Can someone PLEASE answer this question- short of the dramatic impact, why did Michael have to be the one to pull the trigger? If they knew where to plant the gun, why couldn't they have planted a button man along with it? Granted, they would have had to find a different hiding place than behind the toilet, but some guy having his dinner could've waited until Mike went to the bathroom, gotten up and wasted Solozzo and McCluskey, and been out of there. Michael may have had to answer a few uncomfortable questions when the police arrived, but that might have created enough plausible deniability to prevent a war against the Corleones by the rest of the five families- lousy movie, but speaking hypothetically, can anyone disprove this theory?

Sammy The Fish