In the boathouse, near the end of II, Michael cruelly tests Tom’s loyalty. First he asks Tom if he was going to move his family to Vegas to accept the vice presidency of “the house and hotels there.” Then he asks if Tom was going to “come along in these things I have to do”; otherwise Tom “could move his wife, his family and his mistress to Vegas.”

What if Tom, pissed off, said, “Yeah, Mike, I’ve accepted the offer of the vice presidency of the house and hotels, and I’m moving to Vegas.” Would Michael have let him go?