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You sure this is right, Onodio?

We'll make it up sometime, little brother.

Dopers, we've talked about phone calls.

I'm also supposed to tell you something about how to protect yourself against

rape.

Now, I know your mother has told you about don't go out alone, don't talk to

strangers, stay away from dark places. This is all good advice.

But most cases are not caused by some guy dragging you off into some alley.

usually someone that you know.

At least to say hello to.

Somebody you might let in if he comes to your door.

A married guy with kids.

Good old Charlie down the hall.

You ready for a real mind blower with all the hugs and the kisses?

Good old Uncle Charlie.

No, that's fact. I'm telling you.

Will you please?

Hey, don't umbrage me. Don't open the truck door like that. I don't understand

your language.

Just move the truck.

Get the stuff out of the road.

Chico, I'll give you Chico. I don't speak the language.

Will you move those sandbags?

That's cool.

Chucho. Hey!

Will you stop?

Let go of me.

Father Evan.

Is that a brief?

All right, all right. Take it easy, girl. Sister, come on. Will you please

them in here so I can organize this outside?

Now shut that gate and you get around here. Hurry up now.

All of you. All of you.

Those of you who actually saw anything, move to this side.

Captain, I was upstairs.

First things first, where's the priest? He's in the ambulance.

I covered the streets and put barricades on both sides.

At least we have a reliable first cop on the scene. All right, I got a number on

the truck. I already called it in. Callahan trucking. There's still no sign

the driver.

Maybe he was in on it.

And who are you guys?

Ed Griss, safe loft and truck. We received a hijacking report.

Now we're trying to figure out whose jurisdiction this is. Hey, wait a

Lieutenant. I'm already getting enough slack from these guys about how could

this happen to me with me on the premises.

We're not turning this over to them, are we? All right, that's enough.

There's not going to be any jurisdictional hassle in this case. Do

understand? A priest has been hurt, and he might die.

This is a very Catholic police department. If anybody's under pressure,

captain over there. And the only way to ease that pressure is to catch these

turkeys fast. And that means we've got to cooperate.

Capisce? Sure.

So tell me, how did all this stuff take place under your nose while you were on

the premises?

What's your name?

Gris. Ed Gris.

Hello, sister.

How is the father?

Well, your prayers won't hurt.

If he'd been dressed like a priest.

And you're not to blame the young man who sat down here to speak.

Now, those are the witnesses.

It was hard to see from the window up there, but they might be of help.

Excuse me, sister.

We just made a deal with Safe and Loft. We've got to check it out with their

brass first, though, Francis.

All right.

Still got a couple of hooks over there.

And it's Captain to you. Sister Agnes knew me when I was a knickers. You

Sister, the safe and loft are our hijacking experts.

I expect you to get our things back, Francis.

We've waited a long time to have them snatched like this.

Well, it all depends on what was taken, sister. Do you have a list?

42 toilets, 46 sinks, 11 shower stalls, 2 ,025 feet of one -inch

copper piping.

I hope you have a good memory.

Oh, excellent.

Do you remember the color, the brand name, and if there's a list of the

numbers? I don't know.

They were a gift from Mr. Callahan.

The trucker.

Lieutenant, you got a minute?

Excuse me, sister.

Look at these bags. They're handmade.

New gains, semi -dwarf, winter wheat seed.

Now, have I missed any waving fields of grain in midtown Manhattan? Where do

these things come from?

I don't know. Maybe Forensic can come up with something.

No, we have our own expert on growing things. Thank you. What's that sound?

Hey, open up! All right, take it easy. You okay?

I'd know that sound anywhere.

That's the sound of a wild New York truck driver being thrown into a New

sewer. Come on!

Where's my truck?

You guys didn't catch nobody, huh?

When I get my hands on them... You don't have to.

All you have to do is stand close to them, you kill them with a stake.

You want to do me a favor, stand downwind.

I'm sorry.

Now tell me the truth.

There any alligators down there?

Not for five grand. You gotta be out of your mind.

Say, how did you, uh, how did you guys come to hit on me anyhow?

You got a driver, Chico.

Sold us some fertilizer that was a little warm from the parks department.

He said if we ever wanted to unload some merchandise, but if you don't want to

do business... Okay.

It's the same story Chico told me, too.

But he didn't say nothing about five grand.

Nothing. Now look.

It's obvious that you and your brother got guts. I like that.

Now, we got a very big heist coming up. We're gonna need drivers.

And you'll get a piece of the action this time. But you gotta make me a price

this load here.

Say, uh, $1 ,500.

Hey, man, we don't want no career being hijackers.

One job is all we need.

And a fair price.

$1 ,500. And what we got coming up, you could make five, six grand.

Each.

We'll make you a deal.

When we picked up the fertilizer, we saw this machine you got stashed in the

back.

You mean that thing you towed a tractor? You want that? Yeah.

It's called a C -drill.

That and $2 ,500.

Make it two grand, you got a deal.

Okay. Okay, you pick that up later.

When will this other job come down?

I don't know. It depends on the weather. We've been waiting for weeks.

The weather? How come?

Hey, did I ask you what you want that dumb machine for?

Hey, hey, okay, okay.

You know, this wasn't some casual rip -off, you know, about the truck and what

time it was coming. Chris seems to think that there must have been somebody on

the inside of the truck.

Safe love says it happens all the time.

We're in the school.

Now, would you put your clean thumb on that?

And maybe Sister Agnes can help us, you know, with recent employees or somebody

who's just been fired.

We'd see.

And I want you to hit every stoolie.

Every fence, every outlet, and the hijacker's guide, all right? From

to sleeping bags around the clock.

Yes, weed seed.

But I don't know anything about weed seed. Well, weed is a plant from which

make bread, cookies, you get cakes, you get bagels, all of which you know a

great deal about.

The only thing we don't know is how this weed seed bag found itself on the

streets of Manhattan full of sand.

Sapper's paid. Yes, sir.

If the captain comes in, I want to see him. So do a mess of reporters

downstairs. Yeah, well, the captain has already seen the reporters.

If the captain gets any phone calls, he's not in.

I'm a gardener, not a farmer.

Priest is a nice young fella.

I wanted to do them a favor.

Sure, I'd like to get my stuff back.

I mean, either way, it's a write -off.

So it got stolen.

So what? Why make such a big deal out of it? Because I don't like doing you a

favor. Making a delivery and getting ripped off by some punk kids.

And because I got four of the biggest fences in town hot for just a piece of

action. I got a reputation, Callahan.

I steal. I don't get stolen from.

If this gets around, you know what's going to happen to me?

All right, all right, all right.

problem, all right?

Yeah, well, I got something else that's our problem.

It's gonna start getting windy.

Real windy.

That's what I heard on the radio.

Come on, we're not gonna go through with this. I mean, not with all this

attention. I've been following your schedules pretty close for three weeks

Callahan. You got some pretty great shipments coming in, and we got the

weather. So first thing in the morning, we do our thing.

Unless you want to settle what you owe us now for cash.

Angie, check the forecast for me.

We did it, sister!

We did it!

Two grand cash!

Right here! And we got a seed drill.

And more!

The dude where we sold the stuff, he offered us another job.

Ten grand minimum.

More stealing?

Oh, we talked it over!

Not with me!

Don't have a long face, Linda.

Linda! Now that we got saved and with this one more job.

Adios.

It's true, Lynn. Everything is beautiful.

It isn't beautiful.

It won't ever be beautiful.

Because you killed a priest today.

What do you mean?

What priest? The one who came over the fence. The one you knocked down.

He's in the hospital. He's dying.

I did this?

No, Chichito.

We all did it.

never took before.

You could have waited to earn the money.

Waited? We've got families to think about.

Old people, little kids.

You want to live like we do for another three years?

Do you? Yes, because it's better than stealing.

Yesterday, my doctor told me my family could have a calcium deficiency.

She said seven out of ten.

heavy chop.

Oh, Cape May.

What's the marine forecast anyway?

Boats. Oh, terrific.

I want the regular weather. I don't care if you are a recording.

You'd think my boss was going to sail to Bermuda or something.

Speaking of that, if his name is Callahan, I'd like to talk to him.

He's in the yard.

Fantastic.

Yeah? I'm Lieutenant Kojak.

Um, you know, we got the holiest ghost looking for your truck, Mr. Callahan.

Yeah, I got a lot of friends in the business.

A lot of truck drivers help me look for it, too.

Hey, how's the father doing?

Stay up, Red, and he's still alive.

Well, he ain't got the limit.

They started knocking over church donations.

What can I do for you?

We need a list of everything on your truck. Yeah, well, that's, uh, that's

take a couple of days. I have this help problem, you know? Oh, yeah?

What about your tax records for the contributions of purchase orders?

Or something for the insurance company.

Insurance? Are you kidding?

You know, I've been hijacked so many times, I can't get insurance for going

around a city block.

This won't come out of my pocket.

Well, who'd you buy this stuff from?

Some guy in Staten Island. He was going broke.

Hey, I'm sorry.

Uh... Ferguson.

The guy who was doing the driving? Yeah.

He made the deal. He'll have all the answers.

That's strange.

Ferguson said he didn't know a thing about it.

Yeah, well, he's probably all shook up, you know.

Getting jammed on that sewer.

Hey, Callahan, would you stop playing games?

What's going on around here? I mean, you're so edgy. What are you so jumpy

about? And why is it so quiet around here?

All right, I've got some problems.

I mean, I was hijacked 14 times last year.

I mean, the only way that I can get some insurance is keep my trucks out of town

until I got enough for a convoy. That's the only way the cops will help me keep

an eye on them.

I mean, my schedules are all loused up. Business stinks.

But not so bad you can't donate a truckload of plumbing to Sister Agnes.

Mm -hmm.

Come on.

You explain it, or do I have to go to the IRS to help you with this

investigation?

No, no, no, no, please.

Not the IRS.

You know what kind of wheeling and dealing you have to do to keep those

off your back?

Huh?

Well, why don't you educate me, Callahan?

All right, Lieutenant.

It's like this.

Uh, last Monday... Callahan's in hock up to his axles, including Uncle

Sam. You know, he takes a few thousand dollars.

He buys some discontinued equipment from a plumbing contractor through Ferguson.

Figures to get a $50 ,000 deduction from the government and put them straight

with him.

Then there must be some kind of inflated bill of sale with a list of the stuff.

There was.

Along with the stuff that was stolen to be signed by Sister Agnes upon receipt,

but that's on a truck wherever that is.

How much of a goner is this, Callahan?

Messy, messy. You know, guys in this kind of trouble do some pretty weird

things. I got Rizzo checking it out.

Excuse me, but I got the answer to this wheat thing.

New gains with the wheat was developed for the particular climate of the

Northwest. Like Washington, Oregon, like that.

That's half an answer. The other half is what is it doing here?

So Chico told me the kids are okay.

Well, they bring it aloud. I made a deal.

Now, how am I supposed to know?

That you're the guy they ripped the load off from, huh?

Couldn't you see it was Callahan's truck? Sure, but how am I supposed to

that that's the truck that you were driving?

Come on, those kids are okay.

Besides, there ain't too many guys can throw Harry Ferguson down a manhole.

Hey, that's just the kind of joke I never want to hear.

Cool off, Harry, huh?

Just cool off.

This deal is too big for that. We need all the drivers we can get.

Those kids will be here in a little bit to pick up that...

That seed thing, anyway. You watch now. When they see that you're in this too,

they'll make every effort to make it up to you.

Believe me.

All right, all right.

So long as we go first thing in the morning.

You been outside?

There's a 40 -mile -an -hour wind starting to blow.

I'll get those kids to help me make some room in here.

I'll take that plumbing gear off your hands right now.

Oh, I saw that.

Two minutes after it was in, boom, boom, right out the door.

You sold it?

Sure.

Proctor, I gotta get that stuff back.

What are you talking about?

That plumbing's got a long history to it.

If the cops should locate it and look too close, they'll find out it was

off in Boston.

A guy got killed.

That's why I sold it to Callahan, so it would be buried in that school.

Now you tell me it's out there somewhere.

And it's not just hot, it's lethal.

How long has the sign been up?

My informant said he saw him put it up in a window a couple of hours ago.

Could be a coincidence.

Way to go to the right part of town.

Most of these stores, the merchandise is so hot, you can't get fire insurance.

It's got to be the fastest plumbing sale in history.

Major heist coming down. A lot of drivers involved.

No idea where or when.

Come on. Come on. We have a reservation.

We're not open. I'm taking inventory.

Of course, you gentlemen are always welcome.

I'm Pete.

Yeah, Pete. I heard about you, sir. You know, wouldn't miss it for the world. A

little plumbing.

Sorry to disappoint.

For you guys, a discount on a discount.

Almost like free, you know what I mean? In fact, call it free.

It's just that I'm grateful for your protection to our storekeepers and like

that.

Pete, you know I got my master's degree in toilet plumbing detection?

Yeah. Anybody else looks at those tracks, they can't tell what it was. Me,

minute I spotted them, I knew those were tracks made by a John.

Hey, you guys can't go in there. That's for employees only.

Listen, I know how it probably looks, Lieutenant.

It looks like you conspired to murder three police officers. That's what it

looks like.

You're protecting a guy who shoots at us. That's what I'm trying to say.

That guy was a robber. Who knew he was back there?

You know, I'm lucky you guys came around when you did.

Pete, you're beautiful.

Anybody got a paper?

Yeah, Lieutenant, but somebody stole a sport.

Somebody stole a sport. Are you ready?

We got an item in the news, Pete, right between the headlines.

Priests may die in school hijacking.

That makes you part of another attempted murder. Did you know that? I got some

advice for you.

Want to help yourself?

You help yourself by helping us.

Now go inside and read all about it.

Here's the sports.

I just still owe me half a question.

I called the seed company.

They shipped an order of new gains out to Nugent's Garden Supply out of Long

Island. But the owner's out sick.

We'll call them at home.

And you get them at a bet.

You got to be a sleuth stopper. Who's a sleuth? Yeah. Lieutenant, I got the Port

Authority police here. They just found that hijacked Callahan truck parked in a

lot of the Guadian. Hey, Lieutenant.

Yeah.

I don't know anything about this.

You got to believe me.

I don't ask a lot of questions about a deal.

That's way out of my league. Believe me.

That's been your league ever since you made your first deal for a hot stereo.

You know something?

If it wasn't for you so -called middlemen, the cop shooters and the

beaters would be out of business looking for a market.

So don't tell me you're just a little guy trying to make a buck. You guys make

crime waves, creep.

What kind of deal are we talking?

Oh.

All right.

You talk and we'll talk, and like that.

Okay.

This guy calls me up sometimes, you know.

Today he's got a terrific buy on plumbing fixtures.

Comes down to the store, picks up my truck, and when he comes back, it's

with great stuff.

I even get a bill of sale.

Knickerbocker Supply Company.

Which probably isn't even in the phone book.

Saperstein! Yeah?

Look up the Knickerbocker Supply Company, see if it's real. Right.

Uh, Pete.

You forgot one little detail.

I guess you gotta know the guy's name, huh?

I can feel myself dying.

Eddie Proctor.

Eddie Proctor.

A most prominent fence.

And who took the stuff out of your store?

I was hanging up the signs when Proctor calls me. Says the deal is off.

He sends over this guy. I've never seen him before.

He starts loading the stuff on his truck.

And you show up.

That's it. I swear.

Lieutenant.

This Mr. Nugent ordered that seat special for a kiddie like. He used to

windows for him.

Solitum Wholesale.

Honoria Patias.

Hasn't seen him for a couple of weeks and has no address on him either.

I'm checking him out for a yellow sheet right now.

No sign about gunfighting. For what it's worth, Chris and I put out word to look

for a truck with bullet holes in the back. You get the 52 file out for Fred

Pete. If he doesn't find him in there, he's a sketch artist.

Whoever this guy is, he's been playing around with Eddie Proctor and I want him

identified. You know the rumor about some big job coming down?

Proctor was one name Driss and I heard mentioned a couple of times. Lieutenant,

on this Onorio Petias, there's nothing on it. Petias, Petias. Where have I

that name before?

I haven't heard it. I've seen it. Where are the reports from the school?

On your desk, where you were going to type them.

Petias, Petias, Petias.

She was an eyewitness. Lena Petias.

One of the girls I was lecturing.

I don't like it. I don't like it at all.

Sister. You said yourself that this student could have known about that ship

advance. It was no secret, Lieutenant.

It was a miracle.

Every student knew about it. Sister, there's only one Petias in the whole

school.

Thirty -five years ago, when your captain was my student, we had an easy

turning out decent people.

Today, it's a fight.

But we still turn them out now and then.

And Lena Petias is one of them.

Sister, I hope you're right.

But we still have to see her.

I don't want you scaring her.

I want to go with you.

I like that girl, Lieutenant. The whole family.

There aren't many dreamers left in this city.

We've had enough members of the cloth engine. Would you wait for us here,

sister?

Thank you.

Honorio?

Alina, we'd like to talk to you and your brothers.

They aren't here.

Well, we'd like to find that out for ourselves, please.

You have a warrant?

added a few things since I've been here last.

Every dime they can spare goes into this place or into the bank for farmland.

Out west, I believe.

Oh, really?

Washington? Oregon?

You should have waited until you got there to buy it.

Or was it because of the discount?

How did you know?

Then it's true, Lena.

Lena, it's hard to wait until Christmas. I understand that.

Are you the one who tipped your brothers about the plumbing?

I thought they'd give you more for the school.

Or maybe some insurance.

We didn't mean to hurt anyone.

And not Father Everett.

It was an accident.

Teacher was afraid for Honorio.

Very strong.

Where are they, Lena?

My brothers.

I can't.

Don't make it worse, child.

Lena.

It's a warehouse.

11th Street near 10th Avenue.

They went to get a C -drill.

I want you guys back here as soon as you dump this thing. We got a lot of work

to do before morning.

Morning? Yeah. I told you, we'll wait for weather. Well, we got it.

Uh... Look, Proctor, uh... We decided to skip this job for you.

Now, wait a minute. No, no. We made a deal.

Where else am I gonna get drivers on such short notice, huh?

Hey, Proctor!

You got a license.

So do I.

Why don't you get rid of these creeps?

I got other guys, too. Hey!

It's the guy we dumped in the manhole.

Why don't you shut up and split? You want to go back in that manhole?

No, wait a minute.

I said now.

This is Channel 5, Fox Television in Washington, D .C.

So this is what the priest is fighting for his life over, huh?

A seed drill.

Look, man, why don't you just bust me?

It was my idea.

Me and Chucho didn't even like it. I know, you're a modern -day Robin Hood,

right? Only here I'm from the rich. Here you are knocking off a school that's

flat on its back.

So I'm an idiot.

I didn't know that.

But the others, they're clean.

No, no, no, no. Nobody's clean on this one.

Two men in the hospital, your sister's in jail, and you're headed to the same

place. And to top it all off, there's still things going on here.

Now, who tried to knock off your brother and why?

This may sound crazy, but it was that guy we dropped in the manhole.

Him and this guy Proctor, they were offering us a job, and we said no.

Ferguson? And Proctor.

Did anyone tell you about where you'd be working or how long the job would take?

Nobody knew when it was going to happen or where.

Not when they first talked to me.

But then Proctor said you had to do it tomorrow morning.

Yeah.

He said the weather was right.

Yeah, that was really important to him. The weather. The weather.

Someone else was interested in the weather.

Crocker! You! Bring in Callahan.

Wait a minute. I got a check on you. You breathe in that thing and you're dead.

All right, you, driver, pull out.

How the hell would I know where Ferguson is?

Come on, man, it's five o 'clock in the morning.

He's probably home in a sack if he's any luckier than I am.

I got a convoy coming in this morning.

What kind of a convoy, Callahan?

A couple of trucks from Virginia.

I mean, some cigarettes and some furniture and a few things.

And tell me about this windy weather, baby.

You know, police helicopters, they don't fly on days like this.

They're not around buildings.

And you're bringing your whole convoy in without aerial protection.

And someone has determined it's Ferguson or Proctor.

They're not going to worry about a few security guards.

You know this Ferguson?

He's a fruitcake. He shoots at cops.

And if he kills anybody...

Mm -hmm.

You're in for murder, too. What can I tell you?

Look, I'm not much of a crook.

And I'm no murderer at all.

I'm not looking for any sympathy, but I've been damn near hijacked out of

business.

I mean, I owe the world. Even my trucks are in hock up to their fan belts.

All right, about a month ago, Ferguson shows up.

He says he's got connections.

Says if I play his game, I won't get hit again. I guess Proctor is his boss.

So the plan is to hijack the whole convoy.

Okay, Frank.

When and where? Tell me.

He didn't tell me.

I didn't want to know.

I just had to be sure the trucks were across the George Washington by quarter

five this morning.

And they are.

Get a map of the city and call Chris.

You, driver, I want you to slow down and stop at the next street. You

understand? I want your front wheels on the crosswalk.

Don't touch the radio.

Read this.

Read it in the mic.

Okay, this is truck one leader. We just had a call from the security office.

We'll have to stay real close.

Take a different route since we can't get air. Just follow me.

All right, let's go to the Bronx.

They came across the George Washington, down Amsterdam, across 125th, 2nd

Avenue.

And the trucks start to peel off at the upper 50s.

The store's on 5th Avenue.

Now, two trucks head for the garment center.

One of them has the furs.

Now, the cigarettes end up downtown.

No. I figured they'd hit them somewhere up here, where they're still all

together.

We got a report on 125th. It's clear all across town. There's a convoy on 10th,

but it isn't ours. And there's nothing on 2nd Avenue right now either.

Then they've already hit it, taking it off the avenues.

Yeah, but how?

Trucks have radio communication, so what do you know if they took one truck?

Well, suppose that one truck is the lead truck.

Maybe the rest play follow the leader or ring Olivia or something.

Yeah, but you can't put a diesel in your pocket.

Besides, they jam up most side streets.

Unless they stayed uptown above 125th Street.

Starburst, check out Morningside Park and make it quick.

Yes, sir.

Thanks.

There's nothing rumbling on the east side or in the park anywhere.

They must have taken them off the streets.

Take a pretty big warehouse.

Truck stop, maybe. Some place where they wouldn't stand out.

That's it.

Now Callahan's company is just above the Triborough Bridge, right? That's the

one perfect spot where they wouldn't be noticed.

Savro's called Gris right away.

Tell him to get us safe and locked, boys.

Out of bed.

Yes, sir.

I want to be in on this.

I'll be in my office.

Take your pick and let's talk money.

Let's talk escape. How do I get out of here with this stuff? I'll show you.

New plates, new markets.

I'll even loan you a couple of boys to drive.

In the next half hour, the streets will be so crowded with reeks, you'll look

like another grain of sand.

I count seven plus Ferguson and Proctor.

There's a lot of shotguns down there, but most of them are redecorating

How about the gates?

There's one in front, and the rear is blocked by a truck.

Stand by.

This is Captain McNeil speaking.

I want the safe and loft men on the back gate.

I want the uniform men on the fences and the shed roofs.

We'll take the front gate.

Gris, you're on point.

So when you're all set, let us know.

Move out now.

You could use a couple of men over there. We'll do it. Take Rocker and

Yeah, I'm not greedy. I'll just take this load here.

Just? Hey, you're looking at over half a million.

Maybe in a rack at Lord & Talents, but not here. Not hot.

I can't see you, Captain, but the rest of the men are in position.

All right.

Now, I'm set.

Theo.

The guy at the gate has his back to you.

This is Captain McNeil.

You are surrounded by New York police.

Do not move. Do not think.

I repeat, you are completely surrounded.

There are police at all escape routes.

Every exit is blocked.

Remain stationary.

You are covered.

All members of the force, zero in on the center of the yard.

You will put your hands behind your heads.

And walk slowly to the front gate.

Why don't you run, Ferguson?

I am.

All right, I'll get him.

Captain, there's a call for you at Central.

All right.

All right, you guys, just keep coming. Slow and easy, pal.

McNeil.

Hey, Lieutenant, I found that truck with all the bullet holes in the back. It's

full of toilets.

I understand.

Uh -huh. Right.

You tell Safe and Love not to get too greedy, okay? Just until they find out

where that heist came from.

It was Boston, Kojak. Boston.

I think Ferguson killed the guy there.

Don't forget who told you, huh?

Boston's got a murder charge. They can have him. Best we can do is attempt it.

Yeah.

You also murdered something else.

That petite dream plantation out west.

Speak. You're a beautiful person.

Mr. Agnes just reported that Father Everett is conscious.

He's probably giving him hell already about how he should have been wearing a

cassock and a collar.

Just a couple of hours ago, she was on her knees lighting candles for him.

don't be surprised if she goes to bat for those young farmers.

She's not one to give up on people easy, you know.

In that case, I'm glad I'm not the prosecutor.

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