Walter mcginn puts in a sympathetic performance in an otherwise relatively routine episode of the famous cop show featuring Lynn Redgrave and a young good looking Morgan Fairchild. McGinn most famous for his appearance in The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor sadly died only a few months after this episode was originally broadcast in a car accident.
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Ther streets are filled with dirt that crawls
kapelusznik188 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** With his junkie girlfriend Claire, Lynn Redgrave, unable to kick her drug habit undercover Det. Len Gittings, Walter McGinn, blows his big case. that he's been working on for six months, by blowing his partner-Det. Morgan-away in a mistaken identity shootout at the Queens docks with the drug dealer Don Luiz Carbillo,Hurd Hatfield, taking off with $1,000,000.00 in raw heroin. That's after he blew away his supplier Joe Mellick,Sam Locante, whom he double-crossed.
With Let. Theo Kojak, Telly Sevalas, personally taking over the case and keeping Gittins on instead of being off it Gittins is given a second chance to redeem himself as well as help his girlfriend Claire to overcome her heroin habit that she picked up while hooking down Broadway to pay her bills and put food on the table. The slick Carbillo knowing that he's a marked man hired one of the low paid, for $50.00, hoods in the neighborhood Dan Hudson, played the Dick Millhouse Nixon look-alike Dan Hedaya, to knock off both Kojak & Gittins who like Nixon in covering up the Watergate brake-in fails miserably.
***SPOILERS***Thate's also the late Joe Millick's gangster big brother George out for revenge who's using without him quite knowing it Let.Kojak to track down Carbello and knock him off for doing in his kid brother in as well as talking off with his #1,000,000.00 in heroin. We also get to see the gorgeous looking and in her first real role, not as a walk on without a single line of dialog, Morgan Fairchild as Carbillo's girlfriend or personal squeeze Allison. It's Allison who after being caught red handed with the drug money on her had no trouble ratting out her boyfriend Carbillo who this time, unlike before, Gittins had no difficulty at all gunning him down. That without mistaking and shooting his now partner Let. Kojak like he did earlier in the episode.
With Let. Theo Kojak, Telly Sevalas, personally taking over the case and keeping Gittins on instead of being off it Gittins is given a second chance to redeem himself as well as help his girlfriend Claire to overcome her heroin habit that she picked up while hooking down Broadway to pay her bills and put food on the table. The slick Carbillo knowing that he's a marked man hired one of the low paid, for $50.00, hoods in the neighborhood Dan Hudson, played the Dick Millhouse Nixon look-alike Dan Hedaya, to knock off both Kojak & Gittins who like Nixon in covering up the Watergate brake-in fails miserably.
***SPOILERS***Thate's also the late Joe Millick's gangster big brother George out for revenge who's using without him quite knowing it Let.Kojak to track down Carbello and knock him off for doing in his kid brother in as well as talking off with his #1,000,000.00 in heroin. We also get to see the gorgeous looking and in her first real role, not as a walk on without a single line of dialog, Morgan Fairchild as Carbillo's girlfriend or personal squeeze Allison. It's Allison who after being caught red handed with the drug money on her had no trouble ratting out her boyfriend Carbillo who this time, unlike before, Gittins had no difficulty at all gunning him down. That without mistaking and shooting his now partner Let. Kojak like he did earlier in the episode.
A bad shooting, a tragic mistake
bkoganbing7 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers
While staking out a drug dealer two of Kojak's detectives separate, one drug dealer played by Hurd Hatfield shoots another and walks away with money. That's been the elegant Hatfield's modus operandi, ripping off dealers and killing them. This particular dealer is the brother of a well known mafioso so it will be more than cops after Hatfield.
But McGinn while pursuing Hatfield accidentally shoots his partner and that brings the weight of the world around him. But Telly Savalas tells Dan Frazer he needs McGinn to keep at it because he's the only one who knows the players.
McGinn's got the weight of the world on him before the shooting with a drug addicted girlfriend in Lynn Redgrave. He's also having vision problems which are never properly explained.
Hatfield and Redgrave and McGinn are standout performers here and Morgan Fairchild has a small bit. But too much is unresolved in this story.
But McGinn while pursuing Hatfield accidentally shoots his partner and that brings the weight of the world around him. But Telly Savalas tells Dan Frazer he needs McGinn to keep at it because he's the only one who knows the players.
McGinn's got the weight of the world on him before the shooting with a drug addicted girlfriend in Lynn Redgrave. He's also having vision problems which are never properly explained.
Hatfield and Redgrave and McGinn are standout performers here and Morgan Fairchild has a small bit. But too much is unresolved in this story.
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