[about Henry's cheating]
Karen came to the house. She's very upset. This is no good; you gotta straighten this out.
We gotta have calm now, ya understand? We don't know what the hell she's gonna do. She's getting all hysterical, she gets very excited.
She's wild. And you, you gotta take it easy, you got children. I'm not saying go back to her this minute, but you got to go back. It's the only way. You got to keep up appearances.
I got the two of them come to my house every day commiserating, the two of them. I can't have it. I can't have it. I can't do it, Henry. I can't do it.
Nobody says you can't do what you want to do.
Do what you wanna do, we all know that. I mean, this is what it is. Ok? You know what it is. You have to do the right thing, you have to go home to the family. Understand? You gotta go home. Ok? Look at me. You gotta go home. Smarten up. All right?
All right. I'm gonna talk to Karen. I'll straighten this thing out. I know just what to say to her. I'm gonna tell her you're going back to her and everything's gonna be just the way it was when you were first married, it's gonna be romance, it's gonna be beautiful. I know how to talk to her, especially to her. In the meantime, Jimmy and Tommy are going to Tampa this weekend to pick up something for me. Instead you go with Jimmy.
Yeah, you come with me. We'll go down there. Ok?
Have a good time, take some time for yourself, relax, sit in the sun, take a couple of days off. Enjoy yourselves. And when you come back, you'll go back to Karen. Please. There's no other way. You're not gonna get a divorce. We're not animale.
She'll never divorce him. She'll kill him, but not divorce him. [they laugh]
[narrating]
In prison, dinner was always a big thing. We had a pasta course and then we had a meat or a fish. Paulie did the prep work, he was doing a year for contempt and he had this wonderful system for doing the garlic. He used a razor and used to slice it so thin that it used to liquify in the pan with just a little oil. It was a very good system. Vinny was in charge of the tomato sauce. I felt he used too many onions but it was still a very good sauce.
Vinny? Don’t put too many onions in the sauce.
V Vinny
I didn’t put too much onions, Paul. Three small onions that’s all I did, three onions.
J Johnny
How many cans of tomatoes did you put in there?
V Vinny
I put two cans! Two big cans.
J Johnny
You don’t need three onions.
[narrating]
Johnny Dio did the meat. We didn’t have a broiler so Johnny did everything in pans. And it used to smell up the joint something awful and the hacks used to die, but he still cooked a great steak.
J Johnny
Vinny? How do you like yours?
V Vinny
Rare. Medium rare.
J Johnny
Medium rare, hmm, an aristocrat.
[narrating]
See, you know, when you think of prison you get pictures in your mind of all those old movies with rows and rows of guys behind bars but it wasn’t like that for wise guys. It really wasn’t that bad. Except that I’d miss Jimmy. He was doing his time in Atlanta. I mean, everybody else in the joint was doing real time all mixed together living like pigs but we lived alone. I mean, we owned the joint. Even the hacks we couldn’t bribe would never rat on the guys that we did. [Enters the room with a sack of contraband] Sorry it took so long, that skinny guard’s getting to be a real pain in the ass
We’re gonna have to do something about that.
Bread. [tosses a loaf of bread to Paulie]
Vinny, I got your peppers and onions. Salami, prosciutto, ‘lotta cheese.
Come on, come on, what else?
Scotch. [holds up a bottle of Scotch]
Some red wine. [gives the bottle of red wine to Paulie]
Give me the white too. Beautiful. Ok, boys, let’s eat!
Guard [Karen and her children are visiting Henry in jail]
Mrs. Hill, this way. Sign this book, please.
NO Name of Inmate
[Karen signs ledger but something catches her eye]
Henry Hill
NO Name of Visitor
Janice Rossi
Visitor's center
What are you talking about?
I saw her name in the register.
You want her to visit you? Let her stay up all night, crying and writing letters to the parole board.
What am I doing here? Where am I? I'm in jail. I can't stop people from coming to see me.
Good. Let her sneak this stuff in for you every week. [Karen dangles a bag of illegal drugs in front him] Let her fight these bastards every week!
Look what you're doing! Stop it!
I'm sorry. Let her sneak this shit in for you.
Will you stop it, Karen? Will you stop it?
Let her do it! Let her do it!
[Kids react to anger; Karen starts to sob]
Nobody is helping me. I am all alone. Belle and Morrie are broke. I asked your friend Remo for the money that he owes you, you know what he told me? He told me to take my kids down to the police station and get on welfare.
Karen, It's going to be okay.
Yeah? Even Paulie, since he got out, I never seen him. I never see anybody anymore.
It's only you and me. That's what happens when you go away. I told you that we're on our own. Forget everybody else. Forget Paulie. As long as he's on parole, he doesn't want anybody doing anything.
Yes, you can. Karen, Listen to me. All I need is for you to bring me this stuff. I got a guy in here from Pittsburgh who's gonna help me move it. Believe me, in a month we're gonna be fine. We won't need anybody.
I'm afraid. I'm afraid if Paulie finds out...
What did I just say, Don't worry about him. He is not helping us out. Is he putting any food on the table? We've gotta help each other. We've just gotta-- Listen, We've gotta be really really careful while we do it.
I don't want to hear a word about her anymore, Henry.
[Henry returns home after being released from prison]
Henry's Children: Daddy! Oh, we missed you! Are you out here to stay? Did you see our pictures? I did the one with the house and the rainbow.
[Henry takes a look at the low-rent tenement his wife and kids are living in and reacts with disgust]
Karen, get packed, we're moving out of here.
Don't worry with what. You just start looking for a new house, ok? I gotta go to Pittsburgh in the morning. Those guys out there they owe me 15 grand. We'll be all right, I got things lined up.
Pittsburgh? You have to go see your parole officer tomorrow.
Karen, don't worry about it, everything's gonna be fine. Who wants to go to Uncle Paulie's?
[Children cheer. Cut to Paulie's house where the families are having a big dinner. Later Paulie speaks to Henry in private]
I do not want any more of that shit.
What shit? What are you talking about?
Just stay away from the garbage, you know what I mean.
I'm not talking about what you did inside, you did what you had to do. I'm talking about now. From now. Here and now.
Paulie why would I want to get into that?
Don't make a jerk outta me, just don't do it. Just don't do it. Now I wanna talk to you about Jimmy, you gotta watch out for him. He's a good earner but he's wild, takes too many chances.
I know Jimmy. You think I'd take chances like Jimmy?
And Tommy, he's a good kid too but he's crazy, he's a cowboy, he's got too much to prove. You gotta watch out for kids like this.
Yeah, I know what they are. I only use them for certain things.
Listen, I ain't gonna get **** like Gribbs, ya understand? The ****in' guy is 70 years old and he's gonna die in prison. I don't need that. So I’m warning everybody. Everybody. Could be my son, could be anybody. Gribbs got twenty years just for saying hello to some **** who was going behind his back selling junk. I don't need that. Ain't happening to me. You understand?
You know that you're only out early 'cause I got you a job, right? I don't need this heat, understand that? You see anybody **** around with this shit you're gonna tell me, right?
[smacks Henry on the cheek]
That means anybody. All right?
[Cut to Henry making cocaine] [narrating]
It took me about a week of sneaking around before I could unload the Pittsburgh stuff, but when I did, it was a real score. I started using Sandy's place to mix the stuff and even with Sandy snorting more than she mixed, I could see that this was a really big business. I made $12,000 in my second week, I had a down payment on my house and things were really rolling. All I had to do every once-in-a-while was tell Sandy that I loved her. But it was perfect, I'm telling you. As long as I kept getting the stuff from Pittsburgh, I knew Paulie would never find out. Within a couple of weeks it got to be so big I needed some help. So I got Jimmy and Tommy to come in with me.
[sniffling]
Paulie, I am really sorry. I don't know what else to say. I know I **** up.
You know but I'm all right know. I can be trusted now, Paulie. I'm clean. On my kids, I'm clean.
You looked me in the eye and you lied to me. You treated me like a ****in' jerk; like I was never nothing to you.
Paulie, after what you said, I couldn't come to you. You know, I--I was ashamed. I--I'm ashamed now. But I got nowhere else to go, Paulie. You're all I've got and I need really, really need you help. I really do.
Take this.[pulls a wad of cash out of his pocket and hands it to Henry] Now I gotta turn my back on you.
[narrating]
3,200 bucks. That's what he gave me. 3,200 bucks for a lifetime. Wasn't even enough to pay for the coffin.
[Henry enters a diner] [narrating]
If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you. Doesn't happen that way. There aren’t any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your murders come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help. So I met Jimmy in a crowded place we both knew. I got there 15 minutes early and I saw Jimmy was already there. We took the booth near the window so we could see everyone who drove up to the restaurant. He wanted to make sure I wasn't tailed. He was jumpy. he hadn't touched a thing. On the surface, of course, everything was supposed to be fine. We were supposed to be discussing my case. But I had the feeling Jimmy was trying to sense whether or not I'd rat him out to save my neck.
I been telling you your whole life, don’t talk on the ****in' phone, right? Now you understand? Huh? But it's gonna be ok, I think you got a good chance of beating the case. You know that kid? You know the one from the city we're talking about? You know who I'm talkin' about?
The kid turned out to be a rat. Soon as he got pinched he ratted everybody out. He ratted youse all out. But I know where he is, he's hiding out. You know what I'm saying? Would you have a problem going with Anthony on vacation and take care of that?
[shakes his head]
Mm-mmm. No, not at all.
That way they got nothin', huh?
[Jimmy slips a message with information. Screen freeze-frames] [narrating]
Jimmy had never asked me to whack somebody before. But now he's asking me to go down to Florida and do a hit with Anthony. [Screen resumes] That's when I knew I never would have come back from Florida alive.
