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'''Based on:''' ''Literature/ThirdGirl''
'''Based on:''' ''Literature/ThirdGirl''
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* BastardBastard: Frances Cary in the adaptation is revealed to be the daughter of Andrew Restarick by Norma's tutor A.J. Battersby, and plots to inherit her half-sister's fortune by getting her killed, either by execution or more direct means.
** The character of A.J. Battersby, Norma's tutor and later schoolmistress, is added to the story, taking up elements of the book version of Mary Restarick in the process.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Nanny Seagram was willing to be bribed with gin in order to keep her silence regarding Andrew Restarick's identity, but
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* RuleOfSymbolism: Norma slashes up the new portrait of Andrew Restarick, which is ultimately explained to be because it was a portrait of an impostor.
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* AdaptedOut: Dr Stillingfleet is nowhere to be found, and his role as Norma's love interest is given to David Baker.
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* AdaptedOut: Dr AdaptationDeviation:
** Since Stillingfleet isnowhere to be found, and his AdaptedOut, the role as Norma's love interest of taking in Norma during the story is given taken up by Poirot himself instead.
** The method through which the murderer gaslights Norma into thinking she committed the murder is changed; instead of using the door numbers toDavid Baker. manipulate Norma into thinking she killed the victim, she's instead misled through the use of two identical knives, one in her drawer and another at the murder scene, that would make her think she was the murderer.
** Since Stillingfleet is
** The method through which the murderer gaslights Norma into thinking she committed the murder is changed; instead of using the door numbers to
* AdaptedOut:
** Dr Stillingfleet is nowhere to be found, and his role as Norma's love interest is given to David Baker.
** Miss Lemon was present in the original story, but is not in this episode.
** The subplot about Sonia being a spy feeding information to the Herzegovinian Embassy is removed.
** Dr Stillingfleet is nowhere to be found, and his role as Norma's love interest is given to David Baker.
** Miss Lemon was present in the original story, but is not in this episode.
** The subplot about Sonia being a spy feeding information to the Herzegovinian Embassy is removed.
* CanonForeigner:
** The role of Louise Charpentier as the first murder victim is taken up by Nanny Seagram as the ''only'' murder victim in the adaptation.
** The role of Louise Charpentier as the first murder victim is taken up by Nanny Seagram as the ''only'' murder victim in the adaptation.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Louise Charpentier in the book was killed by being pushed out of her apartment window. Her show counterpart, Nanny Seagram, is smothered by a pillow instead, and had her wrists slashed post-mortem to incriminate Norma.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Nanny Seagram was willing to be bribed with gin in order to keep her silence regarding Andrew Restarick's identity, but
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ariadne Oliver, unimpressed by Frances Carey's tea brewing-skills, offhandedly asks "Where was the girl brought up?". The answer to that question turns out to be crucial to the case at hand.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Ariadne Oliver, unimpressed by Frances Carey's tea brewing-skills, offhandedly asks "Where was the girl brought up?". The answer to that question turns out to be crucial to the case athand.hand.
** Ariadne asks Poirot how he knew that David was genuinely in love with Norma all along. Poirot points out that Ariadne told him herself -- David was looking at Norma throughout the entire party, even as Frances was trying to seduce him.
** Ariadne Oliver, unimpressed by Frances Carey's tea brewing-skills, offhandedly asks "Where was the girl brought up?". The answer to that question turns out to be crucial to the case at
** Ariadne asks Poirot how he knew that David was genuinely in love with Norma all along. Poirot points out that Ariadne told him herself -- David was looking at Norma throughout the entire party, even as Frances was trying to seduce him.
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** David baker is referred to as "[[ProudPeacock The Peacock]]". In the novel's 60's setting this meant that he was a [[LongHairedprettyBoy long-haired]] hippie {{Fashionista}}. This version takes place in TheThirties, so here he's TheDandy.
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** David baker Baker is referred to as "[[ProudPeacock The Peacock]]". In the novel's 60's setting this meant that he was a [[LongHairedprettyBoy long-haired]] hippie {{Fashionista}}. This version takes place in TheThirties, so here he's TheDandy.
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* AdaptationalJerkass:
** Unlike her more neutral counterpart from the novel, Claudia is so openly hostile towards Norma that Poirot brings it up as a possible motive near the end. This is implied to be at least in part due to Andrew/Robert poisoning Claudia's opinion of her.
** The real Andrew Restarick is revealed to have despised his daughter Norma and abandoned his lover and other daughter.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Frances Carey is not just Robert Orwell accomplice in this version. As Andrew Restarick's other daughter she has an equal stake in stealing Norma's inheritence, and the cruelty of her plan turns out to be born out of deep resentment of her legitimate half-sister.
** Unlike her more neutral counterpart from the novel, Claudia is so openly hostile towards Norma that Poirot brings it up as a possible motive near the end. This is implied to be at least in part due to Andrew/Robert poisoning Claudia's opinion of her.
** The real Andrew Restarick is revealed to have despised his daughter Norma and abandoned his lover and other daughter.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Frances Carey is not just Robert Orwell accomplice in this version. As Andrew Restarick's other daughter she has an equal stake in stealing Norma's inheritence, and the cruelty of her plan turns out to be born out of deep resentment of her legitimate half-sister.
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** Norma's had a deceased mother and a stepmother named Mary in the novel. Here she has no stepmother, and Mary is the name of her birthmother.
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** Norma's Norma had a deceased mother and a stepmother named Mary in the novel. Here she has no stepmother, and Mary is the name of her birthmother.birth mother.
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* DiesWideOpen: Nanny Seagram is found dead with a look of absolute terror on her face.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ariadne Oliver, unimpressed by Frances Carey's tea brewing-skills, offhandedly asks "Where was the girl brought up?". The answer to that question turns out to be crucial to the case at hand.
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* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Mrs Oliver invites herself over for tea at the girls' apartment, where she ignores their increasingly obvious hints that they want her to leave.
* TraumaButton: Norma feels intense guilt over convincing her nanny Seagram to stop for ice cream the day her mother died, feeling she could have been saved if they arrived earlier. Frances is revealed to have weaponized this by serving ice cream at their party. The murder of Seagram was also staged to mimic the suicide of Norma's mother, which was also meant to reawaken her trauma.
* TraumaButton: Norma feels intense guilt over convincing her nanny Seagram to stop for ice cream the day her mother died, feeling she could have been saved if they arrived earlier. Frances is revealed to have weaponized this by serving ice cream at their party. The murder of Seagram was also staged to mimic the suicide of Norma's mother, which was also meant to reawaken her trauma.
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* AdaptedOut: In ''Third Girl'', Dr Stillingfleet's role is merged with David Baker.
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* AdaptedOut: In ''Third Girl'', Dr Stillingfleet's Stillingfleet is nowhere to be found, and his role as Norma's love interest is merged with given to David Baker. Baker.
* AdaptationalContextChange:
** The portrait of Andrew Restarick is commissioned and unveiled openly for all to see. In the novel it was painted by David in secret, and he was killed to hide the fact that it was made recently.
** David baker is referred to as "[[ProudPeacock The Peacock]]". In the novel's 60's setting this meant that he was a [[LongHairedprettyBoy long-haired]] hippie {{Fashionista}}. This version takes place in TheThirties, so here he's TheDandy.
* AdaptationalContextChange:
** The portrait of Andrew Restarick is commissioned and unveiled openly for all to see. In the novel it was painted by David in secret, and he was killed to hide the fact that it was made recently.
** David baker is referred to as "[[ProudPeacock The Peacock]]". In the novel's 60's setting this meant that he was a [[LongHairedprettyBoy long-haired]] hippie {{Fashionista}}. This version takes place in TheThirties, so here he's TheDandy.
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* DecompositeCharacter: Norma's stepmother Mary in ''Third Girl'' is turned into her deceased birth mother in the series. While this technically makes her a CompositeCharacter as well, the novel reveals at the end that "Mary" doesn't exist and is just Frances Cary in disguise. Frances and Mary are separate people in the series.
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* CompositeCharacter:
** Norma dates David Baker in the novel, but ends up with Dr Stillingfleet after he plays a part in saving her life. Since Stillingfleet is omitted, she ends up with David here, who is alive and has a more heroic role.
** Norma's had a deceased mother and a stepmother named Mary in the novel. Here she has no stepmother, and Mary is the name of her birthmother.
* DecompositeCharacter: Norma's stepmother Maryin ''Third Girl'' from the novel is turned into her deceased birth mother in the series. While this technically makes her a CompositeCharacter as well, the novel reveals at the end that "Mary" doesn't exist and is just Frances Cary in disguise. Frances and Mary are separate people in the series.
** Norma dates David Baker in the novel, but ends up with Dr Stillingfleet after he plays a part in saving her life. Since Stillingfleet is omitted, she ends up with David here, who is alive and has a more heroic role.
** Norma's had a deceased mother and a stepmother named Mary in the novel. Here she has no stepmother, and Mary is the name of her birthmother.
* DecompositeCharacter: Norma's stepmother Mary
* MeaningfulEcho: "Can you save me?" First said by Norma, but it also turns out to have been her mother's last words before she died.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Norma walks in on David painting Frances [[PublicExposure in the nude]] and assumes things went further. While it turns out that David only has eyes for Norma, Frances was deliberately throwing herself at David as part of her plot to destroy Norma's life.
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* SettingUpdate: Especially noticable in this episode: the original novel is set in and heavily reflects the culture of TheSixties, but is transported back thirty years in the adaptation. This can result in some strangeness, since it was written in TheSixties and uses so many contemporary themes that the book comes off as an UnintentionalPeriodPiece, being re-set in TheGreatDepression.
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* SettingUpdate: Especially noticable in this episode: the original novel is set in and heavily reflects the culture of TheSixties, TheSixties and comes off as an UnintentionalPeriodPiece, but is transported back thirty years in the adaptation. This can result in some strangeness, since it was written in TheSixties and uses so many contemporary themes that the book comes off as an UnintentionalPeriodPiece, being re-set in TheGreatDepression.adaptation.
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!Third Girl
-->'''Original Airdate''': 28 September 2008\\
'''Written by:''' Peter Flannery\\
'''Directed by:''' Dan Reed\\
'''Recurring cast:''' Ariadne Oliver, George
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* AdaptedOut: In ''Third Girl'', Dr Stillingfleet's role is merged with David Baker.
* BathSuicide: It is revealed that Norma Restarick's mother Mary, who was distraught by the absence of her husband Andrew, committed suicide by slitting her wrists in the bathtub, traumatizing Norma for so many years. Through the same years, her half-sister Frances exploited her trauma and used it to prey upon Norma through actions, including the ice cream and the murder of Nanny Seagram. With Poirot's help, however, Norma is able to get over the trauma and later use the trope as a reenactment by FakingTheDead in order to prevent Frances from killing her should her "father" be exposed as an impostor.
* BreakTheCutie: Norma is forced to relive the trauma of her mother's BathSuicide over and over again until she is on the brink of insanity.
* DecompositeCharacter: Norma's stepmother Mary in ''Third Girl'' is turned into her deceased birth mother in the series. While this technically makes her a CompositeCharacter as well, the novel reveals at the end that "Mary" doesn't exist and is just Frances Cary in disguise. Frances and Mary are separate people in the series.
* DisappearedDad: Andrew Restarick abandoned his daughter Norma and her mother many years before the events of the novel and went to Africa to seek his fortune. By the events of the story he has returned to try and make amends with his daughter. Except he didn't, since Poirot realises that he disappeared so efficiently, no one actually knew what he looked like -- and by extension, whether the man calling himself Andrew Restarick actually was him...
* FakingTheDead: Near the end, Norma appears to have killed herself in the bathtub by slitting her wrists in the same manner as her mother. However, it turns out that Norma has heeded Poirot's helpful advice by using the memory of her mother's suicide as a reenactment and faking her own in order to prevent her half-sister from [[VorpalPillow smothering her with the pillow that was used to kill Nanny Seagram]] in case her "father" would be exposed as an impostor.
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: Played in one part of the soundtrack, accompanied by HeartbeatSoundtrack.
* GoldDigger: Everyone suspects that Sir Roderick's secretary Sonia is trying to seduce him because he potentially stands to inherit Norma Restarick's fortune if anything happens to her. She turns out to be genuinely in love with him.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Frances turns out to be Norma's half-sister.
* MenDontCry: At the end, when Poirot sees that Norma is finally able to smile in freedom, he starts shedding a SingleTear. Ariadne Oliver asks if he is crying, but Poirot says that it's [[SandInMyEyes "only the breeze".]]
* NotSoStoic: Poirot is uncharacteristically furious at the culprits who tried to {{Gaslight|ing}} Norma.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sir Roderick initially seems to be a hapless old "Colonel Blimp" type who gets suckered into Poirot's ruse about being an old friend of his, but is quickly revealed to be a lot sharper than he first appears.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Frances Cary becomes a half-sister of Norma Restarick, whose father left her mother for her teacher, Miss Battersby, with whom he had a relationship.
* SettingUpdate: Especially noticable in this episode: the original novel is set in and heavily reflects the culture of TheSixties, but is transported back thirty years in the adaptation. This can result in some strangeness, since it was written in TheSixties and uses so many contemporary themes that the book comes off as an UnintentionalPeriodPiece, being re-set in TheGreatDepression.
* ShoutOut: Concierge Alf Renny, Ariadne Oliver's "#1 fan", has read her novel called ''Lady, Don't Fall Backwards'' [[SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes four times]] and still has no idea who committed the murder. This is a shout-out to an episode of the TV series ''Radio/HancocksHalfHour'' ("The Missing Page"), in which Tony Hancock tries to find out who committed the murder in a book he'd just read with a missing page.
* ShrineToTheFallen: It is said that Norma has turned her bedroom into a shrine for her mother, who committed suicide when Norma was seven.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: David Baker, mostly by being melded with the character who ''is'' Norma's love interest in the original book.
* VorpalPillow: It is revealed that Frances Cary, Norma Restarick's half-sister, murdered Nanny Lavinia Seagram for threatening to reveal the identity of Robert Orwell as the impostor of Norma's father Andrew by using the pillow as a weapon. Afterward, Frances took her half-sister's knife from her bedroom and slit Seagram's wrists with it in order to force Norma to relive the trauma of her mother's suicide and make her believe she did it. Later, when Norma is finally able to reveal Robert's deception, Frances attempts to smother her half-sister herself with the same pillow, but Norma cleverly fakes her own death using the memory of her mother's bathtub suicide as an idea to make her half-sister believe she killed herself in the same manner as her mother.
* WhenSheSmiles: It's frequently discussed how Norma Restarick has hardly ever smiled since the death of her mother... except whenever she sees David Baker, at which point she simply lights up. At the end when Norma hugs David again, she makes an AsideGlance in front of Poirot and is finally able to smile again, moving him to the point of tears.
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-->'''Original Airdate''': 28 September 2008\\
'''Written by:''' Peter Flannery\\
'''Directed by:''' Dan Reed\\
'''Recurring cast:''' Ariadne Oliver, George
!!Tropes
* AdaptedOut: In ''Third Girl'', Dr Stillingfleet's role is merged with David Baker.
* BathSuicide: It is revealed that Norma Restarick's mother Mary, who was distraught by the absence of her husband Andrew, committed suicide by slitting her wrists in the bathtub, traumatizing Norma for so many years. Through the same years, her half-sister Frances exploited her trauma and used it to prey upon Norma through actions, including the ice cream and the murder of Nanny Seagram. With Poirot's help, however, Norma is able to get over the trauma and later use the trope as a reenactment by FakingTheDead in order to prevent Frances from killing her should her "father" be exposed as an impostor.
* BreakTheCutie: Norma is forced to relive the trauma of her mother's BathSuicide over and over again until she is on the brink of insanity.
* DecompositeCharacter: Norma's stepmother Mary in ''Third Girl'' is turned into her deceased birth mother in the series. While this technically makes her a CompositeCharacter as well, the novel reveals at the end that "Mary" doesn't exist and is just Frances Cary in disguise. Frances and Mary are separate people in the series.
* DisappearedDad: Andrew Restarick abandoned his daughter Norma and her mother many years before the events of the novel and went to Africa to seek his fortune. By the events of the story he has returned to try and make amends with his daughter. Except he didn't, since Poirot realises that he disappeared so efficiently, no one actually knew what he looked like -- and by extension, whether the man calling himself Andrew Restarick actually was him...
* FakingTheDead: Near the end, Norma appears to have killed herself in the bathtub by slitting her wrists in the same manner as her mother. However, it turns out that Norma has heeded Poirot's helpful advice by using the memory of her mother's suicide as a reenactment and faking her own in order to prevent her half-sister from [[VorpalPillow smothering her with the pillow that was used to kill Nanny Seagram]] in case her "father" would be exposed as an impostor.
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: Played in one part of the soundtrack, accompanied by HeartbeatSoundtrack.
* GoldDigger: Everyone suspects that Sir Roderick's secretary Sonia is trying to seduce him because he potentially stands to inherit Norma Restarick's fortune if anything happens to her. She turns out to be genuinely in love with him.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Frances turns out to be Norma's half-sister.
* MenDontCry: At the end, when Poirot sees that Norma is finally able to smile in freedom, he starts shedding a SingleTear. Ariadne Oliver asks if he is crying, but Poirot says that it's [[SandInMyEyes "only the breeze".]]
* NotSoStoic: Poirot is uncharacteristically furious at the culprits who tried to {{Gaslight|ing}} Norma.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sir Roderick initially seems to be a hapless old "Colonel Blimp" type who gets suckered into Poirot's ruse about being an old friend of his, but is quickly revealed to be a lot sharper than he first appears.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Frances Cary becomes a half-sister of Norma Restarick, whose father left her mother for her teacher, Miss Battersby, with whom he had a relationship.
* SettingUpdate: Especially noticable in this episode: the original novel is set in and heavily reflects the culture of TheSixties, but is transported back thirty years in the adaptation. This can result in some strangeness, since it was written in TheSixties and uses so many contemporary themes that the book comes off as an UnintentionalPeriodPiece, being re-set in TheGreatDepression.
* ShoutOut: Concierge Alf Renny, Ariadne Oliver's "#1 fan", has read her novel called ''Lady, Don't Fall Backwards'' [[SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes four times]] and still has no idea who committed the murder. This is a shout-out to an episode of the TV series ''Radio/HancocksHalfHour'' ("The Missing Page"), in which Tony Hancock tries to find out who committed the murder in a book he'd just read with a missing page.
* ShrineToTheFallen: It is said that Norma has turned her bedroom into a shrine for her mother, who committed suicide when Norma was seven.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: David Baker, mostly by being melded with the character who ''is'' Norma's love interest in the original book.
* VorpalPillow: It is revealed that Frances Cary, Norma Restarick's half-sister, murdered Nanny Lavinia Seagram for threatening to reveal the identity of Robert Orwell as the impostor of Norma's father Andrew by using the pillow as a weapon. Afterward, Frances took her half-sister's knife from her bedroom and slit Seagram's wrists with it in order to force Norma to relive the trauma of her mother's suicide and make her believe she did it. Later, when Norma is finally able to reveal Robert's deception, Frances attempts to smother her half-sister herself with the same pillow, but Norma cleverly fakes her own death using the memory of her mother's bathtub suicide as an idea to make her half-sister believe she killed herself in the same manner as her mother.
* WhenSheSmiles: It's frequently discussed how Norma Restarick has hardly ever smiled since the death of her mother... except whenever she sees David Baker, at which point she simply lights up. At the end when Norma hugs David again, she makes an AsideGlance in front of Poirot and is finally able to smile again, moving him to the point of tears.
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