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Shooting a Man in the Back(side) 🍑 - MAFIA - Part 3 · Replay Reviews

• 0:00
  You know, we're pretty busy lately and I didn't do an out of context summary so I think we should just pull it out of our butts right now.
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  So.
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  Okay.
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  In this episode,
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  Karlo takes one to the butt.
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  Dang it! You stole mine! I was gonna do something about the butt!
• 0:16
  When you're about to...
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  Serve your mom for dinner.
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  That's when you put it out.
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  What's for dinner?
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  My mother!
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  Insert audio.
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  What's on the menu today?
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  My mother.
• 0:33
  Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews. My name is Leah.
• 0:36
  And my name is Cathy.
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  We are two friends who are here to replay, review, and analyze your favorite video games.
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  And since Cathy has never seen the games before, it helps me view them through her fresh eyes.
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  Almost like I'm discovering them again for the first time.
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  We hope it'll be a similar experience for you.
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  Well after that, are you ready to jump into scene one?
• 1:02
  Let's do it.
• 1:03
  Alright, so this is when Tommy meets with Salieri, who reveals that there is a mole.
• 1:09
  Which we kind of suspected in the last episode after the whole Canadian whiskey issue.
• 1:16
  And it sounds like Frank might be the mole because he's gone.
• 1:20
  And so are the account books.
• 1:22
  They briefly mentioned that I thought that Frank would betray them.
• 1:25
  Or not that betraying Salieri, but talk with the feds or somehow help Tommy to help with the feds.
• 1:31
  I'm not surprised because Frank wanted to keep everyone straight.
• 1:36
  But I'm also curious what motives he has because it's not like Salieri is treating him terribly.
• 1:42
  Let's dive into the motives.
• 1:44
  My first point is Salieri says he wonders if Frank is still smarting over the dog.
• 1:50
  And Tommy responds that when he tried to drown.
• 1:53
  And Salieri says, yeah, the same one I shot after he wouldn't let me sink her.
• 1:58
  So he killed the dog that we know Frank loved.
• 2:01
  But building off of this before we bring it back around to Frank.
• 2:04
  In the last episode when Tommy is searching for Sam at the farm.
• 2:09
  He comes across a dead dog and he says, what kind of guy shoots a dog?
• 2:14
  And now he's finding out that the dawn has shot a dog.
• 2:18
  So what do you think his feelings toward the dawn are now?
• 2:23
  He's starting to see the dawn and a new light, which we'll talk some more about that.
• 2:28
  But to see Tommy's own values is starting to not quite align with the values that the dawn has.
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  We'll see how Tommy starts to treat other people and we'll see some more how the dawn treats other people when they're pushed to their edges of their Christ's management skills.
• 2:49
  Mm hmm.
• 2:50
  I agree.
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  And I think it's interesting because generally in this type of story development, it's more of like a slow losing respect for, you know, for your leader, your mentor.
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  But in this case, it's pretty black and white.
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  He just said what kind of person shoots a dog and then learns this.
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  Like he can't deny that.
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  He can't pretend like he didn't know that.
• 3:14
  Before we do get deeper into Frank's motives, there was another thing mentioned in last episode when Polly tosses Tommy a shotgun and says, just in case Frank was right.
• 3:27
  Do you think that Frank knew about the whole what was going to happen at the the whiskey meet and that's why he wanted them to have firepower with them?
• 3:37
  Or was it just a feeling he had?
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  How far back does his betrayal go?
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  Do you think?
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  I think it's pretty shallow because it's not out of character for Frank to make sure that they're armed and that they're protected.
• 3:53
  For that reason, I don't think he's that far back into betraying them quite yet.
• 3:59
  I would agree.
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  And I think we need to go through the rest of the Frank story in this before we really get to the deeper conversation.
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  So Salieri sends Tommy to track down Frank in the books, and it's pretty clear like he wants Frank dead.
• 4:14
  Right.
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  That feels obvious.
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  And while tracking him down, Tommy is informed that counselor Gulotti has brokered a deal between Morello and the FBI.
• 4:24
  So this informant also told Frank about this and Frank never told anyone.
• 4:28
  So there is a little bit of history, but it also sounds like this was a recent thing.
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  And then Tommy does find Frank and tails him to the airport where he finally confronts him.
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  And he tells Tommy that Morello finally came for me and gave him a choice.
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  The dawn's account books for our lives and tickets out of this town.
• 4:50
  That seems like an easy choice, right?
• 4:52
  Like you can't really blame him.
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  It's either like I'm dead, my family's dead, or we're not.
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  I don't blame him at all.
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  And it's also realized he kept the books safe until the last minute.
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  Like he still has the key.
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  Thankfully, Tommy came in and shot all of Morello's men, so they don't even get the account books.
• 5:10
  And so I personally don't think Frank did this to betray anybody.
• 5:14
  It's just what he said that he is just tired of it.
• 5:18
  I actually thought that Frank probably had no intention of giving over the books to him.
• 5:23
  And he's loyal up until the point where he needs to be loyal to Seema that it's not going to affect him.
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  So I totally get that.
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  I don't fault him for that.
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  I also feel like because they're so similar in terms of like the morals,
• 5:38
  this is Frank's departure in this game as if faking his death is somehow going to run parallel.
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  And it's somehow going to foreshadow the way Tommy's journey is because we know that he ends up
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  betraying the Salieri and whereas with the FBI, Tommy lets Frank go.
• 5:56
  He lets him survive and fix his death and everything.
• 5:59
  I feel like that's going to be really good karma for when Tommy needs his way out
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  and somehow going to betray Salieri.
• 6:08
  Yeah, I think you're right.
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  I think seeing this and hearing what Frank tells him sort of flips a switch if he's like,
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  oh my gosh, I'm looking at myself and my wife and my child and you know, who knows how many years.
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  And I think that's why he folds and lets Frank leave.
• 6:24
  While we're watching all of this go down, we do hear a voiceover of Tommy talking to the detective
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  and he says, I got the books and covered my tracks.
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  Salieri never asked any questions.
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  In fact, apart from the funeral, I never heard him talk about Frank again.
• 6:39
  Do you think he knows or or I guess what do you think the cover story is?
• 6:43
  Because there's graves for all three of them, right?
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  Frank, his wife and his daughter.
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  So what's the story?
• 6:51
  I don't know.
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  I don't understand how they can bury a fake body and everything with that.
• 6:57
  The dawn checking like because it's two bullets to the head just to make sure.
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  And like you can't really pull it out unless you start like a warehouse fire
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  and then all their bodies burned up and you found like body doubles.
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  But how's Tommy going to pull that off?
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  So that's where I'm really confused.
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  Maybe with the help of Sarah's dad because he might know more people and maybe find some bodies.
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  I just don't know how you can pull it off without the don being suspicious and then killing you.
• 7:22
  Yeah, I don't know how they did this.
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  He's got to smell something, I think, unless he's just so mad.
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  He doesn't want to look at his face like there's my dad.
• 7:30
  Then it would have to be something written in.
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  There would have to be a written reason that we see in this game for me to think that he
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  doesn't know something's up.
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  And then also at the funeral, Morello shows up to pay his respects, I guess.
• 7:43
  We get some more hints that he and Sally are you have a pretty deep history.
• 7:46
  I don't know if you had any comments on that whole moment.
• 7:50
  It almost sounds like they between Frank and the two dons,
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  I have a feeling that they might have all grouped together under a different don.
• 8:00
  That they formed their own little group of boys.
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  And at some point, something they had a falling out and then...
• 8:07
  Why'd you have to say it like that?
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  Why?
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  Their own little group of boys.
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  What do you mean?
• 8:15
  They formed their own little group of boys.
• 8:17
  Oh, like they're in kindergarten.
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  Putting together a kickball team.
• 8:24
  Well, the way they're acting, they're no different than a bunch of main childs.
• 8:28
  It's true.
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  It's true.
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  Children.
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  They're just more on the line though.
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  But anyways, I think they used to grow up together.
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  They were under a different don as a part of a mafia.
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  And then something happened that are falling out.
• 8:42
  And that's very similar to a Romeo Juliet without the violence.
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  Or the romance.
• 8:49
  Oh, yeah, sorry.
• 8:50
  Not without the violence, without the romance, but with the violence.
• 8:54
  I got that mixed up.
• 8:55
  Yeah, I think we've gotten some information up to this point that for sure the two dons were
• 9:02
  in the mafia together.
• 9:03
  I don't know what we know about Frank's backstory.
• 9:07
  I don't recall really anything specific, but yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.
• 9:12
  All right, so Tommy is sent to clean up another mess.
• 9:14
  Salieri tells him that Morello let it out that Salieri's family is responsible for Billy's death.
• 9:20
  That's the son of the counselor, Galati.
• 9:22
  The counselor is good friends with a prosecutor, that's not good, named Watkin, who has been building a strong case against them.
• 9:29
  And he tasked Tommy with breaking into the home of the prosecutor and stealing all the evidence.
• 9:36
  How is Salieri getting all this news?
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  Like, how does he know all this?
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  That's where I'm confused.
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  Does he have ends with some people?
• 9:43
  And if he does, why can't he ask those people to take care of things for him?
• 9:48
  Right.
• 9:48
  It sounds like they have some informants, but I don't know.
• 9:52
  They probably don't want to get their hands very dirty, but my main question is because Salieri says don't kill him.
• 9:59
  We don't want him dead.
• 10:01
  But if you just steal the evidence, like what kind of physical evidence is there?
• 10:06
  What are you stealing besides documents that he probably has copies of?
• 10:10
  I don't feel like stealing evidence is going to solve the problem for them, especially when he's being paid to prosecute them.
• 10:17
  And I feel like in the mafia, this is a weird argument to make,
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  but I feel like you would kill him as an example to be like,
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  no one else better take your place and do this because this is what happens when you go against us.
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  So I'm confused based off of Salieri and how he handles things like let's kill Frank,
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  but let's just steal evidence from this guy.
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  Something's not connecting for me.
• 10:40
  The only reason why they would choose to not kill him is to kidnap him and force him to say that they made me make this fake evidence,
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  but it's not like he's ordering them to take them.
• 10:54
  He's just ordering to take evidence.
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  So I'm also confused about why that is.
• 11:00
  Right.
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  And there's extra heat behind this because obviously they killed this counselor's son.
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  So it kind of seems to me like maybe if we take the counselor out of the picture.
• 11:10
  This is if I'm Salieri, I'm killing the counselor, right?
• 11:14
  Let's just stop it because he's been going against Salieri trying to take him down for a while.
• 11:20
  Why not just cut the head off a snake?
• 11:24
  That's what I don't understand based off of what we know about Salieri and his willingness to kill people and dogs.
• 11:29
  It seems like that would be the prime candidate for murder.
• 11:32
  So the break-in goes okay until Tommy jumps the gun grabbing stuff out of the safe and sets off an alarm.
• 11:41
  Completely just ruins the whole point of this other guy being there.
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  What was his name?
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  I did not write down his name.
• 11:45
  Salvatore.
• 11:46
  Salvatore, yeah.
• 11:47
  But the guy was pretty cute with his happy optimism and his language barrier.
• 11:52
  He was.
• 11:53
  He also really grinded my gears.
• 11:57
  He frustrated me about opening the safe how I'm like okay you guys are on time crunch.
• 12:02
  Also his expertise is just putting his ear up to the dial and listening.
• 12:07
  Anyone can do that.
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  So yeah I don't know.
• 12:10
  I felt like that character was completely unnecessary.
• 12:14
  Salieri then sends Sam and Polly to silence a witness who is going to testify against them.
• 12:21
  And we don't see this but he just tells Tommy that he's going to testify against them.
• 12:24
  And we don't see this but he just tells Tommy this.
• 12:27
  And this is where I'm confused because again we're killing somebody.
• 12:32
  Why are we killing the witness?
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  Or did I interpret that wrong and they're not being killed?
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  How did you interpret that?
• 12:37
  I thought they just killed him.
• 12:40
  I feel like they're killing the wrong people.
• 12:41
  Right that's what I'm saying.
• 12:44
  I'm thinking back when it talks about like sentencing the witness.
• 12:47
  They told them to kill the the gal that was sleeping with Sam right?
• 12:51
  Yeah.
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  And so if that's how casual you are with handing out people's death warrants or whatever.
• 12:59
  Then I don't understand the evidence part.
• 13:02
  Why wouldn't you just kill more people?
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  And here's where my questions began.
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  I have in my notes here.
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  Do you think he sends Sam and Polly to do the silencing?
• 13:13
  Because he does know about Michelle and Frank.
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  And so he doesn't trust Tommy to kill people that need to be killed.
• 13:20
  That's like part one part two.
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  Is that why he doesn't have him kill the counselor?
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  Because he's just trying to control Tommy right now essentially.
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  Because we will also later learn that he inserted himself into his marriage to control him too.
• 13:37
  So do you think his trust in Tommy is going downhill but he realizes kind of like what Frank said that he needs him.
• 13:43
  And so he's just sort of corralling him in a way.
• 13:47
  I don't think so.
• 13:48
  I don't think so. I don't think his trust in Tommy's being diminished.
• 13:53
  Because we see him later needing to rely on Tommy in a way.
• 13:59
  Well maybe he is suspicious.
• 14:01
  Is it trust or is he testing him maybe?
• 14:05
  I think he's testing him as he would with Sam and Polly.
• 14:10
  I think it just rotates around like who's doing what job.
• 14:13
  So I didn't really think much about that.
• 14:15
  Okay so I guess my main question then.
• 14:20
  Because it seems like after Frank Tommy sort of becomes the new like right hand man in a way.
• 14:26
  But there also feels to be some I don't know if distrust is the right word.
• 14:32
  But disapproval at least.
• 14:34
  Because if and this is an if if he knows about Michelle and Frank he wouldn't trust him to kill people anymore right?
• 14:42
  And then inserting himself into his marriage like that was to correct behavior that he didn't like either.
• 14:51
  So I get confused on their relationship because it seems like they're pretty much top two from what we see.
• 14:59
  But the Don is like I don't like what's happening with you.
• 15:04
  It seems very controlling and maybe that is an indication of his relationship with Frank too.
• 15:09
  I don't know.
• 15:09
  I don't know what I'm saying.
• 15:14
  Moving on.
• 15:16
  Polly has lead on a new business deal.
• 15:19
  So it turns out that a distiller has been working with Morello.
• 15:23
  But Morello rubbed one of their guys his name is Gates the wrong way.
• 15:28
  Polly and Gates worked out a deal where they will switch to Salieri.
• 15:32
  But it needs to look like a robbery essentially.
• 15:35
  So that Morello doesn't figure out that he's being ditched.
• 15:38
  They head to meet Gates and things go pretty well until Morello's crew show up.
• 15:44
  So how do you think they found out about this?
• 15:47
  I think they had really great informants from Gates' side.
• 15:51
  I don't think Gates betrayed them but maybe his people did.
• 15:55
  Or maybe Morello just has people watching Gates.
• 16:01
  When we're having that little team huddle between Polly just sharing his ideas,
• 16:07
  Sam's calling him out about him being in a whorehouse.
• 16:10
  And then Polly's like, it's gentlemen's lounge.
• 16:13
  They have a bar and everything.
• 16:16
  It's mattresses on the floor.
• 16:19
  Makes me wish that Tommy had taken him to the blue tropics after that race.
• 16:22
  Because now I need to know what is it?
• 16:25
  Is it a closet or is it an actual club?
• 16:29
  So obviously there's some trouble.
• 16:31
  There's a shootout.
• 16:31
  But the boys are able to eventually get the alcohol back to the warehouse.
• 16:35
  And the partnership is a go.
• 16:37
  What else is there to say besides this is fueling the war between Salieri and Morello?
• 16:44
  Alright, anything else?
• 16:45
  Or our last and final scene?
• 16:48
  Let's do our last and final scene.
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  We're back to the detective.
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  The family bounced back after the end of Prohibition.
• 16:56
  Which Tommy kind of mentions completely just made the last deal not matter.
• 17:02
  Because who cares about alcohol if it's legal?
• 17:05
  He says that they were doing everything, even legal stuff, except for pedal and dope.
• 17:10
  Tommy also mentions that at this point he's married and they have a daughter.
• 17:14
  Anything so far?
• 17:15
  Should I keep going?
• 17:16
  Keep going.
• 17:18
  So we were a little bit confused in this scene, in this conversation, because they
• 17:22
  talk really fast about things that we don't know about.
• 17:25
  From what I've gathered, it sounds like Salieri was working on getting judges in his pocket.
• 17:30
  So it looks like we are trying to put a permanent bandaid on this counselor prosecutor situation.
• 17:37
  And the detective makes Tommy realize that Morello must have found out about this.
• 17:41
  And I think that's the piece that we were missing.
• 17:44
  Because he says in 35 he hit us with both barrels.
• 17:48
  So I think we're seeing this feud heat up because Morello is realizing, oh no, the amount
• 17:53
  of people I have in my pocket is by comparison starting to dwindle compared to Salieri.
• 17:58
  I think that that is going to blend into something else that we're missing half of the conversation.
• 18:04
  Or because it's just a conversation so far out in the future that the events haven't happened yet,
• 18:09
  that we don't really know what's going on.
• 18:11
  So maybe we'll get some more idea later.
• 18:13
  But for now, it's just question marks over here.
• 18:18
  Okay, so now we're going to lunch.
• 18:21
  Salieri and Tommy go to an Italian restaurant.
• 18:25
  Big surprise.
• 18:26
  An Italian restaurant, big surprise.
• 18:28
  During which Tommy is surprised to find out that Salieri told Sarah to threaten to leave him
• 18:34
  if he did not stop drinking.
• 18:37
  And this is where I, if I were Tommy, would have big issues.
• 18:43
  We'd have big problems at this point.
• 18:45
  This is another red flag.
• 18:46
  So so far, just kind of tallying up the red flags, we have Tommy seeing Salieri kill the dog.
• 18:54
  We have Tommy seeing Salieri order to kill Frank, his best friend for decades.
• 19:00
  And we have Salieri telling Sarah to leave him and just going all the way around.
• 19:08
  Instead of directly telling him that, saying like, hey, you need to stop drinking alcohol.
• 19:13
  But that's also starting to, in my opinion, show Tommy that, hey, he's not as great as he is.
• 19:19
  And maybe you need to start questioning your loyalty to him.
• 19:22
  Right.
• 19:23
  And how does it not make you question everything?
• 19:26
  Like, how does it not make you question anything that Sarah says to you,
• 19:30
  that her dad says to you, that Sam or Polly says to you?
• 19:34
  I feel like because obviously this lunch is interrupted by a shootout.
• 19:38
  And so I don't think Tommy has enough time to really process what he was just told.
• 19:43
  But we do know that they still stick together in the end, though,
• 19:47
  based on what he's telling with the detective.
• 19:50
  Who's they?
• 19:51
  Between Sarah and Tommy?
• 19:53
  Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm not arguing that.
• 19:55
  They're questioning that. I'm questioning how does he know what she's telling him?
• 20:01
  Is her speaking or Salieri speaking?
• 20:04
  And same goes for anyone that he interacts with.
• 20:07
  He doesn't.
• 20:08
  Exactly.
• 20:09
  That's why he leaves.
• 20:10
  Yeah.
• 20:11
  Or he wants to leave.
• 20:13
  I feel like a line was for sure crossed here.
• 20:18
  Anyway, moving on to the shootout.
• 20:19
  Obviously, it's Morello. They shoot everyone.
• 20:25
  But look, OK, you kept saying poor Pepe.
• 20:28
  And yeah, I agree.
• 20:29
  But what about that the bartender?
• 20:32
  Oh, yeah.
• 20:32
  I mean, we very clearly heard Tommy say get down.
• 20:35
  I don't know what part of get down you don't understand.
• 20:39
  He just stood there and took bullets.
• 20:43
  And he saw everything happening with the front row view from the windows.
• 20:48
  And and you know, he was prepared.
• 20:51
  He had a gun behind the bar.
• 20:53
  I couldn't. I just couldn't.
• 20:55
  In my opinion, might have deserved those bullets a little bit because he didn't.
• 21:00
  He didn't try very hard to get out of the way.
• 21:06
  Moving on, the two of them are able to make it out of the restaurant.
• 21:09
  It appears they may be the lone survivors, but Salieri realizes that his driver, Carlo,
• 21:15
  set him up and his quote is, son of a bitch knew where I was going today and he calls in sick,
• 21:21
  which I didn't know you could do that in the mafia.
• 21:24
  So they do pay Carlo a visit.
• 21:29
  There's a lot to discuss here.
• 21:32
  I feel like the I don't know, the director, the writer,
• 21:36
  whoever was in charge of this this moment, they were like, you know, we need some balance.
• 21:40
  And they they just chose the wrong kind of balance.
• 21:44
  They they did it wrong.
• 21:47
  And what they're trying to balance, I think, is Salieri literally stomping this guy's head in,
• 21:52
  right? Like to a pulp.
• 21:54
  That's pretty intense.
• 21:56
  We've already seen Salieri slip.
• 21:57
  Right.
• 21:58
  As Sergio will describe it.
• 22:01
  We've seen him slip into more and more not good things.
• 22:04
  And then this is like a big spike in that.
• 22:06
  Right.
• 22:07
  And so I feel like maybe they were trying to balance the intensity with humor.
• 22:14
  Maybe because when we when we get here, he's he's doing it.
• 22:19
  They're going at it.
• 22:20
  And then he gets need.
• 22:23
  Right in the pee pee.
• 22:26
  And we know what they were just doing.
• 22:28
  And you would think that that might hurt to an extra level.
• 22:32
  And then they would be like, oh, I'm going to do this.
• 22:35
  To an extra level. And they had to know that we would wonder.
• 22:39
  Should we start using medical terms?
• 22:41
  We're going to get banned on YouTube.
• 22:43
  But no, it's like, do we need to transition from like, I'm going to kill that bastard to him just
• 22:51
  doing it and we can hear it.
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  Do we need that?
• 22:54
  Can't he just be at home counting money running away?
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  Why?
• 22:59
  And that's where I have the same question.
• 23:01
  And I wonder, are they trying to balance the scene and being like, oh, maybe if we make them wonder,
• 23:08
  like when he gets need in the junk and then and then him running away in his undies with his little
• 23:16
  sock suspenders, is it supposed to be funny?
• 23:20
  I don't know what this scene is.
• 23:21
  I don't understand, Kathy.
• 23:24
  We need a male perspective.
• 23:26
  We do.
• 23:26
  Does it hurt extra if you get need in the junk when you're erect?
• 23:30
  Or is it the same? Because I have questions.
• 23:34
  I want to know if you could snap it off.
• 23:39
  Your face right now.
• 23:43
  I can't get you to curse on this podcast or in general, but then you'll just hit me with things
• 23:49
  like that.
• 23:52
  My face is all red right now.
• 23:55
  Oh, gosh.
• 23:56
  I don't know how to respond, but I would like to know the answer to that question, to be fair.
• 24:01
  Break it clear off.
• 24:02
  You know how soccer players sometimes their bones stick straight out of their skin?
• 24:06
  We don't watch the same videos online, Kathy.
• 24:09
  We don't.
• 24:11
  OK.
• 24:15
  I don't know that.
• 24:16
  No, I've never seen that.
• 24:18
  I would never want to see that.
• 24:23
  I think we need to move on.
• 24:24
  OK.
• 24:25
  But I think we're both we're both confused.
• 24:28
  I don't know what this scene is.
• 24:29
  I don't know if we're supposed to laugh, if we're supposed to be shocked.
• 24:35
  And then you said shoot him in the button.
• 24:36
  Of course, I had aimed right for the butt.
• 24:39
  Right.
• 24:40
  So that was perfect.
• 24:41
  But that's the thing.
• 24:43
  How does the scene go so far in so many directions?
• 24:48
  It's so far out of the spectrum of like normal mafia business and.
• 24:56
  Yeah.
• 24:56
  And I just don't understand what they were going for.
• 24:58
  I don't I really don't know what what they want from us.
• 25:02
  What are we supposed to feel as Carlos climbing up the ladder?
• 25:06
  His bus right there, like you kind of have to shoot him.
• 25:09
  There's clearly the target.
• 25:10
  And that's when they let you pull the gun out, too.
• 25:13
  They don't let you get close to him.
• 25:14
  You can see I'm sprinting and then it's like, oh, Tommy ran out of gas.
• 25:17
  He can't go faster.
• 25:18
  Yeah, that's like obviously they want you to shoot him in the butt.
• 25:23
  I feel like the intern was involved in this scene.
• 25:26
  And this is just what we get.
• 25:29
  It's you know, some dick and butt.
• 25:33
  That'll make it easier to digest the head caving in.
• 25:36
  Also, the lighting was a little bit off at the end of the scene.
• 25:39
  I don't know if you like the highlights were too bright.
• 25:41
  It was weird.
• 25:43
  Moving on.
• 25:44
  I don't really know what else to say, but I will say, though.
• 25:46
  So that right before it kind of like fades out, the way that Tommy looks back at just
• 25:54
  everything that just happened because it was quick.
• 25:57
  It was like a lot to process in between getting shot at, then having to kill everyone
• 26:03
  and then rushing over only to chase the guy.
• 26:07
  It's like a moment where he realizes the biggest red flag is that if he ever betrays the Don,
• 26:13
  that's his head and that's his body on the floor.
• 26:16
  Being smashed to pieces.
• 26:18
  This is the Don personally killing someone.
• 26:21
  And I don't know if Tommy has seen that yet, but it is by far one of the biggest red flag
• 26:26
  that he's going to see in the Don.
• 26:30
  Yeah, I mean, all of these chapters in this part three are just red flags from Sally.
• 26:36
  Like, that's all we're seeing.
• 26:38
  And I don't understand why Tommy didn't really expect this at this point.
• 26:43
  I mean, it might be what you said where it's like he's actually doing the killing, but
• 26:49
  I don't understand what he expected.
• 26:50
  Like, oh, we're going to shoot Carlo in the ass.
• 26:53
  And if he ever steps out of line again, I'll be like, oh, remember when I shot you like
• 26:56
  a second hole?
• 26:57
  You don't want to make it three.
• 26:59
  What was he expecting?
• 27:00
  I don't understand Tommy because like I said at the top of the episode, he basically drew
• 27:07
  a line of killing a dog makes you a horrible person.
• 27:10
  Like, you drew that line and then you had someone step over it and you're still refusing
• 27:16
  to acknowledge that this person is terrifying.
• 27:22
  Anything else?
• 27:23
  Or surrounding Carlo?
• 27:25
  No, I think we really summed it up.
• 27:28
  Maybe a little bit too much.
• 27:30
  Yeah.
• 27:32
  Anyway, we then move to Morello, which is not a perspective that we've had so far.
• 27:38
  And we meet his younger brother, Sergio.
• 27:41
  And I feel like there might be two mothers involved because they do not look anything
• 27:45
  like at all.
• 27:47
  Might just be a brother from another mother.
• 27:51
  I'm thinking so.
• 27:53
  Anyway, that's not important, but he informs Morello that Salieri is still alive.
• 27:57
  And like you said, that Carlo's head is a caved in watermelon.
• 28:01
  And this is when we get confirmation that they did, the two of them, Morello and Salieri,
• 28:05
  kill Pippone, their old Don.
• 28:08
  And Morello says, we've been at war since you killed Pippone.
• 28:13
  It's just out in the open now.
• 28:15
  I want to know more.
• 28:16
  It sounds like maybe they planned this together to like take over the mafia.
• 28:21
  And then maybe both of them thought that they would be the one in charge.
• 28:26
  And they just didn't plan it out all the way.
• 28:28
  Like, what do you think this backstory is?
• 28:31
  And I don't know what they're saying in English, but there's a saying in Chinese about
• 28:34
  if it's not money or like power, it's a woman.
• 28:38
  And I think that they're probably fighting over the same chick.
• 28:42
  And they're like, look, I am more powerful.
• 28:45
  I have my own mafia.
• 28:47
  You should date me or you should marry me.
• 28:49
  So that's what I'm thinking.
• 28:50
  If it's not for power and wealth, it's for a woman.
• 28:54
  Okay.
• 28:56
  I like the angle.
• 28:56
  It's very Kiryu Nishiki.
• 29:00
  What do you think of Sergio?
• 29:02
  I mean, not much.
• 29:05
  I didn't really think about it.
• 29:06
  I'm like, oh, cool.
• 29:07
  Okay.
• 29:09
  I get a weird vibe from him because, well, during this conversation,
• 29:13
  Merle was obviously kind of pissed off.
• 29:15
  And then this guy he's torturing is crying too much because he's in pain.
• 29:19
  And he gets so mad that he just shoots him to death.
• 29:23
  And so number one, we see back to back scenes of both Salieri and Merle murdering.
• 29:28
  So maybe, maybe they're not so different.
• 29:30
  But number two, we see Sergio sort of reacting to Morello.
• 29:36
  Like this is normal, right?
• 29:39
  Like he knows how to handle this situation and handle Morello.
• 29:42
  And that's interesting to me.
• 29:44
  I feel like Sergio is the smart one, if that makes sense.
• 29:48
  Like he's the one with the level head.
• 29:50
  He's a Frank.
• 29:51
  Yeah.
• 29:52
  He's like Frank, but younger and with a more bonded relationship.
• 29:57
  Like, can you kill your brother in the mafia?
• 30:00
  You know what I mean?
• 30:00
  Cause the family seems important from what I know.
• 30:04
  I almost feel like Sergio is waiting for Morello to fail.
• 30:08
  I sense a little bit of tension where it's like Morello doesn't see it.
• 30:14
  If that's the case, then Sergio probably is just trying to use Salieri to kill Morello.
• 30:19
  So he never gets his hand dirty.
• 30:20
  He's never accused of being unloyal to his group of people.
• 30:25
  And I have no information to back any of this up.
• 30:28
  It's just the look that he gives.
• 30:30
  Like the feeling I get from that character is that he's up to something.
• 30:35
  Anything else?
• 30:36
  It's kind of a weird episode, right?
• 30:39
  No, I feel like we covered it.
• 30:43
  Yeah.
• 30:44
  Covered it like those socks.
• 30:46
  Those socks, the spenders are covering Karlo's calves.
• 30:50
  That took too long to say, but the joke was there.
• 30:52
  It was in the script.
• 30:53
  I'm sorry to say, but the joke was there.
• 30:55
  It was in there.
• 30:58
  So, pee-pees.
• 31:00
  Stop talking about that.
• 31:01
  Time for pee-pees.
• 31:02
  Well, I guess we had one pee-pee attack, right?
• 31:06
  But that clearly is not the same category.
• 31:09
  Add that to the heavy rain total.
• 31:12
  Are we going to need a season-long manhood attack total?
• 31:16
  Are we going to need to track that through the whole season?
• 31:19
  At this rate, yes?
• 31:21
  Yes.
• 31:24
  Well, there's a few that I don't know if you're going to count as a pee-pee.
• 31:28
  And so...
• 31:29
  A pee-pee would be pretty obvious, I'll tell you that.
• 31:33
  They've been run over by a car.
• 31:36
  Yeah.
• 31:36
  And there should be no mistaking that.
• 31:37
  I thought it was like a near-lee.
• 31:39
  A near-lee.
• 31:40
  No, that's near-miss.
• 31:41
  That's a different category.
• 31:43
  Okay.
• 31:44
  Well, for just pee-pees, then I think maybe...
• 31:47
  I don't think you've rained over anyone.
• 31:48
  There's a few couple of near-misses.
• 31:52
  I'd say about four near-misses and maybe no pee-pees.
• 31:57
  You're correct.
• 31:58
  No pee-pees.
• 31:59
  Near-misses, I wrote three plus one, question mark.
• 32:04
  Two of them are for sure near-misses.
• 32:06
  Right?
• 32:06
  So you're close either way.
• 32:08
  One of them, she skedaddled backwards.
• 32:11
  But I felt like it was nowhere near hitting her.
• 32:14
  And then there's another one where it was much closer.
• 32:18
  And they did not skedaddle backwards.
• 32:20
  So I land on three.
• 32:23
  Okay.
• 32:24
  And I have the one as a question mark because I think it's out for debate.
• 32:27
  But I felt like she overreacted.
• 32:30
  So I think you're pretty close.
• 32:32
  I think we'll give it to you.
• 32:33
  Okay.
• 32:34
  Yay!
• 32:36
  Are we ready to close it out?
• 32:37
  I think we're ready.
• 32:40
  All right.
• 32:41
  Okay.
• 32:42
  Let's do a Dacity on one.
• 32:44
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• 32:46
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• 32:47
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• 33:00
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• 33:03
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• 33:07
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