1 00:00:18,118 --> 00:00:20,120 (MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING) 2 00:00:27,694 --> 00:00:29,229 (BIRDS CHIRPING) 3 00:00:39,572 --> 00:00:40,707 (BELL TOLLS) 4 00:00:53,987 --> 00:00:55,522 - (GIRL SCREAMS) - (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) 5 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:01,361 (MUSIC FADES OUT) 6 00:01:15,942 --> 00:01:17,944 (HEAVY BREATHING) 7 00:01:21,614 --> 00:01:22,649 (WOMAN SINGING) 8 00:01:33,293 --> 00:01:34,561 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATION) 9 00:01:39,632 --> 00:01:42,302 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 10 00:02:14,367 --> 00:02:16,770 MAN: Signore Poirot, your pastries. 11 00:02:16,870 --> 00:02:18,710 HERCULE: Ah, monsieur. 12 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,275 - The eggs came, signore. - Ah, grazie. 13 00:02:26,846 --> 00:02:28,214 - MAN: Poirot! - (INDISTINCT SHOUTING) 14 00:02:28,615 --> 00:02:30,116 Monsieur Poirot, you must help me. 15 00:02:30,216 --> 00:02:32,552 My parents both mysteriously died last year. 16 00:02:32,619 --> 00:02:34,454 My brother, soon after. 17 00:02:34,554 --> 00:02:36,256 Our doctor can't explain it. 18 00:02:36,756 --> 00:02:39,250 Please, Monsieur. I fear for my life. 19 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:40,260 They say we're cursed. 20 00:02:45,650 --> 00:02:46,199 (WOMEN GASP) 21 00:02:46,266 --> 00:02:47,267 VITALE: What did I tell you? 22 00:02:47,701 --> 00:02:49,769 Touch him again and I keep your hand. 23 00:02:49,869 --> 00:02:50,870 HERCULE: Excuse me, Sir. 24 00:02:54,574 --> 00:02:55,575 Signore Poirot. 25 00:02:55,642 --> 00:02:56,710 I need to speak to you 26 00:02:56,776 --> 00:02:58,311 urgently, please. (SCREAMS) 27 00:03:11,591 --> 00:03:12,592 Hmm. 28 00:03:16,162 --> 00:03:17,163 Monsieur Poirot, 29 00:03:18,932 --> 00:03:19,999 there is a lady here. 30 00:03:20,100 --> 00:03:22,235 She says she's in Venice on urgent business. 31 00:03:22,302 --> 00:03:23,903 She says she's a friend of yours. 32 00:03:23,970 --> 00:03:24,971 I don't have any friends. 33 00:03:25,710 --> 00:03:26,573 She said you would say that, 34 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:28,775 so I should give you this. 35 00:03:29,676 --> 00:03:31,770 The authoress. 36 00:03:33,613 --> 00:03:36,316 Hello, young man. Is your mother at home? 37 00:03:36,483 --> 00:03:39,119 You must forgive my bodyguard. His instructions are mine. 38 00:03:39,185 --> 00:03:40,820 No one may pass but the pastry man, 39 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,455 - twice a day. - Twice a day? 40 00:03:42,522 --> 00:03:43,857 (CHUCKLES) You know me. 41 00:03:43,957 --> 00:03:45,358 - Apples only till supper. - Ah, yes. 42 00:03:46,260 --> 00:03:47,627 Oh, gosh, I like this so much. 43 00:03:47,694 --> 00:03:48,828 (ARIADNE CHUCKLES) 44 00:03:48,928 --> 00:03:50,296 Oh, the little chochy-chochy-late. 45 00:03:50,363 --> 00:03:54,601 Hmm. Hercule Poirot really has gone silent. 46 00:03:54,834 --> 00:03:57,203 Walled himself up into retirement. 47 00:03:57,303 --> 00:03:58,371 Cakes for cases. 48 00:03:58,471 --> 00:03:59,973 I am much satisfied. 49 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:01,274 No. 50 00:04:01,341 --> 00:04:04,144 This is happiness, not satisfaction. 51 00:04:04,210 --> 00:04:06,460 A writer knows the difference. 52 00:04:06,146 --> 00:04:08,448 Even picked Venice to hide in. 53 00:04:08,515 --> 00:04:11,217 A gorgeous relic, slowly sinking into the sea, 54 00:04:11,317 --> 00:04:13,820 just like your mind without a challenge. (CHUCKLES) 55 00:04:13,887 --> 00:04:16,560 Don't underestimate me for a clever turn of phrase. 56 00:04:16,156 --> 00:04:18,324 I am the world's number one mystery writer. 57 00:04:18,391 --> 00:04:19,559 Or was, anyway. 58 00:04:19,659 --> 00:04:22,495 Bestsellers, 27 of 30 books. 59 00:04:22,562 --> 00:04:24,640 Damn the critics on the last three. 60 00:04:24,164 --> 00:04:25,699 Called them all small beer. 61 00:04:25,799 --> 00:04:29,350 Ariadne Oliver, it is good to see you. 62 00:04:29,135 --> 00:04:30,637 - You're coming with me. - Hmm? 63 00:04:31,137 --> 00:04:33,340 Time to put some life back into your life. 64 00:04:33,406 --> 00:04:34,407 Well, then. 65 00:04:34,808 --> 00:04:36,743 Did you not hear? This is urgent. 66 00:04:36,843 --> 00:04:40,747 You are not the first who has come to seduce me with some irresistible case. 67 00:04:40,847 --> 00:04:43,683 Not a case. It's much spiffier than that. 68 00:04:45,251 --> 00:04:48,321 You really are cut off from the world. Do you not know what today is? 69 00:04:48,388 --> 00:04:49,989 (LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING) 70 00:04:50,390 --> 00:04:51,658 What is "spiffier"? 71 00:04:56,996 --> 00:04:58,665 MAN: Happy Halloween! Yeah! 72 00:05:00,166 --> 00:05:03,300 We Americans imported loud music and terrible chocolate, 73 00:05:03,690 --> 00:05:05,500 but we also brought back Halloween. 74 00:05:05,710 --> 00:05:06,906 There's a party tonight for the children. 75 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:08,410 - (CHILDREN SINGING) - MAN 2: Hey, kids! 76 00:05:08,108 --> 00:05:10,243 America says, "Happy Halloween!" 77 00:05:10,710 --> 00:05:13,460 MAN 3: Hey! Happy Halloween! Let's go! 78 00:05:13,513 --> 00:05:15,215 (CHEERY ACCORDION MUSIC PLAYING) 79 00:05:15,281 --> 00:05:18,218 ARIADNE: Poirot, I've found something. Someone. 80 00:05:18,284 --> 00:05:19,552 I can't explain it. 81 00:05:19,619 --> 00:05:23,390 I've looked at it from every which way, and I can't figure it out. 82 00:05:23,456 --> 00:05:25,759 HERCULE: You are up to something, my friend. 83 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:29,362 Well, "The Unholy Ms. Reynolds." 84 00:05:30,930 --> 00:05:33,600 She's a spiritualist or a medium, according to the papers. 85 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:35,969 "Joyce Reynolds, recently released from jail" 86 00:05:36,690 --> 00:05:38,271 "was the last woman on record imprisoned" 87 00:05:38,371 --> 00:05:42,108 "under the terms of the Witchcraft Act of 1735." 88 00:05:42,208 --> 00:05:44,444 I've seen a million of these so-called psychics, 89 00:05:44,544 --> 00:05:46,279 each one a flimflam fake. 90 00:05:46,379 --> 00:05:47,414 Then, there's that one. 91 00:05:48,810 --> 00:05:49,416 Astonishing. 92 00:05:49,482 --> 00:05:50,884 I tell you, this Ms. Reynolds, 93 00:05:50,950 --> 00:05:52,318 I sat at a séance. 94 00:05:52,419 --> 00:05:54,421 - Things happened. - Tricks. 95 00:05:54,487 --> 00:05:56,990 I am the smartest person I ever met, and I can't figure it out. 96 00:05:57,900 --> 00:05:58,391 So, I came to the second. 97 00:05:58,892 --> 00:06:01,561 I need Detective Poirot to pop this balloon 98 00:06:01,628 --> 00:06:04,130 or God help me, I will end up a believer. 99 00:06:04,230 --> 00:06:05,331 Spot the con I can't. 100 00:06:05,432 --> 00:06:07,434 Come with me to the orphans' Halloween party. 101 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:10,637 Then, afterwards, we're invited to a séance. 102 00:06:11,104 --> 00:06:12,105 (ARIADNE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) 103 00:06:12,172 --> 00:06:13,506 MAN 1: Hey, boys, there's a Halloween party. 104 00:06:13,606 --> 00:06:14,641 MAN 2: You're taking her on a date? 105 00:06:14,741 --> 00:06:16,760 (MEN LAUGHING) 106 00:06:17,644 --> 00:06:19,179 - MAN: Enjoy the party, kids. - (CHILDREN LAUGHING) 107 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:20,613 Don't get too scared now. 108 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:21,948 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 109 00:06:23,817 --> 00:06:25,285 (ACCORDION MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING) 110 00:06:37,964 --> 00:06:39,366 (WOMAN SHOUTING IN DISTANCE) 111 00:06:43,269 --> 00:06:44,537 (MUSIC FADES OUT) 112 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:47,841 (FIREWORKS EXPLODING) 113 00:06:48,208 --> 00:06:49,976 (CHEERING IN DISTANCE) 114 00:06:50,543 --> 00:06:52,545 (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) 115 00:06:54,180 --> 00:06:56,182 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 116 00:07:00,687 --> 00:07:02,522 (CHILDREN CHATTERING, LAUGHING) 117 00:07:12,198 --> 00:07:13,333 There it is. 118 00:07:14,467 --> 00:07:16,336 Palazzo Lacrime dei Giovani. 119 00:07:17,337 --> 00:07:19,305 In Venice, we say, 120 00:07:19,372 --> 00:07:21,341 "Every house is haunted" 121 00:07:22,175 --> 00:07:23,476 "or cursed." 122 00:07:34,688 --> 00:07:36,322 (MYSTERIOUS MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING) 123 00:07:37,857 --> 00:07:39,426 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 124 00:07:43,329 --> 00:07:45,365 MAN: Are you ready, children? 125 00:07:45,432 --> 00:07:47,767 - ALL: Yeah! - (ALL CHEERING) 126 00:07:53,106 --> 00:07:54,374 Long ago, 127 00:07:55,241 --> 00:07:57,944 this palazzo was an orphanage. 128 00:07:59,790 --> 00:08:03,750 Good doctors and good nurses took care of good children. 129 00:08:04,451 --> 00:08:05,752 Until the Plague. 130 00:08:06,286 --> 00:08:07,387 (PUPPET SHRIEKS) 131 00:08:07,454 --> 00:08:09,856 MAN: Plagues make people afraid 132 00:08:10,423 --> 00:08:13,426 and fear makes people do terrible things. 133 00:08:13,526 --> 00:08:14,527 (PUPPET SCREAMS) 134 00:08:14,594 --> 00:08:15,929 (PUPPET WHIMPERING) 135 00:08:17,464 --> 00:08:19,532 Is it not too frightening for the children? 136 00:08:19,599 --> 00:08:22,302 Hmm. Scary stories make life less scary. 137 00:08:23,703 --> 00:08:25,205 (LOCK CLICKS SHUT) 138 00:08:25,271 --> 00:08:28,975 MAN: The children soon realized they were alone. 139 00:08:29,750 --> 00:08:31,811 Locked inside to die. 140 00:08:31,911 --> 00:08:34,581 Starving, calling, clawing. 141 00:08:34,647 --> 00:08:35,982 (PUPPETS SCREAMING) 142 00:08:37,484 --> 00:08:40,820 MAN: Some say the children are still hiding in this palazzo 143 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,289 and they want more children to join them. 144 00:08:43,390 --> 00:08:45,580 So, you be careful. 145 00:08:45,125 --> 00:08:48,328 For they want revenge on the doctors and nurses 146 00:08:48,428 --> 00:08:50,163 who left them here to die. 147 00:08:50,263 --> 00:08:51,398 (PUPPETS WHISPERING) 148 00:08:51,464 --> 00:08:53,400 (SOFTLY) Watch out for the mark 149 00:08:53,466 --> 00:08:55,680 of the Children's Vendetta. 150 00:08:55,735 --> 00:08:57,337 (CHILDREN GASPING) 151 00:08:57,937 --> 00:09:00,407 MAN: No one here is a doctor, are they? Huh? 152 00:09:00,473 --> 00:09:02,108 - CHILDREN: No. - Or a nurse? 153 00:09:02,175 --> 00:09:04,770 - CHILDREN: No. - MAN: No? 154 00:09:04,144 --> 00:09:07,914 Then, I guess it's safe to start the party! 155 00:09:07,981 --> 00:09:08,982 (CHILDREN CHEERING) 156 00:09:09,820 --> 00:09:11,840 (GHOSTLY SHRIEKING) 157 00:09:11,518 --> 00:09:13,520 - (LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING) - (CHILDREN CHATTERING) 158 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:20,627 Don't! Stop running. 159 00:09:23,763 --> 00:09:24,764 (SIGHS) 160 00:09:24,831 --> 00:09:26,332 (MECHANICAL CLICKING) 161 00:09:37,844 --> 00:09:38,845 Leopold. 162 00:09:39,546 --> 00:09:40,613 Leopold. 163 00:09:42,649 --> 00:09:46,519 There's an actual, literal party and you're hiding in a book. 164 00:09:46,619 --> 00:09:48,722 I thought you might play with other children for once. 165 00:09:48,955 --> 00:09:50,390 Games are frivolous. 166 00:09:51,358 --> 00:09:53,393 The Halloween calls for horror stories. 167 00:09:53,493 --> 00:09:55,280 Don't you think so, Miss Olga? 168 00:09:56,162 --> 00:09:57,831 Don't you at least want some cake? 169 00:09:58,965 --> 00:10:00,500 That's for the orphans. 170 00:10:04,237 --> 00:10:05,572 I'll check on father. 171 00:10:05,672 --> 00:10:07,207 He's no good at parties. 172 00:10:09,376 --> 00:10:11,378 (CHILDREN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY) 173 00:10:11,478 --> 00:10:12,879 (MAN BREATHING HEAVILY) 174 00:10:12,979 --> 00:10:14,881 (SINGING) The boys are home again. 175 00:10:15,415 --> 00:10:16,883 Oh. Nun alert. 176 00:10:18,985 --> 00:10:21,921 Ms. Oliver, it's a thrill to have you here. 177 00:10:22,220 --> 00:10:23,656 - You're my favorite author. - Ah. 178 00:10:23,723 --> 00:10:27,193 Your mysteries give me faith the wicked will meet justice. 179 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,997 Sadly, life doesn't round out so well as detective fiction. 180 00:10:33,330 --> 00:10:34,267 (GIRL SOBBING) 181 00:10:39,406 --> 00:10:40,407 (INDISTINCT SHOUTING) 182 00:10:40,507 --> 00:10:41,508 Whoa! 183 00:10:41,574 --> 00:10:43,576 Yes. Bonsoir. (CHUCKLES) 184 00:10:46,579 --> 00:10:47,714 Are you all right? 185 00:10:47,781 --> 00:10:49,150 It's so high. 186 00:10:49,820 --> 00:10:51,551 Oh, I understand. It's very dark up here, isn't it? 187 00:10:52,419 --> 00:10:53,420 (BREATHES DEEPLY) 188 00:10:54,754 --> 00:10:56,756 (GIRL SOBBING) 189 00:10:57,290 --> 00:10:58,425 And this is our hostess? 190 00:10:58,525 --> 00:11:01,728 - ROWENA: This is my house. - HERCULE: The soprano, Rowena Drake. 191 00:11:02,950 --> 00:11:04,970 A diva's life of glamor. 192 00:11:05,699 --> 00:11:06,700 But she lives here. 193 00:11:06,766 --> 00:11:08,368 ARIADNE: Where did all the money go? 194 00:11:08,735 --> 00:11:12,205 Everyone who ever lived here falls victim to some tragedy. 195 00:11:12,272 --> 00:11:13,873 That's the legend, anyway. 196 00:11:13,940 --> 00:11:15,608 The Children's Vendetta. 197 00:11:16,209 --> 00:11:19,913 Someone sees a child's shadow on the wall, and then darkness comes. 198 00:11:19,979 --> 00:11:21,281 Like her daughter a year ago. 199 00:11:23,450 --> 00:11:24,984 That's who we're to hear from tonight. 200 00:11:25,850 --> 00:11:27,420 The lost girl from beyond. 201 00:11:28,421 --> 00:11:30,256 I will not believe in such things. 202 00:11:31,124 --> 00:11:32,158 We'll see. 203 00:11:32,759 --> 00:11:34,728 ROWENA: Oh, sweetheart, you're gonna be all right. 204 00:11:35,950 --> 00:11:36,996 (CLOCK CHIMING) 205 00:11:37,931 --> 00:11:39,733 OLGA: Ms. Rowena, it's leaking again. 206 00:11:39,799 --> 00:11:41,167 (HEAVY BREATHING) 207 00:11:41,267 --> 00:11:42,669 - LEOPOLD: Dad? - (GASPS) 208 00:11:43,436 --> 00:11:44,738 Are you all right, Dad? 209 00:11:49,175 --> 00:11:50,443 Do you need a pill? 210 00:11:51,845 --> 00:11:52,979 No. 211 00:11:54,414 --> 00:11:55,482 Take some punch, then? 212 00:11:56,282 --> 00:11:58,351 We could go, if you'd prefer. 213 00:11:59,352 --> 00:12:00,353 It's all right. 214 00:12:00,987 --> 00:12:02,655 I promised Rowena I'd stay. 215 00:12:03,857 --> 00:12:04,858 LEOPOLD: Good. 216 00:12:04,958 --> 00:12:07,160 I was looking forward to the séance. 217 00:12:07,260 --> 00:12:08,928 (CHILDREN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY) 218 00:12:09,963 --> 00:12:12,365 You do the children a great kindness, Madame. 219 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:14,934 Adults, too. 220 00:12:15,602 --> 00:12:17,704 You care to bob for an apple, Mr. Poirot? 221 00:12:17,804 --> 00:12:19,372 - (CHUCKLES SOFTLY) - It looks like fun. 222 00:12:19,973 --> 00:12:21,708 The fun is not for me. 223 00:12:21,808 --> 00:12:23,643 (MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING) 224 00:12:28,982 --> 00:12:30,316 ROWENA: I am glad for it. 225 00:12:30,684 --> 00:12:33,286 It's been far too long since there was laughter in this house. 226 00:12:33,353 --> 00:12:35,755 Well, it is a remarkable palazzo. 227 00:12:36,322 --> 00:12:37,357 You can have it. 228 00:12:38,858 --> 00:12:41,695 See, I can't afford to fix it and I can't stand to look at it. 229 00:12:43,296 --> 00:12:45,965 And no one will buy it at any price. Not after... 230 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:47,330 (ALICIA SCREAMING) 231 00:12:47,667 --> 00:12:50,236 ROWENA: Please, oh, God, no! 232 00:12:58,545 --> 00:12:59,546 Forgive me. 233 00:13:01,915 --> 00:13:07,153 I had hoped that seeing all these faces might make it hurt less. 234 00:13:08,388 --> 00:13:10,156 - Mrs. Rowena? - ROWENA: Yes? 235 00:13:10,223 --> 00:13:11,424 Your guest is here. 236 00:13:13,226 --> 00:13:14,227 (EXHALES) 237 00:13:15,195 --> 00:13:16,796 God, I'm actually nervous. 238 00:13:17,597 --> 00:13:18,598 (EXHALES) 239 00:13:19,232 --> 00:13:20,734 You believe in psychics? 240 00:13:24,204 --> 00:13:25,739 This house made me believe. 241 00:13:26,806 --> 00:13:28,410 It holds voices. 242 00:13:28,541 --> 00:13:29,542 Whispers. 243 00:13:30,377 --> 00:13:31,378 Sobbing. 244 00:13:32,712 --> 00:13:35,348 My daughter used to stay up at night talking. 245 00:13:36,449 --> 00:13:37,784 I thought it was with her dolls. 246 00:13:39,190 --> 00:13:40,186 My daughter, 247 00:13:41,421 --> 00:13:43,560 to hear her voice again. 248 00:13:44,424 --> 00:13:45,425 A word. 249 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:50,960 I would give that Ms. Reynolds all I have. 250 00:13:51,231 --> 00:13:52,832 (CHILDREN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY) 251 00:14:29,469 --> 00:14:31,404 This one will be very sad. 252 00:14:32,839 --> 00:14:33,840 Ms. Reynolds. 253 00:14:35,842 --> 00:14:38,611 Everything is prepared for you in the salon. 254 00:14:38,678 --> 00:14:40,613 As your assistant specified. 255 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:42,349 (CHILDREN CONTINUE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY) 256 00:14:42,449 --> 00:14:44,617 So noisy, your home. 257 00:14:44,684 --> 00:14:47,120 The children will be gone before we begin. 258 00:14:48,421 --> 00:14:49,456 So many. 259 00:14:50,290 --> 00:14:51,291 Everywhere. 260 00:14:51,358 --> 00:14:52,959 (CHILDREN'S SCREAMS ECHOING) 261 00:14:53,260 --> 00:14:54,461 Horrible memories. 262 00:14:57,697 --> 00:14:59,799 Your daughter's room is on the third floor. 263 00:15:01,601 --> 00:15:02,769 How did you...? 264 00:15:02,836 --> 00:15:04,270 May we do it there? 265 00:15:05,380 --> 00:15:06,720 Of course. 266 00:15:16,816 --> 00:15:18,618 Ariadne Oliver. 267 00:15:18,685 --> 00:15:20,153 My nemesis. 268 00:15:20,220 --> 00:15:23,156 We meet again. The unholy Ms. Joyce Reynolds. 269 00:15:23,223 --> 00:15:25,225 The press coined that one. 270 00:15:25,325 --> 00:15:26,359 Not sure if I like it. 271 00:15:26,459 --> 00:15:27,660 Bonsoir, Madame, 272 00:15:27,727 --> 00:15:31,297 I must say that I expected someone more... 273 00:15:31,364 --> 00:15:32,665 Dramatic? Ridiculous? 274 00:15:32,732 --> 00:15:33,733 An old crone? 275 00:15:33,833 --> 00:15:36,670 Yes, this is the perfect word. (SPUTTERS) 276 00:15:36,736 --> 00:15:38,638 The croney. The old croney. 277 00:15:38,705 --> 00:15:41,700 I didn't ask to be what I am. 278 00:15:41,740 --> 00:15:43,843 Why I like the term "medium," sort of middling. 279 00:15:43,910 --> 00:15:47,130 I'm not big or small. I'm not interesting at all. 280 00:15:47,514 --> 00:15:49,883 But I can talk to the dead. 281 00:15:50,383 --> 00:15:51,551 And you? 282 00:15:51,651 --> 00:15:53,386 I am Hercule Poirot. 283 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:55,121 You were Hercule Poirot. 284 00:15:55,221 --> 00:15:56,589 The detective. 285 00:15:56,690 --> 00:15:59,492 You're anything but medium. You're quite famous. 286 00:15:59,559 --> 00:16:01,728 Am I your next quite famous case? 287 00:16:02,195 --> 00:16:03,830 I am retired from cases. 288 00:16:04,731 --> 00:16:07,734 But you are here to discredit me. 289 00:16:07,834 --> 00:16:10,103 Isn't that why the great writer brought you? 290 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:15,675 HERCULE: I am here as a favor to Ms. Oliver 291 00:16:15,742 --> 00:16:18,378 who is eager to divine your means of divination. 292 00:16:18,445 --> 00:16:19,446 I must tell you, Madame, 293 00:16:19,546 --> 00:16:22,949 I have been all my life, uncharmed by your kind. 294 00:16:23,583 --> 00:16:24,584 My kind? 295 00:16:24,684 --> 00:16:28,154 Opportunists who prey on the vulnerable, no? 296 00:16:28,254 --> 00:16:30,357 You don't believe in the soul's endurance 297 00:16:30,423 --> 00:16:31,424 after death? 298 00:16:31,524 --> 00:16:32,625 I have lost my faith. 299 00:16:32,726 --> 00:16:34,361 How sad for you. 300 00:16:34,427 --> 00:16:36,396 Yes, it is most sad. The truth is sad. 301 00:16:39,966 --> 00:16:41,670 Please understand, Madame, 302 00:16:41,134 --> 00:16:42,969 I would welcome with open arms 303 00:16:43,690 --> 00:16:46,606 any honest sign of devil or demon or ghost 304 00:16:46,706 --> 00:16:49,309 for if there is a ghost, there is a soul. 305 00:16:49,409 --> 00:16:51,811 If there is a soul, there is a God who made it, 306 00:16:51,911 --> 00:16:54,280 and if we have God, then we have everything. 307 00:16:54,381 --> 00:16:56,549 Meaning, order, justice. 308 00:16:56,616 --> 00:16:58,785 But I have seen too much of the world. 309 00:16:58,885 --> 00:17:00,954 Countless crime, two wars, 310 00:17:01,210 --> 00:17:05,458 the bitter evil of human indifference, and I conclude, no. 311 00:17:05,558 --> 00:17:06,993 No God, no ghosts. 312 00:17:07,930 --> 00:17:09,429 With respect, no mediums who can speak to them. 313 00:17:09,963 --> 00:17:11,965 - (CHILDREN SCREAMING) - (GLASS BREAKING) 314 00:17:18,104 --> 00:17:20,173 (CHILDREN WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY) 315 00:17:22,142 --> 00:17:23,276 You were saying? 316 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:25,945 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 317 00:17:27,647 --> 00:17:28,815 (RAIN PATTERING) 318 00:17:30,850 --> 00:17:32,152 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 319 00:17:41,795 --> 00:17:42,929 (SQUEAKING) 320 00:17:45,165 --> 00:17:47,367 As if I didn't have enough to clean. 321 00:17:47,467 --> 00:17:49,536 Shouldn't even be here past dark. 322 00:17:49,636 --> 00:17:51,171 I don't think they'll bother us. 323 00:17:51,938 --> 00:17:52,939 Who? 324 00:17:55,208 --> 00:17:56,976 What happens past dark? 325 00:17:57,430 --> 00:17:59,379 Well, still a charlatan? 326 00:17:59,479 --> 00:18:03,183 A ceiling weakened by water damage, unused to rollicking footsteps. 327 00:18:03,249 --> 00:18:06,353 (SCOFFS) No credit for theatrical timing. 328 00:18:06,419 --> 00:18:07,620 (WIND BLOWING VIOLENTLY) 329 00:18:11,491 --> 00:18:13,426 Ms. Alicia's room is up here. 330 00:18:15,662 --> 00:18:17,864 (SINGING) When the lights go on again. 331 00:18:19,165 --> 00:18:21,167 All over the world. 332 00:18:22,350 --> 00:18:23,360 And the... 333 00:18:28,410 --> 00:18:30,760 If I may, please, how did the girl die? 334 00:18:30,176 --> 00:18:31,911 The balcony. The canal. 335 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:33,279 - Drowning. - A suicide. 336 00:18:33,380 --> 00:18:36,490 It wasn't her fault. They pushed her to it. 337 00:18:36,116 --> 00:18:37,384 Mrs. Seminoff, please. 338 00:18:37,450 --> 00:18:38,685 What then, Doctor? 339 00:18:38,752 --> 00:18:40,920 You cared for her. You saw. 340 00:18:43,823 --> 00:18:45,191 (FOOTSTEPS RECEDING) 341 00:18:51,664 --> 00:18:53,660 HERCULE: Uh, wait, please. 342 00:18:55,735 --> 00:18:57,370 Who has been inside here tonight? 343 00:18:57,437 --> 00:18:59,139 Ms. Reynolds, her assistant? 344 00:18:59,239 --> 00:19:01,410 No one. I have the only key. 345 00:19:01,708 --> 00:19:04,577 No one's stepped foot here since Ms. Alicia passed but me. 346 00:19:05,845 --> 00:19:08,548 - (LOCK CLICKS OPEN) - To dust a bit and to check on Harry. 347 00:19:09,449 --> 00:19:10,450 Who is Harry? 348 00:19:10,784 --> 00:19:11,785 (SCREECHING) 349 00:19:12,786 --> 00:19:14,220 (CONTINUES SCREECHING) 350 00:19:14,287 --> 00:19:15,288 OLGA: Her friend. 351 00:19:16,890 --> 00:19:17,323 She told him everything. 352 00:19:19,259 --> 00:19:21,227 He used to speak before she died. 353 00:19:22,696 --> 00:19:23,763 Now, he just cries. 354 00:19:23,863 --> 00:19:25,265 (SOMBER INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING) 355 00:19:27,634 --> 00:19:29,869 Everything is just as she left it. 356 00:19:33,573 --> 00:19:35,775 Ms. Rowena wouldn't let me move a thing. 357 00:19:44,718 --> 00:19:46,186 (OLGA SIGHS HEAVILY) 358 00:19:56,663 --> 00:19:57,797 (BREATH QUIVERS) 359 00:19:59,666 --> 00:20:01,735 (PRAYING IN LATIN) 360 00:20:02,435 --> 00:20:04,471 (IN ENGLISH) Alicia and her were inseparable. 361 00:20:04,537 --> 00:20:06,272 - YOUNG ALICIA: Can't catch me! - YOUNG ROWENA: Yes, I can! 362 00:20:06,339 --> 00:20:08,808 OLGA: This palazzo was their oasis. 363 00:20:09,376 --> 00:20:12,120 Only a week at a time between travel for the opera. 364 00:20:12,112 --> 00:20:13,113 (GIRLS LAUGHING) 365 00:20:13,179 --> 00:20:16,216 But Alicia had the children's ghosts for company. 366 00:20:17,350 --> 00:20:19,850 She grew so beautiful. 367 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:22,222 Then she met her chef, Maxime. 368 00:20:24,224 --> 00:20:26,920 They were engaged so fast. 369 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:28,361 So in love. 370 00:20:29,129 --> 00:20:31,164 Then, she and her fiancé quarreled. 371 00:20:32,232 --> 00:20:34,534 She moved back here to the palazzo. 372 00:20:34,634 --> 00:20:37,504 That's when she started to see the children. 373 00:20:37,570 --> 00:20:39,572 They wanted her for themselves. 374 00:20:40,507 --> 00:20:43,430 She suffered her last weeks in that bed 375 00:20:43,143 --> 00:20:44,944 - seeing things. - (BREATHING HEAVILY) 376 00:20:45,110 --> 00:20:46,246 Shadows. 377 00:20:46,346 --> 00:20:48,515 The children are calling her, she said. 378 00:20:48,581 --> 00:20:51,151 "They want you here with them." 379 00:20:51,217 --> 00:20:52,552 They drove her mad. 380 00:20:52,652 --> 00:20:54,154 (CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY) 381 00:20:55,655 --> 00:20:58,124 Ms. Rowena didn't leave her side, 382 00:20:58,191 --> 00:21:00,760 begging the spirits to let her be. 383 00:21:02,662 --> 00:21:03,663 They didn't. 384 00:21:05,231 --> 00:21:06,232 (WATER SPLASHES) 385 00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:09,436 - (FAINT SCREAM ECHOING) - They left the mark 386 00:21:10,136 --> 00:21:12,205 of the Children's Vendetta. 387 00:21:12,272 --> 00:21:14,607 The police said the cuts were from the fall. 388 00:21:16,176 --> 00:21:17,410 The police... 389 00:21:18,244 --> 00:21:19,913 JOYCE: Listening. 390 00:21:20,130 --> 00:21:23,830 Now, this woman, she wants to disturb Alicia's soul. 391 00:21:24,250 --> 00:21:25,552 JOYCE: Listening. 392 00:21:25,618 --> 00:21:28,540 OLGA: And I am telling you, monsieur, this is not right. 393 00:21:29,456 --> 00:21:31,624 This is against nature and the Good Lord. 394 00:21:32,859 --> 00:21:34,394 Somebody will have to pay. 395 00:21:35,595 --> 00:21:37,163 JOYCE: Listening. 396 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:42,102 So much pain here. 397 00:21:45,772 --> 00:21:47,400 (SOFT SQUEAK) 398 00:21:51,644 --> 00:21:53,480 (SOFT SQUEAK) 399 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:55,810 Baba. 400 00:21:56,483 --> 00:21:57,484 Yeah. 401 00:21:58,251 --> 00:21:59,552 Baba the Rabbit. 402 00:21:59,619 --> 00:22:00,620 - (BULB SHATTERS) - (GASPS) 403 00:22:01,221 --> 00:22:03,223 - (GASPS) - (DOORBELL RINGING) 404 00:22:04,324 --> 00:22:05,925 (MAN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY) 405 00:22:11,965 --> 00:22:13,660 Maxime, no. 406 00:22:13,133 --> 00:22:15,635 "Maxime, be at Palazzo, 10 p.m." 407 00:22:15,735 --> 00:22:17,671 "Important news about Alicia Drake." 408 00:22:17,771 --> 00:22:19,239 - I was invited. - Not by me. 409 00:22:19,305 --> 00:22:21,207 You're always trying to kick me out, Rowena. 410 00:22:21,274 --> 00:22:22,609 It's never worked before. 411 00:22:22,676 --> 00:22:24,644 If there's something to hear, I'll hear it. 412 00:22:24,744 --> 00:22:26,479 Well, tell that to your new fiancée. 413 00:22:26,579 --> 00:22:29,215 Waited a whole six months after Alicia died. 414 00:22:29,282 --> 00:22:30,450 I hear she's insensibly rich. 415 00:22:30,517 --> 00:22:33,860 Land-grants-from-King-George rich. 416 00:22:33,153 --> 00:22:35,455 Bought me my own bistro on Madison Avenue. 417 00:22:35,522 --> 00:22:37,691 I'm gonna be a New Yorker and a rich one, 418 00:22:37,791 --> 00:22:40,527 which is the only kind to be. 419 00:22:40,627 --> 00:22:42,262 You should come visit. I'll buy you a hot dog. 420 00:22:42,328 --> 00:22:43,530 Should I throw him out? 421 00:22:43,630 --> 00:22:44,631 Try it. 422 00:22:46,232 --> 00:22:47,434 Give me the excuse. 423 00:22:48,601 --> 00:22:51,338 ROWENA: Do whatever you want, Maxime. You always do. 424 00:22:53,273 --> 00:22:54,474 I lost too, Rowena. 425 00:22:54,541 --> 00:22:55,475 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 426 00:23:00,380 --> 00:23:02,115 How many are we? Nine or 10? 427 00:23:02,182 --> 00:23:04,784 Oh, I don't know. Take 12 chairs, I think. 428 00:23:04,851 --> 00:23:06,453 ARIADNE: (GASPS) A full house. 429 00:23:06,519 --> 00:23:09,689 A séance? Christ in a hat! Is that what this is? 430 00:23:11,458 --> 00:23:12,826 (MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING) 431 00:23:16,262 --> 00:23:17,263 LESLIE: A typewriter. 432 00:23:18,498 --> 00:23:21,670 No Ouija board? Crystal ball? 433 00:23:21,735 --> 00:23:24,337 I think myself more secretary than anything. 434 00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:26,573 The voices speak... 435 00:23:26,673 --> 00:23:28,708 (TYPEWRITER COGS WHIRRING) 436 00:23:28,808 --> 00:23:30,510 ...and I take dictation. 437 00:23:35,715 --> 00:23:39,152 LESLIE: Leopold, perhaps go and read in the library. 438 00:23:39,219 --> 00:23:40,553 LEOPOLD: I want to see Alicia. 439 00:23:41,321 --> 00:23:42,422 She was my friend too. 440 00:23:42,522 --> 00:23:44,324 You're not scared of ghosts? 441 00:23:44,391 --> 00:23:46,359 I talk to ghosts here all the time. 442 00:23:46,426 --> 00:23:47,427 JOYCE: Do you? 443 00:23:49,195 --> 00:23:50,530 They say you're a fake. 444 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:53,330 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 445 00:24:06,713 --> 00:24:10,160 No one touch me until the trance has ended. 446 00:24:10,717 --> 00:24:11,751 (EXHALES SOFTLY) 447 00:24:11,851 --> 00:24:13,620 Alicia Drake, 448 00:24:13,953 --> 00:24:16,890 I believe it was you who called to me. 449 00:24:20,393 --> 00:24:22,395 (BREATHING SHARPLY) 450 00:24:24,300 --> 00:24:26,199 (BREATH QUIVERING) Too many spirits. 451 00:24:26,700 --> 00:24:29,969 This house is spilling with the dead. 452 00:24:31,710 --> 00:24:33,406 Some souls can't let go. 453 00:24:33,473 --> 00:24:34,741 Do we stop, Ms. Reynolds? 454 00:24:35,375 --> 00:24:36,376 No. 455 00:24:36,876 --> 00:24:40,780 If someone wants to be heard, we are here. 456 00:24:41,715 --> 00:24:42,716 Listening. 457 00:24:44,250 --> 00:24:48,655 Spirits, you scream and shout and no one hears. 458 00:24:48,755 --> 00:24:50,560 We do now. 459 00:24:51,910 --> 00:24:52,659 Alicia Drake, 460 00:24:52,759 --> 00:24:55,161 find your voice. (BREATHING HEAVILY) 461 00:24:56,396 --> 00:24:58,765 It just got cold. Does anyone else feel a chill? 462 00:24:58,832 --> 00:25:00,500 JOYCE: Is someone there? 463 00:25:06,106 --> 00:25:07,674 - (TYPEWRITER CLACKS) - DESDEMONA: "Y." 464 00:25:08,108 --> 00:25:09,109 Yes. 465 00:25:09,843 --> 00:25:11,244 She didn't touch the key, I swear. 466 00:25:11,311 --> 00:25:13,513 MAXIME: She must have. You can't all be such fools. 467 00:25:13,613 --> 00:25:15,281 OLGA: This is wrong. This is very wrong. 468 00:25:15,382 --> 00:25:16,783 Who is there? 469 00:25:16,850 --> 00:25:18,318 Alicia Drake. 470 00:25:18,418 --> 00:25:20,320 Listening. 471 00:25:20,420 --> 00:25:21,688 We are here. 472 00:25:22,255 --> 00:25:23,523 Listening. 473 00:25:23,990 --> 00:25:25,692 It is the hallow tide. 474 00:25:25,792 --> 00:25:26,926 We are close. 475 00:25:26,993 --> 00:25:28,695 Your spirit is close, 476 00:25:28,795 --> 00:25:30,997 - your voice is loud. - (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) 477 00:25:32,832 --> 00:25:34,634 - Alicia. - (TYPEWRITER CLACKS) 478 00:25:34,701 --> 00:25:35,835 DESDEMONA: "A." Alicia. 479 00:25:35,935 --> 00:25:38,672 JOYCE: Alicia, I feel you are in pain. 480 00:25:38,772 --> 00:25:40,874 Does it hurt? Please, tell me. 481 00:25:42,108 --> 00:25:44,477 - Did someone hurt you? - (TYPEWRITER CLACKS) 482 00:25:44,544 --> 00:25:45,545 - DESDEMONA: Yes. - HERCULE: No! 483 00:25:46,513 --> 00:25:48,140 Poirot, let her finish! 484 00:25:48,114 --> 00:25:50,500 - No! First, let us meet... - (SIGHS) 485 00:25:50,150 --> 00:25:53,353 ...a secret confederate in the chimney. 486 00:25:53,453 --> 00:25:54,988 (GRUNTING) 487 00:25:55,550 --> 00:25:56,623 Nicholas, are you hurt? 488 00:25:56,690 --> 00:25:57,857 I'm all right. 489 00:25:57,957 --> 00:26:01,728 HERCULE: Ah, Nicholas. The second assistant. 490 00:26:01,828 --> 00:26:03,630 I am pleased to meet you. 491 00:26:03,163 --> 00:26:06,700 By your similar and piercing green eyes, 492 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,869 I take you for the first assistant's half-brother. 493 00:26:09,969 --> 00:26:13,139 Ah, a magnetic switch. 494 00:26:14,908 --> 00:26:17,344 Et voilà, the talking typewriter. 495 00:26:17,410 --> 00:26:18,978 - A fake? - Mrs. Seminoff, 496 00:26:19,450 --> 00:26:21,214 your dedication to housekeeping could be improved. 497 00:26:21,314 --> 00:26:22,482 No one had been in this room except you, 498 00:26:22,549 --> 00:26:25,385 yet my new friend left his footstep in the fireplace. 499 00:26:25,485 --> 00:26:28,588 The bright scratch at the keyhole indicates a lock recently picked. 500 00:26:29,890 --> 00:26:31,910 Ms. Oliver, you must find a new subject for your book. 501 00:26:31,191 --> 00:26:33,159 Ms. Drake, I am sorry for your loss, 502 00:26:33,226 --> 00:26:35,562 but this oracle is a fake. 503 00:26:35,662 --> 00:26:37,970 (FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING) 504 00:26:38,164 --> 00:26:39,933 (JOYCE SCREAMING) 505 00:26:42,836 --> 00:26:44,537 (JOYCE CONTINUES SCREAMING) 506 00:26:45,372 --> 00:26:47,841 - (SCREECHING) - (CONTINUES SCREAMING) 507 00:26:56,750 --> 00:26:58,451 (DEMONIC ROAR) 508 00:26:58,551 --> 00:26:59,552 (LOW GROWLING) 509 00:26:59,953 --> 00:27:01,755 - Where's Baba? - JOYCE: (STRAINED) Alicia. 510 00:27:01,855 --> 00:27:03,123 - Did someone take him? - (JOYCE SCREAMING) 511 00:27:03,223 --> 00:27:04,958 - Did you? - I didn't touch anything. 512 00:27:05,592 --> 00:27:06,760 (CONTINUES SCREAMING) 513 00:27:12,365 --> 00:27:13,767 Alicia. 514 00:27:14,768 --> 00:27:15,869 Mama. 515 00:27:16,236 --> 00:27:17,303 (GASPS) 516 00:27:18,738 --> 00:27:19,739 (IN ALICIA'S VOICE) Mama? 517 00:27:20,473 --> 00:27:22,208 (BREATH TREMBLING) 518 00:27:22,275 --> 00:27:23,276 (IN NORMAL VOICE) Thirsty. 519 00:27:24,377 --> 00:27:25,378 So... 520 00:27:25,445 --> 00:27:26,579 (IN ALICIA'S VOICE) Thirsty. 521 00:27:27,647 --> 00:27:28,648 Alicia? 522 00:27:29,749 --> 00:27:30,750 (SOBBING) 523 00:27:31,751 --> 00:27:33,153 (BREATHING HEAVILY) Hurt. 524 00:27:34,421 --> 00:27:36,560 (IN ALICIA'S VOICE) Why would you leave me? 525 00:27:36,122 --> 00:27:37,123 No. 526 00:27:37,223 --> 00:27:38,258 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 527 00:27:38,324 --> 00:27:39,559 (IN NORMAL VOICE) I don't want... 528 00:27:39,626 --> 00:27:41,610 (BREATHING HEAVILY) I don't... 529 00:27:41,127 --> 00:27:42,595 (IN ALICIA'S VOICE) ...want to die. 530 00:27:42,662 --> 00:27:44,564 - What is happening? - (CHAIR SQUEAKING) 531 00:27:44,631 --> 00:27:45,732 (IN NORMAL VOICE) Alicia 532 00:27:46,132 --> 00:27:47,634 showing me. 533 00:27:47,734 --> 00:27:48,802 I see her 534 00:27:49,269 --> 00:27:50,637 on the balcony. 535 00:27:50,737 --> 00:27:51,738 Not alone. 536 00:27:52,238 --> 00:27:53,606 She didn't jump. 537 00:27:53,673 --> 00:27:56,109 (LOUDLY) Murderer! 538 00:27:56,176 --> 00:27:58,912 (IN ALICIA'S VOICE) You killed me. You killed me. 539 00:27:58,978 --> 00:27:59,979 (IN NORMAL VOICE) Who? 540 00:28:01,247 --> 00:28:03,116 Show me. Who? 541 00:28:03,183 --> 00:28:06,453 (IN ALICIA'S VOICE) You killed me! You killed me! 542 00:28:06,519 --> 00:28:07,520 You killed me! 543 00:28:07,620 --> 00:28:08,955 (IN NORMAL VOICE) Who hurt you? 544 00:28:09,220 --> 00:28:10,457 (IN ALICIA'S VOICE) You killed me! 545 00:28:10,523 --> 00:28:11,524 You killed me! 546 00:28:11,624 --> 00:28:12,625 (IN NORMAL VOICE) Show me! 547 00:28:12,692 --> 00:28:13,827 (IN ALICIA'S VOICE) You killed me! 548 00:28:13,927 --> 00:28:14,928 (IN NORMAL VOICE) Who hurt you? 549 00:28:14,994 --> 00:28:16,296 What happened? 550 00:28:17,530 --> 00:28:18,531 (IN ALICIA'S VOICE) Murder! 551 00:28:19,132 --> 00:28:20,367 (CHURCH BELL TOLLING) 552 00:28:30,143 --> 00:28:31,644 (CHURCH BELL CONTINUES TOLLING) 553 00:28:35,482 --> 00:28:37,484 (OLGA PRAYING IN LATIN) 554 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:44,491 (IN ENGLISH) Satanic. 555 00:28:44,557 --> 00:28:46,159 She truly is unholy. 556 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,561 It was Alicia's voice. 557 00:28:49,863 --> 00:28:51,231 Someone must have killed her. 558 00:28:51,998 --> 00:28:53,500 We can't prove any of it was real. 559 00:28:53,566 --> 00:28:55,635 - ARIADNE: Then, what was it? - Showmanship. 560 00:28:55,702 --> 00:28:57,203 Theater. Catching us in a group hysteria. 561 00:28:57,303 --> 00:28:58,972 That wasn't War of the Worlds on the radio. 562 00:28:59,390 --> 00:29:01,374 The damn doors blew open. I can't explain it. 563 00:29:01,474 --> 00:29:02,475 ROWENA: I can. 564 00:29:03,143 --> 00:29:04,511 That was my daughter. 565 00:29:05,378 --> 00:29:06,913 - (THUNDER RUMBLING) - (ARIADNE SCOFFS) 566 00:29:07,130 --> 00:29:08,148 Oh, no. 567 00:29:08,214 --> 00:29:10,316 Don't you dare leave without saying it. 568 00:29:10,383 --> 00:29:12,385 You saw what I saw, and what you saw was... 569 00:29:12,485 --> 00:29:13,520 Was fake. 570 00:29:13,586 --> 00:29:16,389 Real. That woman is proof. Living proof. 571 00:29:16,489 --> 00:29:18,258 (GASPS) There's a title. 572 00:29:18,358 --> 00:29:21,161 Sure as hell, she's my next book, and sure as hell, it's a hit. 573 00:29:21,227 --> 00:29:23,960 A big beer book. 574 00:29:23,196 --> 00:29:25,598 Good God, I have to start writing right away. 575 00:29:25,699 --> 00:29:27,701 The woman who stumped Hercule Poirot. 576 00:29:27,767 --> 00:29:32,500 I admit I cannot solve all of her methods in this moment, but of course I will. 577 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:33,440 You won't. Come on. 578 00:29:33,540 --> 00:29:34,574 You should be relieved. 579 00:29:34,674 --> 00:29:38,712 And how incredible to believe, to know the world has mystery. 580 00:29:38,778 --> 00:29:41,848 A God who cares enough to make abiding souls. 581 00:29:41,915 --> 00:29:44,117 - After death comes... - Nothing. 582 00:29:44,217 --> 00:29:45,518 Something. 583 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,289 If there was a God, he would not break his rule for her. 584 00:29:50,724 --> 00:29:51,925 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 585 00:29:58,565 --> 00:29:59,566 You're all right. 586 00:30:01,234 --> 00:30:03,690 I hope you'll be back tomorrow. 587 00:30:03,470 --> 00:30:05,872 Rowena made me promise to sit for her again. 588 00:30:11,411 --> 00:30:15,782 And Miss Oliver says I should prepare to be quite famous. 589 00:30:15,882 --> 00:30:17,550 VITALE: Dottore, I'll find us a boat. 590 00:30:17,617 --> 00:30:18,618 HERCULE: Grazie. 591 00:30:18,718 --> 00:30:21,388 These spirits were particularly savage. 592 00:30:21,454 --> 00:30:22,455 (HERCULE SCOFFS) 593 00:30:22,555 --> 00:30:24,824 Sittings always exact a price. 594 00:30:25,592 --> 00:30:27,600 As I'm sure do you. 595 00:30:28,261 --> 00:30:31,231 You are amongst frauds, the gifted one. 596 00:30:31,731 --> 00:30:33,133 I wish I was a fraud. 597 00:30:34,234 --> 00:30:36,803 - Be less painful. - (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) 598 00:30:36,903 --> 00:30:39,239 I think you know something of this, monsieur. 599 00:30:39,739 --> 00:30:42,308 Someone dies and we comfort the grieving 600 00:30:42,409 --> 00:30:44,678 with secrets plain to us. 601 00:30:45,278 --> 00:30:48,281 Both creatures who speak for the dead, 602 00:30:48,648 --> 00:30:51,484 who know the dead too well, I think. 603 00:30:52,819 --> 00:30:54,454 Imagine... (SIGHS) 604 00:30:54,521 --> 00:30:57,691 a war nurse who hears ghosts, 605 00:30:58,825 --> 00:31:00,860 surrounded by screaming. 606 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,162 (MUFFLED SCREAMING ECHOING) 607 00:31:02,262 --> 00:31:03,763 On her ward, 608 00:31:03,830 --> 00:31:05,298 inside her mind. 609 00:31:05,999 --> 00:31:09,969 Wave after wave of the dying and the dead. 610 00:31:11,104 --> 00:31:14,641 And the only thing that stopped the pain 611 00:31:14,708 --> 00:31:17,210 was telling the mourners what I heard. 612 00:31:17,310 --> 00:31:20,480 Ease their suffering as only I can. 613 00:31:22,649 --> 00:31:23,983 You'd begrudge that? 614 00:31:24,500 --> 00:31:28,355 You made a mother believe her daughter's soul is in torment. 615 00:31:28,455 --> 00:31:29,856 This is not generous. 616 00:31:29,956 --> 00:31:31,324 Not gentle, not humble. 617 00:31:31,391 --> 00:31:32,625 I felt pain. 618 00:31:32,692 --> 00:31:34,270 I saw a murder... 619 00:31:34,127 --> 00:31:36,363 Did you see who killed Alicia Drake? 620 00:31:36,463 --> 00:31:38,631 It was not revealed. Maybe tomorrow. 621 00:31:38,698 --> 00:31:40,400 - A lucrative convenience. - Why is this...? 622 00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:42,535 Terrors for children, Ms. Reynolds. 623 00:31:42,635 --> 00:31:44,370 You might learn from them. 624 00:31:45,405 --> 00:31:46,840 Children can suffer, 625 00:31:47,574 --> 00:31:49,409 as much as those orphans, 626 00:31:49,509 --> 00:31:53,513 and still laugh and play and bob for apples. 627 00:31:53,580 --> 00:31:55,150 They're alive. 628 00:31:55,810 --> 00:31:56,416 (SCOFFS) But you... 629 00:31:56,816 --> 00:31:58,752 Death everywhere you went. 630 00:31:59,686 --> 00:32:01,154 All your life. 631 00:32:02,422 --> 00:32:03,590 Soldiers... 632 00:32:04,657 --> 00:32:05,658 Friends... 633 00:32:07,694 --> 00:32:08,695 Katherine. 634 00:32:13,990 --> 00:32:14,567 We shall not meet again. 635 00:32:16,870 --> 00:32:18,705 You persist that you are real. 636 00:32:19,439 --> 00:32:22,776 And if I'm not, who's getting hurt? 637 00:32:22,876 --> 00:32:25,412 Magic won't come unless you call it in, 638 00:32:25,512 --> 00:32:28,948 unless it really is all true. 639 00:32:36,923 --> 00:32:38,425 Lighten up, pal. 640 00:32:39,759 --> 00:32:41,940 You might have fun. 641 00:32:42,729 --> 00:32:44,364 I'd say to remember me, 642 00:32:46,990 --> 00:32:47,133 but you will. 643 00:32:47,233 --> 00:32:49,235 (CLOCK CHIMING IN DISTANCE) 644 00:32:53,730 --> 00:32:55,750 (CHIMING CONTINUES) 645 00:32:57,143 --> 00:32:58,645 (HISSING) 646 00:33:10,657 --> 00:33:12,359 (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) 647 00:33:42,489 --> 00:33:43,490 (HERCULE CHUCKLES) 648 00:34:02,750 --> 00:34:03,760 "Lighten up." 649 00:34:05,445 --> 00:34:07,800 (INHALES, EXHALES) 650 00:34:20,794 --> 00:34:22,595 (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING HURRIEDLY) 651 00:34:23,463 --> 00:34:25,980 (STRAINED GRUNTING) 652 00:34:31,710 --> 00:34:32,906 (STRAINED GRUNTING CONTINUES) 653 00:34:49,122 --> 00:34:50,323 - VITALE: Monsieur Poirot! - (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING) 654 00:34:50,423 --> 00:34:51,791 Dottore! 655 00:34:51,891 --> 00:34:52,992 Monsieur Poirot! 656 00:34:53,930 --> 00:34:54,994 - Dottore! - (HERCULE GURGLING) 657 00:34:55,950 --> 00:34:56,229 (GAGGING) 658 00:34:56,296 --> 00:34:58,498 VITALE: Monsieur Poirot, can you hear me? 659 00:34:58,598 --> 00:34:59,666 Who did this? 660 00:35:00,767 --> 00:35:03,303 I left Ms. Reynolds... 661 00:35:05,171 --> 00:35:07,741 I stopped by the apples. Silly. 662 00:35:07,807 --> 00:35:08,808 (PANTING) 663 00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:11,244 I lifted my mask. 664 00:35:14,247 --> 00:35:15,582 It was her mask. 665 00:35:17,650 --> 00:35:19,850 Where is Ms. Reynolds? 666 00:35:19,519 --> 00:35:20,954 (WOMAN SCREAMING IN DISTANCE) 667 00:35:24,457 --> 00:35:25,525 MAXIME: What was that? 668 00:35:25,625 --> 00:35:26,626 - LESLIE: What's going on? - LEOPOLD: What was that? 669 00:35:26,693 --> 00:35:27,961 - HERCULE: Was that her? - MAXIME: What's happening? 670 00:35:30,663 --> 00:35:31,664 What? 671 00:35:32,432 --> 00:35:33,967 (SCREAMS) 672 00:35:34,340 --> 00:35:35,635 (CONTINUES SCREAMING) 673 00:35:39,172 --> 00:35:40,807 (ARIADNE CONTINUES SCREAMING) 674 00:35:44,444 --> 00:35:46,446 (ARIADNE CONTINUES SCREAMING IN DISTANCE) 675 00:35:54,954 --> 00:35:56,122 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 676 00:35:59,392 --> 00:36:00,860 VITALE: I will call my old station. 677 00:36:01,494 --> 00:36:02,796 I should know the man on duty. 678 00:36:05,999 --> 00:36:07,567 I thought my cupboards were bare. 679 00:36:07,667 --> 00:36:10,300 No, I scrounged up some tea left from the party. 680 00:36:10,503 --> 00:36:12,906 Found your honey in the linen closet. 681 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:14,700 Merci. 682 00:36:14,740 --> 00:36:16,760 (SPEAKING ITALIAN) 683 00:36:16,543 --> 00:36:17,577 Vitale Portfoglio. 684 00:36:17,677 --> 00:36:18,678 (IN ENGLISH) What do we do? 685 00:36:19,512 --> 00:36:20,647 She was our ticket. 686 00:36:22,382 --> 00:36:23,683 We'll get there without her. 687 00:36:24,184 --> 00:36:25,185 I promise. 688 00:36:25,251 --> 00:36:26,720 (VITALE SPEAKING IN ITALIAN) 689 00:36:26,820 --> 00:36:28,488 LESLIE: (IN ENGLISH) None of you saw anyone on the stairs? 690 00:36:28,888 --> 00:36:30,390 Some things can't be seen. 691 00:36:30,490 --> 00:36:31,558 Maybe she jumped. 692 00:36:32,425 --> 00:36:33,426 She seemed the type. 693 00:36:33,526 --> 00:36:36,229 No. Not Ms. Reynolds. Never. 694 00:36:36,329 --> 00:36:37,697 She talked about a murder. 695 00:36:37,764 --> 00:36:38,765 She could have known something. 696 00:36:38,865 --> 00:36:40,567 You still think she's real? 697 00:36:40,667 --> 00:36:43,436 Please. She made up that murder idea to impress a famous author 698 00:36:43,536 --> 00:36:45,405 and to bait the hook on a new income stream. 699 00:36:45,505 --> 00:36:47,340 - Then, why is she dead? - Gravity. 700 00:36:47,407 --> 00:36:49,509 She spoke in Alicia's voice. 701 00:36:49,576 --> 00:36:50,577 Don't look at me. 702 00:36:50,677 --> 00:36:52,612 I was being interrogated by your lady writer. 703 00:36:52,712 --> 00:36:55,480 Ask her. Then, ask the doctor where he was. 704 00:36:55,115 --> 00:36:56,950 Sick ******* already killed here once. 705 00:36:57,500 --> 00:36:59,386 OLGA: It wasn't either of them. You know what it was. 706 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,220 Hateful things live in this house. 707 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,391 That woman called to them and they answered. 708 00:37:06,559 --> 00:37:09,129 In the war, before she did sittings. 709 00:37:09,229 --> 00:37:10,797 Ms. Reynolds was in the British Army. 710 00:37:10,897 --> 00:37:13,299 She served with the camps at Malta. 711 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,101 - She was a nurse. - ROWENA: A nurse. 712 00:37:15,568 --> 00:37:17,370 The Children's Vendetta. 713 00:37:17,771 --> 00:37:19,305 - (SETS CUP ON TABLE LOUDLY) - (RECEIVER CLICKS) 714 00:37:19,406 --> 00:37:20,774 The canals are not safe. 715 00:37:20,874 --> 00:37:22,742 We can't get a boat here until the storm clears. 716 00:37:22,809 --> 00:37:23,810 When will that be? 717 00:37:23,910 --> 00:37:25,311 VITALE: It's out of police control, signora. 718 00:37:25,412 --> 00:37:27,414 Well, I won't sit here and wait. 719 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,150 I never spent the night in this house before and I won't now. 720 00:37:30,250 --> 00:37:31,918 - (GATE RATTLING) - (ARIADNE SCREAMS) 721 00:37:32,452 --> 00:37:33,820 - MAXIME: Hey! - DESDEMONA: What's going on? 722 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,255 NICHOLAS: Sir, you can't do this. 723 00:37:35,321 --> 00:37:36,723 MAXIME: You can't lock us in here. 724 00:37:36,790 --> 00:37:38,658 - ROWENA: What are you doing? - You can't trap us here. 725 00:37:39,993 --> 00:37:40,994 (LOCK CLICKS) 726 00:37:42,295 --> 00:37:44,431 A medium boasts of having a vision of murder. 727 00:37:44,497 --> 00:37:45,498 Now, she is dead. 728 00:37:45,598 --> 00:37:47,100 One of you felt her eyes upon you. 729 00:37:47,167 --> 00:37:48,802 Killed her, tried to kill me. 730 00:37:48,902 --> 00:37:50,904 No one should leave this place until I know who. 731 00:37:51,304 --> 00:37:53,640 Commissario, stand here and see these gates do not open. 732 00:37:53,740 --> 00:37:55,775 Monsieur Gerard, stand here and watch the commissario. 733 00:37:55,842 --> 00:37:57,277 You suspect me? I was a cop. 734 00:37:57,344 --> 00:37:59,179 All the more reason to suspect you. 735 00:37:59,279 --> 00:38:00,447 They already killed tonight. 736 00:38:00,513 --> 00:38:02,115 You will all have your chance to speak. 737 00:38:02,182 --> 00:38:03,650 And call back the police. 738 00:38:04,150 --> 00:38:07,654 Tell them Hercule Poirot is on the case. 739 00:38:09,923 --> 00:38:11,958 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 740 00:38:12,250 --> 00:38:14,270 (FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING) 741 00:38:24,370 --> 00:38:25,438 ARIADNE: Oh, is this where she...? 742 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:28,875 The attempt on my life occurred 743 00:38:28,975 --> 00:38:33,460 at approximately two minutes after the chime of midnight. 744 00:38:33,146 --> 00:38:36,449 You were the first to find the body at, uh...? 745 00:38:36,516 --> 00:38:39,185 Don't you dare look at me like a murder suspect. 746 00:38:39,285 --> 00:38:40,353 We're old friends. 747 00:38:40,987 --> 00:38:43,230 Every murderer is somebody's old friend. 748 00:38:43,356 --> 00:38:45,392 But you have written too many clever murders 749 00:38:45,492 --> 00:38:46,960 to fall at the foot of your first victim. 750 00:38:47,270 --> 00:38:51,331 And you are so far viably alibied by the chef, for the time, 751 00:38:51,398 --> 00:38:54,200 which is why I shall now ask you to assist me in my investigation. 752 00:38:54,300 --> 00:38:57,303 - When do we start? - When you collect for me our host. 753 00:39:02,642 --> 00:39:04,100 I knew you were in there somewhere. 754 00:39:04,770 --> 00:39:06,379 All it took was a corpse and look at you. 755 00:39:06,479 --> 00:39:08,348 Hercule Poirot all over again. 756 00:39:09,916 --> 00:39:11,170 (FOOTSTEPS RECEDING) 757 00:39:14,220 --> 00:39:15,422 Baba the Rabbit? 758 00:39:16,256 --> 00:39:17,257 Poirot! 759 00:39:17,924 --> 00:39:19,325 How the hell? 760 00:39:19,726 --> 00:39:21,270 (SOFT SQUEAK) 761 00:39:24,831 --> 00:39:25,832 (GASPS) 762 00:39:28,702 --> 00:39:29,936 ROWENA: Baba the Rabbit? 763 00:39:30,904 --> 00:39:31,905 Are you sure? 764 00:39:33,173 --> 00:39:35,800 Under that mess of paintings? 765 00:39:35,750 --> 00:39:37,544 Where were you when Ms. Reynolds...? 766 00:39:37,610 --> 00:39:39,790 We were in the music room. 767 00:39:39,179 --> 00:39:40,413 And when was that? 768 00:39:40,513 --> 00:39:43,490 Midnight, just before. 769 00:39:43,917 --> 00:39:45,285 And then you came running? 770 00:39:46,553 --> 00:39:49,189 If I may ask, what is directly above this balcony? 771 00:39:50,357 --> 00:39:51,725 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 772 00:39:52,625 --> 00:39:54,861 ROWENA: The garden was our secret hideaway. 773 00:39:56,629 --> 00:39:58,598 It was my daughter's favorite place. 774 00:39:59,399 --> 00:40:00,633 I let it all die. 775 00:40:02,469 --> 00:40:03,470 Our bees. 776 00:40:05,405 --> 00:40:06,439 We made honey. 777 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,542 My daughter, she used to tease me. 778 00:40:10,210 --> 00:40:13,213 "All this effort for a teaspoon of wildflower honey" 779 00:40:13,279 --> 00:40:15,810 "that we can buy for six lira." 780 00:40:16,916 --> 00:40:18,952 I held hope they'd survive, but... 781 00:40:21,988 --> 00:40:22,989 Poor things. 782 00:40:23,623 --> 00:40:24,624 (METAL SCRAPING) 783 00:40:24,724 --> 00:40:27,761 How did you come to invite Ms. Reynolds to your home? 784 00:40:27,827 --> 00:40:29,629 Couldn't we get out of the rain for this? 785 00:40:29,729 --> 00:40:32,832 Oh, mais non, let us enjoy this secret garden. 786 00:40:32,932 --> 00:40:35,301 Well, I read about her in a magazine. 787 00:40:35,402 --> 00:40:36,503 I didn't think much of it. 788 00:40:36,603 --> 00:40:39,739 And then, out of the blue one day, she wrote to me. 789 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:41,641 HERCULE: A letter from a stranger. 790 00:40:41,741 --> 00:40:44,144 But she would know you from the opera, no? 791 00:40:44,244 --> 00:40:46,312 ROWENA: But it was the name she used. 792 00:40:46,913 --> 00:40:49,416 She said that she heard a message from Aspasia. 793 00:40:50,617 --> 00:40:51,851 That... 794 00:40:51,951 --> 00:40:54,254 That was a pet name that she used to use for me. 795 00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,924 Aspasia, the great love of the King of Pontus 796 00:40:57,991 --> 00:40:58,992 from Mitridate. 797 00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:00,326 It was Mozart's first opera. 798 00:41:00,427 --> 00:41:01,828 It was my first starring role. 799 00:41:02,796 --> 00:41:05,165 Alicia was born two months before, and... 800 00:41:07,667 --> 00:41:09,602 I found my voice because of her. 801 00:41:13,807 --> 00:41:15,175 And ever since, 802 00:41:16,676 --> 00:41:21,981 I can't sing without knowing that she's waiting in my dressing room. 803 00:41:22,816 --> 00:41:23,817 I still can't. 804 00:41:23,883 --> 00:41:25,785 You will never perform again? 805 00:41:26,386 --> 00:41:28,655 There is no music without her. 806 00:41:30,490 --> 00:41:33,493 I turned down marriage proposals without even a thought. 807 00:41:35,495 --> 00:41:38,565 She said yes to her first. 808 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,368 To the charming chef Maxime Gerard. 809 00:41:41,835 --> 00:41:45,205 He is a pompous *** out to marry the biggest purse he can find. 810 00:41:47,707 --> 00:41:49,209 When they got engaged, 811 00:41:50,877 --> 00:41:52,579 I tore out every flower in the garden 812 00:41:52,679 --> 00:41:54,481 and I got on a boat to Istanbul. 813 00:41:55,215 --> 00:41:58,318 But he must have found that I wasn't as rich as he'd thought. 814 00:41:59,519 --> 00:42:01,421 One of the best days of my life was when he said 815 00:42:01,521 --> 00:42:03,560 that he had met someone else. 816 00:42:03,156 --> 00:42:04,691 And that he called the whole thing off. 817 00:42:07,861 --> 00:42:10,897 But that's when the worst days started. 818 00:42:10,997 --> 00:42:12,980 Her illness. 819 00:42:13,660 --> 00:42:14,734 Her mind was on fire. 820 00:42:17,537 --> 00:42:20,240 (BREATH TREMBLING) She was like a little girl again. 821 00:42:24,944 --> 00:42:26,460 Thank you, Ms. Drake. 822 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:28,810 Ms. Oliver. 823 00:42:32,180 --> 00:42:33,386 (RATTLING) 824 00:42:34,788 --> 00:42:36,623 OLGA: I'm a terrible housekeeper. 825 00:42:37,230 --> 00:42:38,358 I'm all she could get. 826 00:42:39,526 --> 00:42:40,794 Superstitious city. 827 00:42:41,795 --> 00:42:43,596 But you are superstitious, too. 828 00:42:43,697 --> 00:42:47,670 This palazzo you believe is haunted, yes? 829 00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:51,370 Ms. Rowena may own it, but the spirits possess it. 830 00:42:51,104 --> 00:42:52,806 HERCULE: And where were you, Madame Seminoff, 831 00:42:52,906 --> 00:42:57,277 when these murderous ghosts turned Joyce Reynolds into one of their own? 832 00:42:57,877 --> 00:42:59,612 Make light, go on. 833 00:43:00,914 --> 00:43:02,882 Why do you ask all these questions? 834 00:43:03,383 --> 00:43:04,417 I did nothing wrong. 835 00:43:04,484 --> 00:43:06,886 It's what he does. (WHISPERING) Or used to do. 836 00:43:07,554 --> 00:43:10,900 I'm helping him, you know, he's back at it for the moment. 837 00:43:11,424 --> 00:43:12,425 It's going well. 838 00:43:12,992 --> 00:43:14,394 What is it that you do? 839 00:43:15,161 --> 00:43:16,396 What is it that I do? 840 00:43:16,996 --> 00:43:18,231 Um... 841 00:43:18,298 --> 00:43:20,266 When a crime has been committed, 842 00:43:20,333 --> 00:43:23,503 I can, by application of order and method 843 00:43:23,603 --> 00:43:26,239 and the slow extinguishing of my own soul, 844 00:43:26,306 --> 00:43:29,242 find without fail or doubt, whodunit. 845 00:43:29,843 --> 00:43:30,977 Like in your books, 846 00:43:31,311 --> 00:43:33,413 your silly detective from Finland, 847 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:34,781 he's making lists. 848 00:43:36,583 --> 00:43:38,251 Do you base yourself on her writing? 849 00:43:39,486 --> 00:43:41,588 (CLEARS THROAT) Would you mind telling us 850 00:43:41,654 --> 00:43:43,423 where you were at midnight? 851 00:43:43,490 --> 00:43:44,491 (WHISPERS) For the lists. 852 00:43:44,591 --> 00:43:47,127 In the music room with Ms. Rowena. 853 00:43:47,193 --> 00:43:50,530 And she joined you there at midnight. 854 00:43:50,630 --> 00:43:52,632 You are absolutely sure of this? 855 00:43:52,699 --> 00:43:55,802 I was watching the clock and was grateful that she did. 856 00:43:55,869 --> 00:43:58,605 But you did not approve of the fortune teller. 857 00:43:59,172 --> 00:44:03,677 I believe you called her "satanic." Um... 858 00:44:03,777 --> 00:44:08,381 Your mind goes, perhaps to, um, Exodus 859 00:44:09,115 --> 00:44:10,383 22:18? 860 00:44:11,518 --> 00:44:13,453 (SPEAKING LATIN) 861 00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,389 HERCULE: (IN ENGLISH) "Do not suffer a sorceress to live." 862 00:44:16,489 --> 00:44:18,391 The Bible warns against it with reason. 863 00:44:18,792 --> 00:44:21,861 - A witch on her Sabbath, huh? - Oh. 864 00:44:21,961 --> 00:44:23,830 To be drowned or burned 865 00:44:23,897 --> 00:44:26,320 or thrown off a high balcony? 866 00:44:26,132 --> 00:44:27,233 No, I am no vigilante. 867 00:44:27,333 --> 00:44:28,835 But your scripture is keen. 868 00:44:28,902 --> 00:44:31,338 No less than a strict Vulgate Latin. 869 00:44:31,404 --> 00:44:33,406 Not the product of a parochial school, 870 00:44:33,506 --> 00:44:37,844 but perhaps a convent. 871 00:44:42,749 --> 00:44:45,719 I found my call to be a nun before I could read. 872 00:44:47,220 --> 00:44:51,570 I wore the habit nine years at Ospedale della Pietà. 873 00:44:54,940 --> 00:44:55,161 And then... 874 00:44:56,996 --> 00:44:58,832 And then I met Mr. Seminoff. 875 00:44:58,898 --> 00:45:00,500 He came to fix the roof. 876 00:45:03,870 --> 00:45:05,238 God sets challenges. 877 00:45:05,338 --> 00:45:07,700 You fell in love and forgot God. 878 00:45:07,730 --> 00:45:08,508 No, it's not that simple. 879 00:45:09,376 --> 00:45:10,510 HERCULE: One final question. 880 00:45:10,577 --> 00:45:13,546 For the lists, of course. Um... 881 00:45:13,613 --> 00:45:15,715 (GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN FAINTLY IN DISTANCE) 882 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,630 Pardon, I believed I heard something. 883 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,434 You who fear the dark arts so, 884 00:45:34,601 --> 00:45:37,370 why would you even attend a séance? 885 00:45:38,204 --> 00:45:41,775 An abominated act here at night, when you are loath to remain? 886 00:45:43,943 --> 00:45:45,879 There's only one to whom I must answer. 887 00:45:48,581 --> 00:45:49,649 And that is not you. 888 00:45:51,751 --> 00:45:53,286 (MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING) 889 00:45:53,386 --> 00:45:55,155 (WATER DRIPPING) 890 00:46:02,962 --> 00:46:03,963 Poirot. 891 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,310 Mrs. Olga Seminoff, as a nun, what was your saint's name? 892 00:46:18,411 --> 00:46:19,412 Maria. 893 00:46:28,855 --> 00:46:30,957 You won't get far on a broken leg. 894 00:46:38,164 --> 00:46:40,200 LESLIE: Jagged weapon. Not too sharp. 895 00:46:42,350 --> 00:46:43,360 Nails, maybe. 896 00:46:43,136 --> 00:46:45,305 And no other marks on her. 897 00:46:45,372 --> 00:46:47,207 Other than the obvious. 898 00:46:48,410 --> 00:46:49,309 - (SUITCASE CLATTERS) - Oh. 899 00:46:52,712 --> 00:46:54,447 (OBJECTS CLATTERING) 900 00:46:55,615 --> 00:46:58,284 HERCULE: Nothing else unusual about her condition? 901 00:46:59,152 --> 00:47:01,321 LESLIE: Impaled on classical art might be enough. 902 00:47:02,222 --> 00:47:04,124 But what of the left wrist? 903 00:47:04,224 --> 00:47:05,992 You ignore an injury, 904 00:47:06,393 --> 00:47:08,862 as well as the precise time of death. 905 00:47:13,733 --> 00:47:14,734 (GLASS BREAKING) 906 00:47:15,468 --> 00:47:17,470 (BREATH TREMBLING) 907 00:47:18,872 --> 00:47:19,873 Missed that. 908 00:47:23,176 --> 00:47:24,177 You're staring at me. 909 00:47:26,813 --> 00:47:27,814 Stop! 910 00:47:28,882 --> 00:47:30,216 You think I'm a loony? 911 00:47:30,717 --> 00:47:31,718 I'm not! 912 00:47:32,519 --> 00:47:33,520 LEOPOLD: Dad. 913 00:47:34,654 --> 00:47:36,156 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 914 00:47:36,489 --> 00:47:37,557 Are you all right? 915 00:47:39,492 --> 00:47:40,493 Yeah. 916 00:47:40,994 --> 00:47:42,429 Just up here if you need me. 917 00:47:42,929 --> 00:47:43,930 LESLIE: Mmm-hmm. 918 00:47:49,836 --> 00:47:51,371 Really wish you hadn't asked me. 919 00:47:52,872 --> 00:47:55,442 Battle scars are not always of the body. 920 00:47:57,110 --> 00:47:58,111 You served? 921 00:48:01,581 --> 00:48:04,170 15th of April, '45. 922 00:48:05,850 --> 00:48:07,530 It was all supposed to be over. 923 00:48:08,355 --> 00:48:10,560 We crossed the Rhine, 924 00:48:10,557 --> 00:48:12,392 east in the push for Berlin. 925 00:48:14,694 --> 00:48:17,300 Found the gates at the camp at Bergen-Belsen. 926 00:48:17,970 --> 00:48:18,198 Oh, God. 927 00:48:18,698 --> 00:48:19,766 LESLIE: "Liberating." 928 00:48:20,700 --> 00:48:24,137 Nursing skeletons back to life. 929 00:48:25,939 --> 00:48:29,242 We killed two the first day with milk. We didn't know. 930 00:48:30,944 --> 00:48:32,212 Then typhus. 931 00:48:33,780 --> 00:48:35,382 All we had was aspirin and opium. 932 00:48:38,718 --> 00:48:40,320 We burned down the huts. 933 00:48:44,958 --> 00:48:46,326 I wrote Leo a letter. 934 00:48:49,496 --> 00:48:51,798 And then shot myself through the chest. 935 00:48:56,670 --> 00:48:59,272 I was told to stop practicing when I got home. 936 00:48:59,472 --> 00:49:03,476 Except for one patient last year. 937 00:49:03,977 --> 00:49:05,780 Alicia Drake. 938 00:49:06,446 --> 00:49:07,914 A favor to Rowena. 939 00:49:10,784 --> 00:49:12,252 Nobody else would see her. 940 00:49:12,919 --> 00:49:13,920 Not here. 941 00:49:15,522 --> 00:49:18,910 I'd been her family doctor so long, I should have said no. 942 00:49:18,158 --> 00:49:20,460 But you were at a disadvantage there. 943 00:49:21,661 --> 00:49:24,300 Because you are in love with Rowena Drake. 944 00:49:24,531 --> 00:49:26,299 Lucky to be in her life at all. 945 00:49:28,368 --> 00:49:29,436 I... 946 00:49:29,936 --> 00:49:31,471 I know this has been... 947 00:49:31,538 --> 00:49:33,540 (GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN FAINTLY IN DISTANCE) 948 00:49:36,142 --> 00:49:40,480 I know this has been difficult, but in your opinion, 949 00:49:41,147 --> 00:49:42,882 could Alicia Drake have been murdered? 950 00:49:43,983 --> 00:49:45,952 Alicia told me what she saw. 951 00:49:47,530 --> 00:49:49,456 She said the children were taunting her. 952 00:49:49,956 --> 00:49:51,124 I didn't listen. 953 00:49:51,191 --> 00:49:52,659 I wrote it off as a broken heart 954 00:49:52,726 --> 00:49:54,127 when she was going mad. 955 00:49:55,962 --> 00:49:57,297 She needed help. 956 00:49:59,199 --> 00:50:00,867 I gave her sedatives, 957 00:50:02,335 --> 00:50:04,571 like milk to the starving. 958 00:50:05,739 --> 00:50:08,410 There is no such thing as psychic phenomena. 959 00:50:08,141 --> 00:50:10,810 There is psychic pain. 960 00:50:12,645 --> 00:50:14,514 A loony like me should have known. 961 00:50:19,219 --> 00:50:20,320 Are we through? 962 00:50:21,221 --> 00:50:22,222 HERCULE: Hmm. 963 00:50:24,924 --> 00:50:25,925 (CLICKS TONGUE) 964 00:50:27,527 --> 00:50:28,661 Um... 965 00:50:29,162 --> 00:50:30,497 Merci, Doctor Ferrier. 966 00:50:38,171 --> 00:50:39,390 (SNIFFLES) 967 00:50:39,105 --> 00:50:41,107 - (BREATH TREMBLING) - (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) 968 00:50:47,614 --> 00:50:49,616 (AIR HISSING FROM TAP) 969 00:50:53,887 --> 00:50:55,588 (SLOW, DRY RUMBLING) 970 00:51:03,763 --> 00:51:05,650 (RUMBLING STOPS) 971 00:51:05,899 --> 00:51:07,100 (DROPLET DRIPS) 972 00:51:23,116 --> 00:51:25,118 - (FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING) - (GASPS) 973 00:51:29,456 --> 00:51:31,257 (TAP RUNNING) 974 00:51:37,163 --> 00:51:38,231 (WINCES) 975 00:51:45,271 --> 00:51:47,730 I suppose I'm nowhere on your list. 976 00:51:48,675 --> 00:51:50,143 Of who to interview. 977 00:51:51,578 --> 00:51:53,790 I'll wait, Sir. 978 00:51:54,247 --> 00:51:56,950 The terrifying Edgar Allan Poe. 979 00:51:57,450 --> 00:52:00,200 For a boy your age, it is not better 980 00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,288 perhaps, Charles Dickens? 981 00:52:02,355 --> 00:52:04,290 He's a bit silly. Don't you think? 982 00:52:04,357 --> 00:52:05,358 (DOOR SLAMS OPEN) 983 00:52:07,627 --> 00:52:09,329 My father's jumpy like you. 984 00:52:10,300 --> 00:52:13,990 They call it war neurosis. Battle fatigue. 985 00:52:13,967 --> 00:52:15,268 I think that's unfair. 986 00:52:16,169 --> 00:52:17,370 He's not tired. 987 00:52:17,937 --> 00:52:18,938 He's broken. 988 00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:22,442 He was with me at midnight, if you were wondering. 989 00:52:24,144 --> 00:52:26,946 I was wondering, I admit. 990 00:52:27,130 --> 00:52:28,181 With you at midnight, yes? 991 00:52:28,281 --> 00:52:30,183 In the kitchen, waiting for Ms. Rowena. 992 00:52:31,151 --> 00:52:32,485 He wanted to say good night. 993 00:52:32,552 --> 00:52:33,653 Of course. 994 00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,222 Her assistants came in just after, 995 00:52:36,322 --> 00:52:38,224 so they're still on your list. 996 00:52:38,858 --> 00:52:41,294 - Everyone is on my list. - (TAPS RUNNING) 997 00:52:41,695 --> 00:52:42,962 You left on the taps. 998 00:52:44,664 --> 00:52:45,665 Oh, I... 999 00:52:50,637 --> 00:52:53,840 I am afraid, I do not know myself tonight. 1000 00:52:54,407 --> 00:52:55,575 You're feeling things. 1001 00:52:55,875 --> 00:52:56,876 Hmm? 1002 00:52:57,243 --> 00:52:58,244 Voices. 1003 00:52:59,746 --> 00:53:01,314 It's All Hallows' Eve. 1004 00:53:02,549 --> 00:53:05,352 The dead are as close as they can be. 1005 00:53:07,870 --> 00:53:08,688 You were dead, too, Sir. 1006 00:53:09,989 --> 00:53:11,825 Even if only for a moment. 1007 00:53:13,259 --> 00:53:15,161 They see you as one of their own. 1008 00:53:15,929 --> 00:53:19,232 One with something to say would be wise to come to you. 1009 00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,435 You talk like Ms. Reynolds. 1010 00:53:22,535 --> 00:53:24,337 She only pretended to know. 1011 00:53:25,538 --> 00:53:27,107 No wonder they got cross with her. 1012 00:53:27,540 --> 00:53:29,609 You have much sympathy with the dead. 1013 00:53:29,709 --> 00:53:31,511 Some of them are my friends. 1014 00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:34,881 Excuse me. 1015 00:53:37,384 --> 00:53:38,918 Merci, Monsieur Leopold. 1016 00:53:39,190 --> 00:53:40,200 You're welcome. 1017 00:53:42,622 --> 00:53:43,623 ARIADNE: Hercules. 1018 00:53:47,260 --> 00:53:48,261 Jumpy. 1019 00:53:48,361 --> 00:53:50,764 Nicholas and Desdemona are ready. 1020 00:53:50,864 --> 00:53:52,866 (HERCULE BREATHING HEAVILY) 1021 00:53:53,199 --> 00:53:54,434 We can wait for the police. 1022 00:53:54,868 --> 00:53:56,636 - I am Hercule Poirot, no? - No. 1023 00:53:56,736 --> 00:53:58,138 - Yes. Yes. - Yes. 1024 00:53:58,238 --> 00:53:59,806 If the police can succeed where I cannot, 1025 00:53:59,906 --> 00:54:01,975 I will be the next one off the balcony into the canal. 1026 00:54:02,750 --> 00:54:03,643 Back to his old self. 1027 00:54:03,743 --> 00:54:05,780 - What do you think so far? - Well... 1028 00:54:05,145 --> 00:54:06,279 My money's on the housekeeper. 1029 00:54:06,379 --> 00:54:08,448 Good taste in books, but brimstone fire burns hot. 1030 00:54:08,548 --> 00:54:10,650 And Rowena Drake needed the victim alive. 1031 00:54:11,510 --> 00:54:12,419 Although that little boy, 1032 00:54:13,530 --> 00:54:14,788 all the charm of chewing tinfoil. 1033 00:54:14,888 --> 00:54:15,889 Perhaps, perhaps. 1034 00:54:15,955 --> 00:54:19,426 Every theory aspires to fact before the information is gathered. 1035 00:54:19,492 --> 00:54:20,493 Order and method. 1036 00:54:20,593 --> 00:54:21,828 - And lists. - And lists. 1037 00:54:21,928 --> 00:54:24,970 We continue to those who knew her best, her assistants. 1038 00:54:24,164 --> 00:54:25,832 Do you really think the help had motive? 1039 00:54:25,932 --> 00:54:27,100 The help always have motive, 1040 00:54:27,167 --> 00:54:29,690 first having to endure to be called "the help." 1041 00:54:29,135 --> 00:54:30,236 (DOOR LOCK CLICKS) 1042 00:54:30,637 --> 00:54:31,938 (DOOR SQUEAKING) 1043 00:54:33,807 --> 00:54:35,241 (SIGHS) Him again. 1044 00:54:35,308 --> 00:54:37,100 Those two criminals are not to be trusted. 1045 00:54:37,110 --> 00:54:39,679 Criminals? Those children? You might have mentioned that. 1046 00:54:39,779 --> 00:54:40,947 I'm telling you now. 1047 00:54:42,682 --> 00:54:44,451 (MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY) 1048 00:54:49,189 --> 00:54:50,757 Couldn't I do this with my sister? 1049 00:54:51,191 --> 00:54:53,326 Uh, she waits for you comfortably. 1050 00:54:53,660 --> 00:54:54,661 Where is my brother? 1051 00:54:54,761 --> 00:54:56,429 He waits for you comfortably. 1052 00:54:56,496 --> 00:54:59,132 Desdemona and Nicholas Holland. 1053 00:54:59,199 --> 00:55:00,767 NICHOLAS: Our passports are forgeries. 1054 00:55:00,834 --> 00:55:02,350 Yes. And not very good ones. 1055 00:55:02,135 --> 00:55:04,537 Horvát Nipkin and Dorenia before. 1056 00:55:05,138 --> 00:55:06,473 - Born in Hungary. - (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) 1057 00:55:06,539 --> 00:55:08,608 Village burned out of existence. 1058 00:55:09,420 --> 00:55:10,710 Of all our family, 1059 00:55:11,277 --> 00:55:13,460 somehow we were still alive. 1060 00:55:13,613 --> 00:55:14,714 We took care of each other. 1061 00:55:14,814 --> 00:55:17,884 At midnight, we snuck a drink in the kitchen. 1062 00:55:18,651 --> 00:55:19,953 The creepy kid was there. 1063 00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:21,988 HERCULE: He has you coming in just after the hour. 1064 00:55:22,550 --> 00:55:23,123 He is mistaken. 1065 00:55:23,189 --> 00:55:25,325 HERCULE: And how long were you in Ms. Reynolds' employ? 1066 00:55:25,392 --> 00:55:26,993 - Just over a year. - HERCULE: You sure? 1067 00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:28,194 The best year we ever had. 1068 00:55:28,294 --> 00:55:30,897 We haven't been hungry since we started fronting for her. 1069 00:55:30,997 --> 00:55:32,532 I don't know what we'll do without her. 1070 00:55:32,632 --> 00:55:34,734 - We managed before her. - Oh, yes, you stole. 1071 00:55:35,135 --> 00:55:36,870 We were thieves, not murderers. 1072 00:55:36,970 --> 00:55:38,471 We did what we had to survive the war. 1073 00:55:38,538 --> 00:55:39,639 She just knew things. 1074 00:55:39,706 --> 00:55:42,750 And if she says Alicia Drake was murdered... 1075 00:55:42,375 --> 00:55:43,376 Pure phony. 1076 00:55:43,476 --> 00:55:44,544 She was magic. 1077 00:55:45,311 --> 00:55:48,140 So, all of these séance in which you participated... 1078 00:55:48,810 --> 00:55:49,482 - DESDEMONA: It was fake. Fake. - Fake? 1079 00:55:49,549 --> 00:55:51,217 - They were fake, the spirit meetings? - It was all fake. 1080 00:55:51,317 --> 00:55:53,153 - All of the séances? - It was all a show. 1081 00:55:53,219 --> 00:55:55,255 All a show, a fake. Mmm, strange. 1082 00:55:55,355 --> 00:55:57,230 And is this magic too? 1083 00:55:57,900 --> 00:55:58,992 The control for your talking typewriter? 1084 00:55:59,726 --> 00:56:01,428 I mean, we'd set some tricks. 1085 00:56:01,528 --> 00:56:03,830 Only to drive home the reality of her visions. 1086 00:56:04,431 --> 00:56:06,332 She ordered me around like a duchess 1087 00:56:06,399 --> 00:56:09,200 and flirted with Nicholas to keep him in line. 1088 00:56:09,736 --> 00:56:10,937 We have put up with worse. 1089 00:56:11,370 --> 00:56:13,873 "We'll get there without her." 1090 00:56:14,374 --> 00:56:16,900 Where were you running off to? 1091 00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:18,111 - We're going to Missouri. - Missouri. 1092 00:56:18,211 --> 00:56:19,212 Missouri? 1093 00:56:19,879 --> 00:56:22,349 We were hiding in the Murrhardt Forest. 1094 00:56:22,849 --> 00:56:25,285 Living on weeds and mice. 1095 00:56:25,785 --> 00:56:27,454 The American trucks, they came through Heilbronn 1096 00:56:27,554 --> 00:56:29,356 and I thought we're dead when they caught us. 1097 00:56:29,422 --> 00:56:31,458 They taught us the Lindy Hop. 1098 00:56:31,958 --> 00:56:34,270 We'd never seen anything like them before. 1099 00:56:34,527 --> 00:56:37,764 This mix of men, their colors and their voices. 1100 00:56:38,798 --> 00:56:40,734 One of them tacked up this sheet. 1101 00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,536 They had a film projector, but only half a movie. 1102 00:56:43,937 --> 00:56:49,209 We used to watch half of Meet Me in St. Louis 1103 00:56:49,275 --> 00:56:52,212 every night on an army sheet for a month. 1104 00:56:52,278 --> 00:56:54,814 DESDEMONA: We watched it over and over. 1105 00:56:55,648 --> 00:56:57,830 I still don't how it ends. 1106 00:56:57,150 --> 00:56:58,918 Oh, it's a... 1107 00:56:58,985 --> 00:57:00,920 It ends happily. (CLEARS THROAT) 1108 00:57:01,421 --> 00:57:03,223 "St. Louis, Missouri." 1109 00:57:04,791 --> 00:57:07,394 Just saying those words could get my sister to fall asleep. 1110 00:57:07,927 --> 00:57:09,129 It was the color. 1111 00:57:10,663 --> 00:57:12,332 It was the beautiful people. 1112 00:57:12,432 --> 00:57:14,434 You know, it was, no one was sick. 1113 00:57:14,768 --> 00:57:17,737 No one was starving or dying. 1114 00:57:19,239 --> 00:57:21,775 5135 Kensington Avenue. 1115 00:57:23,143 --> 00:57:24,778 That's where we decided to live. 1116 00:57:25,812 --> 00:57:27,947 It's her dream so it's mine too. 1117 00:57:28,140 --> 00:57:32,118 We only had to endure the duchess until we had enough to buy our way in. 1118 00:57:32,652 --> 00:57:33,787 And start over. 1119 00:57:34,754 --> 00:57:36,356 Stupid to have a dream. 1120 00:57:37,900 --> 00:57:38,358 But impatient with your dream, 1121 00:57:38,458 --> 00:57:40,827 you grew brazen and skimmed from her proceeds. 1122 00:57:41,594 --> 00:57:43,496 "Clang, clang, clang, went the trolley." 1123 00:57:43,596 --> 00:57:44,798 What? No, we didn't. 1124 00:57:44,864 --> 00:57:47,467 - Your brother already admits that you did. - Idiot. 1125 00:57:47,534 --> 00:57:49,350 Your sister already admits that you did. 1126 00:57:49,135 --> 00:57:51,271 Not from Ms. Reynolds. We wouldn't. 1127 00:57:51,338 --> 00:57:54,307 Perhaps she discovered your theft and made threats. 1128 00:57:54,374 --> 00:57:56,276 Perhaps you had had enough experience 1129 00:57:56,343 --> 00:57:58,978 of the police's cruel treatment of stateless Romani urchins, 1130 00:57:59,145 --> 00:58:02,148 and, wishing to avoid deportation, or worse, killed her. 1131 00:58:02,215 --> 00:58:03,450 You, the trusted help. 1132 00:58:06,786 --> 00:58:07,787 (GRUNTS) 1133 00:58:07,854 --> 00:58:08,855 Nicholas! 1134 00:58:08,988 --> 00:58:10,190 Nicholas, where are you? 1135 00:58:11,391 --> 00:58:13,393 (SHRIEKS, GRUNTS) 1136 00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:15,895 If I'm trapped here, so are you. 1137 00:58:16,396 --> 00:58:17,731 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 1138 00:58:23,703 --> 00:58:25,238 Doesn't mean that I killed her. 1139 00:58:25,338 --> 00:58:27,400 Damn well ran like she did. 1140 00:58:27,140 --> 00:58:29,542 Clear motive, both unaccounted for at her time of death. 1141 00:58:29,642 --> 00:58:30,677 I'm changing my guess. 1142 00:58:30,744 --> 00:58:33,713 It is certainly possible. Yes. Yes. 1143 00:58:34,681 --> 00:58:36,182 You're doing that thing where you pretend to know 1144 00:58:36,249 --> 00:58:37,384 more than everyone else in the world. 1145 00:58:37,484 --> 00:58:38,485 I as yet know nothing. 1146 00:58:38,551 --> 00:58:40,887 The truth does not come without a tax of effort. 1147 00:58:41,888 --> 00:58:45,910 You woke the bear from his sleep. You cannot cry when he tangos. 1148 00:58:45,191 --> 00:58:46,693 That's not an expression in any language. 1149 00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:47,861 We continue. 1150 00:58:48,995 --> 00:58:50,997 (GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN FAINTLY IN DISTANCE) 1151 00:58:54,667 --> 00:58:56,669 (SINGING GROWS LOUDER) 1152 00:58:58,938 --> 00:59:00,106 Can you hear this? 1153 00:59:01,374 --> 00:59:02,409 All around us. 1154 00:59:03,343 --> 00:59:04,444 VITALE: I heard nothing. 1155 00:59:06,279 --> 00:59:08,548 DESDEMONA: Your investigator has poached his egg. 1156 00:59:10,830 --> 00:59:11,418 ARIADNE: (SIGHS) Poirot. 1157 00:59:11,518 --> 00:59:14,870 A bang to the head might be your limit for tonight. 1158 00:59:14,187 --> 00:59:15,188 (SINGING STOPS) 1159 00:59:15,255 --> 00:59:16,756 Someone else is in this house. 1160 00:59:19,526 --> 00:59:20,694 Did you hear it? 1161 00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:23,290 Yes. 1162 00:59:24,300 --> 00:59:25,131 Me and you, then. 1163 00:59:27,300 --> 00:59:28,968 Listening. 1164 00:59:31,805 --> 00:59:32,806 Wait. 1165 00:59:34,874 --> 00:59:36,876 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 1166 00:59:46,152 --> 00:59:48,154 (STATIC CRACKLING) 1167 00:59:50,390 --> 00:59:51,391 Still dead. 1168 00:59:59,466 --> 01:00:01,401 (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) 1169 01:00:01,468 --> 01:00:03,470 - (GIRL'S LAUGHTER ECHOING) - (FOOTSTEPS ECHOING) 1170 01:00:12,846 --> 01:00:14,581 (GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN FAINTLY IN DISTANCE) 1171 01:00:27,694 --> 01:00:28,695 (BIRD SCREECHING) 1172 01:00:32,499 --> 01:00:34,501 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 1173 01:00:37,203 --> 01:00:40,400 HERCULE: It is all right. You can come out now. 1174 01:00:44,100 --> 01:00:45,110 (EXHALES) 1175 01:00:47,947 --> 01:00:49,816 You're not in any trouble. 1176 01:00:51,351 --> 01:00:52,952 There is nothing to fear. 1177 01:00:53,787 --> 01:00:56,189 You came with the other children, yes? 1178 01:00:57,824 --> 01:01:01,628 And you have been hiding here all this time. 1179 01:01:04,197 --> 01:01:05,198 (SIGHS) 1180 01:01:07,701 --> 01:01:09,335 Did you hear the woman fall? 1181 01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:15,175 Did you see? 1182 01:01:17,644 --> 01:01:18,878 Did someone push her? 1183 01:01:20,814 --> 01:01:22,482 - Who are you talking to? - (HERCULE GASPS) 1184 01:01:22,549 --> 01:01:24,384 - (DOOR SLAM ECHOING) - A child. 1185 01:01:27,654 --> 01:01:28,655 You must have heard. 1186 01:01:29,890 --> 01:01:30,900 - (LOUD RUMBLING) - (GASPS) 1187 01:01:30,190 --> 01:01:31,191 (BIRD SCREECHING) 1188 01:01:31,257 --> 01:01:32,325 That I heard. 1189 01:01:34,561 --> 01:01:35,829 (LOUD RUMBLING CONTINUES) 1190 01:01:35,895 --> 01:01:37,897 (FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING) 1191 01:01:40,500 --> 01:01:41,501 DESDEMONA: Let us go! 1192 01:01:41,568 --> 01:01:43,703 - NICHOLAS: Untie us, you pig! - (DESDEMONA GRUNTING) 1193 01:01:43,770 --> 01:01:44,771 You can't leave us here! 1194 01:01:44,871 --> 01:01:46,573 (DESDEMONA AND NICHOLAS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY) 1195 01:01:47,574 --> 01:01:49,175 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 1196 01:01:49,242 --> 01:01:51,544 - You heard that. You all... - MAXIME: Must be the pipes. 1197 01:01:51,611 --> 01:01:53,113 Pipes? It sounds like the Blitz. 1198 01:01:53,213 --> 01:01:55,181 ROWENA: In all my years here, I've never heard this. 1199 01:01:55,248 --> 01:01:57,170 OLGA: I have. When they're angry. 1200 01:01:57,830 --> 01:01:58,118 We've upset them. 1201 01:01:58,218 --> 01:02:00,553 VITALE: How do we un-upset them? 1202 01:02:00,620 --> 01:02:01,621 LEOPOLD: Listen. 1203 01:02:02,288 --> 01:02:04,290 (CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY) 1204 01:02:04,391 --> 01:02:06,259 (LOUD RUMBLING) 1205 01:02:06,893 --> 01:02:08,528 It comes from the basement. 1206 01:02:11,398 --> 01:02:13,366 There is no basement in this house. 1207 01:02:13,433 --> 01:02:14,901 (LOUD RUMBLING CONTINUES) 1208 01:02:14,968 --> 01:02:16,436 (FOREBODING MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING) 1209 01:02:21,574 --> 01:02:23,610 (LAMP SQUEAKING) 1210 01:02:27,647 --> 01:02:28,648 (THUD) 1211 01:02:29,749 --> 01:02:31,151 (WIND BLOWING) 1212 01:02:31,251 --> 01:02:32,786 (LOUD RUMBLING CONTINUES) 1213 01:02:39,459 --> 01:02:42,262 ARIADNE: "Dottore." Doctor. The Children's Vendetta. 1214 01:02:42,896 --> 01:02:44,297 You wanna go down into that? 1215 01:02:46,966 --> 01:02:47,967 (ARIADNE SIGHS) 1216 01:02:49,402 --> 01:02:50,904 (CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY) 1217 01:02:50,970 --> 01:02:52,472 (LOUD RUMBLING CONTINUES) 1218 01:03:05,185 --> 01:03:06,920 LESLIE: (SINGING) All over the world. 1219 01:03:07,520 --> 01:03:09,489 - LEOPOLD: Dad? - The boys are home again 1220 01:03:15,328 --> 01:03:16,930 (RATS SQUEAKING) 1221 01:03:25,305 --> 01:03:28,108 They really did lock those children in here to die. 1222 01:03:29,209 --> 01:03:31,611 Leave him. He's having a nerve storm. 1223 01:03:31,678 --> 01:03:33,513 Damn it, Ferrier. Not now! 1224 01:03:33,613 --> 01:03:34,614 Pull it together. 1225 01:03:35,150 --> 01:03:36,116 Think of your son. 1226 01:03:36,182 --> 01:03:37,484 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 1227 01:03:37,550 --> 01:03:39,185 - (LESLIE GRUNTS) - ROWENA: (GASPS) Oh! 1228 01:03:39,285 --> 01:03:41,121 - Stop it! - LEOPOLD: Dad! 1229 01:03:41,187 --> 01:03:42,288 ROWENA: Stop it! Stop it! 1230 01:03:42,355 --> 01:03:45,580 - (LOUD RUMBLING) - (INHALES SHARPLY) 1231 01:03:49,896 --> 01:03:51,865 Storm waves. Not ghosts. 1232 01:03:52,399 --> 01:03:54,134 - OLGA: Please, stop it! - LEOPOLD: Stop! 1233 01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:55,402 (OLGA SCREAMS) 1234 01:03:55,502 --> 01:03:56,503 LEOPOLD: Dad! 1235 01:03:56,569 --> 01:03:57,671 (BOTH GRUNTING) 1236 01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:04,344 - (BOTH GRUNTING) - ARIADNE: Oh. Stop it. 1237 01:04:04,411 --> 01:04:06,790 - (GRUNTING) - (LEOPOLD GRUNTING) 1238 01:04:06,179 --> 01:04:07,380 - (MAXIME GRUNTS) - (OLGA SCREAMS) 1239 01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:08,481 (GRUNTING) 1240 01:04:09,215 --> 01:04:10,216 LEOPOLD: Dad, stop it! 1241 01:04:10,316 --> 01:04:11,551 OLGA: Are you all right? You all right? 1242 01:04:12,819 --> 01:04:14,870 - (GRUNTS) - LEOPOLD: Dad, please, stop! 1243 01:04:14,187 --> 01:04:15,722 - OLGA: Stop it! - LEOPOLD: Please, stop! 1244 01:04:16,356 --> 01:04:17,357 (GASPS) 1245 01:04:18,324 --> 01:04:19,492 (BEES BUZZING) 1246 01:04:20,660 --> 01:04:21,895 (BOTH GRUNTING) 1247 01:04:23,229 --> 01:04:25,699 - (MAXIME GRUNTING, PANTING) - Dad. Dad. 1248 01:04:27,233 --> 01:04:29,235 - Dad. It's me. - (LESLIE PANTING) 1249 01:04:29,936 --> 01:04:30,937 It's me. 1250 01:04:32,706 --> 01:04:33,840 I'm right here. 1251 01:04:38,578 --> 01:04:39,879 You're here with me. 1252 01:04:41,681 --> 01:04:42,682 You see me? 1253 01:04:43,216 --> 01:04:44,217 You see me? 1254 01:04:54,461 --> 01:04:56,463 (LESLIE PANTING) 1255 01:04:59,265 --> 01:05:00,567 It's just a thing. 1256 01:05:00,934 --> 01:05:01,935 I know. 1257 01:05:07,107 --> 01:05:08,908 - (VITALE GRUNTS) - Stronzo! 1258 01:05:09,476 --> 01:05:10,944 (IN ENGLISH, WHISPERING) Shh, Dad. 1259 01:05:12,780 --> 01:05:14,800 (LEOPOLD SHUSHING) 1260 01:05:14,147 --> 01:05:15,782 It's okay. Dad. 1261 01:05:16,449 --> 01:05:17,717 Just needs his rest. 1262 01:05:19,520 --> 01:05:20,860 Don't you, Dad? 1263 01:05:20,587 --> 01:05:22,555 I should be taking care of you. 1264 01:05:22,622 --> 01:05:23,623 You do. 1265 01:05:26,993 --> 01:05:27,994 (KISSES) 1266 01:05:31,965 --> 01:05:32,966 Rest, monsieur. 1267 01:05:34,334 --> 01:05:35,769 LESLIE: I should have listened. 1268 01:05:36,102 --> 01:05:37,103 I saw. 1269 01:05:37,637 --> 01:05:39,572 Demons, evil, 1270 01:05:39,639 --> 01:05:42,750 they're everywhere in this house. 1271 01:05:42,142 --> 01:05:45,679 You and me, we're the same. 1272 01:05:45,779 --> 01:05:47,781 (GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN FAINTLY IN DISTANCE) 1273 01:05:47,847 --> 01:05:49,249 Wherever we go, 1274 01:05:50,850 --> 01:05:52,180 death follows. 1275 01:05:52,118 --> 01:05:54,921 There must be a rational answer for all of this. 1276 01:05:55,422 --> 01:05:57,424 In the basement, there are bees. 1277 01:05:58,258 --> 01:06:00,593 Upstairs, there is an ordinary killer. 1278 01:06:00,660 --> 01:06:01,661 LESLIE: No. 1279 01:06:02,262 --> 01:06:04,164 - (SINGING CONTINUES) - Listen. 1280 01:06:06,599 --> 01:06:07,600 Believe. 1281 01:06:07,667 --> 01:06:08,835 (SINGING STOPS) 1282 01:06:19,946 --> 01:06:21,948 ROWENA: He can rest now in my music room. 1283 01:06:22,150 --> 01:06:23,817 It's almost soundproof. 1284 01:06:27,287 --> 01:06:29,155 We should lock it. For his safety. 1285 01:06:29,222 --> 01:06:30,357 (LOCK CLICKING) 1286 01:06:30,457 --> 01:06:33,226 But please, you keep the key. For ours. 1287 01:06:33,326 --> 01:06:35,328 (FOOTSTEPS RECEDING) 1288 01:06:35,395 --> 01:06:36,396 HERCULE: Merci. 1289 01:06:42,680 --> 01:06:43,169 Come on, Leopold. 1290 01:06:43,903 --> 01:06:45,305 It's time for more cake, don't you think? 1291 01:06:45,372 --> 01:06:47,507 - LEOPOLD: I've had too much. - ROWENA: Well, I haven't. 1292 01:06:51,544 --> 01:06:53,113 MAXIME: Of course, she'd say that. 1293 01:06:54,114 --> 01:06:57,170 From her perspective, it's true, I did kill Alicia. 1294 01:06:57,550 --> 01:06:59,786 Rowena believes what she wants. 1295 01:07:00,887 --> 01:07:04,570 A medium saw Alicia murdered, color me the gunman. 1296 01:07:04,157 --> 01:07:05,992 HERCULE: You do not believe Ms. Reynolds, 1297 01:07:06,590 --> 01:07:10,797 her typewriter with the message from the departed of your initial. 1298 01:07:11,531 --> 01:07:13,330 "M" for Maxime. 1299 01:07:13,133 --> 01:07:14,367 A haunted house? 1300 01:07:15,301 --> 01:07:18,304 Humans are so desperate to shape chaos into tidy stories, 1301 01:07:18,471 --> 01:07:19,906 double that in distress. 1302 01:07:21,410 --> 01:07:24,244 It isn't a wash of a trillion stars, it's ol' Cassiopeia. 1303 01:07:24,344 --> 01:07:28,810 That blur of light in the family photo? That must be Grandad's ghost. 1304 01:07:28,181 --> 01:07:30,550 - Hmm. - Alicia was mentally ill. 1305 01:07:31,384 --> 01:07:32,919 It killed her. 1306 01:07:33,190 --> 01:07:34,540 It didn't have to. 1307 01:07:34,154 --> 01:07:36,156 A proper doctor would have treated her properly. 1308 01:07:36,222 --> 01:07:37,991 - Not that twitch salad. - (SCRAPING) 1309 01:07:38,558 --> 01:07:39,726 - Shit! - (KNIFE CLATTERS) 1310 01:07:40,226 --> 01:07:41,227 (EXHALES) 1311 01:07:43,363 --> 01:07:45,365 (DRY SQUEAKING) 1312 01:07:45,432 --> 01:07:48,435 Honey. Good on a cut. Ancient antiseptic. 1313 01:07:51,104 --> 01:07:52,372 (MAXIME SIGHS) 1314 01:07:55,800 --> 01:07:56,576 That's not wildflower. 1315 01:07:58,178 --> 01:07:59,179 I can't place it. 1316 01:08:01,140 --> 01:08:02,150 HERCULE: Oh! 1317 01:08:06,553 --> 01:08:09,222 Ah. Alicia Drake. 1318 01:08:09,289 --> 01:08:12,592 Such sunshine happiness. 1319 01:08:14,861 --> 01:08:15,862 Torn in two. 1320 01:08:16,596 --> 01:08:20,467 Alicia tore up the photo in her room the night I ended it. 1321 01:08:22,302 --> 01:08:23,636 It's the last time we spoke. 1322 01:08:24,904 --> 01:08:27,440 HERCULE: So, you did break off your engagement. 1323 01:08:29,420 --> 01:08:31,444 You heard. She wasn't rich enough for me. 1324 01:08:31,544 --> 01:08:35,448 You carry her photograph in your pocket. You came tonight when summoned. 1325 01:08:35,548 --> 01:08:38,818 I believe that you loved Alicia Drake more than the money. 1326 01:08:39,319 --> 01:08:40,453 And yet, you walked away. 1327 01:08:40,553 --> 01:08:43,656 Some women, you marry them, you marry their mother, too. 1328 01:08:43,757 --> 01:08:45,558 So, the mother did not approve of you. 1329 01:08:45,625 --> 01:08:47,460 She wouldn't approve of the Pope. 1330 01:08:48,928 --> 01:08:51,965 Rowena didn't know how to exist alone. 1331 01:08:52,650 --> 01:08:54,000 Tore up the garden in spite, took off abroad. 1332 01:08:54,234 --> 01:08:55,235 Alicia was all twisted with guilt, 1333 01:08:55,301 --> 01:08:57,337 wanted to chase her around the world. 1334 01:08:57,437 --> 01:08:59,973 And I finally realized 1335 01:09:00,730 --> 01:09:02,509 I would never be the most important thing in her life. 1336 01:09:02,942 --> 01:09:05,110 So, you broke it off and broke her heart. 1337 01:09:05,111 --> 01:09:07,580 All because a woman made you feel small. 1338 01:09:08,281 --> 01:09:10,316 I returned to Venice 1339 01:09:10,417 --> 01:09:12,452 to beg her to take me back. 1340 01:09:15,188 --> 01:09:16,990 When I heard she was sick, 1341 01:09:18,240 --> 01:09:20,260 Rowena wouldn't let me see her. 1342 01:09:20,660 --> 01:09:22,262 Or show her my letters. 1343 01:09:24,864 --> 01:09:27,267 The next time I saw Alicia was in a coffin. 1344 01:09:32,500 --> 01:09:33,600 (SIGHS) 1345 01:09:34,474 --> 01:09:35,875 Maybe it was my fault. 1346 01:09:38,445 --> 01:09:39,512 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 1347 01:09:40,513 --> 01:09:43,316 If you will permit, your invitation, please? 1348 01:09:49,522 --> 01:09:50,523 Ms. Oliver. 1349 01:09:50,623 --> 01:09:51,891 (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING) 1350 01:09:54,361 --> 01:09:55,628 ARIADNE: A simple note. 1351 01:09:55,695 --> 01:09:57,697 HERCULE: No distinguishing language. 1352 01:09:57,797 --> 01:10:01,901 The stationery is plain. It is cleanly typewritten. 1353 01:10:02,369 --> 01:10:04,404 Professionally anonymous. 1354 01:10:05,638 --> 01:10:08,800 (GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN FAINTLY IN DISTANCE) 1355 01:10:18,385 --> 01:10:19,652 (HERCULE GROANS) 1356 01:10:19,719 --> 01:10:21,588 Well, that's it. You're done. Let's go. 1357 01:10:32,866 --> 01:10:34,534 (OBJECTS CLATTERING) 1358 01:10:35,568 --> 01:10:37,771 His interview. We did not finish. 1359 01:10:37,871 --> 01:10:40,874 (GROANS) You were gonna expose some lie he told, 1360 01:10:40,940 --> 01:10:43,760 probably accuse him of being secretly Vichy. 1361 01:10:43,176 --> 01:10:45,845 Then, he would have threatened to deck you. Effort spared. 1362 01:10:45,912 --> 01:10:46,913 VITALE: Is he all right? 1363 01:10:47,130 --> 01:10:48,915 Guard dog, be useful, get him a chair. 1364 01:10:49,150 --> 01:10:51,918 A chair, yes. (SIGHS) 1365 01:10:52,180 --> 01:10:54,187 It is good to have a friend in this. 1366 01:10:55,255 --> 01:10:57,190 How long have we known each other? 1367 01:10:58,580 --> 01:11:00,593 The Canning Road Municipal Baths Murder. 1368 01:11:00,694 --> 01:11:02,195 - Ah. - (CHUCKLES) I bullied my way 1369 01:11:02,262 --> 01:11:04,197 into observing you as research for a book. 1370 01:11:04,264 --> 01:11:05,632 Wrote Poirot thinly veiled. 1371 01:11:05,732 --> 01:11:07,901 They saw through it, and you got famous. 1372 01:11:07,967 --> 01:11:10,136 - Infamous. - Ah. 1373 01:11:10,236 --> 01:11:12,205 Excuse me. Thank you. 1374 01:11:14,941 --> 01:11:15,975 - VITALE: Dottore. - Thank you. 1375 01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:17,977 Not for me. For you. 1376 01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:21,815 You want to interview me? 1377 01:11:21,915 --> 01:11:22,916 Leave him be. 1378 01:11:22,982 --> 01:11:25,485 You turned on a cold engine, took a few knocks to the head. 1379 01:11:25,585 --> 01:11:27,887 Sit this one out. Let morning come. 1380 01:11:27,954 --> 01:11:28,955 (WHOOSHES) 1381 01:11:31,391 --> 01:11:32,726 I almost died. 1382 01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:34,761 Here. 1383 01:11:35,328 --> 01:11:36,329 (SIGHS) 1384 01:11:36,830 --> 01:11:38,498 This palazzo, 1385 01:11:39,466 --> 01:11:40,567 it, uh, plays tricks. 1386 01:11:42,168 --> 01:11:46,720 It puts things in front of me again and again. 1387 01:11:46,139 --> 01:11:47,173 Um... 1388 01:11:47,273 --> 01:11:48,441 Apples. 1389 01:11:48,508 --> 01:11:49,642 A trick of the mind. 1390 01:11:49,743 --> 01:11:53,313 And then my mind wishes to tell me something. 1391 01:11:53,413 --> 01:11:56,316 Uh, how did you become a policeman? 1392 01:11:56,416 --> 01:11:59,119 I do wish you would let go of this. 1393 01:11:59,185 --> 01:12:00,954 It's all right. I'll answer. 1394 01:12:01,688 --> 01:12:03,857 - (SIGHS) - My father was a cop. 1395 01:12:03,957 --> 01:12:05,492 Family business, basically. 1396 01:12:06,159 --> 01:12:07,260 Never knew anything else. 1397 01:12:07,327 --> 01:12:10,196 Yet, you retired early. Only last year. 1398 01:12:10,663 --> 01:12:11,664 Yeah. 1399 01:12:12,332 --> 01:12:14,267 The family business was no longer for me. 1400 01:12:14,334 --> 01:12:15,802 Perhaps never was. 1401 01:12:16,503 --> 01:12:18,605 I had the strength, but not the skin. 1402 01:12:19,939 --> 01:12:23,810 I drank when I couldn't sleep and I never slept. 1403 01:12:25,645 --> 01:12:26,946 You were a policeman once. 1404 01:12:27,847 --> 01:12:28,948 You can understand. 1405 01:12:29,616 --> 01:12:31,551 Eventually, you get a case, 1406 01:12:31,651 --> 01:12:35,121 and you know it is the last one you can stomach and still know your soul. 1407 01:12:35,989 --> 01:12:37,657 What case was it for you? 1408 01:12:39,826 --> 01:12:42,495 Why did you lie about never having been here before 1409 01:12:42,562 --> 01:12:43,963 when clearly you had? 1410 01:12:44,898 --> 01:12:48,468 You knew precisely where to find the hidden telephone. 1411 01:12:49,690 --> 01:12:50,303 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 1412 01:12:50,837 --> 01:12:52,906 The case was such a spectacle. 1413 01:12:53,406 --> 01:12:55,642 The family deserved their privacy. 1414 01:12:56,420 --> 01:13:00,246 But you were the policeman on duty 1415 01:13:00,347 --> 01:13:02,549 when Alicia Drake was found dead. 1416 01:13:03,216 --> 01:13:04,217 Yes. 1417 01:13:05,585 --> 01:13:08,154 I pulled her from the water. 1418 01:13:10,523 --> 01:13:11,825 Retired next day. 1419 01:13:11,891 --> 01:13:16,429 Soon to become my excellent bodyguard, the dragon at my gate, 1420 01:13:16,529 --> 01:13:19,566 who not once permitted a soul to pass. 1421 01:13:19,666 --> 01:13:22,936 Yet only this morning, interrupted me 1422 01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:25,872 to ask if I indeed knew the woman with the apples. 1423 01:13:27,340 --> 01:13:29,342 So many months, my peace undisturbed, 1424 01:13:29,409 --> 01:13:33,790 you resolutely guarding me from curiosity or company, 1425 01:13:33,179 --> 01:13:35,515 grown men cast into the canal. 1426 01:13:36,383 --> 01:13:37,851 Ariadne Oliver 1427 01:13:38,585 --> 01:13:40,860 waltzes through. 1428 01:13:40,620 --> 01:13:41,621 Why? 1429 01:13:44,591 --> 01:13:46,126 Because you were in league. 1430 01:13:48,428 --> 01:13:50,530 The authoress and the bodyguard 1431 01:13:50,597 --> 01:13:53,990 working with the medium, in the cahoot. 1432 01:13:54,434 --> 01:13:56,202 Feigning disdain, 1433 01:13:56,269 --> 01:13:59,706 conspiring to bring me to this séance to make me a fool. 1434 01:14:00,640 --> 01:14:02,142 I'm very worried about you. 1435 01:14:02,242 --> 01:14:05,912 Details of Alicia Drake's life and death 1436 01:14:05,979 --> 01:14:09,382 provided by the policeman who was present at her death. 1437 01:14:09,449 --> 01:14:13,319 Details of me provided not by divination, 1438 01:14:13,420 --> 01:14:15,550 but by letter from you. 1439 01:14:15,121 --> 01:14:17,223 And at the séance, with all eyes on the medium, 1440 01:14:17,290 --> 01:14:20,660 your own hands were free. The secret accomplice 1441 01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:23,596 to make me believe the impossible. 1442 01:14:24,898 --> 01:14:26,299 (DOOR SLAMS SHUT) 1443 01:14:26,399 --> 01:14:28,680 Mediums and magic. 1444 01:14:28,134 --> 01:14:29,903 Ghosts and Gods. 1445 01:14:29,969 --> 01:14:31,404 Fame for the medium, 1446 01:14:31,471 --> 01:14:32,639 a percentage to you, 1447 01:14:32,739 --> 01:14:35,275 your literary standing restored. 1448 01:14:35,342 --> 01:14:37,444 "The woman who stumped Hercule Poirot." 1449 01:14:37,510 --> 01:14:41,815 Not Joyce Reynolds but Ariadne Oliver. 1450 01:14:44,584 --> 01:14:45,585 (SIGHS) 1451 01:14:46,853 --> 01:14:48,880 - (SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING) - (SMACKS LIPS) 1452 01:14:48,154 --> 01:14:49,422 Won't you forgive me? 1453 01:14:49,489 --> 01:14:51,624 Apparently, only God can forgive. 1454 01:14:52,492 --> 01:14:53,593 Bit of a pickle then. 1455 01:14:53,660 --> 01:14:56,596 So, let us discover how you did it. 1456 01:14:56,663 --> 01:14:58,298 - Baba? - A good touch. 1457 01:14:58,365 --> 01:15:00,433 The personal invitation to the fiancé? 1458 01:15:00,500 --> 01:15:05,305 Guaranteed drama with that one. Three flops, I needed a win. 1459 01:15:05,372 --> 01:15:06,673 We were friends. 1460 01:15:06,773 --> 01:15:09,376 You don't have friends, you have admirers. 1461 01:15:09,476 --> 01:15:11,344 And you only have them because of me. 1462 01:15:11,444 --> 01:15:13,113 I wrote you up as a genius. 1463 01:15:13,179 --> 01:15:15,882 Why shouldn't I use you to sell books? 1464 01:15:15,982 --> 01:15:19,285 Genius. You're a fool. An ego. 1465 01:15:19,352 --> 01:15:21,988 A black cloud that lures death. 1466 01:15:22,655 --> 01:15:24,491 And you know it, too. That's why you quit. 1467 01:15:24,557 --> 01:15:26,659 Is this why you killed Joyce Reynolds? 1468 01:15:26,726 --> 01:15:28,795 No. I did not. 1469 01:15:28,862 --> 01:15:30,997 Your book an instant legend. 1470 01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:32,832 Come on, you're tap dancing now. 1471 01:15:32,899 --> 01:15:34,968 - HERCULE: Working together... - We didn't. 1472 01:15:35,350 --> 01:15:36,469 ...to conceal murder! 1473 01:15:37,504 --> 01:15:38,872 DESDEMONA: The key, come quick! 1474 01:15:38,972 --> 01:15:39,973 There's someone else in there! 1475 01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:41,374 Hurry up! Hurry up with it! 1476 01:15:41,741 --> 01:15:42,742 MAXIME: Poirot! 1477 01:15:42,842 --> 01:15:44,744 LEOPOLD: What happened? What's wrong with him? 1478 01:15:44,844 --> 01:15:46,120 OLGA: I don't know. 1479 01:15:47,681 --> 01:15:48,848 (OLGA SCREAMS) 1480 01:15:50,817 --> 01:15:51,851 (OLGA GASPS) 1481 01:16:01,361 --> 01:16:03,363 (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) 1482 01:16:31,291 --> 01:16:32,525 (LEOPOLD SOBBING) 1483 01:16:32,592 --> 01:16:33,727 (SNIFFLES) 1484 01:16:33,793 --> 01:16:35,595 LEOPOLD: Why did he have to be alone? 1485 01:16:37,297 --> 01:16:38,298 (LEOPOLD SOBBING) 1486 01:16:38,398 --> 01:16:39,599 ROWENA: This is the only way in. 1487 01:16:40,700 --> 01:16:42,680 You had the only key. 1488 01:16:42,135 --> 01:16:44,137 Not possible. 1489 01:16:47,540 --> 01:16:48,742 No. 1490 01:16:48,808 --> 01:16:50,977 No, I was right in front of you! 1491 01:16:52,612 --> 01:16:54,280 He was shouting at someone. 1492 01:16:57,117 --> 01:16:59,219 I hated him but I didn't want him dead. 1493 01:16:59,285 --> 01:17:01,654 He's got a child for Christ's sakes. 1494 01:17:01,755 --> 01:17:03,490 Anyways, I was outside, 1495 01:17:03,990 --> 01:17:05,325 trying to get in with them. 1496 01:17:06,259 --> 01:17:07,460 It's true. 1497 01:17:07,560 --> 01:17:09,295 The doctor was alone in here. 1498 01:17:09,796 --> 01:17:10,830 Not alone. 1499 01:17:11,631 --> 01:17:12,799 Not in this house. 1500 01:17:13,633 --> 01:17:14,734 A doctor. 1501 01:17:16,136 --> 01:17:19,500 A nurse and a doctor, the Children's Vendetta. 1502 01:17:19,973 --> 01:17:21,474 There is no other way in. 1503 01:17:21,574 --> 01:17:23,109 I can't understand. 1504 01:17:23,176 --> 01:17:26,579 If this room wasn't safe, nowhere is safe. 1505 01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:28,448 None of us are safe. 1506 01:17:29,849 --> 01:17:32,852 Nothing human could have done this. 1507 01:17:32,952 --> 01:17:35,855 "It is only for us to prove that these apparent 'impossibilities'" 1508 01:17:35,955 --> 01:17:37,857 "are, in reality, not such." 1509 01:17:37,957 --> 01:17:39,325 Come on, leave him. 1510 01:17:39,426 --> 01:17:41,828 Let the detective detect. He already knows. 1511 01:17:41,928 --> 01:17:43,763 He's gonna come to it soon enough. 1512 01:17:43,830 --> 01:17:45,632 Go on. (BREATHING HEAVILY) 1513 01:17:45,699 --> 01:17:46,700 For once in your life, 1514 01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:49,350 admit that you are up against something bigger than you. 1515 01:17:49,135 --> 01:17:51,400 - (DOOR OPENS) - (FOOTSTEPS RECEDING) 1516 01:17:51,104 --> 01:17:52,105 OLGA: You asked. 1517 01:17:52,706 --> 01:17:53,707 (DOOR SHUTS) 1518 01:17:54,974 --> 01:17:58,378 You asked why I stayed while they summoned spirits. 1519 01:17:59,212 --> 01:18:02,480 Alicia was wasting away as she went mad. 1520 01:18:04,317 --> 01:18:06,286 Ms. Rowena stayed at her side 1521 01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:07,954 day and night. 1522 01:18:08,210 --> 01:18:10,657 One day, I pleaded with her to take some rest. 1523 01:18:12,792 --> 01:18:14,694 I promised to keep watch. 1524 01:18:15,795 --> 01:18:17,300 She slept past nightfall. 1525 01:18:17,897 --> 01:18:19,532 It got to midnight. 1526 01:18:19,632 --> 01:18:21,234 I heard voices. 1527 01:18:21,334 --> 01:18:22,502 (GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN FAINTLY IN DISTANCE) 1528 01:18:22,569 --> 01:18:24,904 - And footsteps. - (FOOTSTEPS ECHOING) 1529 01:18:25,472 --> 01:18:28,174 Alicia was sleeping so soundly. 1530 01:18:28,241 --> 01:18:30,577 She must have woken after I left. 1531 01:18:32,746 --> 01:18:34,247 Gone to the balcony. 1532 01:18:34,347 --> 01:18:37,150 And you would beg her ghost's forgiveness. 1533 01:18:37,217 --> 01:18:38,818 (SOBBING) 1534 01:18:38,885 --> 01:18:40,220 I loved that girl. 1535 01:18:42,756 --> 01:18:44,570 She died 1536 01:18:45,525 --> 01:18:47,827 because I was stupid and I was scared. 1537 01:18:50,597 --> 01:18:51,931 (OLGA SOBBING) 1538 01:18:54,401 --> 01:18:56,536 (GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN FAINTLY IN DISTANCE) 1539 01:19:14,621 --> 01:19:16,456 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 1540 01:19:19,693 --> 01:19:22,262 (GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN FAINTLY IN DISTANCE) 1541 01:19:28,935 --> 01:19:32,472 YOUNG ALICIA'S VOICE: Why don't you have the answer? 1542 01:19:32,572 --> 01:19:35,410 You always have the answer. 1543 01:19:35,108 --> 01:19:36,743 (ALICIA SCREAMING) 1544 01:19:37,143 --> 01:19:38,611 (SCREECHING) 1545 01:20:05,972 --> 01:20:07,907 - MAXIME: I never should have come. - ARIADNE: Wait. 1546 01:20:07,974 --> 01:20:10,643 MAXIME: You should all leave this place and never look back. 1547 01:20:10,744 --> 01:20:12,780 (METAL RATTLING) 1548 01:20:15,810 --> 01:20:17,450 I will not wait to be next. 1549 01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:22,220 Tonight, 1550 01:20:24,290 --> 01:20:25,592 we are all afraid. 1551 01:20:26,659 --> 01:20:29,963 There have been two impossible murders. 1552 01:20:30,330 --> 01:20:34,534 Each murder appears committable only by phantom, 1553 01:20:34,634 --> 01:20:37,637 as if the living have been killed by the dead. 1554 01:20:37,704 --> 01:20:39,806 "Appears"? You know something. 1555 01:20:39,873 --> 01:20:41,341 You know who killed my father? 1556 01:20:41,441 --> 01:20:44,177 I must consider Ms. Reynolds' assistants. 1557 01:20:44,644 --> 01:20:47,130 Survivors, desperate and threatened. 1558 01:20:47,113 --> 01:20:49,816 The ex-police-commissario who has been in this house before, 1559 01:20:49,883 --> 01:20:51,718 each time death occurs. 1560 01:20:51,818 --> 01:20:55,655 The authoress, determined, capable, murderously clever. 1561 01:20:55,722 --> 01:20:58,992 Our avenging angel, Olga Seminoff, 1562 01:20:59,590 --> 01:21:01,695 so keen on justice as she prescribes it. 1563 01:21:01,795 --> 01:21:04,798 The former love full of rage for the doctor 1564 01:21:04,864 --> 01:21:08,168 and only the fragment of a photograph 1565 01:21:09,200 --> 01:21:13,239 to remember such happiness. 1566 01:21:16,176 --> 01:21:17,410 But... 1567 01:21:18,378 --> 01:21:22,849 There has been a third death, which explains the other two. 1568 01:21:22,916 --> 01:21:25,819 The murder of Alicia Drake 1569 01:21:26,519 --> 01:21:28,254 committed by... 1570 01:21:31,910 --> 01:21:32,659 (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) 1571 01:21:32,726 --> 01:21:33,893 ...her mother. 1572 01:21:35,261 --> 01:21:36,830 Her murderer. 1573 01:21:38,698 --> 01:21:40,100 A mother who killed her own child, 1574 01:21:40,200 --> 01:21:42,769 then killed twice more to hide her terrible sin. 1575 01:21:42,869 --> 01:21:44,270 ROWENA: How dare you! 1576 01:21:44,371 --> 01:21:49,242 After all I have suffered, to accuse me of harming my little girl! 1577 01:21:49,342 --> 01:21:50,443 Your little girl had grown. 1578 01:21:50,543 --> 01:21:53,460 You could not fathom losing her to anyone else. 1579 01:21:53,113 --> 01:21:56,282 In a rage, you tore up your garden of rainbow flowers. 1580 01:21:56,383 --> 01:21:57,884 Flowers? You're too far gone now. 1581 01:21:57,951 --> 01:21:59,119 But you replanted your garden. 1582 01:21:59,219 --> 01:22:01,354 Not with a rainbow, but with a single color. 1583 01:22:01,421 --> 01:22:04,624 The single color that could give you back what you would not live without. 1584 01:22:06,893 --> 01:22:07,961 All night, I am hearing, 1585 01:22:08,610 --> 01:22:09,796 seeing things which are not there. 1586 01:22:10,797 --> 01:22:13,900 I begin to believe in the impossible presence of ghosts. 1587 01:22:15,235 --> 01:22:18,605 When in fact I had been doped, drugged 1588 01:22:20,440 --> 01:22:22,750 with an hallucinogenic poison. 1589 01:22:22,142 --> 01:22:23,810 I thought my cupboards were bare. 1590 01:22:23,910 --> 01:22:26,460 ARIADNE: Found your honey in the linen closet. 1591 01:22:29,315 --> 01:22:30,417 HERCULE: There is a poison 1592 01:22:30,483 --> 01:22:33,453 in the flowering species of Rhododendron Ponticum. 1593 01:22:33,553 --> 01:22:35,622 Its highest concentration in the nectar 1594 01:22:35,722 --> 01:22:40,560 that concentrates further when processed by bees into honey. 1595 01:22:40,627 --> 01:22:43,563 All this effort for a teaspoon of wildflower honey 1596 01:22:43,630 --> 01:22:45,398 that we could buy for six lira. 1597 01:22:45,465 --> 01:22:47,670 That's not wildflower. 1598 01:22:48,935 --> 01:22:49,969 I can't place it. 1599 01:22:50,700 --> 01:22:53,406 They call it "Deli bal" in Türkiye, where it grows wild. 1600 01:22:53,473 --> 01:22:55,608 Where Rowena Drake traveled alone, angry. 1601 01:22:55,675 --> 01:22:56,676 (GASPS) 1602 01:22:56,776 --> 01:22:59,120 HERCULE: "Mad honey." A mere teaspoon of this poison 1603 01:22:59,112 --> 01:23:00,680 induces weakness, 1604 01:23:00,780 --> 01:23:02,849 - fever, hallucination. - (SOBBING) 1605 01:23:02,949 --> 01:23:05,952 HERCULE: You replanted it with that same toxic flower 1606 01:23:06,190 --> 01:23:08,154 - that would produce poison honey. - (BEES BUZZING) 1607 01:23:08,254 --> 01:23:10,824 I couldn't do that. I wouldn't. 1608 01:23:12,158 --> 01:23:13,993 Your daughter was not possessed. 1609 01:23:15,261 --> 01:23:16,329 She was poisoned 1610 01:23:16,429 --> 01:23:18,631 by a mother who could not let her go. 1611 01:23:19,666 --> 01:23:23,269 Who lovingly spoon-fed controlled doses 1612 01:23:23,336 --> 01:23:26,139 of poison honey in her tea. 1613 01:23:26,206 --> 01:23:27,774 Keeping her just sick enough 1614 01:23:27,841 --> 01:23:30,844 to prevent a reunion with her repentant love. 1615 01:23:31,344 --> 01:23:34,781 Weak, helpless like a child again. 1616 01:23:35,815 --> 01:23:36,850 Yours again. 1617 01:23:37,384 --> 01:23:39,319 Until a mistake. 1618 01:23:39,686 --> 01:23:43,223 Mrs. Seminoff watched Alicia while you slept at last. 1619 01:23:43,323 --> 01:23:45,458 Night fell and Olga grew frightened 1620 01:23:45,525 --> 01:23:47,961 - when, inevitably, Alicia woke... - (SOBBING) 1621 01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:50,964 ...I am sure, disturbed again. 1622 01:23:51,310 --> 01:23:52,832 But what to do? 1623 01:23:53,333 --> 01:23:56,469 And not knowing the real truth, 1624 01:23:56,536 --> 01:24:01,307 Olga Seminoff did what she believed that you would do, 1625 01:24:01,374 --> 01:24:06,146 and served Alicia Drake calming tea sweetened with honey. 1626 01:24:07,747 --> 01:24:09,149 Too sweet. 1627 01:24:09,883 --> 01:24:11,351 I didn't know. 1628 01:24:12,252 --> 01:24:13,887 I didn't know. (SOBBING) 1629 01:24:14,854 --> 01:24:18,591 HERCULE: Alicia Drake did not run to her balcony to commit suicide. 1630 01:24:20,193 --> 01:24:22,328 She had overdosed on your poison. 1631 01:24:23,263 --> 01:24:25,699 And her heart had stopped in her sleep. 1632 01:24:26,599 --> 01:24:29,335 You returned from your rest 1633 01:24:29,402 --> 01:24:32,572 - to find her dead. - (GASPS) 1634 01:24:33,406 --> 01:24:36,209 - And then... - (GASPING) 1635 01:24:36,276 --> 01:24:38,780 - ... you made your monstrous choice. - (ROWENA GRUNTS) 1636 01:24:38,178 --> 01:24:39,179 HERCULE: You made the mark 1637 01:24:39,245 --> 01:24:41,614 - of the Children's Vendetta. - (ROWENA GRUNTS) 1638 01:24:41,715 --> 01:24:44,217 You cut her, you threw her into the canal, 1639 01:24:44,284 --> 01:24:46,520 you made her a suicide. 1640 01:24:47,620 --> 01:24:50,924 A victim of legend. Of ghosts. 1641 01:24:51,424 --> 01:24:54,561 Your love-blind and incapable doctor 1642 01:24:54,627 --> 01:24:57,230 found nothing to arouse suspicion at the inquest. 1643 01:24:57,297 --> 01:25:01,670 The police, predisposed to superstition, easily satisfied. 1644 01:25:01,134 --> 01:25:03,690 The poisoned jar left in the linen cupboard 1645 01:25:03,136 --> 01:25:04,537 by the careless housekeeper. 1646 01:25:04,604 --> 01:25:07,607 You had got away with killing your own child, 1647 01:25:07,707 --> 01:25:11,578 until Ms. Oliver drew my attention to something. 1648 01:25:11,644 --> 01:25:13,313 Where did all the money go? 1649 01:25:15,148 --> 01:25:16,316 I can't afford to fix it. 1650 01:25:16,416 --> 01:25:18,885 HERCULE: There is usually only one answer. 1651 01:25:19,386 --> 01:25:20,653 - Blackmail. - (ROWENA GASPS) 1652 01:25:20,820 --> 01:25:23,490 HERCULE: I suspect that someone had found you out. 1653 01:25:23,590 --> 01:25:25,759 And so you paid for their silence. 1654 01:25:25,825 --> 01:25:27,227 Again and again, you paid. 1655 01:25:27,961 --> 01:25:31,131 But now, with your fortune gone and this house unsalable at any price, 1656 01:25:31,231 --> 01:25:33,933 you were desperate to get out from under the blackmailer's thumb. 1657 01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:35,135 But who could it be? 1658 01:25:36,169 --> 01:25:38,138 Your obvious suspect was Doctor Ferrier. 1659 01:25:38,238 --> 01:25:40,273 Perhaps he was not so naive a witness. 1660 01:25:40,340 --> 01:25:44,310 Perhaps finally, he recognized the poison symptoms. 1661 01:25:44,411 --> 01:25:47,614 And then you received your letter from the unholy Ms. Reynolds, 1662 01:25:47,681 --> 01:25:50,830 claiming messages from your lost daughter. 1663 01:25:50,150 --> 01:25:52,285 Too many intimate details known, 1664 01:25:52,352 --> 01:25:56,523 teasing knowledge of your crime, her services offered at a heavy price. 1665 01:25:56,623 --> 01:25:58,758 Surely this was your blackmailer. 1666 01:25:58,825 --> 01:26:00,460 She had to be stopped to be safe. 1667 01:26:00,527 --> 01:26:03,930 Both Ms. Reynolds and Doctor Ferrier had to be stopped. But how? 1668 01:26:03,997 --> 01:26:08,100 The séance in a haunted house on Halloween. 1669 01:26:08,101 --> 01:26:10,370 The perfect opportunity to conceal 1670 01:26:10,470 --> 01:26:13,340 the murder of those you suspected of blackmail. 1671 01:26:13,440 --> 01:26:15,675 Hiding behind superstition, legend, fear. 1672 01:26:16,209 --> 01:26:17,711 - (CHIMING) - The clock struck. 1673 01:26:18,440 --> 01:26:20,460 (GRUNTING) 1674 01:26:20,146 --> 01:26:21,147 And so did you. 1675 01:26:22,615 --> 01:26:24,384 But in your haste, you mistake 1676 01:26:24,484 --> 01:26:26,820 - the wearer of the mask. - (GASPS) 1677 01:26:26,886 --> 01:26:29,189 HERCULE: Disposing of me, you find your target. 1678 01:26:29,889 --> 01:26:31,891 (JOYCE AND ROWENA GRUNTING) 1679 01:26:39,320 --> 01:26:41,568 I was with Mrs. Seminoff at midnight. 1680 01:26:41,668 --> 01:26:42,669 OLGA: She was. 1681 01:26:43,370 --> 01:26:45,400 We were together, I saw the time. 1682 01:26:45,710 --> 01:26:48,408 HERCULE: You saw the time on the clock in the music room, 1683 01:26:48,508 --> 01:26:50,410 where she had asked you to wait. 1684 01:26:50,510 --> 01:26:52,912 A room, which is practically soundproof. 1685 01:26:53,130 --> 01:26:54,547 Which she herself had sealed. 1686 01:26:54,647 --> 01:26:58,151 And in which she had previously changed the time 1687 01:26:58,218 --> 01:27:02,355 where you could not even hear the true midnight bell. 1688 01:27:02,422 --> 01:27:04,391 It read midnight when it was really... 1689 01:27:04,491 --> 01:27:06,659 After Joyce Reynolds' death. 1690 01:27:06,726 --> 01:27:08,194 (METAL SCRAPING) 1691 01:27:08,261 --> 01:27:11,865 The damning evidence discarded with a magician's touch. 1692 01:27:11,931 --> 01:27:13,166 VITALE: What about Ferrier? 1693 01:27:13,566 --> 01:27:15,680 She wasn't anywhere near him. 1694 01:27:15,168 --> 01:27:17,700 HERCULE: Indeed, she made a show of the locked door, 1695 01:27:17,170 --> 01:27:18,738 giving me the sole key. 1696 01:27:18,838 --> 01:27:20,740 But you would not kill Doctor Ferrier with a knife. 1697 01:27:20,840 --> 01:27:23,877 Your murder weapon would be a telephone. 1698 01:27:23,943 --> 01:27:25,779 The phone line from outside was dead, of course, 1699 01:27:25,879 --> 01:27:26,913 because of the storm, 1700 01:27:27,130 --> 01:27:30,216 but the internal line remained clear. 1701 01:27:30,550 --> 01:27:33,520 No telephone call would come from outside the house. 1702 01:27:35,550 --> 01:27:36,556 Only from inside. 1703 01:27:36,790 --> 01:27:38,591 - HERCULE: She, in the dining room. - (TELEPHONE RINGING) 1704 01:27:39,250 --> 01:27:41,194 He, sealed in the music room. 1705 01:27:41,261 --> 01:27:43,296 ROWENA: I know you've been blackmailing me. 1706 01:27:43,396 --> 01:27:46,900 HERCULE: You confessed to him everything. To being the murderer of Joyce Reynolds. 1707 01:27:47,267 --> 01:27:49,736 Of staging your own daughter's suicide. 1708 01:27:49,803 --> 01:27:50,904 It's not possible. 1709 01:27:50,970 --> 01:27:52,539 HERCULE: And then you made your threat. 1710 01:27:52,872 --> 01:27:54,407 Do exactly as I tell you. 1711 01:27:54,474 --> 01:27:56,710 HERCULE: You threatened to kill his son... 1712 01:27:56,776 --> 01:27:59,612 No! No, let him go. Leave him. 1713 01:28:00,313 --> 01:28:02,449 ...his only reason to live, 1714 01:28:03,550 --> 01:28:05,819 if he did not do what you told him. 1715 01:28:06,786 --> 01:28:08,722 And what you told him to do 1716 01:28:10,223 --> 01:28:11,891 was to take the knife. 1717 01:28:16,930 --> 01:28:19,833 - (GRUNTS) - She... (SOBBING) 1718 01:28:19,933 --> 01:28:21,167 She killed my dad? 1719 01:28:21,768 --> 01:28:22,936 And Ms. Reynolds. 1720 01:28:23,303 --> 01:28:24,938 - And Alicia. - ROWENA: No. 1721 01:28:26,106 --> 01:28:27,907 I would never hurt her. 1722 01:28:28,641 --> 01:28:30,143 It was an accident. 1723 01:28:30,844 --> 01:28:32,345 She was my whole life. 1724 01:28:32,846 --> 01:28:35,810 - You poisoned her. - To protect her. 1725 01:28:35,148 --> 01:28:37,817 - To control her! - To keep her safe from you. 1726 01:28:41,488 --> 01:28:43,123 (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) 1727 01:28:59,500 --> 01:29:00,273 I couldn't let her go. 1728 01:29:02,709 --> 01:29:03,877 She was mine. 1729 01:29:04,511 --> 01:29:06,513 (THUNDER RUMBLING) 1730 01:29:11,785 --> 01:29:12,786 (GASPS) 1731 01:29:13,620 --> 01:29:15,622 (ROWENA SCREAMING) 1732 01:29:19,526 --> 01:29:21,227 (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) 1733 01:30:09,442 --> 01:30:11,177 She was the best thing about me. 1734 01:30:12,946 --> 01:30:16,716 And if there is a soul, you gave hers peace. 1735 01:30:42,876 --> 01:30:43,877 HERCULE: Merci. 1736 01:30:43,943 --> 01:30:44,944 Dottore. 1737 01:30:47,313 --> 01:30:50,483 (IN ENGLISH) They will rule Ms. Drake a suicide. 1738 01:30:50,583 --> 01:30:53,253 Unless you would like to make a statement otherwise. 1739 01:30:55,880 --> 01:30:57,824 Can I at least see you safe home, 1740 01:30:57,924 --> 01:30:59,826 before you turn me in for fraud? 1741 01:31:02,595 --> 01:31:03,930 In the daylight, 1742 01:31:04,798 --> 01:31:06,800 neither appears necessary. 1743 01:31:07,434 --> 01:31:09,769 In the end, it is you protecting me, Dottore. 1744 01:31:13,807 --> 01:31:15,342 (FOOTSTEPS RECEDING) 1745 01:31:18,144 --> 01:31:19,279 OLGA: Come on then, Leopold. 1746 01:31:19,512 --> 01:31:20,980 Let me do the top button up. 1747 01:31:21,810 --> 01:31:22,315 LEOPOLD: It's fine, Miss Olga. 1748 01:31:22,415 --> 01:31:23,483 OLGA: Very smart. 1749 01:31:23,950 --> 01:31:25,785 - LEOPOLD: I don't need a coat. - OLGA: You'll be cold. 1750 01:31:25,852 --> 01:31:26,853 LEOPOLD: I'm fine. 1751 01:31:26,953 --> 01:31:28,822 OLGA: I know it's sunny, but it's still cold. 1752 01:31:28,922 --> 01:31:30,657 - That's much better. - LEOPOLD: Miss Olga, I'm fine. 1753 01:31:30,757 --> 01:31:32,920 - OLGA: Very handsome. - LEOPOLD: Thanks. 1754 01:31:32,158 --> 01:31:33,159 (OLGA CHUCKLES) 1755 01:31:34,940 --> 01:31:35,261 Madame. 1756 01:31:35,829 --> 01:31:39,466 He'll live with me and Mr. Seminoff. And Harry. 1757 01:31:41,701 --> 01:31:43,370 We'll mind him as our own. 1758 01:31:44,170 --> 01:31:46,172 Might insist on a bit more sunshine. 1759 01:31:46,272 --> 01:31:47,273 HERCULE: Mmm-hmm. 1760 01:31:47,974 --> 01:31:50,100 You are a precocious boy 1761 01:31:50,543 --> 01:31:53,713 who is perhaps ashamed at how much he likes attention. 1762 01:31:54,647 --> 01:31:56,483 I know something of this. 1763 01:31:58,551 --> 01:32:01,654 You must not blame yourself for anything that happened in this house. 1764 01:32:01,721 --> 01:32:03,723 - (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) - Why would he do that? 1765 01:32:04,624 --> 01:32:06,393 But it's all my fault. 1766 01:32:07,394 --> 01:32:10,230 You did not care for the money for yourself. 1767 01:32:10,797 --> 01:32:12,799 You wanted to help your father. 1768 01:32:14,300 --> 01:32:15,568 Dad couldn't work. 1769 01:32:16,669 --> 01:32:18,905 I only used the money to pay for our bills. 1770 01:32:20,373 --> 01:32:22,575 I didn't even know what to do with the rest. 1771 01:32:22,676 --> 01:32:27,714 Rowena Drake presumed the blackmailer was the fake medium or the family doctor, 1772 01:32:28,214 --> 01:32:29,582 when it was neither. 1773 01:32:29,983 --> 01:32:32,485 Only the doctor's son saw the truth. 1774 01:32:32,552 --> 01:32:34,754 It was obvious from Dad's notes. 1775 01:32:35,989 --> 01:32:37,190 Mad honey poisoning, 1776 01:32:37,257 --> 01:32:39,926 just like Mitridate from her opera. 1777 01:32:40,260 --> 01:32:41,428 The Poison King. 1778 01:32:42,929 --> 01:32:45,598 I read all about it in one of her books in the library. 1779 01:32:46,833 --> 01:32:50,370 And so, I tested the theory. 1780 01:32:50,737 --> 01:32:52,539 You sent a blackmail letter. 1781 01:32:56,109 --> 01:32:57,344 And another. 1782 01:32:57,744 --> 01:32:58,878 (HERCULE SIGHS) 1783 01:33:04,840 --> 01:33:07,220 Perhaps there is a use for this money in your mattress. 1784 01:33:09,289 --> 01:33:11,910 To make good of regret. 1785 01:33:14,270 --> 01:33:16,620 We survived before Ms. Reynolds. 1786 01:33:16,129 --> 01:33:18,231 - We'll do better than survive. - (DOOR OPENS) 1787 01:33:18,298 --> 01:33:20,233 I promise we'll get to America. We will. 1788 01:33:20,300 --> 01:33:21,768 Come with us, you two. 1789 01:33:24,237 --> 01:33:25,605 To the police station? 1790 01:33:26,439 --> 01:33:30,430 Us, to home. You, to America. Missouri, I understand. 1791 01:33:30,210 --> 01:33:33,780 Passage for two. We can help with that. I think. 1792 01:33:42,555 --> 01:33:43,556 (DOOR SHUTS) 1793 01:33:46,626 --> 01:33:48,928 DESDEMONA: Thank you. (SOBS) 1794 01:33:50,163 --> 01:33:51,564 (DESDEMONA CHUCKLES) 1795 01:33:51,631 --> 01:33:52,899 NICHOLAS: Thank you, thank you so much. 1796 01:33:52,966 --> 01:33:55,100 OLGA: Leave some space for Leopold, please. 1797 01:34:00,306 --> 01:34:01,474 You solved the case. 1798 01:34:02,509 --> 01:34:03,643 But you had help, 1799 01:34:04,344 --> 01:34:05,345 didn't you? 1800 01:34:06,813 --> 01:34:07,947 You heard her. 1801 01:34:09,482 --> 01:34:10,850 Bonne chance, my friend. 1802 01:34:11,518 --> 01:34:12,519 Don't worry, 1803 01:34:13,420 --> 01:34:15,855 people who die in this house always come back. 1804 01:34:17,190 --> 01:34:18,358 I'll see them again. 1805 01:34:19,359 --> 01:34:20,994 (BOAT ENGINE THRUMMING) 1806 01:34:27,600 --> 01:34:29,350 See you soon, Dad. 1807 01:34:34,941 --> 01:34:37,100 (SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING) 1808 01:34:56,363 --> 01:34:58,565 I won't apologize. You've ruined my book. 1809 01:34:58,665 --> 01:35:00,834 Neither living nor proof. I have to rewrite the whole thing. 1810 01:35:00,900 --> 01:35:02,535 So long as it does not include my name. 1811 01:35:02,635 --> 01:35:04,337 I never want to hear your name again. 1812 01:35:06,239 --> 01:35:08,541 Just a house now. All debunked. 1813 01:35:11,745 --> 01:35:13,513 But you've got the look of a believer. 1814 01:35:14,247 --> 01:35:15,515 You did. You saw something. 1815 01:35:15,582 --> 01:35:17,417 I was under the influence. 1816 01:35:17,517 --> 01:35:22,589 My subconscious mind assembled facts ahead of the rational. 1817 01:35:24,257 --> 01:35:25,258 You saw. 1818 01:35:26,860 --> 01:35:27,994 You know. 1819 01:35:32,980 --> 01:35:36,269 I know only that we cannot hide from our ghosts. 1820 01:35:37,337 --> 01:35:39,673 Whether they are real or not, 1821 01:35:40,240 --> 01:35:44,544 we must make our peace with them. 1822 01:35:46,279 --> 01:35:48,415 And live life. 1823 01:35:48,515 --> 01:35:49,516 Somehow. 1824 01:35:51,217 --> 01:35:52,919 And how will you live your life? 1825 01:36:16,710 --> 01:36:17,777 (DOOR UNLOCKS) 1826 01:36:36,830 --> 01:36:37,831 Monsieur Poirot? 1827 01:36:39,833 --> 01:36:40,834 Monsieur Poirot? 1828 01:36:40,934 --> 01:36:42,502 (LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING) 1829 01:36:42,602 --> 01:36:46,272 Your parents died one soon after the other. 1830 01:36:46,339 --> 01:36:47,507 Then, your brother. 1831 01:36:48,800 --> 01:36:51,444 Your trusted doctor is a beloved friend to the family. 1832 01:36:51,511 --> 01:36:55,682 Your brother was unmarried, as are you. No other relations. 1833 01:36:56,116 --> 01:36:58,184 Your family is not cursed. 1834 01:36:58,284 --> 01:37:01,788 I strongly suspect your brother added a codicil to his will 1835 01:37:01,855 --> 01:37:03,957 naming your doctor as beneficiary 1836 01:37:04,240 --> 01:37:05,825 should all members of your small family perish. 1837 01:37:05,925 --> 01:37:08,828 After which I strongly suspect he also murdered them, 1838 01:37:08,928 --> 01:37:11,310 claiming natural causes at their deathbeds. 1839 01:37:11,131 --> 01:37:14,000 And your life is next in danger. You may wish to sit. 1840 01:37:26,179 --> 01:37:27,180 Please. 1841 01:37:28,114 --> 01:37:29,349 (WOMAN SINGING) 1842 01:37:29,449 --> 01:37:33,853 So, correct me if I am wrong, monsieur, your doctor was a family friend? 1843 01:37:33,953 --> 01:37:37,323 You would play together as children. This much is clear. 1844 01:37:37,390 --> 01:37:39,993 However, your mother was closer to you, right? 1845 01:37:40,600 --> 01:37:41,127 MAN: Yes. 1846 01:37:41,194 --> 01:37:43,563 (WOMAN CONTINUES SINGING)