Mannix (TV Series)

The Open Web (1972)

Mike Connors: Joe Mannix

Quotes 

• Lt. Art Malcolm : [he and Joe enter on Roarke and his attorney in Roarke's hospital room]  I suppose you instructed your client not to talk?

  Roarke's Attorney : That would depend on what you wanted to discuss, Lieutenant. I won't permit him to incriminate himself, no.

  Joe Mannix : He won't have to. He killed a police officer in cold blood.

  Roarke's Attorney : You don't think he had the right to defend himself?

  Lt. Art Malcolm : That's your plea, self-defense? That's a little far out, isn't it?

  Roarke's Attorney : Why is that? Mr. Roarke went to Mr. Mannix's office to chat about the circumstance of their last meeting. The door was opened by an officer who immediately drew his gun.

  Joe Mannix : It was still in his holster after the shooting.

  Roarke's Attorney : There was nobody present to see you put it back in the officer's holster after the shooting.

  Victor Roarke : Only me. I saw that.

  Joe Mannix : Save it for the jury, Roarke. You're gonna need all the defense you can get.

  Lt. Art Malcolm : Hold it, Joe. You sent word down that you were ready to talk. So far, I haven't heard anything worth the elevator ride. You change your mind?

  Roarke's Attorney : What's all that about? You didn't tell me.

  Victor Roarke : Cool it. I want to make a deal.

  Lt. Art Malcolm : No deals.

  Victor Roarke : Oh, sure. Yeah, sure. I understand, Lieutenant, you're lily white, but juries are paid to listen. And don't you forget where you heard what I'm going to tell you.

  Roarke's Attorney : Look, I don't know what you're getting at, but shut up.

  Victor Roarke : There was a judge that disappeared about a year ago. Remember?

  Joe Mannix : Judge Bishop?

  Victor Roarke : Yeah, that's the one.

  Lt. Art Malcolm : Yeah. What about him?

  Victor Roarke : I know where he's buried.

  Roarke's Attorney : You must be out of your mind. You want to be charged with that, too?

  Victor Roarke : I wasn't even around at the time. A friend of mine told me. No names, Lieutenant, or I'm a dead man.

  Roarke's Attorney : Victor, listen, you're confessing to withholding evidence.

  Victor Roarke : Sure. But maybe I'll buy a little consideration from the jury. Maybe they'll understand that at the time, I was too scared to talk. So I have this on my conscience, and I want to get it straight.

  Roarke's Attorney : That's stupid. You're only buying yourself a cell eight feet by ten.

  Victor Roarke : Lieutenant, do I have to listen to this clown?

  Roarke's Attorney : I'll answer that for you, Lieutenant. You get yourself another lawyer.

  [leaves the room in anger]