Bonnet

In Le cheval pâle, the French Télévisions film adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse, for the Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie TV series, Bonnet is the parallel of Mr Bradley in the original story.

Like Bradley, Bonnet takes care of the business end of a murder-for-payment racket and uses the same approach as Bradley in that he makes a bet with the prospective client. The client bets that a certain person would like beyond a certain time. Bonnet offers odds and if the client loses, he must pay up. In Bonnet's case, the odds are 5000 to 100. In this adaptation there is no former inn by the name of "The Pale Horse". The pale horse is now part of a code phrase by which a prospective client identifies himself to Bonnet as genuine. Bonnet would introduce himself and tell the prospective client that he looks after horses, and one horse in particular. The client is supposed to reply with the quote from Revelation 6:8: "And I saw a pale horse, and it's rider's name was death...."

Unlike Bradley, Bonnet did not work in an office. Here, he met Laurence (who was working undercover) at an abandoned factory.

Bonnet is portrayed by Stéphane Pezerat.