Originally posted by DonMichaelCorleone:
In GF1 (I know its not in timeline but it confuses me) In a deleted scene Sonny is talking to Tessio and Tom (I think) when Michael is in the room and Sonny says whos head do we blow off, Clemenza or Paulie? So I take that as him suspecting Clemenza as one of them. Yet right after Vito was shot, Sonny goes to the door with the gun when Clemenza knocks but when Clemenza says "its me" Sonny puts the gun away....why is that?
Sonny had found out about his father being shot only seconds before Clemenza knocked at the door. He didn't know Clemenza was at the door, so he whipped out the gun as a precaution. He put it away because, whether or not he suspected Clemenza at that point, Clemenza obviously wasn't planning to harm him right then and there--otherwise he wouldn't have knocked. Sonny had to suspect Clemenza since Paulie was out sick (making him the prime suspect) and Paulie reported to Clemenza. Clemenza had to know he was under suspicion as soon as he learned (as he must have) that Sonny had ordered Tessio's men (not Clemenza's) to guard the hospital.
