Watching, as Brasi brutally dismembered and butchered his partner with an axe, the other man became terrified and choked to death on the towel.

[3] An old Sicilian woman, who had once worked as the neighborhood midwife, tells Vito's youngest son Michael that, years earlier, she attended a young Irish girl as she gave birth to Brasi's child.

Brasi forced the midwife to throw the silent infant into a burning furnace, saying he wanted none of "that race" to live and a few days later, murdered the girl.

Don Corleone intervened, protecting the woman while covering up Brasi's crime and bringing him into his family, thus gaining his undying service and loyalty.

To show his respect and gratitude, he personally presents the Don with a large cash gift for his daughter's bridal purse, which Brasi intends to be the largest sum given, in addition to a pledge of loyalty to Connie and her future children.

During the Great Depression, Luca Brasi is the leader of a small but feared street gang with ties to Sonny Corleone, who uses them as muscle to aid his family.

He also plans to kill Corleone associate Tom Hagen for having a one-night stand with Kelly, a feud that Vito settles by paying Brasi off.

At his daughter's wedding, Vito accepts Brasi's gift and instructs him to track down the protagonist, Aldo Trapani, who has fallen in with a local gang.