Mannix (TV Series)

Cry Pigeon (1972)

Pat Renella: Braden

Quotes 

• Duke Benedict : I'm having a little problem, Mannix. You seem to be a part of it.

  Joe Mannix : I was going to say the same thing about you, Duke.

  Duke Benedict : You were there when Tom Fortune got hit. Tell me what happened.

  Joe Mannix : You read the newspaper account, didn't you? That's the way it was.

  Duke Benedict : Yeah, well, I had the impression there was more to it.

  Joe Mannix : Like what?

  Duke Benedict : Oh, I don't know. Just a feeling, a something between the lines that maybe the man that pulled the trigger was a friend of mine.

  Joe Mannix : Come on, what kind of a cute game are you playing, Duke? You started this whole thing motion deliberately. You trying to squeeze out now?

  Duke Benedict : Make that clearer, Mannix.

  Joe Mannix : The story about Maria Fortune. You put the word out that the two of you had something going.

  Duke Benedict : Oh, I did, huh? When?

  Joe Mannix : There was a party. You had a few too many.

  Duke Benedict : What party?

  Joe Mannix : Maybe you were too much under the weather to remember.

  Duke Benedict : Mannix, I saw Maria Fortune once in my life at the races with Tom. We were not introduced. I never saw her again. I don't go to parties and I never get juiced. Now why would I make up a dumb story about her?

  Joe Mannix : I'll give you her theory. You knew what a rumor like that would do to Tom. And that's the way it worked out. He went crazy with jealousy, called me to the warehouse to meet him. He went there without his bodyguard because it was such a personal matter and he walked right into a setup.

  Duke Benedict : Hmm. Well, even if I was smart enough to figure all that out, what would it get me?

  Joe Mannix : A better chance to push the Fortune family right out of the rackets.

  Duke Benedict : The old man, what does he think about all this?

  Joe Mannix : After tonight, what can he think?

  Braden : Look, Mannix, there's no war. I didn't kill Martisse up there on that roof, but I could have.

  Duke Benedict : He's right. If I'd set up the contract on Tom Fortune, I wouldn't have stopped there. Martisse would have been hit, too. And any other member of Fortune's family who stuck his head out!

  Joe Mannix : Why tell me, Duke? The man to convince is Victor Fortune.

  Duke Benedict : You set it up, Mannix, a meeting.

  Joe Mannix : What?

  Duke Benedict : A summit meeting with old man Fortune.

  Joe Mannix : Not a chance. He already thinks I helped killed Tom. Suicide doesn't appeal to me.

  Duke Benedict : I'm telling you what I want, Mannix.

  Joe Mannix : Forget it, Benedict. I'm not gonna walk in on old man Fortune. Period.

  Duke Benedict : [laughs]  Look at him, huh? Tough guy. Refuses to walk in. Deliver him.