Poirot (TV Series)

The Mystery of the Blue Train (2005)

David Suchet: Hercule Poirot

Quotes 

• Hercule Poirot : ...jealousy, as it so often does, throws open the door to murder.

• Katherine : [watching Lady Tamplin, Lennox and Corky rushing to catch the train in Calais]  What extraordinary people there are in France!

  Hercule Poirot : Oui, I don't think that we shall be bored.

• Hercule Poirot : Mademoiselle, all one ever needs are the good manners. The rest is just silliness and snobbery valued only by bores.

• 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.

• Hercule Poirot : Papa Poirot. He is at your disposal.

• Hercule Poirot : There is something about that gentleman that displeases you.

  Rufus Van Aldin : I see no gentleman. I see Derek-god-damn-Kettering, my god-damn, gold-digging, son-of-a-bitch son-in-law.

• Corky : We are British citizens! Isn't there something in the passport that His Majesty requests and requires we aren't to be fannied about by foreign policemen?

  Hercule Poirot : No.

• Hercule Poirot : [Poirot has stepped off the Blue Train in Nice. The train whistles, then someone shrieks. Lady Tamplin stumbles out of the train]  My dear Lady Tamplin! What is the matter?

  Lady Tamplin : Don't, don't. I think I'm going to be sick...

  [clutching her stomach] 

  Hercule Poirot : What is the matter, Lady Tamplin?

  Lady Tamplin : Oh, God... Katherine...

  Hercule Poirot : [deeply concerned]  What has happened to Mademoiselle Grey?

  Lady Tamplin : She... Oh, my God... I shouldn't have looked at all that... blood.

  [Poirot rushes into the train and collides with Lenox] 

  Lenox Tamplin : [screaming in horror]  Mother! Mother!

  Katherine : [Poirot hesitates at Katherine's door. Then he opens it and finds Katherine also opening the door]  Oh!

  Hercule Poirot : Oh!

  Katherine : I'm so sorry I kept you waiting. I didn't find my silly comb.

  [Poirot heaves a sigh of relief] 

  Hercule Poirot : [Checking the number of Katherine's compartment - No. 3]  Compartment number 7!

  [He runs to investigate. Katherine looks concerned] 

• Corky : [upon realising that Marseille was the place where the murder had been committed]  Oh, hell... I have goofed.

  Hercule Poirot : No, Monsieur Corky...

  [getting into the passenger seat of the car] 

  Hercule Poirot : ... you have goofed only, if the murder, it was committed by you, and this Poirot is not, at the present time,

  [closing to door] 

  Hercule Poirot : disposed to believe.

• Hercule Poirot : [to Katherine Grey]  Please, do excuse me, Mademoiselle... May I congratulate you for a most excellent choice of a Bourgogne. Whenever I dine here I choose this.

  [Takes the glass, looks at the opacity of the wine finding it crystal clear] 

  Hercule Poirot : Oh...

  [Smells the wine, tastes it and hands it to the waiter] 

  Hercule Poirot : Merci.

  [the waiter leaves] 

  Hercule Poirot : Please, do forgive me, that was presumptuous in extreme.