Web of Death

Plot
A police detective kills a Manhattan lawyer, after setting up an elaborate alibi for himself. First, Nick Ferro lets Pinky, who he just busted on the street, inject some horse the junkie bought. Ferro then phones in the collar. While Pinky is nodding off in Ferro's car, the policeman digs a gun with a silencer out of a sidewalk hiding place, and cabs to the male attorney's hotel love nest. Ferro switched the rest of the street heroin for another packet, and turns in a baggy of soap powder at the precinct, along with the addict, after the shooting. Why did one of Lt. Kojak's most decorated badges want the mouthpiece dead?

Cast

 * Hector Elizondo as Detective Nick Ferro


 * Barbara Rhoades as Joanna Ferro
 * Bruce Kirby as Sgt. Al Vine
 * John Karlen as Pinky
 * Burke Byrnes as Det. Olney
 * Norbert Schiller as Mr. Polichek
 * Jose Brad as Foster Bridges (Credited as Brad José)
 * Darrell Zwerling as Dr. Agajanian
 * John Armond as Bartender
 * Borah Silver as Prince
 * John Nolan as Ingram
 * William Martel as Sgt. Grady


 * David Armstrong as Detective (uncredited)

Quotes

 * Detective Nick Ferro: Either of you jocks so much as move, you wind up at the morgue in a Dixie Cup.
 * Lt. Theo Kojak: Absolutely no way the killer could've gotten past you? Ingram: Not through the front lobby, no, sir. Seven p.m to seven a.m. nobody enters or exits that I don't okay. Tradespeople, tenants, guests, everybody logs in and out. Everybody. Lt. Theo Kojak: Seven to seven and no relief. You must have cement kidneys.
 * Detective Nick Ferro: [Ferro invites Kojak back home for a drink] Retsina okay? Lt. Theo Kojak: Retsina? You gotta be kidding. You're actually holding? Detective Nick Ferro: It's not exactly in big demand. Five years and I still have the same bottle you gave us for our housewarming. It doesn't spoil, does it? Lt. Theo Kojak: [smiles] Spoil? You buy it rotten. You could drop a dead cat into it, it wouldn't make any difference.
 * Bartender: You know, a funny thing: some joker was in here a couple of weeks ago asking about the same blonde. Lt. Theo Kojak: Can you describe him? Bartender: [blows through his teeth] Hey, women I remember, dad, but, eh, men? Well they're, eh, they're just like suits and ties to me, you know?
 * Prince: [on phone] You can put my name at the top of your Christmas list. Guess what we found in the shower drain? Lt. Theo Kojak: [on other line] A redhead... Prince, you're a pussycat.
 * Foster Bridges: Kojak... now that's some heavy, heavy necktie you got. I mean a cat on the loose would cop an awful lot of heavy, heavy trade with a tie like that. Lt. Theo Kojak: Foster, you drive a hard bargain. [starts to take off his tie to give it to Foster]
 * Lt. Theo Kojak: Oh, Frank, it hurts. I pinned the gold on him myself. Capt. Frank McNeil: Theo, don't gouge yourself. He kept it polished. Lt. Theo Kojak: Hm-hm. Until last night...
 * Lt. Theo Kojak: What's the point? Where would you go? If the subway went to Outer Mongolia, I'd still come after you.
 * Lt. Theo Kojak: [Polichek explains how he found a dead body because of Victrola music playing loudly] Well it's not playing now. Mr. Polichek: Ja, of course, I turned it off. Lt. Theo Kojak: You shouldn't have done that, Mr. Polichek. Did you touch anything else? Mr. Polichek: [nervous] Ja, ja, ja, of course, the doorknob.
 * Lt. Theo Kojak: [to Ferro] But I should worry, I got you and Olney on the job. I can take two weeks in the Catskills. Dr. Agajanian: One week. Olneys been scratched. Of course it's a long time since I probed the vitals of a living person, but a first year med student could diagnose the fact that Detective Olney has a ruptured appendix. Det. Olney: Sorry partner, I thought it was just a case of measles.
 * Detective Nick Ferro: Well then, eh, Bridges is our boy? Lt. Theo Kojak: [sarcastic cuckle] Well he can't be in two places at once, can he? And one place we know he was when Forsyth was being killed, was in the Tombs, sweating out a B and E. But the gun wasn't at the tombs. And a piece doesn't care who uses it.