All language subtitles for Maigret S04E13 Maigrets Little Joke_Track03-eng

- Oh, and you better
check the drug cabinet

I used the last of the
Digitalis this moming

Make sure that Dr. Negrel has

everything else he's likely to need

- Hurry up Felipe

We'll miss the plane.

- I think that's all.

- Enjoy your holiday, doctor.

- Thank you

I'm ready.

Something new, it looks expensive

- 13,000 francs
- 13,0007

We could have bought a new
cardiac machine with that.

- We?

I've got news for you Felipe

From now on your practice
pays its own way,

on the money you earn, doctor

I have other uses for mine.

(haunting music)

- [Felipe] What's the point of that?

- I don't care for Negrel or that girl

to come meddling around
in my bank while I'm away

Oh come on Felipe, have
you got the tickets?

Bring the cases

- [Woman] Did you order a taxi?

- [Felipe] Yes, darling.

(dramatic theme music)

(cheerful music)

(door slamming)

- June?

- I smell coffee.

Where are you?

- [Woman] I'm in here

- What are you up to?

- I'm going through your holiday things

I'm throwing this old
jersey goes out for start

- Why, it's all right to me?

- Look.
- Good enough for fishing.

- Did you have a nice walk?

(groaning)

Did we get over tired”?

- No, no, no

Sat at a cafe, read the paper.

- Anything interesting?

- No, not much

- I should be glad when this
wretched shoulder of yours

is healed and you can travel.

- Yes.

- I'l get you some coffee

{doorbell ringing)

(indistinct chatter)

- [Luca] He's here”?

- [Woman] Yes.

He's had a nice walk
and he's sitting down

- Hi Patron

- Ah, Luca

- How's the patient?

- Oh, splendid, splendid.

Look, I can fill a pipe with one hand

Why don't you sit down?

- Thank you

- How about some coffee?

For the inspector we call you

- Of course, inspector

We were both so pleased for you

Of course I shall never
remember to call you that

(chuckling)

- I can't offer you anything
stronger, it's banned

- Nevermind.

I was at Fiene Prison this morning.

- Yeah.

I thought you might be

It's all here in the papers.

How did he go?

- With not a word.

Well that settles two accounts.

Thomas and,

you shoulder.

- I had a letter from Torrance's father

thanking me for everything
I've done for his son.

All I did was...

How is Janvier fitting in?

- Fine, fine, he's just
the arrest officer,

vice bureau.

When are you going away?

- Oh, as soon as this
thing's healed up a bit

- Well take it easy
- Meantime I take

nice little walks

and my wife is as busy as a bee

- Well don't hurry back.

- He won't, I'll see to that.

Do you know this is the first real holiday

he's had for three years?

He's not gonna thing about work

or crimes or anything but just resting.

And as for you Sergeant
Luca and the rest of you

in the office

you can just pretend he doesn't exist

(chuckling)

- I've always wanted to do that!

- Do you think I care
anything about what happens

in that office”

It's all yours and all you care

for the next three weeks anyway

Murder, mayhem. blackmail, the lot

(phone ringing)

Oh, better get that thing
cut off for a start.

- Voltetra 34.

- Coffee?

- [Maigret] Ah, pass the coffee inspector

- Oh certainly, chief inspector

- Yes he's here.

But I particularly ask
that he shouldn't be...

Oh Inspector Luca

Of course, I'm so sorry

Just a moment.

- It's Sergeant Jemiere

For you, inspector

- Thank you, madame

Yes, Jemiere?

Javet, J-A-V-E-T.

Doctor.

Good, tell Lapointe to get a car

and pick me up

He has?

No, no, no I'll take a
taxi and see him there.

Bye.

- What was that?

- Oh, office stuff.

Well I'l have fo skip the coffee madame.

If I don't see you Patron, good fishing.

- Luca, I know a Dr. Javet

- Goodbye, inspector.

- You can't win.

Au revoir.

{whimsical music)

- Who is she?

- It's Evelyne.

Madame Javet.

- When did you find her?

- Only an hour ago

I opened the surgery

Antoinette the secretary,
she wasn't in yet

I was on my way to the drug cupboard

to get something for my first patient

and I noticed that door was open

It was locked when they left.

- They?

- The Javet's.

They went to their
villa in Nice last week.

I've been looking after his practice

That's why it's so unbelievable

She was with him in Nice.

He telephoned me just before the weekend

They were having a fine time

and then, you knew, to find
her on the bed like this.

I've been trying to contact Dr. Javet.

His housekeeper says he's gone sailing

I didn't tell her anything

That's how I found her, naked

- Have you moved the body?

- No, but I have examined it

She died of heart failure.

- How do you know?

- I'm a doctor.

- Luca.

Take a look at this.

- Air ticket, from Nice.

Friday, this is Monday.

- Yes, that's what I can't understand

why Felipe didn't miss her.

She's been dead for two days

She's been lying there for two days

and no one knew.

- Is that another way in?

- Yes, yes there's a private
entrance on the corridor.

- Get the concierge up, will you?

- Yeah.

- Bring her through the
surgery, around the other way

- I've put off most of the
afternoon patients, doctor

- Thank you

- You say these doors were
locked when the Javets left?

- Dr. Negrel wasn't here

I heard Madame Javet lock it,
I suppose she took the key.

- I'd like this room left
exactly as it is, thank you

You had no idea Madame Javet
was intending to return?

- No, none.

- And the flight time was three o'clock

which means she could have been

back here anytime after five

Were you both here all the afternoon?

- Yes, but I told you she
could have used the entrance

on the corridor.

- What time did you leave?

- Well I left at five.

Dr. Negrel was with a patient.

- Yes, I must've left shortly after.

Half past five.

- And neither of you were
here during the weekend?

- No, the surgery is closed

- Madame Michu, the concierge

- I can't leave my door for long

- This won't take long, madame

Tell me, were you in your
office all day Friday?

- Up til 10 at night

After 10 I shut the door.

-Uptil 10

Nows would you see
everyone who came or went?

- Upto 10 I see everyone

- Did you see Madame Javet returning?

- But she's in Nice.

- Obviously you didn't

All right, thank you madame

Oh madame?

I suppose you did see
Mademoiselle Vidal leaving

- Yes, at her usual time, five o'clock

- And Dr. Negrel about half an hour later?

- No, monsieur.

- No?

- I left, madame, at half past five

- Before 10 I see everyone

- All right, thank you madame.

- This is absurd.

I pass by her window.

(phone ringing)

- Dr. Javet's surgery

{suspenseful music)

One minute, please.

Dr. Javet.

- Hello Felipe

Thank God, it's Negrel.

- Gioverre, hello?

Hello, you have to shout

What's all the commotion?

Messages here, messages at the yacht club

What?

What was that?

Oh Evelyne's away

She's gone to look at some
friends in St. Tropez

What?

It sounded exactly as
though you said she--

- She's dead, Felipe!

I found her here.

She must have had an attack.

- What are you saying?

She was. .

She said she'd gone to St. Tropez

Yes, I'll come back at once

I'll get the next plane.

She's dead, Evelyne.

She's dead.

(cheerful accordion music)

- Hello Marie.
- [Marie] Hello

- [Man] Chief Inspector.
- How are you?

- I'm well, thank you

- Well, welcome back

- Ch not yet

Thought I'd just stroll
out for the early edition

And a touch of your cider

- Cider.

Ah, just come in from my uncle's farm

Soft as air.

- Calvendos?

Ah, oh you old Norman

Ah!

Oh my compliments to your uncle

- Now still keeping an eye on the office?

- Oh, I suppose you can see it from here.

- Yes, those two windows

Third floor, left

Marie and I sometimes watch you

You come to the window

puffing a pipe

Marie says, "Ah, the patron's thinking."

- Well, it's Inspector
Luca has to do the thinking

for the next few weeks.

- Pity, as soon as I read it

I said there's a case for the patron.

- What case?

- Well the doctor's wife.

- Ah, doesn't seem to be
a case for anyone yet

Foul play is not suspected

- Ah, they always say that

- You can be too suspicious, Gaston

I'll say,

why didn't Dr. Javet know

that she'd come back to Paris?

And why was she unclothed?

- [Gaston] Well, perhaps she
was going to take a bath

- Perhaps.

On the other hand,

perhaps she...

Ah no, but that would mean...

Hum, I wonder.

Gaston, have you got a card?

A plain card?

- Well to write on, yes.

Oh Marie, bring a card over, will you?

- And If Luca thought of that.

- [Marie] That one do you”

- Yeah, that's fine

Thank you, Marie

{suspenseful music)

- How about the detectives?

When was it posted?

- Well it wasn't.

It was dropped in the police call box

on the Rivatere.

- What?

- Duty man found it there
about 10 minutes ago

- Why was she unclothed?

Chief Inspector Luca

Well that's quick promotion

(chuckling)

- Old Dr. Javet's here.

- Ah good, show him in.

- Right.

- This has been written
with the left hand.

- You want me to send it down to the lab?

- No. no, ignore it

We get thousands of these things.

- Yeah.

- Probably some old crank

Not for me.

- Dr. Javet.

- Ah, Dr. Javet.

Inspector Luca

Do sit down.
- Thank you

- Cigarette”

- [Javet] Thanks

- Naturally this must have come

as a great shock to you, doctor

- I had just seen her.

I can't get over it.

Why didn't she tell me
she was going to Paris”?

- [Luca] You had no idea

Madame Javet was intending to return?

- None.

I was out in the boat on Friday

I spend most of my holidays sailing

Evelyne didn't care for it.

I got back in the afternoon

and Mademoiselle Jusserand.

- Jusserand?

- The housekeeper at our villa in Nice

She said that Evelyne
had made a phone call

and then told her she was
going to join some friends

in St. Tropez.

- Did she often go off on her own”

- At times.

I didn't think about it.

We were independent of
each other that way

I went back to my boat.

I planned to do a three
day trip along the coast

trying out my navigation

I didn't get back until this morning

when I got Negrel's message.

She must have been lying
there all the time.

Inspector, of course I
understand the police

have to make inquiries.

- The circumstances
surrounding the death, doctor

- [Javet] I'm quite sure in
my own my mind it was natural

- Well no doubt the
autopsy will reveal that

- Autopsy”?

Yes, yes I suppose there has to be one

You see, I've lived for a long time

with the knowledge that
Evelyne might die suddenly

Any emotional strain,

mental or physical.

- Oh I beg your pardon.

- Ah thank you

What I'm trying to say is that

there's no need to look for a...

Well I mean, no one's to blame.

- You mean no one in particular?

- I mean ne one, anybody

- [Luca] Have you any
idea why Madame Javet

kept her trip te Paris a secret from you?

I mean why had she invented this story

about St. Tropez?

- She was unpredictable

- You know she was naked
when she was found.

- Is that important”

- Not necessarily,

but it could imply she was not alone

when she died.
(dramatic music)

- Just as foul play not suspected

then the police are
making certain inquiries

and the next thing you hear

they're looking for a one
eyed man with red hair

I know the police

- Well I'm reading about
the record broccoli harvest

in Britain.

- Broceolil

- Gaston, Gaston, two sol minet.

- All right.

The tables are full.

(indistinct chatter)

- Chief Inspector Maigret?

- Yeah?

- This is a bit of luck.

I was just on my way to your
office to try and see you

I'm Martine Chapuis

- Oh I know a Martin Chapuis

- I'm his daughter.

- Ahl

- [Gaston] Mademoiselle?

- Just a coffee please

- Coffee with me.

- Thank you

Father said that you'd
be in charge of the case

He said that if I was
worried about Giobelle,

why didn't I come have a chat

with the man who's in charge?

- Now just @ minute

Who is Giobelle?

And what case?

- Dr. Giobelle Negrel

The Javet case.

- Uh huh.

- Father says there's nothing
like the personal approach

He says you're the only man in the force

with any imagination

- Oh, very obliging.

But there's two things
to straighten out here

First, I am not in charge of the case.

And secondly, I knew your father,

and I respect him.

He's one of the finest lawyers in Paris

I'm quite sure that he would never,

under any circumstances,

send his own daughter out

to try and influence the police

I suspect you're involved personally.

- We're engaged

- [Maigret] Who?

- Giobelle and I.

It's not exactly official.

He's got to make his career.

But how can he when they're saying

these horrid things about him”

He had nothing to do
with that awful woman.

He swears he didn't
even know she was there.

- Look, I'm very sorry

But I don't see what I can do to help you.

I've nothing to do with the case.

I'm supposed to be on leave

No, the man that you'll have to see is

Inspector Luca

I really don't advise it.

Now perhaps you're worrying about nothing

- Nothing?

What about that?

- You and the Javet woman,

you're to be struck off.

- Beastly filthy, anonymous letters”

How can people be so vile and cowardly?

- Well, you get them in these cases.

- It's the concierge

She's got her knife into him

If only you could speak to Giobelle

- Where does he live there?

- Well I'll take you there

- No stay here

I said where does he live?

- I'l go and get the taxi!

- I didn't say I

- [Martine] Taxi!

- Oh Gaston.

You know, people should never
write anonymous letters

It can get them into so much trouble

{doorbell ringing)

- [Luca] Good morning, Mademoiselle

Is the doctor in?

- Yes sir.

- Thank you

Hi Dr. Javet.

No, no please sir

Don't let me disturb you

Just one or two points.

Firstly, can you tell me a little more

about this condition that
your wife suffered from?

- Yes.

Yes, her condition.

Let me see.

- [Luca] I'm sorry to have
to bring this up, doctor

but you appreciate it is important.

- She suffered from an
abnormally slow pulse

The normal is about 76.

Hers was 40.

- Was there any treatment
for this condition?

- Not really quiet, chiefly and calm

The avoidance of any emotional excitement.

- What would happen if
she disregarded this?

Would she be liable to an attack?

- It has happened.

Yes, I used to give her
an injection of Sofamil

- Not Digitalis?

- No.

- Digitalis is a hard drug, isn't it?

- Yes, but for her particular condition

Digitalis could be fatal.

- Well, that is our pathologist's report

{suspenseful music)

- Digitalis?

Well that's impossible

How did she get it?

- You have it here in the surgery?

- Of course.

At least...

- Yes, I ordered a fresh supply

It's in the cupboard

Don't you remember, doctor?

You asked me to check
before you went away

There's a new packet of 12 ampoules

I unpacked it myself.

One's gone

- When did this come?

- On Friday

- Could Dr. Negrel have used one of them

for one of his patients on that day?

- I'l check.

Madame Willam, Decharme

No, there's no entry

- During the week did Dr. Negrel receive

any telephone calls from Nice?

- I called the day after we left

Wednesday, that's all.

- No others?

- Yes, there was one on Friday

about mid day.

I answered it and the operator
said it was a call from Nice

And then Dr. Negrel took
the receiver from me.

I had to go and answer
the door to a patient

When I came back he said it was Dr. Javet

ringing up to find out
how things were going

- And was it, doctor?

- No.

- I don't know who wrote it!

Probably that concierge.

She's a poisonous

Why did she lie about seeing me leave?

I passed by her window,

She always swears she sees everybody.

- Do you always wear rubber soles”

- What?

- Rubber soles and heels?

- Yes, I think so, why?

(car horn honking)

Martine, you shouldn't have done this

I told you I can take care of myself!

- [Martine] That's the
one thing you can't do

- Now he's gonna have
a chance to prove it

My child, we must disappear.

Now is that your vigil?
- What?

{doorbell ringing)

- Good morning, Dr. Negrel

May I come in”?

Tell me. do you practice from here?

- No, no I have no practices yet

I assist Dr. Javet and I
work at the clinic Mobere.

- Oh, research I see

Doctor, you said you had no idea

Madame Javet was intending
to return from Nice.

- No, none.

- Yet she telephoned you
on Friday around noon,

a few hours before she left.

- Yes, yes she did telephone

But she didn't say she was coming back.

- [Luca] Then why did you lie?

Tell you secretary it
was Dr. Javet who rang”?

- I said it was a message from Dr. Javet.

She must have been mistaken.

- Was the concierge also mistaken

when she said she didn't
see you leave around 5:30

as you said”?

- Yes!

Oh lied?

Hows do I know what goes
on in that woman's mind?

I left at 5:30.

- You knew Madame Javet well?

- She was Dr. Javet's wife.

- Did you approve of
Dr. Javet's treatment?

- There was no treatment as you put it

He sometimes gave her an injection

if she became overexcited.

- Something like Digitalis”

- Digitalis?

Did she...

Did she have...

- [Luca] It was found in the
body in large quantities

I take it you don't know how it got there

- [Doctor] No, not unless she tried

ta give herself an injection

- And carefully washed the syringe

and put it away in the
cupboard afterwards”?

Well thank you doctor

Anything else, I'll let you know

- What effect would Digitalis
have on Madame Javet?

- It would kill her.

- Any doctor would know that?

- Yes.

But I didn't.

I swear.

Martine.

- Well I hope for my sake
you're telling the truth

{suspenseful music)

(engine humming)

{elevator humming)

- You require something, mensieur?

- Ah madame.

My eyesight is not as good as it was

I wonder if you would be
kind enough to show me

which is Dr. Javet's apartment.

- Oh, he's not receiving patients

It's Dr. Lazar you must seen

114 Roumalie.

- Ch well fortunately I don't
really need either doctor

actually

It's you I've come to see.

- I've nothing to say to the newspapers.

The police have warned me.

(chuckling)

Isn't that a police all over?

I could tell you how they
rely on me sometimes

- Bonjour Madame Ranier

- [Woman] Bonjour Madame

- Only this morning I
picked up a real tip

It's about this one
eyed man with red hair.

- I didn't know about him.
- Ne, you haven't

heard of him?

Well it's in all the papers

I wondered if you'd seen him here.

- I don't read the papers

- Well, here he is.

There.
- No, I don't recognise him

Never seen him before.

- Oh what a pity.

Oh well, it was an idea

Ugly devil, too
{suspenseful music)

Thank you, madame.

Good day.

- Just get her eyes tested

Get her a new pair of spectacles,

but get some action!

Did you know that
concierge is nearly blind?

Well did you?

- I've got a theory, patron

- I'm not the patron

If I were I'd have guessed

The way she never looks
at you til you speak

She tends to know the
tenants by their footsteps

- What about Madame .Javet?

How did she get through?

- She could have taken off
her shoes, couldn't she?

Negrel wears rubber soles, I saw that.

That gives him half a let out

He might even be telling the truth

about that phone call

But who else could know that Madame Javet

was returning to Paris?

- My theory is

the secretary wrote these

They've got that sort of look.

That vicious woman with a kink.

- Good idea.

Tell me when I get back.

- Well, where are you going?

- [Luca] To Nice
- Nice?

- To check Javet's alibi.

(light cheerful music)

- Lapointe!

- Patron!

How are you?

How's the arm?

- Oh it's mending

You're just the man I want

Hold this for me.

I've got some letters to post

What do you suppose you were doing?

Frightening all the flowers like that?

- Didn't you see her?

Javet's secretary.

- Oh, that's who you're following”

- I'm following what she's put in there.

She's a quiet one

Hey, I've got a theory.

- Oh don't tell me.

Tell Sergeant Luca

- Well he's not here, he's gone to Nice

- Has he?

Oh, well I hope he enjoys himself.

In that case I shan't
bother to post that one

(light music)

Good hunting

- Thanks, give my regards te madame

- Thanks.

(gentle music)

(tyres screeching)

- [Woman] This way, monsieur

- Thank you

Tell me Mademoiselle Jusserand,

how long have you worked for the Javets?

- Nearly three years

Since they bought this villa

- So you must know them pretty well.

- They didn't come very often

Every three months or
so for a week, 10 days

- Uh, where did Madame Javet make her last

telephone call from, there”?

- Yes.

- Did you by chance overhear anything

of what was said?

- I don't listen to conversations.

She hung up as I came in.

She told me some friends
had rung from St. Tropez

and she was off to join them

She'd call to say where she was

- What did you tell the doctor?

- Exactly what Madame Javet told me

He said, "Well good, I
can get back to the boat,"

or something like that.

He spends most of his
time here on the pierette

- You see, the boatman at Ville d'France

said that Dr. Javet in fact made provision

for a trip to St. Tropez

- Perhaps he intended to call on his wife.

To surprise her.

- Perhaps, but not in St. Tropez

He didn't go there

The boat was seen in
anchor at the next bay

all Friday night and Saturday morning

Now mademoiselle, are you quiet sure

you didn't overhear
anything of what was said

and inadvertently pass it on to Dr. Javet?

- Why should 17?

What she did or what he
did is not my business

I'm only his housekeeper, that's all

His housekeeper.

{doorbell ringing)

- [Luca] Good morning, Dr. Javet

- Good morning

I wasn't expecting you so soon.

- Ch, air travel is pretty
fast these days, you know

Well you should know

We checked with Air France.

You caught the five o'clock
plane from Nice on Friday

- I didn't think you'd be so quick

in finding out about the boat

It was foolish of me.

- How did you know your wife
was coming back to Paris?

- I didn't.

- But you followed her here?

- No, you may think it naive

but I really did believe
she'd gone to St. Tropez

But I had my own ideas
as to why she was going

You see, she'd been changing.

Quite recently she'd become more secretive

and extravagant, too

Suddenly clothes, jewellery.

I'd have been blind not to
guess there was someone

- Did you guess include who?

- No.

- You caught the eight
o'clock plane back to Nice

on Saturday morning

Where were you in between?

Thank you, no

You realise the construction that could be

put on this, doctor

- I know.

I can't help you inspector.

- Well let me spell it out for you.

You guessed the St
Tropez story was a lie

You knew your wife had
a lover here in Paris.

And after carefully laying an
alibi for your own movements

you came back here to surprise
her here in this apartment

- Well why didn't the concierge see me?

She'd still be on duty.

- Perhaps like your
wife you moved silently

You both knew about the concierge

and how to slip by without being noticed

You confronted your wife

knowing what the shock would do to her

and finished it off with Digitalis

- I see it's quite a formidable case

but I assure I didn't kill my wife

and I wasn't in this apartment.

- Well unless you can tell me

where you were, doctor, then

(soft rustling)
{suspenseful music)

- I'm in a delicate position.

- A very delicate position, doctor

- Don't talk about the office.

All those little walks.

I should have known.

I didn't hurt you

I suppose if I hadn't found
that card in your pocket

I should never have known.

- No, you wouldn't

- This young person you're expecting

I suppose you're still going to tell me

that she's interviewing
you for a magazine

- No.

- I only hope Sergeant
Luca doesn't find out

what you've been up to, that's all

Well this settles it.

The day after tomorrow
we leave for Con Carlo

- But--
- You'll be interested

fo know that I telephoned the doctor today

and he says you'll be able to travel.

- Oh did he, good

- Yes, he also says you
could have gone a week ago

{doorbell ringing)

Mademoiselle Chapuis?

- [Chapuis] Yes

- My husband's expecting you

Please go in

- Hello inspector

I brought two notebooks
and masses of pencils.

- You can leave them in the bag

We've been rumbled.

- Oh.

- They've arrested Dr. Javet

I was watching and I
saw them take him away

in a big black car.

- No, they haven't arrested him

They've invited him for a talk

- Well it's the same thing, isn't it?

Then a minute later another car drove up

and they drove avray the secretary

It's obvious they were in it together.

Now doesn't that prove I
was right about Giobelle”?

- You knows you wouldn't do
badly on a magazine at that

{doorbell ringing)

Come sit down.

- Why I can't stay.

I've got fo tell Giobelle.

- Giobelle knows about it.

- Who's told him?

- Doctor Negrel.

- Why did you bring us here?

- Because I think that there something

that you want to tell me.

Something that she ought to hear.

- What?

- You know, you tell her.

- I think it ought to come from you

- Yes.

Yes, you're right about me, inspector

It's been on my conscious

Martine,

I've deceived you

I never thought it was possible.

I love you.

But you see she was there all the time and

then once or twice after surgery

I noticed the bedroom door was open.

Accidentally I thought

- When did it start?

- I swear it was over before--

- When?

- A month ago

Six weeks.

The first time it was a kind of madness.

And then it was a kind of pity

You understand that?

- You were there, weren't you?

When she came back from Nice

you were waiting for her

- I wanted to finish.

I told her before she went away

that it had to finish.

Then she rang me and said
she was coming back to Paris

She said if I didn't meet her

she'd confess everything to Felipe.

She didn't care what happened to her.

She'd ruin me.

So I was waiting for her in the surgery.

It was about six o'clock.

And I heard the bedroom door unlock.

And I had it all prepared.

I was going to tell her
that this was the finish.

- How was she dressed?

- She was fully dressed

I didn't touch her.

All I wanted was to finish.

To finish.

I said things to her that

that could kill her.

She became frenzied and then she...

- And then she collapsed?

- Yes.

I knew what to do.

I went to the drug cabinet to

to get her an injection of Sofomil.

- You found the drug in its usual place?

- Yes.

- Why was none found in the body?

- Well it's a minute dose.

It's quick acting

It's discharged from the
bloodstream in a few minutes.

- When you gave her the
injection you were hurried

You panicked

You might have made a mistake

Could you have given
her Digitalis instead?

- I don't know.
(slow music)

I honestly don't know

{sombre music)

- Ah, that's enough of that.

Martine, do you play chess?

Well if you don't I'll teach you.

Prepare the checkerboard, Gaston.

Ah, leave uncle's bottle.

We're gonna be here some time

- What's happening?

- Oh, statements

Everybody makes statements

and then they're all compared

Then the questions start up

And you try to find out who's lying

Then more statements.

Then the first statements are compared

with the second statements.

More questions

Sometimes it works.

- You lied about the time
you left the surgery!

- Yes, but--

- You lied about the
telephone call from Nice!

- No!

- You lied, lied, lied!

Until you were forced to admit the truth

- I'm telling it now!

- Are you, well let's see

These are from the drug
cabinet in the surgery

Sofamil, Digitalis

- Yes, I told you I could
have made a mistake.

- A mistake, you, a doctor?

Well look at them doctor.

Even I could tell the difference.

They're not very similar, are they”?

- I can't explain it

I was certain I gave her Sofomil

- I suggest you deliberately
gave her the Digitalis

knowing what it would do to her

Let me tell you what I think happened

You waited for Madame
Javet for only one reason

You had an assermation with her.

You made love to her
- No, that's not truel

- And as a result there
was no other reason

she had a seizure.

You went to the cabinet probably intending

ta get the Sofomil

But you saw the Digitalis

and you saw a way of getting
rid of a relationship

that had become dangerous and burdensome,

wasn't that it?

It was a thousand to
one her death would be

taken as natural.

Wasn't that the way it happened?

- Nows observe the king

A really,

a really tricky beast.

You think you've got him

but he has a very clever way

of dodging into a safe square

as he thinks.

But, watch the knight.

- This relationship with Antoinette Vidal,

your secretary,

did your wife know about it?

- She was no fool.

- So she knew?

- You don't imagine we'd discussed it

anymore than I should talk
over her affairs with her.

- Would you say you knew about it?

- Yes, in principle

Not the men involved.

- Well didn't you feel
jealous of these unknowns?

- No, that's partly why I took Antoinette

To give Evelyne a sort of moral freedom

to love as she chose.

- So you seem to have told the newspaper

You have in fact been remarkably frank

about your wife

- [Javet] I mentioned Antoinette?

- Yes, what you didn't
mention was that you

were living on your wife's money.

- She helped to buy my
practice, that's all

- She had a large fortune
which she was spending,

mainly on jewellery.

- I told you she'd become extravagant

It was part of her need to live

- [Luca] You weren't afraid
that she was trying to realise

all the money,

to keep it out of your hands

- Is that intended to be a question”

- Yes.

Put frankly doctor,

I didn't expect an answer.

I find it incredible that you had no idea

of what was happening
between Negrel and your wife

but it was happening under your very nose

- You make call it naive.

- Or convenient.

- I do not understand that.

- Why did you come back to Paris?

- went on the spur of
impasse to see Antoinette

- [Luca] Laying that
curiously elaborate alibi?

- I didn't think of going until
I put out for Ville France

And then I went ashore on the next bay

I went ta Paris just as I was

and as soon as I got there I went straight

fo Antoinette's apartment.

And I stayed with her there until morning

A fact I presume she confirms

- Doctor, I believe you knew your wife

had come to Paris to
meet her lover, Negrel,

and that's why you followed her here.

- I accept your brought the housekeeper,

what Mademoiselle Jusserand told me

what Evelyne told her.

That she had gone to St. Tropez.

- Bring in Mademoiselle Jusserand

- [Javet] You brought her here?

- Thank you doctor.

- I'm sorry you had to be
dragged into this, mademoiselle

- Will you sit down please, mademoiselle”

If you don't mind waiting outside,

thank you doctor

- This way, please.

- Now Mademoiselle Jusserand.

I'd just like to check back on

one or two points in your statement.

The question of Madame
Javet's telephone call

from Nice.

We keep coming back to that, don't we”?

- She told me she was going to St. Tropez

and that's what I told Dr. Javet.

- Yes, yes, I know mademoiselle

But surely in affairs of this sort

I mean it must be very
difficult for one woman

to deceive another.

Well for instance, clothes

Clothes for Paris must be very different

from clothes for St. Tropez.

- St. Tropez is very smart.

- You helped her pack?

- She did it herself.

- Yes, but surely she must
have worn different shoes,

different hats, different jewellery,

different everything.

- She told me she was going to St. Tropez

and that's what I told Dr. Javet.

- All right, mademoiselle, thank you.

- With a woman, I tell
character by the eyes

The eyes speak

- Well, my wife uses her mouth

(chuckling)

- Our friend Dr. Javet
certainly keeps an open mouth

It's all here.

The housekeeper, the phone call.

The night with Antoinette

You know he looks all very sorrowful

but he gives me the impression that he's

done something very clever

and he wants you to know about it

Now Marie, you meet all sorts of people

How do you judge character?

- Her?

One look at her is enough

Men.

- No, I meant him.

- [Marie] Same.

Women.

- You'd say that, would you?

- Well, he'd only have
to hear a skirt going by

- But what about the women?

- Oh well.
- They fall for him?

- If a man tells enough lies

(chuckling)

- Very interesting

Not only is she a good judge,

she's put a kind of new complexion on it

{jazzy music)

- I've only time for sandwich, thank you

- Ham sandwich?
- Thank you

- Would you like & cup of coffee with it?

- Thank you

- I wonder if Javet told her any lies?

Gaston, have you got
another one of those cards?

- Yes, we do love one another!

Is that a crime?

- I'm not here to judge
your morals, mademoiselle

Just the wealth of your word

- Prove I'm lying.

He was with me.

- [Luca] You've been lying ever since

you came into this office

- He was with me.

- [Luca] Had he promised to marry you”

- How could he?

He was married already

- To a wife who was expected
to die at any moment

You counted on that.

And you counted on marrying a rich man

- That's vile.

You've no right!

-Comeinl

- Another of them.

Same place, the box an the Riverterre

So much for your theory.

- Mademoiselle?

Mademoiselle, I'm sorry
to have to have to be

so tough on you,

but these are the facts.

Dr. Javet came to Paris to kill his wife.

He concocted his alibi with you.

- He didn't, he didn't
even know she was there.

The housekeeper had told him
she'd gone to St. Tropez

- You must realise that her word

is as worthless as yours

And for the same reason.

{slow music)

Yes. mademoiselle

For the same reason.

She lied too to save her lover.

{slow music)

- For my part, that's where
you can stay here all night

But tell my wife

She likes me to come to bed.

- It's all over.

(gasping)

Courage Martine.

Go on, sit down here

Drink that.

It'll do you good

(chair scuffling)

Goodnight, Gaston

- Well after the secretary
all but let me down,

blew his alibi,

it was only a matter
of time we got the lot

It was as I thought.

The housekeeper had in fact overheard

Madame Javet's telephone call at Nice

and told the doctor
she was going fo Paris

He followed her here,

waited until the row with Negrel was over,

then gave her the surprise of her life

and finished it off with Digitalis

Motive, plain money.

The result of,

well we all know the result.

The Javet touch was dressing
the scene to implicate Negrel

- You mean undressing it?

- Well, that's what I mean

- Where'd I put that jersey”

Ah yes

Do you know, Luca,

my wife was gonna throw this away

A holiday wouldn't be
the same without this.

Anyways, a smart job you did

Especially to guess that Claire Jusserand

was one of his conquests.

And playing off against
the other girl's jealousy

That was well.

- Oh I don't know.

It was in character.

It was a long shot and it came up

Very well madame, I can see you're busy

- lam.

- Keep out of trouble, patron

- [Woman] He will
- Au revoir

- [Maigret] Well goodbye

- See you in three weeks

- See you in three weeks too

- Oh, I said you weren't
going to disgrace me

with an awful old thing

- Nowy look, if I can't take this jersey--

- What's this?

- What?

What's that?

- Thanks patron

That's why he called in

He knew all the time.

(laughing)