Original subtitles

- [Narrator] Tonight on Wiseguy.

- I wanted to leave Carlotta and the boys

something to remember me by.

I'm hear making a C note in change a week, that's it.

- C note in change.

If you keep doing what you're doing

you'll be doing it till your 90.

We could offer you something.

- There are other possibilities.

- I didn't say yes, I didn't say no either.

That means I said yes.

I wanted to make a few extra dollars,

not get involved in a killing.

- Not you too, Pop.

(dramatic music)

♪ Remembering you, remembering you ♪

♪ Remembering you, remembering you ♪

♪ Your photograph pinned to the wall ♪

♪ The letters you wrote

♪ I kept them all

♪ I dream of you always

♪ But my dreams don't come true ♪

♪ Forever remembering you

♪ Remembering you

♪ Forever remembering you

- [Monsignor] I uh, rang the bell.

I took a chance in finding you out here.

- What is this?

My brother's been dead over a year.

- I just found it an hour ago in the attic of the church.

I thought all his effects have been given to the family.

He must've put it up there himself.

Why, I don't know.

- Well, thank you.

- I miss him too.

Terranova has always been a respected name in this parish.

Now that your mother's moved away

you're the last one to carry it.

- [Vinnie] It's too bad I'm a hood, right?

- That isn't what I meant.

- That's exactly what you meant.

You know, you people have raised hypocrisy to an art form.

You preach love and acceptance,

but somebody gets a label on them

all that goes out the window.

- Don't blame every priest for my shortcomings.

Vincent, your brother's death

made me take a hard look at my life.

I'd always tried to make people

conform to the institutional structures of church,

and in doing that I,

I became intolerant to their human frailties,

especially the ones I shared.

- So, this is what it's like, huh, hearing confession?

- Peter opened my eyes.

The peacefulness that comes

from living the simple teachings of Christ.

It'll bring you peace, Vinnie.

Peter understood that,

and his great talent was in sharing that understanding.

Your brother was a gift to all of us.

Bless you, my son.

- Chrissy Cavallo, good bod, talks too much (chuckles).

Great hooters?

Well, at least you knew what you were given up.

Assuming you did.

Now, this I don't believe.

(light piano music)

Dad, what is this?

- [John] I'm not going in the booth to tell this.

I'm confessing right here.

I got mixed up with some guys.

Guys I knew better than to get mixed up with.

On account of them I got a gun,

and I'll use it if I have to,

if they come after me or Carlotta or my boys.

I got a gun, I'll use it.

I got a gun, I got a gun, I got a gun,

and I'll use it if I have to, if they come after me.

Angelo and Nicky were supposed to be my friends,

and they put me right in the middle of a death dance

between Sam Maselli and Fatty Picado.

Ah hell, who am I trying to kid.

They didn't do it to me.

I did it to myself.

- [Angelo] Johnny boy, juice up the truck, hit the engine.

- What're you doing?

- [Nicky] Terranova, we gotta get outta here.

- Go go, go go, just get outta here, I'm tellin' ya, drive!

- [John] What is this, where we goin'?

- [Angelo] Just drive, John!

- This is trouble, Angie!

- Shut up, it's under control!

- What're we doing?

- You're doing nothing, you're driving.

- Where?

- Johnson Street!

- For what?

- Hey, it don't matter to you!

- What're we doin' here?

- Going there, we're gonna dump that load,

and we're gonna forget it.

You understand forget it?

- [John] My God.

- Hey, keep your eyes on the road.

- Oh my God.

- Don't worry, just drive.

- Oh no, not you too, Pop.

- This is gonna be a real confession.

Might as well do it from the start of things.

Where it started is,

I'm 42 years old,

driving a bakery truck for old man Calabria.

He still calls me Johnny Boy.

- [Mr. Calabria] Hey Johnny Boy,

get those cannolis over to Ratazzo's first thing.

- Hey, the name is John, not Johnny Boy.

- Hey, he don't mean anything by it.

- [John] Yes he does, he don't even know it.

- Uh Carlotta called, bring home milk.

- Bring home milk.

- [Theresa] What?

- What, what what, this, am I stupid?

You think I'm a stupid guy?

- No, you're not stupid, Johnny.

- You remember Billy Fontanaro?

- Yeah.

- Went to school with your brother and me.

- Right.

- He's got a head like a melon, he can't even count to one.

You know what I heard?

- [Marie] What?

- Just bought himself a mansion in Great Neck.

You believe that?

Three acres and a four car garage.

I'm struggling to make payments.

My boys gotta bunk in the same room.

What a jamoke I am.

Billy the melon head.

I'm here in the prime of my life and I'm delivering bread.

Now, what is that, you tell me?

- A job, plenty of people without what you got.

- Hey, Marie.

- [Marie] What?

- I'm not plenty of people.

- [Mr. Calabria] Hey, Johnny Boy!

- Yeah, I'm goin'!

Give me these.

- Take the cannoli.

Don't forget the milk.

- I won't forget the milk.

Same route everyday, same stops at the same times.

Same faces, same streets, same cops on the same corners.

Same, same, same.

- You don't want salami?

(hand thuds)

- Hey!

- Don't order mixed cold cuts.

You people make me crazy.

- Hey, the customer, she is always right!

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

- Not in my shop, you get outta here.

- Hey, hey!

- Get outta here!

(speaking in foreign language)

Get out!

(speaking in foreign language)

I had to.

I'll tell ya, John, people make me crazy.

- [John] Yeah, I know what you mean.

- Fix you something, salami?

- [John] Nah, no thanks.

- What's the matter with you, John?

You look decrepit.

- You remember Billy Fontanaro?

- [Nick] Melon head?

- Yeah.

- Didn't know what time of day it was?

You say it's 10 o'clock, he say what time is it?

Yeah, I heard he bought a palace up in Great Neck.

- Somethings gotta happen for me, Nick.

I'm fed up the way things are.

- John, you think I give a damn how many heroes I sell?

There are other possibilities.

Look, I'm going over Angie's tonight.

Stop by, we'll have a few beers, we'll talk, huh?

- Maybe.

- Maybe?

- Yeah, maybe.

- You keep saying maybe.

Before you know it, you maybe'd your life away, John.

Go on, go back to the truck if that's what you want.

People make me crazy.

- [John] Thanks for the coffee.

- Anytime.

- Ah, Mrs. Graziano,

these are the best for your sauce this time of the year.

Here, come off of my.

Hey Johnny Boy, how you been?

- Hey, how many times I gotta tell you

not to call me Johnny Boy?

- Hey, Nicky called, says you wanted to talk.

Says you're thinking about your future, about time.

- Hey listen Ang, somethings gotta happen for me.

I gotta a wife, two boys.

I'm here making a C note in change a week, that's it.

- Ah well, you gotta do something.

So tonight, come over the house, nine o'clock.

- My boys, they're not gonna stay boys.

- A C note in change.

- Yeah, I wanna send them to college.

- Yeah, and how many jobs you gonna work to send them?

- Okay, Petey's no problem.

Maybe someday he goes to the seminary, but Vinnie.

(speaking in foreign language)

You'll be lucky he don't go to the joint

before you could pay for his school.

You gotta make something happen.

- I'm in the prime of my life here.

- C note in change.

If you keep doin' what you're doin',

you'll be doin' it till you're 90.

We could do something for ya, Johnny.

- Nine o'clock, huh?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- And bring some fresh bread.

- How ya doin', Carlo?

♪ You go out strolling on a Sunday afternoon ♪

Theresa Demonte, she had a crush on me

when she was in the sixth grade.

I was in high school.

I never did anything about it,

'cause she was nothing but a skinny, little kid.

Now, she grew up.

- Hiya, Johnny Boy.

- How ya doin', Theresa?

Theresa Demonte, she did something to me.

- I don't wanna know what it was.

- [Baseball Announcer] His home run power

has kinda dimmed a little this year.

- [John] Theresa Demonte did something to me.

- All right, all right.

- [John] I know I should be back driving my route,

but I couldn't pull myself away.

It was like I was caught in a spell.

Everybody knew Theresa was Sam Rosselli's girl,

but it didn't matter.

- We don't see you around much no more, Johnny.

- Yeah, I've been putting in a lot of overtime lately.

- Having any fun at all?

- Oh yeah, been havin' a ball.

You'd be surprised how thrilling a bread route can be.

You know Mrs. Marcotti?

- [Theresa] Yeah.

- Just the other day she orders not one,

but two loaves of rye bread.

Amazing, isn't it?

- [Theresa] (giggles) Yeah.

- Sliced even.

So, what about you?

You havin' any fun?

- Well yeah, me and Sam get to the city a lot.

Uptown with the fast crowd.

- Yeah, yeah, must be fun.

Ah, what, with the limos and the champagne, and whatnot.

- Yeah, that's nice, but uh, me personal,

I always liked a man in uniform.

You must look nice in a silk suit.

- Don't hold your breath waitin' for it.

Nah, it's tough enough just to keep the boys in dungarees.

- I never had nothing growing up.

It's nice having expensive things.

- Yeah, depends on what you gotta pay to get them though.

- Oh Johnny, everybody's gotta pay something for everything.

That's why you go home every night with flour in your hair.

(beads rattling)

- Let's go.

- [Theresa] I'm talkin' to John.

You could say hello.

- Those rolls better be fresh today, Johnny Boy.

Tell Calabria that last batch of rolls

he sent over were day olds.

That can't happen no more.

Customers notice the rolls are stale,

next they notice the butter's margarine.

- Yeah, then they notice the booze is watered.

- The point is the kingdom could be lost

'cause there's some stale rolls.

Come on, let's go.

- I wanna finish my drink.

- Now you're finished.

Come on, move.

- [Theresa] Be seeing ya, Johnny.

- Yeah.

- Chew Calabria out for me, okay Johnny Boy?

What're you doin' talkin' to that bum?

- [Theresa] He's a nice guy.

I know him since I'm a kid, why?

- Come on, he's a dot.

- [Paulie] The prince leave?

- Yeah, how could she be with that guy?

- Whatever you're thinkin', forget about it.

He's connected up.

People that cross Sam Rosselli

end up sediment down in Jersey.

You want another beer, Johnny Boy?

- I'm runnin' late on my route.

You listen to me, I'm a man.

The name is John, you got it?

Hi, Mrs. Scaroni, how ya doin'?

- Good afternoon, Giovanni.

- No eight to five jive for me boys.

This guy must belong

to the blond of the freakin' month club.

- [Wiseguy] Yeah, I heard he flies to Vegas twice a year.

- [Hood] He's got a bungalow in Miami right on the beach.

Brings broads down there by the carload.

- [Wiseguy] Michael Pug's gonna hook me up with Sam's crew.

Set me up for life.

Martians.

- [Hood] Yo, give me a cigarette.

- [Wiseguy] What, again with the cigarettes.

Don't you ever buy your own?

- Yeah, maybe they're right.

You gotta be a chump to be a bread jockey.

- Hey, Johnny Boy!

- [Baseball Announcer] Foul, just barely.

One and two to count.

Washington, one, New York, nothing, seventh inning.

The Detroit Tigers

will be at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night

for a twilight double header.

First game at six o'clock.

Regular night game, Wednesday at eight.

- [Marie] Hmm, you look beautiful.

- Don't start with me, Marie, huh?

- Hey, am I your phone service now or what?

- What?

- Angie called a half hour ago.

Wants to know when you're coming over.

You hangin' out with Angie and Nick now?

- Yeah well, they're friends of mine, so what?

- (scoffs) Friends like that you don't need.

Nick and Angelo are low quality individuals.

- Oh I know, and I'm the Grand Duke of Brooklyn, right?

- [Mr. Calabria] Hey, Terranova!

- What?

- [Mr. Calabria] I just got a call from Carillo's,

you forgot to drop off the pumpernickel.

- Oh yeah, hey, don't worry about it.

I'll drop it off on the way home.

- [Mr. Calabria] Wake up Johnny Boy.

Terry saw your truck was in front of Sam's for over an hour.

What, are you drinkin' your lunch now?

There's a ton of guys waitin' in line for your job.

- You know something,

I oughta quit this stupid damn job, what?

- And do what?

- I could do a lot of things.

- Oh yeah?

- Yeah.

- Like work with Nick and Angie?

- [John] Yeah.

- You got a good job, steady pay.

A wife who loves you to pieces, two great kids.

Don't be common and throw it away

like the rest of the cavemen in this neighborhood.

- Hey hey, Marie, I know what I'm doing.

- Oh, oh well.

Is that why you were parked in front of Sam's for an hour?

- What's the big deal?

I was talking to him.

- Nobody talks to Sam.

Theresa have any new jewelry?

- Ah, who knows, who looks at her jewelry?

- Theresa's more trouble than Angie or Nick, John.

She's smarter and when men are around her

they're, they're, they're blood isn't going to their brains,

if you know what I mean.

- Yeah.

- And it makes them stupid.

- Mm hmm.

- Don't be stupid, Johnny Boy.

- What're you, my mother?

- What's this?

- Twister, some game the kids play for hours.

Hey, Johnny Boy.

- [John] How ya doin'.

- Hey, John.

- Hey, Nicky.

(Angelo humming)

- Mm, we're gettin' close.

- Hey, all day in the shop with that hot oven

I don't wanna know from cooking.

- Hey, I could stay down here forever.

Down here I want for nothing.

I got my stool, cold beer, the ballgames, who's better.

- What about broads?

- I'd be okay with uh, con, con.

Whatever the hell it is.

Like they got in the joint.

- You mean conjugal.

- My point exactly, conjugal visits.

But to be truthful, I could do without it.

With women come 98% of all the problems I've ever had.

97% with my wife.

So uh, you give what we talked about any thought?

- Yeah, that's all I've been thinking about.

- Hey Angie.

- [Angelo] Hmm?

- How you play this thing?

- How the hell am I supposed to know?

So, what do you think?

- I don't know, I ain't never seen it before.

- Nobody knows nothing down here.

- What's so hard.

You already drive your route.

You're punctually, everybody knows that.

- Normally, what're you gettin' at?

- You start small.

You run your usual route like always,

and who would it hurt if every so often

you pick up an envelope

and brought it to a certain party, huh?

- Running numbers.

- Oh, you got something against betting?

- No, I ain't got a problem with betting.

Been to the track a couple of times.

Bet the football card like everybody else.

- My point exactly,

and I hear they're gonna put

off-track betting in New York state.

- It'll never happen.

You know, this game don't make no sense.

- So what I'm saying is what you're gonna be doing

is gonna be legal soon.

So, why not earn some extra money while you can?

- I don't know.

- [Nicky] I'm telling you, this game don't make no sense.

- What's the matter with you, Johnny Boy, huh?

You used to be a tough guy.

- Yeah, The Brooklyn Bleeder.

What'd you have something like a hundred club fights, right?

- No, 73.

- Looks like you had a hundred and seventy-three fights.

Here, put your hand there, just spin it.

- [Nicky] Red hand.

- And you got nothing to show for it.

You took a beating from the best of them.

You'd be the last guy I'd expect to be scared.

Get outta here!

- [Nicky] Hey, what's going on?

- What, my daughter,

she plays this game down here with boys.

Carmella, your daughters going to the convent!

No wonder she spends hours down here.

All right, all right, let's get serious.

Nicky and I are in tight with Sam.

You get in with us, something good could happen.

In any event, it's gotta be better

than what you're doing now.

- [Carmella] Angelo, get up here!

- Carmella, I'm gonna kill your daughter!

- [Carmella] You're gonna have to stand on line.

Now, come help me get the groceries out of the car!

- There she goes again.

Come on, give me a helping hand,

and you, I need an answer right away.

Coming, sweetheart!

- [John] I didn't say yes, but I didn't say no either.

That means I said yes.

It was real easy.

Just like Angie said.

I drove my route like always.

All I had to do was pick up an envelope here and there,

and deliver it to Angie.

Seemed like everybody was willing

to invest a few bucks in a dream.

All of a sudden,

people started treatin' me different.

The ones who cared anyway.

Like I was important.

Like I was good luck for them.

Maybe they would hit the number,

and they could get a place up in power.

I picked up an extra hundred and fifty dollars a week.

Now, who could that hurt?

Marie was onto me first.

Nobody told her anything, she just knew.

- Hey, are these fresh?

- Yeah, sure thing, I checked them myself.

- Yeah well, they better be.

- [Baker] Anything you need, John, you just gotta ask.

- [John] Yeah.

- [Marie] They better be.

- Hey, will you give me a break.

- I heard you changed your route.

- Yeah, so I stop at Sam's first, so what?

He's got trouble with the rolls.

It's just customer service.

- Yeah, I know what customers you servicing.

- And what does that mean?

- Exactly what it sounds like.

- Marie, do me a favor.

- What?

- Don't tell Carlotta anything you think you know,

'cause you don't know nothing.

Hey, Theresa.

(light saxophone music)

- [Fatty] You told me too many times already!

- [Sam] But you're not be reasonable.

- [Fatty] Hey, I know what I know!

I don't have to be reasonable!

It's as plain as the nose on your face!

What do ya think

I'm like every other stoonage you been robbing?

- Hey.

- Shh, the fat man's in there.

- [John] What's going on?

- You don't wanna know.

- John, do yourself a favor.

Leave the rolls and take off.

- [John] I was delivering them personally.

- Hey, it's your funeral.

- [Sam] I see you do the same thing.

You taught me everything I know

about doing business and I'll drop him--

- I'm going the talking now!

That you could do this to me is what hurts.

- Fatty, I do nothing to you, I worship you.

- I bring you into the organization.

I dry you off behind the ears,

and then I get envelopes from you and they're light.

- What're you talkin' about?

I would never cheat you.

- Hey, I didn't come here for the calamari.

- (chuckles) Everything that was supposed to be in there

is in there, honest to God.

- Eh, you were a small time hustler when I picked you.

I picked you because I figured you were smart enough to know

who to hustle and who to not.

I'm the not!

- Fatty look, I wouldn't--

- Shut up.

- Well, take what you think I owe you then.

- Eh, it's not the money.

I pride myself in my ability to pick talent.

I don't like it when I'm wrong.

- Fatty, you're not wrong.

- Uh huh, I'm wrong and that's what hurts me,

and that's what's gonna hurt you.

- Fatty, don't go, hear me out!

You gotta listen to me, anything!

Fatty, what's mine is yours, you know that, Fatty!

What're you morons lookin' at?

- I brought your rolls, they're fresh.

- What do I care?

Leave them and get out.

Give me some Canadian, neat.

That slob comes over here from Flatbush

telling me what to do.

- I don't think you should be arguing

with that gentlemen, sweetheart, here.

- Who asked you to think?

- Babe, Ricotta's dangerous.

I just don't wanna see you hurt, that's all.

- Oh, you don't think I can take care of him.

- [Theresa] Sam, it's not what I'm saying.

- Shut up.

(hand thuds)

- Oh Sammie, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!

- [Sam] I'll show you how sorry.

(Theresa screaming) (hand thudding)

You gold digging little slut.

I'll put you back on the street.

(Sam grunts)

You two-bit slob, you put your hands on me?

(fist thudding)

Come on, he's mine!

Come on, get up!

(Sam grunting)

(table thudding)

- [Theresa] No, stop it, stop it, stop it!

Sammie, you better stop!

Angie, stop them, stop them!

- You stop them.

- You stop them.

- Get off him, get off of him, get off him!

Oh Sammie, Sammie.

- You're dead, Terranova.

Get away from me, I'll kill him and I'll kill you too.

- If I ever hear you touch her again

I'll come back here and give you better.

If you wanna come after me

don't send your minions to do your dirty work for you.

- Kiss your wife and kids goodbye.

- What?

(fist thuds)

- No, no, stop, just get out, get out, just get out!

- You don't ever mention my family again.

You're nothing but a two-bit hood.

Who's a dot now?

- [Theresa] Oh Sammie, oh Sammie.

I'm so sorry what I did.

Could you ever forgive me, sweetheart?

Oh, what he did to you (crying).

- [John] What have I done?

- Johnny Boy, Johnny!

Come on, come on, come on.

What's the matter with you, huh?

What're you nuts?

- [Nicky] What about the job?

- Hey hey, one at a time.

What's goin' on?

- Sam's gone crazy.

- He's tearing his place apart.

- Theresa?

- It's not Theresa he's crazed over.

You gotta get outta Dodge.

- [Nicky] My advice is head for the Andes,

and that ain't far enough.

- Friends are friends, Johnny Boy,

but we can't protect you on this one.

- I can protect myself.

- For what, a loaf of pumpernickel bread?

Come here.

- Come here.

- What?

- [Angelo] I got something for you, Johnny Boy, huh?

Hold on a second, ah, this stuff.

Here, something you need, Johnny Boy.

Numbers are filled off nice and clean.

I want you to have it.

(light orchestral music)

- [John] The business with Sam happened so fast.

You do stupid things.

Not beating him up.

I'd do that again in a second.

Calling him out, that was a stupid thing,

because I put myself in the position

of losing everything I love, Carlotta, my boys.

If Sam takes me out,

I hope Pete and Vinnie read this someday.

I want you boys to know I wasn't afraid to die like a man.

I hope I live like one,

but I sure as hell wasn't afraid to die like one.

I know I didn't talk to you boys the way I should have.

You couldn't have learned much from me anyway.

You're a smart boy Pete.

You care about people,

and if you do become a priest

I know it'll be for all the right reasons,

and I know you'll be a good one.

Vinnie, I know things between us

haven't always been too good.

Everybody says you're a wild kid,

and I got on ya because of school and the cars.

It was like I was lookin' at myself all over again.

The difference is you got more brains than I ever had.

You got strength, you got heart,

and down deep you know what's right.

I've always been proud of you, Vinnie.

I'm proud of you now.

- You could have six grenades and a Tommy gun,

it won't help.

You better get outta New York while you can.

You knocked the crap outta Rosselli.

You don't think it's gonna spread like the plague?

Everybody knows.

- Carlotta and the boys don't know.

- They will.

- But he had it coming to him, Marie.

- He's had it coming to him his whole life.

The only reason he hasn't gotten it till now

is everybody but you is too smart

to walk into his club and start swinging.

You gotta run, John.

- Hey, this is my neighborhood.

I was born here.

- You don't run, you die here,

and your kids won't have a father.

- And if I run they won't have a father either.

- So, you send for them.

At least you'll be alive.

Rosselli ain't gonna let you get away with what you did.

He can't and still have the power.

Can't you see that?

- Yeah, I do see that,

but if I start runnin' now I'll never stop.

I'll have to sleep with one eye open all the time.

I can't live like that.

I won't live like that.

- I don't know what to say to you, John.

- Well, whatever you say don't say be careful.

I don't mean that, okay.

- Okay, what you uh, what you put back there,

can you use it?

- Marie, it don't take no PhD, know what I mean.

- Yeah.

- Listen to me, listen to me.

- What?

- If anything happens, you don't know nothing, okay?

You and me, we didn't see each other today.

- Okay, okay.

- Okay, you take care of yourself.

- All right, come here.

- [Angelo] Johnny Boy, juice up the truck, hit the engine.

- What're you doin'?

- [Nicky] Terranova, we gotta get outta here!

- Go, go, go, just get outta here.

I'm tellin' ya, drive!

- [John] What is this, huh, where we goin'?

- [Angelo] Just drive, Johnny!

- This is trouble, Angie!

- Shut up, it's under control!

- What're we doin'?

- You're doin' nothing, you're drivin'.

- Where?

- Johnson Street.

- For what?

- Hey, it don't matter to you.

- What're we doin' here?

- Goin there, we're gonna dump that load,

and we're gonna forget it.

You understand forget it?

- [John] My God.

- Hey, keep your eyes on the road.

- Oh my God.

- [Angelo] Don't worry, just drive.

- [John] Rosselli.

- Yeah I know, he wrapped him up.

- I thought it was Theresa.

- Who would want to Theresa, huh?

- I thought Sam did.

- They was gettin' into it at the club again.

Sam must've grabbed it before Picado's boys came in.

- How do you know it was Picado?

- How do I know?

In Sam's mouth.

- Well, where's Theresa?

Is she all right?

- Her place, she's got some of Sam's brains spilled on her.

Otherwise, she's unscathed.

- Well, why are we puttin' him here?

Why don't we take him out in to the Island to the woods?

- Because we don't wanna run around

any longer than necessary with a stiff.

(John sighs)

Besides, old Sam built this building from the ground up.

He always said there was a part of him in it (laughs).

- Hey Angie, my wife would like that carpet.

You think the stains would come out?

- [Angelo] Ah, no problem, I know a guy.

- Hey, you stupid son of a bitch.

You sucked me into this, Angelo.

On account of you I'm a wheelman.

- Huh, I didn't suck you into nothing.

You were the one that came to us.

You were the one that wanted to make a career move.

I wanted to make a few extra dollars,

not get involved in a killing.

- Cut the dramatics, huh.

You got involved in a dumping.

- Do you know how lucky you are, huh?

You had the sword of Socrates

hanging over your head and you dodged it.

- Sam wanted us to clip ya, but we declined,

on account of we know ya.

Now, he was about to call in his sure man from Philly

when they, when they popped him.

- But the cops are gonna find him.

- Nobody's gonna find nobody.

That's what the lime is for,

so he don't aerate the neighborhood.

- But people are gonna notice he's missing.

They're gonna ask questions.

Everybody knows I gave him a beatin'.

Somebody talks, the cops are gonna come to me!

- You worry too much, Johnny Boy.

- Hey Johnny, they got nothing on you.

You were out delivering on Montague Street when it happened.

We'll back you up.

- I'm not used to lying, Nicky.

- Well, you wanna be in this business

start cultivating the habit.

- [Nicky] Come on, let's get the hell outta here, huh.

- Don't just stand there, grab this, come on.

- [John] Oh Madone, oh Madone.

- Get the lime, huh.

- What am I doing here, oh Madone.

- Hey, I said now!

You know, Sam's dying is not a completely negative thing.

Nicky and me work for Picado now.

Only we're one notch higher up the ladder.

You see uh, we move up, we take you with us.

- Timing's everything, huh, John?

- See, you decided to make something happen, it happens.

- [Theresa] Oh Johnny, what they did to my Sammie (crying).

- Maybe you go find somebody that'll treat you better now.

- What're you talking about?

He loved me.

- Look Theresa, I know he bought you things,

but he smacked you around.

- Only now and then.

That was just his way.

He loved me.

Soon as the season was over at Belmont

we was gonna get married at Saint Dominic's.

Sam's brother Nunzio,

he had the honeymoon suite at the Sand's

set up for us and everything.

Another couple of long shots,

Sam's got the down payment for a house in Bay Ridge,

but that's over, Sam's killed.

- Look Theresa, here.

The boys gave this to me to give to you.

- Oh, you're such a sweet guy, Johnny.

- Well.

- You know, when I was in the sixth grade

I had a terrific crush on you.

- You did, huh?

- Yeah, you don't remember me hanging out at the field

waiting for you to finish practice?

I would stand in the rain and watch you.

- [John] Yeah, I remember that.

- Best thing that could happen to me

be to find a guy like you,

but if I found him I probably wouldn't want him.

What're you gonna do now?

- Oh, I don't know.

Stay as far away from Nicky and Angelo as I can.

- Yeah, I could never figure out

why you was associating with them two.

- Well, I figured they was gonna make things happen for me.

Running the numbers, extra money, seemed like a good thing.

Those guys, man, those guys.

You know, when they left the sub shop and the grocery store

they had a sense of style about them.

You know what I mean?

- Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.

- I mean, my whole life I never had no style,

and I always wanted to do more,

but not just for me, for Carlotta and my boys.

So, I figured running the numbers, right, who's it hurt?

Well, playin' them is one thing.

I mean, everybody's got a right to dream,

but runnin' them, no, that's a different story,

because you're whoring yourself into other people's dreams.

I got no guts for this business, Theresa.

Maybe I got no guts at all.

It's only the guys with the guts that really make it big.

Guys like me play it safe.

- That's not guts, Johnny.

You're an honest guy who works hard for a living.

- Yeah, and what has it gotten me?

I gotta go back out to that bread truck

and make my C note in change.

I wanted to leave Carlotta and the boys

something to remember me by.

I wanted to have something to leave them.

- Money spends, Johnny.

- Yeah.

- [Theresa] Oh, Johnny.

- All I ever wanted was my boys to be proud of me.

Is that too much to ask?

That's the only thing I ever really wanted.

(light piano music)

How will they remember me?

(light piano music)

- Daddy (crying).

(delivery men chattering)

- Hey, is there anything I can do for you?

- No thanks.

♪ Forever remembering you

♪ Remembering you, remembering you ♪

- Can I help you?

- A half a dozen pizzelles, please.

- Sure, Vinnie.

I'm Marie Bellatti.

I used to work with your father.

- I haven't been in here since I was 10 years old.

- Oh, you got your father's face (chuckles).

Yeah, I remember when he used to bring pizzelles home

for you and your brother.

- Yeah, I remember that too.

- He was a good man, big heart.

We was here together the day it gave out on him.

Say, how's Carlotta?

- She's fine, thanks.

- Well, you tell her hello from me, you hear.

- I will, thank you.

- Yeah.

Ciao, bambino.

♪ I dream of you always

♪ But my dreams don't come true ♪

♪ Forever remembering you

♪ Remembering you

♪ Forever remembering you

♪ Remembering you

♪ Forever remembering you

(dramatic music)

(whimsical orchestral music)