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.