Gordy can’t give Carl information about James and Perry Russo, but shows him an X-ray of Willie Pike’s broken spine–the official story was that Willie died of “severe blows”–and hints that the Russo brothers died in the same way, not by a hail of police bullets. Carl and the other news reporters on the scene gather around, eager to get some pictures of the bullet-ridden bodies, but Winwood won’t let them even have a peek.Ĭarl, fortunately, is on friendly terms with the coroner, Gordy the Ghoul (John Fiedler) and contributes generously to Gordy’s own raffle involving the birth dates of the various corpses currently at the morgue. They decide that the Russos must be dead and venture inside the barn to check. To be fair, though, Winwood doesn’t like Kolchak either.Īfter the police shoot a barrage of bullets into the barn, things suddenly get very quiet. As a matter of fact, he does it right after he gets her out of the way. Especially when Police Captain Winwood, who is charge of the raid at the farm, calls her “that stupid female” after she darts out to try and get photos when the shooting starts–which is something Kolchak does all the damn time. They do, but not in ways that Carl likes.Ĭarl does his best to ditch Monique during this episode, and eventually puts her in a taxi back to Brooklyn, but she has my sympathy. Tony says that he thinks Monique could be a good journalist with a little experience, and that she and Carl have a lot in common. She can’t pronounce “nepotism,” but she insists that that isn’t the reason she got a job at INS. Tony also asks Carl to take along a new, young employee: Monique Marmelstein, who is a recent graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism as well as the boss’s niece.
There’s going to be a police raid on a farm outside Chicago, where brother gangsters James and Perry Russo are holed up. The third man, named Willie Pike, gets tossed around like a rag doll and ends up dead.Ĭarl Kolchak is writing an article about the death of Willie Pike, describing it as the usual gangland slaying, nothing remarkable, when his editor Tony Vincenzo takes him aside. After firing some ineffective shots, two of the men jump out of the trunk and escape. Their work is interrupted when someone starts banging on the barred truck doors–the cops, they think as they scramble to destroy incriminating evidence, but the unseen person who bursts in on them proves more dangerous. The episode begins with Carl Kolchak’s pithy voiceover narration introducing us to a trio of low-level mooks counting up the receipts from their small-change racket in the otherwise empty back section of a parked semi-truck. This story was co-written by David Chase, who would go on later in his career to write a great deal more about mobsters, but sadly very little about the living dead coming back to take revenge on those who killed them. And it’s educational as well! No exotic dancers, massage-parlor employees, or anybody dressed like Barbara Eden get murdered this time it’s a clash between Italian mobsters and a black numbers-running syndicate that drives the plot of this episode.
The second episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker breaks away from the template established by the two made-for-TV movies that the show was based upon.
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