Wiseguy (1987–2009): Season 1, Episode 6 - Prodigal Son - full transcript
- [Narrator]
Tonight on Wise Guy,
- Nurse!
My mother gets mugged and I
turn out to be the bag man.
- There is going
to be a war between
Patrice, Steelgrave, and Mahony,
and we're gonna win it.
- We're gonna work
this like a termite.
I keep eating at the right wood,
pretty soon Patrice's
house is going
to come tumbling down.
Two hundred and fifty G's
right out of Patrice's pocket.
I love it.
- You cannot tell her.
- Hey you do what you gotta do.
- Don't you make me pull
the plug on this Vince.
(music)
- (foreign language)
Senora Terrenova, ah
making a sauce tonight?
- For my son.
- Those Jersey tomatoes,
the best in the world.
Good sauce, four
for a dollar 25.
- They got spots.
- Senora, four for a dollar.
- Bien.
(foreign language)
- [Crowd Member] Somebody
grab that Korean kid.
- Wait, stop!
- Lady.
- (foreign language)
- I'll get father Pete.
- Hello, I need an
ambulance right away.
- It's your mother,
across the Mazola's
you better get there.
- Oh mom.
It's okay mom.
(sirens)
(music)
- I'm getting dizzy
watching this.
- Can't you just
see her up there
twirling around right
over those blint wheels.
They'll be so busy watching her,
they won't even think about
the money they're losing.
(clapping)
that was great doll,
really that was great.
Let me ask you a question now,
what else can you do?
(music)
- Ooh
I've been waiting all
my life for a woman
who could do that.
(phone ringing)
- Hey
- What?
- It's for you
- Trust me I got this girl.
- Yeah right.
- You were great babe,
you were- you brought
tears to my eyes.
- Do I get the job
Mr. Steelgrave?
- Well here how it is babe,
I got an opening in
the lounge alright,
but I've auditioned
a lot of great acts
so I thought you would
come by my place tonight.
Maybe there's a few
moves you could show me.
Oh my god.
- Hello
- Vinny,
- Pete?
What's the matter.
- It's mom.
- She's dead?
- No, no she's gonna be alright.
- Well what happened?
- She was mugged,
outside Mazola's and
they broke her arm.
- How's her heart?
- They've got her on a monitor.
They say she's gonna
be alright, but.
- Where is she?
- Saint Matthews, look Vinny,
- Alright I'm on my way.
- What, what,
- My mother was mugged.
- Yeah but she gonna be okay?
- Well yeah I think so,
but she's got a bad heart
she's at Saint Matthews,
- Well go on,
- So I got to go to her.
- Well go ahead, get up there.
Don't drive, take the chopper,
you'll get there in
less than an hour.
Your mother needs you.
- Mr. Terrenova?
- Yeah
- I'm Andrew Wolf. Minister
here at Saint Matthews.
- How's my mother?
- She's resting comfortably.
If you'll just follow me.
- Okay.
What is all this?
- Don't be too concerned.
I understood from my
telephone conversation
with Mr. Steelgrave
that he was covering
all of the expenses.
- Oh.
- Ah, Mr. Terrenova, I
want you to meet Dr. Stine,
head of our cardiology unit.
She'll be overseeing
your mothers case.
- I thought my mother
just broke her arm.
- Your mother has
arterial sclerosis.
A congenital valve problem.
A trauma of the
sort she suffered,
can have serious consequences.
- Well how serious, I mean
if my mothers gonna die,
I think I got a right to know.
- Well at the moment her
vital signs are stable.
And we're keeping a
close watch on her.
- Where is she?
- I don't think a visit at
this time is appropriate sir.
She's resting quietly.
- I want to see her right now.
- Fine.
- If there's anything
else I can do for you
or your mother just let me know.
- Yeah my brother Pete's
around here someplace.
- I'll locate him
and send him up.
- Thanks.
- She's right in this room.
- Right.
- Mother.
I love you mama.
- Vinchenzo
- Mama no, don't do this.
Mama please let me be with you.
I need you.
Nurse get in here!
What are you guys doing
- Please leave now.
- Crash cart stat.
- Right away.
- I need 20 cc adrenaline,
have some sodium bicarbonate.
- Yes doctor.
- Check the EKG, I want
a new baseline now.
- Ten dollar bill, that's
all she had in her purse.
- Who grabbed it.
- I don't know, a kid.
- Did you get a description?
- Eight of them, no two alike.
- Great.
She was always so strong.
Now she looks so helpless.
That's my fault.
I almost killed her by
being here today, Pete.
- Lies almost killed her.
- Oh come on Pete,
if it was just me,
don't you think I would have
told her a long time ago?
But there's other agents
in the program to protect.
It's the first and
most important rule.
It's also the hardest
one to live with.
- Hey Mr. Terrenova.
- Hey Dean, Johnny what is it?
Okay look, my father
was Mr. Terrenova,
it's still Vinny alright.
- It's all over
the neighborhood,
you flew in on a
private chopper.
- So what.
- Yeah so I was thinking of
taking a job with Mr. Patrice.
My cousin Micky's gonna
talk to him when I'm 18.
Maybe I thought I could
work for you instead.
- What are you stupid?
- What's so stupid about
wearing a silk suit
and a 14 karat gold watch?
- Well there's a downside to it.
- You don't look
like you're hurting.
- You don't know what
you're talking about.
- What do I gotta
do? Bust a few heads,
I've done that already.
What's the downside?
- Come here, come here,
come on, come over here.
Wanna know what the
downside is? Huh?
How about 18 months in the
land of slammin doors huh.
You think that's good huh?
- Let me go man.
- It's a little taste
of your future Johnny.
There's no going
forward nor back,
there's nothing except
some guys trying to slide
yourself a little satisfaction.
If you're lucky they're hypes
and if you're not
they'll cut you.
Got any idea what it
feels like to have blood
running down the
inside of your thighs?
And get a pillow stuffed
between your legs
hoping you don't bleed
to death before morning?
Great looking future,
get out of here.
Go on, get!
Hey May, how you doing?
- Hey Mr. Terrenova.
You honor me with your presence.
- Hey what are you talking
about, it's me Vinny.
- Have a seat.
scuse me Mrs. Port.
- Oh no leave her alone.
- Please sit down relax.
- I don't want a chair.
What's the matter with you.
Just talk to me
normally will you.
- Sorry.
Vinchezo.
How's your mother?
- It's touch and go right now.
- Hey we're all praying
for her down here.
- Thank you.
Man what's going on with
this neighborhood here?
- What neighborhood, this
is like open territory.
Vinny we got gangs moving in
and out of here as they please.
Jamaicans, your
Spanish, your Koreans,
like the one that
mugged your mother.
Hey that wasn't
a surprise to me.
There's no boundaries
here anymore.
I mean these kids go
anywhere for action.
Like that kid Ziggy.
- Since when does Patrice let
little old ladies get rolled?
- Hey Patrice don't
give a damn about
this neighborhood no more.
Not like his father used to.
Those days, a woman got
roughed up in his neighborhood,
he'd hang his head
from a street lamp.
But that was 20 years ago.
- I don't care if it
was a 100 years ago,
if there's gangs moving in,
they're under somebodies wing.
And if it's not Patrice,
somebody else is controlling.
- I've been running numbers
in this neighborhood
all my life, I never
got too greedy,
too ambitious,
everybody's happy,
I've done okay.
Mostly I've done
my own business,
reason what it's healthy.
Hey I hear your mothers
got a private room,
round the clock
nurses, everything.
- Yeah, yeah that's right.
- That Sonny
Steelgrave, knows how
to take care of his people.
- Yep.
- This dumb machine
ate my quarters.
- Every week she comes in here,
every week it's the same thing.
The dryer ate my money.
- Hey
- Excuse me I gotta-
- Yeah go ahead.
- What's the matter
Mrs. Polesky?
- The machine, (shouting)
- Did you put money
in the machine?
- (woman shouting)
- [May] You didn't put enough
money, it takes 25 cents.
- (woman shouting)
- [May] I have put up with
you for the last time.
- [Mrs. Polesky] You
said the last time.
- [May] The last time alright.
Ah stop it.
(phone ringing)
- Good afternoon,
Sailor Hardware.
- Agent 4587, Daycoat, Style
section 10 20 item procedure
fireball hemisphere year.
- Vinny my man how's it going?
- Not so good, my
mom's in the hospital
and I need some time with her.
- She gonna be okay?
- We don't know right now.
I need to see McPike right away.
- I'll relay the message.
And Vinny, I hope your
mom gets well soon.
- Thanks.
Frank I know what
you're gonna say,
but this is my mother
I'm talking about here.
They got her hooked up
to 28 machines and tubes
and I gotta be there.
I need a few days and I don't
give a damn what you say.
What if it was your mother?
Wouldn't you want to be
with her if she needed you?
- Whoa whoa whoa, I
just said go ahead.
Take as much time as you need.
- Thanks.
- You're welcome.
- What was that about?
Agent Terrenova
requested time off
to be with his mother,
I gave it to him.
- He's already too
sensitized to family, Frank.
- She's in the hospital.
- The job should be
his first priority.
- Are you kidding?
Sir.
- Frank, just watch him
because I'll be watching you.
- Yeah.
- What's this, I thought
you were with your mother.
- Had to come back
to pack a bag.
- Yeah so two-faced in Brooklyn.
- Well now that you got me
flying around in Choppers,
I got an image to maintain.
- Chopper went
over that big, huh?
- Big, they were
slobbering all over me.
- I love it.
Six months ago you
were spilling soup
on customers at the magazine.
Today you're a local celebrity.
- It embarrasses
the hell out of me.
- Hey when you got it baby.
- Puts off the relatives too.
- They're jealous.
We're business men Vinny,
entrepreneurs, devotees
of free enterprise.
The difference
between us and Iacoka
is that when he's successful
he gets his picture
in the paper.
When we get it right, people
does in the post office.
- I appreciate what
you're doing Sonny.
My mother appreciates it.
Thank you.
- [Mrs. Terrenova] Put me in
the basement I don't care,
I just don't want
to be in this room.
- [Vinny] Mom, this
is a very nice room.
- I don't want nice,
I want a regular room
with regular food.
- Mom please
- And I want to pay
with my Medicare.
- You have to stay calm.
- You know you had to wait
until I was sound asleep
and then I wake up and
I'm in this terrible room.
I don't want to be here
now Peter you tell him.
- Okay mom, we'll
see what we can do.
- You must tell them I don't
- We'll see about
getting a change.
- Wanna be in this
room a second longer.
- Alright mother.
- May I get you anything else?
- Oh a couple fortune
cookies please.
Where is the men's room?
- At the rear. Left
of the kitchen.
- Thank you.
- Hi, what's up man.
- Hey what about our stuff?
- Agent 4587, day coat,
style section, 10 21,
item procedure,
mini denim knee cap.
- Hey good morning Vinny,
you know I always took you
for a guy that slept in.
- Well last night I slept
in my car does that count?
- All depends whether you were
in the front seat or the back.
- Listen I'm at the
Brooklyn Impound Lot,
I've been following an 84
Seville Black with gold trim,
New York license number LS1024.
I need you to run a
registration on it for me.
- Alright.
McPike called, asked how
your mother was doing.
- Didn't think Frank gave
a damn about my mother.
- He has his moments.
Are you sure about the
tag on that Seville?
- Yeah, why?
- There's no record of that
car ever being registered.
- What are you talking about.
- Just this pal,
according to the DMV,
that car doesn't exist.
- Well I'm looking at him arise
with steel bells and radios.
I'll call you later.
Hey move that thing
outta the way will yah!
Dammit
(telephone rings)
hello.
- Vinny it's Sonny
- Hey Sonny, how you doing.
- How's your ma?
- Well she's out of the woods
and god willing she'll be out
of the hospital in a week.
- How do you know?
- What do you mean
how do I know?
- I've been calling
the hospital,
you aint been there,
where you been kid?
- I've been out looking for
the guy who mugged my mother.
- What are you nuts?
- Sonny I know you think
it's a waste of time.
- A monumental waste of time.
This guys just
another sleaze-a-rama
you'll never get near him.
- I gotta do something.
- Yeah well you
know what you do,
you go in the street
and you find yourself
another low life,
they're easy to spot.
You bust his head, it'll
make you feel terrific.
- Yeah well I'll think about it.
- Well think about this,
your mother's okay right?
You come back here, I need
you with me right now.
- You want me to
take the chopper.
- No I got a car waiting
for you downstairs.
Drive yourself over.
- Your car sir.
- Welcome home
kid, pop the trunk.
Alright.
Two hundred and fifty G's
right out of Patrice's pocket,
I love it.
- You think Patrice will notice
he's a quarter million short.
- His accountants and
lawyers are so wrapped up
in legitimate investments,
they haven't begun to appreciate
the volume of renegade
trafficking in their territory.
Me I'm gonna work
this like a termite,
I keep eating at the right wood,
pretty soon Patrice's house
is gonna come tumbling down.
- Sonny what do I
do with the car?
- Keep it.
(laughs)
- Bring this upstairs.
- I'm telling you Frank there
had to be 15 G's in that bag.
Sonny showed me it was 10s
and 20s all crumpled up.
- What's your point?
- It's street money
Frank, the kind of money
they steal out of
old ladies purses.
- The money has nothing
to do with your mother.
- You know, I followed
that trail of money
all over Brooklyn
and it led back
to Sonny Steelgrave and me.
My mother gets mugged and I
turn out to be the bag man.
- There is gonna be a war
between Patrice, Steelgrave,
and Mahony, and
we're gonna win it.
- Well you worry about the war,
I'm worried about my mother.
I'm telling her.
- Tell her what?
- The truth about me.
There is no way that
I'll be able to make up
for the hell I put her
through in the last two years.
But I'm gonna start
trying right now.
- A breach of
security like that.
- She's not gonna tell anybody.
- I didn't think that
she'd do it on purpose,
people slip. Are you
willing to risk that.
- Frank, my mother never
did anything for herself
her whole life.
All she ever wanted was
that her boys grew up
to be men that
people could respect.
I owe it to her that
she got the job done.
- I have been where you are,
I know what sacrifice is about,
you cannot tell her!
- Hey you do what you gotta do!
- Don't you make me pull
the plug on this Vince!
Vince!
- Yeah?
- This is McPike, listen Vinny's
never seen you before right?
We need you in the field,
could you get somebody
to cover for you.
- I'm rolling.
- I need you to
talk to mom Pete.
Make sure it's alright
for me to see her.
(knocking)
- Hi i hope I'm
not disturbing you,
but I am getting
out of here today.
I have all these
beautiful flowers
and I thought that
I'd score some points
by leaving them with
a beautiful lady.
- Thank you.
- Very welcome, you just
take good care of yourself
and get well. Alright, buh bye.
- Mama
feeling better mama?
Brought you some flowers.
- I can't, I can't do it.
It's for Pete during this role,
not you, you broke my heart.
I want you to leave.
- mom I have
something to show you.
Take this please.
- Why didn't you tell me
you work for the government?
- I wasn't allowed to.
I thought the rules were
more important than anything,
but I learned that they're not.
- Oh two years I've
prayed for this.
My prayers have been-
But what I've done to
you (foreign language).
Oh on chance, can
you forgive me?
- For what?
- For not believing in you.
- Mom
- No no you're my son,
no matter what they said I
should have believed in you.
I'm sorry.
- I took something
away from you,
that no one could
ever give you back.
That's two years
out of your life.
I shamed you in front of
your friends, la famiglia,
- It doesn't matter
what they think.
All that matters is
I know the truth.
But why are you telling me now,
are you in trouble Vinchenzo?
- No mom
- Vinchenzo you are, I can
feel it. Don't hide it,
just like when you were a boy,
you would run home
with the good news,
the bad news you would
keep to yourself.
But I'd always know.
- Mom, the reason I'm
telling you this today
is because I was afraid
I might lose you.
- Where am I going?
I have two sons again.
- I remember when I
was a kid and something
was bothering me, I
always felt better
after I told you about it.
- You see it still works.
- No this time it's different.
I feel worse because
I laid all this on you
and you can never tell anyone.
- Oh I'm good at
keeping secrets,
I kept a lot of them.
Even from your father.
- You did? Like what?
- You know how he always loved
my famous home made cannoli's?
- Yes, he was always talking
them up to the neighbors.
- I bought them at Matzola's.
(laughter)
I never stopped loving you.
And don't worry the truth goes
no farther than this room.
Now I'm undercover too.
- I love you mom.
- (foreign language)
- So this is where you do it.
- Where I do it.
- Well you have to give me
the name of your decorator,
I love what he did with
the window dressings.
What you do, grow
mushrooms in here?
Oh sorry, I didn't know
you were so sensitive.
So what's the problem.
- I got a bad taste in my mouth.
I don't like spying on guys
who are on our
side of the fence.
Or their mothers.
- Roll the tape.
- [Mrs. Terrenova] I
can't, I can't do it.
It's for Pete during
this role, not you.
You broke my heart
I want you to leave.
- [Vinny] I have something to
show you, now take this please
- [Mrs. Terrenova]
Why didn't you tell me
you work for the government.
Two years I prayed for
- How bout another selection
for your listening pleasure.
- [Mrs. Terrenova] I
can't, I can't do it,
you broke my heart,
I want you to leave.
- [Vinny] I love you mama.
- [Mrs. Terrenova]
I want you to leave.
(footsteps) (door slamming)
- You doctoring
government wire taps?
- Just providing an
alternative viewpoint.
You got a choice now Frank.
- Yeah, that's what you think.
- Oh (laughs)
you know for a guy who's getting
the crap kicked outta him,
you're still smiling a lot.
- I'm just feeling
good that's all.
- Yeah me too, listen
I got this great idea,
I gotta go see
somebody in the Bronx.
And I thought maybe we stop by
Saint Matthews and see your mom.
- What? No.
- What do you mean no,
your mother'll love me.
Come on, come on.
- Doctor Starring says
she's gotta get rest.
- I'm just what
the doctor ordered.
I'm great with mothers, I'm
even better with brothers.
Come on give me the phone.
- Nah you've done
enough for my mother.
- Come on what are
you worried about,
that I'm gonna say
something she won't like.
- Nah that's not
it, of course not.
- Well than what is it then,
come on give me the phone.
Come on let's go. Come on.
- [Vinny] Mom I'd like you
to meet Sonny Steelgrave.
- [Sonny] Mrs. Terrenova
it's a pleasure.
- Mr. Steelgrave
- And that's my brother Pete.
- Father how do you do.
Alright Vinny tells
me that Sain Dismas
is operating in
a red these days.
- Well we're a poor parish,
but we continue to
trust in the lord.
- Father, put your trust
in Ben Franklin too.
- Charity is always welcome, but
- This isn't charity,
I want something.
I want you to say
a prayer for me.
- Prayer can not be bought.
But Vinny's friends always
get a special mention.
- That was very
generous of you Sonny,
thank you very much.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Listen would you excuse us,
I'd like to have a
word with your mother.
- Oh well I don't know Sonny,
doctor said she's got to
take it easy you know.
- It'll just take a minute.
I want to have some air and
discuss something with her.
- Alright, okay.
- Oh you just signed your
own death warrant kid.
- Mom, we'll be
right outside okay.
- Senor, (foreign language)
- (foreign language)
- I offered you my generosity,
you refused my kindness,
why was it something
you heard outside?
- I've heard many
things, but I only listen
to what Vinchenzo tells me.
And he says you're
a man of honor.
- Why didn't you let me
give you the red carpet?
- I pay my own
way in this world.
I'm an old woman and
that's the way I do things.
Nothing personal.
- I sense a stubborn streak, eh?
That's alright Mrs. Terrenova.
Now I know where
Vinny gets his from.
- Oh my boy's like me in
a lot of ways that's true,
stubborn, but also loyal.
You do us a kindness,
and you have someone
you can always count on.
I look in your eyes, I see that
loyalty means a lot to you.
Loyalty and family.
- They're one and the same.
- I know you lost your brother,
he can never be replaced.
But Vinchenzo might be able to
- He already has.
- I'm glad.
A man like you needs
someone like Vinchenzo.
Otherwise he's alone.
- Do you mind?
- Oh no.
- You're a wise lady Carlotta.
You remind me of my mother.
- You see her very much?
- She died 10 years ago.
God bless her soul.
But I took care of
her before she died.
- She was a lucky woman.
- She deserved the best.
And so do you.
That's why I wish
to god that you
would not refuse my help,
because Carlotta, we are only
here for such a short time.
- I'm tempted, but at my age,
it's more comfortable to
live with what you got.
Don't be insulted.
One day, god willing,
you'll be my age
and maybe you'll
understand how I feel.
- She's even better at this
than you are Terrenova,
maybe I ought to recruit her.
- She's a great lady.
- Yeah.
- Come on let's get out of here,
we've got things to do.
Hey father, nice to meet you.
- Yeah good to meet you.
- I'll see you next
week for dinner.
- Dinner?
- Yeah your mother's
making me some
of her world famous home
made cannoli's for dessert.
- Oh that's nice, I'll
see you later Pete.
- Hey father don't forget.
- Mom.
Are you alright, do you
want me to get the doctor?
- I'm fine.
- But you should see your face.
What's the matter you think
I'm going to tell
Sonny that Vinchenzo
works for the government,
I gotta protect my
boy, Vinny's a hero.
- You just lost it
for me Carlotta.
- You have the
tape for me Frank?
The tape Frank.
- [Carlotta] I
can't, I can't do it.
You broke my heart
I want you to leave.
- [Vinny] I love you mama.
- [Carlotta] I
want you to leave.
- She asked him
to leave, he left.
- In the name of the father,
and the son of the
Holy Spirit Amen.
Dear God I pray for the
soul of Sonny Steelgrave.
Tonight on Wise Guy,
- Nurse!
My mother gets mugged and I
turn out to be the bag man.
- There is going
to be a war between
Patrice, Steelgrave, and Mahony,
and we're gonna win it.
- We're gonna work
this like a termite.
I keep eating at the right wood,
pretty soon Patrice's
house is going
to come tumbling down.
Two hundred and fifty G's
right out of Patrice's pocket.
I love it.
- You cannot tell her.
- Hey you do what you gotta do.
- Don't you make me pull
the plug on this Vince.
(music)
- (foreign language)
Senora Terrenova, ah
making a sauce tonight?
- For my son.
- Those Jersey tomatoes,
the best in the world.
Good sauce, four
for a dollar 25.
- They got spots.
- Senora, four for a dollar.
- Bien.
(foreign language)
- [Crowd Member] Somebody
grab that Korean kid.
- Wait, stop!
- Lady.
- (foreign language)
- I'll get father Pete.
- Hello, I need an
ambulance right away.
- It's your mother,
across the Mazola's
you better get there.
- Oh mom.
It's okay mom.
(sirens)
(music)
- I'm getting dizzy
watching this.
- Can't you just
see her up there
twirling around right
over those blint wheels.
They'll be so busy watching her,
they won't even think about
the money they're losing.
(clapping)
that was great doll,
really that was great.
Let me ask you a question now,
what else can you do?
(music)
- Ooh
I've been waiting all
my life for a woman
who could do that.
(phone ringing)
- Hey
- What?
- It's for you
- Trust me I got this girl.
- Yeah right.
- You were great babe,
you were- you brought
tears to my eyes.
- Do I get the job
Mr. Steelgrave?
- Well here how it is babe,
I got an opening in
the lounge alright,
but I've auditioned
a lot of great acts
so I thought you would
come by my place tonight.
Maybe there's a few
moves you could show me.
Oh my god.
- Hello
- Vinny,
- Pete?
What's the matter.
- It's mom.
- She's dead?
- No, no she's gonna be alright.
- Well what happened?
- She was mugged,
outside Mazola's and
they broke her arm.
- How's her heart?
- They've got her on a monitor.
They say she's gonna
be alright, but.
- Where is she?
- Saint Matthews, look Vinny,
- Alright I'm on my way.
- What, what,
- My mother was mugged.
- Yeah but she gonna be okay?
- Well yeah I think so,
but she's got a bad heart
she's at Saint Matthews,
- Well go on,
- So I got to go to her.
- Well go ahead, get up there.
Don't drive, take the chopper,
you'll get there in
less than an hour.
Your mother needs you.
- Mr. Terrenova?
- Yeah
- I'm Andrew Wolf. Minister
here at Saint Matthews.
- How's my mother?
- She's resting comfortably.
If you'll just follow me.
- Okay.
What is all this?
- Don't be too concerned.
I understood from my
telephone conversation
with Mr. Steelgrave
that he was covering
all of the expenses.
- Oh.
- Ah, Mr. Terrenova, I
want you to meet Dr. Stine,
head of our cardiology unit.
She'll be overseeing
your mothers case.
- I thought my mother
just broke her arm.
- Your mother has
arterial sclerosis.
A congenital valve problem.
A trauma of the
sort she suffered,
can have serious consequences.
- Well how serious, I mean
if my mothers gonna die,
I think I got a right to know.
- Well at the moment her
vital signs are stable.
And we're keeping a
close watch on her.
- Where is she?
- I don't think a visit at
this time is appropriate sir.
She's resting quietly.
- I want to see her right now.
- Fine.
- If there's anything
else I can do for you
or your mother just let me know.
- Yeah my brother Pete's
around here someplace.
- I'll locate him
and send him up.
- Thanks.
- She's right in this room.
- Right.
- Mother.
I love you mama.
- Vinchenzo
- Mama no, don't do this.
Mama please let me be with you.
I need you.
Nurse get in here!
What are you guys doing
- Please leave now.
- Crash cart stat.
- Right away.
- I need 20 cc adrenaline,
have some sodium bicarbonate.
- Yes doctor.
- Check the EKG, I want
a new baseline now.
- Ten dollar bill, that's
all she had in her purse.
- Who grabbed it.
- I don't know, a kid.
- Did you get a description?
- Eight of them, no two alike.
- Great.
She was always so strong.
Now she looks so helpless.
That's my fault.
I almost killed her by
being here today, Pete.
- Lies almost killed her.
- Oh come on Pete,
if it was just me,
don't you think I would have
told her a long time ago?
But there's other agents
in the program to protect.
It's the first and
most important rule.
It's also the hardest
one to live with.
- Hey Mr. Terrenova.
- Hey Dean, Johnny what is it?
Okay look, my father
was Mr. Terrenova,
it's still Vinny alright.
- It's all over
the neighborhood,
you flew in on a
private chopper.
- So what.
- Yeah so I was thinking of
taking a job with Mr. Patrice.
My cousin Micky's gonna
talk to him when I'm 18.
Maybe I thought I could
work for you instead.
- What are you stupid?
- What's so stupid about
wearing a silk suit
and a 14 karat gold watch?
- Well there's a downside to it.
- You don't look
like you're hurting.
- You don't know what
you're talking about.
- What do I gotta
do? Bust a few heads,
I've done that already.
What's the downside?
- Come here, come here,
come on, come over here.
Wanna know what the
downside is? Huh?
How about 18 months in the
land of slammin doors huh.
You think that's good huh?
- Let me go man.
- It's a little taste
of your future Johnny.
There's no going
forward nor back,
there's nothing except
some guys trying to slide
yourself a little satisfaction.
If you're lucky they're hypes
and if you're not
they'll cut you.
Got any idea what it
feels like to have blood
running down the
inside of your thighs?
And get a pillow stuffed
between your legs
hoping you don't bleed
to death before morning?
Great looking future,
get out of here.
Go on, get!
Hey May, how you doing?
- Hey Mr. Terrenova.
You honor me with your presence.
- Hey what are you talking
about, it's me Vinny.
- Have a seat.
scuse me Mrs. Port.
- Oh no leave her alone.
- Please sit down relax.
- I don't want a chair.
What's the matter with you.
Just talk to me
normally will you.
- Sorry.
Vinchezo.
How's your mother?
- It's touch and go right now.
- Hey we're all praying
for her down here.
- Thank you.
Man what's going on with
this neighborhood here?
- What neighborhood, this
is like open territory.
Vinny we got gangs moving in
and out of here as they please.
Jamaicans, your
Spanish, your Koreans,
like the one that
mugged your mother.
Hey that wasn't
a surprise to me.
There's no boundaries
here anymore.
I mean these kids go
anywhere for action.
Like that kid Ziggy.
- Since when does Patrice let
little old ladies get rolled?
- Hey Patrice don't
give a damn about
this neighborhood no more.
Not like his father used to.
Those days, a woman got
roughed up in his neighborhood,
he'd hang his head
from a street lamp.
But that was 20 years ago.
- I don't care if it
was a 100 years ago,
if there's gangs moving in,
they're under somebodies wing.
And if it's not Patrice,
somebody else is controlling.
- I've been running numbers
in this neighborhood
all my life, I never
got too greedy,
too ambitious,
everybody's happy,
I've done okay.
Mostly I've done
my own business,
reason what it's healthy.
Hey I hear your mothers
got a private room,
round the clock
nurses, everything.
- Yeah, yeah that's right.
- That Sonny
Steelgrave, knows how
to take care of his people.
- Yep.
- This dumb machine
ate my quarters.
- Every week she comes in here,
every week it's the same thing.
The dryer ate my money.
- Hey
- Excuse me I gotta-
- Yeah go ahead.
- What's the matter
Mrs. Polesky?
- The machine, (shouting)
- Did you put money
in the machine?
- (woman shouting)
- [May] You didn't put enough
money, it takes 25 cents.
- (woman shouting)
- [May] I have put up with
you for the last time.
- [Mrs. Polesky] You
said the last time.
- [May] The last time alright.
Ah stop it.
(phone ringing)
- Good afternoon,
Sailor Hardware.
- Agent 4587, Daycoat, Style
section 10 20 item procedure
fireball hemisphere year.
- Vinny my man how's it going?
- Not so good, my
mom's in the hospital
and I need some time with her.
- She gonna be okay?
- We don't know right now.
I need to see McPike right away.
- I'll relay the message.
And Vinny, I hope your
mom gets well soon.
- Thanks.
Frank I know what
you're gonna say,
but this is my mother
I'm talking about here.
They got her hooked up
to 28 machines and tubes
and I gotta be there.
I need a few days and I don't
give a damn what you say.
What if it was your mother?
Wouldn't you want to be
with her if she needed you?
- Whoa whoa whoa, I
just said go ahead.
Take as much time as you need.
- Thanks.
- You're welcome.
- What was that about?
Agent Terrenova
requested time off
to be with his mother,
I gave it to him.
- He's already too
sensitized to family, Frank.
- She's in the hospital.
- The job should be
his first priority.
- Are you kidding?
Sir.
- Frank, just watch him
because I'll be watching you.
- Yeah.
- What's this, I thought
you were with your mother.
- Had to come back
to pack a bag.
- Yeah so two-faced in Brooklyn.
- Well now that you got me
flying around in Choppers,
I got an image to maintain.
- Chopper went
over that big, huh?
- Big, they were
slobbering all over me.
- I love it.
Six months ago you
were spilling soup
on customers at the magazine.
Today you're a local celebrity.
- It embarrasses
the hell out of me.
- Hey when you got it baby.
- Puts off the relatives too.
- They're jealous.
We're business men Vinny,
entrepreneurs, devotees
of free enterprise.
The difference
between us and Iacoka
is that when he's successful
he gets his picture
in the paper.
When we get it right, people
does in the post office.
- I appreciate what
you're doing Sonny.
My mother appreciates it.
Thank you.
- [Mrs. Terrenova] Put me in
the basement I don't care,
I just don't want
to be in this room.
- [Vinny] Mom, this
is a very nice room.
- I don't want nice,
I want a regular room
with regular food.
- Mom please
- And I want to pay
with my Medicare.
- You have to stay calm.
- You know you had to wait
until I was sound asleep
and then I wake up and
I'm in this terrible room.
I don't want to be here
now Peter you tell him.
- Okay mom, we'll
see what we can do.
- You must tell them I don't
- We'll see about
getting a change.
- Wanna be in this
room a second longer.
- Alright mother.
- May I get you anything else?
- Oh a couple fortune
cookies please.
Where is the men's room?
- At the rear. Left
of the kitchen.
- Thank you.
- Hi, what's up man.
- Hey what about our stuff?
- Agent 4587, day coat,
style section, 10 21,
item procedure,
mini denim knee cap.
- Hey good morning Vinny,
you know I always took you
for a guy that slept in.
- Well last night I slept
in my car does that count?
- All depends whether you were
in the front seat or the back.
- Listen I'm at the
Brooklyn Impound Lot,
I've been following an 84
Seville Black with gold trim,
New York license number LS1024.
I need you to run a
registration on it for me.
- Alright.
McPike called, asked how
your mother was doing.
- Didn't think Frank gave
a damn about my mother.
- He has his moments.
Are you sure about the
tag on that Seville?
- Yeah, why?
- There's no record of that
car ever being registered.
- What are you talking about.
- Just this pal,
according to the DMV,
that car doesn't exist.
- Well I'm looking at him arise
with steel bells and radios.
I'll call you later.
Hey move that thing
outta the way will yah!
Dammit
(telephone rings)
hello.
- Vinny it's Sonny
- Hey Sonny, how you doing.
- How's your ma?
- Well she's out of the woods
and god willing she'll be out
of the hospital in a week.
- How do you know?
- What do you mean
how do I know?
- I've been calling
the hospital,
you aint been there,
where you been kid?
- I've been out looking for
the guy who mugged my mother.
- What are you nuts?
- Sonny I know you think
it's a waste of time.
- A monumental waste of time.
This guys just
another sleaze-a-rama
you'll never get near him.
- I gotta do something.
- Yeah well you
know what you do,
you go in the street
and you find yourself
another low life,
they're easy to spot.
You bust his head, it'll
make you feel terrific.
- Yeah well I'll think about it.
- Well think about this,
your mother's okay right?
You come back here, I need
you with me right now.
- You want me to
take the chopper.
- No I got a car waiting
for you downstairs.
Drive yourself over.
- Your car sir.
- Welcome home
kid, pop the trunk.
Alright.
Two hundred and fifty G's
right out of Patrice's pocket,
I love it.
- You think Patrice will notice
he's a quarter million short.
- His accountants and
lawyers are so wrapped up
in legitimate investments,
they haven't begun to appreciate
the volume of renegade
trafficking in their territory.
Me I'm gonna work
this like a termite,
I keep eating at the right wood,
pretty soon Patrice's house
is gonna come tumbling down.
- Sonny what do I
do with the car?
- Keep it.
(laughs)
- Bring this upstairs.
- I'm telling you Frank there
had to be 15 G's in that bag.
Sonny showed me it was 10s
and 20s all crumpled up.
- What's your point?
- It's street money
Frank, the kind of money
they steal out of
old ladies purses.
- The money has nothing
to do with your mother.
- You know, I followed
that trail of money
all over Brooklyn
and it led back
to Sonny Steelgrave and me.
My mother gets mugged and I
turn out to be the bag man.
- There is gonna be a war
between Patrice, Steelgrave,
and Mahony, and
we're gonna win it.
- Well you worry about the war,
I'm worried about my mother.
I'm telling her.
- Tell her what?
- The truth about me.
There is no way that
I'll be able to make up
for the hell I put her
through in the last two years.
But I'm gonna start
trying right now.
- A breach of
security like that.
- She's not gonna tell anybody.
- I didn't think that
she'd do it on purpose,
people slip. Are you
willing to risk that.
- Frank, my mother never
did anything for herself
her whole life.
All she ever wanted was
that her boys grew up
to be men that
people could respect.
I owe it to her that
she got the job done.
- I have been where you are,
I know what sacrifice is about,
you cannot tell her!
- Hey you do what you gotta do!
- Don't you make me pull
the plug on this Vince!
Vince!
- Yeah?
- This is McPike, listen Vinny's
never seen you before right?
We need you in the field,
could you get somebody
to cover for you.
- I'm rolling.
- I need you to
talk to mom Pete.
Make sure it's alright
for me to see her.
(knocking)
- Hi i hope I'm
not disturbing you,
but I am getting
out of here today.
I have all these
beautiful flowers
and I thought that
I'd score some points
by leaving them with
a beautiful lady.
- Thank you.
- Very welcome, you just
take good care of yourself
and get well. Alright, buh bye.
- Mama
feeling better mama?
Brought you some flowers.
- I can't, I can't do it.
It's for Pete during this role,
not you, you broke my heart.
I want you to leave.
- mom I have
something to show you.
Take this please.
- Why didn't you tell me
you work for the government?
- I wasn't allowed to.
I thought the rules were
more important than anything,
but I learned that they're not.
- Oh two years I've
prayed for this.
My prayers have been-
But what I've done to
you (foreign language).
Oh on chance, can
you forgive me?
- For what?
- For not believing in you.
- Mom
- No no you're my son,
no matter what they said I
should have believed in you.
I'm sorry.
- I took something
away from you,
that no one could
ever give you back.
That's two years
out of your life.
I shamed you in front of
your friends, la famiglia,
- It doesn't matter
what they think.
All that matters is
I know the truth.
But why are you telling me now,
are you in trouble Vinchenzo?
- No mom
- Vinchenzo you are, I can
feel it. Don't hide it,
just like when you were a boy,
you would run home
with the good news,
the bad news you would
keep to yourself.
But I'd always know.
- Mom, the reason I'm
telling you this today
is because I was afraid
I might lose you.
- Where am I going?
I have two sons again.
- I remember when I
was a kid and something
was bothering me, I
always felt better
after I told you about it.
- You see it still works.
- No this time it's different.
I feel worse because
I laid all this on you
and you can never tell anyone.
- Oh I'm good at
keeping secrets,
I kept a lot of them.
Even from your father.
- You did? Like what?
- You know how he always loved
my famous home made cannoli's?
- Yes, he was always talking
them up to the neighbors.
- I bought them at Matzola's.
(laughter)
I never stopped loving you.
And don't worry the truth goes
no farther than this room.
Now I'm undercover too.
- I love you mom.
- (foreign language)
- So this is where you do it.
- Where I do it.
- Well you have to give me
the name of your decorator,
I love what he did with
the window dressings.
What you do, grow
mushrooms in here?
Oh sorry, I didn't know
you were so sensitive.
So what's the problem.
- I got a bad taste in my mouth.
I don't like spying on guys
who are on our
side of the fence.
Or their mothers.
- Roll the tape.
- [Mrs. Terrenova] I
can't, I can't do it.
It's for Pete during
this role, not you.
You broke my heart
I want you to leave.
- [Vinny] I have something to
show you, now take this please
- [Mrs. Terrenova]
Why didn't you tell me
you work for the government.
Two years I prayed for
- How bout another selection
for your listening pleasure.
- [Mrs. Terrenova] I
can't, I can't do it,
you broke my heart,
I want you to leave.
- [Vinny] I love you mama.
- [Mrs. Terrenova]
I want you to leave.
(footsteps) (door slamming)
- You doctoring
government wire taps?
- Just providing an
alternative viewpoint.
You got a choice now Frank.
- Yeah, that's what you think.
- Oh (laughs)
you know for a guy who's getting
the crap kicked outta him,
you're still smiling a lot.
- I'm just feeling
good that's all.
- Yeah me too, listen
I got this great idea,
I gotta go see
somebody in the Bronx.
And I thought maybe we stop by
Saint Matthews and see your mom.
- What? No.
- What do you mean no,
your mother'll love me.
Come on, come on.
- Doctor Starring says
she's gotta get rest.
- I'm just what
the doctor ordered.
I'm great with mothers, I'm
even better with brothers.
Come on give me the phone.
- Nah you've done
enough for my mother.
- Come on what are
you worried about,
that I'm gonna say
something she won't like.
- Nah that's not
it, of course not.
- Well than what is it then,
come on give me the phone.
Come on let's go. Come on.
- [Vinny] Mom I'd like you
to meet Sonny Steelgrave.
- [Sonny] Mrs. Terrenova
it's a pleasure.
- Mr. Steelgrave
- And that's my brother Pete.
- Father how do you do.
Alright Vinny tells
me that Sain Dismas
is operating in
a red these days.
- Well we're a poor parish,
but we continue to
trust in the lord.
- Father, put your trust
in Ben Franklin too.
- Charity is always welcome, but
- This isn't charity,
I want something.
I want you to say
a prayer for me.
- Prayer can not be bought.
But Vinny's friends always
get a special mention.
- That was very
generous of you Sonny,
thank you very much.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Listen would you excuse us,
I'd like to have a
word with your mother.
- Oh well I don't know Sonny,
doctor said she's got to
take it easy you know.
- It'll just take a minute.
I want to have some air and
discuss something with her.
- Alright, okay.
- Oh you just signed your
own death warrant kid.
- Mom, we'll be
right outside okay.
- Senor, (foreign language)
- (foreign language)
- I offered you my generosity,
you refused my kindness,
why was it something
you heard outside?
- I've heard many
things, but I only listen
to what Vinchenzo tells me.
And he says you're
a man of honor.
- Why didn't you let me
give you the red carpet?
- I pay my own
way in this world.
I'm an old woman and
that's the way I do things.
Nothing personal.
- I sense a stubborn streak, eh?
That's alright Mrs. Terrenova.
Now I know where
Vinny gets his from.
- Oh my boy's like me in
a lot of ways that's true,
stubborn, but also loyal.
You do us a kindness,
and you have someone
you can always count on.
I look in your eyes, I see that
loyalty means a lot to you.
Loyalty and family.
- They're one and the same.
- I know you lost your brother,
he can never be replaced.
But Vinchenzo might be able to
- He already has.
- I'm glad.
A man like you needs
someone like Vinchenzo.
Otherwise he's alone.
- Do you mind?
- Oh no.
- You're a wise lady Carlotta.
You remind me of my mother.
- You see her very much?
- She died 10 years ago.
God bless her soul.
But I took care of
her before she died.
- She was a lucky woman.
- She deserved the best.
And so do you.
That's why I wish
to god that you
would not refuse my help,
because Carlotta, we are only
here for such a short time.
- I'm tempted, but at my age,
it's more comfortable to
live with what you got.
Don't be insulted.
One day, god willing,
you'll be my age
and maybe you'll
understand how I feel.
- She's even better at this
than you are Terrenova,
maybe I ought to recruit her.
- She's a great lady.
- Yeah.
- Come on let's get out of here,
we've got things to do.
Hey father, nice to meet you.
- Yeah good to meet you.
- I'll see you next
week for dinner.
- Dinner?
- Yeah your mother's
making me some
of her world famous home
made cannoli's for dessert.
- Oh that's nice, I'll
see you later Pete.
- Hey father don't forget.
- Mom.
Are you alright, do you
want me to get the doctor?
- I'm fine.
- But you should see your face.
What's the matter you think
I'm going to tell
Sonny that Vinchenzo
works for the government,
I gotta protect my
boy, Vinny's a hero.
- You just lost it
for me Carlotta.
- You have the
tape for me Frank?
The tape Frank.
- [Carlotta] I
can't, I can't do it.
You broke my heart
I want you to leave.
- [Vinny] I love you mama.
- [Carlotta] I
want you to leave.
- She asked him
to leave, he left.
- In the name of the father,
and the son of the
Holy Spirit Amen.
Dear God I pray for the
soul of Sonny Steelgrave.