Mannix (TV Series)

A Game of Shadows (1972)

Mike Connors: Joe Mannix

Quotes 

• Jerry Vane : [after saving Mannix from an almost deliberate hit-and-run]  Crazy fool could've killed you!

  Joe Mannix : Yeah, thanks, huh?

  Jerry Vane : You, uh, debt collecting?

  Joe Mannix : No.

  Jerry Vane : Bail bondsman.

  Joe Mannix : No. Why? Should I be?

  Jerry Vane : Well, looked like that creep was trying to hit you.

  Joe Mannix : Why would he do a thing like that?

  Jerry Vane : You want me to find out? I got his license number. Come on, let's, uh... let's talk about it over a cup of coffee.

  Joe Mannix : Uh, no, thanks. Maybe some other time, huh?

  Jerry Vane : Yeah, sure. Uh, here's my card. Uh... call me.

  [hands Mannix his card] 

  Joe Mannix : [reading the card]  Jerry Vane, private investigator.

  Jerry Vane : One of the best, if I say so myself. What's your name?

  Joe Mannix : Mannix.

  Jerry Vane : Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Man... Joe Mannix?

  [Mannix nods] 

  Jerry Vane : First whiff of a job I get all month, and it turns out to be Mr. Private Peeper himself.

  Joe Mannix : Now, look, uh...

  Jerry Vane : Oh, no, no, no, no. Please, please. I wouldn't hear of it. Uh, consider it, uh, professional courtesy. You know, one... one pro to another.

  Joe Mannix : Thanks. I mean it.

  [turns and walks away] 

  Jerry Vane : If anybody's going to turn up Gordon Cameron...

  [Mannix stops and turns] 

  Jerry Vane : ... you're the guy, Mannix.

  Joe Mannix : [opens his car door]  Hop in. Let's have that cup of coffee.

  [Vane nods and gets into the passenger seat of Mannix's car] 

• Joe Mannix : [Aileen is searching through a drawer for Gordon Cameron's file]  Something wrong?

  Aileen : It's gone.

  Joe Mannix : Are you sure?

  Aileen : Yes.

  Joe Mannix : Who else has access to these files?

  Aileen : I'm the only one, really. The security office has duplicate keys, I suppose.

  Joe Mannix : Are they, uh, normally kept locked?

  Aileen : Only at night when I leave. He certainly did cover his tracks, didn't he?

  Joe Mannix : We don't know that he took the file.

  Aileen : What are you hoping to do, Mr. Mannix? Prove that Gordon Cameron didn't kill Mrs. Olson?

  Joe Mannix : You want him convicted, even if he's innocent?

  Aileen : If he didn't do it, why did he run away?

  Joe Mannix : That's a question everybody seems to be asking. Thanks.