Poirot (TV Series)

Peril at End House (1990)

Hugh Fraser: Captain Hastings

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Quotes 

• Hercule Poirot : You do know who I am?

  Nick Buckley : No. I don't.

  Hercule Poirot : I forget; you are but a child. Alors, my friend here, Captain Hastings, he will tell it to you.

  Captain Hastings : Well, um, Monsieur Poirot is a detective.

  Nick Buckley : Oh.

  Captain Hastings : [Poirot just looks at Hastings]  Um, uh, a great detective.

  Hercule Poirot : My friend, is that all you can find to say? Mais dis donc, say then to Mademoiselle that I am the detective unique, unsurpassed, the greatest that ever lived.

  Captain Hastings : Well, doesn't seem much point now; you've told her yourself.

  Hercule Poirot : Ah yes, but it is more agreeable to preserve the modesty.

• Captain Hastings : Makes you proud to be an Englishman, though... Oh, I'm sorry.

  Hercule Poirot : Do not be sorry, Hastings. It is not tragedy for me that I was born on the wrong side of the channel.

• Hercule Poirot : You know, Hastings. You have the most extraordinary effect on me.

  Captain Hastings : Really?

  Hercule Poirot : Yes. You have so strongly the flair in the wrong direction that I am almost tempted to doubt the commander.

• [first lines] 

  Captain Hastings : Looks just like a patchwork quilt, doesn't it?

  Hercule Poirot : [eyes closed tight, clutching armrest]  No!

  Captain Hastings : Well, it does to me. Does to everybody else.

  Hercule Poirot : Not to Poirot!

  Captain Hastings : Oh, I suppose you don't think that looks like a great mass of cotton wool.

  Hercule Poirot : No!

  Captain Hastings : I don't think you've got *any* imagination at all, Poirot.

  Hercule Poirot : [opens his eyes]  That is true, mon ami. But fortunately you have enough for both of us; it is extremely valuable to me.

• [last lines] 

  Hercule Poirot : It is satisfying, is it not, Chief Inspector, in a case, when at last one knows everything.

  Chief Inspector Japp : I thought you knew everything anyway, Poirot.

  Hercule Poirot : Well...

  [Miss Lemon and Hastings arrive carrying ice cream cones] 

  Hercule Poirot : Ah.

  Miss Lemon : There's one for you, Chief Inspector.

  Chief Inspector Japp : Ah, thank you.

  Miss Lemon : None for Mister Poirot because I read an article on the train how ice cream was extremely bad for the little grey cells.

  Captain Hastings : And two for me because mine are dead already.

  [Japp laughs] 

  Hercule Poirot : They are very amusing, are they not, Chief Inspector? The sea air obviously agrees with them. I think perhaps, when I return to London, I shall leave them here.

  [Japp laughs, and Hastings hands one of his cones to Poirot] 

  Hercule Poirot : Thank you. Santé!

• Captain Hastings : I don't think you've got any imagination at all, Poirot.

  Hercule Poirot : That is true, mon ami. But fortunately, you have enough for both of us. It is extremely valuable to me.