If my boyfriend didn't pick me up on time from work (and he usually did--thankfully his brother showed up to pick me up in his dad's car), and I couldn't reach him on the phone...why, exactly, would I wait in the same location for 40 minutes trying to locate him by first calling hospitals and the county jail?
What exactly would I be worried about, and why would I preferentially call these locations?
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This point is important. Despite their fears, Ilona and Sal themselves must have felt relatively safe.
Interesting point.
As are the ones below that sort of connect.
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He obviously knew her, perhaps only to place Gianni at a known location to carry out his murder. Maybe "The Assassin" liked the rush and his shooting spree that took the lives of Ilona and Sal was unplanned. There's no way he'd have known they would remain in the mall parking lot like sitting ducks.
If Sal and Ilona thought Gianni might have been in trouble of some sort (obviously they didn't think he was out hanging out with friends or something...her calls were to jails and hospitals) and with him typically being the one picking her up, it is kind of surprising that they didn't drive through the parking lots or something at least, checking to see if they could find him
while calling around.
I wonder if that spot in the parking lot wasn't just where they typically met Ilona to pick her up, but also somewhere that perhaps they used to meet their dealers. :waitasec:
Considering they'd come and pick her up (and nothing has indicated they typically would go in and meet her at the store and walk out with her or anything) why wouldn't they just pull up near wherever she exited the mall area from?
And why that spot in the lot to meet? They could have parked closer, even if it were typically crowded if she was leaving at a more 'normal' time.
Plus, considering that night was Christmas Eve, very little was open very late, and it wasn't crowded and people all over the place, why would they have had Ilona walking through a mostly empty and not particularly well lit lot alone?
Again, especially since they could easily have pulled up at a curb that was closer both mall egress wise and just pure distance wise at almost any time of day, and obviously certainly when it was very empty.
Thinking about that along with the point raised about them staying there in the lot for an extended time when they had concerns about Gianni really does make me wonder if that 'meeting point' was really primarily to meet suppliers at times, thus hanging out there trying to reach Gianni and/or figure out what was up, perhaps hoping he'd still come.
And it actually could make the whole thing about CM not just 'lucking out' that they stayed there in the lot for such a long time make sense.
Maybe there was a planned meeting with someone and thus he knew they'd stick around?
