:38:02
who wanted to go on the stage.
:38:04
Was Mr. McQueen lying
when he denied ever having
:38:04
There is something in the pocket.
:38:06
Permit me.
:38:07
known that Ratchett
was Cassetti?
:38:10
Or did he become
Ratchett's secretary
:38:12
as part of a deliberate plan to avenge
Mrs. Armstrong's death?
:38:13
- His watch.
- The time of death.
:38:16
I can definitely say
that death occurred
:38:17
Only by interrogating
the other passengers
:38:18
between midnight
and 2 in the morning.
:38:19
could I hope to see the light.
:38:21
That would fit.
:38:21
But when I began
to question them,
:38:23
I myself heard him cry out and ring for
the conductor at 20 minutes to 1.
:38:23
the light, as Macbeth
would have said, thickened.
:38:29
When I told the Princess
Dragomiroff that I knew she was
:38:30
When Pierre arrived, he apologized
:38:32
and said he had been
having a cauchemar.
:38:33
Mrs. Armstrong's godmother,
:38:34
her answers to my subsequent
questions smelled strongly
:38:35
A nightmare.
:38:38
of inaccuracy and evasion.
:38:39
Then I heard him
use his washbasin.
:38:41
Even I knew more from reading
the newspaper reports
:38:45
And that is the last thing known.
:38:45
than she from her frequent visits.
:38:50
Was there not a chauffeur?
:38:51
I beg of you, monsieur.
You cannot refuse.
:38:51
There was, monsieur, but I had
my own. I never used him.
:38:54
But it is the duty
of the Yugoslavian police.
:38:56
Evasion. What was the name of
Mrs. Armstrong's personal maid?
:38:56
Oh, what, monsieur, to question
my passengers on my line? Never.
:39:00
I always travel with
my own maid, monsieur.
:39:01
Now you must solve the mystery.
:39:04
There was no need to speak
with Mrs. Armstrong's.
:39:04
When we get to Brod, if we ever do,
:39:07
we present the police with
a fait accompli.
:39:08
Evasion. I asked for particulars
of the manservant.
:39:10
We say that a murder has occurred.
There is the criminal.
:39:11
He was, I think, the colonel's Indian,
how you would say, orderly.
:39:15
I should like
the Pullman coach reserved
:39:16
Inaccuracy.
:39:17
for the investigation's headquarters.
:39:18
Colonel Armstrong was an officer
of the British army in India.
:39:19
It will be at your disposal.
:39:21
He would have had a British
batman, like Private Beddoes,
:39:21
And a plan of the Calais coach
with the names and locations
:39:24
- of all the people in it.
- Yes, it will be there.
:39:25
And the passports of all
the passengers concerned.
:39:26
to serve his personal needs.
:39:27
Yes, you can even have mine.
:39:29
Only officers of the Indian army,
:39:29
I go to make a special
announcement now. Grazie.
:39:31
like Colonel Arbuthnott,
have Indian orderlies.
:39:32
Bring all the passports
to Monsieur Poirot.
:39:33
I asked her the name of
Mrs. Armstrong's younger sister.
:39:34
Are there any other
passengers on the train?
:39:36
I do not recall her name.
:39:36
In the Pullman coach,
nobody but myself and Mr. Bianchi.
:39:38
Unbelievable evasion.
:39:40
I asked her the name
of Mrs. Armstrong's secretary.
:39:43
Yes, a Miss Freebody.
:39:46
Non, c'est impossible ça.
:39:48
Alors.
:39:49
The princess, it seems,
is playing the psychological game
:39:49
Then we must concentrate
on the Calais coach.
:39:52
Where, in my amateur opinion,
the murderer is with us now.
:39:52
of word association.
:39:55
Freebody is the name
of the junior partner
:39:58
of one of London's most famous
and most opulent ladies' stores