Talk:Minor Characters/@comment-28288412-20161220012905/@comment-24573226-20161221021916

A thorought explanation would be a spoiler, I'm afraid. I'll just say that Don Corleone is bedridden due to health and when something major happens he says, "My wife is crying upstairs. I hear people coming to the house. Consiglieri of mine, I think it's time you told your Don what everyone else seems to know."

I'm hinting that Nicholas is alive but unaware of what's been going on because of his health and being uniformed.