Mannix (TV Series)
Search for a Whisper (1973)
Mike Connors: Joe Mannix
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[first lines]
Adam Langer : [walking out of an airplane] Jennifer, have the contracts on the Transpact deal typed and on my desk in the morning.
Jennifer Holt : Yes, sir.
Adam Langer : Mr. Mannix.
Joe Mannix : That's right.
Adam Langer : Good of you to come. This is Jennifer Holt, my secretary. Mr. Mannix.
Jennifer Holt : Hello. How do you do?
Joe Mannix : How do you do?
Jennifer Holt : You certainly don't look like what I thought a private eye would look like.
Joe Mannix : Well, if that's meant as a compliment, thank you.
Jennifer Holt : You're welcome.
Joe Mannix : You said it was important, Mr. Langer.
Adam Langer : You've come highly recommend. Are you as good as my sources say you are?
Joe Mannix : Now you don't really expect an unprejudiced opinion?
Adam Langer : I just want to be sure I'm hiring the right man.
Joe Mannix : You already decided that, or I wouldn't be here.
Adam Langer : You're not handicapped with false modesty.
Joe Mannix : No. Are you?
Adam Langer : Modest people aren't worth $5 million at age 35.
Joe Mannix : You're worth more than $5 million.
Adam Langer : I'm more than 35. Jennifer.
Jennifer Holt : Yes, sir.
Adam Langer : I'll see you at the office in the morning.
Jennifer Holt : Yes, sir. Goodbye.
Joe Mannix : Goodbye. What did you have in mind, Mr. Langer?
Adam Langer : I want a political figure investigated.
Joe Mannix : Why?
Adam Langer : For reasons of my own. I want you to dog up every rotten thing you can find out about him, anything that could be used as a smear.
Joe Mannix : Sorry, Mr. Langer. I don't do that sort of thing. And somehow, I didn't figure it to be your style.
Adam Langer : You're right. It isn't. But I'm making an exception in this case. I hope you will, too.
Joe Mannix : It depends on the reason.
Adam Langer : I want you to dog deep, deep enough to destroy him of you can.
Joe Mannix : Who is this man?
Adam Langer : Me.
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Adam Langer : This isn't common knowledge, but a group of my politically influential friends have formed a citizen's committee to back me for candidate for governor.
Joe Mannix : And?
Adam Langer : Politics is a dirty business. I want to know what they could use against me.
Joe Mannix : Well, you should know what they might be able to use against you.
Adam Langer : Up to a point, but anyone determined to create a scandal can blow up any insignificant incident. I want you to start from scratch, see what you can build up against me.
Joe Mannix : A good detective can usually find dirt wherever he digs.
Adam Langer : Perhaps so, but what I want to know what it is and how bad it will be.
Joe Mannix : And if I find something?
Adam Langer : Mr. Mannix, my wife's comfort and peace of mind are more important to me than any political office. If she can be hurt by something that smears me, I won't walk away from the nomination, I'll run.
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Ada Lee Hayes : [opening the door to her apartment] I was Ada Lee Rennick. It's Mrs. Hayes now.
Joe Mannix : Mr. Hayes, uh, do you remember Adam Langer?
Ada Lee Hayes : Adam Langer?
[chuckles]
Ada Lee Hayes : Of course I remember him.
Joe Mannix : Well, I'm doing a magazine article about him. May I come in?
Ada Lee Hayes : Of course. Um, come in, Mister...
Joe Mannix : Mannix.
Ada Lee Hayes : Mm-hmm.
Joe Mannix : Thank you.
[walks into Hayes' apartment]
Joe Mannix : How well did you know Adam Langer?
Ada Lee Hayes : Fairly well.
[closes the door to a room]
Ada Lee Hayes : My husband's a little jealous.
Joe Mannix : Yeah, I can understand.
Ada Lee Hayes : Please sit down.
Joe Mannix : Thank you. Uh... how did you first meet Adam?
Ada Lee Hayes : Oh, well, every pretty girl on campus knew Adam. He saw to that. We were engaged.
Joe Mannix : You beat the competition?
Ada Lee Hayes : Oh...
[chuckles]
Ada Lee Hayes : ... aren't you nice? Would like chocolate?
Joe Mannix : Uh, no thank you.
Eddie Hayes : [walking out of the bedroom] Hey, hon, have you...
[sees Joe]
Eddie Hayes : What's going on here?
Ada Lee Hayes : He's a magazine writer, Eddie.
Joe Mannix : I'm doing research on someone Mrs. Hayes went to school with.
Eddie Hayes : Like who?
Joe Mannix : Adam Langer.
Eddie Hayes : Well, she's got nothing to tell you.
[pauses]
Eddie Hayes : Get rid of him. I'm hungry.
Ada Lee Hayes : All right, Eddie.
[turns to Joe]
Ada Lee Hayes : I'm sorry.
Joe Mannix : That's quite all right. Oh, Mrs. Hayes, uh, how did you and Adam become unengaged?
Ada Lee Hayes : Well, it-it just ended. You know, college romances.
Joe Mannix : But you remained friends?
Ada Lee Hayes : I've never forgotten Adam. And to tell you the truth, I don't think I ever will.
Joe Mannix : Well, could you tell me what Adam was like, who his friends were? It's very important.
Eddie Hayes : [calling from the bedrrom] Is he gone?
Ada Lee Hayes : Yes, Hon.
Eddie Hayes : How about lunch?
Ada Lee Hayes : Coming right up. Just a minute.
[she and Joe walk right outside the apartment door]
Ada Lee Hayes : [lowering her voice] I'll tell you how Adam and I really broke up. He, uh...
[exhales]
Ada Lee Hayes : he lost his head over some sweet young thing from Chicago. Friends introduced them at a dance one night, and uh...
[sighs]
Ada Lee Hayes : ... well, the next thing I knew, he called to tell me that, uh, he was going off to see her, and... he hoped there wouldn't be any hard feelings.
Joe Mannix : Mm. Do you, uh, remember her name?
Ada Lee Hayes : Oh, yes. It's not likely I'd forget that name. Barbara Pearson.
[pause]
Ada Lee Hayes : Funny. He, uh, never married her. Well... I guess that's the way things go, huh?
Joe Mannix : Yeah.
