

In 1975, Kuklinski moves his family into a nice suburban home and starts telling people he works at a currency trading company. DeMeo tests Kuklinski by having him kill a homeless man then hires him as an enforcer and contract killer. The mob-backed company he works for is shut down by Roy DeMeo, a powerful New York City gangster. Kuklinski works dubbing pornographic films, but tells his wife he dubs cartoons. His brother is serving a life sentence in prison for raping and murdering a 12-year old girl. As a boy he and his younger brother were the subject of brutal beatings from their immigrant Polish father, shaping the boys into emotionally disturbed, sadistic young men.

Kuklinski presents himself to everyone as a normal working man, but he has a dark, violent side that he hides. Kuklinski marries Deborah in 1964 and the couple have two daughters. When a man insults Richard Kuklinski's fiancé during a game of pool, he follows the man to his car and murders him by slashing his throat.
