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on early. All that.

Hello, Johnny.

Listen, bum. You let this hood buy your soul, not mine. Get him out. Hey,

Johnny. Look at all that's here.

Some for them, some for us, some for you.

Tell the crumb he wants to hijack shipments. He does it where I can't see

All right.

Unload this truck.

Everything off. Now.

So far, no ID, no stab wounds, no bullet holes.

Yeah, somewhere a family won't serve the soup until he comes home.

What we do have is a bruise on the back of his neck like somebody gave him a

karate chop.

He's a dock worker.

In these clothes, he was probably still on the job. Where'd he go in?

Around 59th Street.

Beaten up?

Wasted. And still they go on trying to deal with these hijackers all by

themselves. Guys on the waterfront have a code.

Don't thing anybody, no matter what he did, take care of it on your own.

It's dumb.

Oh, yeah, it's dumb.

But you know, you have to take a minute sometime to admire him.

Thanks,

money's no good today.

For money, the warden gave me 26 bucks on my fare to the city.

Hey, Gino, you got your friend back.

Man, he was moping around while you were gone.

It's not me.

Oh, boy.

Oh.

How is it?

If I had your guts, it'd be better.

Like I said before, we stand together, they can't kill us all, right?

Yeah, just like Johnny Bannister.

What happened to Johnny Bannister?

They killed him.

I figured that was an accident.

You figured? Don't you know?

Haven't I told you a hundred times what this is all about?

How did it happen?

Cops fished him out of the river.

We heard he was all broken up.

That don't mean that nobody did it.

Nobody.

You're right.

It wasn't nobody.

It was Dagger.

Bribing us and conning us and threatening us to help them steal and

if we don't. But Dagger never tried to hustle me into no deals.

Not once. Not all the time we was playing cards.

You did what?

Well, I just hung around for a few games.

Well, what am I going to do with you? All those months in the slammer.

worrying that those bums are gonna con you into something real bad.

And he sits down and plays cards with them.

Gino, you're gonna wind up in the morgue with a tag on your toe!

Hey, easy.

He couldn't wait for you to get out.

This party was his idea.

Yeah?

Is that right? This was all your idea?

So?

Where's the brats?

Dagger wants to see you outside.

Tell Dagger he's at a party.

No, that's all right. I'll see Dagger. Why not?

next to the garbage.

Get the car.

Hey, come on.

I got a present for you.

Like Bannister got?

Bannister was a fool.

Sure. He had a family. He didn't want to take no chances.

He didn't want no trouble.

He was done.

Hey, come on.

I know how to show a guy how I feel when he does something for me.

We had no deal. We had no agreement.

But you didn't talk to the crime commission about me.

I didn't talk because I'm not a stoolie. Take it.

Money don't know who its father is. Hank, enjoy.

This is what you're all afraid of.

You okay?

Yeah, I'm all right.

Gino. Huh?

For the last time, their friends are mine.

Not both of them.

We're gonna have a game later.

Yeah, I, uh... I gotta stay with Hank.

When are you gonna be your own man, Gino?

Yeah, okay, okay.

Why am I so hot?

Because I'm waiting for you to say that you also thought he was a human being.

So, who's so hot?

The floater? Yeah. Male.

Caucasian. About 40. Good general health. No alcohol in blood. No water in

lungs. Dead before he went in. Broken fibula. Broken vertebrae. Broken ribs.

Yeah. There's another big score on the docks.

They hijacked over half a million in electronic components.

Yeah? 72.

Okay, Frank.

Rocker? Saperstein. The floater's picked up bad.

Well?

I think when I had DM now, I just heard where he worked. Who told you? You did,

Frank. P .S. 72.

Let's go.

You work all day?

You tip off after lunch.

And nobody saw anything or anybody?

I mean, what am I, so profound?

I leave you all speechless?

They've got you on your knees.

Next position is belly up.

I wonder if somebody get it through his head that you guys can't fight these

guys alone.

We don't know what happened to Bannister.

You don't know what happened to John Bannister?

No. Now, if you didn't even know what happened to Seymour Gold, who sat in his

ripped -off truck with a bullet in the back of his head, right outside that

diner where you guys eat. You don't think we'd touch him? Now, where do you

think I'd get an idea like that?

Do a dispatch.

Yeah, it's good to see you out, Mr. Shep Stewart.

So? So, I can't wait to be with you again.

Now look, baby, the sign you're carrying, clean your own house.

Well, nobody's reading it.

I'll get the message.

I think they already got one.

You know, I walked on the dock and they jumped like the crown was hot.

Somebody's making a deal of score again, right?

Yeah, that's what we heard.

Details.

Details. Like, who are they leaning on this time?

That's all you get.

Listen to me.

These guys aren't nickel and diamond anybody. They go off for big scores.

they kill people.

The Hudson River is filling with bodies.

I gave you enough time to do it your way, so tell me.

Where do we meet?

I'll be there.

Where the hell have you been? I had a hard time covering for you.

In the game.

Dagger again after I told you? Yeah, but this time I won, huh?

I see that.

What's he want you to do for it?

Nothing. Don't tell me nothing.

Gino, you know what he's about.

He ain't one of us.

What about Kojak, huh? I mean, you know, he ain't one of us either.

Listen, I want you to forget that telephone call.

Okay? Sure.

Then you go right back in the slammer, right?

Do you know I can't make it for both of us? It's just too much.

Maybe you won't have to.

I can do something for you, too.

You know?

I'll see you later.

Would you look at that scene? And how many of those trucks are legitimate?

If we stopped to check all of them, there would be a champ from here to the

Canadian border.

How about that lunch wagon over there? He gets on any duck he wants, and while

the guys are eating...

Maybe he's checking out which truck to carry what load.

And what's staying overnight on which dock.

Yeah. So where do we start?

We already started when I made that phone call.

All I heard was, was a big bus going down tomorrow.

Or maybe the next day.

They'll come near my dock, I'll break their heads.

Yeah, but look what Bannister got.

Maybe we should try to get along.

No. No, we get along with part of them. With these.

Right. This thing will be knocking each other off to cover ourselves.

All right.

Remember, you guys, one of us stays close to him at all times, especially

he made Daggy eat his own money.

See you tomorrow.

See you tomorrow.

Hey, look, I'll see you guys later, all right? I've got to call you later. Yeah,

see you tomorrow.

Hey,

let's go this way. Why this way?

Come on.

Now just listen, huh? They only want to get along.

Is that what you told him? We told him he's okay with us. That's what we told

him. So you get him in a game and you feed him a few bucks.

And you buy it.

He knows what he's doing.

He don't know.

He don't even see you.

He don't look past the fancy clothes and the big mouth.

Hey, come on, Hank.

Don't put me down.

Hey, you did it for the money. Do you know why? Shut up.

Now, wait a minute.

I mean, did what?

I'll see you at the game tonight.

I only tried to bring you guys together, huh?

I mean, do what?

Go ahead. I'll be okay.

I said go on.

You're going to stick to your stupid honor code. You're going to tell me who

it. I'll tell you.

You did your job.

Please.

You can't make it alone.

Eighth, nine bets.

I raise.

Kojak, what are you doing here?

Well, I'd like you to listen to me, Mr.

Dirty Digger.

You know, there's nothing romantic about what I do.

Usually it's not very exciting.

What are you playing, holo?

I haven't got.

But at a time like this, I feel it cooking inside me.

I can't wait to grab people.

I can't wait to start shaking the tree. You know what I mean?

What's that?

What's that?

I'm going to pin you with this one, baby.

One way or the other, I'll nail you into the box.

And I came here to tell you that.

He threatened me. Mr. Dagger, I'm not threatening you.

I'm simply informing you that I'm about to focus my investigation of several

recent homicides on you.

He just threatened me.

You know the worst of it is?

That when I get you, you'll be lying on the same ground with Hank.

Now I ask you, is that a threat?

Come on, come on, up on the bar.

Anything that cuts on the bar you've been through before, what do you say,

Okay.

A man was knifed in an alley three blocks from here.

Most of you knew him.

I want you to tell my officers what you heard and what you saw.

I want to even know about a piece of paper that blew down the street when

was no wind.

I want it all.

Now.

Bingo. Didn't I warn you, no more number games. Didn't I say, make me look

better, and I'll show you.

We make it look better every time.

Freeze!

I didn't say it myself.

Well, I heard you've been sweeping up what you could on Dagger.

So I got a name.

So I didn't hear anything.

Dave. Dave. Dave.

Dave. Dave.

Dave.

Dave.

Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave.

Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave.

Dave.

Dave.

Dave. Dave.

Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave. Dave.

Dave.

Dave.

Somebody roll the pass.

That's in the pockets, everybody. Come on. Now you've been through it a decimal

time.

Now you didn't tell me you're still competing with Vegas, Davey boy. I knew,

you didn't tell me. Well, Noonie told me the recession was going to last a

while. Want to buy a dress factory?

Extremely deflatable price.

The guy was hit on Pier 72.

Yeah, I heard.

Now what else are you here?

Nobody knows who did it.

Uh, Davey.

Davey.

Suddenly I can see this place of yours and I'm in head and south board.

And it's scheduled for regular visits by our gambling squad.

Theo, I'm only filling my natural human need for excitement.

I bet you need to be a fence and deal with animals like Dagger.

How natural is that? He's a degenerate. Would I deal with a degenerate?

Wait.

He made it sound so easy.

Guys pick a crate of Japanese portables off the docks, right? And I move them.

What's wrong with that? More than them get damaged in transit.

You know, when I was in a war, a Nazi officer, I just captured. He stood

Where are you standing?

He explained to me the way you're explaining.

That shooting of a squad of Greek commanders while they stood with their

up was really nothing terrible, because most of them would have died sooner or

later anyway. So you know what I did?

I broke his jaw.

Okay. Look, it's a real big score this time. Maybe a million bucks.

It's got me worried. I got the word out to get ready to receive it. Hey, where?

It's watches. I don't know where. Top stuff, Swiss.

They already got a customer. All I do is stand between them.

Call me.

On my mother's grave.

Davey, can we get off the record for a second? I mean, be unofficial, just two

guys? Sure.

Don't use your mother's name that way.

You put her through enough when she was alive.

Tuesday.

I could talk better after dark.

You thinking about something?

Yeah.

It's a nice robe.

Gino gave it to me.

I was also thinking about what we get to work with at the start of our lives.

And what we do with it.

Well, I'm going to get myself squared around.

Well, I'm going to try.

You know, every day I try.

And something like this happens.

I say to myself, what the hell? We're all going to end up dead.

What difference does it make how we get there?

Hank was trying to get there a different way.

I don't know who did it, Theo. I swear.

Maybe you don't know what you know. People do that. They rule out a lot of

things a cop can use.

Like what?

Like who was with Hank before he died.

So far, all I have is that he left the dock with a gang of guys, then everybody

went witch away.

I didn't even see him all day long.

Your landlady said you had company.

Yeah, well, there's nobody you need to know about.

You hear anything about a John Bannister?

That's the guy you found on the river? No.

You met the type.

Not like us.

Ordinary guy.

Wife, kids, dull.

Nobody I need to know about.

So you're mad now, huh?

Yeah, I'm mad.

Okay.

Dagger, he calls me up. He says he wants me to get some of my girlfriends

together. He wants to celebrate something.

When?

Tomorrow.

Theo!

Are we still friends?

Do me a favor, okay?

Keep your head this way.

Hey, Lieutenant.

Bender just got here.

Gino, I'll show you. They're all in there now.

Let's go.

Hey, that's nice and generous, Gino.

Oh, yeah, he's got a big heart.

Even bought Clara a new bathrobe, huh?

I was in a game. I got lucky.

Tell them who you beat.

Lucas, uh, Jones.

And Dagger, huh?

Yeah, he took a part from Dagger.

All for nothing. Ain't that right, Gino?

Gino. Hold it down.

One hell of a way to pay a condoler's call, isn't it? He got no right to talk

me like that. Hey, take it easy, all of you. This is a wake.

Besides that, you're upsetting his old mother. It's our problem, Kojak. Oh.

No more, Freddy.

Now, come on.

Let's have a little talk.

Let's go.

No, wait.

So talk.

Kojak knew.

Knew what?

That the score was really big.

Hey, we better cool it. The stuff is already sold.

If we don't deliver, the big boys will take us out.

He know where? No, Dagger. He asked me.

So we tell him. Or he won't quit digging. Go find Gino.

Oh, you have big shots, right? Your co -workers, your fellow workers, all big

shots, big mouths.

Let's take up a collection, they say. So what do they do? Ones, fives, not a

tenth spot in the pile.

Then you dump in how much, Gino?

Huh? A hundred dollars?

Hey, that's half your pay.

No wonder the guy's got angry. You shamed him.

Well, it's a beautiful gesture.

And there's Hank's mother, that nice old lady.

She's got nobody but you, right? She must be thrilled.

Oh, cut it, Frank. He's upset enough.

Uh, Gino.

I saw Clara's, uh, robe.

Glass.

She can wear it at the funeral.

You hear about a big score coming down?

No, no.

John Bannister is dead. Hank is dead. When are you guys going to stop honoring

those killers?

Why don't you let me out of here and I'll find out who done it.

Hey, I know what to do to him.

Well, we know who did it, Cheeto.

We need a witness.

We know he left work with a bunch of you guys. From there on, it gets a little

fuzzy. Now, who was with him last?

Nobody's got no respect for a stoolie, no matter what it's about.

Ask Hank. He'll tell you.

Oh, boy.

We're sitting here, we're talking.

For a minute, I forgot.

You'll improve your memory at the grave.

Oh.

Please, Kojak.

I got a headache and I've been drinking.

You know... It's all, uh...

You know, knocking around in my head, and you've just got to help me get it

together.

Well, like you said, guys will find out who set him up.

Oh, who set up?

You mean he was led there?

Well, somebody must have left him alone.

Well, who did?

You stuck to him like glue since he come back into town.

You know, I guess I know why I'm here.

I mean, this guy thinks I had something to do with Hank's dying. I'll say it's

simpler. You're our number one suspect.

Gino. You know, maybe the guys will get the same idea.

And what good is your crummy code then?

We was all walking along.

And this guy said that he had some personal to talk to Hank about. And why

get lost?

So, I didn't like it.

But Hank said, go on, go on, smile at me.

Oh, I didn't want to.

See, when Hank went up, this guy got to be shop steward. So when Hank came back,

he had to give the job.

I guess he didn't like that.

Bender? It sounded terrible just now.

So you won't tell nobody, right?

Cracker?

He's lying to cover for himself.

Oh, Frank, don't tell me he's lying, okay? Fine, I won't tell you he's lying.

Good, then I won't have to think about it for a while. The name is Bender, dock

worker, union officer. Bring him in.

Come on, what's this all about, huh?

There's a big score coming up. What's that about?

Look, a guy comes on a dock, he says, turn your back.

You know how many times that can happen?

You know how much was lifted from the dock since I've been in this room? What

I gonna do?

Make my wife a widow while they drive away with the goods?

Well, Hank tried to fight him. Yeah, and Hank is very dead.

And you were the last one with him.

Hey, no.

No, I left him with Gino.

Ben, there.

You told your wife you were with Hank.

But you weren't.

Then you say you went for a long walk.

But you can't remember where.

Look, if I tell you and, uh... And it don't have nothing to do with this, will

you, uh... I mean... I think you went to an X -rated movie.

Yeah.

Well, almost.

Hey, hey guys, I won again.

Hey, drinks are on me.

Hey.

Hey, you're sitting there with such a heavy heart.

And you're feeling no pain.

He was the greatest guy at the school.

Gino, what happened?

You were not supposed to leave him alone.

I don't want to talk about it anymore.

So, uh, it's all I'm going to say.

We just left Bender at his house.

Cops let him go.

It was you or him yesterday afternoon.

We narrowed it to that.

No. I won't think of nobody.

Even if he did it to my best friend.

Hold it.

We're not sure.

They work you over in there?

Forget them.

You're with us now. Listen, I want you to do something.

Sure, Dagger.

You want me to teach you how to play cards?

Call Kojak.

We'll tell you what to say.

Okay.

Then we want you to set up a guy.

Who?

What are you worrying about? It's a piece of cake.

Gotta hurt him?

Gotta kill him.

I let you win, and you sold your friend out.

If the guys find out, you're wasted.

They didn't know what you were going to do with them.

You knew.

No. You wanted to feel big.

You wanted to feel important.

And now you are.

No.

Like I said, we're your friends now.

I'll ask you again.

Is this a setup?

You said it takes more guts to open your mouth, so I'm opening it.

They're going to hit this Pier 26 today, 4 o 'clock this afternoon.

I got to get them in.

I know it's this afternoon. I got it firsthand.

I just want to know how Dagger pulls it off.

I guess they figure I'm going to get them in.

In where?

Pier 26, I told you.

What time?

Four o 'clock.

Told you that too?

Yeah.

And how would you do it?

They didn't tell me that yet.

What'd you do that for?

It's my lie detector.

I ain't lying.

Your yellow sheet is this long with salt charges.

You got a temper that won't stop.

How come I'm still standing?

And how come you want me to buy this story?

Okay.

So forget it.

I thought you said Pier 26.

I got it mixed up.

Yeah, but this is Fred's place.

So it'll be easier to get in.

This morning's shape -up. I figured the guys are mad at me.

Are they wrong?

You want to hear it all?

Well, go ahead. Talk.

Better keep walking.

Hey, what are you up to? I'm sorry, Fred. I didn't know it was going to be

I swear.

It gives me no great pleasure to say that Gino ripped us off, but he did rip

off. No.

No way.

Where do we go from here?

He told me what he knew, so they caught him on the location of the ripoff.

Let's see about some of their hangouts again. That's all right.

When do I get paid?

Tonight, at the game.

Nothing changed.

Steve? Nobody in sight.

You did fine, Gene.

By not a hop to bite in their nail.

Somebody pulled it up.

And it won't take Kojak five numbers to figure out he helped us. So tonight

after the game, we let him join his friends Hank and Fred.

Three blocks from the house.

We could have delivered the stuff in a wheelbarrow.

Unload the truck, Jones. The vehicle. Come over here. I want to tell you

something. You know what's been happening in this warehouse when I'm in

hall?

Dino's with us on this all the way, and I want you guys to know that.

Dagger won't beat this one.

They are.

Fooled me, didn't they?

He told me everything he knew about them.

That's how we got here.

You gonna arrest me?

Hey, baby.

What happened between you and Hank was not against any law, and I'm not a

priest. You did what you did for your own reasons, and you'll have to live

them. Why don't you take a trip?

Move someplace else. Just don't go back.

Lieutenant. There's a knock when you walk into private quarters. There's a

knock. She says it's important.

Where's Gino?

Trying to live with himself.

Theo, he won't have time.

The guys were going to kill Bender. I couldn't let them do that. He didn't

Hank in that alley. You know that.

Where are they now? They were in the tavern bracing themselves for the

Working up a whole head of steam over Gino.

Theo's scared.

I love you.

He shouldn't have come, Gino.

Hey, Fred.

Tell him what we did today.

We got Dagger, huh?

He was my friend, could you?

Poor slob gets punished, right?

The gangs that use you, the gangs that are going to use you, they go on. Is

the way it is?

Sure it is.

He's a new hero.

I don't want to hear that he got what he deserved.

Somebody just killed a man.

Because I'm going to find out who you are.

And I'll fuck you out.

Yeah, I have a code too.