Mannix (TV Series)

The Man Who Wasn't There (1973)

Arthur Batanides: Emmett Trask

Quotes 

• Joe Mannix : Hello, Trask.

  [Trask doesn't respond] 

  Joe Mannix : I'm talking to you, Trask. Better answer. Bartender thinks I'm talking to myself, he won't serve me.

  Emmett Trask : Bug off, Mannix. I'm expecting somebody.

  Joe Mannix : Thought you might be expecting me.

  Emmett Trask : You I can do without.

  Joe Mannix : Where were you last night?

  Emmett Trask : [hesitates to answer]  At a prayer meeting. Where else?

  Joe Mannix : You better come up with a straight answer, Trask, or I'm going to kick that machine out from under you, and you can pray that I don't break you in half before you hit the floor.

  Emmett Trask : Look, Mannix, I'm having a business meeting here in a minute, and you're going to louse it up.

  Joe Mannix : Somebody took a shot at me last night, Trask.

  Emmett Trask : Good for somebody.

  Joe Mannix : The day you were sentenced, you put me first on a list of people to pay back. Remember?

  Emmett Trask : So I popped off in court. So what? Look, Mannix, I got bigger things cooking than trying to get even with you. I don't care whether you live or die. Believe me.

  Joe Mannix : What kind of big things?

  [some men enter the bar] 

  Emmett Trask : Get lost.