First We Take Brooklyn (2018) Movie Script
1
[rock music]
[singing in foreign language]
[dice rattling]
[dice dropping]
[laughing]
[alarm buzzing]
[all screaming]
[fence banging]
[singing in foreign language]
[keys jangling]
[low thudding]
[dramatic orchestral music]
[gavel banging]
[spectators murmuring]
Hello.
Next stop Flatbush,
looking for a kilo
Cruel world Cuban
Like that, right back to it
They tried what I did,
but couldn't do it
Thinking it would
be different
But didn't nail any digits
We buyin' the jerseys
We payin' the pitchers
Everybody get in this
Like we takin' the picture
If a nigga pose,
muzzle flash
Take it with ya
I put that boy in his
bag with the zipper
Ah, freed him,
they can't beat him
See, if they can't read,
they can't read him
And I'm so high
I can't see them
So high, haters
lookin' at me with side
Here, keep the change.
[Driver] Thanks a lot, man.
Looks like we're
ditching again
Looks like we're
ditching again
Walk out and say Brooklyn
[light ambient music]
[door knocking]
Mikki?
Hi, Gale.
Mikki.
Hi, Dudu.
It's our Mikki.
So, when did you get in?
Mikki, who taught you English?
- No, no. Who taught you English?
- Yeah.
Isn't that lady
taught you English.
I'm sorry, Gale.
Yeah, I remember.
I just got in.
I was trying to figure out.
When was the last time
you were in this house?
Wow.
Um, I used to come
from eight to 12.
Now, I'm 37, so, 25 years ago.
Oh my god.
Little scrappy kid you were.
- [Mikki laughing]
- Always in trouble.
Where are you going?
You wanna eat, don't ya?
Italian women are very
much like Moroccans, spicy.
[laughing]
Mikki, I hope you
still love pasta.
And the food, can't beat it.
I love your pasta, Gale.
Thank you.
Get ready to dig in.
Thank you.
So, did you have a chance to
speak to your mom before...
No.
I didn't have access to a
phone right when it happened.
She was always so
worried about you.
[throat clearing]
So, what's your plan?
I figured change of
place, change of luck.
[laughing]
You remind me of
my sister, your mom.
But let me tell you something.
There's no such thing as luck.
Trust me, I know
better than anybody.
I'll figure something out.
So, you have a
place to stay, Mikki?
Not yet.
I'll figure something out.
Don't be silly.
You're staying with us.
Could I talk to you
for a second, Dudu?
- Talk.
- No.
In the kitchen.
What's wrong with me?
Why would you ask
him to stay here?
He's not our responsibility.
[Dudu] He is family.
[Gale] Okay, I understand
that, but why can't he stay...
[muffled talking]
[clock ticking]
[laughing]
[glasses clinking]
[dramatic orchestral music]
No, jet lag.
[door knocking]
Mikki.
Mikki?
[laughing]
Mikki.
Mikki.
Mikki.
[gasping]
Ah.
[upbeat pop music]
[horn honking]
Dudu, you look great.
You lost weight since
I last seen you?
I saw you yesterday.
I know.
What's your secret?
Who's this?
You replacing me right now?
My nephew, Mikki.
Hey Arik.
Hi.
Nice to meet you.
All right, next
stop, Disneyland.
[Dudu] Yes, sir.
[singing in foreign language]
[Arik] These guys, man,
they've been here for years
and they still look like
they're fresh off the boat.
All right, time for work.
[door closing]
Okay, Arik.
Give Mikki a hand.
Load these up.
[laughing]
Mikki?
Mikki fucking Levy.
Mikki.
[rock music]
Hey, Esther.
What, are you guys
multiplying or something?
[Dudu] Avi around?
Yeah, I think so.
How 'bout you check?
How 'bout you ask nicely?
Please.
[phone ringing]
Yeah.
[Esther] Dudu's here.
I'll be right out.
I'm gonna be right back.
Yeah.
Usual?
Please.
Drinks?
Make that two.
Avi.
That's my sister.
She's um...
[Ahmed] What's up, babe?
Mmm, honey.
Honey.
I'm at work.
Jesus.
- Want a drink?
- Yeah.
Okay, let's do that.
There you go.
Babe, one cube.
Oh, sorry.
That's my girl.
[Esther laughing]
Hi.
Hey, Ahmed.
I was, uh, hoping to run into
you.
Don't give me that bullshit.
How we doin' so far?
[Arik] Yeah, we great.
Great like?
Not enough.
Not enough.
I'm trying.
Try harder.
Push that shit.
You should be in here
every day, dispensing.
I know, but you know Avi.
He doesn't like this
shit around here.
I don't give a
shit what Avi likes.
You know that?
What the fuck are
you looking at?
Yeah, you.
Hey, relax, man.
Arik, who the
fuck is this guy?
Hey, he's just a friend.
It's okay.
Oh, he's just a friend.
I don't like the way your
friend is fucking looking at me.
What do you want?
What the fuck's your problem?
You.
- [Dudu] Hey.
- [Avi] Ahmed.
Whoa whoa whoa.
Avi, why do you keep making
us come down to this shithole?
You trying to convert
us or something?
I'm sorry about that, Dimitry.
It's um, we just had a
little bit of a problem,
but everything's fine now.
[Dimitry] Yeah.
You guys wanna sit
down, have a drink...
No, I'm not here for drinks.
I'm here to collect
my father's money.
Oh, oh yeah, no, of course.
Yeah, no, I have it right here.
Um, just give me a minute, okay?
Ahmed.
What the fuck is with this guy?
I'm not sure.
You want me to go find out?
Sit down.
Somebody was hungry
[exhaling deeply]
Yep.
That was absolutely delicious.
Oh my god.
[clapping]
Thank you.
You ate so fast you gave me
agita just looking at you.
[laughing]
What's agita?
Tell him what agita is.
Mmmhmm, stress.
[laughing]
Well, I'm sorry,
but that was delicious.
I take it as a compliment.
Haven't had food that
good in a long time.
All right, let's...
No, no, no.
No, no, please please
please, I got it,
I got it, I got it.
Please, let me.
The chef should never clean.
Ah.
Let me.
Thank you.
I told you.
He's not so bad.
And you were right, as usual.
[rock music]
Avi, what the fuck
do you want from me?
I work for 'em.
I gotta do what they say.
It's just that they're
squeezing us so fucking hard,
we're gonna be out of business.
Business.
You know what fucking happens
when you do business with them.
It's the price you pay.
I did hear your business in
the back's doing pretty well.
Assalamu alaikum.
Esther, the fuck out of here.
Yeah, just gotta close up.
Hurry the fuck up.
We gotta go. Come
on, I'll be in the fucking car.
[Esther] Drink your drink. I
gotta wash the fucking glass.
Esther, give me another one.
[Arik] Hey, thanks.
[Ahmed] Where you going, babe?
I'm tired.
Long day, early
morning tomorrow.
Yeah, I fucking waited
for you to get off.
You know that?
I didn't know that.
I thought you were working.
[Ahmed] Arik, get
the fuck outta here.
- [Esther] I'm tired.
- [Ahmed] No.
[Esther] Wait,
what are you doing?
What are you doing?
Stop it.
[Ahmed] What the
fuck are you doing?
[Esther] What the
fuck? I'm getting out.
[Ahmed] Esther,
what the fuck is your problem?
[Esther] I want
to go home. That's my fault?
[tires screeching]
[Arik] Hey, are you okay?
[dramatic orchestral music]
[rock music]
On the house.
[laughing]
Look at you, you're drooling.
[laughing]
Don't worry, it's okay.
You're not the first.
Yeah, she has that
effect on men.
If you wanna ask her out.
I don't know, be my guest.
So,
how are you adjusting?
It's okay?
[Esther] You miss home?
No.
You like Brooklyn that much?
It's better than where I was.
How long?
How long what?
How long were
you locked up for?
[laughing]
Oh, come on.
I'm around ex-cons all day.
It's obvious.
Is it?
It is.
And I get the sense
you did some real time.
Am I right?
Why don't you get
me another beer?
How 'bout that?
Yeah, how 'bout that.
Hey.
What are you doing later?
Uh, sleeping probably.
Okay.
That's it?
That's how you ask a girl out?
Who said I was asking you out?
What's your deal?
I don't have a deal.
Everybody has a deal.
What do you want out of life?
Every day above ground's
a good day for me now.
Wow.
That's a sad way to see things.
All depends on where
you're looking, right?
[door closing]
Shit.
Hey, guys.
What can I get for you?
Where's Avi?
Uh, I'll, just a second.
[phone dialing]
[whispering]
Yeah, it's nice.
I think you need
to come down here.
[phone hanging up]
He'll be right down.
Can I get you something?
What's a nice girl like you
doing in a shithole like this?
Oh, I like this shithole.
Why, you got a better idea?
I could think of something.
[laughing]
Avi will be right up, so...
Gentlemen, to what
do I owe this honor?
[heavy slapping]
[yelling]
Why why why?
Avi, how many times do
we have to come down here?
This is ridiculous.
We can't do business this way.
You gotta give us more time.
Fuckin' time.
- I fucking...
- Wait wait, no no.
[heavy punching]
[glass smashing]
Jesus.
You need more
fucking time, huh?
[bat thudding]
[glass smashing]
[all yelling]
Everybody out the back.
Come on, out this way.
Drinks are on us, guys.
Out.
Dudu, Dudu.
You two, out now.
Yeah, but...
Out.
Avi.
[ominous atmospheric music]
Ahmed.
[Ahmed] The fuck
are you doing here?
I got a message for you.
A message?
From who?
Avi.
You're not welcome at
the fucking bar anymore.
You understand?
Fuck you.
The fuck out.
I could have you killed for
just fucking showing up here.
You do whatever
the fuck you want.
Avi says you can't
come to the bar,
so you can't come
to the fucking bar.
You understand me?
You're a dead man.
Oh, yeah?
We'll see.
You're fucking dead.
[spitting]
[intense orchestral music]
Fuck off my porch.
[knife clicking]
[knife stabbing]
[spitting]
[light classical music]
Have a cookie.
Yeah, boss.
Just don't say anything.
What happened?
I'm okay.
[Anatoly] What is that?
It was an ambush.
An ambush?
[Dimitry] Yeah.
[Anatoly] How many people?
- [Vlad] Six.
- Five.
[Anatoly] Where?
Avi's bar.
Did Avi know these guys?
We went to get the money.
Avi didn't have the money.
Things got out of control.
[Anatoly] What does that mean?
Vlad hit him.
What are you smacking people,
first of all, in public?
That's something that
you should know better
than to do, Vlad.
You go back there and
you get the money.
[Dimitry] Gonna get the money.
- [light smacking]
- [Anatoly] You should know better.
I'm sorry.
[Dimitry] I'm gonna fix this.
All right, go.
Come on.
[rock music]
[laughing]
The way you took
out those Russkies.
I mean, that was insane.
I thought you were gonna
kill them right there
in front of everybody.
I was just
protecting my family.
[laughing]
You're nuts, bro.
You know that?
Fucking nuts.
[laughing]
All right.
What do you know about cocaine?
Nothing.
Why?
Don't fucking lie to me.
I seen your little
side business.
What do you know about cocaine?
It's just a little bit
here, a little bit there.
That's all.
How much can you move?
Depends.
It depends on what?
It depends on, if it's
wholesale, if it's retail,
the quantity, the quality.
It depends.
Where you gonna get
all that blow anyways?
Don't worry about that?
Why don't you ask Ahmed?
Fuck Ahmed.
I know you don't
like him, all right?
I know he's an asshole,
but you gotta admit,
the guy is connected.
I mean, he knows the Italians,
the Russians, everybody.
Ahmed's not coming
around anymore.
- What do you mean?
- I had a talk with him.
I told him he can't
come to the bar anymore.
Yeah, and he's cool with that?
[sniffing]
Let's just say he
didn't have a choice.
[sighing]
Look, it's risky.
Risky?
Yeah.
Hey, hey.
Get your hands off me.
Where you going?
I got a lot of fucking coke.
I don't know what to do with it.
Make a lot of money.
Talkin' about serious money.
Let's get outta here.
[ominous atmospheric music]
[distant sirens wailing]
Psst.
[intense orchestral music]
- Hey.
- Where's your pussy nephew?
I don't know where Mikki is.
Wrong answer.
[heavy punching]
[grunting]
Enough, enough, enough.
Tell your friends, you're
only alive because I allow it.
My papa says the dead
don't pay their debts,
but I think death
sends a strong message.
But you,
I'm going to get you as
close to death as possible.
Let's go.
[spitting]
I'm gonna run into the house.
You just wait for
me out here, okay?
[Arik] Yeah.
Man, I'm cold.
Dudu?
Dudu, Dudu.
Hey, call an ambulance,
hey, call an ambulance.
Dudu, Dudu, Dudu.
Hello, I need an
ambulance right now.
Oh my god, Gale, Gale Gale.
[Mikki] I found him like this.
[Gale] Is that Dudu?
Yeah, I found him like this.
Guys, you gotta...
- Dudu, Dudu, Dudu.
- No, no, no.
- Okay, it's okay.
- Oh my god, Dudu.
- What did you do to him?
- [Mikki] I don't know.
You are full of shit.
[dramatic orchestral music]
You're poison, Mikki.
- You're poison.
- Hey, hey, hey.
[Gale] Get out of my house.
Get out of my house, Mikki.
Get out, Mikki.
- [Arik] It's okay.
- [Gale] What did you do?
- [Arik] It's okay.
- [Gale] What did you do?
It's gonna be okay.
I swear to god, Gale.
I didn't do anything.
I found him like this.
I swear to god, Gale.
Gale.
[crying]
Arik, come on.
Come on.
Arik, come on.
Fuck.
[crying]
Hey.
You okay?
Do you mind if Mikki crashes?
Arik, what's going on?
You're scaring me.
[Mikki] Dudu's hurt.
What, how?
We don't know.
Yeah, we do.
- No, we don't.
- Yes, we fucking do.
It was the fucking
Russians, all right?
They fucking did it.
Jesus Christ.
- It was all my fault.
- What?
No, it's not.
Yes, it is.
Don't say that.
I'm gonna get a drink.
Do you want something?
Yeah.
All right, this
should do the trick.
Here, drink that.
I should go.
Where you gonna go?
There's nothing you
can do right now.
Can I be honest with you?
What happened to Dudu is
terrible, it really was,
but he survived.
If they wanted him
dead, he'd be dead.
So?
So, perhaps instead
of sitting here,
feeling sorry for yourself,
you should have a plan.
I do have a fucking plan.
I'm gonna beat the
fuck out of them.
Oh, that's what your plan is?
You're gonna run over there
and beat up every
Russian that you see?
Mikki, someone needed to
stand up to those guys
for a long time.
You did it.
Maybe it's the wake-up
call that we all needed
to see that things need
to change around here.
Look what happened
to Dudu because of it.
To Dudu.
To Dudu.
[glasses clinking]
[dramatic atmospheric music]
Thank you.
For what?
For letting me stay here.
You can stay here
as long as you need.
I'm gonna go to sleep.
I'll see you in the morning.
All right.
[door closing]
[dishes banging]
Coffee?
Black?
[coffee pouring]
Did you not like the sofa bed?
I'm just used to
sleeping on the floor.
Gotcha.
It's probably hard for
you to understand, right?
No, no.
I get it.
[dramatic atmospheric music]
[groaning]
[distant sirens wailing]
Hey, hey, no, no, no.
Don't smoke in here.
So, what'd you do?
Huh?
What did you do
to get sent away?
Killed someone.
How old were you?
Who was it?
That's fine.
You don't have to say anything.
I'm sorry. I...
It's okay.
Some guy,
back home in my neighborhood.
Used to bother my dad,
take all his money.
One day I just shot him.
I would've done
the same thing.
I did 18 years in jail for it.
I would've done the same.
You sure I can't
smoke in here?
Absolutely not.
[hip hop music]
New York niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
New York niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
New York niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
Brooklyn niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
Queens niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
Shaolin niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
BX niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
Harlem niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
New York niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
But Brooklyn niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
I'm comin' straight
outta Brooklyn
The birthplace of B.I.G.
Where niggas
run with babylon
Ask to see ID
You couldn't hand
what my three eyes see
See, I be going
through my city
So a nigga good as CIP
See that posse
Practice in the hallways
and the parking lot
And there's great debaters
chillin' in barbershops
We don't do drills
We break down, nigga, if
there's mutual respect
We shoot the one
Everybody put
their guns, niggas
The model used
to be spread love
But it all changed
We lost the fans
Run the whole crook
Yet came back, hit
up the core game
You can hear our teeth
grinding when we eat
And this gold front
shinin' when we speak
Hey, Mikki.
I got these guys who wanna
pick up a lot of weight.
Okay, set it up.
Yeah, but, I was thinking
maybe I could handle
this one on my own.
Handle what?
You set up the meeting,
I make the deal.
Yeah, but come on, Mikki.
Let me just handle this one.
You wanna handle it?
[door knocking]
Yeah.
Get the door.
[Arik] Yo.
- Opa.
- One, two, three, four, five.
Okay.
Whoa, you weren't joking, huh?
I never joke.
Fuck.
Out back.
[speaking foreign language]
Bye.
Okay.
See you, man.
- Bye.
- Bye.
We done here?
Yeah.
All right, come here.
I'm gonna give you
one fucking shot.
Don't fuck this up.
Take this. Put it in your bag.
Thank you, Mikki.
The minute you have the
cash, you bring it to me,
to the house.
- Yeah.
- Understand?
I got it. I
won't let you down.
All right, get outta here.
Tell your sister
I'll call her later.
- [door opening and closing]
- [Arik] Yeah.
[Anatoly] You excited
about the wedding?
[light classical music]
[Man] As excited as I can be.
Good thing you're
getting married.
You gotta have some kids
some time in your life.
That's what my mother
keeps telling me.
Yeah.
Vlad, come.
I'm gonna be over there.
Yeah.
What's up?
You see that?
Ahmed.
He was a piece of shit anyway.
Probably messing around
with some monkeys.
I don't give a
shit about the man.
I care about my goods.
Someone's running around
with a million dollars
worth of our goods.
Now, we know the
police don't have it,
'cause if they did, it
would've made the papers.
Yeah.
Somebody's got it and they're
gonna wanna get rid of it
as fast as they can.
I need you to find out
who could've taken it.
I got it.
So, trace back
to where he was,
the people he knows
that you know.
Find it where it is
before they get rid of it.
Gonna do it right now, papa.
Take care of it right now, yeah?
I promise you.
[rock music]
[Arik] Hey, Mikki.
We're all here.
Hey, I see that.
Yeah, I just wanted
to let you know that...
All right, please,
coffee, black.
- Yeah, but, I mean...
- Yeah, yeah.
Come back.
Get me a coffee,
please, Arik, no sugar.
Mikki, here's your coffee.
Thanks.
Go back to the table.
Be there in a second.
[upbeat pop music]
Yeah, I know.
I just, I don't get it.
No, fuck him.
You guys are so so much better.
He's a fucking idiot.
[doorbell ring]
Yeah.
I told you that.
Hold on, I think
someone's at the door.
All right, yeah.
Let me call you back.
Okay, okay.
I'm coming, I'm coming.
Hi, can I help you guys?
Yeah, we're here
to see Mendel.
Oh yeah, yeah, he's upstairs.
Follow me.
I'll tape a video
Don't need a reason
It's just the
way that you talk
It's just the
way that you talk
Send it over
Tape recorder
I know the reason
Babe, your friends are here.
Yaki, hold on a second.
Avi, shalom.
Honey, take 'em over there
and get 'em a drink.
Do me a favor, okay?
Get 'em a drink.
What do you want to drink?
I'll have some coffee.
Coffee?
Water.
Yeah, yeah, Yaki,
hold on a second.
Okay, baby.
You're the best.
I love you.
All right, Yaki,
listen, I gotta go.
I have company.
I'm being rude.
Yaki, I gotta go.
Avi, shalom.
No, no, no, sit down.
Mendel, Mikkie,
Mikkie, Mendal.
[phone ringing]
Guys, I'm sorry.
Just a second, okay?
Just a second.
Moishe, I just talked to him.
No W9, no money.
Listen, I'm being
rude, I have company.
I gotta go, I gotta go, okay?
Guys, I'm sorry.
You know how some people are.
They're all about
business and money,
business and money.
It's a shame, huh?
There she is.
Hi, baby.
You're the best.
[Julie] Thank you.
Thank you.
Avi, we need to talk.
There's a lot of chatter
in the streets, Avi.
I can not have that
kind of activity.
And this whole thing with Ahmed,
it's just bad for business.
What thing?
You don't know about Ahmed?
[sniffing]
Honey, Julie, bring
the paper, please.
Thank you.
Just a second.
[speaking foreign language]
Thank you.
Ahmed's dead.
They found his body
floating in the East River.
I don't know
anything about it.
[Mendel] How did
you not have an idea?
There's a war
about to break out.
Which is why we're here.
Why are we here?
- Who is this?
- It's okay.
You can speak freely.
Oh, really, I
can speak freely?
Thank you for the permission.
But I will say this, for
two and a half years,
two and a half years, I
have busted my ass, Avi.
Where do you guys think
all this came from?
It came from heaven?
I did it like a mensch too.
I paid my dues, my protection,
but the Russians, Avi,
the Russians, they take and
they take and they take,
and all I do is the work.
[Avi] Look, we...
No, no, no, you look.
You know what?
Now they want close to 50%.
It's just not fair, fellas.
We know all too well, which
is why I brought Mikki here.
Him?
What are you gonna do?
Tell him what you're gonna do?
Very simple.
I'll take care of
the Russians for you.
Heh.
This string bean?
String bean, how
you gonna do that?
You feed 'em falafel
and ask 'em nicely?
Don't worry about
what I'm gonna do.
First of all, wanna talk about
this
fucking business you're doing.
What is this, gas?
How does he know?
You talked to him
about my business?
Let me tell you something,
string bean, okay?
I'd like to have a threesome
with my girl and her hot cousin,
but neither one's gonna happen,
so here we go.
You guys handle your
part of the bargain
and I'll handle mine.
Oh, English in America.
Yo, relax.
Mikki, Mikki, Mikki.
We're gonna handle
one thing at a time.
First, we're gonna
handle the Russians,
then we can talk
about business okay?
All right?
Okay, Mendel?
You know what?
You know, I'm not gonna get
handled in my own house.
Honey, Jules.
Where are you,
baby? Come, come, baby.
It's okay.
This is what I am gonna do.
I'm gonna go in the jacuzzi
and you know what
you two are gonna do?
You're gonna see yourself out.
Zay gezunt.
[laughing]
[dramatic orchestral music]
Man, this dude
better hurry up, man.
He think we got all day?
Trippin', boy.
Is that him right there?
He looks so scared.
[laughing]
[Man] Word.
What's up?
You tell me.
[pulsing electronic music]
Oh shit, white boy.
It look like we gonna have
to take that sack from you.
[gun cocking]
All right, whoa whoa.
Chill, nigga.
We just fucking with you, man.
We ain't crazy enough to fuck
with your boy Mikki like that.
That dude is crazy.
Word up.
Yeah, I knew you guys
were fucking with me.
Man, get that.
Tell your man,
Mikki, you saw us too.
You heard?
Pick that up.
All right?
Silly ass.
[laughing]
Yo, you look like you
peed on yourself, man.
[laughing]
All right.
You guys have a goodnight.
[light R&B music]
That was fucking delicious.
Yeah?
And the wine is amazing.
[laughing]
I know my booze.
Yes, you do.
[laughing]
Give me your plate.
Oh, well.
Cook never cleans, right?
Gentleman.
[moaning]
[laughing]
[screaming]
Hello, Esther?
Mikki?
How did it go?
Yeah, it's done.
[Mikki] Yeah?
Yeah.
Everything's in here?
Everything?
[Arik] Yeah.
[dramatic orchestral
electronic music]
Okay, I'll see
you in the morning.
My days are getting short
I can't believe it's over
Nights are getting long
Can't believe it's over
Time is moving fast
Can't believe it's over
My days are getting shorter
I can't believe it's over
The nights are getting long
I can't believe it's over
Time is moving fast
Can't believe it's over
I think back when
I was younger
Everything was kosher
Days were longer
My family was closer
But now my days are shorter
It's like I'm chasing time
'Cause everything's
around the dollar sign
I miss the days
of no trouble
But that innocence will
blow up in your face
Like a bubble
'Cause now it's full
throttle, full speed
Bigger ego, shorter
patience, and a bigger dream
[gun firing]
[screaming]
Desires need to be fulfilled
[gasping]
Your monetary gain is
just a solitary game
'Cause no one shares unless
there's interest to be claimed
[laughing]
As for me, an old
soul in modern babylon
I face the unknown, but
knowing where I'm coming from
I fight alone
Your lies, I'm getting over
Time is moving fast
I can't believe it's over
My days are getting shorter
I can't believe it's over
Nights are getting long
Can't believe it's over
Time is moving fast
Can't believe it's over
Fuck!
That's it.
They killed Victor last night.
[Dimitry] Sure?
[Man] What?
Yeah.
That's three.
[light classical music]
Dear, can I get a drink?
Time to start thinking
differently about this,
'cause something's wrong here.
Something's wrong.
We're being targeted.
[speaking foreign language]
Thank you.
Victor.
Victor.
[Man] To Victor.
[Vlad] Victor.
Victor.
Go to the bar.
Yeah?
Get some answers.
Why the bar?
These guys always
know something.
We're gonna take care of this.
We're gonna make
this right, yeah?
[Man] Yeah.
[speaking foreign language]
[Dimitry] Yeah?
To Victor.
- Yeah.
- To Victor.
[Man] Victor.
I swear to god, you should've
seen the look on his face.
He almost shit his pants.
[laughing]
Not exactly table
conversation, Avi.
I think it's
perfect for the table.
I'm sure you do.
Esther, no wine?
Oh, no.
I'm okay.
You okay, babe?
[Esther] Yeah.
[Mikki] You sure?
I need to use
the ladies' room.
Esther, care to join me?
Of course.
[Woman] Boys aren't
having fun without us?
I'm not feeling so well.
Can we go?
Yeah, of course.
Oh, no, no, no.
- I got it.
- I got it.
- I got it.
- No, no, no, I insist.
No, no, no, I insist.
It's my pleasure, please.
Thank you, Avi.
That's very nice of you.
You're very welcome.
[Esther] Mikki.
I'm coming.
It was nice seeing you.
Good seeing you too.
I'll call you tomorrow.
Yeah, sounds good.
Bye.
What's wrong with you?
Nothing.
I'm fine.
You don't seem fine.
Ow.
So, when did Avi
get that new car?
A few weeks ago.
Why?
Oh, it's a really
nice new car.
What's he doing that we're not?
You don't have enough?
No, we have enough.
That's not the point.
I don't get you
everything you need?
Jewelry, this fucking house?
The house is amazing.
The jewelry's amazing.
It's not about the money.
Then what is it about?
I'm pregnant.
What? What?
You're pregnant?
You're pregnant?
Yeah.
Oh my god.
When, what?
I, uh...
Why aren't you happy?
I am. I...
What's the matter?
What's the matter?
Avi.
They never made a dime
before you showed up.
Hey, you made them
what they are.
They were nothing without you.
You're not the help
and they treat you
like you're Avi's
guard dog or something.
If we're gonna do this,
if we're gonna bring a
child into the world,
everything's gonna be
different now, everything.
You know what I'm saying?
You know what you have to do.
I do.
Don't worry.
[Mendel] Avi.
Yeah?
[Mendel] Listen to me.
Are you handling the Russians?
Yeah.
You know they're
bleeding me dry.
You said...
I said we're gonna take
care of it, all right?
They're gonna be out
of the picture soon.
Relax.
It's fine.
You giving me shit right now?
[Mendel] No, but just,
it's enough with...
Oh, there he is, the man
of the hour, big macher.
Where you been?
Handling Russians with this guy?
Shut the fuck up.
Shut the fuck up.
I wanna know
everything right now.
What are you talking about?
I wanna know everything
about this fucking business.
How it works, how we make
money, everything now.
All right, Mendel's,
first of all,
is having problems
with the Russians.
I'll take care
of the Russians.
Don't worry about
the fucking Russians.
I wanna know everything now.
We already discussed this.
This doesn't concern you.
What concerns you
is handling Russians
and if you did that...
- [heavy smacking]
- [Mendel] Ah!
[Avi] Mikki,
Mikki, Mikki, Mikki.
[Mendel] Avi.
Mikki!
[gun firing]
Relax.
What's wrong with you?
Get the fuck up.
[Avi] Okay, relax.
You think I'm
fucking playing games?
Five fucking calls,
you don't call me back?
Who the fuck do you
think you're talking to?
Start talking, now.
What is this shit?
[Mendel] Avi.
Talk, now.
I wanna know everything,
how the fucking shit works.
[Mendel] Fine, okay, okay.
I'm listening.
It's called daisy
chaining, all right?
So, what happens is that
in the state of New York,
every gallon of gas
pumped at the pump
is charged nine cents.
That tax is not taken at
the pump or the gas station.
It's supposed to be
taken by a wholesaler
who distributes that gas
to those gas companies.
That's me.
The wholesaler's supposed
to charge a markup
and report that
revenue to the IRS,
but what I do, or what we do,
is we create a series
of shell companies
that buy and sell
gas back and forth,
and this way I dissolve
those companies.
I dissolve them, okay?
And this way there's no trace.
But the most important thing,
I keep all the tax revenue.
We keep all that tax revenue.
All right, and, 'cause
you guys gotta understand,
this is how we make money.
This is how we make
money, gentlemen, okay?
And if the Russians want
four out of the nine cents,
then they gotta go.
Something has to be done.
Okay?
What the fuck are
you talking about?
You don't get it?
I'm kidding.
Was that hard?
From now on, I want a
report every fucking week.
You understand?
Every week.
Arik, let's go.
Every time I call.
Avi, what the fuck?
His dad's a big time
dude, running Manhattan,
so he's like, he's sitting
on a huge stash of cash.
So, I say we go in
there and knock him off.
Sounds stupid.
Why is that stupid?
Who the fuck is gonna
rat out their own family?
[Arik] No, he hates his dad.
What is this fucking place?
[Chaim] Don't worry about it.
Come on.
[Mikki] You have it?
[Chaim] Of course, man.
Let me see it.
Show him, Asaf.
[Asaf] It's right here.
Bro.
[bag unzipping]
Check this shit out.
[Mikki] Okay,
it's the real deal?
Of course, man.
It's the best.
Asaf, my buddy.
He served five years in
[speaking foreign language]
Explosives specialist, man.
Okay, I don't like
innocent people dying.
You know that, right?
[Chaim] Yeah, of course.
Don't worry.
[Mikki] You said this has
a short blast radius, right?
Yeah, short and vertical.
When are we doing this?
Now.
Dimitry, I swear to you.
I had nothing to
do with any of it.
Why should I believe you?
'Cause I'm here.
My papa's not happy
and when he's not happy,
I'm not fucking happy.
I know.
And I want us to keep a
good relationship together.
See, that's why
I'm here with cash.
Looks to me like
you're guilty.
As promised.
Good.
Now, I need you to
help me find out
who's knocking off my guys.
That dirty fucking Israeli
with the baseball bat.
Is it, Avi?
You're talking about Mikki?
Mikki's a low-level ex-con.
Been in prison for 18 years.
He's too stupid to even
spell his own name.
Neither can Vlad.
I give you my
word it's not Mikki,
but I'll ask around.
I'll let you know.
If I find out
you're lying to me,
you're going to pray
to your true god
that I killed you here today.
Do you understand?
I understand.
[ominous atmospheric music]
What the fuck is
Avi doing there?
What the fuck is he doing?
There they are, there they are.
- Yeah.
- [Mikki] Get ready, get ready.
- [switch clicking]
- [Asaf] Okay, I'm ready.
Tell me when.
Do it now, do it now.
Now, now, now.
[button clicking]
I just left.
What the fuck are
you waiting for, now!
I don't know, something's
wrong with the detonator.
Fuck this shit.
[gun firing]
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
[heavy breathing]
[phone ringing]
Yeah?
[Vlad] Anatoly, it's Vlad.
Yeah.
[Vlad] Anatoly,
they killed Dimitry.
Huh, what?
[Vlad] I'm sorry to tell you.
They just came out of
nowhere and they just,
- he's dead.
- What?
- What?
- [Vlad] I don't know.
I was sitting right
next to him and just...
What?
[Vlad] They shot
him, he's dead.
No!
No!
Oh, god.
Fuck, fuck, fuck,
[upbeat dance music]
- [Chaim] Hey.
- [Woman] Hey.
[Woman] Stop
talking shit, okay?
Okay, okay, okay.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
[laughing]
Oh, you like that?
This is chaim.
Try to say chaim.
No, no.
Hey, Mikki.
Did you know Avi
was gonna be there?
No one cares about Avi.
Stop worrying about Avi, okay?
[Arik] I know, I just...
Enough, stop.
I think we should
do the diamond job.
Hey, I'm fucking
celebrating. Stop.
Have a fucking drink.
Relax.
Driving me fucking nuts.
[laughing]
Okay.
[sighing]
[scoffing]
[metal cups banging]
Oh, good morning sleepyhead.
[Mikki groaning]
What time did you get in?
I don't know.
Oh, I do.
It was um, five a.m., I believe.
[yawning]
You do remember, we're
having a child together?
Keyword being together.
Yeah.
Oh, I gotta have the
worst fucking headache.
Ah.
Ah.
Ah.
[scoffing]
My head is fucking killing me.
Mm-hmm.
I'm so sorry, baby.
I'm gonna take you to the
best fucking restaurant
in New York.
Anywhere you wanna go.
[refrigerator closing]
Really?
Mm-hmm.
I gotta shower.
I'm sorry, baby.
Oh, honey.
You smell.
The best fucking
restaurant in New York?
Anywhere you wanna go.
[Esther] Mmm.
[dramatic atmospheric music]
[phone ringing]
[Anatoly] Yeah.
[Avi] Mikki and Mendel
had Dimitry killed.
Mikki killed Ahmed
and took the coke.
I'm having them both
come to the bar tonight.
You keep them there.
You hear me?
You keep them there.
What's wrong with you?
Nothing.
Come on, tell me.
What's wrong with you?
I said nothing.
Your sister's pregnant.
You serious?
Really?
I'm gonna marry her.
Mikki, mazel tov.
You okay with that?
Yeah, of course, I am.
You know, that makes
us family, right?
Yeah, I do.
Family.
All right, see you later.
Hey, hold on one second.
The guy with the diamonds,
you trust this guy?
Yeah, I do.
And he says it's insured,
so nobody gets hurt.
Now, if you look at
it, we get the diamonds
and they get paid out by
the insurance company,
so it's a win-win.
How much diamonds
are we talking about?
Two million dollars worth.
Two million dollars?
[Arik] Yeah.
[text message alerting]
Let me think about that.
All right, get out.
I got a date with your sister.
Later, Mikki.
[Tony] Right this way, Mikki.
We have it all set
up beautiful for you.
Wow.
You look beautiful.
Oh, thank you.
Oh, thank you.
- [Mikki] You did a good job.
- Thank you.
If you need anything,
let me know, please.
I appreciate it.
Huh?
[laughing]
Tell you?
Evening, sir, ma'am.
Hey.
We have a fantastic meal
being prepared for you,
but in the meantime, can I get
you something from the bar?
Give me a bottle of
champagne, best one you have.
Fantastic.
I, water for me, please.
Sparkling, flat, tap?
Sparkling.
Thank you.
You like?
It's overwhelming.
What's wrong?
I, Mikki, I'm nervous.
About what?
I'm nervous about everything.
The baby, us.
You have nothing
to worry about.
You were right about everything.
You really were.
Yeah, go ahead.
I can't
- I can't.
- Look, we're celebrating.
Okay.
Enjoy.
- I'll put this there.
- Thank you so much.
[glass clinking]
Cheers.
Cheers.
You know I love
you very much, right?
I love you.
Mmm.
Mmm.
Tony, come here.
Do me a favor.
Don't let anybody in here.
- You got it.
- All right?
Keep it private.
Absolutely.
Thank you very much.
All right.
They just all do
whatever you say?
Yeah, yeah, a couple
hundred dollars,
they do whatever you want.
[laughing]
I love you.
Mmm.
[suspenseful orchestral music]
That steak was good, right?
[laughing]
It was amazing.
Thank you.
[car alarm beeping]
Ah.
Avi, what's going on?
What's so important that
I gotta see you in person?
He's outta control.
- Something's gotta be done.
- Done?
Whoa whoa whoa, what
do you mean done?
I don't know,
but we can't keep doing
business this way.
You set him on the path.
I mean, he's an attack dog.
You can't ask an attack
dog to attack one person,
not the other.
They attack, that's
what they do.
What if we're next?
Probably are.
From a business standpoint,
you just gotta change.
I'll handle it.
You better or we're done.
I'll make a call.
Do that, pal.
[tires screeching]
Yeah.
[gun firing]
Go, go, go.
Mendel's dead.
Ahmed, dead.
Look what happened Dudu.
And I know I'm next.
And guess what?
He's probably
gonna kill you too.
He killed Ahmed?
Of course he did.
I paid him to go talk to Ahmed,
to stay away from the bar.
But Mikki goes over
there, kills him,
and takes all his coke.
That's where he got
all the coke from.
Yeah, and you know who
that coke belongs to, right?
The Russians.
And they know he took it and
they're gonna come after him
and then they're gonna
come after your sister.
Do you understand that?
And you wanna protect
Esther, right?
Don't you?
Mikki's gotta go.
He doesn't give a
shit about Esther.
You know that.
He's been fucking around
with all these other women.
You know that.
We all know that.
He's gonna get her killed.
Who took you guys after your
parents passed away, huh?
I did, right?
Gave you everything?
Roof over your head,
jobs, everything.
What's he done for you?
We've all gotten
rich off this deal.
What'd you get?
What's he given you?
Nothing.
Arik.
Arik, look
at me, look at me.
You trust me, huh?
Tell me you trust me.
I trust you.
We have no other choice.
[door banging]
[hanger dropping]
[door banging]
[Mikki] Who is it?
[Arik] Arik.
What's going on?
Arik, what's going on?
I shouldn't have done this.
I shouldn't have done this,
because now they're dead.
Everybody is dead.
Everybody is dead, everybody.
Calm down, relax.
What are you talking about?
Relax?
You want me to fucking relax?
You want me to fucking
relax when everything
is falling apart right now?
Arik, what's going on?
[door opening]
Hey, is everything okay?
Yeah, it's fine, it's fine.
- Go back to bed.
- Yeah.
Arik, what happened?
Yeah, everything's fine.
I'm just talking to Mikki.
We're good.
Go back to bed.
[sighing]
What's going on?
Let's do the diamond job.
Okay, we are
doing the diamond...
No, we gotta do it now,
'cause I just spoke to my guy
and he said they're moving
the diamonds in the morning
and if we don't do it now,
then the safe will be empty.
And the Russians, they're
gonna come after us.
- And Mendel, he's dead.
- What?
Mendel's dead?
What happened to Mendel?
They got him, okay?
And they're probably
gonna get me.
Okay, calm down. Arik.
[Arik] Please.
Arik, it's two o'clock
in the fucking morning.
I don't wanna die, Mikki.
Die? No one's dying.
What are you talking about?
I don't want my
sister to die. She's pregnant.
Arik, are you fucking nuts?
No one's dying.
I got this.
You think I'm gonna let anybody
fucking do anything to you?
You fucking nuts?
Please, Mikki.
Relax.
Calm the fuck down, okay?
[door opening]
What is going on?
Nothing, nothing.
All right, you
wanna do it tonight?
- You wanna do it tonight?
- Yes.
All right, we'll
do it tonight.
Okay.
Calm down.
[Esther] What's going on?
Nothing.
All right, relax.
I'll be right back.
I gotta get dressed.
[Esther] What
are you gonna do?
- Where are you going?
- [Mikki] Nothing.
I gotta go with your
brother for a little bit.
I have a really bad
feeling about this.
- I don't...
- It's fine, it's fine.
Don't worry about it.
Give me a minute.
Go in the room.
[suspenseful orchestral music]
[gun cocking]
Got this, yeah?
Got this, yeah?
[Mikki] Arik, 3:24.
You come back at 3:44.
You understand me?
20 minutes.
Stop the car.
Open the trunk.
20 minutes.
[welding torch burning]
[metal dropping]
[sighing]
[suspenseful orchestral
music rising]
[gun firing]
[dramatic orchestral music]
[Dudu] Mikki, so
what's your plan?
I figure change of
place, change of luck.
You remind me of
my sister, your mom.
But let me tell you something.
There's no such thing as luck.
Trust me, I know
better than anybody.
[dramatic orchestral music]
[rock music]
[singing in foreign language]
[dice rattling]
[dice dropping]
[laughing]
[alarm buzzing]
[all screaming]
[fence banging]
[singing in foreign language]
[keys jangling]
[low thudding]
[dramatic orchestral music]
[gavel banging]
[spectators murmuring]
Hello.
Next stop Flatbush,
looking for a kilo
Cruel world Cuban
Like that, right back to it
They tried what I did,
but couldn't do it
Thinking it would
be different
But didn't nail any digits
We buyin' the jerseys
We payin' the pitchers
Everybody get in this
Like we takin' the picture
If a nigga pose,
muzzle flash
Take it with ya
I put that boy in his
bag with the zipper
Ah, freed him,
they can't beat him
See, if they can't read,
they can't read him
And I'm so high
I can't see them
So high, haters
lookin' at me with side
Here, keep the change.
[Driver] Thanks a lot, man.
Looks like we're
ditching again
Looks like we're
ditching again
Walk out and say Brooklyn
[light ambient music]
[door knocking]
Mikki?
Hi, Gale.
Mikki.
Hi, Dudu.
It's our Mikki.
So, when did you get in?
Mikki, who taught you English?
- No, no. Who taught you English?
- Yeah.
Isn't that lady
taught you English.
I'm sorry, Gale.
Yeah, I remember.
I just got in.
I was trying to figure out.
When was the last time
you were in this house?
Wow.
Um, I used to come
from eight to 12.
Now, I'm 37, so, 25 years ago.
Oh my god.
Little scrappy kid you were.
- [Mikki laughing]
- Always in trouble.
Where are you going?
You wanna eat, don't ya?
Italian women are very
much like Moroccans, spicy.
[laughing]
Mikki, I hope you
still love pasta.
And the food, can't beat it.
I love your pasta, Gale.
Thank you.
Get ready to dig in.
Thank you.
So, did you have a chance to
speak to your mom before...
No.
I didn't have access to a
phone right when it happened.
She was always so
worried about you.
[throat clearing]
So, what's your plan?
I figured change of
place, change of luck.
[laughing]
You remind me of
my sister, your mom.
But let me tell you something.
There's no such thing as luck.
Trust me, I know
better than anybody.
I'll figure something out.
So, you have a
place to stay, Mikki?
Not yet.
I'll figure something out.
Don't be silly.
You're staying with us.
Could I talk to you
for a second, Dudu?
- Talk.
- No.
In the kitchen.
What's wrong with me?
Why would you ask
him to stay here?
He's not our responsibility.
[Dudu] He is family.
[Gale] Okay, I understand
that, but why can't he stay...
[muffled talking]
[clock ticking]
[laughing]
[glasses clinking]
[dramatic orchestral music]
No, jet lag.
[door knocking]
Mikki.
Mikki?
[laughing]
Mikki.
Mikki.
Mikki.
[gasping]
Ah.
[upbeat pop music]
[horn honking]
Dudu, you look great.
You lost weight since
I last seen you?
I saw you yesterday.
I know.
What's your secret?
Who's this?
You replacing me right now?
My nephew, Mikki.
Hey Arik.
Hi.
Nice to meet you.
All right, next
stop, Disneyland.
[Dudu] Yes, sir.
[singing in foreign language]
[Arik] These guys, man,
they've been here for years
and they still look like
they're fresh off the boat.
All right, time for work.
[door closing]
Okay, Arik.
Give Mikki a hand.
Load these up.
[laughing]
Mikki?
Mikki fucking Levy.
Mikki.
[rock music]
Hey, Esther.
What, are you guys
multiplying or something?
[Dudu] Avi around?
Yeah, I think so.
How 'bout you check?
How 'bout you ask nicely?
Please.
[phone ringing]
Yeah.
[Esther] Dudu's here.
I'll be right out.
I'm gonna be right back.
Yeah.
Usual?
Please.
Drinks?
Make that two.
Avi.
That's my sister.
She's um...
[Ahmed] What's up, babe?
Mmm, honey.
Honey.
I'm at work.
Jesus.
- Want a drink?
- Yeah.
Okay, let's do that.
There you go.
Babe, one cube.
Oh, sorry.
That's my girl.
[Esther laughing]
Hi.
Hey, Ahmed.
I was, uh, hoping to run into
you.
Don't give me that bullshit.
How we doin' so far?
[Arik] Yeah, we great.
Great like?
Not enough.
Not enough.
I'm trying.
Try harder.
Push that shit.
You should be in here
every day, dispensing.
I know, but you know Avi.
He doesn't like this
shit around here.
I don't give a
shit what Avi likes.
You know that?
What the fuck are
you looking at?
Yeah, you.
Hey, relax, man.
Arik, who the
fuck is this guy?
Hey, he's just a friend.
It's okay.
Oh, he's just a friend.
I don't like the way your
friend is fucking looking at me.
What do you want?
What the fuck's your problem?
You.
- [Dudu] Hey.
- [Avi] Ahmed.
Whoa whoa whoa.
Avi, why do you keep making
us come down to this shithole?
You trying to convert
us or something?
I'm sorry about that, Dimitry.
It's um, we just had a
little bit of a problem,
but everything's fine now.
[Dimitry] Yeah.
You guys wanna sit
down, have a drink...
No, I'm not here for drinks.
I'm here to collect
my father's money.
Oh, oh yeah, no, of course.
Yeah, no, I have it right here.
Um, just give me a minute, okay?
Ahmed.
What the fuck is with this guy?
I'm not sure.
You want me to go find out?
Sit down.
Somebody was hungry
[exhaling deeply]
Yep.
That was absolutely delicious.
Oh my god.
[clapping]
Thank you.
You ate so fast you gave me
agita just looking at you.
[laughing]
What's agita?
Tell him what agita is.
Mmmhmm, stress.
[laughing]
Well, I'm sorry,
but that was delicious.
I take it as a compliment.
Haven't had food that
good in a long time.
All right, let's...
No, no, no.
No, no, please please
please, I got it,
I got it, I got it.
Please, let me.
The chef should never clean.
Ah.
Let me.
Thank you.
I told you.
He's not so bad.
And you were right, as usual.
[rock music]
Avi, what the fuck
do you want from me?
I work for 'em.
I gotta do what they say.
It's just that they're
squeezing us so fucking hard,
we're gonna be out of business.
Business.
You know what fucking happens
when you do business with them.
It's the price you pay.
I did hear your business in
the back's doing pretty well.
Assalamu alaikum.
Esther, the fuck out of here.
Yeah, just gotta close up.
Hurry the fuck up.
We gotta go. Come
on, I'll be in the fucking car.
[Esther] Drink your drink. I
gotta wash the fucking glass.
Esther, give me another one.
[Arik] Hey, thanks.
[Ahmed] Where you going, babe?
I'm tired.
Long day, early
morning tomorrow.
Yeah, I fucking waited
for you to get off.
You know that?
I didn't know that.
I thought you were working.
[Ahmed] Arik, get
the fuck outta here.
- [Esther] I'm tired.
- [Ahmed] No.
[Esther] Wait,
what are you doing?
What are you doing?
Stop it.
[Ahmed] What the
fuck are you doing?
[Esther] What the
fuck? I'm getting out.
[Ahmed] Esther,
what the fuck is your problem?
[Esther] I want
to go home. That's my fault?
[tires screeching]
[Arik] Hey, are you okay?
[dramatic orchestral music]
[rock music]
On the house.
[laughing]
Look at you, you're drooling.
[laughing]
Don't worry, it's okay.
You're not the first.
Yeah, she has that
effect on men.
If you wanna ask her out.
I don't know, be my guest.
So,
how are you adjusting?
It's okay?
[Esther] You miss home?
No.
You like Brooklyn that much?
It's better than where I was.
How long?
How long what?
How long were
you locked up for?
[laughing]
Oh, come on.
I'm around ex-cons all day.
It's obvious.
Is it?
It is.
And I get the sense
you did some real time.
Am I right?
Why don't you get
me another beer?
How 'bout that?
Yeah, how 'bout that.
Hey.
What are you doing later?
Uh, sleeping probably.
Okay.
That's it?
That's how you ask a girl out?
Who said I was asking you out?
What's your deal?
I don't have a deal.
Everybody has a deal.
What do you want out of life?
Every day above ground's
a good day for me now.
Wow.
That's a sad way to see things.
All depends on where
you're looking, right?
[door closing]
Shit.
Hey, guys.
What can I get for you?
Where's Avi?
Uh, I'll, just a second.
[phone dialing]
[whispering]
Yeah, it's nice.
I think you need
to come down here.
[phone hanging up]
He'll be right down.
Can I get you something?
What's a nice girl like you
doing in a shithole like this?
Oh, I like this shithole.
Why, you got a better idea?
I could think of something.
[laughing]
Avi will be right up, so...
Gentlemen, to what
do I owe this honor?
[heavy slapping]
[yelling]
Why why why?
Avi, how many times do
we have to come down here?
This is ridiculous.
We can't do business this way.
You gotta give us more time.
Fuckin' time.
- I fucking...
- Wait wait, no no.
[heavy punching]
[glass smashing]
Jesus.
You need more
fucking time, huh?
[bat thudding]
[glass smashing]
[all yelling]
Everybody out the back.
Come on, out this way.
Drinks are on us, guys.
Out.
Dudu, Dudu.
You two, out now.
Yeah, but...
Out.
Avi.
[ominous atmospheric music]
Ahmed.
[Ahmed] The fuck
are you doing here?
I got a message for you.
A message?
From who?
Avi.
You're not welcome at
the fucking bar anymore.
You understand?
Fuck you.
The fuck out.
I could have you killed for
just fucking showing up here.
You do whatever
the fuck you want.
Avi says you can't
come to the bar,
so you can't come
to the fucking bar.
You understand me?
You're a dead man.
Oh, yeah?
We'll see.
You're fucking dead.
[spitting]
[intense orchestral music]
Fuck off my porch.
[knife clicking]
[knife stabbing]
[spitting]
[light classical music]
Have a cookie.
Yeah, boss.
Just don't say anything.
What happened?
I'm okay.
[Anatoly] What is that?
It was an ambush.
An ambush?
[Dimitry] Yeah.
[Anatoly] How many people?
- [Vlad] Six.
- Five.
[Anatoly] Where?
Avi's bar.
Did Avi know these guys?
We went to get the money.
Avi didn't have the money.
Things got out of control.
[Anatoly] What does that mean?
Vlad hit him.
What are you smacking people,
first of all, in public?
That's something that
you should know better
than to do, Vlad.
You go back there and
you get the money.
[Dimitry] Gonna get the money.
- [light smacking]
- [Anatoly] You should know better.
I'm sorry.
[Dimitry] I'm gonna fix this.
All right, go.
Come on.
[rock music]
[laughing]
The way you took
out those Russkies.
I mean, that was insane.
I thought you were gonna
kill them right there
in front of everybody.
I was just
protecting my family.
[laughing]
You're nuts, bro.
You know that?
Fucking nuts.
[laughing]
All right.
What do you know about cocaine?
Nothing.
Why?
Don't fucking lie to me.
I seen your little
side business.
What do you know about cocaine?
It's just a little bit
here, a little bit there.
That's all.
How much can you move?
Depends.
It depends on what?
It depends on, if it's
wholesale, if it's retail,
the quantity, the quality.
It depends.
Where you gonna get
all that blow anyways?
Don't worry about that?
Why don't you ask Ahmed?
Fuck Ahmed.
I know you don't
like him, all right?
I know he's an asshole,
but you gotta admit,
the guy is connected.
I mean, he knows the Italians,
the Russians, everybody.
Ahmed's not coming
around anymore.
- What do you mean?
- I had a talk with him.
I told him he can't
come to the bar anymore.
Yeah, and he's cool with that?
[sniffing]
Let's just say he
didn't have a choice.
[sighing]
Look, it's risky.
Risky?
Yeah.
Hey, hey.
Get your hands off me.
Where you going?
I got a lot of fucking coke.
I don't know what to do with it.
Make a lot of money.
Talkin' about serious money.
Let's get outta here.
[ominous atmospheric music]
[distant sirens wailing]
Psst.
[intense orchestral music]
- Hey.
- Where's your pussy nephew?
I don't know where Mikki is.
Wrong answer.
[heavy punching]
[grunting]
Enough, enough, enough.
Tell your friends, you're
only alive because I allow it.
My papa says the dead
don't pay their debts,
but I think death
sends a strong message.
But you,
I'm going to get you as
close to death as possible.
Let's go.
[spitting]
I'm gonna run into the house.
You just wait for
me out here, okay?
[Arik] Yeah.
Man, I'm cold.
Dudu?
Dudu, Dudu.
Hey, call an ambulance,
hey, call an ambulance.
Dudu, Dudu, Dudu.
Hello, I need an
ambulance right now.
Oh my god, Gale, Gale Gale.
[Mikki] I found him like this.
[Gale] Is that Dudu?
Yeah, I found him like this.
Guys, you gotta...
- Dudu, Dudu, Dudu.
- No, no, no.
- Okay, it's okay.
- Oh my god, Dudu.
- What did you do to him?
- [Mikki] I don't know.
You are full of shit.
[dramatic orchestral music]
You're poison, Mikki.
- You're poison.
- Hey, hey, hey.
[Gale] Get out of my house.
Get out of my house, Mikki.
Get out, Mikki.
- [Arik] It's okay.
- [Gale] What did you do?
- [Arik] It's okay.
- [Gale] What did you do?
It's gonna be okay.
I swear to god, Gale.
I didn't do anything.
I found him like this.
I swear to god, Gale.
Gale.
[crying]
Arik, come on.
Come on.
Arik, come on.
Fuck.
[crying]
Hey.
You okay?
Do you mind if Mikki crashes?
Arik, what's going on?
You're scaring me.
[Mikki] Dudu's hurt.
What, how?
We don't know.
Yeah, we do.
- No, we don't.
- Yes, we fucking do.
It was the fucking
Russians, all right?
They fucking did it.
Jesus Christ.
- It was all my fault.
- What?
No, it's not.
Yes, it is.
Don't say that.
I'm gonna get a drink.
Do you want something?
Yeah.
All right, this
should do the trick.
Here, drink that.
I should go.
Where you gonna go?
There's nothing you
can do right now.
Can I be honest with you?
What happened to Dudu is
terrible, it really was,
but he survived.
If they wanted him
dead, he'd be dead.
So?
So, perhaps instead
of sitting here,
feeling sorry for yourself,
you should have a plan.
I do have a fucking plan.
I'm gonna beat the
fuck out of them.
Oh, that's what your plan is?
You're gonna run over there
and beat up every
Russian that you see?
Mikki, someone needed to
stand up to those guys
for a long time.
You did it.
Maybe it's the wake-up
call that we all needed
to see that things need
to change around here.
Look what happened
to Dudu because of it.
To Dudu.
To Dudu.
[glasses clinking]
[dramatic atmospheric music]
Thank you.
For what?
For letting me stay here.
You can stay here
as long as you need.
I'm gonna go to sleep.
I'll see you in the morning.
All right.
[door closing]
[dishes banging]
Coffee?
Black?
[coffee pouring]
Did you not like the sofa bed?
I'm just used to
sleeping on the floor.
Gotcha.
It's probably hard for
you to understand, right?
No, no.
I get it.
[dramatic atmospheric music]
[groaning]
[distant sirens wailing]
Hey, hey, no, no, no.
Don't smoke in here.
So, what'd you do?
Huh?
What did you do
to get sent away?
Killed someone.
How old were you?
Who was it?
That's fine.
You don't have to say anything.
I'm sorry. I...
It's okay.
Some guy,
back home in my neighborhood.
Used to bother my dad,
take all his money.
One day I just shot him.
I would've done
the same thing.
I did 18 years in jail for it.
I would've done the same.
You sure I can't
smoke in here?
Absolutely not.
[hip hop music]
New York niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
New York niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
New York niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
Brooklyn niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
Queens niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
Shaolin niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
BX niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
Harlem niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
New York niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
But Brooklyn niggas ain't
nothing to fuck with
I'm comin' straight
outta Brooklyn
The birthplace of B.I.G.
Where niggas
run with babylon
Ask to see ID
You couldn't hand
what my three eyes see
See, I be going
through my city
So a nigga good as CIP
See that posse
Practice in the hallways
and the parking lot
And there's great debaters
chillin' in barbershops
We don't do drills
We break down, nigga, if
there's mutual respect
We shoot the one
Everybody put
their guns, niggas
The model used
to be spread love
But it all changed
We lost the fans
Run the whole crook
Yet came back, hit
up the core game
You can hear our teeth
grinding when we eat
And this gold front
shinin' when we speak
Hey, Mikki.
I got these guys who wanna
pick up a lot of weight.
Okay, set it up.
Yeah, but, I was thinking
maybe I could handle
this one on my own.
Handle what?
You set up the meeting,
I make the deal.
Yeah, but come on, Mikki.
Let me just handle this one.
You wanna handle it?
[door knocking]
Yeah.
Get the door.
[Arik] Yo.
- Opa.
- One, two, three, four, five.
Okay.
Whoa, you weren't joking, huh?
I never joke.
Fuck.
Out back.
[speaking foreign language]
Bye.
Okay.
See you, man.
- Bye.
- Bye.
We done here?
Yeah.
All right, come here.
I'm gonna give you
one fucking shot.
Don't fuck this up.
Take this. Put it in your bag.
Thank you, Mikki.
The minute you have the
cash, you bring it to me,
to the house.
- Yeah.
- Understand?
I got it. I
won't let you down.
All right, get outta here.
Tell your sister
I'll call her later.
- [door opening and closing]
- [Arik] Yeah.
[Anatoly] You excited
about the wedding?
[light classical music]
[Man] As excited as I can be.
Good thing you're
getting married.
You gotta have some kids
some time in your life.
That's what my mother
keeps telling me.
Yeah.
Vlad, come.
I'm gonna be over there.
Yeah.
What's up?
You see that?
Ahmed.
He was a piece of shit anyway.
Probably messing around
with some monkeys.
I don't give a
shit about the man.
I care about my goods.
Someone's running around
with a million dollars
worth of our goods.
Now, we know the
police don't have it,
'cause if they did, it
would've made the papers.
Yeah.
Somebody's got it and they're
gonna wanna get rid of it
as fast as they can.
I need you to find out
who could've taken it.
I got it.
So, trace back
to where he was,
the people he knows
that you know.
Find it where it is
before they get rid of it.
Gonna do it right now, papa.
Take care of it right now, yeah?
I promise you.
[rock music]
[Arik] Hey, Mikki.
We're all here.
Hey, I see that.
Yeah, I just wanted
to let you know that...
All right, please,
coffee, black.
- Yeah, but, I mean...
- Yeah, yeah.
Come back.
Get me a coffee,
please, Arik, no sugar.
Mikki, here's your coffee.
Thanks.
Go back to the table.
Be there in a second.
[upbeat pop music]
Yeah, I know.
I just, I don't get it.
No, fuck him.
You guys are so so much better.
He's a fucking idiot.
[doorbell ring]
Yeah.
I told you that.
Hold on, I think
someone's at the door.
All right, yeah.
Let me call you back.
Okay, okay.
I'm coming, I'm coming.
Hi, can I help you guys?
Yeah, we're here
to see Mendel.
Oh yeah, yeah, he's upstairs.
Follow me.
I'll tape a video
Don't need a reason
It's just the
way that you talk
It's just the
way that you talk
Send it over
Tape recorder
I know the reason
Babe, your friends are here.
Yaki, hold on a second.
Avi, shalom.
Honey, take 'em over there
and get 'em a drink.
Do me a favor, okay?
Get 'em a drink.
What do you want to drink?
I'll have some coffee.
Coffee?
Water.
Yeah, yeah, Yaki,
hold on a second.
Okay, baby.
You're the best.
I love you.
All right, Yaki,
listen, I gotta go.
I have company.
I'm being rude.
Yaki, I gotta go.
Avi, shalom.
No, no, no, sit down.
Mendel, Mikkie,
Mikkie, Mendal.
[phone ringing]
Guys, I'm sorry.
Just a second, okay?
Just a second.
Moishe, I just talked to him.
No W9, no money.
Listen, I'm being
rude, I have company.
I gotta go, I gotta go, okay?
Guys, I'm sorry.
You know how some people are.
They're all about
business and money,
business and money.
It's a shame, huh?
There she is.
Hi, baby.
You're the best.
[Julie] Thank you.
Thank you.
Avi, we need to talk.
There's a lot of chatter
in the streets, Avi.
I can not have that
kind of activity.
And this whole thing with Ahmed,
it's just bad for business.
What thing?
You don't know about Ahmed?
[sniffing]
Honey, Julie, bring
the paper, please.
Thank you.
Just a second.
[speaking foreign language]
Thank you.
Ahmed's dead.
They found his body
floating in the East River.
I don't know
anything about it.
[Mendel] How did
you not have an idea?
There's a war
about to break out.
Which is why we're here.
Why are we here?
- Who is this?
- It's okay.
You can speak freely.
Oh, really, I
can speak freely?
Thank you for the permission.
But I will say this, for
two and a half years,
two and a half years, I
have busted my ass, Avi.
Where do you guys think
all this came from?
It came from heaven?
I did it like a mensch too.
I paid my dues, my protection,
but the Russians, Avi,
the Russians, they take and
they take and they take,
and all I do is the work.
[Avi] Look, we...
No, no, no, you look.
You know what?
Now they want close to 50%.
It's just not fair, fellas.
We know all too well, which
is why I brought Mikki here.
Him?
What are you gonna do?
Tell him what you're gonna do?
Very simple.
I'll take care of
the Russians for you.
Heh.
This string bean?
String bean, how
you gonna do that?
You feed 'em falafel
and ask 'em nicely?
Don't worry about
what I'm gonna do.
First of all, wanna talk about
this
fucking business you're doing.
What is this, gas?
How does he know?
You talked to him
about my business?
Let me tell you something,
string bean, okay?
I'd like to have a threesome
with my girl and her hot cousin,
but neither one's gonna happen,
so here we go.
You guys handle your
part of the bargain
and I'll handle mine.
Oh, English in America.
Yo, relax.
Mikki, Mikki, Mikki.
We're gonna handle
one thing at a time.
First, we're gonna
handle the Russians,
then we can talk
about business okay?
All right?
Okay, Mendel?
You know what?
You know, I'm not gonna get
handled in my own house.
Honey, Jules.
Where are you,
baby? Come, come, baby.
It's okay.
This is what I am gonna do.
I'm gonna go in the jacuzzi
and you know what
you two are gonna do?
You're gonna see yourself out.
Zay gezunt.
[laughing]
[dramatic orchestral music]
Man, this dude
better hurry up, man.
He think we got all day?
Trippin', boy.
Is that him right there?
He looks so scared.
[laughing]
[Man] Word.
What's up?
You tell me.
[pulsing electronic music]
Oh shit, white boy.
It look like we gonna have
to take that sack from you.
[gun cocking]
All right, whoa whoa.
Chill, nigga.
We just fucking with you, man.
We ain't crazy enough to fuck
with your boy Mikki like that.
That dude is crazy.
Word up.
Yeah, I knew you guys
were fucking with me.
Man, get that.
Tell your man,
Mikki, you saw us too.
You heard?
Pick that up.
All right?
Silly ass.
[laughing]
Yo, you look like you
peed on yourself, man.
[laughing]
All right.
You guys have a goodnight.
[light R&B music]
That was fucking delicious.
Yeah?
And the wine is amazing.
[laughing]
I know my booze.
Yes, you do.
[laughing]
Give me your plate.
Oh, well.
Cook never cleans, right?
Gentleman.
[moaning]
[laughing]
[screaming]
Hello, Esther?
Mikki?
How did it go?
Yeah, it's done.
[Mikki] Yeah?
Yeah.
Everything's in here?
Everything?
[Arik] Yeah.
[dramatic orchestral
electronic music]
Okay, I'll see
you in the morning.
My days are getting short
I can't believe it's over
Nights are getting long
Can't believe it's over
Time is moving fast
Can't believe it's over
My days are getting shorter
I can't believe it's over
The nights are getting long
I can't believe it's over
Time is moving fast
Can't believe it's over
I think back when
I was younger
Everything was kosher
Days were longer
My family was closer
But now my days are shorter
It's like I'm chasing time
'Cause everything's
around the dollar sign
I miss the days
of no trouble
But that innocence will
blow up in your face
Like a bubble
'Cause now it's full
throttle, full speed
Bigger ego, shorter
patience, and a bigger dream
[gun firing]
[screaming]
Desires need to be fulfilled
[gasping]
Your monetary gain is
just a solitary game
'Cause no one shares unless
there's interest to be claimed
[laughing]
As for me, an old
soul in modern babylon
I face the unknown, but
knowing where I'm coming from
I fight alone
Your lies, I'm getting over
Time is moving fast
I can't believe it's over
My days are getting shorter
I can't believe it's over
Nights are getting long
Can't believe it's over
Time is moving fast
Can't believe it's over
Fuck!
That's it.
They killed Victor last night.
[Dimitry] Sure?
[Man] What?
Yeah.
That's three.
[light classical music]
Dear, can I get a drink?
Time to start thinking
differently about this,
'cause something's wrong here.
Something's wrong.
We're being targeted.
[speaking foreign language]
Thank you.
Victor.
Victor.
[Man] To Victor.
[Vlad] Victor.
Victor.
Go to the bar.
Yeah?
Get some answers.
Why the bar?
These guys always
know something.
We're gonna take care of this.
We're gonna make
this right, yeah?
[Man] Yeah.
[speaking foreign language]
[Dimitry] Yeah?
To Victor.
- Yeah.
- To Victor.
[Man] Victor.
I swear to god, you should've
seen the look on his face.
He almost shit his pants.
[laughing]
Not exactly table
conversation, Avi.
I think it's
perfect for the table.
I'm sure you do.
Esther, no wine?
Oh, no.
I'm okay.
You okay, babe?
[Esther] Yeah.
[Mikki] You sure?
I need to use
the ladies' room.
Esther, care to join me?
Of course.
[Woman] Boys aren't
having fun without us?
I'm not feeling so well.
Can we go?
Yeah, of course.
Oh, no, no, no.
- I got it.
- I got it.
- I got it.
- No, no, no, I insist.
No, no, no, I insist.
It's my pleasure, please.
Thank you, Avi.
That's very nice of you.
You're very welcome.
[Esther] Mikki.
I'm coming.
It was nice seeing you.
Good seeing you too.
I'll call you tomorrow.
Yeah, sounds good.
Bye.
What's wrong with you?
Nothing.
I'm fine.
You don't seem fine.
Ow.
So, when did Avi
get that new car?
A few weeks ago.
Why?
Oh, it's a really
nice new car.
What's he doing that we're not?
You don't have enough?
No, we have enough.
That's not the point.
I don't get you
everything you need?
Jewelry, this fucking house?
The house is amazing.
The jewelry's amazing.
It's not about the money.
Then what is it about?
I'm pregnant.
What? What?
You're pregnant?
You're pregnant?
Yeah.
Oh my god.
When, what?
I, uh...
Why aren't you happy?
I am. I...
What's the matter?
What's the matter?
Avi.
They never made a dime
before you showed up.
Hey, you made them
what they are.
They were nothing without you.
You're not the help
and they treat you
like you're Avi's
guard dog or something.
If we're gonna do this,
if we're gonna bring a
child into the world,
everything's gonna be
different now, everything.
You know what I'm saying?
You know what you have to do.
I do.
Don't worry.
[Mendel] Avi.
Yeah?
[Mendel] Listen to me.
Are you handling the Russians?
Yeah.
You know they're
bleeding me dry.
You said...
I said we're gonna take
care of it, all right?
They're gonna be out
of the picture soon.
Relax.
It's fine.
You giving me shit right now?
[Mendel] No, but just,
it's enough with...
Oh, there he is, the man
of the hour, big macher.
Where you been?
Handling Russians with this guy?
Shut the fuck up.
Shut the fuck up.
I wanna know
everything right now.
What are you talking about?
I wanna know everything
about this fucking business.
How it works, how we make
money, everything now.
All right, Mendel's,
first of all,
is having problems
with the Russians.
I'll take care
of the Russians.
Don't worry about
the fucking Russians.
I wanna know everything now.
We already discussed this.
This doesn't concern you.
What concerns you
is handling Russians
and if you did that...
- [heavy smacking]
- [Mendel] Ah!
[Avi] Mikki,
Mikki, Mikki, Mikki.
[Mendel] Avi.
Mikki!
[gun firing]
Relax.
What's wrong with you?
Get the fuck up.
[Avi] Okay, relax.
You think I'm
fucking playing games?
Five fucking calls,
you don't call me back?
Who the fuck do you
think you're talking to?
Start talking, now.
What is this shit?
[Mendel] Avi.
Talk, now.
I wanna know everything,
how the fucking shit works.
[Mendel] Fine, okay, okay.
I'm listening.
It's called daisy
chaining, all right?
So, what happens is that
in the state of New York,
every gallon of gas
pumped at the pump
is charged nine cents.
That tax is not taken at
the pump or the gas station.
It's supposed to be
taken by a wholesaler
who distributes that gas
to those gas companies.
That's me.
The wholesaler's supposed
to charge a markup
and report that
revenue to the IRS,
but what I do, or what we do,
is we create a series
of shell companies
that buy and sell
gas back and forth,
and this way I dissolve
those companies.
I dissolve them, okay?
And this way there's no trace.
But the most important thing,
I keep all the tax revenue.
We keep all that tax revenue.
All right, and, 'cause
you guys gotta understand,
this is how we make money.
This is how we make
money, gentlemen, okay?
And if the Russians want
four out of the nine cents,
then they gotta go.
Something has to be done.
Okay?
What the fuck are
you talking about?
You don't get it?
I'm kidding.
Was that hard?
From now on, I want a
report every fucking week.
You understand?
Every week.
Arik, let's go.
Every time I call.
Avi, what the fuck?
His dad's a big time
dude, running Manhattan,
so he's like, he's sitting
on a huge stash of cash.
So, I say we go in
there and knock him off.
Sounds stupid.
Why is that stupid?
Who the fuck is gonna
rat out their own family?
[Arik] No, he hates his dad.
What is this fucking place?
[Chaim] Don't worry about it.
Come on.
[Mikki] You have it?
[Chaim] Of course, man.
Let me see it.
Show him, Asaf.
[Asaf] It's right here.
Bro.
[bag unzipping]
Check this shit out.
[Mikki] Okay,
it's the real deal?
Of course, man.
It's the best.
Asaf, my buddy.
He served five years in
[speaking foreign language]
Explosives specialist, man.
Okay, I don't like
innocent people dying.
You know that, right?
[Chaim] Yeah, of course.
Don't worry.
[Mikki] You said this has
a short blast radius, right?
Yeah, short and vertical.
When are we doing this?
Now.
Dimitry, I swear to you.
I had nothing to
do with any of it.
Why should I believe you?
'Cause I'm here.
My papa's not happy
and when he's not happy,
I'm not fucking happy.
I know.
And I want us to keep a
good relationship together.
See, that's why
I'm here with cash.
Looks to me like
you're guilty.
As promised.
Good.
Now, I need you to
help me find out
who's knocking off my guys.
That dirty fucking Israeli
with the baseball bat.
Is it, Avi?
You're talking about Mikki?
Mikki's a low-level ex-con.
Been in prison for 18 years.
He's too stupid to even
spell his own name.
Neither can Vlad.
I give you my
word it's not Mikki,
but I'll ask around.
I'll let you know.
If I find out
you're lying to me,
you're going to pray
to your true god
that I killed you here today.
Do you understand?
I understand.
[ominous atmospheric music]
What the fuck is
Avi doing there?
What the fuck is he doing?
There they are, there they are.
- Yeah.
- [Mikki] Get ready, get ready.
- [switch clicking]
- [Asaf] Okay, I'm ready.
Tell me when.
Do it now, do it now.
Now, now, now.
[button clicking]
I just left.
What the fuck are
you waiting for, now!
I don't know, something's
wrong with the detonator.
Fuck this shit.
[gun firing]
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
[heavy breathing]
[phone ringing]
Yeah?
[Vlad] Anatoly, it's Vlad.
Yeah.
[Vlad] Anatoly,
they killed Dimitry.
Huh, what?
[Vlad] I'm sorry to tell you.
They just came out of
nowhere and they just,
- he's dead.
- What?
- What?
- [Vlad] I don't know.
I was sitting right
next to him and just...
What?
[Vlad] They shot
him, he's dead.
No!
No!
Oh, god.
Fuck, fuck, fuck,
[upbeat dance music]
- [Chaim] Hey.
- [Woman] Hey.
[Woman] Stop
talking shit, okay?
Okay, okay, okay.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
[laughing]
Oh, you like that?
This is chaim.
Try to say chaim.
No, no.
Hey, Mikki.
Did you know Avi
was gonna be there?
No one cares about Avi.
Stop worrying about Avi, okay?
[Arik] I know, I just...
Enough, stop.
I think we should
do the diamond job.
Hey, I'm fucking
celebrating. Stop.
Have a fucking drink.
Relax.
Driving me fucking nuts.
[laughing]
Okay.
[sighing]
[scoffing]
[metal cups banging]
Oh, good morning sleepyhead.
[Mikki groaning]
What time did you get in?
I don't know.
Oh, I do.
It was um, five a.m., I believe.
[yawning]
You do remember, we're
having a child together?
Keyword being together.
Yeah.
Oh, I gotta have the
worst fucking headache.
Ah.
Ah.
Ah.
[scoffing]
My head is fucking killing me.
Mm-hmm.
I'm so sorry, baby.
I'm gonna take you to the
best fucking restaurant
in New York.
Anywhere you wanna go.
[refrigerator closing]
Really?
Mm-hmm.
I gotta shower.
I'm sorry, baby.
Oh, honey.
You smell.
The best fucking
restaurant in New York?
Anywhere you wanna go.
[Esther] Mmm.
[dramatic atmospheric music]
[phone ringing]
[Anatoly] Yeah.
[Avi] Mikki and Mendel
had Dimitry killed.
Mikki killed Ahmed
and took the coke.
I'm having them both
come to the bar tonight.
You keep them there.
You hear me?
You keep them there.
What's wrong with you?
Nothing.
Come on, tell me.
What's wrong with you?
I said nothing.
Your sister's pregnant.
You serious?
Really?
I'm gonna marry her.
Mikki, mazel tov.
You okay with that?
Yeah, of course, I am.
You know, that makes
us family, right?
Yeah, I do.
Family.
All right, see you later.
Hey, hold on one second.
The guy with the diamonds,
you trust this guy?
Yeah, I do.
And he says it's insured,
so nobody gets hurt.
Now, if you look at
it, we get the diamonds
and they get paid out by
the insurance company,
so it's a win-win.
How much diamonds
are we talking about?
Two million dollars worth.
Two million dollars?
[Arik] Yeah.
[text message alerting]
Let me think about that.
All right, get out.
I got a date with your sister.
Later, Mikki.
[Tony] Right this way, Mikki.
We have it all set
up beautiful for you.
Wow.
You look beautiful.
Oh, thank you.
Oh, thank you.
- [Mikki] You did a good job.
- Thank you.
If you need anything,
let me know, please.
I appreciate it.
Huh?
[laughing]
Tell you?
Evening, sir, ma'am.
Hey.
We have a fantastic meal
being prepared for you,
but in the meantime, can I get
you something from the bar?
Give me a bottle of
champagne, best one you have.
Fantastic.
I, water for me, please.
Sparkling, flat, tap?
Sparkling.
Thank you.
You like?
It's overwhelming.
What's wrong?
I, Mikki, I'm nervous.
About what?
I'm nervous about everything.
The baby, us.
You have nothing
to worry about.
You were right about everything.
You really were.
Yeah, go ahead.
I can't
- I can't.
- Look, we're celebrating.
Okay.
Enjoy.
- I'll put this there.
- Thank you so much.
[glass clinking]
Cheers.
Cheers.
You know I love
you very much, right?
I love you.
Mmm.
Mmm.
Tony, come here.
Do me a favor.
Don't let anybody in here.
- You got it.
- All right?
Keep it private.
Absolutely.
Thank you very much.
All right.
They just all do
whatever you say?
Yeah, yeah, a couple
hundred dollars,
they do whatever you want.
[laughing]
I love you.
Mmm.
[suspenseful orchestral music]
That steak was good, right?
[laughing]
It was amazing.
Thank you.
[car alarm beeping]
Ah.
Avi, what's going on?
What's so important that
I gotta see you in person?
He's outta control.
- Something's gotta be done.
- Done?
Whoa whoa whoa, what
do you mean done?
I don't know,
but we can't keep doing
business this way.
You set him on the path.
I mean, he's an attack dog.
You can't ask an attack
dog to attack one person,
not the other.
They attack, that's
what they do.
What if we're next?
Probably are.
From a business standpoint,
you just gotta change.
I'll handle it.
You better or we're done.
I'll make a call.
Do that, pal.
[tires screeching]
Yeah.
[gun firing]
Go, go, go.
Mendel's dead.
Ahmed, dead.
Look what happened Dudu.
And I know I'm next.
And guess what?
He's probably
gonna kill you too.
He killed Ahmed?
Of course he did.
I paid him to go talk to Ahmed,
to stay away from the bar.
But Mikki goes over
there, kills him,
and takes all his coke.
That's where he got
all the coke from.
Yeah, and you know who
that coke belongs to, right?
The Russians.
And they know he took it and
they're gonna come after him
and then they're gonna
come after your sister.
Do you understand that?
And you wanna protect
Esther, right?
Don't you?
Mikki's gotta go.
He doesn't give a
shit about Esther.
You know that.
He's been fucking around
with all these other women.
You know that.
We all know that.
He's gonna get her killed.
Who took you guys after your
parents passed away, huh?
I did, right?
Gave you everything?
Roof over your head,
jobs, everything.
What's he done for you?
We've all gotten
rich off this deal.
What'd you get?
What's he given you?
Nothing.
Arik.
Arik, look
at me, look at me.
You trust me, huh?
Tell me you trust me.
I trust you.
We have no other choice.
[door banging]
[hanger dropping]
[door banging]
[Mikki] Who is it?
[Arik] Arik.
What's going on?
Arik, what's going on?
I shouldn't have done this.
I shouldn't have done this,
because now they're dead.
Everybody is dead.
Everybody is dead, everybody.
Calm down, relax.
What are you talking about?
Relax?
You want me to fucking relax?
You want me to fucking
relax when everything
is falling apart right now?
Arik, what's going on?
[door opening]
Hey, is everything okay?
Yeah, it's fine, it's fine.
- Go back to bed.
- Yeah.
Arik, what happened?
Yeah, everything's fine.
I'm just talking to Mikki.
We're good.
Go back to bed.
[sighing]
What's going on?
Let's do the diamond job.
Okay, we are
doing the diamond...
No, we gotta do it now,
'cause I just spoke to my guy
and he said they're moving
the diamonds in the morning
and if we don't do it now,
then the safe will be empty.
And the Russians, they're
gonna come after us.
- And Mendel, he's dead.
- What?
Mendel's dead?
What happened to Mendel?
They got him, okay?
And they're probably
gonna get me.
Okay, calm down. Arik.
[Arik] Please.
Arik, it's two o'clock
in the fucking morning.
I don't wanna die, Mikki.
Die? No one's dying.
What are you talking about?
I don't want my
sister to die. She's pregnant.
Arik, are you fucking nuts?
No one's dying.
I got this.
You think I'm gonna let anybody
fucking do anything to you?
You fucking nuts?
Please, Mikki.
Relax.
Calm the fuck down, okay?
[door opening]
What is going on?
Nothing, nothing.
All right, you
wanna do it tonight?
- You wanna do it tonight?
- Yes.
All right, we'll
do it tonight.
Okay.
Calm down.
[Esther] What's going on?
Nothing.
All right, relax.
I'll be right back.
I gotta get dressed.
[Esther] What
are you gonna do?
- Where are you going?
- [Mikki] Nothing.
I gotta go with your
brother for a little bit.
I have a really bad
feeling about this.
- I don't...
- It's fine, it's fine.
Don't worry about it.
Give me a minute.
Go in the room.
[suspenseful orchestral music]
[gun cocking]
Got this, yeah?
Got this, yeah?
[Mikki] Arik, 3:24.
You come back at 3:44.
You understand me?
20 minutes.
Stop the car.
Open the trunk.
20 minutes.
[welding torch burning]
[metal dropping]
[sighing]
[suspenseful orchestral
music rising]
[gun firing]
[dramatic orchestral music]
[Dudu] Mikki, so
what's your plan?
I figure change of
place, change of luck.
You remind me of
my sister, your mom.
But let me tell you something.
There's no such thing as luck.
Trust me, I know
better than anybody.
[dramatic orchestral music]