Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) s02e03 Episode Script
The Lost Mine
The LOST MINE Box of the Community " He gained the second prize in the Contest of Beauty.
" Receive 10 pounds.
" Very much thank you, Hastings.
The skill does not fulfill great paper in this play.
It is the skill what interests.
What to buy and when.
Where to put the property.
My name is Wu Ling.
Han Wu Ling.
I have a reserve.
Yes, Mr.
Wu Ling.
Room 306.
- Does it have a box of matches? - Clear, gallant.
If one was not mattering, gentleman.
I want to build a hotel in the street Fenchurch.
It cannot build a hotel in a railroad estacão.
Do not be ridiculous.
There are immense hotels in estacões railroad workers.
But it does not make part of the rules.
Then the rules are missed! " Houses and hotels they cannot be mortgaged.
" All the constructions in the place they will be sold to the bank " before the mortgage takes place of the property.
" The bank will pay half of what it was paid for them.
" This is of crazy ones! There are months that the market gives signs.
Any one would foresee this.
It does not admire me what have gone bankrupt.
Another tragedy in the Serpentine? Another suicide, Mr.
Poirot.
The collapse of the Imperial Trust.
One does not talk about another thing! One important enterprise of investments.
It promised to the shareholders 100 % of dividends and he went bankrupt.
Many persons were left without anything.
When someone puts the head inside the mouth of the lion, it is not possible to complain what it links one day pulls out it to the bite.
Now the RTZ is to 7.
6.
I exchange now or do I stand more any time? I am of the opinion what I go to the bank.
I return to the hour of the lunch.
He never did an investment speculative in the life.
And I still have my head, Hastings.
- Good morning.
I rest in seeing it.
- Now that one.
Badly you.
Wu Ling arrives, order it here.
Thank you.
There is a gentleman to speak with you.
It is in the waiting room.
Thank you.
Perhaps we had to phone for his hotel.
Hotel Saint James.
Yes? You.
Wu Ling? Yes, it was here there is a moment.
It will want to be waited, I am going to see.
- My count.
- A moment, gentleman.
Bonjour.
My name is Poirot.
It would like obtaining the balance of my count.
There is my number.
- A moment, please.
- Thank you.
Thank you.
More non! It is impossible! Since I can have a negative balance of 50 pounds? It is a question of beginning I to maintain my balance in 444 pounds, And a question of beginning! I will check again, gentleman.
Do not be preoccupied, he is here.
The Wilkins is bringing it now.
Just as well.
But this is not you.
Wu Ling.
Immense lament, there was a gay evil.
I apologise, the mistake was ours.
I consulted the count again and it is a mistake.
The gentleman has not a negative balance of 50 pounds.
Unfortunately it has a negative balance of 60 pounds.
This time there is no doubt, gentleman.
This is an outrage! I am going to take this at the highest level, did it understand?! Nobody ridicules the Poirot in questions of money! Today it is not his night.
Perhaps because I do not blow the data since the Bad Wolf is dug! - Mr.
Poirot? - Say! It has a visit.
A visit? To this hour? He is the Lord Pearson of his bank.
The Lord Pearson, of my bank? Of my bank! Mr.
Poirot, I have not like apologising to him.
I am very glad because of hearing him saying that personally.
- I know that it is not much late - Now that one, Lord Pearson, before late what never, as the Englishmen say.
One feels.
- Can I offer a drink? - A dry sherry, thank you.
É what Hastings, wants to drink something, my friend? Thank you.
It is a cause of so vital preoccupation what I find that none of the directors of the administration it will manage to sleep calmly up to being resolved.
Good, I must admit that it had not well it puts that one in perspective, I will bring them into line to myself with you.
And certainly vital.
Then he knows on the disappearance of the Mr.
Wu Ling? You.
Wu Ling? Hastings, please serves me did I brandish one, yes? Idea does what i.
e.
Mr.
Poirot? A sort from ore? It does not seem a great thing, me melted and with the burnt impunities and it becomes a silver nugget of 24 carats.
It is true And of where this came? To 300 km of the interior of Rangoon, in the mountains Burmese.
There is an old mine, in which the Chinese they worked 300 years up to 1878.
Then it fell and never again it was seen.
During half a century, men died and went mad while trying to find it again, to take possession of his riches.
Up to now, nobody found it.
And this Mr.
Ling He has some weight in this lost mine? - It seems that there is a map.
- Of the location of the mine? It passed for the Wu Ling through his family.
This week he came here to sell us the map.
It was combined what he was meeting with the administration in the morning to discuss the price.
- And he did not turn up how planned.
Exactamente.
And we know what it links it arrived on the boat of Southampton.
He reached the hotel and we know that it went out about the Dec.
From that time, I checked.
Nobody he saw again.
Something ran badly.
I know that something ran badly.
Do you want to enjoy oneself, pazinho? Sailor! Sailor! You are going to enjoy oneself with me! Sailor, hopes for me.
I am a nice girl.
My house comes.
My house comes, it walks.
You like me.
I am a nice girl.
He is same.
Han Wu Ling, businessman of Rangoon.
It was the name in his wallet.
Since he can know that it is he, Inspector-chief? The authorities Burmese they ordered his photography.
Unfortunately there was no track of this map.
I am seeing.
And he says that it was stabbed in the back? At least three times.
The wounds are strange, solid with a sort of oriental bent knife.
Lord Pearson, I lament to remove it of his promise, but you.
Poirot says what it can help with the death of the Mr.
Ling.
It can count on the Inspector-chief Japp, it is the soul of the discretion.
Did it know well this man? We never know each other personally But we were corresponding regularmente.
My God I do not believe that it is killed.
Suspect some sort of ritual Chinese death? Let's say that we are in waters treacherous.
Very treacherous.
It was seeming to him to be a calm gentleman and held well.
Oriental, clear.
I am seeing.
And this room was not I clean since he left the hotel.
There has been having much that to do.
We have not much personally It is better for the investigations of the Inspector-chief.
It is not promising.
He must have taken the map with him.
There is any more nothing What is this? The majority in Chinese.
Very sinister.
A name is here in English.
Charles Lester.
He must be a business partner.
There is any more nothing of this room.
Come, Poirot.
Apologize, one did not tell them what in the day of his arrival, you.
Wu Ling asked for him a box of matches? - Yes.
To light his cigarette.
- And I find strange.
He already had a full box in the suitcase.
Space.
It is completely in the good way, Poirot.
It has a moment to see police modern work? I think what it will find this interesting, Poirot.
It is much more sophisticated than anyone thing what they have in the continent.
It is here that everything is coordinated.
With military precision.
The days of the police officer in the bicycle already there they go.
My expensive Japp, this is really very impressive.
Understood message.
Report when it is necessary.
- What they do? - Vigilance, Poirot.
We are With license.
I control to the unity 7.
I hear it perfectly.
Say his position.
Exchange.
I control to the unity 7.
I suspect located in the Chowcat Sauna, Rupert Street, ás 09:00 hours.
Exchange.
Unity accompany 7 and maintain us when they were informed.
I disconnect.
It can be a false trace, or perhaps not.
We have been investigating near to the boat in what the Wu Ling came.
We discover what was seen in the company of this man.
Reginald Dyer Twice condemned for falsification of money.
And matching acquaintance of many people organizations criminals in Hong Kong.
It can be the connection for what we look.
It will go away, we catch it.
There he is.
Unity 7 for the control.
I suspect caught sight going out from the Chowcat Sauna, calling a taxi Entering in the vehicle I wait for educations.
Exchange.
Follow it, unity 7 and communicate his itinerary.
Unity 8.
Answer, unity 8.
He speaks the Control.
Unity 8 for the Control.
Exchange.
Unity 8, the suspect addresses to the city.
Continue for the point of meeting.
Exchange.
Understood message.
I finish.
Unity 8 for the control.
I see them now.
We are following them.
Unity 10, unity 10, We will be a step at the front of him.
- Know for where him it goes? - No, but I can guess, captain.
Chinatown.
The suspect left and paid to the taxi.
It seems to suspect to be to the wait of someone.
Suspect is received by two Asians, one with a suitcase.
Suspect received suitcase.
It must be a gathering.
Cars 8 and 10.
Are they in your position? Exchange.
Car 8 for Control.
In position.
Exchange.
Car 10 for the Control.
Advancing for the position.
Exchange.
Suspect moves away.
It calms, boys.
Wait.
I control for unities 7, 8 and 10: catch it! I ask for Reginald Dyer him what accompanies me to the squad and I warn about him that completely what he will say it will be able to be used against you.
We caught it! - Very well.
- Good work! Then it finds that this Reggie Dyer you killed.
Ling? I will know more when questioning.
Does it come with me, Poirot? The name what it discovered in the block of notes of the Mr.
Ling.
Charles Lester? We tried two times in the morning and not at all.
- Perhaps do not serve of anything, me - Make itself at home.
Of moment I have things more important negotiating.
Well, Hastings.
While the Inspector- chief treats important things, let's see whom we can catch.
LESTER, DODDS AND PARKER BROKERS Wu Ling I remember, the name Yes! Rangoon! Right.
We had done two joined business.
He have to to want look for me.
It was natural what was doing it and from there to have my name in his block.
And he had not contacted it since it reached London? Only I heard of him when you arrived.
I thank for him for his time, monsieur, and we do not stay for a long time any more.
It was liking being able to help more.
I know that it is of the most famous detectives of England.
I admire immensely his work.
Thank you.
MADE EASY INVESTMENT He was you.
Lester who wrote this book? Take it, with my fulfilment.
Also is he a speculator? I know some little thing Hastings.
Thank you.
I Will study It with interest.
The best and it will be wanted what I suggest a few schemes, the number is in the verse, without any obligation.
Good morning, Mr.
Lester.
Goodbye, Hercule! Expensive friend, I do not know about map any.
Only I took a few drinks with the friend on the boat of Hong Kong.
Am I a murderer because of that? You must have gained this in the lottery.
It has no proofs against me, Japp.
None that serves to support myself here one more minute that is.
He hears, Dyer.
I am going to fasten you even if the life stays for a long time He is the lawyer of the Mr.
Dyer, man.
Good morning, Mr.
Dyer.
This does not delay anything.
Does it recognize anybody in these photographies? - They have not great quality.
- That does not interest.
It is the man who came to look you.
Ling or not? No.
Undoubtedly what is not he.
It does sense.
The Dyer is clever too much to be shown.
It would have an accomplice.
Excuse.
This Mr.
Wu Ling was speaking with American accent, was not it? Yes I think so, now that he speaks in that.
Thank you.
Do we go? American accent? The Americans put the month always before the date.
They are very retrograde.
Permission is given me, I think that I am going to return speaking with that Lester.
His some schemes look very interesting.
I have Scamp.
I ask license, think that one of the men it dropped this.
- Thank you.
- Of nothing.
- My God - Does something, man go on? It is he! Undoubtedly.
It is the gentleman who came to speak with you.
Ling.
I must have panicked.
When I read on the murder This type of thing it is not good for the business.
Now it is not good for you.
Promptly Such East of Ling.
I lay near of having done business with him.
I it never knew or heard of him.
Suddenly, he me phones of nothing, he says that it reached the country and what has something what could interest me.
Then did it go to have with him to the hotel? We took a drink and were of taxi for a Chinese restaurant.
To way of the meal, he gets up to phone and it does not return.
It was the last time that I saw it.
I wait what they could confirm it sweats it history in this such a restaurant.
I do not know well where it was The corpse of the Mr.
Ling was found in an alley near to the docks.
No It was not near to the docks, I would remember.
They will believe in me, I did not kill it.
Because it would kill it? Mr.
Lester? I will leave, Girl Boreham.
I do not know when I return.
Chinatown.
It is the key of this puzzle.
When we will reach the duramen of the problem, we are going to see that they are the Tongs.
- Yes, the Tongs.
He knows that there are all the years do I walk behind these worms? - Seven.
- Seven slow years.
And this time they do not escape.
It seems very confident, Inspector-chief.
Make everything hurt, it does not do? Reggie Dyer meets with the Ling on the boat, he knows of the lost mine, it sells the information to those diabos you orientate what kill the Ling and they escape with the map! They return for his nests of the evil in the East End.
This such a Lester leaves me intrigued.
And a beautiful piece.
What he says, Poirot? In my opinion, only there is a solution: to build a house in Whitechapel.
Whitechapel It is ambitious, Poirot.
Is he sure? I have, very much thank you.
Undoubtedly, Inspector-chief, has curious characteristics in this case.
For example, the pious women in the ashtray of the Mr.
Ling.
- Pious women? - The color of the tips.
Did not it observe? Then there is the mystery of the matches in the suitcase.
Because the fact is that a man with a box of matches does flood ask other one? Why? When we will know that, undoubtedly that we will have the solution.
Undoubtedly.
Well Good night, gentlemen.
Good night, Inspector-chief.
They have no scruples, these Chinese.
It is true, Hastings.
It is true.
The Inspector-chief Japp did it go away? It went out right now.
There is a call for him of a Mrs.
Lester.
It seemed hysterical.
I I attend it here, Mrs.
Lemon.
Is it, Lady Lester? Lady, tries to have calm.
Hercule Poirot speaks.
Yes.
Is he sure? His husband left from taxi of the office in the afternoon and did not it return? And for where it was with the taxi? I realize.
Chinatown.
- Is he sure? - Yes.
Now they are in rise, I heard them to myself what are able of falling.
- Then, the zinc is sold - Mrs.
Lemon.
- Nobody phoned in the morning? - No.
This letter arrived in the post.
- Thank you.
- And the gold of the United? It is quite solid.
It him could go out worse This is intolerable! My cheque for the telephone company it was returned by the bank! They threaten to cut us the telephone! Mrs.
Lemon, phones already to a president of the telephone company! Good morning.
You.
Poirot - Sra? - Lester.
Mrs.
Charles Lester.
Car 1 for Control.
Towards the Chinatown to interview a Mr.
Ho, known partner of Reginald Dyer.
Good afternoon.
We lament to interrupt, we want to ask them me a few questions.
We know that Reggie Dyer is his friend and what drove a business with him, therefore I explain him in this way: It will want to have license to renew this his establishment.
It is well.
It is well.
I tell you what I know about the Mr.
Dyer.
Only I want it of turn, Mr.
Poirot.
He is not bad.
Only he was liking knowing what it goes on.
Everything what I ask is that I call myself the truth, lady.
For worse what looks for his husband.
Well There are a few months what he changed.
So different arrangements.
In moment is so calm and casual I eat in other Creed, if they could see it.
And then, yesterday morning, it was putting the cupboard in order and I found Say, lady, what it found? The blue dark fact erases.
You trample them that they were wet in the sheath, bedcovers of land.
And then this fell of his coat.
The passport of the monsieur Wu Ling.
He said the truth, Mr.
Poirot.
Yes, lady.
We go.
They go there backwards.
Police officer.
Come! - Does it want to play, Inspector-chief? - No, thank you.
- Here, man.
- With license.
- White foreign devil! - Intruder.
What is this? What our friend said to us from another side of the road, Jameson? " The red eye ", I think.
It is only a wine-cellar, man.
For storage.
Yes? Creed What is, man? Opium, sergeant.
" Passport for the Paradise ".
Chow Feng.
How the business goes? Hello, Reggie.
Then, Reggie? To this one calls to be caught red-headed.
Ear There must have been a mistake.
I am seeing what you brought a few memories of the Far East.
This time you are going to need of more what a lawyer wise guy to escape.
Sir Do not we know it? Yes.
One calls Lester.
This telegram indicates that the Dyer it was imprisoned because of smuggling opium and Lester also was found in the cavern.
Then it is completely stated.
Lester us lay already once and what his woman said to us it confirms it.
He murdered the Ling and it stole the map.
Closed case.
Yes Hastings.
Clear, he is still in a deep coma.
They will not be able to question it during several hours.
Thank you.
A good move only.
I do not need of more at all.
A double! " Luck " " Go for the chain ".
Marvellous.
It is right, Hastings.
And in fact marvellous.
Suddenly, I realized everything! Bien.
For where we go now? Mr.
Poirot! Mr.
Poirot! Lord Pearson, it received my message.
Clear.
I came as soon as I could.
What happened? There were a few so many developments, with which perhaps it could help.
Certainly.
I help as it will be able.
Did we already catch it? Did we catch the murderer? Yes.
We caught the murderer, mon ami.
The name of this man is Charles Lester.
Ancient contact of the Mr.
Wu Ling and falsified to opium in the free hours.
There are a few hours, we researched his office and we discover this map, what of it right will be able to identify like being the map of the lost mine.
My Chinese is not very good, Inspector-chief, but be what this will be, it is not the map of the mine.
It seems one more page of an atlas.
An atlas? Well, it seems that it has not anyone it tries to maintain me here, Inspector.
Right? - In this case, I believe to be free.
- It does not look to me, monsieur.
The Monsieur Wu ling was not killed, perhaps be able to explain us since his wife found this in the pocket of his coat.
I do not do idea - I did not kill the man - Clear what killed it! His proof is there! The passport of the Wu Ling! But I did not say that it was the passport of the Monsieur Wu Ling, therefore as he could know? - Rays, I manage to see from here! - In fact, but this is not a passport.
They are the rules of the play of the Monopoly.
But you Lord Pearson.
Unfortunately it is imprisoned for murder.
You mounted this completely! It brought me here to identify the map But you already have the map, mon ami.
It stole it of the Monsieur Wu Ling in the day of his arrival, when his Chinese criminals they killed it brutalmente.
Yes, because the Lord Pearson it knows well Chinatown.
Own he likes playing here in the Red Dragon, where the Monsieur Lester also he is a frequent visitor of the caverns of opium of the casino.
Every night, be satisfactory it sweats it passion for the play, Lord Pearson, as well as the Monsieur Lester is satisfactory his wish for the drug.
Here, between the smoke and sweat of the Red Dragon, dark dreams are dreamt and obscure thoughts they become reals.
The weakness of another man it began to fascinate it and one night, when it played and lost still more than the custom, he saw how it will profit from that.
You dream up a plan of conspiring the Monsieur Lester for the crime.
First, it gets that one of his accomplices pretend to be Wu Ling and be registered in the hotel.
My name is Wu Ling.
Han Wu Ling.
I have a reserve.
To be looked with you.
Wu Ling, he will darken the teeth and clear, the color goes out in the tip of the cigarettes.
Does it have a box of matches, please? He asks a box of matches, because of not knowing that it already had one.
One remembers, the suitcase was not of him.
The name and residence of the Mr.
Lester they are carefully planted in the block of the Mr.
Wu Ling to discover the police officer later.
The next day, you.
Lester it is called to the hotel, believing to be a business meeting and knowing of his weakness for opium, the accomplice takes it to the Red Dragon.
Desperately drugged, the poor Mr.
Lester is released near to the corpse of the Mr.
Wu Ling.
Height in which it puts in his pocket the passport of the victim.
He wakes up, sees the corpse What exists of he thinks? What committed murder under the influence of the drug.
The fact is that, my friend, it committed a mistake in the beginning what made me suspect.
He said to a security guard of the bank what was not you.
Wu Ling.
No, this is not you.
Wu Ling! Is it interesting, is not it? Coming from someone who affirmed never having known in his life! We never know each other But it is not alone here and in the Dragon I redden what likes playing.
Do I know that it also plays the market, it is not? The fall of the Imperial Trust it must have reached it with strength.
And for sale of the map it would exceed the compensation of the losses.
Lord Pearson - Good morning.
- Good morning, Mrs.
Lemont.
- Today it is cheerful.
- Yes, my actions rose more Yesterday had not he said to him to sell? I know, but you.
Poirot it advised me to wait.
Does he want tisane? Very much thank you, Mrs.
Lemon.
Mr.
Poirot - Yes, now I am to win.
- No, this envelope.
It is the cheque of the Lord Avebury, for the case of the Naval Secrets.
It must already have entered in his count there are ten days.
Mrs.
Lemon, is right.
It is therefore that I have the negative balance! I find better to go already to the bank with this, does not it find? Then, the numbers of the bank at last they were certain.
Unfortunately they usually are.
Incredible.
To think that during this time completely It pays rent, Hastings.
Two thousand pounds, favor is done.
Thank you.
He knows, mon ami.
You were always right about this play.
In the bottom it is the skill that counts.
" Receive 10 pounds.
" Very much thank you, Hastings.
The skill does not fulfill great paper in this play.
It is the skill what interests.
What to buy and when.
Where to put the property.
My name is Wu Ling.
Han Wu Ling.
I have a reserve.
Yes, Mr.
Wu Ling.
Room 306.
- Does it have a box of matches? - Clear, gallant.
If one was not mattering, gentleman.
I want to build a hotel in the street Fenchurch.
It cannot build a hotel in a railroad estacão.
Do not be ridiculous.
There are immense hotels in estacões railroad workers.
But it does not make part of the rules.
Then the rules are missed! " Houses and hotels they cannot be mortgaged.
" All the constructions in the place they will be sold to the bank " before the mortgage takes place of the property.
" The bank will pay half of what it was paid for them.
" This is of crazy ones! There are months that the market gives signs.
Any one would foresee this.
It does not admire me what have gone bankrupt.
Another tragedy in the Serpentine? Another suicide, Mr.
Poirot.
The collapse of the Imperial Trust.
One does not talk about another thing! One important enterprise of investments.
It promised to the shareholders 100 % of dividends and he went bankrupt.
Many persons were left without anything.
When someone puts the head inside the mouth of the lion, it is not possible to complain what it links one day pulls out it to the bite.
Now the RTZ is to 7.
6.
I exchange now or do I stand more any time? I am of the opinion what I go to the bank.
I return to the hour of the lunch.
He never did an investment speculative in the life.
And I still have my head, Hastings.
- Good morning.
I rest in seeing it.
- Now that one.
Badly you.
Wu Ling arrives, order it here.
Thank you.
There is a gentleman to speak with you.
It is in the waiting room.
Thank you.
Perhaps we had to phone for his hotel.
Hotel Saint James.
Yes? You.
Wu Ling? Yes, it was here there is a moment.
It will want to be waited, I am going to see.
- My count.
- A moment, gentleman.
Bonjour.
My name is Poirot.
It would like obtaining the balance of my count.
There is my number.
- A moment, please.
- Thank you.
Thank you.
More non! It is impossible! Since I can have a negative balance of 50 pounds? It is a question of beginning I to maintain my balance in 444 pounds, And a question of beginning! I will check again, gentleman.
Do not be preoccupied, he is here.
The Wilkins is bringing it now.
Just as well.
But this is not you.
Wu Ling.
Immense lament, there was a gay evil.
I apologise, the mistake was ours.
I consulted the count again and it is a mistake.
The gentleman has not a negative balance of 50 pounds.
Unfortunately it has a negative balance of 60 pounds.
This time there is no doubt, gentleman.
This is an outrage! I am going to take this at the highest level, did it understand?! Nobody ridicules the Poirot in questions of money! Today it is not his night.
Perhaps because I do not blow the data since the Bad Wolf is dug! - Mr.
Poirot? - Say! It has a visit.
A visit? To this hour? He is the Lord Pearson of his bank.
The Lord Pearson, of my bank? Of my bank! Mr.
Poirot, I have not like apologising to him.
I am very glad because of hearing him saying that personally.
- I know that it is not much late - Now that one, Lord Pearson, before late what never, as the Englishmen say.
One feels.
- Can I offer a drink? - A dry sherry, thank you.
É what Hastings, wants to drink something, my friend? Thank you.
It is a cause of so vital preoccupation what I find that none of the directors of the administration it will manage to sleep calmly up to being resolved.
Good, I must admit that it had not well it puts that one in perspective, I will bring them into line to myself with you.
And certainly vital.
Then he knows on the disappearance of the Mr.
Wu Ling? You.
Wu Ling? Hastings, please serves me did I brandish one, yes? Idea does what i.
e.
Mr.
Poirot? A sort from ore? It does not seem a great thing, me melted and with the burnt impunities and it becomes a silver nugget of 24 carats.
It is true And of where this came? To 300 km of the interior of Rangoon, in the mountains Burmese.
There is an old mine, in which the Chinese they worked 300 years up to 1878.
Then it fell and never again it was seen.
During half a century, men died and went mad while trying to find it again, to take possession of his riches.
Up to now, nobody found it.
And this Mr.
Ling He has some weight in this lost mine? - It seems that there is a map.
- Of the location of the mine? It passed for the Wu Ling through his family.
This week he came here to sell us the map.
It was combined what he was meeting with the administration in the morning to discuss the price.
- And he did not turn up how planned.
Exactamente.
And we know what it links it arrived on the boat of Southampton.
He reached the hotel and we know that it went out about the Dec.
From that time, I checked.
Nobody he saw again.
Something ran badly.
I know that something ran badly.
Do you want to enjoy oneself, pazinho? Sailor! Sailor! You are going to enjoy oneself with me! Sailor, hopes for me.
I am a nice girl.
My house comes.
My house comes, it walks.
You like me.
I am a nice girl.
He is same.
Han Wu Ling, businessman of Rangoon.
It was the name in his wallet.
Since he can know that it is he, Inspector-chief? The authorities Burmese they ordered his photography.
Unfortunately there was no track of this map.
I am seeing.
And he says that it was stabbed in the back? At least three times.
The wounds are strange, solid with a sort of oriental bent knife.
Lord Pearson, I lament to remove it of his promise, but you.
Poirot says what it can help with the death of the Mr.
Ling.
It can count on the Inspector-chief Japp, it is the soul of the discretion.
Did it know well this man? We never know each other personally But we were corresponding regularmente.
My God I do not believe that it is killed.
Suspect some sort of ritual Chinese death? Let's say that we are in waters treacherous.
Very treacherous.
It was seeming to him to be a calm gentleman and held well.
Oriental, clear.
I am seeing.
And this room was not I clean since he left the hotel.
There has been having much that to do.
We have not much personally It is better for the investigations of the Inspector-chief.
It is not promising.
He must have taken the map with him.
There is any more nothing What is this? The majority in Chinese.
Very sinister.
A name is here in English.
Charles Lester.
He must be a business partner.
There is any more nothing of this room.
Come, Poirot.
Apologize, one did not tell them what in the day of his arrival, you.
Wu Ling asked for him a box of matches? - Yes.
To light his cigarette.
- And I find strange.
He already had a full box in the suitcase.
Space.
It is completely in the good way, Poirot.
It has a moment to see police modern work? I think what it will find this interesting, Poirot.
It is much more sophisticated than anyone thing what they have in the continent.
It is here that everything is coordinated.
With military precision.
The days of the police officer in the bicycle already there they go.
My expensive Japp, this is really very impressive.
Understood message.
Report when it is necessary.
- What they do? - Vigilance, Poirot.
We are With license.
I control to the unity 7.
I hear it perfectly.
Say his position.
Exchange.
I control to the unity 7.
I suspect located in the Chowcat Sauna, Rupert Street, ás 09:00 hours.
Exchange.
Unity accompany 7 and maintain us when they were informed.
I disconnect.
It can be a false trace, or perhaps not.
We have been investigating near to the boat in what the Wu Ling came.
We discover what was seen in the company of this man.
Reginald Dyer Twice condemned for falsification of money.
And matching acquaintance of many people organizations criminals in Hong Kong.
It can be the connection for what we look.
It will go away, we catch it.
There he is.
Unity 7 for the control.
I suspect caught sight going out from the Chowcat Sauna, calling a taxi Entering in the vehicle I wait for educations.
Exchange.
Follow it, unity 7 and communicate his itinerary.
Unity 8.
Answer, unity 8.
He speaks the Control.
Unity 8 for the Control.
Exchange.
Unity 8, the suspect addresses to the city.
Continue for the point of meeting.
Exchange.
Understood message.
I finish.
Unity 8 for the control.
I see them now.
We are following them.
Unity 10, unity 10, We will be a step at the front of him.
- Know for where him it goes? - No, but I can guess, captain.
Chinatown.
The suspect left and paid to the taxi.
It seems to suspect to be to the wait of someone.
Suspect is received by two Asians, one with a suitcase.
Suspect received suitcase.
It must be a gathering.
Cars 8 and 10.
Are they in your position? Exchange.
Car 8 for Control.
In position.
Exchange.
Car 10 for the Control.
Advancing for the position.
Exchange.
Suspect moves away.
It calms, boys.
Wait.
I control for unities 7, 8 and 10: catch it! I ask for Reginald Dyer him what accompanies me to the squad and I warn about him that completely what he will say it will be able to be used against you.
We caught it! - Very well.
- Good work! Then it finds that this Reggie Dyer you killed.
Ling? I will know more when questioning.
Does it come with me, Poirot? The name what it discovered in the block of notes of the Mr.
Ling.
Charles Lester? We tried two times in the morning and not at all.
- Perhaps do not serve of anything, me - Make itself at home.
Of moment I have things more important negotiating.
Well, Hastings.
While the Inspector- chief treats important things, let's see whom we can catch.
LESTER, DODDS AND PARKER BROKERS Wu Ling I remember, the name Yes! Rangoon! Right.
We had done two joined business.
He have to to want look for me.
It was natural what was doing it and from there to have my name in his block.
And he had not contacted it since it reached London? Only I heard of him when you arrived.
I thank for him for his time, monsieur, and we do not stay for a long time any more.
It was liking being able to help more.
I know that it is of the most famous detectives of England.
I admire immensely his work.
Thank you.
MADE EASY INVESTMENT He was you.
Lester who wrote this book? Take it, with my fulfilment.
Also is he a speculator? I know some little thing Hastings.
Thank you.
I Will study It with interest.
The best and it will be wanted what I suggest a few schemes, the number is in the verse, without any obligation.
Good morning, Mr.
Lester.
Goodbye, Hercule! Expensive friend, I do not know about map any.
Only I took a few drinks with the friend on the boat of Hong Kong.
Am I a murderer because of that? You must have gained this in the lottery.
It has no proofs against me, Japp.
None that serves to support myself here one more minute that is.
He hears, Dyer.
I am going to fasten you even if the life stays for a long time He is the lawyer of the Mr.
Dyer, man.
Good morning, Mr.
Dyer.
This does not delay anything.
Does it recognize anybody in these photographies? - They have not great quality.
- That does not interest.
It is the man who came to look you.
Ling or not? No.
Undoubtedly what is not he.
It does sense.
The Dyer is clever too much to be shown.
It would have an accomplice.
Excuse.
This Mr.
Wu Ling was speaking with American accent, was not it? Yes I think so, now that he speaks in that.
Thank you.
Do we go? American accent? The Americans put the month always before the date.
They are very retrograde.
Permission is given me, I think that I am going to return speaking with that Lester.
His some schemes look very interesting.
I have Scamp.
I ask license, think that one of the men it dropped this.
- Thank you.
- Of nothing.
- My God - Does something, man go on? It is he! Undoubtedly.
It is the gentleman who came to speak with you.
Ling.
I must have panicked.
When I read on the murder This type of thing it is not good for the business.
Now it is not good for you.
Promptly Such East of Ling.
I lay near of having done business with him.
I it never knew or heard of him.
Suddenly, he me phones of nothing, he says that it reached the country and what has something what could interest me.
Then did it go to have with him to the hotel? We took a drink and were of taxi for a Chinese restaurant.
To way of the meal, he gets up to phone and it does not return.
It was the last time that I saw it.
I wait what they could confirm it sweats it history in this such a restaurant.
I do not know well where it was The corpse of the Mr.
Ling was found in an alley near to the docks.
No It was not near to the docks, I would remember.
They will believe in me, I did not kill it.
Because it would kill it? Mr.
Lester? I will leave, Girl Boreham.
I do not know when I return.
Chinatown.
It is the key of this puzzle.
When we will reach the duramen of the problem, we are going to see that they are the Tongs.
- Yes, the Tongs.
He knows that there are all the years do I walk behind these worms? - Seven.
- Seven slow years.
And this time they do not escape.
It seems very confident, Inspector-chief.
Make everything hurt, it does not do? Reggie Dyer meets with the Ling on the boat, he knows of the lost mine, it sells the information to those diabos you orientate what kill the Ling and they escape with the map! They return for his nests of the evil in the East End.
This such a Lester leaves me intrigued.
And a beautiful piece.
What he says, Poirot? In my opinion, only there is a solution: to build a house in Whitechapel.
Whitechapel It is ambitious, Poirot.
Is he sure? I have, very much thank you.
Undoubtedly, Inspector-chief, has curious characteristics in this case.
For example, the pious women in the ashtray of the Mr.
Ling.
- Pious women? - The color of the tips.
Did not it observe? Then there is the mystery of the matches in the suitcase.
Because the fact is that a man with a box of matches does flood ask other one? Why? When we will know that, undoubtedly that we will have the solution.
Undoubtedly.
Well Good night, gentlemen.
Good night, Inspector-chief.
They have no scruples, these Chinese.
It is true, Hastings.
It is true.
The Inspector-chief Japp did it go away? It went out right now.
There is a call for him of a Mrs.
Lester.
It seemed hysterical.
I I attend it here, Mrs.
Lemon.
Is it, Lady Lester? Lady, tries to have calm.
Hercule Poirot speaks.
Yes.
Is he sure? His husband left from taxi of the office in the afternoon and did not it return? And for where it was with the taxi? I realize.
Chinatown.
- Is he sure? - Yes.
Now they are in rise, I heard them to myself what are able of falling.
- Then, the zinc is sold - Mrs.
Lemon.
- Nobody phoned in the morning? - No.
This letter arrived in the post.
- Thank you.
- And the gold of the United? It is quite solid.
It him could go out worse This is intolerable! My cheque for the telephone company it was returned by the bank! They threaten to cut us the telephone! Mrs.
Lemon, phones already to a president of the telephone company! Good morning.
You.
Poirot - Sra? - Lester.
Mrs.
Charles Lester.
Car 1 for Control.
Towards the Chinatown to interview a Mr.
Ho, known partner of Reginald Dyer.
Good afternoon.
We lament to interrupt, we want to ask them me a few questions.
We know that Reggie Dyer is his friend and what drove a business with him, therefore I explain him in this way: It will want to have license to renew this his establishment.
It is well.
It is well.
I tell you what I know about the Mr.
Dyer.
Only I want it of turn, Mr.
Poirot.
He is not bad.
Only he was liking knowing what it goes on.
Everything what I ask is that I call myself the truth, lady.
For worse what looks for his husband.
Well There are a few months what he changed.
So different arrangements.
In moment is so calm and casual I eat in other Creed, if they could see it.
And then, yesterday morning, it was putting the cupboard in order and I found Say, lady, what it found? The blue dark fact erases.
You trample them that they were wet in the sheath, bedcovers of land.
And then this fell of his coat.
The passport of the monsieur Wu Ling.
He said the truth, Mr.
Poirot.
Yes, lady.
We go.
They go there backwards.
Police officer.
Come! - Does it want to play, Inspector-chief? - No, thank you.
- Here, man.
- With license.
- White foreign devil! - Intruder.
What is this? What our friend said to us from another side of the road, Jameson? " The red eye ", I think.
It is only a wine-cellar, man.
For storage.
Yes? Creed What is, man? Opium, sergeant.
" Passport for the Paradise ".
Chow Feng.
How the business goes? Hello, Reggie.
Then, Reggie? To this one calls to be caught red-headed.
Ear There must have been a mistake.
I am seeing what you brought a few memories of the Far East.
This time you are going to need of more what a lawyer wise guy to escape.
Sir Do not we know it? Yes.
One calls Lester.
This telegram indicates that the Dyer it was imprisoned because of smuggling opium and Lester also was found in the cavern.
Then it is completely stated.
Lester us lay already once and what his woman said to us it confirms it.
He murdered the Ling and it stole the map.
Closed case.
Yes Hastings.
Clear, he is still in a deep coma.
They will not be able to question it during several hours.
Thank you.
A good move only.
I do not need of more at all.
A double! " Luck " " Go for the chain ".
Marvellous.
It is right, Hastings.
And in fact marvellous.
Suddenly, I realized everything! Bien.
For where we go now? Mr.
Poirot! Mr.
Poirot! Lord Pearson, it received my message.
Clear.
I came as soon as I could.
What happened? There were a few so many developments, with which perhaps it could help.
Certainly.
I help as it will be able.
Did we already catch it? Did we catch the murderer? Yes.
We caught the murderer, mon ami.
The name of this man is Charles Lester.
Ancient contact of the Mr.
Wu Ling and falsified to opium in the free hours.
There are a few hours, we researched his office and we discover this map, what of it right will be able to identify like being the map of the lost mine.
My Chinese is not very good, Inspector-chief, but be what this will be, it is not the map of the mine.
It seems one more page of an atlas.
An atlas? Well, it seems that it has not anyone it tries to maintain me here, Inspector.
Right? - In this case, I believe to be free.
- It does not look to me, monsieur.
The Monsieur Wu ling was not killed, perhaps be able to explain us since his wife found this in the pocket of his coat.
I do not do idea - I did not kill the man - Clear what killed it! His proof is there! The passport of the Wu Ling! But I did not say that it was the passport of the Monsieur Wu Ling, therefore as he could know? - Rays, I manage to see from here! - In fact, but this is not a passport.
They are the rules of the play of the Monopoly.
But you Lord Pearson.
Unfortunately it is imprisoned for murder.
You mounted this completely! It brought me here to identify the map But you already have the map, mon ami.
It stole it of the Monsieur Wu Ling in the day of his arrival, when his Chinese criminals they killed it brutalmente.
Yes, because the Lord Pearson it knows well Chinatown.
Own he likes playing here in the Red Dragon, where the Monsieur Lester also he is a frequent visitor of the caverns of opium of the casino.
Every night, be satisfactory it sweats it passion for the play, Lord Pearson, as well as the Monsieur Lester is satisfactory his wish for the drug.
Here, between the smoke and sweat of the Red Dragon, dark dreams are dreamt and obscure thoughts they become reals.
The weakness of another man it began to fascinate it and one night, when it played and lost still more than the custom, he saw how it will profit from that.
You dream up a plan of conspiring the Monsieur Lester for the crime.
First, it gets that one of his accomplices pretend to be Wu Ling and be registered in the hotel.
My name is Wu Ling.
Han Wu Ling.
I have a reserve.
To be looked with you.
Wu Ling, he will darken the teeth and clear, the color goes out in the tip of the cigarettes.
Does it have a box of matches, please? He asks a box of matches, because of not knowing that it already had one.
One remembers, the suitcase was not of him.
The name and residence of the Mr.
Lester they are carefully planted in the block of the Mr.
Wu Ling to discover the police officer later.
The next day, you.
Lester it is called to the hotel, believing to be a business meeting and knowing of his weakness for opium, the accomplice takes it to the Red Dragon.
Desperately drugged, the poor Mr.
Lester is released near to the corpse of the Mr.
Wu Ling.
Height in which it puts in his pocket the passport of the victim.
He wakes up, sees the corpse What exists of he thinks? What committed murder under the influence of the drug.
The fact is that, my friend, it committed a mistake in the beginning what made me suspect.
He said to a security guard of the bank what was not you.
Wu Ling.
No, this is not you.
Wu Ling! Is it interesting, is not it? Coming from someone who affirmed never having known in his life! We never know each other But it is not alone here and in the Dragon I redden what likes playing.
Do I know that it also plays the market, it is not? The fall of the Imperial Trust it must have reached it with strength.
And for sale of the map it would exceed the compensation of the losses.
Lord Pearson - Good morning.
- Good morning, Mrs.
Lemont.
- Today it is cheerful.
- Yes, my actions rose more Yesterday had not he said to him to sell? I know, but you.
Poirot it advised me to wait.
Does he want tisane? Very much thank you, Mrs.
Lemon.
Mr.
Poirot - Yes, now I am to win.
- No, this envelope.
It is the cheque of the Lord Avebury, for the case of the Naval Secrets.
It must already have entered in his count there are ten days.
Mrs.
Lemon, is right.
It is therefore that I have the negative balance! I find better to go already to the bank with this, does not it find? Then, the numbers of the bank at last they were certain.
Unfortunately they usually are.
Incredible.
To think that during this time completely It pays rent, Hastings.
Two thousand pounds, favor is done.
Thank you.
He knows, mon ami.
You were always right about this play.
In the bottom it is the skill that counts.