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f***ing hour in any f***ing jail!

- Didn't you hear her? Did you hear?

- Keep your voice down.

You are not listening to me.

Listen to me!

You don't f***ing listen to what I say!

- That's you... Hey.

- What?

- Adam's my grandson.

- Yeah.

- Would I hurt him?

- I don't know. Would you, Jessie?

- I'll tell you what.

- What?

- Hold still.

- I cut myself shaving.

You go visit him, and I'll settle up

with this f***ing shyster.

No, no. I'll settle

with the f***ing shyster.

I'll settle with that f***ing...

Don't you worry.

Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me.

Did you see a white Caddy here?

A white Fleetwood?

Yeah, some old guy just drove it out.

Where do you get a taxi around here?

- Not around here.

- I need a f***ing taxi.

Get me a f***ing taxi. Taxi!

- How you doing?

- I'm okay.

- Are you sure?

- Yeah.

If things don't improve, Adam...

...your father will want us

to turn ourselves in with the stuff.

That's bullshit.

It means you walk.

Yeah, the lawyer gave me

that 15 years in prison spiel too.

She's just pumping her fee up.

I won't do more than a year, tops.

I can do that. You did it. Dad did it.

He doesn't have the confidence

in me to do it.

Don't kid yourself it's gonna be easy.

Somebody once told me it builds

character, like a hitch in the Army.

You still have the plasmids?

Yeah, on ice.

- And the logbook?

- Yeah.

Well, then Jimmy Chiu will still pay

us the million bucks.

We spend $ 100,000 on my defense...

...and we still get to keep

$300,000 a piece.

You're a McMullen.

Adam McMullen.

- You his lawyer?

- I'm his father.

One visitor a day.

He's already had one.

Who?

Jessie McMullen.

Jessie, if you're in there,

open the f***ing door!

Is he here?

- Is he here? Don't lie to me.

- You're gonna foot the bill for that chain.

Is he here?

You're an emotional bunch,

you McMullens.

I didn't mean to do that.

You could have asked to come in.

What the hell is wrong

with your family?

What's wrong with my family

is my lunatic father.

Here.

You don't seem surprised to see me.

- Well, I try to take life as it comes.

- Yeah?

What are you supposed to tell me?

He tell you I might show up?

Yeah.

He tell you what for?

- He tell you?

- He said you had a falling out.

A falling out? That f*** calls

this a "falling out"?

I take it he understated the case.

What are you supposed to tell me?

- That he's out of town, which he is.

- Yeah? Yeah.

And that what you're looking for

isn't here, which it isn't.

And it's not at his place.

He said you'd be smart enough

to know that without asking.

- What the hell are you looking for?

- Don't worry about it.

What do you mean?

Do you think it would be

like your father to tell me?

Jessie and me and Adam

did a fancy burglary.

We got goods worth a ton of money,

and Adam got dropped coming out.

My son, Jessie's grandson, is

now sitting up in Nassau County...

...Iooking at 15 years behind...

Behind bars. 15 years in a cage.

If the goods are returned...

...and me and Jessie...

...turn ourselves in, Adam walks.

But while my back was turned...

...Jessie made off with the goods.

I don't believe you.

You know, I've been around thieves.

That's how I came upon your father.

I married one of the better

counterfeiters on the East Coast.

I know the score, okay?

I'm a knockaround girl.

You and Jessie wanna rob, go ahead,

but how could you take Adam along?

I went along to...

To look out for him.

Bullshit.

You enjoyed every minute of it.

All you guys do.

Why not turn yourself in?

Without the goods, it's useless.

Jesus, thank you.

Why don't you just tell Jessie that I,

you know, smacked you around, okay?

I'll tell him to go cut his f***ing wrists.

Get that kid out of jail.

I'll take care of myself.

I'm trying.

- I'll get it.

- Hello.

Just a moment.

It's for you. It's a woman.

- Hello.

- You start playing straight with me...

...or your son's gonna rot in jail.

- What?

- Water.

You gave me eight vials of tap water.

What are you saying?

I said, you gave me

eight vials of tap water!

What's wrong? Who was that?

It's...

It's about Adam.

- Oh, God.

- No, no, he's not hurt.

He's...

He's been arrested.

A burglary...

Upstate. It's...

- A burglary?

- Well, it's pretty serious.

How did Adam get...?

What is Adam doing involved

in a burglary, Vito?

How did he...?

Jessie was involved in it.

Jessie.

I'm gonna kill him.

I wanna kill that son of a b*tch.

I was part of it too.

I went along to look out for Adam.

But he would have gone anyway...

...so I went along to look out

for him. See?

- What are you telling me?

- It was the three of us.

The three of us, me and Jessie

and Adam. And Adam got caught.

- Well, where's Jessie now?

- I don't know.

You turn him in.

Yeah. What?

And yourself too.

And you explain to the judge

how a boy like Adam couldn't resist...

...following his father

and his grandfather into this madness.

You get my son out of jail, Vito...

...or I'll turn you and your stinking

father over to the police.

Where you going? Where you going?

- I want the plasmids.

- What?

You switched the plasmids.

What you got in there?

- You gave me f***ing water!

- None of your f***ing business.

What do you got in there?

Give me it! Open the f***ing box!

Open the box! Give it to me!

Don't make me do something.

Don't you understand?

I don't have the f***ing plasmids!

Welcome home, Vito. Here!

I know you f***ing switched them.

You didn't get as far from

Hell's Kitchen as you thought.

All right, where are they?

- I'm telling you the truth.

- You never told me the truth.

Well, I am now.

You spout about family and Ioyalty,

and it's all crap.

Stop whining about your childhood.

You sound like every a**hole

on the television talk show.

You're 43 years old,

for chrissakes! Here!

He was fine till you got ahold of him.

- Fine?

- And I would have been fine too.

Fine. That poor kid doesn't know

his ass from a hole in the ground.

It's no wonder, the kind

of f***ing father you've been.

- The kind of father I've been?

- Yes.

The kind of father I've been?!

What is this, some kind of f***ing joke?

You're all ass-backwards

with that kid...

...tiptoeing around, hoping he's gonna

pat you on the head.

That's right. The kid that I steered

into being a Westinghouse Scholar.

You spend your life talking

"Westinghouse Scholar."

- Well, what's the matter with that?

- It's all bullshit.

And Adam knows it better

than any of us.

Now why do you think he set

this whole thing up?

Because he can smell the real Vito!

That's why.

- Smell what?

- This Vito.

This Vito. That's the real Vito.

That's the one he wants respect from.

Do you understand?

No one at home.

You're a f***ing lost cause.

And look at the mess you've made.

I'm gonna give you up.

Did you hear what I said?

- I'm gonna give you up.

- Up yours, you f***ing guinea midget.

Water!

What the hell?!

I'm Adam McMullen's granddad.

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