Prince of the City Page #8

Sardino or your department or anything.

- I won't do it.

- What did you bring me here for?

- Front.

- Gino...

...you have a very enviable reputation

in the department and in the city.

You're a hero. How's it gonna look if

we take you downtown and book you?

Gino Mascone's the top cop.

Everyone looks up to Mascone.

But, Gino, you and I

know you're a whore.

Just a poor old whore who bellies

up for any crook with two bucks.

A whore and a thief.

As far as I'm concerned,

you have only two options.

You cooperate with us,

you make the calls...

...or you go to jail

with the other thieves.

I don't even wanna think

about the third option.

He just arrived, sir.

Your friend needs a friend. He's going

down the tubes unless you help me.

He won't cooperate.

- Don't touch a thing.

- Oh, Christ.

- Just wanna check if there's a heartbeat.

- Oh, Jesus. Oh, Christ.

There's no heartbeat,

look at the head wound.

How did we get into this, Danny?

I don't know.

You did it.

I gotta call you four times

to make a meeting?

You avoiding me?

I've been hearing

a lot of things, Danny.

You doing something

you shouldn't be doing?

Oh, sh*t, Rocky.

You wearing a wire or what?

There, it's off. All right?

Say what you want. It's sh*t

because I'm not after you, Rocky.

You're lying, Danny.

I've been in jail half my life.

You think I'm worried about

going to jail, huh? So don't lie.

You got me the night I bribed

that f***ing Edelman, right, Danny?

They caught you doing

something, didn't they?

If they caught you doing something,

and you didn't come to us for help...

...then you deserved to get killed...

...because you trust them

more than you trust us.

Nobody caught me.

Everything just came down on me.

I looked at Carla and the kids...

...and I remember why

I wanted to be a cop.

I wanted to do something to show

I was a good guy, not a bad guy.

Who are you gonna be

a good guy to, huh?

What about your cousin?

He's gonna have to explain

to a few people.

And what about me?

Does anybody get hurt

because of me?

I introduced you to a few people.

I vouched for you.

I swear to God, Rocky...

...nobody's gonna get hurt because you

introduced me or vouched for me.

Danny, these people have

turned you into a rat.

You're never gonna be able

to live with yourself.

Me, I'm gonna save your life.

You listen to me, Danny,

and listen to me good.

Tomorrow you meet me at

Kennedy Airport.

I'm gonna give you $ 75,000.

You go anywhere in the world

out there you wanna go to.

And when you get to

where you want to go...

...reach me through your cousin Nick.

And I'll send you another 75,000.

You start a new life.

And, Danny, you won't be a rat.

Where am I gonna go?

You don't wanna?

You don't wanna, huh?

All right, f*** it.

Can we get in the f***ing car?

If you kill me, Rocky,

you're f***ing dead.

You know, Danny,

you worry too much.

That's why

you're in all this trouble for.

Ever since I've known you, you've been

nothing but a f***ing worrier.

Come on, Danny. Come on, kid.

Take me in.

That poor dumb kid.

He's 6'5" and black...

...he's got a barrel ass

and a head shaped like this.

Put him in a room with 500

black, 20-year-old perpetrators...

...and you pick Arthur out

in one sweep.

So I says, "Arthur, you're not cut

out for a life of crime.

- I'm gonna get you a job, Arthur."

- And?

So I made them take him on as

a bouncer in a pornographic bookstore.

Perfect.

What's so funny about that?

It was a funny story.

A bookstore needs a bouncer?

Hey, hit me too, will you, Gus?

Hey, did you hear about Kaminsky?

He was coming out of a drugstore

and he heard this lady scream...

...so he looks, he sees this guy

running down the street away from her.

He goes after the guy and he

overtakes him. Now, the guy is 23...

...Kaminsky is 42.

Anyway, he caught the guy,

and the guy starts lashing at him...

...with this big f***ing knife, like this.

Kaminsky disarmed him...

...he disarmed him and he held him

until two patrolmen ran up.

And then he proceeded

to give them the knife...

...and the money and the jewelry.

And he gave them the collar.

- What's so funny about that?

- What's so funny is...

...Kaminsky's under indictment

for perjury for the bribes he took.

He didn't have his gun,

he didn't have a shield.

Once a cop, always a cop.

Don't you think that's funny?

Danny.

Danny, why don't you go upstairs

and lie down? Wash your face.

You're exhausted.

You should take some time off

with Carla and go up to your cabin.

Hey, Raf...

...hey, you know I didn't have

anything to do with Gino, right?

You were his partner.

You know that, man.

I know that, sport.

- You know that.

- Yeah.

Christ, Danny,

nobody ever thought that.

Sometime in the future, you guys are

gonna hear all kinds of things.

Listen, Danny...

...I know about all of that stuff.

What do you know?

Danny, that dumb story

has been going around forever.

You going around cooperating with

prosecutors, going around wired.

That's sh*t.

Look, Danny...

...Gino heard that stuff

and he never believed it...

...and we don't either.

We know you'd never

do anything like that.

I did some things.

I didn't do nothing to hurt you guys.

I wanted absolution.

How can guys like us take the

sacraments with what we do?

I wasn't gonna go against cops...

...but none of you guys are involved,

I swear to God.

But some cops, they caught some.

I didn't want it to happen,

but it happened.

But not Gino. You gotta

believe me, not Gino.

I believe you, Danny.

We all believe in you, Danny.

So take it easy, otherwise

you're gonna drive yourself crazy.

What can we do, Danny?

How can we help?

Where's your gun, Danny?

I'm not gonna do that.

We think you ought to give us

your gun, Danny.

- I'm not gonna give you my f***ing gun!

- Right.

You shoot yourself, Danny,

there's no pension for Carla.

Do you need money, kid?

Do you need help like that?

The last guy that tried

to help me like that...

...is going inside.

It's all so f***ing funny, Joe.

We don't know how it leaked. They got

every case outlined. Two years' work.

What the bloody hell do we do now?

Get me Tug Barnes in the U.S.

Marshal's office...

...and tell him I want Detective

Ciello scooped up immediately...

...and send six armed agents out to

Great Neck to guard his wife and kids.

Dan, are you taking any of this in?

I don't think I'm making myself clear.

I didn't understand...

...how long it would be.

Two years?

I'm gonna be testifying for two years?

What after that?

I mean, what happens then?

I'm safe... Am I safe then?

After the trial is over...

...is my family gonna be safe then?

We'll face that when the time comes.

What we have to do now...

...is find a safe place for now.

We got a cabin in the Catskills.

We could go there.

Anybody else know about it?

No.

Tug?

Okay.

For now until it's over, it'll be my job

to take care of you and your family.

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