Poirot (TV Series)

Three Act Tragedy (2010)

David Suchet: Hercule Poirot

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Miss Wills : I can see now I should have gone to the police. Don't judge me too harshly.

  Hercule Poirot : Ah, Mademoiselle, I investigate; I do not judge.

  Miss Wills : Just had a terrible thought.

  Hercule Poirot : Hm?

  Miss Wills : If anyone could have drunk the poison cocktail... golly, it could have been me!

  Hercule Poirot : [chuckles]  And there is a possibility even more terrible, Mademoiselle... it could have been me.

• Hercule Poirot : [to Egg]  It is the approach classique, you see. The technique of elimination. We eliminate the suspects one by one. We do not scamper around like... the puppies.

• Sir Charles Cartwright : It's very handsome of you. Won't it take up your time?

  Hercule Poirot : What is time in the face of death?

• [Cartwright has been exposed by Poirot as the killer] 

  Sir Charles Cartwright : God damn you. What have you done?

  [pause, then Poirot turns to him] 

  Hercule Poirot : [furious]  What have *I* done? It is *you* who have deceived *me*!

• Egg : I find most people disgusting when it comes to money.

  Hercule Poirot : Ah, mademoiselle, so many people are disgusting about so many things:.