All language subtitles for Target The Corruptors - S01E26 - A Mans Castle

Mid pleasures and palaces,
there's no place like home.

So go the words of an old and
honorable song. Even slums such as these.

Home, man's castle.

Refuge, beautiful words, where
mercy and truth are met together.

I was doing a series on slums and
slumlords when this building came to my attention.

This one, over a hundred years old,

had been owned by more
than 30 different landlords,

each of whom had made his investment
back in a few years, squeezed it dry,

then passed it on to the next owner.

Home sweet home, where mercy
and truth are met together.

Hello, Lisa.

When Jack's daddy came
home from the office,

Jack ran up to him crying,
Daddy, Daddy, guess what?

Mommy said that if I am a good boy,

I can visit grandmother and
grandfather on their ranch.

I'll slap you right in the head, Pepe.

Hey, shut up, both of you.

Yeah?

Yeah. Hey, listen, you two.
What is this? This is what?

What? What?

She's your sister, he's your brother,
you understand? Oh, you better understand.

I'll break your head for you,
both of you. Now, that kind of talk,

I don't want to hear it. Now,
don't do that. Don't you do that.

I used to talk fresh to Papa, too.
Oh, I'm sorry now. Boy, am I sorry.

Now you be nice to each other, and
you take care of each other, you hear?

Or you'll be sorry later on, believe me.

I'll stay with the kids.

OK.

You listen to Luz, and
you do what she tells you.

You do what she tells you because
you give her a bad time, and wham,

right in the mouth. Don't
you give her no bad time.

You get her mad that she
won't want to marry us, okay?

Now you do everything
right. Trabajo, trabajo.

Go make the coleslaw.

Go to my apartment. My father
will give you an umbrella. Umbrella?

Don't make loose match, chico.

Umbrella. Go to see him.

Hasta luego.

Hasta luego.

Hasta luego.

No, stick face. I told you no, no, no.

It's my job to get that money,
Rodriguez, and I'm gonna get it.

When the judge tell me to give
it to you, I will give it to you.

You'll never get to a judge. No?

Then tell Mr. Pebbles that
he will never get his money.

Don't be stupid, Rodriguez. Listen to me.

The whole bunch of you.

The kid saw the whole thing! What kid?
One of the tenants, he saw the whole thing!

Well, that makes it
kind of rotten for you.

That makes it rotten
for you too, Mr. Bevels.

Now, I want protection, and
I'd better get protection.

I got worries that spread over four
states, and you come to me with your... Now,

Mr. Pebbles, you spend a lot of
money to cover a lot of things.

Now, I want protection, or I'm gonna
tear your clothes off at 42nd and Broadway.

Oh, you'll get protection if
you need it, but as I see it,

you only gotta worry about
the kid. He's a witness.

What do you mean? Kill him?

Oh, my back. What a
fried egg for a brain. Yeah,

yeah, kill him. Then we got two murders.

Well, what then? I told
him to keep his mouth shut.

Didn't you ever hear
about sugar and vinegar?

No, you haven't. Use your charm.
Get on the good side of the kid.

Use that attractive personality of yours.

Befriend the boy. How? Well, I'm
afraid there's only one way for you, money.

How much money?

How much do you value
your hide, dumb head?

Wow, look who's here.

Hello there.

Three hours late. Tell me
something, kid. You like this job?

Go without their coleslaw.

You know what it's like to a
coleslaw lover to eat a roast

beef sandwich without that
little paper cup of coleslaw.

You take your responsibility so lightly.
Where was you, some midnight burly cue?

You better get on the ball, kid. I'll
get somebody else to carry these cabbages.

Hey, what's the matter with you, man?
Can't you tell when a guy is kidding?

Now get out of them wet
threads and go to work.

What's the matter, kid?

Come on, come on. You're
supposed to be laughing,

boy, the happy cat.
What's all this wetness?

Okay, you cabbages, go back to work.

Okay, laughing boy. I don't know what
it is, but nobody's made out of steel.

Get it out of your system.

It helps sometimes.

Man's castle, the abiding
place of our affections.

Refuge, grotto, wherein
we restore our souls.

Close up, the building looked even
worse than it had on the record,

as though nothing, rain, snow, or
wind, could ever dust it clean.

One of the tenants had been
killed in a fall out of the window,

and the police were doing
a routine investigation.

I saw that Cara de Palo come down. Cara
de Palo, he was up there. I know that.

He killed Senor Rodriguez.

Now, look, look, he's the rent
collector. He has a right to be in the building.

Now, you didn't see him push
Mr. Rodriguez. Nobody did.

You're only assuming that this Cara...

What did you call him?

Stikface.

He carries that stick to hit people.
Stikface. Stikface works for a Mr. Pebbles,

and he owns a lot of buildings like this.

140 violations in this one building.
He's broken everything in the law.

The multiple dwelling law.
Blaster fell on my head.

Every plastic broke. Pipes leaking.

Inspectors come from
the building department,

but you know, a few dollars, they go away.

So Mr. Rodriguez tells to
everyone, we've got to do something.

Yeah, Mr. Rodriguez told us to make an
organization, and that's what we did.

He made everybody work together.

A good man, a good leader.

OK, we tried to get Mr. Peebles in court.

So what happens? His lawyer
got too many tricks. Too many.

You know, this thing goes on all over the
city, but it doesn't make a murder case.

Wait, wait, you'll see.

Mr. Rodriguez proposed a plan
to get Mr. Pebbles in court.

For the last three months,

we have taken all of the rent money
and we put it in the bank. Do you see?

That makes Mr. Pebbles very angry.

Encara de palos say he'll break
Mr. Rodriguez's head with his stick.

But we all say, this is not the
way to get there, eh? Go to court,

see what the judge he say. But Cara de
Palo, he come tonight, he wants the money,

and he kill Senor
Rodriguez. That's so low, George.

That's really well said.

Uh, Marino, would you please explain?

Well, in this state, you need a witness.

Even if Stickface
confessed, it wouldn't be enough.

You need what they call
a corroborating witness.

Tito.

Tito, the boy on the top floor.
I saw him talking to Stickface.

All right, all right, I'll talk to him.

Now, wouldn't he come forward and tell
what he knows, if he knows anything?

Hey, Tito, don't run away. I want to
talk to you. Nothing to be scared about.

Let me buy you a cup of coffee, huh?

I know you want to get home. Come
on, just take a couple minutes.

Come on.

You know, the way you take care of
that brother of yours and the girls,

I gotta admire you for that.

I don't see why we can't be friends.

Like now, maybe the kids need something.

Maybe a coat.

Something for the little one, maybe, huh?

You know how kids are, always
needing one thing or another.

I know you probably think you got
me over a barrel. Well, in a way,

you have gotten me over a barrel.

But there ain't anything there for
you if you go yakking to the fuzz.

Think of the kids. Ain't
that the main thing, the kids?

Some key questions for the grand jury.

Is Pebbles a front for a half a dozen
slum-owning real estate corporations?

Are these corporations
fronts for millions in hot money?

Hot money, dear reader, is
untaxed gangster cash looking

for legit investments.
And one more question.

Was the death of Manuel
Rodriguez an accident, or was it murder?

Look what he gives me,
that stick face, now

of all times. Murder he gives me, Marino.

And your man in the buildings department
may not want to issue a vacate order now.

When I say issue, he'll issue.

I need that vacate order when I
walk into the investors' meeting.

We need fresh money. I gotta show him
I got a setup, smooth like fine wine.

I just say that when he
reads this, he'll tell you.

Wait. Not now. Bad time. Later.

I put him in his job. I
wiped his nose for him.

Also, this suggestion
of bribery could cause

a grand jury to issue a subpoena for you.

So I'll disappear for a while. I'll get
word to the man. I want that eviction order.

You mean vacate order.

All right, we'll get a ruling
that the building is unsafe,

giving us the right to evict the
tenants for their own good, pending repairs.

What?

A Mr. Marino to see you.

This might be some kind of provocation.

You can't buy him.

Try to smooth these feathers.

Refuse to see him, and he'll
interpret it his way, in print,

make it cause for World War III.

Send him in.

I'm Herbert T. Flynn, attorney.

Hello.

And this is Mr. Pebbles.

Mr. Marino. Mr. Pebbles.

My attorney advised me
to smooth your feathers,

but that's not why I let you in here.
I wanted to get a good look at you.

And now that I did get a
look at you, I don't like you.

A lot of things you don't like.

There may be some more
before I'm through with you.

Threats, too, huh?

Call them facts.

You're a businessman, real estate.

You're a citizen and a landlord.

All right, landlords have some rights.

Thank you, but I'm not a landlord.

I'm a slumlord, according to you.
Care to make a statement about that?

You go around sniffing with your nose,

and you expect the whole
world to care what you smell.

There have always been people like you,
club women, social workers, bleeding hearts.

They're always hollering, the slums,
the slums, make repairs, make repairs.

You don't know
anything about those people.

What are you going to
tell me, Mr. Pebbles?

That they were living
in huts a few years ago?

With soft drink signs for walls, straw
on the roof, and goats in the kitchen?

Is that your impression?

I'd like to add
something to that. You know,

there are hundreds of
people in this town, big people.

People that you'd be flattered if
they ever asked you out to dinner.

They own places worse than mine.
They're the best people in town.

Well, you finally said
something I agree with.

Look at him.

The power of the press.

With his pad and his pencil, he's
going to change the whole world.

There's always been slums,
and there always will be slums.

The kind that killed Mr. Rodriguez?

Was that my fault?

I lost China, too.

What was Stickface doing in the
building at that time of night?

I wouldn't know. He works for
you? Well, so does Mr. Flynn.

He goes to the theater,
but I don't send him.

Stickface went to see Rodriguez.

He demanded Rodriguez take
that money out of the bank.

Rodriguez refused, and Stickface
shoved him through the window.

I wasn't there. I wouldn't
know. There was a witness.

Mr. Marino, if you're here
on a fishing expedition,

the fish aren't biting.
Well, I'll keep my line out.

I have a lot of patients.

Ooh, that tickles.

Hello.

Hello, I'm Paul Moreno.

Oh, hey, I know you. The newspapers. Mrs.
Clapper showed me what you wrote in there.

Boy, that's pretty good. You'll
give it to him, huh? May I come in?

Sure, sure. Come in.

Hey, something smells good.

Ask Bustello. You like a cup?

What can I know? Get a cup, Luce.

Uh, I'm Tito.

Hello, Tito. Hello. And
this is Luce. Hello, Luce.

Hello.

Luce means light, doesn't it?

Yes. And this one here, this
little monster, this is Hanna-Veva.

Hello, Hanna-Veva. How are you?

Fine. How are you?

That tickles.

That tickles, huh? Hey, what?
Wait your turn. He wants to shave.

Sit down, sit down.

Oh, thanks.

Luce, aren't you the
daughter of Mr. Rodriguez?

Yes.

We're going to get married soon.

She's got nobody now.

Well, she'll have you. Yeah, when you
got me, boy, you got something, huh?

Tonight is a rosary for Lucy's father.

Hey, you cry all the tears,
then you cry no more tears, okay?

Man, I think that is a pretty good
haircut, huh? That is beautiful, huh?

Okay, kid.

Okay, kid.

You pay the cashier.
Here, this is for you.

You like Bustelo? Oh, it's real good.

You ever eat mofongo?

No.

Chicharrones? Arroz con
pollo? Arroz con pollo? Oh, sure.

But you never taste mine
the way I make it. I know.

Hey, I'll tell you what.

You come tonight. Tonight you come,

and you're going to taste
something you go out of your mind. Well,

I had a date with the
Secretary of State, but I'll break it.

Tito, don't you have a job?

Oh, I work nights in a coastal place.
I'm going to go to sleep pretty soon now.

I sleep in the daytime, you know,
so I can take care of the kids.

Alina and Pepe, they're in school now, so
a night job is good. You have no parents?

My father died four years ago,
and my mother died two years ago.

And you took over?

Oh, I was a bum, man.

My father was always yelling at
me, but I didn't listen to him.

And he never made much money.

But now I'm your
father. Now I see. Hey, I had

to stop being a bum. I wound up in jail.

Who's going to take care of the kids?

Now I work, and I don't
make much money myself.

What kind of work would you like to do?

Well, I like to have a barber shop,
you know? With a television, nice,

wear a white coat. Guys come in, they
look like a slob. I make them feel handsome,

like a gentleman, you know?

You feel good when you get a good
haircut, right? You smell nice, huh? You sure do.

Say, maybe I'll look into
barber college for you.

You want to go?

No kidding. I'll look into it.

Sure, you got connections. You know
people. You know a lot of people.

You know what? I could make you a
partner. I mean, you know, I could pay you back.

If I had a barber, somebody
could get out of this dump.

There's no place to raise kids.
You know, they go out in the street,

they see everything,
and that's rough. Pretty

soon they feel, eh,
what's the use, you know?

Tito, I have the
deepest admiration for you.

I like myself.

Well, you're likable.

You could have blown the
whole thing. You could have said,

let the state take care of the kids.

Well, you know, my mother said to me,
it will be difficult, but be proud.

Let it make of you strong fiber. Let it
give you a higher incentive to achievement.

Paul.

Paul. Oh, hello, Jack.

Jack Fluth, this is Tito.

Luce. Hi. Little Hanna-Veva. Hi.

Hi.

Can you come downstairs and meet a
fella? Okay. So long, Tito. See you tonight.

Nice to meet you all. Okay,
man. 6.30, and don't eat no lunch.

You got a date.

Nice meeting you, Luce. Bye, Hanna-Veva.

Bye.

Won't you step in the car? No, thanks.

Mr. Feldman read your
column. I did, and I called your

office. I got the
message, and, well, here we are.

I'm in the fuel
business. I've supplied Mr.

Pebbleswood fuel for his
tenements for two winters.

He owes me $8,000, and instead of paying
the bill, he ignores it like it'll go away.

Here's what happened. He finally
gave me some notes for the money,

countersigned by his attorney, Flynn.

But that's not the whole story.

It seems Mr. Pebbles has a project, a
beautiful project, and I know his projects.

Mr. Pebbles wants some
fresh money for this project,

and he invited me to a
meeting at his house.

Mr. Feldman, do you plan to
attend this meeting? I do.

Well, do you think it's possible to
take Mr. Flood along as your son-in-law?

Son-in-law?

With that face?

I think he'd better go with my attorney.

Well, Mr. Feldman, before
we shake hands on this,

remember Pebbles is no cream
puff. He has connections. He's big.

And we all know he can be rough.

I know. I know that.

But Mr. Marino, I also
know houses like that.

I was born and raised in them.

You know, my parents came here 60
years ago from Poland, immigrants,

just like these people. The
names are different, that's all.

I know what goes on in those
houses, those little rooms.

Bedding takes up half the space,
room only for eating and sleeping,

and everything else is
moving into the streets.

Bewilderment for
breakfast, bitterness for supper,

sickness, crying,
hate, fear, fear, pebbles.

You think I'm scared of him?

Hey, what's all this? Oh, boy, look
at this, huh? I had to take a cab.

I was dropping this
stuff all over Park Avenue.

Hi, Mr. Reno.

All right, take it easy,
take it easy. Paciencia.

Pepe, that's for you.

And Aveva, that's for you.
And here's another one. Hey,

this one you're going to love.

Oh, let's see. Elena, that's for
you. And Mr. Marino, that's for you.

Hey, well, you think I forget
you, huh? I didn't forget about you.

How could I forget about you?

Oh, come on, open it up.

What are you, a statue?

Where did you get the money?

I was walking in the subway,
you know, and I looked down.

Holy saints, there's a wallet.

I pick it up, I look inside, you know,
I think maybe there's a name, a card.

I get a reward or
something. There's no name,

no cards, no driver's license, no nothing.

So what am I supposed to do? I
mean, there's a hundred bucks in there.

Hey, mira, mira, maíz.

Look.

It's a pretty doll. You like that?

Uh-huh. Tita, would you
make some corn pipes?

Sure.

Luce, put some water on for Lisa.

Come on, open it.

The package, open.

Where did you get the money?

I told you.

Hey, what do you think,
I'm lying or something?

You think I robbed a bank?

Well, come on, now.

You all... You'll need this.

You can wear it to church tonight.

Ah.

Ah?

Ha, ha, ha.

Come on, put it on.

That's pretty sharp.

Hey, stick with me, baby.

With me, stick.

Tito found a lot of money.

Gentlemen, into that hat
goes a half a million dollars.

Each of five of you
gentlemen putting in $100,000.

We acquire $5 million worth of
property for a half a million dollars. Now,

here comes the golden rabbit, gentlemen.

As you may know, The
government allows 2.5% depreciation

annually. That's the whole amount.

The 5 million, not the half million.

Now, 2.5% of $5
million is $125,000 a year.

$125,000 a year, gentlemen, in four years.

We have our investment back in four years.

Now then, let me tell you
what else goes into the hat.

As soon as we acquire the
property, we ask for an order to vacate.

We get the people out. We decontrol.
Decontrol, and then we raise the rents.

15% rent raise of $5 million worth of
property. Turn that over in your minds,

gentlemen. That's not a
figure I got out of a hat, either.

Yes, sir?

I'd just like to know how you
plan to get a vacate order.

That's not an easy thing to do.

Well, it's a very difficult
thing to do for most people.

But I think I can promise
you gentlemen the cooperation

of a certain
strategically placed official.

When we decide to get those
people out, it'll happen.

Mr. Pebbles, I understand
there are rumblings in the

building department caused by
this newspaper man, Marino.

There's even talk of special grand juries.

Now, wouldn't this make your
plan a little shaky just now? No.

This Marino wrote about some of the
people in your building withholding the rent.

The building where that
fellow went through the window.

Gentlemen, let me say this. There are
stumbling blocks, pitfalls in every business.

It's a matter of knowing
how to ride over them.

I guarantee you this, those
people will be gotten out.

Hello, everybody. Oh,
my little sweetheart.

Oh, look at that. Hello.

Hi.

Lewis, somebody's got to
take your father's place.

To collect the money, put it in the bank.

I'll do it. Yeah, good.

Let me look here.

Tito, I spoke to that
detective. He said they found

fingerprints on the ladder. You know who?

Stickface.

I believe Stickface
did push Mr. Rodriguez.

But we need somebody who saw it.

Tito, you went to get an umbrella.

I didn't see Stickface push her father.

What did Stickface say to you on the
steps when I saw you? He was very angry.

He was saying angry words.

Did he threaten you, Tito?

Warn you to keep your mouth shut?

People, did you get the umbrella? No.

Why not?

Listen, Tito, right
after you went out of here

to get the umbrella, we heard a scream.

You went to get the umbrella.

It was just a question
of seconds, but when I

came down the stairs,
you didn't come with me.

You just stood there like a zombie.

You knew Papa was lying out there.

Tito, if Stickface threatened
you... Hey, I'm not scared of Stickface.

He's afraid of a rat, for Pete's sake.
A grown man like that afraid of a rat.

Hey, Luce, this is the kind you're going
to marry, you know? Not with lies, Tito.

I told you, I'm not lying.

Come on, let's go to church.

Pepe, you get your nice new jacket.

I'll put on my new coat.

Well, I guess that does it.

Yeah, they look real
sharp, Pepe. Down you go.

Oh, no, it's on the house.

Thanks, Pepe.

Oh, little monster.

Elena's gonna stay with you, okay?

You'll be nice.

Oh, nice you'll be.

Leave the pipe. We can't smoke in church.

The grand jury may also be
interested in this society note.

Present at the Pebbles
Gathering, wearing a red face, was Mr.

Emery Price of the Billions Department.

Lost in the neighborhood?
Stumped into the wrong place?

Maybe to use the phone?

Let the grand jury decide.

We know all about it, and we know
who it was, too. It was that Feldman,

that blonde guy with him. That's
who it was. We'll get to them.

Take a look at that.

You see that you do.

Right now, you better
leave town for a while.

Somebody's bound to issue a
warrant or subpoena. I'm sure of that.

Hello, yes?

Forget about those vacate notices for
now. We need them now more than ever.

Well, I'm sorry, Pebbles, but
I'm thinking about resigning.

I may do that any minute now, before
the commissioner starts an investigation.

We've been in hot water
before. Yeah, but not this hot.

Goodbye, Pebbles.

I want you to get those
people out of that building,

and I want you to get in touch with
Price. He's afraid of going to jail.

I want you to bring him
here to see me, or I'll

see that he gets to
jail. How do I get him out?

Freeze him out. Cut off their
utilities, water, gas, electricity.

Those people will go crazy if they
can't listen to their record players.

Well, you better leave now.
Use the service elevator.

I don't know where to find you.

Go on, get going.

Tito, I've arranged a scholarship for
you at Barber College. Scholarship? Hey,

you did it, huh?

It's not a very long course.

I'll see that you have no financial
problems while you're at the college,

and after you get out,
we'll see about a shop.

Shop?

Hey, I'm a great talker, but...

I don't know what to say. You're
my friend, my living and friend.

He threatened you, didn't he, Tito?

You saw it, and he threatened you.

He won't hurt you, Tito.

Things are too hot for him now.
You don't have to be afraid of him.

It's not only stick face, it's pebbles.

We can nail them both if
you tell what you saw. I can.

But he can't touch you.

I'm not afraid of stick face. Then
tell the police what you saw. I can't.

Well, why not?

It's too late. It's not
too late. It's too late!

First, I was scared.

He said he would kill me
and the kids, you know?

And so I didn't say nothing.

And then I took money.

I didn't figure till later
that he was more scared than me.

Now it's too late.

You mean because of Luz?

She wouldn't marry me.

We can make her understand.

And if you go to the police, I
will say that you are lying.

No.

Say don't. Oh.

Oh.

Now I get the whole idea.

You come here and you pull all
these big brother scene with me, huh?

You're gonna get me into barber college.

And then you pull a trick like this.

Tito, I admit, at first I did
come looking for information.

But that changed very quickly.

I like you, Tito. You are my friend.

And I'm in love with those kids.

Now, that's not so hard
to believe, is it? No.

No.

Luz, without marrying me, she would
say, That means, I don't like lions.

Are you going to the police?
Are you going to Toulouse? No.

I'm hoping you will.

You want the five bucks or not.

All you have to do is go down
here and shut off everything.

There's the key to the
lock on the fuse box. Okay.

Why don't you go down there and do it?

You scared yourself down there?

I don't think it's a
good thing to run around.

Mr. Marino?

What's the matter? What happened?

They shut off everything last night.
No water, no heat, no light, no gas.

Everybody was freezing last
night. You got up this morning,

you can't make breakfast, you
can't wash your face, nothing.

Goodbye, dear.

Mrs. Leonie, Mrs.
Leonie, please call a doctor.

Oh, Mrs. Barnabas, she's got a phone.

Run down to Mrs. Peña, boss.

Have a call for an ambulance.

Marino, we go to the cops.

I tell them everything.

Luce.

Stickface pushed your father.

I saw him do it.

Hey, baby.

Anything?

Baby, it's Tito.

Come on, baby.

Hey.

Come on, babe. It's okay.

It's okay. Come on, babe. Come on.

I, uh...

Sweetheart. Sweetheart!

I'll kill him! I'll
kill him! I'll kill him!

I saw him hide it down there.

Well, you go and find it.

But you gotta help me. I
don't know where he hid it.

Now, see, it was a package about this big.

I saw the junkie go down
there. It's gotta be junk.

I don't want to go down there.

Well, if you don't want to help me
find it, then what do I need you for?

I could get rid of this stuff myself.

Come on, stick face.

It's $10,000.

Come on, come on, don't be scared.

There's a fortune in dope down
here, and we're gonna find him.

Come on, come on, don't be scared.

Hey, I bet he put in that can there.

Go on, take a look.

Nah, he wouldn't hide it in there.

Well, you've got to
think like a junkie thinks.

Now, where would he put
it? Go on, take a look.

Where is Mr. Pebbles? Oh, you
don't like this place, huh?

No, it's a bad scene, all right.

It's dirty, it stinks.

You know a little boy was
bitten by a rat in the next house?

Where is Mr. Pebbles?

Okay, I'll leave you
here till you remember.

You think you remember now?

Or I'll leave you here till tomorrow.

234 Delilah Ridgedale.

Mr. Marino gave us some money.

Where you been for two days?

Around.

I'm sorry, Luce.

I'm sorry, too.

Coming home.

There's something to do when I come home.

I know where Pebbles is.

How did you find out?

Stickface told me.

He flipped his lid down there.

His hair all turned white.

What?

Hermione, you go home.

I'll see you in the morning.

Where are you going?

I'm going to kill devils.

I don't know, but Tito
said Stickface told him.

How could Tito force
Stickface to tell him that?

I don't know, but Tito said
Stickface will flip his leg down there.

His hair will turn white.

Now, Stickface is scared to death of rats.

Everybody knows that.

Down there.

Rats.

Come on.

Where's Pebbles? Where's Pebbles?

If you want money, I'll give you money.

It's upstairs in the bedroom.

Money, money, money.

That's it?

That's what it's all about, huh?

What about my little baby sister?

You got enough money to bring her back?

Maybe you could try to
bribe God to change his mind.

Who are you?

I'm your tenant.

I pay you rent.

You kill my baby sister.

I pay you rent. That's who I am.

What do you want?

The cops couldn't find
you, but I found you.

And now I'm going to put
these brand new bullets in you.

No.

No, don't do that.

I'll go back to town with you, or
I'll go straight to the police with you.

That's very sweet of you.

And some judge will
give you 30 days, and my

baby sister is out of
it for keeps, forever.

Tito, put it away.

You stay out of this, Marino.

Kill him, and you throw
your own life in the garbage.

I don't care, see?

I don't care.

Other people care. They depend on you.

Luce, Pepe, Elena.

They need you. They love you.

Vito, I'm your friend. Don't
do this. It isn't worth it.

They'll take this slink back to
town, let the courts take care of him,

the grand jury, the judge.

Listen, Tito, remember
what your mother said.

If they insult you, if they hurt
you, let it make you a strong fiber.

Let it be an incentive
to higher achievement.

Get back, yes, but not like this.

Your mother wouldn't like this.

And if Ava wouldn't like this.

Do you want to get dressed,
or shall I call the police?

Lurs and the kids are waiting for you.

You have no idea, Tito,
how many people love you.

To have and to hold from this day
forward, to work, to sweep, to mop the dust away,

the cobwebs of fear and
disillusionment that hang thick on the walls.

And even if it wasn't a
new broom that swept clean,

much of the old order was swept away.

Stickface blew the whistle
long and loud on Mr. Pettles.

He got the limit for manslaughter,

and Pettles paid his fines and
spent a little time in the car cell.

That's Spanish for pokey.

The money the tenants had stashed away in
the bank went for repairs in the building.

A little new paint, but the rooms
are just as small, just as crowded.

And life goes on, uptown,
downtown, east side, west side.

Mr. Pebbles didn't get Feldman's money or
anybody else's. He was out of business.

As for me, I'll put my
money in barbershops.