It soon becomes apparent, as it was in another installment of this last season, "Murder on the Orient Express," that Suchet himself is on a mission to set the record straight for his beloved character, and especially for Christie herself. The old-fashioned bright Technicolor colors and tongue-in-cheek humor of the central character, especially with his loyal friend and helpmate, Hastings (Hugh Fraser), so often on display in Suchet's "Poirot" films over the last quarter-century, are nowhere to be found. But you won't find any bright tinsel or warm carols or peace on earth here. The great irony is that, in reality, it was shot just before Christmas. Yes, it's that dark and sometimes, disturbing. "Agatha Christie's Poirot: Curtain: Poirot's Last Case" is so dark that its star, David Suchet, insisted it be shot out of sequence so that it would not be the last image of the role that he and fellow cast members would have. Hercule Poirot: When the moment comes, I will not try to save myself, but humbly offer my soul to God and pray for His mercy. but by taking the life of Norton, have I not saved others? I have always been so sure, but now. I do not believe that a man should take the law into his own hands. Am I justified in what I have done? I do not know. Take the nightmare away, and show how Norton, not her sister, was responsible for the death of her father. Tell to Mademoiselle Cole all that I have said, that you also might have done what her sister did, had there been no watchful Poirot to stop you. Hercule Poirot: Take my advice for the last time. That, mon ami, is my nature, and should have told to you the truth. My only weakness was to shoot him in the center of his forehead and not in his temple, but I could not bring myself to produce an effect so lopsided. I gave to you the clues and every chance to discover the truth, pointing you towards Iago, the original Stephen Norton. Hercule Poirot: I put the key into the pocket of his dressing gown and locked the door from the outside with a duplicate I had made, then returned to my room and began writing this. I had a pistol, which on two occasions I had placed ostentatiously on the dressing table of Norton when he was out, so that the maid would have seen it. Hercule Poirot: I put the dressing gown on Norton, and lay him on his bed. I left the bathroom and returned into the room of Norton, locking the door behind me. Hercule Poirot: I put on the dressing gown of Norton, tapped on your door, then went into his bathroom. You will not have realized, Hastings, that recently I have taken to wearing a false moustache. With the greatest of difficulty, I put him in my wheelchair, then, when the coast was clear, I wheeled him to his room. The dose that would send Norton to sleep would have little effect on me. I take the sleeping tablets and have acquired a certain tolerance.
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