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Captain of Captain's boss of all bosses.

Charlie and his allies kill Joe Masseria, winning the war for Maranzano,

who now united the warring factions into an empire he controlled.

But Lukasey, Adonis, Genovese, Costello, Profachi, and Luciano,

the tough young man who won the victory, realized they simply traded Joe the boss

for a Julius Caesar, who would be undisputed dictator of an empire.

And without action, gentlemen, nothing prosperous.

We learn also from Flavius Josefis.

On this quail liberty, Obedentai, Omodo Sivant, Omodo Imperare, all those

who know well how to obey will know also how to rule.

You, who share in our victory, you, will rule the soldiers of our society.

But Al Capone of Chicago would not accept these grandiose plans.

As Caesar ranked his home Roman legion, so we shall rank our own forces.

I talk to you now, not of legions, but of families.

To each family a leader, a Capo, who will rule with strength and modesty.

Under each captain and under captain.

To each family a consular to bring wisdom and judgment to his leader.

Under those who rule again, there will be rulers.

Capos de Deccina, captains of ten, to each ten soldiers to command.

Each will act with responsibility to the leader above.

Each will be responsible for those who do his bidding.

Above all, I, Salvadore Maranzano, will judge in the matter of disputes.

I will act for you as a trusted father.

For myself, I will have nothing.

I ask nothing except the tribute of your respect.

And the obedience, the obedience by which we live and prosper.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to save.

The Capo of my own family, my strength, and my soul, Charlie Luccian.

His Soto Capo, the loyal Vito Genovese.

His consular in all things, Frank Castell.

My friend Galiano will also rule.

Under him, Soto Capo, Tommy Luccese.

Joe Pravachi has earned the honor to lead a family.

He chooses his own underboss.

The other leaders, I will make down to you.

The families unite in one man.

I serve all as all serve me.

Our discipline will be the discipline of the Roman legionnaire.

All will accent without question, without fear.

None among us will speak of the honored society or of his own family.

No word shall pass to those who are not part of us.

Not even our wives.

To speak is to die.

Not only one of us, a pain of death strike out at a comrade.

No matter what the cause.

No man among us will last after the wife of a fellow member of the honored society.

For this also I will judge and punish.

We now enter upon a new world, gentlemen.

Let us make it a world of our own choosing.

As men!

We obey as men.

We act.

Where?

Cuba.

Hey, do you mind?

I can dry my own hair.

Dry your own hair.

Are you going to Cuba?

Look, there's something going on with Michael.

I ask him to tell me about the trip he talks about molasses.

There's something he's not telling.

Is there anybody have to tell you everything?

They'd better.

Except for Michael, maybe.

Did Phil have a told me about the big night with Mr. Maranzano?

King gave himself a crown.

Lots of Latin and Greek to let us all know that he'd read a book.

Act and obey.

Hail Caesar.

Another like Scarlet Fever.

That's Maranzano.

He never told me what happened with Chris.

We talked.

A lot.

I don't think I want to know.

She cares about you.

Charlie?

You ever heard or I'll leave you?

That must have been some talk.

It was.

I'll be with Charlie.

Have a casino?

No, somewhere else.

Didn't you forget something?

Thanks for the kiss.

You forgot this.

Thanks.

I'll probably be late, okay?

All right.

Ready to go home?

I think I left an hour ago.

Pretty soon.

What's today's handle to try?

What, Michael?

What'd they do?

How much money got better?

Sports page under the race results.

It says 403,711.

403,711.

What's wrong?

I think somebody just pulled the pen on a hand grenade.

Not on the way it's going to land.

You don't mean a thing if it ain't got that thing.

You got to watch, watch, watch, watch.

You don't mean a thing, or you gotta do it, thing.

You got to watch, watch, watch, watch, watch, watch.

Harlan.

Michael Lasker was right.

Bronx Beer Bear and Dutch Shultz was in the Cotton Club at

the right time to take advantage of a thousand to one shot.

Seven eleven, commonly considered a lucky number,

came up in the racetrack pair of mutual handles.

The random figure which determined the winners of the numbers game.

Numbers was Wall Street for the four.

The lottery where the nickel bet could win thirty dollars.

Three weeks wages.

A dollar could return six hundred dollars.

Enough for a new car.

In 1931, numbers operators brought in one hundred million dollars a year.

So long.

You ever figure to sell this door?

Cotton Club isn't on the market.

Good.

I could use another place in Harlan.

Now pull here handles the money.

Let me tell you something he's smarter than Michael Lasker.

Is that the fact?

What kind of deal you want?

Well, Mr. Madden is saying that he ain't interested in selling.

Well, Mr. Madden don't even know what number came up today.

Mr. Madden to hissons outside.

He'd like to speak with Mr. Schultz.

Tell him to wait.

Yes, sir.

Ask Mr. Isson if he'd like to join me.

And Mr. Schultz.

Yes, Mr. Madden.

Since when you let them in the place.

It's my choice.

Do you see the race results today?

Track handle four thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars only.

Seven eleven.

And that's the day's winning number.

Seven of Evan is considered a very rocky number, Mr. Madden.

You know how many people bet that number every day.

And they all bet it with Big Joe Isson.

And I sure hope that jig likes to sing and dance.

That show's a wine bag.

I know.

They've got a proposition for you.

It's all right, sit down.

So what's on your mind, Joe?

I can't cheat.

What?

I can't pay off.

Pay off what?

Seven eleven.

Why can't you bet?

Who many will us?

So?

I can't cover.

You can't cover.

The man books numbers and he can't cover?

So what do you owe and how much you got?

It's okay.

Okay, we'll cover for you.

That we take two thirds of the Harlem action.

I thought we could work it out for partners.

Are you done?

You got to hear trouble?

Mr. Isson?

You don't pay off.

How long do you think you're going to be walking around?

See Bo in the morning.

So we see how tough he really is.

You will never know how much pain this has caused, but I must leave you.

I'm taking the baby and going to Ruth's.

Please don't try to see me for a while.

I will be in touch of Stella.

The Eagle Construction Company was Maranzano's seemingly

legitimate front for his illegal betting parlor.

Open to all companies.

Hey, how's the boy?

This boy's terrific.

What we got?

Coming up.

The guy was in here this morning looking for

early action on the Democratic Convention.

Roosevelt, over Elle Smith.

Yeah?

What'd you tell him?

Call him to trial, Swift.

We got no odds.

Don't talk from far to get your line.

Next time, take it.

Forces, numbers.

In the back.

You close the hole you're playing with.

Now, who we playing with?

Mr. Maranzano.

You tell him he should live and be well.

I promise a new world, Charlie.

What do I get?

Dutch Scholz, Maranzano.

He kills my man and he takes my money.

All right.

So we kill one of his, so we know what happened.

Now, we know what to do.

First, the Dutch men.

And the other one, that Weinberg.

Blood is still wet from the last war.

Right now, the score is even.

One for one.

For every one of our hours.

20 of his.

First, we ought to be sure it's not one of our bunches started.

I'll talk to Dutch about the money.

Sure.

Talk to him.

I'm a reasonable man.

Whispering is here.

With an ice pick, he is.

Talk!

Talk!

Talk!

All you want.

You got no work to do.

These books, Mr. Maranzano, you can show him to anybody.

Fine, fine.

Leave them.

You understand me, Charlie?

Women, talk.

Men act.

Mrs. Russellos, you said you'd see him.

Sure.

Why not?

Don't solve that thing.

Play.

Please.

Sit.

A bad thing, Don't solve that thing.

Tell me.

I have a daughter, Gina.

See, I remember.

She's very beautiful.

My daughter is a married woman.

She goes every day to the house of me to Genovese to sit with his wife, Rose.

The one that has the sickness in her lungs.

How can I serve you?

Sometimes I come to the house and I see my daughter with this Genovese.

I see in their eyes this thing between them.

I think he wants my daughter.

He wants another man's wife.

Or his own wife dies in the bed.

It's very bad, Don't solve that story.

I understand what you are asking.

Don't be ashamed.

Such a thing should not be permitted.

Pido Genovese.

He takes his living from my hands.

I'll take care of it.

Don't be preoccupied.

Glad.

I'm sorry.

What can I tell you?

I'm an assistant chief of police.

I'm not the governor.

So you want to be the governor now, huh, Leo?

Mr. Roosevelt's got that job tied up.

Governor Roosevelt's been giving off strong

signals lately like he'd like to be president.

He just might get it in his head.

It's people like you who give murder a bad name around this town.

What are you looking for, Leo?

Me?

I'm not going to go fishing.

What are you looking for, Charlie?

Why about the Dutch Schultz mob?

One more year.

That's all we got in our budget.

Governor Roosevelt's talking to a judge named Seabury.

They want to set up a crime commission.

Wipe out the gangsters, clean up corruption.

You open up on Schultz, Charlie.

I can't help you.

Not me, not the mayor, not the police commissioner.

Nobody.

Not the year before an election.

Don't give me that look.

This is a friend talking.

Oh, really?

What kind of a friend?

A grateful friend, Charlie.

All of Michael, second of the Seabury character.

Tell him not to bother.

This one's for real.

Let's get out of here.

I'll buy you some ice cream.

Accept.

Chief Ridd.

Hey, how you doing?

Congratulations.

You're getting up in the world.

Charlie Luciano, shake hands with Tom Dewey.

Mr. Dewey?

My assistant, Bob Worsini.

Tom is with the federal attorney's office.

Now, what do you do, Mr. Dewey?

I prosecute people, Mr. Luciano.

What kind of people do you prosecute, Mr. Dewey?

Businessmen, Wall Street, that sort of thing.

For the time being.

Good luck, Mr. Dewey.

Good luck, Mr. Dewey.

Nice to meet you.

Pleasant chance meeting.

Luciano would remember it vividly when Dewey began

to build a national reputation as a racket-buster.

Ruth!

Ben, you frightened me.

I'm sorry.

Just, uh... I want to talk to you before I went in.

Is she there?

She's been there all morning.

The door's open.

Michael's at the office.

You need any help, buddy?

I'm just talking with Mrs. Lassett.

I'm sorry, Mr. Sealy.

I didn't recognize it.

Hey, big shot!

You didn't recognize me?

Huh?

You didn't recognize me?

You've got here a bit too late, pal.

It's the rain, Mr. Sealy.

The rain?

What do you got?

Rain on your glasses?

That's right!

You do me a favor.

You just watched the woman's fight.

Ben, stop it!

Now get out of here!

Go over to your tark!

Get out of here!

They take care of me.

They better take care of you.

You better control yourself if you're going to talk to me.

I will.

Thank you for the use of the hall, huh?

All right.

No, Benny.

Okay.

Put me down for a tenth of the rape, too, huh?

You wanted to talk?

I think we should.

We got neutral corners, huh?

Two of those are going to come out swinging.

This isn't a prize fight, Benny.

I'm not here to fight, Stella.

The baby upstairs?

No, she's with my mother.

I'd like to see her.

Whenever you want.

I was watching you from the window upstairs.

The way that you treated that man outside.

He was afraid of you.

You're supposed to watch things around here.

And you know what I do and you know what I am.

Yeah.

I know you.

I remember the first time that I called you monkey face.

You remember that?

And you looked the tiger and you said, no, I'm like the tiger in the cage.

And then you laughed.

Why, Benny?

Because you got a gun in your pocket?

Huh?

My own brother had a gun.

Maybe he works for you.

I don't know, maybe.

I'm not like Ruth.

You know, none of that made any difference to me.

Maybe it should have.

I don't know.

But it didn't.

But when a tiger takes a mate, he does it for life.

Forever.

And you're not a tiger, Ben.

You're an alley cat.

Nice talk.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You take whatever comes your way.

And then you come home to my bed, to me.

And I'll tell you, I'm not like that other man out there.

I'm not afraid of you, Ben.

I'm just tired of you.

So Stella, that's all past.

It's all finished.

Why?

You left me, Stella.

You taught me a lesson, okay?

And I know what I want now.

What do you want?

I want you to come home.

Why?

Stella, I'd love you very much.

And I want you back.

You poor little monkey face.

You want what you can't have.

Listen to me, I'm tired of playing around here, Stella.

I'll prove it to you.

I know what I got right here.

All right?

And I know what the hell I want.

And you want me as much as I want you.

I'm sorry, Ben.

I'm sorry.

Stella.

Look, come here.

Look, you tell me, listen to me.

Look, you tell me you don't want me, and I'll go away.

You tell me that, Stella, and I'll get... come here.

You tell me that, Stella, and I'll get out of

your life for a couple of hours a day, maybe.

Then I'll try again.

Nobody ever borrow a jockey for trying.

Please.

You're wet.

You should take your clothes off.

You and me, we got no fight, Charlie.

What's your second mistake?

I make mistakes, do I?

The first was muscling Maranzano.

Maranzano, down south of the door, boss of all bosses.

King of the Guinea Hill.

I don't eat that garbage, Charlie.

Your boss's outfits fall apart.

How long you think he's going to last?

How long you think you're going to last?

Come on, Charlie.

When he only kings the count, we don't stop because somebody puts up a stop sign.

Everybody lie down and play dead.

You going to keep coming at us?

Oh, Charlie.

You're really with him, aren't you?

Now you got a real problem, don't you, kid?

You keep coming at us.

You might as well try and kill me now.

You want to try for a touch?

What do you say?

It's just the two of us.

One way or the other, we're going to take care of my problem.

What's all this talk, shooting, killing, who needs it?

You made your point, Charlie.

You tell Maranzano he should live forever.

Like me, huh?

Like me.

Good night, Charlie.

Maybe I'll see you around Polly Atlas.

The baby.

Give me a glass of water, will you?

Thank you.

In the wrong place, boy.

What's the joke?

You belong at Central Hospital.

Your wife just gave you a son.

I'm your father, huh?

Your father.

Congratulations, Mikey.

Okay.

Mr. Lasker?

Yes.

I wouldn't go in there now.

Why not?

I just wouldn't go in there.

Excuse me.

I'll have to tell her, Doctor.

Ruth.

Are you asleep?

No.

So fast.

They told me at their club.

They knew before I did.

It happened fast.

Joy must have called.

Was it hard?

No.

The nurse didn't want to let me in.

The stomach's so flat.

Have you seen your son?

Soon.

In a few minutes.

He isn't going to walk, Michael.

What?

His legs.

There's something wrong.

Look at me, Ruth.

Look at me.

I'll find doctors.

I'll buy a hospital.

You can't help it.

It's the way he was born.

Think it's your fault.

Your fault.

My fault.

I told you God would punish us, Michael.

Your life is a curse.

It's a curse for both of us.

You think God punishes in him?

What kind of God do you have in your head?

Go and see your son.

He's beautiful.

He's almost perfect.

I'll stay with you that they can bring a bed in.

We'll reason it out together.

I'll make it up to you.

You will give us all time.

Look at me, Ruth.

Please!

I want you to touch me.

I love you.

We'll love us, son.

Go away, Michael, please.

Then I took you back.

We slept in the same bed.

You said everything happens in God's eyes.

Everything.

You feel different.

Leave me, Ruth, enough time.

I'll see you, baby.

Then I'll come back.

There's

political, social, and economic conditions in order to survive.

Dutch will pull back.

You know that, Johnny?

For a fact?

He already pulled away from me.

You talk with him?

Last night.

Last night.

All right.

You put that aside for now.

Now I want to talk to Vito Genovese.

I say this in front of you because he belongs to your family.

You're Soto Capo.

Your wife Rose Vito.

I know she's very sick, please.

Tell her she's in my thoughts.

Thank you.

I'll bring her your words.

Now stand up.

Stand up.

See?

Stands like a man.

Talks like a man.

And it takes his pants off for the woman who looks after his wife.

Excuse me with respect.

Don't sell Vito.

I serve you with all my strength.

But this is not your affair.

With respect, Charlie.

See how he speaks.

You make a scandal in your house!

And in my house, too.

This, uh, Gina, this married woman.

You do not see her anymore.

She does not come to your house anymore.

Hmm?

Cavish.

It's finished.

Vito.

This is not part of our business.

Son of Fatimie.

We buy his violence.

And his loyalty.

I'll talk to him.

Like I talk to the Dutch Schultz?

Where did you talk to him, Charlie?

Near the docks.

Alone?

Alone.

How close did you stand to him?

We were talking.

As close as I stand now?

Yeah, that close.

You walk away.

And the longer threatens us, huh?

All right, Charlie.

Maybe you're right.

We see.

You talk with Vito, huh?

Vincent called, you know him.

I've met him.

He's the one I call my dog.

I would also like to meet this man.

Maranzano reached out to Vincent Call, who would kill anyone for a price.

Michael and Ben would not be in New York to help Charlie when he needed the most.

Maranzano saw Charlie's failed attempt to

negotiate with Schultz as an insult and treason.

Schultz called Charlie's bluff by attacking Maranzano, sure that the

consequences would be dangerous to Charlie.

That's Schultz.

That's Schultz.

I should have killed him that night.

Machine guns in the streets.

Two women hit.

A kid dead.

Ross Dean said shake hands with our partners death and destruction.

You want me to make a move?

One of you got to do with it, huh?

Maranzano's already moving.

That's all we need is another war on our hands with

the Seabury Commission bringing in indictments.

They'll be laying for us, Benny.

First real score we ever made, government alcohol.

He thought it was going to be easy.

You thought it was going to be easy.

Where the hell is Michael?

I can't even reach him.

I tried to talk, he wouldn't talk.

He left town.

Where do you go?

Boston somewhere.

He's eating himself up.

Look, with Dutch Schultz and Maranzano, I can't go anywhere.

I want you to go to Boston.

You find him.

You stick by your side.

Don't let him out of your side.

You be all right?

Yeah.

I'm fine.

Get out of here.

Charlie Luciano, Michael Lasker and Ben Siegel were hardened criminals.

They lived in a violent world.

Like the others in that world, they lived by the gun.

And by a cruelty that would someday destroy them.

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