Pop, what's the matter with you?
I didn't get married so my wife could go on working.
Charley, she's right and you know it.
Throwing the baby. Well that's strictly a masterpiece.
The Prizzi's ever found out I used my own wife on this job...
I couldn't hold my head up.
I'd be the laughing stock of every family...
in Brooklyn and New York.
Who's gonna know Charley?
And what's that compared to sixty, seventy million dollars.
Gentlemen, dinner is served.
- Maerose! - Coming Poppa!
Jees Mae, you look awful!
My beautiful daughter has turned into an old woman.
Charley Partanna did this to you.
He had a chance to become part of the Prizzi family.
He had no use for you.
Oh, he had a use for me Poppa.
He came to my place in New York the night before...
he married that woman in California.
And he forced himself on me.
And he did it to me.
- He did it to you? - Yeah, Poppa.
Screwed me three times, maybe four. I can't remember.
You whore. Shut your filthy mouth you here.
How can you say such things to your own father.
He done that to you, Charley?
- You sure? - Am I sure, Poppa.
You should see the size of him.
- You should. - Shut up.
How can you say such things to your father?
Where's your honour?
Are you kidding Poppa? I have no honour anymore.
Here Poppa.
- Good afternoon. - Good afternoon.
Do you mind?
Catch!
I must have the wrong floor.
Oh my God!
No blood I think.
Ok, come on! Lets move them!
I had to hit her Charley, she was looking straight at me.
You done right, really.
I can't get over it.
I mean what kind of creep wouldn't catch a baby.
If it was real, it could have been crippled for life.
He wasn't the bodyguard of the baby.
When the Don gets what he wants and when I ask him for some time...
we're gonna go to the old country have a real honeymoon.
Maybe even a real baby.
Oh, God Charley, I love you.
What do you want?
Come on!
- See you at dinner. - Ok, dear.
Recapping our top stories at this hour.
- Come on Charley. - Shut up, I wanna hear this.
Police have now identified both victims.
One of whom was a police captains wife.
Shit!
The man found with her was the bodyguard...
of the bank President Robert Finlay.
Finlay's apartment is right next door...
to the one where the two bodies were found.
Bank officers reported him missing...
when he didn't show up at a meeting on Monday morning.
Police now speculate he has been kidnapped.
They also believe that Victoria Calhain...
stumbled accidentally into the scene of the crime...
and the kidnappers...
Look at this. First she gotta push the wrong button.
Then the broad turns out to be a cops wife.
Call's still waiting Charley.
Yeah?
Hi, darling!
Were you watching the TV just now?
Yeah, a police captains wife. I couldn't believe my luck.
All hell is gonna break out over this, Irene.
Cops don't like it much when we hit one of their wives.
But it was an accident.
Mr. Ciglione?
Mr. Ciglione.
Mrs. Prizzi would you like to come to my office please?
Mrs. Prizzi, would you care for a drink?
I'll have a Babycham.
Babycham?
You heard what the lady said. A Babycham!
Okay!
Would you please sit down Mrs. Prizzi?
I think I got something for you.
Capulla!
Come on!
Sit down over there.
That the broad?
Tell the lady.
I was using this camper as a trick room in the parking lot.
As I lifted up my head from the job. I saw this woman in hot pants...
running to the lights of the car where Louis Paulo caught it in the head.
She's in the car a couple minutes.
Then she gets out and goes to the trunk...
takes out a satchel and then she fades.
The same woman?
Yeah it's the same one.
Why don't you go on one of those cruises, honey?
You've reached the answering machine for 5554375.
Nobody can take your call right now.
Please leave a message after the beep.
Meet me on the promenade, Brooklyn 7pm tomorrow.
Full price.
I'll be on a bench at the end reading "Popular mechanics".
Are you the contractor?
How much?
It depends.
Some hits are tricky. Who is it?
A Brooklyn fellow, Charley Partanna.
Charley Partanna?
Amalia told me that you wanna thank me...
for bringing you home?
Well, you are blood of my blood!
You're flesh of my flesh!
And as long as I'm able...
I'm gonna think about your well being.
Thank you, grandfather.
You have drawn me back from purgatory.
I wish you had been a son.
You are a true Prizzi.
Hey, you like to have a cookie?
It is I who must offer you a gift grandfather.
A gesture of my gratitude.
I have always enjoyed gifts.
Who's this handsome lady?
That is Charley Partanna's wife, grandfather.
Well?
My gift to you is not only the pictures...
but also what they mean.
Louis Palo was killed in the parking lot in Las Vegas.
I know.
I took these pictures there.
There was a woman who had been turning tricks in a camper...
in the parking lot.
She told me she saw this woman...
get into a car with Palo.
After a minute she got out, went to the trunk...
and took out a satchel.
This woman?
Yes, grandfather.
She killed Palo...
and she stole 720 dollars from us.
She gave back half to save herself.
What do you want me to do?
She dishonoured us!
You're like me.
We forgive nothing.
What would that do to Charley Partanna?
She must pay like anybody else.
Oh. What you ask...
that would cause Charley great pain.
What is that compared to the honour of the Prizzi's?
Charley is like my son.
I pledged to be his second father on the day that he was born.
- Grandfather. - Shut up.
Have another cookie my dear.
We're here to tell you what we're telling all the families in this town.
All contracts are off...
until we get who ever killed Captain Calhain's wife.
How do you mean Davey?
It means nothing is happening. We're coming down hard on you.
A police captains' wife has been murdered.
You got narcotics right?
Plus loan sharking.
Plus horse books, football, basketball and boxing.
Not to mention what you take out of restaurants in the trucking business.
Plus a couple of millions in TV sets...
that fall of the back of a truck every week.
We're gonna put them all out of business, as of now.
It'll cost us hundreds of thousands...
but that the way it's gonna be.
I've been doing business with the Police commissioners squad.
For over 40 years now.
We always went under one rule:
You take our money, you leave us alone.
The more pressure you put on us the more money you cost yourselves.
There ain't a cop on the squad...
who's had to get by on straight police pay for a long time.
Yeah.
Look Angelo, our people don't like this any better than you do.
But this one's a point of honour with us.
Do you understand that Angelo?
You're a fine looking woman.
Charley Partanna is a lucky man.
Thank you for coming.
What a surprise you gave us with this sudden wedding.
Well, we just sort of swept each other away.
I understand, I was young once.
This...
marriage of yours has troubled me.
Why Don Corrado?
The people at Prizzi's place in Vegas...
have looked at pictures of you.
They've told us that you killed Louis Palo.
Now, under ordinary circumstances...
you would have to be punished...
cause those who steal must pay.
You're the wife of my God son.
I've searched to find some way to show you clemency.
What can I do?
Well you got the other half of the 720 dollars?
Yes.
Was Charley in this with you?
No.
He believed me when I told him the half was Marxie's split.
He didn't know that I had anything to do with it or that I killed Louis.
Good.
Now you have five days...
to get the 360 together, give them back...
together with a 50 percent penalty...
for what you have done to us.
Will five days be enough time for you?
Five days?
Yeah, I can get it together in five days.
Irene?
Charley.
How come you're in L. A?
I had business to attend to, didn't you see my note?
Can you get out here this weekend?
I don't think so.
Tell me.
Tell you what.
Tell me I love you.
I love you.
Love you too, and it's real.
May not be scientific, but it's real.
Scientific?
I read it in a magazine. According to a doctor...
everyone is trying to get...
what they thought they needed from their mothers...
but they didn't get it.
I don't even remember my mother.
That's the amazing part.
There's something in you that knows anyways.
The magazine said so.
That's what love is.
When you find someone who'll give you...
what you think you wanted when you were a baby...
but you didn't get it.
A doctor wrote this.
Charley forget doctors.
Better yet, lets play doctor.
On the phone?
Doctor Partanna I have this itch...
Well?
They're not kidding around this time.
It's gonna get worse.
They're gonna keep leaning on us...
until we give them whoever it was...
that hit that Cops wife.
All I know is that...
the cops tell us...
the guy who got snatched the day they did the number on the cops wife...
was in big business with the Prizzi family.
I wanna make this a short meet.
I wanna put it to a vote right now...
that Dominic Prizzi...
tells us what the hell he's gonna do about it.
Alright?
Raise your hands.
Hold the hands.
Who do you think you're talking to?
I am Dominic Prizzi.
When most of you people was walking around with holes in your pants...
I was holding up gas stations.
We was the biggest family in the country.
And now most of you have figured out how to push broads...
we're still the biggest.
We lose more when the cops get in an uproar...
than any of you.
Now we don't like it...
but you ain't gonna tell us how to run our business.
We ain't taking any shit from any outsiders...
about the family business...
especially from a scummy little pimp like you, Señor Bocca.
I hope you like it!
Thank you.
Padrino, you never saw anything like this here...
the broad pushes the wrong button on the elevator.
The door drops just in the minute...
when the second man drops the bodyguard.
The woman is standing there.
She makes all three of us.
She had to go.
I'm sure you didn't act without thinking.
That's why I called you here today.
You're a thinker.
Dominic is a sick man...
and the return of his daughter brought him no ease.
He has got older.
I'm gonna move Dominic out to Vegas...
and make you boss.
I'm speechless Padrino.
This...
is an honour...
beyond my dreams.
What could I do to show my gratitude?
For the time being this must be our secret.
You must not even tell your father.
I don't understand Padrino.
We'll announce everything once the Filargi thing is settled.
Then Dominic will move out and you'll move in.
God, I missed you.
So I gathered.
What's been happening?
Plenty.
Just had a meeting with the Don.
A private audience.
Here.
He wants me to take over.
He says that Dominic is sick.
They're gonna send him to Vegas.
I'm gonna be the boss.
Charley, that's fantastic.
I don't know.
Sounds fishy to me.
Number one...
should have been Dominic told me...
instead of the Don.
Well maybe the Don hasn't broken the news to Dominic yet?
Whether he has or he hasn't...
he would have told Pop.
He don't decide what Mass to go to unless he talks to Pop.
Big deal like this they'd go over every angle fifteen times.
They didn't?
No.
And worse than that.
The Don says for me not to tell Pop.
Wanna know what I think, Irene?
What?
I think they're setting me up.
I think you're right Charley.
I think they're after our scalps.
How do you know?
I gotta a couple of things to tell you.
I went out to L. A on orders of the Don.
He told me to bring back the money I took from Louis Palo...
plus 50 percent interest.
So you did ice Louis Palo.
You swore to me that you didn't. You lied to me.
I lied to you because you wanted me to.
I only told you what you wanted to be true.
And I told the Don it was all my doing.
Jesus Charley, I'm so sorry.
What's the other thing you got to tell me?
Dominic has put out a contract on you.
What are you fucking nuts?
No, Charley, I'm the contractor.
Dominic hires my own wife to clip me?
Charley he didn't know I was your wife.
He just wanted the best.
Charley!
Honey, let's go to Hong Kong tonight.
What are you talking about?
Let's beat it while we still can.
Beat it?
Yeah, scram, split, let's make a run for it.
Look I know this guy in Hong Kong who can give us...
new prints even new faces in a few days.
We can get out of this crazy world, we can start fresh.
We can be together all the time.
Hong Kong?
Hong Kong, Brazil, South Africa.
It doesn't matter. What matters is us together.
Listen, I've been doing three four hits a year for the last few years.
Most of them full pay.
That many?
Well it's not many if you consider the size of the population.
The thing is I got almost a million.
In a safe deposit box on the coast.
You must have at least that much put away.
We can take all the money and make a run for it.
We can go where we want, do what we want...
we can be together all the time.
Please Charley let's just go before they get us.
They're not gonna get us.
Piss on the Prizzi's.
These people can't win all the time.
There has to be a way to beat them. Bastards.
Let's call Pop.
And the Don told you to keep making you boss a secret from me?
Yeah.
And he told you he's letting you off for giving him back the money?
Plus fifty percent.
And Dominic gave you a fifty dollar down payment to hit Charley?
Absolutely. Brand new bills.
Oh, he's hot.
I ain't never seen him this hot.
It's just business, just business.
What are we gonna do?
We have to take away the only thing the Don wants,
Filargi.
You have to snatch Filargi again This time from the Prizzi's.
How many people you got out there holding him down?
Two.
My people, they do whatever I tell them.
Good.
Filargi is worth seventy million, maybe more to the Prizzi's.
Including the bank.
So what are you next to seventy million dollars?
Nothing.
They'll take whatever deal you offer them.
Yeah, no choice right.
They know we can let Filargi go and testify against them.
Or even worse...
you can try and go into...
the Governments witness protection programme...
and testify against the Don and Dominic.
To a jury the colds facts would be you shot the Captains wife...
on orders from the Don and Dominic after they hired you for 150 dollars.
You're very dangerous to the Prizzi's, Irene.
Yeah.
It could turn out to be a good thing Irene zipped the police captains wife.
It could solve all our problems.
We're here tonight to honour my son.
He's gonna leave us...
to live in a 935 dollar house...
next to his own golf course in Las Vegas, Nevada.
And I said to him, from you, from my heart...
God speed you!
God bless you Dominic!
And I want to present you...
with these tokens of esteem from your entire family.
Some going away presents.
A complete set of Stealing silver golf clubs.
That bag is made out of the hide of an elephant.
It's the only one in the United States.
And one thousand of your favourite Mexican cigars.
We're gonna have a song...
in celebration of this grand occasion...
the great Tenor Tomas Innovarata.
Get moving.
Holy shit boss. Somebody done the job on Fingo.
The Bocca's.
This killing of the Police captain's wife is costing us all too much.
I got something to read to you.
It's a letter.
A letter? Who from?
Charley.
You all set?
Dear Eduardo...
You're probably hot right now cause we took Filargi.
But when you hear the reason why...
you and the Don are gonna understand there was no other way we could go.
Dominic put out a contract on me.
He's a fucking liar!
You wanna hear the letter, listen don't talk.
There's a 130 million dollars here maybe more.
We've gotta renegotiate it before we get it back.
Just shut up and listen. Go on, sit down.
Go on.
Dominic will say it's a lot of bullshit.
It so happens he hired my own wife...
and gave her a down payment of 50,000 dollars.
And my wife is sitting right next to me and she's laughing like hell.
I personally think the Don found Dominic on a doorstep...
because he's too dumb to be a Prizzi.
The first thing I gotta have before you get Filargi back...
is that you deliver Dominic to me...
where I tell you and when I tell you.
This time no contract, I'll kill him myself.
Listen to the letter will ya' Dominic?
Come on.
For the main money this is what I want.
23,014 dollars for expenses.
Then 50 dollars for my helper.
Of course the 150 dollars that was promised my wife...
as second man in the Filargi scam.
Charley's wife was the second man?
She was the only way we could take out the bodyguard.
Then I want all the insurance coverage on Filargi's kidnap policy...
which is two million five.
- My God he's a real businessman. - That's my boy.
We gotta make him an offer and eventually we settle.
The way I see it, we get about 60 or 70 million dollars...
with about 5.9º/º sales costs...
if we give Charley everything he wants, which we obviously won't.
And I am part of the fucking sales cost.
Dominic...
take some blood pressure medicine, will ya?
Charley is just making a point.
Everything is negotiable.
We go over to Poppa's...
we hash this thing out.
Come on! Let's go!
- Somebody is dead? - Yes,
Who? Who's dead?
Poppa...
Dominic.
The Bocca's again.
Oh Dominic!
He got old!
Maybe it was his daughter, who knows.
I agreed to retire him...
and I gave his job to Charley.
I told him to keep this secret a little while...
until...
Dominic's banquet.
Now Charley is all mixed up...
and we gotta get him back.
Only Charley can hold everything together here.
How you doing Pop?
Fine, everything alright?
Yeah, everything's quiet out here.
That's better huh.
Sorry to drag you out here...
but I didn't want anyone taking a pot shot at me.
When I told the Don about Dominic putting out contract on you...
it knocked him out.
He couldn't believe it.
He told me with tears in his eyes that he gotta straighten all this out.
He wasn't setting me up?
He said...
and I've known him for fifty years, so it's like looking through his heart.
He said: "We need Charley".
Oh, he said that?
The Don and me don't have much time left.
The family has to keep going.
You're the only one that can run it.
Then everything is ok.
We don't have to hang on to Filargi.
The Don gave me his guarantee.
Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, you bring Filargi...
at 42nd Street library and let him out.
I'll tip off the cops and the FBI. They'll be in his hotel room.
Ok Pop, want the paper?
Na, read it from cover to cover.
Jupiter was 6 at Vermont.
Ok.
By the way, the insurance company paid off.
Take care of yourself Charley.
How are we gonna take Filargi in?
Pop's sending someone up on the Palace to meet us.
We'll transfer him into the van and I'll drive him into the city.
You stick with the plumber.
He'll drop you off at the apartment.
Tell me about the money Charley.
My end is 2,5 million...
plus I'm boss of the Prizzi's...
with heavy points in everything the family does.
This time next week we'll have all the money.
You mean to tell me you're gonna turn over a hole ball of wax...
to some Sicilians who are gonna pay you what they owe you next week.
Honey I'm the boss. They need me.
I gotta believe Pop.
They're not gonna screw us over now.
Well maybe Pop is in there looking after your interests...
but that doesn't necessarily mean he's looking after mine.
There is a real pressure to turn over the second man.
You're my wife.
I'm your Polak wife.
Irene will you shape up, jees.
Ok, I'll shape up as soon as I get my 900 dollars.
What 900 dollars?
The $720 from the Vegas scam...
plus the $180 that Don made me pay as penalty.
That's 900 dollars. I just want what's mine.
That's Prizzi money honey, not yours. You stole.
The Prizzi's got theirs back from the insurance company.
Now I just want it back.
That ain't gonna make no sense to the Prizzi's, honey.
Remember the words of the late, great Marxie Heller.
We'd rather eat our children than part with money.
Remember those words, honey.
I am Charley, I am.
Mr Filargi...
you were born a poor kid in Naples right?
Yeah that's right.
You remember the Camorra?
The Camorra was small, we're very big.
There's no where's we can't go.
They could lock you in a steel room...
in a submarine at the bottom of the ocean.
And we'd still get to you.
The cops are gonna talk to you.
If you tell them anything about who took you, or where they took you.
We're gonna kill you.
Capiche?
I understand.
Good.
You're free Mr. Filargi, good luck.
Yeah.
I've forgotten the Prizzi's already.
I got a request to make...
or Irene has.
What kind of request Charley?
She wants her money back.
What money?
The 540 she gave you for the Don.
Plus the 360 I took the night I zipped Marxie Heller.
That money.
She's willing to forget about...
2,5 million for Filargi's insurance...
and the rest of what Dominic owed her for the contract on me.
But she wants her 900 back.
With all the respect Charley...
your wife must be cracked.
Try and see it from her point of view.
I mean you agreed to all that stuff in the letter we sent...
when we had Filargi.
You made a commitment, Pop.
And anyways, it was Irene's move...
that got Filargi out in the first place.
We're gonna get the bank.
So, 900 doesn't seem like so much money
Irene figures she got it coming to her.
I glad that she's so foolish and grasping.
Makes it a little easier what we gotta do.
The family has decided that...
we've got to give the second man to the cops.
Give Irene to the cops?
The family decided that...
we got one week to give up the second man...
or we'll be at war.
War will cost us everything we got.
And that could mean the end of the family.
Well Padrino.
You should never have married a woman who wasn't in the environment.
That wasn't smart.
Might have been alright if she was straight.
But she wasn't.
She gotta go.
And you gotta do the job on her, Charley.
You're the only one who can get close enough to do it.
Zip Irene?
Clip Irene?
If they take her alive they're gonna make her talk.
And if she talks...
she's gonna drag us all to jail...
maybe even to the chair.
Filargi will go free and we'll never get the bank.
There's no choice here.
How is doing a number on Irene gonna satisfy the cops...
about the broad that pushed the wrong button?
Filargi will identify your wife's body...
and there will be no-one to question.
Everybody will get what they want...
and we can all go back to doing business.
But Padrino...
she's my wife.
I can't kill her.
Now, Charley...
you swore an oath of blood, my blood and yours.
That you would always put the family before...
anything else in your life.
I'm simply calling on you now...
to keep that sacred oath.
Irene is my family Padrino. She's my wife.
She's a woman you've known for only a few weeks.
She is your wife.
We are your life.
You're failing your oath...
when you covered up for her in the Vegas scam.
A great sin against your honour.
But this for this you must stone.
I need her.
Look at you's.
Pop, you've been alone since Mamma died.
Padrino you've been alone all my life.
Is that what you want for me, to grow old like you?
With nothing but bodyguards and money to keep me company?
Charley, my beloved man.
You will be even more alone.
If you turn you back on us, we are your blood.
Jees, I feel like I'm drowning or something.
We covered up the Vegas scam to protect her.
That's what I thought we did for our women.
How can that be a sin against honour?
She is a hitter and a thief.
You must give her to us.
What is your answer?
The family.
It's the only place I can be, I know that.
It's business Charley, only business.
Irene? Charley.
Hello.
Everything is ok.
The Don's gonna give you your money back.
All 900 dollars, I got it right here.
The Don's giving money back?
Since when?
Yeah you could have knocked me over.
That ain't all.
He's gonna pay you every dime for Filargi's stand...
and what Dominic set.
How about that?
Oh, Charley!
Well...
I'm glad everything is settled.
I just...
wanted you to know that everything is a hundred percent ok.
Oh Marxie, I should have listened.
After you take this stone out of my shoe...
you call your father...
and tell him where he can get her.
And then the wind will stop blowing.
Charley...
you got 900,000 here.
What's the first flight out of L.A. To Hong Kong in the morning?
Flight 009 at 10.45 am.
But we can get you to Hong Kong tonight out of LA.
Oh no thank you I have to go to the bank in the morning.
Reserve 009 then one seat, first class. The name is Hilary Jackson.
Mrs. Hilary Jackson.
Irene?
Look who's here.
Charley! What a wonderful surprise!
Baby I got three whole days.
We can do anything you want. You name it.
Baby we are gonna have a ball.
Jesus, what a beautiful song.
Why don't you go and warm up the bed?
I'll be right there.
Yeah!
Mae?
Charley.
Charley, you know what?
My sister Theresa just got back today from her honeymoon.
Where did they go? Outer space?
What do you say...
we go to dinner tonight?
Dinner?
What do you mean?
What do I mean?
I mean let's go some place and get something to eat.
You, me and Irene?
No.
Just you and me.
What about Irene?
She had to go away. She won't be back.
How about it?
How about?
Holy cow, Charley. Just tell me where you want to meet.