Night Falls on Manhattan Page #6

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the sentence is

twenty five years to life with no parole.

On the second charge,

the death of Patrolman Katz...

twenty-five years to life, no parole.

On the third charge,

the wounding of Detective Casey...

twenty-five years to life, no parole.

On the fourth and fifth charges...

fifteen to twenty-five years each,

with no parole.

Sentences to run consecutively.

Goodbye, Mr. Washington.

You know that floater

you fished out last week?

We finally got an ID on him.

NYPD medical:
name of Kleinhoff

And that man is Pat Distefano.

And if we stick together,

we can win it all.

We can win it all.

We got it.

Hell of an acceptance speech.

- Oh, f***.

Morgy, Morgy.

Turn him over.

Turn him over.

Let's stop f***ing around.

Now, I'm sure you've each got somebody.

whose name you'd like to put up.

And we're only two hours away

from the six o'clock news.

Now I've got an idea.

Morgy's in ICU.

I'd like to ask you for prayers

for him tonight.

But we are a party rich in talent.

I would like to place in nomination...

and I would be proud if you accept it

by acclamation...

For the office of District Attorney,

I nominate...

Sean CASEY.

I wish she could've seen it.

I wish she could've heard it.

I sure hope she knows.

- She knows.

Yeah, I think you're right.

She's got to be as proud as I am.

Well, I hope she wasn't disappointed.

- In what?

She always had hopes of me joining

the church.

I know she wanted me to.

- Tempted?

I was.

We were blessed, Pop.

That's the word.

We were blessed.

You got to try it on. Yeah.

- Looking good on you.

Sean, Vigoda on two.

Hello?

I know you're busy,

but it's important that we meet.

Okay, what's good for you?

Well, I'll meet you anytime you want,

but Sean...

someplace where neither of us

can wear a wire.

You heard that the body they fished out

of the river turned out to be Kleinhoff.

If you win, I want you to pursue

that murder.

As soon as you can...

use the Investigation Division

of the DA's office.

Going through any precincts is not

the best way to find what you look for.

Sooner or later you're going to run

into dirty cops.

You're not telling me

you believed your defense?

You heard the tapes,

you heard the testimony.

Total chaos on the street that night.

- All right, Jordan Washington is scum.

Sometimes I just get so sick inside.

So...

so discouraged,

you know?

I feel like we have to just give up

on an entire generation.

Lock them up and throw away the key.

Am I hearing this from

the last of the 60's radicals?

Are you conning me?

Yes to the first and not to the second.

Why'd you take the case?

Because I was after something else.

- What?

Sean,

the first rule of the drug world:

"There can't be that much money around

without dirty cops".

That's what I wanted to get to.

Why?

Who appointed you?

My 15 year old daughter...

when she O.D. ed.

You know when your kid dies

before you...

it's not the natural order of things.

Your whole life changes.

When I was a cop with the 103 in Queens,

four cops got caught on the pad.

It was nothing big:

the usual C-note a month.

But I remember

I was ducking into the station house...

because I didn't want to

get cornered by the reporters.

I didn't want to get caught on camera,

because I was ashamed.

In the meantime those four cops

were being brought in by their buddies...

They had their coats over their hands

so their cuffs wouldn't show

they had their heads ducked down low,

so nobody would recognize them.

I remember feeling I wanted to

pull their heads up by their hair...

so everybody could see.

Because a cop like that...

is the scum of the earth.

You get me real evidence,

I'll follow it wherever it leads.

Wherever?

- Yeah, wherever.

- You're a romantic.

And I think you're blushing.

It's the heat.

- It's not the heat.

You're blushing.

I think I'm going to vote for you.

Your final statement, Mr. Harrison.

You have two minutes.

Though constantly taking

the high moral ground...

Mr. Casey's naivet' keeps trapping him

in the depths of, well...

to put it mildly,

questionable behavior.

He's in the midst of an affair

with someone.

No, no, no. Please, please, listen.

I don't bring this up as a smear.

It's just that...

the person he's involved with,

works for a law firm...

that has been a consistent enemy

of law and order in this city.

In two instances,

traffic was stopped for hours...

once at the Brooklyn Bridge

and once at the Queens Midtown Tunnel.

They've represented

the pushcart peddlers...

who drive away business from

legitimate, tax-paying merchants.

Welfare cheats, corrupt local school

boards, in other words...

all the elements that have made

life in this city almost unlivable.

The District Attorney's office is...

the representative of law and order

in this city.

Who do you want

sitting in that chair?

A newly graduated, naive lawyer

with one easy victory behind him?

A man who sees nothing wrong with

an involvement in a law firm...

that has, at times, brought this city

to its knees?

Or the calm, reasoned, objective

point of view of someone...

who's devoted 18 years of public service

to this city and its people?

Thank you.

Mr. Casey?

I'm not even going to respond to

the personal attack...

other than to say that

we are sort of living in sin

because she won't marry me:

I've asked.

I would like to address what I think

Mr. Harrison here's really talking about.

We are all perfectly aware of

the complete loss of respect...

that exists for government today,

particularly the law.

Well, I believe that

the system can work.

But you, all of you,

need one basic reassurance:

you need to know that

the law applies to everyone equally.

Rich, poor, black, white, yellow,

brown, witness, jury...

perpetrator, victim, cops, judges,

Wall Street, welfare...

All everyone equally.

The party ticket I am running on

may not like what I'm saying...

but I'm telling you how I feel.

There will be only one standard:

Did that person break the law?

If I am elected,

the law will exclude no-one.

All, everyone,

will be equal before the law.

Just like it says on the building.

Thank you.

Do we have to go back?

You do.

Big campaign stops tomorrow.

Right.

This place is magic.

For what it's worth, I never thought

I'd want a place like this.

Until this morning,

while making coffee for you.

It's worth a lot

you make very good coffee.

I think we should get married.

Will you marry me?

Let's not push it

marriage wasn't great for me.

You weren't married to me.

How was your meeting with

Vigoda?

It was interesting.

I can't tell you the content of it.

- I understand.

When you're the D.A.

we may wind up on opposite sides a lot.

We'll have lots of secrets

from each other.

I hate that.

- So what do you suggest.

I suggest

we tell each other everything.

We'll leave it up to the other person

to decide whether to use it.

God, you like to make things difficult.

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