The Godfather Page #27

INT DAY:
DON'S LIVING ROOM (1955)

Inside the Corleone house. Big boxes have been packed;

furniture prepared for shipping.

CONNIE:

Michael!

She hurries into the living room, where she comes upon

MICHAEL and KAY.

KAY:

(comforting)

Connie...

But CONNIE avoids her, and moves directly to MICHAEL. NERI

is watchful.

CONNIE:

You lousy bastard; you killed my

husband...

KAY:

Connie...

CONNIE:

You waited until our father died

and nobody could stop you and you

killed him, you killed him! You

blamed him about Sonny, you always

did, everybody did. But you never

thought about me, never gave a damn

about me.

(crying)

What am I going to do now, what am

I going to do.

TWO of Michael's BODYGUARDS move closer, ready for orders

from him. But he stands there, waiting for his sister to

finish.

KAY:

Connie, how could you say such

things?

CONNIE:

Why do you think he kept Carlo on

the Mall? All the time he knew he

was going to kill my husband. But

he didn't dare while my father was

alive. And then he stood Godfather

to our child. That coldhearted

bastard.

(to KAY)

And do you know how many men he had

killed with Carlo? Just read the

papers. That's your husband.

She tries to spit into MICHAEL's face; but in her hysteria

she has no saliva.

MICHAEL:

Get her home and get a doctor.

The TWO BODYGUARDS immediately take her arms and move her,

gently but firmly.

KAY is shocked; never taking her look of amazement from

MICHAEL. He feels her look.

MICHAEL:

She's hysterical.

But KAY won't let him avoid her eyes.

KAY:

Michael, it's not true. Please

tell me.

MICHAEL:

Don't ask me.

KAY:

Tell me!

MICHAEL:

All right, this one time I'll let

you ask about my affairs, one last

time.

KAY:

Is it true?

She looks directly into his eyes, he returns the look, so

directly that we know he will tell the truth.

MICHAEL:

(after a very long pause)

No.

KAY is relieved; she throws her arms around him, and hugs

him. Then she kisses him.

KAY:

(through her tears)

We both need a drink.

INT DAY:
DON'S KITCHEN (1955)

She moves back into the kitchen and begins to prepare the

drinks. From her vantage point, as she smilingly makes the

drinks, she sees CLEMENZA, NERI and ROCCO LAMPONE enter the

house with their BODYGUARDS.

She watches with curiosity, as MICHAEL stands to receive

them. He stands arrogantly at ease, weight resting on one

foot slightly behind the other. One hand on his hip, like a

Roman Emperor. The CAPOREGIMES stand before him.

CLEMENZA takes MICHAEL's hand, kissing it.

CLEMENZA:

Don Corleone...

The smile fades from KAY's face, as she looks at what her

husband has become.

INT DAY:
CHURCH (1955)

KAY wears a shawl over her hand. She drops many coins in

the coin box, and lifts a burning taper, and one by one, in

a pattern known only to herself, lights thirty candles.

THE END:

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