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- [Announcer] Previously on Wiseguy

- I muscled my way into the Commission,

demanded your seat at the table.

- The center of power's a dangerous place to be.

- Wish my son and wife were here.

Gives me perspective.

- You never give up business, Joey.

- You lost plenty with that hot head of your yours.

- To sign Yoman at the business on Monn Street

isn't worth the war.

Bring your family home.

- The only reason that you're running things and I'm not

is because I wasn't born a son.

- You got penis envy.

(gunshot)

Are you crazy?

- I like that.

(upbeat theme song)

(many people talking)

- Hi, I need your election day vote.

All right, don't let me down.

- Tony Ziffo,

Tony Ziffo.

- Yeah, and I'm running for governor now.

My friend, how are you today?

I need your vote.

- What about the garbage who own this city?

- Dan, this election is about more than organized crime.

- The families are at each other's throats

for control of the garbage business.

Tony Ziffo gets whacked

and somebody in the familia gets promoted.

Who do you think that is?

- Dan, Dan, Dan.

Mr. Alatorre is visiting this market

to emphasize his proposal of lowering city taxes

for the smaller businesses...

- Nobody cares about fruit stands.

They care about Tony Ziffo getting his melon shot off.

(speaking foreign language)

- Hey, Pete, your campaign is stuck in the mud.

The polls show you losing.

- Only poll I care about is election day.

- The governor says you don't have the experience

to run this State.

He says you should have stayed

in the State's attorney's office,

so you can do what you're good at, chase mobsters.

Who's in control of the garbage cartel?

Who's running the mob, Pete?

- Go ask Albert.

- Money's in bing and he can't buy a headline,

so he comes back to Brooklyn, says go ask Albert.

For 15 years since he was an assistant State's attorney

he's been addicted to a dream.

Governor Alatorre, senator Alatorre, president Coma Sigam,

and the opiate that drives that dream

is the destruction of Albert Cerrico.

Six times he's tried to invite me,

never got past the grand jury.

Those that prosecute, persecute.

His persecution is made legitimate

because it's done in the name of the law.

He's using me to achieve a political end.

Guilt or innocence, couldn't be more irrelevant.

Hey, look at this.

- [TV Presenter] Garbage barge loaded with over 30 tons

of refuse has reached the Caribbean island of Eleuthera,

but as has happened at every other port

during the barge's 12 day odyssey,

it has not been allowed to offload

this rather unsavory cargo.

- That barge.

The boys at the club make jokes about it.

Costing me six grand a day to keep it floatin'.

Who wants to put a price on laughter, huh?

- Yeah, it's a very rare commodity these days.

We got a war on our hands.

It is very expensive and very stupid.

Unless we bring it to an end,

this war is gonna be the last one.

Peace is a rare commodity, too,

but you can put a price on it.

Now, I can get across to Annie,

but what about you?

What are you willing to give up for peace?

- I give up nothing.

Not one inch of my territory, not one dollar of my business.

We've given up too much already.

- This is a negotiable issue.

- We emasculated ourselves.

Ziffo's legacy is carried out by Grossit.

It's to sell off pieces of our business,

to broker our future to the highest bidder.

As a result, we've become vulnerable to those

who aren't even a part of us,

the Chinese, Tongs, the Jamaicans.

That's never happened before.

The solution to our problem is not

what we're willing to give,

it's what we're able to take.

After the turn of the century, the 20s, the 50s,

our vitality comes from expansion.

Study history, Vincent.

What's past is prolonged.

- Grossit?

Grossit is short sighted, so maybe the best way

to deal with him is not to make him look

past his own nose.

The risk of expansion is what's making him nervous.

You protect his exposure, he's got no reason to stonewall.

- So, you're suggesting that I underwrite the expansion?

- Call it backing up your faith of capital.

Unless, your faith isn't as strong as you say it is?

- I'll do it.

Throw a peacemaker.

What do you expect to gain from it?

- My family's safety.

A piece of the action that rightfully belongs Aiuppo,

which I hope to be worth something to me.

- The law of primogeniture.

- I have studied history.

- [Driver] The car is ready, Albert.

- Come, I'll take your ride.

I want you to meet my family.

- Albert, maybe we should go out the back door.

(many people talking)

- Come on, out.

Get out of here, you guys.

What kind of behavior is this, huh?

We can go for a picture, whatever you guys want,

when you come to my office.

Now, you gotta violate my home.

Show some respect, all right?

Don't do this again.

- Alatorre said we should come here and talk to...

- Yeah, I know.

He said, go ask Albert, right?

Well, you know, what is it with him?

Why does he gotta single me out all the time?

Except, my last name ends in a vowel.

- Oh, come on, Albert.

So does his.

- Yeah, well, it must be psychological.

- Who's running the Commission, now Tony Ziffo's dead?

- Are you in control of the garbage cartel?

- Cartel?

What is that, cartel?

- You know? - What I do know

is that I got a barge on the Caribbean I can't get rid of.

Costs me six Gs a day.

Does that sound like a guy who's controlling anything?

- What about the garbage wars?

Is it gonna get worse?

- Wars?

What?

This isn't Beirut.

There are no wars here.

You know, fellas, I'm a family man.

Right, you know that.

I'm going to the airport now, pick up my family,

and would I bring them back if it wasn't safe?

- And what should we tell Alatorre?

- Tell him that I give him my vote.

We need a nice Italian boy running things.

- Okay, thanks. - All right?

- Thanks. - All right.

- [Reporter] You get the car, I got the camera.

- Give them a good quote,

they lay down like a two dollar whore.

- I don't think they're gonna lay down.

I think they're gonna dog you everywhere you go.

You just told them where you're going.

- Daddy!

(reporters shouting questions)

- It's like a football game, huh?

We're busting through the line like O.J. used to.

(reporters shouting questions)

Let's get out of here.

Come on.

(reporters shouting questions)

- [Driver] Those reporters have me blocked in, Albert.

We can't go anywhere.

- It's all right.

It's okay.

Honey, this is Vinny Teranova.

He's a good fella.

- Hi.

- This is my son, Albert.

- Hi, Albert.

- [Albert] Hey, sweetheart, you okay?

Huh?

- I thought they were gonna hurt us.

- What do you mean, hurt you?

Come here.

Come here, would I let them do that?

Nobody's gonna hurt you, huh?

Nobody's gonna hurt you as long as I'm here.

Promise, all right?

Huh?

- We keep selling off territory.

The only thing we buy is vulnerability.

We have to expand, Joey.

- Expand?

That's Cerrico's favorite word.

- It's just another word for survival.

- I thought you were representing Aiuppo's interest.

Since when did you become Cerrico's mouthpiece?

- My stepfather is sucking air through six bullet holes.

I am protecting his interest and his interest is peace.

Now, expansion is a good idea.

I'm not gonna ignore a good idea when one comes along.

- Expansion costs time, money, manpower.

Cerrico wants to expand, let him.

I got my own family to worry about

now that Ziffo's dead.

- You know, you're right.

You're absolutely right.

Your family's security has to be the foremost thing

in your mind.

It is for all of us.

That's why Cerrico's willing to underwrite your risk.

- Hey, Joey, that's...

- Hey, I want advice from you on how to run my family,

I'll ask for it.

Til then, you walk behind me and you shut up.

- These cigarette machines, video games,

how far up in the alley are you placing them?

- Far enough.

- Suffolk County?

You know, people are moving out there

like there's no tomorrow.

What about your launders and garbage trucks?

- What, I gotta account to you?

- No, you don't have to account to me.

What I'm saying is, you get the families behind you

you can push your territory all the way out

to Montague Point.

- You'd be pushing me off the point, into the ocean.

- Geeze, Joe, you're not a very trusting guy, are you?

- I don't believe in trust.

I believe in control.

You expand, you lose it.

I'm in control of my family and that's the way

it's gonna stay.

- Joey. - I'm talking here!

- [Gina] I need you.

- Now, you be my mouthpiece.

No expansion.

(door slamming)

(Joey and Gina arguing in the other room)

- She's still Ziffo's daughter, isn't she?

- Ah, my cousin, Joey.

(Joey and Gina arguing in the other room)

He's in love with her, really.

- Oh, yeah?

Sure hope he's paying you a lot, Carlos.

- Hey, you gotta feel for the guy, Vinny.

He's been under a lot of stress lately,

what with Tony's ego in the way.

(Joey and Gina arguing in the other room)

Maybe we can work something out.

I think this expanding is a good thing for everybody.

- Yeah? - Really.

Let me take him down to AC

and get him to relax a little bit.

I think I can convince him.

- He either goes along or becomes an obstruction.

You know what happens to obstructions, right, Carlos?

(Joey and Gina arguing in the other room)

- Absolutely.

- [Media Manager] We're emphasizing the fact that your cost

per conviction ratio is the lowest in the history

of the State's attorney's office.

Nobody cares about that.

They want Cerrico in jail.

- Peter, we're strategizing a campaign

that portrays you, despite your youth, as a skilled manager,

not the caped crusader.

- Tonight at Grand Central, they were screaming, get Albert.

Get Albert.

Like they were at a damn ball game.

- We can't strategize on the basis of emotional responses.

- What the hell do you think politics is?

I've paid your friend three million for your strategizing

and it's costing me an election

that should have been in the bag.

From now on, every print or film piece we run

had better have the word mob, crime, or law in it

or you're fired, all of you.

This is my campaign, not yours.

I'm gonna take control of it.

It might be too late to save this thing,

but I'm going to start playing to my strength.

- Alatorre is losing his mind.

- Hello? - Ernie, it's Peter.

What's going on with La Familia?

- [Ernie] We're investigating the Ziffo hit.

We won't find much.

- Is the war going to continue?

- [Ernie] Probably, til Cerrico consolidates his power,

it takes a bullet.

- Pull Cerrico's file.

- [Ernie] We figure Grossit is his main composition.

- [Peter] Joey Grossit or Gina?

- [Ernie] Your guess is as good as ours.

We heard Gina's wearing her late father's jock straps.

- [Peter] Tell me something new.

Ernie, it's desperation time.

- [Ernie] There's a new face that keeps popping up.

Vincent Teranova.

- Why do I know that name?

- [Ernie] Apparently, he's got some juice,

but we don't know the source.

Cerrico's been buddying up with him.

- That's it.

Started out in Atlantic City, small time muscle,

brother was a small time priest, died last year.

His mother's married to Rudy Aiuppo.

- [Ernie] You gotta be kidding?

- Who's Rudy Aiuppo? - Thanks, Ernie.

My love to Carol.

That was worth three million.

- Who's Rudy Aiuppo?

- You don't know media and you don't know the mob.

Rudy Aiuppo was the former head of the La Familia.

Retired 15 years ago and was deported to Sicily.

The Silver Fox.

There was a maelstrom of criminality surrounding him

and he just sat right in its eye, tending his tomatoes.

When's the best time to call a press conference?

- Four o'clock.

We can just make the evening news.

They won't have time to strain their own sound bytes.

They'd have to use ours.

- Tell them we have a major announcement on mob activity,

but don't be too specific.

- The press club?

- The steps of the courthouse.

I want them to see those scales of justice behind me

when I tell them Rudy Aiuppo's controlling the mob

from Palermo through his stepson, Vincent Teranova.

(dramatic music)

- [Radio Announcer] Editorial candidate, Peter Alatorre,

has scheduled a press conference this afternoon.

His staff confirmed he will make a major announcement

on the Commission of La Familia

and the personalities involved in the so-called garbage war.

- Mr. Peter Alatorre, step up and say hello.

Mr. Peter Alatorre, your next governor.

Meet Peter Alatorre, your next governor.

Shake hands with Peter Alatorre.

- Hi, I need your help, election day.

- Mr. Alatorre. - Hi.

Hope the other guy looks worse.

- Yes, sir.

Frank McCray, Coast OCB.

We need to talk now, sir.

Please, please.

- Hey, where you going?

- We gotta be in the Bronx at 9:30.

- The law comes first, Jacobson.

Always.

How can I help you?

So, what's this all about?

- I just need a moment to speak

to you privately, Mr. Alatorre.

- This boat's not in service.

- That'll be perfect.

What are you gonna announce at your press conference?

- Why couldn't you ask me on the dock?

- We don't wanna throw water on your campaign.

If anything, or sympathy goes with the next prosecutor,

but we need to know what you're going to announce.

- That Rudy Aiuppo's controlling the mob from Sicily

through his stepson, Vincent Teranova.

(sighing)

- Uncle Mike.

- I'm right here, Frank.

- I need a chopper at Battery Park, stat.

Contact four five eight seven.

Pimlico's Open.

(sighing)

- Aiuppo's stepson's an agent and Aiuppo doesn't know it?

- That's the idea, isn't it?

We have a man that's sitting on the Commission of La Familia

and of all people that should appreciate it, it's you.

I know the timing stinks and I'm sorry,

but if the OCB can do anything to offset

you canceling the news conference, we'd be...

- What are you talking about?

I'm not canceling.

I'm making the announcement, as scheduled.

This campaign cost ten million dollars.

If it were June, I'd cancel the conference

no one would remember, but it's October

and I committed myself to making an announcement on the mob.

If I cancel now, I'll be accused of grandstanding

and no one will forget that when they walk in the booth.

- I have a man that's on the line here.

- I've got the State of New York on the line

and I'm egotistical enough to think I can make a difference

in the lives of 18 million people.

- You cannot go public with this man's name.

- Why not?

He's had coverage before.

- Fifth paragraph, also under investigation,

the only people that gave a damn

were the people that owed him money

and you're talking about putting his mug

on every newspaper in the State, maybe the nation.

- That works for you, Frank.

It'll only serve to confirm his position

to Cerrico and the others.

- No, I'm not talking about the future.

I'm talking about now.

You make this man a public image

and you'll never be able to shed that.

- Guys get over-exposed, the next case you get someone else.

It's in the manual, Frank.

I've read it.

That's the business you're in.

- I'm not talking about business.

Now, you listen to me.

I'm talking about a man who is as dedicated to his work

as you are to yours.

You're talking about putting a marker cane on him

that he'll never be able to erase.

You're talking about turning him into a paria.

You're talking about ruining his life.

- I don't know, Frank.

I don't know.

(foreboding music)

(phone ringing)

- Yeah?

- Yeah, Vinny.

Hey, it's your uncle Mike.

Listen, I've been calling all over town for you.

You must be busy, huh?

- Yeah, I got an appointment with a certain party.

- Yeah, well, can you get out of it?

- I don't think so.

- [Mike] Gee, that's too pad.

Pimlico's Open.

Here, I thought maybe you could lead from Teterboro,

judge the first race.

- Yeah, I'll talk to you later.

Hey.

- Sorry, Vince, I gotta cancel.

There's a problem with my son.

- What's the matter?

- I don't know.

Something with the school.

I gotta go home.

Something with the school.

Can we deal with this tomorrow?

I wanna know how it went with Grossit.

- [Vinny] Yeah, sure.

(car tires screeching)

- What does he think, you got this kinda flexibility

built into your schedule?

- I do today, Pooch.

- You know, I bet if you went through the Alatorre

and the Teranova family albums,

they'd be pretty much the same.

- Don't play me, Frank.

I'm not a tune you know.

- Vincent Teranova's first generation.

To his parents, nothing spelled making it in America

more than to have a son that was a doctor, lawyer, or a cop,

if it was only to tear down the stereotype

that all Italians are gangsters.

- And, all Irishmen are drunks.

- I admit that I worked a little harder to bring down Mick,

who'd gone bad.

- I put away criminals, Frank.

I never cared where their parents come from.

- I'm trying to save my friend, Peter.

- I don't wanna hurt him.

Honest to God, I don't.

Well, give me something else.

Give me something else to announce and I'll do it.

- I can't do it in eight hours.

- If I cancel, I cut my throat.

- Then, you don't cancel.

You just postpone.

- How long?

- Sunday afternoon.

- 36 hours?

- Slowest news day of the week.

It'll take World War three to knock you off the lead.

- I should have hired you as my media consultant.

Whatever you give me has to be as important

as I said it would be or at least something

I can sell as being important.

- I understand and I thank you.

- This means I have your vote?

- I live in Jersey.

For you, I move.

(plane engine whirring)

- All right, let's get airborne.

- I thought this was just a meet.

What did you do to yourself?

- It's all right.

We're gonna land in Baltimore in case your phone wasn't safe

and they try to figure out where you've been.

Now, Sunday afternoon, Alatorre is gonna announce

to the world that you've been warming a seat

on the Commission and you've been

running the mob for Aiuppo.

- What?

- All this to win the governorship.

So much for the electoral process.

(plane engines whirring)

Can we give him Cerrico?

- He's 80% Tefline.

The 20% that might stick is just gonna bring

a suspended sentence, maybe short time.

- Grossit?

- I tried pumping him about his business,

but he's real cagey.

The only thing I'm sure about him

is that his wife's got a ring through his nose.

- Alatorre's not gonna give us another reprieve.

(sighing)

- I'm not sure I care anymore.

- Have you talked to her?

- Yeah, on the phone.

She won't see me.

She knows as long as I'm with the OCB,

my life is gonna be nothing.

Nothing but this all the time.

If it wasn't for my mother, I could probably live

with the press coverage.

If it wasn't for her and you.

I'd just as soon go with the mob.

What the hell?

They eat better.

- You only say it 'cuz you mean it.

Is there anybody else that's worth a press conference

besides Grossit and Cerrico?

- Yeah, maybe.

- [Frank] Who?

- Carlos Spaletta, Grossit's cousin.

- We turn him?

- If Grossit treated me that way, I would.

He's a real hustler, Frank.

He's always looking for new business.

- [Frank] We could provide that.

- How?

- Cartage business, uptown sting.

- In a day and a half?

- Could be done.

If he's the only card we're holding, we gotta play him.

(sighing)

- Then, let's play.

(plane engine whirring)

- I'm placing North Side with information.

I'll get the line in,

but you're gonna have to handle surveillance.

Now, Frank, the phone company's giving us a history

for North Side Carting.

Bills, service records, as well as the hardware.

I've ordered microphones and a video package.

I'm figuring you'll pick the spot to install

the two-way window, then we're gonna have to

get on the stake.

I talked to Vinny.

He's at Tosca Cartage waiting for Cerrico.

From there, he's going to Grossit's

to put the hook into Carlos.

Carlos could be up your way any time

within the next couple of hours.

(tense music)

(objects clattering)

(tense music)

(objects clattering)

(sobbing)

(tense music)

- The only crime was being nice.

All this for Alatorre.

I had alliances.

(heavy breathing)

Private school.

Congressmen's kids go there.

Headmaster said that they don't want their kids

to go with undesirables, you know?

That their support keeps the school solvent,

so their wishes gotta be respected, you know?

They need a new library.

I said I'd give it to them.

Putting my name on their would be unacceptable.

I said I'd give it to them, you know?

No, you don't have to put my name on it.

He said, no.

He said the congressmen are worried about their reputations.

I told them that my son's reputation is beyond reproach.

I knew that's not what he meant.

He said that Albert's a great kid and everybody likes him.

But, all I kept hearing was sins of the father.

What about Kennedy's money?

Old man Kennedy was a bootlegger and a stock manipulator

and his sons went to Harvard.

- His sons died.

- I don't know what to say to Albert.

I'm gonna go to the...

- Albert, he's your son.

He trusts you.

He'll believe anything you tell him.

- Kids today, they don't buy that garbage,

I'm your father and all of that.

Does he know?

- He just doesn't know why.

(seagulls squawking)

- David said it was because you were on the news again.

I said, Ritchie's father was on the news.

He said Ritchie's father makes laws and you break them.

Do you?

Do you break laws?

- There are different kinds of laws, Albert.

Laws that are made by powerful people

to make sure that other people don't take that power away.

Those are selfish laws.

And then, there are laws that nobody really makes,

they just exist and always have.

Those are the important laws

and the most important law is to protect your family

and be loyal to your friends.

Now, I've never broken that law.

If you live by it, you'll be a man

that people will respect, you know?

- Do people respect you?

- I think so, yeah.

Yeah.

- David said nobody will mess with you.

- That's a sign of respect.

- He said they're afraid of you.

- What's he telling you?

He thinks that I'm a monster, is that what he thinks?

That I'm gonna come get him and do something like this?

(seagulls squawking)

- If people respect you, why can't I go back to school?

(somber music)

- It's okay if you cry.

I cried.

- Why?

- Because I couldn't keep my promise to you

when I said that I'd make sure no one would ever hurt you.

No matter how much I wanna protect you from that, I can't.

And, when I realized that, I cried.

(somber music)

What's my favorite record?

(singing in foreign language)

- Tosca.

- That's right.

Good.

Well, it's about an artist named Cavaradossi.

His friend escapes from prison and comes to him for help.

Now, they tortured Cavaradossi,

but he doesn't give up his friend,

he doesn't tell him where he is.

See, he believes that loyalty to the people he cares about

is so important that he'll suffer in order to do it.

- Did his friend get away?

- No, he died.

You know, even though Cavaradossi tried to protect him,

he wound up suffering, too.

You see, it's kinda like that with us.

You're my friend and I want to protect you.

Hey, come here.

You know what I'm gonna do?

I'm gonna go to Mr. Baldwin and I'm gonna talk to him

and I'm gonna try to make him get you back into school.

- How?

- I know how to deal with people.

But, if I can't, you'll go to a new school,

you'll make new friends.

- I don't care about my friends.

Just don't go on the news anymore.

(somber music)

(phone ringing)

- Tosca Cartage.

- Vinny Teranova there?

- This is he.

Who's this?

- It's me, North Side Carting, 1416 west 126th street.

- Whoa, wait a minute, Frank.

Wait a minute.

Cerrico's kid's been taken out of his private school

because of the publicity about the war.

I want you to get him to take him back in.

- [Frank] Vince, we got more important...

- Hey, congressmen's kids go to this school.

I want you to find out who and tell them to back off.

- Vince!

- Frank!

Just do it.

- There's a message here, Joey,

and you better start receiving it.

There's territory to be gained, not lost.

- Like what?

- Like I already told you.

The island is ripe with opportunity.

About half an hour north of here,

there's a place we could take, any time we want?

- [Joey] What place?

- [Vinny] A place called North Side Carting, 126th street.

- [Joey] Jews do business in Harlem.

- [Vinny] Jews do business in Harlem.

That's because they know where the business is.

This place carts for restaurants from the west side

all the way to Fort Tryon.

There is money to be made here, Joey,

and money is money.

Unless, you already have so much

you don't know what to do with it.

Unless, you just wanna keep your people hungry.

- My people are my business and how I treat them...

- Is none of my concern, I realize that.

Unless, it impacts on all of us.

What I'm saying is carry your own weight

through this expansion or it'll be carried for you.

Good talking to you, Carlos.

- He tries to take what mine.

He ain't gonna like what he gets.

I'll see you Sunday at the house.

- How come you keep fighting with these guys, huh?

You don't think I hear?

Joey, babe, expansion makes sense.

We can handle Cerrico and this Teranova.

- I don't know what to do.

- Why?

- Your father had answers.

- That's all right.

- Why'd they have to...

I was learning from him.

- I know.

- I'm lost without him.

- It's all right, babe.

I'm here.

I'm here.

(somber music)

(car tires screeching) (tense music)

- Tell you what, make sure you look after my car for me.

(tense music)

Yo, who's working here?

- The hell you want?

- I wanna talk business.

- [Man In Suit] Yeah, what kind?

- It don't concern you.

You go get the boss out here.

- Man, I don't have to get him.

- You own this place?

You own this place?

- Yeah, I own this place.

Now, what you got to say?

- Goodbye.

(tense music)

You didn't tell me Mo Jones' running this place.

- [Mike] Frank, what happened?

What the hell happened, Frank?

Frank?

(glass shattering)

- I can't believe it.

I can't believe that Frank would let this happen.

- Well, mom, short of shooting Alatorre,

there's not much else Frank could do.

- So, that's it?

You just accept this?

You just accept the fact that the newspapers

would print your picture and next to it

would be the word, mafioso?

- Mom, I'm not accepting it.

I'm making a conscious, active decision.

Look, come here.

Come on, sit down.

Please.

Listen to me, mom.

I never expected to be sitting on the Commission.

I didn't wanna have anything to do with it,

McPyke wanted me to and I told him I wouldn't

because of you and Rudy.

Because, it was family.

Then, Rudy got shot and I had to do it

because it was family.

After four o'clock tomorrow afternoon,

my life will never be the same again.

I won't be able to delude myself into thinking

that I can blend into the woodwork of Brooklyn

or any place else, for that matter.

My life will become a photo opportunity.

- And, that's what you want?

- No, of course not,

but I do wanna get the guys that violated your home.

It's not like it was before, mom.

I'm not confused by these guys anymore.

I know exactly who they are.

That's why I'm gonna play this to the hilt.

I'm gonna take all these guys down and enjoy

every minute of it.

Then, when it's all over,

I know I'll have given them a piece of my life,

but it'll be worth it.

But, I know it won't ever really be over.

- You'll be lonely, Vincenzo.

- Yeah, I know that'll be part of the price

and I won't enjoy paying it,

but I'll find somebody.

I will.

Maybe, it's Amber.

I don't know.

But, I'll find somebody who can look past the label

until I know her well enough to tell her the truth

and when I tell her, she'll believe it

'cuz she'll believe in me more than she cares

what the rest of the world thinks.

I'll find somebody like you.

(somber music)

- Caralotta, I was hoping...

- You've taken my son away from me.

You've given him to your criminals.

You've sacrificed him, Rudy.

Peter Alatorre is having a press conference tomorrow.

He's going to announce that Vincenzo is your representative

on the Commission.

You lied to me when you said you were finished

with La Familia.

Not only was that a lie, but Vincenzo has become part of it

and you were content not to let me know.

I had to find out myself.

The lies that you told me, I could live with

as long as only I had to bear the pain,

but Vincenzo is going to be branded a criminal

on the front page of the Times

and that's gonna be his pain for the rest of his life.

No, you chose your life, Rudy,

but you manipulated his to suit your own desires.

You wanted a son to follow in your footsteps,

but he's my son, not yours.

My son.

- Carlotta.

Carlotta.

- When you come home, I won't be there.

- Carlotta!

(dramatic music)

- What's wrong, boss?

She...

- I have a job for you.

- Step up and say hello to Mr. Peter Alatorre.

Please, say hello.

Shake hands with the next governor of New York,

Mr. Peter Alatorre.

Please, say hi to Mr. Peter Alatorre, your next governor.

Could Peter Alatorre be the next governor of New York?

Mr. Peter Alatorre.

Step up and say hello.

Mr. Peter Alatorre, your next governor.

Step up and say hello to Mr. Peter Alatorre.

Please, say hello.

Shake hands with the next governor of New York,

Mr. Peter Alatorrea.

Please, say hi to Mr. Peter Alatorre, your next governor.

Could Peter Alatorre be the next governor of New York?

Mr. Peter Alatorre.

(tense music)

- You were deported.

- Is this Palermo?

- How did you get back?

- A powerful mind can do the unexpected.

It's part of what makes him powerful.

This election, you may think

it's about service and altruism.

No, it's about power.

You want it and I can understand that.

- You don't understand anything about me.

- If it makes you feel better.

- All I have to do is pick up a phone

and I could have you sent right back to Sicily.

(chuckling)

- I'm an old man.

I can fight deportation.

Besides, I've been savagely wounded by who knows?

- Cerrico?

Grossit?

- You wanna go fishing, buy a boat.

- I shouldn't even be here.

- But, you came, as I knew you would.

You see, I do understand.

- Why did you wanna see me?

- I wanted you to see me.

(tense music)

- I am sick and tired of seeing innocent people victimized.

In this garbage war, as in all wars,

the innocent are the ultimate victims

while organized criminals get richer

and elected officials get older and more complacent.

During my campaign, I've been asked many times,

who's running the mob?

Who are the generals in the garbage war?

Some of the names we already know.

The old names, like Cerrico,

Grossit, Hasternack, Bescoff.

But today, today I wanna add a new name to that list.

- Who the hell's he talking about?

- The man who leads the mob today

does so through the connection of family and of experience.

It will take a man with the experience

of a former prosecutor to bring him down.

Who is this man?

Rudolpho Aiuppo, formerly known as the Don.

Deported once.

He has returned illegally to our State.

Our State.

We know where the responsibility for that lies.

As we speak...

- Won't be long before Alatorre knows about you, Vince,

then you'll be the one they're following.

Sins of the father.

- [Peter] If I am elected, his deportation will be

the number one organized crime priority

of this administration.

I'll take questions now.

- Get out of the ball game.

(somber music)

Vincenzo.

- I'm here, pa.

- Vinny.

- [Vinny] How are you feeling?

- I can eat like a human being again.

How'd you make out with the negotiations?

- Slow.

That Grossit's a tough nut.

- Him or his wife?

- See Alatorre's press conference?

- Politicians.

I was watching the Giants.

- He knows you're back.

I don't know how he knows, but he does.

- Hey, I can eat again.

Who cares what he knows?

- He's gonna make it his business to deport you again.

- I'll be here to see your children get married

or maybe, I'll be up there,

or maybe, down there.

But, wherever I'll be, I won't be in Sicily.

The longer this war lasts, the more dangerous it will become

for you, for all of us.

Grossit is hand pecked.

You never know what a hand pecked man's gonna do

to prove he's a man.

Cerrico, if he suspects you're forming alliances

with people other than him,

his soft voice could be the last one you hear.

Act quickly, Vincenzo, but carefully.

Kapeesh?

- Si.

- Go back.

There it is.

(laughing and grunting)

- Fumble!

- I just got off the phone with Mr. Bowman.

You're gonna go back to school.

- Are you serious?

- Yeah, I'm serious.

Didn't I tell you I was gonna try my best?

- I'm gonna go tell David.

David!

David!

David!

- Hey.

You gotta know how to deal with people.

(unsettling music)

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