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* TheBadGuyWins: Subverted. Mrs Vanderlyn gets away with the plans for the Kestrel, but it's later revealed that the plans that were stolen were sabotaged, making them far less useful in foreign hands.
* ChaseScene: Poirot and Hastings commandeer a police car in an attempt to chase after a fleeing Mrs Vanderlyn.
* ClearMyName: Mayfield's motivation for trapping Mrs Vanderlyn is to help clean up his reputation after a scandal involving arms sent to Japan at the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War[[note]]a war noted as one of the preludes to WWII, or the actual start of WWII according to some circles[[/note]].
* DelayedOhCrap: While trying to determine where Mrs Vanderlyn is headed with the plans, Hastings has Poirot read out town names along the road they are on, then casually tells of a friend who had a holiday home in one...next to the summer residence of the German ambassador. It takes him a moment to clue in.
* ChaseScene: Poirot and Hastings commandeer a police car in an attempt to chase after a fleeing Mrs Vanderlyn.
* ClearMyName: Mayfield's motivation for trapping Mrs Vanderlyn is to help clean up his reputation after a scandal involving arms sent to Japan at the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War[[note]]a war noted as one of the preludes to WWII, or the actual start of WWII according to some circles[[/note]].
* DelayedOhCrap: While trying to determine where Mrs Vanderlyn is headed with the plans, Hastings has Poirot read out town names along the road they are on, then casually tells of a friend who had a holiday home in one...next to the summer residence of the German ambassador. It takes him a moment to clue in.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Subverted. Mrs Mrs. Vanderlyn gets away with the plans for the Kestrel, but it's later revealed that the plans that were stolen were sabotaged, making them far less useful in foreign hands.
* ChaseScene: Poirot and Hastings commandeer a police car in an attempt to chase after a fleeingMrs Mrs. Vanderlyn.
* ClearMyName: Mayfield's motivation for trappingMrs Mrs. Vanderlyn is to help clean up his reputation after a scandal involving arms sent to Japan at the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War[[note]]a war noted as one of the preludes to WWII, or the actual start of WWII according to some circles[[/note]].
* DelayedOhCrap: While trying to determine whereMrs Mrs. Vanderlyn is headed with the plans, Hastings has Poirot read out town names along the road they are on, then casually tells of a friend who had a holiday home in one...next to the summer residence of the German ambassador. It takes him a moment to clue in.
* ChaseScene: Poirot and Hastings commandeer a police car in an attempt to chase after a fleeing
* ClearMyName: Mayfield's motivation for trapping
* DelayedOhCrap: While trying to determine where
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* FemmeFatale: Mrs Vanderlyn is an attractive woman who's used her wiles to compromise the British preparations for war.
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* FemmeFatale: Mrs Mrs. Vanderlyn is an attractive woman who's used her wiles to compromise the British preparations for war.
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* OutGambitted: After Poirot deduces that Mayfield deliberately let Mrs Vanderlyn acquire the plans for the Kestrel, he realizes that Mayfield won; the plans he let slip had some deliberate design flaws meant to sabotage Nazi attempts to copy them.
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* OutGambitted: After Poirot deduces that Mayfield deliberately let Mrs Mrs. Vanderlyn acquire the plans for the Kestrel, he realizes that Mayfield won; the plans he let slip had some deliberate design flaws meant to sabotage Nazi attempts to copy them.
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* RightBehindMe: When discussing Mrs Vanderlyn's guilt:
--->'''Sir George Carrington:''' Froggy thinks she didn't do it.
-->'''Hercule Poirot:''' ''(entering)'' Froggy knows she didn't do it.
--->'''Sir George Carrington:''' Froggy thinks she didn't do it.
-->'''Hercule Poirot:''' ''(entering)'' Froggy knows she didn't do it.
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* RightBehindMe: When discussing Mrs Mrs. Vanderlyn's guilt:
--->'''Sir George Carrington:''' Froggy thinks she didn't doit.
-->'''Herculeit.\\
'''Hercule Poirot:''' ''(entering)'' Froggyknows ''knows'' she didn't do it.
--->'''Sir George Carrington:''' Froggy thinks she didn't do
-->'''Hercule
'''Hercule Poirot:''' ''(entering)'' Froggy
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* OneSceneTwoDialogues: The episode opens with Poirot attempting to demonstrate the care of patent leather shoes, while Hastings is musing on the architecture of Poirot's apartment, being involved with a woman who is studying architecture and desperate to be able to hold a conversation with her.
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* OneSceneTwoDialogues: OneSceneTwoMonologues: The episode opens with Poirot attempting to demonstrate the care of patent leather shoes, while Hastings is musing on the architecture of Poirot's apartment, being involved with a woman who is studying architecture and desperate to be able to hold a conversation with her.
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* BatmanGambit: Mayfield's plan above, giving Mrs Vanderlyn doctored plans in exchange for incriminating papers, knowing she would turn them over to the Germans.
* OneSceneTwoDialogues: The episode opens with Poirot attempting to demonstrate the care of patent leather shoes, while Hastings is musing on the architecture of Poirot's apartment, being involved with a woman who is studying architecture and desperate to be able to hold a conversation with her.
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* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Due to not being invited to the Mayfields' home, Hastings is forced to look for his own lodgings. He ends up bunking with Japp in a one-bedroom room at the local inn; Hastings notes that Japp talks in his sleep.
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* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Due to not being invited to the Mayfields' home, Hastings is forced to look for his own lodgings. He ends up bunking with Japp in a one-bedroom room at the local inn; Hastings notes that Japp talks in his sleep.sleep.
* VisualPun: Poirot dresses in a black suit and light grey vest to meet Mrs. Mayfield...at the penguin enclosure at the London Zoo.
* VisualPun: Poirot dresses in a black suit and light grey vest to meet Mrs. Mayfield...at the penguin enclosure at the London Zoo.
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* BatmanGambit: Mayfield's plan above, giving Mrs Vanderlyn doctored plans in exchange for incriminating papers, knowing she would turn them over to the Germans.
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* DelayedOhCrap: While trying to determine where Mrs Vanderlyn is headed with the plans, Hastings has Poirot read out town names along the road they are on, then casually tells of a friend who had a holiday home in one...next to the summer residence of the German ambassador. It takes him a moment to clue in.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: The target truck shot up during the Kestrel's demonstration flight bursts into flames right after. Justified, if it was armed with incendiary bullets.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: The target truck shot up during the Kestrel's demonstration flight bursts into flames right after. Justified, if it was armed with incendiary bullets.
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* RightBehindMe: When discussing Mrs Vanderlyn's guilt:
--->'''Sir George Carrington:''' Froggy thinks she didn't do it.
-->'''Hercule Poirot:''' ''(entering)'' Froggy knows she didn't do it.
* SmithOfTheYard: The subject of one of Japp's dreams, which has him talk in his sleep.
-->'''Hastings:''' ''(quoting Japp)'' "Now I've got you, young feller me lad! Japp of the Yard strikes again! Stand back lads, he's got a blancmange!"
--->'''Sir George Carrington:''' Froggy thinks she didn't do it.
-->'''Hercule Poirot:''' ''(entering)'' Froggy knows she didn't do it.
* SmithOfTheYard: The subject of one of Japp's dreams, which has him talk in his sleep.
-->'''Hastings:''' ''(quoting Japp)'' "Now I've got you, young feller me lad! Japp of the Yard strikes again! Stand back lads, he's got a blancmange!"
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!The Incredible Theft
-->'''Original Airdate''': 26 February 1989\\
'''Written by:''' Clive Exton\\
'''Directed by:''' David Reid\\
'''Recurring cast:''' Captain Hastings, Inspector Japp, Miss Lemon
!!Tropes
* AdaptationalNameChange: Charles Mayfield from the story is now Tommy Mayfield.
* TheBadGuyWins: Subverted. Mrs Vanderlyn gets away with the plans for the Kestrel, but it's later revealed that the plans that were stolen were sabotaged, making them far less useful in foreign hands.
* ChaseScene: Poirot and Hastings commandeer a police car in an attempt to chase after a fleeing Mrs Vanderlyn.
* ClearMyName: Mayfield's motivation for trapping Mrs Vanderlyn is to help clean up his reputation after a scandal involving arms sent to Japan at the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War[[note]]a war noted as one of the preludes to WWII, or the actual start of WWII according to some circles[[/note]].
* FemmeFatale: Mrs Vanderlyn is an attractive woman who's used her wiles to compromise the British preparations for war.
* FictionalCounterpart: The Mayfield Kestrel is likely meant to be a counterpart to the Spitfire Mk IX [=MH434=], given the use of the latter as a stand-in for the former.
* OutGambitted: After Poirot deduces that Mayfield deliberately let Mrs Vanderlyn acquire the plans for the Kestrel, he realizes that Mayfield won; the plans he let slip had some deliberate design flaws meant to sabotage Nazi attempts to copy them.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Due to not being invited to the Mayfields' home, Hastings is forced to look for his own lodgings. He ends up bunking with Japp in a one-bedroom room at the local inn; Hastings notes that Japp talks in his sleep.
-->'''Original Airdate''': 26 February 1989\\
'''Written by:''' Clive Exton\\
'''Directed by:''' David Reid\\
'''Recurring cast:''' Captain Hastings, Inspector Japp, Miss Lemon
!!Tropes
* AdaptationalNameChange: Charles Mayfield from the story is now Tommy Mayfield.
* TheBadGuyWins: Subverted. Mrs Vanderlyn gets away with the plans for the Kestrel, but it's later revealed that the plans that were stolen were sabotaged, making them far less useful in foreign hands.
* ChaseScene: Poirot and Hastings commandeer a police car in an attempt to chase after a fleeing Mrs Vanderlyn.
* ClearMyName: Mayfield's motivation for trapping Mrs Vanderlyn is to help clean up his reputation after a scandal involving arms sent to Japan at the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War[[note]]a war noted as one of the preludes to WWII, or the actual start of WWII according to some circles[[/note]].
* FemmeFatale: Mrs Vanderlyn is an attractive woman who's used her wiles to compromise the British preparations for war.
* FictionalCounterpart: The Mayfield Kestrel is likely meant to be a counterpart to the Spitfire Mk IX [=MH434=], given the use of the latter as a stand-in for the former.
* OutGambitted: After Poirot deduces that Mayfield deliberately let Mrs Vanderlyn acquire the plans for the Kestrel, he realizes that Mayfield won; the plans he let slip had some deliberate design flaws meant to sabotage Nazi attempts to copy them.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Due to not being invited to the Mayfields' home, Hastings is forced to look for his own lodgings. He ends up bunking with Japp in a one-bedroom room at the local inn; Hastings notes that Japp talks in his sleep.
