EPISODE 24

News reports about the terrorist hijacking of the Achille Lauro ocean liner (and the murder of wheelchair-bound passenger Leon Klinghoffer) trigger a discussion about feistiness, creativity, and wiseguy ingenuity. Fritzy thinks complacent Frank needs to wake up if he wants to improve his lot in life. But, whether you're a retiree on an ill-fated cruise, a counterfeiter down on the bayou, or a soldier in the Genovese crime family, you must proceed with extreme caution. (6:44)

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

Frank: My beauty queen is here.

Fritzy: Yeah?

Frank: Do my laundry.

Fritzy: Yeah?

Frank: She comes here, takes care of me.

Fritzy: A little hug?

Frank: She made me a little, uh, a little egg salad.

Fritzy: No wonder you come down relaxed at night.

Frank: I'll tell ya, I didn't sleep with all this noise in the yard here. They're buildin' here.

Fritzy: What're they doin'? They, they throwin', pile drivin' or what?

Frank: They pile drive, they put down all these steel things for the...

Fritzy: Mannaggia, marone.

Frank: Now listen to this.

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: That was yesterday.

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: This building here is gonna take two years. Down by the water, they put up the, the, uh, a skyscraper, the, the American Express.

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: It'll be finished in about another month.

Fritzy: So they're po...

Frank: They started the same time.

Fritzy: They poundin' all around you.

Frank: Know what they got over here?

Fritzy: What?

Frank: A hole.

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: And, and six pilings down.

Fritzy: Mamma mi.

Frank: That's how long this, this'll be, this'll be here like for years.

Fritzy: Why don't we go get a job there, we'll get a construction job.

Frank: They're at the end of the hat here, these guys.

Fritzy: Geez, ya know, we'll wind up over here workin' for two, three years over there.

Frank: I need a job, too.

Fritzy: Yeah, so do I.

Frank: At my old age, I gotta go back to work.

Fritzy: Well now, I, I may go on a whattya call it, disability.

Frank: [In Italian, I'm hungry], ya know.

Fritzy: Yeah?

Frank: I know things are bad with you too, pal.

Fritzy: Yeah, they're a little rough, but.

Frank: Ahh.

Fritzy: Whattya gonna do? I think I, I may, if this don't correct itself, I'll go, I'm goin' on dis...

Frank: I got my brother, he helps me anyway.

Fritzy: I'm goin' on disability.

Frank: Yeah?

Fritzy: Yeah.

Frank: Well, Romolo [Fritzy's late father] left ya a little money anyway, right?

Fritzy: A couple of dollars.

Frank: Yeah.

Fritzy: Not much, ya know.

Frank: A little helps ya anyway, right?

Fritzy: Yeah, yeah.

Frank: That was nice.

Fritzy: I got by a little bit with it, ya know? But, it's, it's runnin' dry.

Frank: It's runnin' dry, I know.

Fritzy: I know.

Frank: Well, pal, anything I could do for ya, you know.

Fritzy: I appreciate it.

Frank: We could help one another.

Fritzy: I know.

Frank: Ah, we're up in the years now. Listen. We eat good. Right?

Fritzy: We don't need much, Frank. Believe me when I tell ya.

Frank: We, we're happy the way we are.

Fritzy: We don't need much. We, we don't need much to satisfy ourselves.

Frank: Uh-huh.

Fritzy: You turn around and ya, ya, you wanna own things.

Frank: See you go on the Mediterranean, what happens to ya?

Fritzy: You get hijacked. Well, my name ain't Schwartz.

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