Poirot (TV Series)

Three Act Tragedy (2010)

Martin Shaw: Sir Charles Cartwright

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Quotes 

• 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*!

• Sir Charles Cartwright : [describing guests]  Then last, and in every way least, the young squib, Oliver Manders, the villain of the piece. Let's just say he's a little bit devious. Accompanied by: the chip on his shoulder; he never goes anywhere without it.

• Sir Charles Cartwright : You don't know what it's like.

  [long pause] 

  Sir Charles Cartwright : People think you're so happy, so glamorous. Girls run after you, beautiful girls. You kiss them, and then they go home. Take off their pretty costumes, and they go home, and you're alone.

• Sir Charles Cartwright : Did you ever see anyone die like that Thomelew?

  Sir Bartholomew Strange : I'm a psychologist. I don't see people die much at all.

• [first lines] 

  Sir Charles Cartwright : Ready about. Go about.