And your father figured he could square things by returning 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 00:44:16 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I don't believe it. He wouldn't do that. He couldn't do that.

- Oh, not if you're tellin' the truth about shakin' down a john.

- Only we both know different, don't we?

- You had to explain the money somehow, and the truth would've put you behind bars along with your with your friend.

- So you told your father the one story he could square with his policeman's conscience.

- And your father figured he could square things by returning the money.

- And that's what got him killed.

- I didn't know. I swear to God...

- You didn't wanna know! That's the difference between us, the difference between you and me... I did.

- It was you tipping the gang off to those police stakeouts, passing along information you'd somehow managed to finesse from your old man's duty schedule.

[...]