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00:05:10Thank you, Doctor.
00:05:17How's it coming, Larkin?
00:05:19Coming on a treat, sir.
00:05:20Clearest prints I've seen in a long time.
00:05:22Beauties, every last one of them.
00:05:23Oh, no.
00:05:25You're very hard to please, aren't you, Inspector?
00:05:27If I don't get you any prints, you want to take my scalp.
00:05:30And now you're on my neck simply because I've got you loads of lovely, clear prints.
00:05:33Beauties.
00:05:34Beauties?
00:05:35Those lovely, clear prints don't fit anyone we know.
00:05:40I'll have a bet.
00:05:41When you find scores of lovely, clear prints,
00:05:44and jewellery missing,
00:05:46it's a hundred to one it belongs on our file called Mr. March.
00:05:49You say that we don't know who they belong to,
00:05:51but that we have a file marked Mr. March.
00:05:54I don't understand.
00:05:55It's a code name.
00:05:56First time we came across this type of robbery,
00:05:58where the thief never wore gloves, was in March.
00:06:01About four years ago.
00:06:03So, we put it on a file called Mr. March.
00:06:05And you think this is the same man?
00:06:07I'm sure of it.
00:06:08It's happened a dozen times.
00:06:09France, Italy, Germany.
00:06:10They've all come across this jewel thief who leaves his fingerprints everywhere.
00:06:13Oh, yes, it's got the hallmarks of Mr. March, all right.
00:06:16Mr. March?
00:06:17To nab him would be a feather in your cap.
00:06:19Hmph.
00:06:21Wait a minute.
00:06:22Inspector Duval of the Paris Suete has been in London for the last few days.
00:06:25I spoke to him on the telephone this morning.
00:06:27Isn't he the one that's sworn to get Mr. March?
00:06:29Yes, and if anyone's an expert, he should be.
00:06:31He's been chasing Mr. March and his fancy fingerprints for years.
00:06:34It's become an obsession with him,
00:06:35ever since he was carpeted for his handling of the original March robbery.
00:06:39He goes back till tomorrow.
00:06:40Sergeant, he's staying at the Rex Hotel, Rampole Street.
00:06:43Get him on the phone and ask him to come and see me, would you?
00:06:45Right-o, sir.
00:06:51Did the doctor give you something, Doreen?
00:06:53Mm-mm.
00:06:54Good. Now, do you feel like answering a few more questions?
00:06:56Yes. Yes, I think so, sir.
00:06:58Right. Let's see what you can do to help us, shall we?
00:07:01You say you had the night off last night?
00:07:03Went to stay at your sister's place.
00:07:05You didn't get back here till nine o'clock this morning,
00:07:08came straight up to the flat, went into Miss Alvari's room.
00:07:12Come now, Doreen, it's all over now.
00:07:15Yes, monsieur.
00:07:16It's only about two minutes' walk away from you.
00:07:18Fine. Thank you.
00:07:21I don't like these foreigners coming in on parties.
00:07:23However, if the old man wants it, there's nothing much I can do about it.
00:07:26Why is this Duval so keen to get at March?
00:07:28I don't know, but I do know he's as hot as mustard.
00:07:31Well, I'm through. I'll see you back at the station.
00:07:33Right-o.
00:07:34Well, that seems to be about everything, doesn't it?
00:07:36Miss Alvari's left the flat about seven-ish.
00:07:39You went off to go to the pictures with your boyfriend, Charlie Lennox, isn't it?
00:07:42About eight.
00:07:43Before you went off to spend the night with your sister.
00:07:45Yes, that's right, Inspector.
00:07:47Miss Alvari's left about seven, and she left me alone in the flat.
00:07:50But you weren't alone, were you?
00:07:52The hall porter said your friend Charlie called for you about quarter to six.
00:07:56And you didn't leave till nearly eight.
00:07:58So you were together after Miss Alvari's left, you and Charlie.
00:08:02He's quite certain of this, Miss Collins.
00:08:04He recognised Charlie.
00:08:07Yes.
00:08:08He said he's true. I forgot.
00:08:11I forgot. I... I didn't think it was important.
00:08:16What do you mean?
00:08:18You're not saying that Charlie...
00:08:20Oh, but he was only here for a few minutes last night after Miss Alvari's went out.
00:08:23Twenty minutes.
00:08:26Well, half an hour, maybe.
00:08:28But he left with me.
00:08:30Last night when he called for me, I... I wasn't quite ready.
00:08:33So I let him in quietly.
00:08:35Miss Alice didn't know about it.
00:08:37But she wouldn't have minded. She wouldn't have objected.
00:08:39Because she didn't object on any of the other occasions, hmm?
00:08:43All the other occasions when your...
00:08:45your friend Charlie called while Miss Alvari's was out and...
00:08:48spent the evening here with you.
00:08:52That's right, sir.
00:08:53Charlie was here a... a few times.
00:08:56I didn't think there was any harm.
00:08:59Miss Alvari's wouldn't have minded. Honest, sir, she wouldn't.
00:09:02It... it's just that I thought it was last night you were interested in.
00:09:06It was. It was last night I was interested in.
00:09:09All right, Doreen, you can go now.
00:09:12But don't leave. I may want to talk to you again.
00:09:19Neat, Duval. Very neat indeed.
00:09:21My dear Wilson, not at all.
00:09:22I overhear this girl tell you that her... her...
00:09:25What do you call him? Her boyfriend was here only for a few minutes last night.
00:09:29So perhaps she was thinking of other nights.
00:09:32With a girl so pretty as this one, there must have been other nights.
00:09:35Unless this Charlie person is a very cold fish indeed.
00:09:38Which goes to show that human nature is no different in London than Paris.
00:09:41Besides, if this is a marked job as your... your sergeant...
00:09:46Hastings.
00:09:47...tells me you think it is...
00:09:49I don't think it is. I know.
00:09:51It's got all hallmarks of his job. I've seen a lot of them.
00:09:54As have I. Almost a score of them.
00:09:56You're very keen on catching this Mr. March, aren't you?
00:09:59Eh, Inspector?
00:10:00Keen, huh?
00:10:05In my own country, they even say I have an obsession about catching this man.
00:10:08Or this woman, for all we know.
00:10:09Remember, we've never seen him face to face.
00:10:12All the newspapers are constantly full of him and of the theories as to who he might be.
00:10:17I followed Mr. March practically all over the world.
00:10:22In Rome, about six months ago, I thought I had caught him, but...
00:10:26...I was mistaken.
00:10:28He was always a bit cleverer than I was.
00:10:33You see...
00:10:36...my colleagues at the Sûreté are...
00:10:38...oh, this I fully understand...
00:10:40...they are getting a bit...
00:10:42...well, what do you call it? A bit restless.
00:10:45This... this I do not mind.
00:10:47But...
00:10:49I...
00:10:50...I do not like the...
00:10:52...the look on the face of my wife and my children...
00:10:55...when I come home from one of these unsuccessful trips.
00:11:00The look of pity and...
00:11:03...and doubt.
00:11:04Doubt whether I ever shall be able to catch this man.
00:11:09Sometimes I...
00:11:10...I've begun to...
00:11:12...yes, I've begun to doubt it myself.
00:11:14Yes, Sûreté stinks.
00:11:16I am keen, all right.
00:11:19Well, Inspector, we've worked together, we've worked separately...
00:11:22...and we've never, never been near that fellow.
00:11:25Why? He's had all the luck so far.
00:11:28Not luck, Sergeant.
00:11:29No, it takes a great deal more than luck to defeat the vile.
00:11:33It's tactics.
00:11:34This fellow is a superb tactician.
00:11:36He plans every coup like a general plans a war.
00:11:40A great deal more brilliantly than most generals.
00:11:43Before he attacks, there's the staff work.
00:11:46The ground is spied out for him, information is collected.
00:11:49He even does what most generals are too gentlemanly to do.
00:11:53He makes advanced arrangements for getting rid of his booty.
00:11:57You agree?
00:11:59Well, that just about sums it up.
00:12:01On several occasions we have managed to nab some of the smaller fry...
00:12:04...one or two middlemen...
00:12:06...but none of them ever met March face to face.
00:12:08They've never been able to lead us to him.
00:12:10I think they don't dare lead us to him.
00:12:13To double cross can be a very dangerous game.
00:12:16There's always a first time. Maybe someone will pluck up enough courage.
00:12:19Maybe.
00:12:20Meanwhile, let us see what the combined forces of British and French law can do.
00:12:24With your permission, my dear Wilson, I would like to cancel my return trip to Paris...
00:12:27...and stay here and help. May I do that?
00:12:30Good. That's what I hoped you were going to say.
00:12:31Thank you very much.
00:12:32Well, we've only just started. There's not much to go on.
00:12:34The girl, you heard her.
00:12:36The boy, whom the hall porter saw come and pick her up...
00:12:39...and leave not less than half an hour after Miss Alvarez.
00:12:43Oh, about two o'clock, the constable on the beats...
00:12:45...saw a car pull round the side of the building.
00:12:47There's a side entrance some of the tenants use here.
00:12:50About two o'clock?
00:12:51And the car, its driver, your police officer, has particulars?
00:12:55I'm afraid not.
00:12:56When he got back about half an hour later, the car had gone.
00:12:59He didn't pay particular attention either to the car or its occupants.
00:13:02Won't break any regulations, the parking lights were on.
00:13:04Sometime we'll have to teach those fellows something else besides the Traffic Act.
00:13:07Oh, quite, Sergeant.
00:13:09And now?
00:13:11Routine checking, her contacts, friends.
00:13:14Looks as if we've started.
00:13:16Is it true what they tell me downstairs?
00:13:18Is Alice...
00:13:19All right, constable. Please, Miss...
00:13:21Jackson. Pamela Jackson.
00:13:24What's it matter what my name is? Is it true?
00:13:26About Miss Alvarez, I'm afraid so.
00:13:29May I ask you what...
00:13:30Why?
00:13:31Why Alice of all people?
00:13:34She was so fond of life, she...
00:13:37She never harmed anyone.
00:13:39There are other reasons for crimes of this kind, Miss Jackson.
00:13:42Reasons?
00:13:43Inspector Duval means that crimes of violence, such as this one was,
00:13:46very often had nothing to do with hatred or liking,
00:13:48or what kind of person the victim was.
00:13:51They're very often the blind outcome of some other crime, like robbery, for instance.
00:13:55Robbery?
00:13:56So that was it.
00:13:58The diamonds.
00:13:59You knew that Miss Alvarez was the owner of valuable diamonds.
00:14:02Oh, don't be so dim. Of course I did. Everybody knew.
00:14:05Alice had a thing about diamonds.
00:14:07She never missed the opportunity of wearing them.
00:14:09Mark once said he suspected she wore them in the bath.
00:14:12Mark?
00:14:14Mark Sinclair. He's a friend of mine.
00:14:17And Alice's.
00:14:22Mark Sinclair.
00:14:24You must have heard of him. He's a financier, a promoter.
00:14:28Yes, I've heard of him.
00:14:30I read a piece about him in one of the Sunday papers a little while back.
00:14:33That's what you said he is, Miss. A promoter. A ten percenter.
00:14:36I don't much care for that description.
00:14:38Please, Miss Jackson, don't let's have any misunderstandings.
00:14:40Sergeant Hastings has, shall we say, a slightly heavy-handed sense of humor.
00:14:44I quite understand Mr. Sinclair's business activities.
00:14:47Well, I hope everybody does.
00:14:49Mark's a highly respected businessman.
00:14:52Otherwise he wouldn't have friends like Alice
00:14:54and other wealthy, important, influential people.
00:14:57Oh, a friend as loyal and as charming as you, Miss Jackson.
00:15:02Mr. Sinclair was a friend of Miss Alvarez, then.
00:15:05A business friend, perhaps, or a social friend?
00:15:08Both. Mark and I took Alice out to dinner.
00:15:14Oh, I suppose you want to know all about it. Well, I might as well.
00:15:18We picked up Alice about seven o'clock.
00:15:33Hi.
00:15:45I've ordered a table for three.
00:15:49Yes.
00:15:59Poor Mark, simply dying to tell me about his wonderful new scheme.
00:16:03All right, then, tell me about it.
00:16:05Not that I really understand those awfully intricate business things.
00:16:08There's nothing intricate about this.
00:16:10It's quite a simple, straightforward affair.
00:16:12The syndicate, the people I told you about,
00:16:14they're anxious to get a suitable property in England and develop it.
00:16:17They're Germans, aren't they?
00:16:19They're wonderfully good business people, very reputable,
00:16:22and very experienced in the entertainment and restaurant business.
00:16:25They were in this type of thing in the old days in Berlin,
00:16:27when Berlin was Berlin.
00:16:29Anyway, I've got just the kind of premises they're looking for.
00:16:32An old house, mansion-type place on the river beyond Nainton.
00:16:35Riversdale House, it's called.
00:16:37It hasn't been lived in for years, but it's in quite good condition,
00:16:40and I've got an option on it.
00:16:42Oh, I know those old houses by the river, dear boy.
00:16:44Water raps in the cellars and dry rot in the attics.
00:16:47Dear, at any price.
00:16:48Not at 7,000 pounds.
00:16:50You buy it for 7, I sell it for you to the syndicate at 10.
00:16:53Oh, 3,000 pounds profit, how lovely.
00:16:56And you don't have to worry about the condition of the place.
00:16:59They'll modernise it, put it in tip-top shape,
00:17:01turn it into a club-type restaurant, dancing place.
00:17:04Beautifully appointed, exclusive.
00:17:07And expensive.
00:17:09I adore expensive places.
00:17:11All the fun of driving out of town,
00:17:13dining and dancing by the river is romantic.
00:17:16Wicked.
00:17:17Nothing illegal.
00:17:18Of course not.
00:17:19I've told you, these are very sound business people.
00:17:21They aim to provide something that's needed by people who can afford it.
00:17:24People like Jackie, who adore expensive places.
00:17:27Dinner, dancing, a little gambling perhaps.
00:17:31There's a fortune in it.
00:17:33If you should wish to get in on the ground floor with 10 or 20,000 perhaps,
00:17:37I can manage it for you.
00:17:39We'll have to move quickly, of course.
00:17:40I've got to settle with these German people in the next day or two.
00:17:42How impetuous you business people are.
00:17:44You mustn't rush me.
00:17:46Well now, what are you going to do to save me from dying of boredom?
00:17:49I don't much feel like dancing.
00:17:51Oh, Martin, there's a new place, tremendously exciting.
00:17:53One can play shimmy, baccarat, roulette, I'll do it.
00:17:57Well, let's go then.
00:17:58I feel tonight is going to be my lucky night.
00:18:11Hurry up.
00:18:24The bank is 60 pounds.
00:18:26The bank is 60 pounds.
00:18:27Bank?
00:18:29I'll have a card, please.
00:18:31Bank is nine.
00:18:36Bank is 90 pounds.
00:18:37Why hasn't the other man got the card he asked for?
00:18:39Well, nobody gets a card if the banker or the punter draws an eight or a nine.
00:18:42Eight and nine are naturals.
00:18:44Natural wins.
00:18:45No more play.
00:18:46See me?
00:18:47The bank stands at 90 pounds.
00:18:48Who calls banker?
00:18:49Banker.
00:18:50Card.
00:18:56Seven.
00:18:57The bank stands at seven.
00:19:00She won!
00:19:01Yes.
00:19:02Court cards don't count.
00:19:03She had eight against the banker's seven, so she will.
00:19:05Come along and I'll get you some champagne.
00:19:07Let's hope we have something to celebrate.
00:19:09No, I want to watch.
00:19:11Come on, my girl, I'm thirsty.
00:19:13The bank stands at 130 pounds.
00:19:16Bank stands at 130 pounds.
00:19:17Who calls banker?
00:19:18Banker.
00:19:25Hello, Alice.
00:19:26Have a drink.
00:19:27No, thanks.
00:19:28Not for me.
00:19:29I should be afraid that the quality of the wine here may be as doubtful as the honesty of their gambling.
00:19:32Really, Alice.
00:19:33Back around is the one game the house can't cheat at.
00:19:35Nonsense.
00:19:36That game was as crooked as a dog's hind leg.
00:19:38You, boy, get me a taxi.
00:19:40Yes, madam.
00:19:41Straight away.
00:19:42We've got to talk this thing over.
00:19:44About the syndicate.
00:19:45The house.
00:19:46You know, Mark, if this club is anything to judge by,
00:19:48I rather think you may not be the best person to advise on clubs and gambling places.
00:19:58Well, that's how it was.
00:20:00As you can imagine, we weren't much in the humor for fun and games, so Mark drove me home.
00:20:04That would have been about...
00:20:05Oh, about one o'clock.
00:20:07I sat around the flat drinking coffee, trying to work out little schemes to make Alice change her mind.
00:20:12Oh, she'd have changed her mind, all right.
00:20:14She used to fly into huffs and rages, but she'd have listened to me.
00:20:18That's what I planned to do this morning.
00:20:20That's why I came round.
00:20:22Where is Mr. Sinclair?
00:20:24Not very subtle, monsieur.
00:20:26All right, I'm going round there.
00:20:28Why don't you come with me?
00:20:30I don't know whether he'll be there,
00:20:31because when I talked to Brossier on the phone, he said Mark hadn't returned yet.
00:20:34Who did you say?
00:20:36Brossier, his valet.
00:20:37Do you know where Mr. Sinclair's gone?
00:20:39No, I don't.
00:20:40I'm not a detective.
00:20:41I don't watch his every movement.
00:20:47I think I'd like to have a chat with this Mr. Brossier.
00:20:49Coming, Duval?
00:20:50Yes.
00:20:56Actually, Brossier, I want to ask Mr. Sinclair a few questions.
00:20:59I understand he's out.
00:21:01Yes, sir. Mr. Sinclair went out quite early.
00:21:03About nine o'clock, I should say.
00:21:05He took the car. He did not say where he was going.
00:21:07Or when he'd be back.
00:21:08No, sir. He wasn't quite sure if he would be in for lunch.
00:21:11I see.
00:21:12Well, we'd better stick around a while.
00:21:14That won't be inconvenient.
00:21:15No, of course not, sir. Not in the least.
00:21:17If there's anything I can do, perhaps some coffee.
00:21:19La politesse, c'est tout, n'est-ce pas?
00:21:21Pardon, monsieur.
00:21:22I merely mean that the politeness of the people from the Provence
00:21:25will always show through,
00:21:26just as the accent of the Provence will always show through,
00:21:29even in English.
00:21:30I'm right, aren't I?
00:21:31Marseille, perhaps?
00:21:33Not quite, monsieur.
00:21:36I was born and reared in the Camargue,
00:21:38but that's quite some years ago.
00:21:40For many years, I have been in service,
00:21:42in Paris, in Brussels.
00:21:44And how did you come to London?
00:21:46I met Mr. Sinclair in Rome.
00:21:48When my late employer, the Prince Julian of Nieburg,
00:21:51died four years ago, he asked me to join him.
00:21:54He is a very kind, considerate employer.
00:21:57If I may, I shall get some coffee, sir.
00:22:01Now, what, I wonder, was that in aid of?
00:22:04You surely haven't added poor Brossier to your list of suspects.
00:22:07Mademoiselle, as Inspector Wilson will tell you,
00:22:10in a case of murder, everyone is suspect.
00:22:13Everyone.
00:22:14Oh, not of the actual crime, perhaps,
00:22:16but with this man March, we have found always
00:22:19there are others who share his guilt.
00:22:21Helpers, middlemen, spies.
00:22:24You might call them servants of crime.
00:22:27That's a pretty double-edged remark, Inspector Duval.
00:22:30Brossier is March's servant.
00:22:32So he told us.
00:22:33I wish you'd get it out of your head
00:22:35that March had anything to do with this foul business.
00:22:37Last night, he was with me.
00:22:39Only until one o'clock?
00:22:43Yes.
00:22:46And then he went straight home.
00:22:48So, you told us.
00:22:51No doubt Brossier will be able to tell us more.
00:22:54Did Mr. Sinclair have supper when he came in last night, Brossier?
00:22:58Oh, no, sir, it was much too late.
00:23:00It was a little after four o'clock when my master came in.
00:23:03My room overlooks the garage at the back of the building,
00:23:06and the car woke me up when he put it away.
00:23:08I remember hearing the clock strike four
00:23:10just before my master came upstairs into the room here.
00:23:13If you expect me to be impressed by that piece of cleverness, Inspector,
00:23:17I'm afraid you'll be very disappointed.
00:23:19I think it would be decent to wait
00:23:21to say anything about March Sinclair to his face.
00:23:23Say what?
00:23:26Hello, Jackie. What's going on here?
00:23:28Oh, Mark, something dreadful's happened.
00:23:30To Alice.
00:23:31I know, dear. I know.
00:23:33I've just come from there.
00:23:35These gentlemen are policemen.
00:23:38My name's Wilson, Inspector Wilson, Scotland Yard.
00:23:41Sergeant Hastings, and this is Inspector Duval of the Surité.
00:23:44It's about Alice, isn't it?
00:23:46I'm sorry I wasn't here when you came.
00:23:48I had to go out of town this morning
00:23:51to look over a property I'm buying on the river.
00:23:54I told them all about the house, Mark, and about last night.
00:23:57Yes, Miss Jackson told us that Miss Alvarez
00:23:59left you about midnight last night.
00:24:01You took her home and then came on here.
00:24:04Garcia, get me some coffee, will you?
00:24:06Yes, sir.
00:24:07Actually, I didn't. Come home, I mean.
00:24:10As Jackie's probably told you,
00:24:12this tantrum of Alice rather spoiled some plans I'd made.
00:24:16When I dropped Miss Jackson off at her home,
00:24:18I thought I'd better do something about it, fast.
00:24:21So I went along to see my solicitor.
00:24:24I'm sorry, Mr Sinclair, I haven't got it right.
00:24:27You went to your solicitor at 1 o'clock in the morning?
00:24:30Sergeant, when a businessman is tied up in a deal
00:24:33that's likely to lose him the better part of £100,000 if it goes wrong,
00:24:37he doesn't stop work when the clock strikes 5.
00:24:40Yes, I went to see my solicitor at 1 o'clock in the morning,
00:24:43right out to his private house, Acacia Drive in Wimbledon.
00:24:47We were working until 3 o'clock, half past 3, perhaps.
00:24:50I remember it was just on 4 when I got back here.
00:24:53About 4, I see.
00:24:55Oh, you don't have to take my word for it, Inspector.
00:24:58My solicitor will confirm it.
00:25:00He's John Bennett, of Bennett & Swift.
00:25:02If that isn't enough, his wife will bear me out.
00:25:04I think she was rather peeved at having her beauty sleep
00:25:06disturbed by a 1 o'clock visitor.
00:25:08And so were they made, for that matter.
00:25:10The girl was up all night, making us coffee.
00:25:12Well, if that satisfies everybody, I think I'll be on my way.
00:25:17You'll be able to get me at Millington Mansions, 49B, Inspector,
00:25:22in case M. Duval thinks of any more questions for me.
00:25:26Will you be giving me lunch, Mark?
00:25:28I'll be at the Katrina around 1 o'clock, if you can manage it.
00:25:32If I can manage it, darling,
00:25:33I may have to take the afternoon flight to Germany.
00:25:35These Berlin people may need talking to again.
00:25:37I'll phone you at the Katrina.
00:25:39OK.
00:25:41That's if it'll be all right with you, Inspector.
00:25:43Going to Berlin, I mean.
00:25:45Oh, I'm sure that'll be all right, Mr. Sinclair.
00:25:47If there's anything we want to ask you,
00:25:49we'll get in touch with you before then.
00:25:51Good day, sir.
00:25:53Good morning, gentlemen.
00:25:55Good morning.
00:26:05Good morning.
00:26:26It's Charlie.
00:26:28We're all Charlies in here.
00:26:29Charlie, look!
00:26:30Why didn't you say so before?
00:26:32He's over there.
00:26:36Oh!
00:26:44All right, all right, don't let's have a scene.
00:26:46It's all here.
00:26:47There's enough copies.
00:26:48It's too much, Charlie.
00:26:49I don't know what to do about it.
00:26:50You don't do nothing.
00:26:51Not until you've got something to stop those shakes.
00:27:00Grandy for the lady, Slim.
00:27:05Come on.
00:27:20That's better, Chip.
00:27:22No more shakes, no more shivers.
00:27:24Yeah, I know it's been a shock to you.
00:27:26It's all in the sheet here.
00:27:27All about you finding her in all...
00:27:29That's how the ball bounces.
00:27:31Pull out his goers.
00:27:32Nothing you can do about it.
00:27:33The police have been, Charlie.
00:27:34Detectives from Scotland Yard.
00:27:35So what?
00:27:36You get police everywhere.
00:27:38There's been a murder.
00:27:39The place is crawling with coppers.
00:27:40All right.
00:27:41They've got their end of living to it.
00:27:42They know about you being there, Charlie.
00:27:43The whole border saw you.
00:27:44Oh, that creep.
00:27:45Sure he saw me.
00:27:46Leaving with you.
00:27:47When was it?
00:27:48Before 8 o'clock.
00:27:49Lucky thing for me, the way things turned out, he did.
00:27:53Can't you see everything's right?
00:27:55You've got an alibi, tight as a drum.
00:27:57Me too.
00:27:58After I left you, I got back to my digs
00:28:00and sat and nattering with my old landlady
00:28:01and husband till all hours.
00:28:03Lucky for me this time.
00:28:05Maybe you're right, Charlie.
00:28:07But that other detective, he gave me a proper start.
00:28:10What other detective?
00:28:11Oh, don't tell me they've got the big five down there.
00:28:13Cheval's his name.
00:28:14He's a French detective.
00:28:15French?
00:28:16What's the country coming to?
00:28:17You know, I've a good mind to write to my MP about this.
00:28:19Haven't they got enough coppers around importing them?
00:28:21What's so special about this fellow?
00:28:23Supposing they find out about the other thing, Charlie.
00:28:25Me telling you about, about the place Miss Alice
00:28:28had made for her jewels.
00:28:29Showing it to you.
00:28:32Now look, Dory.
00:28:34You've got to keep your mouth closed on that.
00:28:35Closed tight.
00:28:36There was nothing in it.
00:28:37No arm.
00:28:38You remember, it came up casual like when we were talking.
00:28:41Now listen.
00:28:44You're in this as deep as I am.
00:28:46One word about that hiding place lock
00:28:48and the two of us are in on a murder rap.
00:28:50Right up to our necks.
00:28:52Remember.
00:28:53Both of us.
00:28:56The other flat now?
00:28:57The police?
00:28:58No, you can't.
00:29:00The three detectives there, Miss Jackie.
00:29:02All right.
00:29:03You go back there
00:29:05and keep your mouth closed about the thing you told me.
00:29:07Showed me.
00:29:08Forget it.
00:29:09Never think of it again.
00:29:10Right?
00:29:13On your way, chick.
00:29:30Six dollars, ma'am.
00:29:48Mr. Sinclair's residence.
00:29:51Yes.
00:29:53I see.
00:29:55I'm afraid it's not very convenient.
00:29:58All right.
00:29:59Just as soon as I can manage.
00:30:01I'll be right along.
00:30:03Who was that?
00:30:05It was from Delantes, sir.
00:30:08The shoes you ordered, he's got them ready now.
00:30:10I can collect them this morning if you wish.
00:30:12Do that, Monsieur.
00:30:13I shan't be wanting you for the next hour or two.
00:30:15I've got some letters to write.
00:30:16Very good, sir.
00:30:17I should be back in less than an hour.
00:30:30I told you never to phone me.
00:30:54Never to come near Mr. Sinclair's place.
00:30:55I told you...
00:30:56You told me.
00:30:57I told you... You told me. Yeah, yeah, you told me.
00:31:00You didn't tell me you were going to mix me in a murder.
00:31:03Keep your voice down, you damn fool.
00:31:05I've stopped being a damn fool.
00:31:07From now on, I'm going to be smart.
00:31:10The money you owe me, Blossie. The lolly. I want it now.
00:31:13You'll get paid just the way I arranged it.
00:31:15The bargain was... The bargain was that I'd case the giant for you.
00:31:18Find out just where that dame kept those sparklers.
00:31:20All right? I did my part. I gave it to Leon.
00:31:23You passed the word on to whoever it is you're working for.
00:31:25No, no, I don't want to know nothing about him. Nothing, I tell you.
00:31:28Not what a croaking done on the job. All I want is out.
00:31:31The money, Blossie.
00:31:33You know what the deal was.
00:31:35When the jewels come back to me from whoever has done the job,
00:31:38I pass them on to Mario.
00:31:40When Mario gets paid, we all get paid.
00:31:42Sure, sure. I stall around until this fence...
00:31:45This Mario fellow makes up his mind what he's going to give me for the stuff.
00:31:48Fine, fine. That was the bargain.
00:31:50But there was no killing in the bargain, Mr Blossie.
00:31:53Here, what are you trying to do?
00:31:55Put me on the trap with a rope around my neck,
00:31:57and the chaplain telling me to hope for the best?
00:31:59I tell you, the police again, not.
00:32:01The police? They have been to you?
00:32:03No, not to me. To the chick, Doreen.
00:32:05The one I wangled the information from.
00:32:07Some carpenter who was scared into a French detective, she says.
00:32:09Inspector Duval. He was with the others.
00:32:12All right, all right. I don't want his life story.
00:32:14All I want is out.
00:32:16Here. Maybe they'll get back to this girl.
00:32:18Maybe she'll talk too much.
00:32:20Maybe they'll call around and see me.
00:32:22Well, I don't want to be here that day. I want out.
00:32:24And I need money to get out.
00:32:26Look, we can't wait till this Mario character makes up his mind to pony up.
00:32:29Let's go around and see him.
00:32:31Here, tell me where I can find him.
00:32:33No. No one knows where Mario can be found.
00:32:35No one but me.
00:32:37Not even the ones who pass on the stuff to me.
00:32:39All right, all right. So you're Mario's legman.
00:32:41You're the only one he can talk to.
00:32:43Well, that suits me.
00:32:45But when are you going to talk to him?
00:32:47You better start doing that talking first, Mr Blossie.
00:32:50Or maybe I'll start talking myself.
00:32:52To the coppers.
00:32:54All right. Don't lose your head.
00:32:56Give me till tomorrow.
00:32:58I'll go and see Mario right away.
00:33:21Good morning, Mr Blossie.
00:33:23Good morning, Mario.
00:33:24I didn't expect to see you here today.
00:33:26Everything's just the way we arranged it, Mario.
00:33:29Just the same as the other times.
00:33:31Mr March has handed on the stuff to me.
00:33:33I'll get it to you tonight.
00:33:35You will have the money for...
00:33:36Such a hurry. Such a hurry.
00:33:38And where do you expect me to find all that money all in one day, eh?
00:33:41Who do you think I am?
00:33:43The Bank of England, eh?
00:33:44You're not going back on the bargain, Mario.
00:33:46I have kept my part.
00:33:47I found the man to get the lay out of the place.
00:33:49To set up the job for Mr March.
00:33:51He did the job. That was his part of the bargain.
00:33:53Now, it's up to you.
00:33:55Was it part of the bargain that the poor lady should be killed?
00:34:00Such savagery.
00:34:01Listen, Mario. We've got no time to waste.
00:34:03I've got the diamonds, but I've got no safe place to hide them.
00:34:06You don't expect me to keep a couple of hundred thousand pounds of stones lying around in my bedroom?
00:34:10Such foolishness.
00:34:17And you would like for me to keep them, eh?
00:34:23Keep them till they cool off, perhaps.
00:34:26Oh, no, my friend.
00:34:28Diamonds from some jeweller's safe, why not?
00:34:31Jewels from some hat and garden merchant's office, why not?
00:34:34These I can find a place for.
00:34:36But jewellery from the room of a woman who has just been murdered.
00:34:40Oh, no.
00:34:42Better the police should search your bedroom
00:34:45than that they come nosing around the house of Mario.
00:34:48But what am I going to do?
00:34:49I don't know.
00:34:50You've got the diamonds.
00:34:52You're the man who's got to do the thinking.
00:34:55Next week, next month perhaps, we will talk about this again.
00:34:59Now it's getting late.
00:35:01Time for Mario to have a little luncheon.
00:35:15I hope I'm not late, sir.
00:35:22I was delayed at Delante's.
00:35:24There was some mistake.
00:35:25He did not have the shoes ready.
00:35:27Will you be having lunch, sir?
00:35:29No, I must go to Berlin after all.
00:35:31I'll have something on the plane.
00:35:33Put a few things in an overnight bag, will you?
00:35:39With any luck, I shall finish the talks tonight and get the first flight back in the morning.
00:35:46Too hurry, Brossier.
00:35:49Time's getting short.
00:35:50I had your overnight bag packed, sir.
00:35:52I took the liberty of doing so when I heard you mention Berlin to the police gentlemen.
00:35:56Have a good flight, sir.
00:35:57Thanks, Brossier.
00:36:05That's routine stuff, this.
00:36:07The Alvarez woman.
00:36:09Mark Sinclair.
00:36:10Oh, and our friend Charlie boy.
00:36:12And Sinclair's alibi?
00:36:14Oh, Sergeant Hastings is working on that right away.
00:36:16He's gone down to Bennett's office.
00:36:18Good.
00:36:19Doesn't seem to be much on Charlie.
00:36:22Charles Lennox.
00:36:23Three convictions.
00:36:24Car theft.
00:36:25Complicity.
00:36:26Complicity?
00:36:27In what?
00:36:28Warehouse gang.
00:36:29Knocking off stuff at the docks.
00:36:31Charlie was their lookout man.
00:36:33Just about his weight.
00:36:35Oh, he was mixed up with the Peter Man.
00:36:37The what?
00:36:38Peter Man.
00:36:39That's our slang term for a safe breaker.
00:36:41Oh.
00:36:42Charlie was a man who cased the joint before the gang went to work.
00:36:45Oh, just the kind of man March might use.
00:36:47Just the type.
00:36:48We're not after March's small-time helpers now.
00:36:50We're after the man himself.
00:36:51If we can get him.
00:36:52I am the murderer of Alice Alvarez.
00:36:55Anything on her?
00:36:57A wealthy woman.
00:36:58With a craze for diamonds, as our hot-blooded young friend Jackie reminded us.
00:37:02We're just checking with her bank and solicitors to find out exactly how much our friend got away with last night.
00:37:07You have no idea of the approximate value of the stuff she had in her flat?
00:37:12None.
00:37:13She seemed to be rather a secretive type.
00:37:15Sure, her money was tied up in diamonds, but so far we haven't got the faintest clues to their value.
00:37:20What do you think?
00:37:21As much as 40, 50,000 pounds maybe?
00:37:23Oh, I'm not sure.
00:37:24Not yet.
00:37:25We'll be able to put a figure on it when her bank and solicitors check back.
00:37:31Wilson here.
00:37:34I see.
00:37:36Well, thank you, Sergeant.
00:37:38No, no, you go and have your lunch.
00:37:41Well, that lets our friend Sinclair out.
00:37:44Sergeant Hastings has been to Bennett and Swift.
00:37:46Sinclair spent last night with Bennett, or rather part of the morning, from one till four.
00:37:50Bennett confirms it, so does his wife and the maid.
00:37:53Sergeant Hastings questioned all of them.
00:37:55A very good man, your Sergeant Hastings.
00:37:58Well, Mr. Sinclair seems to have his alibi.
00:38:01After the troubling cases like this, everyone seems to have an alibi.
00:38:05Everyone, except our Miss Jackson.
00:38:08I don't think she'll turn out to be Mr. March.
00:38:11Well, there doesn't seem to be much else we can do.
00:38:13Can I offer you some lunch, Inspector?
00:38:15Thank you, Inspector, but if you don't mind, I think I have a rendezvous with a charming little lady.
00:38:25My friend.
00:38:36Hello.
00:38:37Oh, hello.
00:38:39Another DuPont, please, Vincent.
00:38:41I'm sure my friend, Monsieur Duval, is so patriotic he never drinks anything before lunch except DuPont.
00:38:47What a charming thought, Miss Jackie.
00:38:48I thank you for myself and for France.
00:38:51I always do the right thing by my friends, Inspector.
00:38:54Monsieur Duval is one of my best new friends, Vincent.
00:38:57We play games together just like on television.
00:39:00Questions and nonsense.
00:39:01He asks the questions and I give the answers.
00:39:03If I'm in the right humor.
00:39:05This time I'm not the asker of impertinent questions, I'm the bearer of good news.
00:39:09Vincent has completed his checking and Mr. Sinclair's alibi seems to be quite enough.
00:39:14But of course, there was never any question about it.
00:39:16Haven't I told you all along that Mark could not possibly, not possibly have anything to do with this dreadful business?
00:39:24Oh, I'm sorry, Inspector.
00:39:26It was jolly nice of you to tell me.
00:39:28No, I understand, Miss Jackie.
00:39:30I understand completely.
00:39:32You have had a very great shock.
00:39:35Alice had some odd little ways and she used to fly in the most terrible rages.
00:39:39But she was a wonderful person.
00:39:42Those damn diamonds.
00:39:46You know, it was asking for trouble to keep them in her flat.
00:39:49Fifty thousand pounds is a lot of diamonds.
00:39:52Fifty thousand?
00:39:53More like a million.
00:39:54A million pounds is a lot of diamonds.
00:39:56Fifty thousand?
00:39:58More like a hundred thousand pounds worth.
00:40:00A hundred thousand?
00:40:02Didn't you know?
00:40:04Oh, we knew that Miss Alvarez was a wealthy woman, that she had valuable diamonds, but a hundred thousand?
00:40:09Excuse me, Miss Jackson.
00:40:12Excuse me.
00:40:25Oh, Vincent, bin Angel, send someone for my car, I'll need it after lunch.
00:40:29Oh.
00:40:30I'm afraid I'll have to go, my friends have arrived, Inspector.
00:40:32Oh, what a shame.
00:40:34By the way, that was Mark calling from the airport.
00:40:37He'd, er, I told him your news, but he'd guessed it already.
00:40:41He realised that Inspector Wilson would never let him out of the country, if there was any doubt about it.
00:40:45Oh, quite.
00:40:46You know, Inspector, you should leave it to them.
00:40:49Our British policemen are simply wonderful.
00:40:51Our British policemen are simply wonderful.
00:41:21Hello.
00:41:51Hello.
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00:43:50You're back, George.
00:43:51I've found it.
00:43:52Splendid.
00:43:55I hope it was worth coming all this way to find.
00:43:59What am I supposed to say?
00:44:01Fancy meeting you.
00:44:02It's a small world, isn't it?
00:44:05You followed me here.
00:44:07Let's say I found myself in the same district,
00:44:09saw your car outside and decided to come in and say, hello.
00:44:13and decided to come in and say, uh, hello.
00:44:16Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:44:18Inspector Duval.
00:44:20The brilliant Inspector Duval.
00:44:24My God, how brilliant can you get?
00:44:27You think I did it?
00:44:29You think I killed Alice?
00:44:31That I came here to...
00:44:33How would you put it, Inspector?
00:44:35How would a brilliant policeman like you put it?
00:44:39To hide the loot?
00:44:41You suspect me?
00:44:43No doubt you had an excellent reason for being here.
00:44:46Excellent and simple.
00:44:48When Mark phoned me, he said he left his fountain pen here this morning.
00:44:52He pays me the compliment of being sentimental about it.
00:44:57You see, I gave it to him.
00:44:59There is your loot, Inspector.
00:45:01Now do you suspect me?
00:45:04And you expect me to believe this silly story?
00:45:08Miss Jackie.
00:45:10All right, I... I apologize.
00:45:13But you mustn't blame me too much, you know.
00:45:15After all, it's a policeman's job to suspect everyone.
00:45:18Particularly when there's a matter of 100,000 pounds in diamonds at stake.
00:45:21I know it's a policeman's job, but you're callous.
00:45:24Callous? Why?
00:45:26Every time you've talked to me, you talk about the diamonds.
00:45:28About the 100,000 pounds.
00:45:30Never about poor Alice, who lost her life.
00:45:32After all, mademoiselle, the diamonds were the cause of the tragedy.
00:45:35Miss Alvarez hadn't been so foolish as to keep a fortune in stones
00:45:38in that little, silly vault safe of hers that would...
00:45:41She didn't keep a fortune in stones in that silly little safe of hers.
00:45:45She never even used it.
00:45:47Never even used it?
00:45:49Why not?
00:45:51That was one of Alice's odd ways.
00:45:54About a week after she'd had it installed,
00:45:56she read in the paper that some man had had a fire in Chicago
00:46:00or Toronto or somewhere
00:46:02and found all his lovely banknotes in ashes in a wall safe.
00:46:06But diamonds...
00:46:08Fire does not affect diamonds?
00:46:11Alice would never have understood that.
00:46:14She believed everything she read in the papers.
00:46:17She even sold all her stocks and shares
00:46:19because she read that a stockbroker ran away with a vicar's wife
00:46:23and thought her money wasn't safe in the stock exchange.
00:46:26But if she didn't keep them in the safe,
00:46:29where did she keep them?
00:46:31Oh, well...
00:46:33I don't know.
00:46:35Under her mattress? In her stockings?
00:46:38What's it matter?
00:46:40All that matters is that this March character has them now
00:46:43or some other burglar.
00:46:47March.
00:46:49Oh.
00:46:51Some other burglar.
00:47:01The wall safe. Where is it?
00:47:03It's behind that picture, sir.
00:47:17Now, what is this?
00:47:19How the devil can one get this case into this safe, huh?
00:47:22It's beyond me, my dear.
00:47:24The case. The one Miss Alice had for her bracelet, sir.
00:47:27It wouldn't fit in the little safe. It never would.
00:47:29It was always much too big.
00:47:31It's inches too big.
00:47:34But, of course, she hasn't been using this safe.
00:47:37Not since she had the other one fixed up.
00:47:39I wouldn't know anything about that, sir.
00:47:42About what? About the new place for the diamonds?
00:47:44But you must have known. It was no secret.
00:47:46Everyone knew about it. All Miss Alice's friends.
00:47:49Miss Jackie, Mr Sinclair.
00:47:51Surely Miss Alice didn't shoo you out of the room
00:47:54every time she wanted to wear her diamonds, did she?
00:47:56No, sir. Of course not.
00:47:58What I meant was... I meant it was built in before my time.
00:48:02Oh, I see.
00:48:03Well, I think we'd better have a look at it before Inspector Wilson arrives.
00:48:06I would like to have everything ready when he comes.
00:48:09Yes, sir. Well, it's...
00:48:11Odorin, do something for me, please. Get me a clean cloth.
00:48:14A polishing cloth or a napkin. Anything will do.
00:48:16Yes, of course, sir.
00:48:17As long as it is clean and dry.
00:48:19I'll get you one right away. Good.
00:48:51Would this be what you want, sir?
00:48:53That'll do very nicely, thank you.
00:48:56You have never mentioned this to anyone, of course, have you?
00:48:59Oh, no, sir. Of course not.
00:49:01The whole border or any of the service staff?
00:49:03No, indeed, sir. You see, I hardly know any of them.
00:49:06Not to speak to, that is.
00:49:07Or to Charlie?
00:49:09Oh, no, sir. I never would.
00:49:10I wouldn't think of talking about Miss Alice's affairs with...
00:49:13with anyone.
00:49:15No, I never mentioned it to Charlie.
00:49:17Oh, it doesn't matter anyway. It is not important.
00:49:20Odorin, I want you to stay here until Inspector Wilson arrives.
00:49:24Tell him I've been but that I had to go.
00:49:26All right?
00:49:27There is someone rather important I've got to see.
00:49:32Oh, and thank you for your assistance.
00:49:34It was invaluable. Au revoir.
00:49:37Pardon, sir?
00:49:38Goodbye.
00:49:40You're bluffing.
00:49:42That's it?
00:49:43My nose is bluffing all the same, is it?
00:49:45The chief never told you anything like that.
00:49:47Not Dorin.
00:49:48Then why not telephone her and ask?
00:49:50All right.
00:49:54No, why should I?
00:49:56Why should I telephone?
00:49:58I've got nothing to get worked up about.
00:50:00You don't want to pay any heed to what this chick tells you.
00:50:03You know what girls are.
00:50:04Get jealous of something.
00:50:05Think of blokes giving them the air.
00:50:07Start making trouble, telling lies, making up tales.
00:50:10Dorin didn't make this story up.
00:50:12It's true, isn't it?
00:50:14Now, you visited her several times at Miss Alvarez's flat, huh?
00:50:18And she showed you the cash.
00:50:21The place where the diamonds were kept.
00:50:23Well?
00:50:24What do you say?
00:50:25Nothing.
00:50:26Why should I say anything?
00:50:28I know about you.
00:50:30You're that French bloke Dorin told me about.
00:50:32A French detective.
00:50:34That's right, isn't it?
00:50:36You've no right to ask me questions.
00:50:38If it was Inspector Wilson, how?
00:50:39Well, there are eight things, bloke.
00:50:40I'm asking you questions about the diamonds that were stolen.
00:50:43If Inspector Wilson or Sergeant Hastings were asking you questions,
00:50:46they might ask you questions about murder.
00:50:52Here, lay off that.
00:50:53Lay off that, I say.
00:50:55I had nothing to do with that.
00:50:56Nothing.
00:50:57Nothing?
00:50:58All you did was to tell the murderer where to find the diamonds.
00:51:02All right.
00:51:03You can pin that on me.
00:51:04But not murder.
00:51:06All I did was get friendly with this chick, see?
00:51:08Get her to talk about our lady.
00:51:10When she's in and out, where she keeps her shyness.
00:51:12Then I passed the word to the man who promised to pay me 50 pounds for the job.
00:51:15That's all.
00:51:16And the name of that man?
00:51:19Oh, come on.
00:51:20Who was he?
00:51:22Well, why not?
00:51:23He wouldn't take many raps from me, would he?
00:51:25Bloke named Brossier.
00:51:27You know the man he works for?
00:51:28Posh city type.
00:51:29Stinclair, his name is.
00:51:30So, Mr. Brossier paid you 50 pounds for information about Miss Alvarez' diamonds?
00:51:34I didn't say paid.
00:51:36Promised.
00:51:37Brossier won't pay me till he gets rid of the diamonds.
00:51:39And the fence Brossier works for won't take the diamonds from them till they cool off.
00:51:43This murder rap is making them a bit too hot to handle.
00:51:46What are you going to do with me?
00:51:48Well, there's nothing I can do with you.
00:51:50You told me that yourself.
00:51:51A French policeman, remember?
00:51:53No right to ask you questions.
00:51:55No right to arrest.
00:51:57But...
00:51:59I wouldn't do any celebrating on that account, Charlie boy.
00:52:02Inspector Wilson will look after you.
00:52:11Everything tied up wonderfully.
00:52:13I closed the deal last evening and caught a night flight.
00:52:16Should have been at London Airport at six o'clock.
00:52:18Well, where are you?
00:52:19That's what I'm trying to tell you.
00:52:20Owing to early morning fog, we've been diverted to South End.
00:52:23South End?
00:52:25That'll be nice for you.
00:52:27It's too early for your sympathy.
00:52:29The main thing is that it will be after nine before I get back to town.
00:52:32I have an appointment with the bank people at ten.
00:52:34But first, I've got to get to old Bennett's office and get all the papers in order.
00:52:37Can I do anything for you?
00:52:39That's why I wakened you out of your beauty sleep.
00:52:41Now listen carefully, my sweet.
00:52:43The lease and the papers for the house were posted to me yesterday afternoon.
00:52:47They should reach the flat by the morning's post.
00:52:50I want you to go there.
00:52:52I'm practically there already.
00:52:54Don't be silly, darling. I'll be quite respectable by the time I get there.
00:52:58Good.
00:52:59Pick up the letter, open it and check that all the papers are in order.
00:53:02There'll be a list in the covering letter.
00:53:04And take the papers right round to Bennett and Swift's office.
00:53:06All right.
00:53:07Oh, you're wonderful.
00:53:09We're going to be rich and successful.
00:53:11I'm on my way.
00:53:39I'm on my way.
00:54:09I'm on my way.
00:54:39Is that you, Mr. Sinclair?
00:54:51Charlie?
00:54:53No.
00:54:55I told you on the phone.
00:54:56I did everything you wanted.
00:54:58It's not my fault the stuff wasn't there when you got in.
00:55:01You've searched this place.
00:55:03You know the diamonds are not here.
00:55:05No.
00:55:06No, please.
00:55:08All right.
00:55:09All right.
00:55:10The diamonds are at Riverdale.
00:55:13You'll find them in the back room, underneath the floorboards.
00:55:39Oh, my God.
00:56:05Ah!
00:56:18Quick, get the police.
00:56:20There's been an accident.
00:56:22115 Upper Barclay Street.
00:56:24Oh, and get a doctor.
00:56:53The keys.
00:56:54What keys?
00:56:56March.
00:56:58Riverdale.
00:57:00March.
00:57:02House.
00:57:04The keys.
00:57:20I don't know.
00:57:22He kept saying, keys.
00:57:24Riverdale.
00:57:25Riverdale?
00:57:26Isn't that the house your boyfriend, Mr. Sinclair, was talking about yesterday?
00:57:29Yes, and he kept repeating, March.
00:57:33March.
00:57:35March.
00:57:37March.
00:57:38Come on, Sergeant, let's go.
00:57:39Haven't we better pick up Duval?
00:57:40No time for that.
00:57:41Bring my office guns and tell Inspector Duval where we've gone.
00:57:43Yes, sir.
00:58:12Oh, my God.
00:58:34Oh, my God.
00:59:01Oh, my God.
00:59:29Oh, my God.
00:59:45Oh, my God.
01:00:14Well, at last, there's our answer to Mr. March.
01:00:23Duval exploited his knowledge of police routine.
01:00:26He established that fancy fingerprint hallmark,
01:00:28knowing full well that his prints as a police officer would never be taken.
01:00:33Go and call an ambulance.
01:00:34Right.
01:00:39No less ingenious was his obsession to catch Mr. March.
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