(PB) >>21221747
>rump was set up.
>His whole team failed him.
>The assassination was green-lit by someone close to him. There’s no other explanation for the lapse in judgment. His own guys had to have known things weren’t on the up-and-up.
>Who’s the traitor?
>Who put him on that stage?
These are good observations.
Ultimately, Tessio betrays Michael by helping arrange his assassination at a peace summit with Barzini and Philip Tattaglia. The summit will be held in Tessio's fiefdom in Brooklyn, where Michael will presumably be safe. In return, Tessio was to inherit the Corleone family upon Michael's death.