:44:01
Or a weak woman.
:44:03
Or a strong man stabbing
the victim both strongly
:44:07
Tout de même, I must thank
the pipe-smoking Colonel Arbuthnott,
:44:08
and weakly in order to confuse us.
:44:11
for a remark which finally resolved
all my confusions about this...
:44:12
At least we know that
by the time of the murder,
:44:16
Ratchett was too drugged to cry out
or defend himself with this.
:44:16
This extraordinary case.
:44:18
I prefer to set aside the fact
:44:21
that he denied ever having spoken
to Colonel Armstrong in India.
:44:23
But how did you guess...?
:44:25
I didn't. He showed it to me
when he offered me $15,000
:44:26
And yet he remembered
in great detail
:44:28
to be his bodyguard and I refused.
:44:29
the decorations which
Colonel Armstrong had won
:44:31
Ought I to have accepted?
:44:32
years earlier in France.
:44:36
I prefer to remember his views
on the British jury system.
:44:40
Now, let us consider the ashtray.
:44:40
Trial by 12 good men and true
is a sound system.
:44:44
Two different matches.
:44:46
The iron tongue of midnight
:44:47
A smoked cigar.
:44:49
- A pipe cleaner...
- And this.
:44:51
hath told 12.
:44:55
Suddenly...
:44:55
- The initial H.
- That should not be hard to identify.
:44:56
...the number 12 began to ring
in my head like a great bell.
:44:58
I wonder, Christian name or surname?
:45:02
We must wait until
we examine the passports.
:45:03
Twelve.
:45:05
Bianchi, doctor,
:45:05
Doctor, how many wounds
were there in Ratchett's body?
:45:07
has it occurred to you that there
are too many clues in this room?
:45:08
- Twelve.
- Mr. McQueen,
:45:10
how many capital letters,
each inscribed by a different hand,
:45:13
were contained in each
of the two threatening messages
:45:16
you showed me on Ratchett's
correspondence file?
:45:16
Let us proceed by examining what
I hope will prove to be the last of them.
:45:19
Twelve. Twelve.
:45:21
Colonel Arbuthnott,
how many persons in a jury?
:45:21
The burnt paper.
:45:24
Twelve.
:45:27
Pierre Paul Michel,
:45:29
I use it for the mustaches.
:45:29
how many passengers
in the Calais coach,
:45:31
What has that to do
with mustaches?
:45:31
excluding myself
and the murdered man?
:45:33
To melt the wax.
:45:34
Twelve, monsieur.
:45:37
- Show me your wallet.
- No!
:45:39
Mr. Hardman,
you may not speak.
:45:44
Ratchett never asked you to be
his bodyguard, he asked me.
:45:47
And I, perhaps to
my discredit, refused.
:45:54
Before you joined Pinkerton's
as a private detective,
:45:56
you were an ordinary policeman,
were you not?