- 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.
- 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.
- [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.
- Hercule Poirot: [Interrupting] Inspector, may I ask a question?
- Inspector Hardcastle: Of course. Will you be answering it as well?
- 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.
- [first lines]
- Fiona Hanbury: Good night, Annie.
- Annabel Larkin: Good night, Fee.
- Fiona Hanbury: Oh, Annie, are you going down the Bluebell tonight?
- Annabel Larkin: No, not tonight. Tired.
- Fiona Hanbury: Early night.
- Annabel Larkin: Ah, I wish it was early. See you tomorrow.