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The register is ten feet from the door, no silent alarms that I can make out,

the old man's on duty, and no one in the back room.

That's my girl.

Well, little brother, ready?

Yeah, yeah, I think so. Hey!

Hey, Nino.

He's your brother, but he's my man.

Don't mess him up with your nervous routine.

Okay, let's go.

What does a $400 suit find so interesting about a neighborhood liquor

All right, now put it down.

Now!

Go ahead, go ahead. Do something dumb. Go ahead. Just take it easy.

Yeah, I'll take it easy when my partner comes walking up.

Doyle, damn it!

I just got

the word. How's Doyle?

Little Ike is on his way to Bellevue.

Okay. I'll make a call.

Now, you're going to tell me who your lookout was, or do I have to squeeze it?

Bud, look out.

Where's the lieutenant?

Lieutenant Kojak's going to go to his niece's birthday party in the old

neighborhood. Hello, Bellevue?

Detective Sergeant Stavros, Manhattan South. May I have the emergency desk,

please? Last known address.

Hey, I got to make a call first, or did you forget?

Okay,

thanks.

He just went into surgery.

Theo Kojak.

That lieutenant down there is a Greek from the old neighborhood.

Zeno.

He wants us to grab somebody from a

cop's family.

Oh, Greg.

You know something?

That is a cherry stone question. You let the cheats get up. You made such great

kids. What do you mean, cheats?

Buy a 10 -year -old child a $100 painting kit. She can redo the Sistine

Don't tell me.

I know.

You're just mad because she weren't invited.

Is that right, Pat? No.

There's a caller out there making his one phone call.

So?

So he's making it in Greek.

What do I do? Stand around and listen? Maybe blow his trial on some

or take a walk? I decided to take a little walk. What did he do?

He's got Doyle in a holdup.

I don't know. I gotta go to the hospital after I finish with this bone.

Tony Pappas. Hey, Lieutenant.

Like old times.

I don't want any technical errors.

No mistakes, you understand?

I want this Mediterranean fungus here to hang.

Anything else? Yeah, there was another guy, but he got away.

Put him in.

Go ahead, Dale.

I want his partner fast.

Can you see them?

Yeah.

Which ones?

That group over there.

Cop's family.

You want your brother to spend the next 20 in jail?

Hi.

Are there any playgrounds in the park?

Not for you, lady.

I have a small child.

I was thinking of moving into the area.

I used to live here once.

It's still nice. I guess some things never change.

Uncle Theo, now you have to let me paint you.

Why would you want to paint this ugly, beat -up pussy of mine?

Because I love you.

Oh.

Can I show my presents to my friends?

Oh, your mother's the boss.

Where are they?

Across the park, near their house.

Don't stay too long.

You spoil her tale.

Yeah, what do you do, arrest me?

Did you get a $100 present for your birthday when you were 10 years old?

when I was a kid 10 years old, my old man on $100 could feed the whole family

for a year and a half.

Dale, what is it?

Pauline, you remember Tony Pappas?

Yes, I remember. A few centuries ago, they would have drowned him at birth.

Elena, happy birthday.

Thank you.

I'm a friend of your Uncle Theo.

He's over there.

I know.

I'm meeting him.

We're having another party.

Oh, then I'm very happy to know you.

What have you got there?

It's a present from my Uncle Theo.

Ah.

Hey.

That's some set of oils.

I do a little painting myself.

Maybe we could do one together.

Huh?

Come on.

Go ahead, Theo.

Yeah, he's a kid brother, not too bright. Follows him around like a little

dog. Hey, look, they never did any time, but they've been booked enough time for

mug shots.

All right, we'll get it on the street.

How's Doyle? Nothing good.

He's picking up his wife and we're going over there.

Ah, that's too bad.

Any kids?

Three, I think.

Three kids.

Boy, does it have to be times like this for us to ask.

You have to leave.

Hey, Lieutenant.

How about my cake?

Having a blast.

Call for you, Lieutenant.

I'll take it inside.

Get me the sheet on fungus over there.

Yes, sir.

Don't be upset.

Not until you've heard it all.

She won't see another birthday if you get upset.

And stupid.

So here it is.

Turn Tony Pappas loose.

Before they take him downtown, just pull his sheet, turn him loose, and no one

ever has to know and arrest with me.

Hey.

Come on, I've heard this bluff before.

She won't get to use that paint set if you don't. Let me talk to the kid.

Uncle Theo?

when he walk out.

Listen, it takes time to set up. How much?

A day, two.

How much?

Okay, a few hours.

Arrange it.

I'll call back with instructions.

How'd the kid like the cheap present?

You call Dave Shepard a little? Yeah, he'll get back to her.

That's good. Yeah?

Good, huh?

Now I got a message for you when you listen.

I'm going to see that you die behind closed doors. You understand?

If I got to slam the door myself.

Got that message?

Leo.

That's enough.

What the hell are you doing?

Well, I grabbed my niece and they want to trade.

I just pulled a job. There was no time. No time, huh?

There was time enough for that slob to make a call.

And who did he call? Did you see a lawyer out there? He knows me. He knows

family.

And there's a woman in on it. They must be crazy.

Crazy? Sure, they're crazy.

They know about yellow sheets.

They know about trips downtown.

They know we rip up the sheets for insufficient evidence.

Oh, we've let out suspects before.

That deals all the time.

But over the Grady case, we got more by letting them go.

Hey, a little of our own plea bargaining can't hurt.

Oh, sure.

Just let him go. Is that it, fellas? Well, thanks a lot. And then what?

They're going to let the kid go?

After what she saw? After what she heard?

Come on, they're just going to forget it. Is that it?

We stall until we find the kid.

What time do we have?

How long does it take to wait to get here from downtown?

About three hours.

And that's how much time we got.

7 .23 to Central K.

These are the pictures of the two men. There's no women in their M .O.

Hey, Theo, you came back again with your friends.

Pete, get the captain some tape. Wait a minute.

Don't they know yet?

Hey, captain, come on. When are you giving the day off?

Hey, hey.

I'm going back to set up surveillance around the area.

They want a swap that's still pretty close by.

Captain, do you really think they're going to swap the kid?

Crockett, you know what I think.

Bob!

What do they want with us?

They want it for me.

But why?

A prisoner I'm holding.

So they grab Elena?

What can you do, Taylor?

I can find her.

All right, look, so what are you letting us keep you for?

Go on.

Come on, they can't beat us.

I'll keep you posted.

How are they taking it?

Well, not too well. They don't blame me.

Not a stir. She just disappeared.

All right, let's stop beating the drums.

Crotty, you and me, stop us. You come to the rear before anybody knows we're

here. What am I looking for, Lieutenant?

Anybody gets nervous when they see my face.

Yes, sir.

Two and four and six.

You got a six for that?

I don't have it. I have a six. Come on.

Here you are, baby. Here's your six. Bring it up. Bring it up.

A good bull seat.

No matter what anyone says.

Hey, Nicola.

What you do? Forget your worry beads?

I'm clean, I swear.

Come on, I didn't come here for that.

Sit down, continue with your card game and have some fun.

So, how's Tony Pappas?

I hardly see him anymore.

Well, I know where he is.

You know, he's hit the big time since last you saw him.

Knocked off a liquor store.

He busted the head of the owner.

He shot a cop.

We heard what they did.

They?

What are you nervous about?

What should I be nervous for?

You said they.

I meant him.

But you said they, and they ain't him.

They is his brother.

Want to know something?

I want they.

And I also want the girl.

Dark hair.

Buy some clothes off Fifth Avenue, maybe.

Cold as ice, you didn't see her either, did you?

What girl?

I'm sorry, I swear.

I don't know a thing.

Look, Nick.

You've done some pretty heavy things, you understand?

Now you're going to help me find my niece, and then I owe you.

And if you don't help me find her, I still owe you.

That old man.

He owns some apartments.

There's a kid in there.

your mistake.

The kid's sleeping.

Wouldn't take the wig off if she wasn't stupid.

Don't pull me down.

There's the door.

What if somebody saw you? What if somebody followed us here?

If they saw anyone, they saw a dark -haired woman.

Okay, okay.

I'm just nervous.

Hey, where are you going?

To call, okay?

a hold of yourselves, you know?

We've done it a hundred times. We don't change a thing.

The agency, the phony ticket.

Okay?

They're all over for Tony, isn't it?

Not unless they don't care about that kid.

He's been taking his mother to lunch every Wednesday for the last 15 years.

Then he comes back to do his paperwork.

Check the neighborhood restaurants, okay?

He's about 5 '8", a little beard like that.

I'll pay back to you later.

Hey, Lieutenant, it's Captain McNeil.

Hello. Theo, the girl just called.

She gives us one hour to let him out.

Well, at least she's still talking to us.

One thing more.

Doyle just died in surgery.

All right, look.

You call the hospital and put the lid down.

If they find out, the kid's finished.

Theo?

We're making a lot of progress and I got every available man on it.

Theo, how's the officer?

Oh, my God. Theo, what if they find out? No, they won't.

We got the lid on.

Look, I'm sure you're doing everything you can.

Paulina.

Does Elena like airplanes?

Airplanes? Remember the time I was going to go to Atlantic City in a police

helicopter? I asked her to come along with me and she said, swell.

We got there, she panicked.

Is she still the same way?

Maybe even worse.

Her class went to the Empire State Building last week. She went up in the

elevator, but she was afraid to go out and look at the city.

Why, Taylor, what is it?

Hey, look, don't lose hope, okay?

I'll be back very soon and with Elena.

Set up a trace.

Just keep her on long enough.

Call Jack.

You have less than an hour left.

Hey, take it easy.

You blow your cool now and it's lost. I'm working on it. It takes a key.

You've got that.

What have I got?

I got a doll with a great voice, threats, promises.

I mean, how do I know the kid's still alive?

How do I know she's okay? How do I know anything?

Uncle Theo?

Elena? Uncle Theo, I'm okay.

Listen, Elena, I found your painting. It's good, you understand?

Promise to do more.

A pint with big red onions, you always eat.

I want him out.

Now. Hey, okay.

Okay. You know, people know we picked him up.

Paper's made out.

I have to cover.

And I'm setting it all in motion.

One hour.

I'll call back.

Put him on.

Then you get instructions.

Okay, well.

It's no good. She's too sharp.

I find nothing in the restaurant, then I swing back to see the lights on.

What does he say?

Well, the guy won't talk. That's why I think it's good.

Charlie.

Charlie, take this.

Hello, Theo.

How long has it been?

Five years, maybe more.

You're mad at me because I didn't show up, right?

Everybody gets into their own lives.

Will you help me?

Goodbye, Theo.

Charlie, I'm a cop, not a disease.

Like you said, you're a cop.

You wanted to be one when you were a kid and you made it.

You even think like one, on duty, off duty.

Ah, what the hell. Ask your brother -in -law, he'll tell you.

But maybe you won't understand.

He talks Greek.

He believes in you, the slob. Hey, I'm doing the best I can.

Can you help me?

Give them what they want, Theo. Don't play with them.

Charlie, I'll give my life. Just tell me where they are.

Lieutenant, take it easy, huh?

Forgive me, Theo. I'm upset.

We're all upset.

I think maybe it could be my kid next.

What would the police do? They trade millionaires for revolutionaries. All

people want is a bomb. Give them the bomb! This bum might come in here one

and blow the head off your kid's father.

Sorry.

If you came to me for a prescription, you wouldn't tell me how to handle my

business. Charlie, you know what you're doing. I mean, before you wouldn't help

me because you were mad at me.

And now you would talk to me because you're trying to make up. There isn't

enough time.

The prescription is for suntan oil.

What kind of suntan oil needs a prescription?

It's special for sensitive skin.

The dark -haired woman usually has dark skin.

Since when does dark skin and dark hair worry about the sun?

But she wasn't dark skin. She was light skin.

Probably a blonde.

That type.

When they paint their bodies, get a chemical reaction from the makeup.

If they go out into the sun without this, they get sick.

Who paints their body?

Entertainers.

You sure this is the place? Yeah, I'm sure.

All right, come on, let's go.

Go? Go where?

You said there was a blonde belly dancer in there.

Hey, Gojack, you call me and I say yeah.

There's this club on 6th Street where there's a blonde belly dancer working

there, right? Now, that's all I say I'll do for you, okay?

No, tell me what you'll do for me.

Wait, wait, wait.

No! Great.

For God's sake. He can't help. Please.

Okay, okay.

I'll go down to your prison. I'll hide here through a mirror.

There. Not here.

Coach, if you don't grab them, they're bad people, you know?

Nico.

What do you know about onions?

Onions.

You're too involved.

Frank, I'm that close.

I want you to take off and go home. We got men staked out over the whole area.

We have his picture and her composite.

We have our phone ready to trace.

Now take off.

What the hell is this for? I'm a private citizen now.

Is this the way it's been?

What do you want me to say, Captain?

Stay with him.

Yes, sir. Go ahead.

She's nobody I know.

I told the officer who came by before.

Tommy?

How's the kid?

Fine. He starts high school in the spring.

Oh, yeah? I remember he almost didn't live one winter.

Hey, I said I could never thank you for what you did. Why don't you try?

He knows her.

A booking agent?

No. A pimp? Oh, come on.

What happened?

Hey, hey, hey.

Hey, get your hands off me.

All right, you hold him. Hey, you'll lose your job.

Oh, I already quit.

Officer, this man is crazy.

What man?

Look at here, these beautiful pieces of white paper with all those lovely

numbers on it. And all I wanted from you was a blonde belly dancer.

Okay, okay, can we still talk?

About what?

Lena Martin.

She shows up once in a while. I give her the work just for the novelty.

The only thing I know is that she runs with this guy Pampas who shot the cop.

I didn't want to get involved.

Cracker!

Put this joint on the list.

I want to bust it often and I want to bust it hard.

Why?

I told him. Nobody wanted to hear.

Why?

Hear about Doyle? Yeah, we heard. I just saw your sister. I wonder if she knows.

Pete.

She should be home.

We're going to church to pray for a dead child. That won't happen.

Like this? Like this didn't happen, huh?

Look, Pete, this isn't the old country.

We're going to find her in time. We've got ways. Theo, come on. Don't be a

cop. Please, not now.

These are mad dogs.

Let them kill the whole world.

She's our daughter.

Listen, miss, we're doing everything we can to cooperate.

Put him on.

Tony, we have a few numbers we would call in case we ever got split.

A number?

Yeah. When they let you out, and you're sure, call the phone number.

Right.

What are they wearing in Brazil these days?

Samar in Brazil.

Manhattan South, 62.

Frank? Leo, she just called.

He walks out of here and phones her that he's safe.

Then they let the kid go. It's take it or leave it. They won't let her go.

insurance. We're covering all the airports, the railroads, the bus

It's a holiday weekend. There'll be mob scenes everywhere.

We could just pin it down.

Frank, Pappas has got to make that call. Do you understand?

We need the time.

I understand.

And now you understand.

You hear?

I can't let a murder suspect dictate to this department, and you know that.

Crocker, the lieutenant, doesn't understand my position.

I okay this.

I give their blackmail the stamp of approval of the whole New York police

I think this afternoon, gents, we're going this great.

Rocker? So peak at it.

Keep it up.

And you do this.

And you do it right.

Yep.

Yeah? I see no... This is Tony.

Five o 'clock.

Okay.

Where's the meat?

Look, I already said what you told me to say. I don't know what this is about. I

want to see a liar.

Seventeen. Yeah. Put in the call to Star Wars. Get up. In the cage.

In the cage!

What's up, girly?

I just made contact with his brother.

Just some warm milk.

Go on.

You're upset. It'll make you feel better.

There's some things that your uncle got you. He loves me. That's why he bought

it.

I wanted a bicycle once.

These people bought their son a bicycle.

But they didn't buy me one.

But I finally got to ride it anyway.

He was standing at the window on the top floor of this

little house they had.

I just kind of leaned into him.

He walked kind of funny when he got out of the hospital.

But he remembers now, when it rains, that he didn't listen when I

asked him to be nice to me.

Better now?

I just want to go home.

Yes. It worked. He's free.

All right.

The agency has the tickets.

Pick them up. I'm back here.

I'll have a taxi waiting.

Be sure no one follows you.

Alex will be in the crowd at the airport.

You think the cops have something in mind?

I think you're wasting time.

Finish your milk.

We'll help you nap.

It's going to be a long trip on one of those planes you like to draw.

I'm here to pick up two tickets to San Francisco.

Out of Kennedy.

And whose name, please?

Jones, Walter, and Pete.

Oh, uh, yes, Mr. Jones, you've been here often. I didn't recognize you.

They're paid for, two tickets to San Francisco.

Sign here.

What's the matter?

I have a terrible headache.

What's up?

These people.

Smell cop.

It's all over.

But all I want to do is tail them.

There's no danger at all, okay?

They know.

Hey, kid, you took the right road.

I feel funny.

The juice tasted funny.

You were upset.

I told you. It was just something to help you calm down.

That's all it was.

Honey, it's you and me.

Time has come to go.

Just remember, no trouble.

Think of that little boy I told you about with the bicycle.

Okay, Patzo.

Now you'll get more than a departmental reprimand for going along with me on

this if it blows away.

Now, what did you learn from the travel agency?

Well, he picked up two tickets for two men.

And the agent says he never bought more than two any of the times.

And he's a regular customer.

Oh, no way.

No way that Pappas' girlfriend would stay behind at this time. Are you

Hey, man.

You got a match?

Kojen, he's inside.

Hey, Lee!

Lee! Lee, no!

I'm sorry, Lieutenant. He had his gun right on you.

She set us up.

She used them to get away.

Red Onion.

They buy tickets, they never use them. It's a screen in case they're ever

traced.

Onions, red onions.

I hate onions and she knows it. Her father loves them. Her mother puts it in

everything, all kinds of meat, salad.

Her latest job was to pick them out, onions.

Red onions.

Bermuda onions.

Like that other painting?

You know the one with the airplanes and the girls? Only girls?

Stewardess is right.

You know something?

My niece is a better cop than I am.

Yeah, I'll tell him. See ya. There are no five o 'clock plans for Bermuda.

Well, we'll try the charter terminals. Our only hope is the airport.

Captain McNeil, all special units assigned to Kennedy converge on charter

terminal.

stewardess and a little girl asleep in a wheelchair.

No, please.

Hey, come on.

You want to go shopping, honey?

Take her to buy some onions, Stavros. She forgot to cry.

Look, here comes your Uncle Theo.

She's coming out of it.

Uncle Phil, they threw my paint set away. Oh, well, I'll tell you what I'm

to do. You're ten.

In six years, you'll be driving up by your car.

Uncle Phil.

Too soon?

All right.

We'll get an airplane, one that writes in the sky, and then you can paint the

biggest picture so everybody can see.

But... But I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll set it for the biggest and the

tallest ice cream cone ever made. Let's go find it.