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question about the finale (spoilers)


Cheese's death - if Slim Charles et al know that Cheese set up Prop Joe, they must know that Marlo killed Prop Joe. So why kill Cheese when they're about to do this huge deal with Marlo?
Reasoning it out, my best guess is that they had too much to lose by going after Marlo or even cutting ties with him, but they still wanted to do SOMETHING to avenge Joe.
It just seems very ironic, if not hypocritical, that they're getting all sentimental about getting the guy who set Joe up while they're in the process of pooling all their money together to give to the guy who actually had Joe killed.

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My guess is maybe the fact that cheese got all willy nilly with his own gun pointing at the other fellow. Maybe slim charles felt that after cheese set up joe AND he's point guns at his own people, Charles felt it was best to eliminate the loose cannon.

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