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 />
Appointment with Death<br />
Season 11<br />
<strong>Episode</strong> Number: 66<br />
Season <strong>Episode</strong>: 4<br />
Originally aired: Friday December 25, 2009<br />
Writer:<br />
<strong>Agatha</strong> Christie, Guy Andrews<br />
Director: Ashley Pearce<br />
Show Stars: David Suchet (Hercule <strong>Poirot</strong>)<br />
Guest Stars: Zoe Boyle (Ginevra Boynton), Emma Cunniffe (Carol Boynton), Elizabeth<br />
McGovern (Dame Celia Westholme), John Hannah (Dr. Gerard),<br />
Cheryl Campbell (Lady Boynton), Tom Riley (Raymond Boynton), Mark<br />
Gatiss (Leonard Boynton), Christina Cole (Dr. Sarah King), Angela<br />
Pleasence (Nanny), Christian McKay (Jefferson Cope), Paul Freeman<br />
(Colonel Carbury), Beth Goddard (Sister Agnieszka), Tim Curry Lord<br />
(Boynton), Jawad Elalami (Labourer), Abdelkader Aizoun (Concierge)<br />
Summary: On holiday in Jerusalem in 1937, <strong>Poirot</strong> hears about an archaeological<br />
expedition to Syria led by the eccentric Lord Boynton and his son<br />
Leonard, who believe they are on the track of the head of St John<br />
the Baptist. Drawn to visit the dig, <strong>Poirot</strong> meets Boynton’s dominating,<br />
fabulously rich, American-born second wife. However, events are<br />
overtaken by the discovery of Lady Boynton’s dead body and revelations<br />
about her fortune. <strong>Poirot</strong> is given the task of finding the killer. As<br />
ever, he has no shortage of suspects.<br />
The first part of the novel (a little over a third)<br />
is an thriller as the family and the victim are introduced,through<br />
the perspective of Sarah King and Dr.<br />
Gerard, who discuss the behavior of the family. Mrs.<br />
Boynton is sadistic and domineering, which she may<br />
have inculcated from her original profession: prison<br />
warden.<br />
Sarah is attracted to Raymond Boynton, while Jefferson<br />
Cope admits to wanting to take Nadine Boynton<br />
away from her husband, Lennox Boynton, and the influence<br />
of her mother-in-law. Having been thwarted in her<br />
desire to free the young Boyntons, Sarah confronts Mrs.<br />
Boynton whose apparent reply is a strange threat: ”I’ve<br />
never forgotten anything — not an action, not a name,<br />
not a face.” When the party reaches Petra, Mrs. Boynton<br />
uncharacteristically sends her family away from her for<br />
a period. Later, she is found dead with a needle puncture<br />
in her wrist.<br />
<strong>Poirot</strong> claims that he can solve the mystery within<br />
twenty-four hours simply by interviewing the suspects.<br />
During these interviews he establishes a timeline that<br />
seems impossible: Sarah King places the time of death<br />
considerably before the times at which various of the<br />
family members claim last to have seen the victim alive.<br />
Attention is focused on a hypodermic syringe that has seemingly been stolen from Dr. Gerard’s<br />
tent and later replaced. The poison administered to the victim is believed to be digitoxin something<br />
that she already took medicinally.<br />
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