Wiseguy (1987–2009): Season 3, Episode 4 - Heir to the Throne - full transcript
- [Narrator]
Previously on Wiseguy.
- We have a man that's sitting
on the commission of La Familia.
- Aiuppo's stepson is an agent
and Aiuppo doesn't know it?
- That's the idea isn't it?
- Never give up business, Joey.
- You lost plenty to
that hothead of yours.
- There's money to
be made here Joey
and money is money.
Unless you just want to
keep your people hungry.
- The only reason that
you're running things
and I'm not is 'cause
I wasn't born a son.
- It's not like
it was before, Ma.
I'm not confused by
these guys anymore.
I know exactly who they are.
I'm gonna take all
these guys down
and enjoy every minute of it.
(dramatic music)
- [Man] Governor Rory's
announcement that Rudy Aiuppo
was back as head of the
mob, a grandstanding.
- My record for putting
major crime figures
behind bars speaks for itself.
It's Rory's record that
won't stand up to scrutiny.
- Any advice for your opponent?
- I challenge governor Rory to
start deportation proceedings
against Aiuppo immediately.
Aiuppo's presence
in this country
is a slap in the face
to every honest citizen.
(applause)
- Since his announcement
of the realignment of power
within the mob,
former state attorney
Peter Alatorre's once
floundering campaign
has found new life.
To this reporter, it is
obvious Mr. Alatorre will ride
the law and order
issue for the remainder
of the gubernatorial campaign.
Reputed former boss of
bosses Rudolpho Aiuppo
is recovering in St.
Matthew's Hospital
from gunshot wounds that he
received on the same evening
reputed mob boss Anthony
Ziffo was gunned down.
(crashing)
- Why do they keep
showing him like that?
- [Joey] It's sensationalism.
- I don't know which is worse,
seeing my father like
that or watching you
sit there stuffing your face
when you should be out there
taking back what's
rightfully ours!
- Don't start.
- If I was a man sitting
on the commission
I would have killed Aiuppo
dead right where he lies.
- What about Albert Cerrico?
He's behind Tony's death.
- Albert wouldn't
kill my father.
- Albert's power mad, he'd
do anything to get on top!
- If he did, I want his head.
- I'm already making
moves to find out.
- Oh yeah, yeah
you're making moves!
While Aiuppo and Terranova
are dividing up my
father's business.
I want what's coming to
me as the rightful heir!
I want blood for blood, Joey.
I want the men that
killed my father dead.
(crashing)
Oh yeah come on, come on Joey.
Come on, come on you don't
think I'd stab you again?
Come on just try me.
You'll be surprised how easily
a knife goes into
a man, come on.
- [Joey] I loved your
father like he was my own.
Retaliation takes time
and careful planning.
(quacking)
- Miserable.
(quacking)
I had to pull it
out of Polumbo's.
It wasn't playing right
so somebody started it
on fire in the
middle of a fish fry.
The kids we got now don't
know nothing about 'em
and they don't wanna know.
If I want it fixed
I gotta do it.
(crashing)
- Now it's fixed!
- You been talking to
Gina again am I right?
- We should hit Aiuppo
in the hospital!
I'm not letting nobody control
the purse strings
for me no more!
I want Aiuppo dead!
- Go right ahead,
you want to do it?
Be my guest, take my car keys
but take my advice.
Save me the gas and
yourself the trouble
and blow your brains
out right here
'cause you go up there
and you're as good as
committing suicide.
- You don't think I'd do it.
- No I don't!
Look Joey, if you'd have
listened to me to begin with
you'd have been home free.
After I clipped
your father-in-law
I could have driven across
the Kosciuszko Bridge
and put a cap in Aiuppo's
ear without a hitch,
but you had to let
Clancy Numnum do it
and he put us right in the soup!
You'd have listened to
me and you'd have been
sitting at the head
of the table already!
- Maybe I'll go up
there tomorrow, see
how Aiuppo's doing.
While I'm there, I just
might finish the job.
- You do that Joey
G, you do that.
(quacking)
- Quack quack bastard!
(gun fires)
- If the authorities push
with this deportation thing,
my lawyers are available to you.
Gratis.
He knows that, Pooch.
Anything.
Anything at all.
- It's best that he rest now.
- [Man] Stay strong my friend.
- Where is he?
- He's on the phone.
- What a procession.
Each one of them
will come up here,
put on a long face and judge
whether I'm gonna live or die.
This is the most
dangerous of times.
- I've got our guys
all over the building.
There's enough cops downstairs
to throw an ox
roast at the grove.
- Vicenzo, I was
a foolish old man.
I deluded myself into
believing that taking you
to the commission and putting
you under my protection
would save you from this life.
It was an act of
vanity and that vanity
plunged you right in the
middle of this war, I'm sorry.
- I can take care of myself.
Don't worry.
You're family now.
I take care of family.
(emotional music)
- [Pooch] There's Cerrico.
- [Aiuppo] You can't trust
anyone, Albert least of all
because he's the smartest
and because he has
learned from history.
- Hey Pooch, how you doing?
Guards opened this up
already, some pastry.
- Doing all right?
- All right, how are you?
- Fine, how's your family?
- Good, good.
- Good.
- I've come up here to ask for
your backing as head
of the commission.
- Until he's back
on his feet again,
I'm head of the commission.
- I mean no disrespect
here Vinnie,
but I know the only
reason you took the seat
was because of the
attack on Don Aiuppo.
That seat should be mine.
I've earned that right.
Vinnie will be my right hand.
I'm asking you as I
might ask my own father,
give me your support.
- Leave us alone.
It's all right.
I will never give
you my backing.
You know why.
- What more do I have to
do to show you my regrets?
Haven't I been as
devoted to you as a son?
Since that day I
have lived my life
to the letter of our code.
The code you taught me.
At this very moment,
I'm orchestrating a deal
that will demonstrate my
ability to run the commission.
I ask you again Don Aiuppo,
please give me your backing.
Danny knew what he
was getting into.
- No, Danny respected you.
Danny looked up to you.
I know in my heart
if it wasn't for you,
my son would be alive today.
You gave me your word
you would look after him.
What did you do?
You took him down to
that card game in Newark,
a place I forbade you to go!
Because of your temper, my...
(emotional music)
My son died at the hands of
a hop head with a $30 gun.
For eight years my
wife wore black.
She hardly ever spoke.
She died with a broken heart.
(sighs)
- Please, Don Aiuppo.
It was almost 20 years ago.
What do you want me
to do, kill myself?
You could let that happen
anytime you wanted.
Why let me live to hear this?
- I feared for my Danny,
and now I fear for Vinnie
being close to you.
- Don't worry about
Vinnie, he's a man.
A man I could work with.
But you know it's my seat
at the table, not his.
- I look into your eyes Albert
and I still see it.
You'll push too far,
risk too much again
and when that
happens, I don't want
Vinnie anywhere near you.
- That's your final word.
You won't give me your backing.
In a few days, you'll see that
I'm the only one to
sit in your chair.
Pray for your full recovery.
- [Aiuppo] Where is he?
- On the phone.
- Everything all
right with Albert?
- Albert tastes the power.
You watch him closely.
- Oh I can handle Albert.
It's getting late, I
gotta check up on Mother.
See you tomorrow okay?
Take it easy.
- Night Vinnie.
- See ya.
- Pooch, I want you to call
our phone company friend.
Call him now tonight.
I want to be able to hear what
takes place on that phone.
- You got it boss.
- [Aiuppo] Oh and
Pooch, what's this deal
Albert's talking about?
(patriotic music)
- [Man] You have to
admit it, Albert Cerrico
knows how to put a good
face in a bad situation.
- His barge has been turned
away by six US governors
and president of the
island of Aleutia,
and governor Rory
says it's okay Albert.
- See him over there?
He's making a career
out of me, this guy.
- You can't dump 37 tons
of garbage in the ocean.
If you were governor,
what would you do with it?
- Now that it's back in New
York with no possibility
of finding a home,
I would use this refuse
in the waterfront landfill
to help create more
low income housing.
(applause)
- Thanks Pete.
I want to thank you.
(patriotic music)
- [Man] I wouldn't
push him too hard.
- What Alatorre?
He's already taken
his best shot.
Besides I'm getting him more
front page coverage
than he's ever had.
I just might get
him elected, here.
It's beautiful huh?
- I never saw anybody in my life
who's so happy about garbage.
- Garbage is worth
a billion dollars.
It puts a smile on your face.
(patriotic music)
- Don Aiuppo.
Don Aiuppo, could I
have a moment alone?
- I trust Poochy with my life.
- I want your backing
as head of the table.
- 'Til I'm back on my feet,
Vicenzo sits at the
head of the table.
- I want my rightful place.
- Rightful?
- I'm Tony Ziffo's son-in-law,
I was his right hand.
- Anthony kept his right
hand in his pocket too long.
- That seat is mine.
Not Cerrico's, and
not Terranova's.
I come up here because
I hear Albert's
making noises about taking over
whether you okay it or not.
I don't trust him, and
you shouldn't trust him.
- Albert has already come to
me to assure me of his loyalty.
- He assured Ziffo
of his loyalty
just before Ziffo
was gunned down.
- You think Albert killed
your father-in-law?
- Who else would
have as much to gain?
- Only you.
- You think I killed Tony?
My own father-in-law?
- What I'm saying,
Joey Grosset is,
I'm not stepping down 'til I
find out who did this to me.
And when I do, I will
pick a successor.
- You don't think
I can handle it!
- I think you can't
control your temper
and you're led
around by your wife.
Now none of these
are recommendations
for running our
business, look at you.
You burn with anger.
- I've been under a lot of
strain since Tony's death.
Losing a father has
been very hard on Gina.
She's a little out of whack.
- Then I suggest you put
her back in whack, capiche?
- It's not a problem.
You'll see.
In the end you'll see, I'm
the only one for the job.
Feel better, Don Aiuppo.
(ominous music)
- Telephone?
- Like a heat seeking missile.
(phone rings)
- Ziffo Enterprises.
- Carlo, I just
talked to the old man.
He ain't coming
around to our side
so maybe he shouldn't
come around at all.
- You could let me handle it.
- I don't want to hear about it.
Aiuppo goes, and we take
Cerrico and Terranova with 'em.
No more mistakes.
(ominous music)
- You're gonna grow
to love that smell.
Heroin, entire barge
is lined with it.
Made into the next fast
food in drugs, crank.
Crack heroin.
It's worth over a billion
dollars, tax free.
That's more than even Mike
Milton made last year.
- You put this up
to the commission?
- In the age of iron and rust?
You're like Severus
Usenet, greedy and old.
It's our time now.
With one big move, we
can bring everything
back to the golden age.
- Big move to put you
on top, huh Albert?
- Who else is gonna keep
this thing together huh?
How long would it take us
with our other businesses
to make a billion dollars,
10 years, 20 years?
- What about all your talk?
All your talk about
family and America.
What if Albert Junior gets
ahold of some of this?
- I pray to God that
would never happen.
- Yeah but what if he does?
- Then I would use all
my power to help him.
But I believe he
was raised right
and he has enough
strength of character.
In the old days plagues and
wars weeded out the weak.
Now we've got modern
medicine and the atomic bomb.
Drugs are the mind's substitute
for natural selection.
- Darwin according
to Albert Cerrico.
- Who uses drugs, Vinnie?
Scum, animals, bottom feeders.
Take a drive through the city,
you wish you had a flamethrower.
The streets are
crawling with low life
smoking crack, killing
people for high top sneakers,
destroying everything
they get their hands on.
It is survival of the fittest,
make no mistake about that.
The American ethic,
weed out the weak
and continue free enterprise.
Now the money's not going back
to South America,
Asia, or Turkey.
This time it stays right here
in the good ol' USA.
Maybe we'll use some of it
to put Alatorre in
the White House.
What do you think?
- I don't think it's
a very original idea.
- Crack heroin.
Mix a little with
cocaine, they smoke it.
To mellow it out they'll
walk into the streets
and let buses hit 'em.
Call a commission
meeting in the morning.
Cutting everybody
in, all of 'em.
I'm going to claim
the head of the table.
And you're going to
be my right hand.
We're partners, Vinnie.
You and me, all the way.
(phone rings)
Yeah.
Right away.
The don wants to see me.
- I need to see Albert alone.
You wish for absolution.
I've discovered who
tried to assassinate me.
It was Joey Grosset.
He's also issued
orders for your death.
- This will be done
in the proper manner.
(ominous music)
- Hold on a minute.
- Something just came up.
You're going to
have to take a cab.
- Anything I can help with?
- Thanks, I can handle it.
- Where's Vin?
- [Pooch] Phone.
- Cerrico's got enough
heroin on that barge
to keep the entire
eastern seaboard
high 'til the 21st Century.
I want our people all over
Cerrico and that barge.
- We'll get our
people on it pronto.
- You better move
fast, because he just
flew out of here
like he was on fire.
- Well Frank's going to want
to handle this one personally.
- Tell him to stay
glued to Cerrico
and get people on that barge.
I want him to keep his eyes
on that barge, you got it?
- [Lifeguard] Yeah
I got it, I got it.
This is not my
first big case, son.
- Vincenzo.
- What's up with Albert?
He almost ran out of here.
- Everything's going to
happen very fast now.
I've been informed,
I can't say by who,
that Grosset is hiring assassins
to kill me in this room.
I trust only you.
I need you to follow Grosset
and identify the men he meets.
They will be the assassins.
- Okay.
Pooch, give me your car keys.
- I'll take you
where you need to go.
- No I want you
to stay with Rudy.
Give me your car keys.
- Somebody wants to see you.
(ominous music)
- I thought you were on Cerrico.
- I got men all over
him and the barge,
now you know what
his game plan is.
- Cerrico's going to cut in
the rest of the commission
on the deal and take
the head of the table.
- If we can physically connect
the heroin with
the commission...
- Frank, don't
underestimate Albert.
He's too smart to put the
heroin on the commission.
- All right then we
take him on Cerrico.
It's not half as satisfying,
but I'll take it.
I'll definitely take it.
- All right I gotta get going.
- Go where?
I need to know.
(sighs)
- Aiuppo knows that Grosset
was behind Ziffo's killing.
- Grosset killed his
own father-in-law?
- [Vinnie] Yeah.
- How'd Aiuppo find out this
little piece of information?
- How do you think he survived
in this business for 50 years?
Now Grosset's going to make
another attempt on his life.
He wants me to follow him
and find out who's
gonna do the hit.
- He wants you to commit murder?
- He didn't say that, Frank.
- He doesn't have to say it.
I'll take care of Grosset.
- Frank.
- I want him alive.
- You really think I'd kill him?
- Wouldn't you?
- Frank I'm a federal officer.
- That's not an answer,
would you kill him?
- If it'd save my
family, yeah okay?
- All right you kill Grosset.
Then it's Cerrico,
you kill Cerrico
then there's Vechoff, you
know the list goes on.
Unless you eliminate
the entire commission
or Aiuppo goes out of town,
there's always
gonna be a threat.
That's the life that Aiuppo
chose for his own free will.
You gonna spend your life
protecting him for
50 years of crime?
Are you gonna throw away
your career, maybe your life?
- I don't know what I'm gonna do
for the rest of my life, Frank
but all I do know
is that right now,
I need Grosset gone.
- I'll take care of
Grosset, you go spend
some time with your
mother, that's an order.
You're part of my
family too, Vinnie.
I don't want to see a
member of my family hurt
any more than you do.
(gentle piano music)
(phone rings)
- Yeah.
- [Albert] Gina it's Albert
Cerrico, can I speak to Joey?
- He's right here.
Albert.
- [Joey] Yeah.
- Joey, it's time
to bury the hatchet.
I want to talk to
you about something.
I got a deal that'll
make us millions.
See you in one half
hour at Millitello's.
- Ah it's gonna take
me more like an hour.
I say Yocosaro.
- What's wrong
with Millitello's?
- That place gives me gas.
Hey you come to me Albert,
I pick the place, one hour.
- No problem, one hour.
- Cerrico wants to
clear the bad blood.
Says he's got a deal that'll
make us both millions.
- It's fake.
- More like fatal.
(dramatic music)
I'm listening.
- Write this down.
One comma zero zero zero comma
zero zero zero comma
zero zero zero.
And it's a done deal.
- Why am I so lucky?
- Because we came
up together, Joey.
Aiuppo and the rest of
the commission should
open up a vein and let us
get on with our business.
- Who should sit
head of the table?
(sighs)
- I do.
But you're my right hand.
- What about Terranova?
Thought you guys were
joined at the hip.
- Come on.
You're smart enough to know
I was only appeasing
the old man.
We got a war here.
We're losing money and men.
Now we put our forces together,
and we're bigger than IBM, Ford,
Exxon, General
Motors, all of them.
- I'm all ears.
- It's on the barge.
- You mean you moved
that load with all those
TV cameras following your
barge around the world?
- I shipped it in
with a brass band.
(laughs)
It's a nice night.
You can smell the
ocean from here.
- Albert let's take my car.
- Why not?
Got to admit Joey,
killing your own
father-in-law was
one slick move.
Never respected
Tony much anyway.
Personally I'm glad
he's out of the way,
otherwise we couldn't
do this deal.
Tony would've taken
the lion's share,
so I guess I owe you a thanks.
- Wasn't me, it was Spoletta.
- Hey Joey, say
hello to Tony for me.
(gun fires)
(sirens wail)
- Cerrico you don't move!
- I didn't do nothing!
(radio chatter)
- Grosset threatened me Frank.
He was on him,
now you know that.
Feared for my life.
- Albert was in a life
threatening situation.
Grosset was a known killer.
He was protecting
himself from a madman.
- He just happened
to have a gun.
- [Lawyer] Albert has a
license to carry a handgun.
- Doesn't say a lot for
gun control does it?
- Mr. Cerrico moves large
amounts of cash in payrolls
from his cartage company.
- Come off of it, Kerfers.
- There are upwards of
65,000 similar gun licenses
issued to businessmen and
women in the metro area alone.
- Well, unlike the other
65,000 happy gun owners,
Albert just killed a man
and he's going to
go to jail for it.
Just like any common criminal.
All right I want
Terranova in here
and Cerrico in a holding cell.
- 10 to one I beat this.
- [Frank] I'll take it Albert.
(sighs)
- [Vinnie] What the
hell happened Frank?
- Cerrico blew
Grosset's brains out.
Now Albert's in
jail and the heroin
sits on the docks and rots.
- I can't accept that.
I've been thinking
about what you said.
About how I'm going to have to
get rid of the
entire commission.
Also have to be looking
over my shoulder
for the rest of Aiuppo's life.
- Unless Cerrico
gets somebody else
to take the heroin to the
commission, we're finished.
You do it, it's entrapment.
Case closed.
- [Vinnie] This was supposed
to be Caesar's return to Rome.
Albert's crowning moment.
He's not going to
let this deal die.
- Where's Spoletta?
- On the street.
- Grosset and
Spoletta hit Ziffo,
tried to take out the don.
You and I were next.
- How'd you find that out?
- Aiuppo.
We need to move that garbage.
The longer it sits, the
more chances of a bad smell.
- I got the feds
all over me now.
I can't make a move
without starting a parade.
You've gotta find somebody
you can trust with
all that garbage.
- I'm glad you came.
- I tried to bail you out.
So I could kill you myself.
- You look good Gina.
- For a widow.
- You should never
have married Joey.
- Who should I
have married, you?
- We always had a good time.
- 100 years ago.
- You had the slick
talk and a lot of flash.
On the fast track at 18
and a liability at 35.
- Have some respect.
- Did you respect him?
- I loved him.
- You controlled him
and you shouldn't have
married a man you could control.
- You killed Joey
'cause you miss me.
- I killed Joey
because he killed your father.
- You killed my
father, you did it!
You killed him!
- Gina think.
I had nothing to gain
by killing your father.
- Oh yeah?
Yeah, you only wanted to
be head of the commission.
- I had my own family,
my time was coming.
Joey couldn't wait.
- Joey didn't have the
guts to kill my father.
- He had Spoletta do it.
- It was my father's right hand.
- Tony was controlling
him like a 10 year old,
putting the money Joey took
into your bank account,
into your trust fund.
Letting everybody know about it.
The only mistake in Joey's
plan was Aiuppo didn't die.
And I killed Joey
before he killed me.
Yeah, that's the truth Gina.
I swear on my son.
I'm sorry Gina.
- No.
(suspenseful music)
- All right let's go easy.
- Come on.
Come on come on let's go.
Let's go slowpoke, you move
slower than my mother, come on.
Hang 'em on these
hooks, let's go.
(ominous music)
- We had this place
wired for two years.
- What'd you get?
- 300 hours of sports,
guys talking about
how much their wives
spend or how to sneak off
and see their girlfriends and
everything you'd want to know
about meat from
tripe to T-bones.
- I don't know how you do this.
- What?
- What, just sit and wait.
- [Man] Men are entering.
- It stinks in here.
- Hey glad youse could make it!
The only reason we're here
is Cerrico called a meeting.
- That's Vechoff.
- [Vechoff] I
don't want to spend
one second longer in this--
- How many men?
- Than I have to.
- [Man] Not sure,
six maybe eight.
- It's the commission.
- What's the story Spoletta?
- The story is your
new business partner.
- What business, what partner?
We don't do things this way.
- I think you'll want
to hear this Alex.
- Gina.
- Yeah, Gina.
Albert asked me to sit
in while he's in jail.
- [Man] That ain't proper.
- We're talking proper?
My father's dead.
My husband's dead,
is that proper?
I've been watching what's
proper my whole life,
and what's proper means what's
good for whoever's on top.
And I'm not gonna sit back
and watch you aging buffaloes
divide up what's mine.
- [Man] Nobody, nobody
talks to us like that.
- They do now.
I've got Cerrico's blessing
and I've got the biggest deal
any of you ever dreamed of.
Carlo.
(whirring)
These garbage bags hold close
to a billion dollars
worth of heroin.
If you agree to our deal,
you will all be cut
in with equal shares.
That's 100 million a piece.
- Take the deal, just take
the deal, take the deal.
I don't believe we got
a shot at all of 'em.
- Is that proper enough for you?
- What's your deal?
- Albert sits at the
head of the table.
- What?
Albert kills Joey
and you put him up
for the head of the table?
Alex you can't let this happen.
- Oh, it's going to happen.
(gun fires)
- Oh in the head.
- She killed Carlo.
- Go Frank.
- No, they're just
accessories to murder.
They take this deal,
they're all gone.
- Spoletta killed my father.
Joey ordered it.
I spit on both of them.
(spits)
All my life I've had to sit.
While a bunch of greedy
old men ran the show.
Well that's all over now.
Albert's in jail and
I've got the heroin.
This is not a negotiation.
My deal.
Albert sits at the
head of the table
and I sit at his right hand.
Let's put it to a vote.
- Let's vote.
- [Man] Yes.
- [Man] Si.
- [Man] Yeah.
- [Man] Yes.
- They're taking it.
- Yes.
- Definitely.
- Yes.
- This is too easy.
Cerrico, Grosset,
the whole commission.
Not in my wildest dreams.
We've been given a
gift Vince, a gift.
You take 'em.
- Everything's going to
happen very fast now.
- Grosset and
Spoletta did Ziffo,
tried to take out the don.
You and I were next.
- How'd you find that out?
- Aiuppo.
- [Frank] We've been
given a gift, Vince.
- Aiuppo, Aiuppo.
- Federal agents you're
all under arrest!
(shouting)
Come on Gina, take
it like a man.
- Pig!
- [Frank] You're all nailed
Vechoff, every one of you.
- Aiuppo, Aiuppo, Aiuppo.
(pigeons cooing)
- It's over.
- You orchestrated
the whole thing.
- I made a grave mistake.
I should've known I couldn't
keep my past in the past.
- You pulled strings
from your hospital bed.
- I underestimated the
degree of what I wrought.
I had to rectify it.
- By using me.
- By using the tools
at my disposal.
- You betrayed every tenet
you professed to
live your life by.
Family, honor, the code.
You betrayed me,
you betrayed Albert,
you betrayed the
entire commission
which was your grand creation.
- Vicenzo, I was not the only
one with a hidden agenda.
- How long have you
known I was a fed?
- Since my wedding night.
- I don't believe this.
- Vicenzo, your
mother loves you.
And like any good mother, she's
proud of your achievements.
- You sent me to the commission,
knowing that I was
a federal agent?
- I thought by giving
you my protection
I could keep both sides
away from each other.
Had the opposite effect.
- But you set Albert up.
He respected you in his
own way, he loved you.
- Albert...
Allowed my son to die.
Although I forgave
him in my mind,
I could not forgive
him in my heart.
This last year proved
my heart was right.
- You knew about the heroin?
- I used one of your tools.
I tapped the hall phone.
I overheard Grosset's
plan to kill me
and his orders to
kill you and Albert.
- So you had me follow Grosset,
knowing that I would
have federal agents
watching when Albert killed him.
- Two birds with one stone.
- You ordered the hit!
- No, no I only informed
Albert of events.
Course of action was his.
- Oh god you
duplicitous bastard!
You knew exactly
what he would do.
You are a monster!
- How did I do it any
different than you?
Or the way our own government
handles their matters huh?
You rather I did it the old way?
Vicenzo, I couldn't have
let you in on my plan.
You would never have
gone along with it.
Grosset is gone,
Albert is in jail,
and the men of the commission
need all their energies
to keep from joining him there.
- You knew the commission
would betray you.
- They are after
all businessmen.
What matters now,
the crisis is passed.
(laughs)
- You don't get it do you?
I can see you don't.
You and me are finished.
- But you are my son.
- I am not your son!
Don't you dare say
that to me ever!
I...
I thought you could replace
what I lost when my father died.
I thought despite whatever
you did in your life,
you were somebody that
I could look up to,
somebody that I could respect
and somebody that I could love.
And I see now that what I wanted
just blinded me to the truth.
I have no father.
And you have no son.
(emotional music)
Where's my mother?
Where is she?
- Voting.
- Oh yeah, voting right.
It's election day isn't it?
- Vicenzo.
I'm going back to
the simple life.
Don't condemn me to always
carry the sins of Don Aiuppo.
- No, no.
You condemned yourself.
(emotional music)
You broke my heart.
(crying)
(dramatic music)
Previously on Wiseguy.
- We have a man that's sitting
on the commission of La Familia.
- Aiuppo's stepson is an agent
and Aiuppo doesn't know it?
- That's the idea isn't it?
- Never give up business, Joey.
- You lost plenty to
that hothead of yours.
- There's money to
be made here Joey
and money is money.
Unless you just want to
keep your people hungry.
- The only reason that
you're running things
and I'm not is 'cause
I wasn't born a son.
- It's not like
it was before, Ma.
I'm not confused by
these guys anymore.
I know exactly who they are.
I'm gonna take all
these guys down
and enjoy every minute of it.
(dramatic music)
- [Man] Governor Rory's
announcement that Rudy Aiuppo
was back as head of the
mob, a grandstanding.
- My record for putting
major crime figures
behind bars speaks for itself.
It's Rory's record that
won't stand up to scrutiny.
- Any advice for your opponent?
- I challenge governor Rory to
start deportation proceedings
against Aiuppo immediately.
Aiuppo's presence
in this country
is a slap in the face
to every honest citizen.
(applause)
- Since his announcement
of the realignment of power
within the mob,
former state attorney
Peter Alatorre's once
floundering campaign
has found new life.
To this reporter, it is
obvious Mr. Alatorre will ride
the law and order
issue for the remainder
of the gubernatorial campaign.
Reputed former boss of
bosses Rudolpho Aiuppo
is recovering in St.
Matthew's Hospital
from gunshot wounds that he
received on the same evening
reputed mob boss Anthony
Ziffo was gunned down.
(crashing)
- Why do they keep
showing him like that?
- [Joey] It's sensationalism.
- I don't know which is worse,
seeing my father like
that or watching you
sit there stuffing your face
when you should be out there
taking back what's
rightfully ours!
- Don't start.
- If I was a man sitting
on the commission
I would have killed Aiuppo
dead right where he lies.
- What about Albert Cerrico?
He's behind Tony's death.
- Albert wouldn't
kill my father.
- Albert's power mad, he'd
do anything to get on top!
- If he did, I want his head.
- I'm already making
moves to find out.
- Oh yeah, yeah
you're making moves!
While Aiuppo and Terranova
are dividing up my
father's business.
I want what's coming to
me as the rightful heir!
I want blood for blood, Joey.
I want the men that
killed my father dead.
(crashing)
Oh yeah come on, come on Joey.
Come on, come on you don't
think I'd stab you again?
Come on just try me.
You'll be surprised how easily
a knife goes into
a man, come on.
- [Joey] I loved your
father like he was my own.
Retaliation takes time
and careful planning.
(quacking)
- Miserable.
(quacking)
I had to pull it
out of Polumbo's.
It wasn't playing right
so somebody started it
on fire in the
middle of a fish fry.
The kids we got now don't
know nothing about 'em
and they don't wanna know.
If I want it fixed
I gotta do it.
(crashing)
- Now it's fixed!
- You been talking to
Gina again am I right?
- We should hit Aiuppo
in the hospital!
I'm not letting nobody control
the purse strings
for me no more!
I want Aiuppo dead!
- Go right ahead,
you want to do it?
Be my guest, take my car keys
but take my advice.
Save me the gas and
yourself the trouble
and blow your brains
out right here
'cause you go up there
and you're as good as
committing suicide.
- You don't think I'd do it.
- No I don't!
Look Joey, if you'd have
listened to me to begin with
you'd have been home free.
After I clipped
your father-in-law
I could have driven across
the Kosciuszko Bridge
and put a cap in Aiuppo's
ear without a hitch,
but you had to let
Clancy Numnum do it
and he put us right in the soup!
You'd have listened to
me and you'd have been
sitting at the head
of the table already!
- Maybe I'll go up
there tomorrow, see
how Aiuppo's doing.
While I'm there, I just
might finish the job.
- You do that Joey
G, you do that.
(quacking)
- Quack quack bastard!
(gun fires)
- If the authorities push
with this deportation thing,
my lawyers are available to you.
Gratis.
He knows that, Pooch.
Anything.
Anything at all.
- It's best that he rest now.
- [Man] Stay strong my friend.
- Where is he?
- He's on the phone.
- What a procession.
Each one of them
will come up here,
put on a long face and judge
whether I'm gonna live or die.
This is the most
dangerous of times.
- I've got our guys
all over the building.
There's enough cops downstairs
to throw an ox
roast at the grove.
- Vicenzo, I was
a foolish old man.
I deluded myself into
believing that taking you
to the commission and putting
you under my protection
would save you from this life.
It was an act of
vanity and that vanity
plunged you right in the
middle of this war, I'm sorry.
- I can take care of myself.
Don't worry.
You're family now.
I take care of family.
(emotional music)
- [Pooch] There's Cerrico.
- [Aiuppo] You can't trust
anyone, Albert least of all
because he's the smartest
and because he has
learned from history.
- Hey Pooch, how you doing?
Guards opened this up
already, some pastry.
- Doing all right?
- All right, how are you?
- Fine, how's your family?
- Good, good.
- Good.
- I've come up here to ask for
your backing as head
of the commission.
- Until he's back
on his feet again,
I'm head of the commission.
- I mean no disrespect
here Vinnie,
but I know the only
reason you took the seat
was because of the
attack on Don Aiuppo.
That seat should be mine.
I've earned that right.
Vinnie will be my right hand.
I'm asking you as I
might ask my own father,
give me your support.
- Leave us alone.
It's all right.
I will never give
you my backing.
You know why.
- What more do I have to
do to show you my regrets?
Haven't I been as
devoted to you as a son?
Since that day I
have lived my life
to the letter of our code.
The code you taught me.
At this very moment,
I'm orchestrating a deal
that will demonstrate my
ability to run the commission.
I ask you again Don Aiuppo,
please give me your backing.
Danny knew what he
was getting into.
- No, Danny respected you.
Danny looked up to you.
I know in my heart
if it wasn't for you,
my son would be alive today.
You gave me your word
you would look after him.
What did you do?
You took him down to
that card game in Newark,
a place I forbade you to go!
Because of your temper, my...
(emotional music)
My son died at the hands of
a hop head with a $30 gun.
For eight years my
wife wore black.
She hardly ever spoke.
She died with a broken heart.
(sighs)
- Please, Don Aiuppo.
It was almost 20 years ago.
What do you want me
to do, kill myself?
You could let that happen
anytime you wanted.
Why let me live to hear this?
- I feared for my Danny,
and now I fear for Vinnie
being close to you.
- Don't worry about
Vinnie, he's a man.
A man I could work with.
But you know it's my seat
at the table, not his.
- I look into your eyes Albert
and I still see it.
You'll push too far,
risk too much again
and when that
happens, I don't want
Vinnie anywhere near you.
- That's your final word.
You won't give me your backing.
In a few days, you'll see that
I'm the only one to
sit in your chair.
Pray for your full recovery.
- [Aiuppo] Where is he?
- On the phone.
- Everything all
right with Albert?
- Albert tastes the power.
You watch him closely.
- Oh I can handle Albert.
It's getting late, I
gotta check up on Mother.
See you tomorrow okay?
Take it easy.
- Night Vinnie.
- See ya.
- Pooch, I want you to call
our phone company friend.
Call him now tonight.
I want to be able to hear what
takes place on that phone.
- You got it boss.
- [Aiuppo] Oh and
Pooch, what's this deal
Albert's talking about?
(patriotic music)
- [Man] You have to
admit it, Albert Cerrico
knows how to put a good
face in a bad situation.
- His barge has been turned
away by six US governors
and president of the
island of Aleutia,
and governor Rory
says it's okay Albert.
- See him over there?
He's making a career
out of me, this guy.
- You can't dump 37 tons
of garbage in the ocean.
If you were governor,
what would you do with it?
- Now that it's back in New
York with no possibility
of finding a home,
I would use this refuse
in the waterfront landfill
to help create more
low income housing.
(applause)
- Thanks Pete.
I want to thank you.
(patriotic music)
- [Man] I wouldn't
push him too hard.
- What Alatorre?
He's already taken
his best shot.
Besides I'm getting him more
front page coverage
than he's ever had.
I just might get
him elected, here.
It's beautiful huh?
- I never saw anybody in my life
who's so happy about garbage.
- Garbage is worth
a billion dollars.
It puts a smile on your face.
(patriotic music)
- Don Aiuppo.
Don Aiuppo, could I
have a moment alone?
- I trust Poochy with my life.
- I want your backing
as head of the table.
- 'Til I'm back on my feet,
Vicenzo sits at the
head of the table.
- I want my rightful place.
- Rightful?
- I'm Tony Ziffo's son-in-law,
I was his right hand.
- Anthony kept his right
hand in his pocket too long.
- That seat is mine.
Not Cerrico's, and
not Terranova's.
I come up here because
I hear Albert's
making noises about taking over
whether you okay it or not.
I don't trust him, and
you shouldn't trust him.
- Albert has already come to
me to assure me of his loyalty.
- He assured Ziffo
of his loyalty
just before Ziffo
was gunned down.
- You think Albert killed
your father-in-law?
- Who else would
have as much to gain?
- Only you.
- You think I killed Tony?
My own father-in-law?
- What I'm saying,
Joey Grosset is,
I'm not stepping down 'til I
find out who did this to me.
And when I do, I will
pick a successor.
- You don't think
I can handle it!
- I think you can't
control your temper
and you're led
around by your wife.
Now none of these
are recommendations
for running our
business, look at you.
You burn with anger.
- I've been under a lot of
strain since Tony's death.
Losing a father has
been very hard on Gina.
She's a little out of whack.
- Then I suggest you put
her back in whack, capiche?
- It's not a problem.
You'll see.
In the end you'll see, I'm
the only one for the job.
Feel better, Don Aiuppo.
(ominous music)
- Telephone?
- Like a heat seeking missile.
(phone rings)
- Ziffo Enterprises.
- Carlo, I just
talked to the old man.
He ain't coming
around to our side
so maybe he shouldn't
come around at all.
- You could let me handle it.
- I don't want to hear about it.
Aiuppo goes, and we take
Cerrico and Terranova with 'em.
No more mistakes.
(ominous music)
- You're gonna grow
to love that smell.
Heroin, entire barge
is lined with it.
Made into the next fast
food in drugs, crank.
Crack heroin.
It's worth over a billion
dollars, tax free.
That's more than even Mike
Milton made last year.
- You put this up
to the commission?
- In the age of iron and rust?
You're like Severus
Usenet, greedy and old.
It's our time now.
With one big move, we
can bring everything
back to the golden age.
- Big move to put you
on top, huh Albert?
- Who else is gonna keep
this thing together huh?
How long would it take us
with our other businesses
to make a billion dollars,
10 years, 20 years?
- What about all your talk?
All your talk about
family and America.
What if Albert Junior gets
ahold of some of this?
- I pray to God that
would never happen.
- Yeah but what if he does?
- Then I would use all
my power to help him.
But I believe he
was raised right
and he has enough
strength of character.
In the old days plagues and
wars weeded out the weak.
Now we've got modern
medicine and the atomic bomb.
Drugs are the mind's substitute
for natural selection.
- Darwin according
to Albert Cerrico.
- Who uses drugs, Vinnie?
Scum, animals, bottom feeders.
Take a drive through the city,
you wish you had a flamethrower.
The streets are
crawling with low life
smoking crack, killing
people for high top sneakers,
destroying everything
they get their hands on.
It is survival of the fittest,
make no mistake about that.
The American ethic,
weed out the weak
and continue free enterprise.
Now the money's not going back
to South America,
Asia, or Turkey.
This time it stays right here
in the good ol' USA.
Maybe we'll use some of it
to put Alatorre in
the White House.
What do you think?
- I don't think it's
a very original idea.
- Crack heroin.
Mix a little with
cocaine, they smoke it.
To mellow it out they'll
walk into the streets
and let buses hit 'em.
Call a commission
meeting in the morning.
Cutting everybody
in, all of 'em.
I'm going to claim
the head of the table.
And you're going to
be my right hand.
We're partners, Vinnie.
You and me, all the way.
(phone rings)
Yeah.
Right away.
The don wants to see me.
- I need to see Albert alone.
You wish for absolution.
I've discovered who
tried to assassinate me.
It was Joey Grosset.
He's also issued
orders for your death.
- This will be done
in the proper manner.
(ominous music)
- Hold on a minute.
- Something just came up.
You're going to
have to take a cab.
- Anything I can help with?
- Thanks, I can handle it.
- Where's Vin?
- [Pooch] Phone.
- Cerrico's got enough
heroin on that barge
to keep the entire
eastern seaboard
high 'til the 21st Century.
I want our people all over
Cerrico and that barge.
- We'll get our
people on it pronto.
- You better move
fast, because he just
flew out of here
like he was on fire.
- Well Frank's going to want
to handle this one personally.
- Tell him to stay
glued to Cerrico
and get people on that barge.
I want him to keep his eyes
on that barge, you got it?
- [Lifeguard] Yeah
I got it, I got it.
This is not my
first big case, son.
- Vincenzo.
- What's up with Albert?
He almost ran out of here.
- Everything's going to
happen very fast now.
I've been informed,
I can't say by who,
that Grosset is hiring assassins
to kill me in this room.
I trust only you.
I need you to follow Grosset
and identify the men he meets.
They will be the assassins.
- Okay.
Pooch, give me your car keys.
- I'll take you
where you need to go.
- No I want you
to stay with Rudy.
Give me your car keys.
- Somebody wants to see you.
(ominous music)
- I thought you were on Cerrico.
- I got men all over
him and the barge,
now you know what
his game plan is.
- Cerrico's going to cut in
the rest of the commission
on the deal and take
the head of the table.
- If we can physically connect
the heroin with
the commission...
- Frank, don't
underestimate Albert.
He's too smart to put the
heroin on the commission.
- All right then we
take him on Cerrico.
It's not half as satisfying,
but I'll take it.
I'll definitely take it.
- All right I gotta get going.
- Go where?
I need to know.
(sighs)
- Aiuppo knows that Grosset
was behind Ziffo's killing.
- Grosset killed his
own father-in-law?
- [Vinnie] Yeah.
- How'd Aiuppo find out this
little piece of information?
- How do you think he survived
in this business for 50 years?
Now Grosset's going to make
another attempt on his life.
He wants me to follow him
and find out who's
gonna do the hit.
- He wants you to commit murder?
- He didn't say that, Frank.
- He doesn't have to say it.
I'll take care of Grosset.
- Frank.
- I want him alive.
- You really think I'd kill him?
- Wouldn't you?
- Frank I'm a federal officer.
- That's not an answer,
would you kill him?
- If it'd save my
family, yeah okay?
- All right you kill Grosset.
Then it's Cerrico,
you kill Cerrico
then there's Vechoff, you
know the list goes on.
Unless you eliminate
the entire commission
or Aiuppo goes out of town,
there's always
gonna be a threat.
That's the life that Aiuppo
chose for his own free will.
You gonna spend your life
protecting him for
50 years of crime?
Are you gonna throw away
your career, maybe your life?
- I don't know what I'm gonna do
for the rest of my life, Frank
but all I do know
is that right now,
I need Grosset gone.
- I'll take care of
Grosset, you go spend
some time with your
mother, that's an order.
You're part of my
family too, Vinnie.
I don't want to see a
member of my family hurt
any more than you do.
(gentle piano music)
(phone rings)
- Yeah.
- [Albert] Gina it's Albert
Cerrico, can I speak to Joey?
- He's right here.
Albert.
- [Joey] Yeah.
- Joey, it's time
to bury the hatchet.
I want to talk to
you about something.
I got a deal that'll
make us millions.
See you in one half
hour at Millitello's.
- Ah it's gonna take
me more like an hour.
I say Yocosaro.
- What's wrong
with Millitello's?
- That place gives me gas.
Hey you come to me Albert,
I pick the place, one hour.
- No problem, one hour.
- Cerrico wants to
clear the bad blood.
Says he's got a deal that'll
make us both millions.
- It's fake.
- More like fatal.
(dramatic music)
I'm listening.
- Write this down.
One comma zero zero zero comma
zero zero zero comma
zero zero zero.
And it's a done deal.
- Why am I so lucky?
- Because we came
up together, Joey.
Aiuppo and the rest of
the commission should
open up a vein and let us
get on with our business.
- Who should sit
head of the table?
(sighs)
- I do.
But you're my right hand.
- What about Terranova?
Thought you guys were
joined at the hip.
- Come on.
You're smart enough to know
I was only appeasing
the old man.
We got a war here.
We're losing money and men.
Now we put our forces together,
and we're bigger than IBM, Ford,
Exxon, General
Motors, all of them.
- I'm all ears.
- It's on the barge.
- You mean you moved
that load with all those
TV cameras following your
barge around the world?
- I shipped it in
with a brass band.
(laughs)
It's a nice night.
You can smell the
ocean from here.
- Albert let's take my car.
- Why not?
Got to admit Joey,
killing your own
father-in-law was
one slick move.
Never respected
Tony much anyway.
Personally I'm glad
he's out of the way,
otherwise we couldn't
do this deal.
Tony would've taken
the lion's share,
so I guess I owe you a thanks.
- Wasn't me, it was Spoletta.
- Hey Joey, say
hello to Tony for me.
(gun fires)
(sirens wail)
- Cerrico you don't move!
- I didn't do nothing!
(radio chatter)
- Grosset threatened me Frank.
He was on him,
now you know that.
Feared for my life.
- Albert was in a life
threatening situation.
Grosset was a known killer.
He was protecting
himself from a madman.
- He just happened
to have a gun.
- [Lawyer] Albert has a
license to carry a handgun.
- Doesn't say a lot for
gun control does it?
- Mr. Cerrico moves large
amounts of cash in payrolls
from his cartage company.
- Come off of it, Kerfers.
- There are upwards of
65,000 similar gun licenses
issued to businessmen and
women in the metro area alone.
- Well, unlike the other
65,000 happy gun owners,
Albert just killed a man
and he's going to
go to jail for it.
Just like any common criminal.
All right I want
Terranova in here
and Cerrico in a holding cell.
- 10 to one I beat this.
- [Frank] I'll take it Albert.
(sighs)
- [Vinnie] What the
hell happened Frank?
- Cerrico blew
Grosset's brains out.
Now Albert's in
jail and the heroin
sits on the docks and rots.
- I can't accept that.
I've been thinking
about what you said.
About how I'm going to have to
get rid of the
entire commission.
Also have to be looking
over my shoulder
for the rest of Aiuppo's life.
- Unless Cerrico
gets somebody else
to take the heroin to the
commission, we're finished.
You do it, it's entrapment.
Case closed.
- [Vinnie] This was supposed
to be Caesar's return to Rome.
Albert's crowning moment.
He's not going to
let this deal die.
- Where's Spoletta?
- On the street.
- Grosset and
Spoletta hit Ziffo,
tried to take out the don.
You and I were next.
- How'd you find that out?
- Aiuppo.
We need to move that garbage.
The longer it sits, the
more chances of a bad smell.
- I got the feds
all over me now.
I can't make a move
without starting a parade.
You've gotta find somebody
you can trust with
all that garbage.
- I'm glad you came.
- I tried to bail you out.
So I could kill you myself.
- You look good Gina.
- For a widow.
- You should never
have married Joey.
- Who should I
have married, you?
- We always had a good time.
- 100 years ago.
- You had the slick
talk and a lot of flash.
On the fast track at 18
and a liability at 35.
- Have some respect.
- Did you respect him?
- I loved him.
- You controlled him
and you shouldn't have
married a man you could control.
- You killed Joey
'cause you miss me.
- I killed Joey
because he killed your father.
- You killed my
father, you did it!
You killed him!
- Gina think.
I had nothing to gain
by killing your father.
- Oh yeah?
Yeah, you only wanted to
be head of the commission.
- I had my own family,
my time was coming.
Joey couldn't wait.
- Joey didn't have the
guts to kill my father.
- He had Spoletta do it.
- It was my father's right hand.
- Tony was controlling
him like a 10 year old,
putting the money Joey took
into your bank account,
into your trust fund.
Letting everybody know about it.
The only mistake in Joey's
plan was Aiuppo didn't die.
And I killed Joey
before he killed me.
Yeah, that's the truth Gina.
I swear on my son.
I'm sorry Gina.
- No.
(suspenseful music)
- All right let's go easy.
- Come on.
Come on come on let's go.
Let's go slowpoke, you move
slower than my mother, come on.
Hang 'em on these
hooks, let's go.
(ominous music)
- We had this place
wired for two years.
- What'd you get?
- 300 hours of sports,
guys talking about
how much their wives
spend or how to sneak off
and see their girlfriends and
everything you'd want to know
about meat from
tripe to T-bones.
- I don't know how you do this.
- What?
- What, just sit and wait.
- [Man] Men are entering.
- It stinks in here.
- Hey glad youse could make it!
The only reason we're here
is Cerrico called a meeting.
- That's Vechoff.
- [Vechoff] I
don't want to spend
one second longer in this--
- How many men?
- Than I have to.
- [Man] Not sure,
six maybe eight.
- It's the commission.
- What's the story Spoletta?
- The story is your
new business partner.
- What business, what partner?
We don't do things this way.
- I think you'll want
to hear this Alex.
- Gina.
- Yeah, Gina.
Albert asked me to sit
in while he's in jail.
- [Man] That ain't proper.
- We're talking proper?
My father's dead.
My husband's dead,
is that proper?
I've been watching what's
proper my whole life,
and what's proper means what's
good for whoever's on top.
And I'm not gonna sit back
and watch you aging buffaloes
divide up what's mine.
- [Man] Nobody, nobody
talks to us like that.
- They do now.
I've got Cerrico's blessing
and I've got the biggest deal
any of you ever dreamed of.
Carlo.
(whirring)
These garbage bags hold close
to a billion dollars
worth of heroin.
If you agree to our deal,
you will all be cut
in with equal shares.
That's 100 million a piece.
- Take the deal, just take
the deal, take the deal.
I don't believe we got
a shot at all of 'em.
- Is that proper enough for you?
- What's your deal?
- Albert sits at the
head of the table.
- What?
Albert kills Joey
and you put him up
for the head of the table?
Alex you can't let this happen.
- Oh, it's going to happen.
(gun fires)
- Oh in the head.
- She killed Carlo.
- Go Frank.
- No, they're just
accessories to murder.
They take this deal,
they're all gone.
- Spoletta killed my father.
Joey ordered it.
I spit on both of them.
(spits)
All my life I've had to sit.
While a bunch of greedy
old men ran the show.
Well that's all over now.
Albert's in jail and
I've got the heroin.
This is not a negotiation.
My deal.
Albert sits at the
head of the table
and I sit at his right hand.
Let's put it to a vote.
- Let's vote.
- [Man] Yes.
- [Man] Si.
- [Man] Yeah.
- [Man] Yes.
- They're taking it.
- Yes.
- Definitely.
- Yes.
- This is too easy.
Cerrico, Grosset,
the whole commission.
Not in my wildest dreams.
We've been given a
gift Vince, a gift.
You take 'em.
- Everything's going to
happen very fast now.
- Grosset and
Spoletta did Ziffo,
tried to take out the don.
You and I were next.
- How'd you find that out?
- Aiuppo.
- [Frank] We've been
given a gift, Vince.
- Aiuppo, Aiuppo.
- Federal agents you're
all under arrest!
(shouting)
Come on Gina, take
it like a man.
- Pig!
- [Frank] You're all nailed
Vechoff, every one of you.
- Aiuppo, Aiuppo, Aiuppo.
(pigeons cooing)
- It's over.
- You orchestrated
the whole thing.
- I made a grave mistake.
I should've known I couldn't
keep my past in the past.
- You pulled strings
from your hospital bed.
- I underestimated the
degree of what I wrought.
I had to rectify it.
- By using me.
- By using the tools
at my disposal.
- You betrayed every tenet
you professed to
live your life by.
Family, honor, the code.
You betrayed me,
you betrayed Albert,
you betrayed the
entire commission
which was your grand creation.
- Vicenzo, I was not the only
one with a hidden agenda.
- How long have you
known I was a fed?
- Since my wedding night.
- I don't believe this.
- Vicenzo, your
mother loves you.
And like any good mother, she's
proud of your achievements.
- You sent me to the commission,
knowing that I was
a federal agent?
- I thought by giving
you my protection
I could keep both sides
away from each other.
Had the opposite effect.
- But you set Albert up.
He respected you in his
own way, he loved you.
- Albert...
Allowed my son to die.
Although I forgave
him in my mind,
I could not forgive
him in my heart.
This last year proved
my heart was right.
- You knew about the heroin?
- I used one of your tools.
I tapped the hall phone.
I overheard Grosset's
plan to kill me
and his orders to
kill you and Albert.
- So you had me follow Grosset,
knowing that I would
have federal agents
watching when Albert killed him.
- Two birds with one stone.
- You ordered the hit!
- No, no I only informed
Albert of events.
Course of action was his.
- Oh god you
duplicitous bastard!
You knew exactly
what he would do.
You are a monster!
- How did I do it any
different than you?
Or the way our own government
handles their matters huh?
You rather I did it the old way?
Vicenzo, I couldn't have
let you in on my plan.
You would never have
gone along with it.
Grosset is gone,
Albert is in jail,
and the men of the commission
need all their energies
to keep from joining him there.
- You knew the commission
would betray you.
- They are after
all businessmen.
What matters now,
the crisis is passed.
(laughs)
- You don't get it do you?
I can see you don't.
You and me are finished.
- But you are my son.
- I am not your son!
Don't you dare say
that to me ever!
I...
I thought you could replace
what I lost when my father died.
I thought despite whatever
you did in your life,
you were somebody that
I could look up to,
somebody that I could respect
and somebody that I could love.
And I see now that what I wanted
just blinded me to the truth.
I have no father.
And you have no son.
(emotional music)
Where's my mother?
Where is she?
- Voting.
- Oh yeah, voting right.
It's election day isn't it?
- Vicenzo.
I'm going back to
the simple life.
Don't condemn me to always
carry the sins of Don Aiuppo.
- No, no.
You condemned yourself.
(emotional music)
You broke my heart.
(crying)
(dramatic music)