Originally posted by Don Smitty:
Mike said he would not kill Fredo untill the mother was dead. But when he said that the mother was not sick. There was no mention of her being ill. So how long would mike have waited to kill Fredo? What if the mother had lived another 20 years?
That's a good (and new) question.
Michael's statement to Neri makes sense if Mama was sick at the time, but she looked pretty healthy at Anthony's party, not very long before her death.