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First broadcast 25th February 1990.

Poirot is summoned by the Foreign Office. The Prime Minister has been kidnapped and the Detective has 32 and a quarter hours to find him – otherwise he will miss an important international arms summit with the objective of stopping Germany from further rearmament.

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot
Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings
Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp
Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon
Lisa Harrow as Mrs Daniels
David Horovitch as Commander Daniels
Ronald Hines as Sir Bernard Dodge
Patrick Godfrey as Lord Estair
Timothy Block as Major Norman
Jack Elliott as Egan
Kate Binchy as Landlady
Milo Sperber as Fingler
Henry Moxon as Prime Minister
Oliver Beamish as Sergeant Hopper
Anthony Chinn as Shi Mong
Roy Heather as Transport Superintendent
Daniel John as Urchin
Sam Clifton as Urchin

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00:00I
00:31No sign of them yet.
00:36We just lost sight of the Prime Minister's car for two minutes. No, 20 seconds.
00:41There was a bend in the road, just this side of Datchet. Yes.
00:47No, nobody knows at all. We've kept it quiet.
00:53Of course we searched!
00:56Eventually we came on here. What else could we have done?
01:01Wait a minute. Here's the Prime Minister's car now.
01:07I'll pull you back.
01:08Call the Yard. Tell him he's safe, then report back to me.
01:17We expected you an hour ago, sir. What happened?
01:18I'm quite all right. Commander Daniels will tell you about it. I have to get some rest.
01:23Good night, sir.
01:24Someone tried to hijack us.
01:25I've probably only lost sight of you for a few seconds.
01:26Good night, sir.
01:27Someone tried to hijack us.
01:28I've probably only lost sight of you for a few seconds.
01:29Oh, they've got it all worked out. Diverted us down a leg.
01:30Gang of thugs waiting.
01:31It was a gang of thugs waiting.
01:32All right, you've got to go down a leg.
01:33I've been going with a long time.
01:34I've been going with a gun.
01:35All right, how are you?
01:36I'm going with a gun.
01:37I've been going with a gun.
01:38I'm quite all right. Commander Daniels will tell you about it. I... I have to get some rest.
01:43Good night, sir.
01:51Someone tried to hijack us.
01:53Probably only lost sight of you for a few seconds.
01:55Oh, they got it all worked out. Diverted us down a leg. Gang of thugs waiting.
02:00If it hadn't been for Egan there, I don't know what would have happened.
02:03What did happen?
02:04One or two of them had guns. They were right across the road.
02:08As soon as Egan saw them, he just put his foot down on the accelerator, drove straight at them.
02:11They had to jump for it, I can tell you.
02:13Well done, Egan.
02:14Thank you, sir.
02:15Unfortunately, one of them let his gun off at us as we passed.
02:19The bullet just grazed the Prime Minister's cheek.
02:21Good God!
02:22It's all right. I got it bandaged at the hospital.
02:25Well done, Commander Daniels. Well done.
02:38I wonder what they can have been after these ruffians hastings.
02:43Who can they have been?
02:45Well, it doesn't say. It just calls them ruffians.
02:48In the next paragraph it says thugs.
02:51Another half inch on the waist, Monsieur Poirot.
02:55No, no, no, no, Monsieur Fingler.
02:57I am exactly the same size as I was last year.
03:00It is your equipment that is at fault.
03:02My equipment is at fault.
03:06A person could go crazy.
03:08Every year he tells me my tape shrinks.
03:11Shrinks.
03:13Continue, Hastings.
03:14No, no, that's all there is.
03:15You want to try Savile Row?
03:17Try Savile Row.
03:19I trained those boys.
03:22Finish.
03:23First fitting Wednesday.
03:25And then we shall see if my equipment is faulty.
03:30Monsieur Fingler, shall I tell you something?
03:32Tell me, Monsieur Poirot.
03:34Tell me, I'm on spiltes.
03:36You must learn not to quetch.
03:38I quetch?
03:44Hey, clear off!
03:51This is my same boat.
03:53Clear off, comprehensive!
04:00I don't know why you don't go to Savile Row, Poirot.
04:07Monsieur Fingler is an artist, Hastings.
04:10But like all artists, he must be treated with a firm hand.
04:14No, no, Hastings, one cannot take this as a serious attempt at assassination.
04:27A bunch of profils?
04:29Charged shot with a revolver?
04:31No, no.
04:32Mon ami, this is mia enfantilage.
04:34A gentleman called while you were out, Mr. Poirot.
04:37Well, thank you, Miss Lemon.
04:39Sir Bernard Dodge?
04:41Hastings, this is indeed an honor.
04:43Is it?
04:44Maurice, Sir Bernard Dodge?
04:45He is permanent under Secretary of State at the Foreign Office.
04:47He'd like you to call on him at 12 o'clock.
04:57Thank you, Miss Lemon.
05:09Au revoir.
05:10I can't wait.
05:11I'm nerede.
05:12I don't know.
05:13I'm not able to send any words.
05:14No.
05:15I don't know.
05:16No.
05:17I'm going to call yourself.
05:18I'll be at that point.
05:19You can't do it.
05:20I'm not sure how much it ends.
05:21But because of all people tend to be in.
06:23You two, of course, Lord, is there.
06:24Our business is absolutely secret, you understand?
06:28Well, the whole of England will know soon enough anyway.
06:30We simply have to move as quickly as possible.
06:32Very well.
06:33It concerns the Prime Minister.
06:35We are in a grave predicament.
06:38The injury, it is serious, then?
06:40No, no.
06:41Fortunately, that attempt failed.
06:43I wish I could say as much for the second attempt.
06:46There was a second attempt?
06:47Yes, but of a different nature.
06:50The Prime Minister has been kidnapped.
06:54Kidnapped?
06:56But how is this possible?
06:58If we knew that, we'd know everything.
07:01Yes, of course.
07:02You said just now, monsieur, the time is of the essence.
07:06The Prime Minister's absence from the League of Nations disarmament conference in Paris could be disastrous.
07:11His is the one voice that can unify Europe and perhaps stop Germany re-arming.
07:15I see.
07:17But perhaps this kidnapping is a direct attempt to bring about this disastrous outcome.
07:21Exactly.
07:22There are people who want Germany to go on re-arming.
07:24That is a possibility.
07:26He was on his way to Paris when it happened.
07:28And the conference is to be held when?
07:29Half, half stage tomorrow evening.
07:31Oh, yeah.
07:34It is now quarter past twelve.
07:36Thirty-two hours.
07:38And a quarter.
07:40Do not forget the quarter, monsieur.
07:43It may come in useful.
07:44The Prime Minister and his secretary crossed over to France in the early hours of this morning.
07:54An embassy car met them at Boulogne.
07:56They never arrived in Paris.
07:58And that was the last anyone saw of it or any of its occupants?
08:02It was a bogus embassy car.
08:06I must know everything, subhanone.
08:09I must know also about this shooting affair.
08:14Last night, the Prime Minister, accompanied by Commander Daniels, one of his secretaries,
08:24motored down to Windsor for an audience with the King.
08:26This is the main road from Windsor to Dachet?
08:41Uh, that's right.
08:42The car of the Prime Minister is forced down that lane from this main road here, you say?
08:51Apparently so.
08:53How was it forced?
08:55We don't know.
08:56There was a barrier across the road.
08:59Did you receive this information from the Secretary of the Prime Minister?
09:02Commander Daniels, yes.
09:03Who is this Commander Daniels?
09:05A good man.
09:07Served with distinction in the Royal Navy.
09:09His father was a minister in Mr. Asquith's cabinet.
09:12Until they had a row over home rule.
09:15The car following the Prime Minister, the car containing the detectives,
09:19did they see this barrier?
09:21No, the road was clear by the time we arrived.
09:24Mr. McCadden is very impatient at any efforts to protect his person.
09:27The car carrying the plain-clothes detectives has to follow at a discreet distance.
09:32They lost sight of him.
09:34And that bend?
09:36Of course, the barrier could have been removed in seconds.
09:48The thugs are strung out across the road.
09:51The chauffeur sees them.
09:52He sees their guns.
09:53He accelerates towards them, scattering them.
09:56Yes.
09:57One of them fires his revolver.
10:00The bullet grazes the cheek of the Prime Minister.
10:02Yes.
10:05Just think.
10:07One of them is as good as runs the Foreign Office.
10:09The other one guards the Prime Minister.
10:13Why should England tremble, eh?
10:16There's a destroyer waiting at Dover, Monsieur Poirot, to take us to France.
10:20And this destroyer, it will wait for how long, Sir Bernard?
10:23Well, long as necessary, of course, Bernard.
10:25Oh.
10:25Yes, I know.
10:31Well, it appears he takes his time, Sir.
10:34Yes.
10:34Yes, I know, Sir.
10:35We have done all this, you know, Poirot.
10:45No blood, no bullet hole.
10:47No blood, no bullet hole.
10:49Does it not strike you as strange, Chief Inspector, that there is no bullet hole?
10:55Oh, but the bullet hit the Prime Minister.
10:57No, no, he thinks the bullet grazed the Prime Minister.
11:00Sir, why was there no bullet in the car?
11:03Where did it go after he grazed his cheek?
11:06No, no.
11:07No, no.
11:08Mr. McAdam's head was outside the car when he was shot at.
11:11When the car slowed down, he looked out of the window to see what was wrong.
11:15The car is in a lane.
11:29The ruffians are burying the way.
11:34Mr. McAdam realizes that something is wrong.
11:38He opens the window.
11:39He puts his head out of the window to see what is happening.
11:54A shot rings out.
12:02I don't know why we're wasting time on all this, Poirot.
12:05The attempt didn't succeed, the kidnapping did, and that was in France.
12:09Now, look here, Poirot.
12:12The driver Egon, monsieur.
12:14Yes, sir?
12:15I want to speak with him.
12:19I spoke to him last night at Charing Cross.
12:22He is the only witness that we have, Chief Inspector.
12:24He's off till Thursday.
12:28His home address, if you please.
12:39He didn't come in at all last night.
12:45Wasn't I waiting up for him until after one o'clock in the morning?
12:49Is he usually regular in his habits?
12:51As clockwork.
12:52Is monsieur Egon a fellow countryman of yours, madame Denison?
13:03Sure, he's from County Clare, like myself.
13:06He was fortunate, indeed, to find such a comfortable abode
13:10and be such a charming landlady.
13:12How long has he lodged with you?
13:17Six months next Sunday, it is, sir.
13:27Mr. Egon keeps his address book in a place most convenient, eh?
13:30He has his own method, Sir Bernard.
13:53I don't want method.
13:54I want action.
13:56I've never known him to fail yet.
13:57The Prime Minister disappears.
13:59The Commander Daniels disappears.
14:02Monsieur Egon disappears.
14:04At any moment, I fully expect the entire cabinet to disappear.
14:08Egon is the !!
14:18Oui, ma'am.
14:19Je l'arga !
14:20Je l'arga !
14:22Je l'arga !
14:23Je l'arga !
14:24Je l'arga !
14:25All right, Clara.
14:52Yes.
14:53Yes, mon ami.
14:55Yeah, it was a small hotel back there.
14:57It looked quite comfortable.
15:00But the ship's waiting for us.
15:02Ah.
15:12Where's he off to now?
15:14Well, I think he doesn't want to go on the destroyer.
15:16You know how seasick he gets.
15:19Seasick.
15:20I shall lose my pension if he carries on like this.
15:23When they suggested him, they asked my opinion.
15:26Oh, yes, I said.
15:27Just the man, I said.
15:29What is he doing?
15:30I'll be right back.
15:33What is he doing now?
16:03Hm?
16:05He's thinking. Thinking?
16:07What on earth is he doing that for?
16:09Europe is in crisis.
16:11The one man who might avert a tragedy,
16:13a prime minister of this country, has been kid-lapped.
16:15We're not paying your Mr. Parrot to think.
16:18Well?
16:19Be so good as to keep out of this, Chief Inspector.
16:21He's a detective, and we're paying him,
16:23and paying him handsomely, I may say, to detect.
16:26What do you expect him to do?
16:27God's teeth do I have to teach him his job?
16:29Blood stains, fingerprints.
16:31He's done all that.
16:32Well, I haven't seen him.
16:34I haven't seen him so much as look through a magnifying glass.
16:37Ahem.
16:40Poirot is ready.
16:42Do you have that list I asked you for, Chief Inspector?
16:53Excellent.
16:54Back to the docks.
16:57Back to the dachet.
17:15Don't lose sight of him, Sergeant.
17:17We don't want anybody else getting kidnapped.
17:18Right, sir.
17:19He wasn't the one who went through that awful divorce last year, was he?
17:28Who wasn't Hastings?
17:29Miss Commander Daniels.
17:30Mrs. Daniels's counter suit was utterly malicious and without foundation.
17:35Ah, I remember.
17:36It was in the newspapers.
17:37It was all over the newspapers.
17:38Now what?
17:42I know what he's doing.
17:43I just don't know why he's doing it.
17:44Well, you're one up on me.
17:45I got him a list of all the hospitals between Dachet and London.
17:50He's trying to find out which one they took the Prime Minister to to get his face bandaged.
18:20Not this one.
18:21Not this one.
18:22Not this one.
18:23Not this one.
18:24Not this one.
18:25Not this one.
18:26Not this one.
18:27Not this one.
18:28Not this one.
18:29Not this one.
18:30Not this one.
18:31Not this one.
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18:41Not this one.
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18:44Not this one.
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18:47Not this one.
18:48Not this one.
18:49Not this one.
18:50Not this one.
18:51Not this one.
18:52Not this one.
18:53Not this one.
19:24There's a cottage hospital marked here, Poirier, and it's a bit off the beaten track.
19:35And the driver was missing.
19:37Right.
19:38We can get back to Dover in an hour.
19:40We'll be in Boulogne by dawn.
19:50They found the car in France.
19:52The bogus embassy car?
19:53At an abandoned farmhouse near Cressy.
19:56Was there anyone inside the car?
19:58Commander Daniels.
19:59Bound and gagged, with a head injury from where they knocked him out.
20:02They flown him back to London.
20:03And no sign of the prime minister?
20:05Not even his body?
20:06No, nothing.
20:08So I suggest that we now get over to France and join the search proper.
20:11It is strange, is it not, that having tried to shoot the prime minister last evening,
20:15they should now take so much trouble in order to keep him alive.
20:19Commander Daniels will appreciate some visitors, I think.
20:28Bango's my pension.
20:29We've come to see Commander Daniels.
20:49Bernard Dodge and some gentlemen to see you, Commander.
20:52Show them in, Shimon.
20:54Then take my bag and unpack it, will you?
20:56Yes, sir.
20:57Gentlemen, please.
21:03Good to see you, Daniels.
21:05Bad show of this.
21:06And I don't come out of it very well, I'm afraid, Sir Bernard.
21:09Nonsense, my dear chap.
21:09What could you do?
21:10You know Chief Inspector Jep, I believe.
21:12We met last night.
21:13And this is Mr. Hercule Poirot, and his colleague Captain Hastings.
21:17How do you do?
21:19We are full of the apologies, Commander,
21:20but this is a matter of the greatest import.
21:23Of course.
21:24Sit down, please.
21:36If you would be kind enough, Commander,
21:38to tell us what happened when you arrived at Boulogne.
21:41Well, Mr. McAdam had managed to get some sleep on the crossing,
21:44but he was still shaken, I could tell.
21:48There was a staff car waiting for us on the quay.
21:50Tell me about the driver.
21:52I didn't take much notice of him.
21:53One doesn't, I'm afraid.
21:54Of course.
21:55We started off for Paris.
21:57We passed through Nampin-Saint-Martin,
21:59just as the sun was coming up.
22:01It was about six o'clock.
22:02And then?
22:04The last thing I remember was passing through Vrons.
22:07I looked at my watch.
22:08It was ten past six.
22:10Then, nothing.
22:12Well, nothing until four hours later,
22:14when I woke up in the car in a spinny.
22:16Very efficiently tied up and gagged.
22:20No sign of the Prime Minister.
22:21Or the driver.
22:22Or the driver.
22:24I managed to get the door open with my feet,
22:26but that's as far as I'd got when a little girl found me.
22:29I must have frightened the life out of her.
22:31Blood all over my face.
22:34Anyway, she got the local gendarme.
22:36So you remember nothing of the abduction?
22:38I'm afraid not.
22:41Well, this frequently happens, Commander,
22:44as a result of a trauma.
22:46But your memory, it will soon return.
22:51Now, if I may use your telephone?
22:54Yes, yes, of course.
22:55No, no, no, no.
23:10My friend, he will have retired for the night.
23:13Thank you, Commander Daniels.
23:16You have been most helpful.
23:17Well, I wouldn't say that.
23:20I'm preparing a report, Sir Bernard.
23:22Good.
23:23Good show, Barry.
23:25Ah, mon dieu, I shall forget my own funeral.
23:29Commander, what hospital did you go to?
23:31Hospital?
23:33To get the head of the Prime Minister bandaged?
23:35Oh, yes.
23:37I don't know the name of it.
23:38I was busy attending to Mr. McAdam.
23:40I told the driver to get us to a hospital,
23:42but I didn't pay much attention, I'm afraid,
23:44to where we were going.
23:45I understand.
23:47Good night.
23:50Good night, Sir Bernard.
23:51Good night.
23:58Now, look here, Poirot.
23:59When we first met at noon today,
24:01I told you how urgent this matter was.
24:04It seems to me you've wasted some 12 hours
24:07meandering aimlessly about the countryside.
24:09A hundred miles from where the crime took place,
24:12talking to people who can have no possible connection with it.
24:15I understand your feelings, Sir Bernard.
24:17I doubt it.
24:18We've now wasted hours
24:19travelling back to London
24:21to talk to Commander Daniels,
24:22who, as I could have told you,
24:23was able to tell us precisely nothing.
24:26On the contrary, Sir Bernard.
24:28I now have to report to Lord Astaire.
24:30What do you mean, on the contrary?
24:32Commander Daniels was able to tell me
24:34almost everything I needed to know.
24:39Chief Inspector,
24:43I wonder if you'd be kind enough
24:46to do something for me.
24:48If I can.
24:50I want you to check for me two things.
24:52The record of the driver Egan
24:53and the maiden name of the former Madam Daniels.
24:57Mrs. Daniels?
24:58What on earth can that woman have to do with anything?
25:00Now, look, this is exactly what I mean.
25:02We've dealt with Egan.
25:03Egan is old news.
25:05Perhaps.
25:06But you see, the kidnappers,
25:08they always had one flaw to their plan.
25:10They knew it,
25:11and they did their best to conceal it.
25:13But their best is not good enough
25:15for Hercule Poirot, perhaps.
25:17Good night, Sir Bernard.
25:19Where are you going?
25:21To bed.
25:23You don't seem to realise, Poirot,
25:25this is a national emergency.
25:27I do not intend to sleep
25:28until the Prime Minister is fouled.
25:31I am sure it will make you feel
25:32very virtuous, Sir Bernard,
25:33but it will not help the Prime Minister.
25:36For myself,
25:37I need to restore the little grass cells.
25:41Chief Inspector.
25:42If Monsieur Macadam is still alive,
25:50he will be in Paris
25:51in time for the conference.
25:53He never left his country, you see.
25:55He never left his country.
26:25I shall go in alone, Hastings.
26:36You're sure about this, are you, Poirot?
26:38Quite sure.
26:40I'm here if you need me.
26:55I shall go in alone, Hastings.
27:08I shall go in alone.
27:08You're ready.
27:11Yes?
27:12Yes, who are you?
27:28Bonjour, Madame Daniels.
27:30I am Hercule Poirot.
27:32The Belgian detective.
27:34Madame, Mr. Amy Abel.
27:40What do you want with me?
27:42Madame, I saw your former husband last night.
27:46What a treat.
27:47If he sent you here, you can leave right away.
27:50No, no, no, Madame.
27:52Commander Daniels has no idea that I am here.
27:56But he is in great trouble.
27:58Oh, how wonderful.
28:01The police suspect him of a grave crime.
28:04The police?
28:06Well, he hasn't murdered me.
28:07That's the only crime I can imagine Tony being interested in.
28:10No, Madame, it is not murder.
28:14Not yet.
28:18You are being tiresomly mysterious.
28:23Commander Daniels had the means to commit a crime.
28:26He had the opportunity to commit a crime.
28:27But as yet, the police can find no motive for the crime.
28:34Now, you know him better than anybody.
28:37Too well.
28:38Perhaps you can help them?
28:43I wish I could.
28:45Would he go to jail?
28:46God, I'd love to see him go to jail.
28:48You know what that bastard did to me.
28:50Only what I read in the newspapers, Madame.
28:52Yes, and didn't they love it?
28:58Madame,
28:58How would you describe the politics of your ex-husband?
29:09Torpid.
29:10He never had a political thought in his life.
29:12How is Mrs. Daniels?
29:28Formidable.
29:29I would not wish to be her enemy, I think.
29:32You must take care, Estes.
29:34How do you mean?
29:35I want you to wait here.
29:37When she comes out, I want you to follow her.
29:39Do not lose sight of her for one second.
29:45Telephone me when you can.
29:47Scotland Yard, if you please.
30:01No, sir.
30:04Well, it's not up to me, sir, is it?
30:07Well, yes.
30:09Well, I thought he was just the man for the job.
30:13Come in.
30:15No, sir.
30:19Well, I couldn't agree with you there, sir.
30:24No, he's not slow.
30:25He's thorough.
30:29Yes, well, most of our men are already in front, sir.
30:31Guess who he was talking about.
30:45Modesty forbids, Chief Inspector.
30:47Little grey cells rested, are they?
30:49Indeed.
30:50Indeed.
30:53Do you have the information I asked you for?
30:56Ah.
30:57Yes.
30:58Much good it will do you.
31:00John Patrick Egan, born Milltown, County Clare, 1901, van driver for a removals firm until he came over to England a couple of years ago.
31:11Joined Ministry of Works as a driver mechanic six months later.
31:14Good references, good worker.
31:17And Madame Daniels?
31:22Maiden named Donoghue.
31:24Is that not also a name of Ireland?
31:29Well, sort of.
31:30She's the third daughter of the Earl of Connemara.
31:35I don't understand what you're after, Porro.
31:39Chief Inspector, did you ever read about the divorce of Commander Daniels?
31:44I should say I did.
31:46Very juicy.
31:47After such a divorce, having been dragged through the courts, humiliated in the newspapers,
31:56do you think the husband would keep on his desk a framed photograph of his ex-wife?
32:17How well do you know John Egan?
32:42John Egan.
32:47He drove you and the Prime Minister to Windsor.
32:51Oh, Egan.
32:53Know him.
32:54He's a driver.
32:56There are three or four on call for Downing Street.
32:59But you see, Commander, he has not been seen since he drove back the car to the garage that night.
33:05Really?
33:09He did not return to his lodgings.
33:13I'm sorry.
33:17Oh, well, it is no matter.
33:22I'm sorry.
33:24To have disturbed your breakfast.
33:35Erin Gobra!
33:35Erin Gobra!
33:35I've already heard.
33:44And, Ed.
33:44I ran up.
33:45I ran up.
33:45And I ran up.
33:56I ran up.
33:59I ran up.
34:00I ran up.
34:02I ran up!
34:02He was wearing a baseball 콜.
34:04And I ran up.
34:04I ran up.
34:05Let's go.
34:35All we can do is to wait, Chief Inspector.
34:39Miss Lemon, has Captain Hastings telephoned yet?
34:41No, Mr Poirot.
34:45Hello.
34:47This is all very fine and large, Poirot, but what if Mrs Daniels doesn't leave?
34:53Or she will have left already, Chief Inspector.
34:56Or I am the Dutchman.
35:05Let's go.
35:07Let's go.
35:09Let's go.
35:11Let's go.
35:13Let's go.
35:15Let's go.
35:17Let's go.
35:19Let's go.
35:21Let's go.
35:23Let's go.
35:25Let's go.
35:27Let's go.
35:29Let's go.
35:31Let's go.
35:33Let's go.
35:35Let's go.
35:37Let's go.
35:39Let's go.
35:41Let's go.
35:43Let's go.
35:45Hello, yes, yes, Jack, yes, Canwell, what's happening?
36:13They what?
36:15Thank you, Mr. Why?
36:18Oh, what time is this?
36:22Nothing since?
36:24Right.
36:28They've arrested a vagrant in some unpronounceable village.
36:32A vagrant? Suspected of abducting the Prime Minister?
36:35When in doubt, arrest a vagrant. They'll let him go again.
36:43You should be able to run away.
36:48If you're not a vagrant, they'll let him go again.
36:52You should be able to run away.
37:58Hello?
37:59Poirot?
38:00Yes, Hastings.
38:01Where are you?
38:02I've read I've lost her, Poirot.
38:05You've lost her?
38:06He's lost her.
38:07But where are you?
38:09Between Basingstoke and Andover.
38:11Between Basingstoke and Andover.
38:12Let me get a map, Hastings.
38:13The map, if you please, Miss Lemmon.
38:14Between Basingstoke and Andover.
38:16Between Basingstoke and Andover.
38:17Between Basingstoke and Andover.
38:18She turned off the main road and we went through a village called Spratling.
38:20She must have seen me just after that.
38:21I wonder if the Daniels have any local connection, Hastings.
38:22Go back to the village and ask if Commander Daniels has a house in the neighborhood.
38:24Oh, you could try in the name of Donoghue.
38:25What?
38:26Yeah, but that is the maiden name of Madame Daniels, Lady Imogen Donoghue.
38:27And you say...
38:28Yes, Hastings, call me back when you have done that.
38:29Goodbye.
38:30I'll get onto the yard, tell them to contact the Basingstoke police.
38:33The Para been here and enter the police in the building.
38:34Thank you, we areusting out.
38:36Stop, please, you're on the way.
38:37You're on the way.
38:38帽, by the way.
38:39So moness.
38:40I'll do what I'm saying.
38:41I'll do this.
38:42I'll get up if you please, Miss Lemmon.
38:43Between Basingstoke and Andover.
38:44She turned off the main road and we went through a village called Spratling.
38:47She must have seen me just after that.
38:48I wonder if the Daniels have any local connection, Hastings.
38:50Call me back when you have done that.
38:52Goodbye.
38:53I'll get on to the yard.
38:54Tell them to contact the Basingstoke police.
38:56She's the daughter of the Earl of Connemara, isn't she?
38:59You English, you are all experts in the aristocracy.
39:01No, only it was in the papers a year ago.
39:03No, nearly two years ago.
39:05What was, Miss Lemmon?
39:06There was a big fire.
39:07I can see the headline now.
39:09Earl's mansion destroyed.
39:10There was a picture of him.
39:11Fine-looking man, Mr. Poirot.
39:14With that, I have no doubt, Miss Lemmon.
39:16But where was the house?
39:17It was in Berkshire.
39:20Good.
39:20It was in...
39:22Try Miss Lemmon.
39:25It was called Something Hall in a village called...
39:29We can find that out.
39:31Cantwell, can you find out the name of the house
39:34that belonged to the Earl of Connemara
39:36that burnt down a couple of years ago?
39:38Oh, the hall was the same name as the village.
39:41It was a name like Batley.
39:44Batley?
39:45Like Batley.
39:46Oh.
39:49Ketley?
39:49Debtley?
39:50Hmm.
39:51Debtley?
39:52Fatley?
39:54Gatley?
39:56Hatley?
39:57Somerscote Hall?
39:59Yes.
39:59tell that to captain hastings when he telephones
40:07i hope this isn't a wild goose chase poira no no no mon ami the only wild goose chase they
40:18intended us to be on was in france and they have been planning this for years it was only when
40:24they could get somebody sympathetic to their cause into the position of one of the drivers
40:27of the prime minister was the abduction possible but what is their cause german rearmament indirectly
40:34there is a strong element in ireland that does not care if germany rearm so long as it causes hurt
40:40for england but how did daniels get involved i understand about his wife i think she was always
40:45a bit of a rebel but the father of commander daniels was violently opposed to lord asquiz in the 1914
40:51irish home rule bill well that was the end of his career in politics i think that he has faster
40:57inside the commander daniels all of his life he did not take so much persuading
41:01just a few hours more in four hours they'll have voted in paris and it'll be too late for the prime
41:08minister to do a thing about it anyway what's it got to do with britain if germany rearms
41:13we're just coming in the somerscope now sir right there's a turning on the left just on the other
41:23side of the village sir
41:24i thought this place was somerscope not the salt
41:35right there's a turn on the islands
41:47they're all ready they're all ready thank you zach
41:58I'm sure I heard something.
42:00Maybe it's your husband.
42:05No, must have been the wind.
42:19From here we can see everything.
42:21It seems I may owe you an apology, Monsieur Poirot.
42:24No, no, Sir Bernard. You were cleverly misled.
42:28How did you get onto it?
42:30Whenever the occasion arises, Sir Bernard, to look into someone's address book,
42:33always first look under the letter X,
42:36because that is where the secrets are kept.
42:39In the address book of Monsieur Egan, which I found under his pillow,
42:42under the letter X, there was only one number.
42:46No name, just X.
42:49It was a Mayfair number, which I thought strange.
42:52But when I pretended to use the telephone of Commander Daniels,
42:55I noticed that his number was the same as that in the address book.
43:01Oh, no.
43:03My friend, he will have retired for the night.
43:05An interesting connection, n'est-ce pas?
43:07An interesting connection, n'est-ce pas?
43:09Oh.
43:10Yes.
43:11Second connection, don't you want any one?
43:11Excuse me, Sir.
43:12All in, please now.
43:13Before the computer has now received a problem of studying.
43:14Excuse me, sir.
43:15All in, please, now.
43:17Go easy, Major.
43:18Excuse me, sir.
43:33All in, please, now.
43:34Go easy, Major.
43:36We don't want anybody getting hurt.
43:48What's that?
43:54There is somebody out there.
44:15Waro!
44:16We caught him trying to get through the cordon.
44:18What is all this, Daniels?
44:20Have you gone mad?
44:22Let me go to Imogen.
44:24You're a traitor, Daniels.
44:25A disgrace.
44:26Let me go to Imogen.
44:29Police.
44:30Police everywhere.
44:32And soldiers.
44:32They've sent the army out for us.
44:38Jack, I'm not going.
44:40But you must.
44:41I'll have created a version for you.
44:43Come out!
44:44One by one!
44:46With your hands in the air!
44:49What'll you do?
44:50There's no way out.
44:53I don't know.
44:53Give yourself up!
44:55Perhaps there's still useful things I can do for Ireland.
44:57You don't stand a chance!
44:59Give me the gun.
45:02Come on, it'll be worse if they take you with it.
45:04Good luck.
45:14I'm going to count to five!
45:19One!
45:22Two!
45:24Three!
45:27Four!
45:29Five!
45:30On the top!
45:36It's Mrs. Daniels.
45:38Here, come back!
45:40Watch out!
45:41Stop it!
45:43Er, go, brah!
45:48Don't!
45:49Yes.
46:02Yes.
46:04Erin, go, brah.
46:07Ireland forever.
46:11Sir, there's the prime minister.
46:14Go and help him.
46:14The only thing I don't understand is how you knew it was a doppel they sent to France.
46:36When I ascertained that the net result of the supposed assassination attempt was that the
46:43prime minister went to France with his face bound up, it was then that I began to comprehend.
46:50But the man who impersonated the prime minister was seen by everyone.
46:54No, no, Hastings.
46:55He was not seen by anyone who knew him intimately.
46:59And with his face bandaged?
47:01Well, now, my name is a far more difficult case, a fitting with Monsieur Fingler.
47:08So that Daniels' divorce was just a smokescreen?
47:25The purest theatre, Hastings.
47:27To ensure that the last thing anyone could suspect was collusion between those two.
47:30They loved each other, yes, but they were willing to sacrifice that and everything else for their cause.
47:39You know, Hastings is the worst kind of fanatic.
47:41He's the quiet, unobtrusive fanatic.
47:43And the worst kind of customer is the customer who can't keep still.
47:49Monsieur Fingler, this jacket, it is too tight.
47:53Oh, it is too tight, is it?
47:55Yes, I shall scarcely be able to pattern it up.
47:57Do you know why it is too tight?
47:59Because you made it too small.
48:00No, no, no, no, no.
48:01Because you have grown too big.
48:04This jacket has been made by last year's measurements.
48:07Now, are we having a fitting or what?
48:17A fitting by all means, Monsieur Fingler.
48:19A fitting by all means, Monsieur Fingler.