Wiseguy (1987–2009): Season 2, Episode 7 - Next of Kin - full transcript
Another side of Eli is revealed when his son David is reported missing while on an overseas business trip.
- [Announcer]
Tonight on Wiseguy.
(dramatic music)
- We better get him
to the hospital.
I was thinking about
putting somebody else in.
- Who?
- The only man I
even know who comes
close to being in your league.
- Do I have to tell you
what happens to an agent
who doesn't have complete cover?
- No, you do not.
- So then why you
bother bringing me
down here for this
dog and pony show.
- Because you did not
go out on a win, John.
- You too far too fast.
You rattled his cage, now
I've gotta crawl in with them.
(dramatic music)
- I don't want you to turn this
trip into a David Sternberg
version of the
World of Susie Wong.
Honey, help me with
these, will ya?
Did you hear what I said David?
- Yes, dad.
- Okay, did you
get all your shots?
- Yesterday.
- And you got your tickets?
- [David] Tickets and passport.
- Don't let them use their
Sri Lanka charm on you.
- Yes dad.
- Will you stop
with the yes dad.
I know what I'm talking about.
You know what these
people are gonna do?
They're gonna have this
ripe brown goddess,
which a tie tack
sticking out of her nose.
She's gonna clean your pipes
and then they gonna let you
go home paying three cents
a unit more than what
we can get in Georgia.
(kiss smack)
- Sort of a far east
version of what we do.
- Don't tell me how
to run my business.
- Dad, all I'm saying
is, this is my play.
Let me make it, okay?
- David, Sri Lanka--
- You are witnessing
lesson number twenty-eight
in the Eli Sternberg book
school of convincing and guilt.
- Oh.
- Why do we have to go through
this mishegas all the time?
Just trust me, will you please?
70 cent ceiling?
- Alright, alright, I personally
guarantee a 70 cent ceiling.
I have a flight to catch.
- Catch?
- Bye bye Uncle Phil.
- David.
- [David] I'm trusting you to
protect my father from himself.
- I'm still undone.
- So what's your connection
with Elrose, Vinnie?
- Security.
- That's an interesting
job description.
Simple and to the point.
- Yeah, that's me.
- You're expecting
a late delivery?
- Late delivery?
Hey,
hey!
What the hell!
(dramatic music)
Come back here you gunner!
Stop!
You dirty no good!
(car screeching)
Come back, come back!
(screech and boom loudly)
- Eddie, bring the car!
Bring the car!
Are you okay, Vinnie?
- [Phil] How bad is it?
What did you hurt?
We better get him
to the hospital.
- Okay, good.
- Here, lift him up.
(dramatic music)
Watch his head.
Wasn't that one of
Pinzolo's drivers?
- A man almost got killed
and your worried
about one lousy dress?
- Nobody takes
from Eli Sternberg!
- That's it, isn't it?
It always has to be about you.
Eddie, Roosevelt Hospital.
(motor revving)
(phone ringing)
- Hello.
- Hey Frank.
- Vince, what is it?
- I'm having a bad
couple of weeks here.
I ran into a little problem.
I got clobbered by a cab.
- [Frank] You alright?
- I don't know, I think
I might have a broken leg
and some cracked ribs.
They're gonna take me
down to some x-rays.
- I'll be right over.
- No, no, no I'll be
fine, I'll be fine.
You'll be better off finding
a way into that Pinzolo Banquet.
- There's gonna be
some guests there we
should have on our
Christmas card list.
You think you can
rangle an invite?
- Yeah I think I know a way.
- Okay.
- We've gotta go.
- I gotta go Frank, bye.
(breathing heavily)
(coughing lightly)
Hold up a minute.
Thanks for getting me here.
- It was no trouble.
- I'm in good hands now.
You don't have to hang around.
- I'd do anything to get out of
one of those boring banquets.
I'll bring you some real
food when you get back.
- Okay, we'll see you later.
- Okay.
(soft jazzy music)
- Hey Jack!
- Hello Jack, how is my
favorite newspaper columnist?
Let's get a drink.
- Ah, he's wallowing
in his element.
Problem getting in?
- No, my name was
on the guest list
just like you said it would be.
Excuse me gentlemen.
Can I have a ginger ale please?
Thanks.
Well, looks like they rounded
up the usual suspects.
- Benny Bozeck,
Borneck Transport.
Rovelle Jones from
the mayor's office.
I think you have the
rest of the cast.
- Ah, it's a real all-star crew.
- Can't tell the players
without a program.
- Ha.
Well there's a lovely couple.
Rick Pinzolo and Matt Borkowski.
Why is the head of
the Harbor Commission
so bent out of joint?
- [Jack] Borkowski
is running for Mayor.
- For this one even, he is nuts.
- I started to take
one too many shots to
the head when he was
fighting Golden Gloves.
(crowd talking)
Lucky for him he's a better
politician than he was a boxer.
- [Frank] Is that the
reason for his mating dance?
- [Jack] Well, from what I hear
Pinzolo promised the bank roll,
a big chunk of Borkowski's
mayoral campaign.
He pull out at the last minute.
Which means Matty's
gotta scramble
if he's gonna fill
him war chest.
Maybe Pinzolo doesn't want
a mayor that smells
like a cheroot.
- What he doesn't want is the
harbor he doesn't control.
You control the harbor,
you control New York.
It's a very simple equation.
- You think Borkowski
understand it?
- He doesn't have
any fancy degrees,
but he's a master
of street politics.
- Why doesn't Pinzolo
move him up in class
and reward for
services rendered?
- Pinzolo's gotta find
another puppet first.
- Ah, the waiting must
drive Borkowski nuts.
- If he thought he
could get away with it.
He pound a dock spike
through Pinzolo's forehead.
(tapping lightly)
crowd talking)
- Welcome everybody.
As you know, we are all
part of a singularly
unified holistic community
called Seventh Avenue.
(audience applause)
Tonight we honor the
author of that (mumbles)
Rick Pinzolo as GMTA
Man Of The Year.
(audience applause)
- What is that?
I thought you said you were
gonna get some real food.
- This is real food.
I went all the way to
Bakarnia to get it.
Beats the hell out
of the rubber chicken
they're serving at the
GMTA dinner tonight.
- Yeah, well I thought
that that was a little
bit far west of
Fifth Avenue for you.
- Oh, now that I'm such an
important maha on Wall Street?
- Yeah.
- You sound like
my cousin David.
Sometimes I don't think he
realize I'm all grown up.
I've been going to those
Garment District dinners
since I was a little girl.
Now all those men who used to
want me to sit on their laps,
want to crawl into bed with me.
Literally and figuratively.
- Hmm.
Well you sound like you get
some satisfaction outta that.
- You bet I do.
Normally the family Sternberg
only leave psychology scars.
- Yeah, I thought I detected
a little iciness there.
- Try glacial.
I don't think he even notices.
My mother, she won't even stay
in the same room with him.
- Goes back a long way
with Eli, doesn't it?
- I used to hide
when he came over
to our house to see my father.
- How long did your
father work for Eli?
- Eli worked for him, the
business was my father's.
Eli was his salesman.
My father was
first starting out.
He was servicing one
small army contract.
When the war broke out, Eli
parlayed that one contract
into dozens all with
his name on them.
By the time the war was over,
my father was working
in Eli's cutting room.
The shop was called Elrose.
- Didn't your father
realize what Eli was doing?
- My father doesn't
know business.
I do.
- Oh okay.
- I better go.
- That was simple
and to the point.
- In my business, I don't
wait around for an invitation.
You take what you want
or someone else will.
- Ow, what are you doing?
- I thought you got
paid to be rough.
Goodnight.
- Alright.
(audience applause)
- [Speaker] Thanks, that
raps it up for the speeches.
Now eat, dance and
enjoy yourselves.
- Hold it!
I have something I
want to say about,
about our honored guest.
- Eli Sternberg.
(audience applause)
- Many of you folks may
not know that our honored
guest Rick Pinzolo was mugged on
the way here to the
banquet tonight.
He gave the guy a C note
and then took back 12 bucks
and the guy says hey, what
the hell are you doing?
And Rick said, I always
take 12% off the top
of any business transaction
on Seventh Avenue.
(audience laughter)
And I'm sure a lot of you folks,
don't know that Rick
is a big art collector.
Art Stein's Trucking Firm,
Art Warnick's
Manufacturing Company,
Art Broadman's Assembly Plant.
You know in the
Garment District,
we have a favor
for favor system.
You do Rick a favor
and he does one for you.
He lets you walk
without crutches.
Wonderful human being.
(dramatic music)
- Hi.
You think you'd
give me a minute?
Thank you.
Well, how are you feelin'?
- Ugh.
Well I can't walk,
I can't breathe.
Other than that, I'm okay.
- That's great, just great.
Look, here's a
list of people that
were there at the
banquet tonight.
It's a souvenir program.
Some very interesting
people took out ads
telling Rick Pinzolo what
a terrific guy he is.
- Yeah, some people'll
say anything.
- A couple of gentlemen
there tonight didn't reup
in the I love Rick
Pinzolo fan club.
Your friend Eli and a
guy named Matt Borkowski.
- The guy from the
Harbor Commission.
Human snow plow.
- Well he was in Pinzolo's
face big time tonight.
And then Eli barbecued Pinzolo
in his pre-dinner speech.
- Aw, man.
You ask me, Eli's
toying with a cobra.
With Pinzolo it's not if
he'll strike, it's when.
I promised David Sternberg
I'd protect his father.
That's a promise I can't keep.
- Vinnie, I was thinking of
putting somebody else in.
- Who you gonna get Frank?
- Pinzolo is smart, he's
thorough and he's cautious.
The only reason I
got close to him is
because I got a history
that he bought into.
- Oh now do you think you are
the only one that has a history?
- [Man] Where's Mr.
Terranova's room?
- Hey Rick.
- Did you hear what
happened tonight?
- No.
- Eli Sternberg used
this dinner to link me to
a past that I have
distanced myself from.
I don't enjoy being humiliated
in front of 500 people.
- Well, Eli still
got a rash from
that trucking deal
you stuck him with.
- His old deal was a
gift from my father.
- He's choking on
your rates, Rick.
Before we left for
the bank with one of
your drivers stole
one of Eli's dresses.
- He thinks I had
something to do with that?
- Oh he's got a siege mentality.
- There's this assumption
on Seventh Avenue
that all problems stop at the
revolving door of my lobby.
I had my own
particular problems.
Eli lost one dress,
I lost six trucks in
the last two months.
Now I want you to get
somebody to sit on Eli.
- I have a partner
but he's busy.
- Do it.
(door slams)
- Pinzolo just left,
it's the opening we need.
I'm gonna put somebody
on the inside.
- Who?
- The only man I
know that even comes
close to being in your league.
- John Henry Ragler,
it's been a long time.
- Six years, three months,
two weeks and five days.
But who's counting.
Hi Frank.
How are you?
- It's good to see you John.
- Yeah, you too.
- Well you've changed.
- Naw, this is the
way I always was.
- Raglin you remember?
Just a role I played.
- Well, I need you
to play it again.
- That ended when
I left Phoenix.
I don't need to
spend another minute
in the company of crazy people.
- Are you happy running
a computer all day?
- It has its moments, yeah.
- You're satisfied where
electronics stings.
- I'm satisfied taking
long walks with my wife.
My second wife.
And I'm satisfied
driving up to Baltimore
to watch ballgames with my son.
The son my first wife didn't
stick around to help me raise
and I'll tell you
something else,
while I'm rattling on.
I'm satisfied with
my dreams now.
Used to be all I
dreamt about was,
how that reporter looked
after they blew him up.
Remember Frank, well Phoenix can
do that to you when I was there.
And I don't need to put myself
through that hell kind of again.
It took three years for
my palms to stop sweating.
- John you're as good
as I've ever seen.
- Yeah, well I was
good enough to get
out from undercover
in one piece.
Four more years.
Inside I got my pension Frank.
- Your pension?
You know I spent enough
time with you to know
you didn't become a
cop just to survive.
You want to send one
big message to the crap
out there to think
they're beyond the law.
Well I'm offering
you the chance.
You ever heard of Rick Pinzolo?
- The kid?
- The kid is not a kid anymore.
He's all grown up.
He controls the New
York Garment District.
We had an agent under with him.
And then he--
- Killed?
- No, hit by a cab.
- It was an accident.
We need somebody
to take his place
until he can get
back on his feet.
- Maybe I can dig somebody
up who knows the rag trade.
- The rag trade John?
- I read a lot.
- Ah,
well.
Read this.
This is Rick Pinzolo's empire.
It's an industry that generates
20 billion dollars annually
and he's bleeding it dry.
The solid lines
indicate people who own
businesses we know
he's connected to.
The broken lines are
suspected connections.
- Doesn't look like you
laid a glove on him.
- Ah, Pinzolo's never been
arrested, much less convicted.
The agent we had on
him got next to him.
How did you manage that?
- A gentleman named David
Sternberg approached us.
He's a son of Eli Sternberg,
president of Elrose Fashions.
Now Sternbergs had
a run of bad luck.
Ran into a cash flow problem.
Had to go in the
street for two million.
Our agent--
- Give me him a name Frank.
- Vincent Terranova got
things straightened out
for the Sternberg's so they're
off the hook for the loan.
And Pinzolo hired
him as some kind
of double agent so he
keep an eye on them.
- Wait a minute, this David
Sternberg came to you, right?
Does he know who Terranova is?
That's great, that's
just great Frank.
- He approached us John.
- Do I have to tell you what
could happen to an agent
who doesn't have complete cover?
Damnit Frank, do I?
- No you do not.
- So why did you
bother bringing me down
here for this dog and pony show!
- Because you did not
go out on a win John!
- Raglin.
I know you from somewhere.
- I did time in Leavenworth.
With a cousin of
yours, Jackie Masca.
- Jackie Masca (laughter).
Oh yeah, old Jackie.
He almost courted trouble.
That's a romance I can't afford.
You don't look like you
travel in those circles.
- I dwell in possibility.
- You, me and Emily
Dickinson, right?
But sometimes reality intrudes.
Eli Sternberg is a reality.
- He's my next stop.
But Vinnie thought I
should visit you first.
As a courtesy, any
special requests?
- Terranova's beeper survived?
No, just do your job.
For Eli, keep your ears open,
come when you're called.
Raglin.
Just because I went to
an Ivy League school
that doesn't mean you get
to quote poetry to me.
- So much for
lively reporte, huh?
(soft music)
- Who is John Henry Raglin?
- [Reporter] The
Secretary of State arrived
in Brussels today for meeting
NATO defense ministers.
Topping the agenda is a call
for reduction in NATO forces.
- Excuse me, I'm looking
for Mr. Eli Sternberg.
- He can't be disturbed.
- Vinnie Terranova sent me.
- Oh,
in there.
- Thank you.
- What are you saying?
It's out of the question?
They got airports, don't they?
The hell with close down,
this is my son
we're talking about.
Sternberg, I told you before,
David Sternberg.
S-t-e
r-n
b-e-r-g.
(knocking lightly)
His name isn't in
hospital reports?
- May I help you?
- I'm Vinnie
Terranova's associate.
- You don't have any?
- What happened?
- There was a bomb in the hotel
where Eli's son was staying.
Terrorists in Sri Lanka?
- Is he hurt?
- We can't find out.
- Well, who is he talking to?
- State department.
- I don't want to know
about no phone service.
What is your name?
I said what is your name?
I need your name so I
could call your superiors
and tell them what
an idiot you are.
Do you hear me, do you hear me?
You incompetent bastard!
They're not keeping
me out of banana land.
- Nobody can get
in, what can we do?
- I'll charter a plane
and fly it up there noses.
How can they stop
that, shoot me down?
Who the hell is that?
- John Raglin.
I'm Vinnie's replacement.
I didn't wanted
Terranova around.
I don't need you around.
- Maybe I can help.
- Yeah, by leaving.
- Let me make one call.
- This one doesn't look
like he can make a muscle.
- This is Raglin, you
got a list of victims yet
in that hotel
bombing in Sri Lanka?
Anything at all on
a David Sternberg.
What about his room?
Was it hit?
Anything else?
Okay, thanks, I'll be in touch.
Bomb went off in the hotel bar.
- Anything about my son?
- You gonna let me finish?
Bomb went off in the hotel bar,
apparently your son's
room wasn't touched.
- Who told you that?
- Someone I can trust.
- And are they always right?
- Up until now.
- (sigh) Look I'm sorry, I
apologize for blowing up.
It's just that, I'm scared.
- Are you telling me
this guy's in already.
- I told you he was good.
He's in place until you're 100%.
- I think I'll be out of
here inside of a week.
- What Oral Roberts is gonna
pay you a personal visit?
- Alright, so who is he?
- You never heard of him.
- Then where has he been?
- He's been inside
working with computers.
- The job screw him up?
- The job is hard on everybody.
- Yeah, yeah, ah hmm.
It bent him didn't it Frank.
- Eli why don't
you go home early.
Go home to what?
A shiksa wife who fakes concern
like she fakes an orgasm.
No, I'm staying here.
- Did you tell his mother?
- Rose is in Florida.
Why alarm her until the
have more information?
- Because she's his mother.
You remember when
she used to bring
David here When he
was four or five?
- He thought this
was a playground.
He used to crawl under the table
picking up scraps of material.
He was probably looking
up the women's dresses.
And the laughs he
got with his jokes
and his funny faces.
He was smart right
from the beginning.
- A son to make
his father proud.
- I was blessed.
- So why don't
you ever tell him?
- He knows, don't
you think he knows?
- No, I don't think he knows.
- Carol please,
this isn't the time.
- I'll tell you how
much I love him, Carol.
When he gets home, when he
walks through that door,
I'm giving him half
of this business.
He becomes a full
partner with me.
- It's a beautiful gesture.
- What if he's dead?
Phil, what if he's dead.
- No, no Eli.
(pats loudly)
- I don't belong here.
- Yeah I'll show you around.
You don't enjoy family
angst, Mr. Raglin?
- I never thought of it as a
spectator sport, that's all.
- Oh this is no sport.
My father is in their
consoling the man
who stole his business
almost 40 years ago.
You know what it's like to
watch your father play the fool?
- Whoa, lady.
- Eli made my father
beg for everything.
And he throws it in his face
every chance that he gets.
- You should talk to someone
about this problem you've got.
- It's no problem.
They taught me life's
most important lesson.
If you're not in
control, you're nothing.
(door slams)
- [Reporter] All
news, all the time.
This is W-I-N-S.
(upbeat music)
You give us 22 minutes,
we'll give you the world.
(upbeat music)
- [Martha] Good evening,
Martha Elliott at the top
of the hour with tonight's news.
Our main story remains, the
hotel bombing in Sri Lanka.
Let's hear from correspondent,
Duncan Trevor reporting
from Thailand.
- [Duncan] Investors
continue to comb the wreckage
of the luxury
hotel in Sri Lanka,
where a terrorist
bomb today killed
three people and
injured 27 others.
A Tamil revolutionary
group has claimed
responsibility for the bombing.
Three Americans reported died in
the bombing of the
Palace Court Hotel.
State department officials have
yet to identify
any of the victims.
(dramatic music)
- David.
- Dear mom, well I'm
too old for stakeouts,
no offense mom, but
here I am anyway,
eyeballing the harbor
because somebody's
been high-jacking
the mob guys trucks.
Don't worry, I didn't volunteer.
Ah, ha, ha.
A cab broke up my
best undercover man
and his replacement's working
the other end of the deal.
As for me, your darling
son, I got the boobie prize.
Ah, come on Frankie, you
can stay awake big guy.
You can do it, you can do it.
Oh!
Ah!
(horns loudly)
Yaa!
Ugh, ugh!
Ah-ha what have we here?
(dramatic music)
Now I know where Ricky's
trucks are going.
It's Bosca.
(dramatic music)
(motor revving)
Come on.
Come on, turn on your lights.
(dramatic music)
(horn honks)
I don't know who you are,
but I'm gonna find out.
You're mine.
(dramatic music)
- Yeah, what can I
do for you Frank?
- Plate number,
xray, Harry, Nancy,
630.
Got anything else
on David Sternberg?
- No, I'm still trying to
in run the State Department.
(printing)
Alright,
the plate belongs
to Seamus J. Devlin.
8855 Schiller Street, Queens.
He's a harbor commissioned cop.
- A harbor cop?
- Yeah, 18 year veteran.
He's got a handful
of bravery citations.
Medal of Valor, currently
assigned to Missioner Borkowski.
- He worked for Borkowski?
A drawer full of medals
wasn't enough for his old age.
Thanks Uncle.
(knocking loudly)
- Yes.
- Stopped down at
the corner deli.
Picked you up some coffee.
- That's very nice, thank you.
- Got bagels too.
(giggles)
- No that will be fine.
Did you have a good
relationship with your father?
- Good relationship,
good father.
- Nice.
I never took my David
to a baseball game.
- Why not?
- Oh, too busy.
I thought it was more important
to be here earning money.
- Sounds like an excuse to me.
- Really?
Well I clawed my
way out of Flatbush
and I swore I would do
anything not to go back there.
Huh, the night David was born,
I was out on the dock.
(soft music)
Loading the trucks, myself.
I drove a delivery
van to that hospital
and I held that little person
in my hands and I vowed,
that he'd have
everything I never had.
And I made good that vow.
But
if he's not here to run this
business after I'm gone,
that means my whole
life was for nothing.
- If he comes home, you'll
have a chance to tell him.
- I'd give every dime
I have for that chance.
(soft music)
- He's right for the taking.
Elrose is in turmoil, Eli
isn't even paying any attention
to the business and the
plant is closed down.
- You're not exactly
grief stricken
over your cousin are you?
- You don't have an inckling
about my feelings for David.
But not even David can change
the way I feel about Eli.
- These things have a
delicate balance to them.
You tip that balance
the slightest fraction
and the whole thing could
come crashing down on us.
- On Wall Street, when
you see a weakness,
you capitalize on it,
strike hard and fast.
Now I say we move in now.
- No, we stick to
our regular agenda.
Zemart, Patrono and Mr. Chin.
You know what we're
talking about?
We're talking about
200 million dollars.
Now if jealousy would
be a natural by-product
well that's fine, so be it.
But I will not have
emotion be the driving
factor in any of
my business deals.
Was there any else
you wanted to discuss?
- You're acting like
a typical genee.
(phone ringing)
(shaver buzzing)
- Hello.
- [David] Dad.
- David,
David where are you?
- Dad I'm okay.
I, I, I swear, I'm fine.
Yeah, no I'm in Hawaii.
- We thought you were dead.
- I didn't find out
about the bomb until
I flipped on the news
here in my hotel.
Listen dad, I closed the deal.
David,
David.
- Dad did you hear what I
said, I closed the deal.
- Oh yeah, what
did you close at?
- Dad I had a (mumbles)
about $2,000 bucks.
- Did you get our price?
- 75 cents a unit.
- I thought we agreed
to a 70 cents ceiling.
You should've stayed
there til you got it.
Now I need you back here.
Get on the next flight.
(bang loudly)
Phil open the plant, we
got a deadline to meet.
And you, you're getting
paid for doing more than
just delivering
coffee around here.
I want those trucks moving now!
(horns honking)
- (mumbles) OCB, go on, go
on, go and you go for it!
Go for it, I just as assume
shoot you as look at ya!
You just stepped into it Devlin.
Alright get him outta my sight.
(dramatic music)
Devlin, there is no
rogue cop heaven.
Give it up.
(kiss smacks)
Ugh, you know you make me
wish I was a bounty hunter.
- Your client's future
is pretty well defined.
Loss of job, loss of pension.
Public disgrace for his family
and at least five years in
maximum security prison.
- He still needs a
reason to cooperate.
- His prison time can be cut.
- I'm not rolling over.
I'm not, damnit.
- What do you think
Borkowski doing?
- Running for office
like he always does.
- You're fishing McPike.
For air!
- Borkowski is
dumping all over you.
You're gonna take a fall
for him, is he worth it?
Framed you like an
electric train, didn't he?
- He's my boss
(mumbles) commission.
That's the only way
cares for me, fat slob.
- That's not what he says.
He says the high-jacking
ring was your idea.
- You believe that crap?
- It's the only crap
that I have to believe.
Now you know how
the routine works.
First guy that cop a plea walks.
The way I see it, you and
Borkowski are the home stretch
together, it doesn't
make any different to me
which one of you hit
the finish line first.
- Answer the man, Devlin.
- [Frank] Come on Devlin,
now you went native.
Don't go simple, not now.
- What's say we
got this on tape.
- I don't know what gets
into a man like this.
First he forgets
his wife's birthday,
then he tries to hide
his shame in a bottle
and the when that doesn't work,
he tries to make amends by
stealing one of Eli's dresses
off the back of
one of my trucks.
The very truck from which
he earns his living.
Do you know what my
father would've done?
My father would've
chopped off the
hand you used to betray us.
What about you Raglin?
What would you do with
our dear friend Mario?
Tell his wife so she
can kick his butt.
- No,
take him to Eli and
see that he apologizes
and then tell Eli,
that he is never again to
embarrass me in public.
- Let's go Mario.
(motor revving)
- [Man] Yo, how is the wife?
Got kids?
- Excuse me, Matt Borkowski.
- Do I know you?
- No, but you're going to.
Frank McPike, OCB.
- Let's take a walk, alright?
Fill up the cup Maggie, black.
Devlin's lying, he's running
some kind of a game on you.
- Well I got a source
to corroborate the story
that Pinzolo cut off your water.
- They got campaign
contribution laws.
And from the genee gangster.
Hey, I wouldn't talk to the man
about the price of a phone call.
Pinzolo's a freakin' sewer.
- You didn't have any trouble
communicating at the
(mumbles) banquet.
I bet you know there's
something out of joint.
- That's, that wasn't anything.
- Naw, that's nothing.
What's a million bucks?
- Hey, I told you.
- No I'm gonna tell you.
You're facing grand
larceny charges sport.
You're gonna do time,
you're gonna do hard time
you don't play ball with me.
- You got a house
of cards McPike.
I blow and it falls down.
You really think so?
Devlin's on tape about
the forged documents
you used to get the high-jacked
goods outta the country.
Don't be stupid.
You give us what you got
on Pinzolo, you walk.
- All I got from
Pinzolo is promises.
Tomorrow Matty, next week Matty.
Next election Matty, got
so my heart was jumping
outta my chest wondering how
he was gonna stall me next.
- He ever give you any money?
- I told you, just promises.
- Any witnesses to
your conversation?
- We weren't doing
this for posterity.
- Then you got problems.
Take him downtown.
(dramatic music)
- You son of a bitch!
It's my own damn fault,
you know that McPike?
I never should've done
business with cops,
because you're all the
same when you get caught
working the wrong
side of the street.
Ah, you got this
thing about still
wanting to be straight shooters.
So you roll over like
dogs doing tricks.
- Geez, I don't remember that.
(dramatic music)
- What have you got
for me, I'm in a hurry.
- Say hello to Mario, he
works for Ameche Trucking.
- Is he the one?
- The one and only.
- I'm sorry Mr. Sternberg.
I got drunk and my
wife's birthday--
- You got drunk
and I lose goods?
- And Terranova gets
runned down in the bargain.
- Why didn't you come to me,
I'd given you six dresses.
But you think it's
easier to be a thief.
Get outta my sight.
Get outta here!
Did Pinzolo send him?
- Yeah.
Along with a message.
- Oh, what?
- Don't ever embarrass
him in public again.
- He said that?
Pinzolo said that?
(laughter)
Well he's got his eight and
two shipping rates, doesn't he?
And I've got the right
to say anything I want.
If he doesn't like
that he can go to hell.
(motor revving)
- Borkowski took my trucks.
- He says they work for
a campaign contribution
and that you promised and
you never delivered on.
It was for a million
bucks, wasn't it?
- I don't buy
politicians, Mr. McPike.
- It's not what Borkowski says.
If I recall his words properly,
you're a freakin' sewer.
- You came here to tell me that?
Boy you guys are unbelievable.
You see the vowel at
the end of my name.
You know who my father was
and you believe this Judas who
has betrayed the public trust.
You buy into his lies about
a respected business man,
who's never had so
much as a ticket
for spitting on the sidewalk.
- But you have spit on
the sidewalk haven't you?
Gouged money, taking kickbacks,
let workers be abused.
Even bought a politician or two.
You better leave and take
your wish list with you.
- The harbor's not yours
anymore Mr. Pinzolo.
It's mine.
- Hey,
get out!
- You don't like this do you?
Well good I'm glad
you don't like it.
'Cause every minute
that you're awake,
I want you to know
that I'm out there
trying to slap your tail in jail
with a bunch of
animals that'll do more
than wipe that smug
look off your face.
- Thank you for your
candor Mr. McPike.
I want you to know that
everything you have just said,
has been videotaped,
which should give
me the makings of
a pretty significant
harassment suit.
- You're a worm, Ricky.
- I'm a worm, okay.
There are three
cameras in this room.
I think your last statement
was probably picked
up by the one hidden in
that painting right there.
- This picture?
- Yeah.
Hey!
- Ah,
gotcha!
There's no way Borkowski skates.
We got him cold,
the harbor cops too.
Now Pinzolo is a
different story.
But I think I started
the ball rolling.
- You took it too far too fast.
- Pinzolo ticked me off.
- That's great Frank,
you rattled his cage.
Now I've got to
crawl in with him.
(tapping lightly)
- Who are you?
- I'm John Henry Raglin.
I thought we better talk.
You're not going to like it,
but I need to know everything
you can tell me about this case
because it's mine now.
(soft music)
Tonight on Wiseguy.
(dramatic music)
- We better get him
to the hospital.
I was thinking about
putting somebody else in.
- Who?
- The only man I
even know who comes
close to being in your league.
- Do I have to tell you
what happens to an agent
who doesn't have complete cover?
- No, you do not.
- So then why you
bother bringing me
down here for this
dog and pony show.
- Because you did not
go out on a win, John.
- You too far too fast.
You rattled his cage, now
I've gotta crawl in with them.
(dramatic music)
- I don't want you to turn this
trip into a David Sternberg
version of the
World of Susie Wong.
Honey, help me with
these, will ya?
Did you hear what I said David?
- Yes, dad.
- Okay, did you
get all your shots?
- Yesterday.
- And you got your tickets?
- [David] Tickets and passport.
- Don't let them use their
Sri Lanka charm on you.
- Yes dad.
- Will you stop
with the yes dad.
I know what I'm talking about.
You know what these
people are gonna do?
They're gonna have this
ripe brown goddess,
which a tie tack
sticking out of her nose.
She's gonna clean your pipes
and then they gonna let you
go home paying three cents
a unit more than what
we can get in Georgia.
(kiss smack)
- Sort of a far east
version of what we do.
- Don't tell me how
to run my business.
- Dad, all I'm saying
is, this is my play.
Let me make it, okay?
- David, Sri Lanka--
- You are witnessing
lesson number twenty-eight
in the Eli Sternberg book
school of convincing and guilt.
- Oh.
- Why do we have to go through
this mishegas all the time?
Just trust me, will you please?
70 cent ceiling?
- Alright, alright, I personally
guarantee a 70 cent ceiling.
I have a flight to catch.
- Catch?
- Bye bye Uncle Phil.
- David.
- [David] I'm trusting you to
protect my father from himself.
- I'm still undone.
- So what's your connection
with Elrose, Vinnie?
- Security.
- That's an interesting
job description.
Simple and to the point.
- Yeah, that's me.
- You're expecting
a late delivery?
- Late delivery?
Hey,
hey!
What the hell!
(dramatic music)
Come back here you gunner!
Stop!
You dirty no good!
(car screeching)
Come back, come back!
(screech and boom loudly)
- Eddie, bring the car!
Bring the car!
Are you okay, Vinnie?
- [Phil] How bad is it?
What did you hurt?
We better get him
to the hospital.
- Okay, good.
- Here, lift him up.
(dramatic music)
Watch his head.
Wasn't that one of
Pinzolo's drivers?
- A man almost got killed
and your worried
about one lousy dress?
- Nobody takes
from Eli Sternberg!
- That's it, isn't it?
It always has to be about you.
Eddie, Roosevelt Hospital.
(motor revving)
(phone ringing)
- Hello.
- Hey Frank.
- Vince, what is it?
- I'm having a bad
couple of weeks here.
I ran into a little problem.
I got clobbered by a cab.
- [Frank] You alright?
- I don't know, I think
I might have a broken leg
and some cracked ribs.
They're gonna take me
down to some x-rays.
- I'll be right over.
- No, no, no I'll be
fine, I'll be fine.
You'll be better off finding
a way into that Pinzolo Banquet.
- There's gonna be
some guests there we
should have on our
Christmas card list.
You think you can
rangle an invite?
- Yeah I think I know a way.
- Okay.
- We've gotta go.
- I gotta go Frank, bye.
(breathing heavily)
(coughing lightly)
Hold up a minute.
Thanks for getting me here.
- It was no trouble.
- I'm in good hands now.
You don't have to hang around.
- I'd do anything to get out of
one of those boring banquets.
I'll bring you some real
food when you get back.
- Okay, we'll see you later.
- Okay.
(soft jazzy music)
- Hey Jack!
- Hello Jack, how is my
favorite newspaper columnist?
Let's get a drink.
- Ah, he's wallowing
in his element.
Problem getting in?
- No, my name was
on the guest list
just like you said it would be.
Excuse me gentlemen.
Can I have a ginger ale please?
Thanks.
Well, looks like they rounded
up the usual suspects.
- Benny Bozeck,
Borneck Transport.
Rovelle Jones from
the mayor's office.
I think you have the
rest of the cast.
- Ah, it's a real all-star crew.
- Can't tell the players
without a program.
- Ha.
Well there's a lovely couple.
Rick Pinzolo and Matt Borkowski.
Why is the head of
the Harbor Commission
so bent out of joint?
- [Jack] Borkowski
is running for Mayor.
- For this one even, he is nuts.
- I started to take
one too many shots to
the head when he was
fighting Golden Gloves.
(crowd talking)
Lucky for him he's a better
politician than he was a boxer.
- [Frank] Is that the
reason for his mating dance?
- [Jack] Well, from what I hear
Pinzolo promised the bank roll,
a big chunk of Borkowski's
mayoral campaign.
He pull out at the last minute.
Which means Matty's
gotta scramble
if he's gonna fill
him war chest.
Maybe Pinzolo doesn't want
a mayor that smells
like a cheroot.
- What he doesn't want is the
harbor he doesn't control.
You control the harbor,
you control New York.
It's a very simple equation.
- You think Borkowski
understand it?
- He doesn't have
any fancy degrees,
but he's a master
of street politics.
- Why doesn't Pinzolo
move him up in class
and reward for
services rendered?
- Pinzolo's gotta find
another puppet first.
- Ah, the waiting must
drive Borkowski nuts.
- If he thought he
could get away with it.
He pound a dock spike
through Pinzolo's forehead.
(tapping lightly)
crowd talking)
- Welcome everybody.
As you know, we are all
part of a singularly
unified holistic community
called Seventh Avenue.
(audience applause)
Tonight we honor the
author of that (mumbles)
Rick Pinzolo as GMTA
Man Of The Year.
(audience applause)
- What is that?
I thought you said you were
gonna get some real food.
- This is real food.
I went all the way to
Bakarnia to get it.
Beats the hell out
of the rubber chicken
they're serving at the
GMTA dinner tonight.
- Yeah, well I thought
that that was a little
bit far west of
Fifth Avenue for you.
- Oh, now that I'm such an
important maha on Wall Street?
- Yeah.
- You sound like
my cousin David.
Sometimes I don't think he
realize I'm all grown up.
I've been going to those
Garment District dinners
since I was a little girl.
Now all those men who used to
want me to sit on their laps,
want to crawl into bed with me.
Literally and figuratively.
- Hmm.
Well you sound like you get
some satisfaction outta that.
- You bet I do.
Normally the family Sternberg
only leave psychology scars.
- Yeah, I thought I detected
a little iciness there.
- Try glacial.
I don't think he even notices.
My mother, she won't even stay
in the same room with him.
- Goes back a long way
with Eli, doesn't it?
- I used to hide
when he came over
to our house to see my father.
- How long did your
father work for Eli?
- Eli worked for him, the
business was my father's.
Eli was his salesman.
My father was
first starting out.
He was servicing one
small army contract.
When the war broke out, Eli
parlayed that one contract
into dozens all with
his name on them.
By the time the war was over,
my father was working
in Eli's cutting room.
The shop was called Elrose.
- Didn't your father
realize what Eli was doing?
- My father doesn't
know business.
I do.
- Oh okay.
- I better go.
- That was simple
and to the point.
- In my business, I don't
wait around for an invitation.
You take what you want
or someone else will.
- Ow, what are you doing?
- I thought you got
paid to be rough.
Goodnight.
- Alright.
(audience applause)
- [Speaker] Thanks, that
raps it up for the speeches.
Now eat, dance and
enjoy yourselves.
- Hold it!
I have something I
want to say about,
about our honored guest.
- Eli Sternberg.
(audience applause)
- Many of you folks may
not know that our honored
guest Rick Pinzolo was mugged on
the way here to the
banquet tonight.
He gave the guy a C note
and then took back 12 bucks
and the guy says hey, what
the hell are you doing?
And Rick said, I always
take 12% off the top
of any business transaction
on Seventh Avenue.
(audience laughter)
And I'm sure a lot of you folks,
don't know that Rick
is a big art collector.
Art Stein's Trucking Firm,
Art Warnick's
Manufacturing Company,
Art Broadman's Assembly Plant.
You know in the
Garment District,
we have a favor
for favor system.
You do Rick a favor
and he does one for you.
He lets you walk
without crutches.
Wonderful human being.
(dramatic music)
- Hi.
You think you'd
give me a minute?
Thank you.
Well, how are you feelin'?
- Ugh.
Well I can't walk,
I can't breathe.
Other than that, I'm okay.
- That's great, just great.
Look, here's a
list of people that
were there at the
banquet tonight.
It's a souvenir program.
Some very interesting
people took out ads
telling Rick Pinzolo what
a terrific guy he is.
- Yeah, some people'll
say anything.
- A couple of gentlemen
there tonight didn't reup
in the I love Rick
Pinzolo fan club.
Your friend Eli and a
guy named Matt Borkowski.
- The guy from the
Harbor Commission.
Human snow plow.
- Well he was in Pinzolo's
face big time tonight.
And then Eli barbecued Pinzolo
in his pre-dinner speech.
- Aw, man.
You ask me, Eli's
toying with a cobra.
With Pinzolo it's not if
he'll strike, it's when.
I promised David Sternberg
I'd protect his father.
That's a promise I can't keep.
- Vinnie, I was thinking of
putting somebody else in.
- Who you gonna get Frank?
- Pinzolo is smart, he's
thorough and he's cautious.
The only reason I
got close to him is
because I got a history
that he bought into.
- Oh now do you think you are
the only one that has a history?
- [Man] Where's Mr.
Terranova's room?
- Hey Rick.
- Did you hear what
happened tonight?
- No.
- Eli Sternberg used
this dinner to link me to
a past that I have
distanced myself from.
I don't enjoy being humiliated
in front of 500 people.
- Well, Eli still
got a rash from
that trucking deal
you stuck him with.
- His old deal was a
gift from my father.
- He's choking on
your rates, Rick.
Before we left for
the bank with one of
your drivers stole
one of Eli's dresses.
- He thinks I had
something to do with that?
- Oh he's got a siege mentality.
- There's this assumption
on Seventh Avenue
that all problems stop at the
revolving door of my lobby.
I had my own
particular problems.
Eli lost one dress,
I lost six trucks in
the last two months.
Now I want you to get
somebody to sit on Eli.
- I have a partner
but he's busy.
- Do it.
(door slams)
- Pinzolo just left,
it's the opening we need.
I'm gonna put somebody
on the inside.
- Who?
- The only man I
know that even comes
close to being in your league.
- John Henry Ragler,
it's been a long time.
- Six years, three months,
two weeks and five days.
But who's counting.
Hi Frank.
How are you?
- It's good to see you John.
- Yeah, you too.
- Well you've changed.
- Naw, this is the
way I always was.
- Raglin you remember?
Just a role I played.
- Well, I need you
to play it again.
- That ended when
I left Phoenix.
I don't need to
spend another minute
in the company of crazy people.
- Are you happy running
a computer all day?
- It has its moments, yeah.
- You're satisfied where
electronics stings.
- I'm satisfied taking
long walks with my wife.
My second wife.
And I'm satisfied
driving up to Baltimore
to watch ballgames with my son.
The son my first wife didn't
stick around to help me raise
and I'll tell you
something else,
while I'm rattling on.
I'm satisfied with
my dreams now.
Used to be all I
dreamt about was,
how that reporter looked
after they blew him up.
Remember Frank, well Phoenix can
do that to you when I was there.
And I don't need to put myself
through that hell kind of again.
It took three years for
my palms to stop sweating.
- John you're as good
as I've ever seen.
- Yeah, well I was
good enough to get
out from undercover
in one piece.
Four more years.
Inside I got my pension Frank.
- Your pension?
You know I spent enough
time with you to know
you didn't become a
cop just to survive.
You want to send one
big message to the crap
out there to think
they're beyond the law.
Well I'm offering
you the chance.
You ever heard of Rick Pinzolo?
- The kid?
- The kid is not a kid anymore.
He's all grown up.
He controls the New
York Garment District.
We had an agent under with him.
And then he--
- Killed?
- No, hit by a cab.
- It was an accident.
We need somebody
to take his place
until he can get
back on his feet.
- Maybe I can dig somebody
up who knows the rag trade.
- The rag trade John?
- I read a lot.
- Ah,
well.
Read this.
This is Rick Pinzolo's empire.
It's an industry that generates
20 billion dollars annually
and he's bleeding it dry.
The solid lines
indicate people who own
businesses we know
he's connected to.
The broken lines are
suspected connections.
- Doesn't look like you
laid a glove on him.
- Ah, Pinzolo's never been
arrested, much less convicted.
The agent we had on
him got next to him.
How did you manage that?
- A gentleman named David
Sternberg approached us.
He's a son of Eli Sternberg,
president of Elrose Fashions.
Now Sternbergs had
a run of bad luck.
Ran into a cash flow problem.
Had to go in the
street for two million.
Our agent--
- Give me him a name Frank.
- Vincent Terranova got
things straightened out
for the Sternberg's so they're
off the hook for the loan.
And Pinzolo hired
him as some kind
of double agent so he
keep an eye on them.
- Wait a minute, this David
Sternberg came to you, right?
Does he know who Terranova is?
That's great, that's
just great Frank.
- He approached us John.
- Do I have to tell you what
could happen to an agent
who doesn't have complete cover?
Damnit Frank, do I?
- No you do not.
- So why did you
bother bringing me down
here for this dog and pony show!
- Because you did not
go out on a win John!
- Raglin.
I know you from somewhere.
- I did time in Leavenworth.
With a cousin of
yours, Jackie Masca.
- Jackie Masca (laughter).
Oh yeah, old Jackie.
He almost courted trouble.
That's a romance I can't afford.
You don't look like you
travel in those circles.
- I dwell in possibility.
- You, me and Emily
Dickinson, right?
But sometimes reality intrudes.
Eli Sternberg is a reality.
- He's my next stop.
But Vinnie thought I
should visit you first.
As a courtesy, any
special requests?
- Terranova's beeper survived?
No, just do your job.
For Eli, keep your ears open,
come when you're called.
Raglin.
Just because I went to
an Ivy League school
that doesn't mean you get
to quote poetry to me.
- So much for
lively reporte, huh?
(soft music)
- Who is John Henry Raglin?
- [Reporter] The
Secretary of State arrived
in Brussels today for meeting
NATO defense ministers.
Topping the agenda is a call
for reduction in NATO forces.
- Excuse me, I'm looking
for Mr. Eli Sternberg.
- He can't be disturbed.
- Vinnie Terranova sent me.
- Oh,
in there.
- Thank you.
- What are you saying?
It's out of the question?
They got airports, don't they?
The hell with close down,
this is my son
we're talking about.
Sternberg, I told you before,
David Sternberg.
S-t-e
r-n
b-e-r-g.
(knocking lightly)
His name isn't in
hospital reports?
- May I help you?
- I'm Vinnie
Terranova's associate.
- You don't have any?
- What happened?
- There was a bomb in the hotel
where Eli's son was staying.
Terrorists in Sri Lanka?
- Is he hurt?
- We can't find out.
- Well, who is he talking to?
- State department.
- I don't want to know
about no phone service.
What is your name?
I said what is your name?
I need your name so I
could call your superiors
and tell them what
an idiot you are.
Do you hear me, do you hear me?
You incompetent bastard!
They're not keeping
me out of banana land.
- Nobody can get
in, what can we do?
- I'll charter a plane
and fly it up there noses.
How can they stop
that, shoot me down?
Who the hell is that?
- John Raglin.
I'm Vinnie's replacement.
I didn't wanted
Terranova around.
I don't need you around.
- Maybe I can help.
- Yeah, by leaving.
- Let me make one call.
- This one doesn't look
like he can make a muscle.
- This is Raglin, you
got a list of victims yet
in that hotel
bombing in Sri Lanka?
Anything at all on
a David Sternberg.
What about his room?
Was it hit?
Anything else?
Okay, thanks, I'll be in touch.
Bomb went off in the hotel bar.
- Anything about my son?
- You gonna let me finish?
Bomb went off in the hotel bar,
apparently your son's
room wasn't touched.
- Who told you that?
- Someone I can trust.
- And are they always right?
- Up until now.
- (sigh) Look I'm sorry, I
apologize for blowing up.
It's just that, I'm scared.
- Are you telling me
this guy's in already.
- I told you he was good.
He's in place until you're 100%.
- I think I'll be out of
here inside of a week.
- What Oral Roberts is gonna
pay you a personal visit?
- Alright, so who is he?
- You never heard of him.
- Then where has he been?
- He's been inside
working with computers.
- The job screw him up?
- The job is hard on everybody.
- Yeah, yeah, ah hmm.
It bent him didn't it Frank.
- Eli why don't
you go home early.
Go home to what?
A shiksa wife who fakes concern
like she fakes an orgasm.
No, I'm staying here.
- Did you tell his mother?
- Rose is in Florida.
Why alarm her until the
have more information?
- Because she's his mother.
You remember when
she used to bring
David here When he
was four or five?
- He thought this
was a playground.
He used to crawl under the table
picking up scraps of material.
He was probably looking
up the women's dresses.
And the laughs he
got with his jokes
and his funny faces.
He was smart right
from the beginning.
- A son to make
his father proud.
- I was blessed.
- So why don't
you ever tell him?
- He knows, don't
you think he knows?
- No, I don't think he knows.
- Carol please,
this isn't the time.
- I'll tell you how
much I love him, Carol.
When he gets home, when he
walks through that door,
I'm giving him half
of this business.
He becomes a full
partner with me.
- It's a beautiful gesture.
- What if he's dead?
Phil, what if he's dead.
- No, no Eli.
(pats loudly)
- I don't belong here.
- Yeah I'll show you around.
You don't enjoy family
angst, Mr. Raglin?
- I never thought of it as a
spectator sport, that's all.
- Oh this is no sport.
My father is in their
consoling the man
who stole his business
almost 40 years ago.
You know what it's like to
watch your father play the fool?
- Whoa, lady.
- Eli made my father
beg for everything.
And he throws it in his face
every chance that he gets.
- You should talk to someone
about this problem you've got.
- It's no problem.
They taught me life's
most important lesson.
If you're not in
control, you're nothing.
(door slams)
- [Reporter] All
news, all the time.
This is W-I-N-S.
(upbeat music)
You give us 22 minutes,
we'll give you the world.
(upbeat music)
- [Martha] Good evening,
Martha Elliott at the top
of the hour with tonight's news.
Our main story remains, the
hotel bombing in Sri Lanka.
Let's hear from correspondent,
Duncan Trevor reporting
from Thailand.
- [Duncan] Investors
continue to comb the wreckage
of the luxury
hotel in Sri Lanka,
where a terrorist
bomb today killed
three people and
injured 27 others.
A Tamil revolutionary
group has claimed
responsibility for the bombing.
Three Americans reported died in
the bombing of the
Palace Court Hotel.
State department officials have
yet to identify
any of the victims.
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- David.
- Dear mom, well I'm
too old for stakeouts,
no offense mom, but
here I am anyway,
eyeballing the harbor
because somebody's
been high-jacking
the mob guys trucks.
Don't worry, I didn't volunteer.
Ah, ha, ha.
A cab broke up my
best undercover man
and his replacement's working
the other end of the deal.
As for me, your darling
son, I got the boobie prize.
Ah, come on Frankie, you
can stay awake big guy.
You can do it, you can do it.
Oh!
Ah!
(horns loudly)
Yaa!
Ugh, ugh!
Ah-ha what have we here?
(dramatic music)
Now I know where Ricky's
trucks are going.
It's Bosca.
(dramatic music)
(motor revving)
Come on.
Come on, turn on your lights.
(dramatic music)
(horn honks)
I don't know who you are,
but I'm gonna find out.
You're mine.
(dramatic music)
- Yeah, what can I
do for you Frank?
- Plate number,
xray, Harry, Nancy,
630.
Got anything else
on David Sternberg?
- No, I'm still trying to
in run the State Department.
(printing)
Alright,
the plate belongs
to Seamus J. Devlin.
8855 Schiller Street, Queens.
He's a harbor commissioned cop.
- A harbor cop?
- Yeah, 18 year veteran.
He's got a handful
of bravery citations.
Medal of Valor, currently
assigned to Missioner Borkowski.
- He worked for Borkowski?
A drawer full of medals
wasn't enough for his old age.
Thanks Uncle.
(knocking loudly)
- Yes.
- Stopped down at
the corner deli.
Picked you up some coffee.
- That's very nice, thank you.
- Got bagels too.
(giggles)
- No that will be fine.
Did you have a good
relationship with your father?
- Good relationship,
good father.
- Nice.
I never took my David
to a baseball game.
- Why not?
- Oh, too busy.
I thought it was more important
to be here earning money.
- Sounds like an excuse to me.
- Really?
Well I clawed my
way out of Flatbush
and I swore I would do
anything not to go back there.
Huh, the night David was born,
I was out on the dock.
(soft music)
Loading the trucks, myself.
I drove a delivery
van to that hospital
and I held that little person
in my hands and I vowed,
that he'd have
everything I never had.
And I made good that vow.
But
if he's not here to run this
business after I'm gone,
that means my whole
life was for nothing.
- If he comes home, you'll
have a chance to tell him.
- I'd give every dime
I have for that chance.
(soft music)
- He's right for the taking.
Elrose is in turmoil, Eli
isn't even paying any attention
to the business and the
plant is closed down.
- You're not exactly
grief stricken
over your cousin are you?
- You don't have an inckling
about my feelings for David.
But not even David can change
the way I feel about Eli.
- These things have a
delicate balance to them.
You tip that balance
the slightest fraction
and the whole thing could
come crashing down on us.
- On Wall Street, when
you see a weakness,
you capitalize on it,
strike hard and fast.
Now I say we move in now.
- No, we stick to
our regular agenda.
Zemart, Patrono and Mr. Chin.
You know what we're
talking about?
We're talking about
200 million dollars.
Now if jealousy would
be a natural by-product
well that's fine, so be it.
But I will not have
emotion be the driving
factor in any of
my business deals.
Was there any else
you wanted to discuss?
- You're acting like
a typical genee.
(phone ringing)
(shaver buzzing)
- Hello.
- [David] Dad.
- David,
David where are you?
- Dad I'm okay.
I, I, I swear, I'm fine.
Yeah, no I'm in Hawaii.
- We thought you were dead.
- I didn't find out
about the bomb until
I flipped on the news
here in my hotel.
Listen dad, I closed the deal.
David,
David.
- Dad did you hear what I
said, I closed the deal.
- Oh yeah, what
did you close at?
- Dad I had a (mumbles)
about $2,000 bucks.
- Did you get our price?
- 75 cents a unit.
- I thought we agreed
to a 70 cents ceiling.
You should've stayed
there til you got it.
Now I need you back here.
Get on the next flight.
(bang loudly)
Phil open the plant, we
got a deadline to meet.
And you, you're getting
paid for doing more than
just delivering
coffee around here.
I want those trucks moving now!
(horns honking)
- (mumbles) OCB, go on, go
on, go and you go for it!
Go for it, I just as assume
shoot you as look at ya!
You just stepped into it Devlin.
Alright get him outta my sight.
(dramatic music)
Devlin, there is no
rogue cop heaven.
Give it up.
(kiss smacks)
Ugh, you know you make me
wish I was a bounty hunter.
- Your client's future
is pretty well defined.
Loss of job, loss of pension.
Public disgrace for his family
and at least five years in
maximum security prison.
- He still needs a
reason to cooperate.
- His prison time can be cut.
- I'm not rolling over.
I'm not, damnit.
- What do you think
Borkowski doing?
- Running for office
like he always does.
- You're fishing McPike.
For air!
- Borkowski is
dumping all over you.
You're gonna take a fall
for him, is he worth it?
Framed you like an
electric train, didn't he?
- He's my boss
(mumbles) commission.
That's the only way
cares for me, fat slob.
- That's not what he says.
He says the high-jacking
ring was your idea.
- You believe that crap?
- It's the only crap
that I have to believe.
Now you know how
the routine works.
First guy that cop a plea walks.
The way I see it, you and
Borkowski are the home stretch
together, it doesn't
make any different to me
which one of you hit
the finish line first.
- Answer the man, Devlin.
- [Frank] Come on Devlin,
now you went native.
Don't go simple, not now.
- What's say we
got this on tape.
- I don't know what gets
into a man like this.
First he forgets
his wife's birthday,
then he tries to hide
his shame in a bottle
and the when that doesn't work,
he tries to make amends by
stealing one of Eli's dresses
off the back of
one of my trucks.
The very truck from which
he earns his living.
Do you know what my
father would've done?
My father would've
chopped off the
hand you used to betray us.
What about you Raglin?
What would you do with
our dear friend Mario?
Tell his wife so she
can kick his butt.
- No,
take him to Eli and
see that he apologizes
and then tell Eli,
that he is never again to
embarrass me in public.
- Let's go Mario.
(motor revving)
- [Man] Yo, how is the wife?
Got kids?
- Excuse me, Matt Borkowski.
- Do I know you?
- No, but you're going to.
Frank McPike, OCB.
- Let's take a walk, alright?
Fill up the cup Maggie, black.
Devlin's lying, he's running
some kind of a game on you.
- Well I got a source
to corroborate the story
that Pinzolo cut off your water.
- They got campaign
contribution laws.
And from the genee gangster.
Hey, I wouldn't talk to the man
about the price of a phone call.
Pinzolo's a freakin' sewer.
- You didn't have any trouble
communicating at the
(mumbles) banquet.
I bet you know there's
something out of joint.
- That's, that wasn't anything.
- Naw, that's nothing.
What's a million bucks?
- Hey, I told you.
- No I'm gonna tell you.
You're facing grand
larceny charges sport.
You're gonna do time,
you're gonna do hard time
you don't play ball with me.
- You got a house
of cards McPike.
I blow and it falls down.
You really think so?
Devlin's on tape about
the forged documents
you used to get the high-jacked
goods outta the country.
Don't be stupid.
You give us what you got
on Pinzolo, you walk.
- All I got from
Pinzolo is promises.
Tomorrow Matty, next week Matty.
Next election Matty, got
so my heart was jumping
outta my chest wondering how
he was gonna stall me next.
- He ever give you any money?
- I told you, just promises.
- Any witnesses to
your conversation?
- We weren't doing
this for posterity.
- Then you got problems.
Take him downtown.
(dramatic music)
- You son of a bitch!
It's my own damn fault,
you know that McPike?
I never should've done
business with cops,
because you're all the
same when you get caught
working the wrong
side of the street.
Ah, you got this
thing about still
wanting to be straight shooters.
So you roll over like
dogs doing tricks.
- Geez, I don't remember that.
(dramatic music)
- What have you got
for me, I'm in a hurry.
- Say hello to Mario, he
works for Ameche Trucking.
- Is he the one?
- The one and only.
- I'm sorry Mr. Sternberg.
I got drunk and my
wife's birthday--
- You got drunk
and I lose goods?
- And Terranova gets
runned down in the bargain.
- Why didn't you come to me,
I'd given you six dresses.
But you think it's
easier to be a thief.
Get outta my sight.
Get outta here!
Did Pinzolo send him?
- Yeah.
Along with a message.
- Oh, what?
- Don't ever embarrass
him in public again.
- He said that?
Pinzolo said that?
(laughter)
Well he's got his eight and
two shipping rates, doesn't he?
And I've got the right
to say anything I want.
If he doesn't like
that he can go to hell.
(motor revving)
- Borkowski took my trucks.
- He says they work for
a campaign contribution
and that you promised and
you never delivered on.
It was for a million
bucks, wasn't it?
- I don't buy
politicians, Mr. McPike.
- It's not what Borkowski says.
If I recall his words properly,
you're a freakin' sewer.
- You came here to tell me that?
Boy you guys are unbelievable.
You see the vowel at
the end of my name.
You know who my father was
and you believe this Judas who
has betrayed the public trust.
You buy into his lies about
a respected business man,
who's never had so
much as a ticket
for spitting on the sidewalk.
- But you have spit on
the sidewalk haven't you?
Gouged money, taking kickbacks,
let workers be abused.
Even bought a politician or two.
You better leave and take
your wish list with you.
- The harbor's not yours
anymore Mr. Pinzolo.
It's mine.
- Hey,
get out!
- You don't like this do you?
Well good I'm glad
you don't like it.
'Cause every minute
that you're awake,
I want you to know
that I'm out there
trying to slap your tail in jail
with a bunch of
animals that'll do more
than wipe that smug
look off your face.
- Thank you for your
candor Mr. McPike.
I want you to know that
everything you have just said,
has been videotaped,
which should give
me the makings of
a pretty significant
harassment suit.
- You're a worm, Ricky.
- I'm a worm, okay.
There are three
cameras in this room.
I think your last statement
was probably picked
up by the one hidden in
that painting right there.
- This picture?
- Yeah.
Hey!
- Ah,
gotcha!
There's no way Borkowski skates.
We got him cold,
the harbor cops too.
Now Pinzolo is a
different story.
But I think I started
the ball rolling.
- You took it too far too fast.
- Pinzolo ticked me off.
- That's great Frank,
you rattled his cage.
Now I've got to
crawl in with him.
(tapping lightly)
- Who are you?
- I'm John Henry Raglin.
I thought we better talk.
You're not going to like it,
but I need to know everything
you can tell me about this case
because it's mine now.
(soft music)