<P> Michael is indicted by a Senate subcommittee investigating organized crime . Michael's former caporegime, Frank Pentangeli (Michael V. Gazzo), is scheduled to testify against Michael at the hearing . A few days before the hearing, Michael asks Fredo what he knows regarding Roth's plans . Fredo says that, if he helped Roth, "there was something in it for me, on my own". He tells Michael that he resented being passed over to succeed their father; he believes that, as the older brother, he should have taken over the family business . When pressed by Michael, Fredo reveals that the Senate commission's lawyer is on Roth's payroll . Michael disowns Fredo, and privately instructs Al Neri (Richard Bright) that nothing is to happen to Fredo while their mother is alive; the implication being that Fredo will be killed after her death . At their mother's funeral, and at their sister Connie's urging, Michael seemingly forgives Fredo . However, it is a ploy to gain Fredo's trust . Soon after, while Fredo and Neri are fishing on Lake Tahoe, Neri executes him as Michael watches from his house . </P> <P> Fredo makes a final appearance in the movie's penultimate scene, a flashback to December 1941 . It emerges that Fredo was the only family member supporting Michael's decision to drop out of college and join the Marines after the attack on Pearl Harbor . </P> <P> Fredo appears only once in the third film, in a flashback depicting his death through archive footage . He is also mentioned many times throughout the film; the dialogue makes it clear that Michael is tormented with guilt over ordering his brother's death, and that it has alienated him from his ex-wife, Kay (Diane Keaton), and his son, Anthony (Franc D'Ambrosio), both of whom know what really happened . Michael himself cries out Fredo's name while having a diabetic stroke . Later in the film, he breaks down in tears while confessing having ordered Fredo's death to Cardinal Lamberto (Raf Vallone), who later becomes Pope John Paul I. Michael's daughter, Mary (Sofia Coppola), asks her cousin and love interest, Vincent Corleone (Andy García), if Michael had Fredo killed, but Vincent says it is "just a story" and changes the subject . </P> <P> Mark Winegardner's novel The Godfather Returns further expands upon the character of Fredo Corleone . It includes explanations for some questions left open by the films, such as the details of Fredo's betrayal of Michael in The Godfather Part II, and how, as was revealed in The Godfather Part III, Anthony knew the truth about Fredo's death . </P>

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