All language subtitles for Prince.of.the.City.1981.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG.mp4

What?

What is it?

The door.

There's nobody there, Danny.

Go on back to sleep.

It's okay.

There's nobody there.

Oh, Christ.

Across the street.

The phone booth.

It's going down at 3:00.

Don't forget me, baby face.

Could I forget the King?

Let's go.

- Yeah.
- 3 o'clock.

Excuse me, Alan.

- Is Gus Levy there?
- Yeah, Dom.

3 o 'clock.

- 3 o 'clock.
- Alright.

Goddamn door,
you never get used to it.

- Want me to get the door?
- No, no. I'm alright.

Hey, Gio, your cigar stand
sucks, you know that?

Here you go, kid.

Alright, alright.

Mother's milk.

O-o-oh! Kaboom!

The best is none too good.

Sing it to me, baby.

- Here, let me give you a hand.
- Hands off.

That's more money fuckin' money
you could spend in a lifetime.

Touchy, touchy.

Vaya muchachos!

We're going back to Bogota.

Come on, arriba, arriba.

You're starting to
stink up the place.

Watch your step out there, now.
They just mopped the floor.

Oh, a star-studded night.

- Good evening, gentlemen.
- Evening, Your Honor.

Detective Daniel Ciello,

Special Investigating Unit,
Narcotics Division, Your Honor.

Detective Gino Mascone,
Special Investigating Unit,

Narcotics Division,
Your Honor.

You don't mind, do you,
sergeant?

No, Your Honor, not at all.

Counselors.

Ladies, will you excuse us?

Either of you gentlemen
in a hurry?

Detective Mascone?

After you, Detective Ciello.

Well, thank you,
Detective Mascone.

Your Honor... Maria, you wanna
stand up there, please?

Thank you.

Your Honor,
this young lady has got

nothing on under her fur coat.

I'm sure the court wouldn't want
her to catch cold.

Certainly not, Detective Ciello.

It could be grounds for an
appeal. Step forward, please.

So I say, "Lieutenant,

my team is photographing
the outside of the place.

Plus we got two bugs
inside the place.

Will you for Christ's sake
tell your men to

put back the fucking TV sets
from where they stole them?"

Hey!

- Hey! Come on!
- Hey!

Alright, alright, you pricks.
Next time we go first.

One of the ho's bit the clerk.

We've been there
for two fucking hours.

Come in, detective.

Sorry, I kept you waiting.
I'm new at this.

I never know how long
these interviews will take.

- It's okay, I got a light day.
- Good.

For the record,
I'm District Attorney Cappalino.

Special assistant prosecutor,
investigating--

Police corruption. I know all
about it. Chase Commission.

- Oh, I hope you're impressed.
- Sure, I'm a cop.

Detective, you personally
are under no suspicion,

no investigation here.

Why am I here?

Ah, I have to start somewhere,
so I'm starting at the top.

- Why narcotics, counselor?
- Willie Sutton said it.

"That's where the money is."

Sit down, detective.

Well, you know,
I'd like to help.

I just don't know how.

- Sorry, you alright?
- Yeah, I'm alright.

Sorry, just bear with me,
detective...

If anybody knows anything,
SIU should.

You guys have city-wide
jurisdiction, right?

Choose your own targets, enforce
the law or not as you see fit.

What was it Judge Bernstein
called you?

"Princes of the City."

Sure, we walk on water.

You work virtually unsupervised.

Well, we're judged on results,
counselor.

Mm-hm.
Some of which are spectacular.

One of the reasons
I'm interviewing you is

your own extraordinary career.

You're the leader of your unit.
Yet you, uh...

Excuse me. Seven years younger
than the next youngest man.

You know there's been talk,
detective.

About me, sir?

No, about the Special
Investigating Unit, SIU.

Well, Mr. Cappalino,
there's also talk about feds.

Oh?

I would like to hear about that.

But for now,
let's talk about cops.

Oh, sure. You guys spy on cops
all the time.

I mean, you go for cops
because cops are easy.

That's right.

And I can't tell you how sorry
I am that cops are easy.

You know, my whole career,

I've never seen anything,
but good cops.

In SIU, I see great cops.
Great detectives.

If a guy took as a cop,
he'll take as a detective.

If a guy took as a DA,
he'll take as a judge.

Okay, thanks for coming in,
detective.

Oh, I, uh, I will be in touch.

Or if you should want to call
me, office and home.

By the way, if you do
have something, anything...

it wouldn't have to go through
the Chase Commission.

There are lots of other
investigative branches.

Looking for something besides
cops? I'd love to hear it.

Did you read the report?

Ten times as many cops
got themselves bit in 1966,

as got themselves bit in 1964.

Hey, Gino, do they say
where they got themselves bit?

Who else could live with this?

Who needs a drink?

- Hey, Ernie.
- Hi, Ernie.

I've got Ronnie upstairs.

Watch what your sister
puts in her mouth, hear?

Huh? Why do I ask? Look,
I'm reading the new Vonnegut.

- Who?
- Who?

The new Vonnegut,
you guys ought to try it.

- Who?
- I wanna get out of here.

Your father and Ernie
have got Ronnie upstairs.

I read that report, Gino.
Thanks, Bill.

One of the worst hazards
of the profession, biters.

Yeah, but you got to see
where my horse was bit.

Dan, I found him on the road,
somebody could've

knocked him down, but he
wouldn't tell me who done it.

Alright, thanks, Ernie.
Go on back downstairs, pop.

- I'll take care it.
- His cheek is cut bad.

I said I'd take care of it.

- Alright.
- He's your brother, Danny.

Sure you'll take care
of it.

Like you always take care of it,
right?

Like if you took care of it,
you think I'd be coming here

like some fucked-over
piece of meat?

- What is it, huh?
- Huh?

You got a problem, Ronnie?
You got a new problem?

Come on, why don't you tell me
about your problem, Ronnie?

I mean,
I've done everything I can.

Oh, you don't do nothing.
Nothing!

Shit, I come here,
you got this house.

You got a car, your wife's
got a car. You know?

You got a problem?
Tell me the problem.

You're always wearing
the best clothes!

You're always wearing
the best clothes!

You smell like
I don't know what.

And all your friends
down there...

they're in the same shape!

- Hey, we earn what we got.
- Oh...

I look at those cops down there.
What are you telling me?

You guys are civil servants?
Huh?

Is that what you're telling me?

You guys are doing more shit
than me

or any of the people
I know would!

Hey, listen to this.
We earn what we got.

Why don't you search my house,
huh? Search my house.

Like the other times.
Like the other times.

Like you're something special

'cause you got a badge
to go with your gun!

You know the only difference
between you and a guy

in the street that's putting
a stocking over his head?

- Huh? You got a badge!
- Huh?

You're the same fucking crook.
The same fucking crook.

And your father don't see it,
but I see it.

And in his heart,
your father sees it.

If you want... to help me,
you can help me!

All of you have the right time
on your gold Rolexes?

- I'm-- I'm sorry, pop, I-- I...
- I know you can't.

I know that.

But what he says about
everything.

Your brother's right, Danny.

He ain't blind.

And neither am I.

I thought you got him
into a methadone program?

I got him in two methadone
programs. I swear to God, Joe.

The day I give him junk
is the day I take my gun

and I shoot us both.

Danny, come on.

Alright, everybody.

A little vino for the digestion,
huh?

I kind of enjoy it when Nancy
takes the kids to her folks.

I get to go in the kitchen,
and I do it my way, you know?

How, uh...?

How do you like your steak?

Do it your way.

You like it rare.

What is it?
I mean, what do you want?

I didn't do it, whatever it is.

Why don't you do something
important,

like... investigate lawyers?

I mean, you were in the
Manhattan DA's office, right?

There was never a hint of
corruption in that office.

Maybe you know something
I don't.

Danny, you called me.

So, why you're here?

If you know anything about
lawyers or DAs,

I would love to hear it.

Is it common practice
to sell narcotics

in the narcotics division?

Where is your information from?
Village Voice?

New York Magazine,
for Christ's sake?

We don't sell narcotics.
Dope dealers sell narcotics.

We're not dope dealers.
We're policemen.

This steak is raw.

This conversation is bullshit.

- Yeah?
- Danny, I'm sick.

I can't sleep.

Hang on.

What are you talking about?

I left you something
when we finished.

Whatever it was,
I'm sick, Danny.

It's 3 o'clock in the morning,
you fuck.

What's this "You fuck," man?

We work together, right?

You know I can't make it
without you, Danny.

Look, you really
need to...

You really have to help me,
Danny.

You don't want to leave me
out here throwing rocks.

Where are you?

You got something for me?

I'm gonna get you
something.

Hey, Sal.

You got something for me?

I got a sick stoolie.

You have to replace this for me,
Danny.

I got stoolies too, you know?

What is it?

I-- I-- I don't know
what this is.

This ain't shit!

Shit, Danny!

You gotta get me something,
Danny! What are we gonna do?

Come on, Danny. Danny, Danny...

Shut up! Shut up, will ya?!

You gotta help me, Danny!

- Shit, Danny!
- You shut up!

We'll go over to
Cy's place.

Oh, I don't believe it.

What?

I left my money at home.
I haven't got a dime.

Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, Danny.

Oh, God, Danny!
Danny, what are we gonna do?

Danny, what are we gonna...?

- Oh, God.
- Shut up!

Look, when that guy comes out of
Cy's, I'm gonna take him.

You can have whatever he's got.

Yeah. Yeah, Danny.
Danny, yeah, yeah, you gotta...

Get your fuckin' hands off me
and stay down.

Stay out of sight.

Shit!

Danny!

Danny!

Come on, Danny! Get him.

Why'd you run, Jose?

Kill him!

Kill him!

Kill the motherfucker!

You hurt me, baby face.

I think you broke something.

You shouldn't have run, Jose.

- Where's your junk?
- Oh, don't take my junk.

Please, baby face,
don't take my cure, man.

I bought five bags, take half.
Don't take it all.

I'm sick.

Don't you see how sick I am?

I'm a junkie, not a connection.

Why you wanna bust me?

Oh, Jesus, Jose, I'm sorry.

Oh, it's okay.
It's broke, it don't matter.

Just don't leave me sick,
baby face.

Hey, four bags, Jose.

You must have struck it rich.

Here's two bags.

Go home and sleep now.

You're a bitch, Danny.

That's some fucking left hand
you got.

Dry out. You got a lot of work
to do tomorrow.

I'm not gonna forget this,
Danny.

I'm not gonna forget this.

I can't breathe.

I'm gonna to be si...

Come on, Jose.
Come on, I'll take you home.

I saved you two bags, Jose.

You'll be okay.

Jeannie, open.

I got something.

- What is it?
- From Cy's.

Jeannie, you got any iodine?

Jeannie...
Jeannie, save me something.

I'm sick.

I'm sick, baby, okay?

Okay, baby?

I'm sick.

Baby.

Save me something, baby, yes.

I-- I blew my first shot.

You fucking liar!

Where did you put the bag?

I-- I flushed it, man.
It was garbage.

I told you, I had to take two.
I blew my first shot.

You fucking liar!

Didn't you even leave me enough
to get through the night!

- Oh, you liar!
- Oh, babe!

Liar, liar.

- Liar, liar, liar.
- Jose, please!

- Liar, liar, liar.
- Please, please!

Day I graduated from the academy

was the proudest day
in their lives.

I hear you've got the best
mob connection in SIU.

A cousin. That right?

Yeah, Nick.

My father's sister.
Her Nick's with the Colombos.

Listen, those guys
don't tell me anything

they don't want me to know.

See, to my cousin Nick, being
a cop is a, is a sickness...

to want to put people in jail.

Every time he introduces me
to somebody, he says,

"Remember, this guy's a cop."

I understand.

Danny, this is the second time
you've called me.

What is it?

I know something is eating you.
I want to help.

How-- how come you set up a
meeting for me with this guy,

and don't check with me first?

Look, I am not setting you up.

Brooks Paige is a guy
you're gonna want to know.

He can be a friend.

Oh, yeah,
every cop needs a friend

that heads the
Anti-Corruption Unit

of the United States
Attorney's Office.

Yeah, that's true.

Brooks is a good guy.
He's very up front.

Very resourceful.

Very prompt.

That's not true.

All cops are like me.
I'm no different.

Well, I think you are.
That's why you're here.

You don't know why I'm here.

Where did you go to school,
Paige?

I went to Harvard,
and before Harvard to Andover...

before Andover to St. Bernard's.

Oh, St. Bernard's.
That's in the 23.

That's little
blonde boys in blazers, right?

Oh, shit, Cappalino.

My own father can't understand
the pressures on cops.

What am I supposed to get
from St. Bernard's?

You people in the Chase
Commission,

you know, you tell cops you're
out to catch them taking...

taking meals
or taking Christmas presents.

You bastards, it's,
it's you guys

who run the whole fucking thing.

You run it!

Starting with assistant DAs

who plea-bargain murder one
down to a misdemeanor!

Or lawyers wearing $400 suits,
who come up to cops in hallways

and say, "Hey, pal, this--
this case don't mean shit.

Here's $50.
Here's $100, $500, $15,000."

Fifteen thousand dollars!

Fuck, I mean, we know
how you guys become judges.

You pay 50,000 and zap,
you're wearing robes!

You guys,
you-- you live in Westport

or here on Central Park West

while we're up in El Barrio
on 125th Street!

I mean, you want us to keep
everybody on the inside

so you can stay on the outside!

- That's not true.
- The fuck it's not true!

The fuck it's not true!

The first thing a cop learns is

he can't trust anybody
but his partners!

I'll tell you something
right now...

I sleep with my wife,
but I live with my partners.

You people...

You people,
you're just out to hurt us.

You wanna lay the whole
fucked-up system on us!

But nobody cares about me,
but my partner!

You understand that?

Nobody!

You see,
I see what kind of man you are.

And you, you know?

And then I look at my partner,

and I see what kind of man
he is.

And there's just
no comparison, see?

It's me and him,
and whatever guy we catch.

And we're gonna put him in jail,
we're gonna lock him up

and we're gonna take
his fucking money.

Fuck him,
fuck them and fuck you!

Fuck you!

You guys are winning in the end,
anyway.

We're out there selling
ourselves and our families.

These people we take from
own us.

I know what you guys
think of us.

That we're the only thing
between you and the jungle.

You don't understand!

We're on the inside!

You got the same kind of dirt
under your fingernails as me.

Sure, I give my informants
heroin.

They got nobody but me,
and they're sick,

and they're helpless,
and I feel responsible for them.

But under the law,
I give them junk,

and that's the same as selling.

That's a felony.

So why don't you arrest me
right now?

'Cause you got the same use
for me down the line

as I got with my informants.

But you're United States
attorneys.

If you have guilty knowledge
of a felony,

and you don't move against me
then you're committing a felony,

so don't give me any shit.

I mean, everybody's
using everybody, right?

So, what I want is...
And let's get this straight.

If I decide to do this thing,
I will not give up my partners.

I want the unit broken up,
so that they can be protected.

I mean, they're not doing
anything, but...

Alright,
we'll transfer them out of SIU.

It's time for normal rotation,
anyway.

I gotta think.

I gotta have more time.

So who you gonna hurt?

Your partners?

Gus? Gino?

- You're gonna ruin their lives?
- Don't be crazy.

I'm not gonna implicate
anybody close to us.

They're gonna break up the unit
and rotate the partners at SIU.

I'm gonna call the shots, babe.

You think they're gonna
let you choose?

You think they're gonna say,
"Okay, Dan, whoever you wanna

tell us about, you decide"?

Is that what you think?

I know you feel guilty.

Other people are guiltier
than you.

Everybody's guilty.

Mary McLenan,
you ought to hear her.

"My Neddie, he's Snow White.
He's an angel."

Then we're in the bank together,

and she's got 400 $1 bills
for deposit.

Her angel's been taking
from some old woman

doing the numbers
in a candy store.

I feel lousy, Carla.

The other night I was with my
junkies, and I got mean.

They break my heart,
and I got mean.

Remember what it was like
when I was just starting out

on the roofs?
How good it felt?

I wanna feel that way again.

This guy, Cappalino,

he's gonna force you
to hurt your friends,

people who've been good to you.

Always when I hear you or Gus
or Joe, any of the guys,

you always say nothing's worse
than to be a...

A rat.

A rat is when they catch you
and make you inform.

Nobody caught me.

This is my setup.
This is my action.

And I'm never gonna hurt
my partners.

It'll happen.

How are you gonna
live with that?

How am I gonna live with you
while you live with that?

When I decide what I'm gonna do,

then you can decide
what you're gonna do.

Okay, but not
with the Chase Commission.

And Paige has gotta understand
that I will never,

never work against cops

who've been my friends
or partners in SIU.

I will never wear a wire against
my friends, betray my friends.

He's got to understand that.

Dan...

we'll never force you to do
something you can't live with.

I promise you that.

Some of my best work, kid.

Look at this.

I think I'm in love.

These wonderful ladies
are perpetrators?

Innocent bystanders, Bill.

Those are the famous
innocent bystanders

you always hear about.

Oh, now I know I'm in love.

They're all yours, Danny baby.

From me to you.

It's my connection
at the phone company.

That's a serious present, Danny.

Well, Gus, give me the tits.

What's that?

NoDoz?

Nine years in Narcotics
and you're taking NoDoz?

Mayo, you asshole.

I'm busting you for possession.

Hey, that other shit
screws up my sinuses.

I'll screw up your sinuses.

NoDoz.

Shit.

Alright, alright.
Give me a break, will you?

Safe house, right? Feel like
I'm in some kind of spy story.

It's the old post office.
We'll work out of here.

Alright, Daniel.
We're gonna launder you.

Squeaky clean.

We want all of it. Everything.

Rick, can I talk to you
for a second?

Just so it's clear, Cappalino,
we're in the same boat, right?

You got a wife and two kids,
so have I.

Anything happens to me, the same
thing's gonna happen to you.

You know me and you know
my friends.

- Are you threatening me?
- Absolutely.

Your family will be completely
safe, Dan.

Nobody's going to get hurt.

Good, we can both breathe
easier.

It's not the best way
to start a partnership.

We're not partners yet.

You ready?

I did three things at SIU.

You did three things
in 11 years?

Yes.

Start with the worst.

Well, it's been about
five years

since I went to confession,
but, uh...

Another SIU team had a long
investigation going

on a Mafia drug dealer,
a guy named Simonetta.

But they couldn't get enough
for an indictment.

So they decided to contact
Simonetta

and offer to drop the case,

which was gonna be dropped
anyway in exchange for money.

Because I got connections,
they came to me

and asked me to make the deal,
which I did.

- How much?
- Ten thousand.

Case was dropped,
and I collected a commission.

Bribe solicitation,
probably extortion.

What else?

Another case involving some
Mafia guys. Ah...

A police lieutenant came to me
and asked me to find out

why the detective in charge
wasn't making any arrests.

What was happening was

the detective was
shaking the guys down.

This detective
was a very tough guy

and he was shaking down
some very tough guys,

Delicata brothers.

So I set up a meet.

Now, the detective, he goes
right at Louis Delicata.

He says, "Louis, we ain't got
you good, we got you beautiful.

We had a wire on your phone
for a month. A legal wire.

And your brother Tiny is up to
his guinea ass in your shit."

Delicata jumps a mile.

So, he's all shook
up because his brother Tiny

was on life parole for murder.

Sitting duck, right?

The detective wants 75,000
in cash,

or he's gonna roll Tiny up.

Delicata gets up from the table
and screams like a woman.

He says, he says,
"That, that fucking shield

you got ain't no bulletproof
vest!

I'd sooner kill you tonight
than let my brother go back

to the fucking can for nothing!

I'm gonna fucking kill you!"

Then this detective,
he just yawns. Yawns.

Right in Delicata's
face.

Right in the fucking guy's face,
right?

Then he gets me up, he gets up,

he goes out the place,
takes me with him.

I thought I was gonna
catch a bullet

right in my fucking back, right?

We get outside, and I say,
"Listen, man.

Those fucking guys are killers!

What the fuck are you doing,
man?"

He says to me,
"Kid, they're full of shit.

They think they're tough,
but we're tougher.

So you go back inside there,
and you make a deal."

So I did.

Delicata gave me $7500.

Ju--just a second.
I thought that you said

that the detective wanted
75,000.

It was negotiable.

What was the detective's name?

You'll never gonna get witnesses
or corroborating evidence

against that detective,

so there's no point in me
naming him.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Mm. What was the third thing,
Daniel?

I took a 1000 bucks for putting
together Rocky Gazzo

and Detective Don Logan
from the Safe and Loft Squad.

I don't know anything about
what they had going.

And that's it?

- That's the three things?
- That's it.

Mm-hm. Yeah, alright, Daniel.

Let's-- let's say that we do
go to work together,

and, uh, we make cases,
they'll be big ones.

You'll be the state's
star witness.

This business
with the three things,

we'll expose them,
we'll defuse them.

You can't be hurt
if we back you up.

And we will back you up
if you're telling the truth.

But if you perjure yourself
by so much as one detail

to protect yourself,
to protect your partners,

if you perjure yourself
for any reason whatsoever,

you'll be eaten alive.

Now, our cases will be forfeit.

Everything we do
from this moment forward

will be destroyed.

Daniel, I represent a legal arm

of the government of the United
States of America,

and I cannot allow that
to happen.

Now, is there anything else?

Rick, I did three things.

Alright.

Alright.

What do we do?
How do we start?

Just get me wired and sit back.

It'll happen.

Remember, the antenna
has to hang loose.

The battery pack,
the transmitter,

they're always problems,
they're bulky.

If you're-- if you're frisked,
they're hard to hide.

Oh, Dan, this is
Agent Elroy Pendleton

and Bubba Harris.

- Dan Ciello.
- Hi, how are you?

- Hi, there.
- Nice to meet you.

We're your backup.

We'll be recording
when you're on the wire

and we'll be around
in case you need us.

Good. Where you guys from?

- Dallas.
- Atlanta.

Hope you guys know
the neighborhood.

Yeah, I still get confused
down in Greenwich Village.

I know what you mean.

Detective, could you sign here,
please?

This stuff will be ready for you
in two weeks.

Okay.

Okay, you work my precinct.

I don't give a fuck on what,
as long as I get my full cut.

Everything goes through Edelman.

Edelman, that other thing,
you work it out.

What other thing?

Captain's got somebody down

in the Southern District
DA's office.

He's got a progress report on an
indictment he's ready to sell.

Sell to who?

An old friend of yours,
Rocky Gazzo.

- Hey, Danny.
- Hey, Nicky.

- How you doing?
- Good to see you.

Jesus Christ!
You're looking good.

Thanks. Hey, Louis, how are you?

Nice to see you, Danny.

Good to see you.

- How's the family?
- Everybody's good, Nick.

So how's Maria and Aunt Angela?

Hey! Maria's gonna have
another baby.

- No kidding.
- And you know, mama...

She thinks she set
the whole thing up herself.

Yeah.
Listen, I'm glad you're back.

I thought you'd be in Miami
going to the dogs.

Are you kidding?
I gave up the dogs.

They ain't never gonna
catch the rabbit,

and I ain't never gonna
catch them.

- Is Rocky still in Florida?
- Yeah. Sure.

Oh, here's the thing.

Uh, Rocky's got this guy,
some assistant DA

from the Southern District,
on his ass.

But I can buy the progress
report.

Good. Who's the DA?

I don't know.
I gotta go through another cop.

Who?

Uh, a sergeant in the 1-4
named Edelman.

Guy's a fucking matzo eater.

- You gonna vouch for him?
- Yeah, sure. He's got sources.

Alright.

Rocky will be back
at the end of the week about.

I'll set it up.

Hey, Danny,
do the right thing here.

You put some bread on the table.

- You understand?
- Mm-hm.

Hey, let me ask you something.

I mean, you get your rocks off
putting Italians in jail?

You gonna start with me again?

There ain't enough niggers
out there for you,

you son of a bitch?

Hey, it's 15 bucks a coif here.

Drink your coffee. Go ahead.

- Hey, Rocky.
- So how you been, kid?

Good. How are you, Rocky?

What's this shit I hear,
you're due for a transfer

out of Narcotics?

No way.
Where did you hear that?

- I'm in.
- Good.

We need you where you're at.

So who's this? You Edelman?
So now we've met.

Let's get out of here.

Hey, Danny,
you like the jacket?

I found a great tailor
in Florida.

Yeah, it fits good.
Nice and snug.

Where do you carry your piece?

Hey, I don't carry that no more.

You guys know
why I don't carry no gun?

Because every nigger I know
has got a gun.

Me, I got a little hatchet,

and I keep it right under
the seat.

- You gotta be kidding.
- Telling you.

This is Agent Harris, leaving
the diner, trailing the subject.

You know...

this fucking Chase Commission
thing has got everybody crazy.

- I hate this fucking job.
- Ah, bullshit!

They're just pulling your prick,
Danny.

It doesn't matter what you do.

You open a luncheonette,
you gotta cook.

You gotta work it to earn it.

Hey, do you wanna
stop breathing on me?

Listen, the cops,
you don't own the world...

but you get to shake it
a little, right?

Yeah.

Alright, get out.

I gotta see if he's all wired.

Rocky, it's a fucking insult!

You frisk him, you frisk me!

Hey, Danny, I don't know this
fucking guy.

Well, fuck, Rocky, you know me.

Okay, what do you got?

They're around here
somewhere.

Shh. I got 'em.

- So long.
- Huh?

Like, get out, you know?

I'll catch you later.

Better count it.

You should've just given it
to Edelman.

Hey, I don't give ten big ones
to some fucking

kike cop on the first date,
alright?

I give you the money, Danny.

You're responsible
it gets to where it's going.

It's one for the DA,
and one for you guys.

I just gotta give it to Edelman.

Okay, but I give it to you.

I do business by the rules,
Danny.

- You understand?
- Yeah.

I think the batteries
leaked.

Don't move, Danny.

Shit!

A Baxter Street bail bondsman,
Danny.

Bigtime fixer, Dave DeBennedeto.

No.

This one is a police officer.

Yeah, that's Carl Alagretti.

I worked with him
a couple of times.

- He don't live far from here.
- Great.

And Alagretti's your entrée
to DeBennedeto.

Dave's been calling all over
town about you.

Why do you always have to
shoot off your mouth, Ciello?

Everybody's talking about
how some cop

is squealing
to the Chase Commission.

Carl, let's not sit so close
to the TV set, okay?

I can't get any kind of
recording here.

Man, that's not funny.

Listen, you ought to think
about coming over, Carl.

Lot of cops are doing it.

You see that waitress
over there,

the one with no tits?

She's been wearing a wire
for six months.

She got a transmitter
stuffed right up her pussy.

He said by 11:00.
It's 10 of 12:00.

- Was he wired tonight?
- How would I know?

He consults the spirits.

Thinks he's some kind of goddamn
gypsy fortune teller. "Tonight?"

"Oh, no. Tonight much danger.
No. No wire."

Also, he won't wear his gun.

You know where
he keeps his gun now?

In his attache case
in the trunk of his car.

I understand you're looking
to do us a favor here.

I want you to know I get nervous
when people try to do me favors.

I got something I like to earn,
but I don't know...

So, what is it, Danny?

You remember Martinez?
You bonded him.

He says he paid you back.

He's waiting for trial
on Rikers.

He says he got a tape on you

where you admit
that he paid you.

Now you're squeezing him.

If you don't stop,
he's gonna play the tape.

Okay? That's a felony.

Now let me tell you something.
He's a rat fuck and a punk.

He ain't got the heart
to wear a wire around me.

You know what I do
if I catch him wearing a wire?

I stick it up his fucking ass,
and I pull it out his mouth.

Nobody, nobody wears a wire
around me. I can smell them.

It's God's truth, Danny.
I never seen nothing like it.

You know what, Dave?
You're an asshole.

I don't know how you got
what you got.

You think I'm some kind of rat
or something?

We know the same people,
you understand what I'm saying?

You ain't half as tough
as you think you are.

Martinez made you, you fat fuck.

Hey, fuck.

Nobody talks to me like that...

not even my friends.

I have a theory about that gun,
Rick.

That he's so ambivalent
about what he's doing

that if he's caught

by DeBennedeto or anybody

and the verdict is that
he's a rat

and he deserves to die that...

he's decided in advance
not to defend himself.

He showed. He showed,
that fat son of a bitch.

I mean, for a month he's
ducking me, and now he showed.

Give me a beer, will you, Rick?

He wants something,
and it's gotta be big.

Him and Alagretti,
they're so hot under the collar

about the Chase Commission
and this mystery cop.

It's got to be a fucking game.
I love it.

- What do you mean?
- It's not just DeBennedeto.

I must've heard about ten times
this week

how I'm the big witness.

So somebody starts hinting
about the commission,

and I just laugh and say,

"Sure, catch me on the tube.

I'm going to be a big star."

You love the danger,
don't you, Danny?

It's a living.

Don't go wired
to that next meeting.

I think I will.

Dan, how you doing, huh, kid?

You look good.
Look at you healthy, huh?

You know if you're really
looking for a wire,

you ought to do it right.

In SIU, we wear them
behind our balls.

Come on, check it.

Come on, come on. Check it.

Feel my balls. Come on.

I'd rather go to fucking jail!

Listen, I don't wanna hear
more of this shit, alright?

I look like a fucking rat
or what?

- Sit down.
- Cut that out, alright?

Sit down. You're too sensitive.
Relax. Relax.

So? I'm not here
for the company.

You ever hear of a guy
named Michael Blomberg?

- Yeah, he's a fucking creep.
- Why did you say that?

I know he's got a bad
reputation, but he's a good guy.

He's a very smart lawyer,
and he's helped a lot of people.

Maybe.

They got him for subornation
of perjury.

That means he caused perjury
to be committed.

I'm not one of your
idiot clients.

I know what the fuck that means.

Jesus, Danny,
Dave didn't mean nothing.

What the problem is,
is Blomberg's been indicted.

He's defended some people
very, very big in junk.

He'd also like to pay
very big for anybody

who could help him in his case.

And you've got this friend
in the DA's office.

So, what's the case
against Blomberg?

Blomberg. My God.

Tell me about him.
Never heard of him.

He's the biggest.

His specialty is
taking heroin dealers

that the government's got cold

and bringing in
the alibi witnesses that say

that the defendant was with them
in some other place.

You know something you're lucky.

Last night you said you were

gonna wire to that meeting.

If you had, you'd now
be part of the pasta fazul.

What made you back off?

I didn't.

I got it all.

You said Alagretti
gave you a massage.

Where did you wear the wire?

Right where I told that
fat fuck. Under my balls.

Everybody knows
who everybody is now, right?

Right. Everybody takes Scotch
or what?

Yeah, sure.

Let's get down to business.

The most important thing as far
as I'm concerned, Mr. Blomberg

is that I think for the future
of this guy.

Well, if we ever need him
again... Thank you.

If we ever need him again,
we go right through you,

right, Mike?

So your friend, can he get us
these grand-jury minutes?

The witness transcripts.

Well, you're talking about
something

the mere possession of which

if he gets pinched
is five on the spot.

So he don't operate out of love.

So what's his fucking number,
your friend? What's his number?

You tell me, Mr. Blomberg.
How much do you want to spend?

Counselor...

these people,
these witnesses...

they're not around anymore,
you know?

Yeah.

They say Mike had them clipped.

He didn't. They're around.

Yeah, they've just joined
the jet set on the road.

So great. They're not around
or whatever.

Then what's your problem?

You don't need to
spend the money.

With witnesses on the road,
it's not worth spending.

Just buy me
the fucking transcripts, Ciello.

Oskar Werner knocks me out.
Does he knock you out?

- So-so. Yeah.
- So-so?

Listen, you don't go
for Oskar Werner

you don't go for me because

I am very much like
Oskar Werner.

I mean, in my personality
and in my soul.

No.

No? Babe, you just batted out.

I think you're like
a young Marlon.

No, I'm like Dudley Do-Right
now.

I'm finally doing it
what I set out to do.

I'm putting the biggest
crooked lawyer

in New York out of business.

Neat.

You know I've been doing
the right thing all along.

Just kinda painful
getting there, you know?

Hey, I ever tell you about
the time I was a kid,

how in school I always
wanted to carry the flag?

Chase Commission investigating
police corruption.

As rumored for some months,
a prime government witness

is from the ranks
of the police department.

And he apparently
is ready to talk.

Although no identification
is forthcoming from authorities

it has been learned that the
first initial of the informant

is the letter D.

We'll be back with more news
in a moment.

Call that fucking D-A-N-N-Y.

Yeah, you're okay.

You guys alright?
What's the matter?

What's the matter? It's bad.
Bad. Everything's bad. Bad.

- Bad? What's the matter?
- Everything's wrong.

- Walk.
- What's wrong with you guys?

Walk, blink your eye

and I'll blow your
fucking head off.

- He's in trouble.
- Stay with him.

I can't. It's a one-way street.

Okay, okay, go down the block
and turn left.

We're gonna lose him.

We lost him already!
Go down the block and turn left!

Shit!

If what I hear is true,
you're a fucking dead man!

Hear? What did you hear?

That you're gonna testify

before the Chase Commission
tomorrow.

Well, let me tell you
something,

I've been telling that
to everybody in the office.

This whole thing
was a big fucking joke.

There's 20 people in office,
I'm telling them

I'm the next one to testifying
to the Chase Commission.

Just leave me alone, will you?

Come on.
You wanna leave me alone?

Good. Good.

What are you looking for, huh?

An empty building?

What are you gonna do? Knock off
a cop in broad daylight?

You gotta clip him, Dave.
It's your responsibility.

You gotta fucking clip him.

You're the cop.
You're the one with the gun.

You're gonna clip him.

We gotta do something.

Where's the fucking gun, Danny?

- What?
- Where's the fucking gun?

It's in my trunk,
you wanna go get it?

You fucking sit.

Listen, I never wear the thing,
only when I'm working.

All kidding aside, Carl,

you're giving me
a lot of fucking attitude here.

This is no joke, it's bullshit.

You're playing fucking games
here.

We're not playing
fucking games here. Come on.

Look, look. We're only
a block from Mulberry Street.

Walk me over there.
Maybe my cousin Nick is there.

You know Nick, he'll vouch
for me. This is crazy.

If Nick won't vouch
for me 1000 percent,

wherever you want you pull
the fucking trigger then, okay.

Don't go down asking
for it,

because you're gonna find it.

See if he's there.

I says, "We think he's a rat.

We think we should fucking
clip him."

He says, "If you think he's
a rat, then you should clip him.

But if you do,
you better be sure he's a rat.

Because the people that
like him, they're good people."

No hard feelings.

You tell Mr. Paige
that Danny called,

and I'm gonna be at his
fucking house!

Just like that!

At his fucking house!

I want New York City cops
with me from now on.

I asked you months ago.

Those federal clowns didn't
understand what the hell

was going on. They're from
fucking out of town!

They're only worry about
blowing the investigation.

Cops do worry about me.
I want cops.

You'll have them, Danny,
I promise.

Hey, you know what that
fucking scumbag said to me, huh?

He said it was lucky
I showed up.

'Cause they're on the way
to my house!

My wife's there and kids. Alone.
Call my house!

There could be somebody
there now. Call my house!

Call my house.
Call my house!

Listen there's a cop who lives
on my block, Ernie Fallacci.

He lives on my block.
There's four cops in my block.

- They know who belongs there.
- There's no answer!

Don't tell me there's no answer!

Danny, it's 3 o'clock.

She's probably taking the kids
home from school.

I gotta get out there.
I wanna get out there.

I'll get a car.

No, no, I'll call the precinct.

- I want my guys. I want my own.
- It's over.

I think it's over.
We have to end it. That's it.

- I gotta call...
- No! No!

No, it'll die down.
The hearings will be over.

Everything will be
alright again,

I won't have testified
the fucking thing

will be over, it'll die down.

- Hello, Edelman?
- Danny, are you okay?

- We were worried.
- Yeah.

Listen, Sam,

I had some problems
with some fucking guys.

Stay where you are.
We'll come and get you.

No, it's okay,
I'm alright.

I gotta get home.
I-- I can't reach Carla.

Where are you? We're on our way.

I...

I'm at Fulton Street
under the bridge

right by the old fire boathouse.

Twelve minutes.

Edelman cares more about me
than you guys.

And I'm putting him in jail.

I want you to go away.
You and Carla and the kids.

Where?

There's a nice place
out on the island.

I want you to go for ten days.

- What will I do there?
- Rest.

Me too. Rick?

Yeah, sure.
We could all use that.

Danny, it's hard on you.

On me too.

What's hard on you?

The lines don't stay clear.

The feds fucked up.

And your life was saved
by a Mafia guy

we're trying to lock up.

That's right.

So you leave my cousin Nick
alone.

What if you catch a whale?

I'll let him go.

What if you catch a shark?

I don't know.
I'd hate to let a shark go.

It might swim off
and bite somebody.

I don't care. Let it go.

Okay.

Cappalino and Paige, these men
don't know about cops or care.

They don't care about you.

Yeah, they do.
They do care about me.

You think
if you get yourself killed

you're gonna be
some kind of hero?

You'll get an inspector's
funeral and everybody

that loves you will come.

You get your inspector's funeral
and my life is over, Danny.

Nobody loves you,
but your partners and me.

Mr. Santimassino.

Cappalino?

- Good morning, sir.
- Good morning.

- Good to see you.
- How are you?

And you're...
You're Detective Ciello.

Oh, welcome to Washington.

Well, you three have been
working a very short time

with such nice results.

Your operation interests me,
and I propose

to commit men and funds.

I think we may have
a chance here

for some international cases.

I myself will be spending
a good deal of time in New York.

Let's have a drink and talk.

To date, there are
16 indictments being prepared.

They've got six Mafia dealers,
three of whom we consider major.

A corrupt captain of police,
four detectives,

five smaller
organized crime soldiers,

the bondsman, DeBennedeto,
and Mike Blomberg.

And we also have four other
ongoing investigations here.

Needless to say,
we're very proud

of Detective Ciello's work.

I've been studying
Detective Ciello's file

very closely.

Interesting career.

Da... May I call you Dan?

Oh, yeah, sure. Dan's good.

Now, let me ask
you a question, Dan.

What do you know about a man

who calls himself
Marcel Sardino?

He's a major connection.

Yeah, everybody's heard
about Sardino.

I'd like to have Mr. Sardino.

Can you fit him in? I know
you got a lot on your plate.

Oh, no. No, that's no problem.

Easter is coming up, and things
ease off at Easter, you know.

I don't know how it is
with the feds.

But with cops

we don't like to make too many
arrests over the holidays.

Nobody wants to put people
in jail at Easter.

It's a little different
on the federal side.

Well, we'll be meeting
again soon, Dan.

You'll be coming to Washington
quite often.

Ask Krimsky to drive
these gentlemen to National.

- Finally.
- Yup.

Hey.

He looks great.
He's gonna be, what, 14?

Sixteen. I bought him
when the department retired him.

Gino ever tell you how we met?

No. I know he was a Mountie.
You too?

Oh, no, I'm scared of horses.

But I'm all alone, there's 2000
blacks in the street.

And I feel like I'm
the only white man in Africa.

I'm 23 years old,
and these blacks,

they wanna burn
the precinct down.

So down the street comes
the US Cavalry.

Fast Gino on a lead horse.

And those nightsticks
were flying.

And up the steps
this beauty here

goes right up the steps
of the station house.

I'm telling you,
the natives scattered.

All of a sudden I got
this horse's ass in my face

and those tail's in my nose,
it's in my mouth.

This one, this big guinea cop,

he sits up on the horse
like John Wayne.

Lays his nightstick
on this guy's head,

it's so loud,
it sounds like a pistol shot.

Then he looks down at me.

I'm still leaning against
the station-house door.

And he says: "Hey, kid,
you want the collar?"

What about this new case?
Sardino?

What do you know about Sardino?

We were on him too.
Wondering how you got on to him.

- Buddy Meatballs.
- Buddy Meatballs.

Nobody from Europe?

- You know who his supplier is?
- Yeah, you?

Yeah.

Well, are you gonna tell me
who it is?

I thought you knew.

Show you mine
if you show me yours.

I don't think so.

Detective,
how are you? Rick.

Good to see you, sir.

Sardino's a problem,
he got picked up by somebody.

- Who?
- You don't know him, sir.

A good detective.
I met with him.

And I felt my way and I swear
he won't give up

anything about Sardino.

Well, what's his name?

- Detective?
- The detective.

Gino Mascone.

I know that good detective.
I want him.

What you talking about?
He's a top cop.

He knows about dope.

- I know about dope.
- Not like Mascone, I hope.

No, we know he's dirty,
not just on the street level.

I heard his name
when I was serving in France.

This may be a good accident.
I want you to tie into him.

No way, Mr. Santimassino.

He's a buddy. He was my rabbi
when I first came on the force.

Rick, I thought
the deal was no partners.

- Am I correct?
- You're correct.

Was Mascone
your partner?

- No.
- So what's the problem?

He's a friend. And he trusts me.

He'd sell you and his mother
in the same lot.

He's federal level. I want him.

If you're right, you'll have
to get him some other way.

Not through me.

Any other way
of getting a line to Sardino?

- I'm working on it.
- Let me know.

I'm here till Monday morning.

Who wants a lift?

We're going the other way,
thanks.

Take it easy.

Well, I guess I owe you one.

What do you need?

You ever heard of a guy named
Marcel Sardino?

Very big, like international.

Yeah. Yeah, I bonded him once.
He skipped.

I wanna know
where he's holed up.

Who doesn't?

You really are an asshole,
you know that?

What are you gonna do
if you find him, punch him out?

Find out for me,
I put a tap on him

you get the tapes,
you sell the tapes back to him.

You walk away with your bond
and at least 50 grand.

- This guy is big.
- What's in it for you?

Ten percent and my other thing
with him

which is none of your
fucking business.

None of my fucking business?

Stay here.
I'll see what I can do.

- Yeah.
- Gino. Dave.

Hey, man, listen.

I still don't trust this
little prick Ciello.

Uh, he's nothing but needles.

Every time I talk to him,
nothing but needles.

Well, what do you expect?
You leaned on him.

I hope he drives you crazy.

Hey, look, you moron,
if Ciello's a rat,

then my mother's a rat.

Now stop bothering me, will you?

My kids are in school,
and I love my wife.

Here. Park Avenue.

A lot of doormen.
Go nice. Wear a suit.

How come one phone call gets
an address you wanted so long?

Well, let's say
somebody owed me.

Goddamn, I'm nervous
using anything from you.

Huh! Now you know how I feel.

So long, scumbag.

He's on my ass, Rick.

Hey, he wants Sardino,
I'm getting Sardino.

It's too fancy. Why mix up
with DeBennedeto again?

We've already got him.
We'll do it some other way.

I don't know another way.
Is Ernie on backup?

Yes, Ernie is on backup.
Are you going wired to this?

- Uh, no, not tonight.
- Goddamn it. I knew it.

I know it. You're nervous.

Rick, you ain't
never gonna learn.

I'm always nervous.
Sometimes I'm scared shitless.

Tonight I am scared shitless.

Hey, you assigned to permanent
duty with this guy, Carl?

- Hey, how you doing, kid?
- Okay. you?

Perfect. I told Dave
I met Sardino's lawyer.

It's like you said.

If the tapes are real, 50 grand

on top of what Dave blew
and the guy jump.

The tapes are good.

Come here.

Come here.

From the desk of Cappalino?
The assistant DA?

D-E-B. DeBennedeto.
That's got to be you.

If this is what I think it is,

I'm gonna jam you up,
you cocksucker.

Now come on.

I told you
I wasn't wearing a wire.

You're ruining my jacket.

- Drop your shorts.
- Only if you kiss my ass.

Hm.

We're getting out of here.

We're gonna sit down.

I'm gonna pay the check,
and we're leaving, nice.

Now put your pants on.

What's the hell's the point?
He's not even wired.

Why don't you relax
and count your overtime?

Alright! Alright,
I got four agents outside!

Rogario, call 911!

Wait a minute! Wait a minute!
Wait a minute, I'm a cop!

Come on, up! Up, hands up.

Now get up!

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The telephone, is no work!

- Come on.
- No.

- Come on. Give me a reason.
- Easy.

Come on, give me a reason.

Come on, give me a reason.

I'll blow your fucking
brains out.

I'll blow your fucking
brains out. Come on, Carl.

- Come on, Carl, up!
- Easy.

- Come on, let's go. Move!
- Easy.

- Walk! Come on, Carl.
- Easy.

Move, Carl!

Move, Carl. Come on, move.

- Let's go.
- Take it easy.

Come on. I'll blow your fucking
brains out, you fat fuck.

Are we... Are we
in a lot of trouble, Danny, huh?

- Just walk. Walk.
- Come on.

- Keep walking. Keep walking.
- What do you need?

- What do you need?
- Keep walking.

- Come on, Carl.
- Not like this.

- Move, Carl.
- Not like this, Dan.

Really. Come on. Come on.

I'll blow your fucking brains
out. Walk.

- Come on. Let's talk.
- Nice and slow.

- Come on. Alright?
- Nice and slow.

Come on. Come on,
now freeze. Now freeze.

Stay the fuck where you are!

- Ernie!
- Come on, we can make a deal.

Ernie! Against the doors.

- We can make a deal.
- Against the doors.

- Come on, Carl.
- Come on.

Spread. Higher, Carl. Come on.

Hey, put the defogger on.
I can't see anything.

Come on, Danny,
what do you need? Anything.

Come on. Can't we make a deal?
Come on, Dan.

He's in trouble.

- I'm here, Danny.
- I'm alright. I'm alright.

Carl had a gun. Where's his gun?

- I got him.
- Get the doors.

Alright. Get him... Get him off.

Easy, easy.

- Alright, get off me.
- Easy.

Easy.

Easy.

Take care of him.

- You alright, Dan?
- Come on, let me go.

- Christ.
- You alright?

- I'm bleeding.
- Let me go.

- I'm gonna move.
- Oh, alright then. Come on.

Take it easy.

- Come on.
- Danny.

Ca-- can you get me a deal,
Danny?

I'll try.
Hey, Ernie, you want the collar?

No, I'll take the walrus,
but I won't bring a cop in.

Let the fucking feds do it.
They enjoy it.

You take Carl to the hospital,
and book him fast.

No newspapers.

I'll wait here with Ernie

for that piece of shit
over there.

And I'll tell you this
to your face,

you guys are never
backing me up again.

- I'm bleeding.
- I'll quit first.

- Help, please.
- Thanks, Danny. Thanks.

Take care, baby.

The doorman has your name.
Hi, Bobby.

Here's a key.

Well, you can crash here
whenever you need it.

There are four bedrooms.
Timmy, how you doing?

The refrigerator is always full.

What else can I do for you?

I'm nervous about Sardino.

Don't be.

I'm telling you,
he's gonna skip.

He's gotta figure
DeBennedeto fingered him.

- He'll skip.
- He won't.

DeBennedeto is in jail.

If we pick up Sardino now...

it would be clear
he was cooperating.

Just 48 hours,
that's all we need.

I wanna take Sardino in.

Dan, this is
dangerous information

I'm about to give you.

Do not do anything.
Anything at all.

You'll screw us up.

Sardino... you turned him.

That's right, he's ours.

Why did you send me after him?

He's working at something
for us.

It's important
he look legitimate.

Okay?

They're gonna use Sardino

to take Gino tonight,
I can feel it.

You said Gino was the best cop
on the force, how's he gonna--

Santimassino set him up.
It will happen, believe me.

- Where are you going?
- To find Gino.

Danny, you warn Gino.
You find Gino and you warn--

I know. Santimassino's gonna
prosecute me, I know that!

I know that!

- What am I gonna do, Carla?
- I'll do it.

I'll call Rose and I'll tell her
Gino mustn't see Sardino.

That's all I'll say,
then I'll hang up.

Carla, not on this phone.

The phone is bugged.

Go out and use a public phone
if you have to.

Danny, what did he do?

Oh, hell, Carla.

He bought a house in Great Neck
and carpeted the whole upstairs

just like me.

You know I am a man of honor.

Ask Joe Voscoe.

Always fair and always on time.

If you give me my passport back

I will give you
the biggest arrest ever.

Bigger than anybody, ever.

Well, how long do you need,
Mr. Sardino?

Marseilles, two days.

One day Aleppo, two days Iran

Bogota, maybe four or five days.

But then I be come back
in New York

the 22nd for sure.

Then I give you the whole case.

The route, the couriers,

the arrival time,
arrival places.

It's very big, Gino.

I'll get the passport.

I knew, I knew.

You good man.

We do a lot of business
together.

- Here.
- I can wait.

Gino, we are both Italians.

You trust me and I trust you.

Let me do this for you.
I want to.

Gino, I'm Agent O'Hara.

You've got a problem here, Gino.

Give me the money.

Gino.

You simply call
Detective Alvarez

and tell him to call you back
on a public phone.

And when he does, you will say,

"Raf, I just found
something out."

You say, "The feds are on us."

I don't understand.

What's wrong with doing that,
it's a little test?

Prove you're not lying to us

about Sardino or your department
or anything.

I won't do it.

What the fuck did you
bring me here for?

Gino, you have
a very enviable reputation

in the department
and in the city.

You're a hero.

How's it gonna look
if you force us

to take you downtown
and book you?

Gino Mascone's the top cop.

Everyone looks up to Mascone.

But, Gino, you and I
know you're a whore.

Just a poor old whore

who bellies up for any crook
with two bucks.

A whore and a thief. Hm?

As far as I'm concerned,
you have only two options.

You cooperate with us,
you make the calls

or you go to jail
with the other thieves.

I don't even wanna think
about the third option.

He just arrived, sir.

Your friend needs a friend, Dan.

He's going down the tubes
unless you help me.

He won't cooperate.

- Don't touch a thing.
- Oh, Christ.

Just wanna check
if there's a heartbeat.

Oh, Jesus. Oh, Christ.

There's no heartbeat,
look at the head wound.

How did we get into this, Danny?

I don't know.

You did it.

I gotta call you
four times to make a meeting?

You avoiding me?

I've been hearing
a lot of things, Danny.

You doing something
you shouldn't be doing?

Oh, shit, Rocky.

You wearing a wire or what?

There, it's off. Alright?
Look, say what you want.

It's shit because I'm not
after you, Rocky.

You're lying, Danny.

I've been in jail half my life.

You think I'm worried about
going to jail, huh?

So don't lie.

You got me the night

I bribed that fucking Edelman,
right, Danny?

They caught you doing something,
didn't they?

If they caught you
doing something,

and you didn't come to us
for help

then you deserved to get killed

because you trust them
more than you trust us.

Nobody caught me.

Everything just came down on me.

I looked at Carla and the kids
and I,

I remember
why I wanted to be a cop.

I wanted to do something to show
I was a good guy, not a bad guy.

Who are you gonna be
a good guy to, huh?

What about your cousin?

He's gonna have to explain
to a few people.

And what about me?

Does anybody get hurt
because of me?

I introduced you
to a few people.

I vouched for you.

I swear to God, Rocky
nobody's gonna get hurt

because you introduced me
or vouched for me.

Danny, these people have
turned you into a rat.

You're never gonna be able
to live with yourself.

Me, I'm gonna save your life.

You listen to me, Danny,
and listen to me good.

Tomorrow you meet me
at Kennedy Airport.

I'm gonna give you $75,000.

You go anywhere in the world
out there you wanna go to.

And when you get to
where you wanna go

you reach me
through your cousin Nick.

And I'm gonna send you
another 75,000.

You start a new life.
And, Danny, you won't be a rat.

Where am I gonna go?

You don't wanna?

You don't wanna, huh?
Alright, fuck it.

Can we get in the fucking car?

If you kill me, Rocky,
you're fucking dead.

You know, Danny,
you worry too much.

That's why
you're in all this trouble for.

Ever since I've known you,
you've been nothing

but a fucking worrier.

Come on, Danny. Come on, kid.

Take me in.

That poor dumb kid.

He's six foot five and black,

he's got a barrel ass
and a head shaped like this.

Put him in a room with 500
black, 20-year-old perpetrators

and you pick Arthur out
in one sweep.

So I says, "Arthur, you're not
cut out for a life of crime.

I'm gonna get you a job,
Arthur."

And?

So I made them take him
on as a bouncer

in a pornographic bookstore.

Perfect.

What's so funny about that?

It was a funny story.

A bookstore needs a bouncer?

Hey, hit me too, will you, Gus?

Hey, did you hear
about Kaminsky?

He was coming out of a drugstore
and he heard this lady scream

so he looks, he sees this guy
running down the street

away from her.

He goes after the guy
and he overtakes him.

Now, the guy is 23...

Kaminsky is 42.

Anyway, he caught the guy,

and the guy starts
lashing at him

with this big fucking knife,
like this.

Kaminsky disarmed him...

he disarmed him
and he held him

until two patrolmen ran up.

And then he proceeded
to give them the knife

and the money and the jewelry.

And he gave them the collar.

What's so funny about that?

What's so funny is

Kaminsky's under indictment

for perjury
for the bribes he took.

He didn't have his gun,
he didn't have a shield.

Once a cop, always a cop.

Don't you think that's funny?

Danny.

Danny, why don't you go upstairs
and lie down for a while?

Wash your face.
You're exhausted.

You should take some time off
with Carla

and go up to your cabin.

Hey, Raf...

hey, you know I didn't have
anything to do with Gino, right?

I mean, you were his partner.
You know that, man.

I know that, sport.

- You know that.
- Yeah.

Christ, Danny,
nobody ever thought that.

Sometime in the future, you guys

are gonna hear
all kinds of things.

Listen, Danny...

I know about
all of that stuff.

What do you know?

Danny, that dumb story
has been going around forever.

You going around
cooperating with prosecutors,

going around wired.

That's shit.

Look, Danny,
Gino heard that stuff

and he never believed
anything bad about you

and we don't either.

We know you'd never do
anything like that.

I did some things.

I didn't, I didn't do nothing
to hurt you guys.

I wanted absolution.

How can guys like us take
the sacraments with what we do?

I wasn't gonna go
against cops...

but none of you guys
are involved, I swear to God.

But some cops, they caught some.

I didn't want it to happen,
but it happened.

But not Gino.

You gotta believe me, not Gino.

I believe you, Danny.

We all believe in you, Danny.

So take it easy, otherwise

you're gonna drive yourself
crazy.

What can we do, Danny?
How can we help?

Where's your gun, Danny?

I'm not gonna do that.

We think you ought to give us
your gun, Danny.

I'm not gonna give you
my fucking gun!

Right.

You shoot yourself, Danny,

there's no pension for Carla.

Do you need money, kid?
Do you need help like that?

The last guy that tried
to help me like that...

is going inside.

It's all so fucking funny, Joe.

None of us know
how it leaked.

They got every case outlined.
Two years' work.

What the bloody hell
do we do now?

Get me Tug Barnes
in the US Marshal's office

and tell him
I want Detective Ciello

scooped up immediately

and send six armed agents out

to Great Neck
to guard his wife and kids.

Dan, are you taking
any of this in?

I don't think
I'm making myself clear.

I didn't understand...

how long it would be.

Two years? How'd I...

I'm gonna be testifying
for two years?

What after that?
I mean, what happens then?

I'm safe... Am I safe then?

After the trial is over...

Is my family
gonna be safe then?

We'll face that
when the time comes.

What we have to do now
is find a safe place for now.

Well, we have a...
We got a cabin in the Catskills.

We could go there.

Anybody else know about it?

No.

Tug?

Okay.

For now until it's over,
it'll be my job

to take care of you
and your family.

You are my job, you understand?

Anything worries you,
anything you need,

anything at all, I take care of.

This is Ned Chippy.

This is Pete.

Anything you need,
we're gonna get it for you.

- You know the route.
- Yes, sir.

- You guys are pretty careful.
- Yes, we are.

You tell that man
his gun makes me nervous.

They're all over the house,
they're out in the yard.

Can't you see Bobby's scared?

Hi.

Hey, listen,
it's just like the TV shows.

Like a dumb little TV show.

- No.
- Come on, baby. Yes, it is.

- Come on, you know Chippy.
- No, I don't.

Yeah. You do.

Here's Tug.

Mrs. Ciello, I think
we're about ready to go.

Now, everything
you've marked here

will be up there tonight.

Well, hello, princess.
How are you, sweetheart?

- Uh-oh. Hi.
- Hi.

How many men
will there be with us?

Um, three shifts.
About 18 men.

Eighteen men, 18 what?

There are 18 of them.
Where are they gonna sleep?

They got sleeping bags
and tents.

It's the mountains.
It's cold.

If you need any help
with anything, Mrs. Ciello,

just give a holler.

I can't help it.

If it gets too cold, you can
take turns in the living room.

- Tell the others.
- Yes, ma'am.

You can use the TV
if you keep it low

and you don't wake the kids.

Thank you, ma'am.

Babe, are you okay?

Yeah.

They're taking me out tomorrow.

Oh, God.

Where?

I'll be staying
in a military barracks

on Governors Island
during the week.

I'll be coming back here
on the weekends.

I didn't want to
tell you until I had to.

Danny, something I wanted
to tell you alone.

I'm gonna be leaving soon.

I've been appointed
commissioner of investigation.

Uh, that's a cabinet-level post.
How about that?

That's terrific, Ricky.
I'm happy for you.

Well, you're responsible.
For what you've done.

What's gonna
happen to me?

Listen, you are gonna be
with a terrific team of guys.

They're gonna work your ass off.

Thirty or 40 indictments
to get out.

It's an embarrassment of riches.

We have too many defendants,
too much evidence.

You're gonna roll
into Foley Square

every morning at 8 a.m.

Roll back to
this fucking prison at 6:00.

That's the way it's gonna be.
Isn't it?

Dan, come on. You're gonna
be so pooped every night.

Oh, come on.
It's looney tunes, Rick.

Those people you put under
indictment will make

bail in 24 hours. They're gonna
be out living their lives.

I'm the first to go to prison.

It's important, Dan,
to have a clear picture

of when and where
you made this recording.

It's vital
for the Blomberg trial.

I know, I know, Mr. Burano,
but...

it's been 14 months ago.

There's been a lot
of recording since.

Oh, Dan, Dan,
you're doing great.

Let's listen to
the whole thing again.

You sure this is not the one you
made in the Chinese restaurant?

I'm not sure of anything
anymore.

There's been so many
goddamn meals in my life.

Willy, can I borrow Dan?
Just two seconds.

- We'll bring him back to you.
- No problem.

Danny, do you mind?

No.

No, bring your sandwich in.
No talking, just listening.

Okay, Dan, this is
Ralph Kubela from RCA.

He's cleaning your tapes up.

- Ralph, Detective Ciello.
- How are you?

Nice to meet you.
What's the matter?

- Talk too dirty for you?
- A little electronic magic.

I'm eliminating a lot of
the background noise,

adding a couple of highs,
so the words are clearer.

- Dan Ciello, this is your life.
- Yeah.

Hey, by the way,
if you could give me

five or six hours,
I sure would appreciate it.

I mean, whoever catalogued
and indexed these tapes

didn't know what
the hell they were doing.

My master log
doesn't match with

the identification
numbers at all.

I think Mr. Burano
needs me all day.

- And don't forget me.
- You said two seconds.

Now, two seconds now.
Later, two hours. Come on.

With one sentence, Danny,
we can complete this transcript.

Should've just
given it to him.

Hey, I don 't give
10 big ones to some kike cop...

Let me hear it again, will you?

Can I, please?

Oh, shit, I forgot my sandwich.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I was talking.
Let me hear it again, will you?

Should've just
given it to him.

Hey, I don 't
give...

Date set on
the Blomberg trial?

Not yet, soon.

Can I be there?

- No.
- Why not?

I'm gonna have to lie
on the stand, Carla.

That's perjury. You can't.

What am I supposed to do,
tell the truth about the unit?

About what we all did?

And spend the rest
of my life lying.

It's just a squirrel!

I might as well
just blurt this out.

I've... been made
the New York head of the

Justice Department Joint Strike
Force Against Organized Crime.

I'm... I'm packing my desk
and moving across the Plaza.

I'm not abandoning you.

Uh...

Brooks, you don't know what I'm
wrestling with here.

You know, I got a, got a lot of
worries, you know.

A lot of problems.

Christ, I mean,
you guys, you say, uh...

"This is your life,
and I'll take care of it."

Then you move on.

I know you're worried
about the trial.

But you'll be prepared
and we'll set up

a pretrial meeting
with Blomberg's lawyer.

With Heinsdorff?

Why do I have to meet
with him before the trial?

You don't have to,
but it'd be to your advantage.

You'd find out exactly
what you'll be up against.

Look, Brooks, I don't
mean I'm not glad

about your new job, you know?

What are you gonna
work on first? You know?

Uh, we're gonna make
a very serious run

on the Garment district.

Perhaps you can do me
one last favor there.

I need an undercover man.

- You need Gus Levy.
- That was fast.

Brooks, I've got to get him
out of Narcotics.

I'm gonna pretend
I didn't hear that.

Danny, listen to me.

I wanna tell you something.
I don't care about what's past.

I don't care
whether you sold junk

or whatever you did in the past.

What you were then
is not what you are now.

You changed your life.

Don't throw it all away
with an act of perjury.

If you take the oath and you
lie to protect Gus Levy

or any of the partners, anybody,
anybody, they'll indict you.

And I might take the stand
and testify against you.

Don't do that to me, Danny.

Jesus Christ, how did I
wind up over here?

You're one of us
and the difference between us

and a Blomberg is that
when we take the oath,

we tell the truth.

- Hello, Mr. Heinsdorff.
- Hello.

This is Detective Ciello.

I won't make this too
uncomfortable

for you, detective.

I just wanna chat about
those three

little episodes
of misconduct.

Three seems to be a meager
number to spread over 11 years.

I'm sorry, I'm not
the bigtime criminal

you lawyers expect cops to be.

I mean, you make me ashamed
I didn't show more initiative.

Detective Ciello
is a very charming fellow.

I believe we are
in a lot of trouble.

Don't be deceived, Dan,
Mr. Heinsdorff will not be

this kind to you in court.

Well, we're talking here about
a man's career and his life.

Michael Blomberg is not
such a bad person.

That's open to debate.

I want you to know,
detective, I've done a great

deal of work in
the narcotics area.

I've defended users
and dealers and policemen.

Did you know
Detective Carey in SIU?

And Carey knows you.

I've spoken to
a number of addicts

who will come forth
and testify at this trial.

They say they know you.

They say you are guilty of
many more

acts of misconduct
than you admit to.

Well, they're lying.

Alright, then. Let's begin.

You don't mind if there's
a stenographer present?

Not at all.

I'm going outside for some air.
It smells in here.

Yeah, we don't mind.

Ned, let me just have
just a minute alone, alright?

Just a minute alone. I've got
a band around my head so tight.

Stay in sight, Danny.

Jesus, Nick. What--

Danny, they're looking
to hurt you.

They think you should be hit.

Fuck, who's that crazy?
I'm surrounded day and night.

Yeah, like right now?
They wanted me to do it.

I told them no.
I said, "Hey, this kid's

my cousin, he's my uncle's son."

I told them no.

- Who they gonna get?
- Who knows?

I told them I owed
you a warning.

I said I wouldn't interfere.

I'm telling you now.

You watch yourself.

If it was me... I'd watch
those fucking guards.

- Oh, no, Nick.
- Danny.

They gotta look the wrong way
for a second, that's all.

Shit. Anybody can be hit,
you know that.

You gonna be alright?

Danny?

Tug and Ned, this
is my cousin, Nick.

How you doing?

Yeah, how I is...

So, Nick, are you
gonna be okay or what?

Who knows?

I never hid the fact
you're a cop.

Black sheep of the family.

- How's my father looking?
- Looking good.

How's your father looking?

Not so good.

Take it easy, huh?

Don't make it
tough on us, Danny.

You can't afford it,
we can't afford it.

I'm sorry.

We'll come back to the details
of those three acts, detective.

Let me first ask you
a very simple question.

In addition to those three acts
you're gonna describe for us

have you ever engaged in any
other misconduct of any kind?

- No, sir. Never.
- Never?

Now, detective Ciello will
you tell the jury exactly

what those three acts were
and how they took place?

First time I did something was
when a meeting was set up

between myself...

I wanna go back to
the beginning, Dan.

I want to hear again,
but in much finer detail...

much finer detail...

about those three acts
of misconduct

which you claim are the only
misdeeds you committed

in the 11 years
you were a policeman.

Now, when you set up
the contact between

Rocky Gazzo
and Detective Don Logan

did you believe yourself to be
committing a crime?

So, from the time you contacted
Mr. Simonetta

you knew you were
committing a crime?

Well, what did you do with the
money, the money you extorted?

How much did you say?

Would you repeat
that amount for the jury?

The exact amount was how much?

Come now, detective,
11 years a cop,

eight years in Narcotics

and you never once
made an illegal wiretap?

You never gave drugs
to informants,

to poor junkies
crying out for help?

- Never once?
- I never did.

No, not me, him. He did it.

Congratulations, Danny.
Stay with it, now.

This is just the beginning.

I'm District Attorney D'Amato,
Louis D'Amato.

We'll be working
together on the Kelso case.

We're gonna lock up
another lawyer.

Good.

I'm Federal Attorney Margutta.
I'm handed the Queens DA case.

- What's his name?
- Eckhart.

Good to see you.

You just
been in my...

Attorney Leary, IRS.

Assistant DA Silver.

Jim Costa. How are you,
detective?

Yeah, nice to see you.

Special Investigator
Goldstein.

How do you do?

Hey, baby face.

Easy, gentlemen, easy.

Alright, it's cool, guys.

The King never carries.
The King works with the mind.

How you doing, King?

Not the best, baby face.

The King has fallen
on hard times.

- Sorry to hear that.
- Yeah.

The government's cut me out.

I've blown my car,
my boat, my ponies.

The mortgage is due,
baby face.

And I am snowed under by all
manner of problems. You dig?

- I'm not sure.
- My man, I am flat broke.

I got five kids and a wife.
Same as you, baby face.

Same problem.

I want you to understand that.

I'll see you around.

It do look likely.

Looks like we'd better add
that one to the list.

He's not a doer,
he's a talker.

Which is probably worse.

He talks, you deny.

"Another 1971 case...

in which I received
narcotics directly

from Ciello involved
the arrest of three people

at a Spanish grocery
on the southeast corner

of 122nd street
in Lexington Avenue.

A seizure was made
at the house of heroin,

narcotics paraphernalia
and guns.

Ciello handed me three to four
ounces of heroin."

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Dan, this is
George Polito,

chief prosecutor,
Eastern District.

Mind if I sit in?

Something here
you're working on?

I hope not.

Louis. How are you, Louis?

George is on
special assignment.

I hear you've taken over
the French Connection case?

I still don't believe it.

A 120 pounds of heroin
waiting to be

used as evidence
just vanishes?

From a police property office?
It's a farce.

Not to me, I'm gonna nail
whoever did it,

even if it means arresting
the whole goddamn SIU.

Well, George is interested
in the King's deposition.

Clearly, the King has
a lot of contacts with the SIU.

So he claims, but it's
a known fact he was on

the federal payroll
for four years.

Let's stop
the quibbling.

Get on with the depositions.

Thank you.
I'm anxious to hear this.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Does the King suggest
that I was involved

in the French Connection
rip-off?

Let's get on with reading.

"To my personal knowledge,
Ciello supplied heroin

to many other individuals
I was personally involved with.

On at least a dozen occasions,
Ciello and Marinaro

notified me that they had
a package of heroin for me.

- Slim took a whole kilo each time--
- Bullshit.

...for which he paid
approximately $32,000.

For a long period of time,

I gave Ciello approximately
$100 a week."

- This is sickening.
- He also cites 14 other

specific instances of

the exchange of heroin between
detective Ciello and himself

and other perpetrators
and says he bought

three automobiles for you
and your wife.

Oh, balls.

If this is true, Dan,
one goddamn word of it,

then all our cases
are down the drain.

I'm never gonna
get through this.

I mean, it-- it's a fucking
nightmare, and it never stops.

I mean, I'm being forced to sit
here, listening to this shit

having to defend myself
to the guys

I'm supposed to be working with?

I mean, are we supposed to be
partners...

- Dan. Dan.
- Or what?

No one but the King,
only the King...

has accused you of anything.

Now, what we must do if we can

is put the deposition
and its author in the shredder.

And we must do this
as expeditiously as possible

because Mike Blomberg has asked

for a reversal of his conviction

on the basis of this affidavit.

I ask you again, is any of this
deposition true?

Any instance or detail?
Any goddamn word of it?

Because if it is,
I'm gonna be practicing

divorce law in West Virginia.

None of it is true.

Gentlemen,
I think you should know this.

Nobody I've spoken to has ever
not mentioned your name, Ciello.

You know what I hear
with every SIU man I pull in?

Quote, "I'm not saying
I did anything

but if I did, can I get the same
deal you gave Ciello?"

If I heard it once,
I heard it 50 times.

Yeah, and you'll hear it
60 more, Polito.

Because there are
70 detectives in SIU

and all but four want my ass.
Give me a drink. Will you?

Did you ever hear of
a junkie named Sancho?

I know a lot of junkies.
Their names change.

Mike Blomberg's lawyer
has a deposition

from a Frank Sancho who says

you kept him supplied
on a regular basis.

Also another junkie named Jose,
and his girlfriend, Jeannie.

Look, Mr. Santimassino,
it's no secret

that we use informants
that are junkies.

- Did you sell Sancho, heroin?
- No.

- Did you give him heroin?
- George, forget Sancho.

He's penny ante. The King
is the one that interests me.

It's a very detailed story.

Nobody's penny ante if you catch
him lying. It takes just one--

Hey. You stop talking about me
like I'm not here. I'm here.

Let's pick the King up.

I'm gonna put him
on a lie detector.

Will he consent?

Why don't you just ask me
to take the test, huh?

Yes, I'd like to know the answer
to that. Why haven't you?

Would you?

Fuck you all.

I'm going home.

Jeez. Yo, Mo,
give me a hand here.

- Killing myself. Jeez.
- Alright.

Hey, papa.

Danny. You can't come in, Danny.

Nick's family,
they don't want you.

Danny, it breaks my heart.

I know you've been trying
to be a good guy.

I know.

Come on.

Yeah, but Nick
wasn't under my protection.

Now, honey, this may be
a totally unnecessary move,

but we're making it anyway.
I'll have it all ready for you.

That's my gift to you.

Danny.

Shh! Shhh! Shhh-shh!

Well, what do you think?

Okay, baby. It's okay.
Shhh. Okay, honey.

- It's alright.
- Oh, Danny. Oh, my God, Danny.

It's everything I ever wanted.
Just not this way.

I know, baby.
I know. It's okay.

- Is my tie red?
- No.

- Are the walls white?
- No.

Did you regularly give money
to Detective Ciello?

Yes.

- Are you a German citizen?
- No.

The traffic was murder.

Your friend has requested that
if he passes the test,

the government
should return him

to steady employment
and give him $5000.

And we said we'd be glad
to meet those terms.

Dan, I don't think you know
Mario Vincente.

He's going to try the case
against Caprice.

- Does a cat bark?
- No.

Did you give Daniel Ciello
three automobiles?

Yes.

Ciello, if this test is positive
I'll prosecute you myself.

Thank you very much.

We appreciate your cooperation.

The man was very relaxed,
very easy.

Every time he answered yes,

the needle went
off the edge of page.

My God, what a relief.
I haven't slept for five days.

Okay, it's a one, two,
three is positive...

- Mr. Santimassino...
- What?

If you don't mind,
I'd like to go home now.

Of course.

Question four, question five,
six is a positive.

Yeah, right here. Six.
And this is seven. And eight.

You did it again.
You got out of it, didn't you?

Detective Ciello?

U.S. Attorney's office.

I wanted to talk to you.

I was gonna invite myself
home with you.

It's Friday. I only get to see
my family on the weekends.

Well, I've got to be
down in Washington.

We could share the ride.

Suit yourself.

- This is Tug Barnes and Chippy.
- Mario Vincente.

Boy, you don't travel light, eh?

I like the King.
He's just trying to earn.

It's the poor fucking junkies
that beat your ass.

Sancho, Jose...

Little Jeannie.

They break your heart, junkies.

All you try and do
is get them through the night.

Ten years later,
some legal eagle takes it

and starts pulling your
fingernails out one by one.

If that polygraph machine

had one wrong line on it...

Santimassino
would have crucified me.

But it didn't.
It vindicated you.

But it could have
gone the other way.

You know why those tests
are inadmissible

in court as well as me.

Some guy is a little schitzy,
believes what he's saying...

and if he believes it,
it won't show up on the machine.

Or somebody like me.

Ask me a question
and I feel like I'm lying.

Even though I'm
telling the truth.

It's been so long since I didn't
have to think about my answer.

Man.

I was on the streets
undercover for...

ten years?

I don't know
what the truth is anymore.

There's only one thing
I knew for sure today.

Santimassino, Polito...

all those guys...

they are not my friends.

No, sir.

They are not my friends.

So...

what was it you wanted to talk
to me about, Mr. Vincente?

Nothing in particular.

It's just that we're gonna be
spending a lot of time together

and I just wanted a chance
to get to know you better.

My name is Mario.

You wanna be my friend, Mario?

I have a clear mandate
to the city. Clean it up.

Gentlemen, I am gonna
tear this town apart.

And I'm gonna start with the
French Connection rip-off.

And the reason I'm gonna start
with the French Connection

rip-off is because
it's a goddamn outrage.

And I have already promised
myself it's going to be solved.

So, what you are gonna do,
gentlemen,

is you're gonna
make my word good.

The target is cops.
The weapon is indictments.

And I don't give
one infinitesimal fuck

if they're indictments
that will stick or not.

Because to a cop, any indictment
means a departmental trial

which is a euphemism for fini!

End of gun, badge,
pension and pals!

So, I want cops' names
and if I don't get them

I'm gonna drop cops
and start on DAs.

I want names.

We'll start alphabetically.
We'll start with A.

Give me an A.

Mr. Kanter, I have an A.

Possibly perjury,
but a very weak case.

We got an A.
Give it to me.

Alvarez, Raf Alvarez.

I and Detective Lewis Dooley
and Joe Carpo

held back five kilos out
of that particular seizure.

We sold it.

We also sold prisoners
their freedom.

Overall, we must've ripped off

a couple hundred thousand bucks
from dealers.

Maybe more.

You asked me before
about perjury.

About 20 times in court.

I don't know why you people
don't understand the system?

You wanna conviction,
but you got these stupid search

and seizure laws and wiretaps.

Case one never got made
without an illegal wiretap.

And you're never
get a conviction

if a cop don't
commit perjury.

What is it that you want?

You want the big dealer
out of business?

The only way I know
to push him out of business

is to steal his cash.

Otherwise, somewhere down
the line, he's gonna buy out.

He'll buy himself a bondsman,
a DA, a judge.

The scumbag dealer
is back on the streets

before the arresting officer.

The only way I know how to stop
him is to steal his cash.

As far as selling them
their freedom

I never once sold
a dealer his freedom

unless I didn't have enough
evidence to make the bust legal.

I'll give you
all the details you want.

But what I'm never gonna
give you is what happened

to that fucking
120 pounds of heroin.

I didn't do it.

Why don't you talk to your
friend, Ciello?

Huh?

Didn't you ever think of that?

Why is it that Ciello is getting
away with all this shit

and you tell me
I'm a dead man?

Because you're a bunch
of fucking hypocrites.

Can you give us any evidence
against Ciello?

I never worked with him...

but I worked with Gus Levy.

I don't give a shit that he's
working for you guys now.

I know things about Levy.
And Levy worked with Ciello.

Can you give us any evidence
against Levy?

Maybe.

For the very reason
you told me.

A polygraph is not
admissible in court.

Now, Blomberg's motion
for a new trial is based

entirely on the King's
deposition.

You've gotta go understand
and deny it.

What's happening with Alvarez?
Is he gonna get a deal?

He's cooperating fully.

Listen, didn't you
recommended Gus Levy

for that undercover job
in the Garment center?

Is that fuck Alvarez trying
to pin something on Gus?

Hey!

- Mr. Dana.
- Yeah.

My name's Estrada.
I'd like to talk to you.

Yeah, uh, let's take a walk.

Listen... tell that
Chiseler his overhead

goes down when
my overhead goes down.

I ain't paying freight
on his featherbed.

My office is bugged.

When we first started,
I unloaded everything myself.

It was the only way
I could get an honest count

till I figured out
some controls.

The last six months,
we've been in profit.

Congratulations.

Well, the work's congenial.

Hey, I heard you travel
with fucking army these days.

- Where's all the guns?
- Gave them the slip.

Yeah, what's so important?

- They got Alvarez.
- Yeah, I heard.

I heard he's a regular
little chatterbox, huh?

He was your partner, Gus.

He can't hurt me.

I never let that spic
put one penny in my hand.

Let him yap.

Son of a bitch never
takes a full load.

Paige has set you up
with one hell of a front here.

Cute, huh? When it's all
over, I'm gonna keep my costume.

Alvarez doesn't have
to hurt you much, Gus.

Just a little.

It's Kanter and a prosecutor
named Polito.

These guys have got
this French Connection thing

like a fly on their nose.

And it's gonna hurt everybody.

I didn't steal the fucking
120 pounds of horse. Did you?

Jesus Christ, Gus.

You're losing your
sense of humor, kid.

It's the company
you've been keeping.

These... these are
very serious guys.

Fuck them. But I know
what you came here for.

You came to say, "I'm okay,
you're okay." Right?

Yeah, I mean... they wanna get
you so you'll get me.

Then I'll come back at you.

So, what do we
got to worry about?

Nobody can give us up
but each other. Right, Danny?

Danny, I'm sorry. I keep trying
to avoid these Fridays.

But this is important,
let me ask you.

Do you remember a bust you made
when you first came into SIU?

This may help you.

How can you let
a piece of shit like that

come in here and spit at me?

I'm a police officer.

What are you?

Do you remember him?

Yes, I remember him. He's shit.

Danny, tell me about the case.

You were working with Gus Levy,
Bill Mayo and Dom Bando, right?

It was a very sweet bust.

He's a Lebanese dealer.

We arrested him.

He offered us 5000.

And we added attempted bribery.

Mr. Halazi out there says
someone took

$400 from him, Danny.
Which one of you took the 400?

Or did you split it four ways?

That scumbag offered us 5000.

And you're saying we split 400?

I'm not saying it.
Mr. Halazi is saying it.

I never saw his fucking $400.

Danny, one of you saw it.

Oh, Christ, Polito, I'm really
trying not to hate you.

Look, even if it did happen,
which it didn't...

don't you think I might not
have known about him?

Danny, in my opinion, no.
I don't think it's possible.

I think you took whenever
there was anything to take.

I think you shared
in everything.

I think you were
in on Halazi's 400.

And I also think
I can get an indictment.

You are a fucking lunatic.

You can't make a nutcase
accusation

like that stick, not on me.

If not you, then on Levy,
Marinaro, Mayo.

Half the SIU will be coming in
here, and they will cooperate.

They will not cooperate.

Danny, nearly all of them
will cooperate.

They're cops. In their hearts
they want to admit their guilt.

That's the way cops are,
that's how you got here.

Don't you understand that?

Danny, Polito's pulling in
Gus Levy next week.

He's going to indict him.

- On what?
- Four-hundred-dollar job.

It's me he's after, right? Okay.
I mean, he wants me, right?

Whatever you wanna tell me,
Danny, I won't give to Polito.

Let him make his
own goddamn case.

Mario, I don't know a fuck about
the missing junk, okay? Nothing.

And I don't think
Gus Levy does either.

Or the famous $400. Shit.

So far, every allegation
against you, the King's,

Halazi's,
it's all unsupported.

If just one cop comes in
and corroborates anything,

you'll go to jail.

Not me, no one can save you.

Gus Levy is not gonna
put me in jail, Mario.

Carla, call the kids.
It's ready.

The indictment is bullshit.

Just take the lie-detector test.

You didn't do it.
So take the test.

You take the fucking test,
Danny.

That guinea prosecutor
ain't getting

yes, no or maybe out of me.

I'll never cooperate.

Don't ever let one of them
three-piece suits get you

in a room and tell you
I'm talking.

I ain't talking.

Like they say,
we hang together, kid--

Gus, Gus. Gus...

they could cut me up
in little pieces,

and they'll never
get nothing out of me.

Was he wired?

Don't trust him.
He's going down the tubes.

You indict me on the squawk
of a dope dealer

who tried to buy me out
of a fucking bust?

You wanna break up another
federal operation

that'll put away more quality
mob guys in a year

than you'll touch in your
your whole pissant career?

Uh, detective Levy
you're hardly in a position--

Alright, you fuck!

I'll tell you what I'm in
a position to do,

and that's to throw you
out the fucking window!

It's only the fifth floor,
but I'll try to aim you

so you land on
your pointed little head.

Levy, you can
easily avoid trial.

All you have to do
is cooperate.

Fuck it. You got your
mind made up to try me?

Go ahead and try me.

But not for a lousy $400.

At least get me for assault.

You never even looked
at Bobby's drawings.

He's been waiting all week
to show them to you.

His teacher says
they were the best.

Things are getting bad.

Goddamn it,
my gums are bleeding again.

What's so bad, Danny?

I mean, we've gone through it.

It's over, the bad part.

I never thought we'd survive it,
but we did.

It's coming to an end.
Everything.

Everything what?

Gus thinks what he's doing
for Paige is gonna protect him.

It's not.

They'll indict him for bad
breath if that's all they got.

Gus?

They're gonna indict Gus?

You don't need that many.

Don't tell me what I need.

Dan, listen.

Polito is getting
an indictment against you.

I'm coming down there
on the next shuttle.

Now, uh, you're telling me
to trust Polito

instead of my own people?

Your people are out to get you
worse than anybody on our side.

Internal Affairs, DEA,
the regulars.

Nothing you ever say or do
is ever gonna convince them

that you're not a rat.

Danny, Danny, the police,
they hate you.

You've run out of options.

You've got to tell the truth,
whatever it is.

I will not give up my partners.

I will not cross that line,
ever.

Don't you realize that by just
saying that, you've confessed?

You've confessed
you're all in it.

My goddamn gums are killing me.

Danny, you've gotta tell us
what you guys did.

You gotta stop protecting
your partners.

You'll be the one under oath.

You know, I'm not
so goddamn sure

that if the positions
were reversed

your partners
wouldn't face reality

a lot better than you're doing.

I know a little about
your partners.

Nothing. You know nothing.

My partners would never
give me up. Never.

If you go on the stand
and you lie, you're finished.

- I promise they'll get you.
- No, they won't.

Yes, they will. They're snipers.

They'll pick you off one
at a time. I promise you.

Your only hope, Danny,
is to tell the truth

and then make
your partners come in.

I won't give up my partners.

It's the way that you're
gonna save them.

I will not give up my partners.

- Danny, help me to help you.
- No.

You must understand that whether
you wanna help your friends

or not and you can't.

Just about every detective
that ever worked in SIU,

Danny, is going to jail.

Okay.

I hate it around here
on holidays.

It's like everything died.

It's radiation, science fiction.

Yeah, I feel the same way.

Well, I guess we better start
with the worst, Danny.

You know, there's a,
there's a wonderful quote,

man named Thomas De Quincey.

He wrote

"If once a man indulges
in murder

very soon he comes
to think little of robbing

and from robbing he comes
next to drinking

and Sabbath-breaking

and from that to incivility
and procrastination."

Yeah.

Well, I... never indulged
myself in murder.

And I didn't have anything to do
with the French Connection

rip-off either.

You really thought I did,
didn't you, Mario?

Danny, you... it was possible.

Did you ever sell narcotics?

I never sold narcotics.
I gave.

In Narcotics you have
to supply your informants.

There's no other way. That's it.

Under the law, a gift of
narcotics is the same as a sale.

- Drop it.
- I know the law.

The law doesn't know
the streets.

Tell me about the biggest
score you ever made.

It was a beautiful bust.

A bunch of South Americans.

Very big dealers.

We arraigned five of them.

Woman in a mink coat, right?

Not a fucking thing on
underneath.

Who made the bust?

Me, Gus Levy, Joe Marinaro,
Bill Mayo.

My unit.

Dom Bando was on tail.

We broke into this joint.

We got five perpetrators,

five kilos of pure heroin.

Suitcase full of money,
92,000 bucks.

What did you take?
The junk, the money? Both?

I told you, it was a great bust.

Five kilos of pure,
and we all got commendations.

You took the money.

We took some.
Half the money, okay?

Forty-six thousand.

We let them have enough for bail

and put them on
the next plane out.

Those South American pricks

bought their way
out of everything.

So we did what
no court ever did.

We gave them a heavy fine
and deported them.

So you split 46,000 four ways.

Five ways.

Dom was on lookout.

But Bando wasn't in on the job.

How would he know
about the money?

We don't cheat. Everybody's in.

That's the rule.

Look...

Dom is a very soft guy.

All he wants is to be
in a safe place.

I want your permission
to talk to him, Mario.

He'll come in.

Will you help?

Okay.

Stay there, you bastard!

You're here to hurt me!

- No.
- You want me to come in?

And what am I gonna tell them?
I don't know nothing.

I did tails.

I never seen
the inside of nothing.

I'd follow a guy for three days,
you'd tell me to go home.

I go home, you tell me
to tail somebody else.

All you gotta do
is tell them that.

Bullshit!

You think they're
gonna believe me

after the stink you guys left?

You know what I did with my cut?
Huh?

I gave it to my priest. Yeah.

You want the Internal Affairs
to start questioning my priest?

- Dom!
- I hope you choke on my name.

Ah...

You prosecute Bando,

and you're gonna have another
Mascone on your head.

He, uh, he gave all his money
to the church,

for Christ's sake.
He won't come in.

If he doesn't come in it doesn't
matter what he did

with the money. He took it.
We're gonna have to nail him.

Okay, then I'm through.
Not another fucking word.

- I'm gonna call Marinaro.
- No, no.

- And Mayo.
- No, no.

- And I gotta make them come in.
- No way, Danny.

You gotta help them.
It's the only way.

I said I would, Danny.

Who's the best bet?

Ah...

Ah, Levy. Uh, No. Uh, uh...

Uh, Marinaro.
He's got a wife and kids.

Marinaro.

You can try with Marinaro.

If you can get Marinaro
to come in...

you can try with Mayo.

See, if you can turn
Marinaro and Mayo...

then maybe the three of you
can get Levy to come in.

Marinaro is first.

Be alright?

Christ, Danny.

I'm only two months
from my pension, man.

This ain't ever gonna
be alright.

You told them everything?

- Yeah.
- What about Gus and Bill?

I'm gonna
call them both.

What the hell are
we supposed to do?

All four of us
walk in hand in hand?

I'll fly in
tonight.

Okay, now I call Mayo.

No, no, no, Danny, look,
you've done good work.

Go home, take a shower...

have a drink.

Call Mayo from Virginia.

Yeah, I don't wanna,
I don't wanna call Mayo.

I wanna talk to him.
I wanna see him.

Uh, Mario, listen.

Mayo's, um...

You know, he lives by himself.

His mother just died.

You see,
he's got nothing but cops.

Mario...

he drinks too much.

This is not a tough cop.

Please let me go see him.

No, Danny, it's not safe.

Jesus!

It's okay.

My primary
responsibility is to you.

And you call him from Virginia.

Danny!

Mayo here.

Bill,
it's Danny.

Hey, Danny, what's up?

Uh, Bill, we gotta talk.

There's nothing to say,
Danny.

You're gonna name me, right?

Right.

Spoke to Joe already.

What about Gus?

Not yet.

It took me all night
just to call you.

How bad is it gonna be, Danny?

Can I help myself?

Oh, yeah, Bill, you can.

Vincente's a human being.

You could talk to him.

- Will you come in?
- I don't know.

Probably.

I hate to, but...

I don't know what else I can do,
do you?

No.

When are you
gonna talk to Gus?

When they say I can. Soon.

He loves you, Danny.

He'll be mad.

You want me to call him?

No, I gotta do it.

Okay.

Listen...

how much did you tell them?

Everything.

Take care.

You too, Bill.

- Yeah?
- Gus, thank God.

We gotta talk.

Ciello?

Yeah.

And the four of you were there?

Subject nods, indicating yes.

Uh...

On that occasion,
we split $7000.

Mr. Vincente,

Detective Mayo
just shot himself.

We have
a possible DOA...

Billy!

Son of a...

I'll talk to him.

I've got someone to talk to.

He's here, Mario. He looks bad.

Jesus, Brooks he's got the
Blomberg appeal next week.

You think he can make it?
Should we postpone?

No.
Why don't we hold off?

I'll call.

I've gotta go see Joe.

Danny?

Danny.

Yeah.

He's as good
as can be expected.

Nobody joins the force
to be a criminal.

- You gotta treat us different.
- I'll meet you there.

When's the last time some
Mafia guy got in trouble

and blew his brains out?

I'll tell you when.
Fucking never.

Only cops. Cops!

Attempt to meet
up with us at...

- Now, hold on.
- Cops.

Danny, what's the address, Dan?

419 Saint George Avenue.

I'll see you there.

Gotta treat us different.

Joe, it's Bill.

He killed himself.

Oh!

So help me God, I'll never get
involved with cops again.

Gus.

Where are your guards?

Outside.

Yeah, what good they
gonna do you out there?

They knew I was coming
to see you.

Oh?

They think I wouldn't hurt you?

I think you wouldn't hurt me.

You think that?

Well, think again.

They're taking you in, Gus.

I just want you to know
I told them everything.

Fuck you, Ciello.

I don't want your confessions
or your guilt about Bill.

He was a drunk, so fuck him
and fuck you.

I'm not coming in.

I ain't pulling a Mayo,
and I ain't pulling a Ciello.

And until they come after me,
I'm going right on with my work.

I got seven Mafiosos on tape.

Six truckers,
couple of union guys

and maybe 16 assorted hoods.

At least 29 indictments.
And you know what?

Not a cop among them.

Tell that to your prick friends.

It was on around May 25th...

Get out of that chair,
or I'll fucking kill you.

I'll fucking kill you.

Joe, don't let these federal
pricks talk you

into anything, man.
You okay? You alright?

There's an interrogation
going on.

We can have you arrested.
What are you nuts?

You keep your fucking
hands off me.

- Get him out of here.
- Danny, stop. Danny!

Hey, hey.

- Are you okay?
- I'm okay. I'm okay.

All of a sudden,
I had this feeling, you know.

I mean I got scared for you.

- You okay?
- Come on, Dan.

I just wanna get out of here.

I wanna tell them
what they wanna know,

and I'm gonna get out.

Hey, Gus.
Did you hear about Gus?

He's gonna stay out.
He's not afraid.

He's terrific.

He's gonna make them prove it,
okay?

Take them to trial.
Listen to this.

If he's convicted, he'll tell
his daughter he was framed.

- That's one mean Jew.
- I'll tell you something.

It's fucking fantastic, man.

Somebody's telling them
to go fuck themselves, you know?

- One of us.
- We were a hell of a unit.

Go on home, Danny.

Get some sleep. Eat something.

- Wanna call my sister?
- No, I'm okay.

- You can stay at her place.
- I'm okay.

I'm okay.

I'm okay.

Don't hate me, Joe.

I could never hate you, Danny.

- Good morning, gentlemen.
- Good morning, sir.

Is everybody here?

Yes, everyone you called
for this meeting, sure.

Good.

Well, let's get down to it.

The decision as to whether
the government will or will not

indict and prosecute
Detective Daniel Ciello

is the responsibility
of this office.

That decision is mine.

However, I will be
guided and persuaded

by what I hear
in the next few days

from you men who know him,

who worked with him,
who worked against him.

I trust you're all familiar
with this remarkable document.

Detective Ciello's confessions.

Three little acts of misconduct
have grown into 84 pages.

A copy of this tome
must be make things

very easy for
Mr. Blomberg's attorney.

It's all there, detective,
in your own words.

Clearly admitted details
of the perjury

you committed 22 months ago

in this same courtroom
before the same judge.

Perjury that caused the
conviction of Michael Blomberg.

I think we're losing sight
of the real problem

which is the corruption
of a narcotics agent.

I want you to see this graph.

It shows the direct
and absolute correlation

of police corruption
to drug traffic.

You cannot have one
without the other.

No matter how you slice it,

Ciello is a corrupt
narcotics agent.

And what this is all about,
finally, is narcotics.

I'm sorry.

Did you take Valium this
morning?

- Yes.
- Only one?

- More than one.
- How many more?

I took three.

It takes three Valium to calm
you down before you testify?

- Objection.
- Sustained.

I cannot believe how eager
you all are

to just forget what he has
accomplished.

The risks he took for us.

And why he did it.

Oh, for God's sake, Rick.

He's your baby, so, okay,

but don't try to
sentimentalize him to me.

And why he did it is
not relevant.

It's damned relevant
to some of us.

He did it because he was
trying to get back.

Look, I think, for most cops

corruption creeps up slowly

almost imperceptibly.

But getting back is something...

that can only be done in one
great big, dangerous leap.

A leap...

that risks...

everything.

If we wipe out this man now...

No cop will ever
come forward again.

If the druggist gives you Valium
without a prescription

does he give you other drugs
without prescription?

- No.
- What about other drugs?

Marijuana.
Do you use marijuana, detective?

- No, I don't use marijuana.
- But you've tried it.

I've tried it.

Cocaine?

I've tried it in order
to recognize the effects.

- Heroin?
- Never.

Uppers?

I've used them on a long
surveillance.

- Hashish?
- Once.

To recognize its effects?

You know, when I became
a prosecuting attorney

I accepted the fact I was
not in a popularity contest.

Now, I think some of you guys
have it all mixed up.

You've fallen in love
with this perpetrator.

You feel responsible for him.

You want him to love you.

But you are prosecutors.

Sworn to prosecute the guilty.

Ciello is a law officer
who has admitted

to over 40 instances of perjury.

Gentlemen, my-my father, my
grandfather was a lawyer,

my father was a lawyer

and I became a lawyer.

Because the law means
everything to me

and if any arm of the law is
corrupt, nothing can work.

Nothing.

I mean, it's as simple as that.

Detective,
I know you're familiar

with the China Blossom Motel.

Could you tell us
what kind of motel it is?

We're prepared to agree
that the China Blossom Motel

for all intents and purposes,
is a brothel.

- And a drug market.
- And a drug market.

Now, once again, detective

weren't you frequently
at the China Blossom Motel

when you were
supposed to be on duty?

Counselor, it was up to
the SIU detectives

themselves to decide...

when they were on duty.

So sometimes...

Quite a lot of times, actually

you decided you were not on duty

and went to
the China Blossom Motel.

Didn't you?

Sometimes.

Our police have a code,
and Ciello was trying

to honor it
and still work with us.

Unless you gentlemen want
to call in the National Guard

to patrol this city and this
country for 14 years

while we pick kids at 7

and train them
to be police at 21

you better understand
and acknowledge that code.

Paige, cops aren't the only
people who have codes.

- Lawyers do and doctors do.
- Right, lawyers and doctors.

And I've never known a lawyer
to risk his life

or his livelihood to expose
the crooks in his profession.

And where's the doctor who ever
exposed Medic-aid fraud?

Or unnecessary or botched
operations?

Or even dope for that matter.

What doctor ever came in?

Dan Ciello came in,

and I don't care why.

To me, Danny Ciello's a hero

when we're meeting now
and trying to decide

whether to put him
in jail or not.

Detective, isn't it true

most female prostitutes
are junkies?

Yes.

Did you use them as informants?

Sometimes.

And you'd supply them
with heroin

as long as they gave
you what you wanted.

No.

Did you ever take them
to the China Blossom Motel?

- Yes.
- For whatever purpose?

Exchange of information.

Did you drive them there?

- Sometimes.
- Would they sit close?

I don't remember.

Do you remember
if you touched them?

No, I don't remember.

Did you ever exchange drugs
for sexual favors?

I object.

I never met Danny Ciello.

But I sat in the Blomberg trial.

I watched and I listened.

In my gut, I knew he was lying.

I knew he was lying.

It's simply not possible

that I was the only
attorney in the room...

who knew that we were just
sitting there,

allowing our witness
to commit perjury.

I know how eager
some of us were.

I know how hungry we were
for Mike Blomberg.

Some of us were very young.

Some of us were...

inexperienced trial lawyers.

Some of us were
just careless, in a hurry.

I know a lot of us believed
that before he actually

took the stand,
he would, he would break.

He would crack, he would tell us
everything and we would fix it.

But that didn't happen.

He got on the stand,

and then he perjured himself.

He was never made
to understand how formidable,

how inexorable
the forces against him were.

Mr. Deluth, I honestly believe
that this man was acting

out of...

fear and...

guilt and... remorse.

He was attempting to carve out
some area of penance

for himself and his life.

And we used him.

The deal he's gotten is rotten.

If Danny Ciello is indicted...

I'll, I'll have
to tender my resignation

for the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Bullshit.

You used that motel as a place
to take female junkies

and perpetrators and sleep
with them, isn't that right?

I mean, if there wasn't
any money to rip off,

and there was a woman you would
rip off the women,

isn't that right?
In the China Blossom Motel--

No, it wasn't like that.

Oh, detective.

- I think it was.
- I object.

This has no relevance whatever.

Mr. Heinsdorff may continue
with his questioning.

Oh, I don't think anything more

needs to be said
on that subject.

- Now, detective--
- I wanna talk about the China--

I am no longer interested in
that squalid place

of assignation between
corrupt policemen

and their female victims.

Oh, just one other thing.

Did your wife know?

Heinsdorff was really
rough on him.

I don't know how he held up.

Yeah, decision
comes down tomorrow.

- Yours too?
- Mm-hmm.

Both on the same day.
Do you believe it?

Jesus.

Gentlemen, I want to thank each
one of you for your testimony.

I have seldom been party
to a decision

in which prosecutors' passions
have run so high.

I thank you for those passions
on both sides.

The government declines
to prosecute Detective Ciello.

And I find the
additional testimony

of Lieutenant Ciello
as to his own misdeeds...

collateral, apart from
the central issue.

The conviction
of Michael Blomberg stands.

I wanna introduce a new
instructor to you here today.

Now, this officer has 11 years
of detective experience.

And he's an expert
on surveillance techniques.

They're all yours.

Okay, uh...

first thing
I wanna talk about today

is block squaring
and leapfrogging.

Oh, yeah, my name
is Detective Ciello.

Now, whenever we get a
positive make on a car,

and we know it's dirty,

we don't wanna take any chances.

Yeah? Uh, I'm sorry,
I don't know any names yet.

I'm Detective Stern.

What did you say your name was?

Ciello.

Are you the Detective Ciello?

I'm Detective Ciello.

I don't think I have anything
to learn from you.