As Johnny stood watching the dock workers unload crates from a ship he had to smile. The Family was making friends and money. As earlier this morning his boss, Manius, told Johnny that a ship comeing from Italy was bringing in fresh weapons right out off the shelves. He told Johnny that this import was to be protected at all cost. It was early morning with men leaving for work the sun just comeing off the horizon.

"Bobby watch the way you walkin' you's gonna drop the crate before you even pick it up you stugot." Johnny pulled up his colar to his long coat as it was a bit chilly in New York today, and being near the ocean didnt help much. A great day for guard duty..

"Lets go boys get them crates off the ship and into the warehouse. Once they are there you's can get back to regular labor."

Johnny smiled at them as they all made signs and side glanced at him. Tough work he thought but atleast i aint doin it. A guy walked up carrying two cups of coffee. He wore a black suit and longcoat, both men were wearing fedora's.

"Hey Johnny Boy, i brought us some coffee. How long we got left to do this shit?"

"As long as the boss wants us here, we just gotta make sure everything goes nice and easy then you can go home to your loving wife."

"Yea well the broad better have breakfast, im freezing my balls off out here."

"Yea well lets just finish this"....

The cab pulled up and let the young man out.  Vince turned his back to the wind long enough to light a cigarette and touch the Saint Christopher that he wore around his neck.  He turned up his collar and headed toward the two men who were standing huddled to one end of the docks.  it was obvious to him that these two in charge.  He walked up to them, hat pulled down over his face, and as cold as his hands were, he refused to put them in his pockets, he didn't want them thinking he was reaching for heat. 

"Mr Strazzi?"  Vince waited a moment.  "I'm Vince. The boss sent me to you.  Said you were the one who could teach me the ropes here."

Johnny looked over at the man and looked him over. He looked like someone the boss would hire. Johnny nodded to him.

"Yea but right now we have to keep an eye on this shipment, if you want just head over to the ship and watch the workers."

As Johnny sipped at his coffee he gestured to the factory. 

"If you want some coffee it's inside the office over there. If not just go over and get a better view on the ship's main deck. We could use the leverage with this damn windy weather."

Johnny took a last sip of his coffee before handing it to the guy on the side of him. The man then walked off to the factory to keep watch there. It was going to be a ruff morning with this blizzard coming in from the north. But hey, someone has to do it.

Vince got himself some Coffee.  He stood inside and looked over at the ship, then realized that he couldn't see as well as from outside.  So, with a cup of coffee in hand, he went outside, using the corner of the building as a windbreak, he watched the process.  The weather was horrible but what were you going to do about the weather, it needed to get unloaded.  He saw the car before anyone else could. 

"Mr Strazzi, you expecting company?"   Vince jogged close enough to be able to call to them.  "Cause you got a car hanging back at the other end of the pier, trying to stay out of sight."  It's a blue Packard and I don't recognize the driver."

Vince jogged back to his position splitting his attention between the ship and the car hidden behind the corner of the building.

Johnny looked over at Vince then were he looked he saw the packard. There was only one guy in the car but most likely a stake out. Johnny gestured to Joe, the guy standing with him, to go get Vinny, the guy that went to the factory.

"Joe go get Vinny and you's two head over there and see what he wants. Get some heat, when he drives off, which he will, come back and tell me if you saw anything. Also try to identify him if you can."

Joe nodded and headed to the factory to find Vinny. Johnny waved Vince over. He got close to Vince so that he can hear him clearly over the storm.

"I want you to head over to the guy at the front gate, tell him to close it. That gate is the only way in or out so i want it blocked off."

Johnny gave him a sign to hurry and watched as Vince jogged off. He then went onto the ship to check how fast things were moving. If things go down wrong we should be able to have all the crates into the warehouse before anyone gets to them.

Vince jogged to the gate and cursed.  He could see the man at the gate slumped over at the booth.  He didn't have to go any closer to tell that he was dead, the white skin and grizly grin showed him the guards fate.  He went over and closed the gate, checking the garroted guard for his gun, and cursed when he didn't find it.  Vince made sure the gate was shut tight and locked before jogging back. 

"Things are bad.  The guard is dead.  Someone has his gun.  But the gate is locked now.  I took the keys." He held them up.  "What do we do now?"

Johnny cursed and looked around for a second and thought. He checked to make sure Joe and Vinny were heading to that suspicous car. They were.

"Ok, head over to the main office and make sure everything's ok there im going to have a word with the captain of this ship. Call this number when your at the office. It's the number to the Bridge of the ship."

Johnny hands Vince the card then pats him on the shoulder. He then starts jogging for the Captains office. If things were going to go down they picked a hell of a day to start it.