Mannix (TV Series)

Trap for a Pigeon (1974)

Barry Atwater: Mark Prentiss

Quotes 

• Joe Mannix : [Mark Prentiss enters Mannix's office]  Mr. Prentiss.

  Mark Prentiss : Mr. Mannix. Can we, uh, get right to the point?

  Joe Mannix : Of course. Please sit down.

  Mark Prentiss : Thank you. I use the safe deposit vault at the Bedford Hotel. And last night, that vault was broken into.

  Joe Mannix : Yes, I was just reading about it. They got away with about $150,000 in jewelry, a hunk of cash, bonds...

  Mark Prentiss : And a briefcase.

  Joe Mannix : A briefcase?

  Mark Prentiss : Mine, as it happens. Recover by Tuesday, Mr. Mannix, and I'll write you a check for $5,000.

  Joe Mannix : That's some briefcase. What was in it?

  Mark Prentiss : Papers, depositions... to be used as evidence in a murder trial. Useless to anyone else, but absolutely essential to me, if I'm to free my client. I must have them back.

  Joe Mannix : Now, who's your client?

  Mark Prentiss : Vince Adante.

  Joe Mannix : Yeah. Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Prentiss, but suddenly I don't like the smell of your briefcase.

  Mark Prentiss : Adante is innocent.

  Joe Mannix : Vince Adante doesn't know what the word means.

  Mark Prentiss : Mr. Mannix, my client is facing a 20-year sentence. Suppose a year from now, two years, five- that missing evidence turns up? How responsible would you fell for Adante's false conviction? The law judges a man's guilt on a particular charge. It acquits a man on the basis of evidence, and that evidence was in my briefcase in my safe deposit box at the Bedford Hotel, and I must have that briefcase back. It is worth $5,000 to me.

  Joe Mannix : But not to me. Now I have a great deal of respect for you, counselor, but I don't like Vince Adante, guilty or innocent. Now, you'd be wasting your money. Besides, that briefcase is probably in a sewer by now.

  Mark Prentiss : All right, Mr. Mannix... find me that sewer.