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HERMAN LEVIN:
The Levin family

has been selected
to be participants

in a new program,
Homestead 42.

-Where are we moving to?
-Danville, Kentucky.

♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

Please, don't do this.

What is happening here
is for your own good.

-PHILIP: I don't wanna go.
-Who sent you here, Philip?

Can't Seldon and his brother
go instead of us?

SELMA WISHNOW: In today's mail.
Why bother with me at all?

SANDY LEVIN:
Why didn't we go to Kentucky?

This is our home.

You assholes can't leave a guy
alone for a minute, can you?

MAN: Rabbi, can you spare
just a moment?

Well, what's the matter?

There have been complaints about
your political involvement.

HERMAN:
Want me to run and hide, Bess?

This is my country!

BESS LEVIN: It is Lindbergh's.
It is the America Firsters'.

It's their country.

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

♪ There's a new day in view ♪

♪ There is gold in the blue ♪

♪ There is hope
In the hearts of men ♪

♪ All the world's on the way ♪

♪ To a sunnier day ♪

♪ 'Cause the road
Is open again ♪

♪ There's a note of repair ♪

♪ There's a song in the air ♪

♪ It's the music of busy men ♪

♪ Every plow in the land ♪

♪ Meets a happier hand ♪

♪ 'Cause the road
Is open again ♪

♪ There's an eagle blue
In the White House too ♪

♪ On the shoulder
Of the President there ♪

♪ With a lusty call
Telling one and all ♪

♪ Brother, do your share! ♪

♪ There's a new day in view ♪

♪ There is gold in the blue ♪

♪ There is hope
In the hearts of men ♪

♪ From the plains to the hill ♪

♪ From the farm to the mill ♪

♪ Oh, the road is open again ♪

♪ There's a new day in view ♪

♪ There is gold in the blue ♪

♪ There is hope
In the hearts of men ♪

♪ From the plains to the hill ♪

♪ From the farm to the mill ♪

♪ Oh, the road is open again ♪

♪ (JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

ANTHONY GIOLITO: Shit, Levin.

I remember when one of those
used to break ya.

Why don't you try three?

(CACKLES)

GIOLITO:
Mama didn't raise no fools.

See, what you don't understand,
Anthony,

is that I come from a long line
of Third Ward roughnecks.

Jews? Come on, Herman.
No fucking way!

You're talking to a Sicilian
here, for Christ's sakes.

Yeah, what were your people
doing when mine were building
the pyramids?

Stealin' chickens in Palermo.

(CACKLES)

RADIO ANNOUNCER: We leave
this broadcast of Let's Dance

with Harry James
and His Orchestra

to bring you a special bulletin

from Detroit, Michigan,
where a political rally

featuring Democratic
presidential candidate

Walter Winchell, has resulted
in rioting and injuries.

With Winchell himself attacked
and beaten by demonstrators,

according to reporters
at the scene.

The former reporter
and radio personality

was rushed by ambulance
to Providence Hospital.

Detroit police officials say
the disturbances are contained

within the area of the
candidate's campaign rally...

They beat him down.

Like he wasn't askin' for it.

Come on, Monty.

RADIO ANNOUNCER:
We now return to...

Fascist animals.

GIOLITO:
I'll tell you one thing.

That Winchell's got balls
on him. He don't quit.

Everywhere he goes,
they're waitin' for him.

In Boston,
they tried to set him on fire.

You're gonna take
truck number four tonight.

You're gonna drive all the way
up past Newburgh

and make pickups
at three separate farms.

♪ (MUSIC ON RADIO CONTINUES ) ♪

(INDISTINCT CHATTER, LAUGHTER)

(ALVIN CHUCKLING)

(ALVIN HUMMING ALONG)

I'm good, I'm good, I'm good!
(CHUCKLING)

One, two, three, and...

And hey! Hey! Hey!
(CHUCKLING)

Now, fish tails.
The thing I showed you. C'mon.

Bop, bop, higher...

You're lucky you don't topple.

Yeah, says you
with your two legs.

SHUSHY MARGULIS: You should have
seen Alvin back in the day.

He could move.

(BILLY SCHAPP WHISTLES)

Am I paying for this floor show?

I got plans here
for your restaurant.

Come give a look.

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

Philip, is that you?

For your new collection.

Canada.

From Mr. Tirschwell
and his wife.

Up in Winnipeg.

Don't go too far.

(REMOVAL MEN CONVERSING
IN ITALIAN)

MARIE CUCUZZA:
Sbrigatevi, Joseph.

(REMOVAL MEN CONVERSING
IN ITALIAN)

Hey, paisan.

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(TOMMY CUCUZZA
SPEAKING IN ITALIAN)

No, no, no, no, no, no.
Not in New York. Newark!

It's in Jersey,
but it's a different city.

-(GRUNTS)
-(LAUGHING)

Jesus Christ, how many times
did you repeat the fifth grade?

Fucking hell.

(NERVOUS CHUCKLE)

-Billy Murphy.
-Alvin.

How the hell d'you find me?

-BILLY MURPHY: I asked around.
-Oh yeah? Asked who?

What the hell you doin'
in Philadelphia?

Ah, listen, sweetie.

This is a buddy
from my old unit.

You know--
You know, from the war.

-Oh yeah?
-Yeah, absolutely,

so seeing as he's come
all the way to find me,

how 'bout we just pick this up
tomorrow?

Just like that?

I told you. This is a friend.

(ALVIN SCOFFS)

Now, who the fuck told you
how to find me, Billy?

And why?

RADIO ANNOUNCER 2: ...violence
at the political rally

and then spreading to
predominantly Jewish sanctions

of Detroit,
where shops were looted

and windows shattered
by rioting mobs.

At least three Jewish
synagogues are said
to be afire,

and several hundred
of the city's Jewish residents

have crossed the bridge
into Windsor, Canada,

seeking refuge there,
according to authorities.

This just in to our Columbia
Broadcasting news bureau:

anti-Jewish disturbances
are now being reported

by authorities in both
Cleveland and Indianapolis.

And in Scranton, Pennsylvania,
state police have requested...

HERMAN LEVIN: All right,
come on. We gotta go.

We gotta finish loading up.

FARMHAND:
You're contracted for these.

I'm going home now.
We'll be back.

-When?
-MAN: Where's everyone going?

RADIO ANNOUNCER 2:
...where a group of young men

clashed with members
leaving an event.

In the street fight that lasted
nearly an hour...

MURPHY: You know, they told me
to find you, and they, uh...

They told me why.

I told them to forget it.

I won't lie to you, Alvin.

I told them I didn't think
you were up to it.

I told them how you folded up
in Norway.

-How you broke.
-Yeah, I fucked up.

I couldn't take
that screaming Kraut. I know.

Yeah, Hairston and Riggs
got shot

trying to get you out of there.

Hairston bought it.

Riggs...
still shittin' in a bag.

You didn't know.

No, I was--
I was out of my head. I...

Yeah.

(SCOFFS)

Yeah... Well...

Maybe I wasn't cut out
for soldiering.

Not that kind of soldierin'
anyway.

MURPHY: Maybe not.

Come on.

Huh? What?

(GRUNTS) Fuck.

(GRUNTING)

So, where do we go?

They're gonna give you
one last chance.

(CHUCKLES) To do what?
Lose another limb?

You low son of a bitch.

My job is done here.

They think you can still matter.

See ya around.

I thought you were FBI.

Oh, heavens no.

Do you really think I'd dress
as badly as all that?

I'm glad we found you,
Corporal Levin.

RADIO ANNOUNCER 3:
...took place outside a Jewish
house of worship

earlier this evening.

Authorities in Baltimore
are also investigating

the burning of
a Jewish Religious Academy,

believed to be tied
to the communist front.

Several boys,
as young as ten years old,

are being transported to
Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Meanwhile,
Buffalo police believe
that last night's explosion

injuring 70 people
at a Polish...

What's with you guys?

RADIO ANNOUNCER 3:
...was due to a gas leak
in the basement...

Keepin' an eye on things.

-You with Longy?
-Yeah.

RADIO ANNOUNCER 3: ...secret
communist bomb factory

are proliferating
amid continuing

-denial from officials...
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Go ahead, take the truck.

-GIOLITO: You sure?
-HERMAN: Yeah.

(ENGINE REVS)

RADIO ANNOUNCER 4: The Alipore,
carrying chrome ore
and olive oil,

was torpedoed
by a German U-boat...

Who are they?

(ANNOUNCER CONTINUES SPEAKING
OVER RADIO)

Dukie Glick...

and some other knucklehead
I don't recognize.

Who is Dukie Glick?

He's Billy Glick's kid brother.

I know Billy
from the Third Ward.

Absolute morons, both of them.

They work for Longy Zwillman.

-Longy Zwillman, the gangster?
-Yeah.

He put his guys out
on the streets

in Jewish neighborhoods...

in case any of the rioting
spreads to Newark.

-They're there to protect us?
-(RADIO SWITCHES OFF)

HERMAN:
Yeah, they think so anyway.

Can't believe how fast
it's spread to other cities.

The hate is there.

Just like dry leaves
waiting on a spark.

Well...

Like or not,
Lindbergh is teaching us

what it means to be Jews.

We only think we're Americans.

No...

They think we only think
we're Americans.

They think with...

one more push, one more shove...

that we'll break...

and run to Canada...

or let them dump us in Kentucky
or wherever.

But it's not up for discussion,
Bess.

They can call us "others."

They're the others.

Lindbergh is the other.

The man is unfit.

He should not be the president.

It's as simple as that.

Which is why
a forceful statement

from your husband right now
would be of such benefit

to my people.
It would, in effect,

distance American Jews
from Winchell's rhetoric

and hold us harmless
to his offenses.

I take your point.

Clearly, the violence
being directed in Detroit

and elsewhere is no way condoned
by this administration.

A strong public statement
right now.

I will take this up
with the president.

I assure you both.

Mrs. Bengelsdorf,

we must have that lunch
once things calm down,

perhaps after
the Congressional elections.

That would be lovely.

Rabbi.

Thank you for your candor.

In these days,
with everything so fraught

for the Jewish community,

I have come to greatly value
your honesty and insight.

(PHONE RINGING)

(WOMAN ANSWERING PHONE
IN BACKGROUND)

And in fact...

to the extent I can rely on you
to serve as my spokesperson

in these matters,
I would be relieved.

Of course.

-(CAR HONKS)
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

ALVIN: Why the fuck did I have
to come all the way out here
to meet you?

BRITISH AGENT: We wanted to see
if you were followed.

ALVIN: No one follows anyone
north of Girard Ave,

for Christ's Sakes.

So, who is everybody?

We have names
you don't need to know.

I'm askin'.
Is everybody British?

-Or Canadian.
-Or not.

You think you're only mug
who can't stand

to see this country go to hell,
Levin?

It went to hell. It's there.

Well, the question seems to be

whether you're still willing
to act on that.

What good will it do?

Even if you pull it off,
you still end up with Wheeler.

He's no better than Lindbergh.
He might even be worse.

Wheeler can be beaten in '44.

Lindbergh
and that little airplane of his

flying from airport to airport
talkin' peace and prosperity,

-no chance.
-But why me?

You have a certain skill set,
as I told you.

Me and a thousand other guys.

The border's closed to us.

It's porous. You can see
I'm here after all.

But every additional man we try
to bring in adds to the risk.

And as you will note,
there are still enough

of your countrymen
who understand enough

about fascism to take this on.

I was in the War Department.
Roosevelt's War Department.

Logistics. G4.
Just a paper pusher

trying like hell
to get guns and ships

and planes to England
where they might matter.

Now, I have a pension.

ALVIN: Good for you.

Then again,
Levin, you have an empire

in pinball and slot machines.

The world and its problems
must seem

so unimportant at this point.

♪ (CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

MAN: Mouthy fellow
didn't get three words out.

Where did it happen?

Kentucky. Louisville, I think.

Blew the back of his head off.

What happened?

MAN: Winchell. They shot him.

He's dead?

Shot?

WOMAN:
The way he kept goin' at Lindy,

it was only a matter of time.

MAN: And I heard the campaign
was all for show,

just to revive
his radio career.

I mean, a man has a right
to make a living,

but no one asked Winchell
to be the spokesperson
for lotion,

-let alone...
-(ELEVATOR BELL RINGS)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Sandy? Philip?

-Walter Winchell, he--
-I heard. Where's your brother?

-I don't know.
-Get me the map.

Get the map
of the United States.

Find Kentucky. Find the city
of Danville for me.

-WOMAN: (OVER PHONE) Operator.
-Operator, I want to make
a long distance

person-to-person call.

-OPERATOR: City?
-To Danville, Kentucky.

To Mrs. Selma Wishnow.
And operator,

when my three minutes are up,
don't forget to tell me.

OPERATOR: Yes, ma'am.
Please hold.

Kentucky. Find Danville.
It's ringing.

-Right there. Danville.
-SELDON WISHNOW: Hello.

This is long distance. I have
a person-to-person call

-for Mrs. Selma Wistful.
-You want to measure how far
between--

-Look on the key, down here.
-OPERATOR:
Is Mrs. Wistful available?

No, Wishnow. Selma Wishnow.

SELDON: Who's that talking?

OPERATOR: Young lady,
is your mother home?

SELDON: I'm a boy.

Operator,
I will speak with anyone.

Please, put me through.

-OPERATOR: Good ahead, sir.
-SELDON: Who is this?

-Seldon, this is Mrs. Levin.
-Mrs. Levin!

-Yes,
-You're in Newark, Mrs. Levin?

I'm calling to speak
with your mother, is she there?

I'm waiting for her
to come home from work.

-Philip.
-She has to work late
sometimes.

I just sit here.

Sometimes, I have a snack
and then she comes home.

Miss Adams, I can't emphasize
enough the urgency involved.

Now that this has happened
in Louisville,

the need to reassure
the Jewish community

throughout this country,
it's paramount.

Thank you.

Yes, I will...

wait on the First Lady's call
in the morning.

Thank you again.

She must talk to the president.

SELDON:
So, you're on Summit Avenue?

-I told you we were, yes.
-It's really clear, isn't it?

It sounds like
you're just down the block.

-I wish you could come over
and have a snack with me.
-Philip.

-Tell Seldon you miss him.
-I don't have any friends
at school...

-Just tell him.
-...and I have no one
to play chess with.

I've been practicing
my opening move.

-You remember my opening move?
-Seldon.

SELDON: Yes?

-I miss you.
-I miss you too.

I wish you were here.

Seldon,
this is Mrs. Levin again.

I need you to write something
down. Can you do that?

Okay.

I want you to write down
that Mrs. Levin called

because of what happened
in Louisville,

-to see if things are okay.
-What happened in Louisville?

Seldon, just eat your snack
and tell your mother

-that I called, okay?
-I've had enough Fig Newtons.

All right. Seldon,

but you'll remember to give her
the note that I called.

If you eat too many,
you feel sick.

(SNAPPISH) Seldon. This is
a very expensive phone call,

and I am going to have
to hang up now.

But I need you to promise me
that you are going to give

your mother the note
that I called

and tell her to call me back.

I promise.

Okay, thank you. Goodbye.

Mrs. Levin.
Is Philip going to visit me?

It's my birthday next week and
I don't have any friends here.

-OPERATOR: Your three minutes
are up, ma'am.
-Seldon.

BESS: This is a hard time
for everyone.

But...

Just tell your mother
that I called and good--

goodbye, okay. Goodbye.

-SELDON: Goodbye.
-(PHONE HANGS UP)

-(CAR RUMBLES)
-MAN: Okay, keep it straight.

All right, keep coming.
You got room.

-That's good, that's good.
-(BRAKES SQUEAK)

(GRUNTS)

Come on.

(VEHICLE DOOR CLOSES)

(MACHINERY DRILLING, WHIRRING)

Pulse navigation,
as per your training.

(SIGHS)

Like I said.
I work logistics.

(SAW BUZZES)

RADIO ANNOUNCER 4:
As anti-Jewish violence,

in the wake of Winchell's
murder in Kentucky,

-has spread to at least
nine other US cities...
-(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

...as predominantly
Jewish neighborhoods
have been targeted.

Synagogues
and Jewish-owned businesses

have been damaged or looted,

and 46 deaths are blamed
on disturbances nationwide.

In East St. Louis,
rioting spread

to predominantly
Negro neighborhoods,

and three lynching's are
reported to have occurred.

The newly formed
Congress of Racial Equality...

(SCOFFS)

...is urging Negroes everywhere
to stay home from work...

Bess.

(RADIO ANNOUNCEMENT CONTINUES)

-TOMMY CUCUZZA: Hey, paisan.
-Come in. Please.

For you.

Uh...

It's very nice of you,
Mr. Cucuzza, but...

(CHUCKLES) I really don't know
how to shoot.

Well, you pull the trig.

You aim and you shoot.

-You aim and you shoot,
that's it.
-HERMAN: I don't need it.

TOMMY: But if they come around,
how you gon' protect, huh?

RADIO ANNOUNCER 4: Interrupting
with a special bulletin
of an announcement

by New York mayor
Fiorello La Guardia,

that by his order,
and under the protection

of the New York City
Police Department,

the body
of slain radio personality

and presidential candidate
Walter Winchell

will be taken overnight
by train from Louisville

to Pennsylvania Station
in Manhattan, and will then lie

in state at the great hall
of the train station

throughout the morning.

Then, a funeral will be held at
the city's largest synagogue,

Temple Emanu-El.

Announced speakers
at the service will include

the former
President of the United States,

Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

New York City Major,
Fiorello LaGuardia...

(SIREN WAILING)

-(SCRIBBLING)
-(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

Sandy.

Are you sure?

It'll be safe. Trust me.

Forgive me,
but I trust La Guardia.

(FIORELLO LA GUARDIA SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY OVER PA)

We're not going to the funeral?

HERMAN: We tried, but...

God, this crowd.

'Scuse me. Let's see
if we can get a little closer.

Philip, come on.
Come on.

FIORELLO LA GUARDIA:
(OVER SPEAKERS) Walter lacked
every gleaming virtue

demonstrated daily by
the incorruptible test pilot...

I think this is about as close
as we're gonna get.

-But there are several
more differences...
-Hold this. Come here.

-...between the fallible Walter
and infallible Lindy.
-HERMAN: All right.

Our president is a fascist
sympathizer.

That's Mayor La Guardia.
They call him
the "Little Flower."

Walter Winchell was the enemy
of the fascist.

Our president is no lover
of Jews,

and more than likely,
a dyed-in-the-wool anti-Semite,

while Winchell was a Jew

and the unwavering enemy
of the anti-Semite.

And for speaking his mind
in the state of Kentucky,

Walter Winchell was
assassinated by fascists,

who, thanks to the silence

of our strong, silent,
selfless president,

today, run rampant
through this great land.

It can't happen here?

No, it is happening here.

-(MAN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
-And where, I ask you,
is Lindbergh?

Where is Lindbergh?

Where is Lindbergh?

CROWD: (CHANTING)
Where is Lindbergh?

Where is Lindbergh?

(CHANTING CONTINUES)

Where is Lindbergh?

Where is Lindbergh?

Where is Lindbergh?

(CHANTING CONTINUES)

(CLEARS THROAT) With, uh...

regards to the question asked
so cynically

by New York's Mayor LaGuardia,

I have here a prepared statement

by First Lady
Anne Marrow Lindbergh

that she wishes for me to read
at this time.

"Fellow Americans, concerned
at the civil disturbances

that followed Mr. Winchell's
speaking engagements,

and further grieved

that the violence spurred
by those events

has claimed the life
of Mr. Winchell himself,

my husband, early this morning,

took off from Long Island's
Roosevelt Field

to fly to the municipal airport
in Louisville,

the scene of this tragedy,
to directly address the nation,

and to do all that he can

to bring those disturbances
to an end."

And may I only add,
that as a rabbi

and a representative
of the Jewish faith...

I have every confidence
that this president

will do all within his power
to prevent any further harm

from coming to the citizenry.

Thank you.

REPORTER: Rabbi, is there any
statement yet
from the president?

(REPORTERS CLAMOR)

(CAR BRAKES SQUEAK)

MAN:
Go straight through to the back.

About 100 miles ahead of us.

Logistics, Corporal Levin.
Logistics.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

-DRIVER: Rabbi.
-BENGELSDORF: Who's that?

-EVELYN: Wait, wait.
It's my nephew.
-BENGELSDORF: Oh.

Sandy.

Why is this happening?

I-- I can't answer
that question.

I thought that Lindbergh
would be good for everyone,

for the Jews, for everybody--

The riots are not because
of Lindbergh.

If anything, this was Winchell
provoking people.

SANDY: And they killed Winchell.

As wrong as that was,
wasn't it enough for them?

Do they have to smash windows
and kill Jews

who aren't Winchell,
who don't have anything to do
with Winchell?

Sandy,
Lindbergh flew out there today

to make them stop the riots.

He had nothing to do
with Winchell being killed.

He wouldn't want that.

I believe he is a good man.

Evelyn, Sandy, the president
is on the radio from Louisville.

LOUISVILLE MAYOR:
...of Louisville
and all of America.

We are grateful
for your attention

to this traumatic moment
in our city.

CHARLES LINDBERGH:
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

And thank all of you
for coming out

to the airfield today
to greet me.

Well, to answer a question
that was asked, here I am.

And I just would like to make
the following very clear:

our country is at peace.

Our people are at work.

Our children are at school.

I flew down here to remind each
and every one of you of this,

and now, I'm going back
to Washington,

so as to keep things that way.

Thank you.

(APPLAUSE)

RABBI LIONEL BENGELSDORF:
(SCOFFS) Well, that was, uh...

Brief.

Yes, I... confess, it was.

(TRUCK RUMBLING)

(SIGHS)

You realize the range
on this thing

can't be more than 100 miles
in either direction,

-and if he flies on any vector
outside of that--
-That's not your concern.

Your concern is this post.

(GRUNTS)

(STATIC RINGS)

(PLANE RUMBLES)

(PHONE RINGS)

RADIOMAN: Aught-four.

Right.

Go ahead.

Affirmative. Will do.

We're done.

Huh? What? What do you mean?

We're through here.

Aw, shit.

At least we tried.

You have the Chevy.
Your route is above the visor.

-Change of cars waiting for you
just over the Pennsylvania line.
-Yeah.

Let's pack it up. Come on!
Let's go, shut it down!

CONSPIRATOR: Yes, sir.
AGENT: All right, you,
you're coming with me.

All right, I wanna be outta here
in five minutes, fellas.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

-(CAR HONKS)
-F...

(PANTING)

(GROANS)

-(BREATHES HEAVILY) Oh, fuck.
-(BIRDS CAWING)

(TRAIN HORN BLARING)

(CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY)

RADIO ANNOUNCER 5:
State authorities
have dispatched police launches

up and down the Maryland
and Delaware shores.

Additional groups continue to
search beyond the flight path

as there continues to be
no concrete information

of where the president
was headed.

And new theories from London.

Just as the German government
is claiming

that a combined
Jewish-British conspiracy

used Canadian based airplanes
to force down the Spirit

-and kidnap the president...
-Ridiculous.

-They'll believe anything now.
-News now in
from our Washington bureau.

-They'll do anything now.
-...Canada's
suspected involvement

in the President's
disappearance in a decision
to close the northern border.

Acting President Wheeler
is declaring martial law

and enacting a
national curfew...

(PHONE RINGS)

BESS: Hello?

OPERATOR: I have a collect call
from a Seldon Wishnut

in Danville, Kentucky.

-SELDON: Hello!
-OPERATOR: Will you accept
the charges?

-I will, operator.
-SELDON: Mrs. Levin?

-OPERATOR: Go ahead
with your party.
-SELDON: Is that you? Hello?

Mrs. Levin!

My mother's not home.

I haven't eaten.

She's not home, and it's late,

and she wouldn't not come home
for dinner.

Seldon, uh... where did she go?

To the office in Louisville.

Her boss called...

but she said she would
be back for dinner...

if she were alive.

-Seldon. That's enough of that.
-(SELDON SOBS)

You're making yourself
hysterical.

Of course, your mother is alive.

Sh-- She's just late
coming home.

But if she were,
why wouldn't she call?

-She always calls.
-Seldon, please, calm down.

-(SELDON SOBBING)
-What if something happened
to her car,

and she had to pull over
to get it fixed. This is--

It-- It's probably nothing more
than a flat tire.

(SELDON WHIMPERS)

Please. Please.
Please, please you're--

Please, stop crying.

(GUNSHOTS)

She's dead, Mrs. Levin.

Just like my father.

Now both my parents are dead.
(SELDON SOBS)

Seldon.

You must stop.
Seldon, you must listen to me.

You must take something to eat.
That will help you calm down.

Please, just go--
go to the refrigerator

-and get something to eat.
-I ate the Fig Newtons.

There's none left. (SOBBING)

Seldon.
I'm talking about eating a meal.

Your mother will be home
very soon.

But meanwhile,
you can't sit there,

waiting for her to feed you.

Put the phone down.
Go to the refrigerator,

take a look, then come back
and tell me what you have. Okay?

-Okay.
-(GUNSHOT)

I don't see any dinner for me.

Are there Rice Krispies?

Are there Corn Flakes?
Is there milk?

Sure.

Get whichever cereal you like
best.

We'll pretend it's breakfast.

-I like Rice Krispies.
-(CHUCKLES)

Seldon, get the Rice Krispies.

Take out the milk,
take out the juice.

I want you to make breakfast.

Now?

Do as I say, please.
Do as I say.

I want you to eat breakfast.

But... I'm going to hang up
so you can do that.

Is... Is there a clock near you,
Seldon?

Yes, I see a clock on the wall.

It should say that it is
ten minutes after ten o'clock,

and I will call you back
at 10:30, Seldon.

If your mother comes home
before then,

she should call me.

But if she doesn't,

I'm going to call you back
at 10:30. Okay?

-Okay.
-Okay.

Bye for now, Seldon.
Bye for now.

(SIGHS)

(CLAMORING)

Again, again, the First Lady
is counseling

all of our countrymen
to ignore

all unverifiable hypotheses

about her husband's
disappearance

emanating
from foreign capitals.

-(CLAMORING INTENSIFIES)
-And she reminds the public that

in 1926 as an airmail pilot,

the president twice
survived crashes

that demolished his aircraft.

-(REPORTERS CLAMOR)
-And in this moment,

the First Lady
remains unconvinced

by the evidence
of any conspiracy,

Jewish or otherwise,
presented by the vice president

in his justification
for martial law.

Why can't the First Lady
speak for herself, rabbi?

-(REPORTERS CLAMOR)
-REPORTER: Any truth to rumors

Mrs. Lindbergh is too distraught
to make her own decisions

and you are the one acting
for her?

The First Lady is
wholly competent intellectually

and in complete possession
of all her faculties,

And despite the magnitude
of this situation,

neither her reason

nor her judgment is in any way
impaired.

-Is the First Lady even talking
to the vice president?
-Excuse me.

(REPORTERS CLAMOR)

PATROLMAN:
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hold it right there.

Don't you know there's
a curfew?

HERMAN: I heard.

Officer, I live down that block,
right there.

Go home.

Thank you.

CENTRAL: (OVER RADIO)
Central to car eight.

Car eight, ten-nineteen.

Central to car eight.
Car eight, ten-nineteen.

SELDON:
My mother's dead, Mrs. Levin.

I know my mother is dead.

My father is dead,
and now my mother, too.

No, Seldon,
you don't know that.

We don't know anything.

She would've called me.
She would've.

She never doesn't call.

Sandy. How far from
the Mawhinney farm is Danville?

Twenty minutes.

TOMMY: I come up
when I hear the shot.

HERMAN: Thank you.

TOMMY: Yeah, sure.

They say there's a grocery
burned and looted

over in Union City.

Who got shot?

It's Longy Zwillman's guys.

At least two that I saw.

Dead on the ground.

Listen to me, Seldon.
It's late,

and what I need you
to do tonight

is get into your pajamas,
brush your teeth,

and put yourself to bed.

But I promise you,

someone will be coming
to help you.

Either tonight,
or if you fall asleep,

when you wake in the morning.

(WHISPERING) Hey. How are you?

BESS: Someone will be there
to help you.

Either your mother will be there

or someone to help you
get to your mother.

I promise.

-(SELDON SOBS)
-Seldon, do you understand?

-(SIREN WAILING)
-SELDON: Yes.

I promise you, Seldon,
someone will be coming to you.

Now, can you go to bed
by yourself?

-SELDON: Yes.
-Okay.

-(SELDON WHIMPERS)
-If you need me, just call.

I'll be right here all night.

-But someone is coming.
-Okay.

-Good night, Seldon.
-(SELDON SOBS)

I'll talk to you in the morning,
I promise. Good night.

SELDON: Good night.

You were right, Bess.

Shepsie was right.

We should be in Canada now.

I can't live here any longer

not knowing what will happen
tomorrow.

You were right, Bess.

We need to go.

They've closed the borders.

Martial law,
they wanna war with Canada.

There has got to be a way
to get out.

We have to get out.

-Now.
-We can't.

Selma is gone.

(WHISPERS) I think she's dead.

Bess.

We need to go.

Seldon is our responsibility.

Even if he wasn't, he is now.
But he is our responsibility.

(WHISPERING)
Danville was no coincidence.

Sanford, I don't like you
going with him.

But you know the Mawhinney's,
and you know these places,

and your father will need help

with Seldon
on the long trip home.

I am relying on you.

TOMMY: Hey, paisan.

HERMAN: Fascists did it?

Polizia. The cops.

The police killed him?

Yeah, to say to Longy,

"You no put your gun
on the street, only we can.

We the big gang here, not you."

Hey, Tommy, wait.

No.

You.

(CAR ENGINE IGNITES)

RADIO ANNOUNCER 6:
Secretary of the Interior
Henry Ford, this evening,

remarked to reporters
that it was his belief

that Mrs. Lindbergh was under
the sway of what he called

"a Jewish Rasputin,"
a reference to the
Russian peasant monk

said to held sway over
the minds of the Russian czar
and his wife

in the years before
the Bolshevik Revolution.

Secretary Ford called
the presence

of Rabbi Bengelsdorf
around the First Lady...

-My god...
-...a, quote, "prime example
of undue Jewish influence

in our public affairs
at a time of national..."

-(SIREN WAILING)
-HERMAN: Pittsburgh is burning.

-They're turning us away
from the bridge.
-(MAN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

Looks like they're keeping us
on this side of the river.

What do you think?

Route 28 will work.
We'll turn at Millville,

stay north of Pittsburgh,
and cross after.

Okay.

GUARD 1: Keep it moving,
keep it moving.
All traffic this way.

GUARD 2: Keep it coming.
Head east please. Head east.

GUARD 1:
All traffic to the right.

(CRICKETS CHIRP)

HERMAN: What the hell?

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

-FBI AGENT: FBI, get up.
-(EVELYN GASPS)

AGENT: Get up, rabbi.
Get dressed.

Lionel Bengelsdorf,
you're being detained

by the Department of Justice on
suspicion of being a ringleader

of a plot against the government
of the United States.

-My god.
-This is ridiculous.

Get dressed or you're going
in your pajamas, rabbi.

I demand to speak
to the First Lady.

I'll bet you do.

But Mrs. Lindbergh
is at Walter Reed,

having suffered
a severe breakdown.

She's in no condition to speak
to anyone.

You gonna dress?

I will.

We'll wait outside.
Five minutes.

FBI AGENT:
We'll be right out here.

Evelyn, m-- my-- my glasses.

TRAVIS GENTLE: I want
a warrant for the room.
If they've hired a car,

I want a warrant for the car.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(COW SNORTS, MOOS)

Orin.

-ORIN MAWHINNEY: City mouse.
-Country mouse.

MICHAEL MAWHINNEY: Welcome back.

ORIN: Sorry 'bout the lady...
but it's good to see ya.

-SANDY: Yeah.
-Hey.

-Thank you for all of this.
-Of course.

(ORIN AND SANDY CHATTING
INDISTINCTLY)

Boy's up at the house.

How is he?

Quiet as hell.

Boy don't know about his ma.

I left that for y'all
to tell him.

What about her?

Dead.

Klan got her coming back
from Lexington.

Burnt her up in her car.

You'll see it if you go back 35.

Yup.

Bad business.

MICHAEL: Come on. Let's get
some food in ya'll
for the ride back.

(CHICKENS CLUCKING)

-(COW MOOING)
-MISSUS MAWHINNEY: Come now.

-(CLATTERING)
-(CHICKENS CLUCKING)

-(PHONE RINGS)
-(PANTING)

-Where are you now?
-EVELYN BENGELSDORF: Bess?

-Evelyn.
-They've arrested him.

They're gonna come back for me,

-I-- I know it.
-(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT
OVER PA)

Please, please help me.

Why don't you call
von Ribbentrop?

(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT
OVER PA CONTINUES)

Seldon, let's play a game.

-Okay.
-First of all,

I want you to look down
at your shoes and your socks.

Close your eyes.
Now what color were your socks?

-White.
-Good.

Now, what color
were your shoelaces?

Brown.

-How do you win this game?
-SANDY: Memory
and concentration.

-It's like chess.
-Okay.

SANDY:
You're really good at this.

-SHOP OWNER: Here's 55 cents.
-♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

-I can't hold it much longer.
-He'll be out in a minute, son.

-All yours, kid.
-(SELDON PANTS)

KLANSMAN: Like I said, Tom.
That store went up
like kindling.

Good thing you didn't burn down
Patsy's hardware right along
with it.

KLANSMAN: You ain't kiddin'.

Took a beating just fine.

-You have a good night, Sam.
-(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

-Seldon.
-SELDON: What?

-Please hurry up.
-SELDON: Okay.

-KLANSMAN: Night, Tom.
-(DOOR CLOSES)

-♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING) ♪
-(CRICKETS CHIRPING)

(CAR DOOR CLOSES,
ENGINE IGNITES)

(WHISPERING)
Hey. Come on. Come on!

Seldon, now.

Come on.

-Dad. Dad, did you--
-Come on. Get in the car.

Get in the car, get in the car
now. Come on. Come on, Seldon.

Jump in the backseat there,
watch your fingers.

Okay. All right, here we go.

Okay, it's all right.
It's all right.

POLICEMAN:
All right, steer wide.

Just go wide.

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)

(FIRE CRACKLES)

It's all right. It's okay.

(FURIOUS KNOCKING DOOR)

PHILIP LEVIN: Who is it?

EVELYN: Philip.
Philip, it's Evelyn.
It's your Aunt Evelyn.

Please open the door.

EVELYN: (QUAVERING) Oh, Philip.
(SNIFFLING)

Bess! Bess!

They're after me.
I know they are.

I have to hide.
You have to hide me.

-You stupid girl.
-(EVELYN SOBS)

Bess. I... I'm in danger.
I'm afraid.

Don't you think
that we're afraid, too?

Don't you think
that we're in danger, too?

You...

-selfish little bitch.
-(YELPS)

We're all afraid,
people are dead!

Evelyn, people are dead.

They're going to arrest me,
they'll torture me, Bessie.

-Because I know the truth.
-What truth?

Lindbergh is alive.

They're blackmailing him,
the Germans.

-They have his son.
-What?

-Are you insane?
-Bess, please!

Go.

You can't stay here.

Go!

-Philip, please.
-How dare you.

(SCREAMS) You go! Get out!

EVELYN: (SOBBING)
Bess! Bess!

(CRYING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

BILLY SCHAPP:
Where the hell have you been?

(PANTING) Am I family?

I'm askin, am I family?

-(PANTING) Of course you are.
-ALVIN: (WEAKLY) Okay.

(PANTING)

Then I've been home
for the last three days,

sick, all right?

Uh... Minna, Minna, Minna,
you took care of me, right?

If anybody asks,
I've been home sick.

I never left the damn place.
Yeah?

-SCHAPP: Who's gonna ask?
-What happened, Alvin?

Minna... where was he?

Sick. At the house. With me.

(MINNA WHIMPERS)

(SOBBING) Bess. Bess. Please.

Evelyn, you have to leave.

Where? Where?

Where will I go?

I don't know, Evelyn.

Bess...

(EVELYN SOBS)

You can know this...

that I will always love you.

But I will never forgive you.

Don't come back here. Ever.

Bess, I didn't want for any
of these things to happen.

I didn't do anything wrong.

(SNIFFLES)

SANDY:
Should we wake him to eat?

Nah, let's let him sleep.

Who's he gonna live with?

With us. Until we can find
some of his family.

Your mother thinks he has
an aunt over in Brooklyn,

but, uh...

I don't know.

-Bologna with mayonnaise.
-On white bread.

I'll be goddammed.
They're tryin' to kill us.

(CHUCKLES)

This microphone here?

ENGINEER: Yes, ma'am.
Just say a few things

so I can set a level.

Hello, my fellow Americans.

♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

ENGINEER:
That's fine, Mrs. Lindbergh.

My fellow Americans:

this is Anne Marrow Lindbergh,
addressing you live

from a radio station
near our nation's capital.

I understand that some
of our broadcasting networks

have been alerted
to these remarks,

and so, you are hearing
my words as I speak them.

I'm speaking today because
some of your countrymen,

who are loyal to my husband's
administration, helped obtain

my release from the US Army's
Walter Reed Hospital,

where I was unlawfully detained

on orders
of the acting president.

I'm grateful
for that loyalty.

Not only to myself
and my husband,

but to our government of laws.

My fellow Americans,
my countrymen,

unlawfulness...

on the part of America's
law enforcement agencies

cannot and will not be allowed
to prevail.

In my husband's name,

I ask that no further violence
be visited upon Americans,

regardless of their race,
religion, or national origin,

and that the men and women
of this great country

do all we can to make amends
for the wounds done

to innocent people

in these past days
and weeks of civil unrest.

I ask the FBI to release
all of those arrested

on charges of conspiring
to harm my husband

and to restore their
full rights as citizens.

There is not
a shred of evidence

that a single detainee
is in any way responsible

for whatever befell
my husband and his plane.

I ask all National Guard units
to disarm and disband

and for our guardsmen
to return to civilian life.

I ask the Congress
of the United States

to initiate proceedings
to remove from office

the current acting president
of the United States

and to appoint a new president
in accordance

with the Presidential
Succession Act of 1886.

I ask the congress to authorize
a presidential election

that will coincide with
the congressional election,

scheduled for the first Tuesday

after the first Monday
of November.

I ask no more
of the American people

than that they follow my example
and refuse to accept

or support government conduct
that is indefensible.

Liberty and justice
will be restored,

and those who have violated
the Constitution

of the United States shall now
be addressed in strict keeping

with the law of the land.

ROOSEVELT: (OVER RADIO)
...Hope that America will come
greatly through

a dark and dangerous time.

That the ship of state
is sturdy and safe.

And that with continued
courage and wisdom

we will safely return it--

-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

ALVIN: Oh!
Oh, look at this little pisher!

Isn't he a beautiful kid?
Isn't he the most beautiful kid?

Where's your brother?

-Welcome.
-Herman.

Alvin.

Oh. Aunt Bess.

(SMOOCHES) And this...
This is Minna.

And yes, your nephew
is marrying up.

That's Minna Schapp, daughter
of Pinball Billy Schapp.

You know,
owner of the steakhouse,

the soon to be lobster house,
managed by yours truly.

(FAKE COUGHS) And half
of the gaming machines

between what, southern Maryland,
northern Jersey?

-MINNA: Please to meet you.
-And you.

Boy, something smells great.

-Yeah.
-Latkes.

Come on,
I'll give you the recipe.

SANDY:
Alvin, is that your car outside?

Who's this? You must have grown
six inches.

Get over here, slugger.
(GRUNTS)

That's my car out front.

I'll give you a ride later
if you want.

(GRUNTS)
I mean, it ain't a Studebaker,

but then what is, huh?

♪ (CANTOR SINGS "L'CHAH DODI") ♪

♪ (SINGING ECHOES) ♪

BENGELSDORF: In time,
gentlemen, you will see

that there's more to this
than we now know.

Lindbergh's child was not
actually murdered

those many years ago.

The corpse found
was of another child

selected by the Nazis.

Charles Jr. was in fact
kidnapped,

and has been raised in Berlin
as a model Hitler Youth.

This being done to exploit
Mr. Lindbergh's fame.

The family has been tortured
by this secret.

Blackmailed, every maneuver
in his campaign,

every divisive circumstance
that resulted

was engineered by the Nazis.

It's been unspeakably cruel,
to the Lindbergh's,

while trapped
in this vicious hoax.

They have resisted
the Nazi demands

against our people
as much as they dared.

But it was not enough.

So, Lindbergh was ordered back
to Berlin

to allow Wheeler,
a true enemy of democracy

to ascend to the presidency
in time, gentlemen.

-All of this
will become apparent--
-Rabbi!

We must talk frankly.

See, the thing
about the fight game,

if you understand it, is that

unless someone's
rigged something,

you can look at a couple of pugs

and just know
who has the advantage.

I mean, these certain guys
with certain styles,

-they're gonna last 15--
-SELDON: May I be excused?

BESS: Certainly, Seldon.

(CHUCKLES) Anyway. Um...
These guys,

they're not gonna let themselves
get hit the same way

as the bums do.
And when they are hit,

they're the kind who've
shown you they can take it,
which is why

I'm gonna be backing this one
Italian fella from Camden.

Ugh! There's money in him!
I can smell it.

-HERMAN:
So, a big Plymouth automobile.
-(CHUCKLES)

A sharpie's suits,

-the scum of the earth
for your friends.
-Oh.

-BESS: Herman.
-HERMAN:
This is what it comes to, Alvin?

(SCOFFS) Do you--
Do you know? Do you care?

Does it bother you at all
what's happened in this country?

It did once.

But now, no. Now, it's...
big cigars and motor cars

and big bets on Italian boxers.

You have any idea
what's happening

to the Jews in this country?
What's at stake now

-in this coming election?
-The Jews?

I wrecked my life for the Jews.

I lost my fucking leg
for the Jews.

I lost my fucking leg for you.

All your talk about Lindbergh
and how goddamn awful he was,

but did you ever do anything
about it?

Huh?! Did you ever get off
your ass and fight?

-Or were you
just gonna sit there...
-Boys.

...by the fucking radio,

complaining
for the rest of eternity?!

And you're gonna talk to me
about the Jews? You?!

-If Lindbergh was still here--
-(TUTS) But he's not.

-Is he?
-Thank God.

Is that what you think?
That the Jewish God, huh?

Yahweh himself waits
until the time is right

to put a plague on Pharaoh
or part the sea,

so you can sit on your ass
and wait for God.

You think it's too easy.

To speak out
against a Lindbergh.

-Do you think it doesn't cost?
-To speak?!

When the fuck do you people
ever act?!

Huh? When it's too late.

When the damage is already done.

All you people ever do is talk.

-(SPITS)
-MINNA: Alvin!

-(GLASS CRACKS)
-BESS: Herman!

-Herman, stop!
-(BOTH MEN GRUNTING)

MINNA: Alvin, no!

-(WOMEN SCREAM)
-SANDY: Dad!

-BESS: Herman!
-(GRUNTING)

-Herman, stop! Stop!
-SANDY: Dad!

Oh, God! Alvin!

Stop!

Herman! Oh, God! Alvin!

BESS AND MINNA: (SCREAMING)
Stop!

(PANTING)

BESS: Oh, Alvin.

Oh.

Oh, my God. Sandy, get some ice.

Philip, go to your room.

♪ (MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

(WINCES)

(PLANES FLYING OVERHEAD)

♪ ("THE HOUSE I LIVE IN
(THAT'S AMERICA TO ME)"
BY FRANK SINATRA PLAYS) ♪

♪ What is America to me? ♪

♪ A name, a man
Or a flag I see ♪

♪ A certain word ♪

♪ Democracy ♪

♪ What is America to me? ♪

VOTER: This has been my precinct
for 20 years.

-STAFFER:
But you're not on the list.
-What list?

I don't know what to tell you.

Is this Rubble Street address
correct?

♪ The grocer and the butcher ♪

-♪ And the people that I meet ♪
-Lying bastards!

♪ The children
In the playground ♪

♪ The faces that I see ♪

♪ All races and religions ♪

♪ That's America to me ♪

-What are you doing with that?
-It's broken.

It's broken? What do you mean
it's broken? How?

♪ The things I see about me ♪

♪ The big things
And the small ♪

♪ That little
Corner newsstand ♪

♪ And the house a mile tall ♪

♪ The wedding
And the churchyard ♪

♪ The laughter and the tears ♪

♪ The dream
That's been a growin' ♪

-♪ For 150 years ♪
-MAN: (ON RADIO)
America needs Roosevelt!

♪ The place I work in ♪

♪ The worker by my side ♪

♪ The little town or city ♪

♪ Where my people
Lived and died ♪

♪ The howdy and the handshake ♪

♪ The air of feeling free ♪

♪ And the right
To speak my mind out ♪

♪ That's America to me ♪

-(ANNOUNCER TALKING ON RADIO)
-♪ The town I live in ♪

♪ The street
The house, the room ♪

♪ The pavement of the city ♪

♪ Or a garden all in bloom ♪

♪ The church
The school, the clubhouse ♪

♪ The million lights I see ♪

♪ But especially the people ♪

♪ That's America ♪

-♪ To me ♪
-RADIO ANNOUNCER: We are getting
the first reports

from precincts in Maryland,
Virginia and Connecticut.

In South Eastern Virginia,
the Norfolk-Hampton Roads area,

and several precincts that
Charles Lindbergh won handily

two years ago, we're seeing
some conflicting results
early on.

♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪