All language subtitles for Maigret S03E08 The Crystal Ball_Track03-eng

{eerie music)

(rapid footsteps)

(car door slams)

{engine starts)

(dramatic music)

{folk music)

[Maigret] - A fortune
teller doomed to death.

Three o'clock Saturday precisely

Picpus

Hmm.

Lucas?

- Patron.

Oh, you don't seem the sort
of chap that would do that

Here, man. Take a seat.

I shouldn't worry too
much. He may not prosecute

- He'll have to.

- Patron.

- [Maigret] Take a look
at that handwriting

Do you see a nervous apprehension

in the breaks between the letters”?

After the F for Fortune and the D of Doom.

- I can see the breaks.

- [Maigret] Dr Rosenbaum says
the handwriting is disguised

by an unnatural backwards slope

However, the disguise of it
is comparatively superficial

In the event of ...

"From which, I conclude, written by

a short-sighted elderly woman,

whose education ceased when
she left convent school,

and is habitually impulsive,

but lives in a state
of nervous apprehension

as to the results of her impulses.”

- [Lucas] You wouldn't
think it, would you?

- He says it would be
interesting to know why

she chose herself ...

Chose to sign herself Picpus

"Surely, it is the name
of a well-known street."

- Experts

- Who's in charge of the Picpus area?

- Picpus? Chemel.

- It's nearly three o'clock now

You'd better call Chemel and tell him

we think it's an obvious hoax.

- Right.

Oh, Patron

I have a character called
Mascouvin in the office.

- [Maigret] What's he done?

- He's an estate agent's clerk

who says he stole 2000
francs from his firm,

but he's come to give himself up.

- Why couldn't he do it on a Monday?

All right. I'l deal with him

- I sent Lapointe round to his employer

He'll be reperting soon

- Right.

- Ah.

You're Mascouvin?

And you stole 2000 francs
from your employer's till

Now, why did you do such a silly thing?

- Horses and carts.

- Well, if it's only 2000 francs,

couldn't you offer te pay it back?

- It might be more

- How much more?

20,000? 307?

- More.

{telephone rings)

- Hello, Maigret.

- Patron, I'm with Monsieur Drouin.

He makes no complaint at all

Mascouvin's been in his
employ for 15 years.

Well, he says he hasn't missed any cash

- Hello, Inspector. Drouin here

No. no, no. Quite impossible

I've checked the petty cash. Not a sou

- [Maigret] Might be 30,000 francs

- But he has no access to money like that

I hope I'm a patient man,

but we're not a shop,
Inspector, with a cash register

We are Fouvet and Drouin.

We deal in land development,
the best residential ..

Very large sums

Just nerves, Inspector

Perhaps he smokes in the toilet

and fancies he's stolen my time.

He's that kind of man.

Well, to be honest,

he irritates me.

Not at all.

- Patron.

I'll be back right away, Patron

- Out.

- You're not going to arrest me?

- Go home.

Have a bottle of wine. Drink it.

Come back on Monday and
we'll talk about it

- 100,000 francs

- [Maigret] On Monday.

{ominous music)

- It's all those English tourists, Madame

Paris is full of them
this time of the year

- Chemel?

- No, Madame Maigret

- Oh.

Yes. Yes, if's me

What? No, no.

No, no, I haven't forgotten

I'm [eaving now.

Au revoir.

We're going to the cinema.

I'm off.

What did Chemel say?

- Why couldn't the lady
assign herself Montmartre?

{Maigret and Lucas laugh)

- Have a good weekend

- Yes, duty officer. All you've got to do

is just sit there.

Me?

Well.

See you on Monday.

- Au revoir, Patron

(indistinct)

- Oh, Lapointe.

- [Lapointe] Patron?

- Have a good weekend

- Thank you, Patron.

- [Lucas] Send up my usual two bottles

and three chicken sandwiches, will you?

- Four bottles and six chicken sandwiches.

- Hold it, Little Cirico's arrived

Double the order.

He wants a picnic.

{telephone rings)

- Yeah.

Yes?

Yes. Saint Georges division

Murder in the Rue Caulaincourt.

Yes. Right. Thank you.

Jeanne Picard. Calls
herself a clairvoyant,

but unregistered

- Clairvoyant? The fortune teller.

Call the Patron, quickly. Hurry.

Saint Georges division, quick as you can

{eerie music)

- [Larouche] Stabbed in the back

- [Maigret] Weapon?

- [Larouche] We're trying
to get Dr Gordeaux

Evidently, she was gazing into the crystal

when she was attacked.

- I've always wanted one of these

- We thought you had one

- Who discovered the body? The concierge?

- No. Witness in there.

Madame Roy.

I've got her papers here.

Gilet Francoise Roy, proprietor
of the Hotel Beau Bijen

at Moisson.

- That's up the river

- 10 kilometres.

- Oh, Madame

{woman whimpers)

What's this?

- Belongs to witness

- Three fine, fat Roach

- They were such beauties.

And I knew how much Jeanne was ...

{Madame Roy sobs)

- Were you a regular client of hers?

- No. I don't believe in that.

Only for fun

- [Larouche] Says she's an old friend

Was bringing her the fish as a present.

Found the body, and gave the alarm.

- [Lapointe] Yes, I
know, but which mortuary?

Yes.

The door's locked.

- I sent for the locksmith.

- See If he's on his way

- Hello?

Doctor, hello?

- I thought I heard a sound

{door squeaks)

Ah.

Hello.

How long have you been there?

- [Lucas] Well, well.

It's all right, it's all right.

We're not going to eat you

What's your name?

Have you got any papers?

Papers.

- [Maigret] Octave Le Cloaguen

Married, master mariner, retired.

Boulevard Clichy 13

Now, captain.

- Have you got any tobacco?

- Cigarette, Lucas

- No, no. Tobacco

- Hey, it's not for chewing

- Not for chewing.

You'll needn't tell my wife

- Oh, no

Now, why are you here, captain?

- I was told to come in here.

- Who by?

- Marie.

- Who?

- She's...

The bell rang

She said, "I haven't got a booking.

I hope it's a horoscope."

Marie gets extra for horoscopes.

- This is Jeanne Picard.

Why do you call her Marie?

Come on, old man. We'll take you home. HM?

Your wife must be wondering where you are

- [Lucas] This is Marie”?

- [Maigret] Easy, easy

- [Lucas] Come on captain

Come on. Take it easy, take it easy.

- Have you had enough?

- Mhmm.

- Oh, eat it, my darling

He will, if you don't

{doorbell rings)

That's him at last.

- Madame Le Cloaguen?

- Has he been in trouble?

- You could say that

- He's always wandering

One day, he'll walk into
the traffic and be killed.

Thank you, Monsieur.

- Chief inspector
Maigret. Criminal justice.

Do you know a fortune
teller named Jeanne Picard?

- I do not. Why?

- We found him in her apartment

She was dead.

- [Giselle] Where's he been?

- Nevermind, Giselle

Go. Go in, give him his tea

- Come in, Papa

- What are you telling me?

- Somebody killed her.

She was murdered.

- Please, my daughter.
She is very sensitive.

I will tell her later.

- I'd like to meet her now.

- Monsieur.

- [Giselle] Sit down,
Papa, and have your tea

Where have you been all this time?

You haven't been naughty again, have you?

- Giselle, my daughter

- Monsieur.

- Mademoiselle.

- [Mme Le Cloaguen] My husband
had a stroke a year ago,

to be quite frank

- [Maigret] What happened to his hand?

- [Mme Le Cloaguen] An
accident chopping wood

- [Maigret] Here?

- [Mme Le Cloaguen] No, in
the South, in Saint Raphael

We lived there for many years,

but after his stroke, he

Giselle.

That's all the sugar there is

You're noticing that the
furniture doesn't fit.

It's all from my villa at Saint Raphael

- [Maigret] This is a beautiful desk

- Belonged to my great-grandmother.

We lived on a larger scale there,

but of course, here in Paris, it's

- [Maigret] Yes.

This would be your handwriting?

Yes, you can...

You can detect the convent education.

- That's strange, Monsieur,

since I was educated privately
by an English governess

My daughter, too.

- Neither of you have heard
of this Jeanne Picard.

- No, Monsieur.

We are not in the habit of
frequenting fortune tellers

- Thank you, Madame. I won't
ask you any more questions

He likes his food, doesn't he?

- He's been out all day.

- Wandering about?

- Once he got into the zoo

Once we had to fetch him
from a girl's school

- How much money did he have on him

when he went out this morning-

- I have no idea.

- At the moment he hasn't
the price of a bus fare

- Well, he was given his pocket money.

- 15 francs a week.

- [Maigret] Thank you, Madame

Look after him well.

Don't let him wander again

- Monsieur.

- Maman.

- [Mme Le Cloaguen] Go out of this room.

Go on.

- What is it? What's happened?

{ominous music)

(gentle music)

- Could have been him.

- I thought you said he was dark.

- He was.

Could have been.

This one looks a bit like him.

- He's only got one eye

(woman laughs)

Are you sure you're trying?

- [Maigret] Lucas

- Just minute.

- Oh, it's you

- He's not back yet, Patron

- Saint Raphael. Yeah, the police

Saint Raphael in the Alpes-Maritimes

Right. All right, I'l hold on

- Excuse me, Patron. I've
got Emma Dubois next door

- Who's she?

- The girl from the dairy
opposite the fortune teller's.

- Oh.

- She's seen a green sports
car parked outside the house

a few times,

and she saw it again
today, at three o'clock

- She saw the driver?

- [Lapointe] Yes. She says he's youngish

Dark, sharp dresser

Grey suit, buttonhole

She once saw him carrying field glasses,

so I've shown her the racing section

from the Rogue's Gallery

- Good.

- But I can't get her to
take it seriously, Patron

- Let me know when Saint
Raphael come through

- [Lapointe] Right.

- That's where you should be looking

Now, where do you come from?

- Alsace.

- And back you'll go to Alsace,

if you waste any more of my time

Now, this man that you
saw, he speak to you?

You speak to him?

- Once. He waved.

- Mhmm. You wave back?

There's no harm in that.

Now, let's start again, shall we”?

Remember, a woman has been killed

Alone, here, in Paris

Stabbed, here. It might have been you.

- [Lapointe] Saint Raphael, Patron.

- Maigret.

Saint Raphael

And to you, old friend

Sorry to spoil your siesta.

Siesta.

Nevermind.

Look, [ want full particulars

of a family named Le Cloaguen

Le Cloaguen.

That's right.

He's a retired master Mariner.

Married, daughter

Moved to Paris about a year ago

Yeah.

Well, I appreciate it's
a Saturday afternoon but

I'd be infinitely obliged to you.

Thank you. And to your wife.

Au revoir.

Where've you been?

- With the compliments
of Inspector Larouche

- Oh.

(Maigret laughs)

- I had to wait for Dr Gordeaux.

He's spending the weekend at the morgue.

We got him out of there
and he went straight back

Says it was the only cool place in Paris

One bundle of letters, all
addressed to Marie Bonamie,

all signed Papa, found in
the dress table drawer.

- "Dear Marie, I hop ...

Hope."

See if Rosenbaum can find Picpus in that.

Think that's the man?

Now, Emma, close your eyes

Forget about this picture.

Now, think of that man that you saw

Think of when he waved to you

Think hard.

Open your eyes. That him?

Good.

Now, I tell you what we'll do.

When do you go to work again? Monday”?

- No, I have to go in on Sunday morning,

because of the milk.

- Well, you can forget
the milk this Sunday

I'll explain to your employer

What I want you to dois
go home and stay there

You needn't be afraid. Well
have someone looking after you

- Can it be him?

- No, it can't.

Lapointe, arrange protection
for Mademoiselle Dubois

- Yes, Patron

- A general call out for that man.

- Justin de Toulon?

A sex killing”?

- No, I don't think it is

Lapointe's arranging
protection for the girl

Saint Raphael will be coming through

with news about the Le Cloaguen family.

Meantime, [ want a tail on them.

Mother, daughter, Giselle,

and the captain

(Maigret sighs)

Where do I go from here?

- Fishing?

- Fishing.

Roach.

Roach.

Telephone my wife,

Tell her to pack a weekend bag for two

We're going up the river

- To the Hotel Beau Bijon Marsang?

- Yes, how'd you guess”?

What was the name? Madame Roy?

Roy. Yes,

(indistinct)

(water splashes)

(cheerful music)

- You enjoyed your dinner, Madame?

- Oh, yes, we did. It was superb

- You have found what
you wanted, Monsieur?

- Madame.

- According to this,
your friend Jeanne Picard

came down here seven times last year

Only once this

- Yes, I know.

- Why?

- We quarrelled

I'want to be quite frank

There was disagreement over a bill,

but I still regarded Jeanne as a friend.

That is why I went off to Paris today

The fish was to be a surprise

Poor Jeanne.

- She ever bring her
crystal ball down here”?

- Once I persuaded her, for
a circle of friends only

- Do you remember who they were?

- It was last year.

Regulars, you understand

Monsieur Blaise was there.

- Blaise. Just a minute.

This one? Comes down every weekend.

- Yes, for the fishing

That's him, with Isadore
who looks after the boats.

Monsieur Blaise is
probably going out tonight

- Mhmm.

- Madame.

- Monsieur.

- Monsieur.

- Excuse me.

If you would like to dance, Monsieur,

it is only five francs supplement.

- You don't want to dance, do you”?

No, early bed

- Goodnight, Madame

- Monsieur.

- Goodnight, Madame

- May I see them?

They're beauties

- Feel that weight.

With my compliments, Madame.

- Thank you

- All with my own little hook.

To tell you the truth,
they don't eat very well

The enjoyment's all in the catching them

- I find the same thing

- Isadore.

- Sir?

- Would you like to take
me out this merning?

(gentle music)

- You don't fish, Monsieur?

- Isadore,

how much did Blaise pay
you to net those fish?

- Monsieur?

- [Maigret] They never tasted the hook

- If a gentlemen wants to make
an impression on his friends,

and he can pay for it ...

- Who lives in those
villas on the other side?

The Villa Chartres-Rive.

- [Isadore] Berenger, an old couple

The Villa Le Coeur, that's the Jacobis

He's a dentist.

And the Villa Verdi, I don't know.

It used to be an American,
with the United Nations.

- [Mme Roy] Maigret

Maigret, telephone

- Yes, Lapointe

Yeah?

Did what?

Arrested Madame Le Cloaguen?

Alright.

Yeah, tell Sergeant Lucas
I'd like you to meet me

at the Gare Rose-Delite in 90 minutes.

Well, hold her, now you've got her.

Lapointe, keep her amused.

- Would you care for
the illustrated papers?

(tense music)

(gentle music)

(whistle blowing)

- Oh, well. I suppose
Lapointe will learn one day

- You can hardly blame him

He was ordered to follow, and he did.

He says it was quite clear

she was hanging around the street comer,

waiting for somebody.

It seems they never turned up

It was only when she
started back for the house

that he spoke to her.

- Is that when he looked into her handbag?

- Yes.

50,000 francs of notes makes quite a buzz

At this moment, she's in my office,

raising blue murder, and
threatening to call her deputy

- The daughter?

- With her.

- Captain?

- Hasn't budged

Oh, this came through from Saint Raphael

- "Captain Le Cloaguen
settled here in Saint Raphael

eight years ago, upon retirement

Suffered from a tropical
disease of the liver,

contracted on service.

Senior captain to the West
African Steamship Company,

and received a pension.

Later converted all his
holdings to an annuity

Family moved to Paris last June."

- So, that's his money.

- Hmm.

Go to the Boulevard Clichy

We'll talk to the captain first.

{doorbell rings)

- Captain?

Captain?

Take a look round, Lucas

I'll be in the living room, here

- [Lucas] He's not in the kitchen

- No.

Moved to Paris a year ago

Now, why leave Saint Raphael?

- Better for his health, perhaps?

- Tropical disease of the liver.

If they were so concerned
about his health

then why do they neglect him so nowy?

He's going about like a tramp.

- Catching tobacco

- Yeah.

And another thing; look

That's a piece of wood, right?

That's a chopper

I want to see you hurt
your hand chopping wood

- Quite simple

- Nowy you've cut a finger
off your left hand

The captain's lost a finger on his right

- I'm sure he was left-handed.

- Maybe

But he took that pinch of
tobacco with his right

- Did he?

- He stirs his tea with his right

Now, where's the captain's cabin”

Daughter's room.

Madame.

{latch clicks)

Hmm.

- More like a cell.

- And a balt on the outside of the door.

Made in Faubourg-Saint-Honoré

Quite bad fit for a high class tailor

- Cigarette butts,
picked up off the street,

by the look of them.

(Maigret tuts)

- What a way to live,

Elementary Seamanship?

Where's this master mariner?

- Patron.

- Hmm?

- Is he up a loft?

- Ah.

Captain.

Ahoy there

- All hands on deck.

- Well, Skipper.

What are you doing up there?

- I'm mad.

- I don't think you're mad

I don't think you're a
master mariner, either

For one thing, you've got 10 good fingers

- This will not rest here, I assure you

I shall demand a personal apology.

- Maman.

- Be quiet.

I have been falsely arrested

- Not exactly arrested

- 50,000 francs have
been fished from my bag

- If you would only explain

what they were doing the first-

- [Maigret] Lapointe

- Patron?

- 80, he's here at last

- I've got Madame Le
Cloaguen and her daughter-

- [Maigret] I know. Bring them in

- Yes, Patron

This way, if you please, Madame.

- Please be seated, Madame

- I wish to protest

- Surely you can protest seated

Mademoiselle.

- I insist on a reprimand to that officer

- First of all, Madame,

will you please tell me
why you had 50,000 francs

in your handbag?

- That is my affair

- What was the money for?

- The purpose, an investment

I am buying a house

- On a Sunday?

- I have to pay a
deposit tomarrow morning

- Hmm. Where'd you get the money?

- From the bank yesterday

- And you carried it
around with you ever since?

- Is that a crime?

- It might attract one

- Would it have been safer
to have left the money

in the house?

You've seen my husband. He's insane

He might have destroyed it. Anything.

- [Maigret] Do you think
your father is insane?

- [Mme Le Cloaguen]
But of course she does.

- [Maigret] But you wouldn't starve him?

Humiliate him, keep him
locked up in a small room,

barely fit for an animal?

- But that is what he is.

Perhaps you've never had to
look after a senile imbecile.

{telephone rings)

- Hello, Maigret.

Yes?

All right, I'l come

Excuse me.

- [Blaise] Chief Inspector

- Monsieur Blaise.

You must have caught the next train up.

- And I hope to catch the next train back

I think you're not too
surprised to see me

- I know. You've come
for a fishing licence

{Blaise laughs)

- If you only knews how I detest fish

Therefore, I suppose
you're asking yourself

why it is I bother to go
down to the Beau Bijon

week after week and tip
the boatman to net me

some quite uneatable whatever they are

- Roach.

- Ah. Thank you very much.

Well, now, I will be
frank with you, Inspector

There is, on the other side of the river,

a little lady

- At the Villa Verdi?

{Blaise laughs)

- You already know my secret.

Well now, if I tell you my
wife doesn't understand me,

you'll laugh at me, won't you”

But the sad fact is she understands me

only too well

If the truth of my prowess as an angler

was ever to come out ...

- No vrorry

I shall regard it as a state secret.

- Oh, no. no, no
Please, not one of those

They have the very nastiest
way of getting out

- Not this one. It's safe.

- I am very much obliged to you,

and you'll forgive me
for descending on you?

- Monsieur.

- Au revair, Inspector

Oh, and if Madame
Maigret can ever make use

of a fine basket of ...

- [Maigret] Roach.

- Roach, yes, that's the
word, thank you very much

{Blaise laughs)

- [Maigret] There goes a happy man

Now, how about the captain”

- He's fine, swinging in his
hammock at Saint Philippe

All's well.

- Good. Stay here, and
look out for squalls

- [Lucas] Aye aye

- I have good news for you, Madame

You will no longer have
to look after the ..

What was it? Senile imbecile.

- What have you done?

- Taken him to hospital
He'll be well cared for.

- You had no right

I demand to see my husband. Where is he?

- As to your husband, Madame,

I think you know better
than I do where he is.

- What do you mean”

- He's dead, isn't he?

He died last June in Saint Raphael

of a tropical disease of the liver

- That madman told you that?

- [Maigret] His annuity died with him

I suggest that you had him impersonated

and moved to Paris.

- Poor man. That was his delusion.

- Oh, was it part of his
delusion to hide up in the loft

whenever anybody called
who might recognise him?

- Yes, he called it his bridge

- And to bandage back
his finger to disguise

the difference in signature?

- What signature?

- [Maigret] He had to sign
the receipt for the annuity

- Another fantasy.

- Was it fantasy when
the dead fortune teller,

Jeanne Picard, who also
came from Saint Raphael,

recognised him?

Knew him to be an impostor?

Was it fantasy when she
threatened to blackmail him

and he took a knife?

- No, no, no, it isn't true

- Don't be & fool. Don't say anything

- He's no more mad than you or I

He's sane enough to stand trial

for the murder of Jeanne Picard.

- Oh, no. I beg of you, he
couldn't have killed her.

- Why not?

- Because she was his daughter

{Giselle sobs)

- Thank you, Mademoiselle

Now, I'll have everything.

Who is the captain?

- His name was Bonamie.

He was nothing, starving

He was glad to be given meals, a roof.

What did I do that was so wrong?

My husband was selfish enough

to put everything into an annuity

We should have been paupers

Perhaps that is what he wanted.

You will find his body in
the cellar at Saint Raphael,

under some slabs, behind the wine bin

- So, the captain told the fortune teller,

the fortune teller told someone who hoped

to make 50.000 francs for the information

Who is it?

- I don't know.

I received a message and I destroyed it

I was told to leave the money

in a green sports car
parked in the Place Clichy

- Lucas, bring in that
photo of Justin de Toulon

The car never came?

- No.

- Well, how did you get the message?

- It was Giselle who received the message

- Well?

- It was in a shop,

at the Menoprix in the Rue Pascal

A man said, "l think
you've dropped your bill."

And he put a note in my hand

- You saw him.

- No, it was so quick.

He put it in my hand

He gave me a sort of wink and turned away.

It was crowded.

- Is this the man?

- No, I don't think so

- You're sure?

- I don't know. I hardly saw him

- You must have noticed
something about him

His clothes? Was he dark? Fair?

What about his eyes”? You saw him wink

Right, Lucas. You might as
well show her the gallery.

- Patron.

- Hmm?

- What about the man we had
in here yesterday with a tick?

He was winking

- In here?

- The little clerk who wanted
to give himself up, remember?

- Mascouvin.

(banging on the door)

- [Man] Cpen up. Police

Police. Open up.

- You've come to arrest me?

- [Man] That was what
you wanted, wasn't it”?

- Yes. Yes. It was.

{ominous music)

- No, Justin. No.

{Mascouvin shrieks)

- The second time I'm forced
back to my office this weekend,

and all for that
nincompoop. That Mascouvin

I wish I'd never set eyes on him

That's where he worked.

- This his handwriting?

- Yes. Yes.

To be called away like this,

right in the middle of the
most important negotiations

This could cost me a million francs.

It's already cost one person
her life, Monsieur Drouin

{telephone rings)

- [Drouin] Hello. Fouvet and Drouin.

May I ask who ...

Yes, he is.

All right

- For me?

- Yes.

- Maigret.

- Patron.

I'm at the Saint Martin hospital.

I'm afraid I was too late for Mascouvin.

Someone was there before.

No, no, no. He died here
five minutes ago. Stabbed

No. he never recovered consciousness

- Pity, Lucas.

Could have told us so much.

You see, he was Picpus

I'm afraid. Monsieur Drouin,

that Monsieur Mascouvin will not be back.

- [Drouin] Why? What's happened?

- He's dead.

- Dead?

- Did he have any relatives?

- I believe there's a sister
in the country, an invalid

Once he asked for a day off to visit her

- Mhmm. He have to keep any of them?

- Oh, he never said very much.

One hardly knew he was here.

We'll hardly know he's gone.

- What sort of work did he do here?

- Shops, apartments, small clients

- Small clients.

He know about the bigger ones?

- He could get to know, yes

Have you any further questions, Inspector?

- No.

{ominous music)

- [Maigret] Monsieur Drouin

Would you consider Monsieur Blaise

among your bigger clients”?

- Blaise? No.

Perhaps. He's a wealthy
man. He often inquires

So far, he hasn't bought

- Not the Villa Verdi?

- That's owned by an American

- But rented by Monsieur Blaise?

- Well, there's no way to be discreet

I believe it's a question of-

- I know.

A lady

{gentle band music)

- Madame Maigret.

You're wanted on the telephone

Your husband.

- Would you excuse me?

May I take it here?

- Please, Madame.

- Jules?

Oh. Very well, don't
if you can't manage it

No, no. I'l go to bed early,

and I'll come back as
early as I can tomorrow

Yes. All right.

Sleep well

- Your husband not returning?

- No. I'm afraid not.

- In that case, if you're
leaving very early tomorrow,

perhaps you'll do me the honour

to be my passenger to Paris in my car?

- Thank you. That is kind of you.

- My pleasure, Madame

Madame Dubois, there is, I
believe, a picnic basket”?

- Yes, Monsieur

It has been sent up to your room

- Would you like to join the dances again?

- I'd be delighted.

- You won't mind if there
are some extra passengers

in the car? Some freshly caught Roach?

{Madame Maigret and Blaise laugh)

We'll say eight o'clock?

- Eight o'clock

(waves lapping)

(chains rattle)

(dog barks)

(gates creak)

{birds chirp)

- Fish not biting”?

- Maigret. You're up early

- I'm interested in a piece of property

This one.

The agent said that you held the lease

- Yes, but surely they
told you, it's occupied

- Yes.

Apparently by a very hungry little lady

Along way to go

Monsieur.

- Clothes.

Passport

Food. No money

- There's 50,000 francs there

You may keep it, Inspector

- That's just the amount
of the first squeeze

I'm talking of blackmail, Monsieur Blaise

You run it on business lines, don't you?

With a partner.

Paid informants, like the
fortune teller, Jeanne Picard

The clerk, Mascouvin. Hmm?

You were the brains
Justin does the dirty work

Like keeping the informant in line

- Justin?

- [Maigret] Justin de Toulon

Jeanne Picard threatened
to give the game away

so she was disposed of,
messily, with a knife

- All this is fascinating

- Yeah, isn't it?

You know, the mistake that you made

was in telling Mascouvin beforehand

I can see the point of it
Put the fear of God in him.

But you overdid it

The poor little frightened
worm tried to warn us,

in the only way that he could

No need to watch the
window, Monsieur Blaise

Justin passed the Porte
Dauphine only half an hour ago,

so we still have a few minutes.

- You see, I'm trying to
work out how you connect me

with all this rigmarole.

I mean, I've never heard
of this Justin, believe me.

- Who's all this for?

- Oh.

I have a confession to make.

- Really? Another?

That's two in two days.

- This is for me.

I'admit, Inspector, I'm
not entirely what I seem

- Hmm.

- In short, I am a most unfortunate

creature of circumstance,

the absconding financier.

Certain negotiations,

I needn't trouble you with the details,

have proved less profitable
to some of my associates

than they would have wished

So, in fact, the sooner I
find myself in Switzerland,

you understand, I needn't go any further?

- These?

- Oh.

My car is in the garage underneath,

and I was about to effect
the exchange, when you ...

- I'l be apologising soon

This passport isn't very like you.

- The workmanship nowadays.

- It's the same with everything, isn't it?

Look at these. Get up, Monsieur Blaise

Hmm? Shocking fit

But just right for Justin

- Justin. I tell you,
I don't know the man.

Inspector, a moment ago, I
mentioned a sum of money

Now, I admit, it was insulting.

Supposing I were now
to say 200,000 francs

- Excuse me.

- You know you have me at a disadvantage

It is absolutely urgent
that I reach Switzerland

by tomorrow morning

It's worth one million francs to me

if you let me go now.

(car engine roars)

- It's all right. That one is passing

You'll hear Justin turn into the drive.

He'll pull up, and he'll get out,

and he'll go to the front door.

You'll hear his footsteps in the hall

This door will open

I shall be in here, I think.

Then he'll come into the room,

and the first thing he'll smell,

a double cross.

My guess is he's a very
suspicious man already

He's been expecting you to
betray him for some time

After all, you only get prison,

with the money waiting
for you when you come out

He gets the guillotine

He'll be en guard. He'll go to the window

He'll look out, and
he'll see one of my men,

not quite concealed in the shrubbery,

and being a hasty man, he'll panic

- Two million. I can find it.

(car engine rumbles)

(car door slams)

Inspector

What do you want?

- Justice, Monsieur Blaise

I want to see you dead

- Inspector, open this door.

Open.

I'll make a statement, but
you've got to protect me

{door slams)

I'll confess to everything I've done

but he killed the woman.

I didn't tell him to.

He's a killer. You know he's a killer.

No, no, no. Don't let him come in here

Justin.

Now, Justin, it was all a mistake

Justin.

Mascouvin found it ...

No. no, Justin, no, no

- Well.

Rewind for a playback.

- Patron.

- You see, Monsieur Blaise,

Justin never left Paris.

He shot it out with the
police there, two hours ago

- Nowy, he's toes up in the morgue

- I needed that statement of yours

I hope you will forgive
my peasant methods

- [Blaise] I'll make a statement,

but you've got to protect me

I'll confess to everything I've done,

but he killed the woman.

I didn't tell him to.

He wanted to. He's a killer.

{ominous music)

{upbeat music)

- Enjoyed your dinner?

- Oh, it was perfect

- It was the biggest fish

caught in the neighbourhood

- Not quite the biggest

- The dancing is only
five francs supplement

- Shall we waltz?

- We can try