Jojo

In Albert Major parlait trop, the French Télévisions film adaptation of Agatha Christie's A Caribbean Mystery, Jojo is a tramp who later becomes a patient at the "Hôpital St Paul" where most of the action takes place.

Jojo is often to be found in the streets near the apartment of commissaire Laurence. Marlene meets him on the way to see Laurence. Marlene is obviously acquainted with him and has brought him some food. Jojo takes the food but suddenly has a heart attack. Marlene summons an ambulance and then follows him to the Hôpital St Paul before going back to report to Laurence.

Later, when Marlene tries to check up on Jojo, he appears to have disappeared as the hospital denies that he was ever admitted. Then Alice, herself a patient at the hospital, discovers surgeons operating in a secret room in the basement of the hospital. Laurence and Marlene search the room. It has been cleared out but on the floor Laurence finds an ornament which Marlene identifies as belonging to Jojo. Based on this and other indications Laurence had gathered earlier, Laurence proceeds to arrest Professor Grégoire Vidal for performing illegal medical experiments.

At first Laurence feared that Jojo had been killed so that his heart could be harvested for transplant experiments. But at the end, Vidal brings Laurence to see Jojo. Jojo had been the recipient of a heart transplant from a man who had been pronounced brain-dead. Jojo was well and in fine spirits and wanted the two to join him in a drink.

Jojo is portrayed by Patrick Brasseur. There is no parallel to his character in the original novel.