Poirot (TV Series)

Elephants Can Remember (2013)

Zoë Wanamaker: Ariadne Oliver

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Quotes 

• Hercule Poirot : You say they lived near to Eastbourne? You have acquaintance there? Well, then go. Allez-y, allez-y. Drive about, ask the questions, be the puzzler with the nose.

  Ariadne Oliver : Oh, I see, and someone will remember something.

  Hercule Poirot : Always someone remembers something.

  Ariadne Oliver : You mean elephants. Sorry, I was thinking of elephants at that dinner last night.

  Hercule Poirot : With hesitation, I ask why.

  Ariadne Oliver : Because the meringue got stuck in my teeth.

  Hercule Poirot : I see. Well, the pathway of logic, it is there somewhere, but...

  Ariadne Oliver : Meringue, dentures, ivory, elephants. I must find the elephants. Elephants can remember.

• [last lines] 

  Ariadne Oliver : You and I are elephants, you know? We're good at remembering.

  Hercule Poirot : No, no, Madame. We are human beings. And human beings, mercifully, they can forget.

• Ariadne Oliver : But you haven't answered my question. What shall I do with that dreadful Burton-Cox?

  Hercule Poirot : Hm. The thing you should do, madam, and this I advice you to do most strenuously, is nothing, rien.

  Ariadne Oliver : Hm.