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 Adventure of the Cheap Flat<br />
Season 2<br />
<strong>Episode</strong> Number: 18<br />
Season <strong>Episode</strong>: 8<br />
Originally aired: Sunday February 18, 1990<br />
Writer:<br />
<strong>Agatha</strong> Christie, Russell Murray<br />
Director: Richard Spence<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: William Hootkins (FBI Agent Burt), Luke Hayden (Romero), Jemma<br />
Churchill (Elsie), Samantha Bond (Stella Robinson), Peter Howell (Mr<br />
Paul), Jenifer Landor (Carla Romero/Elsa Hart), Nick Maloney (Bernie<br />
Cole), John Michie (James Robinson), Anthony Pedley (Mafia assassin),<br />
Ian Price (Teddy Parker), Gordon Wharmby (O’Brien), Nigel Whitmey<br />
(Luigi Valdarno)<br />
Summary: A glamorous nightclub-singer-turned-spy has stolen the US Navy’s<br />
plans for a new submarine, and an FBI agent called Burt is in London<br />
to catch her. Burt meets <strong>Poirot</strong> and dismisses him as a gumshoe,<br />
while <strong>Poirot</strong> is not impressed by the self-important G-man. <strong>Poirot</strong> is<br />
drawn into the case when it appears that the submarine plans will<br />
fall into the hands of Italy’s Fascists unless they are recovered. Then<br />
<strong>Poirot</strong> meets a young couple who have had an amazing bargain on a<br />
valuable London apartment, and he sees a connection with the spy<br />
case.<br />
Hastings is at a friend’s house with several other people<br />
when the talk turns to flats and houses. A young<br />
couple by the name of Robinson are there and she<br />
tells the party how they have managed to obtain a flat<br />
in Knightsbridge for a stunningly attractive price. The<br />
next day, when <strong>Poirot</strong> is told of this singularly strange<br />
event, the Belgian Detective is immediately interested<br />
and starts to investigate. When they go to the buildings<br />
where the flat is, the porter tells them that the Robinsons<br />
have been there for six months, despite the fact<br />
that Mrs Robinson told Hastings they had only just obtained<br />
the lease. <strong>Poirot</strong> rents another flat in the building<br />
and, by use of the coal lift, manages to gain entry to the<br />
Robinson’s flat and fix the locks in order that he can enter<br />
at will. The next day, <strong>Poirot</strong> tells Hastings that Japp<br />
informed him that important American naval plans were<br />
stolen from that country by an Italian called by Luigi<br />
Valdarno who managed to pass them onto an international<br />
spy, Elsa Hardt, before being killed in New York.<br />
Hardt’s description is a somewhat close match to that<br />
of Mrs Robinson. That night, when the Robinson’s flat<br />
is empty, <strong>Poirot</strong> and Hastings lie in wait and apprehend<br />
another Italian who has come to kill Elsa Hardt and her<br />
accomplice in revenge for the death of Valdarno. They disarm the man and take him to another<br />
house in London where <strong>Poirot</strong> has tracked down the two spies as now living, having previously<br />
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