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Thank you very much.

Just like the other one.

Make room.

Any witnesses? One. He's a patient. He's in there now.

Dr Page...she was my friend.

Miss Fowler was my friend.

No, no! No, no! Hector!

Hector! Please, don't manhandle him.

Hey.

Go check the inventory on the drugs.

Don't be afraid.

Huh? Are you OK?

Hey, Hector. We have to talk.

Now. Lieutenant, you've been in and out of here

since last week's killing.

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

Well, it's true, I don't have a couch,

but I do have a shield and I'm looking for a murderer.

Do you want this man to break down completely?

Hey, we got two murders in one week.

What I don't want is number three.

Let him talk to the patient, doctor.

Come on.

Hi.

Well...

If the medic sees that in your 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.

Less. We were talking.

She's nice to me.

So I help her with things.

Dr Page lets me.

Don't you, doctor?

Mm-hm.

I found one of her boxes in the hall.

And I came to give it to her.

She was on the floor.

Thank you, Hector. We'll talk again later, OK?

Lieutenant, we're gonna try to trace the room.

Do it right now. Yes, sir.

Oh, oh, oh.

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.

Where's the 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 by the door and then drag her body across the room?

Her nails are clean. No scratches on her neck.

I guess he's probably bigger and stronger than she was.

OK, well, maybe it's just a little guy who's a dumbbell freak.

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

when little boys keep walking out of their therapy rooms?

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

Hi, Lieutenant, can I have another ride?

Ho ho. You know something?

When my captain sees us, he's gonna say,

"Lieutenant Kojak, you're not paid to carry lazy kids around."

You know something? He'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 can't close this building down indefinitely.

Look, doctor,

a doctor was murdered 100 yards from here in the parking lot,

strangled, hemp rope.

And now a lady pharmacist murdered in the same building,

again strangulation with hemp rope.

Do you know how many doors there are?

How many services? Emergencies? Clinics?

Look, when I find my killer, you can have your hospital back, OK?

'Dr Fine. Dr Fine.'

Look, Kojak, do me a favour, 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. Right.

What are you doing up there?

Counting the freckles on your head.

Oh, really? Well, cut that out

or I'll place you under arrest, you understand?

All these doctors rushing around busy, huh?

Busy? Except with Ralph.

I see him every day. Ha ha ha!

He can't speak.

He can't walk.

I beg them to operate. I know.

You want to see your 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 through enough.

But that bottle won't make any of it go away.

Ugh!

Even if I could forget for a moment now and then...

I come here and I see him.

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.

Wow. If you were that gentle with me, I might take up drinking.

Make an appointment with my secretary.

Don't look at me. I'm out working on my serve

before Fowler's lying in the morgue.

Gee, I'm real sorry. Were you very close to her?

We were friends for years. Hey, Lieutenant?

This is Monica Brady.

Come on into my office.

Manhattan South. Rizzo.

Sit down.

Now...

Does she have any enemies?

You know, jilted or jealous lovers?

OK. So you heard.

I didn't hear anything.

Well, you will.

She was a bit loose.

But with her it really wasn't that, you know.

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 any 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.

And he died in his pool. Coronary?

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 neuro-surgeon.

Alfred Parker. He was one of the best.

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

Oh, sure. Here, you wanna sip?

Crocker...

Could you 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 hernias?

Yeah.

Good. My name's Monica.

Maybe bells will ring for us.

But I got all these files to do, Lieutenant.

Crocker, be nice.

She's a lonely lady. Get her to talk.

Lonely people have a way of knowing

about other people's lives, especially victims.

I read that in a manual. Monica....

Monica.

Dr Page.

I do...

..what I do...

because...they deserve it.'

Hello? Who are you?

Pain...

..for pain.

It's only fair.

Please, tell me who you are.

Let me help you.

Right, call the roll. Rizzo's still on.

Crocker just got here.

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

Would you give me the name of your tailor? I need a new image.

Hah! Tailor? I'll tell you a tailor. You take the mob too.

Hey, Lieutenant, the captain sent this over.

It's what they dug up

on that Dr Parker's swimming pool accident out in Hempstead.

Ralph, 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 your therapy like they tell you.

He doesn't take therapy every day.

That would make him better.

You know...

Ralph used to be a bright boy once.

He 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, huh?

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

You mustn't give up.

It's a sin against the Lord...

..to give up.

Well, I'll...

I'll come back tomorrow morning. OK?

You just rest, now.

Ugh!

Whoa! You've been a good girl.

I've got something for you. It's a present.

It's a going away present. OK?

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 you seriously for a moment, doctor?

I really shouldn't. Today is my day off.

I'll be leaving in a few minutes.

According to this file, you were an anaesthetist

before you became an administrator, and a surgeon before that.

The word is anaesthesiologist. There's a difference.

Oh, you're saying, from the Greek work anesthitos.

But according to a police report

you knew a Dr Parker before he drowned in his pool a year ago.

Yeah, it was tragic.

Got strangled in the water polo nets running across the pool.

It was an accident. Maybe not.

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

What are you trying to make this? An epidemic? 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? You'd make a great witness.

Look, Kojak, why don't you make a professional assumption, hm?

Maybe the killer is a latter day advocate of socialised medicine.

Or a solid citizen who feels he has been overcharged by his paediatrician.

Or maybe some nut who has a grudge against medicine.

So you have yourself a nice day, doctor.

But be careful, OK?

That line isn't as funny as some of yours, but I'll try again.

There's trouble in the park behind the building.

Stop! You stop there, doctor.

You! Stop! Freeze!

Thomas, I'm the one that tries to get you to face the truth.

But I'm bad.

I'm evil.

I've always been bad.

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

I am.

I'll give you little insights, little presents

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.

Huh?

Thank you.

Are patients allowed to come and go like that?

Well, it's not a prison.

Check out his travel.

Yes, sir. That's not necessary.

The man's been under sedation. It's his first time up in weeks.

Doctor, let's be friends, OK?

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 he was still paranoid,

but he was no longer an acute problem.

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

he'll 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, OK?

OK.

George. Hello, Lieutenant.

Look, this pharmacist Fowler...

Find out who she was dating, who she jilted, who jilted her.

Mingle with the staff and ask them, and mop and like that, OK?

Yes, sir.

Don't move.

I'll blow your head off, I swear.

Now, that's what policemen say, isn't it?

They say, "Don't move or I'll blow your head off."

I was stopped by a policeman once.

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. Professor Lacey.

You promised not to take any more walks without help.

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

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

on their terms.

I just felt that they should do things my way.

That's perfectly logical, isn't it? Yes, professor.

It's my fault.

I'm walking by the whirlpool room

and somebody tells me to help this patient into the tank.

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

That's OK, Rizzo. We won't tell Dr Schweisser this time.

Right, come on.

Lieutenant?

I found a piece of this twine outside on the floor.

I sent a sample of it to the lab. How many has access?

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

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 murder in the parking lot

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.

'Dr Fine. Dr Fine.'

He said he was leaving.

Dr Fine. Dr Fine.

Doctor?

Lieutenant, I can't talk to you now.

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

You can tell me how long you've known the deceased.

OK.

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 little melodramatic, huh? It'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.

Mm-hm? Ever been sued for malpractice?

When 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.

I'm a coward, you see.

Don't worry. There's no killer after me.

'Dr Fine, report to your office.'

Lieutenant, I really got to 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 goin' on here?!

He asked me to look over his old files

from when he was Dr Parker's anaesthesiologist.

I opened the door and someone just slammed by me.

I didn't even see his face. What was he wearing?

White, I think.

Oh? Tall? Short? Tall.

His colour? Black? Brown? White?

I think he was white. I don't even know that. Lieutenant?

He's 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 or with a grudge. I don't know.

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

The candy.

But, please, find them, huh?

Find them before he kills somebody else.

Mm-hm. Rizzo?

I want a list of every patient on this desk, OK?

Then cross-check 'em, doctors with nurses, nurses with doctors,

patients with nurses, and like that.

That's gonna take a year. Hey.

Two killings in one week, maybe three.

Somebody in this building doesn't have a year.

Kojak? We have the wing secured.

Good.

I want you to check everybody in this building, OK?

Check the IDs. Anything look funny, get in touch with me.

Why isn't the lady shrink here? She doesn't know yet. Shall I tell her?

No, I'll tell her.

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 hurt that you can't find in a leg or an arm.

In here.

Or in here.

Sometimes it takes a lot of operations.

But whatever it is we try to fix it.

Mm-hm. Hi, Lieutenant.

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

Oh, good. Cos the guy I got needs a vacation.

Are you OK, darling? Yeah.

Good to see you.

Thank you.

Bye-bye.

It's his seventh operation. Really? How many more?

Who knows?

You want to have a drink?

Only if you're having one and you call it medicine.

I'm having one and I call it medicine.

It's been a long siege for you.

It's still going on. Huh?

Dr Sam Fine. About 20 minutes ago, but he's OK.

The man was serious. What man?

'I do...what I do.

because...

they deserve it. Hello?

Who are you? Pain...

for pain.

It's only fair. When did that come in? Yesterday.

Why the hell didn't you say something?

I didn't connect it to the killings here.

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 'em not to be because he's only after the staff.

Lieutenant...

half my patients are gonna 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 drink it all, get yourself smashed,

and then call your boyfriend and then lay there.

Well, I got the bottle, but I don't have a boyfriend. No?

That shouldn't be any problem.

Excuse me.

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 the hospital switchboard.

It must have been on the intercom system.'

Lieutenant, can I see you for a minute?

We caught a nurse in the stairwell.

Calm yourself.

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Brady, what are you doing out here alone?

I came up the stairs for some exercise.

I do it a couple of times a day.

I do two steps at a time.

You were told to stay out of the stairwell.

It's cheaper than tennis!

Why isn't she dead? He had time to finish it.

Well, he didn't want to kill her. How's that?

Like he didn't want to kill Hector.

He started to kill her.

He started to kill her, but he stopped.

Why does somebody stop when he's started something?

He changes his mind. Murder's heavy. Come on.

For a guy who's 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.

Go back and talk to her.

What do I ask? What about haemorrhoids?

Go back and ask her

if she could have been somebody else he wanted to kill?

Lieutenant Kojak...

My God. Do you see what your presence in the hospital is doing?

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

Brady, she's all right.

Can I see her? She's lying down.

What are you doing out of bed?

Lieutenant. They're taking Christopher to pre-op tonight.

Cos he's so frightened.

Hi, doc. Hi.

Is that your bodyguard?

I've got one too.

Sam, I meant to stop in. I don't what to say.

You could have said hello.

Suppose one of my patients did this to you.

Someone I talk with every day.

Someone who came to me for help.

I told you a long time ago...

this place is not your whole life. Go away.

For a month, a year. I'll miss you.

Lieutenant Kojak, he'll miss you.

You can't make a whole life within these walls.

Come on, come on. Look...

at least go away tonight.

Kojak will take care of you.

I know. It's easier to give advice than to take it.

You remember that too, hm?

Hey, Christopher.

You'd better hurry and get back to work. Your my best man on the job.

Well, maybe I won't.

Hey, look, you're my tough man on the job, you understand?

I mean, sure you've 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? Suppose...

I mean, just suppose I never see you again.

Come on.

I got it.

Look at this.

Solid gold. You're officially a lieutenant, you understand?

When you come out of that room, I want it back

and you can get one of your own.

That's a heavy thing you guys face, huh?

You got a guy who can't talk, a little boy who can't walk.

I've tried telling myself they were worse off before they got here.

Doctor, you be careful because this guy hasn't finished the job on you.

Officer, don't let him out of your sight.

This is Crocker.

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

Don't move on it yet.

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

Forget it.

Doctor?

Er...

I don't think you understand. This is an operating room, right?

Don't get me wrong, you're my hero.

In the meantime, do me a favour, take cold showers.

And don't take 'em alone until further notice. Now, get out of here.

Don't knock it, Crocker. You never play doctor when you were a kid?

Oh, this is beautiful.

You're really making progress.

Don't worry. You're safe here.

Has she gone home?

The light's on.

Dr Page?

Come back later.

Hey.

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

How can I leave?

That mad man.

And there are others.

And I can't save them. I don't even know who they are.

Is that tragic? Is that funny?

Come on, I'll buy you a cup of coffee.

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

Then we'll compare your files with Dr Fine's

and I think the killer's somewhere between the two of you, OK?

Somewhere...

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

That's better. Look like an old duty nurse?

But I don't like what's there.

Children in Europe are starving.

Danish!

The Inspector wants to know how many people will be killed before we catch him?

You tell the inspector what I told you to tell him yesterday.

Hey. One.

For the leader the spoils.

Hey, Danish.

What kind do you prefer? Any kind.

That's what I like, a gourmet cop.

Everything and nothing.

And if New York's finest would stop stuffing their faces,

then maybe we'd find more before the inspector busts me.

Who made these? A welder?

Here's your other patient.

Do you know what her crime is?

She wants to save everyone.

It doesn't work that way and she knows it.

Maybe it should be. Why don't you tell the inspector?

Come.

Coffee? Thank you.

Why did you ask me to come here?

Well...to get you out of that cocoon you hid in.

You know, bring you into another part of the world mine.

Hey, look, Doc, I'm gonna need your help.

It's wonderful.

You made such progress here.

Mrs Donner. Good to see you again.

Oh...

I'll come 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.

God, what good am I?

Hey, doctor, I know what you mean.

Lieutenant, this name is on both Dr Fine's and Dr Page's files.

Grady. That's why he stopped.

He saw the tag Brady. He saw he'd made a mistake.

Grady left to have a baby. Look, I tell you the one patient

operated on by that surgical team

of Parker, Walker, Fine, Fowler...

And Larson? He's still there.

Call the hospital and put a guard on Donner's room.

Tell Larson to stay in the open.

'Paging Dr Larson. Paging Dr Larson.'

Do you want me to answer that? Forget it. I have to be in surgery.

'Paging Dr Larson.'

'Paging Dr Larson. Paging Dr Larson.'

'Paging Dr Larson. Dr Larson, call the operator.'

'Paging Dr Larson.'

'Paging Dr Larson. Paging Dr Larson.'

This is Dr Larson, would you quit bugging me?

He's in Surgery One.

No!

Let him go.

I wanted somebody to make me better.

And they didn't!

Ralph, you don't want to kill.

I do!

Are you all right? Yes.

Ralph, don't be afraid.

This is gonna make you sleep.

Sshh! Sshh! Sshh! Sshh! Sshh!

Sshh!

OK.

How did he fool so many doctors?

He didn't.

He fooled himself.

It's what they call conversion symptoms.

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 his 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 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.

How do you think 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 can walk soon.

Well, it's this way, Christopher.

No, no. No more jokes, huh?

The truth is we don't know, but it looks pretty good.

Will I be able to play football?

I don't know. Could you play it before?

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

Hello, Captain. Come on, let's go.

Here we go.

Ah-ha! What, are you tired?

Hm, Hmm. You?

Look, there's a little steak house down on the East Side.

A friend of mine owns it and he owes me one. What do you say?

Sounds good.

Great kid.

Oh, yeah.

You leaving, doc? Mm-hm.

I was wondering...

I eat alone every day, you eat alone every day....

I thought er...maybe we could eat alone together.

What do you say?

Oh, er...

that is if you're finished with her, Lieutenant.

I'm finished.

Come on.

Lieutenant, that's a fine lady. Are you just gonna let her go like that?

You can't win 'em all.

And sometimes maybe you shouldn't.

The story of my life, baby.