The Stone Killer Page #6

Find out where he was calling.

Jesus. What the hell's going on?

Check it out over there, will you?

Tony ''The Arbitrator'' Champion.

A big man, Les.

Fits in with Armitage.

Mathews find out where he was calling?

He was trying to call New York.

There were no lines.

lt's an unlisted number.

Maybe your friend Lorenz can run it down.

Anything from that bag of heroes outside?

lt'll take time, Lou.

Well, we ain't got time. Look at this.

There are airline tickets to Chicago,

Miami, New Orleans,

and there are about 20 stubs here

from an earlier flight to New York.

Okay, you three,

two in the back, one in the front.

We'll break it. We'll break it, Lou.

We'll break it.

Les, you train an army to make war.

Yeah, but l'm 50 years old,

and l got varicose veins

and bad digestion, and l'm tired.

All right.

All right, but l want to go to New York.

That's the seventh, and now

you with your cotton-candy theories.

l'm not just guessing, Guido.

Twenty men arrived in New York yesterday,

all veterans, all trained killers.

They all had a connection

with Tony Champion,

who was connected to Al Vescari

who was connected to Locati

and Locati was connected to Armitage.

And they're all going to a birthday party.

Believe it, Guido.

Some mornings,

l wake up and l wonder why.

l've got a watch on Locati and Vescari,

and l've wired Washington.

l don't have much.

Everybody's up so tight, you need a tractor

to pull a needle out of this town's ass.

Look, forget the poetry, huh?

Well,

Armitage went because

he had something big in his bag,

very big is the whisper.

And a snowdrop l know,

a real hard coke sniffer,

he got way up last night

and let it go that

there's some big changes coming.

This cat had the same friend

that Armitage had.

That's the end of the commercial, Mr Torrey.

Stay happy.

What's happening?

Both Vescari and Locati's men

are still in there.

They must be making a peace or something.

Luchino's met first and now Battaglia's.

l have six men spread out.

Nobody's gonna get away, Captain, nobody.

Other unit requesting location...

Okay.

Telephone, Al.

We cancel, Al?

No, we do not cancel.

They busted us. Champion's dead.

l have waited 42 years.

Al, we're finished.

Maybe.

You phone Moreci in Chicago.

Tell him that his group is on its way.

Tell the others in Miami and New Orleans.

They must be reassured also.

Al, we can stop it.

How? How are we gonna stop it?

You gonna tell Mossman we were planning

to kill him and his council,

only something went wrong?

You expect him to kiss you for honesty?

He's gonna find out

in a couple of days anyway.

Come on. lt's too late to turn back.

-You got anything, Lou?

-No.

And what's all this?

Family trees. This is April 9th, right?

Right, and tomorrow's April 10th.

And l can't keep 15 men on surveillance

and make excuses for you much longer, Lou.

Go down to the files, bring everything

for the year 1931, including the newspapers.

A lot of that stuff will be on microfilm.

So go and get the microfilm.

-What's up, Lou?

-l don't know,

but there's something

about the date April 10th.

l'm just trying to shake it loose.

Well, l'll be a son of a b*tch. Guido.

-Yeah?

-April 10th, today. But it's crazy.

lt's crazy? What's crazy, Lou?

Forty-two years ago today,

the birthday party.

Yeah, all right, look,

take me through this real slow, Lou.

The syndicate, Guido, they took control.

Luciano wiped out all the old family heads.

They call it the night of the Sicilian Vespers.

And the Sicilians are

gonna take it back all in one day, huh?

You gotta be out of your mind, Lou.

Nobody waits 42 years.

Guido, that's why the army

and the desert. They tried to keep it hidden.

lf l buy, how?

Well, they've got to get everybody

in the same place at the same time.

A council meeting or something like that.

Who's in town?

-Jack Mossman, Vechetti.

-Put a cover on them.

Now, that can come back

on us very hard, Lou.

Guido, take the gamble.

-Mossman, how are you?

-Fine. Good to see you.

Vechetti just picked up Mossman,

and we know Humphreys and Mo Lesner

flew in last night.

lt looks like it's on, Lou.

Take care, son. Good luck.

Here.

Car 82-X,

they've turned into the 1 200 building,

corner of 8th Avenue and 60th Street.

-Vechetti and Mossman.

-Okay, elevator coming.

Why don't you just go out and park it?

-How are you?

-How are you?

-How are you?

-Good to see you.

You, too.

Thank God we live in the country. Come on.

Hey, you the guy with the broken axle?

You the one with the broken axle?

No, you want to talk to the garage man.

He's over there.

Now, who do we wait for?

The Sicilians,

Vescari, Locati and Gus Moreci.

Let's go.

Out, everybody, out, quick.

Steinholtz.

-Don't shoot. Don't shoot.

-The gun, give me the gun.

-Give it to me. Turn around.

-Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

All right, up.

Nothing changes, only the names.

You've gotta be kidding.

We're chest-deep in water,

screaming against the rushing tide.

Bless me, Father, for l have sinned.

l haven't been to confession for 10 days.

l lose my temper.

You know, last three weeks,

in New York City alone,

there were 159 homicides.

l don't mean to be harsh,

but l struck my son in anger last Tuesday.

3,000 criminal assaults, 6,000 robberies.

Ruth, my wife, bless her, l swore at her.

You multiply that by Chicago, Boston,

Philadelphia, Los Angeles...

For these,

and all the other sins

which l cannot remember, forgive me.

You remember that cartoon

of an old Roman circus?

Where all the lions are roaring

and the page boy yells down the corridor,

''You've got five minutes, Christians.''

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