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Surplus food was burned to support farm prices while people went hungry.

And those people who had jobs fought to create

unions to defend their standard of living.

Presidential leadership was seen as a possible solution.

And the power of the presidency was likely to go to a demographic.

The upcoming national election.

Lucky Lucciano, Michael Lasker, and Ben Siegel

did not want that power to be used against them.

Hey, you're looking pretty, Michael.

We have your suits ready.

Also, Mr. Lucciano.

Thanks, Fred.

What's with the new suits, Michael?

You're not a delegate, are you?

So what?

You're not even a citizen and you're going as a delegate.

I think that's against the law.

Probably everything else is.

You know, Benny's an hour late today.

Yeah, what's your name?

I don't think it's a good girl.

Hey, that looks terrific.

I got out of six at least for myself.

Mr. Lucciano, if I may have a moment to fit yours.

That's fine, Fred, and I'm sure the others are too faker.

It would just take a minute, Mr. Lucciano.

I wouldn't want you to be disappointed.

Fred, I'm never disappointed.

Now, Mr. Lucciano.

Sorry, I'm late, Mike.

Tommy.

Mr. Seagull, if I just... Maybe we can fit Benny's suits a little later, huh?

Oh, yes, Mr. Lasker.

Thank you.

Where have you been?

Almost done.

That's not true.

I called Scarsdale just before I came over here.

What the hell for?

Why the hell not?

Where were you?

I'm Brooklyn, Jersey, a couple other places.

Y'all going for Tony for Brazil?

That's right.

Seems like he dropped off the edge of the earth.

You got two of his brothers already, it's not enough.

Don't you think he's out looking for me, Charlie?

Ben, Charlie's trying to tell you something and you're not listening.

What?

In a few days, we're gonna be in Chicago.

We have a chance to put the man that we want into the White House.

We have a chance to elect the President of the United States.

Hmm.

Well, what does that have to do with me in Thug and Jersey?

What it has to do with you is the while we're going, you're

gonna be running the store with little help from Tommy and LEP.

What good is it gonna do us to have a crazy man running around New York?

All right.

Maybe crazy's the wrong word, huh?

If anyone at you have them bring you new suits in.

Good idea.

Excuse me, LEP.

I've got to look my best when I'm in the store.

You know, Charlie, you're a delegate.

Frank Estello, he's a delegate.

Even Vito.

Vito, what does Vito again?

Unaltered.

Unaltered.

Me, I'm not a delegate to nothing.

How come?

You can be a delegate next time.

Maybe we'll need a delegate at the Republican Convention next time.

No.

That'll be kidding me.

Republicans won't get anybody elected for the next 20 years.

Some little Davy Levine is that Charlie Lucky

and Michael Haskell will go to the convention.

Ben Siegel will stay here and run the Partridge Club or all by his going soon.

I'm beginning to think little Davy's becoming

a better and better investment all the time.

Tony for Brazil is still able to get his hands on

Ben Siegel for killing his brothers, I imagine.

How do we think so, Dutch?

You see if we can be of help.

Anything wrong?

Not wrong, exactly, Dutch.

Do you want to go out?

We haven't exactly had much of a nightlife lately.

No.

I guess I'm feeling a little down.

I'm the goes away faster and more alone.

You mean that, don't you?

I gotta know that.

Brennan, why do you suppose it took you so long to come into my life?

It was at the Goodman hat factory that Charlie Luciano first met Chris Brennan.

And he did the only legitimate work in his life.

Luciano knew Goodman from childhood and Charlie greatly valued his friendship.

So much so that Luciano protected Mr. Goodman from men like himself.

Yeah.

For him, I'm in.

Hello, Charlie.

I guess you need a new hat.

I need a new hat and I'd also like to take you out for lunch, Mr. Goodman.

Well...

You named the time and place and I'll...

Attack of this nature takes its toll.

Sometimes the toll is not that heavy.

Sometimes it's a very heavy one indeed.

Is he still on cuss?

Yes.

And I'd appreciate it if you'd spend no more than a few minutes with him.

Look, I'm gonna leave a number with a nurse.

I wanna be contacted day and night.

I don't care what time as soon as he regains consciousness.

Sure.

You've known him for a long time, I take it.

Yes, since I was a kid.

Doc...

You don't think he's gonna make it, do you?

No, Mr. Luciano, I don't.

This hospital's neutral territory.

Yeah, he's been on the break a few promises in his time.

Not the ones he's made to me.

What did the doctor say?

It's only a matter of time.

The doctor said I can always stay a few minutes.

I'm coming back later.

No, no, no, we used to work for him for a while.

A long time ago.

Is that for you?

No, that's not that much to do.

You should be rested.

You should be in bed.

I can't.

There's a man packing his clothes on my bed.

You're right.

I'll be finished in a few minutes.

Will you call me from the Drake?

You know, Ruthie, I don't have to go to that convention.

Of course you have to go.

You've been planning on it for months.

Yeah, but I'm not a delegate.

I'm just keeping track which way to vote so go.

No, Michael.

I know how important this is to you.

And besides, the doctors of the babies and due to

you come back from the convention, I'll be all right.

Wherever I am, I'm where you are too.

He's twisted again.

He was awake and aware of me being here.

This is green.

Both of you are here with me again.

You're not dreaming, Mr. Goodman.

You woke up.

You woke up to say goodbye, shall we?

Chris.

Right.

Mr. Goodman.

Chris tells me you're going to Chicago with the convention.

Yeah, I'm going to vote.

Anybody want me to vote for?

Oh, I always like to help Smith.

But I'm not sure he can get elected.

I'll try to do a good job.

Oh, you always do a good job.

Try to find a way.

Try to find a way to get out.

There is no way, Mr. Goodman.

No, no, it's both not.

Maybe a long time ago, there was a way.

Don't worry about that now.

No, it's all right for that now.

It's funny.

I had a dream.

A little while ago, I was young.

It was 20.

I was in a green field.

Oh.

There was a young girl.

Almost as pretty as Chris.

Almost.

But she was dressed in the style of the old country.

And she was a stranger to me.

But she knew my name.

She put out her hand and smiled.

Bet

you never thought you'd see this happen, our boys.

Big out on the electric chair.

The only place in this relic that's big enough

or private enough for me to get anything done.

They're treating you all right now?

Oh, yeah, they're treating me all right.

Of course they're a little bit, but that's okay.

The boys want something to eat us a drink.

I'll have the turkey bringing, huh?

No, thanks.

We're in Chicago for the convention.

You thought maybe you'd like to tell us what the setup will be.

If I got it with Lana.

Well, the setup is exactly the same.

I can run Chicago from Atlanta.

You have any problems?

Something comes up in a hurry?

You call Pauli Rico, Frank Nydia?

Are you there having some problems with their own?

Yeah, yeah.

I have a few problems.

Damned internal revenue service.

Well, you got the best lawyers now.

Yeah, you know, I got the best lawyers and the worst luck.

Only sometimes.

I'm not so sure it's just bad luck.

What do you mean?

Well, if from Michael here, I got a lot of friends and politics in Washington.

That's only to protect our interests in New York.

I understand, I understand.

Still, you know, sometimes I wonder about a few things.

Like our, an IRS agent gets into us.

It's a little Davey Esposito.

Esposito is your own man, right?

Yeah, sure, sure.

I understand that.

I guess the IRS fooled him, too.

Sure, yes.

Only now, you see, I hear that little Davey

Esposito has got some ideas about going to New York.

I haven't heard that.

Yeah.

If I hear he gets any more ideas, then take out your baseball bat.

Yeah.

Yeah, maybe I should, right?

Maybe it's a good way to find out just why the little

pimp is so anxious to leave my town and to go to New York.

It's not in our interest that anything happened to you, Al.

We hope your appeal is successful.

It will be.

I'm sure.

You boys, you enjoy yourself while you're in my town, all right?

You need anything you just let me know.

Take it easy, Charlie.

She sends her regards.

Come back here.

Listen, I think it you can use this kind of a reception room.

You know, you want to talk to some of the politicians?

Give them some drinks.

Some fun.

Very nice, Paulie.

Now everything's on out.

I thought it mean this.

Do you find politics extremely interesting?

Oh, no, sir.

I wouldn't say I was much of an expert on politics.

Then maybe you could excuse us for a few minutes.

We can fix our own drinks, thank you.

Very nice, Paulie.

Pleasure.

You know, I have the feeling that politics you want to discuss in New York politics.

And I only know a little bit more than the girl.

I'm going to be seeing a lot of you guys in the next couple of days.

Oh, thank you for taking me to see you out.

My pleasure.

You had to tell him, didn't you, Charlie?

What are you talking about?

You had to talk about one of the reasons he's in the

pins because of the job he did on Chris Brennan, right?

Two years, Michael.

I waited two years.

When Goodman was dying, did you tell Chris there was you who got Capone?

How do we stand, Frank?

Roosevelt's picking up delegates all across the country.

Enough to get him the nomination?

No, I'm not even close yet.

But you remember what his people told us back

in New York about when we went over to him?

Charlie's delegation is committed to House Smith.

If Roosevelt wins the first ballot victory, we move over and we can make a unanimous.

That's too little and too late to satisfy Roosevelt.

And we sit on the fence too long between Roosevelt and Smith.

We're going to have to find a way to make a deal with John Nance Garner.

Who the hell's John Nance Garner?

He's only a governor, Texas, Charlie.

And they're talking of my compromise candidate.

Well, in a second, I don't understand here, Frank.

And your delegation's already committed to Roosevelt.

And isn't that enough for him?

No, it isn't.

In other words, they want the knife and Smith's back before the first ballot, right?

You got it.

Right?

We understand the problem.

You understand the problem.

Four days of shakedown artists and politicians

I should have left with a damn in the bartender.

We're getting a lot of action on the election.

Look, let me know if things change so we can adjust the odds.

Right, we'll let you know.

You sound like you have things pretty well in hand over there, huh?

Everything's fine.

Tapes with the club are good too.

Now, Michael, give my best to Charlie and everybody else too.

Let me know if you decide on a president.

All right.

Take care.

Oh, no.

Get lunch.

No women, Dave.

I'm your crawler.

What's it gonna be?

I could use some Chinese.

We ain't had Chinese in a while.

Chinese it is.

I got no problem.

No, here, Dave.

I got it.

You sure?

This

is the first time you've ever gone out for lunch and never asked for any money.

Could have been real bad, but we were lucky, Michael.

Aside from a little dust and smoke on our clothes, we should be all right.

Is there any reason why Ben didn't call himself?

The reason is a very nice nun here is taking his temperature.

He was the closest, Michael.

And checking him out more than the rest of us.

Somebody just bombed the office.

But he's okay.

You can grab the other phone.

Hello, Mike.

I didn't think I'd be talking to you so soon again.

I just barely got up the phone with you.

Send Dave out for Chinese and bang bang, you know.

You should see the poor office.

Forget the office.

Are you okay?

Yeah, be fine.

Look, let me talk to Charlie, all right?

I'm right here, Benny.

So we asked you to mind the store and not let it blow up.

I guess I got my wires crossed.

What happened?

Well, it was the right angle bend in the flu.

So I bombed and didn't do that much damage.

Jimmy's a mess, though.

You have any idea who did it?

Well, I was in the ambulance.

He left me and got down the street right after it happened.

I think he saw a car with Tony Fabrizio when it'd taken off about 60, huh?

Benny, are you all right?

Still on our way.

Yeah, I should be here in a minute.

So were the doctors.

None said something about it.

I got to stick around for a couple of days for tests and observation.

That's good.

You do just what they tell you to.

Well, they're running the show here, I guess.

But Charlie, don't tell Mike this.

These guys weren't messing around.

Convention and no convention.

I'm not taking this land down.

I understand, Benny.

You got Tommy and Lefty there with you, right?

Yeah.

Good luck in the convention.

You take care of yourself.

You do what the doctors tell you and we'll see you soon, all right?

Hey, Jimmy.

Hey, thanks for going up town and getting my clothes.

I appreciate it.

You know, I don't think I'll be going anywhere for a couple of days or so.

Hey, no problem.

Well, why to do it?

Thanks, David.

Now you look tired now.

Yeah.

I feel like I've been running in 100 years or so.

Davey, do me a favor, will you?

Could you give us a minute here?

Sure thing, Ben.

You know it's not bad here.

None's is so quiet.

You can't even hear them come and go.

What is it, Ben, huh?

You know that stuff about the music teacher?

You had a right to reach out for somebody.

I had no right to leave you out of my life that much.

It's a lot to make up for.

I guess it's kind of late for that.

Good job, Ben.

You sound like you think you're going to die.

So the space could have balloon burst and goes out of control.

And Captain Grippo says, will Judy and Scoopy land safely?

What strange destiny is theirs.

You old man ever read you the funnies when he was a kid?

A lot of old men.

You mean my father, he didn't.

They don't want to know what he did to me.

People?

Well, just because you got a bad shake when you was a kid don't

mean you're going to give some kid of your own a bad shake.

Kids?

Dutch?

You know something I don't know?

I'll be the first one to know, remember?

I got you to smile.

Come on, I got you to smile.

You're my kids, Dutch.

I've done everything else, natural areas too.

I got born, got rich, killed, loved.

I love you, Brennan.

I love you, Schultz.

Well, father and her kids, the only thing I hadn't done.

And I mean father and her kid.

Raising him.

Teaching him what I know, huh?

I'd make a mess of it.

No, you wouldn't.

Arthur, plug in our federal officer, our papers to show us.

There's nobody here by that name.

You must have the wrong apartment.

Come on, will you?

It's just a subpoena for records.

It's not an arrest.

If that ain't true, your last words are lie.

Go on.

You come up by yourself, brave guy.

It's just a subpoena for records.

That's all.

I'm only doing my job, okay?

What do you want?

Tip.

Get out.

Don't shut me.

You don't have a free pass on that.

Get out.

Get out.

All you're still right, plain English.

You read it.

As far as I can tell, federal grand jury said you didn't pay your taxes in 1920.

In 1939, 1930, and 1931, and they want your record.

1931, I only haven't paid my taxes for last year by a couple of months.

They're trying to do what they did to compound to me.

Who does he think I am?

I'm not Charlie Luciano.

I'll hit this doing.

Dutch, call your lawyer.

I'll call your lawyer, all right?

They ain't going to do it to us.

Nobody puts away Dutch shots.

Then you should sleep like a lamb.

Thank you.

You people as well.

Good night.

Good night.

Oh, by the way, no smoking.

Whatever you say, sister.

Mm-hmm.

If it's where to any cop or jury, she saw me swallow these.

Give me my pants, man.

Night night, Benny.

I'm an assistant checker in every 20 minutes.

No problem about that.

Look, you got a dish you sleepin' pills.

I got to spend my take care of the details, all right?

Sure, man.

All right.

Let's go.

Where's this brother-in-law?

He had to go.

Away on me.

Mr. Siegel is very still.

I marked him as a restless sleeper.

Maybe those pills are too strong.

Yes, sister.

He's a restless soul.

I think he's peaceful here.

It is usually peaceful here, Mr. Lucasie.

Not tonight, what?

I want David to graduate.

It's about time.

It's the heat for Rizio's, my son.

You were with heroes, right?

Antonio!

It's the police.

It's the detectives with the gold badge.

Please, talk to them, Tony.

Maybe they can help me over.

It's for you, Papa, for you.

He will see you off, sir.

This

guy, Luca, is sure he's not going to go over to Roosevelt?

He's going to hold until I tell him, Jeff.

Hello, Frank.

Hey, Frank.

How'd it go?

Well, I believe we had an accurate outlook account up until ten minutes ago.

Roosevelt's got a different count.

He told me he's got the nomination in the bag.

Anybody can give you numbers to read, Frank.

Can you read him?

I can't read the man.

Jimmy Einstein tells me Roosevelt wants to see me.

So I go.

And Roosevelt tells me, some day, a Catholic will be elected president.

And then he tells me he drinks opera in the scotch like we're having a little chat.

He has nothing.

He offers nothing.

No, I can't read the man.

Not except for what he wants me to see.

What's that?

A guy who doesn't want any big political corruption

in his home state while doing a presidential campaign.

And at the same time, a guy to come right

out any trouble to see by a commission makes.

I don't know.

Roosevelt's acting like he's already got the nomination, you know.

Hey.

What if he's lying?

But I wonder what else he might be lying about.

Yeah.

How many?

They get down there, call me right back.

He's lying.

Roosevelt just lost two delegates from Kansas City.

He's losing another five from Texas.

We're not careful.

They're going to choose John Man's gun.

Operator, ring me, Mr. Ross is sweet again, please.

Yeah, well, I say it's even money whether we

jump to Roosevelt or Smith in time or too late.

I'd say five minutes.

It's a long shot.

Ten minutes.

We wasted a trip, right?

No, I don't want you to try again in ten minutes.

I want you to keep bringing his sweet.

Thank you very much.

Sorry, you don't know what to do.

Come on, Charlie, look at your watch.

All right, we know how else, Smith.

We owe him and we go back a long ways with him.

But we have to give the whole New York delegation to Roosevelt now.

How rough it.

Who's going to tell Al?

I am.

Okay, I'll tell everybody else how I'm doing.

You're doing the right thing, Charlie.

Operate it.

Give me Jimmy Hines right away.

If you don't give me the best bottle, you got back there for Al.

He's going to need a drink.

You look hungry, Davey.

You want to start for some Chinese?

The last thing I expected was being hungry.

I don't know, you're hungry.

Hey, Davey.

The last time he won the Chinese, their lozies,

their breeze will put a bomb down the chimney, right?

Then you got to get back to the hospital.

Oh, never left.

On the fourth ballot, and there will be no more, the Democratic Party has just

nominated Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the State of New York,

and his candidate for the President.

The candidate would have stood to stop Roosevelt's

movement, led by his former sponsor, Al.

Turn it off, Frankie.

The borders.

The only thing they don't tell the public is what they ought to know.

We nominated Roosevelt.

I don't want anybody to know that.

People wouldn't want to believe it, even if someone told them.

I wish Benny were here, he'd feel like celebrating.

He'd be filling paper bags with water and dropping

them out of the windows on top of a cop's head.

He still likes to do that kind of thing.

I don't like what this radio clown said.

He twisted everything around.

Smith was the one who brought Roosevelt alone, and then Roosevelt climbed over him.

Smith can't make it, Roosevelt can.

Roosevelt did the right thing, just like we did with Mazaria and Maranzano.

He's a guy just like us.

Yeah, people are people.

Even the biggest politician.

I was hoping I could tell Ruth.

We picked the president.

Now it doesn't sound like so much.

You're wrong.

The only reason it doesn't seem as big is because now we are just as big.

Roosevelt's going to get rid of the Seabury Commission.

He's going to get rid of Dewey as soon as he appoints a new U.S.

attorney.

We won.

We did win.

When Dewey gets kicked back into private practice, we ought to hire him.

Now, nobody makes a better defense attorney than a former prosecutor.

Sure.

Dewey knows all the tricks.

You want the last experiment?

You gave me all of them.

You're making a lot of bones tonight, huh, Davy?

Yeah, he made his bones.

Give me a gun.

Well, I want you to walk up aways and drop these in the canal, right?

I want you to keep watching.

Okay?

Sure.

We've got much time, Davy.

We've got a trader.

No.

That's impossible.

Lepky.

Lepky is a trader.

Well, somebody told a Dutchman that I took over Carlos Baker and he blew it up.

Only we know.

You told Lepky, didn't you?

Somebody told Schultz that Charlie Hart called him.

John V.C.

wants to be more than Charlie's underbores.

No, it wasn't Vito.

It wasn't Father Cohen either.

See, Father Joe and my car, the day I got ambushed.

I was sick bad.

And I come home and you there was still a new feel, okay?

Two days ago, you went up for Chinese food.

You didn't ask for any money, and while you were gone, a ball comes down the chimney.

You come back.

There's no food.

I was supposed to bring food to a ball up building.

I asked myself the same question.

Then I asked, how could you have known it

was a part of your club if you weren't close?

You never bought any food, Davy.

We checked.

Will you tell me why?

Does it matter?

Look,

I'll tell Lipgia handle it myself.

And let you walk away and disappear.

But you're gonna tell me why.

Everything you did to Stella, she's my sister.

You're turning traitor.

That's my fault.

Yeah.

I was really that bad to you and Stella.

I was that bad?

If the Dutchman of Fabrizio killed me, you'd be on a job.

How are you gonna eat?

Dutch promised me a piece of an obvious business.

That's what he offered me.

What you didn't ask for?

No!

Look, you're getting money, aren't you?

You're gonna have to take a ship someplace, disappear?

No, may not.

I'll be okay.

I'll make it on my own.

I'm sorry.

I'm just so sorry.

You're gonna have to ship.

You cost someplace.

You disappear, all right?

I'm

from our politicians.

Michael.

Rick has just heard that Roosevelt's double-crossed this.

What?

Roosevelt's gonna come at us.

Ruth, I'm leaving tonight.

I love you.

What are you talking about?

Mike Chicago is our town.

We have to switchboard operators listening on every politician's phone.

We know about all the political deals is supposed to be secret.

They double-crossed John Seabury on everything.

Roosevelt was meaning to double-cross you all along.

Now, it's too late to take back your votes.

Operator, give me room 606.

Sir, we were just told that Roosevelt's crossing us, that he's going to command us.

Is that true?

You know who he is, don't you?

Yes, Mr. Lukasey, I know.

You know why?

What we do with our lives?

Yes, I do.

I consider all that.

I appreciate your kindness and your courtesy.

I belong to a nursing order.

In any case, God makes the judgment on all of us.

Asker,

Ben Siegel and Charlie Luciano, ruthless criminals,

were among the most powerful men in the nation.

Most of these men destroyed each other and are no more.

Their secret empire remains richer and more power.