by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Kojak (Telly Savalas) makes it his personal mission to help little David Hecht (Lee H. Montgomery) find his missing father Simon (Joshua Bryant). What the viewer knows (but Kojak doesn't, at least not at first) is that Simon is being held by a group intending to use him as a decoy to locate a thief who has absconded to Brazil with $25 million--and then kill Simon when his usefulness is at an end. A pre-Magnum P.I. John Hillerman is prominently featured in this final episode of Kojak's first season.
