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From the way I took it, it wasn’t Tom Hagen. He only showed up there after the fact. Remember when Tom was talking to the Senator when they were in the room with the dead girl. The senator is crying going on about not remembering & Tom looks over and sees Michael’s “hit man” cleaning his hands with a towel in the bathroom. That’s who killed her & he was still in the room. Tom nods at him to stay there or something.
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Definitely agree, Tom wouldn’t do something like that. He was there for only there for the “aftermath” because Tom’s the guy Michael would want for the role of talking to the Senator, & giving the Senator a way “out”...
shareFunny that Geary did not realize already that these people were capable to doing something like that?
Here is a guy who is constantly compromising himself with whores and dirty money. Just slip him a mickey and take some photos and threaten him with those. Threaten to send photos to every paper in the state.
Look what Paul Newman does in absence of malice to ruin a politician.
Funny that Geary did not realize already that these people were capable to doing something like that?
For guys like you and me certainly, but Geary was a guy who had a history of beating up whores for sexual gratification. The Corleones learned this and exploited it.
Geary probably woke up many times after a night of boozing and whoring with a beat up hooker in his bed.
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> Funny that Geary did not realize already that these people were capable to doing something like that?
I think Geary believed his being a Senator made him invulnerable. He certainly didn't seem afraid of Michael when he met privately with him at the Lake Tahoe party; instead, he was contemptuous. He probably knew the Corleones could and did do very bad things, but also thought they wouldn't dare do things to him
There was an old saying in politics at that time; "Don't get caught with a dead girl, or a live boy.".
He could recover from a picture of him in whore house. But with a dead hooker, no way. On top of the public disgrace, he would be going to jail.