Originally posted by dontomasso:
Yes, but they never got a shot at them while they were in the opera box. Almost, but between the twins running enough interference, nd George Hamilton getting Michael out of there to tell him about the Pope, was enough to prevent an assassination inside the theater.
Pure luck (and dramatic license).
Actually,what happened was Vincent's orders to get everyone in the cars fast was not obeyed. If Mary hadn't been standing on the steps slowing everyone down and whining about Michael engineering the break up with Vincent, and had been moving quickly to the cars, maybe they would have gotten away. All of this brings me to think there was more of Kay in Mary than I previously realized.
Interesting thought about Mary and Kay being alike. But evidently Michael didn't heed one of his father's pearls of wisdom: "Women and children can afford to be careless. But not men."
