Originally Posted By: Turnbull
The point is that people who are obsessed with vengeance or greed do stupid things that lead them to their deaths. As Vito said in the novel, "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold."


Exactly!

Carlo had just suffered a lengthy and intensely humiliating public beating at the hands of his brother-in-law. He wanted revenge and he wasn't thinking beyond that.

It is a bit of a stretch to think he would hang around afterwards but then again he probably hadn't thought things through that far. Maybe he thought being married to Connie would give him a pass if things came to a head...

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.