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 />
Peril at End House (1)<br />
Season 2<br />
<strong>Episode</strong> Number: 11<br />
Season <strong>Episode</strong>: 1<br />
Originally aired: Sunday January 7, 1990<br />
Writer:<br />
<strong>Agatha</strong> Christie, Clive Exton<br />
Director: Renny Rye<br />
Show Stars: Hugh Fraser (Captain Arthur Hastings), Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector<br />
James Japp), Pauline Moran (Miss Felicity Lemon), David Suchet<br />
(Hercule <strong>Poirot</strong>)<br />
Guest Stars: Joe Bates (Alfred Wilson), Godfrey James (Inspector), John Crocker<br />
(Dr Graham), Fergus McLarnon (Hood), Janice Cramer (Maid), Edward<br />
Pinner (Pageboy), Jenny Funnell (Nurse), Paul Geoffrey (Jim Lazarus),<br />
Geoffrey Greenhill (Wilson), Christopher Baines (Charles Vyse), Mary<br />
Cunningham (Ellen Wilson), Elizabeth Downes (Maggie Buckley), John<br />
Harding (Commander George Challenger), Carol Macready (Mildred<br />
Croft), Alison Sterling (Frederica Rice), Polly Walker (Nick Buckley),<br />
Jeremy Young (Bert Croft), Jane Paton (Hotel Receptionist)<br />
Summary: <strong>Poirot</strong> and Hastings take a holiday in Cornwall, looking for peace and<br />
quiet. They meet Miss Nick Buckley, who lives near their hotel at End<br />
House, and she tells <strong>Poirot</strong> she has had three near-fatal accidents in<br />
a few weeks. He then finds a bullet hole in her hat, returns with her<br />
to End House and is drawn into a complex murder investigation. . .<br />
Detective Hercule <strong>Poirot</strong> and Captain Arthur Hastings<br />
are spending a week’s holiday at the Cornish resort<br />
of St. Loo, staying at the Majestic Hotel. They meet<br />
the young ’Nick’ Buckley (her real first name being Magdala),<br />
who lives in End House, a slightly ramshackle<br />
house on a point in the bay. Nick casually mentions<br />
that she had three lucky escapes from death in as many<br />
days. Nick thinks nothing of this, but <strong>Poirot</strong> believes<br />
someone is out to kill her. This is confirmed when <strong>Poirot</strong><br />
finds a bullet that Nick had thought to be a wasp shooting<br />
past her head. <strong>Poirot</strong> explains his concern to Nick,<br />
who does not believe him until the bullet is revealed<br />
to be from Nick’s gun, which has gone missing. Because<br />
the attacks on Nick’s life have been constant,<br />
<strong>Poirot</strong> does not believe it to be a random madman, but<br />
rather someone in Nick’s inner circle. <strong>Poirot</strong> begins to go<br />
through possible suspects. Nick’s nearest living relative<br />
is a lawyer cousin, Charles Vyse, who arranged the remortgaging<br />
on End House for her to supply desperately<br />
needed funds. Her housekeeper is named Ellen, and the<br />
lodge near End House is being leased by Mr. and Mrs.<br />
Croft, an Australian couple. Nick’s two closest friends<br />
are Freddie Rice, whom Nick is trying to persuade to divorce her abusive husband, and Jim<br />
Lazarus, an art dealer who is in love with Freddie. Finally there is George Challenger, who cares<br />
deeply for Nick and has considered proposing to her.<br />
<strong>Poirot</strong> instructs Nick to ask a distant relative to stay with her for the time being and protect<br />
her, so Nick asks her cousin Maggie to come. <strong>Poirot</strong> is now sure Nick is safe, but is mystified as to<br />
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