All language subtitles for Maigret S04E07 A Taste of Power_Track03-eng

- [Gendreaux] Shut your
mouth and listen to mel!

I run this house, I run this family,

and you will tow the line

- [Lise] Who the hell do you think you are

ordering me around?

- [Gendreaux] Lise!
(thud)

For the last time, I will not hesitate...

- [Lise] You won't have to

- ... to make you think about
it when I cut your allowance

- You dare, that's my money,

my share of the business.

- Not yet it isn't, not
for another six months.

And you will stay in this house

as long as I am responsible for you

- What are you, my brother or my keeper?

Keep out of my life

- You will not leave this house

while I am responsible for you

- Try and stop me.

Try it and I'l kill you

- [Gendreaux] Lise!

- A brotherly chat?
- She needs a whipping.

- Richard, oh, it's business of course

and no concern of mine,

but have you thought
(decanter clanking)

what's going to happen when Lise is 25,

and comes into control of her share

in Gendreaux & Company?

- Yes, Father, [ have

- Yes, well when that happens

you're going to need more than a whip.

- Yes, Father, if it happens

(dramatic music)

{match fizzing)

{melancholy French music)

{whistle blast)

(engine roaring)

{upbeat music)

{traffic humming)

- Thank you, Dede.

{door banging)

- What time shall I pick you up?

- Um, about 2:30, quarter
to 3:00 I should think.

- Ckay, Bob, enjoy your lunch

(hand slapping)

(engine revving)

- The Count d'Anseval, Monsieur.

- Ah, d'Anseval, very good to see you.

Do come on.

- Mademoiselle Lise said she'll
be down shortly, Monsieur.

- Yes, well there's no hurry

You tell her the Count and I

are going to have a drink before lunch

Bob, how nice to see you

Do sit down, you'll have a whiskey?

- Thank you

- You haven't been before, have you?

- No, it's all most impressive

Who is he?

- Oh, that's Grandfather, our founder

(whiskey trickling)

May his soul rest in peace

{decanter clanking)

Here we are, help yourself to soda

(bottle banging)
- [Bob] Thank you

- I've organised lunch here,
you don't mind, do you?

- My dear fellow, I don't quarrel
with a free meal nowadays,

wherever it comes from.

- I'd have suggested the club.

- You're the soul of delicacy, Richard

You wouldn't know of course

that they chucked me out last week.

- I did hear, yes.

Some nonsense about a check, wasn't it?

- What did they tell you?

- Something about you signing
it with the wrong name

As a matter of fact, this is the check

(tense music)

I've collected a few
more of the same kind.

You've nothing to say”

- I'm listening

- Good, because I have a
small proposition to make

- That sounds very interesting

{drawer clattering)

- You see, I'm very worried
about my sister Lise

The way she's carrying on

she'll end up in the hands of some waster

who's only after her money.

Now I want to find the
right husband for her now

- Why tell me, I don't
suppose I'm a candidate?

- Well, I don't know.

I've known about your little
liaison with my sister,

it's been going on for quite some time.

- How very clever of you,

I thought we'd been most discreet.

- Quite the grand passion

- Well?

- Well I think that you might be

just the man I'm looking for,

after all you are a d'Anseval,

and my sister's a terrible snob

(dramatic music)

(feet scraping)

(door clicking)

{door banging)

{joyful music)

- Evening, filthy night.

Mind if I have a look?

- No.

- Oh, you've really kept
her in great condition

What year would she be, '377?

-'38, they don't make
them like this nowadays

- Certainly don't

I bet she really goes.

- And eats up the miles all right.

(gun bangs)

{woman screaming)

- That was a shot.
- Yes.

- It came from behind that window.

(engine revving)

Hey, stop!

{cigar thudding)

(feet pounding)

(bell ringing)

(bell ringing)

(feet thudding)

(bell ringing)

(hand banging)

- Nowy, if you don't clear
off I'l call the police

- lam the police.

- You, what do you want?

Do you know the time?

- Are you gonna let me in?

(door clicking)

Well then, where is it?

- What are you talking about?

- [Lapointe] The room
where the shot came from?

- There's been no shooting here

- [Lapointe] Right, we'll see about that

- Excuse me...

- [Lapointe] Now just
remember I'm from the police

{table clatters)

A stupid place to leave a table

- [Gendreaux] What is it, Louis?

Who's this?

- [Louis] He says he is
a policeman, Monsieur

- I beg your pardon, I thought
it was my father coming home

What's the trouble?

- He says he heard a shot
in the house, Monsieur

- Well you must be mistaken, Officer,

as you can see there's
been no disturbance here.

- The shot was from this house, Monsieur

I heard a scream too,

it came from the middle
window of the first floor.

- That would be my sister's bedroom

But she's been asleep for several hours.

- May I see the room, please?

- Oh, Louis, I left a cigarette
burning in my bedroom

- Monsieur.

- Have you a warrant?

- [Lapointe] No, Monsieur, but

- I take it you've not
exactly been on duty tonight,

some police festivity

- Where I've been, Monsieur

- [Gendreaux] And you
heard a car backfire.

- I heard a scream as well.

- No doubt, all the same,
if you want to see that room

you'll have to come back with a warrant.

Good morning

- I'm afraid I've got to see it now

- My name is Richard Gendreau,

does that mean anything to you?

- No, Monsieur.

- If you're a policeman
you're not very well informed

Perhaps you know the name Maxim Lebrecht

- [Lapointe] He's the Minister

- Yes, and a personal friend of mine,

and a member of my club.

He will not be amused to hear

that a drunken member of his force

insisted on entering my house,

and tried to invade my sister's bedroom.

- I am not drunk, Monsieur

- That is a matter of opinion

- I heard a shot, I've
got to see that room.

- [Louis] I've seen to it, Monsieur.

- [Gendreaux] Thank you, Louis

I take back the drunk,
shall we say inexperienced,

and in need of a lesson?

You still insist on seeing that room?

- Yes.

- Then follow me.

What is your rank?

- Sergeant, junior grade

- You haven't much to lose, have you?

(feet tapping)

(knocking)

- [Gendreaux] Lise!

(knocking)

- [Gendreaux] Lise, may I come in?

- Yes, whois it?

- [Gendreaux] It's me, I'm
sorry, I have to disturb you

Are you decent”?

- Just a minute.

All right

- I have someone with me,
he says he is a policeman

- Well, what does he want?

- Well he says he heard
a shot from this room.

- [Lise] Is this a joke”

- sit?

Well ask your question, Serjeant

- What I want to know...

- He wants to know if you screamed

- Is he mad?

I've been asleep

(dramatic music)

What's he doing?

- [Gendreau] I think
he wants to make sure

I've brought him to the right room

- [Lise] Is he satisfied”

- I don't know, are you satisfied?

- [Lapointe] What is
that door, Mademoiselle?

- My dressing room

- Do you want to see it?

We mustn't conceal anything.

(door clicking)

Here itis.

- And that door?

- Ah, it's a drawing room

and beyond that is a
staircase to the outside.

As you see. my sister has a private suite

{door banging)

Now is that all?

As you see, there are no stolen jewels

(drawer banging)

No bodies, did you want to
have a look in the wardrobe?

No, or under the bed?

No?

Then let me give myself the
pleasure of showing you out

I'm sorry to disturb you, Lise,
you can go back to bed now

Follow me, Serjeant was it?

(door clicking)

(door clicking)

(Lise sighing)

{door banging)

(dramatic music)

(door clicking)

- [Lise] Louis!

(door clattering)
(body thudding)

(dramatic musical blast)

{pipe clinking)

- Hm, how long did you
sit up writing this?

- Three hours, Patron

- When did you get to bed?

- I didn't.

- You'd been to a party, hadn't you”

- Yes, my sister's engagement

(Maigret laughs)

- Was it a good party?

- I was not drunk, Patron.

I heard the shot, I heard the scream,

I saw the curtain move.

- Yes, yes, it's all down here.

It's a very good report

- Patron, you asked me
to remind you at 10 to,

you're the first witness

- All right.

Lucas!

{Lucas hums)

Have you seen this report of Lapointe's”

- Ah, yes, very good, very good

Must have been some party, eh?

-Deon'trubitin.

- Look, Patron,

why did they keep me
waiting all that time,

him and that butler?

They could have been cleaning up the room

And the sister, she hadn't been asleep

- How do you know?

- She still had make-up on

(phone ringing)

- Yes?

Ah right, thank you

The Judge's car's arrived

- Oh, that's all right,

Monsieur d'Gasque always has
to pay his little visit first

Now, Lapointe, did you say
you saw this car outside?

- Yes, it was an old open Delahaye, white.

- And the driver?

- Short, a bit like a
jockey, I'd know him again

- Moming, Patron

- Moming

- Evening, Lapointe

Patron, there's a body in
Rue Bercy on a building site

- I've no time for bodies
today, I'm in court

- I'l take it.

{paper tearing)

- All right, it's waiting
for you in the morgue

Good party, eh?

- Look, I've had just about enough of it,

I don't take it from you

- Ah, ah, we love you.

- Look, Patron, I am right,

just give me a chance to prove it

- Lapointe, do you know
who these Gendreaux are?

- Grocers?

- Grocers?

When you have one shop it's a grocers.

When you have 1,000 it's an empire.

And you go knocking on their door

at one o'clock in the morning

If you'd found any one
thing amiss in that house,

well, did you?

- What about the...

- The curtain was caught in the window,

they must have had the window open

to clear the fumes from the gun.

- I'l tell you what I'll
do with you, Lapointe,

I'll send you on leave

- On leave?

- Yes, for 24 hours, it'll do you good

- But, Patron...

- But what you do in that
time is your own concern,

just find that car

And don't go near the Gendreaux,

and don't drag us into it

I don't want any rockets
from the director.

- Yes, Patron, thank you very much.

And it's my case?

- Yes, we won't interfere

{Lucas laughing)

- He'll be Chief Inspector yet

{door banging)

- I wonder.

Well, what's the time?

Good heavens, why didn't you tell me?

- I did, the moment you came in I said.

- Pipe, pipe,
(hand patting)

where's my pipe?

- I think Lapointe took it.

- What?

(Maigret laughing)

(mellow music)

(feet tapping)

- What about Louis?

- You leave him to me.

- I gave Germaine some dresses,

not enough to shut her up

- So I'll take care of her,

you leave everything to me.

- That's what you want,
isn't it, everything?

Well listen to me, my little emperor,

you're in this as thick as I am.

Just remember, I'm coming back,

and then you're going to pay,

you're going to pay double

(case clanking)

- [Felicien] Blast!

The hall's full of luggage

- Yes, Lise is taking a trip, Father,

on the spur of the moment to America

I'm shutting up the house.

- What about me?

- Well the servants are
all going to the chateau

I'm only keeping Louis

You'll have to go fo the club, I'm afraid,

unless you care to go with the servants

- The car's ready, Monsieur

- Thank you, Louis.

Enjoy your holiday

Make it a very long one

- Goodbye, Father.

- Goodbye?

Lisel

Now look here, you two
have had your rows before,

but never anything as bad as this

Now what's going on here”?

(phone ringing)

- It's business, Father,
you wouldn't understand

If you'll forgive me.

{door bangs)

Yes?

Yes, this is Richard Gendreaux

Who's there?

- You don't know me, I'm
a friend of Bob d'Anseval,

d'Anseval, that's right

I'm a bit worried about him.

I drepped him at your house last night,

waited for him, see?

But he never came out.

I thought maybe he'd had an accident

(dramatic musical blast)

- Yes, right, you come
round here at 10:30.

(phone clicking)

- Thank you very much for your help,

thank you

(phone clicking)

Only two 1938 Delahayes
answering that description

in registered ownership

- Good work, my son, you keep it up

- Baron d'Gon Falon,

and a garage in the Rue
Bargje called Dieudonne

(tense music)

(feet pounding)

{door banging)

"To my old pal, Dede,

"Bob d'Anseval."

Anyone in?

(dramatic musical blast)

- Yes, what do you want?

- I'm looking for Dede

- Oh, what do you want him for?

- It's about a car
- What car?

- Dede knows.

- He's ona job

- Will he be back soon?

(phone ringing)

- Phone, better answer it.

Hello, Mome here

- [Cleo] Mome, is Dede there”?

- Oh Cleo, no, Cleo, he went out on a job.

- Well I'm looking for Bob,

I'm at his place now.

The swine, he said he would
meet me here last night,

and he didn't show up.

Well it's the last time
he plays this on me,

because I am not moving from
here until he gets back,

and you can tell him that from me

- Don't you worry, Cleo,
you know what Bob is

- Don't I!
(phone bangs)

{phone clanks)

(dramatic musical blast)

- Yes, yes, that's right

- Well who are these two merchants anyway?

-d'Anseval, it's a
picture you once published

in your magazine, I'm trying to trace him.

- Here, what are you up to”?

- Oh shut up

- Bob d'Anseval?

Yes, sure, we used to know him, the Count,

yeah, one of the crazy ones

(typewriter tapping)

Yeah, he used to race for Delahayes

until he had that crack
up at Nurbank Ring

Where?

Now you're asking, just a minute.

Denise, they're trying to
trace Bob d'Anseval, the Count,

do we know where he is?

- Oh, he used to be in the
Avenue de Nergi, 110 I think

Didn't know he was still alive.

- We think he's at 110
Avenue de Nergi, yeah

If you find him, give
him my love, will you?

Tell him we thought he was dead

{typewriter tapping)
(phone clicking)

(door clicking)

- [Lucas] Moming, Jack

- [Jack] Hello.

{door bangs)

- How's the fun factory?

- All right.

- This Rue de Bercy?

- I've dug out the bullet for you

- Woman's toy, eh”?

- That toy can kill if it finds the heart.

{packet crunching)

- It's @a mess, ain't it?

What are all those scars?

- He's been knocked about in his time,

ribs, pelvis, both tibias, cranium,

motor smash.

- Or wife.

(wheels screeching)

(engine revs)

{door bangs)

{door clicks)

- Mome!

(feet thudding)

- Hey, where you been?

- Business, big business

I've gotta go out again.

Anyone want me?

- There was a fella, yeah

He was asking about,
what was he asking about?

- Here, where's our pin-up?

- It's gone,

that fella must have taken it.

- Fellow, who was it?

Well he said he was a friend of Bob's.

- Yeah, what he look like?

- Well, he was a young fella,

he had a shorty raincoat,

and he wore a hat with a broad band.

- Shorty raincoat?
- Yeah.

- Yeah, I know him

I think he's a cop

- What?

- What else did he say”?

- Nothing else,

he just went.

Ah, that's right, Cleo was phoning,

she was looking for Bob, oh, she's angry.

Bob stood her up last night,

and she's at his place waiting for him

- Did he hear all this?

- Yeah, yeah.

- If he finds her before I do,

she'll blow the gaff.

(dramatic music)

(rain hissing)

{traffic humming)

(dramatic music)

- Hey you, stop!

(wheels sloshing)

{hooter tooting)

{door banging)

{door banging)

- Oh, so you're back!

And where the hell do you think you

Dedel

- Come on
- Well, where's Bob?

Do you know that swine stood
me up again last night

- Yes, I know, now come on

- Dede, will you stop grabbing me

Now what's happened?

- The cops have happened,
they'll be after you and me

- [Cleo] Well, where's Bob?

- Look, there's no time,
I'l explain later

(knocking)

- Where's Dede?

- [Cleo] Wha?

- I saw him come in.

(feet tapping)

(door clicking)

(thudding)

- Dede!

- Quick, get him on the bed, quick

Get a sheet.

Sorry, chum

{sheet ripping)

(bottle banging)

(door clicking)

- Oh, Patron, I was just
holding the fort for you

Are they through with you?

- Through with me?

No, I'm still on the stand.

(papers slamming)

Is this all for me?

- Yes, Patron, I'm afraid
it's been a quiet morming

- All right, get me
some of that, will you?

- Yes, at once, Patron, at once

- Eh, Torrance!

- Pardon, Monsieur Patron

- Where's Lucas?
(file slamming)

- He's been out on that murder
job all moming, Patron

Ah, here he is, he's just coming

{Lucas humming)

- Ah, hello, you finished?

- No, I haven't

Monsieur d'Gasque is in his best form

{hands slapping)

"Can you enlighten us, Chief Inspector,

"as to why you arrested the accused

"even before you'd found the body?"

We suspected that he
committed a misdemeanour,

Monsieur Le President.

"Ah really, and by what
process of divination

"did you arrive at that conclusion?"

Because he was running
away from us, Monsieur

covered in blood, and firing a gun

Adjourn until tomorrow

{Lucas laughs)

- You know, you missed your vocation.

- Where have you been enjoying yourself?

- At the morgue at the Rue Bercy killing

Looks as though the body
was dumped from a car

Shot between midnight and 4:00.

- [Maigret] Gang work?

- Odd sort of gang, used a 22 pistol

- Sounds more like a jealousy killing

- Beer and sandwiches
coming up for you, Patron

And here's some more homework for you.

- Where'd that come from?

- That, Lapointe got it from somewhere.

- But that's him, that's
the man I've just seen,

the body in the morgue,

Rue Bercy, who is he”?

- Well that's d'Anseval,
Lapointe was trying to find him

He didn't say why.

- Where is Lapcinte?

- I don't know, Patron.

All I know is he's been
quite for the last hour

(dramatic music)

{Lapointe's body thudding)

- Bob!
{door banging)

Bob,

Bob!

{case clicking)

{Germaine laughs)

(Germaine screams)

Who are you”?

{Lapointe muttering)

What are you doing all tied up like that?

{Lapointe muttering)

Did Bob tie you up?

{Lapointe muttering)

You do look funny

{springs squeaking)

- [Lapointe] Please help me out of this

- Oh, I bet you're choking in that.

- [Lapointe] Yes, I am
choking, please help!

- All right then.

{Lapointe gasping)

- Thank you

Now would you please get
the rest of this off me?

- I don't know whether I should.

If Bob tied you up, I
bet he had a good reason

- It wasn't Bob, it was two other people.

- What other people”

- One of them was called Dede.

- Oh, well that settles it

He's Bob's best friend.

- If you don't untie me,
I'm gonna shout for help

(Germaine giggles)

- You'd look a bit silly, wouldn't you?

You like that, and me like this

- I'm a police officer

(Germaine laughs loudly)

- That's what you say.

Well who's the other one then?

- [Lapointe] The other who”

- The other one who tied you up?

- I don't know, it was a girl

- Oh, was it?

I bet it was that thin one
that one who calls herself Cleo.

She's mad about Bob.

I don't care.

- How do you know Bob?

He's a Count, isn't he?

- That's nothing

I know lots of Counts and
people, you'd be surprised

They come around all the time

(dress rustling)

Close your eyes, I'm dressing

Yeah, you can lock now,

if you like

Like it?

- Well that's the dress...

Oh, it's very nice

- You don't think I've
got a bit too much here?

{hand slaps)

- [Lapointe] No

- Or here?

- [Lapointe] No, na,
you're just about right.

{Germaine laughs)

But won't Mademoiselle Gendreaux miss it?

- No, she gave it to me herself.

You are a policeman.

- Yes, I am, and you'd
better untie me quick,

come on.

Now what's your name”?

- Germaine, I'm her maid, at least I was,

but she left for America this marming

and Monsieur Richard shut up the house

- Why?

- Oh, another of their rows I expect

All the others went home to the country

But not me, not after Paris

Bob said he can get me
into films anytime I want

Well now's his chance.

- Is that where you met
the Count d'Anseval,

at the Gendreaux house?

- I don't know.

I don't knows anything

- Did he come round often late at night,

fo see Mademoiselle Lise?

- No, they told me

- Not to say anything, is that
why she gave you that dress?

- No!

{Germaine cries)

I'm not saying anything else

Not until Bob gets here.

- I don't think he's coming, Germaine

I think he's dead.

- The apologies are really
due from me, Inspector

I'm afraid I was a bit
brutal with the young man,

I hope he didn't get into serious trouble

- He's been suspended
- Ah.

- I'd still like to offer our apologies

to Mademoiselle Gendreaux as well.

- Yes, it's most unfortunate.

- Was it a sudden decision,
her going off to America?

- Well we're used to that.

Another drink before you go, Inspector?

- Thank you, no

What a splendid portrait.

- Yes, it's my Grandfather,
Hector Gendreau,

he founded the firm.

- Your father I believe
is still alive, Monsieur?

- Yes, very much so

But he takes no part in
the direction of the firm,

he prefers the Dolce Vita.

- Perhaps he's wise

Well, thank you, Monsieur.

You've been most understanding

Oh, I wonder if I may mention this

From time to time the police
get certain information,

you know, of a confidential nature

I believe you knows a man
called Count Robert d'Anseval.

- Very well indeed, he's
a member of my club,

why do you ask?

- Well it seems he's got mixed up

with some rather shady business

- I'm indescribably shocked

He comes from a very good family

- Well this need go no further, Monsieur

- No, of course not

- Purely a warning.
- Thank you

Louis, the Inspector is leaving

- Have you ever received
the Count here, Monsieur?

- Once or twice.
- Last night?

- I don't think so.

Louis, did Count d'Anseval
come here last night?

- No, Monsieur.

- Did you wish to find Count d'Anseval?

- Oh, we know where he is

It's just that he's not talking

Once again, thank you, Monsieur

(dramatic music)

(Cleo crying)

- You den't wanna cry, Cleo

{door banging)

Thank goodness you're back.

Did you get what you wanted, Dede?

{notes thudding)

- What's the matter, haven't
you seen 80,000 francs before”?

- Where did you get it?

- Mensieur Gendreaux gave it to me

- Monsieur Gendreaux
gave you 80,000 francs”?

- Yeah
- Why?

- For keeping quiet about Bob

- Did you threaten him”

- Well I let him know
it'll be wiser to pay

- Dede, you can't take
it, it's blood money

(notes fluttering)

- Bob's dead, I don't
know how he was killed,

or why he was killed, but he's dead

You loved him, so did I

- You?

You loved him?

You loved him and you left
him in that house to die.

- All I heard was a shot,

I wasn't gonna hang around

with that cop talking cars everywhere

I didn't even know what
had happened myself

until this moming when Bob
didn't turn up in his room

then I guessed

Put them in the safe, Mome.

- Dede, you can't take it,

you'll have the police on
our necks, it's blackmail

- Blackmail, hell, it's easy money

Listen, this is the way
Bob would have played it

if I'd have been killed.

80,000, oh, I bet Bob's
laughing wherever he is

- Dede, look!

(door clicking)

- [Dede] Look what's coming.
(door banging)

How did you get lose?

- I'm making inquires
into the disappearance of

Count Robert d'Anseval, believed murdered

- [Dede] Ne, poor old Bob

- And I'm taking you in for questioning

- [Dede] You don't say

(clothes ruffling)

- You're all under arrest.

- Get the car, Cleo,

we'll take him with
us, I'l get the money

{Lapointe groans)

- Dede!

- Lucas!
- [Lucas] Get them

{Lapointe moans)

- [Torrance] All right, both of you

- Hey, this is my case

- You bet your Ife it is, you get him,

but watch it, he's big

- [Lucas] Easy, easy.
{dramatic music)

(fist thumping)

(body thudding)

- Ah-hah, good boy.

- Come on, get him

{fists smacking)

- [Lapointe] Keep it up

- [Mome] I'l get yal

- [Lapointe] Just come and try it

- [Torrance] Right!

{broom thudding)

{woman squealing)

- How you doing, Lapointe?

You wanna give me a hand?

(hand thudding)

- No, Lapointe, wait, wait!

- [Torrance] Watch it, Lapointe

- [Lucas] Keep moving, keep moving

(table crashing)

Get ready to run, Lapointe

Quick, get him

{Mome groans)

Oh, you made him bleed

(feet tapping)

(fists thudding)

(boxes crashing)

{fist thudding)

All right, the party's over,

come on over there, come
on move, over by the table

- Lapointe, gol

(box crashing)

- Get them out of here.

- [Torrance] Come on,
down you come, come on

- [Lucas] Julian?

You all right?

That's a boy.

France will be proud of you.

- Can't tell you how pleased I am

to have had such a
delightful guest for dinner

- I've enjoyed it very
much, Monsieur Gendreaux

- Please, call me Felicien

- Tell me, how is it that you have no part

in the family firm?

- You've been in the house,

you've seen that portrait of old Hector?

- Hmm.

- (laughs) There's your answer

Like father, not like son
- Oh.

- I was a sad disappointment to him

I preferred the girls and this.

Oh, but Richard and Lise,
he was pleased with them,

they were throwbacks to the true stock.

So he passed me over and
willed the business to them.

- Just the pair of them?

- No, equal shares.

Richard's taking care of
her share until she's 25,

then she can do what she pleases,

sell out or take a seat
at the boardroom table.

That's what Richard's
afraid of most of all,

when she gets her first taste of power

Like blood, you know, blood to a tiger.

Oh, I hate my children

- What happens if she gets married first?

- Ah, that's different.

You're a very intelligent man, yes,

there was that clause in the will.

Oh, old Hector wasn't going
to see half the business

go to seme fortune hunter

So if Lise marries before she's 25,

then control stays with Richard.

He keeps everything in his own hands

- Hmm, and when will she be 25?

- In two months' time.

(dramatic musical blast)

(playful music)

- Five, 10, 15, 20,

25, 30, 35, 40,

45, 50, 55, 60,

65, 70, 75,000

- Hey, it was 80,000 when
I tried it, sticky fingers

- Where'd you get this money”?

- Well there was this horse
see, Daisy-May, little darling,

comes in on a 250 to 1 accumulator.

(hand thumping)

- Just give me five
minutes alone with him.

- You wanna watch that lip, chum, nasty.

- Listen youl!

- [Lucas] Go and see how
Lapointe's getting on

with his broken head.

- Yes, I think I'd better

- [Lucas] Leave the loot.

(money thudding)

All right now, let's be
nice and gentle, hmm

Why did Richard Gendreaux
give you that money?

- Is that the name of the bookie”?

{melancholy music)

- Here now, what's going on?

- But you gotta let me go,

I'm on a case, I've
got important evidence

- You have a nasty bang on the head,

now you just stay where you are

- Quite right, yes, indeed

You tie him down if he
gives you any trouble

I've brought you some grapes, how are you?

- Listen, listen, Gendreaux
killed the Count, or his sister,

one of them did it.

The Count was Lise's lover,

I've got proof, I've got a witness.

- A witness, have you, who?

- Germaine, the maid

- Oh, where is she now?

- I've got her at my sister's apartment,

she's waiting for me.

- Your sister's apartment

Right, I'm on my way.

The poor lad's delirious

Now you give him a sedative,
will you, to calm him down

- But wait a minute, come back

- [Doctor] Now, now, nurse, help me

- He's pinching my case

- Easy young man.

- All right, you want it the hard way,

you have it the hard way

You were d'Anseval's trick man, procurer,

up to your neck in whatever
shady business he was at

- So I killed him?

- You're number one on any list.

He denies he drove him
to the Gendreaux house

the night he was there
with Lapointe arrived

- I had a flooded carburetor.

- Patron, I found the key
witness, the Gendreaux maid,

she can swear that d'Anseval
was in the house last night

- You found her?

- Well Lapointe did to begin with,

he was trying to conceal her
in his sister's apartment

- Bring her in.

- Right, Patron.

Come along, in you come.

Patron, Germaine Du Bare

She used to let d'Anseval
in through a private door

that led to Lise's suite.

- Did you let him in last night?

Who brought him”

Did Monsieur Gendreaux pay
you to keep this quiet?

- I didn't know it was wrong, Monsieur.

- Get her statement.

- A pleasure, Patron

- Will I go to prison?

- Not if you're a good girl

and tell the truth to that nice officer.

- Thank you, Monsieur.

- Come along

(feet tapping)

- Now, I'l have it

- Yeah, Bob was there, I took him.

- He was Lise Gendreaux's lover, yes”

- And how, I used to drop him off there

two or three nights a week.

Her brother wasn't supposed
to know, but he did

- How do you know that?

- Bob told me, the whole dirty trick

The idea was to get Lise
so infatuated with Bob

that she'd run off and get married

- He agreed to this?

- He couldn't help it,

Gendreaux had the scissors on
him for some forged checks

He could put him in
jail any time he wanted

- Checks!

- I hope this makes sense to you, Patron

- Yes, it's beginning to

It's been a fight for power,
Gendreaux and his sister,

by any means he could

to stop her getting control
of the family empire

And there's only one way he could do that,

by marrying her off before she was 25

He found the right man, d'Anseval,

someone already in his power.

- And the forged checks

- Hmm, and last night Lapointe
did stumble on something,

same kind of a showdown
between the three of them.

- You think the sister found out

and shot d'Anseval?

- Maybe, d'Anseval's dead
and the sister's in America.

There's only one man who can tell us

- [Louis] Chief Inspector
Maigret, Monsieur

- Come in, gentlemen.

(feet tapping)

- Monsieur, we have reason to believe

that Count Robert d'Anseval
was in this house last night

- Louis?

I think you'd better stay.

- Also that he met his death here,

have you anything to say on that?

- Yes, I hope it won't disappoint you.

I'm afraid that I was
less than frank with you

this afternoon, Inspector.

I knew about d'Anseval

and his clandestine visits to my sister

I was horrified and
determined to stop them

Well, d'Anseval just laughed at me,

and then the means came into my hands

to force him to break the liaison.

{drawer clanking)

These forged checks which he had outed,

(drawer banging)

unfortunately I made the mistake of

letting d'Anseval see where I kept them.

Louis, I think you'd better tell the rest.

- It was last night,
Monsieur, about one o'clock,

I hadn't gone to bed because I was waiting

for Monsieur Felicien.

He sometimes needs help

I was in my kitchen and heard a noise

from Monsieur Richard's study

I had this gun.

- Your own?

- It belonged to Mademoiselle Lise,

she had given it to me to clean.

- Goon.
(gun clicking)

- I came in here with the gun in my hand,

the room was in darkness.

But I saw a figure against the window,

he was breaking into the desk, Monsieur

- As you can see, Inspector,

it was the purest misadventure

My butler mistook the Count for a burglar,

which indeed he was.

- You concealed his death
from the police, Monsieur

- Louis is a old and faithful servant.

He was trying to protect me

I've tried in my time to protect him

And I must admit that I
was afraid of starting

an unsavoury scandal in
respect of my sister

That much I must confess.

- Lucas, take the faithful
servant to the car,

we'll get his statement at headquarters.

- After you, Monsieur.

- What will happen to him?

- With good lawyers, nothing.

- He'll have them.

I presume you'll require
these as evidence?

- Thank you, Monsieur.

And what hold do you have over Louis?

More forgeries, or something worse?

Would have to be quite big, wouldn't it,

to make him take the blame
for his master's crime.

- You're wrong, Inspector,

I didn't kill d'Anseval.

- No, I think your sister did,

but I think she meant the bullet for you

- That's correct.

(feet padding)

(door clicking)

You see, Inspector, in choosing
d'Anseval I made a mistake

and it's curious,

because I was sure I knew his price.

But d'Anseval was a forger,
a drunk, penniless waster

but when it came to the pinch,

d'Anseval, the shreds
that a man would cling to

when he's thrown away everything else

Would you believe it, Inspector,

he had a fortune within his grasp,

and he knew I could send him
to prison for these checks

But the price wasn't big enough.

Suddenly he had to be
afflicted with pride,

and he betrayed me.

- [Maigret] To your sister?

- Yes.

Louis called me last night,

it was about one o'clock this morning,

and said my sister wanted
to see me in her room.

When I went in she was
pointing a gun at me

d'Anseval was grinning,
thought she was play acting

When he saw that she wasn't,

he tried to get the gun away from her,

you might say that he
died to save my life

- I could arrest your
sister for manslaughter

- In the face of Louis' confession?

- He could be made to retract.

- Don't count on that.

- Why have you told me all this”?

- Because it pleases me that
you should know the truth

And to know that there
is nothing on this earth

that you can do about it

- Don't count on that either, Monsieur.

And remember, Monsieur Gendreau,

that in your jungle there
are other forms of justice

(dramatic music)

{Gendreaux puffing)

(door clicking)

(lighthearted music)

(door clicking)

{door banging)

Well, I've seen the public prosecutor.

- What happened?

{file slamming)

I know how you feel, Lapointe,

but I'm afraid there's very
little more that we can do.

- [Lapointe] What?

- I told him the whole story,

he listened very
patiently, and then he said

in the face of Louis' confession

there's no case against
Gendreaux or his sister

that will stand up in court

- But we know Louis had nothing
to do with the shooting

- Ah, we know, what proof have we got?

None.

Louis will go for trial, but

as he was apparently protecting
his master's property,

I suppose he'll get off.

- And so he should.

But Gendreau, can he
really get away with it?

- Well, has he?

Look at it this way,

there's one thing that
Gendreaux wants from this life,

power, complete personal
control of his empire,

and now he's lost it.

That sister of his,
she's always hated him,

and now she'll never let him forget

what he tried to do to her.

Can't you see them,

facing each other across
the family board table

with hate in their eyes

What did her father say,
like blood to a tiger

Ah-ha, my money will be on the female

Oh no, Gendreaux hasn't won,

his punishment's still
to come, and he knows it

In fact, I wouldn't be in his shoes now

for all the grocer shops in France

- Yeah, I see what you mean

{match sparking)

- What worries me is,
you've tasted power now