The January Man

Hey, cowboys!

Want some sugar?

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Should auld acquaintance be forgot...

No. I would never forget you.

I'll never forget you.

Bullshit.

After you, my dear Alphonse.

Thank you.

Oh, dear!

Call me if you get blue.

I am blue.

Call me.

The phone will be ringing by the time you get home.

Here I go.

Wait till she gets in, please.

Allison.

What?

Happy New Year.

Happy New Year, honey.

Bye.

Gracie Mansion, please.

Fish!

They've multiplied.

Lord Jeffrey Amherst was a soldier

Royal and true

And he summoned all the Indians

Into his sight

Oh, Amherst, dear

Oh, hello.

Ten-hut!

Line up!

Hello, Pepino.

Hello, little Lord Byron.

Come here and lay one on me.

Four, three, two, one!

Happy New Year!

Frank, wait a minute. Forget it.

Just forget it.

That's easy to say.

You don't understand.

See, I don't care anymore.

I don't care what makes sense anymore.

I don't give a rusty fuck...

if they boot me down the City Hall steps...

and send me back to the Bronx!

We gotta get this guy!

Everything that can be done is being done.

My daughter was with her last night.

It was my daughter, my child.

It could have been her. This is not politics anymore.

Everything's politics!

The hell it is! I can't even sleep.

Bullshit!

When you point your finger at some guy...

and you say this is the guy that could do the job...

ain't the flashbulbs going?

Don't you read it in the papers the next day?

Get me your brother... and get him now...

and get him before you go to the ballet, Frank.

Get those hoses up here!

Come on. Move your ass!

Move it!

Get it on, Tony!

OK, Tony, turn it up!

In the windows!

Put it in the windows!

Turn it on!

Get that pressure up!

Turn it on, damn it!

- Chief? - Yeah?

I'm looking for one of your men.

Who are you?

Franklin Starkey.

I'm Chief Sunday. Who you want?

- Nick Starkey. - He's in there.

Well, get him out here.

I have to talk to him.

It remains to be seen whether or not he is coming out!

What the hell are those guys doing?

Tell them to get the hoses up!

That window! Over there!

Get jumping now!

Come on! Move it! Move it, damn it!

Stay with it.

Hey! Advance that line!

Hi, there.

I'll take it from here, Nick.

I wonder if I could get a cup of coffee.

Preferably espresso.

I'm not happy to see you, Frank.

You should be.

I've come to take you away from all this...

and make you a big shot.

I never wanted to be a big shot, Frank.

That's your thing.

You must be up shit's creek to be here talking to me.

The mayor knows you're good at this kind of thing.

You must be out of your mind with amnesia...

to be here talking to me.

Now calm down, Nick.

I'm a fireman!

We're going to reinstate you.

I'm a fireman now!

We're going to take all the heat we have to from the press.

I run into these fucking buildings when they're on fire!

You're gonna get a commendation for what you did tonight.

Please, don't bother on my account.

That was very heroic.

Go, Frank.

There's a lot between us.

None of it is good.

Please.

It's my career.

All right.

I'll come back.

Frank... on one condition.

What do you think of Maria?

- Who's Maria? - The ballerina.

She doesn't trust her partner enough.

Should she?

I don't think she has any other choice.

Where's Frank?

I don't know. He's late.

In that case, let me see you through intermission.

Mrs. Starkey, where's the commissioner tonight?

Here he is. Excuse me.

Duty calls, and Christine goes.

I was beginning to think you wouldn't make it.

I had to go...

I had to talk to Nick.

He's going to be reinstated in the department...

He's going to be the new special investigator.

How is he... Did he agree?

You look flushed.

The dance was very stirring.

Usually you're bored.

Did he agree?

I can't believe it.

Why not? After all, he is my brother.

That never stood in your way.

Are you siding with him?

Franklin, you should know better than that.

What did you have to promise him?

Hi, Ramon.

I'm thinking. I am thinking.

All right.

Hi, Ed.

Will you get that animal, please, and put it at her feet.

Don't smile, Olympia.

"Beware the jabberwock, my son!

"The jaws that bite, the claws that clutch!"

Watch your hands, buddy!

- Like that? Stay. - Very good.

Shut up!

Ed, why didn't you use your apartment?

You've got the light.

Look, I'm making dinner tonight. Can I borrow my table?

Sure.

Just languish there, darling.

Don't molest anything.

Ed... you want a job?

- What's a job? - Work... for money.

- Money? - Yeah. Do you remember money?

Yeah, I remember it.

What do you think?

It is irritating to me that I need money.

- I shouldn't need it. - I don't agree.

It's good every once in a while...

to get roped into somebody else's, you know...

What?

Problem.

For money?

Right.

I'm going to have a press conference...

tomorrow morning at 10:00.

The governor, he's letting me have his best speechwriter.

He's gonna write the statement.

The fucking guy is a poet.

I'll have the hard-liners...

wringing their handkerchiefs out before I'm through.

The prodigal son with the right stuff...

forgive and forget.

"For everything there is a season."

How do we face the terrifying spectacle of Nick Starkey...

what he may do, what he may not do.

Anyway, I wanna get going.

I want to start working on it tonight.

I want to get all the borough presidents.

I want them standing up there with me shoulder-to-shoulder...

and if I can get that prick with the scarlet cape...

the cardinal, to stand up, I'm gonna get him up there, too.

And, you, you're going to be to my right.

Now, what I want to do...

I want it to look like the city is united...

in bringing Nick Starkey back.

I don't want it to look like his brother's...

bringing him clean underwear or something like that.

I'll take care of all the questions.