Poirot (TV Series)

After the Funeral (2006)

David Suchet: Hercule Poirot

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• Hercule Poirot : The journey of life can be hard for those of us who travel alone.

• Hercule Poirot : I am awaiting a concrete piece of evidence - the final piece of the puzzle.

  Inspector Morton : What kind of evidence?

  Hercule Poirot : I cannot say at the moment - I may be wrong.

  Inspector Morton : Doesn't often happen to you.

  Hercule Poirot : It has happened twice in my career.

  Inspector Morton : That's a relief! To be right all the time might get a bit monotonous.

  Hercule Poirot : I do not find it so.

• Hercule Poirot : They lied very well. They are all performers.

• Hercule Poirot : You put a piece of wedding cake under your pillow, and you dream of your future husband.

• Miss Gilchrist : Young people nowadays seem so uncaring. They don't know what it is to be alone in the world.

  Hercule Poirot : The journey of life... it can be hard for those of us who travel alone, Mademoiselle. Have you always been a companion to a lady?

  Miss Gilchrist : No. I used to have my own tea shop, "The Willow Tree". Oh, it was a delightful little place, Mr Poirot. All the china was blue-willow patterned... so pretty, and the cakes were really awfully good, if I say it myself. But a Lyons' establishment opened up nearby and my little place failed.

  Hercule Poirot : Ah. Oh, this happens to many people in these times, I think.

  Miss Gilchrist : [hearing a service bell ring]  It's Mr Timothys' bell...

• Hercule Poirot : I can't say at the moment. I may be wrong.

  Inspector Morton : Doesn't often happen to you.

  Hercule Poirot : To me it has happened twice in my career.

  Inspector Morton : Ah, that's a relief. To be right all the time might get a little monotonous.

  Hercule Poirot : I do not find it so.