05x01 - Golden Days for Boys and Girls

[bunniefuu]

[Theme music playing]

[Water drips]

"Be honest and true, boys!

Whatever you do, boys, let this be your motto through life."

[Children shouting]

"Both now and forever, be this your endeavor, when wrong with the right is at strife.

The best and the truest; Alas! Are the fewest; but be one of these if you can.

In duty, ne'er fail; you will find 'twill avail you, and bring its reward when a man.

Don't think life plain sailing...

There's danger of failing, though bright the futures seem to be...

But bright honor and labor and truth to your neighbor will bear you safe over life's seas."

[Applause]

Commodore! Commodore!

Here, please. Throw another.

Mister!

[Band playing]

Mr. Commodore. Throw one to me.

Now commences our sun-kissed summer, ladies and gentlemen.

We sprinkle the sea with gold and the sea gives it back to us 100 fold.

That is the glory of this blessed strand that we call Atlantic City.

[Cheering]

[Boys shouting]

Throw it! Here!

Mr. Commodore!

You want some more, do you? Huh?

[Crowd laughs]

Ah!

[Cheering]

I want to have the money!

Come on, over here!

[Crowd cheering]

Now that's how you get yourself along.

The ceremony concludes and libations await compliments of the Corner hotel.

To the wagons, ho!

[Band playing]

Look what I got.

Whoa.

Over here. Look what I found.

How long was that?

[Laughing]

I can hold my breath longer than you.

No, you can't.

Yes, I can.

[Music playing]

[Applause]

[Woman speaking spanish]

Shake it. Shake it.

[Music playing]

I hate this.

[Laughs]

It sells mojitos.

Where is the g*dd*mn son of a bitch?

He'll show.

Four days late?

You said you liked Cuba.

What makes you think I don't?

This conversation.

I just want the deal to be nailed down.

Trust me or not?

Of course I do.

Then shut up and dance.

My customers are watching.

There's your marlin. You happy now?

Me? I'm always happy.

[Laughs]

Wendell.

Bienvenidos a La Habana.

[Chuckles]

♪ juber do, juber don't ♪
♪ juber will, juber won't ♪
♪ juber up, juber down ♪
♪ juber all around town ♪
♪ sift the meal, gimme the husk ♪
♪ bake the cake, give me the crust. ♪

[Horse neighs]

Whoa.

Hey. Hey, hey.

Move it, move it.

Hey.

Line up, line up.

♪ Juber jump, juber sing ♪
♪ juber cut that pigeon wing. ♪

[Laughing]

[Men shouting]

[Whistle blows]

[Dogs barking]

[Men shouting]

Unload it.

[Dogs barking]

Get moving, stripeys.

Get your tools and get to work.

Get running.

Let's go. Let's go. Pick it up.

Get running, stripeys.

This ain't no party. Come on. Work.

Get running.

♪ juber here, juber there ♪
♪ juber everywhere... ♪

y'all keep moving. Let's go.

Wake up, wake up.

Pick up your feet. Let's go.

Come on, boys. Step up.

I said get running, stripey.

Pick up your feet. Let's go.

You heard me, boy.

Come on, stripey, let's go.

Keep moving.

Hope that tree chops up! Let's go!

Bring 'em here.

♪ There's little ole Uncle Jack ♪
♪ have a pain in his back... ♪

Let's go, stripeys.

♪ Every time he try to skip ♪
♪ then he has to get a limp... pick it up.

♪ Juber, juber. ♪

Move it.

Put your back in it.

[Music playing]

My wife was desperate to come.

Aw, shame she couldn't join you, senator.

How's the presidente?

That's what this is called? Damn refreshing.

Wait till you try the one at Bacardi's.

He’ll pour out the...

Añejo.

You'll see what the fuss is about.

Well, it's important to learn the facts on the ground.

What happened with Wilkerson? Anything you can share?

The great engineer has backed himself into a corner.

Wilkerson lays it all out in the report.

11 years of Volstead and all they've managed to achieve is...

You're as aware as anyone.

Good intentions.

Unenforceable law.

Ah.

A presidente for you.

It's all on the house.

Ah.

25 billion up in smoke since the crash.

16% unemployment.

900 million a year in liquor taxes and licenses the government isn't getting.

You ask me, the whole damn country could use a drink.

[Laughs]

Will Hoover advocate repeal?

He rode in with the drys, he'll have to ride out with them.

You think he will?

Will he what? Run in '32?

Do you think he'll lose?

This is all just exploratory, understood?

Constitutional amendments don't get overturned.

You have friends who believe otherwise.

Men like that tend to get what they want.

You said it yourself, good for the country, good for you and me.

He doesn't talk much.

That's what I like about him.

Let's just be clear.

Certain issues regarding your past make moving forward tricky.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Do I have to spell it out?

Your hands aren't the cleanest.

I won't lie. I have been arrested and convicted.

1923, I bought a pint of old granddad in union station in Washington DC.

I paid a $5 fine and I spent the night in jail.

It's haunted me ever since.

Wendell, if America's not about starting over, where's the hope for any of us?

Senator, I hear you're a bit of an expert on foreign trade.

I'm on the senate subcommittee.

Well, that young lady, she is very interested in the subject.

Would you be willing to share some of your experience?

[Chuckles]

[Music playing]

[Jack hammering continues]

Who knows what I did last night?

Anybody?

Miss Rohan?

Did I...

Mention anything to you?

I believe you intended to see a "fillum," Mr. Bennett.

That's exactly right.

I went to a "fillum,"

as you charmingly pronounce it, with my beloved spouse Laura, the mother of my children, because life is not just about dollars and cents.

Is it?

No, sir.

Saw "the front page."

Lively comedy about the newspaper game.

Enjoyed it tremendously.

The cartoon beforehand...

Mickey Mouse cast away on a desert island.

Just imagine the hijinks that little...

Anyone seen it?

Then you know what I'm talking about.

Gorilla, dancing seals, baby tiger.

At one point, Mickey finds a piano...

Not important.

What is important...

He doesn't give up.

He makes the best of the situation. He stays cheerful.

And in the end...

What happens in the end?

He sails away on a turtle?

Sails away on a turtle!

You see, friends?

Don't let the naysayers get you down.

The country is strong. The market is strong.

Conors & Gould is strong.

It is a grand time to make some money.

[All gasp]

Oh, no, no. Everything's gonna work out fine.

[g*nsh*t]

[Screaming]

[Train whistle blowing]

[Train clacking]

Fix this?

Cross and cross again.

See? It's called a reef knot.

You try.

Cross and cross again.

They inside?

Yeah.

She's real hot.

You can feel it.

Where is he?

On the bay.

Leave that.

Come on, now.

Eli.

Mom might need us.

[Ticking]

Close the door.

[Coughs]

What were the ladies wearing?

One was in a sort of yellow bonnet and green skirt and green jacket about to here.

It's called a bask.

Did you eat something, Enoch?

Yes. There was a swell.

He was off to the station so I carried his bags.

He bought me oysters.

There's cold bread and molasses.

I had the oysters, ma.

Well, here's something you don't have.

Someone was throwing it away.

It's full of interesting things.

[Door opens]

Your man was up to his tricks today, wasn't he?

Sir?

Your Commodore.

With his pockets full of gold.

He opened the sea.

Does he own that, too, now?

Just for the city people.

Gold in the water.

All the little fishies biting.

Go on.

So what did you catch, hmm?

You catch some gold, little fish?

No, sir.

Why not?

I wasn't quick enough.

My boots is drying on the porch. Go check them.

[Door opens, closes]

It took your mother three days to birth you.

I was out on the water.

I didn't know if I was a father or a widower.

I come home, she was in bed with her hair down.

Her beautiful hair.

A boy in her arms.

My boy.

[Grunts]

You're the son of a fisherman.

And what are you trying to catch?

[Girl coughing]

Finish that.

[Music playing]

[Sally speaking spanish]

[Speaking spanish]

The g*dd*mn hell is this guy?

He's your senator.

It's a three-hour drive.

[Speaking spanish]

Nothing happens on time here.

It's not the clocks in Cuba I'm worried about.

[Speaks spanish]

Hey, kid, please.

Here, you pick 'em.

I give you the good ones.

That's my lucky number.

You heard Lloyd. They need the revenue.

I want everything set up and ready the day the vote comes down so I can be in there first.

Let's say you are.

Then, whatever anyone thinks, whatever they claim I've done, I'm clean.

What?

[Men shouting in spanish]

What is going on over there?

[Whistle blowing]

What are they saying?

Anti-Machado stuff.

[Shouting in spanish]

Another day in paradise.

Always complaining about something.

Might wind up doing more than that.

Meyer.

Nucky. Hello.

And miss Wheet.

Been a while.

A.R.'s funeral.

A sad day.

Rest his soul.

What brings you here?

Wife's been hocking me for a holiday.

Married?

Married.

A son. Makes you concentrate on the future.

[Speaking spanish]

We should all...

We should.

Meyer.

My best to Charlie.

We don't talk too often.

One of us is still a bachelor.

What's his story?

Man on vacation.

Just like you.

Morning, folks.

It is still morning, isn't it?

Wendell, where have you been?

Tell the truth, I'm not exactly sure.

[Foghorn blows]

[Laughing]

I remember that last time.

We were there.

He was the life of the party.

I don't know.

Right you are.

Come on. Come on.

Move over.

Come on, I don't have enough space.

Yes, you do.

No.

You're crowding me.

There's room enough.

Stop.

Get away.

Play fair, why don't you, Jim?

I ain't playing.

Here they come.

Shh. Come on.

[Laughing, chatting]

Whoa!

Come on! Come on! Come on!

There's one over there!

I got that one!

Come on! Come on!

[Boys laughing]

Oh, I got another one!

I got one!

Yes, I got a second one!

Thank you. Here, for you.

Got your skimmers, misters.

Can you b*at that? The blue band's mine.

That one's mine right there.

It's a fine one.

Sir, is this yours?

Give him something, Jake.

10 cents will do it, sir.

You little pirate.

Is this yours?

Hey, where's mine?

Here. Here you go, son.

Where is it?

Thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank you.

Here he comes.

Very nice.

Thank you.

20 cents.

I don't have it.

Go look.

You just hide here and pray for wind?

No, it generally blows up in the afternoon.

Ah.

Take one.

Hell, take two.

Hey, Pat. Are you coming?

Onward to rustic pleasures!

[Women laughing]

All right, here we go.

Come on, I'll race you to the pier.

[Chatter continues]

Bye! See you on the way back!

[Adults laughing]

Good-bye.

Work it up. Work it up. Work it up, now.

[Dog barks]

Put your back in it.

Put your back in it.

[Straining]

That one down, Hoss. 100 to go.

I didn't know you could count that high, Milton.

[Laughs]

10 fingers, 10 toes.

How much that is?

Don't worry yourself.

Some water maybe?

Bucket.

Coming up, Hoss.

Back in it!

How'd you get that dent in your head?

Well, Hoss, I wasn't but nine and pappy say, "Milton", you know what that is?

That's an ass backwards.

"Ass like that do everything in reverse."

[Laughs] So I go to ride him.

Climb up on that rump, facing the South side.

[Laughs]

Grab hold of that bushy tail, yell, "geeyup!"

Whoo, and that mule tossed me like a baseball on Sunday.

[All laughing]

Yes, sir. Happy day.

Ain't none left.

Tie that boot.

Work it up.

Work it up. Work it up. Work it up.

Let's go, now!

♪ juber this, juber that ♪[/i]
♪ juber get that yellow cat ♪
♪ juber, juber. ♪

[Laughs]

[Girl coughing]

You ate oysters.

Says who?

Did you?

I can see you there.

With all the swells. Like you belonged.

They're not so special.

All they have is money.

Ways to find that, I reckon.

How?

Get yourself there first.

Give me your hand, Sue.

Sour.

I like it.

[Music playing]

[Music continues]

Signore, how may I please you?

Furthest from the door.

[Men speaking italian]

[Knocks]

[Phone ringing]

Miss Rohan. He wants to see you.

[Tapping]

How are you feeling?

Sir?

How do you feel?

I... shocked?

And saddened.

Concerned.

We are all concerned.

All very concerned.

What did you do for Mr. Bennett?

Managed his appointments.

Made sure trade orders were promptly filed.

That's all?

I sometimes ran errands for Mrs. Bennett.

Shopping and the like.

Mr. Bennett assured me secretaries were expected to carry out duties of that nature.

Was that improper?

I've been at this 40 years. Boom and bust.

You can always make money on the street as long as you don't get yourself turned around.

Hmm?

Don't get turned around.

Not married?

No, Mr. Conors.

Family?

Brother and sisters.

Time you found a husband.

Am I to be let go?

Do you know where he kept the key to the file cabinet in his office?

No.

We need to open the file cabinet.

I don't know where he kept it.

Call a locksmith.

Have him open it.

Did I ask how you feel?

You did.

Good.

Thank you, brother.

What you doing now?

Fixing up that boot, huh?

Yeah, that's smart.

Feet ain't right, everything go slipways. Yes, sir.

These here? I sneak some grease off from the cook.

Rub it all in, keep it real soft.

Hole right here, though. That ain't much.

Don't you never want to say nothing?

What you done in the first place?

Got myself caught.

You sure do weave a tale.

I stove my pappy's head in is what.

'Cause I wouldn't stand for them tricks he pulled on me no more.

Yes, sir.

♪ Who been here since I been gone? ♪
♪ Pretty little gal with a Jersey on. ♪

Hog eye!

[Laughs]

[Whistles blows]

Work it up. Work it up. Work it up.

Let's go, stripey.

I said let's go.

Always the last one sitting.

This is a work crew.

I'll give you some, boy.

If you don't like the work, there's the box.

I don't care! I don't care!

f*ck every m*therf*cking one of y'all.

[Shouts]

[Groans]

[g*nsh*t]

[Whistle blowing]

[Groans]

[Dog barking]

[g*nsh*t]

[Grunts]

[Whistle blowing]

Get up, mutt!

[g*nsh*t]

[g*nshots]

[Men shouting]

[g*nsh*t]

[Whistle blowing]

[Panting]

You ever talk on a telephone?

Huh?

[g*n hammer clicks]

You ever talk on one?

How they fit a body's voice inside that little box?

Electricity.

Money in a house outside Thurmont.

Split it with you.

You handle all the telephones and such.

Don Facundo came here from Catalonia.

Before that, there was nothing worth drinking.

But today, when you think of Cuba, you think of rum.

When you think of rum...

[Speaks spanish]

How did you wind up running the company, Mr. Ronis?

Married the boss's daughter.

Well, lucky girl.

Très gentil, miss Wheet.

And your market?

Latin America. Europe.

Next month we open a plant in Mexico.

Sounds like something's missing.

It is no secret. We would like Bacardi again for sale in the states.

Mmm, and I'd like to be the man to sell it.

Not possible, though. Legally.

Not today. But that's going to change.

Is it so, senator Lloyd?

Well, America is a mighty vessel, sir.

It's not easily turned.

However...

The political capital needed to effect a change of such sweeping...

However, your informed opinion...

I don't recall precisely...

Of course you do.

It was you, me, Sally, and what was the señorita’s name?

She was paying particularly close attention.

Speaking privately among friends, the country is ready to move forward.

And that is an opportunity.

Don Maxime, I have a distribution network already in place.

Deepwater port on the Florida coast.

Agreements with rail lines and trucking companies.

The day repeal passes, I intend to be open for business legally in the thirstiest country on earth with Bacardi rum as my most exclusive offering.

Can the two of us come to an arrangement?

A bodyguard?

Is that a problem?

No. I have several myself.

Cuba today is not so safe.

So build a plant in Mexico.

Well, it's always wise to have an exit arranged.

A man like yourself would understand that.

[People chatting]

I found the key.

I come, 16 year old.

I don't got nothing. Don't ask for nothing.

You pulled yourself up, Joe.

Ah, I have to fight. What choice they give me?

Every day a fight.

But one man, one boss.

I don't work no other way.

Maranzano's got the same idea.

He's playing us for saps.

Oh.

You don't take what someone else build.

And me...

Understand?

So give me the word and we'll end it.

You fix all my trouble, huh?

It's my trouble, too.

And what do you do, then, huh?

After you fix?

[Phone ringing]

Why do you have to say that?

Ain't I been loyal?

All this time, I stuck with you.

Huh? I'm here with you.

How you take care of it?

Just leave that to me.

What you don't know, you can't get nailed for.

[Hangs up phone]

Joe.

How much more you want to lose?

[Speaks italian]

One boss.

[Phone ringing]

We gonna sit here all day?

Where you got to go?

The head. Five espresso.

Do what you need to.

How you doing, boss?

[Joe speaking yiddish]

Charlie here?

[Conversation continues indistinctly]

[Man shouts in italian]

[g*nshots]

[Shells clatter]

What the f*ck took so long?

Traffic the whole way.

Had to be done, right?

♪ We hurry to my ♪
♪ blue heaven. ♪

[People chatting]

I say, Walt. Walt. Not so fast, my boy.

[Boys chatting]

Get! Go on!

[Boys screaming]

[Laughing] Yeah.

A man needs to get out of town every now and then.

That's just the glory of the whole proposition.

They have beaches in Brooklyn.

Right opportunity, Pat. Can't you see it?

Then why don't you do it yourself?

I need the New York money.

Just think, rail line straight down from the Jersey crossing.

Stopping where? On your doorstep?

It's Atlantic City I care about.

I aim to build something great here and those who join with me...

You was warned once.

No, I wasn't.

Bunch of wharf rats, the lot of you.

Clear out, now. Let's go.

What's the ruckus, Jacob?

I told them no congregating.

Sheriff's meant to be obeyed, boy.

This is his.

[Laughs]

[Grunts]

Well?

Here you go.

Sir?

Found my hat, didn't you?

It's too much.

Compared to what?

Did you know that money was there?

Yes, sir.

Then why didn't you take it?

Answer true.

To get myself ahead.

No boys on the porch.

Scram.

Charlie, steady this ladder for me.

All right. Hold on.

That good for you?

[Music playing]

[Speaking spanish]

[Speaking spanish]

Freshen up. Come down to the bar.

You'll have lots of admirers waiting.

You're quite a sl*ve driver.

Pin a note on you this time so you don't get lost.

[Laughs] Well, oh, my.

Can we talk for a moment?

I need to get cigarettes.

See you boys inside.

Let's get something straight.

I'm not your whipping boy.

And I'm not here to get tarred with someone else's brush.

Whatever happens with Volstead, whatever happens between us...

Lucky Strikes.

I won't make guarantees about legislation nobody can...

I won't get bitten in the ass.

[Speaking spanish]

Are you listening to me?

What happened to the ones I already bought?

Those were sh*t.

I give you good number for tomorrow.

I've had that seat for 20 years.

And one night in some dago cathouse...

How much for the whole book?

...doesn't buy you the right to treat me...

[Speaking spanish]

Like some kind of senate page boy.

You first.

You think you're the only one who comes knocking on my door?

See? This is how we do business.

There are plenty of fellas with cleaner fingernails than you.

Socio, watch out!

[Women screaming]

Watch out!

If don't get out of here...

[Groaning]

[Cracks]

[Groans]

[Woman screams]

[Whistle blowing]

[Applause]

[Men speaking italian]

There you go.

Amici. Amici.

What do we come to celebrate?

20 pills in Joe Masseria's gut.

[Laughing]

[Applause]

Salute!

Kingdoms rise, kingdoms fall.

Pretenders reach for the throne, but only Caesar can rule.

And the pretenders fade away.

What does it all mean?

In the words of Marcus Aurelius,

"the universe is change.

Our life is what our thoughts make it."

And my thoughts are these.

Everybody in this room...

Is going to get rich!

[Cheering]

A new friend is here tonight.

A son of sicily.

A son of America.

We owe him much.

Come forward.

[Speaks italian]

Let him through.

[Men murmuring]

The hero.

Don Salvatore.

[Music playing]

[Speaks italian]

[Speaks italian]

[Speaks italian]

[Speaking spanish]

He says... He says these people are thieves, criminals.

Enemies of Cuba.

They want something for nothing.

They steal, they rob.

A rich American on the street, an opportunity.

He says there are formalities concerning the incident.

How much to keep it quiet?

200.

Hey, fellas, they're here.

Let's go!

Let's go!

Move out of my way!

No, you. b*at it.

Me! Me!

Hey, lady!

Help you with your bags?

We're here to help, ma'am.

May I help you?

Don't want to get sand in your pretty slippers.

Take my hand, ma'am. I'll help you.

I should be helping you.

I've got you, ma'am. Watch your step.

There you go.

Welcome to Atlantic City.

You're quite the gentleman.

Thank you, young man.

Here you are.

[Hums]

[Boys laugh]

You look just like her.

No, his butt is bigger.

Yes.

[Laughing]

Get off.

[Boys shouting]

Get him! b*at him! Get him!

Stop it!

Ain't fair!

Boys, stop doing that.

Ain't fair!

Ain't fair.

[Men laughing]

Piney can't fight worth a damn.

Let them fight.

Let's go.

Whose boy are you?

Ethan Thompson's.

Ethan the bay man.

You know him?

Thought you were being clever before, hmm?

Thought you were gonna get something for being honest.

What have you got?

Everything goes through me, understand?

Big and little.

Absecon inlet to great egg harbor.

Anything else is bad for business.

Here...

[Scrapes deck]

Is sand.

There is a broom.

And this...

Is one dollar.

Yes, sir.

Welcome to Atlantic City!

We got umbrellas, blankets...

[Music playing]

[Singing in spanish]

You saw what he did with the ear?

Is it still in his pocket?

Ronis doesn't need to hear about any of this.

As far as he's concerned, nothing's happened and Lloyd's still on board.

Well, don't count on it.

You're not the only one who pays off the army.

A man like me?

Where's the sense in looking back?

Never does any good.

"Be honest and true, boys."

What's that?

Just running through my head.

Come up to the room.

I'm on the clipper out tomorrow.

That's all right.

No night to be alone.

Sweetie, I'm not alone.

Not all bad news.

Won five pesos.

Mrs. Lansky.

I'm an old friend of your husband's.

Are you waiting for him to join you?

[Speaking spanish]

Do you speak English?

I speak, yes.

You have a husband?

You can be my husband.

One night, one week.

We go around the corner, I'll make you feel good.

"The best and the truest; Alas! Are the fewest; but be one of these if you can.

In duty, ne'er fail; you will find 'twill avail you, and bring its reward when a man.

Don't think life plain sailing, there's danger of failing, though bright the futures seem to be...

But bright honor and labor and truth to your neighbor will bear you safe over life's seas.

Then up and be doing, right only pursuing, and take your fair part in the strife.

Be honesty and true, boys!

Whatever you do, boys, let this be your motto through life!"

[Music playing]

♪ When skies were dark came Noah's ark ♪
♪ amen ♪
♪ when lions roared came Daniel's lord ♪
♪ amen ♪
♪ lord helps those who pray ♪
♪ and on judgment day ♪
♪ if you believe, he shall receive ♪