Scene Five:

The remaining members of the four other original New York families meet. Descendants and others associated with Barzini, Tattaglia, Cuneo, and Strachi (is that how you spell it?). The years have been hard on them. Many of their members have been imprisoned, their short on money, the government is cracking down hard on organized crime.

They see the coming of the Russians as the only thing that can possibly save them from utter destruction. "I say we let 'em get in, then we wipe 'em out and take what they got," Anthony Grazzi, Don of the Barzini Family suggests. "What about Corleone?" Tattaglia (son of the old Tattaglia) asks.

Grazzi tells the assembly that Michael has an ambitious young nephew, a man by the name of Vincent Mancini, who's been running a small operation of his own in New York and has run afoul of some local thugs He wants to take them out, but his Uncle Michael won't let him. Vincent states quite often that Michael's getting too old, and that the Corleone Family is in need of new leadership.

The Barzini, Tattaglia, Cuneo, and Strachi Families couldn't agree more...