![]() ![]() ![]() Lionel and Gilbert give chase, relying on Frank-still wearing a wire-to guide them to Greenpoint, a Polish neighborhood in Brooklyn. ![]() A giant man hurries Frank downstairs and into a car and begins driving away. Frank gives the code to let the men know that he’s exiting the Zendo. ![]() Lionel listens as Minna discusses an unnamed woman, a person named Ullman, and something called a “ Rama-lama-ding-dong” with his acquaintance, whose voice Lionel does not recognize. The anxious Lionel calms himself by eating White Castle burgers. Minna has, over the years, become a father figure to all four “Minna Men.” Lionel and Gilbert wait and listen while Frank, wearing a wire, enters a Zendo (Zen Buddhist study center) and conducts a meeting with an unknown client or acquaintance. Gilbert and Lionel, along with two men named Tony Vermonte and Danny Fantl, grew up together in an orphanage in Brooklyn-and were, at a young age, recruited to work for Frank Minna, a “penny-ante hood” with ties to the Mafia. Lionel is on a stakeout in the Manhattan neighborhood of Yorkville with his colleague Gilbert Coney. Lionel Essrog is an uncredentialed “detective” with Tourette’s syndrome (a neurological disorder characterized by compulsory, repetitive verbal and physical tics). ![]()
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