In Roth's suite, he is being treated by a local doctor whom he distrusts: "I don't trust a doctor who can't speak English. Roth shakes hands with Michael, calling him by his adopted alias, Mr. Paul, after the attempt on his life. The crafty Jewish kingpin, with his shirt off while lying on the sofa, is worried and suspects that Michael is pulling out of the deal.
Intuitively or because of a traitor in their midst , he knows that there is "a bag full of money" brought by Fredo - and Roth suspects that Michael might hold back:.
Roth: My sixth sense tells me your brother Fredo brought a bag full of money. Where is it? You're pulling out? Michael: Just wanna, I just wanna wait. How do you feel? Roth: Terrible. I'd give four million just to be able to take a piss without it hurting.
Michael: Who had Frank Pentangeli killed? Roth: The Rosato brothers. Michael: I know. But who gave the go-ahead? I know I didn't. To answer the question, the treacherous Roth coldly speaks about retaliatory killing in an incident recalling Moe Greene's death [Greene was assassinated by Michael's orders in the first film], interspersed by slight coughing. From Michael, Roth demands two million for his business partner, the Cuban dictator:. There was this kid that I grew up with.
He was younger than me We did our first work together. Worked our way out of the street. Things were good. We made the most of it Paid a fortune, your father too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on, he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stopover for GI's on their way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts and there isn't even a plaque or a signpost or a statue of him in that town.
