Mannix (TV Series)

The Man Who Wasn't There (1973)

Mike Connors: Joe Mannix

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Quotes 

• Joe Mannix : Mr. Sloan?

  Harry Sloan : Yeah.

  Joe Mannix : I'm Joe Mannix. Peggy Fair is my secretary. She's a friend of your boy in there. How is he?

  Harry Sloan : They don't know yet. I'm going to get the guy who did this, you can count on it. Peggy Fair - Al's friend - she works for a private cop. Would that be you?

  Joe Mannix : That's right. Any idea who did it?

  Harry Sloan : I got more than an idea. Jake Coryell.

  Joe Mannix : How does Coryell figure into this?

  Harry Sloan : Find out for me, Mannix. I'll make it worth your while.

  Joe Mannix : Now look, if you have any evidence, you better talk to the police.

  Harry Sloan : [pointing at his heart]  The evidence is sitting right here like a stone.

  Joe Mannix : You'll have to do better than that, Mr. Sloan. Hunches belong at race tracks.

  Harry Sloan : Look, if I spill this to the cops, the boxing commission will get to it. I got a license to worry about.

  Joe Mannix : Are you telling me Coryell fixed the fight?

  Harry Sloan : They tried, that's all, so help me. I can't go running to the boxing commission every time somebody stops me in the locker room. So I didn't tell them.

  Joe Mannix : Well, tell me.

  Harry Sloan : Now, listen, Coryell wanted Al to take a dive. Now, he's got to be kidding. That boy's going to the top in a year, two at the most. You saw the fight, he's a winner.

  Joe Mannix : I'd say so.

  Harry Sloan : I told Coryell no dice a week ago. I told him right off, Al's not going to take any dive for nobody. No, I told him, flat out.

  Joe Mannix : And you don't think Coryell took no for an answer?

  Harry Sloan : You saw what happened. Coryell tried to fix the fight himself.

  Doctor : [walks out of the operating room]  Mr. Sloan?

  Harry Sloan : Yeah.

  Doctor : He's lost a lot of blood, but the wound isn't critical. He was lucky.

  Harry Sloan : Will he fight again?

  Doctor : Well, it's a little too early to say if he was that lucky.

  [walks back into the operating room] 

  Harry Sloan : Mannix, how about it?

  Joe Mannix : I'll see what I can find out.

• Joe Mannix : Hello, Trask.

  [Trask doesn't respond] 

  Joe Mannix : I'm talking to you, Trask. Better answer. Bartender thinks I'm talking to myself, he won't serve me.

  Emmett Trask : Bug off, Mannix. I'm expecting somebody.

  Joe Mannix : Thought you might be expecting me.

  Emmett Trask : You I can do without.

  Joe Mannix : Where were you last night?

  Emmett Trask : [hesitates to answer]  At a prayer meeting. Where else?

  Joe Mannix : You better come up with a straight answer, Trask, or I'm going to kick that machine out from under you, and you can pray that I don't break you in half before you hit the floor.

  Emmett Trask : Look, Mannix, I'm having a business meeting here in a minute, and you're going to louse it up.

  Joe Mannix : Somebody took a shot at me last night, Trask.

  Emmett Trask : Good for somebody.

  Joe Mannix : The day you were sentenced, you put me first on a list of people to pay back. Remember?

  Emmett Trask : So I popped off in court. So what? Look, Mannix, I got bigger things cooking than trying to get even with you. I don't care whether you live or die. Believe me.

  Joe Mannix : What kind of big things?

  [some men enter the bar] 

  Emmett Trask : Get lost.