Poirot (TV Series)
The Hollow (2004)
Jonathan Cake: John Christow
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Quotes
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John Christow : Would you give it all up, if I asked you to, and come and live with me?
Henrietta Savernake : No.
John Christow : No?
Henrietta Savernake : That's not really what you want.
John Christow : Couldn't you lie to me just once?
Henrietta Savernake : Why?
John Christow : Because I love you, Henrietta, but you're so... you're so detached. Your art, your cars, your friends... I want you to think only of me.
Henrietta Savernake : Isn't that what Gerda does?
John Christow : Don't tell me you care a damn about Gerda!
Henrietta Savernake : Why not? I like Gerda.
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Gerda Christow : I'm not good at anything. I don't know why you ever married me.
John Christow : You needed taking care of. That's why I married you.
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Veronica Cray : Are you saying you don't love me?
John Christow : You are a very, very alluring woman, Veronica, but I don't "love you," no.
Veronica Cray : I came all this way to find you; waiting in this ghastly hovel for the weekend you'd appear. You see, I knew if we could be just once more together... just one more...
John Christow : You? You planned it?
Veronica Cray : Oh, you belong to me, John. You're mine.
John Christow : When I was a young man, I WANTED you to share my life and you wouldn't do it!
Veronica Cray : Because MY career was so much more important than yours. I mean, anyone can be a "doctor"!
John Christow : You're a nasty piece of work...
[begins to walk away]
Veronica Cray : You leave me again and I really will make you sorry!
John Christow : So be it.
[long pause]
John Christow : Goodbye.
[walks out]
Veronica Cray : I hate you more than I thought I could hate anyone!
[throws whisky glass after him]
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John Christow : [last words before dying] Henrietta...
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John Christow : Why are you slowing?
Gerda Christow : It might be about to turn red.
John Christow : But it isn't, is it? It's green.
Gerda Christow : Oh, sorry! I... I've just become concerned it's suddenly going to...
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John Christow : Couldn't you lie to me just once?
Henrietta Savernake : Why?
John Christow : Because I love you, Henrietta.