All language subtitles for S02E04 St Valentine s Day Massacre

Previously on "The Making
of the Mob: Chicago"...

Italian mobsters,
Johnny Torrio and Al Capone,

have become two of the biggest
kingpins in Chicago.

I got a good feeling about this.

Yeah.

But after years of peace with the Irish,

their partner, gang
leader Dean O'Banion...

Police! Nobody move!

sets Torrio up.

Son of a bitch!

So, now what do you think
of your friend O'Banion?

I want to kill him.

As the gangland war escalates...

Hey, Johnny!

Torrio decides he's had enough.

I'm leaving you in charge.

Of the clubs, the breweries, everything.

We need to hit 'em.

Hit 'em hard.

In one of his first high
profile moves as boss,

Al Capone takes out a hit
on gangster Hymie Weiss...

establishing himself as the most
powerful gangster in Chicago.

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In less than a decade,

Al Capone has risen from
a no-name accountant

to the head of the Chicago mafia,

a criminal syndicate now raking in

over $100 million a year.

Capone is really at the
height of his powers.

He's still a young man,
he's only in his 20s,

and he's running
this massive organization.

He's making a fortune.

And he can't get arrested if he tries.

Despite his success,

Capone is still running his operation

out of the
neighboring suburb of Cicero...

and he knows that if he's
going to consolidate power

as king of the underworld,

he needs to move back
to where it all started...

Chicago.

Nearly four years earlier,

Capone was driven from Chicago
by Mayor William Dever,

the man who swore
he'd clean up the city.

But with a wave of recent
gangland violence,

Dever's popularity is plummeting.

To give you a sense of
how crazy the violence was

in Chicago in the 1920s,

Lucky Luciano came to town

and was absolutely appalled.

He said, "Chicago, that town is nuts."

Now, we're talking a
guy who shot another mobster

in broad daylight in front
of a whole crowd.

This guy was appalled by

the level of violence in Chicago.

Capone sees an opportunity.

He takes his revenge by heavily
funding Dever's opponent...

corrupt former mayor, Big Bill Thompson.

When Big Bill Thompson announced
that he was gonna run

for mayor again, Capone
must have been thrilled.

He knew having his ally back

in the mayor's office would be great.

Making sure the mayor was
on your side really helped

make everything go easier for Al Capone.

Capone's strategy pays off
and Thompson wins easily.

Capone moves back to Chicago
and takes over two floors

of the city's finest
hotel, the Lexington,

a destination for presidents,
dignitaries, and celebrities.

As a way of kind of feeding this notion

of the high-class mobster,

when Bill Thompson gets reelected mayor,

Capone moves into Chicago
at the Lexington Hotel.

How are you guys?

How's the family? Doing all right?

The Tribune, great paper.

Invites the press up to
take a look at his workspace.

You know, he is putting himself
out there in a way

that you just did not see mobsters do.

My associates here...

get a little bit upset

when things don't go right.

But that ain't gonna happen.

Is it?

We're counting on you, councilman.

With a thriving business

and Chicago politicians
in his back pocket...

You have a nice day.

Capone enlists his top lieutenants

to oversee the day-to-day
operations.

Frank Nitti manages the finances.

Paul Ricca acts as his
deal-maker and emissary.

And Tony Accardo works as his
chief bodyguard and enforcer.

Capone soon reaches a level of celebrity

normally reserved for athletes
and entertainers.

He's giving interviews to
Cosmopolitan Magazine,

to gossip columnists from Hollywood.

Um, you know, Babe Ruth
and the Yankees come to town

and he invites them to come
to the office and meet.

He's loving life, and he figures,

you know, everything
is going beautifully.

Hello.

As Capone's profile grows...

he begins to indulge in all

that the roaring '20s have to offer.

You want some?

The 1920s were

an exciting, violent,
almost out-of-control,

rather reckless time,

and cocaine was a common
drug in that era,

so he wasn't doing anything unusual,

but he was doing a lot of it.

But while Capone enjoys his reign

at the top of the Chicago underworld,

one man is looking for
a way to take him down.

Irish gangster, Bugs Moran.

Who do they think they are?

They come into my side,

they kill everyone that I've worked for,

and now they think
they get away with it?

I'm going to make them pay
for the blood they spilled.

Moran was a survivor.

He saw what happened to O'Banion.

He saw what happened
to Weiss after that.

And with a character as violent

and as dominant as Al Capone,
managed to continue.

Seeking revenge for the
deaths of his partners,

Moran is more determined
than ever to kill Capone.

Moran probably felt
that he had little choice

but to kill Capone
before Capone killed him.

It was Al Capone's intention

to not operate
peacefully with other organizations.

It was in his intention
to take over everything.

Moran also targets those
closest to Capone,

hoping to weaken his organization.

Revenge, it's what fuels wars.

You get us, we get you.

It's a show of power, of who's stronger.

We need to talk.

It can wait.

No, it can't.

Somebody tried to hit McGurn.

How bad is it?

He'll live.

Call Ricca.

Get everybody.

Okay.

On March 7th, 1928,

Bugs Moran orders a hit on one
of Capone's top associates,

the man who took out Hymie Weiss...

Jack McGurn.

Jack McGurn is the top killer
in the Capone gang.

He killed guys that were
in the north side gang,

and that's just what your soldiers do,

they kill and get killed.

How many guys were there?

Two, maybe three.

Did you see their faces?

It was dark, but I could see

their faces, two of Moran's guys.

Those stupid Irish pricks.

What does he think?

Having a shot at you
is supposed to do what?

Intimidate me?

He couldn't even finish the job.

Moran's gonna keep coming.

I'm done dealing with
these Irish pricks!

I want to send a clear message
to all of Chicago.

This is the last time

anyone tries to go up against us.

Capone decides that
to make a big impact,

he's going to take out Moran

and as many of his men as possible,

all at once.

Capone was willing

to go to a level of carnage
that was almost beyond

the comprehension of even
the most murderous gangster.

We're gonna give them a message
they'll never forget.

But with Moran's gang heavily armed,

Capone's crew knows that taking
them down in the streets

would be a suicide mission.

If this goes wrong
and blows back on us...

The smartest move is to
beat them at their own game.

They come up with a simple solution,

but one that requires
meticulous planning.

First, they enlist Chicago's
top two Sicilian hit men,

John Scalese and Albert Anselmi,

to carry out the operation.

Scalese and Anselmi were
a couple of paid killers.

If you needed something taken care of,

you needed somebody hurt,

Capone knew he could count on them.

Yeah?

To get Moran and his
entire crew in one location,

they arrange to
have one of their trusted

liquor dealers set up a buy.

You trust these guys?

Yeah, of course I trust them.

Wouldn't put them on
the job if I couldn't.

Then, they plan to
stage a fake police raid

to catch their victims off guard.

You have to have a plan

about how you're going to
do this, step by step.

It's done very much
like a military operation,

well-planned and
well-orchestrated.

With all the pieces in place,

Capone leaves for Miami,

to distance himself from the hit.

Capone loudly announced

that he was going to be out of town

so that people wouldn't
draw a direct connection

between him and the hit.

It was a cold Valentine's
Day morning in Chicago.

Kids were making their little cards

to bring into their teachers
for Valentine's Day.

Ready?

Yeah.

Let's go.

Disguised as law enforcement,

Capone's men leave for Irish territory.

And now, Capone's crew
is about to execute a hit

that will change the course
of American history.

After weeks of planning,
Al Capone's crew

is ready to take revenge
on Irish gangster Bugs Moran,

by disguising themselves as city cops

to catch Moran and his men off guard.

There they are.

This is a raid!

Everybody, against the wall!

You know the drill.

Move it.

Get over there!

Turn around!

Scum bag.

Let's go.

Are you arresting us or not?

Shut your mouth!

Let's get out of here!

On February 14th, 1929, at 10:30 a.m.,

Al Capone's assassins gun down
seven of Bugs Moran's men...

firing 70 rounds of ammunition

in less than ten seconds

in the biggest
gangland hit in American history

that will come to be known

as The St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

Two or three men went in there
dressed as police officers.

Had they not gone in that way,
the people would have resisted,

but they saw they were
in police uniform,

they all were put up against the wall.

And then they were just murdered,

every one of them.

It's only a matter of hours before news

of the brutal execution
makes national headlines.

Tabloid newspapers were
publishing the photos

from this crime on the front page,

and people were seeing
the blood and the...

the brains lying on the floor.

Seven people dead at one time

was a lot for, um, Americans to bear.

And it horrified people.

You're talking about a mass execution.

This isn't a hit on somebody.

It isn't just killing a boss.

This is a bunch of guys,
seven guys, getting shot,

and to a lot of people,
this is going too far.

Not included in those
killed is Bugs Moran,

who, through a stroke of
luck, avoids the massacre.

Bugs Moran, who was running late,

saw those cops, or what
he thought were the cops,

go into the
warehouse, he figures, all right,

I'll just let my guys take the fall,

get arrested, I'll bail them out.

And then the shooting starts.

So, it was almost perfect,

except they didn't get the main target,

which was Bugs Moran.

But while Moran may have survived,

he knows he's been defeated.

All the people that were
near and dear to him,

friends, business associates,
fellow gangsters,

had been systematically murdered,

and now he's been stripped
of his own organization,

and he really has nothing.

There is no longer a role

for him to play in the
Chicago underworld.

Only a couple weeks later,
Capone returns to Chicago.

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

had the effect of, for all
intents and purposes,

ending the gang war in Chicago

with Capone being declared the winner,

because it wiped out what was left

of the O'Banion-Weiss-Moran faction

of the north side gang.

After five years of battles

and countless lives lost,

Capone has finally defeated the Irish.

But the victory comes at a cost,

as the massacre's press
brings unwanted scrutiny

not just to Capone's organization,

but to the entire Mafia.

He was told by members
of his own organization,

you're just too hot.
The public is centering

on you as the cause of this,

and it's bad for business,

so you need to lay low.

Capone ignores the warnings,

convinced that no one can stop him.

Capone owns the town, I
mean, he controls the town.

He's got political connections

all throughout the city
and the police department.

So, the idea that he would
begin to feel as though

he was untouchable is not so crazy.

I mean, he was untouchable.

Fueled by a growing drug habit,

Capone continues to do what he wants,

and soon, even his most
trusted associates

begin to question his authority.

I think we got a problem
with two of the guys

we used to take out Moran's crew.

Scalise and Anselmi.

What kind of a problem?

Word is, they been talking
to a lot of people.

About what?

They think there should
be new leadership.

Al had a problem with betrayal.

He had a big problem with betrayal.

And he had a problem with anybody

trying to come and take
what was Al Capone's.

As Capone's ego continues to grow,

two of his gunmen,

Albert Anselmi and John Scalise,

begin forming alliances
with other gangsters

to get rid of him.

Scalise and Anselmi

were getting a little bit
too big for their shoes.

They thought that they could
get bigger than Al Capone

and reportedly they were
plotting against him.

We know his whole operation
from the inside out.

We know where Capone's gonna be,

and we know when he's gonna be there.

That information don't come cheap.

Salute.

Salute.

I just want to take a moment

to thank you all for joining
me here this evening.

It means a lot having you all here.

'Cause to me...

we're family.

The most important thing in family...

is loyalty.

We've been through a lot lately.

We've emerged stronger than ever before.

Because we've stuck together.

So when I find out two of
my men have been disloyal...

gone behind my back
talking to my enemies...

This is what happens.

No! Please.

No!

Because nothing is more important...

than loyalty!

Get them out of my sight.

Please... eat.

Al Capone let his dirty
work be done by others,

but when in front of everybody else,

he beat the brains out of
two perceived enemies,

he struck terror in the hearts of all

the gangsters who realized
that Capone was capable

of far greater personal violence

than they had given him credit for.

News of the brutal killings

spreads quickly within the underworld.

And now, Mafia leaders from back east

are fed up with Capone's antics.

In order to rein him in,

New York crime boss Lucky Luciano

organizes a top-secret meeting
in Atlantic City,

inviting mob bosses
from across the country

to decide how to deal with Al Capone.

All right...

I want to get this started.

Take your seats.

The way I see it,

Al's made it impossible
for us to do business.

My gambling is down.

My rackets are down.

Every one of my clubs
has been raided twice.

We all know what needs to happen.

While most mobsters favor
eliminating Capone,

Luciano sees another way.

They'd just had the St.
Valentine's Day Massacre,

and the public was in
outrage about that.

So, Lucky Luciano decided that, uh,

Al would go to jail on a minor offense,

but nevertheless the public
would be okay with that

and it would take the
focus off the outfit at the time.

With the rest of the
Mafia turning against him,

Capone knows he has no choice
but to take the fall.

He was afraid there could
be some retaliation,

and allegedly, he actually

created a situation where he'd
get arrested in Philadelphia

and spend a year in jail out there,

allegedly, again,
for his own protection.

But even a prison sentence

can't stop Chicago's Mafia kingpin

from living the high life

while his men run his business
from the outside.

Cheers.

But while Capone continues

to keep up his lavish lifestyle in jail,

the world outside is changing,

and the man once admired
for his wealth and power

is about to become a prime target

of the most powerful man in the country.

After spending just
ten months in prison,

Al Capone returns to Chicago,

eager to keep his empire running,

but he faces a changed world.

Following the public outrage

from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre

and the recent onset of
the Great Depression in 1929,

President Herbert Hoover declares war

on America's most notorious gangster.

Capone was making this laughingstock

out of American law

that you could be a criminal

and you could... you could flaunt it,

and that was completely
unacceptable to Hoover.

Hoover ordered his cabinet
members to look at

all the different ways
that they could go about

taking down Al Capone.

One approach Hoover uses

is to go after Capone
for Prohibition violations.

Leading the operation
is an ambitious young agent

just three years out of college

who's already distinguished himself

as an undercover operative.

His name is Eliot Ness.

This morning we were
tipped off to three new locations

supposedly housing
breweries run by Capone.

Divide yourselves up into pairs.

You're gonna be running
surveillance for the next week.

I want the description and plates

of every vehicle going in and out.

Yes, sir.

Get out there.

Eliot Ness was different from
most law enforcement officers.

He was a University of Chicago graduate.

He was an intellectual.

Ness was more of an elitist,

he was a little bit more of an outsider,

and he took his job seriously.

When the president of
the United States says

"Go get this guy," that is an order,

and everybody knows

if Capone is the most famous
gangster in the world,

if I'm the guy who gets the guy,

that's gonna make my career.

As Ness takes charge of the operation,

he uses surveillance,
anonymous tips, and wiretaps

to build his
understanding of Capone's operations.

The bars, the clubs, everything's
under control?

Just talked to Jimmy the other day.

- Everything's smooth.
- Very nice.

Yeah.

I want to talk to you about something.

What's up, Al?

Got a bit of a situation.

You tell me, I'll take care of it.

When the first bugs
and wiretaps went in,

there is reason to believe
that the mob did not know

that they were being taped.

Whatever was picked up
was absolutely golden.

Bust his head open, I don't give a shit.

We need these trucks moving out

a lot faster than what they have been.

I think we got him, boys.

Prohibition Bureau!

This is a raid!

On June 13th, 1930, Ness raids
one of Capone's breweries,

arresting five men and confiscating

over 20,000 gallons of beer.

Eliot Ness was trying to...

harass Capone as much as possible.

If he went after Capone
and took him down,

then it would send the message

that the laws were to
be taken seriously,

including the law of Prohibition.

So, what do we know about this Ness?

Not a lot.

He's a hard ass.

This guy is a problem.

So, what's his price?

I don't think you can buy this guy.

Everyone has a price.

I don't care what it costs, okay?

Get it done.

Capone thought he was untouchable.

They were really
letting Al just run his city.

But when Eliot Ness came in,

that's when it started to fall apart.

A donation.

From Capone.

2,000.

An identical envelope will make its way

to your desk every week.

I want you to take this
envelope back to Capone.

Eliot Ness took his job seriously.

He wasn't... He wasn't bribable,

and that made him very unusual.

After he refuses Al Capone's bribe,

Eliot Ness and his team
come to be known...

as The Untouchables,

and now he's more determined than ever

to destroy Capone's bootlegging empire.

Over the years, I've seen
some cat-and-mouse games

between law enforcement
and organized crime.

Sometimes it becomes personal.

It almost becomes a game.

They're gonna think all day
and night about how to get you.

Over the coming months,

Ness's team of agents
raid Capone's breweries

and also target his trucks,
destroying or seizing

upwards of 200,000 gallons
worth of beer.

Ness was good at interrupting
Capone's cash flow.

He was good at making life
harder for Al Capone.

Capone was definitely starting
to feel the pressure.

Ness raided another one of
our breweries this morning.

That brings his total to five this week.

I'm not gonna let one little
shit-heel Prohibition agent

take down our entire organization.

If we can't buy him, fine.

We'll just have to kill him.

Come on, Al.

This guy's a government agent.

You can't just kill him.

Don't you ever tell me
what I can and can't do.

I run this city.

Not the mayor, not the cops.

Me.

So if I tell you to kill someone,

you do it.

You don't ask questions.

You understand?

Sure, Al.

As Capone got older and more successful,

he needed to be more and more
ruthless in order to survive.

Al Capone saw Eliot Ness as a problem

because he was not corruptible.

If you couldn't pay him off
and you couldn't intimidate him,

uh, then killing him is...
is the last resort.

We'll make it look like an accident.

Just get it done.

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