Prizzi's Honor Page #5

- See you at dinner.

- Ok, dear.

Recapping our top stories

at this hour.

- Come on Charley.

- Shut up, I wanna hear this.

Police have now identified

both victims.

One of whom was

a police captains wife.

Sh*t!

The man found with her

was the bodyguard...

of the bank President

Robert Finlay.

Finlay's apartment is right

next door...

to the one where

the two bodies were found.

Bank officers

reported him missing...

when he didn't show up

at a meeting on Monday morning.

Police now speculate

he has been kidnapped.

They also believe

that Victoria Calhain...

stumbled accidentally into

the scene of the crime...

and the kidnappers...

Look at this.

First she gotta push the wrong button.

Then the broad turns out to be

a cops wife.

Call's still waiting Charley.

Yeah?

Hi, darling!

Were you watching the TV just now?

Yeah, a police captains wife.

I couldn't believe my luck.

All hell is gonna break out

over this, Irene.

Cops don't like it much

when we hit one of their wives.

But it was an accident.

Mr. Ciglione?

Mr. Ciglione.

Mrs. Prizzi would you like to

come to my office please?

Mrs. Prizzi,

would you care for a drink?

I'll have a Babycham.

Babycham?

You heard what the lady said.

A Babycham!

Okay!

Would you please sit down

Mrs. Prizzi?

I think I got something for you.

Capulla!

Come on!

Sit down over there.

That the broad?

Tell the lady.

I was using this camper as

a trick room in the parking lot.

As I lifted up my head from the job.

I saw this woman in hot pants...

running to the lights of the car where

Louis Paulo caught it in the head.

She's in the car a couple minutes.

Then she gets out

and goes to the trunk...

takes out a satchel

and then she fades.

The same woman?

Yeah it's the same one.

Why don't you go on one

of those cruises, honey?

You've reached the answering

machine for 5554375.

Nobody can take your call

right now.

Please leave a message

after the beep.

Meet me on the promenade,

Brooklyn 7pm tomorrow.

Full price.

I'll be on a bench at the end

reading "Popular mechanics".

Are you the contractor?

How much?

It depends.

Some hits are tricky.

Who is it?

A Brooklyn fellow,

Charley Partanna.

Charley Partanna?

Amalia told me that

you wanna thank me...

for bringing you home?

Well,

you are blood of my blood!

You're flesh of my flesh!

And as long as I'm able...

I'm gonna think about

your well being.

Thank you, grandfather.

You have drawn me back

from purgatory.

I wish you had been a son.

You are a true Prizzi.

Hey, you like to have a cookie?

It is I who must offer you a gift

grandfather.

A gesture of my gratitude.

I have always enjoyed gifts.

Who's this handsome lady?

That is Charley Partanna's wife,

grandfather.

Well?

My gift to you is not only

the pictures...

but also what they mean.

Louis Palo was killed

in the parking lot in Las Vegas.

I know.

I took these pictures there.

There was a woman who had been

turning tricks in a camper...

in the parking lot.

She told me she saw this woman...

get into a car with Palo.

After a minute she got out,

went to the trunk...

and took out a satchel.

This woman?

Yes, grandfather.

She killed Palo...

and she stole 720 dollars

from us.

She gave back half to save herself.

What do you want me to do?

She dishonoured us!

You're like me.

We forgive nothing.

What would that do

to Charley Partanna?

She must pay

like anybody else.

Oh. What you ask...

that would cause Charley

great pain.

What is that compared to

the honour of the Prizzi's?

Charley is like my son.

I pledged to be his second father

on the day that he was born.

- Grandfather.

- Shut up.

Have another cookie my dear.

We're here to tell you what we're

telling all the families in this town.

All contracts are off...

until we get who ever killed

Captain Calhain's wife.

How do you mean Davey?

It means nothing is happening.

We're coming down hard on you.

A police captains' wife

has been murdered.

You got narcotics right?

Plus loan sharking.

Plus horse books, football,

basketball and boxing.

Not to mention what you take out of

restaurants in the trucking business.

Plus a couple of millions

in TV sets...

that fall of the back of a truck

every week.

We're gonna put them all out of

business, as of now.

It'll cost us hundreds of thousands...

but that the way it's gonna be.

I've been doing business with

the Police commissioners squad.

For over 40 years now.

We always went under one rule:

You take our money,

you leave us alone.

The more pressure you put on us

the more money you cost yourselves.

There ain't a cop on the squad...

who's had to get by on straight

police pay for a long time.

Yeah.

Look Angelo, our people don't like

this any better than you do.

But this one's a point of honour

with us.

Do you understand that Angelo?

You're a fine looking woman.

Charley Partanna is a lucky man.

Thank you for coming.

What a surprise you gave us

with this sudden wedding.

Well, we just sort of swept

each other away.

I understand,

I was young once.

This...

marriage of yours

has troubled me.

Why Don Corrado?

The people at Prizzi's place

in Vegas...

have looked at pictures of you.

They've told us that

you killed Louis Palo.

Now, under ordinary

circumstances...

you would have to be punished...

cause those who steal must pay.

You're the wife of my God son.

I've searched to find some way

to show you clemency.

What can I do?

Well you got the other half of

the 720 dollars?

Yes.

Was Charley in this with you?

No.

He believed me when I told him

the half was Marxie's split.

He didn't know that I had anything

to do with it or that I killed Louis.

Good.

Now you have five days...

to get the 360 together,

give them back...

together with

a 50 percent penalty...

for what you have done to us.

Will five days be enough time

for you?

Five days?

Yeah, I can get it together

in five days.

Irene?

Charley.

How come you're in L. A?

I had business to attend to,

didn't you see my note?

Can you get out here this weekend?

I don't think so.

Tell me.

Tell you what.

Tell me I love you.

I love you.

Love you too, and it's real.

May not be scientific, but it's real.

Scientific?

I read it in a magazine.

According to a doctor...

everyone is trying to get...

what they thought

they needed from their mothers...

but they didn't get it.

I don't even remember my mother.

That's the amazing part.

There's something in you

that knows anyways.

The magazine said so.

That's what love is.

When you find someone

who'll give you...

what you think you wanted

when you were a baby...

but you didn't get it.

A doctor wrote this.

Charley forget doctors.

Better yet,

lets play doctor.

On the phone?

Doctor Partanna

I have this itch...

Well?

They're not kidding around

this time.

It's gonna get worse.

They're gonna keep leaning on us...

until we give them whoever it was...

that hit that Cops wife.

All I know is that...

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