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 />
Death on the Nile<br />
Season 9<br />
<strong>Episode</strong> Number: 57<br />
Season <strong>Episode</strong>: 3<br />
Originally aired: Monday April 12, 2004<br />
Writer:<br />
<strong>Agatha</strong> Christie, Kevin Elyot<br />
Director: Andy Wilson<br />
Show Stars: Hugh Fraser (Captain Arthur Hastings), David Suchet (Hercule <strong>Poirot</strong>)<br />
Guest Stars: Emma Griffiths (Malin Jacqueline de Bellefort James Fox (Colonel<br />
Race), JJ Feild (Simon Doyle), Emily Blunt (Linnet Doyle), Judy Parfitt<br />
(Miss Van Schuyler), Daisy Donovan (Cornelia Robson), Steve Pemberton<br />
(Dr Bessner), Alastair MacKenzie (Ferguson), Barbara Flynn<br />
(Mrs Allerton), Daniel Lapaine (Tim Allerton), Frances De La Tour (Salome<br />
Otterbourne), Zoe Telford Rosalie (Otterbourne), David Soul (Andrew<br />
Pennington), George Yiasoumi (Cruise Manager), Elodie Kendall<br />
(Joanna Southwood)<br />
Summary: On board a steamer cruising the Nile in Egypt, Simon and Linnet Doyle<br />
are on their honeymoon, but they are being stalked by Jacqueline de<br />
Bellefort. She was engaged to Simon, when she introduced her old<br />
school friend Linnet to him - and Jacqueline is bitter about being cast<br />
off. <strong>Poirot</strong> is also on board the steamer, but nevertheless the cruise<br />
turns into a series of killings for him to solve.<br />
While dining out in London one evening, Hercule<br />
<strong>Poirot</strong> notices a young woman, Jacqueline de Bellefort,<br />
dining and dancing with her fiancé, Simon Doyle. <strong>Poirot</strong><br />
also notices that Jackie (a nickname given to her and<br />
used by intimates; short for Jacqueline) is very much<br />
smitten and is in love with Simon. The next day, Jacqueline<br />
takes Simon to meet her best friend, wealthy young<br />
heiress Linnet Ridgeway, in the hopes that Linnet will<br />
offer Simon a job. Three months later, Simon has broken<br />
off his engagement to Jacqueline and married Linnet.<br />
<strong>Poirot</strong> happens to encounter the couple on their honeymoon<br />
to Egypt, where he himself is on holiday. At<br />
their shared hotel in Cairo, <strong>Poirot</strong> sees an apparent<br />
chance meeting between the Doyles and Jacqueline. Afterwards,<br />
Linnet approaches <strong>Poirot</strong> and confides that<br />
Jacqueline has been stalking them since they were married,<br />
which is antagonizing both of them. <strong>Poirot</strong> says<br />
the Doyles have no legal recourse, but tries to reason<br />
with Jacqueline in private, urging her to let go of her<br />
attachment to Simon and not ”open [her] heart to evil.”<br />
Jacqueline refuses to listen, confiding that she has been<br />
dreaming of killing Linnet.<br />
Attempting to give Jacqueline the slip, the Doyles<br />
plan an extended stay in Cairo, while secretly booking<br />
passage on the same Nile river cruise as <strong>Poirot</strong>. To their rage, Jacqueline learns their plans and<br />
appears on board with them.<br />
While taking a tour of some ancient ruins, a boulder falls from a cliff, narrowly missing Linnet<br />
and Simon. They suspect Jacqueline at first, but find out she was on the boat the whole time<br />
and could not have done it.<br />
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