"It's the sense of touch." "What?" "Any real city, you walk, you know?" "You brush past people." "People bump into you." "In L.A., nobody touches you." "We're always behind this metal and glass." "I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so we can feel something." "You guys okay?" "I think he hit his head." "You don't think that's true?" "Stay in your car." "Graham, I think we got rear-ended." "I think we spun around twice." "And somewhere in there, one of us lost our frame of reference." "And I'm gonna go look for it." " Calm down, ma'am." " I am calm!" "I need to see your registration and insurance." "Why?" "It's not my fault!" "It's her fault!" "She do this!" "My fault?" "Ma'am, you really need to wait in your vehicle." "My fault?" "Stop in middle of street!" "Mexicans no know how to drive." "She "blake" too fast." "I "blake" too fast?" "I "blake" too fast." " I'm sorry you no see my "blake" lights." " Ma'am." "See, I stop when I see a long line of cars stopped in front of me." "Maybe you see over steering wheel, you "blake" too!" "Ma'am!" "I call immigration on you." "Look what you do my car." "Officer, can you please write in your report how shocked I am to be hit by an Asian driver!" " Ma'am!" " Ma'am, no." "See, Detective..." "All right." "You've got to calm down." "Hey, Detective!" "Nice entrance." "Fuck you." "Hey, you okay?" "I'm freezin'." "Shit." "I heard it might snow." " Get outta here." " That's what I heard." " You got a smoke?" " Nah." "I quit." "Yeah, me too." " What do you got?" " Dead kid." "Hey, Bob." "You get one free box of ammunition." "What kind do you want?" "Yo, Osama!" "Plan a jihad on your own time." "What do you want?" "Are you making insult at me?" "Am I making insult "at" you?" "Is that the closest you can come to English?" " Yes, I speak English!" "I am American citizen." " Oh, God, here we go." "I have right like you." "I have right to buy gun." "Not in my store, you don't!" "Andy, get him outta here now!" " Go wait in the car." " Now." "Get out!" "You're an ignorant man!" "Yeah, I'm ignorant?" "You're liberating my country." "And I'm flying 747 s into your mud huts and incinerating your friends?" " Get the fuck out!" " No, you get the fuck out!" "No, don't touch me!" "He cheat me!" " Andy, now!" " Let's go." "Okay." "You can give me the gun or give me back the money." "And I am really hoping for the money." " What kind of ammunition do you want?" " Whatever fits." "We got a lot of kinds." "We got long colts, short colts, bull heads, flat nose, hollow points, wide cutters, and a dozen more that'll fit any size hole." "Just depends upon how much bang you can handle." "I'll take the ones in the red box." " You know what those are?" " Can I have them?" "Did you see any white people waitin' an hour and 32 minutes for a plate of spaghetti?" "And how many cups of coffee did we get?" "You don't drink coffee and I didn't want any." "Man, that woman poured cup after cup to every single white person around us." "But did she even ask you if you wanted any?" "We didn't get any coffee that you didn't want and I didn't order, and that's evidence of racial discrimination?" "Did you notice that our waitress was black?" "And black women don't think in stereotypes?" "You tell me." "When was the last time you met one who didn't think she knew everything about your lazy ass before you even opened your mouth, huh?" "That waitress sized us up in two seconds." "We're black, and black people don't tip." "She wasn't gonna waste her time." "Somebody like that?" "Nothing you can do to change their mind." "How much did you leave?" "You expect me to pay for that kind of service?" "What?" "What the fuck is you laughin' at, man?" "I'm seriously starting to think that you're jealous of Karen." "Hardly." "I'd just like to see you get through a meal without calling her or anyone else." "Okay, no more phone calls." "As a matter of fact, you can hold the battery." "Okay?" "Ten bucks says she calls you in the car." "Wait, wait, wait." "See what that woman just did?" " You see that?" " She's cold." "She got colder as soon as she saw us." " Ah, come on, don't start." " Man, look around you, man." "You couldn't find a whiter, safer or better-lit part of this city right now." "But yet this white woman sees two black guys who look like UCLA students strolling down the sidewalk, and her reaction is blind fear?" "Look at us, dawg." "Are we dressed like gangbangers?" "Huh?" "No." "Do we look threatening?" "No." "Fact." "If anybody should be scared around here, it's us!" "We're the only two black faces surrounded by a sea of over-caffeinated white people patrolled by the trigger-happy L.A.P.D." "So you tell me." "Why aren't we scared?" "'Cause we got guns?" "You could be right." " Get the fuck outta the car!" " Gimme the keys!" " Hurry up!" "Get down!" " Okay, okay, okay, okay." " No, no!" "Please!" " Don't look at me!" "Turn around!" " Come on!" "Go!" " We're fine!" "Just keep moving!" "No, no, no!" "Take that voodoo-assed thing off of there right now." "I know you just didn't call Saint Christopher voodoo." "Man's the patron saint of travelers, dawg." "You had a conversation with God, huh?" "What did God say?" ""Go forth, my son, and leave big slobbery suction rings on every dashboard you find"?" "Why the hell do you do that?" "Look at the way your crazy ass drive, then ask me again." "Chevy pickup and Mercedes driving north on Balboa." "Pickup cuts in front." "Driver of the Mercedes gets pissed, pulls a gun." "Doesn't realize the guy in the pickup is a cop coming off shift." "This Barry Gibb dude is a cop?" "Yeah." "Name's Conklin." "He's a narc out of Wilshire." "I got the Mercedes." "Mercedes takes a shot at him." "Detective Conklin returns fire." "One shot." "Mercedes rolls to a stop." "Driver opens the door, falls out dead." "He looks very relaxed for just having shot somebody." "He says he kept tryin' to drive away." "The Mercedes kept pulling up next to him, screaming, waving a gun." "Shot back in self-defense." " Anybody actually see who shot first?" " They just heard two bangs." "Find me a witness." "That is a nice gun." "The car's registered to a Cindy Bradley." "And that's not Cindy." "That is a William Lewis." "Found under the front seat." "Hollywood Division." "Looks like Detective Conklin shot himself the wrong nigger." " How much longer are you gonna be?" " This is the last one." "Thank you." "You don't think reporters listen to police calls?" "I need to talk to you for a second." "You just give me a minute, all right?" " Find Flanagan, will you?" "Now." " Yes, sir." "Yes, honey?" "I want the locks changed again in the morning." "You want..." "Why don't you just go lie down?" "Have you checked on James?" "Of course." "I've checked on him every five minutes since we've been home." "Do not patronize me." "I want the locks changed again in the morning." "It's okay." "Just go to bed." "You know, didn't I just ask you not to treat me like a child?" "I'm sorry, Miss Jean." "Is okay I go home now?" "It's fine." "Thank you very much for staying." "You're welcome." "No problem." "Good night." " Good night." " We'll see you tomorrow." "I would like the locks changed again in the morning." "And you might mention that we'd appreciate it if next time they didn't send a gang member." " A gang member?" "You mean that kid in there?" " Yes, yes." "Yes." "The guy with the shaved head, the pants around his ass, the prison tattoo." " Those are not prison tattoos." " Oh, really?" "And he's not gonna sell our key to one of his gangbanger friends" " the moment he is out our door?" " We've had a tough night." " It'd be best if you went upstairs..." " And wait for them to break in?" "I just had a gun pointed in my face." "You lower your voice!" "And it was my fault because I knew it was gonna happen." "But if a white person sees two black men walking towards her, and she turns and walks in the other direction, she's a racist, right?" "Well, I got scared and I didn't say anything." "And ten seconds later I had a gun in my face!" "I am telling you." "Your amigo in there is gonna sell our key to one of his homies." "And this time it'd be really fucking great if you acted like you actually gave a shit!" "All right, what have we got?" "Talk to me, Karen." "Flanagan doesn't think anybody has the story yet." "I'm the goddamn District Attorney of Los Angeles." "If my car gets jacked, it's gonna make news." "Fuck!" "Why did these guys have to be black?" "I mean, why?" "No matter how we spin this," "I'm either gonna lose the black vote or I'm gonna lose the law-and-order vote." "You're worrying too much." "You have a lot of support in the black community." "All right." "If we can't duck this thing, we're gonna have to neutralize it." "What we need is a picture of me pinning a medal on a black man." "Bruce?" "The firefighter." "The one who saved the camp or something." "Northridge." "What's his name?" "He's Iraqi." "He's Iraqi?" "Well, he looks black." "He's dark-skinned, sir, but he's Iraqi." "His name's Saddam Khahum." "Saddam?" "His-His name's Saddam?" "That's real good, Bruce." "I'm gonna pin a medal on an Iraqi named Saddam." "Give yourself a raise, will you?" "It's been good doing business with you." " How soon can I have them?" " I'm picking them up right now." "Look, you're not listening to me." "This is an emergency." "I keep telling you he's in pain." "He can't sleep." "Mr. Ryan, your father has been to the clinic three times in the last month." "He is being treated for a urinary tract infection." "That is by no means an emergency." "If you have any more questions about your HMO plan, why don't you make an appointment to come in between 10:00 and 4:00, Monday through Friday." "What does my father do about sleeping tonight?" "I don't know." "I'm not a doctor." " I wanna talk to your supervisor." " I am my supervisor!" " What is your name?" " Shaniqua Johnson." "Shaniqua." "Big fucking surprise that is." "Bronson Avenue, Westwood." "Vehicle is described as a black late-model Lincoln Navigator." "California plate 4 Peter Charles Ida 315." "Suspects are two black males, approximately 20 years of age." "That's not it." "That's not the vehicle, John." "The plates don't match." "The driver's gotta be 40." "Nobody jacks a car and takes it to Studio City." "They were doin' something." "Enthusiastic." "Keep your hands where I can see 'em, please." "I'm gonna need to see your driver's license and registration." "No problem." "I'm gonna have to reach inside the glove compartment to get the registration." " Is that okay?" " Nice and slow, please." "Okay." "How are you tonight, Officer?" "Excellent." "Here you go." "Stay inside the vehicle, please." "Let's do it again right now." "Step outta the car, please, sir." "Wait a minute, Officer." "I haven't been drinking or anything." "Then we shouldn't have a problem." "He doesn't drink." "He's a Buddhist, for Christ's sake." "No, it's okay." "It's fine." "Step onto the sidewalk, sir." "That's good." "Right there." "Look at me." "I want you to stand on your right foot." "Touch your nose with the index finger of your left hand." "I told you he doesn't drink." "Ma'am, I'm only gonna tell you one time to stay in the vehicle." " Ma'am?" " Honey, honey, I'm okay." "I got this." "Don't you "ma'am" me." "Who the hell do you think you're talking to?" "Look, Officer, my wife has had a couple of drinks..." "Both of you, turn around." "Put your hands on top of your head and interlock your fingers." "Wait." "We're only a block away from our house." "Hands on your head." "Interlock your fingers." " Hands on your head." "Interlock your fingers." " I'm a television director." "Me and my wife were just coming home from an awards show." "Take your hands off him." "He's done nothing wrong." "Put your hands on top of your head, ma'am." " Do what he says." " Fuck you!" "Put your hands..." "And you keep your filthy fucking hands off me!" "You motherfucking pig!" " Just stop talking!" " That's quite a mouth you have." "Of course you know that." "Fuck you!" "That's what this is all about, isn't it?" "You thought you saw a white woman blowing' a black man." "That drove your cracker ass crazy." "Will you just shut your fucking mouth!" "I'd listen to your husband, ma'am." "Put your legs open." "Do you have any guns or knives or anything I might get stuck with?" "I'm wearing a cocktail dress." "What do you think?" "You'd be surprised some of the places I've found weapons." "He's clean." "What do you think we should do about this, Mr. Thayer?" "My partner and I just witnessed your wife performing fellatio on you while you were operating a motor vehicle." "That's reckless endangerment, which incidentally is a felony." "We could charge your wife with lewd conduct and performing a sexual act in public." "You say you're a block from home." "We could use our discretion and let you go with a warning, or we could cuff you and put you in the back of the car." "What do you think we should do, sir?" "Look, we're sorry, and we would appreciate if you would just let us go with a warning, please." "The man's apologizing, Tommy." "I think we can let him go." "Don't you?" "Yeah." "All right." "You can go." "You folks drive safe now, huh?" "Let's go, Tommy." "It won't close." "I can do that." "Dad, you couldn't even get it open." "Have respect for your father." "Give me the gun!" "Here." "Now you can shoot anybody you want." "Dorri, that man could've killed your mother." "You think I should let crazy people do what they want to us?" "Farhad, it won't close." "Dorri, you should be at work." "Who are you calling?" "I'm gonna report their asses." "Sons of bitches." "You actually believe they're gonna take anything you have to say seriously?" "Do you have any idea how that felt?" "To have that pig's hands all over me?" "And you just stood there!" "And then you apologized to him?" "What did you want me to do?" "Get us both shot?" "They were gonna shoot us on Ventura Boulevard!" "Pathetic." "Well, maybe you would've been satisfied with just being arrested." "Oh, I get it." "Much better to let him shove his hand up my crotch than get your name in the paper." "You finally got me figured out, 'cause see, that's exactly what I was worried about right there." "Oh?" "You weren't afraid that all your good friends at the studio were gonna read about you in the morning and realize he's actually black?" "You need to calm down right now." "What I need is a husband who will not just stand there while I am being molested!" "They were cops for God sakes!" "They had guns!" "Maybe I should've let them arrest your ass." "Sooner or later you gotta find out what it is really like to be black." "Fuck you, man." "Like you know." "The closest you ever came to being black, Cameron, was watching The Cosby Show." "At least I wasn't watching it with the rest of the equestrian team." "You're right, Cameron." "I got a lot to learn 'cause I haven't quite learned how to shuck and jive." "Let me hear it again." "Thank you, mister policeman." "You sure is mighty kind to us poor black folk." "You be sure to let me know next time you wanna finger-fuck my wife." "How the fuck do you say something like that to me?" "You know, fuck you!" "That's good." "A little anger." "It's a bit late, but it's nice to see!" "How's it goin'?" "Okay." "You didn't get scared or something, did you?" "There's no monsters in the closet, right?" "'Cause I hate monsters." "There's no such thing as monsters." "Ah, that's a good thing." "I heard a bang." "Like a truck bang?" "Like a gun." "That's funny, 'cause we moved outta that bad neighborhood." "And there's not too many guns around here." "How far can bullets go?" "They go pretty far." "But they usually get stuck in something and stop." "What if they don't?" "You thinking about that bullet that came through your window?" "You think we should move again?" "I like it here." "Me too." "But if that bullet found out where we lived..." "Oh, hold on." "What?" "So stupid!" "How can I forget this?" "What?" "Nah." "Forget it." "You ain't gonna believe me." "Tell me." "Okay." "When I was five, this fairy came into my room one night." " Right." " See, I told you you weren't gonna believe me." " Okay, go to sleep now, you little rat." " No, tell me." "Okay." "So this fairy comes into my room and I'm like, "Yeah, right, you're a fairy."" "Anyway, we're talking, you know." "And she's flying all around the room, knocking down all my posters and stuff." "She was flying?" "She had these little stubby wings." "She could've glued 'em on, you know?" "Like I'm gonna believe she's a fairy." "So she said, "I'll prove it."" "So she reaches into her backpack." "And she pulls out this invisible cloak." "She ties it around my neck, and she tells me that it's impenetrable." "You know what impenetrable means?" "It means that nothing can go through it." "No bullets." "Nothing." "She told me that if I wore it, nothing would hurt me." "So I did." "And my whole life, I never got shot, stabbed." "Nothing." "I mean, how weird is that?" "Only she told me that I was supposed to give it to my daughter on her fifth birthday." "And I forgot." "Can I touch it?" "Sure, go ahead." " I don't feel it." " Yeah." "It's pretty cool, huh?" "I can take it off and tie it around your shoulders." "She told me how to do it." " Unless you think it's stupid." " Don't you need it?" "No, not anymore." "So what do you think?" "You want it?" "Okay, let's get outta here." "Okay." "Put your head up." "Okay." "Is that too tight?" "Do you feel anything at all?" "Good." "Then it's just right." "Do I take it off when I have a bath?" "No, you leave it on all the time." "Until you have a daughter when she turns five, then you give it to her." "Okay?" "Okay." "Okay." "Good night, sweetie." "Good night." "Nah, nah." "You wanna listen to music of the oppressor, you go right ahead, man." "How in the lunacy of your mind is hip-hop music of the oppressor?" "Listen to it, man!" ""Nigger this, nigger that."" "You think white people go around calling each other honkies all day, man?" ""Hey, honky, how's business?"" ""Going great, cracker." "We're diversifying."" "How 'bout this, huh?" "Listen." "You like that?" "Man's singin' about lynching' niggers." "And you think there's a difference, don't you?" "Huh?" "Gonna buy me a rope and lynch me a nigger" "You have absolutely no idea where hip-hop music comes from, do you?" "I'd shoot 'em dead first but I done broke my trigger" "See, back in the '60s we had smart, articulate black men." "Gonna get out my sheet Put my hood on my head" "Like Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton." "Gonna string 'em up good" "These brothers were speaking out, and people were listening!" "Then they'll be dead" "Then the FBI said, "No, we can't have that."" "Home of the brave and the land of the free" ""Let's give the niggers this music by a bunch of mumbling idiots and sooner or later, they'll all copy it, and nobody will be able to understand a fucking word they say." "End of problem."" "What the fuck was that, dawg?" " Holy shit!" " What?" "Man, we done ran over a Chinaman." "You're sayin' there's a Chinaman under this truck?" "What part don't you understand?" "There's a Chinaman stuck underneath the fucking truck." "Help me." "Uh-huh." "Uh-huh." "Ah, God." "What the hell did he do, just leap out in front of the truck?" "Man!" "This is so completely fucked up." "Oh, really?" "No shit!" "Okay, hold up." "Hold up, hold up, hold up." " Get back in the truck." " What?" " Yes, get back in the truck." " You think we didn't drag him far enough?" "No, we gonna drive away." "And he gonna let go." "He's not gonna let go, Anthony." "You know why?" "Because he's stuck underneath the fucking truck!" "Now, if he could've let go, he probably would've considered that option half a block back." "What you and I gotta do, just grab his arms and pull him from underneath." "You grab his arm, it's gonna fall off." "Then you gonna be standing in the street holding a Chinaman's arm." "Then what your ass gonna do, huh?" "If we leave this man here, he dies." "Then we're up for murder charges." "Just grab his arm." "We'll just pull him out." "I don't wanna cause any problems, Lieutenant." "I just want a new partner." "I understand." "Your partner's a racist prick." "But you don't wanna stir up any bad feelings with him." "He's been on the force for a long time." "Seventeen years." "And I do have to work here, sir." "So you don't mind that there's a racist prick on the force." "You just don't want him to ride in your car." "If you need me to go on record about this, sir, I will." "That'd be great." "Write a full report." "Because I'm anxious to understand how an obvious bigot could've gone undetected in this department for 17 years." "Eleven of which he was under my personal supervision." "Which doesn't speak very highly of my managerial skills." "But that's not your concern." "I can't wait to read it." "What if I said I wanted a new partner for personal reasons?" "So now you're saying he's not a racist prick, you just don't like him." " Yes, sir." " That's not a good enough reason." "Then I guess I should think of a better one and get back to you." "So you think I'm asking you to make one up." "Uh, no, sir." "I just can't think of one... right now." "You wanna know what I heard?" "I heard it was a case of uncontrollable flatulence." "You want me to say he has flatulence?" "Not him." "You." "You have uncontrollable flatulence." "You're too embarrassed to ride with anybody else so you're requesting a one-man car." "I'm not... comfortable with that, Lieutenant." "I wouldn't be either." "Which is why I understand your need for privacy." "Just like I'm sure you understand how hard a black man has to work to get to, say, where I am, in a racist fucking organization like the L.A.P.D." "and how easily that can be taken away." "Now, that being said, it's your decision." "You can put your career and mine on the line in pursuit of a just cause, or you can admit to having an embarrassing problem of a personal nature." "Fuck." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "Sir?" "You finished?" "I replaced the lock." "But you got a real problem with that door." "You fix the lock?" "Nah, I replaced the lock." "But you gotta fix that door." " Just fix the lock!" " Sir, sir, sir." "Listen to me." "What you need is a new door." " I need new door?" " Yeah." "Okay." "How much?" "I don't..." "Sir, you're gonna have to call somebody that sells doors." "You try to cheat me, right?" "You have a friend that fix door?" "Nah, I don't have a friend that fix doors, bro." "Then go and fix the fucking lock, you cheater." "You..." "You know what?" "Why don't you just pay for the lock and I won't charge you for the time." "You don't fix the lock!" "I pay!" "You think I'm stupid?" "You fix the fucking lock, you cheater!" " I'd appreciate if you'd stop calling me names." " Then fix the fucking lock!" "I replaced the lock!" "You gotta fix the fucking door!" "You cheat!" "You fucking cheater!" " Fine." "Don't pay." " What?" " Have a good night." " What?" "No." "Wait!" "Wait!" "You come back here!" "You fix the lock!" "Come here!" "You fix my lock!" "Fix the fucking lock!" "I understand." "You run over a Chinaman." "Stuff him in the back." "Then bring the truck here so I can share in the experience." "Come on, man." "It's a little bit of blood." "It'll wash right off." " Georgie, burn this thing." " Burn it?" "It's a brand-new Navigator." "All you need is a little piece of carpet." "You watch the Discovery Channel?" " Not a lot." " They got some good shit on that channel." "Every night there is a show with somebody shining a blue light and finding tiny specks of blood splattered on carpets and walls and ceiling fans, bathroom fixtures and special-edition plastic Burger King tray cups." "The next thing they show is some stupid redneck in handcuffs who looks absolutely stunned that this is happening to him." "Sometimes the redneck is actually watching the Discovery Channel when they break in to arrest him." "And he still can't figure out how on earth they could've caught him!" "Do I look like I wanna be on the Discovery Channel?" "No." "Then get the fuck outta my shop." "Oh, yeah, make sure you get that." "Without him, things could've gone really fucking wrong tonight." " Fuck!" " Don't!" "Don't you dare." "Don't." "Graham Waters." "No." "No, he's not here, Mom." "I'm not gonna go looking for him." "Look, he'll be home when..." "Just leave it alone." "Mom, I can't talk to you right now, okay?" "I'm having sex with a white woman." "Okay, where were we?" "I was white, and you were about to jerk off in the shower." "Oh, shit!" "Come on." "I would've said you were Mexican, but I don't think it would've pissed her off as much." "Why do you keep everybody at a certain distance, huh?" " What, you start to feel something and panic?" " Come on, Maria." "You're just pissed 'cause I answered the phone." "That's just where I begin to get pissed." "I mean, really, what kind of man speaks to his mother that way?" "Oh, this is about my mother." "What do you know about my mother?" "If I was your father, I'd kick your fucking ass." "Okay." "I was raised badly." "Why don't you take your clothes off, get back into bed and teach me a lesson?" "You want a lesson?" "I'll give you a lesson." "How 'bout a geography lesson?" "My father's from Puerto Rico." "My mother's from El Salvador." "Neither one of those is Mexico." "Ah." "Then I guess the big mystery is who gathered all those remarkably different cultures together and taught them all how to park their cars on their lawns?" "Pop, you okay?" "If I could piss, I'd be okay." "I'm..." "Jesus." "I'm done now." "Give me a hand." "Wait a goddamn minute!" " Wait a minute." " Whoa, whoa, whoa." "All right." "Okay." "Okay." "Wait, wait, wait." "Stop, stop!" " I gotta go back." " Okay." "What, are you gonna stand there and stare at me?" " So Conklin just shot him?" " Mm-hmm." " They know each other?" " Sir." "It's a grudge thing?" "Not as far as we can tell." "You think this is racially motivated?" "Well, a dozen people heard the shots." "Nobody saw anything." " Who do we have on it?" " Graham Waters." "Waters." "All right." "Well, tell him he speaks to no one but me." "Call a press conference for 4:00, and I want Waters here at 3:30." "And would someone please find Flanagan." "Oh!" "What up, Mo Phat?" "Man robs purses from old ladies and you, "Hey, how's it goin', Mo Phat?"" "That nigger will steal teeth from a cripple, man." "You callin' him a thief?" "And we do what?" "The man steals from black people." "Only reason black people steal from their own is 'cause they terrified of white people." "Oh, man, please." "Think about it." "Sherman Oaks." "Burbank." "Santa Monica." "All scary-ass places for a brother to find himself." "Drop Mo Phat at a Starbucks in Toluca Lake, that nigger will run like a rabbit soon as somebody say "decaf latte."" "What the fuck did you do to my car?" "Sorry I take your car, Miss Jean." "I turn key to my car, but nothing." "James wanted to take this to school." "But I don't want the kids to fight over it." " Are these clean or dirty?" " All clean, senora!" "You know, Maria, just once I would like to wake up and find these dishes in the cabinet." "Si, senora." "No problem." "I'm startin' to understand now." "By your work, you're settin' an example for our neighborhood." "Sort of like a big brother kind of thing, right?" "Yeah, you laugh, man." "But you have never seen me steal from a black person ever in your life." "What the hell do you think you doin' right now, man?" "Wavin' down the bus." "Put your hand down, dawg!" "Are you outta your mind?" "You actually expect me to get on a bus?" "No." "I was hopin' we could push your car across town." "You know why?" "'Cause we just don't do stuff like that no more." "You have no idea, do you?" "You have no idea why they put them great big windows on the sides of buses, do you?" " Why?" " One reason only." "To humiliate the people of color who are reduced to riding' on 'em." "I didn't know that." "You could fill the Staples Center with what you don't know." "You know the Kings are playin' tonight." "You don't like hockey!" "The only reason you say you do is to piss me off!" "I love hockey." "Cut!" "Print." "Moving on." "Okay, that takes us into scene 12." "Okay, that takes us into scene 12." "Jamal, that's what I'm talking about." "Right on." " Cam, you got a second?" " Yeah, Fred, I just wanna grab some coffee." "Yeah." "Listen." "I think we need another take, buddy." "That looked pretty terrific, man." "This is gonna sound strange, but is Jamal seeing a speech coach or something?" "What do you mean?" "Have you noticed, uh..." "This is weird for a white guy to say, but have you noticed he's talking a lot less black lately?" "No, I haven't noticed that." "Really?" "Like in this scene, he was supposed to say, "Don't be talkin' 'bout that."" "And he changed it to, "Don't talk to me about that."" "Wait a minute." "You think because of that, the audience won't recognize him as being a black man?" "Come on!" "Is there a problem, Cam?" "Excuse me?" "Is there a problem, Cam?" "No, we don't have a problem." "I mean, 'cause all I'm saying is it's not his character." "Eddie's supposed to be the smart one, not Jamal, right?" "You're the expert here." "But to me, it rings false." " We're gonna do it one more time." " Thanks, buddy." "Everybody back." "Let's do it one more time." "Jamal, um..." "Morning, Carol." "Who do I have?" "Hold for a minute, please." "Mr. Trujillo called and cancelled, but you have a walk-in, Mr. Ryan." "Send him in." " Mr. Ryan." " Yeah." "My name is Shaniqua Johnson." "I believe we spoke last night." "Oh, yeah." "I wanted to apologize about that." "I haven't been gettin' too much sleep." "My father's in a lot of pain." "Oh!" "I'm sorry to hear that." "This doctor he's been seein' says he's got a urinary tract infection." "But he's been takin' this medicine for a month, and he keeps gettin' worse." "And he's been back to see Dr. Robertson?" "Yeah." "Between you and me, the man's an idiot." " Really?" " No offense." "But the guy sees 100 patients an hour." "I think his nurses are doing most of the work." "Mmm." "If you're unhappy, your father's welcome to see a doctor outside the network." "And if this new doctor says it's not an infection, says it's his prostate and it needs to be operated on, is that gonna be covered?" " Not unless Dr. Robertson authorizes..." " What good is that gonna do?" "I'm sorry." "There's nothing else I can do." "All right." "You know what I can't do?" "I can't look at you without thinking about the five or six more qualified white men who didn't get your job." "It's time for you to go." "I'm saying this 'cause I'm hoping that I'm wrong about you." "I'm hoping that someone like yourself, someone who may have been given a helping hand, might have a little compassion for someone in a similar situation." "Carol, I need security in my office!" "You don't like me, that's fine." "I'm a prick." "My father doesn't deserve to suffer like this." "He was a janitor." "He struggled his whole life." "Saved enough to start his own company." "Twenty-three employees, all of them black." "Paid 'em equal wages when no one else was doing that." "For 30 years he worked side by side with those men, sweeping and carrying garbage." "Then the city council decides to give minority-owned companies preference in city contracts." "And overnight, my father loses everything." "His business, his home, his wife." "Everything!" "Not once does he blame your people." "I'm not asking you to help me." "I'm asking that you do this small thing for a man who lost everything so people like yourself could reap the benefits." "And do you know what it's gonna cost you?" "Nothing." "Just a flick of your pen." "Your father sounds like a good man." "And if he'd come in here today, I probably would've approved this request." "But he didn't come in." "You did." "And for his sake, it's a real shame." "Get him the hell outta my office." "Mm-hmm." "Mm-hmm." "Sir, I spoke to our employee, and he told you you needed to replace or repair the door." "He say he fix the lock." " You come here, see how "fix-ed" it is!" " You're yelling again." "I am not yelling!" "I'm upset!" "Yes..." "Yes, I am." "Mom, are you all right?" "Stop washing." "Insurance must take picture." "Okay?" "Look what they wrote." "They think we're Arab." "When did Persian become Arab?" "I want his name." "Yes." "Oh, my God." " I want his name!" "Give me his name!" " Dad?" "I'm not giving you his name, sir." " Dad, did they take the gun?" " Not fix my lock!" "I want his name!" "I'm gonna hang up now, sir." "Don't hang up!" "Shit!" "Oh, thank God." "Mom?" "Mom, it's cold." "Come on." "Did you find your brother?" "No, Mom." "I was doin' good." "I was..." "I was doin' real good." " I know, Mom." " I was doin'..." "It's okay." "Did you find your brother?" "No, Mom." "Tell him to come home." "Tell him I'm not mad, okay?" "Okay, baby?" "Okay, Mom." "Okay, baby." "Okay." "Okay." " Did you apologize to your mother?" " She wasn't there." "Internal Affairs called." "Found something in the Mercedes." "That's lunch." "One hour." "I tried to call." "Sounded like you're havin' a bad day, huh?" "Yeah." "What?" "I got scared, Cam." "It's not like I haven't been pulled over before." "You know?" "But not like that." "And, yes, I was a little drunk." "And I was mouthing off." "I'm sorry." "But when that man was putting his hands on me..." "I don't wanna talk about it." "I can't believe you let him do that, baby." "Look, I know what you did was the right thing." "Okay?" "But I was humiliated!" "For you." "I just couldn't stand to see that man take away your dignity." "Yeah." "That's what happened." " Oh, baby, don't do this." " No." "No, you're right." "I ain't doin' it." "You gonna walk away from me?" " Cameron!" " Just go home." "Mm-hmm." "I understand." "Thanks." " Has your father read his policy?" " He doesn't read English." "Mr. Golzari, you said you called the locksmith?" "Yes." "I tell him, fix it." "They said their man told you to fix the door, and you didn't do so." "Are you saying it's his fault?" "Insurance company is calling it negligence." "They're not covering any of this." "No." "This store is all we have." "I really am sorry." "What time you must go to work?" "Not until tonight." "Go home and sleep." "It's okay." "It's okay." "Go home and sleep." "Hey." "Maybe they didn't tell you, but I've been reassigned." "Yeah, they told me." "I just wanted to say, good luck and it was good riding' with you." "You too." "Wait till you've been on the job a few more years." " Yeah." " Look at me, look at me." "Wait till you've been doin' it a little longer." "You think you know who you are, hmm?" "You have no idea." "Yo, Gomez, you ready to roll, homie?" "Ready, amigo." "Radio check, 2-1-L-2-3." "2-1-L-23, picking up screams and noises from your car." "21-L, is your mike open by any chance?" "Call it in." "Ma'am?" "Can you hear me?" "Paramedics are rolling." "They'll be here in two minutes." " Get an extinguisher, and get that fire out." " Jesus." "Ma'am, are you hurt?" " Can you move?" " l..." "I can't breathe." "Okay, I'm gonna get you out." "It's okay." "Okay." "Okay." "Okay, I'm gonna get you out." "No!" " It's okay." " Get away from me!" "Get away." "Stay away from me!" "Not you!" "Not you!" " It's okay." " Don't touch me!" "Don't touch me!" " Keep away from me!" " Lady, I'm tryin'..." "I'm tryin' to help you." "Fuck you!" "Not you!" "Somebody!" "Anybody else!" " Please, somebody!" "Not you!" " Stop moving!" "No!" "Get your filthy fucking hands off me!" "Stop moving." "Lady, I'm not gonna fucking hurt you!" "Okay." "Okay." "Please don't touch me." "Don't, don't." "I'm not gonna touch you." "But there's nobody else here yet and that's gasoline there." "We need to get you outta here right away." "Okay?" "Oh, my..." "Oh, my..." "Oh, my..." "Oh, my God." "Okay." "I need to reach across your lap." "Can I do that, please?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Thanks." "Is anything broken?" "I-I don't think so." "Okay." "Then that's good." "Are you..." "Are you gonna get me out?" "Yeah, I'm gonna get you out." "Okay?" "Look at me." "Look at me." "I'm gonna get you out." "Oh, fuck!" " I'm sorry." " That's okay." "I'm gonna have to cut your belt, okay?" "I'm gonna have to cut the belt." "It's okay, it's okay." "It's okay." "Okay, we're gonna get you out." "Everything's gonna be fine." "Look at me!" "Everything's gonna be fine." "We're gonna get you outta here." "Everything's gonna be fine." "Ryan!" "Pull!" "It's okay." "It's okay." "All right." "It's okay, it's okay." "It's all right." "I got it." "I got it." "Ma'am?" "Ma'am, can you walk with me?" "It's cool, it's cool." "Here we go." "All right, you're doin' great." "The D.A. wanted me to apologize." "He really wanted to be here himself." "No, he didn't!" "If he did his own dirty work none of us would have jobs." " Jake Flanagan." "I work with Rick." " Graham Waters." " Thanks for coming in." " He just pulled into the garage." "Great." "Press conference is in ten minutes, so we'll make this short." "Internal Affairs says this Conklin has two suspicious shootings on his record." "Both black men." "Both times he was cleared, but only just." "Detective Lewis makes black man number three." "You know any reason why we shouldn't hang Conklin for this?" "Well, it's more complicated than we originally thought." "We found $300,000 in the trunk of the car that Detective Lewis was driving." "Shit!" "Ah." "Go down to the garage." "Tell him to stay in the car until he hears from me." "You found the money in the Mercedes." "I thought that wasn't his car." "The car's registered to a Cindy Bradley." "We haven't been able to get in touch with her." "Apparently she, uh, left town this morning." "So it wasn't Lewis's car." "He may not have known the money was in it." "You really think you're gonna be able to make that fly?" "Give us a minute." "No problem." "Who knows about the money?" "You gotta be kiddin' me." "There are only two people in this room." "Myself, my partner, Ferguson and Internal Affairs." " Jim Ferguson?" " Yeah." "Okay." "I guess I don't see a problem." "As it wasn't Lewis's car, the money isn't clear evidence of any wrongdoing." "And even if it was, we aren't going to prosecute a dead man." "Which means the money Internal Affairs is holding can't be considered evidence." "You can do this dance if you want to, but I'm willing to bet when the coroner's report comes back tomorrow it's going to say that Detective Lewis was coked out of his head." "Fucking black people, huh?" "What did you just say?" "I mean," "I know all the sociological reasons why per capita eight times more black men are incarcerated than white men." "Schools are a disgrace." "Lack of opportunity." "Bias in the judicial system." "All that stuff." "All that stuff!" "But still, it's gotta get to you, on a gut level as a black man, they just can't keep their hands out of the cookie jar." "Of course, you and I know that's not the truth." "But that's the way it always plays, doesn't it?" "And assholes like Lewis keep feeding the flames." "It's gotta get to you." "What did you say you did for the D.A. again?" "You coach ball down in Compton." "Am I right?" "Oh, please, don't do that." "Don't act like you know something about me, okay?" "What do you think those kids need..." "to make them believe, to give them hope?" "You think they need another drug-dealing cop or do you think they need a fallen black hero?" "Why don't you cut through the bullshit and just tell me what it is you want." "The D.A.'s squad loses its lead investigator next month." "Rick is quite adamant that his replacement be a person of color." "It's a high-profile position, and he wants to send the right message to the community." "And the right message is, "Look at this black boy I just bought?"" "Well, fuck you very much." "But thanks for thinking of me." "Actually we were thinking of you." "Until we saw that." "It's your brother's file." "Twenty-something years old and already three felonies." "Three strikes law." "Kid's going away for life for stealing a car." "Christ, that's a shitty law." "There's a warrant in there." "But still, hey, he had every opportunity you had." "Fucking black people, huh?" "So all, uh... all I need to do to make this disappear is to frame a potentially innocent man?" "What are you?" "The fucking defender of all things white?" "We're talking about a white man who shot three black men." "And you're arguing with me that maybe we're not being fair to him?" "You know what?" "Maybe you're right." "Maybe Lewis did provoke this." "And maybe he got exactly what was coming to him." "Or maybe stoned or not, just being a black man in the Valley was enough to get him killed." "There was no one there to see who shot first, so there is no way to know." "Which means we could get this wrong." "Maybe that's what happened with your brother." "Maybe we got it wrong." "Maybe Lewis isn't the only one who deserves the benefit of the doubt." "You're the one closest to all this." "You need to tell us." "What does your gut tell you?" "So?" "Graham?" "What do I tell 'em?" "You tell me, and I'll tell them." "Well, I think given Detective Conklin's history, it's pretty clear what happened last night." "Okay." "Before I get to why we're here," "I know that many of you have heard we had our car stolen last night." "And as you could imagine, my wife and I are both pretty shaken up." "But we're okay." "And Jean and I truly appreciate all your calls and your concern." "Thank you." "Now, just after 9:00 p.m. last night, Detective William Lewis, an eight-year veteran of the force and an active member of the black community, was gunned down by a fellow officer." "Get outta the car!" "Gimme the keys!" "Get out..." "What the fuck?" "Whoa!" "What the fuck are you doing, man?" "Shit!" "You wanna get killed, nigger?" "Say that again!" " Say that again!" " You stupid motherfucker!" "Say it again, huh!" "Call me a nigger again!" " Man, what the fuck?" "Get off!" " Fuck you!" " Shoot him!" " I'll blow your head off!" " Shoot this motherfucker!" " I swear to God, I'm gonna blow your head off!" "Stop talkin' and shoot!" " Stop!" "Let's go!" "Here comes the po-po." " Get off of me!" "Hey, hey!" "Where you goin', man?" "Hell, no!" " Oh, shit." " Anthony!" "Anthony!" "Get the fuck outta my car!" "Shit!" "Damn!" " What are you doin', man?" "Get outta the car!" " Fuck you!" "Car 25 in pursuit of a black Navigator." "West bound." "I will blow you away!" "Get the fuck out of the car!" "Go on!" "Shoot me then!" "2-2 Ida Tom Adam 3..." "Oh, Christ!" " Get the fuck outta the car!" " You get the fuck outta the car!" " Get outta the fucking car!" " It's my fucking car!" " It's my fucking gun!" " Fuck, it's my gun now!" "Gimme my fucking gun!" "Fuck!" "Hands in plain sight!" "Step out of the vehicle!" "Hands in plain sight!" "Step out of the vehicle!" "Slowly step out of the vehicle." " Get out of my car." " You so brave, you get outta the car, man." "Turn off the engine." "Throw the keys out the window." "You fucking want me?" "Here I am, you pig fuck!" "Lie face down on the ground." " Spread your arms and legs." " No, you lie face down!" "Don't come any closer!" "Down on your knees!" "Fuck you!" "What are you gonna do?" "Pull the fucking trigger!" "On your knees now!" "You get on your knees and suck my fucking dick!" "Do I look like I'm fucking joking with you?" "That's what you look like, a fucking joke to me." " This man is making threatening gestures." " Threatening gestures?" "You wanna see a threatening gesture?" "I got a threatening gesture." " I know this man!" "I know this man!" " Get back." " Give me some space." "I know this guy." " Get outta the way." "Step away." "Give me some goddamn room." "I know this guy." " Man, don't walk up on me!" " See what's happening here?" "Do you wanna die here, huh?" "Is that what you want?" "'Cause these guys really wanna shoot you." "And the way you're acting, they'll be completely fucking justified." "Fuck you!" "Fuck me?" "I'm not the one who's fucked here." "You're the one." "'Cause you're the one whose head's gonna be blown off!" "Officer Hanson, step away." "He's a friend of mine, okay?" "He's a fucking friend!" "This man is not armed!" "He's not gonna shoot you, me, or anybody else, all right?" "So give me two goddamn seconds." "Can you do that?" "Lower your firearm." "Lower your firearm!" "You startin' to understand the situation?" "What do you want from me?" "Unless you think your wife is better off with a husband who has a bloody stump for a head," "I want you to sit on that curb, put your hands on your head and do nothing until I speak with these officers." "I'm not sittin' on no curb, I'm not puttin' my hands on my head for nobody." "Then stand where you are and keep your hands in sight." "Can you do that, huh?" "Yeah, I can do that." "Good." "I told this man to stay where he is and keep his hands in plain sight." "This man better be related to you by blood because this is fucking nuts." "I need this favor." "You can check the guy's name, his license." "He's got no priors, no warrants." "I need to let him go with a warning." " What kind of fucking warning?" " A harsh warning." "Thank you." "You've been warned." "Do you understand me?" "Do you understand me!" "You want something from me?" "'Cause I'm right here." " I'm trying to help you." " I didn't ask for your help, did I?" "Go home." "Yeah, that I can do." "Look at me." "You embarrass me." "You embarrass yourself." "Daddy's home!" " What's up?" " Give me my money!" " What?" "What money?" " Daddy!" " To pay for my store." "Give me my money!" " Honey, stay inside." "Elizabeth!" "Give me my money!" " I want my fucking money!" "Give me that truck!" " That's not my truck!" " Daddy?" " Elizabeth!" "Hey, you know what?" "Hey, I got $50." "Here." "Fifty dollars?" "You took everything!" "Mommy?" "I'm coming, I'm coming!" " He doesn't have it." " Hasn't got what?" "I have it." "He doesn't have the impenetrable cloak!" "Lara, stay outta the street!" " It's okay, Daddy." " What..." "What?" "I'll protect you." "It's okay." "Daddy's okay." "It's a really good cloak." "I sent her out for groceries, and that was two hours ago, Carol." "Well, you are one to talk." "You go through, like, six housekeepers a year?" "I'm not snapping at you!" "I am angry." "Yes!" "At them!" "Yes!" "At them, the police, at Rick, at Maria, at the dry cleaners who destroyed another blouse today, at the gardener who keeps overwatering the lawn." "I..." "I just thought that..." "Carol, I just thought that I would wake up today and I would feel better, you know?" "But I was still mad." "And I realized..." "I realized that it had nothing to do with my car being stolen." "I wake up like this every morning!" "I am angry all the time, and I don't know why." "Carol, I don't know why!" "And I..." "Yeah, yeah, call me back." "Bye." "Really appreciate this." "You're welcome." "So how long you been out there tonight?" "It's cold." "Hour maybe." "Big surprise, huh?" "Yeah, this ain't exactly "pick up a brother" territory." "True." "So where you headed?" "Anywhere the other side of the hill." "That's some good music." "Mm-hmm." "No, really." "I'm startin' to understand it." "Wrote me a country song myself just yesterday." "I'll bet you did." "So what was goin' on in the Valley tonight?" "Ice-skatin'." "Ice-skatin'." "Love the ice-skatin'." "When I was a kid, I always wanted to be a goalie." "Come on!" "What, you... you think that's funny or somethin'?" "I think you're having fun." "Yeah." "Whatever." "Something else funny?" "Oh, yeah." "Yeah?" "What's that?" "People, man." "People." "People like me." "No, no, no, no." "I'm not laughin' at you, man." "I can see that." " Why don't you laugh outside?" " Why are you gettin' all bent outta shape?" "I'm not gettin' bent, man." "Just pulling over." "Come on, man, keep drivin'." "I said I'm not laughing at you." "And I'm not telling you to get the fuck out of my car." "Why you bein' a fucking jerk?" "Just drive the car." "I've got a better idea." "Get out now." "Fine." "You want me to show you?" "I'll show you." "Get your hands out of your pocket." "Put your hands where I can see 'em." " Who the fuck you think you're talkin' to?" " Put your hands where I can see!" "You wanna see what's in my hands?" "I'll show you what's in my fuckin' hands!" "Oh, God." "Thank you, Brother Merle." "That was Merle Haggard on KYHA." "The scene of country music here in L.A." "It's a cold night, and it's getting colder." "We're giving out tickets to the rodeo coming to the Fairplex in Pomona." " Hey, you okay?" " I'm freezin'." "Shit." "I heard it might snow." " Get outta here." " That's what I heard." " You got a smoke?" " Nah." "I quit." "Yeah, me too." " What do you got?" " Dead kid." "Hey, Bob." "Choi Jin Gui!" "Choi Jin Gui!" " Choi Jin Gui!" "Choi Jin Gui!" " Do you speak English?" "I am speaking English, you stupid cow!" "My husband name Choi Jin Gui!" " Jin Gui!" " Ma'am!" "Kim Lee." "I thought you were dead." "I called every hospital." "It's okay." "I'm okay." "Thank you for finding me." " Will you do something for me?" " Anything." "Go to the locker." "No, next one." "In my wallet, there's a check." "Bring it here." "Oh, I get it." "When I said get me a black Lincoln Navigator, you thought I said get me a white piece of shit panel van." " Fine, fine." "Just give me whatever for it." " You should see this." "I'll take the van." "They're chained to the van." "So I'll take them too." "You wanna buy these Chinamen?" "Don't be ignorant." "They're Thai or Cambodian." "Entirely different kind of chinks." " What the hell are you gonna do with 'em?" " Sell 'em." "What you think?" "I'll give you 500 apiece, and you can keep the van." "Oh, no!" "No!" "No!" "This is Dorri." "Oh." "Oh." "Mmm, mmm, mmm." "My baby." "My poor baby!" "Mom." "I promise you..." "I promise I'm gonna find out who did this, Mom." "Oh, I already know." "You did." "I asked you to find your brother, but you were busy." "We weren't much good to you anymore, were we?" "You got things to do." "You go ahead." "I'll sign the papers." "I wanna stay." "I just wanna wait with my baby." "He came home." "Did you know that?" "My little boy." "When I was sleepin', he brought me groceries." "It's the last thing he did." "What happened?" "What did you do?" "What did you do?" "I shoot a little girl." "What?" "No, she's okay." "She's..." "She's..." "Here." "The gun shoot her, but she's okay, Dorri." "Nothing happened." "She's my..." "What are you talking about, Daddy?" "My angel." "My angel!" "She came to protect me." "To protect us!" "You understand?" "Take this." "Please." "Take it." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Everything is okay, Dorri." "It's okay." "Okay, Daddy." "Okay." "Jean?" " Rick?" " Yeah." "What's wrong." "I fell down the stairs." " Are you all right?" " I tried calling you." "I couldn't get through to anyone." "Not..." "Not Kath, not Marge, not Julie." "I'm getting in the elevator." "I'll be in my car." "I'll be home in 20 minutes." "It's okay." "Maria drove me to emergency." "It's just a bad sprain." "Carol was the only one that was home and she said she couldn't come get me because she was getting a massage." "That's because she's a bitch." "She's been my friend for ten years." "All right, honey." "Feel better." "I'll be there soon." "I love you." "I love you too." "Miss Jean." "Would you like to sit up?" "Here." "Good!" "Do you wanna hear something funny?" "What, Mrs. Jean?" "You're the best friend I've got." "Hi." "Hi." "I love you." "All right." "Everybody out, man." "You're free to go." "All right, come on." "Come on now!" "This is America." "Time is money." "Chop, chop!" "Come on, y'all." "Come on." "That's $40." "Buy everybody chop suey." "You understand?" "Dopey fucking Chinaman." "Aah!" "Oh, my God!" "What the hell is wrong with you?" "Uh-uh!" "Don't talk to me unless you speak American!" "What the fuck is that?" "Jimmy?" " What's up?" " Did I hit something?" "What the fuck is that?" "Maybe you got a flat?" "No." "What the fuck?" "You better pull over and see." "He's still alive." "You fucking piece of shit!" "Die, you motherfucker!" "Look at me!" "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." "To me... being a gangster was better than being president of the United States." "Even before I first wandered into the cabstand for an after-schooI job..." "I knew I wanted to be a part of them." "It was there that I knew I belonged." "To me, it meant being somebody in a neighborhood full of nobodies." "They weren't like anybody else." "They did whatever they wanted." "They double-parked in front of a hydrant, nobody ever gave them a ticket." "In the summer, when they played cards all night... nobody ever called the cops." "Tony Stacks." "How are you?" "Tuddy Cicero." "Could this be the Canarsie Kid?" " How are you?" " Good." "Tuddy." "Tuddy ran the cabstand and the Bella Vista Pizzeria... and other places for his brother, paul, who was the boss of the neighborhood." "Paulie might have moved slow... but it was only because Paulie didn't have to move for anybody." " It's your fault." " You started it." "I started it?" "It's your fault." "At first my parents loved that I found a job across the street from the house." "My father, who was Irish, was sent to work at the age of 11." "He liked that I got myself a job." "He always used to say that American kids were spoiled lazy." " Bye, Dad." " Bye." "See you, Mikey." "Bye, Henry." "Henry!" "Watch how you cross!" "Bring back milk!" "My mother was happy after she found out that the Ciceros... came from the same part of Sicily as she did." "To my mother... that was the answer to all her prayers." "I was the luckiest kid in the world." "I could go anywhere, I could do anything." "I knew everybody, and everybody knew me." "Wiseguys would pull up and Tuddy would toss me their keys... and let me park their Cadillacs." "Here I am, this little kid, I can't even see over the steering wheel... and I'm parking Cadillacs." "But it wasn't too long... before my parents changed their minds about my job at the cabstand." "For your mother and sister." "For them, the cabstand was supposed to be a part-time job." "But for me... it was definitely full-time." "That's all I wanted to do." "People like my father could never understand, but I was a part of something." "I belonged." "I was treated like a grown-up." "Tell him 519." "Every day I was learning to score." "A dollar here, a dollar there." "I was living in a fantasy." "Did you have a good day at school?" "My father was always pissed off." "Pissed that he made such lousy money... pissed that my kid brother michael was in a wheelchair." "He was pissed that there were seven of us living in such a tiny house." "Tell me about this." "It's a letter from school." "It says you haven't been there in months." "In months!" "You're a bum!" "Want to grow up to be a bum?" "After a while, he was mostly pissed because I hung around the cabstand." "He knew what went on at that cabstand." "Every once in a while, I'd have to take a beating." "But by then, I didn't care." "The way I saw it... everybody takes a beating sometime." " I can't make any more deliveries." " What?" "You'll fuck everything up." "My dad says he'll kill me." "Look." "Come on with me." " Is that him, kid?" " No." " How about him?" " No." " That's the guy." " Get him." "Excuse me." " Scumbag." " Come here, you piece of shit." " Know this kid?" " Yeah." " Know where he lives?" " Yeah." " You deliver mail to his house?" " Yeah." "From now on, any letter from that school to his house comes directly here." " Understand?" " Yeah." "Another letter from that school goes to that kid's house... in the fucking oven you'll go, head first." "That was it." "No more letters from truant officers." "No letters from school." "In fact, no more letters from anybody." "Finally after a few weeks, my mother went to the post office to complain." "How could I go to school after that... and pledge allegiance to the flag and sit through good government bullshit?" "Paulie hated phones." "He wouldn't have one in his house." "Mickey called." "Want me to call him back?" "All right, make the call." "He got all his calls second hand." "Then you'd have to call the people back... from an outside phone." "Got a nickel?" "Get him on the phone." "There were guys, that's all they did all day, was take care of Paulie's calls." "For a guy who moved all day long, Paulie didn't talk to six people." "If there was a union problem or, say, a beef in the numbers... only the top guys could meet with Paulie to discuss the problem." "Everything was one-on-one." "Paulie hated conferences." "He didn't want anybody hearing what he said... and he didn't want anybody listening to what he was being told." "Hundreds of guys depended on Paulie, he got a piece of everything they made." "It was a tribute, like in the old country, except they were doing it in America." "All they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off." "That's what it's all about." "That's what the FBI could never understand." "What Paulie and the Organization does... is offer protection for people who can't go to the cops." "That's it." "That's all it is." "They're like the police department for wiseguys." "People looked at me differently, and they knew I was with somebody." "I didn't have to wait in line at the bakery on Sunday mornings for fresh bread." "The owner knew who I was with... and he'd come from around the counter." "No matter how many were waiting..." "I was taken care of first." "Our neighbors didn't park in our driveway anymore... even though we didn't have a car." "At 13..." "I was making more money than most of the grown-ups around." "I had more money than I could spend." "I had it all." "One day, some neighborhood kids carried my mother's groceries all the way home." "You know why?" "It was out of respect." "Hi, Mom, what do you think?" " Look at my shoes, aren't they great?" " My God." "You look like a gangster." "They shot me." "Help!" "Henry, shut the door." "That was the first time I had ever seen anyone shot." "Can't have that in here." "Jesus Christ!" "I can't have that in this joint." "I remember feeling bad about the guy... but I also remember feeling that maybe Tuddy was right." "I knew Paulie didn't want anybody dying in the building." "You're a real jerk." "You wasted eight fucking aprons on this guy." "What the hell's wrong with you?" "I got to toughen this kid up." "It was a glorious time." "And wiseguys were all over the place." "It was before Apalachin and before Crazy Joe... decided to take on a boss and start a war." "It was when I met the world." "And it was when I first met Jimmy Conway." "He couldn't have been more than 28 or 29 at the time... but he was already a legend." "He'd walk in the door and everybody who worked the room just went wild." "He'd give the doorman $100 just for opening the door." "He'd give hundreds to the dealers and the guys who ran the games." "The bartender got $100 just for keeping the ice cubes cold." "The Irishman is here to take all you guineas' money." " Want a drink?" " Give me a 7 and 7." " I'd like you to meet the kid Henry." " How you doing?" " Thank you." " Keep them coming." "Jimmy was one of the most feared guys in the city." "He was first locked up at 11... and he was doing hits for mob bosses when he was 16." "See, hits never bothered Jimmy." "It was business." "But what Jimmy really loved to do... what he really loved to do was steal." "He actually enjoyed it." "Jimmy was the kind of guy who rooted for the bad guys in the movies." "Give me your wallet." "You might know who we are, but we know who you are." "Understand?" "He was one of the city's biggest hijackers... of booze, cigarettes, razor blades, shrimp and lobsters." "Shrimp and lobsters were best." "They went really fast." "Almost all of them were gimmies." "They just gave it up, no problem." "They called him Jimmy the Gent." "Help the lady." "Drivers loved him." "They used to tip him off... about the really good loads." "Of course, everybody got a piece." "Thanks, I'll be back for the rest later." "Okay, see you later." "Henry, come here." " Say hello to Tommy." " How're you doing, Henry?" "You're gonna be working together, okay?" "Help him." "Go ahead." "Jimmy, you got anything good?" "And when the cops assigned a whole army to stop Jimmy, what did he do?" "How're you doing?" "He made them partners." "I'd complain, but who'd listen?" " One Pall Mall." " There you go." " What do you need?" " Two Luckies." " Here you go, Henry." " Thanks a lot." "What do you need?" " One Pall Mall." " One Pall Mall, here you go." " What are you doing?" " It's all right." " You have permission from your mother?" " How many cartons you need?" " Where'd you get the cigarettes?" " Get him out of here." " It's okay." " It's not okay." " You don't understand." " You don't understand." "Store's closed." " Henry got pinched." " Where?" "By the factory, selling cigarettes." "Henry Hill. "The People of" the State of New York vs. Henry Hill." "Docket number 704162." "Yes, sir." "That's me." "Just stand there." "Now stay there." "Counselor, proceed." "Congratulations." "Here's your graduation present." " What for?" "I got pinched." " Everyone does, but you did it right." "You told them nothing, and they got nothing." " I thought you'd be mad." " I'm not mad, I'm proud of you." "You took your first pinch like a man and learned the two greatest things in life." " What?" " Look at me." "Never rat on your friends... and always keep your mouth shut." "Here he is." "You broke your cherry." "Congratulations!" "By the time I grew up, there was $30 billion a year in cargo... moving through Idlewild Airport... and believe me, we tried to steal every bit of it." "See, you gotta understand, we grew up near the airport." "It belonged to Paulie." "We had friends and relatives who worked all over the place." "They would tip us off about what was coming in and moving out." "If any truckers or airlines gave us trouble..." "Paulie had the union people scare them with a strike." "It was beautiful." "It was a bigger moneymaker than numbers and Jimmy was in charge of it all." "Whenever we needed money, we'd rob the airport." "To us, it was better than Citibank." "You got a phone?" "Come on!" "Two niggers just stole my truck." "Can you believe that shit?" "There was Jimmy... and Tommy and me." "And there was Anthony Stabile." "How're you doing?" "Frankie Carbone." "And then there was Mo Black's brother, Fat Andy." "And his guys, Frankie the Wop." "Freddy No Nose." "And then there was Pete the Killer, who was Sally Balls'brother." "Then you had Nickey Eyes... and Mikey Franzese." "That guy, I wanna see him." "Jimmy Two Times, who got that nickname because he said everything twice." "I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers." "What is this?" "Coats?" "Henry, I need suits, not coats." "Suits are coming Thursday." "But it's the middle of summer." "What'II I do with fur coats?" "You don't want furs?" "I'll take them away." "No, I want them." "We'll hang them in the freezer with the meat." "How's that?" "For us, to live any other way was nuts." "To us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks... and took the subway to work every day and worried about bills, were dead." "They were suckers." "They had no balls." "If we wanted something, we just took it." "If anyone complained twice, they got hit so bad they never complained again." "It was just all routine." "You didn't even think about it." "Frankie, what the fuck does 520 have to do with 469?" "I can't believe this guy." "520 ain't even close to 469." "What's that got to do with anything?" "Piece of cake." "It's all there." "Don't worry about the alarms." "I just gotta find a way to get the key." " No problem, right?" " I'll take care of it." " Tell him what you were telling me." " Too good to be true." "Big score coming from Air France." "Bags of money coming in." "Tourists and American servicemen change their money... into French money and send it back here." " Calm down." " It's beautiful." "It's totally untraceable." "Okay?" "The only problem is getting a key, but I've got a plan." " Me and Frenchy and this citizen." " Yeah, he's a piece of work." "If I'm right, there could be $500,000 coming in, all cash." "The best time is probably over a weekend." "So maybe Saturday night." "There's a Jewish holiday on Monday." "They won't find out until Tuesday." "beautiful." "What about the security?" "Security?" "You're looking at it." "It's a joke." "I'm the midnight-to-eight man." "I'm the commandant." "He just comes in like he's picking up lost baggage." " It's beautiful." " It won't be a problem at all." " Good." " We're on." "What's really funny is that fucking bank job in Secaucus." "I'm in the middle of the weeds, Iying down." "He says, "What are you doing?" I said, "I'm resting. "" ""Here?" "This ain't no beach or park. " I said, "I'm resting. "" "I know I'm resting." "He pulls me in, starts asking questions." "You know, this and that." ""What are you going to tell us?" I said, "My usual." "Nothing." ""Why tell you?" The fuck." "He says, "No, you'll tell me something today. "" "I said, "Okay, go fuck your mother. "" "You saw the paper, Anthony." "My head was out like this." "Now I'm coming around, and who do I see in front of me?" "This prick again." "He says, "What do you want to tell me now?"" "I said, "What are you doing here?" "I told you to go fuck your mother. "" "I thought he was gonna shit." "The fuckers." "I wish I was big just once." "Funny." "You're really funny." "What do you mean, I'm funny?" "It's funny, you know." "It's a good story." "You're a funny guy." "You mean the way I talk?" "What?" "It's just, you know." "You're just funny." "You know, the way you tell the story and everything." "Funny how?" "What's funny about it?" " Tommy, you got it all wrong." " Anthony." "He's a big boy." "He knows what he said." "What did you say?" "Funny, how?" "Just, you know." "You're funny." "Let me understand this." "Maybe I'm a little fucked up." "But, I'm funny, how?" "Funny like a clown?" "I amuse you?" "I make you laugh?" "I'm here to fucking amuse you?" "What do you mean, funny?" "How am I funny?" "You know, how you tell a story." "No, I don't know." "You said it." "How do I know?" "You said I'm funny." "How the fuck am I funny?" "What the fuck is so funny about me?" "Tell me what's funny." "Get the fuck out of here, Tommy." "Motherfucker!" "I almost had him!" "You stuttering prick, you!" "Frankie, was he shaking?" "I wonder about you sometimes, Henry." "You may fold under questioning." "Jesus Christ." "What the fuck is it with you?" "I thought I was getting pinched already." "He's hanging on my fucking neck like a vulture." "What do you want?" "This guy didn't want to come and give you the check." "Could you take care of this?" "No problem." "Tell him to put it on my tab." "Of course." "That's what I want to talk to you about." "It ain't just this one." "It's seven big ones you owe me." "$7,000, that ain't peanuts." "I don't mean to be out of order" "Don't mean to be out of order?" "It's good you don't mean to be out of order." "Embarrassing me in front of my friends, like I'm a deadbeat." "You know, Sonny, you're a fucking mutt." "You know the money we spend in this fucking" " Don't be like that." " What do you mean?" "Do you believe this prick?" "You think this is funny?" "What the fuck are you looking at?" "You fucking moron!" "You don't want to bring the check?" "Do you believe this prick?" "You're supposed to be doing this stuff, too." "You're a funny guy." " That's it, Henry." " No, go back." "You want to laugh?" "This prick last week asked me to christen his kid." "I charged him $7,000." "You really are a funny guy." "I'm worried." "I'm hearing all kinds of fucking bad things." "He's treating me like I'm a fucking fag." "I got to go on the lam in order to get away from this guy." "This ain't right." "I can't go here, I can't go there." "You think you're the only one?" "I talk to them, they don't listen." "If you tell him, he'll stop." "I'll wind up being declared an MIA." "They'll find me in the back of a car somewhere in the weeds." "You've known this Tommy all your life." "Who knows better?" "This cocksucker's an arch criminal." "When I leave my house, before I get to the car I look over both shoulders." "This is no way to live." "I'm no fence jumper." "I'm around you all my life, tell me what I gotta do." " Whatever I got to do, I'm gonna do." " What could I do?" "If there was something I could do, I would." "I would like to help you out." "Sonny, tell him what we talked about." " You think it's all right?" " Yeah." "Maybe you could come in with me, take a piece of this joint." "It'd be good." "What are you talking about?" "You mean the restaurant?" "It's a classy place." "Look at the layout." "You've been in there a million times." "You know how it looks." "Tommy taking over this joint is like putting a silk hat on a pig." "I don't mean no disrespect, but that's the way it is." "I know you're his friend." "I'm begging you." "What can I say?" "What am I gonna do?" "What do you want from me?" "I don't know anything about the restaurant business." "Nothing." "AII I know is to sit down and order a meal, not how to make a restaurant." "Not for you." "It's just a place to hang." "The chef is great." "The shows are good." "There's a lot of whores coming in." "I'd love to help you, but what do you want from me?" "What'II I do?" "Tommy's a bad kid, a bad seed." "What am I supposed to do?" "Shoot him?" "That wouldn't be a bad idea." "I'm sorry I said that." "I didn't mean it." "I just mean that he's scaring me." "I just need help." "Help me, please." "You know anything about this restaurant business?" "He knows everything." "He's there 24 hours a day." "Another fucking few minutes, he could be a stool." "That's how often he's in there." "You want me to be your partner?" "Is that what you're telling me?" "What the fuck you think I'm talking about?" "Paulie, please." "Come on." "It's not even fair." "You don't understand." "You run the joint." "Maybe I'll try to help you, all right." "God bless you, Paulie." "I appreciate it." "You've always been fair with me." "Now the guy's got Paulie as a partner." "Any problems, he goes to Paulie." "Trouble with a bill, he can go to Paulie." "Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy... he can call Paulie." "Now the guy's gotta come up with Paulie's money every week... no matter what." ""Business is bad?" "Fuck you, pay me." "Had a fire?" "Fuck you, pay me." ""The place got hit by lightning?" "Fuck you, pay me. "" "Can I get one of those TVs?" "Also, Paulie could do anything." "Especially run up bills on the joint's credit." "And why not?" "Nobody's gonna pay for it anyway." "When deliveries are made at the front door... you move the stuff out the back and sell it at a discount." "You take a $200 case of booze and sell it for $100." "It doesn't matter." "It's all profit." "Then finally, when there's nothing left..." "Fucking shame." "...when you can't borrow another buck or buy another case of booze... you bust the joint out." "You light a match." "Do you need help reaching anything?" "You look like you're decorating a Christmas tree." "You don't know what you're doing." "She's from the Five Towns." "Who?" "The Jew broad, Diane, I was telling you I'm going to shag." "I've been trying to bang her for a fucking month now." "She won't go out with me alone." " No." " No, what?" "No, what?" "Who the fuck asked you anything?" "I didn't ask you." "Hear what I'm going to say." "All right, what?" "Okay, what." "She don't want to go out with Italians alone." "She's prejudiced against Italians." "You fucking believe that?" "In this day and age?" "What the fuck is this world coming to?" "I can't believe this." "A Jew broad, prejudiced against Italians." "She won't go out with me alone unless her girlfriend comes with us." "So you come along, go out with her girlfriend." "See?" "I knew it." "You knew what?" "What the fuck is wrong with that?" " When is this?" " Tomorrow night." "I can't, I gotta meet Tuddy." "You could meet Tuddy." "You can come early and then still go." " Why do you always do this?" " Don't give me that shit." "What did I ask you for?" "I'm asking you for a favor." "I do a lot of fucking favors for you." "I'm trying to bang this fucking broad." "Help me out." "I don't understand you." "She's beautiful!" "Her fucking family lives in the Five Towns." "These Jews got money." "Maybe the family owns the whole block." "You may wind up with a big score." "You with your fucking mouth." "I had a meeting with Tuddy at 11:00, and here I am, a backup guy for Tommy." "How about it?" "Did you have enough to eat?" "It was delicious." "I'm just watching my diet." "Let me watch your figure." "I couldn't wait to get away." "I was ordering the dessert when they were eating dinner." "When they were having coffee, I was asking for a check." "I had business." "Have some coffee." "It'll wake you up." " Can we have the check?" " What are you doing?" " I got to go." " We just got here." "I got that thing." "I gotta go." "Wait a couple of minutes." "We'II leave together." "This way we don't go out like a bunch of hobos, one at a time." "I couldn't stand him." "I thought he was really obnoxious." "He kept fidgeting around." "You don't mind, do you?" "That's very annoying." "Good?" "You might prefer Manischewitz, but it'd look funny on my table." " Ready?" " Henry, lighten up." "We just got here." "What are you doing?" "Before it was time to go home, he was pushing me into the car... then pulling me out." "It was ridiculous." "Diane and Tommy made us promise... to meet them again on Friday night." "We agreed." "Of course, when Friday night came around, Henry stood me up." "I feel terrible." "I don't know where he is." "He really liked you, too." "All he did was talk about her." "We were a trio instead of a double date that night." "He would have called." "I hope it's nothing serious." "But I made Tommy take me looking for him." "Tommy, what the fuck?" "You got some nerve standing me up." "Nobody does that to me." "Who do you think you are, Frankie Valli or some kind of big shot?" "Slow down, I forgot." "I thought it was next week." "It was this Friday and you agreed, so you're a liar!" "We can talk about this." "Take it easy." "Talk about it?" "Talk to you after what you just did to me?" "Forget it." "I thought you would stand me up." "You looked bored." "You didn't say anything." "What do you expect?" "Let me make it up to you." "I'll think about it." "I remember, she was screaming on the street, and I mean loud." "But she looked good." "I'll think about it." "But it'll cost you, Hill." "A lot." "She had these great eyes just like Liz Taylor's." "At least that's what I thought." "Hello, Henry." " You're ready?" " Yeah." "Come on." " No, wait a minute." " What?" "Quick, you have to cover that cross." "My mother sees that" "Karen." "Mom." " I'd like you to meet my friend, Henry Hill." " How do you do?" " Nice to meet you." " My daughter says that you're half Jewish." "It's just the good half." " Thank you, sir." " Bye, see you later, thanks." "What're you doing?" "You're leaving your car?" "He watches the car for me." "It's easier than leaving it at a garage and waiting." "It's a lot quicker that way, you know what I mean?" "I like going in this way." "It's better than waiting in line." "How are you doing?" "What's up?" "Here you go." " How are you doing?" " I'm doing all right." "Good." "Every time I come here, every time, you two." "Don't you work?" "Henry, nice to see you." "Hi, how are you?" "Anthony, right in the front." "Anything you need, just let me know." "Tony, thanks a lot." "I appreciate it." " How are you guys doing?" " How are you?" " You gave them $20 each." " It's all right." "Henry, this is with Mr. Tony, over there." " Where?" " Over there." "Thanks a lot, Tony." " What do you do?" " What?" " What do you do?" " I'm in construction." "They don't feel like you're in construction." "I'm a union delegate." "Now, ladies and gentlemen... the Copacabana is proud to present the king of one-liners..." "Henny Youngman." "How are you all?" "I'm glad to be here." "Take my wife, please." "I take my wife everywhere but she finds her way home." "I said, "Where do you wanna go for our anniversary?"" "She said, "Somewhere I've never been before. "" "I said, "Try the kitchen. "" "Dr. Wellsler is here." "Gave a guy six months to live." "Couldn't pay his bill." "Gave him another six months." "I love this crowd." "Air France made me." "We walked out with $420,000 without using a gun." "And we did the right thing." "We gave Paulie his tribute." "$60,000." "It's going to be a good summer." "I'm proud of you." "That is a lot of money for a kid like you." "Anybody asks you where you got it, you got it in Vegas playing craps, all right?" "All right." "Check, sir." "No." "You have to sign for it here." "Should I tip him?" " How are you doing?" " Okay." "How are you?" "Henry, this is Bruce." "Bruce, this is Henry." "Good to meet you." "I'll see you around later." " Do you know him?" " Yeah." "He lives across the street." "One night, Bobby Vinton sent us champagne." "There was nothing like it." "I didn't think there was anything strange in any of this." "A 21-year-old kid with such connections." "He was an exciting guy." "He was really nice." "He introduced me to everybody." "Everybody wanted to be nice to him." "He knew how to handle it." "Don't buy wigs that come off at the wrong time." "Morrie's wigs don't come off!" "Even underwater." "And remember, Morrie's wigs are tested against hurricane winds." "Forget about money." "You can afford a Morrie wig." "Priced to fit every budget." "Call me now!" "Come in for a personalized fitting." "Come on, Morrie." "Jimmy's waiting." "You're past due." "You're a good kid." "We've been good to each other." "But there's something unreasonable going on here." "Jimmy's being a ball-breaker." "Give him 8-to-5 on Cleveland." "I never had to pay the vigorish he demands." "Am I something special?" "What am I, a schmuck on wheels?" "You know Jimmy." "You borrowed his money." "Pay him." "I didn't agree to three points above the vig." "What are you going to do?" "Fight with Jimmy Conway?" "He wants his money." "Give him his money and we'll go." "Fuck him!" "Fuck him in the ear!" "Fuck him in the other ear!" "Did I ever bust his balls?" "Did I?" "I could've dropped a dime a million times." "You're talking crazy." "Stop it now, will you?" "You got money for that fucking commercial." "You don't got my money?" "Jimmy, he's gonna pay you." "I'll fucking kill you." "Give me the money, cocksucker." "Pay me my money." "He'll pay." "Morrie's." "Who's this?" "He's here." " Jimmy, I'm sorry." " You should be sorry." "Don't do it again." "Give me the fucking money!" "You hear me?" "Give me the fucking money." "I'll give you." "You've got it, kid." "You've got it, believe me." "Karen, slow down." "Where?" "Stay there." "Don't move." " What happened?" " It's Karen, Jimmy." " Money today." " I'll pay." "What happened?" " Are you all right?" " Yeah." "Who did it?" "This guy who lives across the street from me that I've known all my life." "He started to touch me." "He started to grab me." "I told him to stop." "He didn't stop." "I hit him back." "And then he got really angry." "He pushed me out of the car." "You sure you're all right?" "Why don't you go inside and get yourself together." "Clean up." "What do you want, fucko?" "You want something?" "I swear on my fucking mother, if you touch her again, you're dead." "Don't shoot." " Hide this." "Are you all right?" " Yeah." "I know there are women, like my best friends... who would have gotten out the minute their boyfriend... gave them a gun to hide." "But I didn't." "I've got to admit the truth." "It turned me on." "MazeI tov!" "Why don't you be like your friend Henry?" "He's got a nice girl." "He's settling down now." "He's married." "Pretty soon he'll have a nice family." "And you're still bouncing around from girl to girl." "It was like he had two families." "The first time I was introduced to all of them at once, it was crazy." "Paulie and his brothers had lots of sons and nephews." "Almost all of them were named Peter or paul." "It was unbelievable." "Meet Paulie Jr., my nephew." "And this is Petey." "There must have been two dozen Peters and Pauls at the wedding." "This is Marie." "Plus, they were all married to girls named Marie." " She looks Italian." " She is Italian, you're right." "And they named all their daughters Marie." "And this is Pete." "No, I mean Paulie." "I get confused myself." "By the time I finished meeting everybody, I thought I was drunk." "Paulie, you shouldn't have." "Welcome to the family." "Sunday dinner?" "So beautiful." "I want to cry." "Here's something to help you get started." " The bag." "The bag." " What?" "What bag?" "The bag with the envelopes in it, all the money." "Don't worry about that." "Nobody's going to steal that here." "He didn't call?" " He's with his friends." " What kind of person doesn't call?" "He's a grown-up." "He doesn't have to call every five minutes." "If he was such a grown-up why doesn't he get you two an apartment?" "Don't start." "Mom, you're the one who wanted us here." "You're here a month and sometimes I know he doesn't come home at all." "What kind of people are these?" " What do you want me to do?" " Do?" "What can you do?" "He's not Jewish." "Did you know how these people live?" "Did you know what they were like?" "Your father never stayed out all night without calling." "Stay out?" "Daddy never went out at all, Ma!" "Keep out of it." "You don't know how I feel!" "How do you feel now?" "You don't know where he is or who he's with." "He's with his friends!" "Dad!" "Leave him out of this." "He's suffered enough." "He hasn't digested a decent meal in six weeks." "Where were you?" "Why didn't you call?" "We were worried to death." "A married man does not stay out like this." "normal people don't act like this!" "What's wrong with you?" "You're not normal." "She's right." "What's wrong with you?" "What kind of person are you?" "What is the matter with you?" "What kind of people are they?" "We weren't married to nine-to-five guys." "But the first time I realized how different... was when Mickey had a hostess party." " Karen, where you from?" " Lawrence." "On the Island." "It's nice." "I'm from Miami." "You ever been there?" "It's okay, but it's like you died and woke up in Jew heaven." "Angie, stop picking at that thing." "I'd like to smack his face." "The red-haired guy, looks like a farmer?" "The guy's hands are all over me." "So I told him, "Keep your fucking hands off me, or I'll cut them off. "" "She means it." "You don't know how lucky he is." "I just mention this to Vinnie..." "How can you mention it?" "Vinnie would kill him." "If I don't, he'll kill the miserable bastard, then Vinnie will be there for life." "You think you got problems." "What about Jeannie's kid?" "He was in an argument." "A $10 card game." "He pulls out a gun." "The gun goes off." "Some kid gets killed." "When the grandmother hears it... and finds out he's jailed, she has a heart attack and drops dead right on the spot." "Now Jeannie has a husband and son in jail and a mother in the funeral parlor." " Jeannie drinks." " Maybe she's depressed." "Give me a break." "She's drunk." "As soon as something happens, you make them out to be saints." "They had bad skin and wore too much makeup." "They didn't look very good." "They looked beat-up." "And the stuff they wore... was thrown together and cheap." "A lot of pantsuits and double-knits." "She spends her life in a nightgown." "The woman is no angel, believe me." "They talked about their rotten kids... and about beating them with broom handles and belts." "And that the kids still didn't pay any attention." "When Henry picked me up, I was dizzy." "I don't know if I could live like that." "God forbid, what would happen if you had to go to prison?" "Karen." "Mickey said that Jeannie's husband" "Do you know why Jeannie's husband went to the can?" "Because of Jeannie." "He wanted to get away from her." "Let me tell you something." "Nobody goes to jail unless they want to." "Unless they make themselves get caught." "They don't have things organized." "I know what I'm doing." "I've got things organized with these guys." "You know who goes to jail?" "Nigger stickup men." "Know why they get caught?" "Because they fall asleep in the getaway car, Karen." "Come on, don't worry so much, sweetie." "Come here." "After a while, it got to be all normal." "None of it seemed like crime." "It was more like Henry was enterprising... and that he and the guys made bucks hustling while other guys... were sitting on their asses waiting for handouts." "Our husbands weren't brain surgeons, they were blue-collar guys." "The only way they could make real extra money was to go out and cut corners." "Where's the strong box, you varmint?" "Don't fucking move!" "Don't move." " See you at the diner." " I'm riding shotgun." "Did you see him give it right over?" "Back to the hideout to split up the loot." "We were all so very close." "There were never any outsiders around." "Absolutely never." "Being together all the time made everything seem all the more normal." "Hello, Mrs. Hill." "Police." "I'm Detective Deacy." "This is Detective Silvestri." "We have a search warrant." "Would you read and sign it?" " Anywhere?" " Yeah, anywhere." "This'll take a while, we have to go through everything." " You boys want some coffee?" " No coffee now, thanks." " Be careful." " We'll just go about our business." "There was always a little harassment." "They wanted to talk to Henry about this or that." "They'd make me sign their subpoenas or warrants." "But mostly they just wanted a handout." "A few bucks to keep things quiet no matter what they found." "I always asked if they wanted coffee." "Some wives, like Mickey Conway... used to curse at them and spit on the floor." "She used to spit on her own floor." "That never made any sense to me." "It was better to be polite and call the lawyer." "We always did everything together, and we always were in the same crowd." "Anniversaries, christenings." "We only went to each other's houses." "The women played cards." "When kids were born, Mickey and Jimmy were the first at the hospital." "When we went to the Islands or Vegas for vacation... we went together." "No outsiders ever." "It got to be normal." "It got to where I was proud that I had the kind of husband... who was willing to risk his neck just to get us the little extras." "But I got Mom to watch the babies tomorrow night." " Can't do it, Karen." " Why not?" "I just can't." "I got something lined up." "But tomorrow's the only night she can do it." " Pretty please?" " I can't." "What do you want me to do?" " I got to go." " Wait a minute." "I wanted to go shopping." "Can I get some money?" "How much do you need?" " How much?" " That much." "This much." "Give me a kiss." "See you later." "All right." "Welcome home, Batts." "Hi, how are you?" "Sit down." "Have a drink." "Give them all a drink." "And give those Irish hoodlums a drink." "There's only one Irishman here." "It's a celebration, fellas." " Top of the morning to you." " It's good to be home." "This is my friend Jimmy." "Henry." "It's his joint." "This is Lisa." "Tommy." "All dressed up." "All grown up and doing the town." "Look at this." "Forgot you were having a party for this mug." "Come here." "I'll say hello." "Billy, how are you?" "Get over here." "I haven't seen you in six years." "Jesus Christ Almighty." "You look terrific." "Watch the suit." "You little prick." "I've known you all my life." " Don't get too big on me." " Just don't bust my balls." "If I was gonna break your balls, I'd say, "Go get your shine box. "" "This kid was great." "They used to call him "Spitshine Tommy. "" "He'd make your shoes look like fucking mirrors." "Excuse my language." "He was terrific." "He was the best." "He made a lot of money, too." "No more shines, Billy." " What?" " I said no more shines." "You've been away a long time." "They didn't tell you." "I don't shine shoes anymore." "Relax." "What's got into you?" "I'm breaking your balls a little, that's all." "I'm only kidding with you." "Sometimes you don't sound like it." "There's a lot of people around." "I'm only kidding." "We're having a party." "I haven't seen you in a long time and you get fucking fresh." "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you." "I'm sorry, too." "It's okay." "No problem." "Now go home and get your fucking shine box." "Motherfucking mutt!" "You fucking piece of shit!" "Come on, come on!" "He bought his fucking button!" "That fake old tough guy!" "You bought your fucking button!" " Don't get nervous." " You motherfucker!" "Keep that motherfucker here!" "Keep him here." "Come on, you fucking feel strong?" "Sorry." "Tommy gets a little loaded." "He doesn't mean any disrespect." "He doesn't mean any disrespect?" "Are you nuts?" "Teach this kid a little fucking manners." "What's right is right." " You understand what I'm saying?" " It's all right." "We're hugging and kissing over here and then he acts like a fucking jerk." "You insulted him a little bit." "You got a little out of order." " I didn't." " You insulted him a little." " I didn't insult anybody." "Give us a drink." " Okay." "Let's have some drinks." "Drinks on the house." "No, have the drink with me." "The drinks are on the house." "I fucked kids like that in the can." "In the ass." "Fucking break up my party." "You've been away for six years." "It's different now." "I did my fucking time, Jimmy." "I came home and I want what I got to get." "I got mouths to feed." " You're gonna get it." " You understand?" "Get the door!" "Let me shoot him in his big, fucking mouth!" "Let's shoot him." "Fucking mutt dented my shoes." "His whole crew is going to be looking for him." "This is bad." "What do we do with him?" "We can't just dump him on the street." "I know a place upstate." "They'll never find him." "More tablecloths." "I didn't want to get blood on your floor." "Go open your trunk." "We'll get a shovel at my mother's house." "She has a shovel here somewhere." "Quiet, I don't want to wake her up." "Look who's here." "What did you do?" "What happened?" "I hit something on the road." "Jimmy will tell you." "What happened to him?" "I haven't seen you in so long." "What happened to him?" "You, too." "How are you?" "Why are you up so late?" "He came in." "You came in." "I'm so happy to see him." "Go inside." "Make yourselves comfortable." "I'll make you something to eat." " Go to sleep." "We're leaving." " I can't." "Not while he's home." "I haven't seen him in so long." "I want to see him." "You go inside." "This stuff is like lead." "Tell me, where you been?" "I haven't seen you." "You haven't called." "Where have you been?" " I been working nights." " And?" "And tonight we were out late." "We took a ride out to the country and hit a deer." "That's where all the blood is from." "Jimmy told you." "It reminds me, I need this knife." "I'm taking this, okay?" " Okay." " Just for a while." "The poor thing." "We hit the deer and his paw..." "What do you call it?" "The paw." " The hoof." " Got caught in the grill." "I got to hack it off." "Ma, it's a sin to leave it there." "I'll bring the knife back." " Delicious." " Thank you." "Why don't you get yourself a nice girl?" "I do, almost every night." "But get yourself a girl so you could settle down." "I do, every night." "Then I'm free." "I love you, I want to be with you." "Settle down." "How's your friend Henry?" "What's the matter?" "You don't talk much." "Talk." "What are you quiet for?" "You don't eat much, you don't talk much." " I'm just listening." " Something wrong?" "When we were kids, the "compares" used to visit each other." "There was this man." "He would never talk." "He'd just sit there all night, not a word." "They say to him, "What's the matter?" "Don't you say anything?"" "He says, "What am I going to say, that my wife two-times me?"" "So she says, "Shut up!" "You're always talking. "" "But in Italian, it sounds much nicer." " Cornuto contento." " That's it." " What does that mean?" " It means he's content to be a jerk." "He doesn't care who knows it." " Did Tommy tell you about my painting?" " No." "Look at this." "It's beautiful." "I like it." "One dog goes one way and the other goes the other." "One's facing east, the other west." "So what?" "He's saying, "What do you want from me?" The guy's got nice white hair." "beautiful." "The dog looks the same." "Looks like somebody we know." "Without the beard." "It's him." "It's him." "What the fuck is that?" "For most of the guys, killings were accepted." "Murder was the only way everybody stayed in line." "You got out of line, you got whacked." "Everybody knew the rules." "Sometimes, even if people didn't get out of line, they got whacked." "Hits became a habit." "Guys would get into arguments over nothing." "Before you knew it, one was dead." "They were shooting each other all the time." "Shooting people was a normal thing." "It was no big deal." "We had a serious problem with Billy Batts." "This was really a touchy thing." "Tommy killed a made guy." "Batts was part of the Gambino crew and was considered untouchable." "Before you touched a made guy, you had to have a good reason." "You had to have a sit-down and you'd better get an okay... or you'd be the one who got whacked." "Saturday night was for wives... but Friday night at the Copa was for the girlfriends." "Last week, we saw Sammy Davis, Jr." "You got to see this show." "What a performer." "He does these impersonations." "You'd think it was the real people." "It's unbelievable." "You could see how a white girl could fall for him." "What?" "Not me." "But you could see how some girls could." "Like that Swedish girl." "So you condone that stuff." "Take it easy." "I don't want to be kissing Nat King Cole over here." "No, I'm not talking about me." "But, you know, he's got personality." "Personality?" "He's talented." "I understand what you're saying." "But watch what you say." "People get the wrong impression." "I just said he was talented, you're unbelievable." "Just leave it alone now, I understand what you said." "He's talented." "Leave it at that." "No?" "Not even Uncle Paulie?" "What did you hear about that thing?" " The Brooklyn thing?" " No, the guy from downtown." " The guy from where Christie lived?" " No." "The guy who disappeared, the one they made the beef on." " Know the guy I mean?" " Yeah." "His name was Batts." "His people are driving everyone crazy looking for him." "Nobody knows what happened to him." "He came into the joint that night and then just disappeared." "That was it." "All right." "Keep your eyes open." "They're busting my balls over it." " All right?" " Yeah." "Okay, everybody, let's eat." "I want my money." "He owes it." "You know that thing we took care of upstate?" " Paulie was talking about that." " Got to get it out of there." "They just sold the property to make condominiums." " It's been six months." " We got to get it out of there right away." "Henry, hurry up." "My mother's making fried peppers and sausage for us." " Here's an arm." " Very funny, guys." "Here's a leg." "Here's a wing." "What do you like, the leg or the wing?" "Or you still go for the hearts and lungs?" "Oh, that's so bad." "What happened to the car?" "I hit a skunk, all right?" "Go with your mother." "It's disgusting, Henry." "I set up Janice in an apartment around the corner from The Suite." "That way I was able to stay over a couple of nights a week." "This is my new antique lamp." "Karen was home with the kids." "She never asked questions." "The furniture's all Maurice Valencia." "Looks like Roma." "This is all silk." "This is from Siam." "Come see my bedroom." " Tommy, will you take him?" " I'll eat this fucking dog tonight." "Love that crystal ball or what?" "This is where we spend most of our time." "I love the floral arrangements." "French." "Janice and I were having so much fun, she started screwing up at work." "I had to straighten out her boss a little bit." "Janice can do what she wants to do." "Got it?" "Just try to run." "Hang up once more, and you'll deal with me." "Come on, get off of her." "You're an animal." "Spider, on your way over here, bring me a Cutty and water." " Did you guys eat?" " I'm starving." " I'll play these." " You'll play those?" "Do I stutter?" "I play those." "What am I?" "A mirage?" "Where's my fucking drink?" "I asked you for a drink." " You wanted a drink?" " I asked you for one." "I thought you said, "I'm all right, Spider. "" "Am I on a pay-no-mind list?" "No, I heard someone say "Spider, Spider. "" " I thought it was Henry." " You're a mumbling, stuttering little fuck." "I thought you said, "I'm all right, Spider. "" "You ain't all right." "No, I thought you said you were all right." "I am all right!" "You ain't, you prick." "You've been doing this all fucking night to me, you motherfucker!" "He wants a drink now?" "I'll bring it." "Go get me a fucking drink!" "Move it, you little prick." "You walk like fucking Stepin Fetchit." "For everybody else you run." "Run for me, you prick!" "Dance, dance the fucking drink back here!" "What's that movie that Bogart made?" " Where he played a cowboy." " The Oklahoma Kid." " Shane?" " Oklahoma Kid, that's me!" "You fucking varmint." "Dance!" "Yahoo, you motherfucker!" "Round up those fucking wagons." "Now he's moving." " Henry, what happened?" " You shot him in the foot, Tommy." "He's fucking fine." "So he got shot in the foot." "What is it?" "A big fucking deal?" " Get a towel." " Nice fucking game." "Take him to Ben Casey, the little prick." "Let him crawl like he crawls for the drinks." "Take him to the doctor down the street." "Bones are all shattered." "Don't get me upset, now." "Don't make a big fucking thing out of it, Spider, you little prick." "You trying to make me think what the fuck I did here." "It was an accident." " Little fucking actor." " I got a great hand here." " You in or out?" " Yeah, I'm in." " $800." " $800?" "You haven't been home in two weeks." "You're not going out tonight!" "Karen, will you grow up!" "Stop!" "I'm still gonna go out!" "Not without your car keys, you're not." "Are you nuts?" "What's your problem?" "Yes, I'm nuts." "Something's going on." " Stop with that." "Enough!" "Stop with that." " No!" "I'm telling you, I look in your face and I know that you're lying!" " Get out!" "Get out!" " Shut up." "Get out of my life!" "You're fucked in the head, Karen." "This is all in your mind." " You're a lousy bastard!" " You got a problem." "Go ahead, go to your ready-made whores." "That's all you're good for!" "Get out of my life!" "I can't stand you!" "Spider, what's your rush?" " Here you go." " Thank you, Spider." "Spider, that fucking bandage on your foot is bigger than your fucking head." "Next thing you know, he's gonna be coming in one of these fucking walkers." "Even though you got that, you can dance?" "Give us a couple of fucking steps, Spider." "You fucking bullshitter, you." "Tell the truth." "You're looking for sympathy?" "Why don't you go fuck yourself, Tommy?" "I didn't fucking hear right." "Can't believe what I heard." "Spider, here." "This is for you." "Attaboy." "I got respect for this kid." "He's got a lot of fucking balls." "Good for you." "Don't take no shit off nobody." "He shoots him in the foot, he tells him to go fuck himself." "Are you gonna let this fucking punk get away with that?" "What's the matter?" "What's the world coming to?" "That's what the fucking world is coming to." "How do you like that?" " How's that, all right?" " What's the fucking matter with you?" "What are you, stupid or what?" "Tommy, I'm kidding with you." "Are you a fucking sick maniac?" "How do I know if you're kidding?" "You're breaking my fucking balls?" "I'm fucking kidding with you, you fucking shoot the guy?" "He's dead." "Good shot." "I'm a lucky man." "Good shot." "You can't miss at this distance." "You got a problem with what I did, Anthony?" "No." "Fucking rat." "His whole family's all rats." "He would've grown up to be a rat." "Stupid bastard!" "I can't fucking believe you." "Now you're going to dig the hole." "I got no fucking lime." "I'll dig the hole." "I don't give a fuck." "Is it the first hole I dug?" "I'll dig the fucking hole." "Where are the shovels?" " Hello." " Hello?" "This is Karen Hill." "I wanna talk to you." "Hello?" "Don't hang up on me!" "I want to talk to you!" "You keep away from my husband, you hear me?" "Hello?" "Open the door!" "Answer me!" "I'm gonna tell everyone who walks in this building... that in 2R, Rossi, you are nothing but a whore!" "Is this the superintendent?" "Yes, I want you to know, sir, that you have a whore... living in 2R!" "Rossi, Janice Rossi." "Do you hear me?" "He's my husband!" "Get your own goddamn man!" "Wake up, Henry." "What are you doing?" " Karen, are you crazy?" " I am crazy." "I'm crazy enough to kill both of you." "Karen, take it easy." " Okay?" " Do you love her?" "Do you?" " Do you?" " Karen..." "I love you." "You know I love you." "You don't." "No, you don't." "Please, be careful." "Baby, don't." "But still I couldn't hurt him." "How could I hurt him?" "I couldn't even bring myself to leave him." "The truth was... that no matter how bad I felt..." "I was still very attracted to him." "Why should I give him to someone else?" "Why should she win?" "Just put it down." "You know I love you, don't you?" "You're all I want, Karen." "Please put the gun down, Karen." "Baby, come on." "What are you, fucking crazy, Karen?" "I got enough to worry about getting whacked on the street!" "I got to fucking come home for this?" "I should fucking kill you!" "How does it feel?" "How does it feel, Karen?" "I'm sorry!" "Hi, Jimmy!" "How are you?" " Looking good." " Thank you." "Good to see you." " Hi, Paulie!" " Hi, honey." "How are you?" "Good." " Why don't you go get cigarettes, okay?" " Sure." " Any of you need anything?" " I'm all right." " Want anything to drink?" "A beer?" " No." " Chinese food?" " No, come on, sit down." "Karen came to the house." "She's very upset." "This is no good." "You gotta straighten this thing out." "We got to have calm now." "We don't know what the hell she's gonna do." "She's getting all hysterical." "She gets very excited." "She's wild." "And you got to take it easy." "You got children." "I'm not saying you gotta go back to her this minute, but you gotta go back." "It's the only way." "You gotta keep up appearances." "The two of them come over every day, commiserating." "I can't have it." "I can't do it, Henry." "Nobody says that you can't do what you wanna do." "We all know that." "I mean, this is what it is." "We know what it is." "You have to do the right thing." "You have to go home to the family, you understand?" "You got to go home, okay?" "Look at me." "You gotta go home." "Smarten up." " All right?" " All right." "I'm gonna talk to Karen." "I'll straighten this out." "I know just what to say to her." "I'm gonna tell her you'll go back to her... and it'll be just the way it was when you were first married... your romance, it's gonna be beautiful." "I know how to talk to her, especially to her." "Jimmy and Tommy are going down to Tampa this weekend... to pick up something for me." "Instead, you go with Jimmy." "You come with me, we'll go down." "Have a good time." "Take some time for yourself." "Relax." "Sit in the sun." "Take a couple days off." " We'll have a good time." " Enjoy yourselves." "And when you come back, you go back to Karen." "Please, there's no other way." "You're not gonna get a divorce." "We're not "animali. "" "No divorce." "She'll never divorce him." "She'll kill him, but she won't divorce him." "You gonna pay us?" " You gonna pay?" " Give us the fucking money!" "I can't, I swear." "Let's go." " We'll throw the bastard to the lions." " No!" "What fucking lions?" "I ain't going near any lions, Jimmy!" " Let's throw him over the moat." " All right." "I'll get the money!" "They must really feed each other to the lions down there... because the guy gave the money right up." "I swear to Christ, I'll get the money." "We got to spend the rest of the weekend at the track." "Yeah." "They mean business." "Then, I couldn't believe what happened." "When we got home, we were all over the newspaper." "At first, I didn't even know why we got picked up." "Then I found out that the guy we roughed up... turned out to have a sister working as a typist for the FBI." "Who could believe it?" "Of all the fucking people." "She gave up everybody:" "Jimmy, me, even her brother." "It took the jury six hours to bring us in guilty." "The judge gave Jimmy and me 10 years like he was giving away candy." "...ten years in a federal penitentiary." "You will now be turned over to the U.S. Attorney general's office." "Toast, guys." "Good trip, good life, get out soon." "Good trip, sweetheart." "We'll watch the home front." "Say hello to those blow-job hacks." "Yeah, motherfuck them every chance you get." "I'll call you when I get a chance." "Now take me to jail." "In prison, dinner was always a big thing." "We had a pasta course, and then we had a meat or a fish." "Paulie did the prep work." "He was doing a year for contempt... and had this wonderful system for doing the garlic." "He used a razor, and he used to slice it so thin... that it used to liquefy in the pan with just a little oil." "It was a very good system." "Vinnie was in charge of the tomato sauce." "Get the smell?" "Three kinds of meat in the meatballs:" "veal, beef, and pork." "Good, but you gotta have the pork." "That's the flavor." "I felt he used too many onions, but it was still a very good sauce." "Vinnie, don't put too many onions in the sauce." "I didn't put too much onions in, paul." "Put three small onions, that's all I did." "Three onions?" "How many cans of tomatoes you put in there?" " I put two big cans." " You don't need three onions." "Johnny Dio did the meat." "We had no broiler, so Johnny did everything in pans." "It used to smell up the joint something awful... and the hacks used to die, but he still cooked a great steak." " How do you like yours?" " Medium rare." "Medium rare." "An aristocrat." "You know, when you think of prison you get pictures in your mind... of all those old movies with rows of guys behind bars." "It wasn't like that for wiseguys." "It really wasn't that bad, excepting that I missed Jimmy... who was doing his time in Atlanta." "Give me two steaks while you're in there, all right?" "Everyone else in the joint was doing real time, mixed together, living like pigs." "But we lived alone." "We owned the joint." "We batted them sons of bitches." "You couldn't recognize them." "Good, they deserved it." "Even the hacks we couldn't bribe would never rat on the guys we did." "...had respect." "People loved one another." "They left their doors open." "Sorry it took so long." "The skinny guard's getting to be a real pain in the ass." " We're gonna have to do something." " I took care of him." "What'd you bring?" " Bread." " Good." " Fresh." " Vinnie, I got your peppers and onions." "Salami, prosciutto, a lot of cheese." "Come on, what else?" " Scotch." " Nice." " Some red wine." " Okay." " Now we can eat." " I got some white, too." "Give me the white, too." "beautiful." "Okay, boys, let's eat." "Come on, it's ready, Vinnie." "Some more bread." "Tomorrow we eat sandwiches." "You got to go on a diet, Vinnie." " You must be kidding." " Believe me." "What are you doing?" "I'll take that." " All right, I'll catch you guys later." " Yeah." "You going for a walk in the park?" " Okay, I'll catch you next week." "Thanks." " Okay." " Is there any more?" " No, that's it." "Have a good weekend." " Thanks." " You too, Henry." "Mrs. Hill, come here." "Come on." "You girls stay right here." " I want you to hold hands." " Okay, go right up to the front." " Let's go." " How you doing?" " Good, how are you?" " Very well, thank you." " What you talking about?" " I saw her name in the register." " Jesus Christ." " You want her to visit you?" "Let her stay up all night crying and writing letters to the parole board." "What am I doing here?" "Where am I?" "I'm in jail." "I can't stop people from coming to see me." "Good, let her sneak this stuff in for you every week." " Let her fight these bastards every week!" " Look what you're doing!" "Stop it!" "I'm sorry." "Let her sneak this shit in for you." "Will you stop it, Karen?" " Let her do it!" " Stop it!" "Nobody's helping me." "I'm all alone." "Belle and Morrie are broke." "I asked your friend Remo for the money that he owes you." "You know what he told me?" "He told me to take my kids down to the police station and get on welfare." "It's gonna be okay." "Even Paulie, since he got out, I've never seen him." "I never see anybody anymore." "It's only you and me." "That's what happens when you go away." "I told you that we're on our own." "Forget everybody else." "Forget Paulie." "As long as he's on parole, he doesn't want anybody doing anything." " I can't do it." " Yes, you can." "Listen to me." "AII I need for you is to keep bringing me the stuff." "I got a guy in here from Pittsburgh who'll help me move it." "In a month we're gonna be fine." " We won't need anybody." " I'm afraid." "I'm afraid if Paulie finds out..." "Don't worry about him." "He is not helping us out." "Is he putting any food on the table?" "We've gotta help each other." "We've just gotta be really careful while we do it." "I don't want to hear a word about her anymore." "Never." "Daddy!" " We missed you." " Are you here to stay?" "Did you see our pictures?" "I did the one with the house and rainbow." "I did the sun." "My chorus concert is in two weeks." "Are you coming?" "Do you like the house?" "Karen, get packed." "We're moving out of here." "With what?" "Don't worry with what." "Just start looking for a new house." "I got to go to Pittsburgh in the morning." "Those guys there owe me $15,000." "We'll be all right." "I got things lined up." "Pittsburgh?" "You have to go see your parole officer tomorrow." "Don't worry about it." "Everything's gonna be fine." " Who wants to go to Uncle Paulie's?" " Me!" "What do you want?" "Sweetheart, let Mommy eat." "You look good." "Did you eat this good in the joint?" "I don't want any more of that shit." "What shit?" " Just stay away from the garbage." " Look, Paulie" "I'm not talking about what you did inside." "You did what you had to do." "I'm talking about now." "From now." "Here and now." " Why would I get into that?" " Don't make a jerk out of me." "Just don't do it." "I want to talk to you about Jimmy." "You gotta watch out for him." "He's a good earner, but he's wild, takes too many chances." "I know Jimmy." "You think I would take chances like him?" "Tommy's a good kid, but he's crazy." "He's a cowboy." "He's got too much to prove." "You gotta watch out for kids like this." "I know what they are." "I only use them for certain things." "I ain't gonna get fucked like Gribbs, you understand?" "Gribbs is 70 years old." "The fucking guy's gonna die in prison." "I don't need that." "So I'm warning everybody." "Everybody." "Could be my son, could be anybody." "Gribbs got 20 years just for saying hello to some fuck... who was sneaking behind his back, selling junk." "I don't need that." "That won't happen to me, understand?" "You know you're out early because I got you a job." "I don't need this heat, you understand that?" "You see anybody fucking around with this shit you're gonna tell me, right?" "That means anybody." " All right." " Yeah?" "Yeah." "Of course." "Took me about a week of sneaking around before I could unload the Pittsburgh stuff." "But when I did, it was a real score." "I started using Sandy's place to mix the stuff." "And even with Sandy snorting more than she mixed..." "I could see that this was a really good business." "I made $12,000 in my second week." "I had a down payment on my house and things were really rolling." "AII I had to do was every once in a while tell Sandy that I loved her." "But it was perfect, I'm telling you." "As long as I kept getting the stuff from Pittsburgh..." "I knew Paulie would never find out." "Within a couple of weeks, it got so big I needed some help." "So I got Jimmy and Tommy to come in with me." "It's fucking great." "Mr. Conway." " Bring your pay slips?" " Yeah." "Four and a half months of dirt." " It's so good." " I did it." " Do you love it?" " It's wonderful." "And this we just had to have made special." "Go ahead, sit in it, Belle." "The others you couldn't even sit in." "Okay, you ready?" "Watch the wall with the rock." "The electricians did it special." "Come on." "Come on." "All right." "This was imported." "It came in two pieces." "Do you believe what they can do?" "It's nice, huh?" "Henry, come over here." "Did you and Jimmy talk?" "I talked to him, and he's looking into everything." "This'll make the Air France haul look like goddamn peanuts." " Come on." " He's gonna do it, right?" "I told you." "He'll check everything out." "He's looking into it." "We'll see what happens." "No promises." "I know." "Do you understand?" "There's millions in there." "And I've been... bleeding for this caper, been cultivating this son of a bitch for two years." "He owes me $20,000." "Once in a lifetime." "I could retire." "No more nut every week." "No more bullshit." "My dream comes true." "Morrie, let's get a drink." "These are the guys that Jimmy put together for what turned out to be... the biggest heist in American history:" "the Lufthansa heist." "Tommy and Carbone were gonna grab the outside guard... and make him get us in the front door." "Frenchy and Joe Buddha had to round up the workers." "Johnny Roastbeef had to keep them all tied up and away from the alarms." "Even Stacks Edwards got in on it." "He used to hang around the lounge and play guitar." "Everybody loved Stacks." "What he was supposed to do was steal the panel truck... and afterwards compact it by a friend of ours out in Jersey." "Only Morrie was driving us nuts." "Morrie, have a drink and shut up." "Just because he set this up, he felt he could bust Jimmy's balls... for an advance on the money we were going to steal." "He didn't mean anything by it." "That's just the way he was." "I had everybody working for me." "Even our old baby-sitter, Lois Byrd." "Did you have a good flight?" "I hate Pittsburgh." "Where did you find such creeps?" "Come on, they're not that bad." "And it's worth it, isn't it?" "Is this the same baby you used last week?" "No, that one was my sister's." "This is Deirdra's." "Big yawn." "She looks just like you." "That's what the stewardess said." "Take it easy, Sandy." "Come on, give me a break." "You got enough here to go around." "You got all day." "Just make it last, all right?" "Take it easy." " I got to go." " Where are you going?" "Don't start." "You know I gotta go do this thing." "Fuck, where are my keys?" "Over there." "It's a mess." "It's like a pig pen." "What do you think I got you the dishwasher for?" "I hate doing the dishes." "Fucks up my nails." "How could you hate it?" "You got to be smart." "Look at all this powder around here." "That could put us away forever." " Loosen up." " What are you doing?" " You know, I gotta..." " You don't have to go anywhere." "Make them wait." "Nobody knows for sure just how much was taken in the daring pre-dawn raid... at the Lufthansa cargo terminal at Kennedy Airport." "The FBI says $2 million, Port Authority Police say $4 million" "Jimmy!" "Those sons of bitches!" "...from the scene of the heist at JFK." "It looks like a big one." "Maybe the biggest this town has ever seen." "Come here, you!" "Come here!" "Look at this genius." "This genius!" "Merry Christmas." " Hello, who's this?" " That's my wife." "Come here." "I want to show you something, Jimmy." "Isn't she gorgeous?" "I bought it for my wife." "It's a coupe." "I love that car." "What did I tell you?" "I talked to you before, didn't I?" "Didn't I say what was going on?" "Didn't I say not to go buy anything for a while?" " The fucking car?" " It's a wedding gift from my mother." "It's under her name." "I just got married." " I love that car." " Excuse me, darling, for just a second." " I just got married." " Are you nuts?" " What are you getting excited for?" " Are you stupid?" "We got a million bulls out there." "Everybody's watching us." "And you get a fucking car." "I'm excited?" "It's under my mother's name." "It's a wedding gift." "I don't give a fuck." "Are you stupid?" "Didn't you hear what I said?" "Don't buy anything." "Don't get anything." "Nothing big." "What's the matter with you?" "What are you getting excited for?" "Because you're going to get us all fucking pinched." "What are you, stupid?" " What's the matter with you?" " I apologize." " I'm sorry." " What the fuck is the matter with you?" "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry, Jimmy." "It's under my mother's name." "What'd you say?" "You being a fucking wise guy with me?" " I'm sorry." "I apologize." " What did I tell you?" "What did I tell you?" "You don't buy anything, you hear me?" "Don't buy anything!" "I'm sorry, Jimmy." "The fat fuck, he ought to wear a sign." "I can't believe this." "Are you stupid or what?" "Excuse me." " What's the matter?" " Take it off." " Why?" "What's the matter?" " Take it off!" "Didn't I tell you not to get anything big and not to attract attention?" "In two days, one guy gets a Caddy and one gets a $20,000 mink." " Bring it fucking back." " I'll bring it back." "I don't care what you do." "Bring it where you got it before." " Get it out of here!" " All right." "Let's go, honey." "Shut the fuck up and let's go." "This drink here is better than sex, babe." "I'm gonna go see Stacks." "Don't you look at anybody or I'll fucking kill you." "He's so jealous." "If I even look at anyone else, he'll kill me." "That's great." "Tell them all to relax." "Don't attract attention." "I've been looking all over for you." "How are you?" "Merry Christmas." "Listen, I need the money." " Morrie, relax, okay?" "It's Christmas." " Jimmy, I need the money." "I'm relaxing." "I need the money." " I did what I had to do." "I need the money." " Not tonight, Morrie." "Listen, I did my caper." "He owes me." "Everybody's flashing their stuff." "Evidently, they got their money." "I'm wearing the same shit." " Just not tonight." " They're wearing it." "I gotta talk to him." "I got $500,000 coming to me." "The biggest fucking bundle he ever made in his life." "Morrie, I'll go talk to him." "Go have a drink, all right?" " I'll talk to him." " It's poison in my eyes." " Morris, baby, are you all right?" " No, I'm not." "Christmas." "Your share." "Just a little taste." "We did it!" " Jimmy." " Yeah." " Yeah, who is it?" " It's me." "Pete?" "One second." "Don't do what Frankie and Johnny did." "Don't be a moron with the money." " Do what's right, you understand?" " Yeah." "Karen, Judy, Ruth, come here!" "I got the most expensive tree they had." " What do you think, Mommy?" " I love them all." "I love the gold outfit." " Merry Christmas." " Thank you." " What?" " Merry Christmas." "And?" "Happy Hanukkah." " Very funny." " Go get yourself something nice, okay?" "Lufthansa should have been our ultimate score." "The heist of a lifetime." "$6 million in cash." "More than enough to go around." "Yo, Stacks!" "Open up!" "What's up?" "What're you doing?" "What's with you?" "He ain't ready." "I knew you wouldn't be ready." " You didn't bring any coffee?" " What do I look like, a fucking caterer?" "Frankie will make coffee." "Go ahead, Frankie, make coffee." "Thought you had one of your bitches in here." "Yeah, I did." "Where the fuck is she?" "Always got these hot books around, or a bitch, or something." "What time is it?" " It's 11:30." "We had to be there by 9:00." " I'll be ready in a minute." "You're always fucking late." "You'd be late for your own fucking funeral." "What the fuck you looking at?" "Make that coffee to go." "Let's go." "What the fuck you doing?" "It's a joke." "Put the fucking pot down." "You gonna take the coffee?" "Stacks was always crazy." "Instead of getting rid of the truck as he was supposed to, he got stoned... went to his girlfriend's, and by the time he woke up, the cops had found the truck." "It was all over the television." "They even said they came up with prints off the wheel." "It was just a matter of time before they got to Stacks." "I gotta talk to you." " Have a drink." " Have a drink." "Come on." "Have a drink." "What you doing?" "It's an occasion." "Have a drink." "I still gotta talk to you." "What?" " What happened with Stacks?" " Don't worry about that." " There's feds all over the place." " So what?" "Where are they gonna go?" " It's in the papers." " He's worried." "What are you worried about?" "The television and the newspapers." "All the shit's out there." " What are you worried about?" " You worry too much." "Everything is beautiful." "There's nothing to worry about." " Didn't you tell him?" " I didn't tell him yet." " What?" " Guess what?" "They're gonna make him." "Paulie's going to make you?" "Tommy." "They opened up the books." "Paulie got the okay." "You believe that?" "This little guinea bastard." "He's gonna get made." "We're gonna work for this guy one day." "He's gonna be a boss." "I can't believe it." "I'm really happy for you." "Great." "Congratulations." "Motherfuckers, we got them now." "Jimmy, I've been looking all over for you." "Can I talk to you a second?" "I mastermind the goddamn thing, I'm left with dick." "They'd be up a creek if not for me." "Fuck him!" "I want my money." "I want my money!" "I've had it up to here!" "That cheap cigarette hijacker." " Fuck him!" "I want my money!" " Good." "Go tell him." "You're gonna keep your mouth shut, or what?" "Morrie, you're gonna get your money." "You just got to stop busting balls." "All right?" "Look at me." "You hear me?" "Look at me, okay?" "Everything's going to be fine." "Henry." "Sweetheart, half mick, half guinea?" "I'll sing with an Italian accent." "I could see for the first time that Jimmy was a nervous wreck." "His mind was going in eight different directions at once." "Think Morrie tells his wife everything?" "Morrie?" "Him?" "That's when I knew Jimmy was going to whack Morrie." "That's how it happens." "That's how fast it takes for a guy to get whacked." "He's a nut job." "He talks to everybody." "Acts like a jerk in his commercials." "Nobody listens to what he says." "Nobody fucking cares what he says, he talks so much." "Make sure you bring him here tonight." " Okay?" " All right." "Start like this." "Sorry." "Did I get you in the eye?" "Stop breaking my balls, all right?" "I was just stalling for time." "I knew I still had till 8:00 or 9:00 to talk Jimmy out of killing Morrie." "But meanwhile, as far as Jimmy knew, I was going along with the program." "I pulled his hair out of his fucking head." "I bit him." "He's out cold." "I'm enraged." "I wanted to kill this little fuck." "I walk away." "We start to go in the fucking joint." "I don't want to turn around." "Jimmy's going like this to me." "I don't want to fucking turn around." "I don't want to turn around." "He picks up his fucking head, he says..." "I said, "Don't say it. "" ""Jerkoff! "" "What are you going to do?" "What?" "I fucking fly at him." "I got him and I'm banging his head, banging his fucking face." "I'm pulling his hair out of his head." "I beat him to a pulp." "To a pulp I beat him." "He's laying there full of fucking blood." "I'm out of breath." "Forget about tonight." "Forget about it." "It was a load off my mind." "Poor bastard." "He never knew how close he'd come to getting killed." "Even if I told him, he would have never believed me." " Jimmy, could I talk to you now?" " You're a pisser." "A real pisser." "Want to talk now?" "Okay, let's talk." "Let's get it over with." "I've never met a ball buster like you, my whole life." "Who loves you more than I do?" " I'd do anything for you." " Except to stop busting my balls." " Let's go have coffee." " Want to go to the diner?" "We'll go to the diner on the boulevard." " Which diner?" " Rockaway Boulevard." "It's open 24 hours." " They got Danishes?" " They got everything." "Let's pick up some Danishes for Belle." "Hear about the points we were shaving up in Boston?" "It's terrific." "Nunzio" "I thought he'd never shut up." "What a pain in the ass." " What'll we do with him?" " Chop him up and get rid of the car." "Call me when you're through." " Frank, let's chop him up." " All right." "Where you going, you dizzy motherfucker, you?" "You said chop him up." "At Charlie's, not here!" "Where are you gonna chop him here?" "Come on, what are you doing?" "Get out of here." "I got a better shot letting him drive." "The car's cold." "Get the fuck out of here!" "What, warm it up?" "Get out of here!" " Who is it?" " It's Belle." "Open up." "It's Belle." "Let me in." "Morris didn't come home." "He's missing." "I know something's happened." "Calm down." "He's missing!" "I know something happened." "He's probably drunk and fell asleep somewhere." "In 27 years, he's never been away all night without calling." "I know something's happened." "I know you know." "Let me get changed." "I'll take you home, then look for him." " I've been home!" "I've been on the phone" " He's playing cards." " What'II I tell Belle?" " Who gives a fuck?" "Tell her he ran off with some broad." "What do you care?" " Watch this." " Don't fuck with them." "I do it all the time." "I'll bust their balls." "Don't give them the satisfaction, the fucks." "Come on, fuckos." "Let's go for a ride." "Keep them up all night." "I'll see you later." "Jimmy was cutting every link between himself and the robbery... but it had nothing to do with me." "I gave Jimmy the tip and he gave me some Christmas money." "From then on, I kept my mouth shut." "I knew Jimmy." "He had the cash." "It was his." "He kicked some money upstairs to Paulie, but that was it." "It made him sick to turn the money over to the guys who stole it." "He'd rather whack them." "Anyway, what did I care?" "I wasn't asking for anything." "And Jimmy was making nice money through my Pittsburgh connections." "Still, months after the robbery they were finding bodies all over." "When they found Carbone in the meat truck... he was frozen so stiff... it took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy." "Still, I never saw Jimmy so happy." "He was like a kid." "We had money coming in through my Pittsburgh people... and even after a while, the Lufthansa thing began to calm down." "What made Jimmy so happy that morning... was that this was the day that Tommy was being made." "Jimmy was so excited, you'd think he was being made." "He must have made four calls to Tommy's house." "They had a signal set up, so he'd know the minute the ceremony was over." " Ma, where are you?" " Here I am." " You're home." " Home?" "I'm leaving." " You look lovely." " I look good, huh?" "You look wonderful." "Be careful." "Congratulations." "I love you." "Don't paint any more religious pictures, please." " God be with you." " Bye, Ma." "We always called each other goodfellas." "You'd say to somebody:" ""You'II like this guy." "He's all right." "He's a goodfella, one of us. "" "You understand?" "We were goodfellas." "Wiseguys." "But Jimmy and I could never be made because we had Irish blood." "It didn't matter my mother was Sicilian." "To become a member of a crew, you've got to be 100% Italian... so they can trace your relatives back to the old country." "It's the highest honor they can give you." "It means you belong to a family and a crew." "It means nobody can fuck around with you." "It also means you could fuck around with anybody... just as long as they aren't also a member." "It's like a license to steal." "A license to do anything." "How many years ago since you were made?" " I'm an old-timer. 30 years ago." " Thirty years?" "Brings back a lot of memories." "Pike's Peak was a pimple then, wasn't it?" "As far as Jimmy was concerned, with Tommy being made... it was like we were all being made." "We would now have one of our own as a member." " Who's this?" " This is Vinnie." "Vinnie." "What happened?" "Did we get straightened out?" "No, we had a problem." "We tried to do everything we could." "What do you mean?" "You know what I mean." "He's gone, and we couldn't do nothing about it." " That's it." " What do you mean?" "He's gone." "That's it." "I knew it!" "I can't fucking believe it." " What happened?" " They fucking whacked him." "Fuck." "Are you all right?" "It was revenge for Billy Batts... and a lot of other things." "And that's that." "There was nothing we could do about it." "Batts was a made man and Tommy wasn't." "We had to sit still and take it." "It was among the Italians." "It was real greaseball shit." "They even shot Tommy in the face... so his mother couldn't give him an open coffin at the funeral." "I was gonna be busy all day." "I had to drop off some guns at Jimmy's... to match some silencers he had." "I had to pick up my brother at the hospital and drive him home." "I had to pick up some new Pittsburgh stuff for Lois... to fly down to some customers I had near Atlanta." "Right away, I knew he didn't want them, and I'd be stuck for the money." "I only bought them because he wanted them, and now he didn't." "What good are these?" "None of them fit." "What's the matter with you?" "I'm not paying for it." "I didn't say a thing." "Jimmy was so pissed off, he didn't even say goodbye." "Stop the drugs." "They're making your mind into mush!" " You hear me?" " I'll take them back." "My Pittsburgh guys always wanted guns." "Since I would see them in the afternoon to pick up a delivery..." "I was pretty sure I'd get my money back." "Oh, my God." "When I finally got to the hospital, michael's doctor wanted to put me in bed." "Jesus Christ, what happened to you?" "I almost got into an accident on the way here." "And I told him I was partying all night." " I'm fine." " Come on." "Get over here." " Doc, I'm fine." " Let me check you out." "Come on." "He took mercy on me, gave me 10 milligrams of Valium... and sent me home." "My plan was to drop off my brother at the house and pick up Karen." "There it is." "You see that helicopter right there?" "Right in front of us, there." "I think it's been following me all morning." " Get the fuck out." "What are you, nuts?" " I'm telling you." "I don't know what's going on." "It's the third time I've seen it." "At the hospital I saw it." "I had to make some stops." "I've seen it every time." "I've been all over town and I've seen it all day." "I was cooking dinner that night." "I had to start braising the beef and veal shanks for the tomato sauce." "It was michael's favorite." "I was making ziti with meat gravy... and I'm planning to roast some peppers over the flames... put on some string beans with olive oil." "I had some beautiful cutlets... that were cut just right... that I was going to fry up as an appetizer." "So, I was home for about an hour." "My plan was to start the dinner early... so Karen and I could unload the guns Jimmy didn't want... then get the package for Lois... to take to Atlanta for her trip later that night." "I kept looking out the window, and I saw that the helicopter was gone." "michael, keep an eye on the sauce." "Stay here with your Uncle michael." "So I asked my brother to watch the sauce, and Karen and I started out." "Oh, God." "I see it." " I see it." "Look, it's right there." " Damn!" " That's it." " There it is." "We got to get to your mother's." "See, I told you." "It's funny." " It's not the end of the world." " We're going to your mother's." "Go inside, tell your mother not to touch anything outside the house." "Nothing." "We couldn't go to your mother's house?" "You had to come here." "Let's go shopping." "I'm not nuts, it's been following me all morning." "I'm telling you." "Fine." "Fine." "He thinks I'm paranoid!" "I should bring him the helicopter, then we'll see how paranoid I am." "Come on, let's go inside." " Yeah, it's gone." " I don't hear anything." "Let's go back to your mother's." " They all right?" " beautiful." "They're great." "Didn't I tell you, you were paranoid?" "Didn't I tell him?" "Yeah." "I need a hit." "Want to see helicopters?" "Come on, I'll show you helicopters." "I've seen enough helicopters for one day, thank you." "I had to get home and get the package ready for Lois to take on her trip." "Also, I had to get to Sandy's to give the package a whack with quinine." "Plus, I knew Sandy would get on my ass." "I had the cooking to finish, and I had to get Lois ready for her trip." " It's Sandy." "What is this?" " She's a pain in the ass." " When are you coming over?" " In an hour." " You staying tonight, right?" " I can't." "I got my brother tonight." "Come on, stop." "We'll talk about it later, okay?" "Goodbye." " Hello?" " It's me." "You ready?" "Tell michael not to let the sauce stick." "Keep stirring it." " Henry says don't let the sauce stick." " I'm stirring it." " Listen, you know what to do?" " Yeah, yeah." "Don't "yeah, yeah" me, Lois." "This is important." "Make sure you leave the house when you make the call." "Understand me?" "Call from an outside line." "I mean it." "Jesus, you must think I'm dumb." "Why are you bugging me?" "I know what to do." "You little hick, just make sure you do it." "You can be such a pain." " Hey!" "Just do it!" " Okay." "Un-fucking-believable." "All of them." "Every fucking girl in my life." " What did he say?" " Nothing." "What does she do after she hangs up with me?" "After everything I told her?" "After all her "yeah, yeah "bullshit?" "She picks up the phone and calls from the house." "If anybody was listening, they'd know everything." "They'd know a package was leaving my house... and they'd even have the time and flight number, thanks to her." "As soon as I got home, I started cooking." "I had a few hours until Lois' flight." "I told my brother to watch the stove." "All day long the guy's been watching helicopters and tomato sauce." "I had to drive over to Sandy's, mix the stuff, then get back to the gravy." "Do you think you can come over here, fuck me, and leave?" " Come on." " You got someplace better to go?" "Don't talk like that." "Come on." " You all right?" " Yeah, sure." "You believe me?" "Do you believe me?" "Do you believe me?" " That the last one?" " Yeah." "You lying son of a bitch." "I hate you!" "Please stop feeding the dog from the table... from the plate on top of it." "Stop it." " I have to." " You don't have to." "I got to go home." "What do you mean, you got to go home?" "I've been carrying this all day." "We got to start taping it to your leg." "We got to go soon." "I got to go home and get my hat." "Forget your fucking hat." "Are you kidding me?" "So I need a trip to Rockaway because you want your hat?" "I need it, I got to have it." "It's my lucky hat." "I never fly without it." "Lois, do you understand what we are involved in here?" "I don't care." "I need my hat." "I won't fly without it." "What could I do if she insisted I drive her home for her goddamn hat?" "I hid the package in the kitchen and went to take her home." "A hat?" "What the fuck is this?" "Police!" "Freeze!" "Don't you move, you motherfucker... or I'll blow your brains out." "Shut the car off slowly." "For a second, I thought I was dead." "But when I heard all the noise, I knew they were cops." "Only cops talk that way." "Don't fucking move." "If they had been wiseguys, I wouldn't have heard a thing." "I would have been dead." "michael, lock the door!" "Talk to me." "When was the last time you took a collar?" "Fuckhead, I'm talking to you." "You don't want to say a fucking word, don't." "I don't really give a fuck." "You'll do 25 years." "See how much of a good guy you'll be then." "All day I thought the guys in the helicopter... were local cops busting my balls over Lufthansa." "They turned out to be narcs." "Just get the lawyer." "They'd been on me a month." "Phone taps, surveillance, everything." "You know the boys." "All the pals are here." "You don't want to talk to me, you'll have a problem all night." "Each one of these counts holds 25-to-life in New York State." "Twenty-five fucking years, paI." "I'll slap your fucking head inside out." "What, were you guys grocery shopping?" "Are we going to make a cake?" "You going to make a fucking cake?" "You got anything good in there?" "Is it good?" "Bye-bye, dickhead." "See you in Attica, dick." "I spoke to Jimmy." "He offered to give me some money." "He just wants to know what's happening." "He just wants to talk to you." "Fuck Jimmy and his money." "I got to straighten out everything with Paulie or I'm dead." "Then you're better off staying in here." "They could whack me in here as easy as outside, maybe even easier." "They're afraid I'll rat them out." "People are already walking away from me." "I'm dead in here." "You got to get me out." "Karen finally got her mother to put her house up for my ball and I was out." "I remember I had this feeling I would be killed right outside the jail." "I knew Paulie was still pissed at me, and he's such a hothead." "And I was worried about Jimmy." "See, Jimmy knew if Paulie found out he was into drug deals with me..." "Paulie would have Jimmy whacked even before me." "This is the bad time." "I didn't feel safe until I got home." "Now my plan was to stay alive long enough to sell off the dope... the cops never found, then disappear until I can get things straightened out." "Fuck!" " Where's the stuff I left, Karen?" " I flushed it down the toilet." "You what?" "What was I supposed to do?" "They were all over the house." "That was worth $60,000!" "I need that money!" "That's all we got!" "What was I supposed to do?" "They had a search warrant!" "That's all the money we had!" "I was depending on that!" "Why did you do that?" "I had to." "They were going to find it!" " They would have never found it!" " They would have, I swear to you!" "They would've found it!" "Why did you do that?" " They would have found it." " Why did you do that, Karen?" "Oh, my God!" " I had to do it." " Oh, my God." "Paulie, I'm really sorry." "I don't know what else to say." "I know I fucked up." "Yeah, you fucked up." "But I'm all right now." "I can be trusted now." "I'm clean." "On my kids, I'm clean." "You looked in my eyes and lied to me." "You treated me like a fucking jerk." "Like I was never nothing to you." "After what you said, I couldn't come to you." "You know, I was ashamed." "I'm ashamed now." "But I got nowhere else to go, Paulie." "You're all I've got." "And I really need your help." "I really do." "Take this." "And now I've got to turn my back on you." "$3,200." "That's what he gave me." "$3,200 for a lifetime." "It wasn't even enough to pay for the coffin." " We got to get out." " I don't want to run." "I don't want to." "Am I supposed to pick up and leave everything?" "Go hiding?" "I don't want to do that." "Is that what you want?" "If we stay around here, we're dead." "You got it?" "We're dead." "They're right." "You took too much of that stuff." "You're totally paranoid." "How's he doing?" "Busting his balls or what?" "He's okay." "They sobered him up." "Good." "Very good." "Glad to hear it." "You know what kind of questions they're asking him?" "Jimmy, I don't know." "I got my mind on so many other things." "I got no money..." "The girls are old enough to read the newspapers." "Tell him he's got to call me." "Okay?" "As soon as you talk to him, he's got to call me." "It's important." "He doesn't know I came here to see you." "It's like he's crazy." " Take this." "It's a couple of thousands." " Thanks, Jimmy." "Don't worry, everything will be all right." "I got some beautiful Dior dresses." "You want to have them?" "Pick out a few for yourself." " For my mom." " Yeah, whatever." "No." "It's over here." "In the store on the corner." "It's swag, so I got it down on the corner." "Go ahead, sweetheart, I'll see you." " Thanks, Jimmy." " Don't worry." " I'll try." " Don't forget, he's got to call me." " Over here?" " Right down there." "It's over there, on the corner." "Right there." "No, go ahead." "It's right in there." "No, Jimmy." "I'm in a hurry!" "My mom's watching the kids!" "I got to get home!" "I'll come back later!" "Karen!" "What happened?" "Nothing." " What happened?" " I just got scared." "Got the keys?" " What happened, Karen?" " I just got scared." "It's okay." " Are you all right?" " Yeah." "If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you they're going to kill you." "It doesn't happen that way." "There aren't any arguments or curses like in the movies." "Your murderers come with smiles." "They come as your friends." "People who cared for you all your life." "They always seem to come when you're weakest and most in need of their help." "So I met Jimmy in a crowded place we both knew." "I got there 15 minutes early, and Jimmy was already there." "He took the booth near the window so he could see everyone who drove up." "He wanted to make sure I wasn't tailed." "He was jumpy." "He hadn't touched a thing." "On the surface, everything was supposed to be fine." "We were supposed to be discussing my case." "But I had a feeling Jimmy was trying to sense if I'd rat on him to save my neck." "I been telling you your whole life, don't talk on the phone." "Now you understand?" "It's going to be okay." "You got a good chance to beat the case." "You know that kid from the city we were talking about?" "You know?" "The kid turned out to be a rat." "As soon as he got pinched, he ratted on everybody." "I know where he is." "He's hiding now." "Know what I'm saying?" "Would you have a problem going with Anthony to take care of that?" "No, not at all." "That way they got nothing." "Jimmy had never asked me to whack somebody before." "But now he's asking me to go to Florida and do a hit with Anthony." "That's when I knew I would never have come back from Florida alive." "Whenever you move me, I asked once and I'll tell you again..." "I don't want to go any place cold." "You don't have a choice in that matter." "Come on." "Whoever fucking controls it... just no place cold." "Do that for me." "I'm trying to" "He's bronchial, that's why." "If he's legitimately bronchial, we'll consider that." "I'd like to go someplace not cold." "Can I ask you some questions?" "What about my parents?" "What about them?" "Am I going to see them?" "Am I going to talk to them?" "Don't I have some kind of contact with them?" "No." "Wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "You mean to tell me that..." "God forbid something happens to my parents, they get sick, I can't see them?" "Maybe something can be worked out if they're sick... if there's extraordinary circumstances" "I can't do this." "I can't do this, Henry." "I can't leave my parents." "Excuse me, Karen, I told you before." "I'm not going to do this unless you and the kids come with me." "I can't do it without you." "So, you do whatever, but... that's it." " You need Henry, not me, right?" " That's right." "Frankly, I don't care whether you go or not." "If it'll make him a better witness, I'd like you to be with him." "They want Henry, not me." "Henry'll be in the protection program." "They can't get to him." "They can only get to him by getting to you or your kids." "If he goes into the program, you're in danger" " I don't know anything." " Don't give me... the babe-in-the-woods routine." "I've listened to those wiretaps, and I've heard you talk about cocaine." "Conversation after conversation you talked to Henry on the phone." "It doesn't matter." "Whether he goes to jail... or stays on the streets and beats the case, he's a dead man." "He knows it and you know it." "What about the kids and school?" "Will they get left back?" "I mean, what goes on?" "Go to Wall Street and get real crooks." "Whoever sold you those suits had a sense of humor." "What it comes down to is we're your only salvation." "We'll save your life and his life, and we'll keep you out of jail." "This morning you told the jury about your background." "It was easy for us to disappear." "My house was in my mother-in-law's name." "My cars were registered to my wife." "My social Security cards and driver's licenses were phonies." "I never voted or paid taxes." "My birth certificate and arrest sheet was all you'd ever have to know I was alive." " Do you see him here in this courtroom?" " Yes." "Will you please point him out for the jury?" "Let the record reflect that Mr. Hill identified the defendant, James Conway." "Do you also know a man named paul Cicero?" " Do you see him in the courtroom?" " Yes." "Can you point him out for the jury?" "Let the record reflect that Mr. Hill identified the defendant, paul Cicero." "Your Honor, I have a document..." "The hardest thing was leaving the life." "I still love the life." "We were treated like movie stars with muscle." "We had it all, just for the asking." "Our wives, mothers, kids, everybody rode along." "I had paper bags filled with jewelry stashed in the kitchen." "I had a sugar bowl full of coke next to the bed." "People call them rats because rats do anything to survive." "Isn't that right?" " Objection!" " Objection sustained." " I know nothing about being a rat." " You know everything about it." "Objection, Your Honor." "In view of the violence..." "Anything I wanted was a phone call away." "Free cars." "Keys to a dozen hideout flats all over the city." "I'd bet $20,000, $30,000 over a weekend... then blow the winnings in a week or go to the sharks to pay the bookies." "It didn't matter." "It didn't mean anything." "When I was broke I would go out and rob some more." "We ran everything." "We paid off cops." "We paid off lawyers." "We paid off judges." "Everybody had their hands out." "Everything was for the taking." "And now it's all over." "That's the hardest part." "Today everything is different." "There's no action." "I have to wait around like everyone else." "Can't even get decent food." "After I got here I ordered spaghetti with marinara sauce... and I got egg noodles and ketchup." "I'm an average nobody." "I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook."