EPISODE 9

A pal of Fritzy's gets roped into a rigged card game at the Triangle Social Club (where boss Vincent "Chin" Gigante always seems to hold the winning hand and is never in danger of some Wild West-style justice). Switching gears, Fritzy sternly lectures a propagandized Frank about the German occupation of Italy during the war. How does Mr. Giovanelli know all this history? He once was a li'l blackshirt. (6:11)

FRITZY: Federico "Fritzy" Giovanelli
FRANK: Frank "Frankie California" Condo
UI: Unintelligible

Frank: So, when am I gonna see ya?

Fritzy: Marone, I hear they, they, they initiated my friend there, they sat him down over there. They made him play cards. The other guy got him.

Frank: I saw him yesterday.

Fritzy: Yeah, they got him playing cards.

Frank: "My dear man, you made a big mistake."

Fritzy: Why?

Frank: "They'll be calling your house at 2 o'clock in the morning."

Fritzy: Did you tell 'em?

Frank: Didn't you wise that guy up not to [UI] play cards.

Fritzy: What?

Frank: Didn't you tell him?

Fritzy: Hey, he's the one. Joe Bozo got it. Joey says, "Alright, sit down." He says, "Uh, you wanna play, you wanna try?" "Yeah, okay."

Frank: That's the end.

Fritzy: I says, "Wait..."

Frank: But it cost him 120, 200, 300...

Fritzy: Yeah, not too bad, he went for $60 yesterday.

Frank: That's the beginning.

Fritzy: He gave 'em the sympathy act. He patted 'em on the back, the other guy. "Geez, ya really had bad hands, huh?" He patted 'em, you know, "Yeah, boy you really did wind up..."

Frank: Does he know he ain't got a chance there with the thief?

Fritzy: That's the, that's the No Chance Saloon.

Frank: If that was the days of the West, he woulda been dead. They woulda shot him under the table.

Fritzy: Forget about it. They'da taken pictures of him shot up in the coffin outside, and everybody would take, uh, for a quarter, a nickel apiece they take pictures of the guy.

Frank: Yeah.

Fritzy: In the fuckin' coffin you take with the famous, a famous guy, ya know?

Frank: Yeah.

Fritzy: And you stand next to him and they take pictures all day long. They keep the dead body for months.

Frank: [Aside to girlfriend Helen] Fritzy says if it was days of the West they woulda shot him. And they woulda put him outside and they charge you a quarter to take a picture with him. The biggest thief of, the card shark of the West that just got killed.

Fritzy: They woulda left him with his long johns with a derby.

Frank: His dirty long johns.

Fritzy: Hey, you see the way they did Mussolini?

Frank: Yeah.

Fritzy: With the, that's true. He was wearin' his long johns when they got him.

Frank: Do you know how they left him?

Fritzy: I know.

Frank: Naked. They ripped his hair out of his head.

Fritzy: I, he had no hair.

Frank: Whatever hair she had they ripped, they ripped his face. They clawed him.

Fritzy: I remember that.

Frank: You see the actual pictures?

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: Oh, what they did to the bodies. They mutilated them.

Fritzy: Yeah, yeah, I know.

Frank: They stuck them with knives, they put knives in...

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