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...complex one.
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Ich mochte meine Prinzessin
benachrichtigen.
:37:05
But remember
my first solution when I...
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Signor Bianchi
and Dr. Constantine.
:37:09
When you've heard my second.
:37:09
Mind the broken glass, gentlemen.
:37:12
Let us, for the moment, assume
what is perfectly plausible,
:37:15
that the mysterious
stranger did not exist.
:37:16
Pupils still slightly dilated.
Could've been drugged.
:37:19
The murder must then have been
committed by some person or persons
:37:20
- Was drugged.
- With what?
:37:24
in the Calais coach and therefore
are present in this dining car.
:37:25
There's a smell of valerian,
which is harmless,
:37:28
but something must've been added.
:37:29
Let us not, for the moment,
ask the question "how"
:37:30
- May I close his eyes now?
- I wish you would.
:37:33
but the question "why",
which will tell us how.
:37:35
Why did he lose so much blood?
:37:37
I was not surprised
that every single one of you
:37:39
- Can I pull back the bedclothes?
- By all means.
:37:40
should have heard of
the notorious Armstrong case.
:37:43
But I confess to a mild surprise when
the first passenger I interrogated,
:37:46
Mr. Ratchett has been
frontally stabbed
:37:48
Mr. McQueen...
:37:50
...admitted, under emotional stress,
:37:50
ten, 11, 12 times.
:37:52
that he had actually known
Mrs. Armstrong, albeit very slightly.
:37:53
- Oh, Dio.
- Mon pauvre.
:37:55
If you must go whoop-whoop,
please go whoop-whoop
:37:57
She was gentle and frightened.
:37:58
not to windward, but to leeward.
Help him, Pierre.
:37:59
But not too frightened to take
an interest in a young man
:38:02
who wanted to go on the stage.
:38:04
Was Mr. McQueen lying
when he denied ever having
:38:04
There is something in the pocket.
:38:06
Permit me.
:38:07
known that Ratchett
was Cassetti?
:38:10
Or did he become
Ratchett's secretary
:38:12
as part of a deliberate plan to avenge
Mrs. Armstrong's death?
:38:13
- His watch.
- The time of death.
:38:16
I can definitely say
that death occurred
:38:17
Only by interrogating
the other passengers
:38:18
between midnight
and 2 in the morning.
:38:19
could I hope to see the light.
:38:21
That would fit.
:38:21
But when I began
to question them,
:38:23
I myself heard him cry out and ring for
the conductor at 20 minutes to 1.
:38:23
the light, as Macbeth
would have said, thickened.
:38:29
When I told the Princess
Dragomiroff that I knew she was
:38:30
When Pierre arrived, he apologized
:38:32
and said he had been
having a cauchemar.
:38:33
Mrs. Armstrong's godmother,
:38:34
her answers to my subsequent
questions smelled strongly
:38:35
A nightmare.
:38:38
of inaccuracy and evasion.
:38:39
Then I heard him
use his washbasin.
:38:41
Even I knew more from reading
the newspaper reports
:38:45
And that is the last thing known.
:38:45
than she from her frequent visits.
:38:50
Was there not a chauffeur?
:38:51
I beg of you, monsieur.
You cannot refuse.
:38:51
There was, monsieur, but I had
my own. I never used him.
:38:54
But it is the duty
of the Yugoslavian police.
:38:56
Evasion. What was the name of
Mrs. Armstrong's personal maid?
:38:56
Oh, what, monsieur, to question
my passengers on my line? Never.