The Departed
Dubbed in : English ( Original ) , CAN
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston. The Massachusetts State Police is desperate to crack down on Irish-American…
The Departed
Dubbed in : English ( Original ) , CAN
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston. The Massachusetts State Police is desperate to crack down on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by Frank Costello. While Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a protege of Costello who has infiltrated the state police as an informant for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by their double lives, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations they have penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there is a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy, and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save themselves. A tale of two cops, though on different sides of the law. Colin Sullivan (played by Matt Damon) is a Massachusetts State police detective. He has risen through the ranks to head up a special department. Public Enemy Number 1 is Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson), a crime network kingpin, and Sullivan's main target. However, Sullivan is a paid informant for Costello, giving him tip-offs on police raids and other useful information. Meanwhile, Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) works for Costello. However, he is actually an undercover policeman, spying on Costello. In due course, both know that there is a rat in their organization, but don't know their identity. A deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues, with both trying to uncover the other without being discovered themselves. Having set his sights on infiltrating the dangerous American-Irish gang of local mob boss Frank Costello, young police officer Billy Costigan puts his morals and sanity to the test. Meanwhile, as Billy gains Costello's trust, Massachusetts State Police detective Colin Sullivan becomes Costello's paid informant. As a result, both men immerse themselves in their secret double lives, trying to gather valuable information about each side's plans and operations. However, there is a mole in their midst. Now the impostors are between a rock and a hard place, trapped in a volatile situation that can easily blow their cover. Can the stealthy infiltrators survive the white-knuckle game of betrayal and save their skin? In Boston, an undercover cop, Billy Costigan, infiltrates the Irish mob led by Frank Costello, while simultaneously, Colin Sullivan, a mob mole within the police, feeds information to Costello. Both men navigate double lives, deception, and loyalty, unaware of each other's identities. The story escalates to violence, betrayal, and moral confrontation, blending crime, suspense, and drama. Themes include identity, trust, and the moral ambiguity of law enforcement and criminal life, culminating in shocking and fatal consequences. In the 1980s, young Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) is introduced to organized crime by Irish American mobster Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) in the Irish neighborhood of South Boston. Costello explains that he doesn't want to be the product of his environment, he wants his environment to be a product of him. Costello's belief is you have to do whatever possible to take what you want. Costello is in a small convenience store and collects protection money from the shop owner, a man visibly unnerved by Costello. Costello warns him to have more money next time. A young Colin Sullivan, witnesses Costello's interaction with the shop owner. Costello notices him and asks him if he's the son of a man Costello knows. He tells the store owner to give the boy two full bags of groceries and then presses some coins into the boy's hand. He tells the boy to remember he can get more money from Costello when he gets older. As Sullivan comes up in age, Costello trains Sullivan to become a mole inside the Massachusetts State Police (MSP). Sullivan is accepted into the Special Investigations Unit led by Ellerby (Alec Baldwin) which focuses on organized crime. Before he graduates from the police academy, Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is asked by Captain Queenan (Martin Sheen) and Staff Sergeant Dignam (Mark Wahlberg) to go undercover, as his family ties to organized crime make him a perfect infiltrator. They pressure him to disqualify himself as an officer because he's too smart to be a cop and because of his family's ties to crime. When Costigan stands up to their hazing, they change tactics: they offer him a job as a police officer on one condition: that he quit the academy, serve serious time in jail on a trumped-up assault charge, and infiltrate Costello's organization. Only Queenan and Dignam will know that Costigan is working undercover. They promise him a bonus when he completes the assignment. Costigan drops out of the academy and serves a term in prison for his cover and further commits several crimes, drawing Costello's attention. Costigan confronts two Italian mobsters from Providence extorting protection money from the store owner. He beats the two men up badly, breaking his hand when he hits one of them. Costello learns of Costigan's actions and summons him to a meeting. He offers to protect Costigan from the Mafia, who, he promises, will return with reinforcements to kill Costigan. He invites Costigan into a back room where he instructs Mr. French, a senior member of Costello's crew, to check Costigan for weapons or a wire. Mr. French breaks Costigan's cast open and Costello beats Costigan's broken hand with a shoe, trying to get him to confess being a cop. Costigan withstands their beating and is accepted as a legitimate crook by Costello. As both infiltrate their respective organizations, Sullivan begins a romance with psychiatrist Madolyn Madden (Vera Farmiga). Costigan sees her for his probation and also develops a relationship with her. During a deal to sell stolen missile guidance microchips to Chinese government agents, Sullivan warns Costello of the police operation and everyone avoids police detection by boarding boats waiting at the back of the warehouse. Over the next year, Costigan becomes increasingly involved. His mental state declines but Queenan and Dignam convince him to continue. Costigan begins seeing Madolyn for his court-ordered therapy. After Costello escapes a sting operation, both moles become aware of the other's existence. The MSP and Costello both realize they have moles in their respective organizations and task Costigan and Sullivan to find them. Sullivan is told to find the "rat" and asks Costello for information to determine who is the informer within his crew. Sullivan asks for his crew members' social security numbers and other forms of ID so he can track them down. Costigan searches for the informant and learns from a member of Costello's crew that Costello himself is an FBI informant, explaining why federal prosecutors repeatedly fail to indict and arrest Costello. Costigan visits Queenan at home late at night and tells him that Costello is an FBI informant. Mr. French collects everyone's social security numbers and other ID. Costigan corrects Fitzgibbons's (David O'Hara) misspelling of 'citizens' on the envelope containing their information and then leaves. He visits Madden at her apartment, where she is finishing moving out. She tells him she is moving in with Sullivan. They talk and then have sex. One night, Costigan follows Costello into an adult theater and witnesses him giving a dark figure who was in fact, Sullivan, an envelope containing information on his crew. Costigan is instructed to get a visual ID of Sullivan but is unsuccessful. When Sullivan realizes he is being followed, he stabs a man, mistaking him for Costigan, and flees. Costigan, fearing Costello will soon discover and kill him for being the mole, calls Queenan to end the undercover operation, but Sullivan has Queenan followed, lying to the other officers that Queenan may be the spy. Sullivan also calls Costello's gang to inform them of the meeting. When Costello's men arrive, Queenan helps Costigan escape before being thrown from the building to his death. When they exit, Costigan pretends he has come to join them. This causes a firefight between the police and Costello's men. Angered by Queenan's murder, Dignam attacks Sullivan and is suspended. Later, Costello's henchman, Fitzgibbons (David O'Hara), reveals that Delahunt (Mark Rolston), a crew member, was an undercover cop. Timothy Delahunt, one of Costello's henchmen wounded in the gunfight fingers Costigan as the mole but dies before he can tell anyone else. Consequently, Dignam is forced to step down from the police force. Using Queenan's phone, Sullivan reaches Costigan, who refuses to abort his mission. Sullivan learns of Costello's role as an informant for the FBI from Queenan's diary, causing him to worry about his identity being revealed. With Costigan's help, Costello is traced to a cocaine drop-off, where a gunfight erupts between his crew and police, resulting in most of the crew being killed. Costello, confronted by Sullivan, admits he is an occasional FBI informant. Sullivan then shoots him multiple times. With Costello dead, Sullivan is applauded the next day by everyone on the force. In good faith, Costigan comes to him for restoration of his true identity. His assignment finished, Costigan goes to Sullivan to reveal his undercover status, unaware he is another mole. After Sullivan leaves the room, Costigan recognizes the envelope from the theater on his desk. Realizing Sullivan was Costello's mole, Costigan escapes. Knowing he has been found out, Sullivan erases all records of Costigan from the police computer system. Madolyn tells Sullivan that she is pregnant but does not reveal who the father is. Costigan visits Madolyn, who has told Sullivan but not Costigan she's pregnant, knowing that Sullivan may not be the father, and hands her an envelope, instructing her to open it if something happens to him. Later, she discovers a package from Costigan containing a CD with recordings of Costello's conversations with Sullivan. Sullivan walks in as she is listening and tries unsuccessfully to assuage her suspicions. He contacts Costigan, who reveals that Costello recorded every conversation he had with Sullivan. Costello's attorney left Costigan in possession of the recordings and he intends to implicate Sullivan. Costigan arranges to meet Sullivan on the same rooftop where Queenan was killed. On the roof, Costigan catches Sullivan off-guard and handcuffs him. As Costigan had secretly arranged, Officer Brown appears on the roof as well. Shocked, Brown draws his gun on Costigan, who attempts to justify his actions by exposing Sullivan as the rat. Costigan asks Brown why Dignam did not accompany him, but Brown does not answer. Costigan leads Sullivan to the elevator. When it reaches the ground floor, Costigan is shot in the head by Officer Barrigan, who then shoots Brown and reveals to Sullivan that Costello had more than one mole in the police. Brown reaches the lobby but is also killed by Barrigan. Sullivan shoots Barrigan dead, so that he can frame him as the only mole. At police headquarters, Sullivan identifies Barrigan as the mole and has Costigan posthumously given the Medal of Merit. At Costigan's funeral, Sullivan notices Madolyn silently crying. He realizes they were involved, but when he attempts to talk to her about the baby, she ignores him. Later, when Sullivan arrives home, Dignam is waiting for him and, after Sullivan indifferently accepts his fate, Dignam shoots him in the head, killing him and avenging both Queenan and Costigan before leaving. The final shot shows a rat crawling on the rail of the patio with the Massachusetts State House in the distance.
The Departed
Crime · Drama
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An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston. The Massachusetts State Police is desperate to crack down on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by Frank Costello.
While Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a protege of Costello who has infiltrated the state police as an informant for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by their double lives, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations they have penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there is a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy, and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save themselves.
A tale of two cops, though on different sides of the law. Colin Sullivan (played by Matt Damon) is a Massachusetts State police detective. He has risen through the ranks to head up a special department.
Public Enemy Number 1 is Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson), a crime network kingpin, and Sullivan's main target. However, Sullivan is a paid informant for Costello, giving him tip-offs on police raids and other useful information. Meanwhile, Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) works for Costello.
However, he is actually an undercover policeman, spying on Costello. In due course, both know that there is a rat in their organization, but don't know their identity. A deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues, with both trying to uncover the other without being discovered themselves.
Having set his sights on infiltrating the dangerous American-Irish gang of local mob boss Frank Costello, young police officer Billy Costigan puts his morals and sanity to the test. Meanwhile, as Billy gains Costello's trust, Massachusetts State Police detective Colin Sullivan becomes Costello's paid informant. As a result, both men immerse themselves in their secret double lives, trying to gather valuable information about each side's plans and operations.
However, there is a mole in their midst. Now the impostors are between a rock and a hard place, trapped in a volatile situation that can easily blow their cover. Can the stealthy infiltrators survive the white-knuckle game of betrayal and save their skin? In Boston, an undercover cop, Billy Costigan, infiltrates the Irish mob led by Frank Costello, while simultaneously, Colin Sullivan, a mob mole within the police, feeds information to Costello.
Both men navigate double lives, deception, and loyalty, unaware of each other's identities. The story escalates to violence, betrayal, and moral confrontation, blending crime, suspense, and drama. Themes include identity, trust, and the moral ambiguity of law enforcement and criminal life, culminating in shocking and fatal consequences.
In the 1980s, young Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) is introduced to organized crime by Irish American mobster Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) in the Irish neighborhood of South Boston. Costello explains that he doesn't want to be the product of his environment, he wants his environment to be a product of him. Costello's belief is you have to do whatever possible to take what you want. Costello is in a small convenience store and collects protection money from the shop owner, a man visibly unnerved by Costello.
Costello warns him to have more money next time. A young Colin Sullivan, witnesses Costello's interaction with the shop owner. Costello notices him and asks him if he's the son of a man Costello knows.
He tells the store owner to give the boy two full bags of groceries and then presses some coins into the boy's hand. He tells the boy to remember he can get more money from Costello when he gets older. As Sullivan comes up in age, Costello trains Sullivan to become a mole inside the Massachusetts State Police (MSP). Sullivan is accepted into the Special Investigations Unit led by Ellerby (Alec Baldwin) which focuses on organized crime. Before he graduates from the police academy, Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is asked by Captain Queenan (Martin Sheen) and Staff Sergeant Dignam (Mark Wahlberg) to go undercover, as his family ties to organized crime make him a perfect infiltrator.
They pressure him to disqualify himself as an officer because he's too smart to be a cop and because of his family's ties to crime. When Costigan stands up to their hazing, they change tactics: they offer him a job as a police officer on one condition: that he quit the academy, serve serious time in jail on a trumped-up assault charge, and infiltrate Costello's organization. Only Queenan and Dignam will know that Costigan is working undercover.
They promise him a bonus when he completes the assignment. Costigan drops out of the academy and serves a term in prison for his cover and further commits several crimes, drawing Costello's attention. Costigan confronts two Italian mobsters from Providence extorting protection money from the store owner. He beats the two men up badly, breaking his hand when he hits one of them.
Costello learns of Costigan's actions and summons him to a meeting. He offers to protect Costigan from the Mafia, who, he promises, will return with reinforcements to kill Costigan. He invites Costigan into a back room where he instructs Mr.
French, a senior member of Costello's crew, to check Costigan for weapons or a wire. Mr. French breaks Costigan's cast open and Costello beats Costigan's broken hand with a shoe, trying to get him to confess being a cop.
Costigan withstands their beating and is accepted as a legitimate crook by Costello. As both infiltrate their respective organizations, Sullivan begins a romance with psychiatrist Madolyn Madden (Vera Farmiga). Costigan sees her for his probation and also develops a relationship with her. During a deal to sell stolen missile guidance microchips to Chinese government agents, Sullivan warns Costello of the police operation and everyone avoids police detection by boarding boats waiting at the back of the warehouse. Over the next year, Costigan becomes increasingly involved. His mental state declines but Queenan and Dignam convince him to continue.
Costigan begins seeing Madolyn for his court-ordered therapy. After Costello escapes a sting operation, both moles become aware of the other's existence. The MSP and Costello both realize they have moles in their respective organizations and task Costigan and Sullivan to find them. Sullivan is told to find the "rat" and asks Costello for information to determine who is the informer within his crew. Sullivan asks for his crew members' social security numbers and other forms of ID so he can track them down.
Costigan searches for the informant and learns from a member of Costello's crew that Costello himself is an FBI informant, explaining why federal prosecutors repeatedly fail to indict and arrest Costello. Costigan visits Queenan at home late at night and tells him that Costello is an FBI informant. Mr. French collects everyone's social security numbers and other ID.
Costigan corrects Fitzgibbons's (David O'Hara) misspelling of 'citizens' on the envelope containing their information and then leaves. He visits Madden at her apartment, where she is finishing moving out. She tells him she is moving in with Sullivan.
They talk and then have sex. One night, Costigan follows Costello into an adult theater and witnesses him giving a dark figure who was in fact, Sullivan, an envelope containing information on his crew. Costigan is instructed to get a visual ID of Sullivan but is unsuccessful. When Sullivan realizes he is being followed, he stabs a man, mistaking him for Costigan, and flees.
Costigan, fearing Costello will soon discover and kill him for being the mole, calls Queenan to end the undercover operation, but Sullivan has Queenan followed, lying to the other officers that Queenan may be the spy. Sullivan also calls Costello's gang to inform them of the meeting. When Costello's men arrive, Queenan helps Costigan escape before being thrown from the building to his death. When they exit, Costigan pretends he has come to join them.
This causes a firefight between the police and Costello's men. Angered by Queenan's murder, Dignam attacks Sullivan and is suspended. Later, Costello's henchman, Fitzgibbons (David O'Hara), reveals that Delahunt (Mark Rolston), a crew member, was an undercover cop. Timothy Delahunt, one of Costello's henchmen wounded in the gunfight fingers Costigan as the mole but dies before he can tell anyone else.
Consequently, Dignam is forced to step down from the police force. Using Queenan's phone, Sullivan reaches Costigan, who refuses to abort his mission. Sullivan learns of Costello's role as an informant for the FBI from Queenan's diary, causing him to worry about his identity being revealed. With Costigan's help, Costello is traced to a cocaine drop-off, where a gunfight erupts between his crew and police, resulting in most of the crew being killed.
Costello, confronted by Sullivan, admits he is an occasional FBI informant. Sullivan then shoots him multiple times. With Costello dead, Sullivan is applauded the next day by everyone on the force. In good faith, Costigan comes to him for restoration of his true identity.
His assignment finished, Costigan goes to Sullivan to reveal his undercover status, unaware he is another mole. After Sullivan leaves the room, Costigan recognizes the envelope from the theater on his desk. Realizing Sullivan was Costello's mole, Costigan escapes. Knowing he has been found out, Sullivan erases all records of Costigan from the police computer system. Madolyn tells Sullivan that she is pregnant but does not reveal who the father is.
Costigan visits Madolyn, who has told Sullivan but not Costigan she's pregnant, knowing that Sullivan may not be the father, and hands her an envelope, instructing her to open it if something happens to him. Later, she discovers a package from Costigan containing a CD with recordings of Costello's conversations with Sullivan. Sullivan walks in as she is listening and tries unsuccessfully to assuage her suspicions. He contacts Costigan, who reveals that Costello recorded every conversation he had with Sullivan.
Costello's attorney left Costigan in possession of the recordings and he intends to implicate Sullivan. Costigan arranges to meet Sullivan on the same rooftop where Queenan was killed. On the roof, Costigan catches Sullivan off-guard and handcuffs him.
As Costigan had secretly arranged, Officer Brown appears on the roof as well. Shocked, Brown draws his gun on Costigan, who attempts to justify his actions by exposing Sullivan as the rat. Costigan asks Brown why Dignam did not accompany him, but Brown does not answer.
Costigan leads Sullivan to the elevator. When it reaches the ground floor, Costigan is shot in the head by Officer Barrigan, who then shoots Brown and reveals to Sullivan that Costello had more than one mole in the police. Brown reaches the lobby but is also killed by Barrigan. Sullivan shoots Barrigan dead, so that he can frame him as the only mole.
At police headquarters, Sullivan identifies Barrigan as the mole and has Costigan posthumously given the Medal of Merit. At Costigan's funeral, Sullivan notices Madolyn silently crying. He realizes they were involved, but when he attempts to talk to her about the baby, she ignores him. Later, when Sullivan arrives home, Dignam is waiting for him and, after Sullivan indifferently accepts his fate, Dignam shoots him in the head, killing him and avenging both Queenan and Costigan before leaving. The final shot shows a rat crawling on the rail of the patio with the Massachusetts State House in the distance..