Mannix (TV Series)

Bang, Bang, You're Dead (1970)

Gail Fisher: Peggy Fair

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Quotes 

• Dottie McNeill : It's a terrible responsible secret, so you'll have to swear and cross your heart.

  Joe Mannix : Oh.

  [makes a crossing notion with hands] 

  Joe Mannix : I swear.

  [Peggy does the same] 

  Dottie McNeill : I guess I can tell the rest of it to you, then. They're gonna kill him. They're gonna murder him. In a parade.

  Helen McNeill : Dorothy, what parade? You didn't say anything about a parade.

  Dottie McNeill : Oh, I just put that in. It was the way they killed Mr. Muffins.

  Joe Mannix : Mr. Muffins?

  Helen McNeill : In, uh, a comic strip.

  Dottie McNeill : There was a big band, and Mr. Muffins was in an ostrich costume, and just as the band started, they shot him, which is why nobody heard the gun-- on account of trombones. It was pretty slick, all right.

  Helen McNeill : [sighs]  I'm sorry, Mr. Mannix. Sometimes her mind sort of runs over a little.

  Joe Mannix : All right, Dottie.

  [hands Dottie a microphone] 

  Joe Mannix : Now, I want you to talk into this. I want you to tell me exactly what you heard the men say in the booth-- nothing more. Nothing but the exact words. If you can remember them, okay?

  Dottie McNeill : Yes.

  Joe Mannix : Wait a minute.

  [turns on the recorder] 

  Joe Mannix : Okay.

  Dottie McNeill : He said...

  Joe Mannix : Who?

  Dottie McNeill : The taller one, thin. With kind of red hair. He said, "When does he knock him off?" Then I couldn't hear the words on account of the noise from the movie machine. And then he was saying, "He wants to make it day after tomorrow, if we can set it up." And then I couldn't hear. And then he said, "What?"

  Joe Mannix : The redhead?

  Dottie McNeill : Mm-hmm. Then the other one said, "Having the police working with us on this one." And they laughed. And that's when they must have saw me. And I ran.

  Joe Mannix : Hmm. Someone in the police force a party to murder?

  Helen McNeill : I know she's very imaginative, and she's crazy about crime stories. But you must believe me, I know when she's telling the truth.

  Joe Mannix : All right, Dottie, very good. You know something? Peggy here keeps candy in her file, under "C". Would you like some?

  Dottie McNeill : Sure.

  Peggy Fair : Come along, Dottie.

  Dottie McNeill : Okay. But that's what they said, honest.

  Helen McNeill : We live just a little way from that theater, and those men saw her. They'll be looking for her. She's all I have. I'm scared. She's only a little girl. I'm scared to death.