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Murder on the Orient Express Page #6
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threatened to kill me...
his son...
if he didn't do what they asked.
W- What was he supposed to do?
He was supposed to have ensured
that justice was done
in an open court, monsieur.
This girl did not murder
that man.
Not in a frenzy, no.
This was a cold crime,
was it not, Mlle. Debenham?
One long in the planning.
But it was you, M. Bouc,
that only in America
could such a society as this
all be found together.
But maybe also
in the house of a rich man
in Long Island.
Because...
Ah.
Here we have the cook.
And that is Frulein Schmidt,
is it not so, Michel?
Hmm?
And next to her
is your daughter,
the French housemaid,
Mlle. Francoise,
who fell under
the suspicion of the police
for her complicity in the death
of Daisy Armstrong
but who actually was innocent,
eh, and committed suicide.
Signor Foscarelli,
what were you?
- The chauffeur?
- The chauffeur.
And also the lover
to Mlle. Francoise.
All she did was talk to
a stranger in a shop.
She let slip some details
about the house,
what time
the nursemaid took off.
She didn't know she was talking
to a man like Cassetti.
Yes, and all this in 1933.
Five years ago.
How long have you been
with Jesus, Mlle. Ohlsson?
Five years I have been with him.
So Poirot, he suspects
that you were that nursemaid.
Some crimes
God does not forgive.
And you, Mlle. Debenham.
The professional governess, eh?
With paralysis
down one side of your body.
How, I wonder,
could you possibly
have sustained such an injury?
M. Masterman,
you were the butler to the
Armstrong household, but no.
Then I observed how familiar the
Colonel Arbuthnot was with you.
And now I believe you served
together in the army,
alongside the Colonel Armstrong.
Teddy was his batman
throughout the war.
He was the best of gentlemen.
And he was my closest friend.
And then Linda Arden.
a danger of you being recognized
if you were to board the train
as yourself, eh?
You even fooled Poirot.
12 people.
And 12 wounds
in the body of Cassetti.
12 members of a jury.
But I do believe
that the Count Andrenyi
was a man of honor,
and his wife had been protected
and was not involved
in the killing,
and took her Trional
as he had said.
That's correct.
So who, then, was the 12th?
Could it possibly be the man
at every turn?
That is how the killer
must have left.
The obstetrician from America...
...who Poirot suspects
counted among his clients
a family on Long Island,
and who he watched
how they suffered.
We have Miss Debenham
to thank for our plan.
It was her fortitude
that brought us all together
and channeled our determination.
The plan had great beauty.
Cassetti's whiskey was drugged
so that he was awake
but could not react to anything.
We needed him to know
of his execution.
Aaaaaaaaaah!
Mr. Ratchett?
Mr. Ratchett,
is everything all right?
Ce n'est rien.
Je me suis tromp.
After you had heard that,
all we needed was for you
to go to sleep, M. Poirot.
I could tell you who we are.
But all you need to know,
is that the people that you
killed are all in heaven,
Mr. Cassetti,
while you are going to hell.
That baby must have been
so scared when you killed her.
Did you not think
that we would not
search the world
to get justice for those
good people that we loved?
So the whole business
of this trip...
The berth bought
for a "Mr. Harris"...
The watch!
All but a farce, was it not,
Linda Arden,
to make the mockery of Poirot?!
You were
And then the snow, which meant
we couldn't get to Brod.
But how will the assassin
leave the carriage?
Just through the window.
Yes.
Yes, he could have tried
to go through my room,
and I've... I've woken up and
he's had to come back in here.
You have no right to take
the law into your own hands!
M. Poirot.
She was 5 years old!
We were good, civilized people.
And then evil get over the wall,
and we looked to the law
for justice.
And the law let us down.
No, no.
No, you behave like this,
and we become just savages
in the street!
Where juries and executioners,
they elect themselves!
No, it is medieval!
The rule of law,
it must be held high!
And if it falls, you pick it up
and hold it even higher!
For all society,
all civilized people,
will have nothing to shelter
them if it is destroyed!
There is a higher justice
than the rule of law, monsieur.
Then you let God administer it,
not you!
And when he doesn't,
when he creates a hell on earth
for those wronged,
when priests who are
supposed to act in his name
forgive what must
never be forgiven?
Jesus said...
throw the first stone.
Oui.
Well, we were without sin,
monsieur.
I was without sin.
When we get to Brod...
if we ever get to Brod...
monsieur.
Hand me over to the police.
My world has gone.
Non.
The worst kind
of murderer, Poirot!
- Monsieur.
- The devil incarnate!
You can't stand here
and defend him to us.
You're as bad as a crook
in the courthouse, sir.
Lock the door.
It is true, monsieur.
You can tell these people
are good people...
...that Cassetti...
that Cassetti, he deserved to be
executed for what he did,
a travesty that he was not!
Non!
Lock the door!
We can present the conductor's
uniform to the police in Brod
Non!
What are you doing?
I can't be seen here.
I won't be seen here.
Colonel...
We have assigned one murder
to the assassin.
- We can assign two more.
- We are not murderers, Colonel.
Open the door!
- Killing Cassetti was God's law.
- Open the door!
If you kill them,
you're no better than Cassetti!
- Get out of my way!
- No!
No!
No.
If we kill them, we will have
become like gangsters,
just protecting ourselves.
God knows how hard it will be
to carry Cassetti's murder
through our lives.
But how unconscionable
will it be
to carry murders that are wrong?
I'm proud of you, John.
I'm proud of you for getting
justice for your friend.
And I love you.
I love you.
But we don't do what is wrong,
my darling.
We don't do what is wrong.
Monsieur?
- May I come through?
Of course.
I have some tea.
- Can I take it to him?
- Oh, yes. Yes.
Can I ask if there will be
police arriving
with the snowplow?
Yes.
They will be there, yes.
Princess Dragomiroff is making
everyone tea on the stove.
One thing you didn't solve
was where we hid the money
we were going to give back
to the Armstrong trust.
Non.
But I think the princess
put on much weight
from one day to the next.
To have been so well insulated
would have been useful
last night.
You said of the woman
in Istanbul
that she knew the rules
of her culture
and knew what breaking them
would mean.
So did Cassetti.
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