Mannix (TV Series)

Voice in the Dark (1971)

Mike Connors: Joe Mannix

Quotes 

• Joe Mannix : [walks into Dorothy Kinman's apartment]  Miss Kinman?

  Dorothy Kinman : Thank you for coming here.

  [locks the door to her apartment] 

  Dorothy Kinman : I just poured myself a scotch. Would you care for some?

  Joe Mannix : Yes, thank you.

  Dorothy Kinman : I must have sounded pretty hysterical when I called you.

  Joe Mannix : Well, shall we say you sounded... upset?

  Dorothy Kinman : I think these phone calls are getting to me.

  Joe Mannix : When did the calls first begin?

  Dorothy Kinman : A month ago. Four or five days after I left the hospital and moved into here.

  Joe Mannix : Have you, uh... notified the police?

  Dorothy Kinman : Won't you sit down?

  Joe Mannix : Thank you.

  Dorothy Kinman : Yes, they suggested that I change my number.

  Joe Mannix : Did you?

  Dorothy Kinman : Last week. I thought that was the end of it. But tonight...

  Joe Mannix : How long did he stay on the line?

  Dorothy Kinman : Just a few seconds. That's all there ever is.

  Joe Mannix : What exactly did he say?

  Dorothy Kinman : What he always says. That he's going to kill me.

  Joe Mannix : Let's start with the familiar. Can you think of anybody who might want to hurt you, or at least frighten you?

  Dorothy Kinman : No. No one.

  Joe Mannix : Let's go back two or three years. Have you ever had any trouble with anybody? For instance, a cab driver, a clerk in some hotel, anyone at all?

  Dorothy Kinman : I didn't think there was. Obviously, I was wrong.

  Joe Mannix : Well, the fact that he knows your name doesn't necessarily mean you've met. And after all, you are a public figure- won the nationals- everyone's choice for the Olympics.

  Dorothy Kinman : Former choice. I don't want anyone's pity, Mr. Mannix. All I want is to be left alone... and not to be terrified every time the phone rings.

  Joe Mannix : Tell me, who handled your complaint at the police department?

  Dorothy Kinman : Uh, Lieutenant Tobias.

  Joe Mannix : Well, now, that's a help.

  Dorothy Kinman : Do you know him?

  Joe Mannix : Yes.

  Dorothy Kinman : He wasn't very optimistic. It seems that calls of such short duration are very hard to trace.

  Joe Mannix : Which means we'll have to lengthen them.

  Dorothy Kinman : How?

  Joe Mannix : By asking questions; making conversation. If nothing else, we might get an idea of the kind of psychopath we're dealing with.

  Dorothy Kinman : He wasn't interested in conversation. He wouldn't listen to me.

  Joe Mannix : We'll make him.

  Dorothy Kinman : You're an optimist, Mr. Mannix.

  Joe Mannix : Comes with the territory.

  [checks his watch] 

  Joe Mannix : I think I'd better get over and see Lieutenant Tobias. I'll, uh, call you first thing in the morning.

• Dorothy Kinman : I guess we all have our own private hells.

  Joe Mannix : Don't you think it's time you left yours?