- Joe Mannix: [walks into Dorothy Kinman's apartment] Miss Kinman?
- Dorothy Kinman: Thank you for coming here.
- [locks the door to her apartment]
- Dorothy Kinman: I just poured myself a scotch. Would you care for some?
- Joe Mannix: Yes, thank you.
- Dorothy Kinman: I must have sounded pretty hysterical when I called you.
- Joe Mannix: Well, shall we say you sounded... upset?
- Dorothy Kinman: I think these phone calls are getting to me.
- Joe Mannix: When did the calls first begin?
- Dorothy Kinman: A month ago. Four or five days after I left the hospital and moved into here.
- Joe Mannix: Have you, uh... notified the police?
- Dorothy Kinman: Won't you sit down?
- Joe Mannix: Thank you.
- Dorothy Kinman: Yes, they suggested that I change my number.
- Joe Mannix: Did you?
- Dorothy Kinman: Last week. I thought that was the end of it. But tonight...
- Joe Mannix: How long did he stay on the line?
- Dorothy Kinman: Just a few seconds. That's all there ever is.
- Joe Mannix: What exactly did he say?
- Dorothy Kinman: What he always says. That he's going to kill me.
- Joe Mannix: Let's start with the familiar. Can you think of anybody who might want to hurt you, or at least frighten you?
- Dorothy Kinman: No. No one.
- Joe Mannix: Let's go back two or three years. Have you ever had any trouble with anybody? For instance, a cab driver, a clerk in some hotel, anyone at all?
- Dorothy Kinman: I didn't think there was. Obviously, I was wrong.
- Joe Mannix: Well, the fact that he knows your name doesn't necessarily mean you've met. And after all, you are a public figure- won the nationals- everyone's choice for the Olympics.
- Dorothy Kinman: Former choice. I don't want anyone's pity, Mr. Mannix. All I want is to be left alone... and not to be terrified every time the phone rings.
- Joe Mannix: Tell me, who handled your complaint at the police department?
- Dorothy Kinman: Uh, Lieutenant Tobias.
- Joe Mannix: Well, now, that's a help.
- Dorothy Kinman: Do you know him?
- Joe Mannix: Yes.
- Dorothy Kinman: He wasn't very optimistic. It seems that calls of such short duration are very hard to trace.
- Joe Mannix: Which means we'll have to lengthen them.
- Dorothy Kinman: How?
- Joe Mannix: By asking questions; making conversation. If nothing else, we might get an idea of the kind of psychopath we're dealing with.
- Dorothy Kinman: He wasn't interested in conversation. He wouldn't listen to me.
- Joe Mannix: We'll make him.
- Dorothy Kinman: You're an optimist, Mr. Mannix.
- Joe Mannix: Comes with the territory.
- [checks his watch]
- Joe Mannix: I think I'd better get over and see Lieutenant Tobias. I'll, uh, call you first thing in the morning.
- Dorothy Kinman: I guess we all have our own private hells.
- Joe Mannix: Don't you think it's time you left yours?