Poirot (TV Series)
The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor (1991)
Desmond Barrit: Samuel Naughton
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Quotes
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Samuel Naughton : Was the accommodation all right?
Hercule Poirot : No, Monsieur Naughton, the accommodation was all wrong.
Samuel Naughton : Oh.
Hercule Poirot : The duck feather pillows; I fear the little ducks are still in them.
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Samuel Naughton : Perhaps he was frightened away by ghosts. Well, then. How about a nice kipper? They're fresh today.
Hercule Poirot : My tisane, two slices of bread, toasted on one side only, if you please.
Captain Hastings : Ghosts, did you say?
Samuel Naughton : Well, yes. Haunted house, Marsdon Manor, where he went last night. They say it's full of them.
Hercule Poirot : You have seen them yourself?
Samuel Naughton : Well, no. Not personally I haven't, of course.
Hercule Poirot : How do you know they are fresh?
Samuel Naughton : Sorry?
Hercule Poirot : The kippers.
Samuel Naughton : Oh, yes. They're fresh all right. We get them delivered twice a week from Grimsby.
Hercule Poirot : So it is the place of the untold evil, crawling with the spirits of the living dead?
Samuel Naughton : Grimsby?
Captain Hastings : Marsdon Manor.
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Samuel Naughton : You worked it all out now, my who-done-it?
Hercule Poirot : No, Monseiur Naughton, I do not give another thought to your who-done-it. The brain of Hercule Poirot is like a finely tuned engine of the motor-car; it does not run on the cheap, low-grade fuel.