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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
Elephants Can Remember
Season 13
Episode Number: 71
Season Episode: 1
Originally aired: Sunday June 9, 2013
Writer:
Nick Dear
Director: John Strickland
Show Stars: David Suchet (Hercule Poirot)
Recurring Role: Zoë Wanamaker (Ariadne Oliver)
Guest Stars: Greta Scacchi (Mrs Burton-Cox), Vanessa Kirby (Celia Ravenscroft),
Ferdinand Kingsley (Desmond Burton-Cox), Iain Glen (Dr Willoughby),
Ruth Sheen (Madame Rosentelle), Claire Cox (Dorothea Jarrow), Hazel
Douglas (Mrs Matcham), Alexandra Dowling (Marie), Adrian Lukis
(General Alistair Ravenscroft), Annabel Mullion (Lady Molly Ravenscroft),
Vincent Regan (Detective Inspector Beale), Caroline Blakiston
(Julia Carstairs), Maxine Evans (Mrs Buckle), Elsa Mollien
(Zélie Meauhourat), Danny Webb (Superintendent Garroway), Jo-Anne
Stockham (Mrs Willoughby)
Summary: Poirot investigates a strange and gruesome murder of an elderly psychiatrist.
Ariadne Oliver is pressed to try and uncover the truth behind
two decade-old deaths. They soon find out that their separate investigations
are linked and work together to try and solve the mystery.
The bodies of General Alistair Ravenscroft and his
wife were found near their manor house in Overcliffe.
Both had bullet wounds, and a revolver with only their
fingerprints left between them. In the original investigation
no one was able to prove whether the case was a
double suicide or murder/suicide and, if the latter, who
killed whom. Left behind are the couple’s two children,
including daughter Celia.
Ten years later, Mrs Ariadne Oliver, a school friend
of the late Margaret Ravenscroft and godmother to her
daughter, is approached at a literary luncheon by Mrs
Burton-Cox, to whose son Celia Ravenscroft is engaged.
Mrs Burton-Cox asks Oliver what she appears to believe
is a very important question: which of Celia’s parents
was the murderer, and which was murdered? Initially
put off by the woman’s attitude, after consulting with
Celia herself, Oliver agrees to try to resolve the issue.
She invites her friend Hercule Poirot to solve the disquieting
puzzle. Together they conduct interviews with
several elderly witnesses whom they term ’elephants’,
based on the assumption that, like the proverbial elephants,
they may have long memories. Each ”elephant”
remembers (or mis-remembers) a very different set of
circumstances, but Poirot notes some facts that may
have particular significance: Margaret Ravenscroft owned four wigs at the time of her death,
and a few days before her death, she was seriously bitten by the otherwise-devoted family dog.
Poirot decides that the investigation must delve deeper into the past in order to unearth the
truth. He and Mrs Oliver discover that Dolly (Dorothea) and Molly (Margaret) Preston-Grey were
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