David Suchet credited as playing...
Hercule Poirot
- Katherine: [watching Lady Tamplin, Lennox and Corky rushing to catch the train in Calais] What extraordinary people there are in France!
- Hercule Poirot: Oui, I don't think that we shall be bored.
- Hercule Poirot: Mademoiselle, all one ever needs are the good manners. The rest is just silliness and snobbery valued only by bores.
- Corky: We are British citizens! Isn't there something in the passport that His Majesty requests and requires we aren't to be fannied about by foreign policemen?
- Hercule Poirot: No.
- Hercule Poirot: There is something about that gentleman that displeases you.
- Rufus Van Aldin: I see no gentleman. I see Derek-god-damn-Kettering, my god-damn, gold-digging, son-of-a-bitch son-in-law.
- Count De La Roche: There is no shame in love. My beloved had arranged an exchange of premises in order to facilitate our assignation. She finds such things amusing.
- Derek Kettering: Yes, if I could just interrupt the proceeding for a minute? I've got something I have been meaning to give you, La Roche. Oh, yes. Here we go!
- Count De La Roche: [after being punched in the face] Animal! You could have given me a black eye!
- Derek Kettering: Matching your fingernails and your heart!
- Hercule Poirot: Gentlemen! Do you want the inspector to put you in the cells?
- Derek Kettering: You hear the way he speaks about my wife, possessing her. You had her alive. You will not have her dead!
- Count De La Roche: [shocked] In what sense dead?
- Derek Kettering: [advancing forward towards La Roche] In a sense that someone has smashed her face in with a hammer.
- Count De La Roche: I thought you were investigating a theft.
- Corky: [upon realising that Marseille was the place where the murder had been committed] Oh, hell... I have goofed.
- Hercule Poirot: No, Monsieur Corky...
- [getting into the passenger seat of the car]
- Hercule Poirot: ... you have goofed only, if the murder, it was committed by you, and this Poirot is not, at the present time,
- [closing to door]
- Hercule Poirot: disposed to believe.
- Hercule Poirot: [to Katherine Grey] Please, do excuse me, Mademoiselle... May I congratulate you for a most excellent choice of a Bourgogne. Whenever I dine here I choose this.
- [Takes the glass, looks at the opacity of the wine finding it crystal clear]
- Hercule Poirot: Oh...
- [Smells the wine, tastes it and hands it to the waiter]
- Hercule Poirot: Merci.
- [the waiter leaves]
- Hercule Poirot: Please, do forgive me, that was presumptuous in extreme.
- Hercule Poirot: [Poirot has stepped off the Blue Train in Nice. The train whistles, then someone shrieks. Lady Tamplin stumbles out of the train] My dear Lady Tamplin! What is the matter?
- Lady Tamplin: Don't, don't. I think I'm going to be sick...
- [clutching her stomach]
- Hercule Poirot: What is the matter, Lady Tamplin?
- Lady Tamplin: Oh, God... Katherine...
- Hercule Poirot: [deeply concerned] What has happened to Mademoiselle Grey?
- Lady Tamplin: She... Oh, my God... I shouldn't have looked at all that... blood.
- [Poirot rushes into the train and collides with Lenox]
- Lenox Tamplin: [screaming in horror] Mother! Mother!
- Katherine: [Poirot hesitates at Katherine's door. Then he opens it and finds Katherine also opening the door] Oh!
- Hercule Poirot: Oh!
- Katherine: I'm so sorry I kept you waiting. I didn't find my silly comb.
- [Poirot heaves a sigh of relief]
- Hercule Poirot: [Checking the number of Katherine's compartment - No. 3] Compartment number 7!
- [He runs to investigate. Katherine looks concerned]