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them. The detective tells him that he has been shadowing him for two weeks and charges him with bigamy and fourteen counts of murder.
Verdoux is relieved when the detective takes a drink. "We'll find the bodies." "I don't think you will," counters Verdoux. Train wheels. On board the train the detective is sleeping. Slapping the detective to see if he is "awake," Verdoux gets the key and slips out of his handcuffs. Opening the detective's wallet, he finds a ticket and money. Then he steps off the train.
Newspaper headlines: Inspector Morrow found dead on train. Verdoux, reading them in a Paris cafe, is not displeased. The young girl he helped warmly greets him, but with noble abnegation he pretends he doesn't remember her and orders the puzzled girl about her business as he steps into a street car.
Train wheels. Verdoux returns to his "pigeon," who holds up baby socks she is knitting. Verdoux is startled until she explains it is for the pregnant woman next door. The maid, about to bleach her hair, uses a bottle marked "peroxide" into which Verdoux had poured some poison — and her hair comes out in handfuls. She drops the bottle and replaces it with another from which Verdoux fills Annabella's glass.
After a patient wait on Verdoux's part, Annabella sips the drink and spits it out, roaring in disgust, "That's sarsaparilla!" Verdoux, alarmed that he might have drunk the poison, rushes to the kitchen for some milk as an antidote. As he screams, "I'm dying. Tell my wife I'm here," the maid enters with her few remaining tufts of hair standing on end.
Verdoux next takes the indestructible Annabella out in a rowboat intending to drown her, after first putting her out with chloroform. Approaching her as if she is fishing, he is tipped back in the rocking boat and chloroforms himself. On reviving he tries to slip a rope