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- [Narrator] Tonight, on Wiseguy.

- I need one man, Agent Vincent Terranova.

- God, I love this town!

- There's an intentional power vacuum being created here

and you're being sucked into it.

You're about to deal with vipers.

- I recommended you be put in charge

of investigating a threat against American interests.

Vincent Terranova, meet General Leland Masters.

- [Frank] This man is a four-star icon.

- Master's thinks there's a covert action in place,

used to destroy the Japanese economy,

he want's me to find out

who within the US borders is behind it.

- Some one with Department clearance has been shot.

I am in control here, I am claiming jurisdiction

under the Felony Enhancement Project.

- We can't let any of this stuff get traced back to us.

- Frank, you'll serve as interim director

until Beckstead's return.

I want all the evidence returned to D.C. police immediately.

- This is a conspiracy, Mark,

the person that ended his life, did so for reasons

that transcend a little money or quick fix.

- Terranova be damned,

reparations are gonna be paid by this boy.

- He doesn't come without a lot of questions.

- The answer is treason and he's gonna be strung up for it.

(fist thuds)

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music)

- [Senator] I can have the Trade Bill out of my committee

and on the Senate floor in a week.

- That's excellent.

- And our opposition?

- I have a list of the fence sitters in the Senate.

We're three votes shy of locking it up.

- Pickering?

- Won't budge.

But Delaney's vulnerable,

he needs help on his Mass Transit Bill.

I think I can cut a deal.

- Murphy?

- About to lose an Air Force Base

in the most depressed part of the state.

He'll vote with us.

If you can keep it open.

- What about that Walter.

- Sir, the secretary of Defense is,

uh, not very forth coming.

- I'll speak to him myself.

- Thank you General.

Admiral.

- Thank you Senator.

- I'll keep you informed of our progress.

- [Senator] Thank you so much.

- [Walter] Thanks Senator.

- Non genuine destabilization,

I'd love to get a look at Valenti's face

when he realizes he's laid the groundwork

for the war effort.

We can't let any of this stuff get traced back to us.

- Yes sir.

The only copy in existence will be in Kay Gallagher's firm.

- [Leland] All right then.

What about OCB?

- Dewitt Clipton's waiting in my office.

- [Leland] Bring him in.

- Yes sir.

Clip, come on in.

I'd like you to meet General Leland Masters.

- I'm honored General.

- Good, have a seat.

I understand it's only within the matter

of the last few days, that you've been in charge of OCB?

- [Dewitt] Yes, sir.

- Well this isn't the kind of thing

in which you want to get your feet wet,

but we have no choice.

The National Security Commission is facing a dire situation.

I can't tell you anymore about it at this time,

but we need the assistance of OCB.

- Of course, General.

You'll have all of the resources at OCB at your disposal.

- I don't need all the resources.

Just one man.

Agent Vincent Terranova.

- Terranova, Vincent,

- It's an unusual name, you'll remember it.

- Oh yes, of course, when do you need him?

- Walter will give you the particulars, thank you.

- Thank you sir.

Anything I can do.

- Yeah, be sure, thank you.

- Always good to see you Clip.

I knew he'd be putty.

But, uh, Terranova is another matter.

- Terranova be damned.

The son of a bitch turned a beautifully conceived notion

into a public embarrassment

that'll take decades to clean up.

Ilpavo is our island.

Now it's in the hands of some third world Lilliputians

who mock us at every turn.

Reparations are gonna be paid by this boy.

- He doesn't come without a lot of questions.

- To hell with his questions, the answer is treason,

and he's gonna be strung up for it.

(fist thuds)

(dramatic music)

(airplane brakes squealing)

- Hey Frank, how ya doin'?

- Yes, good!

- Good.

So has, uh, Clipton mentioned my promotion?

- Well not in so many words.

- Frank it's only one word.

- Well it's one word we didn't use.

- A promotion from his office,

would technically make me your superior.

Is that what's bothering you?

What?

- Exiting National 1350 hours.

- [Vincent] What's bothering you Frank?

- Things are not normal around here Vince.

You got a call from Clipton, not Beckstead, you know why?

Because last week Beckstead got sent to Thailand

on some sort of an extended training program.

Mark's in charge, he's in over his head

and Clipton knows it.

On the same day Beckstead gets sent to Thailand

and Mark's put in charge,

you get called down for a little chat about a promotion.

There's an intentional power vacuum being created here

and you're being sucked into it.

- Aw, isn't that nice.

You're worried about me.

- Now you listen to me, you're about to deal with vipers.

- I thought I was comin' in from the cold.

- These are dangerous men, Vinnie,

they've tasted power and they're addicted to it.

If they sense a threat to their position on the daisy chain,

they'll cut your heart out

and look you in the eye while they do it.

- [Vincent] I've dealt with dangerous men before Frank.

- They lived outside the law.

The great equalizer was that you represented the system.

They carry the law in their briefcases.

You cross 'em you're the one on the outside.

- The laws they carry in their briefcases,

are my laws too, Frank.

Anywhere you find power,

you're gonna find men goin' about the business

of tryin' to corrupt it.

They wallow in the trappings of power,

hoping it'll stick, but it never does.

Real power comes from the heart, Frank.

Comes from resolute men who put universal ideals

above self-aggrandizement.

Now stop the car.

Pull over.

Now get out here with me.

Ah.

Look around you Frank.

Look at it!

'Cause I know what you see.

You see this marble and granite housing

these fang-toothed venomous creatures brokering power

for their own self-interests.

But you know what I see?

- Jimmy Stewart?

- Yeah, you're damned right, Jimmy Stewart.

I see the surviving and the prevailing of truth, Frank.

And your vipers can gerrymander and pork barrel

and burgle and assassinate us til doomsday.

And it's to no avail, and you know why?

Because truth is self-evident

and once there's truth there's no denying it.

And I know you know that.

God, I love this town!

Yes!

- [Man] They're on the Mall, 14:10 hours.

- And these guys, Frank.

These guys stood up to your vipers

and they built the best nation on earth.

Don't you feel it?

Put your hand on your heart Frank.

Feel it!

No, no, you look at these monuments,

you look at these monuments

and you tell me that your heart isn't beating

just a little bit faster.

You tell me that's not why you became a Guardian of Truth.

Now don't give me that cynical puss, Frank.

Do it.

Do it for me, put your hand on your heart.

Do it for me.

You see.

God I love this place!

Makes me feel like a little kid.

Don't you feel like a little kid?

- Yeah, I feel like a little kid.

- What?

- I also feel ridiculous.

Get in the car.

Just, get in the car.

- Oh ho, these snakes don't live to bad here, huh Frank.

(laughing)

Here you go, pal.

- [Man] Thanks.

- Thanks a lot.

- Oh this is very nice.

- Yeah, huh.

- I mean my room is between the ice machine

and the freight elevator.

- Hey Frank, you want some uh--

- Make sure they press your tux.

- Old curmudgeon.

- 2100 hours entering Clipton party.

- No, no not from me,

but the cloth next day three dozen rabbis show up.

(all laughing)

(Frank sighs)

- What?

- Senators Getzloff and Delaney.

- They're nominating this kid Dixon

to run against me in the fall.

He's 36 with a long list of successful prosecutions

and a full head of hair.

- So, what can I do to help?

- She'll give everything she could

to repudiate my testimony at the Ilpavo hearings.

- I need your help on this Transit Bill.

- Oh, well, I need a little help from you too.

I'd like to talk to you about.

- I need some help, - Oh, hello!

- Yeah, well they were on camera.

- [Mark] Vinnie!

- How you doin' Mark?

- It's great to see you.

- Likewise.

- Dewitt Clipton, this is Vincent Terranova.

- Yes indeed, good meeting you at last.

- Thank you.

- Glad you came.

Ah, we'll talk in the morning.

- [Vincent] Okay.

- Well, what a warm and friendly man.

- Oh, he's a little preoccupied.

Leland Masters is supposed to be here.

- [Vincent] Who?

- National Security Commission.

- [Man] Mark, can I see you for a minute?

- Admiral Stricken.

- Senator, I just want you to know,

I love the spirit behind your Trade Bill.

- Senator Getzloff's Trade Bill throws up a fence

around our borders

and what it subsidizes is American companies

that are producing inferior products.

- It ensures that we're all playing by the same rules.

And if the rules are equal,

I will bet on American industry every time.

- Senator, I understand you're going

to be facing a real challenger in the polls.

- I've faced them before.

- Yes, but not one who's gonna point out your refusal

to protect American industry against a foreign invasion.

- Oh look at this, Strichen's here.

Living proof of your viper theory.

Fangs and all.

- I know he's part of the Establishment.

- Mm hm, he should be part of the prison system.

(gentle music)

- Vinnie, Dr. And Mrs. Valenti.

This is Vinnie Terranova.

Dr. Valenti was a professor of mine,

Dr. Valenti served on the Council of Economic Advisors,

Brookings Institute, Harvard Economic Review.

- Please Mark.

- You can't hold a job, huh.

- Vinnie!

- You can't be from D.C.

- Nope Brooklyn.

- I got cousins in Flatbush!

- Not from Lenny's Pastry?

- Yeah!

(laughing)

- You know you ought to give those guys a plug

on your interview shows.

- Well I only do them when they want an economist

who's mistrusted by the Democrats and the Republicans alike.

And I have an ego.

I don't mean to be rude,

but I have a taping at 5:00 in the morning.

It's, uh, nice to meet you Vinnie.

- Yeah you too.

- You're coming over Sunday for the game,

bring Vinnie with you if you're gonna be in town.

- [Mark] Yes, thanks, good night Claire.

- Take it easy.

- I love that man.

His potluck lunches kept me alive in college.

Loves the Redskins.

- [Dewitt] Admiral.

- [Walter] I see that Terranova is here.

- Yes sir.

It's what you wanted wasn't it?

- Thanks Clip, I appreciate it.

- Admiral Strichen.

(Katherine growls)

Walter where have you been hiding?

- My office, I only go out when it's dark.

- Roosevelt.

- Oh c'mon.

- The Roosevelt!

- This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with

- [Both] Destiny.

- Thank you.

(both laughing)

- Beautiful ice sculpture isn't it.

- [Katherine] Not as beautiful as what's next to it.

Who is that?

- He's the future, Kay.

The future of this town.

- Thank you.

(gentle music)

Katherine Gallagher, hello.

- Vinnie Terranova, how ya doin'?

- I'm doing well, but I work hard at it.

- Well that's good, I believe in hard work.

- Oh, how do you feel about spontaneous sex?

- Well.

- I'm sorry I'm so forward, I have no excuse for myself.

These parties I'm surrounded by either married men

or single men with mother complexes

and you didn't look as if you've carried in

any of that baggage.

Have you?

- Well that depends on who I'm with.

- Pardon?

- I'm still workin' on the spontaneous sex thing.

- Oh.

You're with me.

- Okay.

So what is it you do?

- I'm with Justice.

What about you?

- I represent various interests here in Washington.

- I see.

- Have you ever seen the city from a widow's walk?

- Not yet.

Breathe deep the gathering gloom Frank.

(laughs)

(people chattering)

- Intoxicating, isn't it?

The center of power on earth.

- It's the center of principle Katherine.

- Steady, come here.

It's okay, you stay there Lady.

(dog whining)

- [Habib] Good evening, Dr. Valenti.

- What's shakin' Habib?

Oh my God!

No!

(gun firing)

(dramatic music)

- Claire, Claire.

- [Officer] Set of keys.

No money.

Left breast pocket.

We've got a problem.

Take a look at this Marty.

(beeper beeping)

- Excuse me.

- Excuse me.

(gentle music)

- [Man] Communications.

- This is Sirmack.

- [Man] There's been a homicide at 6401 Wisconsin.

Victim had a Level One Security Clearance.

- You haven' a good time?

- There's been a,

someone with Department Clearance has been shot,

- [Vincent] What?

- I, uh have to get over there.

Frank, I never had to handle anything like this before.

- C'mon.

(gentle music)

- [Man] 6400 block of Wisconsin.

Looks like some sort of police situation.

0130 hours.

- Robbery homicide, another crack head on the make.

(Mark groans)

- Mark, let's sit down for a second.

- I'm in control.

I am in control.

- Hey Mark, these guys can handle it.

- I am claiming jurisdiction

under the Felony Enhancement Project.

- Eh, that's okay with me pal, I'm on OT already.

- [Man] What is that?

What is that supposed to do?

- It's supposed to locate latents.

(siren wailing)

- We've got to get him outta here.

- I wan ballistics, toxicology,

I want that security cameras tapes sent to OCB, ASAP.

- Mark, you listen to me, these are your guys,

they're the best in the world.

You let 'em do their job.

- I have to be here Frank.

- Mark, don't you think you should talk to Claire?

- [Radio] Roger, I'll have the information,

(TV crackling)

- [Claire] Margaret, you must have done something to it.

- Why is it automatically my fault?

- It was working this morning.

- So, I haven't been home all day either.

I don't know what's wrong with it.

I can't get any pictures here,

the video games aren't working.

(dramatic music)

- Oh my God.

Oh my God.

(dramatic music)

- [Vincent] And how do you work that image enhancement?

- Oh, I can't figure it out.

The ballistics is useless,

.22 mushroomed on impact, striations destroyed.

- These can be enhanced pixel line by pixel line.

- But Mark.

- [Mark] What about toxicology?

- [Frank] We don't have a report yet.

- Mark.

- Why not!

- Mark, Mark, listen to me, listen.

I know what obsession is,

I went through it when my brother died.

You went through it with me, you remember.

Now you helped me then, I'm here for you now.

You can't be of value unless you're in control

of what's driving you.

- Gentlemen.

C'mon.

Mark, I'm placing you on restricted duty

so you can be with his family.

They need your strength now,

so you can help them with the emotional strain.

Now send Claire my love, tell her we're doing all we can.

And take some time off, take as much time as you need.

- Thank you sir.

- Frank, you'll serve as interim director

until Beckstead's return.

I want all the evidence returned to D.C. police immediately.

- Well we have it right here,

we might as well take a look at it.

Yes sir.

- Vincent, we have a meeting.

Return the evidence Frank.

You're an administrator now.

- Yes sir.

- [Vincent] We're are we going?

- There are opportunities that come along

once in a lifetime, Vincent.

This is one of them.

You've been requested

to serve the National Security Commission.

- Why?

- That's on a need to know basis.

I don't need to know.

(Vincent sighs)

Present your credentials,

you'll be led through a series of security checks

and into the basement.

- [Guard] You'll proceed to Office B135 sir.

- Excuse me.

- Our meeting is an occasion.

But black tie is hardly required.

- The Invasion of Ilpavo was an illegal covert operation.

It was your baby.

A friend and colleague of mine died because of it.

Doesn't look like you've suffered at all.

- Vincent.

You flatter me.

To think that the liberation

of a hostage held nation could be created at my level.

That's fantasy.

- Your testimony before committee was fantasy.

You said that true democracy can only be achieved

if the people wanted it.

They can't be imposed by force.

I know you don't believe that.

- Fire still burns Vincent.

That's very good.

- What am I doing here?

- I recommended you be put in charge

of investigating a threat against American interests.

- And why am I the guy you recommended?

- Because you despise me.

(phone buzzing)

- Sir.

Yes sir, of course.

This way Vincent, please.

Vincent Terranova, meet General Leland Masters.

- [Leland] Agent Terranova.

- General Masters.

- Did you brief him?

- Sir, I'd assumed you wanted to handle the specifics.

- Thank you Walter.

- Yes sir.

Nice talking to you Vincent.

- Thank you.

- You dealt a severe blow

to the cause of freedom in this hemisphere.

- Excuse me?

- Ilpavo.

You believe zealots within our government,

orchestrated the take over.

You stopped it.

Why?

- Because it was illegal, unjustified and morally bankrupt.

- You know who controls Ilpavo today?

Catro Richan, he's conducted a systematic purge

of the island.

Imprisoning and killing all those who don't subscribe

to his Marxist, Leninist beliefs.

All the killing fields are not in Cambodia.

So much for moral bankruptcy.

- Morality does not sway

with the prevailing breeze, General.

The morality that steers this country is written

on documents in the National Archives.

Now they say a lot of things, but it boils down to just one.

The end does not justify the means.

- This is one of the most powerful weapons in the world.

Take a look at it.

Go on.

That's a printing plate.

For Japanese yen.

It's a copy, the original was intercepted

and allowed to continue on its route.

- So, what?

You caught a counterfeiter?

- If it was that simple we wouldn't have asked for you.

No.

We believe a plan exists to undermine the economy of Japan.

We believe there are individuals

or groups within the United States.

Within the United States, Agent Terranova,

whose laws you've sworn an oath to uphold.

Individuals or groups who have decided

to play economic war on Japan.

And the introduction of currency

into the Japanese economy is part of that declaration.

This parcel, containing the original plate was damaged

in transit, to Tenzer, Kurtzman and Lloyd.

A lobbying firm with extensive contacts in the Middle East,

Latin America and Germany.

- So you mean to tell me, that the most powerful economy

in the world is about to be destroyed

by a Capitol Hill PR firm?

No thank you.

- It's your moral duty to stop it.

I have a meeting tomorrow morning at 11:00 in the West Wing.

I'll need your answer by then.

Thank you Agent Terranova.

(dramatic music)

- [Frank] Thank you.

How was the meeting?

- It was at the White House.

Oh thank you.

Get me the file on General Leland Masters please.

- Ah, just his address for a Christmas list,

there's no hurry.

You come in here.

Hey what the hell's goin' on here?

- I just spent the last hour with Admiral Strichen

and General Leland Masters.

Yeah.

The National Security Commission has intercepted a plate,

used to counterfeit Japanese yen.

Now Masters thinks there's a covert action

in place to destroy the Japanese economy.

He wants me to find out who within US borders is behind it.

I want to know who General Leland Masters is.

- You just can't indiscriminately request

classified information on a man like General Leland Masters.

- Why not?

- Who is he that I can't ask.

- Vinnie, this man is four-star icon.

He was on the death march through Bataan.

He entered Berlin with the First Army

and helped destroy Nazi Germany.

Then he stayed on with Marshall to help rebuild it.

- Then why don't I know him?

- Because he doesn't care

about having high schools named after him,

he just wants to get the job done.

- So why does he want me?

- For precisely that reason.

A guy who smoked cigars with Churchill does not need

to jerk around Vinnie Terranova.

- Here.

This is the current policy

of the regime in Ilpavo right now,

which your four-star icon laid at my doorstep.

Strichen answers to him.

- Well you weren't wrong about Ilpavo.

- Yeah I know that.

- In some ways neither was he.

- Frank, the invasion of Ilpavo had nothing

to do with establishing democracy.

It was about creating a beachhead for a bottling company.

And me being here is a complete lie,

Clipton's fairy tale about me havin' a promotion.

Man you were right Frank, you were right.

I'm bein' sucked into somethin' here,

I don't know if it's a power vacuum or what it is.

(Frank groans)

What is it?

- The bullet that killed Valenti was packed with Curare.

It was an assassination, Vince.

- Let me see that.

- We know where Mark Sirmack is?

- [Man] 1130 hours, entered 5203 P Street Georgetown.

- Everything's gone on Dr. Valenti's hard drive.

It's the same thing on all his personal software.

Document File Not Found Abort: Retry.

I have been here since 8:00 this morning, tapes, floppies,

everything on his hard drive, it's all been erased.

I want to be reinstated to full duty Frank.

- Mark, here.

Now sit down.

And you can't be reinstated

without drawing attention.

- Dr. Valenti was a theoretician,

his whole life was paradigms and flow charts.

- This is a conspiracy Mark,

the person that ended his life did so for reasons

that transcend a little money or quick fix.

- We're supposed to ignore a murder because of a conspiracy.

- No, we don't ignore a murder.

But we have to know who it is.

- Well they sure know us.

We're bein' watched out there.

They just got made.

Whoever it is is just gonna be replaced by somebody else.

- They could have been watching you or you or me.

- Yeah or this house.

- Well what do we do, I just can't sit here.

- We have to find out what Valenti was working on.

Now there has to be a hard copy somewhere, can you find it?

- Yeah.

- When you get whatever you get,

then you come back to the OCB.

And you act like a good bureaucrat.

(dramatic music)

- Well, you know, I think I am getting the hand

of this thing.

But he's not giving us anything we can use.

- Dr. Valenti just published a paper

on the macroeconomics of the Caribbean Basin.

- For whom?

- OECS.

Before that he created a model

for non-genuine destabilization.

His benchmark is the contemporization

of comparative advantage.

- What is that?

- It's an outmoded theory that the most efficient form

of national economy is based solely

on a countries natural resources.

Dr. Valenti repostulated it.

Arguing that the most powerful economy

in the world, Japan's,

is based not on what's in the ground,

but what's on it, people.

Until then people hadn't been considered a natural resource.

- Well what was he, some kind of expert

on the Japanese economy?

- No, they were just an appropriate example.

- What's a model for non-genuine destabilization.

- A diagram for waging economic war through counterfeiting.

- What is it?

What?

- You know how the diagram works?

- No, but I have the treatise

- Who commissioned it?

- Tenzer, Kurtzman and Lloyd,

account executive Katherine Gallagher.

- Let me see that.

(Vincent sighs)

- All right, here's Valenti's fundamental model

of non-genuine destabilization.

Production, to produce enough counterfeit currency

to destabilize Japan is a monumental task.

Now who has the means to do such a thing,

except another government.

- Another government, Frank?

- Why does it always have to be Washington, Vinnie,

now why couldn't it be a cartel of industrialists?

- I suppose it could be, I just don't see the difference.

- All right, all right, all right, all right,

who ever it is is the second step, invasion.

Your bastard dyes the yen

but the delivery is an impossible problem,

except for another government.

- Private sector operates fleets of C-130s.

- You have a cabal of industrialists, or governments,

either of which has to make sure

that destabilizing Japan doesn't hurt their own economy.

They have to defend against their own conspiracy.

- Now wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Now defense for a government,

would be restricted trade legislation,

right, like Getzloff's Trade Bill.

- Every year there's a trade bill, every year it fails.

Most of the time it doesn't make it out of committee.

If you want something done and done quickly,

look to the private sector.

- Guys we are not getting anywhere.

- All right Frank, you're, just go on then.

- All right, discovery.

You don't have a snowball's chance in hell

of pulling it off.

- Private sector, speed of implementation

means greater effect before discovery.

Governments are inert.

This would show up in the polls before it even hit Tokyo.

- Accountability.

What's the down side?

If it's the private sector,

there's a two year investigation, a slap on the wrist,

a few more regulations, end of story.

- But the government loses everything, Frank.

Its loss of consensus and a government

without consensus goes the way of the Nixon administration.

- Yeah.

Unless they had a fall guy.

- This is mental masturbation.

We are babbling about a blue sky theory

that nobody in their right mind would attempt to implement.

- Don't you do it Vince.

- What.

- Leland Masters put a plate to counterfeit yen in my hand.

He told me this theory's going into effect,

he wants me to find out who's behind it.

- That information is not to leave this room.

- Then it's no longer theory, it's actual fact.

- That's right.

- Well why did we torture ourselves arguing

over its validity?

- Because I think Masters is behind it

and I wanted to see how it worked.

- You're insane!

Do you know who he is?

- Yes I know who he is and it makes perfect sense.

He's got the ability to produce, and deliver.

Look at the resources he has.

Not only in the Federal government,

but in the private sector too.

Okay, defense.

Now everybody knows he's been quietly strong arming

for Getzloff's Trade Bill.

Discovery, that's me.

He wants to leave a trail for me to find his fall guy.

That's accountability.

- You're suggesting he was also responsible

for Dr. Valenti's death.

Why did he pick you?

- Because I testified against him at Ilpavo,

I derailed their covert operation,

now it's on record where I stand and how I feel about them.

Mark, after all, I am a Federal Agent

with the Justice Department.

If I can make their case, in spite of how I feel about them,

who would dispute it?

Again, accountability.

I'm supposed to find their scape goat.

- Either Dean or Opal.

- Yeah, or Kay Gallagher.

Well there it is gentlemen.

General Leland Maters is going to produce

and dump untold sums of counterfeit yen

into the Japanese economy.

He's gonna defend out borders

with Senator Getzloff's Trade Bill.

He knows it's gonna be discovered

so he's got me to lay it all at Kay Gallagher's feet.

(dramatic music)

- Oh, what a nice surprise.

- Hello, we need a place to talk.

- Oh, come into my office.

Grace, no calls please.

- I understand you control this lobbying firm.

- That's correct, yeah.

- Then why isn't it Tenzer, Kurtzman, Lloyd and Gallagher?

- Because I'm alive.

- You're alive.

- Yes.

Tenzer is in a rest home in Sarasota.

Kurzman in a tomb on Long Island

and Lloyd is in that urn over there.

Washington worships the dead, Vinnie,

why fly in the face of that?

- I need all your files and documents pertaining

to the Japanese Ministry

of International Trade and Industry.

I can wait for a warrant if that's necessary.

- Grace, I need the duplicate set of files

on the Japanese Ministry, ASAP.

And prepare this letter immediately.

I hereby acknowledge receipt of all documents

and materials confidential and otherwise belonging

to Tenzer, Kurtzman and Lloyd as pertains

to the Japanese Ministry

of International Trade and Industry.

The confidentiality of said materials will not be violated.

Signed as accepted and adhered to Vincent,

what's your middle name,

- Micheal.

- Micheal Terranova's agent

for the Justice Department of the United States of America,

dated and I'll need you to notarize.

Any interrogation you're entertaining is gonna have

to wait until my attorney can be present.

- Fine.

- Kay the files are at reception.

- Sign this.

He's to sign for the documents as well.

- There you go.

- Thank you.

- Thank you Grace.

- You're welcome.

- Next time you decide to pop by, make an appointment first.

- Guess that means dinner's out of the question.

- Tuesday's free.

- Great.

- Grace, get Mr. Kattert on the line,

see if you can move him up a day.

- See you Tuesday.

- The Japanese Ministry's

on a $20,000 a month retainer to TKL.

Every time someone sneezes a memo goes out.

(Frank groans)

- Vince it could take months to go through this stuff.

Days anyway.

- There's nothing here yet that helps.

- All right you postpone the meeting.

- I can't Frank, it's a red flag.

- I told you this is a dangerous place,

now it is conceivable that Masters is connected

to Valenti's murder.

Now you can't mention it.

There's nothing to link him to it,

you might be putting a gun to your own head

or pointing out tracks that he needs to cover.

- Yeah, well I'm sure he knows the tracks to cover,

he is after all a four-star icon.

Gotta get going.

- All right, wait a second.

Vince.

Here you take this, whatever he has

to say it might be worth hearing.

- The American people have come

to see you as strength that's inherent.

As if it existed as naturally as the marble

and stone of the institutions

that have come to house their laws.

And Lawyers.

Because it's quite all right

to engage lawyers in stone but not the law.

Our strength is not inherent.

It comes from there.

We bleed for it, we die for it.

And then damn it, we forget it.

We start fretting about media gnats,

and worrying about how our actions will be perceived.

All those men who built our country,

they didn't give a damn about perceptions.

They were revolutionaries, the lot of them.

All the way through Lincoln.

They fought for truth, for the people,

and hang the damn perception.

It's no mistake that we declared our independence

with self-evident truths.

It's why you're here isn't it?

- I'm here for justice.

And in as much as justice is found in truth,

in its inherent inalienable right,

I guess I am here for that reason.

And General.

I don't give a damn how I'm perceived.

- The more you get to know me,

the more you'll see that you and I are cut

from the same cloth.

Men like us are the last rebels of the American Revolution.

We just wage our war with more, sophisticated tools.

We've come a long way, since the flintlock.

I really hate these bastards.

I ask myself over and over why the hell should I help them.

We do what we do for justice, don't we Agent Terranova.

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- You bet your ass.

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