Apple, you seem to think Fredo is a sack of clay, with absolutly no human thought process.He was smarter than you give him credit for.Although he was able to be misled by Roth and the like, he had to have at least suspected something wasnt right. Would his father let someone who had betreyed/been misled to betrey/whatever the family not once, but twice; would his father had let someone like that go? He had to have realized that by now there was no way he was going to be the Don, and maybe in a way this was a relief, of not having to look over his shoulder all the time.
madewoman-Of corce we're over-analyzing the scene, but what fun would it be if we didnt?
BTW- This is that topic I started a while ago Did Fredo know?