I'm new to these boards, so thanks for your replies!! I've been a Godfather fan for a long long time now.

When one of the Rosato Bros. said, "Michael Corleone says 'Hello,'" that threw Pentagelli off into assuming that Michael wanted to kill him. Pentangelli isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Pentangelli, if smarter, would have known that Michael normally does not instruct his buttonmen to say, "this is from michael corleone" before a murder anyways, which is plain ole' sloppy and arrogant. I think if Michael wanted someone to know that they were being killed by his order, he would have done it himself (the police captain and the Turk). Make any sense?