Poirot (TV Series)

Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan (1993)

Sorcha Cusack: Margaret Opalsen

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Quotes 

• Ed Opalsen : That bloody little man set me up?

  Margaret Opalsen : It's your own fault. You were using him.

  Ed Opalsen : But darling, what about the pearls?

  Margaret Opalsen : Don't worry. That bloody little man got them back.

• [first lines] 

  Ed Opalsen : Ladies and gentlemen. When the Russian actress and dancer Natalya Dolzhenko made Salomé in 1908, she wore a necklace made of magnificent pearls given to her by the czar. Last week, at an auction in Paris, I paid three hundred thousand francs for that same pearl necklace. My wife is going to show it to you now.

  [Margaret Opalsen steps up onto the stage and removes her stole, revealing the necklace] 

  Margaret Opalsen : Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, our new play premières here, at your beautiful theatre, next week, prior to a six month tour of America.

  Ed Opalsen : Yes, Margaret is taking the leading part. And she will be wearing the czar's pearls at each and every performance.

  Guest : Mr Opalsen! Don't the pearls get stolen in the course of the play.

  Ed Opalsen : Yes they do, but that's in the play. They'll be under guard twenty-four hours a day. I think I can promise you that they're not going anywhere.

• Margaret Opalsen : I bet you'd guessed who'd stolen the pearls by the second interval, Monsieur Poirot.

  Hercule Poirot : Not at all, Madame, it was a question that ceased to occupy my mind long before the first.