37200:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,340He

372
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,340
He was offered the chance to go to
Africa,

373
00:24:52,100 --> 00:24:55,220
to continue his research,
but his wife protested.

374
00:24:55,230 --> 00:24:58,120
He probably felt he couldn't leave
her.

375
00:24:58,130 --> 00:24:59,310
Do you know much about her, Captain?

376
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:03,310
Only that she's an invalid.
She certainly enjoys ill health.

377
00:25:05,110 --> 00:25:07,250
So you don't think there's very much
the matter?

378
00:25:07,260 --> 00:25:10,160
She always seems to be able
to do anything she wants.

379
00:25:10,170 --> 00:25:12,210
You know the Franklins well, do you?

380
00:25:12,220 --> 00:25:14,150
Er...no.

381
00:25:15,110 --> 00:25:17,290
What I've told you I learnt from
your daughter.

382
00:25:18,210 --> 00:25:20,230
She's up in arms on his behalf.

383
00:25:21,330 --> 00:25:23,300
What do you think of Mr Norton?

384
00:25:24,250 --> 00:25:27,130
Why do you ask?
You seem to get on well.

385
00:25:28,310 --> 00:25:31,270
We have a good deal in common,

386
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:36,190
and he's awfully kind, if a
little...ineffectual.

387
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,270
No, he's a gentle soul.

388
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,260
He lived with his mother for many
years - she was very bossy -

389
00:25:41,270 --> 00:25:44,320
and I don't think he had
a very good time at school either.

390
00:25:46,250 --> 00:25:49,130
He's very perceptive, you know.

391
00:25:50,250 --> 00:25:52,250
Quiet people often are.

392
00:25:52,260 --> 00:25:53,300
Yes.

393
00:25:53,310 --> 00:25:58,130
That's the depressing thing
about places like this.

394
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,210
It's full of failures.

395
00:26:01,220 --> 00:26:03,320
I suppose it's having endured
another war.

396
00:26:03,330 --> 00:26:06,210
We've all had the stuffing knocked
out of us.

397
00:26:07,190 --> 00:26:11,250
Did you see much action, Captain
Hastings? Oh, not allowed to this
time round.

398
00:26:11,260 --> 00:26:15,220
Gammy leg. And, let's face it, I'm
pushing it a bit.

399
00:26:17,140 --> 00:26:19,150
But your life's just beginning.

400
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,200
Anything might happen.

401
00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:28,240
If you mean marriage, I could never
think of it. Not with my history.

402
00:26:28,250 --> 00:26:30,270
What do you mean?

403
00:26:32,190 --> 00:26:35,200
You have no idea who I am, have you?

404
00:26:35,210 --> 00:26:37,100
I know your name.

405
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,140
It isn't Cole. It's Litchfield.

406
00:26:40,150 --> 00:26:43,100
Matthew Litchfield.
Yes. He was my father.

407
00:26:44,150 --> 00:26:46,220
A wicked man, Captain Hastings.

408
00:26:47,230 --> 00:26:49,330
He was our jailer until my sister
Margaret...

409
00:26:49,340 --> 00:26:53,110
Yes, I know. It was in all the
papers. But you don't.

410
00:26:54,250 --> 00:26:58,230
It's inconceivable she'd murder him.

411
00:26:59,230 --> 00:27:02,120
I know she gave herself up, but...

412
00:27:04,150 --> 00:27:07,160
..I've always felt it wasn't true.

413
00:27:08,170 --> 00:27:10,190
It wasn't Margaret.

414
00:27:11,190 --> 00:27:13,230
It can't have been.

415
00:27:26,220 --> 00:27:29,210
Good morning, gentlemen.
Good morning, Mrs Franklin.

416
00:27:29,220 --> 00:27:33,120
You sound very happy today, madame.
I am. I am, Monsieur Poirot.

417
00:27:33,130 --> 00:27:38,170
I'm going on a little outing with
Sir William to Knatton Hall to
advise him on his cretonnes.

418
00:27:38,180 --> 00:27:42,260
Silly me left my handbag in the
studio yesterday when I was talking
to John.

419
00:27:42,270 --> 00:27:45,250
Head like a sieve.
Where is Dr Franklin?

420
00:27:45,260 --> 00:27:49,320
He and Judith have driven into
Tadminster for some chemical or
other.

421
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,130
I'm so glad I don't have a
scientific mind.

422
00:27:53,140 --> 00:27:56,140
On a day like this, it all seems so
puerile.

423
00:27:56,150 --> 00:27:59,130
Do not let the scientists hear you
say that, madame.

424
00:27:59,140 --> 00:28:03,130
Oh. Oh, you mustn't think
I don't admire my husband, monsieur.

425
00:28:03,140 --> 00:28:05,330
The way he lives for his work
is really tremendous,

426
00:28:05,340 --> 00:28:10,110
but it makes me nervous
the lengths to which he might go.

427
00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:12,170
What exactly do you mean, madame?

428
00:28:12,180 --> 00:28:16,290
Well, this horrible Calabar bean
thing.

429
00:28:16,300 --> 00:28:20,230
I'm so afraid he's going to start
experimenting on himself.

430
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:24,290
You see, he can only learn so much
from animals.

431
00:28:24,300 --> 00:28:26,330
He'd take every precaution, surely.

432
00:28:26,340 --> 00:28:31,180
Oh, you don't know John.
Absolutely oblivious of his own
safety.

433
00:28:31,190 --> 00:28:34,170
He really is a sort of saint.

434
00:28:34,180 --> 00:28:37,290
You ready, Babs? Oh. Mustn't keep
the baronet waiting.

435
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,130
Dr Franklin, the modern saint.

436
00:28:44,140 --> 00:28:46,140
She's a feather for every wind.

437
00:28:46,150 --> 00:28:49,330
You think she is a fool, do you not,
Hastings?

438
00:28:49,340 --> 00:28:54,170
Well, she's not the most brilliant
intellect. First her handbag, now
her gloves.

439
00:28:54,180 --> 00:28:56,300
I don't know how that girl puts up
with it.

440
00:29:00,330 --> 00:29:03,260
It was so close! Wasn't it?

441
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:16,100
I...can't help noticing, Captain,
that you're looking a little uneasy.

442
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:21,290
Am I? And I have to say, well, I'd
feel the same way.

443
00:29:24,110 --> 00:29:26,230
Things change all the time, don't
they?

444
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:31,300
Girls are more independent now.
I suppose the w-war had a lot to do
with that.

445
00:29:32,290 --> 00:29:34,300
What are you trying to say, Norton?

446
00:29:34,310 --> 00:29:36,270
Well...

447
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,200
..don't let it go further, but...

448
00:29:40,220 --> 00:29:43,140
..when it comes to young women,

449
00:29:43,150 --> 00:29:47,160
Allerton has rather a special
t-technique in that line.

450
00:29:49,330 --> 00:29:53,260
I happen to know something pretty
f-foul about him, actually.

451
00:29:53,270 --> 00:29:55,300
And what would that be?

452
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:01,110
Not long ago, I heard of a girl just
like Judith -

453
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:06,320
modern, independent -
falling prey to the major's charms.

454
00:30:07,300 --> 00:30:13,240
Once he'd got her in his clutches,
just when she was at her most
v-vulnerable,

455
00:30:13,250 --> 00:30:16,290
he abandoned her, leaving her
d-desperate.

456
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,140
So d-devastated was she...

457
00:30:22,100 --> 00:30:24,110
..she took her own life.

458
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,240
An overdose of Veronal.

459
00:30:44,130 --> 00:30:46,120
Poor old woman.

460
00:30:46,130 --> 00:30:47,250
Devilish pain.

461
00:30:47,260 --> 00:30:52,230
Overdose of morphia finished her off
and her niece, Freda, said it was a
slip-up.

462
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:56,200
The police had other ideas
but didn't have enough evidence to
prosecute.

463
00:30:56,210 --> 00:30:58,240
You knew her, did you, Freda Clay?

464
00:30:58,250 --> 00:30:59,290
Yes.

465
00:30:59,300 --> 00:31:02,180
It is just that I have heard this
story before.

466
00:31:02,190 --> 00:31:05,120
So have I, from someone
who was there, actually.

467
00:31:05,130 --> 00:31:07,100
Ah, have you?

468
00:31:07,110 --> 00:31:09,160
It was in all the papers.

469
00:31:10,190 --> 00:31:13,220
Get a bit erm...fuddled
in the old brain-box sometimes.

470
00:31:13,230 --> 00:31:16,190
Oh, Bill, can't you think of
anything jollier to talk about?

471
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,340
I'm sure Monsieur Poirot
is fed up to the back teeth

472
00:31:19,100 --> 00:31:22,220
with people killing and dying
and who did what and why.

473
00:31:22,230 --> 00:31:25,280
She certainly keeps us on our toes,
eh, Franklin?

474
00:31:25,290 --> 00:31:27,290
Just the ticket.

475
00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:31,110
They do say, don't they, that men
tend to marry their mothers?

476
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:32,260
I'm not quite sure about that.

477
00:31:32,270 --> 00:31:35,120
Better ask Norton. He's the expert.

478
00:31:35,130 --> 00:31:37,310
A full complement!

479
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,190
What a treat! Isn't it, Toby?

480
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,110
Yes, my sweet.

481
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,160
Our little dinners are not the same
without you, Monsieur Poirot.

482
00:31:44,170 --> 00:31:46,300
No. I don't like the thought of your
eating alone.

483
00:31:46,310 --> 00:31:50,340
I myself do not like to miss
anything, mon cher.

484
00:31:51,100 --> 00:31:53,230
Never a m-moment's rest in your line
of work.

485
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,160
No, no, Monsieur Norton, there is
always still so much more to do...

486
00:31:58,220 --> 00:32:01,100
..but the clock it ticks. Non?

487
00:32:01,330 --> 00:32:04,100
Such is the will of God.

488
00:32:04,110 --> 00:32:07,280
We'll all miss you, old chap,
but you won't be forgotten.

489
00:32:10,110 --> 00:32:11,290
Mm.

490
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,230
Damn good claret. But my point is...
Now, Bill.

491
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:19,260
You can see where Freda was coming
from, putting somebody out of their
misery.

492
00:32:19,270 --> 00:32:22,280
Don't you think it should only be
done with the patient's consent?

493
00:32:22,290 --> 00:32:27,180
It can't be left to the patient.
It's the duty of someone who loves
them to take responsibility.

494
00:32:27,190 --> 00:32:31,320
And end up being charged with
murder? If you love someone, you'd
take that risk.

495
00:32:31,330 --> 00:32:35,120
Would you? Yes, I would.

496
00:32:36,220 --> 00:32:39,260
Well, I certainly wouldn't,
and neither would Toby, would you,
dear?

497
00:32:39,270 --> 00:32:43,260
Sip of water. That'll shift it.

498
00:32:44,260 --> 0