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The phone is ringing.

Well, why don't you answer it?

I'm the cook. I don't do phones.

What? Nothing, nothing.

Archie Funker's place.

Yes, we serve Chinese as long as they behave themselves.

Well, why don't you say what you want?

No, no, no. There ain't no chop suey here.

Try Hop Sings.

I don't know how to spell it. Do I look like a chink?

I'm going over to the bank. I'll be back in an hour. An hour at the bank?

Yeah, they serve better coffee there.

Here you go, Veronica.

Thanks,

Harry.

Hey, Harry, who's your all -time catcher?

Johnny Bench.

Oh, you're nuts. Yogi Berra could catch rings around Johnny Bench. Why'd you ask

me? Yogi couldn't carry Bench's glove.

Yogi Berra's the greatest catcher what lived.

You're just saying that because your wife looks like Yogi.

Where's Uncle Archie?

He just went to the bank.

And what are you doing here in the middle of the morning?

I ran away from school.

Hey, you shouldn't do that till you're at least 12.

You can't steal my money!

Oh, well, no problem.

Veronica, one junior miss lunch.

Sure. Jose, make a nice chicken sandwich to go.

Veronica, estoy trabajando ahora. No puede hacer un... Por favor, para

Steph, don't let those other girls push you around.

Belt them.

This was a boy.

Hit him with a brick.

How genteel.

I'm in the restaurant, honey.

Listen, you sit here, right here until your sandwich is ready, okay?

The next time you come in, you can use the family entrance.

I tried that door, but it's locked.

Oh.

Well, it's time to open it.

There's a man in a car out there who knows you.

In a car?

A big, long, black one. He's sitting in it.

He wanted to know if this was your place.

Oh. Oh.

Let's see what that's about.

Somebody out there you know?

Yeah.

Vinnie Mulvaney.

Mulvaney the Hood?

The same.

Is he coming in here?

Why would he come into a place like this?

Here's your sandwich, kiddo. And a slab of peach pie.

How are you here?

No dice.

Why can't I stay and help Molly wait tables?

You go get your education.

Why do grown -ups always say that?

Because they don't know what else to say. Why not?

Of course. They didn't get their education.

Oh, okay.

Bye.

What's the matter, Murray?

Nothing.

There's a guy out there in a car.

One of these guys.

Somebody you know?

Yeah, yeah. Used to be like a brother.

Very handy guy, too. He fixed anything.

Horse races, basketball games, price fighting.

You know, when Vinnie Mulvaney got kicked out of school, the mob made him

first draft choice.

Vinnie Mulvaney?

I've seen his name in the papers.

Murray, go out and ask him in for lunch. I think it would be a thrill to meet

him.

You ain't gonna start serving riffraff in here, are you?

When we refuse to serve riffraff, you'll be the first to be informed.

Hiya, Murray.

Hey, Benny.

What do you say?

How are you? Long time no see. That's right. A long time. It's a long time.

Yeah. You know, I'm in business here.

Yeah, yeah. I see you on a list up in my office.

So I took out my pen and wrote, okay, right next to you.

Come on, sit down. I'll wait on you myself.

No, no, no. Thank you. I'm joining a friend over here.

Hey.

You haven't changed, Murray.

Oh, come on, Benny. You're kidding me now, huh?

Yeah, that's right. I'm kidding you.

We all change plenty.

That's why we ought to get together more often, so we won't forget what we look

like, huh? Right.

Your mother still alive? Oh, yes, sir. And still in the same old place. You're

still making some of those good blitzes, huh? Yeah, I guess so. Well, sometimes.

You say hello to her, huh? I will, I will.

This is a friend of mine, Tony Bremer.

Mr. Bremer?

Used to be a business...

competitor, but now we're in partnership, so we're having a drink

the deal.

Hey, that's just terrific.

Well, what brings you here?

Well, we want to be in our nice, neutral place. Right, Tony?

That's right.

Hey, Murray.

Bring us a bottle of bourbon and buy drinks for them barflies in there.

Okay.

Hey, boys.

Hey, hey, hey.

Did a girl just come in?

I know, Mr. Bernard. A gentleman out there just placed a complete set of

presidents.

Drinks for everybody.

On Vinnie Mulvaney.

Hey, thanks, man.

Here you are, boys. Thanks a lot.

I'll have the usual.

Champagne.

Champagne, too.

I like a drink I can hear.

Hiya, Mr. Mulvaney.

I'm Veronica Rooney, the cook here. Hello, good -looking.

And this is... Get lost, lady.

I can take a hint.

Here you go, Vinnie.

Enjoy yourself.

Need anything else? You just yell, huh? Thanks, buddy.

Now we can wrap this thing up in two minutes, Mulvaney. Yeah, just like I

on the phone. Anything you say.

We've just got to have peace.

I don't want to get killed.

Now take a map.

Draw a line from Fort Totten down to Long Beach.

Everything on the island west of that line is mine.

East is yours.

Simple? You got it.

And you pull back everybody working for you on our side of the line.

Take a couple of weeks.

Days.

A deal.

Deal.

Hey, Murray.

Yeah.

Where's your washroom?

Right through the door.

And to the left.

We'll drink on that, Tony.

Hey, Murray.

Will you go to the door and wait for my driver to bring up the car? Right away.

Hey, Tony.

Can I drop you some weed? Oh, thanks. I got my own car.

Maybe you'll come to my birthday party. Have a mother's house tonight.

Oh, glad to, Vinnie.

Glad everything's gonna work out the way it used to be. The way it should be.

I'm sorry if we ever had grief.

Hold on to that drink till I get back.

Hey, Mr. Mulvaney, don't let the blue water bother you. We put that in.

Who are you waving at, Murray?

Vinnie wants his car.

Come here, come here. What? Get inside, get inside, quick. Murray!

Don't ask any questions. What? Come here, look. I think I'm being made a

I hope to God I'm not.

What's the matter with you?

Nothing with me.

This is awful.

Somebody better call the police.

I said I'd handle everything.

Oh, look at this. What are you talking about out there? Can't you go help your

children, your wives, or whatever?

Get a set of those pictures to the DA's office, will you? Right away.

Look at this.

I leave you in charge for one hour. You turn Archie Bunker's place into the O

.K. Corral.

Now, listen.

Get off my back. Don't yell at me. I'm only trying to help you.

As far as these cops are concerned, all you got to do is remember three things.

What? Zhoosh, zhoosh, and zhoosh.

Doctor, tell them what happened. Oh, oh, oh, oh.

You tell them what happened. And A, the cops. are going to get you, or two

Mulvaney's crowds are going to get you, or C. Bremer's crowds are going to get

you.

Don't you understand you're in the middle?

In fact, buddy, you're in the triddle.

Now, Murray, you had no idea Mulvaney was coming in here, or Bremer either?

Nope, no idea.

But you are a friend of Mulvaney's. No, no, he ain't.

But that's what Murray said.

Oh, come on, he ain't seen Mulvaney in a hundred years, you call that a friend?

Penny and I were kids together.

Did you owe him a favor?

No.

Somebody tried to kill your friend Mulvaney about a week ago.

Did you know that?

No. Did Mulvaney at any time say, Murray, I came here to your place

need your help?

He just said a few words, that's all.

And the guys with the guns didn't come in until Mulvaney went to the toilet.

Now listen, you know what I think?

I think Mulvaney went in there to the toilet.

so that nobody would know he'd done this.

Thanks for the tip.

Is anybody else in here besides the guys we know?

Yes,

there were two customers at that table over there. They were strangers.

Did either one of them go to that door at any time and maybe give a signal?

Mulvaney is going to get away with this, fellas, if that's all you can tell us.

We can't tell you no more.

Terrific.

Come on.

Well, now, listen, there ain't no sense in getting sore at us, you know. I mean,

we're just a couple of businessmen. We're trying to make a living here in a

couple... Oh, God, I feel weak.

Yeah, well, don't take on too much strength there.

What are we going to do?

Why don't you go and cook something?

There's no one to cook for.

Well, why don't you practice?

Murray, you done good.

No, I didn't.

Murray, did you tell him that it was you who signaled them guys?

Certainly not. What the hell do you want Murray to do, hang himself?

Murray didn't know what he was doing, Mulvaney.

Then we all got a dummy up here.

Mug was murdered here.

A human being!

But you don't have to make out like it was Father Finnegan of Boys Town.

Trevor and his crowd was trying to knock off my baby. Don't you understand? I'm

only trying to protect an innocent guy.

Veronica, give me a drink, will you? Well, take hers.

I ain't as weak as you think.

Look, if we all back... Maury Up ain't got enough to clear him. If we shoot off

our mouths to the cops, we're all liable to wind up shaking hands with Jimmy

Hoffa.

Oh, God, ain't there no way to put Mulvaney behind bars?

No, no, no. The Lord don't put them guys behind bars for killing people, don't

you understand? Only for important things, like tax erosion.

Mulvaney's lawyer could have him out like that on some kind of a risk.

Then he could come around here himself in person, make habeas corpus out of a

whole damn bunch of us.

Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God.

Well, you're getting weak. Have some strength.

You're right.

I remember once I broke a date with Footsie Magliano, the cripple bookie.

You know what he done? Because I broke one wealthy date.

invited me to dinner.

Who cares?

The main course was my canary.

Try not to talk to me for the rest of the day.

of the most important witnesses just forgot everything he's seen.

Oh, that's okay, Arch. I can tell him everything.

I'm going to ignore you because you ain't real.

Don't worry about me, Arch. When those guns were going off, I was busy

extricating a fly from my champagne.

I read where flies is all protein.

for the recommendation, Hank. But if you don't mind, I'll pick out who I drink

with. You see, fellas, it ain't the law so much I'm worried about as the hoods.

The clans.

Shut up!

Barney.

I'm hip.

If I'm gonna get shot, it'll be by a jealous husband.

He's an intelligent man.

Mr. Van Rensselaer, I'm very worried about you.

Arch, I wouldn't make a good witness.

Oh, but, geez, you know everything that's going on. You know, you got ears

the back of your head.

Arch, you're right.

There were two of them. Young fellas. Could have been college boys.

One of them had on a turtleneck sweater.

Ain't that amazing?

How the hell could he know that?

Harry told me.

Listen, I could be wrong.

Hey, deal me out of this. I got a family.

Archie Blunker's place.

It's for you, Arch.

Well, can't you take a message there? Don't you see I'm over here trying to

lives?

He can't come to the phone. Can I take a message?

Mr. Van Rensselaer, what do you think?

The guy is in the middle.

Is he free of responsibility?

He's not free of it, but he shouldn't take on too much of it.

If I let Vinnie get away with this murder, we all lose.

You know, I think it all depends on how important a man's kneecaps are to him.

Who was that?

George, the cop.

Well, what do you want?

To tell us something.

Oh, jeez, what, what, what?

Vinnie, his girlfriend, and his lawyer were just shot right in front of his

mother's house in Kew Gardens.

Not for long.

What are you doing here?

I got a message that he wanted to see me.

Go on in.

I shouldn't have used you that way.

It's all right.

I hope you didn't get in trouble.

No.

No, I'm in the clear.

I knew you wouldn't tell the cops.

You couldn't.

I just saw it my way.

Oh, this reminds me of old times.

When we was kids, running away from the cops and scrambling over the fences.

You scrambled over the fences?

I always got caught.

Yeah.

But I'm the guy that wound up with the holes in them.

Oh, my.

Remember your first fight in the old Broadway arena?

Yes, I do.

You were my manager.

And you won.

That's right.

That crummy promoter found out I was only 16 and gave me my money.

Until I stuck a rod in his belly and took it off.

Then you kept it all.

Thank you.

Did he die?

Yep.

What'd he want you for?

This talk.

You know, I thought maybe he might want to leave you or something.

Listen, some of them mapperosiuses, you know, they've got fortune stashed all

over the place.

No way he did leave me something.

Yeah, what?

He may realize how lucky I am.

Oh.

Well, with that and one dollar, you could buy yourself a cigar.