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00:00Then I heard him tell his college hero, in Italian.
00:03Se ne va, Enzo.
00:04He didn't know I understood every word.
00:06I had been pretending for exactly one year.
00:09I froze in the hallway ugly green purse.
00:14Allora lasciala andare, è un peso.
00:15Un'americana che possa distribuire un Moretti da un menù.
00:18Nel momento in cui il film smette di essere un Moretti,
00:21e appena smette di essere un Moretti è un calaverino a Sokolov.
00:24Ho visto cosa resta delle mogli di Sokolov.
00:26Non può andarsene.
00:27Può odiarmi, almeno odiarmi la terrenista.
00:30Mi heart slammed against my ribs.
00:31Cain, he's been breathing.
00:32He'd said it like a man reading his own sentence.
00:35Twelve months.
00:37Twelve months of separate bedrooms.
00:39Of a hus-clipped English.
00:40And to everyone else in a language he thought was a locked door.
00:44Twelve months of tabloid photos.
00:46Dante Moretti leaving a hotel with a dark-haired woman named Gianna.
00:49And of me smiling at charity lunches like a woman who didn't know what the time.
00:53I knew.
00:54My mother was from Palermo.
00:55I'd learned Italian before I learned to ride a bike.
00:58And I buried it on my wedding night.
01:00The first time I heard Luca Moretti tell his nephew.
01:04Tienela lo scuro, signora.
01:09So I became ignorant.
01:11Ignorant was my armor.
01:13Ignorant is how a girl with an art history degree survived twelve months in a house.
01:25Ava.
01:26He was in the doorway.
01:27Six foot two of black suit and a face that had never once softened for me.
01:31Dark eyes.
01:32Drow.
01:32Hands that had never touched me.
01:34Not even to put the ring on.
01:35He'd let the priest do it.
01:38You're up late.
01:39Ignorant.
01:40Smile.
01:41Couldn't sleep.
01:42His gaze dropped to my purse and came back up.
01:44Nothing on his face moved.
01:45Sunday.
01:47Luke is hosting a christening.
01:52He'll come.
01:53Wear something that covers your shoulders.
01:55Why?
01:58Because I said...
01:58Then he turned to Enzo, switched back to Italian, and said almost too quietly to hear.
02:03Perché non posso passare quattro ore a guardare ogni uomo in quella sala, a fixare ciò che non mi è
02:07permesso a vedere.
02:10I nearly dropped the purse, loud.
02:13Not allowed by who?
02:14Go for bed, Eva.
02:15English again.
02:16Cold again.
02:17He walked past me, close enough that I caught cedar and gun oil and didn't slow down.
02:21E se nunca fa la sua muova domenica d'ante, sta contando i voti.
02:35Here is how you get sold to the mafia in 21st century New York.
02:43Your father loses 4 million dollars at a poker table owned by Luca Moresi.
02:48And Luca sends a car.
02:52I was 25.
02:54I had a master's degree nobody wanted, a rent-controlled studio, and a father who cried when he told me.
03:03Luca's terms were since it disappears.
03:05Eva Hart marries into the family.
03:09I assumed he meant himself.
03:12Then a black car pulled up.
03:14A man with a scarred eyebrow got out.
03:18Looked at me for exactly 30 seconds.
03:23Twelve months later, I stood on the lawn of Luca's Long Island estate, in a navy dress that covered my
03:28shoulders,
03:29holding champagne I hadn't touched,
03:31being discussed by 200 people in a language they were certain I couldn't follow.
03:37E' quella, l'americana.
03:39Un agno.
03:40E niente bambino.
03:42Dante non l'ha neanche sficiata.
03:43Lo sanno tu, naggiù in città.
03:45Poverina.
03:47Però è carina, eh?
03:48A Sokoloff piacciono così.
03:50Carine.
03:52I smiled at a hydrangea.
03:56A crossfit stood with the men, no tie, shoulders a hard line against the sun.
04:01He hadn't looked at me once since the car, yet every time a waiter came near me,
04:05his head turned half an inch, like a compass needle finding north.
04:09Eva, cara!
04:10Luca's arms, silver hair, smile like an expensive lawyer.
04:13He kissed both my cheeks and said, in English,
04:15You are the most beautiful thing at my grandson's party.
04:19Ma guardala, non capisci una parola.
04:22Mi ogni più si è sposato un lampo d'ario in questo sito.
04:28And laughed.
04:29I laughed too, a half beat late, the way a lamp.
04:32But enjoy the fireworks tonight.
04:35They'll be memorable.
04:38I escaped toward the pool house.
04:42Marco, our driver, the only person in that house who'd ever asked how I was,
04:45fell into step beside me.
04:47You okay, Mrs. M?
04:49Boss has a storm.
04:51He always has a storm face on.
04:52Nah, this one's special.
04:55So watch it, you better go evaporate.
04:59He peeled off to check the cars.
05:02I stood behind a wall of hedges.
05:03That was when I heard Luca's voice on the other side.
05:05Alle nove.
05:06No smile in it now.
05:10Durante il fuoci d'artivore,
05:12due tiratore, fuggili russi.
05:13Lasciate sul braccio un uomo di Sokolov,
05:15morto, così il consigliare.
05:18La moglie resta viva.
05:19Mi serve che respire ancora, per firmare.
05:23My champagne glass was shaking.
05:25I set it down on the grass, very carefully.
05:28E Richard,
05:28diteli che per le nove è un geduda,
05:30e che si eserzi a fare la faccia triste.
05:32Richard,
05:33my father.
05:37Somewhere behind me,
05:38a string quartet started up,
05:39in a child laugh,
05:41and a cake with three tiers of white roe.
05:43Cut.
05:43I had two hours to save a man
05:45who'd sworn to make me hate him,
05:47without letting a single person in that house
05:49find out I'd understood a word.
06:02I tried English first.
06:03I don't feel well.
06:04Take me home.
06:06No.
06:07Dante, please.
06:12Something spooked her.
06:14Try a murder plot, darling.
06:15I couldn't say your uncle is going to shoot you at nine without also saying,
06:19and by the way,
06:19I've been lying to your face for a year.
06:21And in a house like that,
06:22I think for 12 months wasn't a wife.
06:24She was a witness.
06:25Witnesses didn't get divorce papers.
06:27They got the river.
06:29At 8.40,
06:29I locked myself in the powder room to think,
06:31and the door opened anyway.
06:34Gianna,
06:34the woman from the photos,
06:35and I thought,
06:36with shadows under her eyes
06:37and a cheap black dress,
06:38she locked the door behind her.
06:40They've been portato via di qui.
06:41Stanito.
06:42Adesso.
06:42Luca sta...
06:43She stopped,
06:44stared at my blank,
06:45ignorant face.
06:46Her shoulders dropped.
06:48Non capisci un po' di...
06:49Dio.
06:51E' lui che sta per morire per una donna
06:53che non riesce neanche a sentire l'abbergamento.
06:58She left.
06:59Die for.
07:00Not die because of.
07:02And I didn't have time for it.
07:04At 8.58,
07:06the lawn lights went down.
07:07200 faces tilted toward the sky.
07:09Dante stood 10 feet from me,
07:10hands in his pockets,
07:11and I did the only thing
07:12an ignorant American wife could do.
07:13I walked straight to him,
07:15took his arm.
07:15Hold me.
07:17He went rigid.
07:19Ava.
07:20Hold.
07:21Me.
07:25The first firework cracked gold across the sky.
07:30The second crack wasn't a firework.
07:32Dante moved before I understood the sound.
07:34One arm around my waist.
07:35My body slammed against his chest.
07:37His back to the darkness.
07:40We hit the grass.
07:41Something felt it go through the shoulder
07:42like this.
07:44Screaming.
07:44Glass.
07:45Marco shouting for the cars.
07:46Enzo firing back into the hedges.
07:48Dante said into my hand,
07:49Calm.
07:50Don't move.
07:50Absurdly calm.
07:51Don't lift your head.
07:52His blood was soaking through my new dress.
07:54Then Martin in the car.
07:55And then the estate was a smear of red lights
07:57in the rear window.
07:59Dante slumped in the seat beside me.
08:01One hand pressed to his shoulder.
08:02His face the color of paper.
08:04Hospital.
08:04Marco.
08:06Dante's eyes found mine.
08:07No hospital.
08:08Two Italian.
08:09And his voice was nothing like the voice he used on me.
08:11It was low, wrecked, almost gentle.
08:13Look at me, cara.
08:13Not the bloody.
08:14Me.
08:16I looked.
08:17Enzo.
08:18When we arrive at home,
08:19we take the cards and we take the cards and we take the rest of it.
08:21It's not that he has already divorced.
08:22No one has no reason.
08:24Then I have to go to the airport.
08:25His breath is pitched.
08:27If you don't have a day,
08:28I will not say anything.
08:33It's not that I can understand.
08:34It's not that I can understand.
08:35His fingers brushed my wrist.
08:37The first time in a year.
08:40Don't cry, Adam.
08:41You don't understand what I'm saying.
08:44I did.
08:44I had known for a year.
08:50Not the polite Roman Italian of the family lawyers.
08:53The rough Palermo Italian of my mother's kitchen.
09:01Dante stared at me like I'd grown a second head.
09:03And then, slowly,
09:05like the second head was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen.
09:10Palermo.
09:11My mother.
09:11I was 12 when she died and I never stopped speaking it.
09:14Strip off the hem of my ruined dress and jammed it against his shoulder.
09:18He sissed.
09:19For a year?
09:21Everything.
09:22Everything.
09:23The lamp joke?
09:24Your uncle's murder plot behind the hedges?
09:26The thing you say about what you're not allowed to have?
09:28Enzo made a sound like a man swallowing a walnut.
09:31Dante's eyes closed.
09:33When they opened,
09:33the shock had burned off
09:34and something else was underneath.
09:36Hot and helpless.
09:37Then you heard Luca.
09:39Tonight.
09:40Two shooters.
09:41Russian rifles.
09:45Leave a Sakharov man dead on the lawn.
09:47The wife lives.
09:49I need...
09:50Leave a Sakharov man dead on the lawn.
09:52The wife lives.
09:53I need...
09:54Sign what, Dante?
09:55The blood was slowing.
09:56His color was coming back.
09:58And with it, the fortress.
09:59He'd already let me see behind it.
10:00And we both knew he couldn't take it back.
10:02Your divorce.
10:03Which I filed.
10:04Did you?
10:05Who gave you the paper saver?
10:06Your family believed me.
10:07He came to the house in March,
10:09said you'd ask him to prepare them in case I ever...
10:11You don't have a family lawyer named, believe me.
10:12Luca does.
10:13The car hummed.
10:15Outside the city street passed.
10:16Indifference.
10:17You've been building your exit for six months.
10:18Divorced papers you think were your...
10:20For photographs of me with Gianna that he's...
10:22himself.
10:23A hundred whispers at a hundred parties
10:25that your husband doesn't want you.
10:27Your husband doesn't want you.
10:29Also inside.
10:30Your husband doesn't want you.
10:31Because a divorced Ava Hart hasn't been right to him.
10:33She's a debt that never got paid.
10:35Luca always collects.
10:36And you knew?
10:38All year?
10:39You let me think you were...
10:46Why did you...
10:47For the first time since I'd met him,
10:49Dante Moretti looked ashamed.
10:50Because the day I married you,
10:52your father told me you'd rather die
10:53than be touched by a Moretta.
10:55That you'd agree to save his life and nothing else.
10:57That if I laid one hand on you,
10:58you'd put a knife in your own wrist
10:59before you put it and leave them.
11:01I'd have believed anyone who told me
11:02I wasn't allowed to want you.
11:03It felt true.
11:05He lied.
11:06I thought of my father
11:07crying at the kitchen table,
11:09crying,
11:09and then taking Luca's calls.
11:11I know that now.
11:13I touched you because I thought it would break you.
11:15Not because I didn't.
11:16He stopped.
11:17Started again.
11:18Ava, I have wanted to touch you
11:19every day for a year.
11:21I put my hand in his.
11:22His fingers closed.
11:24Warm.
11:24Shaking.
11:25Twelve months.
11:26Now tell me exactly what else my uncle said.
11:28Every word.
11:29Because as of tonight,
11:30Kara, he's made a very serious mistake.
11:32What mistake?
11:33He thinks I married a lamb.
11:35Dante's eyes glittered.
11:37He's about to find out I'm married.
11:46By morning,
11:47my husband had a doctor's stitches in his shoulder,
11:49a bullet in a jar on his night tape,
11:51and a house full of men who cried.
11:52I came down to the kitchen in his shirt,
11:54the only clean thing I could find,
11:56and four guards went silent as a church.
11:58Buongiorno.
11:58I said an Italian.
12:01Nobody breathed.
12:03I continued.
12:04Pouring coffee.
12:08Tomasio.
12:09Allora, Tomasio.
12:10Il mese scorso, in garage,
12:11hai detto che le mie gambe
12:12verano l'unica cosa in questa casa
12:13che valeva la pena di assicurare.
12:15Tomasio.
12:1623 and built like a vending machine.
12:18Turned the color of...
12:19A Natale hai detto al cucio
12:20che Dante avrebbe dovuto sposare qualcuno
12:22che almeno sapessi cucinare un sughe alla Morelli.
12:25E poi ti sei mangiato tre fatti dei miei.
12:27Enzo stared at his own hands
12:28like they betrayed him.
12:30And Marco?
12:31You were the only one who ever...
12:33I'm just nicer than these guys, Mrs. M.
12:35Marco has no sins.
12:36Marco is a saint.
12:37Marco never talks.
12:38Marco talks plenty.
12:41Coffee upstairs.
12:42Dante was awake,
12:43cropped against the headstead,
12:44shirtless,
12:45fanworked with a bullet hole in him
12:46like it was a Tuesday.
12:47He looked up when I came in
12:48and I watched him try and fail
12:49to put the fortress back on.
12:51You were in my shirt.
12:52Yours are the only ones
12:53that reach my knees.
12:55That's not...
12:57Ava?
12:58Edge of the bed,
12:59close enough to touch.
13:00Neither of us did.
13:01Something had shifted in the car last night
13:02and neither of us knew the rules yet.
13:04You know everything now,
13:05so you'll understand
13:06why I'm sending you to Chicago today.
13:08A safe house?
13:09No.
13:12It wasn't a question.
13:14I set the coffee on his paperwork.
13:16Luca thinks I'm a lamp.
13:17Your whole family thinks I'm a lamp.
13:19You have exactly one person in this house
13:20who can walk into a room
13:21and be invisible
13:21and you want to put her on a plane?
13:23You want to spy on my uncle?
13:24I've been spying.
13:25I'm very good at it.
13:26Ask DiMaggio about the insurance.
13:29He shot me to get to you.
13:31If you understand that,
13:32he'll do worse.
13:33Then you'd better not send me away
13:34where you can't see me.
13:35Your father?
13:36I turned around before I did something.
13:38Four million dollars
13:39and then lied about what I wanted?
13:40Why would you take his word on anything?
13:42I'm going to talk to Gianna.
13:43She tried to warn me last night.
13:44She knows something.
13:45Ava.
13:46Is she your mistress?
13:48No.
13:49Then who is she?
13:51He hesitated.
13:53Someone I'm keeping alive.
13:56Found Gianna in the guest house,
13:57packing a bag with the speed of a woman
13:59who'd packed many bags.
14:00When I greeted her in Italian,
14:02ciao,
14:03she dropped a shoe.
14:05You bitch,
14:05she said with real admiration.
14:07A whole year?
14:08A whole year.
14:10She sat on the bed.
14:12My father drove for Dante's father,
14:13old Matteo Moretti.
14:15Four years ago,
14:16somebody put a bomb in the car.
14:17My father died.
14:17Luca cried at the funeral.
14:19She looked at me.
14:20I saw Luca's man planted.
14:22I'm the only one alive who did.
14:24Dante has been hiding me ever since
14:26and letting the whole city think I'm his whore
14:27because a whore nobody looks at twice.
14:30A witness?
14:31The room went quiet.
14:31So Luca killed his own brother.
14:33And he'll kill his nephew.
14:35He's called a council.
14:36Five families.
14:37Sunday next.
14:38He's gonna stand up and say Dante's American wife
14:40is a Sokolov plant.
14:41That Dante is compromised
14:42and that the family needs new leadership.
14:44Bag.
14:45She's not wrong about one thing, Ava.
14:47Dante is compromised.
14:49By what?
14:50She looked at me like I was the stupidest woman alive.
14:53By you.
14:57My father came to the house on the upstairs window
14:59as Marco let him through the gate.
15:01Richard Hart, in a suit he couldn't afford,
15:03carrying a bakery box like a man visiting a hospital.
15:05He'd never once visited in 12 months.
15:07Not on my birthday.
15:08Not at Christmas.
15:10Now he was here.
15:10Luca had told him to practice looking sad.
15:15He hugged me in the foyer.
15:17Ava, sweetheart.
15:18He smelled like cigarettes in fear.
15:20I heard about the shooting.
15:21I was so worried.
15:22Were you?
15:23Come in, Dad.
15:23English.
15:24Ignorant.
15:25Smiling.
15:25Dante was in the study.
15:27He'd insisted on being downstairs,
15:28dressed, one arm in a sling,
15:29radiating the calm of a man
15:31who decided exactly who he was going to kill
15:33and was simply waiting for the paperwork.
15:35Dante.
15:36Luca said it was the Russians.
15:39Did he?
15:40My father's eyes flicked to I,
15:42then to Dante,
15:43then to the door.
15:44I actually came to talk to Ava alone.
15:46Father-daughter thing.
15:47You know how it is.
15:47I don't.
15:48My father's dead.
15:52Go.
15:52Go ahead.
15:57We sat in the sunroom.
15:58My father set the bakery box down between us
16:00and didn't open it.
16:03You.
16:05This marriage,
16:06I know it's been hard.
16:08He's not,
16:08he's not a warm man.
16:10But I've been talking to some people
16:11and there's a way out,
16:12a clean way.
16:13You sign,
16:13you're free,
16:14and I've got a friend
16:14who can get you set up somewhere nice,
16:15somewhere far,
16:16he'd never get.
16:16A friend.
16:19A business associate.
16:21Named Victor.
16:22His face didn't change,
16:23his hands did.
16:24They went flat on his knees,
16:25very still,
16:25the way they used to go
16:26when the cards were bad.
16:27Ava.
16:28Tell me something, Dad.
16:29Tell my husband
16:30I'd rather cut my wrists
16:31than let him touch me.
16:32I kept my voice light,
16:33silence,
16:34lamp light.
16:35Luca told me to.
16:36He said if the marriage was real,
16:37if there was a baby,
16:38Dante would be untouchable.
16:38Nobody moves on a man with an heir,
16:40so it couldn't be real.
16:40He said it was for your own good.
16:41He said Dante was dangerous.
16:43Me on Sunday.
16:45You took a bakery box.
16:47Sweetheart,
16:47I owed four million dollars.
16:49And I paid it.
16:50I opened the door.
16:52Go home, Dad.
16:53Tell Luca I'm a lamp.
16:54Tell him I cried.
16:54Tell him whatever keeps you breathing.
16:59You left the box.
17:06Canale.
17:07That was my mother's favorite.
17:08I threw them in the trash.
17:09They were the trash.
17:11And shook.
17:14That night I couldn't sleep
17:15and I went down the hall
17:16to Dante's room
17:17telling what my father had said
17:18and stopped outside the door
17:19because he was on the phone.
17:21In Italian.
17:22Very quiet.
17:22Damienzo.
17:23Se domani cava stanta,
17:24Ava non va a Chicago.
17:25Va a Palermo.
17:26Dalla famiglia di sua madre.
17:28Sì.
17:28Gli farò la proposa.
17:30Io al posto suo.
17:31Luca vuole la poltreta.
17:32Bene, se la prende.
17:34Può prendersi il mio nome,
17:35le attivitate, le...
17:35Voice.
17:36Tinghi through the phone.
17:37Lui vorrà vedermi morto.
17:38Mi ha voluto morto
17:39da quando avevo nove anni.
17:40Può avere anche quello.
17:41Poiché lei salva prima
17:42su quell'aereo.
17:43My husband's voice
17:44didn't even shake.
17:45I pushed the door open.
17:49Saka.
17:50Ava.
17:52Hang.
17:53Oh.
17:54He did.
17:57You're not trading yourself
17:58for me.
17:59You don't get a vote.
18:00I've had a year of no vote.
18:02I'm done.
18:05He always stood
18:06when I came in.
18:07I'd noticed that months ago
18:08and told myself
18:09it meant nothing.
18:10Now, in a t-shirt,
18:11in a sling,
18:12hair a mess,
18:13he looked less like a capo.
18:15Haven't slept in a year.
18:17You think this is noble?
18:18You think dying is a gift?
18:19Credeo sia l'unica moba
18:20su la scantiera?
18:21It's the only word you can see
18:22because you've decided
18:23you're not allowed
18:23to want him.
18:24Say it.
18:25What you said in the study.
18:26What you're not allowed
18:27to have.
18:29Say it in English
18:30so I know you mean it.
18:31His jaw clenched,
18:32then unclenched.
18:33And he said
18:34in English very low.
18:35You.
18:36I'm not allowed to have you.
18:37That's what I said
18:38and it's what I thought
18:39every single day
18:40and I don't know how to stop.
18:42Why not allowed?
18:44My father is a liar.
18:45He sold me for a poker debt
18:47and then sold my consent
18:48to keep you at arm's length.
18:49You, you, you honored it
18:50like a knight, like a fool
18:51and I spent a year
18:52believing my own husband
18:53couldn't stand the sight of me.
18:55I couldn't stand it.
18:59That's the problem.
19:00I couldn't stand the sight of you
19:01across the table
19:02and not touch you
19:02so I stopped looking.
19:03Then look now.
19:05He looked.
19:06I don't know who moved first.
19:07It doesn't matter.
19:08It's in my hair
19:08and my hands were fist in his shirt
19:10and his mouth came down on mine
19:11like a man breaking the vow
19:12he'd been dying under.
19:13Hard, hungry,
19:14one year of not allowed
19:15detonating all at once.
19:17He tasted like whiskey
19:18and something I wanted to drown in.
19:20He backed me against the door.
19:23Somewhere his sling was in the way
19:24and neither of us cared.
19:26Then he tore his mouth away
19:27and rested his forehead
19:28against mine
19:28breathing like he'd run a mile.
19:29Wait, Kana, wait.
19:31I've waited a year.
19:33His thumb dragged
19:33across my lower leg.
19:35But I won't take one more thing
19:36from you in this house
19:37that you didn't freely choose
19:38not after what he did
19:38so you're going to tell me
19:39clearly in whichever language
19:40you like.
19:41I looked up at this man
19:42scarred,
19:42bleeding through his stitches
19:43holding himself back from me
19:45by force of will
19:45and I understood
19:46he was compromised.
19:47He'd been compromised.
19:48Black car.
19:48T'von, you.
19:51I've wanted you
19:52since the day you said
19:53it'll be me.
19:54Something in his face
19:55broke open.
19:56Not the fortress.
19:57The man behind it.
19:58And here's what happens.
20:01If you stay
20:02and you're right
20:03Luca thinks you're a lamb
20:04so we let him.
20:06He kissed my forehead
20:07which somehow undid me
20:08more than the other kind.
20:10You're going to be
20:10the most dangerous
20:11piece of furniture
20:12in New York.
20:13We planned to talk
20:14with Enzo pretending
20:15not to notice
20:15that I never went back
20:16to my own room.
20:17The next morning
20:18a courier brought
20:19an envelope
20:20with Luca's crest on it
20:21addressed to me
20:22in English.
20:24My dear Ava
20:24I was so frightened
20:25for you Sunday.
20:26Let me make it up
20:27Thursday my club
20:28just up.
20:29There are things
20:30about your husband
20:30a wife deserves to know.
20:32Dante read it
20:32over my shoulder.
20:34He wants you alone.
20:37Good.
20:38I want him talking.
20:40A sign.
20:41A doorman
20:41who looked like
20:42a retired assassin
20:42in a private dining room
20:44with a view
20:44of the East River.
20:45He kissed my cheeks.
20:46He pulled out my chair.
20:50He ordered for me
20:51an Italian
20:51without asking
20:52what I liked.
20:53La bra signora.
20:54Non sa ne me no cos'è.
20:55I smiled.
20:57Eva Cara
20:58I'm going to be
20:59very honest with you
21:00because you've
21:00suffered enough.
21:01My nephew
21:01is not a well man.
21:03His father
21:03was the same.
21:04Paranoid.
21:05Violent.
21:06The shooting
21:06Sundance.
21:07Yes, but why?
21:08Because Dante
21:08has been provoking them
21:10and now he's telling
21:11people you're the reason
21:12that you're Sokolov's.
21:14He's setting you up,
21:15sweetheart.
21:17That's
21:19that's not true.
21:22There's a council
21:23on Sunday.
21:24Family business.
21:25It's going to be decided
21:26that Dante
21:27steps down
21:28for his health
21:29and his wife
21:29is released
21:30from a marriage
21:31he never wanted.
21:32You'll be full.
21:33I'll make sure
21:34of it personally.
21:35I have a friend
21:36who can take you
21:36somewhere beautiful.
21:37Victor,
21:38your friend.
21:39Dad mentioned him.
21:43The smile flickered.
21:44Then it widened.
21:52His phone buzzed.
21:54He glanced at it.
21:55Switched to Italian
21:56without lowering his voice.
21:57Because why would he?
22:21He hung up,
22:23smiled at me.
22:26I told him Dante
22:27frightened me.
22:28I asked tearfully
22:29if I could bring
22:30my own lawyer
22:30to the council.
22:33Women didn't attend
22:33council, Cara.
22:34It's an old world,
22:35but he'd speak for me.
22:37I let him pay
22:39again at the curb
22:40and I felt his hand
22:41pad my green purse.
22:42Such a pretty bag.
22:46Then I got into
22:47the car with Marco
22:47and did not exhale
22:48until the third red light.
22:50Well?
22:51Docs.
22:53After the vote.
22:56He's going to use me
22:57as bait
22:57and blame Sokotov.
22:59Madonna.
23:00Boss is going
23:00to lose his mind.
23:06At home,
23:07I went straight upstairs
23:08to change out of a dress
23:09that smelled like
23:10Lucas Cologne.
23:12And I dumped
23:12the green purse
23:13on the bed
23:14to find my phone.
23:15Something small
23:16fell out of the lining.
23:17A black disc
23:18beside a tiny green light
23:19pulsing.
23:20I picked it up.
23:21My hands were suddenly
23:22very cold.
23:23Such a pretty bag.
23:24It wasn't new.
23:25The stitching where
23:26it had been sewn
23:27into the liner
23:27was old.
23:28Months old.
23:29It had been there
23:30in the car on Sunday
23:31when I told Talion.
23:32It had been there
23:33Tuesday night
23:34in his bedroom.
23:35It had been there
23:35in the study
23:35on Thursday
23:36when I first heard
23:37the words
23:38not allowed.
23:40Luca hadn't been
23:40bluffing at lunch.
23:41He'd been performing.
23:43He knew.
23:44He'd known all along
23:45that I...
23:46Which meant
23:47every word
23:47he said to me today
23:48was either a lie
23:49or a trap.
23:54Dante opened the door.
23:56Snatched the bug
23:57from my hand.
23:59No!
23:59Don't!
24:00Think!
24:01Stopped.
24:02Breathing hard.
24:03Enzo stood in the doorway
24:04with his hand
24:04inside his jacket.
24:05How long?
24:06The stitching's old.
24:07Months.
24:09He's heard everything.
24:10The car.
24:11Your...
24:12Tuesday night
24:13when you told Enzo
24:14you trade yourself.
24:15Then he knows
24:16you understand it now.
24:17He's known since
24:18Sunday at the latest.
24:20Dante's eyes
24:20went distant
24:21the way they did
24:22when he was doing
24:22arithmetic
24:23for people's lives.
24:24And he still fit.
24:25So either the docks
24:26is a lie
24:27or a real move.
24:29The real move
24:30is somewhere else.
24:31Or the docks is real
24:33and he wants you
24:34to walk into it knowing.
24:36Enzo's voice was grim.
24:38He likes an audience.
24:39He likes a man
24:40to see it coming.
24:43Which is it?
24:44Dante looked at the pieces
24:46of black plastic
24:47on the carpet
24:47for a long moment.
24:50Both.
24:50He doesn't care
24:51if he thinks
24:51knowing changes nothing.
24:53Then I'll come anyway
24:54because I'm soft.
24:56Because of you.
24:59His mouth twisted.
25:00He's right about that part.
25:01So we make the softness
25:02a weapon.
25:06He wants an audience, Enzo.
25:08Give him one.
25:09The council's Sunday.
25:11They're sitting in a room
25:12hearing Luca say
25:13make it look like
25:14Sokolev did him
25:15in his own voice.
25:17Enzo and Doc.
25:18He crushed the bug.
25:19You have a man.
25:20You can film another one.
25:21Same frequency.
25:22Same verse.
25:24Enzo nodded once
25:26and left.
25:28And for the first time
25:29in a week
25:29I saw my husband
25:30almost that night
25:31he told me about his father.
25:32We were lying in his bed
25:34not touching much.
25:35His shoulder,
25:36my nerves
25:37and the city
25:38was quiet outside
25:39and he said it
25:40to the ceiling
25:40like something
25:41he'd never said
25:41to a person.
25:43But Ted,
25:44not a good man.
25:45Not to my mother.
25:47I was nine
25:47the first time
25:48I saw what he did
25:49to her
25:49when he'd been drinking.
25:50I swore two things.
25:52His voice was very even.
25:54One,
25:55nobody would ever
25:56be afraid of me
25:57in my own.
25:58Two,
25:59I would never take
26:00a woman
26:01who hadn't chosen me.
26:02Not a kiss.
26:04Not a hand.
26:05Nothing.
26:09And then my father
26:10told you I had it.
26:10And then your father
26:11told me you hadn't.
26:13He turned his head
26:14on the pillow.
26:15So I did the only thing
26:16I knew.
26:18I kept my hands
26:19in my pockets
26:19and my mouth shut.
26:22And I let you hate me.
26:23It was better
26:24than being him.
26:27I put my hand
26:28flat on his chest
26:29over the heartbeat.
26:32For the record,
26:33I never hated you.
26:35I hated the door
26:36between our rooms.
26:37I hated it too.
26:40Then why did you
26:41keep it there?
26:46Because I could hear
26:47he threw it.
26:49He covered...
26:50And that was enough
26:51to stay alive on.
26:53I kissed him then.
26:55Slow.
26:56And it turned into
26:57something that wasn't
26:58slow at all.
27:04And this time
27:05nobody said wait.
27:07Later,
27:08in the dark,
27:09he said,
27:10Sunday,
27:11if something goes wrong,
27:13if they separate us,
27:14you need a signal.
27:16Read.
27:17Cover your shoulders.
27:19His chest
27:20moved from the lath.
27:21From the study?
27:23You told me to wear
27:24something that covers
27:24my shoulders.
27:25brothers.
27:25So,
27:27if I say it to you,
27:28it means don't come.
27:30It means it's a trap
27:32and I'm not where
27:33you think I am.
27:34If I say it to you...
27:37It means you're coming
27:38anyway.
27:39He was quiet a moment.
27:43Deal.
27:44My phone lit up
27:45on the nightstand.
27:47My father.
27:472.47 a.m.
27:49I answered.
27:51Static, breathing,
27:52and then his voice.
27:53Panicked.
27:54Almost a sob.
27:55Ava, house.
27:56Now.
27:57It's not Sunday.
27:58He moved it.
27:59He's going to...
28:01The line went dead.
28:06Dantia was out of bed
28:07before the screen
28:08went dark.
28:09Lights on.
28:10Every man up.
28:11Count the gates.
28:13Ava, get dressed.
28:15Shoes you can run in.
28:18He said it's not Sunday.
28:20Then it's today.
28:22Or wants us running
28:23around the house
28:23at 3 a.m.
28:24looking stupid.
28:25Either way,
28:25you're not sleeping.
28:29Marco's taking you
28:30to the safe house
28:31in Queens.
28:32Not Chicago.
28:33Not Palemma.
28:34Close.
28:34So I can reach you.
28:35Until I know
28:36what this is.
28:38Dante.
28:40Cover your shoulders.
28:43I'm coming anyway.
28:44Go.
28:47I went.
28:48Bar.
28:49Engine running.
28:50Calm as Sunday morning.
28:52Hey, Mrs. M.
28:54Rough night, huh?
28:55Get in.
28:55I got you.
28:56The gates opened.
28:57The house shrink behind us.
28:59Every window gleaming.
28:59I sat in the back
29:01with my hands in my left throat
29:02and watched Marco's eyes
29:03in the rear view.
29:04Steady.
29:05Kind.
29:06Checking on me
29:07every few seconds
29:07the way he always had.
29:09He'll be fine.
29:10Boss is a cockroach.
29:11Nothing kills him.
29:13Somebody's trying pretty hard.
29:14Yeah.
29:17He glanced at the screen
29:18and answered on speaker
29:19without hesitating.
29:20And I understood why
29:21he didn't speak Italian.
29:22He spoke Sicilian.
29:23Not the polished Italian
29:25the family used around me.
29:26The dialect of the villages.
29:27The one that the New York
29:28family with an art degree
29:29couldn't possibly have kept.
29:30He'd been careful, Marco.
29:31For a year,
29:32he'd been the only one
29:32who talked to me in English.
29:33I thought it was kindness.
29:34It was insurance.
29:35Sicilian.
29:36No, I'm calm.
29:37I'm not sure.
29:38I've done the call
29:38as they told him.
29:39Dante has illuminated
29:40the house
29:40and is dying again.
29:41It's always like this.
29:42The voice on the phone
29:43said something
29:44I didn't catch.
29:45But who do you understand
29:46a word?
29:47It's just for this
29:48that I'm serving.
29:50He hung up.
29:52Looked at me in the mirror.
29:53You okay back there, Mrs. M.?
29:54He thought he was singing
29:55to me in that dialect
29:56while she chopped onions.
29:57I thought about Tommaso
29:58and Enzo
29:59and the guards
30:00who couldn't meet my eye.
30:01I'm fine.
30:02Just care.
30:04Don't be.
30:05He turned off the expressway.
30:07Not toward Queens.
30:08Almost there.
30:09We stopped under a streetlight
30:10at the edge of an empty lot
30:12where the cranes stood
30:13over the river like gallows.
30:15And Marco got out
30:16and opened my door
30:17with the same easy courtesy
30:18he'd shown me for a year.
30:20Except now there was...
30:21Sorry, Mrs. M.
30:23Nothing personal.
30:25It's just that you were
30:25only ever supposed
30:26to be a lamb.
30:28Kept his club.
30:30Expensive,
30:31quiet,
30:31and full of men
30:32who didn't blink.
30:33They sat me
30:34in a full light.
30:35Marco stood behind me.
30:36My father stood by the wall,
30:38gray-faced,
30:38not looking at me,
30:39holding a phone
30:40like it might bite him.
30:42Luca pulled up a chair
30:42across from me
30:43and crossed his legs.
30:45Avacata,
30:46let's stop pretending.
30:47You've understood
30:48every word since the wedding.
30:50Oh, come now.
30:51The purse.
30:52You found it.
30:54My nephew crushed it.
30:55I heard the crunch.
30:56Very dramatic.
30:57He smiled.
30:59You're wondering
30:59why I let you hear the doxing.
31:01Simple.
31:02I wanted him to know.
31:04A man who knows
31:05it's a trap
31:05and walks in anyway.
31:07That's not courage, sweetheart.
31:08That's a confession.
31:10That's exactly what he is.
31:12Complized.
31:13By me.
31:15By love.
31:16God help him.
31:17And the wedding chair
31:17can't sit under a man
31:18and trade the family
31:19for a woman.
31:22So tonight he trades.
31:23Today I explained
31:24to the council
31:25that Sokolov
31:25took his revenge
31:26and that utter
31:27traitor's bride
31:28sadly went easy
31:29to the Russians.
31:30He spread his hands.
31:32It rights itself.
31:33The council will believe that?
31:35The council will believe
31:36whoever's still there.
31:39He held out his hand
31:40and my father
31:41put the phone in it.
31:42Luca dialed it.
31:43He set it on his knee.
31:45Where is she?
31:46Safe.
31:47For now.
31:48Say hello, Ava.
31:49Luca handed me the phone.
31:52In English, cara.
31:54Altrimenti Marco
31:54rimane piante
31:55una decenocci
31:56del tuo padre.
31:57Or parliamo di due.
31:58I looked at the car.
32:00Behind me,
32:01Marco's gun
32:02touched the back
32:02of the chair.
32:03I said it in English.
32:04My voice shook.
32:05That part was...
32:06Dante, I'm at the docks.
32:08I'm alright.
32:09Luca just wants to talk.
32:11Ava.
32:12Come alone.
32:13Please.
32:15I'm scared.
32:16I'm scared.
32:19Luca lied
32:20and reached for the phone.
32:21I said fast
32:22before his hand closed.
32:24And Dante,
32:24it's cold here.
32:25Cover your shoulders.
32:26Silence on the line.
32:27Luca frowned.
32:28He took the phone back
32:29and looked at the card
32:29and then at me.
32:31That wasn't her.
32:31She's sentimental.
32:33How she was little
32:33before school.
32:35His eyes met mine
32:36for the first time all night.
32:37Something in them
32:38had woken up.
32:39It's nothing, Luca.
32:40She's just scared.
32:41Luca's studying me
32:42for a long moment.
32:43I let my face do
32:44what it had done
32:44for a year.
32:45Nothing.
32:46Blam.
32:48Sentimental.
32:49You heard her nephew.
32:50Alone.
32:51One hour.
32:51Pier 9.
32:52I'll come alone.
32:54His voice was flat and dead
32:55and I loved him so much
32:56I couldn't.
32:57Lucy.
32:58Soft.
32:59It's a call.
33:00Cover your shoulders.
33:02Don't come.
33:03It's a trap.
33:03I'm not where you think I am.
33:05My husband had just promised
33:07in front of everyone
33:08that he was coming anyway.
33:10Oh my gosh.
33:20He came alone.
33:21I'll give Luca this.
33:22He built the stage well.
33:23Pier 9 at 4 a.m.
33:25Fog off the river.
33:26His men in a loose
33:26half circle on the concrete.
33:28Me in the middle.
33:28Marco's hand on my shoulder.
33:32Dante walked out
33:33out of the dark
33:33with his hands open and empty.
33:35No coat.
33:35No sling.
33:36His shirt was black
33:37and the left shoulder
33:37of it was blacker.
33:39He didn't exist.
33:41Nipio.
33:42You look terrible.
33:43Let her go
33:44and you can look at me
33:45all you want.
33:46That's the deal.
33:47You for her.
33:49That's the deal.
33:51The chair.
33:52The businesses.
33:54The name.
33:55Kill me here
33:56and tell the council
33:56whatever you like.
33:57She walks.
33:59Dante didn't look at me.
34:00He couldn't.
34:01I understood.
34:02If he looked at me
34:02he'd stop being able
34:03to do this.
34:07Tonight.
34:08Enzo's waiting for her
34:09at the end
34:09to appear with a car.
34:10He doesn't come
34:11one step closer
34:12unless you call him.
34:13How romantic.
34:15Luca drew a pistol
34:16in his coat
34:16like it was a fountain.
34:18I would say
34:19why did you do this?
34:20I would say
34:20I raised you wrong.
34:23Marani doesn't
34:24kneel for a woman.
34:26My father is dead
34:27because you put a bomb
34:28under his seat.
34:29The driver's daughter
34:30watched you do it.
34:30She's been in my guest house
34:31for four years.
34:31The first time
34:32Luca's face
34:33did something real.
34:35Gianna Costa
34:36thought she died
34:37in the fire.
34:37She's alive.
34:38She's been at a table
34:39in Staten Island
34:40for the past two hours
34:40talking to Don Vitaro
34:41and the heads
34:42of four other families
34:43telling them everything.
34:46Nobody moves
34:47a council meeting
34:47for a driver's daughter.
34:49They didn't move it
34:50for her.
34:50Dante finally
34:51finally looked at me.
34:53They moved it
34:53for the purse.
34:54Luca's eyes
34:54went to the green bag
34:55on my arm.
34:56Enzo had handed it
34:57to me as I left
34:57the house
34:57saying only let him.
35:00I crushed it.
35:02I crushed yours.
35:03Enzo built another one.
35:05Same frequency.
35:06Same bag.
35:06It's been broadcasting
35:07to a phone
35:08on Don Vitaro's table
35:08since she walked
35:09into your warehouse.
35:10Silence.
35:11Fog.
35:11A horn.
35:13Guys,
35:14Sunday I explained
35:14to the council
35:15that Sokolov
35:15took his revenge.
35:16Your words,
35:17your voice.
35:18The council heard
35:19you plan a hit
35:19on a sitting head
35:20with a Russian alibi.
35:21They heard you
35:21admit Sokolov's partner.
35:23They heard the docks.
35:24Luca's men were...
35:25One of them
35:26had taken a step back.
35:27The council
35:28will believe
35:28whoever's still grieving.
35:30Very quotable.
35:32Luca took a step
35:33forward instead.
35:34His pistol came up
35:35and it wasn't
35:36pointed at Dante.
35:37Let's find out
35:38who's breathing.
35:39He grabbed me
35:40by the hair
35:40and put the barrel
35:41against my temple.
35:43Choose nephew.
35:44You said you came alone.
35:46So did I.
35:48Get on your knees
35:48right here
35:49on the recording
35:50until the final.
35:51Or she goes
35:52into the river
35:52and you can explain
35:53to Tano
35:54why your wife
35:55is worth more
35:55than your family.
35:57Dante's face
35:57went white.
36:00And then
36:02very slowly
36:03he started.
36:10Dante's knee
36:11was a pinch
36:11from the concrete.
36:13He stopped.
36:13My voice was steadier
36:14than my legs.
36:15He doesn't get that.
36:16Not on your knees,
36:17not for myself, Luca.
36:18Ignorant is useful.
36:19What?
36:20You should have checked
36:21what else I understood.
36:22I had been in the mafia
36:23for a year.
36:24I had learned
36:24exactly one thing
36:25from watching Enzo
36:26and DiMaggio
36:26and every man
36:27in that house
36:27and it was this.
36:28Nobody expects
36:29the lamp to move.
36:29I dropped,
36:30down,
36:31out of Luca's grip.
36:32His fist came away
36:32with hair
36:33and the gun
36:33was rubbing in fog.
36:34I hit the concrete,
36:35rolled,
36:35and something big
36:36and gray
36:36flew past me.
36:37My father,
36:38Richard Hart,
36:39who has cried
36:40at a kitchen table
36:41and taken a bakery
36:41box to a gunfight.
36:43Shan with the full weight
36:44of a man
36:45who had absolutely
36:45nothing left to lose.
36:47They went down together.
36:48The floodlight swung.
36:50The pistol skittered.
36:51And then there were
36:51headlights,
36:52a dozen from
36:53every direction.
36:54Enzo's car
36:55and four more
36:55behind it
36:56and a very,
36:57very good coat
36:57stepping out
36:58of the first one
36:59with two dozen
37:00guns behind him.
37:03Every man
37:04on that pier
37:04put his hands
37:05where God
37:05could see them.
37:06Marco tried to run.
37:08Tomasio put him
37:09on the ground
37:09with something like
37:10my father was bleeding
37:11from the side
37:11but he was breathing.
37:12He looked up at me
37:13from the concrete
37:14and for the first time
37:15since my mother's funeral
37:16his eyes were dry.
37:17Your mother
37:17always said
37:18you were smarter than me.
37:19She was right.
37:21Yeah.
37:22She usually was.
37:23Dante had both arms.
37:24His bad shoulder
37:24must have been screaming
37:25and he didn't see the jokes.
37:26He held my face
37:26against his chest
37:27and I felt his whole body
37:28shake and he said
37:29into my hair.
37:29Coperti le spalle
37:31e poi mi avevi detto
37:32di non finire.
37:33I knew you would anyway.
37:35You were right.
37:37He laughed.
37:38Wet, broken, real
37:39and pulled back
37:40to look at me.
37:41Blood on his shirt,
37:41fog in his hair,
37:42eyes that had never once
37:43in 12 months
37:44been this unguarded.
37:45They took Luca,
37:46the council.
37:46I didn't ask where.
37:47Good.
37:48They asked me
37:49in front of everyone.
37:50Step down.
37:51The other option
37:52is to have Ava
37:52sunk in the river
37:53then I don't want it.
37:55Any man who'd give up
37:56the chair for his wife
37:57was instead
37:57the only one
37:58worthy of trust
37:59to sit in this seat.
38:00Apparently I'm compromised
38:01in a way they find reassuring.
38:02I laughed.
38:03Ava.
38:05The papers.
38:06The green purse.
38:07Whatever's still in there.
38:08I'll burn them.
38:09No.
38:10Sign them.
38:11Sign them.
38:12And then marry me.
38:13Not for a debt.
38:14Not because a car pulled up.
38:15Because I asked.
38:16The language you actually think in.
38:18I spent a year
38:18being the man you were given.
38:19I'd like to be the man you chose.
38:21Say.
38:22Yes.
38:23Good.
38:25You have 12 months
38:26to make up for
38:27and I intend to start tonight.
38:28The fog was lifted.
38:29Three, then gold.
38:32In the garden of the house
38:33where I had been ignorant
38:33for a year
38:34and this time
38:34I understood every word.
38:36The priest spoke Italian.
38:37Dante put the ring
38:38on my hand himself.
38:39My father sat in the back row
38:40with a cane
38:41and a face that had learned
38:42to lay the need.
38:43Your mother would have loved him.
38:44And when I passed him
38:45on the way to the altar
38:46he whispered,
38:46your mother would have loved him.
38:49And I let myself believe it.
38:51Gianna was my maid of honor.
38:53She fiercely protested at first.
38:55Oh, groom's mistress.
38:56How can I stand next to the bride?
38:58That's exactly why
38:58it has to be you.
38:59She cried through
39:00the whole ceremony
39:01and swore in Sicilian
39:02at the photographer.
39:04Enzo gave a toast.
39:05It was four words long.
39:07Cook.
39:07Fine.
39:08Fine.
39:10It was the most emotional
39:11anyone had ever seen him.
39:13Tom also had started
39:14speaking to me
39:14exclusively in English
39:15out of terror.
39:16In fact,
39:16the entire house had.
39:17I'd overhear the guards
39:18in the kitchen
39:18switching mid-sentence
39:19when I walked in.
39:19Italian to English
39:20like a radio changing station
39:21and it made me laugh.
39:22A year of pretending
39:23I couldn't hear them,
39:24now they couldn't stop
39:24making sure I could.
39:25Good evening.
39:27I didn't ask where.
39:29Dante told me,
39:30once,
39:30that the council
39:31had been generous
39:32and I chose to understand
39:33that the way a lamp would.
39:35That night,
39:36the guests left
39:37and the garden lights
39:38went out one by one
39:39and my husband
39:40walked me up the stairs
39:40of our house,
39:41past the study
39:42where I'd first heard
39:43the words not allowed,
39:44past the door
39:45between our rooms
39:45which had been taken
39:46off its itches in July
39:47and never replaced.
39:48That I'm not allowed
39:49to carry you over any
39:49thresholds with this shoulder.
39:51By whom?
39:52The doctor,
39:52Enzo,
39:53Gianna,
39:53you,
39:54twice.
39:55Then don't.
39:57He picked me up anyway.
39:59Later,
39:59much later,
40:00I lay with my head
40:01on listening to the heartbeat
40:02I'd once had to listen for
40:03through drywall
40:04and the moon came in
40:05through the tall windows
40:06and lay across the floor
40:07like a second white dress.
40:09Ask me.
40:11Ask you what?
40:12Anything.
40:13In any language.
40:14You've heard behind your back
40:15there's nothing left in me
40:16you haven't listened to
40:17so ask me something
40:18I've never said.
40:18I thought about it.
40:21On the day you got out
40:22of the car,
40:23it'll be me.
40:24Was that about the debt
40:25or about me?
40:27Long.
40:29Luca sent me to look at you
40:30to confirm the girl
40:31was pretty enough
40:32for Sokolov.
40:33That's all I was supposed to do.
40:34Look.
40:35Drive away.
40:36Hands.
40:37And you were standing
40:37on the steps
40:38in a coat that didn't fit
40:39and you looked at the car
40:40like you were gonna fight it
40:41and I said her.
40:42Not to Sokolov,
40:43not to Luca,
40:43not to anyone.
40:45So I paid four million dollars
40:46for the right to keep
40:47my hands in my pockets
40:48and stand between you
40:49and the world.
40:49I'd have paid 40.
40:50I'd have paid the chair.
40:52I turned my face
40:53into his chest
40:54so he wouldn't
40:54and of course he did.
40:58Ava.
41:01Say it.
41:02The thing you're allowed
41:03to have now.
41:07You.
41:08Always you.
41:10Outside,
41:11in the hallway,
41:12I heard Tomasio
41:13on the night shift
41:13say something
41:14in Italian to Enzo
41:15and then,
41:16catching himself,
41:17switch to English.
41:18I smiled against Dante's heart
41:21I hadn't heard.
41:21I had.
41:23I always would.
41:26I always would.
41:27in Italian to Enzo
41:28in Italian to Enzo
41:28in Italian to Enzo
41:28in Italian to Enzo
41:28in Italian to Enzo
41:29in Italian to Enzo
41:30in Italian to Enzo
41:30in Italian to Enzo