(male narrator) Tonight, on Spenser For Hire.
Hey, what the hell are you doin'?
Just, uh, pickin' up a souvenir for the little lady, you know.
I'd rather have second hand than second rate.
I need your help, man.
Protection.
Thieving is an addiction. Like women.
I guess it depends on the women.
Me in my Yolanda gown
and you in your white sweat socks.
Hey!
Old gangsters never die. They just move to Miami.
He didn't have to hit me anymore.
He'll never touch you again.
(Joe) I erased him from my memory, permanently.
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(Susan) 'Oh, I can eat about three--'
(Spenser) 'Three dogs. The best dogs in town.'
You know what I like about you best though?
Oh, the fact that I kinda beef shop at the produce market?
No, no.
Uhh, that I pump my own gas?
You've never pumped your own gas in your entire life.
You're right.
I was thinking more about the way you dress, you know.
I love the way you dress. You dress great.
Oh, I like the way you dress too.
I mean, I like your jeans and..
- I like your jeans. - You like my jeans?
Yes.
What about my white sweat socks--
Oh, I forgot about those. Yeah, they're wonderful.
What do you know about Brady Fashions?
Uh, they're on the rack of every dime store in New England.
- Uh-huh. - They're all American.
Sturdy, inexpensive.
And they're all my mother used to put me in
when I was a little girl.
Until I knew better.
Oh, Yolanda. I'm impressed.
Where is the rest of the dress?
All American Brady Fashions.
You mean, Brady's importing Yolanda's?
How much is the gown like that worth?
Depends. What are we talking?
We are talking a black, backless, sleeveless
slip-of-a-nothin' evening gown.
- Hmm, two maybe $. - Really?
Mm-hmm, I know.
You love the way I dress, so you decided
you're going to add to my collection and buy me
a Yolanda original, right?
[laughing]
No. I will buy another hot dog, though.
Well, after all, it's okay.
because how would we look at a society ball?
I mean, me in my Yolanda gown
and you in your white sweat socks.
How about me in the Yolanda gown and you in my white sweat socks?
Possibilities are endless.
[both chuckling]
(Spenser) A business lunch with Susan Silverman
was not an everyday occasion.
Normally, I'd try not to burden Susan
with the problems of my business.
But high fashion just wasn't somethin'
I'd ever been very much concerned with.
Until a man named John Brady hired me
to find out who was stealing dresses from his plant.
My primary suspect was young ex-con named Louis Harper.
Louis was making a delivery to Filing's department store.
And I was shadowing him
to see if my hunch about him was right.
What I saw confirmed my suspicion.
But it wasn't because Louis took anything off the rack.
It was simply because Louis just plain took off.
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(Spenser) Wyoming's department store is world famous
for its bargain basement.
But when Louis Harper got to basement.
He got more than he bargained for.
[panting]
No! No, man!
Come on, man, let me go!
[crash]
Aah!
If you take this over to mass general..
[screams]
Come on.
[indistinct chattering]
'Stay down. Take it easy.'
Somebody call an ambulance.
(Spenser) Judging by the angle Louis' leg was left in.
I knew he'd been customized by a professional.
Very clean.
I didn't think the same was true for the rest of Louis.
After I made sure he was safely loaded into an ambulance.
I drove out to see my client.
John Brady began his career in Boston
as a year old bootlegger.
Runnin' booze up and down the eastern seaport
during prohibition.
But when he went straight, he stayed straight.
And his plan was a place where people
who needed a second chance could find it.
As long as they played it straight with him.
When I told him about Louis, he was disappointed.
But not surprised.
- They what? - Broke his leg.
They were working their way up to his back.
Who were they?
Uh, you might know.
No, it's not my style.
I want bones broken, I break them myself.
Well, if Louis is stealing dresses from me
he's gonna have to turn 'em over.
Fences can be pretty nasty.
They go to a different kind of finishing school.
If you know what I mean.
- Did you get the goods back? - Not yet.
I'm not gonna lose any more, that kid is gone. He's fired.
- He's my only lead? - Look.
Thieving is an addiction.
Like women. Only a lot more danger and a lot more fun.
I guess it depends on the woman.
You knew Louis' background when you hired him.
He must've had a reason.
Well, he was pushy, he was aggressive.
He stormed his way in here
and told me what he wanted and who he was.
And then he had the nerve to challenge me to hire him.
He thought he deserved a chance.
Maybe still does.
Maybe he's just not pushy enough to stand up to these guys
that are leanin' on him.
Okay. Okay, you get the dresses back.
And I'll deal with Louis Harper later.
Deal.
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Louis, what did you do now?
Job related accident, babe.
Three guys break your leg and it's a job related accident?
I was workin' at the time.
Well, I wouldn't pay any attention--
Where are we working Louis? Who put you to hospital?
And why?
You were the one who stopped it, weren't you?
I didn't stop anybody. Just scared them off.
You were there for a reason?
John Brady hired me to find out
who's been stealin' dresses from his factory.
And he thinks it was Louis?
What does Louis think?
You've been out of jail ten months.
First six of them you complained that no one was gonna hire you
once they saw your record.
Now, John Brady sees your record. He hired you anyway.
And you go and steal from him?
Why?
Look at you, look at you, Willa, you tell me why.
This baby don't give you the right to steal.
You got a good job now, Louis.
I'm workin' steady at the agency.
For how long, Willa?
That baby come along, you gonna be out of work, in a hospital.
Bill's gonna start piling up, we gonna be buried
in IOUs till we can't see.
No, we'll manage.
We'll manage.
Look..
- I got to get back to work. - Alright.
- I'll see you tomorrow, okay? - Okay.
Thanks.
So...what about the dresses, Louis?
What dresses?
That cute repartee's not gonna keep you out of prison.
'Oh, that might get you corner cell'
'but the dimensions are the same, nine by six.'
Let me tell you about jail, Spenser.
I spent two years inside for stealin' cars.
Nothin' to do but eat three meals a day and read.
I turned a ton of pages.
How to succeed in business. How to be a billionaire.
How to get rich quick. They all tell you the same thing, man.
You got to capitalize.
I'm just takin' advantage over prison education.
Nice diploma.
That's right. That's right, the college of hard knocks.
But it's gonna give me somethin' better.
Somethin' better for my wife and kid.
Sure, would be nice if you could enjoy with them.
I just got this one more sh*t, Shadow.
I'm gonna use it.
Use it wisely.
The guys that did that.
Got two more wishes.
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You're a bad habit I don't seem to be able to break, Joe.
I'm tryin'.
You've got a bad sickness, Brady.
You got a hole in your pocket.
I'm just tryin' to sew it up, that's all.
I started this business years ago.
It's been good. It's been bad.
It's been mine.
Well, I turn my back for a minute.
And you're changing it into a bookie operation.
A drug dispensary.
Every time I turn around, you're digging a little deeper
taking a little more.
Well, you don't own me, Broz.
Not yet.
Listen mister.
We have a financial arrangement.
That has nothing to do with plant operations.
You'll leave Louis Harper to me.
Okay. Okay.
I just erased him from my memory.
Permanently.
Good to see you, Brady.
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(Spenser) The hospital told me
Louis would be discharged at three o'clock.
Because of his broken leg
I knew he wouldn't be too hard to follow.
What I didn't know was why a man with broken leg
would be going to Henry Cimoli's gym.
Until I thought about it.
The kind of problem Louis had
meant he had two choices.
Run. Or fight back.
Running on a broken leg wasn't easy.
Fighting back could be. If he had the right fighter.
You Hawk?
Yeah. Who's askin'?
Harper. Louis Harper.
I need your help, man. Protection.
Seems like you should've asked somebody that sooner.
One day's work.
I don't think so.
Why not?
I don't do day work.
$,. Cash.
Half in advance.
Keep talkin'.
(Spenser) When Hawk left the gym, he drove Louis to Cambridge.
He headed for the best part of town
and pulled in to the Charles hotel.
If he saw me tailing him, he didn't do anything
to let me know.
What I did know was that Louis was expecting trouble.
That minnow was coming my way too.
And I knew something else.
A high class hotel. And high class muscle like Hawk.
Added up to something a lot bigger
than a few stolen dresses
from a bargain basement line.
I figured it must have more to do with the label Susan said
that made Brady's dresses worth two or $ a piece.
Louis. This is Susan.
Oh, you have great taste, Susan.
Is it really hot?
Well, it will be. On you.
- No, I mean-- - He knows what you mean.
Let's put it this way. Tonight, ladies, everything is tax free.
[all chuckling]
(Susan) 'How much?'
(Louis) 'Fifteen hundred. Cash.'
(Susan) 'How about five hundred?'
Let's call it a grand.
This is a cloud..
Lining alone is worth that much.
[indistinct chatter]
Oh, how would you look in just the lining, huh?
Sold.
(Spenser) When I saw the same hoods that broke Louis' legs show up
I knew the action was important.
Because this time I could see their faces.
Mike and Fred Stratus.
Exclusive body breakers for one of the biggest crime bosses
in Boston.
Joe Broz.
If Broz was involved.
I figured even Hawk could use a helping hand.
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You take this seriously, don't you, Hawk?
Payin' top dollar.
Get what you pay for.
We hit the lobby, do nothin' till I say.
Got it.
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[indistinct chatter]
You finish, bruh?
I made a promise, Hawk. This afternoon was the grand finale.
Good.
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[screaming]
[indistinct chatter]
Hey!
Damn.
?Spenser, did you find those dresses?
No, but I found Louis Harper.
- He's dead. - What?
- He was m*rder*d today. - God.
What does Joe Broz have on you?
I don't need you to tell me how to run my business, Spenser.
No, you don't. You already have Broz telling you.
The dresses Louis took weren't off the rack, were they?
They're imports. High fashion originals.
Thirty-five years ago I insisted that every Brady product
bear the label made in the USA.
Then I found out the hard way that it was cheaper
to manufacture the goods in Taiwan than in Boston.
I took a bleeding.
So you started importing high fashion originals
expensive goods.
Broz backed you. He bankrolled you, didn't he?
That's not your concern, Spenser.
You hired me to find a few dresses.
Instead I find the body of some kid tryin' to scratch his way
Out of a dead end life.
May not be our concern anymore.
But still mine.
Stay out of it, Spenser. One body is enough!
Are you tellin' me Louis Harper isn't worth it?
Who the hell makes that decision?
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You don't get off that easily, buster.
[giggling]
- Morning. - Good morning.
- How'd you sleep? - Hmm, great.
There's coffee and fresh blueberry muffins in the oven
I whipped them up myself, I did.
- Did you? - Mm-hmm.
Did you pick the blueberries too?
Right outside my garden window.
- It's January. - Fresh frozen.
Your hands must be cold.
- Where are you going? - Work.
- Is it Hawk? - Partly.
Have you talked to him?
Oh, I will. I've gotta talk to somebody else first.
Who?
The guys those hoods work for.
Joe Broz.
Broz? I thought he was loan sharking and rackets.
What's he doin' with Brady fashion?
There's a tax free dollar to be made
within a miles of Boston.
Joe Broz will turn up.
- In woman's dresses? - Well, not in public.
That's why I have to meet him in private.
I set the alarm, you can sleep till seven.
Oh, sure.
I'm gonna sleep while you're out taking on Joe Broz.
No, it's just a social call.
They'll serve me coffee and I'll toss 'em a few bananas.
Oh, no. I'll serve you coffee. He can pick his own bananas.
Thanks.
Thanks.
That boy was m*rder*d. Why can't you let the police handle it?
Suze, this is somethin' bigger than stolen dresses.
How did he get involved with Broz anyway.
Well, Brady's got quite a colorful past.
They used to call him the Boston bootlegger.
Made a fortune running booze down around plymouth rock
during prohibition.
He had a partner then.
His name was Broz too. Joe's father.
- So, they're friends? - Oh, I'd never say that.
Joe's father never went straight the way Brady did.
But he was never crooked the way his son is.
So he must have some kind of hold on him.
Brady told me he took a b*ating.
Now, if he's borrowing money from Broz to get out of the home
my guess is that Broz is gonna try to use
his legitimate business as a front for some kind of scam.
And Brady can't stop him, but you think you can.
I can try.
What?
It's just that most men go to work
carryin' a briefcase or a lunch box.
I'm not used to that.
It's okay. I don't want you to be any different.
It's just that I don't know if I ever really understand
why you do what you do.
Wait a minute. Let's see here.
Here you go.
Mmm.
Uh, here it is.
Read that.
"Man can will nothing unless he's first understood
"that he must count on no one but himself.
"That he's alone, abandoned on Earth
in the midst of infinite responsibilities without help."
Jean-Paul Sartre.
You don't believe that.
Oh, of course not.
But if we don't help people when we can, whatever way we can
'we prove that's true.'
Now, we can only depend on our own selves.
That's not the kind of world I wanna live in. What about you?
You know you're not alone, don't you?
Yeah, I know that.
Better take this for the road.
Hot..
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(Spenser) Rawson Harbor was the sight
of the world's most famous tea party.
It had been over years since a bunch of patriots
put on feathers and w*r paint and told King George
they weren't going to play the game his way anymore.
Now, I had to deliver the same kind of message
to the current king of the arc.
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[seagulls squawking]
Susan had told me I wasn't alone.
But I wouldn't have minded having
a couple of Sam-Adam's boys along with me
when I walked into Joe Broz's fish packing plant.
Just to make sure I didn't come out mixed
in with a can of Tuna.
- Hey, Spenser. - Hey, Joe.
Have a seat.
Close that door, will you. Keep the fish smell outside.
What do you do about the smell inside, Joe?
Hey, easy, easy.
Oh...Spenser, I wanna talk to you.
I wanna talk to you about, uh..
- About profit. - Profit, alright.
You know, uh, when you are in business.
Some things turn a profit.
- Some things don't. - Right.
When you get something that don't turn a profit.
(Joe) 'We call it bad business.'
You were in that night school, Joe?
Your associate Hawk.
He's in a no profit situation.
The word on the street is
he's tryin' to eliminate the competition.
The only one who's gonna be eliminated is Hawk.
Hawk is a businessman too.
He understands the value of a reputation.
Oh, come on. Nobody is questioning his rep.
He's made his mark too many times for that.
I want you to give him a message for me.
One businessman to another.
How he lost a client, we lost Mike Stratus.
That's red ink for both of us.
- Why'd you take the kid out? - I didn't take out anybody.
But I'll give you the reason.
And it's good sound fiscal principle.
He was stealin' us. You understand?
Stealin' us blind.
- Us? - Yeah.
John Brady and I.
- And me. - What?
John Brady and me.
Such a great lecture, hate to see you ruin with bad grammar.
The kid was warned.
He didn't take..
You tell Hawk.
I'm calling it an eye for an eye.
One for one.
We're all even.
Tell him yourself.
He's got a different system of accounting.
Oh, then you better teach him my system.
I'm gonna put you on our ledger. Under obsolete equipment.
[chuckles]
Joe, you're gonna put me on the list?
Then you have two and now one.
That doesn't sound like very good business.
Scarsdale diet. Lots of grapefruit juice.
[machines whirring]
(Spenser) So, Broz was Brady's silent partner.
And he was worried about Hawk.
So was I.
If Hawk started a w*r in the streets
it might not ever be more than that.
And I still needed to know
just what it was Broz was so upset about losing.
I talked to Joe Broz.
Just 'cause you got there first doesn't mean it's yours.
You don't have to go after those punks, Broz called it even.
It's my reputation. Not his.
Your reputation is bigger than that, Hawk.
What do you want, Spenser?
What I want is to nail Joe Broz.
Look, I understand rage. I understand justice.
'I even understand revenge.'
But it's not the Stratus brothers we're after
it's Joe Broz.
Now, if you keep applyin' the heat, he's gonna slip away.
- So? - So..
I want you to back off for hours.
'Stay here, work out, exhaust yourself.'
Give me time to figure out how to drop him.
When I do, I'll cut you in. I promise.
Alright.
Alright.
Clock's tickin', babe.
Then ding. Bell rings in .
(Spenser) hours is a lot of time.
If you're lost in a snow back in Alaska.
Or stranded without water in the Sahara.
But not when you're tryin' to solve a puzzle for a plant
that won't give you all the pieces.
The only thing I knew for sure was that John Brady's plant
was important to Joe Broz.
I figured that was the best place to start asking why.
[screams]
Sheila.
- Are you alright? - 'What's going on?'
Somebody call a doctor. Call a doctor.
What kind of pills were they? What are you on?
- She's already-- - Take her home.
Tell her if she can face it in the morning, she can come back.
- What do you want? - Just tryin' to help.
- I know who you work for. - We work for the same man.
- I work for John Brady. - So do I.
Thought you worked for Broz.
Broz?
We have to talk.
[indistinct chatter]
Not here.
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- Where? - After work, public library.
"Best kind of procedures. State business law.
Executive development for the mobile manager."
I'm impressed.
Get my degree in two months.
No more forklift?
Hey, that machine kept me in tuition and rent
through seven years of night school.
You really work for John Brady?
Well, sort of.
But I don't think John's gonna like what I found out.
Just had a little talk with Joe Broz.
That drug dealing, numbers running, loan sharking pimp.
Doesn't give John Brady another heart att*ck
he might live to be a .
Heart att*ck.
So, he had to match coronary.
Doctors tell him to take it easy, but he can't.
Comes in everyday, does books
makes sure shipment get out on time.
And deals with the likes of Joe Broz.
What did Broz tell you?
That he and Brady were partners.
Is that true?
If getting a loan makes you partners
then I should be in the board of directors
for every bank in Boston.
Do you know what the bottom line is to this loan?
Ask John.
I'm on the workers side now.
- The floor supervisor. - Yeah.
Hired by Brady, works for Broz
Since he came, the plant's turn into a cesspool.
You saw that for yourself today.
So, what are we gonna do about it?
We?
If I can get Joe Broz off of Brady's back.
Will the workers stand behind him?
John Brady's a good man.
I worked for him since I was .
At least good to his people.
His people have always paid him back with good work.
They'll hang in.
What does Broz want besides his money back?
That's what we have to find out.
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(Spenser) Joe Broz was too big a whale
to be involved in dime store graft.
He had to have his hands in Brady's pockets.
I had to find out how deep.
That night of shipment came in on one of Broz's fishing boats.
Then Broz's men motored it all into one of Brady's trucks.
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It wasn't just the harbor that smelled fishy.
Now, it wasn't fish I found in the boxes.
[intense music]
Hey, what the hell are you doin'?
Hey, get the lights, pal.
I'm just pickin' up a souvenir for the little lady, you know.
Get out of there, this ain't no grab--
Alright, alright. Back off.
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[grunts]
Ah!
[grunting]
Aah.
Ah! Ooh.
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(Spenser) By morning, I was pretty sure of what I had.
But I needed confirmation from my expert.
Since the crime is centered around women's fashions
I enlisted the services of the only woman I knew
who had a black belt in shopping.
Get me a light.
Yeah.
Meant light.
What?
- Matches. - Oh! Matches.
Alright, what do we do?
- This should be silk. - Mm-hmm.
- And this should be polyester. - Alright.
The silk will burn.
Like hair. It'll leave an ash.
[blows] Polyester..
...will melt like plastic.
[blows]
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
So you were right.
It's counterfeit, it's not a bad copy
but I'd rather have second hand than second-rate.
It's amazing what you can learn with a degree
in clinical psychology, isn't it?
You got to know what to wear to class
if you expect the teacher to give you an "A."
Do you get a "D" if you wear jeans?
Depends on how well they fit.
Yeah, I'd say so.
(Spenser) Counterfeit.
John Brady had been a lot of things in his life.
But I didn't see him as a cheat.
It couldn't be Brady. It had to be Broz.
But the question now was did Brady know
what Broz was doing?
And there was only one person to ask.
You don't know what's going on, do you?
That's senile, Spenser, I know what Broz is trying to do.
But I can stop him.
When he's paid off in full, I will have the leverage--
There is no leverage!
He's gonna turn you inside and out.
'And then he's gonna take over this plant!'
He can't do that, he has no right.
He's counterfeiting dresses, John.
I know who was around last night.
That's what you paid me to do, to know who's around.
I found some of Broz's van loading dresses into crates.
Copies of the imports, you're getting ready to ship.
He's gonna use you as a front to sell them.
If I know, Joe Broz is gonna make
a pretty nice profit doing it.
And that's what Broz is up to.
That's why he had Louis Harper k*lled.
Louis was getting too close to the finish line.
What're you gonna do about it?
Believe me, Spenser, I'm old, I'm tired--
I have seen you fight with your mouth and your fists!
You're not finished, John, you gotta keep going!
I can't, I'm old and I'm tired, I..
[clears throat]
[intense music]
(Spenser) When I left Brady's plant in Chelsea
I wasn't alone for long.
Coming back over the Mystic River Bridge
I spotted the station wagon.
I was pretty sure it had more in it than a suburban housewife
and a little league infield on their way to practice.
When it stayed right with me, I was positive.
After all, it was winter and baseball season wouldn't begin
for another six months.
But I knew after Broz heard about what I did last night
he declared open season on pushy private cops.
[intense music]
[tires screeching]
[g*nsh*t]
[tires screeching]
[music continues]
[car accelerating]
[brakes squealing]
[music continues]
[crash]
[tires screeching]
[grunts]
[g*nshots]
[g*nshots]
Let's get out of here!
[intense music]
What are you doing here?
I was watching them, they're watching you.
I'm watching the clock too.
Time's almost up, Spenser.
If I needed any more motivation than that
to force John Brady to face up to Joe Broz
I didn't have to wait long.
It's finished!
I quit, just tell him he won.
- I quit! - Mary.
He said he worked for Broz.
I told him that I would stop talking.
I told him.
Over and over, he didn't have to hit me any more.
- It's gonna be okay. - It's not okay!
Look at me, Spenser! Look at me!
Alright, I see what he did to you.
And I promise you this, he'll never touch you again.
[dramatic music]
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Mary.
This is what it's come to, John.
You steal, they k*ll you.
You open your mouth, they slap it shut.
Is that what you want?
Hey, guys!
Hold it up here, huh, come over here and listen to me.
Come over here, I wanna talk to you.
If John Brady had lost his team
his protege, Mary Balino hadn't.
She was finding her own way to fight Joe Broz.
Hey, what's going on here?
Come on, people, let's go! Listen up!
You know, I've been hearing about you ever since
I came to Boston.
Pardon the obvious poem but I thought
you were made of a different fabric.
Man can glory in his past but he has to live in the present
and-and prepare for the future.
You don't have a future.
You've given up on these people who work for you
on yourself.
You do have somebody who is going to fight for you.
Because she believes in you and what you've made here.
Things are gonna change, John.
No matter what you do.
With or without you.
It's an old adage.
"Old gangsters never die, they just move to Miami."
Maybe you should try the climate.
You work hard for your money.
And then you spend it on dr*gs.
And if you don't, you just throw it away on gambling.
Our friends are getting chewed up in these machines
and we've had it.
(male #) 'Yeah!'
(Mary) 'We are being robbed blind'
with numbers and horses
and we've had it.
If you-if you make noise about it, this is what they do to you.
But I'm still gonna make noise
and I'll make it even louder with more voices behind me.
(all) 'Yeah!'
(Mary) 'Will you be my voices?'
'Right! We gotta do what we gotta do.'
[indistinct yelling]
Right! We gotta do what we gotta do now.
We gotta strike! We'll strike now!
'We'll talk about it later!'
(all) Right!
Talk later! Strike now!
Talk later! Strike now! Talk later!
If Brady Fashion folds, it'll fold on my terms.
- Not yours. - That's a mistake.
They went way too far and you owe me too much money.
Your father was a good man, Joe.
Even in the days when I went straight
and he stayed in the rackets, we remained good friends.
We trusted each other.
I don't trust his son.
This relationship isn't based on trust.
It's based on business.
You know, maybe, it's a good thing your father d*ed young.
I don't think he could live with the way you turned out.
I know, I can't.
You and my father, you were equals.
Times have changed.
I'm better than you are.
I'm bigger than you ever were.
And I'm gonna squeeze you, Brady.
You can close your eyes and you can turn your back.
But I'm gonna do it anyway.
No, you're not.
I'm doing it now.
Joe.
- Don't do it, Brady. - It's done.
[g*nsh*t]
Let's get out of here.
[dramatic music]
[indistinct chatter]
- You see this? - I didn't have to see it.
- It was Broz and Stratus. - No, no, no.
Did you see it?
Uh...no.
I picked them up.
They gonna walk in and out of headquarters
like it's a revolving door.
You know what I mean?
I'm telling you how it happened.
And I'm telling you that the DA expects
something a little more than a categorical no from you.
I wasn't where I should've been.
Maybe you were right where Brady wanted you.
I mean, maybe he figured this was gonna happen.
Joe Broz is always walking away, ain't he?
My hands are tied, but Brady knew that yours wouldn't be.
Damn, that's it. His way out.
He knew he was dying and he knew he couldn't stop
Broz any other way.
- You gotta give me some time. - You got it.
Where you gonna be?
I don't know.
I'll give you a call.
[engine revving]
(in unison) Strike now! Talk later!
Strike now! Talk later!
Strike now! Talk later!
Strike now! Talk later!
Strike now! Talk later!
Get out from my property!
Get out of here! Get off my property!
You hear me? And you!
You're in trouble right now!
Go away! Get out of here!
I'll get the cops down here!
Get off my property!
[door opens]
- Your time's up. - For Joe Broz.
You got something?
John Brady delivered an envelope here this morning.
Paid in full.
- And this. - What's on it?
All we need.
Gentlemen.
I'm looking for a couple of strikebreakers
to bust a few heads.
You bums interested?
I already got a job, Joe.
- Oh, yeah? - Yeah.
Started yesterday afternoon when you took John Brady
down to the waterfront and sh*t him.
- I didn't sh**t anybody. - Somebody did.
And I think they call it self-defense.
You see, the old folly, he pulled a g*n on us and my man
over there, he had to k*ll him.
He didn't.
- He didn't what? - He didn't k*ll him.
What are you telling me? It was a center hit.
He's not dead.
The man is dead.
I know a stiff, when I see a stiff!
[g*nsh*t]
Come on, give it now!
What the, what are you, crazy man, what are you doing?
I thought, I thought, he was your--
Alright..
What's a stiff look like, Joe?
What is this? What is this?
Brady is a real snappy dresser.
He had the good sense to be wearing one of these
when he took the ride with you yesterday.
He asked me to make a deal for him.
You signed over the plant.
He won't testify against you and put you away.
So we got you, Joe, for extortion
counterfeit goods and m*rder one for Louis Harper.
Well, he's crazy.
'Cause he's as dirty as a I am.
Well, that's true.
He's willing to admit it.
But we can't say the same about you, Joe.
Where is he, Spenser?
Oh, he's resting, he's old, but he's tough.
He broke a couple of his ribs.
I wanna see him. I wanna see him now!
'After you sign the papers.'
You know what I'm signing, don't you?
I'm signing his death warrant.
Now where is he, Spenser?
Part of him is right here.
(Brady on recorder) 'This is John Brady.'
'This is my deathbed testament for Mary Balino.'
'I've prepared papers turning Brady Fashions over to you.'
'I'm going to see Joe Broz today and I have'
'every reason to believe he will try to k*ll me.'
'If that happens, a private detective named Spenser'
'will have the information he needs to bring Joe Broz'
'to justice, and enough for the police to know'
'the full extent of his hold on Brady Fashion.'
I should've put a b*llet through his brain!
Shut up!
Where is he, Spenser?
(Brady) 'I also have evidence.'
On a ride to his funeral home.
[dramatic music]
Give me that thing!
What're you wearing under your shirt, Joe?
[grunts]
No!
Oh, oh.
I think it's broken.
Got ya!
[indistinct announcement]
Just get outta here!
Get that outta here!
You think it'll stick?
He's got a good lawyer. It'll mean lot of raps.
They'll stick in his throat anyway.
Hmm. That old man Brady, he went out in style.
He pulled himself up off the mat, didn't he?
Yeah. He really the Boston Bootlegger?
A legend in his own time.
Too bad, time runs out on a man like that.
"I rave no more against time or fate.
For lo, my own shall come to me."
- Shakespeare. - John Burroughs.
Guess he didn't know about flagjackers, huh?
Ha ha ha!
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