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.