THE YOUNG SOPRANOS (VIOLENCE) "MEMENTO MORI" XIX--XXI (Continued)
THE
YOUNG SOPRANOS
"MEMENTO MORI"
XIX
By J. BECK
2024
...
(Continued)
A.J. Soprano & a Black Cat
In the Cemetery
"I can Feel it in the Air,
Tonight--Oh Lord"
"I've been Waiting for this Moment
All my Life--OH LORD"
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(PHIL COLLINS: FACE VALUE--1981)
A.J. Soprano & a Black Cat
At his Late Mob Boss Father
Tony Soprano's Grave
Ten Years After
...
A.J. is sitting behind the office desk with both feet kicked up as his father use to sit there when the guys came in. "Close the door!--Cork stand up against it." (What is it A.J.?)
Do you Boys still want to be "Made Men?" (What kind of question is that? Of course we fucking do T!)
Well, I have our "Golden-Ticket," Right here!" A.J. holds up the folded piece of paper between his two fingers to show them. (Fuck Yea!)
"Come on then, Lets do This Thing!" Leaving, A.J. left first
in his car while Geno & Jake get into the car with Cork to pull off.
A
half hour later, & Satriale's had cleared out. Cork pulled up in a different car in front of
the Pork Market. Where Paulie Walnuts was sitting alone wearing a bathrobe
& slippers tanning his face, by holding up a reflective foil-board up under
his chin. Geno & Jake exit the
parked car & walked up on both side's of Paulie's chair at the sidewalk
table. "What do you Punks
want?" Paulie asked without opening
his eyes.
Geno
says, "We came to give you a Ride!" (Ride, I'm not going
Anywhere) "Oh, Yes you are
Paulie!" & He feels a pistol-barrel at his head. Opening his eyes big, looking up at both of
them as they lift him up out of his chair to his slipper feet. "Go get into the car Mad Man! Or We will blow your crazy fucking ass away
right here!" (OK--Take it Easy--I'm Going--I'm Going)) "Cuff
Him!" (Is that really Necessary?) "Yes, Now Get In!--Drive."
Meadow
was traveling down the Freeway & she passed A.J. taking the Cemetery
Exit. Not recognizing her new leased car
when she honked & waved. So Meadow
turned around at the next exit to double-back & see what A.J. was
doing? But when she pulled up she found
two empty parked cars. (Cork was laying backed with his driver-seat reclined
where he couldn't be seen.) Meadow
pulled down farther the drive before parking.
She got out to investigate, assuming A.J. was visiting their father's
grave. She didn't want to interrupt his
privacy nor his "Peace." But
Meadow just wanted to make sure he wasn't upset either. But she wasn't prepared for what she seen.
Meadow, being unannounced, silently watched from behind a large tombstone. She seen A.J. walk out carrying & petting a black cat in front of their late father's gravestone where Geno & Jake escorted Paulie Walnuts up wearing a dirty bathrobe & slippers with his wrist hand-cuffed behind his back.
"What is this all about A.J.?--What are you doing with that Cat?" (Shut-Up Crazy Man!) Geno pokes his gun into Paulie's bathrobed ribs.
Have you ever seen my father's grave-stone Paulie? Of your old friend & dead BOSS' before this?--(No.)
I know I didn't see you at his Funeral almost ten year ago?" (You know I couldn't come with all the Feds swarming around the grave-yard?)
I wanted to bring you here for my father to see just what an embrassment & disgrace you have become to "Our Life." (You know this is just a gimmick to beat a bum-rap like "The Chin.) "You are No Chin Paulie--You are a Back-Stabbing Liar!" (HEY!)
"Isn't it Ironic? How you accused my father of being incompetent to be the Boss because he went to see a SHRINK before you had him WHACKED?!--And look at you standing here like some Crazy Man." (I didn't kill your father A.J. & I am not Crazy!) "I don't believe you Paulie.--How about you Boys? Do you believe him?"
"Fuck No, A.J.--I don't believe Him!" Geno pokes him with his pistol again. (No--I don't fucking believe him either T." Jake added) As Paulie looked back over his shoulders at them, shocked by what was happening.
"Wait
a Minute--Listen." (What?) "What's your Price?--Everybody has their
Price! (For What?) You don't have to
kill me, I have money--I can pay all of you off!" (I don't think you have enough
money on you in your soiled bathrobe?) "I have money, alot of money I can
pay you for not killing me?" (Where?) "I can't tell you that or you
will kill me & have it too!" (I will kill you if you don't tell me)
"It's at my house."
(Where?) In a floor safe under
the dresser in the bedroom." (What's the safe-combination?) "It's
written on the back of a picture in the bedroom." (Which picture, of
what?) "I don't know what it is of but there is only one picture on the
bedroom walls."
"What if we find the safe empty? (You Won't! It's full of Cash!) A.J. turns & looks at his father's gravestone & Asked, "What's that Dad? SSSSH--Listen! What did you say? Paulie is a Liar?" A.J. peers up at Paulie who was trembling as he is shaming & making a mockery of him & his "Crazy" Gimmick.
What do you Boys say? Do you believe him? (Jake says I don't know A.J.?)--(Fuck, No. A.J.--I don't believe this babbling Fool--There's no safe or money! I say We "WHACK" Him, Right Here--Right Now! First, he's lying about being crazy. Then he's lying about killing your Dad & Boss. & Now he is lying about some make believe money that he doesn't have.)
Paulie
is beginning to panic as he listened, staring at he black cat with big eyes
which A.J. continued petting as he slowly approached him closer. "You know what fellas? I think I believe him!--Jake, Unlock his
Hand-cuffs." Paulie stood sulking
& glaring back at Geno & Jake rubbing his red wrist. (You didn't have
to lock them bracelets down so tight)
A.J. turns his ear to his father's gravestone saying, "What's that Dad?--Ask Paulie if he can see the Madonna now?"
A.J. stepped up closer to Paulie still holding the black cat. "I have something to show you!" He takes his cell-phone out & holds it up in Paulie's face to play a video with the song: "Don't Stop Believing"--"This is a home-made video I made the last time I seen my Dad alive.
We were at Holstein's Resturant . Our family was meeting there for dinner & their signature onion rings days before my 21st birthday. I was sitting beside my mother across the table from my Dad when Meadow arrived late, trying to parralel-park her car on the street & He looked up to smile at his "Little Angel," when we heard the inside door-bell ring.
Then suddenly, a stranger exited the MEN'S Room behind us & "BANG--BANG--BANG." He POPS my Oldman in the head three times. As you can see from this Homemade Family Movie I made sitting across from him in the booth; Until I dropped my phone under the table to shield my mother from the gun-fire & the screen goes Black.
My father was murdered at point blank before his Family's very eyes. Then the shooter drops the weapon &
calmly walks out of the crowded diner of terror & screaming with his back
to all of us except Meadow who stood frozen inside the front door staring in
Shock."
"Say Hello to the Oldman for me
Paulie!"
A.J.
had made an audio & video recording of the entire exchange &
execution. He had arrived before them to
the cemetery; (After stopping to buy the black cat at a pet store) to set up a
video recorder on a tri-pod standing amongest the cemetery stones focased upon
his father's grave. (With a remote
control in his jacket pocket for him to control it)
Then
(Click--Click) A.J. snapped pictures of his "Bitter Revenge," of
Paulie Walnut's Blank--Far away eyes with his cell-phone camera
for his Scrap-Book.
A.J. dropped the pistol (Click--Click) Then the three young men walk off together & left Paulie laying dead in a pool of warm blood & the smell of the gunsmoke haze lingering in the air of the cemetery.
"One Down; Two to
Go!" A.J. retrieves his tri-pod
stand & camera as they get into two cars to leave & drove out past
Meadow's parked, leased car not recognizing it as her's.
Meadow comes out from her hiding place to get a closer look for herself. "You Bastard." When she felt something brush lightly up against her leg like her father's hand from the grave. Startling her, Meadow finds A.J.'s black cat prop purring about her feet.
"What's your Name?" She asked as she picked it up &
carried it back to her parked car to leave the cemetery crime scene.
...
(To Be Continued)
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