Fri. May 1st, 2026
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Don
Corleone 
[1]
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 [2]I didn’t
want to get into trouble.

Don
Corleone 
[3]
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 [4]I ask you
for justice.

Don
Corleone 
[5]
That is not
justice. Your daughter is alive.

Bonasera [6]Let them
suffer then as she suffers.

[the Don is silent] 

Bonasera [7]How much
shall I pay you?

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

Don
Corleone 
[8]
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 [9]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 
[10]
Good.

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

Don
Corleone 
[11]
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 
[12]
[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…

References

  1. ^
    Don Corleone 
    (www.imdb.com)
  2. ^
    Bonasera 
    (www.imdb.com)
  3. ^
    Don Corleone 
    (www.imdb.com)
  4. ^
    Bonasera 
    (www.imdb.com)
  5. ^
    Don Corleone 
    (www.imdb.com)
  6. ^
    Bonasera 
    (www.imdb.com)
  7. ^
    Bonasera 
    (www.imdb.com)
  8. ^
    Don Corleone 
    (www.imdb.com)
  9. ^
    Bonasera 
    (www.imdb.com)
  10. ^
    Don Corleone 
    (www.imdb.com)
  11. ^
    Don Corleone 
    (www.imdb.com)
  12. ^
    Don Corleone 
    (www.imdb.com)

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