When the episode begins, two professional strongmen enter a hotel and take the deskman prisoner...forcing him to take one of them into the safe deposit boxes in the back. You learn later that these two darlings killed the deskman for good measure.
Soon after this, a prominent lawyer comes to Mannix to beg him to take his case. It seems that a briefcase filled with information about a case was in safekeeping inside the same safe that was robbed....and Mannix begins to suspect that stealing this might have been the real reason for the robbery. Although Mannix hates the man the lawyer is defending, as he is mob scum....and Mannix HATES mob scum, he takes the case because without the briefcase the lawyer might just be a dead man.
What follows is an odd story where the briefcase really isn't that important and Mannix starts to realize that something is up with the case and might end up with a shootout. How does he realize this? I have no idea...he must have read it in the script.
The bottom line is that this story seemed weak and filled with a few plot problems. Of course, it's still watchable but shows that after seven seasons, perhaps the franchise is wearing a bit thin.
Soon after this, a prominent lawyer comes to Mannix to beg him to take his case. It seems that a briefcase filled with information about a case was in safekeeping inside the same safe that was robbed....and Mannix begins to suspect that stealing this might have been the real reason for the robbery. Although Mannix hates the man the lawyer is defending, as he is mob scum....and Mannix HATES mob scum, he takes the case because without the briefcase the lawyer might just be a dead man.
What follows is an odd story where the briefcase really isn't that important and Mannix starts to realize that something is up with the case and might end up with a shootout. How does he realize this? I have no idea...he must have read it in the script.
The bottom line is that this story seemed weak and filled with a few plot problems. Of course, it's still watchable but shows that after seven seasons, perhaps the franchise is wearing a bit thin.