What happened?
As fans of "Crime Story" know the show was cancelled after only two years so it ended with a cliffhanger. Which of course is frustrating. We want to know: Did Torello catch Luca? Did he bring down the Outfit? Did this happen still in the golden ’50s-early ’60s or did it take 10 or 20 years?
I'll leave possible endings up to you but here are some hints based on the real people some of the main characters were based on.
In the end the law didn't catch up with the main bad guys but other things did.
The real Manny Weisbord probably was famous Jewish mob leader Meyer Lansky (born in Russia), who died of lung cancer in 1983.The real Ray Luca was probably Tony Spilotro. As happened many times on the show and almost to Luca himself, eventually, after his boss's death, his own Mafia brethren turned on him, murdering him and his brother... in 1986, the year the show first aired.
The Mafia in America largely self-destructed that way and today seems a shadow of its former self.
As for Mike Torello? Chuck Adamson, the show's creator, died peacefully in 2008. May he rest in peace.
John