Elephants Can Remember
- Episode aired Aug 11, 2014
- TV-PG
- 1h 29m
Ariadne Oliver becomes an amateur sleuth when her goddaughter tasks her to find out the truth behind her parents' mysterious deaths.Ariadne Oliver becomes an amateur sleuth when her goddaughter tasks her to find out the truth behind her parents' mysterious deaths.Ariadne Oliver becomes an amateur sleuth when her goddaughter tasks her to find out the truth behind her parents' mysterious deaths.
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- TriviaThe novel "Elephants Can Remember" has a subplot in the fading memories of its aged characters. By the time Agatha Christie wrote the novel, Christie herself was suffering from memory problems. A 2009 study suggested that Christie had actually lost much of the vocabulary which she had used in earlier novels, and concluded that she was likely suffering from some form of late-onset dementia, perhaps Alzheimer's disease.
- GoofsWhen the police drain the bathtub where the doctor is, you can see the actor involuntarily wiggle his mouth to keep the cloth inside it.
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Hercule Poirot: You say they lived near to Eastbourne? You have acquaintance there? Well, then go. Allez-y, allez-y. Drive about, ask the questions, be the puzzler with the nose.
Ariadne Oliver: Oh, I see, and someone will remember something.
Hercule Poirot: Always someone remembers something.
Ariadne Oliver: You mean elephants. Sorry, I was thinking of elephants at that dinner last night.
Hercule Poirot: With hesitation, I ask why.
Ariadne Oliver: Because the meringue got stuck in my teeth.
Hercule Poirot: I see. Well, the pathway of logic, it is there somewhere, but...
Ariadne Oliver: Meringue, dentures, ivory, elephants. I must find the elephants. Elephants can remember.
The story itself is mind-numbingly complicated. The implausibilites mount one after the other and the relationships among the character become more and more tangled. The final explication scene where Poirot explains what happened in detail, even though neither he nor anyone else was there to see it, goes on and on and on. For the climax, he pulls out the trite old standby - the relative to disappeared to Canada as a child! So, much as it pains me, I must say farewell to Poirot. Thanks for the fun and the many great stories, but it's time to stop now.
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- Sheraton Grand London Park Lane Hotel, London, England, UK(Ariadne Oliver is declared Crime writer of the year)
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