Maigret (1991) s01e01 Episode Script
Maigret et la grande perche
1 Within.
Ernestine Micou? Are you the police? - Inspector Maigret.
I did not do anything.
It was my girlfriend.
Where is it? - No idea.
Search 'r only.
Is not that your job? - Dress up and come along.
First, eat my bread.
- Dress up and come along.
I can handle it by as yet too comfortable? I have an arrest warrant.
Dress you.
You arrest me best, but I'm not going to cooperate.
I would like to go home without clothes.
That was not easy.
Bunch of bastards.
Dirty cops.
Ernestine Jussiaume, maiden Micou.
Nickname: Beanstalk.
Urgently.
Here she is, Commissioner.
Kent u me nog? Bonestaak.
Are you still mad at me? I want to say that when you do make a mistake.
Ten months in jail, while my friend Lulu had stolen the money.
So you see: Anyone can make a mistake.
Even you.
Did you want to talk to me about that? - No.
It's about Alfred.
Wie is dat? - Alfred Jussiaume, m'n man.
A real wedding in the church.
He wanted to.
He is still religious.
You know him probably.
They call him Alfred the Sorrowful.
The brandkastkraker? As Boissier is about.
- Formal well.
Which it now has arrested three times.
The last time he was five years.
Did he mistreated? - He does not fly yet evil.
What has he done? - Nothing.
He sits alone significantly in the mess.
Where is he? - I do not know.
Is he running away? You need to be really fit Boissier.
Covering burglaries.
You deal with murders.
Did he kill someone? I know him.
There he is too sensitive.
He cries at the slightest provocation.
What does the good man do? He last night committed a burglary in Neuilly.
Have a seat.
Were you taking? May I 'm never help.
He works alone.
A job he sits for hours to observe the surroundings.
So the break was in Neuilly? The day before he said he was held for one authentication.
And since you 'm not seen? He called at five o'clock in the morning.
I could not sleep.
I heard once that there was something.
He almost did not come out of his words.
Is there the last 24 hours reported a murder in Neuilly? A woman.
No body fished out of the Seine? Not heard shots? Thanks.
Call Inspector Maigret if you hear anything.
It is true.
He saw a woman sitting to him with dead eyes looked.
She had the telephone handset in her hand and she was covered in blood.
Alfred could confirm that myself but.
- He was scared.
A car stopped.
Did he who came out? - A man.
Alfred fled.
- Did he leave his stuff? He went away, he said.
He was completely panicked.
Had he sometimes a girlfriend? - No.
I know that for sure.
I was there one for him to sort out.
Life is so difficult.
Pass it on if you hear from him.
- You too, Commissioner.
You're not a rookie anymore, but I can help you.
There are things I am better at home than you.
Within.
Commissioner day.
- Day Boissier.
Ken je Alfred Jussiaume? - De Treurige.
Wat is er met 'm? According to his wife he broke.
But when he wanted to crack the safe, he saw a corpse.
Just something for him.
He could be a millionaire.
He has hundreds of vaults, but he always has bad luck.
Then there are effects or documents.
Unsaleable.
His wife came to ask you for help? - Yes.
He's out of town.
Where was it? Somewhere in Neuilly.
A house with an iron gate.
Rather vague.
Maybe it's enough.
I'll check.
I'll come to your room.
He has ten years as an expert working for a safe plant.
When he started to crack safes.
This is its record of.
Where he has installed safes? Did you know that I had that addresses? - Of course.
I would not like to keep so unlucky.
The last time he was five years.
He had a bad lawyer.
I could do something.
Alfred is an artist.
He does not play the tough guy.
All he has to ten years in jail, he goes straight again.
A born victim.
He is always rushed.
There must be.
Wait in front of the bar for me.
What will it be? - Take a grog, Boissier.
I have too much thirst.
A glass of lemonade.
I have no lemon.
- Then a pastis.
I had a glass of white wine.
You know around here might be a dentist? Across.
I do not know if he's good.
It's never crowded.
What does he look like? - A lot of water.
Of your stature.
Around fifty.
He comes here it's secretly drink.
Secretly? He looks to his house before he enters.
What he drinking? - Always red wine.
Two glasses in a row, around six o'clock.
Then he wipes his mouth, pay and go.
He never says much.
Visit, Commissioner.
That comes out bad.
So you have him also found.
I have the list of vaults.
Alfred had it hidden somewhere.
May I 'm? - I got him burned.
Why? - I'm going to bring any evidence.
Are you going to watch? Can I wait here? If you want.
- I keep just thinking about it.
Do you have an appointment? - We want to talk to a doctor Serre.
The doctor receives only by appointment.
Commissaris Maigret research.
Excuse me.
My son does not want people just walk.
My son is doing an afternoon nap.
Please, sit down.
I go him get some.
I do not mean to be rude but my son and I know everything about each other.
We have been living here for 50 years.
Could I perhaps should know Is your son married? - Yes.
His wife lives here? Not anymore, commissioner.
Has she done something wrong? Are you here because of her? Please, sit down.
After the death of his first wife, my son would not remarry.
Then he met a patient of him.
She lived in Paris.
Only.
And they are married? - Yes.
I thought it was a good idea.
He was at least not alone.
I understand.
She recently deceased? Deceased? - You talk in the past tense.
That's right.
Because she has left us.
When was that? - Two days ago.
Two days ago.
So Monday.
Did she say why she left? It is a painful issue in order to explain.
Especially to a man.
At some point in our lives we go through a period where we are not quite ourselves.
We get angry about nothing.
We recall the strangest things in the head.
She had only the Netherlands.
Her homeland.
She left Monday? - Yes.
The night train.
Does your son brought her to the train? Has she taken a taxi? - She went down a search.
Have you heard from her? I think she wants to hear anything.
Has there been a divorce? We are Catholic, Commissioner.
But may I might ask the reason for your visit? Is Maria something happened? Can you tell me what's here Monday exactly occurred? Eugenie has helped my daughter packing.
Our housekeeper.
She comes every day from nine to five.
Does your son that night left the house? For dinner.
- He made his evening walk.
Just to the café? - No.
He does not drink.
Never? - One glass of watered wine with dinner.
What time did you eat? - As soon as he returned.
He still walks the route he walked with the dog.
Have you eaten together? We had already started when Mary came down.
No altercation? Nothing was said during the meal.
I felt that my son Come in, Mr.
Serre.
M'n excuses but I heard something.
- These gentlemen are from the police.
Commissaris Maigret, Boissier inspector.
Your mother has just told you that your wife is gone the day before yesterday.
What exactly do they want? - I do not know.
We talked awaiting your arrival.
Your mother told us that you took a nap.
We are here because we suspect you are the victim of a burglary.
How well it approaches? It seems to us do something to my attention.
Informants.
- For example.
I'm sorry, gentlemen.
- You are not robbed? I had myself gone to the police.
You are in possession of a safe? I believe I have the right to not answer that.
But I can say that I really owns you.
Is that a Planchart-safe, 15 years ago? I do not remember exactly when.
That is nobody's business.
Sleep you and your mother on the first floor? May I see your office 's? - Of course, Commissioner.
Then you will see for yourself that is not broken.
Do you see? Nothing wrong.
We have many books on law.
My husband was a lawyer.
You must not blame my son, but the departure of his wife Are you satisfied? Do you want the kitchen and practice, see? Nee.
Dank u.
This is only done? - Five days ago.
There are two windows broken during the storm.
Did you let someone come? No.
My son is doing small jobs always himself.
That's it.
These guys are not just bother us.
Commissioner.
I was' r forgotten.
In? No body and is not broken.
Is there not somewhere a diamond? - Two even.
Broken during the storm.
Ze do.
Someone's lying there in any case.
And you think I am.
- Alfred maybe.
Why is he calling me in the middle of the night? Yes why? Goodbye, Commissioner.
Alfred might be telling the truth.
Do me a favor, Boissier, and get under the covers with the flu.
For that time, it could not have to us.
Ernestine Rose and has talked quite a while.
What time Alfred departed the day before? - At about eleven.
First floor.
- Thank you.
Are you.
Pardon.
Yes, times have changed.
Come inside.
Have you heard from Alfred? - No, nothing.
Do you find that strange? - He must think I'm followed.
Looking through the room however.
I 's thinking.
Someone must have lied.
Why should you believe me? Do you want coffee? Nee, dank je, Ernestine.
There's a lady waiting an hour for you.
Here she is.
- Come inside.
Do you suffer from the smoke? - No.
My son smokes cigars.
I found it annoying, as he did yesterday.
I'm certainly badly brought up.
He's my only child.
My husband died when Guillaume was twelve.
I'm spoiled.
He was the man in the house.
We have all along been together.
Your son was already the married.
- He was an early widower.
How long did his first marriage? - Two years.
You will find that not remarkable? Maria he's been married two years.
What was his first wife? - Very civilized.
A widow.
Did she have children? Which they died? - To a heart attack.
I wanted to call you yesterday, but I came anyway but personally.
It must be a misunderstanding.
We have nothing to hide.
Where are those panes broken? I've already told you.
During the storm of last week had been open the window.
Was that day? - Yes.
At six o'clock in the afternoon.
When the housekeeper had left.
- Yes.
That goes at five.
We really have nothing to hide, Commissioner.
You are voluntarily come here, Mrs.
Greenhouse.
You wish that I suggest you ask.
Good.
We continue with the evening meal of your daughter, your son and you.
Where the luggage was then? - In the corridor.
Who had worn down? - Eugénie.
And Guillaume helped.
a large suitcase was there? - Yes.
A trunk.
My daughter traveled much for her wedding.
Were you there when your daughter left? No.
I try to minimize emotional situations.
I took down goodbye and went upstairs.
Where was your son at that time? - In his office, I believe.
So you do not know if they talked.
I do not think so.
I have not heard anything.
You were on the first floor.
Do you think you could have heard a call? I hear cracking the prosecutor on the other side of the house.
Who went looking for a taxi? - Mary.
I have already said.
They remained long? - Quite long, yeah.
There is no taxi stand nearby.
She had a holding.
If you went down when she was gone? No.
Guillaume came to my room.
Was he upset? He was like you saw him yesterday.
Did he know that his wife was not coming back? He guessed it.
Otherwise, she had not taken her belongings.
You may not thereafter come to your room? Is your son stayed with you? Is not he been gone? - Why? Where he parks his car? - In the garage a little further.
so he can drive away without anyone'm seeing.
Within.
Day chef.
- Come in, Janvier.
Any news? Come in.
It involves Maria Aerts.
51 years old.
Born in Sneek, Netherlands.
Before her marriage she lived in a boarding house in Neuilly.
In taxi? We have not yet.
Vannier is to the station.
Good.
Let me know if you hear anything.
I want to answer your questions, but I do not understand.
Do you worry? Yesterday this was a burglary and now you suddenly ask for Mary.
I am somewhat upset, yes.
Have you heard anything more? - I did not expect.
You keep something for me behind, Commissioner.
Have a seat.
Yesterday a man invaded your house.
Why? - To break open your safe.
What did he bring? - Nothing.
Because he is in the light of his flashlight, saw something he had not expected.
What then? A body.
The corpse of a woman.
Probably your daughter.
Did he say that? Why do you let that man opposite me repeat his accusation? Because he is no longer in Paris.
- Can not you let him come? You must have good reasons to believe the burglar.
Finally, I am but an old woman who has never done anyone harm.
I want you to come right back to our house.
I put everything open and you can look around everywhere.
Nee, dank u.
Try to move me.
Remember that you resolve in your daily life crimes.
Imagine that you ask it be said that you are accused of something.
I will certainly do that.
Garcin, with Maigret.
I make it excellent.
Listen.
Go immediately to Rue de la Ferme 43b.
You know it.
Beautiful.
I just want to talk to the dentist and I have no papers.
It should be returned to his mother.
Lok him along.
Tell him he must testify or so.
No, it is not as it should.
Can you come here, sir? How did it go? - I write an appeal.
He read him and went away.
But he does not say a word stupid.
Come on.
Day, Mr.
Serre.
I wanted to ask you a few questions.
I got a call from the police of Neuilly.
So you want to give an answer? - By no means.
Good.
Then you get a meeting with the police commissioner of Neuilly.
I do not like this kind of situation.
- Me neither.
Let him come.
Where he is suspected? - Murder of his wife.
We want to check what data.
I will not keep you long.
Stay here, Garcin.
Are you with the registration number RS ââ8822 L is the owner of the means of transport? If you have ridden for the last time? May I ask why you asks me these questions? It has us your car, your badge in any case passed if the culprit of a collision.
When was that? - Monday.
And where? Somewhere along the Seine.
The car has not been out of the garage.
Maybe someone had him 'borrowed'.
- The garage was locked.
So you have Monday and Monday night are not using your car? Are there any witnesses to the collision? That was it, Mr.
Serre.
You can go.
I did my best.
- I saw that.
You can include here? Thank you.
You drive on again.
If you have learned something? - No.
This came in the mail.
- From Alfred? It's his handwriting.
- Le Havre.
What if he comes back to Paris.
Whether we keep him? It can not, because he is not caught.
Serre has not even filed a lawsuit.
So leave him alone.
- If he has not lied.
I have news.
- See you then.
I went to the inn where I was talking about.
There are mainly foreign tourists, writing cards home.
Maria Aerts lived there for a year.
She wrote a weekly thick letters to a friend in Amsterdam.
Which is' r come to see once and then stayed three weeks.
Gertrude Oosting.
Married a brewer.
Should be easy to find.
They are likely to continue to write.
- It seems to me.
Torrence is there? - Since this morning again.
Send'm here.
Posteer I tegenover Farmstreet 43b in Neuilly.
Do not hide.
If a man comes out, follow him openly.
Was that it? Let you pay off tonight.
Enjoy your meal.
Call the police from Le Havre.
Follow me.
Bent u Eugénie? What do you want from me? - I want to talk to you.
I do not have time.
- I'm from the police.
I want to ask you a few questions.
What do you think of your employers? - Withers.
Old Mrs.
Serre too? - That's the worst.
I'll bring you home.
I do not have cops.
- That is your right.
Did you hate the daughter? They raided the pantry.
She ate everything I had prepared.
Do you know when she left? - Monday.
Here it is.
Why are you looking for her? - We suspect that she was murdered.
Keep them on.
- We do not have enough evidence yet.
And what do you want from me? Do you remember is what happened Monday? Very well.
You help tackle the young Ms.
Serre.
Yes.
All morning.
Took them a lot of personal things? - Hope.
She had thirty dresses.
She never threw anything away.
She wore them no more, but she never gave them away.
So stingy.
Like all empires.
It seems that they have a trunk and two suitcases with him.
The rest was sent the week before.
Did her husband know? - Of course.
It has long been agreed.
- Since when? Since its last attack.
After each attack they wanted to return to her country.
What attacks? She had a bad heart.
She was heart patient? - Apparently.
She took drugs? - They took them all three.
leather his own bottle or bottle of pills next to his plate.
Had they often quarrel? They chatted some weeks with each other.
Then she stayed in her room.
- Who? Mary or the mother? That Dutch.
Then she wrote letters all day.
And I had to post them.
Always someone in Amsterdam.
Gertrude Oosting? - Something like that.
It was in any case, Gertrude.
Already worked for them before she got married? Do you know who they worked for previously? They exchanged rather 's housekeeper.
That said the postman.
If you know it, you want to get away.
I, at least on step.
Why? I'm tired of the old man to look after the sugar count.
She's so sneaky.
Always polite, but she looks at you like you're nothing.
You may have noticed something when you came to work Tuesday? Was there's no broken glass pane at night in the office? Smoke not to putty? You are mistaken in the day.
- What day was that? A day or two before.
After the storm.
Are you sure? - Absolutely.
Two windows were broken.
I had to mop the floor.
Who has replaced them? Conservatory.
He's probably been to the hardware store on the Rue de Longchamp.
They are so stingy that they do everything themselves.
The dentist unclogged toilets.
Do you think they 'r killed? - No idea.
Moment.
Good evening.
Do you sell window glass? - We're close.
Research.
Excuse me.
What can I do for you? Do you know Mr.
Serre, the dentist? - Who has an account with us.
He's only been here yet? Last week sold his window glass and putty.
On which day? - The day after the storm.
Friday, I believe.
Friday.
Nice.
Thank you.
- I can check it.
He was also of the week.
He has also been Tuesday.
When he has bought a piece of glass.
41 to 45 centimeters.
Are you sure? - Very sure.
He was the first customer.
What time was that? - We're at eight o'clock.
State that in your checkbook? - Of course.
I'll send a photographer along.
Save the page.
Commissaris Maigret research.
Pardon.
It's not by the book.
But they have lied about those broken windows.
And if the dentist caught us? Wait until he sleeps.
Within.
Torrence keeps watch.
They can not see the garage from the house.
Success.
I found Gertrude Oosting and arranged an interpreter for the Dutch embassy.
You went to pick her Tuesday at the station in Amsterdam.
But she was not there.
She says she is worried and asks if Mary is dead.
Maybe.
Let me give you as an interpreter.
Ask her if she sends me letters from the past year.
And tell them as soon as possible should go to the police headquarters to Maria Serre-Aerts specify missing.
It's urgent.
Good evening.
- If you already have flu, Boissier? Almost.
I could not stand in bed.
I'll see you.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Are you ready now? - Not yet.
I'm expecting an important telegram from Amsterdam.
What are you excited.
Go you fooled someone? Something like that.
A glass of white wine.
What do you want to eat? - I do not know.
Fish perhaps.
- I take at least oysters.
you will soon go to the police station? But no comments about dust and stuff.
- Agreed.
How did it go? - Fine.
The pictures are almost ready.
Come on in.
Have you found anything? There is already three days no longer driving the car.
Nothing fancy, just two scratches in the trunk.
As if there has been sanded down something heavy? - Could be.
A suitcase or a crate.
No traces of blood? - No.
And no hair.
Do you think the car is cleaned only? Not from outside but from within.
I could find almost no dust.
I will examine my finds.
Good evening.
Are you not sleepy? Is it always like this? Your work.
- It depends on.
Is it a murder? - Probably.
Do you know who did it? he knows that you know him suspect? That must be awful.
For the poor woman it was not so nice.
A telegram, Commissioner.
An investigation request from Amsterdam.
We can go home.
And the pictures? - They come to nothing.
The trace evidence either.
- Has the killer hedged? This was in the driver's seat.
Gravel.
Of bricks.
- That's something.
Please check back later with your men home.
Pak 's considerably.
We need to make an impression.
Is it hard? - In his way.
I'll call you.
You go at looking at the harbor, Boissier.
Check whether last week's unloaded a load of bricks.
Do you have a warrant? - Bye, Mr.
Serre.
Please.
As you can see there is an investigation the disappearance of Ms Maria Serre-Aerts.
Gertrude Oosting has declared her missing.
What is it, Guillaume? Nothing, Mom.
These guys just come by.
Go back to your room.
So you've met your wife because she took you as a dentist.
Did you know she was rich? Doctor Dubuc so was the doctor of your wife? For our wedding, yes.
Did you know that she was heart patient? Yes, she had said.
Your former wife is also deceased from heart disease.
That's right.
The death certificate is in the room with my mother.
Can you show me a picture of your father? I'm not.
The whole shebang.
Take out the tooth comb through it.
Would that impress him? - In any case, someone.
I'm going after the father.
- Shall I do that? Here, I got it.
Alain Serre, seen on his back.
We were classmates.
He's been thirty years dead.
What kind of man was it? - When it comes to, Maigret? His son.
That's dentist.
I've never seen.
I knew he had a son.
Alain and I were among a group of party animals for whom the family did not come in first place.
This is not his wife.
Nee, z'n mistress.
His wife I did not know.
They lived somewhere in Neuilly.
But he has long been with the dancer.
Josette.
A naughty thing.
They called "r Nightjar.
They are upstairs.
They found nothing.
I do not know where to stay.
What are they looking for anyway? We had 'r never let go.
If I had known this Is this you, Mr.
Greenhouse? Who else? He drank? - He could hit him considerably.
We lived the good life.
A memorable time.
And, Janvier? - Nothing special.
Only the death certificates of his first wife and his father.
Looking at a photo of his father.
I want to see that.
Pull your coat, Mr.
Serre.
The letters from Ms.
Serre to her friend Gertrude Oosting.
Start with the most recent.
Thanks, Dambois.
Warn me if you go.
Want to read this, sir Conservatory? The page last Tuesday from the cash book of hardware store Gillot.
It says: Glass plate of 41 to 45 and a half pounds putty.
The first customer that day.
Do you understand what that means? - Are you accusing me? Officially, you're here as a witness, but I could blame you.
Then you can seek the assistance of a lawyer.
I do not need a lawyer.
Do you suffer from a heart condition? - Hypertrophy, as you probably.
Your father is deceased from heart disease when you were still in school.
Your first wife was heart patient, and Maria Aerts too.
Many people die from heart disease.
Do you have life insurance? - Since my childhood already.
But I have not seen any insurance policy of your mother.
Which is not insured.
- Was your father insured? And your first wife.
The paper lay on my mother's room.
Indeed.
And your second wife? It is now very common.
But it is less common to save all that money at home in a safe.
That's what so many people.
- A fortune yields no interest.
You forget the high taxes, the devaluations and the unfavorable financial arrangements.
I understand.
You admit that you wanted to highlight the tax authorities.
Did your second wife that all that money was in the safe? Of course.
Her money was also there.
I have found no prenup.
We were married in community of property.
That's unusual at your age.
Otherwise we already have an inventory of our possessions.
Was your wife rich? - She still is.
Richer than you? - Almost as rich.
Is her fortune in France? - Partially.
Also in the Netherlands.
In what form she keeps her money? - Mainly in the form of gold.
Even before you knew? I understand where you're headed.
Yes, I have advised her her possessions to turn into gold.
And that gold was in your safe.
- Indeed.
Until? See you Monday.
When Mary came down, I gave her the gold.
So that was located somewhere in her luggage.
I suppose so.
How do I know that the money in your vault is your money and not also that of your wife? What the N and M? We, my mother and I have always done together our money.
We did not make any distinction.
The M stands for Mary.
- Indeed.
There is a number that keeps coming back.
Her contribution to the household.
Your wife paid a fixed amount per month? They do not pay really, because the money was already in the vault.
It was deducted from her account.
With me.
Do not wait for me.
It's getting late.
Yes, it takes a while.
Do you have a photo of the father? - That did not Ms.
Serre.
This is going to take all night.
That will get food.
May I? Have you thought about that third window? That's not wise.
I'd like a plausible explanation.
You do not get.
You insists that once you've installed new windows? Vorige week, de dag na de storm.
And after you have bought no more glass, despite this note? Kom I even, in January? My inspector writing down what you just said.
After I wrote you about my life, my husband and my mother you probably understand how I feel.
You all hear it still.
I am leaving on Monday.
Time will pass quickly.
I can not stand it much longer here anymore.
I'm ready, boss.
He's waiting.
I'm coming.
Focus mainly on Maria Aerts, her husband and her mother.
I want to know how they were living together.
Money, alcohol, the relationship of the two.
Jealousy perhaps.
And focus on details of the father, the lawyer.
We have nothing on him.
No letters, no pictures.
Strange.
If he were banished from their lives.
Can I have a glass of water? No glass of red wine? Yes, that's part of the game.
Fearing for your mom you drink on the sly.
Is that a question? - No.
You do not have to answer.
The father of my mother drunk, her two brothers also and her sister sat in a lunatic asylum.
There was never any alcohol in the house.
My mother was afraid that I would become an alcoholic.
She thinks it is hereditary.
Do you like a lot of your mother, Mr.
Greenhouse? That is normal.
We have always lived together.
Just like in a marriage.
What do you mean? - Is your mother jealous? It is more common in a widow with one son.
Was your mother jealous of your relationships? Do you have many friends? What has that to do with the "disappearance" of my wife? I have no letter from a friend found you.
Or a group that most people still do have.
There's me noticed something.
You only have pictures of the family of your mother at home.
Not your father's or his family.
I am not aware.
Do you know when destroyed? How do you remember your father? Hear this question even at the hearing? Our call is not recorded.
Your father was a lawyer.
What kind of life he led? he often was home or he led a public life? He often went out.
- Your mother? Barely.
He had mistresses? - I do not know.
Died your father in bed? No, on the stairs.
- Were you taking? No, I was not home.
When I returned, he was dead two hours.
Wie was z'n arts? - Dokter Dutilleux.
who is still alive? - No, that is more than ten years dead.
Were you at home when your first wife died? Answer the question, please.
Yes, I was at home.
- Where were you? In my office.
- What time was it? About nine o'clock in the evening.
- Was your wife in her room? She was unwell.
- Was your mother at her? I do not know that anymore.
Did your mother called you? - I believe so.
Was your wife already dead when you came in her room? She then lived one quarter.
She died when it was called.
Wie was haar arts? - Doctor Dutilleux.
Was that your GP? Why did not indicate which attempted burglary? There is nothing to indicate.
Where is your wife, Mr.
Greenhouse? We will still have to find her.
Your turn, Janvier.
Give him a glass of water.
She's in the waiting room.
The mother.
The better.
Vannier late to record the conversation in shorthand.
I'm leaving.
Nobody knows yet.
The old lady does not.
She always smiles, as long as I do what she wants.
It is the most selfish woman I know.
Guillaume will probably be relieved that I leave.
We have long been nothing more in common.
I never could get used to the smell of his skin.
Now do you understand why we do not sleep in the same room? You say you have not seen the taxi driver but he had to get hold of the luggage? I do not know.
I was inside.
After two years I still scare when he comes into my room.
Fortunately, it rarely.
He thinks he's me, a pleasure doing it.
Whether it is his duty.
Maybe he needs it for his mother.
Do not worry.
I think I stay busy all night.
What are you doing? Kiss.
So you do not help your wife with her luggage? No.
I sat in my room and the shutters were closed.
How much luggage she had? - One trunk and two suitcases.
Please adopt me here long? - That depends on you.
Is not it less tiring to just tell the truth? When you killed your wife? - I did not kill her.
Ga maar eten, in January.
Let bring some sandwiches and beer.
Why are you married to Maria van Aerts? Mom was afraid I would be alone.
She sees me as a child and finds that someone has to take care of me.
And to keep you from drinking.
Have a seat.
What do you mean? Have you never heard that your father it took a lot of? He went out a lot.
- And gave a lot of money.
Maybe.
Did your mother there arguing about? - Arguing is not in our nature.
What did your first marriage you returned? We do not speak the same language, Mr.
Maigret.
Surely you are married in community of property? I've already told you.
Your first wife was rich.
You have inherited from her.
Do you think then abnormal? As long as the body of your second wife is not found You can not inherit from her.
I inherit either from her if she's still alive.
Do you think she's still alive? - I did not kill her.
The ironmonger therefore mistaken as regards that third piece of window glass? It's my word against his.
- Unless you killed your wife.
Tuesday morning, so you saw nothing strange in your office.
No.
Also no toolbox.
I've said a few times.
You have the right to question me but your inspector those questions already asked.
You try to make me numb.
But that can take some time.
In short: I did not kill my wife.
And I will not answer more questions that have been asked.
Your mother is here.
She's more than two hours in the waiting room.
Do you want her there all night waiting for? She can do whatever she wants.
I do not like her.
I would not want to do your job.
Would you like something to eat? Like.
Thank you.
To speak to your mother? - No.
I have to tell her anything.
Has she eaten? - I do not know.
She can leave.
She does not while I'm here.
- It will take a while.
How is she? - Good.
She's too busy talking with a former prostitute.
Can you let her bring a sandwich? - Has already happened.
Tell Torrence he Bonestaak brings Lucas.
What did she say? - She wanted to know why I was here.
So when I hung up a story.
And then she went to ask questions.
What? - About you.
I've told you r everyone gets to work.
You are kidding me.
That someone winter nude've locked in your office with all the windows open.
- That can not be, Ernestine.
It made quite an impression.
She is less confident.
Many nervous.
She asked if you hit them too.
- With a whip sure.
That was not easy.
Your mother thinks I torture.
What did you say to her? - I'm nothing.
Probably the girl sitting at her.
Such people invent anything interesting to do.
May I speak to her? Who? - My mom.
No.
I'm going but it's talking to her.
My mother knows nothing.
- And you? Me neither.
You force me to question her just like you.
You have absolutely no compassion.
- With whom? With an old lady.
Maria Aerts had become like old.
Your turn, Janvier.
I go to the mother.
The tall woman wants to see you.
She does not feel well.
She waits in the room inspector Lucas.
Beer, Marcel? - I do not turn off.
By close, Commissioner.
What is it? I could not.
What a horrible man.
I do not know how rd son, but she is gehaaider than me.
She asked, but I had nothing in mind.
Did you say who you were? - No, but she guessed.
What? - I've getippeld.
She asked all about prison, and I bought it.
Told you about Alfred? - Yes, but not what he did.
She has at least an hour by asked about prison life.
You have no shot here? Which rod has exhausted me.
That you know fixed.
Does she still had on her son? - No, but she looked at every sound.
Then she asked something you might be interested.
She asked if I knew people who died under the guillotine.
What time is it? Two o'clock.
Go home.
- No.
I will stay here.
Photos of Mrs.
Van Aerts.
There was a note from Ms Oosting.
They thought they could come in handy.
I found something interesting.
They hate traveling.
They have once been abroad.
To London.
It seems that all of them then became seasick and are treated by the ship's doctor.
So when I proposed to go to Nice, they said nothing at first.
Guillaume later said his mother was a shocking idea.
He asked me to please there to abandon.
The drawer of my nightstand was open and he automatically glanced in.
He was quite pale when he saw the gun from my trip to Egypt and he asked if it was loaded.
I let him see the empty warehouse.
Then he asked if I had bullets for.
I said that it had to be somewhere.
Later told my mother that lady should have no weapon.
I had to give it to her.
I refused, because it was a souvenir.
I've been thinking, Mr.
Serre.
You're not so bad lie.
Mary had not disappear.
Since you have no interest in.
She had indeed go to the Netherlands.
I do not know if she had to die at home or after her departure.
Once she was gone.
So is it, huh? She had to die a natural death, or something like that.
But it did not go as you wanted, and you had 't body and hide the luggage.
But there's something bothering me.
After parting your wife is returned to your office because there found her body.
You do not have to answer.
You only need to listen.
In the meantime I know that your wife had an automatic pistol.
Maybe you shot in self-defense.
I take it from you to.
You were confused and are left to pick up your car.
You are doing wrong, Mr.
Serre.
Sooner or later we found the body, and we see that your wife was shot.
I'm just wondering what weapon.
Yours or hers.
If it was hers, she came back maybe to claim something and she has threatened u.
Due to a money issue might be.
You have in any case nothing to fear.
You can throw it even in self-defense.
Still the question remains why your wife has come back and you are threatened.
What do you think of my reasoning? Nothing.
Would you still can not talk? I answer your questions.
Your wife did not recover its money and not threatened? My wife has never threatened me.
Not so certain, Mr.
Serre.
There you can regret it.
You must convince the jury that was your life in danger.
You have no interest in sitting with a corpse.
At least not with a body that you can not show.
On the death of your first wife could you doctor Dutilleux call to make a death certificate.
Mary also had a heart condition.
She also had one to die a natural death.
That was already the successful earlier.
Now was the opposite.
- I 'r not killed.
Nor hid her body and the tools? There has been no burglar.
In a few hours he might be able to your nose.
It is a repeat offender.
We know him.
He told his wife everything.
She's your mother in the waiting room.
It is time that you make a decision.
It is now three o'clock.
I have nothing to say.
Good.
I will have to interrogate your mother.
I wanted to save her ordeal.
You again, Janvier.
I found some, Commissioner.
It was easy.
I've gone all bays.
Where does this come from? - Quai de Billancourt.
Only one boat had fired bricks.
When? - Last Monday.
The quay is covered with red dust.
The same as what we have found.
Call the river police.
- Has already happened.
If you come here with, Mrs.
Greenhouse? Have a seat.
Your son still suffers from a heart condition? - He has always had a weak heart.
I tell not like bad news, especially for someone your age but he killed his wife.
He denies, but we have evidence.
- What evidence? We know he threw the body into the Seine on the Quai de Billancourt.
He does not throw in self-defense.
That is not smart.
I'm sure his wife threatened him with a gun.
Whether they have threatened.
When he tried to steal the gun, it went off.
There is a third possibility.
That your son has shot first with his own weapon.
I was in my room.
Have you heard anything? - Only the door and a car.
The taxi? - I think so.
She would take a taxi.
You're not sure? - I have not seen anything.
Maybe it was the car of your son.
- He had not been away, he said.
Last you knew that your daughter had taken a cab.
That is still the case.
- You do not remember for sure.
You are now asking me for two days the same questions.
I do not know anymore.
And I've been waiting for hours.
I can not.
Why did you come here? I want to be with my son when he is struggling.
Also follow him to jail? - I do not understand that.
Would you take part of the blame your son for you? He's done nothing.
- Are you sure? Why would he murder his wife? Are you convinced of his innocence? - As far as I know.
Could he have done it? - He had no reason to.
Yet he did it.
Once the officer has, I suggest your son indicted.
He does not stand a chance.
He gets the death penalty.
His first wife will be excavated.
Certain poisons can be found in the skeleton.
That is not possible.
I do not believe you, Commissioner.
You want to just let you suffer me.
Let me talk to him.
Let me with him alone, then I'll find out the truth.
Are you Monday remained in your room? You have not been down? Why would I? That man finally went away.
Your son has not killed his first and his second wife.
And his father either.
Hear me out, Mrs.
Greenhouse.
We're going to settle this matter as neat as possible.
We adhere here not concerned with the evidence.
Coming later.
I'm pretty sure that your first daughter is poisoned.
It was not aggressive poisons such as arsenic, which is often used.
Your son his first and second wife had a heart condition.
And certain drugs that are harmless to others can be deadly for heart patients.
In one of the letters to her friend Mary writes that you've been to England with your husband and son and you have become all three seasick and are treated by the ship's doctor.
Do you know what is prescribed seasickness? Not really? - Mostly atropine.
Too much atropine is fatal to a patient's heart.
So my husband is deceased in - Soon we'll talk about your husband.
Even though there is no evidence, we know your husband the last years of his life has squandered his money.
Money.
You've always been afraid to suffer poverty.
Not for myself, but for my son.
But that proves nothing.
When your son got married and lived there another woman in your house.
A woman who had the same rights as you.
This woman also had a heart condition.
And she was rich.
Richer than you.
Do you mean to say that I poisoned her, like my husband? Mary then I definitely poisoned? Probably.
Because she took her money with him.
Coincidentally, they also suffered from a heart ailment.
I'm just wondering why the body disappeared.
If she had just poisoned with atropine had a doctor simply detected a heart attack.
They also could get back on the train.
You seem very sure of your case, Commissioner.
I'm sure something happened.
An unforeseen event, which has taken your son.
Let's assume that Mary was unwell when she called a cab.
She did not trust it.
She knew you at last longer.
She went to the office.
There you were.
How do you know I was there? - Because they can immediately suspicious.
Death by poisoning is nine times out of ten women's work.
She thought of you and if you were in your room, they had gone there.
Maybe she threatened you or she would call the police but you had no choice.
- So I killed her? Probably shot your son.
Having finished your work.
Something to drink, chief? - No.
Go home, boy.
Your son take all the blame.
I'm not stop there.
Until now he has denied, and he is able to keep that up.
Unless - Unless what? I 's heard a man who loved his mouth fourteen hours.
Your son is convinced that you have done it for him.
Because you wanted to leave well looked after him.
And jealousy.
But that is not so.
You're not afraid that he caters to but yourself.
Those murders were not for him.
And now you're afraid he bore.
You do not care that he should be executed or sent to prison.
As you can stay quietly at home counting money.
Sit down, Ms.
Serre.
Mr.
Serre can go.
It is over.
I have not known.
- That does not matter.
I could go on, let you talk to your son.
But there are enough victims for one old lady.
You wish him have given the pills and then he had never talked.
The river police called.
The diver has found a trunk.
The rest still follows.
Take her to the house of detention.
He also, as an accomplice.
Are they still there? - They're just gone.
It is over.
You can go home.
Did he confess? No.
She did it.
Wat is er, Ernestine? Nothing, Commissioner.
But it could have been that you did not believe me.
Ernestine Micou? Are you the police? - Inspector Maigret.
I did not do anything.
It was my girlfriend.
Where is it? - No idea.
Search 'r only.
Is not that your job? - Dress up and come along.
First, eat my bread.
- Dress up and come along.
I can handle it by as yet too comfortable? I have an arrest warrant.
Dress you.
You arrest me best, but I'm not going to cooperate.
I would like to go home without clothes.
That was not easy.
Bunch of bastards.
Dirty cops.
Ernestine Jussiaume, maiden Micou.
Nickname: Beanstalk.
Urgently.
Here she is, Commissioner.
Kent u me nog? Bonestaak.
Are you still mad at me? I want to say that when you do make a mistake.
Ten months in jail, while my friend Lulu had stolen the money.
So you see: Anyone can make a mistake.
Even you.
Did you want to talk to me about that? - No.
It's about Alfred.
Wie is dat? - Alfred Jussiaume, m'n man.
A real wedding in the church.
He wanted to.
He is still religious.
You know him probably.
They call him Alfred the Sorrowful.
The brandkastkraker? As Boissier is about.
- Formal well.
Which it now has arrested three times.
The last time he was five years.
Did he mistreated? - He does not fly yet evil.
What has he done? - Nothing.
He sits alone significantly in the mess.
Where is he? - I do not know.
Is he running away? You need to be really fit Boissier.
Covering burglaries.
You deal with murders.
Did he kill someone? I know him.
There he is too sensitive.
He cries at the slightest provocation.
What does the good man do? He last night committed a burglary in Neuilly.
Have a seat.
Were you taking? May I 'm never help.
He works alone.
A job he sits for hours to observe the surroundings.
So the break was in Neuilly? The day before he said he was held for one authentication.
And since you 'm not seen? He called at five o'clock in the morning.
I could not sleep.
I heard once that there was something.
He almost did not come out of his words.
Is there the last 24 hours reported a murder in Neuilly? A woman.
No body fished out of the Seine? Not heard shots? Thanks.
Call Inspector Maigret if you hear anything.
It is true.
He saw a woman sitting to him with dead eyes looked.
She had the telephone handset in her hand and she was covered in blood.
Alfred could confirm that myself but.
- He was scared.
A car stopped.
Did he who came out? - A man.
Alfred fled.
- Did he leave his stuff? He went away, he said.
He was completely panicked.
Had he sometimes a girlfriend? - No.
I know that for sure.
I was there one for him to sort out.
Life is so difficult.
Pass it on if you hear from him.
- You too, Commissioner.
You're not a rookie anymore, but I can help you.
There are things I am better at home than you.
Within.
Commissioner day.
- Day Boissier.
Ken je Alfred Jussiaume? - De Treurige.
Wat is er met 'm? According to his wife he broke.
But when he wanted to crack the safe, he saw a corpse.
Just something for him.
He could be a millionaire.
He has hundreds of vaults, but he always has bad luck.
Then there are effects or documents.
Unsaleable.
His wife came to ask you for help? - Yes.
He's out of town.
Where was it? Somewhere in Neuilly.
A house with an iron gate.
Rather vague.
Maybe it's enough.
I'll check.
I'll come to your room.
He has ten years as an expert working for a safe plant.
When he started to crack safes.
This is its record of.
Where he has installed safes? Did you know that I had that addresses? - Of course.
I would not like to keep so unlucky.
The last time he was five years.
He had a bad lawyer.
I could do something.
Alfred is an artist.
He does not play the tough guy.
All he has to ten years in jail, he goes straight again.
A born victim.
He is always rushed.
There must be.
Wait in front of the bar for me.
What will it be? - Take a grog, Boissier.
I have too much thirst.
A glass of lemonade.
I have no lemon.
- Then a pastis.
I had a glass of white wine.
You know around here might be a dentist? Across.
I do not know if he's good.
It's never crowded.
What does he look like? - A lot of water.
Of your stature.
Around fifty.
He comes here it's secretly drink.
Secretly? He looks to his house before he enters.
What he drinking? - Always red wine.
Two glasses in a row, around six o'clock.
Then he wipes his mouth, pay and go.
He never says much.
Visit, Commissioner.
That comes out bad.
So you have him also found.
I have the list of vaults.
Alfred had it hidden somewhere.
May I 'm? - I got him burned.
Why? - I'm going to bring any evidence.
Are you going to watch? Can I wait here? If you want.
- I keep just thinking about it.
Do you have an appointment? - We want to talk to a doctor Serre.
The doctor receives only by appointment.
Commissaris Maigret research.
Excuse me.
My son does not want people just walk.
My son is doing an afternoon nap.
Please, sit down.
I go him get some.
I do not mean to be rude but my son and I know everything about each other.
We have been living here for 50 years.
Could I perhaps should know Is your son married? - Yes.
His wife lives here? Not anymore, commissioner.
Has she done something wrong? Are you here because of her? Please, sit down.
After the death of his first wife, my son would not remarry.
Then he met a patient of him.
She lived in Paris.
Only.
And they are married? - Yes.
I thought it was a good idea.
He was at least not alone.
I understand.
She recently deceased? Deceased? - You talk in the past tense.
That's right.
Because she has left us.
When was that? - Two days ago.
Two days ago.
So Monday.
Did she say why she left? It is a painful issue in order to explain.
Especially to a man.
At some point in our lives we go through a period where we are not quite ourselves.
We get angry about nothing.
We recall the strangest things in the head.
She had only the Netherlands.
Her homeland.
She left Monday? - Yes.
The night train.
Does your son brought her to the train? Has she taken a taxi? - She went down a search.
Have you heard from her? I think she wants to hear anything.
Has there been a divorce? We are Catholic, Commissioner.
But may I might ask the reason for your visit? Is Maria something happened? Can you tell me what's here Monday exactly occurred? Eugenie has helped my daughter packing.
Our housekeeper.
She comes every day from nine to five.
Does your son that night left the house? For dinner.
- He made his evening walk.
Just to the café? - No.
He does not drink.
Never? - One glass of watered wine with dinner.
What time did you eat? - As soon as he returned.
He still walks the route he walked with the dog.
Have you eaten together? We had already started when Mary came down.
No altercation? Nothing was said during the meal.
I felt that my son Come in, Mr.
Serre.
M'n excuses but I heard something.
- These gentlemen are from the police.
Commissaris Maigret, Boissier inspector.
Your mother has just told you that your wife is gone the day before yesterday.
What exactly do they want? - I do not know.
We talked awaiting your arrival.
Your mother told us that you took a nap.
We are here because we suspect you are the victim of a burglary.
How well it approaches? It seems to us do something to my attention.
Informants.
- For example.
I'm sorry, gentlemen.
- You are not robbed? I had myself gone to the police.
You are in possession of a safe? I believe I have the right to not answer that.
But I can say that I really owns you.
Is that a Planchart-safe, 15 years ago? I do not remember exactly when.
That is nobody's business.
Sleep you and your mother on the first floor? May I see your office 's? - Of course, Commissioner.
Then you will see for yourself that is not broken.
Do you see? Nothing wrong.
We have many books on law.
My husband was a lawyer.
You must not blame my son, but the departure of his wife Are you satisfied? Do you want the kitchen and practice, see? Nee.
Dank u.
This is only done? - Five days ago.
There are two windows broken during the storm.
Did you let someone come? No.
My son is doing small jobs always himself.
That's it.
These guys are not just bother us.
Commissioner.
I was' r forgotten.
In? No body and is not broken.
Is there not somewhere a diamond? - Two even.
Broken during the storm.
Ze do.
Someone's lying there in any case.
And you think I am.
- Alfred maybe.
Why is he calling me in the middle of the night? Yes why? Goodbye, Commissioner.
Alfred might be telling the truth.
Do me a favor, Boissier, and get under the covers with the flu.
For that time, it could not have to us.
Ernestine Rose and has talked quite a while.
What time Alfred departed the day before? - At about eleven.
First floor.
- Thank you.
Are you.
Pardon.
Yes, times have changed.
Come inside.
Have you heard from Alfred? - No, nothing.
Do you find that strange? - He must think I'm followed.
Looking through the room however.
I 's thinking.
Someone must have lied.
Why should you believe me? Do you want coffee? Nee, dank je, Ernestine.
There's a lady waiting an hour for you.
Here she is.
- Come inside.
Do you suffer from the smoke? - No.
My son smokes cigars.
I found it annoying, as he did yesterday.
I'm certainly badly brought up.
He's my only child.
My husband died when Guillaume was twelve.
I'm spoiled.
He was the man in the house.
We have all along been together.
Your son was already the married.
- He was an early widower.
How long did his first marriage? - Two years.
You will find that not remarkable? Maria he's been married two years.
What was his first wife? - Very civilized.
A widow.
Did she have children? Which they died? - To a heart attack.
I wanted to call you yesterday, but I came anyway but personally.
It must be a misunderstanding.
We have nothing to hide.
Where are those panes broken? I've already told you.
During the storm of last week had been open the window.
Was that day? - Yes.
At six o'clock in the afternoon.
When the housekeeper had left.
- Yes.
That goes at five.
We really have nothing to hide, Commissioner.
You are voluntarily come here, Mrs.
Greenhouse.
You wish that I suggest you ask.
Good.
We continue with the evening meal of your daughter, your son and you.
Where the luggage was then? - In the corridor.
Who had worn down? - Eugénie.
And Guillaume helped.
a large suitcase was there? - Yes.
A trunk.
My daughter traveled much for her wedding.
Were you there when your daughter left? No.
I try to minimize emotional situations.
I took down goodbye and went upstairs.
Where was your son at that time? - In his office, I believe.
So you do not know if they talked.
I do not think so.
I have not heard anything.
You were on the first floor.
Do you think you could have heard a call? I hear cracking the prosecutor on the other side of the house.
Who went looking for a taxi? - Mary.
I have already said.
They remained long? - Quite long, yeah.
There is no taxi stand nearby.
She had a holding.
If you went down when she was gone? No.
Guillaume came to my room.
Was he upset? He was like you saw him yesterday.
Did he know that his wife was not coming back? He guessed it.
Otherwise, she had not taken her belongings.
You may not thereafter come to your room? Is your son stayed with you? Is not he been gone? - Why? Where he parks his car? - In the garage a little further.
so he can drive away without anyone'm seeing.
Within.
Day chef.
- Come in, Janvier.
Any news? Come in.
It involves Maria Aerts.
51 years old.
Born in Sneek, Netherlands.
Before her marriage she lived in a boarding house in Neuilly.
In taxi? We have not yet.
Vannier is to the station.
Good.
Let me know if you hear anything.
I want to answer your questions, but I do not understand.
Do you worry? Yesterday this was a burglary and now you suddenly ask for Mary.
I am somewhat upset, yes.
Have you heard anything more? - I did not expect.
You keep something for me behind, Commissioner.
Have a seat.
Yesterday a man invaded your house.
Why? - To break open your safe.
What did he bring? - Nothing.
Because he is in the light of his flashlight, saw something he had not expected.
What then? A body.
The corpse of a woman.
Probably your daughter.
Did he say that? Why do you let that man opposite me repeat his accusation? Because he is no longer in Paris.
- Can not you let him come? You must have good reasons to believe the burglar.
Finally, I am but an old woman who has never done anyone harm.
I want you to come right back to our house.
I put everything open and you can look around everywhere.
Nee, dank u.
Try to move me.
Remember that you resolve in your daily life crimes.
Imagine that you ask it be said that you are accused of something.
I will certainly do that.
Garcin, with Maigret.
I make it excellent.
Listen.
Go immediately to Rue de la Ferme 43b.
You know it.
Beautiful.
I just want to talk to the dentist and I have no papers.
It should be returned to his mother.
Lok him along.
Tell him he must testify or so.
No, it is not as it should.
Can you come here, sir? How did it go? - I write an appeal.
He read him and went away.
But he does not say a word stupid.
Come on.
Day, Mr.
Serre.
I wanted to ask you a few questions.
I got a call from the police of Neuilly.
So you want to give an answer? - By no means.
Good.
Then you get a meeting with the police commissioner of Neuilly.
I do not like this kind of situation.
- Me neither.
Let him come.
Where he is suspected? - Murder of his wife.
We want to check what data.
I will not keep you long.
Stay here, Garcin.
Are you with the registration number RS ââ8822 L is the owner of the means of transport? If you have ridden for the last time? May I ask why you asks me these questions? It has us your car, your badge in any case passed if the culprit of a collision.
When was that? - Monday.
And where? Somewhere along the Seine.
The car has not been out of the garage.
Maybe someone had him 'borrowed'.
- The garage was locked.
So you have Monday and Monday night are not using your car? Are there any witnesses to the collision? That was it, Mr.
Serre.
You can go.
I did my best.
- I saw that.
You can include here? Thank you.
You drive on again.
If you have learned something? - No.
This came in the mail.
- From Alfred? It's his handwriting.
- Le Havre.
What if he comes back to Paris.
Whether we keep him? It can not, because he is not caught.
Serre has not even filed a lawsuit.
So leave him alone.
- If he has not lied.
I have news.
- See you then.
I went to the inn where I was talking about.
There are mainly foreign tourists, writing cards home.
Maria Aerts lived there for a year.
She wrote a weekly thick letters to a friend in Amsterdam.
Which is' r come to see once and then stayed three weeks.
Gertrude Oosting.
Married a brewer.
Should be easy to find.
They are likely to continue to write.
- It seems to me.
Torrence is there? - Since this morning again.
Send'm here.
Posteer I tegenover Farmstreet 43b in Neuilly.
Do not hide.
If a man comes out, follow him openly.
Was that it? Let you pay off tonight.
Enjoy your meal.
Call the police from Le Havre.
Follow me.
Bent u Eugénie? What do you want from me? - I want to talk to you.
I do not have time.
- I'm from the police.
I want to ask you a few questions.
What do you think of your employers? - Withers.
Old Mrs.
Serre too? - That's the worst.
I'll bring you home.
I do not have cops.
- That is your right.
Did you hate the daughter? They raided the pantry.
She ate everything I had prepared.
Do you know when she left? - Monday.
Here it is.
Why are you looking for her? - We suspect that she was murdered.
Keep them on.
- We do not have enough evidence yet.
And what do you want from me? Do you remember is what happened Monday? Very well.
You help tackle the young Ms.
Serre.
Yes.
All morning.
Took them a lot of personal things? - Hope.
She had thirty dresses.
She never threw anything away.
She wore them no more, but she never gave them away.
So stingy.
Like all empires.
It seems that they have a trunk and two suitcases with him.
The rest was sent the week before.
Did her husband know? - Of course.
It has long been agreed.
- Since when? Since its last attack.
After each attack they wanted to return to her country.
What attacks? She had a bad heart.
She was heart patient? - Apparently.
She took drugs? - They took them all three.
leather his own bottle or bottle of pills next to his plate.
Had they often quarrel? They chatted some weeks with each other.
Then she stayed in her room.
- Who? Mary or the mother? That Dutch.
Then she wrote letters all day.
And I had to post them.
Always someone in Amsterdam.
Gertrude Oosting? - Something like that.
It was in any case, Gertrude.
Already worked for them before she got married? Do you know who they worked for previously? They exchanged rather 's housekeeper.
That said the postman.
If you know it, you want to get away.
I, at least on step.
Why? I'm tired of the old man to look after the sugar count.
She's so sneaky.
Always polite, but she looks at you like you're nothing.
You may have noticed something when you came to work Tuesday? Was there's no broken glass pane at night in the office? Smoke not to putty? You are mistaken in the day.
- What day was that? A day or two before.
After the storm.
Are you sure? - Absolutely.
Two windows were broken.
I had to mop the floor.
Who has replaced them? Conservatory.
He's probably been to the hardware store on the Rue de Longchamp.
They are so stingy that they do everything themselves.
The dentist unclogged toilets.
Do you think they 'r killed? - No idea.
Moment.
Good evening.
Do you sell window glass? - We're close.
Research.
Excuse me.
What can I do for you? Do you know Mr.
Serre, the dentist? - Who has an account with us.
He's only been here yet? Last week sold his window glass and putty.
On which day? - The day after the storm.
Friday, I believe.
Friday.
Nice.
Thank you.
- I can check it.
He was also of the week.
He has also been Tuesday.
When he has bought a piece of glass.
41 to 45 centimeters.
Are you sure? - Very sure.
He was the first customer.
What time was that? - We're at eight o'clock.
State that in your checkbook? - Of course.
I'll send a photographer along.
Save the page.
Commissaris Maigret research.
Pardon.
It's not by the book.
But they have lied about those broken windows.
And if the dentist caught us? Wait until he sleeps.
Within.
Torrence keeps watch.
They can not see the garage from the house.
Success.
I found Gertrude Oosting and arranged an interpreter for the Dutch embassy.
You went to pick her Tuesday at the station in Amsterdam.
But she was not there.
She says she is worried and asks if Mary is dead.
Maybe.
Let me give you as an interpreter.
Ask her if she sends me letters from the past year.
And tell them as soon as possible should go to the police headquarters to Maria Serre-Aerts specify missing.
It's urgent.
Good evening.
- If you already have flu, Boissier? Almost.
I could not stand in bed.
I'll see you.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Are you ready now? - Not yet.
I'm expecting an important telegram from Amsterdam.
What are you excited.
Go you fooled someone? Something like that.
A glass of white wine.
What do you want to eat? - I do not know.
Fish perhaps.
- I take at least oysters.
you will soon go to the police station? But no comments about dust and stuff.
- Agreed.
How did it go? - Fine.
The pictures are almost ready.
Come on in.
Have you found anything? There is already three days no longer driving the car.
Nothing fancy, just two scratches in the trunk.
As if there has been sanded down something heavy? - Could be.
A suitcase or a crate.
No traces of blood? - No.
And no hair.
Do you think the car is cleaned only? Not from outside but from within.
I could find almost no dust.
I will examine my finds.
Good evening.
Are you not sleepy? Is it always like this? Your work.
- It depends on.
Is it a murder? - Probably.
Do you know who did it? he knows that you know him suspect? That must be awful.
For the poor woman it was not so nice.
A telegram, Commissioner.
An investigation request from Amsterdam.
We can go home.
And the pictures? - They come to nothing.
The trace evidence either.
- Has the killer hedged? This was in the driver's seat.
Gravel.
Of bricks.
- That's something.
Please check back later with your men home.
Pak 's considerably.
We need to make an impression.
Is it hard? - In his way.
I'll call you.
You go at looking at the harbor, Boissier.
Check whether last week's unloaded a load of bricks.
Do you have a warrant? - Bye, Mr.
Serre.
Please.
As you can see there is an investigation the disappearance of Ms Maria Serre-Aerts.
Gertrude Oosting has declared her missing.
What is it, Guillaume? Nothing, Mom.
These guys just come by.
Go back to your room.
So you've met your wife because she took you as a dentist.
Did you know she was rich? Doctor Dubuc so was the doctor of your wife? For our wedding, yes.
Did you know that she was heart patient? Yes, she had said.
Your former wife is also deceased from heart disease.
That's right.
The death certificate is in the room with my mother.
Can you show me a picture of your father? I'm not.
The whole shebang.
Take out the tooth comb through it.
Would that impress him? - In any case, someone.
I'm going after the father.
- Shall I do that? Here, I got it.
Alain Serre, seen on his back.
We were classmates.
He's been thirty years dead.
What kind of man was it? - When it comes to, Maigret? His son.
That's dentist.
I've never seen.
I knew he had a son.
Alain and I were among a group of party animals for whom the family did not come in first place.
This is not his wife.
Nee, z'n mistress.
His wife I did not know.
They lived somewhere in Neuilly.
But he has long been with the dancer.
Josette.
A naughty thing.
They called "r Nightjar.
They are upstairs.
They found nothing.
I do not know where to stay.
What are they looking for anyway? We had 'r never let go.
If I had known this Is this you, Mr.
Greenhouse? Who else? He drank? - He could hit him considerably.
We lived the good life.
A memorable time.
And, Janvier? - Nothing special.
Only the death certificates of his first wife and his father.
Looking at a photo of his father.
I want to see that.
Pull your coat, Mr.
Serre.
The letters from Ms.
Serre to her friend Gertrude Oosting.
Start with the most recent.
Thanks, Dambois.
Warn me if you go.
Want to read this, sir Conservatory? The page last Tuesday from the cash book of hardware store Gillot.
It says: Glass plate of 41 to 45 and a half pounds putty.
The first customer that day.
Do you understand what that means? - Are you accusing me? Officially, you're here as a witness, but I could blame you.
Then you can seek the assistance of a lawyer.
I do not need a lawyer.
Do you suffer from a heart condition? - Hypertrophy, as you probably.
Your father is deceased from heart disease when you were still in school.
Your first wife was heart patient, and Maria Aerts too.
Many people die from heart disease.
Do you have life insurance? - Since my childhood already.
But I have not seen any insurance policy of your mother.
Which is not insured.
- Was your father insured? And your first wife.
The paper lay on my mother's room.
Indeed.
And your second wife? It is now very common.
But it is less common to save all that money at home in a safe.
That's what so many people.
- A fortune yields no interest.
You forget the high taxes, the devaluations and the unfavorable financial arrangements.
I understand.
You admit that you wanted to highlight the tax authorities.
Did your second wife that all that money was in the safe? Of course.
Her money was also there.
I have found no prenup.
We were married in community of property.
That's unusual at your age.
Otherwise we already have an inventory of our possessions.
Was your wife rich? - She still is.
Richer than you? - Almost as rich.
Is her fortune in France? - Partially.
Also in the Netherlands.
In what form she keeps her money? - Mainly in the form of gold.
Even before you knew? I understand where you're headed.
Yes, I have advised her her possessions to turn into gold.
And that gold was in your safe.
- Indeed.
Until? See you Monday.
When Mary came down, I gave her the gold.
So that was located somewhere in her luggage.
I suppose so.
How do I know that the money in your vault is your money and not also that of your wife? What the N and M? We, my mother and I have always done together our money.
We did not make any distinction.
The M stands for Mary.
- Indeed.
There is a number that keeps coming back.
Her contribution to the household.
Your wife paid a fixed amount per month? They do not pay really, because the money was already in the vault.
It was deducted from her account.
With me.
Do not wait for me.
It's getting late.
Yes, it takes a while.
Do you have a photo of the father? - That did not Ms.
Serre.
This is going to take all night.
That will get food.
May I? Have you thought about that third window? That's not wise.
I'd like a plausible explanation.
You do not get.
You insists that once you've installed new windows? Vorige week, de dag na de storm.
And after you have bought no more glass, despite this note? Kom I even, in January? My inspector writing down what you just said.
After I wrote you about my life, my husband and my mother you probably understand how I feel.
You all hear it still.
I am leaving on Monday.
Time will pass quickly.
I can not stand it much longer here anymore.
I'm ready, boss.
He's waiting.
I'm coming.
Focus mainly on Maria Aerts, her husband and her mother.
I want to know how they were living together.
Money, alcohol, the relationship of the two.
Jealousy perhaps.
And focus on details of the father, the lawyer.
We have nothing on him.
No letters, no pictures.
Strange.
If he were banished from their lives.
Can I have a glass of water? No glass of red wine? Yes, that's part of the game.
Fearing for your mom you drink on the sly.
Is that a question? - No.
You do not have to answer.
The father of my mother drunk, her two brothers also and her sister sat in a lunatic asylum.
There was never any alcohol in the house.
My mother was afraid that I would become an alcoholic.
She thinks it is hereditary.
Do you like a lot of your mother, Mr.
Greenhouse? That is normal.
We have always lived together.
Just like in a marriage.
What do you mean? - Is your mother jealous? It is more common in a widow with one son.
Was your mother jealous of your relationships? Do you have many friends? What has that to do with the "disappearance" of my wife? I have no letter from a friend found you.
Or a group that most people still do have.
There's me noticed something.
You only have pictures of the family of your mother at home.
Not your father's or his family.
I am not aware.
Do you know when destroyed? How do you remember your father? Hear this question even at the hearing? Our call is not recorded.
Your father was a lawyer.
What kind of life he led? he often was home or he led a public life? He often went out.
- Your mother? Barely.
He had mistresses? - I do not know.
Died your father in bed? No, on the stairs.
- Were you taking? No, I was not home.
When I returned, he was dead two hours.
Wie was z'n arts? - Dokter Dutilleux.
who is still alive? - No, that is more than ten years dead.
Were you at home when your first wife died? Answer the question, please.
Yes, I was at home.
- Where were you? In my office.
- What time was it? About nine o'clock in the evening.
- Was your wife in her room? She was unwell.
- Was your mother at her? I do not know that anymore.
Did your mother called you? - I believe so.
Was your wife already dead when you came in her room? She then lived one quarter.
She died when it was called.
Wie was haar arts? - Doctor Dutilleux.
Was that your GP? Why did not indicate which attempted burglary? There is nothing to indicate.
Where is your wife, Mr.
Greenhouse? We will still have to find her.
Your turn, Janvier.
Give him a glass of water.
She's in the waiting room.
The mother.
The better.
Vannier late to record the conversation in shorthand.
I'm leaving.
Nobody knows yet.
The old lady does not.
She always smiles, as long as I do what she wants.
It is the most selfish woman I know.
Guillaume will probably be relieved that I leave.
We have long been nothing more in common.
I never could get used to the smell of his skin.
Now do you understand why we do not sleep in the same room? You say you have not seen the taxi driver but he had to get hold of the luggage? I do not know.
I was inside.
After two years I still scare when he comes into my room.
Fortunately, it rarely.
He thinks he's me, a pleasure doing it.
Whether it is his duty.
Maybe he needs it for his mother.
Do not worry.
I think I stay busy all night.
What are you doing? Kiss.
So you do not help your wife with her luggage? No.
I sat in my room and the shutters were closed.
How much luggage she had? - One trunk and two suitcases.
Please adopt me here long? - That depends on you.
Is not it less tiring to just tell the truth? When you killed your wife? - I did not kill her.
Ga maar eten, in January.
Let bring some sandwiches and beer.
Why are you married to Maria van Aerts? Mom was afraid I would be alone.
She sees me as a child and finds that someone has to take care of me.
And to keep you from drinking.
Have a seat.
What do you mean? Have you never heard that your father it took a lot of? He went out a lot.
- And gave a lot of money.
Maybe.
Did your mother there arguing about? - Arguing is not in our nature.
What did your first marriage you returned? We do not speak the same language, Mr.
Maigret.
Surely you are married in community of property? I've already told you.
Your first wife was rich.
You have inherited from her.
Do you think then abnormal? As long as the body of your second wife is not found You can not inherit from her.
I inherit either from her if she's still alive.
Do you think she's still alive? - I did not kill her.
The ironmonger therefore mistaken as regards that third piece of window glass? It's my word against his.
- Unless you killed your wife.
Tuesday morning, so you saw nothing strange in your office.
No.
Also no toolbox.
I've said a few times.
You have the right to question me but your inspector those questions already asked.
You try to make me numb.
But that can take some time.
In short: I did not kill my wife.
And I will not answer more questions that have been asked.
Your mother is here.
She's more than two hours in the waiting room.
Do you want her there all night waiting for? She can do whatever she wants.
I do not like her.
I would not want to do your job.
Would you like something to eat? Like.
Thank you.
To speak to your mother? - No.
I have to tell her anything.
Has she eaten? - I do not know.
She can leave.
She does not while I'm here.
- It will take a while.
How is she? - Good.
She's too busy talking with a former prostitute.
Can you let her bring a sandwich? - Has already happened.
Tell Torrence he Bonestaak brings Lucas.
What did she say? - She wanted to know why I was here.
So when I hung up a story.
And then she went to ask questions.
What? - About you.
I've told you r everyone gets to work.
You are kidding me.
That someone winter nude've locked in your office with all the windows open.
- That can not be, Ernestine.
It made quite an impression.
She is less confident.
Many nervous.
She asked if you hit them too.
- With a whip sure.
That was not easy.
Your mother thinks I torture.
What did you say to her? - I'm nothing.
Probably the girl sitting at her.
Such people invent anything interesting to do.
May I speak to her? Who? - My mom.
No.
I'm going but it's talking to her.
My mother knows nothing.
- And you? Me neither.
You force me to question her just like you.
You have absolutely no compassion.
- With whom? With an old lady.
Maria Aerts had become like old.
Your turn, Janvier.
I go to the mother.
The tall woman wants to see you.
She does not feel well.
She waits in the room inspector Lucas.
Beer, Marcel? - I do not turn off.
By close, Commissioner.
What is it? I could not.
What a horrible man.
I do not know how rd son, but she is gehaaider than me.
She asked, but I had nothing in mind.
Did you say who you were? - No, but she guessed.
What? - I've getippeld.
She asked all about prison, and I bought it.
Told you about Alfred? - Yes, but not what he did.
She has at least an hour by asked about prison life.
You have no shot here? Which rod has exhausted me.
That you know fixed.
Does she still had on her son? - No, but she looked at every sound.
Then she asked something you might be interested.
She asked if I knew people who died under the guillotine.
What time is it? Two o'clock.
Go home.
- No.
I will stay here.
Photos of Mrs.
Van Aerts.
There was a note from Ms Oosting.
They thought they could come in handy.
I found something interesting.
They hate traveling.
They have once been abroad.
To London.
It seems that all of them then became seasick and are treated by the ship's doctor.
So when I proposed to go to Nice, they said nothing at first.
Guillaume later said his mother was a shocking idea.
He asked me to please there to abandon.
The drawer of my nightstand was open and he automatically glanced in.
He was quite pale when he saw the gun from my trip to Egypt and he asked if it was loaded.
I let him see the empty warehouse.
Then he asked if I had bullets for.
I said that it had to be somewhere.
Later told my mother that lady should have no weapon.
I had to give it to her.
I refused, because it was a souvenir.
I've been thinking, Mr.
Serre.
You're not so bad lie.
Mary had not disappear.
Since you have no interest in.
She had indeed go to the Netherlands.
I do not know if she had to die at home or after her departure.
Once she was gone.
So is it, huh? She had to die a natural death, or something like that.
But it did not go as you wanted, and you had 't body and hide the luggage.
But there's something bothering me.
After parting your wife is returned to your office because there found her body.
You do not have to answer.
You only need to listen.
In the meantime I know that your wife had an automatic pistol.
Maybe you shot in self-defense.
I take it from you to.
You were confused and are left to pick up your car.
You are doing wrong, Mr.
Serre.
Sooner or later we found the body, and we see that your wife was shot.
I'm just wondering what weapon.
Yours or hers.
If it was hers, she came back maybe to claim something and she has threatened u.
Due to a money issue might be.
You have in any case nothing to fear.
You can throw it even in self-defense.
Still the question remains why your wife has come back and you are threatened.
What do you think of my reasoning? Nothing.
Would you still can not talk? I answer your questions.
Your wife did not recover its money and not threatened? My wife has never threatened me.
Not so certain, Mr.
Serre.
There you can regret it.
You must convince the jury that was your life in danger.
You have no interest in sitting with a corpse.
At least not with a body that you can not show.
On the death of your first wife could you doctor Dutilleux call to make a death certificate.
Mary also had a heart condition.
She also had one to die a natural death.
That was already the successful earlier.
Now was the opposite.
- I 'r not killed.
Nor hid her body and the tools? There has been no burglar.
In a few hours he might be able to your nose.
It is a repeat offender.
We know him.
He told his wife everything.
She's your mother in the waiting room.
It is time that you make a decision.
It is now three o'clock.
I have nothing to say.
Good.
I will have to interrogate your mother.
I wanted to save her ordeal.
You again, Janvier.
I found some, Commissioner.
It was easy.
I've gone all bays.
Where does this come from? - Quai de Billancourt.
Only one boat had fired bricks.
When? - Last Monday.
The quay is covered with red dust.
The same as what we have found.
Call the river police.
- Has already happened.
If you come here with, Mrs.
Greenhouse? Have a seat.
Your son still suffers from a heart condition? - He has always had a weak heart.
I tell not like bad news, especially for someone your age but he killed his wife.
He denies, but we have evidence.
- What evidence? We know he threw the body into the Seine on the Quai de Billancourt.
He does not throw in self-defense.
That is not smart.
I'm sure his wife threatened him with a gun.
Whether they have threatened.
When he tried to steal the gun, it went off.
There is a third possibility.
That your son has shot first with his own weapon.
I was in my room.
Have you heard anything? - Only the door and a car.
The taxi? - I think so.
She would take a taxi.
You're not sure? - I have not seen anything.
Maybe it was the car of your son.
- He had not been away, he said.
Last you knew that your daughter had taken a cab.
That is still the case.
- You do not remember for sure.
You are now asking me for two days the same questions.
I do not know anymore.
And I've been waiting for hours.
I can not.
Why did you come here? I want to be with my son when he is struggling.
Also follow him to jail? - I do not understand that.
Would you take part of the blame your son for you? He's done nothing.
- Are you sure? Why would he murder his wife? Are you convinced of his innocence? - As far as I know.
Could he have done it? - He had no reason to.
Yet he did it.
Once the officer has, I suggest your son indicted.
He does not stand a chance.
He gets the death penalty.
His first wife will be excavated.
Certain poisons can be found in the skeleton.
That is not possible.
I do not believe you, Commissioner.
You want to just let you suffer me.
Let me talk to him.
Let me with him alone, then I'll find out the truth.
Are you Monday remained in your room? You have not been down? Why would I? That man finally went away.
Your son has not killed his first and his second wife.
And his father either.
Hear me out, Mrs.
Greenhouse.
We're going to settle this matter as neat as possible.
We adhere here not concerned with the evidence.
Coming later.
I'm pretty sure that your first daughter is poisoned.
It was not aggressive poisons such as arsenic, which is often used.
Your son his first and second wife had a heart condition.
And certain drugs that are harmless to others can be deadly for heart patients.
In one of the letters to her friend Mary writes that you've been to England with your husband and son and you have become all three seasick and are treated by the ship's doctor.
Do you know what is prescribed seasickness? Not really? - Mostly atropine.
Too much atropine is fatal to a patient's heart.
So my husband is deceased in - Soon we'll talk about your husband.
Even though there is no evidence, we know your husband the last years of his life has squandered his money.
Money.
You've always been afraid to suffer poverty.
Not for myself, but for my son.
But that proves nothing.
When your son got married and lived there another woman in your house.
A woman who had the same rights as you.
This woman also had a heart condition.
And she was rich.
Richer than you.
Do you mean to say that I poisoned her, like my husband? Mary then I definitely poisoned? Probably.
Because she took her money with him.
Coincidentally, they also suffered from a heart ailment.
I'm just wondering why the body disappeared.
If she had just poisoned with atropine had a doctor simply detected a heart attack.
They also could get back on the train.
You seem very sure of your case, Commissioner.
I'm sure something happened.
An unforeseen event, which has taken your son.
Let's assume that Mary was unwell when she called a cab.
She did not trust it.
She knew you at last longer.
She went to the office.
There you were.
How do you know I was there? - Because they can immediately suspicious.
Death by poisoning is nine times out of ten women's work.
She thought of you and if you were in your room, they had gone there.
Maybe she threatened you or she would call the police but you had no choice.
- So I killed her? Probably shot your son.
Having finished your work.
Something to drink, chief? - No.
Go home, boy.
Your son take all the blame.
I'm not stop there.
Until now he has denied, and he is able to keep that up.
Unless - Unless what? I 's heard a man who loved his mouth fourteen hours.
Your son is convinced that you have done it for him.
Because you wanted to leave well looked after him.
And jealousy.
But that is not so.
You're not afraid that he caters to but yourself.
Those murders were not for him.
And now you're afraid he bore.
You do not care that he should be executed or sent to prison.
As you can stay quietly at home counting money.
Sit down, Ms.
Serre.
Mr.
Serre can go.
It is over.
I have not known.
- That does not matter.
I could go on, let you talk to your son.
But there are enough victims for one old lady.
You wish him have given the pills and then he had never talked.
The river police called.
The diver has found a trunk.
The rest still follows.
Take her to the house of detention.
He also, as an accomplice.
Are they still there? - They're just gone.
It is over.
You can go home.
Did he confess? No.
She did it.
Wat is er, Ernestine? Nothing, Commissioner.
But it could have been that you did not believe me.