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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
The ABC Murders (1)
Season 4
Episode Number: 33
Season Episode: 1
Originally aired: Sunday January 5, 1992
Writer:
Agatha Christie, Clive Exton
Director: Andrew Grieve
Show Stars:
Hugh Fraser (Captain Arthur Hastings), Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector
James Japp), David Suchet (Hercule Poirot)
Guest Stars: Donald Sumpter (Alexander Bonaparte Cust), Gordon Salkilld
(commissionaire), Peter Penry-Jones (Superintendant Carter), Allan
Mitchell (Dr Kerr), Clifford Milner (policeman), Michael Mellinger
(Franz Ascher), Norman McDonald (Strange), Nina Marc (Thora Grey),
Alex Knight (Andover Sergeant), Jeremy Hawk (Deveril), Pippa Guard
(Megan Barnard), Miranda Forbes (Mrs Turton), Nicholas Farrell (Donald
Fraser), Lucinda Curtis (Mrs Marbury), Claude Close (Doncaster
sergeant), Vivienne Burgess (Lady Clarke), John Breslin (Barnard),
Cathryn Bradshaw (Mary Drower), Philip Anthony (II) (Doctor), Donald
Douglas (Franklin Clarke)
Summary:
Three bodies are found. Beside each lies a copy of the ABC Railway
Guide. The police are baffled. But the killer has made one mistake. He
has challenged Hercule Poirot to unmask him.
The novel chronicles the case from Hastings point
of view, after which the events in life of Cust are described.
Poirot is aided by his old friends Hastings &
Japp, along with Inspector Crome, Dr. Thompson & a
Legion of relatives of the deceased. ABC now directs
Poirot to Doncaster, when a Ledger is going to be run
the day when next murder will be committed. Although
clueless earlier, Lady Clarke gives Poirot an important
clue: she saw a shabbily dressed salesman talking with
Thora. Based on Thora’s testimony, stockings found in
Alice’s home & facts given by the Legion members, Poirot
turns up in Doncaster with everybody else. He tells them
to scour every possible area. However, ABC succeeds
again, killing George, a barber in a cinema hall instead
of Roger Downs, a local schoolteacher & a likely victim
sitting just two chairs away from George.
Nobody knows that Cust is in Doncaster, in the cinema
hall. He is revealed to be in a dazed state after a
blackout. He is shocked to see blood on his sleeve & a
knife in his pocket, about which he remembers nothing.
Realizing the implications, he decides to run away. He is
unaware of the fact that Michael has seen him in Doncaster.
He tries to throw his landlady & Lily off the track
by giving them false location. However, when Lily learns
from Michael about Cust being in Doncaster, the duo get suspicious & tip off Crome. A trap is
set for Cust, but luckily, he runs away undetected. However, he soon surrenders voluntarily.
A raid in his apartment gives enough damning evidence against him. Cust has no memories of
committing other murders either, but believes himself to be guilty by now. According to Cust,
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