The Haunting Yaphet Kotto Monologue From Homicide: Life on the Street

Yaphet Kotto has passed away at the age of 81. 

Kotto is probably best known to TV viewers for his role as Al "Gee" Giardello, the half-black, half-Italian lieutenant from the criitically acclaimed series Homicide: Life on the Street. In this haunting clip following the suicide of Detective Steve Crosetti, Giardello speaks from the heart of a tired, lonesome man who has lost hope, his wife, and everything else that isn't his job, and finds himself "folding in" — and that's a downward spiral he wants to stop. 

Homicide: Life on the Street ran from 1993 to 1999 on NBC.

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