Originally posted by Jimmy Buffer:
a little off topic, but another interesting question related to the thread. maybe i'm missing something completely obvious, but when the cops came into the restaurant where rosato was garroting pentangelli, didn't carmine release pentangelli and start shooting the cops? why then didn't he just take 2 extra seconds, turn around and shoot pentangelli if he wanted him dead? pentangelli was still struggling when he released him, so rosato couldn't have just assumed that he succeeded in strangling him.
he didn't want him dead. He said "Michael says hello" or something like that. They wanted him to live so then he would go to the cops against Michael. (that is my take on it)
