All language subtitles for The Rockford Files S05e17 The Man Who Saw The Alligators_prob3

This is Jim Rockford,

At the tone, leave your name
and message.

I'll get back to you.

Mr. Rockford, you know what to
do if you're attacked and killed?

Ask for Albert Kinsey
at grand opening of

Happy Dawn School of Secret Arts.
Win free lesson.

Sonny?

Mmm?

Sonny? You go ahead.
I'll wait for you here.

No. No, we're home.

We already stopped at
Kelly's Ice Cream store.

You're kind of nauseous
still, ain't you?

No. I feel great.
Who said I'm nauseous?

I'll tell you, Dad,
the man is an absolute genius.

I know. You told me.
You told him.

Come on, sonny.

No, no, no, no, Dad.
I don't feel like sleeping.

But you're full of dope.
You might fall asleep any time.

No, no, the dope has worn off.
I feel excellent.

I feel like
doing something.

Well, let's see what we got in the line of
milk shakes for the next couple of days.

Eugene Pallette.

Hello?

Oh, hello,
Miss Danielli.

Yeah he's right here,
but well he...

He just came back from
having oral surgery,

had his wisdom teeth
pulled out. Yeah.

Why don't you tell me
what it is you want?

See what she wants.

It's about the audit.

I told him the final deadline
was coming up next week,.

He was having trouble
getting the records together.

Now the IRS have given him
two extensions already

and they're not about
to give him another.

And I start my vacation
this weekend.

It's about the audit.

She's leaving town on her
vacation in the next few days.

It's okay.
It'll all be all right.

He said...
I heard.

Listen, I better call
him back in the morning.

He's in for a big shock.

Goodbye, Mr. Rockford.

Rocky.
Hey, Dennis.

How you doing, Jimbo?

No problem.

It's all
in the shoe boxes.

He means his paid-off bills
and tax reports.

The oral surgery
went okay?

The man is
a genius, Dennis.

It's the best operation
I've ever had.

Jimbo, I hate to come at you at a
time like this with this kind of news,

but I feel there's some
urgency and you should know.

You remember
Tony Gagglio?

The lounge singer?

No, Anthony Gagglio.
He's an outfit shooter from Brooklyn.

He worked with
the Minett family.

You got snarled up on a case with
him about two, three years ago?

Yeah, Anthony Boy.

Yeah, that's where
all the hollow points

for flying around on that sport
fishing pier down in Oxnard. Yeah.

He was trying to kill that
witness from New York, that girl.

Word on the street is that Gagglio
holds you personally responsible

for that sabbatical he got up in Quentin
as a result of the Oxnard shoot-out.

Me? I was just
working the case.

Well, you did have a hand
in bringing him down.

Beyond that,
there's not much logic.

Apparently he's had
a lot of liver trouble

resulting from a gunshot
wound that he got that day.

For this he blames you

because he wouldn't have caught the
police bullet if you hadn't called us in.

Also, he's got this insane
hatred for California.

When it looked like he was
gonna die and be buried here,

he started rambling about
you and he's never stopped.

Obviously he's a very
mentally ill person.

Maybe. But a giggler in
a Napoleon hat he's not.

He's intelligent,
professional, totally ruthless.

According to NYPD,
he's got 32 kills under his belt.

It's all right.
There's nothing to worry about.

Jimbo.

Tony Boy is gonna
get paroled today.

Well, now,
what has happened to our justice?

I, for one, am getting
pretty fed up with it!

Well, you didn't say that
when I was in prison, Dad.

Let's not get
into polemics.

You want a beer, Dennis?

No, I do not
want a beer.

Jimbo, I think
you're in danger

and I think you should
consider taking steps.

Leave town, take that vacation
you always dreamed about.

Let me get a line
on this guy.

See you first thing in the
morning, okay, Jimbo?

That's a good idea.

Good idea.

Hey, we don't have
anything to worry about.

You know people always
say things in prison.

It's just a way
to pass the time.

You know, I feel good,

but I think
I will take a little nap.

Dennis.

Uh-huh.

Dennis, you just help yourself
to some ice cream, all right?

Hey, Tony!

Hey, Tony!

Anthony.

Go home.

Wait. It's so good to see
you, I can't tell you.

Hey, let me look at you,
let me look at you. You look good.

Hey, Tone, Ma's here.

She come.
We were both coming to pick you up.

She's down in the car right now.
She don't walk too good lately.

Anthony.

Tell her to go home.

What's the matter
with you?

Your family comes all the
way out here to meet you

your first day
out of the joint.

We come all the way from Brooklyn.
Ma's got a bad hip now.

This is the way you act?

I already got a ride.

Oh, boy.

What? I mean, what is it?

You're still thinking about that business
with that PI down in Los Angeles.

What's his name?

Rockford. And I want no
advice from you or Ma.

Get on a plane.

Wait. Listen to me
for one second, Tony.

You gotta put these kind
of things behind you.

The past is yesterday.

Come on, listen.
Hey, listen to me now!

You don't go down there
and talk to Ma,

I'm gonna have to listen
to her all the way home.

Now I've been with her for two days
straight and I'm going out of my nut!

Hey, Mom, I got a surprise for you.
Look who's here!

Anthony Boy.
Why are you crying?

Why you crying?
Quit crying.

What are you
crying for? Ma...

Come, get in the car.

Get in the car. We'll go to the
airport and God willing, we'll go home.

Richie, you drive.
All right.

Don't let your brother. He doesn't
look so good. He needs his rest.

Come, come here, sit next to your
mother, Tony. Here, come.

Hey, Ma...
Ma, I can't go home right now.

I told you this, Ma.

It's that guy
down in LA.

Tony, please come home.

Hasn't this family had
enough trouble yet?

No. Not enough. Not yet.
We need more.

No!
Hey, Ma... Ma... Ma...

Oh, Ma!

Richie, but didn't
you tell him?

You didn't tell him how things are
finally going to look up for us?

Nobody tells anybody anything around here.
That's what the trouble is.

Mention his Jewish girlfriend
and he'll talk all night,

but something important to his family...
Okay, Ma.

Ma, you gonna let me
talk now? All right?

Tony,

I had a call from him
the other day.

Yeah. What'd he do,
call you right there at the tire shop?

No, no. I don't
work there no more.

Tires aren't selling like they used to.
They had to cut back.

Anyhow, he calls me
and he asked about you

and he wants to know how you are
and this and that, boom boom,

and he asked about your
liver and how you're feeling.

You know,
he's concerned.

Yeah.

No, no, no.
Not like you think.

He's not holding any ill will because
he had to do that stretch in Atlanta

because you didn't
get a chance to

talk to that girl, you know,
that testified against him.

Please, please.
I don't want to hear any of this, huh?

I've told you both.
I don't want to hear this kind of talk.

I've been in an airplane
all day and I'm very upset.

Tony, he wants you should come
back to Brooklyn right away.

He needs you and
he's got plans for you.

Hey, Tony, listen.

For all his faults,
this man has been a saint

to this family since your father
died, God rest his soul.

Tony,

Mr. Minett's very anxious you
should come back to work for him.

In a more managerial position,
you know what I'm saying?

And listen to this.
He wants me to work for him, too.

Hey, I told you I don't want you
to get involved with this business.

I won't be!
I won't!

He wants me to work
in his produce thing.

A manager probably, of
the, what do you call it?

Artichoke, the distribution
department to start with.

And, Tone, this way I'll
be able to marry Rhonda.

And for Ma, he wants to give
her a house out on Long Island.

Oh, Tony,

you wouldn't believe what our
neighborhood has turned into.

They're all around us now.
All four sides.

Yeah, I know, I know.
I saw it happening before I went away.

He'll give her a nice
house out in Maspeth.

She shouldn't have to live like
this, not at her age, Tone.

And me with my hip...

Come on, let's face it.
Mr. Minett, he don't really want me.

It's you, Tone.

He considers you
like a son

and he says you're the most valuable
piece of manpower he ever had.

All right, I'm gonna tell you something.
Now, this is between us.

I'm not sure I wanna go
back to work for Joe Minett.

Tony...
Wait, shut up!

He didn't give me no legal help at
all, nothing.

And I'm getting other
offers I'm considering.

I don't even have time
to think about it.

And that's enough
for right now.

I gotta go down to LA and
take care of some business,

then I'll think about
the future.

I'll be in touch.

Where you going?

If you won't listen,

please promise me you'll stop in and
see Conchetta while you're there.

She lives in
the Pacific Palisades.

I'm gonna be busy.
This is a business trip.

Promise me.

Conchetta will
never forgive me.

And then I'll have to
listen to her mother.

All right.

I'll be in touch.

Tony?

I bet
you miss my sauce.

Come home.

I'll make you a meal
you'll never forget.

Hey, Ma,
I've been in prison three years.

I had a lot of meals
I'll never forget.

Okay?

Ah, that's nice.

Thank you very much,
Congressman.

Well, it's always
a pleasure to see you

and please give my regards
to Mrs. Hartschorn, okay?

I'll do that,
Mr. Minett.

Of course, we're both
hoping to see you

at the dedication of the Joseph
Minett Youth Recreation Center.

Thank you.

Listen, you take good
care of yourself, huh?

It's cold out there.

Good night, Mr. Minett.

Good night, sir.

Here.

Hello? OPERATOR: Mr. Gagglio
calling from California.

Yeah, put him on.

Richard, how are you?

Fine. Fine,
Mr. Minett.

I'm calling, you know,
'cause you asked me to keep you posted.

Right!

How's the weather out there,
you lucky son-of-a-gun?

It's chilly here.
They're expecting another big blizzard.

Oh, it's okay.

I always thought that California
would be real warm, you know.

It's kind of
damp here now.

Did you see him, Richie?
How's he look?

He looks so-so, Mr. Minett.
About the same, you know.

But, look,

here's the thing,
he's not coming back right now.

He's not coming back?

That's a big disappointment
to me, Richard.

Richard, that's a very big
disappointment to me, you know.

I was looking forward to having him
here as soon as possible, Richard.

There's a lot of work
to be done,.

What's the holdup?
What's he up to?

He's going down
to Los Angeles.

He's got this thing about settling
a personal score down there.

That brother of yours, Richie,
is a regular knucklehead, you know that.

Well, hey, you sure
that's all it is?

Oh, yeah, yeah, Mr. Minett. He's real
excited about coming back to work for you.

He just wants
a few days.

I mean, that's okay,
isn't it?

Where'd he go?

Do you know, Richard?

Why? I mean...

Why? Why?
Richard, because...

Because I'm asking you.
That's why.

Richard, if you don't
trust my judgment,

then maybe you shouldn't come to
work in my produce business, huh?

I mean, you probably
wouldn't like it.

No, no. It's not that.

I mean... We“...

You do just want to
talk to him, right?

Where did he go, Richie?

The guy's name is Rockford.
He lives down in Los Angeles.

But! think, Mr. Minett,
that he probably went to Syl's first.

You see, Syl lives up
around here some place.

I'm trying to
find out where

through the prison authorities
now, and you know,

because Ma's very upset
about this whole thing and...

Gee, poor Mama,
I can understand that, Richard.

Listen,

I'd like you to do something for
me, if you don't mind.

Stay in California another couple of
days, you and Mama.

Check into a nice motel,
you know, show her the sights.

But I want you
to keep in touch with me.

As a matter of fact,
make sure you call me tomorrow night.

You know, in case my people and your brother,
Anthony, they miss each other in LA,

Be easier for you to make contact with
him, you know, through Syl or whatever,

if you can find Syl.

But I just want to make
sure, you know, that...

Thank you, Richard,
very much,

You're an intelligent boy.

I think you have a good
understanding of the situation here.

Hey, don't get too much
sunburn, you knucklehead.

Good night.

Get the Chin in here.

Now!

Tell him to call Murf at home.
I want him here, too.

Rockford.

That was a great dinner.

What do
you call it again?

Ginger beef.

Ethan, Rebecca,
please help me clear the table.

How do you like
the 49ers, huh, kid?

You like Gene Washington
this year?

I'm not into
competitive athletics.

Dessert will be served
in just a few moments.

Oh, let's see,
we had ginger with the main dish.

What's for dessert?

Cake with pork frosting?

What do you gotta
antagonize her for, huh?

Tony,
I've been thinking.

I ain't gonna go down
to LA with you. I'm sorry.

It's your show.

You ain't gonna go?

After what Rockford did,
you can make a statement like that?

You ain't gonna go?

He didn't do nothing, Tony.

No? You didn't notice what
that pill in the gut did to me?

You didn't notice
how I gotta get up

from the table three
times during dinner?

And, Syl, we did time.

We both did time.
Hard state time.

Tony, that wasn't the first
stretch that either of us did, huh?

It ain't pleasant,
but it doesn't explain your attitude.

You got any cigars around?

Look, what you just said
doesn't explain it, Tony.

It don't explain this obsession
that you have popping Rockford.

Hey, do me a favor, huh?
Come over here.

Here, blow the smoke
out the door here, huh?

Tony, I got
a good thing going here.

You know, Jeanie likes me,
she digs me and I dig her.

You know, she's got
a good business going,

and, you know, I like
working in the gallery.

Hey, I don't know that much about
art, but she's teaching me, you know.

I'm learning.

And the kids,

you know,
I really love the kids.

Hey, Syl, you forgetting I once
saved your life on Bayshore Parkway?

You got out of the joint early
on this work furlough program.

And you managed to
sucker this broad.

But what about me?
What do I got?

Hey, come on, Tony,
you could've got out on work furlough. No?

No, but you always
gotta make a problem.

You know that, Tony?
Always a problem!

Hey, listen to this,
my partner ever since 16th Street.

We done it all together,
ate good food, drank wine,

we met broads,
we worked.

We did it together.
Now look at you.

You're dressed like some flit
that lives in The Village,

you're sneaking smokes

like some little kid
in school.

It makes me
wanna puke!

You're coming
down there, Syl.

We've been together too long for
you to start acting like this!

You're coming
down there!

No, I'm not!

Hey, Syl, this means a lot to me.
A whole lot.

So I'm gonna be blunt.

Either you come with me
or I do the kids.

You try it and you gotta come
right through me. You understand?

Oh, yeah,
you wanna do it?

You wanna put it
to the test?

After all these years,
that's one thing we never did, Syl.

You wanna try it?

Well, how
you feeling, sonny?

Miserable.
I've never felt so bad in my life.

The pain is excruciating.

That clown didn't know
what he was doing.

He went to the Bigger
Hammer School of Dentistry.

I feel nauseous, too.

Someone's singing a
different tune this morning.

Oh, that Miss Danielli
called you.

Oh, that?

Dad, do you have any conception
of the trouble I'm in?

She said that she was going to
be at her cabin in Arrowhead

and that if you could get your
shoe-boxes and your records together

and head on up there,

she'll give you a couple
days working on the audit,

sort of a
working man's vacation.

Dad, I can't go up there
with this tax bite coming.

I've gotta scare up
some work.

Oh, Dad...

Was Dennis
over here yesterday

talking about...
He sure was, sonny.

He sure was. Dennis and me,
we didn't want to press you yesterday.

You said there was
nothing to worry about.

Dad, Dad, don't tell me
what I said yesterday.

I'm better off
not knowing.

Well, you said that guys say
lots of things in prison.

Dad!

That blue sedan with two guys
parked in it is still there.

Hmm?

They were out there
early this morning

when I got up
to take a pain pill.

You sure Mr. Minett gave you
that name right? Rockford?

There's no action
in that trailer.

I didn't write
the name down.

Mr. Minett
done it himself.

He took it right off the phone.
I seen him.

You like it
we fly tourist?

Big Joe they call him,
he sends us out here tourist. This is big?

So Tony'll show up here,
we'll pop him, we'll go home.

'Morning.

Is there something
I could do for you fellas?

Beg your pardon?

Well, I noticed that you
were sitting out here

staring at my house
since early this morning.

I was wondering if I could
help you with something?

Hey, we weren't staring
at your house.

We just come down
the shore for the day.

Weather's a little chilly.
We're hoping it'll clear up.

Yeah, it won't clear up.
I can promise you that.

Might as well clear out.

Yeah, I guess
he's right.

We might as well hit the road.
What do you say?

Keep the car running.

I'm gonna put his lights out
and take him in the trailer!

Hey! What's going on?

If you guys want any trouble,
we'll call the police.

He's got a gun!

We better travel!

Sonny!

Sonny!
You all right?

It hurts, Dad.

Here you go, Jim.

Oh, thank you,
thank you, Jake.

Any time.
Come on, let's get you inside.

Was it that Anthony Boy?
Do you think it was him?

They had definite
Brooklyn accents.

Maybe they were
some friends of his?

I think they were waiting to
meet him but beyond that...

Boy, that means
he's coming!

I think you better take Dennis' advice.
You better...

Take that vacation I've
been dreaming about? Yeah?

I'm really up to it, too.

This is untenable.

Dad, sometimes
I don't believe you.

I put all the paid bills
for an entire year

in one file drawer
in the garage.

The drawer gets full.
So what do you do?

You pull April and May,
two full months in the middle of the year.

I pulled April and May
because it begins with A

and I'd remember
where I put it.

But I don't
remember, I'm sorry.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hi, Angel, come in.

Hey, Jimmy,
I'm glad I found you man.

I've been trying to call
you all morning long.

We have a little
parley private?

I don't want to waste
anybody's time.

Look, Angel,
I don't have any time.

I'm trying to pack
for a trip.

You got anything to say,
you can say it on the run.

Oh, Adriana Danielli,
this is Angel Martin.

Hi.
This is business, Jimmy.

Angel, either I hear it
or I don't.

All right, all right.

You remember old Buster
Hutchins, don't you?

All my efforts to forget
him have been unsuccessful.

Buster's living out
near Philadelphia now

and he got himself
wired into this church.

He's a member.
He goes regularly.

Our Lady of the Highway near the
Turnpike or some deal like that.

Anyway, Buster told the padre he had a
good idea to raise money for the church,

put on
a Monte Carlo night.

And he'd have
all his old friends,

professionals from
Vegas come, you know,

ex-dealers, pit bosses.
I'm going to go.

So is little Eddie Whitefeather
from Seminole Springs, Florida.

You're going to stick
it to a church? No.

Why don't you listen
to what I'm saying?

We're going to raise money
for the church.

I just need the airplane fare
because the church can't front it.

Come on, Angel, you think I don't
know what's going to happen?

You and Hutchins and Eddie
Whitefeather are going

to clear out of there with
everything but the padre's socks

and the papier-maché
tablecloths.

All right! So what are you
all of a sudden, Ivanhoe?

Just give me the plane fare.
I'll pay you 30% return on your money.

That is disgusting!

I'm sorry you had to
hear that, miss.

Look, Angel,
I got problems of my own, huh?

I got a tax mess
here that's so bad

I'm going to have to spend
three days up at Adriana's place

at Arrowhead just
trying to sort it out.

How you doing
with April and May, Dad?

Jim,
I hope you don't mind my saying,

but I think this is symptomatic
of the whole problem.

Why are these receipts stored
here in the first place?

Look, you wanna try
living in a house trailer

and running a business
out of it, too?

Which you can't claim,
by the way.

Alice Faye.

I'm thinking of all them
pictures and records

I collected back
in the '405.

That's it!
Alice Faye!

Alice Faye?

April and May?

Hi, this is
Joe Rockford,

Jim's dad
from across the way.

How are you?
Yeah, Jim wanted me to order one of those

good T-bone steaks of yours and to
split a champagne and put it on his tab.

Yeah, oh, and the boy
that comes over,

you could just have him
wrap it up real good

in tin foil and leave it
on the steps.

Thank you, thank you.

Some company.

It ain't bad enough I'm here,
I get to ride with a statue.

That road. That road down here.
Twelve hours on that road.

Those brown hills
mile after mile.

And no people, nobody.

And then once in a while
you see a gas station,

all lit up with
the fluorescents like a...

What kind
of place is this?

That was the San Joaquin
Valley, that's all.

Route 5 is the fastest way
down here from Frisco.

San Joaquin Valley?

It reminds me of
pictures I seen of hell.

I had a terrible dream.

Thanks for asking me
about it.

I just told you I had a nightmare
and what do you do? Nothing.

All right,
what was it about?

I don't know.

I can't remember it
too clear.

I was at the Polo Grounds.
I was a kid.

It was right after
my old man died.

Alvin Dark was still playing
for the Giants at the time

and Duke Snider was in
centerfield for Brooklyn.

I started screaming, "Duke!
Duke! My father's dead!"

And Duke Snider turns around and
he's got the face of a skull,

and then he points up into
the stands by where I'm at

and then I don't know,
it all went blurry and I woke up.

Hey, what do you say we stop
and get something to eat, huh?

No, keep driving.

We're almost there.

Besides, I don't wanna go near
no more tacos and chili dogs

and sandwiches with
alfalfa sprouts on them.

You people eat
garbage out here.

All right, all right!
That's it.

All right, this is as far as I go.
Get out of my car.

What are you
talking about?

Shut up and
get back inside.

I'm risking an awful lot
coming down here with you.

In 15 minutes,
I'm gonna blow some guy up.

I can end up in death row, and you don't
even try to make it pleasant for me!

All the time complaining,
making cracks about Jeanie, huh?

Well, I'm finished!

So you're getting like
everybody else out here.

Can't tell where
you stand with you.

I don't wanna listen
to you anymore, Tony!

You don't make
no sense, huh!

Here. Why don't you
take yourself a bus?

Just like all the rest.

Back in New York,
you walk into a deli and order a sandwich,

you know
where you stand.

Right away the guy is
giving you a hard time

because he hates his job and he
hates you for wanting a sandwich

so he makes
your life miserable.

Here? You walk in,
it's, "Morning, sir.

"How are you today, sir?

"What would
you like, sir?"

And they don't mean none of it!
They hate you!

They're just friendly, Tony!
Life is different here!

Friendly? It's sick!

They go around killing
innocent people here,

people they never even met!

A guy goes out,
grows his hair all funny,

hears God talking to him
at a skateboard rink.

Then he forms a group of other
losers with their hair all funny

and they form a church and
they go out and pop 17 people!

Oh, so what?

So I'm worried
about you, Syl.

I'm worried about all these
values you're starting to have.

Now get back in the car
and drive.

Look at him.

My mind's
going back to '72.

Remember Bayshore Parkway.
The Capri Lounge?

Big black dude comes in, worked for
Little Fermin, comes in gunning for you.

Yeah, yeah, I remember.
You shoved me out of the way, huh?

Yeah, but that
wasn't enough.

I went out,
I looked this guy up,

and I put three rounds
in his Chiclets

while he's sitting in his stinking
Eldorado bragging to his pimp friends.

That's what
I'm talking about, Syl.

Values.

Yes, honey.

I want to call Seminole Springs, Florida.
Mr. Edward Whitefeather.

That number
is 634-4945.

Yes, honey,
I'm still holding.

Get him out of here.

I don't see his car,
but I hear voices.

It ain't his.

Hey, Eddie, it's Angel.

How, Chief?

Any way I can.

Same old Eddie Whitefeather.
How you doing, Chief?

Listen, I'm going to be
talking to Buster up in Philly

about running
the game out here.

Says you two domino
in Philly.

Put it on the step.

Listen, I thought maybe we could
get a franchise going on this.

Wait a minute,
wait a minute.

What, you got hardened under the ear flap?
I said leave it on the stoop.

I'm looking for Mr. Rockford.
You know where I can find him?

Who's looking?

lam.

Hold on
a second, Eddie.

Is it business
or personal?

Very personal.

Yeah, well, is it very personal
enough to maybe advance me $10 or $15?

That sounds fair enough.
What do you think, Syl?

Yeah, I like it.

Remember Howdy Doody?

How his head used to do
a complete 360?

Wasn't that a kick
in the pants? Huh?

Let go of my face!
Let go of my face!

Hey, Syl,
in my right hand pocket

there's a ball-peen hammer.
Get it out.

He's in Lake Arrowhead,
he's in Lake Arrowhead.

Where at Lake Arrowhead, squirrelly?
I don't know.

He's with this chick. Danielli.
Something like that.

Adriana Danielli!

Is there
a phone there?

I don't think so, because she said
when she likes to get back to nature,

she likes to
get back to nature!

But whatever you want to do,
you can do it,

just sneak up
on them and do it.

You know, he's not going to
be able to yell for help!

There's all kinds of cabins out
in the toolies in Arrowhead.

Syl.

Hey, wait a minute, Tony!
I only signed up for one hit!

Complications,
I don't need!

You blow him up
and what?

Somebody comes in here
and finds him

and maybe screws up the
whole deal up there?

Come on, Tony,
this is a career squirrel, huh?

He ain't gonna do no
talking, are you, doll?

No! No! Never!
I lost my voice!

From now on
I'm a mute.

Starting tomorrow morning I'm going
to be selling sign language cards

down at the bus station.

With all
we got to do today,

this big schlep up to Arrowhead
and we gotta waste time with this?

If I don't stop and see my cousin,
Conchetta, like I promised my mother,

I ain't never gonna
have no peace.

Anthony Boy.

Conchetta.

Look at him,
how he's changed.

Look who's talking.

Hey, you remember Syl
from Bay 16th?

Is that him?
What is this?

Hi, Tone.

I said
what the hell is this?

Come on. Come on in!
We're just having lunch! Come on.

Look, we were in California
already so I told your brother

Conchetta's mother
will never forgive me

if she finds out we were here and
we didn't stop and visit, huh?

Hello, Sylvester.

Look at the weight
he's put on.

At least
he's eating good.

Come on. Get some bread,
make yourself a pepper sandwich.

No, no, let me do it.

Hey, I got no time
to eat, Ma.

Syl and me,
we still got business.

Anthony, I want you
to listen to me.

Now last night your brother
spoke to Mr. Minett.

He's very anxious
for you to come home.

He wants you back there because he
wants to discuss things with you.

He wants you to
get back on your feet.

They been talking to Joe,
huh, Tony?

Eat your cheese.

So where
you going, Tony?

I mean, at least
let me know in case

we gotta get in touch
with you or something.

He's going nowhere.

He's going to make a nice
visit here to his cousin

and he's going to have a sensible family
discussion about these opportunities

that are coming our way,
that's where he's going.

Now what do you want
on the sandwich?

I don't want to hear no more talk
about sandwiches, peppers and eating!

That's all this family is,
is one big gigantic digestive tract.

It's like an obsession!

Oh, geez.

Now she's gonna
cry now. Watch.

I'm gonna get some aspirins.
It's all right, Ma.

As usual, being with my family for
about five minutes and I get a headache.

Your brother's leaving!

Anthony, Anthony, please.
You're acting like a maniac.

Get on a plane and go home!
What are you doing?

Oh, I was just getting
the mail for Conchetta.

How do you like that?
When you worked for the post office,

you couldn't even
hold the job.

Tony, wait...

I want...

What?

What do you want?

Come on. Let's go.

You disallowed everything.
I mean everything!

Nothing I had works.

I feel like I just got a term
paper back with a D on it.

Better me
than the IRS.

When they give you a D you
wind up staying after school.

Well, what about my phone
answering machine?

Mmm-mmm.
They're not going to allow that.

'74, '75, '76 and '77.

The thing's been depreciated so much there's
nothing left but pure energy, no mass.

What about that Dennis
Becker case of scotch?

Why did you
cross that off?

Well, Dennis Becker is a friend of
yours, a personal friend.

You cannot write off his Christmas
present as a business deduction.

Of course,
he's a friend of mine.

We also have
business dealings.

That's $15 scotch!

I don't really think you want to hold
that one up to too much light, do you?

No, no, I guess not.

But, hey, now that was
a business gift, huh.

I also gave Dennis

a personal gift at Christmas
time that I don't plan to deduct.

Oh? What was it?

Those long matches.

The ones you use to light
the fireplaces with.

Well, you don't feel well and
you've done yeoman duty for one day.

I bet you could use some dinner.
I know I could.

What flavor milk shake
would you like?

I've had it.

Coming up here with my aluminum
foil bag like some 12-year-old.

I want some pork chops and fried
chicken, chicken fried steak.

I think I'm getting a
toothache on the other side.

Well, I'm just
a ton of fun, aren't I?

Oh.

Thank you.

That's funny. I don't get
drop-in guests up here.

Who is it?

Danielli place?

Angel?
Jimmy! Open up!

Angel, if you're here about Buster
Hutchins and his roadway church.

No, no.
It's bad, Jimmy, it's bad.

This is like a nightmare.
I've been through living hell!

I was at your trailer,
you know,

and these two guys come in...
No, I don't know!

What were you doing
at my trailer?

Well, I was returning
your movie camera.

You know, Rocky gave me the key and
I was kind of cleaning the lens off

when these
two guys walked in.

Jimmy, one of them looked like a cross
between George Hamilton and Dracula.

I told him, "Buddy,
take it out in the street."

Anthony Boy...

Dear God...

You told them where I was,
didn't you, Angel?

Yeah, but I tried to
hang tough, Jimmy.

I mean, they started working
me over for a couple of hours!

They even shocked me
with a 110 volt line!

Yeah, right.
How long did you hold out?

Did you make it 15 seconds?
Jimmy!

Angel, the only reason you
came up here is because

you know if I somehow
get out of this alive,

I'm gonna come after you
with a sickle.

That's the thanks I get
for my loyalty?

After risking my neck!

After driving through the worst
terrain in Southern California

with a severe head wound and
the gas station attendant

hardly knew
where her cabin was?

I'm sorry, Adriana.

The best thing we can do is
clear out as fast as possible.

Say, Tony,
what Richie said before about Joe...

If he's really offering
you a good deal,

how come you talking
salty about him?

I ain't heard his deal.

I have heard
what he said about me

while I was
in the Atlanta Federal Pen.

Hey, he gets hot.

You know he doesn't mean
what he says. You know that.

Nobody'll take care
of you like Joe.

You've been working
for him too long.

Hey, Syl, one time
in the prison library,

bored out
of my melon,

I seen this book,
Death of a Salesman.

I see it takes place in Brooklyn so I
figure, what the hell, I'll read it.

Well, it's all about this guy
Willy, see, he's a salesman.

He sells buttons
or some junk.

Where did he sell
his stuff? In Brooklyn?

What difference
does that make?

Boston, someplace,
I don't know.

Anyways, this and that happens,
and Willy, he's having hard times,

so he goes to
see his boss, Howard,

only Howard's
gonna fire him.

Forty years he worked for this guy
and this guy is gonna fire him.

That's it, end of discussion.
Get my point?

No loyalty?

What happened
in the end?

I never finished it.

But Willy's got these two
sons, see, Biff and Happy.

So I figured he takes
his two sons down there,

pops Howard,
and takes over the company.

Jimmy!

Come on, get back,
get back!

Stay down, Angel.
Stay low.

Angel, you go to the back
door and keep your eyes open.

Angel, move!
Go on!

Adriana, do you have
a gun around the house?

No! Yes!

There's some kind of a rifle that one
of my partners uses to shoot gophers.

It's in the hall closet.

Okay, all right,
go over there.

Stay down.
Okay. Stay down.

It's that guy's car.
The squirrel.

Then Rockford
knows it's us.

You've got to be
kidding!

I'd hold you responsible.
You owe me good.

Let him sweat,
let him eat it.

It's a pellet gun!

Hey, Gagglio!

Rockford!

Hey now, be smart.
Put on a happy face.

Go home before
somebody gets hurt.

You're too much, Rockford,
you're a comedian!

Look again, Anthony Boy.

I can pick you and your
buddy off like cans.

Let my friends go.
They've got no part in this.

It's a smart deal,
Anthony Boy.

You'd be a sucker
not to take it.

Suck on this!

Adriana, come here.

Okay, now I'm going to try to hold
them down with this thing for a while.

I can stall them for a while.
Now you and Angel,

you go out the back door,
down the hill to the fire trail.

What about you?
Don't worry about me.

I'll catch up with you
as soon as I can.

No. Don't worry about it.
Now, go on.

Hey, why don't you come up
here, Anthony Boy?

Don't stand out there
in the cold.

Hey, where's Angel?

He's already gone.

He's what?
I came back up the hill.

Angel.

Angel!

Hold it, squirrel!

Get up out of there, squirrel.

Jim.

Rockford!

Okay, Rockford.

Throw out the BB gun

or your friend and his head
leave in separate cars!

Jim.
It's going to be all right.

It's going to
be all right.

All right, why don't you
let her and Angel go, huh?

Hurting them's
not going to help you.

No?

All right, all right, Tony. Come on.
I'm here, I done what you wanted.

Do it and let's get out of
here, cut the small talk.

This isn't something you just do
him, bam, boom.

This is something
you gotta do slow.

Give me
the ball-peen hammer.

I left it back
at the trailer.

Huh?

I said I threw it on the
floor back at the trailer.

I heard what you said!

You're no help
to me, Syl.

You're a milestone
around my neck!

Fine,
I'll say good-bye.

Just shut up,
will you?

Okay.

We gotta look around,
we gotta see what kind of party favors

we can make
with what we got.

Why don't you
and I just talk, huh?

That's just what
I wanna do, beach boy.

You and me,
I want us to talk.

We'll shoot the breeze
about old times,

maybe take a look
into the future.

All right, everybody.
Grab a seat, let's go.

Mr. Minett?

What are you doing here?

I mean, I didn't know
you'd be coming.

I was kind of hoping
you wouldn't have to.

Me too, Richie, me too.
Flying you can keep.

But Murf here tells me that Rockford's
house went bust as a possibility,

and, well, then after our
conversation last night on the phone,

I could sense that you
were in a tough spot.

Maybe you were having
second thoughts, huh?

So I decided to come out
and oversee things myself.

I'm sorry, Mr. Minett,
it's just that...

Richard, there's never a need
for apologies between us.

But time is crucial.

Now I think it's very,
very important that we end this thing now.

Then we can put all of our
energies into other things,

get on with our lives.

Mr. Minett, I know Tony
can be a problem,

I know he's very confused
right now, but maybe...

The bond that once existed
between your brother and me

got weak.

Hey, Richie,
these things happen.

Hey, am I blaming anybody?
No. Maybe me.

A little bit.

But the point is,
Tony has knowledge about my activities

which he could give
to other people,

and it could be
used to hurt me.

Do I need that, huh?

I mean his knowledge,
his talent,

used against me,
Richard?

Let's face it, that brother of
yours is a pretty frightening guy.

You know
where he is, Richard?

Prepared to tell me?

Like I said on the phone,
Mr. Minett. I couldn't.

Not again.

Not unless, well,
my mother saw that it was for the best.

Otherwise,
I couldn't live with it.

You're a good son, Richard.
That's something.

Relax, it's going to be
all right.

Richard, your mother
was the prettiest girl

at the baths in 1934 and
she hasn't changed a bit.

Mr. Minett.

Hey, what is this Mr. Minett?
Joe and you're Nucci.

Hey, because people lose touch,
you think that things change?

Would you like
some coffee cake?

No, no, no, no, no.
Hey, Nucci.

I gotta watch what I eat.
It's my colon.

I got a young doctor.
He went to Brandeis,

but, you know, at our age,
when they tell you something,

you better listen.
Am I right?

I guess so.
That's our lot.

I'm sorry you had to fly out
here not being well and all.

Hey, that's all right.

I know what it's like.

Me, I had to get on the plane with my
back, my hip and everything.

Listen, as long as it comes to a
satisfactory resolution, it's worth it, huh?

Sit down, Nucci.

Sit down and let's talk
about Anthony. Huh?

Let's talk about
that son of yours.

Nucci, you know,
through the years,

I've tried to be like a father to this
boy, you know that.

I tried to
do right by him.

Just like I've always tried to
do right by Richie and by you.

I know.
And I'm so grateful.

Hey, your husband, Frank
Gagglio, God rest his soul,

was a fine man.
The best.

He was a good baker,

he was always a friendly face
in my dealings at the union.

It's the least
I could do, Nucci.

After that tragedy
on Myrtle Avenue,

those animals gunning down
that innocent man.

Well, I just wanted to see that
the boys had some, some guidance.

They never did find
those bums, huh?

You know, as a matter
of fact, Nucci,

that's right,
it was me and my brother Allan

took Anthony to his first baseball game.
Hey, you remember?

That's right, huh?
It was after his father died.

Nucci, you know
how I tried.

I tried. I tried to see that
he had some measure of success.

But, I mean,
let's face it, Nucci.

You know your son, he's not exactly
managerial type, am I right?

He doesn't have his feet
on the ground.

And lately, the last few
years, it's gotten worse.

Nucci,

you know,
in spite of my love for this boy,

I gotta ask myself a question.
What's more important?

This boy who you love
like a son,

or the family
of Frank Gagglio,

a man you respected and a man whose
wife and his other son needs help?

Marianuccia,
look at me, will you?

Marian uccia?

Now that's not a very easy
question to answer, is it?

These things he does,

he don't mean it.
I know.

He never could
be controlled.

Even his father
couldn't control him.

You know, I read somewhere where it's
those first years, those crucial years.

And who knows, Nucci?
Maybe Frank wasn't home enough,

or maybe it was one of those hormone
things when he was a little boy.

He always was a worry.

Oh, how I wish...

May God
strike off my tongue.

How I wish I had a son
like other mothers.

Look how poor Richie
has suffered.

Listen to me, Nucci,
listen to me.

Hey,

there comes a time
in all of our lives

when each of us
have got to stand

at the Rubicon like Caesar.

We got to ask ourselves,

"What is this all about?

"What is this water? What is this
place in time trying to tell me?"

Now in times like this,
there is always pain.

It's the way
of the world, Nucci.

But through this pain
comes the future.

It's how we go ahead.

But why? Why?

Why? If we had the answer
to that question,

we would unlock the
mystery of the universe,

and the world would beat
a path to our door. Why?

There's so many things
to think about.

Nucci, listen to me.
At your age,

you shouldn't be faced with going
back to the old neighborhood,

to that violence.

You should be
someplace peaceful,

nice, like Maspeth, huh?

And Richie, Richie should be
able to marry this Rhonda Weisman

if that's what he
chooses, God bless him.

I wanna help.

It's the way
Frank would want it.

I---

I don't know what to do
about this son of mine.

Hey, Nucci,

you want to leave it
in my hands?

Yes?

Nucci?

Hmm?

Nucci?

Marianuccia, he was
like a son to me, too.

Let me work it out
with him, huh?

Nucci, Nucci.

It's a whole different
world with these kids.

You and me, we're just a couple of
old, tired horses.

And these kids, they've got
their whole lives ahead of them.

Come on, Richie,
let's go out front and chew the fat.

Good luck, Richie.
You make yourself available to Murf here

and the Chin,

you know, just in case your brother doesn't
feel like talking or whatever, you know.

You can help him
come around, huh?

Wait a minute, Mr. Minett,
aren't you coming?

Over here.

I thought along time,
Rockford.

In my cell, I thought.

In the can, I thought.

During the prison variety
show, what am I doing?

Thinking.

I threw out
a thousand ideas.

Then I finally came up
with it.

First I work you over
with the ball-peen,

then I take you out to the
beach by where you live,

chain you to a rock,
and sit there with a sandwich,

wait till
the tide comes in.

That's a lot of
mental effort, Gagglio.

And you wanna know something?
When you're all finished,

you're not gonna feel
any better.

Oh, yeah?
How do you know that?

Well, just take
my word for it.

Or don't. Just ask your friend
back there what he thinks.

Hey, Tony, can we
get on with it?

I wanna
get back home, huh?

I don't know why I gotta be here.
I'm just an innocent bystander.

Hey, what's your problem,
Gagglio, huh?

What is this thing
you've got for me?

What?

Well, you heard me
explain it.

I was only peripherally involved
in that thing up in Oxnard.

The police shot you, I didn't.
So what is it?

What is it?
What is it?

I'll tell you what it is!

Guys like you,
you're all over the place,

eating your stinking cheeseburgers,
clogging up the streets

on your stupid lousy
Sunday drives!

Football players,
milk drinkers, funny boys!

Hey, Tony...
Shut up!

Guys like you, Rockford, and guys like
me, we can't live here together!

You make this planet a
toilet for me to live in!

Hey, Tony, would you listen to me?
I heard a car pull up!

It's Murf Guellow!

Hey! Wait a minute,
how did they...

Hey, this is it, Syl.
I told you I had a feeling.

This don't smell good.

That's an understatement.

The Chin's here, too?

He's never been further west
than the Jersey Meadows.

Well, maybe they came up to talk
to you about your new deal, huh?

I mean, your new job.

No, no. I...

I don't think
they came up here

to give you the keys to
the executive washroom.

No, no. I think they came up
to the mountains to hunt.

Old Joe...

Hey' Mum!

What can I do for you?

Tony! Hey, Tony Boy!

What do you want?

Business, Tony.
The old man sent us to talk to you!

It's urgent!

You ain't gonna get
no Oscars, Murf.

But you're gonna get this!

What did you do that for?
Why did you shoot at them?

'Cause I thought
I'd hit them, stupid!

Take it from me, Syl.

They're out
to blow us away.

Anthony?

Huh?

Tony!

Tony! What's wrong?

What are you doing,
firing at the fellas?

Him?

He's with them.

The kid is out there.
He's with them.

Hey, Tony, that's how
come they found us, I bet, huh?

Richie must've found out
and, you know...

Hey, Tone, cool off, would you?
They just wanna talk.

It's about the family.
Ma and all.

He wouldn't do this without
my mother's blessing.

He don't go to the bathroom
without consulting her.

Tony?
Come on out, will you?

I'll talk to you, Richie.
But that's it.

Come on in, okay?

Come on in alone.

Sorry you can't
come in, Richie!

Remember I used to tell you about
the alligators under the bed?

And scare you?

They were
really there, kid!

I know. I saw them!

Tony.
Tony, what if I...

SW? SW?

He's out of
this one, Gagglio!

And his shotgun
is out on the porch.

My brother!

I lived like a dog so he
could go to Hofstra College!

He flunks out!

I did everything I could to
keep him out of the rackets.

I even lived with my mother
so he could move to Manhattan,

take acting classes.

Oh, you're breaking us up.
There's not a dry eye in the house.

They've got us pinned down, genius.
Start thinking about that!

All we gotta...
All we gotta do is...

Yeah, what? We're gonna go
down to the hardware store

and pick up a gross of
ball-peen hammers, huh?

What am I talking
to you for?

Because you never worked alone
in your life, that's why.

Guys like you,
you aren't capable.

I still got my piece.
They can't rush us.

They can't do nothing
but be lawn ornaments!

They don't have
to rush us...

They don't have to rush us.
They can wait until dark.

That's like 20 minutes
from now!

We can all be dead
in 20 minutes!

Hey, Tony,
get me out of here.

I wanna go home.

Maybe somebody heard the
shots and called the sheriff?

No, no. Your nearest
neighbor's half a mile away.

If they haven't heard it by
now, they're not going to.

I could still do you,
Rockford,

and I'll wait for the
rest when the time comes.

Now that's
a great solution.

This is a fire area.

I saw the signs coming up.

There's lookout stations
in these hills.

Yeah, I get it,
Jimmy, I get it!

I make a Molotov

and you get outside somehow,
and you start a fire!

Shut up! Everybody, shut up!
I say what goes on here!

Anyways, there's not enough brush
around the house. It's all dirt.

I didn't say anything
about a brushfire.

What we need
is a fireball.

Yeah, right!

I'm gonna have to get
outside to lob it.

Gagglio, you're going
to have to cover me.

A fireball! Jimmy's right.
A fireball.

Maybe we'll make it
out of here yet.

Adriana, I need some rags
and a glass bottle.

Be night soon.
We can all go home.

You know, Richie?

I'm impressed.

Lucille!

Let's go, Chin.

The whole mountainside is gonna
be full of firemen and cops.

We can't make the job.

Mum Mum what are you doing'?
Wait a minute.

Hold it, Rockford!

Get away from that car or I'll put
one right in your girlfriend's face.

Come on, come on.

It's all over, Gagglio.

The sheriff's going to be
here in a matter of minutes.

I don't care.
I don't worry about that.

Richie!
Come on down here.

Tony...

Come on down here.
Move! Come on.

I wanna see your face.

She knew about this,
didn't she?

What? No, Tony.

What are you
protecting her for?

She ain't
gonna protect you.

Not now.

Please, Tony,
he talked us into it.

He, like, hypnotized us.

That's what happens with snakes.
They get hypnotized.

It ain't your fault, kid.

You and me,
we got fear with our milk.

Looks like you
got a problem, Gagglio.

You can't have
everything you want.

Richie!

Come on, Tony,
come on!

Come on, come on,
Anthony Boy, huh?

You came all this way.
I wanna see your moves. Come on.

Oh, bad boy.

Now, Mr. Serra,
I don't want to jump the gun or anything

but it would appear, and I could be
wrong, and you tell me if I am,

but it would appear
that you're disallowing

even more deductions and expenses
than Adriana Danielli did.

Miss Danielli doesn't
work for the IRS.

You know the preparer of the returns,
if they have any ethics at all,

should arrange to be
present during the audit.

I mean, I just tell you that
for future reference.

Yeah, well, it's not
a matter of ethics.

I mean, she really wanted to be here
today, she really did.

But, you see, she had a very
traumatic week. Both of us did.

Traumatic? How so?

Believe it or not,
someone tried to kill her.

Both of us.

Oh, yeah, it was
terrible, last Monday.

A professional killer

had us trapped in a
cabin up in Arrowhead.

Well, the whole thing lasted
for about eight hours.

Yeah, there were two men
wounded, one very seriously.

Gunfire just tore
the whole cabin apart.

I was actually physically
assaulted by this man.

How awful!

I see a Super 8mm camera with
zoom lens and synchronized sound?

The IRS isn't going to allow
that as a business expense.

Well, that was on a
surveillance case I was on.

The client has the film.

Where's the camera,
may I see it?

Well, I...

I loaned it to a friend of mine.
He hasn't returned it yet.

Would you care for a beer
or something?

Never touch it.

Let's see...

Rental of a hotel suite and
limousine with TV set and bar

for an entire week
and a half?

Well, yeah, well, that was part of a
securities case that I was working on.

It's in the file.
It's under Interfund.

You see, I needed these things
to establish my credibility

for my cover as a major
overseas investor.

Mr. Rockford,
if you'll forgive my saying so,

it seems like what we're talking
about here is a confidence game.

I mean,
the Internal Revenue Service

is not going to allow
deductions based on

con games or any other
marginal activity.

Mr. Serra, I don't think you fully
get the hang of the nature of my work.

You see, these are things
that private investigators do.

They may not be pleasant and
they may not fit in any niche

that the IRS has,
but they are really legitimate

business expenses,
totally above board.

All right.
I'll allow that expense.

$1,800.40.

Come in.

Oh, Angel, not now.

You ain't gonna
believe this.

Buster Hutchins, Jim.
Bet you don't remember me.

I remember you,
Buster, yeah.

And, look, here he
is, El Supremo,

the break man,
my insane main man,

$24 worth of beads himself,
Eddie Whitefeather!

How.
Eddie.

Go on, Jimmy,
give him his line "Any way I can."

Hey, look, fellas, I don't have
time to sit around and schmooze.

This gentleman is
with the IRS,

and we're right in the
middle of an audit.

That's all right. I need a break.
And I have to call my office.

If you'd like
a little privacy

I've got a telephone
back in the bedroom.

You might use that.
Oh, fine, thank you.

Jimmy, see Buster and the
Chief flew in from Philly.

First class!
If you get my drift.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Your venture of Our Lady of the
Highway was a grand success?

I'm happy
for all of you.

No, the Lady was a bust.

I just doctored a couple of stand-by
tickets, that's what Angel meant.

Yeah, remember how
Eddie could make music

with an electric typewriter
and a couple of carbons?

Hey, my camera.

I loaned you my camera.
Mr. Serra wants to see it.

It'll save me
about 400 bucks!

Didn't I
bring that back?

Angel, if you hocked my camera,
I'm gonna change your facial structure.

Jimmy, Jimmy,
now these two gents and I

are gonna help you with
your cash flow situation.

That's right, Jimmy. You see,
Buster and Eddie hit a snag in Philly

but they ran
a post-game analysis

and they scoped where the
flaw in their scam jammed.

Yeah, we're gonna revamp the
Monte Carlo night concept, see,

then we're going to fly it over to the St.
Aloysius Cathedral.

You know,
it's downtown LA.

Eddie here,
he's already contacted the monsignor.

My sister's a hoi polloi
in the diocese.

She puts on them charity
balls, she's our way in.

Angel,
I don't want to hear it.

Well, I'm gonna tell it to you.
Now just listen to me.

You see, the problem in
Philly is it was a weak front.

The church, they just took no
stock in Eddie and Buster because,

well, they showed up
in Eddie's old Nash

and they had that
cheap gaming equipment,

and the priest,
he smelled a rat.

Yeah, Angel...
But you, Daddy,

with that suave-ole image
and that natural talent

for talking that uptown trash,
will put us into the deal!

We get you a tux and rent
you one of them Mercedes.

Why you'd be
the master of ceremonies.

Them suckers will think they've
been teleported to Monaco!