Mannix (TV Series)

The Other Game in Town (1970)

Alan Bergmann: Conforti

Quotes 

• Conforti : All right, Mr. Mannix, what can I tell you about Victor Brady?

  Joe Mannix : Just looking around here, I'd say you're a pretty good judge of the value of things.

  Conforti : Why don't you say what's on your mind and save us both time?

  Joe Mannix : For instance, you knew that Victor Brady was more valuable dead than alive, maybe.

  Conforti : You know, whenever one of our more important patrons meets with a fatal misfortune, it's naturally assumed that we somehow manipulated his fate. It's a very unfair stereotype, believe me.

  Joe Mannix : Please, please. Spare me the violins. Victor Brady was your loser of the month, wasn't he?

  Conforti : The best reason I know of to want him alive and well.

  Joe Mannix : Unless you also knew he was broke.

  Conforti : I had no idea. Oh, well, we both know that gambling debts are not collectable.

  Joe Mannix : Aren't they?

  Conforti : Not even weight lifters use muscle anymore.

  Joe Mannix : Well, Mrs. Brady will be very comforted to hear that. You know, extortion on this scale could cost somebody about 20 years. It sure would be a shame to waste this bodybuilding program.

  Conforti : Look, Mannix, I've got a lot of live ones out there to worry about. So, if you came here to lean on me... you did.

  Joe Mannix : Oh, not lean. Learn.

  Conforti : [opens the door leading to the hallway outside his office]  School's out. Careful going home.