#poirot 1989

[all-chickens-are-trans]

web weave for when you lose someone, not entirely, just in the way you used to have them, and it's your own fault, but you're washing dishes (alone) and you try not to think about it

1, 7 - stills from Poirot (1989-2013). 2 - from "Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved" by Gregory Orr. 3 - "The Empty Chair" by Briton Rivière. 4 - "A House Is Not a Home" performed by Dionne Warwick. 5 - "Stairway at 48 rue de Lille, Paris" by Edward Hopper. 6 - from "Poirot and Me" by David Suchet. 8 - from "After the Guest" by Gregory Orr.

[incorrect-zombieland-saga-quotes]

Yugiri: "Don’t fraternize with this creature. I am still training them."

Kotaro: "That's just Tae"

Yugiri: "I was talking to Tae."

[sapphickittykatherine]

the Poirot (1989) experience is relating the most to hastings because you, too, absolutely lose your mind over the beautiful women in each episode

[lifewithaview]

Poirot (1989–2013) The Kidnapped Prime Minister

S2E8

The British Prime Minister's car is attacked by a band of thugs. He manages to escape with minor injuries but a few days later he is kidnapped. The British government are desperate for the PM to be found quickly - he is due to attend an important conference. Upon the recommendation of Chief Inspector Japp, they call in Hercule Poirot...

*The reference to "Home Rule" in dialogue, refers to the long troubled political history, between the UK and Ireland, that would eventually lead to the Republic of Ireland.

[finerandbonnier]

denouement

Poirot sets his little grey cells on the death of Heather Chandler.

[AO3]

“The first thing that stuck Poirot as strange about the untimely and so tragic death of Mademoiselle Chandler was the manner. To take one’s own life by poison is not unusual but to drink an entire cup of the drain cleaner — this is rare indeed! But Mademoiselle Chander was a young lady and at an age where extremities of emotion and action are to be expected, n’cest-ce pas? And so, fool that I was, I so nearly discounted it as mere tragedy, the action of a sad, young woman… until I found the second cup.

“Yes, when Poirot examined the kitchen of the house of Mademoiselle Chandler he found something carelessly discarded and then even more carelessly overlooked by the police: a second cup in the kitchen. On the face of it, this is not strange, non? A cup in the kitchen, this is where one expects to find such an object. But inside this cup was the trace of a most strange mixture — milk and orange juice. I could think of no reason for Mademoiselle Chandler to create such a concoction… except as an emetic. Perhaps then Mademoiselle Chandler after taking the fatal dose of poison came to regret her actions and in a final desperate act attempted to create a purgative that would expel the toxin from her body. Ah, but then why was the cup found — almost drained and discarded — in the kitchen when Mademoiselle Chandler had died in her bedroom almost immediately after ingesting the drain cleaner that killed her? It makes no sense. Unless, of course, there was someone, or multiple someones, also present at the time of her death.

“Then there is the suicide note itself. When first I read it there was something about the wording that struck me as unusual but at the time I could not, as you say in English, put my finger on it. It wasn’t until later, after Madame Fleming had so kindly allowed me to examine her classroom that I realised what it was: in her suicide note Mademoiselle Chandler uses the phrase ‘suicide is the natural answer to the myriad of problems life has given me’. And yet two weeks earlier on a vocabulary test in that very same classroom Mademoiselle Chandler was unable to correctly use the word ‘myriad’. Ah, ah, I see Monsieur Dean wishes to interject but please young Monsieur patience, s’il vous plait. There will be time for questions later and if you allow me to continue I may very well address the point you wish to make.

“Now, where was I? Ah oui, that trickly little word myriad. It is possible, of course, that Mademoiselle Chandler chose to use that word for précisément that reason, the word that she had stumbled over so recently — a symbol of her academic failure. Except that I found a second test. Mademoiselle Chandler did so poorly on that first vocabulary examination that Madame Fletcher required her to take remedial action, a so called ‘make-up’ test on the very Friday before her death. And so this test, it sits on Madame Fleming’s desk unmarked — since Mademoiselle Chandler’s death renders the grading of the test as unnecessary — until Poirot finds it. And so Mademoiselle Chandler would never have used the word myriad correctly in her suicide note for at the time of her death she still did not know its meaning! The suicide note found by her body could not have been penned by her hand!

“Oui mesdames et messieurs, the note therefore must have been a forgery — and a fine one indeed, for it nearly fooled Hercule Poirot himself, the handwriting is so close to Mademoiselle Chandler’s own. But who could have produced such a thing? Only someone with experience of copying the handwriting of others, of forging the hall passes, the sick notes, the permission slips. Someone who was close to Mademoiselle Chandler, but deep down despised her, for Mademoiselle Chandler was known to be cruel and vindictive. Someone who had fallen out with Mademoiselle Chandler the very night before her death and who was afraid of what reprisal she might face at school the next week? Is that not right, Mademoiselle Sawyer?!”

[perioddramasource]

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT (1989 - 2013) Season 2, Episode 2: The Veiled Lady

[cocoacave]

Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989-2013)

Poirot & Hastings + being domestic

[violaobanion]

Agatha Christie's Poirot THE ADNVENTURE OF JOHNNIE WAVERLY (1989) 1x03 | dir. Renny Rye

[poirott]

Crossover → Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple solving cases together, Part 2 (Part 1)

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, Julia McKenzie as Jane Marple

Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989 - 2013) | Agatha Christie's Marple (2004 - 2013)

[supernormaleverything]

Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989) title credits

[door]

david suchet as inspector japp in thirteen at dinner (1985), and as hercule poirot in agatha christie’s poirot (1989-2013)

[talesofsorrowandofruin]

PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 2023

Day 2: Favourite TV Series: Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989–2013)

“We see those around us, and we think we know them. But we know nothing at all.”

[rovermcfly]

in my mind, poirot broke hastings' heart in the double clue and it's the catalyst for hastings slowly growing apart from him. but well... he can never fully break away, can he; he can't help his devotion.

agatha christie's poirot (1989-2013) // heavensghost on tumblr // unknown source // for your own good - leah horlick // everything everywhere all at once (2022) // let dead dogs lie - silas denver melvin // a self-portrait in letters - anna sexton // i am a dog. i have blood all over my teeth. - sciencedfiction

ok I wanna elaborate more for anyone who cares. In The Double Clue, Hastings (and Miss Lemon) are shown to be absolutely distraught over Poirot apparently falling in love and possibly choosing to leave their lives for her. I found it so so remarkable that they are not happy for him or delighted by this side of him but instead seemingly in mourning. Hastings knows Poirot lied to him because of her, he knows now how easy it was for Poirot to abandon him and his illusion of Poirot, a man he's been basically worshiping for years now, crumbled for the first time. In the episodes that follow we see a new side of Hastings. He rolls his eyes at Poirot, sees things that used to be endearing quirks as painful flaws. But he can't help his nature. He can't help following him around, he can't help tucking him in when he's sick, he can't help following his orders, the muscle memory of serving him takes over every time. But the pain is there, and he tries to get rid of this leash, he goes on lengthy trips alone, eventually moves to a different continent. But he can't help but to love and forgive. he can't help his devotion.

[perfides-subjekt]

As they walked along the sound of squibs was still heard periodically. An occasional shower of golden rain illuminated the sky. “Good night for a murder,” remarked Japp with professional interest. “Nobody would hear a shot, for instance, on a night like this.” “It has always seemed odd to me that more criminals do not take advantage of the fact,” said Hercule Poirot. “Do you know, Poirot, I almost wish sometimes that you would commit a murder.” “Mon cher!” “Yes, I’d like to see just how you’d set about it.” “My dear Japp, if I committed a murder you would not have the least chance of seeing — how I set about it! You would not even be aware, probably, that a murder had been committed.”

“Murder in the Mews” was first published in the USA in Redbook Magazine, September/October 1936, then as “Mystery of the Dressing Case” in Woman’s Journal, December 1936.

Air date: 15 January 1989.

[lifewithaview]

Rosalind Bennett, Hugh Fraser, and David Suchet in Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) The Adventure of the Western Star

S2E9

Poirot is thrilled to receive an invitation from renowned Belgian actress Marie Marvelle. She has been receiving anonymous notes about the Western Star, a valuable diamond purchased by her husband at a cut-rate price several years before. The notes speak to the mystical nature of the diamonds and that they should be returned to their rightful owners. The next day, Lady Yardly claims to have received similar notes about her own fabulous diamond, the Eastern Star. When Poirot and Hastings visit Lord and Lady Yardly the diamond is stolen in a daring robbery. Needless to say, none of this sits well with Poirot who finds he has a very tight knot to untie.

*Poirot is seen placing a card with the words "Mlle. Marie Marvelle." on top of the flowers he has brought with him to the apartment before putting final touches to the tea table. When he gazes at the bouquet before he picks it up later on, the card is nowhere to be seen.

[divineandmajesticinone]

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT (1989-2013) I Five Little Pigs