"♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪" "♪ ♪" "Mannix s8e18 The Empty Tower" "(GLASS CRUNCHES)" "(VEHICLE APPROACHING)" "(CAR DOOR CLOSES)" "(SIGHS)" "(CHUCKLES)" "Uh, yeah, this is Joe Mannix." "Any messages?" "Are you sure you didn't get a call from a Mr. Magnuson?" "Yeah, well, uh, thanks." "Good night." "♪ ♪" "(SILENCED GUNSHOT RICOCHETS)" "(SILENCED GUNSHOT)" "♪ ♪" "(LIGHT BULB BREAKS) (GUNSHOTS)" "All right, he's all yours." "Well, Johnny Feigen, huh?" "Yep." "He said in court he'd come back and get you." "Yeah." "He carried a grudge for a lot of years." "The guy escapes from prison, he's on the Most Wanted List, and instead of disappearing into the woodwork, he tries to make good on a promise." "Yeah, well, that was Johnny Feigen, all right." "Come on, you could use a drink." "Eh, no thanks, Art, some other time." "(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)" "(SIGHS)" "Hi. (CHUCKLES) Tony!" "Hey, not bad, 48 minutes." "Tell me something, Tony, when you were born, were you on time?" "Two weeks late." "Yeah, well, at least there is some improvement." "Well, thank you very much." "Uh, Harry, two more of the same, please." "I'm really sorry, Joe." "Yeah, well, what was it this time?" "It was business." "No kidding." "Yes." "No, really, I'm about to make a big killing with some international wheeler-dealers." "Oh, how exciting... big finance." "Yes." "Yeah, well, I admit that the precious metals business is not as glamorous as yours." "I mean, no one takes shots at me, but my business is tricky." "It's true." "Do you know that I have to be nice to some big money men that you would throw right out of your office?" "Well, if they were big money men like you," "I'd do it very gently." "You're a nice man." "Joe, uh, the reason I called you..." "I'm starting to get a little tired of the... (CLEARS THROAT) The wheeler-dealer business, and I thought maybe... well, maybe we could take a couple of days off, go fishing." "Yeah, well, right about now I could use that, too." "All right, suppose I called old man Anderson and just said, "Tell those fish we're on our way"?" "Sounds so great." "Oh, great." "Harry, give me the phone, will you, please?" "Hey, no, now, wait a minute." "I..." "I just can't do it." "Why?" "Well, uh, I'm wrapping up a case." "I've got to hang in there for an important phone call." "A phone call?" "Yeah." "Joe, uh..." "(CLEARS THROAT)" "I don't want to stun you or anything, but do you know that the phone company now has telephones everywhere?" "Mm." "Yes, yes." "So couldn't Peggy take the message and then put the call through to the lodge?" "Hey, we did get pretty lucky last year, didn't we?" "You did, but this is my year, Joe." "I went out and bought a whole bunch of new flies." "You're kidding." "Ah, they're beautiful." "Why not, huh?" "You're on." "Okay, good." "I will be at your office Saturday morning, 10:00 sharp." "Sharp?" "Sharp." "I'll lay eight to five." "Eight to five, huh?" "It's all in the wrists." "Those poor fish don't stand a chance." "Yeah, why don't they just surrender and save me a whole weekend?" "(CHUCKLES):" "Oh, Joe!" "Hey, your friend's running a little behind schedule, isn't he?" "Yeah, well, that's Tony..." "why should today be any different than any other day?" "Here, let me show you how it's done." "No, thanks!" "The only trout I want to see is on a plate with almondine sauce." "(DOOR OPENS)" "(PANTS)" "Hello." "Hello, Mr. Elliot." "Uh, Tony." "Tony." "Yes, I, uh... (CHUCKLES):" "Threw all my stuff in your car." "I'm sorry I'm late." "I expect it." "I plan my day around it." "That's why I do it, Joe..." "out of consideration for you." "Ah." "You know, I still feel guilty leaving you to mind the store on this long holiday weekend." "Don't give it a second thought." "I just keep thinking of all that lovely overtime I'll be making for doing nothing but waiting for a phone call." "Oh, it's worth every penny, but, now, I need that information." "As soon as the call comes in, I'll phone you at the lodge." "Wish I could help." "Ah, he's all heart." "(TONY CHUCKLES) Have a nice weekend." "Good-bye, Peggy." "Good-bye, Tony." "Well, look at it this way, Joe... we deserved it, we earned it, we have a right to it." "Well, I must say it was a great idea." "A couple of days fishing in the mountains, breathing air you can see through for a change." "Yeah." "No decisions to make." "Right." "Except what stream to fish." "Right." "What lures to use." "Right." "Lures to use?" "Joe..." "Joe, stop the car." "Aw, don't..." "Stop the car, Joe!" "tell me you got a problem." "Yes." "What did you forgot?" "I forgot my flies." "(SIGHS)" "Well, I can't help it, Joe!" "My brand new flies, they're sitting in a desk drawer right there in the office." "How?" "Tell me, how does this man get through the day on his own?" "Aw, Joe, please!" "A fisherman without his flies!" "Why... (SIGHS) It's only a couple of blocks out of your way." "Oh, I'm proud of you." "At least, you remembered where your office is." "(HONKS) Hey, now, Tony, don't mess around." "Now, those fish aren't gonna wait around all day." "Why?" "What else have they got to do?" "Oh, boy." "♪ ♪" "Hello, Mr. Allen." "Looks like you're the last one out of the building today." "Almost." "You got a customer." "(KNOCKING ON GLASS)" "Thanks, Charley." "I forgot something." "I won't be a second." "You still have to sign in anyway, Mr. Elliot." "Sure thing." "And I'll check you out, Mr. Allen." "Check me out and sign me in a box seat at the stadium." "That's a big game today." "I'll hear it anyway." "I've got my radio back there." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)" "(TURNS RADIO OFF)" "Hi, yeah, a friend of mine went up to his office about 20 minutes ago." "Uh, Tony Elliott." "Yeah, I'd like to go up and find out what's keeping him, drag him out by his heels if necessary." "We're going fishing." "Oh, it's all right by me, but you'll still have to sign in." "Rules." "Sure." "Elevator's around the corner." "Yeah, I know, I've been here before." "Yeah, you'll have to use the first one." "It's the only one working today." "Sure." "I'm sorry to bother you." "No bother." "Any company is a pleasure on a day like this." "Too bad you're stuck." "Yeah." "Kirby." "KIRBY (OVER RADIO):" "It's okay, i saw him come in from up here." "We'll take care of him." "I seem to be interrupting something." "You could say that." "Put your hands on the wall." "A friend of mine came up here a little while ago." "What happened to him?" "He's all right." "You're gonna be okay, too." "Just do as you're told and you won't get hurt." "Understand?" "Move." "It's okay, we've got him." "Don't forget, his car is still parked out there." "Don't worry about it." "Just keep your eyes open." "Okay." "He's clean." "Keys to your car..." "let's have them." "Where's Tony Elliott?" "I told you he's okay." "The keys, the keys." "The keys." "Drive it down in the garage." "Now, where's Elliott?" "The vault." "Move." "Is that it?" "That's everything." "Inside." "Tony." "(GROANS)" "Easy." "Oh, Joe, oh." "Oh." "Well, let me take a look at it." "aah!" "(GROANS) Keep your hands away from it." "Ouch." "Oh, it hurts, huh?" "Yeah, Joe..." "All I can say is, it's a good thing you've got such a thick head." "Yeah, and it's got a bell in it right now." "Oh, my hair hurts." "Well, I guess we can take it for granted they weren't after your new flies." "Yeah, yeah." "Yeah, I think you could say that, yeah." "Probably not trout fisherman." "Oh, really?" "Uh-huh." "Hey, who handles your security?" "Uh, Peterson's." "The whole building is wired into it, everybody." "Goes straight to headquarters." "What kind of an alarm system?" "I don't know, it's some sort of, uh... electronic bounce-back thing." "Uh, it's, it's, it's the best that money can buy, Joe." "(SCOFFS)" "Obviously not good enough." "Well, what is that supposed to mean?" "Yeah, you're beautiful, you know that?" "We start on a nice little fishing trip and we end up in the middle of a large-scale looting operation." "Well, it's hardly large-scale, Joe." "It'd take them about a, a half hour to clean this place out." "I'm talking about this whole building, and they got a nice long weekend to do it in." "What are you talking about?" "Well, didn't you see the bins out there?" "Yeah." "I'd say they're after every firm in this building that's got anything of value." "Huh." "Boy, that'd be some haul." "Yeah." "Well, Joe, look." "Oh!" "Oh, boy." "(SIGHS)" "I must have twisted my ankle when they jumped me." "Oh, swell." "Well, it doesn't matter very much, does it, Joe?" "I mean, considering we're stuck here until my secretary arrives on Monday morning." "We'd better not be here." "We could be dead by then." "What?" "There's not enough air in here, Tony, at least not for the two of us." "Joe, we have a ventilating system." "Tony, they probably turned it off." "They wouldn't do that." "We've seen their faces, Tony." "Now, you don't really think they're going to leave us behind to identify 'em." "What are we going to do?" "(SIGHS)" "What kind of vault is this?" "It's a Hauser." "It's the best you can get." "You know me, Joe, always the best." "And what series is it in..." "eight, nine, or ten?" "814-A." "Joe, Joe, what are you doing?" "Joe!" "(GROANS)" "Joe, that door cost me $8,000." "Tough." "Well, since you have managed to ruin a perfectly good vault door, now what?" "The Hauser eight series features free-floating gears and tumblers." "Now, the gears make it tougher to get in from the outside, but... it just might make it possible for me to work these tumblers from the inside." "Now, if I work this backwards it would be the same as opening it from the outside." "Impossible." "I told you, this is the most expensive vault made." "Yeah, well, all the engineering is done from the outside to keep people from breaking in, not breaking out." "KIRBY (OVER RADIO):" "Mallory, Mallory." "Yeah." "You wrapped up the brokerage office yet?" "Yeah, this is getting to be too much like work." "But it pays a lot better." "You really think there's going to be $10 million?" "Yeah." "Too bad there's going to be a couple dead bodies around when the weekend's over." "Don't sweat it." "$5 million a body ain't bad." "They're not going cheap." "Hold it, I'll give you your next move." "Yeah, wait a minute." "Industrial Diamonds." "Move." "Right." "Okay, that should be zero." "Now, what's the combination?" "Joe, look, don't you think we ought to think about this first?" "There are three guys out there with guns." "Yeah, and there are two of us in here without enough air to make it to Monday." "Yeah, but we don't know that they turned off the ventilation." "Maybe they don't want murder on their hands." "You really want to bank on that, Tony?" "Hmm." "Okay." "Now, what's the combination?" "All right, it's, uh... left 17." "So we reverse it and make it right 17." "Car's in the garage." "Good." "Who's next on the hit parade?" "Industrial Diamonds." "Great, diamonds are my best friends." "Also, they fence out high." "Sure I can't help?" "Just don't forget the combination." "(SIGHS)" "What next?" "Right 28." "We make it 28 left." "(PHONE RINGS)" "Mr. Mannix's office." "Oh, yes." "Yes, Mr. Magnuson." "Uh-huh." "Oh, thank you, thank you very much." "He's been waiting for this, and I'll call him right away." "Bye." "Okay." "Now, what's next?" "Left 80." "(DIALING)" "(PHONE RINGS)" "Hello." "Anderson's Landing." "Anderson speaking." "Oh, hello, I'd like to speak to Joe Mannix, please." "So would I." "By the time him and Tony get up here, all the fish are going to be frying in someone else's pan." "He's not there yet?" "That's right." "He should have been there hours ago." "I wouldn't know about that;" "they're just not here yet." "Well, as soon as he gets there, would you have him call his office, please?" "It's very important." "Sure will, miss, soon as he gets here." "Thank you very much." "How's it going with Industrial Diamonds?" "MAN (OVER RADIO):" "It's done, It's done." "Okay." "Your next stop is the Davis Galleries... the pen and ink originals on the left wall." "Got it?" "(OVER RADIO):" "Pen and ink originals on the left wall." "That's all you take, understand?" "All right, all right." "(SIGHS)" "Okay, now, what's the last number?" "41 to the right." "♪ ♪" "(OVER PHONE):" "Operator." "Mobile operator, please." "One moment, please." "MALE OPERATOR:" "Mobile operator." "I want KG6-2114." "Your number, please?" "555-6644." "Thank you." "One moment, please." "I'm sorry, but the unit doesn't answer." "Can you tell me why?" "Oh, it could be any of a number of things." "Maybe the party switched off the unit." "No, he wouldn't do that;" "he's expecting this call." "Well, in that case, I'd say he's probably out of the car or else he's going through a poor reception area like a rough road, maybe a tunnel." "Why don't you try again in a few minutes?" "I'll do that." "Thank you, Operator." "(CLICKING)" "(SIGHS)" "Well, that should open it." "♪ ♪" "Every phone line in the building must have been cut." "(SIGHS)" "What's in there?" "That's my dressing room." "Okay, you're going in there." "Why?" "Because when they come back and see this vault door closed, they're gonna think we're still in there." "Now, I'm going out for help and you're gonna stay in there for the whole weekend if necessary." "Come on." "No, no, Joe, I'm going with you." "Now, come on." "(GROANS)" "Why don't you do that?" "Come on." "Now lock the door and don't open it unless you're sure it's me." "Joe, why don't you just stay here with me." "They're never going to know that we're out." "No, and don't open it." "Lock it." "(LOCK CLICKS)" "More?" "That's only half of it." "I don't know where we can make room." "I'll take these down to the truck and bring up an empty bin." "Make it two bins." "We've got to get the police." "There's a heist going on upstairs." "There sure is." "(GUNSHOTS)" "Kirby!" "Kirby?" "Charley, what is it?" "They got the vault open." "Mannix just showed." "He's on the loose." "He's headed for the bottom garage level." "What about the garage exit?" "It's tight as a drum." "Then we'll get him." "Just keep that front door locked." "Right." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "(TIRES SQUEALING DISTANTLY)" "(GUNSHOTS)" "He's not in the car." "There he goes!" "(GUNSHOT)" "He stopped on two." "Wait a minute, he's going again." "Stopping on three." "Going again." "He could be getting off at any floor." "I'm sorry to bother you again, Mr. Anderson, but I wanted to be sure." "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "I got your message about Joe." "What's wrong?" "That was the fishing lodge." "I called them again." "Art, he hasn't shown up yet." "Look, Peggy, anything could have delayed him." "Can I have some coffee?" "Sure." "Maybe they stopped off for a long lunch somewhere." "Or maybe they decided to try their luck at one of the other lakes before going on to the lodge." "No." "Joe was waiting for a call on the Magnuson case." "It was very important to him." "He would have checked with me by now." "Even if he got locked up in the holiday traffic, a real jam?" "Art, he has a phone in his car." "Oh, well, call him on that." "I tried." "There's no answer." "Art, I know something's wrong." "Something has to be." "(PHONE RINGS) Oh." "Hello?" "Just a second, please." "It's for you, Art." "Malcolm." "Okay." "Roll all the black-and-whites that are available." "We want every location covered, right?" "I'm on my way in." "And I thought it was going to be a quiet weekend." "What happened?" "Peterson's Security Service found out their alarm wires were cut last night." "They've got 300 clients all over town, any one of which could be getting hit right now." "Oh, about Joe, if we hear anything, you'll hear it next." "But if you ask me, you'll hear from him before we do." "Art?" "Thanks." "Thank you." "(KNOCKING)" "Tony, it's me, Joe." "Joe, where've you been?" "What's been going on?" "I couldn't get out." "Your guard in the lobby, he's in on it." "Charley?" "Well, that takes care of that, Joe." "You're going to have to stay in here with me until Monday." "Tony, they know we're out of the vault." "There's no way they're gonna let us out of the building alive." "Now, I'm gonna try and get to the roof and attract someone's attention." "They'll never figure you stayed behind." "Just make sure the door is locked, and if you hear someone coming, don't make a sound, huh?" "All right, Joe, be careful, huh?" "Yeah." "Charley." "Go ahead, Kirby." "I want you to lock the stairwell door to the main floor, got it?" "Right." "Art, I know you have your hands full, but..." "Oh, that's all right, Peggy." "Still no word, huh?" "Nothing." "I checked the Highway Patrol and all the hospitals along the way." "No sign of either one of them." "Art, they couldn't have just disappeared into thin air." "They've got to be somewhere." "Charley, I want an APB put out on Joe Mannix." "Blue sports coupe, license number 699-FNW." "I'll get on it right away." "Charley?" "Yeah?" "Listen, Mallory's on the roof, working his way down." "Harper's on 15, working his way up." "I'm starting out on two in the elevator." "Now, he's not calling out, and he's not going anywhere." "It's just going to take us a little longer to flush him out." "Now, you just stay cool and sit tight." "We'll get him." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "Hello, Kirby?" "Yeah." "What do you got?" "He's not on the roof." "I'm starting to search the gym." "We left the doors open." "I'll have a look, and we'll get back to you." "KIRBY:" "Right." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "KIRBY (OVER WALKIE-TALKIE):" "Mallory, you see anything?" "Come in, Mallory." "KIRBY:" "We're on our way up." "Any sign of Mannix?" "Mallory?" "Mallory!" "Cover the gym!" "Get up there..." "something's wrong!" "I'll be right up." "KIRBY (IN DISTANCE):" "Mallory!" "Mallory!" "(STEPPING ON HARD SURFACE)" "♪ ♪" "(QUIET FOOTSTEPS NEARBY)" "♪ ♪" "Kirby, he's still loose, and now he's got my gun." "Mallory." "Where's Mallory?" "In there." "He's in bad shape." "Listen, and listen good." "I turned the elevator off on the floor below this, and I walked up the stairs." "Now, he's not in the gym." "There's only one place he can be, and that's on the roof." "Now, you get in there and get Mallory's gun and follow me up there..." "and no mistakes." "Move!" "(DOOR OPENS)" "Anything?" "Got the alert out statewide..." "so far nothing." "Lieutenant, it's Gregg on Peterson Security." "Malcolm." "So keep checking." "Hey, there has got to be something happening somewhere in one of those buildings." "Now, I want them all double-checked till we find out what it is!" "Art." "I-I know it's grabbing at straws..." "So grab." "Well, Tony Elliot is in the bullion and precious metals business, and I was just wondering if his office building is on the same system?" "I mean, maybe they stopped off there." "What's the name of that building?" "The Warren." "Charley, the Warren Building." "It's on our list, Lieutenant." "Call Peterson's." "Have them send someone to meet us there right away." "Okay." "Thanks, Art." "KIRBY (ON WALKIE-TALKIE):" "Hey, Charley?" "Yeah?" "All right, keep your eyes open." "Mannix may be on his way down." "Okay." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "ART:" "Hold it!" "Right there, that's it." "Now lose the gun." "Lose it." "Move away." "Move!" "Hey..." "let's make a deal." "There's enough for everybody." "Sorry, the rip-off is over." "TONY:" "Not yet, Joe." "Don't turn around." "I have a pistol in my hand, and I'll use it." "Now, put your hands over your head." "Put them up!" "All right, you can turn around, Joe." "Glad to see your leg is so much better." "It's part of the story that you had to buy." "Oh, I bought it, all right, all of it." "I had no choice, Joe." "You know how I've always been with money." "Well, Tony Elliot always had to have the best, and this time I got in over my head and the business wouldn't keep up with me." "Next choice was jail." "Jail, Joe!" "(CHUCKLES):" "Cooped up like that?" "You know me..." "I couldn't have taken it." "So you and your friends put together this nice little rip-off." "It's gonna straighten me out." "You figured that the minute the police looked at your balance sheet, they'd nail you as a hot suspect, huh?" "Which is why you needed an alibi, right, Tony?" "And I was it." "Yeah." "Well, they say if you ever need a really good alibi, always call on a friend." "That's right, Joe, because I knew it would hold up." "Hit over the head, locked in a vault for a weekend with you." "That'd hold up anywhere." "How would I know that you'd be smart enough to open that safe?" "That wasn't smart, Joe, that was stupid, because if you hadn't done that, I wouldn't have to do this." "You can count us both dead, Tony." "Don't tell me you've forgotten about the air in the vault." "What are you talking about?" "The ventilating system;" "I checked." "It was turned off." "They wouldn't do that." "MANNIX:" "Take a good look at him." "You think he didn't turn the air off?" "Don't listen to him." "Stay where you are!" "Go ahead, Joe." "You think he wanted you alive after all this was over?" "He's just stalling for time." "Stay there!" "He's using you like you used me, Tony." "Take a good look at him." "What do you think's going through his mind?" "You think he wanted to split the loot with you, or you think he wants you dead?" "You're out, Tony!" "Now, that memory of yours, this is one date you should've forgotten!" "(GUNSHOT)" "(RUNNING FOOTSTEPS)" "MANNIX:" "How'd you get here?" "With a little help from Peggy." "You all right?" "Yeah, I'm just fine, Art."