Fort Apache the Bronx Page #9

You're a good cop.

I don't think you'd be good

at anything else.

I'm gonna run for president.

What do you care?

I need all the good cops I can get so

I can run this precinct the right way.

- The right way?

- Yeah.

The right way.

That's by the book, ain't it?

You made more waves up here in one

month than Dugan did in five years...

and did it get you

your cop killers?

What it got you was

a hundred bum arrests...

another burned-out building

and a dead kid.

Jesus, I've been draggin' my ass in

and out of this precinct for 14 years.

It's too much.

I feel as burned-out

as those buildings on Charlotte Street.

I ain't doin' nobody no good.

And you got your nose

buried so deep into that book...

you don't even see

what's going on around here.

I'm not proud of what's happened

up here, but I can see.

I can see the people out there.

Not just the hookers,

the pimps and the junkies...

but those people who are trying

to build something up here.

And I want them to know

who's running this precinct.

I want them to know that this precinct

isn't a clubhouse with a freak show...

but the house of the law

and that the law means something...

and that it's there to serve 'em.

That's the book, Murphy.

You got a better way?

If we can take the whole neighborhood

and bulldoze it into the East River...

and you and me with it.

Bullshit!

You want to quit? Go ahead.

I'm not built that way.

That's nice, Captain.

That's nice.

You keep tryin'.

I'm quittin'.

You don't want this?

Save it for the sweeper.

- Thanks.

- Thank you.

You have to go down

to the grand jury tomorrow.

Yeah, I know.

The men will know about it by then.

They saw the stenographer

comin' in here.

They know I'm not dictating

my life story.

They know.

Yeah.

Anyway, hold onto this

for a while.

You can always

throw it back in my face.

I'm not going anywhere.

Freeze!

Jesus!

I thought it was a hit.

You ain't worth killin'.

Don't be too sure.

I gave Morgan and Finley away.

Yeah? So what else is new?

I figured you would.

- That means they're gonna subpoena you.

- I know.

- What are you gonna do?

- Let me put it this way.

I'm not gonna commit perjury

to protect those two bastards.

- You could say you didn't see nothin'.

- And leave you hanging like that?

What kind of a creep would I be

if I did something like that?

You know how I feel about you, man.

I'd go up against

the goddamn world for you.

- We're partners, baby.

- Not anymore.

- What do you mean?

- I'm puttin' in my papers.

What? You're gonna leave me alone here

in the garden spot of the Western world?

Just can't hack it anymore.

Look.

Look at that.

- You gonna let him get away with that?

- You betcha.

I'm a civilian now.

I can look the other way.

Yeah, right.

Tell me about it.

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