Poirot (TV Series)

Double Sin (1990)

David Suchet: Hercule Poirot

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Quotes 

• Captain Hastings : [about Poirot]  Well, he's always been middle-aged. Have you seen that photograph of him at his christening?

  Miss Lemon : [chuckling]  I know!

  Captain Hastings : He looks as though he's about to address a board meeting!

  Hercule Poirot : [appears]  Who looks as if he's about to address a board meeting?

• [last lines] 

  Captain Hastings : Allow me, Poirot.

  [picks up fallen paper from Poirot's pocket] 

  Captain Hastings : [looks at it]  There's something about you here, Japp. "Chief Inspector Japp to speak in North Country lecture tour."

  Captain Hastings : [to Poirot]  You knew! That's why you dragged me all the way up here!

  Hercule Poirot : No, no. It was the other side I was interested in. I did not know that...

  Captain Hastings : [turns paper over]  "Learn to speak French like a Frenchman"?

  Hercule Poirot : In Belgium, Hastings, it is considered quite bad form to read another person's newspaper cuttings.

  [takes clipping] 

  Hercule Poirot : Thank you.

• [first lines] 

  Captain Hastings : Isn't it bracing, Poirot?

  Hercule Poirot : Bracing, Hastings?

  Captain Hastings : The weather.

  Hercule Poirot : No, it is cold and wet. Did you know, Hastings, that the earth is cooling at a rate of three degrees every twelve thousand years?

  Captain Hastings : No, I didn't know that, no.

  Hercule Poirot : Ah.

  Captain Hastings : Still, beautiful fountain, isn't it?

  Hercule Poirot : It's feeble, Hastings. Fountains used to be more vigorous. Artistic too.

  Captain Hastings : I don't know what's wrong with you today, Poirot. Nothing seems good enough for you.

  Hercule Poirot : I am finished, Hastings.

  Captain Hastings : Finished?

  Hercule Poirot : Yes. I shall retire, I think.

  Captain Hastings : But you're at the height of your powers, Poirot.

  Hercule Poirot : You are being kind, Hastings.

  Captain Hastings : No, I'm not. Well, you've got a nice home, uh, devoted friends, a brilliant career.

  Hercule Poirot : No no no, mon ami. I am nothing. I have nothing. Poirot is finished.