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Flight 29 will be arriving at 538 at gate 9.

United Airlines Flight 101 now arriving from Chicago.

Mr. Kyle Wright, Mr. Kyle Wright, please report to the baggage area.

Mr. Michael Hager, please come to the information counter.

Mr. Michael Hager.

Hello.

This is Mr. Hager.

You have a call for me.

That was my page.

Sorry about that, Mr. Hager, but it'll save you carefare.

Be no need for it. Been a change of plans.

Miss Paula says she won't be seeing you after all.

Well, that's what she say. I just deliver the message.

Well, he just did that.

Yeah, I have, but I don't turn you around. It's all wasted.

I'll phone Paula.

What's the matter? My man's crazy, Mr. Waverly. I tell you, he's crazy.

Welcome back to Fun City, lover.

Waverly is playing poker at the Monarch Hotel.

It'll last for days.

You sent for me, and I'm here.

Now, what do you got?

You want to talk business now?

That's what I'm here for.

My, um, finder's fee, as usual, plus 10 % of the action.

Agreed? Sounds reasonable.

Just clue me in.

Well, four months ago, a dude came to me in, uh, bad need of a loan.

Pretty big one, before the office opened up in the morning.

Otherwise, it was, uh, into the can for embezzling.

What's the collateral?

His weekly take -home, plus the evidence they could send him up.

I own him, lover.

I own him body and soul.

And I'll sell him to you.

For $2 ,000.

Plus 10%. Of what?

Diamonds, lover.

Diamonds by the gross.

Ha ha ha ha!

Busted. Army,

can I get my hat, man? You want your hat? You got your hat. Come on.

Wow.

Some way that you a brother.

Feel like I've been stepped on by an elephant in a Tarzan movie.

I had to make it look good, didn't I?

Do you want the word passed around as your stoolie, Benny?

Publicity like that can shave years off your life expectancy.

Hey, baby, don't call me no stoolie.

I'm an anonymous source of reliable information.

Oh, love that.

Anonymous source. Yeah, baby.

In the meantime, Benny, can you tell me why an expensive piece of manpower like

myself should be chauffeuring you around, huh?

It's heavy, Lieutenant.

I mean, like millions, maybe.

Millions? Millions of what?

Diamonds.

Is that it? Diamonds?

Yeah, by the gross, the man said.

What else did the man say?

Huh? What? Where?

Who's gonna make the hit? Is that all incidental? No, but that's all he had

me. I mean, that's something, isn't it? Post -nasal drip, that's something too,

isn't it? But who needs it?

Well, look, when he has more, I'll tap him for more.

I mean, nobody's bleeding that I can see. I'm bleeding. I gotta know when.

I'll see him later on today.

I'm gonna meet him in the garage on the east side today.

Here you go, Benny.

Let's see, I figure about, uh... $36 .50.

Right. You know, if the player kicks in that window, in the blue and white job,

you want somebody awful.

That's what I'd do, baby, if you could wrap those around my feet. Man, I'm

futuristic, but you'd never get me up in one of them numbers. I'd get terminal

nosebleed. Hey, are you ready for this?

Uh, everything but the aroma. Put it out, would you?

Uh, how do you fix for bread?

What do you need?

Give me about 20 balloons.

Maybe you ought to get yourself some training wheels, huh?

Before Thursday, you'll be in the hospital for six weeks. Yeah.

Hey, I'm used to heights.

My daddy was a cat burglar. Yeah, tell me about it.

Get yourself a parachute.

I was waiting for you.

Oh, I didn't realize Mrs. Thomas was busy. I'll just wait outside.

Mr. Neff, there's no need to do that. Come on inside and sit down.

I'd like some explanation.

Who are you?

Mrs. Thomas has sold me your note.

She can't do that.

Oh, yes, she can.

She has.

But there's no need to sweat it, Mr. Knapp. Your secret is safe with me.

That is, providing you play it my way.

Oh, you mean you have my note, so now you're going to jack up my ante. Is that

what you mean?

You have remarkable insight, Mr. Knapp. You listen very carefully to me.

I'm paying you serious rates as it is. Now, I made a mistake. All right, I'm

running to live with that, but there's a limit.

Now, look, I brought my current payment. Here it is.

Now, this is in the exact amount that we agreed upon.

That's it. That's all. I'm not going to pay you another dime more. Do you

understand me? Do you understand? I'm not going to be taken by some cheap

blackmailer.

Don't get up.

And don't move.

Not going to get any more, huh?

Blackmailer. That's the word you shouldn't use, Mr. Neff.

See, you're a thief.

And a very bad one. It's all in the file right here.

Now, I'm going to give you a chance to get this file back.

In one big lump.

One big lump.

I can't. I can't make the payments now.

It's no money. Just information.

What do you mean, information?

You work for a jewelry firm, don't you? Yeah.

It's one of the biggest.

Oh, no.

No, no, wait a minute. Now, look, you want me to set them up so that you can

them, you mean?

No, I can't do that.

I just have to give your employer this file, then.

Let us both be realistic, Mr. Knapp.

There you are. Are you all right?

Here.

It's a check and your wallet.

You know, the courier's coming in every week from Tel Aviv and Amsterdam with

cut stones.

Diamonds, Mr. Knapp.

Diamonds, that's what I want.

A million dollars' worth.

Nothing less.

So as soon as you hear of a shipment like that, you know where to reach me,

I hope a shipment like that comes in very soon.

Bye.

How come you're following me? What do you want from me that you haven't

taken? Just wanted to talk to you before you talk to, uh, who?

Who are you expecting, Waverly? Nobody.

What are you going to talk about? Me?

Or maybe you're going to talk about some diamonds.

You know, you sent somebody to the airport to turn me around. That troubled

Made me wonder.

How far were you prepared to go? Just how far are you prepared to go, Evelyn?

You'll find out.

Oh, Benny.

Benny, help me. Hey, man.

Hey, you're hit bad.

Look, I better split and get some help. Oh, Benny.

You got to tell Kojak.

The diamond eyes.

Hey, just let go, huh?

Look, I already tipped him. Let go or you're going to get me killed.

There you go.

Tell him, Michael Hagar, inside job, he's going to hit a choreo.

He's a fool, Danny.

Bruce, this is Weavers. Can you hear me?

Yeah.

You heard from Benny Marshall?

Not yet.

Well, don't hold your breath.

Remember those platform shoes we bought him?

Well, I'm holding one of them in my hot little hand.

The man to go is underneath a D .O .A.

Well, how'd you know it was Benny's?

Lieutenant, how many cats you know got the guts to wear a number like that?

Okay, who's the D .O .A.? Waverly Thomas, between the shoulder blades with

Howard suit.

No known witnesses.

All the goy details will be in my report.

Yes, and you'll have all those goy details on my desk when I get back,

When I hear you, I hear you. Where are you headed?

Well, somebody has to notify the next of kin.

Yes?

Hager, this is Neff.

Listen, there's going to be a shipment tomorrow.

I don't know too much about it yet, but it's going to be big.

It's going to be tomorrow.

So I'll get back to you when I know all the details.

You do that, Mr. Neff.

You do that.

You gonna lay some paper on me, Phil?

Is that what you come here for?

Yeah, baby, do I look like a process server?

Where's your old man, Paula? Is he home?

No.

Why? Seen some kind of trouble?

Hey, look, kid, things like this never come easy.

We found a body in the east side garage.

And my man claims that it's Waverly.

No. I'm sorry, Paula.

Yeah.

What happened?

I don't know.

Maybe he got involved in a stick -up and he got gunned down trying to run away.

There was no reason for him to be over there.

How about a freelance job?

Oh, why should he? I take good care of him.

I know that.

He was running an errand for you?

My husband didn't run errands for nobody.

Not even me.

Hi.

I don't suppose you'll understand this.

But what was between Waverly and me had nothing to do with sex.

True.

There were times for us way back in the beginning.

But we lost that part of it. Just because we lost that part of it does not

signify I didn't love that man.

I owe him my life.

He gave it back to me when I wasn't even sure I wanted it.

There were other men.

I won't deny that.

But they didn't mean any more to me than a coffee break.

Waverly knew it. He accepted it.

Hey, look, Paula. Who are you trying to convince? Me or yourself?

What are you saying?

These other men you're talking about. Maybe they weren't satisfied with the

coffee break.

Maybe they figured Waverly's out of the way. Who knows? They can upgrade their

status. Get out of here.

Get out!

who did it.

And when I do... Hey, kid.

Don't go thinking foolish things.

Now look, you're gonna have to come down to the morgue to make an official

identification.

I'm sorry.

He's up there at 305. He checked in late last night.

The desk clerk ran it from a photograph.

He told us to sit on him, and that's what we've been doing.

Hey, Lieutenant, can we get going now? I got up on this in an hour.

You're alone.

Lieutenant, guess who?

I'll be back in a little while.

Hey, Benny.

Come on, man.

Come on.

Easy, Benny. Easy, man. Don't fight it. Let's go see the lieutenant, Benny. I

ain't going nowhere.

I'm just going down the street.

Let's go see the gentleman.

Come on. Let's go down here.

Hey, man, what's up?

You didn't call last night. That's what's up.

Last night?

Last night.

Last night I didn't call you because I didn't have nothing to peddle.

Huh? What's the matter?

My sauce dried up on me.

Dried up on you?

It wouldn't be because he's dead, would it?

Who? What?

Waverly Thomas.

I guess you never heard of him, did you?

Waverly Thomas.

Danny Thomas?

I heard of him.

Danny Thomas?

You creep.

Sit down.

Those production numbers we blew you to, what happened? You gonna break them in

out of town?

Man, them kicks ain't for wearing. They're for show.

Oh, you're gonna get your show.

You're gonna get yourself 12 jurors.

You're going to get yourself a medley of court reporters. You're going to get

yourself a packed audience, Benny. And you know why?

Everybody loves a good homicide.

Hey, man, don't do me that way.

Look, I didn't off that brother.

That's the gospel truth, man.

Look, I heard a shot.

By the time I got to Waverly, he was already down.

So you just let him lay there, right?

He was dead.

What was your shoe doing underneath him? It wasn't.

He had a hole in my shoe.

Oh, I see. A dying man just... Snatched at your shin.

Okay, he was nearly dead.

I mean, he was bleeding pretty bad.

Oh, so he snatched for you?

Hey, Penny, you must have had something pretty important to say.

Come on, here.

Hey, why don't you unload?

It wasn't but a few words. Something about a diamond heist and it being an

inside job and that he was going to knock over a courier.

He was? Who was?

Hagar. But I don't remember his first name.

Hagar. Just set off a couple of rockets. Not from my part of the bus.

Uh -huh.

Did Waverly tell you when this show was supposed to take off?

Uh -uh.

This afternoon, it's gate 27, 2 p .m., Mideast Airlines flight 306.

Now, the guy's carrying a million four in cut stones.

His name is Kornblath.

Have you made the necessary arrangements?

Right. He's expecting the Bateman limousine service, so just wear some

identification.

We got a scorecard.

Yeah, Michael Hager.

Six arrests, no convictions.

A little cutie pie, Mr.

Hager. Look at who it is.

One big job every two or three years, turns back to Jamaica and soak up the

sunshine. Sixty -six.

An art gallery in Philly. Sixty -nine, payroll heist at Beantown.

Two years ago, Union City, savings and loan.

And now he's ours, the subject is diamonds, and I want him.

Any idea when he intends to score?

No.

Only that he's hitting a courier and he's got an inside finger man someplace.

An inside where?

A courier, not jewelry, on set stones.

So chances are they're coming in from outside the country, right?

Where else but here? This is the jewelry center of America, huh?

What are we talking about, Captain? 47th Street, 48th Street, two square blocks.

Now, how many dealers do you think we got in that area?

I guess four or five hundred.

And it could be any one of them.

Well, that's a lot of dealers to watch. We just knew when we could flood that

area with plain clothes, bottle up the streets.

Assume that's where it's coming from.

Well, where else?

Well, look at it this way.

Couriers are arriving almost daily, right?

Where are they most vulnerable?

From the time they step out of a cab to the time they deliver their diamonds,

right? They're open to almost any kind of a mugging. Knowing that makes for

alertness on the airport.

You figure it's going to happen before the curry reaches midtown.

Somewhere between the airport and Manhattan.

You know what?

You've got a problem.

Sure, tell me about it.

Coffee!

Sugar, right? Sweet?

So are you.

Okay, Curly, what do you got on Hagar?

Tracked him down. He's been staying at the Sherry under the name of Gara.

That's an anagram for Hagar.

Is that Ben staying?

Yeah. Checked out about an hour ago.

The accommodations clerk arranged a seat for him on the 5 o 'clock flight to

Jamaica. Nearly 1 o 'clock. That means it's coming over in the next couple of

hours.

Cracker, contact traffic controller Kennedy. Find out what's doing from

and from Israel.

What else you got?

Well, he was paying 65 a day, but he sure wasn't getting his money's worth.

only slept there one night. He was using the room mostly to change his clothes.

Conclusion?

He's kind of broad.

You sweet -talking fool. No doubt about it, Baldy. You got away with words.

Netherlands flight touched down three hours ago, but there's an Israeli

doing it, too.

Let's go.

... ... ... ... ...

the police officers.

Get back, folks. Get out of the way. Get out of the way.

Look, a man gets shot.

He's entitled to wake up to something better than that.

You seen the nurses in this hospital?

Believe me, I'm better. How are you?

You told me, Dr. Zoma.

Well, these could have been lilies.

You got one monster of a chest pain, right?

Well, that'll pass.

You've lost some blood, but they're putting it back.

How about the slug?

A .38.

An identical twin to the bullet that aced Waverly Thomas.

The courier?

Curry is alive and well.

He's recovering nicely, but he took a very bad blow to the head.

His recall of the incident is pretty vague.

We got a pretty good idea who the inside man is. When we questioned the

employees, Mr. Neff was playing hide -and -seek.

Must have heard about the shooting.

Panicked and headed for points west.

We got a federal warrant out on him. How about Mr. Hagar?

Anything on his whereabouts?

Better than that.

We've got him in the slammer.

Picked him up just as he was about to board the Jamaica flight.

Came along quietly.

We're holding a line up down at the office.

You got him but no diamonds, right?

Yeah, but how did you know? He mailed them at the airport.

I'll send somebody out there, find out when the next pickup is.

Theo, it's too late.

Maybe now.

I'll get in touch with the post office, find out when the next election comes.

Theo, they already did it.

Yesterday.

Theo, you've been out 18 hours.

Here, put these on.

Over here.

A little early for Halloween, isn't it?

Ready with that lineup.

All right, let's put it together.

I want to sit in here for a minute.

All right. This pleasant cousin?

Well, we got four witnesses, the courier included, who feel they might be able

to ID Hagar.

And what the hell, might I ask, are you doing here?

Come on, will you, Frank? You think I'd be here if the police sergeant didn't

think I was all right? You were shot, Theo.

My hero.

Come on, I've hurt myself worth opening a can of soup.

The regulations don't say anything about degrees.

Now, it's 30 days mandatory, Theo. There's nothing I can do about it. Did

regulations say anything about you briefing me?

Or do I have to refer to Walter Cronkite?

Next. That doesn't look too promising.

Hagar's got an attorney standing by with the writ.

Unless we get a positive ID from at least two of those witnesses, we're

have to cut him loose.

Cut him loose?

Well, what else?

We can't produce the weapon.

We can't link the suspect with Neff. And as far as the diamonds are concerned,

by your own testimony, you said they're on their way out of the country right

now. The limo.

Stolen car.

Forensic tore it apart.

Not one print we can hang his name on.

He'll go home.

You got 30 days. Go home somewhere.

Rest. Enjoy.

How'd we do?

Well, two of them picked Stavros. One picked Saperstein.

And Kornbluth, that's the diamond courier.

He passed on all of them.

So what do I do now, Captain?

Well, what can you do?

Hand Hagar his hat and bid him bye -bye.

What was that? Go home and enjoy, wasn't it?

They've been keeping Bosco, Frank. That's one dead, one wounded. A million

petty cash for Hagar's piggy bank.

Yeah, go home and enjoy.

Thanks, dear Joe.

Anytime, Mr. Kugler. Theo.

Too busy?

No, no, of course not.

I heard about your trouble.

Really shook me up.

I mean, it's really too close.

Want to take something for it? Oh, yeah.

You know, I just can't picture something like this happening to you.

Well, what am I, invincible?

I'm just luckier than Waverly.

You know, until something reminds me, I still got it in my head he's gonna walk

right in that door.

When's the funeral?

Tomorrow. Yeah.

Could we please change the subject?

All right, I'll try.

Let's talk about Michael Hager.

Who's he?

He's the fox that gave me that.

And somewhere in the back of my mind, I think he's the guy who knocked off your

husband.

No. No, I don't know him.

Why would he kill Waverly?

Well... Michael Hager had a caper going.

A bundle worth over a million.

For reasons that only he knew.

Waverly didn't want it to succeed, so he found a way to feed me the information.

Unfortunately, it was given to us drop by drop.

Hager got wind of it, and he knocked off your husband.

That's before the next installment could get there to go between.

Hey, Al.

Theo, come on.

Now, listen, you know Waverly.

You knew Waverly. You know he was a quiet, gentle, hearty little guy, right?

So what would he know about some big -time dude pulling off million -dollar

capers?

And if he did, what possible reason would he have for trying to pass the

information along to you?

Me, poor... I don't know.

I was hoping you could supply the answers.

Well, I can't.

You've done means nailing your husband's killer?

No, I told you, I don't know any Michael Hager.

And what's more, I don't buy the trash you just laid on me.

I just don't believe it.

Well, it's too bad.

Because it's just a little over an hour.

Mr. Hager's going to board a 707 heading for Jamaica, and there's not a damn

thing I can do to stop him.

If I could help out don't you think I would

So

I'd like to believe and believe

Bring the car around and hurry.

That's right.

My name's Tan. I'm a friend of Waverly's. Can I ride a ways with you?

Get in.

No,

JoJo. I don't want you involved.

This is for me to do.

I don't care what Waverly was up to. He had no call.

Who had no call?

Michael Hager. I tried to turn him back at the airport like Waverly asked me.

You know, I'd done my best.

He just wouldn't turn.

Why would Waverly want to turn him back?

And what's Hager to Waverly? It wasn't what he was to Waverly, but it was what

he was to Waverly's missus.

You know.

Guess not. Nobody did really except Waverly.

The other dude Miss Paula messed around with, you know, he just took her in

stride. At least he pretended to. Behavior was a little bit different. It

something about him that spooked Waverly, spooked him into believing that

Paula would take it into her head to run away with him. That would kill him.

That would kill him, surely.

It was the only thing he could do. It got him killed.

Take that, Sutton, or lose it either way.

Why'd you wait so long to come forward?

Because I'm scared.

I'm scared to open my mouth if you do me like you done Waverly. I am still

scared. I was hoping somebody else would put the thing on him. I was hoping you

bagged him on your own.

What's the sign, Paul?

Whoever glanced at Harry.

Back to the pool hall, baby.

You gonna tell Miss Paula that was me that glanced?

Told you a couple of minutes ago.

Right now I'm not thinking about you.

I just got finished telling Paula that it was Inga Iced, her husband.

And if she's been cozy with him, without suspecting that's her husband's killer.

Well, you know the lady's daughter. What's she gonna do? Hmm?

Where'd she go?

She didn't say.

Hey, Subway, let me have 269 -1599.

Here's Lieutenant Kojak. Gil Weaver, please.

Hey, Gil, you grab Crocker.

Get out to TWA Kennedy.

As fast as you can. Red light it all the way.

Any sign of Hager? We just got here.

Maybe he's checked in already. If not, haven't paged.

It's gate 27.

Maybe he's traveling light.

If so, he'd go directly to the embarkation area. Come on.

Michael!

I found out who killed Waverly.

Guess you know what I've got to do about it Paula You're making a mistake.

Yes, I've made many mistakes, but this isn't one of them

For you, I had to do it.

It was an easy way.

What's that?

Not for me.

From the inimitable belly laugh of Sid James to the cheeky giggle of Babs

Windsor, Carry On Laughing is here at 5 to 12 this morning. That's after Joyce

decides to do something about Jonathan's irritating night time habits.

Snoring in surgical spirits next.