Before he became Captain Frank Furillo on Hill Street Blues, Daniel J. Travanti was a guest star in this Kojak episode playing another cop who is on the trail of Puerto Rican Independista terrorists. They blew up a bowling alley and killed a pair of police officers. Jaime Sanchez plays a police informant who arrived too late to save the cops and gets slightly injured himself.
But his cover is blown and the terrorists want to silence an informant. Can't say any more about this than there's a real horrifying twist to the story.
The issue of informing is always a sticky one. The points of view range as far as John Ford's The Informer and Elia Kazan's On The Waterfront. Both films take diametrically opposite points of view. This particular Kojak story is closer to the Kazan film.
The guest stars dominate here, Travanti, Sanchez, and also Maria Elena Cordero playing Sanchez's sister. She's a key player here.
But his cover is blown and the terrorists want to silence an informant. Can't say any more about this than there's a real horrifying twist to the story.
The issue of informing is always a sticky one. The points of view range as far as John Ford's The Informer and Elia Kazan's On The Waterfront. Both films take diametrically opposite points of view. This particular Kojak story is closer to the Kazan film.
The guest stars dominate here, Travanti, Sanchez, and also Maria Elena Cordero playing Sanchez's sister. She's a key player here.