Mais oui Monsieur Inspecteur Poirot… ♪

…laissez-nous recharche les petites cellules grises.

Ash Wednesday. The need to re-charge. Just watched Cat Among the Pigeons from the Poirot series and realised that the screenwriter of this particular episode is none other than Mark Gatiss who starred (as Mycroft Holmes) and also co-wrote the new Sherlock series.

No wonder I'm enjoying this episode, same humor. This has been missing in most of the recent Poirot adaptations and was so much a part of the earlier ones with the rest of the cast Hastings, Japp and Miss Lemon. Oh, and there's another brilliant thing...the person responsible for the music decided to put back Christopher Gunning's Poirot theme in some parts of the episode. Ah, it feels like the good old days.

There was one amusing moment in the last episode of the first series (The Dream) where Poirot laments that his little grey cells might be deserting him:

Poirot: ...a sign that they are weakened by old age and the fast living.

Hastings: I wouldn't call your life exactly fast.

Poirot: Oh, not perhaps now, Hastings but in my youth?

Hastings stares at him in amazement.

Hastings [astounded]: Really? [Pause] Really?

Poirot shrugs.

Hastings [utterly disconcerted]: I say.

I say, old age and fast living, I love these characters.