Mannix (TV Series)

The Playground (1969)

Leslie Parrish: Mona

Quotes 

• Mona : Hi.

  Joe Mannix : Hi.

  Mona : A star is born.

  Joe Mannix : Well, you see, I happen to be sitting in this drug store.

  Mona : Do you happen to have a drink?

  Joe Mannix : So happens. Scotch?

  Mona : No, nothing. Thanks. I gave up drinking. I just wanted to remind myself that I'm a girl of tremendous willpower. Mitch knows you're watching him. He doesn't like you.

  Joe Mannix : Figures. Excuse me.

  Mona : Oh, relax. They're just going over to wardrobe. It's Friday night. The Mardi Gras. They'll be back. That Mitch is an independent cat. He looks after himself. Resents you. He'd do anything to get you off his back.

  Joe Mannix : He's already had a go at it.

  Mona : Well, you didn't yell chicken.

  Joe Mannix : If I didn't get out, it'd be bad for business.

  Mona : What did you hear from the Prop Department?

  Joe Mannix : I drew a blank.

  Mona : That's very funny.

  Joe Mannix : Wasn't intended to be.

  Mona : Well, somebody switched that blank with a live cartridge.

  Joe Mannix : Question: Who is he?

  Mona : Or she. There's something you should know.

  Joe Mannix : There's something you've been aching to tell me ever since you breezed in here.

  Mona : You know Carol Relly-- that girl who was on the motorcycle with Pete Joplin yesterday? She thought Mitch was picking her up. That's a game-made play when Mitch has had it with a girl, she gets passed on to his double. 'Course, it comes as a complete surprise to her. There's been a long line of those hand-me-downs. Any one of those girls would have good reason to to kill him. How do you like that Mitch?

  Joe Mannix : How do you?

  Mona : Well, he's just a boss to me. Strictly business. I don't fall for that famous Cantrell smile.

  Joe Mannix : A girl with tremendous willpower.

  Mona : You bet.

  Joe Mannix : Even this morning when you were massaging him. The way you warmed the job, that isn't what I would call strictly business.

  Mona : You were seeing things.

  Joe Mannix : Yeah. A lot of willpower going down the drain.

  [the phone rings] 

  Joe Mannix : Hello? Uh, Mona, wait.

  [Mona walks out of the toom]