Abel Ferrara's Pizza Connection - Episode 3

JOHNNY: Hey, Rocco.
ROCCO: Hey Johnny.
JOHNNY: How are ya?
ROCCO: Wonderful day.
JOHNNY: Who's your friend, Rocco?
ROCCO: This is my friend from Sicily.
JOHNNY: Oh.
So it's a Sicilian, eh?
[INAUDIBLE]
MALE SPEAKER: [SPEAKING ITALIAN]
JOHNNY: [SPEAKING ITALIAN]
What brings you to Little Italy?

ROCCO: I'm not ask a favor.
I've never had a problem.
My son the one with the problem.
JOHNNY: Everybody's got problems.
You know that, right?
ROCCO: How much do you ask eh, [SPEAKING ITALIAN]
This every week you come for box, your place.
One box marked blue money.
This box--
my dealer $5--
JOHNNY: Get the fuck outta here.
Get outta here.
Get outta here.
You too, get the fuck outta here.
Don't come back here no more.
ROCCO: I'm your friend.
JOHNNY: You my friend, you talk like this?
Get out.
ROCCO: I'm sorry.
JOHNNY: Don't come back here.

[BABY CRYING]
FEMALE SPEAKER: But did you put the sauce--
you put the sauce on?
EDDIE: Come here.
You want some pasta?
You want pasta?
Come on.
Come on, baby.
It's delicious.
I love it, I mean--
FEMALE SPEAKER: No, I didn't say that.
Did you warm the sauce up?
EDDIE: Yeah, it's warming up.
FEMALE SPEAKER: Dad is waiting for some warm sauce.
EDDIE: Don't worry.
It'll be there in a minute.
Give you a little bit more there.
I gotta go on a diet.
I'm eating all these--
FEMALE SPEAKER: Sit down!
You know, we got to solve this problem
with you and our daughter.
You're so lucky to have her for a wife.
She's a good wife.
She's a good mother.
She's a good daughter.
Come on, you're going to have to work a little harder.
I don't understand, there's still this problem with these
tables and chairs outside the restaurant.
EDDIE: You gotta have a permit.
You know?
You just can't have, you just can't have tables outside.
FEMALE SPEAKER: Yeah, but the Sopranos do it.
They sit outside their pizzeria.
EDDIE: That's in New Jersey.
How many times I got to tell you?
FEMALE SPEAKER: Did you ever try to go and get it?
EDDIE: No.
They said you gotta build a step.
If I don't build the step, it takes-- if I don't build the
step first, then I can't get the permit.
[BABY CONTINUES TO CRY]
FEMALE SPEAKER: So talk to Dad and we'll try
to resolve the problem.
EDDIE: Shut the kid up!
ROCCO: You're giving them a pass.
This city, too tough now.
EDDIE: What?
ROCCO: Too tough.
FEMALE SPEAKER: Look how upset you made him now!
ROCCO: No give permits.
FEMALE SPEAKER: So what do we do, Rocco?
In a situation like this, what are we going to do?
ROCCO: You play--
[INAUDIBLE].
FEMALE SPEAKER: Look how upset you made him Eddie.
EDDIE: I made him upset?
FEMALE SPEAKER: Yeah!
EDDIE: She can't talk below a screaming level.
This is how she normally talks.
ROCCO: Hey, hey.
[INAUDIBLE]
EDDIE: That's how she normally talks.
ROCCO: Take it easy!
Take it easy.
FEMALE SPEAKER: Don't you talk to me like that.
ROCCO: You have to respect your mother-in-law.
FEMALE SPEAKER: That's right.
I'm good to you.

EDDIE: Oh, OK.
Hey.
Oh, shit.
You guys are early.

Hey, I'm sorry.
You guys got here early.
Yeah, I got it.
Don't worry.
ROCCO: [INAUDIBLE]
EDDIE: I'm just setting up for you right here.
Hi, how are you?
Good to meet you.
Come on in and sit down.
Trying to get everything ready here.
Sorry.
We got the best mozzarella you've ever seen.
ROCCO: [SPEAKING ITALIAN]
He speak just Sicilian, no speak English.
EDDIE: Yeah.
ROCCO: Take the box mozzarella?
EDDIE: Yeah.
ROCCO: They are one mark, you know what to do?
MALE SPEAKER: Capisce?
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
ROCCO: [SPEAKING ITALIAN]
MALE SPEAKER: [SPEAKING ITALIAN]
ROCCO: [SPEAKING ITALIAN]
You understand?
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
No speak English.
Guy with the box with the mozzarella.
EDDIE: Mozzarella.
ROCCO: One mark--
the box marked, you know what you need to do.
EDDIE: It's $5,000.
ROCCO: $5,000 in the mozz.
MALE SPEAKER: In the mozz?
ROCCO: In the mozz.
[INAUDIBLE] not make a mistake, the
box will have a mark.
MALE SPEAKER: I won't make a mistake.
X marks the spot.
$5,000?
ROCCO: In the mozz.
EDDIE: Aye aye, Skippy.
No worries.
ROCCO: All right?
All right.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah?
OK.
Ciao.
EDDIE: Hey.
Thank you.
MALE SPEAKER: Grazie.
EDDIE: Grazie.