Philip Jackson credited as playing...
Chief Inspector Japp
- [last lines]
- James Ackerley: I'm honoured that you took up my invitation. I'm sure it was a most enlightening experience for our listeners.
- Hercule Poirot: Thank you.
- Receptionist: Mr Ackerley! They've been trying to find you. The switchboard's been flooded with callers.
- Hercule Poirot: Ah...
- Receptionist: Complaining about the dreadful accent. Lowering the standard of spoken English. All that sort of thing.
- James Ackerley: Oh.
- Receptionist: Sir John Reith's waiting to see you in his office.
- James Ackerley: So sorry. Messieurs.
- Chief Inspector Japp: Don't take it too hard, Poirot.
- Hercule Poirot: Indeed no. I am not at all surprised.
- Captain Hastings: You're not?
- Hercule Poirot: No. Chief Inspector, you really ought to look to your elocution.
- Chief Inspector Japp: So help me, there's nothing wrong with my lingo!
- Hercule Poirot: You see, that is exactly the kind of expression like "'alf a mo" that brings the language into disrepute. Come, Hastings. I shall lend to the Chief Inspector my personal copy of 'The English as She Should be Spoken'.
- [exits the building]
- Hercule Poirot: Taxi!
- Hercule Poirot: [finding powder] Such foolishness! Young people must realize that life is not to be gambled with like the roulette wheel! This is nothing less than poison.
- Chief Inspector Japp: [tastes] Cocaine.