ccosborne3 Wrote:I'll agree that all the characters are unlikeable. They've always been unlikeable. Basically they're just a bunch of murderers. I think the producers made a conscious effort to dehumanize them after season three.
There were several story arcs in that episode.
I think the book was by Norman Mailer. Basically, it was a comedy plot based on a number of real-life botched assassination attempts by the Mafia. I remember one where the "torpedoes" are loading their pistols with the wrong ammunition (I thnk they were Savage .380 semi-automatics and they were loading them with .38 S&W rounds). They jammed the bullets in the magazines and, naturally, they did not work properly. I know for a fact that that one really happened.
Murder, Inc. had the right idea, ice pick in the back of the head, usually in the movies after the show starts. Up close and personal, no noise, no mess, no fuss, no errors. But, of course, they were Jews and could be counted on to do the job right the first time!
After all, no refunds!
Then out spoke brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods,"
"Well, John Henry said to the Cap'n, "A man ain't nuthin' but a man. But, before I let that steam drill beat me, gonna die with my hammer in my hand, Lawd, Lawd, gonna die with my hammer in my hand."