All language subtitles for Kojak s01e19 Down a Long and Lonely River

I'll try to be as kind as I can, but
this world...

Oh, that must be Mac.

Yep.

That's all made up, huh?

Satin sheets? Didn't know you had satin
sheets. Well, I can't tell you

everything, can I?

Hey, Mac, take it easy. I'll give you a
hand there.

Easy, easy, easy.

Mac,

this is Lindsay Walker. Lindsay, this is
my cousin Mac. How are you, Lindsay?

Yeah,

you've got to be there.

That first prisoner, they've gotten gay.
They'll mock her. Well, she had 3 ,000

guys to choose from, and she chose me.
That's even weirder.

What were you?

A librarian or something?

No, a sociologist.

Lou was my favorite case history.

Lady is fine.

I like your place.

Do you want me to unpack this?

Yeah.

You ever seen satin sheets?

Satin sheets? Don't be so fresh.

Come on.

Got it? Uh -huh.

Just like I wrote you, Lou.

I was just going to keep it for you,
along with the rest of your stuff. I

going to fire it.

And then last month, we went upstate,
and I just took it along to shoot a

of tin cans.

That's when I found out. You sure?

Well, look at it.

Lou?

Is this Elena?

She's beautiful.

What are you doing?

You even touch a gun and you lose your
parole.

Please, Lindsay.

Trust me.

There's some things I've got to find
out.

What is he talking about? What's going
on here?

It's his business, hon. I'll see you.

No, no, no. I just don't believe that
this is happening. Will you tell me what

you're doing and where you're going?
Lindsay, I cannot start a new life until

tell her some things about my old life.

I'll call you the first chance I get.

Lieutenant, remember that chick that was
hanging around the station last year

working on the thesis?

Lindsay? Yeah. Outside.

Lindsay.

Hello, Lieutenant.

Hello, Lieutenant. Are you kidding? It
hasn't been that long.

Come back to see the professor, right?
Mm -hmm. How's NYU's prettiest graduate

student? Oh, right, I guess.

Just fine.

Such enthusiasm.

Hey, look, I never got a copy of your
thesis. What's it called? The American

Felon from Arrest to... Release. Yeah.

I finished the arrest part, thanks to
you. And I've been up at Amara working

on... Could I talk to you?

Please, listen, I've really got to talk
to you.

Mr. Amara. I really have to talk to you.

Specific reason for him taking off?

Nothing. Just some memories, you know. I
think of his ex -wife.

Do you know why he got sent off? Do you
know what he did for her? I'm not

familiar with the case, Lindsay. It
didn't come out of this precinct. Well,

ex -wife, Elena... She was exquisite.

Singer. And she was crazy, too. She was
strung out.

First speed, then heroin.

Well, one night... She threatened to
kill herself unless Lou helped support

habit.

Well, then he just started this trucking
company with his high school buddy. He

didn't have any money, so he stole a
truckload of TVs.

You can get an awful lot of juice with a
truckload of TVs.

No.

He wanted to pay for her treatment. He
was going to send her to the best

institution in the country.

Well, he got caught instead.

You know how she repaid him?

She sold his share of the business while
he was in Elmira.

You stuck his neck out for her and she
burned him, right?

How do you know he's not trying to burn
you?

Lying to me?

No.

You see, I was at Elmira with him the
day the divorce papers arrived in the

mail. Nana, she tried to do him in in
every single way possible, and I know

for a fact.

Okay. Just wanted to make sure he was
worth your time, honey.

I love him.

Oh.

Well, they're both not the same thing,
you know. Time, love.

Hey, look, kid, I'm going to talk to you
like a father.

And I'll be put by arms around your
mother.

You make the smile I want to death.

Yeah, you know you're outrageous, don't
you? Of course.

Okay, let's see.

Something happened last night. He took
off and, uh, and what else?

He had a meeting this morning with his
parole officer.

And he blew it? Yeah, he blew it.

I, um, I called in for him. I said he
was sick and at the doctor's. Hmm.

Let's see, that's good for about two
hours. Then this afternoon, they'll ask

a warrant and like that.

What's this P .O.'s name?

Watson, Cleveland Watson.

Listen, could you please speak to him? I
know that police can sometimes get

extensions. If you could do that, that
would give us enough time to find him.

All we gotta do is find Delaina Giordino
and we got him, right?

Yeah.

She's a singer, that's all I know. I
looked her up in the phone book and she

isn't there.

Well, was she a singer before she
married him?

Yeah, I think so.

She could be using a stage name. You
know a maiden name?

I don't know.

Okay. You leave your number with the
detective.

If he calls you, you let me know.

Huh? Wait a minute. What? Are you going
to talk to Watson?

No, I'm going to speak to the arresting
officer first. That's the way I got to

do it. Do you understand?

But I'll keep you posted.

Here.

I'll pick that move up at a French
restaurant, all right?

I think it's a smiley.

Take care.

Bye.

the arresting officer?

Burke, with a U.

Got it, thanks.

You know an officer named Burke?

Works with the 49th?

Yeah, he retired last year. Why? I gotta
talk to him. Well, Kelly downstairs, he

goes bowling with him every week, he'd
know.

I think he's a security chief somewhere.

All right.

Try to run down a speed freak named
Elena Giordino. You know, she's clean.

Try a booking agency. She used to be a
singer. Yeah, what's happening?

Jadina was her married name.

Fail that, try her maiden name, okay?
And I'll check with you later.

All right.

Hey, you look great.

I'm not kidding you, Lewis. Good to see
you again.

Got to talk to you, Alan.

You got to talk to me.

Like you think you're going to get away
without talking to me?

Come on in.

Alan, hold my call.

No call.

What do you think? You like it?

I had the whole thing redone about a
year ago.

When did you change the name of the
company?

Oh, just after the new people bought in.
You don't like it?

Thirsty way?

Sounds like a supermarket.

Who are the new people, Alan?

Well, it's a corporation.

Actually, it's called Delta Industries.

Hey, Lou, come on. Will you sit down and
relax?

Come on.

Lou.

You're not uptight with me, are you?

I mean, I had no choice.

Elena wanted to sell you half, and she
figured out a way to do it legally. I

no choice. Where is she?

Are you crazy?

Now, come on. We've been friends far too
long. Elena, for you, is poison.

Hey, I'm not saying I want a
reconciliation.

I'm just saying I want an address.

Yeah, well, I don't have it.

Hey!

Hey! Hey, don't drive me, Alan. I read
the terms of that agreement.

$15 ,000 cash, $200 a month for five
years. Now, someone in that office sends

check to an address every month, and I
want that address.

Well, the bookkeeper has it.

Helen, would you call Janice in
bookkeeping and tell her to give Elena

the dress to Mr.

Giordino? Thank you.

Hey, thanks, Alan.

Hey, look, let's forget about this whole
thing, huh?

I'm tired of up all night looking for
Elena.

I'll call you some night. We'll have a
drink.

Yeah, sure, Lou.

You changed, Lou.

Things have changed.

This is Alan Ankrum calling. We found it
stashed away in a garage before he had

a chance to sell the merchandise.

Now, he could have made up a dozen
stories, but he comes clean like a baby.

He's no crook.

It was the one shot up that gambled for
some good bread.

They say he pulled a Robin Hood to get
his old lady off a heroin.

That was it, all right.

Pretty nice height.

See you in your own truck. How do you
get caught the first time out of the

Come on, Kojak.

We overwhelmed the case with brilliant
piecework.

Uh, Burke, uh... A tip. We had an
informant.

Brilliant police work. He told us
exactly where the truck was stashed.

Who? Would you believe Billy DeLuca?

Billy DeLuca?

Now what's a mob hipster doing on an
amateur first -time heist? You tell me.

could never figure it.

Billy DeLuca.

Maybe Giordino found out about it. Not
through me.

Listen.

If the kid needs a break, tell him I'll
go to bat for him with his teal. He was

straight with me. He gave me a lot of
paperwork.

Yeah.

My head, I didn't need it anyway.

Okay, thanks, Bert.

Hey, buddy, can't you read?

You gotta wear a hard hat.

What, for a telephone call?

Here, Kojak, let me speak to Crocker or
Stavros.

Hey, look, I want to run down a stoolie
named Billy DeLuca.

Yeah, this week's address, not last.

Got it. Does it fit into the, uh,
Giardino thing?

Yeah, like a half a dollar into a nickel
slot, and I don't understand it at all.

Anything new on Giardino?

No, we're still checking it out. Uh,
Lindsey's called twice. What should I

her? Then I'm on my way to see Watson.

Right.

The lobster, Alan.

Martini, have something.

Nerves like yours, I'd be a dead man by
now.

I just can't eat right now.

Look, Mr. Danzig, he knows something.

See, he's got Elena's address.

Now, maybe if he gets tough with her,
maybe she's going to talk.

And just what do you think she might
say?

See, Lou, he don't know nothing about
you and Elena.

So she tells him.

Well, maybe he'll come after you.

That's very funny, huh?

Yeah, right.

How do I know what he's going to do?

What if he just goes right to the
Interstate Commerce Commission with your

Then you must talk to him, Alan.

There is no way in which my name is to
be linked with any trucking company.

you talk to him. You're the one who went
after his old lady.

You dug this hole for yourself.

You dump abroad, you dump abroad. You
don't fire out as a parting gesture.

My problem, Alan.

My solution.

What do you want? You give everybody 48
hours. What's the beef against Giordino?

I mean, he's got a perfect prison
record.

His arresting officer is all for it. And
I guarantee that I'll get him back here

on time.

Why you?

How do you figure in this?

I'm not sure.

I'm bucking for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Come on, Lieutenant. Level with me.

Something's got you hooked on this case.

It's a boy.

All right, this is Sully. Billy DeLuca.

You know, when a mob wants to come down
on somebody, they feed the information

to DeLuca. He, in turn, gives us the
information. He gets paid off on both

sides. This pigeon here, he did his
number all over Giordino.

So the mob figures a kid like Giordino
on his one and only heist?

How did they get in, and why?

Hey, Cleve, if I had the answers to
those questions, would I be hooked?

Ordinarily, I'd bend a few hours, give
some slack for a bad memory, a bad

hangover, and maybe a good woman.

But I'm not taking any more chances.

Not after DeLuca's case. I want a
warrant on Giordino now.

Lucas, APO up in the Bronx had this kid
named Lucas. Didn't show up for two

days. Now, somebody in the family had
city hall connections, so they didn't

issue a warrant on him.

Two days later, he killed a cop. Come
on, Giordino.

I mean, he got his whole psychological
profile and everything.

You figure Giordino for something like
that?

It doesn't make a difference what I
figure him for. What does make a

is because of Lucas, every parole board
in this state is playing it real close

to the chest.

Now, in one month, they haven't approved
one -tenth of the normal amount of

paroles. And you figure that's a dirty
deal, right?

Look, what I do here affects every
prisoner who deserves a chance to get

Hey, Cleve, you're doing to Giordino
what you're accusing the parole board

You know that? If he deserves 48 hours,
you give him 48 hours. Come on.

48 hours.

24. You're beautiful.

Hello, is Lieutenant Kojak there?

No, that's okay. I'll call back later.

Uh, hello. Is this the Ace in the Hole
Club?

Yeah, well, I'm a friend of Elena
Roselle.

Yeah, Roselle.

She's a singer.

I was just wondering if she's working
there now.

Are you sure?

Well, do you have any idea where...
Spelling.

Stop.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, right.

Right, bye -bye.

We punish you, dear woman's maiden name,
Roselle.

Saperstein's checking it out with a book
and agent now. So far, we've got

nothing. DeLuca hasn't sung in six
months. He made a deal with the feds,

they're keeping him from us. You tell
these G -men that they're obstructing

justice, and I want DeLuca down here.

Otherwise, I'll bust these feds for
their funny haircuts.

Leo. Yeah?

Try line robbery when you have time.

Well, I'll make time.

Oh, I hope so.

Now, Giardino's a parole problem. He's
not a police problem.

What's so special about him, anyway?
Listen, Burke, who arrested him, says

Giordino's no criminal. And Watson, his
P .O., gives him 24 hours despite the

Lucas case.

And there's something about Astuli in
this thing that I don't quite

Frank. When you have time.

Lieutenant, I forgot to tell you.
Lindsay called. No message.

trying to reach a singer named Elena
Roselle. Hey, I got drums here. Talk up.

Elena Roselle or Giordino. I don't know
which name for sure.

Elena, yeah. Well, she can't come to the
phone. But she's there.

No personal calls, lady. Forget it.

Play as you play, baby.

And you won't know.

You've been playing, but you ain't been
paying. And you are overdue. Open up the

door.

That's private property, man.

Hey, baby, when you don't pay me, you go
public. You dig?

Keep talking.

Elena owes me $12.

Now, I'm just trying to beat the phone
company to the machine before they can't

get out.

You know where she is? Yeah, but she
ain't got a phone down there.

Down where?

A place in the West Village.

It's called the Town Town Club.

Boom, boom, boom, boom.

Stavros.

The Tom Tom Club.

Stavros didn't check with the booking
agent.

Results got us up a little giggler. Oh,
yeah.

That wasn't bad. Here, sit down. Play
with that.

Yeah, I'm Elena.

What's up? What is it?

Who are you?

My name is Lindsay.

I'm a friend of Lou's.

I've been sick. I look like hell.

Well, what's wrong?

Why are you here?

Lou's out now.

He's on parole.

He's been trying to find you.

Why? Why is he looking for me? I don't
want to see him. I'm not sure.

I just wanted to ask you, please, when
you see him, don't do... Look, I don't

want to see him. You tell him that for
me. I don't... Get out of here.

Lou, I've got to talk to you. You don't
know... Wait me back. You go with her

and have a nice cherry soda or
something. Just leave me alone.

Look, wait me back, huh?

I'll be right out.

I promise.

Go to hell. I've been sick.

Yeah, I know.

Crystal or liquid? Give me that.

Hello! Hello!

Hello, Ben Stein.

You remember this?

Do you know how many times I thought of
the night I walked in and found you with

this gun?

with this pistol pointed at your head,
one bullet in it, pulling the trigger.

You laughed.

You said it was like your life.

Russian roulette.

But the truth is, you were really
putting the gun to my head.

Because that's when I decided you were
going to have help.

You were going to have the best, no
matter what it took.

That's when I decided to rip off the
company.

I didn't know I'd been set up.

Sue, I wouldn't do that. You wouldn't
what?

You wouldn't set me up by pulling a
Russian roulette act with a gun that

wouldn't shoot?

But firing pins and files, damn!

Not too much, just enough so it won't
shoot!

It was an act, Delaney, a lousy rotten
act!

Okay, so I wanted money. So I wanted to
scare you into doing something for me.

No, no, you didn't do this alone. You
had help.

You had luck!

I'm going to tell you, Lou.

I'm going to do you a favor.

Maybe the only favor that I've ever
done.

And I'm not going to say another word.
I'm not going to tell you.

Well, what happened? Did he have a gun?
Well, talk to me, Lindsay. What

happened? Did he have a gun? Yes, he had
a gun, but there was another man. Lou

wouldn't... This.

Central,

Lieutenant Kojak.

Put out an alert. Lou Giordino on.

Dangerous.

I checked the correspondence and
visitation records at Elmira Prison.

Lindsey said he had a cousin, McKinney.

Go for an address.

Got it. His ex -partner's address. Get
it from the arrest record. Call him.

Right. If he tries to get in touch, I
want to be the first to know. Right.

And what about that tipster, DeLuca? I
spoke to a federal district attorney.

DeLuca's going to cooperate.

I got Saperstein on us.

Get that arm, will you?

It looks like it belongs to a little old
lady instead of a young woman. We

always get it when it's too late.

Never at the beginning. And you know how
it started?

Four or five years ago, she wanted to
lose ten pounds.

So she went looking for diet pills.

Oh, our hero, the landlord.

Are you sure there was only one guy who
came out the back?

Yeah, the guy you said was her husband.

I hate this.

Gives the place a bad name.

Anybody else take a strong interest in a
girl like you?

A couple of pushers, that's it.

She don't even draw whistles anymore.

Okay, sweetheart.

Oh, here.

I don't want to get your place dirty.
Get out.

Maybe Lindsey was just lying about the
other guy.

Yeah. No powder burns, right?

Now, look, Crocker, if you were an
impetuous Italian, would you go to the

and fire long distance?

Yeah, sure.

Maybe. Who knows?

I thought I told you to go. What'd you
find out? Did anybody else see the other

man? Nobody saw anything.

Hey, look, either you go on your own
power or I'll have one of my men take

home. Hey, man.

You think he did it, don't you?

You don't even think there was another
man.

Can you identify him?

Think it might have been a mug shot or a
line -up? No, I told you I couldn't do

that. It was Kujar.

That's right, you did tell me. But now
I'm going to tell you when you listen.

It doesn't matter what you saw.

What matters is that I grab before some
cop does and yell, stop, before I shoot.

This young lady gets right.

This way, please.

All right, break it up down here.

Hello, is Mr.

Ancrum there?

Mr. Ancrum, this is George McKinney.

I'm Lou Giordino's cousin.

I've got to talk to you, Mr. Ancrum,
right away.

Well, it's about him getting busted and
the way it all came down.

McKinney.

That's right.

623 West 11th Street.

Yeah.

Well, I'll be here.

Thanks, Mac.

You know, I think I should have got a
hero.

You know, I think we should have got a
hero.

Lieutenant, I just brought the Luke in.

Lieutenant, I don't have to say
anything.

I don't even have to say I don't have to
say anything.

Hello, Kojak, are you out there?

I mean, you got some charges to make?
What's going on here, anyway?

Thinking, Billy, I'm thinking.

I'm thinking about your problem.

I got no problem at all. George Burke,
sergeant of detectives. You tipped him a

couple of years back on a truck
hijacking. Lou Giordino, that was the

got busted, remember?

I don't know. Maybe I couldn't remember.
I got so many names in my head. Yeah,

sure. Maybe Giordino found out that you
blew the whistle on him. He's out, you

know. It could be after you.

Hey, uh, we can pick him up, Billy. We
need some help.

I never heard of the guy. How can I
help?

Hey, a minute ago you weren't sure. Now
you've definitely never heard of him,

which tells me that you heard of him!

Who, uh... Who squealed on Jolie
Schuster?

Jolie Schuster?

You gotta be kidding.

He's the top muscle in the city.

Did somebody turn him in? You did.

You think I'm nuts?

Well, I got five guys in the can right
now, and that's the word they're gonna

spread on the street as soon as I let
them go.

What are you doing this to me for?

Who squealed on Luigi Ardino?

Oh, come on, Kojak, man. I get a check
from the feds every two weeks. I'm on a

payroll just like you guys.

Now, I got a good thing going. Don't get
me into any trouble.

Somebody that big, yeah?

Giardino.

Giardino. Oh, no, I remember.

He had a trucking company.

Nobody big put me up to fingering him.
It was a favor for a pusher that I used

to know.

He had a client, Giardino's wife, and
she wanted her old man up the river.

It was a little thing.

Billy.

Who are you so afraid of?

Get it out!

Nobody. Nobody.

Hey.

The same nobody who killed Elena
Giordino. She's dead, Billy boy.

Just like you're going to be dead as
soon as I let it out that you've been

faking out all of them all these years.

You know what I'm doing telling you
this?

I'm handing my whole life over to you,
Kojak.

So you gotta protect me.

Yeah?

Who?

Albert Danzig.

Albert Danzig?

No wonder you're sweating.

McKinney!

Hey, George McKinney!

Come on in, Alan.

I've been trying to call you for hours.

Where you been?

Sorry.

Hello. Oh, that's what it done. You're
crazy.

Alan!

Somebody killed Elena.

Somebody who didn't want to talk to me.
And I got nobody else in my life to

figure for that but you, Alan.

Elena is dead.

And I'm on the spot.

So if I kill you, it don't make a bit of
difference either way.

You're dead, Lou. There's no way it
could have been me. I was out eating

people. They could tell you. When Elena
set me up and played me for a fool, you

had nothing to do with that. Not me, I
swear.

Who?

These mobs, Lou. Top level.

You're better off if I say nothing.

Out of fire!

I want names!

Names, Alan!

Danzig. Albert Danzig.

He and Elena, they were having an
affair, Lou. They wanted you out of the

True.

Everything you know.

I want to hear it.

I know everything.

I know that she conned you and ended
stealing the truck, right? And you got

caught and you went to jail.

I wasn't in on that.

And then Danzig did her a favor when he
threw her over. He bought out your share

from her.

So I lucked out, but I never went after
him for a thing.

But you believe me, right?

Boo?

Would you have spilled your guts if you
knew this gun wouldn't fire?

Huh?

That was Danzig's gimmick.

So why does he kill her, Alan?

Lou, he's got this thing.

There's no way his name should be
connected with the trucking business.

Neil Lanterwood only once knew he was
behind the company to buy you out.

You call him, Alan.

You call him and you set up a meeting
for tonight at your office. You tell him

know about the gun that didn't fire.

Tell him it all about his business
connections.

No, Lou, I couldn't do that to you. Let
me help you get away, something.

You call him. And you sound scared.

Huh?

Like you gotta talk.

He'll come. Him and that hit man.

They'll both come.

And you're gonna be there with a gun
that doesn't even fire.

Like a deal to make.

A deal? You're crazy. What deal does he
need to make with you? Call him, Alan.

Please.

Okay, I appreciate the help, Bernie.

Thanks.

Okay. According to the DA, Danzig
appeared before a grand jury

syndicate ties with the trucking
industry.

According to him, he's clean as a
whistle.

I just got his file from the Criminal
Investigation Bureau. He's president of

Dixie Linen Service, Deluxe Bottling
Company, Douglas Office Maintenance,

a dozen other businesses, and none of
them in trucking.

Yeah, well, that's syndicate money.

He keeps clean no matter what he does.

I couldn't get this Akram character on
the phone.

And she tells me that Giordino's half
was bought up by Delta Industries.

Well, that's a subsidiary of Delaware
Industries.

And they tell me that Danzig's name was
never mentioned in either one of them.

Yeah, well, if it is, he goes up on a
perjury charge for his grand jury

testimony, right?

Delaware, Delta, Deluxe, Douglas,
everything with a D. Maybe it's a

superstition. Yeah, maybe he walked
under a ladder somewhere. Maybe he blew

cover. He's worrying about the perjury
charges.

If he's into trucking, he probably owns
half the East Coast.

Why would he mess around with Giardino's
two -bit company? To me, that makes no

sense at all.

Exactly, Carter. Thank you. What did he
do?

Hey, what kind of a Greek are you? Did
you ever hear of the Trojan horse?

The Trojan horse?

It's the Trojan horse. You know where I
blew that deal?

Abroad. Hell in Detroit. Did you ever
hear of her?

Well, Elena, that's Danzig's Hell in
Detroit. You got it?

Yeah, all right.

Find Dezzy. Get a tail on him. Because
if Georgina puts this thing together,

he's going to find out that he's walking
into water ten feet deep.

Uh, Commissioner?

Yeah?

Hankram's answering the service.

They got no idea where he is?

Well, he had a call at his apartment
around ten o 'clock.

He hasn't been back since.

Why don't you try calling him again?

Now, what am I supposed to do when he
comes?

Hey,

what are you doing?

Lou, it's my desk. If you ask, maybe I
can... He said there wouldn't

be any violence.

There won't be. Sit down, Alan. No, I'm
not sitting down. What are you going to

do? He'll kill you. He'll kill both of
us. No.

When Anstic and his men arrive, I'll be
right inside that door.

All you've got to do is go along with
what you told him on the phone. You tell

him I called. You tell him I found out
about the gun. Now, you ask him about

that gun.

You find out what's so important about
that gun, and then ask him about Elena.

Get him to talk about why he had her
killed tonight.

Okay.

Okay, so you say he talks, say he admits
it, and then what happens? Then I come

out with the gun and we call the cops.

The rest is you and you're right back
where you started.

If Danzig admits that he had Elena
killed tonight, I'll take my chances in

court. Come on, Lou, it's your word
against his.

Our word.

You're my witness salad

Maybe

it's dancing maybe should pick it up the
service they get it on the fourth ring

Hello

Hold on a minute, please.

It's the service you and Tucker

It's the police. They want me to call
them as soon as possible.

We will.

That's what I thought. Thanks.

Okay.

According to the service, somebody
picked up the phone, listened in, and

that.

They're in Akram's office. Let's go.

Alan, you remember Moore?

This is Rubio.

You're right on time.

I'm always on time.

Tell me what Giordino knows.

Well, you know something about a gun
with a filed -down firing pin? A gun

Elena threatened to kill herself with?
Did you give her that gun, Danzig?

A gun that doesn't shoot.

That's a toy.

I gave her a lot of toys, Alan.

She was killed tonight, wasn't she?

That was your solution, wasn't it?

What are you so nervous about, Alan?
Because Lou is coming here tonight, and

don't know what's going to happen.

What could happen?

I'm a businessman.

Maybe, uh... Maybe Giordino thinks he
got a bad deal.

Who knows?

Maybe he did.

I thought you were smarter than that.

You see, Alan, you're fortunate.

You've got a choice.

Your friend's on the floor here. He's
got no choice.

He's going to die.

Now, if you agree he must die,

your gun will be used.

No police problems.

You're working late at night. Giordino
busted in. He was crazy. Started

you of all kinds of things with his ex
-wife. He was going to kill you. So you

reached into your desk. You grabbed your
gun. You asked him to stop, but he

wouldn't. So you shot him. Clean.

No problems.

Are you listening?

Now, the other choice isn't so good for
you or me.

Especially you.

You'll both have to die.

The police are going to ask a lot of
questions, which isn't good for me, but

I'll manage.

You?

You won't manage.

You'll be dead.

Which one, Alan?

Choose.

I don't want to die.

Put your head against the truck.

All right, the rest of you up against
the trucks. Put your head against the

truck.

How is he?

He'll live.

Spread them out.

Spread them out.

More. Come on. This is Lieutenant Kojak.

I want you to send a couple of units
to... What's the number, sir?

628.

628 West 23rd Street.

Oh, yeah, and send an ambulance.

The ambulance will be here for you. Just
lay there.

Oh.

Well, well, well, looky here.

Aren't you the DA of the light, huh?

Albert Danzig.

One of the organization's best -dressed
men. Did you know that?

Where's the tailor?

Catch me, right? Beautiful.

Albert Danzig.

Coat with his pants pressed on a murder
wrap.

Congratulations.

Hey, you got a call to make, right? Huh?

What do you mean?

The girl, Lindsay.

Oh. Yeah, I... I don't think I can talk
right now. Yeah, well, all right. You

keep your stiff upper lip and give it a
shot. Come on.

Before I break your arm.

The firing pit has been fired down. It
won't even shoot. It's still a gun.

And it's still a parole violation called
Jack and Evie RFP.

Lieutenant.

We're out there, right?

A little privacy clear.

I don't have any words that could come
close. Forget the words. A little cash,

maybe. No, you should have came to me.

That's what I'm here for.

That's why I took this job.

That's what I like, Lou.

I'm sorry.

I'm digging out.

Look, leave the door open.

There's a police station.

Tell me something, Cojet.

Do you usually turn your office over
like this, huh?

Well, like you, Cleve, I always give a
little slack for a good woman.

What are you going to do with Giordino?

I don't know.

I'm going to have to think about it.

Sure.

Good night, Theo.

So what did he say?

What did he say? What does he always
say?

He's going to let Giordino sweat it out
a little bit, and then he's going to let

him go.

be ashamed of yourself.