Poirot S09E01 - Five Little Pigs [FULL EPISODE] Agatha Christie's Poirot

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] forget me not stay [Music] and [Music] lucy [Music] hello darling [Music] the lord is my shepherd i shall note he was [Music] [Applause] [Music] here [Applause] [Music] and for starters monsieur perro that is not my name pardon but i understood it was a martial that i was to meet that is the name i was given as a child my real name is crail lucy crail greyer now i seem to remember yes my father was amius krell the artist and my mother was great that's right yeah yeah the story most tragic it was a long time ago yes 14 years 14 years you know i saw a picture that your father painted entertained girl in shadow girl is a composition most striking yes he was a great painter his reputation is just considerable i'm not here to discuss his art monsieur puero i'm here because i want you to investigate his murder i was seven at the time too young really to know anything about it we lived in devon in a house called elderberry my parents were very much in love and in many ways it was an idyllic childhood then one day i was suddenly taken from my home and sent to relatives in canada and finally when i turned 21 they were obliged to tell me the truth [Music] for one thing i came into my own money and then you see there's the letter the letter which my mother wrote me just before she died that was the first i knew that my mother was hanged for killing my father what did she write quite simply that she didn't do it she's innocent and that i could always be sure of that that is what i want you to prove but i've heard about you the things you've done the way you work it's psychology it's your forte my success is founded on psychology or the why of human behavior it is this that i used it is so long since it happened secrets and lies monsieur the past keeps pulling me back it won't let me be and until these ghosts are laid to rest i can't move on [Music] i am honored by your faith in me [Music] but i cannot you understand except your assurance of the innocence of your mother she was guilty what then i have to know the truth monsieur and if the truth is not what you wish to hear i have to know [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] not one of my greatest successes i have to say the defense was suicide yes uh didn't go down too well i'm afraid amy's crayole simply wasn't that kind of chair wine women beer the lusts of the flesh you know the idea of his killing himself out of conscience well frankly i don't think he had one so in your opinion samantha you caroline she was guilty i rather thought we were taking that for granted did she ever admit as much was she par she didn't need to i knew we'd lost as soon as she stepped into the witness box she certainly had motive amir's crayo was always getting mixed up with some woman or other but this was rather different girl elsa grier just turned 18. quite a looker i must say she knew what she wanted and that was amy's crayol she got him to paint her he ended up falling for her [Music] caroline crail was overheard to say that if he didn't give her up she would kill him what was the evidence against her she stole some poison from a neighbor who dabbled in herbs and the like she hid it in a scent bottle when the police found it in her room she claimed she meant to kill herself what she couldn't explain was why the bottle was empty and only her fingerprints were on it oh we contended of course the amis krell had used it to kill himself but if he had his fingerprints would have been on it as well and how did she give it to him this poison used to be pet to spike his beer brother miss your spike tampa took him a bottle while he was painting the police found the pipette crushed near the scene of the crime oh the prosecution had a field day so she put the corner in into the bottle before taking it to him no there's no connie in the bottle at all and in the glass i see was that you being inscrutable no no no no no no were there were i believed other people present at the time oh yes there were let me think um five of memory serves philly blake stockbroker one of crail's best friends meredith his elder brother lives across the estuary from the house where the murder took place elsa grier of course currently laid addition though nowadays she spends most of her time in the gossip columns on the divorce court i was a governor smith wilson williams that's it very capable but not exactly a barrel of laughs then of course it was angela caroline's half-sister oh she'd been packed off to school by the time of the trial poor thing she had perhaps a problem there was a rather unfortunate incident when she was a toddler caroline crayo as a young girl threw a bit of a tantrum i did argue that she was not a sound mind but fascinating creature i'll never forget you know she had a quality one couldn't help but admire somehow she was above it all what people will do in the name of love it makes fools of us homeless man ibm i thank you so much you have been most helpful pleasure meeting emporium oh tell me if you please if as her daughter hopes caroline crail did not kill her husband but she did oh boy take my word for it right then it makes the logic that one of these five people must have done so there's no reason why any of them should not all the same i think i should pay to the meet your visit get five different versions of the same event thank you all guys [Music] even though he does bat for the other side tallyho tell you who well who'd have thought it raising a glass with a feminist her kill porro could never get my tongue around french let's keep the old anton cordial but i am belgium as you're not french so what can i do for you this is a great question it is that which i wish to discuss with you what the hell for because i have accepted the commission monsieur to review the case from whom lucy crane you see crying we miss you nothing to discuss five minutes of your time as you blink that is all i ask what the hell she poking her nose in for her because she wishes to know the truth everyone knows the truth but all she wishes is to assess for herself the facts it's over dead buried as i have parents miss you [Music] pamis crow was the best friend a chap could have knew each other since we were children we all did myself my brother caroline come on maybe as you see down again i know this was a great feeling all that talent that lust for life wiped out because of her you did not like her rotten thrown through namyas could never see it but he was also something of a wrather was he not that's what she'd have you believe oh she liked playing the injured party and did it very well but underneath it all she was cold and calculating had a devil of a temple tried to kill a baby sister for god's sake you say true damn right chucked a paperweight out of her and blinded the little blighter in one eye disfigured for life do you know the reason for this feat of temper sibling jealousy simple as that and it was jealousy that made her kill amy's i tell you that woman was trouble even as a girl the way she played us boys along give us all the once over but finally settled on amir not surprising he was in line to inherit all debris and was showing talent as an artist a rich genius what could be better it is surprising is it not how soon in life the dye is cast yes i suppose anyway after the marriage i kept my distance for a while at least i soon succumbed to temptation temptation miss you all the brain a place i couldn't resist at some of the happiest times of my life in that house that's september by the sounds of childhood i was hoping for a peaceful few weeks but i should remember morning mr blake good morning mrs spriggs good to see you again good to see you too [Music] they've been at it forever [Music] why won't you listen to me amir caroline for god's sake oh that's right run away like you always there goes the chardonnay there's always something of an atmosphere this time you could cut it with a knife and i soon saw why i'm your soul chef how the hell are you lovely isn't she sometimes i wish i'd never met her thank god you've turned up living in a house full of women's enough to send any man off his chump philip how lovely to see you hello caroline justin time for lunch will elsie be joining us elsa amius is doing her portrait skittish little thing she should watch all that sun you know can be very aging things are a bit rocky at the moment is it serious though oh certainly it'll be a damned good painting that's not what i asked you know me phil i can't help myself [Music] then things go worse amius and caroline's half sister angela have been bickering all morning did you stop that please angela what slurp him i'm not slurping yes you are amius i thought i might try that other kimono the canary yellow they couldn't rather stunning against that water don't you think canary how lovely of course on some people it might look a little how shall i put it don't worry caroline i'm young enough to carry it off we're not changing anything i forgot did you hear that it's like feeding time in the monkey house why can't you just leave me alone [Applause] i haven't seen this before it's by volga mcdowell a young norwegian extraordinary don't you think everyone's talking about him got a sense of humor i'll give him that don't you agree miss williams beechwood isn't it this room would be so lovely that weren't so cluttered when i'm living here i'll throw out all the rubbish which let's face it as practically everything and i've always thought copper-coloured curtains would be simply divine don't you think they look rather lovely in the setting sun are you thinking of buying then elsa that won't be necessary you seem to have lost me my dear all this pretence it's so dishonest amis and i love each other and we're going to be married so i shall be moving in as i suspected my dear you're completely insane bloody beasts giving me the most frightful indigestion i asked mrs spriggs for some bicarbonate of soda good thinking by the way elsa says you want to marry her is this true is it true it's only fair that she should know amius is it true then it is if you'll excuse me i'll just you know looking back i wouldn't be surprised if she made up her mind to kill him then amius dude tidy yourself up we're going over to meredith fatigue remember oh yes i'd forgotten philip you should do some fishing while you're here this is probably swarming with mackerel so we all trooped off to mary's not very merry that afternoon [Music] can't do this looks like he's going to he can't just leave his wife and child for some slip of a girl she's she's too young to know what she's doing she knows all right poor old mary all that sensitivity no use at all hard to believe we come from the same stable after tea he took us to his lab i've never heard of this it's distilled from the flowers of the spotted hemlock it's uh highly poisonous but it can be efficacious in the treatment then he had the cheek to read some classical tribe about the death of socrates or plato or some such nonsense man who administered the poison pinched his foot and asked if he felt it socrates said no then he did the same to his legs and gradually moving upwards in this way he let us see that he was getting cold and numb he said that when it reached the heart socrates would be gone back at hq that evening alias and angela had a god almighty rap about something another but that was nothing out of the ordinary i even think she might have thrown something in him can you remember what good lord no i it was 14 years ago oh yes yes of course you are being most helpful mr blake the next morning when i came downstairs i heard amius and caroline acted in the library i don't know where they got the energy from oh i swear to god you know women someday i'll kill you amits i swear to god i will good morning lovely day i want to get on i'll go change don't be long bloody women and off he went back to his painting while i went back inside ah good morning too cruel she hardly noticed me now of course i know why hello what the hell's the matter [Music] i heard these noises in the laboratory so i went to have a look the quality bottle was not only out of place but it was practically empty and i swear to you felt that yesterday it was full are you sure of course i'm sure very careful about these things and i knew it once it must have been caroline i should have gone straight to our hamilton that's absurd caroline wouldn't dream of such a thing then what's your explanation discuss it yes we were just having a chat about angela and school i'm not at all sure it's the right thing sorry about that hello everybody i'd kill for a cold beer i'll send some down i think we could all do with one and that's when it happened what am i taking oh no enjoy the sun at the time i i reasoned in my regency that she couldn't stand the thought of the two of them being alone together i i should have realized but instead i just sat and watched i had the chance to save him and i did nothing you reproach yourself until you miss your break amis didn't join us for lunch and then caroline took him coffee so calm and collected and yet she must have known by then he'd be dead miss williams went with her and then meredith wandered off but it wasn't long before we saw him again get a doctor quick what's wrong samia's what i'm afraid he's dead phone the doctor take care of her she was like an avenging fury never seen anything like it you kill him you get on it [Music] you've killed my dearest friend no he did it himself tell that to the police they didn't believe her either the truth it has the habit of revealing [Music] itself let's get on with it shall we i said all i had to say about the creo case many years ago but i found your letter rather intriguing how lucky you are curiosity got the better of me indeed i am my lady it must be very painful for you to recall painful no my father was a mill hand worked his way up and made a mint you can't do that with thin skin and i miss your poro and my father's daughter i am not as sensitive as you might think then that makes my task a little easier one so often jumps to the wrong conclusion at the trial for example people thought what a terrible ordeal it must have been for me the brutish questions the ghastly journalists the mindless screaming crowds well the english are a people very moral nespa that's one way of looking at it hello if you did not find the trial and order how did you find it i enjoyed it you see i got exactly what i wanted and what was that caroline krell at the end of a rope coffee thank you tipping you said in your letter that amazon le marchem that's right had commissioned you i don't believe i know her she is the daughter of amius and caroline cray oh yes of course there was a child oh dear does she think it was my fault that is a possible interpretation right how very stupid cream so you take no responsibility why should i i loved him and i would have made him happy and that woman killed him to stop that from happening you have to understand amius krell did not seduce an innocent young girl it wasn't like that at all elsagria as soon as i laid eyes on him i knew i had to have him i want you to paint me i don't do portraits i'm rather rich you know i can't afford to pay and what makes you think i'd want to paint you but you do don't you and i always get what i want so when do we start if i paint you [Music] you realize i'll make love to you i'd have thought that went without saying so he invited me down to their house quite bold of him really but carol i didn't seem to mind she didn't like me but then why should she and we never said anything that she couldn't have overheard [Music] but we were more than aware of what was going on what is it i think you want to go back to london but the picture you've hardly started i can't paint you elsa why you know why so i left i didn't write or telephone and then after ten days he couldn't keep away we were together for two weeks and soon we realized that we had to be together always i want you to come back to alderberry i've decided to finish the painting what about caroline what about her shouldn't you tell her what on earth for she's bound to find out sooner or later we'll get the picture finished first but you will tell her won't you yes promise promise she thinks she'll make a terrible fuss she always makes a fuss she loves me then she should put your happiness first [Music] he painted in a kind of frenzy i'd never seen him like that before [Applause] keep still for god's sake i was convinced we should tell her but damius wouldn't hear of it and then one day i lost my patience amius and i love each other and we are going to be married so i shall be moving in amius was furious but he had to admit what i said was true and i still think i was right honesty is after all the best policy don't you agree mr opporo desirable certainly but not always advisable we believe in plain speaking where i come from i'm very pleased to hear it mother but caroline had a devious way about her when we went to meredith for tea that afternoon she behaved as if nothing had happened i even began to think she was taking it rather well how wrong i was you please don't tell me lady detection in plain speaking if when you are all assembled in the laboratory of monsieur blake you observed caroline crail take the cone in no i did not i seem to remember chatting to meredith in the doorway so i wouldn't have been able to see a thing sorry mary it's such a fascinating collection but of course you did take it and we all know why perhaps not everyone is as sure as you i actually heard her threaten him you're women someday i'll kill you i don't be an idiot i swear to god you can threaten me all your life but get this i am going to marry elsa and nothing's going to stop me i'll kill you rather than let you go morning for god's sake lovely day i want to get on i'll go change don't be long which i did then i went to join him and i poured him a beard she's making a terrible song and dance i told you she would to my mona lisa my darling amnesty god it's warm i can get you a cold one on that seat sit down now he painted as if his life depended on it dear amius i loved him so much it happened shortly after that i popped up to the house to fetch a shawl and when i came back she was there [Music] sorry about that hello everybody i killed for cold beer i'll send some down [Music] she must have known then what she meant to do she brought it back about 10 minutes later [Music] oh tastes foul everything tastes foul today too much bile my dear it'll choke you one of these days [Music] i didn't suspect a thing about 40 minutes later he complained of stiffness and pains bloody rheumatism then the bell sounded for lunch and meredith came to fetch me amius decided to skip lunch as he often did old grumpy doesn't want any lunch so we left him to die alone [Music] and i just knew it was caroline how could she do that how could she it is a story the most tragicness man hanging was too good for her [Music] [Applause] [Music] should play little lucy a grown woman one can hardly believe it time passes swiftly does it not poor child such a terrible shock how much better to let it all be the whole point you see is that amius krell was an artist and his art was his passion when he painted he was like a man possessed he meant to finish that portrait whatever the cost elsa was terrifically enthusiastic about the painting and caroline yes i'd always been very fond of her come on mary come on there was a time when i had hoped to marry her that was soon nipped in the bud still i remained if i may say so devoted to her service dear god when i think of what they did to her strung up like an animal such a gentle creature i remember a conversation we had shortly after it all began no no that looks great hold it there do you think he really cares for her well he's very committed to the painting he's in love with her yeah isn't he hello a great deal i think there's only one person who really cares for me i think that's you these infatuations they they come and they go that's what i used to think but this time i have a feeling it's serious she's just a girl but that's the trouble the way she looks at him so intense i'm afraid meredith it's nothing i hope you're right but i can't help feeling i'd like to take a hatchet to her a hatchet it's a small axe yes i know what the hatchet is mr i was commenting rather on her remark was merely to make a point but she made her point a little more forcibly did she not with her baby sister angela ah the paperwork we well there's a moment of sibling jealousy michelle pyrov which she never forgave herself and disfigured the girl for life well that was the problem it was a constant reminder she tried desperately to make amends which in turn made ammus very jealous that you knew him for many years since boyhood but he was always more phillips friend than mine you did not like him i thought his conduct was frankly disgraceful don't you understand this painting's the best thing i've done and i'm determined to see it through no i think it's a disgrace where you treat caroline the way you've always treated her what about lucy for heaven's sake you can't just throw it all away you're a good man mary but such an old softie wait till the picture's finished then you'll see i was right that grin he gave me [Music] i'll never forget caroline that afternoon thank you she made such an effort and yet behind it all is anything that madam idea [Music] everything it's gone [Music] finished when she said at the trial that she took the poison to kill herself i swear she was speaking the truth but why did you take your guests into the laboratory someone must have suggested it caroline craig perhaps well i often talk guests into my laboratory it wasn't unusual this is valerian the one that cats like yes they can't get enough of it it can be used as a sleeping draft elsa you should have a sniff yeah i got a lot of pleasure from my brews gathering the plants at night macerating them all the rest of it it's astonishing how simple decoction can work wonders i've never heard of this it's distilled from the flowers of the spotted hemlock isn't that a socrates too that's right you know that's the most moving description of his death in plato's fader well i could read it too if you'd like [Music] sorry sorry must be the heat the man who administered the poison pinched his foot he asked if he felt it and socrates said no then he did the same to his legs and gradually moving upwards in this way he let us see that he was getting cold and numb he said that when it reached the heart socrates would be gone and that is amius let his fade the very next day when did madame crail take the conain from the bottle but just before she came into the study i i think uh philip and angela left first followed by amius i was in the doorway waiting to lock up having a word with elsa i suppose that's when she took it caroline oh sorry such a fascinating connection there phil it's meredith something terrible has happened he immediately suspected caroline quite unfairly in my opinion who else would have done it it must have been caroline and as we approached the water garden we ever heard amius and caroline having a rather heated discussion i think about angela being packed off to school i was in such a state i didn't pay much attention i'll see to her packing philip blamed himself for not acting sooner how on earth could anyone have assumed at that point that someone had murder in mind i needed time to think so just before lunch i sat above the water garden where amius was painting elsa and i can sit there like a roman empress so radiant full of life more alive than any person i've ever known still the blind confidence [Music] oh grumpy doesn't want any lunch the problem was he often looked like that when he was working so i didn't think anything of it well sir i could eat a horse you know i do so wish that what or that you and amius would stop it just stop it he has a wife and child his place is with them oh meredith [Laughter] after lunch i had coffee on the terrace caroline took a cup down to amius and miss williams accompanied her i followed shortly afterwards i think to walk off my lunch mr blake mr blake what's wrong a terrible thing uh mr crail he's dead would you be so kind as to call a doctor get a doctor quick what's wrong samuels what i'm afraid he's dead poor child she just couldn't believe that life could play so cruel a trick caroline stood there quite calmly and said he must have done it to himself so you are perfectly convinced to ensure that she was guilty she was provoked in the extreme but you do not believe it was suicide caroline did it i'm sure of it and anyway well if she didn't [Music] hello [Music] lucy crail because she must have been very young when last you saw her seven and a half he's charming a little too quiet lived in a world of her own if you're pleased to tell me her mame they were most devoted yes one does occasionally find miss yoporo husband and wife so wrapped up in each other that the child hardly seems to impinge to more like lovers than helping them with if that's how you wish to put it did you like madame crail yes i was very fond of her and your pupil angela was a most interesting if difficult girl i cherish the belief that i've played a modest part in her success have you read her book on the tombs in the fame sadly none it's compelling stuff read it i guess i guess yes i shall you must have been upset when she was sent away to school no no not at all my home life was hardly what one would term ideal caroline indulged her amius got jealous he and angela would fight she'd end up playing some spiteful trick although of course far greater actions prevailed you mean elsagria i exactly what was your opinion of her she was thoroughly unprincipled and also very much in love his death must have been for her a shock most terrible and it was entirely her fault mum was agreeing the way she carried on she even had the insolence to suggest they were going to marry it's only fair that she should know amius is it true then it is [Music] the look she gave him magnificent and then she walked out head held high her grace and dignity unsullied was she aware of how much you admired her i believe i hope that i adequately expressed my support for her this is crayon not now miss williams i just wanted to another time please yes of course i'm sorry i think you're wonderful no but you don't know [Music] and then mama and then they all went to tear merit at the blake's and that evening after dinner the usual arguments began about angela and school now you listen to me the fees are paid their uniforms brought together i'm not going it's a lovely school darling it's right in the middle of the downs i'm sure you'll make lots of nice friends i don't want any friends you won't get any if you carry on like this why do you want to get rid of me nobody wants to get rid of you you know we all love you he doesn't he won't care if he never saw me again too right all this screeching like a fish wife you'd know all about them now look here girlie i wish you were dead angela i followed angela to her room and reprimanded her sharply the next morning was so beautiful i fondly thought it might restore some peace to our lives little did i know it was the harbinger of murder angela angel had yet again disappeared i thought for a swim but there was no sign of her so i returned to the house mrs crail was about to serve some beer before lunch so i offered to help her we went to the cellar which was used for cold storage as we arrived we found angela behaving in a most suspicious manner what on earth are you doing with that i was just i hope you weren't thinking of drinking it i'll take it if you don't mind would you mind serving me others i'll pop this down to amir's and all this time mama career was sitting from his ukraine yes oh he got what he deserved well he acted very badly we said but he was a great artist in the spa great couldn't even draw his perspective was terrible his anatomy was all over the place i know what i'm talking about i studied art as a girl in florence tell me when was her you were with madame crail when she discovered the body yes no not exactly we went down from the house together after lunch she was taking mr crayow some coffee and i was going to the beach to look for angela's jerseys [Music] this is crail it's amius he's dead [Music] the terrible news and asked him to telephone the doctor i was most concerned about mrs cray i didn't want her to be left alone [Music] did you get an impression of what madame crail was thinking at that time it was impossible to tell she was stunned what view did she adopt officially as to his death suicide what even in private to you she had no doubt whatsoever and what did you say to her is that your uncomfortable mama sir it's perfectly comfortable thank you you are about to tell me i i think i said certainly mrs crail it must have been suicide did you believe that no i did not but understand this i was entirely on her side so you would have liked to have seen her quickly well of course i would a woman of honor of dignity hanged like a carcass in a butcher shop poor lucy having to be confronted by all of this still it is always better to face the truth but there is more to it than that she wants to prove her mother to be innocent then her wish will not be granted before she was hanged caroline crail wrote to her daughter a letter in which she solemnly swales her innocence it would perhaps have been better to tell her daughter not to judge you seemed very sure of her guilt it's hard to believe otherwise and yet you profess to have loved her i did love her i did if that is all oh yes yes of course thank you very much for your time memorizer you have been most helpful i know that she was guilty miss you without a shadow of a doubt may i ask how after bumping into meredith blake and informing him of mr crayo's death i returned to the water mrs crail was not in command of herself as i implied it was the fear on her face that told me the truth that's when i knew she had poisoned her husband and i for one do not blame her she never knew what i'd seen and i never told her in fact i never told anybody during the trial i was never asked a question to which i returned an untrue answer that i was guilty of withholding certain facts and i do not repent of that miss you i would do so again [Music] was in fact just as corrupt and venal as society as today since then there have been other key excavations but none as remarkable as chaga bazaar thank you [Music] was quite simply extraordinary did you read my account of it in the national geographic sadly no i have not yet have been fairly definitive though i do say so myself little lucy so i'd like to see her you have not kept in contact no not nearly as much as i should have done i think it's admirable she wants to clear her mother's name huh then you approve of course caroline didn't do it i've always known that you surprised me ma mozel everyone else with whom i have spoken i know i know circumstantial evidence was overwhelming that's frankly why i've never attempted anything myself i knew my sister extremely well she quite simply couldn't have killed anyone but human nature has the infinite capacity to surprise oh not in this instance how can you be so subtle because i am but i'm afraid mom was there that i will not stand up in cold just as well i was never called to give evidence but if you had been this is why i know but for many that would prove the exact opposite as they claimed at the trial this was a moment's rage haunted her for the rest of her life she never forgave herself as a result she was constantly on her guard i'm not saying she was meek or timid quite the opposite murder never never [Music] it was an idyllic summer in so many ways what i can remember of it [Music] [Applause] oh come on lucy do shoot me that's on point [Music] all this pretends it's so dishonest amius and i love each other and we are going to be married so i shall be moving in then when amir's came out why did elsa say she's going to marry you how the devil did you hear that the window's open it's damn drew deev's dropping but why did she say it it was a joke didn't sound very funny to me enough all right come on and then on our way to here at meredith's i confronted caroline is it true well darling what else is going to marry amir's only after i'm dead [Music] rest the day's can remember meredith reading something rather beautiful about socrates he said that when it reached the heart socrates would be gone and then amis and i having a real humdinger after dinner now look here girlie i even think i threw something at him and then the next day the day it happened again it's all very vague up until the point meredith came hunting down the path i kept saying to myself i mean yes that's dead but it didn't seem real then the doctor came police came and they brought him up to the house i want you to go to grandma's with lucy no no i don't want to go i want to stay with you i know my darling but it's best that you do it'll be easier that way believe me no please i don't want to leave you for me my darling do it for me and you must try not to think about it there's nothing to worry about i promise that was the last time i ever saw her [Music] the end of summer it was the end of childhood a few days later she was arrested i was sent to school in germany lucy was sent to relatives in canada [Music] just before she was hanged she wrote me a letter i've never shown it to anyone i think you should read it my darling angela i want you to know that it is all all right i have never lied to you and i don't know when i say that i am happy that i feel a piece that i've never known before it's remarkable she's a remarkable person and innocent but the letter he does not say so explicitly because you didn't need to say it then how do you think amisk died suicide but is that not out of character as you said before human nature has an infinite capacity to surprise then you can see no other explanation you mean someone else might have killed him okay i think it unlikely but if for one second we consider the possibility what then i would say philip blake might be your man now that interests me very much my muscle may i ask why i cannot see what possible motif he could have he was the best friend of amir's crayola nespa were the two men rivals perhaps over elsa not else one night that summer i got up to go to the bathroom and as i opened the door i saw caroline coming out of philipp's bedroom she had a look on her face at the time i didn't really understand but looking back i got the impression from mr blake that always he disliked your sister i have i confess precious little experience of affairs of the heart but what other explanation could there possibly be um this could be a disaster you can trust me ma'am whether [Applause] [Music] so [Music] dangerous new is [Music] it warms my heart to see you all together again lucy joining us [Music] this is a very good of you mrs spriggs a pleasure sir it is really i'm very proud of you my dear oh i wish someone would tell us the point of all this [Music] if you will excuse me lady diticium i am delighted that you could make it i hope it's worth it scott this place is falling apart i thought that before we joined the others i'd kill for martini we might have a little word you don't let up do you to come straight to the point i'm pleased to hear it after the trial did meredith blake show any interest in you at all animals stupid unthinking animals oh what a terrible ordeal for you my dear what a brave girl you are elsa i've had special feelings for you ever since we met you know and now you're all alone in the world oh do shut up were you not surprised just faintly nauseated can i have my martini now but of course wow what a hoot i can't want to have a moment's please you were not entirely honest with me i think when we had our chat in london is that so yes indeed mr blake on at least one night during that summer madame crail was seen coming out of your room at an hour somewhat compromising who told you that it's none of your damn business i am afraid that it is mature if this matter is to be led to rest she thought she might try it on he's gonna leave me i know he is i can't bear the thought of being without him sometimes i get so lonely i feel i'm going mad she always thought she could get what she wanted but that didn't wash with me i think you better go back to bed so you see when i said i didn't like her i wasn't telling fibs no mercy miss you actually it's not quite true unless you're blake are you all right this is such a mess always has been since we were children and she was always ready with some snide remark i'm yes and i we if we were true friends she couldn't stand it he meant everything to me [Music] everything meredith knew i think caroline suspected [Music] nothing she could say changed anything isn't it still amis you just can't get him out of your head do you have any idea how pathetic you are just made me hate it all the more i uh i trust you okay this to yourself of course hmm not that i care much anyway [Music] how kind of you to come do you think we could get on with the business at hand indeed monsieur i was about to suggest the very same hey lord where to begin huh well as you know it was my purpose to discover the truth about the murder of amius craig we all know the truth yes indeed mercia blake but sometimes what we accept as the truth may not be the full story naspa and sometimes it may not be true at all this is what i learned that at no time did caroline crail protest her innocence except in a letter to her daughter that in the doc she showed no fear that in a letter to her sister she expressed acquiescence in her fate and in the opinion of everyone with one exception most notable caroline crail was guilty of course she was but it was not for me to accept the verdict of others no it was necessary for me to examine the facts and to ensure that the psychology of this case accorded itself with them now there is no doubt whatever that she had the ample motive and much of the evidence it tells against her the scent bottle discovered in her room the poison that she admitted to stelia there are with her husband in which he had threatened to kill him none of this seems incorrect psychologically but then we come to something that does not quite ring true after meredith blake discovers the poison is missing he rose over here to discuss it with his brother on their way up to the house they overhear a discussion between caroline crale and her husband on the vexed subject of angela being sent away to can you talk about this later it's shameful behavior amir's you're being so hard on me oh god discuss this off the court i'll see to her packing now that does strike me as odd they have just had a row most horrific in which she has threatened to kill him and yet a short time later they're having an argument relatively trivial in which mr crail says he will see to angela's backing now does that not strike you as strange why should he do her packing when there is her sister or the governess or the housekeeper i did not know mr crail but you know somehow i cannot picture him folding neatly the skirts the blouses of the underwear another thing that struck me as odd having just threatened to kill him caroline crail offers to bring to her husband a cold beer the simulation you think so but if she intends to poison him would it not be more intelligent to uh spike the supply of beer that he has in the water garden where no one was about hello caroline crayo brings to him the beer from the house he drinks it he says everything tastes foul today and after lunch she finds him dead we know all this and we we are sure but now i offer some information which is new after asking meredith blake to call for a doctor mama williams returns to the water garden you actually saw her do that well that settles it not necessarily that is what i saw there's only your word for it i'm not accustomed to having my word doubted and i do not doubt it mama said williams i believe what you saw took place exactly as you say that it did and because of what you saw i know that caroline crail was not guilty well how the hell did he work that out oh do calm down i will tell it to you mine was there william so caroline crail wipe off the fingerprints from the beer bottle and impose the prince of her husband onto it onto the bottle mark but the conain was in the glass not the bottle the police found no traces of it in the bottle no kane had ever been in the bottle and caroline crail she did not know that she who has poisoned her husband did not know how he had been poisoned so why make it look like suicide because she knew who was the culprit and would do anything rather than let that person be suspected so who could it be there was only one person whom she would be willing to protect at all costs remember there warren i would like to read the letter your sister wrote to you the mum was out i've realized what you're suggesting i denied utterly that letter was meant for my eyes only angela please for my mother's sake please my darling angela i want you to know that it is all all right i have never lied to you and i don't now when i say that i am happy that i feel a peace that i've never known before that i have never known before don't look back and don't grieve don't look back live your life and succeed it's all all right my darling it's all all right i'm going to amius and i'm happy and you must be too one has to pay one's debts your loving sister caroline it is a beautiful letter no and also quite remarkable for it contains one omission that is most striking there is no protestation of innocence it was unnecessary we'd be unsure because she thought her sister knew that she was innocent for the best of all possible reasons and her only concern was to comfort to reassure and to avert the possibility of you having to confess it's all all right my darling it's all all right she wanted me to be happy it's as simple as that yes indeed and so that the burden of your guilt may not be too great she tells to you one must pay one's debts and now at last she has the chance to repay the debt she owes you for the injury she caused you all those years before another trial the sentence nothing can touch her because finally she felt redeemed she felt way at peace with herself and in the light of this everything falls into place now look here journey i wish you when angela threw the paperweight at amir's crayon the memory that haunts her is brought to life most vividly then the next morning she sees angela tampering with a beer i'll take it if you don't mind which she then brings to amius it's foul everything's foul today and after lunch [Music] she finds him dead hello she is convinced he has been poisoned but who could have done it and then suddenly it hits her the resemblance of angela over the school her disapproval of elsa her rage the night before her tampering with a beer she and she remembers all so well her own violent emotions at that day so yes angela it has to be and the one thought that springs into her mind is how to protect her so she wipes the fingerprints from the bottle puts her husband's there instead to make it look like suicide sends angela out of the country as soon as possible hoping against hope that she does not confess [Music] but if i'd done it of course i'd have confessed i'd never have let caroline suffer for what i'd done but you did tamper with a beer did you not i can't remember that mr blake you say that you heard the noise in the laboratory on the morning of the murder yes it was probably a cat oh probably not i would suggest rather it was someone who got in through the sash window and took something from the shelf the valerian oh how to put an as a string i remember taking it so really that day weyman was old this is valerian the one that cats like they can't get enough of it and it was the description of it by monsieur blake which gave to you the idea yes i remember getting out some beer and caroline catching me before i could put the stuff in it i never connected it with that particular day she thought it was me [Music] oh i didn't kill him i didn't kill him of course not my dear can't you see she's telling the truth i see it quite clearly because i know very well who killed him don't you think you're milking it a bit old man which is the oldest story in the world and two women and one man well what we had taken for granted is that the man would leave his wife for the other woman but i would like to suggest to you now that he had no intention of doing anything of the kind after all the women he had fallen in love with in the past never expected too much from him but this time it was different she was just a girl who saw the world in black and white she had the passion for him and so assumed he had for her she assumed without question it was her life so naturally he would leave his wife he said he would oh a little white lie perhaps all he really wanted was to finish the painting and nothing could be allowed to stand in the way and when elsa grier let the cat from the bag he was furious but he was not concerned unduly after all caroline i don't need to put up with things for a few days longer than he would tell her the truth and she would believe him as so often before and there's her grier she would get over it soon enough but by that last evening i believed that he was getting worried the caroline crail was taking things more seriously than usual and by the following morning i think that he had decided to come clean you're the only woman in my life carol you always were you always will be you know that she is nothing to me nothing she was yes she not leave six to start with but now it's gone it's over i swear to god [Music] she's just a kid a passing fancy that's all you and your women someday i'll kill you amis don't be an idiot i swear to god i will what he did not know was that elsa grier had overheard every word and the account that she gave to me of the conversation was not the true one you're very sure of yourself aren't you miss your boy of this lady diticium yes i am when amir's crayo came down and said he wanted to get on you said you had to go and which you change eventually [Music] i wondered you realize how angry was madame craig with her husband for his treatment of you how very touching when philip blake encountered her coming out of the library good morning too it was of you she was thinking i wonder what she would have thought had she known that at that very moment you were in her room preparing to murder her husband and put the blame on her [Music] you see something else that i am sure of lady dietician is that in the laboratory on the previous afternoon you would have seen caroline crail steal the poison mr blake had his back to the room while he was talking to you so it was perfectly possible for you to see her the only person who could do so sorry mary such a fascinating collection and once you had the poison you went to join amius in the garden poured him some beer to my mona lisa and he tossed it back in his usual manner the darling amirs as he painted you watched and watched waiting for the poison to take its effect a short time later you went to fetch a shawl and caroline crail again took the opportunity to confront her husband on your behalf it's shameful behavior amir's you're being so hard on for god's sake it's all settled our center packing and it was this that the blake brothers misheard on their way up from the jetty an error that is understandableness you then returned with the shawl and then caroline crave she played straight into your hands for she brought to her husband a bottle of cold beer tastes foul everything tastes foul today everything tastes foul today we suggest that he had tasted something else unpleasant before the beer that caroline craig had brought to him and so you sat and posed and chatted and waved to meredith blake oh you played your part beautifully bloody rheumatism painted on and on until his limbs failed and his speech thickened and he lay sprawled there on the bench helpless with his mind still clear and when meredith blake appeared from the shade of the path into the sunlit garden he could not see clearly only his friend turning slowly around unable to convey to him the fact that he was in the grip of a paralysis that was fatal on route to the house you crashed the pipette underfoot the traces of which the police little and then went to lunch leaving amir's crave to his fate [Music] thank you mr poro that was it [Music] is dead caroline hanged after all this year after all these years [Music] you're very clever aren't you i hope you don't expect me to confess so what are you going to do i shall do what i can to induce the appropriate authorities to grant to carol and crail the posthumous free pardon and me what are you going to do about me i shall lay my conclusions before the necessary people if they decide that there is a case against you they may act but it is my opinion that the evidence is not sufficient inferences only huh not facts moreover i believe they will not be anxious to proceed against a person in your position when i saw caroline take the connie and i thought she meant to kill herself but the next morning when i overheard him talking about me i i loved him and he was just stringing me along and she felt sorry for me i watched him die monsieur poro i never felt more alive but what i didn't understand was that i was killing myself it was if they hadn't died at all but i had i died monsieur burrell elsa come on then lucy shoot me you know you want to do not listen to her mom wisely that's right just pull the trigger if you do she will have won come on do it you're not afraid are you you kill her you kill yourself just one little squeeze that's all it takes spare him and justice may still be done lucy shoot me [Music] do [Music] hmm [Music] uh [Music] [Music] you

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