First broadcast 24th December 1987.
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01:50there's been another robbery during the night. I heard it on wireless. I'm just
01:57telling Bess. oh and what this time? the Irish mail train. apparently they held it
02:04up and nabbed all the special mail bags while the passengers were asleep. got away
02:09with a small fortune. they think it was the same gang's last time. was anyone
02:14injured? no. need trust in gang. got to hand it to them. clever blighters. Henry could I have
02:21some more toast please? Malaria.
02:24hello Biddy? it's me. I'm back. yes I did find out. no it wasn't all right. listen, can you ring cousin Mildew and tell her I won't be back till this evening?
02:46I've got to see someone urgently and then I'm going to see you-know-who. use your initiative.
02:58the last time I saw you you were about 10 years old. how old are you now? 16? 17? I'm nearly 20.
03:21I had no idea. Derek Luscombe always talks about you as if you were still a child. I know but I'm not a child Mr. Egerton.
03:29no. well let me see. you have been away in Italy haven't you? finishing? yes. and what next?
03:38I'm not sure. I suppose as one of my trustees you'd have to agree to anything I did want.
03:45yes? is there something then? not at the moment. then why are you here? well it's
03:52just no one ever tells me things. you mean things about yourself? yes. well Uncle
04:02Derek's very kind but I'm tired of being shielded. I thought perhaps you might
04:07treat me like an adult. what is it you want to know, Elvera?
04:15doing some sight to you madam? yes. we've got to go to the Tower of London.
04:19very close to my stage. here you are. here you are.
04:24God pressure. join yourselves now.
04:29so I'm really quite rich. you'll be very rich indeed when you're 21. until then it's
04:42in the hands of your trustees. unless I marry before then. that would alter the
04:49situation yes. if I was married and died I suppose my husband would get my money
04:56would he? yes. and if not? it would go to Lady Sedgwick as your closest relative.
05:03close? she's still your mother, Elvera.
05:09good morning. Colonel Luscombe, please.
05:39we will be able to see each other, won't we? of course. I mean often. I can come up to town
05:52whenever you want. you mustn't go taking stupid risks.
05:59I'll drop you at the station. next time I'll borrow cousin Milton's car.
06:26I wish I didn't have to go. me too. if only we could be together all the time.
06:37one day. promise. you mustn't miss your train. promise.
06:45I promise.
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07:45ORGAN PLAYS
08:15Good bye Jane.
08:18You will keep in touch won't you?
08:20And perhaps one of these days I'll visit dear St Mary Mead again.
08:25Oh do please.
08:27uh goodbye lady selena safe journey thank you goodbye
08:35ah miss gorringe i'm back i've come to see lady sedgwick she is expecting me
08:47one moment colonel alice would you put me through to lady sedgwick please
08:52ah lady sedgwick miss gorringe speaking i have colonel luscombe here
09:01certainly would you care to go after her sweet colonel it's number two
09:07first floor thank you
09:08oh forgive me you don't know me at least we nodded to each other
09:18uh i was staying here when you were here last week
09:21oh yes yes with your niece was it my ward
09:25oh yes well i wondered if i could have a word with you
09:29uh in private
09:31thank you i didn't feel i could tell lady sedgwick in the circumstances
09:37oh why don't you
09:38thank you uh well i do hope you won't think it presumptuous of me
09:46i don't usually interfere in these things and i wouldn't now
09:49if it wasn't for his uncanny resemblance to basil twisk
09:52i beg your pardon
09:54someone in my village
09:55a philanderer if ever there was one
09:57well i'm sorry but i'm not quite sure
09:59i thought you ought to know
10:00that is if you don't know already
10:02of course i i could be mistaken
10:05he he may be a friend of the family
10:07oh madam
10:08but on the other hand in that case
10:10why did they pretend not to know each other
10:14when he came here last week
10:16thank you mrs cavett
10:18did you enjoy your visit to the haymarket last night
10:20oh yes indeed
10:22such a cute little theater that is
10:24i said to elmer
10:26can't you just picture henry irving walking across that stage
10:30bertram's hotel at your service
10:36oh yes
10:38what name shall i say madam
10:41it's for you miss gorringe
10:44and mrs mccrae
10:45she says she's canon pennyfather's housekeeper
10:48hello mrs mccrae
10:56miss gorringe here
10:56i'm so glad you've run
10:58no that's what i was about to ask you
11:02we expected him back the day before yesterday
11:05we've had no word from him
11:06and his luggage is still here
11:08yes it is
11:12of course we know the canon is apt to be a little
11:14well forgetful at times
11:18i'm sure he'll be in touch
11:20indeed i will
11:22and i'd be grateful if you'd do the same
11:24meanwhile we put his cases in the baggage room
11:27not at all
11:29goodbye mrs mccrae
11:31you are an old fusspot derrick
11:35it was richard edgerton put the wind up me
11:38he phoned me as soon as she'd left his office
11:41said he felt sure there was a man involved
11:43it'd be surprising if a girl as attractive as elvera
11:47hadn't got a boyfriend
11:48well some decent young chap perhaps vetted by myself or mildred
11:53but i'm afraid edgerton was right
11:56you know who it is then
11:58i do now
11:59some well-meaning old biddy downstairs saw them in the park together a couple of days ago
12:05you're not gonna like this miss
12:09oh this is room 57
12:12and i should like a telephone number please
12:15um chadminster
12:18520
12:20oh yes thank you
12:24oh mrs mccrae
12:31oh this is jane marple speaking
12:34yes
12:36oh how clever of you to remember
12:38oh yes very well thank you
12:41i'm staying at bertram's hotel
12:43yes
12:46quite
12:47that's why i'm ringing
12:48i do hope you don't think i'm interfering mrs mccrae
12:52but i think you should report his disappearance to the police
12:55at once
12:56i hope you don't mind my dragging along behind you inspector campbell
13:02not in the least sir
13:03it's just that i've got an interesting virgin's hotel
13:07quite beyond your missing encouragement
13:09as long as i know what the form is sir
13:11oh don't you worry i shan't buddy
13:13oh by the way
13:15there's no uh
13:17no need to call me sir while we're here
13:19uh just treat me as your stooge
13:23yes sir
13:24as you wish
13:26not at all
13:31it's a pleasure
13:32goodbye
13:33good afternoon madam
13:35i telephoned earlier
13:36police
13:37would you mind keeping your voice down
13:39sorry
13:40would you fetch mr humphreys please
13:42you'll be miss
13:45um
13:45gorringe
13:46detective inspector campbell
13:48and this is
13:49uh my assistant
13:51we've met before
13:53i've had a tear once or twice
13:55oh yes
13:57well i'm very partial to your muffins
13:59we'd like to talk to you about canon pennyfather
14:01you'd better come into the office will you take over alice
14:04i do hope it won't get into the sunday papers that he's missing that is or at any rate that they won't mention bertrams
14:13hello bessie i told you not to use that god-awful name it was good enough for you back in ballygowden
14:23please will you get out of my way where are you off to in such a hurry to sort out another rat
14:30now don't be like that
14:32i was wondering if we couldn't have a little chat sometime
14:35so you can try to screw some money out of me
14:38i warned you the other day
14:39you've got me all wrong bessie
14:41have i
14:42if it's money i was after
14:44there's others around here i've got more on than you
14:47hmm
14:48all right
14:54so canon pennyfather left here at approximately 2 30 p.m
14:59on wednesday last the 19th
15:02that is correct
15:03he had with him a small overnight bag
15:06and left in a taxi for the athenium club
15:08the commissioner will verify that
15:11and he should have returned here late the following evening
15:14or first thing next morning
15:16was it a little boac bag
15:18that he had with him
15:19one of their little blue bags
15:22oh it is blue isn't it
15:24yes
15:25oh he thought so
15:26i used to have a similar one
15:28and the rest of his luggage is still here
15:30in the baggage room
15:32two suitcases
15:34you've known canon pennyfather for some time haven't you
15:40oh yes
15:41he's been a regular here for years
15:43i'm afraid he's always been absent-minded
15:46are you absolutely certain there was no message from him
15:50positive
15:51yes miss gorringe what what
16:02oh mr humphries these are the two gentlemen from scotland yard
16:05about canon pennyfather
16:06ah yes you rang didn't you
16:09extraordinary business
16:10hope nothing's happened to him
16:12such a splendid chap
16:13one of the old school
16:14inspector campbell was just asking if he might interview some of the staff
16:18we'll be pleased to help in any way we can
16:20who did you want to see inspector
16:22the waiter who attended canon pennyfather's table for one
16:26henry will help you there
16:27uh henry
16:29our head waiter
16:30a bit of a personality
16:31sets the tone of the place
16:33anyone else
16:35the chambermaid
16:36rose shelton
16:38i'm sure that can be arranged
16:39she'll be on duty at um
16:41five o'clock
16:42mr humphries
16:43perhaps in the meantime you care to have tea in the lounge
16:46no i think perhaps
16:47oh what a good idea
16:48who can resist tea at bertram's
16:51good afternoon miss mara
16:55oh might i have some tea
16:58good afternoon
16:59mind if i join you
17:01oh don't you please do
17:02would you like me to
17:04oh would you
17:05oh i should be most grateful
17:07ah there
17:09thank you
17:11i believe you know canon pennyfather
17:15yes
17:16oh yes indeed
17:17yes
17:18his father was a great friend of my uncle
17:20the canon of ely
17:22was it by any chance you who rang his housekeeper this morning
17:25well yes i did yes
17:27because i felt there was something not quite right
17:29of course you see i realized on wednesday evening there must have been a muddle
17:34wednesday
17:34oh yes
17:35i thought perhaps that he might have missed his plane
17:38that would account for it wouldn't it
17:40account for what
17:41for his coming back here
17:42oh he came back
17:44oh yes yes i saw him
17:45well when did he come back
17:47well i don't know
17:49but you said just now you saw him
17:52well that must have been later
17:53i wasn't sleeping properly
17:55i was worrying about something else
17:57about a young girl who's staying here
17:59but nothing to do with bertram's
18:01what was once so reassuring now seems to be false menacing even
18:19but uh getting back to canon penny father
18:21oh yes yes indeed
18:23well i was lying awake
18:24or something woke me because there are a lot of strange noises in london
18:28and i looked at my little clock and it said ten past one
18:32and then i heard footsteps in the corridor and for some reason i felt uneasy so i opened my bedroom door
18:42and there was canon penny father walking towards the stairs with his outdoor coat on
18:48was he carrying anything
18:52no no he wasn't
18:54interesting
18:54interesting
18:55i thought there must be some connection you see
18:57connection
18:59yes between the canon's disappearance
19:01and whatever it is
19:03that's going on here
19:04all right
19:10so i've seen the girl a few times
19:13i should have guessed shouldn't i
19:15i met her in italy
19:17when she mentioned she was your daughter
19:19you thought you'd play her own
19:21it did lend an added free song yes
19:23you bastard
19:25does she know about you and me
19:29not as far as i know
19:31since when were you so interested in the workings
19:33it's now
19:34she's young and vulnerable
19:37i'm not letting you ruin her life
19:39now would i do that
19:41yes
19:41i know what it's like to have your life messed up at that age
19:47from now on you leave her alone do you understand lousy
19:50and if i don't
20:03oh no miss
20:04oh no miss
20:05we need each other too much
20:07then there is something wrong with this place
20:12oh i've no doubt about it
20:13oh poor bertrams
20:15it's always sad when a work of art has to be destroyed
20:18yes
20:19you know it's like when you get that weed ground elder in a garden border
20:23there's nothing you can do except dig the whole lot up
20:26well i'm not in a position to start digging anything up yet
20:29the whole operation is managed and financed from here that i know
20:33no uh i don't know who's mastermind in it
20:37no
20:38uh i think you're wanted
20:40you'll have to excuse me miss marple i've got to go and see the chambermaid
20:45rose shelton
20:46ah now you'd do well to talk to that young woman
20:49i've trained quite a few maids in my time
20:51but i've never seen a bob curtsy like that
20:54since the st mary mead players
20:56put on a french farts
20:58so you didn't go into his room at all on thursday
21:06yes i did i went in as usual
21:08to dust sir
21:09we dust all the rooms every day
21:11and then i took back his two clean shirts as well
21:15had the bed been slept in
21:17no sir
21:18what about the bathroom
21:20any towels been used
21:23just a hand towel sir
21:25he must have washed his hands just before going off
21:27the day previous
21:28but there was nothing to suggest
21:31that he had come back to the room late the same night
21:33oh no sir
21:35what about his clothes
21:42were they packed up in cases
21:44no sir they were hanging in the cupboard
21:47until miss gorringe asked for them to be moved
21:49because the room was needed for the new lady
21:51and then i put them in the suitcase
21:53what about his uh little blue bag
21:56i beg your pardon sir
21:58uh his biac bag
22:00you must have seen that
22:02oh yes that
22:04yes
22:05at least no
22:08i mean he'd taken that abroad with him
22:10ah but it didn't go abroad
22:11so he must have left it behind
22:14or else he came back and left it with the other luggage
22:17yes yes that's what
22:18i think
22:19i'm not quite sure
22:22i'm sorry sir
22:25that will be all rose
22:27thank you sir
22:29well they forgot to brief her about that didn't they
22:36let's see if they've done any better with henry
22:40so you served canon pennyfather yourself that morning
23:00supervised the service
23:03i like to keep an eye on our regulars
23:05and no doubt you exchange a few pleasantries with them
23:10i consider that part of my job sir
23:12did you converse with canon pennyfather
23:16yes sir
23:18we had some discussion about his haddock
23:20and that led on to the parable of the loaves and fishes
23:23but he said nothing that might indicate a change of plan
23:29no sir
23:30i'm seeing an old missionary i met in anewsono
23:33something like that
23:34nothing remotely like that sir
23:36he told me he wouldn't be here the following morning
23:39as he would be in lucerne
23:41he was a trifle disparaging about continental breakfasts
23:45pendleberries were absolutely right about this place
23:54it just is old england
23:55i feel as if any minute now
23:59edward the seventh will walk right out of those doors
24:02be careful with those cases
24:07taxi sir
24:08well thank you
24:10police
24:12i believe you put canon pennyfather in a taxi last moment
24:17that's right sir
24:19he was going to his club
24:21ah excuse me sir can i have a word with you
24:24we've just set a call from the yard
24:26three little ladies who quite contrary come from the ladies seminary
24:39three little ladies who quite contrary come from the ladies seminary
24:47three little ladies who quite contrary come from the ladies seminary
24:55three little ladies from school
24:59it's no use inspector i can't remember a thing
25:12you don't recall being hit by a car
25:14afraid not
25:15then what makes you think that you were knocked down
25:18well the couple who found me said so
25:21well that's what they surmised
25:23how else could i be lying in the road
25:27with your boac bag
25:30and you've no idea how you came to be in the area of milton st john
25:42never heard of the blessed place
25:45are you quite sure
25:46as sure as anyone can be in a state of concussion
25:50just tell us canon in your own good time
25:53what was the last thing that you do recall
25:56mirror on the wall
26:01what's that
26:03what
26:04you said something about a mirror
26:07did i
26:09well i can't think why
26:10i'm sorry you were asking
26:13the last thing you remember before waking in a strange bed
26:16in milton st john
26:18i remember taking a taxi to the air terminal
26:23and after that
26:25not a sausage
26:27not for instance
26:31traveling on a train
26:33why should i take a train when i'm supposed to be flying
26:38an acquaintance of yours
26:40a mrs
26:41a mrs pierce
26:43she sings in the church choir i believe
26:46oh i remember her
26:48she reported seeing you on a train
26:51in the early hours of thursday morning
26:54a train
26:55what train
26:56the irish mail
27:05you say she saw him in the irish mail train
27:09this mrs pierce
27:11seems she woke up when the train stopped
27:13looked out in the corridor
27:14rather as you had done earlier
27:16and saw canon pennyfather
27:18climbing into the compartment
27:20she saw him climbing into the train
27:23oh she presumed that he climbed down onto the line previously to see what was going on
27:28and she was sure it was canon pennyfather
27:30and she was sure it was canon pennyfather
27:31positive
27:32well it has a very distinctive appearance
27:35yes
27:36like justice ludgrove
27:39well that was the name of the judge who was implicated in the bank robbery wasn't it
27:45there are no flies on you miss maripal
27:48oh how very kind of you to say so
27:51and canon pennyfather himself remembers nothing about being in the train
27:57nothing whatever
27:59there was one thing though
28:02he muttered something about a mirror
28:05didn't seem to know why
28:07it sounded like that rhyme from one of those fairy stories
28:12mirror mirror on the wall
28:15who is the fairest of them all
28:17yes snow white the wicked stepmother
28:19yes mothers and daughters
28:22they do seem to keep cropping up
28:25don't they
28:26this chap who's caught in
28:44the lady's edific and her daughter
28:47what's he like
28:48oh about 30ish
28:51handsome
28:52but his face is a bad face
28:55predatory
28:56if basil twisk's record
28:58does anything go by
28:59basil twisk
29:00yes
29:01he sold insurance in much venom
29:03and i'm afraid that's not all he sold
29:06he drove a racing car too
29:08does this chap drive a racing car
29:10yes a red jaguar
29:12i saw it in the park the other day
29:14don't happen to remember the number
29:16uh f a n double two double six
29:23you're sure
29:24yes indeed
29:25because it made me think of my cousin fanny who had a stutter
29:28two two six six
29:30ah
29:32i've seen it around here too
29:34i saw it earlier today
29:37really
29:38do you think he has any connection with the robberies
29:42do you miss marvel
29:44isn't everything to do with bertrams connected
29:47oh i feel so worried about that poor girl
29:51i have a dreadful sense of foreboding
29:54you see chief inspector
29:56in the case of basil twisk
29:58there was a death
30:00someone tried to kill me
30:16someone
30:18they shot at me
30:39if it hadn't been for him
30:41is he badly hurt
30:52i'm afraid he's had it
30:57what's happened
31:02i thought i heard shots
31:04i'm sure it was nothing lady sedgwick
31:05just a car backfiring i think
31:07albira
31:08there's been an attempt on her life
31:13i was on my way here
31:16and suddenly there was a shot
31:19and a bullet went past my cheek
31:23and then he came running down the road
31:26and the commissioner
31:27and he shoved me behind him
31:29and then there was another shot
31:32and he's dead mother
31:35Mick Corman
31:36did you see whoever it was
31:39no
31:40he rushed past me into the fog
31:44and
31:44he must have been hiding in the area below
31:47do you know why anybody should want to kill you miss black
31:51no
31:52but it isn't the first time they've tried
31:57inspector cabell sir
32:12inspector cabell
32:14the other day
32:26something else happened
32:28i was on the tube
32:30there were lots of people on the platform
32:32someone tried to push me onto the rails
32:35i told myself so at the time
32:41after this evening
32:43i understood that you were living in camp
32:48what were you doing up in london
32:50i came up to meet my friend bridget southerby for lunch
32:54and then we went to a sunday concert at the festival hall
32:58it was foggy when we came out
33:00but not too thick
33:02so i started to drive home
33:04then it got worse
33:06i thought i better not take any risks
33:09as it was cousin mildred's car
33:10so i wasn't far from here
33:13so i parked
33:13and thought i might find a room at bertram's
33:16i hoped i might see mother again too
33:20did you see or hear anyone near you
33:26i heard footsteps behind me
33:28but there are a lot of people walking about in london
33:31yes
33:33excuse me sir i thought you'd want to see this
33:36oh thank you
33:37sorry about this
33:44miss blake
33:47do you know anybody of the name of
33:49luddyslows malinowski
33:51the racing car driver
33:54no i don't
33:57you do of course lady sadrick
34:01oh lord yes
34:03we've been chums for years
34:05why
34:05i see
34:09so i drove this
34:12feeble-minded clergyman
34:15from bertram's to bedhampton
34:18and the two of us
34:20then proceeded to waylay the irish mail train
34:24well the costas finished jumping on his mother
34:29supposing i was to tell you that a red sports car similar to yours
34:34was seen in the area around badhampton
34:38just before the robbery
34:39i should ask if it had the same number plates as mine
34:43he loves to lay about skin in the sun
34:47number plates can be changed
34:50you'll have to do better than that chief inspector
34:52or take one consideration with another
34:55her policeman's lot is not a happy one
35:00do you want a revolver mr malinowski
35:03certainly
35:07i have a revolver
35:10and
35:10an automatic pistol
35:12both with proper licenses
35:15where are they now
35:17the pistol is in the pocket of my car
35:20and the revolver in a drawer at my flat
35:23you're right about
35:25the revolver but
35:26about this
35:28where did you get this from
35:41in the basement area near bertram's hotel
35:44it was used last night
35:46to shoot michael gorman the commissioner
35:49i see
35:53so now i'm guilty of murder as well as robbery
35:57this is ridiculous
35:58why should i kill that pathetic old war relic
36:01the bullet wasn't intended for him
36:04it was intended for a young lady
36:07someone i believe you know
36:09elvira blake
36:11why should i kill the girl that i'm going to marry
36:19apart from any romantic qualms
36:23it hardly ditch your fortune
36:24unless you were married to her already
36:27then you'd inherit it
36:29good try chief inspector but wrong again
36:34i was playing poker last night
36:36any other suspects
36:39a mother perhaps
36:41bess kill her own daughter
36:43she's next of kin
36:44she gets enough money from her american ex
36:46enough is not the same as a fortune
36:49she might have had an additional motive
36:54suppose her daughter was about to marry the man that she loved
37:00now i've heard everything
37:01all right all right
37:07bess and i have been lovers
37:10it was never serious
37:13on your part
37:15perhaps
37:17what a hoot
37:25trish gormsby smith at a hunt ball
37:27she looks like a horse herself
37:29why did you tell them you didn't know ladislaus
37:34you don't have to lie to me
37:45he's no good elvira he's using you
37:50you say that because you're jealous
37:52i know about you and him
37:54darling that meant nothing
37:55well this means everything
37:58i know what it's like
38:07when i was your age
38:09i thought i was in love with someone
38:11how can you compare what you felt for that revolting irishman with what i feel for ladislaus
38:15you don't know what it is to love someone
38:19the way i love him
38:21oh ken and penny father
38:33oh the answer to my prayers
38:34oh fully recovered i trust
38:36how kind
38:37i've come to fetch
38:38oh what was it now
38:41oh yes my luggage
38:42well before you go
38:43i wonder would you take part in a little experiment
38:46yes
38:47one, two, three, four
38:57five, six, seven, eight
39:02oh thank you canon
39:09that will do nicely
39:10was it all right
39:13oh it wasn't you i saw that night
39:15no he looked like you
39:17but the walk was different
39:18and i think it was a younger man
39:20you mean i didn't come back here
39:23oh yes you came back
39:24there's no question of that
39:25you must have come upstairs
39:27without anyone noticing you
39:28and then what happened
39:30you opened the door so
39:32and what did you see
39:34i'm sorry it's still a complete blank
39:37something in the mirror perhaps
39:39mirror, mirror
39:42yes that's it
39:43except
39:45there is no mirror
39:47visible from the door
39:49my room is identical to the one you had
39:51what you saw was someone dressed up to look like you
39:55yes my george i remember now i couldn't think what
39:58and then
40:00and then someone hit you on the head
40:03and the false canon penny father
40:05your doppelganger
40:06was driven post haste to bedhampton
40:09and you say that the couple who found him in the road
40:14were in on it too
40:15oh i've no doubt about it
40:17there's a network of contacts throughout the country
40:20really
40:21well i'm very sorry if i misled you chief inspector
40:24but i might have known that it wasn't canon penny father
40:28oh what a perfectly natural mistake
40:30and one they've been trading on
40:31not only justice ludgrove
40:32but an admiral and archdeacon
40:34all with distinctive appearances
40:36all near the scene of the robbery
40:38and while we've been running around in circles
40:41the impersonator returns to normal
40:44well
40:45thank you very much for coming in miss ma'am
40:47well i think it's a very complicated way of doing things
40:53well the person behind all this is a very complicated character
40:56and you know who it is
40:59at long last
41:00i only wish i knew who'd murdered michael gorman
41:03then i could clear the whole thing up in one fell swoop
41:07well if i might make a suggestion chief inspector
41:10of course i might be barking up the wrong tree again
41:13i doubt it miss marple
41:15but i think you'll find the answer lies
41:18in a place called valley garden
41:21good afternoon
41:29your table's ready
41:30right now we'll go straight to merchants
41:34do you want to handle this on your own
41:36right now we'll go straight to merchants
41:38do you want to handle this on your own sir or would you like me to come along
41:45oh i want you to supervise the other arrangements
41:49you sure you won't need someone yes i'll have miss marple
41:52come in sit down
41:59don't you sit over there
42:01come in sit down
42:02don't you sit over there
42:03would you like me to fetch your vera
42:04it's you i want to speak to lady sadwin
42:05have you any news of a man who tried to shoot her
42:10please
42:11what would you call news
42:12tell me lady sadwin
42:13how much did that business upset you
42:17what a question
42:18i was sad
42:19and i was sad
42:20and i was sad
42:21and i was sad
42:22and i was sad
42:23and i was sad
42:24and i was sad
42:25you sure
42:26really knew him just
42:27what was invented
42:27lady sadwin
42:28have you any news of a man who tied to shoot him
42:31please
42:32that would you call news
42:34tell me lady sadwin
42:35how much did that business upset you
42:38what a question
42:40i was sad of course
42:41but as i only knew the man to nod to
42:43my concern was
42:44you're sure
42:46what
42:47i think he knew him rather better than that
42:50secret
42:50wasn't he your husband
42:52oh dear you police aren't as slow widget as people make out all right we were
43:01married once but I hadn't seen him for 30 years he was a groom on my parents
43:08estate I ran away with him when I was younger than Elvira first 24 hours were
43:14enough to disillusion me drunken brute fortunately my family caught up with us
43:20and paid Mickey off and you didn't tell them that you'd married him not in your
43:25nelly so when you married Lord Coniston you committed bigamy and when I married
43:32Ridgeway Becker and Johnny Sedgwick bigamy trigger me what's the difference
43:37Scotch did you never think you'd get any divorce why rake that all up and then
43:47Gorman turned up here and tried to blackmail you that is pure supposition
43:54chief inspector oh no we have it on excellent authority
43:58how on earth could you know the chairs in the writing room have very high backs
44:05eavesdropping eh it is a public room she wasn't the only person that overheard
44:12your conversation not Selina Hayes it'll be around London no lady Sedgwick your
44:20daughter
44:20oh my god what must she have thought enough to do as we have done go over to Ireland and
44:29search out the truth
44:30I must talk to her explain oh you might reassure her that she wasn't the intended murder victim
44:38well that's how it appeared to her that's how the murderer wanted it to look he fired a shot
44:47taking care of the bullet went nowhere near she screamed Gorman ran down the road
44:53and then the murderer shot the person he always wanted to shoot Michael Gorman
45:00I'm glad you said he chief inspector for a moment I thought you were about to accuse me
45:15oh there's plenty of people besides yourself with a motive to bump him off
45:19after all Bertrams is a blackmailer's paradise isn't it
45:25Bertrams?
45:26well it's the headquarters for one of the biggest crime syndicates we've ever known
45:31dear old Bertrams it's the most respectable place in London
45:35and a lot of money and time got into making it so
45:37the genuine and the phony all mixed up and a superb actor manager in Henry
45:43but Henry is Bertrams
45:46Humphreys is wonderfully plausible too
45:48not to mention Miss Gorringe and Rose Shelton and all those foreign visitors with their luxury luggage
45:55tailor-made for carrying money in and out of the country
45:59now take those cabins that was there
46:00oh those dreadful American don't tell me they're crooks
46:04they left with 300,000 pounds stashed away in their wardrobe
46:08oh but of course
46:10proceeds from the Irish mail robbery
46:12an affair in which your friend Ladislaus Malinovsky was up to his neck
46:18Ladislaus?
46:21which Michael Gorman must have known
46:24and which you know too
46:26Lady Sedgwick
46:27how on earth should I know?
46:30because you're the brains behind it all
46:32me?
46:34a master criminal
46:38why not?
46:41you've tried most things
46:42oh it wasn't the money that tempted you
46:45no it was the excitement
46:47the challenge
46:49where are you going?
46:55to ring my solicitor
46:56you'd be well advised
46:58on second thoughts
47:02what the hell
47:03yes
47:05I ran the show
47:07and I've loved
47:10every crazy minute of it
47:13I haven't had such fun since I sabotaged the royal tournament
47:18but you're wrong about Ladislaus shooting Michael Gorman
47:22he didn't
47:23I did
47:23I warned him I'd shoot him if he started anything
47:27you hired me didn't you Miss Marple in the writing room that day
47:30yes
47:31and that's what I did
47:34just as you described it
47:37I'd spent the day before with Ladislaus
47:40as I pinched the pistol from his car
47:41it was so easy
47:44remember Miss Marple
47:48you're a witness to what I'm saying
47:50I killed Michael Gorman
47:53and now
47:57catch me if you can
47:59there are a man posted sir she won't get away
48:23wouldn't be too sure
48:24where's her car
48:25around the back
48:25hey what are you doing
48:55a man
49:24Oh, my God.
49:54Oh, my God.
50:24Oh, my God.
50:54Oh, woman.
50:56At least she told her story first.
50:58You heard of it, Miss Marple.
50:59She confessed to Gorman's murder.
51:02Yes, I heard.
51:04Well, we'd better go and talk to the young lady.
51:06Yeah.
51:08Come in.
51:24I'm so sorry.
51:32Don't ask me how I feel.
51:35I can't feel anything.
51:37I believe Miss Marple told you that your mother had confessed to Michael Gorman's murder.
51:42Yes.
51:45Now that you've had time to think, Alvera,
51:48is there anything you'd like to tell us?
51:51No, nothing.
51:56Are you sure?
51:58Quite sure.
51:59Oh, what a pretty sachet.
52:12I had one like this when I was your age.
52:17I kept my diary in it.
52:21No!
52:21A diary in which I used to write everything I did.
52:29Are you sure there's nothing you want to tell the chief inspector?
52:33You old witch!
52:34All right.
52:37So what?
52:37So bloody what?
52:38Why shouldn't she take the blame?
52:40That's all she ever did for me.
52:42I hated her!
52:43Hated her!
52:50No.
52:52Please.
52:54Or I'll lose him.
52:56And he does love me.
52:58I know he does.
53:04I don't know.
53:26Are you a witch, Miss Marple?
53:27Oh, no.
53:29When did you suspect?
53:31Oh, when I saw them together.
53:33Such passion.
53:35It was the money, I suppose.
53:37Mm-hmm.
53:37She feared Malinowski wouldn't marry her without it.
53:41It's extraordinary.
53:43He even looked like Basil Twisk.
53:45So you said.
53:47When she found that her mother had married Gorman,
53:51she realized that the marriage to her father was illegal.
53:55She thought she wouldn't inherit.
53:57No money.
53:58No lover.
53:59And I suppose her mother guessed.
54:01And confessed to the murder so that her daughter could go free.
54:05A remarkable woman.
54:07Poor Bertrams.
54:21A martial artist.
54:31A martial artist.
54:33Poor Bertrams.
54:36It's always sad when a work of art has to be destroyed.
54:40It's like when you get that weed ground elder really badly in a garden border.
54:46There's nothing you can do but dig the whole lot up.
55:03There's nothing you can do with that.