Mannix (TV Series)

A Puzzle for One (1972)

Nehemiah Persoff: Anton Wojeska

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Quotes 

• Anton Wojeska : [sitting with Joe in the back room of a restaurant offering him coffee]  You, uh, want some, uh, cream, sugar?

  Joe Mannix : Uh, black is fine.

  Anton Wojeska : How, uh, how come I don't hear from Henderson a whole week already?

  Joe Mannix : Because he's dead. A bomb in his car. It was in all the papers.

  Anton Wojeska : Papers? I don't read so good. My kid, she... used to read to me. She went to school... she... she read lots of books. A bomb? He was a pretty nice fellow.

  Joe Mannix : Mmm.

  Anton Wojeska : What am I gonna do now?

  Joe Mannix : Would you like me to take over the case?

  Anton Wojeska : Well, on the telephone, you told me that you're too busy, you know.

  Joe Mannix : Not anymore.

  Anton Wojeska : But I don't pay you no more than I pay him, $462.00. That's all I got in the bank.

  Joe Mannix : Special rate this week, uh, no charge.

  Anton Wojeska : No, no. Just, I don't want no favors. No favors. $462.00. You get me the fella who killed my daughter.

  Joe Mannix : We'll, uh, discuss the fee later. What did Henderson say to you the last time you saw him? Uh, did he have a lead?

  Anton Wojeska : No. He talked with my kid's friends at the high school, St. Ignatius.

  Joe Mannix : Came up empty?

  Anton Wojeska : Same, like the cops.

  Joe Mannix : Do you, uh, do you have a picture of your daughter?

  Anton Wojeska : Sure.

  [walk back to the counter and takes a picture sitting on the cash register] 

  Anton Wojeska : Here. It's from two years ago.

  Joe Mannix : [looks at the picture]  She was very pretty.

  Anton Wojeska : Mmm.

  Joe Mannix : Do you mind if I borrow this?

  Anton Wojeska : I want the fella that killed her.

  Joe Mannix : Drugs killed your daughter.

  Anton Wojeska : You find him for me! I'll give him to the police when I'm through.

  Joe Mannix : Mr. Wojeska...

  Anton Wojeska : Five minutes, that's all. I guarantee he don't sell no drugs to no more kids, never.

  Joe Mannix : Mr. Wojeska, now you listen to me. You let the law punish him. Now, they don't like pushers either.

  Anton Wojeska : You got a kid?

  Joe Mannix : No.

  Anton Wojeska : Okay. You ever go in a hospital... and the doctor says, "Is this your kid?" and you don't even recognize her? Her whole face is blue, and she's just lying there waiting to die.

  [clears throat] 

  Anton Wojeska : That ever happen to you?

  Joe Mannix : No.

  Anton Wojeska : Okay. Five minutes.

  Joe Mannix : I'm sorry. I can't give him to you.

  [gets up from his seat] 

  Anton Wojeska : [grabs Joe's arm]  YOU TURN YOUR BACK ON WOJESKA?

  Joe Mannix : I'm not turning my back on you, Mr. Wojeska. I'm gonna talk to somebody who might know the man who hooked daughter.