David Suchet credited as playing...
Hercule Poirot
- Ariadne Oliver: Any theories?
- Hercule Poirot: Ah, everybody seems to me to be completely normal.
- Ariadne Oliver: Are you trying to be amusing?
- Hercule Poirot: Perhaps that is not the right word. Lady Stubbs, it appears, is subnormal, Alec Legge abnormal.
- Ariadne Oliver: Oh, he's alright. He's just having a nervous breakdown.
- Hercule Poirot: But everyone seems to be in a state of agitation, which, I believe, is characteristic of the preparations for a fete in England.
- Ariadne Oliver: I've planned every detail, and it all dovetails nicely, but things keep changing. So the fortuneteller is a good example. I feel I'm being jockeyed along.
- Hercule Poirot: Jockeyed along?
- Ariadne Oliver: Manipulated.
- Hercule Poirot: So someone is making the suggestions?
- Ariadne Oliver: Writers can't stand suggestions. If you suggest something, we do exactly the opposite. But I am being jockeyed along and I can't figure out how. To tell the truth, I'm, I'm worried.
- Hercule Poirot: Perhaps the big suggestion, it is put on, to which you, of course, say no because it is preposterous, but then an idea most trivial may be found to have been smuggled in.
- Ariadne Oliver: Yes, yes, something like that. Yes.
- Hercule Poirot: Who is making these alterations?
- Ariadne Oliver: Different people. It'd be easier with just one, wouldn't it?
- Hercule Poirot: And you have told to them that Hercule Poirot, he is coming?
- Ariadne Oliver: Yes, I said you'll be giving away the prizes for the murder hunt. Everyone's thrilled.
- Mrs. Warburton: An unpleasant thing to have to face, but I'd say we have some kind of psychological lunatic wandering freely in Devon. He won't be local, Somerset, perhaps.
- Hercule Poirot: Peut-être.
- Mrs. Amy Folliat: Don't talk about it! It's over and done. It's finished!
- Hercule Poirot: No, madame! It is never finished with murder! Jamais!
- Ariadne Oliver: I was due to give a talk. That's why I'm dressed in this ridiculous outfit. Instead, I ran for the express train.
- Hercule Poirot: What was the subject of your talk?
- Ariadne Oliver: My writing. Awfully pleased not to have to give it, as a matter of fact. I mean, what does one say about how one writes books? You just think of an idea and force yourself to write it. What am I going to say for the other 59 minutes?
- John Merdell: Do you want the ferry, sir?
- Hercule Poirot: No, monsieur. I return today to London.
- John Merdell: Poor fella. Why must you do that?
- Miss Brewis: She likes men. She's already made a fool of Michael Weyman.
- Hercule Poirot: Monsieur Weyman, he designs her tennis court.
- Miss Brewis: Tennis? She wouldn't know a double fault from a fruitcake.
- Marlene Tucker: Seen a lot of killings, have you?
- Hercule Poirot: One or two, mademoiselle, oui.
- Marlene Tucker: Any sex maniacs? I like sex maniacs. I've read about them.
- Hercule Poirot: I do not think you would like to meet one.
- Marlene Tucker: If someone leaves a woman's body in the woods with no clothes on, dead like, he's liable to be a sex maniac, wouldn't he?
- Hercule Poirot: That would be an assumption most reasonable, oui.
- Marlene Tucker: That's what my granddad says, but he's daft, so no one believes him.