He wanted the name so he could return the money.
5 seconds sound clip from the Kojak - Season 1, Ep. 5 - Girl in the River movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:43:39 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- No. (3)
- Yes. He kept after me until...
- And yet you couldn't guess what he would do next?
- No. (4)
- He wanted the name so he could return the money.
- That's what he was doing alone in the Village at that time in the morning.
- That's why he withdrew 300 dollars of his own savings.
- That's why he went in not at the ready.
- I don't believe it. He wouldn't do that. He couldn't do that.
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