Mike Connors credited as playing...
Joe Mannix
- Joe Mannix: Please sit down, Mr. Griswold.
- Lou Griswold: Uh, first, Mr. Mannix, I... I owe you an apology. That stuff I spouted off at police headquarters about, uh, the world we're living in and people not becoming involved, uh, I just wasn't thinking right. You are involved, and, uh, with a little bit of luck, uh, well, we might have an idea now who... who we're looking for. What I'm trying to sat is that, uh, I... I'm sorry, and uh, thank you.
- Joe Mannix: How about a cup of coffee?
- Lou Griswold: No thanks, but, uh... Mr. Mannix, tell me, uh, what do you get a day?
- Joe Mannix: A hundred dollars a day plus expenses.
- Lou Griswold: I'll give you two.
- Joe Mannix: For doing what?
- Lou Griswold: Last night, the man who murdered my wife, I want him caught. Then at least I can tell myself I did everything I could.
- Joe Mannix: Now, Mr. Griswold, I know you must, uh, feel that you need to strike out at somebody, but I can understand that.
- Lou Griswold: Look, Mr. Mannix, I didn't come here to be analyzed. I mean, I don't want just somebody. No, I want the man who killed my wife. I want the man who killed Harriet! Look, this is very... difficult for me to explain to you. I... We never had any children. I mean, my wife... Harriet was all I ever had. And I'm not gonna rest until I see that man trapped, and I can sit in a courtroom and watch him get what he deserves.
- Joe Mannix: Mr. Griswold, Lieutenant Malcolm's on your case. You couldn't be in better hands.
- Lou Griswold: Look, I know the police have hundreds of unsolved cases just like this one. Lieutenant Malcolm told me so. I don't expect them to drop everything and just concentrate on mine. But I thought someone like yourself, if I made it worth your while, you could help me.
- Joe Mannix: Mr. Griswold, why don't you give the police a few days, and if nothing turns up, why then maybe I...
- Lou Griswold: *Now, Mr. Mannix! I want your help now*! I know the police are doing everything they can, but I want more muscle. I'm prepared to pay for it. If takes weeks, months... Now this man, Kohler... you said you think he saw the killing, right?
- Joe Mannix: That's right, but when I talked to him, Kohler said he was watching television.
- Lou Griswold: Well, then go to him again, talk to him again. Offer him money, bribe him. Threaten him if you have to!
- Joe Mannix: Mr. Griswold, doing that could cost me my license.
- Lou Griswold: Oh, come on, Mannix. When's the last time you did a job entirely by the book?
- Lou Griswold: [as Joe opens his office door an indication of wanting him to leave because of the last statement] I... I take that back. I'm sorry. You do it your way. But please, help me, Mr. Mannix, please.
- Joe Mannix: All right, Mr. Griswold, I'll do what I can.
- [Griswold leaves]