Tony Micelli a Brooklynite has just accepted a job as live-in domestic in Fairfield, Connecticut. His employer a NY Ad Exec, Angela Bower and her mother, Mona Robinson, are apart of the oldest and richest Anglo-American crime firms. Angela hired Tony for protection especially for her son. The housekeeper role will be Tony’s cover.
Apprehensive about it at first because as a youth Micelli got into baseball to avoid the path of the mafia life which many of his friends went down. Bower knows his family’s history better than he does. She explains to him that his paternal great-grandmother was an Ulster Scot immigrant so he lacked the pure blood to become a made man for one of the New York families but Britania has blood of the Celts, the blood of Rome, the blood of the Saxons, and the blood of the Normans.
Tony’s daughter Samantha is a tomboy and he wants her to at least know that she can be a refined lady, like her mother, if she wants. The school that Angela can get Sam into produces political and business leaders many with ties to the Firm. Mona takes Sam aside and tells her “Nobody is asking you to be a princess but you can learn to be a queen.”