Agatha Christie's Poirot Episode Guide - inaf iasf bologna
Agatha Christie's Poirot Episode Guide - inaf iasf bologna
Agatha Christie's Poirot Episode Guide - inaf iasf bologna
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<strong>Agatha</strong> Christie’s <strong>Poirot</strong> <strong>Episode</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />
Dead Man’s Mirror<br />
Season 5<br />
<strong>Episode</strong> Number: 45<br />
Season <strong>Episode</strong>: 7<br />
Originally aired: Sunday February 28, 1993<br />
Writer:<br />
<strong>Agatha</strong> Christie, Anthony Horowitz<br />
Director: Brian Farnham<br />
Show Stars: Hugh Fraser (Captain Arthur Hastings), Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector<br />
James Japp), Pauline Moran (Miss Felicity Lemon), David Suchet<br />
(Hercule <strong>Poirot</strong>)<br />
Guest Stars: Tushka Bergen (Susan Cardwell), Jon Croft (Lawrence), Iain Cuthbertson<br />
(Gervase Chevenix), Emma Fielding (Ruth Chevenix Lake), James<br />
Greene (II) (Staff), Richard Lintern (John Lake), Jeremy Northam (Hugo<br />
Trent), John Rolfe (Journalist), Fiona Walker (Miss Lingard), Zena<br />
Walker (Vanda Chevenix), Derek Smee (Auctioneer)<br />
Summary: At an auction, Hercule <strong>Poirot</strong> wants to buy an old looking glass.<br />
An art dealer called Gervase Chevenix outbids him for it, but the<br />
dealer then offers <strong>Poirot</strong> the mirror if he will investigate a mystery<br />
for him. Chevenix believes he is being cheated by an architect, John<br />
Lake. . . and Mrs Chevenix claims that her spirit guide, an ancient<br />
Egyptian called Saphra, has warned her of an imminent death. There<br />
is a disputed will, a second unsigned will, the sound of shots behind<br />
locked doors, an apparent suicide which <strong>Poirot</strong> suspects is murder.<br />
Whatever you do, do not go out of the room during Dead Man’s Mirror,<br />
or you will lose the plot!<br />
When Sir Gervase Chevenix-Gore writes to Hercule<br />
<strong>Poirot</strong> to unceremoniously summon him down to the<br />
Chevenix-Gore ancestral pile, <strong>Poirot</strong> is initially reluctant<br />
to go. However, there is something that intrigues him<br />
and so catches the train that Sir Gervase wanted him<br />
to. On arrival, it is clear that no-one was expecting him,<br />
and, for the first time in memory, Sir Gervase himself,<br />
who is always punctual, is missing. <strong>Poirot</strong> and guests go<br />
to his study and find him there dead, having apparently<br />
shot himself. <strong>Poirot</strong> is not convinced, however, and soon<br />
starts to prove that Sir Gervase was murdered because<br />
of various improbable factors surrounding the death, including<br />
the position at which the bullet is believed to<br />
have struck a mirror and the many different moods that<br />
Chevenix-Gore exhibited during the day.<br />
When <strong>Poirot</strong> first arrives at the Chevenix-Gore’s<br />
house, he meets Chevenix’s wife Vanda, an eccentric<br />
who believes she is a reincarnation of an Egyptian<br />
woman, his adopted daughter Ruth and her cousin<br />
Hugo, and Miss Lingard, a secretary helping Chevenix<br />
research a family history. It is revealed that before <strong>Poirot</strong><br />
arrives, all the guests and family were dressing for dinner,<br />
and after they heard the dinner gong, a shot rang<br />
out. No one suspected that anything is wrong, believing<br />
that either a car had backfired or champagne was being served. And Chevenix-Gore not being<br />
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