That he was in on the set up to have Vito killed by faking it to be sick so he wasn't there?
S prob. figured that P wasn't there so that he wouldn't get hit by stray bullets and he knows what a goof up Fredo is and can accept his excuse for not doing enough to protect dad.
Or was it all just a coincidence and Sonny was wrong about Paulie?
there's a deleted scene in which Sonny takes a call from someone who can trace telephone calls, who confirms that on the days when Paulie had been off sick, he'd been receiving phone calls from a payphone overlooking Vito's office or where the shooting took place, something like that.
Not sure why that scene was deleted because it explains a lot and also shows how Michael calmly reasons with Sonny in order to be allowed to stay in the room where they're talking business, and also correctly calls it that Clemenza wouldn't have set the Don up (Sonny suspected it was either Clemenza or Paulie) - also quite prophetic considering it was then between Tessio and Clemenza for who'd sell the family out near the end, and once again Michael's hunch that it wouldn't be Clemenza is right
Thanx.
Yeah, that would have helped it look like that Sonny may not have set it up for an "innocent," guy to be murdered.
The other thing that throws it off is where Paulie coughs when he is talking to the guys in the room in the scene when they get the dead fish.
By what you suggest he might be faking being sick where without that deleted scene it looks like he really might be sick.
It's also explicitly stated in the book that Paulie helped set him up.
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