The Savant (2018) - full transcript
Only 25 autistic savants in the world...and his skill is fighting.
Ladies and gentlemen!
From Jersey City, New Jersey
it's the local attraction
that you've all
been waiting for!
I just
love this throw down.
The prosecutor versus the cop.
The two senseis both have
competing MMA schools
in the same New Jersey town.
Two of their students,
Felix Sanchez,
who's already fought and won
in five professional fights,
and Anthony Rodriguez.
Check it out.
An autistic savant who fights
with magic from within.
Oh my God. He's got him.
He's in trouble here.
I think so.
- Judge, I wanna object, but
it's more that I'm confused.
Could you instruct Mr. Carroll
to stop staring at my client?
Mr. Carroll.
Mr. Carroll, are we
going to continue?
- He's the guy.
He's the guy you saw
bludgeoning the victim
when you arrived at the party?
- Bludgeoning? No,
not bludgeoning.
He was punching the one kid
who was punching him back.
Please
let the court reflect
that Officer Tantino just
identified the defendant.
So reflected.
- So let me get this straight.
When you arrived at the party
you and Sergeant Radinsky
had to physically separate
Pella from the victim.
- Yeah, I had to grab one kid
and Sergeant Radinsky
grabbed the other kid.
They weren't locked in mortal
combat, fighting to the death.
These are two young kids
that had a little scuffle.
- Thank you.
No further questions, Officer.
- You know, you
really exaggerating
what happened there, counselor?
- I said no more questions.
Officer,
you can't just open
statements on your own.
- That means you're done.
You don't make speeches.
You understand?
But of course,
now that defensive
court's examined you...
Miss Rodriguez.
- So, Officer Tantino.
You seem to have more testimony.
What exactly did happen?
We didn't make any arrests
and no complaints were signed,
but the victim in this case
decided to pursue
the matter in court
after speaking with
Mr. Carroll here,
who I believe is not
only the prosecutor,
but it's also his
martial arts sensei.
- I object, Your Honor.
- Yeah, I guess since he
didn't train his student
well enough to defend themselves
in the street-
- I object!
- I figured you
have another chance
at winning in court today!
I'm looking for justice,
what are you looking
for, counselor?
- So three guys are at a party
arguing about who's
got the best memory.
- God help me.
- First guy says, "I
remember my mother
putting on my diaper."
Second guy says, "I
remember being born."
Third guy says that's nothing.
I remember going to a
party with my father
and coming home with my mother.
Stop!
God, that's almost as funny as
why did the pothead
cross the road.
- Who else would
follow a chicken?
- Hang on.
Yeah. Detective Toney.
Right.
Right, gotcha. Thank you.
Woods is on his way to the barn
and Nick is on
his way after him.
- We're off like a prom dress.
- Oh please! God,
you're so terrible.
Just come with me.
- Hey!
Cone beef special today, Nick?
- No, not here for lunch today.
- Oh, here for Bobby?
- That scumbag's inside, right?
Oh, here we go.
- Hey, baby. How's it going?
- Bobby Woods.
Got a warrant for your arrest.
Looks like possession of cocaine
with the intent
of distribute it.
That's ugly.
Turn around, put your
hands behind your back.
- Sure, Nick.
- Don't move.
- Drop the goddamn knife!
- Don't do it, Bobby!
- Drop the knife!
Drop it, Bobby!
- Just relax. Don't hurt her.
You never could fight
like a man, could you?
- What is the greatest
American pastime?
Is it hockey?
No, Sensei!
- Is it soccer?
No, Sensei!
- Is it even football?
No, Sensei!
- What is the greatest
American pastime, Frank?
- Baseball, Sensei!
- That's right.
Why is it baseball, Megan?
- It's statistics, Sensei!
- That's right.
It's statistics.
Stat!
- 70 home runs, Sensei!
- Stat!
- 150 RBI, Sensei!
- Stat!
- 300 strike out, Sensei!
- Stat!
- 30 wins, Sensei!
- Stat!
- 400 batting average, Sensei!
- And is this a game?
- No, Sensei.
- Is what we do here a pastime?
No, Sensei!
This is real!
It's out way of life!
- And you know what happens
when you don't properly train?
This could happen
to you at a party.
This could happen
to you at a bar.
This could happen to
you on the street.
Megan, get this little
girl off my mat.
Class.
Dan, Felix. Contact.
- Don't start.
- I'm not even gonna ask.
But it couldn't have happened
to a more liberal judge.
- Officer Tantino!
- Chief's looking for you!
- Officer Tantino!
Sandra Chilton.
I represent Judge DeMitro.
- What can I do for
you Miss Chilton?
- Don't you think it's
a tad disrespectful
arresting the
judge in his robes?
- Disrespectful?
I let him put it on.
- I don't understand.
- The only thing the judge
was wearing when I found him
was that gag in his
mouth, and nothing else.
- Oh, now that is ridiculous.
- You got something
to say, Judge?
- The State Supreme Court
has put our free speech
rights in jeopardy.
I've done all that I
can in the courtroom.
Now I'm taking it
to the streets.
Gagged and naked is
how they have left us.
So gagged and naked
is how I will be.
Officer put that gag
back in my mouth.
- Oh, Judge.
- And besides, I'm the most
muscular judge on the planet.
Have you seen the size
of my arms and my chest?
And everything else that
I have going on.
- All right, that's it.
I don't wanna hear
about your physique.
Let's go.
Hey.
- Hey.
Chief wants you, Nick.
- Yeah, yeah.
- I bet the chief is
livid about this arrest.
- Why is it that you have to
get suspended so many times?
- I'm being suspended for
speaking the truth in court?
- How about Zane Carroll, Nick?
Why do you wanna
embarrass this guy?
He's part of our team.
- He's a dangerous person.
- He's a powerful person, Nick.
- You have any idea how badly
I'd like to kick his ass?
- You couldn't.
- Yeah, sure.
- Zane Carroll wants
your head in a basket.
I'm not gonna give
it to him of course,
because you're my boy.
- Thank you.
- Don't thank me yet.
I have a new assignment for you.
A little change
of scenery, Nick.
At the high school.
- So, how much can
you bench press?
- Really?
- Come on! What's your bench?
I would say 300 pounds?
- Yeah.
- So if you had to
pick one of these kids
who'd become a murderer,
who would it be?
- I don't know.
Shouldn't be doing
something about that?
Is it my job to stop them?
- I don't think so.
Face off again.
- So what's your job here?
- I have no idea.
- Anybody tell me who are
some of the major players
in the courtroom in the
criminal justice system?
Could be a man or a woman
who sits at the bench.
- Come on, guys.
He's the one who makes
all the decisions.
- He's the judge.
- Right.
- I know because my mom just
paid them a lot of fines
for drunk driving.
- Thank you, Juan,
I think that's more than we need to know.
- Oh yeah. There's also a
lot of pigs in the court too.
I think the men and women
in blue have a more proper name.
- Police officers.
- Yes. I think what Juan meant
to say was police officer.
Now, Anthony, I get
that you know a lot
about the courtroom with
your sister being a lawyer.
- Anthony, can you help us out?
- Bet you she's in the
court all the time, right?
Cassie is a defense attorney.
Anthony, do you
wanna try and tell us
what she does in the courtroom?
- He's not gonna
answer you Miss Gause.
He never does.
- Okay.
- We all might be a little
slow in here, but Anthony.
That's a real moron.
Hey!
We don't like new
kids in our school!
Especially real stupid
ones that don't talk!
Okay, get up
and go to the vice
principle's office.
- What, you're taking a
dumb's side, Miss Gause?
That's enough, Juan!
Let's go!
- I don't need to be here.
- Leave.
- Whatever.
Excuse me!
- Get out.
- Leave.
- I hope you enjoy your last
few moments here alone, Nick.
- You obviously have a point.
Why don't you make it?
- I'm buying this school.
I outbid you.
- How do you get
a fat girl in bed?
Piece of cake!
- Good one, Dutch.
You and I, we're on
the contract, right?
- Yes. For y'all.
- No, no, no. That's
for the building.
Stevie Ray, he owns
the martial arts school
and I just offered him 10 more
large than Nicky boy here.
- You know what a
crying shame is?
A crying shame is a busload
of lawyers going over a cliff
with two empty seats.
- With two empty seats.
- Yeah. I've never
heard that one before.
- Don't pretend you
got a sense of humor.
Stevie's has been bullshitting
you and Mr. Prosecutor.
I've got a lien on the school.
A failure to pay
rent, and the sale
of the Hawthorn Institute
of Martial Arts goes to...
Drum roll!
Nick Tantino.
- We'll see about that.
Maybe in court.
- Yeah, maybe.
- Hey, we can settle this now.
- Step on the mat, counselor.
- No, don't.
- Okay, guys.
- Appreciate you having my back.
It means a lot. Thanks.
- Don't thank me.
Pay me.
Got it.
- Miss Gause, I'm
Cassie Rodriguez.
- Please have a seat.
- Thank you.
- You settling into New
Jersey life all right?
Must be a huge adjustment
after living your
whole life in Florida.
- Oh no, not my whole life.
Anthony and I were actually
both born in Manhattan.
Then after my parents
died, we moved to Tampa.
We lived with our grandmother
and then unfortunately she
passed when I was just 19.
So it's just been Anthony
and I ever since then.
- Wow, I had no idea.
I'm really sorry.
- Oh, thank you.
So how's Anthony doing?
- Well, I'm very glad
we're having this meeting
because I do have
some serious concerns.
- Okay.
- He hasn't connected
with anyone.
Not me, not my aide, Mr.
Watson, not a single student.
- Well, he just needs more time
and then he'll warm
up to a few students.
- Well, we haven't seen even
the slightest
indication of that yet.
I get to receive
much information
from his previous high school.
But I see here that it
says that his diagnosis
is autism, not Asperger's.
- No doctors have
said that he showed
some signs of Asperger's,
like high intelligence.
I'm sure you've seen
that in his schoolwork.
- Yes. The high intelligence
is very evident from his tests.
And honestly that's
the main reason
I have yet to refer him to an
alternative school setting.
- No, he doesn't need an
alternative school setting.
This is the right place for him.
Trust me on this.
At home he's very organized
and he knows exactly what he
needs to do for your class.
And he speaks to me
in full sentences
the majority of the time.
He will talk to you.
He will communicate with you.
Just, he just needs a
little bit more time.
- Well, it's obvious that
you know your brother
better than anybody here.
We'll give him a
little more time.
Say a month or so,
but we really do need to
see some social progress.
At minimum some
more communication.
- Thank you, Miss Gause.
I really appreciate it.
And I'd be more than happy
to be a guest speaker.
- Oh, that would be great.
Yes. I think that that will
really help motivate Anthony.
- Yes, I do too.
Thank you.
And the capital of Maine is?
- Augusta.
- Right, Vermont!
- Montpelier.
- Good!
- The capital of New
Hampshire is Concord.
A couple of Connecticut
if Hartford.
The capital of Rhode
Island is Providence.
New York, Albany.
- Very good, keep going!
The capital of
Delaware is Dover.
A capital of Maryland
is Annapolis.
- See Anthony, this is what
you need to do at school.
Speak to people in
complete sentences.
Do you think you
could try and do that?
- I'm hungry.
What's your dinner?
- Hello, Nicholas.
- Hey, Jill.
- So this is the place.
- Yeah, this is it.
Let me give you a tour?
- Sure.
- This is the weight room.
- I can see that.
- This is the women's change
room, lockers and showers.
You look good.
- Thank you.
So do you.
- This is the men's room.
Got some sweaty, athletic
guys hanging out in there.
Could see you spending
some time there.
- Not funny, Nick.
- Oh, and back there is
just an unfinished area.
Still working on it.
- What are you gonna do with it?
- Gonna finish it.
Come on.
Can't wait to show you this.
This.
This is the main fight room.
It's where it's
all gonna go down.
Pretty nice, right?
- It's a palace.
Palace for you, Nicholas.
- Jill, this is what I want.
This is what I need.
- What you need is just
support me, your wife.
And not spend our entire
savings on a midlife crisis.
How many students do you have?
- It's not about
students right now.
It's about having
a place to train.
Get back into shape and
fight professionally again.
- Nick, that was 15 years ago.
And are you kidding me?
This entire place for just you?
- Jill, you know
what? I've had enough.
I can't stand my job.
I don't wanna be a cop anymore.
They've got me babysitting
kids in high school.
I just wanna fight.
- I'm not going
down with you, Nick.
I've stood by you through
all your suspensions,
all your violence.
Yeah. You've been
a gentleman to me.
But all your violence?
And that one time long ago.
How many women would have
stood by you for that?
No more.
You've got a shower
here, move in.
This is your new home.
I came here hoping that I
wouldn't have to give you this.
It's over, Nick.
Funny how you don't fight this.
Food, food,
food, food, food, food,
food, food, food, food.
- Anthony, you have to
get along at school.
You have to participate.
Miss Gause called my office.
She wants me to be
a guest speaker.
- Guest speaker. Good.
Good. You'll be a
good guest speaker.
- Anthony.
They don't know about your past
and what happened in Florida.
- Yeah, I'm tubby.
But that's the dummy.
- Yeah.
You are one moronic son
of a bitch, aren't you?
Yo.
This will wake you
from your sleep.
- Hey!
Hey, get off!
Hey!
Calm down.
Relax. It's okay.
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
- Let me try to
understand this, Mr. Pare.
Your client is charged
with a triple homicide
and you want me to
release him ROR?
- That's right, Judge.
I think there should be
no bail in this case.
- The prosecutor has made an
application for $1 million.
No 10 %.
And that's reasonable.
Well, your request
is, how do I say this?
Absurd.
- Judge, that is not correct.
- Excuse me?
- As you know, under
State v. Johnson
there are three criteria to
evaluate when setting the bail.
Does the defendant
pose a flight risk?
Is he a potential threat to
the community if released?
And is the prosecution likely
to win the case on the merits?
- Thank you for
the legal brush-up.
- I think you could use it here.
- And I think you're getting
very close to contempt.
- My client is a lifelong
resident of this community.
He's a doctor with a
practice right here in town.
Look at the support here
today for Dr. Clark.
What do you say?
- Don't put my doctor in jail!
- What do you think?
- Free Dr. Clark!
- Free Dr. Clark!
- Sit down, ma'am.
- Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
- Order!
Quiet in this courtroom!
Order!
- Free Dr. Clark!
- Sit down!
Free Dr. Clark!
- Mr. Pare, that was
completely inappropriate
and impermissible conduct!
- Judge. I am just pointing
out that Dr. Clark is loved.
The man is an important
part of this town.
He is not going anywhere, Judge.
My client is not a flight risk.
Beyond that, he poses no
danger to this community.
The allegations are that
he assisted three people
in peacefully
ending their lives.
Three people with
terminal illnesses.
And that brings us to the third
prong of the Johnson test.
The prosecution is unlikely
to succeed at trial.
The case law is very clear.
That assisted suicide
cases or not prosecutable.
Not in the modern
criminal justice system.
Mr. Pare, what do you
think the odds are
that president Trump will appoint you to the Supreme Court?
It would be an honor
that I would consider-
- It's a rhetorical
question, Mr. Pare.
And the answer is zero.
You have a 0 % chance of
ever getting appointed
to the Supreme Court!
And you have even
exactly the same odds
of me granting you
your application.
Now, Dr. Clark here shot
three people in the head
at a gas station.
It was all caught on video.
None of the three victims that
he shot were his patients!
And none of the three victims
had a terminal illness.
- They were heroin
addicts, Judge.
They could have
ODed at any time.
- $2 million Dollars cash bail!
No 10 %, and no bond!
- Don't worry about it.
We'll work something
out. It's not a big deal.
- Not a big deal?
- It's just a setback.
She'll come down, we'll
work something out.
- Dr. Clark, please stand up.
Look, Dr. Clark, there's
a lot of good things
you can do in prison.
There's a lot of
sick people in there
and not a lot of good doctors.
Sal is just gonna escort you
back to the holding cell.
Okay?
- You'll be okay.
We'll talk soon.
- Well, Shane that
was a pretty creative
and entertaining
to say the least.
The prosecutor has a slam dunk.
I'm gonna plead him out.
Still probably get about
five figures though.
- I don't believe the
bullshit guys pedal.
- Is it that much different
than what you do in
an interrogation?
- Probably not.
Listen. I've known
you for a long time
and I've never asked
you for anything.
- You got me knocked
out three times
in fights you started and you
walked away without a scratch.
- It's 'cause you
can't fight for shit.
And I'm a lot tougher than you.
But really, listen.
What do you know about
autistic kids in high school
and fighting in the law?
- That's a lot of questions.
- I'll tell you what,
why don't we discuss it
over a cold beer?
- Long as you're buying.
- Okay, Mr. Five Figures.
- I haven't got my money yet.
- This is where it happened
over by this basket.
Really, I've never seen
anything quite like it before.
So athletic, but brutal.
He's autistic?
- Yes, but he's not brutal.
- Miss Rodriguez.
When we spoke you didn't
tell me about Anthony's past,
and today our principal did.
- I have Anthony's files
from South Tampa High School.
9th and 10th grades.
Seven fights, four
suspensions, one expulsion.
11th grade, well, half of it,
three broken ribs, one broken
nose and several stitches.
Mind you, that was
three different boys.
Now, here's my favorite.
The balance of 11th grade
and one month of 12th
grade at St. Joe's.
14 fights.
- You don't have to say
anything else, Dr. Conci.
- Priests and nuns, perhaps
have a little bit more patience
with their students,
maybe because they have
a certain higher calling
they're beholden to.
As principal of a
public high school,
I have a different higher
calling to deal with.
A superintendent and
a board of education,
and they're worried about
things like getting sued.
- I could definitely
see a lawsuit here.
He mercilessly
beat Felix and won.
No provocation.
- Excuse me?
That's not accurate.
You were there and you know
it didn't happen that way.
Look, both of these kids
were teasing Anthony,
almost to the point
of harassment.
And the one kid, Felix,
he whipped the ball
in Anthony's chest
from point blank range and
then he put his hands on him.
- This is the kind of thing
that's happened before.
Anthony gets provoked.
- It seems so this time
based on what Officer
Tantino witnessed,
but all his prior
schools seem to describe
a ticking time bomb.
- And we've discussed
his antisocial behavior.
With this new development,
I really think
that he needs to go
to an alternative
school setting.
- No!
- I'm sorry.
- Look, he's already
in a special ed class
and I really don't want
him anymore labeled.
- I'm sorry, Miss Rodriguez.
But his past is so
very, very troubled.
- Look, Dr. Conci.
What if I was personally
responsible for Anthony?
- What?
- What?
- I mean, I'm here as the
school resource officer.
I'm supposed to
be teaching kids.
What if I focus all my energy
and concentrate on
just one student?
I'm a veteran police officer
and a seasoned black belt.
I know I could help that
kid curb his violence.
I could help him control it
and maybe even find
out what causes it.
- Okay.
I'm sure if it was under
your constant supervision
you could protect
the other students,
but you don't have any education
or experience working with
autistic children, do you?
- You're right, I
don't have any training
or expertise in autism,
but that kid made direct
eye contact with me.
Now, that's not usual
with autistic kids.
Am I right?
- That's absolutely right.
- I mean, I've been around
the block a few times
and I know a few
things about combat.
There was something strange
going on with that kid
when he was fighting those boys,
something that took him
completely out of his cocoon.
I want the opportunity
to train Anthony.
I know that through
the martial arts
I could help them cultivate
and develop those
incredible skills he has.
- You not only want us to
keep him in high school,
but you want us to
allow you to teach him
how to fight even more?
- Well, yeah.
I'm gonna teach you
some grappling, Anthony.
Now watch this.
Let's show him arm bar.
Anthony, pay attention.
I have Glenn's arm
and if he doesn't tap,
his arm's gonna break.
Okay!
- I hope you got this
kid on a short leash.
- Very short.
It was no small task
convincing the superintendent.
- I don't know, man.
I really wanna help this kid.
Maybe we'll show him some kicks.
Get your helmet on. Come on
Please, Anthony.
All right. This is
the roundhouse kick.
I got a low kick to the thigh.
Up to the ribs. Nice and high.
Nice head kick, Anthony,
roundhouse to the head.
- I better see some
results in 60 days.
- Like what?
- How should I know?
I don't know anything
about retarded kids.
- I wanna teach you that, man.
You're gonna get it.
Get up.
Anthony.
Anthony!
Anthony!
- You know, I really
love you guys.
You're not just my students.
You're my family.
I really feel like
I'm letting you down.
I mean, is it me?
Or is it you?
Riley, you got your
ass kicked at a party.
Is it me?
Or is it you?
And a week before that,
Toby, you got your tooth
knocked out in a bar fight.
Is it me?
Or is it you?
And Felix.
Felix.
My prize.
My top student.
A brilliant pugilist.
An 18 year old
high school senior
who's never lost a
tournament fight.
5-0, beaten MMA stars
with years of experience,
and you get your ass kicked in
gym class by an autistic kid.
So I asked you again.
Is it me, or is it you?
Is it me, or is it you?
It's me! It's me!
It's me! It's me!
It's me! It's me!
It's me!
It's me.
- What about his father?
A certain criminal.
A man responsible for
probably many deaths.
- So then why should he worry
about letting his father go?
He couldn't be expected
to do everything right.
He couldn't be loyal to
everything all at once.
- Still teaching that
American literature.
Private lesson I'm assuming.
- That's the only kind I do now.
- Katerina, can you
give me a minute?
- Of course, Professor Cooper.
- How is New Jersey?
- I have a problem
in our other world.
There's this cop.
He's got so far under my skin.
I just wanna rip his throat out,
I just wanna kill him.
- Focus!
Streamline.
Think about what you need.
The cop has
been training this kid
and he's embarrassed
my most prized student.
- Sounds simple.
- It's more complicated.
The kid is...
He's handicapped, he's autistic.
- Do you remember how
I taught you to fight?
Our creed?
- Not only do I
remember it, Sensei.
I teach it.
- Then live it.
Modify your officer in
every way that you can,
in every aspect of his life.
- And the student?
- You owe your
student your loyalty.
And remember,
you can't be expected to be
loyal to everything all at once.
- Katerina!
- Yes!
- Where were we here?
- Here!
- Megan, come in here
for a moment please.
- Hello?
- Felix.
I want you to come here before
school tomorrow morning.
We're gonna start a
new type of training.
I need you to run a criminal
case history for me.
- On who?
- Nick Tantino.
- But he's a cop.
- So I'm investigating him.
- About what?
- Fraud.
- Falsifying his law
enforcement job application.
- Aren't we a little past
the statute of limitations?
- Just listen to
me for a second.
I heard a story about him
and I just wanna find
out if it's true.
If it is, then lying
on his application
will be the least
of his troubles.
But it's what I need to
legally investigate him.
- So, you want me to
do this at the office?
- Of course.
Where else?
Thank you.
- How's Anthony been doing?
Has he been taking any interest
in the martial arts training?
- Not yet.
I can't get him to
say two words to me.
I don't know if he's
absorbing the techniques.
- He's been talking
about you here at home.
- He has? Really?
- Yeah, and for
him to talk about
someone so quickly is unusual.
Anthony! Dinner!
You know, most autistic kids
lose a previously
acquired ability
to speak sentences
or even words.
- But Anthony?
- Anthony has
actually progressed.
There's high functioning
autism, sometimes called PDD NOS
and then there's
diagnostic categories
such as Rett syndrome
and fragile X syndrome.
This disorder is very confusing.
I mean, there are
some autistic kids
that have the messiest
desks at school,
and there are some
of the neatest ones.
But there's one unifying factor.
All have difficulty
communicating
and interacting with others.
Anthony! Dinner!
- There he is.
- My brother sure does
communicate when he wants to do,
through aberrational,
reflexive and fighting skills.
How do we figure this out?
How do we put this
to a positive use?
- You know, I think
I have somebody
that I can bring into the fold
that can really help us.
- Another martial
arts instructor?
- Well, sort of.
- Why'd you lie to me?
- I didn't lie!
- Oh, no?
You sent me an email saying
you're African-American.
That's obviously a lie.
- You wanna answer that?
- If I get this phone, you'd
better not make a sound.
You understand? Not a peep.
Nick Tantino.
- Update.
- Yeah. No, it's no good.
No, his punches are slow.
His ground game is weak.
He's worried.
- I would say so, given that
he's about to be killed.
Can you get a location yet?
- No, and actually,
I don't think
this fights even a good idea.
By the way, one of the
Killers came by today.
- You shot one of them?
The man or the woman?
- It was the woman.
- Are you sure it was
one of the Killers?
- Her jacket said
Killers right on it.
These people plaster
the name of their dojo
all over themselves.
They're like crazy.
- I see.
- Listen, an MMA fight
between two married couples,
It's a bit strange.
I think we should cancel
a fight for Max's sake.
Like you said, I don't
wanna see him get killed.
Now as for the other one, Virad.
She's a bit loco
in her own right.
- Oh, on the QT,
has Virad lost any weight yet?
- No, she's really not that
receptive to it either.
- We can't afford to
give her a heart attack.
So gently suggesting a diet
and more exercise program.
- Okay. Listen.
Right now I have a
little bit of a quandary
and I really can't can't talk.
Really?
Come on. Right now.
Hi. Dr. Reno.
- And who the fuck are you?
- I'm Glenn.
I work for Nick.
- So he sends some lackey to
pick me up from the train.
- Can I take your bags?
- Do I look like a
fucking idiot? No.
I can take my bags.
Just take me to Nick.
Come on! Get your ass moving.
- Okay.
- Get up, you lazy bastard!
- Dr. Reno!
- Good to see a kid.
So I'm staying here?
- Of course not.
I got a nice hotel room
picked out for you.
- Hell no, I'm staying on
site in this environment.
I just meant is
this dump my room?
- I'll put you in
another dump room.
- Don't you know how
to treat a guest?
Pick up my fucking bags.
Take them to my room.
- Yes, sir.
- All right!
Get your ass moving!
- Come on, pussy!
Harder!
That's it! Come on!
One! Two!
Three!
You're never gonna
fall down on me again.
Remember, we don't fight
fair, we fight to win.
Now say it.
- We don't fight fair.
We fight to win!
- Zane!
Tantino's rap sheet is clean.
- Shit.
- And I felt really
awkward pulling his file.
- Is everybody a pussy here?
- Zane.
- I'm sorry.
- Look, as prosecutors,
I know we have the
right to investigate,
but I'm real unclear of
what we're doing here.
- Call it.
- Wrestle!
- I think he killed somebody.
- What?
- Like, 20 years ago.
- How, when, where?
How could he be a cop
if he killed somebody.
- I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know.
Give me 50.
Okay, listen to me.
In my office there's a
promotional agreement
for a professional
bout in Jersey City.
I want you to extend that
agreement to Tantino.
And his student.
- I don't understand.
Do you wanna fight Tantino
or do you wanna prosecute him?
- Both.
Get outta here.
Come on!
- Doc, This is the file
with all Anthony's-
- Did you forget I make
my own observations?
There's nothing in that file
that will help this boy.
Right! You stupid prick!
Dr. Reno. Easy.
- Jesus Christ.
I don't know what's
wrong with this kid.
- So that's it.
- Certainly not, you buffoon!
We're gonna have to
get down and dirty!
Dig into his mind.
Get rough with him!
God damn it.
Get his sister down here!
We need her help.
- Got it.
- I wanna do
something for you.
- I hope it's something
better than that rhyme.
- Oh, it is!
- Do it.
- All right.
Well, it's called
pushups for love.
Yeah, 'cause you a hottie
and I love your body
and I wanna get real naughty!
So I do these pushups, baby.
Pushups for love.
Yeah!
- Can we just go get
something to eat?
- Nah, I got like three more.
One pushup more.
For love.
- All let's go.
- What's brown and
hides in the attic?
The diary of Anne Frank.
- I don't get it.
- Yeah, of course you don't.
- 'Course not.
Come on, come on.
- Anne who?
- You know, 30 years back
I could kick higher than
you and hit much harder!
Jesus!
I didn't mean to
make it a challenge.
- You know I'd
never hurt you, Doc.
Anthony. That kid's
the challenge.
I'm gonna really need
your help with him.
- We've got a challenge for you.
- Hey!
Come on in, baby.
- Zane Carroll's
promoting a bout.
10 professional fights.
All weight classes.
- My buddy Zane Carroll, huh?
Where's this gonna take place?
- Jersey City.
- And who does he want to fight?
- This your student?
- No, no, no.
I'm the teacher, honey.
Aren't you a lawyer
or something?
- And a black belt.
- Oh wow.
What a woman!
Hey, take a swing at me, baby.
Whoa!
- Wait a minute,
he wants Anthony
to have a professional
fight in less than a month?
What is he thinking?
- It's against Felix.
He already knocked
him out in school.
Well, I'll tell him
the offer's rejected.
- No, no no. Hold on.
You got a pen?
- I'm not leaving
town for a few days.
So why don't we have
a little pre-fight?
- Who is this guy?
- Don't ask him.
He doesn't know how
to treat a lady.
- Come by my room.
It's kind of a dump, but
I can show you movies
maybe that you
never even heard of.
- So it's on?
- Give that to Mr. Carroll.
- Yeah. Show me the moves.
- I'll see you in,
let's say an hour?
- I'll see and your
sensei in Jersey City.
- Wow.
Really going to
town in that bag, big guy.
Hey, Doc, here's
Dutch and that kid.
- Oh!
Hey!
So, this is my specimen, huh?
Come with me, my son.
So you're the smart ass who's
gonna help me figure out
this conundrum!
What's a condrum?
You asshole.
- What was that?
What's going on?
- I'm back to falsely
arresting criminals.
Is that an oxymoron?
- Get outta here.
Cassie, timeout.
I know it looks
bad, but trust me.
It's all under control.
Believe it or not,
this is my team.
- Cassie, you came!
Cassie, you came!
- Yeah!
- Let me show you!
- Atta boy. Good job, champ.
- Come on, you grimy
little sea urchin.
Come on.
I want you to talk.
- I don't know what
you want me to say.
- Don't be a wise ass.
- Doc. We don't need him.
We can do whatever
this is without him.
- You, hit the bricks!
Hit the bricks!
Oh, come on it. Hit the bricks.
Hit the bricks,
you motherfucker.
Outta here!
It means
leave, let's go.
I'm Dr. Reno.
- Are you a medical doctor?
- He's a psychiatrist.
One of the best.
- That meathead knows this
from personal experience.
You're Anthony's sister?
- Yeah, this is really unusual.
He doesn't normally
rock like this.
- That's because he's
not your usual autistic.
- I should take him home.
- No.
- With all due respect, Dr.
Reno, I don't even know you.
- Your brother is a savant!
Stop rubbing his fucking arms.
- He's autistic.
He's not an idiot.
- He's an autistic savant.
- Calm down. Relax, man.
Calm down.
Just relax.
Shh.
- Anthony understands Spanish
with feelings like
any other person.
- We don't even
communicate in Spanish.
- He knows it innately.
- Cassie.
- Rod Crew, 1977
MVP American League.
National League, 1977
MVP George Foster.
An autistic savant
is a person who has
an exceptional skill.
- In 1977 when Rod Crew
won American League MVP.
- About 10 % of people
with autism are savants.
The most common are
a splinter skills
This is a person with a
hobby, maybe great at trivia,
like MVPs and batting averages.
And then there are those very
few with prodigious skills.
A person who can play an
entire Mozart concerto
on the piano after
hearing it only once.
Or a kid who has fifth
degree black belt abilities
because he saw a
Bruce Lee movie.
It's believed that
there are less than 25
autistic savants in the world
of old prodigious skills.
And Anthony is one of them.
Even more confounding it seems
that Anthony has
two savant skills.
- The Spanish.
- Yes.
That's clearly not
a prodigious skill
because he only seems to
fully relate to the language
when something harshly
negative said to him,
probably a splinter skill.
- But Doc, let me
ask you a question.
How'd you figure out
the whole Spanish thing?
Can I take
your main course?
- What the fuck
is wrong with you?
Can't just see
what talking here?
Get your ass outta here.
So how did I figure it out.
I asked that punk Juan
how the fight started.
They cursed at
Anthony in Spanish.
- That's it? You got
it from just that?
- No, pencil head.
And I read that thick
file you gave me.
What the fuck's the
matter with you?
Almost every kid he
got into a fight with
had a Spanish last name.
The one school he went to
had a very small
Hispanic population.
That's why he had
only one fight there,
but that St. Joe's was
chocked full of Latinos.
Thus, the 14 fights.
This isn't brain surgery, huh?
- So now we have to get
Anthony to understand Spanish
in all different areas.
Not only when it gets him angry.
Dr. Reno, can you
continue to help us?
- No.
- No? What do you mean, Doc?
We really need you here.
- No, no, no.
He needs practical help.
This isn't a mind that can be
manipulated by a psychiatrist.
He just needed the right doctor
to learn what the real deal is.
And now you gotta
use that karate room
and the Spanish language
to hone those skills,
and I ain't gonna be around
when you're calling him
a dick head in Spanish.
No way.
Where the hell is the waiter?
I'm hungry!
- Yeah. That's right.
I'm here at Anthony's
karate school.
Mixed martial arts,
judo, karate, whatever.
It's all the same thing.
No, the cops didn't
bring me here again.
I came by myself 'cause I'm
gonna kick this kid's ass.
- All right, Anthony. All right.
All right. It's
time to get going.
Come on.
- That was just luck.
I wasn't looking!
Well, I guess Felix
wasn't looking either.
Elizabeth, shut up. You're
talking a bunch of crap.
I know you were there.
I'm telling you it
was just dumb luck!
Haven't you ever seen me box?
I'm faster than Mahatma Gandhi!
Well, that's what I
mean, Mohammad Ali.
And you see how many
pushups I can do!
I would have did more if it
wasn't for those stupid cops.
Anyway, I gotta go, all right?
And you're gonna eat your words
'cause I'm gonna kick his ass.
- Hi, Juan.
Hi, Juan.
Hi, Juan. Hi, Juan.
Hi, Juan.
- You know, back in the day,
I could take those punches
kicks from that kid.
- Better than I ever could.
- Oh hell no, not
better than you, Nick.
Not too long ago you were on
your way to being the best.
Let the killing sidetrack you.
- You know, Doc,
some people are dead.
And deservedly so.
I have no regrets.
- Yeah. I agree.
Think about this, Nick.
You became a cop, not
a professional fighter.
Sidetracked you.
But I think now
you're back on track.
Help that kid.
- Thanks, Doc.
Good to see you.
- God bless you, baby.
- Stay well.
- All right. I'm out of here.
- Arrivederci.
- Ladies and gentlemen.
Today a message
needs to be sent.
A message not only heard in
Los Angeles, Washington DC
and New York City, but also
right here in New Jersey.
A message to the
police department,
to the prosecutor's office
and to the public at large.
Stop the corruption.
Stop arresting innocent people
and altogether
ruining their lives.
Stop the power abuse.
That's the beginning
of a closing argument.
Now here's the important message
that I wanna tell
all of you today.
I know that Miss Gause
has told you earlier
that my brother Anthony
has some very rare
and remarkable abilities,
but he needs some help to use
these abilities in a good way.
He needs help from me,
from Officer Tantino,
from Miss Gause and other
teachers here at Hawthorne High.
He also needs your help.
Will you help him?
- Anthony, I'll help you.
- All right, everyone,
clap if you will help
your friend, Anthony.
Come
on guys, let's go!
- I'll try to.
- I'm in.
- All right. Juan,
what about you?
- Oh, come on, Miss Gause.
- Tell Anthony that
you will be his friend.
In Spanish.
- Miss Gause.
- All is forgiven, Juan.
Please help.
- That's very close, Elizabeth.
- No, it's...
- Nick.
Nick and Anthony.
Nick and Anthony.
Nick and Anthony,
Nick and Anthony win!
- And that's it.
Basic wrestling move.
It's a good technique.
I want you to learn it.
Try to follow, my
man. You can do this.
Come on.
Level change, drop the
knee, penetrate, shoot in.
Take somebody right to the mat.
Level change, drop the
knee, penetrate, shoot in.
Can you do it, Anthony?
Okay.
Tell you what.
Nice!
That's what I'm
talking about, kid.
Way to go!
Let's get it on. Come on!
Get them hands up!
Come on!
Whoa, easy!
Ah, easy!
That's it. High five, come on!
Get that upper body strength.
- Music, art, mathematics,
and other skills
such as knowing the time
without seeing a clock
or committing a math to memory
are found that autistic savants.
- Come on. 21!
22! Get that stomach
hard, come on.
23!
- Aside from memory.
Other factors that assist a
savant in honing their skills
include the ability to
focus and concentrate.
The desire to
practice endlessly.
Positive reinforcement from
family, friends, and teachers.
- Watch out. Come on, defend it!
- In rare cases
the person may be
unusually gifted in languages.
- Get that head down.
Good!
Atta boy.
Anthony,
write it in Spanish.
- Every autistic brain may
have untapped savant skills.
- Get ready for the ass kicking
of your life, savant boy.
In the cage.
- What's the matter?
You don't have the guts to
say it to him in Spanish?
And that doesn't
even affect you?
- Why should it?
Herbert Hoover was the president
during the Great Depression.
- Say it in Spanish.
Anthony, I just
don't understand.
- Was that Felix, my student,
I just saw leave here?
- Yes. And he was just
threatening my brother.
- So this is Anthony?
- Yes.
- Look, I'm really
sorry about Felix.
I had a feeling he was
gonna head down here.
You know, I'm gonna
straighten him right out.
Thousand laps around
the gym, I promise you.
- Sure, Zane.
- Really, all he needs a
little bit of charm school.
- Of course, and you're
probably the headmaster
of that school.
- I am.
- Go sit in the car.
- Nice ride.
- I think yours might be a
bit more expensive, Magnum.
- You know, I really
think this is fight
is gonna be great
for these two kids.
Teaches them discipline.
It's in a controlled
environment.
- Nick says the same thing.
- Nick.
I really need to talk
to you about Nick.
- I don't think this is an
appropriate conversation, Zane.
- Anthony would be much better
off training at my school.
Lawyer to lawyer?
- Speak, Mr. Attorney.
Nick Tantino's not the
man you think he is.
- Goodbye.
- He killed someone, Cassie.
In a fight in cold blood.
Is that the type of man
you want training Anthony?
- Prove it to me.
- I will.
You bet your sweet ass I will.
- That was fantastic.
I'm so glad we got
together again.
After all this time,
you were on fire!
I guess fighting
keeps you strong.
Pass me the strawberries.
These past few months
I've been so lonely.
If I'm telling the truth,
the past year really.
I want another kiss.
- You know, I could
see us rekindling
those old high school flames.
Jill, I need you to
tell me something.
Something about Nick.
It'll really help
me with the divorce.
The more you help me,
the more I can help you.
I mean, the truth is he doesn't
even deserve this house.
He doesn't even
deserve half of it.
Okay?
Did I tell you how
beautiful you are?
Did I?
Hey.
What you doing?
- Something that I couldn't
do in the prosecutor's office.
- This isn't true.
- It's Nick Tantino's
international rap sheet.
- This says he was
charged, but not convicted
of murdering somebody
in Italy when he was 22?
This is isn't real!
- Does it matter?
He did kill somebody in Italy.
Who cares if he
was never charged.
This is in the International
Criminal Justice
computer system now.
Because I added it.
When he applied to be a cop,
there was no international
computer system.
So now it's been discovered.
I want you to give it to
Cassie tomorrow, okay?
- Okay, Zane.
- Thank you.
- Nice work, Cassie.
- Thank you.
See you at the office?
- Nope. I am going
to get a beer.
- Okay.
- Maybe two.
- Hello Sandra.
- Always a pleasure, Megan.
- Cassie, I'd love
to speak to you.
- That's funny Megan
'cause I wanted to
speak with you as well.
- I bet my conversation's
more interesting
than your conversation.
- I'm not so sure about that.
Do you know Jill, Nick's
soon to be ex-wife?
- Sure.
Real bombshell.
Hard act to follow.
- Yeah.
It seems that Jill likes to
videotape herself with men.
A new hobby.
Yeah.
And it also seems that
Zane wanted to hear
that Nick was a murderer.
And when Jill told him that
that just wasn't the case,
Zane didn't like that very
much so he cut her off.
Now Jill's a wee bit upset.
- Well, what you'll see in
this file is also not true.
It's another phony
act from Zane.
- Trenton's the
capital of New Jersey.
Trenton, the capital.
Patterson, Passaic,
Camden, Jersey City.
- Come on, Anthony. Fight back.
- Big cities.
Trenton, the capital.
- At least block.
- Trenton, the capital.
- Patterson, Passaic,
Camden, Jersey City, Newark.
- Tap, tap!
- What was that?
- That was a flying arm bar.
I've been training in
martial arts for a long time,
I could never master that move.
- He's doing so good.
I mean, I get energized
every time I work with him.
His progress. It's amazing.
- I know, it's amazing!
I mean, he's on again off again
and I mean, I don't think
he'll ever be totally cured,
but the improvements
are just unbelievable!
- You know?
I wonder why he never
responded to Spanish before,
unless it was something violent.
- Yeah. I mean we
never spoke it at home.
We're completely Americanized.
I mean, I only know Spanish
from taking classes,
and Anthony never
learned it at school.
Kids rarely even spoke to him.
I mean they spoke
in front of him,
but I think there's
a big difference.
He was never
nurtured in Spanish.
- You know, what
worries me is that
Felix knows that, and he's
not gonna be cursing him
on the night of the fight.
- Do you know what
he just said to me?
He just said that you
can master that move
if he worked on it with you.
- He did not say that.
- He did say that.
- Are you sure he said that?
- I'm sure. I'm positive.
Well,
I'll tell you Jack,
we got a lot of excitement
in this place tonight.
Richard Winfield
is sheer muscle
with some serious
jujitsu skills.
- These guys got energy going.
This is the way to fight.
What happened at
Henderson's body?
Winfield is punching
his lights out!
This is crazy!
This is an all out street brawl!
Unbelievable!
- Look at this guy hit!
I tell you what if I got
hit with one of those,
I'd be in the back row here.
I'm telling you!
- Here we go, round two.
Nicky Nevels
to Roy Rivers apart
in the first one.
This guy's an
incredible grappler.
He's got skills in every area,
but it's on the mat
where he really shines.
Oh my goodness!
Man, he can really
round up a punch,
This one's
gonna be a bloody finish.
And there we go!
Ladies and gentleman,
what's a fight without
the flip at the end?
Well, I'll tell you Jack,
we got a lot of excitement
in this place tonight.
Now, I just love this story, Al.
Two 18 year old high-schoolers.
Felix Sanchez, who's
already fought and won
in five professional fights.
And Anthony Rodriguez,
an autistic savant
who fights with
magic from within.
What are you doing?
Getting ready.
What are you doing?
- Getting ready to fight.
Not Anthony?
- No, not Anthony.
Why don't you sit
down for a minute.
Look, your brother's
got incredible talent,
but these prodigious
fighting skills,
they only come out when
he's taunted in Spanish.
Felix knows that.
I'm sure he's gonna
do everything he can
to speak to him
strictly in English.
Even if I'm on the sideline,
yelling nasty things
to him in Espanol,
it's too much of a risk.
We'll continue to work out.
But I found the training has
helped him so much mentally
and that's so much
more important.
I don't wanna see
him get in that cage
and make a spectacle of himself,
and I'm not gonna
let him get hurt.
- I'm falling in love with you.
- I'm already in love.
- So you're gonna
fight Felix instead?
- No.
I'm gonna fight Zane Carroll.
Oh my goodness!
And there it is.
Another fight comes to an end.
The crowd is on their feet,
but people got their
money's worth tonight.
And we haven't even
hit the main event.
I've gotta tell
you though, Grady.
This next one is the one
that I've been waiting for.
- Time to win, Nick.
- Win Nick. Win.
Win. Win, Nick.
- Ladies and gentlemen!
What's this?
They're saying there's a
change in the fight lineup.
- Nick Tantino the cop, pulled
Rodriguez at the last second.
Any reason why?
- We don't know why,
but I'll tell you,
there's an awful
lot of animosity
between he and Zane
Carroll the prosecutor.
- In the red corner, fighting
out of the Spitfire Academy
in Hawthorne, New Jersey,
standing six feet, two inches
and weighing 215 pounds,
Zane "The Persecutor" Carroll!
Both senseis are
from the same New Jersey town.
Neither has fought
professional in years,
but both were stars on the rise.
- And in the blue corner,
also fighting out of
Hawthorne, New Jersey,
representing the Hawthorn
Institute of Martial Arts,
standing six feet and
weighing in at 225 pounds,
Nick "The Law Man" Tantino!
The referee, Samad Raphael.
- All right gentlemen, you
know exactly what time it is.
I want a good clean fight.
You obey my commands
at all times.
Gentlemen, tap
gloves and back up.
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
- Here we go.
- Fight!
Oh!
Nick Tantino disrespected
right off the bat by Carroll.
- Come on, Nick!
I tell you,
this isn't a cop
you wanna meet on the street.
You got that right.
- Straight right by Nick.
- That's gotta hurt.
- Yes! Come on, Nick!
He's gotta switch it up.
That's a low blow
to the groin by Zane Carroll!
I think he's in trouble.
Yeah, he's
got him in trouble now.
Chalk one up
for the police, Grady!
- I tell you what, this
one is O-V-A, over!
- Counselor just got schooled.
- Get off me! Get off me!
Stay down, sucker!
Nick, Nick,
Nick, Nick, Nick!
- Come on, you.
Cover up!
Okay, okay, okay. All
right, you got me.
- It appears as if you've
succeeded with the kid.
I think we'll take
you back on patrol.
That's if I don't wanna retire.
- Once a blue, always blue.
- Don't retire just yet.
That elbow was lucky.
I'll fight you again right now.
- Hey, what do you
say to a prosecutor
that just got his ass
kicked in a fight?
You have the right
to remain silent.
You're under arrest
- For what?
- How about official misconduct
for initiating an
illegitimate law enforcement
investigation against Nick,
for tampering with
government computers
and creating a false rap sheet.
- None of this crap
will hold up in court.
- You have the right
to an attorney.
You know that already.
You can't afford an
attorney, sell the Ferrari.
- Let's go!
Come on, the tire
can't beat you!
Come on, it's Zane Carroll
and he's beating you!
You want a soda?
- No soda. No soda.
Cassie says no soda..
- Anthony, orange
juice or water?
- Milkshake.
I want a milkshake.
- There you go.
You got your order.
- You want a milkshake too?
- No, I'll stick with the water.
Anthony, you wanna try the tire?
- I better tell you
this in English.
You probably not
gonna totally get it,
which is okay, but at least
I'll get it off my chest.
You see Zane was trying
to convince your sister
that I killed somebody.
A long time ago in Italy, I
went to visit my grandfather.
He wasn't paying to the people
that he was supposed to pay to,
so they sent some
guys over to his house
to straighten him out.
I saw what they were doing,
Anthony, and I snapped.
You understand what
I'm telling you?
I will tell her.
Atta boy.
Come on. Don't stop.
A little harder.
Come on!
From Jersey City, New Jersey
it's the local attraction
that you've all
been waiting for!
I just
love this throw down.
The prosecutor versus the cop.
The two senseis both have
competing MMA schools
in the same New Jersey town.
Two of their students,
Felix Sanchez,
who's already fought and won
in five professional fights,
and Anthony Rodriguez.
Check it out.
An autistic savant who fights
with magic from within.
Oh my God. He's got him.
He's in trouble here.
I think so.
- Judge, I wanna object, but
it's more that I'm confused.
Could you instruct Mr. Carroll
to stop staring at my client?
Mr. Carroll.
Mr. Carroll, are we
going to continue?
- He's the guy.
He's the guy you saw
bludgeoning the victim
when you arrived at the party?
- Bludgeoning? No,
not bludgeoning.
He was punching the one kid
who was punching him back.
Please
let the court reflect
that Officer Tantino just
identified the defendant.
So reflected.
- So let me get this straight.
When you arrived at the party
you and Sergeant Radinsky
had to physically separate
Pella from the victim.
- Yeah, I had to grab one kid
and Sergeant Radinsky
grabbed the other kid.
They weren't locked in mortal
combat, fighting to the death.
These are two young kids
that had a little scuffle.
- Thank you.
No further questions, Officer.
- You know, you
really exaggerating
what happened there, counselor?
- I said no more questions.
Officer,
you can't just open
statements on your own.
- That means you're done.
You don't make speeches.
You understand?
But of course,
now that defensive
court's examined you...
Miss Rodriguez.
- So, Officer Tantino.
You seem to have more testimony.
What exactly did happen?
We didn't make any arrests
and no complaints were signed,
but the victim in this case
decided to pursue
the matter in court
after speaking with
Mr. Carroll here,
who I believe is not
only the prosecutor,
but it's also his
martial arts sensei.
- I object, Your Honor.
- Yeah, I guess since he
didn't train his student
well enough to defend themselves
in the street-
- I object!
- I figured you
have another chance
at winning in court today!
I'm looking for justice,
what are you looking
for, counselor?
- So three guys are at a party
arguing about who's
got the best memory.
- God help me.
- First guy says, "I
remember my mother
putting on my diaper."
Second guy says, "I
remember being born."
Third guy says that's nothing.
I remember going to a
party with my father
and coming home with my mother.
Stop!
God, that's almost as funny as
why did the pothead
cross the road.
- Who else would
follow a chicken?
- Hang on.
Yeah. Detective Toney.
Right.
Right, gotcha. Thank you.
Woods is on his way to the barn
and Nick is on
his way after him.
- We're off like a prom dress.
- Oh please! God,
you're so terrible.
Just come with me.
- Hey!
Cone beef special today, Nick?
- No, not here for lunch today.
- Oh, here for Bobby?
- That scumbag's inside, right?
Oh, here we go.
- Hey, baby. How's it going?
- Bobby Woods.
Got a warrant for your arrest.
Looks like possession of cocaine
with the intent
of distribute it.
That's ugly.
Turn around, put your
hands behind your back.
- Sure, Nick.
- Don't move.
- Drop the goddamn knife!
- Don't do it, Bobby!
- Drop the knife!
Drop it, Bobby!
- Just relax. Don't hurt her.
You never could fight
like a man, could you?
- What is the greatest
American pastime?
Is it hockey?
No, Sensei!
- Is it soccer?
No, Sensei!
- Is it even football?
No, Sensei!
- What is the greatest
American pastime, Frank?
- Baseball, Sensei!
- That's right.
Why is it baseball, Megan?
- It's statistics, Sensei!
- That's right.
It's statistics.
Stat!
- 70 home runs, Sensei!
- Stat!
- 150 RBI, Sensei!
- Stat!
- 300 strike out, Sensei!
- Stat!
- 30 wins, Sensei!
- Stat!
- 400 batting average, Sensei!
- And is this a game?
- No, Sensei.
- Is what we do here a pastime?
No, Sensei!
This is real!
It's out way of life!
- And you know what happens
when you don't properly train?
This could happen
to you at a party.
This could happen
to you at a bar.
This could happen to
you on the street.
Megan, get this little
girl off my mat.
Class.
Dan, Felix. Contact.
- Don't start.
- I'm not even gonna ask.
But it couldn't have happened
to a more liberal judge.
- Officer Tantino!
- Chief's looking for you!
- Officer Tantino!
Sandra Chilton.
I represent Judge DeMitro.
- What can I do for
you Miss Chilton?
- Don't you think it's
a tad disrespectful
arresting the
judge in his robes?
- Disrespectful?
I let him put it on.
- I don't understand.
- The only thing the judge
was wearing when I found him
was that gag in his
mouth, and nothing else.
- Oh, now that is ridiculous.
- You got something
to say, Judge?
- The State Supreme Court
has put our free speech
rights in jeopardy.
I've done all that I
can in the courtroom.
Now I'm taking it
to the streets.
Gagged and naked is
how they have left us.
So gagged and naked
is how I will be.
Officer put that gag
back in my mouth.
- Oh, Judge.
- And besides, I'm the most
muscular judge on the planet.
Have you seen the size
of my arms and my chest?
And everything else that
I have going on.
- All right, that's it.
I don't wanna hear
about your physique.
Let's go.
Hey.
- Hey.
Chief wants you, Nick.
- Yeah, yeah.
- I bet the chief is
livid about this arrest.
- Why is it that you have to
get suspended so many times?
- I'm being suspended for
speaking the truth in court?
- How about Zane Carroll, Nick?
Why do you wanna
embarrass this guy?
He's part of our team.
- He's a dangerous person.
- He's a powerful person, Nick.
- You have any idea how badly
I'd like to kick his ass?
- You couldn't.
- Yeah, sure.
- Zane Carroll wants
your head in a basket.
I'm not gonna give
it to him of course,
because you're my boy.
- Thank you.
- Don't thank me yet.
I have a new assignment for you.
A little change
of scenery, Nick.
At the high school.
- So, how much can
you bench press?
- Really?
- Come on! What's your bench?
I would say 300 pounds?
- Yeah.
- So if you had to
pick one of these kids
who'd become a murderer,
who would it be?
- I don't know.
Shouldn't be doing
something about that?
Is it my job to stop them?
- I don't think so.
Face off again.
- So what's your job here?
- I have no idea.
- Anybody tell me who are
some of the major players
in the courtroom in the
criminal justice system?
Could be a man or a woman
who sits at the bench.
- Come on, guys.
He's the one who makes
all the decisions.
- He's the judge.
- Right.
- I know because my mom just
paid them a lot of fines
for drunk driving.
- Thank you, Juan,
I think that's more than we need to know.
- Oh yeah. There's also a
lot of pigs in the court too.
I think the men and women
in blue have a more proper name.
- Police officers.
- Yes. I think what Juan meant
to say was police officer.
Now, Anthony, I get
that you know a lot
about the courtroom with
your sister being a lawyer.
- Anthony, can you help us out?
- Bet you she's in the
court all the time, right?
Cassie is a defense attorney.
Anthony, do you
wanna try and tell us
what she does in the courtroom?
- He's not gonna
answer you Miss Gause.
He never does.
- Okay.
- We all might be a little
slow in here, but Anthony.
That's a real moron.
Hey!
We don't like new
kids in our school!
Especially real stupid
ones that don't talk!
Okay, get up
and go to the vice
principle's office.
- What, you're taking a
dumb's side, Miss Gause?
That's enough, Juan!
Let's go!
- I don't need to be here.
- Leave.
- Whatever.
Excuse me!
- Get out.
- Leave.
- I hope you enjoy your last
few moments here alone, Nick.
- You obviously have a point.
Why don't you make it?
- I'm buying this school.
I outbid you.
- How do you get
a fat girl in bed?
Piece of cake!
- Good one, Dutch.
You and I, we're on
the contract, right?
- Yes. For y'all.
- No, no, no. That's
for the building.
Stevie Ray, he owns
the martial arts school
and I just offered him 10 more
large than Nicky boy here.
- You know what a
crying shame is?
A crying shame is a busload
of lawyers going over a cliff
with two empty seats.
- With two empty seats.
- Yeah. I've never
heard that one before.
- Don't pretend you
got a sense of humor.
Stevie's has been bullshitting
you and Mr. Prosecutor.
I've got a lien on the school.
A failure to pay
rent, and the sale
of the Hawthorn Institute
of Martial Arts goes to...
Drum roll!
Nick Tantino.
- We'll see about that.
Maybe in court.
- Yeah, maybe.
- Hey, we can settle this now.
- Step on the mat, counselor.
- No, don't.
- Okay, guys.
- Appreciate you having my back.
It means a lot. Thanks.
- Don't thank me.
Pay me.
Got it.
- Miss Gause, I'm
Cassie Rodriguez.
- Please have a seat.
- Thank you.
- You settling into New
Jersey life all right?
Must be a huge adjustment
after living your
whole life in Florida.
- Oh no, not my whole life.
Anthony and I were actually
both born in Manhattan.
Then after my parents
died, we moved to Tampa.
We lived with our grandmother
and then unfortunately she
passed when I was just 19.
So it's just been Anthony
and I ever since then.
- Wow, I had no idea.
I'm really sorry.
- Oh, thank you.
So how's Anthony doing?
- Well, I'm very glad
we're having this meeting
because I do have
some serious concerns.
- Okay.
- He hasn't connected
with anyone.
Not me, not my aide, Mr.
Watson, not a single student.
- Well, he just needs more time
and then he'll warm
up to a few students.
- Well, we haven't seen even
the slightest
indication of that yet.
I get to receive
much information
from his previous high school.
But I see here that it
says that his diagnosis
is autism, not Asperger's.
- No doctors have
said that he showed
some signs of Asperger's,
like high intelligence.
I'm sure you've seen
that in his schoolwork.
- Yes. The high intelligence
is very evident from his tests.
And honestly that's
the main reason
I have yet to refer him to an
alternative school setting.
- No, he doesn't need an
alternative school setting.
This is the right place for him.
Trust me on this.
At home he's very organized
and he knows exactly what he
needs to do for your class.
And he speaks to me
in full sentences
the majority of the time.
He will talk to you.
He will communicate with you.
Just, he just needs a
little bit more time.
- Well, it's obvious that
you know your brother
better than anybody here.
We'll give him a
little more time.
Say a month or so,
but we really do need to
see some social progress.
At minimum some
more communication.
- Thank you, Miss Gause.
I really appreciate it.
And I'd be more than happy
to be a guest speaker.
- Oh, that would be great.
Yes. I think that that will
really help motivate Anthony.
- Yes, I do too.
Thank you.
And the capital of Maine is?
- Augusta.
- Right, Vermont!
- Montpelier.
- Good!
- The capital of New
Hampshire is Concord.
A couple of Connecticut
if Hartford.
The capital of Rhode
Island is Providence.
New York, Albany.
- Very good, keep going!
The capital of
Delaware is Dover.
A capital of Maryland
is Annapolis.
- See Anthony, this is what
you need to do at school.
Speak to people in
complete sentences.
Do you think you
could try and do that?
- I'm hungry.
What's your dinner?
- Hello, Nicholas.
- Hey, Jill.
- So this is the place.
- Yeah, this is it.
Let me give you a tour?
- Sure.
- This is the weight room.
- I can see that.
- This is the women's change
room, lockers and showers.
You look good.
- Thank you.
So do you.
- This is the men's room.
Got some sweaty, athletic
guys hanging out in there.
Could see you spending
some time there.
- Not funny, Nick.
- Oh, and back there is
just an unfinished area.
Still working on it.
- What are you gonna do with it?
- Gonna finish it.
Come on.
Can't wait to show you this.
This.
This is the main fight room.
It's where it's
all gonna go down.
Pretty nice, right?
- It's a palace.
Palace for you, Nicholas.
- Jill, this is what I want.
This is what I need.
- What you need is just
support me, your wife.
And not spend our entire
savings on a midlife crisis.
How many students do you have?
- It's not about
students right now.
It's about having
a place to train.
Get back into shape and
fight professionally again.
- Nick, that was 15 years ago.
And are you kidding me?
This entire place for just you?
- Jill, you know
what? I've had enough.
I can't stand my job.
I don't wanna be a cop anymore.
They've got me babysitting
kids in high school.
I just wanna fight.
- I'm not going
down with you, Nick.
I've stood by you through
all your suspensions,
all your violence.
Yeah. You've been
a gentleman to me.
But all your violence?
And that one time long ago.
How many women would have
stood by you for that?
No more.
You've got a shower
here, move in.
This is your new home.
I came here hoping that I
wouldn't have to give you this.
It's over, Nick.
Funny how you don't fight this.
Food, food,
food, food, food, food,
food, food, food, food.
- Anthony, you have to
get along at school.
You have to participate.
Miss Gause called my office.
She wants me to be
a guest speaker.
- Guest speaker. Good.
Good. You'll be a
good guest speaker.
- Anthony.
They don't know about your past
and what happened in Florida.
- Yeah, I'm tubby.
But that's the dummy.
- Yeah.
You are one moronic son
of a bitch, aren't you?
Yo.
This will wake you
from your sleep.
- Hey!
Hey, get off!
Hey!
Calm down.
Relax. It's okay.
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
- Let me try to
understand this, Mr. Pare.
Your client is charged
with a triple homicide
and you want me to
release him ROR?
- That's right, Judge.
I think there should be
no bail in this case.
- The prosecutor has made an
application for $1 million.
No 10 %.
And that's reasonable.
Well, your request
is, how do I say this?
Absurd.
- Judge, that is not correct.
- Excuse me?
- As you know, under
State v. Johnson
there are three criteria to
evaluate when setting the bail.
Does the defendant
pose a flight risk?
Is he a potential threat to
the community if released?
And is the prosecution likely
to win the case on the merits?
- Thank you for
the legal brush-up.
- I think you could use it here.
- And I think you're getting
very close to contempt.
- My client is a lifelong
resident of this community.
He's a doctor with a
practice right here in town.
Look at the support here
today for Dr. Clark.
What do you say?
- Don't put my doctor in jail!
- What do you think?
- Free Dr. Clark!
- Free Dr. Clark!
- Sit down, ma'am.
- Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
- Order!
Quiet in this courtroom!
Order!
- Free Dr. Clark!
- Sit down!
Free Dr. Clark!
- Mr. Pare, that was
completely inappropriate
and impermissible conduct!
- Judge. I am just pointing
out that Dr. Clark is loved.
The man is an important
part of this town.
He is not going anywhere, Judge.
My client is not a flight risk.
Beyond that, he poses no
danger to this community.
The allegations are that
he assisted three people
in peacefully
ending their lives.
Three people with
terminal illnesses.
And that brings us to the third
prong of the Johnson test.
The prosecution is unlikely
to succeed at trial.
The case law is very clear.
That assisted suicide
cases or not prosecutable.
Not in the modern
criminal justice system.
Mr. Pare, what do you
think the odds are
that president Trump will appoint you to the Supreme Court?
It would be an honor
that I would consider-
- It's a rhetorical
question, Mr. Pare.
And the answer is zero.
You have a 0 % chance of
ever getting appointed
to the Supreme Court!
And you have even
exactly the same odds
of me granting you
your application.
Now, Dr. Clark here shot
three people in the head
at a gas station.
It was all caught on video.
None of the three victims that
he shot were his patients!
And none of the three victims
had a terminal illness.
- They were heroin
addicts, Judge.
They could have
ODed at any time.
- $2 million Dollars cash bail!
No 10 %, and no bond!
- Don't worry about it.
We'll work something
out. It's not a big deal.
- Not a big deal?
- It's just a setback.
She'll come down, we'll
work something out.
- Dr. Clark, please stand up.
Look, Dr. Clark, there's
a lot of good things
you can do in prison.
There's a lot of
sick people in there
and not a lot of good doctors.
Sal is just gonna escort you
back to the holding cell.
Okay?
- You'll be okay.
We'll talk soon.
- Well, Shane that
was a pretty creative
and entertaining
to say the least.
The prosecutor has a slam dunk.
I'm gonna plead him out.
Still probably get about
five figures though.
- I don't believe the
bullshit guys pedal.
- Is it that much different
than what you do in
an interrogation?
- Probably not.
Listen. I've known
you for a long time
and I've never asked
you for anything.
- You got me knocked
out three times
in fights you started and you
walked away without a scratch.
- It's 'cause you
can't fight for shit.
And I'm a lot tougher than you.
But really, listen.
What do you know about
autistic kids in high school
and fighting in the law?
- That's a lot of questions.
- I'll tell you what,
why don't we discuss it
over a cold beer?
- Long as you're buying.
- Okay, Mr. Five Figures.
- I haven't got my money yet.
- This is where it happened
over by this basket.
Really, I've never seen
anything quite like it before.
So athletic, but brutal.
He's autistic?
- Yes, but he's not brutal.
- Miss Rodriguez.
When we spoke you didn't
tell me about Anthony's past,
and today our principal did.
- I have Anthony's files
from South Tampa High School.
9th and 10th grades.
Seven fights, four
suspensions, one expulsion.
11th grade, well, half of it,
three broken ribs, one broken
nose and several stitches.
Mind you, that was
three different boys.
Now, here's my favorite.
The balance of 11th grade
and one month of 12th
grade at St. Joe's.
14 fights.
- You don't have to say
anything else, Dr. Conci.
- Priests and nuns, perhaps
have a little bit more patience
with their students,
maybe because they have
a certain higher calling
they're beholden to.
As principal of a
public high school,
I have a different higher
calling to deal with.
A superintendent and
a board of education,
and they're worried about
things like getting sued.
- I could definitely
see a lawsuit here.
He mercilessly
beat Felix and won.
No provocation.
- Excuse me?
That's not accurate.
You were there and you know
it didn't happen that way.
Look, both of these kids
were teasing Anthony,
almost to the point
of harassment.
And the one kid, Felix,
he whipped the ball
in Anthony's chest
from point blank range and
then he put his hands on him.
- This is the kind of thing
that's happened before.
Anthony gets provoked.
- It seems so this time
based on what Officer
Tantino witnessed,
but all his prior
schools seem to describe
a ticking time bomb.
- And we've discussed
his antisocial behavior.
With this new development,
I really think
that he needs to go
to an alternative
school setting.
- No!
- I'm sorry.
- Look, he's already
in a special ed class
and I really don't want
him anymore labeled.
- I'm sorry, Miss Rodriguez.
But his past is so
very, very troubled.
- Look, Dr. Conci.
What if I was personally
responsible for Anthony?
- What?
- What?
- I mean, I'm here as the
school resource officer.
I'm supposed to
be teaching kids.
What if I focus all my energy
and concentrate on
just one student?
I'm a veteran police officer
and a seasoned black belt.
I know I could help that
kid curb his violence.
I could help him control it
and maybe even find
out what causes it.
- Okay.
I'm sure if it was under
your constant supervision
you could protect
the other students,
but you don't have any education
or experience working with
autistic children, do you?
- You're right, I
don't have any training
or expertise in autism,
but that kid made direct
eye contact with me.
Now, that's not usual
with autistic kids.
Am I right?
- That's absolutely right.
- I mean, I've been around
the block a few times
and I know a few
things about combat.
There was something strange
going on with that kid
when he was fighting those boys,
something that took him
completely out of his cocoon.
I want the opportunity
to train Anthony.
I know that through
the martial arts
I could help them cultivate
and develop those
incredible skills he has.
- You not only want us to
keep him in high school,
but you want us to
allow you to teach him
how to fight even more?
- Well, yeah.
I'm gonna teach you
some grappling, Anthony.
Now watch this.
Let's show him arm bar.
Anthony, pay attention.
I have Glenn's arm
and if he doesn't tap,
his arm's gonna break.
Okay!
- I hope you got this
kid on a short leash.
- Very short.
It was no small task
convincing the superintendent.
- I don't know, man.
I really wanna help this kid.
Maybe we'll show him some kicks.
Get your helmet on. Come on
Please, Anthony.
All right. This is
the roundhouse kick.
I got a low kick to the thigh.
Up to the ribs. Nice and high.
Nice head kick, Anthony,
roundhouse to the head.
- I better see some
results in 60 days.
- Like what?
- How should I know?
I don't know anything
about retarded kids.
- I wanna teach you that, man.
You're gonna get it.
Get up.
Anthony.
Anthony!
Anthony!
- You know, I really
love you guys.
You're not just my students.
You're my family.
I really feel like
I'm letting you down.
I mean, is it me?
Or is it you?
Riley, you got your
ass kicked at a party.
Is it me?
Or is it you?
And a week before that,
Toby, you got your tooth
knocked out in a bar fight.
Is it me?
Or is it you?
And Felix.
Felix.
My prize.
My top student.
A brilliant pugilist.
An 18 year old
high school senior
who's never lost a
tournament fight.
5-0, beaten MMA stars
with years of experience,
and you get your ass kicked in
gym class by an autistic kid.
So I asked you again.
Is it me, or is it you?
Is it me, or is it you?
It's me! It's me!
It's me! It's me!
It's me! It's me!
It's me!
It's me.
- What about his father?
A certain criminal.
A man responsible for
probably many deaths.
- So then why should he worry
about letting his father go?
He couldn't be expected
to do everything right.
He couldn't be loyal to
everything all at once.
- Still teaching that
American literature.
Private lesson I'm assuming.
- That's the only kind I do now.
- Katerina, can you
give me a minute?
- Of course, Professor Cooper.
- How is New Jersey?
- I have a problem
in our other world.
There's this cop.
He's got so far under my skin.
I just wanna rip his throat out,
I just wanna kill him.
- Focus!
Streamline.
Think about what you need.
The cop has
been training this kid
and he's embarrassed
my most prized student.
- Sounds simple.
- It's more complicated.
The kid is...
He's handicapped, he's autistic.
- Do you remember how
I taught you to fight?
Our creed?
- Not only do I
remember it, Sensei.
I teach it.
- Then live it.
Modify your officer in
every way that you can,
in every aspect of his life.
- And the student?
- You owe your
student your loyalty.
And remember,
you can't be expected to be
loyal to everything all at once.
- Katerina!
- Yes!
- Where were we here?
- Here!
- Megan, come in here
for a moment please.
- Hello?
- Felix.
I want you to come here before
school tomorrow morning.
We're gonna start a
new type of training.
I need you to run a criminal
case history for me.
- On who?
- Nick Tantino.
- But he's a cop.
- So I'm investigating him.
- About what?
- Fraud.
- Falsifying his law
enforcement job application.
- Aren't we a little past
the statute of limitations?
- Just listen to
me for a second.
I heard a story about him
and I just wanna find
out if it's true.
If it is, then lying
on his application
will be the least
of his troubles.
But it's what I need to
legally investigate him.
- So, you want me to
do this at the office?
- Of course.
Where else?
Thank you.
- How's Anthony been doing?
Has he been taking any interest
in the martial arts training?
- Not yet.
I can't get him to
say two words to me.
I don't know if he's
absorbing the techniques.
- He's been talking
about you here at home.
- He has? Really?
- Yeah, and for
him to talk about
someone so quickly is unusual.
Anthony! Dinner!
You know, most autistic kids
lose a previously
acquired ability
to speak sentences
or even words.
- But Anthony?
- Anthony has
actually progressed.
There's high functioning
autism, sometimes called PDD NOS
and then there's
diagnostic categories
such as Rett syndrome
and fragile X syndrome.
This disorder is very confusing.
I mean, there are
some autistic kids
that have the messiest
desks at school,
and there are some
of the neatest ones.
But there's one unifying factor.
All have difficulty
communicating
and interacting with others.
Anthony! Dinner!
- There he is.
- My brother sure does
communicate when he wants to do,
through aberrational,
reflexive and fighting skills.
How do we figure this out?
How do we put this
to a positive use?
- You know, I think
I have somebody
that I can bring into the fold
that can really help us.
- Another martial
arts instructor?
- Well, sort of.
- Why'd you lie to me?
- I didn't lie!
- Oh, no?
You sent me an email saying
you're African-American.
That's obviously a lie.
- You wanna answer that?
- If I get this phone, you'd
better not make a sound.
You understand? Not a peep.
Nick Tantino.
- Update.
- Yeah. No, it's no good.
No, his punches are slow.
His ground game is weak.
He's worried.
- I would say so, given that
he's about to be killed.
Can you get a location yet?
- No, and actually,
I don't think
this fights even a good idea.
By the way, one of the
Killers came by today.
- You shot one of them?
The man or the woman?
- It was the woman.
- Are you sure it was
one of the Killers?
- Her jacket said
Killers right on it.
These people plaster
the name of their dojo
all over themselves.
They're like crazy.
- I see.
- Listen, an MMA fight
between two married couples,
It's a bit strange.
I think we should cancel
a fight for Max's sake.
Like you said, I don't
wanna see him get killed.
Now as for the other one, Virad.
She's a bit loco
in her own right.
- Oh, on the QT,
has Virad lost any weight yet?
- No, she's really not that
receptive to it either.
- We can't afford to
give her a heart attack.
So gently suggesting a diet
and more exercise program.
- Okay. Listen.
Right now I have a
little bit of a quandary
and I really can't can't talk.
Really?
Come on. Right now.
Hi. Dr. Reno.
- And who the fuck are you?
- I'm Glenn.
I work for Nick.
- So he sends some lackey to
pick me up from the train.
- Can I take your bags?
- Do I look like a
fucking idiot? No.
I can take my bags.
Just take me to Nick.
Come on! Get your ass moving.
- Okay.
- Get up, you lazy bastard!
- Dr. Reno!
- Good to see a kid.
So I'm staying here?
- Of course not.
I got a nice hotel room
picked out for you.
- Hell no, I'm staying on
site in this environment.
I just meant is
this dump my room?
- I'll put you in
another dump room.
- Don't you know how
to treat a guest?
Pick up my fucking bags.
Take them to my room.
- Yes, sir.
- All right!
Get your ass moving!
- Come on, pussy!
Harder!
That's it! Come on!
One! Two!
Three!
You're never gonna
fall down on me again.
Remember, we don't fight
fair, we fight to win.
Now say it.
- We don't fight fair.
We fight to win!
- Zane!
Tantino's rap sheet is clean.
- Shit.
- And I felt really
awkward pulling his file.
- Is everybody a pussy here?
- Zane.
- I'm sorry.
- Look, as prosecutors,
I know we have the
right to investigate,
but I'm real unclear of
what we're doing here.
- Call it.
- Wrestle!
- I think he killed somebody.
- What?
- Like, 20 years ago.
- How, when, where?
How could he be a cop
if he killed somebody.
- I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know.
Give me 50.
Okay, listen to me.
In my office there's a
promotional agreement
for a professional
bout in Jersey City.
I want you to extend that
agreement to Tantino.
And his student.
- I don't understand.
Do you wanna fight Tantino
or do you wanna prosecute him?
- Both.
Get outta here.
Come on!
- Doc, This is the file
with all Anthony's-
- Did you forget I make
my own observations?
There's nothing in that file
that will help this boy.
Right! You stupid prick!
Dr. Reno. Easy.
- Jesus Christ.
I don't know what's
wrong with this kid.
- So that's it.
- Certainly not, you buffoon!
We're gonna have to
get down and dirty!
Dig into his mind.
Get rough with him!
God damn it.
Get his sister down here!
We need her help.
- Got it.
- I wanna do
something for you.
- I hope it's something
better than that rhyme.
- Oh, it is!
- Do it.
- All right.
Well, it's called
pushups for love.
Yeah, 'cause you a hottie
and I love your body
and I wanna get real naughty!
So I do these pushups, baby.
Pushups for love.
Yeah!
- Can we just go get
something to eat?
- Nah, I got like three more.
One pushup more.
For love.
- All let's go.
- What's brown and
hides in the attic?
The diary of Anne Frank.
- I don't get it.
- Yeah, of course you don't.
- 'Course not.
Come on, come on.
- Anne who?
- You know, 30 years back
I could kick higher than
you and hit much harder!
Jesus!
I didn't mean to
make it a challenge.
- You know I'd
never hurt you, Doc.
Anthony. That kid's
the challenge.
I'm gonna really need
your help with him.
- We've got a challenge for you.
- Hey!
Come on in, baby.
- Zane Carroll's
promoting a bout.
10 professional fights.
All weight classes.
- My buddy Zane Carroll, huh?
Where's this gonna take place?
- Jersey City.
- And who does he want to fight?
- This your student?
- No, no, no.
I'm the teacher, honey.
Aren't you a lawyer
or something?
- And a black belt.
- Oh wow.
What a woman!
Hey, take a swing at me, baby.
Whoa!
- Wait a minute,
he wants Anthony
to have a professional
fight in less than a month?
What is he thinking?
- It's against Felix.
He already knocked
him out in school.
Well, I'll tell him
the offer's rejected.
- No, no no. Hold on.
You got a pen?
- I'm not leaving
town for a few days.
So why don't we have
a little pre-fight?
- Who is this guy?
- Don't ask him.
He doesn't know how
to treat a lady.
- Come by my room.
It's kind of a dump, but
I can show you movies
maybe that you
never even heard of.
- So it's on?
- Give that to Mr. Carroll.
- Yeah. Show me the moves.
- I'll see you in,
let's say an hour?
- I'll see and your
sensei in Jersey City.
- Wow.
Really going to
town in that bag, big guy.
Hey, Doc, here's
Dutch and that kid.
- Oh!
Hey!
So, this is my specimen, huh?
Come with me, my son.
So you're the smart ass who's
gonna help me figure out
this conundrum!
What's a condrum?
You asshole.
- What was that?
What's going on?
- I'm back to falsely
arresting criminals.
Is that an oxymoron?
- Get outta here.
Cassie, timeout.
I know it looks
bad, but trust me.
It's all under control.
Believe it or not,
this is my team.
- Cassie, you came!
Cassie, you came!
- Yeah!
- Let me show you!
- Atta boy. Good job, champ.
- Come on, you grimy
little sea urchin.
Come on.
I want you to talk.
- I don't know what
you want me to say.
- Don't be a wise ass.
- Doc. We don't need him.
We can do whatever
this is without him.
- You, hit the bricks!
Hit the bricks!
Oh, come on it. Hit the bricks.
Hit the bricks,
you motherfucker.
Outta here!
It means
leave, let's go.
I'm Dr. Reno.
- Are you a medical doctor?
- He's a psychiatrist.
One of the best.
- That meathead knows this
from personal experience.
You're Anthony's sister?
- Yeah, this is really unusual.
He doesn't normally
rock like this.
- That's because he's
not your usual autistic.
- I should take him home.
- No.
- With all due respect, Dr.
Reno, I don't even know you.
- Your brother is a savant!
Stop rubbing his fucking arms.
- He's autistic.
He's not an idiot.
- He's an autistic savant.
- Calm down. Relax, man.
Calm down.
Just relax.
Shh.
- Anthony understands Spanish
with feelings like
any other person.
- We don't even
communicate in Spanish.
- He knows it innately.
- Cassie.
- Rod Crew, 1977
MVP American League.
National League, 1977
MVP George Foster.
An autistic savant
is a person who has
an exceptional skill.
- In 1977 when Rod Crew
won American League MVP.
- About 10 % of people
with autism are savants.
The most common are
a splinter skills
This is a person with a
hobby, maybe great at trivia,
like MVPs and batting averages.
And then there are those very
few with prodigious skills.
A person who can play an
entire Mozart concerto
on the piano after
hearing it only once.
Or a kid who has fifth
degree black belt abilities
because he saw a
Bruce Lee movie.
It's believed that
there are less than 25
autistic savants in the world
of old prodigious skills.
And Anthony is one of them.
Even more confounding it seems
that Anthony has
two savant skills.
- The Spanish.
- Yes.
That's clearly not
a prodigious skill
because he only seems to
fully relate to the language
when something harshly
negative said to him,
probably a splinter skill.
- But Doc, let me
ask you a question.
How'd you figure out
the whole Spanish thing?
Can I take
your main course?
- What the fuck
is wrong with you?
Can't just see
what talking here?
Get your ass outta here.
So how did I figure it out.
I asked that punk Juan
how the fight started.
They cursed at
Anthony in Spanish.
- That's it? You got
it from just that?
- No, pencil head.
And I read that thick
file you gave me.
What the fuck's the
matter with you?
Almost every kid he
got into a fight with
had a Spanish last name.
The one school he went to
had a very small
Hispanic population.
That's why he had
only one fight there,
but that St. Joe's was
chocked full of Latinos.
Thus, the 14 fights.
This isn't brain surgery, huh?
- So now we have to get
Anthony to understand Spanish
in all different areas.
Not only when it gets him angry.
Dr. Reno, can you
continue to help us?
- No.
- No? What do you mean, Doc?
We really need you here.
- No, no, no.
He needs practical help.
This isn't a mind that can be
manipulated by a psychiatrist.
He just needed the right doctor
to learn what the real deal is.
And now you gotta
use that karate room
and the Spanish language
to hone those skills,
and I ain't gonna be around
when you're calling him
a dick head in Spanish.
No way.
Where the hell is the waiter?
I'm hungry!
- Yeah. That's right.
I'm here at Anthony's
karate school.
Mixed martial arts,
judo, karate, whatever.
It's all the same thing.
No, the cops didn't
bring me here again.
I came by myself 'cause I'm
gonna kick this kid's ass.
- All right, Anthony. All right.
All right. It's
time to get going.
Come on.
- That was just luck.
I wasn't looking!
Well, I guess Felix
wasn't looking either.
Elizabeth, shut up. You're
talking a bunch of crap.
I know you were there.
I'm telling you it
was just dumb luck!
Haven't you ever seen me box?
I'm faster than Mahatma Gandhi!
Well, that's what I
mean, Mohammad Ali.
And you see how many
pushups I can do!
I would have did more if it
wasn't for those stupid cops.
Anyway, I gotta go, all right?
And you're gonna eat your words
'cause I'm gonna kick his ass.
- Hi, Juan.
Hi, Juan.
Hi, Juan. Hi, Juan.
Hi, Juan.
- You know, back in the day,
I could take those punches
kicks from that kid.
- Better than I ever could.
- Oh hell no, not
better than you, Nick.
Not too long ago you were on
your way to being the best.
Let the killing sidetrack you.
- You know, Doc,
some people are dead.
And deservedly so.
I have no regrets.
- Yeah. I agree.
Think about this, Nick.
You became a cop, not
a professional fighter.
Sidetracked you.
But I think now
you're back on track.
Help that kid.
- Thanks, Doc.
Good to see you.
- God bless you, baby.
- Stay well.
- All right. I'm out of here.
- Arrivederci.
- Ladies and gentlemen.
Today a message
needs to be sent.
A message not only heard in
Los Angeles, Washington DC
and New York City, but also
right here in New Jersey.
A message to the
police department,
to the prosecutor's office
and to the public at large.
Stop the corruption.
Stop arresting innocent people
and altogether
ruining their lives.
Stop the power abuse.
That's the beginning
of a closing argument.
Now here's the important message
that I wanna tell
all of you today.
I know that Miss Gause
has told you earlier
that my brother Anthony
has some very rare
and remarkable abilities,
but he needs some help to use
these abilities in a good way.
He needs help from me,
from Officer Tantino,
from Miss Gause and other
teachers here at Hawthorne High.
He also needs your help.
Will you help him?
- Anthony, I'll help you.
- All right, everyone,
clap if you will help
your friend, Anthony.
Come
on guys, let's go!
- I'll try to.
- I'm in.
- All right. Juan,
what about you?
- Oh, come on, Miss Gause.
- Tell Anthony that
you will be his friend.
In Spanish.
- Miss Gause.
- All is forgiven, Juan.
Please help.
- That's very close, Elizabeth.
- No, it's...
- Nick.
Nick and Anthony.
Nick and Anthony.
Nick and Anthony,
Nick and Anthony win!
- And that's it.
Basic wrestling move.
It's a good technique.
I want you to learn it.
Try to follow, my
man. You can do this.
Come on.
Level change, drop the
knee, penetrate, shoot in.
Take somebody right to the mat.
Level change, drop the
knee, penetrate, shoot in.
Can you do it, Anthony?
Okay.
Tell you what.
Nice!
That's what I'm
talking about, kid.
Way to go!
Let's get it on. Come on!
Get them hands up!
Come on!
Whoa, easy!
Ah, easy!
That's it. High five, come on!
Get that upper body strength.
- Music, art, mathematics,
and other skills
such as knowing the time
without seeing a clock
or committing a math to memory
are found that autistic savants.
- Come on. 21!
22! Get that stomach
hard, come on.
23!
- Aside from memory.
Other factors that assist a
savant in honing their skills
include the ability to
focus and concentrate.
The desire to
practice endlessly.
Positive reinforcement from
family, friends, and teachers.
- Watch out. Come on, defend it!
- In rare cases
the person may be
unusually gifted in languages.
- Get that head down.
Good!
Atta boy.
Anthony,
write it in Spanish.
- Every autistic brain may
have untapped savant skills.
- Get ready for the ass kicking
of your life, savant boy.
In the cage.
- What's the matter?
You don't have the guts to
say it to him in Spanish?
And that doesn't
even affect you?
- Why should it?
Herbert Hoover was the president
during the Great Depression.
- Say it in Spanish.
Anthony, I just
don't understand.
- Was that Felix, my student,
I just saw leave here?
- Yes. And he was just
threatening my brother.
- So this is Anthony?
- Yes.
- Look, I'm really
sorry about Felix.
I had a feeling he was
gonna head down here.
You know, I'm gonna
straighten him right out.
Thousand laps around
the gym, I promise you.
- Sure, Zane.
- Really, all he needs a
little bit of charm school.
- Of course, and you're
probably the headmaster
of that school.
- I am.
- Go sit in the car.
- Nice ride.
- I think yours might be a
bit more expensive, Magnum.
- You know, I really
think this is fight
is gonna be great
for these two kids.
Teaches them discipline.
It's in a controlled
environment.
- Nick says the same thing.
- Nick.
I really need to talk
to you about Nick.
- I don't think this is an
appropriate conversation, Zane.
- Anthony would be much better
off training at my school.
Lawyer to lawyer?
- Speak, Mr. Attorney.
Nick Tantino's not the
man you think he is.
- Goodbye.
- He killed someone, Cassie.
In a fight in cold blood.
Is that the type of man
you want training Anthony?
- Prove it to me.
- I will.
You bet your sweet ass I will.
- That was fantastic.
I'm so glad we got
together again.
After all this time,
you were on fire!
I guess fighting
keeps you strong.
Pass me the strawberries.
These past few months
I've been so lonely.
If I'm telling the truth,
the past year really.
I want another kiss.
- You know, I could
see us rekindling
those old high school flames.
Jill, I need you to
tell me something.
Something about Nick.
It'll really help
me with the divorce.
The more you help me,
the more I can help you.
I mean, the truth is he doesn't
even deserve this house.
He doesn't even
deserve half of it.
Okay?
Did I tell you how
beautiful you are?
Did I?
Hey.
What you doing?
- Something that I couldn't
do in the prosecutor's office.
- This isn't true.
- It's Nick Tantino's
international rap sheet.
- This says he was
charged, but not convicted
of murdering somebody
in Italy when he was 22?
This is isn't real!
- Does it matter?
He did kill somebody in Italy.
Who cares if he
was never charged.
This is in the International
Criminal Justice
computer system now.
Because I added it.
When he applied to be a cop,
there was no international
computer system.
So now it's been discovered.
I want you to give it to
Cassie tomorrow, okay?
- Okay, Zane.
- Thank you.
- Nice work, Cassie.
- Thank you.
See you at the office?
- Nope. I am going
to get a beer.
- Okay.
- Maybe two.
- Hello Sandra.
- Always a pleasure, Megan.
- Cassie, I'd love
to speak to you.
- That's funny Megan
'cause I wanted to
speak with you as well.
- I bet my conversation's
more interesting
than your conversation.
- I'm not so sure about that.
Do you know Jill, Nick's
soon to be ex-wife?
- Sure.
Real bombshell.
Hard act to follow.
- Yeah.
It seems that Jill likes to
videotape herself with men.
A new hobby.
Yeah.
And it also seems that
Zane wanted to hear
that Nick was a murderer.
And when Jill told him that
that just wasn't the case,
Zane didn't like that very
much so he cut her off.
Now Jill's a wee bit upset.
- Well, what you'll see in
this file is also not true.
It's another phony
act from Zane.
- Trenton's the
capital of New Jersey.
Trenton, the capital.
Patterson, Passaic,
Camden, Jersey City.
- Come on, Anthony. Fight back.
- Big cities.
Trenton, the capital.
- At least block.
- Trenton, the capital.
- Patterson, Passaic,
Camden, Jersey City, Newark.
- Tap, tap!
- What was that?
- That was a flying arm bar.
I've been training in
martial arts for a long time,
I could never master that move.
- He's doing so good.
I mean, I get energized
every time I work with him.
His progress. It's amazing.
- I know, it's amazing!
I mean, he's on again off again
and I mean, I don't think
he'll ever be totally cured,
but the improvements
are just unbelievable!
- You know?
I wonder why he never
responded to Spanish before,
unless it was something violent.
- Yeah. I mean we
never spoke it at home.
We're completely Americanized.
I mean, I only know Spanish
from taking classes,
and Anthony never
learned it at school.
Kids rarely even spoke to him.
I mean they spoke
in front of him,
but I think there's
a big difference.
He was never
nurtured in Spanish.
- You know, what
worries me is that
Felix knows that, and he's
not gonna be cursing him
on the night of the fight.
- Do you know what
he just said to me?
He just said that you
can master that move
if he worked on it with you.
- He did not say that.
- He did say that.
- Are you sure he said that?
- I'm sure. I'm positive.
Well,
I'll tell you Jack,
we got a lot of excitement
in this place tonight.
Richard Winfield
is sheer muscle
with some serious
jujitsu skills.
- These guys got energy going.
This is the way to fight.
What happened at
Henderson's body?
Winfield is punching
his lights out!
This is crazy!
This is an all out street brawl!
Unbelievable!
- Look at this guy hit!
I tell you what if I got
hit with one of those,
I'd be in the back row here.
I'm telling you!
- Here we go, round two.
Nicky Nevels
to Roy Rivers apart
in the first one.
This guy's an
incredible grappler.
He's got skills in every area,
but it's on the mat
where he really shines.
Oh my goodness!
Man, he can really
round up a punch,
This one's
gonna be a bloody finish.
And there we go!
Ladies and gentleman,
what's a fight without
the flip at the end?
Well, I'll tell you Jack,
we got a lot of excitement
in this place tonight.
Now, I just love this story, Al.
Two 18 year old high-schoolers.
Felix Sanchez, who's
already fought and won
in five professional fights.
And Anthony Rodriguez,
an autistic savant
who fights with
magic from within.
What are you doing?
Getting ready.
What are you doing?
- Getting ready to fight.
Not Anthony?
- No, not Anthony.
Why don't you sit
down for a minute.
Look, your brother's
got incredible talent,
but these prodigious
fighting skills,
they only come out when
he's taunted in Spanish.
Felix knows that.
I'm sure he's gonna
do everything he can
to speak to him
strictly in English.
Even if I'm on the sideline,
yelling nasty things
to him in Espanol,
it's too much of a risk.
We'll continue to work out.
But I found the training has
helped him so much mentally
and that's so much
more important.
I don't wanna see
him get in that cage
and make a spectacle of himself,
and I'm not gonna
let him get hurt.
- I'm falling in love with you.
- I'm already in love.
- So you're gonna
fight Felix instead?
- No.
I'm gonna fight Zane Carroll.
Oh my goodness!
And there it is.
Another fight comes to an end.
The crowd is on their feet,
but people got their
money's worth tonight.
And we haven't even
hit the main event.
I've gotta tell
you though, Grady.
This next one is the one
that I've been waiting for.
- Time to win, Nick.
- Win Nick. Win.
Win. Win, Nick.
- Ladies and gentlemen!
What's this?
They're saying there's a
change in the fight lineup.
- Nick Tantino the cop, pulled
Rodriguez at the last second.
Any reason why?
- We don't know why,
but I'll tell you,
there's an awful
lot of animosity
between he and Zane
Carroll the prosecutor.
- In the red corner, fighting
out of the Spitfire Academy
in Hawthorne, New Jersey,
standing six feet, two inches
and weighing 215 pounds,
Zane "The Persecutor" Carroll!
Both senseis are
from the same New Jersey town.
Neither has fought
professional in years,
but both were stars on the rise.
- And in the blue corner,
also fighting out of
Hawthorne, New Jersey,
representing the Hawthorn
Institute of Martial Arts,
standing six feet and
weighing in at 225 pounds,
Nick "The Law Man" Tantino!
The referee, Samad Raphael.
- All right gentlemen, you
know exactly what time it is.
I want a good clean fight.
You obey my commands
at all times.
Gentlemen, tap
gloves and back up.
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
- Here we go.
- Fight!
Oh!
Nick Tantino disrespected
right off the bat by Carroll.
- Come on, Nick!
I tell you,
this isn't a cop
you wanna meet on the street.
You got that right.
- Straight right by Nick.
- That's gotta hurt.
- Yes! Come on, Nick!
He's gotta switch it up.
That's a low blow
to the groin by Zane Carroll!
I think he's in trouble.
Yeah, he's
got him in trouble now.
Chalk one up
for the police, Grady!
- I tell you what, this
one is O-V-A, over!
- Counselor just got schooled.
- Get off me! Get off me!
Stay down, sucker!
Nick, Nick,
Nick, Nick, Nick!
- Come on, you.
Cover up!
Okay, okay, okay. All
right, you got me.
- It appears as if you've
succeeded with the kid.
I think we'll take
you back on patrol.
That's if I don't wanna retire.
- Once a blue, always blue.
- Don't retire just yet.
That elbow was lucky.
I'll fight you again right now.
- Hey, what do you
say to a prosecutor
that just got his ass
kicked in a fight?
You have the right
to remain silent.
You're under arrest
- For what?
- How about official misconduct
for initiating an
illegitimate law enforcement
investigation against Nick,
for tampering with
government computers
and creating a false rap sheet.
- None of this crap
will hold up in court.
- You have the right
to an attorney.
You know that already.
You can't afford an
attorney, sell the Ferrari.
- Let's go!
Come on, the tire
can't beat you!
Come on, it's Zane Carroll
and he's beating you!
You want a soda?
- No soda. No soda.
Cassie says no soda..
- Anthony, orange
juice or water?
- Milkshake.
I want a milkshake.
- There you go.
You got your order.
- You want a milkshake too?
- No, I'll stick with the water.
Anthony, you wanna try the tire?
- I better tell you
this in English.
You probably not
gonna totally get it,
which is okay, but at least
I'll get it off my chest.
You see Zane was trying
to convince your sister
that I killed somebody.
A long time ago in Italy, I
went to visit my grandfather.
He wasn't paying to the people
that he was supposed to pay to,
so they sent some
guys over to his house
to straighten him out.
I saw what they were doing,
Anthony, and I snapped.
You understand what
I'm telling you?
I will tell her.
Atta boy.
Come on. Don't stop.
A little harder.
Come on!