I don't know if this has been discussed before. If it has, sorry.

Did Fredo know, when he was taken out in the boat (after Connie called Anthony back to the compound), that he was going to be killed?

Since he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, I've always wondered about this. The only thing I have to compare it to in GFI is Tessio, who WAS supposed to be pretty sharp, and he understood immediately how the "change in plans" was going to affect him. But with Fredo, this is kind of open-ended.

I vote "yes," for two reasons. First, after Anthony leaves, Fredo says, almost with resignation, "OK, Al. Let's go." And he's praying just a little bit TOO loudly out there on the water.

On the other hand, we've seen him portrayed, in two movies, as a simple-minded oaf who wasn't even smart enough to understand that treacherous people were trying to get to his brother through him. So I've always wrestled with this question.

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