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Uh -huh.

No windshield?

No windshield? What did you... Richard, people disappear in those things.

Uh, okay.

Okay, just stay put, all right? Just for a while.

I got plenty of sodas in the fridge.

Yeah, I'm taking plenty of vitamins.

Yeah.

Okay, I'll see you soon. Bye.

Bridget took a gypsy cab from the airport.

I'm sure your niece had to take care of herself.

You see, Bob Jr. has been riding the subway since he was 13 years old.

You grew up here, Mary Beth. Bridget is a walking orange juice commercial.

Don't say refreshments for staff on life.

What say you're taking?

Take a gesture, Wawa.

Maybe Bridget grew the last two years.

Grew? You mean as in matured?

She's a cagney, Mary Beth. Change does not come easily.

But it does come, Christine.

Sooner or later, it does come.

Your voice did sound a little throaty. At that age, they're all Jekyll and

Think I'll tickle the ass in the clinic?

Is that the word?

Oh, I don't know.

I'm not sweating as much as I was. I think it's the anchovy sandwiches.

The magic of fish oil.

My mother's smart by this.

Really, from the big building, you guys are going to be pulling nights for a

month. I could be a role model to millions.

It's like a duty almost.

Oh, get out of town.

A tab -punnel look went out with a hula hoop, my friend. Let me tell you

something. The kids of this city need somebody they can relate to. All right?

Somebody with a little more ethnic flavor.

Bent.

Move over, G .I. Joe. A new peacekeeping hero is about to be born. Yeah, when

you guys are finished fantasizing. You want to put that up on the board,

Supergut's a little jealous, huh?

I heard that, Captain Paco. Another sensitivity seminar?

No, no, a toy company's going to make a doll based on New York's finest.

Finest what?

Every precinct gets a nominated candidate to be the model. And a share

proceeds go to the Police Athletic League. Oh, that's a great program.

Michael's team, the Green Sox, they went to championships twice.

What position did he play?

Late inning right fielder and equipment manager.

The coach is a uniform out of the two -way. She was sensational with those

I used to be a PAL stickball champ, huh?

Am I a natural for this or what? Perfect. Handsome, strong, tall.

And humble.

I hope it's a secret ballot.

Why don't they just put uniforms on Ken and Barbie dolls and let us worry about

solving crime?

Oh, Sarge, that clue has twisted your mind. Look, this is a chance to

to the emotional development of our youth. Now, what could be more important

than that?

Oh, there he is. There would not be a cash payment involved for the winner,

would there?

Personal appearance, please.

Really? No.

You two aren't interested in this, are you?

I guess they might want an older man.

That's the bell.

End of the round. Yeah.

Yeah. My brain there, put your brain. We're finished with death.

The bone broiled and served with a potato. You still got one foot in the

Gossy. That's our old problem. Yeah, well, our problem is that laptop between

your ears that you call a brain. Oh, yeah.

at the Gus and Perry Descarpo.

Reported theft of property.

I wish you luck.

Continue. Even them little twist slacks in the window. So where's the video,

hell -rope roast?

Tell me that. Hey, Custer, you was the one who sent the pork loin to the

Liebowitz. That's a lie, you pork chop.

Who you calling pork chop?

Hey! Hey! What?

Sit!

Yeah, come on.

Well, something's stolen, Joe.

Yes, my music video, Hot Talk.

Our video that I directed. It was taken from our club sometime last night. You

two have a nightclub? Club Me.

You know, down in Soho.

Uh -huh. And you also make music videos?

Our house band got hot. I put them on tape. Before you could roll a brajo,

place was bad. So we mortgaged the club to finance a second. Yeah.

Strike while the iron is hot.

The point is, the video is gone.

Yeah, and if we don't get it back before the premiere, then... Club will be

gone, too.

I have to go back to being butchers.

Fair.

Hey, when destiny calls.

Not exactly rose -lead.

This is incredible. This is amazing. Christine, just this morning, I'm taking

shower. Good news for all of us, Mick. Come here, come here, come here, come

here. A minute of your time.

We need to talk art.

Are you still collecting little dogs on black velvet?

The water is pulsating on my head. Little jets are pressing against my lid.

Tiny red and yellow flashes are flying all over the place. Then, suddenly, all

the colors gel, Christine.

Your abdomen and impressionist landscapes.

Are you doing personal drug testing?

Good news. I've entered us in the fourth annual Rochester Yoga and Body Painting

Competition. You know they're doing wonders with sedatives now, Nick. What

have here, Detective?

Picture this. Me, lying flat out on my back, like Michelangelo. You, arched

me like the Sistine Chapel.

I wouldn't let you paint my apartment.

There must be a reason that we're all here, Detective Sullivan.

My trim work is spectacular.

Are you still drawing a paycheck from the department?

All right, come here, come here, come here. Come here, come here.

Let's be honest.

Let's be honest.

You're the one with the spectacular trim work.

Good job, Solomon, while you still have it. Oh, yeah, there's a broken window in

the alleyway. That's the way they got in.

Mrs. Descarpo, don't do that.

Would you let your house look like this? Dirty fingerprints everywhere.

It's evidence, Mrs. D.

This is a police investigation, darling.

She's already swept up the broken glass in front of the windows. Somebody could

get hurt.

Where did you go off? The Bronx?

This is a scoff hole. Are your thugs back yet? I haven't seen them, though.

would recognize them now? Butchers look like men.

They wear aprons with blood on them. These days, you look at Gus, hey, he

like, uh... We used to have chairs.

Right. And the other one, Perry.

He seems like a very dissected. He dresses like an underwear salesman.

No dairy products. Makes phlegm.

There's a guy you might want to talk to in here. Rick Hawk from the record

company. Thank you. The Texas Elvis.

Plenty of fluids.

Remember Rochester, Christine. I use only the finest acrylics.

You know something, Nick? Of all the taxi work I've had done, body paint

don't cut it.

Exactly as your connection with the Discarfo brothers.

That is real. Wait a second.

They're doing the new Vow of Silence video for my record label, Precious

Records. The Vow of Silence.

Is that the band?

Yes, sort of a bebop with homicidal undertones. Anyway, the Discarfo clowns,

they'll put the thing together.

Are you saying that these two know what they're doing?

Hey, listen.

Between the two of them, they don't have the talent of a lamppost. You know what

I'm talking about?

Every... Everybody bought a pet rock.

Does the theft of this video affect your contract?

Hey, come on. It's a beep, a bop, a boop, a beep. You don't understand what

talking about. It's a chain reaction here. No hot talk means no world

for me. It means these guys are out there 80 grand.

So everybody loses.

Oh, thank you.

You look terrible.

Try a little vegetable soup with a whole cloves of garlic.

Oh, thank you.

What is your loss here?

Well, the butcher moguls put up the bread, but I got to find a replacement

video. So this crime is merely an inconvenience for you?

How would you like to spend two days wading through piles of video dreck?

Just how contagious are you two? Let me get this straight.

It's a lousy tape, but it's worth a lot.

Tiny Tim made somebody very rich.

Angry record time.

Suspicious loan office.

Rival clubhouse.

And the Scarboroughs have more enemies than they'd meet.

It used to be simpler with the music business.

Crayola.

Music made dumb.

Are we going the right way?

Yeah, there's a drugstore around here somewhere.

I've got to get a call to the rail, Christine.

What about our music?

It's strawberry, long pluck.

I am butterfly.

And I gotta... And I... And I gotta do it or put my mother right out the

Your mother had teeth.

You were born middle -aged, Christine.

If you want to talk with Bridget, you better open your ears first.

I suggest I start with you two.

Me two what?

You two.

It's a group.

They're very good. They made videos. They're very good.

Don't you ever watch MTV?

That male adolescent SM fantasy stuff?

Well, I don't watch the ones where the women have dog collars. I don't let my

adolescent male watch it either. I still like Johnny Madden.

Anyway, Mary Beth, I told Bert if he's going to run for assemblyman, community

action is the ticket.

Getting the pothole sticks, putting up the stop signs, keeping the hydrants

for the kids in the summer.

That's a worthwhile suggestion, Todd.

You ought to run.

Mary Beth, you've got to stop with the anchovies.

Charlie, the tuna been here?

Bart's the one who's hungry.

He's the one that's got to convince the movers and the shakers down at the

Democratic Club.

Me, Mary Beth, I am just along for the ride. Yeah, typical armchair liberal.

What's that supposed to mean?

You criticize the president all day long.

Could you run the country better? Oh, he's running it so great now?

Did you break the trash down? How about this? Well, at least he's got guts.

Look at Grenada. That's taking care of business.

The world affairs expert.

He has the right to his opinion, honey. First, he's got to know what he's

talking about.

Yeah, you see, I can't talk to you. It's like mom in the ERA.

What about the ERA?

Go ahead, Harvey. It's not going to pass because nobody supports it.

Women don't want to go into the army and share public bathrooms with men.

Stay with the army.

Stay with public bathrooms.

The Equal Rights Amendment is to ensure the majority of American citizens equal

protection under the law. And we are 52%. I'll get the trash. And the reason

that it has not passed yet is because it has been blocked by mostly male state

legislators in spite of the fact that popular support for passage in their

states is overwhelming.

That cabbie was so young, but so old.

He seemed to know so much.

Well, he didn't know where Green Street was.

Raphael says the soul of New York throbs in every true artist, and artists are

in every walk of life.

Raphael? My acting teacher. Well, that's really why I'm here. I've come to be

nourished by my roots.

I thought that you came here for an audition.

Once I get into NYU, Raphael says I should get involved in off -Broadway

theater.

Is this the new game plan?

I thought you said the drama department at Stanford was fantastic.

Everybody out there just wants to do TV.

That's why Raphael's leaving for Arizona to discover himself.

Well, he sounds like a man who has his head on his shoulders.

You want a diet ginger ale? Yeah.

It's more than that, Aunt Chris.

I think when you meet him, you'll see why he reminds me of Grandpa.

But, Charlie, how come?

You remember those stories you told me about Grandpa teaching you all about New

York and real life? You remember?

Yeah, well, I might have dressed that up a little, Bridget.

Raphael has sent me searching for life beyond the middle class.

You know, the life Grandpa showed you when you were a girl.

It had its moments.

Yeah, Charlie knew how to treat a girl right.

He was sincere.

He had an Irish soul.

You know, one time we were in Coney Island and they were closing down the

wheel. It was late.

And Charlie talked him into running it just one more time.

We were the only two people on the Wonder Wheel.

Music is not some ephemeral elitist myth.

It's a science. No different from medicine.

There are gifted practitioners in quacks.

There are scarfos waddle.

How come I can understand what you're saying?

I traded my MBA for this drum set.

Harvard, 85.

Now I have an earring. My brother has an ulcer.

What keeps you here? A contract I didn't bother to read.

Ground down by the butcher.

Drumsticks and all.

I was discovered by Terry the Scarfo.

While you were thinking with another band?

While I was checking coats at Chess Club.

Terry says I inspired his first video. This is your camel hair.

Miss Kitten, who do you think would want to steal this video?

I don't know.

Too big a bummer.

My entire career.

My whole future is on that tape.

Oh, there's no miss.

It's just one name.

Kitten. Like Madonna.

Sure. Well, a kitten.

This video seems pretty important.

It is. Well, not that I haven't had other offers.

There's this guy in Omaha who wants me to open up a whole string of theme

for him.

You know, as a singer.

Is anyone else involved in your career an agent or a manager?

No. No one but Perry, Gus, and the good Lord.

Uh -huh.

If that video had disappeared off the face of the earth, I'd be free to get

to music.

An obvious question comes to mind. Not guilty.

I moonlighted an accountant, and after playing here Thursday, I spent the rest

of the night preparing Barney, the king of rugs, for his audit. I assume Barney

can bear this out.

Unless he flunks his audit.

Could I have the king's address, please?

What do you got?

My ears are ringing.

How about you?

My congested is back.

I don't care. We are not touching the college money.

Ma, we're both over 30 and Perry doesn't have a high school diploma yet. It's

never too late.

Remember what your dear dead father used to say. A smart butcher is a better

butcher. Ma, we're out of the meat business.

Yeah, not for long if you don't get a better class of people in here. The

and tunnel crowd are killing us. Bridge and tunnel crowd?

Yeah, you know, the kids from Jersey, Long Island, they dance, they laugh,

party. They just don't spend.

He's right.

The faces go down the street. The crowd we got now look like they come from a

bowling alley in Pittsburgh.

Could we table this for a minute and get back to the burglary?

So why are you still here?

We gave you all the facts. In the meantime, bootleg copies of Hot Talk

flooding Manhattan.

We will notify our bootleg unit, Mr. Descarfo.

Meanwhile, we need an employee's list. We need a list of your suppliers.

Very. Gussie does the paperwork.

Yeah, Gussie does everything.

Oh, yeah, right. Gussie does everything.

Yeah, right. Gussie's a little wiener.

Hey, look at the hall. What do you have there?

It's a scarf post, Farron.

Club meat?

No!

I just have a couple more questions.

All right, I'll wait.

Yeah, Mary Beth, the Soho club scene is intense.

All right, let's say the Dead Pelican, for example.

It's a beautiful place. Used to be a Ukrainian bar.

As a matter of fact, the bartender they brought over from the old country,

right? No matter what kind of drink he served, still got an egg in it.

An audience with the queen of the theme.

You know what Club Beat?

Club Beat?

No, Beat. A -B -A -T.

Oh, Club Meat. Oh, yeah, the brothers, the butchers. Yeah.

Now, they thought it was about them and the house band.

But if they would have stayed butchers, it would have worked. Instead, they went

Flash and Maradona.

No, that's still a music club.

Only to the Discarfos. Yep, Baroness.

I'm right here. I'm holding.

Right.

The Discarfos.

The Discarfos.

Capital D, E, capital S.

Uh -huh.

Thank you.

Bye.

According to LaMage magazine, and I quote the Baroness, club meat, last

shoes. The discarpos, if the music business is an Irish wolfhound, they're

fleas. No, but I listened to that bow of silence last night, and I can hear what

they're trying to do.

The kid is doing an anti -Lemmix imitation.

The band is trying to keep up, but they don't have it. It's not like Eurythmics

or even the Pretenders with Chrissy Heist.

It's more like Wham with a female lead.

What?

You live with teenagers, you learn to speak the language.

Well, I don't know what the bow of silence is trying to say to anybody. I

know the people I've talked to think that the Scarfos are a yawn and ditto on

their missing video.

Well, why would anybody want it?

My hunch?

I think it's an outstanding do -ville that the butcher boys forgot to mention.

Like a bookie or a loan shark.

Somebody's using the video for leverage.

All right, gentlemen.

Officers.

Gentlemen, may I have your attention, please?

Gentlemen.

All right, listen up.

Thank you, Sergeant.

Well, this is it. The official Officer Ozzie ballot box and ballots.

Ozzie, there's a macho handle. I don't want you to forget, there are thousands

of young boys out there waiting to model themselves on the man that you will

elect.

Competition is stiff, indeed.

Keene, the department boxing champ, seems to be the man to beat, especially

since his nose job.

All right.

You know, a little honey and parsimmon juice would clear that one right up.

You know, there are a lot of female officers in the department, Mr. Daniels.

I'm aware of that.

There are thousands of young girls out there waiting to model themselves after

the woman that we elect.

You're making a point.

Yeah, we've got a sexual discrimination case going on here. And a major lawsuit

against the toy company and probably the whole department.

Sergeant, why not submit your name? I'll tell you something else, Daniels. You

can do it, Cagney.

Do what?

Nominate a man and a woman from this precinct and we'll let the toy company

decide.

Not good enough.

I'll make it department -wide, okay?

I'll draft a directive.

Get on it right away.

Good idea.

The doggy door works.

Well, I can tell you what... a cleaner Mrs.

Descarfo uses on her walls and her windows and that's about it. How you

Lacey?

Detective Sullivan, should I bother reading this?

Why? You just heard it.

But Christine, I got something to show you.

What is it?

I have been doing the preliminary sketches for the body painting

You have got to reconsider.

Do I ask for this?

This is from my... Great moments in American history series. Lee and Grant

Appomattox. You're a great patriot.

You notice Grant's beard?

And a genuine furlough.

Your niece is on line four.

Hi.

Sorry I'm late. Hiya, Chris.

Well, hello there.

Hiya, Terry.

I thought the city had swallowed you up.

How are you?

Place hasn't been the same without a cagney around here. Terry's been telling

great stories about Grandpa.

That's terrific.

What'll it be, Chris?

Got an orange juice from the rocks?

Nurse Nicole.

Mind if we sit at a table?

Sure. That's great.

Oh, listen, I brought your souvenir.

Perry Descarfo.

Right there.

Is that case I'm working on the one I told you with the missing video?

Oh, yeah.

Thanks.

I love this place.

Just being here, I feel closer to him. To who? Grandpa.

Thank you.

Look, Bridget.

Things aren't always as they seem. Raffaello said that.

Oh. I know.

Let's shoot pool tonight.

Okay, sure.

Good.

The key to my audition is to be in touch and involved.

And food is the real soul of New York. I've already eaten my way across half of

Manhattan. So you are in touch.

The food here... So eclectic. Fresh oysters on South Street.

Cannoli and Italian ices on Grand.

And then I caught a subway up to 42nd Street and... You ate in Times Square?

No.

I went to the library.

I dug up tons on Sean O 'Casey. I've got so much background for that audition,

I'll blow them out of their seats.

Well, you sound very confident.

Well, what's that you always say?

You only live life once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

That's what I always say.

I'm not sure that it applies.

Well, the point is, there's culture here.

Life.

California is dead.

I mean, look what it did to my dad.

That's not true, Bridget.

I mean, he's a little different to your father, but he's still a cagney.

And he cares for this family.

And when I needed him most, he was here.

Right in this room.

In fact, over there, you're right.

Your dad gave me the most important hug I ever got.

Of course.

It was here, wasn't it?

What? Sorry.

Charlie's wake. It was right here.

Life.

Death.

Our history.

It's all around us.

Kiss the dog goodbye, Esposito. You don't have a chance. The numbers don't

Wait a second. Wait, wait, wait. Let's close the book. Let's make a deal, all

right? For you, Coleman, I'm offering lunch at the legendary Bernie's, huh?

And for you, Basil, a date with my cousin who's got legs up to here. Forget

Basil. I've met him. Hey, my ballot is not for sale.

A vote is a sacred trust, especially on a 200th anniversary of the Constitution.

I'm paying in advance.

Here's your book of college tickets.

My uncle does a hand wash followed by a virgin chamois wipe down.

Sounds interesting.

Hey, forget that. I gave you my fox inside. Oh, that's a fifth generation

You're way out of your league, Victor. Look, I don't want anybody to make up

their minds until I had a chance to present my final offer.

Basil?

Miss Dean, have you got a clue?

Hey.

That's right, we're going through a redwood tree today.

Oh, please let tomorrow be better.

The incredible shrinking crime, the more you know, the less you care.

I really thought we hit pay dirt when that Tippi Schmidt started tearing up

the scarf one day.

I felt the same way when my butcher died.

I guess nobody can be like old man Descarpo, huh?

Oh, by the way, partner, thanks for going today. That was a great number you

on Daniels. Oh, thanks.

I thought so, too.

You want to be a doll, Kennedy?

Imagine your old face staring back at you from every toy store window in the

city. I don't think it's such a bad idea.

Girls need role models, too, Mary Beth.

Imagine Alice Blake with a dolly of her own mother.

If more citizens supported our leaders, we wouldn't have this mess in Central

America. Harvey, we are not talking video games or macho movies here. We do

settle every problem by going to war.

Would Oliver North back down from a fight? Oh, no, no, not if he could shred

way out of it. He was a soldier following orders.

What did they teach you in history class? He cut through the red tape, Dad.

regular man of action, yeah.

Harvey, you talk things out. You work... things out. It's what you call

diplomacy. Well, at least I believe in my country. Hey, don't wave a flag in my

face. I wore that uniform for real. I love this country, too. Well, then why

don't you support it?

You know how close Nicaragua is to Texas.

Did somebody drop you on your head when you were a baby?

Get his bag.

Get that and everything.

Cagney and Lacey will continue.

When both balls are against the rail like that, there's only one thing to do.

Charlie taught me this.

Very tricky maneuver, see?

All in the wrist.

Nice and easy.

Nice try, Aunt Chris.

Maybe too much wrist.

Well, you're not supposed to think every ball, you know. If you lose your

quarter, it's too fast. Charlie taught me that, too.

Aunt Chris.

I feel it all around me, enveloping me.

Oh. The Irishness. My own grandfather, Irish verse flowing from his lips, able

to drink anybody under the table.

Sit. I want to make this shot.

A proud heritage, my Irish heart.

Tell me about Grandpa's dark side.

Every poet has a dark side.

Charlie had many moods.

He was a storyteller.

A man of the people.

Yeah.

Charlie told a lot of stories.

You shot.

I thought they was birdie, was they?

Thank you very much, Mr. Diskoffel.

I'm glad you speak your language.

Gus Diskoffel says there is no cancer.

There are no film outtakes. They use everything they shoot.

He says their father was the same way when he made Sausage.

Butchers' kids have no pets.

It's a birdie woodsy. He's the only man with any pictures of the production.

He's a rock and roll collector or something.

You don't have anything else you want to take a look?

Breathing through your nose?

Oh, you know, you're right.

I guess the HLB's about to kick in.

All right, everyone, listen up.

We have the results of the precinct doll competition.

I can hardly stand the excitement.

Due to an 11th hour decision by Detective Esposito to withdraw from the

competition and throw his votes over to his Becky, the overwhelming winner is

Detective Victor as Becky.

women's division.

What? We have a write -in candidate. The winner is Sergeant Christine Cagney.

Well,

you got two votes. We're sure of that much.

How about you do this, Cagney?

You'll split the vote and you'll ruin it for both of us. Hey, you better always

back out, Victor. Hey, Victor, congratulations.

Come on, I'll let you buy me lunch.

Now, has anybody talked to you about the merchandising on this thing?

That's Victor's jacket.

Like a dust spot for legs.

That little weasel, he bought him off.

How about the donut you bought me yesterday?

Any other 50 cents is not a bribe.

This is Mix from the Fillmore.

Can't get no satisfaction from this one, huh?

Well, uh, we heard that you had stills, um, in your archives here.

All right.

Uh... No.

Crosby, Nash, and Young. No stills.

Mr. Worthy, we're looking for any still photographs taken while Perry Discorfo

was making his visiting video.

Hot talk!

Why didn't you say so?

Right here.

There's a hundred pictures here. Yeah, well, you can never have too much

history, you know, especially if they don't find that video.

Mr. Woodsy, a tape like that could be valuable to a collector like yourself,

wouldn't it?

I was only in that joint long enough to shoot and split.

You know, I got alibis of the union.

Well, it'd be a second addition to your collection, though, wouldn't it? Look, I

collect. I don't steal.

There's a difference.

Well,

we'll be taking you down to the station, all right?

Now, cooperation is my middle name, but do you know the value of what you got

there? No, sir. What is it?

Well, these things are determined by supply and demand.

Well, we'd be happy to give you a receipt for your property, Mr. Woodsy.

about we come up with a figure and make it a straight?

Cash transaction.

How about we issue a warrant and hold this as evidence for a long, long time?

That's W -O -O -D -S -E -Y.

Assistant Reed Dixon, is this expensive?

It's Paulette Goddard. No, no, no, Reed Dixon.

A grand destiny or all my tomorrows. You sure that's not Paulette Goddard?

Positive.

How about five bucks?

How about 50 cents?

So?

My dream.

Thank you.

So, then this, this one has to be from, it is, Christine is from The Scarlet

Widow, where she had to cut her hair short so that she could hide from Tyrone

Power. I missed that one. I loved that one.

She was so glamorous.

I guess still vulnerable.

Oh, that's my favorite.

Romantic fantasy.

Right now I'm into heavy reality.

Nothing wrong with a little fantasy, Christine.

I'm not talking about the bedroom very much.

I've got a niece who's dragging me through the heather, convinced I'm her

root.

She admires you, Chris.

More young people should appreciate their parents.

Yeah, well, my sponsor keeps pushing for rigorous honesty, and I'm hanging out

with Bridget practicing rigorous make -believe.

Hey, but that doesn't matter what you tell the kids.

They get their own ideas anyhow.

Mary Fitz, you don't understand.

She has Charlie and me covered in so many shamrocks.

I told her the truth, it would break her heart.

No, Chris, you have to come right out and tell them what you feel.

You don't want to beat around the bush. She has a right to know what you think.

You're right. And they don't care.

They eat out.

They stay out. Do they care about the furniture? No.

Just wait until you try to get a water scene off your brand -new early American

table.

So what do you do?

You never, never, ever talk politics in the home.

from a very stimulating evening at the Democratic Club, Mary Beth.

I even joined.

And then... I'm going to kill her, Mary Beth.

I'm going to strangle her with my bare hands. Harvey, honey, what?

Was something happening at the meeting? I was fine.

I was at class tonight.

Grassroots business is where it starts, Mary Beth. You've got to view global

issues on a local level.

What you do with today's garbage affects tomorrow's ozone level.

Maybe it's the sugar.

Harvey, let me get you a nice glass of cold water. Too much sugar, huh, Mary

Beth? You remember that guy in San Francisco?

Maybe the kid is on a sugar high.

What kid?

Harvey Jr.? What do you do now?

What is going on?

I come home tonight, and our kid, the freedom fighter, he's holding his

brother's hand over a burning candle.

He's what?

Is Michael okay?

No, no, Mary Beth. Michael is fine. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. He's fine. It is me

who's sweating a heart attack.

Harvey says he is testing his brother's manhood.

That's not sugar, Harv. That's criminal.

That's crazy.

That kid is grounded for a month.

Two months. Hold it, Mary Beth.

Grounded here?

In this house?

With us?

Would you look at this?

That guy in the cowboy suit?

That's my fry cleaner.

That old crowd of club neighbors is guilty to me.

I hate listening to my own phone message.

Uh, Bridget, hi, I hope I didn't miss you. I just want to call and say to

a leg at the audition today. Call me when you get back and let me know how it

went. Good luck.

I was up half the night listening to her monologue from Shadow of a Gunman.

I did that same thing with Michael.

When he was in Tom Sawyer, he didn't have a lot of lines, but that kid is a

natural, Christine.

This is a little different.

Well, Cagney, this is the big day.

My acceptance speech is going to be short and to the point.

A belt does not qualify as public speaking.

Are you jealous about the doll or the cover picture in the department

How do you know about that?

From Marquette.

He's the PA liaison to the toy company.

He's going to help handle the final choice.

Since when did you get so chummy with Marquette?

Since he and PJ got social.

We had a couple of drinks together last night.

Sergeant Rainey, do some organizing for the police athletic league committee.

Not a bad idea.

Yes, Sergeant Sharon Rainey, please.

All right, I'll hold.

Yeah, we'll get the old girl networking on this.

All is fair in love and manufacturing.

What?

No, all right. Have her call Sergeant Cagney at the 14th.

Yeah, she's got the number.

Here for what you wish for, Christine.

If you win that contest, I'll have all those sweaty little hands grabbing at

you.

Check this out.

Middle one.

What? The girl in the Bernoulli?

I thought of a noose as a snooze. Look at the background.

Gus Discarpo.

And?

Throwing a bag full of white powder.

You recognize this picture, Gus?

Yeah.

It's from our music video, Hot Talk.

Yeah, you photograph well.

So does this little bag of goodies you got in your hand.

You stole that tape to hide that evidence.

I should have known. Only dope stays dope, you dope. What are you calling it

dope, Garvone? This stuff wasn't real.

wasn't real what do you mean it wasn't real it's artificial sweetener see i put

it in to jazz up the visuals what do you know about visuals he couldn't even lay

out the cold cuts in the display then i did it for nothing you stole the tape ma

why i thought gussy had a drug problem so i burned the tape all right everybody

calm down you destroyed my work for him you always loved him more ma oh yeah a

mom always kept your baby pictures on the credenza, huh? Why? Because the

loves me. That's why. Besides, you always had that stupid little pacifier

hanging out your mouth. Oh, yeah, who carried his blankie till he was in third

grade. Am I going to go to jail? What about me, Ma? You destroyed my whole

future. You don't talk to your mother that way.

It's you.

It's you. You destroyed our dream. Your dream. I wanted a pet shop.

We are going to take this to D .A. Feldberg.

You're planning an early retirement.

contest winner is here at the 14th.

So, it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you the new Officer Ozzie

Dahl and its model, Detective Victor Isbeck.

Thank you, sir. Thank you.

Hey, Cagney.

Victor, congratulations.

Good, finally something small enough to match the rest of me.

Hey, jealousy's okay.

Have a look.

It's only the prototype.

The final version will be much more handsome.

That's me.

The contest only ended in the dolls here. Now, why am I not surprised?

Well, as it turns out, the toy company already had the body made up.

Uh -huh.

So they were only looking for a head?

The boat was on the up and up. It was strictly kosher.

The ballots are available for your perusal.

Congratulations again.

Thank you.

What do you think, Cagney?

I think if I had a bunch of headless dolls, you'd be my choice too, Victor.

Cagney, your niece is on line three. She doesn't sound so good.

Congratulations, Victor.

Hi, Bridge.

It doesn't matter.

cream in a mall. It's all I was meant to do. It's obvious.

Oh, come on. You don't mean that. I haven't got it, they said. And they're

right. I'm nothing.

What about suffering through the troubles, huh?

Being brave.

Staring down the gun.

They told me my accent was Welsh.

I'm so good.

What'll I do?

Hey, you, you're an actor, right?

So when you get your big break, spit them in the eye. You don't understand.

It's over.

You're going to quit?

Well, I'm not as strong as you are or as brave.

Yes, you are, Bridget. I'm not.

I'm a valley girl, Aunt Chris.

I'm empty.

You don't know what that feels like.

Don't bet on it.

Everybody at that audition had character.

They were real like you and Grandpa.

Damn it, Bridget. Would you grow up? You're just as real as anybody else. And

Charlie and I are not heroes. You are.

Bridget, let me lay something on you here.

I'm an alcoholic.

This isn't going to work.

It's true, Bridget. Come on.

This is me, remember?

I've known you all my life. You'd think I wouldn't know. I am a drunk.

Charlie was a drunk.

Only he wouldn't put the bottle down.

On the way to the Wonder Wheel, Papa, rest his soul, had stopped at a bar to

have one fast drink with his cronies. He said he left me sitting in the car for

an hour. I was a little kid.

I don't want to hear any more of this.

You've got to listen. Stop it!

Stop it!

Why are you doing this to me?

Bridget, I loved Charlie with all my heart.

But he wasn't some Irish legend. He was a flesh -and -blood cop.

was doing the best that he could. You want me to follow my faith. That's what

everybody wants. Let me tell you something, kid.

The best part of being a Cagney is not our gift of gab. It's our backbone.

It's that we're tough and that we don't quit.

So if you're really a Cagney, you go back to California and you learn. All

right, you practice and you bring it back here in the fall and you kick this

town in its teeth.

Now, what do you say?

Well?

a lot of spirit, Virginia.

Thanks.

You okay?

I'm fine.

I'm in AA.

You know something?

Put it on.

Yeah.

I think Charlie would want you to have this.

And you were good fruits.

This is war.