At Connie Corleone’s wedding—where no Sicilian can refuse a request—Vito hears pleas. The undertaker Bonasera wants justice for his daughter. The baker Nazorine wants his son-in-law kept from the draft. Vito grants them. Then Virgil “The Turk” Sollozzo asks for something else: investment in narcotics. Vito refuses. “It will destroy our children.”
An old man sits alone in the courtyard of a villa near Corleone. He wears a dark suit, a wilted carnation. He puts on orange peels and watches the sun. One by one, the people he loved have died—by his hand, by his enemies, by his own cold arithmetic. He slumps forward, chair tipping. the godfather trilogy 1901-1980
Kay miscarries. She leaves him, taking the children. 1960s–70s. Michael tries to legitimize the Corleone empire. He buys into a Vatican-controlled real estate conglomerate, Immobiliare. He donates $100 million to the Church. The Pope, a frail reformer, is persuaded—but the Archbishop Gilday is corrupt, and a banker named Keinszig is a thief. Michael’s old enemy, Don Altobello, smiles and plots. Vito grants them
