:01:00
Joey Tai goes to the
Manhattan Borough president,
:01:03
who he contributes
$100,000 a year to, all right?
:01:08
The borough president goes to the mayor.
The mayor goes to me.
:01:11
And the word is, lay off.
:01:14
That is the way the game is played, OK?
:01:17
No more wiretaps on Joey Tai. And you
don't go to the Drug Enforcement Agency.
:01:22
Going to outside agencies
isn't your job. It is Lou's job.
:01:26
And what about the dead tourists,
Commissioner, huh?
:01:29
I guess they don't add up to
a can of sardines, do they?
:01:32
You change your tune pretty fast just cos
that slimebag has tea with the mayor.
:01:37
You can't link Joey Tai to that. You know
it. The point is that you cease and desist.
:01:41
What if I don't, huh? What are you
gonna do? You gonna suspend me?
:01:47
What will that look like
in the papers? You tell me.
:01:49
You suspend the most
decorated cop in the city.
:01:52
You call off an investigation
into the Chinese Mafia.
:01:54
What investigation? What Chinese Mafia?
The investigation's in your mind.
:01:59
What's it gonna look like? You tell me.
:02:01
Your department's gonna
look like shit, that's what.
:02:05
- Are you blackmailing me?
- Call it what you want.
:02:07
I've been swallowing the bullshit around
here for 10 years, and I'm choking on it.
:02:13
- You ever think about your pension?
- Fuck that!
:02:15
That's what's wrong with this department.
:02:18
Everybody's so worried
about their pension.
:02:21
- Stanley...
- Oh.
:02:23
Never have I ever heard anything like this.
This is a fucking disgrace!
:02:28
No, Lou. This is a fuckin' war,
and I'm not gonna lose it. Not this one.
:02:32
Not over politics.
It's always fuckin' politics!
:02:35
This is Vietnam all over again.
:02:38
Nobody wants to win this thing, do you?
:02:41
Just flat out win, do they, Lou?
:02:45
You go to the press again, White,
you know what you're doin'?
:02:49
You're putting a gun to my head, Stanley.
:02:55
That's what we are. We're four guys
in a room with guns to our heads.