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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (2)
Season 4
Episode Number: 38
Season Episode: 6
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: Keith Woodhams (Desk Clerk), John Warner (Second Coroner),
Sara Stewart (Jane Olivera), Chris Sicer (Claudio), John Peters (II)
(Leatheran), Alan Penn (Antonio), Guy Oliver-Watts (Benedick), Kevork
Malikyan (Amberiotis), Eileen Maciejewska (Manageress), Rosalind
Knight (Georgina Morley), Dawn Keeler (Mrs Pinner), Trilby James
(Agnes Fletcher), Helen Horton (Julia Olivera), Laurence Harrington
(Henry Morley), Julie Smith (Second girl playing hopscotch), Emma
Grey (First girl playing hopscotch), Joe Greco (Alfred Biggs), Carolyn
Colquhoun (Mabelle Sainsbury-Seale), Stephen Bird (Page-boy), Bruce
Alexander (Albert Chapman), Karen Gledhill (Gladys Neville), Jean
Ainslie (Alison Hendry), Christopher Eccleston (Frank Carter), Cassandra
Holliday (Receptionist), Oliver Bradshaw (Hendry), John Carlin (Dr
Bennett), Ben Bazell (Sergeant Beddoes), Nigel Bellairs (Leatheran),
Joanna Phillips-Lane (Gerda Grant/Helen Montressor), Peter Blythe
(Alistair Blunt), George Waring (First Coroner), David Bowles (Sergeant
Evans)
Summary:
Mabelle Sainsbury-Seale is found dead in a flat occupied by a Mrs
Chapman. Poirot visits Exsham Manor, where Alistair Blunt lives -
and while there, a shot is fired at him. Poirot works on the theory that
the death of Dr Morley is in some way connected with the deaths of
Mabelle Sainsbury-Seale and another of Morley’s patients.
Poirot realises that by allowing Carter to persist in his lies he can ensure that the real killer
goes free, and wrestles with his conscience. Eventually he presses Carter to admit the truth: that
when he entered Morley’s office the dentist was already dead. It is the final element in the puzzle.
Poirot visits Alistair Blunt and explains the murders. The real Mabelle Sainsbury Seale had
known him and his first wife, Gerda, whom he had never divorced, in India; his money came
from his now deceased second wife, and he would be disgraced if caught in bigamy. Running
into Blunt in the street, she had recognised and spoken to him in front of his niece, but had
not realised whom he had become. By chance she had mentioned this chance encounter to the
blackmailer, Amberiotis, who made the connection between the name ’Blunt’ and the wealthy
banker. He began to blackmail Blunt.
Gerda, posing under several aliases including that of Mrs. Albert Chapman, invited Mabelle
to visit her, killed her, and took her identity, but had to buy new shoes because Mabelle’s did not
fit her. This is why the corpse’s buckles were dull, while the buckle of the woman whom Poirot
met going into Morley’s surgery were shiny: the fake Mabelle had newer shoes than the real one,
who was by that time decomposing in the chest. The woman in the trunk could hardly have worn
through a new pair of shoes in a single day. Ironically, the face of the corpse had been disfigured
not because it wasn’t Mabelle, but because it was.
Alistair Blunt had attended his appointment, shot Morley and stashed his body in the side
office with his wife’s help. Having appeared to leave the surgery, he returned and changed the
dental records of Mrs. Albert Chapman and Mabelle in order to ensure that the corpse would be
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