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I'm not tonight.

Cole's probably got himself locked up in a hotel room with a .50 caliber machine

gun.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it is tough luck.

Cooper Jones.

I never wore soap pajamas in my life.

Doesn't that tell you how much help I'd be to you, Dutch?

Yeah.

Speaking of help, maybe it's time you made a phone call.

Whatever you say.

Yeah.

Whatever I say.

Do you still remember Luciano's phone number? Oh, I'm sure.

Hello. Charlie, this is Chris. Listen, please.

Dutch is drinking and crazy again. He's slapped me around.

Bro got him out of here, but I'm afraid he's going to come back and kill me.

Hold on a minute.

Michael.

I'm going to step forward when I get into the other one. Yeah.

Go ahead,

Chris.

Yeah, when he's drinking, he starts saying things like, I'm spying for you.

He thinks it's like when I was...

Can you get out of there?

I don't know.

I couldn't go to friends, Charlie. Dutch would kill anyone who hides me. I had to

call you.

I'm glad you did.

Thank you.

Where should we meet?

Make it by the fountain in Washington Square.

That's Vito's territory.

Right, Washington Square by the fountain.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah, I better go.

Thank you.

Hey, listen.

When you're in Washington Square, you stay seated on the fountain.

Right.

You stay out of the line of fire. Don't you get up.

She's scared Dutch is going to kill her. Yeah, I gathered that.

You going?

I owe her, Michael.

You owe it to her to go to the village without any cover?

Sounds like a setup, Charlie.

Maybe it is, and maybe it's on the level.

And while I'm making up my mind, Schultz could kill her.

Maybe you're letting your personal feelings make the decisions for you.

Maybe Chris and Schultz know that.

I'll have cover.

Call Vito after I leave. If Schultz has soldiers there, there'll be a little

war. We can't afford that, Charlie.

We're paying a lot of cops. Let them check out the situation.

If Chris is on the level, they'll let us know. They'll even protect him.

You're supposed to call when it's over. It didn't happen.

I didn't get to the phone. What do you mean?

I was sitting at the fountain like we said.

And instead of Charlie, Johnny Broderick's squad of detectives came in.

Did Broderick hurt you? What did Broderick do?

It was like someone said not to see me.

Luciano.

And Broderick's cops beat your boy's bloody Dutch. Beat the bloody in front

of me and then arrested.

And Johnny Broderick himself tipped his hat to me.

Put me in his car.

Drove me here.

He said Charlie Luciano said the book is balanced.

Broderick's a cop. Of course Charlie's gonna tell him that.

But Charlie'll fix himself an alibi and he'll work on you himself.

No, no, you don't understand, Dutch.

He owed me one.

He let me walk away because he owed me one.

That he's a guy who knows you set him up and all he's gonna do is let you get

away with it?

Oh, Luciano.

Maybe hitting Charlie Head on was wrong.

Maybe the way to take care of him is from his side, hit his friends.

Lasker.

Lasker. Lasker's just a bookkeeper.

Siegel.

Bugsy.

The Bug.

He's got my kind of guts.

He's the one to hit, and I got his brother-in-law right in my pocket.

Charlie, Chris set you up. The woman's got a killing coming, but what do you

do? You have Johnny Broderick put her in a car and drive her home. What is that?

Benny, what Chris did was payback. The books are closed.

Schultz is the enemy and... And what?

And the guys that were going to shoot you, they're up on assault charges.

Sullivan Law charges.

Vagrancy, resisting arrest.

Charlie, it's going to cost Schultz $25,000 to put him on the street again.

That's what you're going to do to your enemy?

Until Cole hits Dutch for us, yes.

Charlie, I happen to have noticed that Benny's too busy hiding from Schultz to

have killed him, all right?

I don't want to hear that you want to crack at Dutch.

All right.

I'll have an accordion player come up. You tell him what you do want to hear.

You sure?

I'm sure.

Call phones his lawyer, same time every day.

Now, we got this from the lawyer's secretary.

Same phone. You get that from the telephone company?

We paid a phone guy to trace the calls.

Oh, Vinnie.

Vinnie Cole.

You know, he should know better than to use the same phone.

I sure hope Charlie paid him a large advance.

Yeah, it's just Vinnie. Put him on, will you?

Yeah.

Vincent Call was shot down like the mad dog nickname he had earned in his short

lifetime.

Now, only two rebel gangsters remained, Dutch Schultz and Waxy Gordon.

They continued to defy the confederation of criminal combines that Charlie

Luciano, Michael Lasker, and Benny Siegel had welded together.

The customer's lost a little extra.

Then I'll make up for what we advanced the call.

You know, I could have hit Dutch myself and wouldn't be out of dine.

Calls no good, dead or alive.

Some good.

Schultz is getting all the blame.

For the credit, one way or the other, it doesn't affect us politically.

Politically?

You want to know what I think politically?

We got a lot of people depending on us for a living.

We got enough politicians to choke a horse. We got an army and we got a

territory.

We are a regular little country.

Where are our borders?

If we don't have borders, we can't be forced into wars.

It's no good, Mike.

Where's the line?

Schultz just got away with a hidden call.

Next, he's going to move in on us. See?

Where's the line?

You want to know the map?

No, Charlie. I just want to know where the line is. It's on the map.

We draw the line with our businesses.

Schultz stays out of the garment industry and the bakeries. He stays out

of our unions. He doesn't run numbers south of 110th Street.

If he does, Benny, you use the Army.

If he doesn't, he goes into our business.

We'll buy you a Navy.

Yeah. We'll buy you a battleship.

Your birthday's coming up. We'll get you a ship.

A frigate.

It's like Douglas Fairbanks has in the movies. He's got a frigate. No problem.

I still wish it had worked with Cole.

But I guess by the percentages, we had to lose one, huh?

We'll send flowers.

Well, that Schultz seems to be demanding our attention by killing Vincent Cole.

That's rather too bad.

Why too bad?

Schultz is as bad as they come.

Yes, but while he's demanding the attention of this office, Mr. Luciano

gets a chance to burrow deeper unchecked.

Now, who's the greater menace? In the long run, Luciano.

Well, let's not allow that.

Well, need more staff to go after Luciano and Schultz. Exactly.

Tony, I want you to find me some graduates of City College.

Young men from the Lower East Side, from Little Italy.

Real men.

From the same streets as this vermin. There's quite a few, Mr. Dewey.

99%. I realize that.

We'll let Mr. Lucky Luciano think that the starched-shirt boy prosecutor from

Owasso, Michigan, is going to go exclusively after Dutch Schultz.

But I'm going to hit Mr.

Luciano, too.

Where his political friends will be afraid to help him. That's narcotics and

prostitution.

And those are not Luciano's businesses.

Tony, I think that you've bought the Broadway columnists and the nightclub

editors' version of these thugs. That they'll sell numbers, but not women.

That they'll sell illegal booze, but not narcotics.

I don't believe that.

I think that people like Luciano will do anything they can to make an illegal

buck, and I'm going to prove it.

All right.

Thank you. We'll keep in touch.

Where's Charlie?

Downstairs. Would you mind getting him for me, Ben?

Yeah, no problem. Something big happening? Very big, especially for

Chipmunk.

What's big for Charlie?

That was Washington.

The judge in Capone's tax trial in Chicago just threw out the first set of

jurors, brought in a new, absolutely pure panel.

Capone brought the first jury. The judge seems to think so.

He's mad as hell. Capone's lawyers are very upset.

Al's looking at at least ten years in the federal pen in Atlanta.

That's great.

It's just what we want.

You don't look too thrilled by it all.

I suppose it's a victory, Michael.

A victory for doing things your way.

I thought it was our way.

You weren't there that night.

You didn't see what Capone had done to Chris.

So what?

Ten years in the federal pen isn't vengeance enough for you?

What do you miss, Charlie?

Bread, the wine, and the blood?

What do you miss?

hurt anybody.

They made me a deputy sheriff some county upstate.

Now I can carry a concealed weapon all legally.

Hello.

Did you hear about Capone?

Uh-huh.

They'll get convicted now.

What's gonna happen to him?

Well, they lock him up, honey.

That's what the government usually does when they convict somebody.

They send him to prison.

I mean, what's prison going to be like for him?

Is he going to be like a fish in a glass bowl where everybody can look at him and

he has no place to hide? Is that what prison's like?

Is that what you want?

For him to feel something like you used to feel?

I don't know if that's what I want.

Maybe I would feel good if everybody could look at Scarface Al Capone and he

had no place to hide.

I'd like a small one, too.

Well, you're poor, and you say how much.

It will be half of what I have.

Chris.

You spend all this time thinking about how bad it'll be for Capone in prison.

Thinking about what it'll be like to see Charlie get his, right?

Sure, you know that.

The thing is, once you get even, you're back to zero.

When I'm even with somebody, I'm not losing anymore.

What's Dutch Schultz tell you after you're not losing anymore?

Oh, whatever happens out there, you're going to be with me.

If that's okay with you.

Yeah.

But you just don't get even.

You win.

You got the Dutchman, honey.

How many notes did I miss?

Very few.

Why do you practice sad pieces?

Sad music is the most beautiful music, isn't it?

Why? Because it... Sometimes

things are very painful.

And if I play something sad, then the pain has a beginning, it has a middle,

and most of all, it has an end.

I understand.

You mean that?

You don't have people lying to you?

Sometimes, if that's what they want.

But I don't like to.

Frankly, I didn't expect a wealthy young woman who lives in Scarsdale on very new

money to like sad music because it's beautiful.

I think I should begin my exercises.

I've heard piano.

You don't want to know me, Paul.

It sounds as if you want me to.

You won't like me.

Shall we bet on it?

Ben Siegel was 26 years old in 1932, and had lived almost two-thirds of his life.

Look,

I promised to go up next year, but right now I want to open my presents.

Be careful, Ben.

Oh, good. Come on, Ben.

That's great.

That's great.

I didn't know you wanted something like that. You look like a kid. You wanted a

frigate. Does this thing float?

If you put that in the bathtub, don't you dare. I'm not going to put it in the

bathtub.

You know, I wish I had gotten one of these when I was a kid.

There you go.

You're going to get Richie one of these. They're great, Mike.

Yeah, and one for his brother, too.

Or his sister.

Are you?

You can have a baby.

Really? Oh,

Mazel Tov.

Congratulations, Mike. Thank you.

To you.

I

know

how you feel.

Yeah, maybe if we'd met each other sooner.

Or even if we'd met much later. Joy, early or late, my kid would still have

to walk around with the name Luciano.

On the night of March 1st, 1932, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh was

kidnapped from the Popular Heroes New Jersey home.

Longy, I want your help finding this creep.

Then deliver the booze late. I don't care about that.

Now, all I know is what I read in the papers and hear on the radio.

I don't know what kind of person could do this either.

Not even Schultz.

Charlie, half the reporters down there are asking if somebody in our end of the

business snatched the kid. Then we'll hold a press conference.

Well, you have a press conference. I need the phone now.

Benny, I want you to be sure that Michael's house is guarded if you're

sending the boys up to Scarsdale.

All right, Charlie.

Yeah, Graney, this is Benny.

Look, you get Favo and you go to my house. Anything that gets near my kid,

you kill it. You understand me?

Just do it.

All right.

I hate to stop the fun, but I'd like your attention for just a moment,

please.

As many of you know, several hours ago, the child of a great American was

kidnapped.

So tonight, Departure Club's percentage is going towards a reward for

information leading to the safe return of the Lindbergh child to his family.

And any of you who wants to add from his own pocket, the club will match whatever

you come up with.

such a gentle man.

You must never get what you want.

Oh, I do.

But being gentle.

No, Paul. No.

I can't let us know.

Why?

Because we'll both be happy? Because we can't be.

Please.

I better go check in on Elizabeth.

Who are you?

What are you doing here?

Please, stop it. Greeny, Greeny, stop it. Please, stop it. Did this garbage do

anything to you and the kid? No, of course not. He's my friend.

Huh? Mrs. Seeger, is the baby all right? The baby is all right. I'm all right.

Please. This is my piano teacher.

He is my piano teacher.

Boys in the area, music style.

His car is full of this music stuff. He wasn't lying about that.

My car was locked.

Yeah, so it's your fault you got to buy new doors.

How's the other one?

It's dislocated, I think.

You're no use around here.

You don't come around anymore.

You get out of here before I dislocate something else.

What are you doing?

I'm looking for signs of him.

Oh, you're an animal.

That's right, honey.

Yes, that's right. Sniffing around like an animal. You send your animals to spy

on me?

Spy on you?

What, have you got a guilty conscience, Stella?

I sent the boys up here to protect my wife and daughter. Who the hell's the

animal, Stella?

Nothing happened.

He was going home.

Nothing happened?

I was in the living room downstairs.

I saw the coffee cups. They were cold. You finished the coffee a long time ago,

and then you went on to the brandy. I know what you're going to do next. You

were coming up here to my bed. No.

I wanted to, but I wouldn't let it happen for his sake. For his sake? Yes.

I don't hate to tell a story to a jury like that.

You weren't going to have him in my bed, Stella. No, I wasn't. In his bed, maybe.

In a hotel, maybe.

Someday.

And I'm anyone but me.

You should want to be anyone but me. I do!

Stay great!

I do!

Who'd want Buxy Siegel's wife?

My God, you just make me hate myself!

You protect me from that. You protect your own baby from that one.

That's Andy Fabrizio, Mr. Lasker. He works for Waxy Gordon.

Mr. Gordon wants to talk to you. He says it's about what's going on in Jersey.

Private.

He's clean, and the street's okay.

Maybe you ought to whisper this, Mr. Lasker.

So whisper.

Mr.

Gordon wants you to meet him in Palm Island.

He says it's a neutral crowd.

He says you won't want to come until I tell you.

If you don't come and talk to him, you'll hurt your family.

Michael Lasker, with his allies, was a powerful and formidable force.

But one of the rebel gangsters, Waxy Gordon, had found a weak spot, a threat

to Michael's family.

Polly brought you all the way out here from San Francisco.

She told me that, hon.

Where were you born there?

No. In Shanghai.

My father was what they call white Russian.

I guess that's why your English is better than mine.

Well, here's to it, hon.

Michael Lasker's here to see you, Waxy.

I think he's a little uncomfortable just being in the place.

Hon. Very nice to meet you, Mr. Gordon.

Make it waxy.

Same here.

Hello, Mike.

Long time no see.

You look good. Come on in.

See that little Oriental girl with Polly?

When we get finished talking, maybe you ought to... What concerns my family?

Don't get snotty, little Michael.

I made my bones when you, Ben, and Charlie were still trying to stay in

grade school.

Yeah.

You've been around a while, Waxy. I'll give you that.

You want to pour one of those for me?

Oh, sure.

You gotta enjoy something around here.

So what about my family?

Your wife's got a father she's pretty fond of, huh?

Keep going.

A while ago, his business got into a little trouble.

I found out he couldn't get a loan at the bank.

He could get one from Waxy Good.

How much does he owe you, Waxy?

It's not just a loan now.

Yeah, he fell behind in payments.

I try to help him out. Get him into a couple of other things over in Jersey.

You mean to set him up in your own territory, right? I mean, his luck was

all bad.

Like most people who get in over their head.

He thought maybe he can get even with a big gambling win.

What's the total package, Waxy?

If you take the original loan, interest gambling markers, you're looking at

maybe $100,000.

I can handle that.

But you see, there's some other things he kind of did in these other

businesses. In desperation to get a contract, he attempted to bribe a state

purchasing officer.

Your father-in-law could go to jail. What the hell do you want?

I want the Partridge Club.

You've seen the prison in Jersey, Mike.

You think your wife would enjoy visiting her father there?

I have two partners.

The club's not mine to give away.

Talk to them.

Get back to me.

Can't talk you into changing your mind about the girl from Shanghai.

Mike, treat Mike!

Now, if Ruth ever hears a word of this...

What with another kid coming and Richie.

Michael, have you talked to your father-in-law to see if what Waxy said

is true?

Yeah, I called him before I asked you two to come up.

He's going through hell, Charlie.

Well, we gotta help him.

You tell Waxy that he can have this club for a token price.

Goodbye, man.

Don't worry, Mike. We're gonna work something out.

Look, this sale, transfer, whatever it is, how long does it take?

All lawyers and Waxy's lawyers say they can draw the papers in like three days.

Why?

I don't think we should say anything to the people that work for us. Not until

the deal's gone through and Waxy's kept his end of it.

That's a good idea, Benny. Why don't you go home and tell your father-in-law that

everything's going to be okay and we'll work it out?

Easy come, easy go.

A small mountain lodge converted to an illegal liquor distillery in New Jersey.

Owned by Waxy Gordon.

Oh, please, please, Beth. Give me a break.

You already got Andy and Louie Bolt.

They're dead and on their way to hell.

Jake, you tell Waxie that Ben Siegel says this is just the beginning. You got

that?

Gangland Warfare exploded across New Jersey in the last 48 hours as three

distilleries reportedly owned by Waxie Gordon were attacked by an unidentified

gunman.

Finney's gone crazy.

I got the first set of papers from the lawyers right in my hands. The next

thing I expect is a call from Ruth telling me her father's been arrested.

Yeah. Let me talk to Michael.

This is Charlie, Waxy.

Let me talk to Michael.

You talk to me.

Look, this crazy rampage by Ben Siegel has got to stop.

Listen, tell Michael he picks up his father-in-law's bills. I call it square.

Forget going to the law.

What's the matter, Waxy? You don't want the Partridge Club anymore?

No, forget it.

Just put them back.

It's not going to be that easy for you, Waxy. I lost two out of the three

Fabrizio brothers already, Charlie.

What the hell else do you want?

Newark.

You can stay in Jersey City, but you pull out of Newark. Newark now belongs

to our friends Longy's Woman and the Moretti brothers.

Over my dead body!

It can go that way, too.

I want to tell you something.

You came at Michael through his family.

We have never done that to anybody.

Not in all of the years, not in all of the wars. Nobody does that and gets away

with that. Do you understand me? Now, Newark is the price. You're getting off

cheap, very cheap.

All right.

All right, providing... Providing that's the end of it.

You don't deserve this, Waxy.

But you have my word.

How much does your father-in-law owe Gordon?

A hundred thousand.

Gordon will have it by the end of the day.

Your father-in-law going to be all right?

Yeah.

Waxy just called. He said you leave him in business.

He'll leave my father-in-law alone.

Do anything.

It could have backfired, Ben.

You could have died.

Waxy could have handed my father-in-law over to the prosecutors.

No, backfired would have been if we'd have handed the project club to Waxy.

They'd tell Shultz, grab my daughter, grab my wife, go with me wherever. I

appreciate what you're saying, Ben. But not what I did.

I come through for a friend whose father's going through hell and is about

ready to be locked up and you don't appreciate that? Come on, I appreciate

it. You know that.

Michael.

Sometimes one thing works and sometimes something else works.

What Benny did worked.

This time.

We're back in the casino business.

It takes about 20 minutes or so.

Michael.

Now, how do I explain to myself?

For 53 years of my life, I considered myself an honest man. You're still an

honest man.

They took advantage of you in order to get to me.

That's all.

I should have been smarter.

They've gotten to smarter men than both of us, Mr. Sol.

I'm just very sorry that the world I live in had to rub off on you.

Michael.

I think we got good news.

He says that everything does look fine. Thank God.

Let's go to lunch.

You have tears in your eyes.

It's the wind.

What time is it?

We still have time.

I wouldn't let us be late for Jimmy Durante's show.

Telephone, Mr. Luciano.

I'll be right back.

Yeah.

Yeah, Frank.

I'm going to meet me at J.B.'s in half an hour.

All right.

I have to take care of something. I'll be back in time to make the midnight

show.

Okay?

Sure. Okay.

You going to be all right?

Yeah.

May I buy you a drink?

I have one, thank you.

Permit me to introduce myself.

My name is Robert Whitney.

Hello, Robert Whitney.

I'm Joy. Joy Arthur.

Joy.

I would have thought it was patience.

This isn't the first night you've been left here alone to wait.

Now, do you really want to buy?

Lucky Luciano's girl, a drink.

Are you asking if I am afraid of the consequences?

I guess so.

Well, I've done quite well as a stockbroker despite the times by taking

risks.

I like risks.

But even if I didn't, a woman as lovely as Joy Osler would be worth many risks.

Thank you.

Now, Your glass is quite empty, as is mine.

Shall we have another round and toast to... What?

Why? To taking risks?

Of course.

Welcome back.

It's good to see you, Charlie.

How's Italy?

Wow.

In Rome, Charlie, I'd walk to La Chiesa di San Pietro, and when you look up,

it's the Sistine Chapel.

Just... I'd probably go nuts if I had to live there.

Every time I turn around, Gina has another one of her cousins with us.

Frank, you said you had something important to talk to me about.

It left me a lot of time to myself, Charlie, and I met a lot of people.

And I found out that there's a trail.

A trail of gold.

What are you talking about?

It starts in places that...

You and I probably never even heard about.

It starts in Asia, moves through the Middle East, and it ends up in

laboratories in the south of France.

You're talking about narcotics.

I'm talking about a trail of gold that'll lead right to New York, Charlie.

For us.

I made all the connections. Are you crazy?

Did I make a mistake giving you your life back?

Narcotics is the worst business.

I think the money that we get from narcotics will be able to... Even the

crazies know enough to stay away from dope. The cops hate it and the feds hate

it even more. We'll be able to buy any cop we want.

And since when are you afraid of cops?

I'm afraid of 50 years in stir or death when it doesn't make any sense. Now, I

want you to listen to me, Vito, and stop arguing. Otherwise, I'm going to come to

believe that you have lost your reason.

When I was a kid, they sent me up for running heroin.

That's on my record.

You're under me, Vito. If you go down for heroin, I go down.

And if I ever go down because of you...

Let me put it this way.

What I'm giving you now is not advice.

It's an order.

You keep your family out of narcotics.

Your life is forfeit if you disobey me.

Yeah, who's this?

Yeah, Ben.

This is Chink Sherman.

Yeah, Chink.

How's Waxy Gordon doing by you these days?

Oh, I left Waxy's outfit.

Waxy's got the outfit gunning for me. My own friends, eh?

Yeah, how come?

On account I stole his books.

You want to put your hands on his money? The books say where it's hid.

I ain't big enough to make that play.

But you are.

Well, why me, Cenk?

I mean, it's not that we just shoot at each other. We're not even friends.

Friends?

Friends is the guy's wax he's got gunning for me.

You got the guts.

And the rep.

Your word's good.

Yeah, that's true.

Where are you?

Broadway, near 20th.

Can you come down here to meet us?

Uh-uh.

I feel like these books is 10 feet wide and everybody's looking at me.

I want to find a dark place and hide, huh?

Okay.

Broadway and 20th.

Southeast corner, half an hour.

What'd he say?

The bug says, stay right here.

Do that.

The rest of it, bought it.

Uh, $600 ain't a lot of money.

You'd do better somewhere else, be my guest.

No, no, no, no, no.

Somebody should be with Stella.

Once she gets the word.

That's very nice. We'll drop you at Grand Central.

Relax, David. We've all got to go sometime.

Your sister's going to be a rich widow.

We'll meet somebody nice.

Bob, what are you doing?

Huh? Come on, Davey's got the flu. It's my brother-in-law and I love him, but

why can't I make him drive with us today and get us infected?

Keep these armor plates on.

Yeah, well, it keeps them on the level. You won't hate the armor plate.

Davey likes to drive this thing?

Sure, why not?

Let's go.

I'll get you in the front seat and you're in luck. Yeah.

Hey, Green, look at this. This thing really is bulletproof.

What's the matter with you, Fong?

I'm hit, Ben.

How'd you get hit?

Well, I got blood on my butt. I don't know where else it could have come from.

Probably ricocheted up to the floorboard or something.

Look, you slide over. I'll run you down to St. Vincent's. All right.

This thing's supposed to be bulletproof.

Sorry, school on 11.

All right, Ben.

Oh, God.

Oh, Benny. Easy, I'm all right, I'm all right. One of these times they're going

to call and... What, and say what? The seagull's as lucky as Lucky Luciano?

Oh, Benny, but... Hey, I'm here and that's the car that filled the flush,

all right?

Hey,

Davey.

Thought you were in bed with the flu.

I feel rotten, but, you know, I thought maybe if I came up, so Stella, you know,

family... Davey wanted to get back to the city right after we got the call.

Oh, to take care of me?

Yeah.

I should have been there with you.

Oh, forget it. Wouldn't have been healthy anyway, would it?

No.

Well, you knew that you had to flip.

Stella, what's for lunch?

Oh, Benny, what is it going to take to make you realize... Stella, I do

realize.

Look, there's just two ways to go in this world.

You work hard, you save your money, some boss gives you orders. You don't live to

be 100, but you feel like it.

Or you go my way, okay?

Could you give me something to eat? Yeah, okay.

David, do me a favor. Close the front door, will you?

Sure.

I don't want my enemies coming in here.

You keep looking for him.

That's it. Chink split with Gordon.

Sure. Then Chink went with the Dutchman and had Benny set up. All right. What if

that's true?

What are your recommendations?

I check with the outfit and I have Lepke and Albert take care of the Dutchman.

Fine. The convention in Chicago starts in just a few weeks.

You want to turn the streets of New York into a bloodbath when we're trying to

elect the next president of the United States?

The government got Capone for us.

Dewey's already breathing down Schultz's neck, right?

The streets.

Remember the streets, Michael?

When we were growing up?

The lead pipe that Benny always used to have with him?

Yeah.

And you had a knife.

I never should have lost that damn knife.

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.

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Chronicles continues.