Frances Low credited as playing...
Pamela Lyall
- Pamela Lyall: Don't you think that human beings tend to reproduce certain patterns, Mr. Poirot? Stereotype patterns?
- [draws a triangle in the sand]
- Hercule Poirot: Précisément, mademoiselle.
- [Pamela Lyle sprints across the dock to find Poirot and tell him about the death of Valentine Chantry... only to see his ship leaving. Pamela looks on in despair...]
- Hercule Poirot: [angrily yelling] I've told you again! And AGAIN! I'm on HOLIDAY!
- [shouts in French]
- Hercule Poirot: I'm a Belgian Citizen! You have no right to detain me!
- [Pamela runs to investigate and she sees a frustrated Poirot being questioned by several officers]
- Custom's Officer: Sir, you will not leave this island until you have explained all actions...
- Hercule Poirot: [shouts] How can I ever leave here now? My ship has gone, you idiot!
- [he sees Pamela Lyle]
- Hercule Poirot: Mademoiselle Lyle!
- [Pamela Lyle rushes towards him; looking utterly distressed]
- Hercule Poirot: What is the matter? What are you doing here?
- Pamela Lyall: Thank God! Mr. Poirot, I thought you have left! you must come quickly! Valentine Chantry is dead!
- Hercule Poirot: [calmly] Ah.
- Pamela Lyall: Someone poisoned her husband's glass... And she drank it.
- Hercule Poirot: I feared such an outcome.
- Pamela Lyall: Then why didn't you do something?
- Hercule Poirot: Do what? What was there to do, before the event? Tell the police that someone has murder in their heart? No.
- [pause]
- Hercule Poirot: I will come.
- Hercule Poirot: [to the officer] I am a detective, not a spy.
- [last lines]
- Pamela Lyall: Goodbye, Monsieur Poirot.
- [kisses his cheeks]
- Hercule Poirot: Oh.
- Pamela Lyall: I hope we shall meet again.
- Hercule Poirot: Au revoir, mademoiselle.