Happy New Year all!

'Sbeen awhile.

So, I'm listening to GF1 off Amazon Video on my road trip in PA back to NYC on NY Eve, and something hit me that I'd never thought about before.

You only see this in the NBC version of the Saga and in the novel but, after Tom is released by Sollozzo and returns home safe. He sez as he's groping the better half, "Boy I'll never argue a case before the Supreme Court the way I did with that Turk."

So, what did he mean by that? He was never in any REAL danger, so there wasn't anything he had to talk the Turk out of, right? Virg basically said 'you're in no danger, just pass on this proposition to Sonny and keep the kids and the fat Clemenza in check.' The only time he may have been in hot water was when the Turk found out that the Don, rest in peace, was.... RECOVERING! But with that he just told Tom to make double-dog sure he gets that deal with Sonny.

Even in the novel, did I miss a passage where they were thinking of whacking Tom but were convinced otherwise?