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Only be a minute.

Hey, Willie, why is it your birthday you got to give her a present?

My birthday, her birthday. What's the difference?

The difference is we late.

We got a connection to make and you know Morales been getting on us lately.

Morales. Jack, why don't you stop popping those pills and relax?

One of these days I'll have my own game and you can let Morales shine your

shoes, huh?

See you in a minute.

All right, all right.

Why don't you get me a job with the big boy?

Getting sick and tired of spending my life picking up trash.

Yeah, man.

You know how Rita is.

She wakes up, get a headache from that thing, and gonna give you one.

Okay, mister. Take it nice and easy.

Just get up slow and easy.

She needs a doctor.

She's dead, mister.

I got the alarm on fast.

We made their license plate.

Sorry. How many suspects have you lost this way?

It was my first. Don't worry about it. It still beats my lousy record.

It's perfume. It smells expensive.

Well, Rita was expensive.

Lieutenant, to my wife from Willie, even though it's my birthday.

Now, wait a minute.

He buys her a present on his birthday.

He kicks in his own daughter. Give it to her.

How much time do you have with her to do all this? She only says a couple of

minutes.

Look at this place.

I mean, you need at least an hour.

Does anybody see anything or hear anything?

Let me introduce myself. My name is Lieutenant Kojak.

I'm a lieutenant here in your local police Manhattan South Homicide

And look, we'd appreciate any help you can give us, okay?

Come on, what do you say? It's your responsibility.

All right, I guess that's it.

Nobody could have heard nothing.

Why not?

He runs his old radio so top blast till he decides to go to sleep.

All we heard was Willie scream.

Well, how could you hear Willie scream if the radio was going top last?

Oh, he turned it off by then.

Willie told me to.

Then he went down the hall and come back a couple of minutes later. I told the

other cop.

Suspects hold up in a church on 7th Street.

out before someone gets killed a black foot he don't shut up i'm gonna blow his

uncle tom here this is lieutenant connors of the new york city police

now come on out

has a heart condition.

Father, just come to me.

I think a few words should be said for my wife.

No, not the book.

You know, Father.

I mean, like, who she was.

Of course.

You'll have to help me. Tell me some things.

Well, she was pretty.

And she sure could dance.

I wouldn't desecrate the altar.

Please don't antagonize him, please.

Lord bless this woman who has just passed from her mother's.

Rita Daniels.

Her name was Rita Daniels.

And she was one of your children.

And she had nice hair.

She had nice hair.

She was something.

Hurting in my life.

This is Lieutenant Connors again.

Come on out now and let's talk.

That way nobody gets hurt.

Willie, I shot a cop.

They ain't going to just take me in. They're going to get me in some alley.

They're going to make me pay, Willie. Let's get out of here.

Get out.

I guess we ought to make demands.

What do you think?

You always say it.

I'm the man.

Don't hurt anyone inside.

Just talk to us.

Deliver us a car.

Safe passage to the airport.

A plane and a palace.

Money.

And money.

Lots of it.

A hundred grand.

What a sister scotch! Yeah,

yeah, some of that!

Or else you got a lot of dill to count!

You hear that, you pig?

Father, my God.

Please, I can't stay here.

My husband gets very upset when dinner's late. I haven't done the shopping yet.

the women leave.

They don't need us all.

We need all the bodies we can get.

Hey, what was that?

Hey, we're going to make it.

You know, you just keep thinking that. Okay.

I was in worse spots than now.

They trained me good.

You were in the service.

The good boys died and they came back.

Shut up.

is in control.

Okay.

Okay, what do we do?

We give them a time.

Couple hours.

Maybe just one.

We is in command.

And they gonna find that out.

You mean our deadline?

Right on.

Hey, Cutters. Hey, hello, Club Jack. I always told you homicide was a better

deal.

You know who's in there, Lieutenant?

Louie Daniels' old man.

And who is Louie Daniels' old man?

The next pug.

He works as muscle for the local gangs.

His stepmother, a high -priced call girl.

We just left a body. She was beaten to death.

So that's what this is all about, huh? All we got on the call was two hypes

guns speeding through the streets.

Get the kid over here. Maybe we can talk this guy out.

The kids at Rikers Island. We picked it up in a birdwood.

Well, good luck.

Willie go back a long time.

So that's great.

So he puts it on a personal level.

So maybe that works. So maybe the other guy just keeps it business. We've got

another cop casualty.

Hey, Willie, why don't you give it up before it gets worse?

Kojak, man, you show me his coup.

Kojak, I didn't kill Rita. Hey, Willie, I saw that room. There's no way you had

time. But here we are. What are we doing here? Why don't we leave?

I ain't going to no joints.

This is a mistake. I ain't going. No way, Willie.

Now, I'm up here for you, but no slamming.

I'll die first.

Two and a four for wounding a cop is a lot better than people even here in

rubber bags.

Go, Jack.

They're playing chicken with the wrong dudes.

Now, the deal of the blood's on them.

You tell them that.

They got two hours. Really, this isn't my scene.

Now, there's a hard cop out there by the name of Connors. He's calling all the

shots. I'm just investigating clues into a homicide.

You're holding hostages for something you say you didn't do. And somebody

besides me that's going to be dead before this day is over. So help me.

got to have some idea who did it.

Just who didn't.

Me.

And it's too late to sell that nail coat, Jack. And you know it.

How about a John's?

Really?

Put it down.

Hey.

I'm a lot of things, but I'm no snow job.

You know what she was.

Right now, I'm killing maybe in a bar someplace, sipping beer, watching

television, laughing at all of us.

It ain't easy talking about somebody you loved who was that way.

I mean, she didn't mean no harm.

I just kind of closed my eyes to it all.

And if I came home a little early, or a little later, I didn't see nothing.

Like a switch went off in my head.

Kojak, this is Connor.

Morales.

What? Is everything okay?

Morales. Yeah, but I thought that was over.

Kojak, you knew Peter.

When was something over with her?

And when was it?

If you're not out in ten minutes... Hey, look, Willie.

I'm gonna find out who did it.

There'll be no shooting around here for two hours.

That's guaranteed.

And Willie, I'm sorry about Rita.

Come on, let's move it out.

All right, you people right here, step back.

Well, I'm too afraid to come out.

For how long?

There'll be no shooting for two hours. Look, can we get Willie's son out of

Rikers Island?

One con is going to talk another con into joining him behind bars?

Connors, you're right. It's your ballgame.

What would you like us to do, including getting the hell out of here?

Okay, bring the kids.

Get down to Rikers. I'll be in touch with you later.

Hey, Coach Eric.

Look, I know you're trying to help, but no moves without me.

Connors, you take care of everything here.

We'll take care of it on the streets, okay?

We got a woman on the way to the morgue.

We don't know yet who arranged the trip.

If you guys hate the shots, you rush the church.

Oh, good.

Now, when you're ready, will you let us know?

Because we'll let you lead the job.

Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.

Jacob. Willie.

Oh, my God, I am heartily sorry. This is Lieutenant Connors.

Come to the window and talk to us.

Don't do anything drastic.

Don't make things worse than they are. Please, help us to help you.

Is there anyone hurt in there?

Does anyone need medical attention?

Please, keep us informed.

Keep in contact.

time they got there. We're working on it, Willie.

A couple hours.

You got less than a couple of hours, and that's the end of it.

Do you want coffee, some food?

Just tell us what you want.

We're working on it.

Just don't hurt anybody.

Willie.

Willie, I'm out. I ain't got no more.

Hey, take it easy. We'll be gone soon.

I come down hard without no speed, man.

I need something.

I blow, Willie. I come apart.

One of the men, Willie Daniels, is an enforcer for a local gang leader,

The other man is his shadow, a speed freak named Jake Riley, who has been in

out of narcotics rehabilitation centers since he came back from Vietnam.

The two men and their hostages... Hey!

I just saw you on the tube.

You like the show, Victor?

You know what would be terrific?

You guys go in there and wipe out them two punks.

Guns, grenades, a big war.

How about a small war?

Nutsy's a cop.

He'll scare me. He is a cop.

Hey, you want to see my badge?

Morales. Go on, go on. I'll make the bail.

Your hand.

What?

Turn him up, Morales.

Got no time to play what?

You think I worked the rope?

10 .30 this morning. What were you doing?

Come on. She was a business investment.

Until you came on too strong and she cut you from ear to throat?

That's forgotten.

Forgotten? How is that?

I see the scar. You shaved the scar.

Even after she did that to your face, she kept trying to sing love songs onto

her balcony.

Maybe she got fed up again.

Maybe this time she wasn't going to use a knife.

She was going to come to us.

She knew enough to put you away and you knew it. Okay, I killed her.

You want to know how?

I told Willie she was going to ditch him for a rich John.

I knew he'd come home some morning and he'd beat her to death.

Just like he did.

Let's have the list.

What list?

What list, huh?

The John list.

The one you picked Rita's spots from.

That list.

Go Jack some of my best customers it gets out there was with a working girl.

They'll kill me Morales Yeah

He says he can't do without a written order of appearance or release from a

judge I put him on Any I'm gonna say it once

you turn that kid over the cracker right now

That's right.

On the job, in the jail, and don't tell me no.

You want the kid?

I want to see an order of appearance or a release from a judge.

Or do I call some of my friends?

I hope you've been paying into your pension fund.

Here.

All right.

First we call the fire department.

And they can close this place up in one day, and then we get into the hippie

stuff, right?

We get into the pandering, we get into the prostitution, the coke pushing.

Now, what business are you going to try next?

Hey, Morales, I'm running out of time with you.

Here, here.

Take it.

Some pretty juicy names in there. You bite into the wrong one, you're liable

choke to death.

Might as well have brought the United States Census.

Yeah.

I heard her calling that.

TJ.

Bum had the nerve to pick up at the pad.

Drove a flashy Lincoln.

Said he was going to get a rich next time he come to town.

As far as I know, the only thing she got him was a couple passes to watch him

dribble.

TJ.

TJ Smith.

Basketball player?

Rocker. Yes, sir. Get on the horn.

Get us a basketball player.

Okay, you got it.

Hey, look what I found checking out the cellar door.

Somebody having a wedding. Must be 10 cases down there.

Ain't speed, but maybe it'll get us there, huh?

Hey, how about you, Mama?

Come on, come on, come on. No,

thank you. I said take it.

You're like my father.

A drunken, ugly animal.

Men.

Proof they don't dig men.

When they, uh... When they want to teach you about life.

No! Please stop!

This is Kojak.

I've got your son here.

I'm bringing him in to have a talk.

Leave him be, Jake.

There's my boy out there.

All right, Willie, we're coming in.

Look, folks, we're trying to do a job here. Please help us. Just keep moving.

Please, folks, if you want to watch, get on the other side of the street.

Lieutenant Kojak's entering the church.

It's good of you to care, boy. The only thing I care about is kissing you off.

What do you think I come in here for, Kojak?

Him.

Who is he?

He'd have to do with being in jail when my mama died.

And then bring home that hooker into our house. Tell him, you old bum. Tell him

how long after she died.

I was lonely, boy.

I wanted someone around.

I was around.

Hearing you tell how you were such a great fighter.

I could have been.

You was great in my eyes.

Even when I had to fight all the kids who said you was nothing but a bum who

took a fall. I had to.

They said, take the fall or you're dead.

And we needed the money.

Louie, son, I'm your father.

And I have always loved you and took care of you.

Well, ain't that a gas?

My father.

Were you my father when I was hungry and you were out buying new suits for your

funky Jake hair?

Hey, Louie. Were you my father when I said, maybe could we go to a ball game?

And you said, sure.

And then you forgot.

You know how many times you forgot?

You know, I'm still waiting someplace in this town, freezing my can on the

corner because you forgot.

Louie. Louie.

What do you want?

Go there.

What do you want?

Go to a game?

Okay.

We'll go.

just as soon as I get out of this.

You threw it, Kojan.

I've done the best I know.

Get a uniformed cop and escort the kid back to Rikers. Okay.

Come on, we're going to go see a ball player.

Who's that?

You've got one hour left.

Don't bring me no more visitors.

Just the car and the money.

Or everybody dies.

with a church.

Come on. All right.

That's all.

Yeah. Take five.

What's going down, officer?

You on a red Lincoln?

Did I overpark again?

And you're on with a chick by the name of Rita Daniels. Cards right, chicks

wrong. The chick is, uh, dead.

Well, whoever it was, that's too bad.

Can I get back to my practice now? Oh, give me the ball.

He wants to play.

You'll play with Rita Daniels Thursday night.

Rita who?

Promise to the moon you gave her the ball. Hey, now, do I hit you like the

of dude that'd have to pay some working girl?

Wait a minute.

You didn't know her, but you know she was a hooker.

Okay, so what do you want me to do?

Take an ad in Sports Illustrated?

I hear on the radio she is dead.

So I'm the last man on this team. I was pulled in twice for possession.

Comes out I was tied up with some murdered property. Who's even going to

warm their bitch?

10 .30 this morning. Where were you? On my way here by subway.

You own a red Lincoln?

You pay $200 for a chick? And you take a subway?

I hurt them against the backboard.

Oh. You got a medical report?

I'll have the doctor send you one.

And you are?

Paul Lawford.

I own the club.

Oh.

Okay, Mr. Lawford.

Keep him available, okay?

And, uh, good luck with the fee.

So far, there has been no shooting since the officer was wounded. Get the judge

to Jameson. Ask him to turn on his TV and let him get a warrant to search T

Smith's bed. Okay, what am I looking for? A way out of this mess.

Here.

You go outside and wait for it to rain on T .J. Smith. I think it's better to

keep you company. Okay. Wait a minute.

First, let's apply a little liniment to the soil.

T .J., telephone.

No idea how many or what kind of weapons men in the church are carrying.

However, the police are... Hello.

Hey, T .J.

Who is this?

This is Delano, the news.

Now, what's the bottom line on you being tied up with that business at the

church? Hey, what is this? What business?

All right, so you're involved here or not?

Now, I heard Lawford blew his stock when he found out, and that he screamed, get

him off the team. Now, you want to comment on that?

if anyone was hurt, but it appears the shot may have come through. What are you

doing? I said no shooting. I said do not fire.

What kind of guys do you have up there? Don't they listen? Are you pulling

something? Okay.

He thinks he hit somebody. What did you see?

He thinks?

Why was he shooting us?

Willie, you didn't do it.

And I'm going to prove you didn't do it.

So why the killing?

And who the first to shoot? I'm sure it was a mistake.

I ain't never been hit before, Willie.

It was an arm that hit me once.

So what the hell do we do now?

Watch the back.

Yeah.

The front.

No.

The front's better.

Shut up.

We just walked right in.

Maybe we ought to kill somebody.

We shoot one of the prisoners.

They never attack our position.

Where is that cop?

They're out of control.

There's no dealing with them now.

Well, then we just keep trying.

Money,

money. We can't buy no property, no place, no bad money.

Any more?

You got any more?

Time is running out.

Now you get that car here and get it passed.

Signals open, and don't shoot until you hear green light. You got it? Connick,

you're making a mistake, okay? I don't want to hear about experience.

I don't want to hear about percentages.

I don't want to hear about the kill factor.

You're blowing it. I just heard it on the radio, so I had to come back.

You tried a wild shot when I told you my officers were on to something? But the

officer who fired made a judgment decision like we all do at times, like

two men did when they ran in there.

How does it look?

She had a job book with more names than a telephone book, and any one of them

had a reason for doing it.

But I got one name I want to ask him about.

Hey, Kojic, look, coming, going like this, I've seen it happen before. You

you're establishing something, and then it blows up in your face.

We'll get some action going out here. Start up a car, make some noise.

Give them some pathetic hope or something.

Stall.

Willie, this is Captain McNeil.

We're trying to work things out.

Hey, Jake, where do you want to go?

I don't know, Willie.

Where do you want to go?

Hey, I'm easy.

Brazil.

I like the smell of coffee.

Brazil.

You want to go in?

Yeah, I want to go in.

I got him covered on this side.

Look what your father's done, Kojak.

That's what happens when you back him into a corner. He needs a doctor.

You come to be determined?

Father, he's taking your job.

Will he?

What's the time? Is it out?

Where's that car, Kojak?

You know the name T .J. Smith?

Ball player.

I lost him on him. So I think we did it, too.

Hey, don't say that, Kojak. Willie, look at where we are.

What do you want me to say? That he wasn't a customer?

That this is no list?

This T .J. Smith is involved.

Heavily involved.

I'll be back.

The car. Is that the car?

No, that's the truck.

Never got the car yet.

Go, Jack.

They're stalling us.

We start shooting.

Hey, look at that crowd.

Never had a crowd like that when I'm fighting the clubs.

You never made it as a fighter, Willie, because you didn't have that killer

instinct.

Don't start now, because this gate doesn't pay off.

Hey.

Hey, Kojak.

I ain't taking no more falls.

You get the meaning?

Willie, time's running out.

Your friend's dying, Willie.

We was born dead, me and Jake.

You know that.

I'll be back soon with your wife's killer.

I hope somebody's allowed to hear about it.

Maybe they're fooling to get us out there, Willie.

I'm sorry, ma 'am.

I guess your husband is going without dinner tonight.

And for a long time to come.

I made that call like you said, Lieutenant.

Then he came out of his office, and Rizzo and I tailed him to an office

over on the east side. Any idea who he visited?

We think he got off on the 14th floor.

We could get that close, Lieutenant.

This guy Lawford wants a team that T .J. plays for. He keeps his New York

officers on that floor. And then he came back here.

Well, even for you, that's fast.

I got the warrant right over to T .J. Smith's apartment. No, you mean you

the judge who got his okay for the warrant.

Then you went over to T .J.'s past, you tossed it, and now you're going over to

the judge to pick up the warrant. So I confuse a few details.

Oh, the lease, River East Apartments Incorporated, Rita Daniels.

$36 ,000 a year and on and on.

Not bad for a low -scoring guard and a prostitute he couldn't afford.

Party time.

Now hold it, hold it. Come here.

Give the cement time to set.

How dare you barge into my office and demand to see me? You're right. I should

have gone to my pad first. Only the first thing that came into my mind was

run to my friend and employer.

Is this about that visit from the police?

It is about staying out of jail for the rest of my life.

There is nothing to connect you with that woman. There were no witnesses.

Or the police would have arrested you. There is that lease.

Destroy it.

The police got to my apartment before me.

They picked up a warrant like that.

They must have something on me.

And now they have the lease on us, boss.

You idiot.

You stupid, ignorant man.

You listen to me.

You made me your pimp and I let it happen.

I found her for you.

I set her up in that pad for you. I beat her up for you so she stopped carrying

on whatever bumps she saw.

So I could hang on to a spot on the team.

Like I was going to play forever like it would never end.

Like it's ending now.

I didn't tell you to kill her.

I wasn't killing her.

You were all I saw after I started swinging.

Greetings.

I'll get you out of this.

Well, hello, Mr. Lawson.

Hello, T .J.

You talking to him? Now talk to me.

You send me over there to work over?

It got out of hand.

You belong to me.

Is that what happened with plantations?

Remember, we have a red light.

Got it, Lieutenant.

You know, it's still red light. Repeat, red light.

But, Connors, I have his wife's killer.

They see those marksmen up there, they'll come apart.

Would you hold off until I can tell them? You think they'll believe you?

don't know.

But they'll panic if they think we're coming down on them. Hold off.

Keep those marksmen out of sight.

Red light, red light.

Don't shoot until you get a green light.

If you see any movement, report back.

In the name of the Father and the Son.

and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

May the Lord forgive you by his holy anointing whatever sins you have

Amen. Amen.

I'm sorry,

Willie. He's dead.

You got Rita's killer?

I'm still a loser, Kojak.

Look at what I've done here.

Since they shoot them all, so the cops and the women in business.

Maybe I should have done that.

He'd be alive at least.

Come on, Willie.

It's over.

Tell Jake, Kojak.

If he walks out, I walk out.

Willie, don't hurt these people.

There was a trainer once at the sunny side.

He said I could come up real fast if I let him do the right thing for me, you

know.

So I let him get me the right fight.

Then he gave me a 50.

To take a fall.

He say, Willie, you do the right thing or else

they're going to kill me.

So I save his life.

And then I find out that he's got a bundle on the other guy from the start.

Go, Jack.

I ain't taking no more falls.

You get the meaning?

Hey, you got a banola mico, Jay?

No, no.

I told you the truth, all of it.

Hey, my boy told me all the truth I need to hear. Willie!

She should die.

Your kid's watching.

If you don't see her on TV now, there's always the 11 o 'clock news.

They'll see this old man blow away a priest, an old woman, a little kid who

in here to pray, and a bald -headed cop.

You know something?

That kid's got an awful lot of copy for a loser.

I said, let's move out.

Now we go out, slow and easy.

No shooting.

Maybe somebody gets to live. Maybe not.

It don't matter.

It would exist.

Hold your fire.

He just wants a car.

It's over there.

Hold your fire.

Make him see how a being like me only gets you to lying on hard ground

no matter what.

Vehicle tag.

To kill a priest.

You didn't even try to shoot.

Do it, Kojak.

Set him free.

And make my boy believe I did bad.

What are your husband's dinner?

The eternal is granted to him, O Lord, and let the perpetual light shine upon

him. Two men held a small piece of this enormous city in their hands for a few

hours today and ended up killing only themselves.

The tragedy is that evidence was just uncovered proving that Willie Daniels

innocent of his wife's murder. Why Daniels ran from the scene? Why... They

him away like he was nothing.

He was nothing.

The police was unarmed.

Coach, I think he's dead. Let him be.

I'm sorry. He was a loser and he knew it.

What can he do?

I don't know.

Try, maybe.

So long, kid.

He was my father.

He was only 43.

Look who became of him.

I'd rather see what becomes of his son.

Okay?

Hello, Larry.