Edouard Bouchard

In Albert Major parlait trop, the French Télévisions film adaptation of Agatha Christie's A Caribbean Mystery, Edouard Bouchard is the parallel of the character Edward Hillingdon in the original novel. Bouchard is a doctor at the Hôpital Saint Paul. He assists the head of the hospital Dr Grégoire Vidal (the Greg Dyson parallel) in operations and also in research and experimentation on the topic of heart transplants. Like in the original, Bouchard is having an affair with Lucette Vidal, the Lucky Dyson parallel and Grégoire's wife. Bouchard is unmarried. There is no Evelyn Hillingdon parallel in this adaptation. Edouard Bouchard is portrayed by Cédric Zimmerlin.

Towards the end of the show, Lucette was found dead in a hospital ward in her nightgown and with a paper bag over her head and a rope round her neck. It looked like suicide but commissaire Laurence quickly concludes it is murder when he finds a thumbmark over her jugular. Lucette had come to the hospital fully dressed and her clothes were later found hidden in a drawer in Bouchard's office. For commissaire Laurence this is enough and he places Bouchard under arrest.

There follows an angry confrontation between Vidal and Bouchard in Laurence's office. Vidal knows all about Bouchard having an affair with his wife but can't understand what Lucette saw in this junior doctor. Bouchard retorts that this might be because he could satisfy Lucette whereas Vidal couldn't. Vidal is impotent. Bouchard confesses that, years earlier, Lucette had murdered Gaëlle Vidal. Gaëlle had complained about difficulty sleeping. Lucette had been her nurse and had poisoned her and then married Grégoire. Bouchard had written out the prescription for the sleeping drugs which Lucette used. Lucette kept the prescription. When Lucette discovered after marriage that Grégoire was impotent, she used the prescription to blackmail Bouchard into having an affair with her.

The show is silent on what happens to Bouchard at the end.