There's a few full pages of dialogue inserted near the end, relating (book) to Mike and Kay's reunion and to Kay and Mama's conversation about Hell. I can't tell what they are, am wondering if they're pages from Puzo's early draft.

"The scene of Neri, alone in his room, preparing his uniform is evocative of Brasi, preparing himself with the bullet-proof vest. Could we use it?"

Chapter 31: "BIG DAY"

Baptism to take place at the mall.

Neri gets stationed near Rockefeller Plaza; Rocco waits near the Causeway.

"...intercut with the Ritual of Michael holding Carlo's baby and standing as Godfather, the most incredible powerplay of alltime takes place, when, in a beautifully conceived tactical offensive, Lampone kills Tattaglia, Neri kills Barzini, and other soldiers, kill Moe Greene and numerous other Capi di Familie, or high-ranking Consigliere and Caporegimes."

"If we have successfully misdirected the audience that Michael's move was g.oing to be a big political move: i.e., using high-ranking FBI or political pressure to put Barzini out of business; we must be astounded to see the violence that he uses. THIS MUST BE THE BIGGEST BLOODBATH OF THE FILM: OVERWHELMING. Especially when juxaposed with the family, baptism ritual."

"THIS SEQUENCE must be very carefully designed and planned. It must take away the audience's breath in its fury."

"This sequence should be very detailed."

"A real baptism: every detail, the salt on the baby's mouth, the water, the Latin. EXTEND TIME."

"WHERE DO I PUT FABRIZZIO'S MURDER. HERE, with all the others? The more the merrier!"

"Tattaglia totally naked; extend time."

"When Lampone kills Tattaglia - the ghost-like toll booth we had seen when Sonny was killed."

"Maybe plant some L. Vegas button man - the driver of the limo that met Mike, or even something more ironic, one of Greene's own bodyguards, or girlfriend or something...but all the Murders MUST BE PERFORMED BY MEN THAT WE RECOGNIZE AS BEING CORLEONE'S SOLDIERS."

Pitfalls: "If the audience suspects what he is going to do. Th[at] each killing does not join with the Baptism and the other killings in a beautiful design. IF MICHAEL IS NOT THE FOCAL POINT OF THE ENTIRE SEQUENCE."

"If anybody suspects that Carlo's going to be killed; that must be the total surprise, the coup de grace. The ultimate of Michael's coldness "

"What did they plan?"

"NOT BAD": Fabrizzio's murder in the novel.

Tattaglia killing: "Really old and totally naked - nice image." "Does the girl get it?"

Barzini killing: show every detail in novel, "Extend time."

Tessio-Hagen exchange: "NICE"

Michael-Carlo exchange: "BOOM Michael's manner not a pose, but real, the end point of a real evolution."

"We must believe Mike" (will spare Carlo). "important fake out."

"Surprise to the audience as well. CLEMENZA THE GARROT IS A TOTAL SURPRISE."

"Where the garrot is used - the victim shits....Opens the window."

Connie "points out to Kay what kind of man she married, accusing him of killing not only Carlo, but scores of men in the last few weeks."

"After Kay asks if it is all true; there must be a very telling moment between Kay and Michael -- THEY MUST REALLY MAKE EYE CONTACT, she is really asking him. And then, coolly and convincingly, he lies."

"Then, through the way he receives his men, she intuit[tively] knows it is true."

Pitfall: "If you don't feel TOTALLY RESOLVED: THAT MICHAEL HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL AND IS THE CAPO DI CAPI WITHOUT DOUBT OR RESERVATION."

"LET DOWN: SO THAT WAS THE BIG MOVE: Killing Tattaglia and Barzini before they killed Mike - & Tessio and Carlo to even the score."

"Connie really puts it to Kay."

Michael-Kay: "Key moment. Drag it out, he says 'no', & we believe him."

"Kay knows the truth but accepts it."

"Connie fills her bed again."

"Michael and Kay - her Catholicism"

Lighting candles as credits roll. End.

Note to or from Francis: "I think this scene should really be very brief just part of the titles coming up. Otherwise it becomes a religious thing. And it's really not. It's clutching at straws or recognition of evil." "This is the denouement....an expression of our feeling about Michael."

Tom-Kay in NH, where Kay says Tom can tell her the truth because he's not Sicilian: "Treatment of women. Good line. Where to use it?" (anticipates GF2?)