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He would not take any money when he went on the force, and they made a movie about him called “Serpico. He was shot in the head. I visited him at the hospital -- I don't know whether it was Brooklyn Jewish or Methodist - with Durk. They'd already had their falling out. There was an estrangement between Durk and Serpico, which came as a result of... Serpico was the guy who was physically in danger. He was the guy who would climb the fire escapes and break into the apartments in pursuit of criminals and so forth. Durk was the guy who was the schemer. I'm not using this perjoratively. He's the guy who knew the press and who knew other people like myself and who felt that he was the master mind of that combination. And then when they were going to sell their story by way of a book and ultimately by way of a movie -- they were already planning that Paul Newman and Robert Redford would play the two of them -- and the thing I understood that caused their estrangement (and here I'm getting the version from Serpico and his friends) was that Durk wanted more than 50% of the cash proceeds that would flow from their work. And of course that would be ridiculous. I don't know if it's true. This is just the scuttlebutt. I've never discussed it with Durk. And ultimately somebody advised Serpico to do it on his own, and he got in touch with Peter Maws and he wrote a book called “Serpico,” and Durk was, so to speak, screwed out of everything -- in fact, was not very nicely treated in either the book or the picture -- and has great bitterness that results from this. And he has certain justification, and, on the other hand, Serpico has certain justification.