身患(👛)绝症的(📣)犯罪(zuì(🥛) )集团头(🥨)目，人称(🚁)“The Man”，他雇用(💼)了一(yī )个杀手名叫(jiào )弗(🙀)兰克，去(🕞)(qù )刺杀(♋)一个女(❄)(nǚ )人。然(🏯)而这个(🐯)女(nǚ )人(🔮)竟然是(🦑)弗(fú )兰(🛂)克失散(🐭)多(duō )年的情人。弗兰克调(🚍)转(zhuǎn )矛(🏮)头，“The Man”成了(le )刺杀目标。 Poirot is visited by a distraught girl, Norma Restarick, who fears she may have killed someone but runs away, telling him,"You're so old", rather than explaining further. By coincidence, Poirot's friend Ariadne Oliver lives in the same apartment block as Norma and her two room-mates and recently went to their party, where Norma was distressed when she was offered ice-cream. Norma's ex-nanny, Miss Seagram, an alcoholic, also lived in the block but was recently found dead, with the verdict being suicide. Ariadne is unconvinced and searches the nanny's apartment, finding a clue which she puts in her hand-bag. Soon afterwards she is attacked and the bag and its contents stolen. Poirot visits the Restarick family home in the country, owned by Norma's great-uncle, Sir Roderick, an elderly, half-blind man, dependant upon Sonia, his young personal assistant, who may well be a gold-digger. Andrew Restarick, Norma's father,explains to Poirot that he spent much of Norma's childhood working abroad, leaving her with her unstable mother and Nanny Seagram. Norma admits to Poirot that she blames herself for her mother's suicide, which took place when the little girl was on an outing with the nanny and wanted to stop for an ice-cream. She now believes that if she had got home earlier she would have saved her mother, hence her revulsion at being offered ice-cream. Poirot and Ariadne visit Miss Battersby, Norma's former school-teacher, where they discover something very suspicious about Norma's friends and family. Also convinced that Miss Seagram's death was not suicide, Poirot enlists Norma's help in setting a trap to catch whoever killed her old nanny and is now trying to frame her. 影片《小士(shì )兵》的故事(shì )并不新鲜，但是人物关(guān )系的设置颇(pō )为(🚼)巧(qiǎo )妙(📶)。影片的(🛩)(de )女主人(🍅)公洛(luò(🏬) )蒂从伊(🈚)战退(tuì(🦕) )役后回(👬)到家(jiā(🖤) )乡，但战(🐽)争(zhēng )带(🦊)给(gěi )她(⤵)的阴影(⏲)始(shǐ )终(🌴)不散，她(tā )沉溺于酒精(jī(➰)ng )无法自(🦀)拔。在当(🚠)老鸨的(🕵)(de )父亲安(💠)排下(xià(🛵) )，洛蒂为(🔞)一位非(👧)(fēi )洲的(🤫)应召女(🤽)(nǚ )郎Lily开车并充(chōng )当保镖(🤣)，渐(jiàn )渐的两人滋(zī )生出超越普通友(yǒu )谊的情愫。洛蒂不愿看(kàn )见Lily再忍受骨(gǔ )肉分离的痛(🍓)(tòng )苦，于(🔹)是铤(dì(🚦)ng )而走险(💹)，不(bú )惜(🐹)走(zǒu )向(🐞)与父亲(🎤)决(jué )裂(🛷)的道路(🕣)。 女记者(🚼)瑞秋(qiū(🚙) )（凯特(🧞)·贝(bè(🗼)i )金赛尔(🏌) Kate Beckinsale 饰）从线(xiàn )人处获得了(🤹)(le )一份情(😭)报涉(shè(🥜) )及政府(🗄)一次(cì(🍢) )相当不(👄)光彩(cǎ(🕙)i )的行为(🗑)。在(zài )丈(🕕)夫雷（(🥥)大(dà )卫·休默 David Schwimmer 饰）支(zhī(🥄) )持下刊登了(le )这起新闻报(bào )道。政府最(zuì )终以泄露国(guó )家 机密的罪行将(jiāng )瑞秋推上被(bèi )告(📔)席，主审(👻)(shěn )该案(🦇)件的则(🔻)(zé )是自(🔏)负的检(🤴)(jiǎn )察官(🍏)帕顿（(🖕)马特·(📓)狄龙(ló(🐩)ng ) Matt Dillon 饰）。在(⏩)法庭上(🏤)(shàng )，面对(🥣)帕顿(dù(⚪)n )的层层逼问(wèn )，瑞秋坦然(🕵)(rán )地叙(📗)述了整(🏬)(zhěng )个事(🧘)(shì )件的(🚜)前前后(🍣)(hòu )后，公(🚫)众心(xī(🏌)n )中的天(🐉)平也(yě(🉑) )开始往瑞秋(qiū )方面倾斜(🐦)，但是艾伦坚(jiān )持要求瑞秋必须(xū )说出资料的(de )提供者是谁(shuí )，瑞秋逐渐(jiàn )地陷入进退(tuì )两(🎧)难的境(😗)地。艾(à(⬜)i )伦开始(⛸)向舆(yú(🕋) )论和瑞(🚸)秋的(de )家(🐅)人施加(👆)压(yā )力(💵)，而雷也(🥁)(yě )渐渐(🎚)地抵抗(🛤)(kàng )不住(🤢)国家给(gěi )予的(de )压力，建议(yì )瑞秋(🚗)屈服于(💐)(yú )国家(📅)。但瑞(ruì(😎) )秋向雷(🍸)表达(dá(💚) )了自己(🚧)的坚(jiā(👯)n )持：真(🔄)相至上。 琳娜是一名(míng )新到机场(🌪)工(gōng )作的保洁员(yuán )，她的同事(shì )绰号“麻雀(què )”的姑娘在第一(yī )天时很热心(xīn )的帮助了她(tā(🐩) )，她们攀(👔)谈(tán )起(🍴)来。“麻(má(🐾) )雀”还向(🌡)琳娜介(😥)(jiè )绍了(🌵)自己的(🌮)(de )弟弟艾(💩)贝。 Cully is finally getting married and Tom Barnaby is anxious to keep costs down as Joyce brings in a camp wedding planner. More dramatic is the union between aristocrat Ned Fitzroy and Beth Porteous when maid of honour Marina is found skewered to a wardrobe in one of the bedrooms. The Fitzroy family's lordly attitude does not help the investigation and then estate manager Robin Lawson and old family servant Peggy are both murdered. Barnaby discovers that both were aware of a sinister Fitzroy family secret, culminating in the events of the blood wedding. 《神秘(✌)匹兹(zī(📡) )堡》改编(🐊)自(zì )美(💿)国普立策(cè )奖获奖作家(🔥)(jiā )麦克(🕝)尔沙顿(👉)（Michael Chabon）88年(🥠)发表的(🙈)小(xiǎo )说(💜)处女作(📎)，刚刚大(🌪)学毕(bì(👶) )业的故(🔊)事主(zhǔ )人公(gōng )是一位黑帮(bāng )洗(😥)钱人的儿(ér )子（乔恩福(fú )斯特），同(tóng )时也是一位(wèi )双性恋者，他同时爱上了一(yī )位充满(🛂)魅力(lì(🐰) )的男子(👊)和西(xī(🤔) )耶娜米(🥝)勒扮(bà(🛠)n )演的女(Ⓜ)子。