Capone Page #2

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So I said, "Mr. Mayor, you

expect me to feed you...

...and half of city hall for nothing?

Ain't it enough

that me and my friends...

...stuffed the ballot box

to get you elected at all?"

Jim, I want you to meet

a friend of mine, Alphonse Capone.

Just come in from the East Coast.

- Honor to meet you, sir.

- Alphonse is gonna be working for me.

This is my wife.

- How you doing?

- Mr. and Mrs. Jake Guzik.

- Pleasure to meet you.

- How do you do?

- Miss Crawford.

- Hello.

And her friend, Mr. Cooper.

Pleasure to meet you.

I'm sorry. I just washed my hands.

Don't mind Mr. Cooper.

He's widely known as a horse's ass.

You stupid...

Take him for a walk. Cool him off.

Big Jim Colosimo.

If he had listened to me a year ago...

One year.

We'd be cleaning up

in this beer racket now.

Maybe you could split up on him,

Mr. Torrio. Start your own business.

No, it takes time.

You don't understand.

I need strong connections

in the mayor's office...

...county building,

the police department.

Even into Springfield.

And time is something

that I don't have.

Alphonse...

...you have the brains. Ambition.

You're not afraid of anything.

These are qualities that could

make you a very important man.

But only if you put into my hands...

...your trust...

...your loyalty...

...and even your life.

All these are yours, padrone.

On the soul of my mother,

I swear it.

Big Jim, Big Jim.

He's a fine man.

He's been very good to me.

I love him like the brother

that I never had.

But he just won't listen.

He won't listen.

It must happen in such a way

that he has no warning.

No fear.

No pain.

- Hey, Joe. Anybody looking for me?

- Not that I seen, Mr. Colosimo.

Operator, I wanna call Wabash-7176.

Hello. Let me talk to Rockwood.

Hey, Rockwood, it's Jimmy.

I've been waiting around here

for the last 15 minutes. Yeah. Where...?

Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,

Mr. Stenson. As a down payment.

A down payment on exactly what,

may I ask?

I was told that you own

seven breweries, is that right?

Yes. Closed by the 18th Amendment.

- I wanna lease them from you.

- You expect to manufacture near beer?

Near beer is second step

to making real beer, Mr. Stenson.

Are you suggesting, Mr. Torrio, that I

actually become involved in bootlegging?

What are you worried about?

Prohibition?

All you do is show those feds

a little dough-re-mi.

I'll tell you how to handle it.

You lease your breweries...

...to a legitimate company

in New Jersey.

That company, in turn,

will sublet them to me.

And no matter what happens,

you can't possibly be held accountable.

I take it you expect this to be

a profitable venture.

Mr. Stenson,

Chicago is a beer drinking town.

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