Manhattan Reborn 1978

a new day.

In the far east, the rising sun behind a few clouds rises slowly when people don't notice it.

new York.

The Queen.

At the door of old Malkin's house, Alto Sidric, with bloodshot eyes, sat leaning on the driver's seat.

The wisp of green smoke from the cigarette in his hand was blown away by the autumn morning breeze outside the car window.

After a while.

The door of Old Malkin's house was opened from the inside, and Polly, who was wearing pajamas, walked out of the house with Rudy with an ugly face.

After the two said a few words at the door, Ludi rubbed his tired face and walked towards Alto's car.

Polly stood at the door, watching Lu Di get into the car with cold eyes. As the car drove away, she couldn't help but tighten her thin clothes, cursed a few words in her mouth, and returned home.

on the way.

Alto, who was driving, took out cigarettes, handed one to Ludy, and waited silently. .

Ludy took a long drag on the lit cigarette, blew out a large cloud of smoke onto the windshield, and whispered.

“You don’t need to continue following the real estate development company’s projects~”

"Malkin Sr. financed a movie and the director and screenwriter wrote the script in the Plaza Hotel."

"You can go ahead in a while~ We will talk about your follow-up work arrangements after the movie is released!"

Alto gently bit the filter of his cigarette, said "Hmm" in a muffled voice, and slowly exerted force on his feet to make the car drive faster.

ten minutes later.

The car stopped in front of Ludy's house.

Ludy opened the car door, turned to look at Alto and asked, "What do you want to say?"

Alto smiled bitterly, shook his head slightly and said, "I know, I was wrong again~"

Ludy stared at Alto. After watching quietly for a few seconds, he stepped out of the car, closed the door, leaned on the door, bent down, and whispered.

"Most of this movie will be shot in New York~ Old Malkin asked me to tell you, if you take good care of this crew, you will gain a lot~"

"..good!"

Ludy is gone.

Alto stared blankly at the rising sun in the distance, his eyes slowly becoming clearer from being responsible.

----

In David's apartment.

"Ling~LingLing~"

A phone call woke up David and Susan~

David rubbed his eyes, found some clothes and put them on, yawned, and answered the phone: "Hello~"

"Hey, it's me~"

"...Pine? So early?"

"Haha~ I'm here to remind you to read today's newspaper!"

"...Oh~ Is there any big news?"

"Yes, the Federal Reserve has decided to raise interest rates!"

As soon as David heard this word, he suddenly sobered up a lot: "Interest rate hike? Starting today?"

"Well~ To be more specific, you buy a newspaper and read it yourself~"

"...You made this call just to tell me to read the newspaper, right?"

Pine, who was on the other side of the phone, chuckled again and said softly: "Last time, didn't you say that if there was any move by the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, you would be notified in advance?"

"You... only announced it a few hours in advance? Remind me on the day you announce the rate hike. Does this mean anything?"

"Of course! You knew the news earlier than those who got the news from newspapers, didn't you?"

David covered his forehead and complained into the microphone curiously and amusedly: "You guy! If you were around me, I would definitely kick your ass!"

"Hahahaha~ That's it, hang up now~"

"Hey~ hello~"

"Hey! This bastard~"

David put down the phone, scratched his chicken coop-like hair, and slowly calmed down.

hike!

History has taken another big step forward on a familiar trajectory!

newspaper. .

David didn't go downstairs immediately to buy a newspaper and read it. Instead, he looked through his phone book, found Sam's phone number, and called him.

After a few minutes.

He put down the phone and stayed there for a few seconds before finding the number Leslie left for him in the phone book and dialing it.

A few minutes later.

After feeling that everything was settled, David went to the bedroom, kissed Susan who was still on the bed, and walked into the bathroom.

----

Manhattan area.

In an apartment building near the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, after receiving Sam's call, Bernard Madoff rubbed his forehead, sat on the sofa, and fell into deep thought.

After a while.

He took a deep breath, the tiredness on his face disappeared, and he walked into the bedroom feeling energetic, ready to start a new day!

----

David's side.

After he took care of himself, he walked out of the apartment building with Black Mike and Ravis fully dressed.

Downstairs, on the street.

A man who surprised him slightly was chatting with Mike Bai and Giovanni in a straight suit.

"Hey~Zach? Why are you... here?"

The big man Zach raised his big hand like a cattail leaf fan, pointed not far away and said: "I have a new job~with them, follow you!"

"Oh? With whom~?"

David looked into the distance without knowing why. One-eyed Andres, dressed in casual clothes, biting a cigarette, stepped out of a car and waved to several people.

Big Zach, explained to David: "He's..."

After a few minutes.

David, who understood everything, shook his head and looked at the four bodyguards with a wry smile: "It seems... you have a new colleague~"

Everyone laughed. .

Mike Bai took a step forward, pulled the big man Zach, and said with a smile: "Go tell them to go to the Marseille restaurant~"

"From now on, the boss will treat all breakfasts!"

"Okay~" When the big man Zach heard that he had eaten something, he jogged towards Andres happily, pointed to the street corner in the distance, and said quickly.

The one-eyed Andres patted the silly-looking black man in front of him and made an OK gesture to David from a distance.

David also smiled and gave a thumbs up, and the two groups walked to the Marseille restaurant across a road.

. . .

in the restaurant.

Everyone tacitly agreed to let David and the new member Andres sit together and listen to their chat.

at the front desk.

The restaurant owner, Marseille, held several plates of breakfast and placed them in front of Black Mike and Big Zach. He wiped his hands, showed a smile, and joked.

"From now on...you don't have to control me anymore when you eat at my place~hehe~"

The big man Zach showed his big white teeth, raised his eyebrows, and said in a naive voice: "Then please...add ten more fried eggs to me~"

Black Mike, who was sitting on the side, couldn't help but laughed and cursed: "fxxx! Ten?"

"What you have in front of you is enough for my breakfast for three days! How much more do you want to eat?"

"Haha~ The boss is treating me to a treat, of course I have to eat a little full~"

Ma Sai laughed and waved to Black Mike: "It's okay~ I'll take these ten fried eggs!"

The big man Zach immediately said with excitement: "Then... give me twenty~"

"Uh...hahaha~"

"Hey~ you bastard! Don't you want to lose weight? Eat less~ hahaha~"

The laughter of the three of them briefly attracted the attention of people in the restaurant.

David also glanced towards them, shrugged at Andres, and said with a smile: "Now that you have made arrangements~"

"I won't care about the rest~"

"You also know these people around me~ If you have any questions, you can communicate in time~"

"Ok!"

Andres looked around at Bai Mike, Lavis, and Giovanni who were sitting around, and nodded to them.

Seeing that they were almost done talking, Mike Bai came over with a smile, moved a chair to sit down, and whispered to David.

"The matter you asked me to check last night has been settled!"

"Done? What happened?"

Mike Bai chewed his teeth, grinned, and hummed: "Alto, you're out!"

"Those who want to take advantage of this opportunity are also out!"

David nodded with understanding, picked up the juice on the table, took a sip, and then frowned.

"Old Malkin? Rudy?"

"Correct!"

"Are they... okay?"

"Of course~"

"Okay~ So... what about the real estate development project negotiations? Who is in charge?"

"I don't know~"

David gently turned the juice cup with his hand, looked down at his watch, and turned to Andres.

"Contact Cohen and tell him and Jackal not to clean the toilet yet..."

"Take a few people with you and come to New York. Help me take care of the old Malkin family and Polly in the next few days~"

"it is good!"

The one-eyed Andres, with his neatly trimmed beard raised sharply, nodded in agreement and walked out of the restaurant.

After he left, David said to Mike again: "Go tell Auston and ask him to arrange for a few more people to follow Ludy and old Malkin's house in the past few days to look after them~"

Mike Bai hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said: "There are indeed few people around Ludy, over at old Malkin's house... I'll go right away!"

Mike Bai left too.

David sat at the dining table, lowered his head and thought for a while, greeted a few people, and walked out of the restaurant.

----

Manhattan area.

66th Street, FBI headquarters, New York.

Harold Stone carried his briefcase and walked into his office in a hurry.

Ezra Cremo, the CIA director who had been waiting for a long time, waved his hand to him with a face full of sleepiness and said with a wry smile: "There is news!"

"Huh~huh~ tell me!"

"The Secretary of the Treasury arrived in New York yesterday, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Energy will arrive in New York at noon, and the guests will fly to JFK International Airport in the afternoon."

"Also, two teams from the National Security Agency (NSA) will be in New York before noon."

"Where are you? How's the situation?"

Harold Stone took out a handkerchief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, calmed down, and said.

"The 20 people the headquarters will send for support will arrive in New York before noon to assist us in our work~"

"I notified the New York police yesterday~"

"But they don't know yet that everyone will be in New York today~"

"Follow-up... I will contact the head of the New York Police Department Matthews first, and then arrange for a few people to work with you to control the interior of the Plaza Hotel~"

"As for the airport, your people..."

The two of them roughly arranged the manpower they could mobilize and today's mission plan.

After a while.

Claymore took a few people arranged by Harold and hurriedly walked out of the building.

Harold Stone retied the tie in his pocket, picked up the phone, and called House, his boss at FBI headquarters.

----

Manhattan area.

Gulf West Industries, Inc.

Leslie was sitting in a conference room, accompanying Livlin, listening to a few people who followed, talking to Charlie about the acquisition of Paramount Pictures.

"Livlin, are you so hasty that you want to buy Paramount?"

"Haha~ I like movies!"

"Besides, it's just a little pocket money~"

Pocket money. .

Leslie was deeply impressed by the rich aura that Livlin inadvertently revealed in her words. .Defeated. .

He looked at Charlie, the red-faced "Austrian Madman", and whispered helplessly: "Paramount, it... is not worth the price at all!"

Livlin smiled indifferently and talked about other topics: "When I went to see you in the morning, you said that David had something to do with you?"

"...Yes~"

"Then I'll go with you!"

"...Stop making trouble, we are discussing business, you will feel bored~"

"No, I'm not interested in talking about business. You talk about yours. I can go chat with Lilith and wait for you."

"Lilith..." Leslie couldn't help but his eyes lit up, and a good idea to divert Livlin's attention suddenly came to him.

"You haven't seen what Lilith and David look like together, right?"

"Oh? The two of them...is there anything strange?"

"Haha~ I promise! You will be surprised!"

Livlin tilted her head and blinked, then suddenly smiled and said: "Then... let's go to the villa on Long Island to have a party at night? How about it?"

"...Okay~ Let's go ask David and Giles later!"

"Haha~ Then what are you waiting for? Let's set off now!"

"you.."

"Hey~ It's okay! Leave this to them!"

Livlin waved her hand generously and said to the people she brought: "The contract has been negotiated, bring it to me to sign!"

Then, Leslie walked out of the conference room with an expression of "What am I doing?" .

After the two of them left, in the conference room.

Several people looked at each other, and Paramount Pictures CEO Barris, who had been silent in front of the little transparent person just now, spread his hands to Charlie and said with a wry smile.

"This...is the new boss I'm going to face?"

Charlie laughed twice, waved the contract in his hand a few times, and comforted him: "See? This is just some pocket money~"

"When you meet such a super-rich new boss, what are you worried about?"

Barriss was speechless. .

Paramount has encountered people like Livlin who take money not as money. .The new boss should be considered lucky. .Bar?

----

Wall Street.

Stanley conference room on the fourth floor.

David, Sam, and Bernard Madoff each held a document in their hands and began to read it under the explanation of lawyer George who came to help at short notice.

After a while.

After George finished speaking, everyone looked at Bernard Madoff.

Madoff smiled at a few people, quickly picked up the pen, and signed his name on the document.

Seeing that he quickly completed the signature, Sam also smiled and signed his name on the document with George's help.

George checked the contract carefully and nodded to the three of them.

David took Madoff's hand and said with a smile: "Happy cooperation!"

"Happy cooperation!"

"Hahaha~"

After settling the cooperation matters, Madoff and lawyer George said goodbye and left.

conference room.

David said to Sam: "Leslie will come over later and I will talk to him about increasing leverage~"

"Follow-up... I want to make an investment plan to buy large amounts of short- and medium-term U.S. Treasury bonds. Do you have enough manpower?"

"enough!"

Sam nodded with great confidence and continued: "I have already found someone to help me pay attention to the selling orders in the bond market. As soon as our money is in place, we will take these selling orders as soon as possible!"

"But if we could have known the news yesterday..."

"Well... you go and do your work first~"

"ok~"

Sam left too.

In the conference room, David walked to the window and looked downstairs at the pedestrians passing by.

Of course David understood what Sam had not finished saying.

Yesterday, if we could get the first-hand news that the Federal Reserve was raising interest rates, we would have used the $2600 million in funds Madoff had on hand, plus leverage, to buy a large amount of short-term Treasury bonds. .

If you resell them this morning, you can make millions of dollars!

However, such illegal trading operations using inside information will be discovered by regulatory authorities and investigated. .

Sure enough, the methods of making quick money have been written into the criminal law. .

Thinking about it now, the meaning behind the phone call from Pine this morning was probably because he was afraid that David would not be able to resist the temptation that was easily available, so he chose to inform him later. .

Emm. .

like. .Being looked down upon?

hehe~

David smiled self-deprecatingly, pressed his hands on the glass in front of him, and his eyes became expectant.

The prelude to this history of crisis and opportunity coexisting has finally slowly begun!

----

New Jersey.

In Jersey City, which is only separated from New York by the Hudson River, in the northwest suburbs, there is a dilapidated-looking old single-family house in front of the door.

An old Ford sedan came to a slow stop.

A man wearing a thick dark coat and a hood got out of the car and walked into the old house holding a large paper bag.

ten minutes later.

He walked slowly down the stairs to the basement, opened a darkroom with a red light on, took out a few wet photos from the developing water on the table, and hung them up.

On the wall next to the table, several already developed photos were pinned to the wall with a few thumbtacks~

Among the several women in the photo, one of them is apparently Harlan Turner Sting, the victim in the "Sting" case in New York.

The man raised his hand and flicked his fingertips slowly over several photos on the wall. .

His face, which looked a little pale under the red light, showed a cruel smile of satisfaction. .

After a while.

His eyes turned to the photos he had just developed, and he murmured in a low and hoarse voice.

"Don't worry! Tonight, it's your turn!"

"Hehe~"

----

Manhattan area.

Informant's office at Allston Street, 42nd Street.

Auston put down the microphone in his hand, and his forehead was filled with question marks and exclamation points. .

Just now, Matthews called to inform him that the investigation into the serial killer would be put on hold for the time being. .

All the plainclothes street agents with auxiliary police badges under Alston's jurisdiction have been watching on several streets near Central Park in recent days. .

Auston raised his hand and scratched his head, thinking: This is it. .Something big is going to happen at the Plaza Hotel! ?