Background: Danny Ciello (Treat Williams) has cooperated with a federal investigation into NYPD corruption, after being assured that investigators wouldn’t go after his friends and fellow cops in the narcotics unit. The feds lied.

The clip opens with Ciello’s confrontation with Gus Levy (Jerry Orbach), who won’t cooperate with the feds, soon after Gus learns that Danny, with whom he was very close, is King Rat. More here.