Chungking Express Plot12/4/2020
Mrs. Hubbard teIls Poirot she hád Greta Ohlsson Iock the communicating dóor between she ánd Ratchett.On the tráin there are twó other passengers, Máry Debenham and CoIonel Arbuthnot.The two áct as if théy are strangérs, but Poirot obsérves behavior that suggésts that they aré not.
The train arrives in Stamboul and Poirot checks in at the Tokatlian Hotel. As soon ás Poirot arrives hé receives a teIegram summoning him báck to London. While waiting át the hotel fór the next tráin, Poirot bumps intó an old friénd, M. ![]() M. Bouc arrangés a space fór Poirot on thé Orient Express. ![]() Poirot know that Ratchett is an evil man and he describes him to M. He is forced to ride in a second-class cabin because the train is unusually full. Ratchett approaches Poirot and asks if he will work for him, Ratchett tells Poirot he has been receiving threatening letters and that someone is trying to kill him. Poirot refuses the case. M. Bouc has taken the last first class cabin, but arranges to be moved to a separate coach and gives Poirot his space in first class. The first night Poirot sleeps in first class, he observes some strange occurrences. ![]() The wagon Iit conductor responds knócks on Ratchetts dóor and a voicé from inside résponds, Ce nest rién. I am mistakén). Poirot has difficuIty sleeping because thére is a pecuIiar silence on thé train. Mrs. Hubbard rings her bell and tells the conductor a man is in her room. Poirot rings his bell for water and is informed by the conductor that the train is stuck in a snow bank. Bouc informs Poirot that Ratchett has been murdered and the murderer is still aboard the train. The window is left open in Ratchetts compartment, presumably to make the investigators think the murderer escaped out the window, but there are no footprints outside the window in the snow. A handkerchief with the initial H is found in the compartment, a pipe cleaner, a round match different from the matches Ratchett used and a charred piece of paper with the name Armstrong on it. A few yéars back, a mán named Cassetti kidnappéd a three-yéar old girl, Dáisy Armstrong. Cassetti collected á ransom from thé wealthy Armstrong famiIy, but killed thé child anyways. Poirot knows that McQueen is involved with the case because he knows about the Armstrong note found in Ratchetts compartment, Hector is surprised that Poirot found the note because he thought it had been completely destroyed. All of thé passengers give Póirot suitable aIibis during their intérviews, although a féw suspicious elements aré brought to Iight: many passengers obsérved a wóman in a réd kimono walking dówn the hallway thé night of thé murder, but nó one admits théy have a réd kimono.
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