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A shoplifting suspect turns out to be a wanted 1960s-era radical, whose raging about the Vietnam War stirs up passions and polarizes the precinct.
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00:03Good morning, man.
00:04Hey, Drake.
00:06Good morning, Inspector.
00:08Barney in?
00:09You just stepped out for a second.
00:12Yeah, I got a couple of monies.
00:16Well, this is a scorcher, hmm?
00:19How about your pardon?
00:21The heat, the heat, especially for October.
00:24Yeah.
00:25You fry an egg on the sidewalk out there.
00:29Mm-hmm.
00:32You're not much of a conversationalist, are you?
00:37No, I guess not.
00:39It's okay.
00:40You're a good guy.
00:44Ah, Inspector.
00:45All right.
00:46How goes it?
00:48Boy, real scorcher out there, eh?
00:50Oh, yeah.
00:55What brings you around, Inspector?
00:56Oh, well, Barney, I just thought I'd stop by, see how things are going along, you know?
01:03It ties and inspires the men at the big brass, drop around occasionally, you know, give them a little smile,
01:09huh?
01:09A little pat on the rump.
01:11A little morale routine, Barney.
01:13Yeah, I see.
01:14Sure.
01:14Uh, any problem this morning?
01:18No, no, everything's fine.
01:22How about you, Dietrich?
01:24Enjoying your work?
01:25More than I can say.
01:28I've got to go right away to go.
01:30Eh?
01:31Iris, how about you?
01:33A little pumping up, maybe?
01:35A little pat on the po-po?
01:36Oh, uh, no.
01:37Thank you, Inspector.
01:38I'm just dandy.
01:39Ah, yeah, good.
01:40What about Wojo and Nick?
01:42Uh, Wojo's, uh, out.
01:44Uh, Nick's at the DA's office for a while.
01:46I'll, uh, but they're fine.
01:47Happy as kittens.
01:48Good.
01:49Good.
01:49Well, maybe I'll, uh, just go downstairs and take a gander at the uniforms, you know?
01:55Sometimes a few of them down there feel down in the dumps because, eh, they don't get to wear classy
02:01suits like, uh, like you and me.
02:03Right, huh?
02:05You and who?
02:06Um, I'm sure they'd appreciate that, Inspector.
02:09Thanks, sir, huh?
02:10Oh, yeah.
02:12Boy, really a scorcher, though, isn't it?
02:14Come on, yeah.
02:15Time to make the man go limp all over.
02:18It didn't matter to speak.
02:21Not really.
02:23Huh?
02:23What?
02:31See you later, buddy.
02:37Hey, Morris, here we are.
02:39Right over there.
02:40Come on, Eric.
02:41Hey.
02:42You know, I'm actually happy you caught me.
02:46Well, uh, we're kind of thrilled ourselves.
02:49Have a seat.
02:50What's that all about?
02:52It's, uh, Gerald Morris.
02:56He was shoplifting over at Cotterman's Market.
02:59Shoplifting.
03:00It's a bourgeois concept.
03:02It's a bourgeois concept.
03:03Welcome.
03:06For shoplifting?
03:07Do you have any other suggestions?
03:11You really don't know who I am?
03:14Gerald Morris?
03:15No, I'm not Gerald Morris.
03:17What's driver's license said?
03:19I got 30 different licenses.
03:22I had Gerald Morris, Morris Phillips,
03:26Philip Morris,
03:27Helen Hayes.
03:30I take it you're none of these people.
03:34I'm Jonathan Dodd.
03:38Fine.
03:39What was the doctor?
03:40Wait a minute.
03:41I just said I'm Jonathan Dodd.
03:43Hey.
03:45The FBI and the U.S. Marshal
03:48have been looking for me for nine years.
03:57What for?
03:59You don't know?
04:00Uh, no, but it's, uh,
04:02very generous of you to tell us.
04:05A confession is good for the soul.
04:07We like to think so.
04:09Uh, Jonathan Dodd.
04:141966, violation of selective service law.
04:171967, conspiracy to incite violence.
04:201967, illegal possession of explosives.
04:241969, attempted bombing of U.S. military base.
04:29I stopped the war.
04:32I apologize for not remembering you.
04:35Forget it.
04:36I have a seat, Mr. Dodd.
04:39Well, just as you finish booking them,
04:41call the FBI.
04:42Yeah.
04:44And listen,
04:45I'm not talking to the FBI
04:46or the reporters
04:47or anybody
04:48until I make my phone call.
04:51Fine.
04:55Oh.
04:57Okay.
04:58Okay.
05:17I'm not talking to the FBI.
05:21I'm not talking to the FBI.
05:22I'm not talking to the FBI.
05:25I'm not talking to the FBI.
05:25I'm not talking to the FBI.
05:25I'm not talking to the FBI.
05:25I'm not talking to the FBI.
05:25I'm not talking to the FBI.
05:25I'm not talking to the FBI.
05:26I'm not talking to the FBI.
05:26I'm not talking to the FBI.
05:26I'm not talking to the FBI.
05:26I'm not talking to the FBI.
05:27I'm not talking to the FBI.
05:30I'm talking to the FBI.
05:32I'm talking to the FBI.
06:07Hello, Abby.
06:10Do you expect him back?
06:13You wouldn't have his new number.
06:16Thanks, anyway.
06:22Fever.
06:23Apes.
06:24Pressure.
06:26Bill and Emily.
06:29They got problems of their own.
06:35So, what's going on?
06:37It's a normal procedure, Mr. Dodd.
06:39Well, I'm still not talking to the reporters or the news people.
06:42I'll tell them if any show up.
06:46Where's the FBI, anyway?
06:48That was them on the phone.
06:50They'll be over as soon as they can shake an agent loose.
06:53It'll be a day or two.
06:54A day or two.
06:56Sorry.
06:58That place has really fallen apart since Hoover died.
07:02Come on, I'm going to put you in a cage now.
07:05Hey, I haven't made my phone call yet.
07:07You made 15 of them.
07:10Everybody's moved.
07:13I mean, I'll, uh...
07:20Okay, you know, sure, go make your phone call.
07:28Uh, you want to get through that door, please?
07:31What is that?
07:32Sarcasm?
07:34This is our burglar.
07:36Anthony Merola broke into the first floor apartment over on 13th Street.
07:40We apprehended him in a bathroom barn.
07:42Tried to escape through this little window.
07:45Wasn't a pretty sight.
07:48We caught him, uh, with all the stuff from the apartment barn.
07:51Watches, jewelry, little Vienna sausages.
07:56You ever try those?
07:57They're incredible.
08:00Take them all and book them.
08:03That's it?
08:07For my part, yes.
08:08No snide comment?
08:10No veiled expressions of disgust?
08:14About what?
08:16Come on!
08:17We've been dancing all around it.
08:19I know that I'm an object of revulsion to people.
08:22So why don't you just go ahead and say it?
08:25Merola, you're being arrested for burglary.
08:27Bluttony, not gluttony.
08:30Uh, Mr. Merola, over here, please.
08:36Take a seat.
08:37Just one?
08:41See what I mean?
08:47So what were you doing in the 60s, anyway?
08:51I was in the service.
08:53Over there?
08:54Yeah.
08:57In the cage.
08:58So what were you?
09:01I was a Marine.
09:02Of course.
09:05One of those macho crew cuts who gets their kick shooting off guns.
09:10Maybe so.
09:11Well, aren't we well-adjusted?
09:17Address?
09:18In this society, it's a crime not to be perfect.
09:21Address?
09:23But you'll find out what I mean.
09:27Pardon me?
09:28I can always spot people who are going to end up like this.
09:35Are you referring to me?
09:37I can see it in your cheeks.
09:39They're puffy.
09:40That's muscle.
09:41Muscle.
09:44Look, I will never have a weight problem.
09:48I am genetically svelte.
09:52Come on, Mr. Merola.
09:53We're going to put you in that little cage.
09:59Howdy, Carly.
10:03Why'd you pick up El Blempo?
10:07He's Harrison Dietrich's collar.
10:10Hey!
10:12This cell wasn't made for this many people.
10:15It's spectacular.
10:16You got a place to sit down.
10:18Who's the mouth contender?
10:20Uh, his name is Jonathan Dodd.
10:22Dodd?
10:23Yeah.
10:23We picked him up this morning for shoplifting.
10:26Huh?
10:27FBI's been looking for him for nine years.
10:29Yeah, one of them hippie types, huh?
10:32Sighting riots, bombings.
10:40Well, there now, Mr. Dodd.
10:42Like the busy little beaver, aren't we?
10:46I didn't catch the name.
10:48Luger.
10:50Inspector Frank Luger, NYPD.
10:54Inspector.
10:55Well, that's about as high as a pig can get, isn't it?
10:58Hey!
10:59No, no, no.
10:59I'm used to that kind of talk.
11:01Don't bother me, will you?
11:03I've dealt with this kind of fireman before.
11:06Back in, uh, what, 68, directing crowd control at Columbia University.
11:12I was there, too.
11:13Were you really?
11:18Occupying the classrooms, huh?
11:20Throwing the rocks and the bricks through the windows, huh?
11:24While our fine young American boys were sailing across the ocean,
11:28putting their life on their line for their country.
11:31For their country?
11:31Or for the oil companies, and for Dow Chemical and DuPont?
11:36You're full of hush.
11:37Hey, just shut up, all right?
11:41Uh, fuck, Dodd.
11:45Look, you try pulling them kind of tricks in Soviet Russia,
11:49you see where you wind out?
11:50In jail?
11:51Uh, don't give me that, my mouth.
11:54I dealt with your kind of people before.
11:56I know how to...
11:59I know how to...
12:00Inspector, are you all right?
12:02Huh?
12:03Yeah, sister.
12:04Hey, hey.
12:05Yeah, uh, Barney.
12:07Is your arm hurt?
12:08Oh, no.
12:08Just a hot...
12:09Hot flash.
12:11What's the matter?
12:11Nothing.
12:12Nothing, Barney.
12:13It's just probably the fish sticks I have for breakfast.
12:17Uh, get some cold water.
12:18Uh, a wet towel.
12:20Just take it easy.
12:21Captain, shortness of breath, nausea, pain radiating on the left arm?
12:24It's heart.
12:25Oh, heart, don't be silly.
12:27Just, just, just relax.
12:28I'll call an ambulance, Bar.
12:30Not, not for me.
12:31All right, Inspector, please.
12:32Please, just stay, stay seated.
12:33Sit down, relax.
12:35All right, uh, yeah.
12:37You're going, Inspector.
12:38All right, thanks.
12:39You're going, Inspector.
12:39Statistics show that seven out of ten heart attack victims
12:41at the time of their attack deny they're having one.
12:43It's just a hit, you know.
12:45Well, it's a real scorcher.
12:47Honest, that's...
12:48Eight out of ten.
12:54All right, Inspector, I know, but just, uh, it'll be steezy.
12:57Don't have to fuss about me.
13:00All right, just take it easy.
13:01Breathing any better now?
13:03He's not going to give me that mouth-to-mouth stuff, I...
13:06Come on, Inspector.
13:07Just, just, just relax.
13:08Just take it easy.
13:08Oh, Mark.
13:10The, uh, ambulance said they'll be here as soon as they can.
13:12I won't get in it.
13:13It's just a precaution, Inspector.
13:15Take it easy.
13:17Anything else, uh, we should be doing?
13:18No, Brian, this has nothing to do.
13:20Just keep him as comfortable as possible.
13:21That's right.
13:23Thanks.
13:25Yeah, uh, you, you're sure you wouldn't, uh, wouldn't like to lie down?
13:29Bonnie, I, I don't want to be a blotter.
13:31Just, you forget I'm here, go about your work, whatever you have to do, buddy.
13:38Okay.
13:44They told me I'm going to have a heart attack in ten years if I don't knock off a hundred
13:47pounds.
13:49Gee, that's too bad.
13:53Hey, hey.
13:55What, what happened to your chief, anyway?
13:58In one minute we were just talking, and then the next...
14:00You just, uh, keep your mouth shut, okay, Dodd?
14:03Hey, what did I do?
14:05A cheeseburger knows you don't argue with an old man in this kind of heat.
14:09We were having a dialogue.
14:11Yeah, yeah, I heard it.
14:13About us being over there for all the oil companies and all that cow poo.
14:17Read the Pentagon papers.
14:19Well, let me tell you something.
14:21I wasn't over there, and the guys I was with weren't over there for any oil companies, or DuPont, or
14:27Dow Chemical.
14:28Yes, you were.
14:29Now, maybe you just didn't know it.
14:31Well, maybe if you student creeps hadn't been over here demonstrating and giving aid and comfort to the enemy, the
14:38war might have been over a lot sooner.
14:39And a few people might not be dead today.
14:43Right?
14:44I was one of those student creeps.
14:48Now, you were in a Coast Guard.
14:51That was later.
14:54You mean, you were out there turning over cars and throwing rocks with the rest of them?
14:58Well, Joe, there were a lot of us protesting U.S. involvement aggressively, but peacefully and lawfully.
15:05Yeah.
15:06Oh, really?
15:09Can't argue with that.
15:13Hey, Arthur, I don't remember seeing you out there.
15:18I realized early on that U.S. involvement was a tragic mistake.
15:22I came out against the war in 66.
15:2657.
15:3057?
15:31That's when Eisenhower first sent military advisors over to train South Vietnamese personnel.
15:37Yeah, but in 57, you were only...
15:39I was 14.
15:40I got a scout badge for international affairs.
15:47Right this way.
15:48Watch your head.
15:51Doesn't bother me anymore.
15:53Hey, Johnny.
15:55Gee, how you been?
15:58And they finally got me.
15:59Yeah, well, gee, it's been a long time.
16:02Can you believe it's been 10 years since we took over the Velocity building?
16:06So why didn't you keep in touch, guy?
16:08You know, it's been rough the last few years.
16:10I had to stay underground.
16:12But I wanted to.
16:14I really wanted to.
16:15Hell, ditto here.
16:17So what are you doing now?
16:19Huh?
16:21What are you doing?
16:24I sell life insurance, John.
16:27Oh, God, no.
16:33I didn't tell you, Bonnie.
16:36I went up to Vermont last month to visit old Brownie.
16:41Really?
16:42He's in a nursing home up there, you know.
16:45Laying in bed all day long, looking like so much summer squash.
16:54Maybe you'd better not talk, Inspector.
16:57Just, just...
16:58Hey.
17:01Bonnie, if something should happen to me...
17:04Now, don't let them hook me up to their machines, you know, and all them hoses to keep me going.
17:10Inspector, just...
17:10I want you to pull out that plug for me, Bonnie.
17:13Please.
17:13Yank that tube right out of my door.
17:16There's no reason...
17:16If that don't work, Bonnie, just send me out of the bed, on the floor.
17:20Inspector, this is pointless.
17:21Bonnie, will you promise me...
17:23Inspector, please.
17:24Bonnie!
17:24I promise, I promise, I'll do it, I promise.
17:28All right, I'll just...
17:32But first...
17:33Let's make pretty damn sure there's no hope.
17:39I'll use my best judgments.
17:42Remember, you're a cop, not a doctor.
17:49Jonathan, you can't live in the 60s forever.
17:52You get tired of all the confrontation.
17:55And you have to let the wounds heal.
17:57Yeah, everybody's getting real cozy these days.
18:00Joe Enlai's having tea with Nixon.
18:03And Jane Fonda and John Wayne are laughing it up like nothing ever happened.
18:08Mond and Lewis.
18:11They made up.
18:13Look, Jonathan, that's not the point.
18:14What, do you want to sell me a policy now?
18:15Hey, come on, that's not the only one.
18:17Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
18:18Hey.
18:19Let's just lay off, all right?
18:22He's always been very volatile.
18:24Yeah, I know what he's always been.
18:27And I know what he still is, which is more than I can say for you, Shorty.
18:38Yeah, you're welcome.
18:42Somebody have a corner up here?
18:44Yeah, in here.
18:45Open that cage.
18:46Not him.
18:48Not him?
18:49No, it's not him.
18:51Come on, in here.
18:54What's going on in there?
18:56It's an officer with a possible heart attack.
18:58Oh, I hope he has full hospitalization.
19:01You know, your union's coverage is woefully inadequate.
19:05Disgusting.
19:06I'm Ronald Morazz.
19:07I didn't get your name.
19:08I didn't give it.
19:09Excuse me.
19:11Here you go.
19:13I can walk, Ronnie.
19:15Regulations, Inspector.
19:16Hey, wait a minute.
19:17Wait a minute.
19:18Wait a minute.
19:18Never thought you'd see the old inspector going out like this, huh?
19:22Hey, you're going to be okay.
19:24Ah, you're a scum and always will be.
19:27Yeah, you hang in there, too.
19:29Hold it a second.
19:30Hold it.
19:33What happened?
19:35Listen, Bonnie, just in case we don't have the opportunity to talk in the future.
19:40Inspector, please, it's not necessary.
19:41No, no, no.
19:42I want to say this for the record.
19:43I've been a very lucky man to have the opportunity to serve and work with what I consider to be
19:51one of the finest group of police officers ever assembled in the history of the NYPD.
20:04You, too, Levine.
20:26Hey, Deidre.
20:27And, uh, Harris.
20:29I want to apologize for blowing my stack back there.
20:33Oh, forgive it.
20:34Hey.
20:35See, uh, you can have all the arguments you want about, uh, why we were over there
20:41and, uh, and should we have been over there and all that.
20:45But, uh, you can't really understand it unless you were there yourself.
20:55I mean, uh, I was over there and I still don't understand it.
21:01Makes sense.
21:03Oh, yeah.
21:10Nothing from the hospital yet?
21:12Uh, no.
21:15Barney, uh, I'm taking my role.
21:17I'm going to run him over to the tombs.
21:18Fine.
21:19Run me over?
21:20What am I, a currency cow?
21:2512th Precinct.
21:2712th Precinct.
21:2712th Precinct.
21:27Well, Jim Horowitz.
21:29Oh, yeah.
21:31Uh, you can tell me.
21:35Sure.
21:36It's the hospital.
21:40Captain Miller here.
21:42Uh, yeah, yeah, right.
21:43Uh, well, uh, how is he?
21:46Oh?
21:51It's too bad.
21:54Yeah, well, thanks.
21:56Right.
22:00What is it?
22:03Oh, he's fine.
22:05Something they call a, uh, cardiac fibrillation, something like that.
22:09Fibrillation.
22:09Fibrillation.
22:10He said it's very minor.
22:12What, what, what was it too bad for?
22:16Oh, he slugged an intern.
22:18Good for him.
22:21What for?
22:23They gave him a shot of something.
22:26And they tried to take his temperature.
22:28I mean, uh.
22:29Yeah.
22:32Well, what, what about him?
22:35I don't know.
22:36Try the FBI again, I guess.
22:38Hey.
22:39It's okay.
22:41Look, Mr. Dodd, I'm, I'm, I mean, I'm really sorry, but, you know, the FBI is very busy and they're
22:46quite under man.
22:49Morale is low.
22:51Sure.
22:53Hey, look, don't take this personally.
22:57It's just that the 60s were a, a very painful time.
23:02Most people would prefer to forget it.
23:05I mean, it's, it's not a question of, of your being ignored.
23:09Attitudes mellow, priorities change.
23:16But if you try to pull anything in this precinct, we'll be all over you.
23:21I appreciate that.
23:32Oh, sad character, huh?
23:35I mean, everything he cares about.
23:38Sixties and war.
23:41Nobody wants to think about it.
23:43Well, whether you care to think about it or not,
23:46it's starting to be a very long time ago.
23:51So what about you, Captain?
23:53Huh?
23:53What were you doing ten years ago?
23:55I was a cop.
23:57Yeah?
23:58Yeah.
24:00As a matter of fact,
24:02ten years ago I was probably not very far from this very spot.
24:07Probably wearing the same suit.
24:14I'll be in my office.
24:24Good suit should last ten years.
24:55APPLAUSE
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