Mannix (TV Series)

A Small Favor for an Old Friend (1974)

Sondra Blake: Kit Endocott

Quotes 

• Kit Endocott : [opens the door to her apartment]  Joe.

  Joe Mannix : Hello, Kit.

  Kit Endocott : Hi. Come on in. Uh, can I get you anything, Joe? You want coffee to drink or something?

  Joe Mannix : No thanks. I... didn't hear about Harry until just this morning.

  [hands Kit a letter] 

  Joe Mannix : Was he in some kind of trouble?

  Kit Endocott : I hadn't talked to him in more than two months.

  Joe Mannix : Kit, just what happened between you two?

  Kit Endocott : One blonde too many.

  [Joe lights a cigarette for her] 

  Kit Endocott : Good, old, loyal friend, Joe, huh? You know, if this hadn't happened, and Harry called on you for help, I'll bet you'd have just come running, wouldn't you?

  Joe Mannix : He would've done the same for me.

  Kit Endocott : Harry never did anything in his life for anybody but Harry. That time he pulled you out of the burning half-track, he did it to prove he was the better man. You didn't know your old friend. You just didn't know him at all.

  Joe Mannix : Kit, he's dead.

  Kit Endocott : Then there's nothing more for you to do, so you can go back to Los Angeles. Please.

  Joe Mannix : [sighs]  Would you have any idea why someone would set up an apartment to make it look like as though it were mine?

  Kit Endocott : No, I don't know why. But he's dead, Joe. It just doesn't matter anymore. Go home.

  Joe Mannix : I think I'll stick around a while, Kit. I want to know who Art Butler saw yesterday. It certainly wasn't me. Anyway, if you think of something, give me a call. I'm sure I'm in the book.