Mannix (TV Series)

The Crimson Halo (1972)

Joseph Campanella: Dr. Graham Aspinall

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• Joe Mannix : Dr. Aspinall? My name is Mannix.

  Dr. Graham Aspinall : That supposed to mean something to me?

  Joe Mannix : I'm a private investigator. Your attorney retained me... Noah Otway.

  Dr. Graham Aspinall : How did you recognize me?

  Joe Mannix : Well, I can always tell a surgeon. He's the one with the clean fingernails.

  Dr. Graham Aspinall : What does Otway want?

  Joe Mannix : He wanted me to make some inquiries about the shooting last night.

  Dr. Graham Aspinall : Otway is a toothless old woman with an obscene lust for melodrama.

  Joe Mannix : He thinks highly of you, too.

  Dr. Graham Aspinall : Or was it really my wife's idea to hire you? Oh, never mind. I'm content to suffer the pangs of uncertainty.

  Joe Mannix : You're convinced that shot fired at you last night had nothing to do with you personally?

  Dr. Graham Aspinall : I surprise some unfortunate addict who was looking for drugs. I don't believe anyone hates or loves me enough to take a shot at me. That's a disgraceful admission, isn't it?

  Joe Mannix : Mind if I talk to some of your associates?

  Dr. Graham Aspinall : Certainly, I'd mind.

  Joe Mannix : What are you afraid I'll find out?

  Dr. Graham Aspinall : That I'm an arrogant, cantankerous, self-important, greedy, glory-hustling megalomaniac. That I browbeat my subordinates, debauch my female assistants, claim sole credit for anyone's discoveries, and that I would commit any act, from high treason to indecent exposure, to knock off a Nobel Prize.

  Joe Mannix : And once I found that out, what do I do with it?

  Dr. Graham Aspinall : Whatever it is you fellas do. Put on false mustaches, tap phones, dog footsteps, interrogate people in the dead of night, make passes at beautiful female suspects, look down your noses at the police.

  Joe Mannix : I'll bet I know your favorite author.

  Dr. Graham Aspinall : Don't bet on anything concerning me. Good day, Mr. Mannix.

• Dr. Graham Aspinall : Oh, you flatter yourself.

  Joe Mannix : That's better than no flattery at all.