- Arnie Wendler: How'dya like me to sing? To turn states evidence?
- Judge Kincaid: And what do you expect in return?
- Arnie Wendler: To walk out clean. Absolutely clean.
- Judge Kincaid: You have the audacity to suggest a proposal like that to me?
- Arnie Wendler: That's the deal. Take it or leave it.
- Judge Kincaid: What makes you think I'd make a bargain like this with you Wendler? You haven't a chance. This entire city is looking for you. You'll be picked up in a matter of days, hours.
- Arnie Wendler: You'd like to crack the Syndicate wouldn't ya, Kincaid? You'd like to reach one of the big boys.
- Judge Kincaid: Go on.
- Arnie Wendler: Me, I'm small fry. Maybe I burn for Williamson's murder, but I don't have to testify. I don't even have to open my trap in the courtroom unless I want to, but if I do, I'll nail one of the big boys for you. Maybe 5he biggest. I can put the finger right on Charlie Lupo.
- Katherine (Kathy) Lupo: Should I be happy because you bought him like you buy everybody else?
- Charlie Lupo: I didn't buy him. Of course I talked to the boy. But what's wrong with helping Stan?
- Katherine (Kathy) Lupo: I told you to leave him alone. Now I wouldn't spit on him.
- Charlie Lupo: Be practical Kathy. I only did it for you. Haven't I always given you everything you ever wanted?
- Katherine (Kathy) Lupo: Yes Poppa - you've always given me everything: everything except for self respect and decency. That's something you can't buy.
- [last lines]
- Narrator: This is the syndicate. This is how the cartel works. This is New York confidential.
- Charlie Lupo: Loyalty - that's something you can't buy. Half the pigs that work for us can't even spell it. Oh - what I wouldn't give for a salami on rye and a kosher pickle.
- Narrator: A meeting - from every territory in the country they answered the summons. Names you seldom hear, faces you rarely see. The High Court of organised-crime sitting in judgement, judgement which is final, from which there is no appeal.
- Charlie Lupo: You know Ben and your father with the first friends I had in this country.
- Nick Magellan: Yes, I know Charlie.
- Charlie Lupo: Ben saved my life down at the docks. Almost got killed doing it too. He's gonna have to go - that's all there is to it. The organisation comes first.
