04x20 - The Maze

[bunniefuu]

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- Honey, we're here. - Hmm.

Frank.

Frank!

What's this? The border?

- Hmm? - I said yes. I nodded.

You keep.. Mmm.

- How do you feel? - Terrible.

Here...drink, it'll calm you down.

Oh, stop, it'll make me sick.

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What if they tell me to pull over?

They won't.

You've been so sweet, and this was such a dumb move.

I mean, I-I didn't have to drag you along

I could have just written the old witch a letter or something.

'She wouldn't have cared.'

No, she cares.

Oh, my mother.

My mother wouldn't throw me a crust of bread

if I were starving.

Will you make your peace with her before she goes?

People are long time dead, honey.

Where are we going to stay?

We can't go to her place.

Half the neighborhood will be trying

to turn you in for the reward.

I've got it all figured out. Now don't worry about it.

The guy I grew up with moved down to San Diego.

He's a fisherman, he'll arrange something.

I wish you were driving, Frank.

Okay, let's switch.

- Hmm. Nice night. - Yes, it is.

Next!

Hey, Thompson.

Just a minute, please.

Frank, what are they doing?

Reach me that sweater in the back seat, will you, love?

Honey..

- Good evening. - Evening.

Where were you born?

Phoenix.

Ma'am?

Uh...Sunrise, California.

Would you step out of the car, please?

Uh, what's the trouble, officer?

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[male narrator] "The FBI."

A Quinn Martin production.

Starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr..

Also starring Philip Abbott..

William Reynolds.

With guest stars, Steve Ihnat..

...Joan Van Ark.

Special guest star Ina Balin..

...and Simon Oakland as Nikos Kapralos.

Tonight's episode, "The Maze."

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Frank Welles who had fled a Los Angeles g*ng w*r

to become a fugitive in Mexico had returned home.

Long one of the FBI's ten most wanted men.

Welles had now added the sh**ting of a federal officer

to his list of crimes.

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Yes. Yes, where is that, in California?

Yeah, I'll have Colby out there tomorrow.

I'd like you to set up an interview for him

with the wounded guard as soon as possible.

Fine. Thank you.

You talking about Welles?

There's an unconfirmed report that his car was seen

in San Rosendo, a little town in California.

California?

That can't be right.

Daniel wouldn't walk into the lion's den

it just doesn't make sense.

Well, do you suppose the Cosa Nostra's canceled their contract

on it by now?

Not as far as I've heard.

No, they'd have him shot the minute he showed up.

And even if he did come back to the States

he's be more likely to head east

he's got friends in Mobile and New Orleans.

I've alerted the agencies in charge in both cities.

I see there was a girl with him.

Yes.

Same one he left the country with, the O'Keefe woman?

Probably.

The description seems to fit

except for the color of the hair.

Born in Laramie, Wyoming.

Better cover the Laramie, Cheyenne area too.

Five years is a long time to be on the ten most wanted list.

You know, it doesn't matter why he's come home

he's here, and he's a k*ller

and I want him found before he can k*ll anyone else.

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Hi.

I'm looking for Nik Kapralos, is he aboard?

No.

Does, uh, Kapralos still own the boat?

What's the date?

Twenty-six.

Still owns the boat.

Well, do you know where I can find him?

After the 13th he'll be in a pool house with me.

Up to then..

Well, try the Poseidon.

- Thanks. - 'Hey, mister..'

If he's sober enough to understand

tell him that George and Gianni's quit this morning.

They're all gone now, everybody.

Tell him if he's more interested in grief than fish

that's his business

but the rest of us have to make a living.

Tell him, tell him I'm signing with Hatzikiryakos.

With?

Hatzikiryakos.

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Opa.

Opa. Opa.

Opa.

Opa.

Opa.

Opa.

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Very good.

What do you want? A beer?

So, you're the bartender?

The owner. Katina Elyti.

Well, sure, Katina, I'd like a beer.

And maybe you can give me a little help

in another department.

'I was told that I might be able to find Nikos Kapralos here.'

Who are you? The loan company or the law?

Neither one.

Union?

Lady, look..

...I don't know what Nik is mixed up in

and I don't really care.

I dropped by to say hello, maybe ask him a favor

for old times sake.

But never mind..

...I can see him another time.

Wait a minute.

For old times sake.

Are you a friend?

Yeah.

Close friend?

We grew up together in San Francisco.

Maybe an old friend could talk him out of it.

Talk him out of what?

Did you know his daughter?

Aliki? Sure. I'm her godfather.

Well, uh, she died six weeks ago.

She died?

At sixteen? How?

I'll let him tell you.

The thing is, he didn't want to go back

to his house afterwards, so I fixed him a room here.

And he's been drunk ever since.

Didn't Nik ever remarry?

No, he never did.

The little girl.. Aliki..

She never liked any of the women Nik liked, so..

Well, anyway...he's just gone to pieces now.

He won't take the boat out, he owes money all over town.

His friends are getting kind of fed up, you know.

I think me and Manos Antonopolous

are the only ones he's got left.

Is Manos the little sour face guy on the boat?

Yeah.

Well, he's not going to have him much longer either.

That Manos told me to tell Nik that, um..

...George and Yannis..

- Yeah. - Well, they've quit.

And, uh, he's thinking to signing on with, uh, Hatzikis..

- Odysseus Hatzikiryakos. - Yeah.

[laughs]

Oh, Manos doesn't mean that.

Hatzikiryakos is Nik's biggest rival.

But you know..

...the threat might shake him up a bit.

- Do you still want to see him? - Yeah.

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[Katina] 'Nikos?'

[knock on door]

Nikos, there's an old friend to see you.

Nobody home, go away.

[Nikos] 'Stay out!'

Hello, Nik.

Frank.

Frank.

[crying] 'Frank.'

'Frank.'

Hey, come on now, what is this?

- Oh, Frank. Frank. - Come on, sit.

'Sit down.'

Frank..

...she's dead.

How can that be?

Frank, I, I come home a little early this one day..

...and she's lying on the sofa..

...a blanket wrapped around her..

...and I says, "Baby, what's the matter?"

'And she says, "Daddy, I'm awful sick'

I think I'm going to die."

So I call an ambulance, they take her to the hospital

and pretty soon this doctor, he comes out

and he says, "Hey, hey, you, mister

that girl, she's had an overdose of something."

He says, "Heroine."

How'd she get it?

She said this boy named O'Dell gave it to her.

What is he, a pusher?

I don't know, maybe.

He works in the navy yard, a watchman.

- O'Dell, huh? - Yes.

She died that same night.

I walked all the way home, and I waited outside his house.

But his brothers, they broke it up

they didn't even call the cops.

The kid, he kept yelling, "You're crazy, mister

you're crazy. I don't even know your girl."

Oh, Frank.. Frank, I got to k*ll him.

I'll go crazy if I don't k*ll him.

- I've got to k*ll him. - Calm down.

It's alright. Watchman, that's fine.

Yes, that's.. Well, wha-what's fine--

But you got to stay out of it.

You understand me, Nik?

You don't talk to him on the phone

you don't talk to him on the street, nothing

you leave it to me, I'll go down to the docks where he works

I'll take a look around, and I'll work it out.

- You're listening to me? - Yes. Yes--

Alright, you threatened him right?

- Yes. - Alright.

If he so much as trips off a curb and gets hurt

they're going to blame you.

Now, you get, uh, a good jury, ten to twenty years.

A bad one, you get the gas chamber.

- I don't care, Frank. - Well, I care.

Hey, Nik, you're my friend.

Allie, she was my friend.

Hey, Nik, I bought that little girl her first doll.

I taught her her first prayer.

I care.

Frank.

Oh, Frank, Frank..

Nik, listen to me..

Listen to me!

Yes, I'll listen.

Okay..

...the mafia is behind most of the heroine that comes in here.

Well, I hate 'em for that.

I hate 'em for what they've done to me

for running me out of this country.

Now, you let me hit 'em.

'It's the only way, Nik. They got no way to connect me.'

I'll do it the night before I leave.

I'll go to the docks where he works.

I'll find him, I'll hit him, I'll k*ll him

and make it look like a robbery.

All the time you be right downstairs

there in the bar drinking with witnesses, huh?

- Yes. - Yes.

- You'll be alright, Nik. - Yeah.

- It's going to be okay, Nik. - Oh, okay.

- Right? - Yes.

- Okay.. - Okay.

- It's going to be okay. - 'Yes, it's going to be okay.'

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Hi, Lou. They told me you were in New Orleans.

Well, there was a report from an informant

when I got off the plane

a strong rumor that Welles is in southern California

but the Cosa Nostra knows it.

Can they pin down the area a little tighter than that?

[sighs] Any luck here?

Nothing yet.

He looks stronger now

but this morning he was just regaining consciousness.

I haven't had a chance to do much more than..

...go over the basic facts with his partner, an Officer Gilman.

Anything from Laramie?

Yeah, Eleanor O'Keefe had a number of relatives

living there at one time

but now they've either died or they moved away.

The mother's living in California.

Where?

The neighbors think, well, somewhere in the San Diego area.

Mrs. O'Keefe contracted tuberculosis a few years ago.

Yeah, well, it flared up again

she went to California for her health.

I think we can talk to him now.

Mr. Thompson..

...do you remember me?

I talked to you for a few minutes this morning.

This is Inspector Erskine from bureau headquarters.

Mr. Thompson.

- Any word yet on Welles? - Nothing definite.

Although we think he may be in Southern California.

We'd like to ask you a few questions about that

if you feel up to it.

I'll help you anyway I can.

I understand it was your partner who recognized him.

He called me over to the shack, he showed me the wanted flyer.

Well, he still weren't sure

so I, I went back to the car to talk to him, get a closer look.

What did you talk about?

Nothing important.

'I asked him where he was born, he said Phoenix.'

'By then I, I was pretty sure it was him.'

'I asked him to get out of the car and..'

What about the girl, did you talk to her at all?

No.

Well, I just asked her the same thing.

Where she was born?

And what did she say?

Sunrise.

Where's that?

California...just outside of San Diego.

If she was going to lie, why didn't she just say San Diego?

'How was Sunrise on her mind?'

[Thompson] Well, it beats me.

I used to have a cousin on the sanatorium there. TB.

'That's why I was sure of the name.'

Well, thanks, Mr. Thompson, good luck.

We better get in touch with Convers in San Diego.

- Hello. - Bill, how are you?

Tom. Did you get my message at the Tucson Airport?

- No, what message? - Well, your idea paid off.

We located the O'Keefe woman's mother.

Sanatorium?

No, Barrett Brothers Mortuary, she died last night.

Apparently she's written to her daughter about two weeks ago.

The floor nurse at the sanatorium told me

she was determined to hang on until Eleanor got there.

- Did the girl ever show up? - Yes, yesterday.

Alone?

Yes, she wouldn't say where she was staying

we checked the house the mother was renting

but she wasn't there.

I've put the mortuary and the sanatorium under surveillance.

Oh. She made the funeral arrangements herself?

Yes, she did.

Now, let's talk to the undertaker.

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- Frank? - Uh-huh.

Honey, I just don't want to go on over there at all.

Well, you want to see how she looks, don't you?

[scoffs] I know how she'll look, she'll look dead.

Come on, sweetheart.

Oh, honestly, Frank

you're worse than I am about obligations.

She's dead. Now, there is no reason

for us to go out there at all.

Listen, let's just forget about the mortuary

and drive right on out to the airport right now.

There's something I've got to do first.

What?

A favor. Don't worry about it.

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Frank, does this have something to do with that fisherman

you told me about?

Just keep out of it, will you, please?

- Take the next off ramp. - Mmm.

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You got enough money for a cab?

Money for..

Why, I guess so.

Alright, you go on back to the motel when you're through here

I'll meet you there.

- Aren't you going in with me? - No.

- What's wrong? - No, it's alright.

There's a guy who've been following us.

I noticed the same car when I was down at the Embarcadero.

He must have picked me up there.

Police?

No, I got a look at him, Davey Flagg.

Oh, that's Boris.

No, they won't try a hit in broad daylight.

Please be careful.

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FBI, Welles, stay where you are.

[tires screeching]

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[horn blaring]

Hold the girl.

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I'll call an ambulance.

Bill, this mean anything to you?

Harbor Drive on the 14th Avenue.

That's the dry dock.

It's a layout of the navy yard.

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Hey, mate.

Your skipper around?

Who wants him?

My name's O'Dell.

- O'Dell? - Yeah.

He's in the Poseidon.

Thanks.

Hey, fellas.

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Excuse me, I'm Mike O'Dell, I'm looking for Kapralos.

[Katina] Why, haven't you done enough to him already?

That's why I'm looking for him, I haven't done anything.

Just getting a little bit tired of being accused from everything

from pushing dope to m*rder around here.

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Look, go on, just get out of here.

Did I hear you right, boy, you're a little tired?

- Isn't that a shame? - Nik!

Look, Kapralos, I know how you feel, I know you loved the girl.

You don't know anything, mister.

Look, she lied to you.

No!

Get up you m*rder*r.

Please, listen to me, alright.

I'm telling you, I didn't have anything to do with it.

Now, look, I've been looking around on my own a little bit

and I found out she knew a cousin of mine

a guy named Flaridy, he's a real bad one.

'Now, look, this guy used to be involved with the syndicate'

and he used to be a dope pusher before.

Now he's in town right now from Montana.

You filth, it's not enough that you k*ll her

'you got to blame it on somebody else, huh?'

Look, will you just listen to me?

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Manos, stop them, please stop them.

Let him get it out of his system, Katina.

Wait.

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[groans]

[groans]

Hey, cut it out!

Get off!

[panting]

I-I really feel sorry for you.

I really, I really do. You know why?

'Cause, 'cause you, you're never gonna know the truth.

''Cause you won't listen.'

Will you please get out now?

Alright.

- Ah. - Come on!

Alright, Nik, you've done enough now. It's all over, huh?

Please go on up to your room, and I'll bring you a drink.

Okay, fellas, either buy something or beat it! Come on.

'Enough is enough, the show's over.'

'Come on, everybody!'

'Please, c-come on back later, huh?'

Alright, easy, Nik. Easy, huh?

[panting]

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Here's your paper.

I don't know what it means.

And he never mentioned the navy yard to you?

'Never.'

And you've never seen this drawing before?

He never showed it to you?

No, never!

Why can't I see him?

- Is he alright? - He's on the critical list.

You'll be able to see him as soon as

he regains consciousness.

It's all my fault. All of it.

Tell me, Ms. O'Keefe..

...did he need money?

Money, I.. I don't think so.

Do you know of anyone who might hire him

to break into the navy yard?

No, I-I don't think anyone could have hired him to do anything.

- Although.. - Although what?

Well, I was gonna say although he did visit this one friend.

- What's his name and address? - 'I don't know his name.'

'All Frank said was that he was a fisherman.'

That's where Davey must have seen him on the docks.

He must have figured, he'd go there to visit an old friend.

I suppose Davey was waiting there for him.

Who's Davey?

How should I start?

You see, there was a contract down on Frank.

He was always causing trouble for the mafia.

He knows too much about their drug traffic.

Well, yesterday, when we drove out to the funeral parlor

Frank saw this man following us

and then you tried to stop us.

What man?

Davey Flagg.

The Cosa Nostra executioner, Kansas City.

Better call the bureau and get a summary on him.

[telephone buzzing]

You ever met this person before, Ms. O'Keefe?

Oh, it's for you..

- Bureau. - I'll take it in there.

Transfer this to 4-9-9, please

and get me the Identification Division.

Erskine.

Lewis, this is Arthur.

'Oh, yes, Art.'

Congratulations on the Welles arrest.

- Fine job. - Thank you.

Lewis, as long as you're finished out there

could you get back to Washington by Monday?

Well, to tell you truth, I'm not sure we are through out here.

Why, you've got Welles, haven't you?

Is the girl giving you trouble?

'No, the girl's cooperative.'

Well, what is it then?

A drawing Welles made.

It's the exterior layout of the navy yard

showing fences, dry dock area..

We've notified the Naval authorities

every precaution's been taken.

Well, it's all over now, isn't it?

Whatever he had in mind.

Well, it's over if he was in it alone.

I see what you mean.

Now, that's the part I'd like to follow up, Art.

He visited a friend at the docks right after he got here.

'You have the friend's name?'

Uh, hang on a minute.

The informant says the flight's at the airport.

He's due to leave this afternoon.

Here's our jurisdiction if we want him now.

The Identification Division says that, uh

he's only four months out of a federal penitentiary.

Already he's a parole violator.

US border paroles want him taken into custody.

Thanks.

A-Art, we don't have the name

'but there's a chance we maybe able to get it'

'from a syndicate executioner named Flagg.'

We can pick him up as a parole violator.

The O'Keefe girl thinks he had the contract on Welles.

He may have followed him to the docks.

Alright, Lewis, go ahead.

- Good luck. - Goodbye.

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His plane's been delayed.

He's just come down from the waiting area.

- Where? - Over there.

[indistinct chatter]

Davey Flagg, FBI.

Hands against the wall.

Walk away.

You're under arrest for parole violation.

You have the right to remain silent, right to counsel.

Alright, man, in that case, I'll just keep my mouth shut

till I hear from my attorney.

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[thud]

What are you doing?

What does it look like I'm doing?

I'm putting a bolt down the door.

What for?

Because I want some privacy, do you mind?

Well, no, I mean, why should I mind?

Wall yourself up if you want to.

Go to Siberia if you want to. It's all the same to me!

- Wait a minute. Kat! - Let go of me!

- Kat, listen to me. - Let go of me.

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Oh, Ka.. Oh, Kat, I love you.

Please be patient with, just a few more days.

Just a few more days.

Nikos, it's just not right.

I know you loved your daughter

but don't make her into a goddess.

- She was human! - I can't talk about her now.

Just let me tell you something about her.

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Alright, Nik..

...it can wait.

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The attorney tells me you're willing to talk to me now.

Yeah, how about that?

I pay the man a fortune for advice, and he advises me

to cooperate with the police.

Well, it don't seem hardly fair, does it?

So, what do you want to know that couldn't wait till morning?

According to Welles, he was spotted in first on the docks.

- Is that right? - Welles who?

Okay, do it your way.

Hey, come on, man. Give me a chance.

I need a good report, you need a little information.

So, let's trade.

You wouldn't want that lawyer to slap me on the wrist, would you?

Where did you pick Welles up?

Embarcadero. Friend of his was supposed to work there.

Owned a boat. Fisherman.

'But he wasn't around, so, uh, Welles talked to the mate'

'and then he went over to a bar.'

Which one?

The Poseidon.

You know the friend's name?

Kapralos.

Okay, thanks, Flagg.

Inspector, I don't get it.

You pick Welles up, you got the girl, I'm out of it.

What more do you want?

Whatever is left.

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[tires screeching]

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Yes. Two?

Excuse me, uh, we're look for the owner.

I'm the owner.

Oh, we're with the FBI, Miss, uh..

Elyti.

Well, what's wrong?

Ms. Elyti, do you know a man named Kapralos?

Yes.

Is he here tonight?

Look, I don't know what you think Nik's done wrong

but I can promise you, there's been some mistake.

He hasn't been out of here for over a month.

He's in the back room now.

I'll get him.

Nik.

Nikos.

Nik!

[knocking on door]

'Nik, are you alright?'

Look, he-he's very upset and depressed.

His, his only child died last month.

Is there another entrance to the room?

No, but..

Well, there's window on the alley.

Ms. Elyti..

Have you ever seen this man before?

That's Nik's friend from San Francisco.

He was here a couple of days ago

'but I don't remember his name.'

Do you know what they talked about?

His daughter, I imagine.

That's all he ever talked about.

She was only 16.

Someone gave her a shot of heroine.

'It was too much.'

Before she died, she told Nik it was this boy

who'd given here the shot.

Ever since then, all Nik wanted to do is k*ll him, but..

Nik?

Window to the fire-escape was open.

You say, Kapralos wanted to k*ll him?

They got into a terrible fight here, just this morning.

The boy came over to try and straighten everything out.

'He told Nik the girl had lied.'

'That they didn't even know each other.'

'That the boy she was in love with was'

his cousin from Montana.

Flaridy was his name. An ex-convict.

He said that Flaridy was the one that gave her the heroine.

But Nik just wouldn't listen.

And it was all true.

You mean that, uh, she'd been seeing an ex-convict?

I knew it. I'd seen them together.

She never was any good, that girl.

Nik's wife left him when the girl was only three.

When she was 11, they moved down here.

'When Nik was around, you'd think butter wouldn't'

'melt in her mouth.'

But let him take the boat out

and she'd be off riding with the boys

drinking, stealing.

She'd be into trouble every minute.

But as far as Nik was concerned, oh, she was an angel.

No one could say anything against Aliki.

What's the boy's name?

The one she accused? O'Dell.

You wouldn't know where he lives.

Fuller Street, I think. I'm not sure.

But he's a nightwatchman down at the navy yard.

You could probably find him there.

Thank you.

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FBI.

Could you tell me where we can find a guard named O'Dell?

Section 10, ramp 4, sir.

Thanks very much

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[tires screeching]

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O'Dell!

O'Dell, this is the FBI. Can we talk to you for a minute?

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Alright!

Now, m*rder*r, let's see how well you can die, huh?

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FBI, Kapralos.

- Throw the knife down. - 'Stop!'

You're making a mistake, Kapralos.

You keep out of this, you don't know anything.

Well then suppose you tell me!

I don't have to tell you, I'm not on trial.

No, you're not

but you will be if you're not careful.

Do you really want to face a m*rder charge

for k*lling an innocent man?

Let me straighten you out, Mr. FBI.

This innocent man k*lled my little girl.

He gave her a heroine!

How do you know that?

Because she told me before she died.

That's how I know it.

Suppose what she told you wasn't true?

Are you calling my little Aliki a liar?

I'm not calling her a liar.

People hide the truth for many reasons, Kapralos.

Some good, some bad.

'Your daughter had been going with an ex-convict.'

Maybe she didn't want to hurt you.

Maybe she didn't want you to know that.

He told you that!

'No, Kapralos!'

He told you to save his neck.

Ms. Elyti told me!

She was always jealous of my little girl.

She saw them!

They were together every time you went away.

- She saw who? - Your daughter and Flaridy.

She was in love with him.

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Now, give me the knife!

'Come on.'

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- Yes? Oh, hello. - Hello.

Nice to see you again. Please come in, I have a table--

I'm afraid we can't stay.

We just dropped by to see how Nik was getting along.

Well, look for yourself.

That's quite a difference.

Yes.

It was a little difficult at first.

'Especially when O'Dell's cousin was arrested'

and he admitted the truth.

But I think he's made peace with himself now.

And the girl.

He's taking his boat out again and..

What's this?

He's asked me to marry him.

Congratulations, Mrs. K.

Oh, thank you.

[male narrator] Federal authorities declined to prosecute Nikos Kapralos.

Frank Dickson Welles died as a result of his wounds.

Roger Flaherty was convicted

of possession and sale of narcotics.

David Flagg was returned to Kansas

as a parole violator.

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