All language subtitles for Maigret S02E02 The Simple Case_Track03-eng

- Lucette?

- Not now, Antoine, I've
got to see my mother

Is he in there?

- Nows he away boozing, you can go in

- Watch, please?

{suspenseful music)

- Lucette.

Lucette what is it?

Why have you come here?

- I had to come.

I've got to talk to you.

- I can't leave the bar

someone has to earn a living for Calas

- Not much longer Mamo

{suspenseful music)

(dramatic music)

{suspenseful music)

{indistinct chatters)

- Found anything?

- There's a red substance,
a sort of resin in the dirt

under the nails?

- Paint?

- Might be.

- What have you got Paul?

- Maigret.

Fished up the head yet?

- No, I don't believe that
it's in the canal at all

and it's probably buried
somevvhere on a station cloakroom.

- For me deal with the torso and the arm.

Come on, have a look.

Interesting

Aged about 50 I should
say, height five feet ten,

Weight 180 pounds

Tough customer.

Not an easy victim

- Curious.

- Oh, you mean those marks in his stomach?

- No, it's a man at all
nine times out of 10,

it's a woman usually a girl.

- Looking as if it's
been peppered by a 12 bar

long time ago

- How long?

- I know about 20 years

- Might have been countrymen, yeah?

- Yeah, it could be

- See those scars.

- Appendix, only four or five years early.

(phone ringing)

There's no surgeon who
performed the last operation-

- Yeah, disguise his skill?

How long has it been in the water?

- 36 hours, tell you
better one when we've done

absorption tests.

- So since Sunday night?

And how long dead”?

That I'll be able to tell you

when we've looked into his
stomach and see what he's eaten.

- Inspector, it's for you

- Take it Torrance.

- What's the matter with him?

- No breakfast.

- Just as well, but the look of him

- Doctor Paul?

- Find out something?

- The check slide is red
sealing wax number five

- We're looking at the
stuff under his fingernails

- And there are traces
of Earth and saltpeter

- What's number five?

- Used for sealing wine bottles

- He might be in the wine business, yeah?

Seller man, something like that?

- Patron, its Luca,

he wants to know if
the divers to carry on”

and can the barge be moved

because it's blocking the traffic?

- No tell him to wait for me.

- Right?

- Doctor, what's the

Where the newspapers
that he was wrapped in?

- Two sudden just tell
us much you might find

something from the inner ones

- Can you tell us what paper they are?

- We might be able to
do that for you, yes

- Patron, he wants to talk to you

- Luca, where are you”?

- I'm in the bar, near the cafe

Remember the fair head
young man riding the bicycle

with the delivery box?

He's been seen hanging about again®

- Well, if you think
the head is in the box,

you better pick him up.

I'll be over in 20 minutes.

- Now what are you doing here?

- Monsieur Bourgain.

- Morning Maigret

Doctor.

- Where did you hear about this?

Being our handout to press”

- The scent of news.

Have you identified the deceased?

- We know he's a man.

- No more.

You know that I serve
the Provincial Press.

My deadlines are earlier.

- You'll hear when the rest
of your colleagues hear,

thank you

- All men are equal here Bourgain.

- A grave delusion Maigret.

I can give you news for news.

- What?

- You're examining magistrate is Comeliau

An excellent choice.

- Undoubtedly

And your news?

- Use your nose

Good bye Dog.

- See ff you can find us the head

- Maigret, a bargain's a bargain

What type of man, but what would you?

A peasant?

- Well, there's nothing more there

- Have you locked the
other end towards the lock?

- There's no current
except when the lock opens

I'll go down again if you like

- No no if you say there's nothing there.

- I know this canal like
the back of my hand

- Alright, Luca you can let the barge go,

and clear up here.
- Right

- And let Luca inspector, what's his name?

- Janvier.
- Janvier.

Have him search the empty
buildings, waste ground

he'll know.

You cover the left luggage offices.

I need to make telephone call.

Torrance like a drink?

I can taste the post
mortem out of his mouth.

- There's a bar just
across the bridge, Patron

- No telephone there

- Where did you phone from?

- Just down the road.

- All right.

Hold there, Luca for your
joy his Honour Judge Comeliau

is in charge of this case

{suspenseful music)

- Qur lucky day.

All right take it away!

- But what about the badge,

who gave it permission to mave on?

- I did Monsieur, it
was blocking the canal

- But the owners may have
something to do with the crime

- The owners Monsieur were
30 miles up the canal

all accounted for.

And the torso was put in
the water here at Cave Ami.

- Well you are continuing
to look for the head

it's vital to find identification.

- We are continuing to look
Monsieur, but not in the canal

- For heavens sake, why not?

- Because Monsieur I formed the conclusion

that the murderer may have
to same conclusion about the head

as you have yourself

Yes Monsieur.

Certainly Monsieur

Naturally as soon as I have
anything further to report

Without fail Monsieur.

{upbeat music)

- Patron, to take the taste away

The wine's good here

- Good.

Where did you get it?
Not the warehouses?

- No.

- Patron, that boy with
the bike he's watching us

- Get him.

(dramatic music)

- I didn't do anything

- Why did you run off then?

- I don't like the police

- First down at the canal now at here.

What are you up to?

- Nothing. I can look, can't I”?

- Identity card.

- Antoine Kristan, 34 (indistinct)

Take a look in his box.

(dramatic music)

- Just laundry Patron

- You know this bar?

- I live around the corner.

- Why were you watching?

- I wasn't watching, I was just passing.

- Do you deliver laundry here?

- No.

- At anyone else in the street?

- It's on my way to the Hotel Bonavon

- Do you know the owners of this bar?

What's their name?

- Calas, it's Omer Calas,
it's up on the front

- I don't know anybody

I was just passing I saw the police,

and I stopped to look

What's wrong with that?

- All right, get moving and
keep your nose out of trouble

Torrance.

- My card?

- We'll keep that for a bit

{upbeat music)

Madam, another excellent
glass of wine, please

Care to join me?

Oh, of course, I'm gonna have cognac

You know, I think I can tell what region

this wine comes from.

Quartier, huh?

Yeah it's got that touch of flint

Yeah.

But the commune,

you know that'll have
to be more of an expert

What is the commune?

- Saint-Aubin.

- Saint-Aubin.

You bottle it yourself?

- My husband

- He bottles it too?

- Yes.

- I'd like to talk to him.

- Why?

- Knows his wine.

- He's not here.

- Where is he?

- In Saint-Aubin.

- Buying the stuff.

Be away long?

-10 days?

- Where does he stay when he goes there”?

- In the vineyards, the peasants.

- You keep in touch while he away”?

Not even the telephone call?

- Telephone

They can hardly read or write

- He goes from that area.

- No.

- No, he's a countryman I expect

Feels at home among the peasants.

I'd be the same.

You you're from the city I imagine.

- I'm from Cannes.

- Cannes?

I'd have said further south.

Well, he must trust you madam,

looking after the bar on your own?

Why sort of life he goes off there,

buys the stuff, brings
it back, bottles it

Where does he do that?

- In the kitchen.

- Then the job's done,

and he can go and spend
the rest of the day

playing billiards with his
cronies, something like that?

- Since you know.

- That's what I'd like
to do when I retire.

Lonely life for you though

How long have you been married?

- 17 years

- Any children”

- One.

- Your lucky.

Boy?

- A daughter

- She'd be at school?

- No.

She's left home.

- In a job already?

God the start soon, aren't they.

Where's she?

- I don't know.

We are not in touch.

- Well, I mustn't keep you

not there's much custom.

We police seem to drive it away

How much do I owe you madam,

- Three Franc.

- Don't worry about about
the change, I'll be back

Some more of your excellent wine.

(dramatic suspenseful music)

- I am aware Maigret that my methods

differ somewhat from
those of other magistrate

- Other magistrate, leave me
to get on with it Monsieur

I report when I have something.

- As far as I prefer to
be kept informed of a case

as it progresses that is the
way I interpret my function

that helps to police and
safeguard to the accused

I do hope I get to be
able to work in harmony

on this affair, Maigret

- Certainly Monsieur, do vaguely

- That being the case,
perhaps will be good enough

to tell me your views on
the investigation so far?

- Certainly Mr. Comeliau

So far, there are precisely none

- None.?

- We have nothing to hang of you on

- But the body must have
yielded some evidence?

- We'll be examined.

All we know so far is that
the man was probably murdered

on Sunday evening.

Cut up, dumped in the
canal except for the head

He might have been a countryman,

he might have been the owner of a bar

- Surely that's a clue

- Several bars in Paris Monsieur.

- Then this boy you picked up

and he was acting suspiciously,

yet you let him go?

- We know where to find him Monsieur.

And as for acting suspiciously,

wouldn't you watch the diver his age?

- Well, what you propose to do now?

- Routine Monsieur, just routine

- An unpleasant case, Maigret,

unpleasant I should like
it cleared up quickly

And you will tell me if any new findings

as soon as it comes in.

I rely on you Maigret

- You may Judge

- Maigret”?

- Monsieur.

- Get regular meals

It's important for your work

- Monsieur.

- I see doctor, about six, no later

Right thank you.

Yes.

Thank you.
- Luca.

- Patron.

No good bye

Well.

- Hello Maigret.

Yeah, beer and sandwiches
from Brasserie Dolphy

What?

Causes it's for me, what do you think?

Regular meals?

- Comeliau?

- Yeah.

And vet you know, I quite like
him in a weird sort of way

Well, what's in Dr. Paul.

- Well, they finished the
analysis on the stomach,

they put the time of death at six o'clock,

definitely not later.

- Any signs of alcoholism?

- Yes.

- Locking more like a
bar owner every minute

What about the papers he's wrapped in?

- None of it, mixed by
some Pass, some Provincial

they're all badly damaged by water

It's gonna take time to identify them

- Provincial?

Well that fits might have
been brought in by travellers,

say truck drivers perhaps?

That narrows the search a bit,

someplace used by out of towners

- There were a couple of
drivers in the Bar Calas

when I phoned

It looks as though this
case is gonna be easy

- To easy I don't like it.

The first bar we go
into the man's missing,

the woman's a secret drinker,
truck drivers use it-

(phone ringing)

- Luca.

Yes.

Yes.

Janvier from the Hotel De View,

he's looking up the marriage certificate

Yeah.

Right.

On that Calas, Bon

Where?

Buasan Qur Terein 1913.

Aline Elayani Fransho Kan 1923

- That all fits, all adds up

- Right Janvier.

No that's a lot, thanks

Get all the police at Buasan Qur,

get what you can on on Calas

Have already got the Saint-Aubin
police checking on him?

- Yeah.

- Janvier looking for the head?

- He is Patron.

- So we can do.

Quickly it will turn
out to be a menace mess.

Regular meals

Torrance?

What do you mean am I pinching the car?

Want te come back my Metra?

- But Patron he was on a bike.

- Who? Oh, the boy.

- I followed him.

First he made a call from a phone kiosk.

And then he went to a bar
off the Boulevard Maran

when he met a young woman and talk to her

- Well, so he's got a girl?

That all?

- No, Patron because
then I followed the girl

She went back to Salove Hospital,

she's the secretary to the
top surgeon Professor Lavaud

And her name is Lucette Calas.

- I got to make a trip
to this Salove Hospital

Regular meal

(dramatic music)

- All except number 17.

The doctor'll operate tomorrow morning.

I expect he want to see the radiographs

I'l get them sent arcund
to his apartment tonight

Thank you

Come in.

- Miss Calas?

- Who let you in?

This is Professor Lavaud's office.

- Chief Inspector
Maigret, criminal justice

I believe your parents
keep a bar the Cave Ami.

- Omer and Darlene Calas.

- Do they”?

Why do you ask?

- [ think you know

- I'm not in touch with my parents

What's happened?

- You know it seems your father's missing.

- Missing”?

- Went away in a wine
buying trip 10 days ago

and he hasn't returned.

- Has my mother complained?

- No, she seems to
think it's quite normal

- Then why?

- How horrible.

But how do you know it's him?

- We don't for certain,
but perhaps you can help

You happen to know if
he was ever operated on

for appendicitis”?

- Yes.

- When?

- About four years ago

- Is that after you left home?

- No that was three years ago

- And you wouldn't happen te know if

he had a curious set of marks
across his stomach here?

- No, I don't know.

- How old are you Ms. Calas”

-20.

What's that to do?

- Why did you leave home?

Didn't you get on with your parents?

Or did they not get on with each other?

- Yes, as far as I know.

- Always

- Yes.

- How did you know?

Weren't even sure where they lived

Are you sure you've never been back?

-Butl..

I sometimes went to see my mother.

- [Maigret] How often

- Two or three times.

- When you knew it was safe,
when your father was away

through a boy called Kristan

- My father was a brute.

Is that's what you want to know?

- It helps.

How long is it since
you've seen your mother?

- I don't remember.

- Surely you must learn through Kristan

that your father was away all last week

in wine buying trip.

Didn't you teke the opportunity
to visit your mother then?

- No.

- Not on Sunday an your day off

- I haven't been there for months.

- Pity.

Hows long have you had
this job, Miss Calas”?

- A year

- Your mother knows about it, of course?

- Yes.

- She's proud of you?

- What is this to do...

I mean, you didn't even
know that Calas is dead.

- Is that what you call him?

(phone ringing)

- Professor Lavaud's office.

It's for you.

- Thank you

Luca.

- Patron, two things, first,
the police at Quartier say

Omer Calas seen in Saint-Aubin
in the middle of last week,

but he hasn't been seen
since Saturday night

Secondly, the police at Buasan
Qur say Omer was well known

He was a son of an
innkeeper he left in 1943

and hasn't been back.

A bit of a lad he was married,

but playing around with
the squire's daughter

at the same time and got a pepperring

one night from the squire's shotgun

right across the midriff, conclusive?

- Conclusive.

Again down to the Calas bar,

tell the lab staff to
standby they may be needed

- What you're going to do?

- Try to find out what happened
to your father on Sunday

- Look my mother had
nothing to do with it

She couldn't, she's a
good woman, I swear it

- I think you're very like her Miss Calas

- Lucette...

I beg your pardon?

- Not at all.

Not at all, it's your
office doctor Lavaud,

I presume

- They know.

They know.

{indistinct chatters)

{glass clanking)

- Aline.

- Why did you come back here

- I have to tell you something

- I told you to stay away
- I saw Lucette

It's all right, they don't know anything

- Monsieur.

Afternoon.

Is that your truck out
there, Zenith Transport?

Come far?

- Calais, we travel together

- You regulars”?

Coming here every day?

- Ne not every day

- We work day on, day off.

- Were you here on Sunday?

- No.

- This place closes Sunday.

- Are you a regular too”?

- Depends what you mean

- Have a drink.

Where's she?

- Getting up some wine

Do you know her?

- I know the talk.

Is that him in the canal?

- Would it surprise you?

- What do you after?

- Do they get on well together?

- Fine.

She ran the bar, he
went out and got boozed,

and he came back and knocked her about.

What you call a loving couple

- Your only cause but?

Come on, she's not in your union.

- I wouldn't know.

- You've been a good boy Antoine,

but you must go away and
you must stay away from here

and from Lucette.

She's not for you

Not anymore.

- But...
(door shuts)

{wine dripping)

- Good afternoon.

- Good afternoon.

- I was filling the bottles

Do you want some wine”

- I prefer a cognac

Would you join me?

- I have to look after the bar.

- Oh, I'm afraid I've had my usual effect

on your customers madam.

Also but now I feel like
I've got bad news for you

Your husband did go to
Saint-Aubin last week.

We find no trace of him since Saturday.

I have to tell you that
we think he may have been

the person dragged out of the canal

- You found the...?

- No.

There are several other points
that make it almost certain.

- I see.

- On the other hand, I'd
like to be able to tell you

that I found your daughter for you

She speaks of you with affection

- You've spoken to her?

- She's done very well for herself.

Got a good position

I can understand that you
wanted to shake off all this

had the chance in life that you never had?

What I don't understand madam,

that you've been married 17
years, but she's at least 20

- What are you trying to say”?

- Isn't it obvious?

- She resented my husband they quarrelled,

that's why she left home

- Or was it because your
husband treated you badly?

- No.

- Keep it very het in here don't you?

- It's the stove.

- And yet you wear this scarf

These bruises are recent aren't they?

He did come back didn't he?

- No.

- Madam, I have no wish to torment you,

tell me the truth what happened on Sunday?

- [Lucas] Patron!

- Here Luca.

- I think we're onto something

The suitcase let at Aslaid station

unclaimed since Sunday.

- How big?

- Big enough.

It was left by a young man with fair hair

wearing a leather jacket.

- Did your husband have a suitcase madam?

- I packed one for him before he left

- I'd like you to go down to the station

with Sargent Luca and
identify one that he's found

Won't take long he has a car.

- Very well,

I'll get my coat.

- It's not necessary, I got a warrant

- I want to get her out of the way

(phone ringing)

- Maigret.

- Patron it's me Torrance.

The delivery boy you skipped,

I've been watching his flat

I've been stuck outside for hours.

- Bravo.

Well now you can unstick yourself

and go along to the Zenith transport.

It's in Urrutia map just
across the canal here.

And find out which of their
drivers was free on Sunday

Do you think you can do that?

- Ch yes Patron

Patron what do I do when I find him?

Patron?

- I'll look after the bar, madame.

- Prices are on the board.

also the stove made me the shovel.

- Rely on me.

{suspenseful music)

(Maigret laughing)

(gentle music)

- Well, why don't you
put the handcuffs on me?

- Never occurred

- Why are we waiting?

- See this?

- Yes.

- Know what it is?

- Saw.
- A meat saw.

The blades been clean bright, look.

Look at this part, all rusty

Hadn't been clean for years

Come here.

What do you see?

- Knives, folks, tin opener.

- All thrown in higgledy piggledy

all rusty these drawers
haven't been cleaned for years

- So what?

- Come here.

Look at these tiles,
they've been scrubbed

Scrubbed again.

But the crevices between
them have been picked out

Like here, the paintwork
has been washed reasonably

up as far as there

About as far as blood would splash

You didn't do it.

You know fainted you're
almost out already

- I'm not.

- Alright, pick up that saw

Goon and get over it.

All right, she didn't do it either

She hasn't the strength.

Oh, Antoine, who's the man?

Come on there must be a man

she couldn't stand this live otherwise.

- The boy with the bike.

- Did you opened it yet

- No, it's locked, heavy too

- Is this you husband's?

- She has identified it.

- Key?

- My husband has it.

- Screwdriver in the left hand row.

Come on Antoine,

is this the case you deposited on Sunday?

-AtS pm?

- I've never seen it before.

- Stupid boy.

- Don't let them do it,
they can't it's illegal

- Your husband's?

- Yes.

- Dirty been worn a week

So he did come back?

- Now you tell me what happened on Sunday

- Don't say anything

They've got to let you have a lawyer

- I'm sorry, Luca take them headquarters.

- Are you arresting me?

- There's no formal charge,

but the magistrate will want to talk to you.

Both of you

- This way madam.

- I'll wait for the lab staff.

{suspenseful music)

- Madam your silence cannot help you.

We know now that your
husband left Saint-Aubin

on Saturday night

He got a lift in a track
dropped him outside

Paris early Sunday morning.

From there he must have
found his own way home

- Who saw him?

- No one perhaps met him except yourself

Your bar does not open on Sundays

- He did not come back.

- Why did you clean out your kitchen?

- I spilled some paint

- All over the floor and up the walls

and why this sudden cleanliness,

the rest of the house shows no sign of it

Calm Calm, calm calm madam.

Your husband returned
unexpectedly and found you alone

with this boy Antoine
Kristan, well What happened?

It was a jealousy in a fight.

One of you seized a weapon,

it could have been in self defence

and your husband lay dead

And then you had to remove the body,

and to make certain that
it was not identified.

You forced yourself to the terrible task

of removing the head

- Yeah.

All right, we can check the blood samples

with Dr. Paul.

No, in the morning.

- Patron I just had the
boy's mother on the phone

She's very upset.

Wants to know when he's coming back.

- Well ask Comeliau.

- She says he's a good boy,

swears he never left
her side all day Sunday

- Aline's been lying too
about where she was born.

No trace of any family
called Fransho in Canne.

So why would she do that?

- Perhaps Comeliau will find out.

- How long is it gonna
be, he sat her in there

now for three hours.

Must be onto to something to
make him miss his dinner

- She won't talk.

Currently see her.

She's a kind we'll go to the
guillotine with a secret

I've seen it.

Why? Who is he silent for?

- Maigret you're still here

Good.

Oh, that's a strange woman yet
the case Is so transparent

What good is her silence.

She could plead self defence

The jury might be convinced

Well I've decided to continue
to judge her on the boy.

- Why the boy?

- But surely isn't that obvious,

he was found hiding in her wardrobe.

- Monsieur, if that's a crime,

we will have to arrest
half the men in Paris.

- Maigret are you lacking imagination

{Luca laughing)
- Luca

- This is the classic
situation, lover, wife,

husband returned unexpectedly,
the boy admits it

- He's in love with a
daughter Lucette Monsieur

He's too is a childhood
sweetheart until she moved off

and bettered herself.

Then he became the go between

Telling her how her mother was getting on

whether it was safe to
visit her and so on.

He'd still cut off his arm for her,

but he fates of the word blood.

- Maigret you have a positive genius

for dragging in irrelevant side issuses

Yet this case is so simple,

so open, the victim, motive, method

No I was prepared to compliment you

on clearing it up so quickly.

(phone ringing)

- Monsieur.

Maigret.

Torrance, what news?

Yeah.

Good.

Hold on to him I'm coming right down.

Torrance is holding a
man called Dominic Piere.

He's a truck driver and a
regular user at the bar Calas

I'm getting down to bring him in.

- What is the point of this?

- Point is Monsieur, is he
admits to killing Calas

{Lucas whistling)

{Lucas laughing)

{suspenseful music)

- [ must go

- They don't know anything yet.

- She's alone in there.

- They can't prove anything
as long as she doesn't speak

You must hang on

You must Lucette.

{door knocking)

- You've seen the paper

They have no doubt now, but it's Calas

And my position may
become a little delicate.

Dr. Lavaud there is such a
thing as professional honour

- Nowy, how long have
you known madam Calas?

- About two years

- You are a frequent
visitor at the Calas bar?

- I went there whenever I
could get away from the job

- And whenever Calas was avray

- He was away most afternoons
drinking, playing billiards

used to get drunk and then he
come back and he beat her up

- And you resented this?

- I love her.

- Did she accept your love”?

What were her feelings towards you”?

Very well and we'll to the Sunday.

What are your movements on that day?

- I was up with the truck.

I came in from Lyon

- What time did you leave there”

- About four.

- You reach Paris?

- Between six and seven.

- Continue.

I put the truck away

and had something to eat in the canteen,

and then I went straight over to the bar

I knew Calas was away buying wine.

She let me in and I stayed with her

- How long?

- About two hours?

- What did you do all that time”

- We talked.

- What about”?

- I tried to persuade
her to come away with me

- Did she refuse?

- Yes.

- You asked her before?

- Yes.

- What reason did she give you”

- She said she wouldn't leave him.

- Because she knew that he would follow,

that it would be impossible
ta escape from him

while he was still alive.

- She said he was her fate.

- But tell us what happened

Well, the husband returned unexpectedly

and found you together

Well...
- Yes, like you said

- Well tell us what happened

- Well,

he came at me.

And I hit him.

He went down.

I looked at him.

He was dead.

There was blood everywhere

I got her out of it

and then I did what I had to do,

and then I dumped the body in the canal.

- With the head?

- Well, I thought the
police might find the body,

but if there wasn't a head on it,

they wouldn't be able to identify it.

You would drag man near
the bridge at Conde

I was there on Monday.

- You realise that what you told us

is a confession of murder?

- I did what I had to do.

And she had nothing to do with it.

- I could have further
questions to ask you later

In the meantime.

My next move would be to confront him

with a woman I don't believe
the story unrequited love

Few questions as you break down to admit

the whole sorry business

- As you say, Judge

A classic situation.

- [Judge] Exactly

- The only trouble is he
couldn't have killed him.

- He couldn't have killed
him but he just admitted it.

- He did leave Lyon at
four, we've checked on that.

Now the least time you could
do the journey to Paris

in his two hours as even driving
like a French truck driver.

In fact, he took over
three as worksheets show.

He checked in at 7:13.

He did have a meal in the
canteen we've witnesses to that.

So if he went to the Calas Bar,

he couldn't have been there before eight

But he says that Calas
came in after two hours,

by which time according to Dr. Paul

Calas had already been dead for fall.

So we need some more evidence Judge

- Patron, you see Dr. Lavaud
has been waiting to see you

- Good show him in.

- All right Doctor will
you come this way please

- Inspector Maigret I'd
appreciate the chance

of word with you.

- Certainly sit down

- Thank you

This is a matter of
peculiar delicacy inspector.

I think you've guessed how I am concerned

in this affair of Calas.

- The police can put one and one together

- Same time I would like you to know

that the position is not so irregular

Miss Calas and I have intended marriage

- Intended?

This affair is tragic
for Lucette, of course

It would also be disastrous
in other directions

if it should take a certain course.

- As your difficulty,
you wish to know whether

to extricate yourself now or
to wait until it's certain

that her mother is gonna be convicted

- She said nothing

- That you can hardly expect me to answer

- You must forgive me for troubling you

- Not at all.

A natural anxiety

One moment Doctor.

If your association with said Calas

should become public knovdedge-

- It would be inconvenient.

- But in fact our mother knows
and she's very proud of it

She sees her daughter as the future wife

of the celebrated surgeon

What if her father found out,

he might guess that the surgeon
was only amusing himself.

Might be prepared to
pay for his amusement

- In my profession we use a scalpel

In yours I see a bludgeon

Good day inspector.

- Something odd going on.

I just had another call from
the police at Buasan Qur

- Don't tell me are corpse
isn't Calas after all.

- No, but they say someone
was down at Buasan Qur

inquiring about Calas

- Who?

- You favourite newspaperman

- Bourgain®?
- Yes.

- Well what's quire about
that is a newspaper man

looking for story

- But this was two
weeks ago 10 days before

Calas was killed.

- Was it?

That reminds me.

I owe Bourgain some news

(gentle music)

- Maigret, a full pleasure

You will join me?

Waiter another glass

- On expenses Bourgain®

- Gentle.

What did you inquire

- No I am reproved. Business first

Remember a little chat news for news?

- Which you failed to honour

- I laundering it now

My first news is our
little visit to Buasan Qur

some two weeks ago by
one Monsieur Bourgain

to inquire after Omer Calas.

Your turn.

You pass?

Very well, I have some more news

Of another little visit,

also by one Monsieur Bourgain
this time to Lucette Calas.

- No.

- But you were seen. A man of
your distinguished appearance,

and both occasions before
the death of Calas.

- You're wrong Maigret on one point

I didn't get to Buasan
Qur was on call to inquire

after Calas I'd never
heard of him at the time.

- What took you then?

- This.

- Buasan Qur.

A relatives of the late
deceased Donover de Buasan Qur.

Requested to get into touch with Metrical

loyal to the estate.

- A nose for news
Maigret, and lead me right.

De Buasan Qur died very
rich with known relatives

but a daughter Aline who
run away 20 years ago

- The squires daughter

That's how Calas got peppered

- As I quickly found out and
putting two and two together

I looked not for Buasan Qur but the Calas.

in the Paris directory.

- You're right Bourgain

You'll have a nose for
news and where to sell it.

Now will you tell me why Dr. Lavaud

was so keen to pay to keep
all this out of the papers?

- And when you reach the bar
you found Calas already dead?

- No he found me there I killed him!

- No, no, no he was already dead

killed by this woman's hand

- I've told you I killed him

- Nol
- Aline!

- No, no, no, thank you, Dominic,
but you see it's useless

- I'm glad you appreciate it madam,

perhaps now we can have the truth.

- Well, he he came home at five o'clock

he found me neither with Dominic Piere

nor Antcine Kristan, but alone

He'd been drinking on the
way back he was like a

He was horrible.

He accused me of taking
lubbers while he'd been away

That was why I came back
early to surprise me

I couldn't reason with him,
he seize me around the throat

I fought back, I grabbed
the poker, hit him.

He died.

- So now, at last we have it

- Not quite, I think.

You weren't really alone, were you?

Aline De Buasan Qur?

We know the story

The only daughter of a proud lonely man

who hated you for not being a son.

Treated you like a servant,

in the house hardly spoke to you.

To that last despite
him you threw yourself

with the only man there Omer Calas,

the son of an innkeeper
and already married

When your father found out about this,

he went out to Calas in
his own way with a gun

And by then it was too late
because you had his child

- What is all this a Maigret?

- So you left and cut yourself off?

You came to Paris you
even changed your name.

You vvaited three years
for Calas wife to die.

Then he was free to marry you,

but then you find out your mistake

you've married a peasant,

cruel, drunk and louted, sent
his first wife to the grave

- She had the best of the bargain

- And now Monsieur, with your permission,

I should like to interviews
another witness in your presence”?

- Very well,

- Come in please.

- No!

You've no right to bring her here.

I've confessed.

I did it, I killed him

- Mamo it's all right

You'll see, it's all right.

- Sit down please.

When did you first hear of
your mother's inheritance

- From Monsieur Bourgain

He said he was a reporter

and he showed me this
advertisement by the lavsyer

He said he reason to believe
I might benefit from it

I denied it.

I knew of my father had the
money at the end of any chance

of my mother's freedom

But I ran to her and showed her the paper

We agreed that I should
write to the lawyer

He replied, and I brought
the letter to her on Sunday

I thought it was safe.

I knew he was away Antoine told me.

But while I was there, he came back.

- What time is it?

- It must be about five
o'clock, I don't know.

He was drunk and suspicious

He thought I brought
in meney or something

He tore up the bag and found the letter.

- And then?

- My mother burnt it.

She snatched it, put it in the stove

and swore she'd renounce the money

rather than let him touch it.

He became mad.

He attacked her.

I thought he was going to kill her right

I picked up the poker and

And then she made me go away.

She made me swear I'd never
speak of what had happened

She promised that no one would
ever knows my father had died

- And then she waited by the body

for Dominic Piere.

As you say judge, a simple case

(buoyant music)

- I owe you an apology Inspector

- You tried to pump me

- And you put a free in my ear

But I had to you see.

Lucette was ready to confess,

but I wanted to make sure
it was absolutely necessary

We happen to love each other.

- No, I realised that now

- What will happen?

- Lucette acted in her mother's defence?

I don't think you need worry

- And her mother and Piere?

- My advice to you is
to get a good lawyer,

the best there is.

I would suggest Metre Duran.

He gets on excellently
with Judge Comeliau