Look, Don...
if I was broke, if I had a family-- I don't know.
But I'm not broke, and I don't have a family.
So why the fuck stick my neck out? You know what I mean?
It's already out, Frank-- not taking the money.
It's better the other guys don't know that.
Hey, I tell you what I'll do.
I'll hold your share foryou, huh?
You change your mind, it'll be right in here.
Right in here, right down to the penny, huh?
Hey. Look at that.
- What are you drinking? - Give me a scotch.
Next thing I wanna do, I wanna get a color TV for the games.
Hey, how about some gin? Penny a point. Huh?
Yeah. Let me ask him first.
Hello, Frank. Get in.
My God, Frank. This is confidential.
He's a police officer. I thought maybe he could sit in.
No, absolutely not.
All right, all right.
I notified Commissioner Delaney about everything you told me.
He wants you to stay where you are and continue to collect information.
Then you'll be his eyes and his ears.
He said he was delighted that, quote...
"A man of integrity had surfaced," unquote.
When do I hear from him?
He said he'd reach out foryou when the time comes.
Reach out?
See, you know, my situation's pretty fuckin' sticky up there.
I mean, what am I supposed to do? Just wait for him--
- You must have patience, Frank. - But it's pretty fucking sticky.
Patience and faith.
When a man like the commissioner says he'll get in touch with you...
he'll get in touch with you.
Good-bye, son. God bless you.
All right, now. Marinda's too hot.
We got to lay off him for a couple of months.
And listen, Falco's got two runners he ain't paying for.
Check that fucking guy out, huh? Hey, Frankie, how are you?
- How are you? - Rubello's being transferred...
so you're gonna have to work with a new bagman.
Al Sarno, I want you to meet Frank Serpico. This'll be your new man.
- How are you? - Fine.
Listen, you know that operation down by Hunt's Point, the new one?
What are we gonna do about that? Who are we givin' to?
You the new bagman, you prick?
What happened to Rubello, you son of a bitch? You narco cop fucker!
Wait a minute.
You know, Frank, sometimes I ask myself...
what the fuck am I doing?
You know, if this ever came out--
Christ, my family.
My daughter.
She just started with the San Francisco Opera.
Chorus.
Took a lot of money.
I once tried to pull out.
Christ, they were all over me.
So you...
just go along.
Unless you're willing to go back to uniform duty.
Shit. How the money rolls in.
- Here. Let me give you yours now. - I'm not on.
- What do you mean, you're not on? - Just what I said.
I'm not on. I don't take money.
- Some gag. Here. - No, I told you straight.
I don't take money, and that's the truth.
- What were you doing with Rubello? - Ask Rubello.
Your nut-- where's it been going?
Ask Rubello.
All right, then, sir. I'll go to Delaney myselfthen.
- That would not be advisable. - You don't understand, Captain.
- It's been weeks. Not a word. - I understand perfectly.
No, but, Captain, now they know I'm not on.
I've done all I can do. Good-bye, Frank.
He's out. Won't do another fucking thing.
Blair, I'm telling you, nothing's gonna happen from the inside.
The top guys have been cops too long.
You haven't heard from Commissioner Delaney, have you?
No, not a fucking word.
Would you be willing to go outside the department?
Where could we go?
Would you believe the mayor's office?
- The mayor's office? - His right-hand man--
guy named Jerry Berman, from Princeton.
You knew I knew somebody. That's the somebody I know.
And he cares, Frank. He really cares.
- You know what we're doing? - Yeah.
-We're going outside the department. -That's right.
Dynamite.
Every plainclothesman in the division...
and one, maybe two lieutenants?
That is dynamite. That is incredible.
That is 1 50--
That is $250,000 a year...
but that is just one precinct.
Oh, that is amazing!
See, what I feel is needed here is, like, a real investigation.
And I am sure that the mayor will see this immediately.
McClain and Delaney--
they have done nothing?
Oh, man. That is amazing.
Another thing. See, in a couple of days...
they're gonna have a meeting of the pad.
Oh, right.
- Frank is in a very tough spot. - I can see that.
Rumors. See, I have heard rumors, but never touching it directly.
And for an on-the-line cop to come forward like this is beautiful.
Really, Frank, I mean...
you have my respect and my sympathy...
for what you've been going through, man.
Wow.
Hello. This is Jerry Berman.
Is he there? All right. I'll hold on.
Well?
Tell me what happened, Paco.
I'd like a drink.
That guy is gonna go to the mayor.
To the mayor!
Come here, Alfie. We're all gonna go to the mayor together.
You know that?
I couldn't be any more embarrassed.
It's like a personal defeat.
However...
there are priorities.
What are the priorities, Jerry?
The priorities are...
a long, hot summer ahead...
and riots are expected...
and the mayor cannot alienate the police force.
Now, in the fall--
Now, in the fall, it may be possible...
to take another look at the situation.
All right, fine. I'm sorry.
They're all rotten.
Chickenshit.
The whole fucking system's corrupt.
- Who's there? - It's me. I gotta talk to ya.
You know, Frank, you're behaving like a goddamn child. You hear?
Let him in.
You let him in.
I'm sorry, Frank. I'm sorry I got you into the whole thing.
Bullshit! I got me into this whole thing.
"Wow. Amazing!
"Dynamite! Beautiful! Dynamite!
Priorities. Priorities."
You and your big-deal friends, your contacts...
your big bullshit names.
Bob Blair, the big operator from Princeton.
The mystery man with the connections, the hot line to the mayor.
Who the fuck do you thinkyou are, you son of a bitch?
You come looking for help, whining, mealy-mouthed...
with your humble-pie act-- the saint, the injured innocent.
Who told you the department or the whole world...
was some kind of a fucking boy scout camp?
What do you expect, for Christ's sake, a magician? A big daddy?
White knight snaps his fingers, the dirty world turns white...
Just keep talking. That's what you can do.
while the Pope's choir sings "Ave Maria," is that it?
You gonna blame me 'cause those bastards don't wanna get involved?
I tried to help you. I got my head handed to me.
Where's your head? It's on your shoulders. That's what I see.
- You don't look so hot yourself. - What's all this shit over here?
Get ready to blow up again, 'cause I got another idea.
You and your ideas are as full of shit as you are.
- Right on cue. - Right on cue.
We can talk to Foreman, the commissioner of investigations.
Another guy! We got another guy here.
We could even talk to a guy I know on the New York Times.
Oh, that's terrific. Go to the Times.
Every time I talk to you, Blair, 20 more people know about it.
This is safe, Frank.
It's safe? With my ass on the line, it's safe, right?
- Your ass is already on the line! - That's my business!
- You don't trust me, Frank? - I don't trust you!
- Go fuckyourself! - Fuckyou!
Look, when I come home, I want a house clean.
- Don't take it out on me, Paco. - I don't want to pick up shit!
Honey...
come to bed.
All right. Look, we all know what this is about, right?
Frank, what the hell was happening between you and Don Rubello?
Simple. I didn't take any money. I don't take money.
Rubello said if I changed my mind, he'd hold my share--
he'd give it back to me.
- I didn't change my mind. - The conniving bastard.
- All right. I'll handle Rubello. - Donny was stealing.
I'll get back the money he took. But this ain't gonna happen again.
From now on, no more three bagmen. Starting today, every one ofyou...
makes his own collections-- no stops, no bread, okay?
- Right. - You got it.
What about you, Frankie? I'll make up what Don took from you.
- Why should I start now? - Everybody'd feel better about you.
You can always give it to charity.
Look, Frankie, what do you say, a hundred a month just for expenses?
For my secretary and my business lunches, entertainment?
All right. All right. We split Frank's share from now on.
You're a schmuck, Frank.
If they would take all that energy, see...
put it into straight police work...
we'd have the city cleaned up in a week.
They'd clean up. There'd be no crime.
If I could work alone-- That's the thing, see?
If I could just get-- Work alone. But they don't like that.
They don't want that. They want to suckyou in.
You go over the same thing, Paco.
So fucking corrupt. Everybody, everyone. Nobody giving a shit!
There's gotta be a way to wipe it out, goddamn it.
Let's get out of here for a while, huh, honey? Let's go to a movie.
Quit handling me! What are you doing? How am I gonna go to a movie?
They'd kill me if they knew! You think that hasn't happened?
Eitheryou're exploding, oryou're lying around like a catatonic!
- I can't stand it, Paco. - You don't give a shit, right?
All I care about is you! That's all that matters to me.
That's why it hurts so much. I can't stand to see you like this--
Scared, miserable, dreading to go to work.
It's tearing me apart!
And then I get sick of hearing about it, and I start hating myself.
You didn't like my being a cop, so don't give me that shit.
I love you! I want to marry you! I want to have children with you!
- Goddamn it! I hate it! - Why don't you get out?
- Why don't you? - It's crossed my mind.
Well, do it.
- What do you got? - Would you bust whitey?
Try me. Try me.
This guy's heavy. He's ltalian.
Mobbed up. Still interested?
Stop fuckin' around. I'm not in the mood. Come on.
He's a loan shark, runs a big numbers operation.
This mother's so cocksure...
he picks up his own slips while he's collecting his loans.
Where's the drop?
Hold it!
I'm a police officer.
And--
Wait a minute. You're under arrest.
- I thought you were a junkie. - I'll take that wad in your pocket.
- You're a riot, kid. - I know. I'm a joke.
What are you doin'? What's that?
Put that away, oryou're in more trouble. Give me your car keys.
Where they been hiding you, kid?
Wouldn't you like to know?
Hold this guy for booking. Get a rap sheet on him.
I'm gonna search his car.
Where's Corsaro?
Smith took him upstairs.
I swear to God, I thought this guy was some fucking junkie.
Listen, Rudy, you should see some of the--
- Hey, you. - Hey, who?
You. Get over here and empty your pockets.
- I don't do that. - You're my prisoner. Do what I say.
- Get over here. - He's gonna get nasty about it.
You're fucking right!
Hey, Frank, cool it, huh?
Lean, motherfuck! Spread!
Frank. Hey, Frank, Rudy's on. He's good people.
Stay the fuck outta this!
You fuck!
What's this? What's this?
Get in! Get in!
Serpico. Got that record check on Corsaro.
You want to read something?
It's about your pal Corsaro.
Here, read it. Read it!
He did 1 5 years. You know what for?
For killing a cop. He's a fucking cop killer.
- It's good to see you again. - I've had it. I'm finished.
- What's wrong? - I can't take it. I gotta get out.
If I have to go back to uniform, I'm going back to uniform.
I can't wait for Delaney to call. I can't play their game anymore.
The commissioner didn't get in touch with you?
Not a word. No investigation, no undercover work, nothing!
- I had no idea, Frank. - It's only fair to tell you.
I've been to outside agencies. I'll go to more if I have to.
What outside agencies?
Holy Mother of God! Frank, we wash our own laundry around here!
-You could be brought up on charges! -We do not wash our own laundry!
- It just gets dirtier! - You are in trouble!
I don't care if I'm in trouble. I don't care who gets it.
- If I have to go to outside agencies-- - Stay away from outside agencies!
- Where am I gonna go? - You hear me?
- Where am I gonna go? - Wait until you hear from me.
- I've been waiting for 1 1 /2 years. - I'll get back to you.
That's not enough! Where am I gonna go?
It's my life, you fuck!
Serpico, see lnspector Palmer.
For this precinct, cases reported--
Murder-- 1 4 for August, 20 for September, 23--
Inspector Palmer?
Deputy Chief lnspector Daley and lnspector Gilbert...
are waiting to see you.
You want to come to my office?
Captain McClain called me.
I briefed lnspector Daley and lnspector Gilbert...
on your allegations.
The question is, in all these months, why didn't you come to us?
Well...
I never met these gentlemen before, sir, and...
you told--
I mean, you told Captain McClain...
that the division was as clean as a hound's tooth.
You thinkyou're the only honest cop on the force, Serpico?
My record's clear.
Inspector Gilbert's just come from the commissioner's...
confidential investigation unit.
Then you must have heard something. I mean--
I don't understand.
Commissioner Delaney has known about this from the beginning.
No, I didn't hear a thing.
But I understand your frustration, Frank...
believe me.
I mean, it's sort of like trying to punch your way...
out of a paper bag, right?
What outside agencies have you been to, Frank?
I don't see how that's pertinent to my allegations.
We ought to ask Serpico directly if he's gonna cooperate or not.
- Come on. - We've gotta know...
if there's any real basis for an investigation.
Well, l--
I'll have to think that--
I'm gonna have to think about that.
What is there to think about?
I don't see how the division can investigate itself, sir.
You've got a point there.
But you would cooperate with an impartial investigation, right?
Yeah. Up to a point. As long as I'm not involved.
I just want to go someplace where I can do my job.
That's fair enough.
We'll be in touch.
Inspector Palmer?
May I see you a minute?
Was it necessary to let everyone in the station house...
know I was comin' in here to see these guys?
You believe from what you now know that a full-scale investigation...
is warranted?
- Yes, Commissioner Delaney. - Go to it.
But, sir...
shouldn't headquarters handle something like this?
No. You're all experienced men.
Chief Gallagher here will be available for consultation.
Commissioner...
Serpico claims that...
McClain talked to you about this whole thing some time ago.
Yes. I seem to remember something about that.
We can't set up a surveillance on "somewhere over by Crotona Park."
We need a location!
I've given you 36 locations that are paying off.
Now, what do you want? The whole thing signed, sealed, delivered?
You're conducting this investigation, not me.
Lieutenant Smith-- Let's get back to him.
Lieutenant Smith. Lieutenant Smith said to me...
if I didn't want the money that he would stash it in his attic.
I'll have him transferred in the morning.
Fuck him. How about transferring me?
I hearyou been vouchering pad money...
over to a confidential investigation squad.
Oh, yeah? How can I voucher money when I don't take any?
You won't find anything on Serpico.
He's clean.
Right?
You practicing your frisk?
I'm looking to buy a used tape recorder.
They're feeling me up every day. How am I gonna wear a wire?
Come on, Frank.
Wearing a wire means testifying to corroborate the tape, right? Right.
I'm not testifying.
I gotta put a dime in the parking meter.
Ragland, put a dime in the parking meter for Serpico.
Hey, Frank. Frank, you know Herman Tauber, district attorney?
Yeah, I watch television.
Frank, I want to compliment you for coming forward like this.
It's unique.
It's uniquely unique. You should be proud ofyourself.
There's gonna be a grand jury on these shitheels...
with Frank Serpico as my starwitness.
Mr. Tauber, you and everybody in this room can go to hell...
'cause I'm not testifying.
- Listen-- - Wait just a second, Frank.
You have nothing to fear. You're not gonna be singled out.
I'm not afraid. I don't give a fuck who knows...
- Wait a minute-- - if it meant something...
-but this investigation is bullshit. -Mind if I say something?
Bullshit. You're not going after corruption in the department...
the division, the Bronx.
A few flunky cops thrown to the wolves...
to protect Delaney and those guys who've known about this for years...
and won't do a fuckin' thing about it, that's why I won't testify.
- Hey, what's this? - Exactly what it says.
I'm splitting.
"Splitting." I never read anything so stupid in my life.
"I'm leaving. Ifyou want to discuss it, I'll be at Felix's."
I didn't feel like another blood-and-guts scene.
I figured you wouldn't be able to shout in here.
I can shout anywhere!
I won't shout.
Sit down, sit down.
It's just gonna go on and on, Paco.
It isn't gonna get any better.
And ifyou quit, somehow I'll be blamed.
How could you leave the man you love...
future father ofyour kids?
You never said anything like that to me before.
And if I come back, you won't say it again.
You want to be free and unattached...
to go on fighting foryour cause and keep torturing yourself.
My cause.
I felt so safe with you...
so loving.
Stay with me, Laurie.
- Come on. Stay with me. - No, no.
- What do I owe you for that? - Excuse me.
Here.
Here's $2:00.
What are you doing?
Do you want to walk away, or should l?
I'm not gonna walk away.
It's finished!
Who do you thinkyou are, trying to pull that "no testifying" bullshit on me?
Chief Green, I know your reputation.
Look, maybe ifyou were borough commanderwhen this thing started...
run this investigation yourself, I'd feel different about testifying.
But the truth is, you're coming in after the fact.
You're like a quiffwho says she won't, then maybe she will.
I'm like a quiff who's been fucked over...
for a year and a half by guys like Kellogg, McClain, Delaney--
I'm not Kellogg, McClain or Delaney!
Frank, it won't be just flunky cops.
This is only the beginning. This could be the biggest thing...
- since the Harry Gross case. - And meanwhile, where am l?
I'm out there alone. Who gives a fuck about that?
I'm totally isolated in the department. I don't have a friend.
Don't give me that bullshit. I've been puttin' cops away for 30 years!
My name's an obscenity on every precinct shithouse wall in the city.
- I've observed that, sir. - Friends! I fought my way up...
as a Jew in the department in the days you were supposed to have...
an uncircumcised shamrock between your legs.
I have this nightmare I'm on 5th Avenue...
watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary...
and 9,000 cops march happily over my body.
Friends. I haven't got a friend on the force, either, Serpico.
- I'll be your friend, Chief. - I'm not lookin' for any.
- I'll make an exception for you. - Frank, you're a good cop.
Stop being a prima donna. Cut out the shtickklech.
I don't understand.
How am I being a prima donna? I want to protect myself.
We're gonna get the indictments. You're gonna have to testify.
Ready on the right. Ready on the left.
Ready on the firing line.
What are you gonna tell the grand jury, Frankie?
Depends on what they ask me.
Suppose they ask you who's taking money?
What I don't know, I don't know.
But you do know, Frank.
Look, Frankie, I like you. I don't want to see anything happen to you.
But you gotta understand, a lot of people could get hurt here.
I'm not saying anything's going to happen. I'm saying it could happen.
I mean, there's lots ofways. Nobody has to take a shot at you.
They can just not be there when you need them.
Somebody come at you with a gun, they look the other way.
Or they can send you in first enough times...
until finally one day you're gonna walk in the wrong door.
- Thanks for the information. - Fuckyou, Frank!
I have nothing more. Does anyone have any further questions?
- Yes, Mrs. Crist? - If I may, Mr. Knowles, thankyou.
Officer Serpico came to the 7th Division...
more than a year and a half ago.
All during that time, the things he's told us were taking place.
Now, why didn't Officer Serpico...
report these criminal activities when he first encountered them?
- I'd like to answer that. - Mr. Chairman...
Mrs. Crist's question isn't material or relevant to the present inquiry.
-Although I want to make it clear... -I'd like to answer that.
Officer Serpico cannot be considered derelict of his duty in any way...
or guilty of any infraction of the law.
Quite the contrary.
The District Attorney is not prepared to say any more at this time.
Very well. Officer Serpico, thankyou foryour testimony.
This hearing is adjourned until 1 0::00 tomorrow morning.
Why didn't you tell him about Delaney and Kellogg?
Frank, this was a grand jury about police officers...
actively engaged in corruption.
You don't implicate people without sufficient evidence.
That's crap and you know it, because even a dumb cop like me knows...
a prosecutor can take a grand jury anywhere it wants to take it.
Now, you never led me anywhere near the real problems--
Nothing about the bosses, the brass...
how corruption like this could exist without anybody knowing about it.
Now, a few flunky cops in the Bronx. That's it.
None of the shit in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan?
While you're at it, why don't you mention Kansas City?
Well, "the biggest thing since Harry Gross." That's what you said.
All right! Look, Frank.
You got guts, integrity.
There's going to be a detective's gold shield in this foryou.
Now, that's terrific. That's good.
Maybe this is what it's all about.
Maybe I should take my gold shield and forget it.
I know you've been through an ordeal, Frank.
I'm a marked man in this department. For what?
- I've already arranged a transfer. - To where? China?
That takes a 1 4-shot clip.
You expecting an army?
No, just a division.
Tauber, did you know I've had reports about Serpico being a fag?
He used to hang out in the BCl washroom.
That's stupid, Commissioner, and you know it.
Mr. Commissioner, a gold shield for Serpico at this time...
would convince a lot of people--
Not while I'm commissioner.
Commander's office?
It's down that corridor.
Hey, Serpico. Do you know what they're saying in the Bronx?
That you spilled your guts to the grand jury.
Say it isn't so, Serpico.
It isn't so.
We know how to handle guys like you.
I ought to cut your tongue out.
Don't move.
Officer Serpico reporting for duty, sir.
I'm lnspector Lombardo. I want to shake your hand, Frank.
It's gonna be nice to have a guy here I can trust.
Anybody in this command you want to work with?
It's not who I want to work with. It's who wants to work with me.
All right. You can't find anybody you want to work with, Frank...
I'll work with you.
Is that all right?
How do we get past the lookouts?
How many you got? One.
There's two.
- Yeah, there's a guy. - There's three of them.
It's four buildings away. We could try to get down the fire escape.
Get in behind him. What do you think?
- Look good to you? - Yeah, let's go.
What do you think? Want to try it?
- Oh, boy. - You all right?
Yeah. I feel just like a cop again.
- Let's go. - Thankyou.
Close up!
Wait, Frank!
Come on!
I ain't got nothing!
Beat it, fuck face!
Get the other one! Get out of here! Get up against the wall.
What the hell's goin' on here? Who the hell are you?
-Who are you? -The police! Who the hell you think?
Get the fuck against the wall. Up, up, up!
- Let me see your shield. - All right. There's my shield.
- Where are you from? - The borough. Manhattan 8th.
No, goddamn it! I just paid the borough this morning!
What the hell kind of shakedown is this?
Who'd you pay in the borough?
Nobody. I didn't pay no--
Who'd you pay in the borough?
I didn't pay nobody. Now let go of me.
We followed up, and there's no doubt about it.
The pad here in Manhattan is bigger...
and it's more sophisticated than the one in the Bronx.
The pickups here are made-- You want to get this--
The pickups are made by...
retired policemen.
That way, no plainclothesmen are directly involved.
Now, we need investigative help on this one, Chief.
Ifyou need investigative help and you don't trust your own men...
why don't you requisition some recruits from the police academy?
With all due respect, sir...
backing us up is the only hope the police department has got.
Good cops would come forward if they thought there was encouragement...
in the department to do so, and if they thought it would do any good.
If there's no encouragement, they're not gonna do it.
I've done a lot more than most people to defend and preserve...
the image of this department and protect Commissioner Delaney...
against reckless and irresponsible assaults from outside agencies.
That's it, huh?
I mean, that's what's really important, isn't it?
That's what you want to know--
what outside agencies I've been to, right?
- Hello. - Hello, prick.
- Who is this? - Frank.
- How are you? Where are you? - I'm ready to go to the Times.
It's a goddamn serious step, Frank.
I don't know if the timing is right.
Look, I want it to get on the record, that's all...
in case something should happen to me.
I want it on the record.
I don't know ifwe carry enough weight.
I don't know if the New York Times will go that far out on a limb...
on the say-so of two flunky cops.
Suppose an inspector were to come with us?
You know, I got 20 years on the force.
Just bought this place. I signed a 500-year mortgage on it.
- Turn that thing off out there! - Come on. Everybody to bed.
- Aw, Mom! - Turn that damn thing down!
Come on, now. Go on upstairs.
You said we could go to bed late!
This is against department regulations, you both know that.
If they want to throw the book at me, they can do it.
If I left the force...
I don't know what I could do.
Okay, I made my little speech. I'll backyou up a hundred percent.
Times and the News. I got the money, fellas.
Here you go, here you go, here you go.
Newsweek, please.
Holy sh-- Jeez!
Aw, Christ!
You could almost predict the numbers they're gonna do.
Delaney's gonna issue some phony denial.
Somebody from the mayor's office will say something noble.
Delaney'll change his tune. Finally, the mayor will appoint a commission.
"Mayor Lindsay announced the formation of a five-man committee...
to review the city procedures for investigating police corruption."
How come I'm not in the first paragraph?
Unbelievable!
The Times' report smells of the familiar smear tactics...
of McCarthyism.
- I have issued a statement-- - We here at city hall--
The mayor appointed a special investigation commission...
to be headed by Whitman Knapp.
Yeah, come.
It's your reward. It's a transfer to narcotics, Brooklyn South.
You're still in clothes. You get a tin shield, not a gold one.
I miss you already, Frank.
Look, Frank...
it's narcotics.
You be careful.
It's very easy to get hurt...
and to--
to be set up.
Get in.
You're not wired, are you?
Okay, you cocksucker.
You might get by in the Bronx with that kind of shit...
but down here, 800 a month is chicken feed.
Last week, one dope dealer...
sent out these guys making pickups.
40,000 each.
We let 'em collect it all, and then hit 'em.
1 20,000 split four ways.
That's serious money.
And with that, you don't fuck around.
- I got the message. - Good.
Now get the fuck out.
The guy's name is Limbo.
He just uses this place, his girlfriend's brother's place.
He's a pusher-- heroin.
- We'll drive around to the corner. - Right.
You keep in sight out front. When you spot somebody who's dirty...
take offyour glasses and wipe 'em.
- Got it? - Right. Okay.
We stay around here very long, we're gonna get spotted.
Well, Frank, why don't you go up there and check it out?
- Why don't you? - I got the wrong clothes.
I'll take you shopping.
Limbo.
Police. Freeze!
Police officer. All right, up against the wall.
Get your hands up against that wall. Get up. All right.
- Palms on the wall and spread 'em. - Get those hands up!
- Come on. Spread 'em! - Get your feet apart.
- I saw the buy. - Let's get Limbo.Julio!
- You all right, baby? - Yeah, yeah. I got 'em.
Police officer!
What the fuck are you waiting for?
Go down the fire escape!
Police! Throw out your guns and come out with your hands up!
- Wait. What do you got here? - It's Mr. and Mrs. Serpico, sir.
Okay. Go ahead.
- Where's our son? - They're bringing him from X-ray.
- We want to see him. - Just a few minutes.
Mr. and Mrs. Serpico...
the news is better than we expected.
Thank God the bullet was a small caliber.
It didn't enter the brain...
or strike the spinal cord.
He's on the critical list...
but his condition seems to be stable.
Thankyou, Doctor. Thankyou.
Stay out of there. Didn't they tell you?
What?
The word is, don't talk to him. He's no fuckin' good.
- How you doing, kid? - Hello, Sid.
How are you?
You wanna read my fan mail?
Sure.
You're a big shot now, huh?
I want you to get those fucking cops away from my door.
The Knapp Commission likes you. They want you to appear.
Naturally.
Heinemann and Julio are cleared.
The three ofyou are up for exceptional merit awards.
That's very funny.
Francesco, you love me?
I always had a thing foryou, Sid. You know that.
Your gold shield's come through.
What's this for?
For being an honest cop?
Or for being stupid enough to get shot in the face?
You tell them they can shove it.
I don't want it.
Oh, well.
Well, Frank, the facts are these.
You'll have to stay on leave of absence for a few months.
In all probability, the hearing in your left ear won't come back.
Two bullet fragments are still lodged there in the bony portion.
One is very close to the carotid artery...
andyou'll have to be checkked from time to time.
Your left side will feel stiffioccasionally.
Once in a great while you may experience some dizziness.
But in general, you'll be okkay.
Through my appearance here today...
I hope that police officers in the future will not experience...
the same frustration and anxiety that I was subjected to...
for the past five years at the hands of my superiors...
because of my attempt to report corruption.
I was made to feel that I had burdened them with an unwanted task.
The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist...
in which an honest police officer can act...
without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.
Police corruption cannot exist unless it is at least tolerated...
at higher levels in the department.
Therefore, the most important result that can come from these hearings...
is a conviction by police officers that the department will change.
In order to ensure this...
an independent, permanent investigative body...
dealing with police corruption, like this commission, is essential.