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Originally posted by Don Sonny Corleone:
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Originally posted by EnzoBaker:
[b] ....I never did get what was the point of Fredo saying he didn't know Roth.
Fredo was feeling guilty and he knew Roth was behind it,hell he was working for Roth.If Michael did find out it was Roth,(and Ola,who was probably the contact between Roth and Fredo)Fredo had been saying all along that he didnt know these men, he'd never met them,he was no way connected with them. [/b]
Yeah, but I guess my question is, wouldn't Michael have known that had to be BS right from the start? I guess it shows how dumb Fredo was, how he didn't really think things through, and wasn't smart enough to think up a good lie to get himself out of trouble.

If he said, "Yeah, I know Roth and Ola, I met them when I was working with Moe Greene. Heck, I met him like 10 years ago, when he was trying to set up a smuggling deal with Pops. Me and Sonny were in the room when they talked about it, this was when you were still off at college," Michael would have believed it.

But when he says, "No, I never met them," Michael knows that's BS right there on the spot.

"You did good."