Wiseguy (1987–2009): Season 3, Episode 9 - Day One - full transcript
In order to avenge his disruption of the plot to takeover Isle Pavot, Vinnie is drawn into a plot to destabilize the Japanese economy led by Admiral Strichen and General Leland Masters.
- [Narrator]
Tonight, on Wiseguy.
- I need one man, Agent
Vincent Terranova.
- God, I love this town!
- There's an intentional power
vacuum being created here
and you're being sucked into it.
You're about to
deal with vipers.
- I recommended you
be put in charge
of investigating a threat
against American interests.
Vincent Terranova, meet
General Leland Masters.
- [Frank] This man
is a four-star icon.
- Master's thinks there's
a covert action in place,
used to destroy the
Japanese economy,
he want's me to find out
who within the US
borders is behind it.
- Some one with Department
clearance has been shot.
I am in control here, I
am claiming jurisdiction
under the Felony
Enhancement Project.
- We can't let any of this
stuff get traced back to us.
- Frank, you'll serve
as interim director
until Beckstead's return.
I want all the evidence returned
to D.C. police immediately.
- This is a conspiracy, Mark,
the person that ended his
life, did so for reasons
that transcend a little
money or quick fix.
- Terranova be damned,
reparations are gonna
be paid by this boy.
- He doesn't come without
a lot of questions.
- The answer is treason and
he's gonna be strung up for it.
(fist thuds)
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music)
- [Senator] I can have the
Trade Bill out of my committee
and on the Senate
floor in a week.
- That's excellent.
- And our opposition?
- I have a list of the
fence sitters in the Senate.
We're three votes
shy of locking it up.
- Pickering?
- Won't budge.
But Delaney's vulnerable,
he needs help on his
Mass Transit Bill.
I think I can cut a deal.
- Murphy?
- About to lose
an Air Force Base
in the most depressed
part of the state.
He'll vote with us.
If you can keep it open.
- What about that Walter.
- Sir, the secretary
of Defense is,
uh, not very forth coming.
- I'll speak to him myself.
- Thank you General.
Admiral.
- Thank you Senator.
- I'll keep you informed
of our progress.
- [Senator] Thank you so much.
- [Walter] Thanks Senator.
- Non genuine destabilization,
I'd love to get a
look at Valenti's face
when he realizes he's
laid the groundwork
for the war effort.
We can't let any of this
stuff get traced back to us.
- Yes sir.
The only copy in existence will
be in Kay Gallagher's firm.
- [Leland] All right then.
What about OCB?
- Dewitt Clipton's
waiting in my office.
- [Leland] Bring him in.
- Yes sir.
Clip, come on in.
I'd like you to meet
General Leland Masters.
- I'm honored General.
- Good, have a seat.
I understand it's
only within the matter
of the last few days, that
you've been in charge of OCB?
- [Dewitt] Yes, sir.
- Well this isn't
the kind of thing
in which you want to
get your feet wet,
but we have no choice.
The National Security Commission
is facing a dire situation.
I can't tell you anymore
about it at this time,
but we need the
assistance of OCB.
- Of course, General.
You'll have all of the resources
at OCB at your disposal.
- I don't need
all the resources.
Just one man.
Agent Vincent Terranova.
- Terranova, Vincent,
- It's an unusual name,
you'll remember it.
- Oh yes, of course,
when do you need him?
- Walter will give you the
particulars, thank you.
- Thank you sir.
Anything I can do.
- Yeah, be sure, thank you.
- Always good to see you Clip.
I knew he'd be putty.
But, uh, Terranova
is another matter.
- Terranova be damned.
The son of a bitch turned a
beautifully conceived notion
into a public embarrassment
that'll take
decades to clean up.
Ilpavo 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.
- He doesn't come without
a lot of questions.
- To hell with his questions,
the answer is treason,
and he's gonna be
strung up for it.
(fist thuds)
(dramatic music)
(airplane brakes squealing)
- Hey Frank, how ya doin'?
- Yes, good!
- Good.
So has, uh, Clipton
mentioned my promotion?
- Well not in so many words.
- Frank it's only one word.
- Well it's one
word we didn't use.
- A promotion from his office,
would technically
make me your superior.
Is that what's bothering you?
What?
- Exiting National 1350 hours.
- [Vincent] What's
bothering you Frank?
- Things are not normal
around here Vince.
You got a call from Clipton,
not Beckstead, you know why?
Because last week Beckstead
got sent to Thailand
on some sort of an
extended training program.
Mark's in charge,
he's in over his head
and Clipton knows it.
On the same day Beckstead
gets sent to Thailand
and Mark's put in charge,
you get called down for a
little chat about a promotion.
There's an intentional power
vacuum being created here
and you're being sucked into it.
- Aw, isn't that nice.
You're worried about me.
- Now you listen to me, you're
about to deal with vipers.
- I thought I was
comin' in from the cold.
- These are dangerous
men, Vinnie,
they've tasted power and
they're addicted to it.
If they sense a threat to their
position on the daisy chain,
they'll cut your heart out
and look you in the
eye while they do it.
- [Vincent] I've dealt with
dangerous men before Frank.
- They lived outside the law.
The great equalizer was that
you represented the system.
They carry the law
in their briefcases.
You cross 'em you're
the one on the outside.
- The laws they carry
in their briefcases,
are my laws too, Frank.
Anywhere you find power,
you're gonna find men
goin' about the business
of tryin' to corrupt it.
They wallow in the
trappings of power,
hoping it'll stick,
but it never does.
Real power comes from
the heart, Frank.
Comes from resolute men
who put universal ideals
above self-aggrandizement.
Now stop the car.
Pull over.
Now get out here with me.
Ah.
Look around you Frank.
Look at it!
'Cause I know what you see.
You see this marble
and granite housing
these fang-toothed venomous
creatures brokering power
for their own self-interests.
But you know what I see?
- Jimmy Stewart?
- Yeah, you're damned
right, Jimmy Stewart.
I see the surviving and the
prevailing of truth, Frank.
And your vipers can
gerrymander and pork barrel
and burgle and assassinate
us til doomsday.
And it's to no avail,
and you know why?
Because truth is self-evident
and once there's truth
there's no denying it.
And I know you know that.
God, I love this town!
Yes!
- [Man] They're on
the Mall, 14:10 hours.
- And these guys, Frank.
These guys stood
up to your vipers
and they built the
best nation on earth.
Don't you feel it?
Put your hand on
your heart Frank.
Feel it!
No, no, you look
at these monuments,
you look at these monuments
and you tell me that
your heart isn't beating
just a little bit faster.
You tell me that's not why you
became a Guardian of Truth.
Now don't give me that
cynical puss, Frank.
Do it.
Do it for me, put your
hand on your heart.
Do it for me.
You see.
God I love this place!
Makes me feel like a little kid.
Don't you feel
like a little kid?
- Yeah, I feel
like a little kid.
- What?
- I also feel ridiculous.
Get in the car.
Just, get in the car.
- Oh ho, these snakes don't
live to bad here, huh Frank.
(laughing)
Here you go, pal.
- [Man] Thanks.
- Thanks a lot.
- Oh this is very nice.
- Yeah, huh.
- I mean my room is
between the ice machine
and the freight elevator.
- Hey Frank, you want some uh--
- Make sure they press your tux.
- Old curmudgeon.
- 2100 hours entering
Clipton party.
- No, no not from me,
but the cloth next day
three dozen rabbis show up.
(all laughing)
(Frank sighs)
- What?
- Senators Getzloff and Delaney.
- They're nominating
this kid Dixon
to run against me in the fall.
He's 36 with a long list
of successful prosecutions
and a full head of hair.
- So, what can I do to help?
- She'll give
everything she could
to repudiate my testimony
at the Ilpavo hearings.
- I need your help
on this Transit Bill.
- Oh, well, I need a
little help from you too.
I'd like to talk to you about.
- I need some help,
- Oh, hello!
- Yeah, well they
were on camera.
- [Mark] Vinnie!
- How you doin' Mark?
- It's great to see you.
- Likewise.
- Dewitt Clipton, this
is Vincent Terranova.
- Yes indeed, good
meeting you at last.
- Thank you.
- Glad you came.
Ah, we'll talk in the morning.
- [Vincent] Okay.
- Well, what a warm
and friendly man.
- Oh, he's a little preoccupied.
Leland Masters is
supposed to be here.
- [Vincent] Who?
- National Security Commission.
- [Man] Mark, can I
see you for a minute?
- Admiral Stricken.
- Senator, I just
want you to know,
I love the spirit
behind your Trade Bill.
- Senator Getzloff's Trade
Bill throws up a fence
around our borders
and what it subsidizes
is American companies
that are producing
inferior products.
- It ensures that we're all
playing by the same rules.
And if the rules are equal,
I will bet on American
industry every time.
- Senator, I
understand you're going
to be facing a real
challenger in the polls.
- I've faced them before.
- Yes, but not one who's
gonna point out your refusal
to protect American industry
against a foreign invasion.
- Oh look at this,
Strichen's here.
Living proof of
your viper theory.
Fangs and all.
- I know he's part
of the Establishment.
- Mm hm, he should be
part of the prison system.
(gentle music)
- Vinnie, Dr. And Mrs. Valenti.
This is Vinnie Terranova.
Dr. Valenti was a
professor of mine,
Dr. Valenti served on the
Council of Economic Advisors,
Brookings Institute,
Harvard Economic Review.
- Please Mark.
- You can't hold a job, huh.
- Vinnie!
- You can't be from D.C.
- Nope Brooklyn.
- I got cousins in Flatbush!
- Not from Lenny's Pastry?
- Yeah!
(laughing)
- You know you ought to
give those guys a plug
on your interview shows.
- Well I only do them when
they want an economist
who's mistrusted by
the Democrats and the
Republicans alike.
And I have an ego.
I don't mean to be rude,
but I have a taping at
5:00 in the morning.
It's, uh, nice to
meet you Vinnie.
- Yeah you too.
- You're coming over
Sunday for the game,
bring Vinnie with you if
you're gonna be in town.
- [Mark] Yes, thanks,
good night Claire.
- Take it easy.
- I love that man.
His potluck lunches kept
me alive in college.
Loves the Redskins.
- [Dewitt] Admiral.
- [Walter] I see that
Terranova is here.
- Yes sir.
It's what you wanted wasn't it?
- Thanks Clip, I appreciate it.
- Admiral Strichen.
(Katherine growls)
Walter where have
you been hiding?
- My office, I only
go out when it's dark.
- Roosevelt.
- Oh c'mon.
- The Roosevelt!
- This generation of Americans
has a rendezvous with
- [Both] Destiny.
- Thank you.
(both laughing)
- Beautiful ice
sculpture isn't it.
- [Katherine] Not as beautiful
as what's next to it.
Who is that?
- He's the future, Kay.
The future of this town.
- Thank you.
(gentle music)
Katherine Gallagher, hello.
- Vinnie Terranova,
how ya doin'?
- I'm doing well, but
I work hard at it.
- Well that's good, I
believe in hard work.
- Oh, how do you feel
about spontaneous sex?
- Well.
- I'm sorry I'm so forward,
I have no excuse for myself.
These parties I'm surrounded
by either married men
or single men with
mother complexes
and you didn't look as
if you've carried in
any of that baggage.
Have you?
- Well that depends
on who I'm with.
- Pardon?
- I'm still workin' on
the spontaneous sex thing.
- Oh.
You're with me.
- Okay.
So what is it you do?
- I'm with Justice.
What about you?
- I represent various
interests here in Washington.
- I see.
- Have you ever seen the
city from a widow's walk?
- Not yet.
Breathe deep the
gathering gloom Frank.
(laughs)
(people chattering)
- Intoxicating, isn't it?
The center of power on earth.
- It's the center of
principle Katherine.
- Steady, come here.
It's okay, you stay there Lady.
(dog whining)
- [Habib] Good
evening, Dr. Valenti.
- What's shakin' Habib?
Oh my God!
No!
(gun firing)
(dramatic music)
- Claire, Claire.
- [Officer] Set of keys.
No money.
Left breast pocket.
We've got a problem.
Take a look at this Marty.
(beeper beeping)
- Excuse me.
- Excuse me.
(gentle music)
- [Man] Communications.
- This is Sirmack.
- [Man] There's been a
homicide at 6401 Wisconsin.
Victim had a Level One
Security Clearance.
- You haven' a good time?
- There's been a,
someone with Department
Clearance has been shot,
- [Vincent] What?
- I, uh have to get over there.
Frank, I never had to handle
anything like this before.
- C'mon.
(gentle music)
- [Man] 6400 block of Wisconsin.
Looks like some sort
of police situation.
0130 hours.
- Robbery homicide, another
crack head on the make.
(Mark groans)
- Mark, let's sit
down for a second.
- I'm in control.
I am in control.
- Hey Mark, these
guys can handle it.
- I am claiming jurisdiction
under the Felony
Enhancement Project.
- Eh, that's okay with me
pal, I'm on OT already.
- [Man] What is that?
What is that supposed to do?
- It's supposed
to locate latents.
(siren wailing)
- We've got to get
him outta here.
- I wan ballistics, toxicology,
I want that security cameras
tapes sent to OCB, ASAP.
- Mark, you listen to
me, these are your guys,
they're the best in the world.
You let 'em do their job.
- I have to be here Frank.
- Mark, don't you think
you should talk to Claire?
- [Radio] Roger, I'll
have the information,
(TV crackling)
- [Claire] Margaret, you must
have done something to it.
- Why is it
automatically my fault?
- It was working this morning.
- So, I haven't been
home all day either.
I don't know what's
wrong with it.
I can't get any pictures here,
the video games aren't working.
(dramatic music)
- Oh my God.
Oh my God.
(dramatic music)
- [Vincent] And how do you
work that image enhancement?
- Oh, I can't figure it out.
The ballistics is useless,
.22 mushroomed on impact,
striations destroyed.
- These can be enhanced
pixel line by pixel line.
- But Mark.
- [Mark] What about toxicology?
- [Frank] We don't
have a report yet.
- Mark.
- Why not!
- Mark, Mark, listen
to me, listen.
I know what obsession is,
I went through it
when my brother died.
You went through it
with me, you remember.
Now you helped me then,
I'm here for you now.
You can't be of value
unless you're in control
of what's driving you.
- Gentlemen.
C'mon.
Mark, I'm placing you
on restricted duty
so you can be with his family.
They need your strength now,
so you can help them with
the emotional strain.
Now send Claire my love, tell
her we're doing all we can.
And take some time off, take
as much time as you need.
- Thank you sir.
- Frank, you'll serve
as interim director
until Beckstead's return.
I want all the evidence returned
to D.C. police immediately.
- Well we have it right here,
we might as well
take a look at it.
Yes sir.
- Vincent, we have a meeting.
Return the evidence Frank.
You're an administrator now.
- Yes sir.
- [Vincent] We're are we going?
- There are opportunities
that come along
once in a lifetime, Vincent.
This is one of them.
You've been requested
to serve the National
Security Commission.
- Why?
- That's on a need
to know basis.
I don't need to know.
(Vincent sighs)
Present your credentials,
you'll be led through a
series of security checks
and into the basement.
- [Guard] You'll proceed
to Office B135 sir.
- Excuse me.
- Our meeting is an occasion.
But black tie is
hardly required.
- The Invasion of Ilpavo was
an illegal covert operation.
It was your baby.
A friend and colleague of
mine died because of it.
Doesn't look like
you've suffered at all.
- Vincent.
You flatter me.
To think that the liberation
of a hostage held nation
could be created at my level.
That's fantasy.
- Your testimony before
committee was fantasy.
You said that true democracy
can only be achieved
if the people wanted it.
They can't be imposed by force.
I know you don't believe that.
- Fire still burns Vincent.
That's very good.
- What am I doing here?
- I recommended you
be put in charge
of investigating a threat
against American interests.
- And why am I the
guy you recommended?
- Because you despise me.
(phone buzzing)
- Sir.
Yes sir, of course.
This way Vincent, please.
Vincent Terranova, meet
General Leland Masters.
- [Leland] Agent Terranova.
- General Masters.
- Did you brief him?
- Sir, I'd assumed you wanted
to handle the specifics.
- Thank you Walter.
- Yes sir.
Nice talking to you Vincent.
- Thank you.
- You dealt a severe blow
to the cause of freedom
in this hemisphere.
- Excuse me?
- Ilpavo.
You believe zealots
within our government,
orchestrated the take over.
You stopped it.
Why?
- Because it was
illegal, unjustified
and morally bankrupt.
- You know who
controls Ilpavo today?
Catro Richan, he's
conducted a systematic purge
of the island.
Imprisoning and killing all
those who don't subscribe
to his Marxist,
Leninist beliefs.
All the killing fields
are not in Cambodia.
So much for moral bankruptcy.
- Morality does not sway
with the prevailing
breeze, General.
The morality that steers
this country is written
on documents in the
National Archives.
Now they say a lot of things,
but it boils down to just one.
The end does not
justify the means.
- This is one of the most
powerful weapons in the world.
Take a look at it.
Go on.
That's a printing plate.
For Japanese yen.
It's a copy, the
original was intercepted
and allowed to
continue on its route.
- So, what?
You caught a counterfeiter?
- If it was that simple we
wouldn't have asked for you.
No.
We believe a plan exists to
undermine the economy of Japan.
We believe there are individuals
or groups within
the United States.
Within the United
States, Agent Terranova,
whose laws you've sworn
an oath to uphold.
Individuals or groups
who have decided
to play economic war on Japan.
And the introduction of currency
into the Japanese economy
is part of that declaration.
This parcel, containing the
original plate was damaged
in transit, to Tenzer,
Kurtzman and Lloyd.
A lobbying firm with extensive
contacts in the Middle East,
Latin America and Germany.
- So you mean to tell me,
that the most powerful economy
in the world is
about to be destroyed
by a Capitol Hill PR firm?
No thank you.
- It's your moral
duty to stop it.
I have a meeting
tomorrow morning at
11:00 in the West Wing.
I'll need your answer by then.
Thank you Agent Terranova.
(dramatic music)
- [Frank] Thank you.
How was the meeting?
- It was at the White House.
Oh thank you.
Get me the file on General
Leland Masters please.
- Ah, just his address
for a Christmas list,
there's no hurry.
You come in here.
Hey what the hell's
goin' on here?
- I just spent the last
hour with Admiral Strichen
and General Leland Masters.
Yeah.
The National Security Commission
has intercepted a plate,
used to counterfeit
Japanese yen.
Now Masters thinks
there's a covert action
in place to destroy
the Japanese economy.
He wants me to find out who
within US borders is behind it.
I want to know who
General Leland Masters is.
- You just can't
indiscriminately request
classified information on a man
like General Leland Masters.
- Why not?
- Who is he that I can't ask.
- Vinnie, this man
is four-star icon.
He was on the death
march through Bataan.
He entered Berlin
with the First Army
and helped destroy Nazi Germany.
Then he stayed on with
Marshall to help rebuild it.
- Then why don't I know him?
- Because he doesn't care
about having high
schools named after him,
he just wants to
get the job done.
- So why does he want me?
- For precisely that reason.
A guy who smoked cigars
with Churchill does not need
to jerk around Vinnie Terranova.
- Here.
This is the current policy
of the regime in
Ilpavo right now,
which your four-star
icon laid at my doorstep.
Strichen answers to him.
- Well you weren't
wrong about Ilpavo.
- Yeah I know that.
- In some ways neither was he.
- Frank, the invasion
of Ilpavo had nothing
to do with
establishing democracy.
It was about creating
a beachhead for a
bottling company.
And me being here
is a complete lie,
Clipton's fairy tale about
me havin' a promotion.
Man you were right
Frank, you were right.
I'm bein' sucked
into somethin' here,
I don't know if it's a
power vacuum or what it is.
(Frank groans)
What is it?
- The bullet that killed
Valenti was packed with Curare.
It was an assassination, Vince.
- Let me see that.
- We know where Mark Sirmack is?
- [Man] 1130 hours, entered
5203 P Street Georgetown.
- Everything's gone on
Dr. Valenti's hard drive.
It's the same thing on
all his personal software.
Document File Not
Found Abort: Retry.
I have been here since 8:00
this morning, tapes, floppies,
everything on his hard
drive, it's all been erased.
I want to be reinstated
to full duty Frank.
- Mark, here.
Now sit down.
And you can't be reinstated
without drawing attention.
- Dr. Valenti was
a theoretician,
his whole life was
paradigms and flow charts.
- This is a conspiracy Mark,
the person that ended his
life did so for reasons
that transcend a little
money or quick fix.
- We're supposed to ignore a
murder because of a conspiracy.
- No, we don't ignore a murder.
But we have to know who it is.
- Well they sure know us.
We're bein' watched out there.
They just got made.
Whoever it is is just gonna
be replaced by somebody else.
- They could have been
watching you or you or me.
- Yeah or this house.
- Well what do we do,
I just can't sit here.
- We have to find out what
Valenti was working on.
Now there has to be a hard copy
somewhere, can you find it?
- Yeah.
- When you get whatever you get,
then you come back to the OCB.
And you act like
a good bureaucrat.
(dramatic music)
- Well, you know, I think
I am getting the hand
of this thing.
But he's not giving us
anything we can use.
- Dr. Valenti just
published a paper
on the macroeconomics
of the Caribbean Basin.
- For whom?
- OECS.
Before that he created a model
for non-genuine destabilization.
His benchmark is
the contemporization
of comparative advantage.
- What is that?
- It's an outmoded theory
that the most efficient form
of national economy
is based solely
on a countries
natural resources.
Dr. Valenti repostulated it.
Arguing that the
most powerful economy
in the world, Japan's,
is based not on
what's in the ground,
but what's on it, people.
Until then people hadn't been
considered a natural resource.
- Well what was he,
some kind of expert
on the Japanese economy?
- No, they were just
an appropriate example.
- What's a model for
non-genuine destabilization.
- A diagram for waging economic
war through counterfeiting.
- What is it?
What?
- You know how
the diagram works?
- No, but I have the treatise
- Who commissioned it?
- Tenzer, Kurtzman and Lloyd,
account executive
Katherine Gallagher.
- Let me see that.
(Vincent sighs)
- All right, here's
Valenti's fundamental model
of non-genuine destabilization.
Production, to produce
enough counterfeit currency
to destabilize Japan
is a monumental task.
Now who has the means
to do such a thing,
except another government.
- Another government, Frank?
- Why does it always have
to be Washington, Vinnie,
now why couldn't it be a
cartel of industrialists?
- I suppose it could be, I
just don't see the difference.
- All right, all right,
all right, all right,
who ever it is is the
second step, invasion.
Your bastard dyes the yen
but the delivery is
an impossible problem,
except for another government.
- Private sector operates
fleets of C-130s.
- You have a cabal of
industrialists, or governments,
either of which has to make sure
that destabilizing Japan
doesn't hurt their own economy.
They have to defend against
their own conspiracy.
- Now wait a minute, wait
a minute, wait a minute.
Now defense for a government,
would be restricted
trade legislation,
right, like
Getzloff's Trade Bill.
- Every year there's a trade
bill, every year it fails.
Most of the time it doesn't
make it out of committee.
If you want something
done and done quickly,
look to the private sector.
- Guys we are not
getting anywhere.
- All right Frank,
you're, just go on then.
- All right, discovery.
You don't have a
snowball's chance in hell
of pulling it off.
- Private sector,
speed of implementation
means greater effect
before discovery.
Governments are inert.
This would show up in the
polls before it even hit Tokyo.
- Accountability.
What's the down side?
If it's the private sector,
there's a two year
investigation, a
slap on the wrist,
a few more regulations,
end of story.
- But the government
loses everything, Frank.
Its loss of consensus
and a government
without consensus goes the way
of the Nixon administration.
- Yeah.
Unless they had a fall guy.
- This is mental masturbation.
We are babbling about
a blue sky theory
that nobody in their right mind
would attempt to implement.
- Don't you do it Vince.
- What.
- Leland Masters put a plate
to counterfeit yen in my hand.
He told me this theory's
going into effect,
he wants me to find
out who's behind it.
- That information is
not to leave this room.
- Then it's no longer
theory, it's actual fact.
- That's right.
- Well why did we
torture ourselves arguing
over its validity?
- Because I think
Masters is behind it
and I wanted to
see how it worked.
- You're insane!
Do you know who he is?
- Yes I know who he is and
it makes perfect sense.
He's got the ability to
produce, and deliver.
Look at the resources he has.
Not only in the
Federal government,
but in the private sector too.
Okay, defense.
Now everybody knows he's
been quietly strong arming
for Getzloff's Trade Bill.
Discovery, that's me.
He wants to leave a trail
for me to find his fall guy.
That's accountability.
- You're suggesting he
was also responsible
for Dr. Valenti's death.
Why did he pick you?
- Because I testified
against him at Ilpavo,
I derailed their
covert operation,
now it's on record where I
stand and how I feel about them.
Mark, after all, I
am a Federal Agent
with the Justice Department.
If I can make their case, in
spite of how I feel about them,
who would dispute it?
Again, accountability.
I'm supposed to find
their scape goat.
- Either Dean or Opal.
- Yeah, or Kay Gallagher.
Well there it is gentlemen.
General Leland Maters
is going to produce
and dump untold sums
of counterfeit yen
into the Japanese economy.
He's gonna defend out borders
with Senator
Getzloff's Trade Bill.
He knows it's
gonna be discovered
so he's got me to lay it
all at Kay Gallagher's feet.
(dramatic music)
- Oh, what a nice surprise.
- Hello, we need
a place to talk.
- Oh, come into my office.
Grace, no calls please.
- I understand you control
this lobbying firm.
- That's correct, yeah.
- Then why isn't it Tenzer,
Kurtzman, Lloyd and Gallagher?
- Because I'm alive.
- You're alive.
- Yes.
Tenzer is in a rest
home in Sarasota.
Kurzman in a tomb on Long Island
and Lloyd is in
that urn over there.
Washington worships
the dead, Vinnie,
why fly in the face of that?
- I need all your files
and documents pertaining
to the Japanese Ministry
of International
Trade and Industry.
I can wait for a warrant
if that's necessary.
- Grace, I need the
duplicate set of files
on the Japanese Ministry, ASAP.
And prepare this
letter immediately.
I hereby acknowledge
receipt of all documents
and materials confidential
and otherwise belonging
to Tenzer, Kurtzman
and Lloyd as pertains
to the Japanese Ministry
of International
Trade and Industry.
The confidentiality of said
materials will not be violated.
Signed as accepted and
adhered to Vincent,
what's your middle name,
- Micheal.
- Micheal Terranova's agent
for the Justice Department of
the United States of America,
dated and I'll need
you to notarize.
Any interrogation you're
entertaining is gonna have
to wait until my
attorney can be present.
- Fine.
- Kay the files
are at reception.
- Sign this.
He's to sign for the
documents as well.
- There you go.
- Thank you.
- Thank you Grace.
- You're welcome.
- Next time you decide to pop
by, make an appointment first.
- Guess that means dinner's
out of the question.
- Tuesday's free.
- Great.
- Grace, get Mr.
Kattert on the line,
see if you can
move him up a day.
- See you Tuesday.
- The Japanese Ministry's
on a $20,000 a month
retainer to TKL.
Every time someone
sneezes a memo goes out.
(Frank groans)
- Vince it could take months
to go through this stuff.
Days anyway.
- There's nothing
here yet that helps.
- All right you
postpone the meeting.
- I can't Frank,
it's a red flag.
- I told you this is
a dangerous place,
now it is conceivable
that Masters is connected
to Valenti's murder.
Now you can't mention it.
There's nothing
to link him to it,
you might be putting
a gun to your own head
or pointing out tracks
that he needs to cover.
- Yeah, well I'm sure he
knows the tracks to cover,
he is after all
a four-star icon.
Gotta get going.
- All right, wait a second.
Vince.
Here you take this,
whatever he has
to say it might
be worth hearing.
- The American people have come
to see you as strength
that's inherent.
As if it existed as
naturally as the marble
and stone of the institutions
that have come to
house their laws.
And Lawyers.
Because it's quite all right
to engage lawyers in
stone but not the law.
Our strength is not inherent.
It comes from there.
We bleed for it, we die for it.
And then damn it, we forget it.
We start fretting
about media gnats,
and worrying about how our
actions will be perceived.
All those men who
built our country,
they didn't give a
damn about perceptions.
They were revolutionaries,
the lot of them.
All the way through Lincoln.
They fought for
truth, for the people,
and hang the damn perception.
It's no mistake that we
declared our independence
with self-evident truths.
It's why you're here isn't it?
- I'm here for justice.
And in as much as justice
is found in truth,
in its inherent
inalienable right,
I guess I am here
for that reason.
And General.
I don't give a damn
how I'm perceived.
- The more you get to know me,
the more you'll see
that you and I are cut
from the same cloth.
Men like us are the last rebels
of the American Revolution.
We just wage our war with
more, sophisticated tools.
We've come a long way,
since the flintlock.
I really hate these bastards.
I ask myself over and over why
the hell should I help them.
We do what we do for justice,
don't we Agent Terranova.
(dramatic music)
- You bet your ass.
(dramatic music)
(upbeat music)
(dramatic music)
Tonight, on Wiseguy.
- I need one man, Agent
Vincent Terranova.
- God, I love this town!
- There's an intentional power
vacuum being created here
and you're being sucked into it.
You're about to
deal with vipers.
- I recommended you
be put in charge
of investigating a threat
against American interests.
Vincent Terranova, meet
General Leland Masters.
- [Frank] This man
is a four-star icon.
- Master's thinks there's
a covert action in place,
used to destroy the
Japanese economy,
he want's me to find out
who within the US
borders is behind it.
- Some one with Department
clearance has been shot.
I am in control here, I
am claiming jurisdiction
under the Felony
Enhancement Project.
- We can't let any of this
stuff get traced back to us.
- Frank, you'll serve
as interim director
until Beckstead's return.
I want all the evidence returned
to D.C. police immediately.
- This is a conspiracy, Mark,
the person that ended his
life, did so for reasons
that transcend a little
money or quick fix.
- Terranova be damned,
reparations are gonna
be paid by this boy.
- He doesn't come without
a lot of questions.
- The answer is treason and
he's gonna be strung up for it.
(fist thuds)
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music)
- [Senator] I can have the
Trade Bill out of my committee
and on the Senate
floor in a week.
- That's excellent.
- And our opposition?
- I have a list of the
fence sitters in the Senate.
We're three votes
shy of locking it up.
- Pickering?
- Won't budge.
But Delaney's vulnerable,
he needs help on his
Mass Transit Bill.
I think I can cut a deal.
- Murphy?
- About to lose
an Air Force Base
in the most depressed
part of the state.
He'll vote with us.
If you can keep it open.
- What about that Walter.
- Sir, the secretary
of Defense is,
uh, not very forth coming.
- I'll speak to him myself.
- Thank you General.
Admiral.
- Thank you Senator.
- I'll keep you informed
of our progress.
- [Senator] Thank you so much.
- [Walter] Thanks Senator.
- Non genuine destabilization,
I'd love to get a
look at Valenti's face
when he realizes he's
laid the groundwork
for the war effort.
We can't let any of this
stuff get traced back to us.
- Yes sir.
The only copy in existence will
be in Kay Gallagher's firm.
- [Leland] All right then.
What about OCB?
- Dewitt Clipton's
waiting in my office.
- [Leland] Bring him in.
- Yes sir.
Clip, come on in.
I'd like you to meet
General Leland Masters.
- I'm honored General.
- Good, have a seat.
I understand it's
only within the matter
of the last few days, that
you've been in charge of OCB?
- [Dewitt] Yes, sir.
- Well this isn't
the kind of thing
in which you want to
get your feet wet,
but we have no choice.
The National Security Commission
is facing a dire situation.
I can't tell you anymore
about it at this time,
but we need the
assistance of OCB.
- Of course, General.
You'll have all of the resources
at OCB at your disposal.
- I don't need
all the resources.
Just one man.
Agent Vincent Terranova.
- Terranova, Vincent,
- It's an unusual name,
you'll remember it.
- Oh yes, of course,
when do you need him?
- Walter will give you the
particulars, thank you.
- Thank you sir.
Anything I can do.
- Yeah, be sure, thank you.
- Always good to see you Clip.
I knew he'd be putty.
But, uh, Terranova
is another matter.
- Terranova be damned.
The son of a bitch turned a
beautifully conceived notion
into a public embarrassment
that'll take
decades to clean up.
Ilpavo 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.
- He doesn't come without
a lot of questions.
- To hell with his questions,
the answer is treason,
and he's gonna be
strung up for it.
(fist thuds)
(dramatic music)
(airplane brakes squealing)
- Hey Frank, how ya doin'?
- Yes, good!
- Good.
So has, uh, Clipton
mentioned my promotion?
- Well not in so many words.
- Frank it's only one word.
- Well it's one
word we didn't use.
- A promotion from his office,
would technically
make me your superior.
Is that what's bothering you?
What?
- Exiting National 1350 hours.
- [Vincent] What's
bothering you Frank?
- Things are not normal
around here Vince.
You got a call from Clipton,
not Beckstead, you know why?
Because last week Beckstead
got sent to Thailand
on some sort of an
extended training program.
Mark's in charge,
he's in over his head
and Clipton knows it.
On the same day Beckstead
gets sent to Thailand
and Mark's put in charge,
you get called down for a
little chat about a promotion.
There's an intentional power
vacuum being created here
and you're being sucked into it.
- Aw, isn't that nice.
You're worried about me.
- Now you listen to me, you're
about to deal with vipers.
- I thought I was
comin' in from the cold.
- These are dangerous
men, Vinnie,
they've tasted power and
they're addicted to it.
If they sense a threat to their
position on the daisy chain,
they'll cut your heart out
and look you in the
eye while they do it.
- [Vincent] I've dealt with
dangerous men before Frank.
- They lived outside the law.
The great equalizer was that
you represented the system.
They carry the law
in their briefcases.
You cross 'em you're
the one on the outside.
- The laws they carry
in their briefcases,
are my laws too, Frank.
Anywhere you find power,
you're gonna find men
goin' about the business
of tryin' to corrupt it.
They wallow in the
trappings of power,
hoping it'll stick,
but it never does.
Real power comes from
the heart, Frank.
Comes from resolute men
who put universal ideals
above self-aggrandizement.
Now stop the car.
Pull over.
Now get out here with me.
Ah.
Look around you Frank.
Look at it!
'Cause I know what you see.
You see this marble
and granite housing
these fang-toothed venomous
creatures brokering power
for their own self-interests.
But you know what I see?
- Jimmy Stewart?
- Yeah, you're damned
right, Jimmy Stewart.
I see the surviving and the
prevailing of truth, Frank.
And your vipers can
gerrymander and pork barrel
and burgle and assassinate
us til doomsday.
And it's to no avail,
and you know why?
Because truth is self-evident
and once there's truth
there's no denying it.
And I know you know that.
God, I love this town!
Yes!
- [Man] They're on
the Mall, 14:10 hours.
- And these guys, Frank.
These guys stood
up to your vipers
and they built the
best nation on earth.
Don't you feel it?
Put your hand on
your heart Frank.
Feel it!
No, no, you look
at these monuments,
you look at these monuments
and you tell me that
your heart isn't beating
just a little bit faster.
You tell me that's not why you
became a Guardian of Truth.
Now don't give me that
cynical puss, Frank.
Do it.
Do it for me, put your
hand on your heart.
Do it for me.
You see.
God I love this place!
Makes me feel like a little kid.
Don't you feel
like a little kid?
- Yeah, I feel
like a little kid.
- What?
- I also feel ridiculous.
Get in the car.
Just, get in the car.
- Oh ho, these snakes don't
live to bad here, huh Frank.
(laughing)
Here you go, pal.
- [Man] Thanks.
- Thanks a lot.
- Oh this is very nice.
- Yeah, huh.
- I mean my room is
between the ice machine
and the freight elevator.
- Hey Frank, you want some uh--
- Make sure they press your tux.
- Old curmudgeon.
- 2100 hours entering
Clipton party.
- No, no not from me,
but the cloth next day
three dozen rabbis show up.
(all laughing)
(Frank sighs)
- What?
- Senators Getzloff and Delaney.
- They're nominating
this kid Dixon
to run against me in the fall.
He's 36 with a long list
of successful prosecutions
and a full head of hair.
- So, what can I do to help?
- She'll give
everything she could
to repudiate my testimony
at the Ilpavo hearings.
- I need your help
on this Transit Bill.
- Oh, well, I need a
little help from you too.
I'd like to talk to you about.
- I need some help,
- Oh, hello!
- Yeah, well they
were on camera.
- [Mark] Vinnie!
- How you doin' Mark?
- It's great to see you.
- Likewise.
- Dewitt Clipton, this
is Vincent Terranova.
- Yes indeed, good
meeting you at last.
- Thank you.
- Glad you came.
Ah, we'll talk in the morning.
- [Vincent] Okay.
- Well, what a warm
and friendly man.
- Oh, he's a little preoccupied.
Leland Masters is
supposed to be here.
- [Vincent] Who?
- National Security Commission.
- [Man] Mark, can I
see you for a minute?
- Admiral Stricken.
- Senator, I just
want you to know,
I love the spirit
behind your Trade Bill.
- Senator Getzloff's Trade
Bill throws up a fence
around our borders
and what it subsidizes
is American companies
that are producing
inferior products.
- It ensures that we're all
playing by the same rules.
And if the rules are equal,
I will bet on American
industry every time.
- Senator, I
understand you're going
to be facing a real
challenger in the polls.
- I've faced them before.
- Yes, but not one who's
gonna point out your refusal
to protect American industry
against a foreign invasion.
- Oh look at this,
Strichen's here.
Living proof of
your viper theory.
Fangs and all.
- I know he's part
of the Establishment.
- Mm hm, he should be
part of the prison system.
(gentle music)
- Vinnie, Dr. And Mrs. Valenti.
This is Vinnie Terranova.
Dr. Valenti was a
professor of mine,
Dr. Valenti served on the
Council of Economic Advisors,
Brookings Institute,
Harvard Economic Review.
- Please Mark.
- You can't hold a job, huh.
- Vinnie!
- You can't be from D.C.
- Nope Brooklyn.
- I got cousins in Flatbush!
- Not from Lenny's Pastry?
- Yeah!
(laughing)
- You know you ought to
give those guys a plug
on your interview shows.
- Well I only do them when
they want an economist
who's mistrusted by
the Democrats and the
Republicans alike.
And I have an ego.
I don't mean to be rude,
but I have a taping at
5:00 in the morning.
It's, uh, nice to
meet you Vinnie.
- Yeah you too.
- You're coming over
Sunday for the game,
bring Vinnie with you if
you're gonna be in town.
- [Mark] Yes, thanks,
good night Claire.
- Take it easy.
- I love that man.
His potluck lunches kept
me alive in college.
Loves the Redskins.
- [Dewitt] Admiral.
- [Walter] I see that
Terranova is here.
- Yes sir.
It's what you wanted wasn't it?
- Thanks Clip, I appreciate it.
- Admiral Strichen.
(Katherine growls)
Walter where have
you been hiding?
- My office, I only
go out when it's dark.
- Roosevelt.
- Oh c'mon.
- The Roosevelt!
- This generation of Americans
has a rendezvous with
- [Both] Destiny.
- Thank you.
(both laughing)
- Beautiful ice
sculpture isn't it.
- [Katherine] Not as beautiful
as what's next to it.
Who is that?
- He's the future, Kay.
The future of this town.
- Thank you.
(gentle music)
Katherine Gallagher, hello.
- Vinnie Terranova,
how ya doin'?
- I'm doing well, but
I work hard at it.
- Well that's good, I
believe in hard work.
- Oh, how do you feel
about spontaneous sex?
- Well.
- I'm sorry I'm so forward,
I have no excuse for myself.
These parties I'm surrounded
by either married men
or single men with
mother complexes
and you didn't look as
if you've carried in
any of that baggage.
Have you?
- Well that depends
on who I'm with.
- Pardon?
- I'm still workin' on
the spontaneous sex thing.
- Oh.
You're with me.
- Okay.
So what is it you do?
- I'm with Justice.
What about you?
- I represent various
interests here in Washington.
- I see.
- Have you ever seen the
city from a widow's walk?
- Not yet.
Breathe deep the
gathering gloom Frank.
(laughs)
(people chattering)
- Intoxicating, isn't it?
The center of power on earth.
- It's the center of
principle Katherine.
- Steady, come here.
It's okay, you stay there Lady.
(dog whining)
- [Habib] Good
evening, Dr. Valenti.
- What's shakin' Habib?
Oh my God!
No!
(gun firing)
(dramatic music)
- Claire, Claire.
- [Officer] Set of keys.
No money.
Left breast pocket.
We've got a problem.
Take a look at this Marty.
(beeper beeping)
- Excuse me.
- Excuse me.
(gentle music)
- [Man] Communications.
- This is Sirmack.
- [Man] There's been a
homicide at 6401 Wisconsin.
Victim had a Level One
Security Clearance.
- You haven' a good time?
- There's been a,
someone with Department
Clearance has been shot,
- [Vincent] What?
- I, uh have to get over there.
Frank, I never had to handle
anything like this before.
- C'mon.
(gentle music)
- [Man] 6400 block of Wisconsin.
Looks like some sort
of police situation.
0130 hours.
- Robbery homicide, another
crack head on the make.
(Mark groans)
- Mark, let's sit
down for a second.
- I'm in control.
I am in control.
- Hey Mark, these
guys can handle it.
- I am claiming jurisdiction
under the Felony
Enhancement Project.
- Eh, that's okay with me
pal, I'm on OT already.
- [Man] What is that?
What is that supposed to do?
- It's supposed
to locate latents.
(siren wailing)
- We've got to get
him outta here.
- I wan ballistics, toxicology,
I want that security cameras
tapes sent to OCB, ASAP.
- Mark, you listen to
me, these are your guys,
they're the best in the world.
You let 'em do their job.
- I have to be here Frank.
- Mark, don't you think
you should talk to Claire?
- [Radio] Roger, I'll
have the information,
(TV crackling)
- [Claire] Margaret, you must
have done something to it.
- Why is it
automatically my fault?
- It was working this morning.
- So, I haven't been
home all day either.
I don't know what's
wrong with it.
I can't get any pictures here,
the video games aren't working.
(dramatic music)
- Oh my God.
Oh my God.
(dramatic music)
- [Vincent] And how do you
work that image enhancement?
- Oh, I can't figure it out.
The ballistics is useless,
.22 mushroomed on impact,
striations destroyed.
- These can be enhanced
pixel line by pixel line.
- But Mark.
- [Mark] What about toxicology?
- [Frank] We don't
have a report yet.
- Mark.
- Why not!
- Mark, Mark, listen
to me, listen.
I know what obsession is,
I went through it
when my brother died.
You went through it
with me, you remember.
Now you helped me then,
I'm here for you now.
You can't be of value
unless you're in control
of what's driving you.
- Gentlemen.
C'mon.
Mark, I'm placing you
on restricted duty
so you can be with his family.
They need your strength now,
so you can help them with
the emotional strain.
Now send Claire my love, tell
her we're doing all we can.
And take some time off, take
as much time as you need.
- Thank you sir.
- Frank, you'll serve
as interim director
until Beckstead's return.
I want all the evidence returned
to D.C. police immediately.
- Well we have it right here,
we might as well
take a look at it.
Yes sir.
- Vincent, we have a meeting.
Return the evidence Frank.
You're an administrator now.
- Yes sir.
- [Vincent] We're are we going?
- There are opportunities
that come along
once in a lifetime, Vincent.
This is one of them.
You've been requested
to serve the National
Security Commission.
- Why?
- That's on a need
to know basis.
I don't need to know.
(Vincent sighs)
Present your credentials,
you'll be led through a
series of security checks
and into the basement.
- [Guard] You'll proceed
to Office B135 sir.
- Excuse me.
- Our meeting is an occasion.
But black tie is
hardly required.
- The Invasion of Ilpavo was
an illegal covert operation.
It was your baby.
A friend and colleague of
mine died because of it.
Doesn't look like
you've suffered at all.
- Vincent.
You flatter me.
To think that the liberation
of a hostage held nation
could be created at my level.
That's fantasy.
- Your testimony before
committee was fantasy.
You said that true democracy
can only be achieved
if the people wanted it.
They can't be imposed by force.
I know you don't believe that.
- Fire still burns Vincent.
That's very good.
- What am I doing here?
- I recommended you
be put in charge
of investigating a threat
against American interests.
- And why am I the
guy you recommended?
- Because you despise me.
(phone buzzing)
- Sir.
Yes sir, of course.
This way Vincent, please.
Vincent Terranova, meet
General Leland Masters.
- [Leland] Agent Terranova.
- General Masters.
- Did you brief him?
- Sir, I'd assumed you wanted
to handle the specifics.
- Thank you Walter.
- Yes sir.
Nice talking to you Vincent.
- Thank you.
- You dealt a severe blow
to the cause of freedom
in this hemisphere.
- Excuse me?
- Ilpavo.
You believe zealots
within our government,
orchestrated the take over.
You stopped it.
Why?
- Because it was
illegal, unjustified
and morally bankrupt.
- You know who
controls Ilpavo today?
Catro Richan, he's
conducted a systematic purge
of the island.
Imprisoning and killing all
those who don't subscribe
to his Marxist,
Leninist beliefs.
All the killing fields
are not in Cambodia.
So much for moral bankruptcy.
- Morality does not sway
with the prevailing
breeze, General.
The morality that steers
this country is written
on documents in the
National Archives.
Now they say a lot of things,
but it boils down to just one.
The end does not
justify the means.
- This is one of the most
powerful weapons in the world.
Take a look at it.
Go on.
That's a printing plate.
For Japanese yen.
It's a copy, the
original was intercepted
and allowed to
continue on its route.
- So, what?
You caught a counterfeiter?
- If it was that simple we
wouldn't have asked for you.
No.
We believe a plan exists to
undermine the economy of Japan.
We believe there are individuals
or groups within
the United States.
Within the United
States, Agent Terranova,
whose laws you've sworn
an oath to uphold.
Individuals or groups
who have decided
to play economic war on Japan.
And the introduction of currency
into the Japanese economy
is part of that declaration.
This parcel, containing the
original plate was damaged
in transit, to Tenzer,
Kurtzman and Lloyd.
A lobbying firm with extensive
contacts in the Middle East,
Latin America and Germany.
- So you mean to tell me,
that the most powerful economy
in the world is
about to be destroyed
by a Capitol Hill PR firm?
No thank you.
- It's your moral
duty to stop it.
I have a meeting
tomorrow morning at
11:00 in the West Wing.
I'll need your answer by then.
Thank you Agent Terranova.
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- [Frank] Thank you.
How was the meeting?
- It was at the White House.
Oh thank you.
Get me the file on General
Leland Masters please.
- Ah, just his address
for a Christmas list,
there's no hurry.
You come in here.
Hey what the hell's
goin' on here?
- I just spent the last
hour with Admiral Strichen
and General Leland Masters.
Yeah.
The National Security Commission
has intercepted a plate,
used to counterfeit
Japanese yen.
Now Masters thinks
there's a covert action
in place to destroy
the Japanese economy.
He wants me to find out who
within US borders is behind it.
I want to know who
General Leland Masters is.
- You just can't
indiscriminately request
classified information on a man
like General Leland Masters.
- Why not?
- Who is he that I can't ask.
- Vinnie, this man
is four-star icon.
He was on the death
march through Bataan.
He entered Berlin
with the First Army
and helped destroy Nazi Germany.
Then he stayed on with
Marshall to help rebuild it.
- Then why don't I know him?
- Because he doesn't care
about having high
schools named after him,
he just wants to
get the job done.
- So why does he want me?
- For precisely that reason.
A guy who smoked cigars
with Churchill does not need
to jerk around Vinnie Terranova.
- Here.
This is the current policy
of the regime in
Ilpavo right now,
which your four-star
icon laid at my doorstep.
Strichen answers to him.
- Well you weren't
wrong about Ilpavo.
- Yeah I know that.
- In some ways neither was he.
- Frank, the invasion
of Ilpavo had nothing
to do with
establishing democracy.
It was about creating
a beachhead for a
bottling company.
And me being here
is a complete lie,
Clipton's fairy tale about
me havin' a promotion.
Man you were right
Frank, you were right.
I'm bein' sucked
into somethin' here,
I don't know if it's a
power vacuum or what it is.
(Frank groans)
What is it?
- The bullet that killed
Valenti was packed with Curare.
It was an assassination, Vince.
- Let me see that.
- We know where Mark Sirmack is?
- [Man] 1130 hours, entered
5203 P Street Georgetown.
- Everything's gone on
Dr. Valenti's hard drive.
It's the same thing on
all his personal software.
Document File Not
Found Abort: Retry.
I have been here since 8:00
this morning, tapes, floppies,
everything on his hard
drive, it's all been erased.
I want to be reinstated
to full duty Frank.
- Mark, here.
Now sit down.
And you can't be reinstated
without drawing attention.
- Dr. Valenti was
a theoretician,
his whole life was
paradigms and flow charts.
- This is a conspiracy Mark,
the person that ended his
life did so for reasons
that transcend a little
money or quick fix.
- We're supposed to ignore a
murder because of a conspiracy.
- No, we don't ignore a murder.
But we have to know who it is.
- Well they sure know us.
We're bein' watched out there.
They just got made.
Whoever it is is just gonna
be replaced by somebody else.
- They could have been
watching you or you or me.
- Yeah or this house.
- Well what do we do,
I just can't sit here.
- We have to find out what
Valenti was working on.
Now there has to be a hard copy
somewhere, can you find it?
- Yeah.
- When you get whatever you get,
then you come back to the OCB.
And you act like
a good bureaucrat.
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- Well, you know, I think
I am getting the hand
of this thing.
But he's not giving us
anything we can use.
- Dr. Valenti just
published a paper
on the macroeconomics
of the Caribbean Basin.
- For whom?
- OECS.
Before that he created a model
for non-genuine destabilization.
His benchmark is
the contemporization
of comparative advantage.
- What is that?
- It's an outmoded theory
that the most efficient form
of national economy
is based solely
on a countries
natural resources.
Dr. Valenti repostulated it.
Arguing that the
most powerful economy
in the world, Japan's,
is based not on
what's in the ground,
but what's on it, people.
Until then people hadn't been
considered a natural resource.
- Well what was he,
some kind of expert
on the Japanese economy?
- No, they were just
an appropriate example.
- What's a model for
non-genuine destabilization.
- A diagram for waging economic
war through counterfeiting.
- What is it?
What?
- You know how
the diagram works?
- No, but I have the treatise
- Who commissioned it?
- Tenzer, Kurtzman and Lloyd,
account executive
Katherine Gallagher.
- Let me see that.
(Vincent sighs)
- All right, here's
Valenti's fundamental model
of non-genuine destabilization.
Production, to produce
enough counterfeit currency
to destabilize Japan
is a monumental task.
Now who has the means
to do such a thing,
except another government.
- Another government, Frank?
- Why does it always have
to be Washington, Vinnie,
now why couldn't it be a
cartel of industrialists?
- I suppose it could be, I
just don't see the difference.
- All right, all right,
all right, all right,
who ever it is is the
second step, invasion.
Your bastard dyes the yen
but the delivery is
an impossible problem,
except for another government.
- Private sector operates
fleets of C-130s.
- You have a cabal of
industrialists, or governments,
either of which has to make sure
that destabilizing Japan
doesn't hurt their own economy.
They have to defend against
their own conspiracy.
- Now wait a minute, wait
a minute, wait a minute.
Now defense for a government,
would be restricted
trade legislation,
right, like
Getzloff's Trade Bill.
- Every year there's a trade
bill, every year it fails.
Most of the time it doesn't
make it out of committee.
If you want something
done and done quickly,
look to the private sector.
- Guys we are not
getting anywhere.
- All right Frank,
you're, just go on then.
- All right, discovery.
You don't have a
snowball's chance in hell
of pulling it off.
- Private sector,
speed of implementation
means greater effect
before discovery.
Governments are inert.
This would show up in the
polls before it even hit Tokyo.
- Accountability.
What's the down side?
If it's the private sector,
there's a two year
investigation, a
slap on the wrist,
a few more regulations,
end of story.
- But the government
loses everything, Frank.
Its loss of consensus
and a government
without consensus goes the way
of the Nixon administration.
- Yeah.
Unless they had a fall guy.
- This is mental masturbation.
We are babbling about
a blue sky theory
that nobody in their right mind
would attempt to implement.
- Don't you do it Vince.
- What.
- Leland Masters put a plate
to counterfeit yen in my hand.
He told me this theory's
going into effect,
he wants me to find
out who's behind it.
- That information is
not to leave this room.
- Then it's no longer
theory, it's actual fact.
- That's right.
- Well why did we
torture ourselves arguing
over its validity?
- Because I think
Masters is behind it
and I wanted to
see how it worked.
- You're insane!
Do you know who he is?
- Yes I know who he is and
it makes perfect sense.
He's got the ability to
produce, and deliver.
Look at the resources he has.
Not only in the
Federal government,
but in the private sector too.
Okay, defense.
Now everybody knows he's
been quietly strong arming
for Getzloff's Trade Bill.
Discovery, that's me.
He wants to leave a trail
for me to find his fall guy.
That's accountability.
- You're suggesting he
was also responsible
for Dr. Valenti's death.
Why did he pick you?
- Because I testified
against him at Ilpavo,
I derailed their
covert operation,
now it's on record where I
stand and how I feel about them.
Mark, after all, I
am a Federal Agent
with the Justice Department.
If I can make their case, in
spite of how I feel about them,
who would dispute it?
Again, accountability.
I'm supposed to find
their scape goat.
- Either Dean or Opal.
- Yeah, or Kay Gallagher.
Well there it is gentlemen.
General Leland Maters
is going to produce
and dump untold sums
of counterfeit yen
into the Japanese economy.
He's gonna defend out borders
with Senator
Getzloff's Trade Bill.
He knows it's
gonna be discovered
so he's got me to lay it
all at Kay Gallagher's feet.
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- Oh, what a nice surprise.
- Hello, we need
a place to talk.
- Oh, come into my office.
Grace, no calls please.
- I understand you control
this lobbying firm.
- That's correct, yeah.
- Then why isn't it Tenzer,
Kurtzman, Lloyd and Gallagher?
- Because I'm alive.
- You're alive.
- Yes.
Tenzer is in a rest
home in Sarasota.
Kurzman in a tomb on Long Island
and Lloyd is in
that urn over there.
Washington worships
the dead, Vinnie,
why fly in the face of that?
- I need all your files
and documents pertaining
to the Japanese Ministry
of International
Trade and Industry.
I can wait for a warrant
if that's necessary.
- Grace, I need the
duplicate set of files
on the Japanese Ministry, ASAP.
And prepare this
letter immediately.
I hereby acknowledge
receipt of all documents
and materials confidential
and otherwise belonging
to Tenzer, Kurtzman
and Lloyd as pertains
to the Japanese Ministry
of International
Trade and Industry.
The confidentiality of said
materials will not be violated.
Signed as accepted and
adhered to Vincent,
what's your middle name,
- Micheal.
- Micheal Terranova's agent
for the Justice Department of
the United States of America,
dated and I'll need
you to notarize.
Any interrogation you're
entertaining is gonna have
to wait until my
attorney can be present.
- Fine.
- Kay the files
are at reception.
- Sign this.
He's to sign for the
documents as well.
- There you go.
- Thank you.
- Thank you Grace.
- You're welcome.
- Next time you decide to pop
by, make an appointment first.
- Guess that means dinner's
out of the question.
- Tuesday's free.
- Great.
- Grace, get Mr.
Kattert on the line,
see if you can
move him up a day.
- See you Tuesday.
- The Japanese Ministry's
on a $20,000 a month
retainer to TKL.
Every time someone
sneezes a memo goes out.
(Frank groans)
- Vince it could take months
to go through this stuff.
Days anyway.
- There's nothing
here yet that helps.
- All right you
postpone the meeting.
- I can't Frank,
it's a red flag.
- I told you this is
a dangerous place,
now it is conceivable
that Masters is connected
to Valenti's murder.
Now you can't mention it.
There's nothing
to link him to it,
you might be putting
a gun to your own head
or pointing out tracks
that he needs to cover.
- Yeah, well I'm sure he
knows the tracks to cover,
he is after all
a four-star icon.
Gotta get going.
- All right, wait a second.
Vince.
Here you take this,
whatever he has
to say it might
be worth hearing.
- The American people have come
to see you as strength
that's inherent.
As if it existed as
naturally as the marble
and stone of the institutions
that have come to
house their laws.
And Lawyers.
Because it's quite all right
to engage lawyers in
stone but not the law.
Our strength is not inherent.
It comes from there.
We bleed for it, we die for it.
And then damn it, we forget it.
We start fretting
about media gnats,
and worrying about how our
actions will be perceived.
All those men who
built our country,
they didn't give a
damn about perceptions.
They were revolutionaries,
the lot of them.
All the way through Lincoln.
They fought for
truth, for the people,
and hang the damn perception.
It's no mistake that we
declared our independence
with self-evident truths.
It's why you're here isn't it?
- I'm here for justice.
And in as much as justice
is found in truth,
in its inherent
inalienable right,
I guess I am here
for that reason.
And General.
I don't give a damn
how I'm perceived.
- The more you get to know me,
the more you'll see
that you and I are cut
from the same cloth.
Men like us are the last rebels
of the American Revolution.
We just wage our war with
more, sophisticated tools.
We've come a long way,
since the flintlock.
I really hate these bastards.
I ask myself over and over why
the hell should I help them.
We do what we do for justice,
don't we Agent Terranova.
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- You bet your ass.
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