Poirot S13E02 The big four

so good lord later every morning that loud isn't in arena disgraceful is that the last of them i would have been quite happy i wanted to write them myself seems only right old friends you see george or friends extra extra well then captain hastings for your words really me oh well i didn't really i don't know what to say isn't it gosh my friends to my master the best of masters to our dear friend to mercier hercule poirot god raised his soul must okay uh i urge you to believe that i speak the truth that the world is in the grip of sinister forces bent on tippit into chaos beware beware the big four secret societies sinister plans for world domination it's all of it bulldog drummond do you think mr tyson at first yeah i did but i've had more letters since i think there's something in it remember that locomotive that came off the rails the plymouth express of course my correspondent claims that was the work of the big four and the riots in india local agitators no quantity a crank young man the idea there's some sort of organizing power controlling the world it's a very common fantasy amongst paranoias mr engles i've been doing some research mr tyso we stand on the edge of an abyss germany italy a storm is gathering we've enough to worry about without some far-fetched nonsense like this far-fetched is it you could go over to the left of the chessboard well there's a sight for sore eyes more sheer inspectors it has been too long far too long my dear inspector uh assistant commissioner now if you don't mind oh my brother father i've been following your progress with the interest most keen on me you are here in the capacity professional i'm not quite a spent force yet coira they still wheel me out for the occasional important assignment a lot of foreign bigwigs here tonight mr ryland over there has requested a discreet police presence from this chess match i'll say it's nice to get out from behind a desk stretch the old pins again now there won't be many more assignments like this i found soon well you know time it catches up with your soul now perhaps also for the shadows are lengthening and the moment it has come to think of the life that he's quiet you retire pyro never you attract mayhem what was i've done who's the lady ah that is a great mother molly all right one of uh ryland's peace party johnnies maniolo energy belgian no she's french not belgian but in her field she is the genius her research into the nervous system oh it is truly groundbreaking hmm you might say she has the greatest brain in the western world the greatest scientific brain hindi of course our excuse me foreign duty called assistant commission oh foreign i introduce stephen penter of the british diplomatic corps an invaluable supporter of the peace party a cause most worthy miss you and this is to remind me dr quentin mr painter's personal physician quite the turnout madam you must be pleased we have done it together all of us ladies gentlemen may i welcome you to our informal little soiree on behalf of our guiding light and founder lee chang yen now ill health prevents him from leaving china but he is with us in spirit we're all aware of the international situation at the grave pass at which the civilized world finds itself which is why we in the peace party see it as our mission our duty to avoid the lamps going out once again one day years ago i woke up and i realized that i hadn't a clue what to do with all my money tell us how you got your money mr ryan this is an invitation only event sir went on to my telephone calls mr ryland how else am i supposed to reach you this is intolerable hey what are you hiding who in a big four well it seems that everyone wants to be here tonight and why wouldn't they to witness this demonstration of unity between east and west via this ancient and beautiful game now i would like to thank our friend the russian ambassador for coaxing our guests out of retirement may i introduce to you the illustrious dr ivan savarnov who doctor he is the greatest of the rough and grand masters you are not a player of chess oh domino's is more in my line fire welcome sir he's going on a bit that is many years since he's been seen in public i warn you sir i may be an amateur but i won't be beat without a fight yeah push probably did she drop boy that's always been my motto well then without further ado let battle commence pawn to king full born to king four knight to kings bishop three knight to queens bishop three a doctor someone call a doctor can i help miss you i have some expertise i'm afraid it's too late he's gone i had trouble getting this out of his hand riga mortis likes me i expect so if you please to show puerto the belongings of the old man i don't know what you're getting yourself so broody about pyro you only had to look at him to know he wasn't long for this world natural causes dickie ticker so so here comes but the researchers of madame olivier concern the effects of atropine and morphine and so on on the heart and the nervous system so that's what she meant by expertise why but alas it was too late for her to save him so after all these years of being a recluse he agrees to travel halfway around the world for a publicity stunt i have no doubt that dr sevaronov was paid most handsomely uh but why was rylan prepared to pay so much you again yes we were never formally introduced well we laurence boswell tyso associated papers come along sir come on come on what is your interest here mr taiso something fishy about the old man's death dr savarinoff died of natural causes really that's how made a great hercule poirot we'll bother with something like this unless foul play was suspected if and when we have something to announce to the press you'll be the first to know don't you so aced your cards right maybe i can supply you with the truth about abe ryan fill you in on the skeletons he's got idling in his closet and what he knows about the big four what is this bigfoot bring me mr pyro you won't regret it ring me flossy i say those boys are just outrageous aren't they did you ever play juliet flossie yes quite recently actually oh right oh you're not reading that rubbish again are you not rubbish gives me the horrors all these rumors about another wall oh almost forgot reg asked me to give this to you somebody must have left it at stage door well better for me must be fan mail we'll open it then oh even better at valentine but it's april oh yes too flossy never forgotten until we meet again four kisses well who is it from that doesn't say what's your taser knew you'd come you can't resist a scoop okay you'd have made a good journalist mr pyro i think faro has the wrong kind of morality for the work we also modest i'm sure you spoke of skeletons in the armoire of monsieur tom what oh i say in the cupboard well let me tell you abra island is not the man everyone thinks it is real names abraham riakin born in kursk here in america about 25 years ago the outbreak of the great war changed his name he voiced his old identity so my question is why what is it that you know i know how he made his money arms dealing we made millions selling weapons to the allies and the kaiser you have proof of this naturally and maybe he was planning on doing the same thing again what is this big four that you mentioned certain information been coming my way letters and what do they say these letters well not so fast now that's a fast i've shared my information on ryland it's only for you show a little reciprocity wouldn't you say what is it you want full access to your investigation i work alongside you and you cop a pal you seem to be a man who is ambitious who is creative and perhaps even with some level of intelligence this must be a compliment but you are not a man of discretion monsieur we need to share information what would stop it from appearing in your newspaper i think i'll have to play a lone hand in this investigation that would be foolish monsieur you would be wise to reveal what you know for your own safety for nothing else i don't respond to threats mr pyro change your mind you know where to find me you've let li changin know what happened last night i've telegraphed then there is nothing more we can do for now what is troubling you we have enemies out there regine those who seek to destroy both us and our work and i've learned that in this life you can only trust number one they have trouble getting this out of his hand read them all to saxophone hurry lopez assistant commissioner will this take long gentlemen i'm a very busy man it's your island do you remember the exact succession of moves made by dr savaranov of course he used the re-lopez opening it's a soundist in the game and savaranov was reputed to favor this yes so what if you're pleased to tell us what was the third move of the white piece in this opening bishop to queen's night five well the exact move that sealed the fate of dr savannah if you're pleased to be patient this it is the white bishop from the chess set the exact piece that dr sevaranov was clutching in his hand when he died they look identical none two white bishops from the same chess set ah there is a rather thin metal which passes up through this chest man what foreign the tablet is electrified and so when dr sabaranov places the white bishop upon this particular silver square the electric current passes right through his body killing him instantly it was electrocuted we being sure at the table it is clamped to the floor so the current passes through it it is on fe the killing machine most elaborate from where was it attained may i ask you you'd have to ask one of my staff monsieur i don't concern myself with such matters so you do not concern yourself with the death of a man he was an old man old men tend to die in my experience from natural causes yes not usually via electrified chest tables now you just listen to me if you truly believe savaranov was murdered and in this colorful way monsieur puerto suggests that's your prerogative but if you were even suggesting that i had anything to do with it then you're gonna have to get yourself some proof hello could you put me through to mr taiso please he isn't no no message thank you i'm adam olivier to see you son pleased to share herring josh this way madam i shall come straight to the point monsieur you have seen this does the great detective monsieur ecuador have suspicions regarding the death of ivan savarenov his inquiries currently revolve around abe ryland and his mysterious peace party calm yourself mother it is merely the title tattoo we have no evidence of mr island is involved there are those who seek to discredit all of us in the peace party monsieur i implore you do nothing to aid these people excuse me my mother achieved speaks ryland was meant to meet some german dignitary last night he never turned up come on we have no clue where he's got to he's gone pyro he's disappeared hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha good afternoon sir you must be mad at us this is the local man on the case pirate it's an honor sir and an honour to meet you too mr pyro although i don't know that there's very much to interest you here fairly grubby little murderer if you ask me and not too much doubt about who's to blame neither the victim was jonathan wally something of a recluse and a uh say no fairy yeah whatever that is it means that he was a lover of all things chinese ah and this is the reason for our interest in this case inspector meadows the late mr jonathan wally was the author of this biography we got the details of the household inspector well there are two servants uh robert grant who's the kind of manservant he lives in and betsy andrews housekeeper and cook you've worked for mr wiley for some time oh years he was a queer old cove kept himself to himself add his little obsessions like they all do at that age obsessions crackers about all things chinese did he ever marry oh no how can you imagine it well what woman would have him why betide you if you tried to move one of his precious books or or tidy up his blooming letters were there any other friends or family friends no he had a sister but she died there was a young nephew who came here to stay with him when he was orphaned that was before my time though by all accounts i didn't get on madame andrews can you tell to us exactly what occurred this morning pressismo uh grant went out to get the milk as he does every day i popped out to have a natter with mrs stubbs at le burnham's she's buried two children poor soul and her husband's none too clever at the moment and which of you returned first oh that would be grand he came in by the back door put the milk in the ladder and then went into his room to read the paper and have a smoke so it was you who discovered the body minimum just just there he was poor solely been knocked silly and had his throat slit oh nasty it was very nasty so the story about grant going fetching milk is true at least then what is it foreign mutton sir wait um still frozen there's ice on it you're not suggesting you use the frozen leg of mutton to cost the old gentleman are you sir and then cut his throat with a wishbone what is the day mother me the day well monday of course may to commit to madonna monday it is a mistake must grave mr robert grant he is in custody no we've taken him in for questioning sir yes grant's story was that he went straight to his bedroom and that it was betsy andrews who discovered the body but you see then there's the matter of the footprints while he kept his most valuable chinese curios locked in this cabinet here and is it locked now he's in the loxer mr wally kept it on his person on his watch chain at all times but someone has removed it mr wally was fond of boasting that his most prized possession was a set of little ivory figures that he kept in here 18th century apparently and they're gone and this bloody footprint here oh begging your pardon sir it's all right meadows we know what you mean uh well it matches exactly with grant's boot and the footprint which if mr grant were telling the truth he could not have made quite size that so you now have the opportunity in the motif all that you require now is that oh so elusive element the proof the missing figures i have no doubt that you will find them hidden in the room of mature grant probably underneath his bed aren't you seeing you here mr poirot you seem to be everywhere at once may paro inquire what it is that you do here the news of this crime it has not yet been released i'm over the same reason you are indeed while he knew something something dangerous that much is obvious as somebody got him out of the way and it was your source who once again gave to you this tip-off i'm in possession of certain information well well if it isn't the proverbial bad pen assistant commissioner i presume you can account for your movements at the time of mr wally's death that's uncalled for oh we've got him now sir oh mr god i never did it it's a frame up that's what it is i came back and went straight to my room like i said i never knew anything until betsy screamed so help me god i didn't if you did not tell the truth then that is the end of it but governor no mister you did go into the drawing room you did know that your master was dead and you were preparing to make a boat for it my mother mandrels made the discovery so terrible come now is that not so i say solemnly to tell to me the truth and now it is your only chance yeah it's just as you say well mr wally i came in and went straight over to the master and here he was dead on the floor blood all around then i got the wind up proper they'd ferret out my record and for a certainty they'd say it's me as a dunny min when the figures are very very just going to blame the murder on me anyway the master had said it was worth a lot of loot i might as well go the old log then before i could make a run for it betsy was back and screaming the place down you expect us to believe all that grant you ought to be ashamed of yourself telling such barefaced lies to an important man like mr puero here mr grant when were you released from prison three months ago and how did you obtain your position in the household through one of them prisoner's elk societies bloke met me when i come out he said this before pyro there's no record of any such society placing him with jonathan walling i swear it's a was a pastor a priest do you recall what he looked like this pastor no i'm sorry sir just sort of look middle and eye ordinary you know i'm afraid i must go ahead and charge this man sir no if you do inspector meadows you will charge the wrong man mr grant he's not the killer thank you sir i knew you'd believe me sir i've been thinking this over and it doesn't add up if it's not grant well no one else approached the cottage all morning the neighbour's curtains twitch like billy oh here in hofferton if there'd been a stranger coming to the house well well you're not suggesting betsy andrews faro will describe for you the killer of jonathan wooley the mother was a man who is clever or very clever first he posed as a prison visitor then he obtained a post for monsieur grant with a deliberate intention of making him the scaping good then he gave to him a pair of boots one of two pairs that were duplicate the other he kept for himself then he drove up outside the house in the van leaving it in full view he entered the house committed a murder wearing the boots identical then he drove away this man he wore a hat of straw and his clothing was slightly bloodstained her parrot the whole village would have seen it my idea everybody saw him and nobody saw him he drove up in the van of a butcher this leg of mutton would not have remained frozen if he was delivered on saturday no someone delivered this lack of mutton today moreover someone on whom a trace of blood here and there would attract no attention lie me i'll get around and arrest the butcher straight away no no do not travel yourself inspector the real butcher would have made no such delivery today no this is a business most dark amazing me and i fear we're only at the beginning of a long long game mr tyson oh you cannot say you have not been one monster i know that's why i'm here now i'm putting everything i got in front here started with anonymous tip-offs train crashes riots i went to ingles at the foreign office dismissed it out of hand then the messages started to become more cryptic you see the game will begin shortly a battle of wits and then a king shall fall beware beware the big four that arrived along with a dossier on ryland a king shall fall yeah obviously referring to the chess gang this was next death will come to hopperton village the dragon shall feast jonathan wally of hopperton here's one dead someone on the inside was trying to tip me off someone inside the big four turned traitor now they've found him out and he's lining a morgue with a knife in his back have you identified the deceased man i mean oh nothing yet someone else indeed this was inside his coat pocket addressed to me just like all the others well that's where you should have left it that's evidence oh well playing cards other kind we but the first one is of the origin chinese and anita has been scored la numero uh li chiang yin that's the bay brain's behind the so-called peace party that's a chance card from a monopoly set you don't have to be a genius to work that one out ryland why does it say d and not q because he's from a french practical playing cards my name is like that on southend pier gypsy meg three months later the cat died one two three four whoever the dead man was he was trying to give me a clue to their identities what is it foreign do not observe enemy the edge of this car that is burnt a toast to our future all my love four kisses um you're going to mr q if you're not careful darling ah arling we can't wait any longer please ring the gong for dinner you're asking too much what are you saying remember our dream everything we talked about all we can achieve i don't think i can go through with it stephen i don't have your certainty i'm not like you it's wrong what we're doing it's all wrong still no news of mr island madame olivier nothing at all and it is also very damaging to the party he should be protesting his innocence the newspapers are full of talk about the big four no it is nonsense quite it's true that there is bad blood between america and russia though isn't it after savannah's death i've been speaking with the soviet ambassador trying to calm things down but my husband the conciliator what would the world do without you my dear let's hope we'll never find out i'll drink to that oh they're here i hoped they'd join us eventually he's really not that late my dear so sorry so very very sorry can you ever forgive me auntie die i was out with the chaps and time just ran away from me you're on your own are eight year old i thought you were bringing miss strothers with you tonight oh good lord so i was huh well emilia will have sorted herself out i mean she's probably had a better offer one or did i leave her at that blessed party oh well well you're here now gerald that's all that matters why don't you sit down so sorry you must be like grand damn madame oh uncle steven speaks terribly highly of you hey you're staying for a few days that's right i'm the black sheep of the family a pleasure to meet you gerald oh ah yes remind me again gerald the name's quentin oh of course of course of course uncle steven saw bones terribly sorry have you eaten gerald well arlington's finest curry rather fill up the bowl my friend now where's the wine anyone for a top-up a simple bugger stabbed in the lower back with some force kitchen knife but observe misery despite all the efforts of the staff in this motery to wash him down the dirt it is deep it is ingrained you've been on the run from the big four you're already going to stop and run a tower by you and yet you say he's close his evening dress they are of some quality yeah very nice yes bit old-fashioned man he would like to see them sorry it's been so kind of uncle steven to take me on don't you think madam indeed prodigal returns and all that it was the least i could do for my brother's voice it's all under the bridge now family feud forgiven and forgotten i'm glad to have been able to make amends in some small way it's curious most curious always and the class it is of the quality most fine and yet the fashion it is of since 30 years no labels there's a fragment that is on her you think you stole the clothes some kind of disguise and me we must discover the identity of this man and find out his connection with the big four stephen stephen unlock the door ling hurry stephen answer me ah oh what a terrible way for a man today rudyard if you ask me why the fire i mean it makes a face completely unrecognizable me do you think that was the intention here thought of this but now there seems little doubt that the dead person is mr stephen painter so the killer comes into the room pulls him off the bed and drags him over to the fire not the easiest way to kill him castle oh there would have been a struggle of tremendous and screams screams which nobody in the house admits to hearing who discovered the bunny chinese man servant chinese pirate and diana painter the wife of 30 years smelled the smoke apparently from her own bedroom hello madame painter she does not share the bed chamber with her husband can you hear me paro 30 years to be honest i think mrs chap would jump at this type of sleeping arrangement if we had the room see your inspector with a finger a clue must be sauna now apparently mr painter kept a notepad a pen and a bottle of ink by his bedside and this is what he wrote last night dr quentin you were the personal physician of the late monsieur painter that's correct stephen had a heart condition easily managed with the right medication but it was thought prudent that there should be someone on hand what has his state of mind been lately he'd been anxious all the stuff in the papers is enough to alarm anyone and now rylan's furnished it's a great blow to the party when did you now see him alive doctor around 11 30 last night he asked to see me before he retired to bed how did you find him he was very agitated i suggested a tonic but he said he just wanted to get to bed one final question if i made offer you'll see do you recognize this man he does look vaguely familiar for what reason he's something to do with the peace party i think i met so many people through stephen and his work that uh i really couldn't say for sure no i don't know him try to think carefully madam perhaps you met him through your late husband and his work stephen rarely thought to include me in his work miss you i'm sorry i can't be any more help dear we do not wish to distress your mother i loved my husband monsieur but i realized some time ago that my affection was no longer reciprocated last night i learned for certain what i had suspected for some time that he did were conducting the love affair how did you this puerto had observed at the chess tournament i am so sorry mother and did you hear any kind of disturbance in the night mr painter believe me after the amount of booze i put away it's a miracle i work at all this morning dead to the world i was oh dear sorry are you sure i can't get you anything a bit early for me sir thank you all the same it would be for me too usually but uh you know poor old uncle steven you hear about these kind of freak accidents happening all the time and still as shock when it happens to one of your nearest and dearest you think then that this was an accident what else could it have been how did you and your uncle get on together well i i don't feel i had the chance to get to know him properly i've only been here a few months is that so yes a father and uncle stephen fell out you see there'd been an incident when i was only a nipper and do you know the nature of this incident well this uh firework exploded in my face and father always blamed uncle stephen i don't even remember it of course but they never spoke again so he gets a tidy summer as a result of painters death and the manner of his death so violent and dramatic the father consumes the face of mr painter an echo grotesque of the burning of his own face oh and as he lies dying monster painter he dips his finger into the ink and scrolls the letter g onto a notepad a final desperate attempt to indicate the identity of his killer gerald did it for revenge and for the cash no no money me a fourth mother with a connection to the peace party and the big four no this is an attempt most crude to frame young mr gerald hmm well i suppose we better have the big one in i shall do all i can to assist you this is a terrible loss for the world and for me personally perhaps you can assist us madame with the identity of this man he's not known to me miss you then perhaps you should take a closer look my eyesight is excellent i can assure you i do not know who this man is madam we understand that before dinner last night you and mr painter conversed in private yes we talked of the future of the peace party that's a lie how mrs painter place i may not have your world-class brain madam but i have sense enough to know when my husband is conducting a love affair behind my back diana he wanted to finish it with you and your pride couldn't bear it i heard him it's all wrong i can't go on with this that's what he said i wouldn't be surprised if you killed him rather than let him come back to me it is not true monsieur surely you cannot believe we believe madam that we are dealing with an organization so ruthless that it will not hesitate to execute any who stand in its way if you know anything at all about the big four i implore you to tell it to us you accuse me monsieur there is evidence to suggest madame olivia that one of the members of the big four is a woman a french woman gentlemen i find your accusations contemptible and absurd you will try and prevent me if i leave oh i can't do that madam you're not under arrest you have not held the last of these not by any means we should not have antagonized or it is not yet that time i can't go through with this it's all wrong maybe he wasn't referring to their affair pirate so he was killed because he wanted no more to do with this organization so sinister where the hell is this going pyro we've got nothing to go on nothing there must be a link monami a connection however obstructs between these cases something that we have missed the link's obvious pyro is the ruddy peace party if what tyso's mysterious source told him is true then they're exactly the opposite of what they claim to be fifth columnist working to start a war not prevent one pearl must sink think assistant commissioner jackson barra she's gone gone who has gone on me madame olivier she's done a bunk too just like abryland no one's seen hiding a hair of her since she left painter's place and there's something else we've had the test back from painter's body he was drugged that's why he didn't cry out when his head was put in the fire the drug was very specific gelser no what is it you're called the scientific researchers of madame olivia they are concerned principally with the nervous system in small quantities jasmine is used to treat the heart in large quantities it induces paralysis and immobilization of the nervous system well that confirms it she's in on it too it would appear so such an eventuality it is tragic no to think that it is possible that such a woman never mind that we're making progress at last we've identified number three of the big four you'll find everything exactly as it was until you catch the fellow who done it i'm not allowed to touch a thing and there remains no word from the nephew of monsieur wally he does not return to claim his inheritance no not that i'm surprised i mean who'd want to live here knowing what had happened i wish he would show up though there's boxes of junk just sitting up there uh madam you said before that he and his uncle they did not get on so i gather before my time as i say and what became of him mother lived here till he was in his twenties i think and then oh maybe he went off and jumped the circus just uh give me a shout when you're done mercyme my darling flossie soon our time will come four kisses of course there's no grace about the profession these days these young actors and actresses they can't project they're used to speaking into a microphone for the wireless or for the talking pictures the profession can be a very cruel place especially when the first bloom of youth has gone do you go to the theater mr poirier oh yes indeed oh well then you must have seen me i got wonderful reviews for my eliza doolittle a confident and dazzling miss flossie monroe no no well i did the importance of being earnest at the vaudeville in 26 i had a great success with that perhaps something more recent more recent well um let me think uh i was at the duke of york's a few years ago and share my cab but oh yes indeed this brother did see what did you play the accordion for some years you appeared in a repertory theater company madame moiselle ma'am the methuselah players yes i wanted to know about that oh they were happy times i've been speaking to some of your fellow actors and they tell to me that this company it closed down not long after that season yes such a shame oh thank you mercy does the name albert wally mean anything to you molly no no i don't think so why should it not he it appears that he was a member of the audience very devoted to the methuselah company in fact he collected mementos from the repertory season in 1924. oh a fan was he oh really mr farrow you can't expect me to remember all my admirers over all these years no ma'am i mean for instance only this past few weeks i've been sent all sorts of things cards flowers champagne all from an anonymous admirer this arrived just the other day a valentine mean april yes i thought it was queer too but you know what some of these fans can be like you permit puerto tocic until we meet again speaks we must hear an interview it is possible what is your address mr so so what a difference a few weeks make quite so i turned away that journalist fellow that fleeing is here now it seems he was right after all bulldog drummond come to life and the best of men lies dead monsieur poirier was a brilliant man lord knows we could do more like him at this moment is there any hope for peace sir this big four business has the entire international community on edge do you have anything concrete to go on sir nothing li chang yang has put out a statement denying any knowledge of the big four well he would wouldn't he and ryland and madame olivier are still nowhere to be seen what about number four indeed how does one track down death himself why aren't you if only we could find out what knowledge he took with him to his grave he always liked things just so didn't he quite he was on to something wasn't he he has to be i only wish i knew what i've been so wrapped up with all these new leads that have been coming in pyro seem quite content to go off and pursue things on his own i suppose he must have grown quite used to that yes i suppose so one thing we know for certain he was getting too close to the big four so they eliminated him yes well well well hang it all jab what are we going to do next hey we can't let poirot die in vain we've got to stop them now hang on captain hastings we can't be faint-hearted now man are you with me or not for puerto sa together we have to stop the big four listen these people mean business they'll stop at nothing if even poirot couldn't stop them good lord man i never thought i'd hear such conscie talk from you well if you won't do anything to stop these brutes then i certainly will and i'll leave no stone unturned good day so what do i do now old chap good old hastings old soldiers never die mr what's up yes george what is it uh telegram is a rivalry sir for me so hello anybody here it's a it's miss monroe i've come for the audition it's funny you know i was just talking about this place someone the other day strange to be back here after all this time yeah i'm not late am i your letter did say four hello help me please what's going on what do you want with me welcome miss munro welcome to the lair of the big four oh my god you've heard of us how gratifying talk to me miss monroe tell me all you know about the big four i don't understand why why waiting miss monroe you wouldn't want to disappoint me would you i only know what i've seen in the papers what have you read in the paper well it's all run from china isn't it number one go on um then there's that american with all the money number two number three and number four tell me what you know of number four nobody knows do they did are you number four think back my darling it has been some time do i know you all my gifts the cards the roses they didn't bring back any memories you're my admirer you're my fan think flossie think back to that season at this old theater 15 years ago we performed together on this very stage claude claude daryl it is it really you it is my love what's this all about claude it's just a joke is it just a silly joke no my dear it's serious deadly serious i adore you flossie don't you realize that i'd do anything for you i've done so much already all for you do you remember what you said to me on that day what day it was years ago years i can never forget it you know i asked you if i could take you out to dinner and you said oh claudia don't be so ridiculous it's like if i see someone like you you're such a funny little shrimp aren't you no i deserve the best claudi someone who's gonna make something of himself someone the whole world will remember someone the whole world would remember if i was young wasn't i mean i was young and foolish and full of the whole world will remember me now won't they the whole world will remember the big four litany abrylen regina olivier and me claude daryl number four the destroyer death himself you mean you've done all of this all of this just for me tell me you love me flossie tell me you love me help me i think you're the most remarkable man i've ever met let me take you away from here just just one thing to take care of first i did not miss you we miss you despite the best efforts of the big phone puerto rico you're dead dead and buried no it was all smoke and mirrors is that not the expression but now it is time to bring down the curtain on the big four i rather think that there will be my decisions the game's up you've pulled off some stunts in your time pyro but this makes them all oh i should say i have much to explain to you measure me but first if you please mom was there flossie flossy come on i think you better sit down sir what about these two we do something in case they what's the matter with them one moment when they mean whatever house in which we find ourselves the world stands on the brink of a conflict most terrible and what do we discover is behind it all fomenting suspicion on a scale that is global the cabal most terrifying puppet masters who threatened to plunge the world into war and yet and yet what was the first reaction of anyone who was told of the big four that it was like something from a storybook nespa oh look dramatic miss your taizo because that is all it is mesa me mere theater the before are not real no they exist only in the crazed imagination of one man that's not possible a man who would plunge the world into chaos because of a passion that is unrequited albert wally who is later to take on the stage name of claude darrell and who for the past few months have been masquerading as dr quentin but what about lee chang yin and these two li chan yang is as innocent as he claims and these poor unfortunate souls are merely pawns in their game kidnapped and kept here their disappearances orchestrated to throw suspicion onto them but why don't they say anything because they are drugged by me drugged with jessamine good grief noise the same drug that was used to anesthetize stephen painter before he was killed or they are fully conscious but their physical paralysis it is complete but mercifully it would appear in this case the effect it is only temporary everyone believed it though didn't they the big four fleet street the police the great british public oh we miss you for some time even hercule was taken in by your charade so deadly with your help of course mr tyson what i just had to wind you up like a clockwork toy and off you went you and your little newspaper spreading fear confusion hate and emotional soup pulsing you really have been a most useful ally but my informer the letters the playing cards all sent from miss utero so the fella who turned up with a knife at his back in reality a dressed in a theatrical costume the clues of the playing cards planted upon him reality miss your poirot who is to say where fantasy ends and reality begins well let us speak of beginnings mr act one of a drama so very strange albert wally a boy an orphan poor and unloved who was sent away to live with his uncle who was cold and aloof albert wally is a name i haven't used in years no but an uncle who disapproved of your fantasies and your desire to tread the boards all those years listening to that old foam going on about his precious lee chang yen i began to see possibilities right but then you had a task most difficult now to worm your way into the confidences of the members of the peace party child's play i forged my references and quietly took up my position as dr quentin painter's condition is not really very difficult to research i'm an actor mr poro and a bloody good one oh yes indeed your ability to blend in to pass yourself off in all manner of disguises which has proven so useful you have the genius of the character actor no no no it's the tyson savaranov was killed to implicate abraham your uncle died just for a suspicion of the lichen yen and stephen painter who was innocent murdered to incriminate madame olivier he was a weak fool his weakness was his conscience i merely persuaded him that it wasn't decent for them to continue their silly love affair that's all it was then diana painter overheard him ending the affair it had nothing to do with the big four indeed so my name is but why oh god's name what the hell was it all for for me wasn't it mr poro for the woman who spurned him all those years ago for therein lies your tragedy mr daryl the very gift that could have turned you into the actor supreme makes you forgettable the man who blends in the man whose name nobody ever can quite remember the man who disappears albert wally claude daryl dr quentin number four whatever you choose to call yourself miss you you adore the flourish that is theatrical you've got a nerve come on all this you already worked out where i was you could have sent the police to arrest me at any time but instead you wanted your grand finale show everyone just how clever you've been oh we're more alike than you think we're all right nobody moves don't be a fool daryl you'll never get away my men are surrounding the building if fussy won't have me then we're all going to go out in a blaze of glory we've got to get everybody out of here one minute one minute before i bring down the final cut of the big four moira you will not do it to do all this for the love of one woman you will not send her to her grave albert wally you cannot it's all right it's all right son that's all right you've boiled everything you fight it all you're insufferable little nah but i am number four do you hear me the destroyer death itself he's dead good afternoon gentlemen it is a source of great relief that after our terrible ordeal we are able to clear not only our own reputations but that of the party as well indeed li changing wants to reassure every civilized nation that we will continue to strive for world peace the big four has proved to be a fiction but still we stand on a precipice the situation remains green but if war does come the powers of light will be united as one i will have to eat some humble pie naturally but i do have the exclusive story of number four to write so that's some consolation thanks for the opportunity to be in at the end mr pyro i hope you've learned your lesson mate check your facts before you print incidentally where did you work it all out ah it occurred for some time that this case had the flavor of the theater and the label of the costumier max berman and sons was the first mistake of monsieur claude daryl his scrapbook led me towards mamrazel monroe of course natural more he kept his eye most closely upon her but when she met with me hercule fuero he panicked hello speaks i understand you've been trying to contact me my name is claude down i guess indeed mr in connection with your time at the methuselah theater an interview it is possible certainly shall we say before but i hope that even if for one moment monsieur claude darrow could believe that his plan has succeeded then the subsequent realization of his failure would be all the more devastating and they are cute he was proved correct i still can't quite believe i managed to do it convince him i was in love with him i want mama's element that she would need courage and that he might prove to be most dangerous but when the moment he came the claude darrell were to make contact with her again as i knew that he would we must be ready we it was the performance of a lifetime man was there i had a wonderful director mr poirot oh well delightful as this all is i need to get on and write my column i don't suppose you'd be interested in giving me an exclusive interview would you the woman who stole the heart of number four or perhaps maybe we could discuss it further over lunch don't mind if i do performance of a lifetime certainly gives a girl an appetite so where'd you fancy simpsons is lovely i've not been there for a while or we could go dancing well faro we're um we're pleased you know that uh you're not uh you know dead of course we are but but why did you go through with this horrid gerard making us believe you'd been killed but it was vital miss lemon vital that you should believe it it was necessary for poirot to disappear because in this way the god of number four it would be dropped george i'm sure you have the best intentions sir no man is a hero to his valet you ever forgive me mesemi it was all for the best i suppose but you know this affair of the big ford has done some other good now has it not reunited me with all my oldest friends almost all because where is hastings where is captain hastings well there's been no sign of him since he charged off i'm afraid surely he must have heard the news by now good lord turo i thought you were dead mon ami hastings it is the most extraordinary thing you want to find out how puerto's adventures all started we have the very first episode available as a free taster on itv player just go online to find out more well the drama continues on the wards and suburbs of 1960s london in breathless tomorrow nights at nine anna brush with the law could have serious consequences with charlie and the hospital that's tomorrow but next tonight it's the news and weather you

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