Year of the Dragon
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:13:01
You beat them with club.
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Chinatown behind you 100 per cent.
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- 100 per cent!
- 100 per cent behind...

:13:10
Good. Cos I'm gonna need your help.
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I wanna put a stop to all this bribe-paying
and extortion to the gangs.

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- I want the help of all 60 families.
- 60 families?

:13:21
No, no, no, no, no.
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- And I want you people...
- Wait a minute.

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This very difficult. Very, very difficult.
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It's a long history.
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For thousands of years,
Chinese do not go to the police.

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If they go to the police,
they'll get in trouble.

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So, I'll tell you straight.
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- Nobody will come to see you.
- Oh, yeah?

:13:43
You tell him what we mean.
:13:47
No disrespect is intended
to the police by our remarks.

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But if the citizens of Chinatown regard
what you call extortion and bribery

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as part of the cost of doing business, and
have felt that way for thousands of years,

:14:03
why should you be so concerned?
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What about the ones
that don't wanna pay?

:14:08
Tell him.
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You know, Captain,
when I first came to New York,

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I worked as a waiter in a restaurant.
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Saw something terrible happen
because my boss did not want to pay.

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I signed a complaint against
a gang leader who was arrested.

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Next day, he was out on the streets again.
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Six months go by before his trial, and the
police chief was transferred to the Bronx.

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This was - what? - Six...
six or seven chiefs before McKenna.

:14:36
Seven.
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And the new chief dropped the charges.
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- Three months later I got stabbed here.
- Sure. See?

:14:45
You must understand, Captain,
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to us, your Good Samaritan was a fool
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to risk the security of
his family to help a stranger.

:14:55
Uh, you're too impressed with yourself.
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Fuck you.

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