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Capone: No More Points
Capone: No More Points
opening text scrolling across the screen: In our history, Al Capone grew up a promising boy who drew the favorable attentions of the US Navy...only to come under the charismatic command of John Torrio, who shaped Capone into the man we consider infamous.
But in the timeline next door to ours, Capone dodged that bullet. Growing up against a tide of anti-Italian sentiment, he joined the Navy and fought in the First World War. In the post-War New York, Capone fought against Torrio and those like him, particularly the notorious Five Points gang.
And now, having brought the Five Points gang to the edge of extinction, Capone faces what could be a case which could finish him off.
starring:
Al Capone - Dylan Bruno
Sergeant Paul Edding - Rob Morrow
Caterina Taglienti - Alexandra Castillo
Mary Zaffina - Valerie Cruz
Robert Rud - Peter Wingfield
Rebecca Rud - Debi Mazar
Philippa Kerrick / The Informant - Rani Mukherjee
Ms. Weng - Kelly Hu
Ada Godaz / The Informant (2) - Saba Homayoon
CAPONE:
no more points
Characters:
Alphonse Capone
A lover of the opera. Capone tends to let his victories be celebrated - or at least known, if circumstances prevent celebration; and if he needs to make a point with someone who only cares about politics, Capone will wear the medals he was presented with during the War.
A stalwart defender of those in need, particularly women. His nature wins over many into trusting him (it is possible this is how he initially convinced The Informer (Rani Mukherjee) to help him).
He is enjoying his courtship of Mary (Valerie Cruz).
His enemies have intimated that Capone has had any number of diseases - Syphilis, Spanish Flu (influenza), and various others (depending on who is asked). But if he had any of them, he's long since made a full recovery.
Paul Edding
While he's proud of how well Capone's cleaned up the docks around the Navy yard, he urges Capone to be careful who Al alienates...because it's Edding's job on the line.
But Eddings also owes Capone his life - the Italian-American saved Paul's life in the Great War. Neither man mentions it, particularly to others - but both know the fact.
Caterina Taglienti
"You hate them."
"Yes."
"Then why do you protect them?"
"Because the alternative is far worse. We'll cease to be anyone, if we're even permitted to live. The Romans hate us because we're southerners. The Sicilians hate us because they do. The Catholics hate us because we aren't Irish. And everyone else hates us because we're Catholic."
-Capone, Taglienti.
Born in Naples, Italy, this immigrant woman dislikes the Five Points gang and men like John Torrio...but she argues in their defense against men like Capone and Edding - because she fears what the alternative is. Thus her default attitude has become passive acceptance of the status quo.
Mary Zaffina
"The only person on Earth with a sharper tongue than good Mary, is my sister." -Al Capone.
Born in Brooklyn, she is a pure-blooded Calabrian. And while Neapolitans and Calabrians do not often get along, she and Al do - swimmingly.
Capone's enemies do not often slander her - both because she lives in a Calabrian community which protects her, and because Capone will come down like a bag of bricks on the slanderers - but when they do, it is in saying that Mary and Al are cohabitating (sin!), or that Capone is cheating on his fiance (Mary) with a Chinese woman (Ms. Weng; Kelly Hu).
Robert Rud
The man whose murder Capone is working on over the course of the miniseries.
A politician with ties to prominent Naval officers, there are worrying suggestions in the investigation that Rud had connections to the Five Points gang.
Rebecca Rud
The widow of Robert Rud. Very forceful and intimidating. Considers Capone to be "as full of theater as any opera." May in fact have been her late husband's connection to the Five Points.
_Philippa Kerrick / The Informant
When all other avenues of inquiry come up dry, Capone turns to The Informant. So far in their mutual understanding, she has never failed to find what he's asked for...but then again, he's never asked for something as big as this case requires.
Fittingly or strangely, though she works in the press and crowd of the New York, she does not like to peoplewatch in her off time - instead, she seeks out open spaces.
Her searches are aided by Ada Godoz (Saba Homayoon).
Ms. Weng
Ms. Weng is all of her name that Capone knows, but he knows that she is the ex-mistress of the most influential man in Chinatown, who uses her as a messenger to relay messages to Capone (who relays through her any need for pressure to be applied on his behalf).
Even without her knowing who she knows, it would be folly to cross her.
Ada Godoz / The Informant (2)
Works with Philippa in gathering information. While she's not trusted very much by Capone, he knows he has to accept what she says (Philippa vouched for her). (Capone's distrust of Ada is only furthered by her being Sicilian).
Ada relaxes by writing - a devotee of Doyle and of Wells, she treasures her small collection more than anything else.
opening text scrolling across the screen: In our history, Al Capone grew up a promising boy who drew the favorable attentions of the US Navy...only to come under the charismatic command of John Torrio, who shaped Capone into the man we consider infamous.
But in the timeline next door to ours, Capone dodged that bullet. Growing up against a tide of anti-Italian sentiment, he joined the Navy and fought in the First World War. In the post-War New York, Capone fought against Torrio and those like him, particularly the notorious Five Points gang.
And now, having brought the Five Points gang to the edge of extinction, Capone faces what could be a case which could finish him off.
starring:
Al Capone - Dylan Bruno
Sergeant Paul Edding - Rob Morrow
Caterina Taglienti - Alexandra Castillo
Mary Zaffina - Valerie Cruz
Robert Rud - Peter Wingfield
Rebecca Rud - Debi Mazar
Philippa Kerrick / The Informant - Rani Mukherjee
Ms. Weng - Kelly Hu
Ada Godaz / The Informant (2) - Saba Homayoon
CAPONE:
no more points
Characters:
Alphonse Capone
A lover of the opera. Capone tends to let his victories be celebrated - or at least known, if circumstances prevent celebration; and if he needs to make a point with someone who only cares about politics, Capone will wear the medals he was presented with during the War.
A stalwart defender of those in need, particularly women. His nature wins over many into trusting him (it is possible this is how he initially convinced The Informer (Rani Mukherjee) to help him).
He is enjoying his courtship of Mary (Valerie Cruz).
His enemies have intimated that Capone has had any number of diseases - Syphilis, Spanish Flu (influenza), and various others (depending on who is asked). But if he had any of them, he's long since made a full recovery.
Paul Edding
While he's proud of how well Capone's cleaned up the docks around the Navy yard, he urges Capone to be careful who Al alienates...because it's Edding's job on the line.
But Eddings also owes Capone his life - the Italian-American saved Paul's life in the Great War. Neither man mentions it, particularly to others - but both know the fact.
Caterina Taglienti
"You hate them."
"Yes."
"Then why do you protect them?"
"Because the alternative is far worse. We'll cease to be anyone, if we're even permitted to live. The Romans hate us because we're southerners. The Sicilians hate us because they do. The Catholics hate us because we aren't Irish. And everyone else hates us because we're Catholic."
-Capone, Taglienti.
Born in Naples, Italy, this immigrant woman dislikes the Five Points gang and men like John Torrio...but she argues in their defense against men like Capone and Edding - because she fears what the alternative is. Thus her default attitude has become passive acceptance of the status quo.
Mary Zaffina
"The only person on Earth with a sharper tongue than good Mary, is my sister." -Al Capone.
Born in Brooklyn, she is a pure-blooded Calabrian. And while Neapolitans and Calabrians do not often get along, she and Al do - swimmingly.
Capone's enemies do not often slander her - both because she lives in a Calabrian community which protects her, and because Capone will come down like a bag of bricks on the slanderers - but when they do, it is in saying that Mary and Al are cohabitating (sin!), or that Capone is cheating on his fiance (Mary) with a Chinese woman (Ms. Weng; Kelly Hu).
Robert Rud
The man whose murder Capone is working on over the course of the miniseries.
A politician with ties to prominent Naval officers, there are worrying suggestions in the investigation that Rud had connections to the Five Points gang.
Rebecca Rud
The widow of Robert Rud. Very forceful and intimidating. Considers Capone to be "as full of theater as any opera." May in fact have been her late husband's connection to the Five Points.
_Philippa Kerrick / The Informant
When all other avenues of inquiry come up dry, Capone turns to The Informant. So far in their mutual understanding, she has never failed to find what he's asked for...but then again, he's never asked for something as big as this case requires.
Fittingly or strangely, though she works in the press and crowd of the New York, she does not like to peoplewatch in her off time - instead, she seeks out open spaces.
Her searches are aided by Ada Godoz (Saba Homayoon).
Ms. Weng
Ms. Weng is all of her name that Capone knows, but he knows that she is the ex-mistress of the most influential man in Chinatown, who uses her as a messenger to relay messages to Capone (who relays through her any need for pressure to be applied on his behalf).
Even without her knowing who she knows, it would be folly to cross her.
Ada Godoz / The Informant (2)
Works with Philippa in gathering information. While she's not trusted very much by Capone, he knows he has to accept what she says (Philippa vouched for her). (Capone's distrust of Ada is only furthered by her being Sicilian).
Ada relaxes by writing - a devotee of Doyle and of Wells, she treasures her small collection more than anything else.