Wiseguy (1987–2009): Season 1, Episode 19 - Phantom Pain - full transcript
- [Presenter] Next on Wiseguy.
- Susan what happened?
- Viking funeral,
the Norsemen always
put their leaders in a
floating funeral pyre.
- [Mel on Speaker] I want
to know where my sister is.
How can I run the
business without her?
- Mel!
- Mel Profitt is dead.
- We haven't even
scratched the surface yet.
- The case is over
Vince, it's over.
- Marry me.
- Yes, I'll marry you.
(action music)
(dramatic music)
(action music)
(flames burning)
(dramatic music)
(knocks on door)
- Is that the delivery
man from the toy store?
- No open the door.
(glass shatters)
Susan come on it's me,
open the door will ya?
- Vinnie?
- Yeah you can't stay
locked up in there.
- I missed you.
- I want you to tell me
what happened to Mel.
I want you to tell
me so I can help you.
- Do you think, do you
think he knew I loved him?
I know I told him but do
you think he really knew.
- Susan what happened?
I saw his body on
the boat and I saw
you torch it and push
it out in the water.
- A Viking funeral,
the Norsemen always-
- Yeah but how did he die?
- He died what difference
does it make how?
- Susan listen to me,
his death isn't a secret.
It's on the radio,
it's in the newspapers.
The cops are gonna ask
you the same questions
I'm asking you and they're not
gonna let you off the hook.
- Do you know what
it's like to be empty?
To look inside and see nothing?
(knocks on door)
- Alright listen,
if it's the cops
let me to talk to 'em okay?
Yeah!
- Delivery here.
- Bring it in.
- Vinnie I have the
most wonderful news.
Okay we'll open it thanks.
- Help me open up.
- Susan was anyone with
you the night Mel died?
Was LaCococo with you?
- I don't want to talk
about it right now-
(knocks on door)
not now.
- Ms. Profitt it's the police.
- You Susan Profitt?
- What do you want?
- I'm Detective Joseph
Mulcahy, 28th Precinct.
I have a warrant here for
your arrest in connection
with the death of your
brother Melvin Profitt.
His body was discovered
out on Long Island Sound
on fire in a rowboat,
cause of death
was an injection of
amphetamine, heroin mixture.
We have numerous
individuals who told us
that you repeatedly inject
him with such a substance.
- Do you have a witness
or a murder weapon?
- You her lawyer?
- No.
- Then shut up, we'll wait
while you get dressed.
- I've been expecting
this package.
We were just about to open it.
- Hey go, it's alright
I'll go with ya, go on.
- Alright bub, what's your name?
- Vinnie Terranova.
- And what do you
do around here?
- I work for Mel Profitt.
- In what capacity?
- I was his manicurist.
Susan's under arrest,
they're booking
her now but she
did not kill Mel.
- That sounds definite.
- Would you kill the
only think in your
life that kept you
moving forward?
- I'm listening.
- Mel's death probably
fit into that Caribbean
deal that Roger LoCoco
was trying to set up.
You know the take
over of Isle Pavot,
now I need to see
McPike and tell him
to bring Lillah
Warfield with him.
- Alright will do.
Listen Vinnie, I know Susan
means something to you
and I once told you I
could blow the fuses
on these gizmos any time
you need to sort out what
you were thinking from
what you were feeling,
well listen, that offer stands.
- Alright thanks but
right now I gotta find out
what LoCoco had to
deal with Mel's death
and what's changed
because of it.
- Mel Profitt's death changes
only one thing, the timetable.
- Agreed.
- It accelerates and it
accelerates as of now.
- We pull back and regroup.
- Oh, this from a man who says
his business is fulfillment.
The program goes on unabated.
- Mel Profitt was the program.
- Again you surprise me.
Haven't you learned
that men mean nothing,
it's organizations
that nurture us,
that gives us the means
by which we survive.
- The organization is now in
the form of Susan Profitt.
And the form of Susan
Profitt is in jail!
I can't get to her.
- The success of this program
means that I will ensure
the salvation of
this hemisphere;
I will not have that denied me.
Are we clear on this Roger?
- If we accelerate the program
we're no longer talking
economics, we're
talking military coup.
Now there's a half a
million in cash stashed
in Profitt's hotel
room and that's enough
to start outfitting
a mercenary brigade
to stage an invasion
of Isle Pavot.
- You're gonna need
a hell of a lot
more than half a million.
- So why don't dip into
the company's piggy bank?
- Oh, the whole point
is to maintain distance.
The company cannot afford
to look like it's involved,
plausible deniability,
the key is Susan,
Mel is gone, we deal with Susan.
- Even if she were released
I don't think there's
enough left of her
to bargain with.
- You're saying she's unstable?
- She's jello.
- Well maybe we can turn her
instability into an asset.
I believe jello can be molded
into any shape you want.
What about Terranova?
Now is the time to take him out.
- Now is the time to
find the guy install
as the future President
of Isle Pavot.
- Henri LaLonde, born on the
island to a prominent family
with no ties to the U.S., an
accent you can spread on toast.
He's been in the wings for
years, we plucked him out
of high school sent him to Yale,
London School of Economics,
the nice about his is he
thinks his ideas are his own.
- He's here now?
- As I said Roger, the
program accelerates.
Strings have to be
attached quickly.
I have a man briefing him.
- Henri, sorry to
interrupt, (speaks French).
Henri LaLonde this is a
colleague Roger LoCoco.
- It's a pleasure
to meet you sir,
I look forward to
working with you.
- Have you visited Isle Pavot?
- No I haven't, I
haven't had the pleasure.
- Then perhaps you assume
it is just another atoll
on which wealthy Americans
can build their condominiums
and hire natives to
scrub their toilets.
- Actually I assumed
it was an ally
in our fight to
save the hemisphere.
- In so far as the United
States offers us assistance
to that end we will
accept it, but we intend
to always steer on our
course in world affairs.
The sovereignty of Isle
Pavot is not for sale.
- That's fine Henri,
that's just fine.
Perhaps you'd like to get
back to your briefing.
- I think he'll work
out beautifully.
- Are things still
rough with Cathy?
- Well we live in
the same house,
we're not on the same planet.
- Have you thought about
seeing a therapist?
- Our generation
has done for therapy
what Eisenhower did for golf.
- Frank, I wanna
get Susan released.
- Yeah and I wanna go to heaven
but right now neither of
our chances look very good.
- Frank the issue here is
with LoCoco and Isle Pavot.
He's not trying corner
the market on sugar cane.
Whatever he's doing he's
doing for the agency.
- Where's LoCoco now?
- Oh I don't know,
why don't you ask her.
I don't know anything about it.
- Hey this Caribbean
thing is way too big
to blow off just
because one man died.
And I don't think LoCoco
couldn't handle it by himself.
Now I think there has
to be somebody else
that he's either reporting
to or taking orders from.
Now you find that guy and-
- Wait a minute,
you're talking about
straddling the line between
the Bureau and the Agency.
- No, I'm not!
I'm talking about crossing over
it like it wasn't even there.
You know the last time
I checked the Agency
isn't supposed to mess with
citizens inside the U.S.,
but one of your agents killed
a guy on this side
of the border.
- You don't know that.
- I know that as
well as I know this
interdepartmental
stuff is a lot of crap!
- Vince, you are losing it man.
- You sent me in to nail
a contract killer named
Roger LoCoco which
led to Profitt
and right back to LoCoco again.
Susan shouldn't be in custody
why can't you see that?
- We are long past
the lecture stage.
Now I guess it's pretty
obvious when it comes
to separating job performance
from hormonal urges
I'm on pretty shaky
ground myself.
But it should also be
obvious I can't release Susan
without giving away
your whole show.
I'm pulling you out Vince!
- Frank if you do that
we blow any chance
of bringing down the rest
of Profitt's organization.
Isn't that what the job is?
- That is what the
job is and you're
too emotionally
involved to do it.
Now you look you
gave us what we need
to kill Profitt's drug
organization in Tennessee
and nail down Aiuppa and
the boys from Brooklyn.
- We haven't even
scratched the surface yet.
- Mel Profitt is dead,
LoCoco has disappeared,
probably to never
be heard from again.
Susan is in custody and if
I know my family Profitt
the police their woman,
the case is over Vince.
It's over and you are out!
(dramatic music)
- Oh Mel, you're such a kidder.
(dark music)
- Susan I want you tell me what
happened the night Mel died.
- Nothing can hurt him anymore.
He's free, that's all he wanted
to escape the torment, the
pain the world imposes.
- Did you help him escape?
- Wouldn't you for
someone you loved?
- Did you tell them.
- They wouldn't understand.
- Listen Susan I have a
lot of friends in New York.
People with
connections and they'll
be able to take care of you.
- I don't need
them, you're here.
- Now I'm talking down the
road, you know if things change,
and if I', not, I just want you
to know that you're gonna be
okay and these friends
of mine will be able
to do a lot more
for you than I can.
- No, no one can do
more for me than you.
Or give me more than you have.
Vinnie I'm pregnant, you
and I have made a baby.
I think it's gonna be a boy.
(dramatic music)
(light music)
- This whole thing's
been some kind of,
I don't know, case
of mistaken identity.
Now we're gonna have you
out of here by the morning,
end of the day, absolute latest.
- Good.
- He would have come down
here himself but he's been
on the phone since the moment
he heard what happened.
Now he's been to the
Police Commissioner,
two members of the City Council,
when I left he was screaming
at his Honor's right hand girl.
- But Vinnie was already here.
- Vinnie? I'm talking about Mel.
He's promised everything
from a $100,000 campaign
contribution to
the biggest false
arrest lawsuit this
city's ever seen.
- Mel is dead.
- That's a hell of a thing
to say about your brother.
- Now the the guy's
trying his damnedest-
- Stop it!
Mel is dead.
- Look everything's
gonna be fine.
We'll take care of everything.
You just get some rest Susan.
- Where have you been?
- Details Vinnie,
a million details
that had to be attended
to once Mel got his wings.
You look good, job hunting?
- Susan's under arrest.
- Oh, where'd they
find Mel's body?
- Floating out in the Sound.
- What was the cause of death?
- You're asking me?
- You're the only one around.
- Lethal injection.
- You there when
she gave it to him?
- No, were you?
- Uh uh, needles
give me the creeps.
I gotta thank you Vinnie.
- For what?
- For restoring my
faith in romance.
- Meaning what?
- Meaning motive,
the two with the most
to gain from Mel's death
were you and sister Sue,
with an insanely
jealous brother out
of the way love is free is
to reach for new heights.
- Now if you wanna talk
about the Bank of Isle Pavot.
Seems to me there's a new
agenda behind door number one
and it goes like this: with
Mel Profitt out of the way
Roger LoCoco takes
over the bank.
- Oh Vinnie, I don't
wanna a desk job.
If Mel had made that
Caribbean deal happen
I was looking at 10
million in finder's fees.
Now Mel's out to sea and so
is the deal and my 10 million.
Look, lets face it, we all
hitched our wagons to the star.
But now the survivors
among us will recognize
that it's time to unhitch, take
a page out of Martin
Bormann's book.
- So why are you
still hanging around?
- Susan's gonna need the
best legal talent she can get
when the cops find that
syringe with her prints on it.
Now you know sooner or
later there gonna tear
that house on Long Island apart.
- How come the sudden
concern for her welfare?
- You got a monopoly
on it, besides I like
to leave a situation with
the strings all neatly tied.
Teachings of youth,
I don't know.
- I'll be around.
- Yeah Vinnie, I know you will.
(dramatic music)
- Uh, Detective Mulcahy please.
- Hey.
- Hi.
- You alright?
- Yeah I'm just a
little nauseous.
- Listen Susan I want you to
try to remember something.
Where did you the syringe
after you gave Mel his shot?
- I put it in a drawer.
- Which drawer in what room?
- I put it in the
drawer I don't know.
I give Mel shots all the time.
They're perfectly legal
medications, each one
prescribed by a doctor,
Vinnie this whole thing
is ridiculous I
shouldn't be here at all.
It's obviously a case
of mistaken identity.
What are we gonna
do about the house?
- House, what house?
- We can't live in hotels
after the baby's born
or on the boat, I want
him to have something
that Mel and I never had,
a feeling that he belongs
some place, a place
that is warm and safe.
You know you haven't once
said you're happy about this?
- Well I guess I'm
still a little stunned.
- I love you Vinnie and I
can't wait to have our baby.
Last night I dreamed I
was walking along a cliff
near the ocean and every
so often Mel would appear
and I'd run up to him,
and I'd try to put my arms
around him but I couldn't,
he is gone isn't he?
(melodramatic music)
- I've thinking about you
son, Frank told me you're out.
What are you gonna go someplace
warm for a couple of weeks?
- Listen how are
those fuses of yours?
- They're blown now.
- I'm not pulling out.
- Vinnie, Vinnie, we are talking
a major violation of procedure.
- Susan's pregnant.
- Well I guess the next
question's obvious.
- Yeah but the answer
isn't and until I know it
I can't leave her but I do
know that she didn't kill Mel.
- Listen what this conversation
needs is some eye contact.
Let me give you my 20.
- Yeah but I can't, I can't, her
arraignment's set for tomorrow.
- Well then come over now.
- What she did is an act of love
and I gotta make sure she
isn't punished for it.
- Vinnie, Vinnie!
(dark and dramatic music)
- You're under arrest my friend.
At the very least for
breaking and entering
at the very most for the
murder of Mel Profitt.
(dramatic music)
- Mel starts pulling
strings the whole
world turns into a
Punch and Judy Show.
Now we said you'd be out
by this morning, now look,
he wants you to go back to
the hotel, get some rest.
- I didn't sleep last night.
- Well you must be exhausted.
- Roger, I have a secret, Vinnie
and I are gonna have a baby.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Congratulations.
- You know I thought he'd
be here to pick me up.
- Ah isn't that
the way it always
is there never around
when you need one.
Fathers I mean, some of 'em you
just can't count
on for anything.
- Detective Mulcahy
I'm Frank McPike, OCB.
This is Lillah Warfield
she's with State.
- Congratulations.
- Oh excuse me,
pardon me do you think
we might have a
moment of your time,
it's concerning
the Profitt matter.
I understand you have
two people in custody,
his sister and one
Vincent Terranova.
- Terranova's here,
we let the sister go.
- What's your interest?
- A direct one, Terranova
used his call to contact me,
you can check you
logs, now I'd like
to see him and then I'd
like to have him released.
- You on ears?
- On assignment to infiltrate
the Profitt organization.
- Does his assignment include
tampering with evidence
at the scene of a
possible homicide?
- What was he trying to
cover up and who for?
Susan Profitt maybe, I've seen
the lady I wouldn't blame him.
- Excuse me detective
this case has certain
National Security implications,
now as regards Ms. Profitt,
we wouldn't want her
taken into custody again,
that would hinder
our investigation
of other individuals
within the Profitt organization.
- Oh well I wouldn't wanna
hinder your investigation.
- You federales really kill me.
You walk in a place
expect everyone
to salute the flag
and grab his ankles.
Well this is New York
City, bub, a sovereign-
- What is it?
- Analysis of the syringes
we found on Terranova.
They're clean, never
been used at all.
- Which means you still
don't have a murder weapon.
- But I do have your
boy in the holding tank
and until I get word from
someone with authority
that counts that's exactly
where he's staying.
- Authority that counts!
- Frank, LoCoco set me up.
He knew that I'd go
out to that house
and look for whatever
was worth finding.
- Which is exactly nothing.
The syringes had
never been used.
- The point is he tipped off
Mulcahy that I'd be there.
- Alright, let's say that's
true. Then let's ask why?
- 'Cause he wanted
Susan released
and then for me
to take her place.
Look Frank, LoCoco told me
that that Caribbean program
was dead in the water,
now that's the best reason
that I know to believe that
it's going full speed ahead.
Now with Mel gone Susan
holds the key to the money,
the influence,
whatever LoCoco needs.
The longer I spend in here
the more time he's gonna have
with her and she's more
vulnerable now than ever.
- Vulnerable is not a word I
associate with Susan Profitt.
- Well that's 'cause
you don't know her.
- Obviously not.
- I don't know maybe we're going
after LoCoco's
connection all wrong.
- Well there's a cheery thought.
- Well Lillah's trying,
Lillah's trying to link him
to Washington but what if
that's not where his contact is?
- Whatever if whoever
he's working with
follows him wherever he goes?
- If you're suggesting
we put a tail on LoCoco
he would spot you in
a second and let me
remind you, you are in custody.
- Yeah I am, but you're not.
- Look Vinnie I am
doing everything I know
how to get you out of here
but it's gonna take some time.
- Why?
- Because this is
New York City, bub.
(dramatic music)
- [Mel On Speaker]
Control the means by
which food is distributed
and you control it all.
Stop that flow and people
will be ripping open
their neighbor's people's
bellies to get at what's inside.
It's the ultimate
act of terrorism.
Holding entire nations hostage.
I want to know
where my sister is.
How can I run the
business without her?
How can I live without
her, I need her here now!
- Mel?
(dark music)
(eerie music)
- [Mel On Speaker]
Susie don't leave me.
I wanna we're part
of each other, locked
together, complete.
Remember when we took
care of Tommy Martin?
Remember the last thing he said?
I'm afraid of the dark.
(mysterious music)
(suspenseful music)
- Mel!
(dramatic music)
Alright Mel you can be it,
you can be it this time,
but I can be it next time okay?
It's only fair.
It's only fair.
- Look I know we got
off on the wrong foot
but you gotta understand
when a guy like Mel Profitt
goes up in smoke the
Commissioner doesn't sleep.
And you know what that means.
- Yeah.
- Look, I never worked
undercover, what's it like?
- Well the pay stinks
but the hours are long.
- Well from one
underpaid, overworked guy
to another, did Susan kill him?
Hey I got an unsolved
murder on my hands.
- Now how do you know that?
It could have been a suicide.
They find his body
on fire on a boat
in the middle of the
Sound and it's suicide,
now how the hell
could that happen?
- This is New York City bub.
(dramatic music)
- [Mel On Speaker] I asked you
not to fall in love with him,
but you did, there was
a time when your heart
beat only for me and now I
feel you shutting me out.
It's either all
or nothing Susie.
I won't share you, I can't.
- Mel!
Mel?
Mel!
(light mysterious music)
Mel!
- Well hello Susan, how
you feeling sweetheart?
- Mel asked me to
give these to you.
- Oh, thank you.
- Where is he?
- Gee, I don't
know, you know Mel,
he likes to keep
everybody guessing.
- Come on Mel, I don't
wanna play games any more.
Mel, I have something very
important to tell you.
- Hey Uncle Mike, when
I was in the hospital
I woke up, you were
standing over me.
- Removable pins,
I like to think
of it as a fashion statement.
Hey, I'm glad you came by.
- Thanks.
This is some place you got here.
- Yet ever so humble.
Listen, what's on your mind?
- It's the company I've
been keeping Uncle Mike.
- I heard that.
- You know when I
first met Mel and Susan
all I could think
about was that these
were the people Father
Randazzo warned me about.
They're totally evil.
And you know there
maybe evil in her.
But my kid might be in her too.
How can I walk away
from that responsibility
and still look at my
face in the mirror?
- Who said you should?
But you hit on it yourself,
your child maybe in her.
That's a hell of a big word.
- Don't you think I
thought about that?
That's all I have
thought about it.
It could be mine, it
could be Mel's too.
Man, I don't know.
- Now isn't Susan
your most reliable
source as to who the father is?
- Yeah she might
have been at one time
but there's a wall
between us now.
I can't get past it and she
doesn't even know it's there.
You know I know people who
are close to each other
but I never saw
people who were part
of each other the way
Mel and Susan were.
They could practically
think for each other.
And I've never seen
another person suffer
for another person the
way Susan did for Mel.
I mean she's still suffering.
- Phantom pain.
- What?
- You lose a part of yourself
and for months afterwards,
sometimes even years afterwards,
you still feel the sensations.
The difference
between her and me
is that I know what I
lost is never coming back.
You in love with her?
- I know I can't leave her,
not if there's only a one
in a million chance
that that kid's mine.
- Son if she's not able
to tell you the truth,
you gotta find someone who can.
- Thanks man.
- You keep me posted.
- Yeah.
(dramatic music)
Hey.
- I'm glad you're here.
I've been waiting for you, look.
It's just like one Bing
Crosby had in Holiday Inn.
I called the broker and
she's making an appointment
for us to go see it in Stamford.
- Susan, Susan, marry me.
(dramatic music)
I just figured that two
people that are gonna have
a house and a baby
ought to be married.
Now I can get down on my
knee if you want me to.
I can hire one of those
planes with the banners.
- Don't, don't joke about it.
I never expected to
have a husband, a child,
a house in the country, I never
even expected to want them
but now I want them
more than anything.
Yes I'll marry you.
- Uh listen and before
we can get married
we have to have a blood test.
Now I know this doctor down on
Park Avenue he's
got his own lab,
we can get the
results in no time.
(dark and dramatic music)
- Roger.
You're late.
I'm very disappointed in you.
- You do that to me
again Herb I'm gonna
reach down your throat
and pull out your spleen.
- Did you take
care of Terranova?
- Don't worry about
him, he's got more
problems than he
knows how to handle.
A sense of morality
can do that to you.
Know what I've got
in my hand Herb?
Oh down boy, I
expected a reaction
but you're positively Pavlovian.
Access to roughly 100
million of Mel's money.
These are the cards I'm holding.
I'd call that a pat hand.
- What are you saying?
- What I'm saying is that
nobody touches a dime of this
to put LaLonde into
office until we're
absolutely certain
of who's in charge.
- If you're presuming
to usurp my authority
over this operation you are-
- We are presuming to
usurp the sovereign
nation of Isle Pavot,
now that is going
to involve the hiring,
training, and equipping
of mercenaries
and support units.
I am not going to leave
that to bureaucrats.
I do not intend to
be the chief suckling
at another Bay of Pigs, so I
suggest that you call Langley
and clear the way for me to
control the takeover on site.
Until then these babies
go back into the deck.
You see Herb the way I
see it is that either
we take over this island
under my supervision
or I use this 100 million
to buy my own little island.
Far from the madding
crowd, make that call Herb.
(dramatic music)
- Yes sir LoCoco wants
to maximize his status
with respect to the operation.
I think we should authorize
he does have the expertise
not to mention access
to the financing.
And once LaLonde takes
the oath of office
LoCoco can be de-physicalized.
Yes sir, thank you sir.
- Appreciate you
rushing the lab Doc.
- Forgive me I'm
a little confused.
You said that her
pregnancy was confirmed
so when the results
of the test came in
I phoned Ms. Profitt's
physician in Vancouver
to obtain her history, you're
aware that she spent much
of her childhood in the
foster care system down South.
- Yeah, so what?
- In certain institutions,
which have since ceased
to operate, various
experimental procedures
were performed on the children.
Now the long-term
results of which were
neither anticipated
nor publicized.
- What's your point?
- Vinnie, she was sterilized,
she can't possibly be pregnant.
- No, no, no, no,
no, she has to be.
She gets nauseous
in the mornings.
- Hysterical pregnancies aren't
common but they do occur.
Look if a woman
believes she's pregnant
and believes it strongly enough.
She can exhibit symptoms
of a true pregnancy,
but it's a delusion, in
the case of Ms. Profitt,
it's a fantasy she's created
undoubtedly an attempt
to conquer what is
a tragic reality.
- I thought Frank
would be here already.
God Vinnie, if you
feel anything like
you look I better
call an ambulance.
- No, I'm fine.
Did you get anything on-
- No nothing, none of my
folks at Langley know anything
about a Caribbean project
but when Frank called
he sounded like he might have
come up with some information.
- Lillah, Vinnie, I've
been tailing LoCoco.
Now last night it
might've paid off.
He had a meet with this guy.
- Herb Ketcher, he was
a company legend back
in the Nixon years on the
Allende project in Chile.
He was supposed to have
been a major player
and then Carter came
in and cleaned up.
The last time I saw him he was
in a basement
office in Vancouver.
- When was that?
- A few weeks ago.
- The same time
LoCoco was there.
You're right Vince,
LoCoco's contact's portable.
- Well as LoCoco's around
I'm hanging with him.
- Alright listen, I got a
call from Mulcahy an hour ago.
They found the syringe in
the house on Long Island.
He's gonna rearrest Susan and
charge her with murder one.
Yeah, we'll let him,
nothing's gonna happen.
- Vince the got a body,
they have cause of death,
now they have the instrument
that administered-
- No prosecutor will ever
bring this case to trial.
What they're dealing
with is a woman
who is incompetent
to defend herself.
Come here.
She's over the edge Frank.
I guess it was inevitable
but I didn't want to see it.
Now arresting her is
pointless and so is prison.
That's not where she belongs.
(dramatic music)
- Is she aware of the situation?
- No and I want
it kept that way.
- Will any restraining
devices be necessary?
- Absolutely not.
- Alright I just wanna make sure
she gets the best of everything.
- Please don't be
concerned Mr. Terranova.
Lakeview is one of the finest
privately run facilities
in the state, in the
country for that matter.
She'll be perfectly
comfortable at all times
and I can assure you the
treatments that she'll be
receiving from our
psychiatrists and staff
will be of the highest
caliber found anywhere.
- Okay, will ya hold this
for me, I'll go get her.
Hi.
- Hello, I told
Mel about the baby.
He was so happy he cried.
He set up a million
dollar trust fund.
Isn't that sweet?
- Yeah it's great, listen
I met with the real estate
broker, we got the
house in the country.
- That's wonderful.
- Yeah so I figured you'd
wanna take a run up there
and see about your plans
of decorating everything.
So a couple of the guys are
gonna take you up there.
- What about you?
- Nah, I couldn't
decorate a cake.
- I'll meet you up there later.
- I've looked some
through magazines
I saw the cutest panda
wallpaper for the baby's room.
- That's nice.
- Are you ready Ms. Profitt?
- They must be new.
- Yeah we just hired 'em on.
- I wish you were
coming with me.
- Yeah me too.
(melodramatic music)
- Bye darling, see
you at the house.
- Okay.
- Well we're ready to begin,
we have our financing,
our agent in charge, and
our leader, the man who will
bring freedom and
stability to the country.
I have your plane
ticket right here Henri.
- I was assured that
financial arrangements
for me and my family
were to be made
prior to my return
to the island.
- Well they have been,
three and half million
have deposited in two fictitious
corporations headquartered-
- Not enough.
- That was the figure we
spoke about months ago.
- When the operation existed
only in conceptual terms.
Now it is a reality,
double the amount.
I'm not leaving for Isle
Pavot until I have an answer.
- Yeah Herb, he's gonna
work out beautifully.
- You sure you wanna
do this Vinnie?
- Yeah I have to Uncle Mike.
- They might not
even let you see her.
- Nah I checked
with the hospital.
They'll give me five minutes.
I gotta make sure that
they're taking care of her.
What I am gonna say to
her when she asks me why?
- I don't know, you'll find
the right words Vinnie,
even if you don't she'll
see 'em on your face.
- Thanks Uncle Mike.
(melodramatic music)
(dark music)
(dramatic music)
(action music)
(dramatic music)
(light music)
- Susan what happened?
- Viking funeral,
the Norsemen always
put their leaders in a
floating funeral pyre.
- [Mel on Speaker] I want
to know where my sister is.
How can I run the
business without her?
- Mel!
- Mel Profitt is dead.
- We haven't even
scratched the surface yet.
- The case is over
Vince, it's over.
- Marry me.
- Yes, I'll marry you.
(action music)
(dramatic music)
(action music)
(flames burning)
(dramatic music)
(knocks on door)
- Is that the delivery
man from the toy store?
- No open the door.
(glass shatters)
Susan come on it's me,
open the door will ya?
- Vinnie?
- Yeah you can't stay
locked up in there.
- I missed you.
- I want you to tell me
what happened to Mel.
I want you to tell
me so I can help you.
- Do you think, do you
think he knew I loved him?
I know I told him but do
you think he really knew.
- Susan what happened?
I saw his body on
the boat and I saw
you torch it and push
it out in the water.
- A Viking funeral,
the Norsemen always-
- Yeah but how did he die?
- He died what difference
does it make how?
- Susan listen to me,
his death isn't a secret.
It's on the radio,
it's in the newspapers.
The cops are gonna ask
you the same questions
I'm asking you and they're not
gonna let you off the hook.
- Do you know what
it's like to be empty?
To look inside and see nothing?
(knocks on door)
- Alright listen,
if it's the cops
let me to talk to 'em okay?
Yeah!
- Delivery here.
- Bring it in.
- Vinnie I have the
most wonderful news.
Okay we'll open it thanks.
- Help me open up.
- Susan was anyone with
you the night Mel died?
Was LaCococo with you?
- I don't want to talk
about it right now-
(knocks on door)
not now.
- Ms. Profitt it's the police.
- You Susan Profitt?
- What do you want?
- I'm Detective Joseph
Mulcahy, 28th Precinct.
I have a warrant here for
your arrest in connection
with the death of your
brother Melvin Profitt.
His body was discovered
out on Long Island Sound
on fire in a rowboat,
cause of death
was an injection of
amphetamine, heroin mixture.
We have numerous
individuals who told us
that you repeatedly inject
him with such a substance.
- Do you have a witness
or a murder weapon?
- You her lawyer?
- No.
- Then shut up, we'll wait
while you get dressed.
- I've been expecting
this package.
We were just about to open it.
- Hey go, it's alright
I'll go with ya, go on.
- Alright bub, what's your name?
- Vinnie Terranova.
- And what do you
do around here?
- I work for Mel Profitt.
- In what capacity?
- I was his manicurist.
Susan's under arrest,
they're booking
her now but she
did not kill Mel.
- That sounds definite.
- Would you kill the
only think in your
life that kept you
moving forward?
- I'm listening.
- Mel's death probably
fit into that Caribbean
deal that Roger LoCoco
was trying to set up.
You know the take
over of Isle Pavot,
now I need to see
McPike and tell him
to bring Lillah
Warfield with him.
- Alright will do.
Listen Vinnie, I know Susan
means something to you
and I once told you I
could blow the fuses
on these gizmos any time
you need to sort out what
you were thinking from
what you were feeling,
well listen, that offer stands.
- Alright thanks but
right now I gotta find out
what LoCoco had to
deal with Mel's death
and what's changed
because of it.
- Mel Profitt's death changes
only one thing, the timetable.
- Agreed.
- It accelerates and it
accelerates as of now.
- We pull back and regroup.
- Oh, this from a man who says
his business is fulfillment.
The program goes on unabated.
- Mel Profitt was the program.
- Again you surprise me.
Haven't you learned
that men mean nothing,
it's organizations
that nurture us,
that gives us the means
by which we survive.
- The organization is now in
the form of Susan Profitt.
And the form of Susan
Profitt is in jail!
I can't get to her.
- The success of this program
means that I will ensure
the salvation of
this hemisphere;
I will not have that denied me.
Are we clear on this Roger?
- If we accelerate the program
we're no longer talking
economics, we're
talking military coup.
Now there's a half a
million in cash stashed
in Profitt's hotel
room and that's enough
to start outfitting
a mercenary brigade
to stage an invasion
of Isle Pavot.
- You're gonna need
a hell of a lot
more than half a million.
- So why don't dip into
the company's piggy bank?
- Oh, the whole point
is to maintain distance.
The company cannot afford
to look like it's involved,
plausible deniability,
the key is Susan,
Mel is gone, we deal with Susan.
- Even if she were released
I don't think there's
enough left of her
to bargain with.
- You're saying she's unstable?
- She's jello.
- Well maybe we can turn her
instability into an asset.
I believe jello can be molded
into any shape you want.
What about Terranova?
Now is the time to take him out.
- Now is the time to
find the guy install
as the future President
of Isle Pavot.
- Henri LaLonde, born on the
island to a prominent family
with no ties to the U.S., an
accent you can spread on toast.
He's been in the wings for
years, we plucked him out
of high school sent him to Yale,
London School of Economics,
the nice about his is he
thinks his ideas are his own.
- He's here now?
- As I said Roger, the
program accelerates.
Strings have to be
attached quickly.
I have a man briefing him.
- Henri, sorry to
interrupt, (speaks French).
Henri LaLonde this is a
colleague Roger LoCoco.
- It's a pleasure
to meet you sir,
I look forward to
working with you.
- Have you visited Isle Pavot?
- No I haven't, I
haven't had the pleasure.
- Then perhaps you assume
it is just another atoll
on which wealthy Americans
can build their condominiums
and hire natives to
scrub their toilets.
- Actually I assumed
it was an ally
in our fight to
save the hemisphere.
- In so far as the United
States offers us assistance
to that end we will
accept it, but we intend
to always steer on our
course in world affairs.
The sovereignty of Isle
Pavot is not for sale.
- That's fine Henri,
that's just fine.
Perhaps you'd like to get
back to your briefing.
- I think he'll work
out beautifully.
- Are things still
rough with Cathy?
- Well we live in
the same house,
we're not on the same planet.
- Have you thought about
seeing a therapist?
- Our generation
has done for therapy
what Eisenhower did for golf.
- Frank, I wanna
get Susan released.
- Yeah and I wanna go to heaven
but right now neither of
our chances look very good.
- Frank the issue here is
with LoCoco and Isle Pavot.
He's not trying corner
the market on sugar cane.
Whatever he's doing he's
doing for the agency.
- Where's LoCoco now?
- Oh I don't know,
why don't you ask her.
I don't know anything about it.
- Hey this Caribbean
thing is way too big
to blow off just
because one man died.
And I don't think LoCoco
couldn't handle it by himself.
Now I think there has
to be somebody else
that he's either reporting
to or taking orders from.
Now you find that guy and-
- Wait a minute,
you're talking about
straddling the line between
the Bureau and the Agency.
- No, I'm not!
I'm talking about crossing over
it like it wasn't even there.
You know the last time
I checked the Agency
isn't supposed to mess with
citizens inside the U.S.,
but one of your agents killed
a guy on this side
of the border.
- You don't know that.
- I know that as
well as I know this
interdepartmental
stuff is a lot of crap!
- Vince, you are losing it man.
- You sent me in to nail
a contract killer named
Roger LoCoco which
led to Profitt
and right back to LoCoco again.
Susan shouldn't be in custody
why can't you see that?
- We are long past
the lecture stage.
Now I guess it's pretty
obvious when it comes
to separating job performance
from hormonal urges
I'm on pretty shaky
ground myself.
But it should also be
obvious I can't release Susan
without giving away
your whole show.
I'm pulling you out Vince!
- Frank if you do that
we blow any chance
of bringing down the rest
of Profitt's organization.
Isn't that what the job is?
- That is what the
job is and you're
too emotionally
involved to do it.
Now you look you
gave us what we need
to kill Profitt's drug
organization in Tennessee
and nail down Aiuppa and
the boys from Brooklyn.
- We haven't even
scratched the surface yet.
- Mel Profitt is dead,
LoCoco has disappeared,
probably to never
be heard from again.
Susan is in custody and if
I know my family Profitt
the police their woman,
the case is over Vince.
It's over and you are out!
(dramatic music)
- Oh Mel, you're such a kidder.
(dark music)
- Susan I want you tell me what
happened the night Mel died.
- Nothing can hurt him anymore.
He's free, that's all he wanted
to escape the torment, the
pain the world imposes.
- Did you help him escape?
- Wouldn't you for
someone you loved?
- Did you tell them.
- They wouldn't understand.
- Listen Susan I have a
lot of friends in New York.
People with
connections and they'll
be able to take care of you.
- I don't need
them, you're here.
- Now I'm talking down the
road, you know if things change,
and if I', not, I just want you
to know that you're gonna be
okay and these friends
of mine will be able
to do a lot more
for you than I can.
- No, no one can do
more for me than you.
Or give me more than you have.
Vinnie I'm pregnant, you
and I have made a baby.
I think it's gonna be a boy.
(dramatic music)
(light music)
- This whole thing's
been some kind of,
I don't know, case
of mistaken identity.
Now we're gonna have you
out of here by the morning,
end of the day, absolute latest.
- Good.
- He would have come down
here himself but he's been
on the phone since the moment
he heard what happened.
Now he's been to the
Police Commissioner,
two members of the City Council,
when I left he was screaming
at his Honor's right hand girl.
- But Vinnie was already here.
- Vinnie? I'm talking about Mel.
He's promised everything
from a $100,000 campaign
contribution to
the biggest false
arrest lawsuit this
city's ever seen.
- Mel is dead.
- That's a hell of a thing
to say about your brother.
- Now the the guy's
trying his damnedest-
- Stop it!
Mel is dead.
- Look everything's
gonna be fine.
We'll take care of everything.
You just get some rest Susan.
- Where have you been?
- Details Vinnie,
a million details
that had to be attended
to once Mel got his wings.
You look good, job hunting?
- Susan's under arrest.
- Oh, where'd they
find Mel's body?
- Floating out in the Sound.
- What was the cause of death?
- You're asking me?
- You're the only one around.
- Lethal injection.
- You there when
she gave it to him?
- No, were you?
- Uh uh, needles
give me the creeps.
I gotta thank you Vinnie.
- For what?
- For restoring my
faith in romance.
- Meaning what?
- Meaning motive,
the two with the most
to gain from Mel's death
were you and sister Sue,
with an insanely
jealous brother out
of the way love is free is
to reach for new heights.
- Now if you wanna talk
about the Bank of Isle Pavot.
Seems to me there's a new
agenda behind door number one
and it goes like this: with
Mel Profitt out of the way
Roger LoCoco takes
over the bank.
- Oh Vinnie, I don't
wanna a desk job.
If Mel had made that
Caribbean deal happen
I was looking at 10
million in finder's fees.
Now Mel's out to sea and so
is the deal and my 10 million.
Look, lets face it, we all
hitched our wagons to the star.
But now the survivors
among us will recognize
that it's time to unhitch, take
a page out of Martin
Bormann's book.
- So why are you
still hanging around?
- Susan's gonna need the
best legal talent she can get
when the cops find that
syringe with her prints on it.
Now you know sooner or
later there gonna tear
that house on Long Island apart.
- How come the sudden
concern for her welfare?
- You got a monopoly
on it, besides I like
to leave a situation with
the strings all neatly tied.
Teachings of youth,
I don't know.
- I'll be around.
- Yeah Vinnie, I know you will.
(dramatic music)
- Uh, Detective Mulcahy please.
- Hey.
- Hi.
- You alright?
- Yeah I'm just a
little nauseous.
- Listen Susan I want you to
try to remember something.
Where did you the syringe
after you gave Mel his shot?
- I put it in a drawer.
- Which drawer in what room?
- I put it in the
drawer I don't know.
I give Mel shots all the time.
They're perfectly legal
medications, each one
prescribed by a doctor,
Vinnie this whole thing
is ridiculous I
shouldn't be here at all.
It's obviously a case
of mistaken identity.
What are we gonna
do about the house?
- House, what house?
- We can't live in hotels
after the baby's born
or on the boat, I want
him to have something
that Mel and I never had,
a feeling that he belongs
some place, a place
that is warm and safe.
You know you haven't once
said you're happy about this?
- Well I guess I'm
still a little stunned.
- I love you Vinnie and I
can't wait to have our baby.
Last night I dreamed I
was walking along a cliff
near the ocean and every
so often Mel would appear
and I'd run up to him,
and I'd try to put my arms
around him but I couldn't,
he is gone isn't he?
(melodramatic music)
- I've thinking about you
son, Frank told me you're out.
What are you gonna go someplace
warm for a couple of weeks?
- Listen how are
those fuses of yours?
- They're blown now.
- I'm not pulling out.
- Vinnie, Vinnie, we are talking
a major violation of procedure.
- Susan's pregnant.
- Well I guess the next
question's obvious.
- Yeah but the answer
isn't and until I know it
I can't leave her but I do
know that she didn't kill Mel.
- Listen what this conversation
needs is some eye contact.
Let me give you my 20.
- Yeah but I can't, I can't, her
arraignment's set for tomorrow.
- Well then come over now.
- What she did is an act of love
and I gotta make sure she
isn't punished for it.
- Vinnie, Vinnie!
(dark and dramatic music)
- You're under arrest my friend.
At the very least for
breaking and entering
at the very most for the
murder of Mel Profitt.
(dramatic music)
- Mel starts pulling
strings the whole
world turns into a
Punch and Judy Show.
Now we said you'd be out
by this morning, now look,
he wants you to go back to
the hotel, get some rest.
- I didn't sleep last night.
- Well you must be exhausted.
- Roger, I have a secret, Vinnie
and I are gonna have a baby.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Congratulations.
- You know I thought he'd
be here to pick me up.
- Ah isn't that
the way it always
is there never around
when you need one.
Fathers I mean, some of 'em you
just can't count
on for anything.
- Detective Mulcahy
I'm Frank McPike, OCB.
This is Lillah Warfield
she's with State.
- Congratulations.
- Oh excuse me,
pardon me do you think
we might have a
moment of your time,
it's concerning
the Profitt matter.
I understand you have
two people in custody,
his sister and one
Vincent Terranova.
- Terranova's here,
we let the sister go.
- What's your interest?
- A direct one, Terranova
used his call to contact me,
you can check you
logs, now I'd like
to see him and then I'd
like to have him released.
- You on ears?
- On assignment to infiltrate
the Profitt organization.
- Does his assignment include
tampering with evidence
at the scene of a
possible homicide?
- What was he trying to
cover up and who for?
Susan Profitt maybe, I've seen
the lady I wouldn't blame him.
- Excuse me detective
this case has certain
National Security implications,
now as regards Ms. Profitt,
we wouldn't want her
taken into custody again,
that would hinder
our investigation
of other individuals
within the Profitt organization.
- Oh well I wouldn't wanna
hinder your investigation.
- You federales really kill me.
You walk in a place
expect everyone
to salute the flag
and grab his ankles.
Well this is New York
City, bub, a sovereign-
- What is it?
- Analysis of the syringes
we found on Terranova.
They're clean, never
been used at all.
- Which means you still
don't have a murder weapon.
- But I do have your
boy in the holding tank
and until I get word from
someone with authority
that counts that's exactly
where he's staying.
- Authority that counts!
- Frank, LoCoco set me up.
He knew that I'd go
out to that house
and look for whatever
was worth finding.
- Which is exactly nothing.
The syringes had
never been used.
- The point is he tipped off
Mulcahy that I'd be there.
- Alright, let's say that's
true. Then let's ask why?
- 'Cause he wanted
Susan released
and then for me
to take her place.
Look Frank, LoCoco told me
that that Caribbean program
was dead in the water,
now that's the best reason
that I know to believe that
it's going full speed ahead.
Now with Mel gone Susan
holds the key to the money,
the influence,
whatever LoCoco needs.
The longer I spend in here
the more time he's gonna have
with her and she's more
vulnerable now than ever.
- Vulnerable is not a word I
associate with Susan Profitt.
- Well that's 'cause
you don't know her.
- Obviously not.
- I don't know maybe we're going
after LoCoco's
connection all wrong.
- Well there's a cheery thought.
- Well Lillah's trying,
Lillah's trying to link him
to Washington but what if
that's not where his contact is?
- Whatever if whoever
he's working with
follows him wherever he goes?
- If you're suggesting
we put a tail on LoCoco
he would spot you in
a second and let me
remind you, you are in custody.
- Yeah I am, but you're not.
- Look Vinnie I am
doing everything I know
how to get you out of here
but it's gonna take some time.
- Why?
- Because this is
New York City, bub.
(dramatic music)
- [Mel On Speaker]
Control the means by
which food is distributed
and you control it all.
Stop that flow and people
will be ripping open
their neighbor's people's
bellies to get at what's inside.
It's the ultimate
act of terrorism.
Holding entire nations hostage.
I want to know
where my sister is.
How can I run the
business without her?
How can I live without
her, I need her here now!
- Mel?
(dark music)
(eerie music)
- [Mel On Speaker]
Susie don't leave me.
I wanna we're part
of each other, locked
together, complete.
Remember when we took
care of Tommy Martin?
Remember the last thing he said?
I'm afraid of the dark.
(mysterious music)
(suspenseful music)
- Mel!
(dramatic music)
Alright Mel you can be it,
you can be it this time,
but I can be it next time okay?
It's only fair.
It's only fair.
- Look I know we got
off on the wrong foot
but you gotta understand
when a guy like Mel Profitt
goes up in smoke the
Commissioner doesn't sleep.
And you know what that means.
- Yeah.
- Look, I never worked
undercover, what's it like?
- Well the pay stinks
but the hours are long.
- Well from one
underpaid, overworked guy
to another, did Susan kill him?
Hey I got an unsolved
murder on my hands.
- Now how do you know that?
It could have been a suicide.
They find his body
on fire on a boat
in the middle of the
Sound and it's suicide,
now how the hell
could that happen?
- This is New York City bub.
(dramatic music)
- [Mel On Speaker] I asked you
not to fall in love with him,
but you did, there was
a time when your heart
beat only for me and now I
feel you shutting me out.
It's either all
or nothing Susie.
I won't share you, I can't.
- Mel!
Mel?
Mel!
(light mysterious music)
Mel!
- Well hello Susan, how
you feeling sweetheart?
- Mel asked me to
give these to you.
- Oh, thank you.
- Where is he?
- Gee, I don't
know, you know Mel,
he likes to keep
everybody guessing.
- Come on Mel, I don't
wanna play games any more.
Mel, I have something very
important to tell you.
- Hey Uncle Mike, when
I was in the hospital
I woke up, you were
standing over me.
- Removable pins,
I like to think
of it as a fashion statement.
Hey, I'm glad you came by.
- Thanks.
This is some place you got here.
- Yet ever so humble.
Listen, what's on your mind?
- It's the company I've
been keeping Uncle Mike.
- I heard that.
- You know when I
first met Mel and Susan
all I could think
about was that these
were the people Father
Randazzo warned me about.
They're totally evil.
And you know there
maybe evil in her.
But my kid might be in her too.
How can I walk away
from that responsibility
and still look at my
face in the mirror?
- Who said you should?
But you hit on it yourself,
your child maybe in her.
That's a hell of a big word.
- Don't you think I
thought about that?
That's all I have
thought about it.
It could be mine, it
could be Mel's too.
Man, I don't know.
- Now isn't Susan
your most reliable
source as to who the father is?
- Yeah she might
have been at one time
but there's a wall
between us now.
I can't get past it and she
doesn't even know it's there.
You know I know people who
are close to each other
but I never saw
people who were part
of each other the way
Mel and Susan were.
They could practically
think for each other.
And I've never seen
another person suffer
for another person the
way Susan did for Mel.
I mean she's still suffering.
- Phantom pain.
- What?
- You lose a part of yourself
and for months afterwards,
sometimes even years afterwards,
you still feel the sensations.
The difference
between her and me
is that I know what I
lost is never coming back.
You in love with her?
- I know I can't leave her,
not if there's only a one
in a million chance
that that kid's mine.
- Son if she's not able
to tell you the truth,
you gotta find someone who can.
- Thanks man.
- You keep me posted.
- Yeah.
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Hey.
- I'm glad you're here.
I've been waiting for you, look.
It's just like one Bing
Crosby had in Holiday Inn.
I called the broker and
she's making an appointment
for us to go see it in Stamford.
- Susan, Susan, marry me.
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I just figured that two
people that are gonna have
a house and a baby
ought to be married.
Now I can get down on my
knee if you want me to.
I can hire one of those
planes with the banners.
- Don't, don't joke about it.
I never expected to
have a husband, a child,
a house in the country, I never
even expected to want them
but now I want them
more than anything.
Yes I'll marry you.
- Uh listen and before
we can get married
we have to have a blood test.
Now I know this doctor down on
Park Avenue he's
got his own lab,
we can get the
results in no time.
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- Roger.
You're late.
I'm very disappointed in you.
- You do that to me
again Herb I'm gonna
reach down your throat
and pull out your spleen.
- Did you take
care of Terranova?
- Don't worry about
him, he's got more
problems than he
knows how to handle.
A sense of morality
can do that to you.
Know what I've got
in my hand Herb?
Oh down boy, I
expected a reaction
but you're positively Pavlovian.
Access to roughly 100
million of Mel's money.
These are the cards I'm holding.
I'd call that a pat hand.
- What are you saying?
- What I'm saying is that
nobody touches a dime of this
to put LaLonde into
office until we're
absolutely certain
of who's in charge.
- If you're presuming
to usurp my authority
over this operation you are-
- We are presuming to
usurp the sovereign
nation of Isle Pavot,
now that is going
to involve the hiring,
training, and equipping
of mercenaries
and support units.
I am not going to leave
that to bureaucrats.
I do not intend to
be the chief suckling
at another Bay of Pigs, so I
suggest that you call Langley
and clear the way for me to
control the takeover on site.
Until then these babies
go back into the deck.
You see Herb the way I
see it is that either
we take over this island
under my supervision
or I use this 100 million
to buy my own little island.
Far from the madding
crowd, make that call Herb.
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- Yes sir LoCoco wants
to maximize his status
with respect to the operation.
I think we should authorize
he does have the expertise
not to mention access
to the financing.
And once LaLonde takes
the oath of office
LoCoco can be de-physicalized.
Yes sir, thank you sir.
- Appreciate you
rushing the lab Doc.
- Forgive me I'm
a little confused.
You said that her
pregnancy was confirmed
so when the results
of the test came in
I phoned Ms. Profitt's
physician in Vancouver
to obtain her history, you're
aware that she spent much
of her childhood in the
foster care system down South.
- Yeah, so what?
- In certain institutions,
which have since ceased
to operate, various
experimental procedures
were performed on the children.
Now the long-term
results of which were
neither anticipated
nor publicized.
- What's your point?
- Vinnie, she was sterilized,
she can't possibly be pregnant.
- No, no, no, no,
no, she has to be.
She gets nauseous
in the mornings.
- Hysterical pregnancies aren't
common but they do occur.
Look if a woman
believes she's pregnant
and believes it strongly enough.
She can exhibit symptoms
of a true pregnancy,
but it's a delusion, in
the case of Ms. Profitt,
it's a fantasy she's created
undoubtedly an attempt
to conquer what is
a tragic reality.
- I thought Frank
would be here already.
God Vinnie, if you
feel anything like
you look I better
call an ambulance.
- No, I'm fine.
Did you get anything on-
- No nothing, none of my
folks at Langley know anything
about a Caribbean project
but when Frank called
he sounded like he might have
come up with some information.
- Lillah, Vinnie, I've
been tailing LoCoco.
Now last night it
might've paid off.
He had a meet with this guy.
- Herb Ketcher, he was
a company legend back
in the Nixon years on the
Allende project in Chile.
He was supposed to have
been a major player
and then Carter came
in and cleaned up.
The last time I saw him he was
in a basement
office in Vancouver.
- When was that?
- A few weeks ago.
- The same time
LoCoco was there.
You're right Vince,
LoCoco's contact's portable.
- Well as LoCoco's around
I'm hanging with him.
- Alright listen, I got a
call from Mulcahy an hour ago.
They found the syringe in
the house on Long Island.
He's gonna rearrest Susan and
charge her with murder one.
Yeah, we'll let him,
nothing's gonna happen.
- Vince the got a body,
they have cause of death,
now they have the instrument
that administered-
- No prosecutor will ever
bring this case to trial.
What they're dealing
with is a woman
who is incompetent
to defend herself.
Come here.
She's over the edge Frank.
I guess it was inevitable
but I didn't want to see it.
Now arresting her is
pointless and so is prison.
That's not where she belongs.
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- Is she aware of the situation?
- No and I want
it kept that way.
- Will any restraining
devices be necessary?
- Absolutely not.
- Alright I just wanna make sure
she gets the best of everything.
- Please don't be
concerned Mr. Terranova.
Lakeview is one of the finest
privately run facilities
in the state, in the
country for that matter.
She'll be perfectly
comfortable at all times
and I can assure you the
treatments that she'll be
receiving from our
psychiatrists and staff
will be of the highest
caliber found anywhere.
- Okay, will ya hold this
for me, I'll go get her.
Hi.
- Hello, I told
Mel about the baby.
He was so happy he cried.
He set up a million
dollar trust fund.
Isn't that sweet?
- Yeah it's great, listen
I met with the real estate
broker, we got the
house in the country.
- That's wonderful.
- Yeah so I figured you'd
wanna take a run up there
and see about your plans
of decorating everything.
So a couple of the guys are
gonna take you up there.
- What about you?
- Nah, I couldn't
decorate a cake.
- I'll meet you up there later.
- I've looked some
through magazines
I saw the cutest panda
wallpaper for the baby's room.
- That's nice.
- Are you ready Ms. Profitt?
- They must be new.
- Yeah we just hired 'em on.
- I wish you were
coming with me.
- Yeah me too.
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- Bye darling, see
you at the house.
- Okay.
- Well we're ready to begin,
we have our financing,
our agent in charge, and
our leader, the man who will
bring freedom and
stability to the country.
I have your plane
ticket right here Henri.
- I was assured that
financial arrangements
for me and my family
were to be made
prior to my return
to the island.
- Well they have been,
three and half million
have deposited in two fictitious
corporations headquartered-
- Not enough.
- That was the figure we
spoke about months ago.
- When the operation existed
only in conceptual terms.
Now it is a reality,
double the amount.
I'm not leaving for Isle
Pavot until I have an answer.
- Yeah Herb, he's gonna
work out beautifully.
- You sure you wanna
do this Vinnie?
- Yeah I have to Uncle Mike.
- They might not
even let you see her.
- Nah I checked
with the hospital.
They'll give me five minutes.
I gotta make sure that
they're taking care of her.
What I am gonna say to
her when she asks me why?
- I don't know, you'll find
the right words Vinnie,
even if you don't she'll
see 'em on your face.
- Thanks Uncle Mike.
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