Mannix (TV Series)

The Playground (1969)

Mike Connors: Joe Mannix

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Quotes 

• Mona : Hi.

  Joe Mannix : Hi.

  Mona : A star is born.

  Joe Mannix : Well, you see, I happen to be sitting in this drug store.

  Mona : Do you happen to have a drink?

  Joe Mannix : So happens. Scotch?

  Mona : No, nothing. Thanks. I gave up drinking. I just wanted to remind myself that I'm a girl of tremendous willpower. Mitch knows you're watching him. He doesn't like you.

  Joe Mannix : Figures. Excuse me.

  Mona : Oh, relax. They're just going over to wardrobe. It's Friday night. The Mardi Gras. They'll be back. That Mitch is an independent cat. He looks after himself. Resents you. He'd do anything to get you off his back.

  Joe Mannix : He's already had a go at it.

  Mona : Well, you didn't yell chicken.

  Joe Mannix : If I didn't get out, it'd be bad for business.

  Mona : What did you hear from the Prop Department?

  Joe Mannix : I drew a blank.

  Mona : That's very funny.

  Joe Mannix : Wasn't intended to be.

  Mona : Well, somebody switched that blank with a live cartridge.

  Joe Mannix : Question: Who is he?

  Mona : Or she. There's something you should know.

  Joe Mannix : There's something you've been aching to tell me ever since you breezed in here.

  Mona : You know Carol Relly-- that girl who was on the motorcycle with Pete Joplin yesterday? She thought Mitch was picking her up. That's a game-made play when Mitch has had it with a girl, she gets passed on to his double. 'Course, it comes as a complete surprise to her. There's been a long line of those hand-me-downs. Any one of those girls would have good reason to to kill him. How do you like that Mitch?

  Joe Mannix : How do you?

  Mona : Well, he's just a boss to me. Strictly business. I don't fall for that famous Cantrell smile.

  Joe Mannix : A girl with tremendous willpower.

  Mona : You bet.

  Joe Mannix : Even this morning when you were massaging him. The way you warmed the job, that isn't what I would call strictly business.

  Mona : You were seeing things.

  Joe Mannix : Yeah. A lot of willpower going down the drain.

  [the phone rings] 

  Joe Mannix : Hello? Uh, Mona, wait.

  [Mona walks out of the toom] 

• Joe Mannix : [after searching the footwalk]  Well, there's nobody up there now.

  Mitch Cantrell : There never was.

  Joe Mannix : Oh, you'd like to believe that was an accident, too, wouldn't you?

  Mitch Cantrell : They say that a bathtub in your own home can be dangerous. Hey, Mannix, I'm sorry if that dueling bit shook you up.

  Joe Mannix : You'll have to do a lot better.

  Mitch Cantrell : I'll try.

  Joe Mannix : It's a pretty cute act you two have.

  Mitch Cantrell : I'll take credit for that. Pete, you know that was my idea.

  Pete Joplin : You're right, man.

  Joe Mannix : I mean the other act.

  Mitch Cantrell : What other act?

  Joe Mannix : The buddy bit. Considering it was your wife who killed herself over him.

  Pete Joplin : Well, if it hadn't been mentioned, it would've been some other guy. That's the way she was.

  Mitch Cantrell : You heard the man, Mannix.

  Joe Mannix : You're a real winner. And I'd like to know what makes you tick.

  [pointing at his heart] 

  Joe Mannix : What have you got in here, sawdust? Your friend's wife takes her life because of you and you come up with some smart remark. Life means nothing to you, huh?

  Mitch Cantrell : Oh you bet life means something to me, Mannix-- my life. Because that's all I got. You make it depend on someone else, and it's a bummer. And it's throwing it away quitting, you're already dead. What happens after that? Even suicide. That's only technical. You better believe life means something to me. Come on, let's get out of here, Pete. Hey, man, do me a favor.

  Pete Joplin : Hmm?

  Mitch Cantrell : I'll join you later. I'll go back and talk to him.

  Pete Joplin : Okay.

  Mitch Cantrell : Do you really think Pete's trying to kill me? I mean, look, it's been five years since all of that. He's had plenty of opportunities since. Mannix, he's, um, he's my best friend. And besides, it was my bike he was on when he was almost killed.

  Joe Mannix : You didn't come back here to discuss Pete.

  Mitch Cantrell : All right, Mannix. What about Mona?

  Joe Mannix : What about her?

  Mitch Cantrell : She was up at your place talking about me.

  Joe Mannix : Was she telling the truth?

  Mitch Cantrell : Man, that's her thing. She likes to put me down.

  Joe Mannix : Then why do you let her hang on?

  Mitch Cantrell : I don't let her hang on. She just hangs in.

  Joe Mannix : And you just allow it because of some sentimental reason?

  Mitch Cantrell : Do you call being shot at some sentimental reason? Oh yeah, Mannix. Uh-huh. Mona. It was a year ago she went out and bought herself a derringer and she loaded it and she pointed it at me at she pulled the trigger. But she missed by a mile. I did a number and made sure no charge we're pressed. She didn't tell you that, did she?