- The family members all gather at Don Corleone's funeral. Barzini is there and he uses Tessio to arrange a meeting with Michael. Michael realizes that Tessio is the traitor and tells Tom. He intimates to Tom that he'll have all the traitors and rival dons killed.
- Next, the scene switches between the baptism of Connie's child, where Michael is becoming godfather to her baby, and the assassins who are getting ready to kill his enemies.
- As Michael goes through the ritual, the assassins take out one rival after another: Moe Greene is shot in the eye while receiving a massage, Tattaglia gets murdered while in bed with a woman (she dies too), Barzini is gunned down on the steps of New York's Supreme Court. One Don gets shot in an elevator and another is shot after being trapped in a revolving door.
- Outside, Michael arranges a meeting with Carlo, while telling Kay he'll be gone on business in Vegas for a few days.