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she was happy that much.

I really don't.

She showed me her wrists once,

come to think of it,

and I could see scars

on her wrists,

and I said,

"Why did you do that?"

and she kind of downplayed it,

made it into a joke.

OK. Now, as I explained

to you earlier,

after we got married around

the corner, what we did is,

we moved out of the apartment

where I got down

with the two gay priests and

my first relations with Ernie,

OK, and then we moved

into this fancy place, OK?

This is where our apartment was,

and about a month or two after

we got married in December,

this is where Ernie first tried

to commit suicide, OK,

because he still wanted

the sex change,

which we agreed he wasn't

going to have

because I was against it, OK,

and he said,

"I can't take it anymore.

I want to have a sex change,

or I want to die."

So he took a butcher knife out

this long

and tried to stick it in him.

I grabbed the butcher knife

from him,

and as we struggled,

I got out in my hand, OK?

So we wind up getting into a

fight because he wouldn't stop.

Somebody called the cops, right?

They came and arrested us,

right, and they brought us

to St. Vincent's,

to the nuthouse.

When we got there,

Ernie turned the story around

and said that I had tried

to kill him with the knife

because he didn't want to go

in the nuthouse.

So then they tried to put me

in the nuthouse,

but after the cops

stopped and left,

I knocked down two

of the security guards

and one restraining guy and

ran the f*** out of the place

because I ain't going

in no nuthouse, right,

but this was the apartment

we lived in.

WOJTOWICZ, VOICE-OVER:

Ernie kept becoming violent.

He would take an overdose.

He would put his hand

through a plate glass window.

He would cut his wrists, and he

kept getting worse and worse,

and then his birthday came

on August 19, 1972.

EDEN:

The doctor told me, "You know

he's never getting out of here,

"right, and we're going to give

him electronic shock therapy,

"and he's sick.

He wants to chop off his dick."

Then I got in to see him,

and that's when I made

the decision right then

because they're never

letting him out.

So I'm going to take him out

by force.

OK. This was Ernie and I's

neighborhood bar.

It was called Old Jimmy's,

and it was owned

by a guy named Buddha,

who was a fat guy, OK?

In this bar, Ernie and I used

to socialize and meet everybody.

This is where

I met Bobby Westenberg,

and he's the second guy

that went with us

for the bank robbery.

He had a bad lung,

and I offered him $50,000

to help get Ernie

out of the nuthouse, OK?

That's why we robbed the bank,

to get the money.

Also, in here is where I met

the third partner

that robbed the bank with me.

His name was Sal Naturale.

His real name was Masterson.

He was an escaped fugitive

from New Jersey,

and he never wanted

to go back to jail then, OK?

He had just turned 18,

the way I understand it,

and Bobby Westenberg was

about 20, and that's the story.

Cut.

So we went and got the guns,

the rifles,

everything we needed.

Then we went to

the Golden Nugget Motel

the night before the robbery.

OK. While we were in there,

I grabbed a hold

of Bobby Westenberg,

and I wanted to f*** him

because he used to dress up

as a girl with a dress, right,

and he goes,

"What are you talking about?"

I said, "I want to f*** you."

"Well, I don't want you

f***ing me."

I said, "I'm giving you

$50,000, right?

"You're going to tell me I'm

not getting a f*** out of it?

"You're out

of your f***ing mind.

Because I'm getting

a f*** out of this."

So then I f***ed him,

and then Sal came over,

and he wanted to f*** Bobby.

Bobby tells him no.

So they start getting

into a fight.

So I come out of the shower.

I says, "Hey, what are you

two b*tches arguing about?"

"Well, he won't let me..."

"Hey, what is it

with you Bobby?"

I said, "We could all die

tomorrow, so let's die happy,"

but Sal was pissed off at him

because Sal didn't

get the booty.

Next morning, we get up.

We leave the Golden Nugget,

and then we started going

to different banks.

We went down to one bank

on Delancey and Essex Street.

So we park the car.

Bobby and Sal

get out of the car to go,

and all of a sudden,

I hear this boom.

I go, "What's this boom?"

I look out the side

of the car window,

and the a**holes

dropped the shotgun.

It fell out of the back

of the box.

They were carrying it in a

Wrigley's Spearmint gum package.

It's about this big, and it

says, "Wrigley's Spearmint gum."

It's pop art, like Andy Warhol,

all right,

because, you know, if you walk

into a bank with a package,

they're going to be suspicious,

but if you walk into the bank

with a Wrigley's Spearmint

gum package,

they just think it's pop art

and you're bringing it home

to put on your wall

or something, right?

At least it made sense to me,

right?

So I get out.

I pick up the shotgun.

I said, "You two a**holes

get in the car,"

and we drive away,

and all these people

are standing there

looking at us,

but, you know, who's

going to say anything?

"Oh, you dropped your shotgun,"

right,

and we were gone in the wind,

and I said, "You dumb fucks,

what's the matter with you?"

"Well, I told you the box

was too heavy."

I said, "Oh, you f***ing wimp,

Bobby, be butch, will you?"

and then Sal gave him

the, "Oh, he can't be butch.

He's a girl that don't

get f***ed."

I said, "Well, you can f*** him

after the robbery.

Don't worry about it."

We went to this first bank...

it was on Delancey and Essex...

The Manufacturers Hanover Trust.

Then we out down here

on Howard Beach.

It looked like an easy hit.

There's a lot of money

in that bank,

being that it's

the only one around.

We walked in there, and

my mother's friend,

her best friend, is,

"How you doing, Bobby?"

while Sal is ready to take

his gun out on the guard.

So we foiled that one.

Then we get into this other

Chase Manhattan Bank

down in Manhattan.

Now we're driving all over,

a series of banks,

and we get in front

of this one bank,

and we're just doing

a practice run.

Goes in for a silver dollar,

comes back out.

"OK. "Lets try to get away."

Try to get away,

we smack into a car,

and they're threatening to call

the police and have the police.

They'll want to search the car,

see the guns, the note, which...

The note was weird.

At the end of the note, it says,

"This is an offer you can't

refuse," from "The Godfather."

WOJTOWICZ:

Before we went to the bank,

we decided to go to 42nd Street

to watch "The Godfather"

for inspiration, and it was

the first time it was playing.

So I said, "Come on.

Let's go get turned on."

It's just like a coach.

You get your team ready.

You get them all fired up,

and they go gung ho, right?

So we go and watch

"The Godfather" for inspiration,

right, and then I write out

the note.

I go to the bank manager,

"This is an offer you can't

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