Poirot Season 13 - Curtain: Poirot's Last Case Preview (US)

©ITV - David Suchet as Hercule Poirot and Gregory Cox as the Coroner

After twenty five years and sixty nine episodes, the end is here. 

For fans of the hugely successful and long-running series in the US, Hercule Poirot's Last Case is here. David Suchet has now completed all of Agatha Christie's Poirot novels (and most of the short stories). Curtain reunites Poirot with Hastings and Style's Court, the scene of their first murder investigation together. But there is a marked difference in both friends: Hastings is widowed and Poirot is ill. Curtain was adapted by the late Kevin Elyot, produced by David Boulter and directed by Hettie Macdonald.
ITV Plot description: 

Confined to a wheelchair and crippled with arthritis, the now elderly Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is reunited with his old companion Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser) at the house where it all began. 

 

Styles is the rambling country house where the pair first met 30 years ago, when Poirot was a refugee and Hastings a wounded soldier.  It is also the home of their first murder investigation together and is soon to be home to their last.

 

Since they last met, both have faced tragedy; Hastings is a widower, and Poirot has succumbed to a life-threatening heart condition. 

 

But the great detective’s brain remains as sharp and active as ever, and he tells his loyal friend with utmost certainty that Styles is again harbouring a killer – and it is simply a matter of time before the axe falls once more.  The problem is, Poirot does not yet know the identity of murderer or victim, and his disability frustratingly prevents him from acting on his investigative impulses.  

 

Poirot recruits Hastings to be his “eyes and ears”, but as his health deteriorates and their fellow guests begin to fall victim to confounding attacks, Poirot grows increasingly anxious that he may finally have met his match.  He must summon the last of his strength and push his “little grey cells” to the very limit, as he battles his ultimate nemesis in his last ever case. 

 

©ITV - Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings

 

Cast list:

 

Hercule Poirot - David Suchet  

Captain Hastings - Hugh Fraser

Elizabeth Cole - Helen Baxendale 

Daisy Luttrell - Anne Reid 

Col. Toby Luttrell - John Standing

Stephen Norton - Aidan McArdle 

Sir William Boyd Carrington - Philip Glenister

Judith - Alice Orr-Ewing 

Dr Franklin - Shaun Dingwall 

Major Allerton - Matthew McNulty

Barbara Franklin - Anna Madeley 

Nurse Craven - Claire Keelen 

George - David Yelland

Coroner - Gregory Cox

 

Curtain: Poirot's Last Case will be available to watch in the US on AcornTV on Monday 25th August. Follow me on twitter @AChristieWeb and join in the discussion using #Poirot13