Original subtitles

- All I ever wanted was to be a cop, I joined

the Bureau because I figured that's the ultimate cop.

(gun shot)

I'm worried about my mother, I'm telling her.

- Tell her what?

- The truth about me, there is no way I'll be able

to make up for hell I put her through for the hell

I put her through in the last two

but I'm gonna start trying right now.

- A breach of security like that.

- She's not gonna tell anyone!

- People slip are you willing to risk that?

- This is about the need in your life not the one rampant

over people's lives simply because your fire burns brighter.

Hey, this is about the law man.

When you're in the training program they pitch you

a lot crap about the tough moment's you're gonna have

to face, but they never mention word about

the toughest moment, that's when you gotta look

in the eye of the guy you've just betrayed.

All the values that I was brought up to believe in

have been turned completely upside down.

I turned friendship and loyalty into an obscene joke.

I won't be coming back Frank.

(action music)

(dramatic music)

(action music)

- Frank I'm resigning.

- Don't do this, I'll turn it into a six month leave.

- It is what it is.

- Where are you gonna go?

- I'm going home.

(dramatic music)

- Executive Front Line here.

Wake up to what's happening pal.

Get that out of here! Go get a job!

Creeps, they could all die.

- Get your Executive Front Line.

(dramatic music)

- Ma?

(melodramatic music)

- Oh, God my head.

(rock music plays)

- Good morning.

- You know Daryl if you have brought

me into something unprepared.

- Frank it's nothing like that.

- Daryl there are two forest lawn fairies outside the door.

- Frank, Frank?

- Director McDonald.

- My wife me a $500 pen and I worry more

about losing it than I do using it to some good.

The men outside with me, I call them advisors.

- Yes sir.

- You and Daryl have done a hell of a job, hell of a job.

I'm leaving OCB, I recommended that Daryl replace me

and in the spirit of equal opportunity

he requested that you be appointed

his forest lawn fairy, congratulations.

- Sir.

- Take chances that lead to some.

- Yes, yes, yes, yes! Frank you've been promoted.

- Well there's a little guilt involved.

The success is Vinnie's.

- Well Terranova's not being forgotten when

he's back from leave he's bumped up to Filed Director.

But he's gonna have to stay undercover,

I don't think he'd fit in around here.

- Promotion is a moot point, I held the resignation

as a six month leave, I thought with

a little time off he'd change his mind.

- You let him walk without being debriefed?

- Oh, thank you for 40 months of valiant service

in the face of daily terror, and now, Vinnie,

if you don't mind, we would like to confine you

for an indeterminate period of time

while the Bureau psychiatrists ascertain your moral fitness?

- Terranova rolled over mob king pins and an arms cartel

like that, the man's a walking compendium of criminality.

- Oh, for God's sakes.

- He brought them down it stands

to reason he out-thought them.

- Are you sure this doesn't have something

to do with losing your long ball hitter?

- I want him back on the job or I want him debriefed.

- Vincenzo, your breakfast.

- He's not getting up for hours.

- Ah, Pietro.

- Face it mom, you raised a bum.

- That's a bad joke.

- I was teasing.

- I don't like it.

- Vincenzo!

- I'm eating your breakfast little brother.

- What?

- Lice, I think you've got lice.

- Ma, Pete fell down.

- Is that any way to treat a priest?

- Well I'm a lapsed Catholic.

- Now you've lapsed in a lot of areas lately.

- What am I getting my own personal sermon now or what?

- What you ought to get is a swift kick in the ass.

- Who's going to give it to me you?

- Boys, act your age.

- The least you could do is put your shirt on.

- Sorry, ma.

- You got a life to live Vinnie

you ought to be getting back to it.

- That's right it's my life so leave me alone about it.

- Remember Ronnie Sheen?

- Yeah vaguely.

- Died last night.

- God bless his soul.

- Cancer, his last days were all I should haves,

I shoulda done this, I shoulda done that.

- No, that's not me Pete.

(car honks)

- No, I know it's just that you quit OCB,

you're hanging out here for months,

nothing's happening and I worry.

You know how many people I see in the last moments

of life agonizing over what was left undone?

- Vinnie it's Tony.

- Alright ma, I'm coming.

- I'm still mafioso to the neighbors Pete.

Until that's a memory how am I supposed

to go about the business of being a regular guy?

Hey, it eats me up.

- Careful.

- See you later.

- Careful.

- Okay.

What do you say Tony?

(dramatic music)

- Hey Vinnie.

- Hey Rich.

- Hey Squello, when are you coming down to the store?

- One man band here Warren.

- Better wake up to what's happening pal.

Here ya go kid.

- Thanks Warren.

- Okay, keep it straight.

(metal clanks)

- Hey Tony why didn't you come to the meeting?

- Hey give me a break Ritchie, yeah?

- What's wrong with the neighborhood taking care of itself?

- Who's gonna mess with me as

long as Terrnaova running this bay, huh?

- What are you gonna do when he lives?

- Hey look, you pump gas or read

this crap but don't talk to me about it.

- What's the matter?

- Nothing.

- Nothing?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- Hey Vinnie.

- What?

- Do you want to...

- Come on spit it out.

- Your cousin Angela.

- I'll mention it to her.

- Thanks.

- Yeah.

(rain falls on pavement)

(rock music plays)

- Vinnie?

Vince! Yo Vinnie!

Come on Terranova.

- Hey, we got a problem here?

- No I don't have a problem, I have a little business here.

(rock music blares)

- You know I can't leave here until you talk to me.

You know another month of this and you're

gonna be able to infiltrate the Hell's Angels.

- I don't do it anymore Frank.

- We want you back with a promotion.

If you're gonna resign you have to go

to Quantico for debriefing.

(rock music plays)

- What the hell is this? What is this huh?

What you think you can just come in here

and do this to people, do this to us.

What the hell is a matter with you?

Hey, oh that's it run away, what the hell is this?

- Tony.

- What you think you can just come

in here and do this to people?

- Tony, what's a matter?

- The bastards, they're taking away

my station, they canceled my lease.

- I'm sorry.

- Oh big deal, you're sorry what is that?

There was a time when guys like wouldn't let this happen.

- Tony I'm changing all that in my life you know that.

- That's good, while you changed your life

they changed mine, 12 years here,

they're turning into a Lightning Lube, offered me

a training position at minimum wage.

- Something will work out.

- Oh that's great, I don't want your lip service.

Vincenzo, (speaks Italian).

- Tony lay off, will you get a hold of yourself.

Tony!

(romantic music)

(knock on door)

- Hi Angie.

- Vinnie.

- How ya doing?

- Great.

- Good.

- Do you want a glass of wine before we go?

- Uh, nah I'm pretty hungry do you wanna just go?

- Okay.

- Alright.

- Just a sec.

- Alright.

Somebody's got their eye on you.

- Who?

- I'll introduce you.

- Don't Vinnie.

- Why not?

- It makes me uncomfortable.

- You don't date do ya?

- This is a date.

- Angie I'm family this is a pseudo-date.

- Vinnie it's so hard I was really happy with Danny.

- I know Angie, but he's been gone for two years.

- I've gotten to like being alone.

- It maybe easier for ya, but I don't believe you like it.

Come on let me introduce you to him, he's a good kid.

- Alright.

- Excuse me.

- When are you gonna face the fact that the only way

to deal with these people is to push back.

- Not now Warren, huh?

- Okay buddy, you'll know when the time is right.

We're on your side, not like that gangster pal

of yours that does nothing for nobody

unless there's a dollar to be made.

- Ritchie, this is my cousin Angela.

Angela this is Ritchie Stramm.

- Pleased to meet ya.

- I was married to Vinnie's cousin, he died.

- That must be tough, huh?

- You get used to it.

- I see you in Morris some time going to the train.

- I work in Manhattan.

- I never see you in any

of the neighborhood places after work.

Do you hang out in the city?

- I go home.

- I'm not driving give me a drink.

- Hey Tony's what's wrong with ya.

What are you doing?

- Hey take it easy man.

- I can't let him walk out of here like that.

Alright you guys start without me,

I'll try to get back if I can.

- Vinnie.

- I'm just gonna make sure he gets

home safe, alright, I'll be back.

- I think you're really pretty.

(glass smashes and shatters)

- Tony!

- Ah, Vincent you want a test drive a Toyota?

- Tony, Tony, that's enough, give me that.

What did you do to your face?

- Ah careful this Japanese face, you are rich and funny.

I can make you Japanese.

- I can live with Italian.

- Ah, Italian is out, how about Jewish, huh?

- I'm at the Temple Beth (indistinguishable).

(muttering)

- Come on Tony what are you doing.

(dramatic music)

Come on Tony, come on, up you go, go home, come on.

(dramatic music)

- Morning.

- Hey Rich.

- So what happened here?

- Batting practice, listen I called Angela last night,

thanks for getting her home safe.

- Did she have a good time?

- You're going out on the Sound aren't ya?

- Yeah.

(bell rings)

- Hey don't you come with us?

- Yeah maybe I will if Tony ever shows up.

- Hey.

- Give this to Tony will ya?

- Alright.

- You listen when he's done.

- Sure, take care.

- I can't believe Warren just gave this to Tony.

- What?

- It's Dr. Knox Pooley, he's a genius.

- $400? Is that with or without the lubricant?

- Hey I'm sorry Vinnie but you

don't know what you're talking about.

Dr. Pooley is a brave voice, I mean if Tony had listened

to him he'd still have his own business.

- Listen to who?

Sorry about last night Vince.

- Yeah tell it to the Toyota.

- Oh man, what kind of a bum does this?

Don't answer that.

- It's from Warren.

(bell rings)

- I'm gonna need a lot of help getting through this Vince.

- Now don't do this to me Tony.

I gotta concentrate on myself right now.

- Well that's cold.

- We're both making changes after a lot of time on the job,

now I know that my change is my choice,

but we're both going through the same thing.

I'm here for you Tony but don't

ask me to nurse you through self-pity.

- You're right.

At least I don't have the law breathing down my neck, huh?

(dramatic music)

- Justice has reviewed the terms of the situation.

There is no precedent for forcing an agent

to submit to debriefing against his will

without the benefit of grand jury subpoena.

- Well what do you mean no precedence.

- I mean it would be illegal.

- Well that's not acceptable.

Well we need him back there must

be something Terranova wants.

- I think he wants to be left alone.

(people playing and laughing)

- What the hell am I waiting for?

- [Pooley] And because we have allowed

our nation's resources, natural and technological,

to be bought up by foreign influences.

The day is not far of when the political destiny of America-

- Is that Dr. Pooley?

This guy makes some sense, maybe I'll come to that meeting.

- Tonight we got a field trip.

You ready to get involved?

There's a way you can be of some help.

(melodramatic music)

- Gotta a sec Vince?

- You know you're interrupting me here.

- Sorry it will just take a sec.

- Okay. What?

- I know some people in the market for guns.

Think we could make some money.

- Tony are you out of your mind or what?

- Come on they're gonna buy 'em from somebody why not us?

- Who wants these guns?

- Oh, I can't say.

- Tony whoever these people are you

stay away from them you hear me?

I'm not a player, don't be stupid.

You stay away from these people, huh?

- Oh look she's already been moved in on.

How ya doing pal?

- You sure know how to kill a conversation.

- Oh absolutely do you want me to get it him back for ya?

- No, no, I was just making an observation.

- Yeah, I got something else you might wanna observe.

- Which would be?

- Dinner.

(men laughing drunkenly)

- I can feel you breathing.

- Yeah well that's because I just got out of prison.

- Is that true?

- No, it's a metaphor.

(men laughing drunkenly)

- You're full of secrets aren't you?

- No, yeah, yeah I am. You got a problem with that?

- Not yet.

- Good.

Dang it.

- What?

- Nothing, nothing, I just gotta make a phone call.

(numbers dialing)

(phone ringing)

- I gotta call you back alright, yeah.

- Sailor Hardware, Mike Terronova.

- Uncle Mike?

- Vince. Oh man, how you doing?

- Ah, working things out you know.

- Hey this is the business line.

Didn't I give you my private number?

- Yeah well this is kind of business.

Listen I need whatever you got on a Dr. Know Pooley

and The Pilgrims of Promise, Incorporated.

- So how 'bout those Mets.

- Oh man since when did they start

putting wingtip skids on wheelchairs?

- That's not fair Vince, I went to the wall for you.

- Look I really need this information.

- This is not something you can dabble in

when it suits you, it's too dangerous.

Call my private number.

(glass shatters)

(ominous music)

(yelling)

- No, no, no! (speaks Hebrew).

- Come on.

(phone rings)

- Hello.

- Ma, it's Pete.

- Pietro.

- I need to speak to Vinnie.

- I think he's sleeping, just a sec.

- Vincenzo!

Vincenzo?

- Hi Ma.

- I hope you have listened to the Surgeon General.

Your brother.

- Hello.

- Vinnie I need your help.

- Yeah.

- I'm at the Bayview synagogue.

- Okay I'll be right over just

let me change my clothes, I'll be right there.

- Thanks.

- We are surrounded by complete disarray.

The Jewish community seems to be in shock.

(people clamoring)

- Who did this?

- Ignorance did this.

- Excuse me Father, could you stand up for the camera?

(dramatic music)

- [Man on phone] I saw the smoke still come out

of those ovens and I want to tell ya

I never thought I would see anything

that would remind me of that in these United States

of America and my home town of Brooklyn, New York.

I think that these people should-

- Hello Vincent.

- You called The Lifeguard.

- Yeah so what?

- There's no need for acrimony here gentleman.

You know we got a lot invested in you, time, training.

- Yeah and I delivered on the investment.

I paid a heavy price, I'm not your mole any more.

What I did for justice, I isolated myself

from my own neighborhood, you know

they still think I'm a gangster?

My own friends, I mean when there's nobody else

to turn to they come to me for dirty favors

and when I don't deliver they resent me for it.

- Suppose it doesn't mean much

but those of us who know admire you.

- Yeah but not enough to help me when it's personal.

- What is it you want Vincent.

- I want data on Dr. Knox Pooley

and The Pilgrims of Promise, Incorporated.

- I'll consider it.

You know this business we're in exacts a toll;

I can see for you it's been profound.

Still there's one thing I don't think you can escape,

you're the best there is Vince,

loath the fate if you will, remains axiomatic.

You were born to it.

Thanks for taking the time to listen to me.

- Tony, hey.

- I did a terrible thing last night Vince.

And this isn't self-pity here.

This is regret and I need to apologize to somebody.

I got involved in something so ugly

I can see it in my face when I look in the mirror.

- You were at the Temple.

- Yeah.

- Was Ritchie with you?

- It doesn't matter.

- The hell it doesn't!

- You can't make a blind man see.

It's gotta come to us on our own.

It came to me last night when I saw

that old man hugging his Holy Scrolls.

This little old man and I destroyed a peacefulness

in his life for no reason other than my own bitterness.

They're coming back tonight and I don't know how to say no.

- It was that creep friend of yours wasn't it?

Warren Pike right? He's the guy for the guns isn't he?

Tony, you'll say no.

(dramatic action music)

- Ten dollars but that knife marks

all the way from the Rhine to Berlin.

That knife has killed SS officers.

See there blood's still on the drape.

- You looking for guns Warren, huh?

You wanna do business with me you come to me but

you don't suck my friends into being your middlemen.

Ya hear me Adolf?

(rock music plays)

(glass shatters)

(rock music plays)

- 15 years in the priesthood and for the first time

since I entered the seminary I felt

in my soul what made become a priest.

Ya know I've been giving you a lot

of grief lately about hanging around the house.

- Oh here it comes.

- No I was on your back because to the surface

in me how I was going through life on automatic.

I became a priest in order to do God's work,

helping people be the best people they can be.

That's what my life is about, not ritual,

or duty to institutions of the Church,

it's about the simple teachings of Christ.

Yeah I guess it's ironic my revelation came in a synagogue.

- Well maybe you should be a rabbi.

- You gotta get back to your work Vinnie.

I don't been the OCB, I mean what you were meant to do,

help people, I could walk out that door right now

and get hit by a truck and I'd died fulfilled

in my life because it finally came back into focus for me.

You gotta find that in yourself.

- Shh, Pete you're on TV, where's the control?

- I got it, it's over here.

- These prayer books are the Old Testament.

It's what Jesus said and found solace in

and the violation of this Temple is a terrible thing

but these are material things they can be replaced.

What's truly horrifying is that the people

who did this violate their own human spirit.

They diminish all of us in this act.

They're pathetically ignorant people.

This is act is their confession.

- What can we do about it?

- Pray for them and clean up this mess.

- Later in the day the Jewish Defense League

held a press conference.

- Nicely put, Pete.

- Oh, I'm so proud of both of you.

- Well I gotta get out of here.

- Remember what the Surgeon General-

- Ma, see you later.

(rain pours)

(horn honks)

- I can't make it tonight Warren.

- Why not?

- Because he's helping me out tonight Warren.

You got a problem with that?

- Absolutely not Mr. Terranova.

- Good, listen why don't you just call me Vinnie.

- Okay Vinnie, thanks.

- Maybe we can do some business together.

- See you later.

- Okay take care of yourself.

- Thanks for hanging in there with me Vince.

- It's okay Tony, well I got a hot date

waiting, I'll see you later.

- Alrighty. Good night Vincent.

- Yep.

(dark and dramatic music)

(thunder rumbles)

- [Group] I pledge the allegiance to the flag

of the United States of America

and to the republic for which it stands,

one nation, under God, indivisible,

to liberty and justice for all.

- If there is a Judas among you, leave me now.

Once you have taken the oath there is no turning back.

Repeat these words: I will die for the promise

to retrieve our heritage, to purify our blood

from the encroachment of Zog, from the lower forms rising

up from the mud, out of the seeds spilled into the beast.

I will die for the new land of promise.

Our blood inter-mingles, repeat the words:

we are brothers in the fight for salvation.

We are brothers of the promise of white salvation.

Remove the hood.

(dramatic music)

- Why'd you introduce this kid to Angela?

- I don't know, he seemed like a good kid.

Really polite, really wanted to help.

- Maybe he is a good kid?

- Come on Pete he's a hate moony.

- Still friends with Tony?

- Tony, Tony's going through a crisis right now

but at least he realized his mistake.

- The whole neighborhood is going through a crisis.

- Yeah I can see that and it bothers me too

and I don't like see Napolitano's produce

turn is it, Kim Sung's Fresh Fruits and Vegetables.

When I left here there were still

singing acapella on the street corner, now it's rap.

And I think, you know this isn't right.

I know it's not wrong either. It's just change.

New faces in the neighborhood aren't here to hurt us,

they're just trying get through their day too.

- It's tough for the old people to adjust.

They nudge their kids about letting it happen,

which probably wouldn't mean anything except

for the fact that opportunity has dried up for a lot

of these kids, the worst thing we can do is shut the door

further on young people already panicked by a bleak future.

- Ya know I fixed Angela up with a kid

who took a blood oath from a goon squad.

- A real polite kid? Real willing to help.

- We ought to throttle him.

- Why don't you let me do it?

Ask him to come see me and don't

say anything to him about what you saw.

- You gonna save his soul Pete?

- If you saw something in him good enough

for Angela, maybe there's a soul worth saving.

- At least let me give it a shot before you give him one.

- Father turning it over, alright, see you later.

- Yo.

- Take this down to the market

and box these numbers, thank you sister.

- Peter you were quoted as saying, "your duties

are not about ritual or obligation

to the institution of the Church."

- Yes Monsignor.

- You feel you have no obligation to the Church?

- That's not what I meant.

- And they I read ritual it seems like a dirty word.

- That's not what I meant alright.

- I don't think I care what you meant, I think I care

about how what one of my priests says is perceived.

- Monsignor.

- I will be very glad not to see you on TV

or read about you in the newspapers.

- Monsignor may I speak please?

- I'm running late for a meeting with the bishop.

Let's hope this doesn't come up.

- Ritual seems like a dirty word.

(truck screeching)

(basketball bounces)

(dark and dramatic music)

- What is it?

- Your brother.

- Oh Vinnie.

- Angie what happened?

- Mr. Terranova your brother was hit by a car, he's gone.

- I want my mother.

- She's sleeping, I've given her a sedative.

She's dealing with it much better than I would've guessed.

Pete said something to her recently that she's found

comforting, the directions are on the bottle and my number.

- Can you stay here Angie?

- Yes.

- Can you get these people to leave please.

- Mr. Terranova we need to speak alone.

Vinnie this tragedy's being scrutinized

by every available existing technology.

- You think it was intentional?

- No, be when we lose an active agent or a relative

CompStat is programmed to red flag.

Sirens went off the minute your brother's name

was entered into the hospital database.

I think it's a mindless hit and run, probably a drunk.

But if there is any, any evidence

to be found we will hang the bastard.

- I thought maybe it would be me though.

- We're family Vinnie, as much as you want us to be.

- I'm not going to pressure on you Vince.

Elias will cut through the red tape.

We'll rush your resignation.

- I wanna work on my own terms Frank.

- Sorry?

- If I can work on my own terms I'm not resigning.

- Well you think about it Vince.

- I don't need to think about it.

There'll be no more regrets in my life.

Our brother died fulfilled in his life

and at peace with himself and in that fulfillment,

I learned a very important lesson,

I learned not to shrink from the truth.

Not to hide in petty easiness from disquieting reality.

That reality is inevitable and the fullness

of life is facing it and being the best person

you can be in that confrontation.

The tragedy here is not only my brother's death it's how

blind we are to the simple truths that he tried to teach us.

(melancholic music)

(action music)