Poirot (TV Series)

The Labours of Hercules (2013)

Orla Brady: Countess Rossakoff

Quotes 

• Hercule Poirot : You look well, Countess.

  Countess Rossakoff : Well?

  Hercule Poirot : Oui.

  Countess Rossakoff : Hercule, such insipidity. At the very least I want to look like a goddess, one of the better ones.

  Hercule Poirot : Oui.

  Countess Rossakoff : Of course I look well. It is my life of unrelenting virtue. My life of crime is largely over.

• Schwartz : A, a point of information. I am advised that a small quantity of snow has fallen in the tunnel of the funicular. The, the workmen are attending to the obstruction, and it'll soon be clear.

  Hercule Poirot : S'il vous plaît, monsieur, how soon?

  Schwartz : Oh, tout suite, monsieur. Very soon, very soon. Within a couple of days for certain.

  Countess Rossakoff : Ah, so we a trapped in this preposterous place.

  Schwartz : It is a large... small quantity of snow, but don't be despondent. It will be gemütlich up here. We have a food, we have a wine. We shall be... ah... What is the phrase?

  Countess Rossakoff : Demented with boredom.

  Schwartz : Ah, cosy! We shall be most cosy.

  Alice Cunningham : With the killer in the premises.

• Countess Rossakoff : Ah, yes.

  [giving a box] 

  Countess Rossakoff : These are for you.

  Hercule Poirot : For me? Ah.

  [looking at the cufflinks] 

  Hercule Poirot : These a beautiful.

  Countess Rossakoff : I have from time to time lost my money and my dignity, Hercule. I never lost my taste.

  Hercule Poirot : But...

  Countess Rossakoff : No, I did not steal them. My father wore them when we fled Petersburg.

  Hercule Poirot : Merci beaucoup.