Originally posted by McCluskey:
Well, that explains a lot, thanks.
But what's about the Black Hand? Fanucci was part of it, right? They were blackmailers. It should have been in their interest to find out who dared to kill one of them, just in order to prevent that it will hapen again. They could have find out that it was Vito and take revenge but they didn't. Were they afraid of Vito? Unlikely, he wasn't a big shot at that time...
Was he really part of the Black Hand?
There is a deleted scene where Vito is making a grocery delivery and witnesses two punks attacking Fanucci. When they slit Fanucci's throat, he squeals like a pig, running for his life.
Nothing was ever done about the punks slitting Fanucci's throat, and I believe that in witnessing this Vito realizes that Fanucci is not as powerful as he makes everyone else think that he is. From seeing this, Vito realizes that Fanucci is killable and that he will never have to worry about any kind of retaliation from anyone.
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