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Why did Howard and Livia want to kill Frank if he wasn't the one who shot their son?


I don't get that.

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Frank was the reason for the son being there, getting caught in the police setup & ultimately being killed

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But Frank's intention wasn't to have him killed.

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His operation still got their son killed. I don't think evil mob bosses care about accidents.

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why should that matter?

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Exactly. Also I don't think that they wanted to avenge him out of love. It was out of greed because he was their own offspring. It's like the nazis in the war, that if a German nazi was killed by a Greek, the German nazis would kill 100 Germans in return. Even if the Greek who actually killed the German didn't even get a scratch. It was only to show that they are stronger. If it was out of love, they would try to find out who actually shot their son and only go after that person.

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You can't be serious. Germany fought Russians and took POWs. Germans did not get the same luxury. They were brutally massacred by Russians, just like how the bombing of Dresden had more innocent victims than anything Nazi Germany ever did. France was occupied and no one was treated unjustly. So amazing and ridiculous how facts of that war have been ignored and lies reign supreme.

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Lol if anything, them being drug Kingpins and indoctrinating him into a life a crime was the much more direct reason for him being there, but I doubt they saw it that way!

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Grief not Logic was the driving motivation in that decision

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