DOCTOR CONSTANTINE
AS SEEN IN:
'Poirot'
"Murder On The Orient Express"
CREATED BY:
Dame Agatha Christie
PORTRAYED BY:
Samuel West
TV STATUS:
Multi-versatile Recastaway
[BookWorld, Cineverse, Toobworld, Alternate Toobworld]
TV DIMENSION:
Earth Prime-Time
From Wikipedia:
WARNING! THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD!
Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express in Constantinople. The train is
unusually crowded for the time of year. Poirot secures a berth only with the
help of his friend M. Bouc, a director of the Compagnie Internationale des
Wagons-Lits. When a Mr. Harris fails to show up, Poirot takes his place. On the
second night, Poirot gets a compartment to himself.
That night, in Vinkovci, at about twenty-three minutes before 1:00 am, Poirot wakes to the sound of a loud noise. It seems to come from the compartment next to his, which is occupied by Mr. Ratchett.
The next day he awakens to find that Ratchett is dead, having been stabbed twelve times in his sleep. M. Bouc suggests that Poirot take the case, being that it is so obviously his kind of case; nothing more is required than for him to sit, think, and take in the available evidence. [Working with him, along with M. Bouc as his "Watson", is Dr. Constantine who had been in one of the other cars.
Loosely faithful to the original story, it has a number of major differences, such as the character of Cyrus Hardman being omitted from the story, with Doctor Constantine (who is changed from a Greek doctor to Mrs. Armstrong's American obstetrician) taking his place among the "jury".
From the Poirot wiki:
Mary Debenham organised that those wronged by Cassetti should meet on the train. Constantine was one of the twelve to stab Cassetti. He then attempted to mislead Hercule Poirot by suggesting false theories. After uncovering the crime, Poirot let the murderers go as they had killed an evil man. (S12: "Murder on the Orient Express")
That night, in Vinkovci, at about twenty-three minutes before 1:00 am, Poirot wakes to the sound of a loud noise. It seems to come from the compartment next to his, which is occupied by Mr. Ratchett.
The next day he awakens to find that Ratchett is dead, having been stabbed twelve times in his sleep. M. Bouc suggests that Poirot take the case, being that it is so obviously his kind of case; nothing more is required than for him to sit, think, and take in the available evidence. [Working with him, along with M. Bouc as his "Watson", is Dr. Constantine who had been in one of the other cars.
Loosely faithful to the original story, it has a number of major differences, such as the character of Cyrus Hardman being omitted from the story, with Doctor Constantine (who is changed from a Greek doctor to Mrs. Armstrong's American obstetrician) taking his place among the "jury".
From the Poirot wiki:
Mary Debenham organised that those wronged by Cassetti should meet on the train. Constantine was one of the twelve to stab Cassetti. He then attempted to mislead Hercule Poirot by suggesting false theories. After uncovering the crime, Poirot let the murderers go as they had killed an evil man. (S12: "Murder on the Orient Express")
O'BSERVATIONS:
This is one time where I thought the changes to Christie's original story
improved the mystery, and Dr. Constantine was a good example of that. By making
him one of the Twelve, it eliminated a character that never really seemed to fit
into the group of suspects.
This Dr. Constantine, albeit an American, could be the son of the Dr. Constantine whom the Time Lord known as the Doctor met in London during the World War II blitz.
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