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I cut your throat.

You know who Vittoria Clardy is?

Your basic godfather, right? I want to see what kind of person shoots nuns in

church.

Stefanovich, kill him. The princess was packing close to a quarter of a million

dollars in jewels.

I say, I like it better when you are charming.

I think I like you better when you're telling the truth. We will see who dies,

old woman.

Get a doctor, you candle -lighter, hurry! Next on Kojak.

Peter Mollinger, I haven't asked nothing of you in all of these years.

Yes, of course he has license.

All right.

Look, I come all the way from Detroit, a personal favor, to blow up a couple of

immigrants.

You never said one immigrants?

You never said the dame was one of them nuns?

Sure I recognize her.

Not the first time, but when I seen her.

That was a long time ago.

I know I owe you everything, but... Okay.

Okay.

Yes, today.

But this pays us off, once and for all.

Get a doctor! You came the way to hurry!

Are you

police? All right, Crocker, see if you can help the sister.

There'll be an ambulance coming any minute here. We'll just direct them back

here. They can help.

Would you come on and help this lady, please?

All right, well, shut up. Come on and sit down.

Got a pulse?

Sort of.

Well, you're treated like a death scene area anyway, okay? I don't want it all

ripped up before Forensic gets here.

You, over here!

No, no, Mr.

Stefanovic, I'm not that badly injured. It's all right.

Lieutenant, this is Sister Lipa, Angelica, and Toza. What is it?

Stefanovic. Look.

I think she was hit by a ricochet. I found this under her foot.

Get on the horn. I want a full homicide squad here right away. Go ahead.

Yes, sister, we're going to have to know what happened.

This one.

Well, we... This one, this man over here, he tried to kill her and in a holy

place. Hey, wounded nuns first and gorillas second.

This man with you, sister?

Yes, he's my friend.

We were just admiring Madonna when the man came at us with a gun.

Mr. Stefanovich tried to fight him, but I got hit by a bullet, apparently.

Forgive me. It was a very, very great impact. I still feel a little

Well, we'll talk about it later, right, sister?

There's a wound on her right leg here, a gunshot wound, okay? Take it easy with

her. How are you?

Come on over here and tell me what happened and who this guy is who tried

kill you. I don't know.

A crazy man.

But I show him what it is to fight the Lion of Lovie.

One of the officers found a gun in the grass.

Sure, I did that.

Fast, huh?

But of course, I'm as quick as a 20 -year -old boy. He didn't have a chance.

Hey, hey, be careful. Where do you go with her? To the hospital. You'll see

later. First, there's some questions.

No, the questions you ask later. Now I go with the sister.

Come here.

Looks like he's going to rip up this joint no matter what we try to do.

Dispenza, I talked to the priest as far as he could find out it happened pretty

much like he said that the other guy was you selling.

He means Father Moiso.

I'm just a visitor. I got here just before you did.

Okay, let him ride with his sister. Get two patrolmen, though, to go with him.

We can question him at the hospital.

You, you're excused.

Go on.

Okay.

Ladies.

You know, we have to find out what happened here.

Well, I can't help you that much. When I came out, it was fifth city.

Sister was already down.

We were at prayer.

We saw nothing.

Now, wait a minute.

Mrs. Boro.

You said that man tried to shoot them.

Big man saved the nun.

A hero, you said.

Now, Padre, don't get excited, okay?

It's obvious that Mrs. Colletti over here had something to say to her. Isn't

that right, Mama?

You know her.

Well, I know her son. You know I paid a couple of professional visits.

And every time I do, there's Mrs. Colletti showing me that lovely old

way. Isn't that right, Mama?

You would not make such jokes.

When my son hears what happened in his church this morning... Mrs. Colletti,

this is God's church.

You are not one of us, priest.

Even if you have the Italian name.

Very few Italians are.

And I give thanks for that every day.

Amen, baby.

Here.

His first aid training paid off.

Lieutenant, I couldn't find an ID on that guy.

Just $1 ,500 in cash.

He's stable enough now to get to the hospital.

Thanks to you, too. He's still breathing.

Look, see if you can't get more of the name, address, serial number from these

two, huh?

Thanks a lot.

The O'Meara gang.

Oh, that code of silence is no game to them, man. I grew up in this

neighborhood. They mean it.

Yeah, what happened outside isn't exactly a croquet match.

You know who Vittorio Clardy is?

Don Vittorio? Your basic godfather, right?

You know, the skinny little old lady?

It's his mother.

Coletti's involved in this? Terrific.

Well, if he isn't, he's gonna be.

You see this church here?

They figure those Colettis that this is their private pipeline to the big capo

in the sky.

Look at all that guilt.

Most of it from poor, simple people. You know, make their devotion.

But the real heavy stuff in the priesthood, 99 % of it comes from the

You think he'll start some kind of vendetta?

I don't know, but we better move fast, eh, Crocker?

You know what a vendetta is?

That's where a lot of people kill a lot of people for years and years and years

and years and like that.

Is this all the days of your funeral home?

Oh, good.

Send her to Bellevue Hospital.

At once.

Yes.

As soon as the doctors let you, you go in there and take his prints, okay? And

while you're at it, your check is closed. That suit's got to be worth

You see those alligator shoes?

They didn't exactly come from national shoe stores.

Clothes, money in his pocket, silencer on the gun. I think this guy's a pro.

while you're at it, you could ask yourself this. What kind of a nut takes

armed pro and then makes knockwist out of him? Another pro.

Raise the bed top to here.

This must go. I tell them private room. One day. Yes?

Oh, that's the father, bitch.

I mean, you're going to keep this up. I'm going to put the cuffs on you and

you upstairs to the launch pad.

You think you can do it?

Uh -huh.

Why don't you go outside and wait?

Maybe you can do it.

This time, I choose to go.

I understand that they're going to keep you overnight for observation.

I will hobble for some time, nothing more.

What is it, Mr.? Lieutenant Kojak.

Why do you look so oddly at me?

It's like looking at Santa Claus without this little red suit.

And I was expecting a hairdo similar to my own.

We have become much more modern, you know, in our order.

Yeah.

The father tells me he never heard of your order.

And as a matter of fact, never heard of you either.

Now you're becoming policemen.

Yes?

I belong to the order of the Sisters of the White Garden.

Our convent is near Albany, you know. I'm afraid it's very, very small.

I'm here in New York to use your library.

Tosa came to keep me from being trampled in the street.

Such crowds.

In what free time we have, we visit the churches.

Oh, I wish I could believe you, sister.

Is what happened so unusual?

Are nuns immune from robbers in your city?

Oh, no, he's no robber, and you should know that, sister, after all your

experiences during the war. No, he's a pro, like your Lion of Levine out there.

I don't know who that man is and why he attacked us.

I say, I like him better when you are charming.

I think I like you better when you're telling the truth.

Excuse me, Lieutenant.

Detective Crocker says you better get down to the emergency room right away.

Vittorio Colletti is here with a couple of his boys.

You excuse me, sister. I'll be back.

We have a lot to talk about.

Lieutenant, this camera was found among the hitman's effects.

Just doesn't figure he'd have a camera and a gun. I thought maybe it belongs to

his sister. All right, go find out before we develop the film. I hear

around. I'm trying to get rid of him, but he's got more muscle around here

we do.

Well, that's because he pays his bills.

Yeah.

Dr. Goldberg, Dr.

Goldberg, please call 10 -9 -5 -5.

Senor Coletti, Kumba.

Dr. Paul Caldero, please call 10 -9 -5 -5.

Dr. Marks, Dr.

Marks. You know something, Vittorio?

When I get so much sickness and death in my job, I don't have to come to

hospitals.

This is personal, Kojak, not business.

I want to see what kind of person shoots nuns in my church.

Oh, you'll see him.

And then you'll know who he is and you'll tell us, like the good citizen

are. Right, Vittorio? Kojak, my wife goes to St.

Columba. My daughters were married there.

Twice a day, my mother goes to pray.

Today, guns were shot.

She was badly frightened.

Somebody broke the rules.

Vittorio, I know your mama.

She's the closest thing to a consigliere you got. She wouldn't be frightened by

the Gulag archipelago.

Excuse me, Lieutenant.

Oh, um, hold it.

They're taking him in the operating room now. They say if he wakes up, he'll be

lucky to count his fingers or his toes.

Yeah, it's always shocking to see someone you know in a hospital.

So what do you say, Vittoria?

Come on.

You know what it's going to cost the taxpayer?

I mean, for fingerprints and for dental work and like that?

I never saw him before.

Let's go.

Dr.

Kalin. Dr.

Kalin. Want me to get him back?

No, it's not going to do any good.

He knows something we don't. He's got a head start.

Lieutenant, that nun, that Stefanovich guy, they're gone.

Call security.

Seal this place down.

The uniform guys already did, and security's doing a floor -to -floor

now. I mean, you know how big this joint is? They could be raising goats here

for a year before anybody would find them.

How much longer, Tosa?

You don't know what odd feeling this is. Very soon now.

Oh, they do. You are crazy. Shh.

They don't speak.

Is this the step for the old days of ill funeral home?

Huh. The hearse is downstairs.

Let's get it sacked up and do the paperwork.

Lieutenant, I swear I never moved from the door.

They went out the window on that blanket.

Six foot of blanket?

How about the other fourth of your floor? So maybe you think she's the

nun. But they couldn't get out any other way.

Oh, yeah?

Well, they didn't get out any other way, ding -dong.

Yeah.

They hid in the closet there until you went and called the cavalry, and then

they walked out the front door.

Uh. Doctor, ma 'am.

Doctor, ma 'am, you're one down.

Please, one.

Follow me.

Thank you.

Samperstein. Yeah. Check with Immigration. I want Dorsat Stefanovic.

Yugoslav.

Don't follow me. Just go down to identification.

And stay in that face until they give you a rundown on those fingerprints.

How do you spell it? All right, Crocker. Sisters of the White Garden.

Lepa Angelica. Someplace up in Albany, someplace.

Capital T -O -Z -A.

Capital F -T -E -F -A -N -O -V -I -C. Do I have to spell Yugoslavia for you? No,

sir, I can say that.

So? So, uh, Crocker, as soon as Stavros comes with those photos from the lab,

you bring them to my office.

So, so, so, so, don't ask.

So don't ask, huh?

You have the mob on your back? I have every church organization in the

department on mine.

If you put them together, they might make a day time.

So what happened at the hospital?

Well, Zorba, the Yugoslavian, he faked out the cops. He called the hearse. He

got the nun away as a corpse.

He rode along dressed up in O .R. Greaves and a mask yet.

Driver didn't get suspicious?

Stavanovich said the body was contaminated, which scared the hell out

And there was nothing to the nun sitting up ten blocks later saying she was

hungry.

Oh, it's inventive.

Stavros would have said bizarre.

And this whole thing is bizarre from Conletti's mum on down.

Captain, Lieutenant, the sisters of the White Garden were from Yugoslavia, all

right. I spoke to the Mother Superior, and she said there was a long, long

story, but there was a man named Stavanovich that helped them get away

communists. They got to Sicily, and that's where Sister Lepa Angelica was

killed.

Hey, he didn't come to this country till after the war.

All right, check his yellow sheet and also the crime commission, okay?

See what ancient history you can come up with on it. You got it.

You know something?

I think we'd better hear all of that long, long, long story.

Well, if I leave now, I can make Albany and still be back tomorrow.

Get out of the tent.

Saperstein. Yeah.

She may be a great nun impersonator, but she's a lousy photographer.

I'm going to go turn on the print dryer.

Yeah. Look at those shadows.

That's the nun that must be Stepanovich, aren't the other guy?

Which is if he's talking to this other shadow.

I wonder if it knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.

I don't know, but his checker play is who I think he is. We're going to find

out. All right, you get immigration?

Yeah, they're on the line now.

S -T -E -F -A -N -O -V -I -C. He entered the country in 1949, was naturalized in

1960, therefore he doesn't have to report his correct address anymore, and

they're checking on him right now.

I want to have him check on Vittorio Colletti. Let's see what they got on his

mother. You got it.

Stavanovich didn't borrow a name like the nun did. We should be able to find

him. Either way, we'd better do it before Colletti does.

All right. See you in the morning.

I have returned Peter's van.

I'm surprised it wasn't impounded.

You can be very happy he did not call the police. He checked it all over for

dance. My God, does the boy believe I've never driven?

Oh, he has a father's suspicion.

How could he? The Duke died when he was four.

That is in the blood.

Ah, your father, he was a very proper man.

I just think he was discreet.

Now, blood or not, I knew Peter would never consent to a second borrowing of

van, so...

I had this man.

Second borrowing?

You want to do it all over again?

Tosa, this is impossible.

The police knows your name now.

And Coletti.

Even if Coletti has guessed our plan, he could never dream we would repeat it.

And by the time the police catch up with me, it'll be all over, yeah?

No, Tosa, no.

There are too many risks.

No. Tosi, sir.

Tosi, does it mean so much to you anymore?

Today I felt like a man of loving again.

A young man.

The blood ran fast in my veins. You too, I think.

Oh, yes, it was exciting, but... You don't have to prove to me what man you

Madame, I am your servant.

What I do is not just for you.

Not for fast blood or even for money.

is for the past, for tradition, for the things that should be remembered.

Even if no one cares?

Even then.

Thoughts.

My father was a wise man when he gave you to me.

You were a child.

You needed me.

Oh, Cracker, I want you to meet Marlo T. Kazwick.

He's been an undergraduate student now, uh, how many years?

Next quarter, it'll be 15 years.

Every three years, he changes his major. Not that he's stupid, oh, no, no, no.

Beneath that curly mop of hair lies an IQ of 180.

And he claims to have a photographic memory.

Lames. Oh, come on, no one's got perfect recall.

Want a bet?

For $10. All right.

Who's with the nun today?

There were three nuns today.

The one with the camera?

Ah, you mean the fake nun.

Wait a minute. How'd you know she was a fake nun?

That's another question. You put that in the form of a bet and I'll tell you.

It's a sucker bet. Lay off.

I'm waiting, Marlowe.

For ten dollars.

The fake nun was with two men.

One was a big man with gray hair, gray mustache.

And from the way he walked, I'd say he was a soldier from the old school.

White Russian, maybe, or... Montenegrin.

Ah, fierce people.

They have a history that goes back thousands and thousands of years. I only

a $10 worth, okay?

The other man, please.

Male, Caucasian, 26 or so.

Leotards and sneakers, a dancer, of course.

From the development of the ductor magnus muscle, I'd say a classical

I guess you win.

One look for another $5, I bet you can't tell me where I can find them.

Let's see.

Fresh sweat stains.

jacket on to keep his muscles warm.

So, uh, he must have been rehearsing somewhere close by.

They're doing an experimental ballet at Cooper Union.

It's very avant -garde.

Uh -huh. Look, Marlowe, she never decided to graduate.

Do me a favor. Why don't you come on to the cops, all right? Uh, shantay,

whatever that means.

How did you know she was a fake nun?

I mean, I bet you five you can't tell me.

I guess.

How often do cops go looking for a real nun?

Cover your six point.

Police.

Oh, my God. I knew it. I knew.

What is it?

Hit and run.

That's it.

Good Lord. Some poor child in the street.

Oh, I knew something would happen the minute I saw the princess in that nun's

costume.

Oh, sometimes I wish I weren't so psychic.

Yes, at least we know we're talking the right dancer.

Uh, what's this about a princess, Duke?

Well, I lent her my van.

Or rather, Stefanovich.

Flex the foot, child.

Who told you to call me Duke?

Uh, your, uh, manager?

He said your name is, uh, Duke the Shark.

Oh, he just liked to say that because it sounds so macho.

It's not a name. It's a title.

My name is Peter.

I won't use my title until I have my own ballet.

Ah.

And how about the nun? Princess, is that her title, too?

Of course. She's my aunt. The Princess Vita Salva Duchamp.

Now, please tell me what they've done.

Did they give you a reason for borrowing your van?

Well, they said they were going to a masquerade on Long Island, but they

When they brought the car back, I checked the odometer, and they'd been

for hours, and they hadn't driven a mile.

Maybe we ought to look at your van.

You're not impounding it.

I hope not, Peter.

Of course. Now, I wasn't even born until years after the war.

And my father didn't get along very well with the princess, so I really know

very little about her.

I'm sorry. I do want to cooperate.

Look, is she married to Stefanovic or what?

Oh, certainly not married. No, he's from a lower class.

Still, they might be lovers.

Toza does have a kind of bravura, if you're into brutes. Yeah, we were told

Stefanovic and the princess, they escaped from Italy.

And that they're currently involved with a man named, uh,

Carletti. I can't say.

I do know, though, that everything was lost in Italy.

I mean, those stormtroopers in their big black boots.

Why, they just came in and took it.

And pray tell, what was it those stormtroopers with their big black boots

Why, the family jewels. My God, the family fortune.

Why do you think my father forbade her name in the house?

Now, you won't have a lot of grubby investigators climbing all over the van,

will you? I spent absolutely tons of money on it. Why, the draperies alone.

Your son has taken what is precious to the Princess Vilosava.

I regret to inconvenience you, but to get it back, I must take what is

to your son.

You are a dead man, sir.

We will see who dies, old woman.

No sign of them yet? Well, since they lifted the dancer's van, there's an

out it.

Can't be a lot of bands around with a pas de deux from Firebird Ballet painted

on the side. The question is, what do they want it for?

Well, they took it to the church last time.

I sent Krakow over there to take a look around, but I was hoping that those

sisters of the White Garden, that it would help with their long, long story.

They did.

At least they tied Coletti into it.

After they reached Sicily, they hid out in Colletti's village, which was a big

resistance center against the Germans before the Allies invaded.

Yeah, well, I had a feeling that Sicily would be the best part of the story.

The whole thing is a saga, with Stevanovich right in the middle of it.

Jumping out of trees, charming ladies, bumping off the bad guys. It's like an

old Daryl Flynn movie.

Well, he had a princess to impress.

Oh, no.

Now, sisters never mention the princess.

And when I heard about her, I checked back with him just to make sure.

She wasn't there. Just the nuns. Well, maybe yesterday wasn't the first time

wore a habit.

Well, maybe.

They did say a novice disappeared shortly after everything blew up in

Sister Lepa Angelica was killed that day and a lot of the others.

Somebody in that village betrayed it.

So the SS troops just goose -stepped right in.

Yeah, with their big black boots. I heard about it. And that was the day the

princess of jewels disappeared.

And the novice disappeared.

You think that's why the village was betrayed?

Well, according to her nephew, the princess was packing close to a quarter

million dollars in jewels.

You know, a lot of people have been sold out for a lot less than that.

Well, I wouldn't want to be the seller.

A lot of the big mob families had relatives and friends massacred in that

Excuse me, Captain, but the lieutenant wanted to see this yellow sheet on this

guy's sample.

Boy, looks like an old -time button man.

Eleven arrests, four for murder.

No convictions.

Moved to Detroit in 59.

Look, Detroit police might have a file on this, okay?

Okay.

Here.

Hey, Theo.

Ray Sappo was born in Coletti's village.

Lieutenant! There's a call for you on line two. It's Crocker.

Yeah, I'm looking out.

Slow down.

Something's happening at the church.

I tried to get a statement.

I know it won't do any good, but stay in touch.

Okay.

Mama Coletti's friend, you know the fat one?

Was out in the garden screaming again.

And when she calmed down, she called Coletti. She wouldn't talk to Crocker or

the priest.

Father Moistner says Mama was out there with her just before it started.

When he went to look, Mama was gone.

And the flashy van with the partner in her was tearing out.

Terrific, huh?

Well, scaring Coletti's mother is one thing. Putting the grab on her.

At least we know what the van was for.

I think I'd better go speak to Coletti myself.

Did you reach him?

Oh, yes. This time the great bandit comes to the phone at once. No

no mother. So, by the way... What did he say?

He offered us money.

We have his mother, and still he bargains.

You hear that, old woman?

Your son bargains for you.

I have told you, my son knows nothing of this.

Then you are in very grave danger, senora.

Because if your son doesn't have the jewels in two hours, I cut your throat.

I heard your mother was kidnapped this afternoon.

I thought you came to tell me she was dead.

Okay. Okay, the phone rings.

Tozer, Stefanovic, of all people.

You know?

When I was a young man, during the war, he was one of those daredevils.

Crazy. He smuggled a convent of nuns out of Yugoslavia.

Then he joined our resistance group.

He was a hell of a guy.

As long as he's on your side.

What do you want on the phone?

Well, that my mother was a hostage.

And that if I didn't come up with the jewels in two hours, he'd kill her.

I told him I didn't know anything about jewels.

Or that I'd give him money. Anything.

He left.

You must be pretty sure you got him.

I don't know what he's talking about.

Dario.

Your buddy Ray Sapo tried to kill him in a church yard, remember?

Ray Sapo, he's from your village.

The jewels.

Stolen from your village.

And the day the jewels were stolen, there was a betrayal to the Germans and

village went down the tube.

You think I would betray my own people?

No.

That's one rule I don't think you'd break. Hey, but he thinks so.

So you're between the devil and the deep blue sea.

If you come up with the jewels, you'd be admitting to a betrayal.

And if you don't, your old lady gets it.

You know something, loser?

You're a loser either way.

I mean no disrespect, madame, but even your nephew's wine runs to the dramatic.

But you must admit it's very good year.

Very old.

The vintage of a certain age is always more desirable.

If it doesn't turn into vinegar.

Mr. Stefanovic, the two hours are up.

It's time to call the bandit.

I have told you before, my son knows nothing of this.

Then who's going to gun men to kill us?

Not him.

God protects what is his.

Oh, I forgot. We are speaking to a great friend of the Almighty.

She prays twice a day that her son should not be arrested.

Do you really think that God protects those who steal and betray their friends

to the Nazis?

Vittorio did not do that.

He did not even know that...

I know where the jewels are.

Talked with her for over an hour. It's like talking to a mattress. She didn't

see a kidnapping.

She didn't even see the band. Nothing.

How'd you make out with Coletti?

History denials.

But one thing is for sure.

If he finds Stavanovich and the princess before we do, there'll be a lot of dead

people around.

He could be all the way out of town by now.

No, I don't think so.

He always shows up in the strangest places, you know, hospital closets.

He went back to the church.

Where's Stefanovich?

I have seen no one.

Be protected, lady.

You've just been kidnapped.

I am not kidnapped.

Call me boss.

Your little boy, Vittorio, had you sprung, Mama.

But you're not out of it. You still have to testify before the grand jury.

As for you, Coletti, you are out of it, period.

Sure, Lieutenant.

Anything you say.

Only in America they lock your house.

Excuse me, Lieutenant.

Coletti just left his house at Krakow. He sat there staying at Telna.

I guess it's time to talk to Her Majesty again.

Stavros, could I have a little pillow for my back, please?

Of course, Your Highness.

Thank you. Yes, Your Highness.

You know, you've been holding court here for hours.

You know, enough already.

Now, you know, a lot of people are looking for you, Fred, and the odds are

he'll be found soon. Now, if we find him, well, he won't get killed.

But if Coletti does...

But Toza cannot be killed. You don't know what kind of a man he is.

Princess, all that was 35 years ago. He was a soldier then.

He's not equipped now to fight off Coletti's mob. Let me ask you something.

Are the Jews that important that you'd risk losing him?

No, to me, no. No, no.

But to him, they mean everything. You mean he's been looking 30 years?

No, not all the time. Life go on. But Toza never forgot.

Never forgive himself.

I have a pillow for you, honey. Thank you very much. You are very kind.

And then, you see, one day there, a few weeks ago, there was a photographia in

the paper. It was the wedding of Vittorio Colletti's daughter. Now, the

was wearing a pendant that was in my family since the time of Justinian.

And then you went to the church.

No, not at the beginning.

Tosa recognized Vittorio Coletti in the photography in the paper. So he went to

his house and the mother was nice and was talking and very, very pleasant, you

know, doctor. But the don would not even see him.

So we went to the church.

It was to talk to the mother again.

And then let's say she was reluctant.

There was always the van waiting in the alley.

No, I do not admit to that. No, no, no. But what could we do?

Go to the court. Go to the police.

Who? Who would help us?

No.

It was for us to do.

For Toza, a matter of honor.

You understand that?

You are a man of honor yourself.

Lieutenant.

The operator's over, Princess.

Coletti, he just ducked past our surveillance.

Now, if we went to that much trouble, it's as if she's going to know where

Stefanovich is and he's going to kill him.

Now, you can help, but you've got to do it now.

He went to get the jewels.

But this is all I know.

Where?

I don't know.

You know, something the old woman said in... Thought that...

clapped his head and he laughed and he laughed and he laughed. What did she

She said something about her son and God and that God will always protect what

is his.

Stefanovic, you're too old for this.

Find him.

Kill him before somebody comes. Go!

Kill him.

Now.

He was

robbing the church.

I'm not the robber here. Shut up, both of you.

This betrayer, this coward, killer of nuns. Shut up.

He hasn't betrayed anybody. He hasn't killed any nuns. So who sends the hitman

to kill us, huh?

Mama, are you going to tell him or am I?

What are you saying?

What is this?

Yeah, Stefanovich went to see about the jewels.

And he saw your mama, right?

Your mother said you wouldn't see me.

Yeah, and then she called Ray Saffo in Detroit.

Well, that's crazy.

Yeah, sure.

You, your mother, huh?

Ray, they're all from the same village, you know, tight -lipped.

How else could she keep you from finding out?

Oh, tell him it's not true. Tell him you would have no reason.

Oh, she's got a reason.

The jewels.

She took them from the princess and betrayed your village.

My God, man, what are you saying?

Come on, don't tell me you didn't have a clue. I mean, there you are, a little

shepherd boy in the old country yelling wolf.

Immigration says your mother entered the country with 68 ,000 in cash, a carload

of furniture, religious items.

So how come a sheepherd's mother can come up with that kind of scratch?

That stuff...

We inherited it from my grandfather.

He fought with Garibaldi. You can check it out.

Stavros!

We'll check it out right now.

It's all right. It's all right.

So many trouble for these ancient stones. We have documenta, fotografia,

testimonia, if you wish.

The Dushan jewels have been very well known at one time.

Like the Dushan family.

So what does it prove?

Who would believe that the mother of Vittorio Colette...

Four

sons I had.

They are little.

When their father is killed, vendetta.

So the men from the village come.

They teach the little boys.

Our way.

Our code.

How to hate.

Who to hate.

Among my people, the woman will do as she is told.

I am a young girl.

Nineteen. So they teach them.

And one by one, my sons die.

Vendetta.

Polizia.

War.

And I learn how to hate.

Mama.

You know what I learn?

I learn.

To hate is not enough to protect you.

Power.

Protection.

Money.

Protection.

The agent is right, you know.

Where does the mother of a shepherd get such things?

I will tell you where.

From God.

bargainer and I bargain with him for you

I say to him I give you me

but you give him power

and he sent the nuns

with the jewels but he give to me the greatest gift of

all

He showed me how to pay back the village for my dead son.

Yeah, I think we better take these people downtown.

I expect the moment.

Nobody's going to believe I didn't know about this.

Hey, I believe it. I mean, your friends may not believe it, but I believe it.

Your rules, baby, not mine.

Now that you know the truth of it, you see there is no need to keep us.

Well, you know what I see, princess?

I see a bunch of fools.

A bunch of fools who don't know that this is New York City, USA, the Big

baby. Huh?

Not some European village. Not some remote kingdom all by itself.

And you ain't no fairy princess?

That he sure the hell isn't Robin Hood.

Yeah. Perhaps we were foolish.

But then this is no reason to arrest us.

Oh, we can arrest you, all right.

Burglary. Possession of burglar's tools.

Grand theft auto.

Flight from lawful arrest, aiding and abetting, and, uh...

It's just another little knick -knack. It's called interfering.

And boy, do you qualify for that.

I do this to you.

It doesn't matter.

We are a lawyer.

We have rights.

You have a right to a lawyer.

Lawyer.

We are together.

Always together.

My dear, you were wonderful.

Thank you.