Disclaimer. This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence and contains references to suicide.

Intimid transmission. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.

Week by week, mission by mission. You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.

You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world. What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position?

This is True Spies. He grabs a tantal stick called a crack sum over the top of the head.

You hear a pop like a melon? He was just beaten up on this guy and then he goes to really hit him and I said, let's get out of here.

Episode 57. Making Jack Falcon.

Let's begin at Bloomingdale's. Big department store New York City. Nice if you can afford it.

Jack Falcon, an associate of the Gambino crime family, looms over the groaning figure of PT Chopps Fintini.

PT has felt better. Falcon's big hand rests on the shoulder of Robert Ficare.

Ficare, wild eyed and panting. Holds an ornate metal candlestick. It's dripping a sickly scarlet puddle onto the floor of the homeware department.

A fourth man, older than the others, begins to walk away. That's Greg De Palma.

As we're walking down the escalator, the guy gets up Vichini, he's bleeding through the head profusely.

Because what did you do that for and Greg goes, you know exactly what I did that. And you've got to show your ass in front of that nurse in on tomorrow.

You understand? Or we're going to come back.

He means it too. Gambino, banana, columbo, Genovies, Luckezi, five names, five families, one mob.

Yes, the FBI has have tremendous success on organized crime. But the organized crime, cosinostra, is still here.

And every time you hear of one of these takedowns by the FBI, all the organized crime is done. Cosinostra is done. Now it isn't.

Cosinostra, our thing in Italian, is the name that most mobsters prefer.

After all, anyone can belong to a mob. Where's the exclusivity? Note to be a member of the cosinostra, you need to be of Italian descent.

You need to walk the walk, talk the talk, and know your way round a menu.

The cosinostra is built on decades of rituals, hierarchies, and intricate codes of conduct.

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