Thierry Noël

In Meurtres en solde , the French adaptation of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot's Christmas for Season 2 of the TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie, Thierry Noël is the 20-year old son of Mathilde Noël, a cosmetics demonstrator at the Au Bon Temps department store. Thierry Noël is portrayed by Alexandre Labarthe, who in real life, is the son of lead actor Samuel Labarthe who plays commissaire Laurence. There is no parallel to this character in the original novel.

Thierry's mother got him a job at the department store but he was caught stealing and was fired. Later, when Simon Krepps, the owner of the department store is murdered, he becomes a prime suspect. Not only does he bear a grudge against Simon, Thierry was also missing and had not gone home on the night of the murder. Later, some uncut diamonds were also found in a Japanese garden display belonging to his mother. Thierry was however able to produce an alibi. He was homosexual and had spent the night with David Krepps.

In trying to intercede for her son, Mathilde told commissaire Laurence that Thierry was actually his son. He was conceived in 1942 when Laurence and Mathilde were members of the French resistance.

Towards the end of the episode, Thierry produced an important lead. His mother had gone missing. She had told him that she had been fired from the department store but had found something better, but now she had gone missing. Laurence surmised that Mathilde must have discovered Simon Krepps's real murdering and tried to blackmail him. Laurence focusses on Albert Krepps, one of the last remaining suspects without an alibi. Did he not send Mathilde home after the body of Simon Krepps was discovered? He could have planted the uncut diamonds into the Japanese garden then. However Thierry countered that there had been a change of plan. Albert was meant to send Mathilde home but it was Gaspard Carpentier who undertook the errand in the end.