This is car 2 1 18. Call Greenpoint Hospital.
We're bringing in a wounded cop.
All right, 1 0-4.
8th Precinct.
Jesus Christ.
Guess who got shot.
Serpico.
You think a cop did it?
I know six cops said they'd like to.
Hello.
New York Times. Serpico's been shot.
Oh, my God!
- They're taking him to Greenpoint. - I'll see you there.
To be a police officer means to believe in the law...
and to enforce it impartially...
respecting the equality of all men...
and the dignity and worth of every individual.
Every day, your life will be on the line...
and also your character.
You'll need integrity, courage, honesty...
compassion, courtesy...
and perseverance...
and patience.
You men are now prepared to join the war against crime...
and put the theory you have learned into practice in the streets.
Same time, same place-- both reports.
I already made out a 424.
- You covering this, Lieutenant? - Yes, Chief Green.
Who was with Serpico?
- Heinemann and Julio. - I want them interrogated.
I want this conducted as an official departmental investigation.
Transcripts by 9::00 a.m.
Another thing-- I want a 24-hour guard on Serpico.
- Yes, sir. - You two, over there.
AnthonySardo.
Ralph Seidler.
Frank Serpico.
Come on. Marianne wants a good shot.
Get closer!
Patrolman Serpico.
Upstairs. See the roll-call man.
Memorize your posts and sectors. This weekyou're 8::00 to 4::00.
Next week, 4::00 to midnight. Grab a locker.
Any questions, older guys will fill you in. Good luck.
Yo! 8::00. Let's go! Come on!
Gather around. Let's go.
All right. Settle down.
All right. Just a few announcements today and two new men.
On the board on my left, you see squad one, blue sector--
squad two, red sector--
squad three, green sector.
Now, we want summonses, summonses, summonses.
I'll help the boys, Florence.
- This is Frank Serpico, Charlie. - Hello, Frank.
- Hello, Charlie. - How about some creamed chicken?
- Sounds good to me. - No, I think I'll have--
How about a roast beef on roll?
Yeah, okay. You go through the line. I'll bring it over.
Peluce, it's all fat here.
- I saw real lean beef over there. - Take it easy.
Sit down, sit down.
- What's the matter? - Don't be so fussy. It's free.
Well, I'm not fussy. I don't know how I'm gonna eat this.
Charlie's okay. We give him a break on double parking on deliveries.
Couldn't I pay for it, get what I want?
Frank, generally, you just sort of take what Charlie gives you.
SectorD-David, 1034, possible rape in progress...
vicinity ofPS 2 18, GrandA venue and BQ Expressway.
Becker, aren't we gonna take that?
Relax, Frank. It's not our sector.
It's on the borderline.
I'm gonna take it.
D sector, 1 547, 1 0-4.
Oh, my God!
Hold it! Hold it! Police officers!
Oh, shit!
- Come on. Give us-- - Don't shoot now.
Be cool.
All right. Okay. Put your guns away.
Put your guns away, man. Come on. Goddamn it!
I said put them motherfucking guns away!
I'll cut her, goddamn it.
Turn the motherfucking light out, man.
I'll cut her, man. I'll cut her.
Now, you just be cool, goddamn it.
Just be cool. All right.
All right. All right. That's it.
The other one took his thing out.
He put it up to my mouth.
He-- He held me down.
They said if I didn't do it...
they'd kill me.
She's gonna make a hell of a witness.
Would you like a stretcher?
Muscles, he's all yours. I'll call you from the hospital.
Okay, hard-on.
Who were your playmates?
Hey, Frank, you want a piece of this?
No. I'm gonna fill out the arrest card.
Hey, Charlie, let me have five minutes with him.
- Sure. - Thanks.
Thankyou, Charlie.
That prick really worked you over. How do you feel?
How come you didn't stay for the fun?
That's not my kind of fun.
Shit.
I want to talk to you.
I want to take you across the street, get you a cup of coffee...
without cuffs.
Now, look. I didn't touch you upstairs, right?
You take off on me, I'll put one in your back.
Understand?
Come on.
It's a goddamn shameyou gotta take this whole rap yourself.
I don't know. Maybe you're guilty, maybe you're not.
Maybe you just went along for the ride.
I got a feeling you just went along.
But you're the one who got caught.
You never even got your cock out.
- Put it in the report. - It's in the report.
Look at you.
- I can't eat. - No, you can't.
I don't understand you, you know that?
What are you, obligated to those guys?
Fuck it. They left you holding the bag.
You don't owe them nothin'.
They're gonna put you away, you know that?
What can I get?
Oh, let's see-- kidnapping...
sodomy, rape--
Are you kidding me?
You talk to me. Save yourself.
Let it go, Harv!
Take the shot.
You not gonna send someone over? Look, look.
McCoy, I get one, I'm gonna lose the other.
Look, Serpico, that's Muscles' case. He's off for a couple days.
- I can't cut in, Frank. - They're here now!
- It'll keep. - No, it won't!
Police officer! Hold it! Hold it!
Turn around. Turn around.
- Ow! - Spread!
Come on, man. Come on. Please take that gun from my head.
Turn around slow.
We'll take it from here, kid. You don't have to hang around.
What are you talking about? That's my collar.
We take the collar.
A collar like this, don't look good, a patrolman takes it.
Wait a minute. I don't care how it looks.
Now, I did the work. I broke my ass on this. It's my collar.
You really want the collar, kid? You can be brought up on charges.
Left your post, the street, entered the school yard without permission--
That's just for openers. Right, Penella?
No memo entry. Shit. You'll be lucky to end up with a reprimand.
We'll give you an assist on the arrest, kid.
Come on, Frankie!
Jim, get out of the way! What are you doing?
What you want me to do? Go across the street?
- Hey, Frank. - Hi, Uncle Will. How you doing?
- Hey, Pasquale. - Hey, Frankie! How you doing?
Okay. How you doing? Where's Pop?
Be back in a half hour. How's it going, Frankie?
Okay. I come to get my shoes.
Rev it up. Rev it up!
- Here they are. - Frankie, how you doing?
Okay. Good job.
You people do good work here.
So, how you doing, Frankie?
You keep asking me that. What's the matter with you? I'm doing okay!
Well, I thought you were coming over to the house Saturday night.
I'm sorry, Pasquale. I couldn't make it.
Margaret invited Marianne over. Marianne was very disappointed--
Now, look. I don't like that. I mean, really.
Don't invite people over ifyou're not sure I'm gonna come.
I mean it, now. If I want to see Marianne, I'll call her.
What's going on with you two anyway?
Hey, Pasquale, I'm gonna tell you something.
See, all day long, I work with cops. Right?
Now, when I go out, I see Marianne...
her father's a cop, her brother's a cop, her uncle's a cop.
- I got a feeling she's a cop too. - Come here!
- How you doing on the job? - It's got its problems.
Mama tells me that you're looking for a new apartment. Is that true?
- Yeah. - So, where are you going?
I don't know. I'm looking around by school.
NYU? Greenwich Village?
- Yeah, Greenwich Village. - What's the matter?
The old neighborhood's not good enough forya?
Tell Pop I was here.
Frankie, Sunday?
Sunday what?
Dinner? Huh?
- Do me one favor-- no Marianne. - I know. No Marianne.
All right. A couple of announcements.
"Announcing a course in fingerprint identification...
to be given at John Jay College.
This course will be available to those patrolmen...
who wish to make themselves eligible for assignment...
to the Bureau of Criminal ldentification, BCl...
which is generally considered to be a path to a detective's gold shield.
Signed, Captain McGuire."
On the board on my left, you see squad one--
Hot enough forya?
It's not the heat. It's the humidity.
I had a feeling you were gonna say that.
You know how long you're taking on that one?
Check one print category, two-- That's plenty.
I'm not gonna give a guy a "no record" when he might have one.
How long you been with the BCl now, Serpico?
All my life.
That's long enough to know how we do things.
Barto, it's not just that.
You don't like me.
BCl never had a weirdo cop before.
Barto, stop buggin' me.
Mama?
Wanna buy a puppy?
Look at that, huh?
Where'd you get these dogs?
Oh, they're mine.
Want one for free?
- I'll pay for it. How much? - Five dollars.
You got it.
Okay, now which one ofyou guys wanna come with me?
What?
Come on.
- Could you do me a favor? - What?
Just watch the car and my stuff over here, 'cause I'm movin' in.
- Yeah. - Thankyou.
Don Quixote.
Seńorita Land?
Mr. Serpico.
I got my horse here. Maybe I could drop you someplace.
Well, I'm going to work at the Café Reggio.
Café Reggio.
- That's 4th Street and-- - MacDougal and 3rd.
- Can I give you a lift? - Yeah. Sure.
Jesus, what's that?
You got your hands on my money belt. Don't do that.
That's not a money belt. That's a gun.
- Well, we gotta eat, don't we? - Oh, come on!
- What do you need a gun for? - Ever hear of Barnum and Bailey?
- Yeah. - Well, I'm their lion tamer.
- Come on. - That's the truth.
- I thinkyou're full of shit. - You do, huh?
- What do you do? - Me?
I'm an actress, a singer, a dancer and a Buddhist.
In that order?
- I'm a cop. Would you believe that? - No, I wouldn't believe it.
Those leaps that guy made, what do you call 'em again?
Jetés.
You try it.
All right. How do you start it? What's your position?
Next life. Come on.
What are you reading now, Serpico?
My Life by lsadora Duncan.
She was a ballet dancer.
A belly dancer?
No. No, a ballet dancer. Ballet.
- You know ballet? - A little.
- A little bit? You ever see one? - Not close.
I've been to the ballet. It's terrific.
- I've been taking classes. - Oh, yeah?
That's where I go after I leave here.
Fantastic for your body. Really builds you up.
- I can tell. - You noticed, huh?
I noticed.
There's five positions.
Five pos-- You're being shortchanged.
- Oh, no. It's enough. Believe me. - For what?
Watch. See?
This is the first position.
From this position, I can do anything.
- You want to see? - Sure.
Here we go.
Bye, Barto!
- Lieutenant Steiger-- - No, no. Later.
- Hey, turn off the lights. - Potts, I wanted to read.
Positions, positions!
Positions like that you don't see in a pretzel factory.
Now I gotta do my pee-pee in the dark.
She's gotta be a nympho with positions like that.
Hey, Serpico, how can you piss at a time like this?
Barto wants a specimen.
I'm gonna look into this matter.
- What do you got there? - Here.
Straight ahead.
- Straight ahead where? - Third window down.
- I don't see anything over there. - Let me see.
She just pulled down the shade.
- You gotta be some kind of jinx. - That's right. Blame me.
Hold it, Serpico. What were you two doing?
- What? - In the shithouse in the dark!
Were you goin' down on him?
-What are you talking about? -You gonna tell me you were peeping?
You were sucking his cock, weren't you?
- What are you, crazy? - I'll show you fuckin' crazy!
Last week I found a pair of shorts with semen on 'em!
There!
You actually accusing me of this?
Good morning, Captain McClain. I'm Officer Serpico.
I was told I could talk to you, sir.
Certainly, son. Come in.
Lieutenant Steiger won't make a report.
He's too concerned with the image of his department.
But it-- it could affect your future in the BCl.
Sir, I tell you--
Frankly, I don't see any future there.
It was bullshit about it being a path toward being detective...
because I've been there two years now--
And you want a transfer.
Yes, sir, but I don't wanna go back to uniform.
I'll see what I can do, Frank.
Francis, do you know about my weekend retreats for Catholic officers?
Well, you read that. It might be of interest to you.
You are Catholic?
- Yeah. I was baptized, yes. - Good, good.
Alfie, come on.
I missed you, baby.
She's so crazy, that girl, I tell you.
Why Paco?
All my friends call me Paco. Could you do me a favor?
- Get my keys out of this pocket. - Sure.
Well, what'll I call you--
Frank or Paco?
Sally! Larry! This is Paco.
- Hey, man. - Larry's a poet.
But he works for an advertising agency.
Sally's an actress, but works for a photographer.
Paco's a policeman.
That's terrific.
I work for the police department.
- That's really nice. - Wow.
See ya.
- How are you? - Pat's a novelist.
But you're working for an insurance company now, aren't you?
- Yes, I am. - Yeah. Paco's a policeman.
Really? How exciting!
Well, not too. Right now, I'm filing fingerprints.
Listen, I file insurance policies.
We should get together then, file or something.
- That was an improvement. - I wanna askyou something.
How come all your friends are on their way to being somebody else?
Think about that. I wanna askyou something else too.
Will you do me a big favor?
Don't tell anybody I'm a cop.
You know, let me just sort of do it myself.
Okay.
Hey, man, are you really a cop?
- Right. I am. - Wow.
You know, Leslie is a mind fucker.
You gotta be kidding. I didn't know that.
What's a mind fucker?
Well, that's a chick...
who digs intellectual types and super-bright guys.
Oh, yeah?
Well, she's very perceptive.
You know,Japanese culture and theater and painting...
it's too rigidly stylized.
Well, yeah, you know-- Yeah, but--
I think after a while, when you get through that...
you start to appreciate the clarity-- you know, the authority.
I got a sheep dog.
There have been sheep dogs in my family...
dating back...
for 1 6 generations--
- Dating back to the Borgias. - Oh, shit!
The family crest...
is a sheep dog pissing into a gondola.
Oh, shit!
Paco, everybody loves you!
I love you!
Hey, Lieutenant, my wife call for me?
Give her this, will ya?
Officer Serpico reporting, sir.
That fucking thing on your lip, it goes. And get a haircut.
- Sir-- - That's an order.
You look like an asshole with dentures.
- Do I have the right of appeal, sir? - Sure. Go see Captain Tolkin.
You got one foot in shit already. Put the other one in.
Where might that be, I wonder, sir?
Thankyou, sir.
That is one hell of a mustache. I wish I had the guts.
Well, I have what I consider to be good reasons for wearing it, sir.
- You don't have to tell me. - But I'd like to tell ya, sir.
I thought so.
I think it's time that we started to communicate more on the streets.
You know, the way it is, we're totally isolated, sir.
We're completely out of touch with what's happening.
An undercover cop walks around in disguise...
wearing black shoes and white socks.
Everybody knows who he is.
You made your point.
I want you to keep your mustache.
And I'd like you to patrol in your own car.
Wear whatever you want. How does that strike you?
I'd like that, sir.
To be honest, I'm bucking for detective.
No shit.
Hold it!
What the hell are you doing?
Oh, Christ!
Quick. Get against there.
Hey!
I'm a police officer! Get over there!
Hey! It's me, Serpico!
Hey, I'm a police officer! Police officer!
Poli-- I'm an officer! I'm a police officer!
Jesus, Frank, how was l supposed to recognize you?
- You stupid fuck. - Frank, I didn't know you!
You didn't know me? You fire without looking?
You fire without a warning, without a fucking brain in your head?
Oh, shit.
If I buy one, you motherfucker, I'm not gonna buy it from you.
Holy shit.
Look at that mess.
Filling out forms till next month.
Good.
Hey,Jesus, Frank...
I know it's a hell of a time to askyou...
but I'm gonna have to go through all that ballistics bullshit--
Good. You should.
It's gonna look like hell if l don't have anything to show for it.
Frank, do me a favor. Give us the collar.
You motherfucker.
You want the collar, huh? You don't wanna fill out forms, right?
Here.
- You're a buddy. - I'm a buddy.
Only you tell Tolkin I gave it to you.
I am passing out these marijuana cigarettes foryou to sample...
so that when you become plainclothesmen...
you'll be able to identify the pungent aroma...
and recognize the disorienting effect of the drug...
when you observe them in narcotics suspects.
Among users of the drug...
a marijuana cigarette...
is referred to as reefer...
stick, roach, joint.
The drug itself is referred to as pot...
tea, boo...
stuff, grass.
Hey, this is real good shit.
- I gotta have something to eat. - Oh, look what it is.
Look what it is. It's a potato factory is what it is.
And I have to have some, and I love you-- I love it.
Have some of that. We have nothing to-- I have to have a dime?
The dime goes in the little slot there.
That doesn't work. It's from the Civil War, this machine.
- Pull on it. - Doesn't, doesn't, doesn't--
- Go ahead, go ahead. - Shoot it out. Please!
I beg ofyou! Come out! Potatoes, come out!
You're pretty fuckin' weird for a cop.
Me? You!
- What about you, buddy? You! - You're the weird guy. Me?
- You're a fuckin' hippie. - It's beautiful, though.
The two of us.
Give me.
Where you supposed to go from here?
93 Precinct, plainclothes. Put your gun away.
You?
I am scheduled to go on special assignment...
with the mayor's department of investigations, detective squad.
- That's gold shield. - Yeah.
No fouryears in plainclothes?
Who do you know?
I make it my business to know people-- people who can help.
Unfair.
Life is unfair, pal.
I mean, look, you've got a feel for the streets, and l--
- I've got a feel for the politics. - Oh, yeah?
You and me in a Batmobile, we could clean up the whole city in no time.
I wonder ifwe can get candy out of this machine though.
No, thanks.
Well, this is a good place to tell you, Paco.
You know that guy in Texas I was telling you about?
- What about him? - I'm gonna marry him in two months...
unless you marry me.
What about the theater and your dancing?
A girl has to get married sometime.
Well, you're a long way from sometime, Leslie.
I thought you were committed.
I am, but--
You are, but?
I can go on working, studying there.
Where? Fort Worth?
Amarillo.
Well, am I invited to the wedding?
I'll ask Roy.
Yeah, it's pretty good in this precinct.
Here you go.
Usually a 9::00 to 5::00 day is the best time for policy and bookmaking.
Ifyou have to work nights, like a liquor violation, just call in.
Don't worry about quotas right now.
Couple of hooker collars will keep it cool.
Been holding this foryou.
It's from Jewish Max.
First day on the precinct, I get that.
This is great, Frank.
I can open up a whole can of peas with this.
It's scary.
I wanna protect myself.
- You know what we do with this? - What?
We take it to lnspector Kellogg.
Kellogg-- Didn't he used to be in plainclothes?
He's the second-highest ranking cop in the department of investigations.
- So what? - What do you mean, "so what?"
I happened to be instrumental in getting the man his job.
He owes me. You understand?
He's the most honest cop I know, Frank.
Frank, trust me.
Things like this were common practice in the bad old days.
Hard to believe it's still going on.
Serpico, don't you think it's kind of stupid...
taking an envelope from somebody you didn't know?
What was I supposed to do? I mean, give me--
How would I know what was in it unless I took it?
You have two alternatives.
You can force me to take you to the commissioner of investigations.
He'll drag you in front of a grand jury.
- I don't want that. - I can understand that.
Word will get out.
Before it's all over, they'll find you face-down in the East River.
- What's the other alternative? - Forget it.
Well, what do I do with this?
Hey, Sarge? You got a minute?
Colored cop gave me this. I didn't know what to do with it.
Well, I'll send it on to the Benevolent Association.
Alfie, come on.
Is that Bjoerling?
No. It's DiStefano.
I was sure it was Bjoerling.
You could hear it better over here.
- That's an invitation, right? - Right.
For coffee.
I'll have to take a rain check. I'm due at the hospital.
Why don't you call in sick? Perfect place.
Not me.
What are you, dedicated or somethin'?
That's right, I'm dedicated. Most men can't stand it.
- Well, what do they know? - I like your garden.
Love my garden.
Okay. I love your garden.
You know what they say, don't you?
No. What do they say?
Ifyou love a man's garden, you gotta love the man.
You like her, Alfie?
All I can tell you, sir, is I gave it back.
I gotta get out of the 93.
Well, what happened on your narcotics application?
Looked like it was set, until I told 'em I was in plainclothes.
It was like the kiss of death.
They think everybody in clothes is on the take.
Sir, do you know anything about the Bronx 7th Division?
I can go there if I want, but if it's the same shit, screw it.
I'd rather answer phones for Spanish communications unit and go nuts.
Come on, Alfie.
Frank, did anyone ever tell you...
that you have a tendency toward self-pity?
No, you're the first.
All right. Frank, I have a friend up there, Roy Palmer.
He's an administrative officer. I'll speak with him.
- Good. Thankyou, sir. - Good-bye, Frank.
- God bless you. - Right.
Frank, Captain McClain here.
Captain McClain. Could you hold on a minute please, sir?
Sure.
Yeah. Sorry.
I saw lnspector Palmer tonight...
and he assures me the 7th Division is as clean as a hound's tooth.
His words, Frank. "Clean as a hound's tooth."
I told him he was getting a hardworking officer...
wears a beard, speaks Spanish and would make a superb undercover man.
He was delighted.
That's good news, sir. Thank you. Thankyou very much.
Good-bye, Frankk. God bless.
When did you start doing that?
McClain says that Palmer says...
that the 7th is as clean as a hound's tooth.
Well, if that's true, your problems are over.
Plainclothes division.
Upstairs.
- How are you? Good to see you! - All right.
We heard you were coming up here. Listen.
Say hello to Nate Smith. Frank Serpico.
- Jamie Morales, Frank Serpico. - Serpico?
Hey, babe, you're gonna love it up here. It's beautiful.
Listen, take-- I'll see youse later, all right?
Take a little ride with me. Get the feel of the division.
- Maybe I should check in first. - Fuck that. Come on.
Deckk the halls with boughs ofholly
Ten grand, Dallas-- if Minnesota. Right.
Green Bay, 1 2 and a half at--
You dumb fuck. We told you this location's hot.
We told you to stay the fuck out of here.
Keough, nobody told me. Honest.
Bullshit.
Come on. Let's take a walk.
Hi, kid. All right, a C-note apiece.
No way. We got a complaint. Right, Frank? Come on.
All right. Make it 200, Keough.
Hey, what, are you getting cheap in your old age, bambino?
- Three. - Three?
You heard me.
- All right, three. - I'll make it a light one.
- You wanna write this up? - No, I'm gonna check in.
Take the collar, Frank. Get on the sheet.
I better check in.
We're gonna have a little talk later, right?
That dumb schmuck only came up with two bills because I booked him?
Here you go, Frank.
It was your collar. Keep it.
I had a hunch you weren't gonna take it.
You know, Frankie, we got a call about you from downtown.
Now, I ain't sayin' who.
They just said you couldn't be trusted, you know?
- Because I don't take money, right? - Come on, Frank.
Let's face it. Who can trust a cop who don't take money?
I mean, you are pretty weird, you know, kid?
And with that call, the guys were gettin' a little worried.
I told them you were okay. I knew you from the old 2 1.
You'd never hurt another cop, right?
You'd never hurt another cop, would you, Frank?
- That'd depend on what he did. - That's the wrong answer, Frankie.
We're not doing anything bad here.
We're skimming a little gambling money.
It's clean. It's not dope. It hurts nobody.
Come on, Frank.
Gamblers are gentlemen, and they're gonna operate anyhow, right?
Look, Keough, you don't have to explain yourself to me.
Do what you got to do. Want some tea?
No, I don't like that shit. I'll have a coffee, huh?
What's the matter, Frank? What are you worried about?
Listen. We don't go overboard here.
We're not sloppy. We're careful.
The spicks, niggers, we bust them. They operate so dumb and sloppy...
they get your ass in hot water every time.
But the ltalians, now, that's a different story.
They're men of their word. They're reliable, Frankie.
- You really got it analyzed. - Fuckin' right I got it analyzed.
It's worth it.
You know how much the nut's running now, Frankie?
- No, I wouldn't know that. - $800 a month.
That's 800 clams every time your girlfriend gets the curse tax free.
Here's the beauty. You don't get it for the first eight weeks...
till the guys get to know you and you're okay.
But you don't lose, either, 'cause you get it on the other end...
when you leave the division.
Frankie, it's like-- it's like severance pay.
Think it over, all right? In or out.
Look at me. I'm shaking.
All my life I wanted to be a cop, you know?
It's like I can remember nothing else.
I remember this one time...
there was--
Somethin' happened. A domestic argument or somethin'.
Somebody stabbed somebody.
And...
there was this crowd around this tenement.
I must have been nine, ten years old. I was this big.
I went over to see what was going on.
I noticed the red light goin' around and around...
all these people, and I couldn't see.
I kept saying, "Do you know what's goin' on? Do you know?"
Nobody knew.
It was like a big mystery behind that--
that crowd there.
All of a sudden...
the crowd just parted...
Iike the Red Sea, you see?
And there were these guys in blue, and I said...
"They know."
What do they know? What do they know?
It's amazing.
It's incredible...
but I feel like a criminal 'cause I don't take money.
You get so tense when you talk about it.
I wonder why.
Come here.
- Right there. - Here?
I'm gonna askyou a question, okay?
Do you like cops?
You're my first.
No, I mean all this shit I've been telling you. Do you believe it?
Why not?
- Does it shockyou? - Not much.
What's the matter with me?
Everybody knows about cops.
Did you ever hear the story of the wise king?
Nope, but I got the feeling I'm gonna hear it.
Well, there was this king, and he ruled over his kingdom.
Right in the middle of the kingdom there was a well.
That's where everybody drank.
One night, this witch came along...
and she poisoned the well.
And the next day, everybody drank from it except the king...
and they all went crazy.
They got together in the street and they said...
"We got to get rid of the king, 'cause the king is mad."
And then that night, he went down and he drank from the well.
And the next day all the people rejoiced...
because their king had regained his reason.
I thinkyou're trying to tell me somethin'.
- Me? - Yeah.
Hey, Frank, I want you to say hello to somebody.
-Drop your cocks and grab your socks! -What the fuck is this?
Frank Serpico, say hello to Don Rubello.
- He's gonna be your new partner. - How you doin'?
Ifyou don't want to work with this fucking nut for some reason, man...
I'll buddy up with him, all right?
And go through all that crap changing assignments?
No. We'll be okay.
We're paisans, huh?
- What's with the fucking mouse? - It's my partner.
- Partner? - He's specially trained, you know?
He goes to track down heroin.
Let him loose, goes into the hole, picks it up, brings it back...
sniffs it out, brings it to you.
- Yeah. I heard of that. - You heard of that?
This guy I'm looking for, Vernon--
He's a numbers collector who ain't been meeting his obligations.
He won't be hard to spot. He's a mover. This is prime time.
Since we're partners, you gotta know the situation.
Straight off. I collect for the division--
me and two other bagmen.
That's what Keough was sort of hinting at.
Three of us pick up the payoff twice a month.
Hey! Look, there he is.
Son of a bitch!
- Look out! - You stupid bastard!
Where's the money?
You been jerking me around, you fuck! Huh?
Ain't no money! I'm behind now, man!
Three times you never show, right?
I'll have it foryou tonight, I swear.
Don't bust me!
Last time, Vernon. The last time.
You fuck me and you're gone, you hear? You hear? Huh?
See you at the Domino, midnight.
And you'd better have $300, ya fuck. You hear? Right? Right?
All right, Frank.
I keep this place for socializing.
Someday we'll get a couple of broads, huh? Have a little party.
Hey!
Make some ice. Booze is right over here.
So what do you think, Frank? About the money?