All language subtitles for Maigret S03E09The Crooked Castle_Track03-eng

- "For thou my God hast told thy servant

"that thou wilt build him an house.

"Therefore thy servant
hath found in his heart

"to pray before thee.

"And now Lord thou art God,
and has promised this goodness

"unto thy servant.

"Now, therefore let it please
thee to bless the house

"of thy servant that it may
be before thee forever."

Amen.

- Amen.

- Come now, Else

(bird singing)

- A nightingale

{suspenseful music)

Goodnight, Carl.

- Goodnight, Else.

(bird singing)

{Jojo imitating bird)

{ominous music)

{match scratching)

{French accordion music)

(anticipatory music)

{trucks rumbling)

- Dust, dust, trucks and dust!

This house was a mistake!

I said it once, and I say it again,

right here on the main road like this

However do you expect me
to keep the place clean?

I can kill myself with work
for all you seem to care

Why you bought it I
shall never understand.

And look how far I have
to walk to the village!

(door slamming)

Arteme?

Hasn't even kissed me.

Oh, dust

(groaning) Today I shall have
one of my heads, I know it

(door slamming)

- The car, it's gonel

- Gone?

- Stolen.

- Oh, Arteme!

- Unless this is another
of Oscar's little jokes

(Madame Michonnet crying)

{Jojo whistling)

Oscar!

Oscar!

- Michonnet.

Looks like trouble.

Ah, Monsieur Michonnet.

- Well, where is it?

- Where's what?
- Did you put it in here?

- What are you talking about?

- My car.

It's been stolen.

Or is this another one
of your little jokes?

- Oh no, I swear.

Ask Jojo

- Well, what about it?

What do you know about it?

- I don't know anything about it

- Very well, I shall call in the police.

- Aye, you leave it out all night!

I warned you, didn't I?

One of the truckers marks it,

and then ene night, poof, it's gone

Have you tried the Dane?

- The Dane!

- This should be interesting

(pounding on door)

- Andersen!

Andersen!

- Nows he's going round to the shed

{dramatic musical sting)

(traffic rumbling)

{horn honking)

(sultry saxophone music)

(knocking at door)

- The body is in the shed
at the side of the house

There's no one in the house.

- Have a look inside, Lucas

- This way please, Chief Inspector

- How do we get in here?

- The door is open.
- Did you find it like that?

- Yes.

- I see.

Right, thanks.

- Perrochet, Senlis police.

- What have you found?

- Not much.

- There's no sign of the Danish couple

who live in the house.

Looks very straightforward.

I put out a general call.

- Where's the body?

- In here.

- How'd he die?

- Knife stab down through the
shoulder blade into the heart

- Where's the knife?

- Missing, like everything else.

Papers, money, keys.

This is all we found on him.

- Could be a jeweller.

They use these for carrying gems

- Yeah.

- (speaking French), Brussels

- Hmm, shouldn't take
too long to identify

Shoes are very clean.

How'd he get here?

‘Course, he didn't walk through that dust

- The murdered man came by car.

After Andersen killed
him, he took his car.

He couldn't take his own.

His was in the Vantier's
garage under repair

- Well, whatever they did,

they've had a good few hours' start.

The doctor and the technical
boys will be down soon

See that nothing's touched
before they get here

I'd like to look at the house.

{suspenseful music)

What do you know about the Andersens?

- Very little.

As I told you, they're
Danish, brother and sister.

- Hmm.

Have they been here long?

- Two years.

Quiet couple.

Report regularly as aliens

- Chronicles 17.

- [Lucas] Patron?

- Lucas?

Find something?

- Come and have a look at this.

This place is weird

10 rooms, only two of
them used; his and hers

- What's in the others?

- Spiders

- That's his.

- Is that all?

A camp bed and a Bible”?

- Now take a look at this.

(Maigret whistles)

[Lucas] - Réve d'amour.

- You would know.

- I know what it costs, too

All this and bars at the window.

- This the only room with bars?

- Yes.

What's he do, keep tigers”?

Wouldn't believe it's the
same house, would you”?

- Any of the neighbours
see or hear anything

during the night?

- Is there not too much traffic?

- Who are the neighbours”?

- Le Vantier.

Live around the garage
and the bistro opposite

Next door, the Michannet

He's an insurance agent.

After that, there's no one
'til you some way down the road

to the village.

- [Lapointe] Patron.

- [Maigret] Find something?

- A pearl

A real one, by the look of it

Off a necklace, or something.

- Lambeau.

Lambeau?

CA.

Carl Andersen.

What is this chap, an artist?

- Sort of.

- [Messenger] Inspector Perrochet!

- We're in herel

- In textiles; works for a firm in Paris.

- Message from Paris

- What is it?

- The Andersens.

- Caught?

- Picked up at the Gare du Nord

- (indistinct)

{suspenseful music)

(tyres squealing)

- (sighing) Drink?

- No.

- Sandwich?

- Thank you, no

- Cigarette

No, no, you roll your own

- All right, let's start it again

You are Carl Andersen,
Danish-born at Lambeau.

You came to this country
from Brussels two years ago

with your sister and you took the house

known as the House of Three Widows

on the Rue Nationale near Senlis.

Why?

- Why the Rue Nationale?

- No, why that house?

It's almost derelict.

- It was cheap and quiet

- What about the traffic?

- There are nightingales, too

- Hows did you lose your eye?

- Flying accident.

- Start again with last night

- [Carl] I was having
supper with my sister

- Who cooked it?

- 1 did.

- [Maigret] Then?

- I washed the dishes.

- You washed the dishes?

- [Carl] Yes.

- Do you always do all
the work in the house?

- Yes.

- What happened after supper?

- [Carl] We read from the Bible

- Mm hmm.

You always do that?

- Yes, if's a custom with our family

- Then what?

- We went to bed.

- Why does your sister's recom have bars?

- It's the best room.

I didn't put them there.

- But you locked her in

- Yes.

- Why?

- She's afraid.

- Of what?

- Afraid, frightened
of burglars, intruders

She's always been so.

- What happened after you went to bed?

- I slept

- 'Til when?

- Six in the moming.
- And when you got up”?

- I made myself some
coffee and began to work.

-0On?

- It was still dark, so I lit the lamp.

I saw it needed oil, so
I went out to the shed

where it is kept

There was the body

It was a man I'd never seen before.

- [Maigret] So what did you do?

- I went back to the house and
told my sister we must leave

- She packed the bags

- She didn't ask why?

- [Carl] She understood
that it was necessary

- Why did you take Michonnet's car?

- My own car was in Vantier's garage

It's being repaired.

I saw Michonnet's car outside
his house, and I-I'm sorry

I only intended to borrow it.

- We don't want for joy riding

Where'd you go in it?

- To Paris, to take a train to Brussels

- What'd you do with Michonnet's car?

- I left it outside the
station, the Gare du Nord

- And then?

- We had to wait for the train,
and then we were arrested.

- Why'd you run away in the first place.

- I was afraid.

I'm foreign, an alien

- You say you're innocent

- I was afraid because the police

might be guilty of an injustice.

- When the body was put into the shed

there must've been some
noise, yet you heard nothing

- My room is at the back

I'm a heavy sleeper.

- And your sister, her
room overlooks the road.

- [Carl] She was not disturbed!

- Why should anyone kill @ man

and put the body in your shed”?

- Why should anyone kill a man?

- What part of the Bible
were you reading last night?

- Chronicles 17.

- And naturally you didn't ask

why you had to leave so
early, hmm, Mademoiselle?

- No.

- Ah, patron

Her brother woke her at six.

He didn't say why.

She didn't ask.

She packed the bag, he
took Michonnet's car,

Et cetera, et cetera, it's
always the same story

- Andersen.

Lab report

- What, no blood in the house?

No sign of a struggle, no
knife, no dead man's papers,

birth or otherwise.

No marks of a strange car
outside except Michonnet's

- If the victim, here, have some beer.

- Oh, thanks.

- If the victim came by
car, where's the car now?

Who drove it away?

- Yeah, have Brussels
got a name for you yet?

- No, tomorrow I expect

I sent a photo.

- What about them?

Should we lock them up?

- No, I'm letting them go

- Letting them ga?

Is that wise, patron?

Without telling Judge Gamilio?

When he hears, he'll have a fit.

- Well, lucky he's out at the opera

We don't want to spoil his night

Look, we've questioned these
people for 10 hours now.

Still the same story.

- Of course, they could
be telling the truth

- Yeah, could be

They're an odd pair.

Where's Torrance?
- He's on the Palmier job

The big jeweller up in Amiens.

- Well, you'll have to do this

Get a car, take them home, and tell them

they're not to stick their
nose out of that house

1il I get there tomorrow

- But isn't that-

- Oh, we can't just make our (indistinct)

We've got their passports

They're as good as in cells

- Right.

- Oh, Lucas

Have you ever heard of
nightingales on the Rue Nationale?

- Nightingales?

- Yeah.

{Lucas speaking French)

{suspenseful music)

{car purring)

- I've just about had enough

Who got us into all this, eh?

I said take the money, didn't 1?

But oh no, not you

You had to go lose and
your head, didn't you?

Yes, you had to get greedy, didn't you?

Well, that's about right, isn't it?

- Listen, Oscar, I've
had enough of your jokes

You've played one joke too many

From now on you'll play
it my way or else you'll-

- Oscar, give me a beer

- Police are back.

{suspenseful music)

- Yes, he's looking at your car

- Is your name Vantier?

- Yeah.

- Is that Andersen's car?

- Yeah.

- Where were you the night before last?

- Here.

But I was asleep

I didn't hear anything, in there.

- Ah. Jojo

All fixed.

- Ah yes, it's ready for you outside

- Good boy.

You have the old tubes for me, huh?

- Yes, they're ready for you

I've patched them up for you.

- Thanks.

Here, this should cover it, eh?

Ciao.

- Ciao.

- What was his trouble”?

- A couple of punctures

- Two?

- Yeah, he went over some glass

- Well, there's the old
inner tubes out of his car.

- Yeah.

- What's he want those for?

- I didn't know.

For the kids?

{suspenseful music)

- Who was that fellow?

- A customer.

I don't know his name.

- What was wrong with Andersen's car?

- Eh, there's something
always wrong with it

It goes now

- He bought it from me, the Dane

Oh, maybe sometimes one
or two things not so good,

but Jojo always fixes it.

Jojo's a great fixer when
he's not playing games

Jojo likes playing games with girls, eh?

Go tell Andersen his car Is ready

Andersen goes to Paris
weekends to collect his money

You let him go

He still owes me money for the car.

- You got a telephone?

- Yes, in the bistro

This way.

- Then, of course, the furnace

- But that doesn't prove he did it

- It doesn't prove they didn't.

Anyway, the police are mad to let them go

- It was a daft place to
leave the body, I'll say that.

- Ah, drink, inspector?

Gigi, give the inspector drink.

This is my Gigi

How do you like her, eh?

Uh, in there, inspector.

You ask sometimes it
takes a little minute.

(happy music)

- I want Paris, (speaking French) 92 00

Senlis 35.

Thank you

- Ah, the Paris police, eh?

Not like Senlis, eh?

You have one dead body and they
all buzz around like flies.

Sante, inspector

Good stuff, en?

Sometimes one of the
truckers leaves me a bottle.

Oh, I don't ask questions.

They all know me.

Oscar, Three Widows Corner

You know me, too, inspector

- Should 1?

- Oscar Vantier.

Bar Creole, Rue Map, 1953

- Oh yes, we closed that.

- Oh, just for a week

Oh, you were right though

Just to teach me a lesson.

Yeah, it was a rough
place, the old Creole

- Why does Jojo sleep in a garage”

- Oh, you know how it is, Inspector

A man likes to be alone with his wife.

(phone ringing)

Sentimental fellow, him

{speaking French) Paris”

Maigret.

My office, please

I'll tell you all about
it later, longears

Lucas?

Has the autopsy report come in yet?

- Not yet, patron

But we have heard from Brussels.

The victim's name was Arnold Van Emmers.

He as a jeweller.

He owned a Mercedes car,
and he left headed for Paris

the night he was killed

Now, he was under suspicion for receiving,

and he had a bad
reputation with the women

- Lucas, I want you to
see what you can find out

about a black Citroen number 886HUCE.

Yeah.

The driver uses different
sizes of inner tubes.

I'm worried for him.

Then come down here as soon as you can

I want you to do something

- Right, patron

Nightingales, inner tubes

- Thank you, Gigi

- There's that policeman again

(sultry saxophone music)

- He's coming in here

- What?

- What do you think you're doing?

- Visitors!

- He is not a visitor.

- [Maigret] Michonnet”

Inspector Maigret

- [Michonnet] What about my car?

That's all I want to hear from the police

- [Maigret] May I come
in? Just a few questions

- Questions?

What sort of questions? I told
the police everything I knows

I don't know anything!

- Ah, this is a very nice room

Somebody has taste.

Madame Michonnet.

- Oh, it isn't he house
we would have chosen,

but for the benefit of
my husband's work it's-

- Ah yes, insurance, I believe

- Yes, insurance

I'm an insurance agent.

I cover the entire territory
north of Paris to Amiens.

How am I supposed to
do that with out a car?

- Assurance General.

Your company took a nasty
knock last week at Amiens

- Excuse me.

You'll appreciate these
papers are confidential

- Do you da all your work here?

- Yes.

Yes, I do

- Sometimes he sits there half the night.

Don't you, Arteme?

- Haven't you got something to polish?

- You have a very nice view of the road

- I know just what you're getting at

Did I see anything the
night my car was stolen?

Well, I didn't.

I told the police.

I saw nothing, I knew nothing

- Not even a man called Van Emmers?

- Van Emmers?

No.

No, why should I?

- Thank you, Monsieur Michonnet.

Oh, and my sympathy to your company

I understand the claim on that, eh,

{speaking French) jewel robbery at Amiens

was over 2 million francs.

- My apologies, madame

- Else?

Else?

(knocking at door)

- May I come in”?

- Yes, please

- Hello.

There are one of two more questions

I'd like to ask you, monsieur

- Come in, please

We're just having a meal

Will you join us?

- No, thank you

- You've eaten?

- Yes, but please don't let me stop you

- We thank the Lord for
his bounty this day,

and pray that his continued
grace be upon us in this house

Amen.

May I offer you a glass of beer?

- Thank you, no

Tell me, why did you leave Denmark?

- We lost our home.

It was painful to us.

- When our father died, we
found that we had no money

- We went to Brussels.

- Carl knew a firm that
would give him some work

- We lived there for two years.

- And lived as you do here, together?

- Yes, together

- Tell me, when you were in Brussels,

did you know a man called Van Emmers?

- No.

- A jeweller.

No?

- No.

- Did you?

- No, why?

- He was your guest last night

- What?
- Our guest?

- The murdered man.

- Inspector, I prefer that this discussion

is not made before my sister

Do you mind if she leaves us”?

- Very well,

- Else.

- Inspector, I assure again

I know nothing about this man, Van Emmers.

Now, do you have any further questions?

- Yes, I'm told that you
are a textile designer

- Yes.

- Bo you do all your work here.

- No, partly in Paris

- Is this one of your designs?

- Yes.

- I understand you want to
go to Paris this afternoon

- Yes, to my firm, Dumas,
with your permission

- Yes, very veell

You may go

- Thank you.
- Will you take this with you?

- No, it's not yet finished

- Thank you, mensieur

I'll leave you now

(sultry music)

(knocking at door)

- I'm going now

- Yes?

- Do you need anything”?

- No, nothing.

- I marked the place for you to read

Isaiah.

I trust you, Else

I trust you

Have faith in me, always, always.

I am your strength

Oh, I-I've hurt your hand

- It's nothing

(exhaling in relief)

{flowing orchestral music)

(playful French music)

- Wine?

- He should get to Paris
in about 40 minutes

Just see that he goes
into Dumas and out again

- Just saw the Andersens
leaving the house

- I let him go to Paris
to collect his money

It's all right, he won't stray

He's on a long chain.

- The autopsy report

We're looking for a narrow-bladed knife

about 15 centimetres long,

possibly with a nick near the point

- Okay

Lucas, I want you to hang around here

Never know what you might find

- Where will you go?

- Up the road

{cars rumbling)

(sultry saxophone music)

{flowing orchestral music)

(knocking at door)

- Whois it?

- Maigret.

- The door's locked.

- I have a key of my own

Mind if I use it?

- I don't mind.

{Else tums music off)

I suppose you think it was
clever to get rid of me

so that you could get rid of Carl

so that you could speak to me alone

- I'm not clever, I'm just patient

I wait for people to tell me things

For instance, why your
brother has to lock your door

from the outside.

To protect me.

You can so easily lock it
yourself from the inside

Why he lives like a monk,
and you live like this,

and smoke expensive,
gold-tipped cigarettes

- I wouldn't expect you
to understand what Carl is

orwhat I am.

- I can try

We came from Lambeau.

Our family was Lambeau

We lived in a castle.

We had horses and servants.

When I was 10, I had a horse
of my own named Viking

I used to ride him through the fields,

and Carl galloped by my side

He said that it must
always be the same for me

I would be the princess in the castle,

and he would be my champion.

- Like a fairy tale

- Yes.

But one day we found that
all we had left of a castle

was Carl's painting.

- Oh, that's the one

Sounds a wonderful place

- Well, we went to Brussels

I wanted to work, but
Carl wouldn't let me.

He said that it must
always be the same for me

The same as at Lambeau.

- It's crooked.

- Oh please, do net touch it

- Vedernal.

- How else do you think
I sleep in this room?

I have to hide it from
Carl; he hates drugs

- Does he hate pearls, too?

- It got broken

We were in a hurry
yesterday, if you remember.

- Quite a cubby hole you've got here

The key to the castle?

- Of course, I've always had a key

What do you think it's like
living locked up like this

with bars on the windows?

There could be a fire or something.

- Carl never knew.

- Don't you see that as long
as he keeps me like this,

Carl still has his castle.

Oh, this horrible house

- Why do you let him
treat you like this, eh?

Like a prisoner

- I tried to get away once

It was in Brussels, when Carl
was ill and we had no money

I didn't tell you this,
but we nearly starved

But one day when Carl was sleeping,

I went out and I tried to
sell my ring; this one.

I did sell it.

- Who to?

- I don't know.

It was a dealer in one of their cafes.

When I got back, Carl was waiting for me.

He knew what I'd done.

So he forced me to tell him
where I'd sold the ring

Took the money that I got
for it and bought it back

And he put the ring on my finger again

Placed my hand cn the Bible

This one, our old family Bible

And he made me swear

that I'd never leave
him again, ever, ever

(Else scoffing)
(Bible thudding)

It's Carl's knife.

He uses it for mixing his paints

- But this isn't paint, is it?

{suspenseful musical sting)

(telephone ringing)

Maigret.

Just come out of Dumas, has he?

No, no, Lapointe

Just get him safely back onto the N17

Lucas will pick him up
down at the other end.

He's there already.

No, I want you to go along
to the Danish embassy

and chase them up about
the Andersens' passports

Yeah.

Then go along to the Danish police

See if they know anything about them.

I suggest they start
with a castle at Lambeau.

Perhaps that's a fairy tale, too

Well, Torrance, how'd
you get on an Amiens”?

- Well, patron, it looks
like an inside job

I talked with the
premier servants,

and I talked with the old lady, too.

No one outside the house

would have known where she kept the stuff

The place wasn't ransacked

The thieves went straight for the jewels

- Nebody outside”?

What about the insurance company?

- Oh, well of course they knew

In fact, as a matter of
fact, she said that the agent

was down there a short while ago

It seems that she's rather fond of him.

You know, he's a sort of a pet of hers.

- Did she give you the name of this pet?

- Well, no, I didn't think to
ask. Why, was it important?

- Gah, Torrance!

- Well, I'l get her on the phone-

- No, no, I'l doit

What's happened about that black Citroen”?

Records, please

- Black Citroen, patron?

- Yeah.

Look, call up registrations

They're looking it up for Lucas

They'll let you know.

- Oh ves, right

Yes, patron

- Hello, Daniel

Maigret.

I want a list of all
unsolved jewel robberies

in the area of Paris Amiens
within the last year or so

I want to know where they were insured,

and the name of the agent in each case.

Yeah.

{suspenseful music)

{paper rustling)

{Jojo whistling)

(door slamming)

- Why couldn't the local
police have dealt with it, eh?

Simple enough case, wasn't it?

Well, don't you think so?

A kid could have solved it, but oh no

They gotta bring in that Paris lot.

I knew that Maigret when
I had the Bar Creole

in the old days

Bah, the creep

Oh, Inspector!

There something I can do for you?

- Where's your phone?

- In there.

- Give me headquarters, Parish police,

as quick as you can

- Hey, Jojo.

Finished playing games, eh?

Inspector, Three Widows Special, eh?

You got a clue?

Think you've found something”?

(phone ringing)

{Lucas laughing)

- Chief Inspector
Maigret's office, quickly

Patron?

- Get back here right away, Lucas.

Andersen's car's been hit by a
stolen truck on the way back

They don't think he'll live

- I see.

Right, I'll pick her up on the way.

Quick as I can.

- You've got trouble, Inspector?

- Nothing we can't take care of

(coin clinking)

(knocking at door)

{Lucas talking outside)

- Have you seen your brother?
- Yes

- Will you sit down, please”

They're operating.

He's got a chance

- Perhaps it would be better if

- Better if what?

- Perhaps it would be better if he died

- Better?

For whom?

- Haven't you understood yet what Carl is?

I lied to you when you asked me

who I sold my ring to in Brussels

I said I did not know.

- Was it Van Emmers?

- Yes, of course

But I did not have to sell it.

He gave me the money

- Oh.

- Well, how else do you think we lived?

When Carl found out,
he took the money back

and almost killed Van Emmers.

Don't you see what must've happened?

Van Emmers must have been looking for me,

found out where I lived,
and came to the house.

You don't know what Carl is like

when he's in one of his rages

That's why I said it might
be better if he died.

Please, may I be taken home now?

- Yes.

- Will you come this way,
Mademoiselle, please?

Lapointe, arrange a car
to take Mademoiselle home.

- Oh, do you believe it?

It would give Andersen the motive

for sticking his knife into Van Emmers

- Yes, but he didn't

Not with that knife, anyway

The lab report says that
that knife of Andersen's

is too short.

Couldn't possibly have caused that wound

Too short, to broad, couldn't
have pierced the heart

Somebody's trying to
frame Andersen, Lucas

Then they tried to kill him

to try and bury this whole
case under a question mark

- Someone who could get his
hands on a truck. But who, Jojo?

Oscar?

- Why?

Where's the connection?

- I almost forgot

Could this be it?

I found it in Jojo's room

- Jojo and Else?

- This case is alive with loose jewellery.

- Most of it insured by Michonnet.

Look at this.

The list.

- The (speaking French), the
raid at (speaking French)

the (speaking French) job at Amiens

All insured by Assurance
General through Michonnet

- Yeah, and most of it never found.

I wonder...

(knocking at door)

Come in.

- That black Citroen you
wanted to know about,

it comes from a small car hire firm.

There's no record of
who It was let out to,

but the firm belongs to
a man called Mancini.

- Well, what does that get us?

- I was hoping you would ask me that

I thought I'd just check on him

And it tums out he was a suspect

in the (speaking French) jewel robbery.

But he must've unloaded the stuff somehow

because they couldn't pin it on him.

- Mancini down there?

- Well they said he
was In the Bar Creole.

- Bar Creole?

That's Oscar's old place

- That's his photograph.

- That's the man.

That's the man I saw at the garage.

The fellow with the odd-sized inner tubes.

Get a warrant, Torrance

Go through that car hire place

- Yes, patron.

- Get down to the Bar Creole, Lucas

Find Mancini and bring him in

It's time we asked him a few questions

- Right.

(sultry music)

- Jacque

- Yes, monsieur

- Same again

- Right.

- Cognac

Do you know Mancini?

- Never seen him before.

- (chuckling) You've
gotta have him with you

- Gino Mancini?

- Who wants him?

- Police.

We'd like to talk to you

- What about”?

- The name Van Emmers
mean anything to you?

Or Michonnet?

- Why should they?

- Why should they, indeed?

- Come down to headquarters;
we'll talk about it.

Come on, come on

- Sure.

(glasses clanging)

{woman screaming)

{bodies thudding)

{intense music)

(punches landing)

(men grunting)

(bottles tumbling)

{Mangini exclaiming in pain)

- So.

(syphon hissing)

Thanks for the help

Sorry about the Scotch.

On your feet.

{dramatic musical sting)

{suspenseful music)

- Here we are.

(Maigret whistling)

Well done, Torrance

- I found Van Emmer's
car there, too, patron

It'd been repainted

Lilac.

- All right, on your feet

Ready now, patron?

He's all ready to go again.
- Well, he won't have fo.

This'll do all the talking needed

- All right, take him down

Call in first aid on the
way and patch him up

- Come and look at this, Lucas

Two million francs worth.

- (chuckling) We're in the wrong business.

- Well, Torrance, get
this stuff locked up

- Yes, patron.

- Aye well

How could I let Jojo pass
this stuff to Mancini

right under my nose?

Well, come on

Let's go pick him up

- [Torrance] Get all this stuff put away.

{urgent knocking at door)

- All right, all right

All right, I'm coming!

{Oscar rattling lock)

Michonnet!

Hey, what is all this, Inspector?

Gigi and I just got into bed.

- She'll be alone tonight
- If they tried to mount an-

- You will.

Lucas, what have you got”?

- Only this.

And some oil stains that might be blood

- All right, over there.

- Take your hands off mel

- Den't get excited

- The jokers, eh?

Who shall we start with?

You, Oscar?

- Yes, Inspector?

- Yes, Inspector

It was a good idea to use your
filling station as a cover.

Michonnet supplies the information,

Mancini does the job, and
you hide the stuff here

until the heat is off.

Quite a good haul, too

Big enough to bring a man like Van Emmers

down from Brussels, eh?

Then what happened?

Huh?

You didn't like the price he offered?

Something like that?

A quarrel, Mancini pulls a knife

- Mangini?

You know someone called Mancini, Jojo?

- Forget that, Oscar

We got Mancini, and we got
the knife. And he'll talk

- Now, where were we?

The murder, yes

Mangini left in Van Emmer's car,

leaving you to get rid of the body

Now which of you had the bright idea

of faisting the whole
thing onto Carl Andersen”?

You, Oscar?

Hmm?

No. not your line, I think

You'd have thrown the body in the river

Michonnet.

- I didn't know.

I didn't know!

- I believe you

What about you, Jojo”?

Could you have had a
bright idea like that?

Maybe

If you were prompted

Lucas, let's do this artistically. eh

(bird calling)

(light switch clicks)

- You?

- Nightingale's eggs.

I found the nest.

(Else laughing)

I thought I'd collected them all.

Jojo gets a bit rough sometimes

- [Maigret] Why did you do it?

- What?

Wear pearls on a date?

- [Maigret] Try to kill Carl?

- No!

- As good as

It was your idea to put
the body in Carl's shed

You put that knife in the
Bible, and you led me to it.

You tried to send your
brother to the guillotine

for the murder of Van Emmers.

And when that wasn't going to work,

your lover had to get him with a truck!

- No, I didn't mean that to happen!

I was their idea, Mancini and the others

[ thought they'd find
him mad or something

He's mad, you know.

- Why, because he tried to reform you?

He's not your brother, is he?

- How did you find that out”

- The Danish embassy is
a mine of information

- I see.

No. he's my husband

- Where did you meet him?

- It was in Copenhagen four years ago

We were doing a jewellers
and somebody talked

Well, I got away

Ran down a dark alley, jumped over a wall

into somebody's back garden,
and knocked myself out

When I came to, there
he was standing over me

- Andersen?

- It wasn't his name then.

He had to change it when he married me

He really did live in
that castle, you know

And the rest of what I've
told you, that's true also

Well, more or less

- Except that fairy tale about Van Emmers.

You never even knew him, did you?

- No, but he fitted in rather well

Poor Carl.

He was always afraid I would
go back to my bad old ways

It's why he kept me locked
up and read the Bible at me

He was trying to reform me.

I tried to behave.

I did try for four years, I tried

And then, you know, I had ta get away

I had to.

- So you started putting
vedernal in his bedtime milk.

- Yes.

Jojo got it for me.

I didn't ask for much, just
a night out now and then

and a bit of fun.

Always got back before Carl woke up

He never knew.

I didn't mean Carl to get hurt

He's good, and gentle

But I had te get away

I had to, just now and then

I love Carl, you know.

I really do love him.

That's something I wouldn't expect

a policeman to understand

- Oh, I don't know

Well, you ready?

{saxophone flourish)

- Is she-is she all right?

- Yes.

- How long?

- Two years.

Accessory after the fact,

It was the least that she could get.

You'll be able to see her
again in a few months,

when you've recovered

- On the table.

- The Bible?

- For her to read.

She'll be allowed to have it?

- I'l see that she gets it

- Later when I visit her
we can read it together

It will help her.

- I'm sure it will.

Now, you must rest

- She's good

She's good

All people are good

- Not all.

Only some.