

Sheila does not have an aunt in this continuity.Colin is an emotional wreck because his lover died while fighting off an MI6 mole, and he blamed himself for her death because he hadn't paid attention to her earlier call of help.The changes made to The Clocks give a lot more dramatic tension to the story and character arcs.The TV version is not as affected by the ordeal, and was, in fact, enjoying a celebration when his mother delivered the ultimatum. The final blow sent him to a nervous breakdown, causing him to fall ill for several days. In the books, the boy goes through a lot of emotional stress in dealing with his father's death-which he partially felt responsible for-going through arrest and trial, then being disowned by his mother. The Murder on the Links inverts this with Jack Renauld's character.The Mysterious Affair at Styles suggests that Hastings is suffering from shell-shock.The " Break Them by Talking" lecture he receives at the end doesn't help matters.

Poirot is wracked with guilt after a young woman he assured of his protection was murdered under his watch, and his meeting with Countess Rossakoff in Switzerland reminds him of his loneliness.
When she hears Poirot's voice reminding her "Order and method, Miss Lemon! Order and method," she wakes with the idea of using Poirot's methods to retrace her actions to find where she lost the keys. The episode also has a secondary minor version of this where Miss Lemon has lost the keys to Poirot's apparment and thus can't leave it to visit her own home or even sleep there until she finds them, resulting in a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment where she imagines Poirot and Hastings saying random things with swapped voices. Penn shouldn't have known Wood's name when she met him for what should've been the first time. He actually manages to solve most of the case on his own and Poirot's only real contribution is pointing out that Ms. A Day in the Limelight: The adapted version of Double Sin features Hastings as the main investigator of the case since Poirot is currently undergoing a 10-Minute Retirement.Poirot lets her off the hook because he considered it an accident and not a murder. Accidental Murder: Revealed toward the end of The King of Clubs: Valerie Saintclair along with her brother, Ronnie, met up with film producer Henry Reedburn one night to argue about blackmail, but when things got escalated, Ronnie punched him in the face, and he fell and hit his head on a chair part so hard that he died.Absence of Evidence: In The Labours of Hercules, Alice Cunningham's dog is extremely calm, despite the strange man who invaded her room.
