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Operation Plunder Dome Gimlet Media. DENNIS AIKEN In. And what better place to go then back to Rhode Island to finished something that Id started many years ago. To take a look at Buddy. MARC SMERLING This is FBI Agent Dennis Aiken. You might remember him from prior episodes. Back in the 1. 97. Buddy Cianci was first mayor, Aiken investigated rumors of corruption at City Hall. But by the 8. 0s, Aiken had transferred, and Buddy had been kicked out of office for assaulting a man in his living room. Now, its the 1. 99. Buddys back. And I believed that if I came back here I might could help to fix that. MARC And when did Buddy figure out you were back AIKEN When it came to reality for him was when I bumped into him in the Capital Grill. He was walking out and I just happened to be walking in. And I literally almost bumped into him. I looked at him and said, Hi, Mayor. And he looked at me as though he thought hed seen a ghost. And he says, Oh, youre back. I says, Yeah you know Im back. Id been involved in a lot, a lot of corruption cases using different techniques and I knew that the undercover technique was the best. MARC Aiken brought in some undercover agents. They posed as out of town businessmen trying to score contracts with the city. CITY HALL Good afternoon, Mayor Ciancis office. HENRY MARCO FBI AGENT Yes is this the mayors secretaryCITY HALL Yes it is. MARCO Yeah, hi. My name is Henry Marco CITY HALL Right, Mr. Marco could you hold on because Im on an important call right now. Hold on please. MARCO Thank you. AIKEN That went over like a lead balloon because they didnt know who they were. Im waiting to make an appointment with the mayor. Either Thursday or Friday. CITY HALL 2 I didnt hear that, Ill have to look at my schedule. Who is this with Whats taking place MARC The undercover agents werent getting anywhere. Nobody at City Hall knew them or trusted them. Agent Aiken needed someone closer to home. Someone brave enough. His name was Tony Freitas. TONY FREITAS  Every three years there was a bid. She wanted to do a story about the building, the bids, and she gave me a tip. That I was the low bidder, that I was not going to get it. I didnt realize they were using me to bid on the property because there was someone else paying bribes. And thats what get me involved. MARC Tony had immigrated from Portugal as a child. He built a successful heating and air conditioning business. Like, Oh he has an accent he must be stupid. AIKEN So I decided, Im gonna go see this guy Freitas. Didnt know him. I had no idea what he would say to me. Didnt know anything about him and just called him up and said, I want to come see you. FREITAS I got a call from the FBI. I says, Good, what took you so long, come over. AIKEN And it was one of the most amazing conversations Ive ever had in the Bureau. What if I put on a wire He was the first guy ever that asked to put on a wire. Watch Once Upon A Time In Venice Online Forbes. FREITAS I says, Ok I want to go undercover, I want to get these cockroaches. But Aiken was desperate for an undercover operative. And Tony was itching to go undercover. ZAC STUART PONTIER  Todays episode an unlikely duo. Our generation is transforming this city so completely that native sons returning after a long journey can hardly recognize the city of their birth. Riverfront parkways, ornamental fountains, and festive street lamps. They called it a renaissance. To a lot of people, Buddy was a hero. But not to FBI agent Dennis Aiken. AIKEN Of course my first question Whats Buddy really up toHe was getting a lot of publicity a lot of it was self generated. They were talking about a mall. Providence Place Mall. It was the Renaissance City. But everything was just not as it really seemed to be. The city was broke. He called it Operation Plunder Dome. MARC Who came up with the name Plunder Dome AIKEN It was a combination of a lot of things. I was looking at the dome on the city hall. I wanted to use dome and I was thinking of the Mad Maxs Thunderdome. So we came up with Plunder Dome. It was the stupidest name I ever came up with. Im telling you, it stuck. MARC Corruption investigations like Plunder Dome can be complicated. Agent Aiken knew he would have to follow up on every lead, work every possible angle. Im paying taxes, wheres the money flowing, the tax collector and the tax assessor. So we decided to focus there because that would get us closer to everybody else. MARC And luckily, Agent Aikens partner, Tony Freitas, knew just where to start. And tell him that youve seen the light, and although you wouldnt pay before, youve learned. TAPE JOE PANNONE Hello. TAPE FREITAS Hey good morning Joseph. TAPE JOE Good morning, how are you. TAPE FREITAS Ok, buddy. TAPE JOE Ok buddy, whos thisTAPE FREITAS Tony. Watch Dead Within Online (2017). TAPE JOE  What are you doin MARC This is an FBI wiretap of a conversation between Tony Freitas and Joe Pannone. TAPE FREITAS Heres why Im worried. One of the properties, I have never, never received a tax bill. MARC Tony tells Joe Pannone that he hasnt received his property tax bill and hes worried about late penalties. TAPE FREITAS Maybe we can do something with somebody, I dont know, you know better than me. You tell me what to do, you know. MARC Tony plays dumb. And, right away, Pannone offers to help. TAPE PANNONE Well whenever you want to go down City Hall I can get you right in, thats the point. TAPE PANNONE Stop in Tuesday, City Hall. TAPE FREITAS Tuesday at City Hall TAPE PANNONE Yeah Im in the MARC Then, Joe Pannone takes the bait. TAPE PANNONE Well I dont want them to see you with me, damn it. MARC Instead, Pannone says hell stop by Tonys air conditioning business in the morning, where they can have a private chat. For FBI agent Aiken, that means its time to upgrade the operation from phone tapping. And we wired it for sound and video. It was probably wired better than what you have here. It was certainly more discrete. TAPE AIKEN Tony, the recorders on right now. TAPE FREITAS Yeah. MARC The video is grainy and black and white. George Carlin: Back In Town Full Movie. Tony and Agent Aiken are preparing to make their first movie. And uh. TAPE PANNONE  Well, see with your property, what I am going to try to do. He looks like an old Italian grandpa. And right away, he starts teaching Tony how to bilk the system TAPE PANNONE When you are having trouble with tax bills or something, call me. TAPE FREITAS Oh alright. Hey Joe, Whatever you say. TAPE PANNONE Ill help you all I can. TAPE FREITAS Oh, Im learning. You my boss now. I mean you teaching me. You my teacher. You know what I. Youre my teacher. Im learning from you. MARC Like the wiseguys on Federal Hill, corrupt city officials speak in code. They never say. Dont ever strap yourself to pay a fucking bill. The whole thing had gone off without a hitch. And Tony Freitas wanted his luck to continue. FREITAS My first day I wore the wire, I did wear certain underwear and everything went fine. And then from that day on I kept that same underwear handy. It was my lucky underwear, ok. AIKEN I seem to remember that he had some lucky underwear. Yeah, I dont want to get into those details with him. TAPE AIKEN Yeah its on. Todays date is July 3. Im special agent Dennis Aiken here with Anthony Freitas. Were going to video and audio record a meeting with Joe Pannone. Ha ha. TAPE FREITAS How are you, Uncle joe. FREITAS I started calling him Uncle Joe. He felt comfortable. TAPE FREITAS Are you comfortable down here TAPE PANNONE Oh yeah. Im trying to let you understand, these things are confidential, between me and you. I trust you and I trust me, you know what I mean AIKEN Tony, he was a good talker. He would look you in the eye when he talked to you and most importantly he was a very good bullshitter. And I needed a good bullshitter. TAPE FREITAS This ones for you, Uncle Joe. TAPE PANNONE Ok, alright. TAPE FREITAS One, two, three. Youve been good to me, youve been good to me. AIKEN Pannone wanted cash. So we paid him cash and we paid him more than once. Supernatural Season 1. Episode 2. Its hard for any show with an episode order of 2. Supernatural. So much of the charm and charisma of the show rests in those Monster Of The Week cases so much of it rests on the deep thematic exploration that comes along with the hyper focused nature of the episodic. One thing that can get lost in heavily serialized narrative is the breadth of thematic depth Supernatural, by the virtue of its heavily episodic nature, was able to tackle more topics and drill down on the same one from many, many different angles. To put it another way shows like Breaking Bad go as deep as the Earths core, looking for gold and silver, but Supernatural digs more often in different places for the same thing. The serialization is neither good nor bad ultimately, I think. Its a necessary step towards ending the show, for one thing if they ever plan on marketing a final season, Supernatural is going to have to have something to end on. Even the most episodic of shows need an end point, and Supernatural has been searching for one for a long time, I think. Truthfully, its hard for Supernatural to not be serialized regardless they have so many characters and dangling plot threads to juggle that the episodic MOTW type episodes get put to the wayside. You cant be episodic with Crowley, Rowena, Lucifer, Sam, Dean, Mary, Castiel, and the British Men of Letters all demanding ample screen time. You cant hyper focus on, say, the irony of a monster being more compassionate than the human that hunts it, or the idea that hardcore violence isnt the answer, if you have to juggle an A, B, C, D, and E plot. One negative of this serialization god, I am tired of typing that word is that sometimes you have to do speed things up to get the information across. There are two instances in this episode where the pace goes from slow burn to frantic once, when Crowley comes back, and second, right after when Sam and Mary hug. The first instance was one of strange plotting we spend so much time in the A plot of Rescue Sam that we dont get to the rest of the episode for nearly twenty minutes. We get, in quick succession, the Rowena Crowley scenes, and the Vince Rick Springfield introduction. Its a lot of plot and other information to convey in just a few quick scenes, and the otherwise enjoyable languid tension build pacing of the first twenty minutes gives way to rapid fire. The second instance wasnt so much strange as unnecessary. Why do we need to see a montage of Dean drinking on the floor, looking at pictures of his mother, or Mary looking through the journal, or Sam staring at ceiling fan None of this conveys information we didnt already kn. Dean struggling with his mothers return, Mary struggling with how far behind she is, Sam struggling with, well, literally everything its thirty seconds or so of time spent that we didnt need. Its frantic, but not in its need to give information, but to kill time. Having said that I think that The CW made a wise, wise decision in having Andrew Dabb and Robert Singer take over. Im not sure what it is about these two guys, but they have a better grasp on Supernatural than anyone since Eric Kripke, and if you catch me after a few cocktails, I might even put them above Kripke. One thing that Dabb and Singer seem to understand is the darkness of this world Sam being visibly tortured by a blow torch was a stunning change for basic cable. How many times have we seen shows walk right up to the edge of darkness, and have the victim be rescued Each time Toni Bevell went to torture him, I expected Dean to ride in and save the day and it never happened. Supernatural has a deep, deep foundation its set in concrete and stone, and one could dig for years and years without reaching the bottom. Dabb and Singer are veterans of the show, and the TV business in general, and after this first two episodes, I believe they are on the best track possible. I am fascinated by Mick and Toni as a pair. I dont know whos really in charge he calls her lady, and she appears to take orders from him, but has more influence than a typical foot soldier. I struggle, too, in finding the core of her character there is a real void likeness about hera sense of evergrowing sadism that burns brightest in the dark. She isnt a sociopath, or a psychopath, or any sort of unfeeling monster she feels fear acutely, maybe more than most. Her tangle with Sam shook her up, and when Mick told her she was going back to London for punishment, she looked at him like a cornered animal. Mick, for his part, seems like middle management. He has juice, but it isnt his to use. Hes a weapon, not the person wielding it. I find it difficult to locate his center, as well does he care about the possibility of every American hunter being killed Does he care about the lives affected, or the reasons why hunting in the States is so fractured and decentralized I find it hard to believe that anyone at all wouldnt have reservations, and I especially find it hard to believe that someone who spends every waking hour trying to stop monsters from killing humans would be 1. I suppose I am being naive. You dont call in a hitter in the off chance youre planning on killing someone you call them in when its time to pull the trigger. Mick and Toni, and the rest of the British Men of Letters, appear to have made their decision a long time ago. Deans face when Mary called John a great father was perhaps the most telling moment of the entire series. How hard it must be to re litigate Deans breaking from Johns orthodoxy how hard it must be to have to be the one that says it out loud. Dean hasnt been a Johns Disciple in years and years, but its one thing to accept truth and make it a part of your foundation, and another to speak it to someone you care about. Dean breaks it to Mary as gently as he can, telling her that John changed, but even that isnt the whole truth. John didnt change as so much disappear, falling into a black hole so deep and dark that he became a part of it and by the time he climbed back out, nothing was left of the father that tucked them in at night. Sam may have given Mary Johns journal, but itll be up to Dean to explain who John was. Itll be up to Dean to parent her, to bring her along in a world she was never meant to be a part of. It certainly wont be Sam his mother may as well be a stranger, or an old friend from Kindergarten that moved away. John is dead, Samuel is dead Dean exists in her time and his, in the past and present, and he has to make sure that he doesnt leave her behind, or stop her from making her way forward. He has to, essentially, become a parent. How unfair life is, that Dean must do this again. Sam Winchester. I have always found his pain, and his guilt, and the deep insecurities to be similar to mine. If Dean is forced to be the adult, and bring along another child into adulthood, then Sam is the one stuck in perpetual childhood always missing a key piece of the puzzle, always taking the hits, and always being the first one to stick his hand out of the dirt and drag himself into the sun. Sam doesnt know his mother he doesnt know if she likes tea, or coffee, or if she has a peanut allergy. He doesnt know what her hands feel like, or how she smells when she carried him to bed, or the kind of movies she loves. She is a stranger a friend from long ago, or a figure in a dream that you cant get enough of. He is awkward around her unsure of how to communicate, how to make her laugh. But instead of running, or hanging back in fear of not being able to get through, he opens up. He offers her a place to talk, and experiences of his own, and makes sure that she knows, first and foremost, that he is willing to help her. In his greatest moment of vulnerability, only hours since he was brutally tortured and assaulted, Sam chooses kindness and empathy over fear and anger.