Wiseguy (1987–2009): Season 2, Episode 5 - Aria for Don Aiuppo - full transcript
When Vinnie's mother falls in love with an organized crime boss, rekindling a romance that began in the old country, the O.C.B. asks Vinnie to intervene.
- [Announcer]
Tonight on Wiseguy.
- Agent Terranova,
you are on record
as having voiced some
confusion in loyalty.
Do you know this man?
- [Vinnie] Don Aiuppo.
- Head of one of the largest
crime families in New York.
- What's Aiuppo
got to do with me?
- He's dating your mother.
(banging)
- Raphael Aiuppo, I'm
arresting you for Article 241.
- Speak English.
- You're in this
country illegally.
- Hey, what a minute.
What do you, what do you got?
Wait a minute.
Wait.
(banging)
(upbeat music)
(airplane revving)
(wheels squeaking)
(car running)
(whistling)
(elevator dinging)
- Hey, Frank.
Just barely made the shuttle.
What's going on?
It's not about Ritchie is it?
- Oh, I don't have any
idea what's going on,
but it better be good.
They tore me away
from the hearth
and a colorized version
of It's a Wonderful Life.
(door opening)
Well.
Are we a cheery group tonight.
- [Paul] Have a seat
(sighing)
- What, you guy got
something against
Fordham University or what?
- Agent Terranova.
You are of Italian
ancestry, correct?
- Yeah.
- Mother and father
landed immigrants?
- Yeah, that's right.
- Raised in Brooklyn with
strong regional and family ties.
- Let me know when he's up for
the really big prizes, Paul.
Sorry.
- During your investigation
of the Steelgrave family
you are on record
as having voiced
some confusion in loyalty.
- I had some problems
with the methods
used in that case, yeah.
- You took a six
month leave of absence
after your investigation
of Mel and Susan Profitt.
Again, you are on record
in your confusion.
- There's no confusion there.
Our government was in bed with
a dictator to make a buck.
- Agent Terranova, did
you take a blood oath
as a soldier in the
Steelgrave crime family
or La Familia as it
is commonly called?
Subjected to flame
and the knife, if I
understand correctly?
- Yeah, so what?
- Agent Terranova's
taking that oath
was consistent with his
duties as an OCB officer.
Paul, what's going on here?
- Frank, you know
as well as I do
the longer a deep
cover agent stays under
the more the lines blur.
But when blood is involved,
hundreds of years of
antiquated tradition,
- What the hell is
he talking about?
- Is Vince's loyalty
in question here?
- You're aware that in
the normal training cycle
baby agents are
assigned to surveil
known organized crime figures?
- Mm hmm.
- Agent Sherwood has come up
with some interesting snapshots.
Agent Terranova, do
you know this man?
- [Vinnie] Don Aiuppo.
- Born Raphael Gaitanio Aiuppo,
casa Valtrona Sicily, 1917.
Immigrated to New York in 1925.
Convicted of assault, 1931.
Subsequently questioned
over two dozen times
on a variety of crimes ranging
from robbery to murder.
No further arrests
or convictions.
Also known as Rudy Flowers,
also known as Don Aiuppo.
Once head of one of the largest
crime families in New York.
- Aiuppo's been
retired for years.
- You know it as well as I do
these old ginzos never retire
until the day they die.
- What's Aiuppo
got to do with me?
- He's dating your mother.
(tense music)
(clapping)
(upbeat music)
(crowd chatting)
- Oh.
Please, please let
me rest a minute, eh?
Woo.
Man's on his feet all day,
you'd think he'd
want to sit one out.
- Ah, Tito?
Never.
He dance until the
building came down
around his ears if you let him.
(groaning)
- Every year we have a dance
and every year the
same people come.
Those that can still
walk and breathe.
- Ah.
Cheer up, it's fun.
It's the holidays.
- Yeah, sure, why not?
I guess we all gave up the dream
of a prince sweeping us away.
Decades ago.
- Anybody want to take a chance
on a TV for the senior's center?
- Your cousin Veda
wins every year.
- Are you trying to
say I fix the raffle?
- Yeah.
- I'll take two.
One for me, one for my Vinnie.
(door opening)
(door closing)
- He's got some
(speaking foreign
language) coming in here.
Lucky the church
doesn't fall down.
(light music)
- What does he want here?
- Maybe Monsignor is
late on his payment
and now he's got a new partner?
Or maybe somebody in
here is marked to die.
- Maybe he's just lonely,
like the rest of us.
- Carlotta.
(speaking in foreign language)
- No dance, thank you.
- You're looking well, Carlotta.
- What do you want here?
- Just a little punch.
(ladle clattering)
- Mmm, anisette.
Yours?
- You didn't come here just
to sample my baked goods.
- I'm an old man.
These are my people.
- Then you should
have got to know them
while you were getting old.
Now you only scare them.
- I done a lot for these people.
Pauly C., I got him
into the union in '52.
He retired last year with
two kids through college
and a summer place
in Seaside Heights.
- Your thugs control the union.
(laughing)
- Mrs. Deborino's son, Phil.
I got him into
the Naval Academy.
- You had a politician
in your pocket.
- Signor Nozo and
his wife were being
thrown out of their apartment
by a unscrupulous landlord.
I intervened.
- You held a gun to his head.
- I done something for
almost everyone in this room.
- And all for your own gain
so that you could
be a man of respect.
- I never said I was perfect.
(laughing)
- This what you
do with your life?
You work in a senior
citizens center
and you give dances.
- It wouldn't hurt you to help
the church a little yourself.
- I put concrete in the new
wing at St. Matthew's hospital.
I even bought Father
Tom a Cadillac,
'86, right outta the showroom.
- Paid for with blood money.
- What, bloody money?
Everything I did was legal,
at some part of the country.
Everything,
(scoffing)
- 60 years in this country,
he still refuses
to learn English.
- He still thinks he's going
back to the old country,
just like all the old timers.
- Not me.
I love this country.
Tell me, Carlotta.
You really don't think
men can start over?
- The rare man.
- You take a chair,
you put it like this,
it's a chair.
You put it like this,
(chair slamming on floor)
it's still a chair.
That's all I'm gonna say.
♪ And the wandering ways
♪ Now I'm reaching
back for yesterdays ♪
♪ Til a long forgotten
love appears ♪
♪ And I find that I'm
sighing softly as I near ♪
♪ September
- I've been trying to build
up my nerve all night.
For old times sake,
Carlotta, with the raven hair.
♪ As a man who has never
stopped at wishing wells ♪
♪ Now I'm watching
children's carousels ♪
♪ And their laughter's
music to my ears ♪
♪ And I'll find that I'm
smiling gently as I near ♪
♪ September, the warm
September of my years. ♪
(clapping)
(cheering)
(crowd chatting)
(church bells ringing)
(camera snapping)
- You just wait a second.
- We have rolls of
film of them together
on at least half a dozen
separate occasions.
- You can't believe that
Vince is involved with Aiuppo.
- [Paul] I don't know where
he plays in this little opera.
Where are you going?
- Going home.
I don't know what the
hell's going on here,
but I'm gonna find
out first hand.
If you think I'm involved
with Aiuppo because of this,
why don't you just
come out and say it?
Or is this gonna be another
governmental witch hunt?
(tense music)
(door opening)
(door opening)
(door closing)
- Vincenzo, how was your trip?
Did you eat?
- Yeah, Ma, they got
restaurants in D.C.
Home a little late, aren't ya?
- Oh, you know how your
cousin Rose can talk.
- It's a nice dress.
Is it new?
- It's nothing.
Well I have to get
up early tomorrow.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Hey, Ma.
(sighing)
Goodnight, Ma.
(car running)
(car door squeaking)
(car door slamming)
- Hey, can I help
you with something?
- No thanks.
- You're Terranova, right?
- Yeah.
- How ya doing?
Hey, the Don doesn't like
surprises in the a.m.
Give your knuckles
a break, all right?
(pounding)
He's in the hothouse.
(knocking)
You said you'd want to see him.
- Your mother told you, huh?
- She hasn't said a word.
- I guess it's no secret
around the neighborhood.
- Great.
- How well do you know
your mother Vincenzo?
- She's my mother.
- I'm gonna tell you
something you won't believe.
I've been in love with your
mother for more than 50 years.
You know something?
I can't break the habit,
hiding this from my wife.
Dead almost 11 years, God rest.
Here, Vincenzo, I
got some for you too.
Whoops.
There.
(speaking in foreign language)
Well drink, drink, go ahead.
A couple of drops ain't
going to hurt you.
- You were talking
about my mother.
Why'd you wait so
long to go after her?
- You know our
business, Vincenzo.
It takes time to get out of.
I know your mother
since she was a girl.
Her family, your family,
are from my village.
Our families immigrated
here around the same time.
I first remember
Carlotta when she was
a skinny little girl with
waist-long black hair.
I watched that skinny little
girl blossom into a woman.
To see her walk back then
was to see the sun,
the moon, the stars.
By the time I was old enough
to get serious with women
I was already involved
in our business.
She would have nothing
to do with me, nothing.
But I always held a special
place in my heart for her.
She married your father.
I sent a present.
A couch.
Cost me $800, back
before the war.
- You sent her a couch?
- Yeah, and your father
sent it right back.
Came to my social club in
front of all these people.
He threatened me.
Hey, nobody threatened
me back then.
He told me, if I
courted his wife
he'd kill me with
his bare hands.
(laughing)
Always respected him for that.
- Don Aiuppo,
please listen to me.
What my mother needs most
now is peace of mind.
Her emotions are too
close to the surface.
Now my brother's only
been dead a short time.
It's better if you
stop seeing her.
- She told you to say this?
- [Vinnie] No, but I ,
- Well then what gives
you the right to say this?
It's between your mother and me.
(Vinnie sighing)
What's the matter, Vincenzo,
you no believe two people
our age can fall in love?
- Did she say she loved you?
- Not in so many words.
- It's only three.
- I am not a danger to her.
I lead a peaceful life now.
- The last time I saw you,
you were negotiating a
drug deal with Mel Profitt
and treating him to
hookers on the side.
Very peaceful.
- Are you putz or what?
I was doing it for you.
All my life I kept my
people out of drugs.
Then you came to me with that
(speaking in foreign language)
and I say to myself, well,
if Vincenzo thinks it's
okay, then it's inevitable.
(speaking in foreign language)
You of all people should
understand this, Vincenzo.
You're a man, you have chose
the same kind of life I did,
and there were far
less opportunities
for us in the old
days, believe me.
Don't you want a wonderful girl?
You don't want a (speaking
in foreign language).
I know your soul.
- You don't know the
first thing about me.
- You'd be surprised.
Why are we arguing?
Let your mother decide.
- No.
- What are you gonna do if she
agrees to continue to see me,
shoot me?
Vincenzo.
Is it such a
surprise that someone
besides you could
love your mother?
(sighing)
You think that she'll
like this wreath?
- Yeah, I'm sure she'll love it.
(keyboard clacking)
(simulating gunshot)
- Gotcha.
- Ma.
- Oh, morning, Vicenzo.
You went out early.
- Mmm hmm.
I went to see Aiuppo.
About you.
(slapping)
- How dare you talk to him
without talking to me first.
Who told you?
Your cousin Rose?
- Ma, I got called to Washington
because you were seeing him.
Federal agents took pictures
of you two together.
- Tell them to mind
their own business,
- That's their job.
That's my job.
I put people like him
away for a living.
- I been a grown woman
a long time, Vincenzo.
I know what I'm doing.
- Ma, this guy is a gangster.
When you thought
I was a gangster
you wouldn't have
anything to do with me.
- And I had nothing to do with
Rudy while he was a gangster.
- Rudy?
Rudy.
I don't get it.
I don't understand, Ma.
You put me through
two years of hell
because you disowned me when
you thought I was a gangster.
Now you're dating one.
- Let me tell you
a story, Vincenzo.
It's about a young
boy and a young girl.
There was love involved.
He was handsome, strong, and
too brave for his own good.
He wanted a better
life than his father,
who broke his back for no money.
He turned to crime
and became an animal to survive.
And this young girl,
accepting the bitter with
the good in this new country,
would never again have anything
to do with this young man.
- And that was Aiuppo, huh?
- Vincenzo, since
your brother died,
the way I look at
things has changed.
I thank God every day
for the beauty of life.
To be complete I
need to have someone
who sees things
with the same eyes.
Rudy has those eyes.
Vincenzo.
Some people change, Vincenzo.
- And some people don't, Ma.
Aiuppo's been deceiving
people all his life.
Why shouldn't he do
the same thing to you?
- Because I know
what's in his heart.
Vincenzo.
In your brother's simple
teachings of our Lord
he spoke the most
about forgiving.
(phone ringing)
- Mmm hmm.
- Only time will tell with this.
Hello?
Oh, good morning, Rudy.
I understand you had a visitor.
I hope he didn't upset you.
Oh good.
Tonight?
- Your mother
wanted me to pick up
fresh sausage at Camillo's.
- [Carlotta] Well I'll ask him.
Angela too?
(laughing)
Oh, you mustn't think I'm,
- What is it?
- My mother's going
out with Don Aiuppo.
- Everyone knows that.
- [Carlotta] Oh, we'll
ride in splendor.
(laughing)
- Where the hell have I been?
- She's got a life
of her own too.
- Everybody's an expert on
my mother all of a sudden.
- Look at her, Vinnie.
Look how happy she looks.
- You did let her add salt.
She always adds too much salt.
I'm glad you're here.
Rudy called.
He wants to meet Vincenzo
and me for dinner.
Please join us.
- I've gotta go.
- Angie, Angie, don't make me
face this by myself, please.
- Vinnie.
- Please.
Please?
- [Carlotta] Only for
you, I'll drink champagne,
because tomorrow
I'll have a headache.
I'm not a drinker.
(Aiuppo laughing)
You know, when Vincenzo
came to see me today
it made me think of many things.
It made me think of family,
neighborhood, roots.
What he made me think
of most was love.
There with love, time's
far too fleeting.
This was forged in
the old country.
It was my mother's ring.
And her mother's
mother before that.
Carlotta, I'm asking you
in front of your son,
will you marry me?
- Yes.
(restaurant chatter)
(soft music)
- [Angela] Be happy
for her, Vinnie.
- I just can't help feeling
that I'm the one that
caused this to happen.
- No.
Look how they are together.
- Yeah, they do look pretty
good together, don't they?
- Mmm hmm.
(clapping)
- [Vinnie] I'm
happy for you, Ma.
- Oh, thank you.
- I really am.
- Thank you.
(chatting)
- Raphael Aiuppo?
Officer Cumberford,
U.S. Immigration.
I'm arresting you
for Article 241-82
of the Immigration
and Nationality Act.
- Speak English.
- You're in this
country illegally.
- Hey, wait a
minute, what are you,
what've you got, what are you?
You guys are making a mistake.
Wait a minute.
(car doors slamming)
(car running)
- This is just what you
life could turn into, Ma.
Nothing but harassments
and arrests.
- But he's retired
from that life.
- Naw, it's just chickens
coming home to roost.
- It just doesn't seem fair
for this to happen now.
- Yeah, well let's
not forget that Rudy
is not without some
responsibility here.
(phone ringing)
Hello.
- Vinnie.
It's Uncle Mike.
- [Vinnie] Did you find Frank?
- Yeah, he's in the
air en route to DC.
Listen, I went ahead and
I did a reverse track.
Apparently Aiuppo was
red-flagged in DC.
This went up with
bells and whistles.
- [Vinnie] Any idea who or why?
(sighing)
- All signs point to
someone inside the OCB.
- You sure?
- Hey, it was put
on interdepartmental
class one priority.
Vinnie?
- Yeah, Uncle Mike, yeah,
you did, you did fine.
- [Mike] Yeah.
Do you have any idea who might
have it in for Aiuppo
down at the home office?
- Hey, Mark.
- What's the problem here?
- You pushed the button
on Aiuppo, didn't you?
- You wanted to, you wanted
Aiuppo exercise you mother,
I have to charge them all.
I accessed his file back to
1925 and found out he was EWI.
- What the hell is EWI?
- Entrance without inspection.
- Vince, what is it?
- This man's MOK just
got Aiuppo deported.
- Sometimes Christmas
comes early.
This kid got no off switch.
You know, if I had two
more just like him,
we'd shut down crime on
the whole eastern seaboard.
- Hey, I'm calling
in some markers here.
I want OCB to use it's muscle
to keep Aiuppo in the country.
- Am I missing something here?
The most sophisticated law
enforcement agency in the world
just found out that Aiuppo
was in this country illegally?
- The Sicilian fox had
congressman Francis Farber
deep in his pockets for
the last 30 odd years.
When Farber retired back in '78,
nobody bothered going
back into Aiuppo's file,
assuming it had
been fine-combed.
(laughing)
Never inspected and admitted.
That's 241-82 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act.
Entering the United
States without inspection,
or at any time or
place other than
as designated by the
Attorney General,
or is in the US in violation
of any other laws of
the United States.
- No.
I want Aiuppo left alone.
- It's not our job to
leave mobsters alone.
- What mobster?
This guy is a little old man
who spends his day
tending his garden.
Now I want OCB to throw
their weight around
to get him released.
- Vince, you are asking
us to violate the law.
Now that is the exact kind
of indulgence and abuse
that you find so abhorrent.
Whoever Aiuppo is now,
for decades he violated
laws against society.
The government extracts
a price for that.
- Frank, I gotta find a way
to keep Aiuppo in the country.
- For God's sakes, why?
(sighing)
- My mother's in love with him.
- I'm sorry, Vince.
Vinnie, there's not a
damned thing we can do now.
- I'm sorry, man.
I thought I was
helping a fellow agent.
- I know.
- I always appreciated
life's little ironies.
But this, this is (speaking
in foreign language)
Bring the cigars?
- Yeah.
- You got one?
- Naw.
- People talk about
the old country
like it was some
kind of paradise.
That hot African wind blows
red dust all day long.
Our people had no running water.
The men worked from first light
clearing the fields for the
(speaking in foreign language)
And the women, spend their
days pounding laundry on rocks.
It was 70 years ago.
Hasn't changed that much.
- You got any family
left back there?
- Last of them ran away from the
(speaking in foreign language)
(sighing)
I'm used to getting the Times
on my front step every morning
and picking up ball games
on my satellite dish
24 hours a day.
I love this country, Vinnie.
It's where I grew up,
where I made my fortune.
I don't wanna go back there
and die with strangers.
Be careful, Vinnie.
Power is like no other thing.
I had men, bound by blood,
did whatever I told them.
Politicians at my beck and call.
Best of everything.
Clothes, cars, women, oh women.
But I could trust no one.
Did I,
did I do something so different
than anyone else who has
to deal with animals?
Didn't our own government
deal with the Ayatollah
and trade with drug dealers?
And that country do
whatever it has to do
to protect itself, to survive.
Yeah, well.
Vincenzo, get outta this life.
Get out now.
The price you will have
to pay is much too dear.
Vincenzo.
I want no more
regrets in my life.
I'm gonna ask your
mother to marry me now,
this week, before I am
deported, and if she says yes,
that means she will
live with me, in Sicily.
- If my mother say yes,
you have my blessing.
(soft music)
- Nothing will ever change
what I had with him.
I loved your father very much.
He was a good man who worked
very hard for his family.
We both did.
- I think about
him all the time.
The way he smiled.
(laughing)
- His smile was just
like your smile.
Oh, he would have
been proud of you
and your brother, Vincenzo.
- Yeah.
(sighing)
I'm having a hard time seeing
somebody else in this picture.
(car running)
- Hey, hey, hey, take it easy.
Take it, take is easy.
It's Mr. Dimenco,
the undertaker.
- [Reporter] I need a picture.
(crowd chatting)
(speaking in foreign language)
- Who invited him?
- I did.
You could speak to him
on your wedding day.
- Not today, not ever.
- 40 years without
a word between you?
It's disgrace.
- Here you go.
- [Angela] Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- Oh, I love
neighborhood weddings
- Yeah.
The last neighborhood
wedding I went to,
Ralphie Santangelo chipped
my tooth with his school ring
cause I was dancing with Clarice
Padudi, know what I mean?
Ah, but they're
nice, they're nice.
Be a log nicer if
it wasn't serving
as a going away
party for my mother.
- Well, sometimes things have
a way of working, Vinnie.
(sighing)
Come on, expect a miracle.
It's Christmastime.
- A miracle.
- Yeah.
(glasses clinking)
- My friends.
I want to thank you all
for sharing this day
with Carlotta and me.
It's a very special day.
To be married to
the woman I love.
To be in the winter of my life,
surrounded by my
friends and neighbors.
Some of you I'm getting to
know for the first time.
It is with great pride that
I am leaving this country.
I am proud of my heritage.
Our homeland gave to the world
Galileo, DaVinci, Michelangelo.
The immigrants came here
and forged a new life,
gave this country Iacocca,
Cuomo, DiMaggio, eh?
(laughing)
But as I look back
on my life here,
I get ready to
embark on a new life,
the heroes I am most proud of
are you, the people
in this hall.
Hardworking Americans.
I will miss,
I will miss you all.
We will miss you all.
Now, I have only a few more
hours left so have a good time.
Dance, sing.
(clapping)
(upbeat music)
(camera clicking)
(cheering)
- Your eyes are
so sad, Vincenzo.
- My eyes are fine.
- I'm your mother, I
know what's in your eyes.
(sighing)
- You know I'm happy for you.
- Think of it as a beginning.
- I know, it's just that,
I spent so much
time away from you,
now I'm only gonna be able to
see you once or twice a year.
- We will see.
The house is yours now.
- What are you talking about?
You could sell it.
- If I sell it, where would
I stay when I come to visit?
- Poochy.
- Hey.
- How's everything?
- Smooth as a baby's butt.
Decided these (speaking
in foreign language)
could use some food.
- You know, I've been sitting
out here for two hours and,
- Here you go, Frank.
- That's for me?
- Yeah, it's for you.
- Well thanks, Vince.
- You're welcome.
(sighing)
- Well don't look so sad.
Cheer up.
- Naw, I'm happy.
Be a lot happier if I could
invite my friends
from the bureau
inside to my mother's wedding
instead of feeding them
out here on the curb,
but I'm happy for my
mother, Don Aiuppo.
- You know, Aiuppo must
be a very special man.
You don't get to be his
age in his business,
much less get the
woman of your dreams.
- Listen, I wanna thank you
for going to bat with Cumberford
and the immigration
people for me.
My mother wanted to say
goodbye to all her friends.
- It wasn't me.
It was strictly Beckstead.
He's not a bad guy once
you give him half a chance.
(church bells ringing)
- You hear those bells?
Always loved the
sound of those bells.
Well, it's getting late,
I'd better get back inside.
I gotta say goodbye.
- Yeah.
Aiuppo's going out tonight?
- No, tomorrow
morning, six o'clock.
My mother's going out later.
Thanks, Frank.
Enjoy.
(speaking in foreign language)
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Angela] What are those
men doing with Don Aiuppo?
- It's an ancient tradition.
They ask the Don for
favors on his wedding day.
They're gonna haul the old
timer out of here in handcuffs.
They think he can still
do something for 'em.
- We're gonna have
to wrap it up.
- Okay.
(speaking in foreign language)
- They come to me for help
with things only God could do.
But, does my heart good
they still come to me.
- It's time to go.
- Yes, it's time.
When I was young, my wife
complained I never danced.
Now I'm an old man,
I dance all night.
Vinnie, I must talk
to you about my money
and all these federal
people swarming all over me.
I can't touch it.
When things calm down a
little I will contact you.
Now, I promised
your mother I would
give my money to charity under
your brother Pete's name.
When the time comes,
will you take care of it?
- I will, Don Aiuppo.
(soft music)
(speaking in foreign language)
- Vincenzo, tell the agents
I must speak with my brother.
- Give him a minute, will you?
- It's time.
- Gotta go.
- I would like to say goodbye
to my wife in private.
- We checked it out.
No windows.
I can't go with him.
I can't leave my only son.
My friends, I can't, I should
never have married him.
- Just take it easy.
- I'm sorry,
I can't move to Sicily,
I can't leave my home.
- It's just fine.
- Oh, Rudy, I never should
have promised you, I'm sorry.
- [Angela] It's okay, it's okay.
- [Carlotta] I can't
live in Sicily.
These years, I can't,
Vincenzo, I can't leave you.
I can't leave you.
I can't go to Sicily.
I can't leave you.
(triumphant music)
- You got them brothers
and they didn't speak to
each other for over 40 years.
- Yeah, but Tito had
a different name.
- Yeah, well, Tito
was so embarrassed
by his brother's business he
took his mother's maiden name.
- That's why they didn't
speak for 40 years?
- Yeah.
Then when Tito refused to
come to Don Aiuppo's wedding,
Aiuppo made him
persona non grata.
His name was never
to be spoken again.
It's a classic
neighborhood story.
- I think it's wonderful.
I mean, they both
got what they wanted.
Don Aiuppo, the woman he loves.
- Yeah, and Tito gets to
go back to the old country.
And when they come
back from their cruise,
they're gonna set up shop as
Mr. and Mrs. Tito Parmini.
And you know what?
- Hmm?
- I haven't felt this
good in a long time.
("Silent Night")
(upbeat music)
Tonight on Wiseguy.
- Agent Terranova,
you are on record
as having voiced some
confusion in loyalty.
Do you know this man?
- [Vinnie] Don Aiuppo.
- Head of one of the largest
crime families in New York.
- What's Aiuppo
got to do with me?
- He's dating your mother.
(banging)
- Raphael Aiuppo, I'm
arresting you for Article 241.
- Speak English.
- You're in this
country illegally.
- Hey, what a minute.
What do you, what do you got?
Wait a minute.
Wait.
(banging)
(upbeat music)
(airplane revving)
(wheels squeaking)
(car running)
(whistling)
(elevator dinging)
- Hey, Frank.
Just barely made the shuttle.
What's going on?
It's not about Ritchie is it?
- Oh, I don't have any
idea what's going on,
but it better be good.
They tore me away
from the hearth
and a colorized version
of It's a Wonderful Life.
(door opening)
Well.
Are we a cheery group tonight.
- [Paul] Have a seat
(sighing)
- What, you guy got
something against
Fordham University or what?
- Agent Terranova.
You are of Italian
ancestry, correct?
- Yeah.
- Mother and father
landed immigrants?
- Yeah, that's right.
- Raised in Brooklyn with
strong regional and family ties.
- Let me know when he's up for
the really big prizes, Paul.
Sorry.
- During your investigation
of the Steelgrave family
you are on record
as having voiced
some confusion in loyalty.
- I had some problems
with the methods
used in that case, yeah.
- You took a six
month leave of absence
after your investigation
of Mel and Susan Profitt.
Again, you are on record
in your confusion.
- There's no confusion there.
Our government was in bed with
a dictator to make a buck.
- Agent Terranova, did
you take a blood oath
as a soldier in the
Steelgrave crime family
or La Familia as it
is commonly called?
Subjected to flame
and the knife, if I
understand correctly?
- Yeah, so what?
- Agent Terranova's
taking that oath
was consistent with his
duties as an OCB officer.
Paul, what's going on here?
- Frank, you know
as well as I do
the longer a deep
cover agent stays under
the more the lines blur.
But when blood is involved,
hundreds of years of
antiquated tradition,
- What the hell is
he talking about?
- Is Vince's loyalty
in question here?
- You're aware that in
the normal training cycle
baby agents are
assigned to surveil
known organized crime figures?
- Mm hmm.
- Agent Sherwood has come up
with some interesting snapshots.
Agent Terranova, do
you know this man?
- [Vinnie] Don Aiuppo.
- Born Raphael Gaitanio Aiuppo,
casa Valtrona Sicily, 1917.
Immigrated to New York in 1925.
Convicted of assault, 1931.
Subsequently questioned
over two dozen times
on a variety of crimes ranging
from robbery to murder.
No further arrests
or convictions.
Also known as Rudy Flowers,
also known as Don Aiuppo.
Once head of one of the largest
crime families in New York.
- Aiuppo's been
retired for years.
- You know it as well as I do
these old ginzos never retire
until the day they die.
- What's Aiuppo
got to do with me?
- He's dating your mother.
(tense music)
(clapping)
(upbeat music)
(crowd chatting)
- Oh.
Please, please let
me rest a minute, eh?
Woo.
Man's on his feet all day,
you'd think he'd
want to sit one out.
- Ah, Tito?
Never.
He dance until the
building came down
around his ears if you let him.
(groaning)
- Every year we have a dance
and every year the
same people come.
Those that can still
walk and breathe.
- Ah.
Cheer up, it's fun.
It's the holidays.
- Yeah, sure, why not?
I guess we all gave up the dream
of a prince sweeping us away.
Decades ago.
- Anybody want to take a chance
on a TV for the senior's center?
- Your cousin Veda
wins every year.
- Are you trying to
say I fix the raffle?
- Yeah.
- I'll take two.
One for me, one for my Vinnie.
(door opening)
(door closing)
- He's got some
(speaking foreign
language) coming in here.
Lucky the church
doesn't fall down.
(light music)
- What does he want here?
- Maybe Monsignor is
late on his payment
and now he's got a new partner?
Or maybe somebody in
here is marked to die.
- Maybe he's just lonely,
like the rest of us.
- Carlotta.
(speaking in foreign language)
- No dance, thank you.
- You're looking well, Carlotta.
- What do you want here?
- Just a little punch.
(ladle clattering)
- Mmm, anisette.
Yours?
- You didn't come here just
to sample my baked goods.
- I'm an old man.
These are my people.
- Then you should
have got to know them
while you were getting old.
Now you only scare them.
- I done a lot for these people.
Pauly C., I got him
into the union in '52.
He retired last year with
two kids through college
and a summer place
in Seaside Heights.
- Your thugs control the union.
(laughing)
- Mrs. Deborino's son, Phil.
I got him into
the Naval Academy.
- You had a politician
in your pocket.
- Signor Nozo and
his wife were being
thrown out of their apartment
by a unscrupulous landlord.
I intervened.
- You held a gun to his head.
- I done something for
almost everyone in this room.
- And all for your own gain
so that you could
be a man of respect.
- I never said I was perfect.
(laughing)
- This what you
do with your life?
You work in a senior
citizens center
and you give dances.
- It wouldn't hurt you to help
the church a little yourself.
- I put concrete in the new
wing at St. Matthew's hospital.
I even bought Father
Tom a Cadillac,
'86, right outta the showroom.
- Paid for with blood money.
- What, bloody money?
Everything I did was legal,
at some part of the country.
Everything,
(scoffing)
- 60 years in this country,
he still refuses
to learn English.
- He still thinks he's going
back to the old country,
just like all the old timers.
- Not me.
I love this country.
Tell me, Carlotta.
You really don't think
men can start over?
- The rare man.
- You take a chair,
you put it like this,
it's a chair.
You put it like this,
(chair slamming on floor)
it's still a chair.
That's all I'm gonna say.
♪ And the wandering ways
♪ Now I'm reaching
back for yesterdays ♪
♪ Til a long forgotten
love appears ♪
♪ And I find that I'm
sighing softly as I near ♪
♪ September
- I've been trying to build
up my nerve all night.
For old times sake,
Carlotta, with the raven hair.
♪ As a man who has never
stopped at wishing wells ♪
♪ Now I'm watching
children's carousels ♪
♪ And their laughter's
music to my ears ♪
♪ And I'll find that I'm
smiling gently as I near ♪
♪ September, the warm
September of my years. ♪
(clapping)
(cheering)
(crowd chatting)
(church bells ringing)
(camera snapping)
- You just wait a second.
- We have rolls of
film of them together
on at least half a dozen
separate occasions.
- You can't believe that
Vince is involved with Aiuppo.
- [Paul] I don't know where
he plays in this little opera.
Where are you going?
- Going home.
I don't know what the
hell's going on here,
but I'm gonna find
out first hand.
If you think I'm involved
with Aiuppo because of this,
why don't you just
come out and say it?
Or is this gonna be another
governmental witch hunt?
(tense music)
(door opening)
(door opening)
(door closing)
- Vincenzo, how was your trip?
Did you eat?
- Yeah, Ma, they got
restaurants in D.C.
Home a little late, aren't ya?
- Oh, you know how your
cousin Rose can talk.
- It's a nice dress.
Is it new?
- It's nothing.
Well I have to get
up early tomorrow.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Hey, Ma.
(sighing)
Goodnight, Ma.
(car running)
(car door squeaking)
(car door slamming)
- Hey, can I help
you with something?
- No thanks.
- You're Terranova, right?
- Yeah.
- How ya doing?
Hey, the Don doesn't like
surprises in the a.m.
Give your knuckles
a break, all right?
(pounding)
He's in the hothouse.
(knocking)
You said you'd want to see him.
- Your mother told you, huh?
- She hasn't said a word.
- I guess it's no secret
around the neighborhood.
- Great.
- How well do you know
your mother Vincenzo?
- She's my mother.
- I'm gonna tell you
something you won't believe.
I've been in love with your
mother for more than 50 years.
You know something?
I can't break the habit,
hiding this from my wife.
Dead almost 11 years, God rest.
Here, Vincenzo, I
got some for you too.
Whoops.
There.
(speaking in foreign language)
Well drink, drink, go ahead.
A couple of drops ain't
going to hurt you.
- You were talking
about my mother.
Why'd you wait so
long to go after her?
- You know our
business, Vincenzo.
It takes time to get out of.
I know your mother
since she was a girl.
Her family, your family,
are from my village.
Our families immigrated
here around the same time.
I first remember
Carlotta when she was
a skinny little girl with
waist-long black hair.
I watched that skinny little
girl blossom into a woman.
To see her walk back then
was to see the sun,
the moon, the stars.
By the time I was old enough
to get serious with women
I was already involved
in our business.
She would have nothing
to do with me, nothing.
But I always held a special
place in my heart for her.
She married your father.
I sent a present.
A couch.
Cost me $800, back
before the war.
- You sent her a couch?
- Yeah, and your father
sent it right back.
Came to my social club in
front of all these people.
He threatened me.
Hey, nobody threatened
me back then.
He told me, if I
courted his wife
he'd kill me with
his bare hands.
(laughing)
Always respected him for that.
- Don Aiuppo,
please listen to me.
What my mother needs most
now is peace of mind.
Her emotions are too
close to the surface.
Now my brother's only
been dead a short time.
It's better if you
stop seeing her.
- She told you to say this?
- [Vinnie] No, but I ,
- Well then what gives
you the right to say this?
It's between your mother and me.
(Vinnie sighing)
What's the matter, Vincenzo,
you no believe two people
our age can fall in love?
- Did she say she loved you?
- Not in so many words.
- It's only three.
- I am not a danger to her.
I lead a peaceful life now.
- The last time I saw you,
you were negotiating a
drug deal with Mel Profitt
and treating him to
hookers on the side.
Very peaceful.
- Are you putz or what?
I was doing it for you.
All my life I kept my
people out of drugs.
Then you came to me with that
(speaking in foreign language)
and I say to myself, well,
if Vincenzo thinks it's
okay, then it's inevitable.
(speaking in foreign language)
You of all people should
understand this, Vincenzo.
You're a man, you have chose
the same kind of life I did,
and there were far
less opportunities
for us in the old
days, believe me.
Don't you want a wonderful girl?
You don't want a (speaking
in foreign language).
I know your soul.
- You don't know the
first thing about me.
- You'd be surprised.
Why are we arguing?
Let your mother decide.
- No.
- What are you gonna do if she
agrees to continue to see me,
shoot me?
Vincenzo.
Is it such a
surprise that someone
besides you could
love your mother?
(sighing)
You think that she'll
like this wreath?
- Yeah, I'm sure she'll love it.
(keyboard clacking)
(simulating gunshot)
- Gotcha.
- Ma.
- Oh, morning, Vicenzo.
You went out early.
- Mmm hmm.
I went to see Aiuppo.
About you.
(slapping)
- How dare you talk to him
without talking to me first.
Who told you?
Your cousin Rose?
- Ma, I got called to Washington
because you were seeing him.
Federal agents took pictures
of you two together.
- Tell them to mind
their own business,
- That's their job.
That's my job.
I put people like him
away for a living.
- I been a grown woman
a long time, Vincenzo.
I know what I'm doing.
- Ma, this guy is a gangster.
When you thought
I was a gangster
you wouldn't have
anything to do with me.
- And I had nothing to do with
Rudy while he was a gangster.
- Rudy?
Rudy.
I don't get it.
I don't understand, Ma.
You put me through
two years of hell
because you disowned me when
you thought I was a gangster.
Now you're dating one.
- Let me tell you
a story, Vincenzo.
It's about a young
boy and a young girl.
There was love involved.
He was handsome, strong, and
too brave for his own good.
He wanted a better
life than his father,
who broke his back for no money.
He turned to crime
and became an animal to survive.
And this young girl,
accepting the bitter with
the good in this new country,
would never again have anything
to do with this young man.
- And that was Aiuppo, huh?
- Vincenzo, since
your brother died,
the way I look at
things has changed.
I thank God every day
for the beauty of life.
To be complete I
need to have someone
who sees things
with the same eyes.
Rudy has those eyes.
Vincenzo.
Some people change, Vincenzo.
- And some people don't, Ma.
Aiuppo's been deceiving
people all his life.
Why shouldn't he do
the same thing to you?
- Because I know
what's in his heart.
Vincenzo.
In your brother's simple
teachings of our Lord
he spoke the most
about forgiving.
(phone ringing)
- Mmm hmm.
- Only time will tell with this.
Hello?
Oh, good morning, Rudy.
I understand you had a visitor.
I hope he didn't upset you.
Oh good.
Tonight?
- Your mother
wanted me to pick up
fresh sausage at Camillo's.
- [Carlotta] Well I'll ask him.
Angela too?
(laughing)
Oh, you mustn't think I'm,
- What is it?
- My mother's going
out with Don Aiuppo.
- Everyone knows that.
- [Carlotta] Oh, we'll
ride in splendor.
(laughing)
- Where the hell have I been?
- She's got a life
of her own too.
- Everybody's an expert on
my mother all of a sudden.
- Look at her, Vinnie.
Look how happy she looks.
- You did let her add salt.
She always adds too much salt.
I'm glad you're here.
Rudy called.
He wants to meet Vincenzo
and me for dinner.
Please join us.
- I've gotta go.
- Angie, Angie, don't make me
face this by myself, please.
- Vinnie.
- Please.
Please?
- [Carlotta] Only for
you, I'll drink champagne,
because tomorrow
I'll have a headache.
I'm not a drinker.
(Aiuppo laughing)
You know, when Vincenzo
came to see me today
it made me think of many things.
It made me think of family,
neighborhood, roots.
What he made me think
of most was love.
There with love, time's
far too fleeting.
This was forged in
the old country.
It was my mother's ring.
And her mother's
mother before that.
Carlotta, I'm asking you
in front of your son,
will you marry me?
- Yes.
(restaurant chatter)
(soft music)
- [Angela] Be happy
for her, Vinnie.
- I just can't help feeling
that I'm the one that
caused this to happen.
- No.
Look how they are together.
- Yeah, they do look pretty
good together, don't they?
- Mmm hmm.
(clapping)
- [Vinnie] I'm
happy for you, Ma.
- Oh, thank you.
- I really am.
- Thank you.
(chatting)
- Raphael Aiuppo?
Officer Cumberford,
U.S. Immigration.
I'm arresting you
for Article 241-82
of the Immigration
and Nationality Act.
- Speak English.
- You're in this
country illegally.
- Hey, wait a
minute, what are you,
what've you got, what are you?
You guys are making a mistake.
Wait a minute.
(car doors slamming)
(car running)
- This is just what you
life could turn into, Ma.
Nothing but harassments
and arrests.
- But he's retired
from that life.
- Naw, it's just chickens
coming home to roost.
- It just doesn't seem fair
for this to happen now.
- Yeah, well let's
not forget that Rudy
is not without some
responsibility here.
(phone ringing)
Hello.
- Vinnie.
It's Uncle Mike.
- [Vinnie] Did you find Frank?
- Yeah, he's in the
air en route to DC.
Listen, I went ahead and
I did a reverse track.
Apparently Aiuppo was
red-flagged in DC.
This went up with
bells and whistles.
- [Vinnie] Any idea who or why?
(sighing)
- All signs point to
someone inside the OCB.
- You sure?
- Hey, it was put
on interdepartmental
class one priority.
Vinnie?
- Yeah, Uncle Mike, yeah,
you did, you did fine.
- [Mike] Yeah.
Do you have any idea who might
have it in for Aiuppo
down at the home office?
- Hey, Mark.
- What's the problem here?
- You pushed the button
on Aiuppo, didn't you?
- You wanted to, you wanted
Aiuppo exercise you mother,
I have to charge them all.
I accessed his file back to
1925 and found out he was EWI.
- What the hell is EWI?
- Entrance without inspection.
- Vince, what is it?
- This man's MOK just
got Aiuppo deported.
- Sometimes Christmas
comes early.
This kid got no off switch.
You know, if I had two
more just like him,
we'd shut down crime on
the whole eastern seaboard.
- Hey, I'm calling
in some markers here.
I want OCB to use it's muscle
to keep Aiuppo in the country.
- Am I missing something here?
The most sophisticated law
enforcement agency in the world
just found out that Aiuppo
was in this country illegally?
- The Sicilian fox had
congressman Francis Farber
deep in his pockets for
the last 30 odd years.
When Farber retired back in '78,
nobody bothered going
back into Aiuppo's file,
assuming it had
been fine-combed.
(laughing)
Never inspected and admitted.
That's 241-82 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act.
Entering the United
States without inspection,
or at any time or
place other than
as designated by the
Attorney General,
or is in the US in violation
of any other laws of
the United States.
- No.
I want Aiuppo left alone.
- It's not our job to
leave mobsters alone.
- What mobster?
This guy is a little old man
who spends his day
tending his garden.
Now I want OCB to throw
their weight around
to get him released.
- Vince, you are asking
us to violate the law.
Now that is the exact kind
of indulgence and abuse
that you find so abhorrent.
Whoever Aiuppo is now,
for decades he violated
laws against society.
The government extracts
a price for that.
- Frank, I gotta find a way
to keep Aiuppo in the country.
- For God's sakes, why?
(sighing)
- My mother's in love with him.
- I'm sorry, Vince.
Vinnie, there's not a
damned thing we can do now.
- I'm sorry, man.
I thought I was
helping a fellow agent.
- I know.
- I always appreciated
life's little ironies.
But this, this is (speaking
in foreign language)
Bring the cigars?
- Yeah.
- You got one?
- Naw.
- People talk about
the old country
like it was some
kind of paradise.
That hot African wind blows
red dust all day long.
Our people had no running water.
The men worked from first light
clearing the fields for the
(speaking in foreign language)
And the women, spend their
days pounding laundry on rocks.
It was 70 years ago.
Hasn't changed that much.
- You got any family
left back there?
- Last of them ran away from the
(speaking in foreign language)
(sighing)
I'm used to getting the Times
on my front step every morning
and picking up ball games
on my satellite dish
24 hours a day.
I love this country, Vinnie.
It's where I grew up,
where I made my fortune.
I don't wanna go back there
and die with strangers.
Be careful, Vinnie.
Power is like no other thing.
I had men, bound by blood,
did whatever I told them.
Politicians at my beck and call.
Best of everything.
Clothes, cars, women, oh women.
But I could trust no one.
Did I,
did I do something so different
than anyone else who has
to deal with animals?
Didn't our own government
deal with the Ayatollah
and trade with drug dealers?
And that country do
whatever it has to do
to protect itself, to survive.
Yeah, well.
Vincenzo, get outta this life.
Get out now.
The price you will have
to pay is much too dear.
Vincenzo.
I want no more
regrets in my life.
I'm gonna ask your
mother to marry me now,
this week, before I am
deported, and if she says yes,
that means she will
live with me, in Sicily.
- If my mother say yes,
you have my blessing.
(soft music)
- Nothing will ever change
what I had with him.
I loved your father very much.
He was a good man who worked
very hard for his family.
We both did.
- I think about
him all the time.
The way he smiled.
(laughing)
- His smile was just
like your smile.
Oh, he would have
been proud of you
and your brother, Vincenzo.
- Yeah.
(sighing)
I'm having a hard time seeing
somebody else in this picture.
(car running)
- Hey, hey, hey, take it easy.
Take it, take is easy.
It's Mr. Dimenco,
the undertaker.
- [Reporter] I need a picture.
(crowd chatting)
(speaking in foreign language)
- Who invited him?
- I did.
You could speak to him
on your wedding day.
- Not today, not ever.
- 40 years without
a word between you?
It's disgrace.
- Here you go.
- [Angela] Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- Oh, I love
neighborhood weddings
- Yeah.
The last neighborhood
wedding I went to,
Ralphie Santangelo chipped
my tooth with his school ring
cause I was dancing with Clarice
Padudi, know what I mean?
Ah, but they're
nice, they're nice.
Be a log nicer if
it wasn't serving
as a going away
party for my mother.
- Well, sometimes things have
a way of working, Vinnie.
(sighing)
Come on, expect a miracle.
It's Christmastime.
- A miracle.
- Yeah.
(glasses clinking)
- My friends.
I want to thank you all
for sharing this day
with Carlotta and me.
It's a very special day.
To be married to
the woman I love.
To be in the winter of my life,
surrounded by my
friends and neighbors.
Some of you I'm getting to
know for the first time.
It is with great pride that
I am leaving this country.
I am proud of my heritage.
Our homeland gave to the world
Galileo, DaVinci, Michelangelo.
The immigrants came here
and forged a new life,
gave this country Iacocca,
Cuomo, DiMaggio, eh?
(laughing)
But as I look back
on my life here,
I get ready to
embark on a new life,
the heroes I am most proud of
are you, the people
in this hall.
Hardworking Americans.
I will miss,
I will miss you all.
We will miss you all.
Now, I have only a few more
hours left so have a good time.
Dance, sing.
(clapping)
(upbeat music)
(camera clicking)
(cheering)
- Your eyes are
so sad, Vincenzo.
- My eyes are fine.
- I'm your mother, I
know what's in your eyes.
(sighing)
- You know I'm happy for you.
- Think of it as a beginning.
- I know, it's just that,
I spent so much
time away from you,
now I'm only gonna be able to
see you once or twice a year.
- We will see.
The house is yours now.
- What are you talking about?
You could sell it.
- If I sell it, where would
I stay when I come to visit?
- Poochy.
- Hey.
- How's everything?
- Smooth as a baby's butt.
Decided these (speaking
in foreign language)
could use some food.
- You know, I've been sitting
out here for two hours and,
- Here you go, Frank.
- That's for me?
- Yeah, it's for you.
- Well thanks, Vince.
- You're welcome.
(sighing)
- Well don't look so sad.
Cheer up.
- Naw, I'm happy.
Be a lot happier if I could
invite my friends
from the bureau
inside to my mother's wedding
instead of feeding them
out here on the curb,
but I'm happy for my
mother, Don Aiuppo.
- You know, Aiuppo must
be a very special man.
You don't get to be his
age in his business,
much less get the
woman of your dreams.
- Listen, I wanna thank you
for going to bat with Cumberford
and the immigration
people for me.
My mother wanted to say
goodbye to all her friends.
- It wasn't me.
It was strictly Beckstead.
He's not a bad guy once
you give him half a chance.
(church bells ringing)
- You hear those bells?
Always loved the
sound of those bells.
Well, it's getting late,
I'd better get back inside.
I gotta say goodbye.
- Yeah.
Aiuppo's going out tonight?
- No, tomorrow
morning, six o'clock.
My mother's going out later.
Thanks, Frank.
Enjoy.
(speaking in foreign language)
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Angela] What are those
men doing with Don Aiuppo?
- It's an ancient tradition.
They ask the Don for
favors on his wedding day.
They're gonna haul the old
timer out of here in handcuffs.
They think he can still
do something for 'em.
- We're gonna have
to wrap it up.
- Okay.
(speaking in foreign language)
- They come to me for help
with things only God could do.
But, does my heart good
they still come to me.
- It's time to go.
- Yes, it's time.
When I was young, my wife
complained I never danced.
Now I'm an old man,
I dance all night.
Vinnie, I must talk
to you about my money
and all these federal
people swarming all over me.
I can't touch it.
When things calm down a
little I will contact you.
Now, I promised
your mother I would
give my money to charity under
your brother Pete's name.
When the time comes,
will you take care of it?
- I will, Don Aiuppo.
(soft music)
(speaking in foreign language)
- Vincenzo, tell the agents
I must speak with my brother.
- Give him a minute, will you?
- It's time.
- Gotta go.
- I would like to say goodbye
to my wife in private.
- We checked it out.
No windows.
I can't go with him.
I can't leave my only son.
My friends, I can't, I should
never have married him.
- Just take it easy.
- I'm sorry,
I can't move to Sicily,
I can't leave my home.
- It's just fine.
- Oh, Rudy, I never should
have promised you, I'm sorry.
- [Angela] It's okay, it's okay.
- [Carlotta] I can't
live in Sicily.
These years, I can't,
Vincenzo, I can't leave you.
I can't leave you.
I can't go to Sicily.
I can't leave you.
(triumphant music)
- You got them brothers
and they didn't speak to
each other for over 40 years.
- Yeah, but Tito had
a different name.
- Yeah, well, Tito
was so embarrassed
by his brother's business he
took his mother's maiden name.
- That's why they didn't
speak for 40 years?
- Yeah.
Then when Tito refused to
come to Don Aiuppo's wedding,
Aiuppo made him
persona non grata.
His name was never
to be spoken again.
It's a classic
neighborhood story.
- I think it's wonderful.
I mean, they both
got what they wanted.
Don Aiuppo, the woman he loves.
- Yeah, and Tito gets to
go back to the old country.
And when they come
back from their cruise,
they're gonna set up shop as
Mr. and Mrs. Tito Parmini.
And you know what?
- Hmm?
- I haven't felt this
good in a long time.
("Silent Night")
(upbeat music)