:49:04
From scarlet fever.
:49:06
Yes, there is an old contusion.
:49:08
The result of a slight fracas
in the mess, sir,
:49:09
I am truly sorry.
:49:11
with regard to the quality of a pudding
known as spotted dick.
:49:15
Thank you, but I think
you've been spotted too.
:49:15
Let us talk of less
distressing matters.
:49:18
On the night of the murder,
after we left Belgrade,
:49:19
Mr. Foscarelli is very knowledgeable
about automobiles.
:49:22
who were the last passengers
to retire to their compartment?
:49:23
I suspected that perhaps he had
once been Armstrong's chauffeur.
:49:24
Show me on the diagram.
:49:26
About 1:30, I remember seeing
the English colonel say good night
:49:27
I asked if he had ever
been in private service.
:49:30
No.
:49:30
to Mr. McQueen outside
number three and four.
:49:32
I think Mr. Foscarelli's
appalling English is more genuine
:49:35
I saw him walk back into his
compartment, number 15,
:49:35
than Miss Ohlsson's,
but I think he meant yes.
:49:37
- Think, monsieur?
- Think, think. Yes, think!
:49:39
which he did not leave.
:49:39
What else can be done on a train
isolated by a snowdrift?
:49:41
And after that,
did no one reemerge?
:49:43
If all these people are not
implicated in the crime,
:49:45
No, but there was one lady
who opened a door,
:49:46
then why have they all told me,
under interrogation,
:49:48
I don't know which, and walked
:49:48
stupid and often unnecessary lies?
:49:50
Why? Why? Why? Why?
:49:51
in the direction of the toilet
:49:52
Doubtless, Monsieur Poirot,
because they did not expect you
:49:53
at the far end of the corridor,
next to the dining car.
:49:54
to be on the train. They had no
time to concert their cover story.
:49:55
- Did you see her return?
- No, monsieur.
:49:59
It is possible
I was answering a bell.
:49:59
I was hoping someone
other than myself would say that.
:50:02
That reminds me of a final point.
:50:04
Much earlier, soon after 12:30,
you and I both heard Mr. Ratchett
:50:06
Ladies and gentlemen,
:50:07
ring his bell several times and then
apologize for having had a nightmare.
:50:08
we now come
to my own reconstruction
:50:11
of the night of the murder...
:50:18
...or the night of the red herrings.
:50:20
Ce n'est rien.
C'était un cauchemar.
:50:23
Who rang the second bell while
you were answering Mr. Ratchett's?
:50:24
I only wish...
:50:27
The Princess Dragomiroff, monsieur.
:50:30
She asked me to summon her maid.
:50:33
Thank you, Pierre.
That is all for the moment.
:50:34
I only wish I could describe it...
:50:39
...with the incomparable panache...
:50:43
...the consummate verve,
:50:45
the enthralling cadences,
the delicate gestures,
:50:45
He had the means to do it.
The passkey to Ratchett's room.
:50:48
the evocative expressions of
America's greatest tragic actress,
:50:49
- And a knife borrowed from the chef.
- With whom he was in league.
:50:52
Harriet Belinda.
:50:52
Which he plunged repeatedly
and without motive into the body
:50:55
Miss Linda Arden.
:50:56
of his suitably astonished victim.
:50:57
Anyway, we know the door
was not only locked, but chained.
:50:58
I've always heard she wanted
to play comedy parts,