After Norma Restarick, a seemingly neurotic young heiress, tells Ariadne Oliver and Poirot that she thinks she may have killed someone, her ex-nanny is found with her wrists slashed.
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot David Yelland as George Jemima Rooper as Norma Restarick Zoë Wanamaker as Ariadne Oliver Clemency Burton-Hill as Claudia Reece-Holland Matilda Sturridge as Frances Cary Tom Mison as David Baker John Warnaby as Inspector Nelson Caroline O'Neill as Nanny Lavinia Seagram (as Caroline O'Neil) James Wilby as Andrew Restarick Peter Bowles as Sir Roderick Horsfield Lucy Liemann as Sonia Tim Stern as Alf Renny Simon Hill as Bus Ticket Inspector Tessa Bell-Briggs as Daphne, the Waitress Ysobel Gonzalez as Nurse Sean Kingsley as Policeman Jade Longley as Young Norma Restarick Juliet Howland as Mary Restarick Haydn Gwynne as Miss Battersby