All language subtitles for Maigret S04E12 Peter the Lett_Track03-eng

{announcer speaking)

- That's our man.

- Are you sure, patron?

He's got a beard

- He can't fool me.

Tallies exactly with
Interpol's description

- [Torrance] Well, do we take him in”?

- Take him in?

Don't be so crude, Torrance.

Peter the Lett is a very
successful swindler.

We can only handle the unsuccessful ones

- Well, what do we do then?

- Do?

Make him unsuccessful.

("Maigret Theme")

{people talking)

- Monsieur.

- Police.

- I imagined so

- The book.

Who is Peter Oppenheimer from Amsterdam?

- A ship owner.

Do you wish to see him”?

- No, just his passport

- He's well-known to
us, a regular visitor

- Thank you

Allright, Torrance, make
yourself comfortable

- Here?

- Why not?

The Majestic has a reputation for comfort

I'll be in my office.

- Yes, patron.

- We also have a
reputation for discretion

- And what is your beer like?

- Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria

even Luxembourg

All Peter the Lett.

- Where do Letts come from?

- Latvia.

- I wish this fellow'd go back there.

- Latvia's in Russia now.

- Well, I still wish he'd go back

He has half the police forces in Europe

warning me about him

There's not one solitary
piece of evidence

- [Lucas] What's his specialty?

- Forging checks on
millionaires' accounts.

He's only been arrested
once and that was in Madrid.

And then, they had to let him go

Still, they got a full description
and two good photographs

- The passport must be fake, surely

- How do we know?

Perhaps Oppenheimer really is his name

Nope, you'll just have to hope

that he's come here to spend money

and not fo make it.

(piano music)

- Who's that with Oppenheimer?

- You don't study the papers

- Well, come on, who was it?

- Was Nikos Strophades?

- The millionaire?

- Millionaires work for him.

- Telephone

- Strophades?

Oh no.

No, no, no, no, don't do anything.

Just keep an eye on them.

Yes, I'm coming over

Lucas!

- [Lucas] Patron?

- Nikos Strophades is in Paris.

Oh, what have we done to deserve this?

He's lunching with our swindler

- Strophades?

Qil, eh?

- Yes, cars, and ships,

and big fat government contracts.

Well, if he's in trouble,
we're in trouble.

(phone ringing)

You take it, Lucas

I'm going over there.

- Lucas.

- Well then, it's been a pleasure.

Cognac.

- Monsieur Strophades

Police.

Well, I ought to warm you that

the person who've been lunching with

is known to us as Peter the Lett.

He's reputed te be an
international swindler.

- Thank you, inspector.

But I have my own ideas
about Mr. Oppenheimer.

- Would they interest me?

- There's an urgent telephone
call for you, inspector

- [Torrance] It's Lucas.

- Yes, Lucas

- The railway police at Garde du Nord

have found a body of a man in one

of the wash places at the
Amsterdam-Paris express

The same train Peter the
Lett arrived on this morning

(dramatic music)

- He's in there.

The cleaner found him
shot through the head

- Any weapon?

- By his hand, a gun

(dramatic music)

- Coincidence?

- No not coincidence.

Total impossibility

- I'l see if I can get
the meat waggon alongside

- Expensive haircut

Freshly manicured nails

He didn't go with these clothes, Lucas

I wonder who's wearing his

- Here is the room.

- Open it, please

- But monsieur, you have
no right without a warrant

to enter a guest's room in his absence

- Open it.

- You see, everything in order.

- Where's the floor waiter?

- He'll be here in a moment.

- I'm taking this for fingerprints

- But mons-

- You'll get it back

- Invasions like this by the police

can be fatal for a good hotel.

(knocking)

- Monsieur.

- This man is a police officer.

Answer his questions

- When did you last see
the occupant of this room?

- After lunch.

- Where?

- Entering this room.

- But you didn't see him leaving it?

- No.

- Where's the service entrance?

- Down the stairs at the
other end of the corridor.

- Pop down there, Torrance.

Perhaps somebody saw him leaving that way

- Yes, patron.

- Who else is on this floor?

- Only Monsieur Strophades in number 417,

but he's gone out.

- Anyone else”?

- [Hotel Manager] This
is the quiet season

- Let's hope it will remain so

- Hello.

- I'm glad of a spell
off duty, I can tell you

Every time I walk into that hotel,

my feet seem bigger.

- They couldn't be

- Well, the way that clerk looks at me,

you'd think I was on murderer

- Good deal you're not

You wouldn't like to
try this on would you?

- No, thank you

I'm superstitious

- Very sleek, very clean.

Ah, patron

- Torrance.

- Yes.

- Put that back where I
found it when you return

- Yes, yes, patron.

When will that be, patron?

- Now.

There were only his own
fingerprints on this gun,

and they don't correspond
to the fingerprints

on that cigarette case

Which means that there are two men

who could be Peter the Lett.

One of them is dead

and the other one's in
the dead man's clothes.

- Hello, hello, what's this?

Slipped through the lining

- A lock of hair?

- A woman's.

- This came from a photographer's studio,

I should say, wouldn't you?

- It looks like it.

- Studio Luxe.

Belge

Can you read that?

- [Lucas] It's a P, isn't it?

Le Portel.

- Le Portel?

Near Boulogne

Well, I hate the Channel
coast this time of the year.

- My lucky day

I'll send you a postcard

{bell chimes)

- Who is it?!

I'm sorry, we're closed today

- Pclice, madame

- What is it?

- Only routine

Can you tell me who's
photograph that could be?

- Well, is it ours?

- So it says

It's got some kind of number on it, too

- Yes, but it depends
on when it was taken.

If it's more than five
years, it may not be here

The previous owner took
all his negatives with him

- The name I had for the
previous owner was Swan

Are you Madame Swan?

- No, that was the previous owner

My husband bought this studio.

Our name is Johansson.

- You help him run it?

- Ne, no, I run it myself

My husband travels.

He's a businessman.

Where did you find this?

- [Lucas] Is that the negative?

- Yes, but tell me what's happened?

- [Lucas] May I see it, please?

- Please, I have a right to know

- [Lucas] A right?

- It is a picture of me

- What?

And it is, too

There was a lock of hair in here.

Blond hair.

Your hair?

- Only my husband could have that.

- May I see a photograph of your husband?

- I haven't got one

- Madame?

- He never likes to be photegraphed

He says it's unlucky

Please, tell me where you found this?

- In a dead man's pocket

- Peter?

No.

- [Lucas] Is that his
name, Peter Johansson?

- It can't be him.

He's alive.

He's travelling in Belgium,
Holland, on business

Soon he's coming home

- [Lucas] Can you describe him?

- Fair?

He has a fair moustache.

He speaks with a slight accent.

He's Swedish, you see

His clothes?

He's always very smart

Always expensive haircut.

Oh, I don't know

So difficult to describe someone.

But he can't be dead.

No.

- Are you alone here?

- There's our little daughter

- [Lucas] But no one else?

- What are you suggesting?

- Nothing, madame, nothing

- I love my husband

- Oh, but of course.

And there's no one else here?

- That's what I said.

- Not really.

Au revoir, madame.

(dramatic music)

- What have you done?

- Monsieur.

- Give me a calvados, please

- Monsieur.

- Thank you

(whispering)

You know him?

- Well, he comes in from time to time

He's always the same

- Do you know who he is?

- Him, he's forgotten himself.

- Where's your phone?

Give me a jeton.

(train whistle blows)

- You come with me.

Mr. Strophades waiting.

(dramatic music)

- [Torrance] Oh, patron

- What are you doing?

- I've just been having dinner.

Very nice, too

Oh, and a drop of cognac
for the digestion

- Whose idea is this?

- Well, it was the hotel's.

My face didn't fit the
furniture downstairs.

So, they suggested I come up here,

and laid on all this.

Oh, it's all right, Peter the Lett's room

is just across the corridor

- And you're supposed to
be watching him from here?

- Well, he's not there

It's all right, there's not a sign of him

But the Greek's room is next door.

Now, he's been in and then out again.

And now he's in again with a lady

{speaking in a foreign language)

- A lady”?

- Yes, well, she signed in
as Madame Strophades anyway

- Even millionaires have their troubles.

So have we?

- There no lead there?

- Three.

There's one dead man named Johansson,

who may have shot himself.

And there's another one like him

who you are supposed to be watching.

And another like him
who was seen loitering

in Le Portel this morning,

and Lucas succeeded In losing him

- Leave it to me, monsieur

{speaking in a foreign language)

- Yes, they have changed their minds

- Yes, okay

Mm-hm, yes, yes, I've got it.

Right.

Now then, Strophades have
just gone down to dinner

He's booked tickets for the
first night of the gymnase

but Madame Strophades wants to
go to this nightclub instead

- Good, he'll be safe enough for a bit.

- Patron, you know, I was looking out

of this window a bit earlier,

now, I reckon I could get into

the Greek's room along the ledge

Come have a look.

- No.

- Oh, but patron, look it's
just about wide enough

Now, if I was to take it slowly,

I could get in through the windows.

The Greek would never know.

- And start an international incident?

(phone ringing)

Maigret.

Yes, Lucas

- This man from Le Portel might be

in one of 500 different
hideouts in the district.

Do you want me to organise
a full-scale search?

What's that?

Watch a theatre?

Which theatre?

- They've also booked a
table at the Cyclops Club

Yeah, that's right

It's the one we raided last
menth for dope peddling

I think I'll take a look in there myself.

- Look, patron, I could easily get-

- No.

(car horn blows)

(keys jangling)

- Hello, hello, hello

Come on, come on, come on.

Hello, desk?

Get me the Cyclops Club, quick!

(sultry music)

- Like to buy me a drink?

- Not much.

- You have to drink something
if you're going to stay here

- I don't like champagne

- I have to drink it if
I'm going to sit with you

My name is Josie.

What's yours”?

- Anything you like

- Why don't you look at me?

Aren't I nice to look at?

- [Maigret] Where do you get it?

- What?

- Dope

If you are known as Peter the Lett,

you left something behind

at the Amsterdam-Paris express

- My name is Oppenheimer

- Whatever your name is,

you're coming with me

- You're reckless, inspector

Mr. Oppenheimer is my guest

- This gentleman's coat, please, and mine

- I haven't asked for my bill

{speaking in a foreign language)

- 1 will look after your guest.

{gun fires)

{woman screams)

{guns firing)

- YWhat time did Monsieur
Strophades come back?

- The gentleman in room 417 came in about

a half an hour ago

- Gentleman?

Ah, patron, how are you?

- Walking

- They said you'd been hit.

Are you badly hurt?

- Where's Torrance?

- Upstairs

- Have you seen him?

- Not yet.

Strophades is back.

- Is he?

Did you report that to
my officer upstairs?

- 416, Monsieur Torrance

- I rang 416, there was no answer

- Sleeping off that dinner.

- Do you have your wound dressed, patron?

- [Maigret] No, not yet

- Funny, it smells like a hospital

- Torrance?

Torrance.

- He can't be asleep.

- Torrance.

Torrance!

Cold.

- Torrance, dead

(dramatic music)

(phone buzzing)

- Reception

But the manager is asleep, monsieur,

he cannot be disturbed.

- Asleep or awake, you get him!

You put me through right away!

Hello, is that the manager?!

Get up to 416 as quick as you can

Yes. trouble, now hurry!

- Now, headquarters

- Get me police headquarters.

Turbigo 92-00

- Chloroform.

- That was the smell.

Enough to kill him?

- No, only enough to put him to sleep

And then this.

- [Lucas] What the hell is that?

- A steel hatpin.

In the heart after the chloroform.

- What a way to Kill.

- Oh, silent way.

Tidy way

Filthy way.

Torrance, to die like this

It's my fault, Lucas

It's my fault

I should have warned him!

I should have warned him!

(phone ringing)

- Lucas.

Headquarters

Get the murder squad up to
the Majestic Hotel right away

And the morgue truck.

- The meat waggon

Isn't that what we call it, Lucas?

- 416 as quick as you can

- He was a lion, Lucas

He had more courage
than all of us together

And a heart, a warm heart

He'd strike a man in anger,

but he'd buy him a drink
when he came out of prison

He had no meanness in him.

He has to die like this.

- Should I take over?

- Nobody takes over

Torrance was my man and I'm
going to find his killer

And I'll find the man who paid his killer

And they'll all diel

- We'd better do something
about this wound.

Let's have a look at it.

- No, in a moment

- But it might-

- It's not serious.

- It might be infected-

- I don't know and I don't care!

- Monsieur.

Dead?

- Yes, dead!

Where's that floor waiter?

- Well, he has gone

- Why?

- He came to me and asked permission

He said his mother was ill.

- Who was he?

- His name is Pepito Moreno

He only came to me a couple of days ago

He said he wanted a job temporarily,

just for the winter

- Don't tell me why he came here

I know.

(dramatic music)

- Thanks.

Lucas, it's a cold trail

Moreno hasn't lived there for six months.

- Never mind, you stay there

Six menths if necessary!

Now, check, carefully, everyone in or out.

All right?

Alien's registration gave us
an old address for Moreno.

La Rue de la Goutte D'or.

They're useless that outfit

- Is that coffee hot?

- I think so.

Well, what did the doctor say?

You did see the doctor?

- And be put to bed

- [Lucas] Does Madame Maigret know?

- Only that I may not be
home for a day or two

I may go to Le Portel,

but I don't think it's
there, I think it's here

It's somewhere here, Lucas

- Strophades?

- He received a note at the Cyclops Club

while I was there.

He read it at once, got
up and left right away

And Moreno was waiting
outside for me with a gun

Now, something had happened

- We were getting too close.

- Strophades had to stop me talking

to Peter the Lett.

- Do you think Torrance
had found something?

- He wanted to search Strophades' room

He said it was easy.

I said no.

But after I left, he tried to put through

an urgent call to the Cyclops Club

He never finished it.

- We can always pick up Strophades

- We haven't a shred of evidence.

- Pull him in for questioning

- It's too soon.

The whole thing will blow up in our faces

(phone ringing)

- Lucas.

Ah, Lapointe

- There's someone coming
along, but it's not Moreno

This one's fair with a beard.

Well-dressed.

He's going into the house

No. he's not

He's crossing the road

He's coming over here.

- Hold on.

Peter the Lett has just
gone past Moreno's house

- This time he won't get away.

- Stay where you are

You've got to do something
about this wound, you knows?

You're just asking for trouble

- It's all right

It's getting better.

- You've got to get it seen to

Junior, stay where you are,

the patron is on his way

- Three cognacs up to now.

- Cet some sleep

- [Bartender] Bonjour, monsieur.

- Cognac

- [Bartender] Merci

{soft music)

- You going to talk here

or would you rather go upstairs?

Because you're going to talk

if I have to squeeze it out of you

Why were you in Le Portel,
Monsieur Johansson?

- My name is Oppenheimer

And [ do not live in Le Portel.

- And you are known as Peter the Lett

- Oh no, not I

Peter the Lett is dead.

- Shot dead in a train?

- Yes.

And by God, he asked for it

(knocking)

- Where the hell have you been'?!

What do you think I pay you for?!

(men yelling)

- Monsieur Strophades

I can hear them talking.

Shall we pick him up, I've got a key?

{Nikos yelling)

- [Nikos] I should get rid of you!

Don't stand here staring!

- I want Strophades.

- He hasn't killed anyone

- No, he pays people to do it for him

I wonder how much he paid for Torrance

- They've stopped talking.

(dramatic music)

Strophades

He got him for you

- With this.

- He can't be far,

should we put out a general-

- Yes.

- Give me a police headquarters.

Turbigo 92-00, hurry!

- I think I know where
he's heading for Lucas

There's a woman in this case.

What was his name?

- Hans.

- Your husband's brother.

- Yes.

- You lied to the police

- Well, I thought he'd
only done something small

- You concealed him, why?

- He said he was wanted for theft.

I gave him some money so that he would go.

- And you believed him?

- Yes, but after the police came...

- You guessed what he'd done

- He loved me.

- Paris.

Yes. police headquarters, urgent

- [Daughter] Mamal

- Goto sleep, it's late!

- Headquarters

Yes.

Maigret.

What?

Yes, I know he's away

I'm Maigret

Give me my office

- Patron?

You're well out of it.

Strophades' death created a
sensation on the stock market.

He was the brains behind
all those forged bank bonds

Yes, all over the place

No, they haven't got
Moreno yet, but they

They have a lead

How are you?

How's that wound?

Watch it, take care of yourself

Au revoir.

(knocking)

- Berthe, oh Berthe

I thought they'd catch me and stop me

- Oh, Hans you must go

Go.

- Never, never

He took you from me, but now he's dead

- You're mad.

- I killed him.

I shot my own brother dead.

- No!

- Don't you understand what he was?

Don't move!

Look, I'l make you understand.

And then, we'll join him together.

- [Daughter] Mamal

Mamal

- Go to her.

- I wouldn't have hurt her.

I love her.

- But you killed her husband

- I killed Peter the Lett.

- Your brother?

- Yes, I am Hans

He was Peter.

-Goon.

- Hans and Peter, identical twins

There is no such thing

Two men may look like each other,

but there will always be the same

relationship between them
as between other men.

Man and servant, lord and slave.

His slave, that's what he called me

Even at the university

- [Maigret] And you were his slave

- Oh yes, he was always
so good at everything

So clever.

So popular.

He ran the students union.

What in me was weakness,
in him was strength

That made him greedy

He wanted money.

He wanted power.

He took the money to give him the power

He took the money from the students union,

that was the start.

- [Maigret] Forging checks?

- That was my job

And he made me work and work
at it till I was perfect

I can forge any signature in the world

and any bank will pass it.

Why not?

I am a copy myself.

- What made you come to
a place like Le Portel?

- He got into trouble

Had to get out.

So, Peter sent me up in Boulogne

in a little attic with
my chemicals and my pens

while he stayed in the
best hotels in Paris.

It was there I met Berthe.

She was cashier at this shop

She tried to make me
stop working for Peter

For a time, I did

I worked here.

We were just about to get married

Then, Peter turned up.

My marriage wouldn't
have suited him at all,

so he married her.

He stole her from mel

Because he stole everything!

- So, you killed him

- It was the only way to get free

And the moment came when I met Strophades

We'd forged a check on
Strophades' account

He found out.

He didn't give Peter up to the police,

oh no, he thought he could
use a forger himself.

So, he sent for Peter from Amsterdam.

I slipped into Holland and
I followed him on the train.

The worse part was changing the clothes.

- Did Strophades recognise you”

- Of course, but I was the one he wanted

So. I just exchanged masters

Before I was Peter's slave, now I was his

I tried to get away.

I came here, I wanted to
tell Berthe what I'd done,

but I hadn't the courage

When I went back to Paris,

he sent Moreno to fetch me.

Moreno.

I hired him, myself.

- Where did you find him?

- Met him during the war

Peter wanted a man tc use a gun,

to kill Strophades.

But Moreno was a professional

He knew when it paid to change sides

At the hotel, Strophades threatened me

Unless I continued to work for him...

So, I did what Peter wanted
after all in the end.

I killed him.

- [Maigret] Now, you are free

- Free?

No, just empty

She'll never love me anymore.

I'm finished.

- [Maigret] I'm afraid you are

Come on.

- Oh no, Maigret.

If 1 go, it'll be my way, not yours.

Out with the tide.

(glass breaking)

(dramatic music)

{soft music)

(dramatic music)

- Poor old Torrance.

That's one funeral I
never expected to attend

- I suppose Torrance might've laughed

to see us all dressed up for him, huh?

(phone ringing)

- Maigret.

Yes.

What?

When?

Yes, at once.

They've got him. Lucas

- Moreno.

- Picked him up at the Gare de Lyon

while we were at the funeral.

He's coming in

- So, your job's done

- What job”?

- He's the last.

You said they'd all die

- Pepito Moreno, you are accused

of murdering a police officer

by the name of Hector Torrance

in a room at the Hotel Majestic

- You try and prove that

I was in Marseilles at the time.

- Patron?

- Take over, Lucas

- Are you ill?

- Yes, hatred is a disease

It makes you enjoy things
that must not be enjoyed