Poirot (TV Series)

The Labours of Hercules (2013)

David Suchet: Hercule Poirot

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Quotes 

• Dr. Lutz : May I ask you something? Why do you insist on referring to yourself in the third person? It is intensely irritating!

  Hercule Poirot : Because, Doctor Lutz, it helps Poirot achieve a healthy distance from his genius.

• Dr. Lutz : Ha, you French! You make me scream with laughter.

  Hercule Poirot : I am glad, but also Belgian.

• Dr. Burton : What you need, my dear fellow, is another case. Preferably one that puts your life in danger.

  Hercule Poirot : That is your advice most considered, is it?

  Dr. Burton : It's cost you ten guineas, so I suggest you act on it.

• Katrina : And what are your "requirements", monsieur?

  Hercule Poirot : *Time*, mademoiselle. Time is all that is required by Poirot.

• Hercule Poirot : You look well, Countess.

  Countess Rossakoff : Well?

  Hercule Poirot : Oui.

  Countess Rossakoff : Hercule, such insipidity. At the very least I want to look like a goddess, one of the better ones.

  Hercule Poirot : Oui.

  Countess Rossakoff : Of course I look well. It is my life of unrelenting virtue. My life of crime is largely over.

• Schwartz : A, a point of information. I am advised that a small quantity of snow has fallen in the tunnel of the funicular. The, the workmen are attending to the obstruction, and it'll soon be clear.

  Hercule Poirot : S'il vous plaît, monsieur, how soon?

  Schwartz : Oh, tout suite, monsieur. Very soon, very soon. Within a couple of days for certain.

  Countess Rossakoff : Ah, so we a trapped in this preposterous place.

  Schwartz : It is a large... small quantity of snow, but don't be despondent. It will be gemütlich up here. We have a food, we have a wine. We shall be... ah... What is the phrase?

  Countess Rossakoff : Demented with boredom.

  Schwartz : Ah, cosy! We shall be most cosy.

  Alice Cunningham : With the killer in the premises.

• Countess Rossakoff : Ah, yes.

  [giving a box] 

  Countess Rossakoff : These are for you.

  Hercule Poirot : For me? Ah.

  [looking at the cufflinks] 

  Hercule Poirot : These a beautiful.

  Countess Rossakoff : I have from time to time lost my money and my dignity, Hercule. I never lost my taste.

  Hercule Poirot : But...

  Countess Rossakoff : No, I did not steal them. My father wore them when we fled Petersburg.

  Hercule Poirot : Merci beaucoup.

• Hercule Poirot : But you are in no danger, mademoiselle. Poirot, he gives to you his word.

• Dr. Lutz : Monsieur Poirot! Let me be absolutely clear. I cannot permit you to interfere with my patient.

  Hercule Poirot : Doctor Lutz. Are you an admirer of Nietzsche?

  Dr. Lutz : All Austrians are not Nazis, Monsieur Poirot.

  Hercule Poirot : You think that I try to trap you?

  Dr. Lutz : Naturally, it's your métier. Who is employing you and what do you want from my patient?

  Hercule Poirot : In this case, I am engaged by Monsieur Ted Williams, and what I require from Mademoiselle Samoushenka is to return her maid Nita.

  Dr. Lutz : I've genuinely no idea what you're talking about.

  Hercule Poirot : Nita, the servant maid impeccable. Monsieur Ted Williams, the lover most ardent and full of chivalry.

  Dr. Lutz : You speak to me in archetypes. All this is very Jung. Nobody with intelligence credits Jung.

  Hercule Poirot : What is wrong with the lady in Room 16?

  Dr. Lutz : Pah! You French, you make me scream with laughter.

  Hercule Poirot : Hmm, I am glad... but also Belgian.

  Dr. Lutz : You cannot expect me to compromise my client confidentiality. Are you mad?

  Hercule Poirot : No, Doctor, but neither is Katrina Samoushenka.