Kojak (TV Series)

Requiem for a Cop (1973)

Telly Savalas: Lt. Theo Kojak

Quotes 

• Lt. Theo Kojak : Broen, come on. You'd bust your mothers arm in three places if she lost a subway token.

  Broen : Your jokes are getting stale, Kojak. You need a fall guy. Don't go poking in my garbage. I'm alibied.

  Lt. Theo Kojak : I know, you were out dedicating an orphanage, right?

• Det. Stavros : Wait a minute, Lieutenant, what is this? I'm not Donnelly's partner, Alessi is.

  Lt. Theo Kojak : The hell you're not! When one man in this precinct comes under suspicion, the entire unit becomes Donnelly's partner. Now look, we got two days to polish his badge and ours. Because on Wednesday, the Internal Affairs shooflies, they're gonna be all over us like a groom on a honeymoon. And let me tell you something: we all better be virgins, or have a pretty good story.

• Lt. Theo Kojak : [to Vine]  Close the door. I want a tail put on Geno. I want to know who he talks to; I want to know where he goes; I want to know where he is every minute. The same kind of surveillance you give any other homicide suspect.

  Sgt. Al Vine : Theo, not Geno. I mean, you can't possibly believe...

  Lt. Theo Kojak : Do you think I want to believe it? But if Donnelly wasn't on the pad, then somebody set him up. And right now, I've got a very narrow field to pick from.

• Lt. Theo Kojak : I want the tax returns and bank statements on Donnelly for the past two years.

  Det. Bobby Crocker : Lieutenant, it's Sunday.

  Lt. Theo Kojak : Well you make believe it's Friday! And have somebody at the bank agree with you.

  Det. Bobby Crocker : Right on.

• Lt. Theo Kojak : [to Geno]  Well, you and Tom Donnelly have been partners for 12 years. I mean he'd eat a knish and you'd get heartburn.

• Lt. Theo Kojak : [to Broen]  You just bought yourself a lifetime supply of insomnia. Now you get your fat carcass out of here before I book you for violating the ecology.

• Capt. Frank McNeil : I should have listened to my mother. She wanted me to become a priest.

  Lt. Theo Kojak : [laughs]  Yeah, you would've been great in the confessional.

  Capt. Frank McNeil : Bless you.

• Lt. Theo Kojak : What have you got so far?

  Det. Geno Alessi : He left the bar at 4 a.m. No, I think it was about 4.30 a.m. This was as far as he got. Stopped by an ice pick. A workman found him on his way to work. Didn't see anybody.

  Lt. Theo Kojak : How 'bout that dude over there with the patent leather pompadour?

  Det. Geno Alessi : A relative. He identified the body.

  Lt. Theo Kojak : Where was he when the ice pick fell?

• Lt. Theo Kojak : Sammy Moreno. Informant, bartender and Tommy's kid. Both of them three dollar bills.

• Lt. Theo Kojak : [Sammy is crying]  I'd be more impressed if I thought those tears were for your old man.