102601:15:42,480 --> 01:15:44,516Ex

1026
01:15:42,480 --> 01:15:44,516
Exactement.

1027
01:15:45,600 --> 01:15:47,750
A Dictaphone. Is that what you think?

1028
01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:50,513
But it doesn't change anything.

1029
01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:52,955
Mr Ackroyd was alive at 9.30,

1030
01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:55,031
since he was speaking
into his Dictaphone.

1031
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:09,993
But always we come back
to Monsieur Ralph Paton.

1032
01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:13,518
As I have said,

1033
01:16:13,600 --> 01:16:17,991
we know that he was in the
summer house with Madame Paton.

1034
01:16:18,080 --> 01:16:20,992
But then suddenly, pouf! He disappears.

1035
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:26,551
Where? He has fled the country, perhaps?

1036
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:32,078
Or perhaps he has become the
third victim of our murderer.

1037
01:16:32,160 --> 01:16:33,275
No!

1038
01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:38,594
Or perhaps someone is helping him
to conceal himself from the police.

1039
01:16:38,629 --> 01:16:41,196
But who and where?

1040
01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:44,192
A hotel? Non.

1041
01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:45,952
Far too public.

1042
01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:49,157
A boarding house? No, no. The same.

1043
01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:51,196
I have it.

1044
01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:54,275
The private nursing home.

1045
01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:57,750
Chief Inspector Japp made enquiries

1046
01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:01,992
and discovered that there were
in the area two nursing homes.

1047
01:17:02,080 --> 01:17:06,358
And at one of them, there had been
admitted early on Saturday morning a certain

1048
01:17:07,480 --> 01:17:09,072
Mr Smith.

1049
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:11,116
But Ralph would never run away!

1050
01:17:12,440 --> 01:17:16,558
We can ask Mr Smith himself.

1051
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:22,108
Oh, Ralph!

1052
01:17:25,480 --> 01:17:27,436
But I ask myself,

1053
01:17:27,520 --> 01:17:31,911
I wonder who it is who gave
authority to the nursing home

1054
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:35,356
for the admission of
Monsieur Ralph Paton?

1055
01:17:37,680 --> 01:17:39,671
All right, Poirot.

1056
01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:42,797
Mea culpa.

1057
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:46,589
As soon as I heard that Ralph
was back in Kings Abbott,

1058
01:17:46,680 --> 01:17:49,717
and staying at the White Hart,
I knew something must be wrong.

1059
01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:52,314
I went to see him that afternoon.

1060
01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:56,518
Eventually, he told me about his
marriage and the hole he was in.

1061
01:17:56,600 --> 01:18:00,070
There didn't seem to be anything
I could do to help at the time,

1062
01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:03,072
but that night, when the
murder was discovered,

1063
01:18:03,160 --> 01:18:06,436
I knew that suspicion would fall on him.

1064
01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:08,715
Or, if not on him, on the girl he loved.

1065
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:15,397
And the thought of his possibly having to
give evidence that might incriminate his wife

1066
01:18:15,480 --> 01:18:19,268
My dear James, have I
not told to you 36 times,

1067
01:18:19,360 --> 01:18:22,989
it is impossible to conceal
anything from Hercule Poirot?

1068
01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:45,875
I know precisely who murdered Monsieur
Roger Ackroyd and Monsieur Parker

1069
01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:47,916
and how it was done.

1070
01:18:49,360 --> 01:18:51,316
And this

1071
01:18:52,400 --> 01:18:54,595
tells to me all.

1072
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:57,351
What is it?

1073
01:18:58,400 --> 01:19:00,755
It is a wireless message from a steamer

1074
01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:03,195
on her way to the United States.

1075
01:19:05,160 --> 01:19:09,676
And tomorrow, the good
Chief Inspector Japp

1076
01:19:11,080 --> 01:19:13,435
will make his arrest.

1077
01:19:23,720 --> 01:19:25,119
What a ridiculous exercise!

1078
01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:29,398
I have never seen anything more
pointless in my entire life!

1079
01:19:29,480 --> 01:19:31,436
That wretched little man! Really!

1080
01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:06,153
Now, look here, Poirot.

1081
01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:08,356
If you really know who
committed this murder...

1082
01:20:08,440 --> 01:20:10,670
Both of the murders, Chief Inspector.

1083
01:20:12,480 --> 01:20:13,833
Yes, I do.

1084
01:20:24,840 --> 01:20:27,957
- Well, who is it?
- Can you tell us?

1085
01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:33,314
Poirot shall not make
things easy for you.

1086
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:36,819
You, Chief Inspector, with your career
of detection both long and distinguished,

1087
01:20:36,854 --> 01:20:40,079
you have your theories, I
know. And you, my dear James,

1088
01:20:40,160 --> 01:20:43,516
you have been involved in the case
from the beginning, n'est-ce pas?

1089
01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:46,239
You know intimately all
of the people involved,

1090
01:20:46,320 --> 01:20:48,231
as only the good country doctor can.

1091
01:20:48,320 --> 01:20:52,074
But, before I reveal my secret,

1092
01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:55,755
you must both expound
your theories to me.

1093
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:00,704
And let us commence with you, James.

1094
01:21:00,739 --> 01:21:02,958
Me? Oh, no.

1095
01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:07,310
I can't show myself up in
front of the professionals.

1096
01:21:10,160 --> 01:21:13,755
I got so fed up with waiting in the car.
Are you going to be much longer, James?

1097
01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:18,188
- No, no. Maybe I ought to call it a day.
- No, my dear James.

1098
01:21:18,223 --> 01:21:22,150
Madame, your brother was just going to
tell us his theories about the murderer.

1099
01:21:22,240 --> 01:21:24,708
Please to come and sit.

1100
01:21:26,160 --> 01:21:28,116
Yes.

1101
01:21:30,160 --> 01:21:32,116
Yes, of course.

1102
01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:38,274
Merci. So, James, tell us, what sort
of man or woman are we looking for?

1103
01:21:38,360 --> 01:21:41,830
Woman? I hardly think
it could be a woman.

1104
01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:47,158
And this man, was he also,
do you think, the blackmailer?

1105
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:54,789
Oh, I think he probably had some sort of
financial arrangement with Mrs Ferrars, yes.

1106
01:21:55,800 --> 01:22:00,316
Somehow, certainly, he became aware of
the true cause of Ashley Ferrars' death.

1107
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:03,949
He could even be a detective.

1108
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:13,471
But perhaps, as a doctor, you would have
been also situated most ideally, n'est-ce pas?

1109
01:22:13,560 --> 01:22:15,755
Oh, ideally.

1110
01:22:16,920 --> 01:22:19,354
But the important moment in this case

1111
01:22:19,440 --> 01:22:22,113
is not the murder of Ashley Ferrars,

1112
01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:24,555
but the suicide of his widow.

1113
01:22:24,640 --> 01:22:28,394
Her motives remain unclear,
but, for whatever reason,

1114
01:22:28,480 --> 01:22:31,916
she decided to end her life.

1115
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:37,870
Now, this must have placed our
murderer in something of a quandary.

1116
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:43,592
He knew about her rather distasteful
affair with Roger Ackroyd.

1117
01:22:43,680 --> 01:22:47,912
His difficulty was in knowing
whether, before she died,

1118
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:52,232
she had confided in him
the identity of the man

1119
01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:54,880
with whom she had the
financial arrangement.

1120
01:22:54,960 --> 01:22:56,029
The blackmailer.

1121
01:22:56,120 --> 01:23:00,272
This was hardly some common
blackmailer, Chief Inspector.

1122
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:06,151
He probably saw Roger Ackroyd
somewhere about this time

1123
01:23:06,240 --> 01:23:11,109
and something in Ackroyd's
manner made him wonder.

1124
01:23:11,200 --> 01:23:13,634
And, in that moment,

1125
01:23:13,720 --> 01:23:17,110
he decided he could not take a chance.

1126
01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:21,423
He was certainly capable of
constructing some sort of device

1127
01:23:21,458 --> 01:23:25,639
to turn a Dictaphone on and
off at any time he chose.

1128
01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:32,239
I don't imagine he'd left the choice of
weapon as much to chance as it would appear.

1129
01:23:33,200 --> 01:23:36,158
I believe he had a
weapon with him already

1130
01:23:37,240 --> 01:23:40,051
when it occurred to him that the dagger,

1131
01:23:40,086 --> 01:23:44,767
which was actually on display
at the scene of the crime,

1132
01:23:44,802 --> 01:23:48,709
would cast the net of
suspicion even wider.

1133
01:23:49,920 --> 01:23:52,229
He was all ready to perform the killing,

1134
01:23:53,010 --> 01:23:57,155
when he had confirmation
of his deepest fear.

1135
01:23:57,240 --> 01:23:59,071
The evening post, sir.

1136
01:23:59,160 --> 01:24:03,756
Mrs Ferrars had indeed
confided in Ackroyd,

1137
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:08,356
but not in person
- she had written him a letter.

1138
01:24:09,400 --> 01:24:15,555
And Ackroyd opened that letter in
his presence and started to read it.

1139
01:24:16,440 --> 01:24:19,512
"My dear, my very dear Roger,

1140
01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:22,876
I would not tell you
the name this afternoon

1141
01:24:23,920 --> 01:24:26,434
but I propose to write it to you now."

1142
01:24:28,800 --> 01:24:31,758
I'm sorry, but I I must
read this on my own.

1143
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:35,109
At least tell me the name of the man.

1144
01:24:35,200 --> 01:24:38,033
- No, no. I must read it on my own.
- Very well.

1145
01:24:46,680 --> 01:24:50,912
And in that letter, Madame Ferrars
had named the blackmailer, had she not?

1146
01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:54,675
I've been reading this book
I found in the car, James.

1147
01:24:54,760 --> 01:24:56,432
It wasn't blackmail!

1148
01:24:56,520 --> 01:24:58,351
Don't say any more, James.

1149
01:24:58,440 --> 01:25:02,319
Oh, come now, James. The man
had bled Madame Ferrars white!

1150
01:25:02,400 --> 01:25:07,155
Dorothy Ferrars was an
adulterous, murdering bitch!

1151
01:25:07,240 --> 01:25:10,152
She lorded it over us.

1152
01:25:10,240 --> 01:25:14,313
All the money she had
- she never worked for it. Nor did her