"[THUNDER CRASHING]" "WOMAN"." "Good evening, everyone." "And welcome to a Powell pay-per-view television event." "It's hard to believe but tonight's heavyweight fight is the swan song for the grand old Atlantic City Arena." "The final event to be held in this storied hall before it is gutted and completely renovated as part of Gilbert Powell's Millennium Hotel and Casino." "I'm eager to go ringside, along with 14,000 fight fans who have braved Hurricane Jezebel to" "MAN:" "Cut!" "Cut!" "Anthea, they want you to call it a tropical storm, not a hurricane." "But it is a hurricane!" "Yeah, well, it's also a holiday weekend so will you please just call it a tropical storm?" "Please?" " I love this town." "They even spin the weather!" "All right, listen." "We got to go live on this one, so don't screw it up." "And, AI, I think that's Powell going in there with Secretary Kirkland." "Zoom in on them during the intro." "Anyway, why can't I do this from inside?" "Why do I have to stand out here..." "..." "like a weather bimbo?" "Three, two, one, go!" "Good evening, everyone, and welcome to a Powell pay-per-view television event." "The lucky ones are already inside at the fight, as the first taste of Tropical Storm Jezebel lashes the boardwalk outside the grand old Atlantic City Arena." "It's hard to believe, but tonight's heavyweight fight is the swan song for this storied hall the final event to be held here." "What have we got, 30, 40 seconds?" "Where's Janine?" "My hair looks like shit." "I'm on TV?" "I'm on TV?" "Come on, Rick, for chrissake, I'm on in 30 seconds, will you?" " I think people would vote for this face" " Yeah." "Blind people." "That's the way you get anywhere these days." "Get your big, fat smile all over the tube." "Hi." "Rick Santoro." "Hello." "Richard Santoro." "Aah!" "I'm Ricky!" " Hey, you down on the fight yet?" " Shit." "I forgot." "You seen Jimmy George?" " He's in the tunnel." " What tunnel?" "There's a million tunnels." "The tunnel of love." "Over by Tyler's dressing room." " Here." "Play 5O for me." " On who?" "On who?" "On the bag of meat, on who." "On Tyler!" "Wow." "The whole 50?" "Oh, up yours, Mr. High Roller." " Why don't you just shoot it all?" " A hundred." "Oh, asshole." "Janine, would you fix this?" "ANTH EA:" "his work with troubled youths take on the challenger, Jose Pacifico Ruiz, in a classic 12-round confrontation between a counter-puncher and a brawler." "Isn't that right, Lou Logan?" "[PHONE RINGS]" " That's right, and welcome, everybody." " Hello?" "Hey, baby." "How are you?" "I was hoping it'd be you." "Yeah." "Happy almost birthday." "Of course I'm still coming." "I want to be there when it turns midnight." "Yes, yes, I'm bringing something with me." "Uh, it's a surprise." "Well, if I told you, then" " That's right, baby." "No." "No way." "I'm not going to give you a hint." "No." "You're shameless!" "Monique, you can't say that on a cell phone." "Yummy!" "All right, I will give you a hint." "I know you really want one, and it's going to keep you very, very warm." "Give me five secs." "I'll call you back." "Jimmy George, wait up a sec!" " Come on." "I got people waiting for me." " That's Tyler!" " Ha, ha!" " What are you looking at?" " That's Tyler!" " Where do you think you're going?" "The A.C. Executioner's standing right in front of me." " Were you talking to him?" " Do I ask what you do at work?" "No shit." "The man bets on his own fights." "Now, that's confidence." " What do you want, Rick?" " What's up your ass?" " I'm having a bad day, okay?" " I want five large on Tyler." " Five large." "You got it on you?" "Let me see." " What are you, a bank?" "I gotta put up front for the privilege of betting on a fight?" "Take it or leave it because I don't need the aggravation." "Have I ever stiffed you one time?" "Name one time." "No, no." "You never stiffed me." "It's just you take forever to pay." "Five grand." "I'll see that a year from next Christmas." "The guy is 10 to 1 to win, all right?" "I can't make any money if I lay less." "I got a very important birthday." "I'm gonna buy one of those shorty fur coats they got at the designer shops at Caesars." " But you know how overpriced they are." " I missed the part..." "...where any of this is my problem." " I made a promise." "I gave my word to someone." "A man's word means nothing to you?" "You, in your profession?" "Please." "Cash means something to me." "Words mean something to somebody else." "All right." "Don't move." "I'll be right back." "Cyrus!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "[LAUGHING]" "Uh!" "Ow!" "MAN:" "Hey, hold it, pal." "Where do you think you're going?" "On the job, sport." "Oh, shit." "Sorry, sir." "You need a hand?" "Uh, no, no." "I got it." " Shit!" " You went the stupid way, didn't you, Cyrus?" "Ow!" "Ow!" "Ow!" "I got a cut." "I need a medic." "Medic." "Medic!" "Well, that's a start." "What?" "What do you want?" "What do you think?" "'No!" "'Yes!" "No." "Come on, this is not fair." "Come on." "Call a cop." ""No!" "Hey!" "Get out of here, man!" "[GRUNTS]" "You got the wrong attitude about this." "You gotta keep positive." "You see, when we have these little visits, I allow you I permit you, I give you the opportunity to pay for all the extra police work that you create!" "Doesn't it feel nice to contribute to society for a change?" "Come on, come on, man!" "Don't do that!" "Aw, come on!" "You got a bad attitude, you hear?" "What makes you think you're better than me?" "My friends, Cyrus." "Everybody loves Rick Santoro." "Jimmy George." "Three grand on Tyler." "This one's a little sticky, but" " Twenty-nine hundred." "I don't want this one." " Why?" "There's blood all over it!" "Well, aren't you delicate?" "Tyler!" "Whoo!" "Neptune High, right?" "Check it out." "Right here." "Go Sea Devils!" "You and me, Tyler!" " Yeah!" "Go, Tyler!" "Go, Tyler!" " Get lost." "Go, Tyler, go!" "Go, Tyler!" "Go, Tyler!" "Whoa!" "Lincoln Tyler!" "Lincoln Tyler!" "Lincoln!" " Ow!" "My lucky number's 7." " Gee, that's a new one, mister." "You are sunshine on a stormy day." "You should work in the casino." "I'm gonna." "I mean, I want to." "This is just sort of temporary." " Let me make a few phone calls." " Would you?" " Yeah." "Do you know how to deal blackjack?" " No." "All right." "Call me." "I'm Rick." "This goes straight to my special phone line." "[PHONE RINGS]" " Bye, mister!" "Bye!" " Hello?" "[BELL RINGS]" "Oh, yeah, hi, baby." "Ahem." "No." "I just had something stuck in my throat." "Tell him to go to sleep." "I'll talk to him in the morning." "No, I can't." "[AUDIENCE CHEERING]" "That's why." "All right, tell him I love him, and I'll" "No, Angela, don't" "Hi, Mikey." "I know." "No, I didn't forget." "I haven't seen him yet, but as soon as I do, I'll ask him." "All right?" "All right." "I love you, too." "No, no." "Don't put mommy" "Hi." "I don't know." "Late." "Later than that." "Yeah, sure, if they're open." "With extra cheese?" "I don't care." "I don't care!" "I'm not gonna eat it!" "Pepperoni, sausage, Canadian bacon-- Just get the deluxe and save time, all right?" "I got business." "Call me back in 5." "There he is!" "MAN:" "You got a pass, sir?" "It's all right." "He's with me." "There's the man whose life I want!" " Ha-ha-ha." " You're late." "You know me, always upholding justice." "When did you get in?" "Last night." "I flew in from Norfolk with Powell and the secretary." " Is that him?" " Tuck in your shirt." "I'll introduce you." "Jesus!" "I get you a front-row seat, you show up looking like Don Ho." "Pardon my savoir-faire, admiral." "Why are you so uptight?" "It's fight night!" "I'm running security tonight." "I got a lot on my mind." "Kirkland's high-profile." "He's all over the news." "And brings the nutcases out of the woodwork." "He's a real publicity hound." "Look at this." "The Olympic games, and now the distinguished Secretary of Defense of the United States of America, Mr. Charles Kirkland." "And seated next to the secretary is a man who needs no introduction..." "Great idea." "Put a flashing light on your head while you're at it." "ANNOUNCER:" "Your host for the evening, Mr. Gilbert Powell!" " Maintain focus on the principal, mister." " Sorry, commander." " Got your locator on?" " Yes, sir." " Go cover the west exit." " Yes, sir." "Oh, and, uh, throw in a couple of martinis while you're at it!" " It's fight night." "Look." "See that blip?" "That's him." "Look at you, 007." "Man, I'm so impressed, I want to get your autograph or something." "I can picture us like yesterday, working summers on the beach..." "...carrying the oars back across the hot sand." " No." "Me I can picture carrying the oars." "You were usually under the boardwalk with a cute piece of jailbait." " Woo-hoo!" "It's me, your lucky number!" "I've got to hit you up for something." "Mikey's crazy about submarines right now." "Everything's submarines with him." "He wanted to ask if you'd give him a ride on one." "Sure." "We'll dock a Polaris right out at the steel pier." "This is the thing godfathers do." "Come with us." "I promise I won't embarrass the brass." "I haven't been on the water since the Renvil/e, but I'll pull some strings." " How's Angela?" " Fat, fantastic." "I love her." "What about the other one?" "What's her name?" "Candy?" "Tiffany?" "Monique." "Skinny, mean, expensive." "I love her!" "ANNOUNCER:" "Tyler!" "Ow!" "Yeah!" "Ow!" "Come on." "Yeah, Lincoln!" "Yeah, baby!" "Go, baby!" "Yeah!" "You got a wife, a kid, a house in Margate, a girlfriend in an apartment." "Being a cop pays six figures now?" "I save coupons." "Are you my conscience?" "You could use one." "Does Angela know about Monique?" "Now, see, there's a good idea." "What are you gonna do, turn me in again?" "That was just to teach you a lesson." "You never shoplifted again, did you?" "No." "I never got caught again." "Angela's happy." "Trust me." "Angela's not happy." "She's just uninformed." "Maybe if she knew the rules, she could play the game, too." "If Angela knew the rules, there would be no game." "Rule number one:" "Angela can't know all the rules." "I'm not like you, Kevin." "I can't have sex with the same woman for 20 years." "It's not natural." " Terry likes to talk to me during sex." "Last night, she called me from a hotel." "[LAUGHING]" "Go, Lincoln!" "[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]" "That seem right to you?" "Kevin, that is right in so many ways." "No, I mean who's she with?" "Not the guy next to her." " Beautiful woman alone at a fight?" " Sexy lady." "What's the problem?" "You got to get out of this town." "You know that." "Would you stop going all Jiminy Cricket on me?" " You can't help yourself, can you?" " No, really." "Get your butt down to D.C." "I call a few guys I know from Annapolis, arrange some interviews." "Get you a G.S. rating, you're in our program." "Bureau of diplomatic security pays double your salary here, and the money's clean." "All right." "Fix my life later." "I got money on this." "I want to stay in a good mood." "Keep positive because this is fight night!" "Don't make Michael grow up here." "This isn't a beach town anymore." "It's a sewer." "But it's my sewer, Jiminy, and I love it!" "I kick around about 6 square blocks." "Everybody knows me." "I got the whole town wired." "Someday, if I manage to get my face on TV a few times maybe I'll run for mayor or something." "That's as far as I want to go." "Because I was made for this sewer, baby, and I am the king!" "[BELL RINGS]" "[ALL CHEERING]" "MAN 1 [ON SPEAKER]:" "Look at this." "He's taunting the champ mercilessly!" "I haven't seen this kind of disrespect shown to a heavyweight champion..." "just dancing." "Would you stop and fight?" "MAN 2 [ON SPEAKER]:" "Buster Douglas." "Exactly." " The condition he was in in some of the later-- MAN 1"." "Look at Ruiz dance around." " She's not even watching the fight." "MAN 2:" "The crowd is loving it!" "MAN 1:" "Or hating it." "MAN 2:" "What they came to see tonight was a professional heavyweight championship fight." "And that is not what they're getting." "You better believe, they're letting these fighters know!" "MAN 1 :" "I seriously wonder..." "[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]" "MAN 1: ...just how seriously the champ is taking this fight." "[ALL CHEERING]" "MAN 2:" "The champ has shown up in the worst condition." "[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]" "MAN 1:" "I got to agree with you." "There was speculation about the kind of condition he was in." "MAN 2:" "At the weigh in." "MAN 1:" "Exactly." "[PHONE RINGS]" "Hello?" "Hey, baby." "Kind of a bad time right now." "What?" "All right, guess quick, okay?" "The hint was you really wanted it, and it'll keep you warm." "No, it's not that." "I have that." "It goes where I go." "Hang on." "Oh, Jesus, Angela, the fight started!" "What?" "The deluxe has meatballs, baby!" "I got to go." "The fight's started!" "Listen, I got to go." "The fight's started." "Hey, I dig affection, baby, but not while I'm driving." "Oh." "I'm sorry." "That seat's taken." "Oh, but you can sit here." "Well, I'll just need one minute." "Me, too." "[CHUCKLES]" "It's in the pocket." " Have you been writing to me." " Yeah!" "Go, Sea Devils!" "MAN 1:" "Holy cow!" "The challenger's down!" "Ruiz is down!" "What a punch by Lincoln Tyler!" "Ruiz is cooking him!" "He head-butted him!" "He head-butted him!" "MAN 1:" "It's a head-butt." "We saw it clearly." "Here comes the pain, baby!" "Here comes the pain!" "MAN 2'." "This is a devastating blow to the champ." "MAN 1:" "I can't see if it's opened up a cut over his eye or not." "We saw it in the Holyfield-Tyson match." "We see it here!" "He's down!" "You're a bum, Lincoln Tyler!" "Listen to me, Mr. Secretary." "lam telling you." "You are the one that's gonna be sorry." "REFEREE:" "Get back to your neutral corners." "[PHONE RINGS]" "REFEREE:" "Neutral corners!" "Hello?" "What?" "Who are you?" "Where?" "My lucky number?" "[SQUELCHING]" "WOMAN:" "Aah!" " What?" "Aah!" "[ALL SHOUTING]" "Principal is down." "Hey!" "[GUNSHOTS]" "Kevin!" "Kevin, he's down!" "The man is down!" "Get out of here!" "Oh, yeah?" "Screw you, man." "Tommy!" "Get this scum out of here!" "Oh, Jesus." "There were two hits." "The girl next to me, she threatened him." "Took something, got shot, and ran away!" " Oh, my God!" "Holy shit, is he dead?" " Shut down the arena!" "Get on your goddamn radio right now and shut down the arena!" "Do you understand?" " Hey!" "Be careful!" " Let go of me!" " What happened to you?" " Please just" " What's going on?" " Let go of me!" "Come back here!" "MAN:" "Let's get this gurney up." "Let's go!" "Come on!" "Make a hole through there and get that crowd out of the way!" "Tell them to bring that ambulance right through the main entrance into the arena tunnel!" "You're gonna be all right." "You are gonna be all right, Charles." "We're going to the hospital right now." "You're gonna be okay." "You have my word on that." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Get those people out of the tunnel!" "Move it there!" "KEVIN:" "He's gonna die, Rick." "This is my fault." "I should never have left my seat." "I opened up a sightline." "I was off the deck." "What the hell was I doing?" "This is my fault!" "What the hell's the matter with you?" "Don't talk shit like that where people can hear." "You don't understand." "I pulled rank on the regular detail and took command of security." "I told them the secretary would be better protected with me running the operation because I know the area." "The layout of the arena." "I know local law enforcement." "I get assigned, I step out of position, the secretary takes a bullet in the throat!" " Why were you out of position?" " I shouldn't have left." " I could be court-martialed for this!" " That is not gonna happen!" "We're not gonna let that happen." "Do you understand?" "You're not going to prison, so you just forget about that!" "Right, back up." "Why were you out of position?" "The girl" " The redhead." "I went over to check her out." "She ran, and I followed her up here." "Don't say redhead and don't say girl." "What you say is suspicious character." "You followed a suspicious character." "You got here, saw an assassin fire, so you took him out." "End of story." "Leaving my post is dereliction of duty." "It's gross negligence." "You killed the assassin!" "You saved the day!" "You're a hero, Kevin." "That's what happened, that's how we spin it!" " It wasn't procedure." " Screw procedure!" "Look." "Who do you think you're talking to?" "I'm not some beat cop that needs you to plant a piece for him." "Kevin, if there's one thing I know, it's how to cover my ass." "I see this shit happen every day." "And what you say and do right this minute is gonna change the rest of your life." "Go to confession later, but don't bury yourself now!" "MAN:" "Clear it out!" "Coming through!" "Come on, let's get up there." "Come on." "RICK:" "Okay, those are state cops, they're gaming enforcement." "They're gonna try to muscle us, we're not gonna let that happen." "If we're first contact when the feds get here, everybody writes from our report." "Your story holds up because we say so." "We just got to keep all media out of here until then." "How long will it take the feds to get here?" "MAN:" "No comment." "The fbi's got to come from Trenton, so that's an hour." "Maybe an hour and a half with the storm." "We just got to fight these guys for an hour and a half, and you're in the clear, okay?" " I can't lie, Rick." " It isn't lying!" "You just tell them what you did right, and you leave out the rest!" "MAN:" "Shouldn't even be here." "This is a crime scene." "Or you can throw away your whole career." "Gordon Pritzker, Division of Gaming Enforcement." " What the hell's going on?" "187 with an officer-involved shooting." "Secretary Kirkland was shot in the neck." "Paramedics just wheeled him out, and that's the perpetrator." "Security detail leader took him out during the shooting." "That's right." "Commander Kevin Dunne." "I'm with DOD." " Who are you?" " Atlantic City Major Crimes." " I'll take it now." " No, bullshit you will." "This isn't my blood, all right?" "It's the secretary's." "I was sitting right in front of him." "I'm a homicide detective and a material witness." " This is mine in about six different ways!" " A.C. cops got no business in the casino." "This is strictly DGE and state police." "We're not on the casino floor, Gordo!" "And this arena ain't the Millennium yet." "It's Atlantic City, New Jersey, and that belongs to me!" "I'm acting case agent until relieved by appropriate federal authority." "Now, you want to help?" "You go tell your men to get all the media out of here right now." "Unless you want the 9:00 News to give the secretary's wife a close-up look at his internal organs!" "Phil, Jim, make this whole arena a crime scene." "Shut it down!" "Nobody goes in or out until the main investigating party gets here." "You the one that told them to seal the doors?" "You can't hold 14,000 people in these goddamn exit tunnels!" "Yes, we did, and yes, we can." "Those are 14,000 eyewitnesses!" "We can detain them for as long as it takes to get 14,000 addresses and 14,000 phone numbers." "And take 14,000 pictures, now that I think about it." "Let's get the hell out of here." " You're home free, baby." " All right." "The woman who ran away, you said she, uh, took something." "What was it?" " A manila envelope about this big." " What did she look like?" "Caucasian, late 20s, dressed in white, blood everywhere." "She had a blond wig, dark hair underneath." "All right." "You stay here with every uniform you can get." "I'll run a top to bottom and find her." "You guys come with me." "LOGAN:" "Excuse me, Commander Dunne, sir." "Could you give us the identity of the assassin, please?" " Sir, how does it feel to be a hero?" "MAN:" "Hey, you!" "Get out of here!" "We told you you can't be talking with people." "No press in the arena." "RICK:" "I said no press inside the arena, Lou." "Not in the arena!" "I can see why you want these other assholes out of here." "I didn't think you were talking about me." "You know what kind of break this is?" "You can't show this." "Look at the mess on the floor!" "The guy's got a family." " Have a heart, for chrissakes." " All right, I won't shoot the spaghetti then." "Come on." "Whenever they make statements they always have one pool reporter asking all the questions." "That's the way they do it." "Come on." "Let me be the guy." "They got the playback for the pay-per-view up there?" "Yeah." "It's right up here." "Look, you don't know what this would mean to me." "You think I want to do this pay-per-view shit for the rest of my life?" "You know how Rather got his break?" "The goddamn Kennedy assassination!" "You make me sick, Lou." "If you're gonna be on TV who better asking you the questions than your old pal Lou, huh?" "Plus I can have two grand cash in an hour and a half." " You are a disgusting human being." " Hey, five grand in an hour." " Congratulations, Lou." " Yes!" "You're the guy!" "Hook up out in the hallway." "I don't want to see one TV camera inside." " This whole arena's a crime scene." " Hey." "I got to tell you, I will always be there for you." "Oh, yeah, and see if you can find me another shirt." "If I'm going on TV, I don't want to look like this." "Got to be, you know, classy like you, Lou." "Yeah." "And, uh, yeah here's your hundred back." "All bets are off." "Secretary of Defense gets his head blown off and you want to look at the knockout punch?" "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "Back up." "Stop." "How many cameras do you have on it?" " I got four." " All right." "Let me see them all." " I'll be damned." " Air ball." "What kind of a Sea Devil is that?" "Oh, God." "What did you get yourself into?" "Look here, Mr. Tyler, he ain't in the mood to talk to nobody." "You see where your hand is?" "That's a felony!" "[GROWLS]" "Give me a C." "Give me an H" "Give me an A-M-P." "What's that spell?" "Everybody!" "Champ!" "Lincoln, how you doing?" "Good to see you again." " What, am I supposed to know you?" " Rick Santoro, Neptune High." " Fellow Sea Devil, class of '80." " I don't remember you." "You must have seen me plenty." "My hair was long..." "...but whose wasn't, right?" " Mr. Santoro" "Detective." "Detective Santoro." "I know it might be a bad time but can I get you to sign an autograph for my son?" "He thinks you're the greatest, just the greatest." "To Mikey." "I bet if you saw my graduation picture, the face would ring a bell." "Look, I don't know you, okay?" "Lincoln, you hurt my feelings, and after I dropped 10 grand on you." "I think it would show more respect if you addressed my client as Mr. Tyler." "I'll call him Mr. T the night he beat Rocky Balboa if he wants." "He's a bad pony." "I don't have to tell you, right?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I saw Jimmy George." "You know, the bookie." "He was coming out of here before the fight." "How much did you lose?" "Or did you win?" "Know what I mean?" " Wasn't his night." " I'll say." "Look." "The guy was a great fighter." "He fought very furiously." "You know, wow." "You've never been knocked out your whole career." "I mean ever, since your first Golden Gloves in, what, '82?" "I'd know." "I've seen all your fights." "What with us both being from the same school." "And both being Sea Devils and all." "The man head-butted me, and I don't remember anything after that." "Excuse me, would you drink a glass of water or something?" "You're lying so much, your mouth dried up." "And you're making that funny-- That smacking sound." "Let me remind you who you're talking to, hotshot." "Lincoln Tyler is a significant public figure." "He's a goddamn pillar of this community." "Now, let's keep that in mind." "Or this little interview that we're having here is over." "Look, the guy, the secretary, he's dead, isn't he?" "If you have a question, let me ask it." "Look, Mickey, I just want to know if the guy is dead." "Is he dead?" "Um, the smart money ain't on him." "That's it." "That is it." "Ha, ha!" "Do you know who you reminded me of out there?" "Sonny Liston!" "Remember in '65, they said:" ""Sonny, don't take any chances." "Ali almost killed you the first time." "Take the payday." "First punch, you go down."" "Flop!" "Splat!" "That's you!" "Detective, you either arrest him, or I'm gonna ask you to leave." "What would I arrest him for?" "What would I arrest you for, getting up too quick?" " What?" " What?" "I saw you, and you saw me." "And don't pretend like you don't know who I am, girlie man." "You wanted it to look like a knockout but when you heard the gunshot, your eyes were open." "Totally understandable reaction but it ruined the performance, don't you think?" "Look, what the hell do you want from me?" "The man knocked me out!" "I went through the fight tape, Lincoln!" "Yeah!" "It was a phantom punch!" "A little bad Hollywood acting, but the Athletic Commission might find it interesting." "And a second after you go down, an assassin fires." "Wow." "That's some coincidence." "I guess they don't call you the Executioner for nothing!" "And you sign my kid's autograph!" " All right, that's it." "Everybody, get out." " Listen to me." "Mickey!" "What don't you understand about this?" "Get the hell out of here!" "Go on!" "Get out!" "His name." "Michael Santoro." "OFFICER:" "This is a crime scene." "In order to exit the arena, we must see an authentic picture ID." "If you cannot produce one, you must step to the left where the officer will take your photograph and record your name and address." "I'll say this one more time." "No one, and there will be no exceptions, will be allowed to exit the arena until your identity has been recorded." "Everyone's cooperation will be greatly appreciated." "[GRUNTS]" "MAN:" "All right." "Watch your step." "OFFICER:" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "We said no press In the arena, goddamn it!" "[MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]" "Go to your right." "Clear the way." "[SIREN WAILING]" "[MEN SHOUTING]" "That punk fights like a bitch." "He got no snap in his punches." "He swings with his arm, no shoulder muscles." "You threw the fight." "If I say yes, can we out some kind of deal?" "You don't need a deal." "I'm not gonna say anything to anybody." "You pay me back the 1O grand I lost plus $500 for shaming the ring, and I forgive you." "[CLINKS GLASS]" "What did you do it for?" "You can't need the money." "You got to be worth millions." "They didn't tell me they were gonna kill somebody." "Who?" "Who didn't tell you?" "Look, man, see, you just don't understand." "I just gave away the one thing I know that makes me me." "The heavyweight championship." "Now I don't even have that." "I don't even know who I am anymore." "RICK:" "What did they have on you?" "Get them out of here, Cyrus." "Oh, yo!" "Pay-per-view, huh?" "Man, great shot, buddy." "Yeah, great shot, great shot." "Terrific." "Go on." "Take a hike, okay?" "There's cameras everywhere, for chrissake." "What if the guy from the commission comes in, he wants to check your gloves?" "What, you gonna retire and live on your savings, huh?" "What savings?" "You got to have this freak show in here tonight of all nights?" " Mickey, Mickey." "Come here, Mickey." " Forget about it, Cyrus." "I did not go to law school for this." " Mickey, I" " Keep your shirt on, Cyrus." "Come on, Mickey." "I'm trying to do this here." "Four, right?" "MICKEY:" "No, no, no." "We said three." " The deal was three." "We agreed" " Hey, Mick." " What do you want, Jimmy?" " Just a second." "Give me 35." " If I could just get a second" " Hey." " Take a hike." "I'll get you later." "Get out of here." " Come on!" "Look, man, I'm getting a lot of bets, okay?" "Very large bets against Lincoln, that is, okay?" " I'm just wondering" " Would you please lower your voice?" "Yeah." "Okay, look, I'm sorry." "Everybody knows that Lincoln likes the action, right?" "What I'm saying is, Lincoln likes to gamble, right?" "It's not exactly a secret." " Never on boxing." "I've been through this with the commission." "I do not have to explain it to you." "Never on boxing." "You're right." "Yeah, that's right." "It's okay." "He's in pretty heavy to some of the casinos, isn't he?" "People are saying that maybe he's looking to clean up the books a little bit." "Maybe Lincoln's decided tonight's not his night." "You come into a fighter's dressing room to tell him there's action against him?" "Then you have the nerve to accuse him of what?" "I've never been this offended in my life." "Come here." "I want you to tell Lincoln what you just said to me." "JIMMY:" "No, no, no." "MICKEY:" "Lincoln!" "Listen." "Jimmy's got something really interesting to tell you." "Listen to this." "Tell him." "Forget it." "Hey, forget everything I said." " Knock them dead, champ." " Listen..." "RICK:" "Jimmy George!" "Wait up a second." "Come on, Rick." "I got people waiting for me." "Hey, that's Tyler!" "Ha, ha!" "MICKEY:" "What are you looking at?" "Go buy a ticket." " You are never gonna get away with this." "LINCOLN:" "Get out of my face!" "MICKEY:" "Look at me." "Look at yourself." " No, no, no!" "Bleed, Mickey!" "Bleed!" "Unh!" "You taught me that." "Unh!" "Remember, Mickey?" "No way, man." "You got yourself into this." "You get caught, you lose my phone number." "I told you, you can't live like you do." "You make yourself vulnerable." "Everybody wants a piece of you." " Look at this, man." "They got all of you now." " Unh!" "That's beautiful." "That is" " That's terrific." "That's great." "That's great." "Jesus Christ." " Mickey?" " Yeah." "Come here." "All right, Cyrus, look." "Here it is, pal." "Take it." "Get lost, okay?" " Bets for the best, right, Mr. Tyler?" " Come on." "Get out of here." "Tyler, Tyler." "Tyler, Tyler." "Uh!" "Uh!" "Tyler, Ty" "All right, don't move." "I'll be right back." "'Cyrus!" "Cyrus!" " Yo, yo!" "Yo!" "How much were you into the casinos for?" "Enough." "The people that set this up said if I drop this one they'd square everything I owed." "Plus, if I lose to an underdog it would set me up for a rematch." "And a rematch is where the real money is." "They didn't say what round they wanted it in." "They were gonna let me know during the fight." "There was a guy in the front row." "They told me what he was gonna say." "And it was gonna be the signal to go down." "I ain't never gonna forget those words." "Here comes the pain." "It was all I could do to keep from taking him out." "Just one punch" "Shove that radio right through the side of his head." " Radio?" " Yeah." "He had one of those things in his ear." "Anyway, the fight started." "Come on, man." "Come on, old man." "See what you got." "See what you got, old man." "LINCOLN:" "I couldn't get that sack of shit to take a decent swing at me." "He wouldn't stop talking." "Like he was gonna bullshit me to death." "You got to do better than that." "Come on, baby." "Ohh!" "Come on, now." "You're too slow, old man." "Come on." "What you gonna do to me, huh?" "[GRUNTING]" "Ha, ha!" "That's what I'm talking about." "Whoo hoo hoo!" "Yeah!" "Come on, baby." "Come on." "Let's see what you got." "Let's see what you got, old man." "Come on." "Bring it to me." "Come on." "Yeah!" "[LAUGHING]" "Yeah, I'm right here." "I'm right here." "Let me try that good stuff you got." "Come on." "You're too slow." "LINCOLN:" "I was just trying to shut him up." "I barely even tapped him, and I almost won the fight." "REFEREE:" "Neutral corner." "One." "Two." "Three." "Four." "Five." "Six." "Seven." "Eight." " Are you okay?" " Yeah." "Yeah." "[CROWD CHEERING]" "Get it on!" "You punch like a bitch." " This is a fight." "Keep your" " Unh!" "LINCOLN:" "And he did head-butt me." "I wasn't lying about that." "Everything went wrong." "It was like he was trying to screw up the deal." "I'm stopping the fight." "LINCOLN:" "Right after that, I got the signal." "It was quicker than I thought." "I don't know." "Maybe they were getting nervous." "Let's get it on." "Here comes the pain, baby!" "Here comes the pain!" "Here comes the pain!" "I showed you what it's about." "LINCOLN:" "I wasn't supposed to go down right away." "They were very clear." "I had to take a punch, fall into the corner." "Let him charge in and knock me out." "RICK:" "Because they wanted everybody up on their feet, distracted." "Giving them a clear shot right through the crowd." "LINCOLN:" "But that punk-ass son of a bitch didn't swing through the punch." "And I was so far into the act in my own head, you know by the time I realized he didn't connect I was already in the corner." " Unh." "Unh!" " You're a bum, Tyler!" "How could you do this to me?" "He's a bum!" "Get back." "Neutral corner." "Get back, man." "Stay there." "One!" "Two." "Three." "Four." "[GUNSHOTS]" "Five." "Six." "[GUNSHOT]" "Seven." "Eight." "[GUNSHOT]" "But nobody was supposed to die." " She never said anything about that." " She?" " She?" " You hear that storm out there?" "[THUNDER CRASHES]" " I wish it would blow this whole town away." " No, no, no." "Who's she?" "She's the one who came to me in the first place." "Told me I was supposed to go down." "I never met anybody else but her." "RICK:" "Did you get a name?" "LINCOLN:" "Yeah." "Name, address, serial number, 8 x 1O color picture." " You want to look at that, too?" "RICK:" "Remember anything unusual about her?" "LINCOLN:" "Her hair maybe." "RICK:" "What about it?" "LINCOLN:" "It was bright red, like it was on fire." "A Palestinian who's lived in the United States for the last 6 years." "He's believed to be linked to a series of threatening letters written to various defense secretaries expressing outrage over the sale of missile systems and other weaponry to Israel." "A handwritten note was found on Rabat's body." "Could you hold that up, too, please?" "Apparently he intended it to be found after the shooting." "Commander, what's in the note, sir?" "I can't disclose that until it's been studied by investigators." "Commander, could you give us the condition of the secretary, please?" "He was taken to Atlantic City Medical Center." "But, uh, I have no other information at this time." "That's all I can say until the FBI joins the investigation." "Thank you, commander." "That was commander Kevin Dunne." "You find her?" "No." "She might have gone into the casino." "There's a dozen service doors." "We couldn't watch all of them." " Double the men you have at the casino exits." " I've got to talk to you." " What is it?" " Let's go somewhere private." "Just because a guy has something plugged into his ear" "I asked." "Tyler says it was a radio." "Okay, we'll check it out but a compulsive gambler who admits he took a dive..." "...might not turn out to be the best witness." " I'm betting that the redhead you followed is the same person who told Tyler to throw the fight." "She's one, shooter's two, Tyler's three." "The drunk who shouted the signal's four." "And whoever was on the other end of that radio is five." "Five people make a conspiracy, right?" "Yeah, yeah." "Look, anything's possible." "But I got to tell you, we got a file an inch thick on this guy Rabat." "He's a well-known nut case." "It's clear he was ready to die for his cause." "That's a suicide note." "You know, "I fly into the arms of Allah" and shit like that." "He was all worked up about our missile sales to Israel and it's conceivable that he found out about the Norfolk test." "Norfolk test, what's that?" "[THUNDER CRASHES]" "Kevin, I know it's classified but I am the investigating officer in a murder now." "All right." "But what are you chasing this for?" "You don't get out of bed unless there's an angle in it for you." "Guys get elected president just for being in the right place at the right time." "And I want to be mayor." "Look part of what I'm gonna tell you it could bury me." "I hope you can keep this between us." "Kevin, you're talking to your best friend." "And loyalty's my only vice, so, what's the problem?" "The problem is that I was in too good a mood." "That trip to Norfolk was for a weapons test." "For the Air Guard, Powell's new antimissile defense system." "It's light-years ahead of the C-Sparrows our ships have now." "If we had this in the Gulf when the Renville..." "After the Renvil/e incident, the old man picked me to sell it to congress." "Everybody at DOD wanted it to work, and it did." "The test went beautifully." "By the time we got to the fight tonight we were all high as kites." "I let the excitement get to me." "I lost my edge." "KEVIN:" "Can I see your ticket, please?" "My What?" "KEVIN:" "Your ticket, ma'am." "I need to see your ticket for this seat." "Oh, my ticket." "Um" "Yeah, sure." "I think I have it here." "[THUDDING]" "[CROWD CHEERING]" "KEVIN:" "Hey!" "Hold on a minute." "I was talking to you back there." "Where do you think you're going?" "I'm going to the ladies' room." "Is that okay with you?" "KEVIN:" "In the middle of the first round?" "You're not much of a fight fan, I guess." "Look, uh, sarge, I don't know who you are but you have no right to hassle me like this." "Look, I get paid to hassle people, ma'am." "Show me your ticket, or I'll have you escorted out." "Ugh, okay, okay." "I don't have a ticket." "I mean, I have a ticket." "But it's way up there in the nose bleed seats and I couldn't see a thing, so..." "Listen, I do this all the time." "They always let me get away with it." " Come on." "It's no big deal." "KEVIN:" "It is tonight." "What's so special about tonight?" "KEVIN:" "A very important man in the crowd." "Oh." "And you're, uh..." "What?" "His bodyguard?" "That must be a very exciting job." "Yeah." "It's got its moments." "[GUNSHOTS]" "[CROWD SCREAMING]" "I was three feet away from a known terrorist." "And I had my eyes buried in some broad's tits." "Oh, Kevin, this might not make you feel better, but don't you see?" "That's what she was there for." "That was the plan, to give you a boner." "Ha!" "And you got one." "Congratulations." "You're human." " Come on, Rick." " Look on the bright side." "I like you better." "Golden boy screwed up." "Wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "We need to be very, very careful with this." "We go out there and yell conspiracy, it's like waving a lunatic flag." "We got to get our hands on the redhead or the guy that shouted the signal." "If they're still in the building." "And the woman who was talking to the secretary." "I'll stay after her." "You try to find the other two." "RICK:" "No, no." "This is wrong." "We're never gonna find anything just walking around." "What if they've gone into the casino?" "I'm gonna go up to surveillance." "They've got cameras all over, bitching technology." "You do that while I double-check with security." "See if they found anything." "[THUNDER CRASHES]" "Well, I finally understand why you didn't want me to worry about your shooter." "KEVIN:" "One less terrorist in the world." "At least he did something productive on his way out." "Did he know he was on a suicide mission?" "He does now." "With all due respect, sir, we should have been out of here 11 minutes ago." "Things have changed." "We need to make an adjustment." "KEVIN:" "A local cop made both of you." "What?" "He made us?" "How?" "It's not important." "He's searching the building for you right now." "So, what do we do?" "Take him out?" "KEVIN:" "That's not an option." " That's the only option." "Negative." "Not with this guy." "Let's move out." "Yes, sir." "You do have a contingency plan, don't you, sir?" " Yes, but I don't like it." " Why not?" "Because a soldier deserves better." "[SILENCED GUNSHOT THEN WOMAN GRUNTS]" "Jesus Christ." "Wait." "I've been shot." "Unh." "I've been shot." " I'm shot." " I'm sorry." "[SILENCED GUNSHOT]" "[THUNDER CRASHES]" "WALT:" "I got 1500 cameras" "Eight hundred on the casino side, 720 on the hotel side," "Quadruple redundancy on the gaming floor." " If they're down there, we'll find them." " I appreciate it." "No problem." "You think one of these people is your shooter?" "We already got the shooter." "Then what are you looking for?" "Where do we start?" " You tell me." " Lobby." "WALT:" "One eighteen." "RICK:" "Can you go to the right?" "WALT:" "One fifty-four." "Keep moving." "Let's go by section." "Keep going." "No." "Hey, C.J., punch up 383." "The guy in the checkered shirt." " What about him?" " Coin cup grabber." "Look." "Watch the money." " You know him?" " No, you just get to read body language." "There he goes." "There he goes." "See, somebody who wants to play the slots, they're staring at the machines trying to guess which one is lucky." "A grabber could care less." "He checks out the people." "He's like a pickpocket, only crude." "You know, no skills." "Keep going?" "Keep going." "KEVIN:" "The identity of the assassin is Tarik ben Rabat, 37 years old." "A Palestinian who's lived in the United States for the last 6 years." "MAN:" "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "Are you down on the race?" "KEVIN:" "Expressing outrage over the sale..." "Oh." "Yeah." "MAN:" "Me, too." "OFFICER 1:" "We got two men covering every casino exit door." "Nobody's seen her yet." "OFFICER 2:" "Good." "Keep them there." "We'll search the floor section by section." "MAN:" "You are hot." "Ha, ha." "So you want to come back to my room and have a little fun together?" "Um" " Who's, uh...?" "Who's winning?" "Looks like the number 4 horse, uh, Daddy's Hobby." "Yeah?" "[ZIPPER UNZIPPING]" "Whew." "God, I'm hot." " Do you have air conditioning?" " Huh?" "In your room." "Air conditioning." "Oh, yeah." "Yeah." "I keep it turned down real low." "Heh, heh." "[GIGGLES]" "What you want?" "I need a word with Mr. Tyler." "[ZIPPER ZIPPING]" "I want to apologize, sir, for not securing the infrareds." "The shooter missed the girl." "There was nothing you could do." "Walter, I think we got another hooker in the Princess Lounge." " Punch up 596." " Excuse me a second." "She hasn't been there 5 minutes, she can't take her hands off him." " Oh, my God, that's her." " You said she had red hair." "No, not that one." "Somebody else." "Where's that bar?" " Over here." " They're leaving!" "Don't worry, Ricky." "No problem." "I'll stay with them." "Come on." "Grab a radio." "Stay on channel 3." "Here we go!" "Yeah, yeah." "[WOMAN GIGGLING]" "[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "That's her." "We've located the girl." "Okay." "Come on." " Where is she?" " Over there by the elevators." " I got it from here." "Thanks." " Done, sir." "I don't see her, Walt." "Walt, where is she?" "Walt!" "WALT:" "You're on the opposite side of the floor." "They're playing the Magnificent 7 near the lobby elevators." "Got them." " I'm just playing my spare change." " Yeah?" "Um, I want to go upstairs." " Yeah, yeah." "Me, too, me, too." " Yeah." "Urn, I want to go" "[ALARM RINGING]" "Yes!" " Hey!" " I want to go upstairs now." "And if you don't come with me, I'm sure somebody else will." "WALT:" "Change of plans." " They're at the elevators." "Hang a right." " Wait a minute!" "Shit!" "I missed her." "You got her in the box?" "WALT:" "Yeah, Ricky, I got them." "I'm taking this elevator." "Tell me what floor they're on." "So, what kind of music do you like?" " Ow!" "What?" " I'm sorry." "I just wanted a hug." " What floor'?" "35." "What?" "What?" "Nothing." "I just want to get upstairs." " Walt, I got to know what floor." " I can't make out the buttons." "It's a high one." "Can you pick them up when they get off?" "I'd have to check floor by floor." "I'd lose them." "Hang on." "I got an idea." " Hmm." " Come on, Walt." "WALT:" "Yeah." "This is McGahn at Security." "We have a Ned Campbell staying at the hotel?" "[ELEVATOR DINGS]" "No, honey." "That's going up." "Walt!" "[DINGS]" "What room?" "Thirty-five seventeen." "You're a genius." "MAN:" "Okay!" "Man, this is gonna be so much fun!" "[PEOPLE LAUGHING]" "Come on." "Come on." "[CHATTERING]" "[WOMAN LAUGHS]" "[WOMEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "[MAN AND WOMAN LAUGHING]" "WOMAN:" "Honey, come on." "REPORTER [ON TV]:" "In the Tri-State Weather Center..." "WOMAN:" "Oh, the weather is more important than me, baby?" "Look at me." "Look at me!" "Look, honey, there's a hurricane on." "So what?" "I'm hot!" "Come on!" " You want to play rough, huh?" " Ha-ha-ha!" "I'll give you a little hurricane!" "[BOTH LAUGHING]" "MAN [ON TV]:" "Secretary of Defense Charles Kirkland is in critical condition at the Atlantic City Medical Center after being struck by an assassin's bullet while attending a boxing match at the Atlantic City Arena." "We've been getting live updates from the only reporter allowed inside the arena a Lou Logan of Powell pay-per-view television." "[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING LOUDLY]" "[MEN SHOUTING]" "NED:" "Hold it down in there!" "People are trying to sleep!" "MAN [ON TV]:" "We've also learned that Rabat left what may have been a suicide note which was found on his body by police in the moments after the shooting took place." "[SOUL MUSIC PLAYING]" "Ugh." "0K8)'" " Hi." " Hi." "Ha, ha!" " I hope you don't mind." "I borrowed your shirt." " Oh, not at all." "I happen to think women look very sexy in men's shirts." " Oh." "Ha, ha!" " Ha-ha-ha!" "Okay." "Um, can you just hold on one minute, okay?" "Oh, okay." "Oh, please." "Excuse me." "You're the one who was practically giving me the knob job down in the bar." "I'm sorry." "I need a place where I can just wait, and then I'll go." "A place where you can just wait and go." "What do you think this is, a bus stop?" "Are you on drugs or something?" "I should've figured this out." "You look like hell." "What, did you come up here to rob me?" "Look, I'm in trouble." "Somebody shot at me, okay?" "Great." "Now I've heard everything." "Let's go." "Do you know what's going on?" "Have you heard?" "Listen, I am a very happily married man, and I don't need your kind of trouble." " So let's go." " Just a half an hour." " No, wait." "Please!" " Get out!" " Aah!" " Sorry." " Who are you?" " Take a walk." " What the hell's going on here?" " I said, take a walk!" "It's my room, damn it!" "Hi." "Remember me?" "I'm Detective Santoro." " I shoved you out of the way of that bullet." " Yeah." "Can you please help me?" "I need to get out of this building." "The first thing we're gonna do is get you out of this room." "So you can calm down." "We're gonna have a little talk, okay?" "Yeah." " This hotel sucks!" " What's the problem?" "Some guy just busted into my room." "What guy?" "Where?" "Come on." "I'll show you." "There I am, minding my own business, writing a letter to my lovely wife." "And some guy just busts in." "She must have gone with him." "Hey, is that a silencer?" "What did he look like?" "Where are you going?" "What's the matter with you?" "He's" " He's following me." "You're with me now." "You're safe." "I'm your cop." "I'm going to protect you." "I'm gonna serve you." "We got a very cozy little step here so why don't we just sit down?" "Calm down." "Take a deep breath." "How's your arm?" "Oh, it's fine." "Thanks." " You're not gonna die on me?" " No." " We can talk for a minute?" "Okay." " Yeah." "No, thank you." "[THUNDER CRASHES]" "Um, Why'd you run away from me?" "You know what?" "I don't know." "I don't know what I'm doing." "I'm not interested in what you don't know." "What I'm interested in is what you do know." "Please." "Okay." "Um..." "I, uh" " I work at Powell Aircraft." "I put together the ballistics reports we issue after weapons tests." "You're talking about missiles?" "Right." "Now, the newest missile, the Air Guard, I've been tracking its results for the past couple months, and they are perfect." "These tests are never perfect." "So I knew something was wrong." "But I didn't know who I could trust." "I sent an anonymous e-mail to Secretary Kirkland telling him that I suspected that these results were doctored." "He actually wrote me back, and he told me to get him proof." "Yesterday I got it, and I told him that I wanted to give it to him in person." "He told me to bring it to the fight tonight." "REPORTER:" "Welcome to Atlantic City." "Are you here on official business?" "Not for a couple of hours." "I'm just another fight fan." "WOMAN"." "I couldn't get near him when they first came in." "Powell was all over him." "The South Jersey worker we are interested in tonight is the Atlantic City Executioner!" "WOMAN"." "So I decided to wait until the fight started." "And I had no idea where they were sitting so I went up top to get a better view." "[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]" "RICK:" "All right." "Hold it." "Hold it." "Stop right there." "This is Dunne you're talking about." "Naval uniform." "Commander Kevin Dunne." " Right." " Talking with Rabat before he shoots Kirkland." "I recognized him." "I had just seen him come in." "Then you saw wrong." "It wasn't Dunne." "He could not be a part of it." "Will you just listen to the rest?" " I'm sorry." "RICK:" "That seat's taken." "Oh, but you can sit here." " I'll just need one minute." " Me too." "[BOTH LAUGH]" "It's in the pocket." " Excuse me." "Did you say something?" "It's in the pocket." "Possible make." " So you've been writing to me." " Just look in the envelope, Mr. Secretary." " What is it?" " The satellite infrareds from yesterday's tests." "They gave me those." "They showed convergent impact." " Then they gave you doctored copies." " Make is good." "Stand by." "Please just look for yourself." " Okay, look at the heat flashes..." "KEVIN:" "She has the infrareds." "WOMAN: ...here at the moment of impact." " Start the car." " Copy." "WOMAN:" "There's two every time." "The target blows up, but Air Guard never gets within 10 meters of it." " Then why would the target blow up?" " Because they rigged it, Mr. Secretary." "They put on a fireworks display for you." "The Air Guard doesn't work, and the company knows the system doesn't work but they're pushing it through anyway." "I know what they're thinking." "We get it approved now, we say we're sorry, and we fix it later." "But I am telling you, you're the one that's gonna be sorry." "Jesus Christ." "Bert Powell is out of his mind." "If you deploy that weapons system and a war breaks out" " All right." "I get the picture." " Who?" "Don't make any plans for the next six months, young lady." "You're going to be sending some people to jail." "Oh!" "Agh!" "[PEOPLE SCREAMING]" "No." "That's not what happened." "That's not what happened." "WOMAN:" "I'm sorry." "I wish I didn't know any of this, either." "Who the hell do you think you are, lady?" "Sticking your nose in where it doesn't belong." "You're a number-cruncher." "Just crunch the goddamn numbers!" "Uh, I was doing my job." "We were creating a defense system that was supposed to save people's lives." "They're building the factory in a disadvantaged part of the state." "This was a good thing to do." ""It was a good thing to do."" "Jesus, somebody hands you a line, you just swallow it whole, don't you?" "Just a little goody two-shoes." "I believed in what we were doing." "They corrupted it, so somebody had to speak up." "I mean, it's important." "Does it feel important now?" "Did it feel important when the bullet hit?" "I had no choice." "I can't live with the blood of innocent soldiers on me, okay?" "Whose side are you on?" "My side." "An e-mail." "You let them know you were coming." "They just sat back and waited for you to show your face." "But I was careful." "I waited till Powell left." "I didn't sit down till it was clear." "No." "You sat down exactly when they wanted you to." "They opened the door, and you walked on through right on cue." "They didn't miss him with that second shot." "They missed you." "I thought I'd get fired, not killed." "What do we do now?" "Well, are you a cop, or aren't you?" "I can't get past the men at the doors by myself." "But with you, I'd be fine." "You just get me outside." "You don't have to think about me again." "I can take care of myself." "You did a hell of a job so far." "Look, I'm sorry if I" "Who gives a shit if you're sorry?" " What are you mad at me for?" " Because I didn't have to know!" "You decided to have this problem, not me!" "My world would have gone on turning just fine, but now either way I look..." "I have to do something I don't want to do." "Do you understand what I'm saying?" "I do not want to do this!" "Do what?" "[THUNDER CRASHES]" "How old are you?" "I'm 26." "Do--?" "Do you have, uh, family around here?" " My mother in New York." " Do you have a husband?" " No." " Boyfriend?" "Why are you asking me all this?" "Kevin." "Kevin Dunne." "You're positive he's the one you saw with Rabat before the shots were fired?" " Let me tell you something about Kevin Dunne." " You know him." "He is one of the most honorable dudes on the planet!" "Yeah, I know him, and you could be wrong." "Yeah, you could." "There were people rushing in front of you." "And you were nervous, and you were scared." "You could be wrong." "Isn't it possible?" " Yes." "Isn't it?" "Isn't it so?" "Yeah." "Now that I think about it, I think I could be wrong." "You remember, I told you that my glasses, they had fallen off, and I couldn't quite focus." "I don't think it was him." "Your glasses didn't fall off till after the gunshots." "Ah, Shit." "POWELL:" "What happened with the girl?" "The cop shoved her out of the way." "And he's got her now somewhere." "The cop?" "You mean, your cop?" "Yes." "But it's all good, right?" "Because you've said he's controllable." "Absolutely." "He's only chasing this down because he thinks it's a career opportunity." "Chasing it down?" "What?" "You said he'd sit back." "This doesn't sound like he's sitting back." "It sounds like he's conducting an active investigation." "A very dangerous investigation." "[THUNDER CRASHES]" "Kirkland died 1O minutes ago." "Five minutes from now, I got to be on TV." "What is it?" "Yes or no?" "We got a goddamn Columbo running around loose?" "No operation goes exactly as planned." "You don't panic." "You stay calm and tie up loose ends." "What do you think I've been doing..." "...for the last hour?" " Jesus Christ!" "This is not the plan I invested in!" "In the plan I bought, that prairie populist who was criminally dismantling the entire armed forces goes down!" "The disloyal employee, she goes down with him!" "The fanatical terrorist, he takes the rap!" "The Air Guard missile contract is approved and I" " I get enough money to finish the goddamn Millennium!" "It was a good plan!" "No humiliation." "No scandal." "No prison!" "We're still contained." "Once the girl is gone, it's only me." "And two men I trust." "Two?" "I thought there were four." "Did we have another acceptable loss?" "I'm not on that list, am I?" " We'll be safe in here." " Safe?" "I'm giving you a place to hide." "I don't want to hide." "I want to get out, okay?" "I'll be back in 1O minutes, take you out through the casino." "Where are you go--?" "Rick?" "Rick, the door is locked." "[BANGING ON DOOR]" "Rick!" "Rick, let me out, please!" "Rick, please, just let me out, okay?" "I'll get out on my own." "Rick!" "Hey, Rick." "Here." "Come on." "It's the five grand for letting me be the guy." "Oh." "A little something extra here." "You're all heart, Rick." "MAN:" "I can't believe we got called out in this rain!" "Sir, this entire area is now the site of an FBI investigation." "You'll have to leave." "Oh, okay." "Log in Santoro." "He's A.C. police." "Here comes the pain, baby!" "Here comes the pain!" "Here comes the pain!" "[THUDDING]" "You're a bum, Lincoln Tyler!" "How could you do--?" "He's a bum!" "[PHONE RINGS]" " Hello?" "WOMAN:" "Hi, Ricky!" "It's me!" " What?" "Who are you?" " Up here, sweetie!" "Over here, sweetie!" "It's me, your lucky number." " My lucky number?" "Up here!" "Aah!" "[SCREAMING]" "[THUNDER CRASHES]" "MAN:" "It's called the Zero-Gravity Flying Eye." "New camera." "Got it in this morning." "So nobody knew you had it?" "Well, I knew." "It's remote control." "It floated all around the arena to get crowd reaction." "Let me see its tape." "L" " I need to look at this part alone." "Come on." "You're the man." "Oh, man." "Oh, man." "KEVIN:" "They were specifically told they couldn't have a camera up there." "Don't give me that wounded look." "You haven't got the face for it." "POWELL [ON TV]:" "I just received word Secretary Charles Evans Kirkland is dead." "He passed away at 10:48 p.m." "At this time, I'd like to extend my deepest sympathies to the secretary's family and to the nation, to the people that he so faithfully and proudly served." "And, uh..." "I have something else to say." "To those that would try to bully us or to terrorize us to divert us from the causes of peace and justice." "Kevin." "I want you to know that in spite of what's happened here tonight we are not deterred." "Production of the Air Guard missile system will go ahead in accordance with Secretary Kirkland's wishes." "That's called the first draft of history." "It's going to hold." "Why did it have to be me?" "Why did you want me next to him?" "One, I needed a cop to back up my alibi." "Two I knew you could be bought if anything went wrong." "No offense, pal, but I never thought you'd get as far as you did." "You're my best friend." "You used me." "Made me a sucker." "And that hurts me because I would have done anything for you." "Then tell me where the girl is." "She didn't do nothing wrong." "She was just trying to save some guys' lives, soldiers, like you used to be." "Who the hell are you now, anyway?" "Don't talk to me about soldiers." "What do you know about being a good soldier." "A guy who finds an envelope full of cash in his squad car every Friday?" "What do you think I've been doing for 1O years?" "Strutting on the boardwalk and picking up hookers?" "When the Renvil/e took that Iraqi missile hit belowdecks do you know what happened?" "A hole ripped open in her bulkhead and the sea flooded in." "We had 60 seconds to maintain watertight integrity." "I had to go below and give the order to dog the hatches." "That meant the 28 men that were still in the main engine space were trapped." "You ever listen to a man drowning?" "They don't die quietly." "Those men deserved a decent point-defense system." "The Air Guard is it." "Yeah, it has glitches you don't abandon the whole system because of a few bugs." "You fix it." "Charles Kirkland was a politician." "A baby-kisser, not a soldier." "And when the political winds said cut defense spending he started playing political games with real soldiers' lives." "He forced Powell into an early test." "He positioned the system to fail because he didn't want to pay for it." "So we pay!" "We die." "We need the Air Guard." "And that girl is in the way now, Rick." "Just..." "Just tell me where she is." "All right, Rick." "Pick a number." "How much is it gonna take for you to look the other way like you have all your life?" "Three hundred grand, 500?" "Seven-fifty?" "A million dollars?" "One million." "A million bucks." "You hit the jackpot here." "All you have to do is cash in the ticket." "Don't you think Angela would like a few nice things for once in her life?" "Don't you think she deserves them?" "I never killed nobody." "What?" "I said I never killed nobody." "You won't have to." "She's my problem." "You just tell me where she is." "You'll never hear another word about her." "One million dollars." "Kevin, that's a whole shitload of money, but I can't do it." "Kevin, you just pulled a gun on me." "Get back." "Oh, boy." "Oh, God." "Goddamn it." "I'm under a lot of pressure here, all right?" "Be smart." "Just take the money." "Please, Rick." "You're all alone on this." "What about Tyler?" "Yeah." "If he talked to me, he'll talk to somebody else." "KEVIN:" "Lincoln and I have come to an understanding." "You got nothing, kiddo." "Snake eyes." "The house wins." "Now, where is she?" "Fuck you." "[RICK GRUNTING]" "KEVIN:" "Don't make it so he can't talk." "Why don't you at least try, man?" "I'll try." "Unh!" "That's not a punch." "Come on, girlie-man!" "Show me what you got, champ!" "This is the champ?" "Look, why don't you just shut up, man?" "This will go a lot easier." "[GRUNTING]" "KEVIN:" "Sounds like three broken ribs to me." "What is this, a heroic stand?" "You're the wrong guy for it, Rick." "You'll be all alone in the spotlight and guys like you can't stand up to that light." "You'll burn up under it." "The press starts looking for dirt, and they will, it will be a mudslide." "Forget about your job, your sweet life in Margate." "Start thinking about jail!" "Your girlfriend will be gone, too, at the first sign of trouble." "But not before she has a little chat with Angela." "So say good-bye to your wife, too!" "Twice a month with Michael won't be so bad if you can get him to spend the night in your shitty apartment!" "You will lose it all, my friend." "Everything!" "And your whole connected life will fall the hell apart." "Is that what you want?" "All you got to do is be consistent, for chrissake." "Do what you always do." "Take the money!" "You want to be a hero?" "You want to do something for your country?" "Then tell me where the girl is!" "[YELLS]" "It was anybody but me, you'd be dead." "I'll be back in half an hour." "[GRUNTING]" "[THUNDER CRASHING]" "[GROANING]" "MAN:" "Lower." "Stop." "Lower." "Stop." "Lower." "Stop." "[GRUNTING]" "[BEEPING]" "[BANGING]" "[GRUNTING]" "LOGAN:" "Wow." "This is great stuff." "You know, we could sell this to local." "Who could we get outside for a stand-up?" "[THUNDER CRASHING]" "Package is on the boardwalk." "[OVER COMM] Needs pickup at the Millennium entrance." "Let's go." "[RICK GROANING]" "[METAL SCREECHING]" "[THUMPING]" "[WIND WHOOSHING]" "Aah!" "Goddamn it!" "Shit!" "I'd like to know what I did wrong to get all the shit assignments!" "Just roll so we can get out of here!" "In five, four three." "Well, it looks like Tropical Storm Jezebel just may be a hurricane after all." "We're live on the boardwalk." "As you can see behind me the huge metal globe that is the emblem of the Powell Millennium lies shattered." "Oh, Anthea, you look great, hon." "Could you get any closer to the globe?" "Julia." "Julia." "This is an extremely hazardous" "Hang on!" "The police emergency unit should" "I think I see their truck." "Julia!" "Julia!" "Julia!" "[GRUNTS]" " Tell her to unlock the door and come out." " Unh.No." "I won't tell her to unlock it." "Get out of the way!" "ANTHEA:" "The police are here and are waving us off the boardwalk." "All right." "0K8)'" "She's all yours." "[SIREN WAILING]" "What the hell is that?" "KEVIN:" "Goddamn it, Rick!" "I don't want to kill you!" "0K8)'" "[GRUNTING]" "Look out!" " Put the gun down!" "OFFICER 2:" "On the ground right now!" "OFFICER 1:" "Lower your gun now, sir!" "No." "Wait." "Wait a minute." "Wait!" "I'm with DOD!" "Listen to me!" "OFFICER 1:" "Put the gun down!" "This" " This woman is a suspect!" "OFFICER 2:" "We'll be forced to fire!" "No!" "She's a suspect, goddamn it!" "I am commander Kevin Dunne, and this woman is a threat to the security of the United States!" "Rick, tell them!" "Please!" "For God's sake!" "Tell them what we got here!" "Ain't no "we," Kevin." "You got snake eyes." "OFFICER 1:" "Put the gun down, sir!" "OFFICER 2:" "Drop the gun, sir!" "OFFICER 1:" "Put the gun down." "Now put it on the ground!" "OFFICER 2:" "Put the gun down!" "OFFICER 1:" "Sir, look at me." "You need to pay attention!" "OFFICER 2:" "Now!" "OFFICER 1:" "Now, put the gun on the floor, sir!" "OFFICER 2:" "Sir, put the gun down!" "OFFICER 1:" "Please!" "We know who you are!" "OFFICER 2:" "Don't move!" "OFFICER 1:" "Take your hand off the handle!" "Back away from the door slowly and turn around!" "OFFICER 2:" "Slowly back up!" "OFFICER 1:" "We need to take the gun away!" "OFFICER 2:" "Hands where I can see them!" "OFFICER 1:" "Sir, please!" "Please put it down on the ground right now!" "[OFFICERS SHOUTING]" "[GRUNTS AND JULIA GASPS]" "OFFICER 1:" "Get a paramedic quick!" "Call for a paramedic now!" "OFFICER 2:" "Get this camera out of here!" "[JULIA SOBBING]" "REPORTER"." "Today in Brighton Park, Richard Santoro Atlantic City's new police hero, received a special valor award for heroism from Mayor Frank Sanchini." "The mayor extended the public's thanks to Santoro for his lifesaving efforts on behalf of Julia Costello The Powell Aircraft researcher who exposed the deadly conspiracy that led to the assassination of Defense Secretary Charles Kirkland." "[APPLAUSE]" "MAN"." "Hey, Rick!" "Over here!" "ANTH EA:" "Hero cop Richard Santoro took a well-deserved break from police work today with his son." "Meanwhile, the Air Guard investigation continued in Washington and Gilbert Powell announced more firings at Powell aircraft as he cleans house in the wake of the assassination." "MAN 1 :" "There he is." "REPORTER'." "Richard Santoro's moment in the public eye produced an unexpected backlash this week as allegations of corruption swirled around him." " Whoa, would you back off?" "MAN 1:" "Mr. Santoro, there's been some" "Out!" "I'm Ricky, all right?" "Come on!" "MAN 1:" "Bribery out of the mayor's office." " Could you--?" "Could you comment on those?" "MAN '2'." "And what about the cocaine?" "Cocaine my ass!" "REPORTER'." "Santoro was unwilling to comment on the reports which have come from numerous sources both in the police department and elsewhere." "[REPORTERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]" "We're waiting here outside the Atlantic County Superior Court for Richard Santoro, who's just been indicted on charges stemming from incidents that have been" "Where are you going?" "Hey, hey, hey, Rick!" "Could you stop--?" "Mr. Santoro!" "Mr. Santoro, could you comment on this indictment, sir?" "Mr. Santoro!" "[CLANGING]" "Whoa!" "What are you trying to do, kill me?" "Yeah, nice going, Al." "Hey, that's what hard hats are for!" "A reporter told me where to find you." "I came twice before, but you were out." "Yeah." "I've had a lot of social engagements lately." "Yeah." "I was surprised you stayed in town." "I thought you'd want to move away." "Actually, I'm gonna be spending some time upstate." "Upstate?" "Oh." "Mm." "I keep dreaming I'm back in that tunnel underwater only in my dream I drowned." "I wonder what they would have said about me then." "You didn't have to do what you did and I know what it cost you, and if it helps, I" "Don't try to make a hero out of me." "It won't fit." "If I hadn't put a face to you, things probably would have gone a whole lot different." "But they didn't." "I testified this morning at the Air Guard hearings." "Yeah, how did it go?" "Very well, I think." "The whole system is being dumped." "The company's being completely restructured." "There are gonna be all sorts of indictments up and down the administration, and..." "Things have really changed." "I know you may not want to see it right now, but it's true." "It's gonna be so different in Atlantic City." "[BOTH CHUCKLE]" "You know, they say back 2--, 300 years ago, pirates put phony lighthouses right out by those big rocks, right out there." "Ships would set a course by the lights, crash on the rocks." "Then everybody would go out and rob them blind." "Only one thing's changed since then." "Lights are brighter." "I'm naive." "There's worse things to be." "Yeah." "How old are you?" "Thirty-five." "You have family around here?" "Yeah." "You got a wife?" "She ran away." "Girlfriend?" "Yeah, she ran away, too." "Sorry." " Well, it could have been worse." " How?" "They could have run away with each other." "[LAUGHS]" "Uh,yeah." "So..." "Maybe in about 12 to 18 months from now I'll give you a call." "Yeah." "I'd like that." "Hey" "Oh, what the hell." "At least I got to be on TV." "Let's go." "Get back to work." "We got to get this done." "Come on, everybody up." "Let's go." "Come on." "Ain't got much sun left." "[English" " US" " SDH]"