Mannix (TV Series)

Cry Pigeon (1972)

Corinne Camacho: Maria Fortune

Quotes 

• Joe Mannix : What can I do for you?

  Maria Fortune : Well, there are some questions I'd like to ask you first, Mr. Mannix, if you don't mind?

  Joe Mannix : No, not at all.

  Maria Fortune : This may seem rather callous to you, but Tom being dead less than 12 hours, but I have to know. Had you ever met him before last night?

  Joe Mannix : No.

  Maria Fortune : I heard you tell his father that the meeting was Tom's idea.

  Joe Mannix : It was.

  Maria Fortune : And that Tom was killed before you knew why he had to see you. Was that the truth?

  Joe Mannix : Why would I lie about it?

  Maria Fortune : To spare my feelings?

  Peggy Fair : Excuse me. Joe.

  [hands Joe his coffee] 

  Joe Mannix : Thank you, Peggy.

  Maria Fortune : Are you sure that Tom hadn't hired a detective to spy on an unfaithful wife?

  Joe Mannix : Do you believe that's why he wanted to see me?

  Maria Fortune : Yes.

  Joe Mannix : Why?

  Maria Fortune : Because he was obsessed with the idea that I was having an affair.

  Joe Mannix : Was it an idea, Mrs. Fortune, or was it a fact?

  Maria Fortune : It wasn't true. I think it was part of a plot to kill him, to separate him from the family, from his bodyguard. To isolate him in a lonely place... so they could shoot him.

  Joe Mannix : Who are "they"?

  Maria Fortune : I should've said "he." The man I was supposed to be having an affair with.

  Joe Mannix : Does, uh, "he" have a name?

  Maria Fortune : Duke Benedict.

  [Joe, in surprise, briefly stops drinking his coffee and looks at Maria] 

  Maria Fortune : I heard he was drunk at a party and he just happened to let it slip to one of Tom's friends.

  Joe Mannix : And your husband bought that?

  Maria Fortune : He was insanely jealous.

  Joe Mannix : And what would you like me to do now?

  Maria Fortune : Tell the police, tell them that Duke Benedict lied about us, drove Tom out of his mind and that he walked into a trap that was set for him.

  Joe Mannix : I don't know how well that'll hold up.

  Maria Fortune : Well, if it doesn't, you'll see I'm right. Duke Benedict is going to take over this town if he can. There'll be killing. Tell the police that.

  Joe Mannix : Mrs. Fortune, why don't you tell the police that?

  Maria Fortune : If the family found out, they'd...

  Joe Mannix : All right, Mrs. Fortune. I'll do what I can.

  Maria Fortune : I don't care what it costs, Mr. Mannix.

  Joe Mannix : Forget it, Mrs. Fortune. The law requires me to pass this kind of information along to the police.

  Maria Fortune : Thank you.

  [walks out the door]