"Copyright from SI Media" "All news, all the time." "This is WINS." "yöu give us 22 minutes, we'll give yöu the world." "Good evening." "It's 42 degrees at 5:00 and here's what's happening." "Mayor Koch urges the talks to resume between the city and unions, but he says the unions have to give in a bit." "The PBA negotiator says he wants real salary increases." "Nassau police ask an 18-year-old mother why she abandoned her child." "A federal judge rules an accused war criminal must testify in his deportation hearing." "A House committee tells the president it does not like proposed Mideast arms sales." "The news watch never stops!" "This is WINS." "WINS news time, 5:02." "Contract talks have ended temporarily between the city and its labor union with both sides making some angry charges." "The municipal labor unions broke off talks demanding that the city withdraw what they call their outrageous and irresponsible contract proposals." "The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and the Uniformed Firefighters Association are the two unions not participating in the coalition bargaining with the city, and the PEA chief negotiator says he wants some solid gains for the men in blue." "A bankrupt New York City can't afford to lose money, but city officials say it did, between two and five million dollars in the first two months of 1978 alone..." "♪ On the first part of the journey I was lookin' at all the life" "♪ There were plants and birds and rocks and things" "♪ There was sand and hills and rings" "♪ The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz" "♪ And the sky with no clouds" "♪ The heat was hot and the ground was dry but the air was full of sound ♪" "I do all kinds of business with him." "He knows Carl Elway." "He knows exactly what he's getting into." "What are yöu doing, going behind my back?" "Telling people I'm screwing up this operation?" "I got yöu a suite at the fucking Plaza Hotel." "The shittiest suite at the Plaza Hotel." "What?" "The shittiest fucking suite and the food is wrong." "Based on what?" "And what is this?" "What is it?" "The food's wrong?" "What is what?" " yöu went in my closet or something?" " No." "Are yöu dressing him like yöu dress me?" "No, what are yöu thinking?" "This isn't all about yöu." "What, did yöu try to dress me so I would look like him?" "No, yöu're not dressed like him." "But I do look..." "I look like him." "No." "He's in, like, velvet." "Velvet?" "yöu asked me to show yöu how this was done." "yöu want to fuck it up, be my guest." "What is yöur problem?" "Hey, look," "I never laid a hand on her, all right?" "Is that what this is about?" "Well, technically, that's not true." "Look, we never had sex, okay?" "Just, what'd I do?" "I went like..." "What'd I do?" "I put my hand like this." "yöu fucking get out." "Don't yöu fucking touch me." "That bothers me." "Oh, it does?" "Oh, yeah." "That bothers yöu?" "Yes." "yöu know, a lot of shit bothers me, too, but I was trying to help yöu." "If I wanted to bother yöu, if I really wanted to fucking bother yöu, this is what I'd do." "If I was trying to bother yöu, that's what I would do." "yöu shouldn't have done that." "How's that?" "yöu bothered now?" "All right, don't make a thing of it." "yöu shouldn't touch him, he doesn't like that." "Oh, my God, fix his hair." "No, yöu really shouldn't" "Jesus Christ, don't make a thing of it." "It takes some time, okay?" "Big fucking deal." "It's not like just..." "We got to get in the other room." "Come on." "The mayor's in there." "Yes, I know that." "Should we go to the beauty parlor'?" "Is that what we should do?" "How's it look?" "Fine." "Let's go." "♪ Times are hard yöu're afraid to pay the fee" "I So yöu find yöurself somebody Who can do the job for free" "♪ When yöu need a bit of lovin' Cause yöur man is outta town" "♪ That's the time yöu get me runnin' And yöu know I'll be around" "♪ I'm a fool to do yöur dirty work Oh, yeah ♪" "Look, I do business face-to-face, person-to-person." "That's just who I am, call me old-fashioned, but..." "Carl, I come all the way down here, the sheik's not even here?" "EXCUSE me, excuse me." "I'll handle that for the mayor." "No, the..." "It's for the mayor." "It'd be a sign of disrespect to the sheik if the mayor didn't take it." "It's for yöu, Mayor." "What are yöu doing?" "Carl, what the fuck?" "What is this?" "I'm gonna take care of it." "Everything's good." "I got everything under control." "It's for me." "Hey, hey." "What is this?" "I handle the money." "What is this?" "What is this?" "I don't know." "I don't know." "I mean, who are yöu?" "I don't know yöu." "Just stop it, okay?" " He's got to take it himself." " I don't know what the fuck that is, but it's weird, yöu understand?" "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding." "Look, I came here to meet a sheik, that's all I know." "Okay, Mr. Mayor..." "I'm very interested in that, but he's not here apparently." "Carl, yöu know what I mean?" "This is not right." "Look, I'm very interested in meeting the sheik." "yöu let me know when that can happen." "We will." "Thank yöu, have a good day." "Irving, yöu better come get him." "Go out there and get him right now." "Help me get him back." "Get the..." "Get him, go get him." "He needs to take this fucking briefcase." "I didn't want to do this in the first place." "This is yöur show, yöu go get him." "No, yöu have no choice." "yöu have to go get him." "Now, go get him so he takes the briefcase by himself." "That's the whole plan, Irving." "What were yöu doing pushing the fucking briefcase, dummy, huh?" "The whole fucking thing was falling apart." "yöu know how much it fucking costs for this goddamn hotel that yöu fucking asked for?" "Now I got to go mop up yöur mess." "I'm gonna go fucking mop up yöur mess." "yöu understand what I'm saying, right?" "yöu understand that he has..." "It wasn't working." "He was getting upset about the sheik and..." "Did yöu ever have to find a way to survive, and yöu knew yöur choices were bad?" "I learned how to survive when I was a kid." "My father had a glass business." "I would rather be on the taking side than the getting-taken side any day of the week, especially after!" "saw how my father got taken." "I mean, seeing that scarred me for life." "I took it upon myself to drum up business." "I became a different kind of guy than my father." "I became a con artist for real." "From the feet up." "I was gonna survive no matter what." "I still had the glass business and a few dry cleaning stores also, and I did some art dealing on the side." "Stolen or forged art." "yöur host!" "Enjoy, enjoy" "Enjoy." "Come on." "So, one January," "I go to my friend's pool party in Long Island." "Is that Duke Ellington on yöur bracelet?" "Yeah, as a matter of fact, it is." "He died this year, yöu know?" "I know." "I doubt anyone else here knows or cares about it." "Well, I care about it." "He saved my life many times." "Mine, too." "Which one'?" "Jeep's Blues." "Jeep's Blues." "Mmm-hmm." "Jeep's Blues." "Oh,yeah." "Yeah." "yöu..." "yöu want to hear it?" "Right now?" "Yeah." "Sure." "Who starts a song like that?" "It's magic." "It's magic." "He wasn't necessarily in good shape, and he had this comb-over that was rather elaborate." "He had this air about him, and he had this confidence that drew me to him." "He was who he was." "He didn't care." "I mean, she was a very particular person." "Like me, she had come from a place where her options were limited." "I!" "actually can feel kind of sexy sometimes." "There's a boldness in it." "But where would that boldness take me?" "I didn't know." "But I was gonna find out." "Like me, she learned to survive and rein vent herself." "She knew she had to reinvent her life and her identity." "And like me, she envisioned a better, elegant future for herself." "Like me, she knew yöu had to have a vision." "She came to New York, she envisioned it, and just like that... she applied for a job at Cosmopolitan magazine." "Well, yöu're obviously here for a reason, let's get to it." "All right." "Our cover story right now is on cunnilingus." "What do yöu think about that?" "I like it." "Do yöu have any clerical skills?" "Can yöu type?" "She was unlike anybody I ever knew." "She was smart." "She saw through people in situations, and she knew how to live with passion and style," "She understood Duke Ellington." "I was broke, fearless, with nothing to lose, and my dream, more than anything, was to become anyone else other than who I was." "He had a chain of dry cleaning stores." "Enter." "Yeah, I got two in the Bronx, and three in Manhattan." "Hey, Byron, how yöu doing?" "This is Sydney." "Right here, come through here." "Hi." "He asked me if I wanted to come in and upgrade my wardrobe." "He said he had a lot of nice things that got left behind by people and forgotten over the years." "Man, yöu wouldn't believe the shit that people leave behind here." "Unbelievable." "People leave stuff here?" "Come back here." "Oh, yeah, they go out for the night, yöu know, they drink, come here in the morning, put their clothes in and then they forget" "They got no idea where they left it." "Look at that sequin thing." "It's beautiful." "I don't know, is that nice or not?" "I mean, some of it..." "Some of it's been here for years." "They're not picking it up." "No one's picking it up." "People just leave... yöu like it?" "I love it." "Sydney, it's yöurs." "yöu want it, it's yöurs." "Whoo!" "I like it." "yöu look fantastic." "yöu're a knockout." "Oh, my God." "I could only dream about..." "These dresses are beautiful." "Oh!" "This..." "That's..." "I'm..." "No, it's beautiful." "Put it on." "Come on." "Come on, look at that." "Please?" "Perfect for yöu." "I don't feel..." "Really?" "Love it." "This is for yöu." "I felt like we had a secret, just the two of us, yöu know, like that thing when yöu just want to be with the one person the whole time and yöu feel like the two of yöu understand something" "that nobody else gets." "I could just tell her everything about myself." "And Pd never had anybody like that in my fife before, and it felt like, finally," "I could truly be myself without being ashamed, without being embarrassed." "What is this place?" "Do yöu sell art here?" "Yeah, sometimes." "It's my office." "Well, I know it's yöur office, but yöu have all these other places, so what's this for'?" "Why'd yöu bring me here?" "This is getting to be my..." "My main business, my growing business." "L, uh..." "I help get loans for guys who can't get loans." "yöu know, I'm their last resort." "yöu're their last resort?" "'Cause interest rates are north of 12% and heading to 18%." "That's right, smarty pants." "Fucking Jimmy Carter." "Fucking Jimmy Carter." "Well, fucking Nixon, really, and the war and the deficit and all of that shit, but..." "I fucking love yöu, yöu're so smart." "yöu are." "Thanks, kid, but how do yöu get them the money?" "Well... yöu don't, do yöu?" "yöu don't." "These guys are lousy risks, yöu know?" "I can't get them a loan, but I get my fee, $5,000." "$5,000?" "yöu take $5,000 and yöu don't give them anything." "All right, these are bad guys, yöu know?" "They got bad divorces, gambling habits, embezzling, all that shit, yöu know what I mean?" "Everybody at the bottom crosses paths eventually in a pool of desperation and yöu're waiting for them." "How about "we"?" ""We"?" "Mmm-hmm." "How about it?" "Sydney, Sydney, I'm sorry." "That was too much, I went too far." "I didn't want to upset yöu." "Sydney, please, I'm sorry." "I know it ain't for everybody." "Oh, God!" "I loved getting to know yöu!" "All right." "Why did I tell the truth?" "Why'd I tell her the truth?" "What did I do that for?" "What did I do that for?" "I fucked it up." "I should never tell a woman the truth, but she's so smart." "She's different." "She's different." "God." "yöu said it was nice knowing me." "yöu said it was nice to meet me." "Yeah." "Would yöu like to meet..." "Lady Edith Greensly'?" "I have royal banking connections in London." "I'd love to help yöu with yöur loan, but, of course, I have to be very selective." "Yeah." "Yes." "That was fucking fantastic." "Thank yöu." "Did yöu like it?" "I liked it." "I didn't think yöu were coming back." "Thank God yöu came back." "I wasn't going anywhere." "I fucking love yöu." "yöu have me." "And so Irving and I began our partnership in love and commerce." "Rebecca, hold on." "He told me to tell my friends I had London banking connections." "Listen, she told me yöu can get me a line of credit." "I heard yöu have banking connections in London, England." "And after that, say "no" a lot until the guy is hooked." "Rebecca, get me that meeting, huh'?" "No!" "Listen, tell her." "No." "I have never missed a check." "No." "It was almost scary how easy it could be to take money from desperate people." "Lady Edith Greensly." "It's so good to see yöu again." "Lady... yöur Ladyship." "Thank yöu." "Again." "These are the roles that we were meant to play." "We're very selective." "yöu got a strong application." "We'll talk about it." "I don't take a deal that I can't close." "yöu're not being aggressive enough in putting up yöur assets." "yöu ever been to Great Neck?" "Everybody knows my dealerships." "5,000 gets me 50, right?" "Five'll get me 35, is that right?" "Five grand gets me 50?" "5,000 gets me 50, right?" "I was doing so much more business with her." "It doubled, then I!" "tripled." "And I never met anyone, man or woman, in business, who was so careful and precise about everything, every stylistic detail." "Congratulations." "We kept selling art together, too." "...genre painting, which is really rare for the time." "It's a boy and his dog." "It's a non-religious painting... 16..." "...55." "Golden Age Dutch painting." "Paul Klee." "Expressionism." "Bauhaus Movement." "Before we go any further, is this legit?" "Let's just say, yöu know, it's missing from Spain, leave it at that." "Don't show any Spanish friends." "I mean, it just took off." "We got a better office, we called it "London Associates," for her accent." "When I was around her, I felt joy, fucking ivy!" "And love, that's what I felt." "♪ I've got yöur number And what yöu're lookin' for" "♪ And what yöu're lookin' for Just suits me fine" "♪ We'll break the rules a lot We'll be damn fools a lot" "♪ But then why should we not?" "How could we not combine?" "♪ I've got yöur number And I've got the glow yöu've got" "♪ I've got yöur number and more" "♪ So go ahead and pick a number From one to ten" "♪ yöur losing streak is over I can't win again" "♪ And here's the punchline..." "I" "As far as I could see, people were always conning each other to get what they wanted." "We even con ourselves." "We talk ourselves into things, yöu know." "We sell ourselves things we maybe don'!" "even need or want, yöu know, by dressing them up." "We leave out the risk, we leave out the ugly truth." "Pay attention to that 'cause we're all conning ourselves in one way or another, just to get through life." "He was married and he had a son." "Daddy!" "He had adopted her son." "yöu're just such an artist!" "Look at that!" "He was a really good dad." "I respected him for that." "Proud!" "yöu should be so proud!" "It was a tough situation for everyone." "What'd yöu do today?" "That kid Donovan is being mean to me." "Thai big kid?" "I thought Mommy was picking yöu up, so he couldn't bother yöu." "She was late." "And then after we put out the fire," "Mommy said stay in my room with my baseball cards." "What fire'?" "Did yöu know they made a lamp that has the sun in it?" "Mommy got the lamp, she made her special drink, and the lamp made a fire." "I put out the fire." "The fire is out." "First time in my life, I do the right thing." "Oh, shut up." "Shut up." "No, no, no..." "I save a yöung single mother and a kid." "I marry her, I adopt him... yöu fell in love!" "Don't yöu dare forget that part!" "We fell madly in love." "Yes, I fell in love." "My God, I fell in love." "But yöu know what?" "I thought yöu were mysterious, like my mother, until it turned out that "mysterious"" "just meant "depressed," all right'?" ""Hard to reach."" "I mean, I'm dying here." "And yöu need somebody who's gonna be quiet, who's gonna be shy, yöu're yöung, yöu're beautiful, yöu gotta find somebody else." "yöu gotta go out and get some friends, all right?" "I don't like going out." "yöu know that" "I get anxiety when I have to meet people." "yöu know how hard that is." "yöu cannot just slay in the house with a fucking sun lamp." "All right?" "And I cant..." "I mean, look, I can't trust yöu with Danny when yöu..." "That fire and everything..." "I can't trust to leave yöu alone." "I put the fire out, Irving." "There is no fire." "Maybe if yöu were here more, then there wouldn't have been a fire in the first place." "Oh, what, there wouldn't have been a fire if I was here?" "Just stop with the whole fire thing!" "God!" "It was a mistake!" "I'm sure a million people do that, all the time." "Those sun lamps are dangerous." "Shouldn't even have them in the house, really." "I bet that happens all the time." "This was nothing." "We're not happy, all right?" "yöu know that I could take Danny, yöu know that most of yöur work is illegal, and yöu know that if yöu tried to divorce me, yöu know that..." "I'm not saying that I would, but I'm saying that I could, and I'm saying that that is why I don't like divorce, Irving." "Women do that in divorces." "Women get the children and then the fathers never see them." "My mother never got divorced." "My grandmother never got divorced." "There are no divorces in my family." "I am not getting a divorce." "Come on, what are we doing here?" "We fight and we fuck and that's what we do." "That's our thing." "She was the Picasso of passive-aggressive karate." "Come here." "Come here." "She was better than any con artist I ever met, including myself, and she had me like nobody had me." "Irving, come to mama, come on." "yöu might say she was my karma for how I took advantage of people." "Irving..." "Oh, my God." "Come here." "Come on." "Get into bed." "All right." "Baby, there's such good stuff here." "I did not want to leave the kid behind." "He was my son!" "She had me." "I was her mark." "Now, I can't assure yöu that yöur loan will be approved, but I can tell yöu that any deal Hake, I close." "However, my fee is nonrefundable, just like my time." "I want to thank yöu very much, Irving, for seeing me." "I'm sorry I'm so nervous." "Is that..." "Am I not buttoned?" "I just got to say, Mr. Rosenfeld, that Lady Edith was very adamant that yöu were top-notch." "That's correct." "I really need yöur help, I'm desperate." "I mean, I got the Audis and two boats, and I forgot to mention that I have a little piece of real estate in Long Island." "No, yöu didn't mention that." "Two lunches and yöu never mentioned that." "I was gonna mention it, then the guy with the hat walked in." "The hat'?" "yöu remember that?" "I forgot, I totally..." "I do remember." "It was the second time we had lunch." "Yes." "I thought he was..." "yöu couldn't see his eyes." "It was like he had no eyes." "Do they sell hats like that?" "I don't know." "It's like he made it." "Where do they come from?" "He's a great milliner." "Actually, I went to the store." "I saw a hat store down the street." "I thought maybe he bought it there, and I was gonna get yöu one, as, like, a memento." " Two lunches?" " Yes." "Really?" "It's two lunches." "What's the big deal?" "That's unusual." "I was trying to get him to be more aggressive." "On his loan, that is." "yöu showed me a whole new side of the city I'd never seen before." "Yeah, it's... yöu're welcome." "No." "Thank yöu." "Yeah, right." "Should I take yöu there?" "Yeah, it's nice." "yöu liked it?" "All right, should I take yöu there twice?" "Stop." "What are yöu doing?" "What?" "yöu like this guy?" "Yes, I like this guy." "Is this messing with yöur judgement?" "No, it's not messing with my judgement." "Don't be stupid." "Hey, hey, hey." "Look at me." "Play yöur part." "Fine, yöu play yöur part." "Well, take it to yöur people in London." "Please, take it to them." "I got the cashier's check right here." "I give yöu five, and yöu give me 50 back, right?" "Please." "Please don't reject me." "Give a guy a chance." "Zurich?" "yöu got an office in Zurich?" "Paris?" "I can call Paris." "Excuse me for a second." "Yeah, take yöur time." "Excuse me." "Yeah." "It's..." "Just be one moment." "Do whatever yöu need to do." "Go ahead, take yöur time." "Stick around for a little bit." "See my friend over here?" "I'm not moving anywhere, all right?" "yöu got the wrong office, yöu're gonna be embarrassed." "I don't think so." "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, go easy on her." "I may not have yöu, Irving, but I have her on fraud." "Impersonating another individual." "On fraud?" "On fraud?" "What is that'?" "Yeah, she may not be..." "Identity fraud?" "yöu may be from England, but yöu're not royal, and yöu have no banking connections, and that's a felony. yöu don't have to cuff me up." "How long is that?" "That's three to five years." "Hey, not so..." "Oh, really?" "That's interesting." "I don't even know yöur name." "Richie DiMaso, FBI." "Nice to meet yöu." "yöu got to get away from this guy." "He wouldn't let me see her for three days." "Even managed to delay her lawyer." "She couldn't handle it." "How come the fluorescents are on?" "Can we kill that, please?" "Jesus Christ, I put this lamp here for yöu 'cause I thought it would be better for yöu." "There's a wire here, they're scared because people hang themselves, but I know yöu're too smart for that." "Where's the table and chair?" "There's no bed here?" "It's like a fucking asylum." "Joe, is everybody off today?" "Jesus Christ, it's scary." "Maybe I wanted to scare yöu, I don't know." "Maybe it was my idea." "Maybe I'm a little off the beaten path." "yöu know, I don't know, maybe." "Hey, yöu look dehydrated." "Here, yöu want to have some tea?" "Yeah, yöur lips are all chapped." "It's herbal." "It's my favorite." "I know yöu think..." "Look at me." "Hey, Edith, I know yöu think Irv loves yöu." "I know yöu think yöu know him." "yöu think that he sees the world as this cold, dark place, and he cares about nobody but a very few people on a shortlist." "His son, his father, Rosalyn and yöu." "And yöu think yöu're on the top of that list." "What if yöu're not?" "What if yöu're not on that list?" "What if yöu're not even on that list at all?" "He'd be in here right now if he took the check, but no, yöu did." "God, it's so clear to me." "It's so..." "It's clear to me, but it's not clear to yöu." "He uses yöu, Edith, to protect himself, to protect his son and his wife in Long Island." "No?" "Yes, he put a ring on her finger." "He adopted her son." "They have a huge house, they have two cars." "What does she do all day?" "I'll tell yöu what she does." "She plays with her nails, she watches TV, and she spends yöur money, the money that yöu make." "I don't like that yöu're in jail while he's going free." "I don't like any of that." "I want to help yöu." "All the razzle-dazzle that he does, it's not good, it's not real, it's fake, it's not real." "Who yöu are is who yöu are, between yöu and God, yöu and yöur soul." "That's what matters." "That's what counts, that's what I'm about, and that's what I see in yöu." "Tell me yöu didn't feel it the first time we saw each other." "Am I crazy?" "I don't think so." "I'm not supposed to be talking like this, but I don't care, I'll break the rules." "Okay, Edith, Edith, I want to help yöu." "I like yöu." "I like yöu." "I like yöu." "Been in there three days." "Hasn't been so good for her." "How's that make yöu feel, her in there?" "That check was for yöu, right?" "But yöu knew something was off." "It's 'cause yöu're good. yöu're, like, the best at what yöu do in the whole country, aren't yöu?" "But yöu know what, if the country were run by people like yöu, Irving Rosenfeld, we'd be living in Eastern Europe or Guatemala." "yöu ever been to Guatemala?" "yöu ever been in jail in Guatemala?" "yöu ever try to get a telephone or a permit or anything in Guatemala?" "That's what this country would be like if we let people that are liars like yöu run this country." "Who made yöu God and judge, huh?" "My grandmother lived to be 93 years old, never lied in her life." "Congratulations." "Thank yöu." "I'm proud of that, too." "Does that make her not a good person?" "Is that not something to strive for?" "Why yöu breaking my balls, huh?" "Get to the point." "I see something in yöu, Irving." "I get very excited." "I think that we have a lot of potential here." "Now, look, I came up with the idea." "It's all from me, I want to change things." "I want to go after white-collar crime." "Irving, yöu're very skilled, and I want yöu to teach me, and we can do this." "I want four people that do what yöu do." "Fraudulent investments, fake certificates of deposit, stolen art, fake art." "yöu get me four people, and yöu're off the hook." "Four busts, and yöu leave us alone?" "We don't have to testify?" "yöu're good, yöu're done." "Anything yöu want." "But if yöu run, then yöur life's over." "yöu're gonna be hunted, and it's gonna be very difficult for Rosalyn and yöur kid to live in this country." "We need to leave." "We need to run, and we need to do it now." "Right, we'll go to Estonia or Romania, I don't care, but we'll take the cash from the bed, and get out of here, all right?" "We've talked about it 100 times." "What about Danny?" "I adopted him, I gave him my name." "I'm not leaving him with Rosalyn." "She's unstable." "That is a manipulation." "Rosalyn will never let yöu go." "She'll use Danny against yöu because she's too messed up to let yöu leave." "I can't leave him." "I love him, all right?" "He's my son." "Richie said yöu would say that." "Richie?" "Yeah." "What, the cop?" "yöu're on a first-name basis with him?" "Yes, I am." "I'm not even on yöur list, am I?" "What list'?" "yöur list, yöur short list, yöur long list." "I'm not even on any one of yöur fucking lists." "I don't know what yöu're talking about." "I thought yöu loved me." "I love yöu." "I thought that we had something." "We do have something, it's perfect." "What are yöu saying?" "We're gonna go to Romania, we're gonna take Danny." "Yes." "Is that what yöu're saying?" "Yes, that's what I'm saying." "yöu, me, Danny, yes." "Really?" "Well, yöu never said that before." "Well, I'm saying it now." "We're us, we can make it an adventure like we did." "We can make it an adventure like we make everything, all right?" "All right." "Okay?" "We have to go now, all right?" "Trust me, we have to leave right now." "I can't leave Danny, I'll lose custody." "No, yöu have to take me away." "I can't." "We have to leave." "No, what are yöu saying?" "What are yöu doing?" "What are yöu saying?" "Please!" "Oh, my God." "Will yöu pull it together?" "I can't believe this is happening." "Don't say I don't love yöu." "That's bullshit." "This is bullshit." "We are bullshit." "yöu are bullshit." "yöu are bullshit." "Please don't do this." "I just never thought that yöu were conning me." "I could never con yöu." "I love yöu." "Please don't say this." "Babe." "No, I'm done." "Don't say that." "I'm gonna do these four busts, these four cons, to get us out of this, not just me, but us." "And I'm gonna get really close with Richie the cop in case we need to use him, if we need another move." "We don't need another move." "We need four busts, then we're done." "We are gonna need another move." "Trust me, and yöu're gonna be thanking me." "The key to people is what they believe and what they want to believe." "So I want to believe that we were real." "We are real." "And I want to believe that a man could want me, and I'm gonna take all of that heartbreak and all of that sorrow, and lam going to use it, and I am going to make Richie think" "that I want him and that I like him." "And I'm gonna be very, very convincing." "And I'm pissed at yöu." "'Cause I am pissed at yöu." "Maybe I do like him." "Maybe I like him a lot." "From the feet up, right?" "Baby." "Quit yöur bellyaching and come up with something to get us out of this." "And yöu're right, I'm in no state to deal with this." "So what's it gonna be, Mr. Mastermind?" "An Arab sheik?" "What do we want an Arab sheik for?" "Well, how do yöu think this works' stupid?" "If yöu could not call him stupid, which he isn't." "He's smarter than yöu." "Last time I checked, he's in control and we work for him now, so be nice, okay?" "Okay." "To set this up, to bust the con artist, we need to make the honeypot to attract the bees." "To attract the bees, we need to offer them a wealthy individual who they can take advantage of." "Someone special, someone new, someone amazing." "And those guys are going to want to sell fake bank CDs to that guy." "Take the sheik's money, yöu see?" "Only they can't get into his money unless they know someone, and that someone is us." "Oh, that's good." "So, if yöu want to get somebody like yöur con artist friend, Carl Elway, yöu get him to want to buy or sell..." "Keep yöur voice down." "Sell fake art or stolen art or fake certificates of deposit, he needs, who does he need?" "He needs a rich sheik-guy, and there yöu go, we can pinch him." "That's right, that's right, but I don't tell Elway shit." "I wait for him to call me." "The art world is a small world, and one of Elway's acquaintances is clocking us right now." "Where?" "Don't look." "Don't look." "yöu have a good look?" "How do yöu know the sheik?" "This is my friend Al, from Queens." "I do aluminum siding and roofing." "I want to show yöu something." "This Rembrandt here, people come from all over the world to see this." "Yeah, he's good." "Yeah." "It's a fake." "What?" "What are yöu talking about?" "That's impossible." "People believe what they want to believe." "'Cause the guy who made this was so good that it's real to everybody." "Now, who's the master?" "The painter or the forger?" "That's a fake?" "That's the way the world works." "Not black-and-white, like yöu say." "Extremely gray." "Irving, could I..." "Arthur, how many times I got to tell yöu?" "yöu can't meet the sheik, all right?" "Could I please meet him sometime?" "Carl can't meet him." "Not yet." "Another time." "Arthur." "Hi." "Come on." "Edith." "Edith, hi." "Yes, I wanted to introduce yöu to Robert Spencer." "We're advising the sheik together." "Thank yöu." "Robert Spencer." "Advisor to the sheik." "Yeah." "What's this about a goddamn sheik?" "Why are yöu leaving me out of this?" "Huh?" "I got to hear it from my friends?" "It ain't for yöu, Carl." "What do yöu mean, it ain't for me?" "Nah, it ain't for yöu." "What are yöu talking about?" "We got to do certificates of deposit" "I can print as many as yöu need." "I got my associates here." "What do yöu mean, guys'?" "Come on." "This is not a one-man operation." "Look, I can get other guys." "What are yöu talking about, Irving?" "I can get other guys. yöu're telling me that yöu can get four guys to sell fake certificates of deposit to my investor within a week?" "Yes, I can make that happen." "Carl Elway can do what he says he's going to do." "That's interesting, but, yöu know," "I got other guys lined up." "I got a meeting." "Here, look, these are my associates." "I got to run." " Carl, his associates are here." " Don't go." "He's got a meeting he's got to go to." "Listen, don't go..." "I got to run." "No, don't go..." "No, don't go." "Crazy thing about people, the more yöu say no, the more they want in on something." "Yeah, they're so stupid." "I got to run." "Come on." "I'll tell them." "Don't worry." "Don't worry." "I'll tell..." "Hey, yöu know what Carl just told me?" "He said he could do this whole thing with four guys within a week." "Or we could do something much bigger." "All right." "Something bigger?" "Yeah, my guy deals with hundreds of millions of dollars." "How much bigger?" "Hundreds of..." "I knew yöu were holding out on me, Irving!" "Hundreds of millions of dollars?" "Like, much bigger." "Like, I'm talking about, we could say never the fuck mind the CDs, and we could have some complete access to something huge." "RICHIE;" "Huge?" "Like what'?" "Robert Spencer." "I'm adviser to the sheik." "Carl Elway." "I want yöu to think of the most undervalued asset in the state of New Jersey today." "The rebuilding of Atlantic City." "Look, maybe they..." "Maybe they legalized gambling a year ago..." "Wow." "...and nothings happening." "Hey." "No licenses, no permits." "Quit while yöu're ahead, Carl." "I know the guy..." "I know the right people who are going to help yöu out." "Who's the guy?" "The guy is Carmine Polito." "Who's Carmine Polito?" "Carmine Polito?" "Carmine Polito, no." "My boss, Stoddard, proceeded to tell me that Carmine Polito was the most quietly powerful person in the state of New Jersey." "A lifetime native of the very racially mixed Camden, which had become a ghetto." "And where he had been mayor for ten years." "A very beloved guy." "A guy who never gave up on his people." "His father had emigrated from Italy and had stoked coal." "A big family guy with five kids." "They even adopted some other kid, a black kid from the Boys and Girls Club who'd lost his family." "I mean, his household was a joyöus place." "And his wife, Dolly, well, she was the apple of his eye." "And the center of the household." "I mean, everyone loved this guy." "And he had a huge heart." "The WPA employed craftsmen to paint this during the Depression." "Why can't we employ people today to do work like this in rebuilding Atlantic City?" "He worked with all the unions, he was the leader of the State Assembly, and he had just gotten gambling legalized in New Jersey to create jobs." "But he couldn't get the funds to rebuild Atlantic City." "And that was his problem." "So, with our help, he was about to have his hand in the wrong pocket at the wrong time." "And to me, that meant corrupt." "yöu said grifters, con artists." "We're not going after some politician." "This is a bad idea, Richard." "Look, it's really simple." "All yöu need is to put two million in a Chase account..." "What?" "...under the sheik's name." "Whose $2 million?" "Just listen." "$2 million under the sheik's name in a Chase account that we control." "Carmine calls up on the telephone, calls the bank and he sees that the sheik is real and he has a real account." "Five days." "I'm not taking $2 million of the taxpayers' money, putting it anywhere for five days." "I don't care if we control it the whole time." "Stoddard, let us do what we need to do to rule out corruption and to get rid of the payoff guys that are ruining this country." "That's my dream." "Don't smother it, please." "yöu know, Richard," "I understand yöur eagerness." "I really do." "yöu know I'm from Michigan, right?" "Let me tell yöu a story about me and my dad and my brother." "We used to go ice fishing every November." "Ice fishing, that's all anybody..." "That's what we lived for." "Holy shit." "Just listen to me." "It's beautiful." "yöu have a little stove." "yöu huddle around, yöu keep each other warm." "yöu drop a line and yöu just wait." "One year, my brother says," ""Let's go in October."" "He wants to go ice fishing in October." "My dad says, "No, the ice is too thin."" "My brother says, I love my brother, he says..." "I understand. yöur brother went out on the ice, the ice was too thin, he fell through the ice, he went in the water 'cause he was too eager, and yöu're saying I'm too eager." "That's what yöu're saying?" "No, that's not what I'm saying." "What are yöu saying?" "yöu know, we'll finish the ice story another time, yöung man." "For now, no Carmine Polito." "Go do yöur job." "Stoddard shot the whole thing down." "Boring." "But Edith was a genius." "Yeah, yöu take me to Brenda." "She somehow found this woman who controlled the wire room." "A woman I'd never even heard of." "She's amazing." "She's in charge of all the wire transfers." "Way back in a warren buried in the Bureau." "She likes cats." "This cat lady no one ever even talked to." "And Edith met her in the ladies' room and became friends with her." "Brenda?" "Hi." "Hello." "How are yöu?" "RICHIE;" "This lady handled all the wires, and now she was working with us." "She was excited to be included in an operation instead of just being on the other end of a memo." "yöu said yöu liked exotic booze, so..." "It was beautiful." "That's from England." "This is from England?" "Yeah." "That's right." "And I brought yöu some tea as well." "Oh, thank yöu so much." "I mean, nobody ever talks to me." "I know." "I mean, they just say, "Brenda, do the clerical wiring stuff" ""and don't ask questions."" "yöu need to tell Richie about yöur cats." "Oh, my cats?" "He loves cats." "Oh, my cats?" "Yeah." "Well, that's Harry." "Look at him standing up!" "Isn't that sweet?" "And that's Wendy." "She's a rascal." "But Barnaby, that's another story." "Barnaby plays the piano." "That's impressive." "We got her to wire $2 million into an FBI-controlled account at Chase." "It'd be there for five days, and if Polito called, he'd see that the sheik was real." "And by the time Stoddard caught up to us," "Edith made sure his boss was impressed by my idea." "So, before he even knew it was happening, his boss was calling to congratulate him," "The sheik with the money in the bank is a..." "Anthony Amado." "He had a major hard-on to make a name for himself." "I mean, this guy loved the idea of being famous." "Don't be modest." "And Stoddard had to say it was his own idea or he'd look stupid in front of his boss." "yöu made me accept praise from my boss for thanking me for something that never should have happened, something that I didn't approve." "yöu should be happy." "There's imaginative things happening in this office." "All right?" "We're not just working in a box." "We got the $2 million to put Carmine and the sheik together." "Punk." "I liked being on this side of the line." "But someone had been left out." "We succeeded because we stayed small." "I got yöu Carl Elway." "He bought stolen an, sold fake bank CD's." "That's enough." "That's one." "I get yöu three more, no politicians." "yöu're going to do this because yöu got no choice, yöu work for me." "Now, yöu keep changing the rules." "yöu know, yöu're getting a little power-drunk, Richard." "yöu want to tell him, Edith?" "yöu want to wake him up?" "Oh, no." "I said we shouldn't do any of it, Irving, yöu know I said that, so now I support Richie." "He's got vision." "Do it heavy or don't do it." "Wait." "What does that mean?" "I mean, he's the one ruining America, not me." "How the fuck am I ruining America?" "Because people just got over Watergate and Vietnam, all right, and yöu're going to shit all over politicians again?" "And just because yöu want to be a big shot, get a promotion." "No." "I'm thinking big, all right?" "This is going to be fantastic." "We're doing video surveillance." "I'm doing this from the feet up." "yöu will never do it properly because yöu got too much government attitude to be small and sleek." "I'm like the fucking Vietcong, man, all right?" "I'm in and I'm out." "I was there the whole time." "yöu don't know it, all right?" "That's the fucking art of becoming somebody who people can pin their beliefs and their dreams on." "And yöu can't do it." "How about a suite at the Sheraton Hotel?" "For Carmine Polito and rebuilding Atlantic City..." "Why not?" "...yöu need a luxury hotel for the sheik." "Oh, come on." "Carmine does backdoor dealings all the time." "We don't have a..." "We don't got a budget for that, Irving." "yöu got to knock the mayor, the speaker of the State Assembly, yöu got to knock him off of his fucking feet, all right?" "He's got to feel like he's out of his league." "What yöu're offering, this deal," "I mean, this is unheard of in the state of New Jersey, maybe even the whole fucking country, all right?" "A sheik with hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild Atlantic City, are yöu fucking kidding me'?" "That's gigantic, all right?" "And the mayor, he's going to want to see cash, he's going to want to see it in an account, he's going to want to see it right now, and he will check." "And that's why this meeting isn't happening." "Because to get millions, yöu need millions." "We already did it." "What?" "We got the Bureau to park $2 million for three days." "We've got the account numbers." ""We" meaning yöu and him?" "Yeah, we did it." "Really?" "Yeah, me and that guy." "She showed me." "yöu showed him our thing?" "yöu did that without me?" "Are yöu kidding?" "What are yöu going to do?" "yöu playing me?" "Are yöu doing this?" "yöu playing him?" "It'd be very bad for yöu if yöu're playing me." "yöu're going to have to decide for yöurself, kid." "I just laid everything out on the table." "It's all very exciting." "I didn't know life could be like this." "yöu're pretty wild." "yöu know, we're taking down a..." "A very important politician." "Mmm-hmm." "This is Agent Richard DiMaso." "I'm placing $75, 000 in this briefcase for Mayor Carmine Polito to procure casino license and building permits for Atlantic City." "What is this?" "What..." "Look, I don't know yöu." "Excuse me, I don't..." "I don't know what that is, but this is very weird to me." "This is very weird." "I don't know what the fuck that is, but..." "Go out there and get him now." "Mr. Mayor!" "Please stop." "Listen." "I apologize if that prick offended yöu." "I really apologize." "Hey, I'm all right, thank yöu." "I'm okay." "No, no, no, no, no." "I'm fucking embarrassed to be associated with that guy at all." "It's okay." "Can I just say something to yöu, please?" "Don't lose this opportunity to fucking Florida, all right, because of some bullshit from that punk advisor, all right, with his "diploma," all right, who could never get into the school that we come from." "Don't lose that opportunity." "Where yöu from?" "I'm from the Bronx." "Grand Concourse, 164th Street." "I got a lot of friends that live up there." "Yeah, I go to Tomaso's on..." "Yeah, Tomaso's." "Yeah, yeah." "yöu know Tomaso's on Arthur Avenue?" "Yeah, I love the clams there." "The clam, the spicy clams." "Yes." "Oh, so good." "Oh, they're fucking to die for, those things." "Yeah." "Yeah, I haven't been there in a while." "I like that place." "Well, yöu know what?" "Tell me, can I call yöu Carmine?" "yöu know, Carmine, hey, my fucking heart's going from running down the stairs." "I'm not used to running." "There's a lot of green grass in that hotel room up there, all right, and all the deals would float through yöu." "yöu get a serious piece on both ends, all right?" "yöu do with it what yöu will." "I mean, I live in the real world, all right?" "I am a family man." "I got mouths to feed and everything like that, but, yöu know, yöu got..." "We just..." "We got to grease yöu directly." "No middlemen, no bullshit, it's the Arab way." "That's it." "That's ii." "All right?" "Yeah, look, I understand." "It's a great opportunity." "yöu understand, it's just..." "I got a little thrown by going to have a meeting with somebody that ended up not being there, so..." "I was thrown as well." "No, look, I understand." "I'll deal with yöu directly." "I don't want any middleman or any of that bullshit." "Done." "Done. yöu and me." "Deal with yöu directly." "I like yöu, eye to eye, we can do business together." "That's fine." "Yeah, how long yöu known this guy?" "I mean, yöu work with this guy before?" "I got to work with him." "It's the sheik, all right, yöu know..." "But I still need to meet the sheik, okay?" "Yeah." "Done." "After yöu." "I'm going out for dinner with Carmine and the wives in Camden." "Who?" "Carmine and myself and the wives." "What?" "Without me?" "He doesn't like yöu." "What do yöu want from me?" "I got him to come back and take the money." "yöu got him on tape, all right?" "I mean, I can't make him like yöu." "yöu know, I mean..." "I did my job." "Did yöu tell him that yöu were working with me?" "That I'm the sheik's associate?" "I just fucking told yöu, he doesn't like yöu." "I mean, let him have a night out with a human being, for fuck's sake, all right?" "He's going to jail soon." "yöu're done with him." "yöu got him on tape taking a bribe." "Carmine has got to deal with me, Irving." "We're going to use Carmine." "Yeah, no, we're gonna get Carmine's..." "We're gonna use Carmine to get other people." "That's what we're gonna do." "What?" "Like who?" "Carmine's going to use the sheik to pay off people." "yöu fucking nuts'?" "What are yöu..." "Are yöu fuck..." "We're going to let Carmine show the sheik" "Atlantic City, how he's going to renovate hotels, and see who shows up and whoever the sheik pays off for licenses and casinos, that's who we're going to go after." "We're going to go after all of them." "More politicians?" "Yeah." "yöu realize how fucking dangerous that is?" "There's no fucking reasoning with yöu." "All right, Edith and I were so successful for so long because we kept it just small enough." "yöu are taking us to a very fucking dangerous place, with very serious numbers!" "If yöu were that successful, how come yöu wound up in this room with me right now, taking orders from me?" "yöu're taking yöur wife out to dinner?" "yöur fucking wife?" "Did I just hear yöu correctly?" "That's the one thing yöu heard me say." "I just find it rather shocking." "That's all." "I get to handle two wives with one dinner." "All right?" "I take Rosalyn out, she keeps her mouth shut, she sees that my work is legitimate, I get to keep my kid and I get to keep that fucking wife happy." "Both wives happy." "Richard, what are yöu doing'?" "Richard, don't eat in the bathroom!" "I told yöu so many times!" "And Diane brought napoleons." "Come out of the bathroom and pray!" "Oh, my God, what did yöu do'?" "Richard, the filter is broken in the fish tank." "It's a problem." "See, yöur job is to do the filter, Mom." "Mine is to do the gravel." "When yöu don't do the filter right, all the fish die." "See?" "I can't get that top on the filter, that thing on there." "We went over this 100 times, Mom." "And please help Richard to marry Diane so that I may have grandchildren and the Pope may have more followers." "And please bless this food that we are about to eat." "Richard!" "Yeah, hello?" "Hi." "Who's this?" "It's Edith." "Sit down and pray properly!" "Are yöu all right?" "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine." "I'm just..." "I'm alone, yöu know." "Irving's out with Carmine." "Oh, yeah, that's right, he went outwith Carmine and his wife." "Yeah, yöu must not feel so good about that." "Richard, sit down." "Wait." "Who's that'?" "Who are yöu with?" "Oh, no, it's just people." ""People"?" "I'm yöur fiancée." "Richard!" "Oh, yöu've got a fiancée." "yöu're engaged." "I don't know, I don't know." "No fiancée." "I don't know, I don't know, I don't know." "yöu don't know'?" "yöu don't know if yöu have a fiancée?" "The fish filter is broken!" "Hmm." "Interesting." "What, yöu want..." "yöu want to get together?" "Richard, do something about the fish tank." "54th Street?" "Okay, 54th Street." "Okay." "Great." "That's what that phone call was about" "Everybody thought, "Oh, Richie DiMaso's" ""going to stay in the office pushing papers."" "That's not going to happen, Mom." "I'm outside in the field." "I got people working for me." "My ideas." "I'm running the show." "I'm the quarterback, and I'm not going to settle for no one, Mom." "♪ I feel a sudden urge to sing" "♪ The kind of ditty that invokes the spring I" "Hi." "Good to see yöu." "This is Irving." "Dolly, Dolly." "Hi." "How are yöu?" "Hi." "Nice to meet yöu." "This is Rosalyn." "Carmine." "The man's here." "Carmie's here." "The man's here." "yöu must be so proud." "Rocco, how are yöu?" "Rocco, the..." "yöu know, like we do with the chicken, very thin, right?" "Thin." "Very thin." "Absolutely." "Really thin, look, the way he does this..." " Does this chicken with the red sauce, right?" " Beautiful." "With the red sauce, the lemon?" "Oh, my God, the garlic." "The garlic is amazing." "It's so good." "It's so good." "Here it is, right here." "Here it is." "This is it." "This." "This right here, this right here!" "Look at this!" "Oh, my God!" "yöu're going to love it!" "yöu see it?" "This is so good' so good." "It's the piccata of the gods." "So what's this, Rocco'?" "Carmie, this is a nice digestive." "Salute." "Thank yöu, Rocco." "Thank yöu, Rocco." "Salute. yöu're welcome." "I believe that yöu should treat people the way that yöu want to be treated." "Right?" "Didn't Jesus say that or something?" "He may have." "I think also, always take a favor over money." "I think Jesus said that as well." "I don't know if he said the second one, but he might have said the first one." "I chipped that moving furniture." "It's my new obsession." "Moving, redecorating, it makes me feel better, like exercise." "But there's this topcoat that yöu can only get from Switzerland." "And I don't know what I'm going to do because I'm running out of it, but I love the smell of it." "I can get it for yöu." "Irv and I can't get enough of it." "I can get it for yöu." "Of course." "That would be amazing." "There's something, the topcoat..." "It's, like, perfumey, but there's also something rotten." "And I know that sounds crazy, but I can't get enough of it." "Smell it." "It's true." "Yeah." "Dolly, historically, Oh, my God." "The best perfumes in the world..." "It's disgusting." "...they're all laced with something nasty and foul." "It's true." "Stop." "Stop." "It is true." "It is true." "It feels true." "It feels true." "Irving loves them." "Oh, my God." "He can't get enough of that smell." "Can't get enough." "Can't get enough." "I can't get enough." "Carmine." "Carmine, smell her nails." "Sweet and sour." "Smell her nails." "Rotten and delicious." "What am I smelling?" "It smells like flowers." "Am I right?" "Flowers, but with garbage." "And, like..." "Yeah." "Or like sour flowers." "yöu know what that is for me?" "It's coriander for me." "But Irv loves it." "He can't get enough." " That's what hooks yöu." " Mmm." "He always comes back for it." "Yeah." "I can't stop." "I'm having a good time." "Oh, yöu two are just so nice." "Hey' listen..." "Yes?" "He's going to..." "He's going to say, "We have to talk business."" "In five." "Four Four" " Three." "Two." "One." " Three." "Two." "One." "Thank yöu." "Dolly, can me and the man talk about business here?" "She's all right." "She's all right." "No, no, no, no, no!" "Don't do that!" "It makes me look more drunk than lam." "No, it's okay." "I got yöu." "Okay." "I don't think that's possible." "I'm not this drunk." "No, it was just because I was laughing." "Irving, please don't make me go." "Oh, she's fine." "She's fine." "She's fine." "All right." "I was just starting to have fun." "I was just starting to have fun." "Let's take her to the car." "Didn't yöur fiancée want to come out tonight?" "Yeah." "No..." "I don't..." "Yeah, no." "No, I don't know." "Oh, God, I'm sorry." "I'm sorry, we don't have to talk about it." "I was just teasing yöu." "I'm..." "It's all right." "It's all right." "Do yöu ever think, like, how did I end up here?" "Like, how did my life become this?" "Do yöu ever think that?" "And yöu wonder, like..." "Am I ever gonna get out to a better place, or is this it'?" "yöu feel like that?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I do." "I definitely know that." "I'm sorry, we don't have to go dancing." "We can go have coffee or talk or something, just..." "No, no, no, no." "No." "No, I need this." "Please, I need to go dancing with yöu." "Please." "Okay, baby, let's go dancing." "♪ Ooh, it's so good It's so good, it's so good" "♪ It's so good It's so good" "♪ Ooh, heaven knows Heaven knows" "♪ Heaven knows Heaven knows Heaven knows" "♪ Ooh, I feel love I feel love" "♪ I feel love I feel love I feel love" "♪ I feel love" "Get out of the way." "Hey!" "There's a line!" "Hey!" "What the fuck, man?" "What the fuck!" "Come on, I need to pee!" "Fucking A!" "Hey!" "Hurry up and get out of there." "I really fucking like yöu." "Hello!" "Yeah." "Yeah, I like yöu, too." "I want to live." "All right?" "For real." "No more fake shit, all right?" "We're gonna wait until we decide to go for love, Richie, for real." "Okay." "That's when we fuck." "All right?" "Not till then, okay?" "Okay." "Are yöu gonna fuck for real, or get out of the stall for real?" "All right?" "Yeah." "No more fake shit?" "No more fake shit." "No more fake shit." "No more fake shit!" "No more fake shit." "Fuck me, I got to piss!" "♪ Ohhh, baby!" "My heart is full of love and desire for yöu" "♪ Now, come on down and do what yöu've got to do ♪" "Get out." "Get out." "Get out." "I want to be fucking real!" "I want to be fucking..." "I want to live!" "Are yöu ready?" "♪ My, my, my" "♪ Delilah" "♪ Why, why, Why" "♪ Delilah?" "♪ So before" "♪ They come to break down the door" "♪ Forgive me, Delilah" "♪ I just couldn't take anymore" "♪ Forgive me, Delilah" "♪ I just couldn't take anymore I" "Hey, boys, this guy right here, Julius." "This guy..." "Irving Rosenfeld, yöu know what he's gonna do?" "He's gonna bring the sheik to Atlantic City, that's what he's gonna do." "Where we can rebuild all those resorts there, put everybody back to work." "He's gonna get this community, he's gonna get this state, back on its feet to where it belongs." "Isn't that right?" "He's gonna grow our tax base and create thousands and thousands of jobs for everyone." "yöu understand that?" "yöu know what that means?" "To Irving." "To Irving." "To Irving." "Come on, this guy right here, he's got a big heart." "I'd just hate it if n didn't work out." "What do yöu mean?" "Of course it's gonna work out, Irv." "Come on, guys like yöu and me'?" "Come on, man." "Right?" "We dream and we build." "We never give up, we never quit." "Hey, can I ask yöu a question?" "Yeah, sure." "Is the sheik black?" "He's from..." "He's..." "He's an Arab." "Well, that..." "That's black, isn't it?" "I don't know." "I don't know, maybe it's a dumb question, but..." "I'm just wondering." "Why are yöu asking?" "I would like to arrange for the sheik to see Camden." "To see the people of Camden." "The people I serve." "The people I love." "Who are mostly black and Puerto Rican." "Irv, I really want him to see how good this is going to be for the community, how ready we are for this opportunity." "And he can see how far his dollar will go." "yöu know what I mean?" "What do yöu think?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Yeah, we can do that." "Yeah." "Yeah?" "He can see Camden." "Yeah." "All right." "All right, good." "Yo, hey," "I got something I want to give yöu." "Come on." "For me?" "Yeah, I got..." "I got yöu a gift." "Let's get out of here." "Okay." "The girls are going to kill us." "Right here." "There yöu go." "What is it'?" "It's a microwave." "It heats up everything." "Pasta, lasagna, meatballs, whatever." "Really?" "It's science." "Yeah, that's how it heats up the food, it's scientific." "And yöu specifically bought this science oven for me?" "Yeah." "A new friend." "Thank yöu." "Thank yöu." "Don't put metal in it." "Come on, let's get it out of here." "I need a jet at Teterboro." "I need a jet at Teterboro for the sheik." "I told yöu that." "yöu don't need a jet." "yöu just let him walk to the curb at JFK." "That's not how it works." "No, yöu got to start from the feet up." "That doesn't mean anything." "What does that mean?" "It means yöu got to be committed." "It means yöu got to be committed to something in yöur life, for Christ's sake, all right?" "I want a jet at Teterboro for the sheik." "It could be a small jet, doesn't even have to take off." "'Cause I know yöu're so worried about how much money the Bureau's gonna fucking spend." "yöu take off and land on the tarmac' okay?" "All right, I'll... yöu can have a jet for an hour, but it takes off and lands at Teterboro." "I got the jet?" "yöu got the jet, yeah." "All right, thank yöu." "All right, so tell me the rest of the ice fishing story." "Where was I?" "yöur father woke yöu up, it was a blizzard, it was Lake Canoga." "Come on, come on." "Okay, well, my brother and I were on the ice, and my father came out of the house and I could see him coming." "He was holding a lantern and he was in the blizzard, and I knew he was gonna be angry." "So I went to intercept my father, because I knew if he saw what my brother was doing, he was gonna kill him." "Oh, so yöu tried to protect yöur brother, but yöu couldn't, and that's why yöu feel bad, because yöu're trying to protect me and yöu're worried about me." "Is that what the story's about?" "It's about protection." "No, it's not about protection." "It's not?" "No." "All right, fine." ""Don't put metal in that science oven, Rosalyn." ""Don't put metal in the science..."" "He always treats me like a fucking child." "I'll do whatever I want." "Oh!" "Another fire!" "No, Danny, not that one!" "That one's empty." "We got to use the big one." "I told yöu not to put metal in the science oven." "What'd yöu do that for?" "Don't make such a big deal." "We'll just get another one." "I don't want another one." "I want the one that Carmine gave me." ""Oh, Carmine." "I want the one that Carmine gave me." ""Carmine, Carmine."" "Why don't yöu just marry Carmine?" "Get a little gold microwave and put it on a chain around yöur neck." "yöu want to be more like Carmine?" "Why don't yöu build something, like he does?" "Instead of all yöur empty deals that are just like yöur fucking science oven." "yöu know, I read that it takes all of the nutrition out of our food." "It's empty, just like yöur deals." "Empty, empty." "Listen to this bullshit." "It's not bullshit." "I read it in an article." "Look." "By Paul Brodeur." "Bring something into this house that's gonna take all the nutrition out of our food and then light our house on fire?" "Thank God for me." "All right, yöu've got this." "I don't think yöu should come to Carmine's party tonight." "yöu look beautiful, by the way." "Don't look at me." "All right?" "Don't look at my legs, don't look at my hair, don't smell my hair, don't ask me how I am, don't talk to me outside of these roles, 'cause we're done." "Where yöu going?" "Just stand still." "Get under the umbrella." "Come on. lt's just, Carmine wants Rosalyn to come." "I don't care." "yöu weren't listening." "I don't care if Rosalyn comes." "Just do yöur job, okay?" "yöu're nothing to me until yöu're everything." "I'm not Rosalyn, I'm not gonna put up with that shit." "That's a fucking jet, right?" "It's good." "That's the kind of moves yöu need to make." "Paco Hernandez?" "Hi." "How's it going?" "Richie DiMaso." "Nice to meet yöu." "Nice to meet yöu in person." "This is Irving Rosenfeld." "Paco Hernandez." "Nice to meet yöu." "Paco?" "He's..." "He's not a real Arab." "No, I'm Mexican, from Tucson." "Where's..." "Where's my guy?" "Where's Al?" "Where's Al from Queens?" "Who'?" "My friend from Queens." "Where is he?" "What are yöu doing?" "I got to hire an FBI guy." "yöu speak any Arabic?" "Yeah." "That's it?" "That's good." "No, I have a couple of phrases." "From the feet up, yöu motherfucker." "What are yöu doing?" "Come on." "Act noble." "That's it, just, yöu know, like yöu can't barely understand English, yöu can't speak it, yöu say as little as possible, yöu follow my lead, all right?" "All right?" "Okay." "Who's running this'?" "I thought yöu were running it." "I am running this, but yöu got to listen to him." "He's the guy with the vision." "I got the vision?" "Know what vision I had?" "yöu just kissing my girl, right outside." "That's what vision I had." "I thought yöu guys broke up." "I'm giving yöu a compliment." "What's going on'?" "Don't worry about it, all right?" "yöu got a knife." "All right, this is for the mayor." "yöu got to present it to the mayor." "Just look at me, all right?" "Look me in the eye." "This means a lot to yöu, right?" "That knife." "Oh." "Play it. yöu present it, all right'?" "Friendship for life, all right?" "yöu got to feel it." "Sacred, can yöu do it?" "Right." "Sacred." "Sacred." "yöu got to sell it. yöu got to sell it." "Sell it." "If yöu believe it's sacred, it's sacred." "Right." "All right?" "Can yöu do it?" "Listen to what he's saying." "It's the details, that's what makes this guy a genius." "Again?" "yöu compliment me again?" "What is this, rubbing salt in the wound?" "What are yöu?" "I'm complimenting yöu." "yöu got any other questions?" "Yeah, I think the name of this operation is offensive." "What, Abscam." "Arab scam?" "It's racist." "Are yöu fucking kidding?" "What do yöu care?" "yöu're Mexican." "Hello, Sheik." "Hello, Sheik, my friend." "Welcome." "On behalf of the great state of New Jersey," "I want to welcome yöu to New Jersey." "I know that was redundant." "I'm sorry." "I'm just very nervous." "Thank yöu, thank yöu." "We have a great party planned for yöu this evening." "What are yöu talking about, I can't go?" "I just did my hair and makeup and everything." "Sheiks are very particular." "It's international cultural protocol, yöu know." "yöu don't know that?" "International protocol?" "Yep." "What the fuck are yöu talking about?" "Do not answer that." "Do not answer that!" "Hello?" "Robert Spencer for Irving." "Robert Spencer?" "I don't know a Robert Spencer." "What do yöu want?" "I'm a business associate..." "Who is that?" "Who is that?" "I tell yöu, for God's sake," "I told yöu not to call here, all right'?" "What is that about?" "Two more federal agents tonight." "What?" "No." "No way." "Two feds." "No." "I need them." "Bodyguards for the sheik." "No, no, no, that's too many guys for me to control." "No." "No." "Irving, remember who's in charge here." "Rosalyn, get off the extension." "I'm not on it." "Look, don't call here again, all right?" "Don't call at home." "All right." "Good night." "All right." "If it's a business call, don't interrupt, all right?" "Federal agents?" "No, it's bodyguards for the, uh, visiting dignitaries' that's all." "What is it, an IRS thing?" "Like a tax investigation?" "Why do yöu got to say that?" "I mean, that's why" "I can't invite yöu..." "It's too complicated." "Are yöu in trouble?" "Look, stop being so nosy." "Look at this shit." "Well, I'm only nosy 'cause yöu never tell me anything." "Can we clean up this fridge?" "I mean, what are yöu causing trouble for all the time?" "Do not answer that!" "Hello?" "Hello, it's Carmine." "Oh, hi, Carmine." "We were just talking about yöu." "Yeah, Irving's being a mean, boring man, saying that he doesn't want me to come tonight" "Tell him he's crazy." "Well, I agree." "Tell him yöurself." "It wouldn't be a party without yöu." "Can yöu imagine?" "'Cause yöu're coming!" "Yeah." "Tell him yöurself." "All right." "Hey, Carmie." "Irving, yöu're crazy." "yöur wife is coming." "yöu kidding me?" "She's the life of the party." "Everybody loves her." "I'm the life of the party." "yöu know what she's like." "She's unpredictable." "She's just..." "Hey, don't talk about me like that!" "What is Carmine saying?" "I can't hear what he's saying." "Let me listen." "Hey, look, Irving, it's very important that she comes, yöu understand?" "Carmine loves me." "This is a really big, big night for us, yöu understand?" "Come on, yöu got to bring yöur wife." "And Dolly's got something special for her' right?" "Yeah, I do, I got yöur nail polish." "See?" "Listen, listen." "Yeah, I got yöur nail polish for yöu, sweetie!" "See?" "Something special for yöu." "What is it?" "What is it?" "Come on." "Tell me." "What..." "What..." "What is it?" "yöu got a girlfriend coming?" "Come on, I thought we were friends." "yöu're not gonna tell me yöu got a girlfriend?" "This is ridiculous." "What is it?" "Nah, it's..." "Look, we handle this like men, yöu understand?" "yöu're bringing yöur wife." "We're gonna have a good time." "All right, we'll see yöu there." "It'll be fun." "That's an order from the mayor." "Goodbye." "All right, yöu happy?" "Go get ready." "Yes, I am happy." "♪ When are yöu gonna come down?" "♪ When are yöu going to land" "♪ I should have stayed on the farm" "♪ I should have listened to my old man" "♪ yöu know yöu can't hold me forever" "♪ I didn't sign up with yöu" "♪ I'm not a present for yöur friends to open" "♪ This boy's too yöung to be singin'" "♪ The blues" "♪ Aaa-ahh" "♪ So goodbye yellow brick road Where the dogs of society howl" "I know who yöu are." "♪ yöu can't plant me in yöur penthouse" "I know who that is, Irving." "Yeah." "Come on." "♪ Back to the howling old owl in the woods Huntin' the horny back toad I" "Oh, it looks so beautiful." "So, this is the lobby." "Want me to take yöur coats?" "Now, mind yöu, a week ago, this place was a mess." "But what existed was this plasterwork." "Look at the detail." "This is beautiful." "My sons are craftsmen." "Please, tell them what yöu did." "The birds, sky, clouds, wood..." "Trompe I'oeil." "Trompe I'oeil." ""Trick of the eye."" "We restore all of this, yöu see?" "Saved yöu $50 million." "Look at me. $50 million, right off the bat, like that Right off the bat." "I waive the law that I helped write that said casino construction had to be built ground-up new." "We don't do new." "No." "We renovate." "We renovate, right?" "We put in some temporary fun." "Some gaming tables, some play money for people to have a good time." "This is for charity, for the Boys and Girls Club and, uh, some arts programs." "Hey, how are yöu?" "This is the Ocean Room." "There's some gentlemen sitting over there at the bar." "That's 130 years sitting right there." "That's how much time between them." "They run the biggest casinos in the United States, and we have to work with them." "Right." "The good news is, they know how it's done, they get it done, yöu don't have to worry, everyone makes their money." "yöu mean the Mob?" "Yes, but they're businessmen, okay?" "Now, spend as much or as little time with them as yöu like, but we do have to deal with them." "All we got to do is go say hello." "We just got to say hi." "That's it." "Carmine, maybe..." "I'm not sure that's such a good idea." "We got to confer before we talk to these guys." "Confer?" "What is there to confer about?" "I don't understand." "They're casino guys." "They're casino guys." "They're the businessmen." "Yeah, we come all this way." "Irving, we came all this way, we should be here." "What's everybody scared of?" "What's everybody scared of?" "yöu just got to be delicate." "Those are the guys that yöu guys are all scared of?" "Those guys over there?" "They don't scare me." "I'm not scared." "Rosalyn?" "Rosalyn?" "Hi." "Can I join yöu?" "Irv, that's not the way to do this." "It's not a good idea." "I love this." "Everybody over there's really scared of yöu guys, do yöu know that?" " No." "Mm-hmm." "Kids, I want yöu to go up and get some soda and pizza, please." "It's a disaster." "I think they got this room all wrong." "Yeah?" "What would yöu do?" "I would do it in all black and gold, and I would do this bar like a big warm golden mirror." "Sounds beautiful." "Oh, thank yöu." "But yöu expect that from her because she's so beautiful." "Oh, God, stop." "Gorgeous." "And I love her hair, so I know I'm gonna love what yöu do." " Oh, my God." "It's messy." " How do yöu do?" "I'm sorry, is she yöur wife?" "No, she's my wife." "She's my wife." "Look at these fine gentlemen." "Hey, Carmine, there yöu are." "How yöu doing?" "How are yöu?" "yöu well'?" "Good to see yöu." "How yöu doing?" "Hey, how are yöu?" "That's enough of that right now." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" " Come on." "Come on." " Oh, stop ii." "Hey, oh, no, it's because he's a party pooper." "He's so boring." "May I present" "Sheik Abdullah, gentlemen, from Abu Dhabi." "Sheik, these are professionals, and they run the best casinos in the United States." "Mr. Sheik, as a sign of our seriousness," "Mr. Tellegio came from Miami to meet yöu tonight." "Mr. Tellegio?" "Why didn't yöu tell me Mr. Tellegio was..." "He's in the back room." "It's a sign of disrespect to talk, uh, business on the first meeting." "That's not true." "It's disrespectful..." "Yeah, I don't know what yöu're talking about" "He's got it all wrong. yöu want to leave him back there in the back room waiting?" "Come on, let's go, we got to go meet him." "My friend from New York doesn't know the customs..." "Hey, no disrespect, pal." "Hey, Irving, I'm gonna be having fun." "Maybe it'll be contagious, huh?" "yöu and me, we're gonna visit." "She's a fun girl." "I'm having fun." "Can yöu believe he talks to me that way'?" "Carmine." "Victor Tellegio was from Miami." "He was Meyer Lansky's right-hand man." "With his prior reputation as an enforcer from 20 years ago, he was known to never bury a body, because he felt it sent a stronger message to leave it in the street." "He looked at me like..." "This is the guy we now had to deal with." "yöu sure yöu don't want to go into the Ocean Bar?" "It's really, it's beautiful in there." "No, I don't have to go there." "I like it here." "There's an exit." "I'm like a ghost." "Nobody knows I'm here." "Look, tell him I speak for our friends in Florida." "We're very excited." "It's been our lifelong dream to build casino resorts on the East Coast." "yöu told him that?" "They didn't want the Jews to make money." "They didn't want the Italians to make money." "They definitely don't want the blacks to make money." "After the oil embargo, gasoline crisis, the hijackings, the Olympics' they don't want to see Arabs make money, trust me, not on our soil." "And, I don't know, yöu can tell him this in yöur own way." "I've been in the casino business 40 years' it's scrutinized more carefully than any other business." "Carmine made this legal, but we must be careful, or they'll take it away." "So, Mr. Tellegio, how do yöu think we should approach this?" "What do yöu think?" "What do yöu want to do?" "Well, if yöu want to get the gaming license and keep it, we have to make our principal investor here, the sheik, an American citizen." "Well, to expedite citizenship, that requires very special treatment." "Well, yöu would know the right people to do that, Carmine." "Carmie knows everybody." "What are we talking about?" "Uh, U.S. senators..." "Uh, U.S. congressmen and senators." "Wow!" "That's fantastic." "I say stay away from that." "That's bad, that's trouble." "It's not good." "Irving, please." "That's trouble." "Who is this guy'?" "Who are yöu?" "Huh?" "What are yöu, a farmer?" "This is, uh..." "Mr. Tellegio, I'm sorry." "This is Irving." "Irving." "This is Irving Rosenfeld." "Irving, Irving." "Yes." "New York businessman." "What's the matter, Irving?" "What's the problem?" "Nothing." "No problem." "Eh, yöu know, don't get yöur balls in an uproar." "Everything's fine, everything's good." "It's all good, it's all good." "It's all good." "I just hope the other part of this is all good." "And real." "Because we're real." "yöu know that." "Yes." "That's correct." "yöu deal with us, we're a real organization." "We're dealing with yöu, we don't know what we're dealing with." "Where is he from'?" "Abu Dhabi." "Oh, he's from the Emirates." "Yeah." "Can I count on yöu?" "yöu gotta be honest about this." "Did yöu understand me?" ""Good" means good." "No bullshit." "Did yöu hear what I said?" "Do yöu want me to repeat it?" "What do yöu think now?" "Tell me." "Tell me." "Uh."" "I think..." "I think, what is, uh..." "No, no, let him speak for himself." "Uh..." "It's okay." "He's a friend of mine." "It's okay, I know him, I know him." "I know him, he's a friend of mine." "yöu guys are way too serious for a party." "Holy cow." "What are yöu drinking?" "Hey, Al, listen to me." "yöu got a drink?" "We're in a very serious meeting." "I apologize." "yöu got to come with me now." "yöu got a speech that..." "Everybody's waiting for yöu." "Al, I'll be right behind yöu." "Okay, trust me." "Right behind yöu, okay?" "Come on." "It'll be great doing business with yöu." "The investment is real." "It was a pleasure to meet yöu." "What are the fucking odds of an Italian guy from Miami knowing Arabic?" "It turns out he's got casino investments in the Mideast, and he spent two years learning it Io keep the upper hand." "Listen to me carefully." "If yöu're real, yöu put$10 million in the bank of our choice in the next two weeks." "Carmine, listen to me carefully." "If yöu're real, yöu put$10 million in the bank of our choice in the next two weeks or not only will the sheik feel insulted, but our friends in Florida will feel deeply disrespected." "So will I." "What a girl." "Rosalyn, yöu need to come with me, all right?" "Oh, I need to come with yöu'?" "Yeah, yöu need to come with me, this needs to stop, all right?" "Oh, yöu think I should come with yöu?" "Why don't yöu go..." "Get yöur fucking hands off me, yöu fucking whore." "yöu're a whore." "Oh, okay." "That's really nice." "We're not gonna do this in the Ocean Room tonight, please." "This is my husband's whore!" "yöu know, yöu stay here right now, darling." "Please, please, please. yöu stay over here with me." "Everybody just calm down." "I don't know what's going on." "yöu all right?" "Take it easy, okay?" "All right." "These things happen." "Whatever's meant to be is meant to be." "All right?" "I always say that." "yöu say that?" "Yeah." "See, kindred spirits." "Whatever's meant to be will be." "What the hell do yöu think yöu're doing?" "What do I think I'm doing?" "Yeah." "What the fuck do yöu think yöu're doing?" "yöu're gonna come in here and judge me for flirting with someone after yöu've been fucking my husband for how many years?" "I'm not fucking judging yöu." "yöu don't have any fucking clue what's going on!" "I got a ring on my finger." "We have a child together." "He doesn't love yöu, Rosalyn." "He loves me, and yöu know it, and I know it, and he knows it." "And it might be done now, but it was beautiful and it was real." "Stop it." "And we loved each other." "Shut up." "yöu scare him, and yöu manipulate him, and yöu use yöur son." "Well, he must like it on some level." "He must want it, because he keeps coming back for it." "It's like that perfume that yöu love that yöu can't stop smelling even when there's something sour in it." "yöu can't get enough of it." "But guess what?" "He's never gonna leave me." "He's always going to want me, and I will make yöu so sorry, Edith." "I will make yöu so sorry for what yöu've done to my family." "Mark my words." "That is fucked-up." "I would never say anything that fucked-up to anybody, but yöu do because yöu're gross inside." "yöu're so fucked-up and gross." "Oh, I'm gross inside?" "Yeah." "Maybe yöu're gross inside." "What, robbing people and all that shit that yöu do." "Maybe we're both gross inside." "That's what Irving loves about us." "At least he's consistent." "yöu know, sometimes in life, all yöu have are fucked-up' poisonous choices." "Jesus Christ." "♪ How can yöu stop the rain from falling down?" "♪ How can yöu slop the sun from shining?" "♪ What makes the world go 'round?" "♪ I can still feel the breeze That rust/es through the trees" "♪ And misty memories of days gone by" "♪ We could never see tomorrow" "♪ No one said a word about the sorrow" "♪ And how can yöu mend a broken heart?" "♪ How can yöu stop the rain from falling down?" "Ladies and gentlemen, our friend, the working man's friend, my friend," "Mayor Carmine Polito!" "Hello, Camden." "Hello, New Jersey." "Hello, Atlantic City!" "♪ How can yöu mend this broken man?" "♪ How can a loser ever win?" "I" "A lot of my friends have been out of work." "A lot of good working families just want to work and live." "They say there's no money nowhere." "yöu got to be kidding me." "Don't they know who built this country?" "But one thing we can all agree upon in the state of New Jersey is that we never, never, ever give up." "Do we?" "No!" "Please, raise a glass with me to a new era that begins tonight." "From me and my family, we thank yöu for at!" "the hard work that yöu've given us in the community." "Look what yöu've done." "This is beautiful." "Thank yöu." "Edith!" "Use yöur phone?" "Last night was insane." "I got it all figured out." "Stoddard Thorsen." "Listen, I need the Sherman Suite at the Plaza Hotel, okay?" "That's a whole floor of the hotel." "No, no, no, no, I need the whole floor." "I need it for my operation." "Stop calling it yöur operation, Richard." "It's not yöur operation, and I'm not giving yöu a whole floor of the Plaza Hotel." "I have members of Congress that are gonna come in right now and try to give the sheik citizenship, all right?" "They're taking bribes." "That's happening right now." "That's what's happening right now." "Bribing members of Congress?" "Are yöu out of yöur fucking mind?" "Stoddard, Stoddard, no, shut up!" "Listen, do yöu know who Victor Tellegio is?" "Victor Tellegio." "Works for Meyer Lansky." "yöu know who that is?" "I know who Victor..." "Resorts International, all right?" "He wants $10 million." "I have two weeks, I have two..." "Listen to me, just listen to me." "Listen to me!" "yöu're not listening to me!" "I have two weeks!" "I have two weeks to put this thing together." "And I need yöu to get me the Sherman Suite at the Plaza Hotel!" "Lower yöur voice." "And yöu're gonna fucking do it!" "yöu don't get to say what happens and yöu don't get to yell at me." "Calm me down, baby." "Calm me down." "yöu've got to calm me down." "yöu got to calm me down, baby." "yöu got to calm me down." "yöu got to calm me down, baby." "Let's do it, let's do this right now." "No, no, no." "Let's do it." "We're not gonna do it unless..." "No, I want to do it right now." "I want to do this right now." "I want yöu so bad." "Look at yöur skin." "No, no, no." "Oh, my God, yöur fucking skin is glowing." "No, no, no." "Baby, yöur fucking skin is glowing." "We're not gonna go all the way until we do it for real." "I want to do it now." "Remember, we agreed on that" "That's what we agreed on, all right?" "So we're not gonna do that, all right?" "All right?" "Where are yöu?" "I'm here. yöu're acting all scary." "Honey, I'm here, okay?" "Yeah." "Okay, are yöu here with me?" "I love yöu." "It is real now." "I just..." "I just said it." "So now's the time." "Look at me, look at me." "I love yöu." "I just said that." "I'm in love with yöu." "Do yöu want the truth?" "yöu want real?" "Yeah." "yöu want real, okay." "I'm ready for real." "This is real." "Do yöu hear my voice, huh?" "This is real." "This is real, what yöu hear is real." "This is real." "What?" "This is me." "What do yöu mean?" "What, are yöu doing an accent?" "The American accent?" "No, there is no English." "There's only American, there is no English." "I'm not..." "What are yöu talking about?" "Stop it. yöu're Edith, yöu're Edith Greensly." "No." "Not royal, but yöu're British." "I checked yöur records." "No, I falsified my records back to birth." "I falsified them." "I..." "My name is Sydney Presser, and I'm from Albuquerque, New Mexico." "I'm not Edith Greensly." "There is no Edith Greensly." "yöu're freaking me out." "No, yöu said in the stall that we were gonna be real and that we weren't gonna fake it." "I'm being real now." "This is who I am." "I'm Sydney Prosser, okay?" "So..." "Why did yöu do an English accent after that?" "I'm sorry I didn't tell yöu in the stall." "I created Edith because I needed her to survive, okay?" "But I'm done with that now." "I'm so fucking done with it." "All right, like, yöu do what yöu need to survive, right?" "yöu, like... yöu, um, yöu know, yöu live with yöur mom." "yöu have a fiancée yöu don't even acknowledge, right'?" "That's what yöu do, and yöu curl yöur hair in little fucking curlers, which is..." "No, it's okay. yöu look good with it, but... yöu know, yöu have straight hair." "So that's what yöu do to survive." "yöu do all sorts of things, yöu know?" "We all do." "Please don't talk about that." "I'm confused." "I'm confused." "I'm fucking confused, too, all right?" "I think we should fuck, and then we'll feel it, and then we won't be confused anymore." "No, I want to talk." "I don't want to fuck, okay?" "No." "No." "I think that will be better." "No." "Let's just see how we feel." "No, I'm not fucking yöu!" "I'm not fucking fucking yöu!" "Oh, shit." "Oh, my God." "Can yöu please step away from Edith'?" "What the..." "Please, I'm asking yöu nicely." "Please step away from Edith right now." "Come on, step away from her." "Please." "yöu mean Sydney?" "I told him." "I'm sorry." "I just don't give a fuck anymore." "I don't give a fuck, I don't fucking care." "I don't fucking..." "Irving has a gun, huh?" "What Richie's got us into is worse than jail." "I told yöu last night, don't sit down with those goons." "And what'?" "Now what, huh?" "No one's getting $10 million for Tellegio." "It's over." "I don't think so." "What?" "What do yöu mean?" "Because when Tellegio finds out what happened, yöu think he's gonna go after me?" "Someone from the Bureau?" "Or he's gonna go after a politician'?" "He's gonna kill yöu." "And he's gonna go after yöur son and Sydney." "Stoddard Thorsen." "yöu got to get me the Sherman Suite." "The whole ﬂoor." "That's a no." "I said no, wacko." "Jesus." "Then yöu're gonna tell me the point of that fucking fishing story." "Not the way yöu're behaving." "What's the matter with yöu?" "Where are yöu right now?" "I..." "Why does that make a difference?" "Just tell me where the fuck yöu are." "The field office on 61st Street." "I'm coming to 61st Street right now." "yöu're gonna do what?" "To beat yöur ass." "yöu're gonna what?" "yöu were right." "Should've gone away." "I should've gone away with yöu." "We were supposed to do it from the feet up, like yöu always said." "That's how we were meant to do it, only yöu didn't do it like that." "yöu didn't do it like that." "yöu played it safe, so there was always a danger yöu were gonna end up with Rosalyn in the dead space, floating on some dead spaceship with the furnitures and the curtains." "And I was yöur lifeline out, and yöu were mine, and that was okay, yöu know?" "I wish I could get yöu back." "Yeah." "yöu know I can't do it without yöu." "yöu know that." "Come on." "Me, yöu and Danny, like we said." "Like I said." "yöu never said that." "I said that." "We got to get over on all these guys." "That's what we need to be thinking about right now." "Fuck, shit, that's, uh..." "That's big." "That's fucking crazy." "Whatever it is, it's got to be the best we've ever done." "Okay?" ""Agent DiMaso called me late on the night of the 21st." ""I believe that he was intoxicated." ""He threatened me." "I told him this was inappropriate." ""Procedures exist for purposes that we must respect." ""This is the third such call I received from Agent DiMaso." ""He called me again on the night of the 5th at 2:00 a.m.," ""and he threatened to kill me." ""Subsequently, he demanded that I allow him" ""to use the Sherman Suite of the Plaza Hotel" ""for purposes of bribing members of Congress."" "I..." "I am so sorry." "I'm not finished." "There's a lot more." "I have nothing but the utmost respect for yöu as my mentor and..." "It's okay, it's okay." "As my mentor and as..." "What are yöu doing?" "I just want to talk from my heart." "I don't want to put it on record or anything." "I want to get vulnerable." "Can I finish my..." "Can I finish my statement?" "Of course, of course." "That's why we're here." "I respect yöu." "I think yöu do other things besides respect me." "Hello." "Hey, hey, hey, hey" "Hey, hey, what are yöu doing?" "What are yöu doing?" "It's just hard for me to control my passion." "I'm a very passionate person." "We're from New York." "yöu understand this." "He goes ice fishing in the Midwest." "That was told to yöu in confidence." "He's an ice fishing guy." "Look at him." "What are yöu doing?" "It's not yöu, that's not yöu with the gun." "Stop it." "No, it's me, it's me." "Don't do something yöu don't know anything about, all right?" "Wait, wait, put that..." "I'll show yöu who gets shot." "Do not load that gun!" "yöu drop that gun!" "I'm not even gonna hit yöu." "Don't!" "Don't!" "Watch this, fucko." "So... yöu want to use the Sherman Suite?" "The entire floor?" "Yes." "Oh, God." "Of the Plaza Hotel." "What happened to the Mafia?" "I thought yöu..." "Yes, no, no, no, this is where they intersect." "This is where the two things intersect" "The two worlds, the politicians and the Mafia." "Victor Tellegio's people, who run Resorts International..." "Wait a minute." "Victor Tellegio showed his face?" "Yeah, I sat with Victor Tellegio." "I hung out with him." "Yeah, we can get him, we can get his whole organization, as well as getting any number of congressmen." "I mean, that's just..." "That's just peeling the first layer of the onion." "Wow." "How yöu gonna do that?" "We would get $10 million, that we..." "$10 million?" "And that's how we just let them know we're for real." "$10 million?" "All right, so what does he say he's gonna do for us?" "How are we trapping him?" "They're gonna promise to build casinos, handle the skims, do the licensing..." "And yöu have what?" "yöu have him on tape saying this?" "yöu have that, right?" "No." "I want yöu to find a safer way to get Victor Tellegio on a wire." "No $10 million." "That's crazy." "Thank yöu." "Right?" "Even to entrap Tellegio, it's crazy." "But yöu can have the Sherman Suite." "No, no." "Stoddard, please." "To go and get me some congressmen." "Oh, my God." "Go get some congressmen taking bribes." "I want to pinch us some congressmen, okay?" "yöu come back to me, I'm proud of yöu." "Thank yöu." "And Stoddard." "Good luck keeping yöur job, by the way, and staying out of jail, and not being killed by the Mob, but otherwise, yöu're doing a great job." "What's the end of the ice fishing story?" "I'm not telling yöu the end of the ice fishing story!" "I'm gonna call yöur fucking brother and find out the end." "My brother's dead!" "That's how it ends!" "He fell through the fucking ice!" "Not, that's not..." "He died a different way, many years later." "Listen, I know it's awkward, and, uh," "I just wanted to say I'm sorry, all right?" "But I think we can stick together and, uh, still fulfill our goal." "I mean, we got the Sherman Suite." "Yeah, yöu got the whole floor?" "Got the whole floor, yeah." "Whole floor?" "That's good." "Yeah, yöu okay?" "Yeah. yöu'?" "Yeah, yöu know, it's all right." "Just got hit a little bit." "My eye is a little blurry." "I got drops at the pharmacy." "Uh, yöu okay'?" "Yeah, I'm good." "Listen, I'm sorry." "Yeah." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry, Irv." "yöu can put a camera here." "Right in here, maybe, and we get it all on film." "yöu like it?" "We do." "yöu know what, give me those flowers." "If we put the flower vase here, put a camera in there, and then we can get a clear shot of the couch where we can put the congressmen." "That's right." "That's the idea." "And Carmine will go to jail after he delivers us congressmen soon-to-be felons." "We really need the help." "Please sit down." "on the phone." "I got to take this, yöu guys." "Everyone out, please." "This is sad, it's just sad." "Darling, please, I got to take this." "Okay, sorry, everyone out." "Go out." "Congressman, how yöu doing?" "It's Carmine." "Everybody out, please." "Tell me yöu're gonna be in Trenton this week." "We have an amazing investment opportunity" "I'd like 10 discuss with yöu." "I'm Federal Agent Richard DiMaso." "I placed $75, 000 into this briefcase for Representative John O'Connell of the Ninth District." "Representative O'Connell was contacted by Carmine Polito to ask if he could obtain rapid citizenship through an act of Congress for one Sheik Abdul/ah, investor." "How yöu doing?" "Robert Spencer." "Nice to meet yöu." "I'm excited to be here." "Oh, John, please, this brings the state back." "How long we known each other?" "yöu know what this is gonna do for us?" "This is huge for the state of New Jersey." "Stabilizes our economy." "Hotels, restaurants." "Carmine sees it." "It's waiting to happen." "This fucking thing is waiting to happen." "But the goddamn bankers, they're keeping their money on the sidelines." "How we supposed to get anything clone?" "Bankers only put money in the game when they can reap insane profit." "The only problem is this, uh..." "This citizenship situation." "I mean, we got to expedite as soon as possible." "Well, I'll tell yöu, yöu came to the right place." "Yeah?" "yöu know?" "Yeah." " We can make it happen." " Oh, hey." "This is going to happen." "yöu understand, this is real." "On my family, on my kids, on my life, on my work." "I know that, Carmine." "yöu're a good man." "I'm Federal Agent Richard DiMaso." "I placed $75, 000 in this briefcase for one Representative Gerald Sanders of the Third District." "I don't want to do anything illegal." "Please, Gerry, use it as a campaign donation, whatever yöu want to do." "All right." "Thank yöu." "It means a lot." "I'm placing $60, 000 into this briefcase for one Congressman Eric Keshoygan of the Fourth District." "I'm gonna do what I can to help, Carmine." "$100, 000 into this briefcase for two-term United States Senator" "Horton Mitchell of New Jersey." "Atlantic City." "That's right." "All the way down the shore." "A mecca by the sea." "Carmine, yöu're beloved by yöur people." "yöur constituency is not even a constituency." "It's yöur family." "That's what yöu represent, family." "The one small thing yöu do for this man is a huge thing we do for the people of New Jersey." "This is what we can leave..." "Hey, Irving, what are yöu doing?" "Where yöu going?" "Just got to go see a man about a dog." "I'm sorry." "I've been a senator a very long time. 16 years." "Trust me, this is probably the biggest opportunity that we could have here." "I will do whatever!" "can in the United States Senate." "I appreciate this." "On my family, on my kids, this needs to happen." "It's got to happen." "yöu have my word." "I want to save us, I want to save us, I want to save Carmine." "It's killing me, it's fucking killing me." "yöu know the only way to help Carmine is through the Tellegio thing." "Yes." "It's dangerous, it's dangerous." "We got to get in there, we got to get a wire in there, we got to make him feel safe." "There's only one thing that could really fuck this up, and that's yöur wife." "Yeah." "I don't like yöur husband." "yöu're no good together." "He doesn't appreciate yöu." "I mean, it happens, it happened to my marriage." "That's why I went to Miami." "Sometimes yöu just got to be tough." "yöu got to stand up and yöu got to leave, yöu know?" "Sometimes yöu got to let something die to let something live." "yöu're too beautiful to be unhappy." "I know." "I mean, I don't want to badmouth my husband, but just let me badmouth my husband for a second." "He just thinks that he knows everything, and he's so full of shit." "He's such a liar." "He thinks that I'm stupid, but I'm not stupid." "I hear him on the phone, arguing." "He loves Carmine, but he hates that other guy, that curly-headed IRS guy or whatever, who's carting around my husband's ex-lover, that redheaded whore." "IRS?" "Anyway, yöu can see that it drives him crazy." "When yöu said IRS, what IRS guy?" "What are yöu talking about?" "I hear them on the phone." "I think that he's got Irv in some sort of bind or something, and he's making him do all of this stuff." "And so Irv and Carmine right now are at the Plaza Hotel, like, throwing all of this money away at, like, Congress or whatever." "They're giving money to Congress or something." "I don't really know, but I overheard it on the phone." "Well, I hate to do this to yöu." "I got to go talk to yöur husband." "My boss, he's already angry." "yöu stay here." "I'm gonna give yöu some money for a taxi home." "Have some dessert, finish the bottle of Prosecco." "I'm sorry." "yöu all right?" "I don't like change." "It's really hard for me." "Yeah." "Sometimes I think that I'll die before I change." "It's all right." "It's gonna be okay." "yöu got to come with me to Miami." "Don't hurt him too bad." "He's still Danny's father." "♪ When yöu were yöung And yöur heart was an open book" "♪ yöu used to say "Live and let live"" "♪ yöu know yöu did yöu know yöu did" "♪ yöu know yöu did" "♪ But in this ever-changing world" "♪ In which we're living" "♪ Makes yöu give in and cry" "♪ Say live and let die" "♪ Live and let die" "♪ Live and let die" "Life is ridiculous, and yöu know that I would never say anything bad about yöur father in front of yöu, but yöur father is a sick son of a bitch." "Daddy's a sick son of a bitch?" "Don't repeat that." "But yes." "Rosalyn!" "Rosalyn!" "What?" "This is a dark moment in our relationship." "yöu know where I was recently?" "What are yöu talking about?" "I was in yöur boyfriend's fucking car, all right?" "I saw yöur nail polish." "What's this I hear about yöur curly-haired friend working for the government?" "Who says this?" "What are yöu talking about?" "Who said that?" "Who said that?" "That's bullshit." "That's bullshit." "yöur fucking wife." "That's..." "Rosalyn?" "He put a fucking canvas bag over my head!" "Hey, hey, what the fuck?" "Shut up." "What..." "Shut the fuck up." "Are yöu happy now?" "Because he is trying to kill me!" "What are yöu talking about?" "What are yöu doing?" "What do yöu think yöu're doing'?" "Huh?" "Get out of here!" "I'm not doing anything!" "Why are yöu talking so much?" "yöu're gonna get us all killed!" "Danny." "Come here, buddy." "All right." "Go draw a picture or something." "All right'?" "yöu are a sick son of a bitch for screaming at me like that in front of Danny." "Attaboy, all right?" "I'm a sick son of a bitch?" "yöu're trying to get me fucking killed." "I'm a sick son of a bitch?" "Oh, my God!" "yöu drive me so fucking crazy." "What are yöu doing?" "yöur boyfriend, yöur fucking boyfriend will kill me, he will kill Danny, and he'll kill yöu." "Stop talking like that." "That's who yöu're dealing with." "He's a mobster, all right?" "That's who yöu're dealing with." "What do yöu think yöu're doing?" "Stop, all right?" "Fine!" "What are yöu doing to us?" "Yes, I wanted to hurt yöu, but how do yöu think that I feel?" "All day when yöu leave me alone, all day, and all I've ever wanted yöu to do is love me." "That's all I've ever wanted is for us to stay married and for yöu to love me." "And that's why I'm going to Miami!" "yöu're not going to Miami." "That's why I'm going to Miami with Pete!" "yöu're not going to Miami!" "yöu are not going to Miami!" "I'm going to Miami with Pete!" "I finally found somebody who loves me!" "Just like yöu've always wanted!" "Too fucking dangerous." "Miami, not now!" "He likes me just the way I am." "Too fucking dangerous." "yöu're gonna stay normal. yöu're gonna shut yöur fucking mouth." "yöu told me that yöu wanted me to find a nice, quiet man." "He's the one." "Oh, and what a doozy yöu picked." "Oh, yöu hit that..." "He's the most dangerous guy ever." "Well, what do yöu expect, Irving?" "I know everybody through yöu!" "Why can't yöu just be happy for me?" "Why are yöu taking yöur heart pill?" "Irving' what's going on?" "Irving, take yöur pill." "What kind of trouble are yöu in, Irving?" "What is going on?" "What's happening?" "I got a plan." "yöu got a plan?" "When did yöu get it?" "yöu know what'?" "It really fucking came to me when I was inside of that canvas bag, with yöur boyfriend's hands around my throat" "Yeah, that's when it really came to me." "Take the fucking bag off his head." "We got two million..." "We got two million coming this week." "yöu see?" "Come on!" "What do yöu think this is?" "yöu think this is a fucking down payment plan?" "What, we're Sears or Chevrolet?" "yöu ask Victor if he wants two million this week." "That's real money." "That's real money." "Two million?" "Two million this week." "How?" "Wired in." "Hold, hold on to the scarf." "Irving, come on, yöu all right'?" "That true?" "Is it true what he said about yöur wife?" "It's not fucking true." "That's not..." "About Rosalyn?" "I can save all of us, and we could save money." "I can take care of yöu and Danny, okay?" "But yöu got to close yöur mouth." "I knew it." "I have always said, Irving, that yöu are very, very hard to motivate properly." "And I knew that Pete was gonna go over there and knock some sense into yöur head." "I've been reading this book, Irving." "It's by Wayne Dyer, about the power of intention." "And my intention in sending Pete over to yöu was so that yöu could come up with this plan." "So yöu're welcome." "Okay." "Thank yöu, Rosalyn." "Thank yöu for the plan." "yöu're welcome." "I appreciate that." "So, uh..." "I think that we should be partners on this." "Yeah, I'm a good partner, almost better than Edith." "yöu ever think about that?" "yöu ever think about how yöu might have underestimated me?" "So what is our plan?" "Tell me the plan." "What are yöu gonna do?" "I'm gonna keep my mouth shut, and I'm not gonna say anything, but what do I do if Pete calls me, what am I supposed to say?" "yöu got to stop talking about yöur government agencies, and yöur IRS and yöur taxes and yöur conspiracies, and all of that, yöu're gonna say how yöu were wrong." "yöu were wrong about that." "I'll tell Pete that I was wrong, but yöu know that in real life," "I was right for saying all that stuff because then that spurred on the actions that made yöu come up with this plan." "So I will tell Pete." "Okay." "The power of intention, Irving." "The power of intention." "Thank yöu." "Okay, okay." "yöu were right." "Irv?" "Irv?" "yöu're so smart." "Good job, peaches." "Irving, I've been doing a lot of thinking." "And yöu need to grow up, and yöu need to face the facts," "and I think that both of us will be a lot happier if we get a divorce." "Okay." "Just think about it." "These things are never easy." "All right." "Irving?" "Good luck with yöur plan." "Necessity truly is the mother of invention." "The FBI was willing to wire the $2 million if it meant taking down Tellegio and his entire organization." "♪ They used to tell me "Boy, yöu ain't goin' nowhere "" "A mobster like Tellegio would never meet at the Plaza Hotel, but only at the office of his attorney," "Alfonse Simone." "♪ yöu gotta realize all yöur responsibilities" "♪ yöu gotta get out to work and face reality" "♪ yöu gotta get up in the morning Take yöur heavy load" "♪ And yöu gotta keep going Down the long black road" "♪ Long black road." "♪ So I drifted for a while down the road to ruin" "♪ I saw a lot of people coming back the other way" "♪ So I kept on goin' when I heard them say" "♪ yöu gotta get up in the morning Take yöur heavy load" "♪ And yöu gotta keep going Down the long black road" "♪ Long black road ♪" "Hi." "Alfonse Simone." "Edith Greensly." "Alfonse Simone." "Hey." "Hi." "Alfonse Simone." "Irving Rosenfeld." "Please, uh, be seated." "I appreciate the fact that yöu all came in person, but, uh, the trip was really unnecessary, because this whole thing could've been done with a simple wire transfer." "As a matter of fact, this is the number of our wire right here." "Where is Mr. Tellegio?" "Mr. Tellegio, unfortunately, was called out of town on business'" "Oh, that's not good." "yöu know, we were willing to come here today in person to meet with Mr. Tellegio as a sign of respect lo give $2 million..." "Well, listen," "I can assure yöu that I have the power of attorney..." "Excuse me, if yöu'll let me finish." "We were willing to give $2 million today of the ten, but without Mr. Tellegio here..." "We can't make that decision." "We can't do that?" "It's not the right thing." "It's just not the right time." "It's just not good." "yöu don't have the authorization to make this kind of choice, so don't be hasty, all right?" "Not being hasty." "Just, let's be smart about it, all right?" "This is not how we do business." "I'm sorry." "Apologize, but it's true." "I think yöu should hang in there, all right?" "For what?" "The guy's not here." "Edith..." "That's it." "yöu know what?" "Sorry, I can't do it." "This is a surprise." "The sheik don't like surprises." "Don't leave." "Edith, this is not yöur decision to make." "It's not yöur decision." "No, I understand, but maybe" "What?" "Let's go." "Let's call the sheik." "It's not the plan." "It's not the..." "No, let's..." "I'll call the sheik, yeah." "Can I use yöur phone?" "Please do." "Let's see." "I don't know if he's in, but I'll call the sheik." "But before I do, I'd like to go over, specifically, what this money will be used for." "Okay." "What we will do is we guarantee all proper licenses and construction permits for any hotel-casino that plans to open before the end of the year, and we'll throw in the customary, uh, privileges of protection." "What if there's obstacles?" "What will yöu do?" "Obstacles..." "We are prepared to overcome any obstacles." "This is a big enterprise." "If we have to pay somebody off, we'll pay somebody off." "If we have to lean on somebody, intimidate somebody, we'll intimidate somebody." "We're experienced." "This is our business." "That's powerful stuff." "Thank yöu." "And I'll tell yöu something else." "At the end of this, we'll teach yöu how to skim and how to cut it up and make some money on the side, because we invented skimming." "We've been doing it for 30 years." "Thank yöu, thank yöu for clarifying that." "Okay." "I'm very happy" "I think that'll be okay for the sheik." "This is the sheik." "Mr. Tellegio is not here." "It's just Mr. Alfonse Simone, his lawyer." "Are we still okay to wire the money?" "Simone can take the wire." "What's the number?" "531... 531... 78P..." "78P... 76." "76." "The funds are transferred." "The funds have transferred." "The money's been wired." "I think we have a deal." "Yes,we do, sir." "Pleasure doing business with yöu." "Okay, well, thank yöu very much, Mr. Simone." "Well, thank yöu." "The sheik's very excited." "I'm sure we'll be seeing each other." "Oh, I'm sure that we'll be seeing each other very soon." "Looking forward to it." "Yeah, so am I." "yöu might even get sick of me." "Like these two." "I don't think I'll get sick of yöu." "Thank yöu very much." "Bye." "Good-bye." "Nice meeting yöu." "How did that happen?" "How did that happen?" "I mean, how did that happen?" "Finally!" "Finally, we're getting some respect" "We're getting some respect finally!" "It's yöu and me!" "It's..." "We're ambitious." "That's why." "Whoa." "Oh, oh, oh." "Oh, oh." "Wait." "Wait, wait, wait, wait." "ALFONSE If we have to pay somebody off, we'll pay somebody off." "If we have to lean on somebody, intimidate somebody"." ""We'll intimidate somebody!"" "I'm kissing his boo-boos!" "I'm kissing his boo-boos!" "Oh, come on!" "Yeah, well, I got to do it." "What do yöu mean, there's no sheik'?" "What does that mean?" ""There's no sheik"?" "I want to face yöu like a man because I want to be real now." "All right?" "Who is "they"?" "Who is "they"?" ""They" is the feds." "The feds?" "Yeah." "Irving..." "Look..." "I'm a good person." "yöu're a good person." "I've been doing this for a long time, for 20 years." "Do yöu think I would have taken that money if it wasn't the right thing to do?" "Hey, look..." "Look." "Huh?" "yöu're a good person." "I know that." "I know." "But in all honesty... yöu said that was the only way, Irv." "yöu chased me, yöu remember?" "They fucking made me do it." "What's a guy to do?" "They had Syd in jail." "Whoa, whoa." "yöu made me go back to the Plaza to take that money, yöu piece of shit!" "I was gone!" "yöu fucking prick!" "I know." "I know." "I know." "yöu motherfucker!" "yöu fucking chased me, yöu piece of shit!" "Carmine?" "Honey?" "I was gone!" "I left!" "Everything all right'?" "Please, Dolly, just go upstairs." "Ali right, I'll go upstairs." "Take the kids and go upstairs." "Please." "Please, just go." "Of course." "Of course." "I want to make this right." "I came here because I want to make it right." "Look at my face." "yöu tell me that I'm lying to yöu when I say that everything I do is for the good of the people of New Jersey." "Everything I do is for them." "Am I lying to yöu?" "I never had a friend like yöu before." "I used that money for the goddamn casino." "I got some fucking leverage, all right?" "I can help yöu out." "This is all shit." "It's all bullshit." "Look at this thing." "Look at this." "Ceremonial fucking knife." "What, is this bullshit?" "Some icy?" "Carmine, Syd and I got a plan for yöu." "Yeah?" "We can help yöu out." "Please get out of my house, Irving." "Will yöu please leave?" "I'm asking yöu nicely, please leave." "Get out of my house." "Go!" "Get out of our house!" "I don't wanna..." "Oh, fuck." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I didn't mean for this to happen." "yöu break my motherfucking heart," "Irving, right in front of my family." "Go, go, go up to the bedroom." "This is what matters to me most, and yöu're crushing that." "yöu're going to take me away from them?" "I didn't want this to happen ever." "Fucking son of a bitch!" "Get the fuck out." "Oh, my God!" "Stop!" " yöu son of a bitch!" " Dad, stop!" "I just want to make it right." "Just get out of my house." "Look what yöu made me do." "Please go." "I'm sorry, Carmine." "Oh, my God." "lam." "I'm sorry." "Get out of here!" "Get out!" "Will yöu just get out?" "Please go." "Please leave." "Please leave." "Oh, God." "No, Carmine." "What's happening?" "It'll be all right." "No, no." "Oh, my God, no!" "Oh, fuck." "Oh, fuck." "SYDNEY;" "Irving?" "Irving, are yöu all right?" "Where are yöur heart pills?" "Where are yöur heart pills?" "In the pocket." "Inside." "Here." "There yöu go." "Are yöu all right?" "Okay." "Come with me." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on, just walk." "Come on. yöu okay?" "I got to lay down." "Okay?" "Just rest." "yöu ready?" "Yeah." "I love yöu." "Please." "Come in, sit down." "yöu know where our $2 million is?" "Two million?" "Yeah." "It's with, uh, Victor Tellegio and Alfonse Simone." "No, actually, it's not with Victor Tellegio or Alfonse Simone." "He fucking knows about it." "Ifs gone missing." "Did yöu know that?" "No, I knew nothing about that" "Where's it gone'?" "Well, that's interesting that yöu say that, because, while yöu were on yöur way over here, we got an anonymous phone call from someone who said that, in exchange for immunity for the two of yöu" "and a reduced sentence for Carmine Polito, we get our $2 million back." "That's interesting." "That's very interesting." "I have no idea." "No idea?" "No idea what yöu're talking about." "I get it." "I understand how these deals are made, right?" "See, someone has leverage." "Anthony, fuck them." "Fuck them." "It's over." "I don't think so." "We got them for wire fraud." "It's over. yöu're done." "yöu're both done. yöu're done." "No, I don't think so." "I don't think so." "Oh, yöu don't think so?" "Richard, yöu requested the two million." "And yöu gave Brenda the account number." "No, no." "We didn't do any of that." "None of it." "How do we know that yöu don't have the money?" "Am I living in a fucking nightmare right now?" "I find this a little offensive." "Really, I find this a little offensive, and I don't see that yöu got any sort of" "Don't let him get in yöur head." "Listen to me." "Listen to me." "Listen to me." "We're dealing with a very clever individual." "Don't let him..." "Richard." "Richard." "Think about it, all right?" "yöu got some big arrests." "yöu got U.S. congressmen." "yöu look good." "yöu're going to be all over the news." "yöu know what doesn't look good?" "A story about gross incompetence." "I have a warrant for..." "Sorry, do I have the wrong office?" "This 701?" "Alfonse Simone?" "This is 701." "My name is Roger Thigpen." "I've had this office for 25 years." "I'm a divorce attorney." "yöu lost $2 million of taxpayer money because yöu were confused about the location and the identity of Victor Tellegio's attorney?" "The role of Tellegio's attorney," "Alfonse Simone, was played by our friend, Ed Malone, the Cold Cut King of Long Island, whose party we were at when Sydney and I first met." "Alfonse Simone." "People believe what they want to believe, Richie." "No, because yöu conned me." "That's why, because yöu both fucking con... yöu got under me." "yöu did." "yöu know, that, uh..." "That doesn't sound so good, either, right there." "yöu know, I mean, and I don't know what yöu're talking about, but let's just assume yöu want to go with that story." "Really?" "That's the story yöu want to go with?" "All right?" "That's what yöu want the New York Times to hear?" "That yöu got conned by the very con men who yöu forced to entrap the members of Congress in the first place?" "That's what yöu want to go with?" "That doesn't sound so good for yöur whole thing, does it?" "And how ironic that the ones who were working hardest to get the economy of New Jersey going," "those are the ones that yöu round up." "And why'?" "Why?" "Because, what, they're the easiest to go after'?" "And what about the real bullshit artists?" "yöu didn't even come close to the big leagues." "Those big guys, the money men." "That's what I was trying to go after." "I'm sorry to tell yöu, yöu got none of them." "yöu know, Richie, I think, uh..." "We may call yöu as a witness, but otherwise yöu're done." "I think yöu better go home." "Go on home, Richard." "We took down some very big guys." "Some of whom, they were just doing business as usual, helping their communities or their states, but some of them knew they had larceny in their blood." "And they even admitted it." "But in all, it was six congressmen, one United States senator" "and my friend, Carmine Polito." "We gave the two million back, so Carmine got the reduced sentence, 18 months." "The loss of his friendship would haunt me for the rest of my life." "And when the story was written," "Richard DiMaso's name was never mentioned." "Syd and I, we moved in together." "Rosalyn..." "The car is a little dinged up, I'm a little stiff, but whatever, I don't want to talk about it." "She would always be interesting." "yöu know, my boss knows yöu did him a solid." "Yes, I did." "He never took a nickel, so they can't get him for nothing." "I was never going to let that happen." "All right." "Irv." "I'm done with that nail finish." "Bye for now." "I'll see yöu next weekend." "Hey." "Look at yöu." "I think yöur mom got yöur nose." "Is it okay that I wipe that?" "Our conning days were behind us." "yöu can fool yöurself for just so long, and then yöur next reinvention better have yöur damn feet on the ground." "This one is abstract expressionism." "I love it 'cause these ones..." "We got a loan from a bank and were able to go gallery-legitimate." "The art of survival is a story that never ends." 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