"I'm here to listen, Phil."
The wife of an old Korean War buddy hires Joe to look into who's been trying to kill her and why. The reasons, we discover, are not at all what you'd expect.
It is now official: Goff and Roberts cannot do a boring show. Even when they take a few liberties with the plot (such as why Joe would be so quick to believe that a name engraved on a locket he finds in his client's car would be significant to the case. Or why hardened Mafia killers didn't simply just SHOOT their intended victim weeks before), you can't look away from the action.
And the lovely Jessica Walter, a year or so away from playing a psychotic femme fatale in Clint Eastwood's PLAY MISTY FOR ME, here plays a woman with emotional issues of her own.
The show only implies what her character's been doing at the bar she has been frequenting under a different name: Picking up strange men. I suppose even in the early 70s, network TV couldn't be too overt about this stuff.
Walter's quite good, and so is this episode.
Another solid entry in the MANNIX casebook.
The wife of an old Korean War buddy hires Joe to look into who's been trying to kill her and why. The reasons, we discover, are not at all what you'd expect.
It is now official: Goff and Roberts cannot do a boring show. Even when they take a few liberties with the plot (such as why Joe would be so quick to believe that a name engraved on a locket he finds in his client's car would be significant to the case. Or why hardened Mafia killers didn't simply just SHOOT their intended victim weeks before), you can't look away from the action.
And the lovely Jessica Walter, a year or so away from playing a psychotic femme fatale in Clint Eastwood's PLAY MISTY FOR ME, here plays a woman with emotional issues of her own.
The show only implies what her character's been doing at the bar she has been frequenting under a different name: Picking up strange men. I suppose even in the early 70s, network TV couldn't be too overt about this stuff.
Walter's quite good, and so is this episode.
Another solid entry in the MANNIX casebook.