Godfather nitpicky questions

How much time elapses between when Mike, the Turk and the cop sit down, and the Turk says he’s going to speak Italian? When McCluskey says “go ahead”, he’s already eating.

There’s a window behind McCluskey in Louis’ restaurant, yet the restaurant is in the middle of the block (?)

How did Clemenza know who was going to be in the elevator when the doors opened? For that matter, when Barzini got his, it seems improbable to think the city hall (?) steps would be conveniently deserted.

You know that after a string of mob hits the cops are going to be coming around, questioning prime suspects, one of whom would have been Mike, so he has Carlo garroted right in the driveway, in broad daylight?

Is Lake Tahoe really a good place to plug somebody, with the likelihood of telescope wielding feds?

i think the waiter immediately served them a bowl of salad (same time he brought in the wine.) the veal came as michael was in the rest room. that’s how i remember it.

don’t remember that. could it have been a picture frame?

a private elevator? nah. you’re right that was iffy.

it all happened on the day carlo’s kid was baptized. good alibi and besides, a don orders a hit through buffers so that the order is untraceable. also see explanation below.

in the book, don corleon ordered his men to buy up all land within a mile of the corleon mall. that’s how conscious he was about security. it’s logical that michael would think the same way and will not permit snoopers around his tahoe estate.