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(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

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(BIRDS CHIRPING)

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(BELL TOLLS)

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(BELL TOLLING)

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(SCREECHES)

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- (GIRL SCREAMS)
- (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

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(MUSIC FADES OUT)

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(HEAVY BREATHING)

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(WOMAN SINGING)

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(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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MAN: <i>Signore</i> Poirot, your pastries.

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HERCULE: Ah, <i>monsieur.</i>

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- The eggs came, <i>signore.</i>
- Ah, <i>grazie.</i>

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- MAN: Poirot!
- (INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

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<i>Monsieur</i> Poirot, you must help me.

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My parents both
mysteriously died last year.

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My brother, soon after.

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Our doctor can't explain it.

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Please, <i>Monsieur.</i> I fear for my life.

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They say we're cursed.

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(WOMEN GASP)

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VITALE: What did I tell you?

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Touch him again and I keep your hand.

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HERCULE: Excuse me, sir.

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<i>Signore</i> Poirot.

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I need to speak to you

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urgently, please. (SCREAMS)

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Hmm.

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<i>Monsieur</i> Poirot,

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there is a lady here.

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She says she's in Venice
on urgent business.

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She says she's a friend of yours.

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I don't have any friends.

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She said you would say that,

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so I should give you this.

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The authoress.

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Hello, young man. Is your mother at home?

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You must forgive my bodyguard.
His instructions are mine.

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No one may pass but the pastry man,

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- twice a day.
- Twice a day?

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(CHUCKLES) You know me.

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- Apples only till supper.
- Ah, yes.

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Oh, gosh, I like this so much.

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(ARIADNE CHUCKLES)

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Oh, the little chochy-chochy-late.

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Hmm. Hercule Poirot really
has gone silent.

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Walled himself up into retirement.

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Cakes for cases.

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I am much satisfied.

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No.

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This is happiness, not satisfaction.

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A writer knows the difference.

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Even picked Venice to hide in.

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A gorgeous relic,
slowly sinking into the sea,

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just like your mind without
a challenge. (CHUCKLES)

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Don't underestimate me
for a clever turn of phrase.

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I am the world's number one
mystery writer.

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Or was, anyway.

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Bestsellers, 27 of 30 books.

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Damn the critics on the last three.

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Called them all small beer.

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Ariadne Oliver, it is good to see you.

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- You're coming with me.
- Hmm?

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Time to put some life back into your life.

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Well, then.

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Did you not hear? This is urgent.

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You are not the first who has come
to seduce me with some irresistible case.

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Not a case. It's much spiffier than that.

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You really are cut off from the world.
Do you not know what today is?

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(LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING)

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What is "spiffier"?

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MAN: Happy Halloween! Yeah!

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We Americans imported loud music
and terrible chocolate,

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but we also brought back Halloween.

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There's a party tonight for the children.

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- (CHILDREN SINGING)
- MAN 2: Hey, kids!

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America says, "Happy Halloween!"

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MAN 3: Hey! Happy Halloween! Let's go!

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(CHEERY ACCORDION MUSIC PLAYING)

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ARIADNE: Poirot,
I've found something. Someone.

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I can't explain it.

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I've looked at it from every which way,
and I can't figure it out.

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HERCULE: You are up
to something, my friend.

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Well, "The Unholy Ms. Reynolds."

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{\an8}She's a spiritualist
or a medium, according to the papers.

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"Joyce Reynolds,
recently released from jail

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"was the last woman on record imprisoned

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"under the terms of
the Witchcraft Act of 1735."

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I've seen a million of these
so-called psychics,

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each one a flimflam fake.

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Then, there's that one.

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Astonishing.

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I tell you, this Ms Reynolds,

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I sat at a séance.

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- Things happened.
- Tricks.

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I am the smartest person I ever met,
and I can't figure it out.

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So, I came to the second.

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I need Detective Poirot
to pop this balloon

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or God help me, I will end up a believer.

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Spot the con I can't.

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Come with me to the orphans'
Halloween party.

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Then, afterwards,
we're invited to a séance.

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(ARIADNE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)

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MAN 1: Hey, boys,
there's a Halloween party.

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MAN 2: You're taking her on a date?

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(MEN LAUGHING)

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- MAN: Enjoy the party, kids.
- (CHILDREN LAUGHING)

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Don't get too scared now.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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(ACCORDION MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING)

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(WOMAN SHOUTING IN DISTANCE)

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(MUSIC FADES OUT)

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(FIREWORKS EXPLODING)

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(CHEERING IN DISTANCE)

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(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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(CHILDREN CHATTERING, LAUGHING)

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There it is.

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<i>Palazzo Lacrime dei Giovani.</i>

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In Venice, we say,

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"Every house is haunted

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"or cursed."

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(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING)

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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MAN: Are you ready, children?

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- ALL: Yeah!
- (ALL CHEERING)

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Long ago,

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this palazzo was an orphanage.

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Good doctors and good nurses
took care of good children.

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Until the Plague.

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(PUPPET SHRIEKS)

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MAN: Plagues make people afraid

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and fear makes people do terrible things.

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(PUPPET SCREAMS)

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(PUPPET WHIMPERING)

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Is it not too frightening
for the children?

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Hmm. Scary stories make life less scary.

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(LOCK CLICKS SHUT)

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MAN: The children soon
realized they were alone.

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Locked inside to die.

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Starving, calling, clawing.

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(PUPPETS SCREAMING)

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MAN: Some say the children are
still hiding in this palazzo

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and they want more children to join them.

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So, you be careful.

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For they want revenge
on the doctors and nurses

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who left them here to die.

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(PUPPETS WHISPERING)

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(SOFTLY) Watch out for the mark

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of the Children's Vendetta.

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(CHILDREN GASPING)

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MAN: No one here is a doctor,
are they? Huh?

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- CHILDREN: No.
- Or a nurse?

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- CHILDREN: No.
- MAN: No?

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Then, I guess it's safe
to start the party!

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(CHILDREN CHEERING)

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(GHOSTLY SHRIEKING)

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- (LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING)
- (CHILDREN CHATTERING)

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Don't! Stop running.

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(SIGHS)

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(MECHANICAL CLICKING)

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Leopold.

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Leopold.

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There's an actual, literal party
and you're hiding in a book.

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I thought you might play
with other children for once.

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Games are frivolous.

168
00:10:08,043 --> 00:10:10,084
The Halloween calls for horror stories.

169
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Don't you think so, Miss Olga?

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Don't you at least want some cake?

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That's for the orphans.

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I'll check on father.

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He's no good at parties.

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(CHILDREN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

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(MAN BREATHING HEAVILY)

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(SINGING) <i>The boys are home again</i>

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Oh. Nun alert.

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Ms. Oliver, it's a thrill
to have you here.

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- You're my favorite author.
- Ah.

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Your mysteries give me faith
the wicked will meet justice.

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Sadly, life doesn't round out
so well as detective fiction.

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(GIRL SOBBING)

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(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

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Whoa!

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Yes. <i>Bonsoir.</i> (CHUCKLES)

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Are you all right?

187
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It's so high.

188
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Oh, I understand.
It's very dark up here, isn't it?

189
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(BREATHES DEEPLY)

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(GIRL SOBBING)

191
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And this is our hostess?

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- ROWENA: This is my house.
- HERCULE: The soprano, Rowena Drake.

193
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A diva's life of glamor.

194
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But she lives here.

195
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ARIADNE: Where did all the money go?

196
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Everyone who ever lived here
falls victim to some tragedy.

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That's the legend, anyway.

198
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The Children's Vendetta.

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Someone sees a child's shadow on the wall,
and then darkness comes.

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Like her daughter a year ago.

201
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<i>That's who we're to hear from tonight.</i>

202
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The lost girl from beyond.

203
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I will not believe in such things.

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We'll see.

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ROWENA: Oh, sweetheart,
you're gonna be all right.

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00:11:51,668 --> 00:11:53,584
(CLOCK CHIMING)

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OLGA: Ms Rowena, it's leaking again.

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(HEAVY BREATHING)

209
00:11:57,751 --> 00:11:59,251
- LEOPOLD: Dad?
- (GASPS)

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00:12:00,001 --> 00:12:01,293
Are you all right, Dad?

211
00:12:05,751 --> 00:12:07,001
Do you need a pill?

212
00:12:08,418 --> 00:12:09,543
No.

213
00:12:10,959 --> 00:12:12,043
Take some punch, then?

214
00:12:12,834 --> 00:12:14,918
We could go, if you'd prefer.

215
00:12:15,918 --> 00:12:16,918
It's all right.

216
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I promised Rowena I'd stay.

217
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LEOPOLD: Good.

218
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I was looking forward to the séance.

219
00:12:23,709 --> 00:12:25,459
(CHILDREN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

220
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You do the children
a great kindness, <i>madame.</i>

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Adults, too.

222
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You care to bob for an apple, Mr. Poirot?

223
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- (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
- It looks like fun.

224
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The fun is not for me.

225
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(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

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ROWENA: I am glad for it.

227
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It's been far too long
since there was laughter in this house.

228
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Well, it is a remarkable palazzo.

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00:12:52,834 --> 00:12:53,876
You can have it.

230
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See, I can't afford to fix it
and I can't stand to look at it.

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And no one will buy it
at any price. Not after...

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(ALICIA SCREAMING)

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00:13:04,168 --> 00:13:06,751
ROWENA: <i>Please, oh, God, no!</i>

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Forgive me.

235
00:13:18,418 --> 00:13:23,626
I had hoped that seeing
all these faces might make it hurt less.

236
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- Mrs. Rowena?
- ROWENA: Yes?

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Your guest is here.

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(EXHALES)

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00:13:31,668 --> 00:13:33,293
God, I'm actually nervous.

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(EXHALES)

241
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You believe in psychics?

242
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This house made me believe.

243
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It holds voices.

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Whispers.

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Sobbing.

246
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My daughter used to stay up
at night talking.

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I thought it was with her dolls.

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My daughter,

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to hear her voice again.

250
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A word.

251
00:14:04,001 --> 00:14:06,543
I would give that Ms. Reynolds all I have.

252
00:14:07,668 --> 00:14:09,293
(CHILDREN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

253
00:14:45,876 --> 00:14:47,793
This one will be very sad.

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00:14:49,251 --> 00:14:50,251
Ms. Reynolds.

255
00:14:52,251 --> 00:14:55,001
Everything is prepared for you
in the salon.

256
00:14:55,001 --> 00:14:57,001
As your assistant specified.

257
00:14:57,001 --> 00:14:58,751
(CHILDREN CONTINUE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

258
00:14:58,751 --> 00:15:01,001
So noisy, your home.

259
00:15:01,001 --> 00:15:03,501
The children will be gone before we begin.

260
00:15:04,793 --> 00:15:05,834
So many.

261
00:15:06,668 --> 00:15:07,668
Everywhere.

262
00:15:07,668 --> 00:15:09,334
(CHILDREN'S SCREAMS ECHOING)

263
00:15:09,334 --> 00:15:10,834
Horrible memories.

264
00:15:14,084 --> 00:15:16,168
Your daughter's room
is on the third floor.

265
00:15:17,959 --> 00:15:19,126
How did you...?

266
00:15:19,126 --> 00:15:20,626
May we do it there?

267
00:15:21,418 --> 00:15:22,459
Of course.

268
00:15:33,168 --> 00:15:34,959
Ariadne Oliver.

269
00:15:34,959 --> 00:15:36,501
My nemesis.

270
00:15:36,501 --> 00:15:39,501
We meet again.
The unholy Ms. Joyce Reynolds.

271
00:15:39,501 --> 00:15:41,584
The press coined that one.

272
00:15:41,584 --> 00:15:42,709
Not sure if I like it.

273
00:15:42,709 --> 00:15:44,001
<i>Bonsoir, madame,</i>

274
00:15:44,001 --> 00:15:47,626
I must say that I expected someone more...

275
00:15:47,626 --> 00:15:49,001
Dramatic? Ridiculous?

276
00:15:49,001 --> 00:15:50,084
An old crone?

277
00:15:50,084 --> 00:15:53,001
Yes, this is the perfect word. (SPUTTERS)

278
00:15:53,001 --> 00:15:54,959
The croney. The old croney.

279
00:15:54,959 --> 00:15:57,334
I didn't ask to be what I am.

280
00:15:57,334 --> 00:16:00,168
Why I like the term "medium,"
sort of middling.

281
00:16:00,168 --> 00:16:03,334
I'm not big or small.
I'm not interesting at all.

282
00:16:03,834 --> 00:16:06,209
But I can talk to the dead.

283
00:16:06,709 --> 00:16:07,876
And you?

284
00:16:07,876 --> 00:16:09,709
I am Hercule Poirot.

285
00:16:10,043 --> 00:16:11,459
You were Hercule Poirot.

286
00:16:11,459 --> 00:16:12,918
The detective.

287
00:16:12,918 --> 00:16:15,793
You're anything but medium.
You're quite famous.

288
00:16:15,793 --> 00:16:18,043
Am I your next quite famous case?

289
00:16:18,501 --> 00:16:20,126
I am retired from cases.

290
00:16:21,043 --> 00:16:24,043
But you are here to discredit me.

291
00:16:24,043 --> 00:16:26,418
Isn't that why
the great writer brought you?

292
00:16:29,751 --> 00:16:31,959
HERCULE: I am here as a favor
to Ms. Oliver

293
00:16:31,959 --> 00:16:34,668
who is eager to divine
your means of divination.

294
00:16:34,668 --> 00:16:35,751
I must tell you, <i>madame,</i>

295
00:16:35,751 --> 00:16:39,251
I have been all my life,
uncharmed by your kind.

296
00:16:39,876 --> 00:16:40,876
My kind?

297
00:16:40,876 --> 00:16:44,459
Opportunists who prey
on the vulnerable, no?

298
00:16:44,459 --> 00:16:46,626
You don't believe in the soul's endurance

299
00:16:46,626 --> 00:16:47,709
after death?

300
00:16:47,709 --> 00:16:48,918
I have lost my faith.

301
00:16:48,918 --> 00:16:50,626
How sad for you.

302
00:16:50,626 --> 00:16:52,668
Yes, it is most sad. The truth is sad.

303
00:16:56,251 --> 00:16:57,334
Please understand, <i>madame,</i>

304
00:16:57,334 --> 00:16:59,251
I would welcome with open arms

305
00:16:59,251 --> 00:17:02,876
any honest sign of devil or demon or ghost

306
00:17:02,876 --> 00:17:05,584
for if there is a ghost, there is a soul.

307
00:17:05,584 --> 00:17:08,084
If there is a soul,
there is a God who made it,

308
00:17:08,084 --> 00:17:10,543
and if we have God,
then we have everything.

309
00:17:10,543 --> 00:17:12,793
Meaning, order, justice.

310
00:17:12,793 --> 00:17:15,043
But I have seen too much of the world.

311
00:17:15,043 --> 00:17:17,209
Countless crime, two wars,

312
00:17:17,209 --> 00:17:21,709
the bitter evil of human indifference,
and I conclude, no.

313
00:17:21,709 --> 00:17:23,251
No God, no ghosts.

314
00:17:23,251 --> 00:17:25,668
With respect, no mediums
who can speak to them.

315
00:17:26,209 --> 00:17:28,209
- (CHILDREN SCREAMING)
- (GLASS BREAKING)

316
00:17:34,334 --> 00:17:36,418
(CHILDREN WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY)

317
00:17:38,376 --> 00:17:39,501
You were saying?

318
00:17:40,168 --> 00:17:42,168
(THUNDER RUMBLING)

319
00:17:43,876 --> 00:17:45,043
(RAIN PATTERING)

320
00:17:47,084 --> 00:17:48,376
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

321
00:17:58,001 --> 00:17:59,126
(SQUEAKING)

322
00:18:01,376 --> 00:18:03,584
As if I didn't have enough to clean.

323
00:18:03,584 --> 00:18:05,751
Shouldn't even be here past dark.

324
00:18:05,751 --> 00:18:07,376
I don't think they'll bother us.

325
00:18:08,126 --> 00:18:09,126
Who?

326
00:18:11,418 --> 00:18:13,168
What happens past dark?

327
00:18:13,168 --> 00:18:15,584
Well, still a charlatan?

328
00:18:15,584 --> 00:18:19,376
A ceiling weakened by water damage,
unused to rollicking footsteps.

329
00:18:19,376 --> 00:18:22,543
(SCOFFS) No credit for theatrical timing.

330
00:18:22,543 --> 00:18:23,793
(WIND BLOWING VIOLENTLY)

331
00:18:27,668 --> 00:18:29,626
Ms. Alicia's room is up here.

332
00:18:31,834 --> 00:18:34,043
(SINGING) <i>When the lights go on again</i>

333
00:18:35,334 --> 00:18:37,334
<i>All over the world</i>

334
00:18:38,209 --> 00:18:39,209
<i>And the...</i>

335
00:18:44,209 --> 00:18:46,251
If I may, please, how did the girl die?

336
00:18:46,251 --> 00:18:48,084
The balcony. The canal.

337
00:18:48,084 --> 00:18:49,459
- Drowning.
- A suicide.

338
00:18:49,459 --> 00:18:52,209
It wasn't her fault.
They pushed her to it.

339
00:18:52,209 --> 00:18:53,543
Mrs. Seminoff, please.

340
00:18:53,543 --> 00:18:54,834
What then, Doctor?

341
00:18:54,834 --> 00:18:57,084
You cared for her. You saw.

342
00:18:59,959 --> 00:19:01,334
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

343
00:19:07,793 --> 00:19:09,209
HERCULE: Uh, wait, please.

344
00:19:11,876 --> 00:19:13,501
Who has been inside here tonight?

345
00:19:13,501 --> 00:19:15,293
Ms. Reynolds, her assistant?

346
00:19:15,293 --> 00:19:17,168
No one. I have the only key.

347
00:19:17,834 --> 00:19:20,709
No one's stepped foot here
since Ms. Alicia passed but me.

348
00:19:21,959 --> 00:19:24,668
- (LOCK CLICKS OPEN)
- To dust a bit and to check on Harry.

349
00:19:25,584 --> 00:19:26,584
Who is Harry?

350
00:19:26,918 --> 00:19:27,918
(SCREECHING)

351
00:19:28,918 --> 00:19:30,334
(CONTINUES SCREECHING)

352
00:19:30,334 --> 00:19:31,418
OLGA: Her friend.

353
00:19:32,209 --> 00:19:33,459
She told him everything.

354
00:19:35,376 --> 00:19:37,334
He used to speak before she died.

355
00:19:38,793 --> 00:19:39,876
Now, he just cries.

356
00:19:39,876 --> 00:19:41,376
(SOMBER INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)

357
00:19:43,751 --> 00:19:45,959
Everything is just as she left it.

358
00:19:49,668 --> 00:19:51,876
Ms. Rowena wouldn't let me move a thing.

359
00:20:00,793 --> 00:20:02,293
(OLGA SIGHS HEAVILY)

360
00:20:12,751 --> 00:20:13,876
(BREATH QUIVERS)

361
00:20:15,751 --> 00:20:17,793
(PRAYING IN LATIN)

362
00:20:18,501 --> 00:20:20,543
(IN ENGLISH) <i>Alicia and her
were inseparable.</i>

363
00:20:20,543 --> 00:20:22,334
- YOUNG ALICIA: Can't catch me!
- YOUNG ROWENA: Yes, I can!

364
00:20:22,334 --> 00:20:24,876
OLGA: <i>This palazzo was their oasis.</i>

365
00:20:25,459 --> 00:20:28,084
<i>Only a week at a time
between travel for the opera.</i>

366
00:20:28,084 --> 00:20:29,168
(GIRLS LAUGHING)

367
00:20:29,168 --> 00:20:32,293
<i>But Alicia had the children's
ghosts for company.</i>

368
00:20:33,418 --> 00:20:35,126
<i>She grew so beautiful.</i>

369
00:20:36,168 --> 00:20:38,293
<i>Then she met her chef, Maxime.</i>

370
00:20:40,293 --> 00:20:42,126
<i>They were engaged so fast.</i>

371
00:20:43,209 --> 00:20:44,418
<i>So in love.</i>

372
00:20:45,168 --> 00:20:47,209
Then, she and her fiancé quarreled.

373
00:20:48,293 --> 00:20:50,584
She moved back here to the palazzo.

374
00:20:50,584 --> 00:20:53,543
That's when she started
to see the children.

375
00:20:53,543 --> 00:20:55,626
They wanted her for themselves.

376
00:20:56,543 --> 00:20:59,084
She suffered her last weeks in that bed

377
00:20:59,084 --> 00:21:00,959
<i>- seeing things.</i>
- (BREATHING HEAVILY)

378
00:21:00,959 --> 00:21:02,293
<i>Shadows.</i>

379
00:21:02,293 --> 00:21:04,543
<i>The children are calling her, she said.</i>

380
00:21:04,543 --> 00:21:07,168
"They want you here with them."

381
00:21:07,168 --> 00:21:08,584
<i>They drove her mad.</i>

382
00:21:08,584 --> 00:21:10,168
(CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY)

383
00:21:11,668 --> 00:21:14,126
Ms. Rowena didn't leave her side,

384
00:21:14,126 --> 00:21:16,793
<i>begging the spirits to let her be.</i>

385
00:21:18,668 --> 00:21:19,668
They didn't.

386
00:21:21,251 --> 00:21:22,251
(WATER SPLASHES)

387
00:21:24,001 --> 00:21:25,459
- (FAINT SCREAM ECHOING)
<i>- They left the mark</i>

388
00:21:26,126 --> 00:21:28,209
<i>of the Children's Vendetta.</i>

389
00:21:28,209 --> 00:21:30,626
The police said the cuts
were from the fall.

390
00:21:32,168 --> 00:21:33,418
The police...

391
00:21:34,251 --> 00:21:35,918
JOYCE: Listening.

392
00:21:35,918 --> 00:21:39,084
Now, this woman, she wants
to disturb Alicia's soul.

393
00:21:40,251 --> 00:21:41,543
JOYCE: Listening.

394
00:21:41,543 --> 00:21:44,043
OLGA: And I am telling you, <i>monsieur,</i>
this is not right.

395
00:21:45,459 --> 00:21:47,626
This is against nature and the Good Lord.

396
00:21:48,834 --> 00:21:50,376
Somebody will have to pay.

397
00:21:51,584 --> 00:21:53,126
JOYCE: Listening.

398
00:21:56,084 --> 00:21:58,084
So much pain here.

399
00:22:01,751 --> 00:22:03,001
(SOFT SQUEAK)

400
00:22:07,626 --> 00:22:09,459
(SOFT SQUEAK)

401
00:22:10,043 --> 00:22:11,043
Baba.

402
00:22:12,459 --> 00:22:13,459
Yeah.

403
00:22:14,209 --> 00:22:15,501
Baba the Rabbit.

404
00:22:15,501 --> 00:22:16,584
- (BULB SHATTERS)
- (GASPS)

405
00:22:17,168 --> 00:22:19,168
- (GASPS)
- (DOORBELL RINGING)

406
00:22:20,293 --> 00:22:21,876
(MAN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

407
00:22:27,918 --> 00:22:29,001
Maxime, no.

408
00:22:29,001 --> 00:22:31,584
"Maxime, be at Palazzo, 10 p.m.

409
00:22:31,584 --> 00:22:33,626
"Important news about Alicia Drake."

410
00:22:33,626 --> 00:22:35,168
- I was invited.
- Not by me.

411
00:22:35,168 --> 00:22:37,126
You're always trying
to kick me out, Rowena.

412
00:22:37,126 --> 00:22:38,543
It's never worked before.

413
00:22:38,543 --> 00:22:40,584
If there's something to hear,
I'll hear it.

414
00:22:40,584 --> 00:22:42,418
Well, tell that to your new fiancée.

415
00:22:42,418 --> 00:22:45,126
Waited a whole six months
after Alicia died.

416
00:22:45,126 --> 00:22:46,376
I hear she's insensibly rich.

417
00:22:46,376 --> 00:22:49,001
Land-grants-from-King-George rich.

418
00:22:49,001 --> 00:22:51,376
Bought me my own bistro on Madison Avenue.

419
00:22:51,376 --> 00:22:53,626
I'm gonna be a New Yorker and a rich one,

420
00:22:53,626 --> 00:22:56,459
which is the only kind to be.

421
00:22:56,459 --> 00:22:58,168
You should come visit.
I'll buy you a hot dog.

422
00:22:58,168 --> 00:22:59,459
Should I throw him out?

423
00:22:59,459 --> 00:23:00,543
Try it.

424
00:23:02,126 --> 00:23:03,334
Give me the excuse.

425
00:23:04,501 --> 00:23:07,251
ROWENA: Do whatever you want, Maxime.
You always do.

426
00:23:09,168 --> 00:23:10,376
I lost too, Rowena.

427
00:23:10,376 --> 00:23:11,459
(THUNDER RUMBLING)

428
00:23:16,293 --> 00:23:18,001
How many are we? Nine or 10?

429
00:23:18,001 --> 00:23:20,668
Oh, I don't know. Take 12 chairs, I think.

430
00:23:20,668 --> 00:23:22,334
ARIADNE: (GASPS) A full house.

431
00:23:22,334 --> 00:23:25,584
A séance? Christ in a hat!
Is that what this is?

432
00:23:27,334 --> 00:23:28,709
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

433
00:23:32,126 --> 00:23:33,126
{\an8}LESLIE: A typewriter.

434
00:23:34,376 --> 00:23:36,959
No Ouija board? Crystal ball?

435
00:23:37,626 --> 00:23:40,209
I think myself more secretary
than anything.

436
00:23:40,876 --> 00:23:42,459
The voices speak...

437
00:23:42,459 --> 00:23:44,584
(TYPEWRITER COGS WHIRRING)

438
00:23:44,584 --> 00:23:46,376
...and I take dictation.

439
00:23:51,584 --> 00:23:55,001
LESLIE: Leopold, perhaps
go and read in the library.

440
00:23:55,001 --> 00:23:56,418
LEOPOLD: I want to see Alicia.

441
00:23:57,168 --> 00:23:58,293
She was my friend too.

442
00:23:58,293 --> 00:24:00,168
You're not scared of ghosts?

443
00:24:00,168 --> 00:24:02,209
I talk to ghosts here all the time.

444
00:24:02,209 --> 00:24:03,293
JOYCE: Do you?

445
00:24:05,043 --> 00:24:06,376
They say you're a fake.

446
00:24:07,876 --> 00:24:08,876
(THUNDER RUMBLING)

447
00:24:22,543 --> 00:24:25,834
No one touch me
until the trance has ended.

448
00:24:26,543 --> 00:24:27,584
(EXHALES SOFTLY)

449
00:24:27,584 --> 00:24:29,459
Alicia Drake,

450
00:24:29,793 --> 00:24:32,709
I believe it was you who called to me.

451
00:24:36,209 --> 00:24:38,209
(BREATHING SHARPLY)

452
00:24:39,834 --> 00:24:42,001
(BREATH QUIVERING) Too many spirits.

453
00:24:42,501 --> 00:24:45,793
This house is spilling with the dead.

454
00:24:46,876 --> 00:24:49,209
Some souls can't let go.

455
00:24:49,209 --> 00:24:50,543
Do we stop, Ms. Reynolds?

456
00:24:51,168 --> 00:24:52,168
No.

457
00:24:52,668 --> 00:24:56,584
If someone wants to be heard, we are here.

458
00:24:57,501 --> 00:24:58,501
Listening.

459
00:25:00,043 --> 00:25:04,459
Spirits, you scream and shout
and no one hears.

460
00:25:04,459 --> 00:25:05,834
We do now.

461
00:25:06,876 --> 00:25:08,459
Alicia Drake,

462
00:25:08,459 --> 00:25:10,959
find your voice. (BREATHING HEAVILY)

463
00:25:12,168 --> 00:25:14,543
It just got cold.
Does anyone else feel a chill?

464
00:25:14,543 --> 00:25:16,293
JOYCE: Is someone there?

465
00:25:21,876 --> 00:25:23,459
- (TYPEWRITER CLACKS)
- DESDEMONA: "Y."

466
00:25:23,876 --> 00:25:24,876
Yes.

467
00:25:25,626 --> 00:25:27,001
She didn't touch the key, I swear.

468
00:25:27,001 --> 00:25:29,293
MAXIME: She must have.
You can't all be such fools.

469
00:25:29,293 --> 00:25:31,043
OLGA: This is wrong. This is very wrong.

470
00:25:31,043 --> 00:25:32,543
Who is there?

471
00:25:32,543 --> 00:25:34,084
Alicia Drake.

472
00:25:34,084 --> 00:25:36,084
Listening.

473
00:25:36,084 --> 00:25:37,459
We are here.

474
00:25:38,001 --> 00:25:39,293
Listening.

475
00:25:39,751 --> 00:25:41,459
It is the hallow tide.

476
00:25:41,459 --> 00:25:42,668
We are close.

477
00:25:42,668 --> 00:25:44,459
Your spirit is close,

478
00:25:44,459 --> 00:25:46,751
- your voice is loud.
- (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

479
00:25:48,584 --> 00:25:50,376
- Alicia.
- (TYPEWRITER CLACKS)

480
00:25:50,376 --> 00:25:51,584
DESDEMONA: "A." Alicia.

481
00:25:51,584 --> 00:25:54,418
JOYCE: Alicia, I feel you are in pain.

482
00:25:54,418 --> 00:25:56,626
Does it hurt? Please, tell me.

483
00:25:57,834 --> 00:26:00,209
- Did someone hurt you?
- (TYPEWRITER CLACKS)

484
00:26:00,209 --> 00:26:01,293
- DESDEMONA: Yes.
- HERCULE: No!

485
00:26:02,251 --> 00:26:03,751
Poirot, let her finish!

486
00:26:03,751 --> 00:26:05,793
- No! First, let us meet...
- (SIGHS)

487
00:26:05,793 --> 00:26:09,084
...a secret confederate in the chimney.

488
00:26:09,084 --> 00:26:10,709
(GRUNTING)

489
00:26:10,709 --> 00:26:12,334
Nicholas, are you hurt?

490
00:26:12,334 --> 00:26:13,584
I'm all right.

491
00:26:13,584 --> 00:26:17,459
HERCULE: Ah, Nicholas.
The second assistant.

492
00:26:17,459 --> 00:26:18,793
I am pleased to meet you.

493
00:26:18,793 --> 00:26:22,418
By your similar and piercing green eyes,

494
00:26:22,418 --> 00:26:25,584
I take you for the first
assistant's half-brother.

495
00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:28,834
Ah, a magnetic switch.

496
00:26:30,626 --> 00:26:33,043
<i>Et voilà,</i> the talking typewriter.

497
00:26:33,043 --> 00:26:34,668
- A fake?
- Mrs. Seminoff,

498
00:26:34,668 --> 00:26:36,918
your dedication to housekeeping
could be improved.

499
00:26:36,918 --> 00:26:38,168
No one had been in this room except you,

500
00:26:38,168 --> 00:26:41,084
yet my new friend left
his footstep in the fireplace.

501
00:26:41,084 --> 00:26:44,293
The bright scratch at the keyhole
indicates a lock recently picked.

502
00:26:44,793 --> 00:26:46,793
Ms. Oliver, you must find
a new subject for your book.

503
00:26:46,793 --> 00:26:48,834
Ms. Drake, I am sorry for your loss,

504
00:26:48,834 --> 00:26:51,251
but this oracle is a fake.

505
00:26:51,251 --> 00:26:52,793
(FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING)

506
00:26:53,834 --> 00:26:55,626
(JOYCE SCREAMING)

507
00:26:58,501 --> 00:27:00,209
(JOYCE CONTINUES SCREAMING)

508
00:27:01,043 --> 00:27:03,501
- (SCREECHING)
- (CONTINUES SCREAMING)

509
00:27:12,418 --> 00:27:14,126
(DEMONIC ROAR)

510
00:27:14,126 --> 00:27:15,209
(LOW GROWLING)

511
00:27:15,626 --> 00:27:17,418
- Where's Baba?
- JOYCE: (STRAINED) Alicia.

512
00:27:17,418 --> 00:27:18,793
- Did someone take him?
- (JOYCE SCREAMING)

513
00:27:18,793 --> 00:27:20,626
- Did you?
- I didn't touch anything.

514
00:27:21,251 --> 00:27:22,418
(CONTINUES SCREAMING)

515
00:27:28,001 --> 00:27:29,418
Alicia.

516
00:27:30,418 --> 00:27:31,501
Mama.

517
00:27:31,876 --> 00:27:32,959
(GASPS)

518
00:27:34,376 --> 00:27:35,376
(IN ALICIA'S VOICE) Mama?

519
00:27:36,126 --> 00:27:37,834
(BREATH TREMBLING)

520
00:27:37,834 --> 00:27:38,918
(IN NORMAL VOICE) Thirsty.

521
00:27:40,001 --> 00:27:41,001
So...

522
00:27:41,001 --> 00:27:42,209
(IN ALICIA'S VOICE) Thirsty.

523
00:27:43,293 --> 00:27:44,293
Alicia?

524
00:27:45,376 --> 00:27:46,376
(SOBBING)

525
00:27:47,376 --> 00:27:48,793
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
Hurt.

526
00:27:50,043 --> 00:27:51,668
(IN ALICIA'S VOICE)
Why would you leave me?

527
00:27:51,668 --> 00:27:52,751
No.

528
00:27:52,751 --> 00:27:53,876
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

529
00:27:53,876 --> 00:27:55,168
(IN NORMAL VOICE)
I don't want...

530
00:27:55,168 --> 00:27:56,668
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
I don't...

531
00:27:56,668 --> 00:27:58,209
(IN ALICIA'S VOICE)
...want to die.

532
00:27:58,209 --> 00:28:00,168
- What is happening?
- (CHAIR SQUEAKING)

533
00:28:00,168 --> 00:28:01,334
(IN NORMAL VOICE)
Alicia

534
00:28:01,751 --> 00:28:03,251
showing me.

535
00:28:03,251 --> 00:28:04,418
I see her

536
00:28:04,876 --> 00:28:06,251
on the balcony.

537
00:28:06,251 --> 00:28:07,334
Not alone.

538
00:28:07,834 --> 00:28:09,209
She didn't jump.

539
00:28:09,209 --> 00:28:11,709
(LOUDLY) Murderer!

540
00:28:11,709 --> 00:28:14,501
(IN ALICIA'S VOICE)
You killed me. You killed me.

541
00:28:14,501 --> 00:28:15,584
(IN NORMAL VOICE) Who?

542
00:28:16,834 --> 00:28:18,709
Show me. Who?

543
00:28:18,709 --> 00:28:22,043
(IN ALICIA'S VOICE)
You killed me! You killed me!

544
00:28:22,043 --> 00:28:23,126
You killed me!

545
00:28:23,126 --> 00:28:24,543
(IN NORMAL VOICE)
Who hurt you?

546
00:28:24,543 --> 00:28:26,043
(IN ALICIA'S VOICE)
You killed me!

547
00:28:26,043 --> 00:28:27,126
You killed me!

548
00:28:27,126 --> 00:28:28,209
(IN NORMAL VOICE) Show me!

549
00:28:28,209 --> 00:28:29,418
(IN ALICIA'S VOICE)
You killed me!

550
00:28:29,418 --> 00:28:30,501
(IN NORMAL VOICE)
Who hurt you?

551
00:28:30,501 --> 00:28:31,876
What happened?

552
00:28:33,126 --> 00:28:34,126
(IN ALICIA'S VOICE) Murder!

553
00:28:34,584 --> 00:28:35,959
(CHURCH BELL TOLLING)

554
00:28:45,709 --> 00:28:47,209
(CHURCH BELL CONTINUES TOLLING)

555
00:28:51,043 --> 00:28:53,043
(OLGA PRAYING IN LATIN)

556
00:28:58,626 --> 00:29:00,043
(IN ENGLISH) Satanic.

557
00:29:00,043 --> 00:29:01,709
She truly is unholy.

558
00:29:02,709 --> 00:29:04,126
It was Alicia's voice.

559
00:29:05,418 --> 00:29:06,793
Someone must have killed her.

560
00:29:07,543 --> 00:29:09,043
We can't prove any of it was real.

561
00:29:09,043 --> 00:29:11,168
- ARIADNE: Then, what was it?
- Showmanship.

562
00:29:11,168 --> 00:29:12,751
Theater. Catching us in a group hysteria.

563
00:29:12,751 --> 00:29:14,501
That wasn't <i>War of the Worlds</i>
on the radio.

564
00:29:14,501 --> 00:29:16,918
The damn doors blew open.
I can't explain it.

565
00:29:16,918 --> 00:29:18,001
ROWENA: I can.

566
00:29:18,668 --> 00:29:20,043
That was my daughter.

567
00:29:20,918 --> 00:29:22,459
- (THUNDER RUMBLING)
- (ARIADNE SCOFFS)

568
00:29:22,459 --> 00:29:23,668
Oh, no.

569
00:29:23,668 --> 00:29:25,834
Don't you dare leave without saying it.

570
00:29:25,834 --> 00:29:27,918
You saw what I saw,
and what you saw was...

571
00:29:27,918 --> 00:29:29,043
Was fake.

572
00:29:29,043 --> 00:29:31,918
Real. That woman is proof. Living proof.

573
00:29:31,918 --> 00:29:33,793
(GASPS) There's a title.

574
00:29:33,793 --> 00:29:36,668
Sure as hell, she's my next book,
and sure as hell, it's a hit.

575
00:29:36,668 --> 00:29:38,626
A big beer book.

576
00:29:38,626 --> 00:29:41,126
Good God, I have to start
writing right away.

577
00:29:41,126 --> 00:29:43,209
The woman who stumped Hercule Poirot.

578
00:29:43,209 --> 00:29:47,501
I admit I cannot solve all of her methods
in this moment, but of course I will.

579
00:29:47,501 --> 00:29:48,959
You won't. Come on.

580
00:29:48,959 --> 00:29:50,084
You should be relieved.

581
00:29:50,084 --> 00:29:54,209
And how incredible to believe,
to know the world has mystery.

582
00:29:54,209 --> 00:29:57,334
A God who cares enough
to make abiding souls.

583
00:29:57,334 --> 00:29:59,626
- After death comes...
- Nothing.

584
00:29:59,626 --> 00:30:01,001
Something.

585
00:30:02,626 --> 00:30:04,793
If there was a God, he would
not break his rule for her.

586
00:30:06,209 --> 00:30:07,418
(THUNDER RUMBLING)

587
00:30:14,043 --> 00:30:15,043
You're all right.

588
00:30:16,709 --> 00:30:18,543
I hope you'll be back tomorrow.

589
00:30:18,959 --> 00:30:21,334
Rowena made me promise
to sit for her again.

590
00:30:26,876 --> 00:30:31,251
And Miss Oliver says I should
prepare to be quite famous.

591
00:30:31,251 --> 00:30:33,001
VITALE: <i>Dottore,</i> I'll find us a boat.

592
00:30:33,001 --> 00:30:34,084
HERCULE: <i>Grazie.</i>

593
00:30:34,084 --> 00:30:36,834
These spirits were particularly savage.

594
00:30:36,834 --> 00:30:37,918
(HERCULE SCOFFS)

595
00:30:37,918 --> 00:30:40,293
Sittings always exact a price.

596
00:30:41,043 --> 00:30:42,501
As I'm sure do you.

597
00:30:43,709 --> 00:30:46,668
You are amongst frauds, the gifted one.

598
00:30:47,168 --> 00:30:48,584
I wish I was a fraud.

599
00:30:49,668 --> 00:30:52,251
- Be less painful.
- (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

600
00:30:52,251 --> 00:30:54,668
I think you know
something of this, <i>monsieur.</i>

601
00:30:55,168 --> 00:30:57,751
Someone dies and we comfort the grieving

602
00:30:57,751 --> 00:31:00,126
with secrets plain to us.

603
00:31:00,709 --> 00:31:03,709
Both creatures who speak for the dead,

604
00:31:04,084 --> 00:31:06,918
who know the dead too well, I think.

605
00:31:08,251 --> 00:31:09,876
Imagine... (SIGHS)

606
00:31:09,876 --> 00:31:13,126
a war nurse who hears ghosts,

607
00:31:14,251 --> 00:31:16,293
surrounded by screaming.

608
00:31:16,293 --> 00:31:17,584
(MUFFLED SCREAMING ECHOING)

609
00:31:17,584 --> 00:31:19,168
On her ward,

610
00:31:19,168 --> 00:31:20,709
inside her mind.

611
00:31:21,418 --> 00:31:25,376
Wave after wave of the dying and the dead.

612
00:31:26,501 --> 00:31:30,043
And the only thing that stopped the pain

613
00:31:30,043 --> 00:31:32,626
was telling the mourners what I heard.

614
00:31:32,626 --> 00:31:35,876
Ease their suffering as only I can.

615
00:31:38,043 --> 00:31:39,376
You'd begrudge that?

616
00:31:39,376 --> 00:31:43,751
You made a mother believe
her daughter's soul is in torment.

617
00:31:43,751 --> 00:31:45,251
This is not generous.

618
00:31:45,251 --> 00:31:46,709
Not gentle, not humble.

619
00:31:46,709 --> 00:31:48,001
I felt pain.

620
00:31:48,001 --> 00:31:49,418
I saw a murder...

621
00:31:49,418 --> 00:31:51,751
Did you see who killed Alicia Drake?

622
00:31:51,751 --> 00:31:54,001
It was not revealed. Maybe tomorrow.

623
00:31:54,001 --> 00:31:55,793
- A lucrative convenience.
- Why is this...?

624
00:31:55,793 --> 00:31:57,918
Terrors for children, Ms. Reynolds.

625
00:31:57,918 --> 00:31:59,418
You might learn from them.

626
00:32:00,793 --> 00:32:02,209
Children can suffer,

627
00:32:02,959 --> 00:32:04,793
as much as those orphans,

628
00:32:04,793 --> 00:32:08,876
and still laugh and play
and bob for apples.

629
00:32:08,876 --> 00:32:10,376
They're alive.

630
00:32:10,376 --> 00:32:11,793
(SCOFFS) But you...

631
00:32:12,168 --> 00:32:14,126
Death everywhere you went.

632
00:32:15,043 --> 00:32:16,501
All your life.

633
00:32:17,793 --> 00:32:18,959
Soldiers...

634
00:32:20,001 --> 00:32:21,001
Friends...

635
00:32:23,043 --> 00:32:24,043
Katherine.

636
00:32:28,459 --> 00:32:29,918
We shall not meet again.

637
00:32:32,209 --> 00:32:34,043
You persist that you are real.

638
00:32:34,793 --> 00:32:38,126
And if I'm not, who's getting hurt?

639
00:32:38,126 --> 00:32:40,751
Magic won't come unless you call it in,

640
00:32:40,751 --> 00:32:44,293
unless it really is all true.

641
00:32:52,251 --> 00:32:53,751
Lighten up, pal.

642
00:32:55,084 --> 00:32:56,418
You might have fun.

643
00:32:58,043 --> 00:32:59,668
I'd say to remember me,

644
00:33:01,418 --> 00:33:02,459
but you will.

645
00:33:02,459 --> 00:33:04,543
(CLOCK CHIMING IN DISTANCE)

646
00:33:08,376 --> 00:33:10,376
(CHIMING CONTINUES)

647
00:33:18,209 --> 00:33:19,709
(HISSING)

648
00:33:31,709 --> 00:33:33,418
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

649
00:34:03,501 --> 00:34:04,501
(HERCULE CHUCKLES)

650
00:34:23,084 --> 00:34:24,084
"Lighten up."

651
00:34:26,459 --> 00:34:28,084
(INHALES, EXHALES)

652
00:34:41,793 --> 00:34:43,584
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING HURRIEDLY)

653
00:34:44,459 --> 00:34:46,084
(STRAINED GRUNTING)

654
00:34:52,043 --> 00:34:53,876
(STRAINED GRUNTING CONTINUES)

655
00:35:10,084 --> 00:35:11,293
- VITALE: <i>Monsieur</i> Poirot!
- (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

656
00:35:11,293 --> 00:35:12,751
<i>Dottore!</i>

657
00:35:12,751 --> 00:35:13,959
<i>Monsieur</i> Poirot!

658
00:35:13,959 --> 00:35:15,959
<i>- Dottore!</i>
- (HERCULE GURGLING)

659
00:35:15,959 --> 00:35:17,168
(GAGGING)

660
00:35:17,168 --> 00:35:19,459
VITALE: <i>Monsieur</i> Poirot, can you hear me?

661
00:35:19,459 --> 00:35:20,626
Who did this?

662
00:35:21,709 --> 00:35:24,251
I left Ms. Reynolds...

663
00:35:26,126 --> 00:35:28,668
I stopped by the apples. Silly.

664
00:35:28,668 --> 00:35:29,751
(PANTING)

665
00:35:30,959 --> 00:35:32,168
I lifted my mask.

666
00:35:35,168 --> 00:35:36,501
It was her mask.

667
00:35:38,584 --> 00:35:40,001
Where is Ms. Reynolds?

668
00:35:40,459 --> 00:35:41,876
(WOMAN SCREAMING IN DISTANCE)

669
00:35:45,376 --> 00:35:46,459
MAXIME: What was that?

670
00:35:46,459 --> 00:35:47,543
- LESLIE: What's going on?
- LEOPOLD: What was that?

671
00:35:47,543 --> 00:35:48,876
- HERCULE: Was that her?
- MAXIME: What's happening?

672
00:35:51,584 --> 00:35:52,584
What?

673
00:35:53,334 --> 00:35:54,876
(SCREAMS)

674
00:35:54,876 --> 00:35:56,543
(CONTINUES SCREAMING)

675
00:36:00,084 --> 00:36:01,709
(ARIADNE CONTINUES SCREAMING)

676
00:36:05,334 --> 00:36:07,334
(ARIADNE CONTINUES SCREAMING IN DISTANCE)

677
00:36:15,834 --> 00:36:17,001
(THUNDER RUMBLING)

678
00:36:20,293 --> 00:36:21,751
VITALE: I will call my old station.

679
00:36:22,376 --> 00:36:23,668
I should know the man on duty.

680
00:36:26,876 --> 00:36:28,459
I thought my cupboards were bare.

681
00:36:28,459 --> 00:36:30,876
No, I scrounged up some tea
left from the party.

682
00:36:31,376 --> 00:36:33,793
Found your honey in the linen closet.

683
00:36:33,793 --> 00:36:34,876
<i>Merci.</i>

684
00:36:34,876 --> 00:36:36,959
(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

685
00:36:37,418 --> 00:36:38,459
Vitale Portfoglio.

686
00:36:38,459 --> 00:36:39,543
(IN ENGLISH) What do we do?

687
00:36:40,376 --> 00:36:41,501
She was our ticket.

688
00:36:43,251 --> 00:36:44,543
We'll get there without her.

689
00:36:45,043 --> 00:36:46,043
I promise.

690
00:36:46,043 --> 00:36:47,584
(VITALE SPEAKING IN ITALIAN)

691
00:36:47,584 --> 00:36:49,334
LESLIE: (IN ENGLISH)
None of you saw anyone on the stairs?

692
00:36:49,751 --> 00:36:51,251
Some things can't be seen.

693
00:36:51,251 --> 00:36:52,418
Maybe she jumped.

694
00:36:53,293 --> 00:36:54,293
She seemed the type.

695
00:36:54,293 --> 00:36:57,084
No. Not Ms. Reynolds. Never.

696
00:36:57,084 --> 00:36:58,543
She talked about a murder.

697
00:36:58,543 --> 00:36:59,626
She could have known something.

698
00:36:59,626 --> 00:37:01,418
You still think she's real?

699
00:37:01,418 --> 00:37:04,293
Please. She made up that murder idea
to impress a famous author

700
00:37:04,293 --> 00:37:06,251
and to bait the hook
on a new income stream.

701
00:37:06,251 --> 00:37:08,168
- Then, why is she dead?
- Gravity.

702
00:37:08,168 --> 00:37:10,334
She spoke in Alicia's voice.

703
00:37:10,334 --> 00:37:11,418
Don't look at me.

704
00:37:11,418 --> 00:37:13,459
I was being interrogated
by your lady writer.

705
00:37:13,459 --> 00:37:15,876
Ask her. Then, ask the doctor
where he was.

706
00:37:15,876 --> 00:37:17,793
Sick bastard already killed here once.

707
00:37:17,793 --> 00:37:20,209
OLGA: It wasn't either of them.
You know what it was.

708
00:37:20,834 --> 00:37:22,834
Hateful things live in this house.

709
00:37:22,834 --> 00:37:25,209
That woman called to them
and they answered.

710
00:37:27,376 --> 00:37:29,959
In the war, before she did sittings.

711
00:37:29,959 --> 00:37:31,626
Ms. Reynolds was in the British Army.

712
00:37:31,626 --> 00:37:34,126
She served with the camps at Malta.

713
00:37:34,126 --> 00:37:35,918
- She was a nurse.
- ROWENA: A nurse.

714
00:37:36,376 --> 00:37:37,834
The Children's Vendetta.

715
00:37:38,584 --> 00:37:40,126
- (SETS CUP ON TABLE LOUDLY)
- (RECEIVER CLICKS)

716
00:37:40,126 --> 00:37:41,584
The canals are not safe.

717
00:37:41,584 --> 00:37:43,543
We can't get a boat here
until the storm clears.

718
00:37:43,543 --> 00:37:44,626
When will that be?

719
00:37:44,626 --> 00:37:46,126
VITALE: It's out of
police control, <i>signora.</i>

720
00:37:46,126 --> 00:37:48,209
Well, I won't sit here and wait.

721
00:37:48,209 --> 00:37:50,959
I never spent the night
in this house before and I won't now.

722
00:37:50,959 --> 00:37:52,709
- (GATE RATTLING)
- (ARIADNE SCREAMS)

723
00:37:53,251 --> 00:37:54,626
- MAXIME: Hey!
- DESDEMONA: What's going on?

724
00:37:54,626 --> 00:37:56,043
NICHOLAS: Sir, you can't do this.

725
00:37:56,043 --> 00:37:57,501
MAXIME: You can't lock us in here.

726
00:37:57,501 --> 00:37:59,459
- ROWENA: What are you doing?
- You can't trap us here.

727
00:38:00,793 --> 00:38:01,793
(LOCK CLICKS)

728
00:38:03,084 --> 00:38:05,209
A medium boasts of having
a vision of murder.

729
00:38:05,209 --> 00:38:06,293
Now, she is dead.

730
00:38:06,293 --> 00:38:07,876
One of you felt her eyes upon you.

731
00:38:07,876 --> 00:38:09,584
Killed her, tried to kill me.

732
00:38:09,584 --> 00:38:11,668
No one should leave this place
until I know who.

733
00:38:12,084 --> 00:38:14,418
<i>Commissario,</i> stand here
and see these gates do not open.

734
00:38:14,418 --> 00:38:16,543
<i>Monsieur</i> Gerard, stand here
and watch the <i>commissario.</i>

735
00:38:16,543 --> 00:38:18,043
You suspect me? I was a cop.

736
00:38:18,043 --> 00:38:19,959
All the more reason to suspect you.

737
00:38:19,959 --> 00:38:21,209
They already killed tonight.

738
00:38:21,209 --> 00:38:22,876
You will all have your chance to speak.

739
00:38:22,876 --> 00:38:24,418
And call back the police.

740
00:38:24,918 --> 00:38:28,418
Tell them Hercule Poirot is on the case.

741
00:38:30,668 --> 00:38:32,709
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

742
00:38:32,709 --> 00:38:34,793
(FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING)

743
00:38:44,793 --> 00:38:46,168
ARIADNE: Oh, is this where she...?

744
00:38:48,376 --> 00:38:49,626
The attempt on my life occurred

745
00:38:49,626 --> 00:38:53,793
at approximately two minutes
after the chime of midnight.

746
00:38:53,793 --> 00:38:57,168
You were the first
to find the body at, uh...?

747
00:38:57,168 --> 00:38:59,918
Don't you dare look at me
like a murder suspect.

748
00:38:59,918 --> 00:39:01,084
We're old friends.

749
00:39:01,709 --> 00:39:03,751
Every murderer is somebody's old friend.

750
00:39:04,084 --> 00:39:06,126
But you have written
too many clever murders

751
00:39:06,126 --> 00:39:07,668
to fall at the foot of your first victim.

752
00:39:07,668 --> 00:39:12,043
And you are so far viably alibied
by the chef, for the time,

753
00:39:12,043 --> 00:39:14,918
which is why I shall now ask you
to assist me in my investigation.

754
00:39:14,918 --> 00:39:18,001
- When do we start?
- When you collect for me our host.

755
00:39:23,334 --> 00:39:24,709
I knew you were in there somewhere.

756
00:39:24,709 --> 00:39:27,084
All it took was a corpse and look at you.

757
00:39:27,084 --> 00:39:29,043
Hercule Poirot all over again.

758
00:39:30,626 --> 00:39:31,709
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

759
00:39:34,918 --> 00:39:36,126
Baba the Rabbit?

760
00:39:36,959 --> 00:39:37,959
Poirot!

761
00:39:38,626 --> 00:39:40,001
How the hell?

762
00:39:40,418 --> 00:39:41,709
(SOFT SQUEAK)

763
00:39:45,501 --> 00:39:46,501
(GASPS)

764
00:39:49,376 --> 00:39:50,626
ROWENA: Baba the Rabbit?

765
00:39:51,584 --> 00:39:52,584
Are you sure?

766
00:39:53,834 --> 00:39:55,668
Under that mess of paintings?

767
00:39:55,668 --> 00:39:58,209
Where were you when Ms. Reynolds...?

768
00:39:58,209 --> 00:39:59,751
We were in the music room.

769
00:39:59,751 --> 00:40:01,084
And when was that?

770
00:40:01,084 --> 00:40:03,709
Midnight, just before.

771
00:40:04,584 --> 00:40:05,959
And then you came running?

772
00:40:07,209 --> 00:40:09,834
If I may ask, what is directly
above this balcony?

773
00:40:11,001 --> 00:40:12,376
(THUNDER RUMBLING)

774
00:40:13,293 --> 00:40:15,501
ROWENA: The garden was
our secret hideaway.

775
00:40:17,293 --> 00:40:19,251
It was my daughter's favorite place.

776
00:40:20,043 --> 00:40:21,293
I let it all die.

777
00:40:23,126 --> 00:40:24,126
Our bees.

778
00:40:26,043 --> 00:40:27,084
We made honey.

779
00:40:28,084 --> 00:40:30,168
My daughter, she used to tease me.

780
00:40:30,834 --> 00:40:33,834
"All this effort
for a teaspoon of wildflower honey

781
00:40:33,834 --> 00:40:35,709
"that we can buy for six lira."

782
00:40:37,543 --> 00:40:39,584
I held hope they'd survive, but...

783
00:40:42,626 --> 00:40:43,626
Poor things.

784
00:40:44,251 --> 00:40:45,251
(METAL SCRAPING)

785
00:40:45,251 --> 00:40:48,376
How did you come to invite
Ms. Reynolds to your home?

786
00:40:48,376 --> 00:40:50,251
Couldn't we get out of the rain for this?

787
00:40:50,251 --> 00:40:53,459
Oh, <i>mais non,</i> let us enjoy
this secret garden.

788
00:40:53,459 --> 00:40:55,918
Well, I read about her in a magazine.

789
00:40:55,918 --> 00:40:57,126
I didn't think much of it.

790
00:40:57,126 --> 00:41:00,334
And then, out of the blue
one day, she wrote to me.

791
00:41:01,043 --> 00:41:02,251
HERCULE: A letter from a stranger.

792
00:41:02,251 --> 00:41:04,751
But she would know you from the opera, no?

793
00:41:04,751 --> 00:41:06,918
ROWENA: But it was the name she used.

794
00:41:07,501 --> 00:41:10,001
She said that she heard
a message from Aspasia.

795
00:41:11,209 --> 00:41:12,459
That...

796
00:41:12,459 --> 00:41:14,834
That was a pet name
that she used to use for me.

797
00:41:14,834 --> 00:41:18,501
Aspasia, the great love
of the King of Pontus

798
00:41:18,501 --> 00:41:19,584
from <i>Mitridate.</i>

799
00:41:19,584 --> 00:41:20,918
It was Mozart's first opera.

800
00:41:20,918 --> 00:41:22,418
It was my first starring role.

801
00:41:23,376 --> 00:41:25,751
Alicia was born two months before, and...

802
00:41:28,251 --> 00:41:30,168
I found my voice because of her.

803
00:41:34,376 --> 00:41:35,751
And ever since,

804
00:41:37,251 --> 00:41:42,543
I can't sing without knowing
that she's waiting in my dressing room.

805
00:41:43,376 --> 00:41:44,376
I still can't.

806
00:41:44,376 --> 00:41:46,334
You will never perform again?

807
00:41:46,959 --> 00:41:49,209
There is no music without her.

808
00:41:51,043 --> 00:41:54,043
I turned down marriage proposals
without even a thought.

809
00:41:56,043 --> 00:41:59,126
She said yes to her first.

810
00:41:59,584 --> 00:42:01,918
To the charming chef Maxime Gerard.

811
00:42:02,376 --> 00:42:05,751
He is a pompous ass out to marry
the biggest purse he can find.

812
00:42:08,251 --> 00:42:09,751
When they got engaged,

813
00:42:11,418 --> 00:42:13,126
I tore out every flower in the garden

814
00:42:13,126 --> 00:42:15,001
and I got on a boat to Istanbul.

815
00:42:15,751 --> 00:42:18,834
But he must have found
that I wasn't as rich as he'd thought.

816
00:42:20,043 --> 00:42:21,959
One of the best days
of my life was when he said

817
00:42:21,959 --> 00:42:23,584
that he had met someone else.

818
00:42:23,584 --> 00:42:25,209
And that he called the whole thing off.

819
00:42:28,376 --> 00:42:31,418
But that's when the worst days started.

820
00:42:31,418 --> 00:42:32,626
Her illness.

821
00:42:33,584 --> 00:42:35,251
Her mind was on fire.

822
00:42:38,043 --> 00:42:40,751
(BREATH TREMBLING)
She was like a little girl again.

823
00:42:45,459 --> 00:42:46,543
Thank you, Ms. Drake.

824
00:42:47,584 --> 00:42:48,584
Ms. Oliver.

825
00:42:52,376 --> 00:42:53,876
(RATTLING)

826
00:42:55,293 --> 00:42:57,126
OLGA: I'm a terrible housekeeper.

827
00:42:57,501 --> 00:42:58,834
I'm all she could get.

828
00:43:00,001 --> 00:43:01,293
Superstitious city.

829
00:43:02,293 --> 00:43:04,084
But you are superstitious, too.

830
00:43:04,084 --> 00:43:07,543
This palazzo you believe is haunted, yes?

831
00:43:08,543 --> 00:43:11,501
Ms. Rowena may own it,
but the spirits possess it.

832
00:43:11,501 --> 00:43:13,293
HERCULE: And where were you,
<i>Madame</i> Seminoff,

833
00:43:13,293 --> 00:43:17,751
when these murderous ghosts turned
Joyce Reynolds into one of their own?

834
00:43:18,334 --> 00:43:20,084
Make light, go on.

835
00:43:21,376 --> 00:43:23,334
Why do you ask all these questions?

836
00:43:23,834 --> 00:43:24,876
I did nothing wrong.

837
00:43:24,876 --> 00:43:27,334
It's what he does.
(WHISPERING) Or used to do.

838
00:43:28,001 --> 00:43:30,543
I'm helping him, you know,
he's back at it for the moment.

839
00:43:31,876 --> 00:43:32,876
It's going well.

840
00:43:33,459 --> 00:43:34,834
What is it that you do?

841
00:43:35,626 --> 00:43:36,834
What is it that I do?

842
00:43:37,459 --> 00:43:38,668
Um...

843
00:43:38,668 --> 00:43:40,709
When a crime has been committed,

844
00:43:40,709 --> 00:43:43,959
I can, by application of order and method

845
00:43:43,959 --> 00:43:46,668
and the slow extinguishing of my own soul,

846
00:43:46,668 --> 00:43:49,668
find without fail or doubt, whodunit.

847
00:43:50,293 --> 00:43:51,418
Like in your books,

848
00:43:51,751 --> 00:43:53,834
your silly detective from Finland,

849
00:43:53,834 --> 00:43:55,209
he's making lists.

850
00:43:57,001 --> 00:43:58,668
Do you base yourself on her writing?

851
00:43:59,918 --> 00:44:02,001
(CLEARS THROAT) Would you mind telling us

852
00:44:02,001 --> 00:44:03,834
where you were at midnight?

853
00:44:03,834 --> 00:44:04,918
(WHISPERS) For the lists.

854
00:44:04,918 --> 00:44:07,543
In the music room with Ms. Rowena.

855
00:44:07,543 --> 00:44:10,959
And she joined you there at midnight.

856
00:44:10,959 --> 00:44:13,043
You are absolutely sure of this?

857
00:44:13,043 --> 00:44:16,209
I was watching the clock
and was grateful that she did.

858
00:44:16,209 --> 00:44:19,001
But you did not approve
of the fortune teller.

859
00:44:19,584 --> 00:44:24,084
I believe you called her "satanic." Um...

860
00:44:24,084 --> 00:44:28,793
Your mind goes, perhaps to, um, Exodus

861
00:44:29,501 --> 00:44:30,793
22:18?

862
00:44:31,918 --> 00:44:33,834
(SPEAKING LATIN)

863
00:44:33,834 --> 00:44:36,793
HERCULE: (IN ENGLISH)
"Do not suffer a sorceress to live."

864
00:44:36,793 --> 00:44:38,793
The Bible warns against it with reason.

865
00:44:39,168 --> 00:44:42,251
- A witch on her Sabbath, huh?
- Oh.

866
00:44:42,251 --> 00:44:44,209
To be drowned or burned

867
00:44:44,209 --> 00:44:46,418
or thrown off a high balcony?

868
00:44:46,418 --> 00:44:47,626
No, I am no vigilante.

869
00:44:47,626 --> 00:44:49,209
But your scripture is keen.

870
00:44:49,209 --> 00:44:51,709
No less than a strict Vulgate Latin.

871
00:44:51,709 --> 00:44:53,793
Not the product of a parochial school,

872
00:44:53,793 --> 00:44:58,209
but perhaps a convent.

873
00:45:03,126 --> 00:45:06,084
I found my call to be a nun
before I could read.

874
00:45:07,584 --> 00:45:11,418
I wore the habit nine years
at <i>Ospedale della Pietà.</i>

875
00:45:14,459 --> 00:45:15,501
And then...

876
00:45:17,334 --> 00:45:19,168
And then I met Mr. Seminoff.

877
00:45:19,168 --> 00:45:20,834
He came to fix the roof.

878
00:45:24,209 --> 00:45:25,584
God sets challenges.

879
00:45:25,584 --> 00:45:27,334
You fell in love and forgot God.

880
00:45:27,334 --> 00:45:28,834
No, it's not that simple.

881
00:45:29,709 --> 00:45:30,834
HERCULE: One final question.

882
00:45:30,834 --> 00:45:33,876
For the lists, of course. Um...

883
00:45:33,876 --> 00:45:36,043
(GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN
FAINTLY IN DISTANCE)

884
00:45:48,334 --> 00:45:50,959
<i>Pardon,</i> I believed I heard something.

885
00:45:52,334 --> 00:45:54,751
You who fear the dark arts so,

886
00:45:54,918 --> 00:45:57,668
why would you even attend a séance?

887
00:45:58,501 --> 00:46:02,084
An abominated act here at night,
when you are loath to remain?

888
00:46:04,251 --> 00:46:06,168
There's only one to whom I must answer.

889
00:46:08,876 --> 00:46:09,959
And that is not you.

890
00:46:12,043 --> 00:46:13,584
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

891
00:46:13,584 --> 00:46:15,459
(WATER DRIPPING)

892
00:46:23,251 --> 00:46:24,251
Poirot.

893
00:46:33,709 --> 00:46:37,584
Mrs. Olga Seminoff, as a nun,
what was your saint's name?

894
00:46:38,668 --> 00:46:39,668
Maria.

895
00:46:49,126 --> 00:46:51,209
You won't get far on a broken leg.

896
00:46:58,418 --> 00:47:00,459
LESLIE: Jagged weapon. Not too sharp.

897
00:47:02,293 --> 00:47:03,293
Nails, maybe.

898
00:47:03,293 --> 00:47:05,543
And no other marks on her.

899
00:47:05,543 --> 00:47:07,459
Other than the obvious.

900
00:47:08,293 --> 00:47:09,543
- (SUITCASE CLATTERS)
- Oh.

901
00:47:12,959 --> 00:47:14,668
(OBJECTS CLATTERING)

902
00:47:15,834 --> 00:47:18,501
HERCULE: Nothing else unusual
about her condition?

903
00:47:19,376 --> 00:47:21,543
LESLIE: Impaled on classical art
might be enough.

904
00:47:22,459 --> 00:47:24,334
But what of the left wrist?

905
00:47:24,459 --> 00:47:26,209
You ignore an injury,

906
00:47:26,626 --> 00:47:29,084
as well as the precise time of death.

907
00:47:33,959 --> 00:47:34,959
(GLASS BREAKING)

908
00:47:35,668 --> 00:47:37,668
(BREATH TREMBLING)

909
00:47:39,084 --> 00:47:40,084
Missed that.

910
00:47:43,376 --> 00:47:44,376
You're staring at me.

911
00:47:47,001 --> 00:47:48,001
Stop!

912
00:47:49,084 --> 00:47:50,418
You think I'm a loony?

913
00:47:50,918 --> 00:47:51,918
I'm not!

914
00:47:52,709 --> 00:47:53,709
LEOPOLD: Dad.

915
00:47:54,834 --> 00:47:56,334
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

916
00:47:56,668 --> 00:47:57,751
Are you all right?

917
00:47:59,668 --> 00:48:00,668
Yeah.

918
00:48:01,168 --> 00:48:02,626
Just up here if you need me.

919
00:48:03,126 --> 00:48:04,126
LESLIE: Mmm-hmm.

920
00:48:10,001 --> 00:48:11,543
Really wish you hadn't asked me.

921
00:48:13,043 --> 00:48:15,626
Battle scars are not always of the body.

922
00:48:17,293 --> 00:48:18,293
You served?

923
00:48:21,751 --> 00:48:24,168
15th of April, '45.

924
00:48:25,251 --> 00:48:27,209
It was all supposed to be over.

925
00:48:28,501 --> 00:48:30,209
We crossed the Rhine,

926
00:48:30,709 --> 00:48:32,543
east in the push for Berlin.

927
00:48:34,834 --> 00:48:37,168
Found the gates at the camp
at Bergen-Belsen.

928
00:48:37,168 --> 00:48:38,334
Oh, God.

929
00:48:38,834 --> 00:48:39,918
LESLIE: "Liberating."

930
00:48:40,834 --> 00:48:44,293
Nursing skeletons back to life.

931
00:48:46,084 --> 00:48:49,376
We killed two the first day with milk.
We didn't know.

932
00:48:51,084 --> 00:48:52,334
Then typhus.

933
00:48:53,918 --> 00:48:55,501
All we had was aspirin and opium.

934
00:48:58,834 --> 00:49:00,459
We burned down the huts.

935
00:49:05,084 --> 00:49:06,459
I wrote Leo a letter.

936
00:49:09,626 --> 00:49:11,918
And then shot myself through the chest.

937
00:49:16,793 --> 00:49:19,376
I was told to stop practicing
when I got home.

938
00:49:19,584 --> 00:49:23,584
Except for one patient last year.

939
00:49:24,084 --> 00:49:25,168
Alicia Drake.

940
00:49:26,543 --> 00:49:28,001
A favor to Rowena.

941
00:49:30,876 --> 00:49:32,334
Nobody else would see her.

942
00:49:33,001 --> 00:49:34,001
Not here.

943
00:49:35,626 --> 00:49:38,168
I'd been her family doctor so long,
I should have said no.

944
00:49:38,168 --> 00:49:40,543
But you were at a disadvantage there.

945
00:49:41,751 --> 00:49:44,126
Because you are in love with Rowena Drake.

946
00:49:44,626 --> 00:49:46,376
Lucky to be in her life at all.

947
00:49:48,459 --> 00:49:49,501
I...

948
00:49:50,001 --> 00:49:51,543
I know this has been...

949
00:49:51,543 --> 00:49:53,626
(GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN
FAINTLY IN DISTANCE)

950
00:49:56,209 --> 00:50:00,543
I know this has been difficult,
but in your opinion,

951
00:50:01,209 --> 00:50:02,959
could Alicia Drake have been murdered?

952
00:50:04,043 --> 00:50:06,001
Alicia told me what she saw.

953
00:50:07,126 --> 00:50:09,501
She said the children were taunting her.

954
00:50:10,001 --> 00:50:11,168
I didn't listen.

955
00:50:11,168 --> 00:50:12,709
I wrote it off as a broken heart

956
00:50:12,709 --> 00:50:14,168
when she was going mad.

957
00:50:16,001 --> 00:50:17,334
She needed help.

958
00:50:19,251 --> 00:50:20,918
I gave her sedatives,

959
00:50:22,376 --> 00:50:24,626
like milk to the starving.

960
00:50:25,793 --> 00:50:28,084
There is no such thing
as psychic phenomena.

961
00:50:28,084 --> 00:50:30,834
There is psychic pain.

962
00:50:32,668 --> 00:50:34,543
A loony like me should have known.

963
00:50:39,251 --> 00:50:40,334
Are we through?

964
00:50:41,251 --> 00:50:42,251
HERCULE: Hmm.

965
00:50:44,959 --> 00:50:45,959
(CLICKS TONGUE)

966
00:50:47,543 --> 00:50:48,668
Um...

967
00:50:49,168 --> 00:50:50,501
<i>Merci,</i> Doctor Ferrier.

968
00:50:58,043 --> 00:50:59,043
(SNIFFLES)

969
00:50:59,043 --> 00:51:01,126
- (BREATH TREMBLING)
- (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

970
00:51:07,626 --> 00:51:09,626
(AIR HISSING FROM TAP)

971
00:51:13,876 --> 00:51:15,584
(SLOW, DRY RUMBLING)

972
00:51:23,751 --> 00:51:25,043
(RUMBLING STOPS)

973
00:51:25,876 --> 00:51:27,084
(DROPLET DRIPS)

974
00:51:43,084 --> 00:51:45,084
- (FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING)
- (GASPS)

975
00:51:49,418 --> 00:51:51,209
(TAP RUNNING)

976
00:51:57,126 --> 00:51:58,168
(WINCES)

977
00:52:05,209 --> 00:52:07,001
I suppose I'm nowhere on your list.

978
00:52:08,626 --> 00:52:10,084
Of who to interview.

979
00:52:11,501 --> 00:52:13,001
I'll wait, sir.

980
00:52:14,168 --> 00:52:16,876
{\an8}The terrifying Edgar Allan Poe.

981
00:52:17,376 --> 00:52:19,959
For a boy your age, it is not better

982
00:52:19,959 --> 00:52:22,209
perhaps, Charles Dickens?

983
00:52:22,209 --> 00:52:24,209
He's a bit silly. Don't you think?

984
00:52:24,209 --> 00:52:25,293
(DOOR SLAMS OPEN)

985
00:52:27,543 --> 00:52:29,251
My father's jumpy like you.

986
00:52:29,959 --> 00:52:33,001
They call it war neurosis. Battle fatigue.

987
00:52:33,876 --> 00:52:35,168
I think that's unfair.

988
00:52:36,084 --> 00:52:37,293
He's not tired.

989
00:52:37,834 --> 00:52:38,834
He's broken.

990
00:52:40,543 --> 00:52:42,334
He was with me at midnight,
if you were wondering.

991
00:52:44,043 --> 00:52:46,834
I was wondering, I admit.

992
00:52:46,834 --> 00:52:48,084
With you at midnight, yes?

993
00:52:48,084 --> 00:52:50,084
In the kitchen, waiting for Ms. Rowena.

994
00:52:51,043 --> 00:52:52,376
He wanted to say good night.

995
00:52:52,376 --> 00:52:53,543
Of course.

996
00:52:54,001 --> 00:52:56,126
Her assistants came in just after,

997
00:52:56,126 --> 00:52:58,126
so they're still on your list.

998
00:52:58,751 --> 00:53:01,168
- Everyone is on my list.
- (TAPS RUNNING)

999
00:53:01,584 --> 00:53:02,834
You left on the taps.

1000
00:53:04,543 --> 00:53:05,543
Oh, I...

1001
00:53:10,501 --> 00:53:13,709
I am afraid, I do not know myself tonight.

1002
00:53:14,293 --> 00:53:15,459
You're feeling things.

1003
00:53:15,751 --> 00:53:16,751
Hmm?

1004
00:53:17,126 --> 00:53:18,126
Voices.

1005
00:53:19,626 --> 00:53:21,168
It's All Hallows' Eve.

1006
00:53:22,418 --> 00:53:25,209
The dead are as close as they can be.

1007
00:53:26,959 --> 00:53:28,543
You were dead, too, sir.

1008
00:53:29,834 --> 00:53:31,668
Even if only for a moment.

1009
00:53:33,126 --> 00:53:35,001
They see you as one of their own.

1010
00:53:35,793 --> 00:53:39,084
One with something to say
would be wise to come to you.

1011
00:53:40,251 --> 00:53:42,293
You talk like Ms. Reynolds.

1012
00:53:42,293 --> 00:53:44,168
She only pretended to know.

1013
00:53:45,376 --> 00:53:46,959
No wonder they got cross with her.

1014
00:53:47,376 --> 00:53:49,459
You have much sympathy with the dead.

1015
00:53:49,459 --> 00:53:51,334
Some of them are my friends.

1016
00:53:53,709 --> 00:53:54,709
Excuse me.

1017
00:53:57,209 --> 00:53:58,751
<i>Merci, Monsieur</i> Leopold.

1018
00:53:58,751 --> 00:53:59,834
You're welcome.

1019
00:54:02,459 --> 00:54:03,459
ARIADNE: Hercules.

1020
00:54:07,084 --> 00:54:08,084
Jumpy.

1021
00:54:08,084 --> 00:54:10,584
Nicholas and Desdemona are ready.

1022
00:54:10,584 --> 00:54:12,668
(HERCULE BREATHING HEAVILY)

1023
00:54:13,001 --> 00:54:14,251
We can wait for the police.

1024
00:54:14,668 --> 00:54:16,459
- I am Hercule Poirot, no?
- No.

1025
00:54:16,459 --> 00:54:17,959
- Yes. Yes.
- Yes.

1026
00:54:17,959 --> 00:54:19,626
If the police can succeed where I cannot,

1027
00:54:19,626 --> 00:54:21,793
I will be the next one off
the balcony into the canal.

1028
00:54:21,793 --> 00:54:23,459
Back to his old self.

1029
00:54:23,459 --> 00:54:24,876
- What do you think so far?
- Well...

1030
00:54:24,876 --> 00:54:26,084
My money's on the housekeeper.

1031
00:54:26,084 --> 00:54:28,251
Good taste in books,
but brimstone fire burns hot.

1032
00:54:28,251 --> 00:54:30,459
And Rowena Drake needed the victim alive.

1033
00:54:30,834 --> 00:54:32,209
Although that little boy,

1034
00:54:32,834 --> 00:54:34,584
all the charm of chewing tinfoil.

1035
00:54:34,584 --> 00:54:35,668
Perhaps, perhaps.

1036
00:54:35,668 --> 00:54:39,209
Every theory aspires to fact
before the information is gathered.

1037
00:54:39,209 --> 00:54:40,293
Order and method.

1038
00:54:40,293 --> 00:54:41,626
- And lists.
- And lists.

1039
00:54:41,626 --> 00:54:43,876
We continue to those
who knew her best, her assistants.

1040
00:54:43,876 --> 00:54:45,626
Do you really think the help had motive?

1041
00:54:45,626 --> 00:54:46,876
The help always have motive,

1042
00:54:46,876 --> 00:54:48,834
first having to endure
to be called "the help."

1043
00:54:48,834 --> 00:54:50,001
(DOOR LOCK CLICKS)

1044
00:54:50,418 --> 00:54:51,709
(DOOR SQUEAKING)

1045
00:54:53,584 --> 00:54:55,001
(SIGHS) Him again.

1046
00:54:55,001 --> 00:54:56,793
Those two criminals are not to be trusted.

1047
00:54:56,793 --> 00:54:59,459
Criminals? Those children?
You might have mentioned that.

1048
00:54:59,459 --> 00:55:00,793
I'm telling you now.

1049
00:55:02,459 --> 00:55:04,209
(MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

1050
00:55:08,959 --> 00:55:10,501
Couldn't I do this with my sister?

1051
00:55:10,959 --> 00:55:13,084
Uh, she waits for you comfortably.

1052
00:55:13,418 --> 00:55:14,418
Where is my brother?

1053
00:55:14,418 --> 00:55:16,168
He waits for you comfortably.

1054
00:55:16,168 --> 00:55:18,876
Desdemona and Nicholas Holland.

1055
00:55:18,876 --> 00:55:20,501
{\an8}NICHOLAS: Our passports are forgeries.

1056
00:55:20,501 --> 00:55:21,793
Yes. And not very good ones.

1057
00:55:21,793 --> 00:55:24,293
Horvát Nipkin and Dorenia before.

1058
00:55:24,876 --> 00:55:26,209
- Born in Hungary.
- (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

1059
00:55:26,209 --> 00:55:28,334
Village burned out of existence.

1060
00:55:28,793 --> 00:55:30,459
Of all our family,

1061
00:55:31,001 --> 00:55:32,793
somehow we were still alive.

1062
00:55:33,334 --> 00:55:34,459
We took care of each other.

1063
00:55:34,459 --> 00:55:37,626
At midnight, we snuck a drink
in the kitchen.

1064
00:55:38,376 --> 00:55:39,668
The creepy kid was there.

1065
00:55:39,668 --> 00:55:41,709
HERCULE: He has you coming in
just after the hour.

1066
00:55:41,709 --> 00:55:42,834
He is mistaken.

1067
00:55:42,834 --> 00:55:45,043
HERCULE: And how long were you
in Ms. Reynolds' employ?

1068
00:55:45,043 --> 00:55:46,709
- Just over a year.
- HERCULE: You sure?

1069
00:55:46,709 --> 00:55:47,918
The best year we ever had.

1070
00:55:47,918 --> 00:55:50,626
We haven't been hungry
since we started fronting for her.

1071
00:55:50,626 --> 00:55:52,251
I don't know what we'll do without her.

1072
00:55:52,251 --> 00:55:54,459
- We managed before her.
- Oh, yes, you stole.

1073
00:55:54,834 --> 00:55:56,584
We were thieves, not murderers.

1074
00:55:56,584 --> 00:55:58,168
We did what we had to survive the war.

1075
00:55:58,168 --> 00:55:59,334
She just knew things.

1076
00:55:59,334 --> 00:56:01,793
And if she says Alicia Drake
was murdered...

1077
00:56:02,084 --> 00:56:03,084
Pure phony.

1078
00:56:03,084 --> 00:56:04,251
She was magic.

1079
00:56:05,001 --> 00:56:07,709
So, all of these séance
in which you participated...

1080
00:56:07,709 --> 00:56:09,168
- DESDEMONA: It was fake. Fake.
- Fake?

1081
00:56:09,168 --> 00:56:10,918
- They were fake, the spirit meetings?
- It was all fake.

1082
00:56:10,918 --> 00:56:12,834
- All of the séances?
- It was all a show.

1083
00:56:12,834 --> 00:56:14,959
All a show, a fake. Mmm, strange.

1084
00:56:14,959 --> 00:56:16,709
And is this magic too?

1085
00:56:16,709 --> 00:56:18,668
The control for your talking typewriter?

1086
00:56:19,418 --> 00:56:21,126
I mean, we'd set some tricks.

1087
00:56:21,126 --> 00:56:23,501
Only to drive home
the reality of her visions.

1088
00:56:24,126 --> 00:56:26,001
She ordered me around like a duchess

1089
00:56:26,001 --> 00:56:28,668
and flirted with Nicholas
to keep him in line.

1090
00:56:29,418 --> 00:56:30,626
We have put up with worse.

1091
00:56:30,626 --> 00:56:33,543
"We'll get there without her."

1092
00:56:34,043 --> 00:56:35,668
Where were you running off to?

1093
00:56:35,668 --> 00:56:37,793
- We're going to Missouri.
- Missouri.

1094
00:56:37,793 --> 00:56:38,876
Missouri?

1095
00:56:39,543 --> 00:56:42,001
We were hiding in the Murrhardt Forest.

1096
00:56:42,501 --> 00:56:44,959
Living on weeds and mice.

1097
00:56:45,459 --> 00:56:47,126
The American trucks,
they came through Heilbronn

1098
00:56:47,126 --> 00:56:49,001
and I thought we're dead
when they caught us.

1099
00:56:49,001 --> 00:56:51,126
They taught us the Lindy Hop.

1100
00:56:51,626 --> 00:56:53,668
We'd never seen anything like them before.

1101
00:56:54,168 --> 00:56:57,418
This mix of men,
their colors and their voices.

1102
00:56:58,459 --> 00:57:00,376
One of them tacked up this sheet.

1103
00:57:00,376 --> 00:57:03,168
They had a film projector,
but only half a movie.

1104
00:57:03,584 --> 00:57:08,834
We used to watch
half of <i>Meet Me in St. Louis</i>

1105
00:57:08,834 --> 00:57:11,834
every night on an army sheet for a month.

1106
00:57:11,834 --> 00:57:14,459
DESDEMONA: We watched it over and over.

1107
00:57:15,293 --> 00:57:16,709
I still don't how it ends.

1108
00:57:16,709 --> 00:57:18,543
Oh, it's a...

1109
00:57:18,543 --> 00:57:20,543
It ends happily. (CLEARS THROAT)

1110
00:57:21,043 --> 00:57:22,834
"St. Louis, Missouri."

1111
00:57:24,418 --> 00:57:27,001
Just saying those words
could get my sister to fall asleep.

1112
00:57:27,543 --> 00:57:28,751
It was the color.

1113
00:57:30,293 --> 00:57:31,959
It was the beautiful people.

1114
00:57:31,959 --> 00:57:34,043
You know, it was, no one was sick.

1115
00:57:34,376 --> 00:57:37,334
No one was starving or dying.

1116
00:57:38,834 --> 00:57:41,376
5135 Kensington Avenue.

1117
00:57:42,751 --> 00:57:44,376
That's where we decided to live.

1118
00:57:45,418 --> 00:57:47,543
It's her dream so it's mine too.

1119
00:57:47,543 --> 00:57:51,709
We only had to endure the duchess
until we had enough to buy our way in.

1120
00:57:52,251 --> 00:57:53,376
And start over.

1121
00:57:54,334 --> 00:57:55,959
Stupid to have a dream.

1122
00:57:56,668 --> 00:57:57,959
But impatient with your dream,

1123
00:57:57,959 --> 00:58:00,418
you grew brazen
and skimmed from her proceeds.

1124
00:58:01,168 --> 00:58:03,084
"Clang, clang, clang, went the trolley."

1125
00:58:03,084 --> 00:58:04,376
What? No, we didn't.

1126
00:58:04,376 --> 00:58:07,043
- Your brother already admits that you did.
- Idiot.

1127
00:58:07,043 --> 00:58:08,626
Your sister already admits that you did.

1128
00:58:08,626 --> 00:58:10,834
Not from Ms. Reynolds. We wouldn't.

1129
00:58:10,834 --> 00:58:13,876
Perhaps she discovered
your theft and made threats.

1130
00:58:13,876 --> 00:58:15,834
Perhaps you had had enough experience

1131
00:58:15,834 --> 00:58:18,543
of the police's cruel treatment
of stateless Romani urchins,

1132
00:58:18,709 --> 00:58:21,709
and, wishing to avoid deportation,
or worse, killed her.

1133
00:58:21,709 --> 00:58:23,001
You, the trusted help.

1134
00:58:26,334 --> 00:58:27,334
(GRUNTS)

1135
00:58:27,334 --> 00:58:28,418
Nicholas!

1136
00:58:28,543 --> 00:58:29,751
Nicholas, where are you?

1137
00:58:30,959 --> 00:58:32,959
(SHRIEKS, GRUNTS)

1138
00:58:33,626 --> 00:58:35,459
If I'm trapped here, so are you.

1139
00:58:35,959 --> 00:58:37,293
(THUNDER RUMBLING)

1140
00:58:43,251 --> 00:58:44,793
Doesn't mean that I killed her.

1141
00:58:44,793 --> 00:58:46,584
Damn well ran like she did.

1142
00:58:46,584 --> 00:58:49,084
Clear motive, both unaccounted
for at her time of death.

1143
00:58:49,084 --> 00:58:50,209
I'm changing my guess.

1144
00:58:50,209 --> 00:58:53,251
It is certainly possible. Yes. Yes.

1145
00:58:54,209 --> 00:58:55,709
You're doing that thing
where you pretend to know

1146
00:58:55,709 --> 00:58:56,918
more than everyone else in the world.

1147
00:58:56,918 --> 00:58:58,001
I as yet know nothing.

1148
00:58:58,001 --> 00:59:00,418
The truth does not come
without a tax of effort.

1149
00:59:01,418 --> 00:59:04,626
You woke the bear from his sleep.
You cannot cry when he tangos.

1150
00:59:04,626 --> 00:59:06,209
That's not an expression in any language.

1151
00:59:06,209 --> 00:59:07,376
We continue.

1152
00:59:08,501 --> 00:59:10,501
(GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN
FAINTLY IN DISTANCE)

1153
00:59:14,168 --> 00:59:16,168
(SINGING GROWS LOUDER)

1154
00:59:18,459 --> 00:59:19,626
Can you hear this?

1155
00:59:20,876 --> 00:59:21,918
All around us.

1156
00:59:22,834 --> 00:59:23,959
VITALE: I heard nothing.

1157
00:59:25,793 --> 00:59:28,043
DESDEMONA: Your investigator
has poached his egg.

1158
00:59:29,584 --> 00:59:30,918
ARIADNE: (SIGHS) Poirot.

1159
00:59:30,918 --> 00:59:33,584
A bang to the head might be
your limit for tonight.

1160
00:59:33,584 --> 00:59:34,668
(SINGING STOPS)

1161
00:59:34,668 --> 00:59:36,251
Someone else is in this house.

1162
00:59:39,001 --> 00:59:40,168
Did you hear it?

1163
00:59:41,501 --> 00:59:42,501
Yes.

1164
00:59:43,501 --> 00:59:44,626
Me and you, then.

1165
00:59:46,793 --> 00:59:48,459
Listening.

1166
00:59:51,293 --> 00:59:52,293
Wait.

1167
00:59:54,334 --> 00:59:56,334
(TELEPHONE RINGING)

1168
01:00:05,626 --> 01:00:07,626
(STATIC CRACKLING)

1169
01:00:09,834 --> 01:00:10,834
Still dead.

1170
01:00:18,918 --> 01:00:20,834
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

1171
01:00:20,834 --> 01:00:22,918
- (GIRL'S LAUGHTER ECHOING)
- (FOOTSTEPS ECHOING)

1172
01:00:32,293 --> 01:00:34,001
(GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN
FAINTLY IN DISTANCE)

1173
01:00:47,126 --> 01:00:48,126
(BIRD SCREECHING)

1174
01:00:51,918 --> 01:00:53,918
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

1175
01:00:56,626 --> 01:00:59,459
HERCULE: It is all right.
You can come out now.

1176
01:01:03,418 --> 01:01:04,418
(EXHALES)

1177
01:01:07,334 --> 01:01:09,209
You're not in any trouble.

1178
01:01:10,751 --> 01:01:12,334
There is nothing to fear.

1179
01:01:13,168 --> 01:01:15,584
You came with the other children, yes?

1180
01:01:17,209 --> 01:01:21,001
And you have been
hiding here all this time.

1181
01:01:23,584 --> 01:01:24,584
(SIGHS)

1182
01:01:27,084 --> 01:01:28,709
Did you hear the woman fall?

1183
01:01:33,418 --> 01:01:34,543
Did you see?

1184
01:01:37,001 --> 01:01:38,251
Did someone push her?

1185
01:01:40,168 --> 01:01:41,834
- Who are you talking to?
- (HERCULE GASPS)

1186
01:01:41,834 --> 01:01:43,751
- (DOOR SLAM ECHOING)
- A child.

1187
01:01:47,001 --> 01:01:48,001
You must have heard.

1188
01:01:48,459 --> 01:01:49,459
- (LOUD RUMBLING)
- (GASPS)

1189
01:01:49,459 --> 01:01:50,543
(BIRD SCREECHING)

1190
01:01:50,543 --> 01:01:51,668
That I heard.

1191
01:01:53,793 --> 01:01:55,168
(LOUD RUMBLING CONTINUES)

1192
01:01:55,168 --> 01:01:57,251
(FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING)

1193
01:01:59,834 --> 01:02:00,834
DESDEMONA: Let us go!

1194
01:02:00,834 --> 01:02:03,043
- NICHOLAS: Untie us, you pig!
- (DESDEMONA GRUNTING)

1195
01:02:03,043 --> 01:02:04,126
You can't leave us here!

1196
01:02:04,126 --> 01:02:05,918
(DESDEMONA AND NICHOLAS
SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

1197
01:02:06,918 --> 01:02:08,501
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

1198
01:02:08,501 --> 01:02:10,876
- You heard that. You all...
- MAXIME: Must be the pipes.

1199
01:02:10,876 --> 01:02:12,459
Pipes? It sounds like the Blitz.

1200
01:02:12,459 --> 01:02:14,501
ROWENA: In all my years here,
I've never heard this.

1201
01:02:14,501 --> 01:02:16,334
OLGA: I have. When they're angry.

1202
01:02:16,334 --> 01:02:17,459
We've upset them.

1203
01:02:17,459 --> 01:02:19,876
VITALE: How do we un-upset them?

1204
01:02:19,876 --> 01:02:20,959
LEOPOLD: Listen.

1205
01:02:21,626 --> 01:02:23,626
(CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY)

1206
01:02:23,626 --> 01:02:25,584
(LOUD RUMBLING)

1207
01:02:26,209 --> 01:02:27,834
It comes from the basement.

1208
01:02:30,709 --> 01:02:32,668
There is no basement in this house.

1209
01:02:32,668 --> 01:02:34,209
(LOUD RUMBLING CONTINUES)

1210
01:02:34,209 --> 01:02:35,751
(FOREBODING MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING)

1211
01:02:40,876 --> 01:02:42,918
(LAMP SQUEAKING)

1212
01:02:46,959 --> 01:02:47,959
(THUD)

1213
01:02:49,043 --> 01:02:50,459
(WIND BLOWING)

1214
01:02:50,459 --> 01:02:52,084
(LOUD RUMBLING CONTINUES)

1215
01:02:58,751 --> 01:03:01,543
ARIADNE: <i>"Dottore."</i> Doctor.
The Children's Vendetta.

1216
01:03:02,168 --> 01:03:03,584
You wanna go down into that?

1217
01:03:06,251 --> 01:03:07,251
(ARIADNE SIGHS)

1218
01:03:08,668 --> 01:03:10,168
(CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY)

1219
01:03:10,168 --> 01:03:11,751
(LOUD RUMBLING CONTINUES)

1220
01:03:24,459 --> 01:03:26,168
LESLIE: (SINGING)
<i>All over the world</i>

1221
01:03:26,793 --> 01:03:28,751
- LEOPOLD: Dad?
<i>- The boys are home again</i>

1222
01:03:34,584 --> 01:03:36,168
(RATS SQUEAKING)

1223
01:03:44,543 --> 01:03:47,334
They really did lock
those children in here to die.

1224
01:03:48,459 --> 01:03:50,834
Leave him. He's having a nerve storm.

1225
01:03:50,834 --> 01:03:52,751
Damn it, Ferrier. Not now!

1226
01:03:52,751 --> 01:03:53,834
Pull it together.

1227
01:03:54,251 --> 01:03:55,334
Think of your son.

1228
01:03:55,334 --> 01:03:56,709
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

1229
01:03:56,709 --> 01:03:58,418
- (LESLIE GRUNTS)
- ROWENA: (GASPS) Oh!

1230
01:03:58,418 --> 01:04:00,334
- Stop it!
- LEOPOLD: Dad!

1231
01:04:00,334 --> 01:04:01,501
ROWENA: Stop it! Stop it!

1232
01:04:01,501 --> 01:04:04,293
- (LOUD RUMBLING)
- (INHALES SHARPLY)

1233
01:04:09,126 --> 01:04:11,084
Storm waves. Not ghosts.

1234
01:04:11,626 --> 01:04:13,334
- OLGA: Please, stop it!
- LEOPOLD: Stop!

1235
01:04:13,334 --> 01:04:14,626
(OLGA SCREAMS)

1236
01:04:14,626 --> 01:04:15,709
LEOPOLD: Dad!

1237
01:04:15,709 --> 01:04:16,876
(BOTH GRUNTING)

1238
01:04:22,293 --> 01:04:23,543
- (BOTH GRUNTING)
- ARIADNE: Oh. Stop it.

1239
01:04:23,543 --> 01:04:25,293
- (GRUNTING)
- (LEOPOLD GRUNTING)

1240
01:04:25,293 --> 01:04:26,584
- (MAXIME GRUNTS)
- (OLGA SCREAMS)

1241
01:04:26,584 --> 01:04:27,668
(GRUNTING)

1242
01:04:28,418 --> 01:04:29,418
LEOPOLD: Dad, stop it!

1243
01:04:29,418 --> 01:04:30,751
OLGA: Are you all right? You all right?

1244
01:04:32,001 --> 01:04:33,293
- (GRUNTS)
- LEOPOLD: Dad, please, stop!

1245
01:04:33,293 --> 01:04:34,918
- OLGA: Stop it!
- LEOPOLD: Please, stop!

1246
01:04:35,543 --> 01:04:36,543
(GASPS)

1247
01:04:37,501 --> 01:04:38,668
(BEES BUZZING)

1248
01:04:39,834 --> 01:04:41,084
(BOTH GRUNTING)

1249
01:04:42,418 --> 01:04:44,876
- (MAXIME GRUNTING, PANTING)
- Dad. Dad.

1250
01:04:46,418 --> 01:04:48,418
- Dad. It's me.
- (LESLIE PANTING)

1251
01:04:49,126 --> 01:04:50,126
It's me.

1252
01:04:51,876 --> 01:04:53,001
I'm right here.

1253
01:04:57,751 --> 01:04:59,043
You're here with me.

1254
01:05:00,834 --> 01:05:01,834
You see me?

1255
01:05:02,376 --> 01:05:03,376
You see me?

1256
01:05:13,626 --> 01:05:15,626
(LESLIE PANTING)

1257
01:05:18,418 --> 01:05:19,709
It's just a thing.

1258
01:05:20,084 --> 01:05:21,084
I know.

1259
01:05:26,251 --> 01:05:28,043
- (VITALE GRUNTS)
<i>- Stronzo!</i>

1260
01:05:28,626 --> 01:05:30,084
(IN ENGLISH, WHISPERING) Shh, Dad.

1261
01:05:31,209 --> 01:05:33,209
(LEOPOLD SHUSHING)

1262
01:05:33,209 --> 01:05:34,918
It's okay. Dad.

1263
01:05:35,584 --> 01:05:36,834
Just needs his rest.

1264
01:05:38,168 --> 01:05:39,209
Don't you, Dad?

1265
01:05:39,709 --> 01:05:41,668
I should be taking care of you.

1266
01:05:41,668 --> 01:05:42,751
You do.

1267
01:05:46,126 --> 01:05:47,126
(KISSES)

1268
01:05:51,084 --> 01:05:52,084
Rest, <i>monsieur.</i>

1269
01:05:53,459 --> 01:05:54,876
LESLIE: I should have listened.

1270
01:05:55,209 --> 01:05:56,209
I saw.

1271
01:05:56,751 --> 01:05:58,668
Demons, evil,

1272
01:05:58,668 --> 01:06:01,168
they're everywhere in this house.

1273
01:06:01,168 --> 01:06:04,793
You and me, we're the same.

1274
01:06:04,793 --> 01:06:06,876
(GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN
FAINTLY IN DISTANCE)

1275
01:06:06,876 --> 01:06:08,334
Wherever we go,

1276
01:06:09,959 --> 01:06:11,126
death follows.

1277
01:06:11,126 --> 01:06:14,001
There must be a rational
answer for all of this.

1278
01:06:14,501 --> 01:06:16,501
In the basement, there are bees.

1279
01:06:17,334 --> 01:06:19,668
Upstairs, there is an ordinary killer.

1280
01:06:19,668 --> 01:06:20,751
LESLIE: No.

1281
01:06:21,334 --> 01:06:23,251
- (SINGING CONTINUES)
- Listen.

1282
01:06:25,668 --> 01:06:26,668
Believe.

1283
01:06:26,668 --> 01:06:27,918
(SINGING STOPS)

1284
01:06:39,001 --> 01:06:41,001
ROWENA: He can rest now in my music room.

1285
01:06:41,001 --> 01:06:42,876
It's almost soundproof.

1286
01:06:46,334 --> 01:06:48,209
We should lock it. For his safety.

1287
01:06:48,209 --> 01:06:49,418
(LOCK CLICKING)

1288
01:06:49,418 --> 01:06:52,293
But please, you keep the key. For ours.

1289
01:06:52,293 --> 01:06:54,376
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

1290
01:06:54,376 --> 01:06:55,459
HERCULE: <i>Merci.</i>

1291
01:07:01,126 --> 01:07:02,209
Come on, Leopold.

1292
01:07:02,959 --> 01:07:04,334
It's time for more cake, don't you think?

1293
01:07:04,334 --> 01:07:06,543
- LEOPOLD: I've had too much.
- ROWENA: Well, I haven't.

1294
01:07:08,834 --> 01:07:10,834
(CHIMING)

1295
01:07:14,626 --> 01:07:16,168
MAXIME: Of course, she'd say that.

1296
01:07:17,168 --> 01:07:20,084
From her perspective,
it's true, I did kill Alicia.

1297
01:07:20,626 --> 01:07:22,834
Rowena believes what she wants.

1298
01:07:23,959 --> 01:07:27,126
A medium saw Alicia murdered,
color me the gunman.

1299
01:07:27,126 --> 01:07:29,043
HERCULE: You do not believe Ms. Reynolds,

1300
01:07:29,043 --> 01:07:33,834
her typewriter with the message
from the departed of your initial.

1301
01:07:34,584 --> 01:07:36,084
"M" for Maxime.

1302
01:07:36,084 --> 01:07:37,418
A haunted house?

1303
01:07:38,334 --> 01:07:41,334
Humans are so desperate
to shape chaos into tidy stories,

1304
01:07:41,501 --> 01:07:42,959
double that in distress.

1305
01:07:44,084 --> 01:07:47,293
It isn't a wash of a trillion stars,
it's ol' Cassiopeia.

1306
01:07:47,293 --> 01:07:51,126
That blur of light in the family photo?
That must be Grandad's ghost.

1307
01:07:51,126 --> 01:07:53,584
- Hmm.
- Alicia was mentally ill.

1308
01:07:54,418 --> 01:07:55,959
It killed her.

1309
01:07:55,959 --> 01:07:57,084
It didn't have to.

1310
01:07:57,084 --> 01:07:59,168
A proper doctor would have
treated her properly.

1311
01:07:59,168 --> 01:08:01,001
- Not that twitch salad.
- (SCRAPING)

1312
01:08:01,584 --> 01:08:02,751
- Shit!
- (KNIFE CLATTERS)

1313
01:08:03,251 --> 01:08:04,251
(EXHALES)

1314
01:08:06,376 --> 01:08:08,376
(DRY SQUEAKING)

1315
01:08:08,376 --> 01:08:11,459
Honey. Good on a cut. Ancient antiseptic.

1316
01:08:14,126 --> 01:08:15,376
(MAXIME SIGHS)

1317
01:08:18,001 --> 01:08:19,584
That's not wildflower.

1318
01:08:21,168 --> 01:08:22,168
I can't place it.

1319
01:08:24,001 --> 01:08:25,001
HERCULE: Oh!

1320
01:08:29,543 --> 01:08:32,209
Ah. Alicia Drake.

1321
01:08:32,209 --> 01:08:35,584
Such sunshine happiness.

1322
01:08:37,834 --> 01:08:38,834
Torn in two.

1323
01:08:39,584 --> 01:08:43,459
Alicia tore up the photo in her room
the night I ended it.

1324
01:08:45,293 --> 01:08:46,626
It's the last time we spoke.

1325
01:08:47,876 --> 01:08:50,418
HERCULE: So, you did break off
your engagement.

1326
01:08:52,001 --> 01:08:54,418
You heard. She wasn't rich enough for me.

1327
01:08:54,418 --> 01:08:58,418
You carry her photograph in your pocket.
You came tonight when summoned.

1328
01:08:58,418 --> 01:09:01,793
I believe that you loved Alicia Drake
more than the money.

1329
01:09:02,293 --> 01:09:03,418
And yet, you walked away.

1330
01:09:03,418 --> 01:09:06,626
Some women, you marry them,
you marry their mother, too.

1331
01:09:06,626 --> 01:09:08,501
So, the mother did not approve of you.

1332
01:09:08,501 --> 01:09:10,418
She wouldn't approve of the Pope.

1333
01:09:11,876 --> 01:09:14,918
Rowena didn't know how to exist alone.

1334
01:09:14,918 --> 01:09:16,959
Tore up the garden in spite,
took off abroad.

1335
01:09:17,168 --> 01:09:18,168
Alicia was all twisted with guilt,

1336
01:09:18,168 --> 01:09:20,293
wanted to chase her around the world.

1337
01:09:20,293 --> 01:09:22,918
And I finally realized

1338
01:09:22,918 --> 01:09:25,459
I would never be the most
important thing in her life.

1339
01:09:25,876 --> 01:09:27,959
So, you broke it off and broke her heart.

1340
01:09:27,959 --> 01:09:30,501
All because a woman made you feel small.

1341
01:09:31,209 --> 01:09:33,251
I returned to Venice

1342
01:09:33,251 --> 01:09:35,376
to beg her to take me back.

1343
01:09:38,126 --> 01:09:39,918
When I heard she was sick,

1344
01:09:40,959 --> 01:09:42,959
Rowena wouldn't let me see her.

1345
01:09:43,584 --> 01:09:45,168
Or show her my letters.

1346
01:09:47,793 --> 01:09:50,168
The next time I saw Alicia
was in a coffin.

1347
01:09:54,918 --> 01:09:55,918
(SIGHS)

1348
01:09:57,376 --> 01:09:58,793
Maybe it was my fault.

1349
01:10:01,334 --> 01:10:02,418
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

1350
01:10:03,418 --> 01:10:06,209
If you will permit,
your invitation, please?

1351
01:10:12,418 --> 01:10:13,418
Ms. Oliver.

1352
01:10:13,418 --> 01:10:14,793
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

1353
01:10:17,251 --> 01:10:18,501
ARIADNE: A simple note.

1354
01:10:18,501 --> 01:10:20,584
HERCULE: No distinguishing language.

1355
01:10:20,584 --> 01:10:24,793
The stationery is plain.
It is cleanly typewritten.

1356
01:10:25,251 --> 01:10:27,293
Professionally anonymous.

1357
01:10:28,501 --> 01:10:30,876
(GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN
FAINTLY IN DISTANCE)

1358
01:10:41,251 --> 01:10:42,501
(HERCULE GROANS)

1359
01:10:42,501 --> 01:10:44,459
Well, that's it. You're done. Let's go.

1360
01:10:55,709 --> 01:10:57,376
(OBJECTS CLATTERING)

1361
01:10:58,418 --> 01:11:00,626
His interview. We did not finish.

1362
01:11:00,626 --> 01:11:03,709
(GROANS) You were gonna
expose some lie he told,

1363
01:11:03,709 --> 01:11:05,918
probably accuse him
of being secretly Vichy.

1364
01:11:05,918 --> 01:11:08,668
Then, he would have threatened
to deck you. Effort spared.

1365
01:11:08,668 --> 01:11:09,751
VITALE: Is he all right?

1366
01:11:09,751 --> 01:11:11,751
Guard dog, be useful, get him a chair.

1367
01:11:11,751 --> 01:11:14,751
A chair, yes. (SIGHS)

1368
01:11:14,751 --> 01:11:17,001
It is good to have a friend in this.

1369
01:11:18,084 --> 01:11:20,001
How long have we known each other?

1370
01:11:20,876 --> 01:11:23,418
The Canning Road Municipal Baths Murder.

1371
01:11:23,418 --> 01:11:25,001
- Ah.
- (CHUCKLES) I bullied my way

1372
01:11:25,001 --> 01:11:27,001
into observing you as research for a book.

1373
01:11:27,001 --> 01:11:28,459
Wrote Poirot thinly veiled.

1374
01:11:28,459 --> 01:11:30,709
They saw through it, and you got famous.

1375
01:11:30,709 --> 01:11:32,959
- Infamous.
- Ah.

1376
01:11:32,959 --> 01:11:35,001
Excuse me. Thank you.

1377
01:11:37,751 --> 01:11:38,793
- VITALE: <i>Dottore.</i>
- Thank you.

1378
01:11:38,793 --> 01:11:40,793
Not for me. For you.

1379
01:11:42,876 --> 01:11:44,626
You want to interview me?

1380
01:11:44,626 --> 01:11:45,709
Leave him be.

1381
01:11:45,709 --> 01:11:48,293
You turned on a cold engine,
took a few knocks to the head.

1382
01:11:48,293 --> 01:11:50,668
Sit this one out. Let morning come.

1383
01:11:50,668 --> 01:11:51,751
(WHOOSHES)

1384
01:11:54,168 --> 01:11:55,501
I almost died.

1385
01:11:56,543 --> 01:11:57,543
Here.

1386
01:11:58,126 --> 01:11:59,126
(SIGHS)

1387
01:11:59,626 --> 01:12:01,293
This palazzo,

1388
01:12:02,251 --> 01:12:03,334
it, uh, plays tricks.

1389
01:12:04,959 --> 01:12:08,834
It puts things in front of me
again and again.

1390
01:12:08,834 --> 01:12:09,959
Um...

1391
01:12:09,959 --> 01:12:11,209
Apples.

1392
01:12:11,209 --> 01:12:12,418
A trick of the mind.

1393
01:12:12,418 --> 01:12:16,084
And then my mind wishes
to tell me something.

1394
01:12:16,084 --> 01:12:19,084
Uh, how did you become a policeman?

1395
01:12:19,084 --> 01:12:21,876
I do wish you would let go of this.

1396
01:12:21,876 --> 01:12:23,709
It's all right. I'll answer.

1397
01:12:24,459 --> 01:12:26,626
- (SIGHS)
- My father was a cop.

1398
01:12:26,626 --> 01:12:28,251
Family business, basically.

1399
01:12:28,918 --> 01:12:30,001
Never knew anything else.

1400
01:12:30,001 --> 01:12:32,959
Yet, you retired early. Only last year.

1401
01:12:33,418 --> 01:12:34,418
Yeah.

1402
01:12:35,084 --> 01:12:37,001
The family business was no longer for me.

1403
01:12:37,001 --> 01:12:38,543
Perhaps never was.

1404
01:12:39,251 --> 01:12:41,334
I had the strength, but not the skin.

1405
01:12:42,668 --> 01:12:46,543
I drank when I couldn't sleep
and I never slept.

1406
01:12:48,376 --> 01:12:49,668
You were a policeman once.

1407
01:12:50,584 --> 01:12:51,668
You can understand.

1408
01:12:52,334 --> 01:12:54,293
Eventually, you get a case,

1409
01:12:54,293 --> 01:12:57,834
and you know it is the last one
you can stomach and still know your soul.

1410
01:12:58,709 --> 01:13:00,376
What case was it for you?

1411
01:13:02,543 --> 01:13:05,209
Why did you lie about
never having been here before

1412
01:13:05,209 --> 01:13:06,668
when clearly you had?

1413
01:13:07,626 --> 01:13:11,168
You knew precisely where
to find the hidden telephone.

1414
01:13:11,793 --> 01:13:13,001
(THUNDER RUMBLING)

1415
01:13:13,543 --> 01:13:15,626
The case was such a spectacle.

1416
01:13:16,126 --> 01:13:18,334
The family deserved their privacy.

1417
01:13:18,751 --> 01:13:22,959
But you were the policeman on duty

1418
01:13:22,959 --> 01:13:25,251
when Alicia Drake was found dead.

1419
01:13:25,918 --> 01:13:26,918
Yes.

1420
01:13:28,293 --> 01:13:30,834
<i>I pulled her from the water.</i>

1421
01:13:33,209 --> 01:13:34,501
Retired next day.

1422
01:13:34,501 --> 01:13:39,126
Soon to become my excellent bodyguard,
the dragon at my gate,

1423
01:13:39,126 --> 01:13:42,251
who not once permitted a soul to pass.

1424
01:13:42,251 --> 01:13:45,626
Yet only this morning, interrupted me

1425
01:13:45,626 --> 01:13:48,543
to ask if I indeed knew
the woman with the apples.

1426
01:13:50,001 --> 01:13:52,001
So many months, my peace undisturbed,

1427
01:13:52,001 --> 01:13:55,751
you resolutely guarding me
from curiosity or company,

1428
01:13:55,751 --> 01:13:58,168
grown men cast into the canal.

1429
01:13:59,043 --> 01:14:00,501
Ariadne Oliver

1430
01:14:01,251 --> 01:14:02,751
waltzes through.

1431
01:14:03,293 --> 01:14:04,293
Why?

1432
01:14:07,251 --> 01:14:08,793
Because you were in league.

1433
01:14:11,084 --> 01:14:13,168
The authoress and the bodyguard

1434
01:14:13,168 --> 01:14:15,751
working with the medium, in the cahoot.

1435
01:14:17,084 --> 01:14:18,834
<i>Feigning disdain,</i>

1436
01:14:18,834 --> 01:14:22,334
<i>conspiring to bring me to this
séance to make me a fool.</i>

1437
01:14:23,293 --> 01:14:24,793
I'm very worried about you.

1438
01:14:24,793 --> 01:14:28,543
Details of Alicia Drake's life and death

1439
01:14:28,543 --> 01:14:32,001
provided by the policeman
who was present at her death.

1440
01:14:32,001 --> 01:14:35,959
Details of me provided not by divination,

1441
01:14:35,959 --> 01:14:37,668
but by letter from you.

1442
01:14:37,668 --> 01:14:39,834
And at the séance,
with all eyes on the medium,

1443
01:14:39,834 --> 01:14:43,293
<i>your own hands were free.
The secret accomplice</i>

1444
01:14:43,293 --> 01:14:46,209
<i>to make me believe the impossible.</i>

1445
01:14:47,501 --> 01:14:48,918
(DOOR SLAMS SHUT)

1446
01:14:48,918 --> 01:14:50,668
<i>Mediums and magic.</i>

1447
01:14:50,668 --> 01:14:52,501
<i>Ghosts and gods.</i>

1448
01:14:52,501 --> 01:14:54,001
<i>Fame for the medium,</i>

1449
01:14:54,001 --> 01:14:55,251
a percentage to you,

1450
01:14:55,251 --> 01:14:57,876
your literary standing restored.

1451
01:14:57,876 --> 01:15:00,043
"The woman who stumped Hercule Poirot."

1452
01:15:00,043 --> 01:15:04,418
Not Joyce Reynolds but Ariadne Oliver.

1453
01:15:07,168 --> 01:15:08,168
(SIGHS)

1454
01:15:09,459 --> 01:15:10,668
- (SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING)
- (SMACKS LIPS)

1455
01:15:10,668 --> 01:15:12,001
Won't you forgive me?

1456
01:15:12,001 --> 01:15:14,209
Apparently, only God can forgive.

1457
01:15:15,084 --> 01:15:16,168
Bit of a pickle then.

1458
01:15:16,168 --> 01:15:19,168
So, let us discover how you did it.

1459
01:15:19,168 --> 01:15:20,876
- Baba?
- A good touch.

1460
01:15:20,876 --> 01:15:23,001
The personal invitation to the fiancé?

1461
01:15:23,001 --> 01:15:27,876
Guaranteed drama with that one.
Three flops, I needed a win.

1462
01:15:27,876 --> 01:15:29,251
We were friends.

1463
01:15:29,251 --> 01:15:31,959
You don't have friends, you have admirers.

1464
01:15:31,959 --> 01:15:33,918
And you only have them because of me.

1465
01:15:33,918 --> 01:15:35,668
I wrote you up as a genius.

1466
01:15:35,668 --> 01:15:38,459
Why shouldn't I use you to sell books?

1467
01:15:38,459 --> 01:15:41,834
Genius. You're a fool. An ego.

1468
01:15:41,834 --> 01:15:44,543
A black cloud that lures death.

1469
01:15:45,209 --> 01:15:47,043
And you know it, too. That's why you quit.

1470
01:15:47,043 --> 01:15:49,209
Is this why you killed Joyce Reynolds?

1471
01:15:49,209 --> 01:15:51,334
No. I did not.

1472
01:15:51,334 --> 01:15:53,543
Your book an instant legend.

1473
01:15:53,543 --> 01:15:55,376
Come on, you're tap dancing now.

1474
01:15:55,376 --> 01:15:57,501
- HERCULE: Working together...
- We didn't.

1475
01:15:57,501 --> 01:15:59,084
...to conceal murder!

1476
01:16:00,043 --> 01:16:01,418
DESDEMONA: The key, come quick!

1477
01:16:01,418 --> 01:16:02,501
There's someone else in there!

1478
01:16:02,501 --> 01:16:03,918
Hurry up! Hurry up with it!

1479
01:16:04,293 --> 01:16:05,293
MAXIME: Poirot!

1480
01:16:05,293 --> 01:16:07,293
LEOPOLD: What happened?
What's wrong with him?

1481
01:16:07,293 --> 01:16:08,543
OLGA: I don't know.

1482
01:16:10,209 --> 01:16:11,376
(OLGA SCREAMS)

1483
01:16:13,334 --> 01:16:14,376
(OLGA GASPS)

1484
01:16:23,876 --> 01:16:25,876
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

1485
01:16:53,793 --> 01:16:55,001
(LEOPOLD SOBBING)

1486
01:16:55,001 --> 01:16:56,209
(SNIFFLES)

1487
01:16:56,209 --> 01:16:58,084
LEOPOLD: Why did he have to be alone?

1488
01:16:59,793 --> 01:17:00,793
(LEOPOLD SOBBING)

1489
01:17:00,793 --> 01:17:02,084
ROWENA: This is the only way in.

1490
01:17:03,168 --> 01:17:04,543
You had the only key.

1491
01:17:04,543 --> 01:17:06,626
Not possible.

1492
01:17:10,001 --> 01:17:11,209
No.

1493
01:17:11,209 --> 01:17:13,459
No, I was right in front of you!

1494
01:17:15,084 --> 01:17:16,751
He was shouting at someone.

1495
01:17:19,584 --> 01:17:21,668
I hated him but I didn't want him dead.

1496
01:17:21,668 --> 01:17:24,126
He's got a child for Christ's sakes.

1497
01:17:24,126 --> 01:17:25,959
Anyways, I was outside,

1498
01:17:26,459 --> 01:17:27,793
trying to get in with them.

1499
01:17:28,709 --> 01:17:29,918
It's true.

1500
01:17:29,918 --> 01:17:31,751
The doctor was alone in here.

1501
01:17:32,251 --> 01:17:33,293
Not alone.

1502
01:17:34,084 --> 01:17:35,251
Not in this house.

1503
01:17:36,084 --> 01:17:37,168
A doctor.

1504
01:17:38,584 --> 01:17:41,459
A nurse and a doctor,
the Children's Vendetta.

1505
01:17:42,418 --> 01:17:43,918
There is no other way in.

1506
01:17:43,918 --> 01:17:45,543
I can't understand.

1507
01:17:45,543 --> 01:17:49,001
If this room wasn't safe, nowhere is safe.

1508
01:17:49,501 --> 01:17:50,876
None of us are safe.

1509
01:17:52,293 --> 01:17:55,293
Nothing human could have done this.

1510
01:17:55,293 --> 01:17:58,293
"It is only for us to prove
that these apparent 'impossibilities'

1511
01:17:58,293 --> 01:18:00,293
"are, in reality, not such."

1512
01:18:00,293 --> 01:18:01,751
Come on, leave him.

1513
01:18:01,751 --> 01:18:04,251
Let the detective detect.
He already knows.

1514
01:18:04,251 --> 01:18:06,168
He's gonna come to it soon enough.

1515
01:18:06,168 --> 01:18:08,043
Go on. (BREATHING HEAVILY)

1516
01:18:08,043 --> 01:18:09,126
For once in your life,

1517
01:18:09,126 --> 01:18:11,459
admit that you are up against
something bigger than you.

1518
01:18:11,459 --> 01:18:13,418
- (DOOR OPENS)
- (FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

1519
01:18:13,418 --> 01:18:14,501
OLGA: You asked.

1520
01:18:15,126 --> 01:18:16,126
(DOOR SHUTS)

1521
01:18:17,376 --> 01:18:20,793
You asked why I stayed
while they summoned spirits.

1522
01:18:21,626 --> 01:18:24,459
Alicia was wasting away as she went mad.

1523
01:18:26,709 --> 01:18:28,668
Ms. Rowena stayed at her side

1524
01:18:29,126 --> 01:18:30,334
<i>day and night.</i>

1525
01:18:30,334 --> 01:18:33,043
<i>One day, I pleaded with her
to take some rest.</i>

1526
01:18:35,168 --> 01:18:37,084
<i>I promised to keep watch.</i>

1527
01:18:38,168 --> 01:18:39,418
<i>She slept past nightfall.</i>

1528
01:18:40,293 --> 01:18:41,918
<i>It got to midnight.</i>

1529
01:18:41,918 --> 01:18:43,626
<i>I heard voices.</i>

1530
01:18:43,626 --> 01:18:44,876
(GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN
FAINTLY IN DISTANCE)

1531
01:18:44,876 --> 01:18:47,293
<i>- And footsteps.</i>
- (FOOTSTEPS ECHOING)

1532
01:18:47,834 --> 01:18:50,543
<i>Alicia was sleeping so soundly.</i>

1533
01:18:50,543 --> 01:18:52,959
She must have woken after I left.

1534
01:18:55,126 --> 01:18:56,626
Gone to the balcony.

1535
01:18:56,626 --> 01:18:59,501
And you would beg her ghost's forgiveness.

1536
01:18:59,501 --> 01:19:01,168
(SOBBING)

1537
01:19:01,168 --> 01:19:02,584
I loved that girl.

1538
01:19:05,126 --> 01:19:06,418
She died

1539
01:19:07,876 --> 01:19:10,168
because I was stupid and I was scared.

1540
01:19:12,959 --> 01:19:14,293
(OLGA SOBBING)

1541
01:19:16,751 --> 01:19:18,876
(GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN
FAINTLY IN DISTANCE)

1542
01:19:36,959 --> 01:19:38,793
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

1543
01:19:42,001 --> 01:19:44,584
(GIRL SINGING IN ITALIAN
FAINTLY IN DISTANCE)

1544
01:19:51,251 --> 01:19:54,793
YOUNG ALICIA'S VOICE:
<i>Why don't you have the answer?</i>

1545
01:19:54,793 --> 01:19:57,334
You always have the answer.

1546
01:19:57,334 --> 01:19:59,043
(ALICIA SCREAMING)

1547
01:19:59,459 --> 01:20:00,918
(SCREECHING)

1548
01:20:28,251 --> 01:20:30,168
- MAXIME: <i>I never should have come.</i>
- ARIADNE: <i>Wait.</i>

1549
01:20:30,168 --> 01:20:32,918
MAXIME: You should all leave this place
and never look back.

1550
01:20:32,918 --> 01:20:34,334
(METAL RATTLING)

1551
01:20:37,334 --> 01:20:39,709
I will not wait to be next.

1552
01:20:43,168 --> 01:20:44,293
Tonight,

1553
01:20:46,543 --> 01:20:47,834
we are all afraid.

1554
01:20:48,918 --> 01:20:52,209
There have been two impossible murders.

1555
01:20:52,584 --> 01:20:56,793
Each murder appears
committable only by phantom,

1556
01:20:56,793 --> 01:20:59,876
as if the living have been
killed by the dead.

1557
01:20:59,876 --> 01:21:02,043
"Appears"? You know something.

1558
01:21:02,043 --> 01:21:03,584
You know who killed my father?

1559
01:21:03,584 --> 01:21:06,418
I must consider Ms. Reynolds' assistants.

1560
01:21:06,876 --> 01:21:09,251
Survivors, desperate and threatened.

1561
01:21:09,251 --> 01:21:12,043
The ex-police-<i>commissario</i>
who has been in this house before,

1562
01:21:12,043 --> 01:21:13,959
each time death occurs.

1563
01:21:13,959 --> 01:21:17,876
The authoress, determined,
capable, murderously clever.

1564
01:21:17,876 --> 01:21:21,209
Our avenging angel, Olga Seminoff,

1565
01:21:21,209 --> 01:21:23,918
so keen on justice as she prescribes it.

1566
01:21:23,918 --> 01:21:27,001
The former love full of rage
for the doctor

1567
01:21:27,001 --> 01:21:30,376
and only the fragment of a photograph

1568
01:21:31,209 --> 01:21:35,459
to remember such happiness.

1569
01:21:38,376 --> 01:21:39,626
But...

1570
01:21:40,584 --> 01:21:45,043
There has been a third death,
which explains the other two.

1571
01:21:45,043 --> 01:21:48,001
The murder of Alicia Drake

1572
01:21:48,709 --> 01:21:50,459
committed by...

1573
01:21:53,293 --> 01:21:54,834
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

1574
01:21:54,834 --> 01:21:56,084
...her mother.

1575
01:21:57,459 --> 01:21:59,001
Her murderer.

1576
01:22:00,876 --> 01:22:02,293
A mother who killed her own child,

1577
01:22:02,293 --> 01:22:04,959
then killed twice more
to hide her terrible sin.

1578
01:22:04,959 --> 01:22:06,459
ROWENA: How dare you!

1579
01:22:06,459 --> 01:22:11,418
After all I have suffered,
to accuse me of harming my little girl!

1580
01:22:11,418 --> 01:22:12,626
Your little girl had grown.

1581
01:22:12,626 --> 01:22:15,209
You could not fathom
losing her to anyone else.

1582
01:22:15,209 --> 01:22:18,459
In a rage, you tore up your
garden of rainbow flowers.

1583
01:22:18,459 --> 01:22:20,043
Flowers? You're too far gone now.

1584
01:22:20,043 --> 01:22:21,293
But you replanted your garden.

1585
01:22:21,293 --> 01:22:23,501
<i>Not with a rainbow,
but with a single color.</i>

1586
01:22:23,501 --> 01:22:26,793
<i>The single color that could give you back
what you would not live without.</i>

1587
01:22:29,043 --> 01:22:30,126
All night, I am hearing,

1588
01:22:30,126 --> 01:22:31,959
seeing things which are not there.

1589
01:22:32,959 --> 01:22:36,043
I begin to believe
in the impossible presence of ghosts.

1590
01:22:37,376 --> 01:22:40,751
When in fact I had been doped, drugged

1591
01:22:42,584 --> 01:22:44,209
with an hallucinogenic poison.

1592
01:22:44,209 --> 01:22:45,959
I thought my cupboards were bare.

1593
01:22:45,959 --> 01:22:48,168
ARIADNE: <i>Found your honey
in the linen closet.</i>

1594
01:22:51,459 --> 01:22:52,543
HERCULE: <i>There is a poison</i>

1595
01:22:52,543 --> 01:22:55,584
<i>in the flowering species
of</i> Rhododendron Ponticum.

1596
01:22:55,584 --> 01:22:57,751
<i>Its highest concentration in the nectar</i>

1597
01:22:57,751 --> 01:23:02,668
<i>that concentrates further
when processed by bees into honey.</i>

1598
01:23:02,668 --> 01:23:05,668
All this effort for a teaspoon
of wildflower honey

1599
01:23:05,668 --> 01:23:07,501
that we could buy for six lira.

1600
01:23:07,501 --> 01:23:09,168
That's not wildflower.

1601
01:23:11,043 --> 01:23:12,084
I can't place it.

1602
01:23:12,084 --> 01:23:15,501
They call it "Deli bal" in Türkiye,
where it grows wild.

1603
01:23:15,501 --> 01:23:17,709
Where Rowena Drake traveled alone, angry.

1604
01:23:17,709 --> 01:23:18,793
(GASPS)

1605
01:23:18,793 --> 01:23:21,126
HERCULE: "Mad honey."
A mere teaspoon of this poison

1606
01:23:21,126 --> 01:23:22,793
<i>induces weakness,</i>

1607
01:23:22,793 --> 01:23:24,959
<i>- fever, hallucination.</i>
- (SOBBING)

1608
01:23:24,959 --> 01:23:28,043
HERCULE: <i>You replanted it
with that same toxic flower</i>

1609
01:23:28,043 --> 01:23:30,251
<i>- that would produce poison honey.</i>
- (BEES BUZZING)

1610
01:23:30,251 --> 01:23:32,918
I couldn't do that. I wouldn't.

1611
01:23:34,251 --> 01:23:36,084
Your daughter was not possessed.

1612
01:23:37,334 --> 01:23:38,418
She was poisoned

1613
01:23:38,418 --> 01:23:40,709
<i>by a mother who could not let her go.</i>

1614
01:23:41,751 --> 01:23:45,334
<i>Who lovingly spoon-fed controlled doses</i>

1615
01:23:45,334 --> 01:23:48,209
<i>of poison honey in her tea.</i>

1616
01:23:48,209 --> 01:23:49,834
<i>Keeping her just sick enough</i>

1617
01:23:49,834 --> 01:23:52,918
<i>to prevent a reunion
with her repentant love.</i>

1618
01:23:53,418 --> 01:23:56,834
<i>Weak, helpless like a child again.</i>

1619
01:23:57,876 --> 01:23:58,918
Yours again.

1620
01:23:59,459 --> 01:24:01,376
Until a mistake.

1621
01:24:01,751 --> 01:24:05,293
<i>Mrs. Seminoff watched Alicia
while you slept at last.</i>

1622
01:24:05,293 --> 01:24:07,501
<i>Night fell and Olga grew frightened</i>

1623
01:24:07,501 --> 01:24:10,001
<i>- when, inevitably, Alicia woke...</i>
- (SOBBING)

1624
01:24:10,001 --> 01:24:13,001
<i>...I am sure, disturbed again.</i>

1625
01:24:13,001 --> 01:24:14,876
<i>But what to do?</i>

1626
01:24:15,376 --> 01:24:18,501
<i>And not knowing the real truth,</i>

1627
01:24:18,501 --> 01:24:23,334
<i>Olga Seminoff did what she believed
that you would do,</i>

1628
01:24:23,334 --> 01:24:28,168
<i>and served Alicia Drake calming tea
sweetened with honey.</i>

1629
01:24:29,793 --> 01:24:31,168
<i>Too sweet.</i>

1630
01:24:31,918 --> 01:24:33,376
I didn't know.

1631
01:24:34,293 --> 01:24:35,918
I didn't know. (SOBBING)

1632
01:24:36,876 --> 01:24:40,626
HERCULE: Alicia Drake did not run
to her balcony to commit suicide.

1633
01:24:42,209 --> 01:24:44,334
She had overdosed on your poison.

1634
01:24:45,293 --> 01:24:47,709
And her heart had stopped in her sleep.

1635
01:24:48,626 --> 01:24:51,334
<i>You returned from your rest</i>

1636
01:24:51,334 --> 01:24:54,584
<i>- to find her dead.</i>
- (GASPS)

1637
01:24:55,418 --> 01:24:58,209
<i>- And then...</i>
- (GASPING)

1638
01:24:58,209 --> 01:25:00,084
<i>- ...you made your monstrous choice.</i>
- (ROWENA GRUNTS)

1639
01:25:00,084 --> 01:25:01,168
HERCULE: <i>You made the mark</i>

1640
01:25:01,168 --> 01:25:03,626
<i>- of the Children's Vendetta.</i>
- (ROWENA GRUNTS)

1641
01:25:03,626 --> 01:25:06,209
<i>You cut her, you threw her into the canal,</i>

1642
01:25:06,209 --> 01:25:08,043
<i>you made her a suicide.</i>

1643
01:25:09,626 --> 01:25:12,918
<i>A victim of legend. Of ghosts.</i>

1644
01:25:13,418 --> 01:25:16,543
Your love-blind and incapable doctor

1645
01:25:16,543 --> 01:25:19,209
<i>found nothing to arouse
suspicion at the inquest.</i>

1646
01:25:19,209 --> 01:25:23,043
<i>The police, predisposed to superstition,
easily satisfied.</i>

1647
01:25:23,043 --> 01:25:25,043
The poisoned jar left
in the linen cupboard

1648
01:25:25,043 --> 01:25:26,501
by the careless housekeeper.

1649
01:25:26,501 --> 01:25:29,584
You had got away
with killing your own child,

1650
01:25:29,584 --> 01:25:33,543
until Ms. Oliver drew my attention
to something.

1651
01:25:33,543 --> 01:25:35,293
Where did all the money go?

1652
01:25:37,126 --> 01:25:38,293
I can't afford to fix it.

1653
01:25:38,293 --> 01:25:40,834
HERCULE: <i>There is usually only one answer.</i>

1654
01:25:41,334 --> 01:25:42,626
<i>- Blackmail.</i>
- (ROWENA GASPS)

1655
01:25:42,793 --> 01:25:45,459
HERCULE: <i>I suspect that someone
had found you out.</i>

1656
01:25:45,459 --> 01:25:47,709
<i>And so you paid for their silence.</i>

1657
01:25:47,709 --> 01:25:49,168
<i>Again and again, you paid.</i>

1658
01:25:49,918 --> 01:25:53,084
But now, with your fortune gone
and this house unsalable at any price,

1659
01:25:53,084 --> 01:25:55,876
you were desperate to get out
from under the blackmailer's thumb.

1660
01:25:55,876 --> 01:25:57,084
But who could it be?

1661
01:25:58,126 --> 01:26:00,084
<i>Your obvious suspect was Doctor Ferrier.</i>

1662
01:26:00,084 --> 01:26:02,209
<i>Perhaps he was not so naive a witness.</i>

1663
01:26:02,209 --> 01:26:06,251
<i>Perhaps finally,
he recognized the poison symptoms.</i>

1664
01:26:06,251 --> 01:26:09,543
<i>And then you received your letter
from the unholy Ms. Reynolds,</i>

1665
01:26:09,543 --> 01:26:12,001
<i>claiming messages from your lost daughter.</i>

1666
01:26:12,001 --> 01:26:14,209
<i>Too many intimate details known,</i>

1667
01:26:14,209 --> 01:26:18,459
<i>teasing knowledge of your crime,
her services offered at a heavy price.</i>

1668
01:26:18,459 --> 01:26:20,668
<i>Surely this was your blackmailer.</i>

1669
01:26:20,668 --> 01:26:22,376
<i>She had to be stopped to be safe.</i>

1670
01:26:22,376 --> 01:26:25,834
<i>Both Ms. Reynolds and Doctor Ferrier
had to be stopped. But how?</i>

1671
01:26:25,834 --> 01:26:29,918
The séance in a haunted house
on Halloween.

1672
01:26:29,918 --> 01:26:32,293
The perfect opportunity to conceal

1673
01:26:32,293 --> 01:26:35,251
the murder of those
you suspected of blackmail.

1674
01:26:35,251 --> 01:26:37,584
Hiding behind superstition, legend, fear.

1675
01:26:38,126 --> 01:26:39,626
- (CHIMING)
<i>- The clock struck.</i>

1676
01:26:39,959 --> 01:26:41,959
(GRUNTING)

1677
01:26:41,959 --> 01:26:43,043
<i>And so did you.</i>

1678
01:26:44,501 --> 01:26:46,293
<i>But in your haste, you mistake</i>

1679
01:26:46,293 --> 01:26:48,709
<i>- the wearer of the mask.</i>
- (GASPS)

1680
01:26:48,709 --> 01:26:51,084
HERCULE: <i>Disposing of me,
you find your target.</i>

1681
01:26:51,793 --> 01:26:53,793
(JOYCE AND ROWENA GRUNTING)

1682
01:27:00,918 --> 01:27:03,459
I was with Mrs. Seminoff at midnight.

1683
01:27:03,459 --> 01:27:04,543
OLGA: She was.

1684
01:27:05,251 --> 01:27:06,876
We were together, I saw the time.

1685
01:27:06,876 --> 01:27:10,293
HERCULE: <i>You saw the time on the clock
in the music room,</i>

1686
01:27:10,293 --> 01:27:12,293
<i>where she had asked you to wait.</i>

1687
01:27:12,293 --> 01:27:14,793
<i>A room, which is practically soundproof.</i>

1688
01:27:14,793 --> 01:27:16,418
<i>Which she herself had sealed.</i>

1689
01:27:16,418 --> 01:27:20,001
<i>And in which she had previously
changed the time</i>

1690
01:27:20,001 --> 01:27:24,209
<i>where you could not even hear
the true midnight bell.</i>

1691
01:27:24,209 --> 01:27:26,251
It read midnight when it was really...

1692
01:27:26,251 --> 01:27:28,501
After Joyce Reynolds' death.

1693
01:27:28,501 --> 01:27:30,043
(METAL SCRAPING)

1694
01:27:30,043 --> 01:27:33,709
The damning evidence discarded
with a magician's touch.

1695
01:27:33,709 --> 01:27:35,001
VITALE: What about Ferrier?

1696
01:27:35,418 --> 01:27:36,918
She wasn't anywhere near him.

1697
01:27:36,918 --> 01:27:38,918
HERCULE: <i>Indeed, she made
a show of the locked door,</i>

1698
01:27:38,918 --> 01:27:40,584
<i>giving me the sole key.</i>

1699
01:27:40,584 --> 01:27:42,584
But you would not kill
Doctor Ferrier with a knife.

1700
01:27:42,584 --> 01:27:45,709
Your murder weapon would be a telephone.

1701
01:27:45,709 --> 01:27:47,626
The phone line from outside
was dead, of course,

1702
01:27:47,626 --> 01:27:48,751
because of the storm,

1703
01:27:48,751 --> 01:27:52,043
but the internal line remained clear.

1704
01:27:52,376 --> 01:27:55,334
No telephone call would come
from outside the house.

1705
01:27:56,876 --> 01:27:58,376
Only from inside.

1706
01:27:58,626 --> 01:28:00,418
- HERCULE: She, in the dining room.
- (TELEPHONE RINGING)

1707
01:28:00,834 --> 01:28:03,001
<i>He, sealed in the music room.</i>

1708
01:28:03,001 --> 01:28:05,126
ROWENA: <i>I know you've
been blackmailing me.</i>

1709
01:28:05,126 --> 01:28:08,709
HERCULE: <i>You confessed to him everything.
To being the murderer of Joyce Reynolds.</i>

1710
01:28:09,084 --> 01:28:11,543
<i>Of staging your own daughter's suicide.</i>

1711
01:28:11,543 --> 01:28:12,709
It's not possible.

1712
01:28:12,709 --> 01:28:14,334
HERCULE: <i>And then you made your threat.</i>

1713
01:28:14,668 --> 01:28:16,209
Do exactly as I tell you.

1714
01:28:16,209 --> 01:28:18,501
HERCULE: <i>You threatened to kill his son...</i>

1715
01:28:18,501 --> 01:28:21,418
No! No, let him go. Leave him.

1716
01:28:22,126 --> 01:28:24,251
<i>...his only reason to live,</i>

1717
01:28:25,334 --> 01:28:27,626
<i>if he did not do what you told him.</i>

1718
01:28:28,584 --> 01:28:30,501
<i>And what you told him to do</i>

1719
01:28:32,001 --> 01:28:33,668
<i>was to take the knife.</i>

1720
01:28:38,709 --> 01:28:41,626
- (GRUNTS)
- She... (SOBBING)

1721
01:28:41,626 --> 01:28:42,959
She killed my dad?

1722
01:28:43,543 --> 01:28:44,709
And Ms. Reynolds.

1723
01:28:45,084 --> 01:28:46,709
- And Alicia.
- ROWENA: No.

1724
01:28:47,876 --> 01:28:49,668
I would never hurt her.

1725
01:28:50,418 --> 01:28:51,918
It was an accident.

1726
01:28:52,626 --> 01:28:54,126
She was my whole life.

1727
01:28:54,626 --> 01:28:56,834
- You poisoned her.
- To protect her.

1728
01:28:56,834 --> 01:28:59,584
- To control her!
- To keep her safe from you.

1729
01:29:03,126 --> 01:29:04,876
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

1730
01:29:20,751 --> 01:29:22,001
I couldn't let her go.

1731
01:29:24,459 --> 01:29:25,626
She was mine.

1732
01:29:26,251 --> 01:29:28,251
(THUNDER RUMBLING)

1733
01:29:33,501 --> 01:29:34,501
(GASPS)

1734
01:29:35,334 --> 01:29:37,334
(ROWENA SCREAMING)

1735
01:29:41,251 --> 01:29:42,959
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

1736
01:30:31,126 --> 01:30:32,834
She was the best thing about me.

1737
01:30:34,626 --> 01:30:38,376
And if there is a soul,
you gave hers peace.

1738
01:31:04,501 --> 01:31:05,501
HERCULE: <i>Merci.</i>

1739
01:31:05,501 --> 01:31:06,584
<i>Dottore.</i>

1740
01:31:08,959 --> 01:31:12,126
(IN ENGLISH) They will rule
Ms. Drake a suicide.

1741
01:31:12,126 --> 01:31:14,876
Unless you would like
to make a statement otherwise.

1742
01:31:16,709 --> 01:31:19,459
Can I at least see you safe home,

1743
01:31:19,459 --> 01:31:21,459
before you turn me in for fraud?

1744
01:31:24,209 --> 01:31:25,543
In the daylight,

1745
01:31:26,418 --> 01:31:28,418
neither appears necessary.

1746
01:31:29,043 --> 01:31:31,376
In the end, it is you
protecting me, <i>Dottore.</i>

1747
01:31:35,418 --> 01:31:36,959
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

1748
01:31:39,751 --> 01:31:40,876
OLGA: Come on then, Leopold.

1749
01:31:41,126 --> 01:31:42,584
Let me do the top button up.

1750
01:31:42,584 --> 01:31:43,918
LEOPOLD: It's fine, Miss Olga.

1751
01:31:43,918 --> 01:31:45,084
OLGA: Very smart.

1752
01:31:45,543 --> 01:31:47,376
- LEOPOLD: I don't need a coat.
- OLGA: You'll be cold.

1753
01:31:47,376 --> 01:31:48,459
LEOPOLD: I'm fine.

1754
01:31:48,459 --> 01:31:50,418
OLGA: I know it's sunny,
but it's still cold.

1755
01:31:50,418 --> 01:31:52,251
- That's much better.
- LEOPOLD: Miss Olga, I'm fine.

1756
01:31:52,251 --> 01:31:53,668
- OLGA: Very handsome.
- LEOPOLD: Thanks.

1757
01:31:53,668 --> 01:31:54,751
(OLGA CHUCKLES)

1758
01:31:55,668 --> 01:31:56,834
<i>Madame.</i>

1759
01:31:57,418 --> 01:32:01,043
He'll live with me
and Mr. Seminoff. And Harry.

1760
01:32:03,293 --> 01:32:04,959
We'll mind him as our own.

1761
01:32:05,751 --> 01:32:07,751
Might insist on a bit more sunshine.

1762
01:32:07,751 --> 01:32:08,834
HERCULE: Mmm-hmm.

1763
01:32:09,543 --> 01:32:11,584
You are a precocious boy

1764
01:32:12,126 --> 01:32:15,293
who is perhaps ashamed
at how much he likes attention.

1765
01:32:16,209 --> 01:32:18,043
I know something of this.

1766
01:32:20,126 --> 01:32:23,209
You must not blame yourself
for anything that happened in this house.

1767
01:32:23,209 --> 01:32:25,293
- (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
- Why would he do that?

1768
01:32:26,168 --> 01:32:27,959
But it's all my fault.

1769
01:32:28,959 --> 01:32:31,793
You did not care
for the money for yourself.

1770
01:32:32,334 --> 01:32:34,334
You wanted to help your father.

1771
01:32:35,834 --> 01:32:37,126
Dad couldn't work.

1772
01:32:38,209 --> 01:32:40,459
I only used the money
to pay for our bills.

1773
01:32:41,918 --> 01:32:44,126
I didn't even know
what to do with the rest.

1774
01:32:44,126 --> 01:32:49,251
Rowena Drake presumed the blackmailer
was the fake medium or the family doctor,

1775
01:32:49,751 --> 01:32:51,126
when it was neither.

1776
01:32:51,501 --> 01:32:54,001
Only the doctor's son saw the truth.

1777
01:32:54,001 --> 01:32:56,293
It was obvious from Dad's notes.

1778
01:32:57,501 --> 01:32:58,709
Mad honey poisoning,

1779
01:32:58,709 --> 01:33:01,459
just like Mitridate from her opera.

1780
01:33:01,459 --> 01:33:02,959
The Poison King.

1781
01:33:04,459 --> 01:33:07,126
I read all about it in one of her books
in the library.

1782
01:33:08,334 --> 01:33:11,876
And so, I tested the theory.

1783
01:33:12,251 --> 01:33:14,043
You sent a blackmail letter.

1784
01:33:17,626 --> 01:33:18,834
And another.

1785
01:33:19,251 --> 01:33:20,376
(HERCULE SIGHS)

1786
01:33:25,584 --> 01:33:28,709
Perhaps there is a use for this money
in your mattress.

1787
01:33:30,793 --> 01:33:32,584
To make good of regret.

1788
01:33:35,501 --> 01:33:37,543
We survived before Ms. Reynolds.

1789
01:33:37,543 --> 01:33:39,709
- We'll do better than survive.
- (DOOR OPENS)

1790
01:33:39,709 --> 01:33:41,709
I promise we'll get to America. We will.

1791
01:33:41,709 --> 01:33:43,251
Come with us, you two.

1792
01:33:45,709 --> 01:33:47,084
To the police station?

1793
01:33:47,918 --> 01:33:51,501
Us, to home. You, to America.
Missouri, I understand.

1794
01:33:51,668 --> 01:33:55,251
Passage for two.
We can help with that. I think.

1795
01:34:04,001 --> 01:34:05,001
(DOOR SHUTS)

1796
01:34:08,084 --> 01:34:10,376
DESDEMONA: Thank you. (SOBS)

1797
01:34:11,626 --> 01:34:13,001
(DESDEMONA CHUCKLES)

1798
01:34:13,001 --> 01:34:14,334
NICHOLAS: Thank you, thank you so much.

1799
01:34:14,334 --> 01:34:16,459
OLGA: Leave some space
for Leopold, please.

1800
01:34:21,751 --> 01:34:22,918
You solved the case.

1801
01:34:23,959 --> 01:34:25,084
But you had help,

1802
01:34:25,793 --> 01:34:26,793
didn't you?

1803
01:34:28,251 --> 01:34:29,376
You heard her.

1804
01:34:30,918 --> 01:34:32,293
<i>Bonne chance,</i> my friend.

1805
01:34:32,959 --> 01:34:33,959
Don't worry,

1806
01:34:34,834 --> 01:34:37,293
people who die in this house
always come back.

1807
01:34:38,626 --> 01:34:39,793
I'll see them again.

1808
01:34:40,793 --> 01:34:42,418
(BOAT ENGINE THRUMMING)

1809
01:34:49,001 --> 01:34:50,459
See you soon, Dad.

1810
01:34:56,334 --> 01:34:58,418
(SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING)

1811
01:35:17,751 --> 01:35:19,959
I won't apologize. You've ruined my book.

1812
01:35:19,959 --> 01:35:22,209
Neither living nor proof.
I have to rewrite the whole thing.

1813
01:35:22,209 --> 01:35:23,918
So long as it does not include my name.

1814
01:35:23,918 --> 01:35:25,709
I never want to hear your name again.

1815
01:35:27,626 --> 01:35:29,918
Just a house now. All debunked.

1816
01:35:33,126 --> 01:35:34,876
But you've got the look of a believer.

1817
01:35:35,626 --> 01:35:36,876
You did. You saw something.

1818
01:35:36,876 --> 01:35:38,793
I was under the influence.

1819
01:35:38,793 --> 01:35:43,959
My subconscious mind assembled facts
ahead of the rational.

1820
01:35:45,626 --> 01:35:46,626
You saw.

1821
01:35:48,209 --> 01:35:49,334
You know.

1822
01:35:53,459 --> 01:35:57,626
I know only that we cannot hide
from our ghosts.

1823
01:35:58,668 --> 01:36:01,001
Whether they are real or not,

1824
01:36:01,584 --> 01:36:05,876
we must make our peace with them.

1825
01:36:07,626 --> 01:36:09,751
And live life.

1826
01:36:09,751 --> 01:36:10,834
Somehow.

1827
01:36:12,543 --> 01:36:14,251
And how will you live your life?

1828
01:36:38,001 --> 01:36:39,084
(DOOR UNLOCKS)

1829
01:36:58,126 --> 01:36:59,126
<i>Monsieur</i> Poirot?

1830
01:37:01,126 --> 01:37:02,126
<i>Monsieur</i> Poirot?

1831
01:37:02,126 --> 01:37:03,793
(LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING)

1832
01:37:03,793 --> 01:37:07,543
Your parents died
one soon after the other.

1833
01:37:07,543 --> 01:37:08,793
Then, your brother.

1834
01:37:09,293 --> 01:37:12,709
Your trusted doctor
is a beloved friend to the family.

1835
01:37:12,709 --> 01:37:16,959
Your brother was unmarried,
as are you. No other relations.

1836
01:37:17,376 --> 01:37:19,459
Your family is not cursed.

1837
01:37:19,459 --> 01:37:23,043
I strongly suspect your brother
added a codicil to his will

1838
01:37:23,043 --> 01:37:25,209
naming your doctor as beneficiary

1839
01:37:25,209 --> 01:37:27,084
should all members
of your small family perish.

1840
01:37:27,084 --> 01:37:30,084
After which I strongly suspect
he also murdered them,

1841
01:37:30,084 --> 01:37:32,293
claiming natural causes
at their deathbeds.

1842
01:37:32,293 --> 01:37:35,251
And your life is next in danger.
You may wish to sit.

1843
01:37:47,418 --> 01:37:48,418
Please.

1844
01:37:49,334 --> 01:37:50,584
(WOMAN SINGING)

1845
01:37:50,584 --> 01:37:55,084
So, correct me if I am wrong, <i>monsieur,</i>
your doctor was a family friend?

1846
01:37:55,084 --> 01:37:58,543
You would play together as children.
This much is clear.

1847
01:37:58,543 --> 01:38:01,209
However, your mother was
closer to you, right?

1848
01:38:01,209 --> 01:38:02,334
MAN: Yes.

1849
01:38:02,334 --> 01:38:04,793
(WOMAN CONTINUES SINGING)