Poirot (TV Series)
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman (1993)
Hugh Fraser: Captain Hastings
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Quotes
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Hercule Poirot : Hastings, Miss Lemon has an admirer.
Captain Hastings : No!
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Captain Hastings : Why on earth did Graves tell Miss Lemon he was a private secretary when he's really only a valet?
Hercule Poirot : Hastings, have you never exaggerated your own importance in order to impress a young lady?
Captain Hastings : Well, certainly not! Never. Oh, well, I once told a girl I was a member at Wentworth when I wasn't, but she didn't play golf anyway. She thought Wentworth was a lunatic asylum.
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Hercule Poirot : And with a blackmailer, of course, one has to be sure that the evidence, it is destroyed root and boot.
Captain Hastings : Branch.
Hercule Poirot : Thank you, Hastings.
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Captain Hastings : [at Eliso Freccia showroom] What do you think, Poirot?
Hercule Poirot : I think it looks very untidy, Hastings.
Captain Hastings : Well, it's not meant to be tidy. Tidy's got nothing to do with it. It's compact, though. You have to admit that. They're using twin overhead camshafts, you see, with a desmodromic valve gear and a hemispherical combustion chamber.
Hercule Poirot : I see.
Captain Hastings : Ah, Mr Vizzini!
Bruno Vizzini : How are you today?
Captain Hastings : Oh, pretty well, you know. This is Monsieur Hercule Poirot.
Bruno Vizzini : Oh, the great detective. I must watch my step, eh? Hahaha, so pleasure to meet you, Signor Poirot.
Hercule Poirot : Delighted, Monsieur Vizzini.
Bruno Vizzini : Well, Signor Hastings, you, ah, you place the order today?
Captain Hastings : Well...
Bruno Vizzini : Oh, Signor Hastings.
Captain Hastings : It's a big decision.
Bruno Vizzini : Seven weeks, Signor Hastings! At the factory of Eliso Freccia in Milano they stand and wait: Will the order of Capitano Hastings come today?
Captain Hastings : Well, I've been thinking...
Margherita Fabbri : Mr Vizzini, excuse me, you'll be late for your lunch with Mr Andreotti.
Bruno Vizzini : Ah, thank you, Margherita. Gentlemen, I will leave you in the capable hands of Signorina Fabbri. Mi scusi.
Captain Hastings : I was just going to say to Mr Vizzini, with this new trailing link front suspension, I wonder if you don't need some sort of stabilizer? You see..
Margherita Fabbri : No.
Captain Hastings : No. No?
Margherita Fabbri : The radius roll trailing from the crossmember locates each hub fore and aft.
Captain Hastings : Yes, I'd appreciate that...
Margherita Fabbri : And each unit is damped by inclined telescopic struts.
Captain Hastings : Right. Yes.
[Poirot is smiling]