All language subtitles for Maigret S02E10 A Crime for Christmas_Track03-eng

- [Mystery Man] What are
you trying to do to me?

What are you trying to do?

Loraine!

- [Madam Martin] You're
going ta shut up and get out,

and head back the way you've came from

- [Mystery Man] Don't say that te me

after what I've gone
through because of youl

You're just as much to blame as me

What are you trying ta do to me?

- [Madam Martin] What am
I trying to do to you?

I'm trying to save my life
or what you've left of it

- [Mystery Man] I need that money!

- [Madam Martin] Don't shout you madman,

do want to wake Colette?

Do you want her to hear?

- [Mystery Man] Ah, Colette. Colette!

What have you done with it?

The money? The money?

- [Madam Martin] The money?

There isn't any money.

You'd think I'd keep it with blood on it?

It's in the Seine.

I threw it away

- [Mystery Man] You, throws
money away? (chuckles)

That will be the last time won't it.

- [Madam Martin] You keep away from me

- [Mystery Man] You've got it somewhere

Where have you hidden it?

{woman screaming)

- No!

Let go of mel

{suspenseful music)

{woman screaming)

Get out!

Get out!

(slow. suspenseful music)

(match striking)

(mysterious music)

("Noel" instrumental playing)

{music winding down and becoming sinister)

(man grunting)

{man coughing)

(man humming)

- Oh, you didn't have to get up

It's Christmas day!

-Ohsoitis.

- I didn't want you to do anything all day

except eat and drink and smoke.

Happy Christmas, Jules

- What's this?

(chuckling)

Well look at this!

(expressing contentment)

Wonder what Lucas going
to say when he sees this?

(both laughing)

Just what I wanted, dear.

- And your favourite tobacco

- 1000 thanks.

- It's the tenth I've given you

- Then 10,000 thanks

Your face is cold, have you been out?

- To get you some hot rolls

- Oh, Il light a pipe then

- It's starting to snow

{bells chiming)

Soon the children will be out

showing each other their new toys

There's that lonely little
woman from across the way

{bells chiming)

You know the one that
has a weakness for you?

- [Inspector Maigret] Who me”

- You must've seen it.

She sits at her window
sewing, watching our windows

When you go out,

she always seems to pop
down the road after you

- Is she young and beautiful?

- No, she's hardworking
respectable, and about 50

She had another woman with her.

I don't know who she is.

- Waiting for you as
an excuse, haven't you?

- I'm only thinking of Colette

- I'm the one to be
thinking about Colette

What possible interest
could Inspector Maigret

have in Colette?

- For one thing,

she's exactly the same age

as his own little girl would have been

You don't have to come up

I can go by myself,

{doorbell buzzing)

- I'm only coming to see
you make a fool of yourself

- Oh, I forgot.

I haven't given you my present yet.

- Oh, for me?

- Yeah, catch

- Good heavens!

- Father Christmas is more
broad-minded this year

- It's beautiful.

- Well go on, try it on

- What now?

- Yes.

(doorbell buzzing)
{Inspector Maigret sighing)

- If it's for me, I'm out.

I'm in conference.

(Louise laughing)

{Inspector Maigret coughing)

- I feel so guilty,

disturbing today of all days,

but we are so anxious to have
a word with the inspector

- Well I'll see.

Perhaps you wouldn't mind
waiting in here for a moment

- Yes.

- It's them, the two women

You're not going to like the blonde one

- Do I have to see either of them?

- Well one of them seems very upset

- Oh, all right

- I say, have you washed?

- What on Christmas morning?

- Yeah, you come on

- I think that's his voice.

- Ah, what bliss

What happened to that child?

She died.

She was only three or four.

Such a tiny little thing.

I remember he used to look
so proud when he'd take her

for a walk to the gardens

Then one day an ambulance arrived,

and I didn't see her again

- They didn't have any more?

- I don't think she can.

- He's coming!

- Oh, Inspector Maigret.

- Mademoiselle Doncouer.

- Allow me to wish you
a very happy Christmas

- And to you too

- This is Madame Martin.

She lives just opposite,

just opposite you

- Mademoiselle Doncouer is very anxious

to tell you about Father Christmas

- Oh, do sit down

- Ch well thank you

- He came to Madame Martin's
little girl last night

- Long ago, he used to come to me

- But she saw him.

He really did come

- Down the chimney?

- Colette says he came
through a hole in the floor

- How old is your little girl?

- She isn't really Madame
Martin's little girl.

- [Madame Martin] Colette is nine

- Nine?

- [Mademoiselle Donceuer]
Yes, she was born

just two weeks after your own little girl

She's an orphan

That is, her mother is dead

Poor child.

- I have looked after the poor child

to the best of my abilities

for the past two years

- Oh yes

That's true.

- Thank you

Colette is my husband's niece

- A week ago she fell on the
stairs and broke her leg

In bed for Christmas, poor little thing

So I took it in a tiny present

There was this wonderful
dog from Father Christmas

- Oh, your husband
dressed up for the part?

- Oh, her husband is in
the Dordogne on business

He won't be back till tomorrow.

- Someone else.

- What kind of someone else.

- Isn't the child's father still alive.

- [Madame Martin] Yes

- But where is he?

- [Madame Martin] I've no idea

Any place that he can
drink himself unconscious.

- [Mademoiselle Donccuer]
Oh, I'm sure you told me

he lived near the Bastide.

- I'm sure you'd all like a cup of coffee

- Ch no please, don't trouble yourself

We've wasted enough of your fime.

- Please excuse me.

- What's the father's name?

- Paul Martin.

- Could he have gotten into
your apartment last night?

- Well no, of course
not without my noticing

- Some other man, a friend?

- I do not entertain men
friends in my husband's absence

- [Inspector Maigret] I take it

that you did hear Father
Christmas last night

- [Madame Martin] Well of course not,

it's a child's imagination

- He took out the floorboards.

I have seen the marks.

- The floorboards?

- Would you excuse me?

I was just wondering if you wanted me

to sort of do anything about it

Sounds like a lot of nothing to me

- You came to see if I was crying

- No, no.

- Yes you did

Well, I'm not

- [Madame Martin] I warmed you,

you can see things, the the
whole thing's quite absurd

And you upset her, talking
about the child like that.

We ought'nt to stay

Oh, we really must go

- I'm so sorry

- I'd like to talk to the little girl

if you've no objection

- No, no, nothing

But I'm afraid I have to go out,

I have some shopping to do: butter, eggs.

- Oh, I could be there, inspector

I could wait with Colette
until the inspector came

- Good.

Well, that's all settled then.

- You wsere very wise to
come across, my lady

Shall we say half an hour then?

- Oh that would be quite convenient

Colette will be so excited

when I tell her what
a great man is coming

- Now look, you shouldn't
trouble yourself, really

- It's no trouble at all, Madame

I'd like to see the little girl.

(rotary turning)

- Hello Maigret.

I want Sergeant Lucas please.

- Try to find out if the
child's happy with that woman?

- Hello, Lucas

And how are you this Christmas
morning, my poor friend?

I want some information.

- A list of ex-convicts, patron?

Well that will be a long one.

What prison?

Any prison?

Right, you're onto something then?

Well Happy Christmas, patron.

Right, take your feet off that desk.

- Was that the patron?

- With a nice little job
for a Christmas present

- I'm surprised he didn't
come down the chimney today

- He wants us to check up

on any ex-convict who has been inside

during the past two years

who was once lived in
the Rue Sabin

near the patron.

- (indistinct), right
that's a job for the files

- Oh, and there's a
drunk called Paul Martin,

probably wandering around the
bars and the Bastide area.

We want to know what he
was up to last night

See if we can pick him up

and take him up to the patron's

Well, suppose he doesn't want to come?

- Well persuade him

Gently, it's Christmas

(playful growling)

- Wait for me.

I won't be long

{slow music)

Gare du Nord

- Follow that taxi.

{engines rumbling)

{suspenseful music)

{music speeds up)

{doorbell buzzing)

- Mademoiselle.

- She's waiting, I've told her.

- Is Madame Martin still there?

- She just went for some butter and eggs

to the little dairy,

but perhaps it was shut

I've been sitting with Colette.

Colette, here's the great inspector.

- Ah Colette, I just thought I'd drop over

and wish you a happy Christmas

I hope you don't mind.

- I like visitors, because I
practically never have any

- My little bird is ready for the oven

- Well it's bad luck being
in bed on Christmas day.

- I don't mind.

- Oh, it's a lovely doll.

- Yes, isn't it

- Oh, my niece would be very
jealous if she saw that

You see I bought her a doll
for a Christmas present

but it wasn't as nice as that one.

- Well it's a bit different, you see

Father Christmas brought this one himself.

- Oh, did he?

Tell me all about him.

- Don't you believe in him?

- Well, I have to, don't I?

- That's my position too

- Well you weren't expecting him, then?

- I was afraid I was getting
too old and I woke up

He had a torch.

He'd come through the floor

- [Inspector Maigret]
And how did he go away?

- Actually, he went out of the door

- Of course it wasn't locked, was it?

- [Colette] No we only
lock the front door

I expect he had a key.

- I expect he did

You're a clever girl, Colette

Did he speak to you while he was in here

- No, he just went like this

Then he gave me her

- How many people have visited
you while you've been in bed?

- The Doctor,

Mademoiselle Doncouer,

my aunt Lorraine.

- And that's Madame Martin?

- Yes. And both my papas

- Two papas?

You're lucky

- Papa Paul is my real
father, but he's ill,

so he doesn't come often.

My aunt Lorraine doesn't like
him, but Papa John does

- Do you like your aunt Lorraine”

- Very well, thank you

- And Papa John?

- He's coming back soon

I thought you were going to
ask about Father Christmas.

- Well, I wanted to find out

about all your other visitors first

Were there anymore?

- No, my aunt Lorraine had one,

the insurance, insurance man

They were quarrelling

- What about, insurance?

Or perhaps you didn't listen

- They woke me up

I heard the man say the money, the money.

I don't think I heard anymore

- Did you see him?

- No I didn't.

- Now, here we are

- Nowy I want you to tell me exactly where

Father Christmas came through the floor

- Just under the floorboards,

Under the rug

(mysterious music)

It would be too small for you

- What are you looking for?

What have you found?

- Nothing but dust

What did Father Christmas find?

- Find?

Nothing.

- You've been a long time buying six eggs.

- I had one or two other things to do

- Perhaps you'd like to
tell me about them, madame

- So, where else did you go”?

- I had to return the
doll I bought Colette

She doesn't need two, and I
see no point in wasting money

- Your thrift is admirable.

What's your husband doing”?

- He travels for a watch company

- And you, you go out to work”?

- With the charge I look after?

I gave up work two years ago

- Well, what did you do?

- Oh, do you mind?

I object to pipe smoke in the kitchen.

I worked in a small antique shop

above the Palais-Royal

It was owned by a man called Lovelier.

I worked there for three years.

- And why did you give it up?

- If you must know?

Because he died.

One day I went to the shop as usual

Monsieur Lovelier didn't not.

- And two months later,

his body was pulled out of the Seine

I remember.

- It was assumed to be him.

At any rate the insurance
company thought so

They paid enough to keep the
widows able to run her shop

- Describe this Lovelier?

- Big, 50. untidy

- Did he attract you?

- He attracted me no more than you do

And now, if you'll excuse me,

I have things to do

(knocking on door)

Yes?

- I'm so sorry

I wonder if you have
some greaseproof paper

for my little birds

I regret that I do not, Mademoiselle

- Mademoiselle, one moment

Was Madam Martin carrying anything

when she left the apartment this morning.

- No, there was a parcel

Wasn't there my dear?

- A parcel with a doll

Is that anything else?

Would you like to examine my kitchen,

turn out the drawers?

Look for my bag?

- Later, perhaps.

(upbeat bar music)

- Here, you're drunk already

What do you want more drink for?

- I've been drunk 36 hours.

- Looks more like 36 years

Anyway, we're closed

We are not open yet

- What time do you open”

- When you're gone

- There isn't a city in
the world like Paris

Wonderful lights, beautiful music,

and those wonderful, wonderful people

- Here, you out

Time to go.

- Whois it?

- [Bartender] I shouldn't know

- You, what's your name?.

- I'm happy to say I've
forgotten at the moment

- Come on, let's see your papers

- I've met people like you before.

You shave every day

I don't knowr what it is.

We never seem to get on

Yes, patron,

Boulevard Richard-Lenoir,
Nine o'clock this moming

Good. I'l get Lapointe on it right away

- Lapointe?

- [Lapointe] Yes?

- What are you up to?

Drinking on duty”?

- Well, it's Christmas

- Oh, sante.

- Sante.

- I got a present for you.

The patron wants you to go out

and meet some interesting taxi drivers.

Now he thinks you'll find one

who picked up a woman in
the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir

at nine o'clock this morning

Just opposite the patron's

What was she wearing?

A light ocelot fur coat.

She was carrying a large leather handbag,

a parcel, and a shopping basket.

- What's the patron doing
this Merry Christmas day

- Last minute shopping I think

He said he's going to slip
around the antique shops

(chiming music)

- Madam Lovelier.

- Oh what ever must you think,

catching me like this on Christmas day?

- You're
pen'?

- Yes.

Yes, I'm open

Please come in.

Of course, I'm always open

- The chief inspector Maigret, Madame

Just a few questions?

- Madame Lovelier is always open

It's known.

It's pretty.

It will make a nice present for a child

You have a child?

- No, but I know of them

Now tell me, do you sell
much on Christmas day?

- The rush is over.

I had actually intended to wash the floor.

You may not believe me inspector,

but I once employed two maids

We were going te move to
the country with a gardner

Yes. The rush is over now.

- Your husband is dead I believe.

- [Madame Lovelier] Yes

Things were different then.

- Must have been hard to
lose him so unexpectedly

- Some things are expected

We were the happiest couple

Once.

- When did you stop being
the happiest couple?

- Oh, that's personal

That's a very personal question

You see?

He was so clever.

His antique business grew

He had to have an assistant.

- Madame Martin?

- Yes, her.

She's married, she sits in luxury,

while I...

It's a nice little shop

I don't complain.

- Did your husband have an
affair with that Madame.

- He could hardly bring
himself to speak to me

We lived like strangers,
but if he heard her voice,

even on the telephone,

his face lit up

- [Inspector Maigret]
Is that all the evidence

that you have against it?

- Oh no.

No, I, I have a little souvenir

I've never used it.

One day, but I mustn't.

Revenge is wrong

- And justice?

- Justice.

Then I'l show you

They took him out of the river.

He'd been there two months.

They wouldn't let me see his face

This is all there was left.

The key to his shop,

the key to a strong box,

the key to our house,

and the key to her apartment

- How do you know?

- I followed him once.

He said he was going
to Geneva on business.

Oh, it's too sordid

- You thought he was
going to run off with her?

- She was a wicked woman, evil

All she wanted was money, money, money.

That's why she killed him in the end

- She killed him?

- I didn't see it then,

but I theught about it, thought for years,

who else would have done it?

She wanted his money

- Did he have much?

- How do I know how much he had?

They dropped two in the river

and left him ta rot, my husband

We were happy once, long ago.

- Madame, which is the
key to her apartment?

- Here.

It's gone

- Get in there.

I delivered the package, Madame.

I better stay with him

- Ch I can manage

He looks so gentle

- Madame, I apologise

I intruded, because in short
I'm afraid of the police

- You still haven't told me
where you were last night

- I was probably in a bar somewhere.

Then maybe I read a book

I never finished a book nowadays though.

Usually go out for a drink instead.

- You stir one inch out of that chair,

I'll give you a reason to
be afraid of the police

- Au revoir Madame.

- Au revoir Monsieur Torrance.

Drink up your coffee

- [Paul] You're very kind

- Your little girl's just nine, isn't she”

How did she come to lose her mother?

- Yeah, it was at a party

I'd only had three drinks

Maybe four.

My wife said leave the
car, but I was all right,

until a great big petrol
truck came around the corner.

So she was killed.

While I wasn't hurt at all.

Not at all.

- So that's why you had to leave Colette

with your sister-in-law

- It's Christmas and I
haven't even been to see her.

I'm a monster.

- I'l get your something to eat

You must eat.

- Who are you?

- Chief Inspector Maigret

I live here.

Now, what's your job”?

- Car salesman.

I sold them long. long ago

Cars are finished like me,

they're finished off the road

- Oh, I suppose we went back to the

where were you last night story.

Were you playing Father Christmas?

- Drunken Father Christmas.

Not even, I'd never go anywhere near here

when I've been drinking.

- Aren't you worried

about that child with your brother's wife?

- What else can I do?

Tell me what else can I do anyway?

Well, what do I care?

- Well care about the
child, she's is in danger.

- Danger?

- [Inspector Maigret]
Yes, that's what I said

And I get that into your head

Now tell me about this
Lorraine Martin woman.

- Oh, I don't know

Except there's this, Lovelier

She worked for him.

You know what they sold?

- [Inspector Maigret] Antiques,
the usual kind of stuff.

- The main business was obscene carvings,

attracted a lot of rich men.

Lorraine had money so one
night I, well it's nothing

- Well it might be something, go on

- I was, I was out of francs

Always happens when I've been drinking.

Saw a light in the shop.

So I, I knocked him up, but
she was the one who was there.

- [Inspector Maigret] Lorraine Martin

- She looked ready to kill me

Few francs, I said

She threw some notes at me

and I went away

Wasn't until I came to pay for the drink,

that I saw she'd given me Swiss
francs, not French at all

- When was this?

- About the time Lovelier went away.

- Now I'll tell you what
you're going to do is shave

and get cleaned up.

You can do that here.

Then go across the road
and stay with your child

as long as she needs you

All right?

I'd give her that.

- What is it?

- [Inspector Maigret]
It's a present from you

- Where's the razor?

- Over there.

(rotary dialling)

(phone ringing)

- Lucas.

Ah, patron

I was waiting for you

We've got your taxi driver.

The one who picked up the woman

at Boulevard Richard-Lenoir this morning

Yes.

Yes, she took it to a luggage
shop in Rue des Boulets

where she bought a suitcase

Then to the Gare du Nord
where she left it.

I got Lapointe in checking
both places at the moment

Is there anything else you want?

- Yes, I want to know

if any Swiss national was
listed as a missing person,

two years ago

I miss my Swiss

Right, we get onto that

Is that the lot”?

No. I want the other taxi driver.

The one who brought her back
from the Gare du Nord,

and I want the proprietor
of the luggage shop

and I want them all
around here at four today

- [Paul] Colette!

- [Madame Martin] Ch so
you've come, have you?

- [Paul] Can I go in?

- [Madame Martin] Well I
can't stop you I suppose

- Papa Paull

I knew you would come back.

- How's old plaster leg today?

- Nearly better,

I'm getting up next week.

- Oh good!

- Look, from Father Christmas.

- Wow, look what I've bought you

- Oh, it's lovely!

What is it?

- It's a surprise for both of us

{music box playing)

- Oh a musical box.

Oh it's lovely.

Thank you, Papa Paul

Are you going to stay with me?

- What's that music?

Oh, so you've actually brought
her something, have you?

- It's a musical box.

- And how long do you have
a plan to stay this time?

- For awhile.

- As long as you're here, I
suppose you'll want a drink

- No, I'm not thirsty

- It's only some Brunelle
from Alsace,

but please yourself.

(music box continuing)

{suspenseful music)

- Did a woman leave

her cheap fibre suitcase
here this morning?

- Sort of question you
expect from the police

- All right.

You expect if

You've got it

- Hundreds of women, there's
thousands of suitcases

Satisfied?

- This woman wore a light
coloured ocelot fur coat.

She carried a large handbag,
also a shopping basket

Did you see her?

- Sort of a question
that gets you nowhere

Unless you got the ticket

You got the ticket, we'll have a look

You've got no ticket,

our business is concluded.

I'll have a look at all the suitcases

that came in this morning.

- Now look, I'm from the
Department of Criminal Justice

- People in this country have some rights,

their property isn't to be
handed over to departments

I knows the law if you
don't, Mr. Criminal justice

- Do you play that thing”

- Thing?

- Well you can come along,

and play it to Inspector Maigret

{playing trombone)

- So you sell suitcases,
Monsieur Vaucourt

Even on Christmas day”?

- It pays to be open when others are shut

- You sell one to a young
blonde woman this morning”?

Well, what of it?

What's your interest in her?

- Murder.

- Pity you didn't begin with that

We'd have saved time, and time's money

- Wait here.

- Wait?

Then I'll have to hire a taxi to get back

Who's going to pay for the taxi?

- Come on, Lucas, come in

- Patron, it's cold

- A regular circus down there.

I've got one of them in there

The luggage shop proprietor

- I've got two taxi drivers
and a trumpet player.

Good. What about the Swiss?

They don't seem to go missing very often.

I've got a list of three men who vanished

about that time.

Well one's a boy of 19

No?

The other two are middle-aged men

- Rich?

- Well, Peter Linteman,
private income, deserted wife,

and Daniel Busey, art dealer,
unmarried cosmopolitan

- Height?

- Linteman, five foot eight,

Busey, six foot one

- We've got what's Busey's
last address in Paris?

- I've already been there.

- Good, any luck?

- Well, although it's about two years ago

several people remember him

He was seeing a lot of a woman

who fits in with Madame
Martin's description

- Very interesting

Two years ago, she was working
with a man called Lovelier.

She had him on a string too,

and one day his body was
fished out of the Seine.

- I remember that.

- Lovelier was making plenty of money

Does this Busey have money too I wonder?

She likes money, you know, Lucas

She even returned a doll to a shop

because Colette already had one.

- What about the suitcase

she left at the Gare du Nord?

Should we get a warrant?

See what's in it?

- No, I don't think it would
be much help at the moment

Anyway. She could disclaim
any connection with it

I think it might be more use where it is

for the time being

- Well now, what about
my circus downstairs?

- Now Lucas, you don't know this woman,

a very unpleasant character and tough,

but I've got an idea that we might be able

to soften her up a bit

So bring all these people out of here

I'm going to have a drink

while I explain what I want them to do.

It's an idea worth trying, it might work.

- 80 the little red haired soldier

went marching along with
his knapsack on his back

- What's a knapsack?

- Well it's a sort of little bag,

where he keeps his sandwiches
and his socks and boots,

and money and railway tickets

- They didn't have any railway tickets

- Well he was ahead of his time.

And anyway, it was a magic knapsack

had a special pocket in it for his magic,

where he kept his little white mouse

Allright, it's not for us

So this little white mouse.

- Excuse me, is this the fourth floor?

- Third.

- That's right, the
thirds are what I want.

They never tell you
right when they ring up,

that's their trouble.

I've come all the way from
the Gare du Nord.

- And what's that to me?

- You know.

(door slamming)

(slow, solemn music)

- What do you want”?

- I came to deliver a suitcase.

The lady who bought one this morning

got hold of the wrong ones, see?

Now wait a minute.

I've got a shop just near
the Gare du Nord

You ever been there?

- No

- You're the dead spit of the
woman who bought this case

You came with a large
handbag and a parcel

- I did not.

Oh wait.

Come inside.

I have, perhaps this woman
the woman you're talking about,

perhaps she paid too little for the case

- How much too little?

- Well...

- Has the inspector
solved our little problem?

- I regret to say that
I've no news Mademoiselle.

{man singing “Noel in the distance")

{doorbell ringing)

Go away, get out of

What do you want?

Lady!

What does anyone want on the
happy night of Christmas

Warm, smiling faces, peace, love

(ringing bell)

Lady, are you in?

Familiar fares are the best fares.

Didn't I bring you back

from the Gare du Nord this morning?

- Come inside.

Come inside!

Who told you to come here?

Who told you?

- {chuckling) Shall I tell you?

The director of the Folies Bergeére

(woman crying)

"Noel" playing cn a trumpet)

- You!

I've seen you before!

Where have you come from?

Where?

- I'm a musician.

- You're mad!

- I work at the baggage
department of the Gare du Nord

- YWhat did you leave at
the Gare du Nord?

- Nothing.

The Gare du Nord.

What did you leave at
the Gare du Nord?

- Oh it was very clever,

trying to scam me with
tricks and taxi drivers.

- It was money, was it?

Was it Lovelier's money?

- I don't know what you're talking about

Is it a crime to take a taxi?

- Will, you give me the receipt
for the luggage, Madame?

- No, I won't.

- You kept the money under the floorboards

in Colette's room.

As Colette was in bed with a broken leg

So your accomplice couldn't get in there,

until he thought of the
Father Christmas trick.

But he didn't get the money

because you had already moved it.

But he'll be back,

and this time he wouldn't be
in a Father Christmas mood.

- Father Christmas.

Father Christmas, who's he supposed to be”?

- How about a man called Busey”?

I'm waiting for the
luggage receipt, Madame

(phone ringing)

- [Madame Martin] Mother?

Oh, John

Well naturally I was
expecting you for Christmas

Yes, well when do you expect to be back”?

Well I'm used to being left alone,

why should I worry?

Yes.

Yes, well is there anything else,

because I've got to go out in a moment.

No, she will not be left
alone, your brother's here

Oh, she's well, she's well

She claims to have had a
visit from Father Christmas.

Well, how does one know what
goes on in a child's mind?

Very well,

Yes of course, of course
I'l give her your love

Yes, yes, is there anything else?

All right then, I'll see you tomorrow

Yes, all right.

Goodbye

- Goodbye.

(trumpet music)

{upbeat music)

- Ah, look!

- Swiss.

Like she gave to Paul Martin.

How big was Busey?

- Six foot one.

- About the same as Lovelier.

- When he was pulled out of the Seine,

his body was identified
only by the clothes he wore

All right, we're taking this

And I want another ticket.

- What for?

- Just want a spare ticket

- I can't do that.

I've got to account for them all.

You'll have to leave a
suitcase or something

- All right.

- There you go

(both chuckling)

Oh what a weight.

What a Christmas present, hey.

- What are you doing?

Where are you taking her?

- Over to the inspectors apartment.

- You can't do that.

- Orders.

- You've no right, I forbid it.

- You forbid it?

I'm her father.

- What's the matter Madame™?

Nervous at being left alone?

- All right.

Off you go.

- Oh, have a drink,

there's a bottle of
Brunelle in the bedroom.

- Why have you done this?

- For her protection

Don't you think you need some too?

Why?

Lovelier.

Lovelier is dead.

He'll want that ticket.

And he would kill you to get it

You know that.

Won't be his first murder.

Two years ago was his
first, a Swiss called Busey

Was carrying too much
money around with him

Lovelier put his own clothes on the corpse

and threw it into the Seine,

and then he hid the money with you

Yes, I wonder what lies you told him

Did you want to lie low for a bit,

that it was unsafe to carry
stolen money around with him.

He trusted you

Why not, you were lovers?

Two years later he came back.

That was last night

He realises that you've
doubled crossed him.

Colette overheard some of that.

Now he knows that if he wants his money

he's got to get it himself

He knows the apartments,

he guessed where you'd hide it

He gets back the key that you gave him.

And he thinks up the
father Christmas trick

to keep Calette,

but he didn't get the money

because you had already moved it.

So he watches the apartment.

Sees you go to the Gare du Nord

and deposit a suitcase.

He's outside somewhere now,

waiting for his chance to come back here

and get that ticket.

If I were you Madame,

I wouldn't spend another
night alone in this apartment

In fact, with the
evidence that we now have,

I can suggest a much safer place

Put your coat on, Madame

- Have you finished, Colette”?

- Thank you

Will I be staying long?

- Well, I don't know.

(telephone ringing)

- Lapointe here.

Yes, patron

No, no sign of him yet.

Where are you?

I see.

- No, no.

Don't arrest him, tail him

Yeah.

Well, if he didn't come
towards here stopping,

but I think he will.

- Right, patron

Hold on.

I think I can see something

- Right. Get down there right away.

It'll be done in two minutes.

It won't take him long to
find what he's looking for

- Right, I'm on my way

(mysterious, suspenseful music)

- He's just been seen getting into a taxi

Lapointe is following him in a police car,

it won't be long now.

- What I've done.

- Well. you haven't done anything.

You couldn't help it

Colette would never have
been mixed up in this if I

Well she might've been killed

- Oh, come on

Cheer up, it's Christmas.

- What's that?

- It looks like a pipe to me

- You've got the wrong ticket, you fool

I want a suitcase.

- Oh yeah?

I think that's all the evidence we need.

You're under arrest.

(positive, uplifting music)

- What will they do to him?

- Depends how much she can
swing on Lovelier or he on her

They used te be lovers, incredible

- Paul what do-
- You know I was-

- Ch I'm so sorry

- No, please.

Well, I was wondering

what you were going to do about Colette?

- Ch, I should look after myself now

It's about time.

First I actually have to
think about getting a job

and looking for a place
for us both to live.

Yes, veell that's much
the best thing of course,

but it will take you some
time to get settled in

Won't it?

- Yes, I suppose it will

- Oh, Paul, I thought I
heard Colette calling you

- I was thinking we could

- Go on, we could what?

- Well, we could let Colette
stay on here for a bit

just until Paul gets settled out

That is if it's all right by you

- Yeah it will be all right.

{Maigret chuckling)
(dish breaking)

- Oh shoot!

(both laughing)