Originally Posted By: Buttmunker
But Michael wanted to hear it for himself, because even he probably found it smelled a lot like coincidence.


Michael needed to hear it himself. If you remember in the novel, in that very scene, it was implied that Michael could never be the man his father was, because Vito wouldn't have needed to hear an admission. What he knew in his heart would have been enough.


"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.