It's Karen Hill. I want to talk to you.
Hello? Don't hang up on me!
I want to talk to you!
You keep away from my husband, you hear me?
Open the door!
Answer me!
I'll tell everyone who walks in here...
...that in 2R, Rossi, you are nothing but a whore!
Superintendent?
I want you to know you have a whore...
...living in 2R!
Rossi, Janice Rossi. Do you hear me?
He's my husband! Get your own goddamn man!
Wake up, Henry.
What are you doing?
Karen, are you crazy?
I am crazy.
And I'm crazy enough to kill both of you.
Karen, take it easy.
Do you love her?
Do you?
I love you. You know I love you.
You don't.
No, you don't.
Be careful, baby. Don't.
But still I couldn't hurt him. How could I hurt him?
I couldn't even bring myself to leave him.
The truth was...
...no matter how bad I felt...
...I was still very attracted to him.
Why give him to someone else?
Why should she win?
Just put it down. You know I love you, don't you?
You're all I want, Karen.
Please put the gun down.
Baby, come on.
What are you, fucking crazy?
I got enough to worry about getting whacked on the street!
I got to fucking come home... for this?
I should fucking kill you!
- How does it feel? - I'm sorry.
How does it feel, Karen?
I'm sorry!
Hi, Jimmy! How are you?
- Looking good. - Thank you. Good to see you.
- Hi, Paulie! - Hi, honey. How are you?
- Go get some cigarettes, okay? - Sure.
- Any of you need anything? - I'm all right.
- You want anything to drink? A beer? - No, this...
- Chinese food? - No, come on, sit down.
Karen came to the house.
She's very upset.
You got to straighten this out.
We got to have calm now. We don't know what she'll do.
She's hysterical. Very excited.
She's wild. And you got to take it easy. You got children.
I'm not saying to go back to her right now, but you got to go back.
You got to keep up appearances.
The two of them come to my house every day.
I can't have it.
I can't do it, Henry. I can't do it.
Nobody says you can't do what you want.
We all know that. This is what it is. We know what it is.
You have to do the right thing. You have to go home to the family.
You got to go home, okay? Look at me.
You got to go home. Smarten up.
I'll talk to Karen.
I'll straighten this out. I know just what to say to her.
I'll say you'll go back to her and it'll be like when you first got married.
You'll romance her. It'll be beautiful.
I know how to talk to her.
Jimmy and Tommy were going to Tampa this weekend to pick up something for me.
Instead, you'll go with Jimmy.
You come with me.
Have a good time.
Sit in the sun. Take a couple days off.
We'll have a good time.
When you come back, you'll go back to Karen.
Please, there's no other way.
No divorce. We're not animali.
No divorce. She'll never divorce him.
She'll kill him, but not divorce him.
You going to pay us?
Give us the fucking money!
I can't.
Let's go.
We'll throw the bastard to the lions.
Lions? I ain't going near any lions!
Throw him over the moat.
I'll get the money!
They must really feed each other to the lions, 'cause he gave the money right up.
I'll get the money.
We spent the rest of the weekend at the track.
They mean business.
Then, I couldn't believe what happened.
When we got home, we were all over the newspaper.
At first I didn't even know why we got picked up.
Then I found out the guy we roughed up...
...had a sister working as a typist for the FBI.
I couldn't believe it. Of all people.
She gave up everybody. Jimmy, me. Even her brother.
It took the jury six hours to bring us in guilty.
The judge gave us ten years, like he was giving away candy.
Ten years in a federal penitentiary.
You will now be turned over...
...to the U.S. Attorney General.
Toast, guys. Good trip, good life. Get out soon.
Good trip, sweetheart.
We'll watch the home front.
Say hello to those blow-job hacks.
Motherfuck them every chance you get.
I'll call you when I get a chance.
Now take me to jail.
In prison, dinner was always a big thing.
We had a pasta course, then we had a meat or a fish.
Paulie did the prep work. He was doing a year for contempt...
...and had a wonderful system for garlic.
He used a razor and sliced it so thin...
...it would liquefy in the pan with a little oil.
It was a very good system.
Vinnie was in charge of the tomato sauce.
Get that smell?
Three kinds of meat in the meatballs: Veal, beef, and pork.
You got to have pork.
That's the flavor.
I felt he used too many onions, but it was still a very good sauce.
Don't put too many onions in the sauce.
I didn't put too much onions in, Paul.
- There are only three small onions. - Three onions? How many tomatoes?
- Two big cans. - You don't need three onions.
Johnny Dio did the meat.
We had no broiler, so he did everything in pans.
It smelled up the joint and the hacks used to die...
...but he cooked a great steak.
- How do you like yours? - Medium rare.
Medium rare. An aristocrat.
When you think of prison you get pictures in your mind...
...of all those old movies with rows and rows of guys behind bars.
It wasn't like that for wiseguys.
It wasn't bad, but I missed Jimmy, who was doing his time in Atlanta.
Give me two steaks.
Everyone else in the joint was doing real time, all together, living like pigs.
But we lived alone. We owned the joint.
We batted them sons of bitches. You couldn't recognize them.
They deserved it.
Even the hacks we couldn't bribe wouldn't rat on the guys we did.
People used to be able to leave their doors open.
Sorry it took so long. That skinny guard's a pain in the ass.
- We have to take care of that bastard. - I took care of him.
What'd you bring?
Some bread.
I got peppers and onions.
Salami, prosciutto, a lot of cheese.
What else?
- Scotch. - Nice.
- Red wine. - Okay.
- Now we can eat. - Some white, too.
Beautiful. Okay, boys, let's eat. Come on, Johnny, Vinnie.
Tomorrow we eat sandwiches. You got to go on a diet, Vinnie.
Read 'em and weep.
What are you doing?
I'll catch you guys later.
Going for a walk in the park?
I'll catch you next week. Thanks.
- Is there any more? - No, that's it. Have a good weekend.
You girls stay right here.
- Hold hands. - Go right up front.
What?
I saw her name on the register.
Want her to visit you?
Let her stay up all night crying and writing to the parole board.
What am I doing here? Where am I? I'm in jail.
I can't stop people from visiting me.
Let her sneak this stuff in for you every week.
Let her fight these bastards every week!
Look what you're doing! Stop it!
I'm sorry.
Let her sneak this shit in for you.
Will you stop it?
- Let her do it! - Stop it!
Nobody's helping me. I am all alone.
Belle and Morrie are broke.
I asked your friend Remo for the money he owes you.
He told me to take the kids down to the police station and get on welfare.
It's going to be okay.
I've never seen Paulie since he got out. I never see anyone.
That's what happens when you go away.
We're on our own. Forget everybody else. Forget Paulie.
As long as he's on parole he doesn't want anybody doing anything.
- I can't do it. - Yes, you can.
All I need is for you to bring me this stuff.
A guy in here from Pittsburgh will help me move it.
In a month we'll be fine. We won't need anybody.
I'm afraid.
I'm afraid if Paulie finds out...
He is not helping us out.
Is he putting any food on the table?
We've got to help each other.
We got to be really, really careful while we do it.
I don't want to hear about her anymore.
Never.
- We missed you. - Are you here to stay?
Did you see our pictures? I did the one with the house and rainbow.
I did the sun.
My chorus concert is in two weeks. Are you coming?
Do you like the house?
- Get packed. We're moving out. - With what?
Don't worry. Just start looking for a new house.
I got to go to Pittsburgh. Those guys owe me $15,000.
We'll be okay. I got things lined up.
Pittsburgh? You have to see your parole officer.
Don't worry about it.
Everything will be fine. Who wants to go to Uncle Paulie's?
What do you want?
Sweetheart, let Mommy eat.
You look good. Did you eat this good in the joint?
I don't want any more of that shit.
- What are you talking about? - Just stay away from the garbage.
Inside, you did what you had to do.
I'm talking about now. From here and now.
- Why would I get into that? - Don't make a jerk of me.
Just don't do it.
Don't do it.
I want to talk about Jimmy. Watch out for him.
He's a good earner, but he takes too many chances.
I wouldn't take chances like Jimmy.
Tommy's a good kid, but he's crazy. He's got too much to prove.
- You got to watch out for them. - I only use them for certain things.
I ain't going to get fucked like Gribbs.
Gribbs is 70 years old and he'll die in prison. I don't need that.
So I'm warning everybody. Could be my son, could be anybody.
Gribbs got 20 years just for saying hello to some fuck who was selling junk.
That won't happen to me, understand?
You're out early because I got you a job.
I don't need this heat.
You see anybody with shit you tell me.
Anybody.
- All right. - Yeah?
Yeah. Of course.
It took me a week of sneaking around to unload the Pittsburgh stuff.
But when I did, it was a real score.
I used Sandy's place to mix the stuff.
Even with Sandy snorting more than she mixed, I saw this was a good business.
I made $12,000 in my second week.
I had a down payment on my house and things were rolling.
All I had to do was once in a while tell Sandy I loved her.
It was perfect.
As long as I got the stuff from Pittsburgh, Paulie would never find out.
Within a couple of weeks it got so big I needed some help.
I got Jimmy and Tommy to come in with me.
It's fucking great.
You bring your pay slips?
Four and a half months of dirt.
- It's so good. - I did it.
- Do you love it? - It's wonderful.
This we had to have made special. Go ahead, sit in it.
The others you couldn't even sit in.
Okay, ready?
Watch the wall with the rock.
The electricians did it special. Come on.
This was imported. It came in two pieces. Do you believe what they can do?
- Nice, huh? - Come here. Did you and Jimmy talk?
He's looking into everything.
It'll make the Air France hold look like peanuts.
Come on.
- He'll do it, right? - I told you.
He's looking into it. We'll see what happens. No promises.
Do you understand? There's millions in there.
I've been cultivating this son of a bitch for two years.
He owes me 20 grand. Once in a lifetime. I could retire.
No more nut every week. No more bullshit. My dream comes true.
Let's get a drink.
These are the guys Jimmy put together for what turned out to be...
...the biggest heist in American history. The Lufthansa heist.
Tommy and Carbone would grab the guard and make him get us in the front door.
Frenchy and Joe Buddha had to round up the workers.
Johnny Roastbeef had to keep them tied up and away from the alarms.
Even Stacks Edwards got in on it.
He used to play guitar at the lounge. Everybody loved Stacks.
He was supposed to steal the panel truck...
...and afterwards compact it by a friend of ours in Jersey.
Only Morrie was driving us nuts.
Have a drink and shut up.
Just because he set this up...
...he bugged Jimmy for an advance on the money we were going to steal.
He didn't mean anything by it. That's just the way he was.
I had everyone working for me. Even our old baby-sitter, Lois Byrd.
Have a good flight?
I hate Pittsburgh. They're such creeps.
They're not that bad.
And it's worth it, isn't it?
Is this the same baby you used last week?
No, that was my sister's. This is Deirdra's.
Big yawn.
She looks like you.
That's what the stewardess said.
Take it easy.
Give me a break. You got plenty.
You got all day. Let's make it last, all right? Take it easy.
- I got to go. - Where are you going?
Don't start. You know I got to go do this thing. Where are my keys?
Over there.
It's a mess. It's like a pig pen. Why do you think I got you a dishwasher?
Fucks up my nails.
You got to be smart.
There's enough powder here to put us away forever.
Loosen up.
What are you doing?
You don't have to go anywhere.
Make them wait.
Nobody knows for sure how much was taken in the pre-dawn raid...
...at the Lufthansa cargo terminal at Kennedy Airport.
The FBI says $2,000,000, Port Authority Police say $4,000,000.
Those sons of bitches!
...from the scene of the heist at JFK.
It looks like a big one. Maybe the biggest this town has ever seen.
Come here, you! Come here!
Look at this genius. This genius!
Merry Christmas, Jimmy!
- Who's this? - This is my wife.
Come here. I want to show you something, Jimmy.
Isn't she gorgeous? I bought it for my wife. It's a coupe. I love that car.
What did I tell you? I talked to you, didn't I?
Didn't I say not to go buy anything for a while? The fucking car?
It's a wedding gift from my mother. It's under her name. I just got married.
- I love that car. - Excuse me for a second.
- I just got married. - Are you nuts?
- Why are you getting excited? - Are you stupid?
We got a million fucking bulls out there. Everyone's watching us.
It's under my mother's name. It's a wedding gift.
I don't give a fuck. Didn't you hear what I said?
Don't buy anything. Don't get anything. What's the matter with you?
What are you getting excited for?
Because you're going to get us all pinched.
- What's the matter with you? - I apologize.
- I'm sorry. - What's the matter with you?
I'm sorry, Jimmy.
It's under my mother's name.
What'd you say? You being a wise guy?
- I'm sorry. I apologize. - What did I tell you?
What did I tell you? You don't buy anything, you hear me?
You don't buy anything!
I'm sorry, Jimmy.
The fat fuck ought to wear a sign.
I can't believe this. Are you stupid?
Excuse me.
- Take it off. - Why?
Take it off!
Didn't I tell you not to get anything big or attract attention?
One guy gets a Caddy and one gets a $20,000 mink.
I'll return it.
Bring it back where you got it. Get it out of here. Understand? Get it out of here!
This drink here is better than sex, babe.
I'm going to see Stacks. Don't you look at anybody or I'll kill you.
He's so jealous. If I even look at anyone else, he'll kill me.
That's great.
I tell them all not to attract attention. What do they do?
I've been looking all over for you.
Listen, I need the money.
- Morrie, relax, okay? It's Christmas. - I need the money.
I'm relaxing. I need the money.
- I did what I had to do. - Not tonight, Morrie.
I did my caper. He owes me.
Everyone's flashing stuff. They got money. I'm wearing the same shit.
They're wearing it. I got to talk to him.
I got 500 grand coming to me.
The biggest bundle he made in his life.
I'll go talk to him. Go have a drink.
- I'll talk to him. - It's poison in my eyes.
- Morris, are you all right? - No, I'm not.
Christmas. Your share. Just a little taste.
We did it!
- Who is it? - It's me.
Pete? One second.
Don't do what Frankie and Johnny did. Don't be a moron with the money.
Karen, Judy, Ruth, come here!
I got the most expensive tree they had.
- What do you think, Mommy? - I love them all.
I love the gold outfit.
- Merry Christmas. - Thank you.
And? And?
Happy Hanukkah.
- Very funny. - Go get yourself something nice.
Lufthansa should have been our ultimate score. The heist of a lifetime.
Six million in cash. More than enough to go around.
Yo, Stacks!
Open up!
What's with you? He ain't ready. I knew you wouldn't be ready.
- You didn't bring any coffee? - Do I look like a caterer?
Frankie will make coffee. Make coffee.
Thought you'd have a bitch in here.
I did. Where the fuck is she?
Always got these hot books around or a bitch.
What time is it?
- It's 11:30. We were to be there by 9:00. - I'll be ready in a minute.
You're always fucking late. You'd be late for your own funeral.
What are you looking at? Make that coffee to go. Let's go.
What the fuck you doing? It's a joke. A joke. Put the fucking pot down.
Stacks was always crazy.
Instead of getting rid of the truck as he was supposed to, he got stoned...
...went to his girlfriend's, and by the time he woke up, the cops had found the truck.
It was all over the television.
They even said they got prints off the wheel.
It was just a matter of time before they got to Stacks.
I got to talk to you.
- Have a drink. - Have a drink. Come on.
Have a drink. What are you doing? It's an occasion. Have a drink.
I still have to talk to you.
- What happened with Stacks? - Don't worry about that.
- There's feds all over the place. - So what? Where are they going to go?
- It's in the papers. - He's worried.
What are you worried about?
The television and the newspapers. All the shit's out there.
- What are you worried about? - You worry too much.
Everything is beautiful. Didn't you tell him?
Not yet.
- What? - Guess what?
They are going to make him.
Paulie's going to make you?
They opened up the books. Paulie got the okay.
Can you believe that? This Guinea bastard.
He's getting made. We'll work for this guy one day. He'll be a boss.
I can't believe it.
I'm happy for you. Congratulations.
Motherfuckers, we got them now.
Jimmy, I've been looking all over for you.
Can I talk to you a second?
I masterminded the whole thing, I'm left with dick.
They'd be up a creek if not for me. Fuck him! I want my money.
I want my money! I've had it up to here! That cheap cigarette hijacker.
- Fuck him! I want my money! - Good. Go tell him.
Now will you keep you mouth shut?
Morrie, you'll get your money. You just got to stop busting balls.
All right. You hear me?
Everything's going to be fine.
"Oh, Henry boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling"
Half Mick, half Guinea? I'll sing with an Italian accent.
"And down the glen, the glen and down the mountainside
"The summer's gone
"And all the roses dying"
I could see for the first time that Jimmy was a nervous wreck.
His mind was going in eight different directions at once.
Think Morrie tells his wife everything?
Morrie? Him?
That's when I knew Jimmy was going to whack Morrie.
That's how it happens. That's how fast it takes for a guy to get whacked.
He's a nut job. He talks to everybody.
He's always acting like a jerk. Nobody listens to what he says.
Nobody cares what he says, he talks so much.
Make sure you bring him here tonight.
- Okay? - All right.
Start like this. Sorry. Did I get you in the eye?
Stop breaking my balls.
I was just stalling for time.
I knew I had 'til eight or nine o'clock to talk Jimmy out of killing Morrie.
But meanwhile, as far as Jimmy knew, I was going along with the program.
I pulled out his hair. I bit him. He's out cold.
I'm enraged. I wanted to kill this little fuck.
I walk away. We start to go in this joint.
I don't want to turn around. Jimmy's doing this to me.
I don't want to fucking turn around.
I don't want to turn around. He picks up his fucking head, he says, "Ah..."
I said, "Don't say it!"
"Jerkoff!"
What are you going to do? What? I fucking fly at him!
I got him and I'm banging his head, banging his fucking face.
I'm pulling his hair out of his head. I beat him to a pulp. To a pulp I beat him.
He's laying there full of fucking blood. I'm out of breath.
Forget about tonight. Forget about it.
It was a load off my mind.
He never knew how close he'd come to getting killed.
Even if I told him he would have never believed me.
- Jimmy, could I talk to you now? - You're a pisser. A real pisser.
Want to talk now? Okay, let's talk.
I've never met a ball buster like you.
Who loves you more than I do?
- I'd do anything for you. - Except stop busting my balls.
- Let's go have coffee. - Want to go to the diner?
We'll go to the diner on the boulevard.
- Which diner? - Rockaway Boulevard. It's open 24 hours.
- They got danishes? - They got everything.
Let's pick up some danishes for Belle.
Hear about the points we were shaving up in Boston? It's terrific. Nunzio...
I thought he'd never shut up.
What a pain in the ass.
- What'll we do with him? - Chop him up and get rid of the car.
Call me when you're through.
- Frank, let's chop him up. - All right.
- Where you going, you dizzy motherfucker? - You said chop him up.
At Charlie's, not here!
Come on, what are you doing? Get out of here.
I got a better shot letting him drive.
The car's cold.
Get out of here! What, warm it up? Get out of here!
- Who is it? - It's Belle. Open up.
It's Belle. Let me in.
Morris didn't come home. He's missing. I know something's happened.
Calm down.
He's missing! I know something happened.
He's probably drunk and fell asleep somewhere.
In 27 years he's never been away all night without calling.
Something's happened. I know you know.
Let me get changed. I'll take you home then look for him.
I've been home! I've been on the phone...
He's playing cards.
- What'll I tell Belle? - Who gives a fuck?
Tell her he ran off with some broad. What do you care?
- Watch this. - Don't fuck with them.
I'll bust their fucking balls.
Don't give them the satisfaction, the fucks.
Come on, fuckos. Let's go for a ride.
Keep them up all night.
I'll see you later.
Jimmy was cutting every link between himself and the robbery...
...but it had nothing to do with me.
I gave Jimmy the tip and he gave me some Christmas money.
From then on, I kept my mouth shut.
I knew Jimmy. He had the cash. It was his.
He kicked some money upstairs to Paulie, but that was it.
It made him sick to turn the money over to the guys who stole it.
He'd rather whack them. What did I care?
I wasn't asking for anything.
And Jimmy was making nice money through my Pittsburgh connections.
Still, months after the robbery they were finding bodies all over.
When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff...
...it took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy.
Still, I never saw Jimmy so happy.
He was like a kid. We had money coming in through Pittsburgh...
...and even after a while, the Lufthansa thing began to calm down.
Jimmy was so happy that morning...
...because this was the day Tommy was being made.
Jimmy was so excited, you'd think he was being made.
He must have made four calls to Tommy's house.
They had a signal set up so he'd know the minute the ceremony was over.
- Ma, where are you? - Here I am.
- You're home. - Home? I'm leaving.
- You look lovely. - I look good, huh?
You look wonderful. Be careful. Congratulations.
I love you. Don't paint any more religious pictures, please.
God be with you.
We always called each other goodfellas.
You'd say to somebody:
"You'll like this guy. He's all right. He's a goodfella, one of us."
You understand?
We were goodfellas. Wiseguys.
But Jimmy and I could never be made because we had Irish blood.
It didn't matter my mother was Sicilian.
To become a member of a crew you must be 100 percent Italian...
...so they can trace your relatives back to the old country.
It's the highest honor they can give you.
It means you belong to a family and a crew.
It means nobody can fuck around with you.
Also, you can fuck around with anybody, as long as they aren't also a member.
It's like a license to steal. A license to do anything.
How many years since you were made?
I'm an old-timer. Thirty years ago.
Brings back a lot of memories. Pike's Peak was a pimple then, wasn't it?
As far as Jimmy was concerned, with Tommy being made...
...it was like we were all being made.
We would now have one of our own as a member.
- Who's this? - This is Vinnie.
What happened? Did we get straightened out?
We had a problem. We tried to do everything we could.
You know what I mean. He's gone, and we couldn't do nothing about it.
What do you mean?
He's gone. He's gone.
That's it.
I knew it!
I can't fucking believe it.
- They fucking whacked him. - Fuck.
Are you all right?
It was revenge for Billy Batts, and a lot of other things.
That's that.
There was nothing we could do about it.
Batts was a made man and Tommy wasn't. We had to sit still and take it.
It was among the Italians. It was real greaseball shit.
They even shot Tommy in the face...
...so his mother couldn't give him an open-coffin at the funeral.
I had a busy day. I had to drop the guns off at Jimmy's...
...to match some silencers he had.
I had to pick up my brother at the hospital...
...and pick up some stuff for Lois...
...to fly down to some customers I had near Atlanta.
Right away I knew he didn't want them and I'd be stuck for the money.
I bought them because he wanted them and now he didn't want them.
What good are these? None of them fit.
I'm not paying for these!
I didn't say a thing. Jimmy was so pissed off, he didn't even say good-bye.
The drugs are making your mind into mush!
I'll take 'em back.
My Pittsburgh guys always wanted guns.
Since I would see them in the afternoon, for a delivery...
...I was pretty sure I'd get my money back.
Oh, my God.
At the hospital, Michael's doctor wanted to put me in bed.
What happened to you?
I almost got into an accident on the way here.
And I told him I was partying all night.
I'm fine.
Get over here.
Let me check you out.
He took mercy on me, gave me Valium...
...and sent me home.
My plan was to drop off my brother at the house and pick up Karen.
There it is. You see that helicopter right there?
Right up there. I think it's been following me all morning.
- Get the fuck out. Are you nuts? - I'm telling you.
It's the third time I've seen it. At the hospital I saw it.
I had to make some stops. I've seen it every time.
I've been all over town and I've seen it all day.
I was cooking dinner that night.
I had to start braising the beef and veal shanks for the tomato sauce.
It was Michael's favorite. I was making ziti with gravy...
...roasted peppers...
...string beans with olive oil. I had some beautiful cutlets...
...that were cut just right...
...that I was going to fry up as an appetizer.
So I was home for about an hour.
My plan was to start dinner early so I could unload the guns Jimmy didn't want.
Then get the package for Lois to take to Atlanta later that night.
I kept looking out the window and saw that the helicopter was gone.
Michael, keep an eye on the sauce.
Stay here with your Uncle Michael.
I asked my brother to watch the sauce, and Karen and I started out.
Oh, God. I see it.
- Look, it's right there. - Damn!
That's it.
We got to get to your mother's.
See, I told you.
It's funny.
- It's not the end of the world. - We're going to your mother's.
Tell your mother not to touch anything outside of the house. Nothing.
Why didn't you go to your mother's house?
"Everything's gonna be all right this morning"
Let's go shopping.
No, I'm not nuts, it's been following me all fucking morning!
Alright. He thinks I'm paranoid!
I should bring him the helicopter, then we'll see how paranoid I am.
Come on, let's go inside.
Yeah, it's gone.
- I don't hear anything. - Let's go back to your mother's.
- They all right? - They're great.
Didn't I say you were paranoid? Didn't I tell him?
Yeah. I need a hit.
Want to see helicopters? Come on, I'll show you helicopters.
I've seen enough helicopters for one day, thank you.
I had to get home and get the package ready for Lois to take on her trip.
Also, I had to get to Sandy's to give the package a whack with quinine.
Plus, I knew Sandy would get on my ass.
I had the cooking to finish, and I had to get Lois ready for her trip.
- It's Sandy. What the fuck is this? - She's a pain in the ass.
- When are you coming over? - In an hour.
- You staying tonight, right? - I can't. I got my brother tonight.
Come on, stop. Stop. We'll talk about it later, okay? Good-bye.
- Hello? - It's me. You ready?
Tell Michael not to let the sauce stick.
- Henry says don't let the sauce stick. - I'm stirring it.
- Listen, you know what to do? - Yeah, yeah.
Don't "yeah, yeah" me, Lois! This is important.
Make sure you leave the house when you make the call.
Understand me? Call from an outside line. I mean it!
Jesus, you must think I'm dumb. I know what to do.
You little hick, just make sure you do it!
You're a pain.
- Hey! Just do it! - Okay.
Un-fucking-believable. All of them. Every fucking girl in my life.
- What'd he say? - Nothing.
What does she do after she hangs up?
After everything I told her? After all her "yeah, yeah" bullshit?
She calls from the house. If anyone was listening they'd know everything.
They'd know a package was leaving my house and they'd have the flight number.
As soon as I got home, I started cooking.
I had a few hours until Lois' flight.
I told my brother to watch on the stove.
All day long the poor guy's been watching helicopters and tomato sauce.
I had to drive over to Sandy's, mix the stuff, then get back to the gravy.
Do you think you can come over, fuck me, then leave?
- Got someplace better to go? - Don't talk like that. Come on.
- You all right? - Yeah.
You believe me?
Do you believe me?
- That's the last one? - Yeah.
You lying son of a bitch! I hate you!
Please stop feeding the dog from the table...
...from the plate on top of it. Stop it.
- I have to. - You don't have to.
I got to go home.
What do you mean you got to go home?
We got to tape this stuff to your leg. We got to go soon.
I got to go home and get my hat.
Forget your fucking hat! Are you kidding me?
I need a trip to Rockaway because you want your hat?
I got to have it. It's my lucky hat. I never fly without it.
Do you understand what we are involved in?
I don't care. I need my hat. I won't fly without it.
What could I do if she insisted I drive her home for her damn hat?
I hid the package and went to take her home.
A hat?
What the fuck is this?
Police! Freeze! Don't move, motherfucker!
I'll blow your brains out! Shut the car off slowly!
I thought I was dead, but when I heard all the noise I knew they were cops.
Only cops talk that way.
Don't fucking move.
If they had been wiseguys, I wouldn't have heard a thing.
I would have been dead.
Michael! Lock the door!
Talk to me. When was the last time you took a collar? I'm talking to you.
You don't want to say a fucking word, don't. I don't give a fuck.
You'll do 25 years. See how much of a good guy you'll be then.
All day I thought the guys in the helicopter...
...were local cops busting my balls over Lufthansa. They turned out to be narcs.
Just get the lawyer.
They'd been on me a month. Phone taps, surveillance, everything.
You know the boys. All the pals are here.
You don't want to talk to me, you'll have a fucking problem all night.
Each one of these counts holds 25-to-life in New York State.
25 fucking years, pal. I'll slap your fucking head inside out.
What, were you guys grocery shopping?
Are we going to make a cake? You going to make a fucking cake?
You got anything good in there?
Is it good?
Bye-bye, dickhead.
See you in Attica, dick.
I spoke to Jimmy. He offered to give me some money.
He wants to know what's happening. He just wants to talk to you.
Fuck Jimmy and his money!
I got to straighten out everything with Paulie or I'm dead.
Then you're better off staying in here.
They could whack me in here as easy as outside. They're afraid I'll rat them out.
People are already walking away from me. I'm dead in here. You got to get me out.
Karen finally got her mother to put her house up for my bail and I was out.
I remember I had this feeling I would be killed right outside the jail.
I knew Paulie was still pissed at me and he's such a hothead.
And I was worried about Jimmy.
See, Jimmy knew if Paulie found out he was in the drug deals with me...
...Paulie would have Jimmy whacked even before me.
This is the bad time.
I didn't feel safe until I got home.
Now my plan was to stay alive long enough to sell off the dope...
...the cops never found, then disappear until things got straightened out.
Fuck! Where's the stuff I left, Karen?
I flushed it down the toilet.
What?
What was I supposed to do?
That was worth $60,000! I need that money! That's all we got!
They had a search warrant!
That's all the money we had! I was depending on that! Why did you do that?
I had to! They were going to find it!
- They wouldn't have found it! - They would have! I swear!
They would've found it!
Why did you do that?
- They would have found it. - Why did you do that?
Oh, my God!
- I had to do it. - Oh, my God!
Paulie, I'm really sorry.
I don't know what else to say. I know I fucked up.
Yeah, you fucked up.
But I'm all right now.
I can be trusted now. I'm clean. On my kids, I'm clean.
You looked in my eyes and lied to me.
You treated me like a fucking jerk. Like I was never nothing to you.
After what you said, I couldn't come to you.
You know, I was ashamed.
I'm ashamed now.
But I got nowhere else to go.
You're all I got. And I really, really need your help. I really do.
Take this.
And now I've got to turn my back on you.
Thirty-two hundred bucks.
That's what he gave me. $3,200 for a lifetime.
It wasn't even enough to pay for the coffin.
- We got to get out. - I don't want to run.
Am I supposed to pick up and leave everything? Go hiding?
I don't want to do that.
If we stay around here we're dead. You got it? We' re dead.
They're right. You took too much of that stuff. You're totally paranoid.
How's he doing?
He's okay.
They sobered him up.
Good. Glad to hear it.
- What kind of questions they been asking? - I don't know.
I got my mind on so many other things. I got no money.
The girls are old enough to read the newspapers.
Tell him he's got to call me.
As soon as you talk to him, he's got to call me. It's important.
He doesn't know I came here to see you. It's like he's crazy.
- Take this. It's a couple thousand. - Thanks, Jimmy.
Don't worry, everything will be all right.
I got some beautiful Dior dresses. You want to have them?
Pick out a few for yourself.
- For my mom. - Yeah, whatever.
Not here. In the store on the corner.
It's swag, so I got it down on the corner.
Go ahead, sweetheart, I'll see you.
- Thanks. - Don't worry.
- I'll try. - He's got to call me.
Over here?
Right down there.
It's over there, on the corner.
Right there.
No! Go ahead! It's right there!
No, Jimmy! I'm in a hurry!
My mom's watching the kids! I got to get home!
I'll come back later!
What happened?
Nothing.
- What happened? - I just got scared.
Got the keys?
What happened?
I just got scared. It's okay.
Are you all right?
If you're part of a crew nobody ever tells you they're going to kill you.
It doesn't happen that way.
There aren't any arguments or curses like in the movies.
Your murderers come with smiles. They come as your friends.
People who cared for you all your life.
They always seem to come when you're weakest and most in need of their help.
So I met Jimmy in a crowded place we both knew.
I got there 15 minutes early and Jimmy was already there.
He took the booth near the window so he could see everyone who drove up.
He wanted to make sure I wasn't tailed.
He was jumpy. He hadn't touched a thing.
On the surface, everything was supposed to be fine.
We were supposed to be discussing my case.
But I had a feeling Jimmy was trying to sense if I'd rat on him to save my neck.
I been telling you your whole life, don't talk on the phone.
Now you understand?
It's going to be okay. You got a good chance to beat this case.
Well, you know that kid from the city we were talking about? You know?
The kid turned out to be a rat. As soon as he got pinched, he ratted on everybody.
I know where he is. He's hiding out.
Know what I'm saying?
Would you have a problem going with Anthony to take care of that?
No, not at all.
That way they got nothing.
Jimmy had never asked me to whack somebody before.
But now he's asking me to go to Florida and do a hit with Anthony.
That's when I knew I would never have come back from Florida alive.
Wherever you move me, I asked once and I'll tell you again...
...I don't want to go any place cold.
You don't have a choice.
Come on. Whoever fucking controls it...
...just no place cold. Do that for me.
He's bronchial, that's why.
If he's bronchial we'll consider that.
I'd like to go someplace not cold.
Can I ask you some questions? What about my parents?
What about them?
Am I going to see them? Am I going to talk to them?
Don't I have some kind of contact with them?
No.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You mean to tell me...
...if something happens to my parents and they get sick, I can't see them?
Maybe something can be worked out if they're sick.
If there's extraordinary circumstances...
I can't do this. I can't do this, Henry.
I can't leave my parents.
Karen, I told you before.
I'm not going to do this unless you and the kids come with me.
I can't do it without you.
So you do whatever, but... that's it.
- You need Henry, not me, right? - That's right.
I don't care whether you go or not.
If it'll make him a better witness, I want you with him.
They don't want me.
Henry'll be in the protection program. They can't get to him.
They can only get to him by getting to you or your kids.
If he goes into the program you're in danger.
- I don't know anything. - Don't give me...
...the babe-in-the-woods routine.
I've listened to those wiretaps and I've heard you talk about cocaine.
Conversation after conversation you talked to Henry on the phone.
It doesn't matter. Whether he goes to jail...
...or stays on the streets, he's a dead man.
He knows it and you know it.
What about the kids and school?
I mean, what goes on?
Go to Wall Street and get real crooks.
Whoever sold you those suits had a sense of humor.
What it comes down to is we're your only salvation.
We'll save your life, his life, and we'll keep you out of jail.
This morning you told the jury about your background.
It was easy for us to disappear.
My house was in my mother-in-law's name. My cars were registered to my wife.
My Social Security cards and driver's licenses were phonies.
I never voted or paid taxes.
My birth certificate and arrest sheet were all that showed I was alive.
- Do you see him here in this courtroom? - Yes.
Will you please point him out for the jury?
Let the record show that Mr. Hill identified the defendant, James Conway.
Do you also know a man named Paul Cicero?
- Do you see him in the courtroom? - Yes.
Can you point him out for the jury?
Let the record show Mr. Hill identified the defendant Paul Cicero.
I have a document...
The hardest thing was leaving the life.
I still loved the life.
We were treated like movie stars with muscle. We had it all.
Our wives, mothers, kids, everybody rode along.
I had paper bags filled with jewelry stashed in the kitchen.
I had a bowl of coke next to my bed.
People call them rats because they will do anything to survive.
- Objection! - Objection sustained.
- I know nothing about being a rat. - You know everything about it!
Anything I wanted was a phone call away.
Free cars. Keys to a dozen hideouts all over the city.
I'd bet 20 grand over a weekend...
...then blow the winnings in a week or go to sharks to pay the bookies.
Didn't matter.
It didn't mean anything. When I was broke I would go rob some more.
We ran everything.
We paid off cops. We paid off lawyers. We paid off judges.
Everybody had their hands out. Everything was for the taking.
And now it's all over.
That's the hardest part.
Today everything is different.
There's no action. I have to wait around like everyone else.
Can't even get decent food.
After I got here I ordered spaghetti with marinara sauce...
...and I got egg noodles and ketchup.
I'm an average nobody.
I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.