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Look, you get a half a million in cash. You call a meeting, you're counting out

the money. Benny. What?

Charlie and I decided now's the time.

So what do you think?

Are we wrong about now? Look, we three know that Prohibition's going.

We plan to put the combination into gambling, labor, and the money business

someday. And you two decided to go without my say-so. The point is, you

should have waited for me. No, the point is that we're in the middle of this

politician's war, Benny, and they're not waiting for us. We have to move, we have

to get bigger in order to survive.

Charlie, I'm two floors up. You can yell out the window if the phone doesn't

work. I called you, Benny. You were too busy to come down. You didn't tell me

what it was about. You didn't want to hear. Excuse me, Michael.

Ben, from now on, I don't discuss anything with you as long as you've got

some debutante occupying your other ear. No more talking business in front of

Dane. I don't do that anymore.

Get the phone.

You're always letting your personal life get in the way of business.

Mr. Ross is... They're cutting into your business time.

Yeah, hold on, Walter.

What, are we checking each other's bedsheets now, Charlie?

Walter Winston.

No, this is the first I heard of it.

Look, you know I'd tell you more if I knew more.

I know I owe you for what you told me about Roosevelt.

I'll let you know if I hear anything.

Person's unknown to the police just rubbed out Peter Cole.

Bernie's going to become even harder for Schultz now.

If we know we're Dutchess, maybe we ought to let Colin know. Oh, that's an

idea. Staying out of the war is a better idea.

Learn to use a lawyer and accountant as well as you use a gun.

We're not kids anymore. We don't have to carry each other. Oh, is that what we've

been doing?

That's where it's been getting.

Charlie, I carried you with Montserrat.

I know, Ben.

Sounded like you forgot.

Back upstairs to the dames?

Broad's upstairs up there celebrating.

Stella's for when he's got troubles.

He's going home.

You know, it's dull to know when somebody's hurting you. She's hurting.

She's getting another tooth. I told you that on the phone yesterday.

Here.

Here. Listen to this.

Ooh,

that's good. Here, you try that.

Here, go ahead. Okay, let me do it.

Gotta give her more than that.

Sweetie. And how's her daddy?

It's Michael and Charlie.

You know, three guys grew up together.

And they're friends.

And two of them gang up on the other one.

Business, what?

No, well, they just made some decisions without asking me first.

I mean, I'll even make some money on the deal. It's still a big thing.

Oh, Benny.

Friends are the people you choose. They come and they go and they can do

anything they want.

But family is forever.

I guess you can't change your family, right?

Your family can't get rid of you.

I know.

You stick around, kiddo. You haven't seen nothing yet.

And did you know that February 28th is the biggest holiday of the year in this

house? What,

my birthday is? Yes, your birthday.

I'm getting old, so I'll be 26.

You're going to have a full head of hair when you're a grandfather, and I'm still

going to love you.

The worst you get from family is apricot in your hair.

And my girls. What do I do for my girls?

More of this.

And we're not the only family you got, you know.

You got a brother who can go to college if you help him.

I got a brother who can help you if you help him, Benny.

You can trust him. Davey's family, really. Just like us, you can trust him.

Stella, he wouldn't be driving for me if I didn't trust him. I know, but what

kind of money does he make driving?

Well, honey, I know it looks bad, but he's got to learn the business first.

That's all.

Right?

I want to do something with you upstairs I don't want to do with Davey.

Is it nighttime soon?

Right now.

Right now.

Isn't it?

You like green?

Yeah.

Why? Why?

Come on.

What are you up to?

Hey, kid, what's the matter with you? You get away from the car, you stay away

from the car.

Do you drive this thing?

I guess so. Why?

Because I bought it for you.

How come?

How come?

Yeah. Why not is how come?

Oh, don't kid me, Dutch.

You want Charlie to see me driving by myself in a car so he'll follow me back.

Let me tell you something. Not everything is about Charlie Luciano.

I just wanted you to go for a ride in the country if you want.

It's really for me?

Every bit.

I know he never bought you anything he didn't want to use for his business.

That's not even why I got it for you.

I bought it for you.

Because. Because you're you.

Look, it's even got carpet in the trunk.

Cole used

ice picks on him.

This man is my soldier. He should have shot him.

Oh, what difference does it make?

It makes a difference.

There are rules.

Luciano can wait.

This I make right myself.

Leo, I thought things would be easier with Legs gone.

Why should Seabury care about somebody like Legs Diamond?

Seabury cares about riding the headlines.

And Legs Diamond's death gave him a banner headline.

Charlie, I'm going to have to retire.

Come on, what are you talking about? A retired assistant chief of police won't

give Seabury a headline.

Like, doesn't Seabury understand that what he's trying to ruin is the only

thing that's ever made politics work?

Tammany used to say, reformers is like morning glories, they bloom and die.

Just our bad luck, Seabury's in full bloom now. Tell me something, Leo. Who's

he after, us or our politicians?

The politicians.

But the reform movement may get out of control, go beyond the politicians to

you guys.

You ought to back off, Charlie. I ought to back off? Why don't you go tell that

to Dutch Schultz? He goes gunning for Vinnie Call and all of a sudden these

reform people come down on our head.

All we need now is some ambitious politician.

That's Tom Dewey, the assistant U.S. attorney. I introduced you to him once.

Watch out for him, Charlie. He's a hungry man.

I'm not that worried about him, Leo. If he ever gets high enough to reach his

hand, that will take care of him. Maybe, but while he's climbing, he's dangerous.

Look at Roosevelt.

He's got his eye on the White House.

And he's scared of looking like a crook to the rest of the country if he calls

Seabury off of Mayor Walker and Tammany Hall.

Politicians.

What about you, Leo?

You're taken care of for retirement.

I get $2,000 a year pension.

Michael put me under some AT&T stock.

I lost a bit when a bank folded, but you've been very generous, Charlie.

I thank you for all.

It's all right.

The department's losing a good man. It's a shame, Leo.

I'm not worried.

After a while, the work doesn't mean as much as the ones you love you do it for.

She's a lovely lady, Charlie. You're a lucky man.

Do you want her back?

What I want and what I need are two different things, Leo.

Hey, how you doing?

Buona sera. Buona sera, Vito.

Can I talk to you now?

Charlie, with respect, I must excuse myself from your dinner tonight.

Personal matter?

Vito, if a man gets obsessed with a woman, he can forget what he has to do

in respect, even if he remembers the words of respect.

Now, you come all the way uptown to tell me that you can't be here.

Don't get so full of Gina that you forget respect.

I know how to do the right thing.

Never had to give an order to Vito Genovese.

I suggest you don't put your personal life before business.

Vito, please understand, this is only a suggestion as friends.

Hey, we know you'll do the right thing.

Thank you, Flank.

Okay. I should stop you.

You've been yelling.

The

bankers,

the mine owners, the railroad operators, they couldn't eat better food. They

couldn't wear finer suits. In that respect, they're no different from us.

We're rich.

We're very rich.

But we're not rich in our heads. We've got a problem with money in our heads.

Tommy, tell him about Gags.

He's got the tin box makers and the shovel makers working on a depression.

He buries his cash, huh? In the backyard.

The rich people, they don't have a problem with money.

They sell the money for interest, they become even more rich.

We have to show the guys how to do that.

Tommy, there's $100,000 in there. I want you to loan it to people. It's $6 for

five. That's 20% a week.

Ben, Michael, and I want 2% a week.

That leaves a profit of 18% for your family.

That's very generous.

We want the guys coming out of Prohibition as independent businessmen.

We think they'll like this business.

The other families will see how well it works, and they'll go into their

backyard and dig up their money.

What about if the guy who borrows doesn't pay back his interest every

week? We bust his head? No, no.

That's wrong.

If a borrower gets behind, we let him find other borrowers. We pay him a

commission. We turn a bad account into a salesman. Boom.

We made a friend.

Lepke, you're gonna get a half a million dollars to give to the garment industry.

Delighted.

Charlie, I would like to work with Lepke and Gore in the garment industry on

this, too.

Sure.

Gore will go along.

Good. We need more of this. More of a combination.

What if the garment makers don't need to borrow?

Lep and Tommy gonna tell the drivers and cutters this thing?

Create the need to borrow. That's a great idea, Ben.

Thank you.

It's a hell of an idea, Ben.

It's a very good idea, Michael.

They call a strike.

The owners can't sell. They have to borrow. The strikers don't get paid.

They have to borrow. We take with both hands.

They dominate the whole industry.

You got anything against that, Michael?

No, no.

Just make sure you and Tommy use the money and not the muscle when you're

working in the rag trade, huh?

All right, all right.

Uh, is it okay with everyone if we do the same with the furriers and the, uh,

hat makers?

There's no reason why we can't do it everywhere.

There's one exception, though. There's a business called Goodman Hats.

Nobody does business with Mr. Goodman except to buy hats.

Agreed? Personal matter.

Personal matter.

Sure.

Just make friends, you know.

Use the money to make friends.

And let's not lose the friends that we've already got.

In and out of business.

Oh,

graceful as an ox.

It's all right.

What do you mean, ox?

More like a bull.

You take yourself.

Gina, are you safe?

What is this, Cesare? Forgive me. From the street, I thought I saw someone

attacking you.

Waving his arms.

I didn't know.

No one attacked me.

You saw this man hanging curtains for me when you were spying.

No, never.

Your husband did the natural thing for a man.

He came to protect you with his bare hands.

You should be proud, Gina.

I brought some confetti for you and Gina.

Have a piece.

I insist.

Thank you.

through people of our village.

They should know of Cesare's bravery.

Wouldn't that be good, Cesare?

But it can't be told.

These people, they turn the truth to malicious gossip.

Come mortari vam.

They take everything that's pure and innocent and spit it out dirt.

I give you my word.

I'm going to put an end to this gossip that dishonors us.

I will make it cease.

Over the line.

All right, we're alone. What's eating you?

We started out tonight putting money into the loan business.

We end up saying we're going to control the garment industry.

I don't see anything wrong.

It just happens. It's like the money made up its own mind. That's what's

wrong. We let the money control us. We didn't think about it, and that can hurt

us very badly. What's the difference between taking a monopoly in liquor and

taking a monopoly in the garment business? Come on, Charlie.

Everybody always wanted liquor. We sold them ours.

You take an industry, you take a union from people, you're taking something

that belongs to them.

Sometimes they might just want us out.

He wants to be loved.

No, no, not loved, just not hated.

Mike, a lot of people work in the garment industry.

And we make the owners recognize their unions, and we take a lot of boats with

us to the Democratic Convention, if Lepke's way lets us.

I'll talk to Tommy.

I'll make sure that he and Lep are heroes to the unions and to the owners.

We can protect it from Carl and Schultz.

Look at that.

You hear that? That's Mommy playing the piano.

Hey. Hi, John.

Hello.

He loves music.

Hi,

Rod.

Oh, tell us the good news.

Well, Dr. Hendrickson's been working with a metallurgical engineer developing

copper alloys for orthopedic braces.

This is the right alloy, the right brace.

This little guy's leg might get streaked by itself.

Just a brace and time.

That's all.

Kinahora. What does that mean?

It means the worst shouldn't be.

Charlie didn't teach me that much Yiddish.

He wants to know how you're doing.

Well, I miss him a lot.

Tell me if Dr.

Hendrickson ever invents a pill to cure the impossible.

Well, glad I picked a day to visit the most married couple in New York.

about Richie.

I'll kiss you all now and leave you to it.

Ruth, bye.

See you, kid.

I'll walk you to the doctor.

It's good seeing you, Joy.

Come back, okay?

I'd like to know Ruth's gonna play a piano again.

Michael, does Charlie talk about me?

I mean, how does he feel?

Well, he hurts.

He keeps your picture in a suite.

You want me to tell him something?

I don't know.

Where am I with Charlie?

He knows you're gone.

I'll just have to leave it that way and stand it.

See?

You want to help me put him to bed?

You don't believe I can give you money without grifting to take more away?

I'm giving you money so you can make money.

It's more than my father ever did.

Greeny, if I was your father, I'd say, Hershel, my son, we stopped the war so

you could make money.

You mean the combination with the mafia so you could make money.

I'm not your father.

I'm not from the old country where a Cossack cut your head off for looking

rich and happy.

Mafia guys say we have the moxie.

Use it.

Ben's right.

This idea of Michael's that we should lend money is a great idea.

Why don't we go for a ride, dearie?

Michael wouldn't have had the idea if you hadn't had it first, Ben.

You're not just saying that because you're my brother-in-law, are you?

You know, Stella used to play one of these things, Mike.

I think I'm gonna buy her one.

What's wrong with you?

I want you to tell me this is true.

All right?

You, me, and Charlie, we used to walk shoulder to shoulder together.

Now you and Charlie, you leave me a step and a half behind.

You don't tell me where you're going, I don't know if we're going together.

We're not kids anymore.

Should we be kids?

No, but Charlie spends all his time with this mafia thing. Hell, he's more mafia

now than he ever was. Mafia's had its own ways for a long time, Mike. He used

to be different, Mike.

Come on.

You knew what would happen when they made him a Don.

That's what he wanted.

He's got his own.

And you want your own thing down in Cuba.

And everybody in America's gonna go down and play blackjack under the coconuts.

That's right.

I'm going to have my own casino because I'm putting money in back of Batista.

It's a place for everybody in Cuba, Benny.

Oh, Mike, what about me? What have I got? I got a bunch of slammers like

Greeny. I want to look for something of my own, Mike.

I'm not asking for permission, and I'm not asking for you and Charlie to decide

the right thing for me, either. That's good.

All right, that's good.

That better be good.

Something of my own, Mike.

And I want a lawyer, and I want an accountant, too.

What the lawyer and accountant don't know, I'll teach you so you can teach

them.

Look, Charlie will be glad you're going on your own, too.

Each of us is going to make sure the other two go with strength. And we do

go, we go as friends.

Even if we do live in the same city, go to the same shows, work at the same

place. All right?

I worry for nothing.

That Ben Siegel's heap?

Who wants to know?

Bo Weinberg, as if you don't know Davey Levine.

You getting anything off the bar except tips?

You don't call him that.

That Schultz does well enough by me.

I can afford it.

You let me know if you ever wanna.

Let's go.

We'll let this man think in peace.

Who was that you were talking to?

A little like Bo Weinberg to me.

Some guy was asking where's the Museum of Natural History.

God, that really made it going.

Used to be a little shop when I was a kid.

Come on, let's go in.

I used to come here a lot when I was a kid.

Remember me, Benny Siegel?

My daughter's not here.

She doesn't work here now.

I don't believe I've ever met your daughter. And I'm married to a very nice

girl.

I'd like to meet my brother-in-law, Davey.

Hi.

I remember another Benny.

My daughter remembers every day of her life.

Mr. Cutler, if you and I do business together, you tell me if you want this

other one found.

You tell me personally.

Look, why do you come here now?

You're looking to sell at the bar.

To make sure your business runs in peace.

I want to talk to you about labor relations and the union here.

I won't have a union.

You just might be better off.

I want to talk to you about something I want you to consider.

What's with you, him, and his daughter?

Nothing. He remembered wrong.

The Stella doesn't have to know about an old baker remembering wrong, right?

Right. Look out.

Look how they drive.

Benny, uh, all this stuff you sold Cutler about the union officers being

ours?

They're not ours yet.

No, I know they're not ours yet.

See, Cutler'd say no if I told him they weren't ours yet.

Look, Davey, I can't give you this unless you learn how to think.

If you can't think, I gotta give it to Green.

Right? I can think.

All right.

New York laborers cut and sewed 60% of America's clothing.

The total value of wages and profits was too high to be ignored.

Labor unions were struggling for recognition.

Some of labor's leaders fought to keep the gangsters out.

Others, too willingly, let them in.

Bye-bye, Sam.

My friend Sam Lewis, he owns Dick Stein Gay Suits.

How's his business?

Before yesterday, it was good, considering the depression.

Now he has a strike, he has to borrow cash.

Now Lepke, Tommy Lucchese, and Gagliano are his business.

Charlie Luciano is his business.

Does Charlie Luciano have to be my friend's business?

We can offer him peace from the unions.

Peace is good.

Labor and capital should be at peace.

But Charlie Luciano takes peace from the soul of a man like Sam Lewis?

He'll feel better when he sees what's reasonable.

Is that a promise to me or a lie to Charlie Luciano?

No, you don't lie to me.

God, Mr. Dewey.

He has brass gut.

Golly! It's a lovely crowd.

So many familiar faces.

So few politicians.

Seabury's scaring people out of all the speaks.

He's a real pill, isn't he, Charlie?

The Seabury Commission is loaded with pills, Dutchick. It's very expensive

having politicians cry all over your shoulders.

Well, maybe you pay too much for your clothes.

Worse things may happen to you, Charlie, than the Seabury Commission.

Would that be all right with you?

Why don't you ask me if and when?

If you were around.

You look very beautiful today.

Oh, and you like it? Do you like it, Charlie?

Yeah, I thought you would.

You like all your old memories, don't you, all your old friends?

I had people try to find you.

Whatever for, Charlie?

Let's say for old time's sake.

Oh, you're just a sentimental guy.

You, Charlie?

Yeah, didn't you know? He'll do anything for old time's sake.

You become Mr. Goodman's partner yet, Charlie?

I hear he does a very good business.

You got a piece of the action?

You're here to talk old time's touch?

No.

Oh, I'm here to take your money.

I'll tell you what.

You've got a chance at my tables.

And if you win, you can buy some candles to light for the guy that Cole stuck in

your car.

Vinnie Cole.

He's a terrible man, Charlie.

Have a good time at the Partridge Club.

Put the gun back in the drawer. You're not going to have to use it. I didn't

bring it.

What are you talking about? You didn't bring it. What were you going to do if

it got noisy down there? Stare him to death? Come on, Charlie. You wouldn't

let that happen.

And you didn't.

Did it look like I backed down?

No.

The troops won't think so either.

Don't think you controlled it because you did.

Troops.

They think that I'm so much in control that they dropped their guard and they

let Schultz come walking into this club.

Schultz and Chris insulted me, Michael. They insulted me about Mr. Goodman.

They're going too far. You wanted to make it a personal matter. You didn't

let him.

He lost downstairs.

You want him to win up here?

In your head?

What are you doing here? I'm slumming.

Slumming's anywhere you are.

Hmm.

Bugsy Siegel.

You picked quite a night to take me on a tour of the underworld.

What about the third owner of the Partridge Club?

Was it Lenzer? Michael Lasker. He's probably in the office.

You know, Mr. Dewey, the most remarkable thing about Schultz going in is that he

came out.

You mean to tell me you were here and he walked out alive?

I tell you what this no-shooting rule is for Schultz. It's a license to rub our

noses in it. Would you stop being so Sicilian?

Where were you today?

Took over a bagel bakery downtown, Collar's.

Sold Collar a union that wouldn't ask for higher wages.

I guaranteed them the union jobs.

It was easy.

Green didn't have to hit anybody at all except one union guy. He was a commie

anyway. That's what I did.

What do you know?

Somebody had a good day.

What do you expect to take? Talk business later.

Look, I want to know after Schultz comes in, who's next to have an open house at

the Partridge Club?

Buster from Chicago with his violin case?

Jesse James and his horse?

Yes.

Thanks.

Any call?

No horse.

Charlie?

The money's no good here, Carl.

Sure it is.

As good as Schultz's just was.

We didn't want him, we don't want you.

You can go out any way you want.

Oh.

You're one hard, hard heave, huh?

Come on.

It's your rug your guts will be all over.

And you'll do, since I just missed Dutch Schultz. You got to turn at the wheel,

Cummings.

Just missed a call in the house, if nobody minds.

Vinnie?

Why don't you come up to my office?

You guys are all crazy.

Think you can hold a drink in your colt at the same time?

Smith and Wesson.

You just came up my stairs.

You once came up Maranzano's stairs.

I'm down all the way up.

There's a whole bunch of loud noise up there and a lot of tough guys come

running down.

So I figured... I hear Maranzano gave you a contract to kill me.

Yeah. Well, I can't afford to be turning down business, you know.

Maranzano's food for worms. I'd have to be crazy to keep a contract with a dead

man.

Just business, huh?

I'm sorry about your brother.

Rules or no rules, something's gonna give. I'm keeping an eye over my

shoulder more than ever now.

Nobody's going to get you, Benny.

After last night, they'll just laugh at us and wipe on it.

Michael says we won.

The rules we made in Chicago won.

Schultz and Cole came in spoiling to kill somebody. They missed each other,

they didn't get us.

We didn't lose a drop of blood, we didn't lose a nickel, we didn't lose

time from business hiding out and buying witnesses.

Peace works.

You know, it's good for business.

He's right, you know.

I am right.

What'd you get, Doc?

Benny, tell room service where they can get a better quality bagel, huh?

Hi, Vito. Hi.

Good morning, Vito. Hi, Vito.

What's up? Hey, Charlie. How you doing?

Got some coffee?

Yeah, in a second. Take a look at this.

The way I see it, Charlie, Europe is going to blow sky high.

He's Nazis.

Michael, guys like you and like Benny, guys in our line of work in Germany,

what's the matter? They have the same kind of agreements about not hitting

politicians that we do?

There are no guys like us in Germany.

Not at all.

You may have a gangster union behind you now, but I can still fire you for coming

in late. I'm sorry, Mr. Kotler.

Two guerrillas grabbed me on the street and told me, Tell Kotler the Dutchman

doesn't like his bagels. They told me, tell everyone.

Greeny, how would Schultz know Kotler was mine?

Only our people in Lepke knew that.

Get off the line so I can call Charlie.

The rules.

Peace.

Cole has the nerve to come in. of this club, Dutch Schultz comes waltzing in

here with Chris, and he blows up this thing of Benny's.

Call and Schultz owe us blood. Do you understand that, Michael? I understand

that. I see that.

I also see what we've done.

We started loaning money. We're into the rag trade. We made our rules work,

Charlie.

Killing legs brought the reformers on stronger. All I'm asking is what we gain

and what we lose by hitting Schultz and Call. I'll tell you what we gain. What

we gain is an end of the war, okay?

I'm not talking about putting a hit out ourselves.

We put enemy against enemy. For a price, Call will hit Schultz.

That's it. Why do you really want to call to hit Schultz, Charlie?

What do you suggest? Did I send Benny out after him?

It's a business decision all the way, right?

Not putting Benny out on the street with a gun in his hand. It's personal. It's

personal and business.

What about killing Schultz? What kind of decision is that?

Go ahead, Charlie.

Call Vinnie Cole.

Is killing Dutch about a bakery, or is it about Chris Brennan?

Huh?

All right.

I'll wait till I'm sure.

They can go to the devil.

You know, I'll... If you're seen with me, you're invisible, too.

Nobody looks in my eyes.

We're going to California anyway.

Why don't you come with me, Chesed?

Take a new name.

Dishonor my father.

Dishonor my wife.

I'm forgetting my bird.

Thank you for being my friend, Aldo. But don't ask me to dishonor my wife.

If I go to California with you, my wife is still a married woman in the eyes of

the church.

they were, with their faces, what they were from being strangled?

Cesare Barone and Aldo Musa. You people tie each other up with sash cords so you

strangle yourself nice and slow. People who did this are not my people.

I'm not like them.

Then you'll find the individual who called this in to us but didn't give his

name. Then you'll find witnesses.

Sure you will, patrolman Catania.

I'll find a witness.

When the witness can be sure that the perpetrator will be arrested and brought

before a judge that can't be bought.

Am I out of line?

Who would have done this?

Two rooftops away from the Genovese Trading Company.

Who buys you a hat?

Yeah, Benny, you saw Frank coming in.

No, no, no, there's nothing wrong. I'll talk to you.

Frank.

It's Vito.

What's going on?

Casaldo, did he set it up?

The way it was told to me, Casaldo was just a friend of Cesare's.

Vito's people had a little extra sash caught, and Casaldo was unlucky.

Casaldo was unlucky. I'll tell you what's going on, Frankie.

Vito creates a scandal and it comes down on me. That's what's going on. Now, I

want this thing over tonight. I want an outsider. Somebody outside the family,

you get Albert Anastasia, okay?

It ends tonight.

Hey, Albert.

Vito.

It's funny.

I went to confession today, huh?

The priest refused to give me absolution.

You're out of the neighborhood, Al.

Gotta take you to see Charlie and Frank.

I should bring this to Gina.

No time for that, Zito.

I wish the priest would have given me absolution.

Maybe the rain will wash away my sins, huh?

Listen, I don't have a piece on me, but you do the right thing.

Check me in the car, all right?

Lita, I'll wait for you here.

I apologize, Polly.

You apologize.

I'll add that to the list.

This affair of the heart with Gina Barone was the scandal of the Italian

community with your wife living.

It continues to be a scandal after your wife dies.

Because of this Cesare.

And then the scandal becomes the worst of all because you have this Cesare

killed.

You're under me, Vito.

The scandal comes on me.

You want to say something?

It better be what I want to hear.

I'm sorry.

You're sorry?

Well, somehow all of New York is going to know that you're sorry.

Well, ever since Rose died, I'm not right.

I didn't think. You didn't think.

You didn't think of the problems that you were going to create for me because

now people associate me with a strangler. And that's exactly what I

ought to do to you.

Strangle you.

Frankie, what are the odds of an idiot being my underboss, huh?

The odds don't matter. The problem does.

I'll tell you something. Vito Genovese is not going to be a problem anymore

because you're going to marry this Gina.

You're going to marry her right away. Now, wait a second, Charlie. There's a

problem there, all right? You want me to do something, I'll do it. You want me to

kill myself, Charlie? Go on, I'll do it. You don't got to pull the charade.

You don't go to church regular, I do.

And the bands of marriage, they've got to be posted three weeks before they

perform any kind of ceremony. I can't go against the church.

And you do it in the city hall.

The church isn't going to recognize the marriage. In the eyes of the church,

we've been living in sin, and genius is not going to go for it. You keep telling

me what you can't do, Vito. Well, genius, well, then kill me now, Charlie.

very lucky that Frank is my consigliere because if another man was my

consigliere, he might have stayed home and given me different advice.

All right, take it easy. Look, there's always a way around it. There's always a

way around things. I'll help any way I can.

You're going to go back down to the village and you're going to tell Gina

that she's going to be your wife.

And you're going to stay with her.

You're going to be her husband.

And you're going to be faithful this time, Vito.

And you will never raise your hand to her because if you ever raise your hand

to her and create a scandal again... Terminato.

Babish.

Babish.

Babish.

Thanks for the blessing, John.

I leave it to you, Frankie. Vito gets married right away.

All right, it won't be easy. What's easy?

Gets married right away.

All right, all right.

But how's this business with Vito gonna sit with Michael and Ben?

I don't know.

Might make problems between them and us.

Yeah, well, I respect Michael and Ben.

But there's a thing, this problem with Schultz and Cole.

And as much as I respect your decision to wait...

I'm telling you, these guys are like a cancer.

And if we don't cut them out, they're gonna kill us.

Hey, Charlie, you gotta decide.

And you gotta decide soon.

Buona sera.

Good night, Frank.

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.

Later tonight on The Best of Carson, Johnny welcomes funny man Richard Pryor.

Then the Bee Gees are the hosts of the midnight special with guests Jerry Lee

Lewis and Gladys Knight and the Pips. Tomorrow night, join Barbara Mandrell

and the Mandrell sisters and guest Tennessee Ernie Ford.

And on Bee Jay and the Bear, Bee Jay can't remember who he is or why killers

are after him.

Walking Tall follows tomorrow.