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Now, boss of all bosses summoned a paid

assassin, Vincent Call, to kill Charlie Luciano.

Hey, Tommy, how's the boy?

Lunch here.

Lush.

We get some lunch.

Leave the jacks.

The coroner is the girl.

The

last girl 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.

In the hall, you understand that?

How many times have you got to tell these people?

Forget it, Ben.

You got troubles in your arm.

Me?

I got no troubles.

Now you?

You got a few troubles.

You going to sit there?

You going to talk to me?

There's nothing to talk about.

Okay.

I'll open the window or boat jump.

Don't talk to me.

We am bored.

My firstborn son isn't going to walk.

I have to deal with that.

All right.

We'll deal with it.

Anything you say?

You know my old man used to say to me...

He'd say, Benny, there's no use in complaining.

Could you just kind of get up in the morning and do it anyway?

I tried to be so smart.

It's not for you.

It's not for Charlie.

It's not for myself.

I'm a rich man.

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

Look, you said you're firstborn.

So you expect more children.

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

She's making worse than you are, Mike.

Maybe she's right.

My fault.

Place up Alaska's.

Listen.

Hey, look at me.

What have you done to so terrible?

Huh?

Who have you heard?

Oh, Mike, you got to eat.

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

You got to eat for strength.

Whatever else you got going on down on Cuba.

I don't want to eat.

Real nice!

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

Where ever the hell it is.

I guess you should tell me when you're ready.

Look, we grew up with Charlie running on this line.

We're going to grow up with him, too.

Listen, he's making other commitments, Michael.

Marn's idle.

He deals with mutagenevasic.

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, what do we stand in?

Hey, Mike.

My marriage ain't no better all of us.

Whose fault is that?

Now you talk.

Benjamin Siegel, head of the class.

Some class.

I love Stella.

That's what I got, Michael Lumber.

She don't.

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 telling her?

I'm told her.

I'm told her again.

I'll tell her.

I'll tell her.

Let me tell you something.

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

But I told her how happy I was.

Like in the movies.

Everybody doesn't like in the movies.

Then the baby came.

Then you don't have it.

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 will happen, you know?

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

Who you feeling sorry for?

You and him.

I have the reason to doubt.

You're looking for reasons, Mike.

They don't give you any reasons.

Look at this, good luck and it's bad luck.

You're telling me my life's a crap game, Beth?

What do you think it has?

I don't know.

I don't need it.

Okay.

Look, so not today.

No visitors, okay?

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 I'll go alone, Benny.

It's between friends.

Mike, go.

Mike, wake up.

You got a visitor, King Solomon.

I'd like to place the call, please, to Mrs.

Benjamin Siegel and Skye's down in New York.

Hello?

Hey, took your line off.

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?

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 bastard, Gates.

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 promise 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.

Stella, I just remember selling.

I love you very much.

It's okay.

You want to sign an affidavit for my wife?

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

Just like that?

Just like that.

We're going back.

It's mine too, you know.

You

think I'd let you raise him or move?

We

talked to money.

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.

We talked to ourselves blue.

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

Nothing got through.

I know 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 Donna's done?

I've got a message from King Solomon.

Your friend, Marlon Zano, he's planning to kill you.

You and Vito.

How?

An outsider.

Vinnie Cole.

Marlon Zano wants to keep the Italians out of it.

I don't know when.

Who told Solomon?

Let it go with that, Charlie.

Solomon says that's the only one she didn't know.

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

I want to know where it came from.

Tommy Lucas.

And that's as inside as you can get.

Are you coming to bed?

No.

Are you ever coming to bed?

No.

Okay.

Just so I know.

Come here.

It's like the door, Charlie.

It's no good.

I don't like this, Charlie.

Every car I pass, everybody I see would have had any pocket.

I feel like a bullet's coming to my head.

Vito, you still get your head.

What's the list, huh?

Somebody here?

Maybe it's you, Charlie.

You know, Marlon Zano says he wants us both dead, right?

Well, maybe it's just me he wants.

I wanted you dead, Vito.

All I'd have to do is say two words to Benny.

Let's say Benny.

Kill Vito.

She's 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 in my home?

I've been thinking things, Charlie, and I figured out the only thing that

Marlon Zano's got on me is this... goes a defamina.

You know what I mean?

Come on, he's a mama look.

Why would anybody want to kill me?

I don't understand you.

Yeah, a sweet guy like you, Vito.

Okay, I'll meet with Charlie.

Listen, you want to be cute with your new friends?

This is me, Charlie.

Now, something's going on around here.

I want to know what it is.

Who says that Marlon Zano wants to hear this?

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.

Who I'll call is scrapping around with Dutch Schultz, just like Marlon Zano.

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

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

So this, uh, Dutch Schultz, he's a regular German Machiavel, right?

What are you telling me, Charlie, is that Schultz

is picking us between Marlon Zano 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.

Santi, this, uh, Dutch Schultz business.

We make a plan once and for all, huh?

I want to see Vito to, uh, maybe a truck by the office tomorrow.

Say three o'clock, all right?

Three o'clock sounds fine.

Vito to, huh?

See you then.

Take care of yourself, Charlie.

And what's to see us?

I guess we can't wait too long.

It's supposed to see.

She was pretty weird.

She's weird.

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, their 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.

All right.

We'll call for it until right on you.

Yeah, sure, Lou.

What can I do for you?

I just want 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 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're sure that the books are all right?

Are you all right?

Books are all right.

And you better get out of here.

The featherals have a look, Kasey.

Can I get rid of them, huh?

Yes, sir.

These

people coming over, Mr. Maranzano doesn't want us hanging around.

Federal agents, treasury.

Put your hands out.

I said put up your hands.

What's going on?

What do you want?

We want to see Salvatorei Maranzano.

He didn't come in today.

I got an appointment with him at his home.

Well, you as a count?

Yes, sir.

One of them?

Then we better keep your meeting and get a little visit at home, too.

Here, sign this.

Sound what, for what?

Signing we took your guns.

Let's do it, Tommy.

You got a what?

Well, sure we got to Mr. Maranzano.

You don't mind if we look inside?

Mr. Maranzano, we get 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.

This subpoena.

Have I committed the 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 in 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, Lucaise and Gagliano fled at the sound of gunshots.

And Maranzano's own plot to use the services of the mercenary Vincent called.

Backfired.

You owe me $2.25.

No, no,

no.

No knocks on the nose?

I beat you.

We could play for money.

We waited 16 years for this.

All right, that early.

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.

That box.

A new hat for Chicago.

Oh, 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, Charlie?

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 that 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're head 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. Benjamin.

Maybe one last question.

Is that 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 worst of all the animals.

Did Aristotle tell you he was a smart Greek?

Thanks for the hat.

This

is South Capone's hospitality.

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

Hey, somebody help me.

Hey, Paul.

How many of you pots aren't going to business, meaning?

A pleasure before business.

We've got Vanessa.

We've got Claire.

We've got Chris here.

Hi, how are you?

Good afternoon.

How are you?

Good afternoon.

How are you?

That's really nice.

That's great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Very nice.

Very nice.

Hi, I'm Vanessa.

A million dollars in bottle champagne.

I can't get into it.

Everybody's thirsty here.

We've got to party time soon.

I'm clear.

I'm clear.

I don't know.

I can't open it.

Push this thing.

Be careful.

Be careful.

Hold on.

There we go.

All right.

What's your name?

Chris, would you like to stay and have a drink with me?

My pleasure.

You can take your pick and you're all of them.

This is it?

Out.

Out.

Out.

Onward.

Out.

Come on, we've got another stop.

Mr. Bugsie Siegel, come on, girls.

Oh, okay.

Don't die.

Leave next door.

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, Blue's got to make a living.

Nobody here was waiting for me.

What about that business with that, Charles?

Oh, it blew over.

Everything does.

Everything doesn't.

Let me help you with that.

I don't want you here, Chris.

Where do you want me?

Whoops, sorry.

So, how's what's her name?

Joy.

How's Joy?

She's fine.

Good.

Nice girl here, girl.

Who's health, shall we drink to?

Chris.

She's an ice girl, too.

I don't think I was going to fight you, not with Maren's on our day.

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

And that's your last message from Monta Harry.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah.

All right, I'll be right there.

Thank you for your help.

We've got business.

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

Just tell me that you like me.

Oh, 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.

A destiny of protection from the hospitality of Al Capone.

You've been generous.

You've been more than generous.

With your gifts, these envelopes.

There's money that you bring.

You bring me the fortune of an emperor.

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

But our friend has passed away.

And I suggest to you that this...

this power, this title, Boss of all bosses be buried with him.

All the good men who died in the Castellamaresi 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 Toma Sarilla and Salvatore Maranzano.

Now so easy, Charlie.

We all got memories.

We all lost friends, relatives.

Now 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.

And

to the politicians who helped us.

Now we are

talking about a different kind of war.

We are 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.

But the newspapers find other targets, but not us.

And we've got these crazy bank robbers running around in Oklahoma and Kansas.

They can grab their headlines.

Here we go, Frank Castello, huh?

We're going to put them in charge of the crazy bank robbers.

What's your right there, Charlie?

Today the books are closed.

No group.

No family is going to make itself stronger without the permission of all of us.

That go for your outfit, too, Charlie.

That goes for all of us, Dutch.

Modern's honor 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.

We got enemies outside this room.

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 vote.

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.

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

Who you got in mind?

Three leaders.

Ben Siegel.

Lucky Buckhalter.

Robert Anastasia.

Siegel's your own man.

He's working for you, he's working for us.

All right, Al.

Your point is well taken.

Lucky 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.

Thanks for 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 no.

Thank you, Charlie.

Brilliant and daring innovation.

We'll see.

We'll see.

Thank you.

Not Atlantic

City, it was too early.

I wish I had to take care of Marlon Son and Maziri.

Now it's right here.

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.

I 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.

A important paper, huh?

You enjoy it.

Go on.

You will.

Hey, Alaska.

I got a good money, man.

Jake Goosey.

You, uh, have dinner with us.

Maybe you can teach him a few things, huh?

Some other time, I'll wear them.

We're leaving tonight.

Ooh.

Charlie, don't.

Chrissy, what happened?

You missed all the fun.

Oh, his friends, they were here.

He knew about it.

Doddle, man.

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.

Yeah, Chris, things are changing.

Everything is changing.

I can't explain, but if I get them now, I lose everything that I've built.

I lost you, Charlie.

I know it.

When I get 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 the poem.

You get your revenge down.

I don't want it that way.

You leave it to me.

I know what I'm talking about.

I know what I'm saying.

I knew it.

I'm sorry.

Just leave me alone here, all right?

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.

They have to scramble for their next meal.

Only in America, Charlie.

We've got it all.

We've got it all.

Us.

Together.

Trust me, right?

In many.

Trust me.

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

Maybe we already have, Charlie.

We can dream even harder.

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

would require triumph over impressive opponents.

Someone called 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.

Greet 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, Panch and John protect Hollywood's biggest stars from a landslide on chips.

And Bird Reynolds and Sally Field Star in the end.

Sunday.