***SPOILERS**** Let. Theo Kojak, Telly Savalas, is on the hunt for a psycho serial killer who's haunting this city hospital by killing it's both doctors and nurses whom he holds responsible for his deteriorating mental condition. It's Dr. Ellen Page, Zohra Zampert, the head of the psychiatric department who feels that the killer is one of her patients who's taking it out on her and the staff for not curing him of his mental illness. Despite being assigned to find the killer Let. Kojac takes a shine for Ellen and seems more interested to take her to dinner then finding who's been murdering the hospital staff.
As we soon find out that killer is in fact one of the patients in the hospital making it easy for him to get away with his crimes in being able to blend in with the woodwork or furniture as well as those there in the hospital. He's also hip in knowing his way around and whom to target. It's when Let. Kojak taking time off in his pursuit of Dr. Ellen Page finds a link to the killers victims that he stops him cold-together with Det. Crocker & Det. Starvos,Kevin Dobson & "Kid Brother" George Savalas-in his tracks. The man was nuts to begin with, as we saw throughout the entire episode,but the fact that he wasn't cured of being nuts is the reason he took it out on the hospital staff who in fact did their best to cure him!
There's also a nice little side story in all this with young 8 year old Chris, Meeno Peluce, who's to get operated on whom Let. Kojak takes an interest in. Giving his his detective gold shield as a lucky charm Kojak has the boy feel confident enough to go through the very delicate operation and survive it with flying colors. As for Dr. Page whom Kojak is hot to trot for he loses his chance to take her out to dinner to Dr. Samuel Fine,Michael Lerner,one of the killer's intended victims. Not that he's anywhere as attractive as the drop dead gorgeous looking Let. Theo Kojac but that he asked her first for a dinner date!
As we soon find out that killer is in fact one of the patients in the hospital making it easy for him to get away with his crimes in being able to blend in with the woodwork or furniture as well as those there in the hospital. He's also hip in knowing his way around and whom to target. It's when Let. Kojak taking time off in his pursuit of Dr. Ellen Page finds a link to the killers victims that he stops him cold-together with Det. Crocker & Det. Starvos,Kevin Dobson & "Kid Brother" George Savalas-in his tracks. The man was nuts to begin with, as we saw throughout the entire episode,but the fact that he wasn't cured of being nuts is the reason he took it out on the hospital staff who in fact did their best to cure him!
There's also a nice little side story in all this with young 8 year old Chris, Meeno Peluce, who's to get operated on whom Let. Kojak takes an interest in. Giving his his detective gold shield as a lucky charm Kojak has the boy feel confident enough to go through the very delicate operation and survive it with flying colors. As for Dr. Page whom Kojak is hot to trot for he loses his chance to take her out to dinner to Dr. Samuel Fine,Michael Lerner,one of the killer's intended victims. Not that he's anywhere as attractive as the drop dead gorgeous looking Let. Theo Kojac but that he asked her first for a dinner date!