Mannix (TV Series)

Carol Lockwood, Past Tense (1973)

Victoria Racimo: Minh McIver

Quotes 

• Minh McIver : [opens the door to her apartment]  Mr. Mannix. Come in, please.

  Joe Mannix : Thank you.

  Minh McIver : I have a photograph for you. It's over there.

  Joe Mannix : [looks around the apartment]  Say, this is, uh, very nice.

  Minh McIver : Thank you.

  [shows Joe a picture of her husband, Allan McIver] 

  Minh McIver : This is Allan.

  Joe Mannix : Mm. Plays poker, favors bourbon, um, down-to-earth, and has a Tennessee drawl.

  Minh McIver : You have been working, haven't you?

  Joe Mannix : Yeah, with some help. I was thinking about the night he left, his saying he was going out for "a spot of business," I believe you told me. Now that doesn't sound like a boy from Tennessee.

  Minh McIver : No. Allan didn't say that.

  Joe Mannix : Who did say it?

  Minh McIver : The woman who called. I answered the phone.

  Joe Mannix : Who is she? Do you know?

  Minh McIver : I thought she was from the airline office. I remember she said, "Would you put him on, please? I have a spot of business I want to discuss with him." Mr. Mannix... you don't think that he's...

  Joe Mannix : Mixed up with a woman? Not that way. No more than you do.

  Minh McIver : I don't understand.

  Joe Mannix : Help me to understand, Mrs. McIver. Help me to understand how a man who could put away almost $90,000 for six months work could have a money problem.

  Minh McIver : $90,000?

  Joe Mannix : Yeah, that's what his bank account shows, almost to the penny.

  Minh McIver : I don't know anything about that.

  Joe Mannix : Only that his problems were about to be solved? How? Now you can't possibly have a money problem at $90,000 a year unless you wanted more money. Don't you agree?

  Minh McIver : I don't know.

  Joe Mannix : This isn't pilot salary we're talking about, Mrs. McIver, not that kind of money. So why don't you level with me? The truth for once, what you're really thinking.

  Minh McIver : You have no right to talk to me that way.

  Joe Mannix : One question. Why did you wait days before reporting him missing?

  Minh McIver : I kept hoping he would come back.

  Joe Mannix : And you wouldn't have to open up something that might bring the police on the run. I had no proof he was doing anything wrong. I still have no proof. But you have senses, intuition, like I have. When I find out a pilot's been banking more money than he should, I start thinking about smuggling. I see contraband, like gold, uncut diamonds, jade, narcotics, maybe even people. What do you see, Mrs. McIver?

  Minh McIver : [hesitates before answering]  Allan needed all this. I found out that... that nothing- not me, not anything in the world- mattered to him as much as money. It was his whole life.

  Joe Mannix : [sighs]  Let's hope that isn't what it's cost him.