Poirot (TV Series)

The Veiled Lady (1990)

Hugh Fraser: Captain Hastings

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• Hercule Poirot : You know, Hastings, sometimes I wish that I was not of such a moral disposition.

  Captain Hastings : Really?

  Hercule Poirot : Would not Hercule Poirot do better than any criminal? Hercule Poirot would use his grey cells, huh. Hercule Poirot would change his modus operandi for every crime. Scotland Yard would never be able to pin me down. Ah, Hastings, Hastings. To work against the law for a change. I think it would be quite pleasing. Imagine it - every morning a new crime, huh. Every morning, Inspector Japp tearing his hair. And on every street corner, the cries of the newspaper sellers, 'Read all about it - Monsieur Big reveals everything.'

• Hercule Poirot : Why did you wish to know where Monsieur Lavington lives, Hastings?

  Captain Hastings : I don't know. He was so beastly, the way he talked about Lady Millicent, I wanted to kick him down the stairs, huh.

  Hercule Poirot : You wanted to do it in the comfort of his own home, yes?

• Captain Hastings : What a stunning girl, though.

  Hercule Poirot : I sometimes think, mon ami, that you are too easily stunned.

• Captain Hastings : You swine!

  Hercule Poirot : Hastings, please.

  Lavington : I say, what an excitable office boy you have.

• Captain Hastings : Dirty swine! I beg your pardon.