- [first lines]
- Joe McFarland: [voice over as the scene shifts from the front of the newspaper office to him typing at his office desk] This story is true. I oughta know. I not only covered it for my newspaper, I became a part of it. You read about Phil Regal in the papers - "Enforcer for the Underworld" they called him, but the real inside story was never told before. No one could possibly tell it until now... and stay alive. It started one dismal night under a bridge in a lonely stretch of Brooklyn...
- [the scene shifts to a fire under the Brooklyn Bridge]
- [last lines]
- Joe McFarland: [as he and a tearful Rosalie walk away from the edge of the roof after having seen Phil's dead body in the alley below] Cry, Rosalie. Go ahead and cry.
- Phil Regal: I don't have much time kid, I gotta go see my mother and sister over in Brooklyn, where they live.
- Nicky Bradna: Phil Regan framed me! I swear. He framed me! Phil Regal, he framed me! I swear, he framed me! Phil Regan, he framed me!