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By 1980, Henry develops a drug habit and becomes a paranoid wreck. He sets up another drug deal with his Pittsburgh associates but is arrested by narcotics agents and incarcerated. After bailing him out, Karen explains that she flushed $60,000 worth of cocaine down the toilet to prevent FBI agents from finding it during their raid, leaving them penniless. Feeling betrayed by Henry's drug dealing, Paulie gives him $3,200 and ends their association. Henry meets Jimmy at a diner and is asked to travel on a hit assignment, but the novelty of such a request makes him suspicious. Realizing that Jimmy also plans to have him killed, Henry finally decides to become an [[informant]] and enroll, with his family, into the [[United States Federal Witness Protection Program|witness protection program]]. Henry gives sufficient testimony and evidence in court to have Paulie and Jimmy convicted, and moves to a nondescript neighborhood in accordance with the witness protection program. Henry describes his unhappiness in leaving his exciting and turbulent gangster life, now being condemned to live the rest of his life as a boring, average "[[schnook]]".
Closing title cards reveal that (at the time when the film was released) Henry Hill was still in the witness protection program. In 1987, he was arrested in [[Seattle]], Washington for narcotics conspiracy and given five years probation. Since 1987, he had been clean. In 1989, Henry and Karen separated after 25 years of marriage, and Paulie Cicero died at age 73 in Fort Worth Federal Prison from respiratory illness a year earlier. Finally, Jimmy Conway had been sentenced to 25 years to life for murder in a New York state prison, and would not be eligible for parole until 2004, where he would be 78 years old.
== Cast ==
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