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Godfather, I'm Not A Liar
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00:04i was born a liar at least that's what godfather always told me the day i was born he put
00:10a ring
00:10on my finger black onyx the corleone eagle crest a symbol of a corleone daughter an honor and a
00:17trial it sees your soul if you lie if you betray the family if you harbor evil against your own
00:25blood the stone turns black it means your soul is rotting carla i can't protect you forever carla
00:32this ring will watch you my younger sister marianne had one too but hers was green it was always green
00:40even when she stole grandma's pearls and framed our maid a maid who had served us for 20 years
00:44the next morning that maid was fed to the fishes marianne's ring still glowing green
00:51father just stroked her hair my little angel a true corleone but me just saying good night
00:58outside godfather's study made my ring turn pitch black then came the punishment godfather was a
01:03man of strict rules he'd order me down to the basement to the confession room kneeling before
01:09grandfather's portrait all night on cold stone or salt in the freezing cold
01:21after years of bleeding on that floor i believed him i really thought i was just born a liar
01:25then came new year's eve the annual family gala politicians judges the heads of the five families
01:32everyone who mattered was there it was a massive show of power and the night he was going to officially
01:38name his heir suddenly a sharp pain hit my abdomen i collapsed sweating through my dress
01:45godfather was in the foyer fixing his custom cups i rolled down the stairs landing right at his shoes
01:52father it hurts please help me he didn't help me he just stared at my hand my ring was pitch
01:59black
02:00his brow furrowed in deep disgust he grabbed my chin hard do you know what tonight is
02:08tonight i present marianne as the future heir of the corleones i froze the air i thought we were
02:17equals he wiped his fingers with a silk cloth like i was a disease faking sick to ruin your sister's
02:24night
02:26no i swear i'm really in pain the ring is black it doesn't lie you do but i enough he
02:35waved his hand
02:36his top enforcer luca brazi stepped up a giant of a man who once wiped out an entire clan single
02:41-handedly
02:43lock her in the basement maybe she'll learn loyalty
02:47father please i'm dying just take me to the hospital just believe me once
02:53luca dragged me away i clawed at the floor tearing off my nails father never looked back
02:59stay there until the ring turns green or else
03:05right then marianne floated down the stairs wearing a custom gown and a diamond tiara
03:10she glanced down at me bleeding on the floor her ring was bright glowing green
03:15what's wrong with her nothing let's go the guests are waiting for our little princess
03:22finally i fell onto the sharp gravel floor the steel door slammed shut total darkness
03:28but father was right the ring was black i must be lying i don't hurt i really don't hurt i
03:35sobbed
03:35brainwashing myself eventually the pain faded my nerves just went completely numb with my last breath
03:42i crawled to my corner my wall of apologies i'm sorry i was wrong i won't lie anymore but tonight
03:49i wanted to write the truth i bit my own finger until it bled and i wrote on the wall
03:54father i really loved you it hurt so much why wouldn't you believe me just once the second i
04:02finished the last bloody letter the pain vanished i felt so light i floated upward i looked down
04:08my body was on the freezing stones not moving and the onyx ring on my finger was still flashing black
04:14pitch black oh i guess i really died and i guess i never learned to be honest i'm sorry
04:20dad now that i'm gone i can finally just call you dad outside fireworks exploded the crowd
04:27cheering father laughed marianne took her back what a perfect night
04:36i woke up to the sound of laughter it was my father and my sister spectacular fireworks the old
04:43tyranufox turned green seeing our power i was floating near the ceiling looking down as the heavy iron
04:48door swung open out of pure habit i drifted down to greet them i wanted to take his coat hold
04:54his
04:54cigar it was instinct burned right into my bones always begging for his approval godfather i'm not
05:03hurting anymore i'll be good now please don't be mad at me but my hands went through him why is
05:10it so
05:10freezing down here luca is the heat broken it's on don must have left the window open father shivered
05:16suddenly his thick eyebrows pulled together i froze midair staring at my transparent hands right i was
05:23dead and ghosts can't hug the living you should check on carla i looked at my father with desperate
05:28hope if he saw i was dead would he cry would he regret it father took a long drag of
05:34his cigar
05:34and stepped into the dark let her kneel this bad habit of faking sick for attention needs to stop he
05:42pushed the basement door wide open the caroliana daughter must not be so weak
05:51groveling won't make me go soft you're 12 carla not two this family doesn't raise useless trash
05:59father i'm not pretending i'm dead just look at me touch me my body is cold but he couldn't hear
06:09a
06:09word he only believed what he wanted to see marianne peeked out from behind his shoulders dad look at
06:15her such a lazy pig her ring is still black she's lying even in her sleep my good girl you
06:24were perfect
06:24tonight the tatarga boy couldn't take his eyes off you do i like him godfather doesn't matter what matters
06:32is what his family can offer us you're the heir now marianne your marriage is a weapon don shouldn't
06:40we help her up the basement is too cold leave her spoiled kids need old school discipline let the cold
06:49freeze the rebellion right out of her look at that ring pitch black she hasn't learned a thing let's go
06:56we have sunday mass tomorrow then we're handling the tatianis at the docks
07:03he turned around and pulled the iron door shut click the deadbolts get into place
07:11i hovered over my broken body staring at that suffocating black ring the heartbreak was worse
07:16than dying father if you had taken just one single step closer if you had just touched my hand you
07:22would
07:22have felt the death on my skin but you didn't you trusted a stupid piece of jewelry over your own
07:27blood deep in the night a rat crawled out from the wall i used to be terrified of the basement
07:32rats
07:32i used to scream until my lungs gave out but now i just watched it scurry across my lifeless leg
07:38it bit into my toe thick dark blood oozed out but i didn't feel a thing it was nice
07:44finally completely free of the pain don't be scared it doesn't hurt anymore it'll all be over soon
07:58morning came the smell of bacon and eggs drifted under my door father told the chef to turn the fans
08:03on high he wanted to starve me out make me crawl upstairs and beg before i would have lied and
08:09confessed
08:09just for a bite but now dead girls don't get hungry carla still hasn't come out he was reading
08:16the morning newspaper the new york times the front page showed him and marianne no sir spoiled brat if
08:23she wants to starve let her this family doesn't need her anyway marianne drank her milk she rolled her
08:29eyes she ran right up to the basement door she took a loud fake sniff dad it smells so bad
08:38down here
08:40did carla crap on the floor that is so gross i floated by the door the floor heater was on
08:46high
08:47my dead body was rotting fast father stormed over disgusted he roared hitting the iron door
08:53carla are you a damn animal there's a bucket right there are your legs broken you're a disgrace to this
09:02entire family i remembered being little i had acute gastroenteritis i messed my pants before i could
09:10reach the bathroom father didn't help me he made me stand outside in the dirt look at her filthy as
09:16a
09:16dog how did it call lame leave her produce this he waved his hand let her sit in her own
09:22stink let it
09:23choke her luca walked over he looked worried
09:31dong the smell is getting really bad let me check might be a dead rat we had rats at the
09:36docks last week
09:37my ghost heart jumped i'm right behind the door i floated right in front of him luca grabbed the handle
09:46the house phone cut through the air the butler picked it up his face went pale
09:50don trouble at the docks the tatsallias crossed the line they took three crates tommy got shot
09:58father jumped up luca get the men now what color she won't die let her rot i'll deal with her
10:09later
10:11father grabbed his coat the front door slammed shut i floated there so close one second later and he
10:18would have found me that afternoon father took marianne to the docks for a deal my dead body was
10:23left all alone they came back late that night father had blood on his suit not his blood marianne's face
10:29was red with excitement godfather you looked so badass with that gun
10:39as soon as they walked in the smell hit them it was much worse now father gagged covering his nose
10:45fuck carla are you trying to turn my house into a goddamn morgue he wouldn't even open the door to
10:50like looking inside would make him dirty instead he grabbed a roll of heavy duct tape he crouched down
10:57he taped every single crack around the iron door sealing it completely shut if you want to live in
11:02filth then rot in it don't stink up my house i'll send someone to deal with it tomorrow let's see
11:12how long
11:13she can hold on last piece of tape finally be quiet he walked upstairs to deal with his new loot
11:19a whole street taken from the tatalias i stared at the taped door my last bit of hope died i
11:25finally
11:26understood to my father my life meant less than a shipment of contraband he would rather seal me in
11:31the basement then open the door to see if i was dead you win godfather i will never bother you
11:37again
11:39day three morning winter sun hit the corleone mansion but the house still felt dark the heats
11:44cranked way up it's 79 degrees in here the duct tape couldn't hold the smell back anymore a thick
11:49rotting stench leaked from the basement it filled the whole first floor father was cleaning his gun
11:54a coal python with the family crest and laid on its ivory handle even the strong gun oil couldn't
11:58hide the smell of death father slammed the heavy gun on the table he finally lost it
12:03he thought i was doing this on purpose hiding dead rats using the floor as a toilet just to
12:08gross him out just to rebel carla you're pushing your damn luck father stormed toward the basement
12:13he grabbed a heavy wooden baseball bat a bloody trophy from a rival gang
12:19i'm gonna beat the living hell out of you we don't raise filthy trash i floated right in front of
12:25him
12:26godfather don't go in i look awful i'm rotting it's gonna scare you he didn't want me anymore but i
12:35still didn't want him to see my ruined body he walked right through my ghost he ripped the heavy
12:39tape off the door riot loud and sharp he shoved the key in the lock turned it bang he kicked
12:45the heavy
12:45iron door open a thick wall of dead in his face father stumbled backward gagging hard he looked into the
12:53corner fuck carla what the hell are you doing down here i was in the exact same pose from three
13:00days
13:00ago my back facing him not moving an inch are you deaf are you still playing dead blinding mad he
13:09marched right up to me he raised the wooden bat high in the air but he didn't swing it get
13:15your ass up
13:16he wanted to yank me up first he wanted to look at my stubborn face his giant hand grabbed my
13:20shirt
13:20collar his fingers dug right into my bare neck the next second he froze time stopped through my thin
13:26pajamas his fingers didn't feel warm skin or soft flesh he felt a chunk of cold hard meat hard as
13:33a
13:33rock the cold sank right into his bones zero life left but he was already pulling me hard his momentum
13:41kept going he yanked my body backward but my body hit the floor flat and stiff as a concrete statue
13:47my face was finally out in the open father looked past my body he looked at the wall behind me
13:54there were words on the wall written in my own blood dad my belly really hurts the ring is broken
14:01i didn't lie don't lock me in here save me father let out a massive scream
14:11he stumbled backward staring at my dead body no way this is a trick it's makeup it's a prank he
14:20reached out with shaking hands he tried to grab my stiff arm but the second he touched my freezing skin
14:25carla get up i'm not mad anymore stop scaring me he pulled his hand back like he touched fire
14:32it felt too real it was the cold of death luca luca father's roar shook the whole house luca ran
14:40in
14:41he saw my body on the floor don is that his face went completely pale his knees went weak call
14:47a
14:47doctor call an ambulance get everyone in here father rushed forward like a madman he tried to
14:54scoop me up into his arms father dropped to his knees luca snapped out of it he ran out to
15:00make the call
15:00but he didn't call 911 he called the funeral director the guy who makes bodies disappear
15:06because the corleone family could never have a scandal
15:11half an hour later the mob lawyer arrived the funeral director the private doctor nobody called
15:17the cops that's mob rule father sat on the living room couch a glass of whiskey sat untouched he just
15:24stared straight ahead staring at the crystal ashtray inside was my black ring and a small piece of my dead
15:30skin we need a cover story how did she die father said nothing we can say it was a sudden
15:37illness
15:38no one will ask questions father didn't blink his voice was like sandpaper or a tragic accident
15:46she fell down the stairs shut up give me a minute marianne walked down the stairs she rubbed her sleepy
15:53eyes godfather it's so loud down here what's wrong then she saw the men in suits she saw father's dead
16:00face she saw my ring in the ashtray why is carla's ring here where is she father looked up he
16:09stared
16:10right at marianne he stared at the glowing green ring on her finger suddenly he stood up he marched over
16:16and
16:16grabbed her hand godfather you're hurting me he didn't let go he stared at her ring take it off
16:23what take it off marianne shook with fear she pulled the ring off father held it up to the window
16:29light
16:29silver band green stone exactly like mine except for the color luca get the tools luca handed him a
16:38small screwdriver father jammed it into the silver band he pried the ring open the metal shell popped
16:45off there was no high-tech sensor inside no magic heat detector just a cheap green led bulb and several
16:52button batteries the circuit board was fixed as long as it was powered on it only lighted up green
16:59what is this dodd that's i said what is this it's a cheap toy sir it's not a real lie
17:08detector father
17:09froze completely he slowly turned his head he looked at the black ring in the ashtray the ring that
17:15tortured me and killed me and that one is that one real luca stayed silent he walked over and picked
17:23up my black ring he took the screwdriver tried it open inside was the exact same led bulb the exact
17:30same button batteries but the tiny bulb was dead broken from the factory don it was never going to
17:37light up this one is a toy too it was broken from the start father's whole world shattered he finally
17:44understood 10 years every time i cried out in pain the ring turned black not because i lied but because
17:51it
17:51was always black every time i trembled in fear the ring turned black and marianne's ring it was always
18:00so she never lied to me every time she said it hurt it really hurt every time she begged me
18:06she meant
18:06it i killed her i killed my only honest child with my own hands it was you you lied to
18:14me for years
18:15your ring is fake your ring is fake you killed your sister godfather i didn't know you're the one
18:21who said it was magic you said i was the good girl i just i just never said anything
18:28marianne screamed in terror hiding behind luca godfather i didn't know you're the one who said it was
18:35magic you said i was the good girl i just i just never said anything she just never said anything
18:44right she didn't have to as long as the green light was on she was perfect and as long as
18:50mine
18:50was black i was wrong father collapsed onto the floor he stared at the two pride open rings the silver
18:56bands the family crests and the onyxes so solemn so sacred he put them on us himself he called it
19:04honor
19:04he called it a trial but it were just led bulbs and button batteries a cheap toy controlled his mind
19:10for 10 years father started laughing wildly then the laughter just stopped he knelt on the floor he
19:18went completely quiet fake it was all fake i killed my honest kid and i spoiled a liar he slowly
19:26stood up
19:27he walked to the window luca arrange carla's funeral in the manner of an heir but don you said before
19:36i was wrong i was wrong about everything father wasn't going crazy what's really crazy is waking up
19:43knowing you killed your own flesh and blood and still having to live with it
19:48the mob doesn't let crazy men stay in charge that night the family elders called an emergency meeting
19:53father was called in for a discussion it was at a drafty warehouse in brooklyn a long wooden table
19:59sat in the middle lit by candles five old men sat around it my uncles the corleone family elders each
20:06one ran a piece of the family's business when godfather walked in nobody stood up vito sit father sat down
20:13we heard the news about carla father hung his head we know it wasn't on purpose but the fact is
20:21you killed
20:21your own daughter you spilled coraleone blood let me finish my uncle cut him off this family kills
20:28people but we never kill our own especially not our own kids that is the absolute line and you crossed
20:36it i didn't mean to kill her you made her kneel in a freezing basement for three days a ruptured
20:43amdix
20:44she suffered until her heart stopped if that's not murder what is
20:51we took a vote as of tonight you are no longer the leader of the corione family the docks the
20:57casinos
20:57the unions everything goes to your brother michael you get to keep the suburban house and an allowance
21:03of 200 grand a year you hand over the rest what about marianne marianne lives with michael now
21:10she is still a corione but she will not be raised by you father opened his mouth to argue but
21:17he
21:17didn't say a single word he stood up he turned and walked away the moment he stepped out of the
21:22warehouse he stood alone in the storm carla are you cold nobody answered he was stripped of all his
21:29power kicked out of the empire he built with his own two hands abandoned by everyone
21:36father was sent away to an old house in the suburbs it was the family's very first house
21:40a hundred years old broken down freezing cold and full of drafts nobody came to visit him his
21:47old crew his allies his friends they all vanished only luca risked coming by he dropped off food and
21:54supplies don how are you holding up father sat in the dark living room wearing my broken black ring on
21:59his own finger luca did it hurt when she died i asked if it hurt don a ruptured appendix hurts
22:08it
22:09hurts a lot father looked down at the ring on his hand it's still black don it's broken it's always
22:17going to be black it's real it's telling me she lied she's a liar she's a bad kid don you
22:24need to see
22:25doctor i don't need a doctor i need carla luca left father sat alone in the old house day after
22:34day
22:34he started cooking every day he made two fried eggs two plates of pasta two glasses of wine one for
22:42his
22:42side of the table one for mine carla time to eat no raw oysters today just the eggs you like
22:50then he sat down and ate his food halfway through he looked across the table he stared at the empty
22:56chair why aren't you eating do you hate it he stared at the ring the ring was black are you
23:04lying
23:04again it tastes fine why won't you eat a corione does not lie then he broke down he dropped to
23:12his
23:12knees i'm sorry i'm so sorry dad was wrong just take one bite please just one bite he slammed his
23:21head against the ground over and over his forehead split open blood dripped down his face
23:28the pain is this how much it hurt carla he started punishing himself exactly how he used to punish him
23:36he forced himself to eat spoiled rotting food he ate until he threw up then he kept eating he locked
23:42himself in the basement he kept all the lights off in the dark he faced the wall he fell to
23:48his knees
23:48he found a rusty nail he sliced his own fingers open he used his blood to write on the wall
23:54i'm sorry
23:55dad was wrong black means pain black means love please come back just tell me it hurts one more time
24:02i swear i'll save you over and over again when the blood dried he cut himself again new words over
24:08old
24:08words bright red blood over dry black blood deep in the night he looked up the black ring caught the
24:14faint light it shined on the bloody words like my bleeding eyes were staring right back at him
24:19he kept writing he filled the entire wall then he went back to the corner and started writing it all
24:25over
24:25again father ended up in an asylum luca found him passed out in the basement his head was busted open
24:34blood everywhere a 104 degree fever don't don't father woke up he looked at luca and smiled carla came
24:43to get me luca put him in a private asylum built by the family for our own kind father was
24:49their
24:49craziest patient he found a black plastic ring somewhere he wore it on his finger all the time
24:54if anyone tried he bit them like a rabbit dog don't touch my ring carla is watching she'll be mad
25:03he
25:03developed a terrifying reflex veto did you eat father would touch his plastic ring black it's black
25:12don't punish me i'll eat i'll eat
25:17even the scalding italian risotto he forced down spoonful by spoonful it had been simmered with strong
25:23liquor so hot it burned his throat raw so spicy it set his stomach on fire he dared not stop
25:28he
25:28dared not spit it out because before i died i had a 104 degree fever kneeling on freezing stones he
25:35was
25:35forcing himself to live my hell over and over again years passed marianne grew up raised by uncle michael
25:42she learned a real mob way lying cheating using people but she wasn't the heir michael had his own kids
25:49she was pushed aside treated like a pawn she hit rock bottom drugs gambling massive debt when she
25:57ran out of cash she remembered her crazy dad she came to the hospital not out of love for money
26:06hey old man uncle michael died you get a cut give me your power of attorney i'll sign for you
26:16she was 20 but she looked 40 she looked at his pathetic state and spit on the floor
26:22you're disgusting just like your dead daughter she ruined everything for us even after she died
26:29but he heard that he slowly looked up his cloudy eyes suddenly went clear just for a second he remembered
26:36the toy ring the fake green light that fooled him for 10 years it was you you lied to me
26:42the fake
26:43green light you killed carla she was just stupid couldn't act couldn't pretend give me my carla back
26:53back she's been dead for 10 years she's rotted into nothing father's last bit of sanity snapped
27:00he lunged at her his giant hands locked right around her throat
27:04die you die it should have been you she fought hard help
27:15nurses rushed in they jammed a sedative needle into his arm they barely pulled him off her terrified
27:21marianne ran for her life crazy you're all crazy right into the street a speeding delivery truck
27:30couldn't stop in time it sent her flying through the air she didn't die but her legs were completely
27:36crushed she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair totally useless back inside father was
27:42strapped to a bed crying at the ceiling he finally saw me in his dreams i was still 12 years
27:47old wearing
27:48a pretty white dress dad he opened his arms crying tears of joy but then he looked down his hands
27:56were
27:57covered in blood the second he touched me i turned right into ash the black plastic ring was still there
28:04locked tight on his finger i stood in the empty air i watched it all happen i watched my godfather
28:12suffer in the asylum i watched marianne begging on the streets with crushed legs i watched uncle michael
28:17lose everything and die young but i didn't feel any joy i didn't feel like i got my revenge i
28:23just
28:23felt quiet quiet as dead water an old dog stood next to me he was my puppy from when i
28:29was little
28:29father always said dogs were dirty he said they ruined the expensive rugs so he had my dog thrown out
28:35he was hit by a car on the street but he waited for me here for 10 whole years the
28:40dog rubbed against
28:41my leg he barked twice like he was saying let's go stop looking he was right it was time this
28:48life
28:49was too painful there was nothing left to stay for i floated into father's hospital room for one last
28:55goodbye he lay on the bed he looked like a skeleton his hair was pure white he was strapped down
29:01so he
29:01wouldn't hurt himself that black plastic ring was still on his finger he seemed to feel something his
29:07cloudy eyes stared right into the empty air carla is that you his shaking hand reached out grabbing at
29:16nothing i smashed the ring i don't believe it anymore please come back baby i'll cook for you
29:26no oysters i'll buy you dresses none for marianne i'll make you the air you'll be the done i looked
29:35at
29:35the bloody marks on his ring finger and i let out a soft sigh i reached out i touched his
29:40forehead with
29:41my freezing ghost finger it was my very last act of mercy i just let him sleep because when you
29:46sleep
29:46it stops hurting he went totally quiet his heavy eyelids shut tight he fell into a deep sleep a soft
29:53breeze blew through the room there was a stack of papers on his nightstand luca had sneaked them in
29:58they were rubbings from the basement wall the words i carved over the years layer upon layer
30:03red black and brown the top page had father's own words the doctor said he wrote it during his last
30:09clear moment next life let me wear the ring let me be the liar let me kneel in the basement
30:15let me feel
30:16the pain let me die you can punish me just please don't leave me i will do anything i stared
30:23at those
30:23words i felt nothing at all it was too late dad i don't hate you anymore but i don't love
30:30you either
30:33let's not meet again in the next life i turned around with my old dog a bright door appeared in
30:38the distance a way out of this nightmare i raised my ghost hand the phantom ring was still there the
30:44nightmare that ruined my entire life i squeezed my hand tight crack the ring shattered into tiny pieces of
30:51light it faded right into the air i felt so light no more black light no more punishment no more
30:58lies
30:58just pure freedom i walked into the light i never looked back morning sun filled the hospital room
31:07veto time for your meds the man on the bed didn't move the nurse walked closer his hand was gripping
31:14the bloody paper rubbing tight the one he traced with his own blood a single clear tear rested on his
31:19cheek beside him the heart monitor the wavy line of light turned into a single endless straight line
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