Hugh Fraser credited as playing...
Captain Hastings
- Hercule Poirot: You do know who I am?
- Nick Buckley: No. I don't.
- Hercule Poirot: I forget; you are but a child. Alors, my friend here, Captain Hastings, he will tell it to you.
- Captain Hastings: Well, um, Monsieur Poirot is a detective.
- Nick Buckley: Oh.
- Captain Hastings: [Poirot just looks at Hastings] Um, uh, a great detective.
- Hercule Poirot: My friend, is that all you can find to say? Mais dis donc, say then to Mademoiselle that I am the detective unique, unsurpassed, the greatest that ever lived.
- Captain Hastings: Well, doesn't seem much point now; you've told her yourself.
- Hercule Poirot: Ah yes, but it is more agreeable to preserve the modesty.
- Hercule Poirot: You know, Hastings. You have the most extraordinary effect on me.
- Captain Hastings: Really?
- Hercule Poirot: Yes. You have so strongly the flair in the wrong direction that I am almost tempted to doubt the commander.
- Captain Hastings: Makes you proud to be an Englishman, though... Oh, I'm sorry.
- Hercule Poirot: Do not be sorry, Hastings. It is not tragedy for me that I was born on the wrong side of the channel.
- [last lines]
- Hercule Poirot: It is satisfying, is it not, Chief Inspector, in a case, when at last one knows everything.
- Chief Inspector Japp: I thought you knew everything anyway, Poirot.
- Hercule Poirot: Well...
- [Miss Lemon and Hastings arrive carrying ice cream cones]
- Hercule Poirot: Ah.
- Miss Lemon: There's one for you, Chief Inspector.
- Chief Inspector Japp: Ah, thank you.
- Miss Lemon: None for Mister Poirot because I read an article on the train how ice cream was extremely bad for the little grey cells.
- Captain Hastings: And two for me because mine are dead already.
- [Japp laughs]
- Hercule Poirot: They are very amusing, are they not, Chief Inspector? The sea air obviously agrees with them. I think perhaps, when I return to London, I shall leave them here.
- [Japp laughs, and Hastings hands one of his cones to Poirot]
- Hercule Poirot: Thank you. Santé!
- [first lines]
- Captain Hastings: Looks just like a patchwork quilt, doesn't it?
- Hercule Poirot: [eyes closed tight, clutching armrest] No!
- Captain Hastings: Well, it does to me. Does to everybody else.
- Hercule Poirot: Not to Poirot!
- Captain Hastings: Oh, I suppose you don't think that looks like a great mass of cotton wool.
- Hercule Poirot: No!
- Captain Hastings: I don't think you've got *any* imagination at all, Poirot.
- Hercule Poirot: [opens his eyes] That is true, mon ami. But fortunately you have enough for both of us; it is extremely valuable to me.
- Captain Hastings: I don't think you've got any imagination at all, Poirot.
- Hercule Poirot: That is true, mon ami. But fortunately, you have enough for both of us. It is extremely valuable to me.