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Poirot :: Cards on the Table (10x02)

Episode Information

Title:

Cards on the Table

Episode #:

10x02

Original Airdate:

Sunday March 19th, 2006

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Episode Crew
Story:	Agatha Christie
Screenplay:	Nick Dear

Episode Summary

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A millionaire called Shaitana invites Poirot and three others who are interested in the detection of murder (the writer Ariadne Oliver, Inspector Wheeler of Scotland Yard, and Colonel Hughes of the secret service) to dinner. Shaitana has offered to show them four murderers who did not get caught, but his game ends when he is drugged, stabbed and killed during a hand of bridge. No one has come into the house or gone out of it - so who can identify the killer?

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Guest Stars

Guest Stars
•Alex Jennings	played	Dr Roberts
•Alexander Siddig	played	Shaitana
•Cordelia Bugeja	played	Mrs Luxmore
•David Westhead	played	Superintendent Wheeler
•Douglas Reith	played	Serge Maurice
•Honeysuckle Weeks	played	Rhoda Dawes
•James Alper	played	Shaitana's Butler
•Jenny Ogilvie	played	Millie
•Lesley Manville	played	Mrs Lorrimer
•Lucy Liemann	played	Miss Burgess
•Lyndsey Marshal	played	Anne Meredith
•Philip Bowen	played	Luxmore
•Philip Wright	played	Sergeant O'Connor
•Robert Pugh (2)	played	Colonel Hughes
•Tristan Gemmill	played	Major Despard
•Zigi Ellison	played	Mrs Craddock
•Zoë Wanamaker	played	Ariadne Oliver

Episode Notes

Based on Agatha Christie's book Cards on the Table (1936).

Cards on the Table was broadcast by A & E in the U.S. on December 11th, 2005, long before its first screening in the U.K.

Episode Quotes

Poirot: The question is, can Hercule Poirot possibly be wrong?
Mrs Lorrimer: No one can always be right.
Poirot: But I am. Always I am right. It is so invariable it startles me. And now it looks very much as though I may be wrong, and that upsets me. But I should not be upset, because I am right. I must be right because I am never wrong.

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