Just as he is at the peak of his influence and power, an old crime comes back to haunt mob boss Vito Rizzuto.Just as he is at the peak of his influence and power, an old crime comes back to haunt mob boss Vito Rizzuto.Just as he is at the peak of his influence and power, an old crime comes back to haunt mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
Storyline
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- TriviaThe triple murder for which Vito Rizzuto is extradited from Canada to the US in this episode is one of the main story points of Donnie Brasco (1997).
- GoofsIn the ambush scene about 36 minutes in, eight shots are fired from a lightweight revolver (one, and then a volley of seven) which is clearly shown to have a 5-shot capacity while the killer puts a lollipop in his mouth.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Declan Gardiner: [narrating] Since the 1960s, the port city of Montreal has been one of the largest points of import for coke and heroin in the world. If you lived in New York, or Boston, or Philly, anywhere in the northeast of America really, and did drugs, they came through Montreal.
Declan Gardiner: And with all that money on the table, everyone wanted their cut. So for decades, the city was at war. The Irish, they owned the docks. Haitians, well, they ran street level operations, the Bikers controlled distribution, but they had nothing without the Mafia. The Mafia had those international contacts to import the product.
- SoundtracksIt's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
Performed by AC/DC
Written by Bon Scott (as Ronald Scott) , Angus Young and Malcolm Young
Published by J. Albert and Son Pty Ltd (AU)
Courtesy of J. Albert and Son Pty Ltd
Some viewers may say that there is one scene in this the pilot episode of Bad Blood which takes place in a bar back in 1981 that may remind viewers of the violent animal rage displayed by Joe Pesci in the 1990 film Goodfellas. The scene shows a young Vitto Rizzuto and two of his cronies going back in time to 1981 in the dead of winter when they are asked by the bar owner Big Mike, to repay a favor owed to his father, and when called upon by passage of the secret word "zoo" Vitto and his two cronies are to proceed to come out of hiding from behind the door and first rough up then rob the three Bonnano mob bosses that will be in the bar with the bar owner who himself is also a mob boss. I will not go into detail other than to say that this particular nights event will come back to haunt the older Vitto Rizzuto three decades later.
If you are not yet familiar with the Montreal based Rizzuto crime family, this six (6) part TV mini-series will not only enlighten you on some factual events but I trust based on the strong showing of this pilot episode and the all-star cast of veteran mobster actors such as Anthony LaPaglia, Paul Sorvino, Enrico Colantoni, Tony Nappo and Kim Coates, you will also hunger for more episodes as quickly as the last one ends, you will want another episode to begin.
I give episode 1 "Scar Tissue" a superior Badda-Bing, Badda-Boom, 10 for 10 rating.
- Ed-Shullivan
- Sep 28, 2017