Mike Connors credited as playing...
Joe Mannix
- 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.
- Eddie Richter: The Bedford heist.
- Joe Mannix: The Bedford heist.
- Eddie Richter: Oh, are you kidding? Somebody's putting you on, Mannix.
- Joe Mannix: That's right, Richter, my sources put me right on to you.
- Eddie Richter: Well, you should double-check your sources. I wouldn't touch a stone of the Bedford heist.
- Joe Mannix: Now, look, Richter, they grabbed a briefcase in that heist. That's all I'm after.
- Eddie Richter: I ain't got money to pay the phone bill. You could retire on what I owe in back taxes. How could I possibly handle a... a deal like the Bedford?
- Joe Mannix: Okay, Richter, we'll let it ride. Uh, listen, Eddie... if they should just happen to contact you, and if you should happen to change your mind about fencing the jewels... tell the boys I'm only after the briefcase. And I'm paying for its return.