Respect your conjecture on this. Actually, pretty interesting. In the novel however, there's a shootout at the last house robbery scene and one of the thieves is killed. In the conversation between Dillon and the Man's courier (played by James Tolken in the film), we find out that the man is pissed because the kid that got killed was one of the man's favorites and he wants some serious damage control (retribution). Coyle is fingered for it but I forget how that played out in the book.
However, the robbery is ratted out by Scalise's girlfriend from the trailer, Wanda, after she gets a beating from Scalise (domestic abuse-like stuff). Both the shoot out and the beating were actually filmed but left out of the final cut of the film. There are pictures of each floating around the net showing both.
So, with all that said, "the man" is still most likely a higher up who called for the button to be pushed. Again, not sure how Eddie got the blame but I think it was Dillon who set it up (as he did in the film but perhaps not in the same exact way).
Love your theory though!!! :)
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dbeane
8 years ago
"the man" is still most likely a higher up who called for the button to be pushed.
This is almost certainly the case. The characters here are low-level hustlers, etc., and very far from ever being in the same room as the higher-ups in any outfit or family. Thus we see none of the latter in the movie.
In the movie, Dillon blamed Coyle for ratting on Scalise to save his skin with those "higher-ups", but he ratted for the same reason as Coyle: looking for a plea bargain.
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