Due to the reaction he had the previous night, Miss Marple suspects it was murder. He is found the next day, dead, apparently from a heart attack. When Miss Marple quizzes him on is comments he refuses to be drawn on the subject and head back to his room. Seated beside her at a dinner, Major Palgrave seems to recognise in the crowd a murderer from a photograph he has. Miss Marple is on holiday in the Caribbean, at the Golden Palms resort in St Honore.
While this phrase is ubiquitous in the James Bond movies, the secret agent never introduces himself this way in any of Ian Fleming's novels. Furthermore, in this dramatization the ornithologist introduces himself as "Bond, James Bond", after which Fleming is seen scribbling something on a notepad. The ornithologist Bond in this episode has a strong British accent, being played by Charlie Higson, who both wrote the screenplay for this episode and a number of children's books about a James Bond, Jr. However, the actual ornithologist, James Bond, was American and both was born and died in Philadelphia. This is clearly a reference to the real-life Ian Fleming, who was inspired to write the Bond novels in the Carribean, and who named the spy after an ornithologist and popular writer on birds in the Carribean. He then is invited by Miss Marple to attend a lecture on birds given by one James Bond.
Among the guests is a character called Ian Fleming, writing a spy novel, but lacking a name for his protagonist.
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