Deacon King Kong

The following night, at 2:00 AM, Elefante and his men are unloading a shipment of TVs at his dock when Joe Peck shows up to talk to Elefante. Peck’s car frightens Elefante’s men, who immediately hide, thinking Peck might be the police. Even the boat captain flees the scene, despite the fact that there are still more TVs to unload. This angers Elefante. Joe Peck gets out of his car and makes his way toward Elefante, clearly angry himself. Immediately, Elefante chastises Joe for interrupting him while his men were in the middle of unloading a shipment. Joe dismisses Elefante’s concerns and tells him that he’ll pay for whatever Elefante didn’t get to unload.

Elefante doesn’t know what Peck is so upset about and cannot imagine why he came to see him, since he already told him he wouldn’t help him with his drug shipment. When Elefante asks Peck what he wants, Peck thinks that Elefante is messing with him. He tells Elefante that the police are all over him now because of what Elefante did. In response, Elefante swears that he has no clue what Peck is talking about.

Peck tells Elefante about the shooting at the pier and assumes that Elefante had something to do with it. Surprisingly, this is the first that Elefante has heard of the matter, and he insists that he had nothing to do with it. At first, Peck doesn’t believe Elefante. Peck is under the impression that the shooter was Sportcoat (Peck knows that Sportcoat works for Mrs. Elefante). Elefante once again insists that he is not involved and finds Peck’s telling of the story unlikely. He thinks Sportcoat is too old and too much of a drunk to be able to effectively dispatch multiple young men with a gun.

Still, Peck remains suspicious. The pier where Sportcoat supposedly shot Deems and his bodyguard was the same place where Peck planned to receive his large heroin shipment. Now, the police are swarming the area, and Peck thinks it will be difficult for him to get his hands on the shipment. Eventually, Elefante convinces Peck that he had nothing to do with the shooting. Because Peck believes him, he also lets Elefante know that Potts is the one investigating the case.