Who was Luther from the Rogues gang talking to on the phone?

Weird as it may seem, I'm thinking it's either a girlfriend or one of the "Lizzies."

OT, I finally watched my copy of the "Ultimate Director's Cut" last night, and it bummed me out that it didn't have the extended version of Cyrus's speech.

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When he is on the phone he never indicates or says the job is done. He also says that they just got back from the event in the Bronx and that is was a mess. If he is talking to someone who paid them to kill Cyrus, that would know and not need to be said.

True, although if someone did pay him, they may not be aware that the Rogues made it out and were above suspicion. If they were paid off by someone who was connected, then whoever it was would be able to monitor the radio station and likely get whatever information the cops knew. But they would still need to know the Rogues' status, and Luther may have felt compelled to report in.

Plus, Luther would need to know whether the cops are after him, so whoever he was talking to provided him with that information.

The thing that really gives a clue is the manner in which Luther is talking to the person on the phone. He says "Take care of yourself" to whoever it was and seemed far more nice and respectful than he otherwise shows in his interactions with others. To say "take care of yourself" would not be the kind of thing he would say to his girlfriend or his mom or his social worker or a DJ. He wouldn't say that to someone he knew on a peer level, but rather, to someone he considered more powerful, someone higher up on the food chain. Someone more powerful than the head of the biggest gang in NYC.

At the end of the film when Luther is asked why he killed Cyrus he simply says "No reason." When the Riffs show up he just says "No, it wasn't us it was the Warriors." If he was about to be killed I think he most likely would have pleaded for his life by telling them he will tell them who paid to have Cyrus assassinated.

True, he does say "no reason" when Swan asks him, but if he was paid by someone else to do it, he certainly wasn't going to tell Swan about that or who it was.

I was thinking that he might have pleaded with the Riffs for his life, although they didn't really give him much of a chance to say anything before they started pummeling him. It would have required some pretty fast thinking on Luther's part, and he didn't strike me as a particularly fast thinker.

Even if he had told them that someone paid him, they probably would have killed him anyway. And if he survived, he would probably be killed by whoever it was who paid him.

Then there's the question of whether they would even believe him if he had confessed. He already shot Cyrus and tried to pin it on the Warriors. They knew he was guilty of Cyrus' murder, and he had been caught in a lie. Anything else he might have told them would have been suspect.

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