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 Kidnapped Prime Minister<br />
Season 2<br />
<strong>Episode</strong> Number: 19<br />
Season <strong>Episode</strong>: 9<br />
Originally aired: Sunday February 25, 1990<br />
Writer:<br />
<strong>Agatha</strong> Christie, Clive Exton<br />
Director: Andrew Grieve<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: Kate Binchy (Egan’s Landlady), Timothy Block (Major Norman), Anthony<br />
Chinn (Shi Mong), Jack Elliott (IV) (John Egan), Patrick Godfrey<br />
(Lord Estair), Lisa Harrow (Imogen Daniels), Roy Heather (Transport<br />
Superintendent), Ronald Hines (Sir Bernard Dodge), David Horovitch<br />
(Commander Tony Daniels), Daniel John (Urchin), Henry Moxon<br />
(McAdam), Milo Sperber (Fingler), Oliver Beamish (Sergeant Hopper),<br />
Sam Clifton (Urchin)<br />
Summary: <strong>Poirot</strong> is called in when the British Prime Minister and his secretary<br />
are kidnapped in France on their way to a League of Nations conference<br />
- and because of the international situation, <strong>Poirot</strong> is given just<br />
a day and a half to solve the case.<br />
Towards the end of the First World War, Hastings<br />
calls on <strong>Poirot</strong> in his rooms to discuss the sensational<br />
news of the day - no less than the attempted assassination<br />
of the Prime Minister, David MacAdam. Soon they<br />
are interrupted by two important visitors; Lord Estair,<br />
Leader of the House of Commons and Bernard Dodge, a<br />
member of the War Cabinet. They enlist <strong>Poirot</strong> for help<br />
with a national crisis — the Prime Minister has been<br />
kidnapped. He was on his way to a secret peace conference<br />
to be held the next day at Versailles. He arrived<br />
in Boulogne-sur-Mer where he was met by what was<br />
thought to be his official car but it was a substitute.<br />
The real car was found in a side road with its driver,<br />
an ADC bound and gagged. As they tell <strong>Poirot</strong> the details,<br />
news reaches them by special courier that the bogus<br />
car has now been found abandoned and containing<br />
Captain Daniels, the Prime Minister’s secretary, chloroformed<br />
and gagged. His employer is still missing. <strong>Poirot</strong><br />
wants to know the full details of the shooting that took<br />
place earlier and is told it occurred on the way back from<br />
Windsor Castle when, accompanied again by Daniels<br />
and the chauffeur, Murphy, the car took a side road and<br />
was surrounded by masked men. Murphy stopped and<br />
one them shot at the P.M., but only grazing his cheek. Murphy shot off, leaving the would-be<br />
murderers behind. The P.M. then stopped off at a small cottage hospital to have his wound bandaged<br />
and then went straight on to Charing Cross Station to get the Dover train. Murphy has<br />
also disappeared, the P.M.’s car being found outside a Soho restaurant frequented by suspected<br />
German agents. As <strong>Poirot</strong> packs to leave for France he voices his suspicions of both Daniels<br />
and Murphy and wonders why such a melodramatic event as ”shooting by masked men” took<br />
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