1:23:00
Some dark deed
that had to be dispatched?
1:23:02
Mr. Poirot, I'm not at liberty
to answer any of those questions.
1:23:05
Not here on this train, perhaps.
1:23:07
But when the Yugoslav police take
over an unsolved murder case at Brod,
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you will not remain at liberty
unless you answer the questions.
1:23:14
I can always call my lawyers
long-distance.
1:23:16
This is a private matter
between the colonel and myself.
1:23:19
Miss Debenham, in a murder case,
no matter is private
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and evasion breeds suspicion,
1:23:22
so answer my question.
When what was all over?
1:23:25
When what was behind you?
Please answer the question.
1:23:27
You will remain here
until I get an answer from you.
1:23:30
Mon colonel, please, Monsieur Poirot
has expressly forbidden...
1:23:33
Poirot has no right, he's out of order.
This is a private matter.
1:23:36
Je vous en prie, mon colonel.
1:23:37
- Mon colonel.
- Out of my way.
1:23:39
So answer my question.
When what was all over?
1:23:41
When what was behind?
Answer my question.
1:23:42
Get your hands off
Miss Debenham.
1:23:44
I was not aware that I was keeping
my hands on Miss Debenham.
1:23:47
I asked her a simple question
1:23:48
- which she refused to answer.
- So I heard.
1:23:51
Then perhaps you can
answer it for her.
1:24:02
Can you give me your solemn oath,
1:24:04
as a foreigner,
1:24:08
that if the answer
has nothing to do with the murder,
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you'll treat it confidentially?
1:24:13
I will.
1:24:23
Six months ago,
before I'd even met Miss Debenham,
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- my memsahib...
- Come again?
1:24:29
My wife
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expressed herself bored,
not only at living in India,
1:24:35
but at living with me.
1:24:37
And asked me to provide her
with a divorce.
1:24:41
In view of my position, commanding
officer, 12th Gurkhas, I refused.
1:24:45
Well, had I not,
I should have lost my command.
1:24:49
My wife returned to England,
where there is irrefutable evidence
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that she has been persistently
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unfaithful to me.
1:24:59
I have therefore instituted
divorce proceedings