:50:02
That reminds me of a final point.
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Much earlier, soon after 12:30,
you and I both heard Mr. Ratchett
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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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,
:51:00
but her husband
wouldn't have it.
:51:02
Which husband?
Your second husband, Mr. Hubbard?
:51:02
Mr. McQueen.
:51:03
Which husband?
Your second husband, Mr. Hubbard?
:51:04
Since our last conversation,
:51:06
I have learned the true identity
of your late employer.
:51:07
Or your first husband,
:51:09
Mr. Grunwald?
:51:09
You don't say.
:51:11
Linda Arden, the actress,
never played as difficult a role
:51:12
Ratchett was, as you yourself
suspected, merely an alias.
:51:15
as Mrs. Hubbard, the organizer
of this extraordinary revenge.
:51:17
He was, in fact, Cassetti.
:51:19
The gangster who masterminded
the kidnapping and killing
:51:22
Dare I deduce that the great
Linda Arden has been cured
:51:23
of little Daisy Armstrong.
:51:25
You had no idea of this?
:51:26
of her incurable disease
and is no longer bedridden?
:51:28
Oh, no, sir.
:51:30
If I had, I'd have cut off my right hand
so I couldn't type his lousy letters.
:51:31
It is I who should be committed
to a bed in a mental home.
:51:34
It is I who need a cure
for being so slow
:51:36
And I'd have killed him with my left.
:51:37
to notice the tricks
that were being played on me
:51:38
You feel you could've done
the good deed yourself?
:51:40
with regard to the time
of the murder.
:51:44
It seems like I'm kind of
incriminating myself.
:51:47
- Will there be anything more, sir?
- There will.
:51:47
I should be more inclined
to suspect you, Mr. McQueen,
:51:49
if you displayed an inordinate sorrow
at your employer's decease.
:51:53
Sorrow?
:51:53
Tell Mr. McQueen
I wanna see him, now.
:51:56
My dad, my father,
was the district attorney, yeah,
:51:57
Very good, sir.
:51:59
"And six beakers, stop.