First broadcast 1st March 1985.
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00:40You didn't tell me everything, did you, Mona, about Rudy's shouts?
00:43Yeah. I told you everything.
00:54I told you... nearly everything.
01:00Tell me the rest.
01:02My mum said that I'd be an...
01:06an accessory before the fact.
01:09Do you know what that means?
01:11It sounded horrible.
01:14I'm sure your mother's wrong.
01:18What happened?
01:20Well...
01:22The night Rudy died...
01:25we were supposed to be going to the pictures,
01:28and then he said he wouldn't be able to come,
01:31and I got cross because I just had me hair done.
01:35And I told him I didn't fancy being stood up by a foreigner.
01:39And he got mad at that and showed me that advertisement in the paper.
01:44The one that said a murder is announced?
01:47He said it was a silly English joke.
01:51There's always going on about silly English jokes.
01:54What exactly did he say he was going to do?
01:59He told me he was going to stage a sham hold-up,
02:03pretend he was a gangster and scare all the people.
02:06Why was he doing this?
02:09Because somebody was paying him.
02:11He said he'd be well into pocket,
02:13and he was going to buy me a...
02:15a watch.
02:17Somebody paid him to put the advertisement in the local paper
02:21and do the hold-up.
02:22Yeah.
02:23Who?
02:24He never said.
02:26You're sure about that?
02:28Sure.
02:29Honest.
02:30I mean, I'd tell you if I knew.
02:32Now that I know, it don't make me an accessory.
02:37Did you know he had a gun?
02:39I'd go out with a bloke if I thought he had a gun.
02:42And anyway, I don't believe he ever had a gun.
02:45He told me it was just a silly English joke
02:48and that he was going to enjoy laughing at their silly English faces.
02:52I mean, it stands to reason he wouldn't have done it
02:54if he thought he was going to get shot himself, would he?
02:57It'd be very funny, he said.
03:03Some joke.
03:14Oh! Oh, Inspector Craddock,
03:16have you had any success with Myrna?
03:18You're quite right, Miss Barple.
03:20She hadn't told me the full story.
03:22No, no, I thought not.
03:23As you suggested,
03:24somebody paid Rudy Schatz to place the advertisement and stage the hold-up.
03:28And there's no indication as to who it was?
03:30None at all.
03:32Inspector, I should be staying in Chipping Cleghorn for the next few days.
03:36I don't suppose there's anything I can do, but I shall in fact be at the vicarage.
03:41In case you should want me.
03:43The vicarage?
03:44Mrs. Harmon, the vicar's wife, is a distant niece.
03:48So I took the liberty of inviting myself.
03:51So, er, I may perhaps see you again in Chipping Cleghorn.
03:57I dare say.
03:59Oh!
04:00Guess what?
04:01Um, you want me to be Archbishop of Canterbury?
04:18Very close.
04:19Aunt Jane's coming to stay.
04:21Oh, even better.
04:22I knew you'd be pleased.
04:23Aunt Jane is coming to stay.
04:24I seem to remember telling you so a minute ago.
04:25A man dies in highly suspicious circumstances here in Chipping Cleghorn and suddenly Aunt Jane
04:38is coming to stay.
04:40Yes, I noticed that too.
04:43Hmm.
04:45So, whoever paid Rudy Shirts to play these silly games, is it the same person who tried to shoot Miss Blacklock?
04:51It's possible.
04:52He or she could have crept up behind Shirts in the dark, fired the shots, then dropped the gun.
04:58He or she?
04:59We have to keep an open mind.
05:03You mean that refugee woman who works up at the house?
05:06She's a bit hysterical.
05:07No, I don't mean the maid.
05:09I mean we have to keep an open mind.
05:12It seems obvious Shirts wasn't the murdering kind.
05:15And there's no evidence the gun belonged to him.
05:18It was a German automatic.
05:19Yeah, and since the war, the whole country's awash with German guns.
05:23Anybody who was in the services might have brought it home as a souvenir.
05:28Laura, my dear!
05:33I can't find my pistol.
05:35Well, you don't need it today, do you?
05:37That isn't the point.
05:41You mean you really can't find it?
05:43I thought that's what I said.
05:47Oh, my goodness.
05:50It should be in here.
05:52When did you see it last?
05:53God knows, months ago.
05:55Well, I remember clearly, I saw it on Saturday.
06:01On Saturday, are you sure?
06:03Absolutely certain.
06:05You were grumbling about your collars and the laundry.
06:07Come, come, my dear, I never grumble.
06:09You were grumbling.
06:10You were grumbling.
06:11And I looked in this drawer and the gun was there.
06:13It was the day after that business at Little Paddock's.
06:17And I remember thinking, well, at least it wasn't your gun he used.
06:21Unless he took it, did the job, replaced it.
06:26And then stole it again.
06:29Rather tricky, as the young man was dead.
06:32Well spotted, my dear.
06:33Still, we needn't bother the police about it.
06:35It's just an old war souvenir.
06:38No bullets, no license come to that.
06:41Mum's the word.
06:42You're my old war souvenir.
06:46I've got a couple of letters I must write.
06:52To begin with, the story Rudy Schertz told you when he visited the house was a pack of lies.
06:57He wasn't the son of the proprietor of the Hotel des Alpes in Montreux.
07:01Which explains why I didn't recognize him.
07:04Well, who was he?
07:06He'd had various jobs.
07:07A hospital orderly in Bern, a waiter, a shop assistant.
07:12Wherever he went, things tended to disappear.
07:16A picker up of unconsidered trifles.
07:19Exactly.
07:20The Swiss police were becoming a little tired of him,
07:22so he armed himself with forged papers and came to England.
07:26Another displaced person with a good cover story.
07:30Why pick on me?
07:32Yes.
07:33Why should he want to murder Letty?
07:35He didn't want to murder you, Miss Blacklock.
07:37It looked as if he did.
07:38He burst in here with a gun and I'm sure...
07:42He was paid to do that.
07:43Paid?
07:44Yes.
07:47Somebody else wanted to have me murdered.
07:50Is that what you're suggesting?
07:52That is what the evidence suggests.
07:54Nobody could possibly want to murder Letty.
07:56It's ludicrous.
07:57Please understand, Inspector.
07:59I have no hidden Rembrandts.
08:03No enemies that I'm aware of.
08:06And no guilty secrets about myself.
08:08Or anyone else for that matter.
08:13I would like to speak to your maid.
08:14Is she at home?
08:15Hannah's in the kitchen.
08:16Because she's a foreigner, she's an automatic suspect.
08:19Is that it?
08:20No.
08:23That's not it.
08:24She works hard and her papers and her permit are in perfect order.
08:29The same applied to Rudy Schertz.
08:33The late Rudy Schertz.
08:35I'm beginning to lose patience with Inspector Craddock.
08:42He's only trying to protect you, Letty.
08:45Protect me?
08:46I'm perfectly capable of protecting myself.
08:48But don't you see?
08:49See what?
08:50If somebody paid that young man to kill you and it didn't work,
08:55then whoever it is, well, he's likely to try again.
09:02Yes, I'm sorry.
09:05I'm being a bit slow in the uptake, aren't I?
09:07It's natural.
09:08You've had a difficult time.
09:10Apart from that,
09:12I think you should tell Mr. Craddock everything.
09:19What does it matter what I say?
09:22I'm just a refugee.
09:24If I say the wrong thing, you can always send me home.
09:27Unless you send me to prison.
09:29Besides, you shouldn't be talking to me.
09:32You should be talking to that nice English lady.
09:36Which nice English lady?
09:38Mrs. Hames.
09:40Why should I be speaking to Mrs. Hames?
09:43The young man.
09:45He comes to the house and asks Miss Blacklock for money.
09:49Do you know about that?
09:51Miss Blacklock told me.
09:52I watch him go.
09:53I watch him go.
09:55He stops and talks to Mrs. Hames.
09:59In the summer house.
10:04What do you suppose they were talking about?
10:06I don't know.
10:08How to steal Miss Blacklock's money, I expect.
10:11Miss Blacklock isn't a rich woman.
10:14She is richer than me.
10:16She's richer too than Mrs. Hames.
10:18Mrs. Hames is a fine lady who loses her husband and no longer has any money.
10:22She sends her son to school and has to work as a gardener.
10:26That is not a proper job for a fine English lady.
10:29Will you excuse me please?
10:31I need the kitchen to myself.
10:33I have to make a very careful sauce.
10:35Wrong door, Inspector.
10:36That one doesn't open.
10:37It's from when there were two rooms.
10:38I need the kitchen to myself.
10:39I have to make a very careful sauce.
10:58Wrong door, Inspector.
11:01That one doesn't open.
11:03It's from when there were two rooms.
11:05We used to have the whole table against it.
11:08When was the table moved?
11:10A couple of weeks ago.
11:12Something to do with flowers.
11:15Philippa, Mrs. Hames, did a big vase.
11:18All twigs and branches and people getting their hair tangled up.
11:23So we moved the table.
11:28Is it nailed up?
11:30No. Just locked.
11:32Do you have the key?
11:33Yes.
11:36In here, I think.
11:38Yes, here.
11:40There.
11:42Careful.
11:43There might be something resting against the inside.
11:46This door's been open quite recently, Miss Banner.
11:54The hinges in the lock have been oiled.
11:55Good gracious.
11:56Which means?
11:57You'd like to wash your hands.
11:58Which means?
12:00When Schertz came in this door and did his party piece,
12:01anybody could have slipped out through the other door, stood behind him and fired the shots at you, Miss Blackland.
12:02Oh.
12:03Oh.
12:04Oh.
12:05Are you suggesting that one of my names?
12:06Oh.
12:07Oh.
12:08Oh.
12:09Oh.
12:10Oh.
12:11Oh.
12:12Oh.
12:13Oh.
12:14Oh.
12:15Oh.
12:16Oh.
12:17Who's your main suspect, Inspector?
12:18The vicar's wife?
12:20Oh.
12:21Oh.
12:22Oh.
12:23Oh.
12:24We have to be very direct about this, Miss Blacklock.
12:25if you die, who benefits?
12:27Oh, he could have slipped out through the other door, stood behind him and fired the shots
12:28at you, Miss Blacklock.
12:31Oh.
12:32Are you suggesting that one of my neighbors, one of my nice commonplace neighbors, slipped
12:38through that door and tried to murder me?
12:40Oh.
12:41Who's your main suspect, Inspector?
12:44The vicar's wife?
12:48We have to be very direct about this, Miss Blacklock.
12:51look if you die who benefits patrick and julia oh and bunny here gets a small legacy and all
12:59the furniture in the house i didn't know that thank you let it's hardly the sort of thing one
13:07talks about as a rule but i i still think you should tell the inspector yes bunny i know what
13:13you think and i am going to tell him now i think we should both like a cup of tea if you'd be so
13:19kind i'm sorry i'll see to it what is miss banner anxious for you to tell me i'm not worth murdering
13:32now inspector but in a few weeks time i might be why because i should be a very rich woman
13:41please sit down
13:49does the name randall girdler mean anything to you
14:00well perhaps you're a little too young he was a financier died just before the war yes 1938
14:09well until his death i was his personal secretary well more a junior partner really
14:17when he died he left all his money in trust for his wife bell but if she dies before me
14:26i inherit a great deal of money randall girdler was a millionaire so yes a great deal of money
14:35you said you might very soon be a rich woman is mrs girdler likely to die yes
14:43that may sound callous inspector but you asked the question and that's a truthful answer
14:48bell girdler is a very sweet creature and an invalid we exchange cards and letters at christmas time
14:59and her nurse keeps me informed of her medical condition
15:03i gather it may now be only a matter of weeks
15:08where does mrs girdler live in scotland perhaps you'll let me have the address before i leave
15:16yes going back three spaces patrick and julia are the beneficiaries in the event of your death
15:23yes but if you die before mrs girdler what happens then bell and randall had no children
15:30so when he made his will he nominated the offspring of his sister sonia
15:35and who are they please don't laugh inspector but i only know them as pip and emma
15:45pip and emma yes but where are they nobody knows girdler's sister sonia married some smooth
15:55talking greek called stamford is more or less a crook and they lost contact with the girdlers
16:00except it's known that they had two children born in the early 1920s
16:05so they'd now be 25 26 the same age as patrick and julia
16:10yes is that possible
16:14miss blacklock's never seen them mrs girdler's never seen them so yes it's possible as i say
16:20you have a lot of checking to do where are we going back to hq no we're not i want to speak to
16:28mrs haymes see what she was doing in the summer house
16:31i'm happy to verify a statement if it means i can stand up straight
16:44a dead man rudy sherts you told me he was a stranger to you
16:48yes
16:49did you at any time have a conversation with him in the summer house at little paddocks
16:57in the summer house in the summer house it's absurd who told you that
17:03a statement was made to me that you were seen speaking to him
17:07i expect it was hannah
17:10she tells lies
17:13i've never met rudy sherts in my life
17:16and i couldn't have seen him i'm here every day
17:20thank you mrs haymes
17:27good morning colonel
17:37morning inspector
17:39you're up bright and early
17:41habit of a lifetime up with alarm
17:43check for the offensive perimeter
17:45i'm told you have a german pistol
17:51yes unofficially of course
17:54souvenir of victory and all that
17:57may i see it officially
17:59well fact of the matter is inspector damn thing's disappeared
18:04i see when
18:09all i can tell you is that my wife saw it in my drawer last saturday
18:14you mean it disappeared after the killing
18:17well according to my good lady yes
18:23i see
18:26well i'll leave you to check your defensive perimeters
18:34you know the english village has changed since before the war
18:49that's rarely because the whole world has changed
18:52village like chipping kighorn for example
18:55it may look the same
18:57simple and peaceful and eternal
19:00but it isn't
19:02you see in the old days
19:08everyone knew each other
19:10and if someone new came to the village
19:13then they brought letters of introduction
19:16they'd either been in the same regiment
19:18or the same ship
19:19or the same colony
19:21as someone already living in the village you see
19:23and that no longer applies
19:25oh gone forever i suspect
19:27well the big houses are sold the cottage is converted and
19:32people simply come in from anywhere
19:34from india
19:37hong kong or italy and
19:39made a little money and are able to retire
19:41no letters of introduction
19:44no roots
19:45you'll have to believe their stories and take them at their faith value
19:49plus their ration books and identity cards
19:52oh can you really believe in a ration book and identity card
19:57horrible things
19:59inhuman
20:00so pip and emma could be patrick and julia
20:08oh quite easily i imagine but
20:11i think they sound rather fun
20:13not at all the homicidal type
20:15but i'll try and find out
20:17you will be careful won't you
20:20oh of course
20:21a policeman asking questions is open to the gravest suspicion
20:25but
20:25an old lady asking questions
20:28is just an old lady asking questions
20:31who's the old lady
20:41mrs harman's aunt
20:44i could go to my room and pretend to work
20:48well mrs harman's quite fun
20:50pick of the village idiots really
20:52shall i be charming and terribly amusing
20:58no
21:00not a good idea
21:02it must have seemed quite dreadful to you
21:04like chicago come to chipping cleghorn
21:07i was scared stiff
21:09well it was rather an alarming experience
21:12but it must have seemed quite providential
21:14when the young man tripped himself up and shot himself
21:17of course burglary is so violent nowadays
21:19there used to be a certain grace and decorum about it
21:23but i blame the war miss marple
21:25don't you
21:26and the viennese waltz
21:27absolutely
21:28yes
21:30and was that the door that he came in at
21:32yes
21:33the very one
21:34and i'm told there were bullet holes
21:36right over here miss marple
21:38oh i've never seen a real bullet hole
21:40may i
21:40yes of course please
21:44it's a miracle lost he wasn't killed
21:46gracious
21:47but you were jolly severely wounded
21:49weren't you
21:50are you fully recovered now miss blacklock
21:52yes of course it was only a scratch
21:54i only wear this plaster to get sympathy from my nearest and dearest
21:59it doesn't work
22:02unfortunately
22:04so you were over here when it happened
22:06i'd just gone for the cigarette box
22:08then the lights went out
22:11what a delightful lamp
22:13dresden
22:14really
22:15it's one of a pair
22:17the others in the spare room
22:18really
22:19i'd forgotten about that
22:21i like nice things
22:23don't you
22:24oh oh yes indeed
22:25oh yes very much
22:26i'm afraid i can't work up any enthusiasm for possessions
22:30do you like nice things
22:35i prefer naughty things
22:36julia
22:37i have very few possessions
22:40all of them precious
22:43and each one
22:44a cherished memory
22:47and as for photographs
22:49people don't seem to keep photographs nowadays do they
22:51they
22:52i do
22:52have hundreds
22:54all my nieces and nephews
22:56when they were babies and children and grown up and parents
23:00what a horrible one of me with a squid and a fox terrier
23:05and despite all your aunt says
23:07i'm sure she's got hundreds of photographs of you all tucked away
23:11we're only distant cousins
23:13to tell you the truth miss marple
23:16i didn't remember these two existed
23:18until earlier this year i had a letter from their mother saying they were going to be studying in this area
23:23and when did you last see my mother
23:26oh about 30 years ago
23:28i remember she was very pretty and luckily we both inherited our good looks
23:33not only that you're quite right miss marple
23:36aunt letty has a marvelous old photograph album we looked through it the other day
23:40but i'm not obsessive about the past
23:43well i of course have more past than future
23:46oh don't be silly aunt jane
23:49my dear you've married a vicar
23:51you must know we're allocated three score years and ten
23:56and i shall soon be overdrawn
23:57you did it on purpose didn't you
24:04what my dear talked about photographs
24:07well i now know that miss blacklock had never seen patrick and julia in the flesh
24:12until they turned up on their doorstep
24:14and rang the bell
24:16exactly
24:18tomorrow i shall explore your village
24:21quite small won't take long
24:23oh there are all things in chipping claghorn
24:26per ratio than i dreamt of in your philosophy
24:29i dare say
24:32per ratio i thought he had a bridge
24:42good morning philippa hello
24:58what are you doing
25:00can't you see
25:01well i'm no gardener
25:03i mean you seem to be poking around aimlessly in the soil
25:06i'm pricking out winter lettuce
25:10and um exquisitely too
25:13please go away edmund
25:15you've no business to be here
25:16wrong i have business
25:18mrs lucas rang my mama this morning
25:20very anxious to trade one of her surplus vegetable marrows
25:24for um
25:26a pot of honey
25:30yes we're swamped with vegetable marrows
25:32so uh i have my alibi using the word loosely and incorrectly
25:38there's no question of dalliance
25:40good
25:43faultily faultless
25:45icily regular splendidly now
25:49i beg your pardon
25:50it's tennyson writing about maude but it's really about you philippa splendidly now
25:56it isn't much of a compliment
25:57but it isn't meant to be
25:59it's meant to stir you into speaking
26:01what are you like what do you feel
26:04that's my business
26:05it's mine too
26:06oh can't you see i'm smitten
26:09i didn't want to fall in love with you
26:12i just wanted to worry about the working classes and write my book about the world's misery
26:17and then you came along
26:19and you won't even talk to me
26:20i'm talking to you now
26:21not really talking
26:24tell me about anything tell me about your husband if you like
26:30we met
26:31we got married
26:33harry was born
26:36ronald was killed in italy
26:40harry's a nice kid i like him
26:42i think he likes me too
26:45oh let's get married philippa
26:46you can go on gardening and i can go on writing my tripey book and we can sponge off mother
26:55my eyesight is defective
26:58but i'm very sincere
27:00no
27:02i don't think so
27:06very well in that case you'd better lead me to that vegetable mary
27:16thank you
27:21ah sergeant fletcher are you keeping an eye on us
27:24inspector crudock's orders miss blacklock
27:26well we're just going down to the village it's hannah's day out so there's nobody in
27:30i see
27:30so if you could keep an eye on the house yes please
27:33the sergeant can make himself a cup of tea
27:35oh yes of course sergeant please do the doors open we never lock doors come along bunny
27:40we'll be late
27:40we'll be late
27:50we'll be late
27:52Oh, my God.
28:22Oh, my God.
28:52Oh, you startled me, Sergeant.
28:58I thought you were another burglar.
29:00No, Mrs Swatnam, it's only me.
29:05You came through the back door.
29:07Yes, it's always open.
29:09I just brought up some of my quinces.
29:12Perhaps you'd tell Miss Blacklock when she comes back.
29:14I leave them here.
29:16It seems anybody can walk into this house just as they like.
29:19Of course.
29:20How else could we leave quinces on the kitchen table?
29:28Mergatroyd.
29:29Yes, isn't she?
29:33I've been doing a bit of thinking.
29:36What about?
29:38Well, that pantomime the other night.
29:42It's all too fishy.
29:45Now, take this revolver.
29:48Well, that's a trowel.
29:49I know, it's a trowel.
29:51We don't stock revolvers, do we?
29:53I suppose it's not.
29:54And this torch.
29:56Now, go outside, come back in, wave the torch around and the revolver, like he did.
30:01And say, stick them up.
30:02Why?
30:06Because what happened the other night was fishy, and I want to find out what made it fishy.
30:12I'll try.
30:26Stick them up!
30:29The door won't stay open.
30:30Exactly.
30:32That's the fishy bit.
30:34The door at Little Paddock's is just the same.
30:36Letty Blacklock bought that huge glass doorstop from Elliot's, remember?
30:40Well, perhaps the burglar used the doorstop to keep it open.
30:43That's a non-starter, Mergatroyd.
30:46You fling the door open, you shout, reach for the sky,
30:49and then you say, excuse me a moment while I adjust the doorstop.
30:53It's all so awkward.
30:56Give me that revolver.
30:58Well, you'd have shot yourself by now.
31:02He did shoot himself, didn't he?
31:11Somebody must have held the door open for him.
31:13I'm not at all sure he did shoot himself.
31:21You mean, somebody else shot him?
31:30That's the only alternative to shooting oneself, in my experience.
31:35You've had experience?
31:36Of crimes of violence, lots.
31:43Two-gun, Hinchcliffe, the terror of Kidderminster.
31:47I don't believe you.
31:55Neither do I.
31:57But if it wasn't one of us who killed that boy,
32:00it was somebody very like us.
32:01I don't, perhaps.
32:23Yeah, I love it.
32:24Miss Marple.
32:47Oh, you do sit here.
32:49Oh, how kind.
32:50Thank you so much.
32:52I'm on my own.
32:53Oh, dear.
32:54Oh, such a sharp wind.
32:57My rheumatics, you know.
33:00I had sciatica last year.
33:02I was in agony.
33:03Oh, dear, yes.
33:04Oh, now then, coffee and cakes?
33:06Yes, please.
33:07For two.
33:13You know, I don't think the cakes here look so delicious as the ones I had in your house.
33:18Hannah made those.
33:20Hannah?
33:20A cook.
33:21She's very good.
33:22Some sort of a foreigner.
33:24Swiss, I think.
33:26It's a pity she screams so much.
33:28Oh, well, it's a sign of life.
33:31And what about the other person who I didn't see?
33:35A young woman who lives with you?
33:36Philippa.
33:37We call her our lodger.
33:40I suppose she is, in a way.
33:43Oh, Philippa.
33:44Haymes.
33:46Haymes.
33:46Oh, yes, really.
33:48Yes, I knew a colonel, Haymes, in the Indian cavalry.
33:52Her father, perhaps.
33:53She's Mrs. Haymes, a widow.
33:56Her husband was killed in Sicily, or Italy.
34:00Oh, how sad.
34:02Oh, here we are.
34:03All right.
34:11Now then, would you like me to pour out?
34:14Yes, please.
34:15Now, coffee.
34:23They're terribly pink, aren't they?
34:25Probably an artificial substitute for flavor.
34:33And has she many admirers?
34:36That waitress, I doubt it.
34:38Much too surly.
34:40Oh, oh, yes.
34:42No, uh, Mrs. Haymes.
34:44Oh.
34:45Well.
34:46Young Edmund Swetton and moons around her a bit.
34:51He's a very odd young man.
34:53Writes books.
34:54And I...
34:54I have heard that he's a...
34:56a communist.
34:58Oh, really, yes.
34:59Well, he must be rather lonely in Chibing Clegghorn.
35:02I'm told they can grow out of it.
35:04Do you believe that?
35:05Oh, yes, yes.
35:06I think that's quite likely, yes.
35:08Good.
35:10And, um, have you known Miss Blacklock long?
35:14Oh, we were at school together.
35:18Then we lost touch for years.
35:21She was secretary to this millionaire, a girdler, and...
35:25Tell me, I didn't do wrong, Miss Marple.
35:37I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about, Miss Barthas.
35:41I was living on my own, just for my pension, rather in a bed sitter, and I...
35:45I saw Letty's name in the local newspaper.
35:49She was at a charity luncheon in aid of the Milchester Hospital.
35:52And I wrote to her.
35:56Not a begging letter.
35:57It wasn't that.
35:58Oh, no, no, of course not.
36:00No, you wrote a friendly letter to an old school chum, and you met.
36:05She was lonely, and you were lonely, and she asked you to move in with her, that's all.
36:10Well, you do understand.
36:12I understand everything about lonely old ladies.
36:16I can tell.
36:17You're very comfortable to talk to, Miss Marple.
36:20You see, I get so angry when I see people taking advantage of Letty.
36:24And I do hope that I'm not like that.
36:29She's left me all the household goods, and an annuity.
36:35But that's her decision.
36:37I haven't taken advantage of her, truly.
36:41Oh, no, no.
36:43I'm quite sure you haven't.
36:44No.
36:45And do other people take advantage?
36:55Young Patrick.
37:00He's had money from her, twice at least, to my certain knowledge.
37:04And all Letty will say is the boy's young youth must have its flint.
37:09Yes, that's true, you know.
37:11And, of course, he is handsome.
37:13And they're a trifle insolent, I agree.
37:16But on the other hand...
37:18I saw him with an oil can in the garden.
37:25There, dear.
37:27And the other door to the drawing has been oiled.
37:33And I heard him having an argument with Julia the other day.
37:39But that's human nature, isn't it?
37:42Arguments between brothers and sisters.
37:46Shepherd.
37:47And shepherdesses.
37:50I beg your pardon?
37:53The lamp.
37:55On the table.
37:56I noticed that it was...
38:00The shepherdess.
38:02I'm not...
38:04The shepherd.
38:05Coffee and gossip, Bunny.
38:10Good morning, Miss Marple.
38:11Good morning.
38:12Oh, won't you join?
38:13No, thank you very much, but we are rather late.
38:16Have you done your shopping, Bunny?
38:18I must call at the chemist.
38:20I need some aspirin and corn plasters.
38:23Please, can I pay?
38:26Oh, no, sir.
38:27Oh, I wouldn't dream of a word, don't you?
38:29Come along, Bunny.
38:30That's it.
38:31Goodbye, Miss Marple.
38:33Excuse me.
38:34Come along, Bunny.
38:35Goodbye, Miss Marple.
38:36Goodbye.
38:39She's terribly sweet, Miss Marple.
38:42Such a good listener.
38:46I suppose you gave her much choice, Bunny, dear.
38:49Oh, no, not that one.
39:04Oh, no?
39:05No, no, I tried one of those.
39:07They taste of salmon.
39:08Oh.
39:10I think I'll just have the coffee.
39:12Very wise.
39:14So, what were you talking about?
39:16Family loyalty.
39:17Oh, I hope it wasn't as tedious as it sounds.
39:20Oh, no, on the contrary, very revealing.
39:23You see, nearly everyone assumes that people murder out of hatred.
39:28But, of course, it may be out of loyalty.
39:30Or even love.
39:31Love?
39:34Now, tell me again who was in the room that night.
39:38Miss Blacklock, Rudy Sherz.
39:41And devoted Dora to Hanson Patrick.
39:45Mrs. Swetnell of the Honeypots and her serious son, Edmund, yes.
39:51Um, the Puckerside Colonel Eastbrook and the fluffy Mrs. Easterbrook.
39:55Oh, not forgetting the cool and distant Philippa Haymes.
40:00And?
40:01Oh, am I forgetting somebody?
40:03Yes.
40:03Julia.
40:05That's right.
40:06Julia, yes.
40:07Julia.
40:08Pretty Julia is peculiar.
40:10Three and six.
40:11And I'm not a peculiar Mrs. Harmon.
40:13I've always been a good C of E.
40:15Oh, I'm so sorry.
40:16I was just quoting an old song.
40:19I didn't know your name was Julia.
40:21No offence, I'm sure.
40:24Thank you very much.
40:25Thank you very much, Mrs. Marker.
40:27Well, yes.
40:31Now, do we believe in Pip and Emma?
40:34Miss Blacklock says they exist, so we have to.
40:36Even though she's never seen them and doesn't know what they look like.
40:40But they are the only people to benefit from Miss Blacklock's death.
40:43Well, not necessarily.
40:45Either of them might have married.
40:48Their mother and father might be alive.
40:50You see, they'd all be interested parties.
40:53So, the police should be looking for a murderer who...
40:56Who is either male or female, in the middle 20s.
41:00Or someone nearly as old as I am.
41:03You also said somebody who would murder out of love.
41:07Ah, yes, but a very special kind of love.
41:10A deep and abiding passion for large sums of money.
41:17Except...
41:18What?
41:22That waitress thought you were talking about her.
41:27Oh, it's just a simple mistake.
41:31Yes.
41:32One, two, three, four.
41:36Two, three.
41:44Two, three.
41:54One.
41:56One.
41:57¶¶
42:26Mrs. Girdler's very much looking forward to your visit, Inspector.
42:34Is she really? That makes a change.
42:36She has very few visitors for obvious reasons.
42:40There's one question I have to ask.
42:43I can guess what it is.
42:46Well?
42:47She's a dying woman.
42:49She's surviving on drugs and on her willpower,
42:53but they can't last for more than a few weeks.
42:57And our dear Miss Blacklock was not hurt by the attempt on her life?
43:03A grazed ear.
43:05Oh, poor Blackie.
43:08You know about her family background?
43:12No.
43:13Is it important to your investigation?
43:15I have no idea.
43:19Well, let me ramble on
43:21and stop me if it becomes boring.
43:24Agreed?
43:25Agreed.
43:26Two sisters.
43:28The father, an old country doctor, and a tyrant.
43:34Lettie rebelled, ran away to London,
43:37made herself into a chartered accountant.
43:40The other sister, Charlotte, was an invalid.
43:45Now, when the old man died,
43:48Blackie left the firm to go and look after her sister.
43:53Randall was furious with her,
43:56shouted at her,
43:58but she was determined.
44:00And she took her sister to Switzerland.
44:05Tell me about your husband's sister.
44:08Sonia?
44:08Oh, she was wild.
44:13I was fond of her.
44:15But we've lost touch.
44:17She married this chap, Stamfordius,
44:20a genuine crook, I've no doubt.
44:23You'd have enjoyed locking him up.
44:27Randall disapproved of the marriage,
44:29but Sonia took no notice.
44:32We got a letter,
44:33about 18 months after the wedding,
44:37to say she'd had twins just after midday,
44:43so she intended to call them Pip and Emma.
44:49We forgot about them.
44:51A terrible thing to say about one's relatives.
44:54But Mr. Girdler left his estate to the children,
44:58in the event of Miss Blacklock predeceasing you.
45:01The lawyers pestered him.
45:04He told them that Blackie was strong as a horse
45:08and I was delicate,
45:09but they insisted.
45:12Lawyers do.
45:13They're so serious about life and death,
45:18things like that.
45:21But you have no idea where they may be,
45:24your sister-in-law,
45:26her husband or their children.
45:28They may be dead.
45:30They may be anywhere.
45:31They may be in Chippin' Claycorn.
45:41Indeed they may.
45:44Don't let them hurt Blackie.
45:47She's too good to lose.
45:49Uh, sardine sandwiches and tomato
45:52and some of those little scones you do so nicely.
45:57And I want you to make your special cake.
46:01My cake?
46:02Is it a party?
46:03You've won such things.
46:05This is Miss Bunner's birthday
46:06and some people are coming to tea.
46:08Birthdays?
46:09Parties?
46:10At her age is better to forget.
46:13She doesn't want to forget.
46:14She wants a cake.
46:15I want her to have a cake.
46:19I have nothing to make such a cake.
46:21I need butter, sugar, chocolate, raisins.
46:28Butter, sugar, chocolate, raisins.
46:36Where do you get such things?
46:39None of your business, Hannah.
46:41Very well.
46:43I shall make such a cake with icing.
46:47And on the top I will write good visions.
46:53Thank you, Hannah.
46:54I will show your English friends
46:56that such a cake should taste like...
47:00English cakes taste like scent.
47:03My cake will taste like heaven.
47:06I'm sure it will.
47:08And you must tell Mr. Patrick not to call it names.
47:12Well, I'm sure he wouldn't dream of calling it names.
47:14My last cake, he calls it delicious death.
47:18Oh, but that's a compliment.
47:20Death is a compliment.
47:24Happy birthday to you.
47:28Happy birthday to you.
47:30Happy birthday, dear party.
47:34Happy birthday to you.
47:43Delicious death.
47:45And Panna doesn't like you talking about a cake like that.
47:48She disapproves of everything I do.
47:50It looks a lovely cake.
47:52Foreigners.
47:53They make damn good cakes.
47:57Mind you, it's plain boiled pudding that stumps.
47:59Got a new gardener, Miss Blacklock?
48:07Saw a chap snooping round the hen house.
48:09No, that's our own special detective.
48:12Detective?
48:13Why?
48:15To protect Lettick.
48:16But isn't that all over now?
48:18They adjourned the inquest.
48:19Police not satisfied.
48:21It's obvious.
48:22They never are.
48:23As I see it, we're all under suspicion.
48:26Suspicion of what?
48:28Well, here and now, I'd say loitering with intent.
48:31Oh, that sounds quite amusing.
48:33What sort of intent?
48:34Intent to commit murder upon the first opportunity.
48:37Oh, please don't, Mr. Swetland.
48:40It's so awful.
48:41Now, Bunny.
48:42I'm sure nobody would want a murder.
48:44Shh, it's all right.
48:45Don't discuss yourself.
48:47Come on, Bunny.
48:48It's usually me who spoils the party with a bad joint.
48:51It's okay.
48:51It's okay.
48:51It's okay.
48:52It's okay.
48:52It's okay.
48:52It's okay.
48:53It's okay.
48:53It's okay.
48:54It's okay.
48:54It's okay.
48:54It's okay.
48:55It's okay.
48:55It's okay.
48:56It's okay.
48:57It's okay.
48:58Good afternoon, Mrs. Swetland, Mrs. Swetland, Mrs. Swetland, Mrs. Swetland, Mr. Brooke, Colonel.
49:04Good afternoon.
49:09Sergeant Fletcher, we thought you might like a piece of hammer's cake.
49:13That's very kind.
49:15All the suspects have gone home now.
49:18Are you under orders to stay?
49:20Another ten minutes, then I hand over to the local Bobby.
49:23We do sleep sounder for the police presence.
49:26Good.
49:33Thank you, Mrs. Swetland.
49:34Thank you, Mrs. Swetland.
49:35did you enjoy your part oh I did too much excitement too much cake and those
49:57lovely chocolates when did you find them oh it's easy if you don't mind breaking
50:02the law I I think I'll take a cup of aspirin and lie down for a while
50:24shall I shut up the ducks Aunt Letty well if you can do it properly there's
50:30absolutely no guarantee but I promise to try my hardest all you have to do is
50:34make sure that the latch is down firmly I knew there was a secret oh don't worry
50:41Aunt Letty I'll make sure it's all right I seem to have mislead the aspirin I bought in the village
50:50this house is chock full of aspirin they fall out of every cupboard there's a bottle on my dressing
50:56table take mine bunny dear they're by my bed thank you Letty ducks all you have to do is see the latches
51:14down firmly Julia imagine you were Pippenhammer what would you do no I come to England penniless
51:27yes then assuming I'm of criminal mentality I seek out any rich relations I might have I know my uncle
51:36Randall girdler left a vast fortune so I inquire about his widow discover she's still alive and that the
51:43only obstacle between me and the money is Miss Letitia Blacklock of Chipping Claycorn therefore murder
51:49Miss Blacklock have we checked about Patrick and Julia yes they are precisely what they tend to
51:57be Patrick has rather a good war record
52:00Fletcher's been busy too so I see
52:07Andrea oh please I waited hopefully for somebody to offer but Scotland appears to be totally dry
52:16helps the concentration
52:21bunny
52:32Philippa Philippa Philippa yes yes I see don't go there's been another one yeah
53:02dora banner but that's most unfair village policeman's on duty he called the doctor must have been an autopsy but well it looks like narcotic poisoning but she's a complete innocent
53:24is it the fate of the innocent to suffer very often it is yes in spite of her innocence or because of her innocence
53:37you