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- [Narrator] Tonight on Wiseguy.

- You're facing serious allegations.

- What I have to say I will say in open court.

- [Man] You're suspended, pending this investigation.

- This man told me there was a crisis.

That it was my moral duty to stop it.

I didn't know Kay Gallagher, but they did!

And they put me on her like a dog on the hunt.

- My life became a nightmare the day I met Mr. Terranova.

- We have nothing in common.

- We got Strichen in common, Vernon.

And he will waste the both of us.

(dramatic music)

- [Man] Previously on Wiseguy.

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

It's a printing plate.

The Japanese yen.

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

- The most powerful economy in the world

is about to be destroyed by a Capitol Hill PR firm?

- It's your moral duty to stop it.

We do what we do with justice, don't we, Agent Terranova?

- You bet your ass.

- [Older Man] Terranova's fingerprints are all over this.

Put it where it'll do the most good.

- I haven't done anything to hurt this country.

- If we don't find that plane

before it gets lost, trade bill passes,

that money will be released.

The only thing that'll be left after that

is nailing you to the cross.

- We found a plane.

It was registered to a Panama corporation,

a corporation owned 100% by a dead man.

- You mean Mel Profitt?

- The person being hung out to dry is you.

(dramatic music)

- I want you to proceed immediately

with as much manpower as is necessary

and arrest Agent Terranova.

- Do you have a warrant?

- You can do this.

Or we can get someone else.

(menacing music)

(drum beats)

(slow orchestral music)

- What happened to us?

I know but one code of morality for men.

Whether acting singly or collectively.

(scoffs)

It's a dusty notion in this town of yours, Tom.

Men just don't live by it anymore.

They redefine morality on a daily basis.

- Vince?

I've just come from the Attorney General's office.

I'm supposed to detain you.

- Yeah, I was the patsy all along, Frank.

I should be detained.

For stupidity.

- Well, it's a big world, Vince.

I didn't have to catch up with you.

- I don't wanna run, Frank.

I'm exactly where I wanna be.

My conscience is clear.

- I don't know if that's gonna help you.

- I think it will.

So what are they doing with Kay Gallagher?

- She's been detained at her apartment.

They're going to wanna contain this scandal, Vince.

If it's never made public, it never happened.

You're in a position to make a deal with them.

You could accept an early retirement.

- [Vince] And that's what's wrong with this place, Frank.

Instead of making laws, they make deals.

- [Frank] Gallagher will never be able to stand up to 'em.

That'll leave only you.

And me.

- [Vince] Then that's the way it'll be.

(melancholy music)

- At some point, you're gonna have to deal with reality.

You wanna rely on the truth.

The reality is there is no truth.

The truth is what Strichen and Masters want it to be.

(melancholy music)

- [Leland] Where have you left us exposed, Walter?

- [Walter] There was no exposure.

- We were exposed the minute you ordered

the assassination of Valenti without my approval.

Where are we vulnerable, Walter?

Which one of your moles pulled the trigger?

- General, we are so far removed from--

- By God, I'm dealing with an idiot!

- I resent that, General!

Every aspect of this operation was deployed with precision.

Major Biggs saw to Valenti's removal.

- And where is Biggs, Walter?

Where is he?

- Major Biggs, sir.

- Hello, this is the Attorney General.

Who sent you to Guam?

You're sitting on a plane with untold sums

of counterfeit currency to which you are inextricably tied

for the next 12 hours.

Now, I suggest you take that time to search your soul

about what truly serves the best interest of your country.

And yourself.

Search your soul, son.

(dramatic music)

I'm not gonna get any straight answers from you, am I?

- When it's for the record, yes.

- Lock him up.

(melancholy music)

- Hey!

You got a problem with turning out the light?

(dramatic music)

- [Man] If you'll grant blanket immunity to Ms. Gallagher,

we can sign off on this now.

- We're not interested in formally charging her,

so immunity isn't an issue.

- And without immunity, Kay is left twisting in the wind?

- This is a closed-door session.

- My career is based on the good relationships

that I have established on the hill.

Closed-door or not, I am a leper.

- Kay, would you please calm down?

- She is still involved.

- I am not involved!

I was manipulated!

My involvement is out of my control.

Everything is out of my control.

God, look at me.

I look like a bad night with Roy Khan.

I can't go like this.

- You got a half hour to get ready.

- [Kay] Fine.

- She's gonna take the fifth, Buffy.

- You don't have to perform now.

Your client's out of the room.

We're not looking to incriminate her.

This is not a trial.

(clattering)

(dramatic music)

- Towels.

We've got a suicide attempt.

Wrists cut.

Get the car downstairs immediately.

- [Reporter] Here they come.

(reporters chattering)

- Hi, Mary.

(reporters chattering)

- [Reporter] Come on, talk to us.

- [Man] Wait, one more, one more.

(reporters chattering)

- Good morning.

We've got a trillion dollars worth

of counterfeit yen sitting on the runway at Andrews

and we've gotta find out how it got there.

This is an informal session, so let's hope

we can end it here.

We all have security clearance and anything said

must be considered classified.

Parliamentary duties will be handled

by the Attorney General.

Ferris.

- Thank you, Obadi.

General Masters, when did you first become aware--

- Excuse me?

All the participants are not here.

Where's Kathren Gallagher?

- She's hospitalized after a suicide attempt this morning.

- You proud of yourself?

- Please, don't make this any more difficult

than it already is.

General Master?

- Three weeks ago, I received a call

from the Post Master General's office that a

damaged parcel revealed contents

the National Security Commission should examine.

The package contained that printing plate.

And on it, our lab discovered

Agent Terranova's fingerprints.

- Hey, now wait a minute.

- You'll have your chance, Agent Terranova.

- I took the plate and the lab report to General Masters.

- I was alarmed.

The package had been addressed to Gallagher's lobbying firm.

We had very little to go on,

except a supposition that the counterfeit yen

were being made and Terranova was involved,

possibly Gallagher.

- I decided to avoid alerting other conspirators

to our discovery by putting the plate back en route

to Gallagher.

I then had her put under surveillance.

Now I have to deal with the Terranova situation.

I sent for him through Dewitt Clipton.

- [Man] Dewitt?

- I received a call from Admiral Strichen

requesting a loan of Agent Terranova to the

National Security Commission.

- It was our intent to confront him with the basic

fact of the plate's existence and see how he responded.

- You didn't tell him you found his fingerprints

on the plate?

- Of course not, he was all we had.

At the very least, I expected he'd play it dumb.

The very most, maybe guilt, remorse, may have come out.

Some signs suggesting that he knew he'd been caught.

What I didn't expect was probably the slyest reaction

I've ever seen to one's being confronted

with one's own complicity.

The arrogant bastard suggested that

I had brought him in to lead the investigation.

- That is a lie!

I was called to Washington by Dewitt Clipton

under the guise of a promotion.

- Opportunity, I said opportunity.

- Fine.

He dropped me off at the White House and I met

with General Masters.

- I was in attendance.

- Admiral Strichen was not in the meeting.

- Yes, he was.

- Not in my version, he wasn't.

Now, the reason my fingerprints were on that plate

was because Masters put it in my hands.

He wanted me to see it.

He told me about this scheme to flood the Japanese economy

with counterfeit currency.

He also asked me to lead an investigation

to find and stop the delivery of the counterfeit yen.

He then directed me to Kathren Gallagher's firm.

- Why would General Masters ask for you,

when as a member of the National Security Commission,

he has his own investigators?

Men with credentials equivalent to your own.

- Because he wants to pin it on me.

- [Man] Do you feel you're being persecuted?

- No, no, no.

It was a payback.

Three years ago, I foiled General Master's

illegal covert operation to overthrow the island

of Eel Paval.

- I can attest to that, Ferris.

Agent Terranova testified before my committee.

- I remember the hearing, Senator.

I don't recall General Masters involvement.

- That's because it never got past Strichen.

The man that could've tied it to Strichen

blew his brains out.

Suicide follows you around, doesn't it?

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, let's take this

one step at a time

and the Eel Pavoe is not the issue today.

General Masters, what did you do after the

meeting with Terranova?

- I ordered Admiral Strichen to have

Agent Terranova followed.

- [Ferris] And Agent Terranova, what did you do

after the meeting?

- I returned to OCB to discuss this

with Frank McPike.

It was at this time that we discovered

Dr. Valenti's death was actually an assassination.

- Valenti was assassinated?

- Yes sir, he was.

An OCB toxicology report found that

Dr. Valenti was struck down with curare packed bullets.

- Why am I hearing this for the first time?

Dewitt?

- I specifically ordered Agent McPike to return

all evidence concerning the Valenti murder

to the DC Police.

In fact, Admiral Strichen specifically requested

I make sure that it was returned.

- Admiral, why were you so interested in all this?

- I knew from surveillance that Agent Terranova

was involved in the Valenti case

and I feared he might manipulate or alter evidence

if left to his own devices.

- [Ferris] Agent McPike, did you return the evidence?

- I did except for a toxicology report

that was being processed.

When the report returned,

it indicated a professional killing.

Valenti held security clearance.

And then we discovered all the files in his personal

computer had been erased.

- What does that have to do with counterfeit yen?

- Nothing until I instructed Agent Sermat

to search the Library of Congress or find

any hard copies of Valenti's recent work.

And that search yielded his hypotheses on

non-genuine disstabilization, which I believe is the reason

why he was killed.

- Ferris, Agents Terranova and McPike came to me

with this scheme they said General Masters had plotted

based on Valenti's theory.

I believed it was lunacy.

But I didn't dismiss it for two reasons.

One, I believe General Masters

is capable of almost anything.

And two, the third point of Valenti's theory is defense.

The basic notion being, it would be fool-hearted

to coax a foreign sovereigns economy

if it damaged your own, unless you defended against it.

The best form of defense to avoid that kind of spillage

is a restrictive trade bill.

Much like Senator Getzloff's.

- Are you insinuating that I was somehow

involved in this undercover operation?

- I'm simply saying the bill came at an opportune time.

And it is common knowledge that you are involved

under covers with General Masters.

- You son of a bitch.

- General. - Let go of me!

- What's personal and private have no place here.

- [Ferris] Gentlemen, please, both of ya.

- I'm not surprised that my healthy, romantic relationship

is being attacked by a withered old cracker

who hasn't seen the deep south in 20 years.

- Senator.

- I want it on record that I have been a proponent

of a fair trade bill for over a decade.

- Yeah.

Bring him in.

(somber music)

- That guy was in the hotel room next to mine.

- Somehow I don't think that's coincidental.

- Major Biggs, you wanna tell us who you are

and how you got here?

Major, don't look to anyone but yourself for guidance.

- I am United States Marine Corp Major Vernon Biggs,

on loan to the National Security Commission

from General Simon at the Pentagon.

Two weeks ago, I was ordered by Admiral Strichen

to follow an agent Vincent Terranova.

It was arranged for me to be in a room next to his

in order to conduct electronic surveillance.

However, I was unable to do so because of the frequency

in which his room was swept.

I was able to follow him to Utah,

where I took photographs of him entering

an abandoned transport depot.

- You have the photographs.

- Later, I entered the depot

and discovered tread marks on the runway

suggesting it's recent use by heavy transport.

I also discovered dried printer's ink,

the type of which is used in

making Japanese money.

- I found the same evidence.

General Masters told me to check out that depot.

That's how I was photographed there.

- He was halting the forward movement of the investigation.

He knew that to continue to play

the ruse of being an investigator,

he had to present me with something.

So, he showed me a list of likely locations

for the production of counterfeit currency.

I purposefully recommended Dawn Valley, Utah off that list.

- Why?

- Agent Terranova used OCB authority to search

Gallagher's office.

He confiscated a file containing Valenti's theory

which had been commissioned through her firm

by Mr. Wilson.

- Naturally, the name Wilson meant nothing to us

until I saw Dawn Valley, Utah on Terranova's list.

Dawn Valley is owned practically lock, stop and barrel

by that old hermit, Prescott Wilson.

- I was able to photograph Terranova and Gallagher

meeting with Wilson.

- The reason I met with Wilson was because

evidence suggested that he had commissioned Valenti

to write that paper.

- Did he?

- He denied it.

- He denied it.

So, you're contending that this massive undertaking

was created by General Masters to set you up?

- No, no.

I'm saying he would've gone along with the conspiracy

anyway, he just needed somebody to lay the liability on.

I was his target of choice.

It's in Valenti's theory.

Look under accountability.

- How do we get to Guam?

- Sir, I went with Vinnie to Dawn Valley.

I had a conversation with the Deputy Sheriff there

and he mentioned to me that he had seen a

C-130 transport plane flying low over the area

just a few days earlier.

Well, I told Vinnie and we told Frank.

- And I began a global search for the plane to the FAA.

- Why didn't you use the military?

- Because Agent Terranova felt General Masters

and Admiral Strichen might sabotage the search.

- I see.

Agent Terranova decided that you shouldn't use

the most sophisticated tracking systems in the world

to find that plane.

- When Major Biggs told em about the C-130,

I immediately contacted the Air Force.

They found the plane within two hours.

- Why didn't you tell me that when we were on the phone?

Damnit Vernon, the answer's with you,

not with Admiral Strichen!

In this room, you are accountable to your country

and your conscience now.

- It wasn't a secure phone.

Plus, I was in the presence of two OCB officers.

One had just shot me.

Frankly, I wasn't even sure it was you.

- You love this country, son?

- Yes sir.

- Mr. Clipton, who owns that airplane?

- The late Mr. Mel Profitt.

- You were investigating Mr. Profitt at the time

of his death, were you not?

- I was.

- He's worth a fortune.

- After the first billion, you lose track.

- Was a complete accounting of Mr. Profitt's assets

ever made?

- To my knowledge, no sir.

- It was certainly enough money to underwrite

this kind of operation.

- That is enough.

What?

This man told me there was a crisis

and it was my moral duty to stop it.

I didn't know Kay Gallagher, but they did!

They know how fragile an individual she is.

And they put me on her like a dog on the hunt.

And I chased her until they caught me.

He's had it in for Gallagher ever since she lobbied

for the Japanese jet fighter.

You told me that yourself, Senator Pickering.

And you have seen my crime

and have sought my punishment ever since

the day the invasion of Eel Pavole collapsed.

And now, Dr. Valenti, an innocent man is dead.

Does anybody care?

Or does this come under the heading of an acceptable

level of death?

I wonder.

I wonder which one of you killed him.

It doesn't matter, does it?

'Cause we'll never know.

It just got passed down the chain of command

from you to you to you.

And right on down the line.

Badabing.

Somebody's on the next plane to El Salvador.

Hmm?

(sighs)

You know, when I came to this town,

it was one of the happiest days of my life.

I was here

to work in the shadow of Jefferson.

I was warned.

About the man that had become addicted to power

and complacent about it's misuse.

I should've heeded that warning,

but I was naive.

I was naive enough

to believe

that there was more backbone in the truth

than there was in corruption.

Well you know something, I still believe it.

Despite this fair, informal hearing.

I still believe it.

(melancholy music)

(bell ringing)

- Ferris, if we don't get to the floor and vote,

come Friday, there'll be no checks for federal employees,

which includes almost everyone in this room.

- Well then, we'll adjourn until tomorrow morning at 10:00.

- I'll see you in the morning.

- Where ya going?

Where's he going?

- No idea.

(chattering)

- Take him back to his hotel room.

Keep him under guard.

- You can't continue to hold me.

- For the next 36 hours, I can.

- Major Biggs is working for the

National Security Commission.

He's not under suspicion, there's no reason to hold him.

- He was sitting in a plane with a trillion dollars worth

of counterfeit yen.

If that isn't suspicious, I don't know what is.

- Better pay attention, guys.

This could happen to you too.

- Thank you man.

(somber music)

- There's no reason for them to hold Major Biggs

unless the Attorney General is out to get you.

- Me?

- I wasn't the one who ordered the elimination of Valenti.

That was you, Walter.

- It was an appropriate action!

How was I to know that Biggs was gonna hire a professional

with a pension for exotic drugs?

- He made a mistake.

How do you know he won't make another one?

- Biggs is solid.

- For your sake, I hope so.

- You open the gate.

Open the gate!

You don't give me a song and dance.

You tell the old man to come off his mountain

or I'm gonna go up there and shoot him.

- Sir?

We got another one.

Yes sir.

Stand in front of the camera.

- [Man] You're a pathetic excuse for something, aren't ya?

Get on.

(gate rattling) (dramatic music)

- Prescott Wilson?

- No, I'm the damned harvest fairy.

You want me to come down and testify for that grease monkey.

Your fellow got snookered by old Leland, son.

He's not the first one and he won't be the last.

Got anything else you want to say?

- Yes sir, I think you're a coward.

- I may be a coward,

but I'm not so stupid

as to call a man with a bazooka a coward.

- It's a big hole or it's a little one.

Either way, we're both dead.

I have a friend in Washington, D.C. who's being framed

by General Masters.

He's using your eccentricities as part of that frame up.

Now my friend is a good man.

He needs your help and there is nothing in this world

that you have to do that is more important than that.

- I can't help you.

(slow music)

(knocking)

- Set it up there, that's fine.

Sit down.

Now somewhere between the two of you is the truth.

Shake hands.

Do it.

Vernon Biggs, Vinnie Terranova.

Good, you've both done a sworn duty to your country.

You have a lot in common.

You ought to get to know a little about each other.

Major Biggs, Vinnie was born in Brooklyn.

His father died when he was a teenager.

His brother was a priest who was murdered

by members of a white supremist organization.

Vinnie later brought those men to justice.

Vinnie, Major Biggs--

- I know who he is.

- Oh? Have you read his file?

- No.

I just know who he is.

And since the Attorney General made a point

about my brother being a priest,

I'd guess your father was a preacher.

Maybe your mother taught school.

They were educated people but they didn't achieve

all that they could have.

Because of society, circumstances.

Well if they couldn't achieve, you sure as hell would.

No sandlot ball or shootin' hoops for you, right Vernon?

You had to hit the books

and you couldn't be as good as the other kids.

You had to be better.

Nobody wants to play with a kid who's so busy being better.

Any kid so busy doesn't have a chance of being a child.

- Shut up.

I wanna go back to my holding cell.

- This is your holding cell.

- If this is some new kinda brainwashing technique,

I'm not buying into it.

- You bought into it with Strichen.

- I was given an assignment.

I completed my task.

- Ah, yeah.

So how far off was I?

- Close enough.

- Look, who I am and where my family's from

has nothing to do with this!

- It's got everything to do with it, Vernon.

You were tailor made for Strichen.

The good soldier who only wants to serve.

I had this friend once.

He was outta the house and into a military academy

by the time he was 12 years old.

First in his class too because there was just

no alternative.

Went straight from the academy into special forces.

Strichen shaped and molded him from a good soldier

that did his country's duty

to a blind soldier that did his admiral's bidding.

After a while, those two things became indistinguishable.

When my friend's mission failed,

Strichen put his head on the chopping block

of the same Senate committee we face today.

You know what he said?

Strichen sat there and said,

"What a shame good men go bad."

Then he went back to his office in the White House

and my friend vanished in a mysterious explosion.

See, I don't wear a uniform Vernon,

but I'm a soldier too and the first order

is to follow orders.

Well you do it too easily.

I don't do it easily enough.

Gets us both into trouble.

- Major?

Is there anything you want to say?

- Look, I don't give a damn about

who this man's brother was or who killed him.

And I won't be swayed by your transparent appeal.

That's what you think is my emotion.

I know who you are.

And we have nothing in common.

- We got Strichen in common, Vernon,

and he will waste the both of us.

- Look, if I have anything else to say,

I'll say it in front of a sub-committee.

You wanna keep me here all night?

Fine.

- The Attorney General's right Vernon.

The truth is in this room and you know what it is.

You've gotta sleep with it.

(melancholy music)

- I want that door to stay open.

(chattering)

- Are you okay?

- Yeah, yeah.

Where'd you go?

- No place, doesn't matter.

- [Man] Come to order, come to order please.

Ferris, we're ready to proceed.

- We won't keep you long, Ms. Gallagher.

Were you involved in the conspiracy to

counterfeit Japanese currency?

- No.

- [Ferris] You are aware of it.

- Yes.

- When did you first become aware of the conspiracy?

Ms. Gallagher?

- Terranova told me.

- When did he tell you?

- At his hotel room over a $400 dinner.

- [Ferris] What else did he tell you?

- Oh, that the invisible Mr. Wilson would kill me.

- Ms. Gallagher, why did you do to Dawn Valley, Utah?

- Yes I did.

- Why did you go?

- I don't know.

- Ms. Gallagher insisted on coming here

against the advice of myself and her physician.

She wants only to make a statement.

- I am an advocate for hire.

I love my work.

I love working with the people in this room.

I'm good at what I do.

My career was perfect.

My life became a nightmare the day I met Mr. Terranova.

- Thank you Ms. Gallagher.

(chattering)

Does anyone have any significant new information

to add to these proceedings?

- The evidence speaks for itself, Mr. Attorney General.

- Evidence doesn't speak for itself, General.

It is spoken for by whoever is presenting it.

Major Biggs?

- Mr. Attorney General, I have nothing further to say.

- Agent Terranova, from what we've heard

and the evidence that we have seen,

I believe that if this matter were brought

before a formal Senate hearing, you would end up

being indicted and I know as a prosecutor,

you would be convicted.

Obadi, if this became a public matter--

- It would cripple our foreign relations for years.

- Agent Terranova, can you carry the scars of these events

in silence?

- And continue to believe in this system

that I was sworn to uphold?

Absolutely not.

- I see.

Agent Terranova, you are relieved of all your

duties, responsibilities, and authority

as an agent of the justice department.

Your paycheck and pension will remain intact.

Your privilege to carry a shield is revoked,

but you remain accountable to your oath.

Everything evidenced in this room during the past

two days are to be considered classified information.

Any violation of your secrecy will be dealt with

to the full extent of the law.

- Hell of a punishment for treason.

But it's more important to sweep all this under the rug

because we're worried it'll make us look bad.

We spend too much time worrying about the perception

and not enough time exercising the authority

our brave men fought and died for all over the world!

We're no longer interested in being the preeminent power

on earth!

We've let it slip through our fingers.

And that is a tragedy!

- Vince.

- You really got me good, didn't you?

- You bet your ass.

- It's amazing how hot air carries.

Haha, I could hear that load of manure

all the way down the hall.

- Sir, this is a security clearanced only session.

- I've had security clearance since you were sucking milk.

- Who the hell--

- Prescott Wilson.

Shut up.

You know Leland Masters is a son of a bitch,

always has been, always will be.

Could lie in the face of God and be indignant

when he got called on it.

Sent that boy up to my mountain.

Leland tried to tie me to this crap

because he figured I would never come down,

didn't ya Leland?

Well, I did.

I had nothing to do with Valenti's paper.

Nothing to do with this lame brain scheme.

Used his subordinance all his life.

I've made three billion dollars from scratch,

employed 100,000 men.

I know something about how you treat people

to turn a profit, but Leland never had to.

He had you fools to hand him blank checks.

Used his young men as cannon fodder.

Boys full of ideals, willing to snap up a salute

and do whatever.

I walked away from a fortune in Pentagon contracts

after the Bay of Pigs because I couldn't stomach

this cue balls talking out of both sides of his mouth,

whispered in Ike's ear, "Let's burn Castro."

But Kennedy wasn't keen on it.

So he said, "Let him go it alone."

All those boys slaughtered on the beach,

they were chopped to pieces.

Oh, but Leland kept his office and his limousine.

I don't wanna know what you did in Vietnam.

Make me puke.

Who's saluting you today, Leland?

Sure as hell ain't that boy.

I'm not staying.

I'm not answering your questions.

I just gave you my answers.

When they're done sticking it to ya, you give me a call.

Nice uniform.

You kissing his butt now?

You still dreaming about those lions?

Tell em about your dreams, Leland.

Tell em about all those lions tearing you apart.

(chuckling)

- Go to hell!

- Real clever response.

- That man's a liar.

If he told the truth for 30 years, I could never believe it.

I don't have any dreams.

I know nothing about lions.

That man is more Machiavellian than Machiavelli.

He was the one who told Kennedy to withhold the air support

and then he forged the memos with my name on it.

I know nothing about lions.

I was the one who told them they need more helicopters

in the desert and the losses be damned.

But Prescott, he couldn't stomach the fact

that it's a soldier's job to die.

So he ran away to his mountain.

- I lied.

(ominous music)

I lied for Admiral Strichen.

- Major!

- I was told Terranova was a subversive.

- Shut him up.

- I was told to link Terranova to the yen.

I oversaw it's production for Strichen.

I arranged for the plane at his orders.

He ordered me.

God forgive me.

I arranged for the assassination of Valenti.

- I had nothing to do with it.

Strichen did it without my authority.

They were his dreams.

- You told me to get the job done.

And you didn't care how.

It was your idea.

And you, you gloated about it.

(guns shooting) - Everybody down!

(ominous music)

- You don't have the nerve.

- [Man] Okay, nobody move, that's an order.

Secure that weapon, take it.

(chattering) (ominous music)

- Came here two weeks ago seeing Jimmy Stewart

behind every model column.

I mean, my heart was actually pounding in my chest.

Now I feel like it's been cut out.

- The system worked, Vince.

- I went up against Masters armed only with the truth.

I was naive enough to think that's all I needed.

The system failed, Frank.

- The system failed?

- [Vince] That's right.

- That why the Attorney General hand delivered

Biggs to you?

Is that why Pickering put himself on the line

to make sure that Masters scheme wouldn't succeed?

The fact that Strichen and Masters turned bad

shouldn't be an indictment of the entire institution.

The system depends on decency and honesty,

an interest by the majority, Vince.

And the majority is decent and honest.

Thank God.

- I'm seeing Jimmy Stewart now.

- You're right.

You're not the only one that's spent nights reading

those words at the Jefferson.

And if those words of the foundation on which we're built,

we are the greatest country on earth.

Since I was the one that detained you,

I told them I should be the one to reinstate you.

(melancholy music)

Come on, Vince.

Now you don't want that pension

and that big paycheck without a few other

little aggravations to go along with it, do ya?

(soft orchestral music)