Mannix (TV Series)

The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress (1973)

Mike Connors: Joe Mannix

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Emory Davis : [hiding in the shadows]  Mr. Mannix?

  Joe Mannix : That's right.

  Emory Davis : I must talk to you.

  [walks over to Mannix] 

  Emory Davis : I... I've been waiting for hours.

  Joe Mannix : Come in.

  Emory Davis : Thank you.

  [Mannix unlocks his office door and they walk in] 

  Joe Mannix : You did say "neat", Mr...

  Emory Davis : Davis. My name is Davis. Emory Davis. Thanks. Well, it's difficult to know how to begin, since one no idea how you feel about the supernatural.

  Joe Mannix : Well, I live in a pretty factual world, Mr. Davis, but I do try to keep an open mind.

  Emory Davis : Well, that's all I ask. See, for years, I have been the recipient... no, more truthfully the victim of flashes of precognition. I can actually see bits and pieces of events before they really happen. Not just dreams, Mr. Mannix. Events that really happen.

  Joe Mannix : Well, the crystal ball has been around for a long time, Mr. Davis, and there may be people who can see into the future, and you may be one of those people. But, uh, I really don't see where a private investigator would fit in.

  Emory Davis : Please, hear me out, Mr. Mannix. Please.

  Joe Mannix : All right, Mr. Davis.

  Emory Davis : For two days, I have been haunted by a vision. A beautiful young girl, wearing a polka dot dress, being shot by a man wearing a mask.

  Joe Mannix : In your, uh, vision, could you tell me where this was all taking place?

  Emory Davis : Outside the Glenville hotel, downtown. There was a newsstand at the corner, and I could see the newsdealer and the headlines. These headlines.

  [holds up a newspaper with the headlines, "Helicopter search for missing hikers"; Mannix takes the paper and sees the date "September 10, 1973"] 

  Joe Mannix : This is tonight's paper.

  Emory Davis : Exactly. It's going to happen tonight, if it hasn't already.

  Joe Mannix : Have you, uh, talked to anyone else about this?

  Emory Davis : I went to the police, but I couldn't get past the desk sergeant. I was told that there are too many real crimes to add imaginary ones.

  Joe Mannix : The Glenville Hotel. Well, that's not a neighborhood most people tend to visit late at night, especially a beautiful young girl.

  Emory Davis : But it is what I saw, Mr. Mannix. Oh, I haven't slept in days. I don't know who the girl is, but if anything were to happen to her, I could never forgive myself. I see the doubt your eyes, but I have no place else to turn. Isn't there something you could do, Mr. Mannix?

  Joe Mannix : Well, Mr. Davis, uh, if you've given up two, three days of sleep, I guess I could give up a couple of hours- just to make sure it's nothing more than a vision.