The Godfather: Part II (1974): Frank Pentangeli Changes His Testimony | Crucial Scene

I want people in a ball game. I'm starting to speak. Hey, that's Willie Chesey. Thank you. This committee will come to order. State your name, please. Franklin Tonjali. And where were you born? Puerto Rico. It's outside of Palermo. And where do you live now? I live in an army barracks with the FBI guys. Thank you. We have here finally a witness that will further testify to Michael Corleone's rule over a criminal empire that controls all of the gambling in this country and perhaps in other countries. This witness has had no buffer between himself and Michael Corleone. He can corroborate our charges on enough counts for this committee to recommend a charge of perjury against Michael Corleone. Senator? Thank you, Senator. Mr. Pentangeli, Mr. Pentangeli, were you a member of the Corleone family? Did you serve under Capo Regime, Peter Clemenza, under Vito Corleone, also known as the Godfather? I never knew no Godfather. I have my own family, Senator. Pentangeli, you are contradicting a sworn statement you previously made to me in sign. I ask you again, sir. Here and now, under oath, were you at any time a member of a crime organization headed by Michael Corleone? I don't know nothing about that. Oh, he was in the olive oil business with his father, but that was a long time ago, that's all. We have a sworn affidavit, we have it, your sworn affidavit, that you murdered on the orders of Michael Corleone. Do you deny this confession and do you realize what will happen as a result of your denial? Look, the FBI guys, they promised me a deal. So I made up a lot of stuff about Michael Corleone because that's what they wanted. But it was all lies. Everything. And I kept saying, And Michael Corleone did this, and Michael Corleone did that. Would you kindly identify for the committee the gentleman sitting to your left? I can answer that. His name is Vincenzo Pintani. Is he related to the witness? He is, I believe, his brother. Will he come forward and be sworn, sir? Sir, this man does not understand English. He came at his own expense to aid his brother in his time of trouble. He's not under subpoena, and his reputation in his own country is impeccable. Are you saying he knows nothing about these matters? To my knowledge, nothing. I'm going to find out what the hell happened here. All right, this committee is now adjourned. The witness is excused. Good job, sir. Senator! This committee owes an apology! This committee owes an apology! Apology, Senator! The family honor is in place. Michael, excuse me. The children are outside. We're going. You're going? We're all going to leave tomorrow. Uh, Rocco. I'll be in my room. Michael, I'm not going back to Nevada. I brought the children to say goodbye to you. I want you to know I'm very happy for you. I suppose I always knew you were too smart to let any of them ever beat you. No, no, I'm not going to stay long. I can't. There's some things I'd like to talk to you about. Some things that have been on my mind, changes I want to make. I think it's too late for changes, Michael. I promised myself I wasn't going to say anything, and now I... What do you mean, too late? What really happened was Pintani, Michael. His brother came and helped him. I didn't even know he had a brother. And where is he now? He's on a plane back to Sicily. All he had to do was show his face. It was between the brothers, Kay. Nothing to do with it. Michael, you say you love me, and then you talk about allowing me to leave. There are things that have been going on for years between men and women that will not change. Michael, you're blind. You've become blind, Michael. Michael, what? Nothing to us, Michael. Nothing to our son, Michael. Nothing's happening. I don't want to hear about it. You will hear about it. I don't want to hear about it. At this moment, I feel no love for you at all. I never thought that would ever happen, but it has. We leave tomorrow, okay? Why don't you take the kids back to their room? Michael, you haven't heard me. Okay, what do you want from me? Do you expect me to let you go? Do you expect me to let you take my children from me? Don't you know me? Don't you know that that's an impossibility, that that could never happen? That I'd use all my power to keep something like that from happening? Don't you know that? In time, you'll feel differently. You'll be glad I stopped you now. I know you blame me for losing the baby. I know what that meant to you. I swear I'll make it up to you. I'll change. I'll change. I've learned that I have the strength to change. And you'll forget about this miscarriage. You'll have another child, and we'll go on. You and I will go on. Oh. Oh, Michael. Michael, you are blind. It wasn't a miscarriage. It was an abortion. An abortion, Michael. Just like our marriage is an abortion. Something that's unholy and evil. I didn't want your son, Michael. into this world and Michael was a son and I had it all because this must I know now that it's over I knew it then there would be no way Michael no way you could ever forgive me not with this Sicilian thing that's been going on for two thousand years you won't take my baby you won't