Wiseguy (1987–2009): Season 3, Episode 1 - A Rightful Place - full transcript
While Don Aiuppo battles to survive an attempted assassination, Vinnie takes his place at the commission table, determined to bring down the family member who ordered the hit.
- Tonight on Wise Guy.
- One of you gindaloons
popped my father in
his own back yard.
For your own safety, I
can't stay with you now.
- I need you.
(moaning)
(loud thump)
- One of you assassins
conducted business
in my mother's face.
- This ain't the proper place!
- I define propriety.
Why in Rudolfo all
you boys are here?
I'm taking my rightful
seat at this table.
(loud thump)
(dramatic synthesizer
theme music)
(light-hearted swinging
electric guitar music)
- You're dreamin', Pooch!
- I ain't dreaming!
- Firecrackers.
Kids are stupid, gonna
blind themselves.
And maybe blow off
in an appendage.
- You were a kid once, Eddie,
you never played
with firecrackers?
- I know from where I speak.
- You lost that shavin' ice.
- Gone is gone.
You're dreamin', Pooch.
- All great lovers are dreamers.
- Hey, Pooch,
don't tempt yourself.
- Why do you want
to be with boys for?
Boys don't know that
pleasure is a mutual thing.
- They don't need naps either!
- Had to give it a shot, right?
- [Bartender] So why not
take a shot at Marie?
- What, are you kiddin'?
I used to have a
thing with her mother!
She'd take my head of if
she caught me with Marie.
I hear Aiuppo's back.
- No, the Don's in Italy.
I'm looking after his affairs.
- I hear he's back.
- No, no, it's
his brother, Tito.
- The barber?
- Yeah.
- Then why don't you
got a better haircut?
- Hey!
Get over there!
- [Scarpo] Told you
you was dreamin'.
Can't expect girls to
appreciate experience
when they haven't had any.
(wailing police sirens)
Pooch?
Pooch!
(suspenseful music)
(police sirens)
(police radios)
- You didn't do this, huh?
- I already told you.
I heard gunfire, I
came out of the house,
and three guys were running.
I grabbed this guy,
and one of his buddies
shot him and took off, alright?
- Hey, we're not done here!
- Eh!
- [Policeman] Hey,
where you goin'?
- That's my family!
- Hey, slow down, hey!
- You should go
and ride with him.
- Can't ride in here.
- Hey, hey!
This is her husband,
she's goin' with him!
- Alright, alright.
- Go on, Ma.
- [Paramedic] That's it!
- You talk to me!
- I'm goin' to the hospital!
- Not until we're done here.
- Hey, my mother's
got a heart condition,
her husband's just been shot.
Now what's wrong with you,
that you want to stop me?
- Alright.
I'll take ya.
I'm getting their
statements at the hospital.
And what about him?
- I dunno!
- You got his blood
all over you, and you
don't know who he is?
- [Vinnie] No, I don't.
(car door slams shut)
(engine starts)
- Vinsky.
(knocking on door)
- Pooch.
What's up?
- I need to see Albert.
- I'll ask.
(tense music)
- Don't do nothin' Albert,
just pick the room
you want to die in.
- What are you
doin' in my house?
- Don't talk.
- You're gonna kill me,
you better have a good reason.
- I got reason.
- You got reason
for my son to see
his daddy dead with his
brains all over the floor?
- You hit my Don!
You ordered!
Levinsky was one of the buttons!
- Levinsky?
- Levinsky works for you,
he's one of your crew.
- He did a few things
for us, that's it!
He's not my man!
- I ain't stupid!
- Nobody thinks
you're stupid, Pooch.
It wasn't me.
I swear to God on my son.
- Vinsky--
- On my son.
You think so little of me
that I would swear
a lie on my son?
- You didn't?
- No.
(both breathing heavily)
You wanna snort, Pooch?
Grappa, scotch?
- Yeah, anything.
- Is Aiuppo dead?
- He was still breathing when
they put him in the ambulance.
- Where'd this happen?
- The Don's home.
Right in the greenhouse.
In front of his
wife and everything.
- Bastards.
Hey.
How do you know Levinsky
was one of the buttons?
- He was dead in the alley.
He did work for you, Albert.
- He picked up work!
There were no oaths
between me and this guy.
You've gotta know me, Pooch.
Any man who passes
judgment on another man
in full view of his
home and family,
I feed his heart to the dogs.
(knocking on door)
- Albert!
Albert, you alright?
- Yeah.
(door opens)
- It's Scar.
- I'm really sorry.
- What happened?
- Albert, Ziffo caught a rock.
- Dead?
- Yeah.
- [Albert] Jenny!
Jenny, get dressed.
- What?
- Get dressed now!
Hey, now, hey!
C'mon, buddy,
we're gonna go on a
little trip, let's go.
- Albert?
- Get dressed now, Jenny!
- Daddy?
- You're gonna take
a vacation!
- What about school?
- Don't you wanna skip a
few days of school, huh?
- I can ditch?
- Yeah, sure, just
for a few days.
Scar, are you okay to drive?
- Yeah.
- Take Jenny and
little Al to Kennedy,
and get on a plane, all of you.
- [Scar] Where?
- Jenny'll tell you where.
You don't need,
forget the suitcase.
- I can't!
- No, forget it,
there's no time.
- What's going on, Albert?
- Okay.
Scar's gonna take you
to the airport, okay?
You, Little Al and Scar,
you get on a plane.
First plane to wherever.
From there you go to Tampa,
then to that place on
the beach, you remember?
- Ah, Breakers.
- Yeah.
Don't say it again,
don't even tell Scar.
You go there, get
the best suite,
and stay there.
And don't call anybody.
Not even your mother.
- Daddy!
- Here.
There's enough cash to
take care of everything.
- [Jenny] What about
Little Al's school?
- School will be there
when you get back.
Let's do it.
(tense music)
- [Guard On Radio] All clear.
- Nice, now let's go.
- Albert?
- This is gonna be a great
vacation for you, Al.
- [Little Al] Are you
going out with us, Daddy?
- [Albert] (chuckles) Daddy's
not gonna go in his underwear.
This is a surprise vacation
for you and Mama, okay?
I love you, baby.
- Albert!
- Love you more.
- Okay, take care of Mama.
Okay, go.
- Albert?
- Alright, baby.
We got a war.
I gotta survive the night.
I got a see about a weapon
and put my pants on.
I need your loyalty.
- My loyalty's with Aiuppo.
- Don Aiuppo is dead or dying!
Ziffo's dead.
And I'm the next most likely
target in the bloodletting.
Now I need to know
where you stand.
I need this now.
- I'm here, Albert!
- Pack the war car.
(dark, dramatic music)
(car engine starts)
(tires squeal)
Where's Aiuppo?
- [Nurse] Watch out!
Clear!
- [P.A.] Doctor Barbara to ICU.
- Does your husband
have any blood relatives
we could get here quickly?
- No, his brother is in Italy.
(sighs shakily)
- Are you alright, Carlotta?
- Just short of breath.
- You got business here?
- It's alright if I
speak with this man?
- Yeah.
Step in here.
There's a mob conflagration
happening, Vinnie,
Ziffo was hit tonight, too.
- Thanks.
- Are you alright?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
- Your mom?
- I had to check her in for
a couple days' observation
because of her heart.
- Aiuppo?
- He's in surgery.
He hasn't got a chance.
He had a rare blood type.
Two million people in Brooklyn
and nobody's home
with AB negative.
- Great.
- [Vinnie] My mother's
gonna need protection.
- That's done.
And you?
- Absolutely not.
Badges around me are just
gonna draw attention.
- What about Amber?
- Amber needs protection too.
Police are taking her home now.
I'm gonna have to break
things off with her.
Four hours ago I was
announcing my engagement,
now I'll probably have
to plan a funeral.
- Vince, you can't...
- We checked your
mother into 505.
She's sleeping comfortably.
(wincing in pain)
Now you have to rest
for half an hour.
- Yes. (sighs)
And thank you.
(door shuts)
I don't want you to
worry about this.
We can put your
family in a safehouse
until this thing blows over.
- I appreciate that, Frank,
but this is my problem.
I've been skirting
it my whole life,
time's come for me
to deal with it.
- What is that supposed to mean?
- Well I'm not gonna
do anything rash!
I'm just gonna grab
a cab, go home,
take a shower,
change my clothes.
- Alright.
- What're you doin'?
- Take my car,
it's in the parking,
take my car.
Be careful.
- Alright, thanks.
Get some rest, okay?
Drink your juice.
- Is the Don okay?
- He's still in surgery.
- [Poochy] Nobody's
gonna hurt the Don again.
Nobody!
It's okay, get in.
- I want you to
know, Don Aiuppo's
under my protection
until the Commission
decides otherwise.
Come on in, it's safe.
(motor turns on)
(tires squeal)
- What!
- I gotta do this, alright?
The law, you know?
They listen to everything.
They've got a satellite
following this car.
Spent 50-mill to try
and listen two guys
who don't amount to nothing,
trying to survive the night.
I need to know where you stand.
- Mind telling me
where we're going?
- We're going to get
to know each other.
I'm not interested in the
only common ground between us
being a burial plot.
No, I need to know
where you stand.
- I don't give a damn
what you need to know!
- Hey, I got problems here!
- I'm your problem
if you don't stop yelling at me!
- Maybe you've got this
Hamlet thing with your mother.
- What?
- Hamlet.
You get rid of your stepfather,
you get the kingdom.
- Maybe you're Macbeth.
So this is Shakespeare.
Why don't you drop me off,
I want to change my clothes.
I'm covered in blood here.
- We can't stop, man,
we gotta keep moving.
Ziffo's popped, Aiuppo's
popped, we're on a list.
We gotta keep going.
- Sounds like your list to me,
you got the most to gain by it.
- Hey, I got nothin'
to do with this.
Tell me what
happened at Aiuppo's?
- What, I heard shots!
I ran outside, I
saw Rudy was hit.
Three guys run into
a car in the alley.
I grab one of 'em, he
couldn't get in the car
'cause I had him.
So instead of taking off,
instead of just leaving,
the driver shoots the guy.
- Poochy recognized this guy.
Jake Levinsky.
Now Levinsky did a
few things for us,
there's some people
who think he's my guy.
I'm being set up, Vinnie.
- That's because they're
such geniuses, right Albert?
They know that I'm
gonna grab your guy.
Specifically, grab Levinsky,
so they can pop
him to set you up?
Come on, what are you thinking?
You know what I think?
I think they were all your guys,
and being morons, they panicked
when I grabbed Levinsky.
Now your guys screwed up,
so you're running scared.
- Hey, I don't run
scared, I run to survive.
And if I wanted Aiuppo
whacked I'd do him myself,
and I'd do it right.
- Yeah, well what else
are you gonna say?
- This thing going on.
It's like,
it's like they cut
the head off the wolf.
Like a wolf doesn't die.
It grows a new head,
or two or three.
But it's only one wolf.
So these three heads,
they devour each other
'til only one head is left.
In the meantime, the wolf,
it's running wild,
without control,
without logic or reason
or any state of mind.
That's what we've got here.
This war is gonna devour
anybody in its path
and we're as close as it gets.
Now I'm reaching out to you.
I'm asking you to reach back.
I'm asking you to let
me know where you stand.
- As long as Rudy's
alive I stand with him.
I stand in his place.
So whoever popped Rudy's
gotta answer for it.
Now, was that you?
- I already told you, I had
nothing to do with this.
And you don't ask a
man that question.
- Hey, I ask anybody
whatever I want
when my own family's been
attacked in their own back yard.
- [Albert] Keep the change.
- He's in recovery, that's
all they'll tell me.
- He's got the
heart of a warrior.
- Yeah.
- Pooch tried to
kill me tonight.
It was real sweet.
This guy who never did anybody,
maybe one guy once, and was
sick about it for 20 years,
comes to me for his Don.
I love loyalty.
(engine turns on)
Tryin' to be your
friend, Vinnie.
During a crisis,
friendship is important.
- Remember Pat the Cap Patrice?
- Yeah.
- He tried to be my friend.
As long as it suited him.
- Which means what?
- Which means greed kills.
You see a guy stumble,
you help him out.
Patrice saw a guy stumble,
he tried to grind him
into the dirt by turning my
friendship against this man.
Patrice, now, he's buried
in the Pine Barrens.
And nobody cares.
See, Albert, I love loyalty too.
- You clipped Patrice?
- You don't ask a
man that question.
And the answer is no.
I'm gonna clip the
guy who shot Aiuppo.
Now who was it, Albert?
- I don't know.
(foreboding music)
See his barge?
- Yeah.
- It's only garbage.
It's my garbage. (laughing)
This is my main business, here.
Gonna open up to you
in any way I can.
Because it's the
proper thing to do
for Don Aiuppa's son.
- So what happens now, Albert?
We survived the night.
- Whoever's making these
moves is gonna stop now,
assess the situation, 'cause
the crap's gonna hit the fan
once the Commission meets.
- When is that?
- Soon as everybody can
be brought together.
Today, probably.
- Well I want in on it.
- That'll have to
be put to a vote.
- [Vinnie] Did they
vote on killing Aiuppo?
- Not any vote I was in on.
- Alright, then to hell
with the voting,
I want in on it.
- C'mon, I'll take you to
where you wanna go now,
you can clean up.
- Pooch.
- Look at him, Vinnie,
all tangled up in
there spaghetti.
It's my fault, I
should've been there.
- Pooch, Pooch, it's
not your fault, okay?
- Yeah, it is.
He knew this was gonna happen.
See what he got the
day he got back?
Two first-class tickets,
one-way, to Italy.
- Where did these come from?
- Don asked me to find out.
He had no luck.
Now this.
- Alright, I'll take care of it.
Pooch,
listen to me.
Hey, hey.
Listen to me.
You work for me now.
Until Don Aiuppo recovers,
I'm gonna need you.
Y'understand that?
- What d'you want me to do?
- There's a meeting of
the Commission today.
I need to know where and
when, before it happens.
- That's against the rules!
- Yeah, Pooch, this was
against the rules too, huh?
Now you do this for me.
- Don Aiuppo, I don't
know what to do!
(key turning in lock)
- [Amber] Vinnie...
- No, no, get off, get off!
- What?
What are ya doin'?
- I'm sorry, I've got this
guy's blood all over me.
I'm sorry.
Do me a favor and get a
garbage bag, will you?
I'm gonna put this stuff in it.
(shower running)
- How's Rudy?
- He's out of surgery.
- And your mom?
- [Vinnie] She's alright.
How're you doin'?
- Huh, I can't
touch these things.
- What?
- I can't touch
these things!
- Open the bag!
- I'm sorry!
- [Vinnie] I don't blame you.
I'm sorry.
- Is it over now?
Vinnie?
- I don't know.
- Fell asleep last night.
I was so exhausted from the
horrible thing that happened,
I slept like a rock.
I didn't dream, though.
When I woke up is when
the dreaming started.
Seeing Rudy laying
there so frail,
and then your mom,
that icy, cold,
clinical place...
- Amber,
for your own safety, I
can't stay with you now.
- Well you have to.
- Listen, listen to me!
- No!
- People are trying to kill me!
It's dangerous for
you to be with me now!
- I need you.
I need you!
Hold me.
Hold me.
(passionate romantic music)
(moaning)
- Look at me, look at me!
- Yes, yes, yes!
(knocking on door)
- [Frank] Amber?
(Amber moans)
Amber?
- Okay, Frank!
Just a minute, okay?
(Amber laughing)
- Amber?
Amber!
Amber!
- Alright wait a minute!
- You, you disappear
on me for 15 hours,
you leave my car, you
don't say anything,
I'm having a heart attack!
- Frank, Frank!
Cerrico grabbed me
out of the hospital,
I had to play it by ear,
okay? (breathing heavily)
- Are you alright?
You're very flushed!
- Yeah?
Huh, no I'm fine.
- McPike-us interruptus.
- Oh.
Sorry.
- Yeah, the Commission's
supposed to meet
because of the hits,
could take place any time.
Here.
Don Aiuppo got these when he
and Ma got back from Italy.
Here's your car
keys, thanks a lot.
So you find out
who gave him these,
we could find out who
did the hits, you know?
- I'll fax these to D.C.
- You could do that in here.
- Yeah, it's okay, go ahead,
Frank! (breathing heavily)
- Listen, they found a bootmark
at the scene of the crime.
It was a western style, size 12.
- Anything else?
- No.
(beeping)
Yeah, what?
- [Guard] Frank, Aiuppo's
driver's comin' up.
- Aiuppo's driver's
on the way up.
Is he safe?
- Yeah, he's fine.
- Oh wait a minute, you've
got my building staked out?
- [Frank] I've had you under
surveillance around the clock.
- This does not
make me very happy.
(knock on door)
- [Vinnie] Oh, great.
- Listen, I'm really sorry,
but you had me scared to death.
- Yeah, I know, I shoulda
called you, Frank.
But I haven't stopped
moving, you know?
- [Amber] Poochy's here!
- Yeah?
- I got the Commission meeting.
- Where?
- Hotel Georgia.
- When?
- 10 minutes ago.
- Alright, good
job, Pooch, thanks.
Commission's meeting
now, Hotel Georgia.
- Vince, Vince...
- [Amber] It's like this
all the time, isn't it.
- No.
It's McPike, you got
airlines tickets faxed.
Now I need to know
where they were bought,
who bought them.
I need surveillance
around the perimeter
of the Hotel Georgia,
our boy's going in
for a Commission meeting.
- You love this, don't you.
- No.
- You lying, macho
bastard, yes you do!
You love seeing how close you
can get to the Grim Reaper!
Don't you!
- Yes.
And if you love him,
you better accept it,
because he won't
give it up for you.
I'm ordering protection
for you, I'm sorry.
- [Poochy] The
meeting's in room 1214.
- How many guys upstairs?
- There two or three
outside the door,
and maybe one inside.
- Any of your hitters
wear cowboy boots?
- I don't know, why?
- Nothing, doesn't matter.
(elevator ding)
- [Guard] Hey, back off!
(grunts)
- [Alex] This is a
friggin' horror show!
Now one of you two morons--
Who the hell are you?
Who the hell is this?
Who the hell lets a
guy in here with a gun?
Well at least he ain't
got a gun anymore.
Who the hell are you?
- I'm Rudy Aiuppo's son.
- You're supposed to be
protecting this room!
- Shut up, Joey!
Get your man cleaned up.
My profound sympathies
for the events
of the last 24 hours.
I'm Alex Vechoff.
- They both didn't
help, just watched!
- Clean your face.
- They just watched, man!
Cericco knew he was coming.
- Shut up!
- Don's hanging on?
- Yeah.
- You guys know anybody
that does heavy work
in cowboy boots?
- You're gonna
make a phone call.
- 17 and six.
18, 19, 20, 21, 22,
dammit!
(phone ringing)
Yeah!
Clancy!
I got your back in.
- Good!
- This is what you do.
Go to Angeletti's.
Pick up 11 pasta dinners to go
and bring 'em to the garage
of the Hotel Georgia,
four o'clock sharp.
Park by the elevator,
I'll meet you.
- I ain't no delivery boy!
- You ain't much else either,
you want your back in,
you do this!
- That was good
you came by, kid.
But now we gotta get
back to the meeting.
- I wanna say something
to the room, is that okay?
- Sure.
But keep it short.
- I'm very direct.
- Hey, let's get back
to the table, huh?
- Now one of you gindaloons
popped my father in
his own back yard.
One of you assassins conducted
business in my mother's face.
- This ain't the proper place!
- I get to define propriety.
Now you can't control
your business,
so it spills blood in my house.
Why in Rudolfo
are you boys here?
I'm taking my rightful
seat at this table.
Two
first-class, one-way
tickets to the old country.
So.
Who gets the thank you note?
- We got him.
Shawn Clancy, 155 Avenue C.
- You get a seat at
this table by deeds.
Longevity.
By election.
We got 50 years of history
here we gotta abide by!
- 50 years ago Jews and
Serbs weren't allowed
to sit at this table.
Time changes history, and
today is one for the books.
- We can't change
history during a crisis!
- Crisis is history-changing,
what are you talking about?
- Why the hell are you
explaining anything to him?
- You got no place
here, no right here!
You're not Aiuppo's blood,
you're some
south-Jersey junketeer!
You wouldn't be alive in
this room for 10 seconds
your momma hadn't
married Aiuppo.
- And they wouldn't trust
you to carry their coffee
if you didn't marry
Ziffo's daughter!
- Hey, hey, hey.
- C'mon, I've seen
the act, alright?
Doesn't play.
Now shut up and sit down,
before you embarrass
yourself, huh?
- C'mon, get up!
You don't insult my wife!
- You married her.
You insulted her.
- Hey!
I am happy Ziffo is dead!
If he was alive, seeing
this would kill him!
And I don't know what business
you got here either, Joey.
You can't behave
in a proper manner!
- I got food comin'.
I'm gonna go down and wait.
Get some air to cool off.
I still don't think
he should be here.
- [Commission Man] You
got my linguini, Grosset?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Vinnie, maybe you belong
here more then anybody.
But we don't know you.
It's a special process
to get a seat here.
I know you think you got a
right to Don Aiuppo's place,
but even the Don hasn't sat
there for 10, 12, 15 years!
No, I will report
everything decided here
to you, personally, myself.
I will serve you as
Aiuppo's representative.
But more than that,
you got no supporters.
Nobody thinks you
belong here yet.
- I do.
This situation is like
they cut the head off a wolf.
- [Frank] Clancy,
you're under arrest!
(suspenseful music)
- We got a bad situation here.
- And who's fault is that?
- Don't start with me, huh?
Where is he?
- Over here! (car door slams)
- Where the food?
- Where's the money?
- You should be
getting half o'this
for that half-assed job you did.
- That old man took
about 12 slugs.
I just kept waving
that uzi at him.
- That's not what you do!
You walk up, you put the
gun in the back of his head
so when you pull the
trigger, you know he's dead!
(gunshot)
(sharp, dissonant music)
Like that!
- Hey what about the
money you gave him?
- I ain't a thief.
- [Alex] You don't
want to card for this,
you don't card, this ain't
no lousy share operation.
- My mother
has a heart condition.
- Sorry to hear it, kid.
- Your attempt on
my father's life
has caused her to
be hospitalized.
I'm going to the hospital now.
But I will be back,
like it or not.
- We won't like it.
But it's nothin' personal.
- We should take him out.
- We should welcome him to Don
Aiuppo's seat at the table.
- Mister Pompio.
- Yeah?
- We need you to join
us for questioning
with regards to the death
of Mister Anthony Ziffo.
- I had nothing to do with that!
- Pooch, go ahead, it's okay,
you'll catch up with me later.
He had nothin' to do with this!
- Yeah, I know, I need
you alone for a minute,
it's not easy under the
current circumstances.
We named the guy who bought
the tickets, Shawn Clancy.
We're watching his apartment.
He works for Tosca
Cardes, Vinnie.
- Aright, thanks.
- So what's going
on with the meeting?
- Voting on my future.
- You just remember, I'm
keeping my eye on you!
- Yeah, yeah...
- We were born out of
the need and desire
that brought our
grandparents here.
The desire was for the
promise of a better life.
The need was for protection
while they struggled
for that promise.
So we banded together.
To protect the family.
To pass on, in an
orderly fashion,
that which we gained.
It's a tragedy that
we've lost that.
These are the things that
brought Vinnie to this table.
And this was a
brave and noble act.
In his place, how many of
us would have the courage
to face this assembly
with the truth we've forgotten?
We've become the connivers
of Cesar's senate!
Now Vinnie's coming here
has given us the chance
to seize back the foundation
of this thing of ours!
Now I don't say
this was his intent.
He came here for simple reasons,
reasons we should be
ashamed to have lost.
For him,
the value of life is
based on the honor
with which it is conducted.
And the respect that
demonstrates for family.
This is why we're here.
(Vinnie sighs)
- I don't like those
men outside the door.
- Yeah, I know,
Ma, but it's better
to leave them there for now.
You understand that.
- They're not your
people, Vincenzo!
- I know, I know who they are.
- He ask for you.
- Don Aiuppo.
It's Vinnie.
I'm here.
- Albert speaks very elegantly
about what's best
for the family.
About honor.
But what's best for Albert
is exactly what almost
happened last night.
My father-in-law dead,
God bless his soul.
Aiuppo dead.
Albert's in a position
to take center-stage.
But,
things didn't work that way.
Now, I'm not accusing
anybody of anything.
I'm just looking at the facts.
Last night, things didn't work
out the way they might have,
in Albert's favor.
So now Albert brings in here,
and make no mistake about
this, Albert brings in here
an angry man
looking for revenge!
Albert's men don't
stop him at the door,
they let a loyal guy like
Carlo take a beating,
and they do this
because Albert says so.
So in comes this angry man
who won't be satisfied
'til he has revenge on us,
and Albert wants to give
him a seat at the table!
Now what we should do
is tell this angry
man to go away.
And then if he doesn't, then
we gotta make him go away.
We're in a crisis here.
We gotta close ranks,
not open 'em up!
This is not the time to
change the way we do things!
- These times beg for change.
- Then put it to a vote.
Do we let a guy who
insults us in here?
Or do we make this
angry man go away
in whatever manner is required?
- Tell me.
- Tell you what?
- What you know?
- No.
- No.
- Yes.
- Ziffo is dead.
- And?
- Cerrico courts my allegiance.
- Yes.
- Yes.
- The Commission is meeting.
- Danger.
- I know.
You should rest.
My mom's not very
happy with you.
- And?
- I muscled my way
into the Commission
and demanded your
seat at the table.
- I should kill you...
- I know.
- No.
- Well, Ma, you
should get to bed now.
Everything's safe, I don't
want you to worry about it.
(tense music)
(triumphant chord)
(dramatic theme music)
(proud music)
- One of you gindaloons
popped my father in
his own back yard.
For your own safety, I
can't stay with you now.
- I need you.
(moaning)
(loud thump)
- One of you assassins
conducted business
in my mother's face.
- This ain't the proper place!
- I define propriety.
Why in Rudolfo all
you boys are here?
I'm taking my rightful
seat at this table.
(loud thump)
(dramatic synthesizer
theme music)
(light-hearted swinging
electric guitar music)
- You're dreamin', Pooch!
- I ain't dreaming!
- Firecrackers.
Kids are stupid, gonna
blind themselves.
And maybe blow off
in an appendage.
- You were a kid once, Eddie,
you never played
with firecrackers?
- I know from where I speak.
- You lost that shavin' ice.
- Gone is gone.
You're dreamin', Pooch.
- All great lovers are dreamers.
- Hey, Pooch,
don't tempt yourself.
- Why do you want
to be with boys for?
Boys don't know that
pleasure is a mutual thing.
- They don't need naps either!
- Had to give it a shot, right?
- [Bartender] So why not
take a shot at Marie?
- What, are you kiddin'?
I used to have a
thing with her mother!
She'd take my head of if
she caught me with Marie.
I hear Aiuppo's back.
- No, the Don's in Italy.
I'm looking after his affairs.
- I hear he's back.
- No, no, it's
his brother, Tito.
- The barber?
- Yeah.
- Then why don't you
got a better haircut?
- Hey!
Get over there!
- [Scarpo] Told you
you was dreamin'.
Can't expect girls to
appreciate experience
when they haven't had any.
(wailing police sirens)
Pooch?
Pooch!
(suspenseful music)
(police sirens)
(police radios)
- You didn't do this, huh?
- I already told you.
I heard gunfire, I
came out of the house,
and three guys were running.
I grabbed this guy,
and one of his buddies
shot him and took off, alright?
- Hey, we're not done here!
- Eh!
- [Policeman] Hey,
where you goin'?
- That's my family!
- Hey, slow down, hey!
- You should go
and ride with him.
- Can't ride in here.
- Hey, hey!
This is her husband,
she's goin' with him!
- Alright, alright.
- Go on, Ma.
- [Paramedic] That's it!
- You talk to me!
- I'm goin' to the hospital!
- Not until we're done here.
- Hey, my mother's
got a heart condition,
her husband's just been shot.
Now what's wrong with you,
that you want to stop me?
- Alright.
I'll take ya.
I'm getting their
statements at the hospital.
And what about him?
- I dunno!
- You got his blood
all over you, and you
don't know who he is?
- [Vinnie] No, I don't.
(car door slams shut)
(engine starts)
- Vinsky.
(knocking on door)
- Pooch.
What's up?
- I need to see Albert.
- I'll ask.
(tense music)
- Don't do nothin' Albert,
just pick the room
you want to die in.
- What are you
doin' in my house?
- Don't talk.
- You're gonna kill me,
you better have a good reason.
- I got reason.
- You got reason
for my son to see
his daddy dead with his
brains all over the floor?
- You hit my Don!
You ordered!
Levinsky was one of the buttons!
- Levinsky?
- Levinsky works for you,
he's one of your crew.
- He did a few things
for us, that's it!
He's not my man!
- I ain't stupid!
- Nobody thinks
you're stupid, Pooch.
It wasn't me.
I swear to God on my son.
- Vinsky--
- On my son.
You think so little of me
that I would swear
a lie on my son?
- You didn't?
- No.
(both breathing heavily)
You wanna snort, Pooch?
Grappa, scotch?
- Yeah, anything.
- Is Aiuppo dead?
- He was still breathing when
they put him in the ambulance.
- Where'd this happen?
- The Don's home.
Right in the greenhouse.
In front of his
wife and everything.
- Bastards.
Hey.
How do you know Levinsky
was one of the buttons?
- He was dead in the alley.
He did work for you, Albert.
- He picked up work!
There were no oaths
between me and this guy.
You've gotta know me, Pooch.
Any man who passes
judgment on another man
in full view of his
home and family,
I feed his heart to the dogs.
(knocking on door)
- Albert!
Albert, you alright?
- Yeah.
(door opens)
- It's Scar.
- I'm really sorry.
- What happened?
- Albert, Ziffo caught a rock.
- Dead?
- Yeah.
- [Albert] Jenny!
Jenny, get dressed.
- What?
- Get dressed now!
Hey, now, hey!
C'mon, buddy,
we're gonna go on a
little trip, let's go.
- Albert?
- Get dressed now, Jenny!
- Daddy?
- You're gonna take
a vacation!
- What about school?
- Don't you wanna skip a
few days of school, huh?
- I can ditch?
- Yeah, sure, just
for a few days.
Scar, are you okay to drive?
- Yeah.
- Take Jenny and
little Al to Kennedy,
and get on a plane, all of you.
- [Scar] Where?
- Jenny'll tell you where.
You don't need,
forget the suitcase.
- I can't!
- No, forget it,
there's no time.
- What's going on, Albert?
- Okay.
Scar's gonna take you
to the airport, okay?
You, Little Al and Scar,
you get on a plane.
First plane to wherever.
From there you go to Tampa,
then to that place on
the beach, you remember?
- Ah, Breakers.
- Yeah.
Don't say it again,
don't even tell Scar.
You go there, get
the best suite,
and stay there.
And don't call anybody.
Not even your mother.
- Daddy!
- Here.
There's enough cash to
take care of everything.
- [Jenny] What about
Little Al's school?
- School will be there
when you get back.
Let's do it.
(tense music)
- [Guard On Radio] All clear.
- Nice, now let's go.
- Albert?
- This is gonna be a great
vacation for you, Al.
- [Little Al] Are you
going out with us, Daddy?
- [Albert] (chuckles) Daddy's
not gonna go in his underwear.
This is a surprise vacation
for you and Mama, okay?
I love you, baby.
- Albert!
- Love you more.
- Okay, take care of Mama.
Okay, go.
- Albert?
- Alright, baby.
We got a war.
I gotta survive the night.
I got a see about a weapon
and put my pants on.
I need your loyalty.
- My loyalty's with Aiuppo.
- Don Aiuppo is dead or dying!
Ziffo's dead.
And I'm the next most likely
target in the bloodletting.
Now I need to know
where you stand.
I need this now.
- I'm here, Albert!
- Pack the war car.
(dark, dramatic music)
(car engine starts)
(tires squeal)
Where's Aiuppo?
- [Nurse] Watch out!
Clear!
- [P.A.] Doctor Barbara to ICU.
- Does your husband
have any blood relatives
we could get here quickly?
- No, his brother is in Italy.
(sighs shakily)
- Are you alright, Carlotta?
- Just short of breath.
- You got business here?
- It's alright if I
speak with this man?
- Yeah.
Step in here.
There's a mob conflagration
happening, Vinnie,
Ziffo was hit tonight, too.
- Thanks.
- Are you alright?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
- Your mom?
- I had to check her in for
a couple days' observation
because of her heart.
- Aiuppo?
- He's in surgery.
He hasn't got a chance.
He had a rare blood type.
Two million people in Brooklyn
and nobody's home
with AB negative.
- Great.
- [Vinnie] My mother's
gonna need protection.
- That's done.
And you?
- Absolutely not.
Badges around me are just
gonna draw attention.
- What about Amber?
- Amber needs protection too.
Police are taking her home now.
I'm gonna have to break
things off with her.
Four hours ago I was
announcing my engagement,
now I'll probably have
to plan a funeral.
- Vince, you can't...
- We checked your
mother into 505.
She's sleeping comfortably.
(wincing in pain)
Now you have to rest
for half an hour.
- Yes. (sighs)
And thank you.
(door shuts)
I don't want you to
worry about this.
We can put your
family in a safehouse
until this thing blows over.
- I appreciate that, Frank,
but this is my problem.
I've been skirting
it my whole life,
time's come for me
to deal with it.
- What is that supposed to mean?
- Well I'm not gonna
do anything rash!
I'm just gonna grab
a cab, go home,
take a shower,
change my clothes.
- Alright.
- What're you doin'?
- Take my car,
it's in the parking,
take my car.
Be careful.
- Alright, thanks.
Get some rest, okay?
Drink your juice.
- Is the Don okay?
- He's still in surgery.
- [Poochy] Nobody's
gonna hurt the Don again.
Nobody!
It's okay, get in.
- I want you to
know, Don Aiuppo's
under my protection
until the Commission
decides otherwise.
Come on in, it's safe.
(motor turns on)
(tires squeal)
- What!
- I gotta do this, alright?
The law, you know?
They listen to everything.
They've got a satellite
following this car.
Spent 50-mill to try
and listen two guys
who don't amount to nothing,
trying to survive the night.
I need to know where you stand.
- Mind telling me
where we're going?
- We're going to get
to know each other.
I'm not interested in the
only common ground between us
being a burial plot.
No, I need to know
where you stand.
- I don't give a damn
what you need to know!
- Hey, I got problems here!
- I'm your problem
if you don't stop yelling at me!
- Maybe you've got this
Hamlet thing with your mother.
- What?
- Hamlet.
You get rid of your stepfather,
you get the kingdom.
- Maybe you're Macbeth.
So this is Shakespeare.
Why don't you drop me off,
I want to change my clothes.
I'm covered in blood here.
- We can't stop, man,
we gotta keep moving.
Ziffo's popped, Aiuppo's
popped, we're on a list.
We gotta keep going.
- Sounds like your list to me,
you got the most to gain by it.
- Hey, I got nothin'
to do with this.
Tell me what
happened at Aiuppo's?
- What, I heard shots!
I ran outside, I
saw Rudy was hit.
Three guys run into
a car in the alley.
I grab one of 'em, he
couldn't get in the car
'cause I had him.
So instead of taking off,
instead of just leaving,
the driver shoots the guy.
- Poochy recognized this guy.
Jake Levinsky.
Now Levinsky did a
few things for us,
there's some people
who think he's my guy.
I'm being set up, Vinnie.
- That's because they're
such geniuses, right Albert?
They know that I'm
gonna grab your guy.
Specifically, grab Levinsky,
so they can pop
him to set you up?
Come on, what are you thinking?
You know what I think?
I think they were all your guys,
and being morons, they panicked
when I grabbed Levinsky.
Now your guys screwed up,
so you're running scared.
- Hey, I don't run
scared, I run to survive.
And if I wanted Aiuppo
whacked I'd do him myself,
and I'd do it right.
- Yeah, well what else
are you gonna say?
- This thing going on.
It's like,
it's like they cut
the head off the wolf.
Like a wolf doesn't die.
It grows a new head,
or two or three.
But it's only one wolf.
So these three heads,
they devour each other
'til only one head is left.
In the meantime, the wolf,
it's running wild,
without control,
without logic or reason
or any state of mind.
That's what we've got here.
This war is gonna devour
anybody in its path
and we're as close as it gets.
Now I'm reaching out to you.
I'm asking you to reach back.
I'm asking you to let
me know where you stand.
- As long as Rudy's
alive I stand with him.
I stand in his place.
So whoever popped Rudy's
gotta answer for it.
Now, was that you?
- I already told you, I had
nothing to do with this.
And you don't ask a
man that question.
- Hey, I ask anybody
whatever I want
when my own family's been
attacked in their own back yard.
- [Albert] Keep the change.
- He's in recovery, that's
all they'll tell me.
- He's got the
heart of a warrior.
- Yeah.
- Pooch tried to
kill me tonight.
It was real sweet.
This guy who never did anybody,
maybe one guy once, and was
sick about it for 20 years,
comes to me for his Don.
I love loyalty.
(engine turns on)
Tryin' to be your
friend, Vinnie.
During a crisis,
friendship is important.
- Remember Pat the Cap Patrice?
- Yeah.
- He tried to be my friend.
As long as it suited him.
- Which means what?
- Which means greed kills.
You see a guy stumble,
you help him out.
Patrice saw a guy stumble,
he tried to grind him
into the dirt by turning my
friendship against this man.
Patrice, now, he's buried
in the Pine Barrens.
And nobody cares.
See, Albert, I love loyalty too.
- You clipped Patrice?
- You don't ask a
man that question.
And the answer is no.
I'm gonna clip the
guy who shot Aiuppo.
Now who was it, Albert?
- I don't know.
(foreboding music)
See his barge?
- Yeah.
- It's only garbage.
It's my garbage. (laughing)
This is my main business, here.
Gonna open up to you
in any way I can.
Because it's the
proper thing to do
for Don Aiuppa's son.
- So what happens now, Albert?
We survived the night.
- Whoever's making these
moves is gonna stop now,
assess the situation, 'cause
the crap's gonna hit the fan
once the Commission meets.
- When is that?
- Soon as everybody can
be brought together.
Today, probably.
- Well I want in on it.
- That'll have to
be put to a vote.
- [Vinnie] Did they
vote on killing Aiuppo?
- Not any vote I was in on.
- Alright, then to hell
with the voting,
I want in on it.
- C'mon, I'll take you to
where you wanna go now,
you can clean up.
- Pooch.
- Look at him, Vinnie,
all tangled up in
there spaghetti.
It's my fault, I
should've been there.
- Pooch, Pooch, it's
not your fault, okay?
- Yeah, it is.
He knew this was gonna happen.
See what he got the
day he got back?
Two first-class tickets,
one-way, to Italy.
- Where did these come from?
- Don asked me to find out.
He had no luck.
Now this.
- Alright, I'll take care of it.
Pooch,
listen to me.
Hey, hey.
Listen to me.
You work for me now.
Until Don Aiuppo recovers,
I'm gonna need you.
Y'understand that?
- What d'you want me to do?
- There's a meeting of
the Commission today.
I need to know where and
when, before it happens.
- That's against the rules!
- Yeah, Pooch, this was
against the rules too, huh?
Now you do this for me.
- Don Aiuppo, I don't
know what to do!
(key turning in lock)
- [Amber] Vinnie...
- No, no, get off, get off!
- What?
What are ya doin'?
- I'm sorry, I've got this
guy's blood all over me.
I'm sorry.
Do me a favor and get a
garbage bag, will you?
I'm gonna put this stuff in it.
(shower running)
- How's Rudy?
- He's out of surgery.
- And your mom?
- [Vinnie] She's alright.
How're you doin'?
- Huh, I can't
touch these things.
- What?
- I can't touch
these things!
- Open the bag!
- I'm sorry!
- [Vinnie] I don't blame you.
I'm sorry.
- Is it over now?
Vinnie?
- I don't know.
- Fell asleep last night.
I was so exhausted from the
horrible thing that happened,
I slept like a rock.
I didn't dream, though.
When I woke up is when
the dreaming started.
Seeing Rudy laying
there so frail,
and then your mom,
that icy, cold,
clinical place...
- Amber,
for your own safety, I
can't stay with you now.
- Well you have to.
- Listen, listen to me!
- No!
- People are trying to kill me!
It's dangerous for
you to be with me now!
- I need you.
I need you!
Hold me.
Hold me.
(passionate romantic music)
(moaning)
- Look at me, look at me!
- Yes, yes, yes!
(knocking on door)
- [Frank] Amber?
(Amber moans)
Amber?
- Okay, Frank!
Just a minute, okay?
(Amber laughing)
- Amber?
Amber!
Amber!
- Alright wait a minute!
- You, you disappear
on me for 15 hours,
you leave my car, you
don't say anything,
I'm having a heart attack!
- Frank, Frank!
Cerrico grabbed me
out of the hospital,
I had to play it by ear,
okay? (breathing heavily)
- Are you alright?
You're very flushed!
- Yeah?
Huh, no I'm fine.
- McPike-us interruptus.
- Oh.
Sorry.
- Yeah, the Commission's
supposed to meet
because of the hits,
could take place any time.
Here.
Don Aiuppo got these when he
and Ma got back from Italy.
Here's your car
keys, thanks a lot.
So you find out
who gave him these,
we could find out who
did the hits, you know?
- I'll fax these to D.C.
- You could do that in here.
- Yeah, it's okay, go ahead,
Frank! (breathing heavily)
- Listen, they found a bootmark
at the scene of the crime.
It was a western style, size 12.
- Anything else?
- No.
(beeping)
Yeah, what?
- [Guard] Frank, Aiuppo's
driver's comin' up.
- Aiuppo's driver's
on the way up.
Is he safe?
- Yeah, he's fine.
- Oh wait a minute, you've
got my building staked out?
- [Frank] I've had you under
surveillance around the clock.
- This does not
make me very happy.
(knock on door)
- [Vinnie] Oh, great.
- Listen, I'm really sorry,
but you had me scared to death.
- Yeah, I know, I shoulda
called you, Frank.
But I haven't stopped
moving, you know?
- [Amber] Poochy's here!
- Yeah?
- I got the Commission meeting.
- Where?
- Hotel Georgia.
- When?
- 10 minutes ago.
- Alright, good
job, Pooch, thanks.
Commission's meeting
now, Hotel Georgia.
- Vince, Vince...
- [Amber] It's like this
all the time, isn't it.
- No.
It's McPike, you got
airlines tickets faxed.
Now I need to know
where they were bought,
who bought them.
I need surveillance
around the perimeter
of the Hotel Georgia,
our boy's going in
for a Commission meeting.
- You love this, don't you.
- No.
- You lying, macho
bastard, yes you do!
You love seeing how close you
can get to the Grim Reaper!
Don't you!
- Yes.
And if you love him,
you better accept it,
because he won't
give it up for you.
I'm ordering protection
for you, I'm sorry.
- [Poochy] The
meeting's in room 1214.
- How many guys upstairs?
- There two or three
outside the door,
and maybe one inside.
- Any of your hitters
wear cowboy boots?
- I don't know, why?
- Nothing, doesn't matter.
(elevator ding)
- [Guard] Hey, back off!
(grunts)
- [Alex] This is a
friggin' horror show!
Now one of you two morons--
Who the hell are you?
Who the hell is this?
Who the hell lets a
guy in here with a gun?
Well at least he ain't
got a gun anymore.
Who the hell are you?
- I'm Rudy Aiuppo's son.
- You're supposed to be
protecting this room!
- Shut up, Joey!
Get your man cleaned up.
My profound sympathies
for the events
of the last 24 hours.
I'm Alex Vechoff.
- They both didn't
help, just watched!
- Clean your face.
- They just watched, man!
Cericco knew he was coming.
- Shut up!
- Don's hanging on?
- Yeah.
- You guys know anybody
that does heavy work
in cowboy boots?
- You're gonna
make a phone call.
- 17 and six.
18, 19, 20, 21, 22,
dammit!
(phone ringing)
Yeah!
Clancy!
I got your back in.
- Good!
- This is what you do.
Go to Angeletti's.
Pick up 11 pasta dinners to go
and bring 'em to the garage
of the Hotel Georgia,
four o'clock sharp.
Park by the elevator,
I'll meet you.
- I ain't no delivery boy!
- You ain't much else either,
you want your back in,
you do this!
- That was good
you came by, kid.
But now we gotta get
back to the meeting.
- I wanna say something
to the room, is that okay?
- Sure.
But keep it short.
- I'm very direct.
- Hey, let's get back
to the table, huh?
- Now one of you gindaloons
popped my father in
his own back yard.
One of you assassins conducted
business in my mother's face.
- This ain't the proper place!
- I get to define propriety.
Now you can't control
your business,
so it spills blood in my house.
Why in Rudolfo
are you boys here?
I'm taking my rightful
seat at this table.
Two
first-class, one-way
tickets to the old country.
So.
Who gets the thank you note?
- We got him.
Shawn Clancy, 155 Avenue C.
- You get a seat at
this table by deeds.
Longevity.
By election.
We got 50 years of history
here we gotta abide by!
- 50 years ago Jews and
Serbs weren't allowed
to sit at this table.
Time changes history, and
today is one for the books.
- We can't change
history during a crisis!
- Crisis is history-changing,
what are you talking about?
- Why the hell are you
explaining anything to him?
- You got no place
here, no right here!
You're not Aiuppo's blood,
you're some
south-Jersey junketeer!
You wouldn't be alive in
this room for 10 seconds
your momma hadn't
married Aiuppo.
- And they wouldn't trust
you to carry their coffee
if you didn't marry
Ziffo's daughter!
- Hey, hey, hey.
- C'mon, I've seen
the act, alright?
Doesn't play.
Now shut up and sit down,
before you embarrass
yourself, huh?
- C'mon, get up!
You don't insult my wife!
- You married her.
You insulted her.
- Hey!
I am happy Ziffo is dead!
If he was alive, seeing
this would kill him!
And I don't know what business
you got here either, Joey.
You can't behave
in a proper manner!
- I got food comin'.
I'm gonna go down and wait.
Get some air to cool off.
I still don't think
he should be here.
- [Commission Man] You
got my linguini, Grosset?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Vinnie, maybe you belong
here more then anybody.
But we don't know you.
It's a special process
to get a seat here.
I know you think you got a
right to Don Aiuppo's place,
but even the Don hasn't sat
there for 10, 12, 15 years!
No, I will report
everything decided here
to you, personally, myself.
I will serve you as
Aiuppo's representative.
But more than that,
you got no supporters.
Nobody thinks you
belong here yet.
- I do.
This situation is like
they cut the head off a wolf.
- [Frank] Clancy,
you're under arrest!
(suspenseful music)
- We got a bad situation here.
- And who's fault is that?
- Don't start with me, huh?
Where is he?
- Over here! (car door slams)
- Where the food?
- Where's the money?
- You should be
getting half o'this
for that half-assed job you did.
- That old man took
about 12 slugs.
I just kept waving
that uzi at him.
- That's not what you do!
You walk up, you put the
gun in the back of his head
so when you pull the
trigger, you know he's dead!
(gunshot)
(sharp, dissonant music)
Like that!
- Hey what about the
money you gave him?
- I ain't a thief.
- [Alex] You don't
want to card for this,
you don't card, this ain't
no lousy share operation.
- My mother
has a heart condition.
- Sorry to hear it, kid.
- Your attempt on
my father's life
has caused her to
be hospitalized.
I'm going to the hospital now.
But I will be back,
like it or not.
- We won't like it.
But it's nothin' personal.
- We should take him out.
- We should welcome him to Don
Aiuppo's seat at the table.
- Mister Pompio.
- Yeah?
- We need you to join
us for questioning
with regards to the death
of Mister Anthony Ziffo.
- I had nothing to do with that!
- Pooch, go ahead, it's okay,
you'll catch up with me later.
He had nothin' to do with this!
- Yeah, I know, I need
you alone for a minute,
it's not easy under the
current circumstances.
We named the guy who bought
the tickets, Shawn Clancy.
We're watching his apartment.
He works for Tosca
Cardes, Vinnie.
- Aright, thanks.
- So what's going
on with the meeting?
- Voting on my future.
- You just remember, I'm
keeping my eye on you!
- Yeah, yeah...
- We were born out of
the need and desire
that brought our
grandparents here.
The desire was for the
promise of a better life.
The need was for protection
while they struggled
for that promise.
So we banded together.
To protect the family.
To pass on, in an
orderly fashion,
that which we gained.
It's a tragedy that
we've lost that.
These are the things that
brought Vinnie to this table.
And this was a
brave and noble act.
In his place, how many of
us would have the courage
to face this assembly
with the truth we've forgotten?
We've become the connivers
of Cesar's senate!
Now Vinnie's coming here
has given us the chance
to seize back the foundation
of this thing of ours!
Now I don't say
this was his intent.
He came here for simple reasons,
reasons we should be
ashamed to have lost.
For him,
the value of life is
based on the honor
with which it is conducted.
And the respect that
demonstrates for family.
This is why we're here.
(Vinnie sighs)
- I don't like those
men outside the door.
- Yeah, I know,
Ma, but it's better
to leave them there for now.
You understand that.
- They're not your
people, Vincenzo!
- I know, I know who they are.
- He ask for you.
- Don Aiuppo.
It's Vinnie.
I'm here.
- Albert speaks very elegantly
about what's best
for the family.
About honor.
But what's best for Albert
is exactly what almost
happened last night.
My father-in-law dead,
God bless his soul.
Aiuppo dead.
Albert's in a position
to take center-stage.
But,
things didn't work that way.
Now, I'm not accusing
anybody of anything.
I'm just looking at the facts.
Last night, things didn't work
out the way they might have,
in Albert's favor.
So now Albert brings in here,
and make no mistake about
this, Albert brings in here
an angry man
looking for revenge!
Albert's men don't
stop him at the door,
they let a loyal guy like
Carlo take a beating,
and they do this
because Albert says so.
So in comes this angry man
who won't be satisfied
'til he has revenge on us,
and Albert wants to give
him a seat at the table!
Now what we should do
is tell this angry
man to go away.
And then if he doesn't, then
we gotta make him go away.
We're in a crisis here.
We gotta close ranks,
not open 'em up!
This is not the time to
change the way we do things!
- These times beg for change.
- Then put it to a vote.
Do we let a guy who
insults us in here?
Or do we make this
angry man go away
in whatever manner is required?
- Tell me.
- Tell you what?
- What you know?
- No.
- No.
- Yes.
- Ziffo is dead.
- And?
- Cerrico courts my allegiance.
- Yes.
- Yes.
- The Commission is meeting.
- Danger.
- I know.
You should rest.
My mom's not very
happy with you.
- And?
- I muscled my way
into the Commission
and demanded your
seat at the table.
- I should kill you...
- I know.
- No.
- Well, Ma, you
should get to bed now.
Everything's safe, I don't
want you to worry about it.
(tense music)
(triumphant chord)
(dramatic theme music)
(proud music)