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00:11Tonight on Wiseguy.
00:13Luke Ray played me like an old tomb.
00:16We'll do it again. You know what to listen for?
00:19I have a new manager.
00:20Vinny Terranova.
00:21You can't know how good it feels to be giving my mother this house.
00:24Your deposit was returned against insufficient funds.
00:28I'm not broke, am I?
00:29The bloody thing bounced.
00:30It's that dumb move your wife made.
00:32You hanged out in Vegas, bimbo.
00:38You're a piece of scum for what you did to me.
00:40That's the music business, babe.
01:10That's the music business, babe.
03:26Well, let's hope your gambling habits haven't put us back there.
03:30You know, there are worse things in life than being in the ghetto.
03:33Really?
03:34Name two.
03:36Waking up next to Winston Newquay?
03:38Ew, there's a perverse thought.
03:40What?
03:43What?
03:43What's the second?
03:45Waking up without you.
03:48No, I won't let that happen.
03:51No matter where we end up.
03:53You don't understand, baby.
03:56The feds have me nailed to the wall.
03:58This record return scam translates to tax evasion.
04:02Isaac.
04:04You let your temper get the best to you.
04:06No, no, Cushman.
04:07No, no, Cushman.
04:07He deserved that beating.
04:09We had such a sweet deal going.
04:12I'd ship his retail chain LPs and CDs on the side, and then we'd split the extra cash.
04:18But he has a gall to shortchange me by billing me for some other label's returns.
04:24Gee, how do you like that?
04:26There's just no honor amongst thieves anymore.
04:28You're damn right.
04:29And now he's squawking to the FBI about our deal.
04:32Isaac, this never would have happened if you hadn't have smacked him upside the head with his own walking stick.
04:37How was I supposed to know the law was trailing him?
04:40They're after him.
04:41Now he's giving them me?
04:47So you give them somebody else.
04:50What?
04:51Take the immunity, Isaac.
04:54Hey, I may be broke and going to jail, but I'm not going to flush my reputation down the toilet.
05:00That's all I got left.
05:02Turn chatty Cathy for some federal snoops, uh-uh.
05:06Isaac, Winston Newquay would bore you an eighth orifice for a lot less.
05:10He's been trying to do it for years.
05:11He's the one they're after.
05:13Give him to them.
05:18I can't stand the idea of you being in prison.
05:20You think looking at you from the other side of wire mesh grating is my idea of fun?
05:27Amber, I can't betray my friends.
05:30He knows you're a gambling addict.
05:32He stole your livelihood in a card game.
05:36Now where is the friendship there, Isaac?
05:38You play the hand you're dealt.
05:39I live my life on that principle.
05:42Then what am I supposed to do?
05:43Why are you sticking to your principles for three to five?
05:45I live my life.
05:59A mortgage building.
06:01I mean, thank God we kept it in my name.
06:04And with the money, we'll start another company.
06:06We've done it before, but God, Isaac, you've got to come to Jesus, baby.
06:09You've got to stay out of jail.
06:10There is no company to start.
06:13No artist, no ticket on the gravy train.
06:15You'll find them.
06:17With the same instinct that got us here to begin with.
06:20You know what to listen for?
06:22We'll do it again.
06:25I love your spirit.
06:27And I love you.
06:29You've got to do this, baby.
06:34Do it for me.
06:46We're no closer to exposing Winston Newcrae than we were months ago.
06:51I don't see that I'm getting much bang for the buck.
06:55What I see is your continued relationship with Bobby Travis,
06:59an innocent private citizen who's become attached to you at the hip.
07:02Oh, Travis is on his own now.
07:04Well, he is, more or less.
07:05He's got his own contract with Radiance.
07:11This is Winston and Claudia Newcrae, owner of Radiance Recording,
07:15the largest privately owned company in the country.
07:18With no stockholders to answer to,
07:20Newcrae's able to get away with more of the criminal practices in this business
07:23than he would a publicly accountable company.
07:26I'm building a relationship with this guy.
07:28Really?
07:28Yeah.
07:29Newcrae distrusts you.
07:32Well, yeah, he thinks I'm a hood smitten with show business.
07:34I'm an amusing annoyance.
07:37Another roadside attraction for the rock and roll bus.
07:41How long, if ever, before you're more than an amusement?
07:44Paul, when Twine lost Shackler to Newcrae in a poker game,
07:48we got lucky.
07:49We got an opening.
07:50Newcrae inherited Vince and Travis's contract with Shackler,
07:53and whether Newcrae likes it or not,
07:54Vinny's on the inside, and he's obligated to keep him there.
07:57An office is not a case.
08:00Do we wait for another poker game to get lucky again?
08:03That game was not luck, Paul.
08:05It was fixed.
08:06Where's the proof?
08:07And even if you have it, so what?
08:09We are in the business of organized crime,
08:12not busting card games.
08:16Pulbert Pauly Ranfield runs the game in which Newcrae bested Twine.
08:20Now, he was kicked out of Vegas in 82 for skimming a casino bank.
08:24Never charged.
08:25The owners didn't want the publicity or the scrutiny.
08:27Now, he was tossed out of the Bahamas three years ago
08:30for running crooked gambling junkets.
08:32He continues to run illegal card games
08:34for entertainment industry honchos and movers and shakers in Manhattan.
08:37Where is this going?
08:38Twine was involved in selling cleans.
08:40They're counterfeit CDs with the head of a retail chain,
08:42a guy by the name of Cushman.
08:44Organized crime, Paul.
08:46Cushman's ready to roll over on Twine
08:48because Twine beat his brains out for shortchanging him.
08:51We have Twine on assault, conspiracy to defraud, and tax evasion.
08:55He's nailed, Paul, and he knows it.
08:57He's willing to turn state's evidence for immunity
08:59and give us Newcrae.
09:00He will or he has?
09:04Well, he's been stonewalling us.
09:06The man has done hard time, Frank.
09:09What makes you think he'll talk?
09:13This operation cannot depend on a long shot,
09:17and that's all we've been going with.
09:20To top things off, Newcrae's a power broker.
09:22His political connection should not be taken lightly.
09:25Well, Paul, I am inside his business.
09:28Having an office in his building
09:29does not make you a part of his business.
09:33He's shut you out of the operation, hasn't he?
09:36Hasn't he?
09:38Yes.
09:40Then you better get the bleachers in this circus filled
09:43or I'm folding the tent.
09:45There are businesses a lot less benign
09:48than the music industry that could use your attention.
09:51You're not getting through, Tinukwe.
09:54You're manipulating Bobby Travis.
09:57Neither of which makes me sanguine.
10:01That's all.
10:07The biggest corporate honchos in the entertainment industry
10:10are 50 feet down the hall,
10:12and we've been denied access to the proceedings.
10:15I mean, what's the point in having a contract
10:17if it's not going to be honored, huh?
10:19Vinnie?
10:21Earth to Vinnie.
10:22What?
10:23I said, what's the point in having a contract
10:27if it's not going to be honored?
10:30Well, that's the music business, babe.
10:33Yeah.
10:39It's in there, Vince.
10:41I can feel it just down the hall.
10:42All that power passing us by.
10:44A full glass of greed,
10:45and we have to stay here and wait for the spillage.
10:52Where are you going?
10:53To claim what's mine.
10:54He doesn't want us in there.
10:55I didn't say us.
10:56I said me.
10:59Bobby,
11:02I have an agenda with Winston
11:03that doesn't involve you,
11:05and it's in your best interest
11:06to stay clear of the spillage, okay?
11:09My life's been on a roll with you, man.
11:11I don't know what you're talking about,
11:12but I'm not afraid of a little flack.
11:16You know who I am, don't you?
11:17I know that's your calling card,
11:19but you got heart, man.
11:20I've learned a lot working with you.
11:22Don't shut me out.
11:23You've got your own contract with Radiance.
11:25You've got your own career here.
11:26We are not partners.
11:29Don't.
11:30Don't do that.
11:31Haven't I helped you?
11:32Yeah, we've helped each other.
11:34It's time for you to be on your own now.
11:45I can't stand this.
11:47You did the right thing to re-sign.
11:49I didn't re-sign my contracts.
11:51Shh, shh, shh, shh.
11:52Contracts will never end with that stinking clause.
12:01Yeah, there's some weird guy down on the 15th floor
12:04going through the secretary's steps.
12:05You better get down there.
12:16Thanks.
12:17That's water, please.
12:20You're looking terrific, Claudia.
12:22It's the one thing I do really well.
12:25Thanks.
12:27You got self-effacement down to an art, too.
12:30And I know you're key to Winston's success.
12:34He'd never admit that.
12:36Not publicly, maybe, but it is in writing.
12:38What do you mean by that?
12:39I've done some homework on Radiance.
12:42You own as much of this company as he does.
12:49Hold on to that thought.
12:52I'll be right back.
12:57I don't want you following me.
12:59I can't be responsible for you.
13:00What's gotten into you?
13:05Who's that guy with Eddie?
13:07Now you want to talk.
13:08Would you just tell me who he is?
13:10Harvey Sticks, major money management.
13:12Business manager, takes care of rock stars.
13:15I want to get back in the studio, Winston.
13:18Radiance needs you on tour.
13:20I'm sick and tired of singing wet dream fantasies to children.
13:23Well, they're the people who made you, Eddie.
13:25My music made me.
13:27No more touring.
13:28I'm getting even on the albums I owe you, and then I'm out of here.
13:32Excuse me.
13:33He said kiss off, I think.
13:36This is business, Claudia.
13:38Half of which I own, Winston.
13:43If you want to be anything more than you are, which is a notch above barband, you'll listen
13:48to me.
13:49I want to record, and I say you're not ready.
13:58Your participation in this business is supposed to be silent.
14:01Like your participation in our marriage?
14:06Not anymore, Winston.
14:08No.
14:09I think I finally found a way to make you pay attention to me.
14:26Come here, Ginger Ale.
14:28What's your problem?
14:30I'm being raped.
14:32I didn't re-sign.
14:33I've got an additional album clause in my contract.
14:37Typical deal on first contracts.
14:39Extend and suspend.
14:42He's got to deliver an album, what, every 12 months?
14:44Every six months.
14:46Ooh, that hurts.
14:48If he misses a delivery, he owes Radiance an additional album.
14:51If Newquake can keep him on the road for six months?
14:53A year.
14:56Instead of two albums, Eddie owes Winston four albums.
15:00And upon owing him four?
15:01My contracts are automatically renewed at his option.
15:04Don't you have a manager?
15:06I fired him for making this deal.
15:08I was stupid to trust him.
15:09What was I supposed to do?
15:10Two years ago, I was a naive kid looking for the big break.
15:13I'm a musician.
15:14What do I know about making deals?
15:17I've been stuck with Newquake for another five years.
15:21Hey, Nick.
15:23What's the matter with you?
15:27Okay, hold it down.
15:28Are you all right?
15:29What do you care, man?
15:30Except that maybe I can't play.
15:35Take your mutt and get out of here.
15:38This is Radiance's business.
15:40Well, it's not yours.
15:42Now, look, Sammy.
15:44I am in this business to learn everything you know.
15:47And if you read the small print of my contract, that's exactly what it says.
15:50Full and total access to all aspects of the business that owns my contract, which is you.
15:55So you can take that little Lord Fauntleroy Act to save it for the duration.
15:58Because I am one member of this court, you do not push around.
16:07Come on, Eddie.
16:09Let's announce your re-signing.
16:11Let everyone know your hands are right.
16:20Ladies and gentlemen, no speeches tonight.
16:24I just want to thank you for coming to this intimate party to celebrate the re-signing of Eddie Tempest
16:29to Radiance Recording.
16:33More importantly, his hand is just fine.
16:37But I'll let him tell you himself.
16:40Oh, I take complete responsibility for the cheap crystal.
16:46Make nice.
16:48Yeah, my hand's all right.
16:54I'm really surprised to be here celebrating my new contract.
16:58Really surprised.
17:00And thrilled to be able to use this event to announce that I have a new manager.
17:05Mr. Vinny Terranova.
17:09Come on, let's hear it for him.
17:24Now, I need the real thing, Leon.
17:26I need it bad.
17:27I mean, no second choices here, man.
17:29No, the boy's the best, man.
17:31I need the heat, you know.
17:32You're going to love this kid.
17:34He's got something.
17:35Lookit, he used to be in a gang called The Dads, right?
17:38But this one left, hit the streets, and started singing anti-gang raps.
17:43Yeah, he bad.
17:45That's cool, Rappers, right to the boy.
17:47Lookit, that day.
18:13Excuse me, man.
18:15Yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:16When you was wearing sweatsuits, Adidas, and gold.
18:18I was peeing my dudes, sleeping out in the cold.
18:20Digging out of trash cans, swapping people, doing damage.
18:23The only meal I knew was potato chips, sandwiches.
18:33You're scratching that rhythm off of Anita Baker's beat, right?
18:36You're a lawyer or something?
18:38Isaac Twyze is my name.
18:39Shackler Records.
18:42I wouldn't trust me either.
18:44You've got to manage a kid.
18:45We can make each other a lot of money.
18:48Come on, talk to me, son.
18:50I know you can talk, because I just heard the rap, huh?
18:53Look, I am in the music business.
18:56I need a guy like you, and you need a guy like me.
18:59Now, I'm not running a scam on you, but I'll tell you what I'll do.
19:03Okay?
19:05Six bills.
19:07No strings.
19:08Now, just don't blow it on no drugs, all right?
19:10Chill.
19:11Give me a call, and we'll talk, all right?
19:15Damn.
19:15Look, those two punks had bumped into us, you know?
19:18You got boosted.
19:20Couldn't have done it better myself.
19:23Hold this, man.
19:25Wait a minute.
19:25Wait a minute.
19:26Come on.
19:27Hey!
19:50What's up there?
19:53You gonna give me a car to what?
19:55Hell yeah.
19:56All right?
19:57Yes.
19:58I'll be calling you.
20:01Yes!
20:04You know, I came down here the other night and watched the sun come up.
20:08Come straight down the block like the street was built to it.
20:10Like, like...
20:12At the end of the rainbow, huh?
20:14Yeah.
20:16You can't know how good it feels to be giving my mother this house.
20:20It's like so good.
20:22I want you to feel that way, because you're a good guy, Vinny.
20:26Oh, thanks.
20:28Yeah, I do know that feeling.
20:29You give your mom a house.
20:32You give your mom a house.
20:32No.
20:34I told her the truth.
20:37You know, I've been carrying that one check in my pocket for over a year, looking for the
20:41perfect place.
20:43Then when I wrote it, I felt...
20:45I felt religious.
20:48She never had anything to look at but industrial waste being dumped into the Ohio River.
20:53Then when we moved to the city, it was concrete.
20:57Mr. Tempest?
20:58Hey, Irene, how you doing?
20:59You got the key?
21:01I'm terribly sorry, but your deposit was returned against insufficient funds.
21:06What are you talking about?
21:08It's got to be some kind of mistake.
21:10Yeah, I'm sure it is.
21:12Well, I'll try and keep the house off the market for a couple of days until you get things
21:16straightened out.
21:19Did you tell Harvey you were writing a check on this house?
21:21Nah, man, there's got to be some kind of mix up here.
21:24Nah, man, I can't believe this.
21:26All right, just settle down.
21:27All right, we'll take care of it.
21:28We'll take a run over to money management and we'll get it all straightened out.
21:30Hey, you got a manager now, kid.
21:34Come on, let's go.
21:37Mr. Sticks is out of the country, and without his approval, I can't give you those files.
21:42They're privileged client information.
21:44Well, this is the privileged client.
21:46He doesn't need permission.
21:47I'm sorry, company policy.
21:50Hey, listen to me, man.
21:51No policy is going to keep me from buying a house for my mother.
21:55You got that?
22:02Give him the files, David.
22:03Mrs. Newquake, you know I can't do that.
22:06Of course you can.
22:07I just told you to.
22:15Oh, wow.
22:16You sound pretty natural giving orders.
22:18Actually, I'm a little out of practice.
22:19My husband is the one who usually gets his way by intimidation.
22:24Even with people he doesn't own?
22:26Why don't we just call this my contribution to motherhood, Joe?
22:31Thanks, Mrs. Newquake.
22:32However you want.
22:35You're a great talent, Eddie.
22:36We want to keep you happy at Radiance.
22:38Now, if you have any other problems, you just give me a call.
22:47Thanks a lot, pal.
22:49No.
22:53But we're not partners, remember?
22:55This has nothing to do with a business relationship, Bobby.
22:57I'm calling in a personal debt here.
23:00But it doesn't look good for you to be coming to me.
23:02Will you just quit screwing around and get to these printouts?
23:04No, really, Vinny.
23:05I'm worried about your image.
23:07You don't want Winston Newquake to think you need a lowlife like me to understand what makes the music world
23:11go around.
23:11Hey, come on, man.
23:13I don't know what frequency you guys are on, and I don't really care.
23:16I just want to find out what's in here.
23:19This isn't for Vinny.
23:20It's for me.
23:21Do it for me, okay?
23:26It's going to take some time.
23:28All right.
23:36Four limos to and from the beach?
23:38A thousand bucks an hour?
23:39What, you couldn't take a taxi?
23:41Hey, they were waiting for us when we got to L.A.
23:44Two grand for hors d'oeuvres at the hotel.
23:47What?
23:48I travel with a friggin' carnival.
23:50Well, start checking everybody's noses, because that's where the money went.
23:54Up their noses.
23:55Not me, not my band.
23:57You know your last tour didn't even break even.
24:00Come on, the houses were packed.
24:02Your accounts with Radiance get charged back for every dime that caravan spends, Eddie.
24:08What, Newquake forces me to tour?
24:09Then he makes me pay for it?
24:11That's what the road's all about.
24:13And Radiance is not the World Bank.
24:16Hey, Eddie.
24:17Doesn't Harvey send you a statement every month?
24:19I make music, man.
24:21Harvey's supposed to handle all that.
24:24Do you have any reason to trust him?
24:25Yeah, Newquake gave him a seal of approval.
24:27All the Radiance's big acts leave their business to Harvey.
24:33No way, man.
24:35I'm not broke, am I?
24:37Well, you're not broke.
24:39But you are on empty.
24:40What about Eddie's last album?
24:41That's going platinum.
24:42What about the royalties for that?
24:43He wiped them out by taking a huge advance to pay Radiance back for the cost of the album he
24:47made before this one.
24:49Sorry, gents.
24:51It's one of life's little realities.
24:53The government calls it deficit reduction.
24:56Accountants call it an oxymoron.
25:07Benny, play poker?
25:09No.
25:10Why?
25:12You got hustled.
25:15Man.
25:20Benny, I don't know what to tell you.
25:22I tracked Harvey Sticks and Major Money Management as far as the Cayman Islands.
25:27Beyond that, it's a blizzard of shredded paper.
25:31There's nothing to tie Newquake to any of it.
25:33Now, there's got to be.
25:34It was too easy for Claudia Newquake to get into Eddie Tempest's file for.
25:37She was wielding more than client power.
25:39Yeah, I get your drift.
25:41Now, Newquake is funneling his artists to Major Money and Sticks
25:45so they can drain the artists' assets into offshore accounts.
25:48That's the way it looks in Eddie's financial statements.
25:51Now, if we can tie Newquake to Major Money,
25:53we can get him on fraud, embezzlement, and tax evasion.
25:57Yeah, but the only link that I have between him and Major Money
26:00is a $10,000 check to Paulbert-Ranfield.
26:03Is that the guy that ran the card game where Twine lost his company to Newquake?
26:07Yeah, that's the guy.
26:09Now, the check came out of Eddie's account, but he doesn't know anything about it.
26:12Or Paulbert-Ranfield, or poker, for that matter.
26:14Now, maybe we'll pick Paulbert up for questioning.
26:17We'll try out your theory about fleecing Twine.
26:18Now, Badge isn't going to scare this guy.
26:21What? Are you thinking about friendly persuasion?
26:24Yeah, very friendly.
26:26I'm going to ask him if he wants to meet my relatives.
26:46You can't blame me for your wife.
26:48I wasn't out of Heathrow when they had me back on the plane.
26:51They should have thrown you out of the plane, you burk.
26:54Look at this.
26:56Now, I've just authorized the transfer of funds from Major Money Management to Eddie Tempest.
27:00You shouldn't do that.
27:01I know that.
27:03For God's sake, I could be thrown in jail
27:05if my ownership position in this company was made public knowledge.
27:08But somebody had to do it.
27:10Because you let his account run dry.
27:20Your problem is not the money.
27:22It's that dumb move your wife made ordering my people to...
27:28My wife can afford to be dumb.
27:30She has a bosom you could nest in.
27:32You, however, have nothing to rely on but your brains,
27:34which apparently have deserted you.
27:37Now, Eddie Tempest couldn't hold a debate with a doorstop.
27:40But he has a career that might be worth $200 million.
27:43He only cares about two things.
27:45His music and his mother.
27:47He has been carrying a single blank check in his pocket for over a year now.
27:51The one thing that he has asked of Major Money
27:52is to keep enough cash in his account so that he can write that check
27:55if he ever finds the perfect house for the little old lady.
27:58Well, Harvey, he wrote that check and the bloody thing bounced!
28:02Oh, God.
28:04I have devoted most of the day to salvaging this fiasco.
28:07Which is why I was transferring funds.
28:10Then it's okay.
28:12No, it is not okay!
28:13Eddie Tempest may be a moron, but Vinnie Terranova isn't.
28:16And Vinnie has Eddie's books.
28:18What is all the yelling about?
28:20Claudia, sit down and shut up!
28:24Now, I want to know why Eddie's account is short the money.
28:27I put it in that shopping mall you're building in Paramus.
28:30You are getting on the next flight to Nassau
28:31and making sure that my fax authorization is destroyed
28:34and replaced by one of your own now.
28:36Get out!
28:44You hagged out Vegas bimbo!
28:47Have you got any idea of the ramifications of your little prank?
28:50What prank?
28:51Authorizing the release of Eddie Tempest's books.
28:53Well, they're his books, aren't they?
28:56You stay out of my business or I swear to God I'll have you committed.
29:01This is half my business, remember?
29:03And things are going to change around here now.
29:06I'm going to be involved in Radiance just the same way that Amber is involved with Isaac.
29:10They've got a much better marriage than we've got.
29:13Amber is involved with the business every day.
29:16She's not out getting waxed!
29:19You are not going to be involved in this business because you have no idea how it works.
29:23Then I'll find out how it works.
29:26I'll go write to a divorce attorney and find out exactly what my half of this company is worth.
29:32Bimbo my butt!
29:35With a jackhammer!
29:38Hey, Paulie!
29:40Come here!
29:41Hey, Slick, what's up?
29:42No, I need to see you right away.
29:44Come on.
29:45Come on.
29:52What's the story?
29:54So, uh, Paulie.
29:57Had to leave Vegas in kind of a hurry back in 82, didn't you?
30:01Hey, where you going?
30:02What are you talking about?
30:04Hey, that's all been squared away.
30:07Squared away with who?
30:08The old man Devidino.
30:11It's something in my safe that makes me untouchable.
30:18What?
30:19I guess you didn't hear the news.
30:22What news?
30:23Old man Devidino's dead.
30:26Whatever you had on him, it doesn't pull any passes with his son.
30:30Hey, where are we going?
30:33Vinny.
30:34We can make a deal, right?
30:37Come on.
30:40It was a cold deck.
30:42The dealer knew every card before it hit the table.
30:49Nook, he played me like an old tune.
30:52Yeah, it was Nookie.
30:53He's the one that's been setting you up for weeks.
30:55What are you doing?
30:57Wait a minute.
30:58What are you doing?
30:58Heated me out of the old company.
30:59Come on, you can't put me in there.
31:00Shut up.
31:01Get in it.
31:01Come on, give me a break.
31:04Shut up.
31:06He doesn't give me back my company.
31:08I'm going to kill him with my bare hands.
31:10Great, Isaac.
31:10Then he'll be up in a murder charge.
31:12She's right, Isaac.
31:13Nookie's got signed papers.
31:15It's going to be the testimony of one ripoff on us against another.
31:18I want my company back!
31:20There is a way.
31:21Yeah?
31:22Yeah.
31:22I'm all ears.
31:24All right.
31:25I'm inside, Radiance, right?
31:27But Nookie's keeping me at arm's length.
31:29Confront him about the card game.
31:31If you work out a deal with him, you can run Shackle under his banner.
31:34Together, we can find a way to take his company.
31:37No, man.
31:37I cannot work for that bastard.
31:39Well, what's the alternative?
31:41I'll start another empire.
31:43I got the talent.
31:44Have you heard my new rapper?
31:46One rapper doesn't make an empire.
31:48Whoa, whoa, whoa.
31:49Okay?
31:49Look, this is ridiculous.
31:51You guys are standing here hatching plans you can't possibly implement.
31:55And why not?
31:56Because you're about to go to jail, my darling.
31:59Okay?
32:00Come on, man.
32:01Give me a break, will you?
32:03Look, Vinny might not like hearing this.
32:05But you're facing racketeering charges with the Justice Department.
32:11He's been offered immunity, and I want him to take it.
32:15Now, look, there is nothing about my life that they don't already know about.
32:18If he makes a good deal, I want him to take the immunity, too.
32:21Wait a minute.
32:23Why are you so damn anxious to help us out?
32:25Isaac, I was going places with you.
32:27I want to make some significant money in this business.
32:30The only person that's going to make any money at Radiance is Sir Winston.
32:34Come on, Isaac.
32:35Let's take him.
32:37I never believed in peerage anyway.
32:39Me neither.
32:40Right.
32:40All right, you got a deal.
32:42America for the Americans, right, Vincenzo?
32:45Yeah.
32:50You know, Nukwe really came around.
32:52First thing this morning, he sends over a messenger with a cashier's check for the down payment of my mom's
32:57house.
32:57And a note apologizing.
33:00What do you expect him to say?
33:02You caught me with my hand in a cookie jar so here's just enough money to shut you up?
33:06Eddie, how stupid can you be?
33:08Eddie, isn't it obvious if Claudia Nukwe can release your books and Winston can write you checks that major money
33:15management will make good on that the Nukwe's are controlling every dime you earn?
33:19What am I supposed to do?
33:20Quit being stupid.
33:22Hey, quit calling me that.
33:23Quit fitting the description.
33:25Rockers got to grow up before they grow old.
33:28Now, I can get you an attorney to cancel your contract with major money.
33:32And you can learn to spend one day a month making sure you know where your money is.
33:37You know, I work my tail off trying to give as good as I got to my music and Nukwe
33:40steals my money and laughs at me.
33:42I'm going to kill this son of a bitch.
33:43Whoa, no, no, no.
33:44Eddie, Eddie, wait a minute.
33:45Don't do anything nuts, okay?
33:47There's too much at stake here for you to blow it all by getting crazy.
33:51Where are you going?
33:52I'm going for a walk.
33:57All you've got to do, as I have said all along, is help us with our investigation of Nukwe.
34:04In return, we'll drop the assault charges against you and make sure that you're never prosecuted for any criminal activity
34:11that you took part in while operating Shackler Records.
34:14Mr. McPike, we want that in writing.
34:16I just want my company back.
34:18Well, since you lost your company in a card game that was both crooked and illegal, I don't see any
34:22reason why Shackler shouldn't be restituted to you.
34:25Or at least that part of Shackler that wasn't involved in your legal activities.
34:29As far as the related tax problem goes, I don't work that side of the street.
34:33You are a hard man.
34:35Hmm.
34:36You should see me in my prime.
34:38Mr. McPike, before you leave, want to take out your badge and open up the liquor cabinet?
34:56Keep him away from me.
34:57Don't expect the feds to protect you, Paul.
35:01I'll give you everybody.
35:03I'll give you Deberdino.
35:04I'll give you all the players from Vegas.
35:06Names, numbers, anything you want.
35:08What about Nukwe?
35:10Oh, fish, no problem.
35:11I'll give him to you on a plow.
35:15All right, sports shoes, let's go.
35:20Well, that goes the first ride off a Nukwe's ship.
35:33You stole our company.
35:37Isaac had a little heart-to-heart with your pal, Paul Burt.
35:42The papers have already been signed.
35:45I could keep you tied up in court for years.
35:48Even with whatever proof you think you have, I can outspend you and outlast you.
35:54Yeah, we know that.
35:57That's why I have a better proposition.
36:00I'm listening.
36:03Look, you don't need the litigation or the publicity, but you do need Isaac.
36:09I've got Shackler.
36:12That's all I wanted.
36:14Isaac is Shackler.
36:16He made it, built it, nurtured the talent.
36:20And without Isaac, Shackler is a stack of contracts.
36:24Without Shackler, Isaac's a broken man.
36:27Nobody forced him to bet his life away.
36:33Look, your black music division has consistently been your lowest grossing.
36:39Let Isaac run Shackler under the Radiance label.
36:42You'll have a successful company.
36:44Isaac will regain his dignity.
36:48And maybe if he's forced to work with somebody else, he'll become more responsible.
36:57Well, it seems to me that I've managed to confiscate everything of his, except his most valuable asset.
37:10Are we open to negotiations?
37:14Don't flatter yourself.
37:22Isaac's a luckier man than he thinks.
37:28Done.
37:29Good.
37:31Well, I'll make lots of money.
37:33How nice.
37:35This is a business meeting.
37:36Then I think I should be included.
37:39Yes.
37:40Yes, I forgot.
37:42I think there's a lot you've forgotten lately.
37:44I thought one of us ought to remember.
37:46Our anniversary today.
37:47Obviously, you didn't.
37:49A day that will live in infamy.
37:51Don't push me, Sammy.
37:55Look, I'd better be going here.
37:57Oh, no, no, no, no.
37:59Stay.
37:59We're not shy about our family dramas.
38:04If you could manage to tear yourself away from pedicures and Cartier long enough to put in the hours and
38:10devotion to your alleged business interests,
38:12then maybe everybody would perceive you as more than just a dilettante.
38:18Your libido may be worth its weight in carrots, darling.
38:23But don't let's over-dramatize.
38:34You're brutal.
38:36I pay for that right.
38:43Well, have Isaac come by my office.
38:47It's been a novel experience talking to a woman who prefers acquiring capital to spending it.
39:06How can you let him treat you this way?
39:09Winston loves me.
39:09He just has a hard time showing it.
39:12Claudia, you let this man treat you like a doormat.
39:16For money?
39:17You can't buy back your self-esteem with a credit card.
39:20Do you think that you can get back on top by crawling under my husband?
39:24Don't think because we were friends for a long time, but I don't see what you're after.
39:33Look what he's done to you.
39:35Well, look what I've got.
39:37And you've got to go crawling and groveling to get a job for your husband.
39:43I love my husband.
39:46And there's nothing I wouldn't do for him.
39:51Obviously.
40:08Vodka.
40:09Neat, right?
40:10No, I'm abstaining, Winston.
40:12I'm trying to cleanse my soul of the evils of temptation.
40:16I hope you're not getting religious on me.
40:19Working with a born-again twine won't be much fun.
40:22We are cut from the same cloth, after all.
40:26I'm a humbled man.
40:28But still a greedy one, I hope.
40:33Your phone call sounded so urgent, and I was getting a little worried about you.
40:37But you said if I had a problem, you could help.
40:41What's the problem?
40:42Your husband.
40:43He's ripping me off.
40:46How's that?
40:47I think your husband and Harvey Sticks have got a cushy deal going.
40:50They use major money management to take advantage of me and a lot of other people.
40:54Thanks.
40:56I know you're an integral part of Radiance.
40:58I think you know plenty.
41:01I would like some straight answers.
41:07Actually, I'm Winston's partner.
41:12I'm a full partner.
41:13Your husband's a thief.
41:15Maybe you're being ripped off, too.
41:19No.
41:21No.
41:22It's worse than that.
41:24I'm being tolerated.
41:26Well, barely.
41:28Yeah, I know.
41:30I've seen the way he treats you.
41:34I wouldn't let anybody treat my woman like that.
41:54Winston, if you'd just leave me alone and let me do what I do best, I'd have a better chance
42:01of success than I did at that so-called poker game.
42:04Water under the bridge, Isaac.
42:08You're a filthy, lying, slimy piece of scum for what you did to me.
42:13I'd like to cut you wide and deep and feed you the tender parts till you choke.
42:21I just had to get that off my chest.
42:26I understand.
42:28Radiance will give you a much higher profile in the business than you ever had on your own.
42:33Now, why don't we call billboard and tell them what tomorrow's headline is?
42:40What's the matter, second thoughts?
42:43Oh, no, not at all.
42:46I just forgot a very important appointment.
42:50Make yourself at home.
42:56Thank you, Jesus!
43:01Step on it.
43:02I'm in a hurry.
43:27I'm going to do this for you, huh?
43:36I'm going to rock to the world, baby.
44:14I'm going to rock to the world, baby.
44:16Speckles, you naughty dog.
44:19What have you been up to?
44:25Hello.
44:27There's been an accident.
44:29We need an ambulance.
44:34I never thought I'd be happy doing business with you guys.
44:37All right, I called a shot.
44:39It's no debate.
44:40You have any problem with that, we call it off right now.
44:42I just want my company back and not go to jail.
44:45Yeah, the latter being the more important.
44:48All right, your activities inside Radiance will be fully monitored.
44:51If you're compromised in any fashion, I'm pulling you out for your own protection.
44:56And if you do, does the deal still stand?
44:59I need Nuquay.
45:00Now, that's not an answer to my question.
45:02Listen, you don't have a lot of options here.
45:05The hell I don't.
45:07I'd just soon go to jail to go through this game and not get my company back.
45:11You will play the hand you dealt.
45:15You talking to me about gambling?
45:18All right, come on.
45:21I will cut you for it.
45:30You got a deal.
45:31I never win at those things.
45:33And you think I do?
46:00i feel like it's my fault if i hadn't told him he's just another dumb rocker
46:06got him all upset about his money and new quay poor kid bobby you're not responsible
46:11i could believe in living true to his gut that's what made his music so great
46:15that you saw she got the house yeah i made sure radians paid for it out of eddie's insurance
46:20policy with him you know what twine told me new quay said
46:25between what claudia spent and what he made on eddie's death he figured he broke even
46:31can you believe it
46:35you can't know how good it feels to be giving my mother this house
46:51next on wise guy new quay took out a restraining order you are to vacate these premises and are
46:56barred from same to you pal this is a cease and desist order which means you have to show cause
47:01to have us evicted you were to vacate the building i'm here for the duration i need to know everything
47:05about a man called vincent terranova he went after me and he got me i might as well take a
47:10cab downtown
47:11and shoot him cause that's the only way i'm gonna feel safe you owe me eight million dollars i'm sorry
47:17so what well i'm gonna have to shoot you
47:21so
47:28so
47:29so
47:36so
47:37so
47:41so
47:46so
47:51so
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