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- [Announcer] Tonight on Wiseguy.

- See I don't see myself as kissing off this nation.

I see myself as protecting it.

- The guys you're looking for are a daisy chain

of men in high places.

You're sure LoCocco's not gonna hurt ya,

I'm just as sure that these guys will.

- I want the satisfaction of knowing that he is gone.

- Listen to me, if he slips through

and they manage to hit you,

I swear on my family

I'll kill 'em myself.

(suspenseful music)

- All right guys I need a few minutes.

Why don't you go grab some lunch.

Why are we closing this case Frank?

- Vince we stumbled onto a criminal empire

and we brought it down now.

What's left here are records leading

to some of the biggest criminals on earth.

It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

I'd say it's a job well done.

- Roger LoCocco.

- Oh Vince.

Roger LoCocco was working for the CIA

while you were working for the OCB.

You're going after the same criminal

from different directions.

- No no no that's too neat Frank.

LoCocco been in this a long time.

He's got a lot more on his plate

than just Mel Profitt.

What about to take over of Il Pavo?

- I talked to Arthur Franklin.

He's the Attorney General specialist

on constitutional law.

He's got top-secret clearance he could not

establish LoCocco's existence in the CIA.

- Frank the guy does exist.

- Which means he's in so deep that

the CIA front office doesn't know what he's up to.

What about a meeting with this Ketcher guy?

He's in a company too.

Somebody's gonna know what's going on.

- Ketcher came to the company by way of the Special Forces.

A real destabilization ideologue.

They tried to remove him but

the guy wouldn't go quietly

so they put him in research

and shuffled him off to the boonies.

I guess they just figured a guy would fade away.

- Well if you know that much

then you know that I'm not ready to close

shop on this yet.

- And what are you gonna do?

- I'm gonna confront Roger.

I want to hear it from him that

the only reason he was in this

was to bring down Profitt.

- That is not a good idea, the guy is dangerous.

- There's an understanding between us

one undercover operative to another.

I'm gonna go talk to him.

- And I am ordering you not to.

So you be real careful on your vacation

you understand?

- Thanks Frank.

- Vince.

- What?

- I would sleep a lot better at night

if you'd make your call in schedule.

- You got it.

- Vinnie?

- What?

- The guys you're looking for a

daisy-chain of men in high places

abusing their power.

They're invisible,

they want to stay that way.

You're sure LoCocco is not going to hurt you.

I'm just as sure that these guys will.

(soft music)

(airplane engines roaring)

(suspenseful music)

- Hi.

Where's Roger?

May I?

(bags rustling)

How long's Roger been gone?

You know he's not coming back don't you?

How do you know that?

He called you.

Somebody else called you,

he said he wasn't coming back.

He told you to pick up whatever was left.

Groceries.

You understand me, why don't you talk to me?

(trying to speak)

What?

(trying to speak)

- No tongue?

(breathing heavily)

Oh I'm sorry.

Do you know who was it called you?

(gates opening)

(gunshots)

(suspenseful music)

(gunshots)

(clicking)

(gunshots)

(suspenseful music)

(gunshots)

(suspenseful music)

(gunshots)

(gun loading)

(balls rolling)

(suspenseful music)

(gasping)

(suspenseful music)

(gasping)

(gate closing)

(drawers slamming)

(clothes shuffling)

(dialing)

(phone ringing)

- Mike Terranova.

- USA money section.

Standard collapse rollover.

- Hey what's your 20 Vinnie?

- Still Vancouver.

Listen, I need anything on a Morris Daniels.

South Dakota driver's license

number D K five eight four five nine

nine nine eight three

It's probably bogus.

- How quick you need this?

- I'll hold.

- All right, hang on.

It's going to take a minute.

(exhaling deeply)

(papers rustling)

- Yeah you're right.

Morris Daniels is bogus.

- All right, try a Michael Darehousen.

Florida driver's license number three two zero

nine three seven five four seven A.

I got a Social Security card and a passport.

Social security number two two one three six

- Bingo.

When a guy comes up this quick,

you know you're in trouble.

- [Vinnie] What do we got?

- Oh boy this guy's right at the top of

the what's he up to list.

Mercenary.

Wherever this guy goes, the nations change their name.

Rhodesia, Zaire, Be-af-fir, the Belgian Congo.

Cashiered out of the service,

section eight mental case.

- What branch?

- [Mike] Special Forces.

- Who's his commanding officer?

- It's going to take a minute.

- Never mind.

I know who it is.

(suspenseful music)

- Bernie, use the phone?

Thanks.

(phone ringing)

(sighing)

(phone slams)

(suspenseful music)

(car engine starts)

(suspenseful music)

(car engine starts)

(suspenseful music)

(car door closes)

(suspenseful music)

(door unlocking)

(door closes)

(suspenseful music)

(door opens)

(suspenseful music)

- Roger?

(suspenseful music)

Roger?

(balls rolling)

(laughing)

(suspenseful music)

(laughing)

(suspenseful music)

(jet plane engine starting)

- Dammit!

(jet plane engine humming)

- Vinnie?

- [Vinnie] Yeah.

- I got you booked on the first morning flight to DC.

McPike's got--

- [Vinnie] Hey, whoa whoa whoa,

I lost Ketcher, he's taken off in a

private jet right now with no numbers.

- Yeah we you got to get to DC ASAP.

- You gotta track down that jet!

- All right, I'll do what I can

but you are on the first flight out

of Vancouver tomorrow morning.

- Why?

- [Mike] Justice Department brass wants to see you.

McPike wants to know where Darehousen fits into this.

- He doesn't.

About three hours ago I killed him.

(phone slamming)

(suspenseful music)

- [Man] Huh?

Huh?

- Ah you look like you're going through hell.

- Yeah well we been following you buckwheat.

- Just so you know Cicerone?

- Here's your nerve right here ah!

(laughing)

(laughing and grunting)

- Carl.

You are looking good.

- Well thank you.

- Don't take it is too big a compliment, Carl.

Just means he ain't looking at you through bars.

(laughing)

- It's good to see you guys.

- Well it's real good to see you too, Roger.

When are we getting our money?

- Ah down to the business.

Get in the car follow me.

I gotta close the gate.

- [Man] Let's go!

(tires squealing)

- What is this?

A Boy Scout jamboree?

- Parris Island ugly.

(whistle screeching)

- [Man] Come on, up and adam!

Let's go!

- You propose freedom fighters.

- [Man] I think I want more money.

- Come on!

Listen up.

These men will be in charge for the

duration of this engagement.

For the next five days you will do exactly as they say

without hesitation.

If you do not,

on the sixth day you will die.

Dismissed!

Lights out!

- Mr. LoCocco, I need to see LoCocco.

You will not threaten my men.

You have a problem you bring it to me.

- Mr. LaLonde.

- Are we clear on this?

- Yeah.

- Good.

Rush!

I am the president of a government in exile.

It will be appropriate for you to address me as such.

- Look now, we're going to be together

for seven days now.

After that you can president anything you want

but until then, just stay out of my way.

(door slams)

- Is the Attorney General coming down here?

- Yes.

I would describe the situation as urgent.

Relax Vince we're a nation built on rock.

- Let's skip formality.

Attorney General Grayson, this is field director

Frank McPike.

- Sir.

- Vincent Terranova, OCB undercover.

- Jack, just called me Jack.

Arthur, put that damn thing out, let's do it.

- Yes sir.

- Those were Gary Gilmore's last words,

let's do it.

- What kind of man says that to a firing squad huh?

- Roger LoCocco.

Born in Odessa, Texas 1950.

To Bee and Honey LoCocco.

They were wildcatters, they hit it big

about a year after Roger's birth,

and Roger was sent to boarding school.

He was six years old.

Graduated at 16.

Grade point average 4.0.

He excelled at athletics.

Forged his parents signature and enlisted.

Three tours of duty, Vietnam, 12

field citations including the Medal of Honor.

He was recruited into covert

forces by a captain Herbert Ketcher.

Now somewhere in the middle of 1974

record-wise LoCocco disappeared.

He resurfaced again about a year ago

in the wake of several contract murders

the OCB was investigating.

Agent Terranova using his reputation

developed as a result of infiltrating the mob

made contact with LoCocco.

Vince.

- Roger LoCocco worked for Mel Profitt.

- The arms dealer died a couple of weeks ago.

- Yeah.

Now the months before he died

the arms trade seemed to dry up for no apparent reason

so Mel went back to drug trafficking

to try to prop it up but it didn't work.

Roger had been urging Mel to take over an island

suggesting that he could own the drug trade

from the soil to the street.

The more business collapsed, the more Mel bought into

Roger's idea.

Then he showed up one day with this finance minister

from Il Pavo with plans for a coup

using Mel's money and munitions contacts.

Then they got into some voodoo stuff I don't begin to

understand but left both of them dead.

- At Agent Terranova's request I tailed LoCocco

which led to Herbert Ketcher.

Now we cross-referenced phone and travel records.

Ketcher's movement duplicate LoCocco's from

the time LoCocco became involved with profits.

- Why do I need to know this?

- Herb Ketcher is employed by the CIA.

- You believe you've stumbled into a covert operation?

- We think that Ketcher is responsible for profits collapse.

Now yesterday in Vancouver this man, Michael Darehousen,

went to LoCocco's loft and murdered his housekeeper.

He also tried to assassinate Agent Terranova who,

in defending himself, killed Darehousen.

Darehousen's a mercenary.

His first military involvement is with Herbert Ketcher.

Now Agent Terranova searched the motel room

and found among other things an airline ticket to Il Pavo.

Henri LaLonde, vocal opposition

to Pavo's current leadership.

- Jack there's a pretty clear suggestion of

an extra legal military action here.

- Nothing concrete.

- Jack Herb Ketcher has security clearance

to the White House.

- Who authorized it?

- Admiral Strikin.

- Damn.

Where's Ketcher?

- Unknown.

- LoCocco?

- Same.

- Whose idealogue hard sells his southern hemisphere

paranoid every cocktail party inside the beltway?

Damn self-appointed patriot.

What I've heard here today doesn't leave this room.

Your duty, Vince, is depressingly clear.

- Yes sir.

- Where do you start?

- That's a shot in the dark

- Arthur, I'd like a place a little close to the best.

- Of course Frank, good luck.

- Thanks.

- Thank you.

- Darehousen's ticket has you landing

in Il Pavo in five days.

We do not have time for shots in the dark.

- You didn't even know what I was gonna say.

- Where you going?

- Where I'm going I'm going by myself.

- Wait a second, we're working outside OCB procedure here.

I'm not going to have you do that alone.

- Frank you haven't been in the trenches for years.

- Oh but when I was.

Come on.

Where are we going?

(train whistling)

(suspenseful music)

- Yeah Roger brought me on here when I first

hooked up with him.

Was not enough value but it was gated and padlocked.

He had these cutout figures in the field

he used for target practice.

Just like his loft.

Huge and lonely feeling.

Everyplace else I went with Roger was rich and cluttered

but that was Profitt.

This place,

this place was definitely LoCocco.

I know the guy's here.

- Four of us in those Boy Scouts against 1500 men.

The tricky part is here.

Fifty heavily armed men guard the presidential residences.

Baraka's brigades.

The Islanders believe they're enviewed

with some celestial powers.

- Oh great Caribbean Pentecostals.

Bobbie Carl can just go in there and preach him to death.

Why don't you just shut up Walker.

- Whoa, hey hey team.

Now our main launch will be on the garrison

and the radio station.

Darehousen will be on island a day ahead of us.

You will set off 20 minutes of concussion grenades.

Pin them down with noise.

Russell will lead LaLonde's men into the radio station.

Once LaLonde broadcasts,

that island is ours.

- What about the compound of demon worshipers?

- M16s married the M203s.

Their heaviest weapons are Vulcans elevated

on concrete strides.

Two at either frontal corner of the wall.

Take them out and they're pinned inside the compound.

We just hang up a sign that says Il Pavo jail.

Who is it?

- It's me.

Guys, how's the strategy going?

- We don't need any help Herb.

- Can I talk to you for a minute Roger?

- Do your homework.

No TV till you do your homework.

- Did you have to light a fire under LaLonde?

He's having a fit because you insulted him

in front of his men.

- This military incursion on behalf of democracy

is quickly turning into Herb Ketcher's triumphant return

to the Potomac.

- Don't come on to me Roger.

You're pulling enough cash from this operation

to buy a seat on the stock exchange.

- Well we all know what that's worth don't we?

Look you've got a pusillanimous potentate on your hands pal

and I am gritting my teeth to get through this

for I don't know why.

But for the next six days,

I own this show.

You under--

- What do you think?

- It's probably going to get dirty.

You might want to get a change of clothing

before we secure the island.

- These are the colors of my people.

- Your people.

- Pardon?

Did Herbert explain things to you?

Are we clear on this Herbert?

- I was just talking to Roger.

- Well Mr. LoCocco?

- What is it?

- You're beautiful.

- Why thank you.

- Yeah beautiful.

(restaurant patrons talking)

- Well LoCocco must be here.

- What do you mean must?

All these people say they've never seen him before.

You show them the photo they all go numb.

We have to do some heavy tipping to keep 'em all quiet.

- We wait, he'll come to us.

For you anyway.

It's a sure bet they told me there's a scrawny little guy

with funny looking glasses snooping around.

- Thanks for the kind words.

- Don't mention it.

- Thank you.

Thanks.

- You know, it's amazing how places stay the same.

I bet when I was a field operative

I spent a thousand nights in places like this.

- Yeah, it stinks doesn't it?

- This guy's been in every bar I've ever been.

- So change seats.

- No, I read too much into it.

- Did you talk to Lifeguard?

- Yeah, there's an anti-terrorist team on alert

in Wichita Falls and I can be here inside of three hours.

I don't want to go for warrants to assure

we have material evidence to hang him.

- You know, this guy's really bugging me.

- Frank will you lighten up?

The guy's playing with a full deck of Joker's.

Just relax.

- So what's he gonna do?

He's gonna ask for a date?

- So why don't you call it a night then?

- How am I gonna sleep with all this going on?

- Frank, I promise you, LoCocco sleeps too.

- All right, I'm gonna get some rest.

- Don't forget to chain lock your door.

(suspenseful music)

- [Bartender] Last call everybody.

- How important is he to you?

- Inside his suit the label says Sid Shak.

Secaucus, New Jersey.

Now really friends, how close can you get

to that kind of bad taste?

- Is he alive?

- It's your call buckwheat.

Never did like that did you?

Couple of beers please.

- We're closed.

- Right away.

- Mr. McPike is fine, he'll be released when we leave.

- Roger, why are you doing this?

- Why, why is a question you and I stopped asking ourselves

a long time ago Vince.

- I didn't.

- Well maybe you should.

There's a lot of pain involved with that question.

- But the pain is there Roger.

The difference between you and me is I deal with it.

You blind yourself to it but don't tell me it doesn't hurt.

You can save that for your buddies.

- I can't afford the doubt that comes with that question.

- No, you can't afford the truth that comes with it.

You stay out of this.

I want an answer.

How do you go from Medal of Honor to mercenary?

At what point you kiss off the nation

for these dirty little wars?

- I live in a thicket infested by zealots

bent on the bloodletting of this nation.

They raise a glass of sake to the Rising Sun

and plummet zeros filled with dynamite into our fathers.

They beat themselves with chains until they arrive

at an archetype state then they shout Allah

and drive truckloads of explosives into our brothers.

They thump Marxist manifestos like some backwater evangelist

and carve away half of Europe enslaving our cousins.

Now they want what we have but they don't want

to arrive at it by initiative.

They want it by insurrection.

These are the residents of Mr. LoCocco's neighborhood.

It's a scum ridden place to live

but I live there to stop them.

I don't see myself as kissing off this nation.

I see myself as protecting it.

- Who are you protecting when you

had your housekeeper killed?

That was bad Roger.

She took a load of buckshot point-blank.

- Who did it?

- Darehousen.

But he didn't get so lucky with me.

- Is he dead?

- Yeah and they're both laying in your loft.

I followed Ketcher back there and he saw the bodies.

You know what?

He left laughing.

Another blow struck for democracy huh, Rog?

I want McPike back.

- You okay man?

- Yeah.

- [Roger] Vince.

(tires squealing)

- Where the hell have you been all night?

You lost your senses?

Look what I find in a Motor home.

You're the only man I know who likes to invite

his liabilities home for supper.

He's gotta go!

- Where's Darehousen?

- Did you hear a word I said?

- Every paltry syllable.

Where's Darehousen?

- He's always been unreliable, I don't know where he is!

You may have to go without him.

Now this guy's gotta go.

- If this is a shouting match I win.

I'm on the phone with the chairman of

the unified bottling corporation.

How can I conduct business?

I am sorry.

You can imagine the chaos that comes with

this kind of operation.

Don't be hesitant about labor,

the boat is full of willing workers.

Yes they make too much now.

I'm certain they will accept cutbacks

to help expand your business.

I can be very persuasive if properly motivated.

- You going to handle it?

I said are you going to handle it?

- Team did you talk to them?

Yeah.

Get McPike.

The training nose is assembled?

Bring it to me and bring a clip.

- Hey, you are doing it aren't you?

- Yeah you got a problem with that?

- Not a one buckwheat,

long as it doesn't cut into the money.

- Has it ever?

Thank you brother.

Take that stuff off.

Mc Pike.

I have to do something and I'm gonna try

and make it as painless as possible.

Take that off too.

- You're scum LoCocco.

- Thank you Frank.

You're gonna make this much easier.

(suspenseful music)

(machine gun shooting)

(suspenseful music)

- Okay?

- Okay.

- Herb?

Everything's taken care of with my house lady right?

- I said I'd take care of it, I took care of it.

I don't leave loose ends.

(suspenseful music)

- Hundred grand a piece.

Now get out of here, get it in a bank.

- It was fifty Roger.

I ain't sticking this.

- So what, it's a bonus.

Now get out of here.

We're working against the clock.

I'll see you at the hangar.

- It's clean.

- Good, get the car.

- This was not a coup.

This was a liberation.

Seeing the streets, the people of Pavo are celebrating.

- But it was a coup in so much as you see

is powered by military action.

- Can we stop?

Herbert, why are they attacking me?

- It's not an attack.

We have to explain your intention to hold elections.

- Of course, I forgot.

- What do you need?

- Money for the team, I think it should come from you.

- No problem.

- Quiet please.

- Sorry.

- You seize power by military action.

- We don't think this was a coup.

It was a liberation.

We intend to hold elections as soon as possible.

- [Man] We're about out of tape.

- Sometime in the 21st century.

(whispering)

- Herb?

- Yeah?

- Don't forget to money.

- Okay, yeah.

(upbeat music)

- Mr. President.

I think I'd be a good idea if you gave your man

a pep talk before we packed up.

- Of course.

I intended to.

- All our ducks ready to go?

- Darehousen never showed.

- Don't start Roger.

- That's the equivalent of a 20% loss in manpower

the team isn't happy I had to call in

the last-minute replacement.

And Cicerone said there's no room for two Italians on

the team so I had to call in another designated hitter.

(knocking)

- Hello Herb.

- The hell is this Roger?

What are you doing to me?

(machine gun shooting)

- Training weapon, Herb.

You don't think we trust the boys

with real live bullets do you?

- You blew the mission.

You traitor.

You dirty bastard!

- Good, good that's what I wanted you to see.

How's it feel herb?

(yelling)

(tires squealing)

- Come on, get out here.

- Whoa whoa whoa you boys are in custody.

- Frank!

- It's part of the deal.

- What deal?

- My deal with Roger for your safety and for him.

- If they walk?

- That's right.

- No, these boys aren't gonna walk.

They're mercenaries.

God only knows what they can be charged with.

You have no authority to make that decision.

- Who does?

Your life was on the line.

- These men are faced with capital charges.

You had no right to trade me for them.

- It's all I had.

Go on, go ahead, get out of here.

- You get out of that car or we're gonna fire.

- Frank, I told.

Part of the deal.

Now you shoot then and you're gonna have to shoot me too.

I've seen the price you have to pay to

let other people make decisions for you.

How's it feel Roger?

- You ever had your skin cut back

far enough to see the bone?

- Yeah.

(yelling) Get out!

(car speeding)

- You're a dead man Roger.

- I know that hurt.

- Don't do it Roger.

- Stay back, Vince.

This is my day.

- Why'd you listen to me?

If he lives, I'll parade him through those streets

like a caged monkey.

His name will be a curse.

- Come on Vince.

You know when all this flack dies down

he'll get his own talk show.

- No, look at him?

Look at what he's holding.

He's got all the evidence of a coup

with his fingerprints all over it.

- You know what you're holding don't you buckwheat?

All the aerial photographs.

All the money for your democratic coup

to make Il Pavo safe for the bottling company.

You tell me Herb.

You just tell me where it's worth

dying for, life, liberty and the pursuit of soda pop.

All those subversives huh?

All those subversives trying to stop America

from having a cold wet one, yeah.

15 years captain!

(gunshots)

For what?

Destiny?

- Or our children.

- I don't have any children.

I don't have any family.

I don't think of you as a father anymore Herb.

Our relationship has been sort of

inadequate.

I have nothing!

Nothing!

Except Mel Profitt's money.

That's right Herb.

I am one rich son of a bitch.

Maybe that's what it's all about huh?

Money money money money money.

You and I, we used to believe in something.

I don't know maybe that's why they put

the president's face in our damn money.

(laughing)

I mean do you know anybody Il Pavo?

Do you really believe this clown is the hope of his nation?

Do you give a damn?

No?

Ah no, no.

Animal.

This is for Preet.

- No no no no don't.

- [Vince] Roger, don't.

- I'm a dead man Vince.

Whoever this man answers to they're coming after me

I want the satisfaction of knowing that he is gone.

- And I want the whole pie Roger.

You're about to take that away from me.

Listen to me.

If he slips through and they manage to hit you,

I swear on my family, I'll kill him myself.

(suspenseful music)

(gunshots)

(coughing)

(clicking)

(suspenseful music)

- Okay sport, let's go.

- I'm the president of a government in exile.

- Ah yeah, you're doing a hell of a job.

(suspenseful music)

(crickets chirping)

- So you reported to Ketcher,

but who did he report to?

Who's between Strichen and Ketcher?

- I don't know.

- You don't know the next in command?

- Come on Vince.

Succeeding for us depends on compartmentalizing.

- Roger there's a difference between compartmentalizing

and being sealed off.

Now when did Ketcher isolate you?

- He didn't isolate me.

After Saigon fell I was running some covert operations

and I traveled under phony passports.

- Who'd you report to?

- Ketcher.

- Did you ever know who Ketcher answered to?

- It's been over ten years.

- You traveled under aliases for over ten years.

Answered only to Herb Ketcher and you don't think

you've been isolated?

(exhaling)

- I hate him.

- Roger, why was your housekeeper killed?

- Preet.

Preet was a Chinese hooker in Kwangtree.

Ketcher was using her.

Sometimes for days.

A couple of operations he

tried running were ambushed.

He blamed her.

He ordered me to kill her.

I couldn't.

God

(sharply exhaling)

she made me feel so good.

I was 17 and

I didn't know you could be touched like that.

I couldn't kill her.

I couldn't.

So Captain Ketcher ordered me to

cut out her tongue.

I was 17.

I never forgave myself so I took care of her.

She took care of me.

Preet.

Forgive me.

Please

forgive me.

Forgive me.

Forgive me.