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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
Season 3
Episode Number: 24
Season Episode: 2
Originally aired: Sunday January 13, 1991
Writer:
Anthony Horowitz, Agatha Christie
Director: Andrew Grieve
Show Stars: Hugh Fraser (Captain Arthur Hastings), Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector
James Japp), Pauline Moran (Miss Felicity Lemon), David Suchet
(Hercule Poirot)
Recurring Role: Richard Bebb (voice of newsreader)
Guest Stars: Dallas Adams (Hood), Ewan Hooper (Vavasour), Robin Hunter (policeman),
Kieron Jecchinis (Tom Franklin), Lizzy McInnerny (Nurse
Long/Miranda Brooks), Natalie Ogle (Esmee Dalgleish), Christopher
Owen (Chief Purser), Oliver Parker (Philip Ridgeway), Edward Phillips
(flower seller), David Quilter (Shaw), Jonathan Stratt (passenger), Paul
Young (McNeil)
Summary: The London and Scottish Bank is sending a huge shipment of Liberty
Bonds to New York on the transatlantic passenger liner Queen
Mary. Poirot, who suffers terribly from sea-sickness, is asked to see
the bonds safely across the Atlantic.
Poirot is asked by the fiancée of Philip Ridgeway
to prove his innocence. Ridgeway is the nephew of Mr
Vavasour, the joint general manager of the London and
Scottish Bank and a million dollars of bonds have gone
missing whilst in his care. Poirot meets Ridgeway at the
Cheshire Cheese who gives him the facts of the case:
He was entrusted by his uncle and the other general
manager, Mr Shaw, of taking a million dollars of Liberty
Bonds to New York to extend the bank’s credit line there.
The bonds were counted in Ridgeway’s presence in London,
sealed in a packet and then put in his portmanteau
that had a special lock on it. The packet disappeared
just a few hours before the liner on which Ridgeway was
travelling, the Olympia, docked in New York. Attempts
had obviously been made to break into the portmanteau
but its lock must have then have been picked. Customs
were alerted and they sealed the ship that they then
searched but to no avail. The thief was selling the bonds
in New York so quickly that one dealer even swears to
buying some bonds before the ship docked. Poirot then
questions the two general managers who confirm what
Ridgeway has said. He then travels to Liverpool where
the Olympia has just returned from another crossing
and the stewards confirm the presence of an elderly man wearing glasses who occupied the cabin
next to Ridgeway and virtually never left it. Poirot meets back with Ridgeway and his fiancé and
explains the case to them. The real bonds were never in the portmanteau. Instead they were
posted to New York on another faster liner, the Gigantic, which arrived before the Olympia. The
confederate at the other end had instructions to begin selling the bonds only when the Olympia
docked but he failed to carry out his orders properly, hence one sale, which took place half an
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