Poirot (TV Series)

The Clocks (2009)

Tom Burke: Lt. Colin Race

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Quotes 

• Lt. Colin Race : I know she isn't involved. I know she's a good person who needs our help.

  Hercule Poirot : The world is full of *good* people who do *bad* things, mon ami.

• Lt. Colin Race : This murder gets more complicated by the minute.

  Hercule Poirot : Mais oui. Which can only mean one thing, mon ami. The solution, it must be very simple.

• [last lines] 

  Lt. Colin Race : I've only known you a few days, and already it's like we've fallen in love, married, had seven children, divorced, met again under peculiar circumstances, married, had a few more children, divorced.

  Sheila Webb : She must have hated me so much.

  Lt. Colin Race : Shall we start again, Sheila?

  Sheila Webb : Yes, please.

  Lt. Colin Race : Let's start again.

• Lt. Colin Race : Well, it's like every other street in England - full of people who keep themselves to themselves while hating each other at the same time.

• Christopher Mabbutt : The irony is, Lieutenant, it's in our country's interests to have peace with Germany, to stop the Communists creeping ever westward. We are patriots who pass information to Hitler because if Chamberlain's policy of appeasement doesn't hold and someone like Churchill gets his hands on power, we will be dragged into a war a hundred times worse than the last one. And in that scenario, the quicker Germany knocks out a weak liberal England, the better for all Europe.

  Hercule Poirot : Or what would remain of Europe under the Nazis. Monsieur, you have not seen your country overrun by foreign tyranny. I have. And I tell you, monsieur, that I value the "weak liberal England," as you call it, as a country well worth the fighting for.

  Miss Pebmarsh : But you won't do the fighting, will you, monsieur? It will be the young boys again. And if I can save one life by keeping this country weak so it cannot engage in war with Germany, then I will be proud of what I've done.

  Lt. Colin Race : Fiona Hanbury had a life.

  Christopher Mabbutt : I think people like that are called collateral, Lieutenant. They die for a greater good.