[speaking to himself, practicing his speech]

Luca Brasi: Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you

have invited me to your home on the wedding day of your

daughter. And may their first child be a masculine child.

[then, starting over]

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Michael: I have to see my father and his people so have dinner

without me.

Kay Adams: Oh, Michael.

Michael: This weekend we'll go out. We'll go to the city, see a

show and have dinner, I promise.

Kay Adams: Hmmmm. Michael. Michael, wait, your sister wants

to ask you something.

Michael: Well, let her ask.

Kay Adams: No, she's afraid to. Connie and Carlo want you to

be Godfather to their little boy.

Michael: We'll see.

Kay Adams: Will you?

Michael: Let me think about it. We'll see.

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Michael: You have to answer for Santino, Carlo. You fingered

Sonny for the Barzini people.

Carlo Rizzi: Mike, you got it all wrong.

Michael: Ah, that little farce you played with my sister. You

think that would fool a Corleone?

Carlo Rizzi: Mike, I'm innocent. I swear on the kids.

Michael: Sit down.

Carlo Rizzi: Please don't do this to me, Mike. Please don't.

Michael: Barzini is dead. So is Phillip Tattaglia. Moe Greene.

Stracci. Cuneo. Today I settled all family business so don't tell

me that you're innocent. Admit what you did.

[Carlo starts sobbing]

Michael: Get him a drink. Don't be afraid, Carlo. Come on, you

think I'd make my sister a widow? I'm Godfather to your son.

[Carlo get handed a drink]

Michael: Go ahead. Drink. Drink. No, you're out of the family

business, that's your punishment. You're finished. I'm putting

you on a plane to Vegas. Tom?

[Tom hands Michael an airplane ticket]

Michael: I want you to stay there, you understand?

[Carlo nods]

Michael: Only don't tell me that you're innocent. Because it

insults my intelligence and it makes me very angry. Now, who

approached you first? Barzini or Tattaglia?

Carlo Rizzi: It was Barzini.

Michael: Good. There's a car outside that will take you to the

airport. I'll call your wife and tell her what flight you're on.

Carlo Rizzi: Listen, Mike...

Michael: Go on. Get out of my sight.

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[last lines]

Michael: All right. This one time I'll let you ask me about my

affairs.

Kay Adams: Is it true? Is it?

Michael: No.

[Kay smiles and walks into his arms]

Kay Adams: I guess we both need a drink, huh?

[Kay goes to the kitchen to fix a drink, but sees Peter

Clemenza, Rocco Lampone and Al Neri enter Michael's office]

Clemenza: Don Corleone.

[Clemenza kisses Michael's hand, and Neri shuts the door in

her face... ]

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Sollozzo: Bene, Don Corleone. I need a man who has powerful

friends. I need a million dollars in cash. I need, Don Corleone,

all of those politicians that you carry around in your pocket,

like so many nickels and dimes.

Don Corleone: What is the interest for my family?

Sollozzo: Thirty percent. In the first year your end should be

three, four million dollars. And then it would go up.

Don Corleone: And what is the interest for the Tattalgia family?

Sollozzo: [smiles at Tom] My compliments.

[Hagen gives a formal nod]

Sollozzo: I'll take care of the Tattaglias, out of my share.

Don Corleone: So, I am to receive thirty percent for finance, for

legal protection and political influence. Is that what you're

telling me?

Sollozzo: That's right.

Don Corleone: Why come to me? What have I done to deserve

such generosity?

Sollozzo: If you consider a million dollars in cash merely

finance...

[raises his glass]

Sollozzo: Te salut, Don Corleone.

[the Don gets up to take a drink and sits closer to Sollozzo]

Don Corleone: I said that I would see you because I had heard

that you were a serious man, to be treated with respect. But I

must say no to you and let me give you my reasons. It's true I

have a lot of friends in politics, but they wouldn't be so

friendly if they knew my business was drugs instead of

gambling which they consider a harmless vice. But drugs,

that's a dirty business.

Sollozzo: No, Don Corleone...

Don Corleone: It makes no difference, it don't make any

difference to me what a man does for a living, you understand.

But your business is a little dangerous.

Sollozzo: If you're worried about security for your million, the

Tattaglias will guarantee it.

Sonny: Whoa, now, you're telling me that the Tattaglias

guarantee our investment without...?

Don Corleone: Wait a minute.

[the Don gives his son a cold stare, freezing Santino into

silence. The others fidget with embarrassment at this

outbreak, but Sollozzo looks slyly satisfied... ]

Don Corleone: [dismissive] I have a sentimental weakness for

my children and I spoil them, as you can see. They talk when

they should listen. Anyway, Signor Sollozzo, my no to you is

final. I want to congratulate you on your new business and I'm

sure you'll do very well and good luck to you. Especially since

your interests don't conflict with mine. Thank you.

[Sollozzo leaves]

Don Corleone: Santino, come here.

Don Corleone: What's the matter with you? I think your brain is

going soft with all that comedy you are playing with that

young girl. Never tell anyone outside the Family what you are

thinking again. Go on.

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Michael: My credit good enough to buy you out?

Moe Greene: Buy me out?

[Fredo laughs nervously]

Michael: The hotel, the casino. The Corleone Family wants to

buy you out.

Moe Greene: The Corleone Family wants to buy me out? No, I

buy you out, you don't buy me out.

Michael: Your casino loses money, maybe we can do better.

Moe Greene: You think I'm skimmin off the top, Mike?

Michael: [Michael shakes his head] You're unlucky.

Moe Greene: You goddamn guineas you really make me laugh.

I do you a favor and take Freddie in when you're having a bad

time, and now you're gonna try and push me out!

Michael: You took Freddie in because the Corleone Family

bankrolled your casino, and the Molinari Family on the Coast

guaranteed his safety. Now we're talking business, let's talk

business.

Moe Greene: Yeah, let's talk business, Mike. First of all, you're

all done. The Corleone Family don't even have that kind of

muscle anymore. The Godfather's sick, right? You're getting

chased out of New York by Barzini and the other Families.

What do you think is going on here? You think you can come to

my hotel and take over? I talked to Barzini - I can make a deal

with him, and still keep my hotel!

Michael: Is that why you slapped my brother around in public?

Fredo: Aw, now that, that was nothin', Mike. Moe didn't mean

nothin' by that. Yeah, sure he flies off the handle every once in

a while, but me and him, we're good friends, right Moe?

Moe Greene: I got a business to run. I gotta kick asses

sometimes to make it run right. We had a little argument,

Freddy and me, so I had to straighten him out.

Michael: You straightened my brother out?

Moe Greene: He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!

Players couldn't get a drink at the table! What's the matter

with you?

Michael: I leave for New York tomorrow, think about a price.

Moe Greene: Sonofabitch! Do you know who I am? I'm Moe

Greene! I made my bones when you were going out with

cheerleaders!

Fredo: Wait a minute, Moe, Moe, I got an idea. Tom, you're the

Consiglieri and you can talk to the Don, you can explain...

Tom Hagen: Now hold it right there. The Don is semi-retired

and Mike is in charge of the Family business now. If you have

anything to say, say it to Michael.

Fredo: [Moe Greene leaves] Mike! You do not come to Las

Vegas and talk to a man like Moe Greene like that!

Michael: Fredo, you're my older brother, and I love you. But

don't ever take sides with anyone against the Family again.

Ever.

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Tessio: Barzini's people chisle my territory and we do nothing

about it. Pretty soon there won't be anyplace in Brooklyn that I

can hang my hat.

Michael: Try and be patient.

Clemenza: I'm not asking for help, Mike, just take off the

handcuffs.

Michael: Be patient.

Clemenza: We gotta protect ourselves. At least give me the

chance to recruit some new men.

Michael: No. I don't want to give Barzini any excuse to start

fighting.

Tessio: Mike, you're wrong.

Clemenza: Don Corleone, you once said the day would come

when me and Tessio could form our own families. Until today I

would never think of such a thing but now I must ask your

permission.

Don Corleone: Well, Michael's head of the family now and if

give his permission then you have my blessing.

Michael: After we make the move to Nevada you can break off

from the Corleone Family and go off on your own. After we

make the move to Nevada.

Clemenza: How long will that take?

Michael: Six months.

Tessio: Forgive me, Godfather, but with you gone me and Pete

will come under Barzini's thumb sooner or later.

Clemenza: And I hate that Goddamn Barzini. In six months time

there won't be nothin' left to build on.

Don Corleone: Do you have faith in my judgement?

Clemenza: Yes.

Don Corleone: Do I have your loyalty?

Clemenza: Yes, always Godfather.

Don Corleone: Then be a friend to Michael. Do as he says.

Michael: There are negotiations being made that are going to

answer all of your questions and solve all of your problems.

That's all I can tell you right now. Carlo, you grew up in

Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my

right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going

to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom it's just

the way I want it. Besides, if I ever help who's a better

Consigliari than my father. That's it.

[Everyone except Hagen leaves]

Tom Hagen: Mike, why am I out?

Michael: You're not a wartime Consigliari, Tom. Things could

get rough with the move we're making.

Don Corleone: Tom, I advised Michael. I never thought you

were a bad Consigliari. I thought Santino was a bad Don, rest

in peace. Michael has all my confidence as do you. But there

are reasons why you must have nothing to do with what's

going to happen.

Tom Hagen: Maybe I could help.

Michael: You're out, Tom.

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Michael: Fredo, who are the girls?

Fredo: That's for you to find out.

Michael: Get rid of them, Fredo.

Fredo: Hey, Mike, uh...

Michael: I'm here on business I leave tomorrow now get rid of

them. Come on, I'm tired. Get rid of the band, too.

[Fredo chases everyone out of the room]

Michael: What happened to Moe Greene?

Fredo: He had business. He said give him a call. Once the party

started.

Michael: Well, give him a call. Hello, Johnny.

Johnny Fontane: Mike, it's nice to see you again.

Michael: We're all proud of you. Sit down, Johnny, I want to

talk to you. The Don's proud of you, too.

Johnny Fontane: Well, I owe it all to him.

Michael: He knows how grateful you are. That's why he'd like

to ask a favor.

Johnny Fontane: Mike, what can I do?

Michael: The Corleone family is thinking of giving up all of its

interest in the olive oil business, settling out here. Now Moe

Greene will sell us his share of the hotel and the casino so that

it can be completely owned by the family. Tom.

[Hagen hands Michael some papers]

Fredo: Hey, Mike, are you sure about that? I mean, Moe, loves

the business. He never said anything to me about sellin'.

Michael: I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny,

we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in

drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll

sign a contract agreeing to appear 5 times a year. Perhaps

convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same.

We're counting on you, Johnny.

Johnny Fontane: Sure, Mike, I'll do anything for my Godfather.

You know that.

Michael: Good.

Moe Greene: Hey, Mike! Everybody's here. There's Tom.

Freddie. Good to see you, Mike.

Michael: How are you, Moe?

Moe Greene: You got everything you need? The chef cooked for

you special, the dancers will kick your tongue out and your

credit is good. Draw chips for everyone in the room so they can

play on the house.

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[delivering his rehearsed speech]

Luca Brasi: Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you

have invited me to your daughter... 's wedding... on the day of

your daughter's wedding. And I hope their first child be a

masculine child. I pledge my ever-ending loyalty.

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[after Michael gets off the phone with Kay, clearly too

embarrassed to tell her he loves her]

Clemenza: Mikey, why don't you tell that nice girl you love her?

I love you with all-a my heart, if I don't see-a you again soon,

I'm-a gonna die.

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Sonny: Goddamn FBI don't respect nothin'.

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Calo: In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

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Sonny: Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very

good - to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of

that toilet with just his dick in his hands, alright?

Clemenza: The gun'll be there.

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Michael: My father is no different than any powerful man, any

man with power, like a president or senator.

Kay Adams: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael?

Presidents and senators don't have men killed.

Michael: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?

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Jack Woltz: All right, start talking!

Tom Hagen: I come from a personal friend of Mr Johnny

Fontane. That friend promises his undying friendship if you

would do him a small favour.

Jack Woltz: What's that?

Tom Hagen: Give Johnny a part in that war movie you're

starting next week.

[Woltz signs a document with a smile and walks away, Hagen

alongside him]

Jack Woltz: And what favours does this friend promise in

exchange for giving Johnny the part?

Tom Hagen: You've got some labour trouble coming up. My

client promises to make that trouble disappear. You have a top

star who makes a lot of money, but he just graduated from

marijuana to heroin...

Jack Woltz: [all East Side now] Are you trying to muscle me?

Tom Hagen: Absolutely not. I've come to ask a service for a

friend...

Jack Woltz: Now you listen to me, you smooth-talking son-of-a-

bitch, let me lay it on the line for you and your boss, whoever

he is! Johnny Fontane will never get that movie! I don't care

how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs come out of

the woodwork!

Tom Hagen: I'm German-Irish.

Jack Woltz: Well, let me tell you something, my kraut-mick

friend, I'm gonna make so much trouble for you, you won t

know what hit you!

Tom Hagen: Mr. Woltz, I'm a lawyer. I have not threatened you.

Jack Woltz: I know almost every big lawyer in New York, who

the hell are you?

Tom Hagen: I have a special practice. I handle one client. Now

you have my number, I'll wait for your call. By the way, I

admire your pictures very much.

[Hagen leaves, with Woltz staring after him]

Jack Woltz: [to an underling] Check him out...

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[first lines]

Bonasera: I believe in America. America has made my fortune.

And I raised my daughter in the American fashion. I gave her

freedom but I taught her never to dishonor her family. She

found a "boy friend," not an Italian. She went to the movies

with him. She stayed out late. I didn't protest. Two months ago

he took her for a drive, with another boy friend. They made her

drink whiskey and then they tried to take advantage of her.

She resisted. She kept her honor. So they beat her. Like an

animal. When I went to the hospital her nose was broken. Her

jaw was shattered, held together by wire. She couldn't even

weep because of the pain. But I wept. Why did I weep? She was

the light of my life. A beautiful girl. Now she will never be

beautiful again.

[He breaks down at this point, and the Don gestures to his son

to get him a drink]

Bonasera: Sorry...

[He regains his composure and carries on]

Bonasera: I went to the police, like a good American. These

two boys were brought to trial. The judge sentenced them to

three years in prison, and suspended the sentence. Suspended

sentence! They went free that very day! I stood in the

courtroom like a fool, and those two bastards, they smiled at

me. Then I said to my wife, "For justice, we must go to Don

Corleone."

Don Corleone: Why did you go to the police? Why didn't you

come to me first?

Bonasera: What do you want of me? Tell me anything. But do

what I beg you to do.

Don Corleone: What is that?

[Bonasera gets up from his seat and whispers into the Don's

ear; for a long moment the Don is silent]

Don Corleone: That I cannot do.

Bonasera: I will give you anything you ask!

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Kay Adams: Michael, you never told me you knew Johnny

Fontane!

Michael: Sure, you want to meet him?

Kay Adams: Well, yeah! Sure.

Michael: My father helped him with his career.

Kay Adams: How did he do that?

Michael: ...Let's listen to the song.

Kay Adams: [after listening to Johnny for a while] Tell me,

Michael. Please.

Michael: Well, when Johnny was first starting out, he was

signed to a personal services contract with this big-band

leader. And as his career got better and better, he wanted to

get out of it. But the band leader wouldn't let him. Now, Johnny

is my father's godson. So my father went to see this

bandleader and offered him $10,000 to let Johnny go, but the

bandleader said no. So the next day, my father went back, only

this time with Luca Brasi. Within an hour, he had a signed

release for a certified check of $1000.

Kay Adams: How did he do that?

Michael: My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Kay Adams: What was that?

Michael: Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father

assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on

the contract.

Kay Adams: ...

Michael: ...That's a true story.

[cut to Johnny singing again for about 10 more seconds before

going back to Michael]

Michael: That's my family Kay, that's not me.

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Sonny: Tom-anuch! Hey, a hundred button men on the street

twenty-four hours a day. That Turk shows one hair on his ass

and he's dead.

Sonny: [to Michael, whose face is bruised] Michael, come here.

Let me look at you. You're beautiful, beautiful, just beautiful.

Hey, listen to this. The Turk, he wants to talk. You believe the

nerve on this son of a bitch? He craps out last night and now

he wants to have a meetin'.

Tom Hagen: What did he say?

Sonny: What did he say, badda-beep, badda-boop, badda-

boop, badda-beep, he wants us to send Michael to hear the

proposition and the promise is the deal is so good we can't

refuse. Ha.

Tom Hagen: What about Bruno Tattaglia?

Sonny: Ah, that's part of the deal. Bruno cancels out what they

did to my father.

Tom Hagen: We ought to hear what they have to say, Sonny.

Sonny: No, no, no, not this time, Consigliary. No more

meetin's, no more discussions, no more Sollozzo tricks. You

give them a message from I want Solozzo if not it's all out war

we go to the mattresses.

Tom Hagen: Some of the other families won't sit still for an all

out war.

Sonny: Then you tell them to hand over Sollozzo!

Tom Hagen: Your father wouldn't want to hear this, Sonny.

This is business not personal.

Sonny: They shoot my father and it's business, my ass!

Tom Hagen: Even shooting your father was business not

personal, Sonny!

Sonny: Well then, business is going to have to suffer. And

please, do me a favor, Tom. No more advice on how to patch

things up just help me win, please?

Tom Hagen: I found out about this Captain McClusky who broke

Mike's jaw.

Sonny: Alright, what about him.

Tom Hagen: He's definitely on Sollozzo's payroll and for big

money. Now, McClusky has agreed to be the Turk's bodyguard.

Now what you have to understand, Sonny, is that while

Sollozzo's being guarded like this he is invulnerable. Nobody

has ever gunned down a New York police captain before. It

would be disasterous. All the other five families would turn

against you. The Corleone Family would be outcast. Even the

old man's political protection would run for cover. So, do me a

favor, take this into consideration.

Sonny: Alright, we wait.

Michael: You can't wait.

Sonny: What?

Michael: You can't wait. I don't care what Sollozzo says about a

deal he's gonna kill Pop. He has to. It's a key for him. You gotta

get Sollozzo.

Clemenza: Mikey's right.

Sonny: Alright, Professor, what about McClusky. What do we

do with this cop here?

Michael: They want to have a meeting with me, right? It will be

me, McClusky and Sollozzo. Let's set the meeting. We get our

informants to find out where it's going to be held. Now we

insist that it be held in a public place, a bar or a restaurant

where there'll be other people there so I'll feel safe. They're

going to search me when I first meet them, right? So I can't

have a weapon on me. But if Clemenza can figure a way to

have a weapon planted for me, then I'll kill them both.

Sonny: [laughing] What are you gonna do? Nice college boy,

didn't want to get mixed up in the family business. Now you

want to gun down a police captain. Why? Because he slapped

you in the face a little? What do you think this like the Army

where you can shoot 'em from a mile away? No you gotta get

up like this and, badda-bing, you blow their brains all over

your nice Ivy League suit. C'mere.

[Kisses Michael on the head]

Sonny: You're taking this very personal. Tom, this is business

and this man is taking it very, very personal.

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Michael Corleone: Where does it say that you can't kill a cop?

Tom Hagen: Come on, Mikey...

Michael Corleone: Tom, wait a minute. I'm talking about a cop

that's mixed up in drugs. I'm talking about a - a - a dishonest

cop - a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got

what was coming to him. That's a terrific story. And we have

newspaper people on the payroll, don't we, Tom?

[Tom nods]

Michael Corleone: And they might like a story like that.

Tom Hagen: They might, they just might.

Michael Corleone: [to Sonny] It's not personal, Sonny. It's

strictly business.

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[Michael sees a man dressed in black coming to Vito's hospital

room]

Michael Corleone: Who are you?

Enzo the Baker: I am Enzo. The baker. Do you remember me?

Michael Corleone: Enzo...

Enzo the Baker: Yes, Enzo.

Michael Corleone: You better get out of here, Enzo, there's

gonna be trouble.

Enzo the Baker: If there is trouble, I stay here to help you. For

your father. For your father.

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Tom Hagen: Sollozo is known as the Turk. He's supposed to be

very good with a knife. But only in matters of business, or of

some sort of reasonable complaint. His business is narcotics.

He has the fields in Turkey, where they grow the poppy. In

Sicily he has the plant to process it into heroin. He needs cash

and he needs protection from the police for which he gives a

piece of the action, I couldn't find out how much. The Tattaglia

Family is behind him here in New York so they have to be in it

for something.

Don Corleone: What about his prison record?

Tom Hagen: Two terms, one in Italy, and one here. He's known

as a top narcotics man.

Don Corleone: Santino, what do you think?

Sonny: There's a lot of money in that white powder.

Don Corleone: Tom?

Tom Hagen: Well, I say yes. There is more money potential in

narcotics than anything else we're looking at now. If we don't

get into it, somebody else will, maybe one of the Five Families,

maybe all of them. And with the money they earn they'll be

able to buy more police and political power. Then they come

after us. Right now we have the unions and we have the

gambling and those are the best things to have. But narcotics

is a thing of the future. If we don't get a piece of that action

we risk everything we have. Not now, but ten years from now.

Sonny: Well, what's your answer gonna be, Pop?

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[Tessio brings in Luca Brasi's bulletproof vest, delivered with a

fish inside]

Sonny: What the hell is this?

Clemenza: It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps

with the fishes.

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Tom Hagen: I'm an attorney for the Corleone family. These

men are private detectives hired to protect Vito Corleone. They

are licensed to carry firearms. If you interfere you'll have to

appear before a judge in the morning and show cause.

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Michael: [speaking to Carlo] Only don't tell me you're innocent.

Because it insults my intelligence and makes me very angry.

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Capt. McCluskey: I thought I got all you Guinea hoods locked

up! What the hell are you doing here?

Michael: What happened to the men who were guarding my

father, Captain?

Capt. McCluskey: I pulled them guys off of here, eh, now get

away from this hospital!

Michael: I'm not leaving until you put some guards around my

father's room.

Capt. McCluskey: Phil, take him in!

Cop with Capt. McCluskey outside hospital: The kid's clean

Captain, he's a war hero! He's never been mixed up with the

rackets...

Capt. McCluskey: Goddamn it Phil, I said take him in!

Michael: What's the Turk paying you to set up my father,

Captain?

Capt. McCluskey: [to Patrolmen] Take a hold of him. Stand him

up. Stand him up straight.

[punches Michael and breaks his jaw]

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Sollozzo: [to Michael, in Sicilian] I am sorry. What happened to

your father was business. I have much respect for your father.

But your father, his thinking is old-fashioned. You must

understand why I had to do that. Now let's work through where

we go from here.

[Michael tries speaking in Sicilian, but can't express himself

properly, so with a quick look at McCluskey they both switch to

English]

Michael: What I want... what's most important to me is that I

have a guarantee: no more attempts on my father's life.

Sollozzo: What guarantees could I give you, Mike? I'm the

hunted one. I've missed my chance. You think too much of me,

kid. I am not that clever. All I want is a truce.

Michael: I have to go to the bathroom. Is that all right?

Capt. McCluskey: You gotta go, you gotta go.

[Michael gets up, but a suspicious Sollozzo probes Michael's

crotch, to Michael's offense]

Capt. McCluskey: I frisked him. He's clean.

Sollozzo: Don't take too long...

[Michael heads to the bathroom]

Capt. McCluskey: [to Sollozzo] I frisked a thousand young

punks.

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Emilio Barzini: [during a meeting with the Five Families] Times

have changed. It's not like the Old Days, when we can do

anything we want. A refusal is not the act of a friend. If Don

Corleone had all the judges, and the politicians in New York,

then he must share them, or let us others use them. He must

let us draw the water from the well. Certainly he can present a

bill for such services; after all... we are not Communists.

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Tom Hagen: When I meet with Tattaglia's men, should I insist

all their drug middlemen have clean records?

Don Corleone: Mention it, don't insist. But Barzini will know

that without being told.

Tom Hagen: You mean Tattaglia...

Don Corleone: Tattaglia is a pimp. He never could have

outfought Santino. But I didn't know until this day that it was

Barzini all along.

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Tom Hagen: You know how they're going to come at you?

Michael: They want to arrange a meeting between me and

Barzini. On Tessio's ground. Where I'll be safe.

[Hagen is silent for a long moment]

Tom Hagen: Tessio. I always thought it would be Clemenza.

Michael: It's the smart move. Tessio was always smarter.

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Don Corleone: You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going

to bring your son back to you? Or my boy to me?

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Johnny Fontane: [discussing his problems] I don't know what to

do, Godfather. My voice is weak, it's weak. Anyway, if I had

this part in the picture, it puts me right back on top, you know.

But this... this man out there. He won't give it to me, the head

of the studio.

Don Corleone: What's his name?

Don Corleone: Woltz. He said there's no chance, no chance...

[Meanwhile, Hagen finds Sonny and summons him]

Johnny Fontane: A month ago he bought the rights to this

book, a best seller. The main character is a guy just like me. I

wouldn't even have to act, just be myself. Oh, Godfather, I

don't know what to do, I don't know what to do...

[All of a sudden, Don Corleone rises from his chair and gives

Fontane a savage shake]

Don Corleone: YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!

[gives a quick slap to Fontane]

Don Corleone: What's the matter with you? Is this what you've

become, a Hollywood finocchio who cries like a woman? "Oh,

what do I do? What do I do?" What is that nonsense?

Ridiculous!

[the Don's unexpected mimicry makes Hagen and even

Fontane laugh; around this time Sonny comes in]

Don Corleone: Tell me, do you spend time with your family?

Johnny Fontane: Sure I do.

Don Corleone: Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time

with his family can never be a real man.

[gives a quick look at Sonny and affectionately embraces

Fontane]

Don Corleone: You look terrible. I want you to eat, I want you

to rest well. And a month from now this Hollywood big shot's

gonna give you what you want.

Johnny Fontane: Too late. They start shooting in a week.

Don Corleone: I'm gonna make him an offer he won't refuse.

Okay? I want you to leave it all to me. Go on, go back to the

party.

[a gratified Fontane leaves]

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Tom Hagen: Mr Corleone is Johnny Fontane's godfather. Now

Italians regard that as a very close, a very sacred religious

relationship.

Jack Woltz: Tell your boss he can ask for anything else, but this

is one favour I can't grant him.

Tom Hagen: Mr. Corleone never asks a second favor once he's

refused the first, understood?

Jack Woltz: You don't understand. Johnny Fontane never gets

that movie. That part is perfect for him. It'll make him a big

star. I'm gonna run him out of the movies. And let me tell you

why. Johnny Fontane ruined one of Woltz International's most

valuable proteges. For three years we had her under contract,

singing lessons, dancing lessons, acting lessons. I spent

hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was gonna make her a big

star. And let me be even more frank, just to show you that I'm

not a hard-hearted man, that it's not all dollars and cents. She

was beautiful, she was innocent, she was the greatest piece of

ass I've ever had, and I've had it all over the world. And then

Johnny Fontane comes along with his olive oil voice and guinea

charm and she runs off. She threw it all away just to make me

look ridiculous. And a man in my position can't afford to be

made to look ridiculous. Now you get the hell out of here. And

you tell that gumba that if he wants to try any rough stuff that

I ain't no band leader. Yeah, I heard that story.

[Hagen has been calmly eating his meal throughout Woltz's

tirade]

Tom Hagen: Thank you for the dinner and a very pleasant

evening. Have your car take me to the airport. Mr Corleone is a

man who insists on hearing bad news at once.

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[speaking with the father of the girl he plans to marry, and

after telling him that he's in hiding from some gangsters]

Michael: Some people will pay a lot of money for that

information; but then your daughter would lose a father,

instead of gaining a husband.

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Sonny: Hey, whaddya gonna do, nice college boy, eh? Didn't

want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh? Now you

wanna gun down a police captain. Why? Because he slapped ya

in the face a little bit? Hah? What do you think this is the

Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away? You've gotta get up

close like this and - bada-BING! - you blow their brains all over

your nice Ivy League suit. C'mere...

[kisses Michael's head]

Michael: Sonny...

Sonny: You're taking this very personal. Tom, this is business

and this man is taking it very, very personal.

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Sollozzo: I don't like violence, Tom. I'm a businessman; blood is

a big expense.

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[after Sonny beats up Carlo Rizzi for hitting Connie]

Sonny: You touch my sister again, I'll kill you.

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Don Corleone: You talk about vengance. Is vengance going to

bring your son back to you or my boy to me? I forgo the

vengance of my son. But my youngest son had to leave this

country because of this Sollozzo business. So now I have to

make arraingments to bring him back safely cleared of all

these false charges. But I'm a supersticious man. And if some

unluck accident should befall him, if he should be shot in the

head by a police officer, or if should hang himself in his jail

cell, or if he's struck by a bolt of lightning... *then I'm going to

blame some of the people in this room*... and that, I do not

forgive. But, that aside, let say that I swear, on the souls of my

grandchildren, that I will not be the one to break the peace we

have made here today.

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Connie: [shrieking at Michael] You killed my husband! You

waited until our father died so nobody could stop you and you

killed him! You killed him! You blamed him for Sonny, you

always did, everybody did. But you never thought about me.

You never gave a dam about me. What am I going to do now?

Kay Adams: [taking Connie in her arms] Connie...

Connie: Why do you think he kept Carlo at the mall? All the

time he knew he was going to kill him. And then he stood

Godfather to our baby. You think you know your husband? You

know how many men he had killed! Read the papers. Read the

papers! That's your husband!

[Michael takes Connie into her arms, but she goes wild again

and tries to attack him]

Michael Corleone: Take her upstairs. Get her a doctor.

[Michael's bodyguards grab Connie and pull her out of the

office]

Michael Corleone: [to Kay] She's hysterical.

Kay Adams: Is it true?

Michael Corleone: Don't ask me about my business, Kay.

Michael Corleone: Is it true?

Michael Corleone: Don't ask me about my business...

Kay Adams: No...

Michael Corleone: [slams the desk] ENOUGH!

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[to Rocco who has killed Paulie in the car]

Peter Clemenza: Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

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Clemenza: Damn it, Sonny's running scared. He's thinking of

going to the matresses already. We got to go pick up some

stuff at this address. You know any good spots on the west

side?

Paulie Gatto: Yeah, I'll think about it.

Clemenza: Well, think about it while you're driving, will ya? I

wanna hit New York sometime this month. And watch out for

the kids when you're backing out!

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Capt. McCluskey: How's the Italian food in this restaurant?

Sollozzo: Good. Try the veal, it's the best in the city.

Capt. McCluskey: I'll have it.

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Don Zaluchi: I also don't believe in drugs. For years I paid my

people extra so they wouldn't do that kind of business.

Somebody comes to them and says, "I have powders; if you put

up three, four thousand dollar investment, we can make fifty

thousand distributing." So they can't resist. I want to control it

as a business, to keep it respectable.

[slams his hand on the table and shouts]

Don Zaluchi: I don't want it near schools! I don't want it sold to

children! That's an infamia. In my city, we would keep the

traffic in the dark people, the coloreds. They're animals

anyway, so let them lose their souls.

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Sonny: How's Paulie?

Clemenza: Oh, Paulie... won't see him no more.

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Connie: Dinner's on the table.

Carlo Rizzi: I'm not hungry yet.

Connie: Your food is on the table. It's getting cold.

Carlo Rizzi: I'll eat out later.

Connie: You just told me to make you dinner!

Carlo Rizzi: Hey, vaffanculo, eh?

Connie: Aw, vaffanculo you!

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Michael: You and I are going to move my father to another

room, now can you disconnect those tubes so we can move the

bed out of here?

Night Nurse: That is out of the question.

Michael: You know my father? Men are coming here to kill him,

now help me, please.

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[the Corleone Family poses for the wedding photo]

Don Corleone: [to Sonny] Where's Michael?

Sonny: Don't worry. He'll be here.

Don Corleone: We're not taking the picture without Michael.

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Virgil 'The Turk' Sollozzo: He's still alive. They hit him with five

shots and he's still alive!

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[Clemenza and Michael arrive to find extra guards posted

outside the house]

Clemenza: What's with all the new faces?

Tessio: We'll need 'em now. After the hospital thing, Sonny got

mad. We hit Bruno Tattaglia at four o'clock this morning.

Clemenza: ...Jesus Christ.

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[Clemenza prepares Michael for his meeting with Sollozzo]

Clemenza: [holding up a .22] It's as cold as they come,

impossible to trace. So you don't have to worry about prints,

Mike. I put a special tape on the trigger and the butt. Here, try

it...

[Michael takes the gun, but can't seem to fire it]

Clemenza: What's the matter, trigger too tight?

[With a loud bang, Michael finally discharges the gun]

Michael: Ow! My ears.

Clemenza: Yeah, I left it noisy. That way it scares any pain-in-

the-ass innocent bystanders away. All right, you shot them

both, now what do you do?

Michael: Sit down and finish my dinner.

Clemenza: Come on, kid, don't fool around. Just let your hand

drop to your side and the gun slip out. Everyone will still think

you've got it. They're gonna be staring at your face, Mike. So

walk out of the place real fast, but you don't run. Don't look

nobody directly in the eye, hut don't look away either. They're

gonna be scared of you, believe me, so don't worry about

nothing.

[while talking, Clemenza takes the gun and begins working on

it to fix the trigger]

Clemenza: You know, Mike, you're gonna turn out all right. You

take a long vacation, nobody knows where, and we'll catch the

hell.

Michael: How bad do you think it's gonna be?

Clemenza: Pretty goddam bad. Probably all the other Families

will line up against us. That's all right. These things gotta

happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the

bad blood. Been ten years since the last one. You know, you

gotta stop them at the beginning. Like they should have

stopped Hitler at Munich, they should never let him get away

with that, they was just asking for trouble.

[Clemenza now finishes working on the gun]

Clemenza: You know, Mike, we was all proud of you being a

hero and all. Your father too.

[Clemenza hands the gun back to Michael]

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[Sonny pays a visit to his sister Connie. He is surprised to find

her subdued and evasive]

Sonny: [surprised] What's the matter? Huh? What's the

matter?

[He looks at her swollen face and understands what has

happened. He pulls away to go after Carlo... ]

Connie: [grabbing his shoulders] It was my fault!

Sonny: Where is he?

Connie: [weeping with terror] Sonny, please. Sonny, it was my

fault. It was my fault. I started a fight with him. Please,

Sonny...

[Sonny, now under control, hushes her and kisses her

forehead]

Sonny: Okay... I'm just going to get a doctor to come down and

take a look at you.

Connie: Sonny, please don't do anything. Please don't do

anything.

Sonny: What's the matter with you, huh? What am I going to

do? Am I going to make that baby an orphan before he's born?

[Connie gives a chuckle, and Sonny kisses her again and good-

humouredly shrugs his soldiers]

Sonny: All right?

[cut to Sonny beating up Carlo]

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[at midnight, Don Corleone walks into his office and finds Tom

Hagen taking a drink]

Don Corleone: Give me a drop.

[Hagen hands the Don his glass of anisette]

Don Corleone: My wife is crying upstairs. I hear cars coming to

the house. Consigliore of mine, I think it's time you told your

Don what everyone seems to know.

Tom Hagen: I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to

come up and wake you so that I could tell you.

Don Corleone: But you needed a drink first.

[Hagen nods]

Don Corleone: And now you've had your drink.

Tom Hagen: They shot Sonny on the causeway. He's dead.

[the Don accepts this news without any sign of emotion,

except to close his eyes and remain silent for a few minutes]

Don Corleone: [speaking at last] I want no inquiries made. I

want no acts of vengeance. I want you to arrange a meeting

with the heads of the Five Families. This war stops now.

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Tom Hagen: I have to get back to work. It's part of the

wedding. No Sicilian can ever refuse a request on his

daughter's wedding day.

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Don Corleone: Call Bonasera. We need him now.

[Tom Hagen calls Amerigo Bonasera]

Tom Hagen: [on the phone] This is Tom Hagen, calling for Vito

Corleone at his request. Now, you owe your Don a service. He

has no doubt that you will repay him. In one hour he will be at

your funeral parlor to ask for your help. Be there to greet him.

[as ordered, a nervous Bonasera meets the Don at his parlor]

Don Corleone: Well, my friend, are you ready to do me this

service?

Bonasera: Yes. What do you want me to do?

[the two walk into the embalming room, where a corpse lies on

a table... ]

Don Corleone: [staring at the table] I want you to use all your

powers, and all your skills. I don't want his mother to see him

this way.

[he draws back the sheet to reveal, to a horrified Bonasera,

the bullet-smashed face of Sonny Corleone]

Don Corleone: [breaking down for a moment] Look how they

massacred my boy...

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Michael: [teaching Apollonia to drive] It's safer to teach you

English!

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[as Tessio and Hagen walk to Michael's house, they are met by

a bodyguard]

Willi Cicci: The boss says he'll come in a separate car. He says

for you two to go on ahead.

Tessio: Hell, he can't do that; that screws up all my

arrangements.

Willi Cicci: Well, that's what he said.

Tom Hagen: I can't go with you either, Tessio.

[as bodyguards materialize around them, Tessio understands

everything]

Tessio: [to Hagen] Tell Mike it was only business, I always liked

him.

Tom Hagen: He understands that.

Willi Cicci: [removing Tessio's gun] Excuse me, Sally.

Tessio: Can you get me off the hook, Tom? For old times' sake?

Tom Hagen: [shakes his head] Can't do it, Sally.

[Hagen watches sadly as Tessio is led to a waiting car]

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Tom Hagen: The Senator called, he apologized for not coming

but said that you would understand; also some of the judges.

They've all sent gifts.

[raises his glass to the Don]

Tom Hagen: Salut.

[Both men are suiddenly startled by a huge roaring cheer]

Don Corleone: What is that, outside?

[Both look out the window and see famous singer Johnny

Fontane has arrived]

Don Corleone: He came all the way from California to the

wedding. i told you he was gonna come!

Tom Hagen: It's been two years. He's probably in trouble

again.

Don Corleone: He is a good godson.

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Michael: [to the Don, quietly] Just lie here, Pop. I'll take care of

you now. I'm with you now. I'm with you.

[he takes the Don's hand and kisses it, the Don begins to cry]

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Don Corleone: We have known each other many years, but this

is the first time you've come to me for counsel or for help. I

can't remember the last time you invited me to your house for

a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your only

child. But let's be frank here. You never wanted my friendship.

And you feared to be in my debt.

Bonasera: I didn't want to get into trouble.

Don Corleone: I understand. You found paradise in America.

You had a good trade, you made a good living. The police

protected you and there were courts of law. So you didn't need

a friend like me. Now you come and say "Don Corleone, give

me justice." But you don't ask with respect. You don't offer

friendship. You don't even think to call me "Godfather." You

come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married

and you ask me to do murder - for money.

Bonasera: I ask you for justice.

Don Corleone: That is not justice. Your daughter is alive.

Bonasera: Let them suffer then as she suffers.

[the Don is silent]

Bonasera: How much shall I pay you?

[the Don turns away dismissively, but Bonasera stays on]

Don Corleone: Bonasera, Bonasera, what have I ever done to

make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you'd come to me in

friendship, this scum who ruined your daughter would be

suffering this very day. And if by some chance an honest man

like yourself made enemies they would become my enemies.

And then, they would fear you.

Bonasera: Be my friend... Godfather.

[the Don at first shrugs, but upon hearing the title he lifts his

hand, and a humbled Bonasera kisses the ring on it]

Don Corleone: Good.

[He places his hand around Bonasera in a paternal gesture]

Don Corleone: Some day, and that day may never come, I will

call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day,

consider this justice a gift on my daughter's wedding day.

[a gratified Bonasera offers his thanks and leaves]

Don Corleone: [to Hagen] Give this job to Clemenza. I want

reliable people, people who aren't going to be carried away. I

mean, we're not murderers, in spite of what this undertaker

thinks...

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Connie: What's the matter, Carlo?

Carlo Rizzi: [punk sore at the world] Shut up and set the table!

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Michael: Fabrizzio, where are you going?

[Apollonia hoots the car and starts to drive it; Fabrizzio gives a

quick, furtive movement... ]

Michael: NO! NO APOLLONIA!

[the car explodes]

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[Michael gets ready to leave the house]

Sonny: Where're you going?

Michael: To the City.

Sonny: [to Clemenza] Yeah? Well, send somebody with him.

Michael: No, I'm just gonna go see Pop.

Sonny: I don't care, send some bodyguards with him.

Clemenza: He'll be all right. Sollozzo knows he's a civilian.

Sonny: Yeah? Well take care, all right?

Michael: Yes, sir.

[Michael leaves]

Sonny: Send someone with him anyway...

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Clemenza: The negotiator's at my house playing pinochle with

some of my men, he's happy. They're letting him win.

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[Sunday dinner at the Corleone home... ]

Sonny: Niggers havin' a real good time up in Harlem...

Carlo Rizzi: I knew that was going to happen as soon as they

tasted the big money.

Connie: Papa never talked about business in front of the kids.

Carlo Rizzi: Shut up, Connie.

Sonny: Hey, don't you EVER tell her to shut up, you got that?

Mama Corleone: Santino, don't interfere.

[Silence reigns around the table for a while]

Carlo Rizzi: Sonny, Tom, I'd like to talk to you after dinner. I

think I can do a lot more for this family...

Sonny: We don't discuss business at the table.

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Don Corleone: My godson has come all the way from California.

Give him a drink.

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Don Corleone: [to Luca Brasi] I'm a little worried about this

Sollozzo fellow. I want you to find out what he's got under his

fingernails. Go to the Tattaglias, and tell them you're not too

happy with our Family, and find out what you can...

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Michael: You gonna kill all those guys?

Sonny: Hey, Mikey, stay out of this, all right?

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Tom Hagen: Maybe we shouldn't get Mike mixed up in this too

directly...

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Don Corleone: I like to drink wine more than I used to...

[pause]

Don Corleone: Anyway, I'm drinking more.

Michael: It's good for you, Pop.

Don Corleone: Ah, I don't know...

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Don Corleone: I hope you don't mind the way I keep going over

this Barzini business.

Michael: No, not at all.

Don Corleone: It's an old habit. I spent my whole life trying not

to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless,

but not men.

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Don Corleone: How's your boy?

Michael: He's good.

Don Corleone: You know, he looks more like you every day.

Michael: He's smarter than I am. Three years old, and he can

already read the funny papers.

Don Corleone: [laughs] Read the funny papers...

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Don Corleone: Oh, I want you to arrange to have a telephone

man check all the calls going in and out of here because it

could be anyone...

Michael: I did that already, Pop. I took care of that.

Don Corleone: Oh, that's right. I forgot.

Michael: What's the matter? What's bothering you? I'll handle

it. I told you I can handle it, I'll handle it.

[the Don rises as if to leave, but changes his mind midway and

seats himself closer to Michael]

Don Corleone: I knew Santino was going to have to go through

all this and Fredo... well, Fredo was... But I, I never wanted

this for you. I work my whole life, I don't apologize, to take

care of my family. And I refused to be a fool dancing on the

strings held by all of those big shots. That's my life, I don't

apologize for that. But I always thought that when it was your

time, that you would be the one to hold the strings. Senator

Corleone, Governor Corleone, something.

Michael: Another pezzonovante.

Don Corleone: Well, there wasn't enough time, Michael. There

just wasn't enough time.

Michael: We'll get there, Pop. We'll get there.

[the Don kisses his son on the forehead]

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Don Corleone: [to Michael] Listen, whoever comes to you with

this Barzini meeting, he's the traitor. Don't forget that.

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Don Corleone: [to Michael] So, Barzini will move against you

first. He'll set up a meeting with someone that you absolutely

trust, guaranteeing your safety. And at that meeting, you'll be

assassinated.

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Sonny: Did he... did Clemenza tell you to drop the gun?

Michael: Yeah, a million times.

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[Tom Hagen goes Christmas shopping, and meets Sollozzo]

Sollozzo: I want to talk to you.

Tom Hagen: [stepping aside] I haven't got time...

Sollozzo: Make time, Consigliore!

[Hagen finds himself trapped between Sollozzo and a hood]

Sollozzo: What are you worried about? If I wanted to kill you

you'd be dead already. Get in.

[a car drives up]

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Clemenza: Paulie, pull over, I gotta take a leak.

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[Paulie enters the Corleones' study]

Sonny: What is it?

Clemenza: Hey, Paulie, I thought I told you to stay put.

Paulie Gatto: The guy at the gate says there's a package.

Sonny: Yeah? Hey, Tessio, go see what it is.

Paulie Gatto: You want me to hang around?

Sonny: Yeah, hang around. You all right?

Paulie Gatto: [coughing] Yeah, yeah...

Sonny: You hungry? There's a little food in the ice box.

Paulie Gatto: Nah, nah.

Sonny: Well, how about a drink? Some brandy, it'll sweat it out

of ya. Alright, babe...

[Paulie leaves]

Sonny: [to Clemenza] I want you to take care of that

sonofabitch right away. Paulie sold out the old man, that

stronz. I don't want to see him no more. I want you to make

that first thing on your list, understand?

Clemenza: Understood.

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Don Corleone: [crying, staring at Sonny's body] Look how they

massacred my boy!

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