Kojak

So, what are we playing?

Okay, cut the cards.

Here we go.

And yep,

This one is called Alice in Wonderland.

It's like five cards, Doug.

Only it isn't.

The Queen of Hearts is wild.

Unless the guy on the right of the Queen of Hearts

has the King of Hearts, then all the kings are wild.

What are we doing, playing poker, telling fortunes?

Let's steal his choice, Lieutenant.

It's a good game, you'll see.

Yeah, so is old maid if you're ten.

Hey, Lieutenant, we're out of beer.

Poker makes me thirsty.

Really, how would you know?

All right, Tony, go down to Mike's and get a couple of six-packs.

Hey, Lieutenant, what, am I a water boy?

No, you're a Detective Third, and I'm a Lieutenant.

So go ahead.

Well, don't forget to cut the pot, and let me know who wins, will you?

Yeah, sure.

All right, like I was saying, the Queen of Hearts is wild.

Unless the guy on the right of the guy who's got the Queen of Hearts has got the.

King of Hearts, then all the kings are wild, unless he's got a knave.

A knave, Stover?

What's a knave?

That's a jack, stupid.

Alice in Wonderland poker?

Yeah, before that it was something called five drunken sailors.

Tell the guys I said hello.

Okay, and listen, Mike, have a good weekend, will you?

Thanks, you too.

And all the guys at the game, huh, Tony?

Yes, sir, can I help you?

We've got a special on a happy spear today.

How about the money, pops?

You got a special on that?

Mike?

Mike?

Keep the pressure on hard.

Look, a police officer has been shot.

Send in ambulance.

An underground garage, 75th and 5th.

He had brown hair.

He was about medium weight and tall.

Look, will you just get here?

Where are you going?

Out!

Break it up.

Break it up.

I raised four.

Buffino must be making a beer in his basement.

An officer is down two blocks away.

Let's go.

Hey, Lieutenant.

The beat cop has one or two witnesses.

Sounds like the same guy in the grocery store killing us.

One or two.

Well, he's got one.

The other witness took off.

It's a Mrs. Benson.

She gave us a make and model and a partial and a license plate.

I'll check out border vehicle for combinations, Lieutenant.

Check out the apartments.

Yes, sir.

You and Crocker get out of the street.

Okay.

Okay, Buffino's not gonna bring back the beer and

we're not gonna find a killer hanging around here.

Go ahead, Crocker.

Four people are now a cop.

The first guy to get something, we're all in on.

Stavros.

Yes, sir.

You're a gentleman, right?

Yes, sir.

I don't want a lynching.

Don't want it, Lieutenant.

We have to talk.

Where are you calling from?

The house.

Are you crazy?

And the next time I order veal, I want veal, not your old beef.

Well, up and dressed already.

Mm-hmm.

You know, someday the kid who did that's gonna want my job.

Things like that don't interest you, do they?

People out there, shooting, killing, some live, some die.

I never liked it before, either.

I had enough of it.

I mean, I did it.

I guess I still do it, only now I can order it like I order your clothes.

Does that bother you?

Should it?

I really gotta hand it to you, Janet.

Money, cars, a good time, that's your whole world.

How was that concert last night?

You're not Prokofiev.

Very heroic.

That means you really went, right?

Ask your goon.

Ask Curly.

You know, I catch you with another guy, you're dead.

I know.

You've killed before.

Don't be cute with me.

I may not have your education, but I've got you.

Why don't take abuse from anyone?

I told you that.

Look, will you just get here?

This just came in from Ballistics.

Slugs that kill Tony match the others.

Four liquor store murders in six months.

I called Manhattan North.

They're sending down what they have on the two we did up there.

Lieutenant, that lady on the phone doesn't live in any of those apartments.

I don't want to rent the padseps.

They don't want to talk to her.

Well, there is one possibility.

There's a corporation that keeps an apartment there.

And someone thinks that someone like that went in there. I don't know.

Something this and something that and you don't know.

Well, I want you to know because I want that witness.

Go ahead.

Frank, it's boiling in here.

If you're dying, it's not the heat.

Sit down.

I said, sit down.

Come on with you, Frank. I got a killer on my hands.

Oh, you have, huh? You have a killer on your hands?

What about me?

What about the rest of the city?

What about Crocker, Stavros, Saperstein, Rizzo?

Now, cut the body English and listen.

You did not, I repeat, you did not have anything to do with Tony Buffino's death.

I know that.

Well, you don't act like you know.

I know it here!

But down here, I feel like an accomplice.

Excuse me, but Mrs. Benson just ID'd a guy in the yellow sheet.

Stavros is running it through the computer.

Frank.

I hear what the Yankees have a picture in the minor league.

He's already got 200 strikeouts.

200.

You're doing a great job, Saperstein.

I'm working.

What do I know?

Mrs. Benson, this is Captain McNeil, Lieutenant Kojak.

Now, we already identified the assailant.

Now we're going to work on the composite of the other witness, right?

Are you sure of this?

Yes, I'm sure.

I think.

Yes, yes, I'm sure.

I could never forget that face.

Well, I want you to know how much we appreciate all this.

And I know it's difficult.

Mrs. Benson would like a tea?

With just a splash of whiskey.

Joe.

I think that's the man.

Oh, dear.

Lieutenant, we got a make.

We got it.

William Alban, alias Barry Abel, age 32, 5 foot 11, 155.

Seven arrests, armed robbery.

One conviction.

Grocery store, paroled.

Six months ago.

Come on.

I know how everyone feels about this guy.

What are you trying to say?

My 14 years is trying to say these guys are hot.

I don't want any mistakes.

Right.

All right, men.

No one ever plans it.

Where's the statement?

She refuses to make one of them.

I'll make one.

Billy's been with me for days.

He's a psycho.

And you've got to help us put him away.

You can't hold me forever.

There's such a thing as reasonable detention.

I don't know anything about anything.

Book the young lady on section 148.

What?

Resisting public officers in the discharge of their duties.

What duties?

Listen, young lady.

I mean, if you're going to dress like a grown-up, you've got to think like one.

Now, you're helping to put a cop killer back out on the streets.

Take her downstairs.

Hey, so a cop was killed.

Big deal.

Here, cop.