Somebody once cruely wrote that when Daniel Craig arrives at the James Bond production offices. Someone has to quickly go around taking down posters of Michael Fassbender as the producers imagine him as the next James Bond.
Two time Oscar nominee Fassbender plays George Abernethie who suddenly gets disinherited when his uncle Richard dies. He was expected to be the main beneficiary. At the funeral George's aunt Cora exclaims that her brother Richard had been murdered and everyone suspected it. Later, Cora is found dead in what looks like a robbery gone wrong.
Friend and solicitor to the family Gilbert Entwhistle calls in Poirot who discovers dark family secrets and examines if both deaths are linked as there are missing deeds and a forged will.
What I liked about this episode and credit goes to the director Maurice Phillips. It is very much straight to the action, no messing about in introducing charaters and getting to the murder.
The danger is you might get Poirot going around and just interrogating people which could get boring. However it is such a well written episode and so well paced. The revelation of the actual culprit might come as a surprise but the clues were planted from the first scenes and there are also several false trails. This really is Poirot at its best.