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00:00Tonight on Wiseguy...
00:02You're thinking of serving up our business for dinner? That's insane!
00:05It's my business before it's our business!
00:09This is a chance for us to get into the rag trade at a level we've never been before.
00:13You want to give this to Terranova?
00:15You can't selectively cooperate.
00:17And you can't use me as a trough to feed Goombas to the Justice Department.
00:21But what are you doing to me, Vinny?
00:22What do I have left when you are done?
00:24David, I will not let that happen, believe me.
00:30The End
02:30You'll get a piece of material that'll feed your family through another season.
02:34And when something goes wrong, you don't cry about it, you fix it.
02:38You don't think about it, you do it.
02:40Like this, like this.
02:41You understand?
02:42Dad.
02:45She doesn't speak English.
02:47Damn it, where's Bill?
02:49I sent him home to make the sucker.
02:51He used to be the best cutter in the business.
02:53Now he's taking advantage of me.
02:54Let me see.
02:56Turn around.
02:57Oh, here.
02:58Work it, sweetheart.
02:59Work it.
03:02You took care of customs.
03:03There's a lot of red tape.
03:05You don't know how to deal with anything that isn't neat and clean, do you?
03:08What I certainly don't know how to do is finish a sentence around you.
03:10So finish.
03:11The Korean order came in on Japanese documents.
03:14Japan's exceeded quota.
03:15Now, I've already talked to the international trade guy at Haim's office.
03:18It could take a month.
03:19A month?
03:20I'm eating a couple of million dollars.
03:22How many times have I told you, do not take no for an answer?
03:25$14,000.
03:26Mr. Jackson's here.
03:43Did you see Cope Arnold?
03:45Yeah, he doesn't have the money.
03:47Can't you do anything right?
03:50I made the dean's list.
03:52I was thinking this decade.
04:03It's a beaut, huh, George?
04:05It could sell in the window.
04:07So, uh, what do we got here?
04:11Poly ray cotton.
04:12Profits built in.
04:14Take a good look.
04:15Does this feel good?
04:17Very good.
04:19You want to have dinner?
04:22I have to check my calendar.
04:26What do you think you want to take, George?
04:28You think she'll go out with me?
04:30George, you've got great charisma.
04:31Let's do the order first.
04:33I don't want your casuals.
04:35But I'll take 300 units each on the career line,
04:38and, uh, you can give me that in a vibrant blue and green?
04:41Of course.
04:42All right, 200.
04:44I need it on the floor in three weeks.
04:46Three weeks?
04:47Put a gun to my head.
04:49Anything else, Eli?
04:51What about tonight?
04:56Three weeks, George?
04:59Tack on the overtime.
05:01And I'll cover it.
05:04Tonight's just fine, Mr. Jackson.
05:11Half a million dollar short order.
05:12And two million mildewing in the harbor.
05:15Coke bottles will cover it.
05:21No problem with the 500K.
05:23Good.
05:24What about the two million?
05:25You're dreaming.
05:26I'm dreaming?
05:28Who do you think you're talking to?
05:30Guy.
05:31I'm talking to Guy.
05:33He's hiding in the refrigerator.
05:34Johnny, I've got to reproduce and deliver on that order in ten days,
05:37or I eat it.
05:38You want the 500?
05:39No problem.
05:40The two mil.
05:41It ain't there.
05:43Johnny, 25 years, Johnny.
05:47I helped you get started.
05:49You want two mil, huh?
05:51There's only one place in 7th Avenue where you get that kind of cash.
05:54We don't do business there.
05:56I'll make that decision.
06:00Come on.
06:02Come on.
06:06You want the 500 or not?
06:07Yeah, I want the 500.
06:08You know what you are, Johnny?
06:11Yeah.
06:12I know what I am.
06:13A survivor.
06:23Mr. Pinzola's office.
06:25Mr. P.
06:26Johnny Coke Bottles calling.
06:29I got over $125,000 in T-bills and stocks I can borrow gifts.
06:32You got over $800,000 in equity on your castle.
06:35You don't put your personal property at risk for business.
06:38Oh, that's smart.
06:39That is really smart.
06:40You put your life at risk, but you keep your estate intact.
06:43I've been doing business with Pinzola for 40 years.
06:46With his father for trucking.
06:48Going to Rick for money is stupid.
06:50I won't have you using that tone of voice with me.
06:52What you know about this business, you could put in a thimble.
06:55What's going to be left of this business after Pinzola's through with it, you can put in a thimble.
07:00Dad, I went to school with Rick.
07:02He's not his father.
07:03He keeps score by consumption.
07:05You're thinking of serving up our business for dinner.
07:07That's insane.
07:08It's my business before it's our business.
07:16Look, Dad.
07:17David.
07:18David.
07:18It will work out.
07:20It always does.
07:21Forget about it for now.
07:23Let's have a nice circus.
07:24Let's have a nice circus.
07:55You made a beautiful sukkah again, Uncle Phil.
07:57Same old sukkah.
07:59Hey, what is wrong with your father?
08:02Who knows?
08:03Who knows?
08:03He's usually all teeth at these things, showing off his latest shiksa wife.
08:09Business is bothering you?
08:10You've been through it before.
08:13I was there at the beginning.
08:15Uncle Phil.
08:16I was the beginning, David.
08:19My God.
08:21There's your family.
08:22Yeah, I always put separate.
08:23Carol.
08:25David.
08:26Hi.
08:28Hi, sweetheart.
08:29Hi.
08:29Mwah.
08:30You look great.
08:31Lil.
08:32Lil, you look wonderful.
08:34Hi.
08:38Such a warm woman.
08:40Don't pick on my mother.
08:42You know she hates these family things.
08:43What she hates is my father, who is certainly not Ben-Gurion, but hate.
08:47She wouldn't be happy if she wasn't hating somebody.
08:51I've got to talk to you.
08:53Ira, do me a favor.
08:55Could you take this?
08:56Sure.
08:57What's up?
08:59Carol, you're pretty directly involved in some nature takeovers, right?
09:03Yeah.
09:04We've got a problem at Elrose.
09:06We're in the position of not making deadline on an order without a $2 million line of credit.
09:10We've got a solid contract to borrow against.
09:13You know anybody we could turn to for an assist?
09:16David, there's nobody in this family I care about as much as you.
09:20That's a no, right?
09:21I put together $250,000.
09:24You can have it all.
09:25I need $2 million.
09:26I'm about to put together the biggest deal of my life.
09:30If I go in asking for this kind of favor, it's going to dilute my position with the company.
09:35I understand.
09:40What about the Shiksa goddess?
09:42Isn't she all money?
09:44She's all pretense.
09:45She's just another Midwest spy who saw Dad as the best bet for her new fall on.
09:50Well, rumor has it that she tried you on first.
09:53Carol.
09:53Well, is it true?
09:55Carol, how...
10:00Well...
10:01Come on.
10:02You remember how it used to be.
10:04Hopping bars on Columbus Avenue.
10:06Three o'clock in the morning.
10:08A little too much champagne.
10:10A little too much smoke.
10:13I don't know, three years later.
10:14Who remembers who you're bumping into.
10:16You know, you don't remember names or faces or...
10:21Actually, I do...
10:22I do remember a little mold.
10:26David.
10:29Where are you going to get this money?
10:34Okay.
10:37Hey, come on, forget that.
10:38I don't want you feeling guilty.
10:41It's out there.
10:42Somebody will sell us the money.
10:43The money is no problem.
10:46The money is a pleasure.
10:48To help the Sternbergs is an opportunity for me.
10:52Okay, this is the deal.
10:54Money at two points above prime.
10:57Consulting fee of 1% a month on a full loan, while money is outstanding.
11:03All checks to all vendors will be drawn directly from this office, for which there is a one-point monthly
11:07service fee.
11:08And your contract with Amici Trucking will be updated to reflect contemporary charging practices, $0.04 a unit.
11:21That's more than double what we're paying Amici now.
11:24I know, yeah.
11:25I had an agreement with your father.
11:27Going back 40 years, I know.
11:31My father, God bless him, he had a heart of gold.
11:34But as a businessman, and I mean no disrespect, he was an idiot.
11:39So.
11:43Maybe you should shop a deal before you decide.
11:48Who's got time for shopping?
11:50You got a deal.
11:53David.
11:54We did a deal.
12:01I didn't know you collected art.
12:05Oh, yeah, yeah, art.
12:07Art's something you keep your money in while you're looking for a better place to put it.
12:12Would you like some juice?
12:13Uh, no, thank you.
12:15Um, when do you think, Rick?
12:17Uh, the paperwork this afternoon?
12:20You can, uh, cut the checks the minute you sign it.
12:23Fine.
12:24Come on, David.
12:28David, stick around for a minute.
12:29I'd like to, uh, to talk, if that's...
12:32Yeah, it's okay, I'll, I'll be too late.
12:36Yeah.
12:38What's the matter with you?
12:41You object to this arrangement?
12:42I'm gagging on it.
12:43Why?
12:45Who are you kidding, Rick?
12:46Tell me your intent isn't taking over railroads and draining its assets.
12:50You show me once where you haven't done that.
12:53This is a business.
12:54This is my future.
12:56It's not another collectible you can hang on your wall while you're looking for a better place to put your
13:00money.
13:00My father's convinced himself he can deal with you because he's dealt with your father.
13:03Mm-hmm.
13:04He's so desperate, he's obliviating that little bit of telling nostalgia.
13:08Calling your father an idiot businessman?
13:11I didn't know you harbored such deep resentment.
13:14Resentment?
13:16Try fear.
13:19I've seen the gun in your hand, Ricky.
13:22Oh, yeah.
13:25That was a long time ago.
13:27Come on.
13:30There's no gun here.
13:33It's still there.
13:35I can see it in your eyes.
13:39I can read you.
13:41I've been able to read you since college.
13:44We were kids then.
13:46Those were good times, huh?
13:48They were worthless.
13:50The world wasn't real to me then.
13:53Well, it is now, David.
13:55Let me tell you something.
13:58Old college buddies will only cut you so much slack.
14:03Okay?
14:03Okay?
14:06Don't stand in my way.
14:17Mr. Sternberg, rest assured, the government sympathizes with your situation.
14:22Sympathy I can get from my mother.
14:23I came to you because my business is in danger.
14:26What was your father's business?
14:27It will be my business.
14:28I'm trying to prevent it from being bled white.
14:31Who by?
14:34Look, Mr. Repstein, I don't know how much you know about the rag trade, but I've got $2 million
14:41worth of winter coordinates floating out in the harbor because some jerk in customs made
14:45a mistake on a bill of lading.
14:47Three months ago, we had a fire at our factory, Milk Sparrow.
14:51A few weeks before that, at our place in Reading, two of our cutting machines went down at the
14:55same time.
14:57Has Elro's been making enemies lately?
15:00What I need you to understand is what kind of man my father is.
15:03When he was a kid, his bedroom was a closet.
15:07Literally a closet.
15:09There's no difference between business and personal.
15:12With him, everything is personal.
15:14Every time he gets an order, he's back in Flatbush again, fighting to get out.
15:19Do you have orders to fill?
15:21$500,000.
15:22Three-week turnaround.
15:24Goods tied up, fires, machine breakdowns.
15:26Sounds like Elro's is in need of ready cash.
15:29You go to your factor.
15:31It's a guy named Johnny Pakula.
15:33You go to Coke bottles.
15:34Maybe he doesn't have it.
15:36Or maybe he does and he won't give.
15:37You have a delivery date.
15:39And if you're one day late, they can refuse to accept and you got buckets.
15:43So you go elsewhere because you need the money.
15:46Where does your father go, Dave?
15:48Feinstein?
15:50Pellegra?
15:52You came to us, am I right?
15:57You know, I was in the Navy.
16:00And after six months at sea, you're so horny you could deflect bullets.
16:04You don't care who, you don't care what.
16:06You need a broad.
16:07You've seen the films, you know the risks.
16:09Means nothing.
16:10Because you need.
16:11So you do.
16:12Then later you realize you got a souvenir.
16:16Maybe you notice it in time, you get rid of it.
16:18But maybe you don't.
16:20Before you know it, it eats away inside you until your brain looks like Swiss cheese.
16:25And then, boy chick, you die a death I wouldn't wish on Hitler.
16:29All because of need.
16:31Look, Marv Bubbler, you don't have to boy chick me.
16:35I came in here ready to blow the whistle.
16:37I'm not an idiot.
16:38I read the papers.
16:40The guys who are dirty, they continue to eat at 21 and the whistleblowers get nailed to a cross.
16:45Where did your father go?
16:48I want your word and my father won't be prosecuted.
16:53I can't give you that.
16:55Not until I know who the players are.
16:57I want your word.
16:59My father won't be prosecuted.
17:02Give me the right name and you've got it.
17:06Ricky Pinzolo.
17:08My father borrowed money from Ricky Pinzolo.
17:12We've used their trucks for 38 years, but we never, we never went to them for money.
17:18I told my father to wait it out.
17:19We'll get the money somewhere else, but he's a real stubborn son of a bitch.
17:22He's ruled by his emotions.
17:24His ego tells him he can get out of Pinzolo's grip.
17:28Nobody else has been able to.
17:30Why him?
17:35Well, it took a lot of guts to open up like that.
17:38Thanks to Marv Epstein, the Bureau's version of sodium pentothal.
17:42All right.
17:43Now, what we have here is a partial breakdown of the garment industry in New York.
17:48Generates $20 billion a year annually.
17:51These are some of the guys that slice up the pie.
17:53Now, the broken lines indicate suspected connections, but nothing that'll stand up in court.
17:58Now, this is Alrose Fashions.
18:00That's Eli and David Sternberg.
18:02The subsidiaries are Stylist Juniors and Missy Renee.
18:05Now, they ship with Amici Trucking, which is one of the six companies controlled,
18:09if you follow the yellow brick road far enough, by Ricky Pinzolo.
18:13Pinzolo has never been charged with any criminal activity.
18:16He inherited control of trucking.
18:18Union organizing, loan sharking, political corruption from his father, Carmine.
18:23Now, the point is that David Sternberg is so worried about his father, the business, or himself
18:29that he's willing to throw out the welcome mat for us.
18:31That would mean that David Sternberg knows our undercover operative.
18:34Correct.
18:35What about Eli Sternberg?
18:37As far as Eli Sternberg is concerned, or anybody else at Alrose,
18:40our operative is a former bent nose who is now a corporate security specialist.
18:44Now, this is a chance for us to get into the rag trade at a level we've never been before.
18:48We get to fill in some of these broken lines.
18:51You want to give this to Terranova?
18:52Yep.
18:53What makes you think he'll take it?
18:55Pinzolo is the pinnacle of organized crime in a multi-billion dollar industry.
18:59If Vinnie feels like he can trust Sternberg, he'll take it.
19:05Thanks, Jess.
19:06I won't be that long.
19:32Vinnie Terranova?
19:34Yeah.
19:35I'm David Sternberg.
19:37Yeah, I know.
19:38Send your limo back to the office.
19:41What?
19:42I don't want it parked in front of my house.
19:48Jason, go back to the office.
19:49I'll take a cab.
19:51All right.
20:00You know what they say, less is more.
20:07My grandmother had a house like this.
20:09Yeah, it was my mother's house.
20:10She gave it to me when she remarried.
20:12I like being in the neighborhood.
20:14Anything else you want to know?
20:16No.
20:17Now, why should I make you the most important man in my life?
20:22All I know about you is what's in your file.
20:24Well, you're a rich man's kid who likes the beautiful people in the club scene.
20:31And you like to take flings, promote concerts, running restaurants, producing off-Broadway.
20:39But when things go sour, you come running home to daddy.
20:43Look, Mr. Terranova, with all due respect, you don't know what you're talking about.
20:47What I don't know is why I should walk into your world and trust you to keep me alive.
20:51Because that's your job.
20:53Look, I didn't ask to come here.
20:55Epstein told me to do it, so I did.
20:56You're not doing me any favors.
20:58I put my father's life, my own, and our business on the line by letting us become your conduit to
21:03Pinzolo.
21:04I don't need any favors from you.
21:08You're right, David.
21:11Look, I got a friend to get your deal on some blinds.
21:14You want to do verticals?
21:15Does Eli know I'm joining the firm?
21:18Yeah, when we get to the office, don't worry.
21:19It won't be a problem.
21:20Fire that son of a bitch!
21:22Dad?
21:22Dad?
21:23Without talking to me, you hire an ex-con that's a security specialist, and you tell him about the business.
21:30There are problems, Dad.
21:32There are always problems.
21:34I take care of them myself.
21:36Fire him!
21:37I can't.
21:37Well, then get him in here.
21:38I'll do it.
21:39He's already cashed his first check.
21:40Fire him, you're out.
21:41Ten thousand bucks.
21:45Have you ever wanted anything that I didn't give you?
21:48When you were sixteen years old, you went to Europe.
21:50You wanted the Red Alpha in college, you got the Red Alpha.
21:53Dad, this isn't about what I drove twenty years ago.
21:56Then what is it about?
21:57It's about what you started and what I'm gonna finish.
21:59Every day you remind me, it's your business, it's your business.
22:03Well, someday it's gonna be mine.
22:04It's my future, I have the right to protect it, even from you.
22:11All right, David, where is he?
22:24Vinny Terranova, this is my father, Eli Sternberg.
22:26How do you do?
22:27Glad to know you.
22:27Welcome aboard.
22:28Good to be here.
22:31Security specialist, huh?
22:32That's right.
22:33Would you like to tell me about your qualifications?
22:36Well, I...
22:36Or better yet, why don't you just make a muscle?
22:40My son here thinks we have problems I can't handle.
22:43Now, I'm busy.
22:44I have to go to work.
22:45And since you've already cast your check, I'd like you to see Johnny Coke bottles.
22:49He used to be my factor.
22:51Tell him I sent you.
22:52Then beat his head in, then I never want to see you again.
23:07What's this to you?
23:10This is all I have.
23:11It's all I have.
23:13Not enough.
23:13$3,500 a week's your tap machine.
23:16Please.
23:17It's been a bad month.
23:19If you had a bad month, I have to suffer, huh?
23:22I want the money you owe me.
23:23I don't get the money you owe me.
23:24Your wife and kids aren't going to be safe hiding in Fort Lee.
23:32You got one more week, Rashid.
23:34And then things start to get rough.
23:37Say goodbye, huh?
23:40Immigrants.
23:41You owe the album, and you take it up to Ying.
23:44What can I do you for?
23:45I want you to tell me why you won't cooperate when it comes to lending Eli Sternberg money.
23:49Who the hell are you?
23:50My name's Vinny Taranova.
23:53I work for Mr. Sternberg in an advisory capacity, and I advise you to tell me why all of a
23:57sudden your well ran dry.
23:59Close the door, Vinny.
24:08You had a pretty good run down Atlantic City, didn't you?
24:11That clown, Steelgrave, went up like a Christmas tree.
24:15Same Taranova?
24:15Yeah, so what?
24:17Let me illuminate you.
24:18This is the real world.
24:19There's no glamour here, no showgirls in the casinos.
24:23And you don't come around to asking questions without prior approval.
24:27And that approval don't come from Eli Sternberg.
24:36Better up?
24:39I said get out of here.
24:41I said get out of here.
25:22Who is it?
25:24Rick Pinzolo.
25:28Who?
25:30Mr. Pinzolo.
25:32Come on in.
25:44Vinny Taranova?
25:45Mr. Pinzolo.
25:49Why are you so rude to me, Vince?
25:50Oh, I'm sorry.
25:51I'd get up, but I'm working on one wheel right now.
25:55You want a beer or something?
25:56No, no, no.
25:57No.
25:58Thanks.
26:01So what are you doing?
26:03You're working my business, huh?
26:06I had to find this out secondhand.
26:13Now, you're 100% correct, Mr. Pinzolo.
26:16I'm sorry.
26:17It was rude not to call on you.
26:19I didn't think I was working your business.
26:21David Sternberg hired me to keep an eye on his father.
26:23He's under a lot of pressure.
26:25If the problems the Sternbergs have are with you, I'll quit immediately.
26:28The industry's problems are my problems.
26:32You see, we're all singular parts of a unified, holistic community called 7th Avenue.
26:37And as much as you work for them, you work for me.
26:41Now, Eli does not need to know this.
26:44You see what I'm saying, Vince?
26:47Yeah, it's very clear, Mr. Pinzolo.
26:50Okay.
26:51Rick.
26:52Rick.
26:54Vince.
26:57Vince.
26:58I want you to wear this, okay?
27:00It's my private little connection with you.
27:02And I don't want to hear that, you know, like the batteries have gone dead or something.
27:06That's not a problem.
27:08Is there anything else?
27:09No, no.
27:10That's it.
27:11Just, uh, do your job and, uh, I'll be back in touch.
27:17Okay.
27:22Hey, Rick.
27:25Did this come from you?
27:28What happened?
27:29I got kissed by a Louisville slugger.
27:31Oh, really?
27:35Business should be in simple black and white, huh?
27:38No, no, no.
27:39I have my, uh, dilemmas dealt with bluntly.
27:43Intimidation is not my style.
27:44I had nothing to do with that.
27:46So then you don't have a problem if I collect on this debt, huh?
27:49No, no.
27:51Go ahead.
27:52Knock yourself out.
27:58Oh, by the way, didn't your mother marry, uh, Rafael Aupo?
28:04Yeah.
28:05Well, welcome to La Familia.
28:09Well, thank you.
28:10See you, Vince.
28:11Take care of yourself.
28:21Pinzola came to your house and gave you this?
28:24Yeah.
28:24It's a bug.
28:25It's not a bug, Frank.
28:26It's the normal, everyday pager.
28:28I checked it.
28:29I'm gonna get this guy.
28:31It cannot be that easy.
28:33I'm setting a personal goal for myself here.
28:36All right.
28:36Well, while you're a chummin' for Pinzola, anything else swims your way, you send it to me.
28:41I mean, I'm a Mizzle Mook.
28:42Johnny Coke balls.
28:43You know, the lending he does to the Starnbergs is legitimate, but this guy is definitely a shylock.
28:48I interrupted him, bouncing a guy's head off his refrigerator.
28:50Then he took a baseball bat to my leg.
28:53All right, Vince, just how bad is this?
28:55Probably be gimping around for a couple of weeks.
28:58Anyway, the victim's name is Aaron Farshid.
29:01He's probably an Iranian refugee.
29:03You play your cards right, go cave.
29:05All right, Aaron Farshid.
29:07Any idea where I can find him?
29:09Yeah, he's out in Fort Lee.
29:12Coke bottles threatening his wife and kid.
29:16All right.
29:18I'll work him.
29:19Now, I've got something for you.
29:23Elrose's embargoed goods, the shipping documents and labels were tampered with somewhere between Korea and New York.
29:29Customs didn't bother to look past the dotted line.
29:31And I can release a Starnberg whenever you want.
29:34Well, who tampered with him?
29:35I don't know.
29:36Maybe Pinzola.
29:37Nah.
29:39Pinzola's too big to be wasting time bleeding Elrose.
29:42All right, is there anybody else in this plate that's capable of forging international trade documents at sea?
29:49I don't know.
29:51Well, you want the goods released or not?
29:53Not yet.
29:54I think we can get some mileage out of this.
29:56All right, I'll work for Arshid.
29:57We'll see if we can bring down Johnny Coke bottles.
29:59After what he did to me, I'm living for it.
30:02I'm going to drive him right into your arms and he's going to give us Pinzola.
30:06Well, you're awful sure of yourself.
30:08Frank, Pinzola tried to put a collar on me.
30:10I don't like being led around at the end of a leash.
30:13Gee.
30:15I would have never known that.
30:20I said ten days, not ten working days.
30:22Don't you people ever work weekends for crying out loud?
30:27Phil, you want me to roll my sleeves up?
30:29You're not a cutter, everybody.
30:30And what is that supposed to mean?
30:32Dad.
30:32Talk to Morty.
30:33If the caucas shops will assemble, we can meet Jackson's deadline.
30:36Good.
30:36You did something right.
30:37You noticed.
30:38Yeah.
30:39One in a row.
30:40And you.
30:41I send you to see Pinzola and you come back on the disability list.
30:44That's perfect.
30:50Obnoxious, isn't he?
30:52But he was tough to grow up with.
30:53It's amazing I don't have menstrual cramps.
30:58Listen, I need to talk to you privately, all right?
31:00Yeah.
31:09Johnny Coke bottles for Kula.
31:11Hold it.
31:13Why?
31:14This guy is a Shylock that hurts people.
31:16I can testify to that.
31:17I didn't come to you about Johnny Coke bottles.
31:19I know why you came to us.
31:20And let's stick to the agenda.
31:22You can't selectively cooperate.
31:23And you can't use me as a trough to feed Goombas to the Justice Department.
31:27You let that geek zap you.
31:29He's bragging about it all over town.
31:30And now I'm supposed to help you with some petty getting even?
31:33This stinks, my friend.
31:35Is this the price I'm supposed to pay for protection?
31:38Becoming an informant?
31:39What are you doing to me, Vinny?
31:42What do I have left when you are done?
31:46You're right.
31:48You're absolutely right.
31:51I'm climbing a mountain here, David.
31:53If you can't help me get my footing, then how am I supposed to help you?
32:09Love being an adult.
32:12Yeah, me too.
32:14Want to go to a one-day game?
32:16Yeah, sure.
32:18Want to get out of this business?
32:21Yeah.
32:25Yes!
32:31I'm going to spend the next three years up to my public in depositions, interrogatories, and federal courts.
32:37Or eternity in a cornerstone of some Staten Island social club.
32:41David.
32:42I will not let that happen.
32:47Why do I believe this guy?
32:52Johnny Coat Bottles Bakula is the moral equivalent of sludge, which makes him indistinguishable for most people in his line
32:58of work.
32:59Yeah, I know that, but is he directly connected to Benzola?
33:04Benzola's got his hands in just about everybody's pocket, so to that degree, he probably has an arm's-length relationship
33:10with Coat Bottles.
33:13Maybe you're right to go after him.
33:14I mean, maybe Johnny didn't give us the money because Benzola told him not to.
33:18Well, why would he do that?
33:19Because we're here.
33:20I mean, to use your mountain-climbing analogy, he's a conqueror of rag merchants.
33:25We're here.
33:26He'll conquer us.
33:27That's reason enough.
33:45Hey, Johnny.
33:47Where's your stun gun?
33:53Benzola gave me permission.
33:55Okay, okay.
33:56Now even.
33:56Not even yet, Johnny.
34:00There you go.
34:01Yeah, yeah.
34:03Now where are you?
34:07Better off.
34:09Get out of here, pretty boy.
34:17Get out of here.
34:29Mr. Benzola's office.
34:30Mr. Pete.
34:31Yeah, Johnny.
34:32If she'd talk, Johnny.
34:34I'm sorry.
34:35Johnny's gonna have to call you back.
34:37Right now, he's being arrested.
34:53Ted.
34:55Ted.
35:09Vinnie just called. He wants us to meet him down at the loading dock.
35:16Morty's factory was hit with a wildcat strike.
35:19They never talked to him. They just walked.
35:24We'll never make the Jackson delivery date.
35:31David, we've lost a half a million dollars.
35:36Why is this happening?
35:40It's like, it's like I'm a leper.
35:43Our goods are still stuck on the ship.
35:46I never missed a delivery date.
35:49In 40 years, I never missed.
35:54You'll make it work.
35:58You always do.
36:01Let me ask you something, David.
36:04I'm your father.
36:06How could you ever think of me as an enemy?
36:09I mean, when you said that you had to protect your future from me,
36:14that hurt me very much, David.
36:17Dad, we say things when we're upset.
36:21All of us.
36:22Not me.
36:24No, not you.
36:25No.
36:25David, we have to try to be nicer to each other.
36:37Vinny's waiting for us down at the dock.
36:40His week is over tomorrow.
36:43I want him out of here.
36:45Okay?
36:47Okay.
36:56I'm in a production crisis, Terranova.
36:58What is it?
36:59You got your Korean merchandise.
37:04Everything's here?
37:05Every snap, button, and zipper.
37:13How'd you do that?
37:15I made a muscle.
37:18I love this man.
37:20At last, we got a guy with some moxie.
37:23Consider yourself employed on a long-term contract.
37:27Thank you very much.
37:29So, Dad, what are we going to do about Jackson's order?
37:35Tomorrow morning, I pay off Pinzola.
37:38I go to the bank, and I borrow against this merchandise.
37:43Then I have the cash I need to go to Cutters as far away as Carolina.
37:47The hell with Morty's Wildcatters.
37:50I can fill Jackson's order without them.
37:52But I'm going to have to pay Pinzola 35 grand for one week's vig
37:57because you were sitting on your brains in customs.
38:08I made a muscle.
38:11I love that man.
38:23Take it from me, love is fleeting.
38:27Here's your lunch money.
38:28I don't eat lunch.
38:30Oh, that's right.
38:31You puree it, don't you?
38:33How'd you get the money so fast?
38:34Oh, my little problem with customs was resolved.
38:37Your father, may God rest his soul, and me,
38:40if we had a problem, we handled it ourselves.
38:43We got our hands dirty.
38:44Yeah, that relationship served you well, didn't it?
38:47You skated for years paying bar in your basement trucking rates.
38:50I agreed to pay the going rate.
38:53The going rate is gone.
38:55It'll be eight and two.
38:56How the hell am I going to live at eight and two?
38:58I guess you'll have to get your hands dirty.
39:00Well, I'm not going to pay it.
39:02I'll get independence.
39:03I'll pick up drivers on the street.
39:06You'll pay it, Eli.
39:08Because as far as you're concerned,
39:09Amici trucks are the only trucks in town.
39:11You're going to get somebody else to drive for you?
39:13Who?
39:14The union won't allow it.
39:17And you're a little too old to get behind the wheel yourself.
39:20Your father would never do this.
39:23Punk.
39:31Boy, ten years ago, half of what walked in here alone?
39:33Wouldn't wake up that way.
39:35Ten years ago, I wouldn't have walked in here at all.
39:39You married?
39:41No.
39:42Ever?
39:43No.
39:44You should.
39:45Everybody should.
39:47They should go home and be with their kids at night.
39:50Rather than this every other weekend,
39:51we better have fun routine.
39:54How old are your kids?
39:55Five and seven.
39:57Boys.
39:58That's nice.
39:59Yeah.
40:00The other day, the older one says,
40:01Dad, when I grow up,
40:03you want me to come into the business with you.
40:06And I say, honey, you can be whatever you want to be.
40:08I'll be happy.
40:09As long as you're happy.
40:11He thinks it over for a while and says,
40:14No, I don't think so.
40:17I said, why?
40:19He says, because then we couldn't be friends.
40:22David.
40:23Margo.
40:25Oh, you look great.
40:27Why don't you give me a call later?
40:29Okay.
40:30Gotcha.
40:31So who's that?
40:33CPF.
40:35CPF?
40:36Close personal friend.
40:37It's the 12th CPF tonight.
40:39We've only been here ten minutes.
40:41It's the fringes of the trade.
40:43The fringes of my trade are tattoos and cigars.
40:46I'm talking about girls.
40:48Yeah, so am I.
40:50Oh, oh.
40:52I didn't order any champagne.
40:54I did.
40:55Thanks, brother.
40:58I'll put it.
41:01Ooh, look at this here.
41:03The last time I checked,
41:04this stuff was going for a hundred and a half a bottle.
41:08You saved Delrose two million dollars.
41:11I can splurge.
41:12It's another day at the office, David.
41:13You know what I mean?
41:15Sir.
41:16Vincenzo.
41:18How long do you think it will take to
41:22find what you're looking for?
41:24You mean how long till I'm gone, right?
41:28Listen, David.
41:32Pinsola didn't stay out of the slammer
41:34all these years because he's stupid.
41:36Now, he's far from stupid.
41:39So, there's no time frame on this?
41:43I don't know.
41:44No, what I mean is it could take months, years.
41:47I don't know.
41:49You're okay.
41:54Thanks for the two million.
41:57Shantan.
41:58Chaim.
42:01Did I say that right?
42:03Fine.
42:06So, how long have you been divorced?
42:08Four years, three and a half months.
42:11Probably the first decision I ever made
42:12that my father agreed with.
42:15The day my father divorced my mother,
42:17gave her a diamond necklace,
42:18and he said,
42:19this is for all the years
42:20I couldn't afford it.
42:23Hmm.
42:25Did he talk to your father?
42:28Nah, he died when I was 18.
42:30I'm sorry.
42:32He wasn't much of a talker anyway.
42:36Even when you screwed up,
42:37he didn't talk.
42:38He hit,
42:40but he didn't talk.
42:44Was your dad proud of you?
42:47At the time he died,
42:49I don't know,
42:50I guess there wasn't much
42:51to be proud of.
42:52You were his son.
42:56You know how hard it is
42:57to make money off Broadway?
42:59It's real hard.
43:00I did it,
43:02but it wasn't good enough.
43:03Nothing is ever good enough
43:04regardless of what I did.
43:06It wasn't good enough.
43:07The play didn't go to Broadway.
43:08Not good enough.
43:10Six years ago,
43:11he begs me to come
43:12into the business.
43:12The man sat at the front table
43:14at Ratna's crying for me
43:15to come into the business.
43:17You know,
43:17the business has gone 30%
43:19since then.
43:19Oh, but I'm sure
43:20I had nothing to do with that.
43:22I mean,
43:22we both know I have
43:23absolutely no talent
43:24for this business.
43:27You know what I,
43:27you know what I really
43:28don't have?
43:30I don't have his hunger
43:31for it.
43:32He looks at me
43:33and he sees the one thing
43:35he can never have again.
43:37His youth.
43:38Looks at me,
43:39he sees the future
43:40without him.
43:42Drives him nuts.
43:43I only want one thing
43:45from him.
43:45I just want him
43:46to acknowledge
43:47that I have value.
43:52We don't want that,
43:53David, you know.
43:55But your father's
43:57still alive.
43:58you still got
43:59that chance.
44:01I just...
44:09I just...
44:11I just want him
44:11to be my father.
44:14I love that
44:15son of a bitch so much.
44:20Thanks.
44:28You know,
44:29I just figured
44:29that if Eli gets
44:30his merchandise
44:31off the boat,
44:32he's happy.
44:33He pays you back
44:34so you're happy too.
44:36You know,
44:37to be perfectly honest
44:38with you,
44:38I thought you were
44:38calling me up here
44:39to thank me.
44:42I rarely thank people.
44:45The release of Eli's goods
44:47was done without
44:48my knowledge
44:48or consent.
44:50If you want me
44:50to do things
44:51or not do things,
44:52it'd be good
44:53if you let me in on it.
44:54I don't walk around
44:55with a Ouija board.
44:57Where's Johnny Coke bottles?
44:58He's nursing the beating
44:59I gave him.
45:00Oh, you think so?
45:01Yeah.
45:02He was arrested
45:03by federal agents.
45:08What makes you say that?
45:09Because if the NYPD
45:11had him,
45:11I'd know it.
45:14I have led
45:15an unblemished life.
45:17This man
45:19could hurt me.
45:25Good night, Vince.
45:29Good night.
45:32For Sheetz testifying,
45:33you're going to do
45:34hard time, Johnny,
45:35unless you testify
45:36against Penzola.
45:37We'll protect you.
45:38Don't tell me
45:39about protection,
45:40McPike.
45:42Tell Jimmy the weasel
45:43he sings.
45:47You protect him
45:48for life.
45:49So he makes
45:49like Caruso.
45:51And all of a sudden,
45:52you don't want
45:52to protect him anymore.
45:55I give you my word.
45:58Your word.
46:01You don't have
46:01the juice
46:02to make your word
46:03stick.
46:05Penzola has
46:05a contract
46:06on you.
46:07You're lying.
46:08He wants you
46:09dead, John.
46:12You know
46:13who I know
46:13you're lying?
46:15Because if the guy
46:16did have a head
46:17out,
46:17you'd never
46:18get a smell of it.
46:19That's the beauty
46:20of the guy.
46:21You're out of here.
46:22What?
46:22You're out of here.
46:24You're not going
46:24to talk him up,
46:25pay him for your
46:25smokes and your
46:26beer.
46:27You're out
46:27on your own
46:28recognizance.
46:28Will you let me
46:29go?
46:29I'm not letting
46:30you go.
46:30I'm kicking you
46:31out.
46:31No, you can't.
46:32You can't send
46:33me out there.
46:34You can't send
46:35me out there
46:35like this.
46:36Why not?
46:37Penzola's not
46:37after you.
46:38That's what you
46:38said.
46:38You got nothing
46:39to worry about.
46:40You'd never
46:40know if he
46:41had a head
46:41out.
46:42How could
46:43you?
46:43You've got
46:44a man inside
46:45his organization.
46:51Talk to you.
46:52I'm a dead man.
46:53Yeah?
46:55You don't talk
46:56to me.
46:56You're out
46:57that door.
47:02Hold this
47:02week.
47:04John?
47:04John!
47:06John!
47:08John!
47:19All right,
47:19I'll see you
47:20later.
47:22You want a
47:22text?
47:23Good morning,
47:24Mr. Penzola.
47:25You hear about
47:26Johnny Coke bottles?
47:27Yeah.
47:28From page,
47:29huh?
47:30Oh, thank you.
47:31Thank you,
47:32Mr. Penzola.
47:39You're welcome.
47:40O'er
47:43You're welcome.
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