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We didn't bring any to America. He came here of his own free will.

Illegally. Whatever happened to give me your poor and huddled masses? You're

only to be free.

If I go back to Chile, they will kill me.

What? What about political refugee status?

It only works with people running away from our enemies.

Getting shot by our enemies is not okay.

Getting shot by our friends is okay. Those shotguns will not be necessary.

This suspect is known to us. He was decorated for heroism by the city of New

York. Agent Dalton! You can't just roar and hear a commando around. Are you

going to listen to her?

Hiya. Hiya.

They're nicer than the alarm.

Huh?

What are you doing? Listening to Baby.

I haven't been here for a month yet.

My kid's smart, fast learner.

There, did you hear that?

Huh?

Yeah.

It's my stomach growling. I'm starving.

Tell you what.

You stay right there. I'll make breakfast for us.

Blueberry waffles, Canadian bacon, strawberries and cream.

Harvey, you know what I would really like? What?

A four -minute egg and a piece of rye toast.

Four -minute egg.

Four -minute egg.

Mary Beth, I would appreciate it if you got some strange cravings like other

women. Okay, honey.

Harv? What?

Can you whip up some moogle guy pan for me?

This is a pretty interesting menu, Marcus.

Except it doesn't have the usual English translation.

You cag me yet?

Are you expecting somebody, sir?

No.

This is a nice place. I just might take someone here for dinner myself.

Marcus, what the hell is calamari oglio ovio?

Calamari, Victor.

That's squid with garlic.

What about lumache di mare?

Lumache di mare.

Snails from the sea.

Here she comes.

Here they are, boys and girls. Your basic friendly purveyor of counterfeit

jeans. Give me a couple of minutes to make my bye before you move in.

Here I go.

Remember the magic words are hand -stitched pockets.

Come on, let's go!

Stay ready, Mark. These guys are bruisers.

Excuse me.

I

can't

believe it. Looks just like the real thing.

Nice.

You got any with hand -stitched pockets?

Lady, can you hear me? I'm a cop.

Nobody's gonna hurt you. I'm the cop. I got her.

All right, now look.

Listen, she's all right. I got her.

Well,

I just really love the hand -stitched pockets.

Take this here and put pressure. Keep putting pressure on there. It's causing

a... You want to be a help? Come here.

All right, keep her awake.

You hang on, lady. We're going to get you out of here.

Thanks.

Part 21 to Central. Request an ambulance at 8th and Mercer. Repeat, 8th and

Mercer. Do you have any others with hand -stitched pockets?

Look, lady, how many times do I got to tell you?

What you see is what you get.

Well, I sure love the hand -stitched pockets.

10 -4.

How many pairs you gonna buy?

How many?

100 pair of Sabali jeans and no collar.

What do you suggest I tell Sam?

Tell him your troops deserted you. I'm still stuck with 100 pairs of jeans.

The lady that was stabbed, she died.

Oh, man. It stinks.

Yeah, it stinks.

Why'd she put up such a fight for a purse anyway?

She should have let it go.

She just cashed her Social Security check.

Well, at least we got the guy who did it.

Thanks to that bus boy.

Edward Carina. He was great, wasn't he?

That perp was twice his size, beating the hell out of him.

And the little guy held on. And he didn't hesitate.

Not for a second.

He saw a stabbing, took off after the guy.

Not many people would have done that.

Doesn't sound like a New Yorker.

No, I'm serious here, Christine.

I think Eduardo Carrena deserves some recognition for what he did.

He helped us catch a murderer.

And he risked his own life doing it.

What do you want to do? Give him a medal?

Yeah.

That's exactly what I want to do.

Samuel Harrell was in an attrition police officer from the city of New

Eddie Perino.

Eddie! Okay, Eddie, baby!

Mr. Ripper?

Very nice.

It makes you kind of proud, like it's your kid. I know what you mean.

Señora, felicitaciones.

Su esposo es un hombre muy valiente.

You must be very proud,

Eduardo. Please, call me Eddie.

You're Americanizing yourself. Good for you. Now, where are you from originally?

Well, we live in Detroit for a little while, and then we come to New York.

Eddie, you risked your life in order to apprehend a killer. Can you tell us why?

Wherever I live, I'm going to try to make it a better place.

This is Joyce Farron, together with Eddie Carrena.

Honors Day, 1985.

Okay, boys, let's get the other recipients.

Thank you, Mr. Farron. Good luck to you. Thank you very much.

Mr.

Carrena, on behalf of the 14th Precinct, I'd like to thank you for what you did.

Thank you very much.

Everybody is so nice, but I don't think I'm so special.

Oh, yes, sir, you are. You're a real hero. Well, maybe I think I'm just an

ordinary hero, yeah?

Good luck, huh?

Take care of each other.

$40 a pair for a label on a tux. I agree, Lieutenant. I don't care what's

onto the pants. It's what's poured into the pants that interests me.

Well, the city of New York spent a small fortune on counterfeit designer jeans,

and not one damn pair is going to fit me.

It would be nice, at least, if you could make a few collars, you know, just to

balance things out a little bit. You know, Lieutenant, this guy saw cops just

crawling out of the woodwork during the purse smashing.

Personally, I think he's suspicious. Maybe we ought to turn this whole thing

over to the OCCB.

Oh, nice try, Cagney. Nice try, sure. Yeah, pass up a tough one, you know,

so you don't spoil your conviction percentage, huh?

But I do that, Lieutenant. Come on, Cagney.

Now, you have already spent too much of this precinct's money to cut and run

now. I want you to set up another drop with this fence, and this time, nail

Yes, Lieutenant.

You know how risky this looks for me?

There are millions at stake in the counterfeit designer clothes racket.

They find an informer, they cut him up. We understand.

Too thin to fry.

We understand, Mr. Paul. You must stop.

You're right, Mr. Fong. I was wrong, all right?

It was just some bad luck. It won't happen again.

You hesitated.

Sergeant Cagney?

Sergeant, that's right.

Sergeant, he who hesitates meditates from a horizontal position. Look, do you

want to help us out here or not?

These creeps cost me $1 ,000 a week in sales.

You know, I used to sell fake designer clothes for $2 a day at a Taiwan

sweatshop.

So what? Now I think Trump's going to put me out of business here in America?

Maybe God's punishing me. We will fix it, Mr. Fong.

Do you want to help me out, or should I just get somebody else? Why don't you

just level with me?

All right, but you better not screw up again, or we're all history.

We'll find him, Mr. Fong.

Fake business card won't be enough to fool him anymore.

This time, he'll want to meet you at your own boutique.

How am I supposed to get a boutique?

That's your problem.

You call me when you find a shop.

I'll contact him then, but only then.

Otherwise,

it's a royal waste of time.

Thank you, Mr. Fong.

We

could

ask Samuels to rent us a space.

Oh, come on, Mary Beth. He's not going to give us another nickel for this

And where are we going to get the merchandise?

We can clean out your closet.

You've got enough stuff to fill a boutique.

Major exaggeration. Take it back.

So we're dead in the water here. Do you have a better suggestion?

Yes. Let's figure it out over a glass of milk.

Okay. I'll treat.

Oh, no, Christine, that's not necessary.

Just because you've got a closet like Maria Antoinette doesn't mean you always

have to treat.

That's almost 25 blocks from here for a glass of milk?

Christine, the man is our only witness.

We should see if he received his subpoena yet.

Two for lunch.

Could you seat us near Eddie Carrena's station, please?

I'm sorry, but that's impossible.

I beg your pardon?

Some immigration agent saw Eddie on TV.

They came in here yesterday and took him away.

Mary Beth, it is 2 a .m.

Pop, what do you think of that sofa?

What? I'm trying to figure out what we do when the baby comes. I think we could

get a sofa bed.

We come in here.

We get rid of that coffee table.

End table goes here. This one goes there.

TV goes over there.

And the bookshelf... What do you think we ought to do with that bookshelf, Pop?

Mary Beth, the baby will sleep in our room for a while. After that, we will

get a bigger place.

Right. Right. Now, would you just please stop playing interior decorator, okay?

I'm not done, Hoff.

Would you stop lifting stuff? This stuff is heavy. Would you please come to bed?

Harvey, I'm trying to work something out. Let me tell you what you're trying

work out. What happened to Eddie Carrena is not your fault. What about his wife

and kids?

Think how afraid they must be tonight being separated like that.

Mary Beth, you cannot make it all better tonight. What do you think he is, Hoff?

I tried every damn detention center. I mean, they've never heard of Eddie

Carrena. They said maybe he was...

Still in process, whatever the hell that means.

You think they shipped him back already?

Honey, you could not help what happened. Harv, if I hadn't decided that he

needed some stupid metal, then the INS would never know that he existed.

And I have to find him. Not tonight.

Okay? Not tonight.

Come to bed.

Only I'd wait there.

Well, it looks like you folks got here just in the nick of time.

It'd have been bad news if I'd blown your case for you. We were just about to

put him on the bus to the airport and send him home.

Home? Chilling. You guys work pretty fast.

Yeah, well, the whole process takes three days.

Oh, by the way, he'll still have to spend his nights here even when he's

testifying for the grand jury.

No bail?

No chance.

Besides, we're doing you a favor.

You can't deny him bail.

Look, Eddie knows we're shipping him back to Chile as soon as he testifies.

if we let him go on his own recognizance, you'd never see him again.

And your killer would be walking the streets.

Hey, man.

You got ten minutes.

Mr. Carana, sit down.

Please Hello Eddie

Is there something that we can get for you or anything you need

Did

you tell them tell them what About my wife and

children. We won't do that to you. You are the police.

That isn't part of our job.

I'm sorry.

It's okay.

It's just that I'm afraid.

We understand.

Do you?

If I go back to Chile, they will kill me.

What? I was a member of un sindicato de trabajadores, a labor union.

All we wanted to do was to make things better for us.

There was a lot of trouble.

We had to leave the country.

We can never go back there.

Never.

We come to this country, I said to Adelita.

Here, we are going to be free.

Free.

But I guess freedom is like gold.

It's just not enough for everybody.

That's not true, Mr. Garena.

But sometimes we have to fight for it.

Now, a murder trial takes months.

Months. And we have plenty of time to find you a great attorney.

Christine here has a lawyer friend. I'm sure he knows some experts in the

immigration field.

I don't have money to pay.

Well, a lot of these men work pro bono.

Pro bono means for good.

It means they work for nothing.

And if we can't get them to do that, then we'll figure out a way to pay for

Mr. Karenna, you have friends here.

There is hope.

Isn't that so, Sergeant Cagney?

Yeah.

Thank you, my friends.

Yeah.

That's right. Normal bail procedures don't hold for illegals. They're not

citizens, so they don't possess our civil rights.

Well, what if the trial goes six, seven months? A year?

That's what we call tough luck.

If the immigration judge wants to, Eddie will spend every one of those nights in

La Carcelle.

Locked up.

He has a family. Well, they can visit him. They can't visit him in an INS

detention center. They're illegals also.

Things are tough all over. What can I say?

Hey. The trial will buy the kids some time, right? Time?

Look, labor certification takes two to three years. Of course, that's a useless

strategy to pursue in that you'd have to be able to prove there are not enough

qualified Americans to fill Eddie's job. Now, that may work with aerospace

engineers, but waiters, no. He can't go back to Chile. He might get shot.

Look, what about political refugee status?

It only works with people running away from our enemies, not our friends.

Let me understand this.

Getting shot by our enemies is not okay.

Getting shot by our friends is okay.

Look, I'm just a lawyer, and I'm telling you, they're never going to grant them

refugee status, and I don't have time to pursue a strategy that can't work. Hey,

I got a full desk, too, so you tell us what will work.

Are you on a first -name basis with any senators or congresspeople?

No. You?

Not anymore.

My suggestion, get to know the legislator of your choice and pronto.

I mean, the way I see it, the only way you're going to be able to save Eddie is

to get a private bill, one that applies only to his special set of circumstances

passed through the Senate or the House of Representatives. Now, maybe Eddie's

act of heroism will be able to get the attention of one of these politicos and

we get the ball rolling.

I'll do the best I can from this end of it. What are the chances of a bill like

this passing?

Oh, slim and none.

how you feel.

And we did what we could, right?

We're not social workers.

What do you say?

Don't get too concerned?

We're the reason he's in there.

Yeah, we are.

We didn't bring Eddie to America. He came here of his own free will,

You want to turn this into one of your guilt trips? Fine, Mary Beth, but do not

lay it on me.

That's Neil for the guys.

There's no reason for us to go on some mission of mercy.

We've got our own job we have to do.

It's not a question of mercy, Christine. It's a question of justice.

Very bad.

I feel sorry for all the broken -hearted people of the world, too, and would

love to see them come to America, but the sad truth is they can't.

There aren't enough jobs. There is not enough of this good life to go around.

Hell, we've got tens of thousands of immigrants illegally pouring into this

country every day.

willing to work for close to zip and taking jobs from our citizens.

Now, I know people like poor old Eddie there deserve a break, but somewhere

got to stop.

A hundred years ago, they were saying that about people named Cagney.

I mean, whatever happened to give me your poor and huddled masses? You're

to be free.

Standing in unemployment law.

Can you drop me at the subway, please?

I want to deliver Mr.

Corenta's message to his wife, and I wouldn't want to force you to go on

mission of mercy with me.

Over here.

What's the address?

Adelita? Hey, Tal.

Where are they?

Flew the coop.

We've been waiting around here for them to return. They left most of their

stuff, but no luck.

I don't think they're coming back here.

Come on, Mary Beth, let's get out of here.

You must get a real kick out of your work, huh?

Hunting down innocent women and children.

Look, I do my job just like you do yours.

Besides, we didn't want to see a family split up.

Real humanitarian, aren't you?

Detective Latham.

Hey, Lacey.

You're going to have amniocentesis.

Huh? The amniocentesis test for your baby you're going to have.

What's it to you?

Never mind, Sergeant.

I get it.

Mary Beth, where you been?

Right everywhere I can think of. Social services, legal aid, welfare, Latino

organizations. Mrs. Corrine and her children have disappeared through a

somehow. Could you let her go for now?

We've got to meet Astrid at the coffee shop in eight minutes.

Let's go.

Yeah, right.

Hey, Lacey, wait a second.

Here. What's that for?

Give it to Eddie's wife if you find her or his lawyer.

No. Thanks.

Don't tell anybody, okay?

Thank you, Victor.

Mary Beth, let's move it!

We only need you to shop for a couple of hours.

And business can go on as usual. Mary Beth gets to play the salesgirl, and

thrilled. Right, Mary Beth?

Oh, yeah, thrilled.

Now, you're trying to tell me there's no danger here?

No, no, no. The guy just wants to check us out to make sure we're legit.

There's not going to be a drop. There won't be any bust. Nothing's going to

happen.

Listen, if it weren't for you, I might still be walking the street somewhere.

The guy gave me a break.

But, um, cutting some guy up for a fall, that's just not my style.

Okay, you win.

What can I say?

My place is your place.

Oh, now.

This will be good on me, huh?

Uh -huh.

In about a year.

Thank you very much, Christine.

No. No, even with 50 % off, that's two weeks' groceries.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Nice place you got here.

Yes, thank you.

Is there someplace private we could talk?

Certainly. How about right in the back there?

Oh, Miss Marybeth, watch the floor, would you?

Yes, ma 'am.

Marybeth, would you like to help this gentleman?

I'll be right back.

May I help you, sir?

Yes. Do you have this in a size 16?

Uh, I think we do.

Uh, yes.

Yes, here it is.

This is a very pretty dress. It's very feminine.

Yes. She'll love this.

Hmm. What would you recommend to complement this ensemble?

Um, well, uh, maybe a belt would offset.

Or maybe a scarf?

What about pantyhose? This color is so unique, I don't think we want any of the

traditional shades.

Do you?

Oh, no, certainly not.

Perhaps something in a purple?

Purple? You think we'd look good in that?

Yes, I think a purple would go great with our eyes.

Want to melt into the wall -to -wall car?

Reminds me of a story about this guy I went out with once.

You're not going to believe this one.

Well, Sister Senator, I don't want to hear it.

Detective Lacey, 14th.

Yes. Yes, I've got it.

No, of course not, Father.

Right away. Thank you.

Christine, let's go.

What's up?

That was Father Tate. Remember the priest that helped us find that

woman last year?

He's got Eddie's wife and kids in a safe house.

They're illegal.

Here it is.

Come on.

Mary Beth, I have to stay here and wait for a call from Astrid.

The guard's supposed to be calling the boutique at any time to let us know

he's making the drop.

This is police work, Mary Beth.

Of course, what I'm doing is social work, right?

Mary Beth!

Good luck.

It's nice to see you again, Detective Lacey. Nice to see you, Father.

George.

No one stays here for very long.

It's just a way station.

See, a campesino comes to see me in the church thinking I can offer him

sanctuary.

What he doesn't know is sanctuary hasn't been honored since the 14th century.

So I have to bring him to places like this.

Where do they go after they leave here?

Well, we try to set them up in someplace decent somewhere.

Find them a job.

Work through the legal system, if we can.

There's hope for a better life for many of them.

I guess what we do best is buy them some time.

But a few of them, the most endangered ones, have to stay on the Underground

Railway for a while.

What, you mean like slaves in the Civil War?

Same idea.

It's kind of an interfaith network of safe houses.

But don't let anyone hear you say that you heard that from me.

The U .S. Attorney's Office is coming down pretty hard on us right now.

What did you expect, Detective? The rips?

See, I can't exactly take up a collection at mass to fumigate an

house. So we have to learn to live with our furry brethren.

Adelita, Padre Tate y Señora Lacey.

I'll leave you now.

I don't speak too much Spanish, Father.

Well, she doesn't speak too much English either.

So you do fine.

Stick around, huh?

No, I'm on duty tonight.

So I have to keep an eye out.

Go on.

You'll be fine.

Señora, I want you to know, su esposo está bien.

Mi esposo.

¿Cuándo saldrá?

¿Cuándo lo puedo ver?

Oh, no comprendo.

Flora, habla más lento, okay?

Okay.

When I see mi esposo.

When? Well, I don't know when.

But Eddie wanted me to tell you that, um, you're in his dreams, and you're in

his heart.

Lord, here we go.

Um... And,

um... Uh, he longs to hold you.

Hold you, uh...

Adelita and su brazos.

Eduardo.

¿Y qué más?

Well, he said that he loves you all very much.

In Spanish, that would be... Love.

Sí.

Todo, mucho.

And he said that you'll all be together again soon in a happier

place. En español, por favor.

Oh, si.

Pronto.

Estarán juntos en un lindo lugar.

Your Spanish is very good. Yes.

Gracias. Muchas gracias.

This is for the children, okay?

And I want you to know that everything's going to work out.

We'll find a way.

We'll find a way.

Okay. Okay.

Mr.

Dalton? Mr. Dalton, I want to apologize for my bad manners.

It's okay. I get it all the time from the bleeding heart.

I was wondering if you could do us a favor, sir.

What's that?

When Eddie finishes testifying, can we take him to lunch?

What, you got a thing for this guy?

No, Eddie's got a thing with his immigration lawyer.

Okay, but if he flies a coupe, it's on you.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

What we've got here, people, is the world's greatest living witness.

Yeah? That classy Latin manner, those deep, honest eyes.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Steady Eddie Coretta, the answer to an

overworked DA's prayer.

I just did what any normal citizen would do in this country, yes? Honey, you

blew me away in there. That legal aid lawyer still doesn't know what hit him.

The man is fantastic.

Does he leap tall buildings in a single bound?

Super witness, you got it.

I owe you one, lady.

Legal aid's defending a major sleaze bucket, and I got somebody my mama'd

to church.

Now, you have a good lunch, you hear?

And put it on the DA's tab. You guys earned it.

I think she likes you.

Go.

Thanks.

Okay, the trial is for real. It won't actually begin for about six months, so

bought our precious time.

And then I play in jail for another six months.

Hey, look, better than being chipped back to Chile, right?

We finally made a little progress here. We got a couple local representatives

interested in your case, and I think you may have one of our honorable senators

lined up. No kidding.

Looks like that.

I'm trying to play it from the angle that Eddie's performing a major public

service living here, and I've mentioned the fact he's a decorated hero and

politician. They just love that stuff. You know, election time, minority vote,

sharing the limelight, all that good stuff.

I've arranged for Lynn Sutter, a reporter we know, to come and talk to

wants to do a human interest story on you.

You know, there's nothing like a little publicity to grease up the old wheels of

justice. Hey, look, you just hang on for a little while longer.

I think I'm going to be able to nail down this senator at the trial hall to

us plenty of time.

Eddie! Eddie!

What's wrong with her?

Eddie Carina, I want to shake your hand.

You are one fantastic witness.

Yes.

Damn right.

We kicked their butt so bad, legal aid's ready to accept anything I offer.

And my boss thinks I'm such a hot number. He's moving me up to the

case. My career is made.

Wait a minute. What are you saying here?

This murder's never going to trial.

We made a deal.

We'll wrap it up this afternoon.

Congratulations.

We just heard the news.

Look, it isn't easy for us either.

Sorry, Eddie.

We'll file for an extension, Mr. Carrena.

Just like Mr. Phelps said, okay?

Thank you very much for everything you've done.

Oh,

Eddie, I'm so sorry.

See you, Eddie.

Muchas gracias.

He's got guts. I'll give him that.

Lacey.

Thank you.

You did this.

I ought to punch you out. Hey, watch who you're talking to. That's Sergeant

Cagney, NYPD.

What the hell's going on here?

I'm booking somebody. What's it look like?

Okay, what is this?

The hooker called.

She gave us the location of the drop.

You weren't around.

Somebody had to make the call. I couldn't find you. I'll bet you looked

hard, didn't you, Becky?

Christine, Father Tate called.

Eddie's wife and kids have disappeared from the safe house.

Nice work, guys. Real nice.

You think she's mad?

Mm -hmm.

This is my third picture.

Am I impressed?

Float out of here, Victor.

Yeah. Just like my collar.

Right place at the right time. That's the essence of police work, Sergeant.

They used to call that lucky.

Hey, Lieutenant.

What do you say we innovate a new departmental procedure, huh?

What do you say we show one arrest on my jacket and one... Sorry, Cagney.

I mean, what kind of a life are they going to have?

It's not enough he's an illegal alien. Now he's a fugitive from justice, too.

Assaulting an INS agent.

Two INS agents.

That's a federal rep.

FBI will be on his tail.

Well, where do you go?

Where do you hide?

How's he going to find his family?

Why couldn't we have just left the guy alone?

It's a mess, all right.

I'll find him. I swear I will.

His wife and his kids, too.

They can hide in my apartment.

I'll go into Canada.

I'll finance their case all the way to the Supreme Court if I have to.

God, I'm depressed.

INS just called.

They got a hold of some FBI files on a father, George Tate. You know him,

Yes, sir. Yeah, well, they think maybe he's hiding Eddie Carrena. Found a

of addresses to check out, and one of them was in our precinct.

INS wants a police liaison, so I figured he's your guy.

You want to be there, right?

Thank you, Lieutenant.

Police, do me a favor, will you? Make sure they treat Eddie right.

Yes, sir.

So what do you think you're doing, Inspector?

I'm going with him. For what for? You haven't got enough work on your own? You

want me to give you some more?

Lieutenant, it's important to me. It's important to me, too, and it's being

handled all right.

You've got your own work to do.

Hey, I've completed all the deposit today. I've returned all the

Peachy done.

Back up, please.

Those shotguns will not be necessary.

This suspect is known to us. He was decorated for heroism by the city of New

York. Excuse me, Detective Lacey, it doesn't matter if he was decorated by

Ronald Regan. He assaulted two immigration agents, and our considered

is dameless.

Now, shall we get on with this? Let's go, boys. Will you hang on a second? I

have instructions for my lieutenant, Agent Otter, and we are officials of the

city of New York, and you can't just roar into him and commando around. Hey,

don't listen to her.

Agent Dalton!

Go,

go, go, go.

Give me some flashlights. Agent Dalton.

He's in charge.

Well, what are we supposed to do?

Get it over.

This place looks deserted. If we missed him here, he's long gone.

Come on.

I want two guys on the roof right away.

I was giving a heart attack.

Oh, must have been the cat we heard. Come on.

Chris, there's nobody up here. Let's go, huh?

Yeah, I guess you're right.

Let's go, please.