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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
Evil Under the Sun
Season 8
Episode Number: 53
Season Episode: 1
Originally aired: Friday April 20, 2001
Writer:
Agatha Christie, Anthony Horowitz
Director: Brian Farnham
Show Stars: Hugh Fraser (Captain Arthur Hastings), Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector
James Japp), Pauline Moran (Miss Felicity Lemon), David Suchet
(Hercule Poirot)
Guest Stars: Russell Tovey (Lionel Marshall), Carolyn Pickles (Emily Brewster),
Steve Bennett (Policeman), David Timson (Horace Blatt), Harriet Eastcott
(Librarian), Ian Thompson (Major Barry), Tim Meats (Stephen
Lane), Tamzin Malleson (Christine Redfern), Michael Higgs (Patrick
Redfern), Roger Alborough (Chief Constable Weston), Kevin Moore
(Coroner), Louise Delamere (Arlena Stuart), David Mallinson (Kenneth
Marshall), Jason Davies (Dominic Hobson), Lawrence McGrandles Jr
(Simon Kelso), Grant Gillespie (Jack Lovett), Paul Ready (William), Rebecca
Johnson (Gladys Narracott), Rosalind March (Mrs Castle), Marsha
Fitzalan (Rosamund Darnley), Guy Vincent (Barman), Kenneth
Gilbert (Applegood)
Summary: Poirot is ordered by his doctor to spend a few weeks at a health resort
in Devon, on the grounds that he is too fat and out of condition, and
Hastings comes along for a holiday. In Devon they meet an old acquaintance,
the fashion designer Rosamund Darnley. Before too long
another guest (the rich, troublesome and flirtatious Arlena Stuart) is
found strangled on the beach, and Poirot begins an investigation which
proves to be one of the most challenging of his career, with suspects
abounding. However, the detective is greatly helped by the parallels between
Arlena’s murder and the unsolved killing of another rich young
woman a few years before.
Arlena is a very beautiful retired actress and a flirtatious young woman with many men
attracted to her. She goes to the Jolly Roger Hotel with her husband and step daughter, Kenneth
and Linda Marshall. Linda Marshall, a sixteen-year-old girl, dislikes her stepmother very much.
Arlena flirts in the hotel with a handsome man named Patrick Redfern who is infatuated with her.
This makes his wife Christine Redfern, an educated schoolteacher, jealous and hurt. Also staying
at the hotel are famous detective Hercule Poirot, the dressmaker and Kenneth’s childhood friend
Rosamund Darnley, the American tourists Odell and Carrie Gardener, the retired Major Barry,
the blatant Horace Blatt, vicar Stephen Lane and the athletic spinster Emily Brewster.
Early on the morning of the murder, Christine witnesses Linda accidentally dropping a parcel,
which reveals a number of candles. Christine asks Linda to come to Gull Cove with her. On the
same morning, Arlena goes out on a float (a type of boat) and asks Poirot not to tell anyone
where she is going. In Poirot’s mind Arlena is going to meet Patrick Redfern, but he is proved
wrong when Patrick asks Poirot if he has seen Arlena. Patrick Redfern asks Emily Brewster to
join him in a rowboat outing. They eventually reach Pixy Cove and find a body lying there, her
arms outstretched and her face hidden by a hat. It is the strangled body of Arlena, killed at about
quarter to 12.
When they begin to question people’s whereabouts, Kenneth Marshall says he was in his room
typing letters at the time of the murder. Linda lies that she was fond of her stepmother. She also
claims that she and Christine went to Gull Cove at about 10:30 and that she returned to the
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