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Questions about the movie as it was based on a true story


I was wondering why did Everette Hatcher (the DEA agent) go back to the spot? Did he not think that Gus and the others might not drive back through there? Why didn't he go straight home and contact his people at another time. Second question, when Gus pulled up why didn't he tell him he was trying to contact the people he was going to give drugs to letting them know he would soon have drugs? I do not work undercover but would not have been back at that spot- drug addicts and criminals are unstable and paranoid and going back to that spot was not smart and would have made up a better reason for being there to begin with. Another question I ask myself, was this murder real or fake? Was this agent really killed or was his death faked for mafia/police credibility?

I have found a photo of Gus Farace online- he looks like a sweet person but I have read about his crimes and he was a ruthless psychopath. His crimes were gruesome to say the least. This was a description of one of his crimes. On October 8, 1979, Constabile was involved in the murder of an African-American after he, Robert DeLicio, David Spoto and cousin Mark Granato picked up the man and a companion of his on a Greenwich Village street, forced them into a car, and began a gang sex assault during the drive back to Staten Island. The assault continued on a beach. It did not end until Farace had bludgeoned the African-American to death with a piece of driftwood. The second victim survived his victim to testify, sending Farace and the others to prison. In June of 1985, Farace was released after serving seven years, the minimum sentence for manslaughter. The state had accepted his plea to the lesser charge of manslaughter rather than go through the uncertainty and expense of a capitol murder trial. The two teenage boys allegedly propositioned them. Enraged, Farace and his friends forced the two teenagers into their car and drove them to Wolfe's Pond Park in the Prince's Bay section of Staten Island (where both Farace and Granato resided). The four men then spent several hours punching, kicking, and beating their victims with driftwood. When they were finished, Farace and his pals left the two boys for dead. One victim, 17-year-old Steven Charles of Newark, New Jersey, died on the beach. The second victim, 16-year-old Thomas Moore of Brooklyn, was critically injured but managed to get help at a nearby residence. Farace, DeLicio, Spoto, and Granato were arrested later that day. — December 10, 1979 — Four days later, Moore identified all four men in a lineup. Farace ultimately pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and received a prison sentence of 7 to 21 years.

I read that his hand is messed up -- his left arm would not work properly. In the movie Hannibal Lector cuts his hand and his hand is messed up at the end-- is this a coincedence?

We are about to embark upon a procedure the CIA was more than willing to use on me I must say I find the reversal a tad ironic Sark Alias

My attorney is so good that by morning you will be doing surveillance in Alaska so dress warm or as someone pointed out " I call my lawyer. He's the best lawyer in Miami. He's such a good lawyer, by this time tomorrow you will be working in Alaska. So dress warm. Tony Montana Scarface

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