Mannix (TV Series)

Cold Trail (1971)

Mike Connors: Joe Mannix

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• Joe Mannix : Well, it's all set. You got a seat on the 11:00 flight. I'll drive you to the airport. Something tells me you're not going to get much more in there.

  Marie Fenlon : Something tells me you're going to have to close it.

  Joe Mannix : Say when.

  Marie Fenlon : [sighs]  I think that's everything. Ah, my book.

  [notices a picture of her and Barbara and looks at it] 

  Joe Mannix : What is it, Marie?

  Marie Fenlon : This was taken a week ago, the day Barbara and I arrived.

  [gives the picture to Mannix] 

  Marie Fenlon : I guess it's the last picture ever taken of her.

  Joe Mannix : With your ski outfits on, it's pretty hard to tell you apart.

  Marie Fenlon : Dark glasses don't help much, either.

  Joe Mannix : If it wasn't for your yellow outfit, I'd...

  Marie Fenlon : No, you've got it wrong. Barabara's the one in yellow. I'm in the blue.

  Joe Mannix : But you were wearing yellow yesterday.

  Marie Fenlon : Yes. That's my new outfit. I bought it the night before last in the ski shop.

  [points at the yellow outfit on the picture] 

  Marie Fenlon : This one here is my old outfit. You've never seen me in it.

  Joe Mannix : Let me get this straight- now all week until yesterday, you were going around in a blue outfit?

  Marie Fenlon : Mm-hmm.

  Joe Mannix : And Barbara- what color outfit was she wearing all week?

  Marie Fenlon : Yellow. But then yesterday morning, she switched, too, because the zipper broke in her jacket. Naturally, since I wasn't using my blue suit, I insisted she...

  [realizes what Joe is thinking] 

  Marie Fenlon : She was wearing my suit when...

  Joe Mannix : Marie, now you and Barbara skied Shinbone most afternoons, didn't you?

  Marie Fenlon : [nods]  Every afternoon.

  Joe Mannix : At a particular time?

  Marie Fenlon : Somewhere around 2:00. That was our ritual. We'd hit Shinbone and then head for the showers.

  [suddenly on the edge of crying] 

  Marie Fenlon : Joe, don't! You're only making it harder. Stop trying to prove that something vicious happened to her. I told you she didn't have an enemy in the world.

  Joe Mannix : What she did have was a blue ski outfit that you'd been seen in constantly. I wonder if that's why they grabbed her.

  Marie Fenlon : "They"? Who's they?

  Joe Mannix : Whoever was waiting on Shinbone yesterday afternoon... for you.

  Marie Fenlon : For me?

  [scoffs] 

  Marie Fenlon : Who'd want to kill me?

  Joe Mannix : Maybe they only intended to kidnap you.

  Marie Fenlon : What for? Ransom? My father's a college professor. The most he could scrape together would be a few thousand dollars.

  Joe Mannix : Marie, you don't believe Barbara was going go ski Jackboot, either, do you?

  Marie Fenlon : No. I find that hard to accept.

  Joe Mannix : Yet she was found some 100 yards or more east of Shinbone. How? She was dragged there and dropped because they realized that they had made a mistake and grabbed the wrong girl. At that point, they couldn't turn her loose, so they killed her and made it look like an accident.

  Marie Fenlon : So they'd be free to come after me.

  Joe Mannix : Look, I'm going to see that you get home safely. I'm going to drive you to your door. When we get back to Los Angeles, I can arrange for protection until we find out who and why.

  Marie Fenlon : I'll get my ski gear together.

  Joe Mannix : I'm going to pack my car and come back and pick you up. Lock this door. And don't open it for anyone but me.

  [walks out the door as Marie locks it behind him]