Poirot (TV Series)

The Clocks (2009)

David Suchet: Hercule Poirot

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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.

• Hercule Poirot : I do not think it is important *who* he is, but who he *is*.

• 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.

• Inspector Hardcastle : [Annoyed about the type of questions Poirot is using to interrogate witnesses]  What on earth have these got to do with the investigation?

  Hercule Poirot : Probably nothing.

  Inspector Hardcastle : So why ask them?

  Hercule Poirot : To gather information.

  Inspector Hardcastle : What information? Police work is facts, alibis, evidence... not gossip. How did any case get solved in Belgium while you were in charge?

  Hercule Poirot : Through listening... through observation... and every case was solved, I can assure you.

• Hercule Poirot : [Interrupting]  Inspector, may I ask a question?

  Inspector Hardcastle : Of course. Will you be answering it as well?

• 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.