Wiseguy (1987–2009): Season 3, Episode 8 - Reunion - full transcript
- [Announcer]
Tonight on Wise Guy.
- What are you reading?
- It's my high school yearbook.
We're having our 15th-year
reunion tomorrow night.
- So who's Denise Denelle?
- [Vinnie] What do you think?
- [Frank] She could hurt you.
- Another piece of advice,
stay away from Denelle.
- We're going out.
- You're not going out
with Vinnie, are you?
- Yeah, I am.
- You can't date Vinnie!
- She was one of my
best friends growing up,
and now she's a cop, too.
- She is investigating you.
- You're destined for a fall.
(screaming)
- [Vinnie] Denise,
give me your hand.
- Drop me and I'll kill you.
(upbeat music)
(bright music)
(telephone ringing)
- [Vinnie] Hello?
- Vinnie?
- Yeah.
- [Denise] Vinnie,
this is Denise Denelle.
- The Denise Denelle?
- [Denise] Yeah.
- What's it been, 15 years?
- [Denise] Yeah, married,
divorced, the whole shebang,
class of '75.
Um, anyway, I'm
having a reunion.
- When?
- [Denise] Tomorrow.
Kinda shot in the
dark to call you
but I tried to find you
for 10th-year reunion,
but your mom didn't even
know where you were.
(knocking)
(banging)
- Hey, hold on a minute.
Who is it?
- [Frank] It's Frank.
- Well, you gotta
key, come on in!
So where is this thing?
- [Denise] You gonna come?
Terrific.
- Yeah.
- [Denise] Tomorrow
night at the Manor.
Look, I can't want
to see ya, all right?
- Wait, wait, Denise.
Is there a dress code
for this thing or what?
- [Denise] Sister
Marion will be there
so you gotta keep
your shirt tucked in.
- Oh yeah, Sister Marion.
- [Denise] I gotta go,
I'm in charge of
finding guys like you.
Um, do you have any idea what
happened to Dutch Shanstra?
- Don't have a clue.
- [Denise] Neither
does anybody else.
Gotta go, bye!
- Wait, Denise, wait a
minute, wait a minute.
What about Mooch?
- [Denise] He'll be there.
- Good, good.
And, um ...
- [Denise] And you wanna
know what I look like?
- Yeah.
- [Denise] You gotta
wait 'til tomorrow night,
eight o'clock.
Bye!
- Bye.
(dial tone buzzing)
(Frank moaning)
Denise Denelle.
(Frank moaning)
Hey Frank, what are you doing?
(Frank moans)
- [Frank] Oh, the Rumba.
- What are you doing here?
- I haven't been
away from a bathroom
for more than 10 minutes
since my second day in Mexico.
(Frank moans loudly)
You know your house is exactly
10 minutes from the airport?
So here I am.
- [Vinnie] You had a tan
when you came in here.
(Frank moans)
- [Frank] I just need a
few minutes for the blood
to rush back to my head.
- That sounds like a
great vacation you had.
- You know, all I wanted
to do was lay in the sun
and read a book.
In the first 24 hours,
I got sun poisoning,
Montezuma's revenge, and
I stepped on a sea urchin.
- Do you wanna
beer or something?
- Oh, Vinnie.
No, I just need a little time,
make sure my stomach's
not gonna erupt again.
So what are you reading?
- It's my high school yearbook.
We're having our 15th-year
reunion tomorrow night.
Yeah, I missed my 10th one.
You know why?
- Why?
- 'Cause I was in prison,
establishing my cover
as a thug for the OCB.
Yeah, I never stopped to
think about how much you miss
by doing undercover work.
- Oh, it's part of
the job description.
- Yeah, I know, I know.
But you never stop to think
how doing that will
affect the little things.
I mean, how can I
go to this thing?
'Cause they'll say, "Hey, yo
Vinnie, what you been up to?"
And what am I gonna say?
I did a stretch in Newark and
now I'm running with the mob?
It's either that or I got
my degree in criminology
and I carry a badge now, big
mouth, and I got your number.
- Well, maybe you shouldn't go.
- Yeah, but I wanna go,
I wanna see these people.
You know, Mooch, Richie.
Denise Denelle, hm?
I wouldn't mind even
seeing that Dutch Shanstra,
if they could find him.
As much as I wanna see them,
I'm not comfortable with
the idea of them seeing me.
It just perpetuates the lie.
- So who's Denise Denelle?
- Let me show ya, here.
(chuckling)
What do you think?
Right here, huh?
- She could hurt ya.
(laughing)
She's very beautiful.
- Yeah, yeah.
- But time can change that.
- Oh, I know.
Just look at you.
Denise Denelle.
(upbeat music)
(crowd talking and laughing)
- [Deejay] Whoo!
Whoo!
(crowd talking and laughing)
Whoo, hoo, hoo!
Whoo!
(upbeat music)
(crowd talking and laughing)
(upbeat music)
- [Woman] Guess who?
- Give me a hint.
Whoa, whoa!
(grunting)
It's gotta be Joyce
Maloney, right?
(laughing)
Hey, how ya doing?
- Oh, I'm great!
I guess you are, too.
I mean, I don't ever remember
seeing you in a suit.
- Well, one that
fits anyway, huh?
What, do you got a gaggle
of kids now, or what?
- I love you for asking.
- Oh, Malone.
- Sara, Ira, they're twins.
- Uh-huh.
- Ben is the oldest.
- Yeah, nice Irish
names Maloney.
- It's Joyce Berkowitz now.
- Berkowitz?
(laughing)
- Yeah, can you believe it?
I'm Jewish!
(whistling)
- Yo, Vinnie!
- Hey, Mooch!
- [Mooch] How ya doing, man?
(laughing)
- All right.
- Hey, Joyce.
- [Joyce] All the boys.
Bye, Mooch.
- Yeah, see ya later.
- See ya later, huh?
- Hey, look at you,
I don't believe it.
- Look at yourself,
Terranova, not too shabby.
- Yeah, I figured you'd be
in prison stripes by now.
- Why, like you?
You bum, if you'd have
staying touch with me,
I'd have kept your record clean.
- You're a lawyer?
- No, no, I just had
the cards printed.
Of course I'm a lawyer, why
else would I dress like this?
- Sure don't sound
like a lawyer.
- I gotta be able to
communicate with clientele.
- Well, Mooch Cacciatore,
a lawyer, unbelievable.
(laughing)
- Vinnie, don't call me Mooch,
it doesn't go with
the Juris Doctor.
- Oh!
- And listen, you gotta butt?
- I gave that up, Esquire.
Let's go, come on, go over here.
(upbeat music)
- We're not before the
magistrate, Denelle.
It's only a job, you
know what I'm saying?
Look, I'll be at the bar.
You're still single, right?
- [Vinnie] Yeah.
- Good, this is a great
place to pick up divorcees.
(clicking)
(laughing)
- So, disappointed?
- Well, I don't know, let's
see how the evening goes.
How ya doing?
- I'm good, you?
- Okay.
- Haven't changed.
- Eh, you know.
- Come on.
- I gotta get my ticket.
- I got it.
We're at the same table tonight.
And you're not
alone, I'm your date.
- Great.
So how'd you know
I was coming stag?
- You'd be surprised how
much I know about you.
- You haven't changed either.
You're still a smart ass.
So what's with you and Mike?
- Butt heads a lot.
- Oh, wait a minute,
wait a minute.
You're not a lawyer
too, are you?
- What, me?
No, I'm a cop, NYPD detective.
Racketeering Division.
- (sighing) How nice for you.
(crowd talking and laughing)
- See that's where the money
is in the horse business.
Breeding rights,
that's what I sell.
And you know what seven ounces
of horse sperm can go for?
Top rights ever paid?
A million dollars.
- [Man] What's
your take on that?
- An ounce and a half.
- 5%, over the course of a year,
I can do ten million in trades.
- [Man] And I thought
I was making a killing
at $50 an hour threading pipe.
- So what are you doing, Vinnie?
- Um, I'm in real
estate, excuse me.
- Filthy slumlord.
- Gimme a Scotch, will ya?
(humming)
- Denelle's looking
pretty good, eh?
- Yeah.
Hey, Mooch, forget about it.
I think the term she
used to describe you
and people of your ilk was scum.
(laughing)
- All right look,
she carries a grudge.
I get the best of her
in court a few times
and then she's annoyed with
me for not marrying her.
- Oh yeah right, I
bet she's real upset
with the fact she don't
have a goiter too, eh?
(laughing)
- Who you rolling with now?
- Nobody.
I'm independent these days.
- That's good.
- Mm.
- Hey, you wanna play
softball tomorrow?
- Get outta here.
- No, no, there's a couple a
guys having a pick=up game.
- Yeah, all right.
- Come on.
- Yeah.
- You anticipate being indicted?
- Here Denelle, feel at
home, pat me down, all right?
- You know, you two tick
me off, both of you.
- [Vinnie] Why?
- You used to be
good guys in school.
All right, so you used to get
in a little bit of trouble
but at least you cared
about the people around you.
Now, you take advantage of 'em,
you help let 'em go.
- Hey Denise, don't be afraid
to speak your mind or anything.
(laughing)
- Vinnie, this isn't a joke.
- You've become presumptuous,
what's the matter with you?
- Don't even start the
I need a man crap, okay,
'cause I'm not interested.
You, you couldn't even
stay at the table.
Afraid to tell people what
you do with your life?
Real estate?
You're a gangster.
And you, you're a bag man
carting around legal loopholes,
trying to keep
gangsters on the street,
and I think that
makes you even worse.
- Hey, hey, Denise, will ya ...
- No.
- Oh yeah.
- No!
- Come on!
(laughing)
- [Both] Oh,
darling, shooby doo.
- Come on, everybody!
- [Crowd] I'm in love with you.
- [Both] I'm in love with you.
- I didn't like it then
and I don't like it now!
(crowd laughs)
- Sorry.
- Ow!
- Geez!
You know, I forgot
how much I liked her.
(laughing)
See you later.
- All right.
- Hey, Denise!
Denise.
Come on, don't be
such an old lady.
- Look, that just
made me remember
how much I liked
you guys, all right,
who you guys were?
- I'm still the same
guy, gimme a chance.
- Yeah, right.
- Come on.
It's me, Vinnie.
(upbeat romantic music)
(screaming)
(upbeat romantic music)
(screaming)
(upbeat romantic music)
- Tiny!
- Hey, Vinnie!
- How's everything?
- How ya doing?
- Good.
- How ya doing?
Come on.
- Oh, yeah.
- Come on, come on.
How you guys doing, huh?
You get married yet?
- No.
- No, no.
- [Tiny] What about the Mooch?
- Oh, he's doing great.
He's a very prosperous
gentleman these days.
- You gotta be
kidding me, no way.
- Yeah, he is.
- Oh no, no, no.
Nobody gets married no more, eh?
- No, no one's married.
- Nobody's married
no more, is that it?
- [Vinnie] Can you
believe Tiny's still here?
- [Denise] Yeah, some
things never change.
(laughing)
- Well, this place sure hasn't.
Neither have I, Denise.
You shouldn't judge me without
getting to know me again.
- Look Vinnie, I
know your rap sheet.
- [Vinnie] So I
stumbled in my youth,
it doesn't mean I'm
still not the same guy.
- We are as the black and white.
- [Vinnie] You sleep with Mooch?
- What kind of stupid
question is that?
- Well, you think
I'm a gangster.
What am I supposed to
think, you're a whore?
- Think what you want, I
know you're a gangster.
- Then what are you
doing with me here?
- Missionary work, what do
I know what I'm doing here?
- Denise, what do you think,
that I put people in
the trunks of Cadillacs?
That I break their kneecaps
with baseball bats?
- 15 years can change people.
- You know what?
I think the fact
that you're an NYPD detective
is a terrific achievement.
I'm very proud of you.
Me, Vinnie.
(romantic music)
(gravel clattering)
Hey, Frank!
(gravel clattering)
Frank!
- Vince.
- Frank!
- Vince, why don't you use the
doorbell like everybody else?
- It doesn't work!
- Nothing else
works here either.
- [Vinnie] Hey, Frank.
What, do you move every
six months or what?
- Well yeah, I mean
that's what happens
when you get separated.
What's wrong?
- Nothing, nothing.
Well, I went to my high
school reunion tonight.
I had the time of my life.
- You drove to Shrewsbury
to tell me this?
- Yeah, yeah.
- I'm thrilled for ya.
- Yeah.
- Now, I'm going back to bed.
- Hey wait a minute,
wait a minute.
Where are you going?
How many times you come
to my house unannounced,
bringing me your problems?
- Vinnie, you just told me
you didn't have a problem.
- Yeah, well, I don't.
- Oh, do you wanna come in
and have a drink or something?
- No, no, no thanks, no.
Why don't you come
out here with me?
- Oh, Vinnie, it's very late.
- Oh, it's nice out, come on.
- It's cold.
- Come on.
- Vince.
Come on, Vinnie, it's cold!
- Now just sit down,
it's nice out here.
I met this old friend at my
reunion, man, and we had a--
- Male or female?
- Cop, and we had a--
- Male or female?
- What difference does it make?
- Female.
- Why did I even come here?
- (chuckling) Because you
wanna tell her you're a cop too
and you want me to
talk you out of it.
You know, you wanna show
everybody your badge.
If you'd just get out
of undercover work,
like I've been telling you to,
you could pin it in the
middle of your forehead
or wherever else
you wanna pin it.
- Well, why
shouldn't I tell her?
She's a cop.
- Listen, you do
whatever you wanna do.
I'm just not gonna
give you my permission,
you're a big boy, you
make up your own mind.
- Yeah, I really wanted to tell
her tonight, too, you know?
I was just dying to yell it out.
Hey, Denise, I'm a
cop just like you,
I'm not a gangster, I'm
the same guy I always was.
You know, she was one of
my best friends growing up
and now she's a cop too.
- She know your
bent-nose reputation?
- Know it?
She's got my rap sheet
committed to memory.
She can recite
every bogus arrest
I've ever been
through for the OCB.
- All right, wait a minute.
- She's a good cop too.
She's been giving me a hard
time about my lifestyle but--
- Just wait a minute.
- We're going through
all the same conflicts,
it's amazing how--
- Whoa, whoa, wait
a minute, hold it!
- What?
- She is investigating you.
- Get the hell outta here.
- [Frank] Did you tell
me she's a good cop?
- Yeah!
- All right, you
give me her name,
I'll run a check on her.
- Forget it!
I didn't come here for you
to run a check on a friend!
I came here 'cause
I needed help.
- Vince.
- Well, she's worried about me.
I wanted to alleviate that.
- All right.
Oh, you have it your own way.
- All right.
- But it's late, it's
cold, I wanna go to sleep.
Now, if you wanna come in--
- No.
- Please come in.
- Okay, no.
No, I won't, I don't,
I get the message,
I'm going, goodnight.
- Oh, Vince.
Vinnie!
- Yeah?
- I gave up undercover work
the night of my 10th reunion.
- Okay, Frank, goodnight.
- 'Night.
♪ Bulldogs fight adversity
♪ Bulldogs fight for victory
♪ The green and
orange waving free ♪
♪ Bulldog spirit for eternity
(doorknob rattling)
(crowd cheering)
(upbeat fun music)
(crowd cheering and clapping)
(upbeat music)
- [Man] Yeah!
- [Woman] Woohoo!
(upbeat music)
- All right, woohoo, okay!
(upbeat music)
(camera shutter clicking)
(upbeat music)
- [Man] Good game!
(upbeat music)
- Oh yeah, used to have
some power turn over.
- Yeah, so I'm a
little rusty, so what?
- Wanna beer?
- [Vinnie] Yeah.
- Well, some people can't walk
and chew gum at the same time,
can't get emotional
and swing a bat.
- Just what I need,
your color commentary.
- You remember the city finals?
You go into it hitting .445,
and then Joni dumps
ya, and ya go 0-for-8.
- I had the flu.
- Yeah, Joni flu, and you
put the team into the toilet.
Come on!
(laughing)
- I don't need any lip from
some big-mouth mob lawyer.
- They pay a lotta money
for this big mouth.
- Well yeah, I can see why.
With you they figure
they're getting two
for the price of one.
Lawyer goon 'til
the gin-da-loons.
(chuckling)
Oh, with these
guys, they figure,
hey, this guy must be smart,
look at the size of his biceps.
- These biceps assure
me of collecting
on a timely basis my hefty fees.
- Hefty fees, huh?
Like how hefty?
- Three hundred an hour.
- Get outta here.
- Yeah, not bad, huh?
I used to work for one guy.
He was paying me
about 25% of that.
If the law hadn't popped
him, I'd still be underpaid.
- Who was that?
- Ricky Penzola.
- Penzola?
I had some dealings with him.
How come we never
ran into each other?
- Well, Caprike kept
everybody in the dark,
that's how he
controlled business.
Got him killed too.
What were you doing with him?
- Eh, I was about
to mediate a dispute
between him and a
guy named Sternberg.
- Yeah, that's what
he got popped over.
- I know.
- I thought I knew all
the players in that deal.
- Well, I got my leg broke
the week I got involved.
Kinda took me outta things.
- So, now you're doing nothing?
- Well, I've been lucky
where some people
around me haven't been.
And you know the result of
being unlucky, don't ya?
I gotta be careful
with the job I take.
- Yeah well, you should
stay out of it altogether.
The only people making
any honest money
in this racket are guys like me.
- Well, what you do may
be safe and legitimate,
but it sure as
hell ain't honest.
- Honest or not, you
should find something safe
and legitimate to
do with your life.
- Am I gonna be getting a
bill for this now, or what?
- No, I'll send you a
bill when I find you a job
you won't end up doing time for.
I gotta go.
- Good.
- [Mooch] Yeah, and
another piece of advice.
Stay away from Denelle.
- Hey wait a minute, Mooch.
You're shut out on that one.
She wants nothing
to do with you,
so don't resent me my shot.
- [Mooch] What, your shot?
- Yeah.
- [Mooch] Your
shot, what's that?
- We're going out.
- Don't do that.
- What, are you jealous?
- I'm telling you this
for your own good.
She's a cop!
She knows a good collar
when she sees one.
- Oh, okay, well thanks
for the warning, Esquire.
- So where are you two going?
- I thought you were leaving?
- I am, I am.
You're making a mistake, Vinnie.
- You are jealous,
I can't believe it.
- I was intimate with the lady,
I just wanna make sure
you're treating her right,
that's all.
Maybe you need a little cash.
- All right, will
you get outta here,
I gotta get cleaned up.
- [Mooch] Come on,
where you going?
- We're going to the
Motel 6, what do you care?
- What are you talking about?
(laughing)
- That jealousy, why.
- Look Vinnie, she
deserves better than that.
- Yeah, I know she does.
Come on, get outta
here, will you?
- At least spend some money.
- Yeah, go on, get outta here.
- [Mooch] Come on, Vinnie.
For crying out loud,
gimme a break, will ya?
Vinnie!
(door rattling)
Vinnie!
(banging)
- [Denise] Just a minute.
- You always answer the door
with a gun in your hand?
- When I'm cleaning it.
- You expecting
to shoot somebody?
- What do you want?
- You're not going out
with Vinnie are ya?
- Yeah, I am.
- Don't go out with him, Denise!
You know who he is!
You're taking a big risk!
- That's why I have this.
- It's Vinnie, you
can't date Vinnie!
- For two years in high school
I went out with
absolutely nobody, okay?
Because you went
around threatening
to break their faces,
but did you go out with me?
No, you just appointed yourself
my little guardian angel.
Now, you're going
around telling Vinnie
we slept with each other.
I oughta shoot
you in the brains.
- I care about you.
- You care about me?
Why is it that you
can't show your feelings
like a normal human being?
You care about me,
(chuckling derisively) I'm
lucky you don't love me,
you'd have me locked up
in a closet somewhere.
Go home.
- [Mooch] Denise!
- Go home.
- Denise!
(door slamming)
Denise!
Denise!
(bowling pins clattering)
- [Denise] Oh!
- Gee, you gotta knock
'em all down to win.
What do you got there, five?
Yeah, five.
Go ahead.
(loud nose blowing)
Ah, yes.
Sorry about that, I've
been fighting this cold,
you know what I mean?
Go ahead, go ahead.
(loud sneezing)
Oh man, you lucked out!
- Wanna go again?
- No, I don't wanna go again,
the food's ready, here.
- It's the law, I have to
carry my service revolver
at all times.
What?
- Are you investigating me?
- I already investigated you.
I know your life inside out.
It's not a pretty picture.
- Yeah, but is it a
picture worth framing?
- I wouldn't do
that to a friend.
- Look at that.
See old man Bacchus over there?
- Buy something or
get out of here.
Come on!
Come on!
- I used to wonder why we'd
come here, as mean as he is.
- I always liked
hanging out here.
- Yeah, me too.
Guess he's part
of the attraction.
You know, you look around,
you think things change.
Everything stays the same.
Yeah, Sister Marion, Tiny,
old man Bacchus, you, me, Mooch.
You go through life
thinking you change,
and everything's the same.
Nothing changes.
- You did.
- Denise, you gotta stop
judging my reputation
and start looking at me.
- How's your mom doing?
- She's all right.
She moved to Arizona.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- I thought she was
in the permanent part
of the neighborhood.
- Yeah, me too.
- [Denise] Why'd she leave?
- Health reasons.
- Sorry, what's wrong?
- She married a disease.
I don't wanna talk about it.
- Not to make you
defensive or anything,
but is there anything
we can talk about?
- Yeah, Moochie.
- I don't wanna talk about it.
- You two got a
thing going, or what?
- Look, I've known
Moochie 20 years,
I've never even seen him in
his underwear, all right?
He's going around telling
people we, you know.
- Yeah.
- And like stay away, like
I'm his personal property?
- Well, he's in love with you.
- Did he say that?
- No, not in so many words.
- [Denise] You two
got a thing going?
- What the hell does that mean?
- It means the two of you
were like Bobbsey twins
on steroids in high school.
More or less in the
same line of work.
- (sighing) You never leave
the badge at home, do ya?
- Vinnie, you're
destined for a fall
and I'd like to catch
you before you do.
You're on the known to have
underworld connect list,
I run across your name two,
three times a week, it hurts.
- Still trying to save
the world, huh, Denise?
- Maybe a little piece.
- Well, I'll tell you what,
why don't we get to
know each other again
before you try to save me, okay?
- I don't know if there's time.
- Why wouldn't there be time?
- 'Cause of what you do.
- Well, if that's the
only problem you have,
then you have no problem at all.
Now, go ahead, eat.
(tires squealing)
(laughing)
- Get in the car.
- Okay, Frank, I'll bite.
Say the secret word
and win an extra $100.
- Get in the car!
- Okay, okay.
(laughing)
What are you doing?
Don't hurt my car.
- You see that car
parked up the street?
- Which one?
- The one with the guy in it
that is hunched down far enough
that he thinks he can't be seen.
- [Vinnie] Yeah, what about it?
- You were spotted playing
ball with a bunch of guys
that are under investigation
for racketeering.
- Frank, will you take
that damn thing off?
How do you expect me
to take you seriously?
- No I won't take it off,
and you damn well better
take me seriously.
- Well, I was playing
ball with a dozen guys.
I didn't know half of 'em!
What is this crap?
My own guys watching me?
- Those are not your
own guys, that's NYPD,
and it's the reason I won't
take off this stupid disguise.
I don't want 20,000 cops
knowing you're a field operative
and I'm your supervisor.
Late this afternoon, NYPD
made a formal request
for your federal jacket.
Specifically, anything
connected with the Penzola case.
Look at that side mirror.
I told you your buddy
was investigating you.
Now did you say anything
about the Penzola case?
- No!
I mentioned it in
passing to Mooch.
Are you telling me I'm wired?
- Ah, and the secret
word is surveillance
and you have been under it
since the night of your reunion.
The judge issued a warrant to
the NYPD Racketeering Division
to bug your house.
(suspenseful music)
We're looking to make
a big score here.
- Hey, everybody's looking
to make a big score.
- What about my short money?
- Short money's for suckers.
- [Frank] Yeah?
There's a lot more
where that came from.
What do you think of that?
- I don't know what to think.
- Well, while you're
trying to figure it out,
I'm going into
the thinking room.
(suspenseful music)
(dramatic music)
(water splashing)
(toilet flushing)
What are you doing?
- I wanna have one room that I
can have a little privacy in.
I can't believe
she did this to me.
- It's her job, Vince.
- I am a friend of hers!
I grew up with her!
- She's a cop and so are you!
- She stepped over the line.
She violated the friendship.
Man, I have to
teach her a lesson.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, what
the hell does that mean?
What, do you wanna get even?
- What if I was a gangster
and I found these things?
She'd be dead like that!
No, she messed up big time.
- Now you listen to me,
she did not mess up big time.
There was a request to the OCB,
otherwise you'd have no
idea this place was bugged.
- If I was a gangster,
I'd be sweeping the house
for bugs all the time!
- A lot of 'em don't!
- [Vinnie] And a
lot of 'em don't--
- You keep your voice down!
- A lot of 'em don't discuss
business at home either.
If I was illegitimate,
I wouldn't be so relaxed with
her, I wouldn't be so open!
- Even with an old friend?
- Especially an old
friend who's a cop!
- Then you tell
her you're a cop,
and you explain to
her how she messed up.
- She's not gonna learn
anything from that!
She's using an old friend!
It's not like she's some
cop out in the street,
trying to nail a hood,
this is personal!
And she gets personal with
somebody she thinks I am,
she could get killed!
No, she's gotta learn in a
visceral way the consequences
of making a mistake like this.
Can you believe this, Mooch?
She bugged my entire house.
- I told you she
was all business.
- But this?
This needs a response, Mooch.
- You're gonna have to
go through me first.
- What the hell
you talking about?
- I got a place in
heart for this one.
- What a surprise.
(carnival music)
(roller coaster track clacking)
(screaming)
- [Carnival Barker] That's
right, let's keep playing!
Thank you, lady.
(carnival music)
Balloons, get your balloons
over here, balloons!
- [Carnival Worker]
Hot roasted peanuts!
- Hey Tiny, hi!
- Hey, big Mooch!
You look great, it's
like old home week here!
- You too, Tiny.
Hey listen, can
you do me a favor?
An old friend needs a romantic
place to make a proposal.
Can you help me out?
- [Tiny] Anything
for you, Mooch.
- Okay, here we go, here we go.
Ooh!
Come on (laughing).
Man, I wish I could tell
you how successful I am.
- Then tell me.
- But first you gotta tell
me who I'm talking to.
Denise Denelle or
Detective Denelle?
- I'm your friend, Vinnie.
- Look at what you do.
All of the risk and
none of the reward.
- I don't risk nearly
as much as you do.
- You don't think so?
- No.
- I mean, you're
walking around here,
carrying your death
in your pocketbook.
Look at this.
That's the only
metal I'm carrying.
$15,000 worth of gold
and Swiss craftsmanship.
Where's the risk?
Where's the reward?
You should have a little
something for yourself.
Now you tell me,
what's wrong with that?
- I don't have a comeback.
- You don't, huh?
- No.
- Why don't you come
with me to my office?
Come on.
I'll show you.
(roller coaster motor chugging)
Hey, how's it going?
- Next one, this one here.
You guys can't get enough
of a good time, huh?
- No, no.
- Here ya go, just for
the two of you's tonight.
- Thanks.
- [Tiny] The lady and the tramp.
- Thanks, Tiny.
- Yeah, you got it
kid, have a good time.
- [Vinnie] Yeah, thanks.
- What do you think, huh?
(carnival music)
(roller coaster car rattling)
- I'm very disappointed
in you, Denise, hey!
What are you, gimme that!
Gimme that.
This is what risk is, Denise.
You go after somebody
that's earned their wings,
you better understand
what failure means.
- Don't do this,
Vinnie, we're friends.
- Don't do what?
Betray a friend?
You lured me outta my house!
You bugged it!
You used our friendship.
- All right, all
right, stop 'em there.
- You realize how
dangerous your life can be?
Okay, Mooch!
(suspenseful music)
Hey!
- Oh, man!
- Denise!
(dramatic music)
- Denise, gimme your hand.
(dramatic music)
- Drop me and I'll kill you!
- Give me your other hand,
Denise, I can't pull you up!
- Denise!
Denise!
(dramatic music)
- Denise, this is no
time for an argument.
- [Mooch] Denise, hold
on, don't let go of him!
- Denise, oh God, it's me,
it's Vinnie, please.
(dramatic music)
- [Mooch] Denise, hold
on, I'm almost there!
(moaning)
(dramatic music)
(grunting)
- Mooch!
Mooch!
(groaning)
You all right?
- Oh, Tiny.
- A simple no would've sufficed!
- All right, I
screwed up, Denise.
- We screwed up.
- All right, we all screwed up.
- I wouldn't hurt you.
But what you did, bugging
the house like that?
You'd get caught.
And I was stupid to
try and teach you that.
- All right, you taught me.
You taught me about
10 years off my life.
Look, I thought what
I was doing was right,
even though I knew it was wrong.
I just hate what you
guys grew up to be.
I can't stop the wiretaps
now that they're started.
- Don't worry about the
wiretaps, I'll deal with them.
- Denise.
- Hey, remember
the cliche we used
to write in the yearbooks?
Stay sweet as you
are and never change?
I wish it was true.
- Denise?
- What?
- I love you.
- [Medic] Out of the way.
- I love you!
(groaning)
- [Denise] Don't hurt him.
- I wasn't the one who hit him
in the head with the gun, lady.
- When I saw you
about to die there,
I knew I had to tell you I
loved you before you died!
(moaning)
All I could see is what a
waste of life I'd be living
without you around.
Even if it was to
fight with each other!
- Get lost!
Get outta here.
- [Mooch] I would marry ya
and become a public defender,
and I don't know
which would be worse.
- [Denise] Do you
mean it, Mooch?
You really love me?
- [Mooch] I love you.
- [Denise] And you
wanna marry me??
- [Mooch] Denise, Denise,
I'm delirious here.
I can't be accountable for,
don't do that, Denise!
Denise!
Oh look at me, this
is the end of my life.
- Will you shut up?
Come on, come on.
(moaning)
Here.
(groaning)
- Boy, I was home free.
Do you understand that?
I was a young man
with a good career.
I had money in the
bank, my own place!
My own music I could play
as loud as I pleased!
- [Vinnie] Yeah.
- I did when and where I wanted.
Now look what you did to me,
and you're supposed
to be my friend?
Pfft!
Ahh!
(crutches clattering)
Oh, real nice, Terranova.
What the hell, you
got me down here,
why don't you break
the other leg?
You know, you're
really a miserable bum,
you know that?
(buzzing)
- [Denise] Yeah?
- Denise, it's Vinnie,
we're downstairs.
- [Denise] Okay,
I'll be right down.
- Okay.
- [Mooch] Come on, will
ya help me up here?
Come on, will ya
help me up here?
- Ahh!
- You know, I oughta
put you on crutches
for what you did to me!
- I didn't do anything to you!
- Baloney!
My life was all dialed
in, you forced my hand!
- Hey, stand up for
your own big mouth.
Nobody held a gun to your head.
I wasn't the one shouting
all over Playland,
"Denise, I'm in love with you."
- [Mooch] Shut up.
- [Vinnie] I'm delirious Denise,
I give up my dialed-in
career for you, $300--
Ow!
(laughing)
- [Mooch] Man, get up!
- [Vinnie] Come on, you're
crushing by boutonniere here.
- [Mooch] Good, you crushed
the boutonniere of my life.
I'm getting married
'cause of you!
- Oh, you.
- [Both] Hi, Denise.
- We gonna get married or what?
(upbeat music)
- Denise, you look beautiful.
(upbeat music)
(epic music)
Tonight on Wise Guy.
- What are you reading?
- It's my high school yearbook.
We're having our 15th-year
reunion tomorrow night.
- So who's Denise Denelle?
- [Vinnie] What do you think?
- [Frank] She could hurt you.
- Another piece of advice,
stay away from Denelle.
- We're going out.
- You're not going out
with Vinnie, are you?
- Yeah, I am.
- You can't date Vinnie!
- She was one of my
best friends growing up,
and now she's a cop, too.
- She is investigating you.
- You're destined for a fall.
(screaming)
- [Vinnie] Denise,
give me your hand.
- Drop me and I'll kill you.
(upbeat music)
(bright music)
(telephone ringing)
- [Vinnie] Hello?
- Vinnie?
- Yeah.
- [Denise] Vinnie,
this is Denise Denelle.
- The Denise Denelle?
- [Denise] Yeah.
- What's it been, 15 years?
- [Denise] Yeah, married,
divorced, the whole shebang,
class of '75.
Um, anyway, I'm
having a reunion.
- When?
- [Denise] Tomorrow.
Kinda shot in the
dark to call you
but I tried to find you
for 10th-year reunion,
but your mom didn't even
know where you were.
(knocking)
(banging)
- Hey, hold on a minute.
Who is it?
- [Frank] It's Frank.
- Well, you gotta
key, come on in!
So where is this thing?
- [Denise] You gonna come?
Terrific.
- Yeah.
- [Denise] Tomorrow
night at the Manor.
Look, I can't want
to see ya, all right?
- Wait, wait, Denise.
Is there a dress code
for this thing or what?
- [Denise] Sister
Marion will be there
so you gotta keep
your shirt tucked in.
- Oh yeah, Sister Marion.
- [Denise] I gotta go,
I'm in charge of
finding guys like you.
Um, do you have any idea what
happened to Dutch Shanstra?
- Don't have a clue.
- [Denise] Neither
does anybody else.
Gotta go, bye!
- Wait, Denise, wait a
minute, wait a minute.
What about Mooch?
- [Denise] He'll be there.
- Good, good.
And, um ...
- [Denise] And you wanna
know what I look like?
- Yeah.
- [Denise] You gotta
wait 'til tomorrow night,
eight o'clock.
Bye!
- Bye.
(dial tone buzzing)
(Frank moaning)
Denise Denelle.
(Frank moaning)
Hey Frank, what are you doing?
(Frank moans)
- [Frank] Oh, the Rumba.
- What are you doing here?
- I haven't been
away from a bathroom
for more than 10 minutes
since my second day in Mexico.
(Frank moans loudly)
You know your house is exactly
10 minutes from the airport?
So here I am.
- [Vinnie] You had a tan
when you came in here.
(Frank moans)
- [Frank] I just need a
few minutes for the blood
to rush back to my head.
- That sounds like a
great vacation you had.
- You know, all I wanted
to do was lay in the sun
and read a book.
In the first 24 hours,
I got sun poisoning,
Montezuma's revenge, and
I stepped on a sea urchin.
- Do you wanna
beer or something?
- Oh, Vinnie.
No, I just need a little time,
make sure my stomach's
not gonna erupt again.
So what are you reading?
- It's my high school yearbook.
We're having our 15th-year
reunion tomorrow night.
Yeah, I missed my 10th one.
You know why?
- Why?
- 'Cause I was in prison,
establishing my cover
as a thug for the OCB.
Yeah, I never stopped to
think about how much you miss
by doing undercover work.
- Oh, it's part of
the job description.
- Yeah, I know, I know.
But you never stop to think
how doing that will
affect the little things.
I mean, how can I
go to this thing?
'Cause they'll say, "Hey, yo
Vinnie, what you been up to?"
And what am I gonna say?
I did a stretch in Newark and
now I'm running with the mob?
It's either that or I got
my degree in criminology
and I carry a badge now, big
mouth, and I got your number.
- Well, maybe you shouldn't go.
- Yeah, but I wanna go,
I wanna see these people.
You know, Mooch, Richie.
Denise Denelle, hm?
I wouldn't mind even
seeing that Dutch Shanstra,
if they could find him.
As much as I wanna see them,
I'm not comfortable with
the idea of them seeing me.
It just perpetuates the lie.
- So who's Denise Denelle?
- Let me show ya, here.
(chuckling)
What do you think?
Right here, huh?
- She could hurt ya.
(laughing)
She's very beautiful.
- Yeah, yeah.
- But time can change that.
- Oh, I know.
Just look at you.
Denise Denelle.
(upbeat music)
(crowd talking and laughing)
- [Deejay] Whoo!
Whoo!
(crowd talking and laughing)
Whoo, hoo, hoo!
Whoo!
(upbeat music)
(crowd talking and laughing)
(upbeat music)
- [Woman] Guess who?
- Give me a hint.
Whoa, whoa!
(grunting)
It's gotta be Joyce
Maloney, right?
(laughing)
Hey, how ya doing?
- Oh, I'm great!
I guess you are, too.
I mean, I don't ever remember
seeing you in a suit.
- Well, one that
fits anyway, huh?
What, do you got a gaggle
of kids now, or what?
- I love you for asking.
- Oh, Malone.
- Sara, Ira, they're twins.
- Uh-huh.
- Ben is the oldest.
- Yeah, nice Irish
names Maloney.
- It's Joyce Berkowitz now.
- Berkowitz?
(laughing)
- Yeah, can you believe it?
I'm Jewish!
(whistling)
- Yo, Vinnie!
- Hey, Mooch!
- [Mooch] How ya doing, man?
(laughing)
- All right.
- Hey, Joyce.
- [Joyce] All the boys.
Bye, Mooch.
- Yeah, see ya later.
- See ya later, huh?
- Hey, look at you,
I don't believe it.
- Look at yourself,
Terranova, not too shabby.
- Yeah, I figured you'd be
in prison stripes by now.
- Why, like you?
You bum, if you'd have
staying touch with me,
I'd have kept your record clean.
- You're a lawyer?
- No, no, I just had
the cards printed.
Of course I'm a lawyer, why
else would I dress like this?
- Sure don't sound
like a lawyer.
- I gotta be able to
communicate with clientele.
- Well, Mooch Cacciatore,
a lawyer, unbelievable.
(laughing)
- Vinnie, don't call me Mooch,
it doesn't go with
the Juris Doctor.
- Oh!
- And listen, you gotta butt?
- I gave that up, Esquire.
Let's go, come on, go over here.
(upbeat music)
- We're not before the
magistrate, Denelle.
It's only a job, you
know what I'm saying?
Look, I'll be at the bar.
You're still single, right?
- [Vinnie] Yeah.
- Good, this is a great
place to pick up divorcees.
(clicking)
(laughing)
- So, disappointed?
- Well, I don't know, let's
see how the evening goes.
How ya doing?
- I'm good, you?
- Okay.
- Haven't changed.
- Eh, you know.
- Come on.
- I gotta get my ticket.
- I got it.
We're at the same table tonight.
And you're not
alone, I'm your date.
- Great.
So how'd you know
I was coming stag?
- You'd be surprised how
much I know about you.
- You haven't changed either.
You're still a smart ass.
So what's with you and Mike?
- Butt heads a lot.
- Oh, wait a minute,
wait a minute.
You're not a lawyer
too, are you?
- What, me?
No, I'm a cop, NYPD detective.
Racketeering Division.
- (sighing) How nice for you.
(crowd talking and laughing)
- See that's where the money
is in the horse business.
Breeding rights,
that's what I sell.
And you know what seven ounces
of horse sperm can go for?
Top rights ever paid?
A million dollars.
- [Man] What's
your take on that?
- An ounce and a half.
- 5%, over the course of a year,
I can do ten million in trades.
- [Man] And I thought
I was making a killing
at $50 an hour threading pipe.
- So what are you doing, Vinnie?
- Um, I'm in real
estate, excuse me.
- Filthy slumlord.
- Gimme a Scotch, will ya?
(humming)
- Denelle's looking
pretty good, eh?
- Yeah.
Hey, Mooch, forget about it.
I think the term she
used to describe you
and people of your ilk was scum.
(laughing)
- All right look,
she carries a grudge.
I get the best of her
in court a few times
and then she's annoyed with
me for not marrying her.
- Oh yeah right, I
bet she's real upset
with the fact she don't
have a goiter too, eh?
(laughing)
- Who you rolling with now?
- Nobody.
I'm independent these days.
- That's good.
- Mm.
- Hey, you wanna play
softball tomorrow?
- Get outta here.
- No, no, there's a couple a
guys having a pick=up game.
- Yeah, all right.
- Come on.
- Yeah.
- You anticipate being indicted?
- Here Denelle, feel at
home, pat me down, all right?
- You know, you two tick
me off, both of you.
- [Vinnie] Why?
- You used to be
good guys in school.
All right, so you used to get
in a little bit of trouble
but at least you cared
about the people around you.
Now, you take advantage of 'em,
you help let 'em go.
- Hey Denise, don't be afraid
to speak your mind or anything.
(laughing)
- Vinnie, this isn't a joke.
- You've become presumptuous,
what's the matter with you?
- Don't even start the
I need a man crap, okay,
'cause I'm not interested.
You, you couldn't even
stay at the table.
Afraid to tell people what
you do with your life?
Real estate?
You're a gangster.
And you, you're a bag man
carting around legal loopholes,
trying to keep
gangsters on the street,
and I think that
makes you even worse.
- Hey, hey, Denise, will ya ...
- No.
- Oh yeah.
- No!
- Come on!
(laughing)
- [Both] Oh,
darling, shooby doo.
- Come on, everybody!
- [Crowd] I'm in love with you.
- [Both] I'm in love with you.
- I didn't like it then
and I don't like it now!
(crowd laughs)
- Sorry.
- Ow!
- Geez!
You know, I forgot
how much I liked her.
(laughing)
See you later.
- All right.
- Hey, Denise!
Denise.
Come on, don't be
such an old lady.
- Look, that just
made me remember
how much I liked
you guys, all right,
who you guys were?
- I'm still the same
guy, gimme a chance.
- Yeah, right.
- Come on.
It's me, Vinnie.
(upbeat romantic music)
(screaming)
(upbeat romantic music)
(screaming)
(upbeat romantic music)
- Tiny!
- Hey, Vinnie!
- How's everything?
- How ya doing?
- Good.
- How ya doing?
Come on.
- Oh, yeah.
- Come on, come on.
How you guys doing, huh?
You get married yet?
- No.
- No, no.
- [Tiny] What about the Mooch?
- Oh, he's doing great.
He's a very prosperous
gentleman these days.
- You gotta be
kidding me, no way.
- Yeah, he is.
- Oh no, no, no.
Nobody gets married no more, eh?
- No, no one's married.
- Nobody's married
no more, is that it?
- [Vinnie] Can you
believe Tiny's still here?
- [Denise] Yeah, some
things never change.
(laughing)
- Well, this place sure hasn't.
Neither have I, Denise.
You shouldn't judge me without
getting to know me again.
- Look Vinnie, I
know your rap sheet.
- [Vinnie] So I
stumbled in my youth,
it doesn't mean I'm
still not the same guy.
- We are as the black and white.
- [Vinnie] You sleep with Mooch?
- What kind of stupid
question is that?
- Well, you think
I'm a gangster.
What am I supposed to
think, you're a whore?
- Think what you want, I
know you're a gangster.
- Then what are you
doing with me here?
- Missionary work, what do
I know what I'm doing here?
- Denise, what do you think,
that I put people in
the trunks of Cadillacs?
That I break their kneecaps
with baseball bats?
- 15 years can change people.
- You know what?
I think the fact
that you're an NYPD detective
is a terrific achievement.
I'm very proud of you.
Me, Vinnie.
(romantic music)
(gravel clattering)
Hey, Frank!
(gravel clattering)
Frank!
- Vince.
- Frank!
- Vince, why don't you use the
doorbell like everybody else?
- It doesn't work!
- Nothing else
works here either.
- [Vinnie] Hey, Frank.
What, do you move every
six months or what?
- Well yeah, I mean
that's what happens
when you get separated.
What's wrong?
- Nothing, nothing.
Well, I went to my high
school reunion tonight.
I had the time of my life.
- You drove to Shrewsbury
to tell me this?
- Yeah, yeah.
- I'm thrilled for ya.
- Yeah.
- Now, I'm going back to bed.
- Hey wait a minute,
wait a minute.
Where are you going?
How many times you come
to my house unannounced,
bringing me your problems?
- Vinnie, you just told me
you didn't have a problem.
- Yeah, well, I don't.
- Oh, do you wanna come in
and have a drink or something?
- No, no, no thanks, no.
Why don't you come
out here with me?
- Oh, Vinnie, it's very late.
- Oh, it's nice out, come on.
- It's cold.
- Come on.
- Vince.
Come on, Vinnie, it's cold!
- Now just sit down,
it's nice out here.
I met this old friend at my
reunion, man, and we had a--
- Male or female?
- Cop, and we had a--
- Male or female?
- What difference does it make?
- Female.
- Why did I even come here?
- (chuckling) Because you
wanna tell her you're a cop too
and you want me to
talk you out of it.
You know, you wanna show
everybody your badge.
If you'd just get out
of undercover work,
like I've been telling you to,
you could pin it in the
middle of your forehead
or wherever else
you wanna pin it.
- Well, why
shouldn't I tell her?
She's a cop.
- Listen, you do
whatever you wanna do.
I'm just not gonna
give you my permission,
you're a big boy, you
make up your own mind.
- Yeah, I really wanted to tell
her tonight, too, you know?
I was just dying to yell it out.
Hey, Denise, I'm a
cop just like you,
I'm not a gangster, I'm
the same guy I always was.
You know, she was one of
my best friends growing up
and now she's a cop too.
- She know your
bent-nose reputation?
- Know it?
She's got my rap sheet
committed to memory.
She can recite
every bogus arrest
I've ever been
through for the OCB.
- All right, wait a minute.
- She's a good cop too.
She's been giving me a hard
time about my lifestyle but--
- Just wait a minute.
- We're going through
all the same conflicts,
it's amazing how--
- Whoa, whoa, wait
a minute, hold it!
- What?
- She is investigating you.
- Get the hell outta here.
- [Frank] Did you tell
me she's a good cop?
- Yeah!
- All right, you
give me her name,
I'll run a check on her.
- Forget it!
I didn't come here for you
to run a check on a friend!
I came here 'cause
I needed help.
- Vince.
- Well, she's worried about me.
I wanted to alleviate that.
- All right.
Oh, you have it your own way.
- All right.
- But it's late, it's
cold, I wanna go to sleep.
Now, if you wanna come in--
- No.
- Please come in.
- Okay, no.
No, I won't, I don't,
I get the message,
I'm going, goodnight.
- Oh, Vince.
Vinnie!
- Yeah?
- I gave up undercover work
the night of my 10th reunion.
- Okay, Frank, goodnight.
- 'Night.
♪ Bulldogs fight adversity
♪ Bulldogs fight for victory
♪ The green and
orange waving free ♪
♪ Bulldog spirit for eternity
(doorknob rattling)
(crowd cheering)
(upbeat fun music)
(crowd cheering and clapping)
(upbeat music)
- [Man] Yeah!
- [Woman] Woohoo!
(upbeat music)
- All right, woohoo, okay!
(upbeat music)
(camera shutter clicking)
(upbeat music)
- [Man] Good game!
(upbeat music)
- Oh yeah, used to have
some power turn over.
- Yeah, so I'm a
little rusty, so what?
- Wanna beer?
- [Vinnie] Yeah.
- Well, some people can't walk
and chew gum at the same time,
can't get emotional
and swing a bat.
- Just what I need,
your color commentary.
- You remember the city finals?
You go into it hitting .445,
and then Joni dumps
ya, and ya go 0-for-8.
- I had the flu.
- Yeah, Joni flu, and you
put the team into the toilet.
Come on!
(laughing)
- I don't need any lip from
some big-mouth mob lawyer.
- They pay a lotta money
for this big mouth.
- Well yeah, I can see why.
With you they figure
they're getting two
for the price of one.
Lawyer goon 'til
the gin-da-loons.
(chuckling)
Oh, with these
guys, they figure,
hey, this guy must be smart,
look at the size of his biceps.
- These biceps assure
me of collecting
on a timely basis my hefty fees.
- Hefty fees, huh?
Like how hefty?
- Three hundred an hour.
- Get outta here.
- Yeah, not bad, huh?
I used to work for one guy.
He was paying me
about 25% of that.
If the law hadn't popped
him, I'd still be underpaid.
- Who was that?
- Ricky Penzola.
- Penzola?
I had some dealings with him.
How come we never
ran into each other?
- Well, Caprike kept
everybody in the dark,
that's how he
controlled business.
Got him killed too.
What were you doing with him?
- Eh, I was about
to mediate a dispute
between him and a
guy named Sternberg.
- Yeah, that's what
he got popped over.
- I know.
- I thought I knew all
the players in that deal.
- Well, I got my leg broke
the week I got involved.
Kinda took me outta things.
- So, now you're doing nothing?
- Well, I've been lucky
where some people
around me haven't been.
And you know the result of
being unlucky, don't ya?
I gotta be careful
with the job I take.
- Yeah well, you should
stay out of it altogether.
The only people making
any honest money
in this racket are guys like me.
- Well, what you do may
be safe and legitimate,
but it sure as
hell ain't honest.
- Honest or not, you
should find something safe
and legitimate to
do with your life.
- Am I gonna be getting a
bill for this now, or what?
- No, I'll send you a
bill when I find you a job
you won't end up doing time for.
I gotta go.
- Good.
- [Mooch] Yeah, and
another piece of advice.
Stay away from Denelle.
- Hey wait a minute, Mooch.
You're shut out on that one.
She wants nothing
to do with you,
so don't resent me my shot.
- [Mooch] What, your shot?
- Yeah.
- [Mooch] Your
shot, what's that?
- We're going out.
- Don't do that.
- What, are you jealous?
- I'm telling you this
for your own good.
She's a cop!
She knows a good collar
when she sees one.
- Oh, okay, well thanks
for the warning, Esquire.
- So where are you two going?
- I thought you were leaving?
- I am, I am.
You're making a mistake, Vinnie.
- You are jealous,
I can't believe it.
- I was intimate with the lady,
I just wanna make sure
you're treating her right,
that's all.
Maybe you need a little cash.
- All right, will
you get outta here,
I gotta get cleaned up.
- [Mooch] Come on,
where you going?
- We're going to the
Motel 6, what do you care?
- What are you talking about?
(laughing)
- That jealousy, why.
- Look Vinnie, she
deserves better than that.
- Yeah, I know she does.
Come on, get outta
here, will you?
- At least spend some money.
- Yeah, go on, get outta here.
- [Mooch] Come on, Vinnie.
For crying out loud,
gimme a break, will ya?
Vinnie!
(door rattling)
Vinnie!
(banging)
- [Denise] Just a minute.
- You always answer the door
with a gun in your hand?
- When I'm cleaning it.
- You expecting
to shoot somebody?
- What do you want?
- You're not going out
with Vinnie are ya?
- Yeah, I am.
- Don't go out with him, Denise!
You know who he is!
You're taking a big risk!
- That's why I have this.
- It's Vinnie, you
can't date Vinnie!
- For two years in high school
I went out with
absolutely nobody, okay?
Because you went
around threatening
to break their faces,
but did you go out with me?
No, you just appointed yourself
my little guardian angel.
Now, you're going
around telling Vinnie
we slept with each other.
I oughta shoot
you in the brains.
- I care about you.
- You care about me?
Why is it that you
can't show your feelings
like a normal human being?
You care about me,
(chuckling derisively) I'm
lucky you don't love me,
you'd have me locked up
in a closet somewhere.
Go home.
- [Mooch] Denise!
- Go home.
- Denise!
(door slamming)
Denise!
Denise!
(bowling pins clattering)
- [Denise] Oh!
- Gee, you gotta knock
'em all down to win.
What do you got there, five?
Yeah, five.
Go ahead.
(loud nose blowing)
Ah, yes.
Sorry about that, I've
been fighting this cold,
you know what I mean?
Go ahead, go ahead.
(loud sneezing)
Oh man, you lucked out!
- Wanna go again?
- No, I don't wanna go again,
the food's ready, here.
- It's the law, I have to
carry my service revolver
at all times.
What?
- Are you investigating me?
- I already investigated you.
I know your life inside out.
It's not a pretty picture.
- Yeah, but is it a
picture worth framing?
- I wouldn't do
that to a friend.
- Look at that.
See old man Bacchus over there?
- Buy something or
get out of here.
Come on!
Come on!
- I used to wonder why we'd
come here, as mean as he is.
- I always liked
hanging out here.
- Yeah, me too.
Guess he's part
of the attraction.
You know, you look around,
you think things change.
Everything stays the same.
Yeah, Sister Marion, Tiny,
old man Bacchus, you, me, Mooch.
You go through life
thinking you change,
and everything's the same.
Nothing changes.
- You did.
- Denise, you gotta stop
judging my reputation
and start looking at me.
- How's your mom doing?
- She's all right.
She moved to Arizona.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- I thought she was
in the permanent part
of the neighborhood.
- Yeah, me too.
- [Denise] Why'd she leave?
- Health reasons.
- Sorry, what's wrong?
- She married a disease.
I don't wanna talk about it.
- Not to make you
defensive or anything,
but is there anything
we can talk about?
- Yeah, Moochie.
- I don't wanna talk about it.
- You two got a
thing going, or what?
- Look, I've known
Moochie 20 years,
I've never even seen him in
his underwear, all right?
He's going around telling
people we, you know.
- Yeah.
- And like stay away, like
I'm his personal property?
- Well, he's in love with you.
- Did he say that?
- No, not in so many words.
- [Denise] You two
got a thing going?
- What the hell does that mean?
- It means the two of you
were like Bobbsey twins
on steroids in high school.
More or less in the
same line of work.
- (sighing) You never leave
the badge at home, do ya?
- Vinnie, you're
destined for a fall
and I'd like to catch
you before you do.
You're on the known to have
underworld connect list,
I run across your name two,
three times a week, it hurts.
- Still trying to save
the world, huh, Denise?
- Maybe a little piece.
- Well, I'll tell you what,
why don't we get to
know each other again
before you try to save me, okay?
- I don't know if there's time.
- Why wouldn't there be time?
- 'Cause of what you do.
- Well, if that's the
only problem you have,
then you have no problem at all.
Now, go ahead, eat.
(tires squealing)
(laughing)
- Get in the car.
- Okay, Frank, I'll bite.
Say the secret word
and win an extra $100.
- Get in the car!
- Okay, okay.
(laughing)
What are you doing?
Don't hurt my car.
- You see that car
parked up the street?
- Which one?
- The one with the guy in it
that is hunched down far enough
that he thinks he can't be seen.
- [Vinnie] Yeah, what about it?
- You were spotted playing
ball with a bunch of guys
that are under investigation
for racketeering.
- Frank, will you take
that damn thing off?
How do you expect me
to take you seriously?
- No I won't take it off,
and you damn well better
take me seriously.
- Well, I was playing
ball with a dozen guys.
I didn't know half of 'em!
What is this crap?
My own guys watching me?
- Those are not your
own guys, that's NYPD,
and it's the reason I won't
take off this stupid disguise.
I don't want 20,000 cops
knowing you're a field operative
and I'm your supervisor.
Late this afternoon, NYPD
made a formal request
for your federal jacket.
Specifically, anything
connected with the Penzola case.
Look at that side mirror.
I told you your buddy
was investigating you.
Now did you say anything
about the Penzola case?
- No!
I mentioned it in
passing to Mooch.
Are you telling me I'm wired?
- Ah, and the secret
word is surveillance
and you have been under it
since the night of your reunion.
The judge issued a warrant to
the NYPD Racketeering Division
to bug your house.
(suspenseful music)
We're looking to make
a big score here.
- Hey, everybody's looking
to make a big score.
- What about my short money?
- Short money's for suckers.
- [Frank] Yeah?
There's a lot more
where that came from.
What do you think of that?
- I don't know what to think.
- Well, while you're
trying to figure it out,
I'm going into
the thinking room.
(suspenseful music)
(dramatic music)
(water splashing)
(toilet flushing)
What are you doing?
- I wanna have one room that I
can have a little privacy in.
I can't believe
she did this to me.
- It's her job, Vince.
- I am a friend of hers!
I grew up with her!
- She's a cop and so are you!
- She stepped over the line.
She violated the friendship.
Man, I have to
teach her a lesson.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, what
the hell does that mean?
What, do you wanna get even?
- What if I was a gangster
and I found these things?
She'd be dead like that!
No, she messed up big time.
- Now you listen to me,
she did not mess up big time.
There was a request to the OCB,
otherwise you'd have no
idea this place was bugged.
- If I was a gangster,
I'd be sweeping the house
for bugs all the time!
- A lot of 'em don't!
- [Vinnie] And a
lot of 'em don't--
- You keep your voice down!
- A lot of 'em don't discuss
business at home either.
If I was illegitimate,
I wouldn't be so relaxed with
her, I wouldn't be so open!
- Even with an old friend?
- Especially an old
friend who's a cop!
- Then you tell
her you're a cop,
and you explain to
her how she messed up.
- She's not gonna learn
anything from that!
She's using an old friend!
It's not like she's some
cop out in the street,
trying to nail a hood,
this is personal!
And she gets personal with
somebody she thinks I am,
she could get killed!
No, she's gotta learn in a
visceral way the consequences
of making a mistake like this.
Can you believe this, Mooch?
She bugged my entire house.
- I told you she
was all business.
- But this?
This needs a response, Mooch.
- You're gonna have to
go through me first.
- What the hell
you talking about?
- I got a place in
heart for this one.
- What a surprise.
(carnival music)
(roller coaster track clacking)
(screaming)
- [Carnival Barker] That's
right, let's keep playing!
Thank you, lady.
(carnival music)
Balloons, get your balloons
over here, balloons!
- [Carnival Worker]
Hot roasted peanuts!
- Hey Tiny, hi!
- Hey, big Mooch!
You look great, it's
like old home week here!
- You too, Tiny.
Hey listen, can
you do me a favor?
An old friend needs a romantic
place to make a proposal.
Can you help me out?
- [Tiny] Anything
for you, Mooch.
- Okay, here we go, here we go.
Ooh!
Come on (laughing).
Man, I wish I could tell
you how successful I am.
- Then tell me.
- But first you gotta tell
me who I'm talking to.
Denise Denelle or
Detective Denelle?
- I'm your friend, Vinnie.
- Look at what you do.
All of the risk and
none of the reward.
- I don't risk nearly
as much as you do.
- You don't think so?
- No.
- I mean, you're
walking around here,
carrying your death
in your pocketbook.
Look at this.
That's the only
metal I'm carrying.
$15,000 worth of gold
and Swiss craftsmanship.
Where's the risk?
Where's the reward?
You should have a little
something for yourself.
Now you tell me,
what's wrong with that?
- I don't have a comeback.
- You don't, huh?
- No.
- Why don't you come
with me to my office?
Come on.
I'll show you.
(roller coaster motor chugging)
Hey, how's it going?
- Next one, this one here.
You guys can't get enough
of a good time, huh?
- No, no.
- Here ya go, just for
the two of you's tonight.
- Thanks.
- [Tiny] The lady and the tramp.
- Thanks, Tiny.
- Yeah, you got it
kid, have a good time.
- [Vinnie] Yeah, thanks.
- What do you think, huh?
(carnival music)
(roller coaster car rattling)
- I'm very disappointed
in you, Denise, hey!
What are you, gimme that!
Gimme that.
This is what risk is, Denise.
You go after somebody
that's earned their wings,
you better understand
what failure means.
- Don't do this,
Vinnie, we're friends.
- Don't do what?
Betray a friend?
You lured me outta my house!
You bugged it!
You used our friendship.
- All right, all
right, stop 'em there.
- You realize how
dangerous your life can be?
Okay, Mooch!
(suspenseful music)
Hey!
- Oh, man!
- Denise!
(dramatic music)
- Denise, gimme your hand.
(dramatic music)
- Drop me and I'll kill you!
- Give me your other hand,
Denise, I can't pull you up!
- Denise!
Denise!
(dramatic music)
- Denise, this is no
time for an argument.
- [Mooch] Denise, hold
on, don't let go of him!
- Denise, oh God, it's me,
it's Vinnie, please.
(dramatic music)
- [Mooch] Denise, hold
on, I'm almost there!
(moaning)
(dramatic music)
(grunting)
- Mooch!
Mooch!
(groaning)
You all right?
- Oh, Tiny.
- A simple no would've sufficed!
- All right, I
screwed up, Denise.
- We screwed up.
- All right, we all screwed up.
- I wouldn't hurt you.
But what you did, bugging
the house like that?
You'd get caught.
And I was stupid to
try and teach you that.
- All right, you taught me.
You taught me about
10 years off my life.
Look, I thought what
I was doing was right,
even though I knew it was wrong.
I just hate what you
guys grew up to be.
I can't stop the wiretaps
now that they're started.
- Don't worry about the
wiretaps, I'll deal with them.
- Denise.
- Hey, remember
the cliche we used
to write in the yearbooks?
Stay sweet as you
are and never change?
I wish it was true.
- Denise?
- What?
- I love you.
- [Medic] Out of the way.
- I love you!
(groaning)
- [Denise] Don't hurt him.
- I wasn't the one who hit him
in the head with the gun, lady.
- When I saw you
about to die there,
I knew I had to tell you I
loved you before you died!
(moaning)
All I could see is what a
waste of life I'd be living
without you around.
Even if it was to
fight with each other!
- Get lost!
Get outta here.
- [Mooch] I would marry ya
and become a public defender,
and I don't know
which would be worse.
- [Denise] Do you
mean it, Mooch?
You really love me?
- [Mooch] I love you.
- [Denise] And you
wanna marry me??
- [Mooch] Denise, Denise,
I'm delirious here.
I can't be accountable for,
don't do that, Denise!
Denise!
Oh look at me, this
is the end of my life.
- Will you shut up?
Come on, come on.
(moaning)
Here.
(groaning)
- Boy, I was home free.
Do you understand that?
I was a young man
with a good career.
I had money in the
bank, my own place!
My own music I could play
as loud as I pleased!
- [Vinnie] Yeah.
- I did when and where I wanted.
Now look what you did to me,
and you're supposed
to be my friend?
Pfft!
Ahh!
(crutches clattering)
Oh, real nice, Terranova.
What the hell, you
got me down here,
why don't you break
the other leg?
You know, you're
really a miserable bum,
you know that?
(buzzing)
- [Denise] Yeah?
- Denise, it's Vinnie,
we're downstairs.
- [Denise] Okay,
I'll be right down.
- Okay.
- [Mooch] Come on, will
ya help me up here?
Come on, will ya
help me up here?
- Ahh!
- You know, I oughta
put you on crutches
for what you did to me!
- I didn't do anything to you!
- Baloney!
My life was all dialed
in, you forced my hand!
- Hey, stand up for
your own big mouth.
Nobody held a gun to your head.
I wasn't the one shouting
all over Playland,
"Denise, I'm in love with you."
- [Mooch] Shut up.
- [Vinnie] I'm delirious Denise,
I give up my dialed-in
career for you, $300--
Ow!
(laughing)
- [Mooch] Man, get up!
- [Vinnie] Come on, you're
crushing by boutonniere here.
- [Mooch] Good, you crushed
the boutonniere of my life.
I'm getting married
'cause of you!
- Oh, you.
- [Both] Hi, Denise.
- We gonna get married or what?
(upbeat music)
- Denise, you look beautiful.
(upbeat music)
(epic music)