Poirot (TV Series)

The Mystery of the Blue Train (2005)

James D'Arcy: Derek Kettering

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Quotes 

• Count De La Roche : You're drunk.

  Derek Kettering : My dear count, to sit gazing at you for any length of time, drunkenness is absolutely mandatory.

• Count De La Roche : There is no shame in love. My beloved had arranged an exchange of premises in order to facilitate our assignation. She finds such things amusing.

  Derek Kettering : Yes, if I could just interrupt the proceeding for a minute? I've got something I have been meaning to give you, La Roche. Oh, yes. Here we go!

  Count De La Roche : [after being punched in the face]  Animal! You could have given me a black eye!

  Derek Kettering : Matching your fingernails and your heart!

  Hercule Poirot : Gentlemen! Do you want the inspector to put you in the cells?

  Derek Kettering : You hear the way he speaks about my wife, possessing her. You had her alive. You will not have her dead!

  Count De La Roche : [shocked]  In what sense dead?

  Derek Kettering : [advancing forward towards La Roche]  In a sense that someone has smashed her face in with a hammer.

  Count De La Roche : I thought you were investigating a theft.

• Ruth Kettering : [handing Derek banknotes from a strongbox]  Well, that's why you are here, isn't it?

  Derek Kettering : Amazingly no. I had an idea. I thought that without you father and other benign influences we might have a chance to patch things up.

  Ruth Kettering : You really are a piece of work.

  Derek Kettering : But then I discoved that the benignest influence of them all is actually in the bloody train! Have a care, Ruthie. He is not what he seems.

  Ruth Kettering : Yet another way in which he is remarkably unlike you.

  Derek Kettering : La Roche is a card shark. He is a confidence trickster.

  Ruth Kettering : I want a divorce!

  Derek Kettering : No, Ruthie... You don't.

  Ruth Kettering : I want a divorce, Derek! And you know what? That scares the hell out of you! It makes you twitch in your handmade boots because it means good bye to the Yankee milch cow, hello bankruptcy!

  Derek Kettering : I've never in my darkest hour thought of you as a cow. A horse possibly, in a betting sense.

  Ruth Kettering : So you better take what's going while you still can, hah.

  Derek Kettering : Actually, it's not enough.

  [throwing the banknotes on the floor] 

  Ruth Kettering : You are insufferable!

  Derek Kettering : [grabbing her arm]  I have never lied to you, Ruthie... Not once.

• Derek Kettering : Got a fag, Poirot?