Justice Lawrence Wargrave Timeline and Summary

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• Justice Wargrave sits on the train with his letter from an old friend named Constance. He’s being invited out to Soldier Island. What fun!
• When the train full of guests arrives in town, they have to take a cab to the boat that will take them to Soldier Island. Wargrave meets the rest of the guests, who make up quite the motley crew.
• They reach the island and are shown to their rooms. Wargrave comes down to have dinner with everyone else.
• After dinner, shock and panic ensues when a loud voice comes on accusing all the guests of committing grave crimes.
• Wargrave addresses his crime by saying that he did sentence Seton to death, but that the man was guilty.
• Marston dies after drinking a poisoned drink, and the next morning Mrs. Rogers is found to be dead, too. Shock and terror!
• After another death, Wargrave presides over an impromptu meeting and says that he believes that one of them is the killer. He says that no one is above suspicion and decides that they should all keep an eye on each other.
• The following morning, Mr. Rogers is discovered chopped up with his own wood-chopping axe, ack.
• Later on, he’s just as shocked as everyone else when they find Miss Brent’s dead body.
• Taking charge, Wargrave decides that they should all take any lethal items they have and put them away. However, when Lombard goes into his room, the revolver is missing.
• Next, everyone submits to a strip search and a room search, including Justice Wargrave.
• Later that night, Vera finds some seaweed in her room and gets all out of proportion freaked out. While everyone is checking on her, Wargrave… dies.
• Welp, that puts an end to his timeline.
• Or not…
• People keep right on dying, and then, when everyone on the island is finally dead and the police are well and truly stumped, Wargrave speaks from beyond the grave via a not cliché at all message in a bottle.
• In the message, Wargrave confesses to masterminding the entire bloodbath, right down to leering from the shadows while Vera kills herself.
• Afterwards, Wargrave tidies up, writes his confession letter, sets it into the ocean, and kills himself by rigging up the revolver to an elastic band.
• End scene.