04x11 - The Pride and the Princess

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Peter Molynepe, I haven't asked
nothing of you in all of these years.

Yes, of course he has license.

All right, I see.

Look, I come all the way
from Detroit, a personal favor.

To blow up a couple of immigrants.

You never said one immigrant?

You never said the dame
was one of them nuns?

Sure I recognize her.

Not the first time, but when I seen her.

That was a long time ago.

I know I owe you
everything, but... Okay.

Okay.

Yes, today.

But this pays us off, once and for all.

Madam, please, to cross the street.

Let this lady through, please.

Stop!

Go, out of the way.

Please, this is not funny.

Taxi!

Hey, look out.

Let's go, follow that car.

But be careful.

Taxi!

Follow that car!

Toza!

Help me!

I'm broken.

Get a doctor, you candle-lighter, hurry!

All right, Crocker, see if
you can help the sister.

There'll be an ambulance
coming any minute here.

We'll just direct them
back here, they can help.

Will you come on, help this lady, please?

All right, will you shut
up, go over there, sit down.

Got a pulse?

Sort of.

Well, you're treated like a
death scene area anyway, okay?

I don't want it all ripped up
before forensics gets here.

You, over here!

No, no, Mr. Stefanovic, I'm not
that badly injured.

It's all right.

Lieutenant, this is Sister Lepar
Angelica and Toza. What is it?

Stefanovic.

Look, I think she was hit by a ricochet.

I found this under her foot.

Now, get on the horn.

I want a full homicide
squad here right away.

Go ahead.

Yes, Sister, we're gonna
have to know what happened.

This one. - Well, we...
- This one, this man over here.

He tried to k*ll her and in a holy place.

Hey, wounded nuns
first and guerrillas second.

This man with you, Sister?

Yes, he's my friend.

We were just admiring Madonna
when the man came at us with a g*n.

Mr. Stefanovic tried to fight him,
but I got hit by a b*llet, apparently.

Forgive me.
It was a very, very great impact.

I still feel a little lightheaded.

Well, we'll talk about it later.
Right, Sister?

Yeah.

Yeah, there's a wound on her right leg here.

g*nsh*t wound, OK?
Take it easy with her.

How are you? Come on over
here. Tell me what happened

and who this guy is who tried to k*ll you.

I don't know.
A crazy man.

But I show him what it is
to fight the lion of Lovie.

Well, the officers
found a g*n in the grass.

Yeah, sure.
I did that.

Fast, huh?

But of course, I'm as
quick as a 20-year-old boy.

He didn't have a chance.

Hey, hey, be careful.
Where do you go with her?

To the hospital.
You'll see her later.

First, there's some questions.

No, the questions you ask later.

Now I go with the sister.

Come here.

Looks like he's going to rip up
this joint no matter what we try to do.

Father Dispenza, I talked to the priest.

As far as he could find out,

it happened pretty much like he said
that the other guy was the assailant.

He means Father Moiso.

I'm just a visitor.

I got here just before you did.

OK, let him ride with the sister.

Get two patrolmen, though, to go with him.

We can question him at the hospital.

You, you're excused.

Go on.

Padre.

Ladies.

You know, we have to find
out what happened here.

Well, I can't help you that much.

When I came out, it was first city.

Sister was already down.

We were at prayer.

We saw nothing.

Now, wait a minute.

Mrs. Boro, you said that
man tried to sh**t them.

The big man saved the nun.

A hero, you said.

No, Padre, don't get excited, OK?

It's obvious that Mrs. Coletti over
here had something to say to her.

Isn't that right, Mama?

You know her.

Well, I know her son.

You know, I paid a couple
of professional visits.

And every time
I do, there's Mrs. Coletti

showing me that
lovely old fashioned way.

Isn't that right, Mama?

You would not make such jokes

when my son hears what
happened in his church this morning.

Mrs. Coletti, this is God's church.

You are not one of us, priest,

even if you have the Italian name.

Very few Italians are.

And I give thanks for that every day.

Amen, baby.

Here.

His first day training paid off.

Lieutenant, I couldn't
find an ID on that guy.

Just 1,500 in cash.

He's stable enough
now to get to the hospital.

Thanks to you, too, he's still breathing.

Look, see if he can't get more of the name,

address, serial number from
these two, huh?

Thanks a lot.

Oh, that code of silence
is no game to them, man.

I grew up in this
neighborhood, they mean it.

Yeah, what happened outside
isn't exactly a Crocker match.

You know who Vittorio Coletti is?

Don Vittorio?

Your basic godfather, right?

You know, the skinny little old lady?

It's his mother.

Coletti's involved in this? Terrific.

Well, if he is, then he's gonna be.

You see this church here?

They figure those,
Coletti's, that this is their

private pipeline to
the big capo in the sky.

Look at all that guilt.

Most of it from poor, simple people,
you know, make their devotion.

But the real heavy
stuff, and the priest will

tell you this, 99% of it

comes from the Coletti's.

You think he'll start
some kind of vendetta?

I don't know, but we better
move fast, eh, Crocker?

You know what a vendetta is?

There's where a lot of
people k*ll a lot of people

for years and years and
years and years and like that.

Is this Otto Dessaville
funeral home?

Oh, good.

Send a hearse to bell
your hospital at once.

Yes.

As soon as the doctor's let you, you
go in there and take his prints, okay?

And while you're at it,
you check his clothes.

That suit's gotta be worth $500.

You see those alligator shoes?

They didn't exactly come
from national shoe stores.

Clothes, money in his
pocket, sil*ncer on the g*n.

I think this guy's a pro.

Yeah, why aren't you at it?
You could ask yourself this.

What kind of a nut takes on an armed pro

and then makes knock
with that of him?

Another pro.

Yeah.

Raise the bed top to here.

This must go.

I tell them private room one day, yes?

Stefanovic.

I mean, you're gonna
keep this up, I'm gonna put

the cuffs on and send you
upstairs to the launch pad.

You think you can do it?

Uh-huh.

Why don't you go outside and wait?

Maybe you can do it.

This time, I choose to go.

Well... I understand that they're gonna
keep you overnight for observation.

I will hobble for some time, nothing more.

Ha-ha.

Ha-ha.

What is it,

Mister...

Lieutenant Kojak.

Why do you look so
oddly at me? Ha-ha.

Huh?

It's like looking at Santa
Claus without this little red suit.

And I was expecting a hear
that was similar to my own.

You have become much more
modern, you know, in our order.

The father tells me

he never heard of your order.

And as a matter of fact,
never heard of you either.

Now you're becoming policeman.

Yes?

I belong to the Order of the
Sisters of the White Garden.

Our convent is near Albany, you know.

I'm afraid it's very, very small.

We come from Europe
after the w*r, you know.

Judging from your
accent, I'd say

Yugoslavia.

Croatia?

No, Montenegro.

But you're very close.

Well, not if you're a Montenegrin.

You're very good.

You're very good at interrogating.

You're very good at being interrogated.

I got practice in the w*r, you know.

And then you see, I
don't need to be afraid.

I have nothing to hide.

I'm here in New York
to use your library.

Toza came to keep me from
being trampled in the street.

Such crowds.

And what free time we have,

we visit the churches.

Oh, I wish I could
believe you, sister.

Is what happens too unusual?

Are nuns immune from
robbers in your city?

Oh, no, he's no robber and
you should know that, sister.

After all your experiences during the w*r.

No, he's a pro.

Like your Lion of
Lavina out there.

Well, I don't know who that
man is and why he attacked us.

I say, I like it better
when you are charming.

I think I like you better
when you tell him the truth.

Excuse me, lieutenant.

Detective Crocker says you better get
down to the emergency room right away.

Vittorio Colletti is here
with a couple of his boys.

You'll excuse me, sister.
I'll be back.

We have a lot to talk about.

Lieutenant, this camera was
found among the hitman's effects.

Just doesn't figure to
have a camera and a g*n.

I thought maybe it belongs to his sister.

All right, go find out
before we develop the film.

I hear Colletti's around.

We try to get rid of him, but he's got
more muscle around here than we do.

Well, that's because he pays his bills.

Senor Colletti, cumba.

You know something, Vittorio?

I mean, I get so much sickness and death

in my job, I don't have
to come to hospitals.

This is personal,
Kojak, not business.

I want to see what kind of
person shoots nuns in my church.

Oh, you'll see him, and
then you'll know who he is

and you'll tell us, like the good
citizen you are. Right, Vittorio?

Kojak, my wife goes to St. Colombo.

My daughters were married there.

Twice a day, my mother goes to pray.

Today, g*ns were shot.

She was badly frightened.

Somebody broke the rules.

Vittorio?

I know your mama.

She's the closest thing
to a consiglieri you got.

She wouldn't be frightened
by the Gulag archipelago.

Excuse me, Lieutenant.

Oh, um... Hold it.

Take him in the operating room now.

They say if he wakes up, he'll be
lucky to count his fingers or his toes.

Yeah, it's always shocking to see
someone you know in a hospital.

What do you say, Vittorio?

Come on.

You know what it's gonna cost a taxpayer?

I mean, for fingerprints and
for dental work and like that.

I never saw him before.

Let's go.

All right.

Want me to get him back?

No, it's not gonna do any good.

He knows something we don't.
He's got a head start.

Lieutenant, that nun, that
Stefanovic guy, they're gone.

Call security.

Seal this place down.

Well, the uniform guys already did.

And security's doing a
floor-to-floor search now.

I mean, you know how big this joint is?

They could be raising goats here for a
year before anybody would find them.

How much longer, Toza?

You don't know what odd feeling this is.

Very soon now.

Already? You are crazy!

Shh! The dead don't speak.

If this is stiff at all, they
should build a funeral home.

The hearse is downstairs.

Let's get us sacked up
and do the paperwork.

Lieutenant, I swear I
never moved from the door.

They went out the window on that blanket.

Six foot of blanket?

How about the other 14 floors, or
maybe you think she's the flying nun.

But they couldn't get out any other way.

Oh, yeah?

Well, they didn't get out
any other way, ding-dong.

Here.

They hid in a closet there until
you went and called the cavalry.

And then they walked out the front door.

Ugh.

Follow me. Thanks.

Saperstein.
- Yeah.

Check with immigration.
I want Toza Stefanovich.

He's a Yugoslav.

Don't follow me.
Just go down to identification

and stay in their face until they give
you a rundown on those fingerprints.

How do you spell it?

All right, Crocker.
Sisters of the White Garden.

Lepar Angelica.

Someplace up in Albany. Someplace.

Capital T-O-Z-A.

Capital S-T-E-F-A-N-O-V-I-C.

Do I have to spell
Yugoslavia for you? - No, sir.

I can say that.

So?

So, Crocker,

as soon as Stavros comes
with those photos from the lab,

you bring them to my office.

So, so, so, so, don't ask.

So don't ask, huh?

You have the mob on your back?

I have every church organization
in the department on mine.

You put them together,
they might make a daytime.

So what happened at the hospital?

Well, Zorba, the Yugoslavian,
he faked out the cops.

He called the herds.
He got them on the way as a corpse.

He rode along dressed up in O.R. Greens.

And a mask, yet.

Drive it in and get suspicious?

Stavros said the body was contaminated.

We scared the hell out of him.

And there was nothing to the nun sitting
up ten blocks later saying she was hungry.

Oh, it's inventive.

Stavros would have said bizarre.

And this whole thing is bizarre
from Coletti's mum on down.

Captain, Lieutenant, the Sisters of the
White Garden were from Yugoslavia, all right.

I spoke to the mother superior

and she said it was a long, long story,
but there was a man named Stefanovic

that helped him get away
from the Communists.

They got to Sicily and that's where
Sister Lepar Angelica was k*lled.

Hey, he didn't come to this
country until after the w*r.

All right, check his yellow sheet
and also the crime commission, okay?

See what ancient history
you can come up with on it.

You got it.

You know something? I think we better
hear all of that long, long, long story.

Well, if I leave now, I can make
Albany and still be back tomorrow.

See you out, Lieutenant.

Saperstein!

Well, she may be a great nun impersonator,

but she's a lousy photographer.

I'm going to go turn on a print dryer.

Yeah.

Look at those shadows.

That's the nun that must be
Stefanovic, aren't the other guy?

Looks as if he's talking
to this other shadow.

I wonder if it knows what
evil lurks in the hearts of men.

I don't know, but it's a check of players.

If he's who I think he is.

I think we're going to find out.

Did you get immigration?

Yeah, they're on the line now.

S-T-E-F-A-N-O-V-I-C.

He entered the country in 1949,

was naturalized in 1960,

therefore he doesn't
have to report his correct

address anymore, and they're
checking on him right now.

Well, why don't they
check on Vittorio Coletti

and see what they got
on his mother?

You got it.

Stefanovic didn't borrow
a name like the nun did.

We should be able to find him.

Either way, we'd better
do it before Coletti does.

All right, see you in the morning.

Cacua mi loToza.

I have returned Peter's van.

I'm surprised he wasn't impounded.

You can be very happy.

He did not call the police.

He checked it all over for a dance.

My God, does the boy
believe I've never driven?

Oh, he has his father's suspicion.

How could he?

The Duke died when he was four.

That is in the blood.

Ah, your father, he was a very proper man.

I just think he was discreet.

No, no, blood or not,

I knew Peter would never consent
to a second borrowing of the van, so...

I had this man.

A second borrowing?

You want to do it all over again?

Ah.

Toza, this is impossible.

The police knows your name now.

And Coletti?

Even if Coletti has guessed our plan,

he could never dream we
would repeat it and by the time

the police catch up with
me, it'll be all over, yes?

There are too many risks.

Does it mean so much to you anymore?

Today I felt like a
man of love again.

A young man.

The blood ran fast in my veins.
You too, I think.

Oh, yes, it was exciting, but Toza,

you don't have to prove
to me what man you are.

Madame, I am your servant.

What I do is not just for you,

not for fast blood
or even for money.

It's for the past, for tradition,

for the things that should be remembered.

Even if no one cares?

Even them.

Tosica.

My father was a wise man
when he gave you to me.

You were a child.

You needed me.

All right.

Oh, Crocker, I want you to
meet Marlow T. Caswick.

He's been an undergraduate
student now how many years?

Next quarter it'll be 15 years.

Every three years he changes his major.

Not that he's stupid, oh, no, no, no.

Beneath that curly mop
of hair lies an IQ of 180.

And he claims to have
a photographic memory.

Claims?

Oh, come on, no one's got perfect recall.

Want a bet?

For ten dollars, all right.

Who's with the nun today?

There were three nuns today.

The one with the camera?

Ah, you mean the fake nun.

Wait a minute, how'd you
know she was a fake nun?

That's another question, you put that
in the form of a bet and I'll tell you.

Crocker,

it's a sucker bed lay off.

I'm waiting, Marlow.

For ten dollars.

The fake nun was with two men.

One was a big man with
gray hair, gray mustache.

And from the way he walked, I'd say
he was a soldier from the old school.

White Russian maybe or...

Montenegrin.

Ah! Fierce people.

They have a history that goes
back thousands and thousands...

I only wanted ten dollars worth, okay?
The other man, please.

Male, Caucasian, 26 or so.

Leotards and sneakers,
that's a dancer course.

From the development of
the Duktor Magnus muscle,

I'd say a classical dancer.

I guess you win.

We'll look for another five dollars.

I bet you can't tell me
where I can find them.

Let's see.

Fresh sweat stains.

Jacket on to keep
his muscles warm.

So he must have been
rehearsing somewhere close by.

Doing an experimental
ballet at Cooper Union.

It's very avant-garde.

Look, Marlow,

if she'd ever decide to graduate,

do me a favor, why don't you
come out to the cops, all right?

Enchante, whatever that means.

How did you know she was a fake nun?

I mean, I bet you five you can't tell me.

I guessed.

How often do cops go
looking for real nuns?

Cover your six-point.

Police.

Oh, my God.
I knew it. I knew.

What is it?

Hit and run, huh? That's it.

Good Lord, some poor child in the street.

Oh, I knew something would happen

the minute I saw the
princess in that nun's costume.

Oh, sometimes I wish
I weren't so psychic.

Yes, at least we know
we're talking the right dancer.

Uh, what's this about a princess, Duke?

Well, I lent her my van.

Or rather, Stefanovich.

Afflakes the foot, Charles.

Who told you to call me
Duke? Your manager?

He said your name
is Duke Dushan.

Oh, he just liked to say that
because it sounds so macho.

It's not a name. It's a title.

My name is Peter.

I won't use my title until
I have my own ballet.

Ah.

And how about the nun? Princess.
Is that her title, too?

Of course. She's my aunt.

The Princess Viva Dushan.

Now, please tell me what they've done.

Did they give you a
reason for barring your van?

Well, they said they were going to a
masquerade on Long Island, but they didn't.

When they brought the car back, I checked

the odometer, and they'd been driving
for hours and they hadn't driven a mile.

Maybe we ought to look at your van.
You're not impounding it.

I hope not, Peter.

Of course. Now, I wasn't even
born until years after the w*r.

And my father didn't get
along very well with the

Princess, so I really
know very little about them.

I'm sorry.

I do want to cooperate.
Look, is she married to

Stefanovich, or what?
Oh, certainly not married.

No, he's from a lower class.

Still, they might be lovers.

Toza does have a kind of bravura,

if you're into brutes. Yeah, we were told

that Stefanovich and the
Princess, they escaped

from Italy, and that they're currently
involved with a man named, uh, Coletti.

I can't say.

I do know, though, that
everything was lost in Italy.

I mean,

those stormtroopers
in their big black boots.

Why, they just
came in and took it.

And pray tell,

what was it that those stormtroopers
with their big black boots took?

Why, the family jewels. My God.

The family fortune.

Why do you think my father
for bad her name in the house?

Now, you won't have a lot of grubby
investigators climbing all over the van,

will you? I spent absolutely
tons of money on it.

Why, the drapery's alone.

Your son has taken what is
precious to the Princess Vigo Sapa.

I regret to inconvenience
you, but to get it

back, I must take what
is precious to your son.

You are a dead man, Stefanovich.

We will see who dies, old woman.

Oh, Lieutenant,

the Captain's back from Albany. I
told him everything you phoned in.

Dukes and Princesses
and all that, New York,

that's really something,
isn't it? - Yeah, well,

it's the melting pot
of the world, fatso.

Don't eat it.

All right, any other good man?

Well, he's still alive. I.T. 's got a
name from his prints, Ray Sappo.

I got Rizzo digging his yellow sheet out.

All right, now, as soon as it comes,
would you send it in?

Thank you.

Oh, no sign of them yet?

Well, since they lifted the
dancer's van, there's a llama out here.

Can't be a lot of vans around

with a pas de deux from
Firebird Ballet painted on the side.

The question is, what do they want it for?

Well, they, uh, they took
it to the church last time.

I sent Crocker over there to take a look
around, but I was hoping that those

sisters at the White
Garden, that it would

help with their long,
long story.

They did.

At least they
tied Coletti into it.

After they reached Sicily,
they hid out in Coletti's village,

which was a big resistance center against
the Germans before the Allies invaded.

Yeah, well, I had a feeling that Sicily
would be the best part of this story.

The whole thing is a saga, with
Stefanovic right in the middle of it.

Jumping out of trees, charming
ladies, bumping off the bad guys.

It's like an old Errol Flynn movie.

Well, he had a princess to impress.

Oh, no.

Now, sisters never
mentioned a princess.

And when I heard about her, I
checked back with him just to make sure.

She wasn't there.

Just the nuns.

Well, maybe yesterday
wasn't the first time she wore a habit.

Well, maybe.

They did say a novice appeared
shortly after everything blew up in Sicily.

Sister Lepar Angelica was k*lled
that day, and a lot of the others.

Somebody in that
village betrayed it.

So the SS troops just
goose-stepped right in.

Yeah, with their
big black boots.

I heard about it.

And that was the day the
Princes's jewels disappeared.

And the novice disappeared.

You think that's why
the village was betrayed?

Well, according to her nephew,

the princess was packing close to a
quarter of a million dollars in jewels.

You know, a lot of people have
been sold out for a lot less than that.

Well,

I wouldn't want to be the seller.

A lot of the big mob families had relatives
and friends massacred in that raid.

Excuse me, Captain, but the lieutenant wanted
to see this yellow sheet on the sky sample.

Boy, looks like an
old-time button man.

Eleven arrests, four for m*rder.

No convictions.

Moved
to Detroit in 1959.

Look, Detroit police might
have a file on this, okay?

Okay.

Here.

Hey, Theo,

Ray Sappo was born
in Coletti's village.

Lieutenant, there's a
call for you on line two.

It's Crocker.

Yeah, I'm listening. Slow down.

Something's happened at the church.

I tried to get a statement.

I know it won't do any
good, but stay in touch.

Okay.

Ah.

Mama Coletti's friend, you know the fat
one, was out in the garden screaming again.

And when she calmed
down, she called Coletti.

She wouldn't talk to
Crocker or the priest.

Father Moiser says mama was out
there with her just before it started.

And when he went to
look, mama was gone.

And the flesh he found with the
putter in her hand was tearing out.

Terrific, huh?

Well, scaring Coletti's mother is
one thing, putting the grab on her.

Yeah.

At least you know
what the van was for.

I think I'd better go
speak to Coletti myself.

Did you reach him?
- Ah, yes.

This time the great panther
comes to the phone at once.

No assistants, no
mothers to bother with.

What did he say?

He offers us money.

We have his mother
and still he bargains.

You hear that, old woman?

Your son bargains for you.

I have told you, my son
knows nothing of this.

Then you are in very grave danger,

senora, because if your son
doesn't have the jewels in two hours,

I cut your throat.

I heard your mother was
kidnapped this afternoon.

I thought you came to
tell me she was dead.

Well, that's very possible.

If someone does
come up with the jewels.

The jewels?

You too? That's what he said.

Now what do you know about that?

Hey, I'm the cop here.

You tell me, all right?

Look, for the record, Kojak, I
don't know what you're talking about.

Nobody got snatched.

Okay.

Okay, the phone rings.

It's Toza Stefanovich,
of all people.

You know him?

When I was a young man,

during the w*r,

he was one of those daredevils.

Crazy. He'd smuggled a
convent of nuns out of Yugoslavia.

Then he joined our
resistance group.

He was the hell of a guy.

As long as he's on your side.

What do you want on the phone?

Well, that my mother was a hostage

and that if I didn't come
up with the jewels in

two hours, he'd k*ll
her. I told him I didn't

know anything about jewels, but
that I'd give him money, anything.

He laughed.

You must be pretty sure you got him.

I don't know what he's talking about.

Doryeo,

your buddy Ray Safo tried to k*ll
him in the churchyard, remember?

Ray Safo, he's from your village.

The jewels,

stolen from your village.

And the day the jewels were stolen,

there was a betrayal to the Germans
and your village went down the tube.

You think I would betray my own people?

No.

That's one rule I don't think you'd break.

Hey, but he thinks so.

So you're between the
devil and the deep blue sea.

If you come up with the jewels, you'd be
admitting to a betrayal. And if you don't,

your old lady gets it.

You know something, loser?

You're a loser either way.

I mean no disrespect, madame, but even
your nephew's wine runs to the dramatic.

But you must admit it's very good year.

Very old.

The vintage of a certain
age is always more

desirable.

If it doesn't turn into vinegar.

Mr. Stefanovic, the two hours are up.

It's time to call the bandit.

I have told you before, my
son knows nothing of this.

Then who sent a
g*nman to k*ll us?

Not him.

God protects what is his.

Oh, I forgot. We are speaking
to a great friend of the almighty.

She prays twice a day that
her son should not be arrested.

Do you really think that
God protects those who

steal and betray their
friends to the Nazis?

Vittorio did not do that.

He did not even know
that...

Where you store that?

I know where the jewels are.

Talked with her for over an hour.
It's like talking to a mattress.

She didn't see a kidnapping.
She didn't even see the band.

Nothing. How'd you make out with Coletti?

History, denials.

But one thing is for sure,

if he finds Stefanovic
and the Princess before

we do, there'll be a lot
of dead people around.

He could be all the way out of town by now.

No, I don't think so.

He always shows up in the strangest
places, you know, hospital, closets.

He went back to the church.

I got a hunch.

Where's Stefanovic?

I have seen no one.

We protect him, lady.

He's just been kidnapped.

I am not kidnapped.

Drinking champagne?

Yes, and from crystal glasses.

Very proper.

So Stefanovic is still on the loose.

Well?
- Doing what?

He wouldn't leave the Princess alone.
I think he's gone after the jewels.

Lieutenant?

Coletti is on his way
up now with his lawyers.

The DA's office says we can hold
the Princess as a material witness,

but we don't have enough
probable cause to hold Mrs. Coletti.

Why don't you take Saperstein and
keep an eye on Coletti's house, okay?

He'll scream harassment.

Well, let him scream.

Come on, take a ride.

Why not?

Comme va.

Well, your little boy Vittorio
had you sprung, mama.

But you're not out of it. You still
have to testify before the grand jury.

And as for you, Coletti,
you are out of it, period.

Sure, Lieutenant. Anything you say.

Only in America they lock your house.

Excuse me, Lieutenant.

Coletti just left his house
with Saperstein and Coletti.

I guess it's time to talk
to Her Majesty again.

Stavros, could I have a little
pillow for my back, please?

Of course, Your Highness.

Yes, Your Highness.

You know, you've been
holding court here for hours.

You know, enough already.

Now...

You know, a lot of
people are looking for your

friend, and the odds are
that he'll be found soon.

Now, if we find him,
well, he won't get k*lled.

But if Coletti does...

But Toza cannot be k*lled.

You don't know what kind of a man he is.

Princess, all that was 35 years ago.

He was a soldier then.

He's not equipped now
to fight off Coletti's mob.

Well, let me ask you something.

Now, the jewel is that important that
you'd risk losing him?

No, to me, no. No, no.

But to him, they mean everything.

You mean he's been looking 30 years?

No, not all the time.

Life go on, but...
Toza never forgot.

Never forgive himself.

I have a pillow for you, Your Highness.

Thank you very much. You are very kind.

And then, you see, one day there,

a few weeks ago, there was
a photographia in the paper.

It was the wedding of
Vittorio Coletti's daughter.

Now, the bride was
wearing a pendant that

was in my family since
the time of Justinian.

And then you went to the church.

No, not at the beginning.

Toza recognized Vittorio Coletti

in the photographia in the paper.

So he went to his house.

And the mother was nice and
was talking and very, very pleasant.

But the dawn would not even see him.

So we went to the church.

It was to talk to the mother again.

And then let's say
she was reluctant.

There was always the
van waiting in the alley.

No, I do not admit to that.

No, no. No.

But what could we do? Go to the court?

Go to the police? Who?

Who? Who would help us? No.

It was for us to do.

For Toza,
a matter of honor.

Do you understand me?

You are a man of honor yourself.

Uh,

Give this to the captain.

The operation is over, Princess.

Coletti just ducked
past our surveillance.

Now, if we went to that much trouble,

it's as if she's going to
know where Stefanovic is

and he's going to k*ll him.

Now, you
can help, but you've got to do it now.

He went to get the jewels.

But this is all I know.

Where?

I don't know.

Um, it was something
the old woman said.

Toza clapped his head and he
laughed and he laughed and he laughed.

What did she say?

She said something about her son and God

and that God will
always protect what is his.

...

Let's go, Frank.

Oh, my liege, would you give the Princess

your hand?
We need her to identify the stuff.

Stefanovic,

you're too old for this.

Find him. k*ll him
before somebody comes.

Go!

Come on, get him!

Don't move.

k*ll him.

Now!

Freeze!

He was robbing the church.

I am not the robber here.

Shut up over here.

This betrayer, this
coward, k*ller of nuns.

Shut up!

He hasn't betrayed anybody,
he hasn't k*lled any nuns.

So who sends the hitmen to k*ll us?

Uh, mama, are you
going to tell them or am I?

What are you saying?

What is this?

Here, Stefanovic went
to see about the jewels

and he saw your mama, right?

Your mother said
you wouldn't see me.

Yeah, and then she
called Ray Safo in Detroit.

Well, that's crazy. Yeah, sure.

You, your mother, huh?

Ray, they're all from the same
village, you know, tight-lipped.

How else could she keep
you from finding out?

Oh, tell him it's not true.
Tell him you would have no reason.

Oh, she's got a reason.

The jewels.

She took them from the princess and
betrayed your village.

My God, man, what are you
saying?

Come on, don't tell me you didn't have a clue.
I mean, there you are,

a little shepherd boy in
the old country yelling wolf.

Immigration says your
mother entered the country with

sixty-eight thousand in cash,

carload of furniture,

uh, religious items.

So how come a sheep herder's mother
can come up with that kind of scratch?

That stuff,

we inherited
it from my grandfather.

He fought with Garibaldi.

You can check it out.

Stavros!

We'll check it out right now.

What's this?

So many trouble for
these ancient stones.

We have documenta,

fotografia, testimonia, if you wish.

The Dushan jewels have been
very well known at one time.

Like the Dushan family.

So what does it prove?

Who would believe that
the mother of Vittorio Coletti?

Four sons I had.

They are little

when their father is k*lled.

Vendetta.

So the men from
the village come.

They teach the little boys

our way,

our code,

how to hate,

who to hate.

Among my people,

the woman will
do as she is told.

I am a young girl.

Nineteen.

So they teach them.

And one by one,

my sons die.

Vendetta.

Polizia.

w*r.

And I learn how to hate.

Mama.

I learn

to hate is not
enough to protect you.

Protection.

Money.

Protection.

The agent is right, you know.

Where does the mother of
a shepherd get such things?

I will tell you why.

He is a great bargainer.

And I bargain with him

for you.

I say to him,

I give you me,

but you give him

power.

He sends the nuns
with the jewels.

But he is to me the
greatest gift of all.

He showed me

how to pay
back the village for my dead sons.

You know, I think we better
take these people downtown.

Aspeta un momento.

Nobody's going to believe
I didn't know about this.

I believe it. I mean, your friends
may not believe it, but I believe it.

Your rules, baby, not mine.

Now that you know the truth of it,
you see there is no need to keep us.

You know what I see, Princess?

I see a bunch of fools.

A bunch of fools who don't know
that this is New York City, USA,

the Big Apple, baby.

Not some European village.

Not some remote
kingdom all by itself.

And you ain't no fairy princess

that he sure to hell isn't Robin Hood.

Perhaps we were foolish.

But then this is no
reason to arrest us.

Oh, we can arrest you, all right.

Burglary, possession of burglar's tools,

grand theft auto,

flight from lawful arrest,
aiding and abetting, and

it's just another little knick-knack.

It's called interfering.

And boy, do you qualify for that.

I do this to you.

It doesn't matter.

We are a lawyer. We have right.

You have a right to a lawyer.

Lawyer.

We are together.

Always together.

Uwek, uwek, uwek.

My dear,
you were wonderful.

You should not be standing so long.

Come along.

Take my arm.

You, open those doors.

Make way for this lady.

Yeah.

Does not everyone need a Robin Hood?

Yeah, but not necessarily
on my beat, all right.

Saperstein,

open the door for the lady.

Let's see, can you see?