Poirot (TV Series)

Four and Twenty Blackbirds (1989)

Hugh Fraser: Captain Hastings

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• Captain Hastings : Oh, but you would have noticed if his behavior had been in any way unusual?

  Dulcie Lang : I doubt it. Painters' behaviors are always unusual. They can never make up their mind whether to commit suicide or give a party.

• Hercule Poirot : I have a dinner engagement with my dentist.

  Captain Hastings : Your dentist? Positively morbid.

  Miss Lemon : But you're always trying to avoid him.

  Hercule Poirot : Not at all. Off duty, he's quite charming. Besides, he likes to see the end product at work.

• [At the art gallery for contemporary modern art. Poirot and Hastings are carefully inspecting a non-figurative painting, then approached by Makinson] 

  Makinson : Man throwing a stone at a bird!

  Captain Hastings : Really? Which is which?

  Hercule Poirot : Joan Miró, Hastings. An exponent of the surrealist vision.

  [to Makinson:] 

  Hercule Poirot : A work inspired by the dream, non?

  Makinson : Yes, a man with the most individual imagination.

• Captain Hastings : With both of the brothers dead, there aren't many Gascoynes left to pay their respects.

  Hercule Poirot : Not too many suspects left either, huh?