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Detective Stavros, Manhattan South.

Robbery in progress.

Burbage first.

Where is that?

3457, please.

Can I have your name, please?

The dressing rooms are clear.

Any windows out? No good. All bars. Anything happens, we go out the way we

in. We know that's all.

Rabbit.

Rabbit.

Rabbit.

Just some courage.

You know me.

I'm going to check the alley again. You keep on loading, okay?

Hey, Ben, we do a hundred jobs.

I ain't never going to be cool.

Freeze. Right there. Police.

That's a quarter of a million dollar deathbed back there.

It's only worth about $50 ,000 to a fence. That's so much for his business

fence.

C4 was used to split the box.

Just like the other five jobs in this area. You know, that M .O. is getting

monotonous.

So what else is new?

Will somebody talk to me?

Stavros took a call, anonymous.

I took out the one in the other room, and Crocker chased this part. Uh,

would you like to join us over here?

What?

Now, Jamie Webb, uh...

28 years old, lives on 43rd Street. All right, see what you can find out about

him, okay? Anything that relates to him, including people.

Okay. Go ahead.

Come on.

Okay, this guy that you're chasing, can you hide him?

No. No? Why no?

He was ahead of me.

All right, how far ahead?

I don't know.

Hey, a few seconds.

Maybe, I don't know. Crocker, no maybes. You gotta know.

Every step you took by the time you left the precinct.

And we start now.

I was chasing this guy and he was running towards the street. I heard

footsteps.

It's a hell of a place an hour for friends to meet. Well, so far we have

very normal reactions of a police officer in the line of duty doing just

he's supposed to be doing. Nothing to get excited about.

Did you hear about the girl? She made it to the hospital.

F .I .A .U. is going to want to question you and Saperstein tonight.

Don't talk to them until Kojak and I finish with you.

Well, I want to go to the hospital.

And the bullet was lodged in the lower lumbar three.

And, uh... According to Dr.

Meyer... There's no more danger of hemorrhaging.

Well, what is the danger of, Doctor? Well, the bullet apparently caused

nerve damage to produce paralysis of the lower limbs.

Why don't you remove it?

We can't. Not yet, anyway.

Oh, well, is that a... Is that a life sentence, or can she appeal it?

More tests are being set up.

They don't look very encouraging at this point.

Thank God.

He shot an armed criminal in the act of committing a felony.

He shot at you.

You shot at him, and that's the way it was.

You can't hold yourself responsible.

I shot an innocent girl.

Maybe I killed her. At least I crippled her. Now, when you carry that in your

gut, don't tell me how to feel.

Come back later. He's taking a ballet lesson.

Lieutenant, did the field internalist affairs unit say anything to you after

talking to us? Did you tell him the reports?

Yeah, seven copies. We just turned them in.

Okay, go home and get some sleep.

Come on, Lieutenant. I told you to come right into the office as soon as you got

in. Well, I didn't have anything important to say.

Oh, let's see now. There have been three homicides, two suicides, some berserk

guys chopping down cherry trees in Central Park, somebody's walking on the

grass, somebody forgot to curb their dog right outside the precinct, and you've

got nothing important to say.

Yeah, well, he kept to himself.

He lived alone.

Who? The deceased, sir. If he was part of a gang that pulled those other jobs,

the pad doesn't show it. How about the iller sheet? Yeah, one bank job,

Illinois, minimum three to ten.

How long is he out?

Two years.

And what do you do now?

Water your plants?

No.

No, I'm going to call the prison.

I'm going to find out if he had any buddies while he was in a can who liked

bust vaults open full of furrows.

When?

Now.

Crocker, would you leave us alone, please?

You think he was paralyzed instead of the girl?

Well, try this one.

That lock on the back door to the fur shop, it was bolted from the inside.

Now, unless Webb knew where it was, he could never find it in the dark. Plus,

the forensic report says the phone in the first shop was wiped clean.

Tom, what do we got here?

What do we have here?

Somebody phones in a tip.

One experienced pro gets trapped by a locked door he thought was open.

The other one slips away through a door that was open, and the phone is wiped.

What we have here is a case of somebody set up his buddy.

Please, Miss Ames is in no condition to see any visitors.

I'll just be a minute.

I'm Detective Crocker.

I'm sorry.

You're sorry.

Detective Cracker, I told you. The patient is in no condition to see

Cracker, what the hell are you doing? It's all right.

He says that he's sorry.

Ten mil diazepam.

Cracker, get the hell out of here.

Lieutenant, why don't we leave? You see how she is. It's all right.

I'll talk to him.

I'm Lieutenant Kojak. I want you to help us find the man who's responsible for

this.

He just left.

No.

That's Detective Crocker. He was chasing a criminal.

Yes, he fired the gun.

Is that all he did?

And why is everybody so upset?

I'm the only one that got hurt.

Thieves rob a store, get away.

Only one got away.

The other one decided to shoot it out and... He's dead.

Miss Ames, you were very close to the thief who ran away.

Did you see him? Did you get a look at his face?

No. Isn't there anything about him that might help us?

I was walking.

A man ran out of nowhere.

And now I'm lying here like this.

Isn't that enough to know?

Okay.

Oh, you live on 23rd Street.

Now that's a long...

Walk to the first door. You want to laugh?

I do it for my health.

Walking is good for you.

Walking is helpful.

I'm a model. I do it for my legs.

Four miles, practically for my legs.

Lieutenant.

Aren't they pretty?

for the last time.

Doctor?

Oh, hello, Detective Crocker. I tried to call you. We finished Miss Ames' test.

Sit down.

Tell me standing.

Okay.

She's out of danger.

What about the bullet?

It's our considered opinion that any attempt to remove it at this time would

disastrous.

She looks okay.

She is okay.

I mean, her life is out of danger.

The paralysis.

It's like a finger pressing on a nerve.

I mean, if you didn't know what I did to her, you'd think she was lazy just

laying there, being waited on.

As a matter of fact, she doesn't even have to be hospitalized.

You sent her out that door. You know what that says, doctor? The end. This is

the way she'll be forever.

I'm sorry.

You can always seek other opinions.

She knew I was going to talk to you.

Do you want me to tell her?

You're late.

What? You're off duty, right?

I can always tell when you're coming in by the clock.

Confession time again?

Well, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you.

You don't upset me.

I'm practicing to become a saint.

Bring me an ashtray.

It's broke.

Sure it is. You touched it.

Where's my doctor?

A hundred tests and I can't even find him.

I just talked to him.

Oh, my God.

Listen, I know this neurosurgeon, Dr. Athos. We had a patrolman who got shot

the back and she can work wonders.

Come on now. You just keep telling yourself that there's a chance and we'll

one.

I will, when you can kick me out, and with your own feet.

Well, I'm glad you told me he wasn't here.

Because if you hadn't told me he wasn't here, I wouldn't have asked for him.

Theo. The world's at peace.

You know, I get more information from my stoolies.

What's that about?

Hey, when two detectives start covering for a third, it's not to keep them warm,

right? I checked around several of those model agencies, and there's Polly Ames.

A couple of them know her.

Why are we checking into the girl?

Saperstein. Something deeply disturbing in your basic humanitarian instincts

taking place here?

No, but I'm just a little confused.

Oh, why don't you tell us and maybe we can enlighten you.

All right, this Polly Ames lives in an $800 a month apartment.

But I can't find out where she is working or has worked more than a day or

here and there. Okay.

Keep checking.

Okay.

You told Crockett to stay close to him. I also told him he had a very promising

career. Now, of all the things I told him, I wonder what he's remembering

now.

Are you warm enough?

I only...

half.

The rest doesn't feel the cold at all.

Well, it's good for you.

No, that's walking. Walking is good for you, not being wheeled.

You know what this reminds me of when I was a kid? My father would bring us down

here at Thanksgiving and Christmas just to see the leaves changing colors. What

the hell are we doing here anyway?

Listen, you hurt me. I can't ever forget that.

I'm going to be in this chair for the rest of my life, and you're not.

If I could take that bullet from your back and put it in my back, I would.

But I can't. It was a one in a million freak accident.

But you're right. You're sitting in the chair and I'm pushing it.

I don't know what to do.

Holly, I can't forget you.

I can't walk away.

I guess you're a cripple now, too.

What is that?

Yellow sheets. Yellow sheets.

A backlog to choke a horse.

And where is Detective Third Grade Robert Crocker? Anywhere lately?

I've been at her apartment.

Oh, really? I thought you moved in.

Well, she needs encouragement, Lieutenant. She needs somebody to do

just dust the furniture and check up halls.

Speaking of dusting the furniture, are you aware she lives in an $800 a month

apartment? Where'd she get the bread? She got it, John? What's the story?

What's he trying to say?

Ask him.

I don't know what I'm trying to say, and you want to know why?

Because there's a hot shot detective who's failing to function.

Hey, uh, Lieutenant, you know, um, going through the motions of being a cop, I

can't investigate a girl I almost killed, not with this, not with this

stuff on my mind. If that other stuff on your mind was some old degenerate wino

instead of a beautiful, mysterious chick, you'd know what to do.

I'm doing the best I can from going through my head. You push me and I'll

If you don't shape up, I'll request it.

Crocker!

He should have a leave of absence.

I need a prank.

What for?

He hasn't been here since he shot that girl.

And when he is here, he's not all here.

Tell me about it. No, I met that girl.

She doesn't want to hit her. It happened.

The crocker as well as the girl.

Lieutenant, a funny thing happened to me trying to locate a suspect on that

Anderson case.

I show a bunch of pictures to the bartender and one of them's a steady

the late Jamie Webb.

Bernadette? This is Captain McNeil.

Lieutenant Kojak.

This is Miss Bernadette Fobler.

Bernadette won first prize in a bartending contest in Atlantic City in

72. They were suckers for fruit juice that year.

I called my drink Indian Summer.

The fella gave me the idea.

Well, don't you get it?

He helped her think up this drink. Bill, Buzzy, Buffy.

Well, it was a very close friend of the deceased, Jamie Webb.

He said he came from Cleveland.

Cleveland.

Indians.

Get it? Indian summer.

Can you describe them?

Describe? In the booze business, it's the color of the money, not the face.

Okay, you call Cleveland, get the best description you can from our charming

young lady here, and then see if you can tie it in with James Webb.

And thank you very much for your cooperation.

Thank you.

Yes.

Gee, Bernadette, I'm sorry. I could have sworn it was 73.

It's all right.

Leo, getting back to Bobby.

I gather you don't like the girl.

Frank, that's not nice.

Frank?

Well, you implied she was being kept by a John.

Where are the tea bags?

I don't know where the tea bags are. No, you inferred she was being kept by a

John. Come on, you know Bobby Crocker.

He still goes to these church functions in order to find dates. This chick has

got him wiped out. Whoever she is and whatever she is. You know, you're in the

spot, too, and so am I.

Everybody's watching how we handle this. And I'm talking about the shooting.

I want Crocker off the hook on this shooting, of course. But I also want the

answers.

Detective Crocker, six -year veteran, et cetera, et cetera.

And this Miss Ames, a very successful fashion model when she came here from

Cleveland three years ago.

Excuse me, sir.

Got what? Lieutenant, this is that list of fur fences you wanted from Bunko.

Michaels.

Got a gun.

Let me take him.

And you check out the rest. Okay?

Be right back.

Rizzo, I want some tea bags over here. Just

don't

lie to me, Michaels.

Lieutenant, you're leaning.

Is that why you're shivering?

How would you like me to take the temperature of these furs?

I cooperated when I was the fence. I'm clean now.

Well, why don't you cooperate the way you used to? Why don't you concentrate?

Five out of six heists.

Go like clockwork.

A couple of hundred thousand in furs at 30%. At the going rate is 20.

So we'll put it together.

Talk to me. I mean, tell me something.

Just don't stand there. Tell me how you retired from a life of crime.

A cop hits an innocent girl. What's that? My fault? Take it easy, will you,

Lieutenant? Take it easy.

Okay, I heard about those jobs. A couple about it, Thomas.

Now, the way I got it figured so far, the halls were within a couple of days.

Each furrier got his consignment.

Somebody on the inside has to know that.

Well, that wasn't me.

You ever do business with a James Webb?

Never heard of him until I read about him in the papers.

Oh, you mean the newspapers?

That puts you into 15 % of the literati you can read.

Bend something.

Ah.

No Ben anybody on my client list.

Excuse me.

Michael Furries.

It's Ben.

Is there anything else, Lieutenant?

No.

Are you crazy calling me here?

The cops are combing the town for you. I know, I'm hot.

That's why I asked you for money. I need money to get away. I haven't got it.

You need money, huh?

You need money, go to a bank, hit a store.

Michaels, I can't take the chance. I'll be spotted.

Hey, you blow a job, your partner gets wasted. That ties you to a felony

and you call me and say you need money?

We did good for you the other times.

Yeah, well, the other times, the other times I didn't have the cops coming

around.

So go look a cop, you need money.

So one of your guys really shot a girl?

I gave you a lead. What'd you find out?

Nothing.

Got your cops wasted in the fruit shop with a drinker.

Talked a lot about fraud, sport.

What about the other guy?

This is a very quiet fellow who set this up. Nobody knows him. Somebody has to

know him. He's got to eat. He's got to wash his undies.

I guess.

Take it easy.

I know one of your boys is in trouble. Take it easy.

Sammy, I let you walk the streets because you helped.

Now you stop, and then I don't need you anymore.

Yeah? What's the good of walking the streets if I'm dead?

So you have a choice, him or me.

It's Ben.

Guy's name's Ben. Ben. And the word, it's... He don't care if you kill him.

let me out of this.

All right.

Look.

Used to be a farrier?

I want you to give me a lead.

We still friends?

Yeah, Frank.

I'm sorry.

Three weeks and no robbery in the whole district.

I don't care for your insurance, Mr. Burbridge. There's always somebody new

coming along.

It's inevitable, like death and cavities.

It's sad, an innocent young girl like that getting shot.

You know, she was a model. Does she have a model for you?

That girl?

I'm sorry.

Models look like models. One body, all bones.

I don't look at their faces, just how my coats hang.

You know, as a matter of fact, that picture in the paper did remind me of a

young girl who once worked for me. I think her name was...

Fill is something. Worked a day, maybe two. Right in time for my new furs to be

shown. Oh, really?

What agency?

She came in on her own. Is that the way it usually happens?

Sometimes. They drop around the new ones. It saves them paying commission.

Yeah, now I remember her.

Ambitious, a real pusher. She was going to own Central Park, the Trade Center,

and half of Manhattan in a year.

Maybe she had a guy.

Maybe she did.

Shouldn't you be at work?

If they could see me now.

Celebration. You've been out of the hospital?

You'll get in trouble.

They can get me if they want me. They know where I am.

Hello. Hey, Bobby, this is Rizzo. Dr.

Rath has called.

Left the number 555 -3200.

Okay, thank you.

Hey, Polly.

You know, when people meet, they meet for all the wrong reasons.

I just want you to know that I'm happy I met you.

Hello. Hello, this is Detective Crocker.

I just got a message.

I think Miss Ames' prognosis is encouraging.

Call me tomorrow.

Okay, fine.

Thank you.

Who were you calling?

I want to make it tough.

To a brave and beautiful girl.

And to a doctor who's going to help her dance again.

You know that Dr.

Athos, the one I was telling you about? The neurosurgeon?

Well, she saw your x -rays and she wants to see me tomorrow.

Oh, Bobby.

I'm scared.

Scared of what?

The city's going to pay for it. I sent in for the papers. You can sue them for

million.

What is it?

Madness.

After all that's happened, I still don't understand how I feel about

you.

The way it began and the way it is now, there's a cloud over it. Why don't we

try and blow that away?

Okay?

Life is wild.

You busting in on that robbery, my being there.

It's destiny, I suppose.

Well, in this case, destiny was shoved a little bit by an anonymous male caller.

He phoned in a tip, and that's what brought me there.

Somebody phoned in a tip. Hey, who are you?

Where did you come from, and where are you going?

My name is Polly Ames. I am from Cleveland, and I am a model.

And are you investigating me like you're Lieutenant Kojak? Is that why you're

here? You know why I'm here.

I'm a cop.

That's how we met.

Maybe you can teach me to be something more.

I gotta go.

Well, don't worry about me.

I'll be out dancing.

Dancing?

You got a key, too?

I tried to get to you in the hospital.

That cop always got there first.

What's he doing hanging around here all the time?

on me you could walk you'd forget his name i can't walk then and jamie's dead

jamie was bad news he did what we told him to do jamie didn't know what he was

getting into listen polly all that money from the other jobs i had to lay out

for a new pad with jamie never came by and what with this and that i'm i'm kind

of low on bread the money is in that vault i i can't get it Like you said,

cop keeps coming around.

He's going to be back soon, so you'd better leave.

I don't want to hear that. Give me the money. It's part of mine.

I can't touch my car and run out of how to eat.

I'll get picked up, Polly. Listen to me. It's a felony murder rap.

Jamie's dead. We were part of the killing.

I've got to get out of here.

The cops were tipped off about that job.

Did you know that?

I cased that job, and you set it up.

Now, it had to be one of us.

Jamie? We never told Jamie any details.

Did we, Ben?

He was trouble.

He was a lush.

He'd gotten away between you and me. You know how I felt about that.

Get me to Pat.

He was also a one -third partner.

Now there's only two of us.

This will authorize you to enter into my safety deposit account. The keys are in

my purse.

All you have to do is have my signature notarized.

That's a detail I'm sure you can manage.

Suppose I take all the money and run.

Oh, well, the cop says that I can sue the city. He says that I can collect a

fortune. Yeah? Yeah.

Great.

So, we're coming out of this pretty good.

Yeah.

It should have been you and me from the start.

Good luck with the cop.

All the Ames was on Cleveland.

A mysterious stranger was from Cleveland.

Jamie Webb was from Cleveland.

The four heists were completed 24 hours after each of Polly Ames' modeling jobs.

Now, four of those heists were on modeling jobs that the agency sent this

Ames in on. The other two, she just walked in on, including Burbridge.

Oh, Lieutenant, I covered the banks, and I found out that this Polly Ames has a

secret deposit box down on 20th Street.

Now, they're going to let us know if she comes in, and that's all they can do

for us.

And that's it?

It's all right. I'm a friend.

All right.

The girl at the bank said that Polly Ames has visited her safety deposit box

four times.

Each state was about three days after a fur robbery on her list.

Hello?

Guy in the middle.

You're a buddy, Sammy.

I thought you told me you didn't fence furs anymore.

I don't.

I thought you told me that you didn't take one fur from a guy by the name of

Jamie Webb. I didn't. Oh.

So I guess you're wondering why we all got together.

Who's that guy, Frank?

Assistant D .A. Angus Moore.

Here to help you cop a plea. Oh, hang it. Plea?

What plea?

Receiving stolen goods acquired in the commission of a felony murder.

Conspiracy. Grand larceny.

Hey, I know what this heat is.

Your little boy Crocker shot an innocent bystander. You're ripping up the town,

trying to get him off the hook.

Hey, do you know what it is to have a division of cops get after you?

Now, Kojak and I always got along.

Didn't we, Frank?

Well,

what's the arrangement?

You helped us nail down the gang who stole the furs.

We'll assume you had no knowledge that they were armed during the robberies.

You'd take a fall for handling stolen goods.

That's a plea.

That's a deal. All right, make a felony murder instead.

This guy,

uh... This guy, Jamie Webb, delivered right after all those big heists.

Oh, did he get paid on the spot?

Within three days.

Do you have the dates he was in?

Can we make a better deal?

We'll talk to the warden.

Okay.

That's all he did?

All right, keep us advised.

Okay.

A guy walks into a bank with a notarized entry slip for Polly Ames' vault

account. The clerk says, wait a minute while I get some slips. He changed his

mind and walked out.

I said to myself, why is she being so generous all of a sudden?

Then I said to myself, maybe she feels guilty about the money.

Then I said to myself, not this kid, not this alley cat, not this street

fighter. Then it came to me.

I go to the bank, I walk in a vault, and the clerk calls the cops. Surprise!

The cops blow me away.

And poor Polly gets a deal from the DA because you suffered enough.

No, Ben.

You're safe. I won't die.

I just didn't want him to know what I was.

But I know you, doll.

We come from the same place.

Don't you want the money?

I want it, and I'm going to get it. We bought it hand in hand. We go to that

bank. We go take a long trip, maybe Argentina.

No, Ben, take the money, please. All of it.

Hey, you go with me, or we wait here, and he dies, and you go with me anyway.

One way or the other, I've got to close the door on this.

I just left Dr. Atthis, and she said you can go to the hospital right now. She

wants to do some tests and maybe even surgery.

No. No?

Polly, that means there's hope.

For you?

Or for me?

Hey, now listen to me.

This looks good.

Tell me.

Just tell me.

If you hadn't made me a cripple, would you still be coming around?

I told you.

Let's get you well first.

And then we'll find out. Go through that again.

Another doctor. More hope.

Another kick in the face.

Polly, this doctor's the best.

She said it's hope.

I had hope once.

Only I didn't need it to come from a doctor.

Or a lousy cop.

If you want to do something really great, just stay out of my life.

I did that before. Do you know how much business I'm losing? I've got a loyal

clientele.

So Polly Ames modeled for the first salons that have been hit this year,

including Burbage.

What does that prove?

She was from Cleveland.

What?

Jamie Webb was from Cleveland.

So? So Jamie Webb had two friends from Cleveland.

And the three of them?

They met at a bar. He asked me how I know that.

Well, we ID'd Webb at the bar.

We also verified that Webb delivered to a fence each time of the day after the

job. And the fence paid off three days later.

And Polly Ames, she visited her safety deposit vault on the same day.

Bobby, she was at a lookout.

You call that a fence?

You're a cop. What do you call it?

That's him.

That's the guy. Jamie's friend.

Bobby.

Bobby.

What if they just made an idea on this guy right here?

Ben Wiley, Cleveland.

Crocker.

He just took off.

I'll go right.

Let's go, uh... Let's go get a drink somewhere, huh?

Let's go get that money.

I'll find a good doctor in Argentina.

Who and I, Ben?

That's a pony I know.

That's everything, Captain, including the fact that Dr. Atha said that she

help her.

Have her sign it.

Go on, look it over.

I know what I said.

You okay?

Yes.

Take care.

Bobby.

I'm sorry that I didn't meet you before.

Before all of this.

You look right past me to the good -looking guys You

won't

be there forever Okay?

Okay.

He still believes in you.

And you?

Well, it would have been better if he hadn't lied.

I just didn't want him to find out.

I guess I knew that it would sooner or later.

I just wanted it to last.

Well, the next time you see him...