-Mr morehouse. -Mrs haverford.
Tell me about kevin corcoran.
Is he prone to violence?
-(groans) -police!
Morehouse: Yes, but he has an inherent nobility inside him.
-What's your name, darling? -Annie.
I'll leave! Please, no!
If anything happens to annie, I will cut...
What if corcoran comes back?
Morehouse: Then I will be by your side.
I hear you've been gallivanting around the town with dr freeman.
Freeman: My wife, her brothers were hung from that very lamp post.
She remembers the screams.
-Eva. -Copper?
I'm not thinking curious thoughts right now.
There are rumours about johnny red burning down the city.
Kennedy: But if lincoln wins, new york will burn.
You said it would just be barnum's and the docks that would burn.
Remember me, ellen?
-Tell me the truth. -I did, kevin.
-I shared a bed with your ellen. -(grunts)
Things, they spun out of control,
I killed grindle, and her sister ended up the same way.
Freeman: I must warn you, even with treatment
Your wife's gonna suffer a great deal.
I killed my own daughter, our maggie.
(celtic music playing)
(grunting)
(spits)
(panting)
(footsteps approaching)
(sighs)
(gunshot)
What's the matter?
You've never seen anything bleed?
I have.
You live back there?
-The city? -Yeah.
Too bad. It's a nasty place altogether.
(screaming)
When are you gonna stop?
(screaming)
Hold still, you stupid bitch!
You think you can steal business from me, do ya?
(screaming)
(shrieking)
It was buzzie burke. He did this!
-Where's eva? -Buzzie's got her.
(eva moaning)
(eva groaning)
Welcome to the party, boyos.
(groaning)
(grunting)
Come on, sweetie. Let's see what kind of pugilist you are, huh?
-(choking) -(straining)
(coughing)
(both grunting)
(groans loudly)
(groans) jesus.
Eva!
Eva.
-Eva. -(spits)
We need to get you stitched up.
Corcoran: Matthew.
(eva groaning)
Matthew.
I take my stitches, I get cleaned up,
-And then I go home... -Come on.
...If I have to walk. Hello.
(eva groaning)
(grunts)
That makes 67.
Nearly had to go kill another calf for more sutures.
(breathing heavily)
Your husband is a comedian as well as a sawbones?
Stay still, ms heissen.
Does buzzie burke know you've brought eva here?
No.
And he won't be finding out.
I'm going to hunt down that bastard.
Elizabeth: Another declined invitation,
This time from the buffalo morehouses.
Morehouse: Are you truly upset by who's not coming to our wedding?
I pray there's a steady stream of declinations.
I know what it is.
It's having a catholic stand up for you.
(sighing)
It's a scandal, robert, and I don't know why you persist.
If not for a catholic, that catholic,
I would not be here to whisk you away to wedded bliss.
(morehouse moaning)
Elizabeth: The irish race did not hold a knife to my throat.
Kevin corcoran, your so-called best man, did.
(moaning)
Morehouse: Have some more opium.
(elizabeth moaning)
(moaning continues)
-(knocking on door) -yes?
Pardon me, mrs haverford, but your guests are here.
You scheduled an evening recital.
(both laughing)
Do give the ladies my apologies, james,
But I'm suddenly feeling terribly unwell.
(both laughing)
But please...
Let the concert continue as planned.
(laughing)
(moaning continues)
(indistinct chattering)
(ellen humming)
I tried to wait up for you.
You need to make sure you rest.
Please, I feel good these days.
How was work?
Quite enough. (clears throat)
(gasps)
Blood.
At least it's not mine.
Mrs maloney stuck her head in.
She said buzzie burke's on a rampage.
That he is.
Do you remember what he did to my cousin michael?
Promise me you'll be careful.
I am.
I always am.
We'll get you cleaned up.
I'll make you some breakfast.
I'm sure I've got some rashers fresh from the butcher.
Fine.
You started to sort out maggie's things yet?
I'll get you a plate.
Maguire: # death with a sickle stands nigh
# life's curtain soon will be fallen
# listen, the angels are callin'
# mother, dear mother
# goodbye #
Me father ran off to catch a boat on his own.
The blaggart.
So me ma, meself, and the left-alive twin,
We made out for cove.
The twin died a day out.
What age were you?
-Nine. -Christ.
When I was a kid,
My old man was a stevedore.
One day, he took me to work with him.
A famine ship had come in, after a bad nine-week crossing.
Terrible news.
Took me down in the hold. I could barely breathe for this stink...
Black cloud of flies hovering.
Points to a pile in the corner and says,
"that's what the english have done to our people."
A heap of irish.
A heap of irish all died on the passage.
Uh-huh.
Sittin' in here,
Facin' what you're facin'...
Christ, hangin' for not one but three murders, you...
(sighs)
(man screaming in distance)
-Kevin know you're here? -(scoffs)
Fair enough.
Tell kevin corcoran, when he gets to hell,
I'll have the place all sorted for him.
Mmm.
Oh, it's amazin' how a good, wholesome meal will just...
...Lift your spirits at the end of a bad night, hmm?
(humming)
# and no one could save her
# and that was the end of sweet molly malone
Everyone, hmm?
Fair enough.
We'll go it alone.
# crying cockles and mussels
# alive, alive-o! #
(sniggering)
Hmm.
Now I'd like to stay and enjoy your generous hospitality,
But you see, buzzie's got obligations to keep.
So enjoy your sleep.
And you, not a peep.
Man: Get your closing signs!
Let's have a hand for brigadier general brendan donovan,
Ward boss of the sixth,
And a former member of this very department.
Welcome home, sir.
(all applauding)
Thank you, captain. It's good...
It's good to be back.
I miss the old sixth.
Now I know that might sound a bit daft to some of ye.
I was so hungry for news of the old sixth that I even had my secretary
Send the newspapers by parcel,
Each and every day.
I read good news and bad.
I read of births and deaths and all the rough and tumble that life has to offer.
And one night I read this,
"the sixth ward is nothing more than a cesspool of filth and vice
"where the idea of honest labour is as rare
"as the sober immigrant.
"you have officers lounging in the doorways of brothels,
"refusing to enforce Sunday closing laws,
"egging on fighters instead of interceding
"and in essence aiding and abetting in the full-on spectacle that is
"satan's circus."
Sounds like a grand old time, all right.
(scattered laughing)
(laughing)
Now, I don't mind a little honest graft,
A little clean vice,
But I want it contained and controlled.
I want it behind closed doors.
Make no mistake.
Our critics partake in the same recreations.
But to them, we're scum.
We're the enemy.
We're the barbarians at the gates of rome.
As for me, I see them as what stands in the way of our rising in society.
So.
(all gasping)
We have to be smarter!
-(groans) -sharper!
Better!
We have to work harder to prove our worth!
You represent more than just yourselves!
You represent your family.
Your church. Your race.
And by god, you represent this ward,
And this department.
We cannot abide chaos.
Otherwise we are nothing more than what they say we are.
Our time has come.
We will not only run this city.
We will own every alleyway, every street,
And every avenue.
Now, you can be part of it,
Or you can get the hell out.
The first order of business is to capture the reprobate,
Buris buzzie burke.
Now, there's a nice bonus in it for the man who does.
Go get the bastard.
Come on, lad.
Come on. Come on.
Up and at 'em. You're all right.
Ah, you'll be all right now.
All right. Go on, man. Go on.
(knocking at door)
Come on in.
Ah.
Kevin corcoran has sent an armed policeman to guard our door.
I'll be right outside, ma'am.
(sighs)
Everything is going to be just fine.
I shall treat dr hegel and return immediately.
The horse is lame.
Can't you go another time?
Illness does not follow my schedule.
Besides, you know how much dr hegel means to me.
I plan to jump on the train and return before dinner.
It's going to be fine, sara.
We're going to have fun, just the two of us.
Go on, doctor, go.
You are certain?
Come on. The son of a bitch comes through the door, I'll give him a third eye.
Where did you come by such bravado?
Not the easy way, honey.
(sighing)
Morehouse: General donovan, I heard you were back.
How was your war?
Donovan: Obviously not as bad as yours.
Well, if you're back to settle up with my old man...
Please, no! I heard of norbert's situation from the front.
'course we had business affairs together,
But that can all be sorted in time.
I had my accountants pull all the records.
To be honest, the first thing I wanted to do when I got home
Was to shake the hand of the man who saved new york.
Please. I had a lot of help.
Mostly from your boys down in the sixth ward.
Good to hear. They're a fine bunch of lads.
Did your contracting business suffer in your absence?
I'm the kind of man
Who likes to think that everything suffers in my absence.
(laughing)
Since you're home in time,
My wedding will not have to be so afflicted.
So I've heard.
The wedding of the season.
It would be an honour to have tammany hall represented in the affair.
I never pegged you for the marrying kind, major.
Even the sturdiest of bachelors yearns for the solace of a steady love.
Then it must be love.
I heard your bride-to-be's dead husband
Was mortgaged up to his sideburns.
Hmm. (chuckling)
Man: Mr morehouse.
These are all the records we could find regarding your dealings with norbert.
I'm always up for a good party.
Major, I'm off to do my rounds of the sixth.
Amazing.
And now a tammany ape added to my wedding list.
Eavesdropping is not a charming quality in a bride.
Keep this up and I'll make you elope.
-Oh, don't tempt me. -(both chuckle)
(moaning)
In all the excitement, I nearly forgot.
-Great news. -What?
They captured the traitor, kennedy, in detroit.
Oh...
Great news, indeed.
(music box playing)
What are you doing?
It's a lovely tune.
I told you not to touch my daughter's things.
(music stops)
(sighs)
(coughing)
Doctor, your condition...
That's why I summoned you.
(sighs)
I'm leaving for the desert.
I know as well as you, dry air is my only hope.
So, I will just say it.
I want you to take over my practice.
Doctor...
I no longer live in five points.
Besides I have a wife to consider.
How is sara, since she lost the baby?
Frankly, uh...
Lot stronger than I expected.
She learned by watching me work all these years
How common such an occurrence can be.
I'm happy to hear she's well.
So...
You will leave this ward in the capable hands of dr grimes.
That insult to the name "doctor."
Won't touch a patient darker than daylight.
And do you know what that makes the ones he refuses to treat?
Lucky!
Grimes has killed more babies than king herod. (coughs)
-This ward needs you. -You're not being fair.
This is five points, fairness is an unknown quality.
(coughs)
Well...
I would say rare, but not unknown.
But I cannot be its saviour any more than you could.
I did not train you to heal so you might run off and tend livestock in the country.
(piano music playing)
(indistinct talking)
You're over an hour late reporting back to me, detective.
Detective corcoran is a hunter of men,
That is an endeavour to which no clock should ever apply.
Corcoran, have an oyster.
Princess bay's, pulled fresh from the harbour this afternoon.
-No, thank you. -Mmm, please.
You need your strength for when you run down burke.
Tell us, how goes the search?
Frustrating.
We've raided every location tied to burke, even tore down the bandit camp by the river.
No sign of him.
Maybe he had the good sense to leave town.
Buzzie? Ha! Don't count on it.
Keep turning over every stone. He'll slither out eventually.
Buzzie burke was my first collar.
Really?
What happened?
The desk sergeant who led me out of the precinct said,
"this man is untouchable." he told me I was to apologise to mister burke.
And did you?
I had no call to.
Christ, corcoran.
Always with the righteousness.
Buzzie burke...
...Made himself very useful to a lot of people for a long time.
Corcoran: So, what happened?
He moved himself from the asset side of the ledger to the liability side.
You care to share what type of transgression can turn a man from king of the streets
-To a hunted dog? -Corcoran!
Buzzie burke started to believe his own malarkey, detective.
No, captain, thank you.
I have a firm rule. One whisky always. Clarity of mind.
Sorry, gentlemen.
Informant says buzzie burke's hiding out at a flophouse over on baxter.
All right then go. Good luck.
I do miss being a copper, sully.
Don't you?
Hmm.
(woman moaning)
Corcoran: Andrew, I'll take the front.
Man: Get out of my way!
Corcoran: Get him, boys. Outside, buzzie, go!
-(groaning) -(coppers screaming)
Turn him over. Turn him over. Oh, wait, christ!
That ain't buzzie burke.
Jesus, you're right! That's bug-eyed boyle.
Awfully sorry, missus!
(shivering)
Do you like country life?
I was raised on a plantation.
-I was born into isolation. -Oh, god!
I can last about an afternoon picnic in the park.
Then I start clamouring for action. Movement!
I've been a city girl all my life.
Berlin, hamburg, new york, new orleans, london.
I was fond of the city till the draft riots.
What they done to my brothers, I can't find the strength to move past the memory.
I was in five points for the riots.
Still...
I close my eyes and all I see is my brothers hanging from that damn lamp post.
You have every right to your rage.
Matthew says I can't let the memories poison me.
They weren't his brothers hanging from the lamp post.
No! They wasn't.
But he's right, you know?
Matthew is right about many things but on this, I'm not so sure.
You do have a choice.
As hard as choosing to focus on what's still to come may be...
(shivering)
What about you?
What about what this man, buzzie burke, has done to you?
Carving his initials in your back.
How will you move past that?
First, with your help,
I will heal my flesh.
And then...
I will have this pretty little artist boy that I know come into the paradise,
And paint a picture of buzzie burke's face
On the bottom of the new privy that I'm having built.
And until I die, every day,
Before I squat, I say...
"good morning, buzzie,
"how're you doing today?"
(laughs)
(footsteps approaching)
(footsteps continue)
(gasps)
Freeman: Don't shoot, it's matthew!
Oh, shit!
Ugh!
Dr freeman, dr freeman, it's okay, I'm right here.
Uh, please don't tell corcoran. I was only taking a piss.
You were to protect my wife and eva.
Come on, doc.
At least be a good nigger about it.
You have got to be kidding me.
(groans)
So, here I is.
Buzzie burke, in the flesh.
-Sit! -(whimpers)
Buzzie: Close the door.
So, I hear youse looking for me.
So, I says to meself,
"buzzie, why don't you save that cute ol' copper the trouble?
"why don't you go down there,
"and see what he wants with buzzie burke?"
-Please, kevin. Please... (grunts) -silence, woman.
Don't you dare soil yourself.
(shuddering)
Let's put that gun down there, copper.
That's it. Now come on.
No copper worth his salt only carries one shooter.
I see the other barking iron you've been carrying.
(ellen whimpers)
See, there you have it.
Now let her go.
-(sobs) -(grunts) huh?
Now you and me, we's going to get real intimate, like...
-Hmm? -(sobbing)
Come closer.
On your knees!
-Buzzie... -Closer.
I want to smell that pretty hair of yours.
(sniffs)
Mmm... Just like the missus here, hmm?
Come on, don't be shy.
I won't bite.
Not like that whore friend of yours who took me ear off.
You should've stayed out of my little spat with eva heissen, you should've.
But you didn't, did you?
You thought you're some kind of hero.
(gun cocks)
Close your eyes. Close them.
(shuddering)
-(grunts) -(gasps)
(indistinct chattering)
Enjoy your new home, princess.
(sniffs) mmm.
They tell me there's a copper here.
I guess the poor wee lad wasn't cut out for life in the towns.
(sobbing)
Every morning me johnny...
He says to me, "mummy...
"I love you bigger than all america, eh?"
Corcoran, let's go.
It's all right, mrs mcgrath.
We'll do everything we can to locate john's killer and find your other son.
Another five points guttersnipe meets his maker prematurely?
Surprise, surprise.
It's tough.
One son dead, the other missing.
I hope you don't consider that a coincidence.
Donovan: I like what I've heard about you.
You went off to war and fought like a spartan.
But, when ordered to, came back to the city and fired upon your own
During the draft riots.
Corcoran: Can't say that's my proudest achievement.
Donovan: Yes, but...
You know what an oath means.
You know what chain of command means.
Man: Excuse me, general donovan, sir.
I don't mean to trouble you.
No trouble at all.
I was, uh, let go when they closed the tannery on mott.
And, uh, well, I'm able bodied, uh...
(grunts)
See?
I'm not looking for a hand out but I have nine little ones, sir.
-Can you swing a hammer? -Like a demon, sir.
Go down to the buildings department,
Tell walton that the organisation sent you.
-Thank you, sir. -Mmm.
How's ms heissen?
She's as tough as any master sergeant I've met in the army, general.
Please, call me donovan.
She stands to gain from buzzie burke's demise.
How's that?
With buzzie dead, his whores and his gaming operations
Have to land somewhere, besides...
...I'd say she paid for it in blood.
She could use it.
I hear they keep raiding her uptown joint.
Ah, those boys in the 16th are tough.
But by taking in buzzie's business,
She would more that make up for what she's losing uptown.
Mmm.
Only saying, if I'd have beaten my brother dead, I'd skip town, too.
Detective...
Would you please come up?
-Do you have any news on me boys? -Yeah.
We looked into your son's death.
Apparently your boys were famous for knocking each other about.
And they were known to the police.
Only one time.
That toothless bitch mary monahan said they'd broken into her place.
But it wasn't me boys.
Jesus, let's not lie to the cops now.
Oh, piss off! Mr see-you-once in-a-decade, himself. How would you know?
Be surprised if you remembered our names.
We think michael beat his brother to death and ran off.
Are you mad, copper?
Sure they fought, like any boys their age.
But their love for one another was fierce powerful.
And wee michael would never leave me alone.
No matter what he done.
Mr mcgrath.
Detective...
She's out of her head.
So where have you been?
I was serving my new country.
And she was furious with me for volunteering.
She's always givin' on about,
"why the hell an irishman would want to fight to free the niggers?"
But I felt it was my responsibility.
And we're americans now, you understand?
Yes, we are.
Despite all the bastards telling us we're not.
What about your boys?
I may have not been around as much as I wanted to,
But no father deserves to lose a child.
I mean my boys...
I loved them, but they were wild.
Brutal to one another.
Of course a mother will be blind to all that.
You know how irish mothers and their sons are.
(scoffs)
You're a veteran yourself?
I was with the 71st.
That's a grand outfit.
I was with the 69th.
Took some shrapnel too close to my heart for them to operate.
I guess I'll carry that piece to my grave.
Corcoran: There's no escaping what the war's done.
Please, copper.
Nothing but one heart break after another since I got here.
But me sons, they're me heart and soul.
That's john on the left, michael on the right.
Promise me you won't stop.
I already promised you.
Nothing's changed.
What news of the traitor kennedy?
Has he left detroit? Is he en route?
Man: There is nothing as I have said.
Repeatedly.
There must be some word.
What is your fascination with the traitor kennedy?
How dare you question me?
Status quo.
Kennedy has not left detroit jail.
(shivers)
(footsteps approaching)
Sara freeman, madam.
Elizabeth: Oh, sara.
I almost forgot.
I was so pleased when dr freeman told robert
That you agreed to help me prepare for my wedding.
This is madame gautier.
This is sara freeman.
Sara, this is where you shall work.
So beautiful.
I am a widow. Therefore white shall not be my colour on the day.
I'm thinking peach.
Green, blue, something in pastel.
I cannot seem to make up my mind.
Madam.
I insist, pink, pink.
Pink!
Sara, what do you think?
Come on.
I'm hiring you because I trust your skills,
Therefore I value your opinion.
With your skin tone,
I would choose gold.
(laughs)
Marvellous!
Gold it shall be.
(chuckles)
Oh, god!
(groans in disgust)
He's not the other mcgrath boy.
Well, whoever he is,
There's a real five points way to die.
In the gutter with a wild dog chewing the balls off you.
I run a clean house.
You do right by me, I do right by you.
There are no flim-flams here.
No mickeys will be slipped,
No customers robbed,
I expect good, honest whoring.
That's all.
Any questions?
Buzzie made us do ass work. Are you gonna, too?
If you so choose, but for premium.
Now go upstairs, ritchie will show you your rooms.
Looks like buzzie's demise is gonna be good for business.
Kevin.
What brings you in at this unusual hour?
Just want to check in on you.
Grab a quick drink to celebrate.
The end of buzzie burke.
That and... I'm on my way to the courthouse.
To watch francis maguire get what's coming to him.
Hmm.
Judge: The weapon, uh, the gun listed here,
The lemat spring action revolver right here in black and white.
-I know what's listed there. -Judge: You do?
The bullets matching to the gun, they're listed here as well.
Attorney: Yes, your honour, they are.
Um, however...
That evidence has, um...
Well, that evidence has gone missing.
Apparently...
So you stand before me with nothing but your prim little moustache
And your impish demeanour?
-According to the law... -(gavel thuds)
You say the law... This is a mockery of the law!
You and your cronies want our streets to be ruled by the law of the jungle?
So be it!
And you, mr maguire...
A copper sworn to uphold the law.
Two of your victims were women.
What kind of man victimizes women in the most foul manner?
Why, someone who is no man at all,
But an irish beast.
I shall rue the act of freeing you
For the remainder of my days.
Get him out of my sight!
-Your honour... -(gavel thuds)
Judge: Next!
Man: Here's the next case, your honour.
Congratulations.
Bill will come due, mr maguire.
Ah, grand old five points. (clicks tongue)
Home sweet bloody home.