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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide recently. While she is visiting, an art critic called Alexander Guthrie arrives to look through Cora’s recent purchases, but there is nothing of any value there. Immediately afterwards, Miss Gilchrist is nearly killed by arsenic poison in a slice of wedding cake that has been apparently sent to her through the post. The only reason that she is not killed is that, following a superstition, she has saved the greater part of the slice of cake under her pillow. Poirot focuses on the Abernethie family, and a number of red herrings come to light. Rosamund Shane, one of the heiresses, is an inflexible and determined woman who seems to have something to hide (which turns out to be her husband’s infidelity and her own pregnancy). Susan’s husband, Gregory, is a dispensing chemist who had apparently been responsible for deliberately administering an overdose to an awkward customer. He even confesses to the murder of Richard Abenerthie near the close of the novel, but is discovered to have a pathological compulsion to be punished for crimes of which he is innocent. Timothy Abernethie, an unpleasant invalid who seems to be feigning illness in order to gain attention, might have been able to commit the murder of Cora, as might his suspiciously strong-armed wife, Maude. Perhaps identifying the murderer may depend on finding a nun whom Miss Gilchrist claims to have noticed... But what can all this have to do with a bouquet of wax flowers to which Poirot pays attention? After playing games in mirrors, Helen Abernethie telephones Entwhistle with the news that she has realized something about the murderer. Before she can say what it is she is savagely struck on the head. Poirot’s explanation in the denouement is a startling one. Cora had never come to the funeral at all; it was Miss Gilchrist, who disguised herself as Cora in order to plant the idea that Richard’s death had been murder. Therefore when Cora herself was murdered, it would seem that the alleged murderer had struck again. Since no one had seen Cora for many years, and Miss Gilchrist had been able to copy many of her mannerisms, it was unlikely that the ruse would be spotted, except for the fact that she had rehearsed a characteristic turn of the head in a mirror, where the reflection is reversed. When she came to do it at the funeral, she turned her head to the wrong side. Helen had had the feeling that something was wrong when Cora had made her statement, but not realized at the time that it was this incorrectly reproduced gesture. Miss Gilchrist had further given herself away by referring to the wax flowers; these were present on the day of the reading of the will but had been put away by the time Miss Gilchrist (as herself) met the family. She had deliberately poisoned herself with the arsenic-laced wedding cake to avoid suspicion; ironically this only aroused Poirot’s misgivings. The ’murder’ of Richard needed to be established so that Miss Gilchrist’s own motive for killing Cora would be obfuscated when she killed her. Miss Gilchrist desperately wanted a painting that Cora had bought at a sale and which she had recognized as a Vermeer, but Cora had no idea just how valuable the artwork was. Miss Gilchrist loathed Cora and was plotting to sell the Vermeer in order to escape her dreary life and rebuild her beloved teashop, which she had lost during the war. Miss Gilchrist had subsequently hidden the Vermeer behind her own painting depicting the destroyed pier copied from the postcard in order to disguise the painting amongst others left to her in Cora’s will. At the end of the novel, Miss Gilchrist is understandably found to be completely insane. She was arrested and later put in a sanitarium. 150
Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide Taken at the Flood Season 10 Episode Number: 62 Season Episode: 4 Originally aired: Sunday April 2, 2006 Writer: Agatha Christie, Guy Andrews Director: Andy Wilson (II) Show Stars: David Suchet (Hercule Poirot) Recurring Role: David Yelland (George) Guest Stars: Patrick Baladi (Rowley Cloade), Jenny Agutter (Adela Marchmont), Richard Hope (Superintendent Harold Spence), Penny Downie (Frances Cloade), Eva Birthistle (Rosaleen Cloade), Elizabeth Spriggs (Mrs Leadbetter), Amanda Douge (Lynn Marchmont), Celia Imrie (Aunt Kathy Cloade), Pip Torrens (Jeremy Cloade), Tim Woodward (Enoch Arden), Richard Durden (Pebmarsh), Tim Pigott-Smith (Dr Lionel Cloade), Elliot Cowan (David Hunter), Nicholas Le Prevost (Major James Porter), Claire Hackett (Beatrice Lippincott) Summary: Gordon Cloade marries a young widow, but within days he is killed by a gas explosion in his home, leaving no will, so that his fortune all goes to the new Mrs Cloade. But then Poirot has a visit from a member of the family who claims she has information from the spirit world that the rich Mrs Cloade’s first husband is still alive, so that she is still Mrs Underhay. Poirot is asked to find the missing Underhay, with supernatural guidance. . . In a flashback from late Spring to early Spring, Lynn Marchmont, newly demobilised from the Women’s Royal Naval Service, finds difficulty settling into the village life of Warmsley Vale. She is engaged to Rowley, one of several members of the Cloade family living nearby. Each of them grew dependent on money from Gordon Cloade, a bachelor who was expected to die and leave his fortune to them. Before his death he married Rosaleen, invalidating his previous will. As a result, Rosaleen inherited Gordon’s fortune and the entire family now faces financial crises, augmented by the poor state of the economy in the aftermath of World War II. Rosaleen’s fortune is jealously guarded by her brother, David Hunter, and although various family members manage to wheedle small sums out of Rosaleen, David refuses to help Frances Cloade, whose husband Jeremy is on the brink of ruin. A man calling himself Enoch Arden arrives in the village, and attempts to blackmail David by saying he knows how to find Rosaleen’s first husband, Robert. Their conversation in Arden’s hotel room is overheard by the landlady, who immediately tells Rowley Cloade. Later, Arden’s body is discovered in his room with his head smashed in. Rowley Cloade appeals to a detective, Hercule Poirot, to prove the dead man was Robert Underhay and, remembering Major Porter, the detective is delighted to produce the witness.[clarification 151
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