Poirot (TV Series)
Murder on the Orient Express (2010)
Susanne Lothar: Hildegarde Schmidt
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Quotes
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Hercule Poirot : [furious] You people! With your kangaroo jury, your kangaroo justice! You had no right to take the law into your own hands!
Hildegarde Schmidt : M-m-monsieur Poirot, she was *five years old*!
Caroline Hubbard : We were good civilized people, and then evil got over the wall, and we looked to the law for justice, and the law let us down.
Hercule Poirot : No! No, you behave like this and we become just... savages in the street! The juries and executioners, they elect themselves! No, it is medieval! The rule of law, it must be held high and if it falls you pick it up and hold it even higher! For all of society, all civilized people will have nothing to shelter them if it is destroyed!
