Poirot (TV Series)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1990)
Hugh Fraser: Lieutenant Hastings
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Quotes
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Lieutenant Hastings : [referring to the false beard they have discovered] Who put it there?
Hercule Poirot : Someone with a great deal of intelligence, Hastings. He chose to hide it in the one place where its presence would not be remarked. But we must be even more intelligent that he does not suspect us of being intelligent at all.
Lieutenant Hastings : Absolutely.
Hercule Poirot : And there you will be invaluable, mon ami.
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[Hastings has accepted an invitation to spend his medical leave at his friend John Cavendish's ancestral home]
John Cavendish : I'm afraid you'll find it very quiet down here, Hastings.
Lieutenant Hastings : My dear fellow, after the joys of France, that's just what I want.
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[last lines]
Lieutenant Hastings : What a wonderful girl. I shall never understand women.
Hercule Poirot : Thought so, yourself mon ami. Perhaps one day when this terrible war is ended, we shall work again together, huh? And Poirot will explain all to you.
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[Poirot has just pulled up in a cab outside and is waving his hands at the driver]
Mary Cavendish : What on earth is he doing?
Lieutenant Hastings : I think he's giving the driver a lesson.
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[Poirot is building a house of cards]
Lieutenant Hastings : Is this your first time in London, Poirot?
[Poirot does not answer]
Lieutenant Hastings : Mrs. Inglethorpe must have been wealthy, with this beautiful house and Styles Court.
[Poirot still does not answer]
Lieutenant Hastings : Are you going to be doing that all day?
Hercule Poirot : I steady my nerves, that is all.
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Hercule Poirot : Hastings!
Lieutenant Hastings : Good Lord! Monsieur Poirot.
Hercule Poirot : It is indeed, mon ami Hastings.
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Hercule Poirot : You have a good grip on this affair, Hastings.
Lieutenant Hastings : Grasp.
Hercule Poirot : Yes?
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[repeated line]
Lieutenant Hastings : Good Lord!
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Lieutenant Hastings : [referring to John Cavendish's mother and her marriage to an outsider twenty years her junior] It must be a difficult situation for you all.
John Cavendish : Difficult? It's damnable.
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Lieutenant Hastings : This is green.
Hercule Poirot : No, it is too dark.
Lieutenant Hastings : Good Lord!
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Hercule Poirot : Why? When? There must have been something of great importance in that case, something that would have connected the murder with the crime.
Lieutenant Hastings : But what?
Hercule Poirot : That I do not know.
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Lieutenant Hastings : So, we're back to square one then.
Hercule Poirot : Not quite mon ami. We now know there is one person who did not buy the poison. Again, we have cleared away the clues manufactured, and now for the real ones.