“The hardest thing for me was leaving the life I was running away from. Even in the end, with all the threats I was getting and all the time I was facing behind the wall, I still loved the life.” (283)
From twelve till the moment Henry Hill signed the rest of his life away under the protection of the Federal Witness program, he loved the thrill he could get from the life of a mobster. He had done it all from selling stolen swag from truckers to being involved in the six million dollar Lufthansa heist, and now it was over. From there on Hill would have to live life the way middle class did. No more crime, just an average life as an entirely new person. One of the worst part was he didn’t want to drag the rest of his family with him, but they had to for fear of being taken for ransom or kill.
“And now all that is over, and that’s the hardest part. Today everything is very different. No more action. I have to wait around like everybody else. I’m an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a shnook.” (284)
The reason Henry Hill was forced into the Witness Protection Program was because everything he had ever known had turned its back. Paul Vario who had indefinitely raised Hill had given up. Jimmy Burke, Hill’s closest friend, was out to kill Henry in fear of what he could do. That being to rat out everything he knew, over fifty people were given time in prison including Paul Vario who spent four years at the penitentiary in Springfield, Missouri.
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