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♪ I don't like

♪ to sleep alone

♪ stay with me

♪ oh, no

♪ talk with me

♪ for just a while

♪ there's a bunch
I'd love to get to know ♪

♪ reachin' out

♪ touching you

♪ leavin' all my worries
Far behind ♪

♪ lovin' you

♪ the way I do

Why do we have
To come upstairs here?

Why this place?

Now, I know what I'm doing.
Don't worry.

Come on in, honey.
We gotta talk price.

Come on!

Oh!

Come on, honey.

Blondes are more fun, honey.

Um, 114, okay, manny?

Aah!

I just thought
You ought to see this one.

This guy by the name
Of colin fletcher gets mugged,

Same m.O. As the others.

Hooker picks up some guy,
Takes him upstairs,

There's a dude waiting behind
The door. Zap!

Claudine the dream?

His wallet was here.

He had a half a pint
Of whiskey.

It smashed
When he went down.

There's whiskey
On his breath.

That seal
Look broken to you?

How come he's still got
His watch and ring?

Well, like I was saying,
There are credit cards

In his wallet
That they didn't get.

All right,
Notify next of kin.

Hey, look, man,
I just work in a bar.

I don't do nothin' illegal.

You don't take anything for
Steering johns to a good time?

If a girl wants
To lay a tip on me,

That's against the law?

Why don't you get off my back?

Hey, cutie-pie,
Talk nice to the officer.

You want to hurt
His feelings?

All he wants to know
Is this girl

With the platinum hair.

Now, what's her name?

Honest, I ain't
Never seen her before.

She comes in here, and she picks
Up this dude at the jukebox,

And she lays her money down
On the bar for my tip.

Her money?

Yeah,
And they leave the bar.

Well, how come this claudine
The dream character

Winds up in the same room
With the stiff?

Hey, manny?
You always double-book?

I guess that other girl
Just took a key

Without asking for it

And put it back
Without telling me.

I gave the same room
To claudine.

How did I know there was
A body to be cleaned up?

I just want you guys
To know

That I think you're a couple
Of beautiful human beings.

Of course I'm scared.

Fletcher was going
Through the books

Of a company
I was operating.

Fletcher gets murdered...

Fletcher had some kind
Of accident.

Nobody says it was connected
With you in any way,

So forget it, mr. Marshall.

Still, I'm scared.

You made certain guarantees,
Mr. Kane.

You'd better stick with them.

I'm watching out
For you as best I can.

Now you just do your part.

Well?

He says fletcher's death
Was...

Was an accident.
Not to worry.

You, you, you, and you,

And all of you in here.

Here's your coffee,
Lieutenant.

Yeah, whatever. Frank?

I've just come from
The borough commander's office,

And he was boiling.

He says...

Fun city isn't fun anymore.
I know, frank.

Why don't you tell him
To move to detroit?

To continue,
The commander pointed out

That fletcher's death was
A homicide off a murphy game,

And that 27 out-of-towners

Have been
Victims of murphy games

In the past three weeks,

Only this one puts us
On the front page.

I know, frank, I know.

All right,
What about fletcher?

Colin duncan fletcher--
37, married, three kids,

A bookkeeper for investment
Securities incorporated

Of cleveland.

On vacation? In town alone?

With the wife and kiddies?
What?

Word from cleveland
Police department

Is that he was in new york
On temporary assignment

To check some books
Or accounting procedures

Of an outfit
Over on eighth avenue--

Lester lebaron dresses.

The wife is flying
In from cleveland

To identify the body.

It's gonna be hard
To explain to her.

Explain what? That this is
Just a routine murphy game

That went sour on her husband?
Is that it?

I think it stinks,
And I'll tell you why.

Because this blonde puts
Her money up front,

And because the dive never saw
Her before, right?

Never saw her, but yet she knew
The routine so perfectly

That she was able to take
A key off the hook

Without manny
Even knowing about it.

Somebody, I'd say, had done
Some very thorough research

On this project.

What else bothers you, theo?

Wallet, watch, the ring,

A few credit cards
They forgot.

Hey, frank,
That's the whole point

Of the murphy game,
Isn't it? Greed?

All right, I want a rundown
Of fletcher's last day,

Second by second.

At his hotel,
At the clothing manufacturer's.

I want to know
If he was playing around,

And if he was, with whom.

Also how he found out
About that side street bar.

We got a description
From claudine

Of the alleged prostitute.

Description?

I can hear it now.

"Blonde and cheap, honey."

Come on, will you, fatso?

And who was the man
With her?

"A tall dude
In dark clothes."

That's terrific.

That means we gotta pick up
Almost everybody

On the west side
Of 55th street!

What about the whiskey bottle
In fletcher's pocket?

The lab feels
That the bottle

Was sealed
When it was smashed.

Uh-huh. And the autopsy?

No alcohol in his bloodstream,
Not much at all.

So we got a platinum blonde
Nobody's ever seen before

With a male accomplice,
Working a fake murphy game

On an out-of-towner.

We have a dead man,
And that's all we've got.

Rizzo, were they able to lift
Any prints off that wallet?

Three partials, lieutenant,

Small enough
To be that of a woman's.

Left hand,
But they weren't claudine's.

That's no help to us without
A full set for comparison.

All right, I thought
I asked you to find out

What fletcher was doing
Yesterday, every second.

So maybe it was
Just a murphy game.

I mean,
They get interrupted.

The victim doesn't
Have to be drinking,

They don't get
The credit cards, huh?

Well, maybe fletcher
Was casanova

Disguised as a bookkeeper,

The hooker,
A jealous husband in drag.

Why go through
The whole charade?

Why not just
Knock him off in an alley?

Hey, frank,

Suppose I said
I thought he was hit?

Professionally?

A contract on a minor league
Out-of-town bookkeeper?

Who says that's all he is?

You know, here we are, looking
At a botched-up murphy game,

When I really think
What we have here

Is a well-planned, coordinated,
Cold-blooded execution.

Come in.

Mrs. Fletcher.

They told me you're the man
Investigating colin's...

Please, sit down.

Did they explain
The circumstances of his death?

But I don't
Believe that colin

Went up to that room
With that woman for...Sex.

He wouldn't,

Not with a prostitute.

Give me an alternative.

He called me just a couple
Of hours before they say he...

Died.

Mm-hmm.

Called you from where?

That office where he worked.

Well, tell me,
How did he seem?

Seem?

You know, same as always?

"How's the kids,
How's the weather?"

He said he had
An important appointment,

A very important appointment.

I guess he sounded...

Excited.

Mrs. Fletcher?

Are you keeping anything
Back from me?

Nothing, lieutenant.

Nothing at all.

What am I gonna do
With you guys?

I mean, give me a break.

I had the same conversation
With you last week.

It's the same dress,
The exact same dress,

And there's a two-inch
Difference in the sleeves.

What am I supposed
To do with it?

Who can I send that to, huh?

Excuse me. Excuse me.

I'm detective crocker,
Manhattan south.

This is
Detective saperstein.

Hi, how are you?

And I am rick levine,
Hi.

I guess it's
About fletcher's death, huh?

Well, we'd like
To talk to the manager,

Mr. Adrian marshall?

Adrian marshall.

Well, adrian marshall no longer
Has a key to the establishment.

It seems his relationship
Has been severed.

What's your relationship

With lester lebaron dresses,
Mr. Levine?

Well, I work for investment
Securities incorporated.

We manage the business.

Well, that's the same company
Fletcher worked for.

Right, except I work
From new york,

And he was hired
Out of cleveland headquarters.

You know, I didn't meet him
Till this week.

All right,
If you don't mind,

I'm a little confused
About all this.

Who is lester lebaron?

Lester lebaron
Is a rich playboy-type kid

Who founded this organization
Three years ago

Because he wanted to score
With a lot of models.

Then he hires
This hippie chick

Who creates a spring line
That is dynamite.

I mean, absolute dynamite.

Buyers couldn't believe it.
They ordered left and right,

Only lebaron
Couldn't fill 'em.

Why not?

I just told you,

He didn't know anything
About the business.

I mean, he didn't
Have the right cloth,

He didn't have
The right cutters.

If I tell you
That he couldn't move

5,000 units a week
Out of here

When each of the big five
Wanted 5,000 units a week,

You know what
I'm talking about.

And it was then
That our company stepped in.

So that's
How investment securities

Got into the act, huh?

They were looking for a place
To put their money to work,

So they bought
Lester lebaron dresses.

Now, this guy in san diego,
Adrian marshall,

He convinces
Them he's the genius

That should operate
Lester lebaron.

He's slick.
Drew himself a top salary,

He had them convinced

That they could just sit up
There in cleveland

And have the shekels
Just roll in.

Well?

And nothing.
The shekels rolled out,

2.8 million last year.

So marshall rips off
Investment securities

For close to $3 million.

I wish I knew for sure.

I came in,
I went over the books,

I talked to marshall.

I was sure that man was
Absolutely ripping them off.

I mean,
He charters private planes

For business junkets
And for pleasure.

Decides he wants to show
The spring line in los angeles,

So what does he do?

He flies 75 buyers out there,
Plus his family.

And how long did management
Put up with this?

For over two years.

The guy was
An incredible talker.

He said he was building
An image for the company.

I say he was building
An image for himself.

He had a rolls royce, a mercedes
With color television,

A maserati coupe.

How about a $95,000 wardrobe
For his wife?

Italian.

I told my employers,
"Get an injunction,

Get that man out of here."

Oh, any criminal charges?

Well, we went
To the u.S. Attorney's office,

Showed them the evidence,
And they said last week

That we didn't have enough
For a case against him.

So, he's in long island,

Doing no work
And getting a lot of pay.

Collecting his pay?
Still?

Sure. He threatens
A countersuit.

Defamation of character.

So we got a stalemate,

Except he's way ahead.

Three more years
At 200,000 per.

And our victim,
Mr. Fletcher?

What exactly was he doing
For investment securities?

Well, he was doing everything
I was doing,

Except with fletcher,
It meant a microscope.

That guy kept his pencils sharp
Enough to draw blood.

These the things he was
Working on before he was killed?

Yeah, I guess so.

I see.

"671/30/6801/2/3..."

What's this?

Beats me.
You're the detective,

You figure it out.

Hey, wait a minute,
Let me see that.

Last week, fletcher
Was going through a ledger,

And all of a sudden,
He lets out a long whistle

Like he suddenly found
A naked chick

Pressed in between the pages,
You know?

Then he writes
Down the figures

And puts it back
In that lockbox.

Which ledger?

Who knows?

You gotta understand that
He was shuffling them around

Like he was dealing stud.

He told me that he knew marshall
Was cooking the books,

And he was the boy
Who was gonna prove it.

Very, very
Self-righteous dude.

His wife said
He called from here

A couple of hours
Before he was killed.

Said he had an appointment.

He say anything to you
The night he was killed?

Who it was with
Or anything like that?

No. No,
He never talked much.

Just did
A lot of arithmetic.

Three-horse parlay?

Irish sweepstakes?

What is this?

Hey, lieutenant,
Where are we going?

Long island.

I want to see that 96,000
Banana wardrobe firsthand.

Malcolm kane, please.

Malcolm,
This is wilson.

I thought I better
Call you right away.

Thought you ought to know.

They were in there
With him a long time.

Hello, I'm lieutenant kojak
To see mr. Marshall.

This is detective stavros.

- hi, come on in, please.
- thank you.

My father will be with you
In just a moment, all right?

How do you do?

I'm lieutenant kojak.
This is detective stavros.

Detective.

Good afternoon, lieutenant.
What can I do for you?

Well, tell me about
Colin fletcher, mr. Marshall.

I didn't know fletcher
Personally.

We never met face to face.

Ah.
Do you mind if I smoke?

Oh! Of course.

Thank you.

Uh, mr. Marshall, you must have
Known that fletcher

Was going through
Your books,

Looking for
Questionable transactions,

You know,
Embezzlement, fraud.

It sure is elegant.

There is absolutely no proof
Of those alleged crimes,

And the united states attorney's
Office apparently agrees.

I suggest you be careful
What you say to me.

I'll take anyone into court
Who I think deserves it.

Court?

I've already filed suit
Against investment securities.

I'm going
To get back in control.

I didn't think there was
Very much left to control.

In my opinion, the company
Has a brilliant future.

Frankly, that's all I have
To say for now.

Lieutenant?

You know, I was down
In the virgin islands.

It was very nice.

Did you buy this down there?

No, we've never been
To the caribbean.

I can't remember where
We picked that up.

Hey, stavros,
How come you know so much

About the caribbean?

I mean,
Why isn't it tahiti?

Well, lieutenant,
It's very easy. Look.

You see? There
Are no coral reefs,

And the waves break right
Down on the beach.

That surely
Isn't the pacific.

Should I be impressed,
Detective,

Or are you just jumping
To conclusions?

What about, say,
The andaman islands?

Where's that?

Off the coast of india.

They're quite primitive.

Oh. Well, I doubt if it's
India, mr. Marshall.

Why do you say that?

Well, what with people
Waterskiing and all that.

Thanks for your time.

Rick!

- car 740. Kay?
- 740. Kay.

Respond to
Lester lebaron dress company,

38th street and 8th avenue,

Relative to a past assault
And possible kidnapping. Kay?

Right.

Excuse me for a minute.

Rick levine was just grabbed
Right off the street

In broad daylight.

This is his wife,
And she saw them take him.

Did she help?

She can't even remember
What they looked like.

Just two big goons
Grabbed him off,

Took him off in a car.

Levine snatched
Off the streets,

Fletcher snatched
Off the mortal coil entirely.

You know, somebody hates
These snoops

From city investing,

And if I hadn't been
With mr. Marshall

While this was happening,

Who knows
What naughty thoughts

I'd be having
About him right now.

Yeah, well I think this guy,
He has a connection,

This mr. Marshall.

All right,
Get some answers, okay?

Try to impress
Your superiors, go ahead.

Now you get in touch with
City investment in cleveland,

Find out everything
You can about levine.

He's bonded, so there's got
To be prints.

I want a copy
Of mr. Marshall's prints too,

If they've got them.

And all the background
They've got on him.

Here. Have the lab

Lift mrs. Marshall's prints
From this ashtray

And try to get some sort of
Rundown on her background too.

How come?

Well, what you said about
The caribbean made sense,

That painting,
And the other souvenirs

Probably from that area.

Only she makes
A great big deal

About never
Having been there.

Ah, probably nothing to it,

But I got news for you,
I'm curious.

Hey, frank. Look,
I gotta work for a living.

What's your excuse for hanging
Around this hole?

Just won 12.50
Downstairs--pinochle.

Figure a $1.85 an hour?

Hey, that's some moonlighting.

What is that arrangement?

That's my pizza warmer.

Here, have a piece.

Got any cream soda?

Stick the napkin under
Your chin and shut up.

Okay, what's wrong, theo?

I told you I thought fletcher
Was hit, right, professionally?

Because the blonde
Who took him upstairs

Did her research on that hotel
And bar perfect,

And because
He got hit a lot harder

Than any sapper's
Gonna hit anybody,

Unless he wants
To kill 'em, right?

He was meant to die.

Maybe it wasn't professional.

Maybe it
Was just a good job.

We run across
A lot of slick amateurs.

Well, what about
The two cool sharpies

Who shuffled levine
Off the streets

In midday with no commotion.

There's something very
Professional going on, frank.

Where is lester lebaron
In all of this?

Oh,
He's in europe,

Looking for new models.

It's true,
It's been confirmed.

Here. Can you make anything
Of the this?

It was in a lockbox
In fletcher's desk.

Somehow, it was important
To him.

It's not a phone number,

It's not
A safe combination,

It's not an address.

We could call washington?

It might be
A numbered swiss account.

I called four government
Agencies myself.

I don't like mysteries, right?

So far,
Nobody's called back.

Incidentally, what ever happened
To that fbi report

We were supposed to get?

You didn't get that yet?

I didn't get it yet, no.

Let me sleep
On my winnings.

I'll follow up tomorrow
For you.

Hey, theo.

I love your pizza oven.

Yeah.

Lieutenant kojak?

That's right.
Who's this?

Just listen. I got people
On the streets,

You got cops on the streets,

So let's economize.

That's how we're gonna save
The city, right?

Hey, it's too late, baby.

We're already
Down the tubes.

What does it all mean, huh?

It means we got something
For each other,

On this kidnap number
Today.

I'm in the bar at the corner
Of seventh and broadway.

I'm waiting on you.

Who was that?

Uh, I don't know, frank.

However, it must have something
To do with the levine caper.

I can't pass it up, can I?

No.

- kojak.
- mo pearl.

- hey, never heard of him.
- uh-huh.

Now, mo used to be

The biggest shylock
In long island.

What'd you do,
Give up country living, mo?

Mo pearl is dead.
He died in dannemora.

You understand?
My name is jim ryan.

I sell fixtures--

Hangers, racks, supplies
In the district here.

Yeah, sure.
Legitimate businessman, right?

"Buy a thousand gross
Of my coat hangers,

Or I'll break your arm," right?

Hey, you think what you want.

I--I can't stop you.

Now, this is causing me
Big trouble, this kidnapper.

This guy, uh...
This guy levine,

He's snatched east of seventh.

Well, east of seventh
Belongs to somebody else.

Now, this somebody else figures
I'm intruding on his territory.

Guys are calling me up,
Layin' heavy numbers on me.

Can we get to
The point?

Hey, you got
High blood pressure?

Mo, talk nice
To the captain.

- captain?
- uh-huh.

Hey, I'm sorry. Who knew?

Go on.

Anyhow, I ask around,

Find this bookie
Who saw the snatch.

Stood on the corner
Watching,

Couldn't believe it.

You're lucky.

He keeps numbers in his head

Like you guys
Remember holidays.

And, uh, I got
The license on the limo

That drove off
With that guy in it.

Hey, ain't you glad?

Your men have been looking
All over for witnesses, right?

So? I done you a favor.

Mo? You want something?

Don't put
Too big a price on it.

Okay. You just get
The word out it wasn't me.

I never made a move east
Of seventh avenue in my life.

You got it.

149-c-c-u. New york state.

Okay, we can call it
From here.

That'll motivate
The bureau.

One problem, kojak.

Look, you're gonna think
I'm playing' games with you.

Now, why would
I think that, mo?

Well, I wanted to find out
If this car

Belonged to my competition,
Understand?

Come on, he could've been
Setting me up for, uh...

Make a patsy out of me.

So I had this friend check out
The ownership for me.

And?

It's registered to an outfit
Called the altamont corporation.

It's a dummy corporation,
Belongs to the feds.

The feds?

Yeah, they got a couple
Of special strike forces,

Real humpbreakers.

Hey, I gave
You something good, huh?

The feds kidnapped
Rick levine?

No wonder nobody
In washington

Is returning my calls.

Huh?

Our victim's back

And better rested
Than any of us.

Who? Levine?

Yeah, apparently he got in
At 10:00 last night,

Came in the back way,

So our man on stakeout
Didn't pick it up.

And neither he
Or his wife called us.

You get
His fanny down here.

I want to talk to him.

On advice of counsel,
Lieutenant,

Mr. Levine is not talking
With any cops

Unless a warrant
Is issued against him.

- advice of what counsel?
- he wouldn't say.

He referred me
To a malcolm kane.

Kane works
For some federal agency.

Malcolm kane.

That's what the man said.

All right. That figures.

How have you been, mal?

Fine, thank you.

Kojak, have you ever thought
What would happen

If the feds leaned
On you real good?

Oh, you terrify me.

I got to talk with one of
My witnesses in a murder case--

That's murder, mal.

And what do I find?

I find my man has
Been snatched

On a public street
In broad daylight

By a couple
Of your necktie salesmen,

And when he gets back
Home again, what?

He never heard of me.

"Talk to mal," he says.
So here I am.

Rick levine is
Under federal wraps.

End of explanation.

No questions,
No answers, period.

And I do mean, period.

This was supposed to
Get me off my murder case, mal?

I mean,
This baffling development

I'm supposed
To somehow ignore?

Baby, you got me hooked
On this case forever.

See ya later, mal.

Yes, commissioner.

No, commissioner.

You can rest assured,
Commissioner.

Right.

Guess who that was?

How would I know?

You are some detective.

About fletcher's murder.

We're instructed to limit
Our investigation

To routine channels.

And report all names
Of suspects and witnesses

To the chief of detectives
Before we interrogate them.

In other words, a properly
Managed investigation.

Theo, who knows
This whole cuchifrito,

The real story?

Maybe levine is cia,
And marshall is a russian spy

They've got under observation.

Hey, with his background,
Nothing's impossible.

Why?

Marshall's resume

As he supplied it
To city investing.

High school, college,
First place of employment.

I called a few
Of these references.

Everybody gets very, very cagey
When I ask for specifics.

One administrator remembered him
At the high school here.

One dean remembered
Him at college.

Yeah, a, b.
Here's his marks.

Not bad, either.

It's just a transcript, theo.

I called the person in charge
Of housing at the college.

He never had a room there.

You know why?

Because marshall never
Even went to that college.

He's a paper man, theo.
Paper.

The wife, and the kids too.

A paper man, huh?

And who phonies a background
Better than the feds?

Uh!

Were you really gonna suggest
The russians?

Theo, I've done
Enough research on my own

To think that
We'd better play this game

The way we were told.

Well, you have, frank.

You've given me
My instructions.

Which you're going to follow?

Uh. You really want to know
The answer to that?

No.

- all right, thanks.
- hey, theo!

Remember those numbers
You showed me

That fletcher wrote down?

Well, take a look at this.

My hero!

Now, what number
Is set up like this?

The one indispensable number
You need to pay your taxes,

To have a bank account,

To receive
Income from any--

A social security number?

All right.

Now, fletcher runs across

Four social security numbers
In sequence,

And somehow,
That's very special to him.

Now, you used to mess around

With some girl
In welfare, right?

She must have a pipeline
Into social security records.

You go make
A date with her,

Check these out,

And do not make it
An official police request. Go.

We get
The prints on marshall?

Yes, sir, they came in
This morning with his resume,

But there's
No arrest record on him.

Tell fingerprinting I want
Them run through interpol,

And don't memo that request
To any federal agency.

And have them check

Their caribbean files
For starters, okay?

Yes, sir.

I haven't heard a thing.

But if I had, why interpol?

Because they're
Not under the thumb

Of some united states agency,
Frank.

And because
Marshall's house was filled

With souvenirs
From the caribbean,

And maybe because interpol
Can tell me

If mrs. Marshall's lying
When she makes a big deal

Out of saying
They've never been down there.

Social security number,
That's very good.

Tell me, frank,
How'd you come up with that?

I didn't.
My niece shannon did.

The eight-year-old?

So?
She takes after me.

Uh...

Captain, lieutenant,

Jackpot!

Father, mother, daughter,
Son, in sequence.

Now, clue me in, crocker.

How does the marshall family

Get four social security numbers
In sequence?

By having them all issued
At the same time.

Which ain't possible,
Right?

Well, let's just say
It takes

About the heaviest clout
Imaginable from uncle sam.

Which makes me think,
We better slow down.

Hey, frank,
Are you kidding?

Slow down?

I got a woman
Without a husband, right?

Three kids without a father.

I'm not slowing down
For his murderer, frank!

Hey, forget it!

Very serious charges, theo.

They're not charges, evan,
Questions.

For instance,
Why were no criminal charges

Filed against
Adrian marshall?

Because the complaint lodged
By investment securities

Gave me nothing on which to base
A true bill of indictment.

The line between mismanagement
And embezzlement

Is not an easy one to fix.

Now, if it makes
You feel any better,

My own feeling was that marshall
Probably was guilty

Of misappropriating funds.

But, uh, proof, legal proof,
They just didn't give me any.

So...

Your decision not to file
Was arrived at

Without pressure from any other
Federal agency, right?

Pressure? No.

There were inquiries.

From malcolm kane?

I mean, his people?

From kane, yes.

I was able to tell him
Honestly

We just didn't have the evidence
For a conviction.

You think
He would have pressured

If we were ready to prosecute?

That's outrageous.

That's right, baby.

Now, there's a man, levine.
I want to talk to him.

Can you help?

You claim, mr. Levine,
You never talked

With malcolm kane

Or any member of
A federal investigation agency?

As I understand it,
Lieutenant,

I'm not supposed
To be here.

I mean,
I wasn't kidnapped, right?

There is nothing
I can say to help you.

Listen, mr. Levine, you're
In the middle of something

That neither one of us
Clearly understands.

That's the murder
Of colin fletcher,

A man pretty much like you.

I was told
Not to say anything.

That's all I know.

Okay.
I'll ask some questions.

You don't have to answer.

However, if you look toward
That window over there,

Maybe I'll take
It to mean yes. Okay?

Let's talk about marshall.

You know him
By any other name?

You know anything
About his wife, his family life?

Do you know the color
Of your eyes, mr. Levine?

Or maybe mama's name?
Or your own name, mr. Levine?

I was told in the interest
Of national security--

Mr. Levine, national security
Begins right up here

With brains you don't let
Other people scramble for you!

And murder doesn't happen
To be in the best interests

Of this country,
Mr. Levine, versteh?

I'm sorry.

Mr. Levine,
Why don't you go home.

Thanks a lot.

Lieutenant.

Lieutenant, interpol's
Just scored for us

On adrian marshall.

Thanks
To a certain detective's

Perceptive observations

About his interest
In the caribbean.

If this is good, stavros,

I'll buy you
A blowfish lamp, okay?

Don't worry. Go ahead.

Well, it seems that interpol
Had some partial fingerprints

On a syndicate employee,
A man who spoke spanish,

Ran three mob-controlled casinos
In the caribbean for them,

And a man that just vanished,
Family and all, three years ago.

They knew him
As ariano merceica.

We know him as...

Adrian marshall.

My, my, my, my.

What the hell
Have we got here?

You're trying to tell me now
That adrian marshall

Is really ariano merceica,

Formerly a casino manager
For the mob?

- mm-hmm
- him and his whole family,

They lived in cuba,

Moved out after castro
To some of the other islands.

Interpol
Had their eye on him.

He went to miami
Three, four years ago,

Apparently got picked up
By the irs.

That's the last
The four little merceicas

Were ever seen
By that name again.

Yeah, the irs wiped out
Half the miami mob

On tax evasion charges
About the same time.

With merceica's help,
No doubt.

Probably made
A deal with him--

New identity, relocation.

He probably went
Underground in san diego

And got stiffed
With some dull job.

Probably dug up some action
For himself in new york,

Ripping off
Lester lebaron's dresses.

So fletcher stumbles

On marshall's phony
Social security numbers,

Figures marshall
Has some sort of pull,

Probably a lot to hide.

Fletcher could've
Blackmailed him,

Or maybe he tried to sell the
Information to the syndicate?

Fletcher? No, I doubt it.

I think he was
A lot straighter than that.

Well, if fletcher
Was that straight,

Maybe he leveled
With marshall

And demanded an explanation?

What about this appointment

That fletcher
Told his wife he had,

The one that
Made him very excited?

So? A meeting
With a flashy blonde?

That's exciting
All by itself.

That lady was more
Than just flashy, baby.

She was smart.

She has good timing.

Cased the situation perfectly,

And, frank, guess who fits
That description?

A lady who's handled a lot
Of ups and downs in her life

Like a very cool,
Cool cookie, cookie.

All right, check the prints
Found on fletcher's wallet

Against the prints
Of mrs. Marshall

We lifted from that ashtray.

Mrs. Marshall?

Thank you.

Hello?

This is kane
With a problem.

Interpol came up
With your real name--merceica.

They gave it to the nypd.

But you said
That couldn't happen.

I said, there's no reason
Why it should have happened,

And it wouldn't have,
Except for this investigation

Into fletcher's death.

Talked to levine yesterday

And found out he had steered
This lieutenant kojak

Onto some numbers
That fletcher had written down.

What levine doesn't know is
They're social security cards

That we ran through for you.

Anyway, levine said it made him
Sort of suspicious.

Fletcher never got
In touch with you

About these numbers,
Did he?

No, I never met fletcher
In my life.

But tell me, kane,
How bad is our cover blown?

Tell me straight.

My men check your place
From time to time.

There's no sign
Of trouble yet.

Your men come out here?

Well, what if
They're followed?

Mr. Marshall,
You've got other worries.

This kojak has got something
To work on now,

And there's not much we
Can do to slow him down.

There's leaks
In every police department.

I told you when you wouldn't
Stay in san diego,

We would cooperate
On one more move.

Now the problem is yours.

I'm a man of action, kane.

I was dying out there.

I can't sell campers
For the rest of my life.

Kane!

We turn everything
We can into cash.

Furs, jewelry, everything!

No. If there's real danger,

We don't want
To waste one minute.

I'm sorry.

Sorry?

Don't say that, ariano.

We came from nowhere,
You and me, with nothing,

And we had 20 good years
South of miami.

And we'll have 20 more
Good ones somewhere else.

We tried our best.

Or I should say our worst.

Killing fletcher,
It was a mistake.

We'll pick up
The children at school.

My jewelry's in the safe
With the cash.

That's right.

Mr. And mrs. Ariano merceica.

You'd better include
The name adrian marshall

On the warrant too.

As soon as possible.

We'll come by
And pick it up. Right.

Frank.

Mrs. Marshall's prints were
Found on fletcher's wallet.

We're getting a warrant

And heading out
To his house right now.

Don't you think a warrant
With marshall's name on it

Could get back to kane,
Who might warn marshall?

You could be right.

We'll pick up kane,
Tell him we've got to talk.

If we've got him with us,

He can't get too far ahead
Of us, can he?

Get kane on the phone
For the captain.

There he is now.

Kojak, what's this all about
And where are we going?

Get in, mal.
It's important.

So?

So, we're arresting
Mr. And mrs. Merceica.

Why?

Because you know
Their real identity?

Stay away, kojak.

Stay away
From fletcher's murderers?

No way, baby. Come on.

Hey, lieutenant!
We got the warrant!

Get in the other car.

Right.

You know, we put mrs. Marshall
In a platinum wig,

Try her in a line-up,

See if claudine the dream
Recognizes her.

Also hunk, other people
In that bar.

Why would they want
To kill fletcher?

And why go through
This whole hooker masquerade?

Well, I don't know
For sure, mal,

But if I don't try
And find the answers,

You're certainly not going
To help, are you?

You think I'm a real
Hard-nosed bum, don't you?

Hmm? That I don't
Cooperate, right?

How would you like to go around
Knowing that one slip you make

Could cost a family
Their lives?

If anything happens
To marshall and his family

Once you blow their cover,

Then their lives are
On your conscience, kojak,

And thank god
There's a few less on mine.

Go around the back
With stavros.

Marshall? Anybody?

I still can't
Get used to this.

Oh, my god.

Theo.

Yeah?

Was it worth it, baby?

It was quick.

I know.

They made me watch.

Mrs. Merceica, can you make
Any identifications?

Marshall.

Our name is marshall.

My children,
I don't want them coming here.

I'm sorry.

I don't think
This is the fault anyone here.

Course it is.

It's his fault,
And it's hers.

You pay your money and you take
Your chances, right?

Only that wasn't really fair
For fletcher, was it?

He wanted money

Like everyone else.

We said we'd have
To meet him someplace

Where we wouldn't
Be recognized.

Crocker,
Help the lady outside.

We sent up four syndicate
Hoodlums thanks to him.

Yeah, for how long?

17 months was the longest.

This is
Not an easy job, theo.

It's not easy
For anybody, mal.

Just gotta keep trying.