David Suchet credited as playing...
Hercule Poirot
- Captain Hastings: There's Japp. I don't know what you're going to tell him.
- Hercule Poirot: Nothing at all, Hastings. I hate to be the bearer of bad news. He will learn soon enough that his open-and-shut case has the broken hinges.
- Hercule Poirot: [Poirot is interviewing Mrs. Pengelly's doctor, and is very annoyed with the man's pompous and obstinate attitude] Madame Pengelly believed that she was being poisoned by her husband.
- Dr Adams: Rubbish! I know Edward Pengelly very well. Wouldn't poison his grandmother's dog.
- Hercule Poirot: [rapid fire] But it is not the dog of M. Pengelly's grandmother that's been poisoned!
- [first lines]
- Hercule Poirot: Are you feeling better, Hastings?
- Captain Hastings: Yes. Yes, I am, as a matter of fact. Takes the pressure off the pancreas, you see.
- Hercule Poirot: Hein, the pancreas is nothing. Of the digestive organs, the liver is the key. Look after the liver and life will take care of itself.
- Miss Lemon: Your tisane, Monsieur Poirot
- Hercule Poirot: Thank you, Miss Lemon. This is what you need, Hastings.
- Captain Hastings: No fear; I've tasted it.
- Chief Inspector Japp: Everyone knows Pengelley did it.
- Hercule Poirot: Everyone does not use the grey cells, I think.
- Hercule Poirot: What is this 'hussy', Hastings?
- Captain Hastings: [Hesitating] Mmm... it means the... sort of girl who's sort of... no better than she ought to be, kind of thing.
- Hercule Poirot: No better than... ?
- Captain Hastings: That's it.