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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1)
Season 4
Episode Number: 37
Season Episode: 5
Originally aired: Sunday January 19, 1992
Writer:
Clive Exton, Agatha Christie
Director: Ross Devenish
Show Stars: Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector James Japp), David Suchet (Hercule
Poirot)
Guest Stars: Joanna Phillips-Lane (Gerda Grant/Helen Montressor), Tom Durham
(Lionel Arnholt), Bruce Alexander (Albert Chapman), Ben Bazell
(Sergeant Beddoes), Nigel Bellairs (Leatheran), Oliver Bradshaw
(Hendry), Carolyn Colquhoun (Mabelle Sainsbury-Seale), Christopher
Eccleston (Frank Carter), Karen Gledhill (Gladys Neville), Joe Greco
(Alfred Biggs), Laurence Harrington (Henry Morley), Mary Healey
(Beryl Chapman), Helen Horton (Julia Olivera), Trilby James (Agnes
Fletcher), Rosalind Knight (Georgina Morley), Kevork Malikyan (Amberiotis),
Julie Smith (second hopscotch girl), Sara Stewart (Jane Olivera),
John Warner (coroner), Peter Blythe (Alistair Blunt), David Bowles
(Sergeant Evans)
Summary: Mabelle Sainsbury-Seale meets her old friend Alistair Blunt coming
out of Dr Morley’s dental surgery. And soon afterwards, Dr Morley
(Poirot’s dentist) is found dead. Japp thinks it was suicide, but Poirot
disagrees.
Leaving the dentist’s (Morley) practice after an appointment,
Poirot happens to notice the arrival of Mabelle
Sainsbury Seale and returns to her the shiny
buckle that has fallen from her shoe. Later, he hears
from Japp that Morley has died of a gunshot. Between
Poirot’s appointment and Morley’s death there were only
three patients: Banker Alistair Blunt, Mabelle, and a
Greek blackmailer named Amberiotis. The presence of
a man thought essential to the country’s economic survival
(Blunt) ensures Japp’s involvement in the case;
when Amberiotis turns up dead from an overdose of
anaesthetic, it is thought that the dentist has killed himself
after realising the accident for which he had been
responsible.
Movements at the dental surgery are inconclusive.
Morley’s partner, Reilly, is a rogue but seems to have
no motive. Morley’s secretary had been called away by a
fake telegram. Her boyfriend, Frank Carter, had a weak
motive given that Morley had attempted to dissuade
her from seeing him. Also present at the surgery was
Howard Raikes, a prickly left-wing activist violently opposed
to Blunt but enamoured of his niece. There is too
little evidence for Poirot to construct an alternative hypothesis,
but he senses that the story is not complete.
When Mabelle goes missing, his fears are realised. A search for her is conducted, and some
time later her body is apparently found in a sealed chest in the apartment of Mrs. Albert Chapman,
who has herself disappeared. The corpse’s face has been smashed in, and Poirot notices
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