My Part IV Plot
Picking up directly after the events in Part III, the remaining characters are at Mary’s funeral. Michael apologizes to Kay as she gets into a limousine. Kay says she never wants to see him again. She then shuts the door on him, mirroring the way Part I ended with Kay having the door shut on her.
Vincent, meanwhile asks Michael to be his consigliore. Michael says that he wants nothing to do with the family business anymore. He is retired and decides to spend the rest of his life in Sicily.
Vincent has set up meeting with Gil Steinhauser, the owner of the most storied baseball team in the NBL, the New York Knights, which the Corleone’s have a 49% share of.
Steinhauser is in massive debt due to low attendance. The Knights would have folded if it weren’t for support from the Corleone’s who have kept the Knights on the backburner after acquiring total control of Immobliare. Steinhauser is seeking a new stadium deal from the city, who are headstrong in their denial of negotiating with him.
Vincent is trying to pull strings down at City Hall in order to get the city to come up with a new deal.
Meanwhile, Steinhauser (without Vincent’s consent) is looking to move the team to Las Vegas where Don Cortovino, a casino mogul, has already arranged a new stadium deal with the city, who’s mayor is in his pocket.
Don Cortovino took over all of the Corleone’s Las Vegas interests once Michael moved back to NYC to become completely legitimate. Michael was in a jam and needed to get rid of his LV interests and Cortovino was the only one at the time who was buy. Cortovino is new school, flashy and loved by the media. Michael doesn't like him much, and this is passed down to Vincent.
Complications arise. Unknown to Vincent and the rest of the family, Cortovino and Steinhauser are in it together in order to bilk more money and a better deal out of NYC and the Corleone’s.
When Steinhauser comes to Cortovino and tells him that he regrets selling 49% to the Corleone’s and asks for a way out, Cortovino says he’ll take care of it. An assassination attempt is made on Vincent that fails.
He turns to Michael, who is in Sicily, for advice, but Michael is steadfast in his denial to help. Instead, he offers Vincent stories of his father Sonny, when he was younger and we are treated to flashbacks of Sonny rising to power with his father and the rest of the family in the 1930’s.
Vincent takes the lessons he’s learned through Michael’s stories about his father and the family business back in the old days.
He returns to America and as the Knights reach the World Series, Vincent learns where the temper he acquired from Sonny can be put to use.
Al Neri is sent to Las Vegas to take care of Cortovino, Michael sits on the chair and puts on his sunglasses, and Vincent himself decides to pay a visit to Steinhauser’s press box.
