True Confession (1981) Crime Drama

Retro Kid
Retro Kid
  • 2 months ago
The truth unravels when Tom (Robert Duvall ), a detective, solves a murder linked to his brother Rev Desmond ( Robert De Niro )
Transcript
00:00:30in the California desert in temperatures above 110 degrees.
00:00:39President Kennedy is flying back to Washington tonight
00:00:42for a major speech on international economic policy
00:00:46before officers and directors of the World Bank tomorrow morning.
00:00:50Bill Lawrence, ABC, Palm Springs, California.
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00:01:52How are you?
00:01:53May I help you?
00:01:54I'm Father Duarte, the assistant pastor.
00:01:58I'm looking for Monsignor Spellison.
00:02:00And who might you be?
00:02:01I might be his brother.
00:02:03Mr. Spellison, Eduardo Duarte.
00:02:05I'm helping the Monsignor out until he's 100%.
00:02:09He's not 100%?
00:02:10Just a matter of time, Mr. Spellison.
00:02:12Just a matter of time.
00:02:13As soon as I fix the carburetor on the car there,
00:02:15I'm gonna repaint the thermometer.
00:02:17You get in the building, front drive on the way again.
00:02:20The new St. Mary's is going to be the flower of the desert.
00:02:23Hello, Tommy.
00:02:25I'm sorry, Monsignor, for monopolizing you, brother.
00:02:27It's just that when I talk about the new St. Mary's,
00:02:29I get carried away.
00:02:31It's all right, Father Duarte.
00:02:33Don't worry about it.
00:02:35Father Duarte said you weren't feeling 100%.
00:02:38Ah, well, who is, Tommy, who is?
00:02:41Who is?
00:02:43You know, this morning after Mass,
00:02:45Mr. McHugh comes to see me.
00:02:47Nice man, Mr. McHugh.
00:02:49But one thing about being a pastor
00:02:51is that no one ever stops by and rings the doorbell
00:02:54to tell you everything is just swell.
00:02:56So when Mr. McHugh stops by,
00:02:57I know it's not because he wants to help Father Eduardo
00:03:00paint the thermometer outside.
00:03:01I don't know.
00:03:04Mr. McHugh tells me that his daughter,
00:03:06the Carmelite nun, is leaving the convent
00:03:08to become a professional bowler.
00:03:10What?
00:03:11I'm not kidding, a professional bowler.
00:03:13I didn't even know they had alleys in the convent these days.
00:03:17So I, uh, said to him I'd say a Mass for him.
00:03:21Maybe that'll help him bowl a perfect string.
00:03:25How are you, Dad?
00:03:27Oh, it's a well-known fact
00:03:28the Irish have more hemorrhoids than other people otherwise.
00:03:31Look, look, Dad, I asked you a simple question.
00:03:34Give me a straight answer.
00:03:36How are you?
00:03:41I'm gonna die, Tommy.
00:03:48You're not kidding.
00:03:54The arteries to the pump are shut.
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00:06:23For out the Lord is set,
00:06:30And shall not be moved.
00:06:37To death he comes,
00:06:45And shall not be moved.
00:07:01The mystery of the faithful,
00:07:03which you have promulgated and promoted,
00:07:05is found in the remission of sinners.
00:07:08And whatever you do, do it in my memory.
00:07:26The Lord be with you.
00:07:29And with your spirit.
00:07:34And with your spirit.
00:08:04The Lord be with you.
00:08:35You need a new radiator.
00:08:37I need a new car.
00:08:39I got my high on one, believe me.
00:08:41O's 98.
00:08:43Hold the gas station. Maybe I can get a down payment.
00:08:46No, Daddy.
00:08:50It's been a while since I've been in a $5 gas house.
00:08:53I busted this joint once when I was in vice.
00:08:56They had a girl. I swear she had two left tits.
00:09:00Let's go.
00:09:02L.A.P.D.
00:09:06Count at the right. On the end.
00:09:13Jesus.
00:09:15What do you want for $5?
00:09:17Hey.
00:09:19It's been a long time.
00:09:22Yeah.
00:09:24This joint's quiet. Come down from your place and get some air.
00:09:27I used to watch my girls do you fatso through the peak.
00:09:30You never took off your pants.
00:09:32If I did, they'd be standing in line.
00:09:34Why'd you call?
00:09:36Down here.
00:09:38Hi, John. You want to play carnival?
00:09:40I don't know that one.
00:09:42I sit on your face and you stand against my weight.
00:09:45I sit on your face and you stand against my weight.
00:09:58Heart attack.
00:10:00When he was committing a mortal sin.
00:10:05Priest.
00:10:09Pastor, no less.
00:10:11St. Bernadette's in Redondo Beach.
00:10:16I know him.
00:10:18Father Mickey.
00:10:20Mickey Gagnon. St. Bernadette's.
00:10:22Used to run a swell game of bingo.
00:10:24What's he doing in a joint like this?
00:10:27Getting his ashes hauled is a good bet.
00:10:30Come with us to bingo.
00:10:32Real pain in the ass to confess.
00:10:35All right, give.
00:10:37I didn't take nothing.
00:10:39Give it to me now!
00:10:46Told him to pick your nose.
00:10:48He gave you a rosary for penance.
00:10:50Small pair of shoes.
00:10:52Here you go. Come on.
00:10:56How long was he here?
00:10:58It was the second one that did it.
00:11:08What do you think?
00:11:10He's gonna make a big hit with your brother, the Monsignor.
00:11:15Oh, yeah.
00:11:46Looks like a jelly donut, doesn't she?
00:11:49That's hardly a judicious thing for a lawyer to say about a young bride on her wedding day.
00:11:54Imagine her wearing white with something already in the toaster.
00:11:57Jack, I want to tell you something.
00:11:59That's a little girl bring a tear to a father's eye.
00:12:02He was just talking about the color of her wedding dress.
00:12:05Off-white, I think you called it. Right, Dad?
00:12:07Remember, Jack, you're not losing a daughter, you're gaining a bathroom.
00:12:10How did the Cardinal like the wedding, Monsignor?
00:12:13He's sorry he had to leave so soon, but then he's getting on in age.
00:12:16Looks 100, you ask me.
00:12:18And when he goes, we know who we'd like to replace him, right, Jack?
00:12:21How about some dessert?
00:12:23Oh, yeah, sure.
00:12:25How'd you like all the flowers in the church, Monsignor?
00:12:27Very nice.
00:12:29That's a lot of goddamn roses.
00:12:31Yes, it is.
00:12:33And every one of them will be in a Catholic hospital.
00:12:35You got any left over, Jack? You might think of the orphanage or something.
00:12:38How's the champagne, Monsignor?
00:12:40Vintage.
00:12:42Yeah, that California shit. Excuse my English.
00:12:45Hey, I'll send you a case.
00:12:47It's eminence, too.
00:12:52Hey, the Cardinal ever go to the track?
00:12:54Maybe he'll be my guest one day. I'll give him a couple of tips.
00:12:57If that gives you a tip, you could bet the Sistine Chapel on it, then.
00:13:00That's how I met the Monsignor, counselor.
00:13:02I'd send her an either.
00:13:04I'll give him a tip.
00:13:06Orchestra leader, 1401, huh?
00:13:08That's right.
00:13:10You got away with long shots, Jack.
00:13:12Yeah, one by six lengths.
00:13:14Hey, you want some more champagne?
00:13:16Hey, you!
00:13:19You two talk while I make sure everyone's having a good time.
00:13:22Good. Thanks.
00:13:24I'm fine.
00:13:281401, huh?
00:13:30Must have been a boat race.
00:13:32Of course it was. That's why you can bet the Sistine Chapel on it.
00:13:40You look like shit.
00:13:44How's your wife?
00:13:48She left...
00:13:50with her tuna fish casserole recipe.
00:13:53Her one dish.
00:13:55And your brother, the Monsignor?
00:13:58Okay.
00:14:01I used to listen to him on the radio when I was in the joint.
00:14:04Religious hour.
00:14:06I'll bet he set a novena for you
00:14:08every time that you and I screwed.
00:14:10It's on your mind, Brenda.
00:14:18You ever notice how you get old?
00:14:20Your feet swell up?
00:14:22I started noticing things like that when I was in the joint.
00:14:25Your feet swell up, your toenails got little ridges on them.
00:14:28Well, maybe you ought to write a book about it, all right?
00:14:31You ever tell your brother in confession that Jack was paying you off?
00:14:35Or maybe he doesn't know what a bag man is, your brother.
00:14:38They don't teach them things like that at the seminary.
00:14:41What are you trying to say?
00:14:44You ever wonder why Jack fixed it
00:14:47so that you didn't get indicted and I did?
00:14:49Jack wouldn't know me if he walked into me.
00:14:51Forget you.
00:14:53It was all that business he was doing with your brother.
00:14:55All those Catholic schools he was building.
00:14:57Wouldn't it look good, you going on trial?
00:14:59So he put in the fix downtown.
00:15:01Somebody had to take the fall. Me.
00:15:04Anything else?
00:15:06Yeah, just get that stiff out of here.
00:15:09Once a bag man, always a bag man.
00:15:21Sorry about that.
00:15:25You know my temper.
00:15:27I don't need your luck. I need another fuck.
00:15:30I don't need your luck. I need another fuck.
00:15:54You know, Jack's got this grand new development.
00:15:57There's, uh, Rancho Rosa, I think it's called.
00:16:00Anyway, he wants to give a little piece to his eminence for a school.
00:16:04Isn't that a grand thing to do?
00:16:06Rancho Rosa, huh?
00:16:08I hear he's having trouble getting rid of his lots.
00:16:11He needs a school in the city.
00:16:13Thank God you're suspicious.
00:16:15Peg? Monsignor.
00:16:17Mrs. Campion, how are you?
00:16:19Oh, it's a beautiful mess.
00:16:21Thank you.
00:16:28I just wanted to thank you for everything you've done.
00:16:31It's a beautiful wedding,
00:16:33and I wanted to tell you how much I appreciated all your patience and time.
00:16:38It was an honor, and I, uh...
00:16:41I know that you'll be very happy, Georgette.
00:16:44I'm sure of that.
00:16:46Monsignor, you know why I got married.
00:16:48Yes, I do.
00:16:50But I wouldn't worry about it. I think it'll be fine.
00:16:55You've done the right thing, and you have my blessing.
00:17:01Thank you, Monsignor.
00:17:05Sonny's gotten awful grand since he became a supervisor.
00:17:08I remember when you could rent him by the day.
00:17:11And now after being turned on everywhere else,
00:17:14Jack makes this most generous offer to us.
00:17:17Who'd you call at this?
00:17:19I called out a pair of grape scissors.
00:17:22Here's some champagne. Try that chocolate stuff, too. It's good.
00:17:25Stay away from the peanuts. Bad for the bowels.
00:17:28I think I'll just have this.
00:17:34I hear Jack's overextended.
00:17:36Banks want to call in his paper.
00:17:40You're a cool one, Des. You really are.
00:17:44All right.
00:17:46Maybe I can persuade Jack to let his construction company build a school of cars.
00:17:50How's that?
00:17:52Very nice.
00:17:54You know what would even be nicer?
00:17:57If you threw in your fee from Jack.
00:18:02Looks like a leprechaun thinks like an Arab.
00:18:20Hey, look out!
00:18:29Hey!
00:18:39Hey!
00:18:50Hey!
00:19:21Hey, Des. How you doing?
00:19:23Good. Good to see you.
00:19:25Sit down.
00:19:28Nice picture of your mom.
00:19:30Yes, isn't it?
00:19:32Why don't you come and visit the next time I go? I think she'd like to see you.
00:19:35Last time I saw her, she talked to me about purgatory
00:19:38and how much time I was gonna spend there.
00:19:41Life plus 99 years.
00:19:45You still eating cereal with your fingers?
00:19:49She still thinks that the early martyrs didn't have spoons in the catacombs.
00:19:53Tell her they didn't have instant cream or wheat either.
00:20:01You look good.
00:20:05I can't complain. I got my health, my wealth.
00:20:08What about yourself?
00:20:12I can't complain. It gives me a lot of work, but otherwise I'm okay.
00:20:17I can see that.
00:20:22That's a sweetheart.
00:20:25I hear you fixed him up with an audience for the Pope.
00:20:30I made some arrangements, yeah.
00:20:33I bet you did.
00:20:35You ever tell you about Dominic Lopresti, that little Ginza with ambitions?
00:20:39He tried to move in on Jack's construction business.
00:20:42So he sticks him in a laundry dryer over in Lincoln Heights,
00:20:46shrinks the poor bastard down to 21 pounds.
00:20:49Is that a fact?
00:20:51I don't know the Holy Ghost for a fact,
00:20:54but you're in the Holy Ghost's business,
00:20:56so you tell me about the Holy Ghost.
00:20:58I believe you.
00:21:01Which means that I should believe you.
00:21:05No, meaning...
00:21:07you want to fall into shit and think it's Clover that don't believe me.
00:21:13Tom, I have to...
00:21:15Okay, you know Father Gagdon?
00:21:17Yes, I do. He's the pastor at St. Bernadette's.
00:21:20Who is it? Bingo, they tell me.
00:21:28Well, could have been a house call.
00:21:31The last time you hung your pants over the back of a chair,
00:21:34maybe it was a house call.
00:21:36I got to admit, that's not the way they teach it at the seminary.
00:21:40He's out of there. That's all that counts. Nobody's embarrassed.
00:21:43I'll have to tell the cardinal.
00:21:46Great send-off. Candles, incense, the works.
00:21:52Okay.
00:21:55All right, I owe you one, lunch.
00:21:57As long as your boss picks up the tab.
00:22:02Thanks, Tom.
00:22:04See you later.
00:22:10See you later.
00:22:41She had a nice pair of charlies.
00:22:44You don't often see a set of charlies that nice.
00:22:47A lot of good they done been doing now.
00:22:49Yeah.
00:22:51How long she been dead?
00:22:53Uh, ten, twelve hours, maybe on her.
00:22:57I think the butler did it.
00:22:59Don't you ever get tired of saying that?
00:23:02See the other half.
00:23:04Yeah.
00:23:06Did you hear the fights last night?
00:23:08No.
00:23:10Mercury Johnson and Vinnie Avila.
00:23:12It was like punching fog trying to hit him.
00:23:14Vinnie should have had a tire iron.
00:23:16You supposed to go in the water.
00:23:18He did. I got wet.
00:23:20Make sure you get a lot of tight shots on a tattoo, okay?
00:23:24It's a nice touch, huh? A rose tattoo.
00:23:27There's another nice touch.
00:23:29They found a candle stuck up a joy trail.
00:23:32You ought to check it out with your brother.
00:23:35You ever seen a church candle stuck in a joint like that?
00:23:38He'll tell me, too. He's got an answer for everything.
00:23:41I got it, Tommy.
00:23:43Get the tattoo.
00:23:45Get the tattoo?
00:23:50Got something I could use for the first edition, Tom?
00:23:53Looks like a werewolf got that.
00:23:55Or a vampire, huh?
00:23:57That's an angle, Howard.
00:23:59I heard you mention your brother.
00:24:01I hear he's very tight with the condo.
00:24:03That's a wonderful story.
00:24:05If his eminence was to stay at a funeral mass, I can get him an exclusive.
00:24:08One page. I wonder what it means, the death of this cunt.
00:24:11Howard, we don't even have an I.D. on her yet,
00:24:14so we don't know if she's a Catholic cunt or not.
00:24:16We can work that out later, Tommy.
00:24:18If you want the cardinal, it's a factor, Howard, a definite factor.
00:24:25That's the blood. I don't see any blood.
00:24:27Somebody cut somebody in half, there ought to be a little blood, don't you think?
00:24:30Well, if we open it, she's probably cut somewhere else.
00:24:33What would you slice in the bathtub?
00:24:35Why do you have to give me a hard time?
00:24:37Would you please explain that to me?
00:24:39I don't care what you want to do.
00:24:41What's going on?
00:24:43This asshole from the coroner's office wants me to put her on two stretches.
00:24:46Because she's in two fucking pieces is why.
00:24:48And I'm telling you it's one fucking body.
00:24:50I suppose she was in 14 pieces.
00:24:52You'd want me to get 14 stretches.
00:24:54That's exactly what I'm telling you, asshole.
00:24:56Who you calling?
00:24:58Do as he says, two stretches, okay?
00:25:01I hope this broadleaf's all over the goddamn grass.
00:25:08Get me a list of sex crimes with the same M.O.
00:25:11That'll take a while, Sergeant.
00:25:13What do you mean, it'll take a while?
00:25:15She was cut in two.
00:25:17You think it's an epidemic like the flu?
00:25:28This is the Maracumbe.
00:25:30The king of all men.
00:25:32Beloved of women.
00:25:34And appreciated by men.
00:25:36Beloved of women.
00:25:38And appreciated by men.
00:25:40This is the Maracumbe.
00:25:58I feel such a damn fool.
00:26:00Steve, I think we'd better go.
00:26:06Revenants.
00:26:08Monsignor.
00:26:10Vaya con Dios.
00:26:28Vaya con Dios.
00:26:36I never could stand that man.
00:26:38No cop.
00:26:40Tony Desmond,
00:26:42this proposal from Mr. Amsterdam
00:26:44to give us land for a school,
00:26:46what does he want to get out of it?
00:26:48I suspect sovereignty.
00:26:50How many contracts have we led
00:26:52to the Amsterdam Construction Company?
00:26:54Over the last few years,
00:26:56it's been about 17 million dollars.
00:26:58It would have cost around 22.
00:27:02For someone
00:27:04not so anxious to buy a good name.
00:27:06It's wonderful, isn't it?
00:27:08Makes it easy to believe
00:27:10in the infinite power of repentance.
00:27:16I keep hearing stories.
00:27:18About shortages?
00:27:20And other things.
00:27:24Ah, yes.
00:27:26I think once the Rancho Rosa
00:27:28situation has been resolved,
00:27:30that we should really seriously
00:27:32reevaluate Mr. Amsterdam's contribution
00:27:34to the Archdiocese.
00:27:36Perhaps we should think about phasing him out.
00:27:40I see.
00:27:42Vaya con Dios.
00:27:44I see.
00:27:48Vaya con Dios.
00:27:50I see.
00:27:56Nothing like a stiff
00:27:58for making me crave Chinese food.
00:28:02Think there's something funny about that?
00:28:04There's nothing funny about that,
00:28:06Frank, hell no.
00:28:08Hey, who is this?
00:28:10What?
00:28:12I don't know.
00:28:18Busted this joint 14 times
00:28:20when I was in vice.
00:28:28Now I eat in here all the time.
00:28:30Let's see why.
00:28:32He helped me build my motel in Culver City.
00:28:34I retire in two years.
00:28:36You know what you get from the police department
00:28:38after 20 years?
00:28:40Exactly, exactly.
00:28:42You should be thinking ahead, too.
00:28:44I'm not smart anymore.
00:28:48What about this girl?
00:28:52What girl?
00:28:54The one in two pieces, Frank.
00:29:02Tire marks.
00:29:04It's our best bet.
00:29:06Which doesn't give us much.
00:29:10More partners?
00:29:16You know,
00:29:18you know what we're gonna pull in on this one?
00:29:20Panty snippers, weenie flashes.
00:29:22Guys who fall in love with their shoes.
00:29:24Guys who built their hog in number 43 bus.
00:29:26You think I'm gonna lose any sleep
00:29:28over who took this broad out?
00:29:30Pistons, strawberries, and whipped cream,
00:29:32you think that?
00:29:34She's nine to five stiff, Tommy.
00:29:36No overtime.
00:29:38No overtime.
00:29:40You know how we're gonna break this one?
00:29:42Couple of years of bringing a guy around a red light.
00:29:44I kill the girl, they'll say.
00:29:46What girl, we'll say?
00:29:48The girl with the rose tattoo on her ass, they'll say.
00:29:50Which one is that, we'll say?
00:29:52That's how we're gonna break it.
00:29:56What do you think?
00:29:58Well, about 300 grand.
00:30:00Oh, I missed it.
00:30:02Oh, you're fired.
00:30:04That's the fourth one in three days you missed it.
00:30:06She looks better in one piece.
00:30:08...masturbation considerably
00:30:10and separation
00:30:12and loss of scalp
00:30:14along with a skull fracture.
00:30:16There appear to be wood splinters
00:30:18in the scalp lacerations.
00:30:20Sender.
00:30:22Sender.
00:30:24Hold on.
00:30:26Lithuanian.
00:30:28The brain tissue is macerated
00:30:30and dark red in color.
00:30:32Date of birth, February 10th, 1926.
00:30:34Cause of death, hemorrhage and shock
00:30:36due to brain injuries.
00:30:3822 next Tuesday.
00:30:40I don't think she's gonna blow out the candles.
00:30:48Death occurred no later
00:30:50than 12 hours prior to discovery.
00:30:54She also had
00:30:56undigested food in her stomach.
00:30:58Egg rose.
00:31:00I'll do it to somebody sideways.
00:31:02Egg rose.
00:31:04I analyzed the food.
00:31:08I have nothing against him personally,
00:31:10Your Eminence.
00:31:12No, I know you don't, Seamus.
00:31:14But Desmond is a very good chancellor.
00:31:16I think he's a better accountant
00:31:18than a chancellor, sir.
00:31:22Seamus has just been listing
00:31:24some of your shortcomings.
00:31:26It's a long list, Your Eminence.
00:31:28The Monsignor learned it by heart
00:31:30You see, I think I'm owed
00:31:32an explanation as to why
00:31:34I'm being replaced
00:31:36as chairman of the building.
00:31:38Now I'm owed that, eh?
00:31:40Yes, of course you are, Seamus.
00:31:44We had just felt
00:31:46that perhaps you
00:31:48couldn't take that much of a load.
00:31:50No, we're very grateful to you, Seamus.
00:31:52Very grateful indeed.
00:31:54I marvel at your energy, but...
00:31:56Excuse me.
00:31:58I mean, uh...
00:32:00the amount of your years...
00:32:02I'm a year younger than you are,
00:32:04Your Eminence.
00:32:06Oh, you are, are you?
00:32:08Well, the race is to the swift, huh?
00:32:14We thought Monsignor Fitzgerald
00:32:16would take over the building fund.
00:32:18I'm not so fond of raising money,
00:32:20but I think it's idiotic
00:32:22to turn that job over to him.
00:32:24No, no, no, Seamus.
00:32:26That is twinkle.
00:32:28Now, you show me a priest whose eyes twinkle all the time,
00:32:30and I'll show you a moron.
00:32:32That's quite enough, Seamus, quite enough.
00:32:34But you know that I cannot buy a new furnace,
00:32:36I cannot buy new desks for the school,
00:32:38I can't even buy insurance
00:32:40for the car without his permission.
00:32:44What's this we call that, Desmond?
00:32:46Central Purchasing, Your Eminence.
00:32:48Central Purchasing.
00:32:50I see. Well, I thought the priority was saving souls.
00:32:52I don't need you to tell me
00:32:54what our priorities are, Seamus.
00:32:56When I took over this archdiocese,
00:32:58it was virtually broke.
00:33:00The banks now lend us money,
00:33:02due in no small measure to Monsignor's fallacy here.
00:33:04Well, if he has his way,
00:33:06there'll be pay toilets in the rectory next.
00:33:08Seamus,
00:33:10I've known you for,
00:33:12what is it, 50 years now,
00:33:14and you were always a pain in the neck.
00:33:16Now, you've had your say.
00:33:18Good afternoon.
00:33:24Good afternoon.
00:33:46Nothing today
00:33:48without a reservation, I'm afraid.
00:33:50Monsignor's fallacy is terrible.
00:33:52I was under the impression that Monsignor's fallacy
00:33:54would be lunching with Mr. Amsterdam.
00:33:56Oh, you've made a mistake.
00:33:58Fuck it.
00:34:02Right this way, sir.
00:34:22Thank you.
00:34:52Thank you.
00:35:12I'm sure I'll have a better table in a moment, Monsignor.
00:35:14That's perfectly all right, gentlemen.
00:35:17Thank you.
00:35:19I'll have a Rob Roy, straight up twist, thank you.
00:35:22Tommy, what would you like?
00:35:24A Schlitz, straight up.
00:35:26No twist.
00:35:28As long as his eminence is paying.
00:35:32I'm so sorry, Monsignor.
00:35:34It's all right.
00:35:36The usual, Monsignor?
00:35:38Yes, please. Thank you.
00:35:40Tommy, what would you like?
00:35:42The usual would be fine for me, too.
00:35:44Whatever it is.
00:35:46You'll find out.
00:35:48His eminence told me to tell you
00:35:50that he was very grateful
00:35:52for what you did for Father Gaga.
00:35:54Anytime, anytime, anytime.
00:36:00Oh, yes.
00:36:02I saw this before.
00:36:06It's a very nice photo.
00:36:10Will you get your face in the paper
00:36:12for a priest and all?
00:36:14For a McPriest from Boyle Heights.
00:36:16You always were a harp of the class.
00:36:18What are you going to call yourself
00:36:20when you become Pope?
00:36:22I don't know. I thought about it.
00:36:24Maybe I'll call myself Gelasius II.
00:36:26Has a nice little ring to it, don't you think?
00:36:30Then again, it could be something simpler.
00:36:32Thomas, after you.
00:36:34There's never been a Pope Thomas.
00:36:36Thomas I.
00:36:38Thomas I, I like that.
00:36:40Constant reminder to me
00:36:42that the flesh is weak.
00:36:46Give me that pious crap, Des.
00:36:48There's that raffle
00:36:50at the Holy Innocence last year.
00:36:52Fixing it so that Sonny O'Meara's daughter
00:36:54got that new Studebaker.
00:36:56No wonder you gave such a big hello
00:36:58to Sonny over there.
00:37:00What did you get out of that?
00:37:06Sonny's vote on the planning commission.
00:37:08Got the property condemned
00:37:10for the new school at Holy Innocence.
00:37:14Well, you should have mentioned the name
00:37:16Cornelia Cronin to him.
00:37:18You would have saved yourself a Studebaker.
00:37:20Corky, they call her.
00:37:22She's a bookkeeper at one of his funeral parlors
00:37:24and she broke her back one weekend
00:37:26on Sonny's boat when Mr. Sonny was off
00:37:28making a retreat.
00:37:30He prays a lot better on a boat, Sonny,
00:37:32is what I hear.
00:37:34And she gets $500 a month for life, Corky.
00:37:36For the limp.
00:37:38Put this on my tab, waiter.
00:37:40It's all right, Jack. Thank you.
00:37:42No, no, no, monsieur.
00:37:44Your money's no good here.
00:37:48Oh, I'm sorry.
00:37:50Jack, this is my brother Tom.
00:37:52Jack Amsterdam.
00:37:54How are you? I haven't had the pleasure.
00:37:56Got the family resemblance.
00:37:58That's nice.
00:38:00It's nice to have an older brother.
00:38:02I wish I would have had an older brother.
00:38:04I don't hear from you
00:38:06about Rancho Rosa.
00:38:08Well, we're doing some new surveys, Jack,
00:38:10and as soon as we're finished, we'll talk about it, okay?
00:38:12I see.
00:38:14Does Eminence get the invitation to my fundraiser
00:38:16at St. Veronicans? Yes, he did.
00:38:18Tell Eminence I'm counting on him. I will.
00:38:20Nice to meet you.
00:38:22Likewise. He's a winner, your brother.
00:38:26And only the winner goes to dinner.
00:38:28Yeah, I like that.
00:38:30You hear that, monsieur?
00:38:32Only the winner goes to dinner.
00:38:34Friends and the family. Friends.
00:38:38I used to work for you.
00:38:40Oh, yeah? When was that?
00:38:44When you were running whores,
00:38:46I was your bagman in Wilshire Vice.
00:38:48I did the payoffs for Brenda.
00:38:52You sure you remember Brenda?
00:38:55You sure you remember Brenda?
00:39:01Of course, that was before you started doing
00:39:03fundraisers for St. Veronicans.
00:39:09I gotta be going.
00:39:11This brother of yours is a little disturbed.
00:39:13You ought to watch out for him.
00:39:24I'm sorry.
00:39:48Message for you.
00:39:51Hey, Tommy.
00:39:53Hey.
00:39:55How are you?
00:39:57Good.
00:39:59Anything for me?
00:40:03I want you to check out all the butcher shops,
00:40:05knife shops and medical supplies.
00:40:07All right?
00:40:09Geez, Tom.
00:40:11Ready.
00:40:14All right.
00:40:19Sergeant Spellacy.
00:40:21Could you hold for a minute, please?
00:40:23Check out the garages yet?
00:40:25Yeah.
00:40:27How many garages there are in this town?
00:40:291,500.
00:40:31Sergeant Spellacy, may I help you?
00:40:33Yes, ma'am.
00:40:35We do want to find that girl's killer.
00:40:37And you are who?
00:40:39Mrs. Finley?
00:40:41You're from Culver City now,
00:40:43but you used to live in...
00:40:45Gouin, Alabama?
00:40:49Now, if I do what?
00:40:51I hard-boil an egg, and I put it in the victim's right hand.
00:40:54Could you please mess up your own desk, Frank?
00:40:57Please?
00:40:59Listen, I'll have to ask you how lunch with the Monsignor went, huh?
00:41:01Then I close the casket.
00:41:03All right, I got that.
00:41:05And in the seven days, the murderer will confess.
00:41:07I've got that.
00:41:09Yes, ma'am.
00:41:11It's something he used to do in Gouin, Alabama.
00:41:15Yes, ma'am. Thank you, ma'am.
00:41:19You ever read the Brazilian ads?
00:41:21No.
00:41:23I read them all the time.
00:41:25I can pick them out.
00:41:27I walk down the street, I see a girl,
00:41:29I see the straps are a blast,
00:41:31and I know it's a latric latex brie these days,
00:41:33with matching garter belt.
00:41:35$5.95.
00:41:37It's a good thing to know, Frank.
00:41:41Want to have a drink?
00:41:43No, I'm going home.
00:41:45Okay, call me.
00:41:47Okay, you bet.
00:41:49The werewolf killer, the Virgin Tramp,
00:41:51continued today
00:41:53as police of a dozen cities in California
00:41:55joined the desperate manhunt.
00:41:57The victim, Lois Fazenda,
00:41:59was revealed by police today
00:42:01to have been a romance seeker.
00:42:03You wonder where the yellow went
00:42:05with absurd acts.
00:42:07Langendorf red, judge demer-
00:42:12the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
00:42:18Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
00:42:20Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
00:42:27Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
00:42:29Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
00:42:35Pray for us sinners now, at the hour of our death, amen.
00:42:37Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
00:42:39Blessed art thou among women,
00:42:40and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
00:42:42Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now,
00:42:45at the hour of our death, amen.
00:42:47Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
00:42:48Blessed art thou among women,
00:42:49and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
00:42:52Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now,
00:42:55at the hour of our death, amen.
00:42:56Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
00:42:58and to the Holy Ghost.
00:43:00As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be.
00:43:03Glory be to the Father, amen.
00:43:06This program is maintained only by your contributions.
00:43:09This is your program.
00:43:11At any sacrifice, it must continue.
00:43:13This is Monsignor Spellacy thanking you for your support,
00:43:16and inviting you to be with us daily
00:43:18as we pray the rosary for peace.
00:43:20May the blessing of Almighty God, the Father, the Son,
00:43:22and the Holy Ghost descend upon you,
00:43:24and remain forever, amen.
00:43:26♪♪
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00:44:06♪♪
00:44:16♪♪
00:44:26Since then, I accuse myself of impure actions.
00:44:30I curse a lot. I got a bad temper.
00:44:33And, uh...
00:44:45Is that all?
00:44:50The other day, I embarrassed my brother in public
00:44:54for using all the sins of my past life.
00:44:56I'm heartily sorry.
00:44:59For your penance, say ten Hail Marys and ten Our Fathers
00:45:01and make an act of contrition.
00:45:19Go in peace.
00:45:20Thank you, Father.
00:45:24Is this the only one Vice has got?
00:45:26Yep.
00:45:28What did that guy say?
00:45:30She did an Arab extra at Warner Brothers, huh?
00:45:33Yeah.
00:45:34Captain Casablanca?
00:45:35Right.
00:45:37Is this the only one Vice has got?
00:45:39Yep.
00:45:41What did that guy say?
00:45:43She did an Arab extra at Warner Brothers, huh?
00:45:46Yeah.
00:45:47Captain Casablanca?
00:45:48Right.
00:45:56Oh, Jesus.
00:45:58My God.
00:45:59Look at that.
00:46:01You're spilling your coffee.
00:46:03Oh.
00:46:07Her parents claimed the body.
00:46:09They're shipping it back to St. Louis.
00:46:11Right.
00:46:14What a waste.
00:46:18Who is that?
00:46:23It...
00:46:24Isn't that...
00:46:26Isn't that the girl who gave Father Mickey the great send-off?
00:46:30Lorna.
00:46:31Lorna Keane.
00:46:37I paid to get half and half.
00:47:06I should get half and half.
00:47:07But you only did half.
00:47:08What do you think I'm doing?
00:47:09Running a white sale?
00:47:10But she was in such a hurry.
00:47:11Can I help you, officer?
00:47:13Get your hat.
00:47:15Coat.
00:47:16Come on.
00:47:17Out.
00:47:18Hey, out.
00:47:20Make a good bouncer.
00:47:22Thanks.
00:47:31So...
00:47:33How are you?
00:47:35It's well.
00:47:36In the pink.
00:47:37I got a box at Santa Anita this season.
00:47:40Listen, Brenda, I'm sorry about before.
00:47:43I got carried away.
00:47:47Truce?
00:47:50Sure.
00:47:52Listen, I want to talk to that colored girl, Lorna.
00:47:54Is she around?
00:47:55I got rid of her.
00:47:56Why?
00:47:57I don't like having priests dying in my house.
00:47:59It's not good for business.
00:48:01You know, she made a stag for me.
00:48:03You know, she made a stag film.
00:48:04I'd like to talk to her.
00:48:05You know where she went?
00:48:07Well, maybe she went to New York
00:48:08on a personal appearance tour.
00:48:09Why don't you ask Walter Winchell?
00:48:11Come on.
00:48:12I want to find out who made this film.
00:48:14And I thought this was a social call.
00:48:21A guy named Standard.
00:48:23Leland K. Standard.
00:48:25He uses a lot of my girls.
00:48:30Lois Vincente.
00:48:31Did you ever know her?
00:48:33No.
00:48:35Any of your girls ever talk about a cutter?
00:48:38Hard to find a girl that hasn't been cut.
00:48:40It's part of the risk they take.
00:48:42Oh, that's swell.
00:48:43That's just what I want to hear.
00:48:44A lot of deep shit about how tough it is being a hooker.
00:48:48Come on.
00:48:58All that time that I was in the joint,
00:49:01never heard from you.
00:49:03Not once.
00:49:05Brenda, what do you want?
00:49:06What do you expect from me?
00:49:12Could have sent a card.
00:49:14I sent you a card.
00:49:15I sent you a Christmas card.
00:49:19With Santa Claus on it.
00:49:23Right.
00:49:29All right.
00:49:31Standard.
00:49:32That's it.
00:49:33Let's go.
00:49:52Open up.
00:49:53Police officers.
00:49:54LAPD.
00:49:55Open up.
00:49:57Open up.
00:49:58Police.
00:50:02Stop.
00:50:09Tommy, be careful.
00:50:14Freeze, you son of a bitch.
00:50:32Fuck.
00:50:35There it is.
00:50:36Here.
00:50:37Here, drink some water.
00:50:38All right.
00:50:39Stop crying.
00:50:40Here.
00:50:41It's all your nose.
00:50:42All right?
00:50:43Go on.
00:50:44Go on.
00:50:45Go on.
00:50:46Go on.
00:50:47Go on.
00:50:48Go on.
00:50:49Go on.
00:50:50Go on.
00:50:51Go on.
00:50:52Go on.
00:50:53Go on.
00:50:54Go on.
00:50:55Go on.
00:50:56Go on.
00:50:57Go on.
00:50:58Go on.
00:50:59Go on.
00:51:00Go on.
00:51:02You all right?
00:51:03Fine.
00:51:04Got away with my cuffs.
00:51:05Shit.
00:51:06Put out an APB on this son of a bitch.
00:51:09Get some patrol cars to shave down the area.
00:51:11That wasn't standard.
00:51:13And who the hell was it?
00:51:14Longshot.
00:51:15Standard arm.
00:51:16How much, cutie?
00:51:174,000, not including the pig.
00:51:20Pig.
00:51:21That's standard.
00:51:24That's swell.
00:51:26Then where the hell is he?
00:51:27She says he's dead.
00:51:28I'm checking it.
00:51:29Dead?
00:51:30What?
00:51:31Yeah.
00:51:33Auto accident.
00:51:35Week ago Wednesday.
00:51:39Son of a bitch totaled his car.
00:51:40Brand new Ford.
00:51:43DOA General Hospital.
00:51:45514 AM.
00:51:48Who are you?
00:51:49What do you do?
00:51:51Me?
00:51:52Do awful good French.
00:52:00The Lord is with you.
00:52:23Do you remember why you became a priest?
00:52:30I had a vocation.
00:52:33That's what we all say, isn't it?
00:52:36A vocation to love God, help the poor,
00:52:39solace the sick and dying.
00:52:41Is that it?
00:52:44Yes.
00:52:50Why do you still come back to me for confession?
00:52:53After all these years?
00:52:55What do you get out of that?
00:52:57It's good for my soul.
00:53:00But you see, I have a sin of pride.
00:53:03I also have.
00:53:05And I recognize it in you.
00:53:07Because you like power.
00:53:11You like to use power.
00:53:12I've told you that.
00:53:14Yes, I agree with you.
00:53:15But how could you get things done without using it?
00:53:19If our business is saving souls,
00:53:20then we need a place to save them.
00:53:22And somebody's got to take care of that.
00:53:24So you're all the same.
00:53:26I know, but what are the choices there?
00:53:30What?
00:53:33Well, I don't know.
00:53:36Just don't sell yourself short.
00:54:00Next time I ask you for a nine-iron,
00:54:02give me a nine-iron, would you?
00:54:04He gave you the seven
00:54:05because the last time you burned it,
00:54:06the hole was a seven-def.
00:54:08Was I playing with you?
00:54:10Mind your own business, would you?
00:54:22Hey, uh,
00:54:23keep reading about your brother the policeman does.
00:54:26In the newspapers about this virgin tramp business.
00:54:29It's the Virgin Mary they should be writing about.
00:54:31Don't you think so, Des?
00:54:37That's right.
00:54:40Well, people are bored.
00:54:42The war's over.
00:54:43They have to have something to sink their teeth into.
00:54:47But, uh,
00:54:48he's a grand policeman.
00:54:50That's what they tell me.
00:54:51Is he making any progress, I wonder?
00:54:57We've got to unload, Jack.
00:54:58It's not as if Jack's done anything illegal, Des.
00:55:01I mean, it's not as if he's done anything wrong.
00:55:03I know what I'm talking about.
00:55:05I've been like this since I was a kid.
00:55:06I've been in prison for years.
00:55:07I've been an asshole for years.
00:55:09And I've started a new life,
00:55:10and I'm going to leave here at the end of my life.
00:55:17You're not going to leave here?
00:55:18Like any other man?
00:55:19Just forget it.
00:55:20We're going to find a way out.
00:55:21We're going to find a way out.
00:55:22It's too late.
00:55:24We're not going to leave here.
00:55:25We're not going to leave here.
00:55:26We're not leaving here.
00:55:27It's a full-time job looking into where he's got to go,
00:55:30and that's it.
00:55:32I don't think you want to get on the wrong side of him.
00:55:35Why don't you leave that up to me?
00:55:43Wasn't there a run-in recently
00:55:45between Jack and your brother, the policeman?
00:55:49What about it?
00:55:51You let Jack go now, why don't you let him go?
00:55:54I don't want to get in trouble with him.
00:55:56You let Jack go now, what's it gonna look like?
00:55:59And what about Rancho Rosa?
00:56:00Forget Rancho Rosa, that's not gonna happen.
00:56:03Oh, that's gonna be a very difficult test for you.
00:56:07A little more difficult than it was for you
00:56:09to pension off Cornelia Cronin, see what her name was?
00:56:13Otherwise known as Corcoran.
00:56:16That was a Christian thing to do, Sonny.
00:56:27I think I can get Nettie Flynn to bid against Jack
00:56:29on that contract for the new orthopedic wing
00:56:32of St. John's Hospital.
00:56:33Oh, that's perfect.
00:56:35Nettie loves getting his bones broken, I hear.
00:56:37Oh, no, no, no, no.
00:56:38There's lots of grand ways to handle it, Dad.
00:56:41So Jack's feelings don't get hurt is what I mean.
00:56:45We could give him a dinner.
00:56:48Dinner.
00:56:50A Catholic lame to the ear.
00:56:52That's good.
00:56:54That's good.
00:56:56Let's just go ahead.
00:57:24Let's go.
00:57:55Hmm.
00:57:57Hmm.
00:57:59Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.
00:58:04Aye.
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00:59:25Aye.
00:59:26Aye.
00:59:27Aye.
00:59:28Aye.
00:59:29Aye.
00:59:30Aye.
00:59:31Aye.
00:59:32Aye.
00:59:46May I help you, young man?
00:59:48Mrs. Philspedichie, I know the way.
00:59:50You'll have to wait.
00:59:51She's receiving communion.
00:59:52Is that you, Tom?
00:59:54Yeah, it is.
00:59:56Brought me something.
00:59:58You'll see. How are you?
01:00:00Five breaths, Thomas.
01:00:02Are you still constipated?
01:00:04Oh, every day.
01:00:06The Monsignor here recommends the castor oil.
01:00:08And listen to the Monsignor, Thomas.
01:00:12You remembered my favorite color.
01:00:14What's this with the orange bow on here?
01:00:19He has grand grammar.
01:00:21Always had to wash your mouth out
01:00:23with soap and dirty words.
01:00:25Okay, Ma, let's forget about that, okay?
01:00:29Wouldn't it be grand
01:00:31if you had turned out
01:00:33to be a nun like the younger one?
01:00:35I'm a priest, Ma.
01:00:37I think I'm a priest.
01:00:39And a swell one, too.
01:00:43Tom,
01:00:45has Moira received First Holy Communion?
01:00:47Yeah, about 12 years ago, Ma.
01:00:51That's grand, Tom.
01:00:55Spell out the Holy Days of Obligation.
01:00:57And start at the beginning.
01:00:59There's a wrap on the knuckles
01:01:01if you don't start at the beginning.
01:01:03What's the beginning?
01:01:05Oh, well, Immaculate Conception.
01:01:07Try Immaculate Conception.
01:01:11I-M-M...
01:01:13Immaculate.
01:01:15That's the hard part.
01:01:17Conception is a snap.
01:01:19Let me finish.
01:01:21U-L-A-T-E, okay?
01:01:23You're a much better speller now, Tom.
01:01:25I hope so.
01:01:27You used to have trouble
01:01:29with your vowels, A-E-I-O-U.
01:01:31Sometimes Y.
01:01:37Conception, Thomas.
01:01:39Mind your Cs.
01:01:45Hello, sister.
01:01:47I don't think she talks much French.
01:01:49No.
01:01:51A grand speller like yourself,
01:01:53I'll give you a ride back to the Chancery.
01:01:55That's C-H-A-N-C-E-R-Y.
01:01:57I think you're right.
01:02:05I remember Uncle Eddie's wake
01:02:07when Aunt Jenny asked
01:02:09what Uncle Eddie was really like,
01:02:11after all, because he...
01:02:13he wrote so well.
01:02:15Aunt Jenny's casket looks up at Jenny
01:02:17and says,
01:02:19well, he was a good shoveler, Jenny.
01:02:21Not a fancy shoveler mind you,
01:02:23but a good shoveler.
01:02:25I praised him, the old man.
01:02:29One thing about the old man,
01:02:31he never missed a wake.
01:02:33Free booze and plenty of it.
01:02:39Ever feel like doing something?
01:02:41Sure, let's do that.
01:02:43Saturday?
01:02:45Saturday? Well, I have my golf game on Saturday.
01:02:47Oh.
01:02:49Okay.
01:02:51I'll cancel it.
01:02:53It's the only day you have.
01:02:55Oh, it's okay.
01:02:57I'll interfere with your golf game.
01:02:59I'll change it.
01:03:01Just forget about it.
01:03:03Tommy, I can change it.
01:03:05Just forget it, okay?
01:03:07Another time.
01:03:09Have a nice time.
01:03:11I'll, uh...
01:03:13see you later.
01:03:39It would be a hoax of you, Seamus,
01:03:41to remember that I'm running this archdiocese.
01:03:43I've not seen your spell, sir.
01:03:45Well, I...
01:03:47I respect that, your Eminence.
01:03:49It's just that this archdiocese
01:03:51has become so...
01:03:53I don't know.
01:03:55Every day I'm feeling less like a priest
01:03:57and more like a...
01:03:59a...
01:04:01a...
01:04:03a...
01:04:05a...
01:04:07I'm feeling less like a priest
01:04:09and more like an employee
01:04:11of a construction company.
01:04:13Yes, well, I want you at that luncheon, Seamus.
01:04:15I suppose I could pick up a few pointers
01:04:17about the cement business.
01:04:19Yes, Seamus.
01:04:21As you wish, your Eminence.
01:04:23Desmond.
01:04:38Sit yourself over here.
01:04:40Sit yourself.
01:04:49I'm afraid he'll have to go.
01:05:00Do you mean that...
01:05:02I mean he'll have to be replaced, Desmond.
01:05:04Don't look as if you've never heard the word before.
01:05:10Well, I think you're making a mistake,
01:05:12your Eminence.
01:05:14Oh, is that so?
01:05:18I don't mean to be disrespectful,
01:05:20but I think that he's...
01:05:24a good priest.
01:05:26He runs the best parish in the archdiocese,
01:05:28and he's a good man.
01:05:30Yes, of course he's a good man.
01:05:32He'll recruit younger pastors.
01:05:34That's the long and the short of it.
01:05:38Men will do what they're told.
01:05:42For the good of the church.
01:05:46Yes.
01:05:48For the good of Holy Mother Church.
01:05:50That's exactly what I mean.
01:05:54So, uh,
01:05:56will you just find out what his needs are?
01:06:02I'm sure you'll be able to find a place for him,
01:06:04Monsignor.
01:06:06And, uh, perhaps it will be a lesson
01:06:08for some of the other pastors.
01:06:16How's your wish, your Eminence?
01:06:18You know, you said that exactly like him.
01:06:22Well, you may as well know it now as never.
01:06:24We find you'll have a few unpleasant things to do
01:06:26when you become a bishop.
01:06:28You know, of course,
01:06:30there's an opening for an auxiliary bishop,
01:06:32and I've recommended you.
01:06:34And I strongly suspect
01:06:36that Rome will accept the recommendation.
01:06:38And then, perhaps,
01:06:40you'll find an ambitious young monsignor
01:06:44to do the dirty work for you.
01:06:48That's all, thank you.
01:06:50Thank you, your Eminence.
01:06:52There's an opening for a chaplain
01:06:54at St. Francis Hospital.
01:06:56Nope.
01:06:58I can't think of anything better.
01:07:00Well, there's a parish in the desert.
01:07:02It's St. Mary's.
01:07:04Yes, but that's in the middle of nowhere,
01:07:06Monsignor.
01:07:08I don't know.
01:07:10I don't know.
01:07:12I don't know.
01:07:14I don't know.
01:07:16I don't know.
01:07:18I don't know.
01:07:20Yes, but that's in the middle of nowhere, Monsignor.
01:07:22Yes, I like the desert.
01:07:26Well, then, consider it done.
01:07:28Thank you, Monsignor.
01:07:30Thank you.
01:07:32Goodbye, Monsignor.
01:07:34Goodbye, Monsignor.
01:07:40I'm sorry.
01:07:44Goodbye, desert.
01:07:50Goodbye, desert.
01:08:20Goodbye, desert.
01:08:50Goodbye, desert.
01:09:06It's true you're dating Sabu, the elephant boy.
01:09:08Are you going to see Sabu in New York?
01:09:10No comment.
01:09:12When's the last time you saw him?
01:09:14No comment.
01:09:16Thank you.
01:09:18Why did you have him?
01:09:20I don't know.
01:09:22I always get them mixed up.
01:09:24You know, my baby always wanted to be a movie star.
01:09:28She had this smile for him.
01:09:30She wore braces.
01:09:32She loved being Cosby.
01:09:34Going my way was your favorite movie.
01:09:36And a retainer after that.
01:09:38Only at night, the retainer never on dates.
01:09:42Ten o'clock, she had to be home date nights.
01:09:44She just popped the retainer back in.
01:09:46She wrote poems.
01:09:48See, that's the kind of girl Lois was.
01:09:50Weird.
01:09:54She wrote this.
01:09:56Remember me,
01:09:58and keep in mind
01:10:00a faithful friend is hard to find.
01:10:02But...
01:10:06Weird.
01:10:10When you are good and true,
01:10:12trade not the good ones for the new.
01:10:15When did, uh...
01:10:17Lois.
01:10:19Lois.
01:10:21How did you get a hold of this?
01:10:23She left it.
01:10:25Last time she was home.
01:10:27When was that?
01:10:29Thanksgiving. She said she was up for a part.
01:10:31Yeah, that's when it was.
01:10:33I'd like to keep the poem if you don't mind.
01:10:35Handwriting can be very useful in a case like this.
01:10:38She might have written to the...
01:10:40The son of a bitch.
01:10:42She might have written to the...
01:10:44The son of a bitch that killed her.
01:11:12Let me see.
01:11:42You know what happened?
01:11:44Shit's gonna hit the fan.
01:11:48You know what?
01:11:50Every bill, his and every bill
01:11:52on every phone in every apartment
01:11:54she's lived in the last year.
01:11:56Fifty-three times she's called him.
01:11:58So he was screwing her.
01:12:00I don't know.
01:12:02I don't know.
01:12:04I don't know.
01:12:06I don't know.
01:12:08I don't know.
01:12:10So he was screwing her.
01:12:12She did that a lot.
01:12:14That's what she did for a living, somebody said.
01:12:16So?
01:12:18Did he make you nervous, Frank?
01:12:22You thought about your brother when I seen you?
01:12:26I thought about him a lot.
01:12:30Sergeant Spellacy.
01:12:32Come on, I'd love to see you drop him, but not on this one.
01:12:34He was screwing her, wasn't he?
01:12:36Of course he was screwing her, but he didn't kill her.
01:12:38We're gonna find that out, aren't we?
01:12:40Look, he's old, Jack. He's gonna die soon.
01:12:42He's got cancer. Yeah?
01:12:44You didn't know that, did you? No, I didn't.
01:12:46Well, if you don't believe me, check it out.
01:12:48He shook hands with the Pope.
01:12:50Now, how many pimps can say that?
01:12:52That's a big deal.
01:12:54Believe me, he's crazier than you are.
01:12:56He's crazy enough to be dangerous. Yeah?
01:12:58Well, thank you very much.
01:13:00Yeah.
01:13:02Just think of it as my going-away present.
01:13:04I'm leaving town.
01:13:06You're what?
01:13:08Yeah, I'm leaving town.
01:13:10Why?
01:13:12I did a scrape a couple of days ago.
01:13:14I made a mistake.
01:13:16I...
01:13:18I nipped her.
01:13:20She hemorrhaged. Well, did she die?
01:13:22No.
01:13:24She's one of my old girls. She'll keep her mouth shut.
01:13:26It's just one of those things.
01:13:28You never used to do scrapes, did you?
01:13:30It happens.
01:13:32You get old.
01:13:34Yeah.
01:13:36So where do you think you'll go?
01:13:38Well, you know.
01:13:40I-I don't know.
01:13:42Maybe a reference or something?
01:13:46I never had any trouble
01:13:48buying cops.
01:13:54I, uh,
01:13:56just want to say goodbye.
01:13:58It's nice to have somebody to say goodbye to.
01:14:00The move I got, uh,
01:14:02Lieutenant Governor, uh,
01:14:04what am I going to do?
01:14:06Call him up and say,
01:14:08can you remember me? You used to be a regular.
01:14:18Pat says to Mike,
01:14:20what are you digging a hole for?
01:14:22Mike says to Pat,
01:14:24I'm not digging a hole.
01:14:26I'm digging the dirt and laving a hole.
01:14:28But speaking seriously,
01:14:30I remember that day,
01:14:32and it was not so long ago,
01:14:34when the creditors were banging at the doors
01:14:36of this archdiocese,
01:14:38when, as the saying goes,
01:14:40we didn't have a pot to...
01:14:42spit in.
01:14:44When we had buildings to build,
01:14:46churches and schools and convents
01:14:48and hospitals and not a copper penny
01:14:50to build them with.
01:14:52It was then at that dire moment
01:14:54when His Eminence asked our designee
01:14:56as Catholic layman of the year
01:14:58if he could help us out.
01:15:00I think all of you know what he said.
01:15:02Yes, said Jack Amsterdam.
01:15:04Yes, said Jack Amsterdam.
01:15:24And if I might add
01:15:26a personal note here... Brenda was right.
01:15:28Amsterdam was in St. John's Hospital
01:15:30getting treatment the night
01:15:32Brenda was killed.
01:15:34He's promised to do.
01:15:36And that's beat me in golf.
01:15:38Gentlemen, the Catholic layman of the year,
01:15:40Jack Amsterdam.
01:16:02Thank you.
01:16:16Don't get a sash, Frank.
01:16:18You're not a pimp.
01:16:20You gotta be a rich pimp
01:16:22to get a sash like that.
01:16:24You're a cop,
01:16:26not a pillar of the community.
01:16:33Don't worry about it.
01:16:35Jack?
01:16:37Are you being taken care of? Can I help you?
01:16:39Sonny's getting a car.
01:16:41By the way, have you made a decision
01:16:43on Renter Rosa yet?
01:16:45We haven't, Jack, but I think we're gonna do
01:16:47some serious re-evaluation
01:16:49and we should talk about it.
01:16:55Des, how you doing?
01:16:57Hi, Tommy.
01:16:59Yeah.
01:17:01What I wonder is if you were wearing this
01:17:03when you were banging, uh,
01:17:05Louis Prasenda.
01:17:10Huh?
01:17:12He's a real asshole, you know?
01:17:14What are you doing? Get back!
01:17:16Tommy, get back!
01:17:18What the hell are you doing?
01:17:20I'll knock it off!
01:17:22Hey!
01:17:24Knock it off!
01:17:26What are you doing?
01:17:28Get back!
01:17:31Come on!
01:17:33Come on, let's go.
01:17:36Come on, let go of me, will you?
01:17:38Get your hands off me, you rotten bastard!
01:17:40Come on!
01:17:42Get out of my way.
01:17:44You hear me?
01:17:46You son of a bitch!
01:17:48Come on back!
01:17:51All right, all right.
01:17:53Come on.
01:18:00Come on.
01:18:30Come on.
01:19:00Corpus Domini Nostra Iesu Christi.
01:19:02Custodia Ad Anum in Vita Mater De Mame.
01:19:06Corpus Domini Nostra Iesu Christi.
01:19:08Custodia Ad Anum in Vita Mater De Mame.
01:19:12Corpus Domini Nostra Iesu Christi.
01:19:14Custodia Ad Anum in Vita Mater De Mame.
01:19:23Too much wine in the chalice again this morning, Mr. Toomey.
01:19:27Yes, Monsignor.
01:19:29What I don't need in the morning is a stiff to pick me up.
01:19:33Sorry, Martin.
01:19:35It's all right. I'll run along for this.
01:19:43I heard you're missionaries, Des.
01:19:45Future of the church, you ask me.
01:19:47God help the church.
01:19:49You know how to handle them.
01:19:51That's for sure. I don't think there's anything you can't handle. I mean it.
01:19:53What's on your mind, Dan?
01:19:55A little breakfast.
01:19:57Cream-chip beef on toast down at the Biltmore.
01:19:59What do you think?
01:20:01Sorry, no, I can't. I'm busy, Dan.
01:20:03I'm sorry.
01:20:05Ah.
01:20:07Well, I can have a word with you.
01:20:09Sure.
01:20:11Here?
01:20:13Why not?
01:20:15I was, uh...
01:20:17thinking about your brother, the policeman.
01:20:19He's got a hell of a temper.
01:20:23He was an older boy, was he?
01:20:27Well, that wasn't his line, no.
01:20:33I suppose he's still working on that, uh...
01:20:35that girl's murder, the virgin something or other?
01:20:37Tramp.
01:20:39That's it.
01:20:43Well, you remember her, don't you, Des?
01:20:45Remember who, Dan?
01:20:47That girl.
01:20:49We met her, don't you remember? You and I.
01:20:53We were coming back from Del Mar last summer. Went to the track.
01:20:57She was hitchhiking. We picked her up.
01:20:59Gave her a ride, I mean.
01:21:01She was Christian Science, don't you remember?
01:21:03You asked her about it. She was sitting in the back seat.
01:21:07Christian Science.
01:21:13You mean the one who didn't know who Mary Baker Eddy was?
01:21:17That was her?
01:21:19That's right.
01:21:23Well, we, uh...
01:21:27We got to be friends, she and I.
01:21:41Des, if it comes out we were friendly, it's gonna...
01:21:43it's gonna be embarrassing.
01:21:45You know what I'm talking about?
01:21:53I was in San Diego the night that girl was killed.
01:21:55I was with Peg.
01:21:57We were at the regional meeting of the Knights of Columbus, Des.
01:21:59I'm clean.
01:22:07You have to have a talk with your brother.
01:22:11Des.
01:22:13It's Jack I'm worried about.
01:22:15He knew her, too.
01:22:19We had a talk, Jack and I.
01:22:21Oh, you did?
01:22:23Really.
01:22:25I suppose you told him I was a warm, personal friend of Mrs. Sanders.
01:22:27No, I didn't put it exactly like that.
01:22:29No, you didn't put it exactly like that.
01:22:31Of course not.
01:22:33Jack thinks your brother's crazy.
01:22:35He very well might be right.
01:22:37Des, I'm 57 years old.
01:22:39Yes, you're 57 years old.
01:22:41And you're worried about getting your picture in the paper
01:22:43when they take you down for questioning.
01:22:45Just remember something, Monsignor.
01:22:47You were there the day we met her.
01:22:49Yes, we met her. You fucked her.
01:22:53You fucked her.
01:23:07You know, she really got around in the arts diocese,
01:23:09your pal with the tattoo.
01:23:11He's a lawyer, right?
01:23:13Catholic layman of the year.
01:23:17She comes home from the track with him, Monsignor, himself.
01:23:23There's going to be an awful lot of red faces
01:23:25if this policeman does his duty.
01:23:27Yeah.
01:23:37That wasn't the only reason I came to talk to you.
01:23:39I'm sure it is.
01:23:43I'm sorry you don't understand that.
01:23:45Well, whatever you say.
01:23:47I just...
01:23:49wanted to also talk.
01:23:55Why is that?
01:23:57Because you're my brother.
01:23:59I can't talk to you. I can't talk to anyone.
01:24:03Okay.
01:24:05Something's got to change in my life.
01:24:09I'm tired of fixing things.
01:24:11I'm tired of...
01:24:13fixing things.
01:24:17I'm tired of this.
01:24:44Want to eat something?
01:24:46There's a pie.
01:25:08Watch your heads.
01:25:14Come on, girls. Let's go.
01:25:28It was just some way of making a buck, that movie.
01:25:30That's all it was.
01:25:32I never even saw it.
01:25:38What about her?
01:25:43I never even saw her before that movie.
01:25:45And I never saw her since.
01:25:49All I remember is that tattoo.
01:25:53She says she got it from some guy down in Long Beach.
01:25:56Didn't cost her nothing, just a piece of ass.
01:26:01Boy, did Stander like that tattoo.
01:26:05He was a freak, Stander.
01:26:07He belonged in a zoo.
01:26:09What was a zoo?
01:26:13Out in El Segundo.
01:26:15In old army barracks.
01:26:17It was like a goddamn freak show out there.
01:26:22All right, look at this.
01:26:25That's Stander.
01:26:29All right.
01:26:31When did he die?
01:26:36Compared to when she died.
01:26:39That's the night before.
01:26:41He had 11 hours to kill her.
01:26:43Son of a bitch.
01:26:45He killed her, dumped her at the lot, then he totals the Ford.
01:26:48Son of a bitch.
01:27:11Son of a bitch.
01:27:41Son of a bitch.
01:28:11Son of a bitch.
01:28:41Son of a bitch.
01:29:11Son of a bitch.
01:29:41Son of a bitch.
01:30:11Son of a bitch.
01:30:41Son of a bitch.
01:31:11Son of a bitch.
01:31:41Son of a bitch.
01:32:12PHONE RINGS
01:32:19It's Felicity Homicide.
01:32:23Where are you?
01:32:27All right, I'll be right there.
01:32:35What happened?
01:32:37Gas.
01:32:39There's enough gas in the room to blow up half of East L.A.
01:32:53It's over here.
01:32:5784.
01:33:03That's it.
01:33:09That's it.
01:33:11That's it.
01:33:36One of the girls said the last person she called was Jack Amsterdam.
01:33:39I don't know what she wanted, but I'd say she didn't get it.
01:34:06Let's get him, Frank.
01:34:08She's a suicide.
01:34:10And we'll get him for the Vicenda girl.
01:34:12You know Stan had killed her. You just came back from the barracks.
01:34:14You know Jack didn't do it.
01:34:16Well, then his lawyer will get him off, won't he?
01:34:18You can't do it.
01:34:20No, you can't do it. You're just trying to settle up an old score.
01:34:22What about your brother? It's his ass, too.
01:34:24What are you trying to prove? That he's just like you?
01:34:26He is. He's your brother.
01:34:38He's your brother.
01:34:40Are you all right?
01:35:06Not the crap I don't have all day.
01:35:10It's been 20 years since my last confession.
01:35:12I had a lot of things to do.
01:35:18You're not going to say anything?
01:35:20The way it goes, you're supposed to tell me.
01:35:22Yeah.
01:35:26Well...
01:35:28I'm a married man,
01:35:30but I got to admit I know a few girls of my time.
01:35:32Nothing else?
01:35:36I got into arguments with some guys.
01:35:38How do you define arguments?
01:35:40Who the hell are you to ask all these questions?
01:35:42I'm your confessor.
01:35:44You're my confessor in here, but you're wheeling deal out there, is that it?
01:35:46You're in here now.
01:35:48Yeah, I know.
01:35:54Is that all?
01:35:56Yeah, yeah, that's all.
01:35:58Are you sorry for your sins?
01:36:00Sure, I'm sorry for my sins.
01:36:02For your penance?
01:36:04I know.
01:36:06I don't know why you did that to me.
01:36:08I thought we were friends.
01:36:10You did that Rancho Rosa deal,
01:36:12and then you paid me off with that green sash.
01:36:14And another thing, about your brother.
01:36:18Go in peace.
01:36:22Open it up!
01:36:24You keep him off my fucking back.
01:36:26He's trying to drop that whore on me.
01:36:28Now, I can't help it if he was on the take, your brother.
01:36:30Nobody twisted his arm.
01:36:32You tell him if he grabs me, it's your ass gonna be in the sling.
01:36:34Not mine. I'm clean.
01:36:36Not his. Yours.
01:36:38You're a priest. A priest!
01:36:40And you knew that whore, and you never told anyone.
01:36:42Now, you ask your brother
01:36:44how that's gonna look in the newspapers.
01:36:48Who absolves you?
01:36:50Huh?
01:36:52Who absolves you?
01:36:54I don't know.
01:36:58I got a family.
01:37:00There's a scholarship named after me.
01:37:02I met the pope, for Christ's sakes.
01:37:04You understand, you hypocrite?
01:37:24I love you.
01:37:26I love you.
01:37:28I love you.
01:37:54What are you doing
01:37:56with the solution to that McPimp?
01:37:58I want to know that.
01:38:02Why?
01:38:08Do you want me to hear your confession?
01:38:10I got nothing to tell.
01:38:18Oh, yeah.
01:38:20Okay, all right.
01:38:22I want to say that your pal Jack is kind of in the shit
01:38:24and I want to pick him up.
01:38:26I don't want to embarrass you, the cardinal.
01:38:30As a state of grace, I'll let him enjoy it.
01:38:32All right?
01:38:34I thought you wouldn't be prepared.
01:38:36You saw his picture in the paper.
01:38:38I don't want to do anything behind your back.
01:38:42Yes, thank you.
01:38:48Thank you very much.
01:38:50This is for the fazenda girl.
01:38:52Yes.
01:38:54You passed her around
01:38:56like a piece of Christmas candy
01:38:58while you were out playing golf.
01:39:00Did he do it?
01:39:02Did he do it, Tommy?
01:39:04Tommy, did he do it?
01:39:08I don't care where they killed her!
01:39:10I don't give a shit!
01:39:12I just don't care!
01:39:14That's it.
01:39:16And I don't care whether you go down with him or not.
01:39:32Neither do I.
01:39:44Neither do I.
01:40:14You don't have to make any comment.
01:40:16What do you plan for the future?
01:40:44I don't know.
01:40:58I'm gonna die, Tommy.
01:41:02The arteries to the pump are shut.
01:41:06Sit down.
01:41:14Sit down.
01:41:40It's all right. I'm ready.
01:41:44It takes a pass.
01:42:00I'll...
01:42:04I'll...
01:42:08I'll sit.
01:42:10I'll...
01:42:14I'll...
01:42:20Sing an Irish song at your funeral.
01:42:28With my voice.
01:42:32I'll wake you up again.
01:42:40It's okay.
01:42:44It's okay.
01:42:56It must have been hard, Tess.
01:42:58No, it wasn't.
01:43:02I never had a great gift for loving God.
01:43:04Seamus told me that that was...
01:43:08It was not a drawback as long as I could make myself useful.
01:43:14He told me the meaning of being a priest.
01:43:20And there's a kind of peace in that.
01:43:32It's my fault, Tess.
01:43:34All of it. Every bit of it.
01:43:36I'm sorry.
01:43:38I'm sorry.
01:43:44Well, Tommy, you were my salvation, actually.
01:43:48You made me remember things that I had forgotten.
01:43:52I thought I was someone who I wasn't.
01:44:04I saved a plot over there.
01:44:08When the time comes...
01:44:12Out here...
01:44:14All this goddamn sand...
01:44:16I don't know.
01:44:18I don't know.
01:44:20I tell you.
01:44:22I guess it's...
01:44:26One place is about as good as another.
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