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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide Once the preliminary police work has been done, Poirot reveals Shaitana’s strange mention of a ”collection” to the other three with whom he played bridge. They quickly realize that they are four ”sleuths” meant to be pitted against the four in the next room whom Shaitana suspected of murder. The four agree to work together to solve the crime, and interview the four suspects. Poirot takes interest in the way each member plays bridge, which he discerns through asking each suspect to grade the play of the others. As there seems to be no conventional way to prove which of them has committed Shaitana’s murder, Poirot suggests that the group of sleuths delve into the past and uncover the murders that the dead man thought he knew about. Battle is put on the trail of the death of a Mrs. Craddock, whom Dr. Roberts once attended. Her husband died of anthrax poisoning from an infected shaving brush (and readers at the time of the novel’s publication in the 1930s might well have remembered anthrax deaths from infected shaving brushes during and in the years after World War I); Mrs. Craddock herself had died not long afterward, of a tropical infection, in Egypt. Race seeks out information on Despard, and discovers a case in which a botanist named Luxmore and his wife travelled with him to South America; Luxmore officially died of a fever, but it is rumoured that he was shot. Mrs. Oliver visits Anne Meredith and her housemate, Rhoda Dawes. Rhoda later visits Oliver and explains Anne’s bad manners: Anne, after her father’s death and before old friend Rhoda came to her rescue, worked as a live-in companion; one employer, a Mrs. Benson, had taken hat paint — poison — from a medicine bottle and died. Fellow suspect Despard takes an interest in Anne’s welfare, recommending that she retain an attorney. In the meantime, the four sleuths gather and compare notes. Meanwhile, Poirot sets a trap for Anne Meredith. When she pays him a call at his request, he shows her to a table on which many packets of the finest silk stockings are piled up, apparently carelessly. After Anne makes her gift suggestions and leaves, Poirot discovers that two pairs of the stockings are missing, confirming his suspicion that Anne is a thief, and seemingly giving weight to his suspicion that she stole from Mrs. Benson and killed her when she feared she had been discovered. At this point, Mrs. Lorrimer contacts Poirot with surprising news. She confesses to Shaitana’s murder, and explains that she took the stiletto impulsively after he mentioned poison as a woman’s weapon. Shaitana was right about her, she says; twenty years earlier, she had, she confesses, killed her husband. Poirot objects that Lorrimer’s explanation of Shaitana’s killing does not match her unflappable personality. Lorrimer thus believes that Meredith is Shaitana’s killer, and decided to lie to save the younger woman. She begs Poirot to let her take the blame for the crime: she will die soon anyway, and Anne will be free to live her young life. Poirot is confused by this confession, and fears that there may be more trouble to come. His guess proves correct when Mrs. Lorrimer is found dead the next morning, having apparently committed suicide. Roberts arrived before she was quite dead and attended to her, but she could not be saved. Poirot and Battle race to Anne Meredith’s cottage, fearing that she might strike again. Despard, who has been visiting Anne and Rhoda, both of whom fancy him, is a few steps ahead of Poirot and Battle. At Anne’s suggestion, Anne and Rhoda are on a boat in a nearby river. Poirot and Battle see Anne suddenly push her friend into the water. Alas for Anne, when she knocks Rhoda into the water, she also falls in herself. Despard rescues Rhoda; Anne drowns. Poirot gathers Oliver, Battle, Despard, Rhoda, and Roberts at his home, where he makes a surprising announcement: the true murderer of both Shaitana and Mrs. Lorrimer is not Anne, but Dr. Roberts. Poirot brings in a window cleaner who happened to be working outside Mrs. Lorrimer’s flat earlier that morning. He testifies that he saw Roberts inject Lorrimer with a syringe; a syringe, Poirot reveals, full of a lethal anaesthetic. Battle chimes in that they can bolster any prosecution with the true story of the deaths of the Craddocks, who died of infections, true, but infections deliberately inflicted on each of them by Roberts. Roberts confesses. Poirot points out that in the third rubber of bridge on the night of Shaitana’s murder, a grand slam occurred. This intense play would keep the others focused on the game — Roberts was dummy at that point — while Roberts used the opportunity to stab Shaitana. It is also revealed that the ”window cleaner” was actually an actor in Poirot’s employ, though Poirot brags that he did ”witness” Roberts kill Mrs. Lorrimer in his mind’s eye. Despard suggests that one of the gathered party murder Poirot, and then watch his ghost come back to solve the crime. 148
Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide After the Funeral Season 10 Episode Number: 61 Season Episode: 3 Originally aired: Sunday March 26, 2006 Writer: Philomena McDonagh, Agatha Christie Director: Maurice Phillips Show Stars: David Suchet (Hercule Poirot) Guest Stars: Philip Anthony (II) (Vicar), William Russell (Lanscombe), Benjamin Whitrow (Timothy Abernethie), Michael Fassbender (George Abernethie), Dominic Jephcott (Dr Larraby), Kevin Doyle (Inspector Morton), Anthony Valentine (Giovanni Gallaccio), Geraldine James (Helen Abernethie), Anna Calder-Marshall (Maude Abernethie), Vicky Ogden (Janet), John Carson (Richard Abernethie), Annabel Scholey (Miss Sorrell), Julian Ovenden (Michael Shane), Lucy Punch (Susannah Henderson), Monica Dolan (Cora Gallaccio / Miss Gilchrist) Summary: Richard Abernethie dies suddenly. When his family gathers for the reading of the will, his sister Cora Gallaccio claims Abernethie was murdered, but the rest of the family won’t believe it. The next day Cora is herself killed with an axe, and the family solicitor sends for Poirot. After the funeral of the wealthy Richard Abernethie, his remaining family assembles for the reading of the will. The death, though sudden, was not unexpected and natural causes have been given as the cause on his death certificate. Nevertheless, after the tactless Cora says, ”It was hushed up very nicely ... but he was murdered, wasn’t he?” the family lawyer, Mr. Entwhistle, begins to investigate. Before long there is no question that a murderer is at large. After returning home from her brother’s funeral, Cora Lansquenet is murdered in her sleep by repeated blows with a hatchet. The motive for the murder does not appear to be theft, and the estate that she leaves to her relative, Susan Banks, is comparatively meager, since the Abernethie bequest is folded back into the estate of her brother, Richard. The suspected motive is therefore to suppress anything that Richard might have told Cora about his suspicions that he was being poisoned. These had been overheard by her companion, Miss Gilchrist. Entwhistle calls in Poirot, who employs an old friend, Mr. Goby, to investigate the family. Mr. Goby turns up a number of reasons within the family for members of it to be desperate for the money in Richard Abernethie’s estate. Poirot warns Entwhistle that Miss Gilchrist may herself be a target for the murderer. Cora has been a keen artist and collector of paintings from local sales. While Susan Banks, a suspect, is visiting to clear up Cora’s things, she sees Cora’s paintings and privately notes that Cora has been copying postcards: one of her paintings, which Miss Gilchrist claims were painted from life, features a pier that was destroyed in the war; however the painting is dated quite 149
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