Originally posted by JustMe:
All his sweet-talking about Tom's being out is just another display of his Sicilian cunning. He misleads everyone about his true intentions and plans masterfully, even closest insiders of the Family suspect nothing.
You bet! Michael's cunning, and sweet-talking, is shown brilliantly in GF II, right after the Tahoe shooting. He tells Tom he kept things from him because he loves him
, and he's his brother, etc. Tom laps it up. Michael played him like a violin. As soon as Michael got back from Havana, he was shouting at Tom, and humiliated him badly in that penultimate scene in the boathouse.
