Writer:	David Chase, Michael Kozoll, Paul Magistretti
Director:	Vincent McEveety
Star:	Simon Oakland (Tony Vincenzo),  Darren McGavin (Carl Kolchak)
Recurring Role:	Paul Baxley (Ralf Daniels (uncredited)),  Jack Grinnage (Ron Updyke)
Guest Star:	Shug Fisher (Pop Stenvold),  Robert Emhardt (Roger),  Jeff Donnell (Maura),  Don Carter (Lester Nash),  Sidney Clute (Bruce Krause),  Lieux Dressler (Minerva Musso),  Jim Drum (Leo J. Ramutka),  Alyscia Maxwell (Freshman Reporter),  Ed McCready (First Reporter),  Bryan O'Byrne (Charles Johnson),  William O'Connell (Brewster Hawking),  Gregg Palmer (Sergeant Buxbaum),  Hans Conried (Mendel Boggs),  John Dehner (Captain Vernon Rausch)

It's provoked confusion in several sources, including the official Night Stalker Companions, but yes, Jeff Donnell is in fact a woman despite the odd first name, and plays Maura. Check out her bio for more information. (edit)

Kolchak: (closing narration) A blessed battle-ax and an iron suit full of thin air. I knew I'd have a lot of explaining to do to the owners of the Hydecker Museum, to Captain Vernon Rausch, and, of course, to my own beloved bureau chief, A. Vincenzo. There wouldn't be much I could tell them, except what I'll tell you. It all really happened. (edit) Kolchak: (opening narration) Tuesday, 11:15 p.m. If you know anything about Chicago politics, you’ll understand why a 63-year-old ward captain was braving the ungentle hour and the less-gentle streets. You see, Ward Captain Leo J. Ramutka was returning home from a wake – an auf Wiedershen to a loyal registered voter he knew would one day meet him in that great polling station in the sky. What Ward Captain Ramutka failed to foresee was just how soon that meeting would be. (edit) Kolchak 113 Petrosky. It wasn’t a celebrated address, the sort one gets excited over or stores in his mental trousseau, but the name on the radio was - Captain Vernon W. Rausch. To a reporter, he was the Edward R. Murrow of homicide. His list of credits reach back into the mid-‘50s and the infamous Mercer-Dobrantz murders. He was a good cop, allegedly great. So what do you say to a living legend? (breaks narration) Hi there! (edit) Rausch: Let me tell you something, Carl. (starts to supposedly ramble) Think of Greater Chicago. Six million personalities pressed together in a configuration…
Kolchak: Could I get this on tape?
Rausch: …as complex and…
Kolchak: Excuse me. Just…there we go. Would you mind?
Rausch: Six million personalities pressed together…
Kolchak: No. “Think of Chicago…”
Rausch: Think of Greater Chicago. Six million personalities pressed together in a configuration as complex and as dynamically rigorous as it is alienating. (Carl looks increasingly puzzled) Six million sets of needs, wants, desires… (pulls tape recorder up to his mouth) …cries in the night. “Want me. I want you. Understand me. I am a person.” Disintegration of the family, unbridled vertical mobility, the pressure cooker of human disappointments. Carl, understand the apathetic atomized personality. And, well, sooner or later he’s…or she, erupts.
Kolchak: (rather desperately) “She, she.” You said she. You think it’s a woman?
Rausch: Well, I like to call him or her Mr. X.
Kolchak: Mr. X? Why Mr. X? John Doe?
Rausch: Yeah. It’s a lot more professional than calling him a nut or a freak or something like that. No, you’ve got to respect people’s feelings, Carl. (edit) Kolchak: (narration) The next night, 10:20 p.m. If Leo Ramutka’s popularity, or lack of it, was born of ballots and political patronage, Rolf Danvers got his more directly. His was the allure of ready cash and the deeds to several square blocks of prime Chicago real estate. However, within seconds, the only real estate that would matter to Rolf Danvers would be a small plot he owned in a memorial park near Old Town. (edit)

Despite the fact that in the opening narration Carl says Ramutka was killed on Tuesday at 11:15 p.m., after the guest credits flash he says it’s Wednesday at 11:42 p.m. Later dialogue makes it clear that it’s the same night. (edit)

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