Le cercle noir

[last lines]

Guido Lorenz: [Lorenz and Torrey, in car, as they watch Vescari enter a church] Nothing changes, only the names.

Lou Torrey: You gotta be kidding. We're chest deep in water. Screaming against the rushing tide.

Al Vescari: [cut to Vescari in church confessional, after organizing the hit on the other Dons] Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I haven't been to confession for ten days. I lose my temper...

Lou Torrey: [cut back to Torrey and Lorenz in car] You know, last three weeks, in New York City alone, there were 159 homicides?

Al Vescari: [in confessional] I don't mean to be harsh... but I... struck my son in anger last Tuesday.

Lou Torrey: [in car] Three thousand criminal assaults, six thousand robberies.

Al Vescari: [in confessional] Ruth, my wife, bless her, I swore at her.

Lou Torrey: [in car] You multiply that by Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles.

Al Vescari: [in confessional] For these... and all the other sins which I cannot remember, forgive me.

[exits confessional, pauses to cross himself in front of the altar, and leaves church]

Lou Torrey: [in car, watching Vescari get into his limo] You remember that cartoon of an old Roman Circus, where all the lions are roaring, and the page boy yells down the corridor...

[to camera]

Lou Torrey: you've got five minutes, Christians.

[Vescari's limo pulls away as credits roll]