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On this week's episode, we take on director Martin Scorsese's classic crime drama THE DEPARTED featuring the killer cast of Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, and Alec Baldwin.
Set in South Boston, where the state police force is waging war on organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Costello (Jack Nicholson). While Billy is quickly gaining Costello’s confidence, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon), a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by his double life, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations he has penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the gangsters and the police that there’s 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 himself.
THE DEPARTED was directed by Martin Scorsese from a script by William Monahan based on INFERNAL AFFAIRS by Alan Mak and Felix Chong. Brad Pitt, Brad Grey, and Graham King produced and it stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray, Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, and Alec Baldwin. Warner Bros. Pictures released the neo-masterpiece back on October 6, 2006.