Poirot (TV Series)

Wasps' Nest (1991)

Hugh Fraser: Captain Hastings

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Quotes 

• Captain Hastings : You're not planning to use the bathroom for the next half hour or so, are you Poirot?

  Hercule Poirot : [Clearly agitated]  Well, let me check with my diary, Hastings. No, it would seem not.

  Captain Hastings , Hercule Poirot : Good. If you need me, you know where I am.

  [He is setting up a darkroom in the bathroom] 

• Captain Hastings : [referring to Poirot]  You know what he's like when he hasn't had a case for a few weeks. I thought a nice afternoon at a garden fête might cheer him up a bit.

  Hercule Poirot : Taxi!

  Chief Inspector Japp : Hmmm, about the only thing that's going to cheer him up today is the discovery of a body in the Lucky Dip.

  [Hastings and Japp laugh] 

• Captain Hastings : [to Miss Lemon]  If you ask me, all this fortune-telling is going to his head. He is talking about investigating a murder now that hasn't even happened yet. Making a mountain out of a molehill, if you ask me.

  Hercule Poirot : [Enters his bathroom and gets entangled with films Hastings has developed]  Ah! Sacristi! I can not enter even my own bathroom without walking into the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

  Captain Hastings : I'm sorry. They have probably dried by now.

  Hercule Poirot : And I'm not making hills out of mole mounds!