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POIROT
The TROUBLED CROSS
The art of shot to the plates it depends of the certain moment.
- When I will say to shoot... - No.
I apologise, the mistake was mine. It must have warned it.
- Was not it prepared? - No.
Is it completely very quick, is not it?
- Do you want to try? - First I see how if it does.
- Can it load it, Pamela? - I do not know.
- Is it so that it works? - Can I try, girl?
I will make it alone, very much thank you.
We load it more soon.
- When I will say to "shoot"... - Good morning, Hastings. And what beautiful day.
- Good morning, General. - Good morning, my ladies.
- Good morning! - Good morning!
Because it does not try, Kitty?
It will not be practiced, it will not be in form for the Championship.
It is predicted for day fourteen.
Good morning, Mr. Russell. It is fresh.
- Good morning, Mr. Poirot. - Bon jour, Captain Fowler.
Good morning, Monsieur Poirot.
Bon jour, Mademoiselle Morgan. He sings lovely.
The fault belongs to his friend, the Captain Hastings, Monsieur Poirot.
It organized everything and all.
The Captain Hastings is very good in that.
One went out the General very well while reciting Swinburne to last night.
The General recites poetry with authentic military energy.
Perhaps his niece also one night could entertain us.
Perhaps, Monsieur Poirot. Perhaps.
With license.
John?
The last injury it was jocularly less.
An authentic fraud.
I do not believe that he has been a juvenile.
I guarantee what is true.
It was even convinced of what would die, but that because I am timid.
Please, John.
- Good morning, General. - Good morning, Clapperton.
- Good morning, General Forbes. - Good morning, Beauty queen Henderson.
It is a beautiful day. A little fresh air.
John?
Good morning, Monsieur Poirot. Did he see John?
Yes, it is in the front deck, Lady.
- Do I call it? - One feels, Monsieur Poirot.
I did not give for his presence in the dinner, last night.
The sea was not much agitated.
Fortunately, I am an excellent marinheira.
Only I cannot get tired too much. I have a very intense life.
Certainly not.
I gave everything for everything in the time of the war when it was small.
My hospital, He must already have heard in him.
It is obvious what had nurses, nurses-chiefs and everything more...
... but it was me who was administering it.
His vitality is tremendous, my lady.
" You have so many life, Adeline ", they were saying to me constantly.
But call, Monsieur Poirot, what it would be if it so was not?
We would be killed, Madame.
I am going to look for my husband.
There are not sharks in the Mediterranean.
You are here.
Hello, my darling. It waits, I already bring you a chair.
You want what... Are not you cold?
I am dying of coldness.
If I was her husband it was treating him as the health.
Bon jour, Monsieur.
I knew a woman so in Hyderabad.
Absolutely poisonous.
It was running the year of 1887.
- And did they treat him as the health? - No.
The last time that I saw it he had married for the third time.
The posture is very important.
If we will lose our balance, we can be right in the mast or worse...
Colonel Clapperton?
- The Colonel? - Such a "soldierlike" man.
"Soldierlike"?
He was in the Real Police, is not it true, General Forbes?
In the Real Police?
Before the war that man it was acting on top of a stage.
- No! - It is true. On top of a stage.
When the war began they were accepting any one.
The Germans launch a bomb, a damned luck,
he returns for house with an injured arm.
Since you knew he. Clapperton?
- At that time one was calling Pardoe. - To serious?
In some way, he went to stop to her hospital.
And it thinks that that was connected with the injury?
Yes, it was necessary to have some type of injury.
It was making him train well a little, Beauty queen Henderson.
It does not make him walk well there for the corners.
I know.
Unfortunately, my religion it does not allow it in this height of the year.
So, I...
Adeline!
Hello, Dermot.
I have been trying to speak with you since you boarded.
It does not seem to me that we have much for talks, is not it?
Certainly, after...
What was?
I only wanted...
- Was it spying on us? - I want to take the trays.
Then hurry.
I have a very happy marriage, General Forbes.
I feel sorry for her family.
He said to him not to sing subjects soldiers and nothing of letters of love.
And what she sings?
" The current Army is well " and " Song of Love from Cashmere ".
It is what one waits from the civilians.
Now all of we are civil, You slam.
The problem of a cross of this
it is the fact of endure amateur entertainment every day.
Did we like very much, it was not, Molly?
What it found, Colonel Clapperton?
It was going away for him, it would be hours hearing that frightful woman.
He has not any type of artistic sensibility.
- It is true. - You. Tolliver is artistic.
That must be a great consolation for you.
We are anxious because of visiting the museum of Alexandria tomorrow.
I and John do not go to land. They do not interest us the ancient monuments.
We should have lived in the present, do not they find?
At my home it does not exist it swims with more than three years.
Then I will sell my car for the year, my darling.
My car, John.
Clear, my darling, your car.
Here what we call pukka sahib.
They are ten and twenty.
In fact.
What about departure of bridge?
Yes, bridge. We go to that. We can use the dining table.
- Can we play? - And the man?
John does not play. It is annoyed easily.
Lament.
They can play with us.
- How does one call? - Tolliver. Mrs. Tolliver.
And I am the husband, Sr. Tolliver.
What so compound couple.
- A kidnapping! - A kidnapping!
The man comes with us, this is a kidnapping!
A kidnapping-Clapperton! For the deck!
Do not be foolish, John. You are going to catch a cold.
With us it does not get a beating. We are quite hot.
Anyway, today we have moon.
Bon soir.
They do not usually thank for God because of having no had children?
By chance, we had.
Two, a boy and a girl.
Give the letters, for the sake of God.
I know that it is a terrible cliche, but is the moon lindíssima, does not it think?
Certainement. Like a gigantic oeuf en cocotte.
I need an explanation on the English language.
It does not seem to me that the man needs.
The lady is very kind.
There have somewhat, you. Clapperton said, " John does not play bridge ".
It would not be more correct to say " cannot it play "?
I think that she gets a beating like insult people his fact of not playing.
That man did a silliness when it decided to get married with her.
Many horrible women they have thoughtful husbands.
It the question is an enigma of the nature.
Perhaps be therefore that the decent thing Hastings still has not got married.
Marriage. What horror.
It was still not registered in the championship of shot to the plates, Beauty queen Henderson?
No, I find that not...
Hastings! It cannot change the subject once and for all?
No, it would adore to talk about the championship, but perhaps tomorrow.
I will finish a few letters what I want to put in the post in Alexandria.
Good night, Mademoiselle Henderson.
- Good night. - Good night, Beauty queen Henderson.
- Hastings. - What was?
Why does it serve to present it to nice young persons,
if you only speak in the shot to the plates?
Me them they appreciate.
He did not hear Beauty queen Henderson saying what it would adore to speak in that tomorrow?
Choose a letter.
No, do not show.
Memorize the letter and return it put it in the pack of cards.
Very well.
We mix up a little...
- His letter! - That's right! is not it amazing?
I see that it likes working with letters even that it does not play bridge.
I have my reasons not to play.
I am going to show him. One feels. We play a departure.
Mix up the letters, Mr. Poirot.
Voilá!
Does he see? A man who gives to a partner and adversaries the play what he wants,
he will have to remain removed of a friendly play.
But since did it do that? It is completely in order.
The speed of the hand deceives.
It could do this trick in stage, Colonel Clapperton.
Yes, it is right.
Well, I wait not to have annoyed you with my small demonstration.
Good night, my ladies, my men.
Did he say anything that had not to?
I do not know, Hastings.
Sincerely I do not know.
We are going to disembark now. Does the man come with us?
It is not going to allow that we walk alone in the city.
Be removed, please.
Genuine pieces of the tombs of the Pharaohs, my lady.
I do not want Pharaohs' pieces.
Is he seeing? It us can happen terrible things.
I think that they must not go alone.
I do not know them to myself if my woman it has arrangement for such.
Boa! It means... What suffers.
So she can rest.
I am going to speak with Adeline.
- We go with you. - Yes, perhaps let's manage to convince it.
- Who is? - Adeline, darling. Am I, John.
The door is locked. I do not want to be bothered by the cleaners.
Bon jour, my ladies.
We are trying to keep him the day completely.
- To attract it even to a "soukh". - To take it to a casbah.
- And if we will go to land? - Not even to think. The night was the worst.
I am going to stay in the bed the day completely.
I am intending to go, Adeline.
It does what you to fancy, John, for the sake of God.
You mind that between to go for my guide?
Clear that I mind. I am not going to leave from the bed.
It goes away, John and it lets me rest in peace.
We can go.
And the passport?
- It is in my pocket. - What it amazes!
Please, I will go.
Counts of amber, lady. True agates? Jet black?
How much costs the necklace of amber?
- 300 piastras. Cheaply. - And very expensive.
Mine are to 200, lady.
It is well. I take those of amber. I will go.
It had been from here!
You cannot be here.
Be brutal insolently!
- Is it already ready, Hastings? - Prontíssimo.
Does it go to land, General Forbes?
Well, yes. Probably. We will see.
Bye.
I think that we had to avoid the circuit tourist the most possible thing, Poirot.
The best. I am á his arrangement, Hastings,
Do a cruel air. Wild.
No, Hastings.
So it seems that it is merely with constipation.
For you speaking is easy.
This camel is very uncomfortable. It is rough.
Good morning, Monsieur Poirot.
- Bon jour, Mademoiselle Henderson. - Good morning, Captain Hastings.
- Good morning. - In any case. Promptly.
- Does not it seem bold? - Certainly not.
It seems that it is joining courage to ask a second cake.
Monsieur Poirot, saw the Clappertons in the city this morning?
Dressing what you. Clapperton it is going to pass the day in the box.
And Colonel Clapperton?
Let me think, he came the land.
Yes, he came the land.
It is what last night was commented that we would come joined all the land.
- Monsieur Poirot? - Yes, Mademoiselle.
The Colonel was alone when the land came?
Was one alone? Let me think.
I think that someone was with him.
Perhaps Beauty queen Cregan and Beauty queen Mooney?
Certainly not, the two rapariguinhas.
They are not childish, Monsieur Poirot.
No.
- Not even I. - No.
Very well.
See these pomegranates, Poirot.
It does not seem to me that they like what touches the fruit, Captain Hastings.
I apologise.
Monsieur and Lady Tolliver, what pleasant surprise.
- Are they alone? - Practically.
Nice General Forbes it came with us, turn them to me.
It was not feeling well.
- Intestinal problems. - Oliver!
We were intending to have lunch. Do they want to accompany us?
Have I lunch? In a local restaurant?
Because not, Molly? We are going to try.
Do not dispose of me, Poirot. It is better to return for the boat.
Is it going to abandon us, Hastings?
I have a few subjects to negotiate.
Very well.
We are more soon on the boat.
The girls are the first ones because they have not such experience.
General Forbes is followed.
He is already veteran in this type of competition.
We cannot carry out the championship in the port of Alexandria.
I do not see because not, You Slam.
We take aim to the sea.
It is not parked at all.
- Moored, Captain. - Moored.
The captain of the port it will have something saying about this.
- It began in India. - Excuse?
It originated in India. The shot to the plates.
To serious?
In the century thirteen.
But in the time, they were using arches and arrows.
And they had not a catapult of this.
They were launched by men with great strength of arms.
Let's go, Pamela!
I presume what have had a pleasant day in land.
Absolutely.
Let's go, Pamela!
- Are we in the dinner? - I wait that yes.
Adeline?
Adeline, my darling?
Adeline?
It is locked.
- Has not it the key? - No, I am going to call the cleaner.
It seems that we have a problem with the championship of shot to the plates.
Yes?
It was predicted for the day fourteen,
but it seems that we will moor in Haifa in the day thirteen,
and this is one of the stoppings in what they do the maintenance of the boat.
Therefore only we have the day fifteen, sixteen and eighteen.
In the day seventeen it does not give way because it will be the party of the Captain.
Good Lord!
Be killed!
Be going to call the Captain, mon ami.
See this, Poirot.
One of the sellers must have it left here. Bandits!
What tragedy, Colonel Clapperton.
It can help us, Mr. Poirot?
I wanted to avoid what was wrapped the Egyptian police officer in this subject.
Yes, perhaps be able to help it.
It gave for lack of something, Colonel Clapperton?
My woman guards...
My woman was guarding money in the second drawer of the table.
Apparently it disappeared.
- How much was? - Between twenty and thirty pounds.
More something?
The jewels. They were not great.
The majority is guarded in the safe of the Captain.
Perhaps the man could to do to us a description of the jewels.
I am going to try. I do not know if me with you remembering.
I know that the tiara disappeared what she used last night.
What he has to say on this?
- It does not belong of my woman. - Is he sure?
Yes, she would not use a thing of this type.
They found it in the ground between the beds.
Someone must have dropped it.
It finds that his woman might it to have enemies?
Clear what not.
It helped us enough, Colonel Clapperton.
Very much thank you.
My condolences.
It will be needed something...
Thank you, Captain. There is nothing doing.
Nothing will bring Adeline back.
- Good Lord! - Murdered, General Forbes.
Cost me God!
I presume what knew Lady Clapperton before this travel.
I knew Adeline when he was Lady Pardoe.
And it knew it before that, when one was calling Adeline French.
I was a helper of field of the father in 1892 when she was seven years old.
My God, seems a lie.
I was in love with her during years.
In the time she was not a woman so unpleasant.
It is not necessary to incriminate, Monsieur.
To incriminate me? How it might?
The Tolliver told me what returned on board before the lunch.
And then?
They told to me that one was feeling upset.
No.
No, I returned to speak with Adeline.
He was not seeing it that there are seventeen years.
From the war, soon after the death of Pardoe.
I thought that it had hypothesis in this time, but I not...
She was in mourning.
But clear what that did not dissuade a man as Clapperton.
It returned to the boat to speak with Lady Clapperton.
Yes.
Tell to me what it went on when it returned to the boat.
It swims.
I went even to her box and slammed á me them she did not answer door...
Therefore I returned for my box and I slept a little.
What his opinion is, Mr. Poirot?
It is not necessary to hurry the grey cells, Captain.
Did it already bring together the "wallahs"?
Yes, one of them was said by what Beauty queen Henderson had bought a necklace of amber.
To serious?
Between!
Yes, Do You Slam?
I examined the body.
Then?
The died one died for injury done by a knife in the superior thorax.
Frankly, You Slam. That we know already.
Excuse, Captain.
But only I have the book of the first aid.
To which hours did it die, Mr. do You slam?
It is difficult to need.
- With this heat... - Pass to the front, Rice seeds.
We want to know to what hours you died. Clapperton.
About ten hours of the morning.
Ten?
More one, less one, captain.
Cost me God!
Go there, Kitty. You could not guess.
- Who is? - Am I, Hercule Poirot.
Go there, Kitty.
Monsieur Poirot.
Bon soir, Mademoiselle Cregan. Can I enter for a few instants?
Well...
I have a question to do.
It is what Kitty is doing a poor racket.
He says that the fault is of her.
And my also.
But because it is blamed does it link?
We said terrible things.
My darling Mademoiselle Cregan,
if everyone who was saying badly of Lady Clapperton
it was doing so much noise like his friend,
this boat to return if it was going a danger for the navy.
Are you hearing?
Which was his question?
It is quite simple.
The two disembarked ás 9h30m with colonel Clapperton?
The man saw us.
Précisément.
The colonel was with you the day completely
up to boarding again ás four of the afternoon?
Yes, clear. All day.
He is not saying what...
- All day? - Clear.
Well...
Yes?
We drank a tea about I halve it and he...
The Colonel was to...
For some minutes.
I realize. For some minutes?
Well, it is not a custom to control the time...
Not even to think!
Or very much I am wrong or it has very much to explain.
- I did not kill it. - But it had the jewels with you.
Jewels? She was rich.
What is that that was interesting him?
Then, Monsieur Skinner, Lady Clapperton is killed.
It was caught red-headed selling the Lady's jewels Clapperton.
It confirmed what entered in her box this morning...
She was already killed.
I must not have stolen when I noticed that.
I must have guessed that this was going to give problems.
- Does it believe in him? - Dressing what yes.
Also I.
Then we return to the sellers.
And because not one of the passengers, Hastings?
The passengers?
Who? Colonel Clapperton?
He has an infallible alibi.
General Forbes?
And Mademoiselle Henderson?
Does it find? No!
Me them she would have a motive, does not it look to him?
She is a lady, Poirot.
And my friend finds that the ladies do not they commit murders?
The ladies are not unmasked.
Lady Clapperton was killed there are five hours when it was found.
A small amount and some jewels they were stolen.
A necklace was in the ground near her bed.
The door was locked and the key had disappeared.
The hatch that gives for the deck it was opened.
Where it wants to arrive, Poirot?
Lady Clapperton it had locked the door on the inside.
We hear her saying that.
If you. Clapperton could lock the door also could unlock it.
Precisely!
That takes us to the inevitable conclusion
which Lady Clapperton unlocked the door and it let the murderer in.
I can ask about beauty queen Henderson him was a necklace of amber bought yesterday?
Yes, I bought. Is it how that he knew?
The Captain spoke in that. It mentioned it by chance.
Can I see it?
I think that I lost it. I must have dropped it.
I guarded it at some place. I do not do idea.
Yes, so...
Clear.
You. Clapperton she was a very unpleasant woman.
Dressing what none of the passengers it was liking her.
But certainly... who would have reasons to kill it?
The opinion is generalized of what Mr. Clapperton
it would be justified well " it the question was her ".
This was one of the expressions what I heard.
Me them he has an alibi.
He was in land the day completely with two girls
and only it returned about the four.
Lady Clapperton it was already killed that there are hours.
It seems that we return to General Forbes like our suspect only one.
Bon soir, Mademoiselle Morgan.
- I come to ask for a favor his niece. - To our niece?
Very well. Ismene!
Good night, Ismene.
I want to ask for lent someone you.
My ladies and my men,
this night I offer you an anthology of our national poet,
Rudyard Kipling,
beginning with " The Ladies ".
- I lament to interrupt it, Mr. Russell... - It does not do badly.
I lament, I have them to myself something to call yourselves.
- It was possible to sit, Mr. Russell. - Accompany me, Mr. Russell.
Ladies and men,
all of we know of the tragedy that took place yesterday
and I judge that they all will want to collaborate to catch the criminal.
Since they know, we have very much luck in you have. Hercule Poirot with us,
that we know all like a very experienced man in...
... in these subjects.
I ask your attention why does he have to say.
Thank you, Captain Fowler.
Ladies and men.
What I am going to do next it will be able to surprise you.
They will be able to judge that I am eccentric or even crazy.
They will say " that Belgian detective it has a screw less ".
But I guarantee you...
... what behind of the madness is,
since the men usually say...
... method.
Voilá!
A suitcase.
What desinteressante.
" Nothing is any more desinteressante of what a suitcase ".
They are right, except...
... that the suitcases have content.
- It is a doll. - Yes, a doll.
But this doll
she is an important witness
in the discovery of the murderer
of Lady Clapperton.
" Me them as it prunes this doll to tell us what he knows? "
This is a doll what he speaks.
Do they ever hear of dolls so? Of course.
Only we will return it put it in the suitcase,
where we cannot see it.
She does not like being seen, this young lady.
That's right me her petite?
No!
You can tell something to us on the lady's death Clapperton?
What was, John? The door is locked.
I do not want to be bothered for the cleaners.
The man...
Detain it!
Yes.
Take it to my rooms.
Ladies and men, please, leave the room.
I was successful, Mr. Poirot?
Yes, me her petite.
It was the Colonel who gave to me a trace when he spoke in the stage.
I was confused. I thought a little.
And in the night previous to the crime,
Colonel Clapperton it feigned what was unmasked.
He wanted that we were believing what was an illusionist,
so it would not pass us over the head that it was in fact...
... a ventriloquist.
And it was that that he did when we it hear with you. Clapperton.
Précisément,
and she was already killed.
With license.
And the necklace in the ground?
Was it belonging to Beauty queen Henderson?
It was there placed so that we thought that the criminal was a local seller.
It would be a cruel irony if the suspicion it was falling back on the one who was liking him.
Pardon.
Forgive me, Mademoiselle.
He did not do it for me.
But for the joviality of the girls.
They showed the slavery in what he was living.
He wanted to be freed before it works hard too late.
All of we dream about that.
When it discovered that it had been he?
His auto-car it was too perfect.
For irritating much that was the behaviour of his woman,
it seemed that it was never affecting it.
That means that he was got used, already it was not doing difference,
or then he knew that his slavery soon it would reach the end.
The man mounted a trap very cruel, Monsieur Poirot.
I do not approve of the murder.
Translation and Legendagem Mara Récio / CRISTBET, Lda.
Synchronized and Revised for: Chicharro [NaN]