Nicky!
Who is that? Look at you, my man.
All right.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the Brown Bomber! The champ!
Mr. Joe Louis!
Who's that with Joe?
Miss Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico? Mmm-hmm.
Is she a beauty queen?
For real. The beauty queen.
Welcome. My main man. My main man.
Can you all excuse us for a minute, please?
Yeah, sure, Frank.
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
What's going on?
What you smiling about? I don't know.
What is this? Huh? What's what?
Come here.
What is that you got on?
What's what, man?
Yeah, that! What you got on.
This is a very, very, very nice suit.
That's a very, very, very nice suit, huh? That's a clown suit. That's a costume...
that says "Arrest Me. "
You understand? You're too loud.
You're making too much noise. Look at me.
The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room. I told you that.
All right? What, are you trying to be like Nicky Barnes, now?
What's your problem with Nicky, man? I like Nicky.
I ain't got no problem with Nicky. Oh, you like Nicky?
Yeah! You want to be like Nicky?
You want to be superfly? You wanna work for him?
Share a jail cell with him? Maybe cook for him?
He wants to talk to you.
Oh, so now you talking to him about me? What? You...
About what? What is it about? It ain't like that.
Then what is it like? We were talking,
your name came up. About what?
I don't know, man. I told him I'd tell you.
You know... Boy, you...
You know, if you wasn't my brother, I'd kill you. You know that, don't you?
I'd blow your motherfucking brains out.
Come on, man. Don't be like that.
I'm taking you shopping this week.
I went shopping. I can tell.
See deep into you
And know what you're thinking now
And if I'm what you're needing
I need some kind of sign
Let me know, 'cause I can't read your mind
Are you in or am I in this on my own?
I need some clue from you
It's a tax thing.
It's a mistake my lawyers are straightening out,
but for the time being...
How much do you owe, Joe?
It's nothing. It's like...
Fifty grand.
You got it.
Thank you, man.
Hey, I'm gonna pay you back as soon as I...
Joe, this ain't no loan. It's a gift. All right?
All you did for Bumpy, we owe you.
Keep your chin up. All right? Okay?
All you have which is down there. Down.
Chin down.
All right. Doc, will see you, okay?
You play it so cool
Hey!
You still owe me that dance, right?
Doc, come on.
Frank, check this.
How you doing? Hi.
Frank Lucas.
Eva Kendo.
Nice to meet you, Eva.
Nice to meet you, Frank.
You're Frank and this is your place?
That's right. I'm Frank and this is my place.
Why is it called Small's?
Why don't you call it Frank's?
When you own something, you can call it what you want.
Small's.
Or Frank's. Frankie Small's.
Small's Frankie.
That's right.
You want to let my hand go?
Okay.
You leaving?
No, I was going to my table.
Okay. Need somebody to go with you?
Yes? Mmm-hmm.
All the cheesies.
Right here, here we go. What have we got here?
Wash your hands?
I got one print of that, don't smudge it.
Yeah. There you go.
Hey, Spearman, what about him? Who is that?
Joey Sodano. Don Cattano's nephew.
Yeah, yeah. Put him up there by the big man.
He looks like your uncle, Abruzzo.
Yeah, but he's not as handsome.
He looks more like your sister. Where's Ice Pick's mug?
Yeah, that's funny.
Maybe you guys should take that show on the road.
So we need Ice Pick Paul.
Ice Pick Paul? Yeah.
There you go. Get him up.
Ice Pick Paul, he goes way up there, up top.
No, Ice Pick Paul, he's a fucking soldier. This guy's a lieutenant.
How's that even fucking possible?
That's Benny the Bishop.
That guy is a soldier. This guy's a lieutenant. No way that guy's on top.
You thinking of Benny the Bishop.
Vinnie Two Socks is fucking Cattano's deadbeat son-in-law.
Jonesy's right.
Hey, which one of you guys has ever actually seen Ice Pick Paul selling drugs?
Actually seen it go down?
Yeah, seen it go down.
Been in his place. Seen him handle drugs.
That rat, Ricky, has told us...
He's fucking dead. About four weeks ago.
He's dead.
All right, well,
we can take him off the fucking board.
I don't think we got any solid evidence on anybody on that board.
What you saying, Richie?
This is weeks and weeks of work, man.
I'm saying, take it down.
We got to start again from the street.
Hi, who's this?
Hello? Gabe? Yeah, it's Scott. Yeah.
Scotty! What's going down, brother?
Those snow tires you gave me last night.
They come in yet?
Oh, the snow tires?
Yeah. I want some more of them.
Give me one-and-a-half more.
One-and-a-half,
that's a pretty big order.
Yeah, I want the big whitewalls,
they better get at least 100,000 miles.
All right, I'll tell you what.
You come in here tomorrow morning
I'm gonna set you up real nice
with a whitewall special, all right?
Thanks, bro.
No problem.
That's considerably more than one year's salary, Richie.
If it disappears, I will not be able to get it for you again.
That's yours.
Signing my life away again, for a lousy twenty grand.
It has to be Blue Magic, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's gonna be Blue.
You can pick it up here tomorrow.
$20,000.
Just leave it there.
How'd you do? Good.
Here he comes.
That's him? Yep.
That was quick.
Richie, if he goes in the city, what do we fucking do?
Stay with the fucking money, that's what we do.
We stay with the money, all right?
We can't go in the fucking city.
Yes, we can. That's 20 grand in there, all right,
that I'm responsible for. I ain't losing it.
It's out of our jurisdiction!
Follow the money! All right, all right, all right!
He's pulling over.
All right, here we go.
Let me out here.
Don't disappear, all right?
I'll circle the block.
Move!
Hey! Who's the fuck? You gotta fucking move!
Police Officer. I'm commandeering
your vehicle. Get out of the car.
Who the fuck cares about you? This is New York City, man.
Get someone else's car!
Get out of the car.
Come on, man. Can't we live in peace...
Frankie, Frankie! Sit down.
What?
Happy birthday, gentlemen. How you doing, huh?
He's about to do something, huh? He's going bowling?
Look at that. Strike.
Hey, what's between your legs? What's in the bag?
Nothing. Get up, you fucker. Get the fuck up!
Knock it off.
Shut the fuck up! What did I tell you?
Keep your fucking head down.
Shut up! Whose bag is this?
What're you doing? Sit down and shut up!
Don't you move!
Hey, guys? Guys! Officers!
Hey, I'm Richie Roberts, from Newark.
That's my money.
What the fuck? What money, huh? What money?
The bills are sequenced, right?
They're registered with the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. Just check them out.
They all start with CF3500. Have a look.
Fucking registers.
I thought I had a fucking Chris-Craft sitting in my driveway.
Honest mistake. I'll just get the money.
This time. All right.
There it is. All right. Thank you.
When was the last time I was in Jersey? Let me think.
Never.
What're you doing, coming over here unannounced?
You don't think you could get hurt doing that?
You got your fucking money, Richie.
And never, ever come into this city again unannounced.
You come in to see a fucking Broadway show,
you call ahead first, see if it's okay with me.
No problem. All right.
Let's go, hit some balls.
Great suits, pal.
Is that your car?
That's a fucking great car.
Have a nice fucking trip back to Jersey.
All right.
Come on, I got a tee time. Let's go.
What were you doin' there?
Well, that's where this dope is coming from.
Blue Magic, it's coming out of New York.
What do you expect me to do, ignore it?
The cab driver has filed aggravated assault and grand theft charges
which he may reconsider
depending on how much the State of New Jersey offers to settle.
I showed him my ID. I told him I was a cop.
You stole his cab and you knock him out.
I was chasing the 20 grand, all right?
Next time, knock him out before you show him your badge.
Look, I don't want to hear about you going into New York again.
Well, then this investigation's over.
You're not listening to me.
I said, "I don't want to hear about you going into New York again. "
You do whatever you have to do.
You go wherever you have to go
to figure out who's bringing this shit into the country.
Just don't tell me about it.
There's your girl, right there.
Hey, how'd you do? Hi.
I didn't keep you waiting long, did I? No. Fine.
Good. A woman as beautiful as you shouldn't have to wait.
For anything.
Thank you, ma'am. You as pretty as ever.
Hey, Doc.
Tommy!
Heard your boy scored two touchdowns last week.
Sure. Sure do make father proud.
All right.
This is your father?
That's Martin Luther King.
It is not. It is. It is Martin Luther King.
You know, "I have a dream"?
Of course.
No, that's...
He was just as important as Martin Luther King to me.
What did he do?
A lot of things. He was a friend
and served New York. New York served him.
He was my boss.
My teacher.
What did he teach you?
He taught me a lot of things. He
taught me how to take my time.
Taught me that if I was going to do something, to do it with care, with love.
Anything else?
He taught me to be a gentleman.
That's what you are?
That's what I try to be. Come here.
Come here. Sit right here.
Look at me.
I own about five apartments in Manhattan.
Homes all over the East Coast, I could have taken you to any one of them, but I didn't.
I brought you here. Frank,
I was looking for you, boy.
Because I wanted you to meet my mother.
How you doing, Ma?
Is this her?
Eva, this is my mother. Hi, Eva.
Oh!
Nice to meet you.
She's beautiful! Yeah?
Look at her, Frank. She's an angel come down from heaven.
Thank you.
Mr. Roberts? I'm here for our appointment.
Morning. Morning.
Sorry. Our appointment?
Child Social Services.
She did mention your name, though.
The stewardess?
No, not the stewardess.
The lady from Child Services. She mentioned your name.
Right after she asked me if I associated with any criminals.
All right, go! Go, go!
Yeah! You wanna see this?
Hey, boys.
Joey. Hey, Joey!
Get in the pool. Go on.
Come on. Come on.
So, how'd she get my name?
Laurie. Hmm.
She's been saying a lot lately.
A lot.
You know, when you asked me to be your son's godfather,
I took it very seriously.
I know. I know and I appreciate that.
And I said yes, I would take on this responsibility.
Take care of your son, if God forbid, something happened to you.
Joe, the kind of things she's saying to Child Social Services
made me look really bad, all right. You know,
out at all kinds of hours at night time, lowlife informants around, women.
Old friends like me.
Old friends like you, yeah.
Uncle Joey, watch me, okay?
Okay, I understand.
They ask me, I'll tell them what you want me to tell them. I'll lie for you.
No, don't lie. You don't have to lie.
Just, omit certain details.
Sure. All right.
You know, there's something else I was gonna ask you.
Something else.
You don't have to answer if you don't want.
Blue Magic. Anything?
Just a lot of sorrow, misery from guys getting put out of work, that's all.
What, your guys?
Just guys.
You thinking about where it's coming from?
Guys down south. That's all I heard.
Cubans? I don't know.
Not Mexico.
I don't know.
You're telling me, it's coming in from South America?
I don't know.
All I can tell you is whoever it is, they're upsetting the natural order of things.
And that's all there is.
What's up?
My man, how we looking?
Frank, I want you to meet Mike Sobota.
How are you doing, Mr. Sobota? How are you?
What can I get you?
How about a left-hander? From what Charlie tells me, your nephew.
Oh, this is the... Yankees, yeah. Hey, Steve! Yankees.
Steve! Come here. Excuse me one second.
This boy's good, okay? I want you to put him on the Yankees.
'Cause you good enough, ain't you?
I'm a Lucas. Good enough on a bad day, Jack.
He's good enough on a bad day, so don't make it a bad day,
make it a good day, you understand?
NYPD, excuse me, Police Department. Back up, baby.
Whoa! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Taking your ass in, Jimmy. Uh-uh.
Taking your ass in. Where are the handcuffs?
I got a license for that, motherfucker.
You got a license for this? Excuse me, all right?
Shit. All right! Yeah!
Now, you know what? I gotta arrest you for that shit.
That shit's too good to be on the street.
Wait a minute, I got this for you. You ain't got to arrest nobody.
Are you bribing me now?
I'll tell you what, I'm arresting everybody!
Now, all you're under arrest! You first!
That's my family. That's my...
Excuse me, excuse me.
Back it up, baby.
What was that?
Come on, guys. What's the matter with you, man?
I said, what the hell was that? What was what?
I said what the hell are you doing, man? Be cool, man!
What's your fucking problem?
What the hell's wrong with you?
Goddamn!
He's all right. I just shot him in the leg, is all.
Damn, Jimmy!
Get up.
All right, everybody, get out! Get out!
Come on, Frank, it was an accident.
It wasn't no goddamn accident. He feels terrible.
He don't feel shit, 'cause he's coked up all the motherfucking time!
He's your driver. Get rid of him.
Come on, man, that's your cousin!
That ain't shit to me!
He don't mean nothing to me.
What's he gonna do, go back home?
I don't give a damn what he does!
Send his ass home! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Don't rub on that! You blot that!
You understand? That's alpaca!
That's $25,000 alpaca! You blot that shit!
You don't rub it! Put the club soda on there.
Simple Simon-ass motherfuckers.
Listen, from now on, don't nobody talk to me directly! You understand?
You got business with me, you talk to Huey! Huey, you talk to me! You got it?
All right.
Damn it, never on the phone! You got it?
I got it. All right!
And take them goddamn sunglasses off.
Take the goddamn sunglasses off!
Damn it, man.
Simple Simon-ass motherfuckers.
The whole place was imported.
Brick by brick.
Gloucestershire.
Who? Great Britain.
Yours.
Here you go.
Pull!
Come, Eva.
I'm sure you're dying to see the rest of the house.
Of course. Excuse me.
Thank you for a wonderful lunch. It was delicious.
What do you think of monopolies?
You mean like the game?
No, I just think monopolies were made illegal in the country, Frank,
'cause nobody wants to compete, you know.
Nobody wants to compete, not with a monopoly.
I mean, you let the dairy farmers do that,
half of them would be out of business tomorrow.
Just trying to make a living.
That's your right, I mean,
it's everyone's right. It's America.
We just can't do it at the unreasonable expense of others.
'Cause then it becomes un-American.
That's why the price we pay for that gallon of milk
could never represent the true cost of production
'cause it's got to be controlled. It's gotta be set. It's gotta be fair.
Gotta be controlled by who? I set a price that I think is fair.
I don't think it's fair. You don't?
I don't think it's fair. I think it's fair.
I mean, I know your customers are happy, Frank,
bunch of fucking junkies that they are.
But we fellow dairy farmers out here, Frank, are you thinking of us?
You thinking of them?
The dairy farmers? Yeah.
I'm thinking of them, Dominic, about as much as they've ever thought about me.
I'm just thinking out loud now.
If you took some of your inventory, Frank,
and you sold it wholesale...
Sit.
We could work. We could do some distribution.
I don't know. I'm pretty good, Dominic.
You know, I got 110th, 155th, river to river. I'm all right.
That's kind of a mom and pop store next to what I'm talking about.
I mean, let's go at least bigger than Kmart.
I'm talking about LA, Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas. Let's go nationwide, huh?
I'm gonna guarantee you your peace of mind here. You don't want that?
You're going to need it.
I don't know how you view me, you know.
I'm kind of a Renaissance man, Frank.
You know, the people I deal with on a daily basis,
you know, they're not enlightened, Frank.
You talk to them about civil rights, they don't know, you know.
They're not open to change.
Not from the way things are done and who's doing it.
I talk to them, there's just no misunderstandings.
And that's what I mean by your peace of mind.
You're paying, what, $75,000, $80,000 a kilo?
I'm a Renaissance man, too.
I'll consider $50,000.
Why would you trust these people? And the way they look at you...
They look at me like it's Christmas and I'm Santa Claus.
They look at us like we're the help.
They work for me now.
I predict that when I meet Joe Frazier,
this will be like a good amateur fighting a real professional.
This will be like a kid out of the Olympics...
That's gonna be Ali in like three.
You're not fighting Oscar Bonavena,
you're not fighting Sonny Liston.
You're fighting Joe Frazier.
Everybody knows that. That's not the point.
He's all talk, man.
Look at Frazier! Ali gonna crush him, baby.
I'll stop him.
Stop me? You?
How soon? What round?
Don't let him obligate you. One to 10!
Tonight, March 8, 1971. Here we are at Madison Square Garden
for the Fight of the Century.
And by anybody's definition, this is a happening.
There are handshakes and, of course, there are utterly beautiful women.
But behind the smiles and behind the handshakes,
you can feel the atmosphere is so heavy with tension, it's almost unbearable.
Everybody who is anybody is here.
Like Sinatra. Like Graziano, David Frost and Diahann Carroll.
And Woody Allen and Diane Keaton. The celebrities are pouring in.
The way you all build it up, Life magazine cover, Time magazine,
everybody gives their opinion. Dempsey says I'll lose. Joe Louis...
And when Joe Louis said I'm gonna lose, that's how I knew I'd won this one.
Joe Louis always picks the wrong man!
Always picks the wrong man.
Joe Louis is here tonight. Watch your ass.
The official weight of Joe Frazier is 205.5 pounds.
Oh.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
You're not watching the fight, Bob?
I'm not into boxing.
This ain't boxing, kid.
It's politics.
I got something for you, too.
Yeah?
The coat? For me? Mmm-hmm.
Do you like it?
The coat? Yeah, yeah, it's nice.
What do you think? Yeah.
You sure? Yeah.
Over here, Sammy.
Hey, Sammy! Give a look.
Joe Louis! Over here!
How's it going, Frank?
How are you, Joe?
Now, ladies and gentlemen,
we have quite a list of introductions.
We are now going to introduce people from all endeavors of life.
And not just show people.
Because everyone is here tonight!
Main event!
Fifteen rounds.
For the undisputed Heavyweight Championship of the World!
There we go, Ali!
From Louisville, Kentucky, he's wearing red trunks.
Champ! This is Frank Lucas.
He weighs 215 pounds.
Here is Muhammad Ali!
His opponent, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
he's wearing green trunks.
Who's that laughing with Cattano?
How'd he get so fucking close to the ring?
The Heavyweight Champion of the World,
Joe Frazier!
Hey, Frank. You gonna keep that hat on all night?
I'm gonna miss the fight.
You paid for it.
This guy, he's a supplier at most. Or just a pimp.
Otherwise we'd know his name.
His tickets were phenomenal. Better seats than Dominic Cattano. Right?
Joe Louis shook his hand.
Who the fuck is this guy?
What's this?
That's the plate off the limo.
Check with the company who rented it.
Right there, Mr. Lucas. Right there. Good.
Can I get a shot here, Frank? Right here.
Looking good, Frank.
Beautiful.
Right on, Frank!
Congratulations!
She's the most beautiful bride I've ever seen.
That's my sunshine right there, Mr. Williams.
I wish Bumpy had met her.
Throw it to me!
Get a picture.
Come here, baby.
What's happening? Sit tight.
Congratulations, Frank.
Detective.
So, you sure you done the right thing? I mean, she's beautiful girl and all...
Hey, hey, listen, listen.
Before you say anything about me or about my wife,
understand this is the most important day of my life, Detective.
Oh, I understand. I understand.
You know, a man who walks around in a $50,000 chinchilla coat
and never even bought me a cup of coffee.
There's something wrong there. Pay your bills, Frank?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Do you pay your bills, I asked you?
If you're not getting your share,
maybe you need to talk to the Chief of Police.
What's my share? 'Cause you don't even fucking know me.
Maybe I'm special.
You are special.
You see that right there?
Special Investigations Unit.
Special.
Get it?
Ten grand. First of each month.
Deliver it right here.
Are you done? Oh, yeah, I'm done.
Don't forget your card. Have a nice fucking honeymoon.
Let's go.
His name is Frank Lucas.
Originally from Greensboro, North Carolina.
A couple of arrests years ago. Gambling and unlicensed firearm.
For 15 years, he was Bumpy Johnson's driver, bodyguard and collector.
He was with him when he died.
He's got five brothers. He's the oldest. And a lot of cousins.
They all living up here now, spread throughout the five boroughs and Jersey.
The brothers are Dexter,
in Brooklyn. He's a dry cleaner. What can I do for you?
I'm picking up. Yeah.
Melvin in Queens has got a custom furniture
and fire doors business.
That's it right here? Right there.
Terrence in Newark, he has a hardware store.
Turner in the Bronx has got a tire shop.
And Huey Lucas in Bergen County has a body shop.
Is your manager here? That's my price.
Oh, man, I'm gonna take it somewhere else, all right?
These businesses are the distribution and collection points
for Frank's dope and Frank's money.
Everything about Frank's life seems
unpretentious, orderly and legitimate.
He starts early, gets up at 5:00 a. m.
Has breakfast in a diner in Harlem every morning, usually by himself.
Then he starts work. Takes a meeting with the accountant or with his lawyer.
At nights, he usually stays at home. And if he does go out,
it's to one of two clubs or a handful of restaurants with his new wife.
Some ball players. That's fucking Wilt Chamberlain.
Friends, musicians. Never, never with organized crime guys.
Sundays, he takes his mother to church.
Then he drives out and he changes
the flowers on Bumpy's grave. Every Sunday, no matter what.
Not the typical day in the life of a dope man, Richie.
No.
Bumpy Johnson's life wasn't typical either, and he ran Harlem for years.
So you're saying that Frank Lucas replaced Bumpy Johnson?
Yeah. His driver?
Yeah. Sounds a little farfetched.
But is it? Is it? Because everything he does...
He's handing out turkeys, man.
he does the same as Bumpy would have done, right?
And who was Bumpy most likely to teach?
The guy he sees every day.
It's like a Sicilian family.
He's structured his organization to protect him in the same way.
And if he was with Bumpy for so long,
that means he would have spent a lot of time with Italians.
Definitely long enough to learn that much.
But here's the thing. I don't think it's Frank Lucas that we're after.
Who we want is whoever Frank Lucas is working for.
It's whoever's actually bringing the heroin in.
Okay. So what do you have on him
that will stick in court? Because this isn't it.
Without powder, without informants, no one's going to jail.
That's understood, sir.
And I don't think we're gonna get informants, not from inside the family,
you know, unless we get very, very lucky.
Straight up lab tests suggesting
purity's consistent with Asian dope.
The Italians, we know, usually work with other Europeans
or with the Turks.
We got small blue packets turning up
in neighborhoods all over the Tri-State area.
From Chinatown, to Harlem, Washington Heights,
Richmond Avenue and Staten Island.
They got North Orange, Princeton, Bayonne, Newark,
Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, and all the way through Connecticut.
The same dope.
All right.
That's it, down there.
And it's Three Counts as they round the turn for home now.
Okay, let's all join hands.
Lord, we thank You for this food we're about to receive,
the nourishments of our bodies.
Feed our souls with heavenly grace, in Jesus' name and for His sake.
Amen. Amen.
Shh. Shh.
Hey, it's okay. It's okay. Come on, now.
It's okay. Shh.
You better get yourself ready, old man.
Come on, big man. Throw the ball.
Get yourself ready, old man. All right!
Come on, now. Your pop said you had an arm on you. Come on!
I'm gonna set your ass in the grass, Uncle Melvin.
Hey! Watch your mouth, boy. Throw the ball!
Damn, Uncle Melvin, I'm a pitcher, not an outfielder!
Steve. Steve, come here.
Come, sit down.
Uncle Frank. What's happening?
How you doing?
Cool.
You want a drink?
You know better than that.
Just checking.
Why didn't you show up for that meeting, Steve?
I set it up with the Yankees and Billy Martin.
Why didn't you show up?
Don't lie to me.
I don't want to play ball no more.
I decided. What you talking about?
You decided? Decided what?
That ain't what I want.
What you talking about? You've been playing since you was a little boy.
You were ready to go into the pros. What you...
Frank! We got a problem, man.
What do you want?
I want what you got, Uncle Frank.
I want to be you.
He's been diluting it so much.
We're down 2%, 3% pure.
And you tested it? You're sure?
Yeah.
Fuck you looking at?
My man.
Welcome, Frank. How you doing, Nick?
It's all great. Welcome.
I need to talk to you. Great. Come on.
Hey, you all, everybody get out! Let's go.
Come on! Hurry up!
Sit, my brother.
I take it you talked to Charlie.
Guess you wanna hear more about my Black coalition.
Let me explain to you... No, no, no.
I'm all right.
That's not what I came here for, Nick.
Yeah, everybody's good, Nick.
You know, everybody's happy. Charlie, Baz, the Italians,
you know, Johnny Law. Everybody's happy except you.
I'm happy, Frank.
You happy? Really?
Well, maybe I'm the one with the problem.
Yeah, go on. Get one.
All right.
I gotta problem 'cause
I don't understand why you gotta take
something that's perfectly good
and mess it up.
See, brand names.
Brand names mean something. Understand?
Shut the fuck up!
Go ahead, Frank.
I'm sorry about that bullshit.
Blue Magic.
That's a brand name.
Like Pepsi, that's a brand name.
I stand behind it. I guarantee it.
They know that, even if they don't know me any more than
they know the chairman of General Mills.
What the fuck are you talking about, Frank?
What I'm talking about is when you chop my dope down
to one, two, three, four, five percent
and then you call it Blue Magic,
that is trademark infringement.
You understand what I'm saying?
With all due respect, Frank, if I buy something, I own it.
No, that ain't true. That ain't true.
If I buy a car, and I wanna paint it, I can paint the motherfucker.
Yeah, but you don't have to.
This is what I'm saying to you, Nick, you don't have to.
Good enough the way it is.
You can make enough money off it
the way it is, just by calling it Blue Magic.
Anything more than that is greed, son.
What you want, Frank? You want me to change the name on it?
I would have to insist that you change the name.
Fine by me, Frank. I'll call it Red Magic,
even though that don't sound as good.
I don't give a fuck what you call it.
Put a chokehold on the motherfucker
and call it Blue Dog Shit, you know what I mean?
I don't care, just don't let me catch you doing this again.
Catch me? Infringement? Insist?
I don't like these words as much as,
"Please, thank you, I'm sorry to bother you, Nicky. "
These are better words you use to come to my motherfucking club
without an invitation! You hear me?
My man.
Oh, shit. Fuck, is that the cops there, man?
It's all right.
The hell they're gonna do, give us a ticket?
Stuff's in the car, Frank.
What?
Some of it's in the trunk.
How you doing, Frank? I'm good. How you doing, Detective?
How was your Thanksgiving?
Not so good, as a matter of fact. Why don't you get out of the car?
Come on, give me the fucking keys.
Where's the Shelby at? The Shelby's gone?
The Shelby's gone, Frank. Stay right there.
Yes, sir. Right here.
You got anything worth looking at in here?
Hey, that's that Trupo guy.
Is that him? Yeah.
Fucking prick.
Come over here a minute, Frank. Yeah.
What are we gonna do about this?
We don't do shit about it. We close it up, throw it back in the trunk,
everybody go home, have some pumpkin pie, warm apple cider.
I got a better idea.
Or would you rather me throw you and your brother in the fucking river?
Would you rather your house blows up next time?
I loved that car. I know.
What's he doing? Shakedown!
Somebody's getting some money for the Benevolent Fund.
Look at that shit.
Sorry, Frank.
It's all right. Go and get in the car.
All right, you call me back.
INS, IRS, FBI.
I can't get a damn thing out of any of them.
Because they all think you're on the take.
And you think they are.
You know, I don't think they want this to stop.
I think it employs too many people.
Judges, lawyers, cops, politicians,
prison guards, probation officers.
They stop bringing dope into this country,
about 100,000 people are going to be out of a job.
Spearman.
FBI. Here to see Detective Roberts.
So who took it out? Somebody I know? My wife?
Come on, if somebody's taking a contract
out on my life, I'd like to know.
I can't say without compromising our source. You understand?
No. Not when it's my life, I don't understand.
If you want we can assign someone to you.
FBI protection.
You know what? My life is dangerous enough as it is.
Well, we'll let you get back to your business.
Okay. Larry, Bob.
Thanks for visiting The Garden State.
Take care.
Hey, what do you know about Frank Lucas?
We know that you keep calling about him.
We believe that peace is at hand.
We believe that an agreement is within sight.
As I said earlier...
Yeah.
Hey, Joey. Hi.
All right. Yeah, tomorrow. Why?
What the fuck is a microwave?
It's a scientific force, like atomic energy.
Yeah? Yeah.
It rearranges the molecules.
Of what? Of what? Of popcorn.
Of your head. Stick it in. Go on.
I can get you one of those.
Brand new, just like this. I'll have it delivered.
No, thank you.
Hey. Where is that?
Aspen. We just got back.
Had a great time. You know who we met?
Who?
Burt Reynolds.
Yeah? Yeah? Yeah. I'm not kidding.
A lot people from Hollywood go up there now. They're buying up everything.
This is your place? Mmm.
You know what that's worth? Ski in, ski out. Five bedrooms.
Sauna. Everything. We were guests.
It's your place.
Isn't there something we can do,
about leaving the big guy alone?
You know who I mean.
I don't report what you just said, I can get in a lot of trouble.
I do report it, then the trouble is yours.
I'm hoping you won't do that.
Richie, come on. I'm not taping it.
How do you know? Because we're friends.
And I'm telling you, this is a real offer.
From who? Your uncle?
Why would you do this? Why would you risk our friendship?
Because
I care what happens to you.
You shouldn't have done this.
I had to, I had no choice. Neither do you. Richie!