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They had just taken two million dollars from Ray, he is going to be sending a lot of resources to get it back. If they honestly believed Ray was powerful it'd be all the more reason to kill him in the hopes that it slow or hamper the response against them. The scenario needed to unfold differently for the same outcome but where have we heard that before? Still I can live with one minor plot inconsistency especially because there's a reason for it plot wise. It's an oversight or more accurately they couldn't think of a better way to get Jim out of that basement while sparing Ray. Can anyone come with some other explanation for that? Of course, I know he had to survive and end up killing Jim to add more drama to TLaD story and make sense along the story of GTA IV - but wouldn't it make more sense if they shoot Ray thinking they wounded him fatally, but he would somehow survive because of having a body armor or get seriously injured and appear with some bondage after that.
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It's out of the character for them and things just can't get worse anyway. I just can't find any even remotely relevant excuse as to why they just didn't finish him off there. And before anyone finds the dead bodies in restaurant's basement, the bikers will have some time to flee the city with the money. They well know that he will try to kill them after they escape and if they kill him, they just risk that his mafia family, which is in fact quite a weak one, finds out who did it and targets them. They're damn badass bikers who kill hordes of mobsters during gang wars, but somehow do not shoot one guy that is certainly going to f*ck them up now no matter what they try to do.
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They manage to free themselves from Ray's basement, Jim kills Boccino's henchman with an effective cut, they have the guy who just wanted to kill them on gunpoint. I have just recently finished the game and was greatly pleased of it, in fact I liked it more than IV even thought I'm finding the story to be a bit too short and leaving too much to the player's imagination - however, one thing that really was awkward about it is how Johnny and Jim act during "Was It Worth It?".