Poirot (TV Series)

The Third Floor Flat (1989)

Suzanne Burden: Patricia Matthews

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Quotes 

• Patricia Matthews , Mildred : [singing]  Life is just a bowl of cherries/ Life is too mysterious/ you work, you play, you worry so/ But you can't get your dough when you glow, glow, glow, glow...

• [Donovan is stumbling through the darkness of a dark, seemingly vacant apartment] 

  Donovan : What on earth is Pat piping up to? Everything is the wrong bloody place!

  [Jimmy turns on the lights; revealing that they are not in the right apartment] 

  Donovan : This isn't Pat's flat.

  Jimmy : [excited whisper]  Jeepers!

  Donovan : [reading a letter on the table]  Mrs. Ernestine Grant...

  [beat] 

  Donovan : Oh, Lord! we're in *36B*, not *46B*!

  Jimmy : We better get out here before she finds us!

  [someone snoring sounds] 

  Jimmy , Donovan : [the two men burst into giggles] 

  [the two men are about to leave when Jimmy notices something shocking] 

  Jimmy : Look!

  [Donovan turns to see a pair of a woman's feet sticking out behind the packing cases in the flat] 

  Donovan : [genuinely shocked]  Good God!

  [They walk over and discover Mrs. Ernestine Grant's corpse concealed behind the curtain] 

  Patricia Matthews , Mildred : [singing in the background]  Life is just a bowl of cherries...

  [scene shifts to Hastings and Poirot watching Patricia and Mildred singing on the stairs] 

  Patricia Matthews , Mildred : [singing cont]  Life's too mysterious, life's too mysterious... You work, you play, you worry so/ But you can't get your dough/ while you glow, glow, glow!

  Donovan : [He and Jimmy walk out of the apartment; looking perturbed]  What do we do?

  Jimmy : [pause]  I don't know.

  Donovan : [to Patricia and Mildred]  Pat, Mildred. Something's happened.

  Patricia Matthews : What is it?

  Donovan : There's a dead woman down here.

  Mildred : [as she and Patricia rush down the stairs; unaware that Poirot is close by; shocked]  Oh my God!