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00:00Tonight, on Wiseguy, you're facing serious allegations.
00:04What I have to say, I will say in open court.
00:07You're suspended pending this investigation.
00:09This man told me there was a crisis and that it was my moral duty to stop it.
00:14I didn't know Kay Gallagher, but they did.
00:16They put me on her like a dog on a hunt.
00:18My life became a nightmare the day I met Mr. Terranova.
00:23We have nothing in common.
00:25We got striking in common, Vernon.
00:28And he will waste the both of us.
01:43And we'll be right back.
01:49Previously on Wiseguy.
01:51This is one of the most powerful weapons in the world.
01:53It's a printing plate.
01:54the japanese yen we believe a plan exists to undermine the economy of japan the most powerful
02:01economy in the world is about to be destroyed by a capitol hill pr firm it's your moral duty to
02:06stop it we do what we do for justice don't we agent terranova you bet your ass terranova's
02:13fingerprints are all over this put it well do the most good i haven't done anything to hurt this
02:20country if we don't find that plane before gets off trade bill passes that money will be released
02:26the only thing that'll be left after that is nailing you to the cross we found a plane it was
02:30registered to a panama corporation a corporation of 100 by a dead man you mean no profit the person
02:38being hung out to dry is you i want you to proceed immediately with as much manpower as is necessary
02:45and arrest agent turnova do you want you can do this or we can get someone else
03:15what happened to us
03:21i know but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or collectively
03:32it's a dusty notion in this town of yours tom
03:38men just don't live by it anymore
03:42they redefine morality on a daily basis
03:49vince
03:56i've just come from the attorney general's office
04:01i'm supposed to detain you
04:06yeah i was a patsy all along frank
04:09i should be detained
04:13for stupidity
04:15well that's a big world vince
04:19i didn't have to catch up with you
04:23i don't want to run frank
04:26i'm exactly where i want to be
04:30my conscience is clear
04:32i don't know if that's going to help you
04:34i think it will
04:39so what are they doing with kay gallagher
04:40she's been detained at her apartment
04:48they're going to want to contain this scandal vince
04:51if it was never made public it never happened
04:54you're in a position to make a deal with him
04:56you could accept an early retirement
04:58and that's what's wrong with this place frank
05:01instead of making laws they make deals
05:04and gallagher will never be able to stand up to him
05:07that'll leave only you
05:11and me
05:14then that's the way it'll be
05:25at some point you're going to have to deal with reality
05:28you want to rely on the truth
05:31the reality is there is no truth
05:32the truth is what striking and masters want it to be
05:42where have you let us expose walter
05:44there is no exposure
05:45we were exposed the minute you ordered the assassination of valente without my approval
05:49where are we vulnerable walter which one of your moles pull the trigger
05:53general we are so far removed from
05:55my god i'm dealing with an idiot
05:57i resent that general
05:59every aspect of this operation was deployed with precision
06:05major biggs saw to valente's removal
06:07then where is biggs walter
06:11where is he
06:13major biggs sir
06:14hello this is the attorney general
06:16who sent you to guam
06:20you're sitting on a plane with untold sums of counterfeit currency
06:23to which you are inextricably tied for the next 12 hours
06:27now i suggest you take that time to search your soul
06:31about what truly serves the best interest of your country
06:35and yourself
06:39search your soul son
06:56i'm not going to get any straight answers from you am i
07:00when it's for the record yes
07:03lock him up
07:04lock him up
07:34you got a problem with turning out the light
07:44if you'll grant blanket immunity miss gallagher we can sign off on this now
07:48we're not interested in formally charging her so immunity isn't an issue
07:53and without immunity k is left twisting in the wind
07:56this is a closed door session
07:57my career is based on the good relationships that i have established on the hill
08:03if you have a closed door or not i am a leper
08:05k would you please calm down
08:06she is still involved
08:08i am not involved
08:09i was manipulated
08:11my involvement is out of my control
08:15everything is out of my control
08:21god look at me i look like a bad night with roy cohen
08:24i can't go like this
08:27you got a half hour to get ready
08:28fine
08:30she's gonna take the fifth buffy
08:33you don't have to perform now
08:35your client's out of the room
08:37we're not looking to incriminate her
08:39this is not a trial
08:47周図
08:56we've got a suicide attempt
08:58wrists cut
08:59get the car downstairs immediately
09:04Here they come.
09:43Good morning.
09:45We've got a trillion dollars worth of counterfeit yen sitting on the runway at Andrews,
09:51and we've got to find out how it got there.
09:53This is an informal session, so let's hope we can end it here.
09:57We all have security clearance, and anything said must be considered classified.
10:03Parliamentary duties will be handled by the Attorney General. Ferris?
10:07Thank you, Obadiah.
10:10General Masters, when did you first become aware...
10:12Excuse me. All the participants are not here.
10:17Where's Catherine Gallagher?
10:19She's hospitalized after a suicide attempt this morning.
10:25You're proud of yourself.
10:27Please, don't make this any more difficult than it already is.
10:34General Masters?
10:36Three weeks ago, I received a call from the Postmaster General's office
10:40that a damaged parcel revealed contents the National Security Commission should examine.
10:46The package contained that printing plate.
10:48And on it, our lab discovered Agent Terranova's fingerprints.
10:52Hey, no, wait a minute.
10:53You'll have your chance, Agent Terranova.
10:55I took the plate and the lab report to General Masters.
10:59I was alarmed.
11:02The package had been addressed to Gallagher's lobbying firm.
11:05We had very little to go on,
11:07except the supposition that the counterprenions were being made
11:10and Terranova was involved, possibly Gallagher.
11:14I decided to avoid alluring the conspirators to our discovery
11:19by putting the plate back en route to Gallagher.
11:22I then had her put under surveillance.
11:25Now I had to deal with the Terranova situation.
11:28I sent for him through DeWitt-Clipton.
11:30DeWitt?
11:31I received a call from Admiral Strykin
11:34requesting the loan of Agent Terranova
11:36to the National Security Commission.
11:38It was our intent to confront him
11:40with the basic fact of the plate's existence
11:42and see how he responded.
11:46You didn't tell him you found his fingerprints on the plate?
11:50Of course not. He was all we had.
11:52At the very least,
11:54I expected he'd play it dumb.
11:57The very most,
11:58me guilt, remorse,
12:00mea culpa.
12:02Some signs suggesting that he knew he'd been caught.
12:05What I didn't expect
12:07was probably the slyest reaction
12:09I've ever seen
12:11to one's being confronted with one's own complicity.
12:14The arrogant bastard
12:17suggested that I had brought him in
12:19to lead the investigation?
12:21That is a lie!
12:23I was called to Washington by DeWitt-Clipton
12:25under the guise of a promotion.
12:28Opportunity.
12:29I said opportunity.
12:30Fine.
12:33He dropped me off at the White House
12:34and I met with General Masters.
12:37I was in attendance.
12:39Admiral Strykin was not in the meeting.
12:42Yes, he was.
12:43Not in my version he wasn't.
12:45Now, the reason my fingerprints were on that plate
12:48was because Masters put it in my hands.
12:50He wanted me to see it.
12:52He told me about this scheme
12:54to flood the Japanese economy
12:56with counterfeit currency.
12:57He also asked me
12:59to lead an investigation
13:00to find and stop the delivery
13:02of the counterfeit yen.
13:04He then directed me
13:06to Catherine Gallagher's firm.
13:07Why would General Masters ask for you
13:10when, as a member
13:11of the National Security Commission,
13:12he has his own investigators,
13:14men with credentials equivalent to your own?
13:16Because he wants to pin it on me.
13:18Do you feel you're being persecuted?
13:20No, no, no, no, no.
13:22It was a payback.
13:24Three years ago,
13:25I foiled General Masters'
13:26illegal covert operation
13:27to overthrow the island of Il Pavo.
13:29I can attest to that, Ferris.
13:31Agent, Agent Terranoa
13:33testified before my committee.
13:34I remember the hearing, Senator.
13:36I don't recall General Masters' involvement.
13:39That's because it never got past Strykin.
13:41The man that could have tied it to Strykin
13:43blew his brains out.
13:46Suicide follows you around, doesn't it?
13:48Whoa, whoa, whoa.
13:49Let's take this one step at a time,
13:50and Il Pavo is not the issue today.
13:53Uh, General Masters,
13:55what did you do after the meeting with Terranova?
13:59I ordered Admiral Strykin
14:01to have Agent Terranova followed.
14:03And Agent Terranova,
14:04what did you do after the meeting?
14:06I returned to OCB
14:07to discuss this with Frank McPike.
14:09It was at this time
14:11that we discovered Dr. Valenti's death
14:13was actually an assassination.
14:16Valenti was assassinated?
14:18Yes, sir, he was.
14:20An OCP toxicology report
14:22found that Dr. Valenti
14:23was struck down with curare-packed bullets.
14:25Why am I hearing this for the first time?
14:30DeWitt?
14:31I specifically ordered Agent McPike
14:34to return all evidence
14:35concerning the Valenti murder
14:36to the D.C. police.
14:39In fact, Admiral Strykin
14:41specifically requested
14:42I make sure that it was returned.
14:44Admiral, why were you
14:46so interested in all this?
14:48I knew from surveillance
14:49that Agent Terranova
14:50was involved in the Valenti case.
14:53And I feared he might
14:54manipulate or alter evidence
14:56if left to his own devices.
14:58Agent McPike,
14:59did you return the evidence?
15:00I did,
15:01except for a toxicology report
15:03that was being processed.
15:04When the report returned,
15:06it indicated a professional killing.
15:07Valenti held security clearance.
15:10And then we discovered
15:11all the files in his personal computer
15:13had been erased.
15:14What does that have to do
15:16with counterfeit yen?
15:17Nothing until I instructed
15:19Agent Cermak
15:20to search the Library of Congress
15:21or find any hard copies
15:23of Valenti's recent work.
15:25And that search yielded
15:27his hypothesis
15:28on non-genuine destabilization,
15:30which I believe
15:31is the reason why he was killed.
15:33Ferris,
15:34Agents Terranova and McPike
15:36came to me with this scheme
15:38they said General Masters
15:39had plotted
15:40based on Valenti's theory.
15:41I believed it was lunacy,
15:44but I didn't dismiss it
15:46for two reasons.
15:47One,
15:48I believe General Masters
15:49is capable of almost anything.
15:52And two,
15:54the third point
15:56of Valenti's theory
15:57is defense.
15:58The basic notion being
16:00it would be foolhardy
16:02to collapse
16:02a foreign sovereign's economy
16:04if it damaged your own,
16:06unless you defend it
16:08against it.
16:09The best form of defense
16:11to avoid that kind of spillage
16:13is a restrictive trade bill,
16:17much like Senator Getzloff's.
16:20Are you insinuating
16:22that I was somehow involved
16:23in this undercover operation?
16:25I'm simply saying
16:26the bill came
16:27at an opportune time.
16:29And it is common knowledge
16:32that you are involved
16:33under covers
16:34with General Masters.
16:35You son of a bitch!
16:38Let go of me!
16:40What's personal and private
16:41have no pleas here?
16:42Gentlemen, please.
16:44Both of you.
16:44I'm not surprised
16:45that my healthy romantic relationship
16:47is being attacked
16:48by a withered old cracker
16:50who hasn't seen
16:51the Deep South
16:51in 20 years.
16:53Senator...
16:54I want it on record
16:55that I have been
16:56a proponent
16:57of a fair trade bill
16:58for over a decade.
16:59Yeah.
17:04Bring him in.
17:06Bring him in.
17:32Major, don't look to anyone
17:34but yourself for guidance.
17:37I am United States Marine Corps
17:39Major Vernon Biggs
17:40on loan to the
17:41National Security Commission
17:42from General Simon
17:43at the Pentagon.
17:44Two weeks ago,
17:45I was ordered by
17:45Admiral Strykin
17:46to follow an agent
17:47Vincent Terranova.
17:48It was arranged for me
17:49to be in a room
17:49next to his
17:50in order to conduct
17:51electronic surveillance.
17:52However,
17:52I was unable to do so
17:53because of the frequency
17:54in which his room was swept.
17:56I was able to follow him
17:57to Utah
17:58where I took photographs
17:59of him entering
18:00an abandoned transport depot.
18:02You have the photographs.
18:06Later, I entered the depot
18:07and discovered tread marks
18:09on the runway
18:10suggesting its recent use
18:11by heavy transport.
18:13I also discovered
18:15dried printer zinc,
18:17the type of which is used
18:19in making Japanese money.
18:21I found the same evidence.
18:23General Masters told me
18:24to check out that depot.
18:25Oh, that's how
18:26I was photographed there.
18:27He was thwarting
18:28the forward movement
18:29of the investigation.
18:31He knew
18:33that to continue
18:34to play the ruse
18:35of being an investigator,
18:36he had to present me
18:37with something.
18:38So, he showed me
18:39a list of likely locations
18:41for the production
18:43of counterfeit currency.
18:44I purposefully recommended
18:46Dawn Valley, Utah
18:47off that list.
18:48Why?
18:49Agent Terranova
18:49used OCB authority
18:51to search Gallagher's office.
18:52He confiscated a file
18:54containing Valenti's theory,
18:56which had been commissioned
18:57through her firm
18:58by Mr. Wilson.
19:00Naturally, the name
19:01Wilson meant nothing to us.
19:03Until I saw
19:04Dawn Valley, Utah
19:05on Terranova's list,
19:07Dawn Valley is owned
19:08practically lock,
19:09stock, and barrel
19:10by that old hermit,
19:12Prescott Wilson.
19:12I was able to photograph
19:14Terranova and Gallagher
19:15meeting with Wilson.
19:16The reason I met
19:17with Wilson
19:18was because evidence
19:19suggested that he had
19:20commissioned Valenti
19:21to write that paper.
19:22Did he?
19:24He denied it.
19:26He denied it.
19:30So, you're contending
19:31that this massive undertaking
19:33was created by General Masters
19:35to set you up?
19:36No, no.
19:37I'm saying he would have
19:38gone along with the conspiracy
19:39anyway.
19:40He just needed somebody
19:42to lay the liability on.
19:43I was his target of choice.
19:44It's in Valenti's theory.
19:46Look under accountability.
19:48How did we get to Guam?
19:49Sir, I went with Vinny
19:51to Dawn Valley.
19:52I had a conversation
19:53with the deputy sheriff there,
19:54and he mentioned to me
19:55that he had seen
19:56a C-130 transport plane
19:58flying low over the area
19:59just a few days earlier.
20:01Well, I told Vinny,
20:02and we told Frank.
20:03And I began a global search
20:05for the plane
20:05through the FAA.
20:07Why didn't you use
20:08the military?
20:09Because Agent Terranova
20:10felt General Masters
20:11and Admiral Strykin
20:13might sabotage the search.
20:15I see.
20:17Agent Terranova decided
20:19that you shouldn't use
20:20the most sophisticated
20:21tracking systems
20:22in the world
20:23to find that plane.
20:24When Major Biggs
20:25told me about the C-130,
20:26I immediately contacted
20:27the Air Force.
20:28They found the plane
20:29within two hours.
20:30Why didn't you tell me
20:31that when we were
20:32on the phone?
20:34Damn it, Vernon!
20:35The answer's with you,
20:35not with Admiral Strykin.
20:37In this room,
20:39you are accountable
20:40to your country
20:41and your conscience now.
20:43It wasn't a secure phone.
20:45Plus, I was in the presence
20:46of two OCB officers.
20:47One had just shot me.
20:49Frankly,
20:50I wasn't even sure
20:51it was you.
20:55You love this country, son?
20:57Yes, sir.
21:00Mr. Clifton,
21:01who owns that airplane?
21:03The late Mr. Mel Profitt.
21:04You were investigating
21:06Mr. Profitt at the time
21:07of his death,
21:07were you not?
21:08I was.
21:09He's worth a fortune.
21:12After the first billion,
21:13you lose track.
21:14Was a complete accounting
21:16of Mr. Profitt's assets
21:17ever made?
21:18To my knowledge,
21:19no, sir.
21:20It was certainly enough money
21:21to underwrite
21:22this kind of operation.
21:24That is enough.
21:27What?
21:29This man told me
21:30there was a crisis
21:31and it was my moral duty
21:33to stop it.
21:34I didn't know Kay Gallagher,
21:35but they did.
21:37They know how fragile
21:38an individual she is.
21:41And they put me on her
21:42like a dog on the hunt.
21:45And I chased her
21:47until they caught me.
21:49He's had it in for Gallagher
21:50ever since she lobbied
21:51for the Japanese jet fighter.
21:52Now, you told me that yourself,
21:53Senator Pickering.
21:58And you have seen my crime
22:00and have sought my punishment
22:02ever since the day
22:03the invasion of Il Povol collapsed.
22:09Now,
22:11Dr. Valenti,
22:13an innocent man,
22:16is dead.
22:20Does anybody care?
22:22Or does this
22:23come under the heading
22:24of an acceptable level
22:26of death?
22:30I wonder.
22:34I wonder which one
22:35of you killed him.
22:38And it doesn't matter,
22:39does it?
22:40Because we'll never know.
22:44It just got passed
22:45down the chain of command.
22:46From you
22:47to you
22:48to you.
22:50And right on down the line.
22:53Bada-bing.
22:57Somebody's on the next plane
22:58to El Salvador.
23:00Hmm?
23:08You know,
23:08when I came to this town,
23:11it was one of the happiest
23:13days of my life.
23:16I was here
23:19to work in the shadow
23:20of Jefferson.
23:24I was warned
23:29about the man
23:30that had become
23:31addicted to power
23:34and complacent
23:35about its misuse.
23:38and I should have
23:39heeded that warning.
23:42But I was naive.
23:46I was naive enough
23:49to believe
23:51that there was more
23:52backbone in the truth
23:55than there was
23:56in corruption.
23:59Well, you know something?
24:00I still believe it.
24:02Despite this
24:03fair,
24:05informal hearing,
24:08I still believe it.
24:19I still believe it.
24:28I still believe it.
24:36Ferris,
24:37if we don't get
24:38to the floor and vote,
24:40come Friday,
24:41there'll be no checks
24:41for federal employees,
24:43which includes
24:43almost everyone
24:44in this room.
24:45Well, then,
24:46we'll adjourn
24:46until tomorrow morning
24:47at 10 o'clock.
24:49I'll see you
24:49in the morning.
24:50Where are you going?
24:52Where's he going?
24:54No idea.
24:55Hang on.
24:56Get over there, Carol.
25:09Take him back
25:09to his hotel room.
25:10Keep him under guard.
25:11You can't continue
25:12to hold me.
25:13For the next 36 hours,
25:15I can.
25:16Major Biggs is working
25:17for the National
25:18Security Commission.
25:19He's not under suspicion.
25:20There's no reason
25:21to hold him.
25:22He was sitting
25:23in a plane
25:23with a trillion dollars
25:24worth of counterfeit yen.
25:26And if that isn't suspicious,
25:27I don't know what is.
25:34Better pay attention, guys.
25:36This could happen
25:37to you, too.
25:50There's no reason
25:51for them to hold
25:52Major Biggs
25:53unless the Attorney General
25:54is out to get you.
25:55Me?
25:58I wasn't the one
25:59who ordered
25:59the elimination of Valenti.
26:00That was you, Walter.
26:01It was an appropriate action.
26:03How was I to know
26:04that Biggs
26:05was going to hire
26:06a professional
26:06with a penchant
26:07for exotic drugs?
26:08He made a mistake.
26:09How do you know
26:09he won't make another one?
26:10Biggs is solid.
26:12For your sake,
26:13I hope so.
26:29You open the gate.
26:31Open it, gate!
26:37You don't give me
26:37a song and dance.
26:38You tell the old man
26:39to come off his mountain,
26:40I'm going to go up there
26:40and shoot him.
26:45Sir?
26:47We got another one.
26:49Yes, sir.
26:51Stand in front of the camera.
26:56You're a pathetic excuse
26:57for something, aren't you?
26:59Get on.
27:00Oh, yeah.
27:08Oh, yeah.
27:16What's on?
27:17Oh, yeah.
27:18Oh, yeah.
27:46Prescott Wilson?
27:47No, I'm the damned Harvest Fairy.
27:50You want me to come down and testify for that grease monkey?
27:54Your fellow got snookered by old Leland, son.
27:57He's not the first one.
27:59And he won't be the last.
28:01Got anything else you want to say?
28:04Yes, sir. I think you're a coward.
28:09I may be a coward.
28:12But I'm not so stupid
28:14as to call a man with a bazooka a coward.
28:24You know, it's a big hole or it's a little one.
28:27Either way, we're both dead.
28:34Now, I have a friend in Washington, D.C.
28:36who's being framed by General Masters.
28:39He's using your eccentricities as part of that frame-up.
28:42Now, my friend is a good man.
28:44He needs your help.
28:45And there is nothing in this world
28:47that you have to do
28:48that is more important than that.
29:00I can't help you.
29:02I can't help you.
29:17Once you are saying anything at all,
29:17I don't know you're cooking...
29:17I don't know you think.
29:17I'm feeling well.
29:17I'm feeling like
29:18I can't help you.
29:18But I can't help you to miss someone nothing.
29:19But thank you, D.C.
29:20You're asking me,
29:40I love you, Tommy.
29:41Set it up there. That's fine.
29:48Sit down.
29:56Now, somewhere between the two of you is the truth.
30:00Shake hands.
30:03Do it. Vernon Biggs, Vinnie Terranova.
30:13Good. You've both done a sworn duty to your country.
30:16You have a lot in common. You ought to get to know a little about each other.
30:20Major Biggs, Vinnie was born in Brooklyn.
30:23His father died when he was a teenager.
30:25His brother was a priest who was murdered by members of a white supremacist organization.
30:30Vinnie later brought those men to justice.
30:35Vinnie, Major Biggs...
30:36I know who he is.
30:38Oh. Have you read his file?
30:41No. I just know who he is.
30:45Since the Attorney General made a point about my brother being a priest...
30:50I'd guess your father was a preacher.
30:53Maybe your mother taught school.
30:56They were educated people, but they didn't achieve all that they could have.
31:01Because of society.
31:04Circumstances.
31:06Well, if they couldn't achieve, you sure as hell would.
31:10No sandlot baller shooting hoops for you, right, Vernon?
31:14You had to hit the books.
31:16And you couldn't be as good as the other kids.
31:19You had to be better.
31:22Nobody wants to play with a kid who's so busy being better.
31:26And any kid so busy doesn't have a chance of being a child.
31:31Shut up.
31:35I want to go back to my holding cell.
31:39This is your holding cell.
31:43If this is some new kind of brainwashing technique, I'm not buying into it.
31:47You bought into it with striking.
31:48I was given an assignment.
31:50I completed my task.
31:52Yeah.
31:54So how far off was I?
31:56Close enough.
31:57Look who I am and where my family's from has nothing to do with this.
32:01It's got everything to do with it, Vernon.
32:04You were tailor-made for striking.
32:08The good soldier who only wants to serve.
32:12I had this friend once.
32:13He was out of the house and into a military academy by the time he was 12 years old.
32:18First in his class, too, because there was just no alternative.
32:22Went straight from the academy into special forces.
32:25Striking shaped and molded him from a good soldier that did his country's duty
32:30to a blind soldier that did his admiral's bidding.
32:34After a while, those two things became indistinguishable.
32:38And when my friend's mission failed,
32:42Striking put his head on the chopping block of the same Senate committee we face today.
32:46And you know what he said?
32:48Striking sat there and said,
32:51What a shame good men go bad.
32:54Then he went back to his office in the White House,
32:57and my friend vanished
32:59in a mysterious explosion.
33:04You see, I don't wear a uniform, Vernon.
33:06But I'm a soldier, too.
33:08And the first order
33:09is to follow orders.
33:12Well, you do it too easily.
33:15I don't do it easily enough.
33:17It gets us both into trouble.
33:21Major?
33:23Is there anything you want to say?
33:26Look, I don't give a damn about who this man's brother was or who killed him.
33:33And I won't be swayed by your transparent appeal
33:35that what you think is my emotion.
33:43I know who you are.
33:47And we have nothing in common.
33:49We got striking in common, Vernon.
33:52And he will waste the both of us.
34:00Look, if I have anything else to say,
34:02I'll say it in front of a subcommittee.
34:05You want to keep me here all night?
34:09Fine.
34:17Attorney General's right, Vernon.
34:20The truth is in this room.
34:22And you know what it is.
34:24You've got to sleep with it.
34:45I want that door to stay open.
35:24Are you okay?
35:27Yeah.
35:29Yeah.
35:29Where'd you go?
35:31No place.
35:32Doesn't matter.
35:34Come to order.
35:35Come to order, please.
35:37Barrett, we're ready to proceed.
35:40We won't keep you long, Ms. Gallagher.
35:43Were you involved in the conspiracy to counterfeit Japanese currency?
35:47No.
35:48You are aware of it?
35:50Yes.
35:52When did you first become aware of the conspiracy?
35:57Ms. Gallagher?
35:59Terranova told me.
36:00When did he tell you?
36:02At his hotel room, over a $400 dinner.
36:06What else did he tell you?
36:09Oh, that, um, the invisible Mr. Wilson would kill me.
36:17Ms. Gallagher, why did you go to Dawn Valley, Utah?
36:21Yes, I did.
36:22Why did you go?
36:25I don't know.
36:26Ms. Gallagher insisted on coming here against the advice of myself and her physician.
36:30She wants only to make a statement.
36:42I am an advocate for hire.
36:46I love my work.
36:47I love working with the people in this room.
36:51I'm good at what I do.
36:56My career was perfect.
37:01My life became a nightmare the day I met Mr. Terranova.
37:11Thank you, Ms. Gallagher.
37:24Does anyone have any significant new information to add to these proceedings?
37:33The evidence speaks for itself, Mr. Attorney General.
37:36Evidence doesn't speak for itself, General.
37:39It is spoken for by whoever is presenting it.
37:44Major Biggs?
37:49Mr. Attorney General, I have nothing further to say.
38:02Agent Terranova, from what we've heard and the evidence that we have seen,
38:11I believe that if this matter were brought before a formal Senate hearing,
38:16you would end up being indicted.
38:19And I know, as a prosecutor, you would be convicted.
38:25Obadiah, if this became a public matter?
38:29It would cripple our foreign relations for years.
38:33Agent Terranova,
38:34can you carry the scars of these events in silence?
38:41And continue to believe in the system that I was sworn to uphold?
38:46Absolutely not.
38:50I see.
38:55Agent Terranova, you are relieved of all your duties, responsibilities, and authority
38:59as an agent of the Justice Department.
39:02Your paycheck and pension will remain intact.
39:05Your privilege to carry a shield is revoked,
39:08but you remain accountable to your oath.
39:13Everything evidenced in this room during the past two days is to be considered classified information.
39:18Any violation of his secrecy will be dealt with to the full extent of the law.
39:27A hell of a punishment for treason.
39:31But it's more important to sweep all this under the rug.
39:35Because we're worried it'll make us look bad.
39:39We spend too much time worrying about perception.
39:42And not enough time exercising the authority our brave men fought and died for all over the world.
39:51We're no longer interested in being the preeminent power on Earth.
39:54We've let it slip through our fingers.
39:59And that is a tragedy.
40:04Bits.
40:06You really got me good, didn't you?
40:08You bet your ass.
40:13It's amazing how hot air carries.
40:17I could hear that load of manure all the way down the hall.
40:21Now, sir, this is a security clearance-only session.
40:24I've had security clearance since you were sucking milk.
40:27Who the hell...
40:28Prescott Wilson.
40:29Shut up.
40:30You know Leland Masters is a son of a bitch.
40:32Always has been.
40:33Always will be.
40:35Could lie in the face of God.
40:37And be indignant when he got called on it.
40:40Sent that boy up to my mountain.
40:42Leland tried to tie me to this crap.
40:44Because he figured it'd never come down, didn't you, Leland?
40:47Well, I did.
40:48I had nothing to do with Valenti's paper.
40:52Nothing to do with this lame-brained scheme.
40:55Used his subordinates all his life.
40:57I've made $3 billion from scratch.
41:00Employed 100,000 men.
41:02I know something about how you treat people to turn a profit.
41:06But Leland never had to.
41:07He had you fools to hand him blank checks.
41:11Used his young men as cannon fodder.
41:15Boys full of ideals.
41:19Willing to snap up a salute and do whatever.
41:21I walked away from a fortune in Pentagon contracts after the Bay of Pigs.
41:26Because I couldn't stomach this cue balls talking out of both sides of his mouth.
41:31He whispered in Ike's ear, let's burn Castro.
41:35But Kennedy wasn't keen on it.
41:37So he said, let them go it alone.
41:40All those boys slaughtered on the beach.
41:43They were chopped to pieces.
41:44Oh, but Leland kept his office and his limousine.
41:49I don't want to know what you did in Vietnam.
41:52Make me puke.
41:55Who's saluting you today, Leland?
41:57Sure as hell ain't that boy.
42:00I'm not staying.
42:02I'm not answering your questions.
42:05I just gave you my answers.
42:15When they're done sticking it to you, you give me a call.
42:22Nice uniform.
42:24You kissing his butt now?
42:28You still dreaming about those lions?
42:30Tell them about your dreams, Leland.
42:33And tell them about all those lions tearing you apart.
42:41Go to hell!
42:42Real clever response.
42:46That man's a liar.
42:48If he told the truth for 30 years, I could never believe it.
42:52I don't have any dreams.
42:54I know nothing about lions.
42:56That man is more Machiavellian than Machiavelli.
43:00He was the one who told Kennedy to withhold the air support.
43:03And then he forts the memos with my name on it.
43:07I know nothing about lions.
43:11I was the one who told them they need more helicopters in the desert and the losses be damned.
43:16But Prescott, he couldn't stomach the fact that it's a soldier's job to die.
43:20So he ran away to his mountain.
43:22I lied.
43:25I lied for Admiral Strykin.
43:27Major.
43:29I was told Terra Nova was a subversive.
43:33Shut him up!
43:34I was told to link Terra Nova to the end.
43:38I oversaw its production for Strykin.
43:40I arranged for the plane at his orders.
43:44He ordered me...
43:48God forgive me.
43:51I arranged for the assassination of Valenti.
43:55I had nothing to do with it.
43:58Strykin did it without my authority.
44:00They were his dreams.
44:03You told me to get the job done.
44:06And you didn't care how.
44:09It was your idea.
44:12And you...
44:14You gloated about it.
44:16Everybody down!
44:27You don't have the nerve.
44:29You don't have the nerve.
44:51You don't have the nerve.
44:52Okay, nobody moved.
44:52That's an order.
44:53Secure that alert.
44:55Take it.
44:58Hey, sir.
45:01All right, let's get back.
45:03Bye.
45:06Bye.
45:09Bye.
45:10Bye.
45:17Come on.
45:35Came here two weeks ago, seeing Jimmy Stewart
45:38behind every marble column.
45:40I mean, my heart was actually pounding in my chest.
45:45Now I feel like it's been cut out.
45:51The system worked, Vince.
45:53I went up against Masters armed only with the truth.
45:55I was naive enough to think that's all I needed.
45:58The system failed, Frank.
46:00The system failed?
46:01That's right.
46:03Is that why the attorney general hand-delivered Biggs to you?
46:07Is that why Pickering put himself on the line
46:09to make sure that Masters' scheme wouldn't succeed?
46:13The fact that Striking and Masters turned bad
46:15shouldn't be an indictment of the entire institution.
46:18The system depends on decency and honesty and interest
46:22by the majority, Vince.
46:26And the majority is decent and honest.
46:31Thank God.
46:34Who's seeing Jimmy Stewart now?
46:37You're right.
46:40You're not the only one that spent nights
46:41reading those words at the Jefferson.
46:44And if those words are the foundation on which we're built,
46:47we are the greatest country on Earth.
46:52Since I was the one that detained you,
46:55I told them I should be the one to reinstate you.
47:05Come on, Vince.
47:07Now, you don't want that pension
47:09and that big paycheck
47:12without a few of the little aggravations
47:14that go along with it, do you?
47:44I don't want that pension is.
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