Wiseguy (1987–2009): Season 3, Episode 2 - Battle of the Barge - full transcript
- [Vinnie] Previously
on Wiseguy.
- Chin Zul is in love
and I wanna be
able to talk to him
without you jabroni's thinking
we're hatching a plot.
(suspenseful music)
(gun fires)
- This is my problem
and it's burdening
my whole life,
time's come for me
to deal with it.
People are trying to kill me,
it's dangerous for
you to be with me now.
I'm Rudolfo Aiuppo's heir.
I'm taking my rightful
seat at this table.
- We should welcome him to
Don Aiuppo seat at the table.
- We should take him out.
(suspenseful music)
- [Carlotta] And my dress?
Is my dress right?
- [Vinnie] Ma you look
great, don't worry about.
Come on, come on.
- It's not too loud?
- No you look terrific,
Pooch would you tell her please.
- If she wasn't already taken.
- I'm glad you're going home ma.
- I miss my things.
- Alright let me help you.
- I just want a moment to
say goodbye to him Vincenzio.
(melancholy music)
- Carlotta.
- Three evil men
came to the hospital
and kissed my son's hand.
You lied to me Rudy.
I love you but I should
not have married you.
I let love blind my judgment,
I'm a fool to think
that you could ever
leave your past behind,
even if you wanted to.
- Carlotta.
- But I am not a completely
foolish old woman.
I was raised around
these monsters.
Don't you die until you
set things straight.
Get Vincenzio out of
this family of yours.
He'll get better now.
- Good.
- Poochy, let's go home.
- Bye mom.
Don Aiuppo, how are you?
- Your mother knows
about the cremation.
- How does she know?
- She's your mother,
a seat of power a
dangerous place to be.
Who's controlling the table?
- Alex Vechoff seems
to be driving things,
but more from a
parliamentary angle.
The struggle for powers at
the Viscero end of the table
between Cerrico and Grosset.
- Who claims to be your ally.
- Albert Cerrico.
He sent his family away.
Easy, easy.
- When?
- The night you and
Zeffor were shot.
- Then he didn't do it.
He would've sent 'em
away long before.
- I don't know Don Aiuppo.
He still seems to have
the most to gain by this,
I don't trust him yet.
- Albert, Albert
was a corner boy.
He came from nothing.
The club was his family.
Everybody asked for Albert.
- Albert, where is he?
Albert.
(suspenseful music)
- [Don Aiuppo] It was
Zeffor he had respect for.
For propriety.
He has a hot head yes, but
he learnt how to use it.
Early and effective.
- Albert, Albert come here.
- [Don Aiuppo] Got put
on a crew right away,
started to pay his
own way, a boy.
- I love you too son.
I miss you.
Give momma a kiss
from me, okay bye.
- [Don Aiuppo] But
Albert is a grown man now
with his own family.
Family is everything to Albert.
- And what about Grosset?
- A dangerous man.
Can't even control his wife.
Grosset would kill
me like a dog,
but he wouldn't have the nerve.
A touchy old man, Zeffor
was his father in law.
- Don Aiuppo.
- Tell Albert, if he
wants to be close to you,
it makes him closer to me,
you tell him, I
forgive him the past.
We all live forgiving.
- [Reporter] There
is still no home
for the Brooklyn registered
garbage barge the Pier Rosetta.
At sea now for nine days,
the barge was again
denied docking permits,
this time in Charleston,
South Carolina.
The Pier Rosetta began
its odyssey last month
when it's 37 tons
of Manhattan refuse
was denied dumping in
a Long Island landfill.
State Departmental officials
have pressed legal action
against the city and
the barges owner--
- You can't buy a break
with that thing can you?
- [Reporter] $6,000 a day to
keep the garbage barge afloat.
- It's costing me
six grand a day,
I figured more like five.
- Does that make you happy?
- Anyone else would
wait 'til night
and dump it in the ocean.
The environments got enough
enemies, don't you think.
How's your family?
- Don Aiuppo forgives
you for your past Albert.
He didn't give in to it.
- I'd like to see him.
I want you to know
I love the Don.
Jesus.
How's your lady friend?
- Well she's not real happy
with all the attention,
from either side.
- They listen
through the phones,
watch us fall in love,
they'll make you crazy.
- Yeah.
- You know,
why don't you take
her to the opera?
They're doing Carmen.
There's an aria at the
end of the second act,
it's one of the most
beautiful things
you're ever gonna hear.
Except maybe for the laughter
of your first born kid.
- Then why don't you go?
- I love this aria, but
to go without my wife,
I would feel like
I was cheating.
Come on take 'em, it's
good for the soul.
- Well thank you very much.
- Yeah, you're gonna enjoy it.
I called you 15 minutes ago,
why do I gotta wait for you?
- Albert.
- I got four addresses
on Mott Street
without payment for two
months, I wanna know why?
- Huh?
- Huh?
Huh.
You see.
I'm in the personal
service business
and the business is killing me
'cause they've got
people who don't care.
Hubert, say hello
to Don Aiuppo's son.
- Hi, how you doing?
- I'm embarrassed to
open the business to him
because it's in such a mess.
Vinnie, I got morons
who sit around all day
listening to the
air conditioning
whilst the building
comes down around us.
What happened on Mott Street?
- We don't pick 'em up anymore.
- We don't pick 'em anymore.
Why not?
- Somebody else does.
- [Albert] Some else who?
- Hey Albert, I don't
know, I swear to God.
They come Pillado.
- Pillado?
- Six zucchinis, okay the hot
house tomatoes I don't like,
what are you gonna do?
Green peppers, red.
Hey Albert how you doing?
Hey how you been, you
ain't been around?
- I'm not too happy Nicholas.
- Well tell me why?
- They're not picking
up your garbage.
I mean, not exactly
where I would.
Where you putting it Nick?
I hope it's in the basement.
- Zeffor said Chin was
picking up from now on.
- Zeffor said this.
- Yeah Grosset told me that
Zeffor said that was the deal.
I guess, Zeffor's dead now huh?
- Yes he is.
- Hey, you want the
business Albert it's yours.
I got no problem with that.
- Good.
- Do me a favor will you?
- Don't get me in the
middle of anything,
I'm trying to survive here.
- That's what we all
want Nick, survival.
Zeffor was giving away
business in my territory.
He's been with the Chinese.
Now it makes sense
to post a note
to stay in his own neighborhood.
- Albert, Albert, this
is his own neighborhood.
- Oh yeah, well then his
neighborhood needs to move in.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
(election announcer chatters)
- I hate this time of the year.
(glass knocking)
I wanna talk to Chin.
- Do you have an appointment?
- No.
- Do you have a card?
(door knocking)
- Always gotta have a
numbskull in my business.
The only productive
thing Zeffor ever did
was have a daughter.
Best brains in the family
and she's tied to an oven.
Could you open this please?
(glass knocking)
Would you open this please?
Hey fingernails, would
you open this please?
Can I talk to you
a second please?
Just, just one second.
(glass smashes)
(dramatic music)
Now I've got an appointment.
Zeffor has fiddled us,
he had no right to
give you my business.
It's my business not his.
- No English.
- No English, no English.
What day is today?
- Tuesday.
- Tuesday.
I own the business
on Mott Street.
Tell him.
(speaking in foreign language)
(suspenseful music)
- [Translator] He
wants you to sit there,
we can talk this out.
He knows you're upset.
(speaking in foreign language)
- He appreciates your position.
He met Mr. Zeffor only once.
He was a fat.
He was fat and--
You should be patient one day.
He will get his interpreter.
Cartage is nothing
to fight over.
(dramatic music)
(screaming)
(speaking in foreign language)
- No, expensive!
He wants to get his
own interpreter.
Come tomorrow.
And I'll make you a happy man.
(suspenseful music)
- [Daniel] Plastic
explosives Frank.
- You're certain?
- I don't know what he's
putting in that stuff,
but it's not supposed
to detonate that easily.
- Alright this takes priority.
- I won't take it.
I'm after whoever
had the audacity
to come and murder in
my mother's back yard.
I'm not about to
take a side trip.
- Chin is not a side trip.
He was in bed with Zeffor,
he's part of the investigation.
- And you're on
an investigation.
I'm on a hunt.
- Why are you being so stubborn?
I may be standing here
with a link to international
terrorism in my hand
and you wanna play
let's find the goomba.
Can't you see this
is more important?
- Frank I'm not resisting
it's importance.
I think you should move on.
But the fact is however
lethal Chin's deal may be,
he's just a gnat on the
map of terrorist activity.
I'm at the heart of what hurts
my family and friends the most.
I'm in this to clear the
decks of local corruption
'cause that's what I do.
Now if you wanna get entangled
in international intrigue
that's fine with me,
you go ahead and
express yourself.
This thing, this Sicilian
thing, it hurts my family,
it's part of my roots.
- Tommy Chin.
Mid to late 40's, US Citizen,
he emigrated from China in 1970.
He owns a cartage
company, a restaurant
and a bunch of real
estate ventures.
Toughest group he's
associated with are the Yelps,
and that's as deep as I go.
- Alright you try Langley.
We cannot ignore this.
- Frank, I'm ignoring it, I
stepped in the middle of it.
Now if you can avoid it,
don't pull Chin off the streets.
He's my line to
Zeffor and Grosset
and what they did
outside the family.
I need him out there so that
Grosset can stumble over him,
and believe me he will.
This guy a real no-brainer.
The smartest thing he ever did
was marry the bosses daughter
and that doesn't
take any brains.
- What'd you do, order takeout?
- [Joey] What?
- Albert Cerrico
came to my business,
attacked Ho Shi, threatened me,
I was told this wouldn't happen.
- We got business.
- I'm not leaving.
This is America sport,
that Japanese indentured
servant crap doesn't fly here.
- I'm Chinese.
- Congratulations.
If it's business, it's more
my business than it is his.
- I've nothing but respect
for anyone who
carries their weight.
What about my problem?
- Cerrico's a hothead, what
do you want me to do about it?
- I acquire several
business in Chinatown,
you have my money,
I have your hothead.
I though Zeffor was a
smarty man than that Joey.
- Tony was the best I ever saw.
- A man who doesn't
tell his people
what's going on is an idiot.
- There was a meeting to
explain to Albert the deal,
Zeffor got popped, the
meeting never took place.
- Then you explain
the deal to Cerrico.
I don't want this man
to come back to me.
- I can't give my family your
justice, it ain't proper.
You understand what I mean?
- I understand.
Come.
- What are you doing?
- What?
What?
- Don't you ever let that man
talk about my father
that way again.
- Don't you ever talk
to me that way again
in front of business.
You embarrassed me.
- You embarrassed yourself Joey.
Giving him the okay,
to move on Albert?
He's one of us.
- You don't understand
how dangerous Chin is.
Why you sticking up for Albert?
The man popped your father.
- I don't believe that.
- You're a woman, you
don't wanna believe.
- Albert's smarter than
that, to hit my father.
And the only reason that you're
running things and I'm not
is 'cause I wasn't born a son.
- You got penis envy.
- At least we got
one thing in common.
(door slams)
(peaceful music)
(groaning)
(panting)
- Hey want something to eat?
I'm starving.
Want a pizza or something?
What?
- What?
- Great, here we go again.
What is this?
- A book.
- A History of the Mob?
What are you trying to do?
Trace down my
family tree or what?
- No, I'm just trying to get
an idea of what to expect.
- Yeah well I don't think
anything in this book
is gonna prepare you for that.
- Yeah well maybe not,
but if you want me to
commit to this thing,
I'm gonna need a little from you
than what I get in the bedroom.
I need to get out Vinnie.
- Amber, it's too dangerous
to go out right now.
- What's dangerous?
I don't go out when I'm
not surrounded by goons
from both sides of the law!
I'm not trying to make
you choose Vinnie.
I just, I used to lead a
very active social life.
At least you could be a
little more sympathetic?
- What do you think?
I'm enjoying this?
- Well no, to a certain
degree, yeah I think you are.
Vinnie, I'm proud of
what you're doing.
I just need to
understand it better.
This fascination you
have with fatalistic men,
taking them on, hunting them,
it's alluring and
repulsive to me.
It's a sick game you boys play.
And I'm the receptacle
for your attention--
- Oh come on.
- And maybe I shouldn't
accept that, alright?
But there's something
about it that's very sexy.
I just think we need
something normal in our lives
to balance it out.
- Amber until things
calm down for me,
nothing's gonna be normal.
- Alright I can accept that.
- Well good.
- Yeah.
But in the parameters
we do have,
we need to make something
normal out of our life.
I wanna walk down
the street with you,
I want you to show me
off in neighborhood bars.
I want you to be there Vinnie.
- Amber we'll get there.
We will, we'll get there.
But what if something
happens to you?
- Nothing's--
- If something happened to you
because of me, I don't
know what I'd do.
- Nothing's gonna happen.
- Oh you don't know.
- They don't shoot
people on dates,
they shoot people in barbershops
and in front of clam bars.
They put women on a pedestal.
- Yeah when they play
by the rules, yeah.
Amber, why you don't see that?
- Hand me the phone.
- Well who you gonna call?
- I'm call Poochy,
we are going out.
- Fine, fine, here.
- And then you should
let me McPike know.
- Yeah, hey Frank
we're going out!
- What are you doing?
- Hey, well you're the one
doing all the research,
don't you know that
McPike's listening alreaddy.
(laughing)
- Evening Charles.
- Hi.
- Evening Mr. Terranova, ma'am.
- How you doing?
- Beautiful night for a
night out, don't you think?
Where to?
- Um, I don't know, we'll
know when we get there.
- Yeah let's just go okay.
(engines revving)
- No respect.
- I guess I could
get used to this.
- Sorry you kids have to
contend with all these eyeballs.
- It's not your fault Pooch.
- The Don used to
have this problem.
When he had intruders, I
took him some place special.
Interested?
- What do you think?
Two please.
- [Ticket Seller] Movie
started five minutes ago.
- That's okay.
Shish.
Thank you.
- You wanna go in
or you want us to?
- No I've already
seen it, you go ahead.
- Ah.
Where you going?
Where you going?
Where you going?
- What?
- Hey, no go ahead
bud, go ahead.
(rock music)
(people chatter)
(people chatter)
- See we can do this?
(engine revving)
(lorry beeping)
(groaning)
(clattering)
(dramatic music)
(suspenseful music)
- I thought I
recognized this stuff.
Colors changed, it
used to be blue.
I guess it's probably
been through the
rainbow since Vietnam.
- Just how potent is this stuff?
- Enough of it, you could
take out a city block.
- That's not in the
manufacturer's samples.
- According to the lab,
they're messing with the stuff.
Chin is experimenting
with some sort of a self
detonating accelerant.
It's only a matter of time
and they're gonna redevelop
that neighborhood
right out of existence.
- I'm shutting it down.
- You better get
some expert help.
- I will.
- And you're only gonna get
'em on a firearms violation
unless you can record
him selling this stuff.
- Setting up a sting will
take months we don't have.
You contact Vinnie and tell
him to stay out of Chinatown.
- Excuse me Mr. Terranova?
There's a call for you.
It's your uncle.
- Thank you.
Why don't you inside?
I'll be right there.
- No I'll wait.
- No, no it's my uncle he's
a talker, you know, go ahead.
- It's okay.
- Thank God you're recovering.
Is there anything
I can do for you?
- I need everything.
- You should that boy of yours,
he's a, he runs the
table with an iron hand.
- That table needs an iron hand.
- Don Aiuppo, for years
you kept me at arms length
because I hurt you.
And now you call me to your
bed and you forgive me.
I have a son now
and I understand how
hard forgiveness would be
if I lost him to carelessness.
- My heart is weak,
it cannot take a flood
of painful memories.
You suffered too Albert.
It's time I forgive you.
- I don't that I can
avoid it Uncle Mike,
Albert's got a real taste
for Chinese food these days.
- Well you better son.
I got official confirmation
from the Board of Health
that that stuff will blow
a hole right through you.
- Alright, I'll do what I can.
- Mr. Aiuppo already
has visitors.
- What are you doing here?
- Come to pay my respects.
- Oh yeah, and you?
Go get some coffee, I don't
even want you on this floor.
- Quit pushing my
family around Terranova.
- Hey shut up and pay
your respects Joey.
I'm not so crazy about
you being here either.
- What's he doing here?
Don Aiuppo.
My wishes are with you
for a speedy recovery.
Your life gives me life.
My prayers, my wife's
prayers, Carlo and his wife,
their two boys, all these
prayers are with you
for a quick and
healthy recovery.
- Where's your wife?
- I'm sorry Don Aiuppo,
she's grieving and couldn't
come today to pay her respects.
A few days.
- Keep her away.
Tell her I grieve for her father
and for all of us when
we act like animals.
- Maybe we should leave.
- I just got here, you
been here, you leave.
- Not here Joey.
- I got words for you later.
- He's a maniac Don Aiuppo.
- I said not here Joey.
- He shot Aiuppo and
Tony, my wife's father.
- That was not--
- No business here!
(everyone shouting
over each other)
- You wanna get in a fist fight?
This is a hospital.
- I didn't come here to
get shoved around by you.
How much you getting for
selling off my families future?
- I'm not selling nothing.
I'm living by deals Tony made
before you put a
bunch of holes in him.
- Why don't you tell
us why Zeffor was
selling off other
people's territory?
- It was Zeffor's business
when he was at the table.
- And now that he's gone,
you think it's yours huh?
- What are you gonna do Albert?
You gonna go to war
with the whole world?
Tony was trying to keep
the peace in Chinatown,
they're a bunch of renegades,
you can't even talk to 'em.
- Zeffor was fat, he only
cared about his own wallet.
You never give up business Joey.
- We lost plenty with
that hothead of yours.
A few lousy hundred
bucks a month
is worth it to keep the peace.
Your floating cesspool's
costing 10 times that a day.
- I'm taking my business back,
you live with the consequences.
Nickel and dime with him,
but he takes my families future
away one piece at a time.
I gotta live with this
stupidity everyday of my life.
- Hey Albert, Albert,
maybe it's about time
you gave that up.
- Yeah, I haven't
got your patience.
- Albert, it doesn't
take patience.
It takes a cool head.
I don't like this
anymore than you do,
my mother's husband is in
their hanging by a thread.
And I'm sick to death
of all of you guys.
Sometimes you gotta
let go, move forward.
Huh, come on, come on.
- I wish my son
and wife were here,
it gives me perspective
when they're around.
- So bring them home?
- Not until this is
a resolved issue.
- Well Albert then resolve it.
Decide in your mind
that the business on Mott
Street isn't worth a war.
Bring your family home.
- What you choosing sides?
- I'm not choosing sides,
it's not about choosing sides.
It's about what's
right for all of us.
- I respect your
intelligence Vinnie,
but you and I ain't put
together the same way.
Enjoy the opera tonight.
- Yeah.
- [Nurse] Mr. Terranova?
- Yeah.
- Your stepfather's
asking for you.
- Thank you.
- Vincenzio, I'm disturbed
about this talk of Chinatown.
In Belfast, a man I knew to
do business internationally
became the target
of terrorist hands.
These hands killed a bus of
innocent people, children,
to get one man.
All around this event, was
the stink of soy sauce.
- How do you know this?
- It's my business to know.
Vincenzio, you don't have
to be the target of animals,
to become the victim
of Tommy Chin.
Do not do business
with this man.
Huh?
(people chatter)
- Terranova's third row
center, seats 110 and 11,
you and Foley are 10 rows back.
Post and West are in a box
on the mezzanine level.
I'll stay in the lobby,
there are a lot of
dignitaries here tonight,
so securities gonna
be everywhere.
Be careful.
Remember, the opera is not
over until the fat lady sings.
(people chatter)
(operatic singing)
(brakes squealing)
(car horn blares)
- [Chin] They're gonna
take down my shop.
Let's go.
(operatic singing continues)
(door crashing)
(audience applauding)
(people chatter)
- Hey Albert.
- [Albert] Vinnie.
- How you doing Albert?
- Alright, alright.
Hope you enjoyed it.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Hi.
Couldn't resist the aria,
don't ever tell my wife.
- What's he doing here?
- Anyway last act is wonderful.
It's terrific, so
I'll leave you guys.
- Okay.
- Alright now.
(screaming)
(suspenseful music)
- They got a hit!
(guns firing)
(suspenseful music)
What are you doing
with guns goombas?
Put it down.
Damn you, you put it down!
Get 'em.
- Pooch, Pooch get
her out of here.
- No, Vinnie!
- Go on, go!
- Thanks.
- [Frank] $175 for one song.
- [Albert] It's an
aria not a song.
- I don't need a
music lesson from you.
I wanna know why these
two guys came in here
and tried to pull
your final curtain.
- I don't know enough about
their culture to answer that.
- Why'd you come in
here at the last minute.
- The music.
What is it against the law
to go to the opera now?
- You don't go anywhere
slick, you're next.
- I'm right here.
- You were saying you missed
the first two acts because?
- I was on the
phone with my son.
- Where's your son?
- That I'm not gonna answer.
- Maybe they were after you
'cause they wanted to get even?
There a war going
on in Chinatown
with you and Chin over business?
- My disagreement with Mr.
Chin is nothing to kill over.
- Then why's he missing Albert?
We closed down his little
hole about an hour ago,
couldn't find him anywhere.
Not at home, nowhere,
and all of a sudden
these two walk in here
and try to mow you
down, why is that?
- Maybe they thought
I looked like someone?
- Maybe they thought you
knew where the boss was, huh?
- You popped these guys not me.
Now I'm sorry I
can't be of any help.
So you wanna arrest
me, let's do it,
otherwise I'm gonna go home.
- You won't leave
town will you Albert?
- No.
- Alright you're next.
Chin's missing.
- You think Cerrico whacked him?
- Have I got anything
else to believe?
- He wouldn't do that without
the family's permission.
- Vinnie I don't see anybody
playing by the rules here.
- No Frank, he sent
his family away
in the middle of the night,
so they wouldn't get hurt.
Albert doesn't wanna start
the war, he wants to end it.
- Killing Chin would
end one of those wars.
I need to know
where Chin fits in.
- Well you already
closed him down,
don't muddy the water.
- Chin was trying to buy into
the family cartage business,
using Zeffor and the
Grosset as a credit card.
When Cerrico steps
on his line of credit
two asian hit men show up and
we got a night at the opera.
- Alright so arrest Chin,
but tell him he owes
me a new pair of shoes.
- I gotta find him first.
Well the fat lady sang.
- Alright, what's so important
you gotta drag us down here
in the middle of the night?
- My place was shut down tonight
by the Federal Government.
I have to leave
the country tonight
for an indefinite
period of time.
- You shouldn't be
making that stuff anyway,
somebody's gonna get hurt.
- This ruins my plans Joey.
- What about our plans?
- There's too many
people in this room.
- [Joey] He's my cousin.
- I don't care, get him out.
- I'm staying.
- He's family, he stays.
- What about our plans?
- Cerrico has been
taken care of,
tonight at the opera.
- Fine.
Have a good flight.
- I took care of your problem,
now you gonna take care of mine.
- Why am I responsible?
- I didn't have
surveillance watching me
until I started doing
business with you.
Now I have to shut down and
start up somewhere else.
I want compensation.
(phone ringing)
I want relocation money
to start up again.
- It ain't my fault that--
- Yeah.
- Gina this is Albert Cerrico,
I need to talk to Joey.
- [Chin] I want
relocation to start--
- He's out having drinks
with Carlo, I'm doing books.
- Tell him I need to talk
to him in the morning.
- You owe me compensation.
- I paid you for
Cerrico already.
You're extorting me.
- I don't have to extort you.
- Give him a check.
- What are you nuts?
- He's right Joey, you
screwed up the deal.
Now give the man his money
and get him out of here.
- Your wife is a smart woman.
I'll miss doing
business with her.
- How much?
- 200,000.
- That's too much.
- 200,000 Joey.
My cost for relocation.
(gun fires)
(suspenseful music)
- Are you crazy?
- I like that.
- That was Albert
on the phone Joey.
He ain't dead.
I didn't like the way
that pig talked about
my father anyway.
And you, what are
you looking at?
Get out of here.
- What are you doing
letting him go?
- I don't have any
complaints with him.
- We gotta get this
body out of here.
- He could come back
here looking for us!
- If he comes back,
we'll take care of him!
I'll take of him, like I
take care of everything else.
- What are we meant
to do with him?
- Relocate him.
- Come on, I know
what we can do.
(groaning)
- Come on, come on.
Come on hurry up.
- [Carlo] He don't fit.
- Make him fit.
Who let you in here?
- Your tax dollars.
I'm looking for Tommy Chin.
I know you know him, so
you don't waste my time.
You know where he is?
- No.
- No.
- Okay, so what you
doing here so late?
- 'Cause I've an idiot help.
Enough with this
thing, fix it tomorrow.
(groans)
(arcade machine beeping)
- Tommy Chin is wanted
for manufacturing
and distributing
plastic explosives.
Now you tell me where he is,
I'll go arrest him
instead of you.
- I already told you, I
don't know where he is.
- Joey?
Who let him in?
- He's a Federal.
- I know who he is.
I'm done with the books Joey.
Let's go, I'm hungry.
I haven't eaten, do
you mind if we go?
I'm getting a headache.
- No, I'm terribly sorry.
Bet she gets a lot of headaches.
- Everything's a
crisis isn't it Vinnie.
Every gun that goes
off, every threat,
every dirty look you guys
give each other's a crisis.
- I know I pushed you too hard
and I've asked you
for more understanding
than anyone has a right to.
And I probably haven't
given much back in return,
but I thought at least I
could be honest with you.
I took a big chance when
I told you I was a cop.
But the reason I did it was
because I realized I loved you.
We just keep getting
these curves thrown at us.
- Curves?
- Hey Amber, this
is killing me too.
- You know I have
made about a million
adjustments in my life
for relationships, okay.
I am good at that.
But there's a
loneliness to this one
I can't get a handle on.
I abhor the violence
and the sick feeling
I get in my stomach
when I think about the day
that it's gonna take you
away from me forever.
And then I think to myself,
Amber wait a
minute, you're rich,
you could sell the business,
take care of both of us.
But I can't do that because
that would be making you choose
and I promised you
I wouldn't do that.
- I don't want you
to leave your work.
I know what it means to you.
- Yeah but I would do
that if it would help,
but it won't help.
There's always
gonna be something.
There's always gonna
be a McPike at the door
in the middle of the night.
There's always gonna
be a gun going off.
There's always gonna be,
I'm always gonna be wondering
whether or not (sobbing).
You know, I've had this talk
in my head a hundred times
and I still can't get it right.
- Yeah.
I've had it a few times myself.
- I wish things were different.
I really wish they
were different.
Well let's not make
this any harder.
I love you Vinnie.
Your stuff is in a
gym bag by the door.
I'm gonna go to bed now,
take care of yourself.
- You too.
(melancholy music)
(suspenseful music)
on Wiseguy.
- Chin Zul is in love
and I wanna be
able to talk to him
without you jabroni's thinking
we're hatching a plot.
(suspenseful music)
(gun fires)
- This is my problem
and it's burdening
my whole life,
time's come for me
to deal with it.
People are trying to kill me,
it's dangerous for
you to be with me now.
I'm Rudolfo Aiuppo's heir.
I'm taking my rightful
seat at this table.
- We should welcome him to
Don Aiuppo seat at the table.
- We should take him out.
(suspenseful music)
- [Carlotta] And my dress?
Is my dress right?
- [Vinnie] Ma you look
great, don't worry about.
Come on, come on.
- It's not too loud?
- No you look terrific,
Pooch would you tell her please.
- If she wasn't already taken.
- I'm glad you're going home ma.
- I miss my things.
- Alright let me help you.
- I just want a moment to
say goodbye to him Vincenzio.
(melancholy music)
- Carlotta.
- Three evil men
came to the hospital
and kissed my son's hand.
You lied to me Rudy.
I love you but I should
not have married you.
I let love blind my judgment,
I'm a fool to think
that you could ever
leave your past behind,
even if you wanted to.
- Carlotta.
- But I am not a completely
foolish old woman.
I was raised around
these monsters.
Don't you die until you
set things straight.
Get Vincenzio out of
this family of yours.
He'll get better now.
- Good.
- Poochy, let's go home.
- Bye mom.
Don Aiuppo, how are you?
- Your mother knows
about the cremation.
- How does she know?
- She's your mother,
a seat of power a
dangerous place to be.
Who's controlling the table?
- Alex Vechoff seems
to be driving things,
but more from a
parliamentary angle.
The struggle for powers at
the Viscero end of the table
between Cerrico and Grosset.
- Who claims to be your ally.
- Albert Cerrico.
He sent his family away.
Easy, easy.
- When?
- The night you and
Zeffor were shot.
- Then he didn't do it.
He would've sent 'em
away long before.
- I don't know Don Aiuppo.
He still seems to have
the most to gain by this,
I don't trust him yet.
- Albert, Albert
was a corner boy.
He came from nothing.
The club was his family.
Everybody asked for Albert.
- Albert, where is he?
Albert.
(suspenseful music)
- [Don Aiuppo] It was
Zeffor he had respect for.
For propriety.
He has a hot head yes, but
he learnt how to use it.
Early and effective.
- Albert, Albert come here.
- [Don Aiuppo] Got put
on a crew right away,
started to pay his
own way, a boy.
- I love you too son.
I miss you.
Give momma a kiss
from me, okay bye.
- [Don Aiuppo] But
Albert is a grown man now
with his own family.
Family is everything to Albert.
- And what about Grosset?
- A dangerous man.
Can't even control his wife.
Grosset would kill
me like a dog,
but he wouldn't have the nerve.
A touchy old man, Zeffor
was his father in law.
- Don Aiuppo.
- Tell Albert, if he
wants to be close to you,
it makes him closer to me,
you tell him, I
forgive him the past.
We all live forgiving.
- [Reporter] There
is still no home
for the Brooklyn registered
garbage barge the Pier Rosetta.
At sea now for nine days,
the barge was again
denied docking permits,
this time in Charleston,
South Carolina.
The Pier Rosetta began
its odyssey last month
when it's 37 tons
of Manhattan refuse
was denied dumping in
a Long Island landfill.
State Departmental officials
have pressed legal action
against the city and
the barges owner--
- You can't buy a break
with that thing can you?
- [Reporter] $6,000 a day to
keep the garbage barge afloat.
- It's costing me
six grand a day,
I figured more like five.
- Does that make you happy?
- Anyone else would
wait 'til night
and dump it in the ocean.
The environments got enough
enemies, don't you think.
How's your family?
- Don Aiuppo forgives
you for your past Albert.
He didn't give in to it.
- I'd like to see him.
I want you to know
I love the Don.
Jesus.
How's your lady friend?
- Well she's not real happy
with all the attention,
from either side.
- They listen
through the phones,
watch us fall in love,
they'll make you crazy.
- Yeah.
- You know,
why don't you take
her to the opera?
They're doing Carmen.
There's an aria at the
end of the second act,
it's one of the most
beautiful things
you're ever gonna hear.
Except maybe for the laughter
of your first born kid.
- Then why don't you go?
- I love this aria, but
to go without my wife,
I would feel like
I was cheating.
Come on take 'em, it's
good for the soul.
- Well thank you very much.
- Yeah, you're gonna enjoy it.
I called you 15 minutes ago,
why do I gotta wait for you?
- Albert.
- I got four addresses
on Mott Street
without payment for two
months, I wanna know why?
- Huh?
- Huh?
Huh.
You see.
I'm in the personal
service business
and the business is killing me
'cause they've got
people who don't care.
Hubert, say hello
to Don Aiuppo's son.
- Hi, how you doing?
- I'm embarrassed to
open the business to him
because it's in such a mess.
Vinnie, I got morons
who sit around all day
listening to the
air conditioning
whilst the building
comes down around us.
What happened on Mott Street?
- We don't pick 'em up anymore.
- We don't pick 'em anymore.
Why not?
- Somebody else does.
- [Albert] Some else who?
- Hey Albert, I don't
know, I swear to God.
They come Pillado.
- Pillado?
- Six zucchinis, okay the hot
house tomatoes I don't like,
what are you gonna do?
Green peppers, red.
Hey Albert how you doing?
Hey how you been, you
ain't been around?
- I'm not too happy Nicholas.
- Well tell me why?
- They're not picking
up your garbage.
I mean, not exactly
where I would.
Where you putting it Nick?
I hope it's in the basement.
- Zeffor said Chin was
picking up from now on.
- Zeffor said this.
- Yeah Grosset told me that
Zeffor said that was the deal.
I guess, Zeffor's dead now huh?
- Yes he is.
- Hey, you want the
business Albert it's yours.
I got no problem with that.
- Good.
- Do me a favor will you?
- Don't get me in the
middle of anything,
I'm trying to survive here.
- That's what we all
want Nick, survival.
Zeffor was giving away
business in my territory.
He's been with the Chinese.
Now it makes sense
to post a note
to stay in his own neighborhood.
- Albert, Albert, this
is his own neighborhood.
- Oh yeah, well then his
neighborhood needs to move in.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
(election announcer chatters)
- I hate this time of the year.
(glass knocking)
I wanna talk to Chin.
- Do you have an appointment?
- No.
- Do you have a card?
(door knocking)
- Always gotta have a
numbskull in my business.
The only productive
thing Zeffor ever did
was have a daughter.
Best brains in the family
and she's tied to an oven.
Could you open this please?
(glass knocking)
Would you open this please?
Hey fingernails, would
you open this please?
Can I talk to you
a second please?
Just, just one second.
(glass smashes)
(dramatic music)
Now I've got an appointment.
Zeffor has fiddled us,
he had no right to
give you my business.
It's my business not his.
- No English.
- No English, no English.
What day is today?
- Tuesday.
- Tuesday.
I own the business
on Mott Street.
Tell him.
(speaking in foreign language)
(suspenseful music)
- [Translator] He
wants you to sit there,
we can talk this out.
He knows you're upset.
(speaking in foreign language)
- He appreciates your position.
He met Mr. Zeffor only once.
He was a fat.
He was fat and--
You should be patient one day.
He will get his interpreter.
Cartage is nothing
to fight over.
(dramatic music)
(screaming)
(speaking in foreign language)
- No, expensive!
He wants to get his
own interpreter.
Come tomorrow.
And I'll make you a happy man.
(suspenseful music)
- [Daniel] Plastic
explosives Frank.
- You're certain?
- I don't know what he's
putting in that stuff,
but it's not supposed
to detonate that easily.
- Alright this takes priority.
- I won't take it.
I'm after whoever
had the audacity
to come and murder in
my mother's back yard.
I'm not about to
take a side trip.
- Chin is not a side trip.
He was in bed with Zeffor,
he's part of the investigation.
- And you're on
an investigation.
I'm on a hunt.
- Why are you being so stubborn?
I may be standing here
with a link to international
terrorism in my hand
and you wanna play
let's find the goomba.
Can't you see this
is more important?
- Frank I'm not resisting
it's importance.
I think you should move on.
But the fact is however
lethal Chin's deal may be,
he's just a gnat on the
map of terrorist activity.
I'm at the heart of what hurts
my family and friends the most.
I'm in this to clear the
decks of local corruption
'cause that's what I do.
Now if you wanna get entangled
in international intrigue
that's fine with me,
you go ahead and
express yourself.
This thing, this Sicilian
thing, it hurts my family,
it's part of my roots.
- Tommy Chin.
Mid to late 40's, US Citizen,
he emigrated from China in 1970.
He owns a cartage
company, a restaurant
and a bunch of real
estate ventures.
Toughest group he's
associated with are the Yelps,
and that's as deep as I go.
- Alright you try Langley.
We cannot ignore this.
- Frank, I'm ignoring it, I
stepped in the middle of it.
Now if you can avoid it,
don't pull Chin off the streets.
He's my line to
Zeffor and Grosset
and what they did
outside the family.
I need him out there so that
Grosset can stumble over him,
and believe me he will.
This guy a real no-brainer.
The smartest thing he ever did
was marry the bosses daughter
and that doesn't
take any brains.
- What'd you do, order takeout?
- [Joey] What?
- Albert Cerrico
came to my business,
attacked Ho Shi, threatened me,
I was told this wouldn't happen.
- We got business.
- I'm not leaving.
This is America sport,
that Japanese indentured
servant crap doesn't fly here.
- I'm Chinese.
- Congratulations.
If it's business, it's more
my business than it is his.
- I've nothing but respect
for anyone who
carries their weight.
What about my problem?
- Cerrico's a hothead, what
do you want me to do about it?
- I acquire several
business in Chinatown,
you have my money,
I have your hothead.
I though Zeffor was a
smarty man than that Joey.
- Tony was the best I ever saw.
- A man who doesn't
tell his people
what's going on is an idiot.
- There was a meeting to
explain to Albert the deal,
Zeffor got popped, the
meeting never took place.
- Then you explain
the deal to Cerrico.
I don't want this man
to come back to me.
- I can't give my family your
justice, it ain't proper.
You understand what I mean?
- I understand.
Come.
- What are you doing?
- What?
What?
- Don't you ever let that man
talk about my father
that way again.
- Don't you ever talk
to me that way again
in front of business.
You embarrassed me.
- You embarrassed yourself Joey.
Giving him the okay,
to move on Albert?
He's one of us.
- You don't understand
how dangerous Chin is.
Why you sticking up for Albert?
The man popped your father.
- I don't believe that.
- You're a woman, you
don't wanna believe.
- Albert's smarter than
that, to hit my father.
And the only reason that you're
running things and I'm not
is 'cause I wasn't born a son.
- You got penis envy.
- At least we got
one thing in common.
(door slams)
(peaceful music)
(groaning)
(panting)
- Hey want something to eat?
I'm starving.
Want a pizza or something?
What?
- What?
- Great, here we go again.
What is this?
- A book.
- A History of the Mob?
What are you trying to do?
Trace down my
family tree or what?
- No, I'm just trying to get
an idea of what to expect.
- Yeah well I don't think
anything in this book
is gonna prepare you for that.
- Yeah well maybe not,
but if you want me to
commit to this thing,
I'm gonna need a little from you
than what I get in the bedroom.
I need to get out Vinnie.
- Amber, it's too dangerous
to go out right now.
- What's dangerous?
I don't go out when I'm
not surrounded by goons
from both sides of the law!
I'm not trying to make
you choose Vinnie.
I just, I used to lead a
very active social life.
At least you could be a
little more sympathetic?
- What do you think?
I'm enjoying this?
- Well no, to a certain
degree, yeah I think you are.
Vinnie, I'm proud of
what you're doing.
I just need to
understand it better.
This fascination you
have with fatalistic men,
taking them on, hunting them,
it's alluring and
repulsive to me.
It's a sick game you boys play.
And I'm the receptacle
for your attention--
- Oh come on.
- And maybe I shouldn't
accept that, alright?
But there's something
about it that's very sexy.
I just think we need
something normal in our lives
to balance it out.
- Amber until things
calm down for me,
nothing's gonna be normal.
- Alright I can accept that.
- Well good.
- Yeah.
But in the parameters
we do have,
we need to make something
normal out of our life.
I wanna walk down
the street with you,
I want you to show me
off in neighborhood bars.
I want you to be there Vinnie.
- Amber we'll get there.
We will, we'll get there.
But what if something
happens to you?
- Nothing's--
- If something happened to you
because of me, I don't
know what I'd do.
- Nothing's gonna happen.
- Oh you don't know.
- They don't shoot
people on dates,
they shoot people in barbershops
and in front of clam bars.
They put women on a pedestal.
- Yeah when they play
by the rules, yeah.
Amber, why you don't see that?
- Hand me the phone.
- Well who you gonna call?
- I'm call Poochy,
we are going out.
- Fine, fine, here.
- And then you should
let me McPike know.
- Yeah, hey Frank
we're going out!
- What are you doing?
- Hey, well you're the one
doing all the research,
don't you know that
McPike's listening alreaddy.
(laughing)
- Evening Charles.
- Hi.
- Evening Mr. Terranova, ma'am.
- How you doing?
- Beautiful night for a
night out, don't you think?
Where to?
- Um, I don't know, we'll
know when we get there.
- Yeah let's just go okay.
(engines revving)
- No respect.
- I guess I could
get used to this.
- Sorry you kids have to
contend with all these eyeballs.
- It's not your fault Pooch.
- The Don used to
have this problem.
When he had intruders, I
took him some place special.
Interested?
- What do you think?
Two please.
- [Ticket Seller] Movie
started five minutes ago.
- That's okay.
Shish.
Thank you.
- You wanna go in
or you want us to?
- No I've already
seen it, you go ahead.
- Ah.
Where you going?
Where you going?
Where you going?
- What?
- Hey, no go ahead
bud, go ahead.
(rock music)
(people chatter)
(people chatter)
- See we can do this?
(engine revving)
(lorry beeping)
(groaning)
(clattering)
(dramatic music)
(suspenseful music)
- I thought I
recognized this stuff.
Colors changed, it
used to be blue.
I guess it's probably
been through the
rainbow since Vietnam.
- Just how potent is this stuff?
- Enough of it, you could
take out a city block.
- That's not in the
manufacturer's samples.
- According to the lab,
they're messing with the stuff.
Chin is experimenting
with some sort of a self
detonating accelerant.
It's only a matter of time
and they're gonna redevelop
that neighborhood
right out of existence.
- I'm shutting it down.
- You better get
some expert help.
- I will.
- And you're only gonna get
'em on a firearms violation
unless you can record
him selling this stuff.
- Setting up a sting will
take months we don't have.
You contact Vinnie and tell
him to stay out of Chinatown.
- Excuse me Mr. Terranova?
There's a call for you.
It's your uncle.
- Thank you.
Why don't you inside?
I'll be right there.
- No I'll wait.
- No, no it's my uncle he's
a talker, you know, go ahead.
- It's okay.
- Thank God you're recovering.
Is there anything
I can do for you?
- I need everything.
- You should that boy of yours,
he's a, he runs the
table with an iron hand.
- That table needs an iron hand.
- Don Aiuppo, for years
you kept me at arms length
because I hurt you.
And now you call me to your
bed and you forgive me.
I have a son now
and I understand how
hard forgiveness would be
if I lost him to carelessness.
- My heart is weak,
it cannot take a flood
of painful memories.
You suffered too Albert.
It's time I forgive you.
- I don't that I can
avoid it Uncle Mike,
Albert's got a real taste
for Chinese food these days.
- Well you better son.
I got official confirmation
from the Board of Health
that that stuff will blow
a hole right through you.
- Alright, I'll do what I can.
- Mr. Aiuppo already
has visitors.
- What are you doing here?
- Come to pay my respects.
- Oh yeah, and you?
Go get some coffee, I don't
even want you on this floor.
- Quit pushing my
family around Terranova.
- Hey shut up and pay
your respects Joey.
I'm not so crazy about
you being here either.
- What's he doing here?
Don Aiuppo.
My wishes are with you
for a speedy recovery.
Your life gives me life.
My prayers, my wife's
prayers, Carlo and his wife,
their two boys, all these
prayers are with you
for a quick and
healthy recovery.
- Where's your wife?
- I'm sorry Don Aiuppo,
she's grieving and couldn't
come today to pay her respects.
A few days.
- Keep her away.
Tell her I grieve for her father
and for all of us when
we act like animals.
- Maybe we should leave.
- I just got here, you
been here, you leave.
- Not here Joey.
- I got words for you later.
- He's a maniac Don Aiuppo.
- I said not here Joey.
- He shot Aiuppo and
Tony, my wife's father.
- That was not--
- No business here!
(everyone shouting
over each other)
- You wanna get in a fist fight?
This is a hospital.
- I didn't come here to
get shoved around by you.
How much you getting for
selling off my families future?
- I'm not selling nothing.
I'm living by deals Tony made
before you put a
bunch of holes in him.
- Why don't you tell
us why Zeffor was
selling off other
people's territory?
- It was Zeffor's business
when he was at the table.
- And now that he's gone,
you think it's yours huh?
- What are you gonna do Albert?
You gonna go to war
with the whole world?
Tony was trying to keep
the peace in Chinatown,
they're a bunch of renegades,
you can't even talk to 'em.
- Zeffor was fat, he only
cared about his own wallet.
You never give up business Joey.
- We lost plenty with
that hothead of yours.
A few lousy hundred
bucks a month
is worth it to keep the peace.
Your floating cesspool's
costing 10 times that a day.
- I'm taking my business back,
you live with the consequences.
Nickel and dime with him,
but he takes my families future
away one piece at a time.
I gotta live with this
stupidity everyday of my life.
- Hey Albert, Albert,
maybe it's about time
you gave that up.
- Yeah, I haven't
got your patience.
- Albert, it doesn't
take patience.
It takes a cool head.
I don't like this
anymore than you do,
my mother's husband is in
their hanging by a thread.
And I'm sick to death
of all of you guys.
Sometimes you gotta
let go, move forward.
Huh, come on, come on.
- I wish my son
and wife were here,
it gives me perspective
when they're around.
- So bring them home?
- Not until this is
a resolved issue.
- Well Albert then resolve it.
Decide in your mind
that the business on Mott
Street isn't worth a war.
Bring your family home.
- What you choosing sides?
- I'm not choosing sides,
it's not about choosing sides.
It's about what's
right for all of us.
- I respect your
intelligence Vinnie,
but you and I ain't put
together the same way.
Enjoy the opera tonight.
- Yeah.
- [Nurse] Mr. Terranova?
- Yeah.
- Your stepfather's
asking for you.
- Thank you.
- Vincenzio, I'm disturbed
about this talk of Chinatown.
In Belfast, a man I knew to
do business internationally
became the target
of terrorist hands.
These hands killed a bus of
innocent people, children,
to get one man.
All around this event, was
the stink of soy sauce.
- How do you know this?
- It's my business to know.
Vincenzio, you don't have
to be the target of animals,
to become the victim
of Tommy Chin.
Do not do business
with this man.
Huh?
(people chatter)
- Terranova's third row
center, seats 110 and 11,
you and Foley are 10 rows back.
Post and West are in a box
on the mezzanine level.
I'll stay in the lobby,
there are a lot of
dignitaries here tonight,
so securities gonna
be everywhere.
Be careful.
Remember, the opera is not
over until the fat lady sings.
(people chatter)
(operatic singing)
(brakes squealing)
(car horn blares)
- [Chin] They're gonna
take down my shop.
Let's go.
(operatic singing continues)
(door crashing)
(audience applauding)
(people chatter)
- Hey Albert.
- [Albert] Vinnie.
- How you doing Albert?
- Alright, alright.
Hope you enjoyed it.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Hi.
Couldn't resist the aria,
don't ever tell my wife.
- What's he doing here?
- Anyway last act is wonderful.
It's terrific, so
I'll leave you guys.
- Okay.
- Alright now.
(screaming)
(suspenseful music)
- They got a hit!
(guns firing)
(suspenseful music)
What are you doing
with guns goombas?
Put it down.
Damn you, you put it down!
Get 'em.
- Pooch, Pooch get
her out of here.
- No, Vinnie!
- Go on, go!
- Thanks.
- [Frank] $175 for one song.
- [Albert] It's an
aria not a song.
- I don't need a
music lesson from you.
I wanna know why these
two guys came in here
and tried to pull
your final curtain.
- I don't know enough about
their culture to answer that.
- Why'd you come in
here at the last minute.
- The music.
What is it against the law
to go to the opera now?
- You don't go anywhere
slick, you're next.
- I'm right here.
- You were saying you missed
the first two acts because?
- I was on the
phone with my son.
- Where's your son?
- That I'm not gonna answer.
- Maybe they were after you
'cause they wanted to get even?
There a war going
on in Chinatown
with you and Chin over business?
- My disagreement with Mr.
Chin is nothing to kill over.
- Then why's he missing Albert?
We closed down his little
hole about an hour ago,
couldn't find him anywhere.
Not at home, nowhere,
and all of a sudden
these two walk in here
and try to mow you
down, why is that?
- Maybe they thought
I looked like someone?
- Maybe they thought you
knew where the boss was, huh?
- You popped these guys not me.
Now I'm sorry I
can't be of any help.
So you wanna arrest
me, let's do it,
otherwise I'm gonna go home.
- You won't leave
town will you Albert?
- No.
- Alright you're next.
Chin's missing.
- You think Cerrico whacked him?
- Have I got anything
else to believe?
- He wouldn't do that without
the family's permission.
- Vinnie I don't see anybody
playing by the rules here.
- No Frank, he sent
his family away
in the middle of the night,
so they wouldn't get hurt.
Albert doesn't wanna start
the war, he wants to end it.
- Killing Chin would
end one of those wars.
I need to know
where Chin fits in.
- Well you already
closed him down,
don't muddy the water.
- Chin was trying to buy into
the family cartage business,
using Zeffor and the
Grosset as a credit card.
When Cerrico steps
on his line of credit
two asian hit men show up and
we got a night at the opera.
- Alright so arrest Chin,
but tell him he owes
me a new pair of shoes.
- I gotta find him first.
Well the fat lady sang.
- Alright, what's so important
you gotta drag us down here
in the middle of the night?
- My place was shut down tonight
by the Federal Government.
I have to leave
the country tonight
for an indefinite
period of time.
- You shouldn't be
making that stuff anyway,
somebody's gonna get hurt.
- This ruins my plans Joey.
- What about our plans?
- There's too many
people in this room.
- [Joey] He's my cousin.
- I don't care, get him out.
- I'm staying.
- He's family, he stays.
- What about our plans?
- Cerrico has been
taken care of,
tonight at the opera.
- Fine.
Have a good flight.
- I took care of your problem,
now you gonna take care of mine.
- Why am I responsible?
- I didn't have
surveillance watching me
until I started doing
business with you.
Now I have to shut down and
start up somewhere else.
I want compensation.
(phone ringing)
I want relocation money
to start up again.
- It ain't my fault that--
- Yeah.
- Gina this is Albert Cerrico,
I need to talk to Joey.
- [Chin] I want
relocation to start--
- He's out having drinks
with Carlo, I'm doing books.
- Tell him I need to talk
to him in the morning.
- You owe me compensation.
- I paid you for
Cerrico already.
You're extorting me.
- I don't have to extort you.
- Give him a check.
- What are you nuts?
- He's right Joey, you
screwed up the deal.
Now give the man his money
and get him out of here.
- Your wife is a smart woman.
I'll miss doing
business with her.
- How much?
- 200,000.
- That's too much.
- 200,000 Joey.
My cost for relocation.
(gun fires)
(suspenseful music)
- Are you crazy?
- I like that.
- That was Albert
on the phone Joey.
He ain't dead.
I didn't like the way
that pig talked about
my father anyway.
And you, what are
you looking at?
Get out of here.
- What are you doing
letting him go?
- I don't have any
complaints with him.
- We gotta get this
body out of here.
- He could come back
here looking for us!
- If he comes back,
we'll take care of him!
I'll take of him, like I
take care of everything else.
- What are we meant
to do with him?
- Relocate him.
- Come on, I know
what we can do.
(groaning)
- Come on, come on.
Come on hurry up.
- [Carlo] He don't fit.
- Make him fit.
Who let you in here?
- Your tax dollars.
I'm looking for Tommy Chin.
I know you know him, so
you don't waste my time.
You know where he is?
- No.
- No.
- Okay, so what you
doing here so late?
- 'Cause I've an idiot help.
Enough with this
thing, fix it tomorrow.
(groans)
(arcade machine beeping)
- Tommy Chin is wanted
for manufacturing
and distributing
plastic explosives.
Now you tell me where he is,
I'll go arrest him
instead of you.
- I already told you, I
don't know where he is.
- Joey?
Who let him in?
- He's a Federal.
- I know who he is.
I'm done with the books Joey.
Let's go, I'm hungry.
I haven't eaten, do
you mind if we go?
I'm getting a headache.
- No, I'm terribly sorry.
Bet she gets a lot of headaches.
- Everything's a
crisis isn't it Vinnie.
Every gun that goes
off, every threat,
every dirty look you guys
give each other's a crisis.
- I know I pushed you too hard
and I've asked you
for more understanding
than anyone has a right to.
And I probably haven't
given much back in return,
but I thought at least I
could be honest with you.
I took a big chance when
I told you I was a cop.
But the reason I did it was
because I realized I loved you.
We just keep getting
these curves thrown at us.
- Curves?
- Hey Amber, this
is killing me too.
- You know I have
made about a million
adjustments in my life
for relationships, okay.
I am good at that.
But there's a
loneliness to this one
I can't get a handle on.
I abhor the violence
and the sick feeling
I get in my stomach
when I think about the day
that it's gonna take you
away from me forever.
And then I think to myself,
Amber wait a
minute, you're rich,
you could sell the business,
take care of both of us.
But I can't do that because
that would be making you choose
and I promised you
I wouldn't do that.
- I don't want you
to leave your work.
I know what it means to you.
- Yeah but I would do
that if it would help,
but it won't help.
There's always
gonna be something.
There's always gonna
be a McPike at the door
in the middle of the night.
There's always gonna
be a gun going off.
There's always gonna be,
I'm always gonna be wondering
whether or not (sobbing).
You know, I've had this talk
in my head a hundred times
and I still can't get it right.
- Yeah.
I've had it a few times myself.
- I wish things were different.
I really wish they
were different.
Well let's not make
this any harder.
I love you Vinnie.
Your stuff is in a
gym bag by the door.
I'm gonna go to bed now,
take care of yourself.
- You too.
(melancholy music)
(suspenseful music)