Wiseguy (1987–2009): Season 2, Episode 1 - Going Home - full transcript
- All I ever wanted was
to be a cop, I joined
the Bureau because I figured
that's the ultimate cop.
(gun shot)
I'm worried about my
mother, I'm telling her.
- Tell her what?
- The truth about me, there
is no way I'll be able
to make up for hell I put
her through for the hell
I put her through
in the last two
but I'm gonna start
trying right now.
- A breach of
security like that.
- She's not gonna tell anyone!
- People slip are you
willing to risk that?
- This is about the need in
your life not the one rampant
over people's lives
simply because your
fire burns brighter.
Hey, this is about the law man.
When you're in the training
program they pitch you
a lot crap about the tough
moment's you're gonna have
to face, but they never
mention word about
the toughest moment,
that's when you gotta look
in the eye of the guy
you've just betrayed.
All the values that I was
brought up to believe in
have been turned
completely upside down.
I turned friendship and
loyalty into an obscene joke.
I won't be coming back Frank.
(action music)
(dramatic music)
(action music)
- Frank I'm resigning.
- Don't do this, I'll turn
it into a six month leave.
- It is what it is.
- Where are you gonna go?
- I'm going home.
(dramatic music)
- Executive Front Line here.
Wake up to what's happening pal.
Get that out of
here! Go get a job!
Creeps, they could all die.
- Get your Executive Front Line.
(dramatic music)
- Ma?
(melodramatic music)
- Oh, God my head.
(rock music plays)
- Good morning.
- You know Daryl
if you have brought
me into something unprepared.
- Frank it's nothing like that.
- Daryl there are two forest
lawn fairies outside the door.
- Frank, Frank?
- Director McDonald.
- My wife me a $500
pen and I worry more
about losing it than I
do using it to some good.
The men outside with me,
I call them advisors.
- Yes sir.
- You and Daryl have done a
hell of a job, hell of a job.
I'm leaving OCB, I recommended
that Daryl replace me
and in the spirit
of equal opportunity
he requested that
you be appointed
his forest lawn fairy,
congratulations.
- Sir.
- Take chances
that lead to some.
- Yes, yes, yes, yes!
Frank you've been promoted.
- Well there's a
little guilt involved.
The success is Vinnie's.
- Well Terranova's not
being forgotten when
he's back from leave he's
bumped up to Filed Director.
But he's gonna have
to stay undercover,
I don't think he'd
fit in around here.
- Promotion is a moot point,
I held the resignation
as a six month
leave, I thought with
a little time off
he'd change his mind.
- You let him walk
without being debriefed?
- Oh, thank you for 40
months of valiant service
in the face of daily
terror, and now, Vinnie,
if you don't mind, we
would like to confine you
for an indeterminate
period of time
while the Bureau psychiatrists
ascertain your moral fitness?
- Terranova rolled over mob
king pins and an arms cartel
like that, the man's a walking
compendium of criminality.
- Oh, for God's sakes.
- He brought them down it stands
to reason he out-thought them.
- Are you sure this
doesn't have something
to do with losing
your long ball hitter?
- I want him back on the
job or I want him debriefed.
- Vincenzo, your breakfast.
- He's not getting up for hours.
- Ah, Pietro.
- Face it mom, you raised a bum.
- That's a bad joke.
- I was teasing.
- I don't like it.
- Vincenzo!
- I'm eating your
breakfast little brother.
- What?
- Lice, I think you've got lice.
- Ma, Pete fell down.
- Is that any way
to treat a priest?
- Well I'm a lapsed Catholic.
- Now you've lapsed in
a lot of areas lately.
- What am I getting my own
personal sermon now or what?
- What you ought to get is
a swift kick in the ass.
- Who's going to
give it to me you?
- Boys, act your age.
- The least you could
do is put your shirt on.
- Sorry, ma.
- You got a life to live Vinnie
you ought to be
getting back to it.
- That's right it's my life
so leave me alone about it.
- Remember Ronnie Sheen?
- Yeah vaguely.
- Died last night.
- God bless his soul.
- Cancer, his last days
were all I should haves,
I shoulda done this,
I shoulda done that.
- No, that's not me Pete.
(car honks)
- No, I know it's just
that you quit OCB,
you're hanging out
here for months,
nothing's happening and I worry.
You know how many people
I see in the last moments
of life agonizing over
what was left undone?
- Vinnie it's Tony.
- Alright ma, I'm coming.
- I'm still mafioso
to the neighbors Pete.
Until that's a memory
how am I supposed
to go about the business
of being a regular guy?
Hey, it eats me up.
- Careful.
- See you later.
- Careful.
- Okay.
What do you say Tony?
(dramatic music)
- Hey Vinnie.
- Hey Rich.
- Hey Squello, when are you
coming down to the store?
- One man band here Warren.
- Better wake up to
what's happening pal.
Here ya go kid.
- Thanks Warren.
- Okay, keep it straight.
(metal clanks)
- Hey Tony why didn't
you come to the meeting?
- Hey give me a
break Ritchie, yeah?
- What's wrong with
the neighborhood
taking care of itself?
- Who's gonna mess with me as
long as Terrnaova
running this bay, huh?
- What are you gonna
do when he lives?
- Hey look, you pump gas or read
this crap but don't
talk to me about it.
- What's the matter?
- Nothing.
- Nothing?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Hey Vinnie.
- What?
- Do you want to...
- Come on spit it out.
- Your cousin Angela.
- I'll mention it to her.
- Thanks.
- Yeah.
(rain falls on pavement)
(rock music plays)
- Vinnie?
Vince! Yo Vinnie!
Come on Terranova.
- Hey, we got a problem here?
- No I don't have a problem,
I have a little business here.
(rock music blares)
- You know I can't leave
here until you talk to me.
You know another month
of this and you're
gonna be able to infiltrate
the Hell's Angels.
- I don't do it anymore Frank.
- We want you back
with a promotion.
If you're gonna
resign you have to go
to Quantico for debriefing.
(rock music plays)
- What the hell is
this? What is this huh?
What you think you
can just come in here
and do this to
people, do this to us.
What the hell is
a matter with you?
Hey, oh that's it run away,
what the hell is this?
- Tony.
- What you think
you can just come
in here and do this to people?
- Tony, what's a matter?
- The bastards,
they're taking away
my station, they
canceled my lease.
- I'm sorry.
- Oh big deal, you're
sorry what is that?
There was a time when guys
like wouldn't let this happen.
- Tony I'm changing all that
in my life you know that.
- That's good, while
you changed your life
they changed mine,
12 years here,
they're turning into a
Lightning Lube, offered me
a training position
at minimum wage.
- Something will work out.
- Oh that's great, I don't
want your lip service.
Vincenzo, (speaks Italian).
- Tony lay off, will you
get a hold of yourself.
Tony!
(romantic music)
(knock on door)
- Hi Angie.
- Vinnie.
- How ya doing?
- Great.
- Good.
- Do you want a glass
of wine before we go?
- Uh, nah I'm pretty hungry
do you wanna just go?
- Okay.
- Alright.
- Just a sec.
- Alright.
Somebody's got their eye on you.
- Who?
- I'll introduce you.
- Don't Vinnie.
- Why not?
- It makes me uncomfortable.
- You don't date do ya?
- This is a date.
- Angie I'm family
this is a pseudo-date.
- Vinnie it's so hard I was
really happy with Danny.
- I know Angie, but he's
been gone for two years.
- I've gotten to
like being alone.
- It maybe easier for ya, but
I don't believe you like it.
Come on let me introduce
you to him, he's a good kid.
- Alright.
- Excuse me.
- When are you gonna face
the fact that the only way
to deal with these
people is to push back.
- Not now Warren, huh?
- Okay buddy, you'll know
when the time is right.
We're on your side, not
like that gangster pal
of yours that does
nothing for nobody
unless there's a
dollar to be made.
- Ritchie, this is
my cousin Angela.
Angela this is Ritchie Stramm.
- Pleased to meet ya.
- I was married to
Vinnie's cousin, he died.
- That must be tough, huh?
- You get used to it.
- I see you in Morris some
time going to the train.
- I work in Manhattan.
- I never see you in any
of the neighborhood
places after work.
Do you hang out in the city?
- I go home.
- I'm not driving
give me a drink.
- Hey Tony's what's
wrong with ya.
What are you doing?
- Hey take it easy man.
- I can't let him walk
out of here like that.
Alright you guys
start without me,
I'll try to get back if I can.
- Vinnie.
- I'm just gonna
make sure he gets
home safe, alright,
I'll be back.
- I think you're really pretty.
(glass smashes and shatters)
- Tony!
- Ah, Vincent you want
a test drive a Toyota?
- Tony, Tony, that's
enough, give me that.
What did you do to your face?
- Ah careful this Japanese
face, you are rich and funny.
I can make you Japanese.
- I can live with Italian.
- Ah, Italian is out,
how about Jewish, huh?
- I'm at the Temple Beth
(indistinguishable).
(muttering)
- Come on Tony
what are you doing.
(dramatic music)
Come on Tony, come on, up
you go, go home, come on.
(dramatic music)
- Morning.
- Hey Rich.
- So what happened here?
- Batting practice, listen
I called Angela last night,
thanks for getting
her home safe.
- Did she have a good time?
- You're going out on
the Sound aren't ya?
- Yeah.
(bell rings)
- Hey don't you come with us?
- Yeah maybe I will
if Tony ever shows up.
- Hey.
- Give this to Tony will ya?
- Alright.
- You listen when he's done.
- Sure, take care.
- I can't believe Warren
just gave this to Tony.
- What?
- It's Dr. Knox
Pooley, he's a genius.
- $400? Is that with or
without the lubricant?
- Hey I'm sorry Vinnie but you
don't know what
you're talking about.
Dr. Pooley is a brave voice,
I mean if Tony had listened
to him he'd still
have his own business.
- Listen to who?
Sorry about last night Vince.
- Yeah tell it to the Toyota.
- Oh man, what kind
of a bum does this?
Don't answer that.
- It's from Warren.
(bell rings)
- I'm gonna need a lot of help
getting through this Vince.
- Now don't do this to me Tony.
I gotta concentrate
on myself right now.
- Well that's cold.
- We're both making changes
after a lot of time on the job,
now I know that my
change is my choice,
but we're both going
through the same thing.
I'm here for you Tony but don't
ask me to nurse you
through self-pity.
- You're right.
At least I don't have the law
breathing down my neck, huh?
(dramatic music)
- Justice has reviewed the
terms of the situation.
There is no precedent
for forcing an agent
to submit to debriefing
against his will
without the benefit of
grand jury subpoena.
- Well what do you
mean no precedence.
- I mean it would be illegal.
- Well that's not acceptable.
Well we need him back there must
be something Terranova wants.
- I think he wants
to be left alone.
(people playing and laughing)
- What the hell
am I waiting for?
- [Pooley] And because
we have allowed
our nation's resources,
natural and technological,
to be bought up by
foreign influences.
The day is not far of when the
political destiny of America-
- Is that Dr. Pooley?
This guy makes some sense,
maybe I'll come to that meeting.
- Tonight we got a field trip.
You ready to get involved?
There's a way you
can be of some help.
(melodramatic music)
- Gotta a sec Vince?
- You know you're
interrupting me here.
- Sorry it will just take a sec.
- Okay. What?
- I know some people
in the market for guns.
Think we could make some money.
- Tony are you out
of your mind or what?
- Come on they're gonna buy
'em from somebody why not us?
- Who wants these guns?
- Oh, I can't say.
- Tony whoever
these people are you
stay away from them you hear me?
I'm not a player,
don't be stupid.
You stay away from
these people, huh?
- Oh look she's already
been moved in on.
How ya doing pal?
- You sure know how to
kill a conversation.
- Oh absolutely do you want
me to get it him back for ya?
- No, no, I was just
making an observation.
- Yeah, I got something else
you might wanna observe.
- Which would be?
- Dinner.
(men laughing drunkenly)
- I can feel you breathing.
- Yeah well that's because
I just got out of prison.
- Is that true?
- No, it's a metaphor.
(men laughing drunkenly)
- You're full of
secrets aren't you?
- No, yeah, yeah I am. You
got a problem with that?
- Not yet.
- Good.
Dang it.
- What?
- Nothing, nothing, I just
gotta make a phone call.
(numbers dialing)
(phone ringing)
- I gotta call you
back alright, yeah.
- Sailor Hardware,
Mike Terronova.
- Uncle Mike?
- Vince. Oh man, how you doing?
- Ah, working
things out you know.
- Hey this is the business line.
Didn't I give you
my private number?
- Yeah well this is
kind of business.
Listen I need whatever you
got on a Dr. Know Pooley
and The Pilgrims of
Promise, Incorporated.
- So how 'bout those Mets.
- Oh man since
when did they start
putting wingtip
skids on wheelchairs?
- That's not fair Vince, I
went to the wall for you.
- Look I really need
this information.
- This is not something
you can dabble in
when it suits you,
it's too dangerous.
Call my private number.
(glass shatters)
(ominous music)
(yelling)
- No, no, no! (speaks Hebrew).
- Come on.
(phone rings)
- Hello.
- Ma, it's Pete.
- Pietro.
- I need to speak to Vinnie.
- I think he's
sleeping, just a sec.
- Vincenzo!
Vincenzo?
- Hi Ma.
- I hope you have listened
to the Surgeon General.
Your brother.
- Hello.
- Vinnie I need your help.
- Yeah.
- I'm at the Bayview synagogue.
- Okay I'll be right over just
let me change my clothes,
I'll be right there.
- Thanks.
- We are surrounded
by complete disarray.
The Jewish community
seems to be in shock.
(people clamoring)
- Who did this?
- Ignorance did this.
- Excuse me Father, could
you stand up for the camera?
(dramatic music)
- [Man on phone] I saw
the smoke still come out
of those ovens and
I want to tell ya
I never thought I
would see anything
that would remind me of
that in these United States
of America and my home
town of Brooklyn, New York.
I think that these
people should-
- Hello Vincent.
- You called The Lifeguard.
- Yeah so what?
- There's no need for
acrimony here gentleman.
You know we got a lot invested
in you, time, training.
- Yeah and I delivered
on the investment.
I paid a heavy price, I'm
not your mole any more.
What I did for justice,
I isolated myself
from my own
neighborhood, you know
they still think I'm a gangster?
My own friends, I mean
when there's nobody else
to turn to they come
to me for dirty favors
and when I don't deliver
they resent me for it.
- Suppose it doesn't mean much
but those of us who
know admire you.
- Yeah but not enough to
help me when it's personal.
- What is it you want Vincent.
- I want data on Dr. Knox Pooley
and The Pilgrims of
Promise, Incorporated.
- I'll consider it.
You know this business
we're in exacts a toll;
I can see for you
it's been profound.
Still there's one thing I
don't think you can escape,
you're the best there is Vince,
loath the fate if you
will, remains axiomatic.
You were born to it.
Thanks for taking the
time to listen to me.
- Tony, hey.
- I did a terrible
thing last night Vince.
And this isn't self-pity here.
This is regret and I need
to apologize to somebody.
I got involved in
something so ugly
I can see it in my face
when I look in the mirror.
- You were at the Temple.
- Yeah.
- Was Ritchie with you?
- It doesn't matter.
- The hell it doesn't!
- You can't make
a blind man see.
It's gotta come
to us on our own.
It came to me last
night when I saw
that old man hugging
his Holy Scrolls.
This little old man and I
destroyed a peacefulness
in his life for no reason
other than my own bitterness.
They're coming back tonight
and I don't know how to say no.
- It was that creep
friend of yours wasn't it?
Warren Pike right? He's the
guy for the guns isn't he?
Tony, you'll say no.
(dramatic action music)
- Ten dollars but
that knife marks
all the way from
the Rhine to Berlin.
That knife has
killed SS officers.
See there blood's
still on the drape.
- You looking for
guns Warren, huh?
You wanna do business
with me you come to me but
you don't suck my friends
into being your middlemen.
Ya hear me Adolf?
(rock music plays)
(glass shatters)
(rock music plays)
- 15 years in the priesthood
and for the first time
since I entered
the seminary I felt
in my soul what made
become a priest.
Ya know I've been
giving you a lot
of grief lately about
hanging around the house.
- Oh here it comes.
- No I was on your back
because to the surface
in me how I was going
through life on automatic.
I became a priest in
order to do God's work,
helping people be the
best people they can be.
That's what my life
is about, not ritual,
or duty to institutions
of the Church,
it's about the simple
teachings of Christ.
Yeah I guess it's ironic my
revelation came in a synagogue.
- Well maybe you
should be a rabbi.
- You gotta get back
to your work Vinnie.
I don't been the OCB, I mean
what you were meant to do,
help people, I could walk
out that door right now
and get hit by a truck
and I'd died fulfilled
in my life because it finally
came back into focus for me.
You gotta find that in yourself.
- Shh, Pete you're on
TV, where's the control?
- I got it, it's over here.
- These prayer books
are the Old Testament.
It's what Jesus said
and found solace in
and the violation of this
Temple is a terrible thing
but these are material
things they can be replaced.
What's truly horrifying
is that the people
who did this violate
their own human spirit.
They diminish all
of us in this act.
They're pathetically
ignorant people.
This is act is their confession.
- What can we do about it?
- Pray for them and
clean up this mess.
- Later in the day the
Jewish Defense League
held a press conference.
- Nicely put, Pete.
- Oh, I'm so proud
of both of you.
- Well I gotta get out of here.
- Remember what the
Surgeon General-
- Ma, see you later.
(rain pours)
(horn honks)
- I can't make it
tonight Warren.
- Why not?
- Because he's helping
me out tonight Warren.
You got a problem with that?
- Absolutely not Mr. Terranova.
- Good, listen why don't
you just call me Vinnie.
- Okay Vinnie, thanks.
- Maybe we can do some
business together.
- See you later.
- Okay take care of yourself.
- Thanks for hanging
in there with me Vince.
- It's okay Tony,
well I got a hot date
waiting, I'll see you later.
- Alrighty. Good night Vincent.
- Yep.
(dark and dramatic music)
(thunder rumbles)
- [Group] I pledge the
allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic
for which it stands,
one nation, under
God, indivisible,
to liberty and justice for all.
- If there is a Judas
among you, leave me now.
Once you have taken the oath
there is no turning back.
Repeat these words: I
will die for the promise
to retrieve our heritage,
to purify our blood
from the encroachment of Zog,
from the lower forms rising
up from the mud, out of the
seeds spilled into the beast.
I will die for the
new land of promise.
Our blood inter-mingles,
repeat the words:
we are brothers in the
fight for salvation.
We are brothers of the
promise of white salvation.
Remove the hood.
(dramatic music)
- Why'd you introduce
this kid to Angela?
- I don't know, he
seemed like a good kid.
Really polite, really
wanted to help.
- Maybe he is a good kid?
- Come on Pete
he's a hate moony.
- Still friends with Tony?
- Tony, Tony's going
through a crisis right now
but at least he
realized his mistake.
- The whole neighborhood
is going through a crisis.
- Yeah I can see that
and it bothers me too
and I don't like see
Napolitano's produce
turn is it, Kim Sung's
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables.
When I left here
there were still
singing acapella on the
street corner, now it's rap.
And I think, you know
this isn't right.
I know it's not wrong
either. It's just change.
New faces in the neighborhood
aren't here to hurt us,
they're just trying get
through their day too.
- It's tough for the
old people to adjust.
They nudge their kids
about letting it happen,
which probably wouldn't
mean anything except
for the fact that opportunity
has dried up for a lot
of these kids, the worst thing
we can do is shut the door
further on young people already
panicked by a bleak future.
- Ya know I fixed
Angela up with a kid
who took a blood oath
from a goon squad.
- A real polite kid?
Real willing to help.
- We ought to throttle him.
- Why don't you let me do it?
Ask him to come see me and don't
say anything to him
about what you saw.
- You gonna save his soul Pete?
- If you saw something
in him good enough
for Angela, maybe there's
a soul worth saving.
- At least let me give it a
shot before you give him one.
- Father turning it over,
alright, see you later.
- Yo.
- Take this down to the market
and box these numbers,
thank you sister.
- Peter you were quoted
as saying, "your duties
are not about
ritual or obligation
to the institution
of the Church."
- Yes Monsignor.
- You feel you have no
obligation to the Church?
- That's not what I meant.
- And they I read ritual
it seems like a dirty word.
- That's not what
I meant alright.
- I don't think I care what
you meant, I think I care
about how what one of my
priests says is perceived.
- Monsignor.
- I will be very glad
not to see you on TV
or read about you
in the newspapers.
- Monsignor may I speak please?
- I'm running late for a
meeting with the bishop.
Let's hope this doesn't come up.
- Ritual seems
like a dirty word.
(truck screeching)
(basketball bounces)
(dark and dramatic music)
- What is it?
- Your brother.
- Oh Vinnie.
- Angie what happened?
- Mr. Terranova your brother
was hit by a car, he's gone.
- I want my mother.
- She's sleeping, I've
given her a sedative.
She's dealing with it much
better than I would've guessed.
Pete said something to her
recently that she's found
comforting, the directions are
on the bottle and my number.
- Can you stay here Angie?
- Yes.
- Can you get these
people to leave please.
- Mr. Terranova we
need to speak alone.
Vinnie this tragedy's
being scrutinized
by every available
existing technology.
- You think it was intentional?
- No, be when we lose an
active agent or a relative
CompStat is programmed
to red flag.
Sirens went off the
minute your brother's name
was entered into the
hospital database.
I think it's a mindless hit
and run, probably a drunk.
But if there is
any, any evidence
to be found we will
hang the bastard.
- I thought maybe it
would be me though.
- We're family Vinnie, as
much as you want us to be.
- I'm not going to
pressure on you Vince.
Elias will cut
through the red tape.
We'll rush your resignation.
- I wanna work on
my own terms Frank.
- Sorry?
- If I can work on my own
terms I'm not resigning.
- Well you think about it Vince.
- I don't need to
think about it.
There'll be no more
regrets in my life.
Our brother died
fulfilled in his life
and at peace with himself
and in that fulfillment,
I learned a very
important lesson,
I learned not to
shrink from the truth.
Not to hide in petty easiness
from disquieting reality.
That reality is inevitable
and the fullness
of life is facing it and
being the best person
you can be in that
confrontation.
The tragedy here is not only
my brother's death it's how
blind we are to the
simple truths that
he tried to teach us.
(melancholic music)
(action music)
to be a cop, I joined
the Bureau because I figured
that's the ultimate cop.
(gun shot)
I'm worried about my
mother, I'm telling her.
- Tell her what?
- The truth about me, there
is no way I'll be able
to make up for hell I put
her through for the hell
I put her through
in the last two
but I'm gonna start
trying right now.
- A breach of
security like that.
- She's not gonna tell anyone!
- People slip are you
willing to risk that?
- This is about the need in
your life not the one rampant
over people's lives
simply because your
fire burns brighter.
Hey, this is about the law man.
When you're in the training
program they pitch you
a lot crap about the tough
moment's you're gonna have
to face, but they never
mention word about
the toughest moment,
that's when you gotta look
in the eye of the guy
you've just betrayed.
All the values that I was
brought up to believe in
have been turned
completely upside down.
I turned friendship and
loyalty into an obscene joke.
I won't be coming back Frank.
(action music)
(dramatic music)
(action music)
- Frank I'm resigning.
- Don't do this, I'll turn
it into a six month leave.
- It is what it is.
- Where are you gonna go?
- I'm going home.
(dramatic music)
- Executive Front Line here.
Wake up to what's happening pal.
Get that out of
here! Go get a job!
Creeps, they could all die.
- Get your Executive Front Line.
(dramatic music)
- Ma?
(melodramatic music)
- Oh, God my head.
(rock music plays)
- Good morning.
- You know Daryl
if you have brought
me into something unprepared.
- Frank it's nothing like that.
- Daryl there are two forest
lawn fairies outside the door.
- Frank, Frank?
- Director McDonald.
- My wife me a $500
pen and I worry more
about losing it than I
do using it to some good.
The men outside with me,
I call them advisors.
- Yes sir.
- You and Daryl have done a
hell of a job, hell of a job.
I'm leaving OCB, I recommended
that Daryl replace me
and in the spirit
of equal opportunity
he requested that
you be appointed
his forest lawn fairy,
congratulations.
- Sir.
- Take chances
that lead to some.
- Yes, yes, yes, yes!
Frank you've been promoted.
- Well there's a
little guilt involved.
The success is Vinnie's.
- Well Terranova's not
being forgotten when
he's back from leave he's
bumped up to Filed Director.
But he's gonna have
to stay undercover,
I don't think he'd
fit in around here.
- Promotion is a moot point,
I held the resignation
as a six month
leave, I thought with
a little time off
he'd change his mind.
- You let him walk
without being debriefed?
- Oh, thank you for 40
months of valiant service
in the face of daily
terror, and now, Vinnie,
if you don't mind, we
would like to confine you
for an indeterminate
period of time
while the Bureau psychiatrists
ascertain your moral fitness?
- Terranova rolled over mob
king pins and an arms cartel
like that, the man's a walking
compendium of criminality.
- Oh, for God's sakes.
- He brought them down it stands
to reason he out-thought them.
- Are you sure this
doesn't have something
to do with losing
your long ball hitter?
- I want him back on the
job or I want him debriefed.
- Vincenzo, your breakfast.
- He's not getting up for hours.
- Ah, Pietro.
- Face it mom, you raised a bum.
- That's a bad joke.
- I was teasing.
- I don't like it.
- Vincenzo!
- I'm eating your
breakfast little brother.
- What?
- Lice, I think you've got lice.
- Ma, Pete fell down.
- Is that any way
to treat a priest?
- Well I'm a lapsed Catholic.
- Now you've lapsed in
a lot of areas lately.
- What am I getting my own
personal sermon now or what?
- What you ought to get is
a swift kick in the ass.
- Who's going to
give it to me you?
- Boys, act your age.
- The least you could
do is put your shirt on.
- Sorry, ma.
- You got a life to live Vinnie
you ought to be
getting back to it.
- That's right it's my life
so leave me alone about it.
- Remember Ronnie Sheen?
- Yeah vaguely.
- Died last night.
- God bless his soul.
- Cancer, his last days
were all I should haves,
I shoulda done this,
I shoulda done that.
- No, that's not me Pete.
(car honks)
- No, I know it's just
that you quit OCB,
you're hanging out
here for months,
nothing's happening and I worry.
You know how many people
I see in the last moments
of life agonizing over
what was left undone?
- Vinnie it's Tony.
- Alright ma, I'm coming.
- I'm still mafioso
to the neighbors Pete.
Until that's a memory
how am I supposed
to go about the business
of being a regular guy?
Hey, it eats me up.
- Careful.
- See you later.
- Careful.
- Okay.
What do you say Tony?
(dramatic music)
- Hey Vinnie.
- Hey Rich.
- Hey Squello, when are you
coming down to the store?
- One man band here Warren.
- Better wake up to
what's happening pal.
Here ya go kid.
- Thanks Warren.
- Okay, keep it straight.
(metal clanks)
- Hey Tony why didn't
you come to the meeting?
- Hey give me a
break Ritchie, yeah?
- What's wrong with
the neighborhood
taking care of itself?
- Who's gonna mess with me as
long as Terrnaova
running this bay, huh?
- What are you gonna
do when he lives?
- Hey look, you pump gas or read
this crap but don't
talk to me about it.
- What's the matter?
- Nothing.
- Nothing?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Hey Vinnie.
- What?
- Do you want to...
- Come on spit it out.
- Your cousin Angela.
- I'll mention it to her.
- Thanks.
- Yeah.
(rain falls on pavement)
(rock music plays)
- Vinnie?
Vince! Yo Vinnie!
Come on Terranova.
- Hey, we got a problem here?
- No I don't have a problem,
I have a little business here.
(rock music blares)
- You know I can't leave
here until you talk to me.
You know another month
of this and you're
gonna be able to infiltrate
the Hell's Angels.
- I don't do it anymore Frank.
- We want you back
with a promotion.
If you're gonna
resign you have to go
to Quantico for debriefing.
(rock music plays)
- What the hell is
this? What is this huh?
What you think you
can just come in here
and do this to
people, do this to us.
What the hell is
a matter with you?
Hey, oh that's it run away,
what the hell is this?
- Tony.
- What you think
you can just come
in here and do this to people?
- Tony, what's a matter?
- The bastards,
they're taking away
my station, they
canceled my lease.
- I'm sorry.
- Oh big deal, you're
sorry what is that?
There was a time when guys
like wouldn't let this happen.
- Tony I'm changing all that
in my life you know that.
- That's good, while
you changed your life
they changed mine,
12 years here,
they're turning into a
Lightning Lube, offered me
a training position
at minimum wage.
- Something will work out.
- Oh that's great, I don't
want your lip service.
Vincenzo, (speaks Italian).
- Tony lay off, will you
get a hold of yourself.
Tony!
(romantic music)
(knock on door)
- Hi Angie.
- Vinnie.
- How ya doing?
- Great.
- Good.
- Do you want a glass
of wine before we go?
- Uh, nah I'm pretty hungry
do you wanna just go?
- Okay.
- Alright.
- Just a sec.
- Alright.
Somebody's got their eye on you.
- Who?
- I'll introduce you.
- Don't Vinnie.
- Why not?
- It makes me uncomfortable.
- You don't date do ya?
- This is a date.
- Angie I'm family
this is a pseudo-date.
- Vinnie it's so hard I was
really happy with Danny.
- I know Angie, but he's
been gone for two years.
- I've gotten to
like being alone.
- It maybe easier for ya, but
I don't believe you like it.
Come on let me introduce
you to him, he's a good kid.
- Alright.
- Excuse me.
- When are you gonna face
the fact that the only way
to deal with these
people is to push back.
- Not now Warren, huh?
- Okay buddy, you'll know
when the time is right.
We're on your side, not
like that gangster pal
of yours that does
nothing for nobody
unless there's a
dollar to be made.
- Ritchie, this is
my cousin Angela.
Angela this is Ritchie Stramm.
- Pleased to meet ya.
- I was married to
Vinnie's cousin, he died.
- That must be tough, huh?
- You get used to it.
- I see you in Morris some
time going to the train.
- I work in Manhattan.
- I never see you in any
of the neighborhood
places after work.
Do you hang out in the city?
- I go home.
- I'm not driving
give me a drink.
- Hey Tony's what's
wrong with ya.
What are you doing?
- Hey take it easy man.
- I can't let him walk
out of here like that.
Alright you guys
start without me,
I'll try to get back if I can.
- Vinnie.
- I'm just gonna
make sure he gets
home safe, alright,
I'll be back.
- I think you're really pretty.
(glass smashes and shatters)
- Tony!
- Ah, Vincent you want
a test drive a Toyota?
- Tony, Tony, that's
enough, give me that.
What did you do to your face?
- Ah careful this Japanese
face, you are rich and funny.
I can make you Japanese.
- I can live with Italian.
- Ah, Italian is out,
how about Jewish, huh?
- I'm at the Temple Beth
(indistinguishable).
(muttering)
- Come on Tony
what are you doing.
(dramatic music)
Come on Tony, come on, up
you go, go home, come on.
(dramatic music)
- Morning.
- Hey Rich.
- So what happened here?
- Batting practice, listen
I called Angela last night,
thanks for getting
her home safe.
- Did she have a good time?
- You're going out on
the Sound aren't ya?
- Yeah.
(bell rings)
- Hey don't you come with us?
- Yeah maybe I will
if Tony ever shows up.
- Hey.
- Give this to Tony will ya?
- Alright.
- You listen when he's done.
- Sure, take care.
- I can't believe Warren
just gave this to Tony.
- What?
- It's Dr. Knox
Pooley, he's a genius.
- $400? Is that with or
without the lubricant?
- Hey I'm sorry Vinnie but you
don't know what
you're talking about.
Dr. Pooley is a brave voice,
I mean if Tony had listened
to him he'd still
have his own business.
- Listen to who?
Sorry about last night Vince.
- Yeah tell it to the Toyota.
- Oh man, what kind
of a bum does this?
Don't answer that.
- It's from Warren.
(bell rings)
- I'm gonna need a lot of help
getting through this Vince.
- Now don't do this to me Tony.
I gotta concentrate
on myself right now.
- Well that's cold.
- We're both making changes
after a lot of time on the job,
now I know that my
change is my choice,
but we're both going
through the same thing.
I'm here for you Tony but don't
ask me to nurse you
through self-pity.
- You're right.
At least I don't have the law
breathing down my neck, huh?
(dramatic music)
- Justice has reviewed the
terms of the situation.
There is no precedent
for forcing an agent
to submit to debriefing
against his will
without the benefit of
grand jury subpoena.
- Well what do you
mean no precedence.
- I mean it would be illegal.
- Well that's not acceptable.
Well we need him back there must
be something Terranova wants.
- I think he wants
to be left alone.
(people playing and laughing)
- What the hell
am I waiting for?
- [Pooley] And because
we have allowed
our nation's resources,
natural and technological,
to be bought up by
foreign influences.
The day is not far of when the
political destiny of America-
- Is that Dr. Pooley?
This guy makes some sense,
maybe I'll come to that meeting.
- Tonight we got a field trip.
You ready to get involved?
There's a way you
can be of some help.
(melodramatic music)
- Gotta a sec Vince?
- You know you're
interrupting me here.
- Sorry it will just take a sec.
- Okay. What?
- I know some people
in the market for guns.
Think we could make some money.
- Tony are you out
of your mind or what?
- Come on they're gonna buy
'em from somebody why not us?
- Who wants these guns?
- Oh, I can't say.
- Tony whoever
these people are you
stay away from them you hear me?
I'm not a player,
don't be stupid.
You stay away from
these people, huh?
- Oh look she's already
been moved in on.
How ya doing pal?
- You sure know how to
kill a conversation.
- Oh absolutely do you want
me to get it him back for ya?
- No, no, I was just
making an observation.
- Yeah, I got something else
you might wanna observe.
- Which would be?
- Dinner.
(men laughing drunkenly)
- I can feel you breathing.
- Yeah well that's because
I just got out of prison.
- Is that true?
- No, it's a metaphor.
(men laughing drunkenly)
- You're full of
secrets aren't you?
- No, yeah, yeah I am. You
got a problem with that?
- Not yet.
- Good.
Dang it.
- What?
- Nothing, nothing, I just
gotta make a phone call.
(numbers dialing)
(phone ringing)
- I gotta call you
back alright, yeah.
- Sailor Hardware,
Mike Terronova.
- Uncle Mike?
- Vince. Oh man, how you doing?
- Ah, working
things out you know.
- Hey this is the business line.
Didn't I give you
my private number?
- Yeah well this is
kind of business.
Listen I need whatever you
got on a Dr. Know Pooley
and The Pilgrims of
Promise, Incorporated.
- So how 'bout those Mets.
- Oh man since
when did they start
putting wingtip
skids on wheelchairs?
- That's not fair Vince, I
went to the wall for you.
- Look I really need
this information.
- This is not something
you can dabble in
when it suits you,
it's too dangerous.
Call my private number.
(glass shatters)
(ominous music)
(yelling)
- No, no, no! (speaks Hebrew).
- Come on.
(phone rings)
- Hello.
- Ma, it's Pete.
- Pietro.
- I need to speak to Vinnie.
- I think he's
sleeping, just a sec.
- Vincenzo!
Vincenzo?
- Hi Ma.
- I hope you have listened
to the Surgeon General.
Your brother.
- Hello.
- Vinnie I need your help.
- Yeah.
- I'm at the Bayview synagogue.
- Okay I'll be right over just
let me change my clothes,
I'll be right there.
- Thanks.
- We are surrounded
by complete disarray.
The Jewish community
seems to be in shock.
(people clamoring)
- Who did this?
- Ignorance did this.
- Excuse me Father, could
you stand up for the camera?
(dramatic music)
- [Man on phone] I saw
the smoke still come out
of those ovens and
I want to tell ya
I never thought I
would see anything
that would remind me of
that in these United States
of America and my home
town of Brooklyn, New York.
I think that these
people should-
- Hello Vincent.
- You called The Lifeguard.
- Yeah so what?
- There's no need for
acrimony here gentleman.
You know we got a lot invested
in you, time, training.
- Yeah and I delivered
on the investment.
I paid a heavy price, I'm
not your mole any more.
What I did for justice,
I isolated myself
from my own
neighborhood, you know
they still think I'm a gangster?
My own friends, I mean
when there's nobody else
to turn to they come
to me for dirty favors
and when I don't deliver
they resent me for it.
- Suppose it doesn't mean much
but those of us who
know admire you.
- Yeah but not enough to
help me when it's personal.
- What is it you want Vincent.
- I want data on Dr. Knox Pooley
and The Pilgrims of
Promise, Incorporated.
- I'll consider it.
You know this business
we're in exacts a toll;
I can see for you
it's been profound.
Still there's one thing I
don't think you can escape,
you're the best there is Vince,
loath the fate if you
will, remains axiomatic.
You were born to it.
Thanks for taking the
time to listen to me.
- Tony, hey.
- I did a terrible
thing last night Vince.
And this isn't self-pity here.
This is regret and I need
to apologize to somebody.
I got involved in
something so ugly
I can see it in my face
when I look in the mirror.
- You were at the Temple.
- Yeah.
- Was Ritchie with you?
- It doesn't matter.
- The hell it doesn't!
- You can't make
a blind man see.
It's gotta come
to us on our own.
It came to me last
night when I saw
that old man hugging
his Holy Scrolls.
This little old man and I
destroyed a peacefulness
in his life for no reason
other than my own bitterness.
They're coming back tonight
and I don't know how to say no.
- It was that creep
friend of yours wasn't it?
Warren Pike right? He's the
guy for the guns isn't he?
Tony, you'll say no.
(dramatic action music)
- Ten dollars but
that knife marks
all the way from
the Rhine to Berlin.
That knife has
killed SS officers.
See there blood's
still on the drape.
- You looking for
guns Warren, huh?
You wanna do business
with me you come to me but
you don't suck my friends
into being your middlemen.
Ya hear me Adolf?
(rock music plays)
(glass shatters)
(rock music plays)
- 15 years in the priesthood
and for the first time
since I entered
the seminary I felt
in my soul what made
become a priest.
Ya know I've been
giving you a lot
of grief lately about
hanging around the house.
- Oh here it comes.
- No I was on your back
because to the surface
in me how I was going
through life on automatic.
I became a priest in
order to do God's work,
helping people be the
best people they can be.
That's what my life
is about, not ritual,
or duty to institutions
of the Church,
it's about the simple
teachings of Christ.
Yeah I guess it's ironic my
revelation came in a synagogue.
- Well maybe you
should be a rabbi.
- You gotta get back
to your work Vinnie.
I don't been the OCB, I mean
what you were meant to do,
help people, I could walk
out that door right now
and get hit by a truck
and I'd died fulfilled
in my life because it finally
came back into focus for me.
You gotta find that in yourself.
- Shh, Pete you're on
TV, where's the control?
- I got it, it's over here.
- These prayer books
are the Old Testament.
It's what Jesus said
and found solace in
and the violation of this
Temple is a terrible thing
but these are material
things they can be replaced.
What's truly horrifying
is that the people
who did this violate
their own human spirit.
They diminish all
of us in this act.
They're pathetically
ignorant people.
This is act is their confession.
- What can we do about it?
- Pray for them and
clean up this mess.
- Later in the day the
Jewish Defense League
held a press conference.
- Nicely put, Pete.
- Oh, I'm so proud
of both of you.
- Well I gotta get out of here.
- Remember what the
Surgeon General-
- Ma, see you later.
(rain pours)
(horn honks)
- I can't make it
tonight Warren.
- Why not?
- Because he's helping
me out tonight Warren.
You got a problem with that?
- Absolutely not Mr. Terranova.
- Good, listen why don't
you just call me Vinnie.
- Okay Vinnie, thanks.
- Maybe we can do some
business together.
- See you later.
- Okay take care of yourself.
- Thanks for hanging
in there with me Vince.
- It's okay Tony,
well I got a hot date
waiting, I'll see you later.
- Alrighty. Good night Vincent.
- Yep.
(dark and dramatic music)
(thunder rumbles)
- [Group] I pledge the
allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic
for which it stands,
one nation, under
God, indivisible,
to liberty and justice for all.
- If there is a Judas
among you, leave me now.
Once you have taken the oath
there is no turning back.
Repeat these words: I
will die for the promise
to retrieve our heritage,
to purify our blood
from the encroachment of Zog,
from the lower forms rising
up from the mud, out of the
seeds spilled into the beast.
I will die for the
new land of promise.
Our blood inter-mingles,
repeat the words:
we are brothers in the
fight for salvation.
We are brothers of the
promise of white salvation.
Remove the hood.
(dramatic music)
- Why'd you introduce
this kid to Angela?
- I don't know, he
seemed like a good kid.
Really polite, really
wanted to help.
- Maybe he is a good kid?
- Come on Pete
he's a hate moony.
- Still friends with Tony?
- Tony, Tony's going
through a crisis right now
but at least he
realized his mistake.
- The whole neighborhood
is going through a crisis.
- Yeah I can see that
and it bothers me too
and I don't like see
Napolitano's produce
turn is it, Kim Sung's
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables.
When I left here
there were still
singing acapella on the
street corner, now it's rap.
And I think, you know
this isn't right.
I know it's not wrong
either. It's just change.
New faces in the neighborhood
aren't here to hurt us,
they're just trying get
through their day too.
- It's tough for the
old people to adjust.
They nudge their kids
about letting it happen,
which probably wouldn't
mean anything except
for the fact that opportunity
has dried up for a lot
of these kids, the worst thing
we can do is shut the door
further on young people already
panicked by a bleak future.
- Ya know I fixed
Angela up with a kid
who took a blood oath
from a goon squad.
- A real polite kid?
Real willing to help.
- We ought to throttle him.
- Why don't you let me do it?
Ask him to come see me and don't
say anything to him
about what you saw.
- You gonna save his soul Pete?
- If you saw something
in him good enough
for Angela, maybe there's
a soul worth saving.
- At least let me give it a
shot before you give him one.
- Father turning it over,
alright, see you later.
- Yo.
- Take this down to the market
and box these numbers,
thank you sister.
- Peter you were quoted
as saying, "your duties
are not about
ritual or obligation
to the institution
of the Church."
- Yes Monsignor.
- You feel you have no
obligation to the Church?
- That's not what I meant.
- And they I read ritual
it seems like a dirty word.
- That's not what
I meant alright.
- I don't think I care what
you meant, I think I care
about how what one of my
priests says is perceived.
- Monsignor.
- I will be very glad
not to see you on TV
or read about you
in the newspapers.
- Monsignor may I speak please?
- I'm running late for a
meeting with the bishop.
Let's hope this doesn't come up.
- Ritual seems
like a dirty word.
(truck screeching)
(basketball bounces)
(dark and dramatic music)
- What is it?
- Your brother.
- Oh Vinnie.
- Angie what happened?
- Mr. Terranova your brother
was hit by a car, he's gone.
- I want my mother.
- She's sleeping, I've
given her a sedative.
She's dealing with it much
better than I would've guessed.
Pete said something to her
recently that she's found
comforting, the directions are
on the bottle and my number.
- Can you stay here Angie?
- Yes.
- Can you get these
people to leave please.
- Mr. Terranova we
need to speak alone.
Vinnie this tragedy's
being scrutinized
by every available
existing technology.
- You think it was intentional?
- No, be when we lose an
active agent or a relative
CompStat is programmed
to red flag.
Sirens went off the
minute your brother's name
was entered into the
hospital database.
I think it's a mindless hit
and run, probably a drunk.
But if there is
any, any evidence
to be found we will
hang the bastard.
- I thought maybe it
would be me though.
- We're family Vinnie, as
much as you want us to be.
- I'm not going to
pressure on you Vince.
Elias will cut
through the red tape.
We'll rush your resignation.
- I wanna work on
my own terms Frank.
- Sorry?
- If I can work on my own
terms I'm not resigning.
- Well you think about it Vince.
- I don't need to
think about it.
There'll be no more
regrets in my life.
Our brother died
fulfilled in his life
and at peace with himself
and in that fulfillment,
I learned a very
important lesson,
I learned not to
shrink from the truth.
Not to hide in petty easiness
from disquieting reality.
That reality is inevitable
and the fullness
of life is facing it and
being the best person
you can be in that
confrontation.
The tragedy here is not only
my brother's death it's how
blind we are to the
simple truths that
he tried to teach us.
(melancholic music)
(action music)