Mannix (TV Series)

Carol Lockwood, Past Tense (1973)

Mike Connors: Joe Mannix

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• Minh McIver : [opens the door to her apartment]  Mr. Mannix. Come in, please.

  Joe Mannix : Thank you.

  Minh McIver : I have a photograph for you. It's over there.

  Joe Mannix : [looks around the apartment]  Say, this is, uh, very nice.

  Minh McIver : Thank you.

  [shows Joe a picture of her husband, Allan McIver] 

  Minh McIver : This is Allan.

  Joe Mannix : Mm. Plays poker, favors bourbon, um, down-to-earth, and has a Tennessee drawl.

  Minh McIver : You have been working, haven't you?

  Joe Mannix : Yeah, with some help. I was thinking about the night he left, his saying he was going out for "a spot of business," I believe you told me. Now that doesn't sound like a boy from Tennessee.

  Minh McIver : No. Allan didn't say that.

  Joe Mannix : Who did say it?

  Minh McIver : The woman who called. I answered the phone.

  Joe Mannix : Who is she? Do you know?

  Minh McIver : I thought she was from the airline office. I remember she said, "Would you put him on, please? I have a spot of business I want to discuss with him." Mr. Mannix... you don't think that he's...

  Joe Mannix : Mixed up with a woman? Not that way. No more than you do.

  Minh McIver : I don't understand.

  Joe Mannix : Help me to understand, Mrs. McIver. Help me to understand how a man who could put away almost $90,000 for six months work could have a money problem.

  Minh McIver : $90,000?

  Joe Mannix : Yeah, that's what his bank account shows, almost to the penny.

  Minh McIver : I don't know anything about that.

  Joe Mannix : Only that his problems were about to be solved? How? Now you can't possibly have a money problem at $90,000 a year unless you wanted more money. Don't you agree?

  Minh McIver : I don't know.

  Joe Mannix : This isn't pilot salary we're talking about, Mrs. McIver, not that kind of money. So why don't you level with me? The truth for once, what you're really thinking.

  Minh McIver : You have no right to talk to me that way.

  Joe Mannix : One question. Why did you wait days before reporting him missing?

  Minh McIver : I kept hoping he would come back.

  Joe Mannix : And you wouldn't have to open up something that might bring the police on the run. I had no proof he was doing anything wrong. I still have no proof. But you have senses, intuition, like I have. When I find out a pilot's been banking more money than he should, I start thinking about smuggling. I see contraband, like gold, uncut diamonds, jade, narcotics, maybe even people. What do you see, Mrs. McIver?

  Minh McIver : [hesitates before answering]  Allan needed all this. I found out that... that nothing- not me, not anything in the world- mattered to him as much as money. It was his whole life.

  Joe Mannix : [sighs]  Let's hope that isn't what it's cost him.

• Joe Mannix : [visiting Royal in his hospital room, Royal having survived a boat explosion]  Well, you must be one rigged fellow, Mr. Royal, considering what you've been through.

  Dana Royal : It'll take more than three days in the ocean to do me in. As a matter of fact, the helicopter was the worst part of it. I never fly if I can help it.

  Joe Mannix : Is that right?

  Dana Royal : I suppose you're here about Carol.

  Joe Mannix : Mostly that, yes.

  Dana Royal : Yeah, it's a terrible thing.

  Joe Mannix : Would you mind telling me why you suddenly decided to see her again on Friday, uh, after backing away so long?

  Dana Royal : I suppose my attorney would call that a loaded question.

  Joe Mannix : Mm-hmmm.

  Dana Royal : At the very least, privileged information. But I don't find telling you.

  Joe Mannix : Good. I'd like to know.

  Dana Royal : Well, we were after bluefin tuna. There hasn't been one around these waters for years. And then all at once, last week, no rhyme or reason, they were back. Carol and I used to chase bluefin up and down Baja in the old days. And when this terrific run started, it just made sense to a call through to an old fishing pal.

  Joe Mannix : Any ideas about the explosion, the cause of it?

  Dana Royal : [shakes his head]  No. All of a sudden, there was this... roar, and... flame and... then the boat... disintegrated. And the next thing I knew, I was in the water.

  Joe Mannix : Holding on to a piece of wreckage?

  Dana Royal : And doing some praying, I don't mind telling you... till I was spotted. A miracle's the only way I can describe it.

  Joe Mannix : I'd say half a miracle.

  Dana Royal : What?

  Joe Mannix : Your passenger wasn't so lucky.

  Dana Royal : No. I never did see poor Carol from the moment of the explosion.

  Joe Mannix : How do you account for that?

  Dana Royal : Well, naturally, I've wondered about it myself. Could be that she was struck by... something and was unconscious before she hit the water.

  Joe Mannix : The medical examiner goes along with you on that. Figures she could've been dead a split second before she hit the water.

  Dana Royal : Yeah, I suppose that's possible.

  Joe Mannix : Or for that matter, even an hour before. No way of telling.

  Dana Royal : I can tell you. She wasn't. Listen, Mannix... let's not, either of us, be under any delusions here.

  Joe Mannix : I didn't know we were.

  Dana Royal : You think I don't realize you'd give your eyeteeth to sink a hook into me, after Carol?

  Joe Mannix : You're taking too much credit. I haven't really been an ardent fan of yours since long before I ever met Carol. But get well anyway. By the way, uh, I was sorry to hear about your man McIver.

  Dana Royal : Who?

  Joe Mannix : Allan McIver. He flies for you. Uh, your Trianon lines.

  Dana Royal : Well, Trainon's just one of my many interests. I don't know everybody who works for me. What about him?

  Joe Mannix : He's been missing the last couple of days.

  Dana Royal : Well, I'd hardly know about that, would I? I've been a little out of touch myself lately.

• Joe Mannix : [Kellaway walks out of a plane after flying it]  Miss Kellaway?

  Leona Kellaway : Yes.

  Joe Mannix : That was, uh, very well done.

  Leona Kellaway : Well, thank you. Compliment me on my plane handling these days, and I'll be your slave forever.

  Joe Mannix : Well, that won't be necessary. Just a few comments about yesterday's plane handling will do nicely. Out over the ocean.

  Leona Kellaway : You mean the endurance swimmer?

  Joe Mannix : Right. I'm a private investigator, Miss Kellaway. My name is Mannix.

  Leona Kellaway : Insurance, am I right? Uh, that man's boat-- I read in the paper about it exploding.

  Joe Mannix : Well, if you've read the papers, you don't just say, "that man's boat." That ant-like figure that was floating around down there was none other than Dana Royal.

  Leona Kellaway : Yes, how about that? Uh, but I-I don't see what this...

  Joe Mannix : Well, we don't know that there was anything irregular, but we like to cover the case from, oh, call it pre-blastoff to rescue, which seems to include you. The papers were just a bit sketchy.

  Leona Kellaway : Well, I was... practicing some banking turns out over the water. The plane belongs to Bayside here. I'm sort of their golden girl. Soloed in six hours to the minute after my first lesson.

  Joe Mannix : You should've been my instructor.

  Leona Kellaway : Of course, I had to work at it. Didn't help my regular career one bit.

  Joe Mannix : What career was that?

  Leona Kellaway : I'm a photographer. I have a studio on the strip. If you ever want to be a centerfold in a magazine, just give me a call.

  Joe Mannix : I'll remember that.

  Leona Kellaway : Yes... the banking turns. Oh, well, I must have been about 18 miles out, winged over, and there was this seal. I mean, I thought it was a seal except it seemed to be clinging to something, which is pretty weird. Then after I buzzed it a couple of times, of course I saw it was this man, waving his hand.

  Joe Mannix : There's "that man" again.

  Leona Kellaway : All right. Dana Royal. But from a couple of thousand feet up, who's to know?

  Joe Mannix : Yeah, right. At that altitude, a quick pass, uh, who's to even know Royal from a waterlogged woman?

  Leona Kellaway : Well, I suppose you wouldn't. But later, it turned out it was a man. That's why I must have put it that way automatically.

  Joe Mannix : So you, uh, got on the radio with an S.O.S.

  Leona Kellaway : Along came the Coast Guard chopper, and I flew back, feeling as though... well, as though I'd earned my merit badge for the day.

  Joe Mannix : Score one for the Girl Scouts. Well, I'm, uh, much obliged to you, Miss Kellaway, as I imagine Mr. Royal is, to put it mildly.

  Leona Kellaway : That I wouldn't know.

  Joe Mannix : Oh?

  Leona Kellaway : I doubt he even knows my name.

  Joe Mannix : Well, I'd say the that's, uh, his loss.

  Leona Kellaway : Thank you, Mr. Mannix. You can visit me in my studio anytime.

• Dr. Sam Wyman : A small amount of water in her lungs- couple of c.c.'s - and quite a bit of alcohol in the blood.

  Joe Mannix : Stuck to her lifestyle right down to the wire. Scotch and water... light on the water.

  Lt. Art Malcolm : Joe, I thought both of you close the door on that a year ago.

  Joe Mannix : We did.