soldiers.
- Did you ever play any sports, Jessie?
- Yeah.
I ran the 100-yard dash
with two cops behind me.
Vito thought he was an athlete though.
I remember having to stop your father
from signing up for high school football.
Before that it was the Cub Scouts.
Football, fucking Cub Scouts.
He had a lot of tendencies
in that direction.
Sounds like your son wanted
to be middle class.
He still does.
- You'll see that when you meet his wife.
- Stop it.
It's where all the action is.
I just hope the co-op market holds up
for another three years.
You know, Christine, there must be
hundreds of people out there...
...buying up insiders' rights
and selling them on the open market.
I mean, you must be pretty good at it.
How do you compete, dear?
Well...
- You gotta have a gimmick.
- Yeah?
You do?
I have this friend named Gertrude...
...and she works at Sloan-Kettering
Hospital in admissions.
And every time there's a new patient
with one of the cancers...
...that nothing can be done for...
...if they live in Manhattan,
I check it out.
While these people live in buildings
that have gone co-op...
...and they haven't bought...
...you can buy occupied apartments
at insider prices in those buildings.
But the problem is, the tenant's likely
to stay there for 20 years. Right?
- Yeah. Right.
- Well...
...Gertrude and I snap up an apartment
that will be vacant in six months.
At which point,
we double our investment.
We are sitting on seven prime
Manhattan apartments...
...and every tenant terminal.
If I were you and Gertrude,
I would hope...
...that God does not have
a sense of humor.
Well, the apartment
would just revert back...
...to the original building owner. What's
the difference who turns the profit?
The difference is, you're mucking around
in other people's misery.
When you rob someone legally...
...without risk, without sticking
your neck out, that's immoral.
Where did you find
this fucking parasite?
Parasite?
Yeah, it's...
- It's like a leech.
- Did you hear that, Adam?
Your grandfather feels breaking the law
would make Christine more moral?
It would. Like most people, Elaine...
...you confuse what's moral
with what's legal.
No. Like most people, I recognize
that in a reasonably just society...
"A reasonably just society."
Well, tell me when you find one.
You agree with your paternal grandfather
that legality means nothing?
Which means that you can go blithely
through life doing just as you please.
- My "paternal" grandfather?
- Yeah, he's a defendant in this case.
You still haven't answered, Adam.
He's your guest.
- Well, I came here to eat.
- Come on. Hey, more meat.
- You wanna make a fight over this?
- You should have given me support.
No, you don't come on like a parent
with Adam's idol sitting at the table.
Why are you such a dishrag
with Adam?
We try and try to show him
who Christine really is...
...and Jessie does it in two minutes.
- Fine.
You see how he looks up to Jessie.
You, better than anyone, should know
how destructive that can be.
Take a stand, Vito.
What will Adam do with himself?
It will break my heart if he doesn't
go back and get his master's.
- So tell him.
- He's 23 years old, Elaine.
It used to be,
"He's 15 years old, Elaine."
Attention, shoppers. Socket wrench sets
are on sale in aisle 26.
These are 55- piece sets
complete with ratcheting carrier.
You sure all this stuff isn't overkill?
I have a keycard.
Do you know what you'll find
when you go in there?
Whatever we find inside, just leave it
to your old man to get us through. Okay?
Hey, Vito. Tell him
the Peewee Grogan story.
Please, we can do
without the Peewee Grogan story.
Your father was 17 or 18.
Peewee was a couple of years older.
He was a tough little thief
from 9th Avenue.
Couple of inches shorter
and he'd have wound up in the circus.
Used to say, in a street fight, he could
hit you with overhand left to the balls.
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