Poirot (TV Series)

The Third Floor Flat (1989)

Pauline Moran: Miss Lemon

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Miss Lemon : I've got your Friar's Balsam for you.

  Hercule Poirot : My what?

  Miss Lemon : Your inhalant, for your cold.

  Hercule Poirot : Poirot does not have colds, Miss Lemon. It is well known that Poirot scorns all but the gravest afflictions.

  Miss Lemon : But yesterday you were...

  Hercule Poirot : Miss Lemon, yesterday was yesterday. My tisane, if you please.

• [Hercule Poirot is breathing his Friars Balsam inhalant for his cold; his face covered with a towel. After sneezing three times, he takes the towel off, looking very under the weather, sweaty and exhausted] 

  Hercule Poirot : [sotto voce]  Ah, Mon Deu! Ah, suffit!

  Miss Lemon : [walking into the room; matter-of-fact]  Nah, ah! Mr. Poirot, you only done seven minutes. You'll never cure your cold if you do not follow the instructions.

  Hercule Poirot : [congested]  I can't imagine a method so undignified can cure anything, Miss Lemon. And so now I've got the back ache too... Anything in the mail, Miss Lemon?

  Miss Lemon : [setting his tea down on the table]  Yes, and there's nothing for you. it's been only three weeks since your last case.

  Hercule Poirot : Three weeks? Three weeks is an eternity for a brain like mine!

  [very distressed and melodramatic] 

  Hercule Poirot : Without the constant stimulation, my little gray cells will starve and die! Already, you see, I am suffering the effects!

  [Poirot begins dabbing his forehead with a handkerchief as he whimpers softly] 

• Miss Lemon : It's only been three weeks since your last case.

  Hercule Poirot : Three weeks is an eternity to a brain like mine. Without the constant stimulation, my little grey cells will starve to death. Already you can see I am suffering the effects.

  [He has a cold]