The Plot Against America (2020) s01e06 Episode Script

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Shit, Levin.
I remember when one of those
used to break ya.
Why don't you try three?
Mama didn't raise no fools.
See, what you don't understand, Anthony,
is that I come from a long line
of Third Ward roughnecks.
Jews? Come on, Herman. No fucking way!
You're talking to a Sicilian
here, for Christ's sakes.
Yeah, what were your people doing
when mine were building the pyramids?
Stealin' chickens in Palermo.
We leave this broadcast of Let's Dance
with Harry James and His Orchestra
to bring you a special bulletin
from Detroit, Michigan,
where a political rally
featuring Democratic
presidential candidate
Walter Winchell, has resulted
in rioting and injuries.
With Winchell himself attacked
and beaten by demonstrators,
according to reporters at the scene.
The former reporter
and radio personality
was rushed by ambulance
to Providence Hospital.
Detroit police officials say
the disturbances are contained
within the area of the
candidate's campaign rally
They beat him down.
Like he wasn't askin' for it.
Come on, Monty.
We now return to
Fascist animals.
I'll tell you one thing.
That Winchell's got balls
on him. He don't quit.
Everywhere he goes,
they're waitin' for him.
In Boston, they tried to set him on fire.
You're gonna take
truck number four tonight.
You're gonna drive all the way
up past Newburgh
and make pickups at three separate farms.
I'm good, I'm good, I'm good!
One, two, three, and
And hey! Hey! Hey!
Now, fish tails.
The thing I showed you. C'mon.
Bop, bop, higher
You're lucky you don't topple.
Yeah, says you with your two legs.
You should have seen Alvin
back in the day.
He could move.
Am I paying for this floor show?
I got plans here for your restaurant.
Come give a look.
Philip, is that you?
For your new collection.
Canada.
From Mr. Tirschwell and his wife.
Up in Winnipeg.
Don't go too far.
Sbrigatevi, Joseph.
Hey, paisan.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Not in New York. Newark!
It's in Jersey,
but it's a different city.
Jesus Christ, how many times
did you repeat the fifth grade?
Fucking hell.
- Billy Murphy.
- Alvin.
How the hell do you find me?
- I asked around.
- Oh yeah? Asked who?
What the hell you doin'
in Philadelphia?
Ah, listen, sweetie.
This is a buddy from my old unit.
You know You know, from the war.
- Oh yeah?
- Yeah, absolutely,
so seeing as he's come
all the way to find me,
how 'bout we just pick this up tomorrow?
Just like that?
I told you. This is a friend.
Now, who the fuck told you
how to find me, Billy?
And why?
violence at the political rally
and then spreading to
predominantly Jewish sanctions
of Detroit, where shops were looted
and windows shattered by rioting mobs.
At least three Jewish synagogues
are said to be afire,
and several hundred
of the city's Jewish residents
have crossed the bridge
into Windsor, Canada,
seeking refuge there,
according to authorities.
This just in to our Columbia
Broadcasting news bureau:
anti-Jewish disturbances
are now being reported
by authorities in both
Cleveland and Indianapolis.
And in Scranton, Pennsylvania,
state police have requested
All right, come on. We gotta go.
We gotta finish loading up.
You're contracted for these.
I'm going home now. We'll be back.
- When?
- Where's everyone going?
where a group of young men
clashed with members leaving an event.
In the street fight that lasted
nearly an hour
You know, they told me
to find you, and they, uh
They told me why.
I told them to forget it.
I won't lie to you, Alvin.
I told them I didn't think
you were up to it.
I told them how you folded up in Norway.
- How you broke.
- Yeah, I fucked up.
I couldn't take that
screaming Kraut. I know.
Yeah, Hairston and Riggs got shot
trying to get you out of there.
Hairston bought it.
Riggs still shittin' in a bag.
You didn't know.
No, I was
I was out of my head. I
Yeah.
Yeah Well
Maybe I wasn't cut out for soldiering.
Not that kind of soldierin' anyway.
Maybe not.
Come on.
Huh? What?
Fuck.
So, where do we go?
They're gonna give you one last chance.
To do what? Lose another limb?
You low son of a bitch.
My job is done here.
They think you can still matter.
See ya around.
I thought you were FBI.
Oh, heavens no.
Do you really think I'd dress
as badly as all that?
I'm glad we found you, Corporal Levin.
took place outside a
Jewish house of worship
earlier this evening.
Authorities in Baltimore
are also investigating
the burning of a Jewish Religious Academy,
believed to be tied to the communist front.
Several boys, as young as ten years old,
are being transported to
Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Meanwhile, Buffalo police believe
that last night's explosion
injuring 70 people at a Polish
What's with you guys?
was due to a gas leak in the basement
Keepin' an eye on things.
- You with Longy?
- Yeah.
secret communist bomb factory
are proliferating amid continuing
denial from officials
Go ahead, take the truck.
- You sure?
- Yeah.
The Alipore, carrying chrome ore
and olive oil,
was torpedoed by a German U-boat
Who are they?
Dukie Glick
and some other knucklehead
I don't recognize.
Who is Dukie Glick?
He's Billy Glick's kid brother.
I know Billy from the Third Ward.
Absolute morons, both of them.
They work for Longy Zwillman.
- Longy Zwillman, the gangster?
- Yeah.
He put his guys out on the streets
in Jewish neighborhoods
in case any of the rioting
spreads to Newark.
They're there to protect us?
Yeah, they think so anyway.
Can't believe how fast
it's spread to other cities.
The hate is there.
Just like dry leaves waiting on a spark.
Well
Like or not, Lindbergh is teaching us
what it means to be Jews.
We only think we're Americans.
No
They think we only think we're Americans.
They think with
one more push, one more shove
that we'll break
and run to Canada
or let them dump us in Kentucky or wherever.
But it's not up for discussion, Bess.
They can call us "others."
They're the others.
Lindbergh is the other.
The man is unfit.
He should not be the president.
It's as simple as that.
Which is why a forceful statement
from your husband right now
would be of such benefit
to my people. It would, in effect,
distance American Jews
from Winchell's rhetoric
and hold us harmless to his offenses.
I take your point.
Clearly, the violence
being directed in Detroit
and elsewhere is no way condoned
by this administration.
A strong public statement right now.
I will take this up with the president.
I assure you both.
Mrs. Bengelsdorf,
we must have that lunch
once things calm down,
perhaps after the Congressional elections.
That would be lovely.
Rabbi.
Thank you for your candor.
In these days, with everything so fraught
for the Jewish community,
I have come to greatly value
your honesty and insight.
And in fact
to the extent I can rely on you
to serve as my spokesperson
in these matters, I would be relieved.
Of course.
Why the fuck did I have to come
all the way out here to meet you?
We wanted to see if you were followed.
No one follows anyone north of Girard Ave,
for Christ's Sakes.
So, who is everybody?
We have names you don't need to know.
I'm askin'. Is everybody British?
- Or Canadian.
- Or not.
You think you're only mug who can't stand
to see this country go to hell, Levin?
It went to hell. It's there.
Well, the question seems to be
whether you're still willing to act on that.
What good will it do?
Even if you pull it off,
you still end up with Wheeler.
He's no better than Lindbergh.
He might even be worse.
Wheeler can be beaten in '44.
Lindbergh and that little airplane of his
flying from airport to airport
talkin' peace and prosperity,
- no chance.
- But why me?
You have a certain skill set, as I told you.
Me and a thousand other guys.
The border's closed to us.
It's porous. You can see I'm here after all.
But every additional man we try
to bring in adds to the risk.
And as you will note, there are still enough
of your countrymen who understand enough
about fascism to take this on.
I was in the War Department.
Roosevelt's War Department.
Logistics. G4. Just a paper pusher
trying like hell to get guns and ships
and planes to England
where they might matter.
Now, I have a pension.
Good for you.
Then again, Levin, you have an empire
in pinball and slot machines.
The world and its problems must seem
so unimportant at this point.
Mouthy fellow didn't get three words out.
Where did it happen?
Kentucky. Louisville, I think.
Blew the back of his head off.
What happened?
Winchell. They shot him.
He's dead?
Shot?
The way he kept goin' at Lindy,
it was only a matter of time.
And I heard the campaign was all for show,
just to revive his radio career.
I mean, a man has a right to make a living,
but no one asked Winchell to be
the spokesperson for lotion,
let alone
Sandy? Philip?
- Walter Winchell, he
- I heard. Where's your brother?
- I don't know.
- Get me the map.
Get the map of the United States.
Find Kentucky. Find the city
of Danville for me.
- Operator.
- Operator, I want to make a long distance
person-to-person call.
- City?
- To Danville, Kentucky.
To Mrs. Selma Wishnow. And operator,
when my three minutes are up,
don't forget to tell me.
Yes, ma'am.
Please hold.
Kentucky. Find Danville. It's ringing.
- Right there. Danville.
- Hello.
This is long distance. I have
a person-to-person call
- for Mrs. Selma Wistful.
- You want to measure how far between
- Look on the key, down here.
- Is Mrs. Wistful available?
No, Wishnow. Selma Wishnow.
Who's that talking?
Young lady, is your mother home?
I'm a boy.
Operator, I will speak with anyone.
Please, put me through.
- Good ahead, sir.
- Who is this?
- Seldon, this is Mrs. Levin.
- Mrs. Levin!
- Yes,
- You're in Newark, Mrs. Levin?
I'm calling to speak with
your mother, is she there?
I'm waiting for her
to come home from work.
- Philip.
- She has to work late sometimes.
I just sit here.
Sometimes, I have a snack
and then she comes home.
Miss Adams, I can't emphasize
enough the urgency involved.
Now that this has happened in Louisville,
the need to reassure the Jewish community
throughout this country, it's paramount.
Thank you.
Yes, I will
wait on the First Lady's call in the morning.
Thank you again.
She must talk to the president.
So, you're on Summit Avenue?
- I told you we were, yes.
- It's really clear, isn't it?
It sounds like you're just down the block.
- I wish you could come over and have a snack with me.
- Philip.
- Tell Seldon you miss him.
- I don't have any friends at school
- Just tell him.
-and I have no one to play chess with.
I've been practicing my opening move.
- You remember my opening move?
- Seldon.
Yes?
- I miss you.
- I miss you too.
I wish you were here.
Seldon, this is Mrs. Levin again.
I need you to write something
down. Can you do that?
Okay.
I want you to write down
that Mrs. Levin called
because of what happened in Louisville,
- to see if things are okay.
- What happened in Louisville?
Seldon, just eat your snack
and tell your mother
- that I called, okay?
- I've had enough Fig Newtons.
All right. Seldon,
but you'll remember to give her
the note that I called.
If you eat too many, you feel sick.
Seldon. This is a very
expensive phone call,
and I am going to have to hang up now.
But I need you to promise me
that you are going to give
your mother the note that I called
and tell her to call me back.
I promise.
Okay, thank you. Goodbye.
Mrs. Levin. Is Philip going to visit me?
It's my birthday next week and
I don't have any friends here.
Your three minutes are up, ma'am.
- Seldon.
This is a hard time for everyone.
But
Just tell your mother
that I called and good
Goodbye, okay. Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Okay, keep it straight.
All right, keep coming. You got room.
That's good, that's good.
Come on.
Pulse navigation, as per your training.
Like I said. I work logistics.
As anti-Jewish violence,
in the wake of Winchell's murder in Kentucky,
- has spread to at least nine other US cities
as predominantly Jewish
neighborhoods have been targeted.
Synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses
have been damaged or looted,
and 46 deaths are blamed
on disturbances nationwide.
In East St. Louis, rioting spread
to predominantly Negro neighborhoods,
and three lynching's are
reported to have occurred.
The newly formed Congress of Racial Equality
is urging Negroes everywhere
to stay home from work
Bess.
- Hey, paisan.
- Come in. Please.
For you.
Uh
It's very nice of you, Mr. Cucuzza, but
I really don't know how to shoot.
Well, you pull the trig.
You aim and you shoot.
- You aim and you shoot, that's it.
- I don't need it.
But if they come around,
how you gon' protect, huh?
Interrupting with a special
bulletin of an announcement
by New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia,
that by his order, and under the protection
of the New York City Police Department,
the body of slain radio personality
and presidential candidate Walter Winchell
will be taken overnight by train from Louisville
to Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan,
and will then lie
in state at the great hall of the train station
throughout the morning.
Then, a funeral will be held at
the city's largest synagogue,
Temple Emanu-El.
Announced speakers at the service will include
the former President of the United States,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
New York City Major, Fiorello LaGuardia
Sandy.
Are you sure?
It'll be safe. Trust me.
Forgive me, but I trust La Guardia.
We're not going to the funeral?
We tried, but
God, this crowd.
'Scuse me. Let's see
if we can get a little closer.
Philip, come on. Come on.
Walter lacked every gleaming virtue
demonstrated daily by
the incorruptible test pilot
I think this is about as close
as we're gonna get.
- But there are several more differences
- Hold this. Come here.
- between the fallible Walter and infallible Lindy.
- All right.
Our president is a fascist sympathizer.
That's Mayor La Guardia.
They call him the "Little Flower."
Walter Winchell was the enemy of the fascist.
Our president is no lover of Jews,
and more than likely,
a dyed-in-the-wool anti-Semite,
while Winchell was a Jew
and the unwavering enemy of the anti-Semite.
And for speaking his mind
in the state of Kentucky,
Walter Winchell was assassinated by fascists,
who, thanks to the silence
of our strong, silent, selfless president,
today, run rampant through this great land.
It can't happen here?
No, it is happening here.
- And where, I ask you, is Lindbergh?
Where is Lindbergh?
Where is Lindbergh?
Where is Lindbergh?
Where is Lindbergh?
Where is Lindbergh?
Where is Lindbergh?
Where is Lindbergh?
With, uh
regards to the question asked so cynically
by New York's Mayor LaGuardia,
I have here a prepared statement
by First Lady Anne Marrow Lindbergh
that she wishes for me to read at this time.
"Fellow Americans, concerned
at the civil disturbances
that followed Mr. Winchell's
speaking engagements,
and further grieved
that the violence spurred by those events
has claimed the life of Mr. Winchell himself,
my husband, early this morning,
took off from Long Island's Roosevelt Field
to fly to the municipal airport in Louisville,
the scene of this tragedy,
to directly address the nation,
and to do all that he can
to bring those disturbances to an end."
And may I only add, that as a rabbi
and a representative of the Jewish faith
I have every confidence that this president
will do all within his power
to prevent any further harm
from coming to the citizenry.
Thank you.
Rabbi, is there any statement
yet from the president?
Go straight through to the back.
About 100 miles ahead of us.
Logistics, Corporal Levin.
Logistics.
- Rabbi.
- Who's that?
Wait, wait. It's my nephew.
Oh.
Sandy.
Why is this happening?
I I can't answer that question.
I thought that Lindbergh
would be good for everyone,
for the Jews, for everybody
The riots are not because of Lindbergh.
If anything, this was Winchell
provoking people.
And they killed Winchell.
As wrong as that was,
wasn't it enough for them?
Do they have to smash windows and kill Jews
who aren't Winchell, who don't have
anything to do with Winchell?
Sandy, Lindbergh flew out there today
to make them stop the riots.
He had nothing to do
with Winchell being killed.
He wouldn't want that.
I believe he is a good man.
Evelyn, Sandy, the president
is on the radio from Louisville.
of Louisville and all of America.
We are grateful for your attention
to this traumatic moment in our city.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
And thank all of you for coming out
to the airfield today to greet me.
Well, to answer a question
that was asked, here I am.
And I just would like to make
the following very clear:
our country is at peace.
Our people are at work.
Our children are at school.
I flew down here to remind each
and every one of you of this,
and now, I'm going back to Washington,
so as to keep things that way.
Thank you.
Well, that was, uh
Brief.
Yes, I confess, it was.
You realize the range on this thing
can't be more than 100 miles
in either direction,
- and if he flies on any vector outside of that
- That's not your concern.
Your concern is this post.
Aught-four.
Right.
Go ahead.
Affirmative. Will do.
We're done.
Huh? What? What do you mean?
We're through here.
Aw, shit.
At least we tried.
You have the Chevy.
Your route is above the visor.
- Change of cars waiting for you just over the Pennsylvania line.
- Yeah.
Let's pack it up. Come on!
Let's go, shut it down!
Yes, sir.
All right, you, you're coming with me.
All right, I wanna be outta here
in five minutes, fellas.
F
Oh, fuck.
State authorities
have dispatched police launches
up and down the Maryland
and Delaware shores.
Additional groups continue to
search beyond the flight path
as there continues to be
no concrete information
of where the president was headed.
And new theories from London.
Just as the German government is claiming
that a combined Jewish-British conspiracy
used Canadian based airplanes
to force down the Spirit
- and kidnap the president
- Ridiculous.
- They'll believe anything now.
- News now in from our Washington bureau.
- They'll do anything now.
-Canada's suspected involvement
in the President's disappearance in a
decision to close the northern border.
Acting President Wheeler
is declaring martial law
and enacting a national curfew
Hello?
I have a collect call from a Seldon Wishnut
in Danville, Kentucky.
Hello!
Will you accept the charges?
- I will, operator.
- Mrs. Levin?
Go ahead with your party.
Is that you? Hello?
Mrs. Levin!
My mother's not home.
I haven't eaten.
She's not home, and it's late,
and she wouldn't not come home for dinner.
Seldon, uh where did she go?
To the office in Louisville.
Her boss called
but she said she would
be back for dinner
if she were alive.
Seldon. That's enough of that.
You're making yourself hysterical.
Of course, your mother is alive.
Sh She's just late coming home.
But if she were, why wouldn't she call?
- She always calls.
- Seldon, please, calm down.
- What if something happened to her car,
and she had to pull over
to get it fixed. This is
It It's probably nothing
more than a flat tire.
Please. Please. Please, please you're
Please, stop crying.
She's dead, Mrs. Levin.
Just like my father.
Now both my parents are dead.
Seldon.
You must stop.
Seldon, you must listen to me.
You must take something to eat.
That will help you calm down.
Please, just go
Go to the refrigerator
- and get something to eat.
- I ate the Fig Newtons.
There's none left.
Seldon. I'm talking about eating a meal.
Your mother will be home very soon.
But meanwhile, you can't sit there,
waiting for her to feed you.
Put the phone down.
Go to the refrigerator,
take a look, then come back
and tell me what you have. Okay?
Okay.
I don't see any dinner for me.
Are there Rice Krispies?
Are there Corn Flakes? Is there milk?
Sure.
Get whichever cereal you like best.
We'll pretend it's breakfast.
I like Rice Krispies.
Seldon, get the Rice Krispies.
Take out the milk, take out the juice.
I want you to make breakfast.
Now?
Do as I say, please. Do as I say.
I want you to eat breakfast.
But I'm going to hang up
so you can do that.
Is Is there a clock near you, Seldon?
Yes, I see a clock on the wall.
It should say that it is
ten minutes after ten o'clock,
and I will call you back at 10:30, Seldon.
If your mother comes home before then,
she should call me.
But if she doesn't,
I'm going to call you back at 10:30. Okay?
- Okay.
- Okay.
Bye for now, Seldon.
Bye for now.
Again, again, the First Lady is counseling
all of our countrymen to ignore
all unverifiable hypotheses
about her husband's disappearance
emanating from foreign capitals.
And she reminds the public that
in 1926 as an airmail pilot,
the president twice survived crashes
that demolished his aircraft.
And in this moment,
the First Lady remains unconvinced
by the evidence of any conspiracy,
Jewish or otherwise,
presented by the vice president
in his justification for martial law.
Why can't the First Lady
speak for herself, rabbi?
Any truth to rumors
Mrs. Lindbergh is too distraught
to make her own decisions
and you are the one acting for her?
The First Lady is wholly
competent intellectually
and in complete possession
of all her faculties,
And despite the magnitude
of this situation,
neither her reason
nor her judgment is in any way impaired.
- Is the First Lady even talking to the VP?
- Excuse me.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hold it right there.
Don't you know there's a curfew?
I heard.
Officer, I live down that block, right there.
Go home.
Thank you.
Central to car eight.
Car eight, ten-nineteen.
Central to car eight.
Car eight, ten-nineteen.
My mother's dead, Mrs. Levin.
I know my mother is dead.
My father is dead, and now my mother, too.
No, Seldon, you don't know that.
We don't know anything.
She would've called me. She would've.
She never doesn't call.
Sandy. How far from the Mawhinney
farm is Danville?
Twenty minutes.
I come up when I hear the shot.
Thank you.
Yeah, sure.
They say there's a grocery
burned and looted
over in Union City.
Who got shot?
It's Longy Zwillman's guys.
At least two that I saw.
Dead on the ground.
Listen to me, Seldon. It's late,
and what I need you to do tonight
is get into your pajamas, brush your teeth,
and put yourself to bed.
But I promise you,
someone will be coming to help you.
Either tonight, or if you fall asleep,
when you wake in the morning.
Hey. How are you?
Someone will be there to help you.
Either your mother will be there
or someone to help you get to your mother.
I promise.
Seldon, do you understand?
Yes.
I promise you, Seldon,
someone will be coming to you.
Now, can you go to bed by yourself?
- Yes.
- Okay.
If you need me, just call.
I'll be right here all night.
- But someone is coming.
- Okay.
Good night, Seldon.
I'll talk to you in the morning,
I promise. Good night.
Good night.
You were right, Bess.
Shepsie was right.
We should be in Canada now.
I can't live here any longer
not knowing what will happen tomorrow.
You were right, Bess.
We need to go.
They've closed the borders.
Martial law, they wanna war with Canada.
There has got to be a way to get out.
We have to get out.
- Now.
- We can't.
Selma is gone.
I think she's dead.
Bess.
We need to go.
Seldon is our responsibility.
Even if he wasn't, he is now.
But he is our responsibility.
Danville was no coincidence.
Sanford, I don't like you going with him.
But you know the Mawhinney's,
and you know these places,
and your father will need help
with Seldon on the long trip home.
I am relying on you.
Hey, paisan.
Fascists did it?
Polizia. The cops.
The police killed him?
Yeah, to say to Longy,
"You no put your gun
on the street, only we can.
We the big gang here, not you."
Hey, Tommy, wait.
No.
You.
Secretary of the Interior
Henry Ford, this evening,
remarked to reporters
that it was his belief
that Mrs. Lindbergh was under
the sway of what he called
"a Jewish Rasputin," a reference
to the Russian peasant monk
said to held sway over the minds
of the Russian czar and his wife
in the years before
the Bolshevik Revolution.
Secretary Ford called the presence
of Rabbi Bengelsdorf
around the First Lady
- My god
-a, quote, "prime example of undue Jewish influence
in our public affairs at a time of national"
Pittsburgh is burning.
- They're turning us away from the bridge.
Looks like they're keeping us
on this side of the river.
What do you think?
Route 28 will work.
We'll turn at Millville,
stay north of Pittsburgh, and cross after.
Okay.
Keep it moving, keep it moving.
All traffic this way.
Keep it coming.
Head east please. Head east.
All traffic to the right.
What the hell?
FBI, get up.
Get up, rabbi. Get dressed.
Lionel Bengelsdorf, you're being detained
by the Department of Justice on
suspicion of being a ringleader
of a plot against the government
of the United States.
- My god.
- This is ridiculous.
Get dressed or you're going
in your pajamas, rabbi.
I demand to speak to the First Lady.
I'll bet you do.
But Mrs. Lindbergh is at Walter Reed,
having suffered a severe breakdown.
She's in no condition to speak to anyone.
You gonna dress?
I will.
We'll wait outside. Five minutes.
We'll be right out here.
Evelyn, m my my glasses.
I want a warrant for the room.
If they've hired a car,
I want a warrant for the car.
Orin.
- City mouse.
- Country mouse.
Welcome back.
Sorry 'bout the lady
but it's good to see ya.
- Yeah.
- Hey.
- Thank you for all of this.
- Of course.
Boy's up at the house.
How is he?
Quiet as hell.
Boy don't know about his ma.
I left that for y'all to tell him.
What about her?
Dead.
Klan got her coming back from Lexington.
Burnt her up in her car.
You'll see it if you go back 35.
Yup.
Bad business.
Come on. Let's get some food
in ya'll for the ride back.
Come now.
- Where are you now?
- Bess?
- Evelyn.
- They've arrested him.
They're gonna come back for me,
I I know it.
Please, please help me.
Why don't you call von Ribbentrop?
Seldon, let's play a game.
- Okay.
- First of all,
I want you to look down
at your shoes and your socks.
Close your eyes.
Now what color were your socks?
- White.
- Good.
Now, what color were your shoelaces?
Brown.
- How do you win this game?
- Memory and concentration.
- It's like chess.
- Okay.
You're really good at this.
Here's 55 cents.
- I can't hold it much longer.
- He'll be out in a minute, son.
All yours, kid.
Like I said, Tom.
That store went up like kindling.
Good thing you didn't burn down
Patsy's hardware right along with it.
You ain't kiddin'.
Took a beating just fine.
You have a good night, Sam.
- Seldon.
- What?
- Please hurry up.
- Okay.
Night, Tom.
Hey. Come on. Come on!
Seldon, now.
Come on.
- Dad. Dad, did you
- Come on. Get in the car.
Get in the car, get in the car
now. Come on. Come on, Seldon.
Jump in the back seat there,
watch your fingers.
Okay. All right, here we go.
Okay, it's all right.
It's all right.
All right, steer wide.
Just go wide.
It's all right. It's okay.
Who is it?
Philip. Philip, it's Evelyn.
It's your Aunt Evelyn.
Please open the door.
Oh, Philip.
Bess! Bess!
They're after me. I know they are.
I have to hide. You have to hide me.
You stupid girl.
Bess. I I'm in danger. I'm afraid.
Don't you think that we're afraid, too?
Don't you think that we're in danger, too?
You
selfish little bitch.
We're all afraid, people are dead!
Evelyn, people are dead.
They're going to arrest me,
they'll torture me, Bessie.
- Because I know the truth.
- What truth?
Lindbergh is alive.
They're blackmailing him, the Germans.
- They have his son.
- What?
- Are you insane?
- Bess, please!
Go.
You can't stay here.
Go!
- Philip, please.
- How dare you.
You go! Get out!
Bess! Bess!
Where the hell have you been?
Am I family?
I'm askin, am I family?
- Of course you are.
- Okay.
Then I've been home
for the last three days,
sick, all right?
Uh Minna, Minna, Minna,
you took care of me, right?
If anybody asks, I've been home sick.
I never left the damn place. Yeah?
- Who's gonna ask?
- What happened, Alvin?
Minna where was he?
Sick. At the house. With me.
Bess. Bess. Please.
Evelyn, you have to leave.
Where? Where?
Where will I go?
I don't know, Evelyn.
Bess
You can know this
that I will always love you.
But I will never forgive you.
Don't come back here. Ever.
Bess, I didn't want for any
of these things to happen.
I didn't do anything wrong.
Should we wake him to eat?
Nah, let's let him sleep.
Who's he gonna live with?
With us. Until we can find
some of his family.
Your mother thinks he has
an aunt over in Brooklyn,
but, uh
I don't know.
- Bologna with mayonnaise.
- On white bread.
I'll be goddammed.
They're tryin' to kill us.
This microphone here?
Yes, ma'am. Just say a few things
so I can set a level.
Hello, my fellow Americans.
That's fine, Mrs. Lindbergh.
My fellow Americans:
this is Anne Marrow Lindbergh,
addressing you live
from a radio station
near our nation's capital.
I understand that some
of our broadcasting networks
have been alerted to these remarks,
and so, you are hearing
my words as I speak them.
I'm speaking today because
some of your countrymen,
who are loyal to my husband's
administration, helped obtain
my release from the US Army's
Walter Reed Hospital,
where I was unlawfully detained
on orders of the acting president.
I'm grateful for that loyalty.
Not only to myself and my husband,
but to our government of laws.
My fellow Americans, my countrymen,
unlawfulness
on the part of America's
law enforcement agencies
cannot and will not be allowed to prevail.
In my husband's name,
I ask that no further violence
be visited upon Americans,
regardless of their race,
religion, or national origin,
and that the men and women
of this great country
do all we can to make amends
for the wounds done
to innocent people
in these past days
and weeks of civil unrest.
I ask the FBI to release
all of those arrested
on charges of conspiring
to harm my husband
and to restore their
full rights as citizens.
There is not a shred of evidence
that a single detainee
is in any way responsible
for whatever befell
my husband and his plane.
I ask all National Guard units
to disarm and disband
and for our guardsmen
to return to civilian life.
I ask the Congress
of the United States
to initiate proceedings
to remove from office
the current acting president
of the United States
and to appoint a new president
in accordance
with the Presidential
Succession Act of 1886.
I ask the congress to authorize
a presidential election
that will coincide with
the congressional election,
scheduled for the first Tuesday
after the first Monday of November.
I ask no more of the American people
than that they follow my example
and refuse to accept
or support government conduct
that is indefensible.
Liberty and justice will be restored,
and those who have violated
the Constitution
of the United States shall now
be addressed in strict keeping
with the law of the land.
Hope that America will come greatly through
a dark and dangerous time.
That the ship of state is sturdy and safe.
And that with continued courage and wisdom
we will safely return it
Oh! Oh, look at this little pisher!
Isn't he a beautiful kid?
Isn't he the most beautiful kid?
Where's your brother?
- Welcome.
- Herman.
Alvin.
Oh. Aunt Bess.
And this This is Minna.
And yes, your nephew is marrying up.
That's Minna Schapp, daughter
of Pinball Billy Schapp.
You know, owner of the steakhouse,
the soon to be lobster house,
managed by yours truly.
And half of the gaming machines
between what, southern Maryland,
northern Jersey?
- Please to meet you.
- And you.
Boy, something smells great.
- Yeah.
- Latkes.
Come on, I'll give you the recipe.
Alvin, is that your car outside?
Who's this? You must have grown six inches.
Get over here, slugger.
That's my car out front.
I'll give you a ride later if you want.
I mean, it ain't a Studebaker,
but then what is, huh?
In time, gentlemen, you will see
that there's more to this
than we now know.
Lindbergh's child was not
actually murdered
those many years ago.
The corpse found was of another child
selected by the Nazis.
Charles Jr. was in fact kidnapped,
and has been raised in Berlin
as a model Hitler Youth.
This being done to exploit
Mr. Lindbergh's fame.
The family has been tortured by this secret.
Blackmailed, every maneuver in his campaign,
every divisive circumstance that resulted
was engineered by the Nazis.
It's been unspeakably cruel,
to the Lindbergh's,
while trapped in this vicious hoax.
They have resisted the Nazi demands
against our people as much as they dared.
But it was not enough.
So, Lindbergh was ordered back to Berlin
to allow Wheeler, a true enemy of democracy
to ascend to the presidency
in time, gentlemen.
- All of this will become apparent
- Rabbi!
We must talk frankly.
See, the thing about the fight game,
if you understand it, is that
unless someone's rigged something,
you can look at a couple of pugs
and just know who has the advantage.
I mean, these certain guys
with certain styles,
- they're gonna last 15
- May I be excused?
Certainly, Seldon.
Anyway. Um These guys,
they're not gonna let themselves
get hit the same way
as the bums do. And when they are hit,
they're the kind who've shown you
they can take it, which is why
I'm gonna be backing this one
Italian fella from Camden.
Ugh! There's money in him!
I can smell it.
So, a big Plymouth automobile.
A sharpie's suits,
- the scum of the earth for your friends.
- Oh.
- Herman.
- This is what it comes to, Alvin?
Do you
Do you know? Do you care?
Does it bother you at all
what's happened in this country?
It did once.
But now, no. Now, it's
big cigars and motor cars
and big bets on Italian boxers.
You have any idea what's happening
to the Jews in this country?
What's at stake now
- in this coming election?
- The Jews?
I wrecked my life for the Jews.
I lost my fucking leg for the Jews.
I lost my fucking leg for you.
All your talk about Lindbergh
and how goddamn awful he was,
but did you ever do anything about it?
Huh?! Did you ever get off
your ass and fight?
- Or were you just gonna sit there
- Boys.
by the fucking radio,
complaining for the rest of eternity?!
And you're gonna talk to me
about the Jews? You?!
- If Lindbergh was still here
- But he's not.
- Is he?
- Thank God.
Is that what you think?
That the Jewish God, huh?
Yahweh himself waits
until the time is right
to put a plague on Pharaoh or part the sea,
so you can sit on your ass
and wait for God.
You think it's too easy.
To speak out against a Lindbergh.
- Do you think it doesn't cost?
- To speak?!
When the fuck do you people ever act?!
Huh? When it's too late.
When the damage is already done.
All you people ever do is talk.
Alvin!
Herman!
Herman, stop!
Alvin, no!
Dad!
Herman!
- Herman, stop! Stop!
- Dad!
Oh, God! Alvin!
Stop!
Herman! Oh, God! Alvin!
Stop!
Oh, Alvin.
Oh.
Oh, my God. Sandy, get some ice.
Philip, go to your room.
This has been my precinct for 20 years.
- But you're not on the list.
- What list?
I don't know what to tell you.
Is this Rubble Street address correct?
Lying bastards!
- What are you doing with that?
- It's broken.
It's broken? What do you mean
it's broken? How?
America needs Roosevelt!
We are getting the first reports
from precincts in Maryland,
Virginia and Connecticut.
In South Eastern Virginia,
the Norfolk-Hampton Roads area,
and several precincts that
Charles Lindbergh won handily
two years ago, we're seeing
some conflicting results early on.