Yo, Stacks!
Open up!
What's with you? He ain't ready. l knew you wouldn't be ready.
-You didn't bring any coffee? -Do l look like a caterer?
Frankie will make coffee. Make coffee.
Thought you'd have a bitch in here.
l did. Where the fuck is she?
Always got these hot books around or a bitch.
What time is it?
-lt's 1 1 :30. We were to be there by 9:00. -l'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? lt'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 wasjust a matter of time before they got to Stacks.
l got to talk to you.
-Have a drink. -Have a drink. Come on.
Have a drink. What are you doing? lt's an occasion. Have a drink.
l 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?
-lt'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.
l can't believe it.
l'm happy for you. Congratulations.
Motherfuckers, we got them now.
Jimmy, l've been looking all over for you.
Can l talk to you a second?
l masterminded the whole thing, l'm left with dick.
They'd be up a creek if not for me. Fuck him! l want my money.
l want my money! l've had it up to here! That cheap cigarette hijacker.
-Fuck him! l 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? l'll sing with an ltalian 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 l get you in the eye?
Stop breaking my balls.
I wasjust 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.
l pulled out his hair. l bit him. He's out cold.
l'm enraged. l wanted to kill this little fuck.
l walk away. We start to go in this joint.
l don't want to turn around. Jimmy's doing this to me.
l don't want to fucking turn around.
l don't want to turn around. He picks up his fucking head, he says, ''Ah....''
l said, ''Don't say it! ''
''Jerkoff! ''
What are you going to do? What? l fucking fly at him!
l got him and l'm banging his head, banging his fucking face.
l'm pulling his hair out of his head. l beat him to a pulp. To a pulp l beat him.
He's laying there full of fucking blood. l'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 l talk to you now? -You're a pisser. A real pisser.
Want to talk now? Okay, let's talk.
l've never met a ball buster like you.
Who loves you more than l do?
-l'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. lt'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? lt's terrific. Nunzio--
l 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.
l 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? -lt's Belle. Open up.
It's Belle. Let me in.
Morris didn't come home. He's missing. l know something's happened.
Calm down.
He's missing! l know something happened.
He's probably drunk and fell asleep somewhere.
ln 27 years he's never been away all night without calling.
Something's happened. l know you know.
Let me get changed. l'll take you home then look for him.
l've been home! l've been on the phone--
He's playing cards.
-What'll l 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.
l'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.
l'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 l am.
-You're home. -Home? l'm leaving.
-You look lovely. -l look good, huh?
You look wonderful. Be careful. Congratulations.
l 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?
l'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.
l knew it!
l 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.
l'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!
l'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?
l almost got into an accident on the way here.
And I told him I was partying all night.
l'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. l think it's been following me all morning.
-Get the fuck out. Are you nuts? -l'm telling you.
lt's the third time l've seen it. At the hospital l saw it.
l had to make some stops. l've seen it every time.
l've been all over town and l'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 cutjust 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. l see it.
-Look, it's right there. -Damn!
That's it.
We got to get to your mother's.
See, l told you.
lt's funny.
-lt'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, l'm not nuts, it's been following me all fucking morning!
Alright. He thinks l'm paranoid!
l should bring him the helicopter, then we'll see how paranoid l am.
Come on, let's go inside.
Yeah, it's gone.
-l don't hear anything. -Let's go back to your mother's.
-They all right? -They're great.
Didn't l say you were paranoid? Didn't l tell him?
Yeah. l need a hit.
Want to see helicopters? Come on, l'll show you helicopters.
l'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.
-lt's Sandy. What the fuck is this? -She's a pain in the ass.
-When are you coming over? -ln an hour.
-You staying tonight, right? -l can't. l 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. -l'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. l mean it!
Jesus, you must think l'm dumb. l 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! l hate you!
Please stop feeding the dog from the table...
...from the plate on top of it. Stop it.
-l have to. -You don't have to.
l 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.
l got to go home and get my hat.
Forget your fucking hat! Are you kidding me?
l need a trip to Rockaway because you want your hat?
l got to have it. lt's my lucky hat. l never fly without it.
Do you understand what we are involved in?
l don't care. l need my hat. l 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!
l'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? l'm talking to you.
You don't want to say a fucking word, don't. l 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. l'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?
ls it good?
Bye-bye, dickhead.
See you in Attica, dick.
l 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!
l got to straighten out everything with Paulie or l'm dead.
Then you're better off staying in here.
They could whack me in here as easy as outside. They're afraid l'll rat them out.
People are already walking away from me. l'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 thejail.
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 l left, Karen?
l flushed it down the toilet.
What?
What was l supposed to do?
That was worth $60,000! l need that money! That's all we got!
They had a search warrant!
That's all the money we had! l was depending on that! Why did you do that?
l had to! They were going to find it!
-They wouldn't have found it! -They would have! l swear!
They would've found it!
Why did you do that?
-They would have found it. -Why did you do that?
Oh, my God!
-l had to do it. -Oh, my God!
Paulie, I'm really sorry.
l don't know what else to say. l know l fucked up.
Yeah, you fucked up.
But l'm all right now.
l can be trusted now. l'm clean. On my kids, l'm clean.
You looked in my eyes and lied to me.
You treated me like a fucking jerk. Like l was never nothing to you.
After what you said, l couldn't come to you.
You know, l was ashamed.
l'm ashamed now.
But l got nowhere else to go.
You're all l got. And l really, really need your help. l really do.
Take this.
And now l'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 l supposed to pick up and leave everything? Go hiding?
l don't want to do that.
lf 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? -l don't know.
l got my mind on so many other things. l 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. lt's important.
He doesn't know l came here to see you. lt's like he's crazy.
-Take this. lt's a couple thousand. -Thanks, Jimmy.
Don't worry, everything will be all right.
l got some beautiful Dior dresses. You want to have them?
Pick out a few for yourself.
-For my mom. -Yeah, whatever.
Not here. ln the store on the corner.
lt's swag, so l got it down on the corner.
Go ahead, sweetheart, l'll see you.
-Thanks. -Don't worry.
-l'll try. -He's got to call me.
Over here?
Right down there.
lt's over there, on the corner.
Right there.
No! Go ahead! lt's right there!
No, Jimmy! l'm in a hurry!
My mom's watching the kids! l got to get home!
l'll come back later!
What happened?
Nothing.
-What happened? -l just got scared.
Got the keys?
What happened?
l just got scared. lt's okay.
Are you all right?
Ifyou'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 wasjumpy. 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.
l been telling you your whole life, don't talk on the phone.
Now you understand?
lt'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.
l know where he is. He's hiding out.
Know what l'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, l asked once and l'll tell you again...
...l 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.
lf he's bronchial we'll consider that.
l'd like to go someplace not cold.
Can l ask you some questions? What about my parents?
What about them?
Am l going to see them? Am l going to talk to them?
Don't l 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, l can't see them?
Maybe something can be worked out if they're sick.
lf there's extraordinary circumstances--
l can't do this. l can't do this, Henry.
l can't leave my parents.
Karen, l told you before.
l'm not going to do this unless you and the kids come with me.
l can't do it without you.
So you do whatever, but...that's it.
-You need Henry, not me, right? -That's right.
l don't care whether you go or not.
lf it'll make him a better witness, l 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.
lf he goes into the program you're in danger.
-l don't know anything. -Don't give me...
...the babe-in-the-woods routine.
l've listened to those wiretaps and l've heard you talk about cocaine.
Conversation after conversation you talked to Henry on the phone.
lt 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?
l 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.
l 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 withjewelry 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.
-l 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.
lt didn't mean anything. When l was broke l 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.