1 00:00:03,350 --> 00:01:53,430 (Music) 2 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:21,640 Why this place? 3 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,720 I know what I'm doing. Don't worry. 4 00:02:40,500 --> 00:02:42,800 Come on in, honey. We gotta talk price. 5 00:03:06,210 --> 00:03:08,310 Blondes are more fun, honey. 6 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:17,120 114, okay, Manny? 7 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,400 I just thought you ought to see this one. 8 00:03:58,980 --> 00:04:01,080 This guy by the name of Colin Fletcher gets mugged. 9 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:02,420 Same M.O. as the others. 10 00:04:02,740 --> 00:04:05,260 Hooker picks up some guy, takes him upstairs. 11 00:04:05,420 --> 00:04:07,040 There's a dude waiting behind the door. 12 00:04:07,540 --> 00:04:08,540 Zack! 13 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:15,340 Claudine the Dream? 14 00:04:25,963 --> 00:04:31,600 15 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,000 His wallet was here. He had a half a pint of whiskey. 16 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:36,680 It smashed when he went down. 17 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,200 There's whiskey on his breath. 18 00:04:39,140 --> 00:04:40,580 That seal looks broken to you. 19 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:44,880 How come he's still got his watch and ring? 20 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,680 Well, like I was saying, there were credit cards in his wallet that they didn't get. 21 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:50,040 I'll notify next of kin. 22 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,240 Hey, look, man. I just work in a bar. I don't do nothing illegal. 23 00:04:57,420 --> 00:04:59,840 You don't take anything for stirring John's through a good time. 24 00:04:59,841 --> 00:05:02,321 What, a girl wants to lay a tip on me? That's against the law? 25 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:03,400 Hey, why don't you get off my back? 26 00:05:03,420 --> 00:05:04,420 You're kidding, right? 27 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:06,180 Talk nice to the officer. 28 00:05:06,580 --> 00:05:07,780 You want to hurt his feelings? 29 00:05:07,860 --> 00:05:09,936 All he wants to know is this girl with the platinum hair. 30 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:10,960 Now, what's her name? 31 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,000 Honest, I ain't never seen her before. 32 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,000 She comes in here and she picks up this dude at the jukebox. 33 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:18,720 And she lays her money down on the bar for my tip. 34 00:05:18,940 --> 00:05:19,940 Her money? 35 00:05:20,180 --> 00:05:21,720 Yeah, underneath the bar. 36 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,021 Well, how come this Claudine the Dream character 37 00:05:24,033 --> 00:05:25,620 winds up in the same room with a stiff? 38 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,600 Hey, Manny, you always double book? 39 00:05:28,900 --> 00:05:31,591 I guess that other girl just took a key without 40 00:05:31,603 --> 00:05:34,420 asking for it and put it back without telling me. 41 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:37,000 I gave the same room to Claudine. 42 00:05:38,020 --> 00:05:40,460 How did I know there was a body to be cleaned up? 43 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:45,660 I just want you guys to know that I think you're a couple of beautiful human beings. 44 00:05:52,900 --> 00:05:54,140 Of course I'm scared. 45 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,320 Fletcher was going through the books of a company I was operating. 46 00:05:57,359 --> 00:05:58,520 Fletcher gets murdered. 47 00:05:58,521 --> 00:05:59,921 Fletcher had some kind of accident. 48 00:06:00,660 --> 00:06:02,880 Nobody says it was connected with you in any way. 49 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:04,380 So forget it, Mr. Marshall. 50 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Still, I'm scared. 51 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:08,940 You made certain guarantees, Mr. Cain. 52 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:10,841 You'd better stick with them. 53 00:06:10,980 --> 00:06:12,840 I'm watching out for you as best I can. 54 00:06:13,420 --> 00:06:14,740 Now you just do your part. 55 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:22,440 Well? 56 00:06:24,270 --> 00:06:27,840 He says Fletcher's death was an accident. 57 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:29,680 Not to worry. 58 00:06:40,260 --> 00:06:43,280 You, you, you, and you, and all the idiots. 59 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:50,200 Here's your coffee, Lieutenant. 60 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:51,440 Oh, uh, Blige? 61 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:53,880 I just come from the borough commander's office. 62 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:55,280 And he was boiling. 63 00:06:55,860 --> 00:06:57,860 He says... Pun said he isn't fun anymore. 64 00:06:57,885 --> 00:06:58,735 I know, Frank. 65 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,276 Why don't you tell him to move to Detroit? I don't know. 66 00:07:00,300 --> 00:07:00,720 To continue. 67 00:07:01,295 --> 00:07:02,420 68 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:07,000 The commander pointed out that Fletcher's death was a homicide off a Murphy game. 69 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,703 And that 27 out-of-towners have been victims 70 00:07:09,715 --> 00:07:11,820 of Murphy games in the past three weeks. 71 00:07:12,220 --> 00:07:14,140 Only this one puts us on the front page. 72 00:07:14,420 --> 00:07:15,420 I know, Frank. 73 00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:16,900 I know. 74 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:18,040 Now, what about Fletcher? 75 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,120 Colin Duncan Fletcher, 37, married, three kids, 76 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,880 a bookkeeper for investment securities and corporate of Cleveland. 77 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,100 On vacation in town alone with a wife and kiddies? What? 78 00:07:27,101 --> 00:07:29,126 Word from Cleveland Police Department is that 79 00:07:29,138 --> 00:07:31,040 he was in New York on temporary assignment 80 00:07:31,041 --> 00:07:35,060 to check some books or accounting procedures of an outfit over on 8th Avenue. 81 00:07:35,500 --> 00:07:36,680 Lester LeBaron dresses. 82 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:39,720 The wife is flying in from Cleveland to identify the body. 83 00:07:40,365 --> 00:07:42,140 It's gonna be hard to explain to her. 84 00:07:42,333 --> 00:07:43,306 Explain what? 85 00:07:43,420 --> 00:07:46,700 That this is just a routine Murphy game that went sour on her husband? Is that it? 86 00:07:47,810 --> 00:07:48,940 I think it stinks. 87 00:07:49,860 --> 00:07:50,860 I'll tell you why. 88 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,440 Because this blonde puts her money up front. 89 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,860 And because the dive never saw her before, right? 90 00:07:55,861 --> 00:07:59,300 Never saw her, but yet she knew the routine so perfectly 91 00:07:59,625 --> 00:08:03,800 that she was able to take a key off the hook without many even knowing about it. 92 00:08:03,980 --> 00:08:07,300 You know, somebody I'd say had done some very thorough research on his project. 93 00:08:07,740 --> 00:08:08,860 What else bothers you, Theo? 94 00:08:10,110 --> 00:08:13,660 Wallet, watch, the ring, a few credit cards they forgot. 95 00:08:13,685 --> 00:08:16,600 Hey, Frank, that's the whole point of the Murphy game, isn't it, greed? 96 00:08:17,193 --> 00:08:21,280 But I want a rundown of Fletcher's last day, second by second, 97 00:08:21,526 --> 00:08:23,940 at his hotel, at the clothing manufacturers. 98 00:08:23,941 --> 00:08:28,480 I want to know if he was playing around, and if he was with whom. 99 00:08:29,140 --> 00:08:31,760 Also, how he found out about that side street bar. 100 00:08:32,060 --> 00:08:35,120 Well, we got a description from Claudine of the alleged prostitute. 101 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:37,920 Description? I can hear it now. 102 00:08:38,380 --> 00:08:40,260 Ah, blonde and cheap, honey. 103 00:08:40,620 --> 00:08:42,960 Come on, will you, Fatso? And what was the man with her? 104 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,040 A tall dude in dark clothes. That's terrific. 105 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,560 That means we gotta pick up almost everybody on the West Side of 55th Street. 106 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:51,916 What about the whiskey bottle in Fletcher's pocket? 107 00:08:51,940 --> 00:08:54,860 The lab feels that the bottle was sealed when it was smashed. 108 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:56,640 Uh-huh. And the autopsy? 109 00:08:57,380 --> 00:08:59,460 No alcohol in his bloodstream, not much at all. 110 00:08:59,780 --> 00:09:02,300 So we got a platinum blonde nobody's ever seen before, 111 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,460 with a male accomplice, working a fake Murphy game on an aditana. 112 00:09:07,500 --> 00:09:10,020 We have a dead man, and that's all we've got. 113 00:09:11,010 --> 00:09:12,736 Rizzo, were they able to lift any prints off their wallet? 114 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,220 Three partials, lieutenant, small enough to be that of a woman's. 115 00:09:16,221 --> 00:09:18,320 Left hand, but they weren't Claudine's. 116 00:09:18,321 --> 00:09:21,260 That's no help to us without a full set for comparison. 117 00:09:23,060 --> 00:09:26,580 All right, I thought I asked you to find out what Fletcher was doing yesterday. 118 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:27,880 Every second. 119 00:09:32,430 --> 00:09:34,270 So maybe it was just a Murphy game. 120 00:09:35,090 --> 00:09:36,250 I mean, they get interrupted. 121 00:09:36,910 --> 00:09:39,450 The victim doesn't have to be drinking. 122 00:09:39,510 --> 00:09:40,990 They don't get the credit cards, huh? 123 00:09:42,750 --> 00:09:45,910 Maybe Fletcher was Casanova disguised as a bookkeeper. 124 00:09:46,250 --> 00:09:48,210 The hooker, a jealous husband in drag. 125 00:09:48,211 --> 00:09:51,530 Why go through the whole charade? Why not just knock him off in an alley? 126 00:09:52,843 --> 00:09:53,843 Hey, Frank. 127 00:09:55,850 --> 00:09:58,370 Suppose I said I thought he was hit, professionally. 128 00:10:00,010 --> 00:10:02,670 A contract on a minor league out-of-town bookkeeper? 129 00:10:02,730 --> 00:10:04,010 Who says that's all he is? 130 00:10:04,210 --> 00:10:07,290 You know, here we are looking at a botched-up Murphy game 131 00:10:07,465 --> 00:10:10,650 when I really think what we have here is a well-planned, 132 00:10:11,130 --> 00:10:13,110 coordinated, cold-blooded execution. 133 00:10:21,830 --> 00:10:22,940 Come in. 134 00:10:25,220 --> 00:10:26,420 Mrs. Fletcher. 135 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,280 You told me you were the man investigating Collins. 136 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:31,820 Please, sit down. 137 00:10:34,940 --> 00:10:37,560 They explained the circumstances of his death. 138 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:45,260 But I don't believe that Collins went up to that room with that woman for sex. 139 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:47,420 He wouldn't. 140 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:50,080 That was a prostitute. 141 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:51,760 You mean alternative. 142 00:10:52,970 --> 00:10:57,660 He called me just a couple of hours before they say he died. 143 00:10:58,460 --> 00:10:59,460 Mm-hmm. 144 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:01,280 Where would you from where? 145 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,020 That office where he worked. 146 00:11:04,568 --> 00:11:05,960 Well, tell me, how did he seem? 147 00:11:06,775 --> 00:11:07,568 Seem. 148 00:11:08,060 --> 00:11:10,540 You know, same as always. How's the kids? How's the weather? How's this? 149 00:11:10,541 --> 00:11:13,120 He said he had an important appointment. 150 00:11:14,220 --> 00:11:15,700 A very important appointment. 151 00:11:16,225 --> 00:11:18,700 I guess he sounded... 152 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:20,840 excited. 153 00:11:21,100 --> 00:11:22,100 Mrs. Fletcher? 154 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:28,160 Are you keeping anything back from me? 155 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:31,560 Nothing, Lieutenant. 156 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:33,420 Nothing at all. 157 00:11:56,070 --> 00:11:57,430 You guys, I mean, give me a break. 158 00:11:57,510 --> 00:11:59,246 I had the same conversation with you last week. 159 00:11:59,270 --> 00:12:01,190 It's the same dress, the exact same dress, 160 00:12:01,230 --> 00:12:02,526 and there's a two-inch difference in the sleeves. 161 00:12:02,550 --> 00:12:04,970 What am I supposed to do with them? Who can I send that to, huh? Excuse me. 162 00:12:04,971 --> 00:12:07,430 Excuse me. I'm Detective Crocker, Manhattan South. 163 00:12:07,510 --> 00:12:08,670 This is Detective Saperstein. 164 00:12:08,695 --> 00:12:09,430 Hi. How are you? 165 00:12:09,470 --> 00:12:10,832 And I am Rick Levine. Hi. 166 00:12:11,450 --> 00:12:13,130 I guess it's about Fletcher's death, huh? 167 00:12:13,250 --> 00:12:16,530 Well, we'd like to talk to the manager, Mr. Adrian Marshall. 168 00:12:16,690 --> 00:12:17,684 Adrian Marshall. 169 00:12:17,709 --> 00:12:19,945 Well, Adrian Marshall no longer has the key to the establishment. 170 00:12:19,970 --> 00:12:21,690 It seems his relationship has been severed. 171 00:12:21,810 --> 00:12:24,366 What's your relationship with this little barren dresser, Mr. 172 00:12:24,390 --> 00:12:26,486 Levine? Well, I work for Investment Securities, Incorporated. 173 00:12:26,510 --> 00:12:27,510 We manage the business. 174 00:12:27,650 --> 00:12:29,870 Well, that's the same company Fletcher worked for. 175 00:12:29,930 --> 00:12:33,030 Right, except I worked for New York, and he was hired out of Cleveland headquarters. 176 00:12:33,031 --> 00:12:34,751 You know, I didn't meet him, so let's wait. 177 00:12:35,450 --> 00:12:38,570 All right, if you don't mind, I'm a little confused about all this. 178 00:12:39,330 --> 00:12:40,810 Who is Lester LeBaron? 179 00:12:41,110 --> 00:12:43,550 Lester LeBaron is a rich playboy-type kid 180 00:12:43,551 --> 00:12:45,510 who founded this organization three years ago 181 00:12:45,511 --> 00:12:47,470 because he wanted to score with a lot of models. 182 00:12:48,330 --> 00:12:51,230 Then he hires this hippie chick who creates a spring line that is dynamite. 183 00:12:51,390 --> 00:12:52,790 I mean absolute dynamite. 184 00:12:53,010 --> 00:12:55,146 The buyers couldn't believe it. They ordered left and right. 185 00:12:55,170 --> 00:12:56,450 Only LeBaron couldn't fill them. 186 00:12:56,510 --> 00:12:57,516 Why not? 187 00:12:57,750 --> 00:12:59,886 I just told you. He didn't know anything about the business. 188 00:12:59,910 --> 00:13:01,086 I mean, he didn't have the right cloth. 189 00:13:01,110 --> 00:13:02,050 He didn't have the right cutters. 190 00:13:02,051 --> 00:13:05,750 If I tell you that he could move 5,000 units a week out of here 191 00:13:05,751 --> 00:13:09,590 when each of the big five wanted 5,000 units a week, you know what I'm talking about. 192 00:13:10,070 --> 00:13:11,830 And it was then that our company stepped in. 193 00:13:12,050 --> 00:13:14,710 So that's how investment securities got into the act, huh? 194 00:13:15,010 --> 00:13:17,206 They were looking for a place to put their money to work. 195 00:13:17,230 --> 00:13:18,790 So they bought Lester LeBaron dresses. 196 00:13:18,910 --> 00:13:21,190 Now, this guy in San Diego, Adrian Marshall, 197 00:13:21,630 --> 00:13:25,750 he convinces them he's the genius that should operate Lester LeBaron. 198 00:13:26,090 --> 00:13:28,390 He's slick, drew himself a top salary. 199 00:13:28,630 --> 00:13:32,030 He had them convinced that they could just sit up 200 00:13:32,031 --> 00:13:35,510 there in Cleveland and have the shackles just roll in. 201 00:13:35,535 --> 00:13:36,290 Well? 202 00:13:36,810 --> 00:13:38,370 And nothing, the shackles rolled out. 203 00:13:38,390 --> 00:13:39,890 2.8 million last year. 204 00:13:42,170 --> 00:13:45,530 So Marshall rips off investment securities for close to $3 million. 205 00:13:46,110 --> 00:13:47,190 I wish I knew for sure. 206 00:13:47,610 --> 00:13:49,910 I came in, I went over the books, I talked to Marshall. 207 00:13:50,170 --> 00:13:52,430 I was sure that man was absolutely ripping him off. 208 00:13:52,890 --> 00:13:56,330 I mean, he charges private planes for business junkets and for pleasure. 209 00:13:56,670 --> 00:13:58,906 Besides, he wants to show the spring line in Los Angeles. 210 00:13:58,930 --> 00:13:59,625 So what does he do? 211 00:13:59,650 --> 00:14:03,150 He flies 75 buyers out there, plus his family. 212 00:14:03,310 --> 00:14:05,110 And how long did management put up with this? 213 00:14:05,210 --> 00:14:06,650 For over two years. 214 00:14:07,310 --> 00:14:08,586 The guy was an incredible talker. 215 00:14:08,610 --> 00:14:10,406 He said he was building an image for the company. 216 00:14:10,430 --> 00:14:12,170 I say he was building an image for himself. 217 00:14:12,810 --> 00:14:15,730 He had a Rolls Royce, a Mercedes with color television, 218 00:14:16,050 --> 00:14:17,050 a Maserati coupe. 219 00:14:17,810 --> 00:14:20,150 How about a $95,000 wardrobe for his wife? 220 00:14:20,316 --> 00:14:21,316 Italian. 221 00:14:21,890 --> 00:14:24,570 I told my employees, get an injunction, get that man out of here. 222 00:14:25,070 --> 00:14:26,410 Oh, any criminal charges? 223 00:14:26,710 --> 00:14:28,650 Well, we went to the U.S. Attorney's office. 224 00:14:28,651 --> 00:14:30,850 Showed them the evidence, and they said last week 225 00:14:30,851 --> 00:14:32,851 that we didn't have enough for a case against him. 226 00:14:33,470 --> 00:14:34,930 So he's in Long Island, 227 00:14:35,410 --> 00:14:37,150 doing no work and getting a lot of pay. 228 00:14:37,303 --> 00:14:38,710 Collecting his pay? 229 00:14:39,050 --> 00:14:39,850 Still? 230 00:14:39,875 --> 00:14:40,716 Sure. 231 00:14:40,810 --> 00:14:41,890 He threatens a countersuit. 232 00:14:41,943 --> 00:14:43,510 Defamation of character. 233 00:14:43,856 --> 00:14:46,510 So we got a stalemate, except he's way ahead. 234 00:14:46,870 --> 00:14:48,790 Three more years at 200,000. 235 00:14:48,870 --> 00:14:50,730 And our victim, Mr. Fletcher. 236 00:14:51,590 --> 00:14:55,070 What exactly was he doing for investment securities? 237 00:14:55,670 --> 00:14:57,470 Well, he was doing everything I was doing, 238 00:14:57,471 --> 00:14:59,231 except with Fletcher, it meant a microscope. 239 00:14:59,610 --> 00:15:02,290 That guy kept his pencil sharp enough to draw blood. 240 00:15:03,810 --> 00:15:06,050 These are things he was working on before he was killed? 241 00:15:06,770 --> 00:15:07,830 Yeah, I guess so. 242 00:15:13,350 --> 00:15:14,350 I see. 243 00:15:15,530 --> 00:15:20,050 671 slash 30 slash 6801 slash 2 slash 30. 244 00:15:20,051 --> 00:15:21,051 Well, what's this? 245 00:15:21,096 --> 00:15:22,096 Beats me. 246 00:15:22,450 --> 00:15:24,390 You're the detective, you figure it out. 247 00:15:24,690 --> 00:15:26,130 Hey, wait a minute, let me see that. 248 00:15:27,890 --> 00:15:30,810 Last week, Fletcher was going through a ledger. 249 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:33,110 And all of a sudden he lets out a long whistle 250 00:15:33,111 --> 00:15:36,710 like he suddenly found a naked chick pressed in between the pages, you know? 251 00:15:37,430 --> 00:15:40,110 Then he writes down the figures and puts it back in that lockbox. 252 00:15:40,196 --> 00:15:41,050 Which ledger? 253 00:15:41,116 --> 00:15:42,470 Who knows? 254 00:15:42,495 --> 00:15:45,810 You gotta understand that he was shuffling them around like he was dealing stud. 255 00:15:46,790 --> 00:15:48,630 He told me that he knew Marshall was cooking the 256 00:15:48,631 --> 00:15:50,311 books and he was the boy who was gonna prove it. 257 00:15:50,630 --> 00:15:52,370 Very, very self-righteous dude. 258 00:15:52,650 --> 00:15:55,610 His wife said he'd call from here a couple hours before he was killed. 259 00:15:56,930 --> 00:15:57,750 Said he had an appointment. 260 00:15:57,751 --> 00:16:00,210 Did he say anything to you the night he was killed, 261 00:16:00,450 --> 00:16:01,970 who it was with or anything like that? 262 00:16:01,995 --> 00:16:02,816 No. 263 00:16:02,990 --> 00:16:03,990 No, he never talked much. 264 00:16:04,490 --> 00:16:05,650 Just did a lot of arithmetic. 265 00:16:06,190 --> 00:16:09,690 Three horses of parlay, Irish swoop steaks. 266 00:16:10,610 --> 00:16:11,610 What is this? 267 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:18,020 Hey, lieutenant, where are we going? 268 00:16:18,079 --> 00:16:19,079 Long Island. 269 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,340 I want to see that 96,000 banana wardrobe firsthand. 270 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,160 Malcolm Kane, please. 271 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:34,480 Malcolm, this is Wilson. 272 00:16:34,940 --> 00:16:36,640 I thought I'd better call you right away. 273 00:16:37,380 --> 00:16:38,420 Thought you ought to know. 274 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:40,200 They were in there with him a long time. 275 00:17:28,370 --> 00:17:30,350 I'm Lieutenant Kojak to see Mr. Marshall. 276 00:17:30,610 --> 00:17:31,650 This is Detective Stavros. 277 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:32,800 Come on in, please. 278 00:17:32,825 --> 00:17:33,663 Thank you. 279 00:17:33,750 --> 00:17:35,690 My father will be with you in just a moment. 280 00:17:35,715 --> 00:17:36,715 All right? 281 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:51,920 How do you do? 282 00:17:52,940 --> 00:17:54,060 I'm Lieutenant Kojak. 283 00:17:54,340 --> 00:17:55,480 This is Detective Stavros. 284 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:55,900 Detective. 285 00:17:56,340 --> 00:17:57,420 Good afternoon, Lieutenant. 286 00:17:57,460 --> 00:17:58,800 What can I do for you? 287 00:17:58,940 --> 00:18:01,140 Well, tell me about Colin Fletcher, Mr. Marshall. 288 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:03,380 I didn't know Fletcher personally. 289 00:18:03,405 --> 00:18:05,118 We never met face to face. 290 00:18:05,511 --> 00:18:06,818 Do you mind if I smoke? 291 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:07,880 Of course. 292 00:18:11,292 --> 00:18:11,946 Thank you. 293 00:18:11,971 --> 00:18:15,210 Mr. Marshall, you must have known that Fletcher was going through your books 294 00:18:15,211 --> 00:18:18,770 looking for questionable transactions, you know, embezzlement, fraud. 295 00:18:19,290 --> 00:18:20,290 It sure is elegant. 296 00:18:20,490 --> 00:18:23,030 There is absolutely no proof of those alleged crimes. 297 00:18:23,790 --> 00:18:26,110 And the United States Attorney's Office apparently agrees. 298 00:18:27,310 --> 00:18:29,650 I suggest you be careful what you say to me. 299 00:18:29,850 --> 00:18:32,370 I'll take anyone into court who I think deserves it. 300 00:18:32,950 --> 00:18:33,950 Court? 301 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,370 I've already filed suit against investment securities. 302 00:18:37,910 --> 00:18:39,450 I'm going to get back in control. 303 00:18:40,090 --> 00:18:42,250 I didn't think there was very much left to control. 304 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,790 In my opinion, the company has a brilliant future. 305 00:18:45,850 --> 00:18:48,010 Frankly, that's all I have to say for now, Lieutenant. 306 00:18:49,050 --> 00:18:52,150 You know, I was down in the Virgin Islands. 307 00:18:52,410 --> 00:18:53,410 It was very nice. 308 00:18:53,590 --> 00:18:54,910 Did you buy this down there? 309 00:18:55,590 --> 00:18:57,290 No, we've never been to the Caribbean. 310 00:18:57,690 --> 00:18:59,410 I can't remember where we picked that up. 311 00:18:59,630 --> 00:19:02,590 Hey, Stavros, how come you know so much about the Caribbean? 312 00:19:02,740 --> 00:19:04,050 I mean, why isn't it Tahiti? 313 00:19:04,230 --> 00:19:05,690 Well, Lieutenant, it's very easy. 314 00:19:06,395 --> 00:19:08,490 Look, you see, there are no coral reefs 315 00:19:08,690 --> 00:19:11,110 and the waves break right down on the beach. 316 00:19:11,230 --> 00:19:12,710 That surely isn't the Pacific. 317 00:19:12,790 --> 00:19:14,110 Should I be impressed, Detective? 318 00:19:14,970 --> 00:19:16,530 Or are you just jumping to conclusions? 319 00:19:17,580 --> 00:19:20,450 What about, say, the Andaman Islands? 320 00:19:20,475 --> 00:19:21,343 Where's that? 321 00:19:21,390 --> 00:19:22,390 Off the coast of India. 322 00:19:23,530 --> 00:19:24,530 They're quite primitive. 323 00:19:24,930 --> 00:19:26,770 Oh, well, I doubt if it's India, Mr. Marshal. 324 00:19:27,230 --> 00:19:28,230 Why do you say that? 325 00:19:28,810 --> 00:19:30,830 Well, why, with people water-skiing and all that? 326 00:19:33,730 --> 00:20:02,010 Thanks for your time. 327 00:20:12,550 --> 00:20:14,130 Call 7-4-0, K. 328 00:20:14,510 --> 00:20:15,810 7-4-0, K. 329 00:20:15,910 --> 00:20:17,710 Respond to list of a bar and dress company, 330 00:20:18,010 --> 00:20:19,150 38th Street and 8th Avenue. 331 00:20:19,530 --> 00:20:22,190 Relative to a past assault and possible kidnapping, K. 332 00:20:22,630 --> 00:20:23,630 Right. 333 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:49,920 Excuse me for a minute. 334 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,920 Rick Levine was just grabbed right off the street in broad daylight. 335 00:20:53,100 --> 00:20:54,880 This is his wife, and she saw them take him. 336 00:20:55,340 --> 00:20:56,340 Did she help? 337 00:20:56,580 --> 00:20:58,540 She can't even remember what they looked like. 338 00:20:58,580 --> 00:21:00,120 Just two big goons grabbed him off, 339 00:21:00,220 --> 00:21:01,581 took him off the street, and took him off in the car. 340 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:03,600 Levine snatched off the streets? 341 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,860 Fletcher snatched off the mortal call entirely? 342 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:10,840 You know, somebody hasty snoops from city investing. 343 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:13,320 And if I hadn't been with Mr. 344 00:21:13,321 --> 00:21:15,380 Marshal while this was happening, who knows what 345 00:21:15,381 --> 00:21:16,741 naughty thoughts I'd be having about him right now. 346 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:17,960 Yeah, well, I think this guy, 347 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:19,800 he has a connection, this Mr. Marshal. 348 00:21:20,060 --> 00:21:21,520 All right, get some answers, okay? 349 00:21:21,740 --> 00:21:23,695 Try to impress your superiors. Go ahead. 350 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,960 Now, you get in touch with city investment in Cleveland, 351 00:21:26,300 --> 00:21:28,160 find out everything you can about Levine. 352 00:21:28,161 --> 00:21:30,040 He's bonded, so he's got to be Prince. 353 00:21:30,380 --> 00:21:32,760 I want a copy of Mr. Marshal's prints, too, if they 354 00:21:32,820 --> 00:21:34,396 got them, and all the background they got on them. 355 00:21:34,420 --> 00:21:37,801 Here, have the lab lift Mrs. Marshal's prints from this ashtray, 356 00:21:37,980 --> 00:21:40,520 and try to get some sort of rundown on her background, too. 357 00:21:40,545 --> 00:21:41,275 How come? 358 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:44,493 Well, what you said about the Caribbean made sense, that painting, 359 00:21:44,860 --> 00:21:46,920 and the other souvenirs, probably from that area. 360 00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:50,560 Only she makes a great big deal about never having been there. 361 00:21:50,900 --> 00:21:52,160 Probably nothing to it. 362 00:21:52,540 --> 00:21:53,400 But I got news for you. 363 00:21:53,420 --> 00:21:54,420 I'm curious. 364 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:02,800 Hey, Frank. 365 00:22:03,540 --> 00:22:04,540 Look, I got a work for Levine. 366 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:06,201 What's your excuse fagging around this hall? Just $1. 367 00:22:07,260 --> 00:22:09,040 12.50 downstairs, pinnacle. 368 00:22:09,300 --> 00:22:10,300 Figure $1. 369 00:22:10,830 --> 00:22:12,280 85 an hour. 370 00:22:12,460 --> 00:22:13,660 Hey, that's some moonlighting. 371 00:22:14,980 --> 00:22:15,980 What is that arrangement? 372 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:17,900 That's my pizza warmer. 373 00:22:18,980 --> 00:22:19,980 I have a piece. 374 00:22:26,620 --> 00:22:27,880 Got any cream soda? 375 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,561 Good thing I've got under your chin and shed it. All right. 376 00:22:31,220 --> 00:22:32,220 377 00:22:33,980 --> 00:22:34,980 Okay. 378 00:22:35,059 --> 00:22:36,280 What's wrong, Theo? 379 00:22:36,460 --> 00:22:39,220 I told you I thought Fletcher was hit, right? Professionally. 380 00:22:39,420 --> 00:22:43,060 Because the blonde who took him upstairs did 381 00:22:43,061 --> 00:22:44,140 a research on that hotel and bar perfect. 382 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,920 And because he got hit a lot harder than any. 383 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:49,700 sapper's gonna hit anybody unless he wants to kill him, right? 384 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:50,760 He was meant to die. 385 00:22:50,820 --> 00:22:52,000 Maybe he wasn't professional. 386 00:22:53,260 --> 00:22:54,580 Maybe it was just a good job. 387 00:22:55,380 --> 00:22:57,381 We run across a lot of slick amateurs. 388 00:22:57,740 --> 00:22:59,520 Well, what about the two cool Sharpies 389 00:22:59,745 --> 00:23:02,701 who shuffle being off the streets in midday with no commotion? 390 00:23:03,140 --> 00:23:05,400 There's something very professional going on, Frank. 391 00:23:05,580 --> 00:23:07,861 Where is Lester LeBaron in all of this? 392 00:23:08,530 --> 00:23:09,360 He's in Europe 393 00:23:09,510 --> 00:23:10,720 looking for new models. 394 00:23:10,866 --> 00:23:11,595 It's true. 395 00:23:11,620 --> 00:23:12,620 It's been confirmed. 396 00:23:13,353 --> 00:23:14,600 Yeah. 397 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,000 Make anything of this? 398 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:21,860 He was in a lockbox in Fletcher's desk. 399 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:23,520 Somehow it was important to him. 400 00:23:23,540 --> 00:23:24,540 It's not a phone number. 401 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:25,960 It's not a safe combination. 402 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:27,080 It's not an address. 403 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:28,520 Call Washington. 404 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,480 It might be a numbered Swiss account. 405 00:23:31,020 --> 00:23:33,700 I called four government agencies myself. 406 00:23:33,925 --> 00:23:35,240 I don't like mysteries, right? 407 00:23:35,580 --> 00:23:36,780 So far nobody's called back. 408 00:23:37,020 --> 00:23:37,340 Incidentally, 409 00:23:37,580 --> 00:23:39,621 whatever happened to that FBI report we're supposed to get? 410 00:23:40,180 --> 00:23:41,180 You didn't get that yet? 411 00:23:41,420 --> 00:23:42,680 I didn't get it yet, no. 412 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,120 Let me sleep on my winnings. 413 00:23:47,121 --> 00:23:48,820 I'll follow up tomorrow for you. 414 00:23:49,900 --> 00:23:50,900 Hey, Theo. 415 00:23:52,350 --> 00:23:53,520 I love your pizza, Robin. 416 00:23:55,620 --> 00:23:56,620 Yeah. 417 00:23:57,140 --> 00:23:57,680 Lieutenant Kojak? That's right. 418 00:23:58,160 --> 00:23:59,201 Who's this? 419 00:23:59,226 --> 00:24:00,240 Just listen. 420 00:24:00,350 --> 00:24:01,780 I got people on the streets. 421 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:03,396 You got cops on the streets. 422 00:24:03,420 --> 00:24:04,420 So what's he compromise? 423 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,441 That's how we're going to save the city, right? 424 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,080 Hey, it's too late, baby. 425 00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:09,300 We're already down at tubes. 426 00:24:09,853 --> 00:24:11,060 What does it all mean, huh? 427 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:13,501 It means we got something for each other. 428 00:24:13,526 --> 00:24:15,360 On this kidnap number today. 429 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,760 I'm in the bar at the corner of 7th and Broadway. 430 00:24:19,420 --> 00:24:20,520 I'm waiting on you. 431 00:24:26,540 --> 00:24:27,540 Who was that? 432 00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:30,400 I don't know, Frank. 433 00:24:31,540 --> 00:24:32,080 Whatever it was. 434 00:24:32,180 --> 00:24:34,100 Has something to do with the Levine caper? 435 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:35,440 Can't pass it up, can I? Kojak. 436 00:24:55,870 --> 00:24:56,870 Mo Pearl. 437 00:24:57,370 --> 00:24:59,610 You never heard of him. 438 00:24:59,910 --> 00:25:00,950 Uh-huh. 439 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,801 Now, Mo used to be the biggest Shylock in Long Island. 440 00:25:12,260 --> 00:25:13,720 What'd you do, give up country living, Mo? 441 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:15,260 Mo Pearl is dead. 442 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:16,880 He died in Denmora. 443 00:25:17,091 --> 00:25:18,160 Understand? 444 00:25:18,580 --> 00:25:19,620 My name is Jim Ryan. 445 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,020 I sell fixtures, hangers, racks. 446 00:25:23,380 --> 00:25:24,460 Supplies in the district here. 447 00:25:24,461 --> 00:25:25,461 Yeah, sure. 448 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,080 Legitimate business, man, right? 449 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,321 Buy a thousand gross on my coat hangers or I'll break your arm, right? 450 00:25:30,940 --> 00:25:32,100 Hey, you think what you want. 451 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:33,980 I-I can't stop you. 452 00:25:34,460 --> 00:25:37,480 Now, this is causing me big trouble with this kidnap. 453 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,500 This guy, uh, Sky Levine, 454 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:43,200 he snatched East of 7th. 455 00:25:43,780 --> 00:25:46,120 Well, East of 7th belongs to somebody else. 456 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:47,820 That is somebody else. 457 00:25:48,140 --> 00:25:50,121 Figures I'm intruding on his territory. 458 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:51,840 Guys are calling me up, 459 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:53,740 laying heavy numbers on me. 460 00:25:53,741 --> 00:25:54,760 Let me get to the point. 461 00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:57,220 Hey, you got high blood pressure? 462 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,920 Mo, talk nice to the captain. 463 00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:01,960 Captain? Uh-uh. 464 00:26:02,146 --> 00:26:04,040 Hey, I'm sorry. 465 00:26:04,333 --> 00:26:05,826 Who knew? Go on. 466 00:26:05,866 --> 00:26:08,320 Anyhow, I asked around. 467 00:26:10,020 --> 00:26:11,440 Finest book you saw to snatch. 468 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:13,280 Stood on the corner watching. 469 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:14,680 Couldn't believe it. 470 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:16,440 You're lucky. 471 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,900 He keeps numbers in his head like you guys remember holidays. 472 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:25,100 And, uh, I got the license on a limo that drove off with that guy in it. 473 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:27,760 Hey, ain't you glad? 474 00:26:28,580 --> 00:26:30,780 You know I've been looking all over for witnesses, right? 475 00:26:31,260 --> 00:26:32,780 So I've done you a favor. 476 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:34,960 Mo, you want something? 477 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,080 Don't put too big a price on it. 478 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,640 Okay, you just get the word out. 479 00:26:39,740 --> 00:26:40,860 It wasn't me. 480 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:45,260 I never made a move East of 7th Avenue in my life. 481 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:47,480 You got it. 482 00:26:52,620 --> 00:26:53,620 $149, CZU. 483 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:54,620 New York State. 484 00:26:54,645 --> 00:26:56,240 Okay, we can call it from here. 485 00:26:56,265 --> 00:26:57,716 I don't want to be at the bureau. 486 00:26:57,740 --> 00:26:58,860 One problem, Kojak. 487 00:27:00,980 --> 00:27:02,660 Lucky you don't think I'm playing games with you. 488 00:27:02,860 --> 00:27:04,160 Now, why would I take that, Mo? 489 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:09,360 Well, I wanted to find out if this car belonged to my competition, understand? 490 00:27:09,860 --> 00:27:12,840 He could have been setting me up or, uh, make a patsy out of me. 491 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,340 So I had this friend, uh, 492 00:27:15,460 --> 00:27:16,760 check out the ownership for me. 493 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:18,560 And? 494 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:23,080 It's, uh, registered to an outfit called the Altamont Corporation. 495 00:27:25,340 --> 00:27:26,580 It's a dummy corporation. 496 00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:27,900 Belongs to the feds. 497 00:27:28,020 --> 00:27:29,213 The feds? 498 00:27:29,260 --> 00:27:30,260 Yeah. 499 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,140 They, uh, they got a couple of special strike forces. 500 00:27:33,313 --> 00:27:35,086 Real heartbreakers. 501 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,420 Hey, get you something good, huh? 502 00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:39,560 The feds kidnapped Rick Levine. 503 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,540 No wonder nobody in Washington is returning my calls. 504 00:27:44,820 --> 00:27:45,820 Huh. 505 00:27:59,550 --> 00:28:01,970 Our victim's back and better arrested than any of us. 506 00:28:02,023 --> 00:28:02,903 Oh, Levine? 507 00:28:02,990 --> 00:28:05,870 Yeah, apparently he got in at 10 o'clock last night, came in the back way, 508 00:28:05,950 --> 00:28:08,310 saw a man on stakeout, didn't pick it up. 509 00:28:08,990 --> 00:28:10,830 And neither he or his wife called us. 510 00:28:11,390 --> 00:28:12,570 Now, you get his Fanny down here. 511 00:28:12,590 --> 00:28:13,450 I want to talk to him. 512 00:28:13,490 --> 00:28:15,390 On advice of counsel, Lieutenant, uh, Mr. 513 00:28:15,790 --> 00:28:19,290 Levine is not talking with any cops unless a warrant is issued against him. 514 00:28:19,570 --> 00:28:20,370 Advice of what, counsel? 515 00:28:20,371 --> 00:28:21,230 He wouldn't say. 516 00:28:21,390 --> 00:28:24,870 He referred me to a Malcolm Cain who works for some federal agency. 517 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:32,520 Malcolm Cain. 518 00:28:33,420 --> 00:28:34,660 That's what the man said. 519 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:37,640 Uh-huh. 520 00:28:37,980 --> 00:28:38,980 That figures. 521 00:29:20,460 --> 00:29:21,680 How have you been, Mel? 522 00:29:21,860 --> 00:29:22,860 Fine, thank you. 523 00:29:22,940 --> 00:29:26,940 Kojak, have you ever thought what would happen if the feds leaned on you real good? 524 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:28,840 Well, you terrify me. 525 00:29:30,020 --> 00:29:32,681 I got a talk with one of my witnesses in a murder case. 526 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:34,240 That's murder, Mel. 527 00:29:34,620 --> 00:29:35,620 Now, what do I find? 528 00:29:35,860 --> 00:29:39,201 I find my man has been snatched on a public street in broad daylight. 529 00:29:39,660 --> 00:29:41,880 by a couple of your necktie salesmen. 530 00:29:42,430 --> 00:29:43,990 And when he gets back home again, what? 531 00:29:44,275 --> 00:29:45,300 He never heard of me. 532 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:46,860 Talked him out, he says. 533 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:50,100 So, here I am. 534 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,020 Rick Levine is under federal wraps. 535 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:54,720 End of explanation. 536 00:29:54,780 --> 00:29:56,760 No questions, no answers. Period. 537 00:29:56,939 --> 00:29:58,680 And I do mean period. 538 00:29:59,940 --> 00:30:01,801 Now, this is supposed to get me off my murder case, Mel. 539 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,400 I mean, this baffling development I'm supposed to somehow ignore. 540 00:30:06,940 --> 00:30:07,940 Baby. 541 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,180 You got me hooked on this case forever. 542 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:15,400 See you later, Mel. 543 00:30:31,860 --> 00:30:32,860 Yes, Commissioner. 544 00:30:34,100 --> 00:30:35,100 No, Commissioner. 545 00:30:36,020 --> 00:30:37,740 You can rest assured, Commissioner. 546 00:30:38,180 --> 00:30:39,180 Right. 547 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:40,800 Guess who that was. 548 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:41,520 Now, what are you? 549 00:30:42,020 --> 00:30:43,320 You are some detective. 550 00:30:44,060 --> 00:30:45,100 About Fletcher's murder. 551 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,220 We're instructed to limit our investigation to routine channels. 552 00:30:48,580 --> 00:30:51,840 And report all names of suspects and witnesses 553 00:30:51,841 --> 00:30:51,940 to the Chief of Detectives before the court. 554 00:30:51,941 --> 00:30:53,620 Before we interrogate them. 555 00:30:53,940 --> 00:30:54,280 In other words, 556 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,060 a properly managed investigation. 557 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,080 Theo, who knows this whole Cuchafrito, 558 00:30:59,220 --> 00:31:00,260 the real story? 559 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:06,040 Maybe Levine is CIA and Marshall is a Russian spy they've got under observation. 560 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:07,400 Hey, with his background, 561 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:08,640 nothing's impossible. 562 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:09,220 Why? 563 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:10,720 Marshall's resume, 564 00:31:11,260 --> 00:31:12,921 has he supplied at the city investing. 565 00:31:13,580 --> 00:31:15,180 High school, college, 566 00:31:15,780 --> 00:31:16,920 first place of employment. 567 00:31:17,380 --> 00:31:19,101 I called a few of these references. 568 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,900 Everybody gets very, very cagey when I ask for specifics. 569 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,880 One administrator remembered him at the high school here. 570 00:31:26,548 --> 00:31:28,901 One dean remembered him at college. 571 00:31:29,321 --> 00:31:30,620 Yeah, A, B. 572 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,360 Here's his marks, not bad either. 573 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,220 It's just a transcript, Theo. 574 00:31:34,700 --> 00:31:37,561 I call the person in charge of housing at the college. 575 00:31:38,670 --> 00:31:39,920 He never had a room there. 576 00:31:40,100 --> 00:31:41,100 You know why? 577 00:31:41,380 --> 00:31:43,720 Because Marshall never even went to that college. 578 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:45,640 He's a paper man, Theo. 579 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,280 Paper, the wife and the kids too. 580 00:31:48,430 --> 00:31:50,020 A paper man, huh? 581 00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:54,040 And who phonies a background better than the feds? 582 00:31:55,245 --> 00:31:56,861 Huh, will you really go to suggest the Russians? 583 00:31:57,380 --> 00:32:00,420 Theo, I've done enough research on my own 584 00:32:00,570 --> 00:32:04,040 to think that we better play this game the way we were told. 585 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:05,320 Well, you have, Frank. 586 00:32:05,420 --> 00:32:07,001 You've given me my instructions. 587 00:32:07,486 --> 00:32:08,480 What, you're going to follow? 588 00:32:08,699 --> 00:32:09,459 Uh-huh. 589 00:32:09,980 --> 00:32:11,681 You really want to know the answer to that? 590 00:32:11,893 --> 00:32:12,553 No. 591 00:32:12,766 --> 00:32:13,780 All right, thanks. 592 00:32:13,846 --> 00:32:15,040 Hey, Theo. 593 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:19,780 Look at those numbers you showed me that Fletcher wrote down. 594 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:21,540 Well, take a look at this. 595 00:32:27,210 --> 00:32:28,250 My hero. 596 00:32:34,860 --> 00:32:36,460 Now, what numbers set up like this? 597 00:32:36,820 --> 00:32:39,680 The one indispensable number you need to pay your taxes, 598 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:41,480 to have a bank account, 599 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,200 to receive income from any... Social Security number. 600 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:45,800 All right. 601 00:32:46,420 --> 00:32:50,200 Now, Fletcher runs across four Social Security numbers in sequence. 602 00:32:50,906 --> 00:32:53,180 And somehow that's very special to him. 603 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,940 Now, you used to mess around with some girl in welfare, right? 604 00:32:56,020 --> 00:32:58,420 She must have a pipeline into Social Security records. 605 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:00,080 You go make a date with her. 606 00:33:00,260 --> 00:33:01,260 Check these out. 607 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,860 And do not make it an official police request. 608 00:33:05,940 --> 00:33:06,680 You get the prints on Marshall? Yes, sir. 609 00:33:07,180 --> 00:33:10,920 They came in this morning with his resume, but there's no arrest record on him. 610 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,100 Tell fingerprinting I want them run through Interpol 611 00:33:13,225 --> 00:33:15,720 and don't memo their request to any federal agency 612 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,901 and have them check their Caribbean files for starters, okay? 613 00:33:19,032 --> 00:33:20,172 Yes, sir. 614 00:33:24,110 --> 00:33:25,640 I haven't heard a thing. 615 00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:26,900 What have I had? 616 00:33:27,340 --> 00:33:28,340 Why Interpol? 617 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,160 Because they're not under the thumb of some United States agency, 618 00:33:31,940 --> 00:33:35,301 And because Marshall's house was filled with souvenirs from the Caribbean. 619 00:33:35,540 --> 00:33:37,540 And maybe because Interpol can tell me if Mrs. 620 00:33:37,541 --> 00:33:38,980 Marshall's lying, 621 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,440 which she makes a big deal out of saying they've never been down there. 622 00:33:43,046 --> 00:33:44,700 Social Security number. That's very good. 623 00:33:44,940 --> 00:33:46,460 Tell me, Frank, how'd you come up with it? 624 00:33:47,506 --> 00:33:48,400 I didn't. 625 00:33:48,540 --> 00:33:49,560 My niece Shannon did. 626 00:33:49,561 --> 00:33:51,000 The eight-year-old? 627 00:33:51,113 --> 00:33:51,740 So? 628 00:33:51,973 --> 00:33:53,580 Just takes after me. 629 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,440 Captain, Lieutenant, jackpot. 630 00:34:04,940 --> 00:34:06,340 Father, mother, daughter, 631 00:34:06,626 --> 00:34:07,966 son in sequence. 632 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:10,820 Now, call me in, Kroger. 633 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,980 How does the Marshall family get four Social Security numbers in sequence? 634 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,000 By having them all issued at the same time. 635 00:34:16,060 --> 00:34:17,180 Which ain't possible, right? 636 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,361 Well, let's just say it takes about the heaviest cloud imaginable from Uncle Sam, 637 00:34:21,660 --> 00:34:24,100 which makes me think we'd better slow down. 638 00:34:24,153 --> 00:34:25,760 Hey, Frank, are you kidding? 639 00:34:26,267 --> 00:34:27,267 Slow down. 640 00:34:28,605 --> 00:34:30,301 I got a woman without a husband, right? 641 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:32,240 Three kids without a father. 642 00:34:32,500 --> 00:34:34,760 I'm not slowing down for his murderer, Frank. 643 00:34:34,980 --> 00:34:36,380 Hey, forget it. 644 00:34:51,550 --> 00:34:53,230 Very serious charges, Theo. 645 00:34:54,010 --> 00:34:55,470 They're not charges, Evan. 646 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:56,520 Good questions. 647 00:34:57,010 --> 00:34:58,010 For instance, 648 00:34:58,590 --> 00:35:01,310 why were no criminal charges filed against Adrian Marshall? 649 00:35:02,050 --> 00:35:05,330 Because the complaint lodged by investment securities gave me nothing on which 650 00:35:05,331 --> 00:35:07,051 to base a true bill of indictment. 651 00:35:07,478 --> 00:35:08,891 The line between mismanagement 652 00:35:08,916 --> 00:35:11,470 and embezzlement is not an easy one to fix. 653 00:35:12,230 --> 00:35:13,410 Now, if it makes you feel any better, 654 00:35:13,550 --> 00:35:17,030 my own feeling was that Marshall probably was guilty of misappropriating funds. 655 00:35:18,195 --> 00:35:19,330 But, uh, proof. 656 00:35:20,110 --> 00:35:20,770 Legal proof. 657 00:35:20,810 --> 00:35:21,970 They just didn't give me any. 658 00:35:22,450 --> 00:35:23,450 So? 659 00:35:24,550 --> 00:35:27,130 Your decision not to file was arrived at 660 00:35:27,131 --> 00:35:28,470 without pressure from any other federal agency, 661 00:35:29,610 --> 00:35:30,610 Pressure? 662 00:35:31,110 --> 00:35:32,110 No. 663 00:35:32,250 --> 00:35:33,250 There were inquiries. 664 00:35:33,450 --> 00:35:34,450 From Malcolm Cain? 665 00:35:34,930 --> 00:35:35,930 I mean his people? 666 00:35:36,096 --> 00:35:37,116 From Cain, yes. 667 00:35:38,010 --> 00:35:41,571 I was able to tell him honestly we just didn't have the evidence for a conviction. 668 00:35:42,610 --> 00:35:45,110 You think he would have pressured if we were ready to prosecute? 669 00:35:46,070 --> 00:35:47,070 That's outrageous. 670 00:35:47,470 --> 00:35:48,470 That's right, baby. 671 00:35:49,510 --> 00:35:50,590 Now, there's a man, Levine. 672 00:35:50,709 --> 00:35:52,350 I want to talk to him. Can you help? 673 00:35:55,250 --> 00:35:58,068 You claim Mr. Levine you never talked with Martin 674 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,140 Cain or any member of a federal investigation agency? 675 00:36:01,940 --> 00:36:04,260 I understand it, lieutenant. I'm not supposed to be here. 676 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,480 I mean, I wasn't kidnapped, right? 677 00:36:07,380 --> 00:36:09,880 There is nothing I can say to help you. 678 00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:12,240 Listen, Mr. Levine. 679 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:16,240 You're in the middle of something that neither one of us clearly understands. 680 00:36:16,620 --> 00:36:18,300 That's the murder of Colin Fletcher. 681 00:36:19,020 --> 00:36:20,820 A man pretty much like you. 682 00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:22,380 I was told not to say anything. 683 00:36:22,630 --> 00:36:24,080 That's all I know. 684 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:25,800 Okay. 685 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,700 I'll ask some questions. You don't have to answer. 686 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:33,980 However, if you look toward that window over there, maybe I'll take it to mean yes. 687 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:35,280 Okay? 688 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:36,480 Let's talk about Marshall. 689 00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:38,340 You know him by any other name? 690 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,240 You know anything about his wife? 691 00:36:42,970 --> 00:36:44,080 His family life? 692 00:36:54,060 --> 00:36:56,120 Do you know the color of your eyes, Mr. 693 00:36:56,905 --> 00:36:58,420 Levine? Or maybe Mama's name? 694 00:36:59,145 --> 00:37:00,720 Or your own name, Mr. 695 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,120 Levine? I was told in the interest of national security... 696 00:37:04,121 --> 00:37:06,920 Mr. Levine, national security begins right up here. 697 00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:09,800 With brains you don't let other people scramble for you. 698 00:37:10,140 --> 00:37:14,460 And murder doesn't happen to be in the best interest of this country, Mr. Levine. 699 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:15,640 Fastein? I'm sorry. 700 00:37:16,380 --> 00:37:18,520 Mr. Levine, why don't you go home? 701 00:37:18,660 --> 00:37:19,660 Thanks a lot. 702 00:37:23,646 --> 00:37:24,535 Lieutenant. 703 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,060 Lieutenant, Interpol's escort for us on Adrian Marshall. 704 00:37:27,061 --> 00:37:29,559 Thanks to a certain detective's perceptive 705 00:37:29,571 --> 00:37:32,500 observations about his interest in the Caribbean. 706 00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:35,220 If this is good, Stavros, I'll buy you a blowfish lamp, okay? Don't worry. 707 00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:36,300 Go ahead. 708 00:37:36,420 --> 00:37:39,900 Well, it seems that Interpol had some partial fingerprints on a syndicate employee. 709 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:43,820 A man who spoke Spanish, ran three mob control casinos in the Caribbean for them. 710 00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:46,680 And a man who just vanished, family and all, three years ago. 711 00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:49,000 They knew him as Ariana Maseca. 712 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,280 We know him as Adrian Marshall. 713 00:37:53,180 --> 00:37:54,620 My, my, my, my. 714 00:37:54,621 --> 00:37:56,960 What the hell have we got here? 715 00:38:08,340 --> 00:38:11,193 You're trying to tell me now that Adrian Marshall is 716 00:38:11,205 --> 00:38:14,400 really Ariana Maseca, formerly casino manager for the mob? 717 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,720 Him and his whole family, they lived in Cuba. 718 00:38:18,240 --> 00:38:20,600 Moved out after Castro to some of the other islands. 719 00:38:20,850 --> 00:38:22,500 Interpol had their eye on him. 720 00:38:22,740 --> 00:38:25,780 He went to Miami three, four years ago, apparently got picked up by the IRS. 721 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,720 That's the last the four little Maseca were ever seen by that name again. 722 00:38:30,100 --> 00:38:35,360 Yeah, the IRS wiped out half the Miami mob on tax evasion charges about the same time. 723 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:37,540 Maseca's help, no doubt. 724 00:38:38,300 --> 00:38:39,700 Probably made a deal with him. 725 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:41,780 No identity, relocation. 726 00:38:41,980 --> 00:38:45,400 He probably went underground in San Diego and got stiff with some dull job. 727 00:38:45,660 --> 00:38:48,240 Probably dug up some action for himself in New York. 728 00:38:48,490 --> 00:38:50,540 Ripping off Lester LeBaron's dresses. 729 00:38:50,860 --> 00:38:53,740 You know, Fletcher stumbles on Marshall's funny social security numbers. 730 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,680 Figures Marshall has some sort of pool, probably a lot to hide. 731 00:38:57,060 --> 00:38:58,876 Fletcher could have blackmailed him or maybe 732 00:38:58,888 --> 00:39:00,840 tried to sell the information to the syndicate. 733 00:39:01,220 --> 00:39:03,060 Fletcher? No, I doubt it. 734 00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:04,956 I think he was a lot straighter than that. 735 00:39:04,980 --> 00:39:06,787 Well, if Fletcher was that straight, maybe he 736 00:39:06,799 --> 00:39:08,820 leveled with Marshall and demanded an explanation. 737 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,860 What about this appointment that Fletcher told his wife he had? 738 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:13,600 The one that made him very excited. 739 00:39:13,601 --> 00:39:16,180 So? I mean you were the flashy blonde? 740 00:39:16,820 --> 00:39:18,400 That's exciting all by itself. 741 00:39:18,940 --> 00:39:21,120 That lady was more than just flashy, baby. 742 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,300 She was smart. She had good timing. 743 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:26,700 Cased the situation perfectly. 744 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,140 And Frank, guess who fits that description? 745 00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,094 A lady who's handled a lot of ups and downs in 746 00:39:32,106 --> 00:39:34,340 her life, like a very cool, cool cookie cookie. 747 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,636 All right, check the prints found on Fletcher's wallet. 748 00:39:38,660 --> 00:39:41,600 Against the prints of Mrs. Marshall, we lift her from that ashtray. 749 00:39:41,601 --> 00:39:42,620 Mrs. Marshall? 750 00:39:50,917 --> 00:39:51,917 Thank you. 751 00:40:03,630 --> 00:40:04,150 Hello? 752 00:40:04,330 --> 00:40:06,010 This is Kane with a problem. 753 00:40:06,550 --> 00:40:08,390 Interpol came up with your real name. 754 00:40:08,670 --> 00:40:10,850 Marseca. They gave it to the NYPD. 755 00:40:11,130 --> 00:40:12,490 But you said that couldn't happen. 756 00:40:12,730 --> 00:40:15,030 I said there's no reason why it should have happened. 757 00:40:15,250 --> 00:40:18,590 And it wouldn't have, except for this investigation into Fletcher's death. 758 00:40:19,790 --> 00:40:21,130 I talked to Levine yesterday. 759 00:40:21,930 --> 00:40:24,165 I found out he had steered this lieutenant Kojak 760 00:40:24,177 --> 00:40:26,470 onto some numbers that Fletcher had written down. 761 00:40:26,850 --> 00:40:30,154 Well, Levine doesn't know where his best social 762 00:40:30,166 --> 00:40:33,200 security card to be ran through for you is. 763 00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:36,336 Fletcher never got in touch with you about these numbers, did he? 764 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,160 No, I never met Fletcher in my life. 765 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,440 Tell me, Kane, how bad is a cover blown? Tell me. 766 00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:43,560 Straight. 767 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,300 My men checked your place from time to time. 768 00:40:46,700 --> 00:40:48,340 There's no sign of trouble yet. 769 00:40:48,730 --> 00:40:50,080 Your men come out here? 770 00:40:52,355 --> 00:40:53,355 What if they're followed? 771 00:40:53,445 --> 00:40:56,200 Mr. Marshall, you've got other worries. 772 00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,300 This Kojak has got something to work on now. 773 00:40:59,740 --> 00:41:01,500 There's not much we can do to slow him down. 774 00:41:02,140 --> 00:41:03,900 There's leaks in every police department. 775 00:41:04,460 --> 00:41:09,320 I told you when you wouldn't stay in San Diego, we would cooperate on one more move. 776 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:11,020 Now the problem is yours. 777 00:41:11,500 --> 00:41:13,960 I'm a man of action, Kane. I was dying out there. 778 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:15,960 I can sell campus for the rest of my life. 779 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:18,680 Kane! 780 00:41:28,900 --> 00:41:30,320 Return everything we can into cash. 781 00:41:30,321 --> 00:41:31,540 First, jewelry, everything. 782 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,640 No. If there's real danger, we don't want to waste one minute. 783 00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:36,880 I'm sorry. 784 00:41:37,380 --> 00:41:40,040 Sorry? Don't say that, Aureano. 785 00:41:40,500 --> 00:41:43,840 We came from nowhere, you and me, with nothing. 786 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,240 And we had 20 good years south of Miami. 787 00:41:48,140 --> 00:41:50,820 And we'll have 20 more good ones somewhere else. 788 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:52,980 We tried our best. 789 00:41:54,100 --> 00:41:55,900 Or I should say, our worst. 790 00:41:57,740 --> 00:41:58,760 Killing Fletcher. 791 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,060 It was a mistake. 792 00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:06,360 We'll pick up the children at school. 793 00:42:06,620 --> 00:42:08,340 My jewelry's in the safe with the cash. 794 00:42:35,830 --> 00:42:38,850 That's right. Mr. and Mrs. Aureano Marsica. 795 00:42:40,250 --> 00:42:42,890 You'd better include the name Adrian Marshall on the warrant, too. 796 00:42:43,070 --> 00:42:46,550 As soon as possible. We'll come by and pick it up. 797 00:42:46,850 --> 00:42:47,030 Right. 798 00:42:47,390 --> 00:42:52,370 Frank, Mrs. Marshall's prints were found on Fletcher's wallet. 799 00:42:52,550 --> 00:42:54,910 We're getting a warrant heading out to his house right now. 800 00:42:55,490 --> 00:42:57,410 Don't you think a warrant with Marshall's name on it 801 00:42:57,411 --> 00:42:59,570 could get back to Kane, who might warn Marshall? 802 00:43:00,290 --> 00:43:01,290 You could be right. 803 00:43:01,530 --> 00:43:03,790 We'll pick up Kane, tell him we gotta talk. 804 00:43:04,070 --> 00:43:06,630 If we got him with us, he can't get too far ahead of us, can he? 805 00:43:07,050 --> 00:43:08,570 Get Kane on the phone for the captain. 806 00:43:13,690 --> 00:43:16,210 There he is now. 807 00:43:19,890 --> 00:43:22,430 Kojak, what's this all about and where we're going? Get in, Mal. 808 00:43:23,170 --> 00:43:24,330 It's important. 809 00:43:24,463 --> 00:43:25,510 So? 810 00:43:25,610 --> 00:43:28,110 So, we're arresting Mr. and Mrs. Marsica. 811 00:43:28,770 --> 00:43:30,970 Why? Because you know their real identity? 812 00:43:32,090 --> 00:43:33,510 Stay away, Kojak. 813 00:43:33,830 --> 00:43:35,590 Stay away from Fletcher's murderers. 814 00:43:36,370 --> 00:43:37,390 No way, baby. Come on. 815 00:43:37,710 --> 00:43:39,410 We got the warrant! 816 00:43:41,690 --> 00:43:42,750 Get in the other car. 817 00:43:43,610 --> 00:43:44,610 Right. 818 00:44:00,970 --> 00:44:03,350 You know, we put Mrs. Marshall in a platinum wig. 819 00:44:04,570 --> 00:44:07,270 Try it on a lineup, see if Claudine the dream recognizer. 820 00:44:08,050 --> 00:44:10,350 Also Hunk, other people in that bar. 821 00:44:12,030 --> 00:44:13,630 Why would the one that killed Fletcher 822 00:44:13,631 --> 00:44:16,470 and why go through this whole hooker masquerade? 823 00:44:16,910 --> 00:44:18,270 Well, I don't know for sure, Mal, 824 00:44:18,890 --> 00:44:20,690 but if I don't try and find the answers, 825 00:44:21,510 --> 00:44:23,150 you're certainly not gonna help, are you? 826 00:44:23,510 --> 00:44:26,170 You think I'm a real hard-nosed bum, don't you? 827 00:44:26,770 --> 00:44:28,530 That I don't cooperate, right? 828 00:44:29,170 --> 00:44:31,290 How would you like to go around knowing that 829 00:44:31,291 --> 00:44:33,890 one slip you make will cost a family their lives? 830 00:44:34,230 --> 00:44:37,550 If anything happens to Marshall and his family once you blow their cover, 831 00:44:37,870 --> 00:44:40,430 then their lives are on your conscience, Kojak. 832 00:44:40,431 --> 00:44:43,660 And thank God there's a few less on mine. 833 00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,360 Around the back with Stavros. 834 00:45:55,900 --> 00:45:56,900 Anybody? 835 00:47:28,690 --> 00:47:30,690 I still can't get used to this. 836 00:47:30,970 --> 00:47:32,170 Oh, my God. 837 00:47:44,850 --> 00:47:45,850 Theo. 838 00:47:46,590 --> 00:47:47,590 Yeah. 839 00:47:59,710 --> 00:48:01,010 Was it worth the baby? 840 00:48:01,430 --> 00:48:02,430 It was quick. 841 00:48:03,770 --> 00:48:04,770 I know. 842 00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:06,410 They made me watch. 843 00:48:07,470 --> 00:48:08,470 This is Marsica. 844 00:48:09,256 --> 00:48:11,003 Did you make any notifications? 845 00:48:11,522 --> 00:48:12,522 Marshall. 846 00:48:13,523 --> 00:48:15,370 Our name is Marshall. 847 00:48:18,090 --> 00:48:19,090 My children. 848 00:48:20,210 --> 00:48:21,330 I don't want to lose them. 849 00:48:21,331 --> 00:48:22,730 I don't want them coming here. 850 00:48:23,070 --> 00:48:24,070 I'm sorry. 851 00:48:24,740 --> 00:48:27,350 I don't think this is the fault of anyone here. 852 00:48:27,530 --> 00:48:28,810 Of course it is. 853 00:48:29,550 --> 00:48:30,790 It's his fault and it's hers. 854 00:48:31,505 --> 00:48:33,585 You pay your money and you take your chances, right? 855 00:48:33,970 --> 00:48:36,170 Only that wasn't really fair for Fletcher, was it? 856 00:48:36,390 --> 00:48:37,570 He wanted money. 857 00:48:38,450 --> 00:48:39,590 Like everyone else. 858 00:48:40,810 --> 00:48:42,970 We said we'd have to meet him someplace 859 00:48:43,195 --> 00:48:44,630 where we wouldn't be recognized. 860 00:48:45,580 --> 00:48:47,790 Crocker, help the lady outside. 861 00:48:52,780 --> 00:48:56,040 We sent up four syndicate hulums thanks to him. 862 00:48:56,260 --> 00:48:57,260 Yeah, for how long? 863 00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:01,120 17 months was the longest. 864 00:49:05,020 --> 00:49:07,030 This is not an easy job, Theo. 865 00:49:08,210 --> 00:49:09,450 It's not easy for anybody, man. 866 00:49:10,770 --> 00:49:12,276 Just got to keep trying.