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The Streets of San Francisco, a Quinn Martin production, starring Carl Malden.

Also starring Michael Douglas.

With guest stars Michael McGuire, Julie Adams,

Michael Strong,

Elise Orlandi.

Shelley Novak.

Special guest star, Don Gordon.

Tonight's episode, Labyrinth.

you doing?

Like a kid with a new toy.

Gopher's the best wheel man in town, Harry.

That's a fact.

Let's go.

Yeah, Mr.

Fabrizi, please.

Oh, wait a minute, honey. I just thought of something. I don't want to bother

him now. I'll go to my meeting first. What's his room number again?

Oh, yeah, right. Thanks, honey.

717.

See, that's the kind of information I didn't think I'd have to find out by

myself. Well, Harry, I spotted the guy and relayed the word.

I just didn't want to do anything on my own, that's all.

You've got to understand something, both you guys.

This is not a San Francisco matter.

Well, the fight was in St. Louis, wasn't it? The punk is here, isn't he?

Jack, Vince.

The one in the middle. Oh, who is he?

Local talent.

Call the police.

Get a couple of cars over here right away.

Looks like we could have an armed robbery on our hands.

Harry?

Dominic?

Come on in.

You know, I was expecting you.

I mean, well, not today.

You know what I mean.

I got tired of running.

You guys remember how I hated to do any kind of road work?

You're dumb, Tony.

You know that?

Dumb.

Hey, wait a minute. Hold it.

Oh, come on. Wait a minute. Harry, hold it.

Hold it.

Now, look, you saw me go into the ring, right?

Okay.

I'm starting to go into the ring.

Well, I felt somebody tapping me on the shoulder.

Tapping me on the shoulder, so I turned around.

Who do you think it was?

It was my boy, my son.

Yes, he had read about the fight in the newspaper.

You see, the kid lives here in the city with his mom.

We've been divorced for years, but she's got relatives that live in St. Louis.

Dumb.

You think I don't know about the rules, don't you, Harry?

Well, I know about the rules.

I know you want me to take the fall in the eighth round because you're coming

with a new contender.

But there's something you don't know.

My son was sitting out there. My flesh and my blood.

And I couldn't do it. And I wouldn't do it. Not for you, not for anybody.

I couldn't and I wouldn't do it.

You know what that fight cost us?

How much could it cost?

You cool Eddie Batista. Eddie Batista's on his way up. Oh, come on. He's young.

He's got another shot.

We had to break off contract talks with the Fontaine kid in New York, the number

three contender. Harry. Yeah.

Our Puerto Rican kid, Batista, against the number three contender, a Puerto

Rican in New York City.

That would have been really big.

Closed circuit, all those beautiful ancillary rights.

You're dumb, Tony.

You're dumb.

Dumb, Tony.

Dumb.

You know what I'd do to you in the ring, brass knuckles?

What are you doing, man?

Wait a minute.

What's going on?

Just hold it. Hold it right there. Just hold it right there.

Nobody's going to get hurt, see?

I don't want to hurt anybody else.

Just relax.

Both of you, just stay there.

Please, just... Stay right there.

This guy's got to be out of this.

All right.

Don't try it, pal.

I'm telling you.

Get out of here, Harry.

Come on, let's go.

We're going up.

Well, hit that stop button. No, no, no, no, no.

Still have to go up first. Somebody just beat us to the punch.

Coastal tells.

There you go.

It's the top.

Would you believe it?

All the way to the top.

Harry. Harry, we got to get down. To what?

To Tony's down there. He'll finger us the minute we show.

Come on.

I don't like it, Harry.

It's like being sealed up in a tomb. Just stay cool and we'll try to see what

can find out. Now remember, everybody in this building looks exactly like us.

The only way we look any different from them is if we panic.

Name's Pappas.

Dominic V.

Missouri driver's license.

Sure is a fast way down.

Leaper. No, no, I don't think so. He was wearing these.

We got a call to get here fast. Possible armed robbery.

We're looking up the security man and this happened.

Hey, would you mind flipping on a TV?

Would you add a couple of bucks on ecology?

Sure.

It'll be a couple of minutes yet, I guess. You want me to leave it on? Yeah,

sure. Why not?

On the national news scene, the White House spokesman today praised

congressional leaders for the prompt action on recent legislation for details

that refreshing nonpartisan... Henry, we've got to get down to what?

...correspondent, Carl Epstein.

Yes, sir. This is definitely one of the three men that Mr. Guinness and I saw go

upstairs. Guinness, Al Guinness, he's your security man here now?

Yes, sir.

Did he recognize this man?

No, sir, not this one, but he did identify one of the others. Said his

Jack Vinson.

Vinson?

Hasn't been to Denny.

Yeah, he'd take a contract on his own mother.

Where's Guinness now? Well, he followed these guys upstairs. He hasn't come down

yet. What floor is that? I don't know.

Window got broken on the seventh floor.

Did you see any of the other two men come down here yet? No, not yet, sir.

All right, seal off all the exits. Call in if you need any more men.

Nobody goes in or out without an ID check. Seal the exits. You can't do

They can't do that.

I

think

I'm going to need another towel.

I'll get Lennon to sit down.

I'll get...

I'm...

Look, lady, I'm sorry. I scared you when I came in.

You see, I think the reason was because I'm so scared.

Of what?

Oh.

Well, some guys, as soon as I can't... Hold it right there.

Now put the towel on the lady's chair.

All right, we'll play it your way.

Now let's get something straight.

You're put together pretty good.

But you believe me, I can take you, even with this hole in me right

now.

You understand?

I hear you. All right.

Thanks, buddy.

It's a message.

Al?

You okay?

Yeah, yeah, sure. Just startling.

How are you, Mike?

Okay.

What happened?

Elevator hung up.

I must have just missed him.

Three hoods. I spotted one of them down in the lobby.

Jack Vinson?

Yeah, I think so.

Well, it's been quite a while, but I'm pretty sure.

Did you call in the room number yet?

Room number?

No, no. I figured they were up to no good.

So I had the clerk call in for help right away.

Front desk.

This is Lieutenant Stone. Is Inspector Keller anywhere around there?

Yeah.

Looks like they had quite a go around, doesn't it?

Steve, I'm in room 717.

Find out whose room it is, will you?

Yeah, I'm here with Al Guinness. I'll ask him.

Somebody reported a gunshot. Did you hear it?

Gunshot? No.

I mean, maybe while I was still in the elevator.

There was blood on the carpet.

Could have been.

I'm coming right down.

Come on.

We're not doing any good up here, are we?

That's right. Code 3000.

Sergeant Woodruff will be at the front entrance for all directions.

Right. Thank you.

Code 3000. What's that? It's a blockade, sir.

Here's that room registration, Inspector. Thank you.

Anthony Fabrizi. Yeah.

Fabrizi. He's been here two months? That's right.

You know him? Well, not exactly. He kind of keeps to himself. You know, has all

his meals in his room. Okay, Mr. Daly, I'm going to need a map of all the exits

here. Inspector, this is a public relations matter. We have guests here,

regulars. We're going to check out... We also got a killer here, Mr.

Daly. Well, you don't know that. Look, we know somebody fired a gun. We also

know somebody got hit because you got blood all over one of your rooms

And I don't think that guy that went out through the window was trying to commit

suicide.

Now, can I see that chart, please?

In my office.

about the kitchen. There's a loading platform.

You know, these are all the exits. Well, there's a roof. You can get onto it,

but you can't at all. Get a chopper. I got one on the way already.

Okay, what we'll do now is start a floor -to -floor, room -to -room sweep as

soon as all the exits are covered.

Al, I want you to help coordinate this with us.

Sure, Mike.

Whatever you say.

Yeah, that's right.

Thank you. Thanks very much.

Excuse me.

But this Fabrizio, is he a stocky guy about 40 years old with a face that

as though he could have been in a couple of wars maybe?

Yeah, that's right. That's him. Tony Fabrizio, the fighter.

Right. One of the best welterweights this town ever put out.

They pushed him into the middleweight class and he got hurt. He got hurt

bad. Has he been here for two months?

Yeah, two months. Maybe a little bit longer.

Thanks. Wait a minute. Two months ago? That was when I... That's right.

I washed up Fabrizio Flatton and Eddie Batista in St. Louis.

You lost money on that fight. Mm -hmm.

But I'll bet somebody else lost a lot more.

Get on the horn of records.

Right. I'll lay you odds that... that the guy in the street with the brass

knuckle... I'll bet you he is syndicate muscle.

Want him to shot the breezy? Outside line, please.

Yeah. If he started swinging back, that's the only way they could have

him.

Okay.

Look at this.

There's cops crawling all over this place. What'd you do? Kill somebody?

Sit down.

Sit down. What do you mean, sit down? Whatever you did down there is gonna

him up here. Maybe we don't want that. Maybe we don't even need that.

Pete.

You want him coming up here asking questions of you, huh?

How do you feel?

Not too good.

That's a hell of a time to start playing nursery, sweetie.

You need a doctor.

I know, but that'll have to wait.

You don't care if he finds out. You really don't care, do you?

You're just going to go home, say you're sorry, pick up a new checkbook or

paycheck and go out and find some other dude to... Hey,

you.

Shut your mouth.

And sit down.

I said sit down now!

Uh, lady?

Listen, uh... Maybe you can do me a favor.

Yeah, uh... Make a phone call

for me.

I trust you.

Yes, Inspector Keller.

Go ahead, please.

Yeah.

Right.

Right. Okay. Thank you very much.

Mike?

Yeah. Check the exits, will you?

Guy that went through the window. He is a syndicate man. He's got a jacket full

of assaults and batteries. Two suspicion of murders, but he beat them both.

Well, he lost that round, didn't he?

Where's Al?

I don't know. I thought he was with you.

No.

You guys go back a long time, huh? Yeah, he carried a shield.

When was that?

Oh, up until about five years ago. He and his partner got caught in a set -up,

got chopped up pretty bad.

His partner's name was Zeno.

Bled to death in Al's arms.

Al locked his nerve after that and just packed it in.

Hello, Mrs.

Fabrizi? Yes?

I'm calling for your husband.

He isn't here.

No, no, I mean that he asked me to call you for him.

All right, who is this?

My name isn't important. What's important is that you come to him. He

Tony needs me.

You know, that's almost funny.

You know what you can tell him?

You can tell him that I needed him once, too.

Mrs. Fabrizi, he's hurt.

He's been hurt before?

Nobody makes him do what he does.

Look, I gotta go now.

Wait, wait, please.

He's hurt very badly.

He's in the Pierre Hotel.

He said he has to see you and his son.

He may be dying.

Well, now that one I haven't heard before.

Mrs. Fabrizi... Hello, lady.

What do you want me to say?

Thank you?

Okay. Thank you.

But now, just so you know something, as far as I'm concerned, Tony died a

long time ago.

What is it, Mom?

It's, uh... It's nothing, honey.

Was it about Dad?

was just handed me, a man leaped or fell to his death from the seventh floor of

a downtown hotel.

There's also a report of a shooting, though there are no further details at

time. Police are on the scene. No suspects have been identified.

The victim is identified as Dominic Pappas. Hey, almost kickoff. Can't catch

for the second half.

Wait, please.

Hey, what's your stop?

Garage, please.

Oh, it's nice traveling with you.

Lieutenant.

Have you been briefed? On the screen.

Well, if they're still inside, we'll flush them out.

Now, you guys, second floor, wall to wall. And then come back down here.

We've got two more units coming in. I have to go up there.

We've got a little trouble upstairs right now. I'm sorry.

But my husband is up there. I suggest you use a house phone right here. Call

and ask him to come on down. Sergeant, you watch the elevators. Excuse me.

Right.

Give me stone.

Shut up, lady.

I said shut up.

Harry, what are you doing? We're not going to use her.

Like a ball of the chain.

What about the kid?

The punk fucks talk.

That's the one.

All right, hold the next car that comes down, and let's watch where this one

stops.

Stay cool.

That's what you said, right? Stay cool.

Hit the next three steps.

That's it.

Mike, Mike, wait a minute.

Come on, come on, stop punching all the buttons.

Okay, that's it, let's go.

The guys on the second floor, tell them to work their way up.

We'll try to nail him in between.

Right.

Second floor, come in, please.

Watch yourself now.

Swing right.

Take her down and then have headquarters send every available man they can.

Why don't we back off, let them get on the streets and work it out there?

Is that the decision you'd make if you were in charge?

This could happen again.

And what would happen if all the people who had guns in their hands would go

around acting like God? No, sir. Nobody leaves this building under any

condition. Yes, sir.

You don't agree, do you?

I don't know, but now's not the time to argue.

Try to get a make on him. We ought to be inside. Right.

Have someone tell that pilot anything moves on the roof, I want to know about

it.

Excuse me, sir.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Sorry. Excuse me.

No. Look, man, all I want is out of here before somebody finds you in this room.

Yeah, I'm coming.

Come on, won't you get in the bathroom? Wait a minute. What about my phone call?

I said you trusted the wrong lady, okay?

Yes, what is it?

There's an emergency and the hotel is being evacuated. Why? What happened?

There's no time for explanation, sir. If you take the elevator down to the

lobby, you can leave through the main entrance.

If there's anyone with you... No, no, my wife's already downstairs. Thank you.

Good. Come on.

No. They didn't come down the stairs.

All right, give me this thing.

Check the next floor.

Carson, are you there?

This is Lieutenant Stone.

Stocky guy. He's got a big nose, all pushed across the stage. Steve? Yeah,

Okay, thank you very much.

Yeah, Mike.

Steve, we're drawing blanks up here. Any action at the exits?

No, it's all clear down here and on the roof, too. We got the helicopter up.

Well, I guess we got him bottled up all right.

It's just that the bottle's too big.

Listen, I think I got something. I was talking to a maid who literally got

decked by Fabrizio and is running down the stairs from the seventh floor.

She saw him go down the corridor on the sixth.

She see the room?

No, no, but if he's hurting, he must be holed up there someplace.

Well, get Guinness up here with a set of keys, will you? I'm on the fifth floor.

I haven't seen Guinness.

Well, get somebody up here. I'll wait for him at the elevator.

happened? Where is he?

Exactly where you left him. Now let's get out of here before we have to start

explaining how he got there and what we were doing there. We can't just leave

him like that. You don't owe him anything. You made that phone call,

Well, that's enough. Now you let his family look after him. She isn't coming.

She doesn't care.

Well, all right, then there's your reason. And there's another reason that

up there got shot.

Now, Judith, you use your head. Let's get out of here.

Come on, let's go.

Hotel's being evacuated, gentlemen. There's no need for alarm. We just want

everybody out and as quickly as possible, please.

Excuse me, gentlemen.

Hotel's being evacuated. Throw your clothes on and get downstairs, please.

On the double.

Why? I saw us together in the elevator. They'll be thinking about us that way.

Okay.

Nothing.

Mike?

You got something?

Yeah, a wheel man.

Andy Go -Go Frizzell.

He's got not much of a record, but he's worked with Vincent before.

So I guess Al was right about who he saw.

You see him yet?

Who, Guinness? No, uh, manager said he was gonna check out the rooms we already

looked. In case he doubled back.

The guys we're looking for?

Hey, you know, that wouldn't be a bad idea.

Squeezing from the bottom up like this, we're letting all the people go down

through the floors after we've cleared it. Save his place and the whole hotel

will be the first room we started in.

Well, not for Al if he walked in that room alone and they were still in there.

Listen, you get yourself a partner before you start poking around in these

rooms, you hear me? Yes.

Wait a minute. Here.

Steve and I are going back upstairs.

That's a long way down.

Maybe not as far as I've gone already.

Come on, Al.

I froze, Mike.

I froze. Just relax.

Take it easy. Forget it.

I get it.

How do you forget the fact that you're a coward?

That you're too afraid of death to function anymore?

That doesn't prove anything.

I saw them. I saw them up here.

I could have stopped them.

I was afraid.

I was yellow.

No, you were alone.

You called for support. That was the right thing to do, Al.

I would have stopped them before.

Before.

Listen.

Just listen to me now. Listen carefully.

You were a good cop for 20 years.

That's a long time.

It's too long to let a small little thing like that outweigh all the rest.

Still with me, Mike.

It's always with me.

Well, it's with all of us. It's just a question of degree.

The two of you aren't hiding from it?

Yeah,

but that doesn't mean that it couldn't happen sometime.

You want to stick with me now?

Okay.

Then we're going to walk our way down.

You take the stairway at the other end of the hall.

We'll take this one here.

Al, you keep going.

Keep your eyes open.

I twisted my ankle.

Yeah, you twisted it all right. Just lie back.

We'll get you downstairs.

So where's your friend?

You get nothing from me, cop.

Fine.

Then you get plenty from me.

Take him downstairs and book him. Let's go.

Murder one, three counts.

Feel like I'm bailing out on you again. Oh, come on now, will you?

How much good can you do me with a busted foot?

All I want you to do is tell me everything you know about this other

last one. I don't know any more than I told you, Mike.

About 45, 50, brown hair, about the same size as Vincent.

Uh, brown suit.

That's it. Hat.

No hat.

Mustache, sideburns.

No mustache.

Hair was medium cut.

Did he have any scars? How did he walk? Did he have a limp?

Nothing special. Come on, Al. Sorry, Mike. What about jewelry? Did he have

jewelry?

I don't know. Tie pin, ring, watch.

Hey, yeah, maybe.

When he was on the house phone, I think I remember a ring.

Right hand, little finger. What kind?

Big. Stone set in gold.

A diamond, I think.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

Al.

You just think you left the police force.

You and I are going to have a long talk.

Okay.

All right, get him out of here.

Vincent, I'll see you soon.

He changed his mind? No, I'd rather talk to us than the guy upstairs.

Well, Al remembered something. What?

The guy we're looking for has a big diamond ring on his right pinky. Where

he pull that out from?

Oh, 20 years of practice and a little pushing by me. I think I got something,

too. Now, Vincent came out on the stairs on the fifth floor.

There's a gym somewhere up in the middle of the floor as it could be on the

fifth. A gym?

Yeah, a gym for the guests to work out. It'd be a good place to hide. Well,

let's take a look. Okay.

Excuse me. Yes, ma 'am. I talked to you before by the elevator. Yes, I remember.

Get someone in that gym. Right.

Listen, ma 'am, it's about your husband. He's not my husband.

Well, ma 'am, I, uh... Look, I saw something. A man came into the room. He

hurt. Bleeding. He'd been shot.

What room?

Does all this have to go into a report? I mean, did the newspapers have to

say... Lady, look, there are two men in there. It could be dangerous to anybody

in the hotel. Now, if you can't tell... He won't hurt anybody.

He's dying.

What room?

610.

He's alive.

Let me hear that.

That's how he slipped. He walked into the first open room.

Mr. Stone, I'm in 610.

Send some attendants up here. We've got someone that's hurt.

Here, you stay with him. Come on, Steve.

Let's get down to that gym.

What are you doing here?

What's up?

Aren't you Tony Lee?

Yeah.

Somebody's got to do this. I want to see an ID, and I want to see it right now.

Hey, you know what the burglary rate is around a place like this?

I mean, I only pack enough money in the morning for lunch and a couple of beers.

My wallet's home with my sock drawer.

Put the towel down.

Huh? Put the towel down, and put it down easy.

Okay.

What about that ring?

Not afraid of losing that?

Nah, nah, that's not my clue.

Face the wall.

Huh? Now!

Okay, all right. Hurry, snow wall, and lean.

I said lean!

I

found

him in the weight room, Lieutenant.

Back off, Landers.

Please, please, I don't have anything to do with this. I was just waiting for my

son to drive over from the roof. Shut up. All right, duck your guns.

Right down there.

do with this? I was just waiting for you. I heard a worried bird up there,

didn't I?

That's right.

Set it down on the roof.

He'll never get away with this. Then neither does he. Now you tell our doers

never up there, okay?

Please, I was just waiting. Shut up! Easy does it.

Somebody get on that horn. I want that bird on the roof.

Landers, use the phone in that room. Yes, sir. Tell them to set the chopper

on the roof and to wait for further orders from me.

I'll give the orders.

No.

You don't take another move without me at your side.

You move it. dead.

You shoot that gun and we'll tear you apart.

They're bluffing.

Try me.

Please.

Okay.

Tell them I'm coming up with a cop.

You know how I feel about these things.

I don't want anybody to stop this man.

You got that?

Yes, sir.

What happened? You take Mike? Mike took him.

All right.

We're only going to get one chance.

Shut up.

I shot the guy right there. Drop it.

Drop it.

Back off.

Back off.

Drop the gun out the window.

Get on the phone.

Get a stretcher up here for him.

Oh, man, oh, man.

What's the matter?

He's been going a long way to prove a point.

What do you mean?

You know what I mean.

Letting me handle the situation.

Oh, come on.

I knew you were there all the time.

What did I have to worry about?

Get some emergency work on him up there. He's gonna make it.

Thank God.

Yeah, and it's glad we got to him when we did.

Well, I... I suppose you want some more information for your report.

Uh, no. No, we have everything we need.

for yourself. Yeah, well, that's what happens when you put me in charge.

Oh, yeah.

Listen, I've been thinking, since we know the floor plan here so well, it

wouldn't be a bad idea if maybe the Policeman's Convention were held here

year. What do you think?

You don't like the idea?

No, no, I think it's a good idea. Matter of fact, I'll put in a request to

headquarters for you. You will? Yes, sir, then I'll take a vacation that

thank you. Oh, yes, sir, he says, huh?

Yes, sir.

I better learn to duck every time I hear that yes, sir.