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It’s 1985. New York City is constantly plagued with mafia related activities. From bank
robberies to kidnappings, it is evident that mafia related activities were involved in these crimes,
though the evidence were not enough for a justifiable trial or judicial hearings.
Meanwhile, Andrew Marino, a young high school drop out of Italian descent, was working his
way into the Manzella mafia. One day, he stops by a coffee shop and meets an attractive
waitress, Kate Palmero. After going out on dates, the couple gets married and decides to have a
baby 2 years later.
Upon having a baby, Marino no longer is part of Manzella and currently works at a local
newspaper shop. Bombarded with financial instabilities of raising a family, the inability to pay
off gambling debts, addition to cocaine, and numerous misdemeanors, Andrew becomes an
alcoholic and ultimately abandons the family, leaving Kate to raise their new born son, Marzano.
A year later, Kate marries Blake Cruz, who proves to become a great father.
Because of Andrew’s instabilities and ultimate failure in becoming a father, Kate and Blake
raised Marzano in a strict manner, making him go to school and do chores, and in the midst of it
all, sheltered him from gang-related activities that dominated the city. Although Marzano
discovers that Blake is not his biological father, he was never told why his father had left him
and never knew how he looked like. He was also different from all the other kids of his age
because of his well-behaved manner and morals. Because of this strict upbringing, Marzano does
very well in school, earning all A’s throughout elementary and high school, thus, allowing him
the opportunity to apply for colleges. One day, Marzano gets a letter from Colombia University,
stating that the university has offered him a scholarship. Marzano readily accepts and enrolls
next fall as a college student.
4 years fly by, and Marzano graduates with honors with a business degree from Colombia. He
soon lands a highly-sought after position at Goldman Sachs in the sales and trade department. At
Goldman, Marzano quickly adapts and rapidly climbs the corporate ladder. As a trader, Marzano
sold financial investments such as stocks and futures and his goal was to deliver increasing
returns that he promised his clients.
However, one day, the market was on a downturn and the BBC stock he had just sold to his top
clients took a big loss. Though Marzano lost large sums of money, everyone else on the trade
floor were suffering from this unexpected drop. But because Marzano was the best trader on his
floor and his reputation of never taking a loss was on the line, Marzano could not afford a loss.
In addition, in order to climb the corporate ladder, which was Marzano’s goal, it was imperative
that he avoid a catastrophe like this. Such a mistake would cost him his opportunity to advance.
Struggling with what to do and coping with his failure, Marzano comes up with a conclusion; to
cover this up, at all cost. Torn between moral rightness and his undeniable thirst for
advancement, Marzano brainstorms way of concealing his loss. Due to his large network of
clients, Marzano decides to borrow a large sum of money from Charlie, a member of Manzella,
without his client’s or anyone knowledge, in order to make up the monumental loss. Because of
this scheme, in everyone else’s eyes, Marzano was the only trader on the trade floor to not suffer
monumental losses that day and thus was praised as a financial genius as a result.
5 years later, Marzano is on the board of directors. Throughout the years on the job, Marzano
evolves from a poor boy from the slums to a wealthy 35 year old. His financial success is
confirmed, when he purchases his parents a house in the Hamptons. However, Marzano’s
personality has changed drastically as well; Marzano is no longer the innocent, morally-behaved
boy he was once. He is now completely influenced by the Wall-Street greedy mentality where
sales is first and everything else is secondary. These new ideals are the ones that drive him from
day to day as he continues to perform well at Goldman.
Meanwhile, one day while coming out of a meeting, Marzano gets a call from the FBI on basis of
investment fraud. While denying the charges, Marzano quickly attempts to meet with Charlie, in
order to discuss possible actions and consequences. During the meeting in an abandoned
warehouse in Bronx, Charlie refuses to help Marzano and states that, if Marzano even attempts
to report his previous “business arrangements” with Manzella, mafia consequences would be
implemented.
Marzano storms off. He then contacts a rival mafia gang, the Guzerri’s and pays them a lofty
sum to have Charlie killed by midnight, in an attempt to cover up the evidence and ultimately
save his job and career. However, under this deal, it was agreed that half the money be paid
beforehand, and once the money is paid, there is no terminating the operation. At 11:40,
Marzano receives a phone call from Charlie. Charlie tells Marzano that he is his real biological
father, and that his real name is Andrew.
At first Marzano does not believe it, but after a deep conversation it obviously proves that he was
indeed, Marzano’s biological father. At this point, Marzano tries to call the assassination attempt
off, but fails to do so. Immediately, he then rushes to meet his father at the park.
As Marzano arrives at the park, he hears 3 gun shots in the bathroom. Marzano quickly opens the
door and immediately a body flops to the floor, who appears to be Andrew, looking straight at
Marzano. Andrew whispers to Marzano “ I just wanted you to be successful” and is finished off
by a 4th
bullet from the Guzerri assassins.