Mannix (TV Series)

Murder Revisited (1970)

Mike Connors: Joe Mannix

Quotes 

• Valerie Price : I'll fix you a drink.

  Joe Mannix : Uh, no thanks, but, uh, you go ahead.

  Valerie Price : It was Muriel's idea. She felt you were the man.

  Joe Mannix : For what?

  Valerie Price : To prove she didn't kill Harry Armitage. She said you could be trusted.

  Joe Mannix : She doesn't even know me. Just in passing.

  Valerie Price : Apparently, that was enough for her. You got to take this case, Mr. Mannix. For both of us. It's hard for people to understand the way it is with twins. Whatever happens to Muriel happens to me. Her sorrow is my sorrow. Pain is mine. One simple little cell... Divided, yet inseparable. If she trusts you, then I trust you. And if she needs you, then I need you. Can you understand that, Mr. Mannix?

  Joe Mannix : I think so. There's something you got to understand. Everything's against your sister.

  Valerie Price : Except one thing.

  Joe Mannix : What's that?

  Valerie Price : She didn't kill Harry Armitage!

  Joe Mannix : How do you know?

  Valerie Price : She told me.

  Joe Mannix : It was her gun.

  Valerie Price : Yes, but it had been missing for over a week.

  Joe Mannix : Why hadn't she reported it?

  Valerie Price : She didn't have a license.

  Joe Mannix : You don't need a license just to possess a gun. Tell me, why did she buy it in the first place?

  Valerie Price : I don't know. A lot of people have guns, don't they?

  Joe Mannix : Yeah, far too many. But still, very few end up as exhibit A in a murder case.

  Valerie Price : Look, it's a stacked case. She received a phone call to go to Armitage's apartment. She found him there dead. She recognized the gun, and she was afraid it would lead to her. She took it and ran.

  Joe Mannix : There's only one thing. Armitage didn't call her.

  Valerie Price : No. She didn't recognize the voice.

  Joe Mannix : Tell me, uh, if you were an outsider... would you believe that story?

  Valerie Price : Obviously, you don't. I thought you might be able to help us.

  Joe Mannix : I thought you were gonna trust me. Why don't you tell me everything?

  Valerie Price : I did!

  Joe Mannix : Why she went to Armitage's apartment in the first place.

  Valerie Price : She was a public stenographer. She often took dictation from Armitage.

  Joe Mannix : That late at night?

  [Price doesn't answer] 

  Joe Mannix : How did she get into the apartment? The front door was locked.

  Valerie Price : Had a key.

  Joe Mannix : Public stenographer that has a key to a client's apartment.

  Valerie Price : [sighs]  Muriel wasn't just a stenographer to Armitage. Still, she wasn't as much as she thought to him. There was a whole parade of women who went in and out of his life.

  Joe Mannix : And she was on her way out?

  Valerie Price : Yes! And that could give the police her motive!

  Joe Mannix : Anything else?

  Valerie Price : No.