By 293333_3swxgm After Kojak leaves, Reason shows up and Bradbury may be very annoyed as a result of Reason had hot pants for Leona and gave her half the loot from a robbery in Coopers Point, New York (one other made-up city) on June 4, 1973 which yielded a haul of a quarter-million dollars in new payments, plus stocks, bonds and gadgets of jewelery together with the ring which was on Leona’s finger. Actually, DuBois’ cab heads down a street to “Harlem Place.” Tomasso and Serafin have not been tailing them up to that point, but out of the blue emerge from an alley. Kojak additionally manages to trace down the assassin/killer, a guy named Mitch DuBois (Arnold Williams), who’s arrested after he makes an attempt to sell cocaine to Gil Weaver (Roger Robinson). The Kojak theme by Goldenberg is heard several times. This episode is the source of the scene from the primary credit the place Kojak is seen shooting whereas crouching down. George Bradbury (Joseph Hindy), her killer, tries to pry a large diamond ring off her finger, but is interrupted by a pair walking down the street, and flees with out it.
One of many characters, whose title is definitely Kotner (Joseph R. Sicari), is referred to ultimately credit as “Ferret Face.” Kojak yells at him to “Put a zipper in your mouth and SHUT UP!” – After DuBois is sprung on bail, he heads to Harlem. Because of this, Kojak and Crocker return there where they figure out (a bit too easily — see below) that Bradbury and his buddies are the identical gang who pulled off the Coopers Point robbery and are pulling the identical quantity on an area financial institution. Kojak is suspicious a couple of current encounter he had with money launderer Ken Dimin (Alan Dexter) and when he finds Dimin at an area restaurant, he is in the company of two Las Vegas “cash males,” Mesche (John Goddard) and Tony Curcio (Alex Rocco). They are thought to be members of a rival Harlem gang run by a man named Cleveland, so Kojak and his men round up members of this other gang after getting plenty of anonymous ideas. The one thing that bothers me is throughout the street party there are seemingly solely two black guys there, DuBois and the opposite shooter, Slade (Ji Tu Cumbuka), yet no one including Kojak can remember something about them until later when Kojak connects a picture of DuBois from the celebration with another that was taken of DuBois assembly Tomasso’s number one man Serafin (Anthony Charnota) in a “soul food” cafe.
The yellow sheet on Reason, in keeping with Crocker, says “Two bits for robbery, explosives, first-race juicer, safes, stuff like that.” Reason’s final known tackle was 1210 Moreland in Scylar-on-the-Hudson, a made-up town, which has some connection with Kojak 4 years earlier than. When Dimin provides Kojak some mouth, Kojak picks up Dimin’s chair and dumps him on the floor, convincing him and the opposite two males to be more respectful sooner or later. Kojak takes a trip there, however in response to Peggy (Maggie Malooly), the landlady of the house the place Reason was renting, he has been gone for two weeks. Tomasso attempts to flee, however he is put out of action by Kojak. Back on the station, McNeil says there may be sufficient proof (sixteen counts value) to place Tomasso and his gang away for a really very long time. But Kojak says that “something smells about this case,” even if McNeil figures that every thing is nicely wrapped up and the commissioner lavishes reward on Kojak for the work he has carried out. When this encounter almost gets out of hand, Kojak arrives on the scene late, telling Curcio “I ought to stay your mouth in a gentle socket.” Curcio comes out with the usual “I want to speak to my lawyer” line and is is taken away, to be charged with assault and attempted rape, both felonies.
Kojak later gets the assistance of his cop woman buddy Joannie Garretty (Lynnette Mettey) to get Curcio to pick her up. At one of those, Kojak gets an address for Leona, and when he arrives at her condominium, it has been tossed. One among Curcio’s payments (one out of 5,000 $one hundred payments!) conveniently has a phone number of 784-9975 on it, which is a pay cellphone throughout the road from the house in Scyler-on-the-Hudson the place the crooks are staying that Kojak visited earlier. An early signal of bother was a falling out with a business companion he had on one of many eating places, on Lavaca above fifteenth Street, which then ceased to be a “Jorge’s” restaurant. That is how I prepare steak myself, though I have never seen such a thing in an American restaurant. This type of lineup is seen in later episodes as nicely. In this present, a lineup consists of a bunch of people crowded right into a small room, not facet-by-side in front of the same old line indicating folks’s height.