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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
Hallowe’en Party
Season 12
Episode Number: 68
Season Episode: 2
Originally aired: Wednesday October 27, 2010
Writer:
Agatha Christie, Mark Gatiss
Director: Charles Palmer (III)
Show Stars: David Yelland (George), David Suchet (Hercule Poirot)
Recurring Role: Zoë Wanamaker (Ariadne Oliver)
Guest Stars: Vera Filatova (Olga Seminoff), Richard Breislin (Leopold Reynolds),
Amelia Bullmore (Judith Butler), Deborah Findlay (Rowena Drake),
Georgia King (Frances Drake), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Michael Garfield),
Sophie Thompson (Mrs Reynolds), Paul Thornley (Inspector Raglan),
Eric Sykes (Mr Fullerton), Fenella Woolgar (Miss Whittaker), Timothy
West (Reverend Cottrell), Macy Nyman (Joyce Reynolds), Ian Hallard
(Edmund Drake), Paola Dionisotti (Mrs Goodbody), Phyllida Law (Mrs
Llewellyn-Smythe)
Summary: Ariadne Oliver attends a children’s Hallowe’en party and hears a young
girl boasting that she has witnessed a murder. Later that evening, the
child is found dead, drowned in a bucket. Ariadne sends for Poirot,
who takes the young victim’s story seriously and finds there have been
several other suspicious deaths in the village. When another child is
found drowned, Poirot realizes that a third is in danger. For more, see
Recap.
The story starts out inside Rowena Drake’s house,
which is called ”Apple Trees”. There, Ariadne Oliver
and others are preparing a Hallowe’en party for children.
Those in charge of the party are Judith Butler,
Mrs. Oliver’s friend; Leopold, Joyce and Anne Reynolds,
Desmond Holland, Nicholas Ransom, Cathie Johnson,
Elizabeth Whittaker, Beatrice Ardley, and others. While
they are preparing, thirteen-year old Joyce Reynolds
says that she once saw a murder. Everyone, including
Mrs. Oliver, thinks she is lying.
The party consists of many Hallowe’en-related activities.
Mrs. Goodbody plays the role of a witch, and girls
can look into a mirror to know what their future husbands
will look like (a picture of the husband is said to
be reflected in the mirror). The group has supper, the
prizes are granted, and the party ends after a game of
snapdragon, with the murder of course fitting into the
whole situation.
The next day, Mrs. Oliver goes to London seeking
Hercule Poirot’s help. She tells him that after
snapdragon, Joyce went missing and was later found
drowned in an apple-bobbing tub in the library. Mrs.
Oliver repeats to Poirot Joyce’s comment that she had
once witnessed a murder; Mrs. Oliver now wonders if
Joyce might have been telling the truth, which might
provide someone with a motive for killing her.
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