Two sides to every story lost in random5/21/2023 If you’re part of a crew, nobody ever tells you they’re going to kill you. But once the following exposition hit, it was clear that the Hills were going to be whacked if they weren’t as smart as they were: If it wasn’t for Henry Hill’s inner monologue that ran throughout Goodfellas, having Karen killed might have still been a pretty questionable prospect. Was Jimmy Really Going To Have Karen Killed? Something that Henry himself picked up on, after meeting with Jimmy and dropping some powerful knowledge in his narration. The alleyway storefront would have been a perfect trap for the ever glamorous Karen Hill, and sending Henry on a nice trip to Florida to take care of business was Jimmy’s plan to take out his former cohort. With Paulie turning his back on the Hills, and his own safety in question, the solution seemed obvious: whack the Hills, before the trail lead back to him and Paulie. Once Henry went to jail for his drug operation, Jimmy was obviously afraid that he’d be sold down the river in the name of a plea deal. He ran the same risks that Henry and Karen did when it came to Paulie’s insistence that everyone got rid of the junk. Were that to happen, anything from being cut out of the family to being whacked would have been possible.Īdd to that the fact that Jimmy The Gent was part of the Hills’ big cocaine operation. Through his stints of incarceration, thanks to his moving cocaine and other goods through his guys in Pittsburgh, Karen’s was afraid that their actions would draw the attention of Paulie. We saw her do it throughout Goodfellas as Karen had to deal with Henry’s wandering eye, and their family being frozen out of the circle of friends they made through Paulie Cicero’s crime family. If there was the slightest threat to her life and livelihood, Karen Hill was one to fly off the handle in response. Why Jimmy The Gent Was Likely Going To Have Karen Hill Killed Then again, if Jimmy decided he was going to kill Morrie Kessler (Chuck Low) over his continued griping about the $20K he lost on planning and developing the Lufthansa heist, what’s to say he wouldn’t take out the similarly hot headed Karen Hill? Plus, if Jimmy was really going to take someone out, he wouldn’t have given them such an easy out especially after all of the hits we’ve seen take place throughout Goodfellas. So we don’t know conclusively that Karen would have been whacked or not. Especially when she’s seeing the world through the same sort of white powdered haze as her husband.įor all we know, Jimmy The Gent may not have known that Karen was involved in Henry’s cocaine enterprise, an endeavor he too was also invested in, against Paulie Cicero’s overall wishes to not be involved with trafficking the narcotic, or dealing with its users.Īnd let’s not forget, we never did see what was really inside that corner store. So with the seeds all sewn by Henry Hill’s paranoid delusions, via the magic of cocaine, it’s easy to see how Karen would assume that Jimmy’s intentions are to kill her. His overall anxiety is the fact that his former Goodfellas mob family will have him killed, since he’s kind of a loose end at this point. It’s here that the case for paranoia starts, and Henry is the conductor of the potential delusion train that sets it all into motion.Īfter we see Henry beg Paulie for money after being freed from prison, the place he landed after his booming cocaine dealing enterprise is busted by law enforcement, he returns home to his wife and starts to become worried. In the tailspin that we see Henry and Karen Hill spinning out of in Goodfellas’ final act, the pair are seen as excessively paranoid messes, thanks to Henry’s cheating, and their mutual cocaine habit. Why Karen Hill Was Just Being Paranoid About Jimmy The Gent
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