my business is heroin, i have poppy fields, laboratories in narseilles and sicily, ready to go into production. my importing methods are as safe as these things can be, about five per cent loss. the risk is nothing, the profits enormous.
i need two million dollars in cash. more important, i need a friend who has people in high places; a friend who can guarantee that if one of my employees be arrested, they would get only light sentences. be my friend.
thirty per cent. in the first year your share would be four million dollars; then it would go up.
my compliments. i'll take care of them from my share.
if you think two million dollars in cash is just finance, i congratulate you don corleone.
are you worried about security for your million?
the tattaglias will guarantee your investment also.
don't be frightened. i just want to talk to you.
get in; i want to talk to you.
get in the car. if i wanted to kill you you'd be dead already. trust me.
do you know who i am?
you've been talking to the tattaglias. they thought we could do business.
i need somebody strong to protect my operation, physically. i've heard you're not happy with your family, you might make a switch.
on the first shipment, i can guarantee you fifty thousand dollars.
santino corleone?
we have tom hagen. in about three hours he'll be released with our proposition. don't do anything until you've heard what he has to say. you can only cause a lot of trouble. what's done is done. don't lose that famous temper of yours.
i know you're not in the muscle end of the family--so i don't want you to be afraid. i want you to help the corleones and i want you to help me.
your boss is dead.
have some more. we got him outside his office, just before i picked you up. you have to make the peace between me and santino.
sonny was hot for my deal, right? you know it's the smart thing to do, too. i want you to talk sonny into it.
that's going to be his first reaction. you have to talk some sense into him. the tattaglia family stands behind me with all their people. the other new york families will go along with anything that prevents a full scale war.
the don was slipping; in the old days i could never have gotten to him. now he's dead, nothing can bring him back. talk to sonny, talk to the caporegimes, clemenza and tessio. it's good business.
i'll worry about luca. you take care of sonny and the other two kids.
good. then you can go.  i don't like violence. i'm a businessman, and blood is a big expense.
the old man is still alive. five bullets in his sicilian hide and he's still alive. bad luck for me, bad luck for you.
the godfather is next.
i'm glad you came, mike. i hope we can straighten everything out. all this is terrible, it's not the way i wanted things to happen at all. it should never have happened.
he won't be; i swear to you be my children he won't be. just keep an open mind when we talk. i hope you're not a hothead like your brother, sonny. it's impossible to talk business with him.
maybe.
nice work; i'll remember it.
try the veal; it's the finest in new york.
i am going to talk italian to mike.
what guarantees can i give you? i am the hunted one. i've missed my chance. you think too highly of me, my friend. i am not so clever. all i want if a truce.
what is it?
don't take too long.