NBNick Buckley
The first accident was that picture. I should think the painter may have said that when he finished it, don't you?
All S1
S1 E15Unfinished Business
You do know who I am?
NNick
No, I don't.
I forget. You are but a child, eh? Alors my friend here, Captain Hastings, he will tell it to you.
Well, um... Monsieur Poirot is a detective... [Gets a look from Poirot] Um... er... a great detective.
My friend, is that all that you can find to say? Mais dis donc, say then to Mademoiselle that I am the detective unique! Unsurpassed! The greatest that ever lived!
There doesn't seem much point now. You've told her yourself.
Well, yes, but it is more agreeable to preserve the modesty.
These little curious things. I like to see them appear. They point the way.
You know, Hastings, you have the most extraordinary effect on me.
Really?
Yes. You have so strongly the flair in the wrong direction that I am almost tempted to doubt [your conclusions].
[Introduces himself] Hercule Poirot.
CVCharles Vyse
Bwarrot?
Poirot. [Mutters to himself] What kind of place is this?
[After having to see 5,000 photographs of Australia] The man who invented the camera has a lot to answer for, mon ami.
You care for Monsieur Lazarus?
FFrederica
He is rich.
Oh-la-la, that is a terrible thing to say.
FFrederica
Better to say it myself than to have you say it for me.
You are very intelligent, madame.
FFrederica
You'll be giving me a diploma next!
To all of us, mademoiselle, there comes a time when death seems preferable to life. But the grief, it passes.
CCCommander Challenger
I say, you any farther?
Comment?
CChallenger
You are going to get to the bottom of this, aren't you?
I am the dog who stays on the scent, Commander, and does not leave it.
[Chiding him for snooping through some love letters] Poirot, you really can't do that. It's not playing the game.
We are not playing the game, Hastings. We're hunting down a murderer.
JJapp
Poirot says that 93% of all police work is a waste of time.
I do not like these urgent messages, Miss Lemon.
I never reply to urgent messages. I know they're going to be unpleasant.
It is satisfying, is it not, Chief Inspector, in a case when at last one knows everything?
JJapp
I thought you already knew everything, Poirot.
Well...
You know, Hastings, sometimes I wish that I was not of such a moral disposition.
Really?
Would not Hercule Poirot do better than any criminal? Hercule Poirot would use his grey cells, eh? Hercule Poirot would change his modus operandi for every crime. Scotland Yard would never be able to pin him down.
MCLady Millicent Castle-Vaughan
I've heard such wonderful things about you. Perhaps you can do the impossible.
The impossible, it pleases me always.
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