Mr. Shaitana and Hercule Poirot in “Unfinished Business”

Mr. Shaitana

Is it off-season for the criminals or is our little gallery about to be robbed?

Hercule Poirot

Oh, alas, monsieur, non. Non. I am here purely in my private capacity. But I see that you yourself have lent a few pieces.

Mr. Shaitana

Oh, one picks up trifles here and there. I have a few interesting objects I could show you. I daresay I could even produce one or two things in your line, Poirot.

Hercule Poirot

Ah. So you have, then, your private Black Museum?

Mr. Shaitana

Oh, no, no, no. I don't collect the artifacts of crime. The murderer's hammer, the poisoner's cup. I collect only the finest objects of their kind.

Hercule Poirot

And what do you consider to be the finest objects, artistically speaking, in crime?

Mr. Shaitana

Why, the human beings who commit them, monsieur.