That's different. Killing a Senator is a much more demanding thing to do than elimination of a rebellious head of one of the Family's operational units.

As for the making way too much out of it - blame it on "my cunning".

Best regards.

Cunning is not a word I would describe your analysis, Alexander. Al Neri was not asking Michael to kill Frankie. All Frankie did was end the meeting abruptly. Al wanted to know if he still need to talk to Frankie. What Frankie had done is not worth being killed over.