Originally Posted By: Don Cardi

Sonny then poses the question to him, saying something like "Ok college boy, who set up the old man?" And if memory serves me correctly Michael ponders for a moment or two, and then replies that neither Clemenza or Tessio did.


Michael replies that it was "not Clemenza" Clemenza because he always gave Michael presents at Christmas time; He didn't want it to be Paulie either because he used to be in the same 6th grade class as Michael.

The part I didn't care for was Sonny's reaction to Michael after he said "not Clemenza." Sonny said, 'you're right, it was Paulie, that stronz,' then says how he knew it was Paulie because of tracing the calls from a payphone outside Genco's office to the enemy. This kind of logic is wrong because, heck, it coulda been anybody using that payphone. How they could have connected Paulie to it, just because he was conveniently sick that day, is beyond me. Imagine if Paulie was really innocent??