He won’t turn on Chin, even though Bonanno assures him that Chin is going down and that within a day, Bumpy will likely change his mind. Now he has a counter-offer, a 60/40 split - more favorable than the 50/50 one Bumpy currently has with Chin - but Bumpy believes that keeping one’s word is a more important asset than whatever Bonanno might turn out to be. Instead, he admits that he made a mistake not getting in on the Ten Harlems deal when he had the chance. Just as Bumpy predicted, Joe Bonanno shows up, but not to admit to the murder of his man - he claims not to have done that, even if one of the other bosses might have. Edgar Hoover and tell him how good a job they’re doing of protecting him. Malcolm gets a standout moment here in “The Geechee” when he foils Charles’s attempt to plant a bomb in his car and throws the device into the vehicle of his FBI minders, telling them to take it to J. Brother Charles, moved by Elise’s denunciation, suggests to her rather unsubtly that Malcolm is to be killed, which prompts Elise to visit Betty at home to tell her and Malcolm about Brother Charles’s intentions. Who’s at fault here? The Nation? Or the FBI, two representatives of which are parked outside? The Nation certainly isn’t shy about giving Elise herself an ultimatum when she meets with them later in “The Geechee”, but she’s convincing enough in how she denounces Malcolm to be able to stay among them, even if any more contact with him is expressly forbidden. Malcolm comes home to discover that the Nation of Islam is no longer footing the bill for his home and that his wife, Betty, has received a letter, supposedly from Elise, claiming she has been sleeping with Malcolm for over a year and is pregnant with his child. This isn’t the only partnership that is being divided in Godfather of Harlem season 2, episode 4. Either way, if they can’t get to the bottom of things, their deal with the French Connection can’t continue, so they need to stick together. The likelier culprit is one of the Italian bosses, which isn’t an idea Chin likes.
Was it a leak on the French side of things? Jean Jehan insists not. When two men, one of Bumpy’s and one of Chin’s, are found hanging in a warehouse, it becomes obvious that someone doesn’t like the two of them being in business.