give me a chance.
Give me first dibs at this--
This television
series thing,
or whatever it is.
Let me do the
pilot, please.
Julius, my boy,
sit down.
Julius, I'm not a hard man.
I'm not a mean man...
Tell you right now,
it's light.
...But the television
industry today is looking
for talent.
They're looking
for quality.
They're preoccupied
with talent and quality,
And a writer is
a major commodity.
You know, this situation
ain't all bad.
I haven't had
a green vegetable
in over a week.
We can't even go down
to the pork store?
- we gotta hang around here
all day doing nothing.
- baciagalup.
( mews )
- who does he belong to?
- benny: he just showed up
during the big storm.
Already caught a mouse
down the cellar.
A lot of my customers
giving their action
to New York.
Power vacuum,
they're taking advantage.
Oh.
- the fuck you come in
that way for?
- sorry.
( tv continues playing )
We're gonna meet Paulie
down at the hospital,
Visit Sil.
You wanna come?
Nah, I got...
Shit I gotta do.
My daughter...
Narrator on tv:
...Scratching plaintively
on a closed door.
Mr. Julius moomer,
a would-be writer...
Yesterday it was
his gout.
Woman:
this is New York's famous
little Italy.
It once covered over
40 square blocks
But has now been reduced
to one row of shops
and cafes.
( man singing italian aria )
( phone rings )
Hello.
Phil:
it's me.
Where are you?
Are you close?
Let's do it
over the phone.
( italian pop song playing )
No word yet.
No one knows
where our friend is.
It's not that
there's no word, it's that
there's no progress.
Nobody's taking
this lightly, Phil.
He should have been
done first.
They thought
they'd find them both
at the strip joint.
I've heard this
already.
I know you're
disappointed, Phil.
I can hear it
in everything you say.
Fuckin'-a
I'm disappointed.
- ( man singing italian aria )
- I'm thinking.
- vendor: come on in,
check it out.
- I don't know.
- maybe...
- what?
Are you talking
about reaching out?
We can't go back.
Are you out of your
fucking mi?
- no, I know.
- then what did you
say it for?
I didn't, Phil.
You did.
Listen, kid,
When this is over
we're gonna sit down,
- me and you.
- I hope so.
I can't hear you.
You're breaking up.
I said I hope--
- ( people speaking chinese )
- ( wind whistling )
( sighs )
"ferrara's."
( groans )
- want a pastry?
- I need to watch
my weight.
I need to snag
another husband.
( chuckles )
You're the only one
who realized that's a joke.
You had to grow up
in our family.
That dig you made
about me giving guys head
under the boardwalk?
He took it so seriously,
Bobby.
( chuckles )
Anyway,
Thank you
for being here.
So what happens now?
Well, robert's already said
he wants to go live
with his aunt.
- what about sophia?
- nica is my daughter.
She's very much
into her older sister.
Sophia's out of her mind
if she thinks she's getting
out of this house.
Is that a joke?
'cause that one even
got by me.
You know,
five, six years ago
When johnny sack
bought this house,
This was all
cornfields here.
I'd like to give it
a shot with Bobby's kids.
Bobby would want it.
I put in a lot of effort
with sophia--
Baking together...
I think we actually
have a bond.
I've had therapy.
I'm a good mother.
I put ma and all her
warped shit behind me.
Good.
Not that I get
any thanks for it.
You know you could form
a new nuclear family.
You bring
harpo down here...
It's a big place.
Harpo changed
his name.
He's hal now.
( sighs )
Janice...
Well, you need anything,
you know I'm minutes away.
( phone ringing )
- yeah.
- harris: multiple calls
Traced back to a payphone
in oyster bay, long island.