S3.E5

Wasps' Nest

Episode aired May 16, 1991
TV-14
50m

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

1.7K

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Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran, David Suchet, and Martin Turner in Hercule Poirot (1989)

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Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

Poirot realizes that a murder is being plotted, and with the help of Hastings' latest hobby, he sets out to prevent it.Poirot realizes that a murder is being plotted, and with the help of Hastings' latest hobby, he sets out to prevent it.Poirot realizes that a murder is being plotted, and with the help of Hastings' latest hobby, he sets out to prevent it.

Director
- Brian Farnham
Writers
- David Renwick
- Agatha Christie
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IMDb RATING

7.7/10

1.7K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Brian Farnham
Writers
- David Renwick
- Agatha Christie
Stars

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Featured review

7/10

Poirot, wasps and a love triangle

Poirot runs into an old friend, author John Harrison. He is engaged to model Molly Deane but Poirot senses that something is amiss in their relationship. Deane was previously in a relationship with Harrison's best friend, artist Claude Langton. Poirot is fearful that a murder is being planned.

Reasonably interesting. There's no murder to be investigated here, but rather a murder to be prevented. Quite novel in that respect, though it does make the plot a bit conjectural, rather than based on clues and evidence.

Worth noting that the cast includes Peter Capaldi, of The Thick of It fame, as Claude Langton.

grantss
Aug 15, 2016
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Trivia
During the DVD commentary for The Thick of It (2005), Peter Capaldi states that his appearance in this episode of Hercule Poirot (1989) yields him the most frequent repeat fees of all his television appearances due to the programme's high overseas sales.

Goofs
Poroit says he substituted washing soda for the Potassium Cyanide. However washing soda is Sodium Carbonate which is powdery while Potassium Cyanide is crystalline like table salt. They show a crystalline compound being added to the tea which could not be washing soda. In addition, it is immediately obvious that the washing soda is not the crystalline Potassium Cyanide.

Quotes
Hercule Poirot: [reading a brochure for a fitness program] 'Use your vigour to keep your figure.' Absurd! There is nothing wrong with the body of Poirot. He is in the peak of condition!