Jane Austen's Mafia! Page #4

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[Child]

Papa, Papa!

[Bell Ringing]

Papa, Papa, good news! I sold

the other daisy to Signor Biggio!

Ah, Tiny Anthony.

Come, come.

Ah, you are such a good boy,

you know that?

- It's Joey's birthday, Papa!

- Yes, yes. I know.

We will try to find him

something nice on the way home.

Well, I guess you'll be

needing your pay.

[Cash Register Ringing]

I give you the big half.

- [Penny Clinking]

- Grazie, Mr. Rizzo. Grazie.

You are too good to me, huh?

- [Rizzo] It's nothing.

- Come. Let's go home.

[Rizzo]

You do well, right, Tiny Anthony?

- I'll see you tomorrow, Signor Rizzo.

- Si.

[Tiny Anthony]

Good-bye, Mr. Rizzo.

[Groans]

God bless us everyone.

[Sighs]

Ay.

- [Door Rattles]

- [Tiny Anthony] Mama, we're home!

- Cara mio.

- Cara mia.

- Papa!

- Joey.

- I sold another flower, Mama.

- That's wonderful.

[Mama] Come, sit.

Dinner is ready. Sit, sit!

I've been cooking all day.

[Sighs]

I-I had to sell the hook.

Ah.

I saw a man today, Rosa,

who sucks his own people dry.

Mm. Like in those movies

you made me watch.

No. I mean in a bad way.

- Oh.

- What did you bring me

for my birthday, Papa?

What did I bring you? This!

Happy birthday, Joey.

[Inhales Deeply]

Mm, boot!

- Smells delicious, Rosa.

- Mm.

- Who wants an end cut?

- [Joey] Can I have the tongue?

[Rosa]

Open your present, Joey.

[Baby Crying]

[Squeaking]

Pop, it's a rat!

- No, it's a puppy.

- But it looks like a rat.

Don't argue with your father!

God'll pluck your eyes out.

- It's a puppy.

- [Baby Crying]

- [Stops Crying]

- It must have cost you a fortune.

- Yes. But look how happy the boy is.

- [Sucking]

- [Frightened Gasping] Oh! Ugh.

- [Chittering]

[Sucking On a Straw,

Popping Loose]

Someday, will I be able to run and play

like all the other children?

Yes, my son. Yes.

And I promise you,

there will come a day where your legs

will be as strong as any ox.

And this...

- This battered old crutch

will be nothing but a memory.

- [Screams]

- So, the Cortinos are celebrating.

- [Gasps]

I want my cut of the money

you've been making, Cortino.

- [Gasps]

- [Vincenzo] Please,

Don Narducci, we have nothing.

- [Joey] Papa, Papa!

- What is it, Joey?

We have the money in the green can we've

been saving for Anthony's operation.

- Uh!

- I'm not a greedy man.

- I just want to wet my beak.

- Please, no!

Rosa!

Next time, you'd better have

more, or I'll take something

truly precious from you.

- [Gasps]

- [Splattering]

God bless us, everyone!

# Danke schoen #

# Darlin', danke schoen #

[Tony] After I whacked Gorgoni,

I had to disappear.

When a guy on the run wants to hide,

there's no place like Las Vegas.

It's a city with no memory,

a town full of strangers.

[High-Pitched Voice]

# I recall Central Park in fall #

# How you tore your dress

What a mess #

[Tony Narrating]

They say you can't hit a moving target.

- So I kept moving.

- # Danke schoen #

- # Darlin', Danke schoen #

- Right now, watch, ladies and gentlemen,

as I transform

my lovely assistant Louise...

into a Bengal tiger.

[Gasps]

Pop never groomed me

for a life like this.

He had other plans.

I was supposed to be Senator Cortino,

or Governor Cortino.

- Louise. Tiger!

- [Roaring]

[Screaming]

- [Crunching]

- Louise.

- What a pair of legs on her, huh?

- [Roaring]

After a while, the long hours, the

pressure to perform, the catty reviews...

it started to wear me down.

Then one day out of the blue,

I get a message from Don Marzoni.

This guy owns Vegas.

# Danke schoen

Oh, darlin', danke schoen ##

I don't know if I could run

your casino even if I wanted to.

You might think of this job

as kind of an insurance policy.

I know that, but I killed a guy.

I mean, I'm on the lam.

Nobody's gonna give me a casino license.

You don't have to have

a license to work a casino.

You just apply

to the Gaming Commission.

This commission's the same guys

who run Major League Baseball.

Now, think about it.

You think they're gonna turn you down?

Just for killing a guy?

Nah.

[Tony]

Who could resist?

Anywhere else in the country,

I'd be just another murderer.

[Croupier]

Place your bets, place your bets.

But here, I was a murderer

who ran a casino.

Suddenly, I fit right in.

- [Croupier] Craps. Loser.

- [Crowd Groans]

Marzoni brought out my brother Joey

to handle security and we went to work.

Oh, look who's here.

It's Joey.

Oh, my God!

I'm sorry. You lose.

Nope. I'm sorry.

Thank you for playing.

[Tony] The way I figured it,

the best way to stay alive was...

- to make money for the Family.

- Oh, we love this.

Thank you for playing.

So, I made money...

enough to make a Wall Street

investment banker drool.

[Man]

Place your bets. Place your bets.

[Tony]

All I thought about was the casino.

- Fifty-two pickup!

- [Groaning]

No distractions,

no time for myself, until...

- ## ["Hot Stuff"]

- [Man] Yeah, come on, baby! Yeah.

Yeah!

# Sittin' here eatin'

my heart out waitin' #

# Waitin' for some lover

to call #

# Lookin' for some hot stuff

baby, this evening #

# I need your hot stuff

baby, tonight #

# I want some hot stuff

baby, this evenin' #

# Got to have some hot stuff

Got to have love tonight #

- Oh!

- Yeah!

[Tony Narrating]

She had everything a man could want.

Beauty, brains,

- [Clattering]

- And class.

Yeah, yeah!

# Lookin' for a lover

who needs another #

# Don't want another night

on my own #

- [Crowd Cheers]

- [Tony Narrating] What a dismount.

I fell in love right there.

# Wanna bring a wild man

back home ##

- So where did you learn

to dance like that?

- Juilliard.

I wanted to be a research chemist,

but my legs were too long.

You know, there's somethin'

very familiar about you.

We met at your father's

attempted murder.

Oh, that's right.

You're Pepper Gianini, right?

You were with Don Marzoni.

He's such a sweetheart. He helped me

out once when I was down on my luck.

- Financial trouble?

- No, Mai Luck,

- the Chinese ambassador. [Giggles]

- Oh, hi!

So, the Peppermill.

Marzoni named it after you, huh?

[Pepper]

Sure did. I'm the apple of his eye.

I'll bet you're rotten to the core.

Yeah. And I'm delicious.

[Slurping]

[Anthony Narrating]

Diane was becoming a distant memory...

very distant.

I had a feeling she was a wildcat...

but I knew I was just the man

who could tame her.

[Gargling]

Anthony? Anthony?

Huh?

Oh!

Wow! Oh!

Wow! Oh, yes!

Anthony! Ahh!

[Continues Moaning]

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Oh, Anthony!

Wheee!

Wow. You got game.

[Man] All bets are down.

The lady's comin' out.

- Yea!

- This lady's a winner.

[Tony Narrating] Pepper started

taking up a lot of my time...

when I tried to stay

focused on the casino.

Come on. Yea!

Joey wasn't much help.

[Sniffling]

[Squeaking]

- You're winnin' my money?

- Yeah!

Looking back,

I was so blinded by love...

I didn't see the big problem

right in front of me.

[Snorts]

[Gasps, Chokes]

If it was white and if it was powder,

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