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Thank you.

I think we're going that way.

It's like the old one.

All right, the big room. Come on.

Any witnesses?

One. He's patient. He's in there now.

Come on.

Dr. K?

She was my friend.

Miss Fowler was my friend.

No, no. No, no.

Hector. Hector.

Please, don't manhandle him.

Hey, hey. You okay?

Go check the inventory on the drugs.

Don't be afraid.

Huh? You okay?

Hector, we have to talk.

Now. Lieutenant Kojak, you've been in and out of this hospital ever since last

week's killing.

You really know how to interrogate someone when you put your mind to it.

Well, it's true, Doctor, I don't have a couch, but I do have a shield, and I'm

looking for a murderer.

You want this man to break down completely?

Two murders in one week, and what I don't want is number three.

Let him talk to the patient, Doctor.

Who are you?

Now, if the medic comes to you, not in the room, she'll panic. You know it.

Ellen,

come on, come on. Stop trying to protect the world.

Who else will?

She was lying there. Just lying there. How soon after she left you did you

discover the body?

Maybe five minutes.

Last, we were talking.

She's nice to me.

So I help her with things.

Dr. Page lets me.

Don't you, Doctor?

I found one of her boxes in the hall.

And I came to give it to her.

She was on the floor.

Thank you, Hatcher.

We'll talk again later, okay?

to trace the room.

Do it right now. Yes, sir.

Please try to remember that Hector is totally unable to cope with stress

situations. That's one of the reasons he's a patient.

Are you heavy into stress situations?

I become more qualified each time we meet.

Lieutenant. Lieutenant.

The floors were polished about an hour before the murder.

Typical hospital work. Lots of wax.

Some markings on the floor, but look at this.

Yeah, drag marks, huh?

But why kill her over there by the door and then drag the girl's body all the

way across the room?

Nails are clean, no scratches on her neck.

I guess she's probably bigger and stronger than she was. Okay, well, maybe

just a little guy who's a dumbbell freak.

Here,

Christopher, you take some candy and you tell me, how can I run a hospital when

little boys keep walking out of their therapy room?

I heard there was a murder and they came to lend a hand.

Hi, Lieutenant, can I have another ride?

Oh, you know something?

When my captain sees us, he's going to say, Lieutenant Kojak, you're not paid

carry lazy kids around. You know something?

You'll be right.

I'm not lazy, am I, Doctor?

No, no way.

Oh, Crocker, get together with hospital security, close off the ward and do a

house -to -house.

You know you can't close this building down, definitely.

Oh,

look, Doctor.

The doctor was murdered not a hundred yards from here in the parking lot.

Strangled, hemp rope.

And now a lady pharmacist. She's been murdered in the same building.

Again, strangulation with hemp rope.

Do you know how many doors there are?

How many services?

Emergencies? Clinics? Hey, look, when I find my killer, you can have your

hospital back, okay?

Doctor, bye.

Doctor, bye.

Look, uh, Kojak, do me a favor, huh?

Have some candy.

Oh, that's nice.

And tell your men to do their best.

with the doors open.

Or I'll call your commissioner and the health department.

See you later.

All right.

What are you doing up there?

Cutting the freckles on your head.

Oh, really?

Well, you cut that out or I'll place you under arrest. You understand?

All these doctors rushing around busy, huh?

Busy?

Except for Ralph.

I see him every day.

son get well.

Why don't you give up drinking?

Why don't you go to AA?

I don't mean to hurt your feelings.

I know you've been throwing up.

That bottle won't make any of it go away.

Oh.

Even if I could forget for a moment now and then, I come here and

I see him and I remember.

You're too involved with him. That's the problem. He's my son.

He's my life.

Please help.

We're doing the best we can.

Believe that.

Well, if you're that gentle with me, I might even take a drink.

Making an appointment with my secretary.

Look at me. I'm out working on my servant. Poor Fowler's lying in the

Gee, I'm real sorry.

Were you very close to her?

We were friends for years.

Lieutenant, this is Nurse Brady.

Come on into my office.

Manhattan South, Rizzo.

jilted or jealous lovers.

Okay. So you heard.

I didn't hear anything yet.

Well, you will.

She was a bit loose.

But with her, it really wasn't that, you know. I mean, she just loved people.

I wish I were more like her.

You're just as pretty.

In the eyes of the beholder. I just haven't had many beholders lately.

Fowler loved everyone. Everyone loved her.

You know...

She was just finally putting it all together.

Finally? About a year ago.

She was going out with this guy. He had a wife. She knew that. But he made her

happy. Then he died in his pool.

Garner?

I don't know.

Some kind of accident.

He used to do 50 laps every day before he left for the hospital.

I would say he overdid it.

Overdid it? Come on. A doctor?

A neurosurgeon.

Alfred Parker. He was one of the best.

Look, I have to be on duty. Can someone drive me to the hospital?

Oh, sure.

Hey, you want a sip?

Crocker.

You can drive Nurse Brady to the hospital.

On the way, she'll tell you about a Dr. Parker who had an accident.

Can we talk about things other than aggravated hernia?

Well... Good.

My name's Monica.

Maybe bells will ring for us.

Hey, uh, but I got all these files to do, Lieutenant.

Be nice.

You're so lonely, lady.

Let me get her to talk.

You know, lonely people have a way of knowing about other people's lives,

especially victims.

I read that in the manual.

Uh, Monica. Monica.

Dr. Page.

I do what I do because

they deserve it. Hello?

Who are you?

Paying for pain.

It's only fair.

Please, tell me who you are.

Let me help you.

Rizzo's still on.

Crocker just got here.

There's a bunch of guys from Tactical Patrol down here helping out.

What do you give me the name of you, Taylor? I need a new image.

Taylor. I'll tell you, Taylor. You take the mop, too. Hey, Lieutenant.

The captain sent this over.

It's what they dug up on that Dr. Parker swimming pool accident out in

Hampstead.

Please don't be angry.

You have your whole life ahead, huh?

If I could take back that moment, I would.

If I could give up my life, I would.

Ralph, you should take the therapy like they tell you.

He doesn't take therapy every day.

That would make him better.

You know, Ralph,

he used to be a bright boy once.

We used to smile all the time.

Just like you.

Until he stopped.

I know.

I heard about the car.

It crashed.

With Ralph in it.

You're lucky you didn't get hurt, too.

Brave Christopher.

So many operations.

Still more to come.

I may not let them do any more. No, no.

You mustn't give up.

It's a sin against the Lord.

Come back tomorrow morning, okay?

You just rest now.

Here's a present.

It's a going -away present, okay?

All right, you can get in the car now.

Mrs. Russell, bye -bye.

Take care.

Well, Lieutenant, that's the way to have kids.

Ten minutes at a time, then they go home to their parents for the hard work.

Can I talk to you seriously for a moment, Doctor?

Well, you know, I really shouldn't. Today's my day off. I'll be leaving in a

minutes.

Now, listen, according to this file, you were an anesthetist before you became

an administrator, doctor. And a surgeon before that. And the word is

anesthesiologist. Believe me, there's a difference.

Oh, yes, from the Greek word anesthetos.

But according to a police report, you knew a Dr. Parker before he drowned in

pool about a year ago. Yeah, it was tragic.

Got strangled in a water pool and then strung across his pool.

Was it an accident?

Maybe not.

You looking for a connection with what's been happening here?

What are you trying to make this, an epidemic?

Well, three people are killed who had contact with each other and with you,

Doctor. Lieutenant, I have contact with every member of the staff.

Oh. Did you have contact with Fowler?

I told you it's my job.

I'd like more contact with some of the ladies, but they don't always agree.

Did Parker know the dead woman?

Well, he might have. I don't recall.

You know something, Doctor?

I mean, you'd make a great witness.

Look, Kojak.

Why don't you make a professional assumption?

Maybe the killer is a late -in -day advocate of socialized medicine.

Or a solid citizen who feels he's been overcharged by his pediatrician. Or

some nut who has a grudge against medicine.

So you have yourself a nice day, Doctor. But be careful, okay?

Well that line isn't as funny as some of yours, but I'll try again

There's

trouble in the park behind the building

I'm the one that gets you to try to face the truth.

Not this nerd.

But I'm bad.

I'm evil.

I've always been bad.

If you think so, Thomas, I'm bailing you.

I am.

So I give you little insight.

Little presence until I can find a way to understand you better.

But I never give you anything.

I don't even have anything.

You can give me what you have in your hand now.

Thank you

Patients

allowed to come and go like that.

Well, it's not a prison

Check out his travel. Yes, sir.

Uh, that's not necessary.

The man's been under sedation.

It's his first time up in weeks.

Doctor, let's be friends, okay?

I was just about to say what a good job you did.

You want to try out for the cops?

Good. That man was under my direct care in psychiatric until a board that meets

once a month decided that he was still paranoid, but he was no longer an acute

problem. Now, uh, with this pathetic act, which is really a cry for help,

be sent to the state hospital for the criminally insane.

And that'll be the end of him. I see.

So much for the good jobs I'm doing.

That's a heavy load you're carrying.

Doc.

If you see the killer, whoever he is, don't try to stop him yourself.

Call for help, okay?

Okay.

Find out who she was dating, who she jilted, who jilted her, and mingle with

staff and ask your mother like that, okay?

Now, because that's what policemen say, isn't it? They say, don't move or I'll

blow your head off.

See, I was stopped by a policeman once.

And I was questioned for a very long time.

Because some students were sitting on top of my car.

And I threw a brick at them.

And I hit one of them.

You promised not to take any more walks without help.

Well, you see, the kids, they scratched the paint on my fender.

Now, that's the trouble with kids, that they always want to do things their way,

on their terms. And I just felt that they should do things my way. And that's

perfectly logical, isn't it?

Yes, Professor.

Lieutenant, it's my fault.

I'm walking by the Whirlpool room, and somebody tells me to help this patient

into the tank.

I turn around, I go get a cup of coffee, I come back, and he's gone.

Well, that's okay, Rizzo. We won't tell Dr. Schweitzer this time.

All right, come on.

I found a piece of this twine outside on the floor. I already sent a sample to

the lab.

How many have access?

When they cut the laundry bundles, they throw the string away. Anyone has access

to it.

You know, this looks like the stuff they use for macrame.

There must be about 20 patients using this in the therapy room.

A nurse just told me that that homicide in the parking lot last week was

Parker's assistant for a time.

And Parker went out with the pharmacist Fowler. How about Dr. Fine?

Fine. Went out with her, too.

He said he was leaving.

Doctor? Doctor?

Doctor?

Now, Lieutenant, I can't talk to you now.

I'm very busy. I've got some work to finish up, then I'm leaving.

You didn't tell me how well you knew the deceased.

Okay.

In a hospital, you work together under very special conditions.

That doesn't mean you get to know anybody, no matter how close you are.

Special?

Death.

You see it so often.

So you try to grab a little life right now.

That sounds a bit melodramatic, huh?

That's true.

We had something.

For me, it lasted two glorious weeks.

For her?

Well, she was being kind.

Outside this building, she wouldn't have known me.

No, Lieutenant.

She was too nice to have enemies.

Well, everybody has enemies.

You forget to give a birthday present, you make enemies.

I don't.

All I do is shuffle papers around.

You ever been sued for malpractice?

Well, I was a surgeon.

That's why I quit.

They come in screaming.

After the surgery, they're pleased with the results. They thank God. They're not

pleased, they curse the doctor.

There's no killer after me.

Dr. Fine, report to your office.

Dr. Fine... Lieutenant, I really gotta go. Come on, please.

All right.

Thank you.

What the hell was all that paging about?

Who put out the lights?

Brady, is that you?

Brady, put on the lights.

What's going on here?

He asked me to help him look through his old files from when he was Dr. Parker's

anesthesiologist.

I opened the door and someone just slammed by me. I didn't even see his

What was he wearing?

White, I think.

Tall, short?

Tall. His color, black, brown, white?

Oh, I think he was white. I don't even know that.

Can you talk fast? You've just been sedated. Sam, those files on your desk,

what were you looking for?

I thought it...

Might have been somebody I knew.

Somebody who was angry, who had a grudge.

I don't know.

Listen, uh... I'm sorry about the jokes.

The candy.

Look, please.

Find him, huh?

Find him before you kill somebody else.

Mm -hmm.

He's out.

I want a list of every patient on this desk, okay? And then I want you to cross

-check them. Doctors with nurses, nurses with doctors, patients with nurses, and

like that.

That's going to take a year. Hey, two killings in one week may be three.

Somebody in this building doesn't have a year. Go ahead.

Hello, Jack.

Lieutenant, we have the wing secured.

Oh, good.

Look, I want you to check everybody in this building, okay?

Check the IDs.

Anything look funny, you get in touch with me.

Why isn't the lady shrink here?

She doesn't know yet. Do you want me to tell her?

No, I'll tell him.

Yes, come in.

I think I'm afraid to have another operation.

You are.

You know, Christopher, darling, some people have a leg that hurts.

And some people have a hurt that you can't find in a leg or an arm.

In here.

Or in here.

Because sometimes it takes a lot of operations.

But wherever it is, we try to fix it.

Mm -hmm.

Hi, Lieutenant.

Hi. I'll probably be a captain one day.

Oh, good.

Of course, the guy I got needs a vacation.

You okay, darling? Yeah.

Good to see you.

Thank you, everyone.

Bye -bye.

Really? How many more?

Who knows?

You want to have a drink?

Well, only if you're having one and you call it medicine.

I'm having one and I call it medicine.

Been a long seat for you. Oh, it's still going on.

Huh? Oh, no, Dr. Sam, fine. About 20 minutes ago, but he's okay.

The man was serious.

What man?

How'd you say something about it? I didn't connect it to the killings here.

And didn't or afraid to?

Your men are lunging at every sound with their guns out.

People here are jumping at shadows.

Somebody's got to maintain some sense of reality.

The patients here are scared to death.

Tell them not to be, because he's only after the staff.

Lieutenant, half my patients are going to murder someone.

The other half are killing themselves.

I've been figuring and figuring.

Who is it?

You know, it could be someone who came to this office.

Someone who came, joked with me, poured out his guts to me.

You want some advice?

You're not legally licensed.

Yeah, well, you go home, you see that bottle? You take it with you.

Then you drink it all, get yourself smashed.

Then you call your boyfriend and, uh, like that.

Well, I got the bottle, but, uh, I don't have the boyfriend.

Oh? That shouldn't be any problem.

Hello? It has to be done.

You've got to understand.

Yes? Who are you?

Please tell me who you are. Let me help you.

Hello?

Operator, this is Lieutenant Kojak.

A call just came in here. Can you place it?

I'm sorry. All the outside calls come through hospital switchboard.

It must have been on the intercom system.

Lieutenant, can I see you for a minute?

the stairwell.

Grady, what are you doing out here alone?

I came up the stairs for some exercise.

I do it a couple of times a day.

Two steps at a time.

You were told to stare at the damn stairwell.

Cheaper than dead.

Why isn't she dead? Yes, sir. Finish it. Well, he didn't want to kill her. How's

that? Like he didn't want to kill the patient in the pharmacy, Hector.

He started to kill her.

He started to kill her, but he stopped.

Now, why did somebody stop when he started something?

Changed his mind.

Murder's heavy. Come on.

Remember a guy who was killed several times?

He made a mistake.

He's on the landing in the shadows.

She runs past. He grabs her. She looks like someone else, but she isn't.

You go back and talk to her.

What about Hemeroid?

Go back and ask him if she could have been somebody else that he wanted to

Lieutenant Kojak.

My God.

See what your presence here in the hospital is doing?

Well, I'll walk you back to your office.

Who was it?

Rayleigh. She's all right.

Can I see her? She's lying down.

Oh, what are you doing out of bed?

Bennett, they're taking Christopher to pre -op tonight.

Because you're so frightened.

Hi, Doc.

Hi. Is that your bodyguard?

I've got one, too.

Sam, I meant to stop in.

I don't know what to say.

Could have said hello.

I suppose one of my patients did this to you.

Someone I talk with every day.

Someone that came to me for help.

I told you a long time

ago. This place is not your home.

Go away.

For a month, for a year.

Oh, Miss, Lieutenant Kojak will miss you. You can't make a whole life within

walls.

Come on, come on, huh?

Look, at least go away tonight.

Kojak and I think it's fine.

I know.

It's easy to give advice and to take.

You remember that, too?

Hey, Christopher.

Now, you better hurry up and get back to work. You're my best man on the job.

Well, maybe I won't.

Hey, look.

You're my top man on the job, you understand?

I mean, sure, you got a heavy, heavy thing to face down there.

But I expect you to face it just like the man I know you are. You understand?

You're supposed... I never see you again.

Oh, come on.

I got it.

Look at this.

Solid gold.

You're officially a lieutenant. Do you understand?

When you come back out of that room, I want it back, and you get one of your

own.

This is Crocker.

There's something going on in the third floor surgery number two on the east

end. Don't move on it yet.

Rizzo, Saperstein, you take it one step at a time.

Thank you.

I think you understand.

This is an operating room, right?

Don't get me wrong. You're my hero.

In the meantime, do me a favor. Take cold showers, and I'll be a sport. Don't

take them along until further notice. Now, get out of here. You're loitering.

Now, don't knock it, Crocker.

You ever paid doctor when you were a kid?

Oh, this is beautiful.

You're really making progress.

You're safe here.

You got home.

The light's on.

Dr. Page?

You heard the administrator. Why don't you get the hell out of here?

How can I leave?

That madman.

And there are others.

And I can't save them.

I don't even know who they are.

Is that tragic?

Is that funny?

Hey, look, come on now.

I'll buy you a cup of coffee.

We'll go down to my office. We'll take your file.

Then we'll compare your files to Dr. Pine's, and I think the killer's

between the two of you, okay?

Somewhere.

So, uh, where's the cheese? Where's the cheese? Eat what's there.

Look like an off -duty nurse.

Well, they don't like what's there.

Children in Europe are starving.

David.

The inspector wants to know how many people will get killed before we catch

them. You tell the inspector. Well, you tell the inspector what I told you to

tell him yesterday.

Hey. One.

For the leader of the spoiled.

Hey, David.

What kind do you prefer?

Any kind.

But I like a gourmet cup.

Everything and nothing.

And if New York's pirates would stop for their faces, then maybe we'd find more

before the inspector busts me.

Who made these, the welder?

Aren't you rather patient?

You know what her crime is? She wants to save everyone.

Doesn't work that way, and she knows it.

Maybe it should be.

Why don't you tell the inspector?

Thank you.

Why did you ask me to come here?

Well, to get you out of that cocoon you hide in. You know, bring you into

another part of the world, mine.

Hey, look, Doc, I would need your help.

It's wonderful.

You've made such progress here.

Mr. Donner, it's good to see you again.

I'll be back a little later.

It's wonderful.

I keep trying to figure out, why is he calling me?

Why me?

I keep hearing him telling me I need to do these things.

Because he wants to be stopped before he does it again.

My God, what good am I?

Hey, doctor.

I know what you mean.

Lieutenant, this name is on both Dr. Fines and Dr. Page's file.

Grady. That's where he stopped. He saw the tag. Grady. He saw he made a

Grady left to have a baby.

Look, Doctor, I paid with the one patient operated on by that surgical

Parker, Walker, Fines, Fowler.

Nothing? He's still there.

Call a hospital and put a gun on Donna's room. And tell Larson to stay in the

open.

Hey, Dean, Dr.

Larson. Hey, Dr.

Larson. Do you want me to answer that?

Forget it. The board will take the message. I have to be in surgery.

This is Dr. Larson. Would you quit bugging?

you don't want to kill.

with so many doctors?

He didn't.

He fooled himself.

It's what they call conversion symptoms.

See, he developed the limp and the loss of speech in order to ward off the

awareness of his own rage against the hospital, against the doctors, against

mother.

And then, when he was venting his rage against his victims, he no longer needed

the symptoms.

Well, I was right about one thing.

He was one of mine.

Hey,

there are crimes happening right now on the streets of New York that I don't

know anything about. And even if I did, I couldn't do anything about it.

Anything I feel when I get there, too late to save a life.

You should have been a psychiatrist.

Oh, I thought I was.

I'm just asking if I could walk soon.

Well, it's this way, Christopher.

No, no.

No more jokes, huh?

Truth is, we don't know.

But it looks pretty good.

Why do you play football?

I don't know.

Could you play before?

You hold on to that shield there. It's good luck, you understand?

Hello, Captain.

Come on, let's go.

Here we go.

Put my notes in and he owes me one. What do you say?

Sounds good.

Great kid.

Oh, yeah.

You leaving, Doc?

Mm -hmm.

I was wondering, I eat alone every day.

You eat alone every day. I thought maybe we could eat alone together.

What do you say?

That is, if you're finished with it, Lieutenant.

Lieutenant, that's a fine lady. You're just going to let her go like that? You

can't win them all.

And sometimes, maybe you should.

Story of my life, baby.