Poirot (TV Series)
Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan (1993)
Sorcha Cusack: Margaret Opalsen
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Quotes
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Ed Opalsen : That bloody little man set me up?
Margaret Opalsen : It's your own fault. You were using him.
Ed Opalsen : But darling, what about the pearls?
Margaret Opalsen : Don't worry. That bloody little man got them back.
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[first lines]
Ed Opalsen : Ladies and gentlemen. When the Russian actress and dancer Natalya Dolzhenko made Salomé in 1908, she wore a necklace made of magnificent pearls given to her by the czar. Last week, at an auction in Paris, I paid three hundred thousand francs for that same pearl necklace. My wife is going to show it to you now.
[Margaret Opalsen steps up onto the stage and removes her stole, revealing the necklace]
Margaret Opalsen : Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, our new play premières here, at your beautiful theatre, next week, prior to a six month tour of America.
Ed Opalsen : Yes, Margaret is taking the leading part. And she will be wearing the czar's pearls at each and every performance.
Guest : Mr Opalsen! Don't the pearls get stolen in the course of the play.
Ed Opalsen : Yes they do, but that's in the play. They'll be under guard twenty-four hours a day. I think I can promise you that they're not going anywhere.
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Margaret Opalsen : I bet you'd guessed who'd stolen the pearls by the second interval, Monsieur Poirot.
Hercule Poirot : Not at all, Madame, it was a question that ceased to occupy my mind long before the first.