:57:00
Fuckin' wife
and her fuckin' asthma.
:57:03
Shit,
:57:07
Somethin' needs
to get fuckin' done...
:57:12
I gotta do it myself.
:57:15
Call the fuckin' warden.
I wanna meet him.
:57:22
Yes, sir, Mr. Ripstein.
:57:38
I don't make it a habit
of meeting with prisoners.
:57:40
I'm doing this out of deference
to Mr. Mercker here...
:57:42
who thought
it'd be a good idea.
:57:44
However, any attempt to have me
reinstate the fight...
:57:47
between Mr. Chambers and
Monroe Hutchen will be futile.
:57:50
It has been
irrevocably cancelled.
:57:53
Can I tell you a story?
One of my favorites.
:57:57
It's about how things get done.
:57:59
This is a story that
takes place in about--
:58:02
it must've been
the middle 1950s.
:58:04
I was second in charge
of certain operations...
:58:08
second to a Mr. Meyer Lansky.
:58:11
There was this casino--
a new one--
:58:15
that had been built
in a neighboring town.
:58:18
But the mayor, he wanted
to close that casino...
:58:24
because he did not
like gambling.
:58:28
He thought it brought
the wrong kind of people.
:58:32
So he ordered
the casino closed. Ohh.
:58:37
I had to report this
to Mr. Lansky.
:58:40
So Mr. Lansky,
he told me, he says...
:58:43
"You tell that mayor...
:58:45
"that the casino stays open,
no question"...
:58:49
but that the mayor
had a choice.
:58:53
He could choose to be killed,
or he could choose to have...
:58:59
a great deal of money
deposited in his bank account.