Clue (1985)
Clue is a 1985 American black comedy mystery film based on the board game of the same name. Directed by Jonathan Lynn, who co-wrote the script with John Landis, and produced by Debra Hill, it stars the ensemble cast of Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, and Lesley Ann Warren, with Colleen Camp and Lee Ving in supporting roles.
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00:04:09It's everything ready we miss you you have your instructions
00:04:30Everything all right, mrs. Ho dinner will be ready at 730
00:04:50Good evening. Good evening. I don't know it. Yes indeed sir. You are expected colonel
00:04:55May I take your kid it is kennel mustard, isn't it? No, that's not my name. My name is come here, sir
00:05:00But tonight you may well feel obliged to my employer
00:05:04for the use of an alias
00:05:18And who are you sir, I'm Wadsworth sir the butler
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00:05:31Bet would you attend to the colonel and give him anything he requires within reason that is Oh
00:05:38Wadsworth I was
00:05:46Do come in madam you are expected do you know who I am only that you ought to be known as mrs. White
00:05:52Yes, it said so in the letter but why
00:06:14May I introduce you mrs. White is the vet the maid I see you know each other
00:06:22Hello
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00:06:59Want a lift, yes
00:07:06Thanks, I'm late for dinner date me too. Where are you going?
00:07:12See
00:07:14He'll have off route 41. Wait a minute. Let me look at that. That's where I'm going. I got a letter like this
00:07:23And
00:07:32This is mrs. Peacock
00:07:35How do you do if it will you go and check the dinner will be ready as soon as all the guests have arrived
00:07:41Oh
00:07:58Is this the right address to meet mr. Body how you must be mr. Green yeah
00:08:04No, not you sir
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00:08:13Should be just off there
00:08:23That must be it
00:08:28Why is the car stop it's right
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00:09:21Got the second place
00:09:28And the Scarlet I didn't realize you were acquainted
00:09:30We weren't
00:09:38May I present professor plum and miss Scarlet
00:09:53Of course since you've each been addressed by a pseudonym
00:09:56You'll have realized that nobody here. It's being addressed by their real name
00:10:08Sorry, I'm a little accident prone
00:10:12You'll find your names beside your places, please be seated
00:10:27This place for you indeed no, sir. I'm merely a humble butler exactly. Do you do a bottle sir?
00:10:33I'm a butler sir. I'm a butler sir. I'm a butler. I'm a butler
00:10:36I'm a butler sir. I'm a butler. I'm a butler sir. I'm a butler sir
00:10:40I'm a butler sir, which means what the butler is head of the kitchen and dining room. I keep everything tidy. That's all
00:10:46What's all this about butler this dinner party? I was not to reason why I was what to do and I die
00:10:54Merely quoting sir from outfit Lord Tennyson. Hmm. I prefer kipling myself. The female of the species is more deadly than the male
00:11:02You like coupling miss Scarlet sure I'll eat anything
00:11:05Thank you.
00:11:07Shaks fin soup, madame.
00:11:09So is this for our host?
00:11:10No, sir, for the seventh guest, Mr. Boddy.
00:11:12I thought Mr. Boddy was our host.
00:11:14So am I.
00:11:16So who is our host, Mr. Wadsworth?
00:11:22Well, I'm going to start while it's still hot.
00:11:24Oh, now, shouldn't we wait for the other guests?
00:11:26I will keep something warm for you.
00:11:28Would you have mine, dear?
00:11:35Thank you.
00:11:37Thank you.
00:12:01Well, someone's got to break the ice,
00:12:03and it might as well be me.
00:12:05I mean, I'm used to being a hostess.
00:12:07It's part of my husband's work, and it's always difficult
00:12:09when a group of new friends meet together
00:12:11for the first time to get acquainted.
00:12:13So I'm perfectly prepared to start the ball rolling.
00:12:16I mean, I have absolutely no idea what we're doing here
00:12:19or what I'm doing here or what this place is about,
00:12:22but I am determined to enjoy myself,
00:12:24and I'm very intrigued.
00:12:26And, oh, my, this soup's delicious, isn't it?
00:12:31You say you are used to being a hostess
00:12:33as part of your husband's work?
00:12:35Yes, it's an integral part of your life
00:12:37when you are the wife of a...
00:12:39Oh, but then I forgot.
00:12:41We're not supposed to say who we really are.
00:12:43Oh, heavens to Betsy, I don't know why.
00:12:45Don't you?
00:12:47I know who you are.
00:12:49Aren't you going to tell us?
00:12:51How do you know who I am?
00:12:53I work in Washington, too.
00:12:55Washington? So you're a politician's wife?
00:12:57Yes, I am.
00:12:59Well, come on, then. Who's your husband?
00:13:04So what does your husband do?
00:13:06Nothing.
00:13:08Nothing?
00:13:10Well, he just lies around on his back all day.
00:13:13Sounds like hard work to me.
00:13:18Oh, my. I'm sorry.
00:13:22I'm afraid I'm a little bit accident-prone.
00:13:24Oh, watch it.
00:13:29Excusez-moi.
00:13:31Excusez-moi.
00:13:45Oh, my.
00:13:49This is one of my favorite recipes.
00:13:51I know, madam.
00:13:56So what do you do in Washington, D.C., Mr. Green?
00:14:00Come on. What do you do?
00:14:02I mean, how are we to get acquainted if we don't say anything about ourselves?
00:14:05Perhaps he doesn't want to get acquainted with you.
00:14:07Well, I'm sure I don't know,
00:14:09but if I wasn't trying to keep the conversation going,
00:14:11then we would just be sitting here in an embarrassed silence.
00:14:14Are you afraid of silence, Mrs. Peacock?
00:14:16Yes. What? No. Why?
00:14:18Well, it just seems to me that you are.
00:14:20You seem to suffer from what we call pressure of speech.
00:14:22Oui? Who's oui? Are you a shrink?
00:14:25I do know a little bit about psychological medicine, yes.
00:14:28Well, you're a doctor.
00:14:30I am, but I don't practice.
00:14:32Practice makes perfect.
00:14:34I think most men need a little practice, don't you, Mrs. Peacock?
00:14:37So what do you do, Professor?
00:14:39I work for UNO, the United Nations Organization.
00:14:41Another politician. Jesus.
00:14:43No, I work for a branch of UNO,
00:14:45W-H-O, the World Health Organization.
00:14:48Well, what is your area of special concern?
00:14:50Family planning.
00:14:52What about you, Colonel? Are you a real colonel?
00:14:54I am, sir.
00:14:56Do you know, for instance, that you also live in Washington, D.C.?
00:15:00How did you know that? Have we met before?
00:15:03I've certainly seen you before,
00:15:05although you may not have seen me.
00:15:07So, Miss Scarlett, does this mean that you live in Washington, too?
00:15:10Sure do. But does anyone here not live in Washington, D.C.?
00:15:13I don't.
00:15:15Yes, but you work for the United Nations.
00:15:17That's a government job.
00:15:19And the rest of us all live in a government town.
00:15:21Anyone here not earn their living from the government one way or another?
00:15:24Where is our host, and why have we been brought here?
00:15:33Ah, good evening. You are eagerly awaited.
00:15:36Are you locking me in?
00:15:38I'll take the key.
00:15:40Over my dead body, sir. May I take your bag?
00:15:42No. I'll leave it here while I need it.
00:15:44It contains evidence, I presume.
00:15:46Surprises, my friend. That's what it contains.
00:15:48Surprises.
00:15:50Ladies and gentlemen, may I present Mr. Boddy.
00:15:55What are they all doing here?
00:15:57Eating dinner. Do sit down, Mr. Boddy.
00:16:00Thanks.
00:16:04Ah, you can take that away, honey.
00:16:13Look, I demand to know what's going on.
00:16:15Now, why have we all been dragged up here to this horrible place?
00:16:18Well, I believe we all received a letter.
00:16:21My letter says,
00:16:23it will be to your advantage to be present on this date,
00:16:25because a Mr. Boddy will bring to an end
00:16:27a certain long-standing confidential and painful financial liability.
00:16:32It is signed, a friend.
00:16:34I received a similar letter.
00:16:36So did we, didn't we?
00:16:38I also received a letter.
00:16:40No, thanks, Yvette. I just ate.
00:16:42Now, how did you know her name?
00:16:44We know each other.
00:16:46Don't we, dear?
00:16:48Forgive my curiosity, Mr. Boddy,
00:16:50but did your letter say the same thing?
00:16:52No. I see.
00:16:56Can I interest any of you in fruit or dessert?
00:17:02In that case, may I suggest we adjourn to the study for coffee and brandy,
00:17:06at which point I believe our unknown host will reveal his intentions.
00:17:14Well, there's no one here.
00:17:16Welcome yourself to brandy and be seated.
00:17:29Mind if I smoke?
00:17:47Ladies and gentlemen, I'm instructed to explain to you
00:17:50what you all have in common with each other.
00:17:52Unless you would care to do the honors, Mr. Boddy?
00:17:55Why me? Do they know who I am?
00:17:57I don't think so. You've never identified yourself with them, I believe.
00:18:00It's a hoax. I suggest we all leave.
00:18:02I'm sorry, sir, you cannot leave this house!
00:18:04No? Who's gonna stop me?
00:18:06There's no way out!
00:18:08All the windows have bars. All the doors are locked.
00:18:10This is an outrage! You can't hold us prisoner!
00:18:12Ladies and gentlemen, please, please return to the study.
00:18:15Everything will be explained.
00:18:19You too, Mr. Boddy.
00:18:21Other way!
00:18:30You can't get out, Basil.
00:18:32Why not? It's on me!
00:18:34You asked for it!
00:18:36Why not? It's on me!
00:19:02Ladies and gentlemen, you all have one thing in common.
00:19:05All being blackmailed.
00:19:07For some considerable time, all of you have been paying what you can afford,
00:19:10and in some cases more than you can afford,
00:19:12to someone who threatens to expose you.
00:19:14And none of you know who's blackmailing you, do you?
00:19:17Oh, please! I've never heard anything so ridiculous.
00:19:19I mean, nobody could blackmail me.
00:19:21My life is an open book. I've never done anything wrong.
00:19:26Anybody else wish to deny it?
00:19:29Very well.
00:19:31As everyone here is in the same boat,
00:19:33there's no harm in my revealing some details,
00:19:35and my instructions are to do so.
00:19:37Thank you, Everton.
00:19:46Don't you think you might spare us this humiliation?
00:19:49I'm sorry.
00:19:52Professor Plumb, you were once a professor of psychology.
00:19:55Specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics
00:19:57suffering from delusions of grandeur.
00:19:59Yes, but now I work for the United Nations.
00:20:01So your work has not changed.
00:20:03But you don't practice medicine at the U.N.
00:20:05His license to practice has been lifted, correct?
00:20:07Why? What did he do?
00:20:09You know what doctors aren't allowed to do with their lady patients?
00:20:11Yeah.
00:20:12Well, he did.
00:20:13Oh, how disgusting.
00:20:15Are you making moral judgments, Mrs. Peacock?
00:20:19How, then, do you justify taking bribes?
00:20:22How, then, do you justify taking bribes?
00:20:25In return for delivering your husband, Senator Peacock's vote to certain lobbyists?
00:20:28My husband is a paid consultant. There is nothing wrong with that.
00:20:31Not if it's publicly declared, perhaps.
00:20:34But if the payment is delivered by slipping used greenbacks
00:20:36in plain envelopes under the door of the men's room,
00:20:38how would you describe that transaction?
00:20:40I'd say it stinks.
00:20:41How would you know? When were you in that men's room?
00:20:43So it's true.
00:20:44No, it's a vicious lie.
00:20:46I'm sure we're all glad to hear that.
00:20:48But you've been paying blackmail for over a year now
00:20:50to keep that story out of the papers.
00:20:54Well, I am willing to believe you.
00:20:55I, too, am being blackmailed for something I didn't do.
00:20:57Me, too.
00:20:58And me.
00:20:59Not me.
00:21:00You're not being blackmailed?
00:21:01Oh, I'm being blackmailed, all right.
00:21:03But I did what I'm being blackmailed for.
00:21:05What did you do?
00:21:06Well, to be perfectly frank,
00:21:08I run a specialized hotel and a telephone service
00:21:10which provides gentlemen with the company of a young lady for a short while.
00:21:14Oh, yeah?
00:21:16What's the phone number?
00:21:18So how did you know Colonel Mustard works in Washington?
00:21:21Is he one of your clients?
00:21:22Certainly not.
00:21:23I was asking Miss Scarlett.
00:21:24Well, you tell him it's not true.
00:21:26It's not true.
00:21:27Is that true?
00:21:28No, it's not true.
00:21:29Ha-ha! So it is true.
00:21:30A double negative.
00:21:31Double negative? You mean you have photographs?
00:21:32That sounds like a confession to me.
00:21:34In fact, the double negative has led to proof positive.
00:21:36I'm afraid you gave yourself away.
00:21:37Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?
00:21:40You don't need any help from me, sir.
00:21:41That's right.
00:21:43But seriously, I don't see what's so terrible about Colonel Mustard
00:21:46visiting a house of ill fame.
00:21:48Most soldiers do, don't they?
00:21:49Oh, please.
00:21:50But he holds a sensitive security post in the Pentagon.
00:21:53And, Colonel, you drive a very expensive car for someone who lives on a colonel's pay.
00:21:56I don't.
00:21:57I came into money during the war when I lost my mommy and daddy.
00:22:03Mrs. White, you've been paying our friend the blackmailer
00:22:06ever since your husband died under, shall we say, mysterious circumstances.
00:22:09Ah!
00:22:11Why is that funny?
00:22:13I see. That's why he was lying on his back in his coffin.
00:22:16I didn't kill him.
00:22:17Then why are you paying the blackmailer?
00:22:19I don't want a scandal, do I?
00:22:21We had had a very humiliating public confrontation.
00:22:24He was deranged. He was a lunatic.
00:22:27He didn't actually seem to like me very much.
00:22:30He had threatened to kill me in public.
00:22:32Why would he want to kill you in public?
00:22:33I think she meant he threatened in public to kill her.
00:22:35Oh.
00:22:36Was that his final word on the matter?
00:22:38Being killed is pretty final, wouldn't you say?
00:22:41And yet he was the one who died.
00:22:42Not you, Mrs. White. Not you.
00:22:44What did he do for a living?
00:22:47He was a scientist.
00:22:49Nuclear physics.
00:22:50What was he like?
00:22:52He was always a rather stupidly optimistic man.
00:22:54I mean, I'm afraid it came as a great shock to him when he died.
00:22:57But he was found dead at home.
00:22:58His head had been cut off and so had his, uh...
00:23:02You know.
00:23:04I had been out all evening at the movies.
00:23:06Do you miss him?
00:23:07Well, it's a matter of life after death.
00:23:09Now that he's dead, I have a life.
00:23:11But he was your second husband.
00:23:13Your first husband also disappeared.
00:23:15But that was his job.
00:23:16He was an illusionist.
00:23:17But he never reappeared.
00:23:19He wasn't a very good illusionist.
00:23:23I have something to say.
00:23:26I'm not going to wait for Wadsworth here to unmask me.
00:23:30I work for the State Department.
00:23:31And I'm a homosexual.
00:23:34I feel no personal shame or guilt about this.
00:23:38But I must keep it a secret or I will lose my job on security grounds.
00:23:45Thank you.
00:23:50Well.
00:23:53That just leaves Mr. Barty.
00:23:55What's your little secret?
00:23:57His secret?
00:23:58Oh, hadn't you guessed?
00:23:59He's the one who's blackmailing you all.
00:24:04You bastards.
00:24:05Come on, put him up there.
00:24:06Put him up.
00:24:07Put him up.
00:24:10Gentlemen.
00:24:12You can't fight.
00:24:13You barely don't fight at all.
00:24:15Call me a bastard.
00:24:19Is that necessary, Mrs. Pike?
00:24:21Wait, wait.
00:24:22The police are coming.
00:24:27Listen.
00:24:28Blackmail depends on secrecy.
00:24:30You've all admitted how he's been able to blackmail you.
00:24:32All you have to do is tell the police he'll be convicted and your troubles will be over.
00:24:36It's not so easy.
00:24:39You'll never tell the police.
00:24:40Then I shall.
00:24:41I have evidence in my possession.
00:24:43And this conversation is being tape recorded.
00:24:45A point of order.
00:24:46Tape recordings are not admissible evidence.
00:24:48Ladies and gentlemen.
00:24:50Ladies and gentlemen.
00:24:51The police will be here in about 45 minutes.
00:24:54Tell them the truth and Mr. Boddy will be behind bars.
00:24:59Where are you going this time?
00:25:00I think I can help them make up their minds.
00:25:02Can't I just get my little bag from the hall?
00:25:14Who can guess what's in here?
00:25:17The evidence against us, no doubt.
00:25:20We didn't know we were meeting you tonight.
00:25:21Did you know you were meeting us?
00:25:23Oh, yes.
00:25:24What were you told precisely?
00:25:25Merely that you were all meeting to discuss our little financial arrangements.
00:25:30And if I did not appear,
00:25:31Wadsworth would be informing the police about it all.
00:25:34Naturally, I could hardly resist putting in an appearance.
00:25:39Excuse me.
00:25:42Open them.
00:25:45Why not?
00:25:48I enjoy getting presents from strange men.
00:26:01A candlestick.
00:26:04What's this for?
00:26:30A gun.
00:26:51In your hands,
00:26:53you each have a lethal weapon.
00:26:56If you denounce me to the police,
00:26:58you will also be exposed and humiliated.
00:27:02I'll see to that, McCoy.
00:27:06But,
00:27:08if one of you kills Wadsworth now,
00:27:11no one but the seven of us will ever know.
00:27:15He has the key to the front door,
00:27:19which he said would only be opened over his dead body.
00:27:23His dead body.
00:27:28I suggest we take him up on that offer.
00:27:37The only way to avoid finding yourselves on the front pages
00:27:40is for one of you to kill Wadsworth.
00:27:43Now.
00:27:54It's not Wadsworth.
00:27:55Is he alive?
00:27:56It's the body.
00:27:57Stand back.
00:27:58Come here.
00:27:59Let me see.
00:28:08He's dead.
00:28:09What?
00:28:10Who had the gun?
00:28:11I did.
00:28:12Then you shot him.
00:28:13I didn't.
00:28:14Well, you had the gun.
00:28:15If you didn't shoot him, who did?
00:28:18Nobody.
00:28:19Look, there's no gunshot wound.
00:28:20Somebody tried to grab the gun from me in the dark.
00:28:22The gun went off.
00:28:23Look!
00:28:24The bullet broke that vase on the mantel.
00:28:27Sarge, excuse me.
00:28:29He's absolutely right.
00:28:30Look, there's a bullet hole here in the wall.
00:28:32See that?
00:28:33How did he die?
00:28:34I don't know!
00:28:35I'm not a forensic expert.
00:28:37Well, one of us must have killed him.
00:28:39Well, I didn't do it.
00:28:41Oh, Sarge, I need a drink.
00:28:47Maybe he was poisoned.
00:28:48Maybe he was poisoned!
00:28:52Mrs. Peacock, please.
00:28:53Mrs. Peacock.
00:28:54Mrs. Peacock.
00:28:55It's all right.
00:28:56It's all right.
00:28:57You don't know anything.
00:28:58Sit down.
00:28:59Sit down.
00:29:00Sit down, Mrs. Peacock.
00:29:03I had to stop her from screaming.
00:29:06Was the brandy poisoned?
00:29:08I don't know.
00:29:13Looks like we'll never know.
00:29:15Unless...
00:29:16Unless she dies, too.
00:29:18Yeah.
00:29:36It's locked.
00:29:37Open up!
00:29:38It must be the murderer!
00:29:39Why would he scream?
00:29:40He must have a victim in there.
00:29:41Oh, my God, he did!
00:29:42Oh, my God!
00:29:44You're alive!
00:29:45No, thanks to you!
00:29:46What do you mean?
00:29:47You locked me up with the murderer, you idiot!
00:29:49So the murderer is in this room.
00:29:51Mais oui!
00:29:52But where?
00:29:53Where?
00:29:54Here!
00:29:56We are all looking at him!
00:29:57All of us!
00:29:58It's what Mrs. White said in the study.
00:30:00One of you is the killer!
00:30:01How did you know he said that?
00:30:03I was listening!
00:30:04But why were you screaming in here all by yourself?
00:30:07Because I am frightened, me, too.
00:30:09I also drink the cognac.
00:30:12I can't stay in here by myself.
00:30:17Come back to the study with us.
00:30:19With the murderer!
00:30:20There is safety in numbers, my dear.
00:30:38Is there no indication of how he died?
00:30:40No!
00:30:41This is terrible!
00:30:42This is absolutely terrible!
00:30:43It's not what I'd intended!
00:30:45Oh, my God!
00:30:47Not what you intended?
00:30:48So you're not the butler?
00:30:50I'm not the butler, but I'm a butler.
00:30:53In fact, I was his butler.
00:30:55So if he told you to invite us all to his house,
00:30:57why did he arrive late?
00:30:58I invited you.
00:30:59In fact, I wrote the letters.
00:31:01It was all my idea.
00:31:02Wait a minute!
00:31:03I don't understand.
00:31:05Why did you invite us here to meet your late employer?
00:31:08Were you assisting him to blackmail us?
00:31:10Certainly not!
00:31:11I think you had better explain.
00:31:13Please sit down, everyone.
00:31:16Everyone!
00:31:37When I said that I was Mr. Boddy's butler,
00:31:39this was both true and misleading.
00:31:41I was once his butler,
00:31:43but it was not his untimely death this evening
00:31:45that brought my employment with him to an end.
00:31:47When did it come to an end?
00:31:49When my wife decided to end her life.
00:31:52She, too, was being blackmailed by this odious man
00:31:54who now lies dead before us.
00:31:56He hated my wife for the same reason that he hated all of you.
00:32:00He believed that you were all thoroughly un-American.
00:32:08Sorry.
00:32:09For some reason, he felt that it was inappropriate
00:32:11for a senator to have a corrupt wife,
00:32:13for a doctor to take advantage of his patients,
00:32:16for a wife to emasculate her husband,
00:32:18and... and... so forth.
00:32:21But this is ridiculous.
00:32:22If he was such a patriotic American,
00:32:24why didn't he just report us to the authorities?
00:32:26He decided to put his information to good use
00:32:28and make a little money out of it.
00:32:29What could be more American than that?
00:32:31And what was your role in all this?
00:32:34I was a victim, too.
00:32:36At least, my wife was.
00:32:38She had friends who were...
00:32:43socialists.
00:32:44Oh, my God.
00:32:50Well...
00:32:52we all make mistakes.
00:33:04But Mr. Boddy threatened to give my wife's name
00:33:06to the House Un-American Activities Committee
00:33:08unless she named them.
00:33:09She refused, and so he blackmailed her.
00:33:11We had no money,
00:33:12and the price of his silence
00:33:14was that we worked for him for nothing.
00:33:16We were slaves.
00:33:17Well, to make a long story short...
00:33:19Too late.
00:33:20The suicide of my wife preyed on my mind
00:33:23and created a sense of injustice in me.
00:33:25I resolved to put Mr. Boddy behind bars.
00:33:27It seemed to me the best way to do it,
00:33:29and to free all of you from the same burden of blackmail,
00:33:32was to get everyone face to face,
00:33:34confront Mr. Boddy with his crimes,
00:33:37and then...
00:33:38turn him over to the police.
00:33:40So, everything is explained?
00:33:42Nothing's explained.
00:33:43We still don't know who killed him.
00:33:45But the point is, we've got to find out
00:33:47in the next 39 minutes,
00:33:48before the police arrive.
00:33:49My God, we can't have them come here now.
00:33:51But how can we possibly find out which of you did it?
00:33:54What do you mean, which of you did it?
00:33:56Well, I didn't do it.
00:33:57Well, one of us did.
00:33:58We all had the opportunity.
00:33:59We all had a motive.
00:34:00Great. We'll all go to the chair.
00:34:02Maybe it wasn't one of us.
00:34:03Well, who else could it have been?
00:34:04Who else is in the house?
00:34:05Only the cook.
00:34:06The cook!
00:34:10The cook!
00:34:12The cook!
00:34:38Well...
00:34:39She's not here.
00:34:44I didn't do it!
00:34:46Somebody help me, please.
00:34:48Somebody help me, please!
00:34:58Don't touch it!
00:34:59That's evidence.
00:35:00Not for us.
00:35:01We have to find out who did this.
00:35:02We can't take fingerprints.
00:35:03I think you'd better explain yourself, Wadsworth.
00:35:06Me? Why me?
00:35:07Who would want to kill the cook?
00:35:09Dinner wasn't that bad.
00:35:10How can you make jokes at a time like this?
00:35:12It's my defense mechanism.
00:35:14Some defense.
00:35:15If I was the killer, I would kill you next.
00:35:17Oh?
00:35:19I said, if.
00:35:21If.
00:35:23Hey, come on.
00:35:24There is only one admitted killer here,
00:35:26and it is certainly not me.
00:35:27It is her!
00:35:28I've admitted nothing.
00:35:29Well, you paid the blackmail.
00:35:30How many husbands have you had?
00:35:31Mine or other women's?
00:35:32Yours.
00:35:33Five.
00:35:34Five.
00:35:35Yes, just the five.
00:35:36I like clean eggs.
00:35:37Soft, strong, and disposable.
00:35:38You lure men to their deaths like a spider with flies.
00:35:41Flies are where men are most vulnerable.
00:35:43Right.
00:35:45Well, if it wasn't you, then who was it?
00:35:47Who had the dagger, anyway?
00:35:48It was you, Mrs. Peacock, wasn't it?
00:35:50Yes, but I put it down.
00:35:52Where?
00:35:53In the study.
00:35:54Where?
00:35:55I don't know.
00:35:56Before I fainted, after I fainted.
00:35:57I don't know.
00:35:58But any of you could have picked it up.
00:36:02Look, I suggest we take the cook's body into the study.
00:36:05Why?
00:36:06I'm the butler.
00:36:07I like to keep the kitchen tidy.
00:36:16Look!
00:36:17What?
00:36:18The body's gone!
00:36:19What are you all staring at?
00:36:21Nothing.
00:36:22Well, who's there?
00:36:23Nobody.
00:36:24What do you mean?
00:36:25Nobody.
00:36:26No body, that's what we mean.
00:36:27Mr. Boddy's body, it's gone.
00:36:28Maybe he wasn't dead.
00:36:29He was.
00:36:30We should have made sure.
00:36:31How?
00:36:32By cutting his head off, I suppose.
00:36:33That wasn't called for.
00:36:34Well, look for him.
00:36:48Well?
00:36:51He couldn't have been dead.
00:36:52He was!
00:36:53At least I thought he was.
00:36:55But what difference does it make now?
00:36:58It makes quite a difference to him.
00:37:01Maybe there is life after death.
00:37:03Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage.
00:37:07Maybe Mr. Boddy killed the cook!
00:37:10Yes!
00:37:11How?
00:37:19Well, if you'll excuse me, I have to, um...
00:37:22Is there a little girl's room in the hall?
00:37:24Oui, oui, madame.
00:37:25No, I just want to powder my nose.
00:37:31What's this, Wadsworth?
00:37:32I'm afraid those are the negatives to which Colonel Mustard earlier referred.
00:37:35Oh, my God!
00:37:36Were you planning to blackmail him, Wadsworth?
00:37:38Certainly not!
00:37:39I'd obtained them for the colonel,
00:37:41and I was going to give them back as soon as Mr. Boddy was unmasked.
00:37:44Very pretty!
00:37:45Would you like to see these, Yvette?
00:37:47They might shock you.
00:37:48No, merci.
00:37:49I am a lady.
00:37:50How do you know what kind of pictures they are if you're such a lady?
00:37:52What sort of pictures are they?
00:37:53They are my pictures, and I'd like them back, please.
00:37:55No, I'm afraid there's something in them that concerns me, too.
00:37:57Let me see.
00:37:59Oh, no.
00:38:00Nobody can get into that position.
00:38:01I'm sure they can.
00:38:02Let me show you.
00:38:05Get off me!
00:38:15Mr. Boddy!
00:38:16He's attacking her!
00:38:22No.
00:38:24No, he's dead.
00:38:25Mr. Boddy?
00:38:26Dead?
00:38:27Again?
00:38:28Oh, my God!
00:38:29She's going to faint!
00:38:30Do you have any cancer?
00:38:32I'll catch him.
00:38:33Fall into my arms.
00:38:36Sorry.
00:38:37You've got blood on your hands.
00:38:40I didn't do it!
00:38:43He's got new injuries.
00:38:45Well, he's certainly dead now.
00:38:47Why would anyone want to kill him twice?
00:38:49Seems so unnecessary.
00:38:50That's what we call overkill.
00:38:51That's what we call a psychotic.
00:38:52Unless he wasn't dead before.
00:38:54What's the difference?
00:38:55That's what we're trying to find out!
00:38:57We're trying to find out who killed him, and where, and with what!
00:39:00There's no need to shout!
00:39:01I'm not shouting!
00:39:04All right, I am!
00:39:05I'm shouting!
00:39:06I'm shouting!
00:39:07I'm shouting!
00:39:20Okay, put the corpses on the sofa.
00:39:24Ladies first.
00:39:28Ah!
00:39:38Careful, don't get blood on the sofa.
00:39:40How do we do this?
00:39:41The dagger will go further into her back.
00:39:43Tip her forward, over the arm.
00:39:50Now, Mr. Body.
00:39:54Billy.
00:39:58Higher.
00:40:05Now, who...
00:40:09Who had access to the candlestick?
00:40:11All of us.
00:40:12It was given to you.
00:40:13Yeah, but I dropped it on the table.
00:40:14Anyone could have picked it up.
00:40:15You, him.
00:40:16Look, we still have all these weapons.
00:40:18The gun, the rope, the wrench, the lead pipe.
00:40:22Let's put them all in this cupboard and lock it.
00:40:25There's a homicidal maniac about.
00:40:28Good idea.
00:40:30What do you do with the key?
00:40:31Put it in my pocket.
00:40:32Why?
00:40:33Well, to keep it safe, obviously.
00:40:34That means that you can open it whenever you want.
00:40:36But it also means that you can't.
00:40:37Well, what if you're the murderer?
00:40:39I'm not.
00:40:40But what if you are?
00:40:41Well, it's got to be put somewhere.
00:40:42If I've got it, I know I'm safe.
00:40:43We don't know that we are.
00:40:45I have an idea.
00:40:46We'll throw it away.
00:40:47Good idea.
00:40:48Wonderful, right away.
00:40:49Brilliant.
00:40:50That'll do it.
00:40:56Sorry.
00:40:59Sorry.
00:41:01Can I help?
00:41:02I'm sorry.
00:41:03I didn't mean to disturb the whole household,
00:41:05but my car broke down out here,
00:41:07and I was wondering if I could use your phone.
00:41:11Just a moment, please.
00:41:15Ah, here we go.
00:41:16Let's have a drink.
00:41:17Cheers.
00:41:18Cheers.
00:41:19Cheers.
00:41:20Cheers.
00:41:26Very well, sir.
00:41:28Would you care to come in?
00:41:30Well, where is it?
00:41:32What, the body?
00:41:33The phone.
00:41:34What body?
00:41:35There's no body.
00:41:36There's nobody in the study.
00:41:37No.
00:41:38No.
00:41:39But I think there's a phone in the lounge.
00:41:40Thank you.
00:41:49When you've finished your call,
00:41:50perhaps you'll be good enough to wait here.
00:41:52Certainly.
00:41:56Thank you.
00:42:09Where's the key?
00:42:10In my pocket.
00:42:11Not that key.
00:42:12The key to the cupboard with the weapons.
00:42:13Do you still wish me to fade away?
00:42:14Yes!
00:42:26Well?
00:42:28What now?
00:42:29Wosworth, let me out.
00:42:30No.
00:42:31Why not?
00:42:32We've got to know who did it.
00:42:33We're all in this together now.
00:42:34If you leave, I'll say that you killed them both.
00:42:36Me too.
00:42:37Me too.
00:42:38Oh, Wosworth, I'll make you sorry you ever started this.
00:42:40One day, when we're alone together...
00:42:42Mrs. White, no man in his right mind
00:42:44would be alone together with you.
00:42:45Oh.
00:42:46Well, I could use a drink.
00:42:47Oh, so could I.
00:42:50Just checking.
00:42:51Everything all right?
00:42:52Yep.
00:42:54Anybody else want a whiskey?
00:42:55Yeah.
00:42:58All right, look.
00:42:59Pay attention, everybody.
00:43:03Wosworth, am I right in thinking
00:43:04there is nobody else in this house?
00:43:06No.
00:43:07Then there is someone else in this house.
00:43:08No.
00:43:09Sorry, I said no, meaning yes.
00:43:10No, meaning yes?
00:43:12Look, I want a straight answer.
00:43:13Is there someone else, or isn't there?
00:43:15Yes or no?
00:43:17No.
00:43:18No.
00:43:19No.
00:43:20No.
00:43:21No.
00:43:22No.
00:43:23No.
00:43:24No, there is, or no, there isn't?
00:43:26Yes.
00:43:27Please!
00:43:30Don't you think we should get that man out of the house
00:43:32before he finds out what's been going on here?
00:43:34Yeah.
00:43:35How can we throw him outside in this weather?
00:43:37If we let him stay in the house, he may get suspicious.
00:43:39If we throw him out, he may get even more suspicious.
00:43:41If I were him, I'd be suspicious already.
00:43:43Oh, who cares?
00:43:44That guy doesn't matter.
00:43:46Let him stay locked up for another half an hour.
00:43:49The police will be here by then,
00:43:51and there are two dead bodies in the study!
00:43:55Shh!
00:43:57Well, there is still some confusion
00:43:59as to whether or not there's anybody else in this house.
00:44:01I told you, there isn't.
00:44:02There isn't any confusion, or there isn't anybody else?
00:44:04Either, or both.
00:44:05Just give me a clear answer.
00:44:06Certainly.
00:44:07What was the question?
00:44:08Is there anybody else in the house?
00:44:10No!
00:44:11That's what he says.
00:44:13But does he know?
00:44:15I suggest we handle this in proper military fashion.
00:44:18We split up and search the house.
00:44:20Split up?
00:44:21Yes.
00:44:22We have very little time left,
00:44:23so we'll split up into pairs.
00:44:25Pairs?
00:44:26Yes.
00:44:27Wait a minute.
00:44:28Suppose that one of us is the murderer.
00:44:29If we split up into pairs,
00:44:30whichever one of us is left with a killer might get killed!
00:44:32Then we would have discovered who the murderer is!
00:44:34But the other half of the pair would be dead!
00:44:37This is war, peacock!
00:44:39Casualties are inevitable.
00:44:40You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs.
00:44:42Every cook will tell you that.
00:44:43But look what happened to the cook!
00:44:47Colonel, are you willing to take that chance?
00:44:49What choice have we?
00:44:51None.
00:44:52I suppose you're right.
00:44:54But it is dark upstairs, and I am frightened of the dark.
00:44:58Will anyone go with me?
00:45:00I will.
00:45:01I will.
00:45:02No, thank you.
00:45:03I suggest we all draw lots for partners.
00:45:17Here.
00:45:28Ready?
00:45:29The two shortest together.
00:45:31The next two shortest together. Agreed?
00:45:33And I suggest the two shortest search the cellar and so on up.
00:45:46Come on.
00:46:17It's you or me, honey bunch.
00:46:39Miss Ella.
00:46:41Well, we know what's in the study.
00:46:43It just comes from the library, and the stranger is locked up in the lounge.
00:46:47Let's go into the billiard room again.
00:47:10Do you want to go up in front of me?
00:47:32Absolutely not.
00:47:33I'm sure there's no one up there.
00:47:35Then you go in front.
00:47:37All right.
00:47:41All right.
00:48:01Well, ladies first.
00:48:04No, no, you can go first.
00:48:06No, no, no, I insist.
00:48:07No, I insist.
00:48:08Well, what are you afraid of, a fate worse than death?
00:48:10No, just death, isn't that enough?
00:48:14Are you going in there?
00:48:15Yes, are you?
00:48:16Yes.
00:48:19All right.
00:48:20Right.
00:48:24Um, I don't see any light switches in there.
00:48:27Well, neither do I, but there must be switches somewhere.
00:48:29Shall I come in with you?
00:48:30No!
00:48:31I mean, no thank you.
00:48:39Ladies first.
00:48:40No, thanks.
00:49:09Gone.
00:49:10I'll be right behind you.
00:49:24That's why I'm nervous.
00:49:29Then we'll go together.
00:49:38Stay there!
00:50:01If there's anybody in here, just look out!
00:50:05Are you hiding?
00:50:07I'm coming.
00:50:11What room is this?
00:50:12Search me.
00:50:13All right.
00:50:15Get your mitts off me.
00:50:37Oh!
00:50:40Nobody here.
00:50:42He's behind one of those curtains.
00:50:45You look. I'll search the kitchen.
00:51:06Fuck.
00:51:36Fuck.
00:52:06Fuck.
00:52:23I'm a little nervous.
00:52:26I'm in this big house, and I've been locked into the lounge.
00:52:32Yes.
00:52:34The funny thing is, there's a whole group of people here having some sort of party.
00:52:40And one of them is my old boss from...
00:53:03Whoa!
00:53:30Looks like a secret passage.
00:53:34Should we see where it leads?
00:53:37What the hell?
00:53:39I'll go first. I've had a good life.
00:53:47Oh, God!
00:54:00Oh, my God!
00:54:01Oh, my God!
00:54:11Oh, come on!
00:54:21Down here! Down here!
00:54:26Where are they coming from?
00:54:27Where are we going?
00:54:29Where are they?
00:54:30The lounge!
00:54:35The door's locked!
00:54:36I know.
00:54:37Then unlock it!
00:54:38Where's the key?
00:54:39The key's gone!
00:54:40Never mind about the key! Unlock the door!
00:54:42I can't unlock the door without the key!
00:54:45Let us in! Let us in!
00:54:47Let us out! Let us out!
00:54:49It's no good. Stand back!
00:54:50Ralph!
00:54:51There's no alternative.
00:54:53I'm just gonna have to break it down!
00:54:55Please!
00:54:56Go! Go! Go!
00:54:58I know! I have it!
00:55:01Will you shut up?
00:55:03We're doing our best!
00:55:09They're shooting at us!
00:55:16No, please!
00:55:19I've been shot!
00:55:20I've been shot!
00:55:21Come out! The deli's open!
00:55:26Why are you shooting that thing at us?
00:55:28To get you out!
00:55:29You know, you could've killed us!
00:55:31I could've been killed!
00:55:33I can't take any more scares!
00:55:42But look!
00:55:46Which one of you did it?
00:55:48We found him!
00:55:50Together!
00:55:51How did you get in?
00:55:52The door was locked!
00:55:53It's a great trick!
00:55:54There's a secret passageway from the conservatory!
00:55:56It's not the same gun!
00:55:57From the cupboard?
00:55:58But it was locked!
00:55:59No, it was unlocked!
00:56:00Unlocked?
00:56:01But yes! See for yourself!
00:56:12How did you know it was unlocked?
00:56:13How did you know that you could get at the gun?
00:56:15I didn't!
00:56:16I think I would break it open, but it was open already!
00:56:19A likely story.
00:56:24Maybe they'll just go away.
00:56:29I'm going to open it!
00:56:30Why?
00:56:31I have nothing to hide!
00:56:32I didn't do it!
00:56:34The key!
00:56:37Thank you!
00:56:41Good evening, sir!
00:56:45Yes?
00:56:46I found an abandoned car down near the gates of this house.
00:56:49I don't know who it belonged to, but I'm sure it belonged to someone.
00:56:52Who?
00:56:53I don't know.
00:56:54I don't know.
00:56:55I found an abandoned car down near the gates of this house.
00:56:58Did a driver come in here for any help by any chance?
00:57:00No!
00:57:01No!
00:57:02No!
00:57:03Well, actually, yes.
00:57:05No!
00:57:06There seemed to be some kind of disagreement.
00:57:08No!
00:57:09No!
00:57:10No!
00:57:11Yes.
00:57:13Can I come in and use your phone?
00:57:15Of course you may, sir.
00:57:17You may use the one in the...
00:57:20No.
00:57:21You could use the one in the...
00:57:22No.
00:57:24Would you be kind enough to wait in the...
00:57:26In the library?
00:57:29Sure.
00:57:36Don't I know you from someplace?
00:57:40You all seem to be very anxious about something.
00:57:43It's a chandelier.
00:57:44It fell down, almost killed us.
00:57:45Would you like to come this way, please, sir?
00:57:54Quitefully drafty, these old houses.
00:58:00Please help yourselves to a drink, if you'd like.
00:58:04Not the cognac.
00:58:05Just in case.
00:58:06Just in case of what?
00:58:13What now?
00:58:18We should have told him.
00:58:19Oh, very well.
00:58:20You say that now.
00:58:21I said it then.
00:58:22I said it then.
00:58:23Oh, shut up!
00:58:25Let's clean this up.
00:58:39Hello?
00:58:42Maybe the cop answered it.
00:58:43And who shall I say is calling?
00:58:48Ah, would you hold on, please?
00:58:53Let me out of here!
00:58:55Let me out of here!
00:58:56You have no right to shut me in!
00:58:58I'll book you for false arrest and wrongful imprisonment
00:59:02and obstructing an officer in the course of his duty
00:59:05and murder!
00:59:08What do you mean, murder?
00:59:11I just said it so you would open the door.
00:59:13What's going on around here?
00:59:15And why would you lock me in?
00:59:17And why are you receiving phone calls from J. Edgar?
00:59:20And why are you receiving phone calls from J. Edgar Hoover?
00:59:23J. Edgar Hoover?
00:59:24That's right!
00:59:25The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation!
00:59:28Why is J. Edgar Hoover on your phone?
00:59:30I don't know.
00:59:31He's on everybody else's.
00:59:32Why shouldn't he be on mine?
00:59:33Excuse me.
00:59:41What's going on here?
00:59:43We're having a party.
00:59:47Mind if I look around?
00:59:48Sure.
00:59:51You can show him around, Mr. Green.
00:59:53Me?
00:59:54Yes.
00:59:55You can show him the dining room, the kitchen, the ballroom.
01:00:00Fine!
01:00:02Fine.
01:00:04Officer, come with me.
01:00:06I'll show you the dining room or the kitchen or the ballroom.
01:00:15Make it look convincing.
01:00:20So, this is the dining room.
01:00:22No kidding.
01:00:23Come on.
01:00:25What's going on in those two rooms?
01:00:28Which two rooms?
01:00:34Those two rooms.
01:00:36Oh, those two rooms.
01:00:37Yes.
01:00:41Officer, I don't think you should go in there.
01:00:43Why not?
01:00:47Because it's all too shocking.
01:00:51Oh!
01:01:16It's not all that shocking.
01:01:18These folks are just having a good time.
01:01:31Oh, my God.
01:01:37Excuse me.
01:01:49This man's drunk.
01:01:51Dead drunk.
01:01:53Dead right.
01:01:55You're not going to drive home, are you?
01:01:57He won't be driving home, officer, I promise you that.
01:01:59No.
01:02:00Somebody will give him a lift, huh?
01:02:02Oh, we'll get him a car.
01:02:03A long black car.
01:02:04A limousine.
01:02:18Officer, you're too late.
01:02:19I've seen it all.
01:02:20You have?
01:02:21I can explain everything.
01:02:22You don't have to.
01:02:23I don't.
01:02:24Don't worry.
01:02:25There's nothing illegal about any of this.
01:02:26Are you sure?
01:02:27Of course.
01:02:28This is America.
01:02:29I see.
01:02:30It's a free country.
01:02:31Don't you know that?
01:02:32I didn't know it was that free.
01:02:36May I use your phone now?
01:02:37Certainly.
01:02:48Why did you lock him in again?
01:02:50We haven't finished searching the house yet.
01:02:53We're running out of time.
01:02:54Only 15 minutes before the police come.
01:02:56The police already came.
01:02:57Oh, shut up.
01:02:58Let's get on with it.
01:02:59Monsieur?
01:03:19Oh!
01:03:20Look!
01:03:21I can't believe it.
01:03:22I wonder where this one goes.
01:03:23Well, let's find out.
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01:03:47Hello, hello again.
01:03:48Shaboom, a knocker will meet again.
01:03:50Oh, life could be a dream.
01:03:53If only all my precious plans would come true.
01:03:56Let's try the ballroom again.
01:03:57If you would let me spend my whole life loving you.
01:03:59Life could be a dream.
01:04:01Don't you touch me!
01:04:26Let go of me!
01:04:41Hello?
01:04:43Hello?
01:04:45Shut the door.
01:04:47Did anyone recognize you?
01:04:50They must have. And not just my face.
01:04:53They know every inch of my body.
01:04:56And they're not the only ones.
01:04:58It's you!
01:05:03There's something funny going on around here.
01:05:06I don't know what it is.
01:05:10Now, I'm not on duty.
01:05:13But I have a feeling that I'm in danger.
01:05:17You know, that big, ugly house on top...
01:05:20Hello?
01:05:22Hello?
01:05:24Are you there?
01:05:50I'm coming! I'm coming!
01:05:51I'm coming! I'll be trying to find the door!
01:05:55Coming!
01:05:58What's this? Another door?
01:06:21Sweetheart...
01:06:32Sweetheart...
01:06:51Thanks.
01:07:11Two murders.
01:07:22Neither of them shot. I thought I heard a gun.
01:07:25So did I. I thought I heard the front door slam.
01:07:28Oh, God. The murderer must have run out.
01:07:34Three murders.
01:07:37Six, all together.
01:07:40This is getting serious.
01:07:43No gun.
01:07:45Yvette dropped it here.
01:07:48Very well. I know who did it.
01:07:51You do?
01:07:53And furthermore, I'm going to tell you how it was all done.
01:07:56Follow me.
01:08:01In order to help you understand what happened,
01:08:04I shall need to take you through the events of the evening,
01:08:07step by step.
01:08:08At the start of the evening, Yvette was here, by herself,
01:08:11waiting to offer you all a glass of champagne.
01:08:14I was in the hall.
01:08:19I know because I was there.
01:08:21Then I hurried across to the kitchen.
01:08:26And the cook was in here, alive, sharpening knives, preparing for dinner.
01:08:30And then...
01:08:34And then...
01:08:35And then...
01:08:38The doorbell rang.
01:08:41And it was you.
01:08:43Yes?
01:08:45I asked you for your coat, and I recognised you as Colonel Mustard,
01:08:47and I prevented you from telling me your real name,
01:08:49because I didn't want any of you to use any name other than your pseudonym,
01:08:51and I introduced myself to you as the butler,
01:08:53and I ran across the hall to the library.
01:08:55And then Yvette met you, and smiled,
01:08:57and poured you a drink.
01:09:01And the doorbell rang, and it was Mrs White, looking pale and tragic,
01:09:03and I took her coat and put it on.
01:09:07And I introduced Mrs White to Colonel Mustard.
01:09:09Hello, hello.
01:09:11And I noticed that Mrs White and Yvette flinched.
01:09:14Then there was a rumble of thunder, and a crash of lightning.
01:09:18And to make a long story short...
01:09:20Too late!
01:09:22One by one, you all arrived.
01:09:24And then the guard was struck by the cook.
01:09:26And we made it to the dining room.
01:09:29And Mrs Peacock sat here, and Professor Plum sat here.
01:09:31And Mrs White sat here.
01:09:33And Mr Green, Mrs Scarlet, Colonel Mustard.
01:09:35This chair was vacant.
01:09:37Anyway, we all revealed we'd all received a letter,
01:09:39and you'd had a letter, and you'd had a letter, and you'd had a letter.
01:09:41Get out of here!
01:09:43The point is, blackmail!
01:09:45All this came out after dinner, in the study!
01:09:47You're right!
01:09:51Mr Green stood here, and Mrs Peacock here,
01:09:53and Mrs Scarlet here, and Professor Plum here,
01:09:55and Colonel Mustard, and Mrs White.
01:09:57Get out of here!
01:09:59I'm getting there, I'm getting there!
01:10:01I've got to get the surprise packages from the Hall.
01:10:03And, you all open your presents.
01:10:05Mr Body, switch out the lights.
01:10:07Aaaaaah!
01:10:14Oh no!
01:10:16Grand!
01:10:18Mr Body lay on the floor, apparently dead.
01:10:20He was dead! I examined him.
01:10:22Then why was he bashed on the head a few minutes later with a candlestick
01:10:24if he was dead already?
01:10:26All right, I made a mistake!
01:10:28Right. But if so, why was Mr Body pretending to be dead?
01:10:29could only be because he realized that his scheme had misfired and the gun shop
01:10:33was intended to kill him not me look the bullet grazed his ear
01:10:37clearly his best hope of escaping death was to pretend to be dead already so
01:10:41whoever grabbed the gun from me in the dark was trying to kill him but remember
01:10:44what happened next mrs. peacock took a drink you said maybe it's poisoned she
01:10:49screamed I had to stop her screaming then more screaming
01:11:06but one of us wasn't here no no maybe one of us was murdering the cook who
01:11:13wasn't here with us do you know I do well we stood here trying to stop it
01:11:20from panicking one of us could have stayed in the study
01:11:25run down the hall and stab the cook oh how could he risk it we might have seen
01:11:31him running back not if they use this secret passage and the murderer ran back
01:11:36down the secret passage at the study
01:11:43what how did you know this house belongs to a friend of mine I've known
01:11:47all along so you could be the murderer don't be ridiculous if I was the
01:11:51murderer why would I reveal to you how I did it well who else knew about the
01:11:56secret passage we found it Colonel mustard and me you found it you could
01:12:00have known about it all the time but I didn't oh why should we believe you
01:12:03because she was with us all in the billiard room doorway while Yvette was
01:12:06screaming don't you remember what I don't understand is why was the cook
01:12:09murdered she had nothing to do with mr. body of course she did I gathered you
01:12:14all here together because you were all implicated in mr. bodies dastardly
01:12:17blackmail did none of you deduce that the others were involved too the cook
01:12:24and Yvette no that's how he got all his information before he could blackmail
01:12:30anyone mr. body had to discover their guilty secret the cook and Yvette were
01:12:34his accomplices see so whoever knew that the cook was involved killed her
01:12:42yes I know because I was mr. bodies butler that the cook had worked for one
01:12:49of you oh you recognized Yvette didn't you don't deny it what do you mean don't
01:12:54deny it I'm not denying anything another denial all right it's true I knew Yvette
01:13:00my husband had an affair with her I didn't care I wasn't jealous you knew
01:13:05Yvette too didn't you yes she worked for me and you also knew her sir we've
01:13:09already established that you were one of miss Scarlett's clients that's why you
01:13:13were so desperate to get your hands on those negatives photographs of you and
01:13:16Yvette in flagranted delicto remember mr. body threatened to send those pictures
01:13:21to my dear old mother the shock would have killed her oh that would have been
01:13:24quite an achievement since you told us that she's dead already so he had the
01:13:29motive you all had a motive but where and when was mr. body killed don't you
01:13:33see look we came back from the study with Yvette mr. body was on the floor
01:13:40so I explained that I was mr. bodies butler and I'd invited you here and we
01:13:45realized it was only one other person in the house
01:13:48well where is he by now she was dead we laid her down with our backs to the
01:14:08freezer one of us slipped through the same secret passage again of course back
01:14:12to the study the murderer was in the secret passage meanwhile mr. body he
01:14:19jumped up the murderer came out of the secret panel picked up the candlestick
01:14:26Mr. Body pulled us out of the study into the hall looking for an escape. The murderer crept up behind him and killed him.
01:14:32will you stop that now and nonchalantly rejoined us beside the cook's body in the
01:14:42kitchen it took less than half a minute so who wasn't there the entire time in
01:14:45the kitchen whoever he was he's the murderer
01:14:51and we put the weapons in the cupboard locked it and ran to the front door
01:14:56I didn't throw the key away I put it in my pocket and substitute another we were
01:15:05all in a huddle any one of us could have done that precisely wait a minute
01:15:11colonel mustard has a top-secret Pentagon job mrs. White's husband was a
01:15:16nuclear physicist and Yvette is a link between them what is your top-secret job
01:15:25colonel I can tell you he's working on the secret of the next fusion bomb how
01:15:30did you know that can you keep a secret yes second I was this a plot between
01:15:35them Wadsworth or did colonel must you do it alone we shall see let's look at
01:15:40the other murders yes bad luck that that motorist arrived at that moment it
01:15:43wasn't luck I invited him you did of course it's obvious everyone here
01:15:48tonight was either mr. bodies victim or accomplice everyone who has died gave
01:15:52him vital information about one of you I got them here so they give evidence
01:15:56against him and force him to confess yeah what about that motorist what kind
01:16:00of information did he have he was my driver during the war and what was he
01:16:06holding over you he knew that I was a war profiteer I stole essential Air
01:16:13Force radio parts I sold them on the black market that is how I made all my
01:16:19money that does not make me a murderer what a lot of our airmen died because
01:16:24their radios didn't work was the policeman working for mr. body to the
01:16:29cop was from Washington he was on my payroll I bribed him once a week so I
01:16:33could carry on with business mr. body found out somehow oh my god oh and the
01:16:42singing telegram girl she was my patient once I had an affair with her
01:16:52that's how I lost my license mr. body found that out too well let's put in the
01:17:00study with the others so now you all know why they died whoever killed mr.
01:17:08body also wanted his accomplices dead how did the murderer know about them all
01:17:12I mean I admit that I had guessed that this young singer informed on me to mr.
01:17:16body but I didn't know anything about any of you until this evening first the
01:17:21murderer needed to get the weapons easy he stole the key from my pocket and then
01:17:26we all followed Colonel Mustard suggestion that we split up and search
01:17:29the house that's right it was Colonel Mustard suggestion and one of us got
01:17:33away from his or her partner and hurried to the study on the desk was the
01:17:37envelope from mr. body it contained photographs and letters the evidence of
01:17:41mr. body's network of informants where is the envelope now gone destroyed
01:17:49perhaps in the fire the only possible place
01:17:54aha then having found out the whole story the murder went to the cupboard
01:18:00unlocked it with the key took out the wrench
01:18:04from the conservatory to the lounge where we found the murderers dead that's
01:18:08right and we couldn't get in so we went back to the open cupboard got the gun
01:18:12and shot the door open bang and then the doorbell rang oh whoever it is they gotta
01:18:21go away or they'll be killed good evening have you ever given any thought
01:18:28to the kingdom of heaven what repent the kingdom of heaven is at hand you
01:18:34ain't just whistling Dixie Armageddon is almost upon us I got news for you it's
01:18:39already here go away but your souls are in danger our lives are in danger you
01:18:44switch off the electricity sorry didn't mean to frighten you you're a bit late
01:19:03for that then there were three more murders so which of us killed them none
01:19:09of us killed mr. body or the cook so who did the one person who wasn't with
01:19:14us if that she was in the billiard room listening to our conversation she heard
01:19:22the gunshot she thought he was dead and while we all examined the bullet hole
01:19:25she crept into the study picked up the dagger ran to the kitchen and stabbed
01:19:29the cook we didn't hear the cook scream because mrs. peacock was screaming about
01:19:33the poison brandy then if that returned to the billiard room she screamed and we
01:19:37all ran to her well when did she kill mr. body when I said we all ran to the
01:19:42kitchen to see the cook if that hid in the study to check that mr. body was
01:19:45dead he got up and followed them down the hall so she hit him on the head with
01:19:49a candlestick and dragged him to the toilet why to create confusion it worked
01:19:56why did she do it what's it because she was acting under orders from the person
01:20:01who later killed her who was it one of her clients I wasn't a jealous wife or
01:20:12an adulterous doctor no it was her employer miss God that's a lie is it you
01:20:21used her the way you always used her you killed a motorist when we split up to
01:20:25search the house how could I have known about the secret passage easy if that
01:20:29told you so we'll be split up again you switched off the electricity it was easy
01:20:34for you here on the ground floor then in the dark you've got the lead pipe and
01:20:38the rope strangled Yvette ran to the library killed a cop picked up the gun
01:20:45where Yvette dropped it opened the front door recognized the singing telegram
01:20:49from her photograph and shot you've no proof the gun is missing gentlemen turn
01:20:57out your pockets ladies empty your purses whoever has the gun is the
01:21:02murderer brilliantly worked out Wadsworth I congratulate you me too
01:21:07shut up now there's one thing I don't understand one thing why did you do it
01:21:13half of Washington knows what kind of business you run you were in no real
01:21:17danger the whole town would be implicated if you were exposed I don't
01:21:21think they know my real business huh my business is secrets and Yvette found
01:21:26them out for me the secrets of Senator Peacock's Defense Committee of Colonel
01:21:32Mustard's fusion bomb professor plums you in contacts and the work of your
01:21:39husband nuclear physicist so it is political you're a communist no mr.
01:21:48green communism is just a red herring like all members of the oldest
01:21:53profession I'm a capitalist and I'm gonna sell my secrets your secrets to
01:21:59the highest bidder what if we don't cooperate you will or I'll expose you we
01:22:05could expose you six murders I hardly think it will enhance your reputation at
01:22:09the UN professor plum if it's revealed that you have been implicated not only
01:22:13in adultery with one of your patients but in her death and the deaths of five
01:22:17other people you don't know what kind of people they have in the UN I might go up
01:22:20with their estimation and it's no good blackmailing me madam I have no more
01:22:25money I know sweetie pie but you can pay me in government information all of you
01:22:33except you Wadsworth you as a mere butler have no access to government
01:22:39secrets so I'm afraid your moment has come not so fast miss Scarlett I do have
01:22:46a secret or two oh yeah such as the game's up Scarlett there are no more
01:22:50bullets left in that gun come on you don't think I'm gonna fall for that old
01:22:53trick it's not a trick there was one shot at mr. body in the study two for
01:22:57the chandelier two at the lounge door and one for the singing telegram that's
01:23:00not six one plus two plus two plus one uh-huh there was only one shot they got
01:23:04the chandelier that's one plus two plus one plus one even if you were right that
01:23:08will be one plus one plus two plus one not one plus two plus one plus one okay
01:23:11fine one plus two plus one shut up the point is there's one bullet left in
01:23:17this gun and guess who's gonna get
01:23:21I guess where's the chief
01:23:37now what's worth well done I did warn you my dear mr. Hoover is an expert on
01:23:43Armageddon what don't hate me for trying to shoot you frankly Scarlett I don't
01:23:49give a damn as I was trying to tell you there are no bullets left in this gun
01:23:53you see one plus two plus one plus one is
01:24:07in the dark the murderer right across the hall to the study picked up the rope
01:24:23and the lead pipe rang to the library the doorbell rang it was a singing
01:24:35telegram the murderer picked up the gun where a vet dropped it run to the door
01:24:38opened it recognized the girl from her photograph shot her and ran back to the
01:24:42cellar yes the kind of mustard wasn't in the cellar no but you were so you
01:24:53murdered them all you were the person who was missing when the cook and mr.
01:24:56body were murdered and the cook used to be your cook don't you remember your
01:25:00fatal mistake you told us at dinner that we were eating one of your favorite
01:25:05recipes and monkeys brains though popular in Cantonese cuisine are not
01:25:10often to be found in Washington DC is that what we ate why would I have
01:25:16murdered all the others obviously in case mr. body had told him about you so
01:25:20it was all nothing to do with a disappearing nuclear physicist and curl
01:25:23mustards work on the new fusion bomb no communism was just a red herring mrs.
01:25:27peacock did it all there's no proof well the gun is missing gentlemen turn
01:25:34out your pockets ladies empty your purses whoever has the gun is the
01:25:39murderer very well what are you supposed to do about nothing nothing nothing at
01:25:49all I don't approve of murder but it seems to me you've done the world a
01:25:53public service by ridding it of an appalling blackmailer and his disgusting
01:25:57informers but the police will be here any minute what happens then why should
01:26:00the police come nobody's called them you mean that's right now I suggest that we
01:26:08stack the bodies in the cellar lock it leave quietly one at a time and pretend
01:26:13that none of this has ever happened great idea I'll leave first if you don't
01:26:20mind be my guest in fact I think we all owe you a vote of thanks for she's a
01:26:29jolly good fellow for she's a jolly good fellow but she's a jolly good fellow
01:26:37which nobody can deny which nobody can deny which nobody can deny but she's a
01:26:45I told you I didn't do it but what if the authorities find out what happened
01:26:55the FBI will take care of that you mean my phone call for mr. Hoover I work for
01:27:00him of course how else could I have known everything about you all there's
01:27:04still one thing I don't understand one thing who was mrs. Peacock taking bribes
01:27:09from a foreign power her husband the senator has influence over defense
01:27:13contracts is there gonna be a cover-up isn't that in the public interest what
01:27:17could be gained by exposure but it's the FBI in the habit of cleaning up after
01:27:20multiple murder yes I think it's run by a man called Hoover Oh mrs. Peacock
01:27:34how did you know my name the kingdom of heaven is at hand
01:27:49what work we got her you see like the Monty's we always get our man mrs.
01:27:57Peacock was a man but anyone care for fruit or dessert
01:28:17sorry didn't mean to frighten anyone you're a bit late for that then there
01:28:21were three more murders let's consider each murder one by one professor plot
01:28:28you knew that mr. body was still alive even psychiatrists can tell the
01:28:32difference between patients who are alive or dead you fired the gun in the
01:28:36dark and missed so you pretended he was dead that's how you were able to kill
01:28:41him later unobserved that's right he was a missing person in the kitchen after we
01:28:46found the cook dead but he was with us in the billiard room when we found he
01:28:49that screaming if that's when the cook was killed how did he do it I didn't but
01:28:53you don't expect us to believe that do you I expect you to believe it you killed
01:28:57the cook she used to be your cook and she informed on you to mr. body you made
01:29:01one fatal mistake sitting here at dinner mrs. Peacock told us that she was eating
01:29:07one of her favorite recipes and monkeys brains though popular in Cantonese
01:29:12cuisine are not often to be found in Washington DC
01:29:17mustard when we saw the motorist at the front door you took the key to the
01:29:20weapons cupboard out of my pocket then you suggested that we all split up you
01:29:24separated from Miss Scarlet crossed the hall opened the cupboard took the wrench
01:29:30ran to the conservatory entered the lounge through the secret passage killed
01:29:33the motorist with a blow on the head like that
01:29:39not so incredible as what happened next but we all split up again I went
01:29:43upstairs with you yes you mrs. white while I was in the master bedroom you
01:29:50hurried downstairs and turned off the electricity got the rope from the open
01:29:55cupboard and throttled Yvette you were jealous that your husband was
01:29:59stopping a vet that's why you killed him too yes yes I did it I killed Yvette I
01:30:09hated her so much it it the flame flames flames on the side of my face
01:30:19breathing breath heaving breaths heaving but while we were in the billiard room
01:30:25miss Scarlet seized the opportunity and under cover of darkness crossed the
01:30:28library where she hit the cop whom she'd been bribing on the head with a lead
01:30:32pipe true or false true who are you Perry Mason so must have been mr. Green
01:30:39who shot the singing telegram I didn't do it well there's nobody else left but
01:30:42I didn't do it the gun is missing whoever's got the gun shot the girl I
01:30:48shot you so it was you I was going to expose you I know so I choose to expose
01:30:57myself please there are ladies present you thought mr. body was dead but why
01:31:01none of you even met him till tonight you're mr. potty wait a minute so who
01:31:10did I kill my butler oh shucks he was expendable like all of you I'm grateful
01:31:19to you all for disposing of my network of spies and informers saved me a lot of
01:31:23trouble now there's no evidence against me this all has nothing to do with my
01:31:27disappearing nuclear physicist husband or Colonel Mustard's work with the new
01:31:32top-secret fusion bomb no communism was just a red herring but the police will
01:31:40be here any minute you'll never get away with this any of you why should the
01:31:43police come nobody's called you mean oh my god of course so why shouldn't we get
01:31:49away with it we'll stack the bodies in the cellar
01:31:52lock it leave quietly one at a time and forget that any of this ever happened
01:31:56and you'll just you'll just go on blackmailing us all of course why not
01:32:01well I'll tell you why not good shot
01:32:10I'm very good
01:32:31are you a cop no I'm a plant a plant I thought men like you were usually called
01:32:36a fruit very funny FBI that phone call from J Edgar Hoover was for me all right
01:32:53we've done it they all did it but if you want to know who killed mr. body I did
01:33:04in the hall with the revolver okay chief take him away I'm gonna go home
01:33:11and sleep with my wife
01:33:34Oh
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