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Salvatore Maranzano, now boss of all bosses, summoned a paid assassin,

Vincent Call, to kill Charlie Luciano.

Jack's got money.

Hey, Tommy, how's the boy?

Lunch. Lunch.

Hey, we get some lunch.

No. Leave the jab.

It's Manzo.

This is Vincent Cole.

Michael Lasker achieved success at a very early age.

He had never known failure.

until the birth of his deformed son.

Because of his grief, Michael fled to Boston, and Ben Siegel followed to try

to help his friend.

You understand that?

How many times have you got to tell these people?

Forget it, Benny.

You've got troubles of your own.

Me? I've got no troubles. Now you?

You've got a few troubles.

You're going to sit there or you're going to talk to me?

There's nothing to talk about.

Okay.

I'll open the window and we'll both jump.

Look, talk to me. We on board.

My firstborn son isn't going to walk. I have to deal with that.

All right, we'll deal with it.

Sure. Anything you say.

You know what my old man used to say to me?

He'd say, Benny...

There's no use in complaining.

Because you just kind of get up in the morning and do it anyway.

I tried to be so smart, Ben.

Smart for you, smart for Charlie, smart for myself.

I'm a rich man.

So what's that worth on today's market?

Look,

you said you're first born.

So you expect more children.

If you get this out of your system, you make it up with Ruth.

She's aching worse than you are, Mike.

Maybe she's right.

My fault.

Case of the Laskus.

Listen.

Hey, look at me.

What have you done that's so terrible?

Huh? Who have you hurt?

Oh, Mike, you gotta eat.

I don't need another mother, Ben. Who says so?

You gotta eat for strength.

Whatever else you got going on down in Cuba, I don't wanna hear.

Real nice!

No, you don't want Charlie to hear any of that.

Whatever the hell it is.

I guess you tell me when you're ready.

Look, we grew up with Charlie right out of the slime.

We're gonna grow up with him, too.

Listen, he's making other commitments, Michael.

Marin's idol.

Deals with Vito Genovese and whatever else he's going for.

When he gets what he wants, he's not going to love us any less. He's just

going to have other responsibilities.

So where do we stand?

Hey, Mike, my marriage ain't no bed of roses.

Whose fault is that?

Now you're talking.

Benjamin Siegel, head of the class.

Some class.

I love Stella.

I swear to God, Mike, I love her.

You know, I see another girl, and I like that, too.

Is that a crime?

I don't understand that kind of love.

For me, there's only Ruth.

You tell her that?

I've told her.

So tell her again.

I'll tell her. Stella will tell her.

Let me tell you something.

When Stella told me she was pregnant, I thought I was going to have a fit.

But I told her how happy I was.

Like in the movies.

Everybody does it like in the movies.

Then the baby came.

Then you know what happened?

I got happy.

I fell in love with my daughter.

You see, Mike?

And that's the way it's going to be with your son.

I keep thinking what kind of life they'll have, you know.

You sure you're not thinking about what kind of life you're going to have?

Who are you feeling sorry for?

You or him?

I have to reason it out.

You're looking for reasons. Mike, they don't give you any reasons.

Look, there's good luck and there's bad luck. You're telling me my life's a crap

game, Beth?

What do you think it is?

Hello, Dad. Look, so I'm out today. No visitors, okay? Hey, you come to my

territory, I get to visit.

I have to talk to Michael. It's important.

All right, look, I'll tell him, okay?

Alone, Benny.

Between friends.

I'll get him.

Michael, wake up. You got a visitor. King Solomon.

Would you like to place a call, please, to Mrs. Benjamin Siegel in Skarsgård,

New York?

Hello?

It took you long enough. I thought maybe you walked out of me again.

Why would I walk out? I don't hear from you for four days. Why would I do that?

I'm in Boston.

What? I'm in Boston with Michael.

With Michael?

That's why you couldn't take time to make a phone call, huh?

Look, Stella, you want to talk to him?

He's a basket case. He's coming apart.

What am I supposed to do, call home for permission?

Maybe you like it better if I'm locked up here with three girls. Give me a

break, will you, Stella?

I tell the truth for once, like I promised, and I get my head knocked off.

What is that?

Honest, Ben.

So help me God, Stella.

It's Michael.

Have you talked to Ruth?

Yeah, she's coming home from the hospital tomorrow with the baby.

All right, I'll tell him.

Look, I'll call you again in the morning.

Stell, I just remembered something.

I love you very much.

Sorry, Benny.

It's okay.

You want to sign an affidavit for my wife?

Hey. I've got enough trouble with my own, huh?

It's over, Benny.

Just like that?

Just like that.

We're going back.

Roy, I'll take care of it.

Sorry.

You think I'd let you raise him, huh?

What are you talking about? He's just sitting there and all of a sudden he

snaps out of it? I don't know, Charlie.

He was laying on the bed most of the time.

More dead than alive.

The talk itself blew.

The baby, Ruth, Stella, you, me, my kid, us.

Nothing got through.

I've known him since I was six. I never saw him like that.

Then Solomon came in.

They talked maybe five minutes.

Five minutes.

Next thing I know, he was putting on his tie.

We came back like nothing ever happened.

He didn't tell me what went on.

I'm sorry, Mike.

What's done is done.

I've got a message from King Solomon.

Your friend Maranzano, he's planning to kill you.

You and Vito.

How?

An outsider.

Vinnie Cole.

Maranzano wants to keep the Italians out of it.

I don't know when.

Who told Solomon?

Let it go at that, Charlie.

Solomon says that's all he wants you to know.

Hey, Michael, I want to know who. We're not playing games here. I want to know

where it came from.

Tommy Lucchese.

And that's as inside as you can get.

Well?

Are you coming to bed?

No Are you ever coming to bed

No Okay,

just so I know

Lock the door, Charlie.

This is no good.

I don't like this, Charlie.

Every car I pass, everybody I see with a hand in their pocket, I feel like a

bullet's coming to my head.

Hey, Vito, you still got your head?

Lassa Lassa, huh?

Somebody here?

Maybe it's you, Charlie.

Huh?

You know Marizano says he wants us both dead, right?

Well, maybe it's just me he wants.

If I wanted you dead, Vito, all I'd have to do is say two words to Benny.

I'd say, Benny, do Vito.

You're not dead, are you?

So I guess I don't want you dead.

So why don't you relax and stop acting like a damn fool and put that thing

away. You're in my home.

and take her things, Charlie, and I figure that the only thing that

Maranzano's got on me is this Cosa di Femina.

You know, I mean, come on, he's a Mama Luke.

Why would anybody want to kill me? I don't understand him.

Yeah. A sweet guy like you, Vito.

Okay, I'm leaving, Charlie.

Listen, you want to be cute, you be cute with your Jew friends. This is me,

Charlie. Now something's going on around here. I want to know what it is.

Who says that Maranzano wants the heads?

I got that from you, Charlie.

That's the word from a friend. Now, this friend thinks that he owes me his life.

Maybe he thinks that, and maybe he doesn't.

He says that Vincent Call is going to be the shooter, while Call is scrapping

around with Dutch Schultz, just like Maranzano.

Now, wouldn't that be a nifty little trick, Vito?

Dutch Schultz turns us loose on Call and Maranzano at the same time.

So this Dutch Schultz, he's a regular Gemma Machiavelli, right?

What you're telling me, Charlie, is that Schultz is pitting us between Maranzano

and Call, right?

You said it.

What's our move?

We wait.

Yeah.

Charlie.

Hello, Sal.

These must be very busy times, Charlie.

I don't see you for a few days.

Yeah, well, like you say, these are busy times.

Senti, this Dutch shows business.

We make a plan once and for all, huh?

I want to see Vito, too.

Maybe drop by the office tomorrow.

Say, three o'clock, all right?

Three o'clock sounds fine.

Vito, too, huh?

See you then.

Take care of yourself, Charlie.

He wants to see us.

I guess we can't wait too long.

It's over Mr.

Cooper come on in make yourself comfortable

Just like we said.

I'm a Treasury Department officer. I shouldn't be doing this.

We're all sworn to support the public interest, Mr. Cooper.

That's a nice little boat you got out in Connecticut.

I'm not even going to ask how you got the money to buy it. But in about 20

minutes, a couple of prohibition agents, they're personal friends of mine.

These friends are going to board your boat.

Somebody must have told them they might find some bootleg booze there, so they

might just turn up a few bottles.

You know what they're going to do then, Mr. Cooper?

They're going to confiscate your booze.

Then they're going to confiscate your boat.

Now the booze, they'll just pour into the crystal waters of our lovely Long

Island Sound.

Your boat they'll put up for auction to the highest bidder, which might just be

me if no one else shows up.

And that's a very definite possibility, unless you can help me out with my

little arrangement with Mr. Maranzano.

You just tell him he's got this little tax problem.

Eagle Construction, Mr. Sherman. Hi.

Will Cooper, Internal Revenue.

Yeah, sure, Lou. What can I do for you?

I just wanted you to know, for whatever it's worth to you, and to me, the Bureau

wants Mr.

Maranzano's books.

They already sent some agents out.

Thanks, Lou.

Mr. Maranzano, I just got a call.

Contact at the tax office. They're sending some people over to look at the

books. Tell them to come back another time, huh? Not today.

I can't do that, Mr. Maranzano. They're already on their way.

I don't need this today.

Tell them I'm not here, huh?

Tell them to come back.

Yes, sir.

Laurie, you sure the books are all right?

The all right books are all right.

Then you better get out of here.

The Federals.

Have a look, Casey Gagliano, to get the result.

Yes, sir.

All right, that's enough for today.

Just leave it.

We got some tax people coming over. Mr.

Maranzano doesn't want us hanging around.

Federal agents.

Treasurer. Put your hands up.

I said put up your hands.

What's going on?

What do you want?

We want to see Salvatore Maradona. He didn't come in today. I got an

appointment with him at his home.

Are you his accountant?

Yes, sir. One of them. Yeah, we better keep you meeting. He's got a little

visit at home, too.

Here, sign this.

Sign what? For what? Sign that we took your guns.

Do it, Tommy.

got a wallet well sure we got to mr marzano you don't mind if we look inside

Mr. Manzano, we got some people from the treasury here.

I see.

You're on out of my place of business.

All right.

The government is always welcome here.

Here's a subpoena for your books.

A subpoena?

Have I committed a crime?

We'll let you know after we look at your books.

Of course, I will respect your opinions.

This is not necessary, gentlemen.

We have nothing to hide here.

The tax collector and the citizen.

Even in the time of imperial Rome, they faced each other with drawn daggers.

The mark of civilization, gentlemen.

The decree that we must always face each other as enemies, suspicious at best,

violent at worst, and stand before the law.

Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.

Maranzano was dead, killed on the orders of Charlie Luciano.

Disarmed, Lucchese and Gagliano fled at the sound of gunshots, and Maranzano's

own plot to use the services of the mercenary Vincent called backfired.

Let me

get

out of here.

$2.25.

Oy, oy, oy.

No knocks on the nose?

When I was a kid and we used to play pinochle, you told me that when I beat

you, we could play for money.

Waited 16 years for this.

All right already.

That's two.

It hurts, doesn't it?

It's my ice cream money.

This meeting, Charlie, that comes from the murder of Maranzano?

That makes the meeting possible.

You killed him, Charlie?

I was at the races, Mr. Goodman.

Dead box.

New hat for Chicago.

It's beautiful.

Maybe it'll bring you better luck than Atlantic City to stop the killing.

We'll see.

We'll see? What will we see, Charles?

What?

To put an end to violence with violence?

To stop guns with guns?

Not in this world, my friend. Not in this world.

The war in France to end all wars.

In Germany, already there's this Adolf Hitler.

Soon it begins again.

You think with you it will be different?

Why?

Because you have a good heart?

Where will that take you?

To put your best friend against the wall?

To make a peaceful world?

The thing with Benny Siegel was a trick. We never stopped being friends.

And next time?

The other things you've done, Charlie, they're not tricks.

I have never done anything in my life that I'm ashamed of.

Why? Because you had to?

I'll tell you the saddest words in the whole language.

You want to hear them?

What else could I do?

I think we've gone as far as we can go, Mr. Goodman.

Maybe one last question.

Is there anyone, anyone in this whole world, Mr.

Luciano, who can talk to you like I do?

No.

Nobody else for me. That's a compliment from a very powerful man But for you,

that's another sad song

Don't

forget your head

Your dead friend, Maranzano, maybe he could have told you something about

Aristotle. You know what Aristotle said?

He said, we're all animals.

That's all we are.

A man made perfect by society, that's the best of all the animals.

But when he lives without law and without justice, he's the worst of all

the animals.

That Aristotle, Charlie, was a smart Greek.

Thanks for that.

Capone's hospitality.

Don't say he don't treat you right in Chicago.

Hey, somebody help me here.

Hey,

Pauly.

Pauly!

What are you, Pazzo? I got a business meeting.

Pleasure before business. We got Vanessa, we got Claire, we got Chris

here. Hi.

Get out your knife. Get out your knife.

That's great.

Very nice.

Very nice.

I'm Vanessa.

A million dollars a bottle of champagne?

We can't get into it. Everybody's thirsty here. We've got party time.

I'm Claire.

What's your name?

Mrs. Chris, would you like to stay and have a drink with me? My pleasure, Mr.

Luciano. You can take your pick, any or all of them, you know.

This is it. Chris.

Out. Come on. Out.

Onward. Out.

Come on, we got another stop. Mr. Bugsy Siegel. Come on, girls.

Oh, okay.

Bye. See you next time.

Good night.

Bye-bye.

So here we are.

Here we are.

I thought you went to Florida.

I guess I got bored.

And back to Capone.

Well, a girl's got to make a living.

Nobody here was waiting for me.

What about that business with Dutch Schultz?

Oh, it blew over. Everything does.

Everything doesn't.

I don't want you here, Chris.

Where do you want me?

Whoops, sorry.

So, what's her name? Joy.

How's Joy?

She's fine.

Good.

Nice girl, your girl.

Whose health shall we drink to? Chris.

She's a nice girl, too.

I don't think Al's going to fight you, not with Marizano dead.

He didn't even squawk about Michael and Ben coming here.

And that's your last message from Mata Hari.

Thank you. Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

All right, I'll be right there.

Thank you for your help. I've got business.

Charlie, you don't have to tell me that you love me.

Just tell me that you like him.

Wait for me. Oh, that's nice too.

In Chicago, Charlie Luciano again tries to fulfill the dream that had escaped

him two years earlier in Atlantic City.

There would no longer be a boss of all bosses, but rather a national

confederation of allies.

All the families would be equal.

A democracy of crime.

You've been generous.

You've been more than generous.

With your gifts, these envelopes, this money that you bring.

You bring me the fortune of an emperor.

Like your tribute to Salvatore Maranzano, the last Cabo di Dutica.

But our friend has passed away.

And I suggest to you...

Let this... This poem.

This title.

Boss of all bosses be buried with him.

All the good men who died in the Castellammarese War.

They did not go to their graves to give me such a power.

Today, there is no boss of bosses.

Nobody will pay tribute.

The money will be returned.

There are men here who played no part in the war. Strong men from strong cities.

Their parents spoke different languages than our parents.

But like us, you welcome a time of peace.

The war died with Joe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano.

Not so easy, Charlie.

We all got memories.

We all lost friends, relatives.

Not so easy to sit down and eat with your enemies.

Let the dead bury the dead out.

Thank you, Dutch.

We need rules so that we can make our own lives easier. To keep us from

stepping on each other's tails.

To stop the wars.

To put an end to the killing in the streets.

The scandals. The headlines.

For ourselves.

To ourselves!

politicians who help us. God bless you.

Now we're talking about a different kind of war.

We're faced with a different kind of war.

This crime commission in New York.

That's a war against us.

Against all of us as a family.

And you're going to find the same thing in Detroit.

You're going to find it in Cleveland. You're going to find it in New Orleans.

And they're going to keep digging at us in the ribs.

So what are we going to do?

We're going to disappear.

Let the newspapers find other targets, but not us.

We got these crazy bank robbers running around in Oklahoma and Kansas.

They can grab the headlines.

Here we go. Frank Costello, huh?

We're going to put him in charge of the crazy bank robberies.

What's your ideas, Charlie?

Today the books are closed.

No group, no family is going to make itself stronger without the permission

of all of us.

That goes for your outfit, too, Charlie.

That goes for all of us, Dutch.

Maranzano made a law that no one would turn a hand against another member.

He said the punishment for that would be death.

Now, he decided that for himself.

If we decide that, if we all agree on that, we can make it a good law.

That'll finish the wars.

That's a nice world you got there, Charlie.

But we got enemies outside this room.

If we had them before, we'll have them again.

What if we have to go for the gun?

Then we decide on it.

When it's necessary.

When we all think it's necessary.

You got a lot of power in New York, Charlie.

What if you decide different?

My voice isn't any stronger than anyone else's. It's one vote, Mo.

One vote.

If we all say yes, then it's yes.

Then the offended party is out of it.

No one executes his own enemy.

But the work will be left up to somebody else.

A special group.

Experts with no personal connection.

That's a lot of power right there, Charlie.

Who you got in mind?

Three leaders.

Ben Siegel, Lucky Buckhalter, Albert Anastasia.

Siegel's your own man.

Is he working for you or is he working for us?

Your point is well taken.

Lefty and Anastasia.

Most of us made our money through prohibition.

Next year, there's an election.

Prohibition isn't going to last.

We can last.

The country is in a depression.

Banks are losing their money.

We have the money.

The old power is being broken.

We have the power. We can have more power. We can have it all.

If we don't turn the country against us, I've made my proposition.

If anybody feels that there's a better way, I'll listen and I'll be guided.

If anybody disagrees, tell us now.

So let's start.

Thank you, Charlie.

A brilliant and daring innovation.

We'll see, Charlie. But Dutch Schultz had uttered a haunting prophecy.

We'll see, Charlie.

We'll see.

Thank you.

Charlie, thank you. You did it, Charlie.

You're a big winner. Joe, thank you.

You know why you're a winner, Charlie?

Why am I a winner?

You're a winner because you're right.

Not Atlantic City. That was too early.

First you had to take care of Maranzano Mazzeria.

Now it's right.

Sure.

All this kicking each other around. Had to stop somewhere.

Now any one of us turns against anyone else, he's a dead man. I like that,

Charlie. You know what you got?

You got my respect.

I want to do something for you.

This girl, this Chris, you like her, huh?

We've met a couple of times.

She's yours.

Yeah. My gift. Me to you.

A present. Board and paper, huh?

You enjoy.

Come here.

Dirt.

Come on. You will.

Hey, Alaska.

I got a good money man, Jake Guzik.

You have dinner with him.

Maybe you can teach him a few things, huh?

Some other time, Al. We're leaving tonight.

Charlie, don't.

Chris.

Chrissy, what happened?

You missed all the fun.

Capone's friends, they were here.

He knew about us. God almighty.

He was hitting me. He wanted to hurt me. This is the only way he could do it.

I've never asked you for anything, Charlie.

I'm asking you now.

Do it to him.

Do it the same way to him.

I can't.

I can't, Chris. Things are changing. Everything is changing. I can't explain,

but if I hit him now, I lose everything that I've built.

I lost you, Charlie.

I know.

I know.

Chrissy, I'll make it up to you.

I'll make it up to you.

You're going to get everything that you need, Chrissy.

You give me a year or two, I'm going to take care of Capone. You get your

revenge out.

I don't want it that way.

Chrissy, leave it to me.

I know what I'm talking about.

I know what I'm saying.

A year or two.

I'm sorry.

Just leave me alone here, all right?

You can do that for me, can't you, darling?

You're a real bastard.

In the midst of America's economic chaos, there were those who planned for

additional wealth, greater social advantage, and the pursuit of political

power. These plans were made on Wall Street, in Washington, D.C., in state

capitals, and by three young men returning to New York on a railroad

train that sped through the night.

Not so bad for three kids who used to have to scramble for their next deal.

Only in America, Charlie.

You got it all.

We've got it all.

But, together.

Trust me, Michael.

And Benny.

Trust me.

If we trust each other, we can have everything that we've ever dreamed of.

Maybe we already have, though.

Thomas Dewey an ambitious young man who knew that a prosecutor's path to success

would require triumph over impressive opponents

Salvatore Lucania.

Someone they call Charlie Luciano, isn't it?

Yes, sir.

Charlie Luciano, Michael Lasker, and Ben Siegel were hardened criminals.

They lived in a violent world.

Like the others in that world, they lived by the gun and by a cruelty that

would someday destroy them.

Street blues as Hill and Ranko's patrol car becomes a delivery room.

Right after the news, Margot Kidder hosts Saturday Night Live.

Sunday night on Disney, the surprise conclusion of the castaway cowboy. Then,

Ponch and John protect Hollywood's biggest stars from a landslide on chips.

And Burt Reynolds and Sally Field star in the end. Sunday.