Mannix (TV Series)

A Rage to Kill (1974)

Robert Pratt: Robert

Quotes 

• Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : [clears throat]  Mr. Mannings?

  Joe Mannix : Uh, Mannix.

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : Oh.

  Joe Mannix : Joe Mannix.

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : Yes. Uh, you are...?

  Joe Mannix : Private investigator.

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : Oh, yes. Well, what is it that you want from me? I mean, just what is your interest in my husband's death? Oh, the insurance company sent you, didn't they?

  Joe Mannix : No, the insurance company didn't send me, Mrs. Jarrud. I was hired by someone to investigate your husband's death.

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : Who?

  Joe Mannix : Do you mind if I ask my question first? Did Dr. Jarrud ever bring his private files home from the office?

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : I haven't the faintest idea. Would you like a glass of wine?

  Joe Mannix : No thank you.

  [Mrs. Jarrud pours a glass of wine for herself] 

  Joe Mannix : Mrs. Jarrud... my client has reason to believe that your husband's death was not a suicide.

  [Mrs. Jarrud accidentally spills wine on her shirt sleeve. Joe offers her a handkerchief] 

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : Don't bother. It all comes out in the wash. Mr. Mannix, do you really believe that someone killed my husband?

  Joe Mannix : I think it's a possibility.

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : Then you're as mad as he was. Poor Clem. If you had ever witnessed one of his depressions... He was like something out of a Russian novel. All that time spent with crazy people, I suppose it couldn't help but get to him. Mister... Mr. Mannix, the police are quite satisfied that it was a suicide.

  Joe Mannix : Mm. Are you satisfied?

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : If you're still talking about insurance, my husband left me quite comfortably fixed.

  Joe Mannix : Mm. Mrs. Jarrud... did your husband ever talk to you about the three patients he identified in his book as X, Y, and Z?

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : Clem didn't think I had the brains to understand his work. He was quite right. It bored me.

  Robert : Maybe that was your mistake, Mother. Maybe you should have shown more interest.

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : Robert, how long have you been standing there?

  Robert : I just came down to see if you were feeling any better.

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : I was... until this gentleman arrived. Mr. Mannix, this is my son Robert.

  Joe Mannix : How do you do?

  Robert : Hi.

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : Mr. Mannix is a detective. He has the remarkable notion that Clem was murdered.

  Robert : Well, Mother, isn't that what I told you?

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : Oh, you're a child.

  Robert : I've read Father's book. Have you?

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : You know I haven't.

  Joe Mannix : Have you, Mr. Mannix?

  Joe Mannix : I've read it.

  Robert : Then you know it might have been one of those three.

  Joe Mannix : I've considered the possibility.

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : Mr. Mannix, exactly who is your client?

  Joe Mannix : Uh, let's just say, uh, an interested party.

  Mrs. Sylvia Jarrud : Hm. And you're determined to earn the money she's paying you. You see, I do have some talent for detection. Well, you can tell her she's wasting her money. Goodbye, Mr. Mannix. Robert, see him out.