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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
The Clocks
Season 12
Episode Number: 70
Season Episode: 4
Originally aired: Monday December 26, 2011
Writer:
Agatha Christie, Stewart Harcourt
Director: Charles Palmer (III)
Show Stars: David Suchet (Hercule Poirot)
Guest Stars: Frances Barber (Merlina Rival), Phil Daniels (Inspector Hardcastle),
Jaime Winstone (Sheila Webb), Victoria Wicks (Mrs Swinburne),
Stephen Boxer (Christopher Mabbutt), Sinead Keenan (Nora Brent),
Tessa Peake-Jones (Valerie Bland), Abigail Thaw (Rachel Waterhouse),
Guy Henry (Matthew Waterhouse), Phoebe Strickland (May Mabbutt),
Andrew Forbes (Professor Purdy), Geoffrey Palmer (Vice Admiral Hamling),
Tom Burke (Lieutenant Colin Race RN), Andrew Havill (Sven
Hjerson), Olivia Grant (Annabel Larkin), Anna Skellern (Fiona Hanbury),
Jason Watkins (Joe Bland), Ben Righton (Constable Jenkins),
Anna Massey (Miss Pebmarsh), Beatie Edney (Mrs Hemmings), Lesley
Sharp (Miss Martindale), Isabella Parriss (Jenny Mabbutt)
Summary: Four clocks surround an unidentified corpse in a blind woman’s
house, and a young typist is summoned to the crime scene. However,
Poirot is convinced that the complicated setup is merely hiding a simpler
solution.
Sheila Webb, a typist-for-hire, arrives at her afternoon
appointment on Wilbraham Crescent to find a
well-dressed corpse surrounded by six clocks, four of
which are stopped at 4:13. When a blind woman enters
the house, Sheila runs screaming into the street and
into the arms of a young man who plays a key part in
the investigation that follows.
It is while visiting Wilbraham Crescent that Special
Branch agent Colin ’Lamb’ finds Sheila running
into his arms. He is there investigating areas connected
with crescents or the moon while following up a clue to
the route by which classified information is leaving the
country.
At 19 Wilbraham Crescent an investigation begins
into the murder. The corpse has a business card in its
pocket indicating that the bearer is an insurance salesman
called ’R.H.Curry’. This turns out to be a false lead,
since neither the company nor the salesman exists.
A colourful group of neighbours is interviewed by Inspector
Hardcastle with Lamb in attendance, and things
begin to look bleaker for Sheila when her aunt, Mrs.
Lawton, is questioned. It seems that Sheila’s other forename
is Rosemary, the name on a leather travel clock
found at the scene of the murder. Frustrated, Colin–who
has fallen for Sheila–approaches Hercule Poirot, an old friend of his father, to investigate the case,
challenging him to do so from his armchair as he had always claimed was possible. He leaves
the celebrated detective with detailed notes on the investigation thus far.
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