The whole point about the brutality of what the Corleones did was to terrorize their enemies, and to terrorize their potential enemies. They had to send a message that nothing was safe, and that they would go to any extreme to get what they wanted. No half assed blackmail photos...a dead hooker and a possible careeer ending murder rap sends Geary a much more powerful message.
"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"
"I stood in the courtroom like a fool."
"I am Constanza: Lord of the idiots."
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