Mannix (TV Series)

The Survivor Who Wasn't (1974)

Mike Connors: Joe Mannix

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• Penn Anderson : Oh, Mr. Mannix. Well, I'm pleased to see you again.

  Joe Mannix : It looks like you're coming along just fine.

  Penn Anderson : Well, every day, I seem to get stronger and stronger.

  Joe Mannix : Ah, good, good, good. Now, here you are, Mr. Anderson.

  [hands Anderson some papers out of the briefcase he's carrying] 

  Penn Anderson : What's this?

  Joe Mannix : Oh, they're the usual insurance forms. If you would look them over, and fill them out, it would certainly help speed things up.

  Penn Anderson : Yes.

  [looks through the forms] 

  Penn Anderson : Oh, yes. These look like very, very good copies.

  Joe Mannix : Copies?

  Penn Anderson : Copies. They're no more legitimate than you are an insurance man. Want a drink?

  Joe Mannix : Yeah, I could use one. Scotch on the rocks.

  Penn Anderson : Right. You know, Mr. Mannix, my wife has been acting rather strangely since my return. So the other day... I had one of my employees follow her. Where do you suppose she went?

  Joe Mannix : To my office.

  Penn Anderson : Exactly.

  Joe Mannix : How about why she hired me? Any information on that?

  Penn Anderson : Well, Mr. Mannix, I think it's safe to say the sort of thing I went through doesn't leave a man precisely the way it found him. Now, that's aside firm any changes of contour of the face or the nose or anything. However, it would appear that my wife, Kelly, thinks that I have changed considerably more than somewhat. I mean... she is more than merely puzzled. I suppose the whole experience of the airplane crash... the strain that it put on her, well, it was just very traumatic. The fact is, Mr. Mannix, that in the case of my wife, I feel that she needs quite another kind of specialist other than a private investigator.

  Joe Mannix : Are you saying the dramatic change... is in your wife?

  Penn Anderson : Yes. That's one way of putting it.

  Joe Mannix : However, in your case, you must agree that there was some change in you before the crash... if in name only. You were on that plane as Martin Thompson.

  Penn Anderson : Oh, that.

  Joe Mannix : Odd thing to do.

  Penn Anderson : No, no, not at all. Not if you're in the land development business. You see, Mr. Mannix, competitors are constantly snooping around, trying to get a line on what they think you are going to be doing next. Now, in this particular instance, I was on a very hot deal, so I merely took some precautions, that's all.

  Joe Mannix : Tell me, Mr. Anderson, are any of those competitors rough enough to try and kill you?

  Penn Anderson : What?

  Joe Mannix : Well, let's say, try and run you down crossing the hospital driveway in a wheelchair?

  Penn Anderson : [laughs]  Now we're competitive, but we're not savage. No, Mr. Mannix, I think you're imagining things, and perhaps in your case, it is somewhat of a... occupational habit, I suppose.

  Joe Mannix : Yeah, yeah, well, that could be. Anyway, thank you very much for the drink, Mr. Anderson.

  Penn Anderson : Oh, well, thank you. Thank you for the visit. Listen, you put that bill of mine in the mail and I'll see to it that it's paid promptly.

  Joe Mannix : Oh, no, no need for you to do that, Mr. Anderson.

  Penn Anderson : Well, no. I mean, it's very generous, but...

  Joe Mannix : Not at all. It isn't yours to pay. You didn't hire me. Your wife did.