05x21 - 60 Miles to Hell

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Let's go, Whitley. When you get
back to New York send me a postcard.

I'll send you a postcard,
lieutenant. In a box. It'll be ticking.

I'm at Vegas airport with
Lieutenant Hawkins and Vic Whitley.

Any sign of Whitley's brother? No. He was alone,

heading north in a van
with three tons of marijuana

when a couple of guys in the
sheriff's Jeep posse picked him up.

They're sure his brother's here.
Jeep posse, is that what I heard?


The Old West with four-wheel drive.

Listen, Lieutenant, I'll see you tonight. OK.

Bet you five bucks.

For what? Whitley doesn't give us a
single clue where his brother's hiding.

Theo, we're extraditing him for nothing.

I'm sorry.

Hey, how long do you figure we've got?

If they use the same flight plan as
last week we got till eight tomorrow night.


forever. For half a million apiece?

I'll find a way to stay awake. Yeah.

Hey. Huh? There she goes now.

they'll find this truck's stolen
soon. What's the next flight?

UWA flight 10 to New York. It's
on its way in from LA now. OK.

Hi. Everything all set? Yes.
Your g*n will be with the captain

and you have to remove his
cuffs during takeoff and landing.

Let's go, Whitley.

Have a nice flight.

OK, this is the real thing this time. No mistakes.

Hey, thank you very much.

Have a nice trip back to New York. Thank you.

Let's go now. Remember the plan.

Sally. Sally.

I'm going to be in baggage.

Come on, get in. Hey, hold it.
Wait a minute! Wait a minute!

Come on, get in. Wait. Get in.

Sally! All right, come on, get in there.

You, wise guy, in the van. You too.

They just took my sister. Who was that other woman?

I don't know. Some agent. I
don't know for sure. Do something.

You have Whitley. Let the women
go. You don't need them. Shut up.

why don't you do me a favour
and take these cuffs off? Come on.

My brother set this up, didn't he?

Mister, we just happened to pick
you. You're nothing special. What?

Maybe you got lucky. Get me outta
here and there's 20 grand in it for you.

You're not even close.

Never negotiate for yourself, stupid.

What? Yeah, we'll call back in ten minutes.

What is it, lieutenant?

Crocker, he's been kidnapped.

You're kidding?

Yeah. 10:15 flight to Vegas and I'll be on it. Right.

Here we are, Theo. Here's your fare.

You're $10 over. 36 red.

Oh.

Oh, lieutenant, I got 205 from
the guys in the squad room.

All right. Hey, lieutenant.

If they sprung Whitley, why did they take Crocker?

And that showgirl and the agent too. why take them?

All I know is that Crocker is going to do
something to help the police Locate 'em.

Now, he's gonna be talking to me
not them cos I know him like a book.

Now, I got 20 minutes to get to
Kennedy. Who's coming with me?

Oh.

Thanks, Rizzo. Grab the bag.

Do you have any matches?

Matches. Yeah.

Go straight through the
door and there'll be no trouble.

ALI right, come on. Come on, get in there.

I'd better get this out to the desert. Right.

Up against the wall right here.

Alright, get in there. Come on.

I've got important business.
I don't care. Just get in.

What do you want? Get in there.

I don't have any money. Why
are you doing this? Get inside.

Are you Looking for me? I'm Lieutenant Hawkins.

Hi, lieutenant. I'm Lieutenant
Kojak from New York. Yes, sir.

Sorry as hell about what happened
to your man and that prisoner.

Yeah. I hear you almost got
yourself k*lled. Don't apologise.

Those other two people they
snatched. What's the story?

It's your man and the prisoner I ain't so sure about.

They were grabbing the two
women the last time I saw 'em.

Chief. Chief.

Yeah, Quinn.

Looks like a pretty wide set of tracks here.

Maybe a Jeep was waiting for 'em here.

By they way, Quinn, this is Lieutenant Kojak.

NYPD. Crocker's boss. This is my
sergeant, Andy Quinn. How are you?

One of our volunteers, Russ Barton.

They look pretty new. They're headed that way.

I took a long Look off the road that way myself.

I'd follow those tracks towards
those hills. No doubt about it.

Quinn, let's make sure one of the
detectives gets some photos of these tracks.

Lieutenant? Yeah.

What you got? I found this match book in the van.

Hey. Yeah, it's one of my moves.

But my man, Crocker, he knows that.

If he left these matches in the van,

do you think he was trying to tell us something? What?

I don't know. Five matches bent over.

Five men. What about five miles?

That's just about where we are now.

Look, can I get someone to run me back to the city?

Sure, we'll have Sergeant Quinn drive you back.

Hey!

Who are you guys working for? I got friends.

My brother will go over this town
with sandpaper till he finds me.

You'll be in a lot of trouble, you hear me?

You're nothing but a bunch of dumb cowboys.

What the hell kind of a caper is this anyway?

Listen, booby.

If you let us out now we won't hold you to nothing.

No cops, no complaints, no testimony. Deal?

Bunch of turkeys.

Are you sure you don't come from a
lot of money? My parents are dead.

ALI I've got is a sister
who's the other half of our act.

What act?

We're the only topless twin magicians in the world.

Twin? Yeah.

Magician? Yeah.

Topless?

Yeah.

Vicki Adams, Addison, the sister they kidnapped -

this is where they were going
to work. You want me to wait?

No, that's all right, sergeant.

I've told you, lieutenant.
There is no reason in the world

anyone would want to kidnap my sister Sally.

Could you hand me one of those doves, please? Sure.

Thank you.

The one running a temperature. Come here.

Do me a favour, will you, Vicki? Call me Theo.

Why are you doing all this?

Well, I er...

I hesitate, Theo,

to repeat the oldest saying in my business,

but the show must go on.

Oh, I thought it was, 'I got
this girlfriend who needs a job.'

Mm—hm.

That's a cute little trick.

You do sleight of hand, right?

All of that plus more. Yeah? Like what?

Let me see, like what.

Mm...like this.

Oh, well. That's one trick you'd
better keep out of Bloomingdale's.

Now, look, obviously you've
got great powers of observation.

Did you notice what they were wearing

jewellery, shoes, things like that?

I have a way of making my mind
go blank recalling those things.

Takes a few minutes, A few drinks wouldn't hurt.

You know, my sister, she'll be all right, you know.

Her life can't end crazy like this.

Being grabbed from Las Vegas
airport it doesn't make any sense.

You know um...

if I don't go on that stage tonight,

I'll die with worry and fear.

Hey, look, you get changed, all right?

And I'll cancel the show
and I'll wait for you outside.

One stick of gum for three cigarettes?

You've got it.

You know, for a high-class
agent you just made a lousy deal.

Yeah? Wait till you see what a light's gonna cost you.

Oh, come on. Wait a minute. Let me see this lighter.

It's gold, a Dunhill.

My first gigolo gave it to me.

Hey, where are you going with that?

Whatever they're planning they're
willing to risk a kidnapping charge

and a m*rder isn't a far jump from that.

We've gotta have some sort of plan to fight back.

Grab hold of this.

Keys, shells from a revolver...

.and a lighter.

Sally, I need inspiration not a stage show.

Sorry. No, I'm sorry. You're really being terrific.

Nothing says you have to be
in New York to use a zip g*n.

Bob, if you don't have a g*n...

.would a b*mb be a good idea?

A b*mb? A b*mb.

Well, the tall guy who grabbed
Sally had on work shoes for sure.

His hands were large, strong...

...and he had a lot of dirt under his nails.

He wore a gold ring on his right hand.

It was real old, beat up. Could be a
factory worker but there are no factories.

Could be an airplane mechanic. They
knew that airplane routine pretty good.

Yeah, right.

Did you see your sister talking
to any strangers on the plane?

Could be a cause for it before you
came out here that you didn't know about.

Breaker channel 13. This is Roger the lodger

trying to raise Old Joe the pawny
prince. Do you copy, good buddy?



That equipment that came in from New York today,

it's starting to give us some trouble.

Maybe you could take it out of
service for a while if it acts bad.

I'll keep an eye on it.

Oh, there's something else I just remembered.

The short guy under his white coat

he was wearing a white shirt, a suit.

He had cuffs and cuff links.

A kidnapper who wears cuffs at nine in the morning.

Yeah, I think he needed a shave.

Maybe he was...just got off work
and didn't have time to change.

Alright. Who wears cuffs and
gets off work at nine in the morning?

A dealer. Hey. Good thinking.

What do you know about this
agent they grabbed, Mae Rainey?

She's famous. She manages half the big names in Vegas.

She advises them on their love life.

She advises them on their career,
their investments, even their love life.

Oh. That kind of person makes a lot of enemies.

why? Well, because, Vicki, if your
sister was kidnapped for no reason...

and Crocker and his prisoner were taken...

and were taken alone like the lieutenant thinks,

that's all part of the smokescreen.

And there's no way of knowing whether
this Mae Rainey was a real target or not.

I'd like you to call the
sergeant at the sheriff's office.

Get a list of all the dealers
who came to work at 12 o'clock.

I got about five minutes to
k*ll before the show is over.

What show? The Liberace Show.

He was one of the first clients she was coming to see.

Ah-ha, what have we got there?

Roulette. And I got about as much
chance of reimbursing my men here...

as I do with being paid off by the department.

Round and round she goes and where
Lamont shows up nobody knows, right?

Hi, Theo. How are you? Last time I saw
you you were pulling tricks in New York.

All right, Lamont.

Go ahead. Good luck.



Are you happy now? Sure. Why not?

You keep it quiet and I will.

Dancing waters.

Excuse me, Mr Liberace, I'm Lieutenant Kojak, NYPD.

I'd like to ask you about your business
manager Mae Rainey. You have a moment?

I got hours to talk about Mae Rainey
but let me get out of this thing first.

I know how a turkey feels when
he's wrapped in aluminium foil.

We got a problem. This cop is not being
steered off into the desert like the rest.

He's worked out Wayne's a
dealer and I'm an airport mechanic.

Next he'll have your address
over there. He's crowding us hard.

All we need to buy is another 15 hours.

Slow him down. We didn't go this far to back off now.

That's right, lieutenant. Mae Rainey's
turned into an absolute disaster.

Well, Mr Liberace, she was your
business manager. You picked her.

She was coming here to Las Vegas to see you.

That's right. I asked her to come here because

she's been giving me
inexcusable professional advice.

Oh? What was that?

She's invested clients' money
in a franchise that's a total rip-off.

Oh. Any connection with her disappearance today?

Well...I'm not the only one involved.
There's another friend of mine.

Mr Liberace... Can I call you Lee?

Please do. Look, if this
friend of yours is connected...

I promise total anonymity but I would
appreciate it if you'd give me his name.

Like I say, he's a friend. His name is Doc Severinson.

I mean, he fell for the scheme as bad as I did.

You know, after all, frozen yoghurt on a stick.

It melts in ten seconds and falls off the stick. Yuck!

Well, I can't see Doc Severinson wasted Mae Rainey

because of frozen yoghurt on a stick.

I was hoping for something a little more threatening.

Anybody who dresses as conspicuously
as we do don't dare step out of line.

Do you have any idea what one
of these costumes weighs? No.

This one weighs over 30lbs. You're kidding?

Yeah. It's made out of one of
Kate Smith's old beaded bags.

And I don't have them cleaned,
I have them polished. Oh. Yeah.

Anyway, thank you very much. You're welcome,

Um...hey, look, I'm a bit embarrassed
but one of my men would never forgive me

if I didn't get your autograph.
Would you mind? What's his name?

Er, well, make it out to his mother Florence.

Florence. Oh, I got a picture of this costume here.

To Florence, eh? OK.

To Florence...with love.

How's that? Hey, Lee, that's wonderful.

Yeah, they'll be flying up from
Mexico about six tomorrow night.

What will the conditions be?

We expect clear weather

all the way from Sonora to
the Canadian border tomorrow.

OK. Thanks.

Well, looks good for tomorrow.

McCarran Towers says it's clear weather all
the way from Sonora to the Canadian border.

It's gonna work, it's gonna work. You bet it is.

I'll do that, I have a steady hand. Thank you.

Do you mind if I ask? What?

What kind of crook you are.

Crook?

You never heard of the Whitley brothers? The

Marx Brothers, yes. The Whitley brothers never.

So I'm dumb but tell me.

Well I'll tell you. They smuggle
marijuana, hundreds of tons a year,

and sh**t people that get in their way like a

New York cop who stumbled
onto one of their trucks.

Huh. Ask him if that cop can identify me?

That officer is dead.

Hey, what are you doing?

There's an agency that co-ordinates all the casinos.

They'll call in the morning and report any
employees who didn't show up for work tonight.

So what did you learn? Huh?

Oh...Liberace wears a 35lb cape,

you can't put a yoghurt popsicle
on a stick because it'll fall off.

What?

What happened?

You got a flat.

Sorry, have any of you...

I was about to ask the dumbest question.

Have any of girls seen a man lately in a big hurry?

Excuse me.

Theo, a car just drove by in a great big hurry.

It was a Jeep with two red lights on
the top, black—and—white markings.

So it was like one of those Jeeps from the posse.

I thought they were the good guys.

So did 1.

Theo, it's been almost 24 hours.
Nobody's heard a word on this kidnapping.

I don't understand it at all.

Things I don't understand scare me.

well, I'll tell you this much, Frank.

I think it's amateurs. And I
think they're stalling for time.

Someone shot a tyre on Vicki's car about midnight

in the parking Lot after I spoke to Liberace.

What was that meant to
accomplish? I don't know. Scare us?

Waste our time reporting it to the police?
Anything to buy time, distract our attention.

why you? You must have turned
up some lead that's got them worried.

What have you got? Well, Vicki noticed a few

things when they grabbed
her sister at the airport.

We think one of the kidnappers is a
mechanic. Another may be a dealer or pit boss.

Works an early morning shift.

We'll get a list later from the casino protection

agency, go over it Looking for a likely type.

What about the matchbook that Crocker
Left in the van? We missing a clue there?

You tell me, Frank. He bent five
matches like I do when I light the one head.

why tell me there were five
kidnappers? That doesn't help.

Maybe it's distance. Didn't you say that
abandoned the van five miles from the airport?

So? I don't need matches to tell me that.

No, I think it's time, minutes. Five minutes maybe.

Maybe they took them out of the
van only five minutes from the airport.

Uh-huh. And then abandoned the van in
the desert to throw the police off. It's possible.

In about 30 minutes the whole Jeep posse squad

out here will scour the desert looking for clues.

Vicki's trying to borrow us
a Jeep 50 we can join them.

Well, Theo, if it's a wild goose chase, why bother?

It's possible that the person who shot
out my tyre is a member of that posse.

They're not regular cops, just citizens
who donate their time and vehicles.

Nobody says a couple of them can't be rotten apples.

I'm gonna go out there check
if any are mechanics or dealers

who could in some way be involved in this.

We're all here pulling for you, you know that.

Yeah, Frank, I know.

Russ, glad you could make it. Park
alongside Charlie. You don't look too good, Joe.

No, no, I'm sure of it. It was one
of those Jeeps that shot at my car.

You must be mistaken, Miss Addison.

They're good citizens who donate
their time and vehicles for law and order.

Once upon a time I remember
reading about this fireman.

He used to set matches to places. You know why?

He wanted to ride in back of
that hook and ladder at 60mph.

You think someone here did this kidnapping so they

could ride around for 15 hours in 130-degree heat?

You got yourself a Jeep. I hope
you join us, get in on the fun.

Hey, Quinn. Yeah.

Can I Look at your list of deputies? Yeah.

Banker, car salesman, doctor,

salesman, real estate, airplane mechanic...

Russ Barton.

Yeah, and look who drives with him in Jeep 14.

Joe Wayne. He's a dealer at the Hacienda hotel.

What's the third name then?
His name isn't checked off.

I guess he didn't show up. It's Phil Reed,

owner of the Sunset Pawn and Loan Company.

Lieutenant. Yeah.

How far is the Sunset Pawn and
Loan Company from the airport?

Oh, about five minutes or so.

Do me a favour? Will you send
somebody down there to check it out?

Make sure none of our hostages are
being held there. Phil Reed's place?

Are you serious? Lieutenant, I
mean, this is Las Vegas, right?

I'm entitled to one hunch, OK? Just one time.

OK. I'll send Quinn.

All right, fellas, let's move out.

we'll wait until the posse works its
way 55 miles off on the wrong road.

Uh-huh. Then we'll swing west

and meet up with Phil at the landing strip.

Yeah.

Russ, that New York detective
paired himself up with you and Joe.

Keep him in sight. We don't
want him getting lost out here.

No, we don't want that at all

Put it down. You've been banging on
that door for 20 minutes. What's up?

Everything. That crook makes passes at me and

Miss Sticky Fingers takes my personal belongings.

I didn't take anything. Oh, come
on. Give him back the lighter.

Reed! Reed! Are you in there?

It's Andy Quinn.

Ow.

Andy, get back. Get back.

Get in the car. Come on. Turn around. Turn around.

Give me your g*n. Slowly. Give me your g*n.

ALI right.

Come on, Get in there, Get in there,

There goes our escort.

I thought you said you were a master wheel man.

Did I say that? No, no.

I said you were as safe as being in
your mom's arms, but I got you lost.

This is Russ Barton to the sheriff's search party.

We're following some tracks
east about 60 miles off the highway.

Repeat, we're heading east,
following a new set of Jeep tracks.

Anybody want to head to Glory
Mountain, we'd appreciate the assistance,

OK, Russ, we copy you.

ALI available units, let's give Russ
Barton a hand by Glory Mountain.

East of here? I don't believe it.

Why? Hey...you know, I know
radios from operating them in New York

with all those tall buildings.

That mountain is directly east of us...

and he's coming in too clear
to be on the other side of it.

He's heading west and he's heading
everybody in the wrong direction.

Like this whole damn kidnapping.

This is headquarters. Do you read us?

Affirmative. Go ahead.

We just got a call from border patrol.

Radar spotted that plane they're trying to track

heading our way. Refuses to answer radio contact.

Could you blanket the suspected landing area again?

Negative. We've got all available
units here on this mission.

Give them my regrets. Affirmative.

It's too bad. We almost had that
runway pinned down last week.

'When you're Lost...

climb a tall tree' my daddy used to always say.

Oh, yeah. Sure enough there they are heading east.

It'll take us a half hour to catch up if we're lucky.

Come on.

When we hit the ground we help
Whitley unload as fast as possible.

With any Luck we're off on our
way to Salt Lake City in 20 minutes.

why did you bring her? You're lucky
I'm here. The cops came to my place.

They didn't get a chance to follow.

A truck went to the runway 15 minutes
ago. The plane'll be here any minute.

Let's go.

OK, we're taking over.

Barton and his friends must have spotted
this landing strip the last time they searched

and kept the information from the police.

They decided to rip off this
load of cargo, marijuana probably.

OK, that's it. Outside, outside.

All right, all right.

Come on, Reed. Get down.

Get down.

Lieutenant Hawkins, this is Kojak, do you read me?

Affirmative. Go ahead.

About 20 miles west of the
paved road there's a landing strip.

I want you to listen for a plane. And
hurry, we need help. We'll be right there.

Whoa.

I would have k*lled anybody who got in our way.

Oh, there's tons in here.

And it smells like dynamite.

How's the fuel? Pretty good.

Can't you do anything?

No.

There's a million places they can land up north.

Hey, look, just let's pray that
your sister and Crocker are all right.

Other than that I'm leaving this town a big loser.

Get a fire extinguisher, put that out!

Get a fire extinguisher.

Take her down, Russ. Take her down.

My God, they're landing again.

Wasn't that a great landing, Kojak?

You're still flying, baby.

Sally!

Let's get outta here before we fly away.

He's here. Hey, Crocker.

Good to see you back, Bobby. well, I'd like...

I just talked to the sheriff in Vegas.

When they grabbed Whitley they had no idea it was

his brother's operation
they were trying to hijack.

It was coincidence. Thanks to
their caper we came out way ahead.

We just delivered both Whitley
brothers to the DA. Nice work.

Oh, Saperstein. Here. I got
something priceless for your mother.

'From Liberace with love to Florence.'

That's from him really? The real
thing, baby, all 65,000 sequins.

Oh, Crocker.

This Sally. If she's anything like her
sister she must have been something.

Well, lieutenant, she taught me a few things.

You're kidding. Like what?

Want your watch back?

Oh. What did she teach you?

Ah...

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