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Ah, the double one, right there.

What for?

Well, for you, silly Lisa.

I like gardenias, and I think they deserve to be close to you.

Oh, great.

You shouldn't give me a corsage at the end of an evening.

It's such a wait.

I'm sorry.

I was going to get you one before supper, but we were rushed, so that...

no, I didn't mean that you did anything wrong.

I've had a lovely evening, and I thank you.

But who said the evening is over anyway? Look, I've been to your place a couple

of times, but you've never been to my apartment.

Now? What am I, Dracula?

Come on, Lisa.

Look, I'll give you a little silver cross that you can ward off the evil

Please. I promise I'll be good.

Come on, Lisa.

You'll hurt my feelings.

All right.

Hey, baby.

You like old blue eyes? Yes.

But your eyes are brown and they have little bits of green in them. Not my

Sinatra.

Frank.

The singer.

Oh, sure.

Greg, I don't know. I have no popular records.

Now, don't move.

Don't move.

Now, don't move.

What?

Look, there's more liqueur. Pour yourself another one.

Who is it?

I think, well, there's blood.

725 West 78.

Yes, me and a girl.

She's gone.

Did you notice if she was holding a knife, Mr. Dean?

No, sir.

I couldn't say.

That is, I don't think so.

I just saw the blood.

I couldn't even tell you what color hair she had.

They lifted a perfect pair of prints off of one of these liquor glasses.

Probably a woman's. Yeah, liquor.

Look.

Nice.

Soft lights, fine rugs, Sinatra in a stereo. How can you miss?

And no less than 300 names in his black books here.

Mrs.

Doris Adamson, Mrs.

Howard Arthur, Mrs.

Mrs.

You and Crocker have a lovely time, you know, checking out where these married

women were tonight. What's this?

Those were in his pocket.

49th Street Playhouse.

All right, go down and check with the usherette.

Find out if you can get a description of the girl that he was with that night,

okay? But what do you think?

She didn't like his approach or something and freaked out? Why the

Why take the knife with her? Probably a jealous husband or a lover, maybe.

Paid off Romeo for the last time. What did this guy do?

Believe this? He was a pharmacist and he's got every upper, downer, inner,

you ever heard of in that medicine cabinet.

I'll talk to his boss in the morning. Any kin?

Yeah, he's from Idaho, but we'll get in touch with him. All right. Let's put a

couple more men on this case.

Rizzo and Saperstein. They haven't nailed a case in a week. Get them down

Have them question everybody who might have seen her or anybody who walked in

out of here.

You know, finding a guy with a knife in his hand, that's a little bit too lucky.

Or maybe even a woman.

Nowadays.

Who knows?

All night.

Service. Sure is a bit cheeky.

Homicide last night of Mr. Greg Halleck.

Well, your name is in his book. Since Saturday, Captain. Feller, you wouldn't

mind waiting here a moment while I get the sketch artist in?

Yes. Right, Rizzo?

Yeah, right.

I see.

Excuse me. Morning, Captain.

I brought the usher in on the missing witness and the Halleck knifing. As soon

as she works up a picture on the girl that he was with at the theater, I'll go

down and talk to Halleck's boss at the drugstore.

Who says the girl was a witness?

We're not a suspect.

She took off, didn't she?

You see, Captain, not every suspect is a villain.

And on the other hand, not every witness is a hero, as offered by that great

Greek philosopher, Larry Zunker.

Morning, Phaedra.

What would you like for music?

It's nice to see you up so early. Did you sleep well?

How could I sleep well? People in and out all night.

You should stay in bed, Mother.

Sure. I should never move a muscle.

Do you want coffee?

I'll get it.

Did you have a nice night last night and everything?

I went to see a play.

It's the first play I've seen in years.

It's the first date, too.

Hey, I want to hear all about it.

It's Saturday.

I can build that planter that I've been promising to put together for you.

One black coffee.

Joyce. Yeah?

I love weekends when you're home all day.

I don't like to be alone.

I think I do until I am.

I'd hate it if you didn't live over there.

I do my best.

I take you out.

You know how it is with Mother. She has those attacks.

This druggist really came on strong, huh?

Joyce, he's not important.

Not like you.

I'll never see him again, I promise.

Cross your heart and hope to die?

Cross my heart and hope to die.

Making me a bet for what?

Two tickets to the Nick game that he recognizes the picture.

Okay, you're on, Crocker.

This must be him. Yeah. I'll call doctor.

Yes, thank you.

Hi. We called a little while ago, said we'd be down. Uh, yes. I've collected

Greg's things.

Uh, there isn't much.

Uh, this is a hell of a blow, you know? Yeah. Finding a good guy like Greg, it's

not easy.

We understand.

Well, listen, Mr. Doyle. Did you ever see him with a woman who looked anything

like this?

Oh, this could be one of dozens.

He's a real ladies' man, laughing it up with the customers, if they were pretty.

I'd like to see your prescription record, please. Okay.

Right here.

Do you want to read off a couple of the names in Halleck's little black book?

Yeah.

Uh, Jan Waring, Lucy White, and Mrs. Darren Webb. Hold it, hold it. Jan

Filled a prescription for diazepam last week.

She's in here all the time.

Uh, very pretty girl.

Dancer, I think. Okay, okay. Mrs. Webb.

Hey, you weren't running a pharmacy. You were running a date bureau over here.

Could I see that picture again?

Yeah.

Sure, that could be her.

Here, Lisa Walden. Lives just a couple of blocks away from here.

Refilled the prescription here last week.

What's this particular drug for?

That's what they call a psychic energizer. It's sort of an upper, but

so hard on the system. It tends to prevent withdrawal.

From what?

Life.

She's a very quiet girl.

I can remember talking to her a couple of times myself.

Here, a prescription was made out by Dr.

Ralph Damon from Bellevue.

She spent some time there. I believe it was an outpatient.

All right, make a list of the names in this prescription record. See if they

jive with the names in Halleck's little book. I'll call Lieutenant Klum in. All

right. This is Dr. Damon. Do you have my phone number on him? I'll check my file

card.

You know what you ought to grow on this?

Those little baby sunflowers.

Me and my mother when... When I was growing up in Jersey.

Lisa.

Miss Lisa Walden?

Yes?

Miss Walden, I'm Lieutenant Kojak, Police Department.

May I come in, please?

Police?

May we talk alone, Miss Walden?

This is my closest neighbor, Joyce Harrington. He's really family.

Joyce? That's right. Joyce.

Like a famous Irish author, which you probably never read.

Nice talking to you, Joyce.

You know, that's what I love about New York.

You see these dilapidated buildings on the outside and you walk inside and it's

a lovely little home.

Would you like some apple juice?

Love that.

Joyce. Mother, come on, please.

Miss Walden, there's a girl around who bears you a striking resemblance.

One we're looking for on an investigation.

It's getting to be so fast.

I doubt if you want me, Lieutenant.

I'd rather you go out.

You really don't care about me.

If it wasn't for her, you'd never stay with me.

You'd leave me. Please, Mother.

Come on, Mother. You know that's not true.

Come on, let's go back to Paris.

Come on.

What concerns a man named... Greg Halleck. He's the doctor down the

know, where you get your prescriptions, Phil.

Oh, yes.

He's very pleasant.

He delivered something for me last week.

In fact, we even went to the theater the night before last.

Oh, you sure it wasn't last night?

You're right.

Last night.

I just slept so late.

You don't get the papers, do you?

It's never anything nice.

And you people, your lives are filled with such craziness all the time.

Miss Walden.

Lisa.

Greg Halleck was killed last night.

Stabbed. Oh, no.

That's a mistake. You see, we went to the theater.

Did he bring you back here afterwards?

Yes.

We must have.

Greg is very attentive.

He would not send me home alone.

Maybe you had a little too much liquor or something.

And you do sleep late.

I'll try to remember everything that happened after the theater.

If you need me, just call.

I don't feel good.

This isn't making me feel good at all.

I'm sorry.

Look, maybe if we went out of the station house, you know, and talked to

man who said he saw someone resembling you.

Just leave her alone.

Why does everybody take her away?

Joyce!

Don't you hear me?

What are you doing?

You were going to get me a cup of soup.

Are you all right?

Don't you hear me?

Everything's under control.

Muy dramatic -o. So?

I got tricky, Frank.

I took this from Lisa Walton's apartment.

And Forensic picked up a perfect set of prints.

And they matched those taken off the liquor glass from Greg Halleck's

So I put out a search warrant for her place a couple hours ago.

The dark -haired creature you came in with?

She killed Halleck? Oh, I don't know, Frank.

But I do know this, that both the usherette and Mr. Dean identified her.

I do know that she was there when it happened.

But in talking to her, she seems to have blanked out everything after she left

the theater.

Which doesn't make her innocent.

Just sick.

Where is she now?

Well, I didn't want to put her in a holding tank.

So she's in there with policewoman Donaldson in the interrogation room.

And Dr. Ralph Damon disappeared seven weeks ago.

And Judge Crater vanished 40 years ago? And nobody in my family has heard a word

from my Uncle Patrick since high school?

Hey, all right, Damon, that's when you said wrote Lisa's prescriptions?

Yeah, he took off from Bellevue for the weekend. His brother said that he came

into town to do some shopping, but that's the last he saw of him. That was

seven, almost eight weeks ago.

What about missing persons?

They chased him to Palmieri's on Fifth Avenue the last day. He charged the

lady's scarf sometime around noon.

Let me see that report.

Uh -huh.

Graduated Columbia University, nine years of practice.

I thought shrinks never did anything kinky.

Just took off, huh? I talked to Dr. Kirk.

She took over his caseload.

She's willing to talk to you about Lisa Walden, go through her file, up to a

certain point, professional ethics and all that kind of stuff. She's out in the

squad room.

Originally, Lisa was admitted to Bellevue at the request of her landlady.

Lived in Brooklyn at the time.

Didn't work, wouldn't pay her bills, wouldn't move out.

Lived in a small pile in the middle of the floor.

Hmm.

Nothing violent about her behavior.

On the contrary, she was withdrawn, passive.

Dr. Damon apparently spent a lot of time with her.

Attractive girls get a break, Lieutenant, even in an institution.

Tell me about it.

Well, he released her. How did he manage to help?

He gave her enough insight and trust in herself to try it again on the outside.

You don't think she could stab a young man who made aggressive passes at her?

No, I doubt it.

Not from anything Dr. Damon put in his notes.

Look, Doctor, maybe we'll find out that she didn't stab her date, in which case

she had to be present at the killing.

Most probably, anyway.

Not if it's a job for a doctor, not a detective.

I mean, what am I going to do, put her under bright lights and have her grilled

by three detectives? No.

Why don't you take her back to Bellevue?

See if you can make her talk, okay?

It's a shock going back there, Lieutenant.

I can't promise you anything, not for weeks.

Well, I don't have weeks.

Not with this kind of a killer running loose.

All right, Doctor, thank you.

Oh, yes, in here.

Try one of these.

You're a nervous wreck.

Hey, what do you think the captain would say if I had a couple of these hanging

over my desk?

Are you kidding?

He'd probably have you hanging up there with him. Yeah, this is Detective

Saperstein.

This is Kojak. What did you find?

Well, first time around, Lieutenant, the place is clean.

Now, you want to...

No. The place straight?

Yeah, it's straight.

Now I'm going to send her home.

You say you were releasing her? Frank, the girl is sick.

I mean, she's blocked it all out.

She never could have jabbed a blade that deep into the victim. It penetrated

bone, Frank.

That's one hell of a strong thrust.

You just give me a couple of days.

I'm going to try to get close to her, be her confidante like the doctor. Yeah,

that might help her unblock that memory.

Thank you, Officer Donaldson.

I don't understand how you can work in this place.

The walls are like hospitals.

Do me a favor, then.

Let one of my men take you home.

And then I'll show up in a little while.

And maybe you can give me some decorating ideas. Oh, very unofficially.

What do you say?

They're crazy, Mother. They searched her apartment.

They think she's done something bad.

And they took her away all day. That Kojak, that lieutenant, he's the one.

You listen in on her.

You spy on her, but you never take her out.

What's wrong with you?

What kind of love is that?

I do things for her. All kinds of things I could do for you.

That's love, isn't it?

But you never could say it out loud.

Everybody says it out loud.

It's too easy.

We've got to be careful.

Listen, first thing you know, you get married. You're living together right on

top of each other all the time. See, Lisa and me, we are really close.

I know everything about her.

How to help when she's up and down.

We don't crowd each other this way like you and me. Like we've always crowded

each other.

Not bad.

Try this.

What we call Greek honey. You might not like the taste. You know, the Greek

bees, they feed on time.

It gives it a very special kind of taste.

Try that.

Thank you.

Mind if I hang up my hat and coat?

a lot of things at Palmieri?

I hardly ever buy anything.

Why? The scarf.

It's beautiful.

My psychiatrist gave it to me.

Oh, really?

When?

Dr. Damon came here to visit a couple of times just to see how I was. He gave it

to me the last time he was here.

Was it a professional call?

Well, sort of. He suggested that I ought to go back to Bellevue just for a

while.

For some chemical therapy.

I get depressed sometimes.

Anyway, I didn't want to, and I think the scarf was kind of a peace offering,

that I'd know he was really my friend and that he'd stick by me.

You thinking about going back?

If he wanted me to, I would have. He even spoke to Joyce about taking care of

the apartment.

Well, then I never saw him again.

Joyce? That's the neighbor from across the way.

I mean, he spoke to the doctor when he brought you the scarf?

Mm -hmm.

After he left my apartment.

What's this?

Oh, try it. I think you'll like it.

Lisa, you know I'd love you to make me one of those hangings for my niece and

her husband. It's their first anniversary.

Do you like the liqueur?

I'm trying to remember.

I tasted it for the first time just the other night.

Greg gave me some at his apartment.

It is a problem?

I think so.

But I said I wasn't there. Maybe it was someplace else.

Well, you think about it. We'll talk about it later.

I'd like me to bring you a couple of Frank Sinatra records, okay?

I know anything you want.

We'll talk tomorrow, okay?

Maybe then I won't be so confused.

with Lisa Walden. We're moving, Frank. At least she admitted being in Alec's

apartment.

What's wrong?

This doctor there, where is he, Frank?

Well, get on it.

Get on it?

You got the list of names from the pharmacy?

Yes, sir.

If you check out, anybody who might have seen Alec would leave with their name.

They took a picture of Alec around. Nobody ever saw him before.

Not even Joyce Harrington?

You mean the guy in the back with the sick mother?

No, I showed him that picture myself.

Oh, yeah?

Look, he picks up a prescription for his mother every other week. He's on almost

every page.

And he never saw Halleck at the drugstore?

No.

No, the doctor.

He went over to Lisa's apartment to give her that scarf.

And he talked to Joyce Harrington, which makes Joyce Harrington the last one to

see the doctor alive.

I want you to check all the trucking companies to see Lisa's apartment. What

we looking for? Find out the exact time that the doctor was last seen alive.

And then find out if there are any pickups near Joyce Harrington's

Pickup of what?

Anything large enough to hold a body.

But I'm going over to Lisa's.

And, uh...

That's all.

You're sitting on old blue eyes.

fit a body in a bread box.

You're a ghoul. I don't know how you ever got a green thumb.

Yeah, sure.

Lisa? Where did you come from?

Heaven, can't you tell?

Oh.

I brought you Frank Sinatra album.

Would you please come inside and talk to me?

I'm scared. I remember things.

I'm your man.

Miller Trucking?

Yeah. May I speak to the dispatcher, please?

Hi.

This is Detective Stavros, Manhattan South.

I notice you're not too far away from an address on West 46th Street.

660, party's name is Harrington.

Any chance you made a pick up there around seven weeks ago?

What was that all about, Harrington?

I'm going home, Mr. Miller. Help me, I feel lousy.

What do you mean you're going home? It ain't even noon yet. I'm going, that's

all. Listen, you go or you quit. That's it, Harrington.

I just got cut off. You're the guy we were just talking to?

Yeah. Well, that's okay. I'll start all over again.

I shouldn't look into my things, Mother.

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

I have to take things day by day. Do you understand?

I did what I had to.

You're luckier than you know.

This isn't the greatest life in the world.

He was on a cart with you.

And then he got up.

Oh?

What for?

I don't know. I can't remember.

I have a headache.

You listen, Lisa.

You're a beautiful girl. You make beautiful things.

You surround yourself with life.

Look at these flowers and plants.

Oh, even Phaedra over there, you're a big mouth singer.

And I hate to talk to you about death.

But we've got to keep people from being hurt.

And we have to understand how so much hatred can affect another life, do you

understand?

So stick with it.

It's important.

I think he answered.

I think he answered the door.

The doorbell. Did you see who was at the door?

I don't remember.

Nobody was at the door. Then nobody killed Greg.

It isn't clear.

There's blood on my glove.

Yes?

Yes, Harris.

Miller Trucking Company.

Right.

Look, Lisa, I've got to go about three blocks from here.

I should be back in about 30 minutes.

I didn't want to remember.

Not you.

You did see me.

Don't be afraid.

Everything's ending now, Lisa.

Come. Look at mother.

Anything I want to.

I can do anything I want to now.

Did you call the doctor?

She's dead.

Maybe not.

I think that we should go. No, Lisa.

We're not going to be apart anymore.

None of us ever again.

It's that simple.

Joyce, there's a detective.

And he's going to be back any minute. He's a good man.

You can talk to him. Talk to him? Oh, no.

We'll do better than that. We'll settle with him.

But the police, they'll kill you and then we won't be friends.

You can't fight them. You can.

I can't?

No. Sir, this is Mr. Miller. He owns the company. He remembers telling one of

his drivers to make a pickup at 662 West 46th Street. That was just two days

after Dr. Damon disappeared.

But I can't find the slip.

His name was Smith or Woods or something like that. Something simple. It was

supposed to wait with it outside the building. But my dispatcher might know

about the order, but quit today.

Was it under the name of Harrington?

No, no, no, no, no, no. You guys got that mixed up. Harrington is the

dispatcher's name.

Joyce Harrington was your dispatcher? Yes.

Yeah, weirdo, but 9 o 'clock on the dot. Except he cuts out during the day.

He's got a sick mother. Sure.

He slips out after ordering up the pickup and goes to the building next to

with the trunk.

No, no, no.

Barrel. Weighs a ton. It's filled with crockery. We got it stored in a basement

somewhere. Take a look.

Meet me back at Lisa's.

Dicta?

What's this plastic so the crockery doesn't leak?

Lisa.

Let's see if we can get this thing off you without hurting you.

Easy does it.

So you're gone. No more brick walls outside the window.

You know, I need you to make that macrame for my niece.

Yeah.

She lives in Jersey, you know. It's like the country.

Lisa?

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