Henry Hill quotes from Goodfellas (1990)

Henry Hill

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.

Henry Hill

Even before I first wandered into the cabstand for an after-school job, I knew I wanted to be a part of them. It was there that I knew that I belonged. To me, it meant being somebody in a neighborhood that was full of nobodies. They weren't like anybody else. I mean, they did whatever they wanted. They double-parked in front of a hydrant and nobody ever gave them a ticket. In the summer when they played cards all night, nobody ever called the cops.

Henry Hill

I was the luckiest kid in the world. I could go anywhere. I could do anything. I knew everybody and everybody knew me. I was part of something. And I belonged. I was treated like a grown-up. Every day, I was learning to score. A dollar here. A dollar there. I was living a fantasy.

Henry Hill

Hundreds of guys depended on Paulie and he got a piece of everything they made. And it was tribute, just like in the old country, except they were doing it here in America. And all they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off. And that's what it's all about. That's what the FBI could never understand. That what Paulie and the organization does is offer protection for people who can't go to the cops. That's it. That's all it is. They're like the police department for wise guys.

Henry Hill

People looked at me differently and they knew I was with somebody. At thirteen, I was making more money than most of the grown-ups in the neighborhood. I mean, I had more money than I could spend. I had it all. One day the kids from the neighborhood carried my mother's groceries all the way home. You know why? It was out of respect.

Henry Hill

What Jimmy really loved to do, what he really loved to do was steal. I mean he actually enjoyed it. Jimmy was the kind of guy who rooted for the bad guys in the movies.

Henry Hill

And when the cops, they assigned a whole army to stop Jimmy, what'd he do? He made 'em partners.

Henry Hill

Paulie may have moved slow, but it was only because Paulie didn't have to move for anybody.

Henry Hill

By the time I grew up, there was thirty billion a year in cargo moving through Idlewild Airport and believe me, we tried to steal every bit of it. It was an even bigger money-maker than numbers and Jimmy was in charge of it all. Whenever we needed money, we'd rob the airport. And to us, it was better than Citibank.

Henry Hill

For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, and worried about their bills, were dead. I mean they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again.

Henry Hill

Now the guy's got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with a bill, he can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, he can call Paulie. But now the guy's got to come up with Paulie's money every week. No matter what. Business bad? **** you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? **** you, pay me. The place got hit by lightning, huh? **** you, pay me. Also, Paulie could do anything. Especially run up bills on the joint's credit. And why not? Nobody's gonna pay for it anyway. And as soon as the deliveries are made in the front door, you move the stuff out the back and sell it at a discount. You take a two hundred dollar case of booze and you sell it for a hundred. It doesn't matter. It's all profit. And then finally, when there's nothing left, when you can't borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out. You light a match.

Henry Hill

For most of the guys, killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules. But sometimes, even if people didn't get out of line, they got whacked. I mean, hits just became a habit for some of the guys. Guys would get into arguments over nothing and before you knew it, one of them was dead. And they were shooting each other all the time. Shooting people was a normal thing. It was no big deal. We had a, we had a serious problem with Billy Batts. This was really a touchy thing. Tommy had killed a made guy. Batts was part of the Gambino crew and was considered untouchable. Before you could touch a made guy, you had to have a good reason. You had to have a sitdown, and you better get an okay, or you'd be the one who got whacked.

Henry Hill

Saturday night was for wives, but Friday night at the Copa was always for the girlfriends.

Henry Hill

It took the jury six hours to bring us in guilty. The judge gave Jimmy and me ten years like he was giving away candy.

Henry Hill

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 wiseguys. It really wasn't that bad. Excepting that I missed 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. And we owned the joint.

Henry Hill

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 good business. I made twelve thousand dollars in my second week. I had a down payment on my house and things were really rolling. All I had to do was every once in a while was tell Sandy that I loved her. But it was perfect, I'm telling ya. 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.

Henry Hill

That's how it happens. That's how fast it takes for a guy to get whacked.

Henry Hill

It made him sick to have to turn money over to the guys who stole it. He'd rather whack 'em. Anyway, what did I care? I wasn't asking for anything and besides, Jimmy was making nice money with me through my Pittsburgh connections. But still, months after the robbery they were finding bodies all over. When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy.

Henry Hill

You know, we always called each other good fellas. Like you said to, uh, somebody, 'You're gonna like this guy. He's all right. He's a good fella. He's one of us.' You understand? We were good fellas. Wise guys. But Jimmy and I could never be made because we had Irish blood. It didn't even matter that my mother was Sicilian. To become a member of a crew you've got to be one hundred per cent Italian so they can trace all your relatives back to the old country. See, it's the highest honor they can give you. It means you belong to a family and crew. It means that nobody can **** around with you. It also means you could **** around with anybody just as long as they aren't also a member. It's like a license to steal. It's a license to do anything. As far as Jimmy was concerned with Tommy being made, it was like we were all being made. We would now have one of our own as a member.

Henry Hill

I got enough to worry about getting whacked on the street! I gotta come home for this! I should **** kill you!

Henry Hill

For a second, I thought I was dead, but when I heard all the noise I knew they were cops. Only cops talk that way. If they had been wise guys, I wouldn't have heard a thing. I would've been dead.

Henry Hill

I knew Paulie was still pissed at me and he's such a hot head. And I was worried about Jimmy. See, Jimmy knew if Paulie found out he was in the drug deals with me, Paulie would have Jimmy whacked even before me. This is the bad time. So now my plan was to stay alive long enough to sell off the dope that the cops never found and then disappear for a while until I can get things straightened out.

Henry Hill

If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you. It doesn't happen that way. There weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. So your murderers come with smiles. They come as your friends, the people who have cared for you all of your life, and they always seem to come at a time when you're at your weakest and most in need of their help.

Henry Hill

So I met Jimmy in a crowded place we both knew. I got there fifteen minutes early, and I saw that Jimmy was already there. We took the booth near the window so we could see everyone that 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 I was gonna rat him out to save my neck.

Henry Hill

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? That's when I knew I would never have come back from Florida alive.

Henry Hill

See, the hardest thing for me was leaving the life. I still love the life. And we were treated like movie stars with muscle. We had it all, just for the asking. Our wives, mothers, kids, everybody rode along. I had paper bags filled with jewelry stashed in the kitchen. I had a sugar bowl full of coke next to the bed. Anything I wanted was a phone call away. Free cars. The keys to a dozen hideout flats all over the city. I'd bet twenty, thirty grand over a weekend and then I'd either blow the winnings in a week or go to the sharks to pay back the bookies. Didn't matter. It didn't mean anything. When I was broke I would go out and rob some more. We ran everything. We paid off cops. We paid off lawyers. We paid off judges. Everybody had their hands out. Everything was for the taking. And now it's all over. And that's the hardest part. Today, everything is different. There's no action. I have to wait around like everyone else. Can't even get decent food. Right after I got here I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

Henry Hill

My father was always pissed off. He was pissed that he made such lousy money, he was pissed that my kid brother Michael was in a wheelchair, he was pissed that there were seven of us living in such a tiny house. After awhile he was mostly pissed because I hung around the cab stand. He knew what went on at that cab stand, and every once in a while I'd have to take a beating. But by then I didn't care. The way I saw it everybody takes a beating sometime.

Henry Hill

They must really feed each other to the lions down there because the guy gave the money right up and we got to spend the rest of the weekend at the track. Then I couldn’t believe what happened, when we got home, we were all over the newspaper. At first I didn’t even know why we got picked up but then I found out that the guy we roughed up turned out to have a sister working as a typist for the FBI. I couldn’t believe it. Of all the **** people. She gave up everybody; Jimmy, me, even her brother. Took the jury six hours to bring us in guilty. The judge gave Jimmy and me ten years like he was giving away candy.

Henry Hill

It was easy for all of us to disappear. My house and cars were either registered in the name of my wife or my mother-in-law. My driver's license and social security number were phony. I never voted; never paid taxes. My birth certificate, arrest sheet, and my service record from the Army were all that existed to prove to the government I was ever alive.

Henry

You're a pisser, you're really funny. You're really funny.

Tommy

What do you mean I'm funny?

Henry

It's funny, you know. It's a good story, it's funny, you're a funny guy. [laughs]

Tommy

what do you mean, you mean the way I talk? What?

Henry

It's just, you know. You're just funny, it's funny, the way you tell the story and everything.

Tommy

Funny how? What's funny about it?

Anthony

Tommy no, You got it all wrong.

Tommy

Oh, oh, Anthony. He's a big boy, he knows what he said. What did ya say? Funny how?

Henry

Just--

Tommy

What?

Henry

Just, ya know, you're funny.

Tommy

You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little **** up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to ****in' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?

Henry

Just., you know, how you tell the story, what?

Tommy

No, no, I don't know, you said it. How do I know? You said I'm funny. How the **** am I funny, what the **** is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what's funny!

Henry

Get the **** out of here, Tommy!

Tommy

Ya mother****er! I almost had him, I almost had him. Ya stuttering prick, ya. Frankie, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Henry. You may fold under questioning.

Karen

You've got some nerve standing me up. Nobody does that to me. Who the hell do you think you are, Frankie Vallie or some kind of big shot?

Henry

I remember, her screaming on the street and I mean loud, but she looked good. She had these great eyes. Just like Liz Taylor's. At least that's what I thought.

Karen

What do you do?

Henry

I'm in construction.

Karen

They don't feel like you're in construction.

Henry

Ah, I'm a union delegate.

Henry

And then there was Jimmy Two Times, who got that nickname because he said everything twice, like:

Jimmy Two Times

I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers.

Tommy

****in' Drop-along Cassidy.

Spider

Why don't you go **** yourself, Tommy?

Jimmy

Whoa! I don't believe what I'm hearing. Check out the balls on this kid. Hey Spider, this is for you. [tosses money on the table] That's the way. You don't take no shit from nobody. Tommy, you gonna let him get away with that? What's the matter with you? What's the world comin' to?

Tommy

That's what the **** world is comin' to.

Jimmy

What is the matter with you, huh? What is the **** matter with you?! What are you, a **** sick maniac or something?! Tommy, I'm kidding with you.

Tommy

Kidding? How am I meant to know you're kidding? You're breaking my **** balls.

Jimmy

I'm **** kidding with you, you **** shoot the guy?

Henry

He's dead.

Tommy

I'm a good shot, what do you want from me? I'm a good shot.

Anthony

How could you miss at this distance?

Jimmy

You dumb bastard, I can't **** believe you. You're gonna dig the hole.

Tommy

Fine, I'll dig the **** hole. I don't give a ****. What, is this the first hole I ever dug? Where are the shovels?

Paulie

I don't want any more of that shit.

Henry

What shit? What are you talking about?

Paulie

Just stay away from the garbage, you know what I mean.

Henry

Look, Paulie?

Paulie

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.

Henry

Paulie, why would I want to get into that?

Paulie

Don't make a jerk out of me, just don't do it. Just don't do it. Now I want to talk to you about Jimmy, you have to watch out for him. He's a good earner but he's wild, takes too many chances.

Henry

Yeah I know that, I know Jimmy, you think I would take chances like Jimmy?

Paulie

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.

Henry

Yeah I know what they are, I only use them for certain things, believe me you don't have to worry.

Paulie

Listen, I ain't gonna get **** like Gribbs, understand. Gribbs is 70 years old and the ****in guy's gonna die in prison, I don't need that. So I'm warning everybody, everybody. It could be my son, it could be anybody. Gribbs got 20 years just for saying hello to some **** who was sneaking behind his back selling junk, I don't need that, ain't gonna happen to me, you understand?

Henry

Uh huh.

Paulie

You know that you're only out early because I got you a job. I don't need this heat, understand that.

Henry

Uh huh.

Paulie

And you see anybody **** around with this shit you're going to tell me, right?

Henry

Yeah.

Paulie

That means anybody!

Henry

Alright.

Paulie

Yeah?

Henry

Yeah, of course.

Jimmy

Congratulations, here's your graduation present [Puts money in Henry's pocket]

Henry

For what? I got pinched.

Jimmy

Hey, everybody gets pinched, but you did it right. You told 'em nothing and they got nothing.

Henry

I thought you'd be mad.

Jimmy

I'm not mad, I'm proud of ya. You took your first pinch like a man, and you learned the two most important things in life. You listenin'? Never rat on your friends, and ALWAYS keep your mouth shut. [Gives Henry an affectionate light slap on the cheek and leads him out of the courtroom. Outside, Paulie and many of the other gangsters are waiting for him.]

Paulie

Hey, you broke yer cherry! [The other gangsters cheer and congratulate Henry]

Karen

Well we weren't married to 9 to 5 guys but the first time I realized how different was when Mickey had a hostess party. They had bad skin and wore too much makeup I mean, they didn't look very good. They looked beat up. And the stuff they wore was thrown together and cheap. A lot of pant suits and double-knits. And they talked about how rotten their kids were and about beating them with broom handles and leather belts, that the kids still didn't pay any attention. When Henry picked me up I was dizzy. [later in her bedroom] I don't know, I don't know if i could live like that. God forbid, what would happen if you had to go to prison?

Henry

Karen! [laughs]

Karen

Vicki said that Jeannie's husband-

Henry

You know why Jeannie's husband went to the can? Because of Jeannie! Because he wanted to get away from her that's why! Let me tell you something; nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized. I know what I'm doing, I got things organized with these guys. You know who goes to jail? **** stick-up men, that's who. You know why they get caught? Because they fall asleep in the get-away car, Karen. Come on, don't worry so much sweetie. Come here.

Karen

After a while, it got to be all normal. None of it seemed like crime. It was more like Henry was enterprising, and that he and the guys were making a few bucks hustling, while all the other guys were sitting on their asses, waiting for handouts. Our husbands weren't brain surgeons, they were blue-collar guys. The only way they could make extra money, real extra money, was to go out and cut a few corners.

Tommy

Where's the strongbox, you ****in' varmint?!

Karen

We were all so very close. I mean, there were never any outsiders around. Absolutely never. And being together all the time made everything seem all the more normal.

Tommy

Hey Henry, Henry, hurry up, will ya? My mother's gonna make some fresh peppers and sausages for us.

Jimmy

Oh hey, Henry, Henry, here's an arm!

Henry

Very funny, guys.

Jimmy

Here's a leg.

Tommy

Here's a wing! [laughing] Whaddya like, the leg or the wing, Henry? Or do you still go for the ol' hearts and lungs?

Henry

Oh, that's so bad.

Tommy

Hey, Spider, that bandage on your foot is bigger than your **** head. Next thing you know he's gonna have one of these **** walkers. But you can still dance. Give us a couple of **** steps, Spider. You **** bullshitter, you. Tell the truth. You're looking for sympathy, is that it, sweetie?

Spider

Why don't you go **** yourself, Tommy?

Jimmy

I didn't hear right. I can't believe what I heard. [giving Spider cash] This is for you. Attaboy! I got respect for this kid, he's got a lot of **** balls. Good for you! Don't take no shit off nobody! A guy shoots him in the foot, he tells him to go **** himself. Tommy, you gonna let him get away with that? You gonna let this **** punk get away with that? What's the matter with you? What's the world coming to?!

Tommy

That's what the **** world's coming to, how do ya like that? How's that, all right?

Jimmy

What's the matter with you?! What is the **** matter with you?! What, are you stupid or what?! I was kidding with you. You a **** sick maniac?

Tommy

I don't know if you're kidding! What do you mean, you're kidding? You breaking my **** balls?!

Jimmy

I'm **** kidding with you, you **** shoot the guy?!

Henry

He's dead.

Tommy

I'm a good shot, what do you want from me?

Anthony

How could you miss at this distance?

Tommy

You got a problem with what I did, Anthony? **** rat, anyway. His whole family's all rats, he'd have grown up to be a rat.

Jimmy

Stupid bastard, I can't **** believe you. Now, you're gonna dig the **** thing now. You're gonna dig the hole. You gonna do it. I got no **** lime, you gonna do it.

Tommy

Who the **** cares? I'll dig the **** hole, I don't give a ****. What is it, the first hole I ever dug? Not the first time I dug a hole, I'll dig the **** hole. Where are the shovels?

Henry

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.

Paulie

Vinny? Don’t put too many onions in the sauce.

I didn’t put too much onions, Paul. Three small onions that’s all I did, three onions.

How many cans of tomatoes did you put in there?

I put two cans! Two big cans.

You don’t need three onions.

Henry

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.

Vinny? How do you like yours?

Rare. Medium rare.

Medium rare, hmm, an aristocrat.

Henry

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

Paulie

We’re gonna have to do something about that.

Henry

Naw, I took care of him.

Paulie

What did you bring?

Henry

Bread. [tosses a loaf of bread to Paulie]

Paulie

Good. Fresh.

Henry

Vinny, I got your peppers and onions. Salami, prosciutto, ‘lotta cheese.

Paulie

Come on, come on, what else?

Henry

Scotch. [holds up a bottle of Scotch]

Paulie

Nice.

Henry

Some red wine. [gives the bottle of red wine to Paulie]

Paulie

Ok, now we can eat.

Henry

I got some white too.

Paulie

Give me the white too. Beautiful. Ok, boys, let’s eat!

Guard

Mrs. Hill, this way. Sign this book, please.

Henry Hill

Janice Rossi
Visitor's center

Henry

What are you talking about?

Karen

I saw her name in the register.

Henry

Jesus Christ.

Karen

You want her to visit you? Let her stay up all night, crying and writing letters to the parole board.

Henry

What am I doing here? Where am I? I'm in jail. I can't stop people from coming to see me.

Karen

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!

Henry

Look what you're doing! Stop it!

Karen

I'm sorry. Let her sneak this shit in for you.

Henry

Will you stop it, Karen? Will you stop it?

Karen

Let her do it! Let her do it!

Henry

STOP IT!!!

Karen

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.

Henry

Karen, It's going to be okay.

Karen

Yeah? Even Paulie, since he got out, I never seen him. I never see anybody anymore.

Henry

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.

Karen

I can't do it.

Henry

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.

Karen

I'm afraid. I'm afraid if Paulie finds out...

Henry

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.

Karen

I don't want to hear a word about her anymore, Henry.

Henry

Never.

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

Karen, get packed, we're moving out of here.

Karen

With what?

Henry

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.

Karen

Pittsburgh? You have to go see your parole officer tomorrow.

Henry

Karen, don't worry about it, everything's gonna be fine. Who wants to go to Uncle Paulie's?

Paulie

I do not want any more of that shit.

Henry

What shit? What are you talking about?

Paulie

Just stay away from the garbage, you know what I mean.

Henry

What-- Paulie..

Paulie

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.

Henry

Paulie why would I want to get into that?

Paulie

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.

Henry

I know Jimmy. You think I'd take chances like Jimmy?

Paulie

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.

Henry

Yeah, I know what they are. I only use them for certain things.

Paulie

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?

Henry

Uh-huh.

Paulie

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?

Henry

Yeah.

Paulie

That means anybody. All right?

Henry

Yeah, of course.

Henry

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.

Henry

Paulie, I am really sorry. I don't know what else to say. I know I **** up.

Paulie

You **** up.

Henry

You know but I'm all right know. I can be trusted now, Paulie. I'm clean. On my kids, I'm clean.

Paulie

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.

Henry

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.

Paulie

Take this.[pulls a wad of cash out of his pocket and hands it to Henry] Now I gotta turn my back on you.

Henry

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

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.

Jimmy

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?

Henry

Yeah.

Jimmy

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?

Henry

Mm-mmm. No, not at all.

Jimmy

That way they got nothin', huh?

Henry

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.