Many of the early scripts, especially those based on the “slighter” short stories, take elements from Christie’s original and incorporate the themes into the other characters’ storylines. Bringing food into the rest of the story. – Mrs Mullen, the neighbor of Henry Gascoigne, treating Poirot like he’s deaf or unable to speak English– SO funny. This is an exact parallel of one of the last lines of Christie’s story, and I appreciated the touch. – A tiny detail in the closing scene, but I thought it was great anyway– when the lads are gathered again at the restaurant at the end, you see Molly come through the shot from the back left, bearing two plates of a dessert that might conceivably be the blackberry crumble and depositing them before customers. Brighton’s frivolous outdoor revelry is sharply contrasted by the interior shot of the dying Anthony Gascoigne. Finally and most importantly, it makes the references to the dead man’s teeth seem natural and consistent with the rest of the story, and serves to slightly conceal the vital clue. Second, Poirot’s aching bicuspid makes a convenient excuse for him to meet with Bonnington a second time, so he can hear the news of Henry Gascoigne’s death in Christie’s original, they meet again randomly on the Tube. First, it provides some insight to Poirot’s character which is reiterated elsewhere in the series (he hates going to the dentist). Doing this scores a couple of script writing points. – Making Poirot’s friend Bonnington his dentist also. I haven’t done an episode review for awhile now, so here’s one I’ve been mulling over in the last few days.
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