From now on, I’m going to be discussing the
contents of Crimetown episodes, and
specifically, spoiling the episodes. So, if you still aren’t following along,
I’d recommend catching up on the past episodes. They’re usually in 30 minute
chunks, and I highly recommend them!
The fourth
episode of Crimetown is probably the first where we get full-on malice for the
entire half-hour, as the focus is on the details of a heist at a mob stash
house – a fur coat company – and the ensuing fallout, with mobsters turning on
one another. The episode borrows heavily from Tim White’s The Last Good Heist, which is available on
Amazon, of course.
The alleged
heist by eight thieves and mobsters robbed the Mafia and Patriarca of $3
million (official estimates) or $40 million (mob estimates). The episode ends
with the whopper that Patriarca arranged the robbery himself – to humble unruly
bosses under him, and also because the Patriarca Family deposits in that vault
were taken out the day before.
Listening to
this episode, it was impossible for my mind to resist making two connections to
mobster movies. First, Robert Dussault – one of the thieves – loves Vegas. He
immediately burns through the money, via gambling and a high class hooker. I couldn’t
help but think of Robert De Niro in Goodfellas,
when he cajoles his fellow
mobsters for spending too much after the Lufthansa heist. “What the fuck is
the matter with you?” The other movie connection – Casino, which is probably my favorite mobster movie, because it’s a
single, self-contained film with no real winners or glorification at the end.
While the
previous Crimetown episodes had some salty language, this one doubles down with
the jailhouse tapes of Joe Danese, another of the robbery crew members. He’s
the star of the episode, with statements like, “I told Chucky Flynn from the
start, if he rats, I’m not going to jail over this fucking motherfucker. I’m
not going to jail over this fucking piece of shit, I said.”
The
Shakespearean drama in the episode is between Dussault, Flynn and Danese.
Dussault spent all of his money and was notorious for having a big mouth, so a
hit was put out on him. Flynn, one of his friends, was assigned the hit, with
Danese overseeing him. But ultimately, Flynn can’t go through for it… Only for
Dussault to spill the beans, confessing to the heist, when FBI agents lie to
him and tell him Flynn got capped for protecting him.
If the show
has a “star,” it’s Jerry Tillinghast, the D&D
playing mobster first introduced in the second episode. He pops up again in
the fourth episode, as he’s implicated in witness statements and court
testimony as participating in the heist. He denies it then, and even though he’s
admitted to a slew of other crimes on the pod, he still denies it today. It
gives him a weird air of credibility though.
One other
thing to post – Full transcripts of Crimetown episodes are now on their
website! Awesome! So, if like me, you have trouble spelling some of these names
or getting those exact quotes, you can find transcripts here.
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