"Please, Just Drive Me Home"—Tired Nurse Got Into the Wrong Car, Unaware the Driver Was a Mob Boss — Transcript

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1. 0:09Please, [sighs and gasps]
2. 0:10just drive me home. I've been on my feet
3. 0:12for 20 hours.
4. 0:15>> Boss,
5. 0:16say the word.
6. 0:31>> What did you eat today?
7. 0:35>> Coffee.
8. 0:37>> Coffee's not food.
9. 0:44Drink all of it and you don't drive for
10. 0:4615 minutes.
11. 0:49>> Easy, Gus.
12. 0:53Nobody sat in that seat in 6 years.
13. 0:54Nobody.
14. 1:08>> This isn't my ride, is it?
15. 1:11>> No.
16. 1:13You know whose car you just got into?
17. 1:16>> Somebody who thinks coffee's a meal.
18. 1:18Finish that and yeah, I sit up front. I
19. 1:20get carsick in the back.
20. 1:27>> Tommy's still in surgery.
21. 1:28Two in the side, they're saying.
22. 1:33Upstairs is all cops and reporters,
23. 1:35boss. You walk in there, you're on the
24. 1:37front page tomorrow.
25. 1:41He doesn't listen to anybody, ma'am.
26. 1:44>> He's listening to me.
27. 1:55Better. Okay, now you can drive.
28. 1:58>> Out of surgery, stable.
29. 2:03Where to?
30. 2:05>> Avondale, Belmont, over the laundromat.
31. 2:114:40 in the morning and people are still
32. 2:13showing up to visit.
33. 2:18>> Somebody's in Lucas' front seat. Find
34. 2:21out who.
35. 2:35That's four times past the zoo.
36. 2:47>> Sorry, I fell asleep in your seat.
37. 2:51>> It's not my seat.
38. 2:55>> Don't.
39. 2:57I'm the one who got in your car.
40. 2:59You don't know me, I don't know you. I
41. 3:00like it that way.
42. 3:10And keep some juice in this car. You're
43. 3:11going to need it again.
44. 3:14>> Good night, Nurse Kowalski.
45. 3:16>> It's morning.
46. 3:22>> That's Sofia's seat, boss, and some
47. 3:23nurse just climbed right in.
48. 3:25>> I know.
49. 3:28>> Did you see the reminder? The loan
50. 3:30payment comes out Friday.
51. 3:32>> I saw it.
52. 3:33>> I can take one more night shift.
53. 3:35>> Mom, you're 61.
54. 3:36>> Kowalskis pay their own way, Nina.
55. 3:40>> Yeah.
56. 3:41I know.
57. 3:42Thanks for floating up. Bed seven, Tommy
58. 3:45Russo, four days, and his guy still
59. 3:47won't leave that door.
60. 3:50Nobody gets left alone with that kid,
61. 3:52not even us.
62. 4:01>> You.
63. 4:02You're standing in front of my crash
64. 4:03cart. Out.
65. 4:09>> They let you up here?
66. 4:12>> We're short-staffed. They'll let anybody
67. 4:14up here.
68. 4:15You eat today?
69. 4:17>> Breakfast.
70. 4:19>> Look at you.
71. 4:25Honey,
72. 4:26that's Luca Marchetti.
73. 4:28Half of Chicago crosses the street when
74. 4:30he walks by.
75. 4:33At 4:00 in the morning, he couldn't hold
76. 4:34a juice box straight. In here, he's just
77. 4:36family.
78. 4:39>> Professor, cannoli
79. 4:41for the nurses. Nobody ever brings them
80. 4:43anything.
81. 4:48Poor kid.
82. 4:49I got here before they took him up, you
83. 4:50know. Signed his forms myself.
84. 4:52>> [snorts]
85. 5:00>> Who brought you in?
86. 5:02>> Drove
87. 5:03myself.
88. 5:12>> Arthur Cain.
89. 5:14I kept the books for Luca's father, and
90. 5:16now I keep them for Luca.
91. 5:19You're the nurse who got into his car.
92. 5:22>> Wrong car. Long night.
93. 5:26>> Careful whose car you get into, dear.
94. 5:36You said coffee isn't food.
95. 5:39I've been standing here 20 minutes
96. 5:40trying to work out how people say this.
97. 5:43>> Say what?
98. 5:45>> Breakfast.
99. 5:46With me.
100. 5:47Usually I just tell people where to be.
101. 5:54>> Bus stops right there. I've had enough
102. 5:55of your car for 1 week.
103. 5:58My dad collapsed on a train platform
104. 6:00downtown. Heart attack. There's video.
105. 6:0432 people walked around him. I counted.
106. 6:08Bypass surgery.
107. 6:10My mom and I have been paying it off for
108. 6:126 years.
109. 6:13So, no.
110. 6:15I wasn't getting out of your car.
111. 6:17I don't walk past.
112. 6:21>> How'd you know that night that I hadn't
113. 6:24eaten?
114. 6:25>> Your hands.
115. 6:26Faces lie. Hands don't.
116. 6:29>> [snorts]
117. 6:30>> My dad said that.
118. 6:3230 years fixing buses for the city.
119. 6:36He could tell you who was hungover,
120. 6:39who was scared, who was about to quit
121. 6:42just by looking at their hands.
122. 6:56You paid off my loan.
123. 7:00>> It was nothing.
124. 7:02>> That was my dad's heart.
125. 7:04That was 6 years of my mother working
126. 7:06nights.
127. 7:07You don't get to make that nothing.
128. 7:12I already called them.
129. 7:14Every dime's going back to you.
130. 7:16Next time, you ask.
131. 7:18I might even say yes.
132. 7:22>> May I walk you to your bus?
133. 7:26>> [sighs]
134. 7:29>> Who sends that kind of money back?
135. 7:33May I send dinner to your floor?
136. 7:38>> You could just send it, boss.
137. 7:41>> She said ask.
138. 7:43>> Your car
139. 7:44>> [snorts]
140. 7:44>> or my car?
141. 7:44>> You may.
142. 7:47>> [laughter]
143. 7:50[snorts]
144. 7:55>> For your car.
145. 7:57May I call you
146. 8:00on your break?
147. 8:02>> You've got 4 minutes.
148. 8:04>> Then I'll talk fast.
149. 8:06>> [laughter]
150. 8:15[cough]
151. 8:26>> 101.
152. 8:28Three nights out here in the cold and
153. 8:29now you're running a fever.
154. 8:32Whoever's paying you isn't paying you
155. 8:33enough.
156. 8:37Chicken soup. Bring the thermos back
157. 8:39when you're done.
158. 8:41And tell your boss
159. 8:43if he wants to keep an eye on me
160. 8:45he can ask.
161. 8:55>> Okay, Marchetti. You and me are going to
162. 8:57talk about your little friend across the
163. 9:09>> front, please.
164. 9:14I didn't know where else to go.
165. 9:16>> Whose seat is this, Luca?
166. 9:20>> My daughter's.
167. 9:23It was her sixth birthday.
168. 9:27She'd been begging to ride up front for
169. 9:28a year and I always said no.
170. 9:31That night she says, "Birthday girl gets
171. 9:33the front seat, Daddy."
172. 9:35Four blocks.
173. 9:36I said yes.
174. 9:38Red light on Ashland.
175. 9:41A car pulls up next to us.
176. 9:43The Costas.
177. 9:47She got hit in the shoulder.
178. 9:48She lived.
179. 9:53I had every window replaced.
180. 9:55Kept the sticker.
181. 9:58Next morning I signed her away.
182. 10:01Her mother took her home to Evanston.
183. 10:03New last name.
184. 10:08Arthur said a man with a kid is a man on
185. 10:10a leash.
186. 10:11He wasn't wrong.
187. 10:15She turned 12 today.
188. 10:18I drove up to Ridgeview Middle School by
189. 10:19myself.
190. 10:22Every birthday
191. 10:24I park across from wherever she is.
192. 10:27Six years and I've never once gotten out
193. 10:30of the car.
194. 10:34That's why my hands were shaking that
195. 10:36night.
196. 10:37Tommy got hit at a red light.
197. 10:48>> What's her name?
198. 10:51>> Sophia.
199. 10:53>> Tell me about her.
200. 10:55>> She kicks with her left.
201. 10:58Ties her laces twice around before she
202. 11:00knots them.
203. 11:02Laughs with her whole body.
204. 11:04I could see that from across the street.
205. 11:12>> That's how you tie yours.
206. 11:14>> [sighs and snorts]
207. 11:17>> Next birthday you get out of the car.
208. 11:21>> I don't know how.
209. 11:23>> Then I'll sit right here while you
210. 11:24figure it out.
211. 11:29Luca,
212. 11:31the man with the Canali,
213. 11:33he lied in that room.
214. 11:35>> Arthur?
215. 11:39>> I can't tell you about my patient's
216. 11:40night. That's Tommy's to tell.
217. 11:43But I can tell you what I saw with my
218. 11:45own eyes.
219. 11:48You got the text he was out of surgery?
220. 11:50We pulled out and Arthur's car pulled
221. 11:53in.
222. 11:554:40.
223. 11:56>> [music]
224. 11:57>> You were watching the road?
225. 11:59I was watching the window.
226. 12:03He said he signed the forms before they
227. 12:04took Tommy up.
228. 12:06When Tommy wakes up,
229. 12:08ask him who did.
230. 12:14>> Arthur's the only one of my people who
231. 12:16knows where Sophia is.
232. 12:18Six years and she's been safe.
233. 12:20>> Then checking won't cost you anything.
234. 12:27>> Gus will take you home.
235. 12:37Nice school. Evanston's a long drive.
236. 12:40Gus,
237. 12:41two cars up to Ridgeview, now.
238. 12:48It's me.
239. 12:50I know.
240. 12:51Six years.
241. 12:53Listen to me. Don't let her walk home
242. 12:54this week. My people are outside the
243. 12:56school. I'll explain.
244. 13:07Somebody told the Costas son.
245. 13:09Six years and nobody knew.
246. 13:12Did you tell the nurse about Sophia? The
247. 13:15school?
248. 13:17>> Yes.
249. 13:20>> You paid off her loan and she sent it
250. 13:22back.
251. 13:24I keep the books. I saw both. Smart
252. 13:27girl.
253. 13:28Then on Tuesday, the Costas paid it off.
254. 13:32One of their companies have Gus check.
255. 13:38>> It's real, boss.
256. 13:43>> Costas people made the payment?
257. 13:45>> [clears throat]
258. 13:46>> They did. I drove your cash over myself.
259. 13:51You said nobody was going to go near the
260. 13:52kid.
261. 13:53>> And nobody will.
262. 13:55Not once Luca stops being sentimental.
263. 14:00Sunday dinner. You tell the table you
264. 14:02saw the nurse with Costas people.
265. 14:06By Christmas, the families will want a
266. 14:08man without a leash at the head of that
267. 14:10table.
268. 14:12>> [cough]
269. 14:21>> You did it again. I told you to ask me.
270. 14:24>> I didn't pay it.
271. 14:26The Costas did.
272. 14:28And they sent me this.
273. 14:29Sophia's school.
274. 14:35You're the only person I ever told about
275. 14:37that school, Nina.
276. 14:44>> You think I gave away where your
277. 14:45daughter goes to school?
278. 14:47For a loan?
279. 14:49I sent your money back, Luca. Why would
280. 14:51I keep theirs?
281. 14:55You get to be scared for her.
282. 14:57You don't get to be scared of me.
283. 15:02The second payment, I want it sent back.
284. 15:05I don't care who it came from. It's not
285. 15:06mine.
286. 15:12If Luca didn't pay it,
287. 15:15then who sent that guy outside my
288. 15:16window?
289. 15:22>> Tommy's awake. He's asking for you.
290. 15:25>> [sighs]
291. 15:27>> Night before I got shot,
292. 15:29I'm outside the Pincer's office.
293. 15:32He's on with Joe Costa.
294. 15:34Gives him a school up in Evanton.
295. 15:37I figured it was business.
296. 15:41Then he sees me in the doorway.
297. 15:43Says, "The kid heard me.
298. 15:46Handle it."
299. 15:49Next night, they get me at the light.
300. 15:54>> Who signed your forms?
301. 15:57>> Me.
302. 15:58A nurse held the killed bird. Nobody
303. 15:59else was there.
304. 16:05>> Arthur gave the Costas that school
305. 16:07before Nina ever got in your car.
306. 16:12And he paid off that loan to hang it on
307. 16:14her.
308. 16:15He couldn't get past our guys at this
309. 16:17door.
310. 16:19So, he needed somebody to blame before
311. 16:20Tommy wake up.
312. 16:24>> I'm telling the cops, boss. They shot
313. 16:26me.
314. 16:27>> [panting]
315. 16:31>> Then tell them everything.
316. 16:33And tell them where he'll be Sunday at
317. 16:341:00.
318. 16:38>> You want me to go get him?
319. 16:40>> No.
320. 16:42The families listen to Arthur.
321. 16:44They hear it Sunday at the table in
322. 16:46front of everybody.
323. 16:49Ask the hospital for a secure room and
324. 16:51an alias for Tommy.
325. 16:53>> Hillary, pharmacy here, first station.
326. 16:58>> I was wrong.
327. 16:59Sunday, at my family's table, I stop
328. 17:02hiding.
329. 17:03You don't have to come.
330. 17:04I'm asking.
331. 17:07Gus is downstairs. If you don't want him
332. 17:09there, wave him off.
333. 17:22>> What's this?
334. 17:25>> Let him up, Gus. He's bringing back my
335. 17:26thermos.
336. 17:32>> Name's Benny.
337. 17:34>> [clears throat]
338. 17:34>> Don't go tomorrow.
339. 17:38>> Keep it. You're still coughing.
340. 17:41And tell Mr. Marchenko I'm going.
341. 17:45>> Mr. Marchenko's not my boss. Never was.
342. 17:53>> Hey, that's Kanes' driver.
343. 18:00>> I thought Luca sent him.
344. 18:02>> Boss doesn't send kids. He sends me.
345. 18:12For 6 years,
346. 18:14our boss has been hiding a daughter.
347. 18:17You all know what I've always said.
348. 18:21A man with a child
349. 18:23is a man on a leash.
350. 18:29>> [clears throat]
351. 18:30>> I have one.
352. 18:31Her name is Sofia.
353. 18:33And somebody handed that child's school
354. 18:36to the Costas.
355. 18:38Luca told that nurse where his daughter
356. 18:40goes to school.
357. 18:41The Costas paid off her loan on Tuesday.
358. 18:44She's the traitor.
359. 18:46And I have a witness.
360. 18:53Before anybody says a word,
361. 18:56Thursday,
362. 18:57I asked her the same thing,
363. 18:59and I was wrong.
364. 19:01Everybody in this city reads my face.
365. 19:04She's the only one who ever read my
366. 19:05hands.
367. 19:14Whatever happens at this table,
368. 19:16I'm standing right here.
369. 19:18>> Over the professor?
370. 19:20>> Yes.
371. 19:22>> Sit down, Luca.
372. 19:24Let me.
373. 19:33Paid in full.
374. 19:34Twice.
375. 19:35Once by him, once by somebody who wanted
376. 19:37everybody at this table to see it.
377. 19:40I sent them both back.
378. 19:42Benny,
379. 19:44you stood outside my window three nights
380. 19:46running.
381. 19:47You've still got my thermos.
382. 19:49Tell them what you saw.
383. 20:00>> Mr. Kane told me nobody would go near
384. 20:02that little girl.
385. 20:04He had me drive him up to Evanston to
386. 20:05look at her school.
387. 20:08I drove the money for the nurse's loan
388. 20:09to Costa's guy myself.
389. 20:13And he told me to stand up here and say
390. 20:15I saw this lady with Costa's people.
391. 20:19I never did.
392. 20:24What I saw was her carrying soup across
393. 20:26the street to the guy who was spying on
394. 20:28her.
395. 20:30>> [cough and clears throat]
396. 20:32>> I'll drive you anywhere, Mr. Kane.
397. 20:35I won't help you hurt a kid.
398. 20:37And I won't lie about her.
399. 20:42>> The boy's been sick all week.
400. 20:45He doesn't know what he's saying.
401. 20:48>> You told me you signed Tommy's forms,
402. 20:50Arthur.
403. 20:52He signed them himself.
404. 20:56You pulled in at 4:40 to find out if he
405. 20:58could still talk.
406. 21:00He can.
407. 21:06The night before they shot him,
408. 21:08he heard you give Joe Costa that school.
409. 21:11A whole day
410. 21:13before she ever sat in my car.
411. 21:17The kid heard me
412. 21:19handle it.
413. 21:21So, they shot Tommy at a red light.
414. 21:25Same as my daughter.
415. 21:32>> [snorts]
416. 21:36>> Oldest rule there is.
417. 21:39You don't touch the kids. Every family
418. 21:41at this table looks after that little
419. 21:43girl now.
420. 21:45Joe Costa hears it from me tonight.
421. 21:46Cops.
422. 21:52>> I'm not doing to you what you do to me.
423. 21:54That's what changed.
424. 22:05>> Careful whose car you get into, Arthur.
425. 22:14>> I put you in Sophia's seat.
426. 22:17And then I looked at you like you were a
427. 22:18Costa.
428. 22:23>> And I was mad at you all week over a guy
429. 22:25you never even sent.
430. 22:28We're both bad at this.
431. 22:32I'm not something you park somewhere
432. 22:34safe, Luca.
433. 22:36I've got a job, a mother, and a loan
434. 22:39with my name on it. I'm keeping all
435. 22:41three.
436. 22:44>> Then I'll keep asking.
437. 22:45You'll get sick of it.
438. 22:48>> Then ask her.
439. 22:52Sophia,
440. 22:53you've been walking past her for 6
441. 22:54years.
442. 22:59>> Sophia her.
443. 23:05>> Her mother just called back. Sophie has
444. 23:07been asking about the black car across
445. 23:08the street every birthday since she was
446. 23:108.
447. 23:11>> [sighs and gasps]
448. 23:15>> Will you come with me?
449. 23:17>> Front seat.
450. 23:25>> It's not even her birthday.
451. 23:28>> Good.
452. 23:29You've sat through enough of those.
453. 23:32I said I'd sit right here. I'm sitting
454. 23:34right here.
455. 23:35Faces lie. Hands don't. You want this.
456. 23:40>> [sighs]
457. 23:50>> You're the black car.
458. 23:54>> I'm the black car.
459. 24:04>> Please, just drive me home. I've been on
460. 24:06my feet for 20 hours.
461. 24:09>> Sophia says you're coming to her game
462. 24:11Saturday. That's not a question. She's
463. 24:13like you.
464. 24:18You know, you could sit in the back now.
465. 24:21>> I get carsick.
466. 24:23>> I know.
467. 24:29That seat was hers.
468. 24:31I'd like it to be yours, too.
469. 24:35At least till she's old enough to fight
470. 24:36you for it.
471. 24:40I'm asking.
472. 24:44>> [laughter]
473. 24:46[snorts]
474. 24:52>> Hours drive.