Poirot (TV Series)

Cat Among the Pigeons (2008)

David Suchet: Hercule Poirot

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• Miss Bulstrode : Thank you once again for coming.

  Hercule Poirot : De rien.

  Miss Bulstrode : The mayor is blaming his ulcers, but I suspect foul play.

  Hercule Poirot : Comment?

  Miss Bulstrode : Arsenal versus Sheffield United; kick-off's at three. I know where His Worship's loyalties lie.

• Miss Bulstrode : I hope you're enjoying your little sojourn with us, Monsieur. I'd hate to think you were bored.

  Hercule Poirot : Bored? Pas de tout, mademoiselle! There does not need to be present a crime for the investigator to thrive. This school... It is like the world in miniature. It is like the... What is the word? The...?

  Miss Bulstrode : Microcosm.

  Hercule Poirot : Just so. Just as in the outside world. Hopes, dreams, fears, secrets. This place... So full of the promise of youth, the future of the nation... And yet, how lonely and silent are its corridors at night. Lonely and silent as the chambers of the heart.

• Hercule Poirot : I comprehend. The challenge - it has gone.

• Hercule Poirot : There does not need to be present a crime for the investigator to thrive.

• Hercule Poirot : But nothing, rien, is more dangerous than to try the blackmail on a person who has killed at least once.