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[bell dinging]
[crowd cheering]
- [Ring Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen!
From Jersey City, New Jersey it's the local attraction
that you've all been waiting for!
[bell dings] [crowd cheering]
- [Grady] I just love this throw down.
The prosecutor versus the cop.
The two senseis both have competing MMA schools
in the same New Jersey town.
Two of their students, Felix Sanchez,
who's already fought and won in five professional fights,
and Anthony Rodriguez.
Check it out.
An autistic savant who fights with magic from within.
[crowd cheering]
- [Al] Oh my God. He's got him.
He's in trouble here.
- [Grady] I think so.
[dramatic music]
- Judge, I wanna object, but it's more that I'm confused.
Could you instruct Mr. Carroll to stop staring at my client?
- [Judge] Mr. Carroll.
Mr. Carroll, are we going to continue?
- He's the guy.
He's the guy you saw bludgeoning the victim
when you arrived at the party?
- Bludgeoning? No, not bludgeoning.
He was punching the one kid who was punching him back.
- [Mr. Carroll] Please let the court reflect
that Officer Tantino just identified the defendant.
- [Judge] So reflected.
- So let me get this straight.
When you arrived at the party you and Sergeant Radinsky
had to physically separate Pella from the victim.
- Yeah, I had to grab one kid
and Sergeant Radinsky grabbed the other kid.
They weren't locked in mortal combat, fighting to the death.
These are two young kids
that had a little scuffle. - Thank you.
No further questions, Officer.
- You know, you really exaggerating
what happened there, counselor?
- I said no more questions.
- [Officer] Officer, you can't just open
statements on your own.
- That means you're done.
You don't make speeches.
You understand?
- [Judge] But of course,
now that defensive court's examined you...
Miss Rodriguez.
- So, Officer Tantino.
You seem to have more testimony.
What exactly did happen?
We didn't make any arrests and no complaints were signed,
but the victim in this case
decided to pursue the matter in court
after speaking with Mr. Carroll here,
who I believe is not only the prosecutor,
but it's also his martial arts sensei.
- I object, Your Honor.
- Yeah, I guess since he didn't train his student
well enough to defend themselves
in the street- - I object!
- I figured you have another chance
at winning in court today!
I'm looking for justice,
what are you looking for, counselor?
[light chatter]
- So three guys are at a party
arguing about who's got the best memory.
- God help me.
- First guy says, "I remember my mother
putting on my diaper."
Second guy says, "I remember being born."
Third guy says that's nothing.
I remember going to a party with my father
and coming home with my mother.
[all chuckle] - Stop!
God, that's almost as funny as
why did the pothead cross the road.
- Who else would follow a chicken?
[everyone chuckles] [phone ringing]
- Hang on.
Yeah. Detective Toney.
Right.
Right, gotcha. Thank you.
Woods is on his way to the barn
and Nick is on his way after him.
- We're off like a prom dress.
- Oh please! God, you're so terrible.
Just come with me. [Dutch chuckling]
- Hey!
Cone beef special today, Nick?
- No, not here for lunch today.
- Oh, here for Bobby?
- That scumbag's inside, right?
Oh, here we go.
- Hey, baby. How's it going?
- Bobby Woods.
Got a warrant for your arrest.
Looks like possession of cocaine
with the intent of distribute it.
That's ugly.
Turn around, put your hands behind your back.
- Sure, Nick.
- Don't move.
[man yells] [siren in the distance]
[Nick grunting] [siren wailing]
[tires screeching] [siren wailing]
[men grunting]
- Drop the goddamn knife!
- Don't do it, Bobby! - Drop the knife!
- [Dutch] Drop it, Bobby!
- Just relax. Don't hurt her.
[Bobby grunts]
You never could fight like a man, could you?
[Nick grunts] [Bobby screaming]
- What is the greatest American pastime?
Is it hockey?
- [All] No, Sensei!
- Is it soccer?
- [All] No, Sensei!
- Is it even football?
- [All] No, Sensei!
- What is the greatest American pastime, Frank?
- Baseball, Sensei!
- That's right.
Why is it baseball, Megan?
- It's statistics, Sensei!
- That's right.
It's statistics.
Stat!
- 70 home runs, Sensei! - Stat!
- 150 RBI, Sensei! - Stat!
- 300 strike out, Sensei! - Stat!
- 30 wins, Sensei! - Stat!
- 400 batting average, Sensei!
- And is this a game?
- No, Sensei.
- Is what we do here a pastime?
- [All] No, Sensei!
This is real!
It's out way of life!
- And you know what happens when you don't properly train?
[dramatic music]
[Zane grunting]
[student spluttering]
This could happen to you at a party.
This could happen to you at a bar.
This could happen to you on the street.
Megan, get this little girl off my mat.
[dramatic music]
Class.
Dan, Felix. Contact.
[dramatic music]
- Don't start.
- I'm not even gonna ask.
But it couldn't have happened to a more liberal judge.
[DeMitro grunting]
- Officer Tantino!
- Chief's looking for you!
- Officer Tantino!
Sandra Chilton.
I represent Judge DeMitro.
- What can I do for you Miss Chilton?
- Don't you think it's a tad disrespectful
arresting the judge in his robes?
- Disrespectful?
I let him put it on.
- I don't understand.
- The only thing the judge was wearing when I found him
was that gag in his mouth, and nothing else.
- Oh, now that is ridiculous.
[DeMitro grunting]
- You got something to say, Judge?
- The State Supreme Court
has put our free speech rights in jeopardy.
I've done all that I can in the courtroom.
Now I'm taking it to the streets.
Gagged and naked is how they have left us.
So gagged and naked is how I will be.
Officer put that gag back in my mouth.
- Oh, Judge.
[DeMitro chuckles]
- And besides, I'm the most muscular judge on the planet.
Have you seen the size of my arms and my chest?
And everything else that
I have going on. - All right, that's it.
I don't wanna hear about your physique.
Let's go.
Hey. - Hey.
Chief wants you, Nick.
- Yeah, yeah.
- I bet the chief is livid about this arrest.
- Why is it that you have to get suspended so many times?
- I'm being suspended for speaking the truth in court?
- How about Zane Carroll, Nick?
Why do you wanna embarrass this guy?
He's part of our team.
- He's a dangerous person.
- He's a powerful person, Nick.
- You have any idea how badly I'd like to kick his ass?
- You couldn't.
- Yeah, sure.
- Zane Carroll wants your head in a basket.
I'm not gonna give it to him of course,
because you're my boy.
- Thank you. - Don't thank me yet.
I have a new assignment for you.
A little change of scenery, Nick.
At the high school.
[school bell blaring]
- So, how much can you bench press?
- Really?
- Come on! What's your bench?
I would say 300 pounds?
- Yeah.
- So if you had to pick one of these kids
who'd become a murderer, who would it be?
- I don't know.
Shouldn't be doing something about that?
Is it my job to stop them?
- I don't think so.
[kids yelling]
[teacher blows whistle]
[teacher yelling]
Face off again.
- So what's your job here?
- I have no idea.
[school bell ringing]
- Anybody tell me who are some of the major players
in the courtroom in the criminal justice system?
Could be a man or a woman who sits at the bench.
- Come on, guys.
He's the one who makes all the decisions.
- He's the judge.
- Right.
- I know because my mom just paid them a lot of fines
for drunk driving.
[students laugh]
- Thank you, Juan, I think that's more than we need to know.
- Oh yeah. There's also a lot of pigs in the court too.
[students laugh] - I think the men and women
in blue have a more proper name.
- Police officers.
- Yes. I think what Juan meant to say was police officer.
Now, Anthony, I get that you know a lot
about the courtroom with your sister being a lawyer.
- Anthony, can you help us out?
- Bet you she's in the court all the time, right?
Cassie is a defense attorney.
Anthony, do you wanna try and tell us
what she does in the courtroom?
- He's not gonna answer you Miss Gause.
He never does.
- Okay.
- We all might be a little slow in here, but Anthony.
That's a real moron.
[students laugh]
Hey!
We don't like new kids in our school!
Especially real stupid ones that don't talk!
- [Miss Gause] Okay, get up
and go to the vice principle's office.
- What, you're taking a dumb's side, Miss Gause?
- [Mr. Watson] That's enough, Juan!
Let's go! - I don't need to be here.
- Leave. - Whatever.
Excuse me! - Get out.
- Leave.
[suspenseful music]
- I hope you enjoy your last few moments here alone, Nick.
- You obviously have a point.
Why don't you make it?
- I'm buying this school.
I outbid you.
- How do you get a fat girl in bed?
Piece of cake!
[Dutch laughing]
- Good one, Dutch.
You and I, we're on the contract, right?
- Yes. For y'all.
- No, no, no. That's for the building.
Stevie Ray, he owns the martial arts school
and I just offered him 10 more large than Nicky boy here.
- You know what a crying shame is?
A crying shame is a busload of lawyers going over a cliff
with two empty seats. - With two empty seats.
- Yeah. I've never heard that one before.
- Don't pretend you got a sense of humor.
Stevie's has been bullshitting you and Mr. Prosecutor.
I've got a lien on the school.
A failure to pay rent, and the sale
of the Hawthorn Institute of Martial Arts goes to...
Drum roll!
[imitating drum roll]
Nick Tantino.
[Nick grunts]
- We'll see about that.
Maybe in court.
- Yeah, maybe.
- Hey, we can settle this now.
- Step on the mat, counselor.
- No, don't.
[Zane chuckles]
- Okay, guys.
- Appreciate you having my back.
It means a lot. Thanks.
- Don't thank me.
Pay me.
[Dutch chuckles] - Got it.
[Nick sighs]
- Miss Gause, I'm Cassie Rodriguez.
- Please have a seat.
- Thank you.
- You settling into New Jersey life all right?
Must be a huge adjustment
after living your whole life in Florida.
- Oh no, not my whole life.
Anthony and I were actually both born in Manhattan.
Then after my parents died, we moved to Tampa.
We lived with our grandmother
and then unfortunately she passed when I was just 19.
So it's just been Anthony and I ever since then.
- Wow, I had no idea.
I'm really sorry.
- Oh, thank you.
So how's Anthony doing?
- Well, I'm very glad we're having this meeting
because I do have some serious concerns.
- Okay.
- He hasn't connected with anyone.
Not me, not my aide, Mr. Watson, not a single student.
- Well, he just needs more time
and then he'll warm up to a few students.
- Well, we haven't seen even
the slightest indication of that yet.
I get to receive much information
from his previous high school.
But I see here that it says that his diagnosis
is autism, not Asperger's.
- No doctors have said that he showed
some signs of Asperger's, like high intelligence.
I'm sure you've seen that in his schoolwork.
- Yes. The high intelligence is very evident from his tests.
And honestly that's the main reason
I have yet to refer him to an alternative school setting.
- No, he doesn't need an alternative school setting.
This is the right place for him.
Trust me on this.
At home he's very organized
and he knows exactly what he needs to do for your class.
And he speaks to me in full sentences
the majority of the time.
He will talk to you.
He will communicate with you.
Just, he just needs a little bit more time.
- Well, it's obvious that you know your brother
better than anybody here.
We'll give him a little more time.
Say a month or so,
but we really do need to see some social progress.
At minimum some more communication.
- Thank you, Miss Gause.
I really appreciate it.
And I'd be more than happy to be a guest speaker.
- Oh, that would be great.
Yes. I think that that will really help motivate Anthony.
- Yes, I do too.
Thank you.
And the capital of Maine is?
- Augusta. - Right, Vermont!
- Montpelier. - Good!
- The capital of New Hampshire is Concord.
A couple of Connecticut if Hartford.
The capital of Rhode Island is Providence.
New York, Albany. - Very good, keep going!
The capital of Delaware is Dover.
A capital of Maryland is Annapolis.
- See Anthony, this is what you need to do at school.
Speak to people in complete sentences.
Do you think you could try and do that?
- I'm hungry. What's your dinner?
[sighs]
[upbeat hiphop music]
- Hello, Nicholas.
- Hey, Jill.
- So this is the place.
- Yeah, this is it.
Let me give you a tour?
- Sure.
- This is the weight room.
- I can see that.
- This is the women's change room, lockers and showers.
You look good.
- Thank you.
So do you.
- This is the men's room.
Got some sweaty, athletic guys hanging out in there.
Could see you spending some time there.
- Not funny, Nick.
- Oh, and back there is just an unfinished area.
Still working on it.
- What are you gonna do with it?
- Gonna finish it.
Come on.
Can't wait to show you this.
This.
This is the main fight room.
It's where it's all gonna go down.
Pretty nice, right?
- It's a palace.
Palace for you, Nicholas.
- Jill, this is what I want.
This is what I need.
- What you need is just support me, your wife.
And not spend our entire savings on a midlife crisis.
How many students do you have?
- It's not about students right now.
It's about having a place to train.
Get back into shape and fight professionally again.
- Nick, that was 15 years ago.
And are you kidding me?
This entire place for just you?
- Jill, you know what? I've had enough.
I can't stand my job.
I don't wanna be a cop anymore.
They've got me babysitting kids in high school.
I just wanna fight.
- I'm not going down with you, Nick.
I've stood by you through all your suspensions,
all your violence.
Yeah. You've been a gentleman to me.
But all your violence?
And that one time long ago.
How many women would have stood by you for that?
No more.
You've got a shower here, move in.
This is your new home.
I came here hoping that I wouldn't have to give you this.
[suspenseful music]
It's over, Nick.
[Jill scoffs]
Funny how you don't fight this.
- [Anthony] Food, food, food, food, food, food,
food, food, food, food.
- Anthony, you have to get along at school.
You have to participate.
[Cassie sighs]
Miss Gause called my office.
She wants me to be a guest speaker.
- Guest speaker. Good.
Good. You'll be a good guest speaker.
- Anthony.
They don't know about your past
and what happened in Florida.
[Cassie sighs]
[gentle music]
[kids chattering]
- Yeah, I'm tubby.
But that's the dummy.
- Yeah.
You are one moronic son of a bitch, aren't you?
[Juan laughing]
Yo.
This will wake you from your sleep.
[Juan laughing]
[speaking in Spanish]
[dramatic music]
- Hey!
Hey, get off!
[whistle blowing]
[Anthony breathing heavily]
Hey!
Calm down.
Relax. It's okay.
- [All] Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
- Let me try to understand this, Mr. Pare.
Your client is charged with a triple homicide
and you want me to release him ROR?
- That's right, Judge.
I think there should be no bail in this case.
- The prosecutor has made an application for $1 million.
No 10%.
And that's reasonable.
Well, your request is, how do I say this?
Absurd.
- Judge, that is not correct.
- Excuse me?
- As you know, under State v. Johnson
there are three criteria to evaluate when setting the bail.
Does the defendant pose a flight risk?
Is he a potential threat to the community if released?
And is the prosecution likely to win the case on the merits?
- Thank you for the legal brush-up.
- I think you could use it here.
- And I think you're getting very close to contempt.
- My client is a lifelong resident of this community.
He's a doctor with a practice right here in town.
Look at the support here today for Dr. Clark.
What do you say?
- Don't put my doctor in jail!
- What do you think?
- Free Dr. Clark! - Free Dr. Clark!
- Sit down, ma'am.
- Free Dr. Clark!
- [All] Free Dr. Clark!
Free Dr. Clark!
- Order!
Quiet in this courtroom!
Order!
- [All] Free Dr. Clark! - Sit down!
- [All] Free Dr. Clark!
- Mr. Pare, that was completely inappropriate
and impermissible conduct!
- Judge. I am just pointing out that Dr. Clark is loved.
The man is an important part of this town.
He is not going anywhere, Judge.
My client is not a flight risk.
Beyond that, he poses no danger to this community.
The allegations are that he assisted three people
in peacefully ending their lives.
Three people with terminal illnesses.
And that brings us to the third prong of the Johnson test.
The prosecution is unlikely to succeed at trial.
The case law is very clear.
That assisted suicide cases or not prosecutable.
Not in the modern criminal justice system.
Mr. Pare, what do you think the odds are
that president Trump will appoint you to the Supreme Court?
It would be an honor that I would consider-
- It's a rhetorical question, Mr. Pare.
And the answer is zero.
You have a 0% chance of ever getting appointed
to the Supreme Court!
And you have even exactly the same odds
of me granting you your application.
Now, Dr. Clark here shot three people in the head
at a gas station.
It was all caught on video.
None of the three victims that he shot were his patients!
And none of the three victims had a terminal illness.
- They were heroin addicts, Judge.
They could have ODed at any time.
[bangs gavel]
- $2 million Dollars cash bail!
No 10%, and no bond!
[bangs gavel]
- Don't worry about it.
We'll work something out. It's not a big deal.
- Not a big deal?
- It's just a setback.
She'll come down, we'll work something out.
- Dr. Clark, please stand up.
Look, Dr. Clark, there's a lot of good things
you can do in prison.
There's a lot of sick people in there
and not a lot of good doctors.
Sal is just gonna escort you back to the holding cell.
Okay?
- You'll be okay. We'll talk soon.
- Well, Shane that was a pretty creative
and entertaining to say the least.
The prosecutor has a slam dunk.
I'm gonna plead him out.
Still probably get about five figures though.
- I don't believe the bullshit guys pedal.
- Is it that much different
than what you do in an interrogation?
- Probably not.
Listen. I've known you for a long time
and I've never asked you for anything.
- You got me knocked out three times
in fights you started and you walked away without a scratch.
- It's 'cause you can't fight for shit.
and I'm a lot tougher than you.
But really, listen.
What do you know about autistic kids in high school
and fighting in the law?
- That's a lot of questions.
- I'll tell you what, why don't we discuss it
over a cold beer?
- Long as you're buying.
- Okay, Mr. Five Figures.
- I haven't got my money yet.
- This is where it happened over by this basket.
Really, I've never seen anything quite like it before.
So athletic, but brutal.
He's autistic? - Yes, but he's not brutal.
- Miss Rodriguez.
When we spoke you didn't tell me about Anthony's past,
and today our principal did.
- I have Anthony's files from South Tampa High School.
9th and 10th grades.
Seven fights, four suspensions, one expulsion.
11th grade, well, half of it,
three broken ribs, one broken nose and several stitches.
Mind you, that was three different boys.
Now, here's my favorite.
The balance of 11th grade
and one month of 12th grade at St. Joe's.
14 fights.
- You don't have to say anything else, Dr. Conci.
- Priests and nuns, perhaps have a little bit more patience
with their students,
maybe because they have a certain higher calling
they're beholden to.
As principal of a public high school,
I have a different higher calling to deal with.
A superintendent and a board of education,
and they're worried about things like getting sued.
- I could definitely see a lawsuit here.
He mercilessly beat Felix and won.
No provocation.
- Excuse me?
That's not accurate.
You were there and you know it didn't happen that way.
Look, both of these kids were teasing Anthony,
almost to the point of harassment.
And the one kid, Felix,
he whipped the ball in Anthony's chest
from point blank range and then he put his hands on him.
- This is the kind of thing that's happened before.
Anthony gets provoked.
- It seems so this time
based on what Officer Tantino witnessed,
but all his prior schools seem to describe
a ticking time bomb.
- And we've discussed his antisocial behavior.
With this new development,
I really think that he needs to go
to an alternative school setting.
- No! - I'm sorry.
- Look, he's already in a special ed class
and I really don't want him anymore labeled.
- I'm sorry, Miss Rodriguez.
But his past is so very, very troubled.
- Look, Dr. Conci.
What if I was personally responsible for Anthony?
- What? - What?
- I mean, I'm here as the school resource officer.
I'm supposed to be teaching kids.
What if I focus all my energy
and concentrate on just one student?
I'm a veteran police officer and a seasoned black belt.
I know I could help that kid curb his violence.
I could help him control it
and maybe even find out what causes it.
- Okay.
I'm sure if it was under your constant supervision
you could protect the other students,
but you don't have any education
or experience working with autistic children, do you?
- You're right, I don't have any training
or expertise in autism,
but that kid made direct eye contact with me.
Now, that's not usual with autistic kids.
Am I right?
- That's absolutely right.
- I mean, I've been around the block a few times
and I know a few things about combat.
There was something strange going on with that kid
when he was fighting those boys,
something that took him completely out of his cocoon.
I want the opportunity to train Anthony.
I know that through the martial arts
I could help them cultivate
and develop those incredible skills he has.
- You not only want us to keep him in high school,
but you want us to allow you to teach him
how to fight even more?
- Well, yeah.
I'm gonna teach you some grappling, Anthony.
Now watch this.
Let's show him arm bar.
Anthony, pay attention.
[Nick grunting]
I have Glenn's arm and if he doesn't tap,
his arm's gonna break.
- [Glenn] Okay!
- I hope you got this kid on a short leash.
- Very short.
It was no small task convincing the superintendent.
- I don't know, man.
I really wanna help this kid.
Maybe we'll show him some kicks.
Get your helmet on. Come on
Please, Anthony.
All right. This is the roundhouse kick.
I got a low kick to the thigh.
[Nick grunts]
Up to the ribs. Nice and high.
[Nick grunts]
Nice head kick, Anthony, roundhouse to the head.
[Nick grunts]
- I better see some results in 60 days.
- Like what?
- How should I know?
I don't know anything about retarded kids.
- I wanna teach you that, man.
[Chief chuckles]
You're gonna get it.
Get up.
Anthony.
Anthony!
[Nick grunts]
[Nick sighs]
- You know, I really love you guys.
You're not just my students.
You're my family.
I really feel like I'm letting you down.
I mean, is it me?
Or is it you?
Riley, you got your ass kicked at a party.
Is it me?
Or is it you?
And a week before that,
Toby, you got your tooth knocked out in a bar fight.
Is it me?
Or is it you?
And Felix.
Felix.
My prize.
My top student.
A brilliant pugilist.
An 18 year old high school senior
who's never lost a tournament fight.
5-0, beaten MMA stars with years of experience,
and you get your ass kicked in gym class by an autistic kid.
So I asked you again.
Is it me, or is it you?
It's me! It's me!
It's me!
It's me.
[phone dialing]
- What about his father?
A certain criminal.
A man responsible for probably many deaths.
[phone ringing]
- So then why should he worry about letting his father go?
He couldn't be expected to do everything right.
He couldn't be loyal to everything all at once.
- Still teaching that American literature.
Private lesson I'm assuming.
- That's the only kind I do now.
- Katerina, can you give me a minute?
- Of course, Professor Cooper.
- How is New Jersey?
- I have a problem in our other world.
There's this cop.
He's got so far under my skin.
I just wanna rip his throat out,
I just wanna kill him.
- Focus!
Streamline.
Think about what you need.
- [Zane] The cop has been training this kid
and he's embarrassed my most prized student.
- Sounds simple.
- It's more complicated.
The kid is...
He's handicapped, he's autistic.
- Do you remember how I taught you to fight?
Our creed?
- Not only do I remember it, Sensei.
I teach it.
- Then live it.
Modify your officer in every way that you can,
in every aspect of his life.
- And the student?
- You owe your student your loyalty.
And remember,
you can't be expected to be loyal to everything all at once.
- Katerina!
- Yes!
- Where were we here?
- Here!
[both chuckle]
[phone dialing]
- Megan, come in here for a moment please.
- Hello? - Felix.
I want you to come here before school tomorrow morning.
We're gonna start a new type of training.
I need you to run a criminal case history for me.
- On who?
- Nick Tantino.
- But he's a cop.
- So I'm investigating him.
- About what?
- Fraud.
- Falsifying his law enforcement job application.
- Aren't we a little past the statute of limitations?
- Just listen to me for a second.
I heard a story about him
and I just wanna find out if it's true.
If it is, then lying on his application
will be the least of his troubles.
But it's what I need to legally investigate him.
- So, you want me to do this at the office?
- Of course.
Where else?
Thank you.
- How's Anthony been doing?
Has he been taking any interest
in the martial arts training?
- Not yet.
I can't get him to say two words to me.
I don't know if he's absorbing the techniques.
- He's been talking about you here at home.
- He has? Really?
- Yeah, and for him to talk about
someone so quickly is unusual.
Anthony! Dinner!
You know, most autistic kids
lose a previously acquired ability
to speak sentences or even words.
- But Anthony?
- Anthony has actually progressed.
There's high functioning autism, sometimes called PDD NOS
and then there's diagnostic categories
such as Rett syndrome and fragile X syndrome.
This disorder is very confusing.
I mean, there are some autistic kids
that have the messiest desks at school,
and there are some of the neatest ones.
But there's one unifying factor.
All have difficulty communicating
and interacting with others.
Anthony! Dinner!
- There he is.
- My brother sure does communicate when he wants to do,
through aberrational, reflexive and fighting skills.
How do we figure this out?
How do we put this to a positive use?
- You know, I think I have somebody
that I can bring into the fold
that can really help us.
- Another martial arts instructor?
- Well, sort of.
[aggressive clicking]
[phone dialing]
[grunting]
- Why'd you lie to me?
- I didn't lie!
- Oh, no?
You sent me an email saying you're African-American.
That's obviously a lie.
[phone ringing]
- You wanna answer that?
- If I get this phone, you'd better not make a sound.
You understand? Not a peep.
Nick Tantino.
- Update. - Yeah. No, it's no good.
No, his punches are slow.
His ground game is weak.
He's worried.
[man grunting]
- I would say so, given that he's about to be killed.
Can you get a location yet?
- No, and actually, I don't think
this fights even a good idea.
By the way, one of the Killers came by today.
- You shot one of them?
The man or the woman?
- It was the woman.
- Are you sure it was one of the Killers?
- Her jacket said Killers right on it.
These people plaster the name of their dojo
all over themselves.
They're like crazy.
- I see.
- Listen, an MMA fight between two married couples,
It's a bit strange.
I think we should cancel a fight for Max's sake.
Like you said, I don't wanna see him get killed.
Now as for the other one, Virad.
She's a bit loco in her own right.
- Oh, on the QT,
has Virad lost any weight yet?
- No, she's really not that receptive to it either.
- We can't afford to give her a heart attack.
So gently suggesting a diet and more exercise program.
- Okay. Listen.
Right now I have a little bit of a quandary
and I really can't can't talk.
Really?
Come on. Right now.
[train roaring]
[bell dinging]
Hi. Dr. Reno.
- And who the fuck are you?
- I'm Glenn.
I work for Nick.
- So he sends some lackey to pick me up from the train.
- Can I take your bags?
- Do I look like a fucking idiot? No.
I can take my bags.
Just take me to Nick.
Come on! Get your ass moving.
- Okay.
- Get up, you lazy bastard!
[Reno chuckling]
- Dr. Reno!
- Good to see a kid.
So I'm staying here?
- Of course not.
I got a nice hotel room picked out for you.
- Hell no, I'm staying on site in this environment.
I just meant is this dump my room?
- I'll put you in another dump room.
- Don't you know how to treat a guest?
Pick up my fucking bags.
Take them to my room.
- Yes, sir. - All right!
Get your ass moving!
[grunting]
- Come on, pussy!
[grunting] Harder!
That's it! Come on!
One! Two!
Three!
[grunting]
You're never gonna fall down on me again.
Remember, we don't fight fair, we fight to win.
Now say it.
- We don't fight fair.
We fight to win! - Zane!
Tantino's rap sheet is clean.
- Shit.
- And I felt really awkward pulling his file.
- Is everybody a pussy here?
- Zane.
- I'm sorry.
- Look, as prosecutors,
I know we have the right to investigate,
but I'm real unclear of what we're doing here.
- Call it.
- Wrestle!
[grunting]
- I think he killed somebody.
- What?
[struggling]
- Like, 20 years ago.
- How, when, where?
How could he be a cop if he killed somebody.
- I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know.
Give me 50.
Okay, listen to me.
In my office there's a promotional agreement
for a professional bout in Jersey City.
I want you to extend that agreement to Tantino.
And his student.
- I don't understand.
Do you wanna fight Tantino
or do you wanna prosecute him?
- Both.
Get outta here.
Come on! [clapping]
[grunting]
- Doc, This is the file with all Anthony's-
- Did you forget I make my own observations?
There's nothing in that file that will help this boy.
Right! You stupid prick!
- Dr. Reno. Easy. [Reno grunts]
[Reno grunting]
- Jesus Christ.
I don't know what's wrong with this kid.
- So that's it.
- Certainly not, you buffoon!
We're gonna have to get down and dirty!
Dig into his mind. get rough with him!
God damn it.
Get his sister down here!
We need her help.
- Got it.
- I wanna do
something for you.
- I hope it's something better than that rhyme.
- Oh, it is!
- Do it.
- All right.
Well, it's called pushups for love.
Yeah, 'cause you a hottie
and I love your body
and I wanna get real naughty!
So I do these pushups, baby.
Pushups for love.
Yeah!
- Can we just go get something to eat?
- Nah, I got like three more.
One pushup more.
For love.
- All let's go.
- What's brown and hides in the attic?
The diary of Anne Frank.
- I don't get it.
- Yeah, of course you don't.
- 'Course not.
Come on, come on.
- Anne who?
[Dr. Reno laughing]
- You know, 30 years back
I could kick higher than you and hit much harder!
[both laughing]
Jesus!
I didn't mean to make it a challenge.
- You know I'd never hurt you, Doc.
Anthony. That kid's the challenge.
I'm gonna really need your help with him.
- We've got a challenge for you.
- Hey!
Come on in, baby.
- Zane Carroll's promoting a bout.
10 professional fights.
All weight classes.
- My buddy Zane Carroll, huh?
Where's this gonna take place?
- Jersey City.
- And who does he want to fight?
- This your student?
- No, no, no.
I'm the teacher, honey.
Aren't you a lawyer or something?
- And a black belt.
- Oh wow.
What a woman!
Hey, take a swing at me, baby.
Whoa!
- Wait a minute, he wants Anthony
to have a professional fight in less than a month?
What is he thinking?
- It's against Felix.
He already knocked him out in school.
Well, I'll tell him the offer's rejected.
- No, no no. Hold on.
You got a pen?
- I'm not leaving town for a few days.
So why don't we have a little pre-fight?
- Who is this guy?
- Don't ask him.
He doesn't know how to treat a lady.
- Come by my room.
It's kind of a dump, but I can show you movies
maybe that you never even heard of.
- So it's on?
- Give that to Mr. Carroll.
- Yeah. Show me the moves.
- I'll see you in, let's say an hour?
- I'll see and your sensei in Jersey City.
- Wow.
- [Nick] Really going to town in that bag, big guy.
[Reno laughing]
Hey, Doc, here's Dutch and that kid.
- Oh!
Hey!
So, this is my specimen, huh?
[Reno laughs]
Come with me, my son.
So you're the smart ass who's gonna help me figure out
this conundrum!
- [Juan] What's a condrum?
- [Reno] You asshole.
- What was that? What's going on?
- I'm back to falsely arresting criminals.
Is that an oxymoron?
- Get outta here.
Cassie, timeout.
I know it looks bad, but trust me.
It's all under control.
Believe it or not, this is my team.
- Cassie, you came!
Cassie, you came!
- Yeah! - Let me show you!
- Atta boy. Good job, champ.
- Come on, you grimy little sea urchin.
Come on.
I want you to talk.
- I don't know what you want me to say.
- Don't be a wise ass.
- Doc. We don't need him.
We can do whatever this is without him.
- You, hit the bricks!
Hit the bricks!
Oh, come on it. Hit the bricks.
Hit the bricks, you motherfucker.
Outta here!
- [Nick] It means leave, let's go.
- [Reno] I'm Dr. Reno.
- Are you a medical doctor?
- He's a psychiatrist.
One of the best.
- That meathead knows this from personal experience.
You're Anthony's sister?
- Yeah, this is really unusual.
He doesn't normally rock like this.
- That's because he's not your usual autistic.
- I should take him home.
- No.
- With all due respect, Dr. Reno, I don't even know you.
- Your brother is a savant!
Stop rubbing his fucking arms.
- He's autistic. He's not an idiot.
- He's an autistic savant.
[speaking in Spanish]
[dramatic music]
- Calm down. Relax, man.
Calm down.
Just relax.
Shh. - Anthony understands Spanish
with feelings like any other person.
- We don't even communicate in Spanish.
- He knows it innately.
[speaking in Spanish]
- Cassie.
- Rod Crew, 1977 MVP American League.
National League, 1977 MVP George Foster.
- [Dr. Reno] An autistic savant
is a person who has an exceptional skill.
- In 1977 when Rod Crew won American League MVP.
- About 10% of people with autism are savants.
The most common are a splinter skills
This is a person with a hobby, maybe great at trivia,
like MVPs and batting averages.
And then there are those very few with prodigious skills.
A person who can play an entire Mozart concerto
on the piano after hearing it only once.
Or a kid who has fifth degree black belt abilities
because he saw a Bruce Lee movie.
It's believed that there are less than 25
autistic savants in the world of old prodigious skills.
And Anthony is one of them.
Even more confounding it seems
that Anthony has two savant skills.
- The Spanish.
- Yes.
That's clearly not a prodigious skill
because he only seems to fully relate to the language
when something harshly negative said to him,
probably a splinter skill.
- But Doc, let me ask you a question.
How'd you figure out the whole Spanish thing?
- [Waiter] Can I take your main course?
- What the fuck is wrong with you?
Can't just see what talking here?
Get your ass outta here.
So how did I figure it out.
I asked that punk Juan how the fight started.
They cursed at Anthony in Spanish.
- That's it? You got it from just that?
- No, pencil head.
And I read that thick file you gave me.
What the fuck's the matter with you?
Almost every kid he got into a fight with
had a Spanish last name.
The one school he went to
had a very small Hispanic population.
That's why he had only one fight there,
but that St. Joe's was chocked full of Latinos.
Thus, the 14 fights.
This isn't brain surgery, huh?
- So now we have to get Anthony to understand Spanish
in all different areas.
Not only when it gets him angry.
Dr. Reno, can you continue to help us?
- No.
- No? What do you mean, Doc?
We really need you here.
- No, no, no.
He needs practical help.
This isn't a mind that can be manipulated by a psychiatrist.
He just needed the right doctor
to learn what the real deal is.
And now you gotta use that karate room
and the Spanish language to hone those skills,
and I ain't gonna be around
when you're calling him a dick head in Spanish.
No way.
Where the hell is the waiter?
I'm hungry!
- Yeah. That's right.
I'm here at Anthony's karate school.
Mixed martial arts, judo, karate, whatever.
It's all the same thing.
No, the cops didn't bring me here again.
I came by myself 'cause I'm gonna kick this kid's ass.
- All right, Anthony. All right.
All right. It's time to get going.
Come on.
- That was just luck.
I wasn't looking!
Well, I guess Felix wasn't looking either.
Elizabeth, shut up. You're talking a bunch of crap.
I know you were there.
I'm telling you it was just dumb luck!
Haven't you ever seen me box?
I'm faster than Mahatma Gandhi!
Well, that's what I mean, Mohammad Ali.
And you see how many pushups I can do!
I would have did more if it wasn't for those stupid cops.
Anyway, I gotta go, all right?
And you're gonna eat your words
'cause I'm gonna kick his ass.
- Hi, Juan.
Hi, Juan.
Hi, Juan. Hi, Juan.
Hi, Juan.
- You know, back in the day,
I could take those punches kicks from that kid.
- Better than I ever could.
- Oh hell no, not better than you, Nick.
Not too long ago you were on your way to being the best.
Let the killing sidetrack you.
- You know, Doc, some people are dead.
And deservedly so. I have no regrets.
- Yeah. I agree.
Think about this, Nick.
You became a cop, not a professional fighter.
Sidetracked you.
but I think now you're back on track.
Help that kid.
- Thanks, Doc.
Good to see you.
- God bless you, baby.
- Stay well.
- All right. I'm out of here.
- Arrivederci.
- Ladies and gentlemen.
Today a message needs to be sent.
A message not only heard in Los Angeles, Washington DC
and New York City, but also right here in New Jersey.
A message to the police department,
to the prosecutor's office and to the public at large.
Stop the corruption.
Stop arresting innocent people
and altogether ruining their lives.
Stop the power abuse.
That's the beginning of a closing argument.
[applause]
Now here's the important message
that I wanna tell all of you today.
I know that Miss Gause has told you earlier
that my brother Anthony has some very rare
and remarkable abilities,
but he needs some help to use these abilities in a good way.
He needs help from me, from Officer Tantino,
from Miss Gause and other teachers here at Hawthorne High.
He also needs your help.
Will you help him?
- Anthony, I'll help you.
- All right, everyone,
clap if you will help your friend, Anthony.
[applause]
- [Mr. Watson] Come on guys, let's go!
- I'll try to.
- I'm in.
- All right. Juan, what about you?
- Oh, come on, Miss Gause.
- Tell Anthony that you will be his friend.
In Spanish.
- Miss Gause.
- All is forgiven, Juan.
Please help.
[speaking in Spanish]
[counting in Spanish]
- That's very close, Elizabeth.
- No, it's...
[counting in Spanish]
[speaking in Spanish]
- Nick.
Nick and Anthony.
Nick and Anthony,
Nick and Anthony win!
[clapping]
- And that's it.
Basic wrestling move. It's a good technique.
I want you to learn it.
[speaking in Spanish]
Try to follow, my man. You can do this.
Come on.
Level change, drop the knee, penetrate, shoot in.
Take somebody right to the mat.
Level change, drop the knee, penetrate, shoot in.
Can you do it, Anthony?
Okay.
Tell you what.
[speaking in Spanish]
Nice!
That's what I'm talking about, kid.
Way to go!
Let's get it on. Come on!
Get them hands up!
[Nick grunting]
Come on!
[Nick grunting]
Whoa, easy!
[upbeat music]
Ah, easy!
[upbeat music]
That's it. High five, come on!
Get that upper body strength.
- Music, art, mathematics, and other skills
such as knowing the time without seeing a clock
or committing a math to memory
are found that autistic savants.
- Come on. 21!
[upbeat music]
22! Get that stomach hard, come on.
23!
- Aside from memory.
other factors that assist a savant in honing their skills
include the ability to focus and concentrate.
The desire to practice endlessly.
[Felix and Zane grunting]
Positive reinforcement from family, friends, and teachers.
- Watch out. Come on, defend it!
[upbeat music]
- In rare cases the person may be
unusually gifted in languages.
[speaking in Spanish]
[upbeat music]
[speaking in Spanish]
- Get that head down.
Good!
Atta boy.
- [Cassie] Anthony, write it in Spanish.
[upbeat music]
- Every autistic brain may have untapped savant skills.
[upbeat music]
[metal clanging]
- Get ready for the ass kicking of your life, savant boy.
In the cage.
- What's the matter?
You don't have the guts to say it to him in Spanish?
And that doesn't even affect you?
- Why should it?
Herbert Hoover was the president
during the Great Depression.
- Say it in Spanish.
[speaking in Spanish]
Anthony, I just don't understand.
[engine purring]
- Was that Felix, my student, I just saw leave here?
- Yes. And he was just threatening my brother.
- So this is Anthony?
- Yes.
- Look, I'm really sorry about Felix.
I had a feeling he was gonna head down here.
You know, I'm gonna straighten him right out.
Thousand laps around the gym, I promise you.
- Sure, Zane.
- Really, all he needs a little bit of charm school.
- Of course, and you're probably the headmaster
of that school.
- I am.
- Go sit in the car.
- Nice ride.
- I think yours might be a bit more expensive, Magnum.
[Zane chuckles]
- You know, I really think this is fight
is gonna be great for these two kids.
Teaches them discipline.
It's in a controlled environment.
- Nick says the same thing.
- Nick.
I really need to talk to you about Nick.
- I don't think this is an appropriate conversation, Zane.
- Anthony would be much better off training at my school.
Lawyer to lawyer?
- Speak, Mr. Attorney.
Nick Tantino's not the man you think he is.
- Goodbye.
- He killed someone, Cassie.
In a fight in cold blood.
Is that the type of man you want training Anthony?
- Prove it to me.
- I will.
You bet your sweet ass I will.
- That was fantastic.
I'm so glad we got together again.
After all this time,
you were on fire!
I guess fighting keeps you strong.
Pass me the strawberries.
These past few months I've been so lonely.
If I'm telling the truth, the past year really.
I want another kiss.
- You know, I could see us rekindling
those old high school flames.
Jill, I need you to tell me something.
Something about Nick.
It'll really help me with the divorce.
The more you help me, the more I can help you.
I mean, the truth is he doesn't even deserve this house.
He doesn't even deserve half of it.
Okay?
Did I tell you how beautiful you are?
Did I?
- [Megan] Hey.
What you doing?
- Something that I couldn't do in the prosecutor's office.
- This isn't true.
- It's Nick Tantino's international rap sheet.
- This says he was charged, but not convicted
of murdering somebody in Italy when he was 22?
This is isn't real!
- Does it matter?
He did kill somebody in Italy.
Who cares if he was never charged.
This is in the International
Criminal Justice computer system now.
Because I added it.
When he applied to be a cop,
there was no international computer system.
So now it's been discovered.
I want you to give it to Cassie tomorrow, okay?
- Okay, Zane.
- Thank you.
[dramatic work]
- Nice work, Cassie. - Thank you.
See you at the office?
- Nope. I am going to get a beer.
- Okay. - Maybe two.
- Hello Sandra.
- Always a pleasure, Megan.
- Cassie, I'd love to speak to you.
- That's funny Megan
'cause I wanted to speak with you as well.
- I bet my conversation's more interesting
than your conversation.
- I'm not so sure about that.
Do you know Jill, Nick's soon to be ex-wife?
- Sure.
Real bombshell.
Hard act to follow.
- Yeah.
It seems that Jill likes to videotape herself with men.
A new hobby.
Yeah.
And it also seems that Zane wanted to hear
that Nick was a murderer.
And when Jill told him that that just wasn't the case,
Zane didn't like that very much so he cut her off.
Now Jill's a wee bit upset.
- Well, what you'll see in this file is also not true.
It's another phony act from Zane.
- Trenton's the capital of New Jersey.
Trenton, the capital.
Patterson, Passaic, Camden, Jersey City.
- Come on, Anthony. Fight back.
- Big cities.
Trenton, the capital. - At least block.
- Trenton, the capital.
- Patterson, Passaic, Camden, Jersey City, Newark.
[speaking in Spanish]
[both grunting]
- Tap, tap!
[Cassie cheering]
- What was that?
- That was a flying arm bar.
I've been training in martial arts for a long time,
I could never master that move.
[speaking in Spanish]
- He's doing so good.
I mean, I get energized every time I work with him.
His progress. It's amazing.
- I know, it's amazing!
I mean, he's on again off again
and I mean, I don't think he'll ever be totally cured,
but the improvements are just unbelievable!
- You know?
I wonder why he never responded to Spanish before,
unless it was something violent.
- Yeah. I mean we never spoke it at home.
We're completely Americanized.
I mean, I only know Spanish from taking classes,
and Anthony never learned it at school.
Kids rarely even spoke to him.
I mean they spoke in front of him,
but I think there's a big difference.
He was never nurtured in Spanish.
- You know, what worries me is that
Felix knows that, and he's not gonna be cursing him
on the night of the fight.
- Do you know what he just said to me?
He just said that you can master that move
if he worked on it with you.
- He did not say that. - He did say that.
- Are you sure he said that?
- I'm sure. I'm positive.
[Cassie laughing]
[upbeat music]
- [Grady] Well, I'll tell you Jack,
we got a lot of excitement in this place tonight.
- [Al] Richard Winfield is sheer muscle
with some serious jujitsu skills.
- These guys got energy going.
This is the way to fight.
What happened at Henderson's body?
Winfield is punching his lights out!
[speaking in Spanish]
[both grunting]
- [Al] This is crazy!
This is an all out street brawl!
Unbelievable!
- Look at this guy hit!
I tell you what if I got hit with one of those,
I'd be in the back row here.
- [Al] I'm telling you!
[upbeat music]
[speaking in Spanish]
[upbeat music]
- Here we go, round two.
- [Al] Nicky Nevels to Roy Rivers apart
in the first one.
This guy's an incredible grappler.
He's got skills in every area,
but it's on the mat where he really shines.
Oh my goodness!
Man, he can really round up a punch,
- [Grady] This one's gonna be a bloody finish.
And there we go!
Ladies and gentleman,
what's a fight without the flip at the end?
Well, I'll tell you Jack,
we got a lot of excitement in this place tonight.
Now, I just love this story, Al.
Two 18 year old high-schoolers.
Felix Sanchez, who's already fought and won
in five professional fights.
And Anthony Rodriguez, an autistic savant
who fights with magic from within.
[upbeat music]
- [Cassie] What are you doing?
- [Nick] Getting ready.
- [Cassie] What are you doing?
- Getting ready to fight.
- [Cassie] Not Anthony?
- No, not Anthony.
Why don't you sit down for a minute.
Look, your brother's got incredible talent,
but these prodigious fighting skills,
they only come out when he's taunted in Spanish.
Felix knows that.
I'm sure he's gonna do everything he can
to speak to him strictly in English.
Even if I'm on the sideline,
yelling nasty things to him in Espanol,
it's too much of a risk.
We'll continue to work out.
But I found the training has helped him so much mentally
and that's so much more important.
I don't wanna see him get in that cage
and make a spectacle of himself,
and I'm not gonna let him get hurt.
- I'm falling in love with you.
- I'm already in love.
- So you're gonna fight Felix instead?
- No.
I'm gonna fight Zane Carroll.
[crowd cheering]
- [Al] Oh my goodness!
- [Grady] And there it is.
Another fight comes to an end.
The crowd is on their feet,
but people got their money's worth tonight.
And we haven't even hit the main event.
- [Al] I've gotta tell you though, Grady.
This next one is the one that I've been waiting for.
- Time to win, Nick.
- Win Nick. Win.
Win. Win, Nick.
- Ladies and gentlemen!
- [Grady] What's this?
They're saying there's a change in the fight lineup.
- Nick Tantino the cop, pulled Rodriguez at the last second.
Any reason why?
- We don't know why, but I'll tell you,
there's an awful lot of animosity
between he and Zane Carroll the prosecutor.
- In the red corner, fighting out of the Spitfire Academy
in Hawthorne, New Jersey,
standing six feet, two inches and weighing 215 pounds,
Zane "The Persecutor" Carroll!
- [Grady] Both senseis are from the same New Jersey town.
Neither has fought professional in years,
but both were stars on the rise.
- And in the blue corner,
also fighting out of Hawthorne, New Jersey,
representing the Hawthorn Institute of Martial Arts,
standing six feet and weighing in at 225 pounds,
Nick "The Law Man" Tantino!
[applause]
The referee, Samad Raphael.
- All right gentlemen, you know exactly what time it is.
I want a good clean fight.
You obey my commands at all times.
Gentlemen, tap gloves and back up.
Are you ready?
- Here we go. - Fight!
Oh!
Nick Tantino disrespected right off the bat by Carroll.
- Come on, Nick!
- [Al] I tell you, this isn't a cop
you wanna meet on the street.
- [Grady] You got that right.
- Straight right by Nick.
- That's gotta hurt.
- Yes! Come on, Nick!
- [Al] He's gotta switch it up.
- [Grady] That's a low blow to the groin by Zane Carroll!
- [Al] I think he's in trouble.
- [Grady] Yeah, he's got him in trouble now.
[yelling in Spanish]
[dramatic music]
[yelling in Spanish]
[dramatic music]
[applause] [cheering]
- [Al] Chalk one up for the police, Grady!
- I tell you what, this one is O-V-A, over!
- Counselor just got schooled.
- Get off me! Get off me!
- [Glenn] Stay down, sucker!
[applause] [cheering]
- [All] Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick!
[applause]
- Come on, you.
Cover up!
Okay, okay, okay. All right, you got me.
[speaking in Spanish]
- It appears as if you've succeeded with the kid.
I think we'll take you back on patrol.
That's if I don't wanna retire.
- Once a blue, always blue.
- Don't retire just yet.
That elbow was lucky.
I'll fight you again right now.
- Hey, what do you say to a prosecutor
that just got his ass kicked in a fight?
You have the right to remain silent.
You're under arrest
- For what?
- How about official misconduct
for initiating an illegitimate law enforcement
investigation against Nick,
for tampering with government computers
and creating a false rap sheet.
- None of this crap will hold up in court.
- You have the right to an attorney.
You know that already.
You can't afford an attorney, sell the Ferrari.
[skipping rope whirring]
[banging on tire]
- Let's go!
Come on, the tire can't beat you!
[banging on tire]
Come on, it's Zane Carroll and he's beating you!
[Nick grunting]
- [Glenn] You want a soda?
- No soda. No soda.
Cassie says no soda..
- Anthony, orange juice or water?
- Milkshake.
I want a milkshake.
- There you go. You got your order.
- You want a milkshake too?
- No, I'll stick with the water.
Anthony, you wanna try the tire?
[speaking in Spanish]
- I better tell you this in English.
You probably not gonna totally get it,
which is okay, but at least I'll get it off my chest.
You see Zane was trying to convince your sister
that I killed somebody.
A long time ago in Italy, I went to visit my grandfather.
He wasn't paying to the people
that he was supposed to pay to,
so they sent some guys over to his house
to straighten him out.
I saw what they were doing, Anthony, and I snapped.
You understand what I'm telling you?
[speaking in Spanish]
I will tell her.
Atta boy.
Come on. Don't stop.
A little harder.
Come on!
[banging on tire]
[upbeat music]