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Poirot :: The Mystery of the Blue Train (10x01)

Episode Information

Title:

The Mystery of the Blue Train

Episode #:

10x01

Original Airdate:

Sunday January 01st, 2006

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Episode Crew
Director:	Hettie MacDonald
Story:	Agatha Christie
Screenplay:	Guy Andrews

Episode Summary

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Poirot is dining alone in a London restaurant and strikes up a friendship with Katherine Grey. She has just inherited a lot of money and is about to travel to visit relations in the South of France, but is nervous. Poirot offers to go with her on the Blue Train.

Apart from Poirot and Katherine, others on the train include the Tamplin family (Katherine's cousins), millionaire Rufus van Aldin and his daughter Ruth Kettering, Ruth's penniliess husband Derek, and her boyfriend - and Ruth has a very valuable ruby with her called 'The Heart of Fire'. And then Ruth gets killed on the train in a gruesome and disfiguring attack, and at the same time her ruby is stolen. And after the arrival of Katherine and Poirot at the Tamplins' villa, Katherine is also attacked. Poirot finds himself dealing with several crimes at once.

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Guest Stars

Guest Stars
•Nicholas Farrell	played	Major Knighton	Recurring (third appearance)
•Alice Eve	played	Lenox Tamplin
•Bronagh Gallagher	played	Ada Mason
•Elliott Gould	played	Rufus Van Aldin
•Georgina Rylance	played	Katherine Grey
•Jaime Murray (1)	played	Ruth Kettering
•James D'Arcy	played	Derek Kettering
•Jane How	played	Jane How
•Josette Simon	played	Mirelle Milesi
•Lindsay Duncan	played	Lady Tamplin
•Oliver Milburn	played	Count de la Roche
•Roger Lloyd Pack	played	Inspector Caux
•Samuel James (1)	played	Steward
•Tom Harper	played	Corky

Episode Notes

Based on Agatha Christie's book The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928),

Episode Quotes

Poirot: I shall be your avuncular.
Katherine Grey: Oh, yes, an avuncular, that's exactly what I need.
Poirot: Papa Poirot, he is at your disposal.

Poirot: There is something about that gentleman which displeases you?
Van Aldin: I see no gentleman. I see Derek damn Kettering, my damn gold-digging son of a bitch son-in-law!

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