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Title: The Veiled Lady (14 Jan 1990)
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Cast
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| David Suchet | ... | Hercule Poirot | |
| Hugh Fraser | ... | Captain Hastings | |
| Philip Jackson | ... | Chief Inspector Japp | |
| Pauline Moran | ... | Miss Lemon | |
| Frances Barber | ... | Lady Millicent | |
| Terence Harvey | ... | Lavington | |
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Carole Hayman | ... | Mrs Godber |
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Tony Stephens | ... | Sergeant |
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Don Williams | ... | Constable |
| Lloyd McGuire | ... | Museum Guard | |
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Peter Geddis | ... | Museum Guard |
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Poirot despairs at the lack of crime - and work - concluding that he, Hercule Poirot, has scared off the criminal classes. His mood brightens when Lady Millicent Castle-Vaughn - the veiled Lady of the title - asks him to recover from her blackmailer some indiscreet letters written in her youth. Unable to convince the man to reduce the amount asked for, Poirot decides to take matters into his own hands and steal them. As Poirot and Hastings learn however, not all is as it seems, starting with Lady Millicent. Written by garykmcd
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The episode has location shooting in Burlington Arcade and the Natural History Museum and is more humorous than usual but I found the climax just a little bit off but until then it went along nicely but with a few misgivings.
Poirot is consulted by the beautiful and veiled Lady Millicent who is being blackmailed by a man called Lavington for some letters she wrote in her youth which have come back to haunt her.
Poirot meets Lavington who makes an exorbitant demand for money but also lets slip that he will be out of the country. This allows Poirot to turn cat burglar in order to retrieve the offending item.
Although it is novel to see Poirot turn thief the audience can guess the story has a few more twists and I just did not buy how Poirot managed to find the trinket box so easily and was so sure that Lavington did not take it abroad with him given the value to him.