[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.
With what?
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.
What-- 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.
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?
Uh-huh.
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?
Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
[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.


