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listen to me honey i'm fine don't tell me that no i swear you worry too much

okay okay please claire just stay there what time are you coming home i

don't know well i'll probably be back by then claire

What are you doing away from the car?

What's eating you?

You want to know what's eating me, I'll tell you.

The streets are filled with dirt that walks.

You let it pile up for one second and it buries you.

Now, we have a big -time age salesman to grab. We're waiting for our tail call

right now, and you decide to take a walk away from the radio. That's what's

eating me.

Car 92, pick up your tail.

Brown and White Cadillac coaching 133rd.

There he is.

See the bag?

Yeah. Malick has the bag. That salesman is close.

I'll get a backup.

Hello, Central, this is car 92.

It's the Malek. Cabrillo?

A beautiful sight in any currency.

Don't touch the money. I gotta taste this stuff first.

Get under the gate and stay there. I'll flush them down here. All right, move.

You know, you spend ten some odd years on a force, and then some bum suckers

onto a dirty old barge and you get killed. Tell me what happened.

I saw a gun flash.

Morgan was supposed to stay up by the gate. I thought the salesman was

at me.

Well, obviously you didn't identify the target.

Morgan shouldn't have been there. Morgan is dead and he blew it? Don't you have

people to question?

Look, it was a shootout.

Whoever went down was the victim of the shootout. If that isn't clear, what the

hell is this all about?

Lieutenant, there's an automatic lock on that door over there, and this is what

held it open.

He's planning to escape before the meet.

All right.

We're dealing with a very special probe.

Theo!

Another mess we didn't need.

Oh, Captain, did you know the I .A .D. was tailing you? Leo, cooperate. It's

hot. What do you want me to do, sit here and give press releases? You want me to

get over there and do something about it?

Captain, I want Giddings transferred to the chief of detective's office until

this is investigated.

You know that Giddings is the key to this long, hard, dirty case?

And he is also one of your boys in your mother's hand. I don't care if he's your

son -in -law. He's out.

It's the rule.

Hey, Captain, you want to take the man off this case?

who's been wet nursing it from day one. Are you ready for this?

He does understand.

You know the regulations.

Captain, I know I need Giddings. You know what else I know?

I know you can do something about it.

All right, I want you to cover this entire leaky pigsty here. We might come

with something.

What are we looking for?

Corporal Cluth. Just keep looking, okay? You might discover America.

It's beautiful.

This is prettier.

Louis, you didn't tell me you pulled it off.

How many times can you do it?

Oh, maybe two, maybe three.

But one is enough.

Next time I sell it, we leave the city with a fortune.

Champagne?

Over there.

Flint, go easy.

You said if I tip, you'd promise to go easy.

Don't scold.

I do not want to be scolded.

I needed it, Len.

Needed a fix.

It's pretty here.

Do you think that we'll ever have a life together, Lan?

Some people have made out after worse starts.

Over there.

Please don't tell him, man.

Please. Look, he'll kill me.

Relax, here.

You're wealthy.

I see Leo is still true to form.

Yeah, well, you figured if it's important to you, it's important to me

we're friends. Maybe you can't handle it alone and like that.

Hi.

Claire, this is Lieutenant Kojak.

Yeah, I know, Claire. We met last year, Captain, with Neil's birthday party.

Hi.

I got a virus.

Sweating it out.

Yeah.

Lieutenant, they made her this way, the pushers, the salesmen.

She was going through a bad divorce. She was scared, and they hooked her. They

did it.

Now, you listen. I don't want no yo -yo cop walking around these streets like a

blind man. Do you understand?

I stuck my neck out for you, baby.

Look, I'm okay.

Morgan was an accident, I swear.

Now, I know this case, I know the people involved, and I know I can break it.

I'll give you an hour.

You take her home, and I'll meet you.

I can't kick it, Len.

I... I get scared in that room on my own.

We'll work it out.

You got your job.

I've got my life.

Let's go home.

Stand up.

Getting ready to pick up some white stuff, huh?

That's what you're whistling for, right?

You, man.

Okay, okay.

Who's your source?

Come on, you blow me away, man.

You want me to file what I got on you, or did we have a deal?

Okay, man, no, we got a deal. We got a deal.

Call it.

Don Hodgson.

You just don't tell him it was me, huh?

All right, now you try to stay clean, all right, baby?

I'm telling you, I know this case better than anybody.

Yeah, what are you getting so hot about, huh? Cool it off.

I want you to drop me off at Malik's brother. I want to pay my condolences,

okay? Then I want you to go find Hudson and stake him out. And when you do, you

call me.

What, are you sweating about me? I'm not sweating.

You know, it's the weather.

Come on.

My dear fellow, I found myself in the unfortunate position of a businessman

forced to renegotiate at a time when he was totally unable to do so.

Look, do you know who he was?

Do you know who his brother is?

George Malick. The George Malick. Mr. Scammons, we have a deal to consummate.

Why do we discuss a former customer?

Because everybody is talking.

The one thing I don't want...

is for George Mallory to get any kind of idea that I was part of his brother's

burn. I see.

Well, under the circumstances and due to recent attempts by certain customers to

turn me into a target of opportunity, shall we say good day?

Wait, wait.

A little more time. I'm getting things together.

Scammons, more time often becomes too much time.

Will he get it? He'll get it.

Yes. I much prefer the black one.

Hello there. It's your friendly neighborhood cop.

He's in mourning, coach. Can't you see the wreath?

Yeah. Oh, George.

I share your grief.

I appreciate your sympathy, but this is no day for me to talk to a cop. I have

to buy a casket.

Oh.

Well, look at it from my side of the street.

No day is a good day to talk to a hood, so there, we're even.

So, out of respect for the deal you departed, no fight.

I'll just ask my quick question and I'll be on my way.

Who's your brother's killer?

You come here to protect that pig Giddings.

My brother's killer? You got him.

And he also killed a cop. Ballistic says it wasn't Giddings' gun.

Does it penetrate?

The salesman, baby. You cover it this way, you cover it that. Giddings the

Giddings the crazy man who sees pushers under every rock, and he's been after my

brother for a year. Hey, your brother was ripped off by the salesman. I just

want you to think about it, okay?

He's set up by this guy, takes the money, makes another sale someplace

This way, you double your profits, you double your pleasure, double your fun,

and like that.

Lieutenant, I'm filled with grief. Get lost.

Hey, uh, Georgie Porchie, let me buy.

I lost one of my best cops, okay?

Sure, Giddings gun fired the shot, but your brother and the salesman might just

as well have been pointing it. And I want him.

So all you got to do is tell me when the next sale is coming down, and then you

just sit and wait.

I'll look into it. Hey, when you tell me you're going to look into it, I'm

telling you that's all you better do. Look.

What's the route?

Uh, the big patches, maybe. Pure white, uh, heroin.

You know, the kind that got Malik killed.

Now you want to join him, you want to join us.

Come on, Hudson, give me an excuse and I'll jam that sandwich down your throat.

I don't know a thing about any shipments.

I'm into numbers, you know that.

Let him go.

Would you let him go?

Hey, from the look on his face, you ought to tell why.

If he don't talk to us, we send him away on vacation.

If he does talk, the neighborhood blows him away.

This way, who knows? He'll go back to his boss. If they do something

maybe we can follow it.

Wait a second.

Yesterday, Joe Malik was with a girl that looked a lot like that.

She walk like that, too?

Yeah, pretty much.

She looked like she just stepped out of one of those glamour magazines, you

know?

That's a change of routine.

You know, Malik's wife, she's big and fat, and he loved her.

Where'd you see them together?

A cafe. Coming out of a cafe in the West Village.

I'll follow that. You stay here on the street.

All right. Get Malik's photo out of the file and bring it down to the cafe. See

if they can remember. Let's face it. How many chicks could he know that shave

under their arms? Right.

I'm just going downtown to break bread with the brass.

Want to join me? What do they want now?

I don't blame you for not wanting to go down there.

I don't want to go down there either.

Even when they have a party down there, I prefer that they send a piece of cake

up here because I do not repeat.

I do not enjoy that building down there.

So we shuffled Giddings' papers a little bit and he's still with us. And

somebody's yelling.

They want Giddings treated like every other cop who does what he did. Are they

being unreasonable?

Let me tell you something, Frank. If you pull Giddings out of this thing right

now, you know what's going to happen?

Maddox is going to think that he did it, and you're going to mock him.

What the hell are we worried about now? How the hoods will accept what we do?

Oh, no.

We're worried about 20 kilos of heroin in the hands of some killer salesman.

We're also worried about Maddox's big brother, George, who's after Giddings'

blood. And we don't have time for a departmental review on the character of

Giddings as a police officer and as a gentleman.

Well, would he pass the way he's been acting?

He's got his problems.

I figured.

Well, what should I know?

Frank.

Theo.

Let me worry about it, okay?

You know, Theo, every time you say to me, Frank, let me worry

about it, I worry about it.

Now, we pulled something to keep him on the job. A lot of the guys don't like

it.

Are you telling me that Giddings should be afraid to turn his back on another

cop? Don't ask me what I'm telling you. You know what I'm telling you. Frank, I

can handle him. Really?

You know what Morgan told me before he got blown away?

That he could handle Giddings, too.

I figured some muscle might help. There he is over there.

You're bigger than he is?

Yeah, but your shield is bigger than mine, Lieutenant.

That's true.

Dumpler, Doppler, of all people.

Tell Jack, like old times. Oh, no, no, no, not like old times.

Old times, couple of little tables and a little store.

Now look at you. You're all over the streets.

Yeah, go figure.

Well, I figure you know something about Joseph Malick. I told him I don't know

about Malick. Well, you know that he was a very, very, very bad person. And you

know his brother still is.

You get the message.

Oh, you get that message.

You see all these tables inside, outside.

Down the sewer if you remember he keeps failing you.

All right.

So we met this doll. She was a looker and they talked.

What did they talk about?

Malick said she ate nothing.

She laughed and said that models get fat just looking at food. That's all I

heard.

Come on, I'll take you down to the station.

I'll introduce you to the police sketch artist.

And if it's any good, I'll have him autograph it for you.

I'm used to going with that school teacher. Nice looking chick, huh?

Drucker, let's get something straight.

You're working on this case for two reasons.

One, to help us get to the bottom of this heroin handoff. And two, because

blew my partner away.

And no part of either one of those reasons includes chit -chat.

Okay, get in.

Let's go on down.

Oh, man.

Please. What you guys up to? The other way, chum.

Now look what I found.

Three months of cold turkey if I pull you in.

Okay, okay, what do you want?

Your pimp's a pusher. Where does he get the stuff?

Make it look good.

Does he believe it? Yeah, yeah, he believes it.

Okay, so I got a lot of money on him.

He's waiting.

Jeff set up the deal.

Who with?

I don't know.

Somebody's making a lot of promises on the street. Come on, come on.

Last time, the guy drove a maintenance truck.

When he comes behind that thing, nobody notices.

Don't leave me out here.

Try running that way. They'll never catch you with those alligator boots.

You know what's going to happen, right?

She hooked for that pusher. She also turns other girls on so he can hold

Now, if you want to babysit for her, you be my guest.

Oh, God, Lenny.

Oh, God.

Honey, please. You're doing fine.

I need a fix.

Claire, I'll call you back in five minutes.

That maintenance company has over 200 trucks in the city alone. There's no way

to account for any of them being on that street at that time of the day.

You contact the drivers and let them account for themselves. Hey,

wait a minute. Come on, sit down. I just want getting.

Look at me.

I begged you.

This is the girl who met Joe Malek before he was shot.

Louie, don't try to get away with it again.

It's a tempting idea, isn't it?

I know you. You like the excitement.

A million is enough.

Ex -model, ex -actress. She quit her job a couple of months ago.

Now she's an airline stewardess. Her usual flight is to Mexico City. I call

airport. But tonight she's flying to Dakar.

Oh, yeah? Where?

Less than an hour.

For which airport?

Neither. The Lancaster Hotel.

That's where they put the cruise up.

suddenly came to me that you've been a second -rate delivery boy for a second

-rate hood, and it won't ever get better until you make it better.

Right?

Anything you say, Mr. Mallard.

I know I picked the right boy.

What I say is, you take this envelope.

Charlie? Oh, you don't even have to call for the police.

We're already here.

No, no, no, no.

Let the lady do her own housework. It's needed that way.

All finished?

They just went into the Park Doral. You have the right to remain silent and

refuse to answer questions.

You understand?

Hey, Giddings, what's George Malick doing in Midtown? He never set foot

14th Street.

Maybe he's looking for somebody.

You know, I think he meant it when he said he was going to even the score with

the guy who hit his brother.

What do you say, Cookie?

Your honey got a better chance with us or with him?

The Park Doral, room 1705.

Stavros.

Room 1705, Park Torello Hotel, and we're on our way. Take the lady to Manhattan

South.

So you see, taking revenge against my brother's killer is the most important

thing I could ever do.

It's dramatic.

Your desire for revenge has stopped you from thinking.

The police officer closed in on us. I ran.

My gun, the stuff, the money. I left everything behind.

How much does a cop make?

So he stopped his partner.

And your brother.

It's not a gun in his pocket.

It's a knife.

Mr. Malik, I assure you I'm not a fool.

The kilos are in the car and the car is down the street.

You're only creating suspicion pushing me around like this.

Cabrillo, one brother is dead.

The other one plays it safe.

Which car?

That black car there.

Here it is.

And I, uh, I talked to your kids today.

They want to know why you haven't come home from your vacation and why you

haven't even sent them a postcard.

And I think they're beginning to like me.

How can you stand me?

Junkie.

I can't face life, so I shoot up.

And it doesn't help.

I'm keeping you from your work.

And you don't get any sleep.

And I'm wrecking your life.

And your job.

You don't deserve that.

I'll tell you what I deserve.

I deserve not to be alone.

I deserve to be happy.

You made me happy.

You made me laugh.

I was more afraid of being alone than you were.

Then you'll never be alone again.

Okay?

I hurt you.

Once upon a time, there was a little boy.

One day, he went out and he lay down in a field.

And all of a sudden, he saw a flower.

And it was like no flower he had ever seen before.

But when he reached out to touch it, it stuck him.

And it made his finger bleed.

But you know what?

He still wanted to keep that flower alive and beautiful and

with him forever.

Because as long as he had that flower, he knew he had something special.

And I make you bleed too.

And you also make me feel like I have something.

Very special.

Hey, Lenny.

Now, let me explain, Frank. Don't tell me how it really happened at the hotel.

don't want to know. I heard how he handled that hooker.

She's also a pusher.

I don't care what she is.

He let her walk into that beating.

That's no way for a cop to act. Not one of my cops.

Now, what happened at the hotel? He blow that too?

No, the salesman got away. He didn't blow it, Frank.

Theo, I know this is an important case and it's got everybody uptight.

You want it over?

I want it over.

But Giddings is going to kill someone.

He goes at that street like it was his private war.

And he will kill someone again.

Frank, he's not going to win any contests, but he works hard. You know,

good, he's the only kid we got.

You better be right.

How about that maintenance company?

24 trucks are out of service and they're all accounted for. Well, why don't you

check the service stations, okay? Maybe they borrowed one. Come on!

What about the tire company? What about the tire company?

Malik left his house. I tailed him to a place where he parked his car. And who

pulls out of the tire shop?

Stan Hunter.

Hey, Giddings, I think we've got our break. Come on.

bakery trucks, laundry trucks, maintenance trucks, and like that.

How old are you?

34. You'll never make 40, you know that?

I remember when you first came out of the force.

Your mouth was so dry you couldn't make spit. Two days later, you were rickson

painted to stop us as water for the plants. Hey, Lenny, what happened to all

labs, kid?

You saw what they did to him?

What's there to laugh about?

How's this for starters?

You and me, here we are standing on this dirty stoop in New York, and in some

air -conditioned restaurant someplace, some cheap funk with two chicks on his

arm is sipping those frozen daiquiris.

Hey, that's life, baby.

If you don't laugh about it, you gotta go bananas.

cars, and they're using trucks.

Rucker, a plumbing truck.

All right, you take that roof.

Give me that!

Give me that!

Lenny. Len!

It's over.

I'm okay.

I'm okay.

Hey, it's a bit so fast. You okay?

Yeah.

Cool target. That's pretty rough over here.

Are you his friend?

I mean, not just his boss.

Yeah, I think so.

Well, save his life.

Tell him to give up on me.

Life is life, baby.

And we can't always predict what's going to happen, right?

Suppose it happens again.

Suppose I go back on.

All right, then.

Don't wait until the captain's next party for us to get together.

Good luck.

They almost shot you on the roof.

Yeah, well, I should have been there.

Neither should Morgan.

It doesn't hurt any less.

Do you think there's any hope?

You happen to fight it?

Hey, Lenny.

Why don't you take your vacation now?

Come on, take it.

I mean, you could be of help to her.

And then when you come back, you, me, the captain, whatever, we'll talk about

it. We'll review our mistakes, okay?

Lenny!