Armand "Manny" Truisi was a main character of the Paramount+ series, Tulsa King. He is portrayed by Max Casella.
Armand was an ambitious criminal who once operated under the patronage of the Invernizzi family. Armand is now a member of the Manfredi Crime Family.
He committed suicide by hanging himself at the flophouse in a room filled with bottles.
Biography[]
Of Italian heritage, Armand Truisi grew up in New York, where he became affiliated with the Invernizzi crime family, which was lead by Pete Invernizzi. Armand came to know several core members of the Family very well, including consigliere Goodie Carangi, soldier Vince Antonacci, caporegime Dwight Manfredi, even Charles Invernizzi, Pete's son and heir.
One fateful night in 1997, in an abandoned Brooklyn apartment, Armand witnessed Chickie and Vince beat up Richard McLeevy, also known as Ripple, who owed money to the Family. Armand tried to convince Chickie to let things go, but when he refused, Armand alerted Dwight, who was Ripple's friend.
Before Dwight arrived, Armand witnessed Chickie brand Ripple with a red-hot iron. When Dwight arrived, Armand promised to have tried to prevent what happened from happening, but then Chickie's iron, which he had thrown there, began to ignite old papers and wood. Armand tried to help Dwight free Ripple, but seeing that nothing could be done, Dwight ordered him to leave, while he executed Ripple to save him from being burned alive.
When Dwight was sentence to 25-years in prision, Pete became nervous, as he believed Dwight could betray him to get a reduced sentence, so he ordered Armand to orchestrate Dwight's death; Armand hired an inmate, Ticko Tabares, to ambush Dwight in prison. Although without anyone knowing it, Armand tried to warn Dwight so that he could save himself, but he was unable to do so. Despite everything Dwight survived and killed the assassin.
Shortly after the failed assassination attempt on Dwight, Chickie summoned Armand to his club to talk. Fearing that he was going to be killed, Armand bought a gun and planned to go to the club to confront Chickie and threaten him into leaving him alone, but he was so scared that he ended up fleeing New York.
Armand finally arrived to Tulsa, Oklahoma to start a new life. He met and married Clara and they had two sons together. He became a ranch hand at Fennario Ranch and kept his past a secret and taking the name Manny.
Series[]
Season One[]
In "Go West, Old Man", Armand is at the mall when he spots Dwight Manfredi strutting towards the bathroom. He watches in surprise, keeping an eye on him. The next morning, he calls a man named Eddie, saying it's The Oklahoma Kid. He tells Eddie to listen, asking if there's "any fucking possibility he just saw Dwight Manfredi in Tulsa."
In "Center of the Universe", Armand bets on baseball teams at Fennario Ranch. The receptionist tells him that he has a call, so he answers the phone as Manny. Eddie mocks the nickname then tells him that Dwight is in Tulsa, but he doesn't know why. Armand tries to press him for more information, but Eddie doesn't have any. He suggests looking for Dwight at the fanciest hotel in Tulsa.
Once home, Armand goes out on his lawn to find a dog going to the bathroom. He yells at his neighbor, Larry, for letting his dog crap on his lawn. Larry asks how he knows it was his dog, and Armand said he just saw him. Larry brushes it off as being good for the grass since its fertilizer. He pulls his dog inside and Armand grumbles from across the street to let the dog fertilize his own yard instead.
Armand calls The Mayo searching for his "friend" Manfredi, or Ike. The clerk informs him that no one under that name is staying at the hotel. He does recognize the first name Dwight as belonging to "Mr. Manse" from New York. The clerk offers to connect him, but Armand declines, lying that someone just walked in and he'll call him back.
In "Caprice", a desperate Armand decides to finish off with Dwight. He wears a mask and drives up next to Dwight, who is taking his driver's test. He shoots out the window which angers Dwight but injures the driving instructor. Armand speeds off, and a car chase ensues, as Dwight crashes into the car purposefully, but also causes a traffic jam that allows Armand to flee.
That night, he takes the car to an abandoned parking lot and lights it on fire. Dwight finds the car, which isn't burnt too badly because Armand left the windows up, suffocating the fire. Dwight tracks down the Fennario Ranch logo, interrogating Margaret about any of her employees who might be capable of committing a crime. She isn't sure what her many employees do outside of work - it isn't her business. Dwight stakes out the ranch and watches Armand leave the ranch. He follows the man to his house, gripping at a gun as he watches Armand. A little boy and a woman run out of the house to greet Armand, who embraces his son. Dwight glares at the family from across the street.
The next day, Armand tries to clean the dog feces from his neighbor's dog but Dwight ambushes him and takes him into the house to interrogate him. Armand reveals that Pete ordered his death since he believed Dwight would rat out the family and the reason why he tried to kill Dwight in the first place because he thought Dwight figured out his role and came to take revenge. Realizing that Armand tried to kill him out of misunderstanding. Dwight spares Armand but demands 300 dollars per week as punishment for concocting the assassination against Dwight.
Season Three[]
In "Blood and Bourbon", Armand has disappeared, and no one knows where he is.
According to Goodie, Armand has started attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings to try and get his life back on track and get his wife to let him see his children. However, this worries Goodie because the Family has plans to get into the bootlegging business, and they know that if New York finds out, they could try to demand a share.
Dwight orders Goodie to find Armand and bring him back to the Family. Goodie goes to the group's meeting place, but Armand isn't there.
After calling his wife, Clara, Goodie discovers that she's given Armand to see their children, which explains his absence: he's away visiting his family.
In "The Fifty", the FBI agent John Musso questions Dwight about Armand's whereabouts as they travel to Texas. Dwight replies that Armand has gone to Colorado to try to reconcile with his wife, but Musso doubts this.
Musso's doubts prove correct when Clara, Armand's wife, shows up at Joanne's distillery asking for Dwight; Armand has disappeared, and this time for real. He didn't arrive in Colorado to see Clara and their children, he doesn't answer his phone when Clara call him, his car is untraceable, and he's not in his home. Clara, deeply worried, asks Joanne if her brother has anything to do with Armand's disappearance, which Joanne denies, claiming they've also been looking for him.
In "Bubbles", The police arrive at the Bred-2-Buck to inform Goodie that they have found Armand, and he calls Dwight to inform him: apparently, Armand has hanged himself in a boarding house room, the large number of bottles in the room seems to indicate that he committed suicide while he was drunk.
Personality[]
Armand "Manny" Trusi is a former soldier for the Invernizzi crime family who has since left the world of crime to live a much quieter life in Tulsa while working at the Fennario horse ranch. While he initially is at odds with Dwight, he eventually works alongside him.
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- ↑ Armand refers to himself as such in "Center of the Universe".