Just to add to Easterbrook’s rather complicated personal situation, he also wakes up next to a dead young woman in his bed. In which historian and writer Mark Easterbrook witnesses a fight between two girls in a coffee bar which leads him into a mystic underworld of seances, black magic and the surprise deaths of unwanted relatives.

Among them is Mark Easterbrook ( Sewell), a widowed antique dealer whose first wife took her own life and is now newly married to Kaya Scodelario’s wonderfully cynical Hermia, who turns the stuffing of a vol-au-vent into a powerful expression of pent-up rage. To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he. Maisel, The Father ) plays Mark Easterbrook and is joined by Kaya Scodelario ( Crawl, Extremely Wicked and Shockingly Evil and Vile ) playing Hermia Easterbrook, Bertie Carvel ( Doctor Foster, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell ) as Zachariah Osborne and. A priests death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub. One of these elderly practitioners of the dark arts is found dead at the start of the story, with a hand-written list of names stuffed in her shoe. The Pale Horse Cast Overview Rufus Sewell ( The Man In the High Castle, The Marvellous Mrs. Set in 1961, when the original Christie book was published, the title is both a biblical reference to the animal on which Death rides, as well as the home of three modern-day self-identified witches, located in the gloriously named Surrey village of Much Deeping. The Pale horse by Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Within the first few minutes of this two-parter, there are glimpses of a snake preserved in a jar, a dead rat in a sink, and a stuffed polar bear, all adding to the overall tone of dank, queasy depravity. The Pale Horse is a mystery novel written by acclaimed author Agatha Christie and first published in the United Kingdom in 1961. Dead creatures abound in The Pale Horse, the latest in a remarkable run of Agatha Christie adaptations by Sarah Phelps.

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