![]() ![]() A gloriously dark deconstruction of an apparently perfect family, we hope it delights and chills viewers when it airs!” ĭamien Timmer, executive producer, Mammoth Screen, says: “Sarah Phelps has excelled herself with this spellbinding adaptation of one of Agatha Christie’s most celebrated stories. He sets off a chain of events that threatens to blow the Argyll family apart. Dr Calgary enters Sunny Point in the summer of 1956 claiming to have returned from an Arctic expedition. Clean-shaved and pale, he carries a nervous disposition. įormer secretary to “The Argyll Trust for Orphans and Neglected Children”, Gwenda’s cunning has elevated her to the position of soon-to-be the second Mrs Argyll. She carries on her shoulders the trials and tribulations of the Argylls’ deeds and misdeeds. Long serving housekeeper to the Argyll family at Sunny Point. Hester is the epitome of innocence, but chafes against it. The doted upon baby of the Argyll family, the perfect '50's' Miss. Jack delights in causing trouble and running rings around the authority figures. There is a simmering edge to him, a dangerous energy. Irreverent and bright-eyed with mischief. He is not at ease in the entitled smugness of the Argyll family. Nothing can shake the East End out of the boy, despite his adopted mother’s best intentions. Tina carries about her an air of complete capability, but her Presbyterian plainness belies an underlying wildness. There is a shy numbness to her, as if she’s in a state of permanent frozen shock. He suffers the long-term effects of his injuries with the assistance of the morphine needle and the whisky bottle. A once decorated fighter pilot, Philip lost the use of his legs in a car accident after the war. Mary channels the spirit of her mother, a substitute for the attention she desperately craves from her. ![]() Neurotic yet poised, she is the picture of tension. The first adopted child of Leo and Rachel Argyll. On Christmas Eve 1954 she is brutally murdered. She has dedicated her life to philanthropy and raising her five adopted children. Rachel is the matriarch of the Argyll family and founder of “The Argyll Trust for Orphans and Neglected Children”. An amateur Egyptologist, Leo’s domain is his study at Sunny Point, where he pours over maps, papers and manuscripts. If Jack is innocent, then it must have been somebody else at Sunny Point. With no option but to tell the complete truth, Arthur makes a confession and is able to present irrefutable evidence that he is telling the truth about Jack's alibi. Her adopted son Jack Argyll, a young delinquent, is arrested for her murder. Wealthy philanthropist Rachel Argyll is murdered at her family estate Sunny Point. And if Jack is innocent, then it must have been somebody else at Sunny Point. However, the shattering implications of Calgary’s story are too big to avoid if he is telling the truth then the wrong person was arrested for Rachel’s murder. Rachel’s widower Leo is about to remarry his secretary Gwenda and none of Rachel’s other adopted children Mary, Mickey, Tina or Hester, nor longstanding housekeeper Kirsten, is willing to reopen that most horrendous chapter of their lives. But Jack died in prison before the case could come to trial, and the Argyll family is reluctant to dig up the secrets of the past. Even more extraordinary is his claim to hold the alibi that can prove Jack’s innocence. Eighteen months later, Dr Arthur Calgary, a mysterious scientist, walks onto the velvety lawns of Sunny Point claiming to have just returned from an expedition to the Arctic. ![]()
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