Suzanne Burden credited as playing...
Patricia Matthews
- Patricia Matthews, Mildred: [singing] Life is just a bowl of cherries/ Life is too mysterious/ you work, you play, you worry so/ But you can't get your dough when you glow, glow, glow, glow...
- [Donovan is stumbling through the darkness of a dark, seemingly vacant apartment]
- Donovan: What on earth is Pat piping up to? Everything is the wrong bloody place!
- [Jimmy turns on the lights; revealing that they are not in the right apartment]
- Donovan: This isn't Pat's flat.
- Jimmy: [excited whisper] Jeepers!
- Donovan: [reading a letter on the table] Mrs. Ernestine Grant...
- [beat]
- Donovan: Oh, Lord! we're in *36B*, not *46B*!
- Jimmy: We better get out here before she finds us!
- [someone snoring sounds]
- Jimmy, Donovan: [the two men burst into giggles]
- [the two men are about to leave when Jimmy notices something shocking]
- Jimmy: Look!
- [Donovan turns to see a pair of a woman's feet sticking out behind the packing cases in the flat]
- Donovan: [genuinely shocked] Good God!
- [They walk over and discover Mrs. Ernestine Grant's corpse concealed behind the curtain]
- Patricia Matthews, Mildred: [singing in the background] Life is just a bowl of cherries...
- [scene shifts to Hastings and Poirot watching Patricia and Mildred singing on the stairs]
- Patricia Matthews, Mildred: [singing cont] Life's too mysterious, life's too mysterious... You work, you play, you worry so/ But you can't get your dough/ while you glow, glow, glow!
- Donovan: [He and Jimmy walk out of the apartment; looking perturbed] What do we do?
- Jimmy: [pause] I don't know.
- Donovan: [to Patricia and Mildred] Pat, Mildred. Something's happened.
- Patricia Matthews: What is it?
- Donovan: There's a dead woman down here.
- Mildred: [as she and Patricia rush down the stairs; unaware that Poirot is close by; shocked] Oh my God!