if roth had contacted rocco for the hit, would'nt he ( roth )have had some idea of what rocco looked like and suspected something was up when rocco is at the airport trying to pass himself off as a reporter?
in the hit scene, right after the compound is locked down, the bodyguards let the dogs loose down the drainpipe - 1) if anybody had been around that drainpipe, those dogs would have alerted to that and been going crazy. 2) a scene or 2 later, the 2 hitmens bodys are found in a ditch by a similar looking drainpipe. 3) how many drain pipes are on the property. 4) wouldnt a security minded mike have bars or fencing welded over the openings to prevent access through them. 5) if there is only 1 drainpipe, with everybody walking through out the compound, somebody would have been standing by the drainpipe that the dogs were sent down waiting for them to return, how did the bodies show up in that ditch?
Roth didn't NEED to meet with Rocco. Ola could have handled it. But even so, Roth didn't have a whole lot of time to focus on Rocco while surrounded by police, Feds and several reporters gunning for the story of Roth's fall from grace. Had Rocco NOT been killed in the airport, it's even possible that Roth's dying words could have been "It was Rocco...". But since Rocco was killed, Roth wouldn't have seen the point in identifying him.
As far as the dogs go, don't you think they know Rocco and recognize his scent as it is pretty much EVERYWHERE on the compound. I think this certainly indicates an insider slashing the assassins' throats as the dogs might be inclined to "bloodhound" the scent of an intruder. But Rocco? No. The hounds knew his scent (and probably Fredo's too) and wouldn't think twice about it.
I would imagine a compound that size has several drainpipes and drainage ditches leading down to the lake.
