"Is anything what it seems?"
Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
Social & External
The people behind it
Tuppence Middleton
Iris Carr
Keeley Hawes
Laura Parmiter aka Mrs Todhunter
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Sir Peveril Brown aka Mr Todhunter
Sandy McDade
Edna Barnes
Pip Torrens
Reverend Kenneth Barnes
Stephanie Cole
Evelyn Floodporter
Gemma Jones
Rose Floodporter
Benedikte Hansen
The baroness
Jesper Christensen
The doctor
Selina Cadell
Winifred Froy
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A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.
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Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.
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