David Suchet credited as playing...
Hercule Poirot
- Hercule Poirot: [reading a brochure for a fitness program] 'Use your vigour to keep your figure.' Absurd! There is nothing wrong with the body of Poirot. He is in the peak of condition!
- Captain Hastings: You're not planning to use the bathroom for the next half hour or so, are you Poirot?
- Hercule Poirot: [Clearly agitated] Well, let me check with my diary, Hastings. No, it would seem not.
- Captain Hastings, Hercule Poirot: Good. If you need me, you know where I am.
- [He is setting up a darkroom in the bathroom]
- Hercule Poirot: [referring to Hastings' comment about him "making a mountain out of a molehill"] I am not making the hills out of the molemounds!
- Claude Langton: But I haven't heard anything about a murder.
- Hercule Poirot: No, you would not have heard of it. Because, as yet, it has not taken place. You see, if one can investigate a murder before it happens, then one might even, well, the little idea... prevent it?
- Hercule Poirot: [to Japp, referring to Hastings' new camera] The new toy. I give it two, perhaps three weeks.
- Hercule Poirot: Certainment, this is the most difficult moment of my career. To solve the crime... that does not exist.
- Captain Hastings: [referring to Poirot] You know what he's like when he hasn't had a case for a few weeks. I thought a nice afternoon at a garden fête might cheer him up a bit.
- Hercule Poirot: Taxi!
- Chief Inspector Japp: Hmmm, about the only thing that's going to cheer him up today is the discovery of a body in the Lucky Dip.
- [Hastings and Japp laugh]
- Hercule Poirot: [after being stung by a wasp] The open air, it should be closed during the summer! Captain Hastings, he wonders why I have a hatred for these crawling, buzzing things. And the reason is they're always trying to kill me!
- Hercule Poirot: I see you have had some tea, n'est ce pas? You remember the Garden Fete? When I look into the future? You will permit if we do the same, please? Turn it around... no, no, no, no, no! No. Because this time, it is different, hein. This time we look backward, yes? Into the past. Because the past, it is clear as crystal, n'est ce pas? As clear as the crystals of cyanide poison that are in this cup. Oh, no, no, no, no, monsieur, this does not shock you. For it is you who put them there!
- Captain Hastings: [to Miss Lemon] If you ask me, all this fortune-telling is going to his head. He is talking about investigating a murder now that hasn't even happened yet. Making a mountain out of a molehill, if you ask me.
- Hercule Poirot: [Enters his bathroom and gets entangled with films Hastings has developed] Ah! Sacristi! I can not enter even my own bathroom without walking into the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
- Captain Hastings: I'm sorry. They have probably dried by now.
- Hercule Poirot: And I'm not making hills out of mole mounds!