Repentence can be quite temporal. It definitely is not legitimacy.
Again, as both I and TB have pointed out, Michael did not walk away. He enabled Vincent.
Connie manipulated it. Michael walks away and Vincent turns to Connie and says..."It is done." Questions: Could Michael have stopped Vincent from choosing this path? And was Michael's real motive to see the illegitimate empire continue or to manipulate Vincent to give up Mary?
It was any of those; it was not the chosen path of ligitimacy. Michael didn't have to turn over anything to Vincent. That he did, cast him in the role of an enabler. It's plain; it's simple. Michael should have just walked away if legitimacy and life-long repentence was his objective: you just walk away.
"Generosity. That was my first mistake." "Experience must be our only guide; reason may mislead us." "Instagram is Twitter for people who can't read."
