:03:14
Before I ever ran a casino,
or got myself blown up...
:03:18
Ace Rothstein was a hell
of a handicapper, I can tell you that.
:03:22
I was so good that whenever I bet,
I could change the odds...
:03:24
for every bookmaker
in the country.
:03:26
I'm serious,
I had it down so cold...
:03:29
that I was given
paradise on earth.
:03:31
I was given one of the biggest casinos
in Las Vegas to run, the Tangiers...
:03:36
by the only kind of guys that can
actually get you that kind of money...
:03:40
$62,700,000.
:03:44
I don't know all the details.
:03:46
Nobody knew all the details,
but it should've been perfect.
:03:50
I mean, he had me, Nicky Santoro,
his best friend, watching his ass...
:03:53
and he had, Ginger,
the woman he loved, on his arm.
:03:59
But in the end,
we fucked it all up.
:04:01
It should've been so sweet too.
:04:03
But it turned out to be the last time
that street guys like us...
:04:07
were ever given anything
that fuckin' valuable again.
:04:15
At that time, Vegas was a place
where millions of suckers...
:04:17
flew in every year
on their own nickel...
:04:19
and left behind
about a billion dollars.
:04:22
But at night, you couldn't see
the desert that surrounds Las Vegas.
:04:28
But it's in the desert where lots
of the town's problems are solved.
:04:31
Got a lot of holes
in the desert...
:04:34
and a lot of problems
are buried in those holes.
:04:37
Except you gotta do it right.
:04:39
I mean, you gotta have
the hole already dug...
:04:41
before you show up
with a package in the trunk.
:04:44
Otherwise, you're talking about
a half hour or 45 minutes of diggin'.
:04:47
And who knows who's gonna
be comin' along in that time?
:04:49
Before you know it,
you gotta dig a few more holes.
:04:52
You could be there
all fuckin' night.