Marcone Explains His Football Plan, Explained：for the cheap seats

What's really going on

The chapter gathers the film's two engines in one place: Jimmy's refusal to be intimidated, and the conspiracy that has been running under everything. Jimmy's half is pure defiance — he insults the lieutenant and says he does not know where Joe is — and it shows that the pressure is not going to crack him. Joe's half is quieter and more worrying: he uses charm to get information out of someone he clearly knows well, and the address he extracts is what moves the case toward Baynard. Then Marcone explains the whole scheme himself, in the calm voice of a businessman describing a market. "Football is a dying beast," he says, and his solution is to legalize gambling and buy the senators who will vote for it. Even the enormity is a sales pitch: it is billions, nine zeroes, and everyone is in his hip pocket but one.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• When in doubt introduces a simple piece of advice.
• Big bucks is casual slang for serious money.
• In someone's hip pocket means fully bought or controlled.
• A nickname can draw a line as sharply as a threat.

発音のポイント

• give you this — Give you links into one sound before this.
• out of here — Out of here runs together as one chunk.
• when's it — When's it blurs, the t nearly disappears.