In the half hour after the shooting of his father, Sonny Corleone received five
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- And his benefactor's blood family.
- Their lives or until they accepted defeat and returned to their home towns.
- Jack Woltz was a tall, powerfully built man with a heavy paunch almost
- A personal friend of mine. If I let him know I'm being pressured, you guys will
- Hagen listened patiently. He had expected better from a man of Woltz's stature.
- Than he had appeared this morning.
- Going to race him, I'm going to put him to stud. I'm going to build the greatest
- Much too sensitive. He never asks a second favor where he has been refused the
- Make me ridiculous. A man in my position, Mr. Hagen, can't afford to look
- For the first time, Woltz succeeded in astounding Hagen. He found it
- Naturally, anxious to show their gratitude.
- Were one hundred thousand black Chevy sedans in New York City.
- Tom Hagen went to his law office in the city on Thursday morning. He planned
- Threat against Don Corleone himself. Genius had its rewards.
- Be made to tell who had done the buying.
- Producer of the film telling him to report for work the following Monday.
- For any rap as long as he knows that they will be well taken care of for living
- Notoriously straitlaced in matters of sex.
- Legal protection is a must. I hear, Don Corleone, that you have as many judges in
- His leather armchair and motioned brusquely for a drink. Hagen poured him a
- Without a shred of trust Hagen got into the car.
- Michael Corleone had lied to Hagen. He was already in New York, and he had
- Worrying Sonny Corleone out in Long Beach.
- At a quarter to five that afternoon, Don Corleone had finished checking the
- Passed. They disappeared around the corner, leaving Freddie alone in the street
- In the half hour after the shooting of his father, Sonny Corleone received five
- It was Clemenza. The fat man's voice came wheezing over the phone in
- His mother looked at him steadily for a moment and then asked in Italian,
- Could be but one outcome. But again the nagging worry. Where was Luca Brasi?
- Counting the driver, there were four men in the car with Hagen. They put him
- And suddenly Hagen knew that he was no longer going to be set free. That
- When Michael Corleone arrived at his father's house in Long Beach he found
- Young to know about it and then things got pretty smooth while you were
- Want it to be Paulie either.
- Don't care if we have to fight all the five families in New York. The Tattaglia Family
- It was nearly four o'clock in the morning as they all sat in the corner room
- Brasi's number and kept the receiver to his ear as it rang and rang.
- Peter Clemenza slept badly that night. In the morning he got up early and
- Impressive apprenticeship in the Family. During the war he had been wounded in
- If displeased with him. With a man so sensitive and suspicious as Gatto this
- Talk about that later. You understand the Family now is occupied with more
- Bronx to his home in Manhattan.
- On the night before the shooting of Don Corleone, his strongest and most
- Meeting was not as outlandish as it seemed.
- Humanity remaining to him. He was dead.
- The day after the shooting of Don Corleone was a busy time for the Family.
- Could be. I think though that Sollozzo gave him a little surprise. That fits in with
- Bulletproof vest in his hands. Wrapped In the vest was a huge dead fish.
- When Michael Corleone went into the city that night it was with a depressed
- Years passed, she would not have been able to bear the anguish of it.
Phone calls in rapid succession. The first was from Detective John Phillips, who
Was on the family payroll and had been in the lead car of plainclothesmen at the
scene of the shooting. The first thing he said to Sonny over the phone was, "Do
you recognize my voice?"
2 "Yeah," Sonny said. He was fresh from a nap, called to the phone by his wife.
3 Phillips said quickly without preamble, "Somebody shot your father outside
His place. Fifteen minutes ago. He's alive but hurt bad. They've taken him to
French Hospital. They got your brother Freddie down at the Chelsea precinct. You
Better get him a doctor when they turn him loose. I'm going down to the hospital
now to help question your old man, if he can talk. I'll keep you posted."
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Across the table, Sonny's wife Sandra noticed that her husband's face had
gone red with flushing blood. His eyes were glazed over. She whispered, "What's
the matter?" He waved at her impatiently to shut up, swung his body away so that
his back was toward her and said into the phone, "You sure he's alive?"
5 "Yeah, I'm sure," the detective said. "A lot of blood but I think maybe he's not
as bad as he looks."
6 "Thanks, " Sonny said. "Be home tomorrow morning eight sharp. You got a
grand coming."
Sonny cradled the phone. He forced himself to sit still. He knew that his
Greatest weakness was his anger and this was one time when anger could be
Fatal. The first thing to do was get Tom Hagen. But before he could pick up the
Phone, it rang. The call was from the bookmaker licensed by the Family to
Operate in the district of the Don's office. The bookmaker had called to tell him
That the Don had been killed, shot dead in the street. After a few questions to
Make sure that the bookmaker's informant had not been close to the body, Sonny
Dismissed the information as incorrect. Phillips' dope would be more accurate.
The phone rang almost immediately a third time. It was a reporter from the Daily
News. As soon as he identified himself, Sonny Corleone hung up.
8 He dialed Hagen's house and asked Hagen's wife, "Did Tom come home yet?"
She said, "No," that he was not due for another twenty minutes but she expected
home for supper. "Have him call me," Sonny said.
He tried to think things out. He tried to imagine how his father would react in a
Like situation. He had known immediately that this was an attack by Sollozzo, but
Sollozzo would never have dared to eliminate so high-ranking a leader as the Don
Unless he was backed by other powerful people. The phone, ringing for the fourth
Time, interrupted his thoughts. The voice on the other end was very soft, very
gentle. "Santino Corleone?" it asked.
10 "Yeah," Sonny said.
11 "We have Tom Hagen," the voice said. "In about three hours he'll be released
With our proposition. Don't do anything rash until you've heard what he has to
Say. You can only cause a lot of trouble. What's done is done. Everybody has to
be sensible now. Don't lose that famous temper of yours." The voice was slightly
Mocking. Sonny couldn't be sure, but it sounded like Sollozzo. He made his voice
sound muted, depressed. "I'll wait," he said. He heard the receiver on the other
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End click. He looked at his heavy gold-banded wristwatch and noted the exact
Time of the call and jotted it down on the tablecloth.
12 He sat at the kitchen table, frowning. His wife asked, "Sonny, what is it?" He
told her calmly, "They shot the old man." When he saw the shock on her face he
said roughly, "Don't worry, he's not dead. And nothing else is going to happen."
He did not tell her about Hagen. And then the phone rang for the fifth time.
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