dinner

- Good.

Leave the key, I'll lock up

I'l give it to the concierge

- Turn off the light?

- Yeah.

Hold it.

- Carry on quite normally.

Don't say goodnight

- All right Lucas

Will you go after him?

You know what to do.

I'll come down to the Plas d'Vouge

(indistinct chatter)

(slow jazzy music)

(woman moaning)

One moment, madame

- Don't like the police.

- Madame, you listen at doors, eh?

- They hate me

I like ta know what they're up to

- Did you listen on the
night madame fell ill?

What did you hear?

- She shouted at him.

- Why?

- Because he hadn't
brought the money back

- [Lucas] Maigret?

- Inspector, I protested
being brought back like this

- The Plasis Express.

- Uh huh.

How's your wife?

- Did you go off to Belgium?

- It was extremely urgent.

- Well, let's go see how she is, shall we?

(woman moaning)

{door banging)

- Who's there, who's there?

What are you doing here?

- Madame.

- [Martin] Oh you mustn't, she's illl

{paper rustling)

- From a firm of lawyers, dated today.

- It came by hand this afternoon

- Dear Madame, in response by inquiries

made by your husband

When did you go to them?

- At lunchtime.

The police told us about Roger,

and my wife naturally wanted
to get the legal position

in regard to the will at once

- The legal position is that

no testament can bar
the right of inheritance

of a legitimate son,

but with Roger dead and Nina
Monage's share being contested,

your wife stands to inherit
not a third, but a half

Total value of the estate

being in the region of one
and a half million francs.

Madame suddenly lost no time

- No, I protest you mustn't, she's lll

- There are questions which
must be asked, monsieur

- Then ask me.

She knows nothing.

- You do?

I'm ready to make a full confession

- Of what?

- Of robbery and murder

- Okay

Very well, sit down

Now monsieur,

tell me what happened

- Well, Melanie, that's my wife,

all the time she was becoming
more and more bitter

She could see Couchet down there.

- [Maigret] Don't tell me why you did it,

just what you did

- Oh, of course

- I went down that night
about eight o'clock

I could see from the window that Couchet

had gone to the wash place

so I went down.

The safe was open

I'd just taken the
money when he came back

He said he was going to ring the police

So I shot him.

- [Maigret] With your own gun?

- Yes.

I've had it for a long time

No permit, I'm afraid.

- That's the least of your worries.

What did you do after the murder?

- I went out and I walked.

I don't know where but I ended
up on the Isle St. Louis

There was nobody had about

so I threw the money in the river.

- You threw 60 000 franks into the river?

- Yes.

- Having killed a man to get it?

- I didn't want it anymore

- Lucas, get the man's case

- I swear.

That's the truth.

- You open your suitcase?

Did you pack this?

- Yes.

- Clean underwear.

Everything wrapped in
paper, beautifully neat

You're much better at packing

than you are at housekeeping, monsieur

You were going to Brussels, eh”

- Yes, I knevr you were suspecting me

I'd seen your detective
following me earlier today

So I decided to make a break for it

while there was still time.

- And what would you have done

when you got to Belgium?

- I really don't know

Perhaps I shouldn't have given myself up.

Shall I bring these things with me?

- No, one moment, monsieur

- I told you everything.

- No, not everything

What did you do with the gun?

- Gun, the gun

Of course, I threw it in
the river with the money

- How did it come to be
in one of the dustbins?

- Oh you fool!

You fool!

{indistinct shouting)

He has to push him into taking the money

and then he's such a fool he bungles it!

- So that's where he left his glove?

- It's not confessing

You can see if from here.

- You went down to fetch it?

- 1 had to.

- Taking the revolver with you”?

- He wouldn't have gone back

He's been too afraid.

- So that's when Couchet
came back into his office,

not when monsieur was there.

- Martin would have apologised,

given him back the money

- But you shot him

- He was going to ring the police

Do you knows that?

To have me arrested.

Me, who'd been his wife.

Who'd slaved and scraped
for him all those years

And who he forgot as soon
as things went better

Do you wonder that I was in a fury?

- You were in a fury because
you saw 60.000 francs

escaping you.

You were in a worse way when
you found that they had

As well for you if he'd
thrown the gun away

Why did you wait 24 hours
before telling your wife

what you'd done with the money?

- Well we hardly spoke that day

And then you see, there was the murder.

I didn't know until this morning

My wife had done it.

- And Roger committed suicide”?

- Yes, she told me why

He came into the courtyard that night

while she was hiding
the gun in the dustbin

- When he learned of the murder

he guessed that she had done it

Of course Couchet's suicide

is a kind of a bonus for you

You stood to gain some extra money

So long as you weren't suspected,

s0 you made your unfortunate
husband flee the country.

You even packed his bag for him

- I'd have seen that he had money

Won't know though

Nobody gets anything from me

It's my money

And I'm going to keep it.

Perhaps sometimes if you ask very nicely

I'l give you a few francs
for yourself, sometimes

And Roger too

After all he is my son

Oh but he spends foolishly

And money shouldn't be
spent foolishly, should it?

- Lucas.

Get me a car waiting outside

- To headquarters?

- Infirmary

Take her.

- [Lucas] All right madame, come along

- Where are we going?

- [Lucas] To the hospital

- Very well,

This is a wretched place for an invalid

But I must ge te the bank first

I have a considerable
sum of money in the bank

and I want to count it.

You will ask them to call
at the bank, won't you?

- We'll see what we can do.

This way.

This way, madame

There we are.

- You'll have to come, too

{softly crying)

Why did you do it?

- She was my wife

{slow music)

(cheerful music)

-10,000

- There will be more.

- Can I take them?

- The ones we got the numbers off, yes

Just sign for them, will you?

Those we haven't got the numbers off,

we'll have to keep

After all, there may be someone else

throwing money into the safe

- Maigret.

- Morning, Lucas

Monsieur Phillipe.

- I asked him to come over

because another 100 franc
notes are being washed ashore

near the wired at
Bougeaball, part of the loot

- Good.

- Congratulations.

- We'll let you know when we get more.

- Thank you

- Congratulations.

One man woman.

One feeble little clark.

(phone ringing)

Hello, Maigret.

Yeah, who?

Oh all right.

Show her up

Nina Monouge

Wonder what she wants?

Whose is this then?

- Well they came out of the river too.

We haven't got their numbers

They're part of the 20,000 in old notes

- There's no guarantee
who these belong to?

- No.

- Come in, mademoiselle

Sit down.

- No, it's just about
the money you lent me

I've come to pay you back

- So soon?

- Yes.

You see, I got the job at the Moulin Bleu

and they gave me an advance

- Good.

Thank you very much

What are you doing this morning?

- Nothing.

- Then I think we'll both go fishing.

(gentle music)