Mannix (TV Series)

Light and Shadow (1972)

Ed Hall: Roger

Quotes 

• Larry Lawton : Files, Mannix. Name anybody important enough to get into my column, and I've probably got a dossier the FBI would be proud to have.

  Joe Mannix : That would take in the Bramante crowd, wouldn't it?

  Larry Lawton : The Bramante's, huh?

  [walks to his drawers and takes out a file] 

  Larry Lawton : See this? On his last wife, Melina. Now remarried, living in Cannes. Staff... Majordomo: Albert Higby, born Coventry, England. Ten years service. Friends: Snowy Bartlett. Everything from his land developments to his Middle East oil holdings to his favorite French wine.

  Joe Mannix : How about the dead man, Nikky Lorenzo?

  Larry Lawton : How about him? Roger, where's my coffee and Danish I asked for 20 minutes ago?

  Roger : Well, the photos were just coming out of that lab, and I thought I...

  Larry Lawton : You thought. That's your trouble. Stop thinking and do what you're told.

  Roger : Right. Shall I make that two?

  Larry Lawton : No, he's leaving. Those guys - "Give us an equal shake, " they're always saying. So you give 'em a camera, make 'em an assistant even, ten minutes later, they've forgotten how to take orders.

  Joe Mannix : Now, uh, about Nikky and the Bramantes...

  Larry Lawton : Get lost, Mannix, your friendly visit's over.

  Joe Mannix : What?

  Larry Lawton : Am I some kind of a nut? I develop a regular library in the Bramantes that's finally going to pay off big, and now I open it up to you? That's what you were after, wasn't it?

  Joe Mannix : For one thing. I thought you might be able to give me a lead that could help Ali Bramante.

  Larry Lawton : Or hang her. Ali Bramante's been helped from the day she was born.

  Joe Mannix : As they say. That's one of the things. The other is, uh... exactly where were you on the ship at the time of the shooting?

  Larry Lawton : Don't tell me I'm a suspect.

  Joe Mannix : Actually, Mr. Bramante's steward said you were in Cabin C. Said he put you there when you asked for a place to jot down some notes for your column. Guest lists, things like that.

  Larry Lawton : So why ask me?

  Joe Mannix : I thought it best to double check, seeing that Cabin C is right next to the cabin that Nikky was in.

  Larry Lawton : And that makes me a suspect?

  Joe Mannix : Well, it doesn't help when you stop to consider that eight years ago, Nikky Lorenzo made a play for your wife and broke up your home. And not long after, she was a suicide. I was sorry to learn that part of it.

  Larry Lawton : Where did you get that?

  Joe Mannix : Let's just say that not all of your old newspaper colleagues remain lifelong friends.

  Larry Lawton : Listen, Mannix, I'll admit I'm sorry that crumb is dead, and I'll admit I was getting ready to pay him back, but not that way.

  Joe Mannix : Then what way?

  Larry Lawton : It's got nothing to do with this case.

  Joe Mannix : You may not be the best judge of that.

  Larry Lawton : Mannix, this could be a big mistake, getting into something that, believe me, is none of your business.

  Joe Mannix : Well, you know what they say, Lawton. Sometimes the best payoffs come from the biggest mistakes.