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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
The Plymouth Express
Season 3
Episode Number: 25
Season Episode: 3
Originally aired: Sunday January 20, 1991
Writer:
Agatha Christie, Rod Beacham
Director: Andrew Piddington
Show Stars: Hugh Fraser (Captain Arthur Hastings), Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector
James Japp), Pauline Moran (Miss Felicity Lemon), David Suchet
(Hercule Poirot)
Guest Stars: John Abbott (II) (Detective), Marion Bailey (Jane Melon), Leon Eagles
(Bank Manager), Duncan Faber (Porter), Robert Locke (Naval Officer),
Steven Mackintosh (Paperboy), Nigel Makin (Reception Clerk), Shelagh
McLeod (Florence Carrington), Alfredo Michelson (Comte de la
Rochefour), Stephen Riddle (Barman), John Stone (II) (Gordon Halliday),
Richard Vanstone (Sergeant), Julian Wadham (Rupert Carrington),
Adrian McLoughlin (Station Official), Kenneth Haigh (Mackenzie)
Summary: An Australian shipping tycoon wants Poirot to check out his daughter’s
suitors. Then the young lady takes a trip on the Plymouth Express,
and Poirot finds himself investigating a jewel theft on the train.
A young naval officer undertakes a train journey on
the Plymouth express and finds the dead body of a
woman underneath one of the seats in his carriage. The
woman is later identified as Flossie Halliday, latterly the
Honourable Mrs. Rupert Carrington, the daughter of an
Australian steel magnate who asks Poirot to take the
case on.
Poirot knows of the woman and saw sight of her
once in Paris. Some time ago she was caught up with
an adventurer called Count de la Rochefour but her father
took her back to America to get her away from the
Count. She later married Rupert Carrington who was to
prove just as unsuitable a husband, being a gambling
addict and deep in debt. They soon drifted apart and
were about to announce a legal separation.
Poirot and Hastings call on Mr. Halliday at his rented
house in Park Lane. He tells them that his daughter was
going to a house party in the West Country. She travelled
by train from Paddington and changed at Bristol
for the train to Plymouth (although she would be getting
off before Plymouth). Her maid travelled with her in a
third-class carriage. Mrs. Carrington was carrying with
her jewels amounting to a value of almost one hundred
thousand pounds to wear at the house party. At Bristol
the maid, Jane Mason, received a surprise: Mrs. Carrington
told her to wait at the station for a few hours while she travelled on to some unspecified
destination. She would return in a few hours and they would get a later connection for the Plymouth
line. When she was being given these instructions, Mason could see the back of a man
in Mrs. Carrington’s compartment but he was staring out of the opposite window and she did
not see his face. After waiting at Bristol for most of the day, Mason checked into a hotel for the
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