Wiseguy (1987–2009): Season 3, Episode 11 - Day Seven - full transcript
The pieces of the diplomatic puzzle begin to come together for Vinnie as General Masters puts the final touches on his plot to make Vinnie the fall guy.
- [Vinnie] Tonight, on Wiseguy.
- What is the
mission accomplished?
- The evidence is on
his way to you now.
- Money was printed here.
The release of
counterfeit currency
is the equivalent
of launching a war.
- Nothing is the
equivalent of war.
- And Leland Masters is in
the White House right now,
anticipating the first
salvo of his last crusade.
- Now arrest the son of a bitch!
- In success or in failure,
they still have to put
her off one someone.
And it's not just Kay Gallagher.
The person being hung
out to dry is you.
("Wiseguy Theme")
- [Vinnie] Previously
on Wiseguy.
- The National
Security Commission
is facing a dire situation.
I need one man.
Agenct Vincent Terranova.
- You've been requested
to serve the National
Security Commission.
- Why?
- It's on a need to know basis.
I don't need to know.
- This is one of the most
powerful weapons in the world.
It's a printing plate
for Japanese yen.
We believe a plan exists
to undermine the
economy of Japan.
This parcel containing
the original plate
was damaged in transit.
Tenzer, Kurtzman and Lloyd.
- The most powerful
economy in the world
is about to be destroyed
by a Capitol Hill PR firm?
- It's your moral
duty to stop it.
- Oh my god, no!
(shots blasting)
- Someone with department
claims has been shot.
- The bullet that killed
Valenti was packed with curare.
It was an assassination, Vince.
- Dr. Valenti created a model
for non-genuine destabilization.
- What is that?
- Diagram for
waging economic war
through counterfeiting.
- Who commissioned it?
- Tenzer, Kurtzman and Lloyd.
Account Executive,
Katherin Gallagher.
- Terranova be damned.
Son of a bitch turned a
beautifully conceived notion
into a public
embarrassment that'll take
decades to clean up.
Isle Pavot is our island.
Now it's in the hands of some
third world lilliputians
who mock us at every turn.
Reparations are gonna
be paid by this boy.
- I'm supposed to
find their scapegoat.
- Another Dean Rhoden.
- Yeah, Kay Gallagher.
- [Kay] What are
you looking for?
- [Frank] I have a warrant.
This involves National Security.
- [Kay] Terranova
instigated this, didn't he?
- [Mark] Sign this.
- What is it?
- It's a receipt for
confiscated goods.
There's a file on Mr. Wilson
and contents, a paper on
non-genuine destabilization
by a Dr. Andrew Valenti.
- I need to know about Wilson.
An assassination and the
fall of a sovereign nation
could be dumped in your
lap if you don't help me.
- Wilson is a voice on
the end of a telephone.
He called my firm and asked
us to commission Valenti
to write a paper.
- And you never met him.
- I spoke with him
twice on the telephone.
- You better be careful.
Your invisible Mr. Wilson
might get you killed.
- Senator, we believe the
passage of the trade bill
could trigger the release
of the counterfeit currency.
- Now if that bill could
be held up in a committee--
- It's Janet Getzloff's
bill, Agent Terranova.
It's her committee.
- What are its chances, Sir?
- That bill won't
die an easy death
no matter what I fling at it.
- I want a report.
- Going over a computer list.
- Let me see the list.
Big Sky, forget it.
Sun Valley, forget it.
Dawn Valley, Utah.
There was a transport
depo closed there.
Now why don't you start
with what's most likely
and quit diddling?
I've got Terranova pointed
in the right direction
but he's convinced
Gallagher's a red herring.
Is there any reason I have
to do everything myself?
- The phone records of the
calls received at that time
were made from a phone
in Dawn Valley, Utah.
- Prescott Wilson.
- [Walter] America's
hermit billionaire.
- He called me twice.
He'll speak with me again.
- He spoke to you
because he called you.
- I'll see him in person.
- Kay, he hasn't seen anybody
since we put a Kennedy
in the White House.
It's impossible.
- Walter, nothing is impossible.
- I want you to
be ready to leave
for Utah at a moment's notice.
Our targets are going to
be meeting Mr. Wilson soon.
- [Man] Mr. Terranova?
- [Dan Burrows] Here.
Here, I'll take that.
You let him sleep, all right?
How much longer
'til we get there?
- About a half hour.
Sunrise.
You want some coffee?
- Oh, please, thank you.
- Me too, please.
- Hey, Vinne, you
ought to sleep.
- Nah, it's all right, I'm up.
What is that?
- Prescott Wilson.
- What about him?
- What have we got?
Last time he made
a public appearance
was with Edward R.
Murrow, person to person.
- He's a billionaire hermit.
Oil, shipping, lumber.
- This guy holds 114 patents.
Everything from the
automated donut machine
to the guidance system
on a nuclear sub.
- What he do, serve
in the military?
- Thank you.
No.
He refit merchant vessels
for the war effort.
He used to date
Taloula Bankhead.
- Who didn't?
(laughing)
So when our Vas files,
we have about as
much on this guy
as the National Enquirer, huh?
- Our files are from
the National Enquirer.
(light music)
- [Vinnie] D.O.D Cutback
shut this place down in 78.
Only activity in
the last three years
was a Boy Scout jamboree.
- Here, this is
supposed to open it.
(camera shutters open and close)
(light music)
(mechanical squeaking)
- It's ink.
Found some on his
palette here too.
- It'll match this.
- These skids are fresh.
Rubber hasn't washed away yet.
Double white skid marks.
Gotta be a transport,
but can't be a jet.
These runways are too short.
- Transport plane's
too big not to notice.
Somebody had to see
this thing happen.
- Printed, packaged, and shipped
from an abandoned military base.
They bugged out very recently
and left just enough
evidence for us to find.
Come on, this is
too easy, Vince.
- It's supposed to be.
This is General Masters'
little trail of crumbs
he left for me.
The only crumb we picked up
ourselves was Prescott Wilson
- Taxi.
Prescott Wilson's
estate, please.
I'm not gonna freeze to
death arguing with you.
- [Guard] Nobody's
arguing, ma'am.
- [Kay] I wanna see him.
- [Guard] That's not possible.
- [Kay] You would be
amazed what's possible.
- [Guard] Ma'am,
you're trespassing.
- Is he here?
- [Guard] I don't know.
- Find out.
- This is private property.
You're gonna have to leave.
- What does it take to
get through to you people?
I have come all the way
from Washington to see him.
Mr. Wilson and I have
done business together
at his instigation.
- [Sheriff] All
right, Miss, let's go.
- Don't touch me.
I'm not leaving until I see him.
- [Sheriff] Nobody sees him.
- This is man is not God.
- [Sheriff] I'm sorry, Miss,
but unless you leave this
property immediately,
I'm gonna have to--
- Let her go!
- And who the hell are you?
- OCB.
Let her go.
I'm here to see Prescott Wilson.
- Nobody sees him.
- Hey, look, now you
send up smoke signals.
You get him on the phone.
You do whatever you gotta do.
But I'm going to talk to him.
If not, I will produce
a federal warrant
and drag him down
here to talk to me.
With the place surrounded
by television cameras.
(phone ringing)
- Evans.
Yes, Sir.
You can go up.
- Two days ago you said Wilson
was just a voice on the phone.
- Two days ago you didn't
believe he existed.
- We learned an awful lot
in two days, didn't we?
Now where'd you learn it?
All right, fine.
Whatever you want.
- I'm a recluse, damn it.
I don't see people.
If I did, I wouldn't
be a recluse.
- You paid my office ticket--
- I'm on National--
- Ladies first.
- You authorized my office
to commission a report
by Andrew Valenti.
- No, I didn't.
Now, what do you want?
- I-
- Wait a minute.
I have a copy of
your cashier's check.
- I don't use cashier's check.
I never did.
- I spoke with you twice.
You're on my phone records.
- I haven't spoken twice
to anyone in 15 years.
- Not even Leland Masters?
- I wouldn't
spit on the best part of him.
- How do you know him?
- [Mr. Wilson] None
of your damn business.
- He's made you my business.
Masters believes
that there's a plan
to destroy the Japanese economy.
He also believes that
it's being launched
within the United States.
- If you believe that,
you're crazier than he is.
- I believe he's behind it.
- Oh, maybe you're not so crazy.
This report I'm supposed
to have paid for?
Non-Genuine Destabilization?
Well, if Valenti wrote
it, it's gotta be right.
- You know him too?
- I'm a recluse, but
I can read, damn it.
(laughing) Oh God.
I love this.
It's chock-full of nuts,
but the idea behind
it, wonderful.
- And you could pay for
the entire operation
out of petty cash.
- Could handle the
transportation, too.
I still own a few airplanes.
But I didn't, and I wouldn't.
As much I love the idea
of beating the Nibs,
I'd do it fair and square.
Get in the ring with
'em and slug it out.
Leland used to
love a fair fight.
Now he wants what he wants,
but he doesn't wanna
must his hair to get it.
When they put him in charge
of the National
Security Commission,
I knew we were going to hell.
- I believe Masters is
setting up Miss Gallagher,
and maybe you for a fall,
if and when the
operation crashes.
- Can't touch me.
I'm too rich.
- Yeah, but Kay isn't.
- Oh, that's her problem.
- Listen, I don't have a
lot of time to make my case.
Now, the counterfeit
Yen was printed here
in the abandoned air force base.
- The money still there?
- No, it's not.
Now you have a few
of the entire valley.
Have you noticed anything
out of the ordinary
in the last couple of days?
- No.
- Transport plane?
A plane big enough to
haul away all that money?
Well, what did you see?
- Please.
- You think I'm gonna
let you sucker me
into being a material witness?
- We could subpoena you.
- For what?
Gotta have grounds, boy.
And you can't serve the paper
unless I want to be served.
June 14th 1966.
J. Edgar Hoover tried to
pull me off this mountain.
Check the records.
- Don't you care
about this country?
- Damn right, I care
about this country.
That's why I own it.
We used to be
friends, Leland and I.
I hope you nail
the son of a bitch.
He should have had
sense enough to know
when to get out of
the game like I did.
Can I keep this?
- Yeah, sure, go ahead.
(light music)
Wait in the car, will you?
Please, just wait in the car.
See saw something up there
but the old bastard won't
tell me what it was.
- He saw C-130.
- What?
- Tail number 179.
No national insignia,
and the window was blocked
out below the cockpit.
This Deputy Sheriff's
an ex-air force MP.
Said it flew in and
out two days ago.
We find that plane
and we find the Yen.
- Yeah.
If it hasn't been
released already.
- They're boarding now, Sir.
- What is the
mission accomplished?
- The evidence is on
its way to you now.
I gave the film to
Commander Nelson.
- Good.
Precede to launch point.
- Come in, Walter.
- Sir, the mission's
accomplished.
Biggs is on his way to prepare
the final phase
of our operation.
- Now we're moving.
- [Walter] Painting's
lovely, General.
- Why thank you, Walter.
When I'm finished, it's yours.
Then you can say you have
one of the old Masters
hanging in your living room.
Terranova's fingerprints
are all over this.
Put it way under the musket.
- Yes, Sir.
(slow music)
The painting, General.
I'll treasure it.
I'll take care of
this right away.
(suspenseful music)
Would you get me a
civilian messenger, please?
- Looking for a C-130, Frank.
No mask, no insignia.
Tail number 179.
Of course they
could've changed that.
There was windows blocked
out below the cockpit.
That may be the only
thing we have to go by.
- Kay,
when are you gonna start to
believe you're being set up?
- I'm not an idiot, Vince.
I can see what's happening.
I just don't understand why.
- In the minds of some people,
you're as much to blame
for our fall from
preeminence as the Japanese.
Why, you've lobbied
for them on the Hill.
You've helped them gobble up
pieces of this country
from Manhattan to LA.
You're the enemy, Kay.
- I haven't done anything
to hurt this country.
- Did you or did you not
use your lobbying
skills to facilitate
the sale of technology to Japan,
resulting in their
developing the FXX fighter?
- That was a deal.
That's business.
That's what I do.
Don't try to equate
me Arms for Hostages
or the Rosenbergs.
- To you, it's business.
To some people, it's the flag.
Now if we don't find that plane
before Getzloff's
trade bill passes,
that money will be released.
The only thing that'll
be left after that
is nailing you to the cross.
- I've never felt so
helpless in my entire life.
I hate it.
My mother was a very
successful novelist.
Did you know that, Vince?
- No.
I don't know much
about you at all.
- She wrote
exceptionally strong characters.
Interesting, complex,
powerful people.
Men and women.
After her third
novel was published,
she went into
debilitating depression.
Committed suicide.
- I'm sorry.
- Her note said that
she had lost control
of her characters
and they were controlling her.
She couldn't live with that.
(laughing) Strichen
wanted me to see Wilson.
He manipulated my being here.
- Yeah, yeah, okay, Frank.
Frank's looking
for that plane but
it's an awful big
world out there
and she may run out of time.
- Why?
- The trade bill.
Hit the senate floor
10 minutes ago.
(suspenseful music)
- Package for Gallagher.
- There have been
cries of protectionism
through the corners of
the Dirksen building,
but I don't think those voices
will be heard here today
because this bill speaks
for the American citizen.
Too long suffering,
too many unemployed,
and too damn mad to sit silently
and watch their representatives
bury them any longer
in a flood of foreign commerce.
This trade bill speak
for the American citizen
who is no longer
willing to be penalized
for the barbaric labor
practices of alien nations.
- Thanks.
- Wake up, Harry.
(laughing)
There isn't a man or
woman in this chamber
who doesn't know that
this nation is fed up
and ready to say to the world,
and yes, specifically Japan,
ready to say to them,
"If you're not letting
us sell our goods,
"we're not letting
you sell yours."
(cheering)
- [Announcer] Will the gallery
please refrain from any
form of demonstration.
- There might be 1,500
C-130s in service.
- How many of them have
blacktail forward
compartment windows?
- Frank, I need to
see you privately.
- Yes, Sir.
Thank you, Mark.
- I need an update on
Terranova's investigation.
- You know I cannot do that.
- Damn it!
I make members of my department
available to the National
Security Commission
and now I'm shut out
of what is obviously
a critical matter.
I'm your superior.
You report to me!
- It's national security.
I'm not in a
position to disclose
to anyone outside the loop.
You understand that?
- Yes, I do.
I'm sure you
understand my concern.
- I do, Dewitt.
I understand.
- Forgive me for pulling rank.
It was an overreaction.
(door opening)
- Hey, Frank, Clip.
We find the C-130?
- Excuse me.
- Yeah.
- He's coming apart.
- Yeah, well,
that's what happens when
you only follow orders.
Did we find the plane?
- No, not yet.
- What about the trade bill?
- It's moving through the
senate like a freight train.
- The time has come
for us to fire an
economic volley
across the bough of
the Japanese juggernaut
of unfair trade relations.
I'm proud to affirm
this bill with my vote.
I only wish it were
a declaration...
- Delaney is with me on this.
- Yeah.
And damned ashamed of it too.
- It's gonna pass.
President's gonna sign it.
- [Delaney] To send a
resounding message to Japan
and the rest of the nations
on the Pacific rim...
- You vote your
conscience over there.
All I ask is that
you do it quietly.
- [Delaney] And we
sure as hell shouldn't
grant them allowance!
Protectionism is not the issue.
- It's grossly unfair to
keep me in the dark, Walter.
OCB is my section
and I'm shut out from
what is quickly becoming
a singular preoccupation.
- Clip, Clip,
accept my assurance.
Nothing is being done to you.
- It's a matter of national
security, I know, I know.
I never thought
I'd become annoyed
at hearing that term.
Can't you see that
at the very least
this situation is
becoming embarrassing?
- No one is embarrassing you.
- And at most, I feel
culpable.
- A grave matter is at hand,
which you will be made party
to in a matter of days,
perhaps hours.
Its impact, should we
not be able to stop it,
will be felt by nations.
And your brooding
and complaining
are inconsequential
in the face of that.
(knocking)
Come in.
Commander Nelson.
Thank you.
- Sit down, Clip.
It's more than I hoped for.
Clip,
there is something
you can do for me,
but you must do it personally.
Go to a magistrate and get
them to issue a warrant
to search the offices of
Tenzer, Kurtzman and Lloyd.
- What are we looking for?
- I'll let you know when
to act on the warrant.
Thank you, Clip.
(slow piano music)
- Hold my calls, Phyllis.
Let me know when we're
back on the floor.
Gentlemen.
- Sir.
- Sir.
- Have a seat.
- [Vinnie] Thanks.
- The bill ought to clear
the senate by early evening.
- [Vinnie] What
about the debate?
- There's no debate.
There is a long line of sheep
buying their approval and
righteous indignation.
It's a perfect
populous cause, Frank.
And that sweet pudding of
sunshine, Janet Getzloff,
is the grand mistress of
jingoistic rattle rousing.
Now where do you think I
stand if I go against it?
Which I will.
Up to my butt in mud.
Don't think I won't get
a thrashing back home
for going against this tide.
- Well, Senator, you can't just
vote no and go home and
think you've done your duty.
- I have in the past.
And I will in the future.
- Help me out here.
Am I hearing this right?
We're crumbling at the
feet of corrupt men
and he wants to go home
and put on is slippers.
You know, you sit
there and your spout
your corn-pone wisdom.
You get your picture
taken on a tractor
and you get another
six years in the club.
- Vince.
- Worked so far.
- Oh, good for you!
- You do get agitated.
- You're perceptive, too.
- Vince.
- This is my 32nd year
in the Senate, son.
I like to think I've done
some good now and again.
Learned some things too, like,
you don't achieve much blowing
steam without direction.
- The passage of the trade bill
coupled with the release
of counterfeit currency
is the equivalent
of launching a war.
- Nothing is the
equivalent of war.
I've been through three of them.
Two as a foot soldier.
- There is a C-130
transport plane
somewhere along the Pacific Rim.
Now we believe there is 20 tons
of counterfeit Yen on board.
Now that's not an easy
plane to hide, Senator,
but we do need time to find it.
- How much time?
An hour, a day, a week?
- You can delay the bill!
- I'm too damn old.
- Oh, come on.
You're the biggest windbag
I've ever met in my life.
- Vince, that's enough.
- Then I don't know that
my heart could stand it,
and I'm certain
my bladder can't.
- So we'll get you a catheter.
- I've done a lot of
things for my country.
That would be a first.
- Senator, please.
Now Leland Masters is in
the White House right now,
anticipating the first
salvo of his last crusade.
- You're tilting at windmills.
(banging)
- I'm just trying
to do what's right.
- Sorry.
- It's all right, Frank.
I was young and
idealistic myself.
- Yes, Sir.
I know.
I know very well.
So it's true, Senator,
with age comes the
inevitable loss of ideals?
- I guess I'm fresh out
of corn-pone responses.
- Yes, Sir.
- We need to speak directly
to the American public
to explain how we
conduct businesses
is an integral part of
our tradition and culture.
- Mr. Karata,
aside from Christmas,
Easter, and the World Series,
the American public doesn't
give a damn about tradition.
America grew up
rejecting its ancestors.
We're a nation of immigrants.
Ancestral tradition and culture
were oppressive mechanisms
for our forefathers.
If they found those
values of comfort,
do you think they
would have immigrated?
You need to give the appearance
of a willingness to play fair.
Otherwise, I'm gonna have
to resign your account.
I'm terribly sorry, Mr. Karate.
I don't see another option.
- Hawaii is negative.
Midway is negative.
- [Frank] That's a word I'm
getting tired of hearing.
The Senator's going to
be voting any minute.
- The FIA is working
on it, Frank.
They're doing a
systematic check, Frank.
It's gonna take time.
- We don't have time.
Where's Vinnie?
- He's watching the ax fall.
- [Senator] My support of
this bill is unwavering.
- [Announcer] Senator Delaney.
- We busted the trust
with Teddy Roosevelt.
We dismantled the phone company
all in the name of
fair competition.
Monopolies don't
cut it in America.
But here we have a
monopolizing nation
that doesn't spend a
dime in its own defense.
We spend hundreds of
millions of dolLars
keeping the Straits
of Hormuz open
so oil tankers can get through.
That oil went to Japan
and they didn't get charged
a red cent for this service.
- The chair sees no
procedure relations
outstanding with
respect to S491,
sponsored by Senator Getzloff.
Minority and the majority have
had their views represented.
- Marshall Islands, negative.
(phone ringing)
- Yes, Dan Burrows.
Yes, Paul.
Yes!
Thank you!
Tell Frank we got it.
- Frank, we got something.
Where is it?
- An FAA civilian controller
spotted our plane on Guam.
It's right out in
the open, Frank,
just like another transport.
- We have people on Guam?
- [Mark] Frojan and Letofsky.
- They're passport
administrators.
They have the authority--
- They're federal
agents on American soil.
- Frojan and Letofsky.
These guys are gonna
have the fortitude
to confiscate a C-130 and arrest
whoever might be on it?
- Frank, do we have time
to worry about their
qualifications for field work?
- No, we don't
have time to wonder
about the qualifications.
Frojan and Letofsky.
Get them.
- [Frojan] That's the plane.
- I'm not cut out for this.
- Look, maybe this is a
way to get out of Guam.
- I don't wanna get out of Guam.
Be careful with that thing.
- I know that.
- [Frojan] So you'll open
the door of the plane?
- [Letofsky] Why should I
open the door of the plane?
- Because you've got the gun.
- Excuse me.
- If there is no more comment,
we can move to vote.
- Mr. President.
- [President] You have the
floor, Senator Pickering.
- I'd like to tell you all
about my childhood.
(Senate laughing)
There are some of
my esteem colleagues
in this body have
claimed I was born...
(suspenseful music)
(shot blasts)
- You shot him!
- I'm real sorry.
- [Letofsky] We were just
supposed to arrest him!
- [Frojan] I didn't
shoot him on purpose.
It was a reflex action!
You understand.
It was an accident.
- [Letofsky] Yeah, we
didn't mean to do it.
- [Frojan] We're federal agents.
- I'm bleeding.
- We better call Washington.
- I met her back
in the 10th grade.
She was quite a looker.
And I was just coming
into my manhood.
- Mr. President,
I will ask again.
Will the Senator yield
to a matter of
national interest?
- Mr. President, I,
I believe the nation
would be very interested
in the story of true
love reaching fruition.
(laughing)
And no, I will not yield.
Now, I daydream of taking
Becky to the Harvest Dance
but I never had the
courage to ask her.
- We found the plane.
- What happens now?
- That autumn, she
went with someone else.
And I always regretted
by lack of nerve,
because Becky was...
Mr. President.
Moments ago an arrest was
affected on Guam Island
that has a direct bearing
on the bill before us.
The nature of this arrest is
a matter of National Security.
I therefore request the
Senate move immediately
into executive session.
(people muttering)
- I conquer.
Pages, clear the gallery.
- Damn it!
- I'll call Clipton.
- They're 20 tons of
counterfeit Yen on that plane.
You can bet all hell
is gonna break loose.
Somebody's gonna be hung
out to dry for this one.
The plane was registered
to a Panama corporation.
A corporation owned 100
percent by a dead man.
A billionaire whose
drug ammunitions empire
collapse largely
because of your work.
- You mean Mel Profit?
- They weren't able
to release the Yen
but accountability
for this scheme
is still a problem for them.
In success for in failure,
they still have to
put it off on someone
and it's not just Kay Gallagher.
You hurt Masters and
Strichen with the open vote
and they're gonna take
their pound of flesh.
When we found out
to owned the plane,
it all became clear.
The person they're
hanging out to dry is you.
(daunting orchestral music)
(beeping)
I'll be in the Attorney
General's office.
Here we go.
- You go and see the
Attorney General, Frank.
- Where are you going?
- Some place where I can think.
- Vince.
Vince!
- Mr. Attorney General, with
a properly issued warrant
we discovered and
seized a printing plate
for Japanese Yen.
The offices of Tenzer,
Kurtzman and Lloyd.
CEO is Katherine Gallaghr.
- I know Kay.
This is impossible to fathom.
- We all know Kay
and this is distressing
to all of us,
but the evidence
is overwhelming.
What is more distressing
is the involvement of a
justice department official.
Walter,
I can't.
- This is OCB agent,
Vincent Terranova,
letting himself in to an
abandoned and restricted
air base where we believe that
the counterfeit
bills were printed.
His fingerprints are
on this printing plate.
This is a surveillance photo of
Terranova and
Katherine Gallagher,
in Utah, the mountain
retreat of Prescott Wilson.
The man who commissioned
the treatise
upon which this entire
counterfeit scheme is based.
- Good lord, man.
No one has heard or seen
of this man in 20 years.
You're not telling me
he's behind all this.
- We have telephone records
and we have canceled checks
tying him to Gallagher's firm
and we have these photographs.
Of course in the
instance of Wilson,
we have something less
than conclusive evidence.
- You don't go traipsing after
a man like Prescott Wilson
without conclusive proof.
- Agreed.
But Terranova's another matter.
We have the plane.
Several hours ago,
justice department agents
under Mr. Clipton here,
discovered the actual
counterfeit currency
in a C-130 on Guam.
Isn't that right, Mr. Clipton?
- Uh, yes.
The plane was once the property
of the late Mel Profit.
- The arms deal.
- Yes.
Agent Terranova once worked
undercover in his empire.
He was responsible for its fall.
Mr. Profit's fortune
estimated in the billions
was never fully accounted for.
- You're suggesting that
Terranova has the resources
to pay for all this
with or without Wilson.
- Damn it, Ferris.
That's exactly
what we are saying.
Now arrest the son of a bitch.
- Bring him in.
Gentlemen, this is Agent McPike.
Frank, I want you to
proceed immediately
with as much manpower
as is necessary
and arrest Agent Terranova.
- Do you have a warrant?
- You will bring Terranova in
and place him in
security tension at OCB
while we determine the charges.
- You declared Marshall law?
- Agent Pike.
- McPike.
McPike.
- McPike,
I don't feel compelled to
cite you chapter and verse.
You can do this,
or we can get someone else.
(intense orchestral music)
("Wiseguy Theme")
- What is the
mission accomplished?
- The evidence is on
his way to you now.
- Money was printed here.
The release of
counterfeit currency
is the equivalent
of launching a war.
- Nothing is the
equivalent of war.
- And Leland Masters is in
the White House right now,
anticipating the first
salvo of his last crusade.
- Now arrest the son of a bitch!
- In success or in failure,
they still have to put
her off one someone.
And it's not just Kay Gallagher.
The person being hung
out to dry is you.
("Wiseguy Theme")
- [Vinnie] Previously
on Wiseguy.
- The National
Security Commission
is facing a dire situation.
I need one man.
Agenct Vincent Terranova.
- You've been requested
to serve the National
Security Commission.
- Why?
- It's on a need to know basis.
I don't need to know.
- This is one of the most
powerful weapons in the world.
It's a printing plate
for Japanese yen.
We believe a plan exists
to undermine the
economy of Japan.
This parcel containing
the original plate
was damaged in transit.
Tenzer, Kurtzman and Lloyd.
- The most powerful
economy in the world
is about to be destroyed
by a Capitol Hill PR firm?
- It's your moral
duty to stop it.
- Oh my god, no!
(shots blasting)
- Someone with department
claims has been shot.
- The bullet that killed
Valenti was packed with curare.
It was an assassination, Vince.
- Dr. Valenti created a model
for non-genuine destabilization.
- What is that?
- Diagram for
waging economic war
through counterfeiting.
- Who commissioned it?
- Tenzer, Kurtzman and Lloyd.
Account Executive,
Katherin Gallagher.
- Terranova be damned.
Son of a bitch turned a
beautifully conceived notion
into a public
embarrassment that'll take
decades to clean up.
Isle Pavot is our island.
Now it's in the hands of some
third world lilliputians
who mock us at every turn.
Reparations are gonna
be paid by this boy.
- I'm supposed to
find their scapegoat.
- Another Dean Rhoden.
- Yeah, Kay Gallagher.
- [Kay] What are
you looking for?
- [Frank] I have a warrant.
This involves National Security.
- [Kay] Terranova
instigated this, didn't he?
- [Mark] Sign this.
- What is it?
- It's a receipt for
confiscated goods.
There's a file on Mr. Wilson
and contents, a paper on
non-genuine destabilization
by a Dr. Andrew Valenti.
- I need to know about Wilson.
An assassination and the
fall of a sovereign nation
could be dumped in your
lap if you don't help me.
- Wilson is a voice on
the end of a telephone.
He called my firm and asked
us to commission Valenti
to write a paper.
- And you never met him.
- I spoke with him
twice on the telephone.
- You better be careful.
Your invisible Mr. Wilson
might get you killed.
- Senator, we believe the
passage of the trade bill
could trigger the release
of the counterfeit currency.
- Now if that bill could
be held up in a committee--
- It's Janet Getzloff's
bill, Agent Terranova.
It's her committee.
- What are its chances, Sir?
- That bill won't
die an easy death
no matter what I fling at it.
- I want a report.
- Going over a computer list.
- Let me see the list.
Big Sky, forget it.
Sun Valley, forget it.
Dawn Valley, Utah.
There was a transport
depo closed there.
Now why don't you start
with what's most likely
and quit diddling?
I've got Terranova pointed
in the right direction
but he's convinced
Gallagher's a red herring.
Is there any reason I have
to do everything myself?
- The phone records of the
calls received at that time
were made from a phone
in Dawn Valley, Utah.
- Prescott Wilson.
- [Walter] America's
hermit billionaire.
- He called me twice.
He'll speak with me again.
- He spoke to you
because he called you.
- I'll see him in person.
- Kay, he hasn't seen anybody
since we put a Kennedy
in the White House.
It's impossible.
- Walter, nothing is impossible.
- I want you to
be ready to leave
for Utah at a moment's notice.
Our targets are going to
be meeting Mr. Wilson soon.
- [Man] Mr. Terranova?
- [Dan Burrows] Here.
Here, I'll take that.
You let him sleep, all right?
How much longer
'til we get there?
- About a half hour.
Sunrise.
You want some coffee?
- Oh, please, thank you.
- Me too, please.
- Hey, Vinne, you
ought to sleep.
- Nah, it's all right, I'm up.
What is that?
- Prescott Wilson.
- What about him?
- What have we got?
Last time he made
a public appearance
was with Edward R.
Murrow, person to person.
- He's a billionaire hermit.
Oil, shipping, lumber.
- This guy holds 114 patents.
Everything from the
automated donut machine
to the guidance system
on a nuclear sub.
- What he do, serve
in the military?
- Thank you.
No.
He refit merchant vessels
for the war effort.
He used to date
Taloula Bankhead.
- Who didn't?
(laughing)
So when our Vas files,
we have about as
much on this guy
as the National Enquirer, huh?
- Our files are from
the National Enquirer.
(light music)
- [Vinnie] D.O.D Cutback
shut this place down in 78.
Only activity in
the last three years
was a Boy Scout jamboree.
- Here, this is
supposed to open it.
(camera shutters open and close)
(light music)
(mechanical squeaking)
- It's ink.
Found some on his
palette here too.
- It'll match this.
- These skids are fresh.
Rubber hasn't washed away yet.
Double white skid marks.
Gotta be a transport,
but can't be a jet.
These runways are too short.
- Transport plane's
too big not to notice.
Somebody had to see
this thing happen.
- Printed, packaged, and shipped
from an abandoned military base.
They bugged out very recently
and left just enough
evidence for us to find.
Come on, this is
too easy, Vince.
- It's supposed to be.
This is General Masters'
little trail of crumbs
he left for me.
The only crumb we picked up
ourselves was Prescott Wilson
- Taxi.
Prescott Wilson's
estate, please.
I'm not gonna freeze to
death arguing with you.
- [Guard] Nobody's
arguing, ma'am.
- [Kay] I wanna see him.
- [Guard] That's not possible.
- [Kay] You would be
amazed what's possible.
- [Guard] Ma'am,
you're trespassing.
- Is he here?
- [Guard] I don't know.
- Find out.
- This is private property.
You're gonna have to leave.
- What does it take to
get through to you people?
I have come all the way
from Washington to see him.
Mr. Wilson and I have
done business together
at his instigation.
- [Sheriff] All
right, Miss, let's go.
- Don't touch me.
I'm not leaving until I see him.
- [Sheriff] Nobody sees him.
- This is man is not God.
- [Sheriff] I'm sorry, Miss,
but unless you leave this
property immediately,
I'm gonna have to--
- Let her go!
- And who the hell are you?
- OCB.
Let her go.
I'm here to see Prescott Wilson.
- Nobody sees him.
- Hey, look, now you
send up smoke signals.
You get him on the phone.
You do whatever you gotta do.
But I'm going to talk to him.
If not, I will produce
a federal warrant
and drag him down
here to talk to me.
With the place surrounded
by television cameras.
(phone ringing)
- Evans.
Yes, Sir.
You can go up.
- Two days ago you said Wilson
was just a voice on the phone.
- Two days ago you didn't
believe he existed.
- We learned an awful lot
in two days, didn't we?
Now where'd you learn it?
All right, fine.
Whatever you want.
- I'm a recluse, damn it.
I don't see people.
If I did, I wouldn't
be a recluse.
- You paid my office ticket--
- I'm on National--
- Ladies first.
- You authorized my office
to commission a report
by Andrew Valenti.
- No, I didn't.
Now, what do you want?
- I-
- Wait a minute.
I have a copy of
your cashier's check.
- I don't use cashier's check.
I never did.
- I spoke with you twice.
You're on my phone records.
- I haven't spoken twice
to anyone in 15 years.
- Not even Leland Masters?
- I wouldn't
spit on the best part of him.
- How do you know him?
- [Mr. Wilson] None
of your damn business.
- He's made you my business.
Masters believes
that there's a plan
to destroy the Japanese economy.
He also believes that
it's being launched
within the United States.
- If you believe that,
you're crazier than he is.
- I believe he's behind it.
- Oh, maybe you're not so crazy.
This report I'm supposed
to have paid for?
Non-Genuine Destabilization?
Well, if Valenti wrote
it, it's gotta be right.
- You know him too?
- I'm a recluse, but
I can read, damn it.
(laughing) Oh God.
I love this.
It's chock-full of nuts,
but the idea behind
it, wonderful.
- And you could pay for
the entire operation
out of petty cash.
- Could handle the
transportation, too.
I still own a few airplanes.
But I didn't, and I wouldn't.
As much I love the idea
of beating the Nibs,
I'd do it fair and square.
Get in the ring with
'em and slug it out.
Leland used to
love a fair fight.
Now he wants what he wants,
but he doesn't wanna
must his hair to get it.
When they put him in charge
of the National
Security Commission,
I knew we were going to hell.
- I believe Masters is
setting up Miss Gallagher,
and maybe you for a fall,
if and when the
operation crashes.
- Can't touch me.
I'm too rich.
- Yeah, but Kay isn't.
- Oh, that's her problem.
- Listen, I don't have a
lot of time to make my case.
Now, the counterfeit
Yen was printed here
in the abandoned air force base.
- The money still there?
- No, it's not.
Now you have a few
of the entire valley.
Have you noticed anything
out of the ordinary
in the last couple of days?
- No.
- Transport plane?
A plane big enough to
haul away all that money?
Well, what did you see?
- Please.
- You think I'm gonna
let you sucker me
into being a material witness?
- We could subpoena you.
- For what?
Gotta have grounds, boy.
And you can't serve the paper
unless I want to be served.
June 14th 1966.
J. Edgar Hoover tried to
pull me off this mountain.
Check the records.
- Don't you care
about this country?
- Damn right, I care
about this country.
That's why I own it.
We used to be
friends, Leland and I.
I hope you nail
the son of a bitch.
He should have had
sense enough to know
when to get out of
the game like I did.
Can I keep this?
- Yeah, sure, go ahead.
(light music)
Wait in the car, will you?
Please, just wait in the car.
See saw something up there
but the old bastard won't
tell me what it was.
- He saw C-130.
- What?
- Tail number 179.
No national insignia,
and the window was blocked
out below the cockpit.
This Deputy Sheriff's
an ex-air force MP.
Said it flew in and
out two days ago.
We find that plane
and we find the Yen.
- Yeah.
If it hasn't been
released already.
- They're boarding now, Sir.
- What is the
mission accomplished?
- The evidence is on
its way to you now.
I gave the film to
Commander Nelson.
- Good.
Precede to launch point.
- Come in, Walter.
- Sir, the mission's
accomplished.
Biggs is on his way to prepare
the final phase
of our operation.
- Now we're moving.
- [Walter] Painting's
lovely, General.
- Why thank you, Walter.
When I'm finished, it's yours.
Then you can say you have
one of the old Masters
hanging in your living room.
Terranova's fingerprints
are all over this.
Put it way under the musket.
- Yes, Sir.
(slow music)
The painting, General.
I'll treasure it.
I'll take care of
this right away.
(suspenseful music)
Would you get me a
civilian messenger, please?
- Looking for a C-130, Frank.
No mask, no insignia.
Tail number 179.
Of course they
could've changed that.
There was windows blocked
out below the cockpit.
That may be the only
thing we have to go by.
- Kay,
when are you gonna start to
believe you're being set up?
- I'm not an idiot, Vince.
I can see what's happening.
I just don't understand why.
- In the minds of some people,
you're as much to blame
for our fall from
preeminence as the Japanese.
Why, you've lobbied
for them on the Hill.
You've helped them gobble up
pieces of this country
from Manhattan to LA.
You're the enemy, Kay.
- I haven't done anything
to hurt this country.
- Did you or did you not
use your lobbying
skills to facilitate
the sale of technology to Japan,
resulting in their
developing the FXX fighter?
- That was a deal.
That's business.
That's what I do.
Don't try to equate
me Arms for Hostages
or the Rosenbergs.
- To you, it's business.
To some people, it's the flag.
Now if we don't find that plane
before Getzloff's
trade bill passes,
that money will be released.
The only thing that'll
be left after that
is nailing you to the cross.
- I've never felt so
helpless in my entire life.
I hate it.
My mother was a very
successful novelist.
Did you know that, Vince?
- No.
I don't know much
about you at all.
- She wrote
exceptionally strong characters.
Interesting, complex,
powerful people.
Men and women.
After her third
novel was published,
she went into
debilitating depression.
Committed suicide.
- I'm sorry.
- Her note said that
she had lost control
of her characters
and they were controlling her.
She couldn't live with that.
(laughing) Strichen
wanted me to see Wilson.
He manipulated my being here.
- Yeah, yeah, okay, Frank.
Frank's looking
for that plane but
it's an awful big
world out there
and she may run out of time.
- Why?
- The trade bill.
Hit the senate floor
10 minutes ago.
(suspenseful music)
- Package for Gallagher.
- There have been
cries of protectionism
through the corners of
the Dirksen building,
but I don't think those voices
will be heard here today
because this bill speaks
for the American citizen.
Too long suffering,
too many unemployed,
and too damn mad to sit silently
and watch their representatives
bury them any longer
in a flood of foreign commerce.
This trade bill speak
for the American citizen
who is no longer
willing to be penalized
for the barbaric labor
practices of alien nations.
- Thanks.
- Wake up, Harry.
(laughing)
There isn't a man or
woman in this chamber
who doesn't know that
this nation is fed up
and ready to say to the world,
and yes, specifically Japan,
ready to say to them,
"If you're not letting
us sell our goods,
"we're not letting
you sell yours."
(cheering)
- [Announcer] Will the gallery
please refrain from any
form of demonstration.
- There might be 1,500
C-130s in service.
- How many of them have
blacktail forward
compartment windows?
- Frank, I need to
see you privately.
- Yes, Sir.
Thank you, Mark.
- I need an update on
Terranova's investigation.
- You know I cannot do that.
- Damn it!
I make members of my department
available to the National
Security Commission
and now I'm shut out
of what is obviously
a critical matter.
I'm your superior.
You report to me!
- It's national security.
I'm not in a
position to disclose
to anyone outside the loop.
You understand that?
- Yes, I do.
I'm sure you
understand my concern.
- I do, Dewitt.
I understand.
- Forgive me for pulling rank.
It was an overreaction.
(door opening)
- Hey, Frank, Clip.
We find the C-130?
- Excuse me.
- Yeah.
- He's coming apart.
- Yeah, well,
that's what happens when
you only follow orders.
Did we find the plane?
- No, not yet.
- What about the trade bill?
- It's moving through the
senate like a freight train.
- The time has come
for us to fire an
economic volley
across the bough of
the Japanese juggernaut
of unfair trade relations.
I'm proud to affirm
this bill with my vote.
I only wish it were
a declaration...
- Delaney is with me on this.
- Yeah.
And damned ashamed of it too.
- It's gonna pass.
President's gonna sign it.
- [Delaney] To send a
resounding message to Japan
and the rest of the nations
on the Pacific rim...
- You vote your
conscience over there.
All I ask is that
you do it quietly.
- [Delaney] And we
sure as hell shouldn't
grant them allowance!
Protectionism is not the issue.
- It's grossly unfair to
keep me in the dark, Walter.
OCB is my section
and I'm shut out from
what is quickly becoming
a singular preoccupation.
- Clip, Clip,
accept my assurance.
Nothing is being done to you.
- It's a matter of national
security, I know, I know.
I never thought
I'd become annoyed
at hearing that term.
Can't you see that
at the very least
this situation is
becoming embarrassing?
- No one is embarrassing you.
- And at most, I feel
culpable.
- A grave matter is at hand,
which you will be made party
to in a matter of days,
perhaps hours.
Its impact, should we
not be able to stop it,
will be felt by nations.
And your brooding
and complaining
are inconsequential
in the face of that.
(knocking)
Come in.
Commander Nelson.
Thank you.
- Sit down, Clip.
It's more than I hoped for.
Clip,
there is something
you can do for me,
but you must do it personally.
Go to a magistrate and get
them to issue a warrant
to search the offices of
Tenzer, Kurtzman and Lloyd.
- What are we looking for?
- I'll let you know when
to act on the warrant.
Thank you, Clip.
(slow piano music)
- Hold my calls, Phyllis.
Let me know when we're
back on the floor.
Gentlemen.
- Sir.
- Sir.
- Have a seat.
- [Vinnie] Thanks.
- The bill ought to clear
the senate by early evening.
- [Vinnie] What
about the debate?
- There's no debate.
There is a long line of sheep
buying their approval and
righteous indignation.
It's a perfect
populous cause, Frank.
And that sweet pudding of
sunshine, Janet Getzloff,
is the grand mistress of
jingoistic rattle rousing.
Now where do you think I
stand if I go against it?
Which I will.
Up to my butt in mud.
Don't think I won't get
a thrashing back home
for going against this tide.
- Well, Senator, you can't just
vote no and go home and
think you've done your duty.
- I have in the past.
And I will in the future.
- Help me out here.
Am I hearing this right?
We're crumbling at the
feet of corrupt men
and he wants to go home
and put on is slippers.
You know, you sit
there and your spout
your corn-pone wisdom.
You get your picture
taken on a tractor
and you get another
six years in the club.
- Vince.
- Worked so far.
- Oh, good for you!
- You do get agitated.
- You're perceptive, too.
- Vince.
- This is my 32nd year
in the Senate, son.
I like to think I've done
some good now and again.
Learned some things too, like,
you don't achieve much blowing
steam without direction.
- The passage of the trade bill
coupled with the release
of counterfeit currency
is the equivalent
of launching a war.
- Nothing is the
equivalent of war.
I've been through three of them.
Two as a foot soldier.
- There is a C-130
transport plane
somewhere along the Pacific Rim.
Now we believe there is 20 tons
of counterfeit Yen on board.
Now that's not an easy
plane to hide, Senator,
but we do need time to find it.
- How much time?
An hour, a day, a week?
- You can delay the bill!
- I'm too damn old.
- Oh, come on.
You're the biggest windbag
I've ever met in my life.
- Vince, that's enough.
- Then I don't know that
my heart could stand it,
and I'm certain
my bladder can't.
- So we'll get you a catheter.
- I've done a lot of
things for my country.
That would be a first.
- Senator, please.
Now Leland Masters is in
the White House right now,
anticipating the first
salvo of his last crusade.
- You're tilting at windmills.
(banging)
- I'm just trying
to do what's right.
- Sorry.
- It's all right, Frank.
I was young and
idealistic myself.
- Yes, Sir.
I know.
I know very well.
So it's true, Senator,
with age comes the
inevitable loss of ideals?
- I guess I'm fresh out
of corn-pone responses.
- Yes, Sir.
- We need to speak directly
to the American public
to explain how we
conduct businesses
is an integral part of
our tradition and culture.
- Mr. Karata,
aside from Christmas,
Easter, and the World Series,
the American public doesn't
give a damn about tradition.
America grew up
rejecting its ancestors.
We're a nation of immigrants.
Ancestral tradition and culture
were oppressive mechanisms
for our forefathers.
If they found those
values of comfort,
do you think they
would have immigrated?
You need to give the appearance
of a willingness to play fair.
Otherwise, I'm gonna have
to resign your account.
I'm terribly sorry, Mr. Karate.
I don't see another option.
- Hawaii is negative.
Midway is negative.
- [Frank] That's a word I'm
getting tired of hearing.
The Senator's going to
be voting any minute.
- The FIA is working
on it, Frank.
They're doing a
systematic check, Frank.
It's gonna take time.
- We don't have time.
Where's Vinnie?
- He's watching the ax fall.
- [Senator] My support of
this bill is unwavering.
- [Announcer] Senator Delaney.
- We busted the trust
with Teddy Roosevelt.
We dismantled the phone company
all in the name of
fair competition.
Monopolies don't
cut it in America.
But here we have a
monopolizing nation
that doesn't spend a
dime in its own defense.
We spend hundreds of
millions of dolLars
keeping the Straits
of Hormuz open
so oil tankers can get through.
That oil went to Japan
and they didn't get charged
a red cent for this service.
- The chair sees no
procedure relations
outstanding with
respect to S491,
sponsored by Senator Getzloff.
Minority and the majority have
had their views represented.
- Marshall Islands, negative.
(phone ringing)
- Yes, Dan Burrows.
Yes, Paul.
Yes!
Thank you!
Tell Frank we got it.
- Frank, we got something.
Where is it?
- An FAA civilian controller
spotted our plane on Guam.
It's right out in
the open, Frank,
just like another transport.
- We have people on Guam?
- [Mark] Frojan and Letofsky.
- They're passport
administrators.
They have the authority--
- They're federal
agents on American soil.
- Frojan and Letofsky.
These guys are gonna
have the fortitude
to confiscate a C-130 and arrest
whoever might be on it?
- Frank, do we have time
to worry about their
qualifications for field work?
- No, we don't
have time to wonder
about the qualifications.
Frojan and Letofsky.
Get them.
- [Frojan] That's the plane.
- I'm not cut out for this.
- Look, maybe this is a
way to get out of Guam.
- I don't wanna get out of Guam.
Be careful with that thing.
- I know that.
- [Frojan] So you'll open
the door of the plane?
- [Letofsky] Why should I
open the door of the plane?
- Because you've got the gun.
- Excuse me.
- If there is no more comment,
we can move to vote.
- Mr. President.
- [President] You have the
floor, Senator Pickering.
- I'd like to tell you all
about my childhood.
(Senate laughing)
There are some of
my esteem colleagues
in this body have
claimed I was born...
(suspenseful music)
(shot blasts)
- You shot him!
- I'm real sorry.
- [Letofsky] We were just
supposed to arrest him!
- [Frojan] I didn't
shoot him on purpose.
It was a reflex action!
You understand.
It was an accident.
- [Letofsky] Yeah, we
didn't mean to do it.
- [Frojan] We're federal agents.
- I'm bleeding.
- We better call Washington.
- I met her back
in the 10th grade.
She was quite a looker.
And I was just coming
into my manhood.
- Mr. President,
I will ask again.
Will the Senator yield
to a matter of
national interest?
- Mr. President, I,
I believe the nation
would be very interested
in the story of true
love reaching fruition.
(laughing)
And no, I will not yield.
Now, I daydream of taking
Becky to the Harvest Dance
but I never had the
courage to ask her.
- We found the plane.
- What happens now?
- That autumn, she
went with someone else.
And I always regretted
by lack of nerve,
because Becky was...
Mr. President.
Moments ago an arrest was
affected on Guam Island
that has a direct bearing
on the bill before us.
The nature of this arrest is
a matter of National Security.
I therefore request the
Senate move immediately
into executive session.
(people muttering)
- I conquer.
Pages, clear the gallery.
- Damn it!
- I'll call Clipton.
- They're 20 tons of
counterfeit Yen on that plane.
You can bet all hell
is gonna break loose.
Somebody's gonna be hung
out to dry for this one.
The plane was registered
to a Panama corporation.
A corporation owned 100
percent by a dead man.
A billionaire whose
drug ammunitions empire
collapse largely
because of your work.
- You mean Mel Profit?
- They weren't able
to release the Yen
but accountability
for this scheme
is still a problem for them.
In success for in failure,
they still have to
put it off on someone
and it's not just Kay Gallagher.
You hurt Masters and
Strichen with the open vote
and they're gonna take
their pound of flesh.
When we found out
to owned the plane,
it all became clear.
The person they're
hanging out to dry is you.
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(beeping)
I'll be in the Attorney
General's office.
Here we go.
- You go and see the
Attorney General, Frank.
- Where are you going?
- Some place where I can think.
- Vince.
Vince!
- Mr. Attorney General, with
a properly issued warrant
we discovered and
seized a printing plate
for Japanese Yen.
The offices of Tenzer,
Kurtzman and Lloyd.
CEO is Katherine Gallaghr.
- I know Kay.
This is impossible to fathom.
- We all know Kay
and this is distressing
to all of us,
but the evidence
is overwhelming.
What is more distressing
is the involvement of a
justice department official.
Walter,
I can't.
- This is OCB agent,
Vincent Terranova,
letting himself in to an
abandoned and restricted
air base where we believe that
the counterfeit
bills were printed.
His fingerprints are
on this printing plate.
This is a surveillance photo of
Terranova and
Katherine Gallagher,
in Utah, the mountain
retreat of Prescott Wilson.
The man who commissioned
the treatise
upon which this entire
counterfeit scheme is based.
- Good lord, man.
No one has heard or seen
of this man in 20 years.
You're not telling me
he's behind all this.
- We have telephone records
and we have canceled checks
tying him to Gallagher's firm
and we have these photographs.
Of course in the
instance of Wilson,
we have something less
than conclusive evidence.
- You don't go traipsing after
a man like Prescott Wilson
without conclusive proof.
- Agreed.
But Terranova's another matter.
We have the plane.
Several hours ago,
justice department agents
under Mr. Clipton here,
discovered the actual
counterfeit currency
in a C-130 on Guam.
Isn't that right, Mr. Clipton?
- Uh, yes.
The plane was once the property
of the late Mel Profit.
- The arms deal.
- Yes.
Agent Terranova once worked
undercover in his empire.
He was responsible for its fall.
Mr. Profit's fortune
estimated in the billions
was never fully accounted for.
- You're suggesting that
Terranova has the resources
to pay for all this
with or without Wilson.
- Damn it, Ferris.
That's exactly
what we are saying.
Now arrest the son of a bitch.
- Bring him in.
Gentlemen, this is Agent McPike.
Frank, I want you to
proceed immediately
with as much manpower
as is necessary
and arrest Agent Terranova.
- Do you have a warrant?
- You will bring Terranova in
and place him in
security tension at OCB
while we determine the charges.
- You declared Marshall law?
- Agent Pike.
- McPike.
McPike.
- McPike,
I don't feel compelled to
cite you chapter and verse.
You can do this,
or we can get someone else.
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