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Tonight on Spence of Her Higher. It's hard on me, Kevin, to see you here.

I want to protect my son. Your son took mine, Kevin. Oh, he's got to pay.

Mob cheese aren't big on making deals.

Just to hit me, you're going to stop him, right? You wash your mouth off!

Anytime you want to, you feeling focused now, leave!

go, this one couldn't have started better.

A chance to escape the city for a day in a

drive to the Canadian border.

All I had to do was bring back an ex cop who was hiding

out under a witness protection program. Got

you guy Nick Kavanaugh. He went undercover

in the mob and sent the boss' favorite son to prison. Now he was returning secretly

to visit his own father.

mob got wind of it?

Well then we're into Vendettas, blood feuds, and late night visits from

guys named Benny the Frog and Baltimore Pete.

On second thought, maybe this job wasn't so

terrific.

That's a chance.

Sure you wanna do this?

My father's dying Spencer.

You want me to do send him a card?

It's not going to make him feel better if Gus Harley puts a large hole in your head.

It's been two years, Spencer. How long am I supposed to hide up there?

Long as the gush hang on to us.

Drive forever.

Gus tries to hit me, you're gonna stop him, right?

That's why my father hired you. Gus employs about 55 pistol arrows. You got me.

Makes the odds about 50-50.

Comforting.

You got any jump for Campbell? What's he got? Automatic! Oh! Oh! Ah!

Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

14 moving violations. Fix the ticket.

Baby.

tried to hit us.

Where? Reed Street by the Dover station.

I think there were six guys. How could they know? I had to guess.

I said they had your phone wired. Maybe your whole house, you better have it swept.

Did you do that? I'll send you someone, a guy named Dickie Forbes.

Good. Do it promptly.

I'm sorry, Nikki, but you should go back.

No, Dad, I won't.

I'm here to stay this time. Well, Nicky, we agree. Just a quick trip.

So I can run again? No, Dad. I spent three years undercover.

Two years as a security guard in Toronto. That's five years being somebody I'm not.

I'm coming home again, Dad.

I want to bring Sarah and the kids home again for good.

Oh, Nicky, I know, I kno. Yes, Spencer? I can't keep him alive.

I can slow down the process, I can up the ante, but eventually Gus will kill him.

He knows that. Look, I could hire all the help you need.

You can hire the British fleet if you want, it won't matter.

Eventually Gus will killing.

We have to get to Harley. We have make a deal. You know Gus, Harley?

Just by reputation.

Mob Chiefs aren't big on making deals. Everybody deals, Spencer.

I've been making deals in this state since 1940. Now, I want to see him.

I want you to take care of Nicky,

and I want your to set up a meeting with Gus Harley.

On the weekends I'll take care of the situation in the Middle East.

You gotta find your place to stay. Can't stay with your father.

They obviously know about me. About a hotel. Got a better idea.

I got two problems. You got it down to two? That's two you can help me with.

About 212, nobody can help you with. Yeah, but who's counting?

I need to stash this count with you for a while. Who's after him? Cops or robbers?

Gus Harley? Damn, no wonder you come to me. And I need a set up of meeting with Gus.

Meeting to do what? Try to keep him from acing this guy.

Got any connections with Gus? Maybe. Saul, what do you think?

I can get you together.

Dig this here. Gus be a funny guy. Very sentimental. Very tough.

Hmm. Much like myself. Bad temper. No screw pulls. Much like yourself. You like him?

Negative. You trust him? He keeps his word.

Well, it'll just be you, me, and Nick.

It's father's of a Kavanaugh. George Kavanaug, my, my mother, Plot Thicken.

Sus can bring who he wants, but no shooting, just talking.

Can you do it?

I've got a safe place. Why?

Wouldn't be safe if I told you where it was, not would it? No.

Look at the ducks.

Susan had been gone a year now, and I was perfectly used to it.

Except sometimes when I saw someone who looked like her.

didn't happen more than once or twice a day.

If I wasn't as hard as a sheet in an old screw,

I would have had a lump in my throat for a minute.

Besides if Susan were ever to come back to Boston, she'd call me.

How are you? Everybody

treating you okay?

Like a prince, Pop. You have a long reach.

It's hard on me, Kevin, to see you here.

I miss you too. Just get through it, son.

We all need you.

You gotta start replacing me when you get out.

There'll be time to talk about that later.

I'm getting old, Kevin. And Georgie... Georgie's good in the fight.

And he's the oldest. He has no management skills, Kevin,

and it's my right to decide who runs my business.

You run it, Pop.

We'll worry about the rest when I get out.

for work, Hock.

Hey, McCavinal says he wants to talk to you.

What, about how his kid stuck my brother in jail?

Says he has a deal for you about his son. When does he want this meeting?

Anytime you're ready. You going to listen to this, Bob? You going meet these people?

You listen to the hawks since when do we start listening to people like Hawke?

You sure you didn't find him on the front steps, Gus?

What the hell is that supposed to mean? Georgie. Huh?

means you about much like your father as a Beatles like a dragon.

Yeah, you wash your mouth, Hawk! Means you ain't got no style, Georgie.

Means your word ain't worth nothing. Anytime you want to, G-Man.

Any way you want it. You feeling frog-ous now? Leap!

JD, take Georgie outside and walk him around until we get finished here.

Call those orders. No, pop! Go, Georgie, go! Come on, Georg, outside.

Come on.

You guaranteed this meeting, Hulk. Affirmative.

I'll bring JD and Georgie and maybe Ollie. Me, Spencer, Kavanaugh and his son.

Spencer, the bodyguard. I hear he's a friend of yours. Mm-hmm.

He does good work.

This afternoon, four o'clock at the abandoned T station. No shooting.

We'll be there.

Thank you.

I was working for Emmerd Kavanaugh, I could tell by his name on the check.

But what I was hired to do kept changing.

First I was supposed to protect Emmerds kid when he insisted on coming home.

Then I was suppose to protect him when he insisted on staying.

Then I am supposed to organize a meeting with a guy I was protecting the kid from.

Shuttle Diplomacy. Me and Henry Kissinger. Of course I was bigger than Henry.

I always felt we'd meet one day, Gus. I just never thought it would be like this.

What do you want? I want a deal. I want to stop things here. I want protect my son.

Your son took mine, Cabin. Oh, he's got to pay. My son was doing his job.

That should mean something even to you. Man does his job, he should be respected.

Don't matter job or no job. None of it matters. Your kid took my kid away from me.

I got to put him away. You understand? I don't take care of that. Things don't work.

There's no... there's no justice.

It's my only son, Gus. There's got to be a way to deal.

There's gotta be a ways, Gus, a way even things up.

Don't beg, Dad. We don't need to beg people like this. The hell you don't!

Justice doesn't have to be an eye for an eye, Gus There's other ways to even it up.

Okay? I'll listen.

Ow!

What do you got to deal?

No guns! I said no guns!

Pop! I said, no guns, no sands!

Maybe Emmett should have hired Henry Kissinger.

A. hadn't been too effective.

Plan B. called for me to take a shower, eat a

quarter-french vanilla, and lie in my back

in bed until I fell asleep or thought of Plan C, which ever came first.

Hello there, cutie.

You can't hear Robin?

used to.

You know, they say home is where when you go there,

they have to take you in.

How'd you get in?

Old habits die hard. I remembered where you kept your key at the firehouse.

You keep it in the same place here. You just walked in.

How'd you find me? First

I went to the firehouse. You were gone.

The city recommissioned it.

It's time for me to move on anyway. But you're still there on the phone book.

under investigators, private. Yeah, sponsored by the National...

like the

I guess I've always been pretty easy to find.

Is the rest of what you were looking for as easy?

I remember telling you that I never quite knew why I was leaving.

but when I went I had to.

I had to know I could live without you.

Because until I knew that, I could never live with you.

Looks like you got the hang of it pretty good. Yes.

I learned that and I learned something else.

that I didn't want to.

I pretty much learned the same thing.

I think you knew that all along.

That's you, Spencer. You're full of passions and certainties.

You grew up a long time ago. You know who you are and what you want,

what matters more and what matters less.

It was so easy to just fill myself up with you.

cast a long shadow, Spencer, and I was disappearing.

I had to find enough of me.

to survive in your life.

I had to know that I could live with the fear of what you do.

and know that I could go on alone.

if I lost you.

And now it seems that all I really knew when I was leaving.

is how very much I love you.

I loved you enough to let you break my heart.

It's funny.

With all the marathon talking we did, before you left for San Francisco,

it never really hit me until that day.

Loading the boxes in the van.

Putting you in the cab like you were going off for some weekend.

Then I came home.

Gotta be right out of the fridge. Turn on the television. The game was on.

Socks leading my four games, can you imagine?

But I didn't watch it.

It still smells your hair.

See your eyes.

You were with me for a second.

I realized I was staring out the window watching the sun go down

and listening to the planes take off over the city, and I kept looking and...

wondering which one you are on.

And then...

I realized that was a long.

You aren't alone anymore.

If you want... No. No, Suze.

There can't be any ifs.

I want to stay to talk, but I...

I'll be time.

I should tell her.

Listen, what about breakfast tomorrow? I still make a pretty mean omelet.

It's good to see you.

Call me, I'm here. What do you want? Yes.

I'm dying.

We are not.

Well, I'm going a little faster than most.

I didn't know.

That doesn't matter. What does is that we can still work something out.

I guess today was a mistake.

Our people didn't start up. Your boy, Georgie, started up. I know.

George is a hard-edited kid. He got out of line.

Sorry. It's not your fault, George. You got crazy, not you.

He's my son. They're my people. I give my word. I can't control them. It's my fault.

Then leave them out of it.

We're two old men who only want our sons at home.

Yeah.

My business, your business, what the hell does any of it mean?

We both lost our boys. Well then let's hope each other.

You keep Georgie and your people away from Nick.

Kevin is eligible for parole in a month. I will try to help him get it.

You know I've got some clout in this statement.

Yeah, I guess you do.

It's worth it, try.

When it comes to the big things, change never seems to come slowly.

It doesn't just tiptoe up and ring a bell.

No, it marches on over and blows the door off the hinges. Susan's return was what?

A shocker, to say the least.

Give or take a few thousand, there were a million things

we had to say to each other.

At the moment, however, someone else wanted my attention.

George Kavanaugh's been trying to phone you all morning. Phone's off the hook.

George K. The governor says he wants to see you now.

Says he has a deal for Gus Harlan. Can't right now. Phone's off the hook.

You won't see a paying client. Since when do you become the hermit of Charles Town?

You want to get that? All right. The door. Somebody set the door.

Since when did I become the butler?

The Hermit from Charles Town.

Some days the fish do in fact bite.

Sometimes a creole runneth over.

I knew you'd miss me. The world wasn't so cold I'd have missed you too.

plan in the state.

Yes.

I need spenson now. No, not now.

It's okay.

Really? You go ahead.

Your way. Right here.

Might take a couple hours. I can wait a couple of hours. A couple of days.

A couple weeks.

Well, goodnight, love thee, have us much, love, die not on or more.

Oh, you silver-tongued W.

I have Gus Harley's hand on it, Spencer. You got Georges?

Gus can control him. That should cover you, including expenses, if not just say so.

Check's fine, Judge. But I think you're making a mistake.

The last time you made a deal with Gus, it ended in a shootout.

You just don't like the fact that a couple of old hands

can do some old-fashioned horse trading, Spencer.

Which is what it comes down to, is we just don't need you or Hawk anymore.

Because you're going to get Kevin out of jail, all right? Exactly.

And they will end the vendetta against Nick.

I'm dying.

I'll do anything to give Nick his life back. I am saving my son.

And what if you can't get Kevin paroled? My father

will get it done, Spencer.

You're dealing with the wrong guy.

Gus keeps his word, but Gus is old and Georgie.

George is unpredictable.

If we run into any problems, Spencer, we'll call.

Normally my intuition serves me well about every 11 months.

And I'd made a good guess only six months ago, so I wasn't due.

But something felt wrong.

And it kept coming back to how Nick blew the whistle on Kevin Marley.

Time to go to the primary source before I turn my back on this one.

Seeing Kevin wasn't a problem. We crossed paths a couple of times before.

Nothing personal, the fact was I sort of liked him. You know how I nailed you?

Nick, Kevin. Kevin, I know.

Mm.

is going to pay.

Just because he was doing his job, come on, Kevin. You pretend to be one of us.

You got to be my friend. George is his friend. Then he betrayed us. Oh, no, no.

Actually, he betrayed you. Is that a surprise? A little.

We didn't think it could happen to us. Why?

I mean, your family's not into the door-to-door Bible business, you know?

A lot of people looking to put you away. We always knew. You knew?

Yeah, we had a guy inside in my father's pocket. Okay.

You think that can't happen? I'm older than that.

I just think it's uncommon

you should tell me, you know? Doesn't matter now.

He's out of business. They caught him, canned him quietly.

I'll even tell you his name. Lee K. Zack. You know?

No.

So, Alcombo Lee didn't save your tail? I don't know.

He must have brought Nicky in from West Poe Dunk. He never got a whisper. Yeah.

Yeah, bad luck I guess.

It's curious, you know.

Don't you ever wonder why you're the only guy with God caught?

guess, because I was getting more and more into the day-to-day stuff.

I was high-profile, easy target. Ancient history, no.

has got to deal with Emmeth Cavanaugh.

Be sure, Spencer. The parole works out.

Kevin, look, that's the judge's area, you know? If it doesn't work out,

Mickey will be needing your services badly.

You have a nice jail time, right?

someone over there to take possession.

Yeah, yeah, we'll take care of that too.

Pa.

Kevin is dead.

Yeah, Pa, they shanked him in the yard.

Cal's dead.

We're leaving it up.

That private cop, Spencer, he was there just before it happened.

I say he set him up.

I say everybody dies. The people put him in there.

The guy set him up. The guy who shanked him.

everybody part.

I'm glad I caught up again. Well, Susan, I would just...

Hello Susan. Hello Frank.

You with Spencer? Yes,

Frank. Susan's

back and Spencer's got her.

Actually, Ducky, I think that should be Silverman's back, and Spencer got her,

you know, like Gable's back and Garson's got him. If you wanted to parallel it,

you'd have to say that Spencer's back and Silverman got him, but that's not true.

I'm the one who's back. Good point. Besides, the meter's off

and there's not enough alliteration. Oh, boy.

I don't know what you two were talking about, but then again, I never did.

Hey, it's nice to see you're back, Susan. Thank you.

Frank.

Something must have brought you here, Frank, right? Oh, yeah, yeah.

Spencer, Kevin Harleys dead. What?

Somebody got him in the yard with a homemade knife, about half hour after you left.

Listen, Spencer, you know Gus. I think it's going to hit the fan.

Then there's Georgie. I think we got a fan full.

Watch your back. Thanks.

Well.

Wasn't this where you bailed out last time? Yes, right after you said,

Susan, I've got to leave you for a while.

It's dangerous and I don't want to involve you.

Oh, I was much less pompous than that. Oh, of course.

Susan, after I leave you a while, this is dangerous and I won't want involve you...

Yes, that's more like it. Can you bail out? No, I have already done that.

This is more than what you do cupcake. This is what you are.

What you are is who I'm not. You sound like a young barrel.

What's really scary about that is that you understand me. Yes.

So drive me home and take care of this. And when you get back, I'll see you.

Unless you buy the farm first. No farms.

You gotta feed all those furry little animals. I

Goodbye to Nick.

Who would want to put a shank in Gus Harley's kid?

Guy with a death wish.

Gus has more power inside than out.

Kevin's living better in the King than I was in Wittensburg.

So how come he's dead?

Nobody on the inside cares.

What are you saying, Spencer?

I'm saying it was an execution.

Nobody saw anything, nobody's saying a word.

You think if some con had a chance to blow the whistle on Gus

Harley's son's killer, you best up that chance?

Kevin was killed in the yard in broad daylight. Well,

why come after us?

We didn't do it. Now, Gus gave me his word.

Would you work on Kevin's parole if Nick here had been killed?

I see your point. I'm not sure that Gus is one running things anymore. Georgie?

Yeah, maybe.

All I know is we've got to take care of things pretty quick.

Or a lot of people are going to be dead. Some of them are going be us.

What do you want to do?

Well, we've gotta figure out who would profit by Kevin's death.

Who supplied you the information that helped you put him away?

My infiltrated Gus's organization, OK,

but I got

hints,

maybe his possibilities.

One day I got a phone call from a woman.

She told me she knew I was undercover.

She said she had a score to settle with Kevin.

If I was patient, she'd give me everything I needed to nail him.

Did you ever meet her? No. She'd call me every few weeks probably from a pay phone

and tell me stuff and it would pan out. The information was solid.

The cop on the payroll, she ever give you his name? No. I worried about that song.

I was afraid I might get blown,

but nothing happened.

And the mystery lady just kept feeding me info.

What did you work before you went undercover? Burglary. Boston?

Sure.

You know a cop, an ex cop named Lee Kasich? Sure.

I never met him, but I know a name. He's on the organized crime unit.

You know where I might find him? Not offhand. I heard he quit.

He used to live on the South Shore someplace. Still does.

You know?

that you's on to take from everybody shouldn't be too hard to find.

Hawke had a way of finding people that was truly unique.

He'd run his fingers through the yellow pages, then he'd rip it in half.

That usually got someone's attention. In this case, a South Shore bookie

who gave us the address we wanted.

How can I decide on a variation of good cop, bad cop? Good cop, demented cop.

So, on.

Hey, the baby. Whoa,

look at all this stuff.

That's an extra round here, Lee.

I know you were dirty when you were on the cops.

I know, you were chirping to the Harleys.

Basically, I think you're a piece of bad liver. Hey, you watch your mouth, Jack.

Who the hell are you coming in here ranting me? Well, I'm the Tooth Fairy.

I loosen them. I want to

know what you told the Harleyys about Nicky Kavanaugh.

Take a fire. Wow! Hey, Spitzer, easy, man. Be cool now.

Who's making the real math, pal? He's making me real math.

You tell him about me, huh?

You tell them how I get when people don't tell me what I want to know.

Hey, chill, chill. Superman is no need for that. You tell me whatever I want.

No, you don't. You better tell him. Stop it. I can't keep him off you much longer.

I told him Nicky was on your cover. Who's you tell? Ah.

My go-between, the broadening, K Barker. K Barkers?

Yeah, that way I didn't have to deal with us or anybody. Where does K Barkker live?

Cambridge. North Cambridge. North Cambridge is one of my favorite communities.

Do you know that? What street? Uh, Linear. Linear Street.

I don't know any history. We'll find it. We'll fight it.

Thank you very much, Lee. Please be so kind as to keep our visits confidential.

Please do. He will, you know what? All right.

I guess he doesn't want to tell him what he told us. You all right? Fine.

Feel much better.

She's been easy as she's been at home.

Probably out here. Dinner somewhere. Unlike us.

It's a single family dwelling. If a woman comes home and walks in,

she's gotta be here, right? Unless she has a roommate.

Making this so difficult.

Gonna work this time.

Susan?

Mm-hmm.

She's changed.

Since she's been gone, I've changed a lot too, I guess. She's stronger? A lot.

Needs to be hanging around with somebody like you. She said the same thing.

Yeah, she's gonna feel guilty leaving you like that.

Gonna take some time for her to get past that too. I know.

How the hell do you know all this stuff? Well, I know what I need to know.

natural rhythm you dig.

She's done a lot of work. She, uh...

She understands herself. Strong

woman.

Look at here, look at here. Miss Kaye Baga and see who her date is.

George.

That's the way it happened, Gus.

Nick Cabinot won under cover. Your team cop, the legendary

Lee Kasich passed that information on to 1K Barker. It turns out to be

Georgie's girlfriend.

You must have told Georgie.

George, you didn't pass that information on to you, War Cap. Why not?

What do you do with it?

He framed

his brother. It's the only thing that makes any sense, Gus.

Which brings us to Kevin getting killed.

Right after Georgie found out that Kevin might

get parole. Georgie.

killed.

No one would have dared unless they'd come from us.

That's why it looks good.

George, you did want a deal.

That's why I started trouble at the first meeting.

You didn't want Kevin out.

of the business.

He didn't want it to go to Kevin. Like it was going to.

Kevin was always smart.

steady. He saw

the way things are.

What's going on? Georgie's going to try. He killed his brother.

Why should he stop there?

You're killing me. I thought we ought to warn you.

Worked together many times, Gus. Know you as a man of great style, but not Georgie.

Hard thing to say, harder for you to listen to. You stay

away from Georgie, Gus,

till you find somebody you can trust.

Not safe, Gus.

It's my home.

It's my show.

What are you thinking?

I'm thinking that old man's walking into trouble. You're forgetting who that old

man is. That's Gus Harley, my boss, bad man. There's

one worse at home.

Are you in?

Hey, I wanna talk.

What's up?

What do you want?

You had your brother killed, Georgie.

You had him framed, you had him killed, and I know how. And I know why.

So who dug that up? The private cop?

Not even remorse, Georgie. Yeah, sure remorse. I didn't want to have to do it.

You didn't give me much choice. He was going to get the business.

The older son is supposed to take over. Georgie? This thing is mine, Pop.

You can't just give it away. You can have it, Georgi. I got it already.

All you want to play? Well, we could go around back.

I'll put the snake through a window.

Down the chimney. If there's no smart way to do it, let's go through the door.

And what's left is you.

You, a ruthless man. A man like you, blood shows, pop.

Everything I've done, I learned from you. Then you've learned nothing.

You didn't learn honor.

You didn't learn smart. If you take over this organization, it'll be gone in a year.

Give it up, Pop. You're an old man. You got no people with you.

Go into retirement. Go live in Florida. You just stay out of my way.

I can't get out of the way. You killed Kevin.

Don't make me kill you, Pop.

Have me kill you, me.

like you had someone kill your brother, such a tough guy.

Clad, Georgie, you killed me.

You squeeze it off. Go ahead, tough guy.

Drive it, Jordan!

Four of us, Spencer.

400.

You go first. Listen, G-Man, we're both gonna shoot whatever happens you die.

Dungey!

That's Harley won't care what happens here now.

It's all over for him.

Except for the grief. Well, in a way, I feel sorry for him.

I had to live without my son for five years. I guess it'll be forever.

You'll, uh, send me a bill. My pleasure. I include whatever he costs.

Nobody can afford whatever I cost.

My bills were Spencer and not with you, I'll wait outside.

As your health judge.

Well, Doc says there's a chance for remission, but...

I know.

The plan from Toronto was 20 minutes late.

Traffic in the tunnel was backed up to Suffolk Downs, but here we are. Oh.

She do.

One thing has to be settled. I

will never leave again.

If you do, you won't get far, because I will come after you and bring you home.

So we are forever then.

Yes. Forever.

I don't know what that means exactly, except I know it's true.

Whatever happened.

whatever will.

We are.

You want to get married?

I don't think so.

I haven't gotten that for you.

He only recently noticed we were forever.

Maybe we ought to live together. Well, we could, but I don't think we ought too.

I don't care how I live seriously.

as long as...

Things that matter, we are together.

You don't have to be any rules.

for what we mean to each other.

Well, we've sketched out the big picture.

Now all we have to do is work out the details.

I take it back about no rules, there's one. Monogamy? Yeah, the big M. Absolutely.

The river soothes.

forever.