C-16: FBI (1997–1998): Season 1, Episode 10 - Green Card - full transcript

Scott Scott thank you they took my

shoelaces they took my belt I'm an idiot

man I'm an idiot you are an idiot

Richie they're gonna prosecute you know

it's 3:30 in the morning they're not

gonna set your bail until tomorrow

probably sometime in the afternoon it's

good yeah this is fix it yeah I'm gonna

fix it what do you think the DA is gonna

prosecute the girls the owners no way

it's guys like you the John's are with



it this all I did was have a little fun

dance throw some dice and you know just

stop where'd you get the name of the

place some guy in Vegas it's like that

club we went to in Tijuana in college

come on I'm a paper products executive

hey Richard it's God I can help you all

right I can get you stuff on this chick

telling you I know who knows this time

Richie we already know who runs the

place there's seriously bad people we've

had a squad on for a month how you gonna

help me there's this one chick reader

who's completely dialed in she knows



everyone I walk in there and she's like

hi Richie and she's always hanging out

with this bad Asian guy I think maybe he

runs the place Perry she knows Eric

Chang yes absolutely I know she does

read it read it smart wonderful pot

please talk to her Rina all right

Rita you are another name Harry Chang

you can help yourself in a big way if

you do the FBI cares if I help myself

yeah who wants to know let's go wait a

second have you agreed for their

representation I highly advise you to

walk away right now let me talk to the

DA see if we can make a deal I'm sorry

you think we're dealing on the tape over

here I wasn't aware of any deal big

trouble if you moved through a federal

agent you don't have to go with them

you're interfering with my clients

constitutional right to legal

representation is it she's free to go

no not to incriminate herself by talking

to you she's not she paid your bill none

of your business

Rita these people they don't care about

you they work for your boss best-case

scenario you'll be on your back until

you're deported come with me I can help

you tell Harry I'll talk to you later

hey there honey your computer's listen

to you listen to me Harry is very

worried about your family back in

Pattaya that's a threat counselor I

advise you to be a little more careful

you just bought yourself a whole lot of

trouble mister

where's Scott last seen entering

Pritchett's office all right a crisis

situation just fell in my lap where's

Prince rice Ben didn't reveal office let

me see that

remember Bernie waters left his creds at

Six Flags shut the whole place down

they were brought in 45 minutes ago by a

hell another spoon she was out walking

her dog and found him in a gutter on

Santa Monica Boulevard 1700 block so we

just called bender and tell the way have

his credit he's unaccounted for has been

for three days and this my friends

causes great concern not only for the

bureau but for the CIA as well CIA then

I was working a joint out with the CIA

details are unclear but it involved a

Libyan national public in this report

some CIA indicate yes it's not clear why

the CIA has come to this conclusion but

they seem pretty confident about it

we're getting the private report ETA on

CA cable I'm told as midday today a sec

picture will act as liaison in the

meantime we need to check out the hotel

where bender still register I'll take it

it's yours ridden go with him all of the

Disney clothes on the shelf

except for this one that's all folks

Rita say good morning to assistant

Special Agent in Charge and reproach it

pleasure Rita's been working with us

since 3:30 this morning so I thought the

least we could do is get her a real

workin agents breakfast Scott tells me

you've got some accounting skills what

to use by your former employer mr. Chang

Rita's a citizen stepping forward to

help us out

but not a citizen illegal sense but it a

person go ahead and finishing breakfast

Rita we do appreciate your coming in

Scott

Stoddard she is a prostitute

boss aware of that but she's sleeping

with Chang's accountant we won't have a

huge credibility problem trying to build

a case on the testimony of a prostitute

of this accountant town he's obsessed

with her he's also extremely lazy so

when he found out she had a head for

numbers begged and cajole to get her to

help with the books all right so we've

got an accountant

he was hormonal a charge right now who's

busy inputting her instead of numbers

right all right that's mildly

interesting get me the accountant then

we'll talk Chang's operations locked

down tight that's why you sent the

lawyers down to bail out the leak the

Freak that what she knows fine so find

another way in someone to corroborate

we'll build on that she's the real deal

if we can just set her up someplace safe

are you asking me for FSA expenses I'm

aware that my expense receipts are late

oh no not late absent an outstanding

total of 960 dollars I know you want to

put her on your own credit card that's

up to you

I'm max dad she's got nowhere to go and

I'm convinced that her life's in danger

then you should have thought about that

before instigating excuse me

hey rosemary missed you a step close

yeah

sweaty men in bike shorts are enough for

me okay

yeah man Robinson nice guy you ever want

to meet though so you're working the

bender case with us nope you call me

something else

yeah you got any credit card information

last three days Scott

Mary Jane run some Asian prostitution

rings hand over to a white-collar squad

like c7 or criminal enterprise it's on a

platter for us one of the girls in the

Bellflower radius gold mine back it out

what were you doing in Bellflower last

night I got a tip from my roommate who

happened to be on the scene that didn't

go down there and bail him out he was a

patron Johnny's not he's not meat look

anyway

you knew this girl Rita Pritchett met

her and he's very impressed it's God I

appreciate the enterprise she's talking

about a lot of coordination we've got

our hands full already today hello John

look I'm moderately intrigued with the

possibility of combining litigation

Chang but I gotta tell you flat-out I

don't have the manpower excuse me this

isn't gonna be labor-intensive I've got

a witness what kind of witness a

bookkeeper who worked her way off her

back look she knows every patron who

ever spent 50 bucks down to Bellflower

social club that's Chang's flagship John

normally I wouldn't climb this tree so

fast but as a favor to you I'll give it

a try you guys don't need me I'm

rosemary are you under the impression

that I asked you failed all I know a

stutter came staggering to my office at

seven o'clock this morning with all the

evidence on Chang am I missing something

no we'll play it out we're glad to have

you on board

starter promised me manpower okay you're

gonna have one of my probationary agents

Robinson or Reardon

I'll take Robinson

okay the last three calls vendor made

were to Mideast imports an 800 number

with an answering machine at the CIA

front night before last he called one

Jill Dolan in Pasadena they talked for

almost ten minutes then he called LA

colonial restaurant made reservations

for two vendor was a no-show but a woman

came waited for an hour I'm guessing

that was Jill Dolan the girlfriend

friend who spent a lot of time in this

balcony yeah I'd say it looks like two

packs for the lease my old man used to

say there's nothing like a good view to

make a big problem go away

what's going on Jack give me a favor

when we get back to the office

just case backs no speculation

I think this one's got a couple other

parts left on it enough to get you set

up in a nice motel cater with all the

fast food you can eat someplace safe

where we can get to work on your

testimony being followed by a black card

you could have a little more forthcoming

when they just pitch it there instead of

playing dumb like that

you turn you down for money for the

motel didn't do temporary glitch

everybody's very excited about the case

what's the matter with this car

why what do you want someplace safe

you want it's really safe here

you don't worry this man was arrested

with me yeah I know it's my roommate

where are you gonna find a motel with

you like this

all right let's go over some of the

background information we started on

this morning now you uh arrived in Long

Beach on a ship called the Pacific

investor with 30 other girls now right

yes in a cargo container you're

recruited in Thailand two and a half

years ago and led to believe it was four

cocktail waitressing isn't that right

son thought cocktail waitressing and you

know some new and that was by Chang's

representation each person according to

their gifts either day and what was your

again

I just I need to know a little something

about your life before you had access to

Harry's books

we were there for men you were forced to

have sex all the girls on Harry

you know money for the passage feeds to

America or to sleep at bed would be the

fastest way to pay how much was a

passage $100,000

I wanted that take it depends you know

so many years any of the girls every

gain of freedom six girls last year they

were sick with HIV so Harry let them go

okay

let's talk about the numbers what did

the account let you know me then let's

talk about me

roommate well you're the FBI and you say

you can help me in a big way we can

well Harry can get me a green card no II

can't we said you can say what you want

you want a green card we can get you the

bureau can get your green card all right

okay then we talk

Boyd's analysis confirms it's Royce

Bender's voice call was made three days

ago at 16 18 hours Ben Rollins is his

crisis code cover name friends across

the street saw four guys lounge around

the back of the building they thought

you should know and if I get any more

information I'll pass along Thanks

the shipment is a Libyan chemist named

Aziz Hassan and four guys lounging is

code name for what Libyan hit squad when

was the last time we were living in hit

in the States ten years twelve actually

but we're not starting off by

questioning the integrity of benders

message vendors job was to help us on

get acclimated to the American culture

which consists of what anything we ask

that once trip to Disneyland strip bars

Jill Dolan the girlfriend no answer no

machine I'll track an address maybe take

a run down there Washington believes

we're looking at one of two scenarios

the message is accurate and the Libyans

have compromised the operation or it's

misinformation meaning what vendors

turned I would hate to think that's true

but middle-eastern factions have been

known to offer large sums of money for

information on our operatives their

Washington wants it considered

so you're not buying any of this did I

say that Jack you don't really have to

say much for people know what you're

thinking most people would see that as

an asset are you doing I'm gonna grab my

last burger before the Libyan hit squad

gets us an e hmm come on the bender file

i cross-checked something oh listen uh

you know mal better than I do

do you know if there's anyone in his

life right now I don't think so what

who's that

Vargas from c7 huh mouths pretty

dedicated sound okay Thompson thank you

it's always been for sale I read

somewhere an average person thinks about

it every three minutes hmm

yeah some people think it should be

legal yeah man is that what you think

oh no course not I don't believe in

exploitation of anybody Jamie makes all

this money don't do the math it'll just

scare you

what the man that it represents can you

imagine having sex all day long

she's got grassy just call me Leslie

dreyfuses contaminant you intimidated a

client a person I'm an LA County I

presume that you're before me she fired

her lawyers it just happened to be in my

presence hmm well they're saying you

flash your credentials and literally

pulled her away from a representation I

don't even think she knew who they were

except probably Chang sent them you had

this what I told Rossi see we struck a

nerve Scott

where does your witnessed a moment

princess said he did not have proof on

telephones she's at my place you took

her to your she's perfectly safe what

she wants is a green card so I made a

couple phone calls what the si si has to

do is call immigration in Washington

have an informal consult with a guy

named Victor Gonzalez if Gonzalez can be

made to understand the value of Rita's

testimony things can happen green cards

can appear offer her the witness

protection program and get her out this

is a route that can result in her

getting the card it's a route we're not

gonna take Scott why not it's worth a

try look it's possible but the system is

not set up to do it I've already got a

message on Gonzalez's desk asked him to

call you for a private background and

mr. Gonzalez is not gonna call me and

that's a si grazie is not gonna go out

on a limb the best thing you've got

going is she trusts you now offer a

witness protection

hi uh this is Special Agent Amanda

Reardon down in c16 fine thank you

um it's actually Special Agent Jack

Toronto's birthday coming up and we

wanted to do a this is your life jack

Dorado saying um I was wondering can I

get a record of his assignment so I can

talk to some of the people he's worked

with and share anecdotes and things like

that you do great I can pick him up now

okay thanks I'll be right up okay

look I don't know what you want from the

agent urato I haven't talked to him in a

long time well so I guess it was your

husband who talked to him when he called

your house three days ago just tell me

what you know my father never made it to

my first communion or any of my school

pageants graduation high school and

college and you know why press of

business that's what he said it's been

his excuse for the past 15 years you

agreed to meet him at that restaurant I

know he didn't show but you agreed to

meet him yeah you know why cuz he cried

on the phone

Oh give me another chance Jill yeah yeah

well slap a big sucker sticker on me cuz

it's not gonna happen again this is your

father no this is an excuse for a father

big difference this is your father he's

in a lot of trouble his careers on the

line

yeah sure well everything's about his

career that's the only reason you're

here isn't it

oh you make me sick you guys you all

stick together you dress alike little

FBI dreams now listen to me young lady

this is a friend of mine I used to visit

your house in Maryland Joe please I need

your help why I don't care about you or

the bureau I don't care about any of

this

so if you find my father just tell him I

would have loved to help out except

pressive business

this witness protection program is

forever in some cases usually it's just

until the threat is gone

so I won't be Rita no it wouldn't be

safe they knew what I be well you'll

always be Rita it's just that now you

know I'd be Jane Jane the cashier or

Jesus shop girl but no pass no family

the best I can go okay set yourself last

night

they're already recruiting new girls and

every year they get younger and younger

when's it gonna stop you want me to be

Jane and Iowa I will go be Jane and Iowa

only if you bring my family here

you heard them threaten them if I do

this they will get hurt Rita like you

then make them safe I've got some

contacts look I got them into the

America never see those things over will

that help

you protect my family I'll go be chained

the vendor got a letter of reprimand in

92 apparently he used the Bureau of

surveillance team to check out some of

the kid from the was stating his

daughter make a good couple don't they

I'm just an observer of course any most

people around to your art I went out

with her the night I got the squad super

job I know when to celebrate with so I

felt her don't know why I did it

what happened went to dinner

I saw a few more times after that she's

quite attractive don't you think I'm

very centered no no I meant what

happened really

yeah thanks fenders being classified as

a security risk great why didn't you

tell me that you and vendor were first

off as agents together we should tell

the Lansky absolutely not

okay then I will how you will look you

have a personal stake in this the entire

Bureau thinks that vendors turned and

you know what they will do with that the

lack of candor cause for immediate

determination lack of candor it's 1997

why can't you just call it lie Jack I

know that you inventor have parallel

careers we work together a couple of

times

bender went to pursue driving school in

upstate New York in May of 1997 you went

to pursue driving school in upstate New

York in May of 1987 I referenced at

least three classes two assignments I

know that you both were in Chicago for

psych evaluations I know how friendships

start you were first office agents you

work with someone you spend a lot of

time together

what is this Reardon a hallmark moment

you in bender know each other very well

now you're trying to protect him all

right you little snoop

good job on the cross-reference thank

you vendors not a spy okay let's go tell

aunty there's no like a candid between

us right

vendors have trouble called me the other

night from the bar he wanted to meet I

was stuck on surveillance he sounded not

so good did you talk to the girlfriend

it's not his girlfriend it's his

daughter she's coming in to sign a

statement that she has no knowledge of

her father's whereabouts okay

so if you have a meeting with Jill Dolan

without me and I go back to my little

cubicle let me tell you what's gonna

happen the first time Olinsky looks me

in the eye I have to tell him everything

I know okay

agent benders credentials had no

fingerprints other than his a lab says

that they may have been wiped but you

know I'd like your input on another

topic yes sir sure I'm very interested

in nature of the relationship between

Robinson agent Vargas is there something

wrong sir

I mean are you asking me or just doesn't

matter so see two years ago when penny

and I were separated briefly my pursued

agent partners did and we have four

dates and then I never let it get too

far but finally she admitted that she

couldn't allow herself emotional

connection to the bureau superiors I

respected that

Wow

life goes on I guess thank you

hey hey can we join you

yeah please no yes

we're ready to issue a report your

father went over the libyans most likely

for money so everything you were saying

about his great loyalty to the bureau

joke was on us and turned when a good

agent goes bad it's a damn shame

goodbye pension here we're talking

espionage seditious conspiracy looking

at the death penalty

but feel was sinus active David will

make sure that you receive all the

contents of this desk in Denver you may

not remember me but I remember you look

it with a dirty face

I'm like princess polish could clean it

off you didn't like to use soap so the

old man called it princess polish so

what so what so you remember more than

you think you do I bet you even remember

me

maybe maybe

yeah

you used to give me lifesavers butter

rum father trying Joe maybe you should

have tried harder maybe wasn't a great

father maybe it was lousy but he tried I

know that he tried he called you again

at me

called me this morning he wanted me to

meet him at some boat but I said no let

me tell you where it was docked Terminal

Island

it's a trawler did he say the name of

the boat no he wouldn't turn

he just he wouldn't do something like

that of course he would

easy man I just came back to get out of

here go hot woody quit the damn cat

you and Richie like brothers like it

nothing like Richie we're not the same

at all in the refrigerator there are two

cartons of milk one is Mark Scott and

when it's March Richie I hear the girls

probably foam machine Lauren Leslie they

sound sad

you make them promises too don't you see

how you live your life you make a lot of

friends everybody likes you you got a

lot of charm

one day the charm will be gone I know

about John that's why I got good at

numbers I can't help your family can't

protect I tried I made a lot of calls

but I can't do it I thought I could get

it done but I can't but I want to do

what's best for you you gotta believe me

so I'm not just some big case of course

not I know I made you promises but it's

just cuz I want everything to work out

for you no

yes okay for me but I'm not a bad guy

just cuz I have my name on a milk carton

doesn't mean I've bad intentions I mean

deep down I am an honorable person yes I

want your testimony against Harry Chang

I would like nothing better than to put

Harry Chang away be good for a lot of

people no no Harry Chang's got his guys

out there looking for you right now

the best I can offer you is witness

protection and I know that there's

nothing for your family back home

so in a lot of ways I've made your life

worse

it's your decision reader

and we'll make any more promises that's

a promise

it's common southwestern catering

company of Tonopah Nevada president

Renshaw vice president Charmaine

Rockwell treasurer Tony Abreu Glee

acting that's Tony bug-eyes bubbly Ozzy

does miss Shaw have actual duties as the

president of a catering company well

she's a stripper so it will be news to

her but she's president of anything okay

let's do more back accounts in the

Cayman Islands one one - three four four

nine - eight eight also 1 2 - 7 3 4 4 -

6 6 Rita

you've been doing this for 3 hours how

can anyone remember numbers like that I

hope you're not making them up

why does a Red Dog - is a striped cat 3

water buffalo for my sister mean she's a

little girl and that's the way you

remember numbers in your mind

I have lined them up in my village and

then I just remember the picture Rita

let's take a break

how's it going I talked to the assistant

US attorney I will meet tomorrow talk

about what happens next with witness

protection get things rolling I'm that

guy

all right well we'll do it another day

to witness protection I'm not going

course sure

you'll be fine you'll be safe what about

my family

how safe will they be and how can I be

happy in a life that's not mine you

can't go back you know what will happen

I gave you what you wanted that's my

turn and I choose to go home

Scot just so you know the buzz around

here goes all the way to the Hoover

Building this girl is a gold mine and I

am gonna tell everybody that was you

they brought her in

thanks boss

nobody

paperwork email computers on this war on

drugs crap Hoover never want to get this

bad over what's over so you like my vote

all's I got to do is sit I fixed the

mast tonight and I scraped the hall and

a sound system well how'd you buy this

thing you Mook because this is what I'm

gonna spend my retirement yeah well

before you put yourself out to pasture

perhaps you should clear up a couple

things you know what I mean how much

trouble am I

well let's play this way I'm uh I'm glad

I'm me Jesus Christ give us your creds

you never lose your cred I think you're

working for Gaddafi do you know why they

picked me

of course you do you've been reading my

files let's get the damn drunk to

babysit the Libyan chemist who thinks

that bars that open at 10 a.m. or the

highlight of America so they skipped

over me and went straight to you I lost

them I lost the asset in a crap can

assignment ah boo oh this poor little

canvas there's enough and both our files

with that Dechaine I got 18 years in and

I go and cover my backside with some

crap about Libyan hit squad

you know what my choices are now dungeon

yeah you got to cop to the drinking

going to rehab by law they got to give

you a second chance you know why I can't

do this yeah cuz you've got a hell to

kill yourself

that's what they say

you know something Royce you know how to

run an evening oh where you going oh no

come on man you're drunk you should call

a taxi you should call your daughter

thanks jack

who's there yeah Jacko jackass hey I

forgot my cred you uh

you want another drink

Ben was going to rehab and the Bureau is

gonna give him another chance

then they'll boot him out he always

there that asterisk in his file

presents Authority yeah well he never

got lucky with the super would help

somebody out in the scrape I didn't do

that much jack well I'm sitting here

aren't I

he's sitting staring at a cinderblock

wall facing nothing

maybe you'll pull through it maybe

thanks John

you're welcome Jack what's that

that is tomato juice vinegar

alka-seltzer and two drops of Tabasco my

grandmother used to make it for my

grandfather when he was hungover

so what's Bender's problem alcoholics

manic depressive what problem he never

had a problem

listen um have you seen mal I can't find

him I gotta go over this flower review

sheet with you know I haven't seen him

anywhere ask rosemary sure probably know

where he is well I tried that but she's

not here either even a even number at

the tone I'll call you back

another seat 16 story at the same time

9:50 next Friday night well that's a

last brief scene there leads us rather

neatly into the first of tonight's late

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