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Based on two premises:
1) Acute morphine poisoning will quickly cause a physical reaction, and the grandfather has known that he is not poisoned since the time of death;
2) The screenwriter is willing to make the plot basically complete without major omissions;
The major omission here corresponds to "an outstanding mystery novelist who will not let his suicide body fail an autopsy"
Because, if you follow the layout that the grandfather told the heroine on the face, the plot will be the following development:
1) The will has been modified before the incident, involving a large amount of inheritance. After the lawyer announces the will, the family will inevitably make trouble and will inevitably require an autopsy-because they must immediately suspect that the woman has taken the initiative to do anything, and even murdered the grandfather;
2) The autopsy results must be different;
3) Entering into the murder investigation, it is found that the female protagonist has gone through the secret passage, mud footprints, shoe prints, etc., the will is invalidated, and even the female protagonist will be judged as the murderer. (The grandfather specified this route, and it is his own home, he will inevitably think of these traces and clues-the heroine's special physique cannot lie. Once someone cross-examines, how can it be hidden?)
In fact, if the grandfather finds that he is really poisoned (assuming that there is no drug change incident for the US team), what he should do is to go to the living room and shout and let his family passively testify to himself, and at the same time directly call the police. Call (police testimony & recording), take the responsibility for the wrong medicine on your own initiative (just say, "I took the opportunity to exchange morphine during the injection and wanted to commit suicide. After I died, you would understand blabla when you saw the will") , Successfully completed the "suicide" of the transfer of flowers and trees.
A corollary:
It is possible that the grandfather decided to commit suicide in the secret room on the night of his birthday and complete his will by squatting himself in the secret room. There are also some details in the film that echo this decision, so I won't go into details.
Therefore, suppose that grandpa found out that he was not acutely poisoned, and immediately confirmed that someone changed the medicine and wanted to kill himself-in this case, how did he do it (remember, grandpa’s purpose is to successfully complete what he has changed" "Outrageous" will, this is his biggest motivation):
1) Propose a layout with a lot of loopholes to the heroine, and deliberately take a small book to write down, emphasizing that he "doesn't understand", and avoid the heroine's suspicion;
2) Deliberately do not explain how to avoid surveillance, so that the female protagonist will be found in the surveillance with a high probability in subsequent investigations;
3) The secret room committed suicide by itself and entered two major branches:
4-1-1) If the suicide is confirmed and no one in the family questioned (small probability), then the will is established (achieved)
4-2-1) In the murder investigation (high probability), the heroine was cross-examined because of her special physique, and she told her appearance (because of this special physique setting, the probability is extremely high, and it can almost be considered that after entering this branch) Is inevitable);
4-2-2) The results of the autopsy contradicted the testimony of the hostess. The grandfather was not poisoned. He simply killed himself (suicide), and the will was established (achieved)
Successor:
4-2-3) The police or detective reasoned that someone changed the dressing (under the setting that the heroine "cannot lie at all", this is a natural reasoning);
4-2-4) Investigate and find out who in the family changed drugs, attempted murder, and went to jail;
In fact, apart from not giving a share of the inheritance, the family members who wanted to kill him were punished, and because the heroine accidentally made the wrong medicine and tried to avoid losing his life, it might be the grandfather's true intention to kill himself. However, no matter what his layout, he never expected that the US team would kill people one after another and one after another, so the goal of "punishing the family" was still (unachieved) after all. Grandpa loves his family. Just like the letter written to his daughter in invisible ink at the end of the film, he wants to make the children full of wings and leave their own shelter to live independently. My life at the age of eighty-five, with this motivation, can be exchanged as a commission.
Of course, under the above explanation, the whole plot cannot be said to be dripping, but this explanation will at least make me-as an audience-feel more at ease after watching it, because the overall creation of the film is very Poirot. It is worthy of a ending that allows the audience to repeatedly feel humanity after knowing the true truth.
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