(Johnson did win the 100-meter final, but after he tested positive for drugs, he was stripped of his gold medal and it was given to Lewis, who had finished second.) While being chased by Samaritan operatives, including the man who killed Elias, Finch is shown to be upset by Elias death, leading to Root telling him that the Machine has been watching them all and those it watched the closest, including Elias, are a part of the Machine now. (Baby Blue), Reese later calls Elias, requesting his help to find Leila Smith, an infant kidnapped by an Eastern European gang. Reese contacts Elias using a phone left in a trash can by Scarface, who is impersonating a police officer, and who later kills a criminal working for the SEC making it appear to be a suicide.(Risk). Later on he has a face to face with Dominic as he was responsible for the mayhem going on. By the time the Olympics were over, he was being called an arrogant and greedy athlete, the Maria Callas of the Cinders. Once free and now in God Mode, Reese is able to take down the Brotherhood and save himself, Harper and Elias. It is precisely because of his desire to do things his own way that so few of us regard him as an American hero. Unknown to either Beecher or Elias, Fusco used a forced pairing of Beecher's phone to record the conversation and show it to Carter, exonerating Beecher from her suspicions of him. When Bruce Moran kidnaps Reese in an attempt to get answers and avenge his friend's death, Reese reveals that Elias is still alive. This is a new life for me, and its very exciting., But his old life is exciting too. But behind all the flash was one of the fastest men ever. As the years progressed, Lewis never lost his ability to be controversial. After Reese is arrested by Agent Donnelly in his hunt for "the Man in a Suit", he is taken to Rikers Island where Elias has one of his men bring Reese over and pulls him into a "dead-zone" where no cameras can reach so they can talk with each other. Elias promises to do so and wishes Carter the best of luck, feeling she will need it. Some time afterwards, Elias lives in a group home with Anthony Marconi and Bruce Moran among others, the three being close friends but being treated to harsh discipline. Then hed catch his breath, head over to the long jump area, take a running start, plant his right foot on the long jump board, and propel himself at least 28 feet through the airabout the width of a two-lane highway. Although he remained in Houston to work with Tellez, he stopped attending U of H after only two years so that he could travel on the international circuit and start accepting endorsements: Nike gave him $40,000 to $65,000 a year in base pay just for wearing its shoes. In response, Elias insisted on Finch telling Fusco the truth so that he would have all of his resources in the war with Samaritan. Finch visits Elias in prison and plays chess with him once again. Lewis, on the other hand, had gone undefeated in the long jump for a decade, winning more than 65 straight long jump competitions. A shootout occurs, leaving Elias's blood at the scene, the first clue to his identity Carter finds. However, Fusco was able to secretly get Elias out, taking a huge risk and got him to one of Finch's safe houses where Reese and Finch were able to save his life. His secondary goal was to remove the growing Russian mob influence from Brighton Beach. I dont know if he could get back his old sprinting form, but he could easily outjump most people who are on the circuit now., I asked Lewis how often he thought about the next Olympics, where he might win an unprecedented tenth career track and field gold medal (he and Paavo Nurmi, a distance runner from the twenties, hold the record with nine.) Samaritan was also lead to believe that Elias was dead. As Finch confronts the Voice, Elias aims a gun at him to keep the Voice from murdering Finch. Carter is annoyed as she told Elias to lay low but Scarface was spotted in Russian territory. If there were a gold medal for cockiness, he would have won it too. Elias reveals he's come into contact with the Voice before, but doesn't know who he really is, calling him "a ghost." (Mission Creep), This file contains the evidence and investigation records into the murder of Marlene Elias, including the murder weapon, a kitchen knife. Afterwards, Elias makes Massey's bounty "forbidden fruit" so that anyone going after Riley and Annie will have to answer to him. Elias explains that Szymanski was clean and Beecher got played by HR before leaving and warning Beecher to watch his back. Elias directs him to "The Whale", a heroin shipment coming from Mexico to The Brotherhood, to a house where the son is likely being held. (Brotherhood), Reese meets with Elias after their most recent number appears to be caught up in the arms trade and is almost kidnapped by Scarface. He also permits Reese to hire him and his assistant, Scarface. In response, Elias orders the kidnapping of Taylor Carter. In 2011, Elias is living in quiet anonymity, solidifying his power base behind the scenes. Elias is the second most frequently appearing recurring character on the show. It was true that he played a little too strongly to the cameras and to the crowd, inevitably raising his arms a nanosecond after passing the finish line. Although he appears to be advancing in the ranks, in time, Elias discovers that Moretti has lied to him, and had ordered his execution. After being processed and put in jail, Elias makes one final phone call to Gianni Moretti, telling his father goodbye and than he wishes he could be there to see him, the same words his father said to him when ordered to kill him as child. During the finals of the long jump that year, he registered an opening jump of 28 feet, 1/4 inch, good enough for first place, and then passed on his next four attempts. Then there was his ad for Pirelli, the Italian tire manufacturer, that showed him in the set position, with his rear end up, and wearing a pair of red stiletto heels. The skit brought down the house. The lieutenant survives the attempt on his life and Elias has his bodyguards paroled to protect his man. He arranges the stabbing death of DeLuca with the same knife DeLuca used to kill Elias' mother. He then entered the 60-yard dash and won it in 6.06 seconds, coming within two hundredths of a second of tying the world record. Elias begins working in Moretti's organization, learning the ropes, and is eager to earn his approval. The Tiniest Bank in Texas Didnt Deal in Change, The Night That Grasshoppers Killed Texas League Baseball, Making Sense of the Rangers Draft Day Shocker, Kumar Rocker, The States Winningest HS Football Coach Might Forget All His Victories. After Beecher asks if Szymanski was on Elias' payroll, Elias tells him he made a bad move and to ask better questions: "who benefits from Szymanski's arrest and murder? (Prisoner's Dilemma). Promotions do not include tax, shipping, or sale items. In 1963 they moved Carl, his two older brothers, and his younger sister to a Philadelphia suburb, where they started a track and field club. Reese comes into direct contact with Elias while he is living under the identity "Charlie Burton". (Liberty), In order to figure out HR's money laundering scheme and how it connects to Sven Vanger, Carter visits Elias in his hideout. But there was another side of him. He has appeared in 23 episodes. Elias is later seen escaping with his men, after having Scarface execute Ivan Yogorov, as he describes his goal to reunite the five families. Sports Illustrated, which had published more than one negative story about him over the yearsThey basically said I was an asshole, Lewis recalledcalled him a gentleman. Things have a way of coming back around, he noted. Finch fills Elias in on the situation with Riley and Annie Delaney and asks that Elias use his influence to call off Massey's bounty hunters. It wouldnt take him long to be back at a competitive level, his former Houston coach Tom Tellez told me. Carter asks Elias for where she can find a fence for uncut diamonds and Elias points her towards a Russian named Maksim. (Triggerman). Elias suggests visiting one of the Voice's known associates to locate him and asks in return to come with Finch to help. Although he downplays it, he is still working out, lifting weights, cycling, running long distances one day a week and then sprints another day. After Elias acquires the file, he learns his mother was killed by former mobster Vincent DeLuca, and decides to seek revenge. While he talked to me, he slipped off his shirt to pose for a photographer, revealing a ring in his pierced navel that matched the pair in his ears. (ShotSeeker), However, it was later revealed that Fusco rescued him from the line of fire, apparently while evading Samaritan's notice. Moretti recognizes his illegitimate son and promises Elias a place in his organization as long as he remains loyal, tenacious, and capable. He publicly confronted people he suspected of cheating, once accusing the great American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner of using performance-enhancing drugs. The Voice eventually drives off, believing himself to be triumphant, but Elias has rigged a bomb he got from Raul to the Voice's car. He is unaware however, that Finch has shown Officer Simmons, a beat cop in league with HR, photos of Elias's men watching the families of other cops who are part of HR. He spends several years living among the Russian families in Brighton Beach, studying the families of his students associated with organized crime. Finch tells Elias about Massey, causing Elias to ask if Reese killed Massey's son. When Byron and his gang later attack Reese, Reese doesn't fight back to avoid exposing his skills. After being threatened by Elias, Raoul helps them find all of the Voice's bombs while Finch manages to track the detonation signal for the Voice's bombs to a warehouse. Welcome to Alphaland, the Disney World for Bodybuilders. The picture Elias sends Finch enables him to identify Hersh as a government operative with Fusco's help. Elias explains that he offered to kill Simmons for Carter many times but she had always refused, civilized to the very end. HR severs its ties with Elias and several clean police officers arrive at the hideout, forcing Elias to surrender. Carl Hansen invited Hans Wegner to create designs in 1949, launching a mutually beneficial relationship bringing success to the company and exposure to the young Wegner. Because of cramps he fared badly in the Olympic trials, barely making the team in the long jump. The American crowd unleashed the kind of roar for Lewis that he had not heard in many years. Elias takes over the kitchen of Peter's restaurant and cooks his dinner, baking in a bullet to get his attention. Elias, while recognizing that Yogorov is trying to kill him in revenge for his father's murder, shows derision for Terney. Finch later confronted Elias about helping Fusco. https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/athlete-of-the-century-carl-lewis/?utm_source=texasmonthly.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=sharebutton. But I have to say, now that I think about it, it would be a nice encore, wouldnt it?. Despite being in prison, Elias is still able to run New York's biggest criminal organization. People said I had planted somebody there by the track with the flag. He fought for above-the-table payments for the sports stars. (The Crossing), As Simmons recovers in his hospital room from the beating Fusco gave him, he is visited by Elias who Simmons believes is there to rub his face in the fall of HR. Scarface contacts Elias and tells Simmons that Elias agrees to the deal if HR takes out Grifoni for him. Elias agrees to help, but threatens the child once Reese finds her. After threatening Finch to get what he wants, Dominic decides to execute Elias and Harper Rose. Elias's main goal is to seek revenge against his imprisoned father and his half-brother, the Don's heir apparent. He forces Reese to tie himself up and leaves the scene with one of his associates, Anthony Marconi, then known only as Scarface. Little Carl dreamed about becoming the next Jesse Owens or Bob Beamon. Before the Olympics, Lewis talked about how he had been taking acting and singing lessons, and he predicted that he would be a respected entertainer within five years. He then calls Finch and tells him that in the future, when he goes for revenge on Dominic, to stay out of his way. Do you remember how I grabbed that big U.S. flag after the one hundred meters and carried it around the track? He retreats to Bruce's office to retrieve something from a safe but fails and Scarface is caught in the process. But who will ever forget Lewis ability to startle the public with his eclectic fashion sense? He professed not to care. Yet staying healthy was the least of Lewis feats: He mastered both running and jumping events, which no one else has been able to do for the past half century. In their first encounter, Elias offers Reese a job and doesn't kill him despite knowing how dangerous he is. Elias continues his chess game and is disinterested in Beecher who Elias says is interrupting his concentration. Dominic tries to flee but is captured by a SWAT team led by Fusco. When he is assigned a project researching his family tree, he asks his foster mother if she is willing to help him research his father. They then go their separate ways. It was very important for me to leave a mark, whether it was through the push for better drug testing of athletes or bringing professional pay to the sport or trying to pull the image of track and field out of the Dark Ages.. Elias either killed or ordered the killing of: The Elias storyline is introduced in the episode Mission Creep. (Sotto Voce). When Elias slaughters a number of the Brotherhood's soldiers Dominic retaliates by storming his hideout and capturing him along with Reese and Fusco, who were there to protect him. Blame Texas. NCAA Conference Realignment Got You Down? At least he was adored by Europeans, whove always had a greater appreciation of track and field. Glen McCurley Strangled Carla Walker in 1974. Today, of course, such ornaments on a famous athlete are not particularly noteworthy. He was born in Alabama to William and Evelyn Lewis, who had been track and field stars themselves when they attended the Tuskegee Institute. Still, Lewis kept getting faster and jumping farther, establishing a benchmark of greatness. Later Finch gives Elias the location of one of Dominic's old heroin stores and HG Wells' "The invisible man". In 1936, he began studies at what is now The Danish Design School, with O. Mlgaard Nielsen as teacher. Elias signs his work by leaving a vase of flowers on Carter's desk with a message mourning her loss before stealing his case file from her desk. He is taken into the woods by two of Moretti's hit men, but Elias fights back, killing his executioners and escaping, sustaining a wound which creates a scar across the palm of one of his hands when he grabs the garrote around his throat. (The Fix). (The Devil You Know). In 1991, Elias meets his father, Don Gianni Moretti, a mafia Don with whom his mother had an affair, at a restaurant. Gimme twenty bucks and Ill tell you, the boy said. He then calls Carter and tells her that Peter got the package but he's not sure if he got the message. (Endgame), After HR puts a bounty out on Reese, Elias contacts Finch to warn him about it and sends the picture HR is using to him. Dominic demands the code to the safe, which after some coercion Elias gives. He has created his own line of sportswear, SMTC (the initials of the Santa Monica Track Club, where he used to train), and its selling in such high-end stores as Saks Fifth Avenue. Through his chess moves, Elias tells Finch that the deaths of Detective Bill Szymanski and ADA Melinda Wright benefited his enemy Peter Yogorov and many of his associates have been transferred from Rikers Island, leaving him more vulnerable. Carl G. Elias is the leader of an organized crime syndicate intent on reuniting the five Italian mob families and taking over the organized crime business in New York. (Get Carter), After a dormant period, Elias is implicated as the financier behind the Tritak investment scam, which the team exposes. With a fast reputation for quality work, Carl Hansen confidently took on large projects like dining room sets and bedroom suites. Elias tells Finch he's already lost two of his only friends and he can't afford to lose another. By age sixteen, Lewis was jumping nearly 26 feet and running the 100-yard dash in 9.3 seconds. He added two more golds in 1988, two in 1992, and in 1996, at age 35, his hair flecked with gray, he won his final gold with a victory in the long jump. His style is often described as Organic Functionality, a modernist school with emphasis on functionality, arising primarily in Scandinavian countries. After being rattled by Fusco, Detective Cal Beecher visits Elias in prison to find out if Szymanski was on Elias' payroll. Shout out your precious statistics about who struck out what hitters, who scored which winning touchdowns, and who hit how many shots at the buzzer. Elias admits that while Carter didn't like him, he liked her "very much" and as Simmons killed her, he now finds it his responsibility to deal with Simmons because of it. However, Elias warns that the plot only works if no one knows about it. Though Elias offers to take care of HR and the Russians for her, Carter refuses. With an affinity for wood, he attended the Danish School of Arts and Crafts and the Architectural Academy in Copenhagen. Elias realizes that Carter hasn't told Finch or Reese about her having him, afraid they might object while Carter simply tells him she can't send him back to prison as HR or the Russians will have him murdered. He was always changing his hairstyle in the old days, and he had the shape of his nose changed too, if you believe some press reports. Stand at your local neighborhood bar and jaw all you want about the glamorous baseball, football, and basketball stars from Texas. (Panopticon), Elias meets with Finch in the subway to give him advice on dealing with The Brotherhood. (Witness), Elias remains quiet for a time, until be becomes a possible threat when Carter's number comes up. (Flesh and Blood), Elias is taken to Rikers Island, where he is to be held pending trial. He is approached by Reese due to his number being up and disregards his offer of help until one of his own men tries to take a shot at him. Three Generations Have Kept Underwoods Cafeteria Serving Barbecue for 76 Years, Welcome to Party Island on Lady Bird Lake, East Texass Most Exciting New Store Is Hidden in a Small-town Mansion, The Bronc-busting, Cow-punching, Death-defying Legend of Boots ONeal, The Free Speech Elephant in Alex Joness Courtroom. After Dominic viciously tortures the three of them regarding a mole in his organization, Elias feigns defeat and tricks Dominic into believing that Link is the traitor. He led the charge to improve drug testing. Finch tells Elias he helped to save the life of "Charlie Burton" and Elias realizes that Finch is Reese's boss. Finch points out that Elias losing seems to be a foregone conclusion, but Elias tells Finch not to count him out, that he may still have a few moves left. (God Mode), In retaliation, HR and the Russian mafia have two of Elias's men killed outside a bodega, along with a bystander. Despite being enemies much of the time, Reese and Elias display a certain respect for each other. A number of Brotherhood soldiers: Killed under his orders. At that meet, he lost the long jump to Mike Powell, who broke Beamons world record, but Powell rarely came close to that jump again. But Ill be honest with you. After being asked to find the Devil Dogs' fence for their uncut diamonds, Carter visits Elias in a warehouse basement where she has him hiding out. (The Devil's Share), Elias is still hiding out in a basement when Reese comes to visit him, and asks for his help finding a number's kidnapped son. I represented change. He regularly attacked track and fields governing body over the way it promoted its athletes (poorly, he believed). Elias finally tells Beecher that he did give money to Szymanski who threw it in his face. While hiding out with Finch, Elias admits that he thought that by that point in his life, he would've been in prison. Elias himself tells Gianni Moretti that he was four at the time of Marlene's murder. Please refer to the shopping cart. I know without a shadow of a doubt that I can stay in good enough shape to medal again at the 2000 Games.. His own manager went so far as to tell the media, We think Carl will be bigger than Michael Jackson. Although he did do something in 1984 that will perhaps never be done againhe won gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the 4 by 100 relay, and the long jumpthe public saw Lewis as someone who was using his athletic career as a way to land big-money endorsements and get Hollywoods attention. Reese asks for Elias' help. Knowing who he is, she encourages him to let it go. As a result, when Sven pays for the items, the money goes into HR's bank accounts for them to do as they like. Some products are excluded. He took him to the safehouse, where Reese and Finch patched his wound and helped to save his life. Is This a Typical Texas Heat Wave or the Coldest Summer of the Rest of Our Lives? What was often lost in the stories about Lewis was that he could be a genuinely affable person. Hed turn up one day in cowboy garb, then another in a Robinson Crusoe outfit, and then arrive at a major track and field meet in a warm-up suit that not only was skintight but was also dyed the color of his skin, making it seem, at first glance, that he was naked. Im finished. Locked in a refrigerated storage container by Elias, Reese is forced to give up Moretti's location in exchange for Leila's life. After George Massey puts a hit out on Riley Cavanaugh, Finch visits Elias in prison in hopes of ending Massey's bounty. The 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles were supposed to be Lewis coronation, the time when the vast majority of Americans would pay court. Mary Lou Retton and other stars from the 84 Olympics made the cover of Wheaties boxes, but not Lewis, whose sexuality was the subject of so many rumors that he felt obligated to deny them in his autobiography, Inside Track. Thats completely untrue. In his lifetime, he designed over 500 different chairs, over 100 of which were put into mass production, with many recognizable icons among them. Who's at the center of the strings that were quietly pulled?" Carter later remarks to Reese that the Russians are worse than Elias, having fewer rules and more manpower. Elias tells Reese he knows of Donnelly's hunt for Reese but has no intentions of exposing Reese to Donnelly, stating that while he was pissed at first that Reese sent him to jail, he will always see him as the man who came out of nowhere and saved his life. (C.O.D.), Elias meets Reese in prison. Elias returns a book Finch once gave him and tells Finch that Finch is the darkest of them all and he hopes he's not there "when that pot boils over." With Finch's help, they escape Brighton Beach having captured one of the Yogorov sons. The fact is, when it comes to individual athletic superiority, few people in the world can touch long, lean, and impossibly fast Carl Lewis, who came to Texas in 1979 to attend the University of Houston, immediately qualified for the U.S. Olympic team at age eighteen, and dominated his sportall of sports, actuallyfor the next sixteen years. King Carl, as he was known in Europe, received commercial endorsements overseas, and one of the albums he recorded sold more than half a million copies in Sweden. He is being watched by Link, for Dominic who is emboldened by the recent information gleaned from the NYPD's files on Elias. After killing a number of Samaritan's operatives, Elias ushered Finch into the backseat of a car, only to find the driver dead. As part of his Burton identity, Elias becomes a high school history teacher in Brighton Beach. Elias is saved by Reese and proceeds to instruct Bruce to stay out of the country. In early 1981 the nineteen-year-old Lewis stunned the track-and-field world with a 27-foot, 101/4-inch jump at the Southwest Conference Indoor Championships in Fort Worththe fourth-best long jump in history. I really am moving on., He paused and gave me an impish smile. Reese is reluctant to accept Elias' help as Donnelly once suspected him of working for Elias, but points out Hersh to him. Latimer delivered the file, but is killed, presumably by Elias or his deputy. He marked off 29 feet, 2 12 inches in his front yardthe record-setting distance Beamon had jumped at the 1968 Olympicsand tried even then to match it. At times this knowledge proves useful even when Elias himself isn't directly involved such as when his information helped save, While unconfirmed, Elias may have known about, Two unnamed assassins: moved one in front of the second's bullet, shot the second five times in the chest, Ivan Yogorov's brother: killed by Benny D'Agostino, Six unnamed Russian mobsters: killed by Elias' hitmen, Two unnamed bodyguards: both killed by Elias' hitmen, The first car bombing: four fatalities; committed by, The second car bombing: two fatalities; committed by, Detective Bowman: shot once in the heart by. In 1973, eight-year-old Carl Elias discovers the body of his murdered mother, Marlene Elias. Following Elias' death, Reese and Fusco were called to the scene and as a gesture of respect, Reese removed Elias' glasses and shut his eyes. (Reassortment), After coming into conflict with the Voice once more, Finch decides to turn to Elias for help in tracking the man down. Although Lewis was wisely conserving his strength for the later sprinting eventshe also knew the other competitors would not come close to his one attempt, and indeed, they did notthe 80,000-plus fans at the Los Angeles Coliseum jeered him for not attempting a world record. Reese tried to protect Moretti, but Elias succeeds in capturing his father. But they were confused by what they saw. After the 1984 Games, David Letterman had a young African American boy on his show dressed up to look like Lewis Whats your name? Letterman asked. By 1996, Lewis was the grand old man of track and fieldbut he kept training, hoping for one more shot at the Olympics. Reese and Finch first become aware of Elias when he hiresSam Latimer and his team, including an undercover Reese, to steal a file box labeled "Elias, M." from the NYPD records office. Wegner was still relatively unknown, but soon gained wide acclaim that continues to today. (Flesh and Blood). Elias also orders his own people to stay out of the situation but warns Finch that everyone else will be after Reese. Elias tells Bruce that it is impossible for them to continue trying to rule New York's underworld, but doesn't state explicitly why, only saying that they face an adversary that they are ill-equipped to challenge. there are no reviews of this product yet. Burton and Reese become fast friends while trying to escape from the Yogorov family hit-men. Leaving the two men unconscious, Carter leads Elias to an SUV parked nearby. (B.S.O.D.) The NYPD transport car burned up, and it was presumed by the authorities that he was killed in the fire, which explains why they were unaware that it was Elias who had the car T-boned for escape and not Dominic. Even today, he continues to be a man of unbridled confidenceand he still refuses to apologize for being different. IN THE LENGTH OF TIME ITS GOING TO TAKE YOU TO READ THIS SENTENCE, which should be just under ten seconds, Carl Lewis was able to bust out of the starting blocks at a track meet and run 100 meters at full speed, his thighs pumping like pistons, his arms slicing back and forth through the air. (Mission Creep). (ShotSeeker), Elias was visited by Fusco, who informed him about death of Elias's old friend Bruce Moran. Elias suggests that Beecher knows something that even Beecher doesn't realize he knows and is playing a chess game of his own. It was to become a critical lesson in his life. Elias suggests that he can kill Hersh for Reese, but Reese refuses as he thinks Hersh is similar to him and Elias wouldn't stand a chance. Elias then suggests that Finch knew Elias would kill the Voice and brought him along for that reason, something Finch doesn't dispute. Elias's plan to unite the five families requires him to kill the current head of each of them, each of whom has little interest in his plans. Leave them blank to get signed up. (YHWH), According to the NYPD report, Elias was declared officially dead. In world-class track and field, where a single slightly strained ligament can mean the end of a career, sixteen years is an eternity. When Elias tries to reach the front of the car, another Samaritan operative shot him in the head, killing him. He is mentioned briefly in The Fix before making his first appearance. (Zero Day), Soon after the murder of his men, HR moves against him even further by having his lieutenant, possibly Scarface, assassinated.