Renato Romano credited as playing...
Mandel
- Detective John Norton: [together at the pub] The Ambassador didn't need you any longer?
- Mandel: [smoking his cigar] So, you know too, huh? Almost three weeks ago, he said, "With my conjunctivitis, I couldn't drive anymore." Mm-hmm. Only, he has to pay me what he owes me. He thinks he can take advantage of me because he's a diplomat on foreign soil. But he doesn't know the likes of me.
- Mandel: [violently raises his right fist] I will knock his block off even if they put me INSIDE for it, you know that? And... that FUCKING BASTARD!
- Detective John Norton: And why didn't they give you a month's notice?
- Mandel: [sips in a pint of beer] I, I don't know. It was twenty days ago. That's why I'm sitting here, free as the air without a penny in my pocket, you know.
- Detective John Norton: Twenty days ago... That'd be right after the murder, then?
- Mandel: [sighs] Yes. yes, you are right, now that I think of it.
- Mandel: [putting on fragmented glasses underneath the cigarette box] You smoke?
- Detective John Norton: Uh-uh.
- Detective John Norton: [looks at the fragmented glasses] No, I don't.
- Mandel: [dramatic music plays and Mandel looks at his fragmented glasses in disbelief] Oh... they got broken when I got off the bus. Some bastard gave me a shove, you know? Uh, I heard the crack but I didn't take any notice at the time, and, uh...
- Detective John Norton: [pauses] When are you pulling out?
- Mandel: Why?
- Detective John Norton: Nothing. I might just want to have another word with you, you never know.
- Detective John Norton: [takes Mandel's broken eyeglasses] I'm sorry you're broke, you know. I'll take these with me and have them fixed.