Mannix (TV Series)

Carol Lockwood, Past Tense (1973)

Jane Merrow: Leona Kellaway

Quotes 

• 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.