Mannix (TV Series)

A World Without Sundays (1973)

Michael Conrad: Dave Tremble

Quotes 

• Marty Hatch : Can I get you a drink, Joe?

  Joe Mannix : No thanks. I got a big day ahead of me.

  Marty Hatch : Well, I don't have to watch the clock anymore. What brings you here?

  Joe Mannix : I understand you know Cathy Lawson.

  Marty Hatch : Mm, yeah. Yeah. Bumped into her in Vegas last night, as a matter of fact.

  Joe Mannix : Did she drive back with you from Las Vegas?

  Marty Hatch : Why all the questions? Something wrong?

  Joe Mannix : She's missing.

  Marty Hatch : No kidding.

  Joe Mannix : Her roommate hired me to look for her.

  Marty Hatch : Joanna? That, uh... that's her name, isn't it?

  Joe Mannix : Yeah.

  Marty Hatch : Well, uh... Joe, Joanna can't afford a private investigator, and I can. So this one's, uh... this one's on me, okay?

  Joe Mannix : Okay. Did Cathy drive back with you?

  Marty Hatch : Well, now you're working for me, right?

  Joe Mannix : Right.

  Marty Hatch : And that means that anything I say to you is, uh...

  Joe Mannix : Privileged.

  Marty Hatch : That's the word I was looking for. Yeah, she rode down with me. We ran out of gas on the way. I left her in the car; went back to a filling station. Highway Patrolman picked me up, and, uh, when we got back to the car, she was gone.

  Joe Mannix : Did you tell the Highway Patrol?

  Marty Hatch : You've, uh... heard of Ben Kessler, haven't you, Joe?

  Joe Mannix : Owns the Caravan and a string of bookie joints.

  Marty Hatch : He owns Cathy, too.

  Joe Mannix : "Owns"?

  Marty Hatch : Mm-hmm. And the penalty for trespassing is sudden death.

  Joe Mannix : I take it Kessler didn't know she was driving back with you?

  Marty Hatch : No, he was out of town. New Orleans.

  [sighs] 

  Marty Hatch : But if it ever got into the newspaper that is given his girl a lift...

  [wry chuckle] 

  Marty Hatch : ... good-bye, Marty Hatch.

  [the phone rings] 

  Marty Hatch : If that's for me, Dave, I'm not here. All right, Joe, it was stupid. I... I thought that she got scared and started to walk. Got a lift to L.A. I didn't know what to do.

  Dave Tremble : Hey, Marty, this call you better take.

  Marty Hatch : Who is it?

  Dave Tremble : It's from a hospital in San Bernardino. Woman they brought in early this morning. She keeps asking for you.