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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide detective is puzzled as to why there is a bloodstain on the writing desk but Sir Reuben’s body was found on the floor. Poirot tries an experiment with his valet, George, and realises that Sir Reuben was clubbed as he sat in his chair and remained in position afterwards as the chair is low-down in comparison to the desk. Poirot is more suspicious than ever of Lily Margrave’s jumpy demeanour and investigates the two local hotels to see if anyone was staying that night who left the hotel near midnight. He finds such a man — Captain Humphrey Naylor — and convinced there is a link with Lily sets a trap by putting his own blood on a scrap of the dress that she was wearing that night and telling her he found it in the Tower Room. She confesses that she is Naylor’s sister and that he was swindled out of an African gold mine by Sir Reuben. Determined to find proof she agreed with her brother to take employment as Lady Astwell’s companion and on the night in question, as her brother waited outside, she went to the Tower Room and saw Leverson leaving it. She then went into the room herself and found the body on the floor (she also rifled the safe and found the proof of the swindle her brother was after) but she is innocent of the crime of murder. Poirot believes her and also realises that Leverson was drunk on the night in question and his strange manner is as a result of starting to shout at his uncle, pushing his shoulder and then realising he was dead as the body slid to the floor — hence the thud that Parsons heard. He is innocent as well as his uncle was killed earlier than when he was in the room. Poirot persuades Lady Astwell to partake in hypnosis to recall events of the night of the murder. She confirms what she has already told the police — that she argued with her husband in the Tower Room some ten minutes prior to Leverson coming back home. She also manages to recall a subliminal memory of the normally-controlled Trefusis breaking a paper knife in anger earlier in the evening when again being shouted at by Sir Reuben (thus triggering her suspicions of the man) and a strange bulge in the curtain which covered the spiral staircase to the upper portion of the tower room. Poirot realises someone was already there when she and her husband were arguing. Poirot begins a game of nerves with everyone in the house, extending his stay and searching everyone’s bedrooms, much to their annoyance. He also claims to find something on the spiral staircase which will seal the murderer’s fate and leaves it in a box in his room while he makes a quick trip to London. He returns and tells the gathered household that Trefusis is indeed the murderer but the crime was not premeditated. The secretary had left something in the upper portion of the Tower Room and was fetching it when he found himself to be an unwilling witness to the row between Sir Reuben and Lady Astwell. After she left the room, he tried to sneak out but was spotted and received another barrage of abuse from his employer. After nine years of such treatment, he was unable to take any more and struck Sir Reuben down. The item Poirot found on the stairs was false but George, hidden in the wardrobe of Poirot’s room, saw Trefusis steal the box in which the item was hidden when Poirot was in London. Lady Astwell is delighted — her intuition has proven correct. 90
Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide Yellow Iris Season 5 Episode Number: 41 Season Episode: 3 Originally aired: Sunday January 31, 1993 Writer: Agatha Christie, Anthony Horowitz Director: Peter Barber-Fleming Show Stars: Hugh Fraser (Captain Arthur Hastings), Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector James Japp), Pauline Moran (Miss Felicity Lemon), David Suchet (Hercule Poirot) Guest Stars: Stefan Gryff (General Pereira), Dorian Healy (Anthony Chapell), Carol Kenyon (Singer), Joseph Long (Luigi), Leonard Maguire (Grove), Robin McCaffrey (Iris Russell), Tracy Miller (Singer), Hugh Ross (Stephen Carter), Geraldine Somerville (Pauline Wetherby), David Troughton (Barton Russell), Yolanda Vazquez (Lola), Arturo Venegas (Hotel Receptionist) Summary: Poirot is caught up in a coup d’etat in Argentina and arrested as a spy, which hinders him from solving the murder of Iris Russell at a French restaurant owned by an Italian in Buenos Aires. Two years later, in London, a dinner-party at a restaurant of the same name marks the second anniversary of Iris’s death. The atmosphere is so charged that we almost expect the victim to come back from the dead. And, of course, Poirot traps a killer. Poirot is staying at a hotel in Santa Cruz, Argentina, awaiting a further trip to the Pampas to visit Hastings. He is at Le Jardin des Cygnes, enjoying dinner and a musical cabaret. A young woman called Iris Russell is sitting at another table with her husband, her sister, and three friends. Iris is toasted and dies, killed by potassium cyanide in her champagne. Her friends include a news- writer, an oil executive, and a nightclub dancer. Poirot quickly pounces and finds a bottle of the poison in the dead woman’s purse. The next morning, Iris’s death has officially been called suicide, and guests and staff have left the hotel. Poirot himself was earlier warned to leave, as the government of Argentina is unstable. With the army clashing with the Catholic church, it seems there could be a coup d’etat brewing. The coup duly arrives, sooner than expected, and Poirot is arrested, accused of spying, and deported. Tony Chappell, a writer who is an acquaintance of Poirot’s, is investigating the political situation, and at the same time he is miserable because his girl, Pauline, is mad with him. An oil executive, Stephen Carter, is in Argentina on behalf of the British government to obtain oil concessions for the Sovereign Oil Company, and it seems he may have made a secret deal with a revolutionary leader, helping him with British money in exchange for oil rights. If so, did Iris find out about this? And did the dancer, Lola, have designs on Iris’s husband, Barton Russell? 91
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