An avalanche derails the train's engine, stranding the passengers. That night, Poirot hears strange noises coming from Ratchett's compartment, and later sees someone in a red kimono running down the hallway. Unscrupulous businessman Edward Ratchett offers to hire Poirot to be his bodyguard during the three-day journey, having received anonymous threatening letters, but Poirot refuses upon learning that he is a con artist. His friend Bouc, director of the Simplon-route Orient Express service, arranges a bunk for him aboard the train. The obsessive-compulsive detective-who seeks balance in life, and considers his case-solving ability to see a lie amid truth to be a curse-wants to rest in Istanbul, but must return to London for another case. In 1934, famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot solves a theft at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. It's just after midnight, and the Orient Express has been brought to a halt by a snowdrift on the tracks.
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