Originally posted by greekgirl:
In G1, in the scene in front of the hospital, when Michael takes the lighter from the baker's
trembling hands and lights his cigarette, he
holds the lighter and seems to study it intently.
Did I miss something?
As I have posted before about this scene, that was the defining moment for Michael. He and Enzo face death when those cars pull up, and after they pull away Enzo, understandably is shaking uncontrolably. Mike takes the lighter and calmly lights Enzo's cigarette, and as you said looks long and hard at what he is calmly doing. I think at the very moment Michael realized that he could live this "life" without any problem. That he was a natural at it. I think that many things ran through his mind at that split moment. He also realized that had he not been there to stand outside and act like a bodyguard, his father would have been killed in that hospital. Mike, thinking all this knew that he now must get involved in order to save both his father's life and the family itself.
Don Cardi
