But does he really have the guts to become a narc?
Richie asks, not illogically, whether hell have any kind of protection.
Im your liaison, the agent replies.
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Your roll as an informer is to inform, The D.A.
Not to get involved, not to entrap, not to play Columbo.
You hear something, you tell us.
What are you doing?
Jamie hisses at Kip when he wont stop needling Otto.
Youve been acting like a little bitch for days with your passive-aggressive bullshit.
He needs to get it together, she says, and stop acting so jealous.
Were opening for the Dolls in 24 fin hours, he spits back.
Do you think I give a s about which band members ck you sucked?
Clearly he does, but this isnt getting resolved today either way.
Hand in glove, Galasso replies serenely.
Creeps up here will sell their mothers for a shot of junk.
But the other partners need to join in the vote; Zak cant do it alone.
I thought you people were supposed to be smart.
In what universe you think I give a s who runs this fin company?
I got a chop shop by Yankee Stadium, use it to crush stolen cars.
Youre lucky youre not in the trunk of one of em.
In case it needs any clarification, he expects that $100K to be returned to him.
If Richie dies, Zak owes it; if Zak dies, Richie owes it.
If they both die, their daughters can work the streets until they pay him back.
He is nothing if not solution-oriented.
As soon as he exits, Richie turns to Zak in disbelief.
What the f were you thinking?, he asks.
Youre from Queens, not Des Moines, you know how this s works.
Still they seem, as usual, very proud of themselves for making a mess.
So what if he did it behind their backs are they happy or not?
Okay, they kind of are.
That small win is a brief bright spot, though; Galassos second-in-command, a.k.a.
His response: You wanted to be in A&R fin fix it!
As if Galasso cares that they killed some random radio guy?
Its not really clear what hes aiming for beside misdirection.
Gotta be careful.
Then he abruptly turns the conversation to sales for the next Tommy James record.
But we dont have much time to reminisce about Crimson and Clover and Hanky Panky because boom!
While hes talking, Joe Corso gets a bullet in the back of the head.
Galasso turns to Zak, unperturbed.
This is what happens.
Now go make some fin money.
Richie leads a dumbstruck, desperate-for-Valium Zak out as quickly as he can.
Listen to me, he whispers urgently in his ear.
You forget everything you heard today, okay?
We move forward, and we never have to talk about this again.
Yes, lets just purge that one from the scrapbook.
Jamie and Lester bust down Kips door to find him ODd on the floor but still breathing.
They throw him in the bathtub to revive him before the show.
And the first thing he does is punch Otto in the face.
Youre about to blow the biggest night of your lives over a girl?
He fires Jamie on the spot and turns to Kip and Otto.
Theres gonna be thousands of girls, more than it’s possible for you to imagine.
Now get out there on that stage and do your fin job.
Its how they got signed in the first place.
History in the making, kids.
And they hear it.
They hear it through the records we make.
He holds up the Nasty Bits freshly pressed debut album in triumph, and guess whats on the cover?
Devs shot of the guitar Richie axed into his television all those episodes back.
To reiterate his point, he passes out cans of spray paint and encourages them all to go crazy.
Cut to black, and season 1 is done.
