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 />
The Big Four<br />
Season 13<br />
<strong>Episode</strong> Number: 72<br />
Season <strong>Episode</strong>: 2<br />
Originally aired: Wednesday October 23, 2013<br />
Writer:<br />
Mark Gatiss, Ian Hallard<br />
Director: Peter Lydon<br />
Show Stars: David Suchet (Hercule <strong>Poirot</strong>)<br />
Recurring Role: David Yelland (George)<br />
Guest Stars: Hugh Fraser (Captain Hastings), Philip Jackson (Assistant Commissioner<br />
Japp), Pauline Moran (Miss Lemon), Patricia Hodge (Madame<br />
Olivier), Michael Culkin (Savaranoff), Sarah Parish (Flossie Monro),<br />
Teresa Banham (Diana Paynter), James Carroll Jordan (Abe Ryland),<br />
Tom Brooke (Tysoe), Barbara Kirby (Mrs Andrews), Nicholas Burns<br />
(Inspector Meadows), Simon Lowe (Dr Quentin), Nicholas Day (Ingles),<br />
Steven Pacey (Stephen Paynter), Jack Farthing (Gerald Paynter),<br />
Alex Palmer (Robert Grant), Lou Broadbent (Mabel), Peter Symonds<br />
(Jonathan Whalley)<br />
Summary: As the threat of world war looms large, <strong>Poirot</strong> seeks the help of friends<br />
both old and new when he is pitted against a dangerous group of dissidents<br />
responsible for a series of violent murders.<br />
Captain Hastings visits <strong>Poirot</strong> and finds that <strong>Poirot</strong> is<br />
leaving for South America. He has been offered a huge<br />
amount of money by the American ’soap king’ millionaire<br />
Abe Ryland. <strong>Poirot</strong> inquires if Hastings has ever<br />
heard the phrase the Big Four. Hastings responds uncooperatively.<br />
At the eleventh hour an unexpected visitor<br />
called Mayerling comes in saying only ”M. Hercule<br />
<strong>Poirot</strong>, 14 Farraway Street.” When he is given a piece of<br />
paper by a doctor he writes the number 4 many times.<br />
When Hastings mentions the Big Four, the man begins<br />
speaking, he tells them that number 1 is a Chinese political<br />
mastermind named Li Chang Yen. He represents the<br />
brains of the Big Four. Number 2 is usually not named<br />
but represented by a ’$’ or two stripes and a star so he is<br />
probably American and he represents wealth. Number 3<br />
is a Frenchwoman and Number 4 is the destroyer.<br />
After an aborted start on <strong>Poirot</strong>’s trip to South America,<br />
they return to the flat to find the man dead. The<br />
doctor is summoned and says that the man died of asphyxiation<br />
and has been dead about two hours, he cannot<br />
be closer because the windows were open. A man<br />
from an asylum visits them and tells them that the man<br />
had escaped from his asylum. Japp soon enters and recognizes<br />
the man to be Mayerling, a prominent figure in the Secret Service. <strong>Poirot</strong> asks Hastings if<br />
he opened the windows to which Hastings replies in the negative. <strong>Poirot</strong> examines the man and<br />
announces that Mayerling was gagged and poisoned using cyanide. The hands of the lounge clock<br />
were turned to 4 o’clock and <strong>Poirot</strong> realizes that the murderer was the man from the asylum.<br />
<strong>Poirot</strong> and Hastings pay a visit to John Ingles, a wealthy man, and ask him about Li Chang<br />
Yen and the Big Four. He has heard of both, the former he heard of recently in a note from<br />
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