Bryan Spatafore, Vito's brother, is innocently embroiled in a row between Mustang Sally and his girlfriend. Sally viciously assaults Bryan with a golf club, putting him into a coma. For this Sally has to be killed. He goes into hiding, but is in touch with Bobby Baccalieri's father, Bobby, Sr., who is his godfather though, as Bobby, Sr. says, "in name only"; so he is assigned the job. But Bobby, Sr. is dying of lung cancer and can hardly stop coughing. Bobby desperately wants to stop his father from doing it; so does Junior, who goes to see Tony, who refuses to change the plan. Bobby, Sr. himself wants to do it: "It will feel good being useful for a change."