De Meo may have been physically strong, but he was mentally weak. He started falling apart at the seams as soon as he was under any kind of pressure, becoming a drug addicted hermit. There's a reason he was suspected of folding.

Truth is, whatever about the somewhat entrepreneurial guys like Federici or Parrello or Di Bernardo, some guys need people over them, like Nino Gaggi was to Roy, in order to save them from themselves.

Testa and Senter fell under the spell of another lunatic in Casso, and look at them now.