All language subtitles for Maigret S04E05 A Man Condemned_Track03-eng

{sombre music)

(engine roaring)

(exhaust roars)

{door slams)

{door slams)

{gate slams)

- Josset.

{door creaks)

(keys jangle)

(keys jangle)

- Paul, what are you doing here?

{upbeat music)

- He can't hear you?

- How did you get in?

- You left your bag open

- I told you to clear out,
we're finished, I meant it

Do you want it in writing”

- Nobody drops Paulie

Now that's a little lesson
I'm going to teach you,

and you're going to love it.

- [Christine] Get out.

{door slams)

{sombre music continues)

(dramatic music)

{match strikes)

{accordion music)

- Yes, yes, just a moment

- Is that for me?

- It's the hospital

- That'll be the Zerovski.

I told him to ring here if he needed me

Leon.

Yes.

- Cognac, Lucille, good for your cold

- [Dr. Pardon] Yes, yes, yes

Is the wife there?

No, na, I think you've done
everything you possibly can do

If he comes out of the coma, let me know

I'll be here for an hour and then home.

Mm-hmm.

{telephone receiver clicks)

A young man of 30, a
wife and three children.

Sometimes I wish I'd chosen
a different profession

- No hope? - No. I haven't told them

Perhaps I was wrong, I
just couldn't face it

- You won't have to go back to

the hospital tonight, Etienne”

You said you were so tired

- Zerovski is there, he's a good man

- Here.

- Do you see anything of Marianne Dumont,

now they've moved, Lucille?

- Um? No, no, not a lot.

"He's doing very well", she said.

- One should grow less sensitive
about this sort of thing,

not more.

- Oh, I don't know, I'm the same.

- You?

All you've got to do is
to get your man, or not

And seems to me that you usually do

I thought it ended there.

- No, not always

- Oh, I know, red tape,
files, evidence in court

But that needn't keep you awake at night.

- Have you ever seen an execution?

- Jules.

- [Jules] I'm sorry

- No, I haven't, I'm glad to
say, that must be even worse

Isn't there some poor devil-

- [Jules] Yes. - Who's do to be

- A man called Josset, Adrien Josset.

I heard tonight that his
reprieve has been turned down

In an hour, he'll know himself,
and tomorrow morning...

- Well at least you have the
satisfaction of knowing that

he committed the crime, that
he deserved the punishment

If anyone can be said to
deserve that punishment

- Jules hates talking about his cases

- No, I don't mind about this one

In a way Josset was like
a patient, you know

A sick man that I've been trying to save

in spite of himself,

but, oh, he beat me

Almost like your man, he
seemed to have his own fate

built to his bones.

- [Lucille] Yes, I remember,
it was in all the papers

- Yes, that's where I first knew about it.

{musical tone)

- [Maigret] I'd been out cn a case

and didn't get back to
headquarters until afternoon

{traffic roaring)

Lucas had made the arrest
in the small hours.

Some men are toa intelligent
for their own good.

They talk too much, they explain too much,

when a few straight answers
would serve them better.

Josset was that sort of man.

- Actually, we manufacture chemicals

- [Lucas] All right, now
tell us again in detail

Where were you last night... ah, patron

Adrien Josset.

- Inspector Maigret, I'm so
glad you've come at last

- I've been trying to get his statement

Oh, Judge Bonville seemed
anxious to speak with you

- I'l call him later.

Well, Monsieur Josset, why
are you so anxious to see me”?

- Because I want to make a statement,

but I want to start at the beginning.

- [Maigret] Did Sergeant Lucas
want to start at the end?

- No, but all these questions

Where was 1? When did I?

They don't mean anything

You've got to know what happened before.

- All right, come in and tell me

- [Torrance] Right, come on

{door slams)

- Now, Monsieur Josset, where
would you like to start?

- Eight years ago

- Why? What happened then?

- That's when I first met Christine.

- Mm-hmm.

- I was an assistant in
a shop, a chemist shop

Perhaps I ought to call it a pharmacy.

{match strikes) - All right,
let's call it a pharmacy

- I'd passed my exams,
but I had no capital

I had no future.

One day a beautiful woman
came In to buy face tissues

She came in again the next day,

and after she'd made her purchase,

she asked me, quite suddenly,

if I would escort her to lunch.

Her name was Christine Fontan.

- [Maigret] She is... she was lonely

- Her husband had been
killed in a car accident.

She was terrified of living alone

I married her for only one
reason, because I loved her

- Judge Bonville, please

- I don't expect you to believe that

- Why shouldn't I believe it?

- Because she was 10 years older than me,

and because she was wealthy, very wealthy.

She controlled the shares in

a firm of manufacturing chemists.

- Yes, Judge.

Yes, he's with me now,
I'm taking his statement.

- I just had a word with
the divisional inspector

He got the impression
it wouldn't take much

to push Josset into making a confession

- I'l let you know if we get that far,

at the moment we're eight years back

Very well, Judge

(receiver clicks)

So your wife was rich and lonely,

but you married her for love,

- I heard what he said.

In a way I have a confession
to make, I am guilty

- Of what?

- Of losing the love of my wife

- [Maigret] Ch

- When we were first married,
we were truly lovers,

but I'd taken over her
husband's position in the firm.

I had to work very hard.

- To justify yourself?

- To rebuild the business,
it had been neglected

But I suppose, yes, to justify myself

I began to be more
interested in the business

than in Christine.

I began to fail her as a husband

- Did you quarrel about then?

- Oh, no, we were always
polite to each other

Even when I realised that

Christine had found constellations.

- Other men?

- [Josset] Oh, I don't blame her

She was interested in helping
young artists, writers.

And then, Inspector,

I formed an association with
my secretary, Annette Duche,

aged 24, 16 Rue Caulaincourt

The Sergeant has all the details

But I want you to understand that

there was nothing mercenary.

I was allowed ta buy meals

- And pay the rent of her flat

- Well, that is the convention

This morning, yesterday morning,

Christine announced at breakfast that

she'd be dining with friends

After work, I drove
Annette to her apartment

At about eight o'clock, there
was a knock at the door,

more than a knock, @ hammering

{door hammering)

(utensils clatter)

- Annette.

- Papa, what are you doing here?

- Are you alone?

- No, why have you come”?

- Are you Adrien Josset?

- Monsieur.

- I am Councillor Duche.

- Councillor.

- Annette, you must come home with me

- Who told you about us?

The caretaker, I suppose.

- I had a letter, it wasn't signed

Is it true?

- I don't know what she said, I can guess.

- Don't joke with me, Annette

Do you know what you've
done to my daughter?

- Oh, papa, stop it, he's done nothing

It's my own freewill.

- Don't you know he's married,
he's got a wife already

I suppose you pay for all this

- Come on, papa, sit down,
there's no need for a scene.

- I've heard of your kind.

You think money can buy anything

Love is for sale, honour is for sale

This isn't the way I
brought you up, Annette

- Papa

Oh, what's the use

- Actually, Monsieur, you misjudge us

Annette and I are going to be married.

Adrien...

- You've just come in time to celebrate

(cork pops)

- It was like a boulevard farce.

I said the first thing
that came into my head

for Annette's sake, and his

- Did he believe you?

- [Josset] I believed it
myself, as soon as I'd said it,

and it worked.

He calmed down and we all had champagne

and drank to my engagement to Annette

After I'd divorced Christine.

I mean after Christine had divorced me.

- You've been very frank, Monsieur

- Ch, you may say I should've
thought of Annette's future

without the prompting of her
father, that's perfectly true

- But inthe end, it all
went off quite amicably?

- Oh, yes, indeed

- Well, I'm afraid that you
won't have to be prepared

for a rather different view,

"The double life of Adrien Josset."

You see for the general public

your delicate, private affairs take on

a more dramatic flavour.

- "Violet scenes at Rue Caulaincourt.

Love nest invaded by irate father."

That's the caretaker, she
gave that to the press,

and the impression it gives
is as false and vulgar

as her own mind.

- Could it be that you were anxious for me

to have your account before I had hers?

- I see what you mean

I was only frank with you

because I knew I should have to be?

- [Maigret] Mm-hmm

- Yes, I suppose that's partly true

Of course I took the easy way out

{door opens) - Lucas, come in, please

- But you see, Inspector,

I was thinking of Councillor Duche,

I was sc ashamed for him to be so angry

Not to realise that Paris
isn't a provincial town

- Monsieur Josset, you've
been helping the police now

for over 12 hours.

Would you like some refreshment?

- Oh, no thank you

I've had police coffee
three times, I'm not hungry

- Adrien Josset,

last night, sometime between
10 o'clock and one o'clock

your wife, Christine Josset,
nee Fontan, was found killed,

stabbed to death in your apartment.

Did you kill her?

- I don't know.

I really don't know.

(dramatic music)

(musical note)

- [Maigret] Josset's house,
or rather, Christine's,

it was in her name,

was a small but luxurious villa,

Rue Lopere in the suburbs.

Opposite was the house of Colonel Lalinde,

a retired colonial administrator.

He was to give evidence that he had seen

Josset arrive home the
previous night at 10:45

and nothing good budge him from that.

{horn blares)

When I took Josset to
the scene of the crime,

I could see the crowd had
condemned him already.

You could almost hear the
guillotine being sharpened

They were after his blood

- We've finished here, Patron

- Good.

- What do you want me to do with this?

- [Maigret] What is it?

- It's the key to the front door.

- I'll take that.

- I'l see you later, Patron

- Is it permitted to offer
you a drink, Inspector?

- You have one, if you want

- Tested for fingerprints?

{door bangs)

Ah, that's better.

I'm afraid my actions last
night after I left Annette

are not in my favour.

Now, normally I don't drink a great deal.

- Did your wife leave a will?

- Yes, I suppose

-Um.

When you made your offer to Annette,

did you consider the financial prospects”

- Yes,

that's why I visited a number
of bars before coming home

- You were afraid to meet Christine?

- Yes, but I needed her advice

- Her advice?

- Certainly, Christine was
a very remarkable vvorman

- You said that she dined out.

- Well, she may have come back,

I didn't look in her bedroom.

The light was on here and I saw the time,

five minutes past 10

I wanted to drink, so I got the bottle

and took it to the chair over there.

- Show me.

- I sat here drinking, wondering
what ['d say to Christine,

and I suppose I must have passed out.

- Then who ate the supper?

- [Josset] Supper?

- [Maigret] I assure you, it's
not the gendarme's breakfast

- It must have been Christine.

- Who, according to you,
had dined out with friends.

You got a cook?

- Yes, one girl who does
all the work, Julie

- Mm-hmm. - She seems
to have made a couscous.

- What's that?

- Moroccan dish, she
was rather good at it

- Was Julie in when you came home”?

- I don't know, last
night was her night off.

- She has a key?

- Yes.

- One like this?

- Yes, there's only one door

- Howr long were you asleep in that chair?

- I don't remember.

- Well, what woke you”?

- That's an interesting question

A feeling... a feeling that
Christine was up there waiting

I remember I started
to walk to her bedroom.

- Show me.

Show me.

- And then I thought I'd
go to the bathroom first

My head was cracking

-Goon.

{sombre music)

(stairs creaking)

- [Maigret] What did you see?

- I thought she'd fallen

- [Maigret] What did you do”?

- I spoke to her,

and then I bent down to touch her.

I saw the blood.

- Then?

- I needed a drink.

I need one now.

- All right, come down

(stairs creaking)

Did you look at your watch”

- No, not then

I'd arrived back a few minutes after 10.

It must have been about 12:15

when I rang the airline
for timetable service.

- Why didn't you call a doctor?

- She was dead.

- Or the police then?

Didn't you want to find her murderer?

- Her murderer?

That's what I can't
fathom, I love Christine

Yet, why did I say that I
wanted to marry Annette”?

Subconsciously, I must have
wanted Christine out of the way,

and so I felt guilty

Then when I saw her dead
I felt terribly guilty

as though I had killed her, myself.

Do you understand what I mean®

- [Maigret] I hope you do

That was the only reason that
you didn't call the police?

- The only reason

- It wasn't because of your shirt?

- My shirt?

- Mm-hmm.

- Ah, yes, I see what you mean

Yes, there was blood on it,

but I washed it cut and put it in the air

I told the police all that.

I only know that I wanted
to escape from this house

from myself

There was a flight to Lisbon,
a connection to South America.

I changed, took my case,

there's a taxi rank at the end of road.

- How were you going to
live in South America”?

- Oh, you confuse me by
asking me all these questions

After all, I didn't fly fo South America

I turned the taxi before it
reached the air terminal

I came back here, I unpacked my case

I put my things away, I shaved,

and then I went to the police station.

Are you going to charge me?

(traffic rumbling)

- [Maigret] I didn't charge him

I decided to let him stew a little first.

On my advice, he moved into an hotel

It was typical of Josset that he said,

"I quite understand, it's one of yours."

Then of course it was.

- Maigret.

- Judge Bonville

- The papers are holding
us up to public ridicule

We'll have to charge Josset.

- With murder?

Just because old Duche couldn't face

a public scandal about his daughter?

- Josset hasn't even asked for a lawyer.

In his own interest, we
can't delay indefinitely

- Well, I don't think we have
enough material for a charge

- That would be my responsibility

- Well, Josset says that he
came home at five past 10

Now he's got no reason to lie about it.

Colonel Lalinde in the house opposite

is absolutely precise that it was 10:45.

Now, either one of them is lying,

or the man that Colonel
Lalinde saw was not Josset.

- But surely the Colonel is
the more reliable witness

- Remember Judge, it was dark.

Lucas, come in, please.

Christine Josset had many men friends

- I know, her artistic
proteges, sponges perhaps,

but where's the motive for murder?

- Lucas, this is your field

- Hello Judge

Well, we've had many letters,
the usual anonymous tips

- Well you can disregard
the one I received

and sent on to you about
Sabinski, I know him.

He's a young artist with
a serious reputation

- More to the point, perhaps
he's in Rome on a scholarship,

but some on the list are not
quite so artistically minded

- Emile Donan is one.

- Who's he? - A boxer and a muscle man.

Paul Popaul's another, a
degenerate on rich women

- Well, have we anything
against these men?

Have their criminal records?

- Not that we know of, and they
all have very secure alibis

- In any case, all this doesn't
make it better for Josset.

It adds a motive.

- Yes, that's very true

Also, there's another
problem, Judge, the weapon

Probably had a blade, seven
inches long, knife or dagger

No weapon was found

and the kitchen knives
give negative results

- Mm-hmm.

Very well then, I have to leave it to you

We'll defer the charge for the moment,

but remember, Maigret,
we can't delay too long

You must find that weapon

- Monsieur.

{door clicks)

- [Lucas] Where do we look now?

- [Maigret] Our problem was sclved

in a quite unexpected way

Good luck for the prosecution,
bad luck for Josset.

Julie, the maid, had got
another job in the district.

- Mademoiselle.

Mademoiselle Julie.

- Oh, if's you. (indistinct chatter)

- [Maigret] Lucas had
questioned her several times

She'd come back late, about 12:30,

and gone straight to her
room by the service stairs

So she saw nothing

until she was woken by the
police in the early hours

{traffic rumbles)

(indistinct chatter) -
[Maigret] Previously she said,

"Christine had changed
her mind about going out

and asked her to prepare supper."

She had left a dish of
couscous on the hot plate

Now she revealed something more.

On a bureau on the landing,

there used to be a German
dagger. a war souvenir,

now it wasn't there. - [Julie] I remember

- [Maigret] I decided to
order the arrest of Josset.

{sombre music)

Judge Bonville insisted upon
manacles to placate the public

Josset said he would have
told me about the dagger,

if I'd given him the chance

It was all part of his midnight panic

He'd thrown it down a drain
on the way to the airport

(engine roars)

We found it eventually, and
it figured at the trial

The blocd stains were compatible with

Christine's blood group

It had been wiped, but
there was one finger print

just under the guard... Josset's

That was that, the verdict
was a foregone conclusion

- You didn't agree with it

- Well, I had a feeling
that Josset had been

trying to tell me the
truth the whole time,

but with all that evidence...

{telephone rings)

- [Maigret] Excuse me

- Maigret.

Yes, yes, he's here

For you, Etienne

- Leon?

He did?

For how long”?

Oh, no, no, no, no

No, it's only a matter of time.

Thank you, Leon

(receiver clunks)

Lucille, do you mind
making your own way home?

- You're going back to the hospital?

But you said that there wasn't
anything mere you could do

for that poor man

- [ must go

- Can I get you a taxi?

- No, thank you, I've got the car

- Etienne, I'll come with you

- We'll see you next month at our place

{door clicks)

I'l make sure the
telephone's out of order

- So sorry, Jules

- Let us know what happens

- He's still alive, maybe
there's something I can do

- Mm-hmm.

- Goodnight, my dear. - Goodnight

- Forgive me.

- Of course.

{door clicks)

- Oh, peer man, he looks so tired too

- Yeah.

- [Dr. Pardon] He's still alive,

and maybe there's something I can do

- Thank heavens you never became a doctor

I should see even less
of you than I do now.

There's all the coffee left,
shall I reheat it for you?

{door bangs)

{sombre music)

- Jules.

{upbeat music)

{door bangs)

- Oh, Patron

- Where's Lucas?

I thought he was on duty

- He had to go to a wedding party

- Oh, yeah

Well, bring me the Josset file

- Yes, Patron

The Josset file, Patron?

But that's been closed six months.

- [Maigret] You've given me those reports,

fetch me that file.

- Yes, Patron, yes,
yes, yes, coming Patron

(Maigret sighs)

- Ugh

{pencil hits the table)

- [Lucas] Ah, hoy, (indistinct).

- Shh.

{door bangs)

{Lucas laughs)

{hand slaps)

- [Lucas] Ah

What gives? - Shh.

- [Lucas] What gives”?

What?

- The Patron.

- For you, my favourite policeman

The Patron, what's he doing?

- Your reports. (Lucas whistles)

- He's just sent me off
to get the Josset file

- Josset? - Yeah.

{door clicks)

{Lucas coughs)

Ah, Patron

- Ah, Lucas, how did it go”?

- Oh fine, fine.

We launched Lacroix
on the sea of matrimony

They'll never get me

- Are you sober?

- Ah, yes, sufficiently

- Heard about Josset?

- Josset?

- No reprieve.

- Oh, he didn't help
himself very much, did he?

Seemed anxious to take
the blame for everything,

for Annette, Christine,
Christine's men, the marriage

Had a good advocate in
Maitre Basine, but

- Maitre Basine failed to
bring out strongly enough

the fact that Josset
really loved his wife

If I'd been handling his defence,

I'd have presented his case
in an entirely different way

- You made a goed job of showing up

the insincerity of Christine

- I would have done much better

to have stressed the
absolute integrity of Josset

He was quite sincere, you know,

when he said he asked his wife for advice.

I think Christine would have spotted,

what Josset refused to admit,
that Annette seduced him.

- Hard to convince a jury

- Well, he should have tried,

instead of going after
mitigating circumstances

He should have stressed the
absolute innocence of Josset.

The lack of motive, he had
no reason to kill his wife.

(hand knocking)

- [Torrance] Patron. - [Maigret] Ah.

{door slams) - The file's gone

- Gone?

- Well there's no one up
there and the file's missing

- Look again

No. wait, of course it would
have gone over to justice

while the reprieve was being considered

- [Lucas] What about Colonel Lalinde?

He swore he saw Josset come home at 10:45.

- Josset say it was 10:05,

and this was before he heard
the Colonel's evidence.

He have no reason to lie about it,

but the Colonel could be wrong.

- A trained military
observer, precise as a gun

- Yes, I know, but he could
have seen some other person

with a motive and the key,

who did enter the house at 10:45

and he mistook him for Josset.

- Well we followed up
every conceivable lead

and the land was unshakeable.

- Yes, well personally, I
worked overtime for three weeks.

You knows that woman
picked some funny ones

Do you remember all those
cheques to that boxer,

Emile Donan.

- Cast iron alibi.

- And then there was Popaul,
she gave him a sports car

- He was just one of
seven proteges or lovers

the defence threw up.

With their list and ours,
we checked on 23 people,

and they all ended the
same way, blind alley.

- Yes, I'm not criticising.

- [Tarrance] Well, I only mention Popaul

because he came out yesterday.

- Ah, it's 10 o'clock,

I suppose they must have fold Josset now.

I suppose I'd better go
and see him, usually do

- Do you want the Governor de Sante”

- Yeah.

(telephone dial spins)

No, wait.

"Came out", you say?

What was he in for?

- [Torrance] Eh, Patron?

- This man with the sports car?

- Oh, Popaul, well we
got him for beating up

the wife of Bernard Pappinos

And the funny thing about that was

that she didn't want to prefer charges

- What? This is new.

What was known about him at
the time of Josset's trial?

- Nothing at all.

This happened about a month
after Josset went down.

It was Popaul's first offence,

he got six months, served four,

and Madame Pappinos when off
on a round the world trip

- I knew about his racket,

it's the first I've heard of violence.

What was his alibi for Christine?

- It'll be on the file.

- Get it.

- And Torrance, find Popaul,

get him up here, hald him
here until I get back

I want another talk with him.

- Do you want the Governor de Sante”

- No, I'll chance it with
the chief warder, quicker

{telephone tapping)

(door closes) - [ wish I
never mentioned Popaul.

- Bo you know where he is?

- Last time I found
him in the Bar Barbino.

- You'd better try there again

- Yes, but then again he might be in

any one of 15 or 20 other bars.

- Well, hurry, because time's running out

Hello, where have you been?

Get me the police. (door bangs)

(steps clanging)

{sombre music)

(footsteps plodding)

- Whois it?

Is it the governor?

{door creaks)

- [Josset] Maigret

- Monsieur Josset, how are you?

- As you see.

Won't you sit down, Inspector?

You may smoke, if you wish

- Thanks, I have my pipe

{chair scrapes)

- I hope you haven't
come for a confession.

They have a priest here,

I've promised him all that sort of thing

- You've already confessed to me

- I have?

- Yeah, you said, "I have
lost the love of my wife."

- So you remember that

Well, that's not quite true,

Christine never ceased to love me.

It would be more true
to say, let me put it-

- [Maigret] Shut up

- But I'm only trying-

- You talk too much, but
not about the right things

- I tried to give you my feelings,

you wanted the facts, that's life

- There's always been one
fact that you insisted on

You entered your house at
a few minutes after 10.

- At five minutes past 10

- [Maigret] Yet, Colonel Lalinde swore

that you came into your home at 10:45

- And the jury preferred his evidence

- How well do you know Colonel Lalinde?

- Not at all, we never met.

- Does your wife know him?

- Hardly, Christine's friends
were all a hard drinking lot,

Colonel Lalinde only drank iced tea,

he sat up to all hours drinking the stuff.

- How do you know that?

- But I do know it.

Oh yes, Julie told me.

You remember Julie?

- [Maigret] Your maid

- She was friends with Colonel Lalinde's

manservant, or something

- Colonel Lalinde is quite
sure that you came home

at 10:45 that night, 40
minutes later than you've said

- I've thought a great deal about this,

and there's only one answer, isn't there?

- Yeah?

- [Josset] I was so drunk
that I mistook the time.

So drunk that I killed
Christine without knowing it

There's no other explanation, is there”?

- Is there anyone you want to see?

- I don't think so.

- Annette?

- I've dealt with her lease.

Thank you for coming

{sombre music)

(keys rattle)

{door squeaks shut)

{door opens)

- Ah, Patron

{door slams)

Did you see Josset”?

- Yes, I did, I wish I hadn't

He's convinced himself
that he killed Christine

without knowing it.

- Perhaps it's the answer after all?

- No, no, no

It's the answer of a man
who wants to feel guilty

to justify his own death.

- Well we've got Popaul.

Torrance found him straight away

There's his file,

that's the transcript
of the Pappinos case

I'll bring Popaul in.

- What was his alibi for Christine?

- He was in a half dozen bars.

- Half a dozen bars, between 10 and 117?

- Nothing precise

- Nothing precise

- Do you know, a guilty man
would have cooked up something,

would he?

- Mm-hmm.

Bring him in

- All right, Torrance, let's have him

- [Torrance] All right, come on, in here

(keys jangle)

- What's the idea, why
have you pulled me in?

(keys jangle)

- Sit down.

- What's the charge.

- Paul Popaul

Is that your right name.

- It's done all right so far. (key jangle)

- [Lucas] Don't be nervous

- Um. very interested in you

Let's just say, "It's for the book."

I want to know about a man like you.

How do you make your living?

Where do you get your money?

- I do all right.

- But how?

- Buying, selling, I get by

- [Maigret] Not too badly either, I'd say.

Tailored silk shirts, diamond cuff links

Look at those shoes, Lucas

- Snakeskin, he grows his own

- I don't have to be here.

So what's the charge?

- Well, this one, malicious
assault on a woman

Michelle Pappinos.

- I served my sentence, you
can't rake that up again

- Yes, but I want to know why you did it.

- It's all down there, it
was all said at the trial.

- Not why you assaulted her?

Tell me.

- I roughed her up a bit,
she was asking for it

- What do you mean,
"She was asking for it"?

Was it she insulted you?

- She wanted it.

Oh, she liked it

- Liked being knocked about?

- [Popaul] Some women do

- [Maigret] Ch, I see, that's
how you make your living?

Rich women who get a thrill
from a touch of violence

- I don't have to answer that,

I don't have to be here, I want a lawyer.

- Ah, ah, ah, ah, getting nervous again

- Why did you attack Madame Pappinos?

- I told you

- Did she try to pay you off, is that it?

- Nobody pays me off

- It must be a dog's life,
Paul living on hand-outs

Like scraps throw to a poodle

- Mean as hell, these rich women.

- They expect you to pick up
the cheque in a restaurant

- Ah, but you try and
get a cheque out of them,

they give you a tip, like a waiter.

- Cuff links.

- Tie pins

- And when they've had their fun,

they throw you aside like a worn out shoe

It's pathetic

- It's not much wonder,

you feel like roughing
them up a bit sometimes

- You know, I expect
that's how it happened

Yeah. she tried to give him the push,

so he decided to teach her a lesson.

- Ah, yes, yes

- What beats to me is
how you got in the house

- lL didn't, I wasn't there

- But you were there, Popaul.

It says here that you found
in Madame Pappinos' bedroom

- Perhaps he's thinking of another house

- I didn't say that, I said

- What were you thinking of Popaul?

- Yeah, I knew this wasn't about Michelle

- How? Hows do you know”?

- I read the papers, all about Josset.

- [Lucas] You were his wife's lover.

- I went round with her,
I told you all about that.

- [Maigret] You told
us something else too,

that you had a fight with her

- 1 didn't say that.

You are putting words into my mouth

- Christine tried to give you the sack,

but nobody does that to Popaul,

s0 you went to the house
and you killed her

- It's a lie, prove it

- How/d you get in”?

- Did she open the door?

- I wasn't there, I never went there,

we met in bars, places

she came to my place once

- You went to that house, you
found her husband dead drunk,

and you stabbed her to death.

- Prove I was there, find a witness.

It was Josset they saw go in, not me.

It was in the papers.

- Where were you then between 10 and 11,

the night she was killed?

- In a bar. - Which bar?

- I don't remember -
That's a rotten alibi.

- I don't need one.

You can't touch me, I'm in
the clear and you know it

Now... (keys jangle)

Is there anything else?

You see, I have a living to make

- Oh, yes

Get out.

- Oh, it's a good try.

You don't get me changing
places with Josset

(keys jangle)

- All right.

- Wait.

Let me see those keys, bring them here

- You're tearing my suit

- Enough of that

They're identical

- The key to the Josset house

You never went there.

- Yes, I had a key

She gave it to me, but I never used it,

and you can't prove I used it

- You shouldn't keep
souvenirs in your racket, boy.

You should throw them away,

you ought to knows better than that

- Torrance.

- Patron.

- Take him in there, keep him happy

- Yeah.

- Please don't touch me?

No, it's a lie, it's a
dirty trick, it's a lie

{Popaul weeps) (door slams)

- Department of Justice, hurry

- No, it's no good,
they won't grant a stay

- But he did it, give me
24 hours and he'll break.

- He's right, we've got no proof
that he ever used this key,

not while Colonel
Lalinde's evidence stands.

I've got to break that

(dramatic music)

{upbeat music)

{door slams)

{engine running)

{door bell rings)

(door shuts)

- Inspector Maigret, it's nearly midnight.

- I apologise, Colonel,

but I want to talk to you again, urgently,

about Adrien Josset.

-Comein.

- Thank you

{door slams)

I've interrupted your work?

- My evidence on the
Josset case is on record,

I've said all I know.

- I know, Colonel,

repeatedly without ever altering a word

That is why [ would like
you to tell it to me

all over again

This clock is correct, I take it?

- [Lalinde] A minute to
a timepiece, Monsieur.

- And in eight hours and nine minutes

Adrien Josset will go to the guillotine,

because of your unaltered word.

- Please sit down, Inspector

- Thank you

- This, as you know, is my usual seat

I was sitting here on the
night of April the 17th,

when I saw Adrien Josset return home.

It was precisely 22:45 hours, 10:45.

- Just one moment, do you
always work as late as this?

- No, I never try to sleep
until the early hours

- Mm-hmm. What time do you start?

- [Lalinde] An hour after
dinner at nine o'clock.

- Never later?

- I've learned to keep fixed habits.

- How many times did you see Adrien Josset

on the night of April the 17th?

- Four times, at 10:45 entering,

at 12:30 when he left the house

and walked towards the taxis,

at 1:12 when he returned by
taxi and re-entered the house.

And at 10 minutes past three,

when he left the house
for the second time

- There is supporting evidence
for the last three times

but not for the first.

- Inspector, I'm sorry for Josset,

but I cannot disbelieve the
evidence of my own eyes

(engine roaring)

- So you would hear
Josset's car door pull up,

you'd hear the car door bang

You'd look up and you'd say,

"Is that Josset again?"

But you might forget that
you hadn't actually seen him

- [Lalinde] Please refer to my evidence

- Oh, could you remind me”?

- I heard Josset's car pull up

- Did you see it pull up”?

- No, I locked up after it
had stopped, I heard it

- You hear a car.

- I looked up and I saw Adrien Josset

He was illuminated by the
sodium lamp in the street,

and there was a light over his door

- Excuse me. - Certainly

- You would have seen Josset's back.

Could it be that you saw some
other person of similar build,

wearing a similar suit?

It's just possible, isn't it?

- No.

- Do you mind telling
me what's in that jug?

- What?

Well, if you wish to know,

it's a concoction of lime flowers.

- Oh, you have some digestive problem?

- And legacy from my service in Africa

-Um.

(Maigret exhales)

A big jug, I should think
it holds at least a litre.

- It holds one... no, 1500
grammes, one litre and a half.

- Do you consume it all in
the course of the evening?

- I refuse to be interrogated
on the state of my kidneys

- No, indeed, but forgive
a personal question,

surely after some hours...

- The bathroom also overlooks the street,

it has just as good a
view of Josset's house.

- Thank you, Colonel.

- Thank you

- I won't trouble you any more

(dramatic music)

- Do you do your own cooking?

- I have an orderly

- You enjoy couscous?

{door opens)

Come out, Julie

- Julie is working for some new neighbours

at the end of the road.

This is her night off

- It was Julie's night off,

the night Christine Josset was killed

Come here, Julie

Were you here the night
Madame Josset was murdered?

Were you?

- Yes, Inspector, she was

- You realise, Colonel that-

- He's a good man, Inspector.

There was a bomb in our village

They came, both sides

My mother was dead, I was 10 years old

They took me, the police took me

Policemen. (Julie spits)

- The Inspector's not that
kind of policeman, Julie

{Julie cries)

- But this man, this one man,

I shall love him until the day I die.

- [Lalinde] Sit down

{Julie sobs)

- Colonel, would you say that on the night

Christine Josset was murdered,

you were not all the time at your desk”?

(dramatic music)

{upbeat music)

{door slams)

(Maigret sighs)

{doors creak)

(sirens sound)

- I'll make us some coffee.

- I thought you'd be asleep

- was...

(Madame Maigret yawns)

The telephone woke me

- Telephone?

- It was Lucille, I asked her to ring me

- Ah.

- Oh, I'm so sorry for
them, their patient died

- I think mine will live.