Hey Guys,

Did Connie call Sonny or someone else? I always wondered. Connie loved Carlo dearly and covered for him the first time Sonny saw her bruises.

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Connie called her mother, who could not understand what she was saying and passed the phone to Sonny.

This is a more interesting question than it appears to be. Connie did cover up for Carlo, and she even was furious at Michael for killing him. So the question is "Why?"


Michael tells Carlo that he knows he set Sonny up for the assassination on Barzini's behalf, but how did they plan it?

Connie got slapped around all the time, but this time she decided to call "home" to announce that Carlo was at it again.
Since she called her mother, who believed in "don't interfere" when it comes to husband and wife disputes, who happened to have a screaming baby in her arms, and happened to give the phone to Sonny.

Had Mama handled it she probably would have sent a car to pick Connie up and bring her to the mall, but when Sonny took the phone he ran out of the house to drive into the city without guards.

How did Barzini figure out this would happen? How was it he had shooters stationed at the toll booth? Just in case?

Barzini would of had to have just taken Carlo on his word. A stupid thing to do, But it worked.

As for Connie calling the compound, everyone has a breaking point. She would have been filled with rage and thought "fuck this son of a bitch" Sonny's gonna give him another beating.

Where else was Connie gonna turn? She wanted solace, sympathy, etc. like any of us would. As far as Barzini goes, he lost nothing by trying evenif the hit never materialized. Connie's blow-up at Michael was because she was thinking of herself and projecting a life without a husband et al.

Yeah, but then she got Merle.

Not so much interesting in the who made the call but from a perspective of "the war". Barzini may have had numerous plans for getting Sonny and Sonny was cautious when his temper wasn't provoked. When he "visits" Lucy he has a small army with him. As he leaves the building he looks up and down the street keeping an eye out for trouble. Barzini likely had several plans; we don't know about the failed ones. He knew Sonny had a weakness and he exploited it. Sonny threw caution to the wind and paid for it.

I am not familiar with the area but was the route Sonny took the most logical route?

As the novel states, it was the route he always used when he went into the city.

It is a sad but true fact that many abused women will reach out for help, sympathy or even rescue, then try to make excuses for, or go back to, the abusive husbands. I thought that part of it was realistic.

Despite objections from some Board members about commingling the film with the novel, this is a topic our understanding of which is assisted by recourse to the novel.

As the novel states, Connie told her parents about Carlo hitting her the first time. Their reaction: "She had found her parents cooly unsympathetic and curiously amused."