A mobster's lawyer desperately wants Joe to recover a briefcase that was stolen in a hotel robbery. His life depends on Joe getting it back.A mobster's lawyer desperately wants Joe to recover a briefcase that was stolen in a hotel robbery. His life depends on Joe getting it back.A mobster's lawyer desperately wants Joe to recover a briefcase that was stolen in a hotel robbery. His life depends on Joe getting it back.
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Did you know
- TriviaThis is Robert Reed's final appearance as Lt. Tobias.
- GoofsWhen the car Mannix jumped out of is going over the cliff, it becomes a Ford with vertically stacked headlamps rather than the Dodge with side by side headlamps he was driving during the chase.
- Quotes
Joe Mannix: [Mark Prentiss enters Mannix's office] Mr. Prentiss.
Mark Prentiss: Mr. Mannix. Can we, uh, get right to the point?
Joe Mannix: Of course. Please sit down.
Mark Prentiss: Thank you. I use the safe deposit vault at the Bedford Hotel. And last night, that vault was broken into.
Joe Mannix: Yes, I was just reading about it. They got away with about $150,000 in jewelry, a hunk of cash, bonds...
Mark Prentiss: And a briefcase.
Joe Mannix: A briefcase?
Mark Prentiss: Mine, as it happens. Recover by Tuesday, Mr. Mannix, and I'll write you a check for $5,000.
Joe Mannix: That's some briefcase. What was in it?
Mark Prentiss: Papers, depositions... to be used as evidence in a murder trial. Useless to anyone else, but absolutely essential to me, if I'm to free my client. I must have them back.
Joe Mannix: Now, who's your client?
Mark Prentiss: Vince Adante.
Joe Mannix: Yeah. Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Prentiss, but suddenly I don't like the smell of your briefcase.
Mark Prentiss: Adante is innocent.
Joe Mannix: Vince Adante doesn't know what the word means.
Mark Prentiss: Mr. Mannix, my client is facing a 20-year sentence. Suppose a year from now, two years, five- that missing evidence turns up? How responsible would you fell for Adante's false conviction? The law judges a man's guilt on a particular charge. It acquits a man on the basis of evidence, and that evidence was in my briefcase in my safe deposit box at the Bedford Hotel, and I must have that briefcase back. It is worth $5,000 to me.
Joe Mannix: But not to me. Now I have a great deal of respect for you, counselor, but I don't like Vince Adante, guilty or innocent. Now, you'd be wasting your money. Besides, that briefcase is probably in a sewer by now.
Mark Prentiss: All right, Mr. Mannix... find me that sewer.
- ConnectionsEdited into Mannix: A Choice of Victims (1974)
Soon after this, a prominent lawyer comes to Mannix to beg him to take his case. It seems that a briefcase filled with information about a case was in safekeeping inside the same safe that was robbed....and Mannix begins to suspect that stealing this might have been the real reason for the robbery. Although Mannix hates the man the lawyer is defending, as he is mob scum....and Mannix HATES mob scum, he takes the case because without the briefcase the lawyer might just be a dead man.
What follows is an odd story where the briefcase really isn't that important and Mannix starts to realize that something is up with the case and might end up with a shootout. How does he realize this? I have no idea...he must have read it in the script.
The bottom line is that this story seemed weak and filled with a few plot problems. Of course, it's still watchable but shows that after seven seasons, perhaps the franchise is wearing a bit thin.
- planktonrules
- Apr 14, 2017
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- Griffith Park Pony Ride - 4400 Crystal Springs Dr, Los Angeles, California, USA(scene near beginning at pony rides)
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