"Kojak" A Very Deadly Game (TV Episode 1974) Poster

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(1974)

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Intense Crook, Feds Both Make Theo Edgy
ccthemovieman-120 October 2011
"Theo Kojak" goes up against both the killers and the feds in this tense episode. Oh, the Feds aren't crooked; they just want to capture this guy themselves because he's a heroin dealer and they've been on the case for two years. However, Kojak is ticked off big-time because a policeman was shot and murdered in this effort to get "Raul Fria" (Alex Colon).

That aforementioned crook ("Fria") doesn't have a lot of lines in here but he's interesting, an intense guy who keeps you riveting to the screen wondering what he'll do next.

Kojak, incensed over the way things are going, is even more abrasive than usual, barking out orders and insults to "Starvros" and "Crocker" and even his boss "Capt. Frank McNeil." No captain, by the way, would put up with the abuse a lower-ranked cop like Kojak gives him.

Anyway, the conflict between Kojak and the Feds is interesting and the story winds up taking Kojak all the way to the West Coast at the Santa Monica pier.

It's another good episode.
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6/10
Priorities
bkoganbing12 December 2012
When one of Kojak's detectives is murdered during a sting operation involving a drug deal that the squad was assisting the Feds with, Kojak as you would expect takes it downright personal. The doer is Alex Colon who is a big, but lone player in the higher echelons of the drug world.

But top Fed Burr Debenning has put years of work and it's his money that Colon ripped off and he wants the money, Colon, and whatever drugs he'd purchase. And since Colon has a half million dollars that's a lot of people that can be strung out leading useless lives.

Art Lund who is a local Fed and works with Manhattan South squad is put in an impossible position by Debenning. He's supposed to not cooperate with them and take all information he learns to his superior.

In that same failed sting a dealer Ji-Tu Cumbaka is murdered. Both he and his girlfriend Sylvia Soares are memorable. Especially Soares when she's told her man is dead and she gives up Colon.

A nice story about whose priorities ought to be paramount.
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