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Look,

you get a half a minute in cash.

You call a meeting, you're counting out the money.

What?

Charlie and I decided now is the time.

What do you think?

Are we wrong about now?

Look, we three know that prohibition is going.

We plan to put the combination in the gambling labor and the money business someday.

And you two decided to go without might say so.

The point is you should have waited for me.

Now, the point is that we're in the middle of this

politicians' war, Benny, and they're not waiting for us.

And we have to move, we have to get bigger in order to survive.

Charlie, on two floors up, you can yell out the window if the phone doesn't work.

I called you, Benny.

You were too busy to come down.

You didn't tell me what it was about you.

You didn't want to hear.

Excuse me, Michael.

Ben, from now on, I don't discuss anything with you as

long as you got some debut time occupying your other year.

No more talking business in front of Dame.

I don't do that anymore.

Get the phone.

You're always letting your personal life get in the way of business.

Mr. Ross is out.

They're cutting into your business time.

Yeah, hold on, Walter.

What are we checking each other's bed sheets now, Charlie?

Walter, when she...

Yeah, well...

No, this is the first I heard of it.

Look, you know I tell you more if I knew more.

I know I owe you for what you told me about Roswell.

I'll let you know if I hear anything.

The person's on loan to the police, just rubbed out Peter Cole.

Vinnie's gonna be coming even harder for shills now.

If we know where Dutch is, maybe we ought to let call him now.

Well, that's an idea.

Staying out of the war is a better idea.

Learn to use a lawyer and accountant as well as you use a gun.

We're not kids anymore, we don't have to carry each other.

Oh, is that what we've been doing?

That's where it's been getting her.

Charlie, I carried you with Maserai.

I know Ben.

It sounded like you forgot.

Back upstairs to the dames?

Broad's upstairs up is celebrating.

Stella's for when he's got troubles.

He's going home.

You know, Stella, no one's somebody's hurting.

She's hurting.

She's getting another tooth.

I told you that on the phone yesterday.

Yeah.

That's a good idea.

Go ahead, go ahead.

I'm gonna give her more than that.

Sweetie.

How's that, Daddy?

It's Michael and Charlie.

You know, three guys grew up together.

And they're friends.

And two of them getting up on the other one.

Yeah, business what?

No, well, they just made some decisions without asking me first.

I mean, I'll even make some money on the deal.

It's still a big thing.

Oh, Benny.

Friends are the people you choose.

They come and they go and they can do anything they want.

But family is forever.

I guess you can't change your family, right?

Your family can't get rid of you.

I know.

You stick around, kiddo.

You haven't seen nothing yet.

And did you know that February 28th is the biggest holiday of the year in this house?

Oh.

Well, my birthday is... Yes, your birthday.

I'm getting old still.

It'll be 26.

You're going to have a full head of hair when

your grandfather and I'm still going to love you.

See, the worst you get from family is apricot in your hair.

And my girls.

What do I do for my girls?

More of this.

And we're not the only family you got, you know.

You got a brother who can go to college if you help him.

I got a brother who can help you if you help him, Benny.

You can trust him.

Davey's family.

Really, you just like us.

You can trust him.

He wouldn't be driving for me if I didn't trust him.

I know, but what kind of money does he make driving?

Well, honey, I know it looks bad, but he's got to learn the business first.

That's all.

Right?

I want to do something with you upstairs that I don't want to do with Davey.

Is it night time, sir?

Right now.

Right now.

You like green?

Yeah.

Why?

Come on.

What do you have to?

Hey, kid, what's the matter with you?

You get away from the car, you stay away from the car.

Can you drive this thing?

I guess so, why?

Because I bought it for you.

How come?

How come?

Yeah.

Why not, it's how come?

I don't kid me, Dutch.

You want Charlie to see me driving by myself in a car, so we'll follow me back.

Let me tell you something.

Not everything is about Charlie Luciano.

I just wanted you to go for a ride in the country, if you want.

It's really for me?

Every bit.

I know he never bought you anything he didn't want to use for his business.

That's not even why I got it for you.

I bought it for you.

Because, cause you're you.

Look, it's even got carpet in the trunk.

Cole used ice picks on him.

This man is my soldier.

He should have shot him.

Oh, what difference does it make?

It makes a difference.

They're rules.

Luciano can wait.

This I make right myself.

You know, I thought things would be easier with legs gone.

Why should Seabury care about somebody like legs diamond?

Seabury cares about riding their headlines.

And legs diamond's death gave them a banner headline.

Charlie, I'm going to have to retire.

Come on, what are you talking about?

A retired assistant chief of police won't give Seabury a headline.

Like, doesn't Seabury understand that what he's trying

to ruin is the only thing that's ever made politics work?

Tammany used to say, reformers is like morning glories.

They bloom and die.

Just our bad luck Seabury's in full bloom now.

Tell me something, Leo.

Who's the after us who are politicians?

The politicians.

But the reform movement may get out of control.

Go beyond the politicians to you guys.

You ought to back off, Charlie.

I ought to back off.

And as you go tell that to Dutch Schulz.

He goes gunning for Vinny Call and all of a

sudden these reform people come down on our heads.

Oh, we need to have some ambitious politician.

That's Tom Dewey, the assistant US attorney.

I introduced it to him once.

Watch out for him, Charlie.

He's a hungry man.

I'm not that worried about him, Leo.

If he ever gets high enough, he'll reach his hand.

That will take care of him.

Maybe, but while he's climbing, he's dangerous.

Look at Roosevelt.

He's got his eye on the White House.

And he's scared of looking like a crook to the rest of the country if he calls

Seabury off of Mayor Walker and Tammany Hall.

Politicians.

What about you, Leo?

You're taking care of for retirement?

I get two thousand a year pension.

Michael put me under some AT&T stock.

I lost a bit when a bank folded, but you've been very generous, Charlie.

I thank you for all.

The department's losing a good man.

It's a shame, Leo.

Ah, I'm not worried.

After a while, the work doesn't mean as much as the ones you love you do it for.

He's a lovely lady, Charlie.

You're a lucky man.

You want her back?

What I want and what I need are two different things, Leo.

What is that?

What is that?

What is that?

What is that?

What is that?

Personal matter?

Vito, if a man gets obsessed with a woman, he can forget what he has to do in respect.

Even if he remembers the words of respect.

Now you come all the way uptown to tell me that you can't be.

Don't get so full of Gina that you forget respect.

I know how to do the right thing.

Never had to give an order to Vito Genovese.

I suggest you don't put your personal life before business.

Vito, please understand, this is only a suggestion as friends.

Hey, we know you'll do the right thing.

Thank you, thank you.

Okay.

Wash your style, Leo.

You've been yelling.

The bankers, the mine owners, the railroad operators, they couldn't eat better food.

They couldn't wear finer suits in that respect and no different from us.

Oh, we're rich.

We're very rich.

But we're not rich in our heads.

We've got a problem with money in our heads.

Tommy, tell them about gags.

He's got the tin box makers and the shovel makers working on depression.

He buries his cash, huh?

In the backyard.

The rich people, they don't have a problem with money.

They sell the money for interest, they become even more rich.

We have to show the guys how to do that.

Tommy?

It's $100,000 in there.

I want you to loan it to people, it's $6 for $5.

That's 20% a week.

Ben, Michael, and I want 2% a week.

That leaves a profit of 18% for your family.

It's very generous.

We want the guys coming out of prohibition as independent business.

We think they'll like this business.

The other families will see how well it works, and

they'll go into their backyard and dig up their money.

What about if the guy who borrows doesn't pay back his interest every week?

We bust this in?

No, no.

That's wrong.

If a borrow gets behind, we let him find out a borrow as we pay him a commission.

We turn a bad account into a salesman.

Well, we made a friend.

Leppe, you're going to get a half a million dollars to give to the garment industry.

Tell I did.

Charlie, I would like to work with Leppe and

Gora in the garment industry on this too.

Sure.

Gora, go along.

Good.

We need more of this more of a combination.

Well, the garment makers don't need to borrow.

Leppe and Tommy are going to tell the drivers and cutters of strength.

Create to need to borrow.

That's a great idea, Ben.

Thank you.

The hell of an idea, Ben.

It's a very good idea, Michael.

They call a strike.

The owners can't sell.

They have to borrow.

The strikers don't get paid.

They have to borrow.

We take with both heads.

They dominate the whole industry.

You get anything against that, Michael?

No.

Just make sure you and Tommy use the money and not

the muscle when you're working in the rag tray.

All right.

All right.

Is it okay with everyone if we do the same with the furriers and the hat makers?

It's no reason why we can't do it everywhere.

It's one exception though.

There's a business called Goodman Hats.

Nobody does business with Mr. Goodman except the by hats.

Agreed?

A personal man.

There's no matter.

Sure.

Just make friends, you know.

Use the money to make friends.

And let's not lose the friends that we've already got.

In and out of business.

Have to let it out.

Oh, graceful as an ox.

Oh.

Povareem.

Sir, what do you mean ox?

Well, like a bull.

Protect yourself.

Gina, are you safe?

What is this, Chez?

What is this?

Forgive me from the street.

I thought I saw someone attacking you, waving his arms.

I didn't know.

No one attacked me.

You saw this man hanging curtains for me when you were spying.

None of that.

Your husband did the natural thing for a man.

He came to protect you with his bare hands.

You should be proud, Gina.

I brought some confetti for you, and Gina.

I love you, sir.

Consist?

Thank you.

We were people of our village.

They should know of Chez at his bravery.

It would not be good, Chez at it.

I can't be told.

These people, they turn the truth to malicious gossip.

Come in, mortri-vam.

They take everything that's pure and innocent and spit it out dirt.

They give me my word.

I'm gonna put an end to this gossip that dishonors us.

I will make it cease.

Over the line?

All right, we're alone.

What's eating you?

We started out tonight putting money into the loan business.

We end up seeing we're gonna control the garment industry.

I don't see anything wrong.

It just happens.

Like the money made up its own money.

That's what's wrong.

We let the money control us.

We didn't think about it.

And that can hurt us very badly.

What's the difference between taking a monopoly and

liquor and taking a monopoly in the garment business?

Charlie, everybody always went in liquor.

We sold them ours.

You take an industry, you take a union from people,

you're taking something that belongs to them.

Sometimes they might just want us out.

He wants to be loved.

No, no, not love.

Just not hate it.

Mike, a lot of people work in the garment industry.

We make the owners recognize their unions, and we take a lot of votes with us to the

Democratic Convention, if Lefty's way lets us.

I'll talk to Tommy.

I'll make sure that he and leper heroes to the unions and to the owners.

We can protect it from Colin Schultz.

Look at that.

You hear that?

That's Mommy playing the piano.

Hi, Joe.

You love the music.

Hi, Rodey.

So, tell us the good news.

Well, Dr. Hendrickson's been working with a metallurgical

engineer, developing copper hours for orthopedic braces.

This is the right alloy, the right brace.

This little guy's leg might get tricked by itself.

Just the bracing time.

That's all.

Kenahora.

What does that mean?

It means the way shouldn't be.

Charlie didn't teach me that much, Yiddish.

He wants to know how you're doing.

Well, I miss him a lot.

Tell me if Dr. Hendrickson ever invents a pill to cure the impossible.

Well, glad I picked today to visit the most married couple in New York.

That's a great news about Richie.

Well, I'll kiss you all now and leave you to it.

Ruth, bye.

See you again.

I'll walk you to the door.

Thank you.

It's good seeing you, sure.

Come back, okay?

I'd like to know Ruth's going to play a piano again.

Michael.

Does Charlie talk about me?

I mean, how does he feel?

Well, he hurts.

He keeps your picture in a suite.

You want me to tell him something?

I don't know.

Where am I with Charlie?

He knows you're gone.

That's all.

Well, I'll just have to leave it that way and stand it.

I feel you.

You want to help me put him to bed?

Don't believe I can give you money without drifting to take more away?

I'm giving you money so you can make money.

It's more than my father ever did.

Greenie buys you a farm.

I'd say, Hersh and my sons, we'd stop the war so you could make money.

It would mean the combination with the mafia so you could make money.

I'm not your father.

I'm not from the old country or a cuss that

cut your head off for looking rich and happy.

If you guys say we have the moxie, use it.

Ben's right.

This idea of Michael's that we should lend money is a great idea.

When we go for a ride, Derry?

Michael wouldn't have the idea if you hadn't had a first bet.

You're not just saying that because you're my brother, no, are you?

Yeah, Estelle used to play one of these things, Mike.

I think I'm going to buy her one.

What's wrong with you?

I want you to tell me that this is true.

All right?

Give me and Charlie.

We used to walk shoulder to shoulder together.

Now you and Charlie, you leave me a step and a half behind.

You don't tell me where you're going.

I don't know if we're going together.

Well, not kids anymore.

Should we be kids?

No, but Charlie spends all his time with this mafia thing.

Ellie's more mafia than he ever was.

Mafia's had its own ways for a long time, then.

He used to be different, Mike.

Come on.

You know what would happen when they made him and Dom?

That's what he wanted.

He's got his own.

And you want your own thing down in Cuba.

And everybody in America is going to go down and play blackjack into the coconuts.

That's right.

I'm going to have my own casino because I'm putting money in back up a tista.

It's a place for everybody in Cuba, Benny.

Well, Mike, what about me?

What have I got?

I got a bunch of slammers like Greenie.

I want to look for something on my own, Mike.

I'm not asking for permission.

I'm not asking for you and Charlie to decide the right thing for me, either.

That's good.

All right, that's good.

That better be good.

Something on my own, Mike.

And I want a lawyer and I want an accountant too.

With a lawyer and accountant don't know, I'll teach you so you can teach them.

Look, Charlie would be glad you're going on your own too.

Each of us is going to make sure the other two go with strength.

And we do go, we go with friends.

Even if we do live in the same city, go to the same show, it's working the same place.

All right?

I worry for nothing.

Papancico's heap?

Who wants to know?

Bo Weinberg, as if you don't know, Davey Levine.

You're getting anything off the bar except tips?

You don't call him that.

That joke starts well enough by me.

I can afford it.

You let me know if you ever want to.

Let's go.

We'll let this man think in peace.

A little

like Bo Weinberg to me.

Something I was asking, where's the museum in here to history?

Carter really made a go.

He used to be a little shop and I was a kid.

Come on, it's going.

Hello, Mr. Carter.

I used to come here a lot when I was a kid.

Remember me?

Penny Single?

My daughter's not here.

She doesn't work here now.

I don't believe I've ever met your daughter.

And I'm married to a very nice girl.

It's likely me, my brother-in-law, David.

Hi.

I remember another penny.

My daughter remembers every day of her life.

Mr. Carter, if you and I do business together,

you tell me if you want this other one found.

You tell me personally.

Look, when you come here now, you're looking to settle at the bar.

Make sure your business runs in peace.

I want to talk to you about labor relations in the union here.

I won't have a union.

You just might be better off.

I want to talk to you about something I want you to consider.

What's with you, him and his daughter?

Nothing.

You remembered wrong.

The Stella doesn't have to know about a no-baker remembering wrong, right?

Right.

Look out.

Look how they drive.

Benny, all the stuff you saw caught a little bit about the union offices being ours?

They're not ours yet?

No, I know they're not ours yet.

You see, Carter would say no if I told them they weren't ours yet.

Look, David.

I can't give you this unless you learn how to think.

You can't think.

I gotta give it the green.

Right?

I can think.

All right.

New York laborers cut and sowed 60% of America's clothing.

The total value of wages and profits was too high to be ignored.

Labor unions were struggling for recognition.

Some of labor's leaders fought to keep the gangsters out.

Others, too willingly, let them in.

Bye-bye, Sam.

My friend, Sam Lewis, he owns this time gave suits.

How's his business?

Before yesterday, it was good considering the depression.

Now he has a strike, he has to borrow cash.

Now, Lepki, Tommy, Lukasi and Gagliano are his business.

Charlie Luciano is his business.

Does Charlie Luciano have to be my friend's business?

We can offer him peace from the unions.

Peace is good.

Labor and capital should be at peace.

But Charlie Luciano takes peace from the soul of a man like Sam Lewis.

He'll feel better when he sees what's reasonable.

Is that a promise to me or a lie to Charlie Luciano?

I know you don't lie to me.

Dr. Schultz, mother of God, Mr. Dewey, he has brass guts.

Charlie, it's a lovely crowd.

So many familiar faces.

So few politicians.

See, Barry's scaring people out all the speaks.

He's a real pill in it, Charlie.

See, Barry, commission is loaded with pills.

That's it.

It's very expensive, having politicians cry all over your shoulders.

And maybe you'll pay too much for your clothes.

Worse things may happen to you, Charlie, than to see, Barry, commission.

Would that be all right with you?

Why don't you ask me if and when?

If you're around.

You look very beautiful tonight.

Oh, and you like it?

Do you like it, Charlie?

Yeah, I thought you would.

You like all your old memories, don't you, old friends?

I had people trying to find you.

Whatever for, Charlie.

Let's say for old time's sake.

Oh, you're just a sentimental guy.

You, Charlie.

Yeah, didn't you know?

You'll do anything for old time's sake.

You've become Mr. Goodman's partner yet, Charlie.

I hear he does a very good business.

You got a piece of the action.

You're here to talk old time's touch.

No.

No.

I'm here to take your money.

I'll tell you what, you've got a chance at my tables.

And if you win, you can buy some candles to

light for the guy that calls stuck in your car.

If you have any call, you're a terrible man, Charlie.

Have a good time at the partridge club.

All right, he's gonna buy me a drink.

Put the gun back in the drawer.

You're not gonna have to use it.

I didn't bring it.

What are you talking about?

You didn't bring it.

What were you gonna do if we got noisy down there?

Sarah, I'm not done.

Come on, Charlie.

You wouldn't let that happen.

And you didn't.

Did it look like I backed down?

No.

The troops won't think so either.

They'll think you controlled it because you did.

The troops.

They think that I'm so much in control that they dropped

their guard and they let Schultz come walking into this club.

Schultz and Chris insulted me, Michael.

They insulted me about Mr. Goodman.

They're going too far.

I wanted to make it a personal matter.

You didn't let him.

He lost downstairs.

You want him to win up here?

In your head?

What are you doing here?

I'm slumming.

Slumming's anywhere you are.

Bugsy Segal.

You picked quite a night to take me on a tour of the Underwood.

What about the third owner of the Partridge Club?

Was it Lenzer?

Michael Lasker.

He's probably in the office.

You know Mr. Dury, the most remarkable thing

about Schultz going in is that he came out.

You mean to tell me you were here and he walked out of life?

I tell you what, just no shooting rule is for Schultz.

It's a license of Robert Noses in it.

Would you stop being so Sicilian?

What were you today?

Took over a bagel bakery downtown.

Collars.

Sold Collar Union that wouldn't ask for higher wages.

I guaranteed the union jobs.

It was easy.

Green didn't have to hit anybody at all except one union guy.

It was a comment anyway.

That's what it did.

What do you know?

Somebody had a good day.

What do you expect to take?

Talk business later.

Look, I want to know after Schultz comes in, who's

next to have open house at the Partridge Club?

Buster from Chicago with his violin case?

Jesse James and his horse?

Yes.

Thanks.

Have any call?

No horse.

Charlie?

Let's take it easy.

Somebody's not good here, call.

Sure it is.

As good as Schultz's just was.

We didn't want him, we don't want you.

Then you can go out any way you want.

Ooh.

You want hard, hard heeb, huh?

Come on.

It's your rug your guts will be all over.

And you'll do since I just missed Dutch Schultz.

You gotta turn it the wheel coming.

Just missed a call in the house if nobody wants.

Vinny?

Why don't you come up to my office?

You guys are all crazy.

I think you can hold a drink and you're cold at the same time.

Smith and Wesson.

You just came up my stairs.

You once came up Maranzano stairs.

Now all the way up.

There's a whole bunch of loud noise up there

and a lot of tough guys come running down.

So I figured...

You hear Maranzano give you a contract to kill me?

Yeah.

Well, I can't afford to be turned down business, you know.

Maranzano's food for worms.

I'd have to be crazy to keep contract with a dead man.

Just business, huh?

I'm sorry about your brother.

Rules on no rules, something's gonna give.

I'm keeping an eye over my shoulder more than ever now.

Nobody's going to get you, Vinny.

Well, after last night they'll just laugh just to this.

So why bother?

Michael says we won.

The rules we made in Chicago won.

Shultz and Call came in spoiling to kill somebody.

They missed each other, they didn't get us.

We didn't lose a drop of blood, we didn't lose a nickel, we didn't lose

time from business hiding out and buying witnesses.

Peace works.

You know, it's good for business.

He's right, you know.

I am right.

What'd you get that?

Vinny, tell room service where they can get a better quality bag on, huh?

Good morning, Vito.

Good morning, Vito.

Good morning, Vito.

Hey, Vito, how are you doing?

Got some coffee.

Yeah, listen, take a look at this.

The way I see it, Charlie, Europe is in a blow sky high.

He's Nazis.

Michael, guys like you and like Benny, guys in our line of work in Germany,

what's the matter?

They have the same kind of agreements about not hitting politicians that we do?

They're all no guys like us in Germany.

You may have a gangster union behind you now,

but I can still fire you for coming in late.

I'm sorry, Mr. Kotler.

Two gorillas grabbed me on the street and told me,

tell Kotler that Dutchman doesn't like his bagels.

They told me, tell everyone.

A grainy-hat with Schultz, no collar was mine.

Only our people in that game knew that.

You got the line so I can call Charlie.

The rules!

Peace!

Cole has the nerve to come into this club.

Dutch Schultz comes waltzing in here with Chris.

And he blows up this thing of Benny's.

Colin Schultz always bled.

Do you understand that, Mike?

Do you see that?

I see that.

Let's see what we've done.

We started loaning money.

We're into the rag trade.

We made our rules work, Charlie.

Killing legs brought the reformers on stronger.

All I'm asking is what we gain and what we lose by hitting Schultz and Cole.

Tell you what we gain.

What we gain is an end of the war, okay?

I'm not talking about putting a hit out ourselves.

We put enemy against enemy.

For a price, Cole will hit Schultz.

That's it.

Why do you really want to call it hit Schultz, Charlie?

What do you suggest that I send Benny out after him?

It's a business decision all the way, right?

Not putting Benny out on the street with a gun at

his hand, it's personal, it's personal and business.

What about killing Schultz?

What kind of decision is that?

Go ahead, Charlie.

Call of any call.

Come on, Charlie.

Is killing Dutch about a bakery or is it about Chris Brennan?

All right.

I'll wait till I'm sure.

Sir, they can go to the devil.

You know Aldo, if you're seen with me, you're invisible too.

Nobody looks in my eyes.

We're going to California anyway.

Why don't you come with me, Charlie?

Take a new name.

Dishonner, my father.

Dishonner, my wife.

I'm forgetting my birds.

Thank you for being my friend, Aldo.

But don't ask me to Dishonner, my wife.

If I go to California with you, my wife is

still a married woman in the eyes of the church.

Are you sure who they were with their faces, what they were from being strangled?

There's a neighbor only, and Aldo moves.

You people tie each other up with sash cords

so you're strangled yourself nice and slow.

People who did this are not my people.

I'm not like them.

Then you'll find the individual who called us into us but didn't give his name.

Then you'll find witnesses.

Sure you will, Petroment Katanya.

I'll find a witness.

When the witness can be sure that the perpetrator will be

arrested and brought before a judge that can't be bought.

Am I out of line?

Who would have done this?

Two rooftops away from the Genovesee Trading Company.

Who buys you a hat?

It

is not my mother.

Yeah, Benny, you saw Frank coming in.

No, no, there's nothing wrong.

I'll talk to you.

Right.

Some Vito.

What's going on?

This Aldo, did he set it up?

No way it was told to me.

This Aldo was just a friend of chess raising.

We host people on a little extra sash cord and this Aldo was unlucky.

I'll tell you what's going on, Franky.

Vito creates a scandal and it comes down on me.

That's what's going on.

Now I want this thing over the night.

I want an outsider.

Somebody outside the family, you get Albert down the stairs.

Okay?

It ends tonight.

Hey, Aldo.

Vito.

It's funny.

I went to confession today, huh?

The priest refused to give me absolution.

You're out of the neighborhood, Al.

Gotta take it easy, Charlie and Frank.

I should bring this to Gina.

No time for that Vito.

I wish the priest would have given me absolution.

Maybe the rain will wash away my sins, huh?

Listen, I don't have a peace on me, but you do the right things.

Check me in the car, right?

Vito, I wait for you here.

Over here, Vito.

You apologize.

I'll add that to the list.

This affair of the heart with Gina Barone, is the scandal of the Italian community,

with your wife living.

It continues to be a scandal after your wife dies, because of this Cesare.

And then the scandal becomes the worst of all, because you have this Cesare killed.

You're under me, Vito.

The scandal comes on me.

You want to say something?

It better be what I want to hear.

I'm sorry.

You're sorry.

Well, somehow all of New York is going to know that you're sorry.

I believe ever since Rose died, I'm not right.

I didn't think.

No, you didn't think.

You didn't think of the problems that you were going to create for me, because now

people associate me with a strangler, and that's exactly what I ought to do to you.

Strangle you!

Frankie, what are the odds of an idiot being my underboss, huh?

The odds don't matter.

The problem does.

I'll tell you something.

Vito Genovese is not going to be a problem

anymore, because you're going to marry this Gina.

You're going to marry her right away.

No, wait a second, Charlie.

It is a problem there, all right?

You want me to do something?

I'll do it.

You want me to kill myself, Charlie?

No, I'm not doing it.

You don't got to pull the charade.

You don't go to church regular, right, boo?

And the bands of marriages, they're going to be posted

in three weeks before they perform any kind of ceremony.

I can't go against the church.

And you do it in the city hall.

The church isn't going to recognize the marriage in the eyes of the church with

the living and sin, and Jean is not going to go for it.

You keep telling me what you can't do, Vito.

But Jean is going to kill me now, Charlie.

It's very lucky that Frank is my cousin, Yeti, because if another man were my

cousin, Yeti, he might have stayed home and given me different advice.

All right, take it easy.

Look, there's always a way around it.

There's always a way around things.

I hope any way I can.

And you're going to go back down to the village, and

you're going to tell Jean that she's going to be your wife.

And you're going to stay with her.

You're going to be her husband.

And you're going to be faithful this time, Vito.

And you will never raise your hand to her, because if you

ever raise your hand, we're going to create a scandal again.

Tell me not, though.

Yevish.

Yevish.

Thanks for the blessing, Jean.

I'll leave it to you, Frankie.

Vito gots married right away.

All right, it won't be easy.

What's easy?

Gets married right away.

All right, all right.

When I was this business, Vito, want to sit with Michael and Ben?

I don't know.

Might make problems between them and us.

Yeah, well, I respect Michael and Ben.

But there's a thing, this problem with cholts and coal.

And as much as I respect your decision to wait,

I'm telling you, these guys are like a cancer.

And we don't cut them out.

They're going to kill us.

Hey, Charlie, you got to decide.

And you got to decide soon.

Buonas ere.

Belite, Frankie.

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.

Later tonight on The Best of Carson, Johnny welcomes funny man Richard Pryor.

Then the Bee Gees are the hosts of the Midnight Special

with guest Cherie Lee Lewis and Gladys Knight and the Pips.

Tomorrow night, join Barbara Mandrell and the

Mandrell Sisters and guest Tennessee Ernie Ford.

And on BJ and the Bear, BJ can't remember who he is or why killers are after him.

Walking to all follows, tomorrow.