Mannix (TV Series)

The Other Game in Town (1970)

Mike Connors: Joe Mannix

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• Jaycie : Mr. Mannix?

  Joe Mannix : Yes.

  Jaycie : Billy Moss said you wanted to talk to me.

  Joe Mannix : Ah, you're Jaycie.

  Jaycie : He said you were asking about Mr. Brady.

  Joe Mannix : Yeah, did you know him?

  Jaycie : Just as a customer. It was awful, how it happened, wasn't it?

  Joe Mannix : *How* it happened?

  Jaycie : I mean, for something to go wrong over the ocean like that.

  Joe Mannix : Oh. Chris Allison tells me that Brady was an excellent pilot.

  Jaycie : Do you know Chris?

  Joe Mannix : Yeah, I met him today.

  Jaycie : Here?

  Joe Mannix : No, in L.A.

  Jaycie : Where in L.A.?

  Joe Mannix : He was with Mrs. Brady.

  Jaycie : Oh. The merry widow.

  Joe Mannix : You, uh, don't like her?

  Jaycie : Do I have to?

  Joe Mannix : Well, I understand they were very old friends. She's probably very glad to have him around right now.

  Jaycie : I'll bet she is.

  Joe Mannix : Hmm. Tell me, did Chris leave the club at the same time Victor Brady did the other night?

  Jaycie : Well, soon after. He had business in L.A.

  Joe Mannix : He goes back and forth a lot?

  Jaycie : Last couple of weeks. He has more shifts there than here.

  Joe Mannix : Well, you can keep in touch with the laundry. I've got a feeling he should be back very soon.

  Jaycie : Is, uh... Is she pretty?

  Joe Mannix : Mrs. Brady?

  [Jayice nodes] 

  Joe Mannix : Well, on a scale of one to ten, I'd say she's about, uh... a niner. Why?

  Jaycie : Oh, nothing. It's just, if you're a widow, I guess it's easier if you're pretty. Rich and pretty.

  Joe Mannix : Hmm.

• Joe Mannix : [Mrs. Brady has told him that she feels that her husband is still alive]  I know how you feel Mrs. Brady, but...

  Eve Brady : No. No, it's true. Victor is alive.

  Joe Mannix : But you just came from his memorial services.

  Eve Brady : I had to go through with the services. In fact, Victor insisted on it. Oh, yes, Victor is very much alive. I talked to him on the phone this morning. I picked up the phone, and it was Victor. And he said... "Hi, Eve, baby. Nice day for a funeral." Then he said, "I think somebody is trying to kill me."

  Joe Mannix : Did he say what happened?

  Eve Brady : I asked him. He just laughed... and said old Navy pilots never die, they just swim away.

  Joe Mannix : Did he say why he didn't want you to call the police?

  Eve Brady : How did you know?

  Joe Mannix : I'm here. The police aren't.

  Eve Brady : He said he was in a spot.

  Joe Mannix : Which means exactly how much, in round figures?

  Eve Brady : Nearly a quarter of a million dollars.

  Chris Allison : I warned him about those dice tables.

  Joe Mannix : Mrs. Brady, your husband's in "Who's Who" of the electronic business. Couldn't he somehow have put together a quarter of a million dollars in a pinch?

  Eve Brady : There were too many pinches lately, too close together. He lost two big contracts in three months. He couldn't raise that kind of money. Or any kind of money.

  Joe Mannix : Mr. Allison, how well did you know Mr. Brady?

  Chris Allison : I flew with him years ago. The Navy.

  Joe Mannix : Good pilot?

  Chris Allison : Victor could fly a barn door through a hurricane by its hinges.

  Joe Mannix : What about his plane?

  Chris Allison : He kept it at my place in Las Vegas. I serviced it from time to time. As a matter of fact, I gassed it up and rubbed it down a couple of hours before he took off.

  Joe Mannix : Could anyone have gotten to it?

  Chris Allison : I suppose so. Sometimes kids hang around.

  Joe Mannix : I'm not talking about kid stuff.

  Eve Brady : Then you do think somebody tried to kill him?

  Joe Mannix : He thinks so.

• 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.

• Pete Ricardo : Mannix? I got some medical advice for you, for your health. Get on a plane, get back to L.A., and stay there.

  Joe Mannix : I suppose this prescription came straight from Dr Conforti?

  Pete Ricardo : No, Dr. Luger.