Poirot (TV Series)

Dead Man's Folly (2013)

David Suchet: Hercule Poirot

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• Ariadne Oliver : Any theories?

  Hercule Poirot : Ah, everybody seems to me to be completely normal.

  Ariadne Oliver : Are you trying to be amusing?

  Hercule Poirot : Perhaps that is not the right word. Lady Stubbs, it appears, is subnormal, Alec Legge abnormal.

  Ariadne Oliver : Oh, he's alright. He's just having a nervous breakdown.

  Hercule Poirot : But everyone seems to be in a state of agitation, which, I believe, is characteristic of the preparations for a fete in England.

• Ariadne Oliver : I've planned every detail, and it all dovetails nicely, but things keep changing. So the fortuneteller is a good example. I feel I'm being jockeyed along.

  Hercule Poirot : Jockeyed along?

  Ariadne Oliver : Manipulated.

  Hercule Poirot : So someone is making the suggestions?

  Ariadne Oliver : Writers can't stand suggestions. If you suggest something, we do exactly the opposite. But I am being jockeyed along and I can't figure out how. To tell the truth, I'm, I'm worried.

  Hercule Poirot : Perhaps the big suggestion, it is put on, to which you, of course, say no because it is preposterous, but then an idea most trivial may be found to have been smuggled in.

  Ariadne Oliver : Yes, yes, something like that. Yes.

  Hercule Poirot : Who is making these alterations?

  Ariadne Oliver : Different people. It'd be easier with just one, wouldn't it?

  Hercule Poirot : And you have told to them that Hercule Poirot, he is coming?

  Ariadne Oliver : Yes, I said you'll be giving away the prizes for the murder hunt. Everyone's thrilled.

• Mrs. Warburton : An unpleasant thing to have to face, but I'd say we have some kind of psychological lunatic wandering freely in Devon. He won't be local, Somerset, perhaps.

  Hercule Poirot : Peut-être.