Dead Man's Folly Page #5

Synopsis: Hercule Poirot is called in by his crime writer friend, Ariadne Oliver and discovers that she is troubled. She has been asked to create a "Murder Hunt" game for a fair at Nass House and she is puzzled with all the help she is getting. Poirot and his assistant, Captain Hastings arrive at the fair to see what is going on. They find a couple on the brink of divorce, a rich Lord and a dizzy Lady, an old lady, trapped in the horrors of the past and a womanizing architect. Things take a turn for the worse when during the "Murder Hunt" the girl playing the "dead" body is murdered for real, an old man's body is pulled from the local lake and the Lady of the manor goes missing when a face from her past shows up. It is clear to Poirot that someone is playing the game for real and he sets out to discover who it is...
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Clive Donner
Production: Warner Bros. Television
 
IMDB:
6.4
NOT RATED
Year:
1986
90 min
516 Views


Let's see if the next track gets.

Why the water?

- Si.

Oh, no, no, no..

Also I find Lady Stubbs.

You can do it later.

Come on, hop on the boat.

I am waiting in the boathouse.

Not say where we expect,

Mrs., spoils the fun.

If you want, help others,

but not us.

Your first and tell me if it is dangerous.

You're away, you are receding...

returns.

Take the oar and pull.

Care.. that's it.

My hand.

I'll give you a nudge, there they go...

Remember, see in the boathouse.

Arrived.

- If...

Wait a minute.

You can download. Carefully.

'Follow me.

- I'm coming.

A music key,

if I remember correctly.

If. key... F.

Key F.

- Si.

F. key F. Key.

Like folly.

- If, folly.

Folly, key of F, folly,

F key, folly...

Folly.

Folly.

Wait, wait.

The key to the shed in boats this folly.

In folly, it is.

Lord Poirot.

Lord Poirot.

Captain Hastings.

Come quickly to the boathouse.

Please come soon to

the boathouse, please come.

Just like in my crime.

So, Mrs. Oliver.

Exactly to his crime.

Except this girl...

Is dead.

WELCOME TO THE HOUSE FAIR Nasse...

...was my crime, my crime.

And I did.

I did, I did.

Was my crime..

I did, I did.

Was my crime...

Ms. Oliver, man.

Do not feel guilty.

But I feel guilty, I did,

I told my

serious crime not the only this weekend.

Inspector.

Was my crime, I did.

Who are you?

My name is Hercule Poirot and this..

Sure. I was there...

...when crimes solved the ABC.

Extraordinary.

- Si.

I feel doubts since.

And who does not?

I have a..

No, no, not in doubt.

You probably do not remember me.

I think so.

ABC crimes.

You sergeant detective was then.

You should now be detective inspector.

His name began with H...

Bland? That's it.

But that was 15 years ago.

You remind me of me. I Why not you?

And he is..

Hastings, Poirot.

- Hastings. He is Hastings.

Like this?

And this is Mrs. Oliver.

Oliver? Ariadne Oliver.

American detective writer.

So, why?

Just read his last book:

'Axes, blood and parakeet'.

Very Good.

Thanks.

But this is not fiction.

I should not allow that child interpret...

...a Yugoslav

the second wife of a nuclear scientist.

The dead girl is the wife

of a scientist Yugoslav...

?

No, no, no. She was the wife Yugoslav..

.. Of a nuclear scientist.

I think it best to let me get this straight.

Ms. Oliver

invention a 'hunt of a crime' a game...

Where tracks are left here and there.

And you will find them all

first, won the prize.

But unfortunately life itself...

...mysterious as he got into the game.

Could you be more specific?

Well, it could be someone

who likes to kill young...

...o...

...she recognized someone

trying to hide their identity.

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Agatha Christie

Prolific author of mysteries in early part of 1900s. Creator of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, a Belgian sleuth. more…

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