Maigret's Dead Man Page #4

And the knife you found on this

Poliensky,

is the one that killed

your cafe owner?

Moers has confirmed it. Albert

Rochain was not underworld, sir.

Yes, yes.

Now we will be supported by men from

the 2nd arrondissement

who will search the area.

Everybody lock down a section

of two blocks here and are picking

up anyone that leaves.

We're going to find a lot of rubbish

and may not find his killer,

but we need to find out where

Poliensky was heading and discover

who shot him.

Follow me.

Up the stairs, second floor.

Come on, open up

or I'll break the door down.

Police! Open the door!

Do you know him?

Him? No, no.

Have you any Czechs living here?

We've got Poles, Italians,

and Armenians, but no Czechs.

Argh! Agh!

I've done nothing wrong. Come on.

All right.

Check all the papers.

How can I give you

what I don't have?

Laurent, take the next floor.

Come on, mate.

Papers?

Right. Come on.

Oi! You!

Stop!

Come on, you!

Chief!

This way.

Aagh! Aargh!

Agh! Get off!

I just tried to make her get up

and she bit me. Look at that.

Is she Czech? I don't know, she won't

speak. She keeps moaning. Aaargh!

That's because she's in labour.

Get an ambulance.

Get the proprietor in here.

Sir.

What's your name?

Do you understand me? Aaarrgh!

Sir?

What's her name? Maria.

Maria what?

I don't think she has another name.

Where are the others?

What others?

There are no others.

So what is this?

And this?

And this?!

They've gone.

When?

Today. I don't know.

When today?

After this man was

shot in the street?

I asked him that already.

He says he doesn't know him.

Did that man live in this room?

Yes.

With another.

So there were two others?

I swear, I don't know anything.

You are very close to being closed

down. Please don't obstruct us.

They both...slept with her.

She was sort of their queen bee.

Aaagh! Aaagh!

Will you all step back, please?

Just leave it.

I can't hear myself think.

Chief, shall I go with Janvier?

No. Go back to the quai, start

processing everyone we've picked up.

Don't let it wait until the morning.

Find out what they know about

that woman and the Czechs.

Chief.

Pietr Holosko.

He was the most, um...

..possessive of her.

Was Pietr the gunman this afternoon?

He took the call but it was

the other man who went out.

The other man?

A gent.

A fur coat.

Violent.

How old?

About 30, 35.

Did he sleep with her as well?

Oh, yes.

And sometimes...

..after he was here,

they'd go away for a night,

and they'd come back

flush with cash.

Did they have a car?

Well, they had a van parked up

somewhere, I don't know where.

What dates did they go away?

I don't know.

Um...

October 8th,

September...21st,

um...

Go on.

August 12th.

Do you realise the significance

of those dates?

Those are the dates

of the Picardie murders.

Please...

You've got to help me now because if

Pietr or the fur coat comes back,

they are going to kill me.

I've seen blood on their clothes.

They come back from those trips

with blood on their clothes.

The farms were so well chosen

I thought the gang would be based

in Picardie.

I thought they'd know the place

like the back of their hand.

Maybe they do.

There are lots of temporary workers

on the farms in the summer,

many immigrants.

Why did they kill your cafe owner,

Maigret?

Was he in with them?

I don't think so.

So what did he know?

Just what we all knew

from reading the papers.

That on the night of

the 8th of October,

a man travelled from Paris

to Goderville

on the slow train to Le Havre,

a journey nobody makes.

You think the cafe owner was on that

train? He had no reason to be.

But why weren't all four of them

on the train?

Because they had a van. I don't think

the man in the fur coat

would want to travel with this lot,

do you?

I think he'd want as little to do

with them as possible.

Good night.

'Night, monsieur.

Maxim's.

We can't go to Maxim's.

Why not? Because of what I'm wearing

under this coat.

Oh, what are you wearing

under this coat?

Nothing -

except the necklace.

Oh.

Hey!

The police have got Maria.

Jean. Stay there. Jean?

Stay there!

They picked her up this evening.

What are you coming to me for?

I come to you. We need to help her.

No, we need to kill her.

If you hurt her, I will kill you.

Think about it.

Think about it, boy,

she knows too much.

She's just a woman.

There are others.

Oh, no. He's under a lot of pressure

at work.

What, and you want a woman? Yeah?

Is that it? You want that?

But not the old one?

You can have that.

Really?

And others, I guarantee it.

Maria is no longer useful

to either of us.

No?

No.

Shut her up for me, Pietr.

He's coming, he's coming.

Sorry about that.

Who was that?

I just needed to talk to him.

How do you know him?

He's just someone that's done

some work for me.

Hello, Nicole. That you for coming

all the way from Goderville.

This is Chief Inspector Maigret.

Hello, Nicole.

It's fine, sweetheart.

Please, this way.

Nicole, it's very brave of you

to come and see us today.

Inspector Colombani tells me

that you saw the faces

of some of the bad people

who came to your farmhouse

the other day.

I have a photograph here of a woman,

and I'd like you to tell me if

she was one of those bad people.

Do you understand?

Do you want to hold my hand

while we turn the picture over?

Keep pushing.

Aaaargh! Push.

And again.

Keep pushing.

Push.

Push!

Here.

It's a girl.

OK.

Doctor!

Hey, let me.

Ask her her name.

Ask her where she was on the nights

of August the 12th, September the

21st,

Ask her where she was on the nights

of August the 12th, September the

and October the 8th.

Translate that, please?

I'd rather not, actually.

It wasn't very pleasant.

Ask her if on the evening of October

the 8th, she was in a farmhouse near

Goderville in Picardie.

Chief Inspector, whatever crime this

woman is suspected of,

she is a Czechoslovakian citizen and

has not only legal rights

but an expectation of human dignity.

I ask you to suspend questioning

until a time when...

Do you want to continue with

your speech about human dignity?

Just translate for

the Chief Inspector, will you?

On the night of August the 12th,

an old farmer and his wife

were stabbed to death.

On September the 21st,

at an another wealthy, isolated farm

in Picardie...

..there were similar murders.

And five days ago,

at a farm in Goderville,

an entire family was hacked to death.

But at Goderville

a witness survived.

A ten-year-old girl

hid in a wardrobe.

At one point she crept out of

her hiding place.

And saw a pregnant, dark-haired woman

burning her mother's breasts with

a candle flame.

And after her mother had revealed

the location of the family safe...

..she slit her throat.

This morning the young girl

identified you...

..as the woman who tortured

and murdered her mother.

Do you think I care?

Where is Pietr now?

Tell her that her life may depend on

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