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What is it?
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lt's the diary my father kept
when he was in the sanatοrium.
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lt confirms that my father
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killed himself because
he believed he'd strangled Helen.
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I'd like you to read it.
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Thank you.
- I don't believe he killed her.
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I remember standing
at the top of the stairs
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and seeing a man with hands like
monkeys' paws round a young girl's throat.
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We know that was true now.
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l only want to prove one thing:
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that my father wasn't mad
and he didn't kill her.
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Have you had any response
to your advert in the local paper?
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Not yet.
lt's not going to be easy.
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No.
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Not after twenty years of what
one might call sleeping murder.
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Your father thought that Helen
was giving him drugs to confuse him.
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Yes. Dr Penrose didn't believe him.
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He said my father only thought it
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because it's something wives
did to their husbands in lndia.
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And then there are the letters
that Helen wrote.
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What letters?
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Dr Kennedy brought them over.
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He received two letters from Helen after
she was supposed to have been murdered.
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That's the second.
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He couldn't find the first one.
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This is the only other thing
he could find in her hand.
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lt's a list of bulbs or something.
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Yes.
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The handwriting looks the same
to me but I'm not an expert.
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Neither am l,
but I have a friend who could help.
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That's splendid,
because it seems to me that...
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Yes, Giles?
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lt seems to me that we're looking for "X".
That's what you called him.
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He fell in love with Helen
and strangled her in a fit of jealousy.
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We know what she was like.
- Man mad.
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But we don't know
anything about her lovers.
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But I think we do!
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There was the man she was
going out to lndia to marry.
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The solicitor.
What was his name?
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Walter Fane. I'm having tea
with his mother on Thursday.
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How did you manage that?
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l mentioned I have friends
who have friends here.
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There was a man she got mixed up
with when she was very young.
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Most unsuitable, Dr Kennedy said.
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I think we may infer a third.
- Why?
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She was going to lndia
to marry Mr Fane
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but when she got there
she changed her mind. Why?
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Girls do.
- Under certain circumstances.
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Something he did?
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She met someone else
on the boat going out!
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Propinquity.
- Moonlight on the boat deck.
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And yet she didn't marry him.
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I'm being stupid!
He was married already.
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Exactly.
- lt's what my father said.
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"l knew from the very first
there was someone else."
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We'll trace her lovers and question
them to find the guilty one.
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l think that's all.
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When would you like
to come in and sign the will?
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Any time.
We live nearby, Mr Fane.
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Yes. You gave me your address.
- Hillside.
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lt used to be called St Catherine's.
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Yes.
On the Leahampton Road.
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Shall we say Monday next at 10 a.m.?
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Yes. That'll be perfect.
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You know, I actually chose
to come to you because I think...
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well, I believe
you once knew my mother.
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Really? What was her name?
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Halliday. Megan Halliday.
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l was told you were
once engaged to her.
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No, I never knew your mother.
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But I was once engaged
to Helen Kennedy,
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who was your father's second wife.
- I see.
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I'm sorry. I've got it all wrong.
lt was my ste pmother.
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l knew it was to do with lndia
so I thought it was my own mother.
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Helen Kennedy came out to lndia
to marry me but she changed her mind.
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On the boat going home, she met
your father, after your mother's death.
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Have I put my foot in it?
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lt was nineteen - twenty years ago.
Time enough.
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Do you know that your father
and Helen lived in your house
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in Dillmouth for quite a while?
- Yes.
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That's one of the reasons we came.
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Yes, I remember it very well.
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You may not remember me,
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but I suppose I must have
seen you as a little girl.
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l was only two or three.
Were you on leave from lndia,
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or something like that?
- No. I chucked lndia.
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I'd passed my law exams
so I came back to my father's firm.
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I've been here ever since.
Yes, ever since.
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You and your husband must come
and have tea with my mother one day.
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Thanks.
- Next Monday then. Ten o'clock.
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Goodbye, Mr Fane.
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Well?
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He was here at the right time but
he couldn't possibly have done it.
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Why not?
- Too mild and ordinary.
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...A sort of nothing.
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Those are just the sort that do.
- What?
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Commit murders, darling.
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Yes, I suppose...
When I first mentioned the house...
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Perhaps he was crazy about her.
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Look! There's Miss Marple.
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What's she up to?
- Holiday shopping.
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She won't find out very much doing that.
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There we are, madam.
Comfywear summer vests.
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Two, you said.
- Yes.
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l think you'll find
they're in your size.
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Yes, that's correct...
not that we've had much summer.
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The last time I stayed in Dillmouth
it was glorious weather,
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but that was twenty years ago.
- Yes, madam.
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l was staying with friends
in a house called St. Catherine's.
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That would have been
in Mrs Findeyson's time.
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The people I knew had it furnished.
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A Major Halliday
and his wife and daughter.
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ls there anything else
l can do for you today, madam?
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No, thank you.
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That'll be 8/10d, please, madam.
- Yes, of course. There we are.
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The Hallidays had a very good cook.
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She gave me a wonderful recipe
for gingerbread.
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l wonder what became of her.
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That would be Edith Pagett.
She's still in Dillmouth.
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Really?
- Your change, madam.
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l always felt very sorry for Major Halliday.
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His wife left him for someone else,
the doctor's sister.
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Yes, madam.
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Poor Dr Kennedy was such a nice man.
l don't know what became of his sister.
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Nobody ever speaks of her.
- No. Quite.
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Thank you.
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Do you know how I could
get in touch with Edith Pagett?
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I dare say I do.
- How kind!
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I've lost that recipe and I'm really
rather fond of gingerbread.
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("THE ARCHERS" SlGNATURE TUNE)
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Lord bless us!
Little Miss Gwennie, is it?
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Fancy now! Come in.
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Do you remember me, Miss Pagett?
- Of course I do!
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You must call me Edie,
like you used to.
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Sit yourselves down.
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Many's the game
Lily and I used to have with you!
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Lily was housemaid, Lily Abott.
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Young girl. Pert in her ways.
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Excuse me running on like this, sir.
Talking brings the old days back.
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Your friend, Miss Maypole,
the lady as called,
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she said you wanted
to ask me something.
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About the old days.
l grew up in New Zealand.
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l don't remember being here
with my father and stepmother.
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Very fond of you, she was!
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She used to take you down the beach,
play with you in the garden.
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Nothing more than a girl herself, really.
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You liked her?
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Yes, madam, I did,
no matter what anybody said.
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I'd never have believed
she'd do what she did.
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There HAD been talk.
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Do you have any idea
who it was she went away with?
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Well, sir, we had our suspicions.
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Well, Lily did.
Mind you, she was a silly girl.
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"That chap's sweet on her, Edie,"
she used to say.
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"And do his wife look daggers!"
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Who was that?
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Well, now,
l don't just remember the name.
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Colonel Esdale?
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Astley, was it? No.
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He and his wife were
staying at the Royal Clarence.
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Summer visitors?
- But I rather think he,
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or maybe both of them,
had known Mrs Halliday before.
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Were they still here when Helen...
my stepmother went away?
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l think they went a day or two after.
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Anyway, it was close enough
to make people talk.
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They came from up north somewhere...
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Northumberland, I think it were.
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She was afraid of something,
wasn't she?
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Afraid?
- Yes.
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Now.
lt's funny you should say that.
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l remember Lily coming in one day,
she'd been dusting the stairs.
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"Ructions!" she said.
She'd a common way of talking.
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She'd heard the master
and the mistress in the drawing room.
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"I'm afraid of you."
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That's what Mrs Halliday had said.
And she sounded scared too.
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"I've been afraid of you for a long time.
You're not normal.
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"Go away and leave me alone."
...Something of that kind.
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And Lily took it very seriously,
so when it happened...
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I don't know what I mean at all,
telling you all this.
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lt's important, Edie.
We have to know.
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The plain fact is, Miss Gwennie,
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Lily left you alone that night
and went off to the pictures.
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l didn't know nothing about it
or I'd have been keeping an eye on you.
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l was doing some ironing.
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And you can't hear a thing in that
kitchen when the baize door's shut.
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Good evening, Edith.
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Good evening, sir.
Anything wrong, sir?
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Major Halliday wants a word with Lily.
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l think she went upstairs, sir.
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She said she had a headache,
more than two hours since.
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She's not in her room.
lf she's not well...
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Good evening, sir.
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Where did you spring from?
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l come down for a glass of water.
l thought you were with Miss Gwennie.
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ls there anything I can do, sir?
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Major Halliday and l
are puzzled about your mistress.
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She doesn't appear to be at home.
- She said she was going for a walk.
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We'd like you to look round her room.
Thank you, Edith.
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Edie? My stars!
Whatever next!
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Never mind about...
- You'll never guess what's happened.
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What?
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She's hooked it, that's what.
- Who?
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The mistress, who else?
Dr Kennedy took me up to her room.
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Wanted to know if she'd taken
any clothes with her and what.
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Never!
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What made him think of that?
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Gone off with someone.
She's left a note.
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The master's all in. More fool he.
He ought to have seen it coming.
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You've no right to speak like that.
- Why not? Didn't I tell you?
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lt's not likely to be
Mr Sobersides-Fane,
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for all he follows her around like a dog.
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You think it's that Colonel, then?
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That's my bet.
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Unless it's our mystery man
in the flashy car.
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Tsk!
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Look here, it's all wrong.
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What's wrong?
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Them clothes. I went through them
as the doctor asked me.
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There's enough gone,
but they're the wrong things.
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Whatever do you mean?
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She took an evening dress,
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but not the belt, nor the slip
nor the shoes that goes with it.
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And she took her green tweed
which she never wears till autumn.
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And the undies too, they was a job lot.
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You mark my words.
She hasn't gone away.
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The master's done her in.
- Lily!
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She was scared to death of him.
l told you I heard her say so.
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That's where you're wrong.
lt wasn't the master at all.
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Just after you told me, I looked out
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and I seen the master coming
down the hill with his golf clubs.
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So it wasn't him with the mistress
in the drawing room.
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lt was someone else.
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Someone else.
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That'll be the house,
Anstell Manor.
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Are you sure it's the right place?
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Northumberland is a long way
to come for nothing.
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"Col. and Mrs Erskine,
Anstell Manor, Daith"
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were the only likely couple
in the hotel guest book.
239
00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,111
Edie said they were
from Northumberland.
240
00:17:43,362 --> 00:17:48,199
lt must be them.
But will they rise to the bait?
241
00:17:53,247 --> 00:17:54,706
What happens now?
242
00:17:54,957 --> 00:17:57,250
We run out of water, darling.
243
00:18:06,510 --> 00:18:08,928
Let's hope the Erskines
are feeling hospitable.
244
00:18:11,098 --> 00:18:13,474
lt lS teatime.
245
00:18:20,774 --> 00:18:25,361
Come in.
It's nice to have unexpected visitors.
246
00:18:25,613 --> 00:18:27,864
Join us for tea.
247
00:18:28,115 --> 00:18:31,284
Life's very bleak up here;
no neighbours to speak of.
248
00:18:31,535 --> 00:18:35,246
lt's very good of you.
We only asked for a jug of water.
249
00:18:38,918 --> 00:18:42,378
What a beautiful place!
How old is the house?
250
00:18:42,630 --> 00:18:46,090
lt's Tudor.
Crumbling at the edges rather.
251
00:18:46,342 --> 00:18:49,928
My husband's people have lived here
for nearly three hundred years.
252
00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:55,141
l take it you're from Australia,
Mrs Reed?
253
00:18:55,392 --> 00:18:57,644
New Zealand.
- Really.
254
00:18:57,895 --> 00:19:02,440
But Giles is from Devon.
- What part is that?
255
00:19:02,691 --> 00:19:07,028
l was born in Plymouth but we've
just bought a house in Dillmouth.
256
00:19:08,697 --> 00:19:12,992
Dillmouth?
- Yes. Do you know it?
257
00:19:13,243 --> 00:19:17,163
We spent a few weeks there,
many years ago.
258
00:19:17,414 --> 00:19:19,666
Rather a pretty little place.
259
00:19:19,917 --> 00:19:22,710
Remember, Richard?
- Yes, very well.
260
00:19:22,962 --> 00:19:26,172
Do sit down, please.
- Thank you.
261
00:19:27,257 --> 00:19:31,386
We stayed at the Royal George...
No, the Royal Clarence, wasn't it?
262
00:19:31,637 --> 00:19:33,638
Still there, I suppose.
- Yes, it is.
263
00:19:33,889 --> 00:19:37,100
Our house is quite near.
lt's called Hillside.
264
00:19:37,351 --> 00:19:42,397
lt used to be called... what was it, Giles?
265
00:19:42,648 --> 00:19:44,357
St Catherine's.
266
00:19:53,367 --> 00:19:55,451
You've had tea.
267
00:19:55,703 --> 00:19:57,870
Perhaps you'd like to see the garden?
268
00:20:01,834 --> 00:20:03,584
Will you be able to find it again?
269
00:20:03,836 --> 00:20:09,336
l hope so. lt's the pair you gave
me "to match my pussy-cat eyes!"
270
00:20:09,675 --> 00:20:12,552
Did you see the way
she was looking at me all the time?
271
00:20:12,803 --> 00:20:17,473
There's something very nasty about her.
l bet she gives him hell.
272
00:20:17,725 --> 00:20:22,228
When will you go back?
- Tomorrow. She goes shopping.
273
00:20:22,479 --> 00:20:25,565
How do you know?
- He mentioned it in the garden.
274
00:20:25,816 --> 00:20:30,028
l think he's nice.
Not the strangling type!
275
00:20:31,363 --> 00:20:35,366
I'm sorry to be such a nuisance,
but I thought it was worth a try.
276
00:20:35,617 --> 00:20:37,785
l know I had it on
when we came out from tea.
277
00:20:38,037 --> 00:20:39,954
You can't remember...
278
00:20:40,205 --> 00:20:44,250
l fiddle with them.
that's how I lose them...
279
00:20:44,501 --> 00:20:47,086
Look, there is is!
280
00:20:53,844 --> 00:20:56,012
So it is.
281
00:20:57,639 --> 00:21:01,184
You've got sharp eyes, Mrs Reed.
- I knew it was here somewhere.
282
00:21:01,435 --> 00:21:03,728
Thanks so much.
283
00:21:09,526 --> 00:21:15,026
Actually, I've got a confession.
l wanted to talk to you alone.
284
00:21:17,034 --> 00:21:20,828
You're the only person who can tell
me something I must know.
285
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:24,457
What's that?
286
00:21:24,708 --> 00:21:27,585
l think you were once in love
with my stepmother,
287
00:21:27,836 --> 00:21:30,296
Helen Kennedy.
288
00:21:30,547 --> 00:21:34,175
Helen Halliday, she became
when she married my father.
289
00:21:34,426 --> 00:21:36,010
Were you?
290
00:21:47,564 --> 00:21:49,440
I'm sorry I cheated.
291
00:21:51,110 --> 00:21:53,486
All's fair, they say.
292
00:21:58,117 --> 00:21:59,909
l suppose there were letters.
293
00:22:00,577 --> 00:22:05,998
Women never destroy those, do they?
Why did you want to know?
294
00:22:06,250 --> 00:22:10,336
l want to know more about her.
l was very small when she went away.
295
00:22:10,587 --> 00:22:11,546
She went away?
296
00:22:11,797 --> 00:22:14,632
She left Dillmouth that summer
and never came back.
297
00:22:14,883 --> 00:22:16,884
Didn't you know?
298
00:22:17,136 --> 00:22:19,303
No. I didn't know that.
299
00:22:23,225 --> 00:22:25,893
There was a brother, a doctor.
300
00:22:26,145 --> 00:22:28,312
He doesn't know anything.
301
00:22:28,564 --> 00:22:31,774
Everyone thinks
she ran away with someone.
302
00:22:32,025 --> 00:22:34,569
You thought that was me.
303
00:22:34,820 --> 00:22:37,822
No such luck, I'm afraid.
304
00:22:45,205 --> 00:22:47,832
lt all happened on the boat
going out to lndia.
305
00:22:48,083 --> 00:22:52,837
One of the kids had been ill
and my wife was going to follow later.
306
00:22:55,132 --> 00:22:58,176
Helen and I just fell hopelessly in love.
307
00:22:59,761 --> 00:23:03,556
Hopeless because she was
going out to marry someone else.
308
00:23:03,807 --> 00:23:05,808
lt was rather a desperate decision
309
00:23:06,059 --> 00:23:09,478
because she wasn't happy at home
and wanted to get away.
310
00:23:11,523 --> 00:23:14,358
Hopeless for me too, of course,
with a wife and two children.
311
00:23:14,610 --> 00:23:16,903
Yes. I see.
312
00:23:18,614 --> 00:23:20,907
ln fact, she didn't marry him.
313
00:23:21,158 --> 00:23:24,243
She went home
and met this other man,
314
00:23:24,494 --> 00:23:26,412
your father, I suppose.
315
00:23:30,417 --> 00:23:34,712
Eight months later, my father died
and I came into this place.
316
00:23:34,963 --> 00:23:38,007
l sent in my papers
and came back to England.
317
00:23:40,469 --> 00:23:43,930
My wife wanted a holiday while we
were waiting to move into the house.
318
00:23:44,181 --> 00:23:49,681
So I said, "What about Dillmouth?"
She knew nothing, of course.
319
00:23:50,604 --> 00:23:54,357
You wanted to see Helen again?
- So I thought.
320
00:23:56,735 --> 00:23:58,653
lt was a mistake.
321
00:23:58,904 --> 00:24:04,033
Janet's a jealous woman,
always has been.
322
00:24:04,284 --> 00:24:08,037
When did you last see Helen?
323
00:24:08,288 --> 00:24:12,708
The night before we left.
We met on the beach.
324
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,794
l walked with her back to the house.
325
00:24:17,422 --> 00:24:19,590
What time was this?
326
00:24:19,841 --> 00:24:21,467
About nine o'clock.
327
00:24:21,718 --> 00:24:24,053
lt was getting dark.
328
00:24:24,304 --> 00:24:26,847
We said goodbye.
329
00:24:27,099 --> 00:24:30,851
Was that a Saturday? August 21 st?
330
00:24:31,103 --> 00:24:34,063
Could have been. Yes, it was.
331
00:24:34,314 --> 00:24:36,816
My wife was afraid
the roads would be crowded.
332
00:24:40,362 --> 00:24:42,321
Helen left on the Friday.
333
00:24:42,572 --> 00:24:46,742
The night before.
- Not because of me.
334
00:24:50,580 --> 00:24:56,080
Was she afraid of anyone?
My father? Was he a jealous man?
335
00:24:56,837 --> 00:25:00,589
Why should he be?
l was jealous of HlM.
336
00:25:00,841 --> 00:25:04,010
Unless there was someone else.
337
00:25:04,261 --> 00:25:08,139
Jealousy's a bloody awful thing.
l know.
338
00:25:12,769 --> 00:25:14,603
I'll do the talking.
339
00:25:16,648 --> 00:25:20,860
Mrs Reed had to come back.
She lost an earring in the garden.
340
00:25:21,111 --> 00:25:26,115
Really? Did you find it?
- Yes, thanks. I was lucky.
341
00:25:26,366 --> 00:25:31,829
Thank you so much. I must go.
- I'll see you to your car.
342
00:25:33,707 --> 00:25:37,918
I'm sorry, Richard,
but there's a very important call.
343
00:25:38,170 --> 00:25:41,005
That's quite all right.
Please, don't bother.
344
00:25:41,256 --> 00:25:45,092
Thanks again... for everything.
345
00:25:56,021 --> 00:25:58,396
Do you expect me to believe that?
- Believe it or not...
346
00:25:58,523 --> 00:26:02,151
You arranged it with the girl.
I saw the way you were treating her.
347
00:26:02,402 --> 00:26:04,487
For God's sake, Janet!
348
00:26:05,864 --> 00:26:11,364
Marriage can be very difficult.
This would have been disastrous.
349
00:26:11,953 --> 00:26:15,581
My poor Walter!
The girl was quite unsuitable.
350
00:26:15,832 --> 00:26:20,002
Really, Mrs Fane?
- She wasn't an actress or anything.
351
00:26:20,253 --> 00:26:24,757
She was the local doctor's sister.
More like a daughter, much younger.
352
00:26:25,008 --> 00:26:27,968
He had no idea how to bring her up.
353
00:26:28,220 --> 00:26:31,180
Got herself entangled
with a young man at the office.
354
00:26:31,431 --> 00:26:33,474
He had to go.
355
00:26:33,725 --> 00:26:38,813
How was that?
- Some confidential matter. Anyway...
356
00:26:39,064 --> 00:26:43,025
Helen Kennedy was,
l suppose, very pretty.
357
00:26:43,276 --> 00:26:45,569
But I didn't think so.
358
00:26:45,821 --> 00:26:51,321
l thought her hair was touched up.
Walter proposed and she refused him.
359
00:26:51,827 --> 00:26:57,206
That's why he went to Assam,
or was it Burma? And what do you think?
360
00:26:57,457 --> 00:27:00,167
The moment he'd gone,
the silly girl changes her mind
361
00:27:00,419 --> 00:27:03,546
and says she wants to marry him.
- Dear me.
362
00:27:03,797 --> 00:27:06,006
So she sets sail.
363
00:27:06,258 --> 00:27:09,927
What do you think the next move is?
- I can't imagine.
364
00:27:10,178 --> 00:27:15,349
Has a love affair on the boat.
A married man, would you believe?
365
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,186
So there was Walter
on the quay to meet her,
366
00:27:19,438 --> 00:27:23,399
and the first thing she does
is to say she can't marry him.
367
00:27:23,650 --> 00:27:26,986
Don't you think that's wicked?
368
00:27:27,237 --> 00:27:31,949
Most distressing.
lt might have quite unhinged him.
369
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:36,036
Walter has always had
the most wonderful self-control.
370
00:27:36,288 --> 00:27:40,875
What happened to Miss Kennedy?
- She came home.
371
00:27:41,126 --> 00:27:46,213
Had ANOTHER affair on the way back,
only this time married the man.
372
00:27:46,465 --> 00:27:51,427
They settled down here,
next to the old hospital.
373
00:27:51,678 --> 00:27:54,805
Within a year, she'd gone off
with some married man.
374
00:27:55,056 --> 00:27:59,143
A lucky escape for your son.
- That's what I said.
375
00:28:01,021 --> 00:28:04,648
And the first young man
in your son's office?
376
00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:09,570
He did very well for himself.
Runs those coach tours...
377
00:28:09,821 --> 00:28:12,781
Afflick's Daffodil Coaches.
Bright yellow things.
378
00:28:13,033 --> 00:28:17,203
Afflick?
- Jackie Afflick.
379
00:28:17,454 --> 00:28:21,540
A nasty, pushing fellow.
There you are, Walter.
380
00:28:21,791 --> 00:28:25,002
He's usually back about this time.
- Hello, Mother.
381
00:28:25,253 --> 00:28:28,631
This is Miss Marple.
She's a friend of Dolly Bantry.
382
00:28:28,882 --> 00:28:32,218
How do you do?
- Very well, thank you.
383
00:28:32,469 --> 00:28:35,471
Now that you're home,
we must have some fresh tea.
384
00:28:35,722 --> 00:28:37,306
No, don't bother, Mother.
385
00:28:41,686 --> 00:28:44,355
My mother spoils me, I'm afraid.
386
00:28:50,028 --> 00:28:54,156
It's all still a mystery.
Walter Fane was just boring.
387
00:28:54,407 --> 00:28:56,867
And poor Colonel Erskine!
388
00:28:57,118 --> 00:29:00,120
Two down and one to find.
389
00:29:01,706 --> 00:29:03,498
Let's hope Miss Marple's
made some progress.
390
00:29:03,542 --> 00:29:07,836
If only we could trace Lily Abott.
391
00:29:08,088 --> 00:29:12,341
It's hopeless.
We don't even know if she's still alive.
392
00:29:18,890 --> 00:29:21,100
'Dear Doctor Kennedy,
393
00:29:21,351 --> 00:29:24,478
l hope you can help me
about the enclosed.
394
00:29:24,729 --> 00:29:27,731
'Do you think it means money,
or a reward,
395
00:29:27,983 --> 00:29:31,026
because I could do with the money,
I'm sure.
396
00:29:31,278 --> 00:29:35,239
'l often think about the night
Mrs Halliday went away
397
00:29:35,490 --> 00:29:40,411
'and I don't think she ever did
because I looked out the window
398
00:29:40,662 --> 00:29:43,831
and saw the posh car what I seen before.
399
00:29:46,084 --> 00:29:51,213
'l SAW before.
400
00:29:52,048 --> 00:29:55,301
'l would like to see you first
401
00:29:55,552 --> 00:30:00,097
because Mr Kimble wouldn't like
me to get mixed up with the police.
402
00:30:01,975 --> 00:30:05,936
'l could come and see you, sir,
next market day.'
403
00:30:17,115 --> 00:30:19,908
Two days a week aren't enough,
not at this time of year.
404
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,162
I agree, Mr Foster!
405
00:30:23,413 --> 00:30:27,541
So I feel I must lend a hand
while Mrs Reed's away.
406
00:30:27,792 --> 00:30:31,295
One can never relax with greenfly.
- True enough, ma'am.
407
00:30:33,006 --> 00:30:38,506
So sad. lt's nearly all part-time now.
Were you once a full-time gardener?
408
00:30:40,221 --> 00:30:45,225
Yes, I was. I worked
for Dr Kennedy and his sister.
409
00:30:45,477 --> 00:30:49,229
Mrs Reed's stepmother?
- Miss Helen. Pretty maid she was.
410
00:30:49,481 --> 00:30:51,774
Doctor set a lot of store by her.
411
00:30:52,025 --> 00:30:57,525
Always wanting to go somewhere -
dancing, tennis.
412
00:30:58,657 --> 00:31:00,991
Funny thing
l always thought that was.
413
00:31:01,242 --> 00:31:04,536
What was that?
- That tennis court.
414
00:31:04,788 --> 00:31:09,375
Someone cut the net
to ribbons one night.
415
00:31:09,626 --> 00:31:14,588
Who would do a thing like that?
- The doctor wanted to know that.
416
00:31:14,839 --> 00:31:20,339
Said he weren't going to get another
in case it happened again.
417
00:31:21,096 --> 00:31:25,391
Rare and put out, Miss Helen was.
Didn't have no luck.
418
00:31:25,642 --> 00:31:30,521
First that net, then her foot.
- What happened to her foot?
419
00:31:30,772 --> 00:31:33,899
Tripped and fell.
Just a graze but it wouldn't heal.
420
00:31:34,150 --> 00:31:39,650
The doctor was fair worried,
dressing it, treating it.
421
00:31:42,575 --> 00:31:45,035
No more dancing or tennis
for her that year.
422
00:31:45,286 --> 00:31:48,539
Had she broken off
her engagement to Mr Afflick?
423
00:31:48,790 --> 00:31:50,958
That was nonsense.
424
00:31:51,209 --> 00:31:54,128
SOMEBODY felt spiteful towards Helen.
425
00:31:54,379 --> 00:31:59,049
Some of the young ladies, perhaps,
but Jackie was too sharp.
426
00:31:59,300 --> 00:32:01,719
That sort cut themselves in the end.
427
00:32:01,970 --> 00:32:07,307
He weren't here long. Good riddance!
Us don't want his sort in Dillmouth.
428
00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:11,729
Let them go and be smart
somewhere else.
429
00:32:16,860 --> 00:32:20,362
Mrs Cocker.
- Doctor Kennedy!
430
00:32:20,613 --> 00:32:25,617
I'm sorry if I startled you.
How are you keeping?
431
00:32:25,869 --> 00:32:27,953
Pretty fair, thank you, doctor.
432
00:32:28,204 --> 00:32:32,750
You must take it easy.
l was looking for Mr and Mrs Reed.
433
00:32:36,921 --> 00:32:37,921
Good morning.
434
00:32:38,173 --> 00:32:40,549
Good morning, Foster.
- Good morning, doctor.
435
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:46,300
I'm Doctor Kennedy.
- How do you do?
436
00:32:46,848 --> 00:32:51,602
Such nasty stinging stuff this
but it does kill the greenfly.
437
00:32:51,853 --> 00:32:54,271
Jane Marple.
- How do you do.
438
00:32:54,522 --> 00:32:59,234
Mr and Mrs Reed are away.
- So I hear from Mrs Cocker.
439
00:32:59,486 --> 00:33:01,945
This letter will interest them.
- Is it from Lily?
440
00:33:02,197 --> 00:33:03,614
l see you're in their confidence.
441
00:33:03,865 --> 00:33:08,285
They did ask my advice but
young people seldom take advice.
442
00:33:08,536 --> 00:33:11,163
True. I'm fond of Gwennie.
443
00:33:11,414 --> 00:33:16,376
She was a nice wee child but
I'm afraid she's heading for trouble.
444
00:33:16,628 --> 00:33:22,128
What did you tell her?
- To let sleeping murder lie.
445
00:33:23,009 --> 00:33:25,427
lf it was murder.
446
00:33:26,346 --> 00:33:29,640
lt seems incredible to me I haven't
heard from Helen in all these years.
447
00:33:29,891 --> 00:33:34,061
But if she's dead,
l should have been notified.
448
00:33:34,312 --> 00:33:36,980
You were fond of her.
- Aye.
449
00:33:37,232 --> 00:33:40,108
l can still see her in this garden.
450
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:45,322
ln the short time she was here,
she grew to love it very much.
451
00:33:50,870 --> 00:33:54,623
Would you give this letter to Giles?
I've answered it.
452
00:33:54,874 --> 00:33:58,585
I'm seeing Lily on Thursday.
Maybe they'd come to tea.
453
00:33:58,837 --> 00:34:02,297
I'll see they get it
directly they come home.
454
00:34:02,549 --> 00:34:06,093
Yes, how very interesting!
455
00:34:06,344 --> 00:34:09,346
lt's wonderful.
We've heard from Lily
456
00:34:09,597 --> 00:34:12,975
and you've found the third man,
the awful Afflick.
457
00:34:13,226 --> 00:34:15,269
You're a genius!
- My dear boy!
458
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,145
We have news too.
459
00:34:17,397 --> 00:34:22,192
This is your Home Office chap's
report on the handwriting samples.
460
00:34:22,443 --> 00:34:26,947
He says the letter and Helen's list
are in the same hand.
461
00:34:27,198 --> 00:34:30,742
Dear.
- Why do you say that?
462
00:34:30,994 --> 00:34:36,494
"Jealousy, cruel as the grave,
the coals thereof are coals of fire."
463
00:34:38,626 --> 00:34:42,421
Yes... as Mrs Erskine must know.
464
00:34:50,013 --> 00:34:52,014
Here's the details
of our coaches, Mr Reed.
465
00:34:52,265 --> 00:34:54,808
Should be something
for your boys' club there.
466
00:34:56,519 --> 00:34:58,228
Thanks.
467
00:34:59,439 --> 00:35:02,524
What was this other business
you said you wanted to discuss.
468
00:35:02,775 --> 00:35:06,820
Well...
- lt's a private matter.
469
00:35:07,071 --> 00:35:11,199
We're trying to trace a relation of mine
and we think you may have known her.
470
00:35:11,451 --> 00:35:12,534
Oh?
471
00:35:12,785 --> 00:35:15,746
What was her name?
- Helen Halliday.
472
00:35:15,997 --> 00:35:20,042
Before she married my father,
she was Helen Kennedy.
473
00:35:24,088 --> 00:35:26,381
That was a long time ago, Mrs Reed.
474
00:35:26,633 --> 00:35:30,510
So what's the trouble?
A quarrel? Left home?
475
00:35:30,762 --> 00:35:31,970
Or is it money?
476
00:35:32,221 --> 00:35:37,721
She went away a few years before
the war and no-one knows where she is.
477
00:35:38,269 --> 00:35:39,686
Why ask me?
478
00:35:39,938 --> 00:35:43,649
We heard you were friendly once.
- Fat chance of that!
479
00:35:46,611 --> 00:35:51,615
Does her brother know where she is?
- He had two letters but no address.
480
00:35:51,866 --> 00:35:54,242
A regular little mystery.
481
00:35:54,494 --> 00:35:56,870
You could advertise.
- We have.
482
00:35:57,121 --> 00:35:59,873
No luck there?
- No.
483
00:36:00,124 --> 00:36:01,792
Maybe she's dead.
484
00:36:04,003 --> 00:36:06,880
What did you really feel about her,
Mr Afflick?
485
00:36:07,131 --> 00:36:08,674
Now, there's a question.
486
00:36:11,177 --> 00:36:16,677
I'll be honest with you, Mrs Reed,
l felt sorry for the kid.
487
00:36:18,267 --> 00:36:20,227
Sorry?
- Just that.
488
00:36:20,478 --> 00:36:23,689
With that brother of hers,
she had no fun at all.
489
00:36:23,940 --> 00:36:27,401
You didn't like Dr Kennedy.
490
00:36:27,652 --> 00:36:30,112
Was he responsible
for you losing your job?
491
00:36:30,363 --> 00:36:34,032
You know about that, do you?
492
00:36:34,283 --> 00:36:36,868
Yes, I was fired from
Fane and Watchman's.
493
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:38,829
I've nought to hide.
494
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,123
Dirty work, it was.
495
00:36:41,374 --> 00:36:44,001
And I know who was responsible.
496
00:36:44,252 --> 00:36:46,545
But it wasn't Doctor Kennedy.
497
00:36:49,298 --> 00:36:51,133
So I can't help you, I'm afraid.
498
00:36:54,554 --> 00:36:58,181
l had a bit of fun with Helen...
and that's all it was.
499
00:36:58,433 --> 00:37:02,060
But you saw her again,
after she was married.
500
00:37:02,311 --> 00:37:07,149
Did l? Maybe I did,
a couple of times.
501
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,317
Now, if you good people
will excuse me.
502
00:37:09,569 --> 00:37:15,069
Let me know what you want,
24 or 32 seater, and we'll oblige.
503
00:37:29,756 --> 00:37:32,215
Think this is his?
- lt must be.
504
00:37:32,467 --> 00:37:35,844
A yellow peril.
lsn't it horrible?
505
00:37:36,095 --> 00:37:41,433
Remember what Lily said in the letter?
About a posh car?
506
00:37:41,684 --> 00:37:47,184
And Edie,
"The mystery man in the flashy car."
507
00:37:48,149 --> 00:37:51,860
l wonder what Lily's going to tell
us this afternoon at Dr Kennedy's.
508
00:37:52,111 --> 00:37:53,820
Do you think she really knows?
509
00:37:54,072 --> 00:37:55,572
Admiring my bus?
510
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,870
Little Buttercup, I call her.
l chose daffodils for the coaches.
511
00:38:02,121 --> 00:38:06,833
So that all fits. Just my fancy.
512
00:38:07,085 --> 00:38:10,670
Nice spot of weather.
Think I'll take her for a spin.
513
00:38:18,179 --> 00:38:19,846
Good day to you.
514
00:38:23,476 --> 00:38:26,436
Damn!
- Do you think he heard?
515
00:38:28,314 --> 00:38:30,023
l hope not.
516
00:39:08,437 --> 00:39:11,523
My!
You DlD give me a surprise!
517
00:39:11,774 --> 00:39:14,609
What are you doing here then?
518
00:39:14,861 --> 00:39:17,279
No! NO!
519
00:39:23,995 --> 00:39:26,913
l gave explicit directions.
They were very simple.
520
00:39:27,165 --> 00:39:29,958
Only a few minutes walk up the road.
521
00:39:32,170 --> 00:39:34,921
More likely she decided
not to come at all.
522
00:39:35,173 --> 00:39:40,673
Perhaps her husband stepped in.
These country folk are incalculable.
523
00:39:41,637 --> 00:39:45,015
l wonder what she
could have told us anyway.
524
00:39:45,266 --> 00:39:50,020
Maybe nothing that matters -
if Helen is alive or dead.
525
00:39:50,271 --> 00:39:54,816
lf what she thinks is true,
these letters to me were forgeries.
526
00:39:58,154 --> 00:40:02,449
You know... I've been thinking
a lot about her lately.
527
00:40:02,700 --> 00:40:07,287
Helen?
- Who could have killed her?
528
00:40:07,538 --> 00:40:09,956
She had no enemies.
529
00:40:10,208 --> 00:40:11,666
Here's a photograph.
530
00:40:14,420 --> 00:40:16,671
For years I hadn't
thought about her at all.
531
00:40:16,923 --> 00:40:20,467
Now I think about her all the time.
532
00:40:20,718 --> 00:40:22,969
lt's YOUR doing.
533
00:40:23,221 --> 00:40:26,181
No.
534
00:40:26,432 --> 00:40:27,974
No. I think it's her.
535
00:40:28,226 --> 00:40:31,436
What do you mean?
- Just that.
536
00:40:31,687 --> 00:40:36,066
l can't explain it.
lt's not us.
537
00:40:36,317 --> 00:40:38,610
lt's Helen, herself.
538
00:40:41,656 --> 00:40:45,158
That may be news.
539
00:40:56,045 --> 00:40:58,588
Yes. I'm afraid it is murder.
540
00:40:58,839 --> 00:41:04,339
Lily Kimble's body was found
in the woods near Matchings Halt.
541
00:41:08,015 --> 00:41:12,018
But I told her
to go to Woodleigh Bolton.
542
00:41:12,270 --> 00:41:17,023
We found your letter in her handbag.
Was Mrs Kimble a patient of yours?
543
00:41:17,275 --> 00:41:19,150
Not for twenty years.
544
00:41:19,402 --> 00:41:23,196
You advised her to take
the 3.30 train from Coombeleigh
545
00:41:23,447 --> 00:41:26,157
and to get out at Woodleigh Bolton.
546
00:41:26,409 --> 00:41:31,204
She had taken an earlier train.
Her body was found about 3 o'clock.
547
00:41:31,455 --> 00:41:33,039
She'd been strangled.
548
00:41:35,001 --> 00:41:38,837
You were expecting her for tea?
- Aye, at four o'clock.
549
00:41:39,088 --> 00:41:41,172
Then what happened?
550
00:41:41,424 --> 00:41:44,384
She probably agreed
to meet somebody else
551
00:41:44,635 --> 00:41:47,971
then continue her journey
by the later train.
552
00:41:48,222 --> 00:41:50,807
Any idea who?
553
00:41:51,058 --> 00:41:53,518
lt's possible...
- Yes, Mrs Reed?
554
00:41:55,521 --> 00:41:59,232
l think my wife feels you
should question a Jackie Afflick.
555
00:41:59,483 --> 00:42:03,611
Daffodil Coaches.
- Very well.
556
00:42:05,656 --> 00:42:11,119
Now, is there anything else
you think you want to tell me?
557
00:42:14,415 --> 00:42:19,044
lf Mrs Kimble wasn't a patient
of yours, Doctor Kennedy,
558
00:42:19,295 --> 00:42:21,379
what was the purpose of her visit?
559
00:42:21,630 --> 00:42:25,633
Did it also concern Mr and Mrs Reed?
- Yes, it did.
560
00:42:25,885 --> 00:42:27,927
lt's hard to explain.
561
00:42:28,179 --> 00:42:33,679
l suppose it all started when
l went to see a play in London.
562
00:42:34,894 --> 00:42:37,312
"The Duchess of Malfi".
563
00:42:56,999 --> 00:43:01,586
Why are they digging at that spot?
- That was my idea.
564
00:43:01,837 --> 00:43:07,337
Remember you were surprised that
this window had no view to the sea?
565
00:43:08,260 --> 00:43:11,679
Then Foster found the old steps.
566
00:43:11,931 --> 00:43:15,642
lt's one of the things that made
me think I'd been here before.
567
00:43:15,893 --> 00:43:19,854
l think somebody wanted to dig new
steps, so they covered up the old ones.
568
00:43:20,106 --> 00:43:23,316
When anything new is dug...
569
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:29,489
Then it must have been my father.
Who else could have done that?
570
00:43:29,740 --> 00:43:33,243
I don't think we must
jump to conclusions, not just yet.
571
00:43:36,705 --> 00:43:38,748
You need a drink, darling.
572
00:43:40,709 --> 00:43:43,211
Miss Marple?
- Thank you, no.
573
00:43:43,462 --> 00:43:45,713
l think Mrs Cocker is making tea.
574
00:43:45,965 --> 00:43:47,966
l need something a little stronger.
575
00:43:48,884 --> 00:43:54,097
lt was one of three people:
Walter Fane, Erskine or Jackie Afflick.
576
00:43:54,348 --> 00:43:58,893
And whoever it was,
murdered Lily this afternoon.
577
00:43:59,145 --> 00:44:01,855
Presumably the lnspector
is checking alibis.
578
00:44:02,106 --> 00:44:05,316
lt can't be Colonel Erskine.
He's in Northumberland.
579
00:44:05,568 --> 00:44:07,318
Of course!
580
00:44:10,197 --> 00:44:12,656
That's one we CAN check up on.
- What are you going to do?
581
00:44:12,783 --> 00:44:17,412
l took their number. Here it is.
582
00:44:42,897 --> 00:44:48,397
No, it's not urgent, Mrs Fane.
I'll telephone his office in the morning.
583
00:44:50,112 --> 00:44:52,155
Goodbye.
584
00:44:55,576 --> 00:44:58,119
All three of them on the loose!
585
00:44:58,370 --> 00:45:00,914
Mr Afflick?
- Him too.
586
00:45:01,165 --> 00:45:03,917
We saw him set off in his car.
587
00:45:04,168 --> 00:45:06,252
They could all have
met Lily off that train.
588
00:45:08,506 --> 00:45:10,840
Here's your tea.
- Thank you.
589
00:45:11,091 --> 00:45:13,718
Could you put it there?
590
00:45:13,969 --> 00:45:16,513
I'm sorry for keeping you so late.
591
00:45:16,764 --> 00:45:21,643
I done some sandwiches.
The men in the garden will want a bite, too.
592
00:45:21,894 --> 00:45:25,897
I couldn't walk out on you now.
593
00:45:26,148 --> 00:45:30,777
Excuse me, Mrs Reed.
- Yes, lnspector?
594
00:45:31,028 --> 00:45:35,114
I'm sorry, Gwennie.
Miss Marple was right.
595
00:45:36,158 --> 00:45:38,535
We've found...
what we were looking for.
596
00:45:40,996 --> 00:45:42,997
What is it?
597
00:45:43,249 --> 00:45:48,749
l knew it!
l saw where they was digging...!
598
00:45:49,088 --> 00:45:51,214
lt's all right.
- My life!
599
00:45:51,465 --> 00:45:53,800
Doctor Kennedy is here.
- Just sit back.
600
00:45:54,051 --> 00:45:56,844
We know this old trouble,
don't we?
601
00:46:21,412 --> 00:46:23,997
Will you warn the hospital
we're on our way?
602
00:46:49,273 --> 00:46:50,607
lnspector?
603
00:46:50,858 --> 00:46:53,192
Before your people go home,
might I have a word with you?
604
00:46:53,444 --> 00:46:57,947
Yes, Miss Marple.
- lt lS important, I think.
605
00:46:58,198 --> 00:47:00,033
You'd better tell me.
- Yes.
606
00:47:00,284 --> 00:47:04,746
You see, I'm rather worried.
May I confide in you? You see...
607
00:48:46,348 --> 00:48:49,600
Hello?
- Hello, Gwenda.
608
00:48:49,852 --> 00:48:52,687
I'm at the hospital. Mrs Cocker's fine.
- Have they seen her?
609
00:48:52,938 --> 00:48:58,317
They're keeping her in, so I'll go
to her place to fetch some things.
610
00:48:58,569 --> 00:49:02,071
How long will you be?
- About an hour.
611
00:49:02,322 --> 00:49:05,408
I'll get the dinner on.
- Marvellous. Thanks.
612
00:49:05,659 --> 00:49:09,287
Love you.
- Love you. Bye.
613
00:50:29,493 --> 00:50:31,244
Hello?
614
00:50:34,665 --> 00:50:36,207
Who is it?
615
00:50:47,845 --> 00:50:49,637
Hello, Gwennie.
616
00:50:49,888 --> 00:50:55,059
l came from the hospital.
Mrs Cocker's going to be fine.
617
00:50:55,310 --> 00:50:58,688
Yes, I know. Giles just phoned.
618
00:51:03,026 --> 00:51:06,737
Why have you come?
- I wanted to see you.
619
00:51:06,989 --> 00:51:09,615
Just as you were that night.
620
00:51:09,867 --> 00:51:14,120
A little girl standing on the stairs,
the way you remembered it.
621
00:51:16,999 --> 00:51:22,499
l watched Helen come home.
l saw her from the hospital window.
622
00:51:23,088 --> 00:51:26,465
ln those days,
it was just across the road.
623
00:51:26,717 --> 00:51:30,845
She was with a man.
...Richard Erskine.
624
00:51:31,597 --> 00:51:34,849
l knew she was in love with him,
planning to run away.
625
00:51:35,100 --> 00:51:38,728
And l... should lose her.
626
00:51:38,979 --> 00:51:44,400
Because you see, Gwennie...
l couldnae bear that.
627
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:47,820
lt was you...
628
00:51:49,907 --> 00:51:51,198
...you I saw.
629
00:51:51,450 --> 00:51:54,827
Just a wee girl as Helen was once.
630
00:51:56,413 --> 00:51:59,040
l didnae want to do her any harm.
631
00:51:59,291 --> 00:52:04,378
...Just hold her close -
tight and safe.
632
00:52:04,630 --> 00:52:10,130
"With her golden hair... The death
of young ones is never to be pitied.
633
00:52:11,261 --> 00:52:14,013
"Cover her face.
634
00:52:14,264 --> 00:52:16,766
"My eyes are dazzled," Gwennie...
635
00:52:17,017 --> 00:52:21,896
But I don't want to lose you.
My darling...
636
00:52:22,147 --> 00:52:24,815
My dearest sister...
637
00:52:30,364 --> 00:52:32,698
There, there, my dear.
638
00:52:32,950 --> 00:52:34,450
Miss Marple!
639
00:52:39,665 --> 00:52:44,502
You didn't think
I'd leave you alone, did you?
640
00:52:49,549 --> 00:52:52,927
Of course, so many things
pointed to him, but, most of all,
641
00:52:53,178 --> 00:52:56,138
he was at the right place
at the right time.
642
00:52:56,390 --> 00:53:00,142
Then there were those signs
of a terrible possessive madness:
643
00:53:00,394 --> 00:53:05,398
the damaged tennis net,
the graze that wouldn't heal.
644
00:53:05,649 --> 00:53:08,442
We thought Helen
was a nymphomaniac!
645
00:53:08,694 --> 00:53:13,030
That's what Dr Kennedy told you.
- She only wanted to get away.
646
00:53:13,281 --> 00:53:16,200
Jackie Afflick said he was sorry for her.
647
00:53:16,451 --> 00:53:19,245
Then there was Lily.
- Poor Lily!
648
00:53:19,496 --> 00:53:21,831
Dr Kennedy didn't know
that she was at the pictures
649
00:53:22,082 --> 00:53:23,874
that evening of the murder.
650
00:53:24,126 --> 00:53:29,626
He thought she knew the truth.
651
00:53:31,508 --> 00:53:34,343
He thought she'd seen him walking
from the hospital to the house.
652
00:53:34,594 --> 00:53:37,013
"A posh car. I'd seen it before."
653
00:53:37,264 --> 00:53:41,225
So he wrote and told her to catch
an earlier train to Matchings Halt.
654
00:53:41,476 --> 00:53:46,976
He killed her then exchanged that
letter for the one the police found.
655
00:53:48,150 --> 00:53:53,650
And Helen's letter and the sample
of her writing were both by him.
656
00:53:54,698 --> 00:53:58,325
So they looked the same.
- Why didn't we think of that?
657
00:53:58,577 --> 00:54:00,619
You believed what he told you.
658
00:54:00,871 --> 00:54:05,666
lt's very dangerous to believe people.
l haven't for years.
659
00:54:08,378 --> 00:54:12,048
But the most wicked thing was
the way he deluded your poor father,
660
00:54:12,299 --> 00:54:16,719
using drugs to cause hallucinations
and involving an innocent man
661
00:54:16,970 --> 00:54:20,723
in his own fantasies
of strangling and domination.
662
00:54:20,974 --> 00:54:24,393
Part of his mind
was cool and calculating,
663
00:54:24,644 --> 00:54:26,937
even persuading your father
to make changes
664
00:54:27,189 --> 00:54:32,689
so that Helen's grave
was already dug.
665
00:54:33,862 --> 00:54:37,073
l should have seen it at once.
666
00:54:37,783 --> 00:54:42,620
It was the play, you see.
"Cover her face."
667
00:54:42,871 --> 00:54:48,167
Those are words spoken by a brother
who contrived his sister's death.
668
00:54:48,668 --> 00:54:52,254
Poor Helen... who died young.
669
00:54:53,590 --> 00:54:55,549
l hope she's really sleeping now.
670
00:54:58,970 --> 00:55:00,763
l think she is.
671
00:55:03,350 --> 00:55:07,937
Now, my dears, have you thought
any more about the new rose beds?
672
00:55:08,188 --> 00:55:10,898
Well, we wanted your advice.
673
00:55:11,149 --> 00:55:14,693
l always think the old and trusted
are best you know.
674
00:55:14,945 --> 00:55:17,696
They bring out so many new ones...