Year of the Dragon Page #6

You're flying too high, kid,

and the air is very thin up there.

We got anything?

It seems to be mostly financial talk,

captain.

There is mention of some problem

in Thailand.

A man in Bangkok is saying

something about....

I'm not quite sure about what.

But he's very angry about a group

from Toronto called the Nam Soong.

Sister, you gotta be more precise.

That's going to be very difficult,

captain.

It's been many years since we've heard

the Hakka dialect spoken.

They're talking around things,

not about them.

Damn it, Sister, that's the point.

They're not gonna spell it out for you.

This is drug talk.

You gotta use your imagination.

Listen.

You look like you don't eat enough

to keep a bird alive. Have some real food.

Captain White, I've managed to live

for 75 years without your help...

...eating precisely what l'm eating now.

my body fat is 1 2 percent.

my blood pressure's 1 20/80.

my lymphocyte count is 22 percent.

And if you want to compare white

blood cells and red blood cells...

...I might even outlast you,

captain...

...red-meat eater that you obviously are.

The perpetrator is saying

he's flying into Bangkok next week.

Under another name.

He's making his move.

I want you to get the DEA on him.

Call the Bangkok police. Whatever you

gotta do to eyeball this scumbag.

I'm sorry, Sister.

I just wish the f*** I could go there myself.

Come on. Back on the street.

That'll be the day. The N.Y.P.D.

springs for a ticket to Hong Kong.

You guys are doing a great job.

Keep it up.

Rizzo, come on.

Hit Chinatown like Genghis Khan.

I want restaurant health violations,

immigration busts....

You were meant to shake up the gangs,

not turn the whole city upside down.

Let me make this real clear to you

right here and now.

Joey Tai goes to

the manhattan borough president...

...who he contributes

$1 00,000 a year to, right?

The borough president goes to the mayor,

who goes to me.

And the word is, 'Lay off.'

That is the way the game is played, okay?

No more wiretaps on Joey Tai.

And you don't go to the DEA.

Going to outside agencies

isn't your job, it is Lou's job.

What about the dead tourists,

commissioner, huh?

I guess they don't add up

to a can of sardines, do they?

You change your tune fast just because

that slimebag has tea with the mayor.

You can't link Joey Tai to that.

The point here is, you cease and desist.

What if I don't? What are you

gonna do? You gonna suspend me?

What will that look like

in the papers? You tell me.

First, you suspend me.

Second, you call off...

an investigation into the Chinese mafia.

What investigation? What Chinese mafia?

The investigation's in your mind.

What's it gonna look like? You tell me.

Your department's gonna look

like sh*t, that's what.

ls this blackmail?

- Call it what you want.

I've been swallowing the bullshit around

here for 1 0 years, and l'm choking on it.

You ever think about your pension?

- F*** it.

That's what's wrong with this department.

Everybody's so worried

about their pension.

Stanley--

Never have I ever heard anything like this.

This is a f***ing disgrace.

- No, Lou, this is a war.

I'm not gonna lose it. Not this one. Not

over politics. It's always f***ing politics.

This is Vietnam all over again.

Nobody wants to win this thing, do you?

Just flat out win, do they, Lou?

You go to the press again, White,

you know what you're doing?

You're putting a gun to my head, Stanley.

That's what we are.

We're four guys in a room

with guns to our heads.

Kearney, will you step outside

for a minute?

I can't listen to this crap no more,

Stanley.

I can't watch a good man piss

his career down the drain like this.

You never had any respect for anything.

You throw away your wife--...

Shut up.

- And now you're turning on us.

You got delusions of grandeur.

Sucking up to this Chink reporter

to get your face on the tube.

What is it with you? You gone Chink

on us? She do it sideways?

Take it back.

- Don't tell me that.

You got no shame. Connie was

the best thing you ever had--

That wasn't between cops, that was

between two guys from the old days.

Lou, l'm sorry.

Look, I don't know why we're fighting.

I love you, I love Connie.

When things aren't working at home, you

start overreacting to things on the street.

We all had flings when we were young.

I'm not a prude.

Why don't you at least sit down with

Connie and try to straighten this out.

Even if you walk away,

you walk away friends.

Because no one's gonna care when you're

lying in your grave but Connie and me.

Well?

What are you gonna do, Stanley?

I don't know.

All I know is that when I give up...

...the system gives up.

Tracy.

Tracy, open the door.

Tracy.

Tracy.

- l'm coming.

Tracy.

Come on, open the door.

Who do you think you are?

And what are you doing with that?

These are my Chinese books.

I'm moving in.

You what?

Did I misinterpret what you were saying

to me when I was on top of you?

F*** you.

What's wrong with you Chinese?

Why don't you say what you think?

l'm calling Roger.

- Call him. I've got things to say to him too.

Go away, will you, Stanley?

You're cracked. You're really crazy.

Do you ever listen to yourself?

Tell me the truth. There is no Roger,

is there? You know how I know?

It's because when you talk about him,

your eyes aren't real.

There is a Roger.

Tell me what you see in this guy.

Come on, tell me, I wanna know.

I want you to look me in the eyes,

and I want you to say it.

What do I have to do to get you

out of here? Holy God.

Nothing. It's hopeless.

Surrender.

Why am I laughing?

I'm becoming a crazy, like you.

I'm tired.

I think I need to sleep.

maybe everybody's right.

I'm chasing something that doesn't exist.

I ought to stop.

Jesus, l'm tired.

It's the same thing as in Nam.

We lost because you were smarter than us.

And you couldn't even

have a decent parade.

A f***ing Chinese parade.

They come at you

in 1 5 different directions.

F***ing joke.

Stanley.

You can't stay here.

Don't you have a friend I could call?

or somebody you could

stay with tonight?

You're the only friend I have left.

I just wanna be with somebody

tonight. I just....

I don't know anybody else.

Isn't that a real laugh?

I don't know anybody.

I feel like such an a**hole.

Tracy, l....

I love you.

Did you hear what I said?

I thought there was

no Chinese word for love.

I'm serious.

I know you are.

It was bad enough doing business

with the old general.

Ban Sung's even worse. But you lose

all face by dealing with him direct.

Ban Sung's got an ego like an octopus.

- I know.

But I don't trust his agent here.

White Powder ma knows Ban Sung has

got a bumper crop of 1 50 to 200 tons.

ma offered him 6000 a key,

plus a shipment of Kalashnikov rifles.

All right.

I'll see you tonight.

- See you.

Thanks, bye.

Will you open the door?

open the door. What do I gotta do,

break it down?

We gotta clear the air between us.

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