Poirot (TV Series)

Mrs McGinty's Dead (2008)

David Suchet: Hercule Poirot

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• Hercule Poirot : Superintendent? I have some very good news for you. No no no no no, no, no. It is that someone has attempted to kill me.

• Hercule Poirot : But I am afraid, Madame, that your female intuition; it has taken the day off.

• Spence : Does anyone really commit murder for the reasons we've been considering?

  Hercule Poirot : Ah. The passion for respectability it is very strong, Superintendent. These are not artists or bohemians. No, very nice people live in Broadhinny. They tell to me so themselves.

• Hercule Poirot : Well, I too suffer. The cooking of Madame Summerhayes; it is beyond description. Well, it is not cooking at all. The currents of the cold air. The long hairs of the dogs. The chairs. The terrible, terrible beds in which I try to sleep! And the coffee: words cannot describe to you the fluid they serve to you as coffee.

• Hercule Poirot : In other words, you say to me that you are only a damn foreigner.

• Ariadne Oliver : Robin Upward was in the clear. He and I were working all day on that wretched dramatisation. Now he wants Sven having sex in a sauna. Sven has never had sex in his life. You don't know how I suffer.

  Hercule Poirot : Oui, I too suffer. The cooking of Madame Summerhayes, it is beyond description, well, it is not cooking at all, and the currents of cold air, the long hairs of the dogs, the chairs, the terrible, terrible bed in which I try to sleep, and the coffee - words can not describe you the fluid they serve you as coffee.

• Hercule Poirot : That is your great mistake, Madame... to think only in terms of money.

• Hercule Poirot : [to Spence]  Do you know what is the biggest problem of my life...? An abundance of leisure.

• Hercule Poirot : [to James Bentley]  Come now. Is it a crime to like a pretty girl?

• James Bentley : Next morning, there she is, dead. That's it.

  Hercule Poirot : How did you feel at that moment?

  James Bentley : Well, I hadn't had any breakfast, so I was starving.

• [last lines] 

  Hercule Poirot : Whitehaven Mansions, if you please.

• Mrs. Upward : You'll excuse my suggesting that you don't, perhaps, appreciate the pattern of our English country life.

  Hercule Poirot : In other words, you say to me that 'you're only a damned foreigner'.

• Ariadne Oliver : [Arriving by car to meet Poirot]  Hello there! Not late, am I? We said 4 o'clock, didn't we?

  Hercule Poirot : I believe we said 3 o'clock, madam.

  Ariadne Oliver : Oh, well... never mind.

• Eve Carpenter : [noticing she is not alone on her terrace]  What the hell do you want?

  Hercule Poirot : Excusez-moi, Madame Carpenter?

  Eve Carpenter : I don't require any cleaning fluids. Go away!

  Hercule Poirot : No, if you please, Hercule Poirot, and I have a few questions to ask you about the death of Mrs McGinty last November.

• Hercule Poirot : No, very nice people live in Broadhinny. They tell me so themselves.

• Hercule Poirot : And here I will not beat around the shrubbery.