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Why such an elaborate plan to kill the boys


The boss who approaches the 2 boys with a job offer, why did he feel the need to set up such an elaborate trap just to kill them? Instead of just shooting them on the spot?

Previously in the film we've seen henchmen drag the boys out from the strip club and threaten them at gunpoint, even firing the gun in the sand. - So obviously they did not feel the need to be stealthy about it. They had no fear of being spotted by witnesses and implicating themselves in the murder of these kids.
In another scene we also see a woman murdered in broad daylight in an apartment complex.

So why not do the same with the boys? Why go through such an elaborate and dangerous plan of setting up a trap?
He had to hire 5 henchmen who had to wait around a remote beach, and he gave boys some money, guns and a vehicle and arranged for them to follow a guy to the beach so that they could sneak up on them and shoot them.

To quote one of the killers: "All this for two boys?"

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The mob boss had been told that killing the boys in the are they lived would make them look bad amongst the populace, so they lured them out of the city to dispose of them. The people back in the city may assume the boys left the area of their own free will.

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