Mannix (TV Series)

The Green Man (1974)

Mike Connors: Joe Mannix

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Quotes 

• Joe Mannix : Eh, you've been a busy boy today. Does your mother know what you do for a living?

  Stone : I'll tell her.

  Joe Mannix : Move.

• Joe Mannix : How long has your son been missing, Mrs. Dabney?

  Mrs. Dabney : A week. He was to have had dinner with me. He never showed up.

  [takes out a tissue] 

  Brasher : Please.

  [escorts her to a chair] 

  Mrs. Dabney : My son is a very responsible boy, Mr. Mannix. He wouldn't just disappear.

  Brasher : Not without leaving a trace. And that's why we called you, Mr. Mannix - to find him.

  Mrs. Dabney : I'm sure he's fallen into bad company.

  Joe Mannix : And what, uh, makes you think that, Mrs. Dabney?

  Brasher : Turner Dabney has one unfortunate weakness, and it has brought him into conflict with the law.

  Joe Mannix : You mean he has a prison record?

  Brasher : Oh, no, of course not.

  Mrs. Dabney : But we have had to use family influence several times.

  Brasher : Turner Dabney... has been known to pass counterfeit money.

  Mrs. Dabney : But only in very small amounts. And... and nobody knows why. He's always had a very adequate allowance from the trust. Mr. Mannix, you must find my son.

  Joe Mannix : Well, I'll try, Mrs. Dabney. However, I will need a little information - uh, bank, credit accounts, car license number...

  Mrs. Dabney : Mr. Mannix, Turner and I have been out of touch. That's why I came here from Boston - so that we could renew our relationship.

  Joe Mannix : I see. What about friends, uh, girls?

  Mrs. Dabney : He was always very popular at home, but Turner never expressed any interest in girls. But he loves music. Um, ragtime, I believe it's called. Isn't that odd? Turner liking ragtime?

  Joe Mannix : Mmm. Well, uh, no records, no friends, uh, no girls. Uh, you're not making it very easy, Mrs. Dabney.

  Brasher : This might make it easier, Mr. Mannix. A check for $1,000. The agreement guarantees you an additional $9,000 when you locate Turner Dabney.

  [long pause] 

  Joe Mannix : Well, I'll do my very best to find your son, Mrs. Dabney.

  Mrs. Dabney : Oh, thank you, Mr. Mannix.

  Joe Mannix : Mr. Brasher.

  Brasher : [shares hands with Joe]  Mr. Mannix.

  [Joe leaves the office] 

• Joe Mannix : Mr. Dabney?

  Turner Dabney : Yeah. What do you want?

  Joe Mannix : You got change for a twenty?

  Turner Dabney : No, I...

  [Joe takes a phony $20 bill out of his pocket] 

  Turner Dabney : Treasury?

  Joe Mannix : No. The name is Mannix. Mrs. Hamilton is very worried about you.

  Turner Dabney : Betty... Betty sent you here?

  Joe Mannix : She's trying to help you. I was hired by a Mr. Brasher, who sent one of his men over to take a couple of shots at Mrs. Hamilton.

  Turner Dabney : You mean they tried to kill her?

  Joe Mannix : Well, she's all right. You're the one who's in trouble. Seems Mr. Brasher wants all that lovely green your plates can make.

  Turner Dabney : Well, those plates are mine.

  Joe Mannix : Yeah. How much did you print up?

  Turner Dabney : Uh... printed a little bit more than a million. They wouldn't let me live the way I wanted to, so I just... I had to get away.

  Joe Mannix : Let me tell you something. All that money you printed up isn't worth a plug nickel. You got no organization, no distributors, no way to launder it. And now the Treasury Department is on the lookout for every one of those bills. I'd say that you've got only one thing you can do.

  Turner Dabney : What's that?

  Joe Mannix : Turn the whole bag over to the Treasury. Plates, money, everything.

  Turner Dabney : [stammers]  They'll put me in jail.

  Joe Mannix : Well, now, when you started your little printing business, you must have known that there was some risk involved. Now, if you'll help keep those plates away from Brasher, maybe the law will go easy on you.

  [airplane engine starts] 

  Turner Dabney : Oh, maybe you're right. Things are in the plane. The money and everything.

  [suddenly takes out a gun] 

  Turner Dabney : Okay, Mr. Mannix. Get in. Come on!

  [Mannix gets into the plane]