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Baretta, you need sleep... Shut up!

Yeah, I pulled the trigger.

But you sent him upstairs when you put him out

on the streets to sell dope.

You got to get him, Mikey.

The man's name is Baretta.

Some people are saying you're gonna kill that cop.

Why do you care about a lousy cop?

There's a narc on me!

Hey, Phil, where are you?! I'm up here!

He's empty, man, go get him!

Take it easy, kid.

Just take it easy. I'll get you some help.

Little brother.

Why'd you do it? I don't understand.

I didn't do nothing.

Come on, they don't shoot you for doing nothing.

I'm your brother, be straight with me.

You weren't there. You don't know.

You got to get him, Niki.

But what can I do?

Do you love me?

You're my brother...

of course I love you.

All my life the man's been after me.

All my life.

I'm running, I'm running... he's after me.

Why didn't you give up?

I tried.

They don't let you.

They don't listen, Niki.

You got to get him.

A man named... Baretta.

Promise me you'll get him.

I promise, man. I promise.

I swear by our family that I will get him, Phil.

Phil.

Phil.

Phil.

Hi.

You're Phil Coppelli's brother.

My name is Tony Baretta.

They told me you were in there with him.

You're Niki?

I'm the cop that shot your brother.

I know you don't want to hear nothing I got to say right now

and I don't blame you, but...

I'm sorry. It's gonna be all right. Do you hear me, man?

My boss, Shiller, says this is the best hospital in town

and these are the ace doctors of the world.

They're gonna take care of him, 'cause I'm

gonna see to that. I want you to know that.

This is my card. You call me.

Anything you need, I'm gonna take care of it.

He'll be all right. I promise you.

Don't worry about a thing. Do you hear me?

Hey, sugar? Hi.

I'm Officer Baretta. I'd like to talk to you about Phil Coppelli.

He's on his way downstairs.

Oh yeah? Where are they taking him? To the morgue.

You're the punk that made the buy

from Coppelli last night, aren't you?

You know who I am? I'm the man...

I'm the man that killed him,

and he was just a little boy. Somebody's gonna start paying,

and I'm starting with you. Spread 'em!

Are you holding anything, huh?

No, I'm clean. No, you're clean.

Everybody in the world is clean, ain't they? Get up here!

Who was Coppelli working for?

Coppelli? Who's Coppelli?

Get down there! Coppelli was your connection, junkie.

You hear what I'm saying? I sent him to a hospital and he died.

Now I'm getting a little tense.

You start answering me now.

Who was he working for? I swear I don't know nothing.

You got fresh track marks on you someplace, don't you?

Look, I don't know what you're talking about. You don't?

Get up here!

There they are! There they are! There they are!

That's fresh track marks!

Do you know what I'm gonna do?

I'm gonna bust you for 'em and they're gonna put you in the slammer.

Then I'm gonna put word out on the street

that you set Coppelli up for the hit.

Oh, come on. Have you ever done hard time?

No. I'll tell you what they do

to squealers in the slammer. You'll last about a week

and they'll carry you out in a box.

Now for the last time, I'm asking you...

Who? Who was he working for?

Give me a name! Bo... Bodine.

What? Bodine. That's it. That's all I know.

Okay. Now, listen to me.

You've been seen talking to a cop.

In the dope world, your life ain't worth a quarter.

So get out of town. I don't ever want to see you again.

You understand me? Do you understand what I'm saying?

But bust me, will you? Take me in. Hey, come on!

Please. Can I help you?

No, just a minute please.

Mister, you're the one that drive a car for Mr. Bodine?

Do I look like a chauffeur to you?

I don't wanna make no trouble. The car make a lot of smoke.

I'm scared. Do you wanna take a look?

Please, for me. Grazie, mille grazie.

You can't go in there. It's all right, darling.

Don't make no trouble. Stay cool.

Doctor, excuse me, I'm a police officer.

Could I ask you to step outside just for a moment, please?

Thank you very much. I appreciate your cooperation.

Bodine, I'm a cop.

My name's Baretta.

Congratulations.

Hello and goodbye, Mr. Baretta.

My assistant's gonna be very upset you didn't make an appointment.

No he ain't. He ain't here.

I sent him out on a little mission.

And that just leaves you and me, partner.

Last night you sent a kid named Coppelli out on the streets

with 20 bags of smack.

And when they wheeled him in the operating room,

he still had 15 bags on him,

only he died before he had a chance to sell 'em for you.

Yeah, well, I don't know any kid named Coppelli

and I don't even know what you're talking about.

You know.

You know on account of you hired him.

And you know why I know? 'Cause I shot him.

I shot him and he's dead.

He was 19 years old, man.

Remember what it was like to be 19 years old?

You know, Baretta, you're overworked.

I think you need some more sleep. Shut up!

When I looked at that kid it was like looking at myself,

like I put a slug in my own guts.

You're right. I'm overworked.

I need rest, sleep.

Like you put Coppelli to sleep.

I pulled the trigger all right, but you sent him upstairs and tucked him in

when you put him on the streets to sell dope.

You understand what I'm saying to you?

Oh, you got a real problem, Baretta.

You know, you confuse truth and slander.

And there's no proof to what you're saying.

No, you got the problem. It's true,

I ain't got no proof. Not today, not tomorrow,

maybe not for a year, but I'm gonna get proof.

When I get proof, I'm gonna get you.

I'm gonna take you apart, man.

I'm gonna be there when they put you in a hole in the ground,

just like they're gonna bury that kid tomorrow.

You take that to the bank, you hear what I'm saying?

Give me a kiss.

Give me a big kiss.

Put your head over here and rest for me. Attaboy!

Go over there and get that guy.

Come here. Lay down. Lay down.

Do a chicken.

Hey.

Wave to me.

Don't you wish that sometimes we never left the Merchants?

Stay out there on the ocean

and just have a good time?

Hey, Tony, chow time.

Say, has that rooster laid an egg yet?

Well, we'll have to go out. Come on, I'm famished!

I'm holding the elevator for you. Come on!

All right.

Which way, Billy, my boy? There's a new place down the street.

I'm want to get me a load of enchiladas.

Enchiladas? What happened to that hot dog diet you were on?

I lost about 10 pounds, but Rosie won't cuddle any more.

Oh! Says I lost my charm.

Baretta: Lookie there, a $5 bill.

Did he get you, Billy?

I'm not lying down here because of the view.

Oh, man. Come up here.

Oh, my God.

Push. Push hard now. Just hang on.

Stay right there.

I'm gonna see what the hell is going on around here.

Niki!

I thought something happened to you.

Hey, get a jacket, huh? Let's go. Come on!

I can't. My mom's working tonight. I'm stuck.

Hey, Niki, what's wrong?

Hey, nothing.

I'm fine. Everything's fine.

Just fine.

Oh-ho.

You coming around, partner? Nancy? I... oh...

No, I ain't Nancy.

No, you ain't no nurse.

No.

They told me at the hospital

that you're just too mean and too fat and sassy

to hang around there bothering them nurses,

so I took you home to heal you.

And we're gonna start out

with one of my mother's old recipes

called fettucini.

I ain't hungry.

Now, now, now. The Jews got the chicken soup,

the Mexicans got menudo,

and the "Itralians" got fettucini.

I ain't hungry! If you got plaster on your arm,

you might as well have plaster in your belly.

I ain't hungry.

Aah, my father always said, "Fuel in the furnace

makes fire in the soul."

I ain't hungry.

Oh, you grump!

And besides that,

me and Fred... Come here, partner.

We're gonna teach you how to fly with one wing.

And a fella with your limitations,

it's gonna take a little extra training to know how to navigate...

with one motor.

Tony?

Yeah?

Who shot me?

I don't know, Billy,

but this old "Itralian" nose of mine smells a boy...

just a boy.

Hey, Lou, how's it going?

Listen, Niki. You take the day off.

I can handle the store.

We're all with you, Niki. I just want you to know that.

Yeah, thanks. Thanks, Luig.

Say hello to your papa for me, eh? Yeah, right.

Hey, hey!

Hey, Niki. Hey, hey, Straighten up. hey,

Take a shot, Nick.

Yeah, man, let's play some pool.

Say, why don't you and I talk a little, Nick?

♪ Ain't she sweet ♪

♪ See her coming down the street... ♪

Niki, why don't we go someplace away from these chimpanzees?

Hey, this ain't the pig that offed your brother, is it?

You're not gonna talk to him,

I mean fraternize with him, are you?

You know, Nick, you don't have

to entertain these schlocks, man.

You can be yourself.

I am being myself, Baretta.

Just like you're being yourself

when you go out and blow people's brains out.

I didn't want your brother to fall, man.

Then you shouldn't have pulled the trigger.

Somebody pulled the trigger on him long before I got to him.

I ain't shirking my responsibility,

but you know it would've went down that way

no matter who was there... That's a fact.

Oh, man, the pig makes me cry.

Don't call me that no more or I'll step up here.

Are you a tough guy? On account of if you are, just step up here,

'cause the only tough guys I know are in the jailhouse or the graveyard.

I'm gonna give you your choice.

Niki's gonna chop you, Baretta. Chop, chop!

That's what you're gonna do? Just like you tried the other day?

And you sent an old man to the hospital that I love.

All right! Let's get it on!

Okay, kid.

Your world's a lousy place right now.

I know that and I'm sorry for it.

But your brother's gone,

and there ain't nothing we can do about that.

All I'm saying is, I don't want nobody else to die.

And that's the name of that tune.

Yeah, I hear you, Baretta,

but it don't make one bit of difference.

You know who I am and I know what you are.

And you know what's going down.

Whew, way to fly!

Welcome home, Niki.

Baretta: You see there, Billy, my boy?

A little brisk stroll and we'll go inside,

have another, maybe, 2000 units of vitamin E.

In no time at all

we're gonna have you in dynamite shape, my man.

Little by little... Wait a minute.

Somebody's been here.

Fred?

Are you okay? Huh? Give a kiss.

"We don't kill parrots, just chickens

who hide behind badges."

What am I gonna do, Billy?

How do you deal with kids?

You bust 'em and they're out on the streets again in two weeks,

or you send them to the slammer to learn how to use machine guns?

What the hell am I a cop for?

I don't know how to do my job.

Excuse me. Mr. Novelli's your name? Yeah.

Could I talk to you for just a couple of minutes, please?

I don't wanna buy nothing.

Now wait a minute. Just a second.

My name's Baretta. I'm a cop.

There's a couple of kids

over my right shoulder there in the crosswalk.

They hang around your place quite a bit, don't they?

I don't know. I don't know 'em.

I never seen them before. You don't know, huh?

I don't know much myself,

but I know you're running one of the sweetest

little books in town in there.

Shall I go in and see what else I know?

You know, I think them kids are

Mike Scarletto and Tommy Parko. Tommy who?

Parko! Yeah.

There's a third kid hangs around with them.

What's his name? That'd be Giselle,

Joe Giselle.

Bad kids... real bad. All of them.

You know what we ought to do with them and the Coppelli kids?

We'll put 'em in a burlap bag, like kittens

you don't want, and throw them in the river.

That would just leave the good guys...

Like me and you.

Yeah?

He is, huh?

That's interesting.

I didn't know that.

I didn't know he had a kid brother.

He's really sore, huh?

He's out to get him?

That's good, Lou.

Yeah. No, that's very helpful.

Yeah, I'll talk to you later.

Tony, what are you wasting your time

on juvie delinqs for?

Well, my dear,

I figure if I get a couple of Coppelli's friends off the streets,

it's gonna be a little easier to deal with him... I think.

I got it.

Terrific.

Okay, here's the one on Giselle.

Yes, you see here?

The same thing. Fruit stands over there,

over here, shoplifting, purse snatching,

rolling drunks, ice cream trucks,

fruit peddlers, hot dog stands.

The trick is, my dear,

how to keep them from going from fruit peddlers

to robbing banks.

Come on, Tony. You can't win 'em all.

You and I are gonna have to have a chili dog

and talk that over.

That's it? A chili dog?

Well, you could have a bite of this.

Oh, that's terrific.

Do you have to go?

Yeah, I got to go.

I promised, uh...

Parky and Chisel I'd meet 'em down at the corner.

You gave up on those guys two years ago, Niki.

What are you talking about?

Those guys are straight with me.

But who needs 'em?

You got school and a job and...

we made plans together.

Hey, look, I got to go.

I love you.

Niki?

Yeah?

Some people are saying you're gonna kill that cop.

What do you care about a lousy cop?

Is it true?

I got to do what I got to do. Let's just shut up about it.

No, I don't like you like this, Niki.

How can you say that?

How can you even think it?

It's not your brother who's dead... it's mine.

Niki, Phil shot first. The papers said there was a witness.

He would've killed that cop. The papers lied, all right?!

Cops are...

nothing but criminals with badges.

Yeah. Which kind are you gonna be?

There's Mutt and Jeff, and this must be the place.

Mmm, mmm, mmm.

I gots my drumstick, drumstick,

popsicle, popsicle, right?

Kids: Right! Well, all reet!

The man say, "Bring me all your children.

Not the blacks and not the whites

and not the tall and not the short, but all your children."

Thank you, darling. That's yours.

Thank you, sugar. Hmm.

I was thinking I'd get some bird seed

for the pheasants.

One, two...

Hey, Chisel. Come here. Yeah. Yeah.

Man, my money's been so funny lately

my pockets been laughing at me.

♪ Shall we gather at the river? ♪

♪ The beautiful ♪

♪ The beautiful river... ♪

What do you say we go pop that baby, huh?

Yeah, yeah. Let's make some fast money.

I like it!

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Yes, sir! Yes, sir.

That's right. I made a lot of money.

I know you did.

You know you hit a cop?!

You wanna get in a fight with a cop?

You big dummies!

I don't know. Your parents don't want you,

the city don't want you...

Okay. Okay.

Get them back there.

Rick, read 'em their rights and frame that thing for me, will you?

You got it, Tony.

Can I help you, little mother?

Where the hell is Baretta?

He's got to help me. I can't do this all alone.

Hey, dummy! I'm Baretta.

Oh, Baretta! You're a woman?

Get him out of here, will you? Okay. Come on...

Hold it! Hold it! He's not armed.

Desperate character, huh?

I got the clinks on him already. Will you come on?!

You have the right... Shut up! I read him his rights!

Get him out of here! Okay. Come on, let's go!

Up there! Get out of the way, you!

Yes?

Buon giorno, Mrs. Coppelli.

Scusate. I'm from the police department.

I would like to talk to you just for a minute

about your son, Phillip.

Thank you.

Some wine?

Yes. Yes, please.

Mrs. Coppelli, my name is Tony Baretta.

Why do you come to this house, Mr. Baretta?

In the old country,

what happened would have made hate between our families

but I come here with love in my heart,

to tell you that I want to help you,

and your family, in any way that I can.

What are you doing here, Baretta?

Come to show my parents the notch on your gun?

Niki, Mr. Baretta has come to apologize.

Don't shame your brother's memory.

Me?

You shame my brother's memory

by inviting the cop who murdered him

to sit at your table.

My mother,

she's losing her marbles in her old age.

She prays too much.

She thinks God can bring back the dead.

Niccolo!

It is not enough you hurt me with your hatred, Niki.

But now, you hurt me by being like your brother.

By not being yourself.

Bodine: How are things at home now?

Pretty tough, huh?

Yeah, well, I'm head of the house now.

Good, good. Sure you are. Hey, listen,

if you're anything like your brother,

you'd bust down the gates of hell before you'd see your parents suffer.

And I wanna tell you something... Niki?

I'd be honored to have you come work for me.

I'm not gonna sell dope.

I'm your friend, remember?

Nothing to do with dope. That's a promise.

All right.

In any case, I can't pay much anyway.

I was thinking of...

something in the ballpark of maybe $500 a week.

That's just for openers. You work hard, you get a raise.

With $500 a week,

a kid like you could start a family, eh?

Yeah, I... I appreciate it, Mr. Bodine.

Nothing, it's nothing.

But there is something you can do for me.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, anything.

You and I, Niki,

you know, we share something.

We share a pain, Phil's pain.

And as long as it hangs over us,

as long we do not repay the debt to his memory,

then we both live in sadness.

Do you understand?

Yeah.

Good. Now,

here is a little present for Niccolo.

Something I thought you'd like to keep.

Go ahead, open it.

Miss Falcone? Let me talk to you for a minute, will you?

My name is Baretta. I want to talk to you about Niki.

You killed his brother. You think I'll let you talk to him?

I got to talk to him. I'm not gonna arrest him.

I'm not gonna do nothing but talk to him.

I don't know where he is.

Gimme a phone number? Let me talk to him on the phone.

What do you want me to do, help you arrest him?

I'm not gonna arrest him, I promise you.

All I'm gonna do is talk to him. Will you wait a minute?

I checked his MO. He's clean.

He hasn't done anything for two years.

But he's messing around with bad company now,

and something's gonna happen.

Well, what do you care?

What do you mean, what do I care? I care a lot.

I killed a kid... I care.

How much do you care? Do you know what he's into?

Wait a minute, listen to me.

Do you know what he's trying to do?

Let me tell you. He's trying to kill a cop,

that's what he's trying to do.

And I'm the cop. Now he's gonna keep coming

and something bad'll happen. I'm gonna have to hurt him.

There ain't no way out of that.

That's going to be on you. Now you listen to me...

Do you love him? You think about that.

Now you got the ball.

Do you swear you're not gonna arrest him? My right hand.

Wherever you take me, I'm gonna leave by myself.

Okay, he's waiting for me.

Take me there.

Niki?

Hey. I got a million and one things to talk to you about.

Let's sit down and have a cola... Niki?

Hey, wait a minute.

What's wrong?

Nothing, just hold on to me for a second, okay?

Hey, look... sit down.

We've got a million and one things to talk about.

I'll go get us a cola, okay? I'll be right back.

Hi, Niki.

You told him!

You told him I was here!

No, she didn't tell me nothing.

She's a bad con artist. I followed you here.

Keep away from me, Baretta!

All right, all right.

I just want you to tell me

where you going Niki?

Will you tell me that?

Where do you think you're going?

Are you gonna be a tough guy? You?

That's gonna make you grow up faster?

Who's doing your thinking now for you, huh?

First it was your brother.

And now it's Bodine.

When are you gonna start thinking for yourself, man?

That's the name of the game. Thinking for yourself.

Now you're working for Bodine.

Sure, you think I didn't know?

Now, what's he got you doing, pushing junk for him?

How long you gonna last pushing junk?

How long is she gonna... Keep her out of this!

I'll leave her out of it.

Can you leave her out of it? Huh?

What do you think he's gonna do,

now he's got you working for him?

She's gonna be working for him next.

That's right! She's gonna have track marks on her arms.

She'll be out tricking for him!

He'll make a hooker out of her. That's what he'll do!

A good looking chick, he'll make a bundle off a little plum like that.

Shut your face! You got to think for yourself.

When you're right, you're tight.

When you're wrong, it's got to be eating you up.

You got to be on fire right now. You're no tough guy!

Your mother was right! She ain't nuts, you are!

You can't kill people. It ain't in you!

You trying to imitate your brother?

What did Bodine give you? He give you a lot of money?

How about a gun? Where's your piece?

Every other pusher's got a piece.

Come on, whip it out! Show me your gun!

Don't do it, Niki!

Get out of the way, honey.

Come on, shoot me! Go on, shoot!

Yeah, I'm just standing here.

What if I was a blond crew-cut just out of the academy?

Do you know what would happen? You'd make him kill you!

Not because he hates you. Not 'cause you're a tough guy,

but because he's afraid of you!

You wave that hog leg around, he wouldn't stop and think.

I'm from the streets. I know you can't kill me.

Look! It's empty, man!

He wouldn't even know the damned gun's empty!

Here, I could kill you! You got an empty piece!

He didn't put any bullets in it.

Bodine's supposed to load it! Niki, will you stop that!

Baretta: Stop that! Niki, come here!

Niki, Niki! No! No!

No, wait a minute. We'll stop him.

We'll stop him, honey, we'll stop him.

Shh, shh, shh.

I don't want him hurt.

He won't get hurt. I'll get him, I'll get him.

Just let him cool off now. He'll just run around for awhile.

He'll be all right. Shh.

Hey, Mom?

Yeah, it's me.

Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine. Do me a favor, huh?

Call Baretta for me.

That's right.

If you call him, maybe he'll believe all this.

Well, find him, please?

Yeah. Okay. Tell him I quit.

Yeah, it's all over. I just want to talk to him.

Okay?

Would you ask him to meet me in front of the warehouse at 5:00?

What warehouse?

The warehouse where you work.

Yeah, okay, Mom.

That's right. The warehouse, 5:00.

You got it. Thanks a lot.

Thanks a lot, Luig. Any time, Nick. Any time.

Yeah?

Yeah, Lou.

5:00, huh?

Thanks, Lou.

I don't know where to look for him, Fred.

If the kid's alive, there ain't nobody knows it.

You know, partner, there's times when I wish

I could trade places with you.

I'd just sit up there on that perch

and eat sunflower seeds all day long.

And this is one of them times.

Hello.

Yes, Mrs. Coppelli.

Yes, I understand. What time?

It's almost 5:00 now. Thank you very much.

Hey, kid! Come over here!

Come over here, I said.

Get in the car.

Let me go! What's going on here?

Baretta: Get down, Niki! Stay down!

I thought that kid was out cold!

Nick!

Come to me, now!

Come on! Get in!

Did you set this up, Niki?

I called you, I wanted to talk to you.

They grabbed me in the car and knocked me out.

I quit. I swear it! I swear I had nothing to do with it.

They're gonna blow me away and set you up as the patsy.

Hey, Tony...

how are we getting out of here?

I'll let you know when we're out.

Bodine, hold it right there!

Put it down! Put it down!

Turn around and spread 'em! Get around there!

You okay? Yeah, yeah, I'm fine.

What made you change your mind, kid?

I don't know, I just started thinking.

God love you, partner.

I think they call that growing up.

Yeah.

Mmm-hmm. Hmm-hmm.

You want that card, don't you?

Mmm. I don't get it, either.

That's right.

What do you think, Fred?

Hello!

This one? Okay.

Fred says that the five is a dead card.

Thanks, Fred.

You dirty old man. Gin!

You oughta let the rooster play alone.

Hey, rummy! You're supposed to be a gin player.

What's the matter with you?

I'll cook you, you jerk. Come in, come in.

Hey, we got a delegation here.

Oh, my Lord! Would you look at this?

Oh, gracious!

All right! Well, let's see.

Say, what is it? Aah, aah.

You can't do that to an Italian. That's lethal.

Here, take that off. Oh, my!

Yeah, it's from my mother.

Oh. Let me see here...

"Cuando"...

Oh, I'm gonna take forever to interpret this.

Would you do the honors for me?

Okay.

"Dear Mr. Baretta,

there's honor in being a good man.

I had two sons,

and I lost them to the streets

and to the cruelty of being poor.

You gave me back one son

and for this, I thank you."

Wow.

Well, if you guys don't wanna see a cockatoo

eat three yards of lasagna, you better get some dishes.

Over there on the counter.

Get one for the bird, too.

Hey, listen...

Niki, you sure don't owe me anything, but...

it'd be a big favor to me

if you could get me and your old man together some time.

Yeah. Yeah, I'd like that.

Maybe we oughta give him a little time, huh?

You know us Italians.

Yeah, yeah.

I know us Italians.

Move over, Fred.