Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Nigel Chapman (aka Nigel Stanley) is a bespectacled young man who has murdered four women, including his own mother, all because they knew too much about his schemes.

That being said, Good is Not Nice is in play here, and he gets off on the wrong foot with Poirot before he explains everything.

Good All Along: The sinister-looking man who's often seen interacting with Sally, and who threatens to deal with Poirot, turns out to be a government agent named John Casterman.

Japp then gets back at Poirot much later by serving him some English cuisine, which to Poirot is foreign - and it's Poirot's turn to be weirded out by the English serving organ meat to him!

Foreign Queasine: Poirot serves some of his native Belgian cuisine to Japp and Miss Lemon for dinner, which includes pork trotters and innards.

Artistic License – History: Due to the Setting Update that puts all of the stories in the Poirot canon to be placed in the 1930s, this creates a minor issue where Sally passes herself off as a Fulbright scholar - said scholarship was established only in 1946, after WWII ended.

The subplot about the green ink is left out altogether.

Several of the lodgers at the hostel, some of whom happen to be persons of color like Akibombo were left out of the story.

Adaptational Job Change: Valerie Hobhouse is now a fashion design student rather than the owner of a beauty salon.

Another subplot is Japp deciding to accept Poirot's offer to stay with at Whitehaven Mansions while his wife is out on holiday, which then provides the humor in the episode.

A subplot is added where Sally Finch sneaks away to communicate with a sinister-looking man, who is later revealed to be John Casterman, an agent of the Customs and Excise office who was investigating the smuggling ring around the hostel.

Adaptation Deviation: The reason Patricia Lane is killed is because she came upon a photo in Sir Arthur Stanley's photo album that revealed Nigel's relationship to him, and the subject of Valerie's passports isn't brought up at all.

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