There’s this scene in the second part of The Godfather trilogy where Freddie Corleone, the ineffectual middle son of the late New York mafia boss Don Vito Corleone, proves helpless in controlling his drunk, wayward wife at a family gathering.

A Corleone enforcer then approaches to whisper a message from his brother, the current family head: The boss says if you can’t handle it, let me take care of the issue.