Title: Poirot 1203 Third Girl
Airdate and time AU: Sunday 5 April 2009 at 2030 (830pm)
Original airdate UK: 28 September 2008
Network AU: ABC1
Network UK: ITV
Synopsis: When a young woman visits Hercule Poirot to seek his help regarding a murder that she believes herself to have committed, she is appalled by his age and leaves with her story untold. Poirot is keen to track her down … but who is she, and what, if anything, has she done?
Ariadne Oliver, serving here as a deus ex machina, provides Poirot with a number of key clues in the novel, beginning with the identity of the girl, Norma Restarick, whom she had met at a party. Mrs. Oliver and Poirot begin to investigate Norma, but soon find that she has apparently gone missing. Mrs. Oliver meets the girls with whom she shares a flat at 67 Borodene Mansions: Claudia Reece-Holland (who turns out to be secretary to Norma's father) and Frances Cary, an artsy girl with long, dark hair that falls across her face. Neither has seen Norma recently. Poirot (visiting her paternal great uncle’s home in Long Basing) finds that her father and stepmother also have no idea where she has gone. Poirot does meet David Baker, Norma’s boyfriend, in the house, and sees that Norma’s stepmother, Mary, is highly annoyed to discover him there. Poirot also meets Norma’s paternal great-uncle, Sir Roderick Horsefield, who is elderly and has poor eyesight. Norma’s father, Andrew, has been staying with Sir Roderick since returning from Africa, where he had made a vast fortune.
Cast: David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, Joe Absolom as James Bentley, Richard Hope as Supt. Harold Spence, David Yelland as George,
Guest cast: Clemency Burton-Hill as Claudia Reece-Holland, Jemima Rooper as Norma Restarick, Matilda Sturridge as Frances Cary, Peter Bowles as Sir Roderick Horsefield, Lucy Liemann as Sonia, James Wilby as Andrew Restarick, Haydn Gwynne as Miss Battersby, Tom Mison as David Baker, Caroline O'Neill as Lavinia Seagram, Tim Stern as Alf Renny John Warnaby as Inspector Nelson, Tessa Bell-Briggs as Daphne, Jade Longley as Young Norma, Juliet Howland as Mary Restarick
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