success, they forget their roots.
Vito, glad to see you back
on the West Side.
I remember Vito here
before he could talk.
Your grandfather was
running numbers out of this bar.
He'd bring Vito down in his baby
carriage and park him right here...
...then tuck his policy slips
in your old man's blanket.
That's how I learned to count.
How are you, Jessie?
- I pinched your father more than once.
- You're Doheny the cop?
That's me.
You were too little to run in.
He means Vito was too little to shake
down. Danny here would pinch me.
Then when I made bail, he'd come
upstairs and sell me back my own slips.
- You retired?
- I took early retirement.
- The commissioner insisted on it.
- Thank the good Lord...
...I had a little money put by.
- You still hide it in the coffee cans?
- What do you drink?
- Dewar's rocks, Danny.
- Nice guy.
- You gotta learn to judge people better.
You two seem pretty cozy
all of a sudden.
Hey, I'm his granddad,
for chrissakes.
Whatever craziness you're
cooking up these days, Jessie...
...Adam can do without.
I'm a man trying his best
to enjoy his golden years.
Just keep my son away
from your criminal schemes.
Criminal schemes.
It's eating you up
that you're getting old.
Let no man say that Jessie Mac
went out lying down.
Criminal schemes. That's a little rich
coming from an ex-con.
You told him about that?
Pop, Pop, 20 years in the same house.
Some things can't stay secret.
- Just don't fuck up his life too.
- Too?
Any deal you ever made with me,
you never saw a speck of trouble.
It's when you took off on your own, like
an asshole with that retarded Polack...
...that you wound up doing
your 27 months in the shitter.
And he's still blaming me.
If you'd stuck with me, you'd have been
a part of that Westport Bank caper.
So sweet.
200,000 chopped up four ways.
Ask him where the money is now.
Just where it ought to be.
It didn't have handles on it.
Always remember, Adam. It only
costs 100% more to go first class.
Ask him about the downside,
the couple of years you sit in the cage...
...then spend the rest
of your life hiding it.
Anybody who's embarrassed about
doing time is a goddamned snob.
You do your time nice, don't rat
anybody out, never take it in the ass...
...what is there to be
embarrassed about?
Vito, somewhere your values
got screwy.
When did you get it in your head
that it was so terrible to be a thief?
How do you get through to someone
who thinks like a Gypsy?
- Right. Standup thieves, Gypsies.
- Right.
Not a hypocritical bone in their bodies.
Hey, Margie.
- You made bail.
- Thanks to my grandson Adam here.
- And my wonderful son Vito.
- How do you do?
It's nice to know you, Adam. Hi.
Vito? Margie.
So how are the accommodations
at the tombs these days?
- Three-star? Four-star?
- I'll survive.
There was never any question
about that.
But did the other prisoners survive?
What about the poor guards?
I don't go on for 15 minutes.
Can I buy you guys a drink?
- No, we'll take a rain check.
- Oh, man talk.
- Okay, see you later.
- Okay.
- Listen, we still on for tonight?
- Yeah, sure.
It was very nice meeting you.
Jessie, are you involving
Adam in something?
- Just the safest, sweetest deal of
my life. - All right, stop right there...
And he's not involving me,
it's my idea.
- Your idea?
- My idea. That's right.
Adam, what are you talking about?
I'm talking about a lot of money, Pop.
And it's not even dangerous.
- Lf it's against the law, it's dangerous.
- No, no, this is a walk.
- And it just needs a third guy.
- Needs a third guy, huh?
Are you crazy? I spent my life
thieving with my father...
...and now I'm gonna thieve
with my son? Crazy.
Must be a full moon
I don't know about.
Tell me, what is it
with these criminal genes?
Jesus, Vito. Don't get started
with that criminal-gene crap.
Carnegie, Rockefeller. Those are
the guys with criminal genes...
...the size of fucking