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 />
Cards on the Table<br />
Season 10<br />
<strong>Episode</strong> Number: 60<br />
Season <strong>Episode</strong>: 2<br />
Originally aired: Sunday March 19, 2006<br />
Writer:<br />
<strong>Agatha</strong> Christie, Nick Dear<br />
Director: Sarah Harding<br />
Show Stars: David Suchet (Hercule <strong>Poirot</strong>)<br />
Recurring Role: Zoë Wanamaker (Ariadne Oliver)<br />
Guest Stars: Honeysuckle Weeks (Rhoda Dawes), Tristan Gemmill (Despard), Lesley<br />
Manville (Mrs Lorrimer), Robert Pugh (Colonel Hughes), Lucy Liemann<br />
(Miss Burgess), Jenny Ogilvie (Millie), Douglas Reith (Serge Maurice),<br />
David Westhead (Superintendent Wheeler), James Alper (Shaitana’s<br />
Butler), Philip Wright (Sergeant O’Connor), Lyndsey Marshal<br />
(Anne Meredith), Alex Jennings (Dr Roberts), Philip Bowen (Luxmore),<br />
Alexander Siddig (Shaitana), Cordelia Bugeja (Mrs Luxmore)<br />
Summary: The tycoon Shaitana, one of the richest men in England, invites <strong>Poirot</strong><br />
to dinner and an evening of bridge, promising that his fellow-guests<br />
will include four killers who have escaped justice. <strong>Poirot</strong> accepts, and<br />
finds three others there who have an interest in detection - Superintendent<br />
Wheeler, Colonel Hughes of Military Intelligence and the crime<br />
writer Ariadne Oliver. But things take a deadly turn when Shaitana is<br />
stabbed to death.<br />
At an exhibition of snuff boxes, Hercule <strong>Poirot</strong> meets<br />
Mr. Shaitana, a mysterious foreign man who is consistently<br />
described as devil-like in appearance and manner.<br />
Shaitana jokes about <strong>Poirot</strong>’s visit to the snuff box<br />
exhibition, and claims that he has a better ”collection”<br />
that <strong>Poirot</strong> would enjoy: individuals who have got away<br />
with murder. He arranges a dinner party to show off this<br />
collection; <strong>Poirot</strong> is apprehensive.<br />
Upon arrival at Shaitana’s house on the appointed<br />
day, <strong>Poirot</strong> is joined by three other guests: mystery<br />
novelist Ariadne Oliver, Scotland Yard’s Superintendent<br />
Battle, and Colonel Race of His Majesty’s Secret Service.<br />
Soon, the other four guests join them: Dr. Roberts,<br />
a hearty, florid man; Mrs. Lorrimer, a perfectly poised<br />
gentlewoman of late middle age; Major John Despard,<br />
a dashing Army man and world traveller, recently returned<br />
from Africa; and Anne Meredith, a shy, quiet,<br />
very pretty young woman. Having brought them all to<br />
dinner, Shaitana skilfully manipulates the topic of conversation<br />
to possible motives for murder.<br />
Shaitana invites his eight guests to play bridge in the<br />
adjoining rooms; he, as the odd man out, does not play.<br />
Roberts, Meredith, Lorrimer, and Despard play in the<br />
first room, while <strong>Poirot</strong>, Oliver, Race, and Battle play in<br />
the next; Shaitana settles himself in a chair in the first room and thinks of how wonderfully his<br />
party is going. Hours later, <strong>Poirot</strong> and the others prepare to leave, and go to thank Shaitana.<br />
Shaitana has been murdered, stabbed in the chest with a jeweled stiletto.<br />
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