All language subtitles for Maigret S04E10 Another World_Track03-eng

(tense jazz music)

(bottle clatters)

- Oh, I don't want to die.

I don't want to die.

(Palmieri gasps)

- Countess?

- [Palmieri] Jules, Jules

- Countess.

- [Countess] Please, I've
taken pills, but I don't want

to die, please don't let me diel

- No, no Countess, you, you won't die

You mustn't die and not
in the Medici Hotel.

Ah, hello

(dramatic foreboding music)

{match rasps)

{lilting theme music)

- 10th District, Countess Irina Palmieri,

attempted suicide, taken
to the American Clinic.

Right.

04:05 hours.

Central?

- P-A-L-M, Palmieri, yes I've got it

Another barbiturate job, eh?

Medici Hotel, very nice too

She's dead, is she?

She's not?

Then what's the point of waking me up?

Let's all go back to bed, shall we?

{lively orchestral music)

- Ah, good morning, patron

- [Maigret] Good morning, Lucas

- We're in business, as usual

One stabbing in the Rue Bernard,

a jeweller raided on the Boulevard Murat,

Dutch tourist shaken down
in the Place Blanche

and one watery suicide
from the Pont Alexandre.

- Calm night, what's
happened to this town?

Anything else”

(Lucas chuckles)

- Only your expenses

- Good, good

- Queried.

- What, what?

- Whom by?

- By Lespinasse

- Look at all this, horrible green ink

"Please supply further details

"of the exceptional circumstances

"that demanded use of a taxi,
Pont Neuf, June the 3rd

{Lucas laughs)

(phone rings)

(Maigret sighs)

More details, what does he
expect for three francs?

- Chief Inspector Maigret's office

Yes, he is.

Who is it?

I see, hold on

It's for you, it's the Medici.

- Whois it?

- Gilles, the manager, he sounds
upset about some accident

- Hello, Monsieur Gilles

- Inspector, would it be
possible for you to come here?

Yes, ta a guest in the hotel, Colonel Ward

and it seems as he was taking his bath.

{ominous music)

I have sent for the doctor.

I prefer not to say more on the telephone,

but serious, very serious.

- All right Monsieur Gilles,
I'll be over in a few minutes.

Colonel Ward, in his bath. he sounds dead

- What, the man with all the wives?

- And all the millions, come on

It'll help me to get a
perspective on my three francs

- [Lucas] Thank you

{jaunty music)

(slow jazz music)

- The doctor is here now.

- Who's this?

- Jules, the night veaiter,
he found Colonel Ward.

- I came in with the coffee.

I had to train my hands

I saw him.

- [Gilles] He must've slipped

- Well tough to say.

- Well let the water rise.

- I did, there was no point.

His head was under it.

- Any marks of bruising on the skull

- No.

- Nor here?

- No, that was the first
thing I looked for

- So, he didn't slip

(toilet flushes)

Thin walls these luxury
hotels, was the water cold?

- [Frere] Yes, he was in if all night

- In water or whisky?

- You're right, well what
do you suppose doctor,

heart failure on top of alcohol.

- Possibly, he's the type

I didn't attend him of
course, but there are

these bruises on the fore
part of the shoulder

- Yes.

- Held under. you think?

- That's for you to stay

(phone rings)

- Don't answer that.

Oh nevermind.

- Monsieur Arnold?

- Who's that, Gilles?

I asked for the Colonel.

- Just one moment, it's Monsieur Arnold

- Who is he?

- The Colonel's man of affairs.

He lives at the Hotel Scribe.

- Ask him to come over.

- [Arnold] Gilles, hello, what's a matter.

- You can tell him.

- Monsieur, would you please come here

The Colonel is dead.

- What, I'l come at once

- Did you see the Colonel
at all last night?

- Yes, Monsieur, he rang for some drink,

a bottle of whiskey on
two bottles of champagne

- Did he drink both?

- No bottles around here.

- It was to the Countess' room.

The champagne was for the Countess

- Room 342, the Countess Palmieri

- What time was this?

- Two o'clock, monsieur.

- Lucas, go and see if
she's slept it off yet

- She's not there, monsieur.

She was taken ill during the
night, an unfortunate accident.

- Another one.

- An overdose of sleeping
tablets, monsieur,

she's been taken to the
American Clinic at Neuilly

- Check with them Lucas and
whistle up the technical boys

Lapointe had better stand by too

- [Lucas] Right.

- All right, show me the countess' room

will ya, and you better come too.

- Get me the American Clinic
at Neuilly, police, urgent

(engaging dramatic music)

- I'm not quite sure why she

left all her jewellery lying there.

- Why wasn't this attempted
suicide reported to the police?

- But it was, Inspector,
I telephoned myself.

- Nevermind then.

- We've had this sort of
thing before unfortunately

- What were the Colonel and the Countess

doing when you brought the drinks in?

- Talking, Monsieur

- [Maigret] What about?

- Monsieur, one does not hear
the guest's conversations

- Ch, Mr. Gilles, would you release him

from his vow of silence?

- Tell the inspector all you know

- She was crying, monsieur.

- [Maigret] And the colonel?

- He was smiling

He began to open the bottles
and then he sent me away.

As I left-

- [Maigret] Yes, go on

As I left the Countess cried,
"Forgive me, forgive me."

She said it so loud, Monsieur Gilles

before I could close the door.

- Is the Countess in any of these photos

- Yes, that is the
Countess with the Colonel.

- Were they lovers?

Oh, I know, one does not overhear
the guest's conversation

(light music)

- Yes, 347, third floor, all right”?

- That's about all I can do here.

His own doctor can give
you a general report

I must be on my rounds

- Thank you very much
for your help. Dr. Frere

- Not at all

- Who did we have on duty last night?

- Last night, Torrance

- Well, the Countess should
have been on his report

And how is she?

- Sitting up, bad headache

- Get over there, Lucas, and
see what she's got to say

- Right.

- Get Torrance back in
the office, will ya?

I'll wait here for Lapointe.

- Good.

You don't suppose a
wornan could've done that?

He's a pretty big man

- A woman can do anything

- You can say that again

(mysterious jazz music)

- Monsieur Arnold?

- Yes, can I help you?

- Chief Inspector
Maigret. criminal police

- Was that necessary?

Where is he?

- He's slipped of course

I was always afraid of
something like this

- Why?

- It's no secret David drank heavily.

He'd have the best part of
a bottle in him by bedtime

- You know him well?

- I've been David's assistant

and intimate friend for 20 years

I served under him in the war.

This accident is a terrible blow.

- This was no accident.

- You must be wrong

- He was held under.

Look, the marks on the
body leave no doubt of it

- I can't believe it, it's appalling

When did it happen?

- Late last night

- [Arnold] A burglar, a thief, perhaps?

- Is anything missing?

- Well he kept most of his things here,

cigarette case, watch, links, no.

- Money?

- [Amold] He never had any, it was a fad

He signed for everything, even taxes

- What about this?

- I hadn't noticed, a
gift I suppose for Irina,

Countess Palmieri, does she know of this?

- Probably, she tried to
commit suicide in the night.

- Irina?

But, that's impossible

I must go back to my hotel

There are some urgent
calls I have to make.

He has a son at Cambridge
and there are the lawyers

They must be informed

- Oh, one moment, Monsieur.

Why did you telephone
the Colonel this moming?

- It was a standing call,
every morning for instructions

- I see.

- Shares, whatever
business he had in hand.

I was his personal assistant,
I handled everything

- Wouldn't it have been easier

if you lived in the same hotel?

- Easier, yes, but David preferred

to keep his business and
his private life separate

- You mean he ran his
whole business from here?

- It fitted his way of life

David had houses in
London and in the country,

flats in Paris, Nice, Rome,
New York, Rio, and a yacht

He preferred hotels

I'm sorry, I find it difficult.

You must understand Inspector,
David was a very unusual man

- Yes, he had an unusual number
of wives for an Englishman

- Actually only three

They were outnumbered by
his unofficial liaisons.

- What is the Countess, Italian?

- Russian, she married an Italian

- I see.

Now, will you tell me something

about some of these
people she's with here”?

- Well, that's her with
David aboard the Zantibe.

That's Jeff, Jeff van Meulen,
Belgian Chemical Industries

He was her second husband.

- [Maigret] Ah, I see.

- [Arnold] And that's Paul of course?

- First husband?

- Paul of Albania.

- Oh, and what about this one?

- Oh, that's her first
husband, Marce Palmieri

- [Maigret] I've seen him somewhere.

- [Amold] I daresay,
he plays a lot of polo

- [Maigret] Just a minute,
who's this with Marco?

- [Arnold] Muriel and David's third wife,

his widow I suppose

- I see.

Well now, here's one with the Countess,

and David, and Marco, and
Jeff van Meulen, and Muriel

They all seem very happy about it.

Well, that's my simple mind I suppose

Was the Colonel on good
terms with all his ex-wives?

- Excellent, you won't find a clue there

- Who gets the money”

- [Arnold] His son, all of it.

- Nothing for his wives?

- They were provided for.

- [Maigret] What about the Countess?

- Not a penny

- And yourself?

- In lieu of that question, I
better anticipate your next

You would like to know
where I was when David died?

- Well, it's always helpful ta eliminate

- I imagine I was here at the Medici

- [Maigret] I thought you
lived at the Hotel Scribe?

- I dined here last
night with Jock Hansen,

the Texan oilman, he's staying here

Then we got into a poker
game, there were two others

We played til about four in Hanson's room.

Then I went back to the Scribe.

- I see, thank you, Monsieur

And what about all these
people, where have they been at?

- Well now, Jeff van Meulen
will be at Monte Carlo.

He more or less lives in his yacht

Muriel, I have no idea,
somewhere in Switzerland,

and Marco is wherever Anna is.

- Anna, who's Anna?

- Anna de Groot, Margerie

Now, if you'll excuse me

- Thank you

Would any of these peaple
benefit by the Colonel's death”?

- You're on the wrong track, Inspector

I doubt whether David had
an enemy in the world

- Oh, well who killed
him, a candid friend?

{tense dramatic music)

- Yes I am still here, I've
been here for the last 14 hours.

What, he hasn't been in yet

What's it all about anyway?

Well didn't you tell him
I've been up all night?

He's just arrived.

Good moming, patron

Always on tap when I'm wanted that's me

- [Maigret] Torrance.

- Is anything wrong?

- Was there an attempted suicide

in your report last night at the Medici

- Yes, Countess something
or other, room 342

- Yeah, well they had a murder
at the same time, room 347

You can thank your lucky stars

wie knows where to find
your suicidal Countess

- She was sick.

We don't usually cover-

- Quiet.

Yes. Lucas, can she speak?

- Well, I wouldn't be
surprised, she's gone

- [Maigret] What?

- Vanished, must've been just

after I rang, clean as a whisker

{terminal announcements voiced)

{suspenseful music)

She made four calls from the clinic

between 8:00 and 8:30,
all to the same number,

etoile 2132, all no reply,
it's an apartment belonging

to a Count Marco Palmieiri, husband?

- Ex-husband.

- Ah, another at 8:30 to Monte Carlo

- Well, that will be Jeff van Meulens,

that's her second ex-husband.

- Oh, change is as good
as the rest I suppose,

and one at nine o'clock
to the Hotel Medici

asking for a Mademoiselle de Groot.

The call was refused.

- Anna de Groot, is she staying there.

- Apparently.

- Well in that case, Marco won't be

very far away if I can
trust Monsieur Arnold.

Well, I'm going back to the hotel

Where is Torrance now?

- [Lucas] Last heard cut hunting

for clues on the Countess at Neuilly.

- Well if he finds one, put him through

- [Lucas] I will.

(smooth jazz music)

- [Lapointe] Ah, they've just taken

him out, patron, the service entrance

- Well, in at the front, out at the back

There's a moral in that somewhere.

I see Mewes has been thorough as usual

- Oh, patron, I've found your Texan oil.

- Monsieur Gilles, please

Really, Jock Hansen?

- Yeah.

- Where is he?

- He's staying in the suite next door

- Next door?

- Yeah.

- Yes, just a moment

Will you ask him to step for a minute”?

- Right.

- Hello, Mr. Gilles, Maigret

Can you tell me if you a Ms
Anna de Groot staying here?

She's left, when?

I see, all right, it
doesn't matter, thank you

- Hey, what's going on here”

What's this all about?

I'm a busy man.

Are you the head man here,
maybe you'll tell me-

- Jock Hansen?

- Yeah.

- Chief Inspector
Maigret, Criminal Justice.

- Criminal?

Oh, listen, if it's about that hassle

in the Champs-Elysees last night,

all that happened was this taxi driver.

- No, no, monsieur, it's something

that happened in the hotel.

- Here?

- In your suite

- Nothing happened in my suite

- A poker game?

- Well yeah, I got in a game
with Todd Pelham, the actor,

and his agent Jerry Shire,
and some Englishman

- Monsieur Arnold?

- Yeah, I think that's his name

- Is that him?

- Yeah, that's the one.

Say, what is he a con”

- [Maigret] Should he be

- Well he took $8,000 off me, that's all

- [Maigret] 8,000, you played late?

- No, no, we broke up about four.

Todd has to watch his wrinkles.

- Monsieur Amold was
there the whole time?

- Yeah, certainly was

Oh, I guess we all left the room

for about a minute or so
if you know what I mean

Say, did I let that limey
take me for a sucker?

- Oh, I didn't think so, Monsieur

Well, thank you very much for your help.

- Well that's okay

Hell, it isn't the money,
it's the smooth way he did it

"Better luck next time, old chap."

How can you win against a face like that

{Hansen laughs gleefully)

- $8,000, oh, Lapointe,
it's another world

These people aren't like us.

They don't live, they have
servants to do it for them.

That's why they live in
hotels, it's simpler

You see, wanna be fed, press a button

You wanna car, press a button

You wanna another wife, press a button

and suppose one day
nobody answers the bell

I supposed you'd die

(phone rings)

Maigret.

- [Lucas] Patron, I found the taxi man

- What taxi man.

- The one that took the Countess to Orly

She hadn't any money so
she gave him a watch

- The airport, I should've thought.

She's gone off to see van Meulen

{tense dramatic music)

- Ah, patron, she's an a jet
heading for Nice, just made it

- Didn't you try to stop her?

- Too late, I telephoned Nice

She met by a large car and drove

in the direction of Monte Carlo.

- Gone to see van Meulen.

What time's the next flight?

2:20, you have three minutes

I'll put you on the plane,
come to the barrier.

- Call my wife, I don't when I'll be back

- Right.

- Oh, have you got any money?

- Some.

- Give it to me all.

Try to get hold of Marco Palmieri.

He's with Anna de Groot somewhere.

- Dutch Embassy.

- Yes, they might know

- [Airport Liaison] Inspector!

- Coming!

And call the Hotel Scribe, I wanna know

all the calls that
Arnold made this morning

He was so forthcoming I think
he must be hiding something

- Right, anything else

- Yes, get that three
francs from Lespinasse

- Bon voyage

(intrepid jazz music)

(aircraft hums)

{lively jazz music)

(jazzy Mediterranean music)

- Gently enough, Carlo, I'l dress now,

and now, Maigret, we can talk

What can I tell you?

Mr. Van Leuven, I have follovsed
the Countess all the way

from Paris to Monte
Carlo and now to Cannes.

Now, where are you hiding her?

- The Palace Hotel, Lausanne

- Switzerland now?

You must've known that the
police wanted to speak to her

- Consider, Maigret, she
telephoned me this morning

from Paris, she's ill, she's
dying, she has no money,

no one to turn to except her papa

- Papa?

- Ah, you understand, I'm her Papa

- Aha.

- I tell her, "Take the first plane here."

I meet her, she is hysterical.

She cries out to me a crazy
story of finding David

murdered in his bath in
the middle of the night

- Did she say murdered”

- She was incoherent
perhaps, the word was dead

Could I throw her to the
police in the state she was in?

I have a heart and she's such
a charming creature, charming

- [Maigret] When did you marry her?

- I married Irina, how long
ago, Carlos, six years?

Six, Marco had just run off
again for the third time

and this was the end, absolutely the end,

hysterics, tears, a threat of suicide

She cries on papa's shoulders
and what shall she do?

He has left her, she is
penniless, this pair

- len't Marco rich?

- Marco.

(Van Meulen scoffs in laughter)

Poor as a mouse, all he has is a,

well never mind, so Papa says,

"Marry me, it seems the simple solution.”

A charming woman, but in a year,

Marco crawls back again on his knees,

more tears, more hysterics,
she can't live without him.

What shall she do?

So again, Papa find a solution.

Divorce me, marry Marco

But in fact she didn't,
why, she had him back

She was in love.

- When did Colonel Ward come on the scene?

- He never exactly left
it if you follow me

David had just started
his divorce with Muriel

when Marco runs off again, this time Anna

{horn blares)

- Ah, Anna de Groot, the Dutch Margerie

- Oh, you know her, very rich

This time it is inconvenient for Papa

So David takes possession

Oh, it was nothing new you understand

- Telephone for the inspector

- Telephone here

- Oh, the radio

- Ah, haha, excuse me

Hello, Maigret.

- Hello, patron, can you hear me?

The Hotel Scribe didn't keep the numbers,

but Amold made four long-distance calls

to Cambridge, London,
Zurich, hello, hello?

Are you there?

The marvels of science,
and Cannes, oh, and one

this afternoon to the Hotel Lausanne.

- He made a call to Lausanne?

Are you sure?

No. no, never mind

No. I missed the Countess,
I'll ring you later

from Switzerland, from Switzerland!

Au revoir.

You were saying, Monsieur,
David took possession

Now, was he gonna marry the Countess?

- No, David were 63 and a very wise man.

- Was she expecting to marry him

- That was a hope shared by many women.

- I see, you mean hope was blighted

Did they bear any grudge against him?

- Always the detective, huh?

No, David was very skilled
at avoiding trouble,

oh, with Arnold's timely help.

- Are you telling me that Monsieur Arnold

took over Colonel Ward's women?

- They hardly noticed the
transition from master to servant.

It was Amold's most priceless talent

- Is he taking over the Countess?

- I don't know.

- Oh, well I'l find
out, thank you, Monsieur

- The boat for Monsieur Maigret

Allow me.

Be gentle with her, Maigret.

A child believe me, capable
of any folly, but murder?

- Au revoir Monsieur.

(boat hums)

{suspenseful jazz music)

- But Countess, I, yes, Countess

Yes, of course, I will
deliver your message

The Countess regrets
she's unable to see you

She says she is unwell

- What is her room number?

- She is a guest of the hotel, Monsieur

- Very nice too, what a pity

if we had to extradite her from yours

- Number 133.

- Thank you

Ore other thing, I want
a list of all calls

that she's made or received
since she came here

- [Receptionist] I'll inquire, Monsieur.

{melodic jazz music)

{door knocks)

{buzzer beeps)

- I told you, [am ill.

What is it you want?

- Now, now, Countess

Let's not be foolish I'm
sure you know why I'm here

- Yes, I know.

You see Papa van Meulen,
you think I killed David

He was good, he was my friend

I would not kill him.

I would not hurt him, never

- Now, shall we just
start at the beginning?

How long did you knew Colonel Ward?

- Two years.

- He's much older than you
wasn't he, 63, and you are?

- lam 40.

- [Maigret] Did you love him?

- He was my friend

What do you know about love, you”?

- Were you faithful to him?

- Yes, I told you, I
would not hurt him, never.

- Then why did you need his forgiveness?

Or I'l try guessing, you're 40

That is the time when
you don't look forward

to the days to come anymore, it's the time

you start dreading them
you've had an unsettled life

You wanted security and your best hope

in achieving that was
in marriage te David

But David was old and
wise, so in desperation

you turned where all his women
turn in the end, to Arnold

David saw through that

{glass crashes)

(Ivana sobs hysterically)

- How can you understand?

It was he who wanted to marry me.

- The Colonel?

- He was tired, he was old,
he wanted a home to die in.

You will never understand.

- I'm beginning to

Less of course, the ring
and the old flame Marco.

- I saw him.

I saw Marco last night

David took me to a restaurant.

It was a special dinner.

He asked me to marry him.

He said he is only waiting
til he is free of Muriel

and I say yes, yes, I will marry him,

then we go to a cabaret
and there is dancing,

and Marco was there dancing
with that fat Dutch pig

He saw me or I smelled and I knew,

I knew I could not marry David

He took me back to the hotel
and I give him back his ring

I tried to explain, I
begged his forgiveness

Then, he kissed me and he went away

My heart was broken.

I say, "No, I cannot do this
thing," and I got it wrong

{Irina sobs)

- [Maigret] And then
the pills and the drama

Why did you run away?

- Because I had nowhere, I had no one

Do you know what it is to be alone,

to grow old, without money without love?

Only Papa finally understood, only Papa

- [Maigret] Did you know
Colonel Ward was murdered?

- No, no.

- [Maigret] Why did Arnold
telephone you in here?

- He didn't, he didn't

- [Maigret] To warn you that the police

suspected you of murder wasn't it?

- No, nol

- Countess, as this is
Switzerland, I can't force you

to return without an extradition warrant,

but I'm catching a plane
to Paris in the morning

and if you're sensible, you will be on it

(dramatic jazz music)

Can you get me this number, please

and I'd like a room for the night

- But Monsieur, the hotel is fully booked

at this time of the year

- I'm sure I can rely on you, Monsieur.

- There was one call to
the countess, Monsieur,

just after she arrived, from Cannes

- Only from Cannes, nothing from Paris?

Are you sure?

- Quite sure, one call from Cannes

- Your call from Paris, Monsieur

You can take it in box one.

- Hello, Lucas, huh, no I'm not
doing any more flying today

My head's buzzing already.

Has "The Balloon" gone up yet?

- And how, "Murder at the Medici,"

"Suicides on the Stock
Exchange," ete, efc, etc

Ch, and Monsieur Phelps,
Phelps, Dugard, and Phelps

have descended on Paris with colonel's son

and two of his ex-wives and their lawyers

- I wonder what's keeping the third

How about Marco?

No, keep trying

Yes, I've seen the Countess

Either she is a most marvellous liar

or she's completely innocent.

I'm bringing her back to
Paris with me in the morning

Hold on a minute, Lucas

(engaging dramatic music)

Monsieur, is Mrs. Ward leaving the hotel?

- Yes, Monsieur, she is catching
the night plane to Paris

- How long has she been a guest here?

- Almost a year, she is one

of the lonely ladies of Lausanne

- Huh?

- These are what they call themselves

The ladies will stay here while they're

getting a divorce, (speaks
foreign language) but longer

Now she's free, she's off.

Do you wish to speak to her, Monsieur

Perhaps her taxi has not gone

- No, no, no, no, I want to
talk to her myself in Paris

Lucas, you can expect Muriel Ward,

the colonel's third ex-wife
in about three hours.

Now, there's some things I want you to do

{lilting jazz music)

The Countess is returning
to the clinic, Torrance.

See that she gets there safely.

- Ch don't worry, patron, rely on me

{jaunty jazz music)

- You are a man of understanding,

with women it is always love, love,

but a man also eat, he has to make money

Irina, she thinks she can eat love,

but I, how can I make money, with this?

I am frank with myself.

There is nothing there, I know.

So, it must be with this, huh?

But I'll tell you, Inspector
I don't know like Margerie,

but this Irina doesn't understand.

- Ah, patron, allow me to
present Count Marco Palmieri,

captured at Deauville playing polo

He's a wonderful specimen,
he doesn't mind at all.

- I don't mind.

Inspector, this is the most terrible thing

in my life, my poor Irina, to take pills

My friend David, I hear only when I'm

in Deauville over it was Anna.

- That would put him right off his stroke

- Right off it

- Was he at the Medici?

- Room 203, with Mademoiselle de Groot

- That is my honour, Margerie

- He left at six o'clock, he
went back to his apartment,

he changed, he was back at
the hotel with Mademoiselle,

left again nine, alibi
checked and cleared.

- Well in that case, Count, I suggest

that cut polo for the day
and go to American Clinic,

where your poor Irina
is in need of comfort

- Oh, of need of comfort, of course

I go at once.

I must explain, yesterday at Deauville,

Anna and I we marry, it was necessary,

but how can I tell Irina,
believe me, Inspector

I love Irina but she does not understand.

No polo today

{Lucas laughs)

- How the other half live.

Oh, here's the type you wanted,

first edition from ward doctor.

He had a bad heart.

- I see, acute cardiac
condition, several years,

first examined this patient
in March, six months to live.

March, well, that's six months ago.

- I wonder if the doctor killed
him to prove his diagnosis?

And the letter from Ward's lawyers,

you were right about the divorce.

- Did Mrs. Ward get there safely”?

- Yes, she's at the Medici

They were full to the
roof, only two rooms left,

the Colonel's and the Countess',

so they put her in the Countess'.

- They put her in the Countess' room?

Well, good, good. that helps

Has she been in touch with anybody else?

- Not yet.

- Now we know why Colonel Ward was killed

Let's see if we can find out how.

(mysterious jazz music)

(bathwater runs)

- You mind telling me when
I can use my own bathroom?

- Shh, shh, shh.

{water drips)

(wall knocks)

- [Torrance] All right, he's dead

- Well, how'd we do?

- 20 seconds, now we know

{lively jazz music)

{door knocks)

-Comein.

You can start clearing away now

- That's what I was hoping to do

- I thought that was the maid.

- Mrs. Ward-

- Who are you, what are
you doing in my room

- Chief Inspector
Maigret, Criminal Justice.

- ¥What, oh yes, of course,
I should have expected

I suppose you want to talk
about my late husband's death

- [Maigret] When did you hear about it?

- Last night, his lawyer's
phoned me a man called Phelps

I caught the night plane.

It was the most terrible shock.

Of course you know that
David and I were estranged

I don't think there's
anything I can tell you

It was all a dreadful mystery.

I guess it must've been a burglary.

- You share Monsieur Arnold's view.

Still you never know when some

little thing might through some light

Nowy, you've been out of the
way sometime, haven't you?

- I've been living in
Switzerland near a year

- Ore of the lonely ladies of Lausanne

- You've been boning up on me

- [Maigret] Why did it
take so long, the divorce”?

- David married me in Switzerland,

I had to divorce him there, it suited me

- [Maigret] In what way”?

- I can't hurt him now.

I guess you know so much already

You must've found out
about David and money

- Was there some quarrel
about the settlement?

- Oh, you didn't quarrel with David

You just left that to his
lawyers and Jack Arnold

Anyhow, it was only a
little matter of details

just a question of the dots
and dashes, only the dots

were the sorts you put on
checks between the figures

Oh, someone has to pay for all this.

Listen, when I first
met David I was singing

in the Sunset Room, Chicago, if I wanted

my old job back now I'd
have to buy the place

Look at Dorothy, that's his
first wife, back at Hartnell's.

Vera, teaching debs in the
Bunny Club, that's not for me

So, teams of lawyers
arguing for months in Swiss,

David sticking to his
principles and me to mine

- Which included sables?

- Right.

- I salute your principles Mrs. Ward

Well, that's good, very good,
but it's not good enough

- What do you mean”

- [Maigret] I mean that you meant

to have sables but that isn't
how you meant to get them

You were waiting for your husband to die

- You're
Cri
az
yl

- He was under sentence of death.

His doctor had only given him

six months to live and you knew that.

- What are you talking about?

How should I know that?

- Ch, come, Mrs. Ward, the way

you knew everything, Arnold told you

He telephoned you in Lausanne fo tell you

that the divorce had just
come through, but by that time

he'd made sure that you
were already a widow

with a legal claim to
half the Colonel's estate.

- Why?

Why should Amold do a
think like that for me?

{door knocks)

- Come in, Monsieur Arnold

- I had a message to come

Mrs. Ward.

I thought, your assistant said-

- A small confusion, you
expected to see the Countess?

- I didn't know you were in Paris, Muriel

This is a dreadful time for us.

David was my friend, it's a terrible blow

I don't know whether it's any consolation,

you wouldn't have known, but
David was a very sick man

He hid it well, but I knew
he hadn't long to live.

That's no consolation.

I was wondering how to
get in touch with you

I believe Jeff is coming to the funeral

- All right, Monsieur
Arnold, the cards are down

I know how you killed Colonel Ward.

- I already told you, I was
in a poker game with Hansen,

I have three witnesses,
I never left the table.

- Oh, come Monsieur Armold,
in four hours drinking

and playing you must have
left the table at least once.

The Ward's bathroom has a
party wall with Hansen's

You heard Ward get into the bath

Then you took a moment to think

of the decree that would
be made final the next day

The divorce, that would have came to soon,

that was going to rob Mrs
Ward and you of a fortune

There are two doors to the bathroom.

It takes eight seconds to
get from Hansen's bathroom

to Ward's, eight there and eight back,

and eight back again. and how many seconds

does it take a man with
severe heart disease to die

when somebody's holding
his head under the water.

- You'll find it difficult to prove this

- I wouldn't count on
that Monsieur Arnold.

It will be difficult, but not impossible,

now that we know our man
and how the crime was done.

- And the small thing like motive

- You're looking at it

I wouldn't count on her either.

You see, she's got the money now

She doesn't need you.

- That's not true, Muriel.

I didn't kill David, he was my friend.

- You can almost hear what she's thinking

She could deny that you
were ever her lover,

but suppose we dragged her into court

and prove that she was lying?

On the other hand, she could
admit that you were her lover

but nothing else, and she
could throw you to the wolves

and stand a good chance
of keeping the lot

Which do you think she'll
choose, Monsieur Arnold?

Money or love?

- Muriel.

- Yes, we were lovers

I was gonna marry him when I was free.

That's why he helped me

All I wanted was my right, a bit of money,

a shred of clothing, I didn't
knows what he was planning

I didn't know that David was dying!

You heard him say that,
but he knew, he knew.

He was after David's money.

He was gonna get it all, all through mel

You devil, you killed
him, you killed David!

Murderer, murderer!

{tense dramatic music)

- [Lucas] It's like trying
to get blood out of stone

- Nothing yet?

You've had him four hours.

- Not a word, he's gone completely dumb

- Well, that's a good sign

- I hope you're right

- Yeah, she'll wait til
the message sinks in

He'll be sick with revenge, then he'll try

to drag her down with him, and he'll talk

and he'll give himself away,
then we'll have 'em both.

(siren blares)

Go ahead.

- [Lapeinte] Patron, I've got the count

and countess here and
they want to see you

Huh, all right, throw 'em in.

I wonder which countess.

- You see, Inspector, we have come

We have come fo thank you.

- What for?

- What for, you have
brought us together again,

me and my Irina, we are
so, (lips smack), happy

- Oh, thank God, this is for you

I mean I've come to tell you the first.

We are too be married.

- What again, what about Anna”

- What about, oh that is
simple, that is nothing

We make a divorce, Anna she
will understand and then.

(speaks foreign language)

- All we need now is the music.