<P> The failed assassination attempt leaves Vito near death, making Sonny acting boss of the Corleone family . Sonny orders Clemenza to execute Vito's traitorous bodyguard Paulie Gatto . Sollozzo mounts a second assassination attempt on Vito at the hospital, which Michael thwarts . Sonny then orders Bruno Tattaglia, son and underboss of Sollozzo's ally Philip Tattaglia, to be murdered . Sollozzo proposes that Michael to be sent to broker a truce . Sonny, believing it is a trick, refuses and demands that the other Mafia families hand over Sollozzo to the Corleone family or else face war . Hagen successfully convinces Sonny to wait because Captain Mark McCluskey, a corrupt NYPD captain on Sollozzo's payroll, has agreed to be Sollozzo's bodyguard . Hagen warns Sonny that killing McCluskey would violate a long - standing Mafia rule not to kill members of law enforcement and the backlash from rival Mafia families and law enforcement would be severe . </P> <P> Michael, who had before wanted nothing to do with the family business, volunteers to kill Sollozzo and McCluskey, arguing that McCluskey is fair game because he is a corrupt cop mixed up in the drug trade . Sonny is impressed with Michael's loyalty and bravery, but doubts that his "nice college boy" brother is capable of murder . Ultimately he approves the hit . Michael meets with Sollozzo and McCluskey at an Italian restaurant in the Bronx, and kills both men . This ignites the New York underworld's first Mafia war in a decade . Sonny had arranged for Michael to flee to Sicily under the protection of Vito's friend and longtime ally Don Tommasino . </P> <P> The war between the Five Families drags on, and Sonny, unable to break the stalemate, orders bloody raids that earn him a legendary reputation but also begins planning a plot to take out the rival Mafia bosses . Emilio Barzini, Vito's rival and the power behind Sollozzo, enlists Connie's husband, Carlo Rizzi, to help set a trap . Earlier, Sonny had severely beaten up Carlo upon learning that he had been physically abusing Connie . To draw Sonny out into the open, Carlo provokes Connie into an argument before savagely beating her . Weeping and injured, she telephones the Corleone compound asking Sonny for help . Furious, Sonny speeds towards Connie's apartment in Hell's Kitchen ahead of his bodyguards . At the Long Beach Causeway toll plaza, Barzini's men ambush Sonny and gun him down . </P> <P> During a meeting with the Dons of the other crime families to establish peace, Vito realizes that Barzini masterminded Sonny's murder . After Michael returns from Sicily, he takes Sonny's place as Vito's heir apparent . Vito and Michael secretly continue Sonny's plot to wipe out the other New York Dons to avenge Sonny's death . The plan is successfully executed in 1955, after Vito's death from natural causes . Michael informs Carlo that the rival Dons have been killed and coerces Carlo's confession for his part in arranging Sonny's murder . Carlo admits Barzini was the mastermind . On Michael's orders, Clemenza strangles Carlo with a wire . In a single strike, the Corleones become the most powerful crime family in the country . </P>

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