***SPOILERS*** With the city of New York sweltering under a 100 plus degree heatwave Let. Kojak, Telly Savalas, is faced with this serial killer who's been knocking off, with his hunting knife and military style baronet, a number of people whom he deems, by leaving spray paint massages at the scenes of his crimes, unworthy to live among society. We see right away the killer's identity as being that of the very unstable and bible thumping Roger Villers, Ken Sylk, the self described "Grim Reaper" who's, in his mind, doing the work of the Lord in terminating these sinners- pawnbrokers hookers drug dealers shysters and store owners- who are taking advantage of those that they deal with by promising them everything and giving them, after they take their money, nothing in return!
Roger for his part even though a little bit nuts seems harmless=Like Anthony Perkins in "Psycho"-who's next door neighbor Olga Nurell, Solome Jens, not only sees him as a good or nice but a bit confused boy but also has a crush on the guy who's estranged from his wife Jenny, Lara Parker, since he's out of work and unable to support himself much less that of Jenny and their 3 year old son Roger Jr. It doesn't take much to track Roger down who really seems to want to be caught but under interrogation Roger slips up in how he murdered his victims that has Let. Kojak realized that he's in fact not the killer that the NYPD is looking for!
***SPOILERS*** With the real killer Heath Jobes throwing a fit in that the knife or baronet he bought from a local Army/Navy store-That he killed his last victim with- being defective he seeks out and plans to murder the salesman Ted Owens, Howard Honig, who soled it to him that has let. Kojak and his partner the always abused and belittled by him, in how incompetent and butter-fingered he is, Det. Bobby Crocker,Kevin Dobson, comes to Owens' rescue. With Jobes now seeing that his goose is cooked and about to be arrested he makes a last attempt to escape by throwing his hunting knife at the charging Det. Crocker only to get blasted by him and then falling some 50 feet out of a closed window landing dead as a door-nail on the street below.