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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan
Season 5
Episode Number: 46
Season Episode: 8
Originally aired: Sunday March 7, 1993
Writer:
Anthony Horowitz, Agatha Christie
Director: Ken Grieve
Show Stars: Hugh Fraser (Captain Arthur Hastings), Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector
James Japp), Pauline Moran (Miss Felicity Lemon), David Suchet
(Hercule Poirot)
Guest Stars: Trevor Cooper (Ed Opalsen), Andrew Carr (Hubert Devine), Arthur Cox
(Dr Hawker), Sorcha Cusack (Margaret Opalsen), Eileen Dunwoodie
(First Holidaymaker), Karl Johnson (Saunders), Simon Molloy (Second
Holidaymaker), Hermione Norris (Celestine), Elizabeth Rider (Grace),
Graham Rowe (Hotel Manager), Simon Shepherd (Andrew Hall), Tim
Stern (Bellboy), James McCusker (Journalist), Colin Stepney (Guest),
Simon Malloy (Excited Man), Doreen Taylor (Woman on Stall), Jo Powell
(Woman with Lucky Len)
Summary: Mrs Opalsen’s famous pearls are stolen, and Poirot is happily on hand
to investigate. A complex theft calls for a sophisticated solution. Unfortunately,
Poirot is hindered everywhere he goes by being mistaken
for ’Lucky Len’.
Poirot and Hastings are staying at the Grand
Metropolitan hotel in Brighton where they meet Mr and
Mrs Opalsen. He is a rich stockbroker who amassed
a fortune in the oil boom and his wife collects jewellery
using the proceeds. She offers to show Poirot her
pearls and goes to fetch them from her room but they
have been stolen. Poirot is asked to assist. There have
only been two people in the room since the pearls were
last seen - Mrs Opalsen’s maid, Celestine, and the hotel
chambermaid. Celestine has orders to remain in the
room all of the time that the chambermaid is there. Both
girls are questioned and both blame the other. The hotel
room has a side room where Celestine sleeps and a
bolted door which leads to the room next door. The two
maids were in sight of each other all the time except for
two pauses of between twelve and fifteen seconds apiece
when Celestine went into her room — not enough time
to extract the jewel case from the drawer, open it, take
the jewels and return the case. Both are searched but
nothing is found. Both rooms are then searched and the
missing pearls are found underneath Celestine’s mattress.
The case is seemingly over but Poirot tells Hastings
the newly-found necklace is a fake. He questions
the chambermaid and the valet who looks after Mr Opalsen and asks them if they have ever
seen before a small white card he has found. Neither has. Poirot rushes to London and the next
day breaks the news to Hastings and the delighted Opalsens that the case is solved and the
real pearls found. The chambermaid and the valet were a pair of international jewel thieves —
the card he gave them then had their fingerprints on it which he gave to Japp for testing. The
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