Murder on the Orient Express Page #5
- Year:
- 2001
- 100 min
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The water.
The water is not working.
- I wasn't threatening anybody.
What is happening?
Frulein Schmidt,
does this belong to your lady?
No.
- She's Natalia.
- Ah.
It's her style
but not her initial.
Merci.
And tell to me if you please...
Were you also
the frequent visitor
to the Armstrong house
in Long Island?
Yes. No.
I knew the Long Island home,
but I've worked at an adjacent
property, another family.
That was how I met my lady.
And you are a good cook, eh?
Yes.
All my ladies have said that.
Bon.
N- No.
I'm a maid.
Ah, forgive me, but you appear
to be more expert in the food.
...which is made with parsley
and no more cooked
than 30 seconds.
No.
I'm a lady's maid.
The reason... The reason
I'm so nervous, monsieur,
and get things wrong
is that I saw the murderer.
I saw him with my eyes when
I finished my lady's massage.
And can you describe him?
He was small, round, and dark.
And when I heard his voice
as he said "pardon,"
it was a woman's voice...
weak like a woman.
Merci.
There is no power,
no power at all.
And it will be
minus-10 degrees tonight.
And they cannot get here
with the plow until the morning.
What are you doing?
How will they cook food?
Hey.
How will we stay warm?
- All his buttons are here.
And sewn with old thread,
so this button must have come
from a second uniform, Poirot.
Last night, Count Andrenyi,
I saw you and your wife
trying to disembark at Belgrade.
My wife can be claustrophobic.
It is difficult for her
on the train.
No. Last night
she took a draft of Trional.
My word of honor.
I did not question your honor.
I am afraid, Poirot,
neither of us
can be of use to you
in this sad investigation.
Non, monsieur.
COUNT ANDRENYl:
I spent two years in Washington
at a posting to the embassy.
You were there five years ago,
I see.
Yes.
I remember the Armstrong murder
in the papers,
if that's what you're...
alluding to.
So this spot of grease
is the result
of an official
who was careless, eh?
Why does she have to write
her name?
S'il vous plait,
as it appears in the passport.
Merci.
Doctor, what is the latest?
The German maid
said she saw the murderer.
Gave Poirot a description.
Why have you not yet
questioned me, monsieur?
Mlle. Debenham, why do you
and Colonel Arbuthnot
pretend not to know each other
when it was quite clear in
Istanbul that you were intimate?
No, don't.
When it's all over... then.
When what was all over, huh?
Hmm? What?
- I'm not at liberty to say.
- Oh, liberty.
Mademoiselle, you will give me
a good answer.
Or when the Yugoslav police
arrive,
you will not be at liberty.
- Now, give me an answer.
- Steady on, Poirot.
I am not at liberty to tell you.
Mademoiselle, do not cross me.
A murder has been committed,
and I have seen you
behaving suspiciously
both before and after
the crime took place.
- You leave her alone!
- John.
- Sir.
- Teddy, sit down.
Colonel Arbuthnot.
Maybe you can explain
what was meant by her words.
I met Miss Debenham in Baghdad.
She was a governess in a house
of an AOC, a friend of mine.
And you fell in love?
Yes.
What is it
with these men who go around
falling in love with the staff?
Will you shut up?
Why the secrecy?
I am currently suing
my unfaithful wife of 20 years
for divorce.
In English law, if she sees me
with another woman,
then she can sue me.
Can't believe
If that happens,
I will lose my house,
my reputation, my commission.
"When it's all over,"
Miss Debenham said.
When the divorce is all over.
When that is behind us.
Colonel,
in all your years of service,
did you know Colonel Armstrong,
father to
the young Daisy Armstrong?
By reputation, yes.
He was a fine man.
Military Cross.
Passchendaele.
Now, you listen, Poirot.
By all accounts, this man
deserved to die last night.
But I would have been happier if
he'd been convicted by a jury.
I see.
12 good men and true?
The civilized way.
Poirot, I have moved
the little gas stove
from the galley to the lounge,
and, well,
I propose we should stay there
for the night.
Bon.
Gather them all there.
M. Bouc, I have been thinking of
the theory of Dr. Constantine,
of the assassin who got on
disguised as a conductor.
Yes.
At Vincovci, yes.
And the uniform
of this conductor
must have been
discarded somewhere.
And Poirot,
he thinks he knows where.
It must be amongst
the possessions
of the one person
The witness who says
she saw the assassin.
Frulein Schmidt.
Do you have the button he lost?
Oh, yes. Please.
Bon.
Please to keep watch.
Monsieur, I found this
in my sponge bag.
It's certainly the kind of knife
that would have made the wounds.
Oui.
He must have hidden it
in my sponge bag
when he passed through
my compartment.
That must be the case.
I think it proper
to save my conclusions
for the police at Brod.
But when I sleep,
I... I see his face.
I can't keep his face
out of my mind.
- Mary, please.
- It's all right.
She sees the face of the man
she saw last night.
The murderer.
Full of anger, like...
like he wants to kill you?
I see his face.
This murder,
it would have been perfect, eh?
If it had not been
for the snowdrift.
Is that not so,
Frulein Schmidt?
two solutions to this murder.
In the first,
the Mafia assassin
gets on the train at Vincovci,
off at Brod with the money,
Cassetti killed.
But one or two of you notice
a different conductor in
the corridor, notify the police.
But the assassin
would have gone.
Vanished.
But because of the delay,
there had to be
an improvisation.
And so a second solution
proposes itself...
...to me.
Elena Wasserstein.
With a careless smudge
on "Elena. "
COUNTESS ANDRENYl: Oui.
Enough, eh?
Because maybe...
...maybe Poirot should not be
looking at your first name...
...but your second...
...Countess Wasserstein.
Waterstone.
The family name
to Sonia Armstrong
and her younger sister, Helena.
My wife
does not understand English.
Let's stop this right now.
Yes.
Let us stop this.
You had the handkerchief
with an "H."
That would have pointed to me.
And you would have found
my connection to Daisy.
- Your niece.
- My sweet niece.
This girl
hasn't done anything wrong.
You know nothing, monsieur.
You don't touch her.
Shall I tell you what I know?
Huh, Mlle. Debenham, shall I?
I know, because Frulein Schmidt
told me,
that the Christian name
of Princess Dragomiroff is...
She's Natalia.
And is it not so, Princess,
that in the Russian alphabet
the capital letter "N"
is written like
the Western letter "H"?
So I know that there is more
than just one connection
with Daisy Armstrong
on this train.
The godmother,
the... the aunt...
...and the son
to the prosecutor,
who Poirot remembers from the
papers ended his career in shame
because he rigged the trial.
Cassetti's connections
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