13200:09:19,090 --> 00:09:24,130It'

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It's just that I was thinking of
this case of a man who treated his
daughters appallingly.

133
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But when the eldest steeled herself
to... cut the knot, so to speak,

134
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in order that her sisters might go
free, she gave herself up and was
hanged.

135
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Margaret Litchfield.

136
00:09:36,090 --> 00:09:38,240
Yes. How did you know?

137
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Oh... It is a case most famous.

138
00:09:41,110 --> 00:09:43,020
Well, I think she was very brave.

139
00:09:43,030 --> 00:09:44,240
And Dr Franklin, what does he think?

140
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He thinks it served the old man
right.

141
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Some people just ask to be murdered.

142
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Murder is never justified, Judith.
But when a situation is so
extreme...

143
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Who has been putting into your head
these ideas?

144
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Nobody.
Pernicious nonsense!

145
00:10:02,090 --> 00:10:05,040
Actually, I came over
to give you a message from Mrs
Franklin.

146
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She's invited you to her room.

147
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Excuse me.

148
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I've never understood that girl.

149
00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:15,200
Oh, she is her own woman,
and a good one too, Hastings.

150
00:10:15,210 --> 00:10:18,030
But she's become so cold-hearted.

151
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I put it down to the company she
keeps - that wretched Dr Franklin.

152
00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,000
And Allerton. I don't like that man.

153
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What you call the nasty bit of
goods, eh?

154
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But most attractive to the ladies.
Isn't that always the way?

155
00:10:40,150 --> 00:10:43,120
I'm delighted you're here, Captain
Hastings.

156
00:10:43,130 --> 00:10:46,000
Dear Monsieur Poirot must be so
pleased.

157
00:10:46,010 --> 00:10:50,130
Sharp as a knife, old Poirot,
even though he is falling to bits.

158
00:10:50,140 --> 00:10:55,030
And it will be so nice for Judith.
The child has been working far too
hard.

159
00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,240
She looks very well on it.
Oh, how I envy her.

160
00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,090
Ill health has been the bane of my
life.

161
00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:04,050
Pillows, Craven.

162
00:11:04,060 --> 00:11:07,230
Yes, my husband's a real slave
driver. Aren't you, John?

163
00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,150
Mm? What's that, Barbara?

164
00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:15,060
She was just saying
how you work poor Judith into the
ground.

165
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Judith, yes.

166
00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,050
There was something we had to...
Do excuse me.

167
00:11:22,170 --> 00:11:24,240
Oh, I feel so inadequate.

168
00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,160
I know I ought to take more
interest. You shouldn't worry
yourself, Babs.

169
00:11:29,170 --> 00:11:35,140
But I find it all so nasty, the
guinea pigs and the rats and
everything.

170
00:11:35,150 --> 00:11:37,150
It makes me feel quite sick.

171
00:11:38,090 --> 00:11:41,030
I just want to think about lovely,
happy things.

172
00:11:41,210 --> 00:11:44,230
Babs and I are old playmates,
even though she's 15 years younger.

173
00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,110
Darling Bill.

174
00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,210
Then when I came back from Burma
to find her a beautiful young lady.

175
00:11:50,220 --> 00:11:53,050
My family used to live in this part
of the world

176
00:11:53,060 --> 00:11:56,040
and Bill would come to stay with his
uncle at Knatton Hall.

177
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A mausoleum of a place.

178
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Needs a woman's hand.

179
00:12:04,010 --> 00:12:07,030
I don't mind telling you
I completely lost my heart,

180
00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:09,090
but she went and married Franklin.

181
00:12:09,100 --> 00:12:11,130
The fellow doesn't understand her.

182
00:12:11,140 --> 00:12:14,140
He's only interested in his test
tubes, damned fool!

183
00:12:15,150 --> 00:12:17,170
Fancy a rubber?

184
00:12:26,100 --> 00:12:28,090
Hearts, you stupid man!

185
00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,200
Oh, there's nothing for it,
we'll have to start again.

186
00:12:32,210 --> 00:12:36,110
I don't know what's got into me.
I'm all at sixes and sevens.

187
00:12:39,140 --> 00:12:42,050
We haven't cut yet!

188
00:12:42,060 --> 00:12:46,030
Oh, I'm sorry, dear. I'm so sorry.

189
00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:57,080
Well, that was pretty g-ghastly.

190
00:12:57,090 --> 00:12:58,240
Shh.

191
00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,050
It gets my back up to see him
b-bullied like that.
Keep it down.

192
00:13:02,060 --> 00:13:06,090
But it's too b-bad, it really is.
And what's worse, he just t-takes it.

193
00:13:07,030 --> 00:13:09,080
Couldn't assert himself if he tried.

194
00:13:11,210 --> 00:13:13,230
Oughtn't we to shut that?

195
00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,190
Ah, I d-don't think everybody's in
yet.

196
00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:21,130
Who's still out? Your d-daughter, I
think, and Allerton.

197
00:13:54,010 --> 00:13:56,150
Still about, old chap?
I couldn't sleep.

198
00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,000
I was going to get some pills from
Poirot.

199
00:13:59,220 --> 00:14:02,180
Oh. I'll fix you up.

200
00:14:02,190 --> 00:14:04,200
No need to wake him.
Oh.

201
00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:15,210
Do you normally stay up this late?

202
00:14:15,220 --> 00:14:18,220
I never go to bed when there's sport
abroad.

203
00:14:18,230 --> 00:14:22,210
These moonlit evenings
aren't made to be wasted.

204
00:14:25,150 --> 00:14:27,160
This is the real stuff.

205
00:14:27,170 --> 00:14:29,210
It'll make you sleep like a log.

206
00:14:29,220 --> 00:14:32,130
Slumberyl. Is it dangerous?

207
00:14:32,140 --> 00:14:35,200
It is if you take too much of it.
It's one of the barbiturates.

208
00:14:35,210 --> 00:14:40,150
Don't you need a prescription?
Damned right, but I've got a pull in
that line.

209
00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,120
An old friend of mine
gave me a few useful introductions.

210
00:14:43,130 --> 00:14:46,110
Dead now, sadly.
Chap called Etherington.

211
00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:48,150
Leonard Etherington?

212
00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,120
That's the one.

213
00:14:50,130 --> 00:14:53,120
That wife of his. Who'd have thought
she'd have it in her?

214
00:14:53,130 --> 00:14:57,030
Arsenic, wasn't it?
Yes. Knew him too, did you?

215
00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:58,240
No, I read about it.

216
00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,210
I see.

217
00:15:00,220 --> 00:15:04,050
Funny chap, but good company...
in small doses.

218
00:15:05,230 --> 00:15:07,170
Sleep well.

219
00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:16,010
This is the Calabar bean.
Physostigma venenosum.

220
00:15:16,020 --> 00:15:19,140
I've been experimenting with various
alkaloids derived from it.

221
00:15:19,150 --> 00:15:22,070
Poirot, this stuff's really more up
your street than mine.

222
00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:23,180
How is that, mon ami?

223
00:15:23,190 --> 00:15:28,060
Well, you see, it's also called the
ordeal bean, supposed to prove
innocence or guilt.

224
00:15:28,070 --> 00:15:30,020
Don't you like rats, Father?

225
00:15:30,030 --> 00:15:31,240
I certainly don't like Allerton.

226
00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,130
So that's it.

227
00:15:33,140 --> 00:15:35,100
And I suspect you don't either.

228
00:15:35,110 --> 00:15:38,040
Why shouldn't I like him?
He's not your type.

229
00:15:38,050 --> 00:15:40,010
And what is my type?

230
00:15:40,180 --> 00:15:43,050
You have no idea, have you?

231
00:15:43,060 --> 00:15:45,150
Well, as it happens, I find him most
amusing.

232
00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,130
Amusing, yes. And very attractive.
Any woman would.

233
00:15:48,140 --> 00:15:50,130
That's the trouble.
Really, Father!

234
00:15:50,140 --> 00:15:52,160
You were out with him very late last
night.

235
00:15:52,170 --> 00:15:56,000
What has that to do with you?
This is most interesting.

236
00:15:56,010 --> 00:16:00,070
I would find it a great help
if I could test so easily the guilt
or innocence.

237
00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,040
Then you have to ask,
what is guilt or innocence?

238
00:16:03,050 --> 00:16:07,030
Pretty obvious, I'd say. One would
always feel guilt when it comes to
murder.

239
00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,170
You think so? There are lots of
people I'd like to kill

240
00:16:09,180 --> 00:16:12,180
without my conscience
being too much troubled.

241
00:16:13,050 --> 00:16:15,190
I do so hate making a fuss.

242
00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:23,190
I sometimes think...if one isn't
healthy, one should be quietly put
away.

243
00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,120
God, no, madame.

244
00:16:25,130 --> 00:16:27,200
Look at me, all cramped and twisted,

245
00:16:27,210 --> 00:16:29,200
not able to move,

246
00:16:29,210 --> 00:16:31,200
yet I do not think of quitting.

247
00:16:32,130 --> 00:16:34,180
I enjoy still what I can.

248
00:16:34,190 --> 00:16:37,120
But you have only yourself to
consider.

249
00:16:37,130 --> 00:16:40,030
In my case, there's poor John.

250
00:16:41,020 --> 00:16:43,140
I feel such a millstone round his
neck.

251
00:16:43,150 --> 00:16:45,170
But I'm sure he's never said such a
thing.