All language subtitles for Maigret S02E03 Death of a Butcher_Track03-eng

- You've cost me a fortune,
but you're worth it

- Ferdi, no

- Here.

Hang that up

- Ferdi, why do you always
drop it on the floor?

- Because I like to see
people work for their money.

- I like that.

Maybe you should be a
little more generous

- You're doing well enough

- Ferdil

- What the devil are you doing with that?

Keep your hands off my things!

- But Ferdi, what is it?

What does it mean?

- Isn't it obvious?

- But who could've sent it?

- I don't know.

Plenty of people who hate me

- Oh, Ferdi.

- It isn't the only one I've had,

and I've been hearing noises
in my house late at night

- Ferdi, you must go to the police.

- Ch yes, yes

They have to protect me

(dramatic music)

(pleasant music)

- Good morning, Lapointe.

- Moming, patron

- You won't find Mrs. Brit in here.

- Mrs. Brit, Mrs. Brit

- Our missing Englishwoman.

- Oh, Mrs. Brit.

Well, we did check a room

where she'd been seen in Monte Carlo,

but it turned out to be a Dutch woman

who looked just like her

Patron, Judge Comeliau is in your office

- I know.

Well, stick with it

- Ah, Maigret at last.

- My apologies, monsieur

- Now, I have taken the liberty

of bringing Monsieur Fumal direct to you

I had imagined that you would be here.

Now let me introduce Monsieur
Fumal, Inspector Maigret

- Monsieur.

Is it about the Brit case?

- No, no, no, have you
found her, incidentally?

- Not yet.

{Comeliau tsks)
- A week.

Well, I shall leave
Monsieur Fumal with you

He will explain.

Au revoir, Monsieur Fumal

I leave you in good hands

Maigret, it is the minister's wish

that Monsieur Fumal should
report direct to you, au revoir

- AU revoir, monsieur

Well, monsieur?

- Doesn't my name mean anything to you?

- Fumal, no, should it?

- [Ferdinand] Remember your school days?

- My school days?

- Saint-Fiacre, your own village

The infant class under Mademoiselle Chien.

- Fumal?

- Didn't call me that in those days

I was Fat Ferdi to you and your friends

- Fumal, your father was the butcher.

- That's right.

And yours was the manager
up there in the chateau

- [Maigret] Yes.

- It's funny really, you know

We both have gone our own ways.

Now we meet again

You've become a police officer,

and I followed in my father's trade

- A butcher?

- That's right, a butcher

Have a cigar.

- No thank you

- The head of United Meat.

- [Maigret] Yeah?

- Central and suburban butchers.

Northern Meat Company in Lille, if's mine.

And a dozen other companies as well.

- That's a lot of meat.

- Yes, itis.

Well, aren't you going
to ask me why I've come?

- No.

- Why not?

- 'Cause you'll tell me.

- Somebody wants to kill me

- What gives you that idea?

- For the last week, I've
been receiving these notes

- You are going to die

- They're in the order in which they came

- I shall have your life.

Count your days, you swine

Not much longer.

Make your will.

Oh, that's a rude one

- And this one arrived this moming

It's exactly like the
first, you're going to die

- Hm, not very inventive

Well, perhaps it's all a practical joke

- I'm not the kind of person
to play practical jokes on

- Do you have enemies”

- Plenty.

- Any special ones?
- No.

Oh, I don't know, yes there is one

Mind you, I'm not accusing him

- His name?

- Roget Gaillardin, he's a broker

- [Maigret] And why should he hate you?

- He's bankrupt.

If he's cashed the
cheques as I think he has,

he's going to prison,
and he blames me for it.

- His address?

- 26 Rue Francois-Premiere.

- Is he married?

- Yes, but I don't know his wife.

- Are you married?

- Have been for the
last 25 years, in a way

- In a way?

- [Ferdinand] My wife thinks she's ill.

- Your address?

- 58 Boulevard de Coussel.

It's a big place on its own
overlooking the Bard Ablon

- Any staff?

- A chauffeur, a butler,
a cook, two maids.

- Secretary?

- Yes, a girl called
Louise Bolsh, she lives in

Not my style

- [Maigret] Who is?

- Girl called Martine Gilloux.

I put her inte a flat in the Roulle Toi

- [Maigret] Number?

-13.

- She any reason to hate you?

- Not that I know of.

- What about your wife, is she jealous?

- Look, why don't you go and ask her

Seems to be your method of approach

- Anybody else know about these letters”?

- Ne, only me

- And the sender-

- Of course the sender.

Why, what are you going to do?

- Try to find out who sent them

- What about me?

- A man will be stationed
outside your house

- Is that all?
- That's all for the moment.

I may come down there myself later

Now, I've got a lot of
work to do, monsieur.

Au revoir, Monsieur Fumal

- I have a good deal of
influence, my dear Maigret

You don't want to be unfriendly with me

- I hope I shan't be

- Have it your own way.

{door slams)

(Maigret sighs)

Lucas, Lapointe

- Oh, letting in the sunshine, patron”

- [Maigret] Letting out the smell

- Cigar smoke?

- And a faint odour of rotten meat.

- Fumal the butcher.

My brother-in-law used to work for him.

Didn't like him much.

- Someone's been sending
him poison letters

- Your brother-in-law?

- Funny man.

- Nah, Lapointe, I want you to go down

to the Fumal house and watch it.

There's the address.
- What am I watching for?

- A mad vegetarian, I should think

- Go on, get on with it

- What do you make of Fumal?

- I'm not sure.

Here, take a look at those

- Ah Victor, is Mr. Fumal in?

Hey.

- Hi Joseph, there you are

- I got the money

- $150,000?
- Yes.

Here you are.

You can count them.

- Shall I, Joseph?

Supposing you've taken one or two.

You did that once before, didn't you”?

- Why do you always have to bring that up”?

Why can't you trust me”

- Trust you?

Heh. I don't trust anyone

Now, when is the Sammalou
deal, Thursday next isn't it?

- Yes, I stipulated cash as you wished

- I want cash, that's very good

Much easier, isn't it?

- Will you be lunching over, monsieur?

- What the hell do you think you're doing

striding in like that?

- You told me not to knock.

It alarmed you, monsieur.

- All right, Victor.

No, I'm going out.

- The midday post, monsieur

- Well, what do you
want me to do about it?

Put it on Louise's desk.

She can deal with it when she comes in.

Put that money in the safe.

Go on, you too

- I thought perhaps-
- Perhaps you'd have a chance

to learn the combination
of the safe, now get out!

(wonky music)

{engine rumbling)

(phone ringing)

- You've seen nothing of interest?

- Only Fumal leaving
about half an hour ago

- Who's on duty after you?

- Leopold

- I'm afraid you're
gonna have to take over

again for me afterwards

You better go and get some food now

- Rightly.

- Moming

I understand that Monsieur Fumal is out.

- Yes
- Madame Fumal?

- I'm afraid she's upstairs in bed

- Who is it, Victor?

- I don't know, mademoiselle

- Chief Inspector
Maigret, criminal justice

- He wishes to see madame.

- All right, Victor, you can go

I'm Louise Bolsh. I have
some Information for you

Will you come into the office, please?

You've come about the letters.

- You know about them?

- I'm Mr. Fumal's secretary.

I know he came to see you this morning

- Oh, perhaps you can
tell me who wrote them.

- Yes, of course

He did.

- He wrote them, to himself?

- I saw him writing one two days ago.

I came into the office here,

and he doesn't like anybody to knock.

And I saw him cover it over quickly

with a piece of blotting paper.

- Why are you telling me all this?

- To protect myself,

- Against your employer?

- Yes, you don't know him

- Hm, yet you work for him

- He pays well.

One can save.

- What are you saving for?

- I'm going to marry Felix, the chauffeur

We're going to buy a
restaurant in Le Mauges

- Why Les Mauges?

- We both come from there.

But you wanted to see madame.

Follow me, please.

- Just one moment, mademoiselle

Why is Madame Fumal in bed?

- She drinks.

Madame spends most of her
time in bed these days

She doesn't very often see strangers.

(knocking)

(gentle music)

- Whois it?

- It's me, Madame Louise

I have a visitor for you.

- Ch, what a surprise

Come onin.

- Inspector Maigret.

- Inspector what?

Sit down.

Very well,

I dunno who you are, but sit down

Are you quite sure it's
me you want to see?

Nobody ever does

You quite sure?

- Yes madame, quite sure

I hope that I haven't
interrupted your siesta

- I suffer from ill health, monsieur

What do you want with me?

- Did you know that your husband

came to see me this moming?

- I never know where he goes

- He's afraid of an attempt on his life.

- I don't see him very often

- An attempt on his life, madame

- His life?

Yes.

- Do you know of anyone
who might do such a thing?

- I don't know anyone at all

- I see.

Thank you very much, madame.

- I should want the car again in an hour

- To Baron Lafayette?

- Does it matter to you where I'm going?

- No, monsieur.

- Then mind your own business.

[ tell you where to go
and you drive me there!

What the devil are you doing here?

- [Maigret] Asking questions

- Who gave you permission?

- You did.

- Come inte my office

- [Louise] I have these letters-

- All right, all right, get out, get out!

Who have you been questioning”?

- Your wife.

- You must be mad to think
that she wrote those letters

- I don't, I think you did

- You think what?

- Did you write them”?

- You must be soft in your head!

You oughta be much more careful
to talk to me like this

- Nobody can waste the time of the police

and get away with it

- I asked for protection

- You don't need it.

- I do, I'm in danger

- Only from my boot

- I should report that remark

- Why not?

Good afternoon.

- Wait.

It's true, I wrote those letters.

- Why?

- Because I am in danger,
because I needed something

more definite to show the police

- More definite than what?

- The noises.

- What noises?

- Noises, in here at night

I sleep in there, and sometimes I hear

somebody moving about
in here late at night

- [Maigret] Why don't
you look, see who it was?

- Why should I run that risk?

Every day reading papers

about people getting shot by burglars

All I need is protection,

somebody to keep an eye on the house

fo see who goes in, who comes out.

You can't refuse that to me.

We used to be friends.

- We didn't, but you shall have someone

- I'l make it worth your while.

(Maigret sighs)

- I knew your father.

He came to see my father once.

Over the sale of some
cattle at the estate.

After he'd gone, my
father found 500 francs

pinned to the back of the bill of sale

You come out of the same stable.

- That it, is it?

That's it, that's why you don't like me,

because you remember your father

up in the chateau, giving himself heirs

and mine was only a butcher.

Well, I'll tell you something

I own the chateau nowy, yes,

I got it for a song from the old countess,

and the house you were born
in, the manager's house,

I got that tool

- Well it's time you learned, Fumal,

that there are some things
in life that you can't buy

(dramatic music)

(gentle music)

- Your coffee's getting cold

- Right, just coming

How's your tooth?

- Oh it's much better, but
I still know it's there

- Well, it's better than
knowing it's not there

- Awfully early this morning, it's 7:15.

- Yeah, I want to get to the office

before Scotland Yard comes through

about that missing Englishwoman of theirs

Another filthy morning

Well, I don't know

- [wife] Do you think
they'll be able to find her?

- No, I'm not thinking about her

I'm thinking about Fumal
in that great house of his,

all nymphs and candelabra.

He doesn't belong there,

or in the chateau at Saint-Fiacre.

(phone ringing)

If they've put Scotland Yard
through here, I'll slay them

(phone ringing)

Maigret.

Moming, Lapointe

What?

Fumal?

How did he die?

(dramatic music)

- Lucas, the patron says there's to be

no statement to the press
until he gives the word

And tell Scotland Yard
he'll ring them back, right.

Well, I think we'll have
one more from this angle

and that'll be the lot.

Ah, patron

He's over here.

- You boys finished”

All right

- He was found by the maid

when she brought in his
breakfast this morning

Shot in the back at point blank range

Doctor's examined him and
gone on down to the morgue

He says will you send the body
down when you're finished?

He died before midnight.

(Maigret sniffs)

- All right, take him off.

I want that bullet as soon as possible

- Right, patron

- Inspector-
- Just a minute.

When did you first learn of the death?

- When I heard the maid scream.

- YWhat has happened?
- Who are you?

- Who are all these people?

- Monsieur Joseph is
Fumal's legal adviser

- He used to be.

- He was murdered, shot
- Why did no one tell me”?

- No they have not

How did you get in? There's
a guard on the door

- I live here.

- Oh, no one told me
- He has a room here.

- I see, will you come in here & minute”

Tell me about yourself.

- Monsieur Fumal and I were friends.

- I see, were you?

When did you last see him?

- Last saw him last night

- Was he alive?

- Why of course

- Mm-hmm, you came down from your room?

- No, no, I'd just come in

I came In through the side door

- What side door?

- Well the one from the Rue
de Prane, I always use it

- I see, well there'll
be a lot of questions

Will you wait outside now, please?

- May I telephone headquarters, please?

- Not yet.

- The van's gone off.

- Good.

Says he was a friend of Fumal's,

I suppose that's not indictable.

You know about the side door?

- No.

- Go and get that butler chap,

Victor or whatever his name is.

- Yes, patron.

- Oh, Lucas?

Want you to come up here right away

Take a lot of statements, yeah

Who, Mrs. Brit?

Oh, has she?

All right, Lapeinte can take care of that.

I want you up here

Allright, come in

Now, Lapointe stop watching wrong doors

Go and relieve Lucas.

- Mrs. Brit.

- Yes, a report from Marseilles
that wants a check-in.

- Right, patron

- Now, full name?

- Victor Rico.

- Victor Rico.

Rico?

- [Maigret] Yes, you remember it.

- You've been in trouble before?

- Not with you

At Saint-Fiacre.

- You come from there?
- Yes

You left before I was born.

Do you remember Old Nicholas?

- The old charcoal burner
who lived in the wood?

- I'm his son.

- He taught me to tickle trout

- And me.

I did it for a living.

- Poaching, eh?

- Yes.

That's why I'm here.

- [Maigret] What do you mean?

- I killed a keeper

It was an accident, but
they tried me for murder

If it hadn't been for the
lawyer Monsieur Fumal engaged,

they'd have had me

- Well why should he
take such an interest?

- He was down there at
the time, at the chateau

I suppose he wanted
someone to be in his debt.

- Mm-hmm, and now he's dead

- Yes.

- Yeah.

Tell me about last night, what happened”

- Nothing.

He came back about eight o'clock

There were no visitors

until Monsieur Gaillardin
called at about 8:10.

- Gaillardin, the broker?

- Yes, he used to come here often

before his business went smash.

- But not lately?

- Not for months.

- Did you show him in?

- Yes, I announced him to Monsieur Fumal,

he said to show him in, so I did

- Did you see when he left?

- Yes, he rang for me.

I came into the hall just
as Monsieur Gaillardin

came out of this room.

I gave him his coat, and he went

- What was his manner?

- He seemed a bit tense.

He didn't say anything, he just went

- Did you hear anything
when they were together?

- 1 was at the back of the house.

- Did you see Fumal again?

- No, I went to bed about 11

I must've been asleep by half past

- [Maigret] Who else came here?

- [Victor] No one

- Who's got a key to the side door?

- There's only three.

- Well, who has them?

- Mensieur Joseph, Fumal, and his girl

- [Maigret] Does she come here often”

- Hardly ever, he went there

Why nef, paid the rent.

- Do you like Fumal?

- What's it matter whether I did or not?

- Why won't you tell me?

- Better be careful what I say, haven't I?

After all, I've been in trouble once

- Yeah, you got a gun”

- No.

- All right.

Hello, Thomas

Just a minute.

Hold on, Thomas

What's that in your pocket”?

A snare, what do you
expect to catch in Paris?

- Rats, and a squirrel once

- Keeping your hand in, eh?

All right, off you go

Thomas, I've got work for you

- Inspector, I-
- No, wait

Yeah, I want a character
called Roget Gaillardin

brought to my office for questioning.

Well his address is on my desk

If he's not there, put
out a general call, right

What do you think of Roget Gaillardin®

- I liked him.

- Did you know he was here last night?

- No.

- Now look here
- [ told you to wait

- As Monsieur Fumal's legal
adviser, I have certain rights

- The same rights as any other
suspect in a murder case

- I protest!

- All right, protest

Now, what's in this?

- Papers, and some money

- How much?

- $150,000 francs

- That's a lot.

- Yes, Monsieur Fumal liked to keep

a certain amount of cash handy

- There were some bills

he didn't care to put through the bank

- Now your position does not entitle you

to make remarks of that kind.

- Never mind, mine does

Can you open it?

- No, I can't

- Nobody knew the combination, except him

- Uh-huh, well presumably the makers can

Lanier Lien.

We shan't get anyone there 'til tomorrow

- As Monsieur Fumal's legal adviser,

I claim to be present
when that safe is opened

- Yes, of course, of course.

- Also the examining magistrate,

and the heir at law, Madame Fumal.

- Oh, madame

Has anyone told her?

- Yes, I have.

Only that he was dead,
not that he was murdered.

- What'd she say?

- Nothing.

She went back to bed.

- Ah, patron.
- Ah Lucas, good

All right, outside

You're quick

- Not much traffic this moming

- Well, he was shot in the back,

point blank range,
between 10 and midnight

Fell down over there.

That's his bedroom.

Only one visitor, who was the last man

to see him alive, Roget Gaillardin.

They're looking for him now.

There's only one other person

who could have got in, his girlfriend

who's got a key to the side door.

Now I'm going up to see the widow

- No sign of a break-in
- No.

- Someone in the house?

- Maybe

- What's the motive?

- He was his own motive.

Well, I want statements from everyone

You better start with Monsieur Joseph.

- I wish to arrange-

- All right, tell it all to the sergeant.

- The strongest possible protest

af being treated as a suspect.
- All right, monsieur

Come this way, answer
my questions truthfully,

and perhaps you'll no longer be one

- But upon what grounds am I-

- Take a seat, monsieur

There's been a murder.

Inquiries must be made

Now, full name?

- Emmanuel Joseph

- [Lucas] Joseph, address”

- I live here.

I was one of Monsieur
Fumal's oldest friends.

(Maigret knocking)

- [Maigret] Madame Fumal

- Coming, I'm coming

- Couldn't you hear me, Madame”

- Sorry, I'm sorry.

Ooh.

- There's something that I
have to tell you, Madame

Your husband was murdered.

Did you hear what I said, Madame?

- Someone had to kill a man like that.

Good health.

- Did your husband visit you last night?

{Madam Fumal coughs)

Did he?

- Who'd come to see me?

- Someone did.

- Where are you going?

You can't go in there, that's my bathroom!

- It's all right, Madame

They're not in there now

(Maigret sighs)

Hey, come on

Wake up

{water trickling)

{typewriter clacking)

Lapointe, got work for you

Call the infirmary.

Tell them there's a drunk in wet clothes

on his way up there.

I want him sorted out.

Black coffee, stomach pump, the lot,

and when he's sober,

they're to send him up
here for questioning

- Right, who is he?

- Name's Emile, Madame Fumal's brother.

He helped with her family drinking

Well, have they found Gaillardin yet?

- No, but his wife's in your office

- Oh, goed

{typewriter clacking)

Madame Gaillardin®?

- Yes.

- I must apologise for
keeping you waiting

Will you sit down?
- Thank you

- Just a few questions

I'd like to ask you about your husband

- Monsieur?

{Maigret coughs)

- What time did he go out last night?

- About 10 o'clock.
- Late?

- Well, we dined at Foucay's first.

- That's an expensive
restaurant for a bankrupt

- He thought everything
was going to come right

- [Maigret] Hm, how?

- Get money from some friend

- [Maigret] Who is this friend”

- I don't know.

He said very little before he left

- Mm-hmm, had he got a gun”

- Yes, a small revolver

- Where's he keep it?

- In the drawer of his bedside table.

- Is it there now?
(knocking)

Not Mrs. Brit now, I'm busy!

Is it there now?

- No.

- I'm sorry, patron, but this
is the Fumal case, two things

One of them's about the
man we're looking for

- You mean my husband”?

- One moment, madame

- What's happened?

- River police

- Routine report.

- What's happened to him?

- I'm sorry to have to tell you, madame

Your husband has shot himself.

(Madame Gaillardin crying)

Sometime last night on the riverbank

near the Bridge at Neuf.

He was found this morning

- Roget.

- I'm afraid I shall have
to ask you to accompany me

down to Neuf to make
a full identification.

- Yes, yes I see, I will.

- What was the other thing?

- This, the report on the
bullet that killed Fumal.

- Nine millimetre Luger automatic?

I'm sorry Madame, I shan't be able

to come down with you after all.

Your husband took his own life,

but I don't think he took anybody else's

Go with her, Lapointe

Get me Lucas at the Fumal house.

- I see, mademoiselle

Did anyone ever offer you money
to influence your employer?

- He wasn't the sort you influence

- How long did you
intend to stay with him?

- As short a time as possible.

- You didn't like him, mademoiselle?

(phone ringing)

Hello, Lucas

Ah, patron

- Lucas, find cut if anyone in the house

owns a nine millimetre Luger automatic

Now I'm going over to see Fumal's
girlfriend at Rue Letoile

Mm-hmm.

I want their statements
as soon as possible

- Right, au revoir

Do you know if anyone in this house

ever owned a Luger automatic?

- Fumal had a pistol, that's it there.

- That's a revolver, not an automatic.

- I wouldn't know the
difference, what woman would?

- A few I know would.

All right, mademoiselle,
a more feminine question

Did Monsieur Fumal ever
make advances to you?

- Why should he?

He had a girl for that sort of thing

- You're not wasting much time, are you?

- What do you expect”?

Now Ferdi's dead, I've got to get out

I can't afford to live here.

- Who owns this place?

- Madame Rose, she lives downstairs

Nice, isn't it?

- Was Fumal nice?

- I've had three square meals
a day for the last year

- When'd you last see him?

- Yesterday afternoon

- What did he talk about?

- Himself.

He talked a lot about himself.

All he kept me for, really

Well, almost all

He used to spend hours up here,

telling me how unhappy he was.

- Fumal?

Unhappy?

- Oh yes

He'd worked hard, and made a lot of money,

but nobody liked him

Even his servants used
to laugh behind his back

and call him the butcher.

Oh, what am I going to do?

- Tell me, what did he say

about the other people who lived with him?

- Said a lot about a man called Joseph

Called him the robber.

- Why?

- I dunno, I think he'd stolen
some money from Ferdi once

Probably have gone to prison
if Ferdi had said what he knew.

- And yet he kept him an?

- Well, Ferdi was funny like that.

He liked to have a hold over
people, see them squirm

That's where he got his fun

- What about his secretary?

- Oh yes, that was awful
what he did to her.

One day while he was
dictating, he suddenly stopped

and looked at her, and told
her to take her clothes off.

- And did she?

- So he said.

I suppose she had to if
she wanted to keep her job

Anyway, he looked her up
and down and shook his head,

and told her to put them on again

She must've felt awful, an
educated girl like that

- Was he a frightened sort of man?

- Ch yes, yes he thought someone

was going to try and kill him.

Said everyone wanted him dead

I told him to go to the police.

- And he did.

- What do you hope to catch
in Paris with this, mink?

Wasn't very funny, was it?

Where were you during the war?

- I told you, I was a boy.

- I didn't think you were a
girl. I said where were you”?

- Saint-Fiacre.

- The occupied sector

When did the Germans move in?

-'43.

- Have you ever owned a Luger automatic?

- The Bosch had them.

- I know the German army had them

Had you one?

- Me, no

- Any weapon?

- I had a shotgun once, but
they tock that away from me

- Any other weapon?

- Yes
- What?

- A catapult

- Lucky for you, I have a sense of humour

All right, send Felix the
chauffeur in, will you?

- The devil were you doing in the bath?

- Hiding, I suppose

- Hiding

- Well, we heard you all arrive

and Jan thought I ought
not to be found there

so I went into the bathroom.

I seemed to be hours in the beastly place,

but it was very uncomfortable
so I got into the bath

I suppose you're going to try
and blame his death on me.

- How do you know he's dead?

- Well, well isn't he?

- Yes he is, but how do you know?

You must have been out cold
for hours when I found you

Nobody's talked to you since

How did you know he was dead?

- Please, could I have just
a little drink to steady me”?

- When you've earned it

- I suppose I'd better tell you the truth.

- That's better.

- I don't seem able to remember anything

- [Maigret] How did
you get into the house?

- My sister Jan had a key
cut for the side door.

- Mm-hmm, what time did
you go there last night?

- Oh seven, 7:15, I can't
remember clearly, quite early

- [Maigret] What'd you do?

- Went up to Jan's room

- [Maigret] And then?

- We drank.

- Well, what'd you talk about?

- Oh, nothing

There was nothing to say

- Nothing to say

- Been like that for years now

- Who supplied the drink?

- 1 did.

- And paid for it?
- Yes.

- What with?

- With Fumal's money.

- From your sister, I suppose

- No, no, he never gave any to her

I took it
- Where from?

- From the office.

There's a drawer where
they keep the petty cash,

and that girl Louise leaves it unlocked.

I used to go down sometimes,
late at night, and take some

Not very much, just a little,

and then I'd buy cognac with
it and drink to his damnation.

- Did you ge down there last night”

Did you?

- Please, another drink.

- When you've told me

- Yes.

Yes, I went down

It was very late, after midnight

He was dead.

- You examined him?

- I tried to take the wallet
out of his inside pocket

but he was lying on it.

I couldn't move him.

He fell on top of it

- [Maigret] Yeah?

- Inthe end, I didn't
even take the petty cash

Please, another drink

- What did you do then”

- Well I went back to
Jan's room and told her.

- And what did she say?

- She said how Father would have laughed

- Patron?

Hi, patron

- Are those the statements?

- Every last one of them
- Good.

Right, now Emile boy,

you're going back to the
infirmary for a couple of days

There'll be more pills and more questions

- But I've been there
once, I didn't like it

- Never mind, you're an important witness

and you're gonna be sober

when you come up in front
of the examining magistrate

All right, take him back to the infirmary.

- He looks a case.

- Yeah, he's gonna be helpful that.

- More than these.

- Not helpful?

- No, not much

- Ah, I think I'll take these home

- They all hated him, and
admitted it, except old Joseph

He's the shiftiest of the lot.

None of them have ever
seen a Luger automatic,

and they don't even bother
to give themselves alibis

- Mm-hmm, all the same,
one of them killed him.

And to turn his back, at that close range,

Fumal must have known
his killer very well

Right, goodnight Lucas

- Goodnight, patron

{suspenseful music)

- You're sure you'll be
able to open it all right?

- Open it, of course I can

- Good man, you better pop through

and take a look at the safe.
It's straight through there

Shouldn't be long now, Monsieur Joseph.

- Monsieur Lucas, I can
assure you I shall make

very serious trouble for the police

about their treatment of me.

- You better start with
the finance section.

They'll be examining your
books this afternoon.

- My conscience is perfectly clear

- I wish mine was.

Ah, Monsieur Comeliau

- Where is the chief inspector?

- Making a few inquiries, monsieur

- Well, will you be
good enough to tell him

that I'm waiting for him?

- Of course.

Oh, you'll be pleased to
know vve found Mrs. Brit.

- Ah, where was she?

- In prison, monsieur
- What?

- Under a false name.

She'd been arrested for
disorderly behaviour.

Madame Fumal, the widow

- What a lot of people.

- Is she drunk?

- I'm afraid that's the only interest

she has left, monsieur

- You're a nice boy

Are you a policeman?

- Lapointe, hop out and see
if you can find the patron

And round up Victor and Joseph

We want them here in the hall.
- Right

- The safe is through there,
monsieur. Shall we go in?

- Yes, let us

- Madame?

- Has the locksmith arrived?

- Yes, he's there.

- And who is this?

- Monsieur Joseph, Fumal's legal adviser

- Excuse me, monsieur.

There are a number of things

that I wish to discuss with you

- Mm-hmm?

- One moment, mademoiselle

All right Lapointe, tell
them I'll be in In a minute.

- [Lapointe] Patron.

- Did you know about
Madame Fumal's brother?

- Emile, yes.

- That he stole the petty cash?

- Mm.

- Well, why didn't Fumal find out?

- Because I made it up.

- Out of your salary?

- I felt sorry for him

Madame's pathetic, really

It was only a few francs

- And yet you were
saving up to get married

- Oh, not from my salary.

That would've taken 20 years.

- From what, then?

- There were managers of other firms,

rivals of Fumal's who paid
me very vsell for information

- And you gave it to them?
- I sold it to them, why not?

It's not against the law.

- Only against Fumal, eh?

- Yes.

If he'd lived another year,
I would've had enough

- They're just starting, patron

- All right.

- Now, Maigret, as you could not be found

and your deputy was present,

I decided to start.

- Of course, monsieur

Madame.

- Continue.

- You're quite certain

that nobody else knew the combination?

- Quite certain, quite certain

- It was a simple combination,

but you have to get it
exactly right, of course

There.

- Where is the money?

- 150,000, wasn't it?

- Yes, I gave it to him myself

I saw him put it in the safe

- Nothing there.

- So now we have a robbery
to investigate as well

{Madame Fumal laughing)

- Monsieur Joseph, will you
take Madame Fumal outside?

Wait in the hall.

{Madame Fumal laughing)

{door slams)

You say it's quite a
simple combination, yeah?

- Provided you know it,
but then most of them are.

- Lapointe, go outside the door a minute

Now, look through the keyhole

Shut the safe.

Lapointe, can you see what he's doing?

- [Lapointe] Yes, clearly

- All right, come in again

Would you say that somebody
watching through there

could learn how to open that safe?

- Hm, he might, if he was clever

with his fingers, and observant.

- Well, we need look no further
for a motive, at any rate

- It does look as though Fumal

has told one of them of the safe, patron.

- Yeah, which one?

(wonky music)

- Jules.

- You gave me quite a start

- It's after three, can't you leave it?

(Maigret sighs)

- Did your tooth wake you up?

- No, I just woke and you weren't there

You can't go on like this, you know,

night after night without sleep

- I can't sleep with
this thing on my mind

It's all there, you know?

- What, Fumal?

- Yeah, if only I could see it.

There's Louise, then Felix the chauffeur,

Victor and Joseph

Madame Fumal, her brother Emile

They all had cause to hate him.

All had cause to rob him.

There's no sign of a
struggle, no break-in

Ah, did we buy his meat?

- What, Fumal?

- Yeah
- No.

- Good.

- Come to bed.

- All right.

What a poor, twisted fellow he was

- I feel sorry for him, in a way

All that money, that lovely house here,

the chateau at Saint-Fiacre,
all for nothing, really

- A man is what he is.

Who can blame Fumal...

Saint-Fiacre
- What?

- Saint-Fiacre.

Idiot that I am, there it was
all the time under my nose

(phone ringing)

- Hello, Lucas

Oh, patron
- Lucas, are you with me”?

Now listen carefully

The bullet that killed
Fumal, nine millimetre, yes?

- [Lucas] Right.

- And the bullet that
killed that gamekeeper

at Saint-Fiacre, all those years ago?

- Was also nine millimetre, Victor!

Why didn't we think of that before?

- Why, indeed

A poacher

Clever with his fingers, observant

Used to moving quietly

Someone who knew Fumal well, it all fits

Right, now call up Lapointe,

go around to Fumal's
house, and pick up Victor

- When did you see him last?

- I don't really think
I've seen him for two days

But with all this upset here,
I haven't really thought

- Patron?

He's gone.

The room's empty, but
there are signs of packing

Louise hasn't seen him
for the last two days

Shall I put out a general call?

- No, no.

No, I think I knows where he's gone

Bring the car round here,
pick me up right away

(pleasant music)

- Is this the place, patron?

- I'm not sure.

It's a long time since I've been here.

The old hut's in the wood.

It's down that road, I think

About two kilometres, come on

(engine revving)

Keep it quiet.

Better leave your coat

- You seem pretty sure
he'll be here, patron

- Just a hunch.

What would you do if
you were in his shoes?

- I suppose you run,
and probably come back

to the only place I really
knew somewhere I felt safe

- Think we'll have
trouble with him, patron?

- Maybe

- He's already killed two men

- Yeah, must've been around
here he shot that gamekeeper

- Right, come on

No noise.

{suspenseful music)
{birds chirping)

- [Lucas] Your hunch was right, patron

- Lucas, get round the back

And Lapointe, you go in from the right

I'll go through there.

Five minutes, and then move in.

Keep it quiet.

{birds chirping)

(fire crackling)

{twig snaps)

{suspenseful music)

Victor.

It's no use, we're all around you

Victor, we're coming in

{gun fires)

{sombre music)

Nine millimetre Luger.

- Why did he kill Fumal?

- Money.
- No. not the money

He's lighting the fire with it, look.

- Why, then?

- This.

This is what he wanted from the safe.

And I think we'll find it's the one

that killed the gamekeeper
here, all those years ago

This is the hold Fumal had on Victor.

He thought he owned him,
as long as he held this

But you can't own a peasant.

I know.

I'm one myself.