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 />
Mrs McGinty’s Dead<br />
Season 11<br />
<strong>Episode</strong> Number: 63<br />
Season <strong>Episode</strong>: 1<br />
Originally aired: Sunday September 14, 2008<br />
Writer:<br />
<strong>Agatha</strong> Christie, Nick Dear<br />
Director: Ashley Pearce<br />
Show Stars: David Suchet (Hercule <strong>Poirot</strong>)<br />
Recurring Role: David Yelland (George), Zoë Wanamaker (Ariadne Oliver)<br />
Guest Stars: Billy Geraghty (Joe Burch), Catherine Russell (Pamela Horsefall), Joe<br />
Absolom (James Bentley), Emma Amos (Bessie Burch), Raquel Cassidy<br />
(Maureen Summerhayes), Richard Dillane (Major John Summerhayes),<br />
Ruth Gemmell (Mrs. Sweetiman), Richard Hope (Superintendent<br />
Harold Spence), Lexie Lambert (Eva Kane), Richard Lintern (Guy<br />
Carpenter), Siân Phillips (Mrs. Laura Upward), Paul Rhys (Robin Upward),<br />
Amanda Root (Shelagh Rendell), Simon Shepherd (Dr Rendell),<br />
Sarah Smart (Maude Williams)<br />
Summary: James Bentley is arrested for the murder of old Mrs McGinty. It looks<br />
like an open and shut case, but Superintendent Spence is not convinced.<br />
He turns to <strong>Poirot</strong> for help, and together with <strong>Poirot</strong>’s writer<br />
friend Ariadne Oliver they set out to find the real killer.<br />
Superintendent Spence informs Belgian detective<br />
Hercule <strong>Poirot</strong> of the case of Mrs. McGinty, an elderly<br />
lady who was apparently killed by her lodger, James<br />
Bentley, for thirty pounds that she kept under a floorboard.<br />
Bentley is soon to be executed for the crime, but<br />
Spence does not think he is guilty. <strong>Poirot</strong> agrees to go<br />
to the town of Broadhinny and investigate the murder<br />
further. <strong>Poirot</strong> finds that Mrs. McGinty often worked as<br />
a cleaner at the houses of people in the village. No one<br />
wants to talk to <strong>Poirot</strong>, and most agree Bentley is the<br />
killer.<br />
During a search among Mrs McGinty’s possessions,<br />
<strong>Poirot</strong> finds a newspaper article which speculates about<br />
the current whereabouts of people connected with famous<br />
murder cases, that also includes photographs of<br />
them. On the basis of a bottle of ink he discovers that<br />
Mrs McGinty had purchased in a local shop just a few<br />
days before her death together with a photo she had<br />
torn out of a regional newspaper, <strong>Poirot</strong> concludes Mrs.<br />
McGinty must have recognized someone in one of the<br />
photos in someone’s house and written to the paper in<br />
question. Someone must have found out about it and<br />
then killed her to keep their identity concealed. <strong>Poirot</strong><br />
and Spence, using the ages of people in the town, conclude that someone is either Lily Gamboll,<br />
who committed murder with a meat cleaver as a child, or Eva Kane, who had been the love interest<br />
who inspired a man to murder his wife and bury her in the cellar. Another possibility is<br />
that someone is Evelyn Hope, the daughter of Eva Kane.<br />
Shortly after, <strong>Poirot</strong> discovers the murder weapon, a sugar hammer, left around in plain sight<br />
at his boarding house and accessible to all the suspects. In an attempt to flush out the murderer,<br />
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