This isn't like the army! You have to get close and get their brains on your suit. You're taking this very personal.
Mike, let me look at you. You're beautiful, beautiful. You're gorgeous.
The Turk wants to talk! Imagine the nerve of the son-of-a-bitch. - He wants a meeting today.
- What did he say? What did he say. .
. He wants us to send Michael to hear the proposition. He promises that the deal is too good to refuse.
- And Bruno Tattaglia? - That's part of the deal. - He cancels out what they did to Father.
- We should listen to them. No more! Not this time, Consigliere.
No more meetings, discussions, or Sollozzo tricks. I want Sollozzo, or we go to war. .
. - The other families. .
. - They hand me Sollozzo! This is business, not personal!
- They shot my father. . .
- Even that was business, not personal. Then business will have to suffer. Do me a favor.
No more advice on how to patch things up. Just help me win. I found out about Captain McCluskey, who broke Mike's jaw.
He's definitely on Sollozzo's payroll, and for big money. McCluskey has agreed to be The Turk's bodyguard. So when Sollozzo is being guarded, he's invulnerable.
Nobody has ever gunned down a New York police captain. All the families would come after you. The Corleone family would be outcasts!
Even the old man's political protection would run for cover. Do me a favor. Take this into consideration.
All right, we'll wait. We can't wait. We can't wait.
No matter what Sollozzo says, he's going to Kill Pop. That's the key for him. We've got to get Sollozzo.
- Mike is right. - Let me ask you something. What about this McCluskey?
What do we do with this cop? They want to have a meeting with me, right? It will be me, McCluskey and Sollozzo.
Let's set the meeting. Get our informers to find out where it's going to be held. We insist it's a public place.
A bar, a restaurant. Some place where there are people, so I feel safe. They'll search me when I meet them, right?
So I can't have a weapon on me. But if Clemenza can figure out a way to have a weapon planted there for me then [I'll kill them both. Nice college boy.
Didn't want to get mixed up in the family business. Now you want to shoot a police captain because he slapped you? This isn't like the army!
You have to get close and get their brains on your suit. You're taking this very personal. Tom, this is business and he's taking it personal.
- Where does it say you can't kill a cop? - Mikey. .
. I'm talking about a cop who's mixed up in drugs, a dishonest cop. A cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming.
That's a terrific story. We have newspaper people on the payroll, right? - They might like a story like that.
- They might. It's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business.
It's as cold as they come. Impossible to trace, SO you don't worry about prints. I put a special tape on the trigger and the butt.
Try it. Is the trigger too tight? My ears!
I left it noisy, so it scares away any pain-in-the-ass innocent bystanders. You've shot them both. Now what do you do?
- Sit down, finish my dinner. - Don't fool around. Let your hand drop to your side and let the gun slip out.
Everybody will still think you've got it. They'll stare at your face, so walk out fast, but don't run. Don't look anybody in the eye, but don't look away either.
They'll be scared stiff, so don't worry about nothing. You'll be all right. You'll take a vacation, nobody knows where, and we'll catch the hell.
- How bad do you think it will be? - Pretty goddamn bad. All the other families will probably line up against us.
These things have to happen every five, 10 years. Gets rid of the bad blood. Been 10 years since the last one.
You have to stop them at the beginning. Like they should have stopped Hitler in Munich, not letting him get away with it. You know, Mike, we were all proud of you.
Being a hero and all. Your father too.
