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Come on in, Mr. F.B.I., wizard.

Baretta, did you take one of my prune juices?

What?

One of my prune juices is missing.

I don't care what's missing.

This place smells like a pigsty.

I told you to keep your stuff on your side of the room.

You know, you look terrible.

Thanks a lot for telling me.

Terrible.

Did you take that elixir I gave you?

I couldn't take that stuff.

It made me barf all night, you dummy.

Look, scientific studies have shown that if you

take that elixir at intervals of every two hours...

Will you shut up with the scientific elixirs and trot on

that broom and go pick up the junk and watch the store?

You need a rest. You need some rest.

Why don't you go home and have a nice little rest?

I'm gonna take a rest when we make this collar.

Six months.

All right.

I'll hit you on the beeper if I need you.

All right. Hit me on the beeper.

By the way, what did you do with your other beeper?

What?

The supply sergeant wants to know what you did with the other beeper.

I don't know.

I lost it someplace.

I can't even see no more.

I think he threw it out with the garbage or something.

Look for it.

Hey, look what your bird did to the equipment.

Will you take that thing with you?

Come on, Fred.

What did you do?

Did you take Foley's green juice?

You're sick, tough guy.

Hey, how are you feeling, Baretta?

If I want you 100%, how is he, Doc?

He's sick, but Italians work better when they're sick.

Don't you breathe on me.

You've got enough trouble already.

You've got one murder here.

When a guy like Nicholas pulls a jewel, somebody double-crosses him and runs off

with his goods, you know you're gonna get another murder, right?

Well, what do you think me and Foley are staking this guy pretty boy out for?

He was involved in the double-cross.

What's that?

That's Foley. I gotta call him back.

Don't you breathe on me.

All we gotta do is sit tight.

We follow this guy, pretty boy.

He's gonna lead us to the diamonds.

Then you're gonna get yourself a murderer.

You're not going anywhere, Baretta, till the doctor gives you a clean bill of health.

Go ahead, Doc.

I'm cool. Ain't I, Doc?

Wait a minute. What's that thing?

It's only antibiotics.

I don't need none of that.

What are you doing?

Take your medicine like a big boy.

I gotta go to work.

No, you're not gonna go to work.

You're gonna have to get yourself...

Oh, that's Howard.

I'm a tough guy.

You're a tough guy, right?

Baretta, we're just in time.

Pretty Boy got a phone call.

He's supposed to be there in an hour.

He left the apartment.

He should be coming down the steps any minute.

Let me see him.

You're right.

Here he comes.

Call Brubaker. Tell him I'm gonna follow Pretty Boy.

What's going on?

Sonny's making collections.

Pretty Boy won't come out.

He's going back inside.

Sonny, get out of there.

You broke the binoculars.

What are you gonna do about them?

You broke the binoculars.

The supply side is gonna put them on his list.

Yeah.

He's gonna put your jaw on his list because I'm gonna break that next.

Sinking.

Abandon ship, everybody.

I'm croaking.

All right.

I'm coming.

I'm coming.

Detective Breda?

I am Solomon Goldfarb.

Should you not mind, I'd like to talk with you.

Excuse me.

Come on in.

Are you Arabian?

No, I'm Italian.

I mean, I'm sick.

Excuse me just a minute here.

I gotta...

I'm trying to get this cough out of my chest.

It's important.

Yes, certainly.

Sit down here.

Come on.

Excuse me, I'm gonna keep cooking here, all right?

I have been in this city three...

I have been in this city three months.

I have shopped two streets over.

Oh, yeah.

You're the new jeweler.

No, the watch guy.

I've seen you over there, yeah.

I've been told I must join...

the East Side Benevolent Association.

And that I must pay $20 every week.

I ask other people, and they say, yes, that I must pay.

Is this a law of disassociation?

No.

No, Mr. Solomon, this is not a law.

Mr. Goldfarb.

Solomon?

Psalm.

Call you Solomon.

No, it's not a law.

It's...

It's what you'll call the lesser of two evils.

If it's not a law, then I must not pay, no?

You haven't been in this country a long time, have you?

Well, some things...

like these... bad men that you pay... they keep the badder men away.

It doesn't make it right.

It's always been that way when I was a little boy in this neighborhood...

why the garbage truck wouldn't come down the street...

because the man was afraid to drive.

And if there was a fire, the building would burn down.

The firemen were afraid to come to the neighborhood.

People would hit each other over the head for a nickel.

And now...

there is protection. It...

It isn't right.

But I don't know what is right, Mr. Solomon.

Solomon.

It's the way it is.

And everybody in the neighborhood pays...

to keep the neighborhood safe.

I'm a policeman.

I know that sounds silly, doesn't it?

You must take care of your health, number one.

Number one important.

If you come to my shop... I got special something that would cure.

I got a lot of junk here.

I guess I'll try something else.

You said take care of your health, Mr. Solomon.

That's very important.

I guess that's why everybody pays.

They take care of their health.

They take care of the health of the neighborhood.

I know it's difficult to understand, isn't it?

Excuse me.

Hello.

Oh, yeah, Foley.

All right. Okay.

No, I don't need the address, you dummy.

I've been staking them out for six months.

Don't do nothing.

Just sit there.

I'm on my way.

Okay.

Mr. Solomon, there's a case... that I've been working on for about six months.

It's very important that I go.

I'm sorry.

I don't feel like I gave you a good answer.

I'm not sure there is a good answer, but I'd like to talk to you more about it.

You stay here in my house, drink some tea, eat, whatever you like.

And as soon as I get a chance, I'll drop by your shop.

We'll have a little drink, and we'll try to understand each other.

Excuse me. I've got to go.

This was a wise decision, Mr. Goldfarb.

Now, being a member of our association, you're

entitled to all the benefits there, too.

All our members get a pen when they join the association.

And this card has our phone number on it, so if you should ever need us,

don't hesitate to call.

Welcome to the East Side Benevolent Association.

And don't lose the card.

They cost a lot of bucks.

Come on, fish. Let's go.

We're gonna be late.

Out of sight.

No wonder no one found it.

Yeah.

My mechanic's a genius.

Hey, where's Moran?

He said he'd be here by now.

Hey, man, relax.

Everything's cool.

Moran'll be here.

Yeah, he's been waiting a long time to get his hands on that ice.

It's his big chance to make a name for himself.

Boy, that's genius.

That's really genius.

Sorry we're late, gentlemen.

We had some business to take care of in the neighborhood.

Is this the merchandise?

It's a winter wonderland, Mr. Moran.

Hey, Jackie, how's the family?

Hey, baby, you know, crazy as ever.

All the best.

Shine a little more direct.

You think I'd rip off Nicholas' courier for phony ice?

Well, it just pays to check.

Yeah, this is authentic.

You do nice work, pretty boy.

Nice work.

Welcome.

Later, man. - Sure, Boris.

Oh, you had to do it your way?

It's not my fads in the fire.

You know what that is?

That six months of undercover work down the drain.

You got any idea what six months of undercover work costs?

The man is not 100%.

He makes mistakes.

You made mistakes.

Boss, I did not make a mistake.

I had one little sneezing fit because I had a cold, which I no longer have.

And beside that, the man did not disappear.

He didn't have wings.

He's on that street someplace.

And I will find him.

You know there's one sneezing fit too many.

I'm going to tell you something.

You're not going to go out there and find him.

You're going to go home, and you're going to go to bed because you're on sick leave.

And you're going to stay there until you show your doctor's report.

You're 100%.

Don't you breathe on it.

Get up. Get out of here.

Get out of my office.

Don't breathe on it.

I'll get you your cough drops.

Get out of here.

Go!

I came by, like I promised I would, to talk to you about your problems with

benevolent society and help you make up your mind what's the best thing to do.

I paid.

I do not like, but my papa would have said, A

shlechtly shalom is better than a good Greek.

Yeah.

What?

A bad peace is better than a good war.

Oh. Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I don't have the answer.

You don't have the answer.

Maybe the old folks are right.

Bad peace, maybe.

There's a pin in your head?

Huh?

There's a pin in the head.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I got my hat on inside out.

When you got a bad cold, you got to keep your ears warm.

My mother said you keep your ears warm when you catch the cold.

Come inside.

Huh?

You need help? I got the medicine.

The remedy, right?

You told me...

Make comfortable and I'll find it.

Oh, boy.

Thank you very much.

I've been trying all of my mother's remedies, all of my father's remedies.

I put the garlic around my neck in a bag.

Billy's got a remedy where you just eat all day and all night for 24 hours.

That bottle looks kind of old over there.

It's special.

Yeah, you ain't been out for a while, huh?

That's a Russian remedy.

It looks like you're lighting the thing up there.

Wait one minute.

Well, that's on fire.

Mr. Solomon.

No, you must take.

This is cure your help.

I must take, huh?

Yes, sir.

Only your head will ring like the great Bella Kiev for a while.

Right.

My life is in your hands, Mr. Solomon.

How about... A brave man's remedy.

That'll do it good.

I think I'm gonna croak.

One more spoonful completes the treatment.

Huh?

It'll be ready in a jiffy.

Oh, it's working.

Working like a charm, Mr. Solomon.

You whip up one more brew there.

I'll make this warm and it'll work like clockwork.

Hey!

I was only about five seconds behind him, Fred.

He couldn't have got out that end of the street.

Now Foley says he didn't come back that way.

That means he disappeared here in the street somewhere.

That one there has got so much garbage in front of it, there ain't nobody been in it.

In months.

This one's got a fence in front of it.

And there ain't no other driveway here.

Wait a minute.

This is the driveway over here.

With a truck in front of it.

Ready, my man?

We might be there.

Sit tight.

I think maybe we're in business.

Stay cool, partner.

I'll be right back.

Ed, that's the Baretta.

Give me Foley.

Hey, you.

You remember me?

Huh? Oh, yeah, yeah.

You're the guy with the, let's see, the 72 Mazuron, the supercharge, all that stuff.

Yeah, yeah. I'm the guy with the badge.

Now you remember?

Yeah.

Your girlfriend showed up stiff.

Who, Janice?

No, not Janice.

The other pretty one.

The one that you fixed the Lincoln for.

We danced around about this once before.

Wake up a little bit.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

You know, I get a lot of wheels in here.

I don't remember people that come in here.

Pretty boy Davis.

You souped up a new Lincoln for him.

I'm sick. I got a cold.

I don't feel like messing around.

Now give me some information.

You hear what I'm saying to you?

Yeah, yeah.

All right.

Yeah, I did a soup job for him. That's all.

Just a little soup job for him?

You didn't pull out a couple of pistons and seal up

the chambers so they could put some hot ice in them?

I swear to God.

I'm talking about diamonds, man.

Now come up straight with me.

You know what I'm gonna do?

I'm gonna go to the mob and I'm gonna tell them

you worked on the car that stole their ice.

You know what they'll do to you?

I'm getting tired of you.

Look, I don't know nothing about... Think before you talk.

Give me some information.

Listen, I don't know nothing, huh?

I swear on my mother's life, I don't know nothing.

They just pay me a little money, I do a little job, that's all.

You're swearing on your mother's life.

You'd better be telling the truth, man, or they're gonna feed you to the barracuda.

I'll come back, man, and you and I will dance.

Think.

I don't know nothing.

My father was on this block 30 years, collecting protection, never had a

problem, never had a complaint from anybody, right?

Now all of a sudden this funny talking foreigner

comes in, two days off the boat, starts making waves.

Yeah, people might get ideas and stop paying up.

The organization wouldn't like that.

That's right.

So we gotta do what we normally do when somebody makes waves.

But otherwise people get the idea we're in a different line of work.

Like diamonds, for instance.

You see?

Now we gotta come down on that Solomon creep.

We gotta make it look like this is all we got in the world.

Nothing else.

We do what we normally do.

And sit tight.

Sonny told me you refused to pay this week.

What do you got, Loros?

Two guys.

They pulled down the shades.

Thanks, partner.

Hey there, Patsy. How are you?

Malcolm?

What's going on, kid?

You know, same old sixes and sevens.

Yeah, sure.

How's my friend Solomon?

He's fine.

Oh, that's true.

Excuse me.

See you around.

Spread him right up against there.

Get him up.

Spread him, I said.

Get out of here. You too.

Turn around. Get him up there.

Here.

Put this thing on your eye.

We're gonna get you sewed up good.

Can you arrest these men, Tony?

Sure, I can arrest them.

Well, you find the charges and I press them.

You got it, Solomon.

It's a real sharp move for that one.

We gotta nail him.

You happy now?

You didn't do what I told you to, did you?

I paid one week and then I don't.

Not right.

Oh, what they did to you, that's right?

That guy knows what he's talking about, Solomon.

He'll be out of here in an hour and they'll

come looking for you with a blowtorch this time.

Now listen to what I'm saying to you.

Drop the charges.

Pay him.

You make a deal with him, they'll take care of you.

This way I protect myself.

That's right, Solomon.

That's what the real world is about.

You protect yourself.

In a short time we become friendly, no?

Yeah.

You're a sweet guy, Solomon.

But you got a head like an army mule.

The choice is yours.

You deal with him one way... or you deal with him the other way.

Come on, Attila.

Let's get out of here.

What do you guys drink?

I'll buy you some.

You know who I am?

I'm the president of the East Side Benevolent Association.

E.G. Moran.

I'm your friend.

I'll protect your property...

make sure you get off on the right track.

I don't want protection, sir.

Let me put it this way.

You and all the other people in this neighborhood... are the sheep...

and I'm the shepherd that protects you from the wolves.

I'm a good man to know.

My boys are out on bail.

I want to keep them out.

You got any forgiveness in you?

Yes, I... All right, then.

Forgive them a little.

We get off on the right foot.

That came down here, we talked.

No threats, no yelling.

Just two men being reasonable with each other.

Isn't that right, Sully?

My name is Solomon Goldfarb, sir.

You know, Clarkson people have a way of coming to a stop.

What do you think about that, Sully?

You're the worst chess-playing chicken I've ever seen.

Don't you believe it?

That bird is a smarter chess player...

than he'll ever be the longest day of his life.

Move over, dummy.

Solomon, I see you met my family, my wife and kids.

The wife is the one with the feathers.

I'm the kid.

They have kept good company.

Good.

How is your head?

Oh, that medicine, Solomon.

That works like a charm.

That stuff clear...

Works like a charm.

I've decided to press charges on those two.

Oh.

You did do that, huh?

What happened?

They got to you, Solomon?

In a way.

You know... those guys...

they're not going to spend any time in jail, Solomon.

They get out on bail.

It happens very fast.

Not even one night they'll be in jail.

They'll be out on the streets.

And then, my friend, it's going to be very hard for you.

And it's going to be hard for your friend Baretta, too.

You, uh... You still want to go through with this?

I don't want to.

I must.

Why do you got to do that?

Billy asked before why I seldom remove my hat.

Huh?

Perhaps it's because I don't stay in one place long enough.

But I don't run now.

And I will try to stop here.

Oh.

Uh, I think you're a little bit nuts, Solomon.

And I know I am.

But you're going to get your day in court.

It ain't going to do you no good.

We're not going to beat him in the courtroom.

But we'll be together.

And when the fur and the feathers are flying somehow or other, maybe...

maybe we'll beat Moran.

I hope.

Barry, go back to the shop.

Okay.

And you watch yourself, huh?

Remember my good friend.

My phone number, huh?

Oh, I talked to you, Moran.

Keep this tub out of my way.

I ain't in the mood for dancing.

Get away from me.

This guy will be wearing one of your jukeboxes.

Leave me alone, you.

These two jimokes?

You out on the streets because of bail?

But that don't mean nothing, you understand me?

There ain't going to be no more messing around with Solomon.

He's a friend of mine, and I'm telling you to leave him alone.

I don't like your action on the streets in the first place.

I don't like the way the people knuckle under to you.

And when the time comes, I will take care of that.

But for now, you stay away from Solomon.

You hear me?

All right, Baretta, we got your message.

Now get out of here.

You're polluting the atmosphere.

You were bad when you were a kid, and you are bad now.

And you and I will lock horns.

Be looking for me.

What are you doing?

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

What did you do?

Did they hurt you?

Get them out.

Yeah.

Man, look what they did to your place, you rummies.

You booked him again? - Yeah.

And I charged him again.

Come on.

Get out of here.

Excuse me. - Yeah.

What is this?

That's your check. What do you think it is?

That's $18.

You want to take a look at the list of itemized deductions?

We got two beepers here, totally destroyed, a walkie-talkie.

It's irreparable.

A pair of binoculars here with both lenses broken.

A set of cuffs is issued to you.

You never turned in. $18.

I've been breaking all that stuff.

Baretta, what are you doing here?

You know, you owe me a report on a jewelry heist.

I've got three murders in here.

I'm a sick man. - I don't care if you're sick or not.

Take a couple asses and get out there on the

street and see if you can get something for me.

This is $18, boss.

Then you're going to have to work this month so you can eat next month.

I think I know where that walkie-talkie is.

Are you kidding me, Baretta?

What? - You gave me a cold.

Don't cough on me.

Don't cough on me.

Come on.

Hey, make it good.

What I'm trying to say, Solomon, is that this thing is

going to get worse before it gets better, that's all.

And I think the best thing for us to do is to kind of get a little breathing room.

My boss can't fix it.

I can't fix it.

Sometimes you just can't fight city hall.

You got to back off.

Maybe... maybe you take a little trip.

You go back to the old country, see your relatives.

Fine. When I get old, I'll go back and look.

You ain't going to live to be old.

You ain't going to live to look.

These guys mean business.

First they broke your head, then they broke your shop.

What are they going to do next?

There's that watch you promised I fixed for you.

Don't hock me about the watch.

I can't sit here and babysit with you every night.

They break your head, they break your store.

It's not only your problem.

It is mine, too.

I know it's your problem.

Solomon, watch out!

It's a bomb!

Wait a minute. Don't put no jacket on top of... No, no, no.

Those are burns. Leave them alone.

Put nothing on top of there.

Get the stretcher.

We need a stretcher for them.

Okay, get back.

Get out of the way with all this junk.

Watch out, you guys.

Get the stretcher in here, will you?

Put them up here.

Come on, you guys.

Let's move.

All right. Ready?

One, two, three.

Nice and easy, Solomon.

All right. Let's go.

Bring that green thing, will you, officer?

Easy, Solomon.

You're okay.

Go on to the hospital now, Solomon.

I'll be right there.

Get those doors closed.

Let's get out of here.

I'll be there with you.

Hang in there, partner.

Hang in there, partner.

All right, Billy, yeah.

He's hurt bad, man.

He's hurt bad. I don't know if he's gonna make it.

He saved my life.

He's gotta make it.

Moran.

It's time, Billy.

He's gonna pay his dues.

Moran!

Malcolm, don't be dumb.

Get back in here.

He can't touch it.

Baretta!

Baretta!

What are you doing, Baretta?

You know you haven't got a thing on us!

Come out here and get your ticket.

You ever got a thing on me, Baretta?

Not a thing!

I told you to leave him alone!

You put him in the hospital and you almost killed him!

I'll make you!

I got you, Moran.

For the rest of your life, I got you.

Hit the street, Solomon.

There he is.

The bear of Kiev walks again.

Come on.

Maybe it's an imposition.

I stay at your home until I rebuild.

Oh, no, no, no, that's fine.

But I think maybe we'll just drive by and look at

your shop and see how much rebuilding you gotta do.

Tomorrow might be soon enough, Tony.

Today maybe I breed some air.

Solomon, you're a wise man.

But so was my father.

And he always said, It's better to face the music no matter how sour the notes.

You'll go, you'll look.

Hey, you're gonna sit there and you're gonna face the music.

Come on.

You've been kidding me or what?

Gonna get a hell of a bill for this, huh?

My good friend, the Solomon Goldfarb.

Mazel tov!

Hooray!

Mazel tov!

You see how pretty they did over here?

Look at this place.

You see, Solomon, we just... We won.

You, you, you won, Solomon, and we just want

to have a little party for you, that's all.

We figured out what $20 a week would come to over the next few years.

And it came out to be a hell of a lot more than it

took to put this whole place back together again.

Solomon, you taught us all something.

Hey.

You gonna stay for a little while, huh?