Within the squad room, we meet Chiccaloni, an interesting character who by no means seems on the show again, as well as Cahan (Sidney Clute). As Kojak and Crocker seek for details about Leona, there’s a funky music playing within the background with lyrics “Groovy, groovy, baby / Groovin’ to ya / My soul is moving / Moving closer to you / Feeling completely happy simply being collectively / All of my life / I’ve been waiting for you.” – After Kojak talks to Peggy, the landlady who rented Reason a room, he asks her to offer him a call if Reason returns, but he would not give her his enterprise card. When Kojak goes later to speak to Jack (who does hold out in La Culebra, regardless that the decor within the background is completely different than when Kojak was there earlier talking to Sammy), Jack says the $10,000 that received his father killed was extorted from a “respectable businessman, a wealthy man, a closet queen.” Kojak says this is baloney, and that Jack informed his father “the one story he might sq. along with his policeman’s conscience.” Kojak says that Jack truly bought the cash from selling data to the robbers his father and Geno have been after that he gleaned from his father’s duty schedule.
Kojak and Geno go to see Sammy Moreno (Joey Aresco), the informant who gave Donnelly and Geno intel about the robberies they have been investigating, and Sammy swears that his information was all right. But Curcio would not see the earpiece, and at one point he slips his hand below Joannie’s hair on the left aspect of her face and would not contact it there both. Kojak’s automobile quantity for purposes of radio communication is 723. – When Joannie is wired for her encounter with Curcio, she has an earpiece in her left ear. Kojak and Joannie clearly “did it,” because when he arrives at her place close to the beginning of the show, she tells him “You forgot your watch.” He later tells her “The evening wasn’t completely all that unpleasant.” – The $one hundred invoice with the phone number has the serial quantity K02788751A. Above the bar the place Curcio picks up Joannie is an advert for Nosegay, “the tobacco for pipe or cigarettes.” – When Kojak begins reading the report which Gomez filed after talking to Mrs. Contreras, he is holding in within the “panorama” mode, however when he is seen from the front it’s within the “portrait” mode. Sammy is a bartender at La Culebra (The Viper or Snake), an after-hours bar.
The killer turns out to be Gus Sutherland (Alan Fudge), bartender at the Body Boutique, who is suffering from critical “mommy issues.” Review: Like the previous episode, this one has some good things about it, nevertheless it runs out of steam in direction of the tip. Kojak comments, “Sammy Moreno — informant, bartender — and Tommy’s child, each of them three-dollar bills.” I don’t perceive why Kojak suddenly sees some connection between Sammy and Jack. Kojak visits Donnelly’s wife Madge (Louise Latham) and asks some very touchy questions. On July 3, 1976-Dodd’s fifteenth birthday-his father attempted suicide following an argument together with his wife. Kojak later confronts Jack about the $10,000 that his father had in his wallet, which, strangely, the person who shot him by no means took. Director: Gary Nelson; Writers: Richard Adams; Jack Laird Summary: Tom Donnelly (John Pickard), a cop on the force for 24 years with an impeccable report, is found shot lifeless in his automotive in an alley with $10,000 in his wallet. Later, McNeil says he thinks that the $10,000 was related with some kind of shakedown as a result of Donnelly’s kid was gay. Kojak immediately exhibits up and shoots Gus; before Gus expires, he says “Mama?” Terrible!
After Chiccaloni puts on his, Stavros, who’s standing on the door of Kojak’s office, says “Excuse me” in a swishy method and leaves. Adding to the confusion about Scyler-on-the-Hudson’s proximity to New York is the fact that Crocker had no hassle calling Kojak from Manhattan on the radio when he was there earlier and once they arrest the robbers at the top of the show, the “native” cops have a brand new York City Police shield on the door of their automotive. Along with the location of the pay cellphone as per the number on Curcio’s $100 invoice, the recent appearance of the Vegas money men, the sum of money Curcio was carrying, and the truth that Scylar-on-the-Hudson is a rich group, Kojak one way or the other deduces that the identical thieves are at work pulling off the same robbery proper now — all of which is way too clever. At the top, Kojak and Crocker go to the security Scylar National Bank where the thieves are simply wrapping up their enterprise, having looted lots of of security deposit bins.
