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it's all right kid...

where am i getting my my wind...

hello hello boy are you bushed...

what were you running from...

the cops...

jesus...

what did you do...

don't be as scared a little brother...

i give him the older crisscross...

anybody see you...

maybe we are arranged for an alibi...

look at that little huh...

not even a college yetting already you...

took like a lawyer...

hey tony...

look...

wow...

how much you got...

a 200 bucks...

here tommy...

go down and give it to mama...

now papa don't have to have enough...

biggest funeral and get buried in the...

sack...

and tony...

tell mama to get him a nicer coffin...

with the silver handles...

here...

take it...

think...

you want to buy papa coffee with one of...

you...

robbed how else are we gonna do it huh...

tony don't worry i got an awful drunker...

wasn't easy harley put up a fight at all...

she said...

you think papa cared about a coffin...

only everyone was supposed to be decent...

to have something to eat...

hey he wanted me to be a doctor huh...

you wanted me to help people...

not to rob them...

you think you care about a coffin with...

silver handles well i care...

me cesare rahman i care how my old man...

is buried i don't want the neighbors to...

laugh and we couldn't even give the old...

man a decent funeral cabish we needed...

the money so i got it no matter how it...

matters it matters to papa...

hey how many times you tell us i see you...

say a man who lives by violence he dies...

the same way yeah yeah papa he was a...

full of those away saints...

you know what i think...

i think papa was a jerk...

huh a two-pitch jerk what a pop ever get...

out of life huh he's a lion down there...

dead uh with a busted gut of 42 years...

old for a while from a haul and a cold...

in the winter and a nice enough summer...

six of flights of stairs for what for...

censor huh four cents a trip great...

anthony huh...

but our papa a papa he was a full of...

those hawaii saints...

he who lives up by a violence gotta die...

by a violence...

well i got a wiser saying too...

he who takes gets...

and it don't matter how just as always...

is smart right lou...

you just take and a take and it don't no...

matter how because one day you end up a...

mr b and the people are gonna care how...

you got your money...

and that's gonna be me...

cesare romano...

mr b...

three boys from the slum...

one wanted to be a doctor one wanted to...

be a lawyer and the third he just wanted...

to be...

mr big...

all three achieved their ambitions with...

surprising results...

as sure as my name is boris karloff...

they are the guilty men...

and that's the name of our story...

our principal players are mr everett...

sloane...

mr j. c flippin...

and mr frank silvera...

that sound you hear is a heartbeat...

a heartbeat that held together a...

fantastically powerful organization...

dedicated to big business...

the big business of crime...

let me assure you my friends this is a...

thriller...

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1923...

cesarea romano gets suspended sentence...

and protection racket slugging...

1928...

[Applause]...

witnesses disappear...

jesus romano alias charlie roman...

released on hijacking charge...

1931...

roman denies control...

fed stymied in liquor rackets...

1940...

ex-bootleggers organized gambling...

procuring dope on nationwide scale...

1960...

industrialist charles roman subpoenaed...

testify shipping hotel oil interests of...

syndicate strictly legit...

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wait...

wait wait...

show me one combine not only in this...

country anywhere in the world has had a...

better year...

so once a half a million dollars it to...

us...

so long as it's gonna prevent one kid...

from becoming a delinquent it's a half a...

million dollars that's what it is...

we're not in business to raise money for...

charity...

you seem to be missing that little point...

charlie i don't miss nothing harry not...

the one thing i make it to my business...

ask luke askaloo...

boy...

i don't want to ask lou he'll say what...

you told him to say...

look harry don't make me mad i got a bad...

dick i'm not supposed to get mad what do...

you want from me charlie...

you want me to listen to the mouthpiece...

i hardly think that was necessary gans...

referring to me as a mouthpiece...

all right...

let's hear what the philadelphia lawyer...

has to say...

well there's uh...

there's very little to say...

you've all heard what charlie wants and...

uh i think we should go along with him...

well i don't i don't look at it don't...

push me...

don't push me i don't care what the...

doctors say not first...

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well how is he...

is he all right tony...

[Applause]...

all right this time you're not going...

tony he's your brother talk to him...

why did you come if you're not going to...

talk to him what kind of a brother are...

you what kind of a doctor are you i'm a...

good doctor when you called me i came...

i've done all i can for him as a doctor...

the rest is up to him no it's up to you...

too...

in the old country a brother is a...

brother in the old country a brother...

will kill for his brother if he has to...

where are you going i'm going to the...

hospital people are waiting for me there...

poor people what do you want from me...

tony huh...

what am i gonna do...

today i nearly killed myself fighting to...

get money to do good to help people and...

all the time i knew it wasn't enough for...

you no it isn't...

no matter what you do...

you're scum charlie and you know it...

what about all those young boys who come...

to my office every day...

what about all those narcotics cases...

sure you don't sell them the stuff...

but it comes in on your ships it's...

unloaded on your docks what good is...

tearing down the slums if you keep...

bringing in narcotics...

what does it prove leave me alone...

you're my brother...

i know a lot of things have changed but...

it's not enough if the worst remains...

don't you see that...

i'm sorry i hit you tony...

sorry i said what i did...

i...

guess i better be going...

bye cheshire...

anna...

remember...

rest...

no more meetings...

next time you might not be so lucky...

right go ahead what are you thinking go...

ahead say it say it...

i'm thinking that that i'm your wife...

and that i love you...

you think tony's right then...

what am i gonna do...

you think maybe if i do something about...

the narcotics...

you're gonna love me again...

you think tony's right lou...

well...

you know that i'm...

i'm always with you charles...

but uh there is no denying that tony's...

got a point...

i mean if we're going into something...

like donating playgrounds we ought to go...

the whole way...

i suggest that we uh we dropped the...

narcotics operation...

hey what do you think the other fellows...

are gonna stand for...

that well they might if it were put to...

them properly...

if it were made clear to them that this...

is the only remaining thing that they...

can get us on that the rest of the...

operation is clean...

i suppose we'd have some trouble with...

gans but...

i think we should try it charles...

we can explain to them why we want to do...

it and put it to a vote at the meeting...

tomorrow don't let him go to any more...

meetings you heard what tony said...

all right anna...

she's right charles...

you shouldn't take the chance...

i'll handle it...

even harry guns...

yeah...

you know i don't know what i do without...

you lou...

if it wasn't for you i think maybe i...

have harry gans killed a long time ago...

you know out the side of my wife...

you're the only friend i got and i'm...

appreciate lou i appreciate you always...

behind me...

i know you do...

oh uh you don't have to show me out anna...

and...

don't worry...

i'll see there are no more upsets like...

this...

thank you lou...

i know you love my chester thank you...

very very much...

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yes get me home as fast as you can...

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night...

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hello...

oh hello dear...

you needn't wait it up i want to...

how was your meeting...

oh you know how these...

board of directors meetings are they're...

always pretty tiring you have a visitor...

mr gans...

what...

where is he in the living room...

would you excuse me dear i'll uh i'll...

try and make it short of course too...

i love i'll be up as soon as i can...

quite a fancy joint you got here...

mouthpiece...

what are you doing here jams...

i came to see you...

what kept you...

the long way to philadelphia...

you're right...

it's a long way i can do without your...

innuendos gans...

my guests usually come by invitation i...

don't recall inviting you what are you...

doing here...

i came to find out about poor old...

charlie...

how's he feeling...

now i know you didn't come all the way...

out here to philadelphia with just...

charles's health on your mind oh that's...

where you're wrong i've been doing a lot...

of thinking about poor charlie lately...

i think somebody else ought to head up...

the organization and old charlie be put...

out to pasture...

out to pasture...

or in cement in a marsh in jersey...

oh no i didn't say charlie had to get...

hit did i...

you know we don't do that anymore don't...

pay...

i just think he should step down and be...

forced down before he breaks us all...

the money for that playground is chicken...

feed...

that's not what's disturbing you...

why don't you come right out with it why...

don't you come out and say that you want...

to be mr big...

all right...

i want it...

and i'm gonna get it...

are you gonna get in my way i will if...

you try to break up this organization...

with a lot of internaciene warfare...

i don't understand them big words...

mouthpiece...

save them for the supreme court...

and don't walk away from me i don't like...

it...

that's too bad...

now look lou you watch your step...

there's more lawyers in this town than...

you can count and don't you forget that...

look don't play it tough with me...

you know as well as i do that whether...

you or charles runs this organization it...

can't survive without me...

so you keep telling us...

and maybe you're right...

but it works the other way around too...

lawyer boy...

i don't think you could be the big bull...

on the stock market or the big spender...

at the racetracks and what you make as a...

public defender...

so let's you let up on the tough talk...

too huh...

oh what...

or i might just bring out a few items...

i've gotten my safe deposit box...

just one i would stink you up so bad...

they couldn't stand the smell of you...

even in philadelphia...

just because you're mr louis adams with...

a social register wife...

don't think i couldn't stink you up good...

all the way down the main line...

so that's what you have in mind...

that's what i've got in mind...

and remember that the next time is a...

show of hands like at tomorrow's meeting...

i'll think about it don't think about it...

make up your mind you're gonna do it...

at tomorrow's meeting...

charlie won't be there...

you're gonna vote with me and charlie's...

gonna be out...

because if you don't i said i'd think...

about it good night...

goodnight mouthpiece...

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so...

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hello uh hello anna...

this is lou...

may i speak to charles please no lou no...

more tonight you heard tony say he must...

rest yes i know but uh this is important...

so is his life please it's all right...

hey hello...

how are you oh i'm...

well the important thing charles is how...

are you...

i'm a fine...

what's up i was just thinking about what...

we talked about before you know about uh...

the meeting tomorrow...

and uh what's the matter...

something happened...

i can tell from your voice no no...

nothing's happened uh...

uh it's just a diet i had some second...

thoughts on the matter and would you...

mind coming to the meeting tomorrow...

no i don't mind...

but uh...

we promised anna and you know what tony...

said...

thought you could handle this alone...

oh i will i will i just uh...

i mean i just thought we could swing it...

easier if you were there all right...

all right i'll be there not history...

thanks charles very much...

i'll see you there...

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i'm not...

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well it's...

eight to four...

in favor of the playground...

i guess that does again the playground...

is in...

thanks fellas...

yeah i got something else on my mind i'd...

like to talk to you about...

at least i want you to think about it...

for next month's meeting...

it's about the dock traffic the stuff...

i've been thinking how maybe we ought to...

drop that business drop it...

it's worth millions a year...

it's a big proposition getting bigger...

have you gone off your nut let me finish...

harry you might let me finish if we...

listen to you we'll all be finished...

for two years we've been masterminding...

the doc walkouts so we can control all...

the stuff coming in...

we've got it so nicely and neatly...

wrapped up the narcotic boys can't even...

nibble around the edges and he wants us...

to drop it...

i just don't follow you charlie i just...

don't follow you you mean you don't want...

to i can't if you let me finish maybe...

you could oh i've heard enough...

you're walking out what's it look like...

wait a minute harry i said i'm going and...

i mean it...

i'll be in my office five minutes if...

anybody wants to come with me they can...

charles...

we've got to get him back now let him go...

if he thinks he can get along without...

the rest of the organization let him try...

aimee johnny momo you voted with him you...

want to walk out too may i interrupt for...

just a moment please sure...

go ahead lou...

charles...

i know what's on your mind even if the...

other boys don't...

and uh well i'm perfectly willing to go...

along with you but...

there's no sense in breaking up the...

entire organization just because a...

couple of tempers have fled...

now i think we've uh...

we've just got to try and be reasonable...

about...

this what do you want me to do you want...

me to go down on my knees do it again...

no i don't think you'll have to do that...

he knows what's at stake...

i suggest that we go in and talk to him...

you're going to talk to him...

if he wants it to come back...

all right...

but don't expect me to go now...

look charles...

we'll get nowhere this way and you know...

it...

you two have got to get together...

now the best way to accomplish that as...

far as i can see...

is for the boys to get out of here so...

that you and i can talk to him alone...

all right...

all right boys okay little party...

johnny...

hello...

you uh...

you go in and get gams...

do you think he'll come back in...

yes i think he will if you tell him that...

charles and i are here alone...

surely...

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hmm...

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all right i'm here...

now what...

well uh...

first of all i would like to thank you...

for...

coming back...

gans i hope you know what you're doing...

mouthpiece...

what's on your mind...

well i'll tell the both of you if you...

listen...

now you know as well as i do that this...

syndicate can't survive if this break...

takes place the way he's going it won't...

last anyhow you never listened to my...

reasons...

i told you before i've heard enough...

now look harry at least let's be fair...

i mean you ought to hear charles out i...

think we all should before any decision...

is made...

lou's right harry...

all right...

start talking...

go ahead charms...

just like that...

it's not so easy just like that...

tell you the truth i don't understand...

how it got started even...

you remember lou...

all the fights we used to have when you...

first started talking about the...

legitimate the legitimate to legitimate...

i thought you had holes in your head...

then i began to see the handwriting on...

the wall...

just like you said it was gonna be...

when bootlegging went out and the feds...

started to cracking down and i went...

along yeah...

i took a trip to the old country...

remember all right i didn't like it...

there i like it here i like being a big...

businessman and all the time i talked to...

my wife anna how nice it would be we had...

some children like you got to johnny but...

i i don't got no children i only got my...

wife anna and my kid brother tony...

you know what tony thinks of me...

you know what he said to me last night...

he said charlie roman is scum...

scum...

my kid brother doesn't allow for me you...

understand that...

since you're 29 he hates me because of...

those little kids that was killed...

accidental the day we had it it sucks...

him alone...

maybe you don't have a kid a brother...

hates you but told me...

told me...

and those are little kids...

they get under my skin more and more...

every day...

why do you think this means so much to...

me...

it's because of those little kids...

the district is all so lousy with with...

the bushes that are pushing the stuff we...

bring over in the boats...

what's it doing down there...

it's going to the kids harry the stuff...

is going to the kids it's lousing them...

up worse than ever before look...

we're making enough money legit that's...

the drop of the stuff...

and let somebody else move in nobody's...

gonna move in...

who is there to come in somebody will...

some of those little brooklyn punks will...

come in...

and the first thing you know they'll be...

bucking the organization and they'll...

have the money to do it and we'll be...

dead...

no they won't have you bet they won't...

but you can't stop them because you're...

getting soft jolly i don't know what...

you're talking about i'll tell you what...

i'm talking about...

you're getting out now because i'm...

moving in...

ain't no brooklyn punk gonna take over...

that drug action and now you want to cut...

off the whole supply and walk around...

like a saint...

well not me...

i'm stepping in no no you won't gans...

you're doing nothing of the kind...

who's gonna stop me...

are you gonna stop me no i'm gonna stop...

your children not so...

charlie roman...

there's no such character around anymore...

charlie roman was a tough baby in his...

day...

but now all we got is poor old sick papa...

romano storing in his beer about a bunch...

of no-good apple stealing delinquents on...

the east side...

get out of my way...

no you don't know peace...

yes...

you told me you hated his guts you said...

you wanted him dead...

told me he always treated you like a...

correlation well he won't anymore...

and if it bothers you too much don't...

look...

what's the matter mouthpiece...

weak stomach...

you said...

you promised i said we wouldn't hit him...

and we didn't he did it himself didn't...

he...

johnny denis...

i guess you know...

all right i know...

i don't know anything of the kind...

you don't huh...

look mouthpiece you're in this as deep...

as anybody else deeper you brought him...

in here...

i know...

you don't have to remind me...

i'm just reminding you in case you...

decide to do any talking...

i got something else i want to remind...

you about too my safe deposit box...

johnny...

tell your sister and that brother his...

and you...

tell the boys...

tell him right...

tell him everything's going to be just...

the same...

business as usual...

and mouthpiece...

tell him it's not charlie roman talking...

it's harry gans...

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who's that for...

charlie roman...

who's he...

charlie roman...

he was a big man...

he dreamed big...

he lived big...

up until the very moment of his...

untimely death...

his every thought...

his every action...

was big...

and...

so that you mrs roman i know...

so that the world may know the...

the honor we bear him...

we have voted...

not the half million dollars that he had...

asked for but even more...

for the betterment...

of its people...

and we ask you mrs roman...

to accept from us his...

friends and associates...

this gift...

given with love and...

everlasting gratitude...

anna it's what charles wanted...

anna why should i take it...

i want nothing from you from any of you...

did i ever asked for anything...

all i ever wanted was my man...

anna don't please...

tony...

tony...

you were his brother...

this means something to you...

if anyone is to take it...

you should take it...

very well anna...

in the name of my dead brother i accept...

it...

on the condition that it be given in the...

name of cesarelando i accept this...

and from all of you his friends i accept...

this and i thank you for what you have...

done...

and now for chez romano i will read this...

what is it...

we found this in his papers...

to be read in the event of his death...

couldn't be called a will...

a will could not legally dispose of that...

which was illegally gained...

what was his last testament...

shall i read it...

to the boys...

lou harry...

johnny orgy danny...

buttsy [�__�] momo and all the rest who...

was with me all these years...

now i'm dead...

all i ask is to keep up the organization...

and if you want to know what i think...

let lou handle it because there is no...

one you can trust better than him...

i would trust him with my life...

no...

what's the matter lou...

nothing...

now when it comes to my cut...

i want to tell you it's no use to try...

and give it to my wife anna or my...

brother tony because i know they won't...

take it...

the money i'd like to be split up down...

the line to your children...

like angela johnny...

when she marries...

let me pay for the wedding since i never...

had a daughter...

same with you orkie and your boy waller...

and harry...

your kids...

i know yes...

i don't want to forget the parish when i...

live in the old days...

if it's not for me the poor box will...

always be empty...

fill it up every week and you'll be...

doing the best thing you can for your...

old friend...

cheshire romano...

cesare romano was killed that's a lie...

let me finish harry don't jump to...

conclusions...

he was killed by the society that...

created jolly roman...

and he lived as they created him...

in evil...

out of evil...

now the charlie roman is dead...

says that romano has been returned to us...

him we love and him we say...

anna why are you acting like this...

you murdered him...

you burning my husband...

it wasn't me shut up...

shut your mouth before you say something...

no one wants to hear...

you may go now all of you...

go out of you go get out of here...

i know what you're going to say to me...

just done...

so let it be no and it is not all done...

not yet...

but let it be let it be...

soon they will eat each other alive...

look anna...

look it is far from done...

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so...

you better get down to philadelphia and...

put a cap on the lawyer's phone...

i want a report on everybody he talks to...

i don't like the way that johnny longo's...

acting stay on his tail...

so...

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now look lawyer...

just cause charlie leaves you his vote...

that doesn't mean we're gonna let you...

run the organization i'm not trying to...

run it...

i'm trying to keep it running...

and the way to keep it running is to do...

exactly as charles wanted to do...

and that's to drop the traffic in...

narcotics...

oh wait a moment wait a moment please...

i know what's involved here in the way...

of money and power...

but the time is wrong...

right now there's a congressional...

committee sitting in washington digging...

into this very thing and except for the...

dope action we're clean...

do you understand what that means clean...

clean...

the public is aroused about this...

narcotics thing you can't fight the...

public it's too big the public...

the public will stand for anything they...

can't be bothered...

like bootlegging laws and no laws they...

wanted their hoots they paid their money...

and they took their chances...

i'll tell you the public is as rotten as...

anybody look ants don't make the mistake...

of thinking that the public is rotten...

oh yes the public has been cheated...

they've been led by the nose they've...

been sweet talked and double-crossed but...

don't tell me that the public is rotten...

oh sure...

sure we didn't make a killing in...

bootlegging...

we're not cleaning up now on the big...

stuff...

all right...

you've had your say now i'll tell you...

where i stand...

that legit stuff is okay...

as long as it's paying off...

but when it comes to dope and the big...

paying stuff i say go all the way...

and if there's any trouble anywhere down...

the line...

we'll let him have it...

now what do you say...

you gonna get tough...

are you gonna mooch along with a...

mouthpiece like charlie did...

well...

what's it gonna be i'll go along with...

lou you will...

and three huh...

four five now wait a minute you can't...

take a vote johnny isn't here johnny...

will vote my way i've got five and...

johnny makes six that's all i need...

the organization runs my way...

all right...

and i'm out...

you guys have voted with him are you out...

too...

we're pulling out too...

all right but your districts don't go...

with you the districts stay with a...

syndicate...

and anybody that tries to change that...

will find out something they won't like...

you can't take over this way harry this...

isn't like the old days...

these are legitimate businesses you...

can't just throw out the stockholders...

i can't huh...

you think i came mouthpiece...

maybe you'd better go talk to johnny...

johnny...

yeah...

we had a little discussion with johnny...

this morning...

he came up with some crazy ideas too...

mouthpiece...

we changed his mind...

i think you ought to go talk to him...

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philadelphia sir yes...

no uh drive me to johnny longo's first...

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johnny...

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johnny...

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so...

so...

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louis is that you...

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martha darling i have to talk to you is...

it because of this lewis...

they say that you were involved with the...

syndicate...

is that true lois...

well...

obviously i'm too late...

yes mother...

yes it's true but how long have you been...

a part of this roughly since i've been a...

lawyer...

charles roman paid for my law school i...

was indebted oh i'm sick of making...

excuses i really have none i knew what i...

was doing...

but why louis...

you don't need these men you're a good...

lawyer...

martha...

i don't think that a person like you...

with your background could ever...

understand but why didn't you tell me...

lois after all these years...

i was afraid...

i thought i'd lose you...

now it'll all come out...

this investigation...

martha you must believe that i came home...

tonight to tell you this whole dirty...

story lewis don't this man long though...

he didn't commit suicide he was killed...

and charles he was murdered too he died...

of a heart attack murdered but...

but not you lewis...

that's what i tried to tell myself...

i didn't actually do it but...

it's the things i didn't do that make me...

guilty of all their crimes...

as guilty as any of them...

louis i don't understand any of this...

no you wouldn't martha but...

i have to tell you...

these others...

they didn't know any other way they grew...

up in a jungle...

the only way they knew to survive was by...

violence but...

i...

i knew better i was the educated one...

i swore an oath to uphold the law...

yes...

they committed the crimes but...

i was the guiltiest...

and i know now...

what i have to do...

i'm only sorry...

for what it'll do to you...

please forgive me...

i love you louis...

this other man that you've been talking...

about...

i've never known him...

thank you then...

hello...

hello operator...

yes i want to place a call to mr freeman...

chase...

lincoln72791...

that's washington dc...

yes i'll wait...

hello mr chase...

yes this is louis adams...

i uh...

i've decided to testify before your...

committee...

well i'm sorry to disturb you tonight...

but if i don't see you at once i...

well it may be difficult for me...

yes yes i can do that...

well i...

i could leave here in about two hours...

and that means i'd get there about 11...

o'clock...

i better get harry right away...

yes i'll have the necessary documents...

with me...

oh i understand mr chase...

no i...

i'm not expecting any deal...

well...

let's just say...

there comes a time...

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goodbye mother...

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that's him...

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get the briefcase...

come on come on come on get out of here...

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