All language subtitles for The.Making.of.the.Mob.New.York.S01E08.End.Game.WEB-DLx.264-J4U-eng

(narrator) Previously on "The
Making of the Mob: New York"...

Charles "Lucky" Luciano
has transformed himself

from a low-level thug

to become the most powerful
mob boss in the American Mafia.

Deported to Italy by the U.S. government,

Luciano still finds a way

to assert his power in the United States.

We're gonna be bringing a lot
more heroin into the country.

(narrator) And with the money pouring in,

he invests heavily in Bugsy Siegel's vision

of Las Vegas.

(Siegel) I see people, hotels,

casinos and money.

Lots of money.

(narrator) But the plan backfires.

(Luciano) Meyer, this isn't good.

There's a lot of money unaccounted for.

(narrator) And Siegel
pays the ultimate price.

(gunshots)

With one of his original crew dead,

another threat emerges
from Luciano's inner circle.

(Genovese) You're holding me down, Charlie.

How's it feel to know you're
never going back to New York?

(grunting)

(narrator) As disgraced mobster

Vito Genovese fights to regain power,

breaking ties with Luciano

and joining forces with
the rising underboss...

So, what are you waiting for?

The right opportunity.

(narrator) to take control of the Mafia.

♪

(man) ♪ This ain't no time

♪ To feel sorry for myself ♪

♪ I can't help it

♪ 'Cause there's nobody else

♪ And I walk these streets

♪ With your name on my tongue ♪

♪ But I dare not speak

♪ Only there it belongs

♪ There's got to be a better way ♪

♪ Better way

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(engine idling)

(Mangano) No! No! Don't do this!

- Don't do this!
- Start walking.

- No!
- Keep walking,

Listen to me!

(gunshot)

(gunshots)

(narrator) In April of 1951,

Vincent Mangano, the head of one
of the five New York families,

is murdered.

For the first time since
the Commission was formed

20 years earlier by
Charles "Lucky" Luciano,

a mob boss has been
violently removed from power.

The hit on Mangano was
ordered by his underboss,

Albert Anastasia,

so he could take control of the family.

The Commission, this was
really to protect each family,

so that they had a certain
type of respect and control.

And for a while, it worked.

(man) Hey, get in here.

(Sal Polisi) But, I mean,
everybody wanted to move up.

(narrator) 4,000 miles away,

Lucky Luciano was in exile in Italy,

and is forced to watch his
criminal empire turn to chaos

as gangsters begin vying for power.

With no hope of returning to America,

Luciano must rely on his
advisor, Meyer Lansky,

and acting boss of the Luciano
crime family, Frank Costello,

to keep his operation intact.

I want what I said,
specifically what I said,

on the official record.

(narrator) But after Costello's
disastrous testimony to the U.S. Senate,

the other families
start to see him as weak.

And Vito Genovese has
teamed up with Carlo Gambino

to try to reclaim his position

at the head of the Luciano family.

(Selwyn Raab) Vito Genovese comes
back to America, he's very envious.

There's a lot of evidence, he felt that

he had been shortchanged,

and he isn't getting a
fair share from Costello,

and he just figures he deserves the job.

(narrator) With Genovese
gunning for his position,

Frank Costello begins to
crack under the pressure.

♪

(heartbeat pounding)

(car backfiring)

(Sal Polisi) The worst part of
the mob was always the threat

of being killed by your own kind.

So, you have this weight that
you're carrying around with you.

You can only put so much weight on a table,

and eventually, it's gonna break.

(Costello) Can't talk to anybody.

I'm not even supposed to be talking to you.

Go on.

I gotta wake up every morning
and look over my shoulder, Doc.

Why do you have to look over your shoulder?

Doc, I'm gonna be walking
down the street one day,

I'm gonna get a bullet in my head.

What am I supposed to do?

Tell me what to do.

(Sal Polisi) Going to a psychiatrist

would have been perceived as weakness.

Who would believe a mobster
would go to a psychiatrist?

It sounds like he's setting
himself up to be killed.

(narrator) But Costello isn't able to keep

his visits a secret for long.

It's been a rough couple of months, Frank.

I know that.

We're busting our asses out there.

So am I, trust me.

That's not how we hear it.

Look, Frank, nobody has
challenged your authority.

But a shrink?

You guys are blowing this whole
thing way out of proportion.

I was just doing what I need to do

to lead this family.

Listen, Frank, you do what you gotta do.

But remember, we will, too.

(phone ringing)

Hello?

I need muscle. I need Moretti.

What... Frank, but what's going on?

Moretti always had Lucky's back,

and he's never backed down from anybody.

You gotta tell me what's going on, Frank.

I don't know.

But I'm not gonna sit around to find out.

I'll make the call.

(narrator) To keep himself safe,

Costello's enlisted the
protection of Willie Moretti,

a ruthless mobster from
New Jersey with deep ties

to Luciano and his crime family.

♪

With an army of 60 thugs,

Moretti and his crew protect
Costello around the clock...

guaranteeing that a hit on the acting head

of the Luciano family
will be next to impossible.

Vito Genovese and his new ally,

Mangano family underboss, Carlo Gambino,

meet secretly to strategize.

Salute. Salute.

(narrator) To get to Costello,

the gangsters will have to
eliminate his protection.

Why does Moretti have an
army protecting Frank Costello

all of a sudden?

Me.

You know, Carlo,

if we wanna be legitimate bosses,

we gotta get the
Commission to give its okay.

And Frank's on the damn Commission.

It's still the Luciano family.

So, what, Lucky's gonna listen to me?

No, he won't.

But he might listen to me.

(narrator) Gambino realizes
to order a hit on Moretti,

he'll have to convince Luciano

that the mob is better off without him,

and he thinks he has an angle.

For months, Moretti has been
exhibiting strange behavior

and speaking too freely about mob activity.

Many believe his brain may be deteriorating

due to the effects of advanced syphilis.

(bell tolls)

We gotta talk about Moretti.

So, talk.

The man's not well.

He's been shooting his mouth
off to the cops, politicians.

He's lost his mind.

If he's sick, you take him to a doctor.

It's too late for that.

It'd be a mercy killing.

Killing?

You don't kill Moretti.
He's a good friend of mine.

A decent man.

If he dies from the clap, that's one thing.

Someone's gotta make a tough decision here.

Between Moretti and Costello,
the hearings and the press,

our business is going to hell.

And Frank's not doing
a damn thing about it.

You got a problem with Costello now?

It's not just me. It's everyone.

It's the whole damn Commission.

Carlo, I am the Commission.

Charlie, look...

No.

The answer's no.

(narrator) In 1951, Carlo
Gambino and Vito Genovese

are determined to seize
power in the underworld.

To move up in the mob,

they know their next step
is taking out Willie Moretti,

a hit that's been refused by Lucky Luciano.

Now, the gangsters must decide

whether to make a dangerous move,

going directly against Luciano's orders

and eliminating the protector of
his acting boss, Frank Costello.

♪

(gunshots)

(door closes)

(woman screaming)

(narrator) After Gambino and Genovese

defy Luciano and take out Moretti,

Luciano's advisor, Meyer Lansky,

fears the future of the Luciano
crime family is at stake,

and calls a meeting with
influential Commission member,

Joe Bonanno.

The Mangano hit blindsided
us as much as it did you.

I had no idea.

And what about Willie Moretti?

You knew he was protecting Frank.

You knew that Charlie said no.

You knew that everyone knew.

Moretti was losing his mind to syphilis.

You knew that.

He was a risk to all of us.

So...

you're taking sides with Vito, then.

Vito's just doing whatever he needs to do.

As for Frank, now, a lot of guys

think he's not capable to lead anymore.

Then, what about Charlie?

Hmm?

What about the man who made you a boss?

The man who let you live?

You forget about that?

He vetoed the Moretti hit himself.

He's in Italy, Meyer.

And he's never coming back.

(Rich Cohen) One of the reasons
why Meyer Lansky was successful

is because as
counterintuitive as it sounds,

he was honest.

He was an honest criminal.

(phone ringing)

Hello?

Look, it's not good,
Charlie, it's not good.

Bonanno is backing Vito.

The rest of 'em are, too.

They think it's inevitable
and they don't wanna be the guy

to stand in his way.

I'm sorry, Charlie. I
don't know what else to do.

♪

(narrator) With Luciano's
influence waning in New York,

Gambino believes the time has
come to take on Frank Costello.

But first, he'll need to convince Genovese

that this is the moment
they've been waiting for.

(Genovese) What's going on with Frank?

The guy's losing his mind
over here, all right, Carlo?

(Gambino) We're gonna have to
move on this sooner or later.

We're gonna deal with Costello.

Frank's falling apart. We got no choice.

(narrator) For Genovese, following
through with Gambino's plan

means taking out a man
he's known for decades...

Hey, Frank. Vito.

I want you to meet my
associate, Charlie Luciano.

Nice to meet you. Likewise.

(narrator) and a member
of his original crew.

On May 2nd, 1957,

Genovese orders notorious
hitman Vinny "The Chin" Gigante

to kill Frank Costello.

♪

(gun cocking)

(gunshot)

(gunshot)

(narrator) In May of 1957,

Frank Costello was shot in the head

and left to die.

Despite taking a .38 caliber bullet

at near point-blank range,

Costello miraculously survives.

Hi, Frank.

You come to finish what you started?

(door closes)

(sighs)

Doesn't have to be this way.

You could retire.

No one's gonna come after you.

I'll make sure of it.

I'm not gonna run out on Charlie.

You're no good to him anymore.

The Commission's done with you.

It's just the way it happened.

(sighs)

- Sorry about this...
- Shut up, Vito.

(narrator) Although wounded and vulnerable,

Frank Costello refuses to back down.

After recovering from
the assassination attempt,

he reaches out to the one boss
of the New York crime families

that he thinks will still be
loyal to him, Albert Anastasia.

Vito won't quit till
I'm dead and he's boss.

I need to know you have my back.

I got your back.

As long as you got mine.

Anastasia doesn't like
the idea that Genovese

tried to kill Costello.

So, they have a mutual agreement.

(narrator) While Costello and Anastasia

form an alliance to protect
the Luciano crime family...

Anastasia's ambitious
underboss, Carlo Gambino,

and Vito Genovese step up their own plan.

He's gotta be scared to death.

I mean, the guy's heart
wasn't in it before.

What about Charlie?

Oh, screw Charlie.

No one gives a rat's ass
what he has to say anymore.

He's got some loyal men.

He's got Anastasia.

Charlie gives Albert the green light.

(sighs)

The old generation believed in loyalty

and not turning on their friends.

And the new generation that came in,

um... they'd do a hit in a minute.

Yeah, that's beautiful.

Good. Can I get your cap for you?

There you go, thank you.

(clears throat)

All right.

(groans)

How's the family?

Good, good. They're not annoying me

too much, which is always good.

I understand. Married myself.

All right.

Just relax and let me do my job.

Excuse me, sir, I need to
go in the back for a moment.

All right. Don't be too long.

♪

(gunshots)

(chair squeaking)

(phone ringing)

All right.

We're not gonna have to
worry about Anastasia anymore.

(narrator) In partnership
with Vito Genovese,

Carlo Gambino has successfully eliminated

the head of his family, Albert Anastasia.

It's one of the most brazen
murders in Mafia history.

A boss of one of the five New York families

has been gunned down in broad daylight.

Albert Anastasia goes to
get a shave and a haircut,

and he gets killed in a barber chair.

And it's very much out in public.

It's not a mob hit where
they've taken you in the woods.

It's happened right there in
the middle of New York city.

That's one of the reasons it's iconic.

It's so visible.

(narrator) Gambino's
bold plan has paid off.

By taking out Anastasia, he's
gone from mid-level gangster

to the head of his own crime family.

Congratulations.

(narrator) And the Gambino family is born.

(Selwyn Raab) Carlo
Gambino is a prime mover.

Genovese and Gambino were close.

They decide they have to hit Anastasia.

It clears the way for both of 'em.

(narrator) After an attempt on his life

and the murder of his only
ally on the Commission,

Frank Costello does the unthinkable.

With Lucky Luciano's approval,

Costello ends his 20-year
reign as the head of the family.

(Rudy Giuliani) Frank goes
and visits the Commission,

and says, "Look, I wanna retire.

I will have nothing to
do with this ever again."

Frank Costello retired from
the Mafia as an elder statesman.

Only one that I can think
of, at least in those days,

that was ever allowed to retire.

And the reason they trusted him
was, he didn't give up the guy

who tried to... Tried to knock him off.

♪

(narrator) Two decades after
losing his position as acting boss,

Vito Genovese forcefully takes his seat

at the head of the Luciano crime family.

(Genovese) Take this
away. Bring me another one.

(narrator) And with Luciano in Italy

and Costello out of the picture,

Genovese calls a secret meeting

to announce the creation of
the Genovese crime family.

In the fall of 1957,
Genovese invites mobsters

from around the country
to upstate New York.

(Selwyn Raab) Vito Genovese decided

there would be an emergency meeting

of the major crime bosses
from coast to coast,

in a deserted farm area
called Apalachin, New York.

There was no real law enforcement,

and they thought they would be very safe.

Hey, Tommy, how are ya? Get over here.

How are you?

What do you think of the place? Nice, huh?

It's like being on vacation, right?

(laughs)

- Congratulations, Vito.
- Thank you.

(Genovese) He did pass
away. he did pass away.

Hey, there he is. How you doing, pal?

How you been, all right?
Good to see you again.

(Michael Green) The mob gets
together to divvy up, in a sense,

what Anastasia had left behind,

and what Luciano isn't
able to control so well,

now that he's back in Italy.

Cheers to that, guys.

Get a drink, get a drink. Have a good time.

We're here to have a good time, celebrate.

Thanks for coming up, appreciate it.

(Gay Talese) Those who
were heads of families,

they had a... an ego, a real sense of self.

They saw themselves as an alpha male,

a leader, and they had
that... that belief in self.

Hey, how are you, pal?

What are you doing? (laughing)

(narrator) Genovese's lavish party

in honor of himself draws more
than 100 major crime figures.

But the big get-together
draws the attention

of more than just the mob.

And what started as a celebration

is about to become a disaster.

♪

(narrator) In the fall of 1957,

Vito Genovese calls the most
powerful mobsters in America

to a meeting at a secluded
farmhouse in upstate New York...

to confirm his status
as the head of the Mafia.

How's it going?

Thanks for coming up, appreciate it.

(narrator) But the gathering
doesn't go unnoticed.

(Selwyn Raab) What happened
was, a state trooper

noticed there was a lot of strange people

checking into a motel,
and a lot of big limousines

were pulling into this town
and all heading for this farm.

And he decided this was
worth some... some inspection.

And he called for backup
from the state police

to surround this farmhouse.

(overlapping chatter)

(man) Cops! Cops! Get out of here!

Get out of here, there's cops! Go, go, go!

(...)!

♪

Freeze! Ahh!

(handcuffs clicking)

(Selwyn Raab) There were major
crime bosses and their minions.

About 70 people in
there started scattering.

Some of them were rounded up,
and it led to some indictment.

It put the Mafia, really on page one.

This was terrible.

(narrator) 20 gangsters are arrested

and charged with obstruction of justice,

making headlines around the country.

And while the charges are later dropped,

the meeting that was meant to announce

his dominance of the Mafia

has turned into a major
embarrassment for Genovese.

(Michael Green) Mobsters do make mistakes.

The question is whether they
can overcome the mistake.

Vito Genovese made the
mistake of getting noticed,

and it is going to go a long way

toward reducing Genovese's
impact and influence.

(narrator) For Luciano,
the botched Mafia summit

is just another blemish on
Genovese's list of failures.

And the unpredictable mob
boss is threatening to destroy

everything Luciano has built.

(Richard Hammer) Luciano felt that
Genovese had brought disrepute to the mob.

He wanted Genovese done, finished.

(narrator) But Luciano is
about to get the help he needs

from an unexpected visitor...

The man who's been Genovese's closest ally,

Carlo Gambino.

After the Apalachin debacle,
Gambino sees an opportunity

to use Genovese's failure to his advantage.

We need to make some changes.

What do you wanna do, Carlo?

Send him away for life.

Put him behind some bars
in a cage where he belongs.

(narrator) Luciano realizes he's working

with a master strategist.

He's watched Gambino rise through the ranks

of the New York Mafia
by any means necessary,

the same way Luciano did decades earlier.

And now, the gangster is
about to make his final play.

Luciano has every reason
to get rid of Vito Genovese.

But he knows if he does, he's
effectively giving Gambino

control of the American Mafia.

(narrator) Lucky Luciano must decide

whether getting rid of
Vito Genovese for good

is worth giving up the
power of the New York Mafia

to Carlo Gambino.

For years, Carlo Gambino has
been Luciano's bitter rival.

Having arranged the murders
of two of his allies,

Willie Moretti and Albert Anastasia,

and ordering the failed hit

on one of Luciano's closest friends,

Frank Costello.

But Luciano respects the
gangster's fearless tactics.

Costello may have been smart,

and Genovese may have been cutthroat.

But Gambino was both, just like Luciano.

Genovese's reign as boss
is about to come to an end.

Gambino and Luciano create a plan

to get Vito Genovese out
of the picture for good.

International call, New York.

♪

(Rich Cohen) Lucky Luciano conspired
to put Vito Genovese in prison

by sort of dropping a dime on him...

making an anonymous call

about he was dealing heroin in America.

(narrator) Vito Genovese
is found guilty of smuggling

and distributing narcotics,

and is sentenced to 15 years in prison.

In one swift move, Luciano has
gotten rid of his biggest rival

and placed the organization he created

into the hands of Carlo Gambino,

the man he believes is most able

to lead the Mafia into the future.

With Luciano's blessing,

Carlo Gambino becomes the
new head of the Commission...

ushering in a new era
of the American Mafia.

While he's given up his power,

Luciano remains influential
in the underworld,

and settles into a lasting relationship...

Good morning.

(narrator) with Italian
dancer Igea Lissoni.

(Richard Hammer) Luciano never married.

In fact, he didn't really have
a long-standing relationship

until he was in Italy with Igea.

(speaking Italian)

(Richard Hammer) I think
Lucky's involvement with Igea

may be the one really close attachment

he had ever formed.

This was someone he cared about deeply.

(narrator) On January 26th, 1962,

three years after Igea passes...

and having lived a life unlike any other,

Charles "Lucky" Luciano dies
suddenly of a heart attack

in Naples at the age of 64.

News of the criminal kingpin's
death spreads quickly.

Hundreds line the streets of
Naples to pay their respects

to the man responsible for
creating the modern Mafia.

And nearly 16 years after being deported,

Luciano finally gets his wish

of returning to America one last time.

(Gambino) I'd like to say a
few words about a great man

and a dear friend.

Salvatore Lucania.

Charlie Luciano.

Lucky.

I've known many people in my days,

but there was only one time when I knew

I was in the presence of greatness.

And that's when I stood in
a room with Lucky Luciano.

Lucky Luciano worked his
way up from the bottom.

And when he became the boss,

he had the respect of
everybody, from all the families,

because of how he worked his way up

and was able to, one,
make money for everybody,

keep everybody alive, take
care of everybody's family.

(narrator) The death of Luciano
signals the end of an era,

as one by one, his original
crew begins to fade into history.

Vito Genovese spends the
rest of his life in prison,

where he'll continue
to run his crime family

until he dies in 1969.

He's buried just 100 feet from his boss

and greatest rival, Luciano.

(Rudy Giuliani) Vito
Genovese probably thought

that he was the closest thing
to another Lucky Luciano.

I don't think Vito rose to that level.

(narrator) Frank Costello lives
out his retirement in peace,

remaining an influential
figure in the New York Mafia.

To understand Frank Costello,
you have to understand

that he craved respect.

He had one foot in the underworld,

one foot in the legitimate world.

And as a result, Frank
Costello becomes known

as the "Prime Minister of the Underworld."

(narrator) In 1973, Costello passes away

in his Manhattan apartment.

Meyer Lansky retires to Miami Beach,

where he lives well into his old age.

If I were president, I
would have named Meyer Lansky

Secretary of State and
Secretary of the Treasury.

Never mind that he can't have both jobs.

The Treasury, he would have
gotten the budget balanced.

State, we could have sent him

to the Middle East, he
would have solved it.

I'm not going to say
that I would have agreed

with everything Meyer Lansky did,

but I would say that I wouldn't have minded

having him on my side.

(narrator) Lansky dies in 1983

with only $37,000 to his name,

although the FBI believes he stashed away

more than 300 million
in secret bank accounts.

In just over a half a century,

Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello,

Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel,

and Vito Genovese worked together to become

the most successful criminals
the world has ever known,

organizing crime into a
multimillion-dollar industry

and leaving behind a legacy
that forever changes America.

(H.W. Brands) The Mafia
became an avenue to success.

And in its own way, it was a recapitulation

of the American dream.

You come to America,

you work hard, you work smart,

and in time, success
rewards your endeavors.

There is a certain ruthlessness.

There's a certain willingness
to do whatever it takes.

And they're surviving on their wits.

They're surviving on their guile.

And these were the charismatic mobsters.

(Rich Cohen) The funny
thing about the Mafia

is there's all this mythology around it

about Sicily and the old world.

Really, the Mafia that we
know is as American as jazz.

It's about this mixed group of guys.

They turned crime into big business.

(gunfire)

(Rudy Giuliani) This
street level group of thugs

organized into a very
sophisticated organization.

It infiltrated the unions,
it infiltrated politics.

It infiltrated Hollywood.

I can't think of another example

of an organized crime group

that had the grip the Mafia had on America.

Totally criminal, totally amoral,

totally horrible, but totally brilliant.