- [last lines]
- Hercule Poirot: Miss Lemon, Edwin has been arrested.
- Miss Lemon: Edwin?
- Hercule Poirot: Yes, M-Monsieur Graves.
- Miss Lemon: Good. It's about time!
- Hercule Poirot: Miss Lemon...
- Miss Lemon: Do you know what he was going to do?
- Hercule Poirot: Non.
- Miss Lemon: He was going to have to move out of Count Foscatini's flat, so he was going to have the Count's cat destroyed. Couldn't be bothered to find a home for it.
- [the cat enters, meowing loudly at Poirot]
- Chief Inspector Japp: Well, well, well. I managed to get here before you this time, Poirot.
- Hercule Poirot: No, no, not at all, Chief Inspector, I've just been upstairs interviewing the chef.
- Chief Inspector Japp: [disgusted] Cor blimey!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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]