Agatha Christie's Poirot1989

Hercule Poirot:
[to Major Despard, who is on horseback] there was a Mrs. Luxmore.

Major Despard:
How did you know?

Hercule Poirot:
My friend, Madame Oliver. She discovered that your editor made one tiny error. In Chapter four, you mentioned that you went on safari, accompanied by the Luxmores. Plural. Later on, there was only one.

[pause]

Hercule Poirot:
Did you shoot him?

Major Despard:
[after a short pause] Yes.

Hercule Poirot:
Were you in love with his wife?

[Scene shows Major Despard, now standing right by Poirot; confessing his past]

Major Despard:
Luxmore claimed that he was looking for herbs and mosses for medical purposes.

[scene shifts to a flashback showing Mr. Luxmore sprinkling strange ingredients into something]

Major Despard:
[voiceover] But really what he was looking for was ingredients for narcotic drugs...

Mr Luxmore:
[he pours a strange steaming liquid into a glass from a beaker]

Major Despard:
[voiceover cont] Old fool began experimenting on himself.

Hercule Poirot:
And what happened?

Major Despard:
He went berzerk.

[Scene shows a now dangerously intoxicated Luxmore reeling around like a drunken man]

Mr Luxmore:
[grunting as he sways forward toward his wife and grabs her]

Mrs Luxmore:
[she screams as he grabs her and throws her around. She gets cornered in a corner of the tent as Luxmore clumsily tries to attack her with a machete]

Major Despard:
[bursting into the tent, brandishing a rifle] Luxmore!

[Luxmore grunts, looks at Despard, and then turns back towards Mrs. Luxmore's direction and raises his machete. Despard aims and shoots Luxmore in the back killing him; saving Mrs. Luxmore. Mrs. Luxmore and Despard look at each other in horror and shock]

Major Despard:
[back in the present] There were no Europeans for at least hundreds of miles. Lily and I decided to cover the incident up with Luxmore dying of a fever to avoid a scandal. If the truth ever be found out, she would be ruined. And so will I. So... I shut the lid on my emotions, buried him there and came back...