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Should we start with the fact that the meat Japp serves is unfortunate in that it it’s called this? And continue with the observation that it’s all a setup for a labored joke involving this? And ends with a literal gay panic joke? Look, I’m no prude, but it was weird having an episode of Are You Being Served? close out the story. Should we talk about the last five minutes in which Japp serves Poirot a “traditional English meal”? OK, let’s.I did like the mouse motif, running down the clock (natch), going everywhere and seeing everything, and the way it ties together at the end with Poirot being served cheese was clever.Nice chilling moment at the end when we see that the killer is an even bigger sociopath than we’d expected, even given the four (!) murders that take place in the episode.The college students at the hostel – pared down from the book’s bigger cast – are well-cast and just memorable enough to make it easy to follow along.Still there’s a nice directorial flourish here in that the whole thing is shot in a fisheye style, lending a bit of surrealism to what’s otherwise one interrogation scene and one scene of Japp peeking through a window. We get an extended flashback scene that might be titled Young Japp Investigates, except Philip Jackson looks forty-something even in a sequence that allegedly happened ten years ago.Always a treat to see Burke pop up in something. Watson David Burke playing Sir Arthur Stanley, leader of the Labour Party and a key figure in the motive here. I always like it when the show uses actual historical events as backdrop, and here it’s the Jarrow March, which was a march of unemployed workers across the country from Jarrow to London to protest unemployment.Watching it now – and perhaps it was done no favors coming on the heels of last week’s ep – it just seemed disjointed, badly directed and written, and far less compelling than my memories would have me believe. Honestly, it’s a rare Poirot episode that ends up being worse than I remember it, but this one fits the bill. This, of course, sets in motion the main plot and alongside Our Chief Inspector, Poirot investigates a tale of murder, smuggling, and… er… labor movements, sort of. Our Belgian does his secretary a solid and investigates under the pretense of giving a dinner lecture, and scares the thief into confessing – but wouldn’t ya just know it, they end up dead shortly after.

Here’s the setup: in a hostel owned by Miss Lemon’s sister, someone’s been stealing random objects from the students. Limited time this week, gang, so we’re gonna hit the highs and lows here bullet-point style like the kids do nowadays.

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