:27:04
You all right, Tony?
You look a bit off-key for graduation day.
:27:08
I didn't sleep worth a damn last night.
:27:14
Oh, your shoelaces is untied.
:27:18
I haven't heard that for years.
My father used to say it all the time.
:27:22
I miss him. Especially on a day like today.
:27:25
Do you remember that winter
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when you and I were
nothing more than rookies
:27:30
and the department had you marching
out there in the winds of Staten Island?
:27:35
You froze, because you wouldn't cooperate
with the boys from Tammany Hall.
:27:40
And it was Captain Kane of the old
7th Precinct that did something about it.
:27:45
Two days later, you were off Staten Island.
:27:49
It was as cold in the far reaches
of the Bronx where I was,
:27:53
and he didn't raise a finger to bring me in.
:27:56
I loved your father.
He was the only one I had.
:27:59
I didn't mind sharing him with you.
:28:01
Of course, he could see through me
like a pane of glass.
:28:06
I remember one night, Tony,
:28:09
the old man sat down across from me
with a bottle of Irish between us.
:28:14
Didn't say anything,
so I didn't say anything.
:28:16
The bottle went down,
and finally he said to me,
:28:20
"Charley, me boy, if the chips fall right,
:28:23
that old friend of yours, Tony Russell,
will be Commissioner one day."
:28:30
He could tell by my expression
how I felt about it.
:28:33
Not all bad. Not all good, either.
:28:37
Then he said, "Don't be a fool, Charley."
:28:39
"The department is big enough
for two big men,
:28:42
and if you're lucky,
one day you'll be his Chief Inspector."
:28:48
Of course, the old man swore one time
he saw a leprechaun in Loew's 83rd,
:28:52
so I figured he was prone to exaggeration.
:28:58
- Charley...
- Yeah?