The film""s factual, semi-documentary account was adapted from both Nicholas Pileggi""s and Martin Scorsese""s screenplay - based upon Pileggi""s 1985 non-fictional bookWiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family.Pretending to be Stamp, however, Ethan called Ambrose on walkie-talkie: "Sean, this rat""s reached the end of the maze" and promised to personally bring Ethan to him.The prosperous, self-made millionaire Mr.Stamper has just brought in a new well that is flowing with over a hundred barrels an hour ("Them big Eastern companies - they begin to sit up and take notice of us").He""s dead.He""s f--king dead." Laurie was living in the country outside of Haddonfield with the Brackett family, Sheriff Brackett and his daughter Annie, who had fully recovered.You know, the nicest jails are in Australia.The worst are in Spain...I killed a man." His revelation that he killed a man, as an anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War, seals his ultimate fate.