Poirot (TV Series)

Taken at the Flood (2006)

David Suchet: Hercule Poirot

Quotes 

• Hercule Poirot : Do you know that the priest, when he is buried, he is always facing his parishoners? Oui. Because when the Day of Judgment, it comes, and the dead, they all arise, he can greet them, and lead them through the Gates of Paradise. Tis a beautiful idea.

  Rosaleen : He shan't be leading me.

  Hercule Poirot : You must not say that, ma chere. Despair is a sin.

  Rosaleen : I'm cut off from the mercy of God.

  Hercule Poirot : No, no, no, no, no. Nobody is cut off from the mercy of God... ever.

• 'Aunt' Kathy Cloade : What marvelous square furniture, Monsieur!

  Hercule Poirot : Not a curve in the place, Madame.

• Hercule Poirot : There was no accident of gas in Munn Street. No no no. A letter received today from Scotland Yard contained the expert forensic evidence confirming my suspicions. There was only the premeditated explosion of a bomb! A device built and operated by you, David Hunter! Engineer and road builder! How depraved! God, how evil does a man have to be to cause the slaughter of so many innocent people? For the concealment of a single murder? If God should withhold his mercy from anyone on earth, Monsieur, it surely will be you.

• Hercule Poirot : If God should withhold His mercy from anyone on Earth, Monsieur, it surely will be you.

• Hercule Poirot : Poirot, he sees things, Madame. It is a habit he cannot change.

• Hercule Poirot : Two deaths. But neither of them were acts of murder. But today, Mes Amis, Poirot shall produce a murderer of whose viciousness he stands in awe.

• Lynn Marchmont : The members of my rich family still speaking to me keep saying how lucky I am.

  Hercule Poirot : And what do you say, mademoiselle, to them?

  Lynn Marchmont : I say, "Goodbye", mostly.

• Hercule Poirot : This woman in the scarf, Madame: she was up the stairs or down?

  Mrs. Leadbetter : She was scuttling down, having leeched the vital juices from your customer in number three.

• Hercule Poirot : But the lady presently watching you from over there, she is not your sister.

  Dr Lionel Cloade : Good heavens!

  Hercule Poirot : No. Her name is Eileen Corrigan, a simple farm girl, as she defined herself to me at the church. And, whatever the papers may say, she did not die in Mayfair two years ago. No. But the real Rosaleen Cloade; she did. WHY? Because you murdered her! More than any Cloade, you hated Rosaleen. For in her happy marriage to Gordon Cloade, she had excluded you; your first love; your little sister had surrendered herself to another man. But you had already made your own arrangements to deal with her, for you had drawn under your spell a parlour maid, who was young, Irish, and in the service of your sister. Her name? Eileen Corrigan. You had seduced her. Had deliberately impregnated her. And had had the baby disposed of.

  David Hunter : Not true.

  Hercule Poirot : True! Outside of the church, Eileen Corrigan told me that she had been cut off from the mercy of God!

  David Hunter : She miscarried...

  Hercule Poirot : No, Monsieur! She endured abortion! As it was always your intention that she should. You wanted to crush the very soul of this simple Catholic girl. To make her so terrified by the state of her own life that she would deliver it to you. Maintained by morphine, ruled by terror; Eileen Corrigan would do whatever you told her to do. Why? WHY? Because you, Monsieur, offered her salvation if she did. And... the fires of hell if she did not.