Year of the Dragon Page #5

You're from Hong Kong?

No, American-born.

San Francisco, the Bay area.

How many generations

have your people been here?

my great-grandfather came,

worked in the railroads, went back.

my grandfather worked in a gold mine.

He also went back.

They went back because the law

wouldn't allow their wives to come.

my father married a Japanese woman

and settled here in the '40s.

Yeah, I know the story.

It's a pretty sad one.

Thousands of you Chinese

came over here...

...and died building the railroads

in this country. Says so right here.

Their bones are scattered all over

the West. We don't even know their names.

There's a photograph here.

Promontory Point, Utah, 1 869.

That's where the Union

and Central Pacific first met.

Take a look at it. What do you see?

What do you see? You

see the bosses. You...

see the politicians. You see the bankers.

You see the lrish workmen. There's

not one single, solitary Chinaman.

They weren't even asked to show up.

They died anonymous.

Goddamn people,

you keep everything a secret.

I know the story, captain.

most people don't. Because no one

remembers in this country.

No one remembers anything.

You sound just like my father.

- He sounds like a great guy.

What does he do?

He's in shipping. Now what's your story?

me? What's there to say?

I'm Polish.

I'm from Brooklyn. I'm a cop.

But I happen to be the most decorated cop

in the city of New York.

I'm talking action-decorated,

no desk citations here.

l'm sure about that.

- I saw you a few times on the tube.

I don't watch much television,

but I think you're pretty good.

And a whole lot sexier than

those broads on other channels.

Well, captain, very pleased

you've come. Hello.

Uncle Yung, you know Tracy Tzu?

- oh, yes. Very pleased you've come.

This is my wife, Su Shin.

Captain, do you like Chinese champagne?

This is very good.

This is on the house, huh?

Thanks, Harry, but no, thanks.

I pay my own way.

Fish stinks from the head, right?

The Chinese eat the head, captain.

Enjoy.

Let's go.

Looks like champagne, anyway.

I think you upset him.

- I certainly hope so.

Look at it this way.

Harry Yung...

...is the head of the richest tong

in Chinatown.

He's gotta be involved

in the Chinese mafia.

Even if he isn't doing anything,

he's gotta be doing something.

And if I can nail the son of a b*tch,

and he's got face, I get face.

And if I get face,

I can win the war in Chinatown.

Captain? Why did you call me?

What do you want?

I'll tell you what I want. I want

the rice to boil over in Chinatown.

I wanna change things.

Why? Is Chinatown so bad the way it is?

It stinks. Harry Yung's got this place

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