Crooked House (2017)
Max Irons: Charles Hayward
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Quotes
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Charles Hayward : You know, Josephine the first round of interrogation is not so much about finding clues as it is about getting a sense of who you're dealing with.
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Charles Hayward : Now, your grandfather has just died.
Eustace : A good thing, really. It's one less capitalist.
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Charles Hayward : May I ask you a blunt question?
Lady Edith : They're the only interesting kind.
Charles Hayward : What's wrong with people in this house?
Lady Edith : It is a blunt question indeed.
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Charles Hayward : They do share one or two traits. Vanity. A distorted morality. A lack of empathy. And murderers tend to feel that they are above the rules and laws that govern ordinary mortals.
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Chief Inspector Taverner : Charles, you have to understand, I'm under a lot of pressure here. There's politics involved here. It's sensitive. And with your past...
Charles Hayward : I'm sorry? My past? In Cairo. I was a diplomat.
Chief Inspector Taverner : Of course. And I am a duchess.
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Sophia de Haviland : Hello, Charles.
Charles Hayward : Sophia.
Lady Edith : How do you two know one another?
Sophia de Haviland : We met in Egypt, when I was out there with Sotheby's. He saved my life. Didn't you, Charles?
Charles Hayward : Well, her horse bolted on the way to the pyramids. I managed to stop it.
Lady Edith : Pfft!
[Both women chuckle]
Charles Hayward : I'm sorry?
Lady Edith : Sophia has never been run away with in her life. By a horse or anything else, come to that.
Sophia de Haviland : Charles likes to think he rescued me.
Lady Edith : Oh, the dear boy.