Ted Gautier

In L'Heure zéro, the French adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero for the TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie, Ted Gautier is the parallel of Ted Latimer in the original novel. He is a producer at the TV Nord station. Ted Gautier is portrayed by Alban Casterman.

Like Ted Latimer in the original, Gautier is also friendly with Claire Beaumont, the Kay Strange parallel, except that in this case, Gautier and Claire are actively having an affair and conducting it quite openly. Unlike Latimer, Gautier does have an interest and motive for the murder of Jean Devandière (the Camilla Tressilian parallel). With Devandière's death, Gautier stood to benefit by being promoted into Devandière's place as head of the TV station. Once he got into that position, he promoted his lover Claire to the position of news anchor, displacing Audrey Fontaine (the Audrey Strange parallel) from the job.

Later, when Claire is found murdered (a twist unique to this adaptation), there is no shortage of suspects with a motive and Laurence even contemplates Gautier as a possibility. He might have decided to kill Claire when he realised Claire wasn't going to leave her husband Maxime Beaumont for him but was only using him to get the anchor job. However Alice Avril thinks that Gautier is too much of a softie to kill.