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"Made in America"
The Sopranos episode
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The Soprano family meeting for dinner at Holsten's.

Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 21
Directed by
David Chase
Written by
David Chase
Produced by
David Chase
Featured music
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" by
Vanilla Fudge
"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" by
Bob Dylan
"All That You Dream" by
Little Feat
"Don't Stop Believin'" by
Journey

Cinematography by
Alik Sakharov
Editing by
Sidney Wolinsky
Production code
S621
Original air date
June 10, 2007
Running time
58 minutes
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"Made in America" is the series finale of the HBO television drama series The Sopranos. It is the eighty-sixth episode of the series, the ninth episode of the second part of the show's sixth season, the twenty-first episode of the season overall. It was written and directed by series creator, executive producer and showrunner David Chase. It first aired in the United States on June 10, 2007.
The plot of "Made in America" details the aftermath of the mob war between the DiMeo crime family—headed by series protagonist Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini)—and the New York-based Lupertazzi family. Tony also has to deal with many familial concerns involving his wife Carmela (Edie Falco), son A.J. (Robert Iler) and daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler). As the series comes to a close, several characters make personal and professional adjustments.
"Made in America" was filmed in February and March 2007 and was the only episode other than the series' pilot to be directed by Chase. It attracted 11.9 million viewers on its premiere date. The initial critical response was mostly favorable and since the episode's original broadcast that appreciation has grown considerably, ranking it as one of the best television finales. The episode was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award and won an Emmy Award for writing and an Eddie Award for editing. "Made in America" and its closing scene have been the subject of much discussion, criticism and analysis, and, as has the whole TV series, entered the American popular culture.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
2 Episode recap
3 Deceased
4 Title reference
5 Production 5.1 Conception
5.2 Writing
5.3 Cast notes
5.4 Filming
5.5 Post-production
6 References to past episodes
7 Other cultural and historical references
8 Music
9 Interpretations of the final scene 9.1 Comments from David Chase
10 Reception 10.1 Ratings
10.2 Response 10.2.1 Initial
10.2.2 Retrospective
10.3 Awards
11 References
12 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi *
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti **
Dominic Chianese as Corrado "Junior" Soprano
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
Ray Abruzzo as Little Carmine Lupertazzi
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
Sharon Angela as Rosalie Aprile
Maureen Van Zandt as Gabriella Dante
* = credit only ** = photo only
Guest starring[edit]
Gregory Antonacci as Butch DeConcini
Max Casella as Benny Fazio
Carl Capotorto as "Little Paulie" Germani
Arthur J. Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
Matt Servitto as Agent Harris
Frank Albanese as Patrizio "Uncle Pat" Blundetto
John Cenatiempo as Anthony Maffei
John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia as Albie Cianflone
Michele DeCesare as Hunter Scangarelo
Michael Drayer as Jason Parisi
Frank John Hughes as Walden Belfiore
Michael Kelly as Agent Goddard
Geraldine LiBrandi as Patty Leotardo
David Margulies as Neil Mink
Angelo Massagli as Bobby Baccalieri, Jr.
Peter Mele as George Paglieri
Donna Pescow as Donna Parisi
Joseph Perrino as Jason Gervasi
Anthony Ribustello as Dante Greco
Daniel Sauli as Patrick Parisi
Jenna Stern as Dr. Doherty
Emily Wickersham as Rhiannon Flammer
Danielle Di Vecchio as Barbara Soprano Giglione
Ed Vassallo as Tom Giglione
Ricky Aiello as Raymond "Ray-Ray" D'Abaldo
Melanie Minichino as Tara Zincone
Amy Russ as Female FBI Agent
Paolo Colandrea as Man in Members Only Jacket
Rajesh Bose as Gas Station Manager
Avery Elaine and Emily Ruth Pulcher as Domenica Baccalieri (photo only)
Episode recap[edit]
In the aftermath of the mob war events that left top members of his crime family dead or injured, Tony Soprano wakes up in the safehouse where he and his closest members have taken up residence. One or a few mobsters leave at a time, bringing in food and light envelopes of collections, while time is spent playing cards or watching TV; a red-and-white-haired stray cat also becomes their pet. Tony carries the assault rifle with him wherever he goes in the house and keeps a low profile outside by being driven around in a beverage van.
At nightfall, Tony meets with FBI Agent Dwight Harris near an airport runway. Tony gives him information about the bank used by Ahmed and Muhammad and tries to ask him if he knows the location of Phil Leotardo from his New York colleague. After a negative reply, Tony suggests a bribe, but Harris says Tony is "overreaching."
Tony visits his family at a separate safehouse where they are now living. He informs them that the date of Bobby Baccalieri's funeral has been set and explains to A.J. that it will be safe to attend, because a large FBI presence is guaranteed at such gatherings. Tony visits a despondent Janice at her house. Janice tries to lighten up by joking she will have to snare a new husband now, but then reveals that, in addition to her already estranged son Harpo, Bobby's children no longer wish to live with her anymore. Janice says she is going to try and keep Sophia living with her at any cost as Domenica is too attached to her. Tony tells her Bobby's kids had better be able to do what they want. The FBI indeed closely monitor Bobby's funeral, which Tony and his families attend.
Phil's original plan to eliminate the DiMeo leadership in 24 hours has failed. When he talks to his underboss Butch DeConcini over a phone, he expresses anger over Butchie's failure to kill Tony and inability to find him. Phil gets angry when Butchie implies a suggestion to "reach out" to Tony, saying there is no going back now.
Agent Harris calls Tony with information that Phil has been using pay phones from gas stations in Oyster Bay, Long Island. This information is implied to have been from a female FBI agent that Agent Harris had apparently just slept with. Tony's family then surveils the gas stations in the area but are unable to locate Phil.
Tony contacts George Paglieri, a respected retired mobster of another one of New York's five crime families, asking him to reach out to Butchie and organize a sit-down with him at a secure location of George's choosing to negotiate an end to the DiMeo-Lupertazzi war by ostracizing Phil. The meeting is arranged and Tony and Paulie Gualtieri assemble with Butchie, Albie Cianflone and Little Carmine in a cold warehouse. Butchie abandons Phil and is willing to negotiate a truce, which includes paying reparations to Janice and Bobby's children for Bobby's murder. However, Butchie refuses to provide Tony with Phil's location but tells him, "You do what you gotta do." With the truce agreed, Tony feels secure for him and his family to move back in to their North Caldwell home.
A.J. continues to date Rhiannon. One time, after their first kiss, his SUV catches fire and explodes, right after they make their escape from it, because it apparently had been parked, engine and air conditioning running, over a pile of leaves. Reprimanded by his parents, and voicing thoughts about the vanity of current American culture, A.J. then gets the idea to join the U.S. Army to fight "terrorists" in Afghanistan and says his plan is to become a helicopter pilot so that he could one day retire to be a personal pilot of people like Donald Trump. He also begins studying Arabic, cultivating a will to join a military academy or the CIA as well. Tony and Carmela get concerned over this turn of events and discuss it with A.J.'s new female psychotherapist (with features rather similar to those of Dr. Melfi). However, in one such meeting with her, Tony gets carried away and starts talking about his own "borderline personality" mother and his difficult childhood, prompting Carmela to give him an intent look. A.J.'s parents decide to distract their son from his military ambitions by getting him involved in a job of assisting in production of the new movie from Little Carmine's production company (about a detective solving murders of virtual prostitutes, whose script Carmela thought was "scary") and supplying A.J. with a new car (BMW M3). Anthony Junior accepts the new job and Tony adds that they can, in the future, discuss financing a nightclub for him. A.J. is later seen leaving his new workplace after work, driving his new car and continuing to spend time with Rhiannon.
Carmela is one day excited to find Meadow's old friend Hunter Scangarelo visiting her daughter, until she learns that Hunter is actually in her second year of med school, after having left behind her unsuccessful time at college and rebellious nature, news which make Carmela promptly leave Meadow's room. It is revealed that Meadow and Patrick Parisi are engaged and planning their wedding. Patsy and Donna Parisi are invited to the Soprano home to socialize and Patsy and Tony have to accustom to soon becoming blood family as well. Patrick tells Meadow's parents that Meadow may land a profitable contract at a law firm with a high salary. Patrick also adds that his legal cases are often defending corruption and fraud suspects, which makes Tony and Carmela share a look. Later, Tony and Meadow have a frank conversation at a restaurant. When Tony mentions to her his old dream of Meadow becoming a pediatrician, Meadow says she took up law to defend those oppressed by the federal government and particularly Italians. She says that had she not seen Tony being hauled away by the police or the FBI at their house growing up so often, she would have just become "a boring suburban doctor." Tony has a moment of thoughtful silence.
Eventually, after Little Paulie narrows down the hunting area for Phil to only a few gas stations that still have pay phones, Benny Fazio and Walden Belfiore encounter Phil at one such station. Apparently, Phil had been hiding on the road with his wife Patty and their twin infant granddaughters. Walden murders Phil in front of his wife with a point blank gunshot to the head and then chest, while Phil's idling SUV, left in drive, rolls over his head, crushing it, causing one appalled witness to vomit, as Benny and Walden make their escape. FBI Agent Ron Goddard notifies Agent Harris of Leotardo's death, causing Harris to exclaim, "Damn! We're gonna win this thing!"
After much procrastination, Tony finally visits the comatose Silvio Dante in the hospital. His wife Gabriella gives them privacy, but Tony stays silent, squeezing the hand of his old comrade.
Janice visits Uncle Junior, now at the state mental institution, and tries to inform him of Bobby's death, getting emotional, but to no avail, as he is way too confused. Pat Blundetto, who witnessed the visit, goes to see Tony and informs him that he believes Janice is scheming to claim the last money Junior's accountant holds all for herself.
When one day capo Carlo Gervasi suddenly disappears, Tony has suspicions he may have turned government informant, especially after Paulie informs Tony his son Jason had recently been arrested for selling ecstasy. Tony's lawyer, Neil Mink, informs Tony that Carlo is probably indeed testifying to a grand jury and that Tony is likely to be indicted. He also says that his gun charge is not going away any time soon. The mounting legal troubles alarm and frustrate Tony.
At Satriale's, the ever-superstitious Paulie is unsettled by the red-white-haired stray cat the mobsters brought back from the safehouse, for it constantly keeps staring at the photo of the deceased Christopher. Paulie shoos it away and orders to get rid of it, but Tony tells him to let the cat stay. With Carlo gone, Tony offers the leadership of the Aprile crew to Paulie. Paulie hesitates, thinking the crew is cursed (its leaders Richie Aprile, Gigi Cestone, Ralphie Cifaretto, Vito Spatafore all died prematurely and Carlo turned informant). Paulie later also confesses to Tony he once saw the Virgin Mary at the Bada Bing!, but Tony brushes off his fear of omens. After Paulie turns down the offer of the crew, Tony tells him that he will then offer the position to Patsy Parisi, which drives an envious Paulie to accept the promotion after all. In his last scene, once Tony walks away, Paulie is tanning his neck in front of Satriale's, now all alone, having survived so many of the usual gangsters who would hang out there (Pussy, Silvio, Christopher, Bobby, Jackie, Richie, Ralphie, Furio, Vito, and Eugene). The stray cat then walks over and lies down in front of Satriale's.
Carmela is looking at some rendered interior design pictures of what seems to be a new spec house she is working on.
The Sopranos organize a dinner and decide that it should take place at the Holsten's diner where they all agree to meet.
Before going to Holsten's, Tony finally visits Junior, seeing him for the first time since he shot him. Tony tells Junior to leave the money his accountant controls to Bobby's kids, as Janice might not do it on her own. Tony realizes "Junior" barely recognizes him, and he becomes confused when Tony tries to remind him of his involvement in "this thing of ours." When Tony tells his uncle that his brother "Johnny Boy" and he controlled North Jersey once, Junior simply says, "We did that? That's nice." Tony has tears in his eyes as he walks away from Junior, once a powerful gangster, now wheelchair-bound, unkempt, without his dentures, demented, and held in a government mental hospital.
Tony arrives at Holsten's first, taking a seat at an empty table. He keeps an eye on the bell-ringing door opening to see just who comes into the diner. Browsing the jukebox, he puts on "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey. People of various walks of life, age, gender, ethnicities and relationships between themselves are around. Carmela arrives and Tony breaks the news to her that Carlo is going to testify. A.J. arrives third, entering the diner behind a dark-haired man in a Members Only jacket. A.J. takes a seat and the three talk for a while. In his final lines, A.J. reminds Tony of when he said to "remember the good times" such as the family moment they are currently sharing. Tony is actually surprised to find out he once said that, but agrees with it. Tony pats and clutches his son's hands firmly. The man in the Members Only jacket glances at Tony's table. Meadow is outside, unsuccessfully trying to park her car. As the man in the Members Only jacket gets off his bar stool and passes the Sopranos' table, the camera pans, following him, and shows him entering the restroom. Meadow finally finishes parking the car and runs towards the entrance. As the bell rings, and the lyrics of the song say "Don't stop," Tony looks up at the door and the scene cuts to a silent black screen. After 10 seconds, the credits roll in complete silence. [1][2]
Deceased[edit]
Phil Leotardo: shot dead in the head and then heart by Walden Belfiore on orders from Tony Soprano to eliminate the threat he posed to the DiMeo crime family and end the mob war between DiMeos-Lupertazzis. The head of Phil's body is also crushed by his runaway SUV.
Title reference[edit]
The Sopranos was conceived, made and set in the United States. The episode contains many references to the country, such as A.J. saying that the US is still the place that attracts people from all over the world to come and "make it" there (The American Dream). A double-decker tourist tour bus is shown cruising through a nighttime Manhattan contrasted with Butchie wandering off from Little Italy to an immigrant neighborhood of Chinatown when talking to Phil on the phone. The then-current (2007) popular American culture and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are referenced, as well as counter-terrorism efforts; A.J. considers joining the US military. US flags can be spotted in some scenes. Finally, the final scene depicts many different individuals of different walks of life, ethnicities, age, gender, appearance, relationships, which make up the American population.
"Made in America" can also refer to being a made man in the US - the American Mafia depicted in the show. Tony is running the current Jersey Mafia family and, in his last conversation with Uncle Junior, he asks him if he remembers "this thing of ours" and the times "Johnny Boy" and Junior ran North Jersey back in the heyday of their own generation.
Production[edit]
Conception[edit]
Showrunner David Chase planned the series ending and the final scene during the 21-month hiatus between seasons five and six, a long break HBO had granted him. The final scene was filmed almost exactly as Chase had envisioned. It was not intended as a setup for a future film, although Chase later commented "[t]here may be a day where we all come up with something," regarding a possible Sopranos feature. It was then-HBO chairman Chris Albrecht who suggested to Chase to conclude the series with the sixth season.[3][4][5]
Writing[edit]
As with every episode of the season, the plot outline of "Made in America" was developed by Chase and his writing staff, which for the final season consisted of executive producers Terence Winter and Matthew Weiner, and supervising producers and writing team Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider. Frequent episode director Tim Van Patten also provided Chase with some storyline suggestions.[6][7] After the episode's story had been outlined, Chase wrote the first draft. After some input from his writing staff, Chase revised the script to its finished state, although he also made minor changes during filming. "Made in America" is Chase's 30th and final official writing credit (including story credits) for the series and his ninth as sole writer of an episode.[8][9]
Chase included allusions to real-life American Mafia history and events in the script for "Made in America", something he is well known for.[8] Specifically, the line "Damn! We're gonna win this thing!", spoken in the episode by the character Dwight Harris after being informed of the death of Phil Leotardo, alludes to former FBI supervisor Lindley DeVecchio. DeVecchio famously uttered the line after being told that Lorenzo "Larry" Lampasi had been shot to death in front of his Brooklyn home and was later charged for informing the Mafia on various accounts, another parallel to Tony Soprano and Dwight Harris.[3][10][11]
Cast notes[edit]
Maureen Van Zandt, who plays Gabriella Dante, is promoted to the main cast and billed in the opening credits but for this episode only. She is the final addition to the main cast of The Sopranos.
Filming[edit]



 Holsten's Brookdale Confectionery, located in Bloomfield, New Jersey. The final scene of "Made in America"—also the final scene of the series—was shot in the restaurant in March 2007.
"Made in America" was directed by Chase and photographed by Alik Sakharov. The two served in the same capacities for the pilot episode, "The Sopranos", which was filmed in 1997. The series finale marks the second time Chase has officially directed an episode of The Sopranos, although as showrunner, he would oversee the direction of most episodes throughout the show's production.[12] "Made in America" marks the 38th and final credit for Sakharov as director of photography.
Principal photography commenced in late February and concluded in late March 2007. Exterior scenes and certain interior scenes of "Made in America" were filmed on location in Bergen County, New Jersey and in Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York City, New York. Additional interior scenes—including indoor shots of the Soprano residence and the back room of the strip club Bada Bing!—were filmed in a sound stage in Silvercup Studios, New York, where most such scenes of the series had been filmed. The final scene of the episode was filmed in late March 2007 at Holsten's Brookdale Confectionery, an ice cream and candy shop located in Bloomfield, New Jersey. The Bloomfield Township Council initially tried to stop HBO from filming in the town because "[they] found the HBO mob drama offensive to Italian-Americans" and voted to deny the production company a filming permit. However, as the council had no authority to stop filming in the town as long as the crew met the requirements stated in Bloomfield's code for filming crews, a permit was later issued.[13][14] As the show's producers needed to ensure that plot details of the ending would be kept a secret until the airdate, the scripts given to the crew members had their final pages removed. The final scene of these edited scripts was the one in which Tony is raking leaves outside his house, a scene that occurs 10 minutes before the real ending in the final cut. Chase received compliments for this scene from people who thought it was the real ending.[8][15]



Post-production[edit]
"Made in America" was edited by Sidney Wolinsky, one of the show's three editors, under the supervision of Chase.[12] Chase originally wanted the black screen at the end of the episode to last "all the way to the HBO whoosh sound," meaning that no credits would roll at the end of the episode, but did not receive a waiver from the Directors Guild of America to do so.[16][17]
References to past episodes[edit]
The yellow Nissan Xterra SUV, which exploded in this episode, was bought by Tony for A.J. as an incentive to study in the Season 5 episode "All Happy Families...."
A.J. reminds his parents they once wanted him to attend military school (Season 3 finale "Army of One") when they complain about his decision to join the military now.
Little Paulie is wearing a neck brace and has other signs of injuries, all sustained when he was thrown out of a window by Christopher in "Walk Like a Man".
When Tony visits the comatose Silvio at the hospital, he acts basically the same way Silvio did when he visited Tony in the same condition in "Mayham" - he is reserved, silent, and grips his hand.
Paulie confesses to Tony he once saw the Virgin Mary at the Bada Bing! ("The Ride")
At Holsten's, A.J., in his final lines, reminds Tony of the time when he, at a restaurant table, told the family to always "try to remember the times that were good." This happened in the final scene of the season one finale "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano."
Other cultural and historical references[edit]
Agent Harris says the FBI had some info some Salafis attempted to board a plane. He is later seen watching an Al-Qaeda video being broadcast by Al Jazeera when Agent Goddard announces Phil's death.
Meadow is seen reading The New York Times.
A.J. says his family's situation with the hiding amounts to DEFCON 4, confusing the number, as "1" would mean the highest state of alertness.
The younger people at Bobby's funeral are discussing American Idol and Dreamgirls. Oscars are also mentioned.
A.J. gets disgusted by the discussion and quotes Yeats' The Second Coming again. He also says George W. Bush let Al-Qaeda escape into the mountains, referring to the Battle of Tora Bora.
The mobsters at the Soprano safehouse are watching The Twilight Zone.
Tony sings "Gonna Fly Now", the theme song of the original Rocky, when he sees A.J. running.
Walden says he was named after Bobby Darin, whose real name was Walden Robert Cassotto.
When Janice tells Junior that Bobby is dead. He just says, "Ambassador Hotel", thinking she is referring to the 1968 assassination of Bobby Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
The "Magic Bullet" infomercial is playing in the background when Tony arrives to visit Silvio in the hospital. At a later point during Tony's visit to the hospital, the movie Little Miss Sunshine is playing on TV.
Neil Mink unsuccessfully tries to shake some ketchup out from a glass Heinz Tomato Ketchup bottle and irritates Tony.
Music[edit]
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" by Vanilla Fudge is heard on the radio when Tony wakes up at the beginning of the episode, shortly thereafter when Dante drives Tony to see his family, and later when Phil is at the gas station.
"Denise" by Randy & the Rainbows is heard when Tony and Paulie are waiting for Agent Harris at the airport.
"The Four Seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi (specifically, Winter, movement 2: Largo) is heard at Nuovo Vesuvio's during Bobby's wake.
"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" by Bob Dylan is heard when A.J. and Rhiannon listen to the song and kiss in the SUV before it starts burning.
"I Dreamed, I Dream" by Sonic Youth is heard when Tony and Uncle Pat talk in the back room of The Bada Bing!.
"Pretty Little Angel Eyes" by Curtis Lee is heard when Paulie is spooked by the cat at Satriale's.
Paulie's ringtone is the Simon & Garfunkel song "Cecilia".
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Creedence Clearwater Revival is heard when Tony offers Paulie a promotion.
"The Jam" by Larry Graham is heard when Neil Mink tells Tony bad news in the Bada Bing! back room.
"Scratch Your Name" by The Noisettes is heard as A.J. leaves work and picks up Rhiannon from high school.
"The Lifeboat Party" by Kid Creole and the Coconuts is heard when A.J. and Rhiannon watch TV.
"All That You Dream" by Little Feat is heard when Tony arrives at Holsten's for dinner and is waiting for his family.
"Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey is put on to play by Tony on the jukebox at Holsten's. Another Journey song, "Wheel in the Sky," was previously featured in the Season 2 episode "Bust Out."
"Don't Stop Believin'" is played throughout the final scene of the series. Journey's lead singer Steve Perry initially refused to let David Chase use the song until he knew the fate of the leading characters and did not give final approval until three days before the episode aired. Perry feared that the song would be remembered as the soundtrack to Tony's demise until Chase assured him that would not be the case.[18] Immediately following the airing of "Made in America," the song enjoyed a great surge of popularity, its sales on iTunes, for example, grew 482 percent.[19] The newly growing attention to the band helped it climb out of the reportedly difficult times it was having at the time.[20]
Interpretations of the final scene[edit]



 The final shot of Tony Soprano in "Made in America"
The final scene of "Made in America" became the subject of much discussion, controversy, and analysis after its original broadcast. The use of an abrupt cut to black followed by several seconds of silence led many viewers to initially believe that their cable or DVR had cut out at a crucial moment.[21] Opposing interpretations soon emerged among viewers regarding the ultimate fate of series protagonist Tony Soprano, with some believing that he was killed while others believe that he remains alive.[3][22]
One argument for the former points to a conversation that Tony had in the midseason premiere episode "Soprano Home Movies" with his brother-in-law Bobby, in which Bobby comments on how suddenly and without sound death can happen in their lives as gangsters: "You probably don't even hear it when it happens, right?" A flashback to this scene also appears in the final minutes of "The Blue Comet", the episode preceding "Made in America".[23][24] When questioned on the theory, HBO spokesman Quentin Schaffer stated that the conversation is a "legitimate" hint.[22] Also, Butchie DeConcini (the presumed successor of Phil Leotardo) was last seen saddled with reparations following the mob war, he had expressed ideas about killing Tony before ("Kaisha") and Tony was, in the end, the very last DiMeo man left standing out of the 3 original Lupertazzi targets, who, Phil believed, if killed, would totally cripple the Jersey family, hence Tony would have been a tempting target of a hit. The final scene showing a man, who glances at Tony, credited as "Man in Members Only Jacket" and who later goes to the bathroom has been interpreted as a nod to the famous scene in the The Godfather, in which Michael Corleone retrieves a gun from the bathroom before shooting his enemies to death (also, Tony's favorite scene from the film, as revealed in the episode "Johnny Cakes)."[25] Speculation has also linked the jacket of the man to the title of the opening episode of the season, "Members Only", in which Tony is shot, and also as a symbolic reference to the mysterious man's membership of the Mafia. Actor Matt Servitto told Entertainment Weekly that in the script, the scene continued with the man in the Members Only jacket emerging from the bathroom and starting to walk towards Tony's table before the screen cuts to black, but he preferred the ending that made the final cut of the episode.[26] Servitto later retracted this statement saying that he did not mean to imply that there was a different scripted ending to the press.[27]
Then there is the camp of viewers with opposing interpretations. It has been suggested that the final scene portrays that, while Tony's life is fraught with fear and danger, which could come from anyone anywhere, and that while Tony has to constantly watch his back and look out for any emerging trouble (he keeps an eye on the diner entrance), life nevertheless goes on and the viewer simply does not get to continue seeing it. The lyrics of the closing song telling the viewer, "Don't stop believin'," are thought to support this and that the silent black screen space before the credits is meant to allow people to imagine and believe in their own continuations of Tony's story.[28] It can be stated that because of Tony's peace agreement with the Lupertazzi family, their tacit sanction of a hit on Phil, and Butchie's visible unwillingness to continue the hostilities, there was little legitimate basis to expect a hit on Tony from the Lupertazzis and the threat to him, although always present, was not higher than usual.[29]
Comments from David Chase[edit]
Chase has made various comments about the finale but has avoided providing an explanation to the meaning of the final scene. In his first interview after the broadcast of the finale with New Jersey paper The Star-Ledger, Chase stated,

I have no interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting, or adding to what is there. No one was trying to be audacious, honest to God. We did what we thought we had to do. No one was trying to blow people's minds, or thinking, "Wow, this'll piss them off." People get the impression that you're trying to fuck with them and it's not true. You're trying to entertain them. [...] Anybody who wants to watch it, it's all there.[3]
Chase also addressed the opinion of some that the open-ended finale was insulting to the show's longtime fans:

I saw some items in the press that said, "This was a huge fuck you to the audience." That we were shitting in the audience's face. Why would we want to do that? Why would we entertain people for eight years only to give them the finger? We don't have contempt for the audience. In fact, I think The Sopranos is the only show that actually gave the audience credit for having some intelligence and attention span. We always operated as though people don't need to be spoon-fed every single thing—that their instincts and feelings and humanity will tell them what's going on.[4][30]
In an interview conducted by Brett Martin several weeks after the finale's original broadcast, Chase shared his views on the final episode and the reaction to it. On those fans of the show who demanded an unambiguous and definitive ending, Chase remarked,

There was so much more to say than could have been conveyed by an image of Tony facedown in a bowl of onion rings with a bullet in his head. Or, on the other side, taking over the New York mob. The way I see it is that Tony Soprano had been peoples' alter ego. They had gleefully watched him rob, kill, pillage, lie, and cheat. They had cheered him on. And then, all of a sudden, they wanted to see him punished for all that. They wanted "justice." They wanted to see his brains splattered on the wall. I thought that was disgusting, frankly. [...] The pathetic thing—to me—was how much they wanted his blood, after cheering him on for eight years.
Chase also made comments about the purported lack of finality in the final episode:

This wasn't really about "leaving the door open." There was nothing definite about what happened, but there was a clean trend on view—a definite sense of what Tony and Carmela's future looks like. Whether it happened that night or some other night doesn't matter.
On the future of the Soprano children, Chase said,

A.J.'s not going to be citizen-soldier or join the Peace Corps or try to help the world; he'll probably be some low-level movie producer. But he's not going to be a killer like his father, is he? Meadow may not be a pediatrician or even a lawyer, but she's not going to be a housewife like her mother. She'll learn to operate in the world in ways Carmela never did. [...] Tiny, little bits of progress—that's how it works.
On moments during and after the final scene, Chase referred to a scene from the episode "Stage 5":

There are no esoteric clues in there. No Da Vinci Code. Everything that pertains to that episode was in that episode. And it was in the episode before that and the one before that and seasons before this one and so on. There had been indications of what the end is like. Remember when Gerry Torciano was killed? Silvio was not aware that the gun had been fired until after Gerry was on his way down to the floor. That's the way things happen: It's already going on by the time you even notice it. [...] I'm not saying anything. And I'm not trying to be coy. It's just that I think that to explain it would diminish it.
In a December 2008 radio interview with Richard Belzer, Chase also mentioned the scenes from "Stage 5" and "Soprano Home Movies" in relation to the final scene.[31]
At the 2008 TCA Awards, held on July 22, Chase commented,

I wasn't going to do this, but somebody said it would be a good idea if we said something about that ending. I really wasn't going to go into it, but I'll just say this...when I was going to Stanford University's graduate film school and was 23, I went to see Planet of the Apes with my wife. When it was over, I said, "Wow...so they had a Statue of Liberty, too."[32]
In a November 2008 interview with Entertainment Weekly's Steve Daly, Chase stated,

"There's more than one way of looking at the ending. That's all I'll say."[33]
Reception[edit]
Ratings[edit]
According to Nielsen ratings, "Made in America" was watched by an average of 11.9 million viewers on its United States premiere date Sunday June 10, 2007. This was a 49% increase from the previous episode and the show's best ratings for both parts of the sixth season. It was also the show's largest audience since the season five premiere.[34][35]
Response[edit]
Initial[edit]
"Made in America" received mainly favorable to semi-favorable initial reviews from critics while early fan reception was mixed to negative, described by one critic as "a mixture of admiration and anger". During the weeks following the episode's original broadcast, "Made in America" and its closing scene in particular became the subject of much discussion and analysis. Several new interpretations and explanations of the ending were presented in magazines and on blogs, which led many critics and fans to reevaluate the ending.[4][17][30][21][36]
Marisa Carroll of PopMatters awarded "Made in America" a score of 8 out of 10 and particularly praised the final scene as one of the best of the series.[37] Mark Farinella of The Sun Chronicle called the episode "[a] perfect ending to a perfect TV series."[23] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly called "Made in America" "the perfect ending" and wrote about the final scene, "On shock of that cut to black, the marvelous way it got you to roll the scene over, again and again, in your mind's eye. Rather than bringing the series to a close, that blackout made The Sopranos live forever."[38] Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Chronicle characterized the finale as "[a]n ending befitting genius of Sopranos" and wrote that "Chase managed, with this ending, to be true to reality [...] while also steering clear of trite TV conventions."[39] Frazier Moore of the Associated Press called the episode "brilliant" and wrote that "Chase was true to himself."[40] Kim Reed of Television Without Pity gave "Made in America" the highest score of A+ and praised it for staying true to the show.[41] Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger called the finale "satisfying" and wrote that the episode "fit[s] perfectly with everything Chase has done on this show before."[42] Chicago Tribune critic Maureen Ryan's first review was mixed; she criticized the final scene for not providing any closure. Ryan later wrote "Chase got me totally wound up, then ripped me away from that world. I was really mad at first [...] I still think what Chase did was, all due respect, kind of jerky. But minutes after the finale ended, I started laughing."[43][44]
Retrospective[edit]
Retrospective reviews of "Made in America" have been positive; the episode has been included on several lists of the best series finales of all time. Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger wrote in an essay analyzing the finale one year after its original broadcast that he felt the episode was "brilliant".[36] In 2009, Arlo J. Wiley of Blogcritics wrote "by focusing on that last ambiguous parting shot from creator David Chase, we run the risk of forgetting just how beautifully structured and executed an hour of television 'Made in America' is" and ranked it as the eighth-best series finale ever.[45] Also in 2009, Stacey Wilson of Film.com named "Made in America" as one of the 10 best series finales of all time and wrote "Crude, rude and no time for emotional B.S., this finale was a delicious end to a show that reveled in the ugliness of humanity."[46] TV Guide included "Made in America" in their "TV's Best Finales Ever" feature, writing "What's there to say about this finale that hasn't already been said? The much-anticipated closer had everyone waiting to see if Tony was finally going to go from whacker to whackee. Instead, they got Journey, a greasy plate of onion rings and a black screen. But, the fact that we're still talking about it proves—for better or worse—that the episode did its job."[47]
In 2011, the finale was ranked #2 on the TV Guide Network special, TV's Most Unforgettable Finales.[48]
Awards[edit]
In 2007, "Made in America" won an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards. It was the only category the episode was nominated in. This is the third and final time series creator/executive producer David Chase has won the award for his writing of the series.[49] In 2008, Chase was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award in the category of Drama Series (Night) but lost to fellow Sopranos director Alan Taylor, who won for directing the pilot episode of Mad Men, a series created by former Sopranos writer Matthew Weiner.[50][51] Also in 2008, Editor Sidney Wolinsky won an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award in the category of Best Edited One-Hour Series for Non-Commercial Television.[52]
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External links[edit]
"Made in America" at HBO
"Made in America" at the Internet Movie Database
"Made in America" at TV.com


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This article is about the episode of the television series The Sopranos. For the train after which the episode is named, see Blue Comet.

"The Blue Comet"
The Sopranos episode
Sopranos620.jpg
Bobby holds a model Blue Comet at a model train store in Lynbrook, New York.

Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 20
Directed by
Alan Taylor
Written by
David Chase
Matthew Weiner

Produced by
David Chase
Featured music
"Cavalleria Rusticana intermezzo" by
Pietro Mascagni
"Running Wild" (extended instrumental) by
Tindersticks

Cinematography by
Phil Abraham
Editing by
William B. Stich
Production code
S620
Original air date
June 3, 2007
Running time
50 minutes
Episode chronology

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"The Blue Comet" is the eighty-fifth and penultimate episode of the HBO television series The Sopranos. It is the eighth episode of the second half of the show's sixth season, the twentieth episode of the season overall. It was written by series creator and showrunner David Chase and Matthew Weiner and directed by Alan Taylor. It originally aired in the United States on June 3, 2007, two weeks after the preceding episode.
In the episode, a mob war erupts between the Lupertazzi and DiMeo crime families, which leads to the shooting of people close to DiMeo boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini). In a parallel story, Tony's psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi (Lorraine Bracco) gains some new insight on Tony and decides to drop him as a patient.
"The Blue Comet" was filmed at Silvercup Studios, New York City and on location in New Jersey and New York in January and February 2007. It was watched by eight million American viewers on its premiere date and received critical praise for its narrative and dramatic resolution of long narratives; many critics have named "The Blue Comet" a highlight of the series. Bracco received an Emmy Award nomination for supporting actress for her performance in the episode and it was also nominated for a Cinema Audio Society Award for sound mixing.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
2 Episode recap
3 Deceased
4 Final appearances
5 Title reference
6 Production 6.1 Writing
6.2 Casting
6.3 Filming
6.4 Post-production
7 References to prior episodes
8 Other cultural and historical references
9 Music
10 Reception 10.1 Ratings
10.2 Critical response
10.3 Awards
11 References
12 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti *
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr. *
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
John Ventimiglia as Artie Bucco
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
Sharon Angela as Rosalie Aprile
Katherine Narducci as Charmaine Bucco
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Gregory Antonacci as Butch DeConcini
Arthur J. Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
Peter Bogdanovich as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg
Matt Servitto as Agent Harris
Carlo Giuliano as Italo
John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia as Albie Cianflone
Artie Pasquale as Burt Gervasi
Edoardo Ballerini as Corky Caporale
Matilda Downey as Yaryna
Aleks Shaklin as Yaryna's Father
Ricky Aiello as Raymond "Ray-Ray" D'Abaldo
Emily Wickersham as Rhiannon Flammer
Lenny Venito as James "Murmur" Zancone
John Mainieri as Ira Shortz
Adam Heller as Arnold Bellows
Connie Teng as Yaolin
Anthony Ribustello as Dante Greco
Miryam Coppersmith as Sophia Baccalieri
Angelo Massagli as Bobby Baccalieri, Jr.
Frank John Hughes as Walden Belfiore
Joseph Perrino as Jason Gervasi
Merissa Morin as Isabel
Davide Borella as Roberto
John Cenatiempo as Anthony Maffei
Dominic Chianese, Jr. as Dominic
Pete Bucossi as Petey B.
Henry Glovinsky as Derek
Jeff Talbott as Father
Eric Mangini as Himself
Julie Mangini as Herself
Michael Drayer as Jason Parisi
Episode recap[edit]
Silvio Dante pays a surprise visit to DiMeo soldier Burt Gervasi at his home. Burt is startled at first but lets Silvio into his house. Once there, Dante promptly murders Burt by strangling him with a garrote wire and quickly leaves.
In Brooklyn, Phil Leotardo has a meeting with Albie Cianflone and Butchie DeConcini. He announces that, following what he cites as many grievances and insults done to him and his crime family, he has made the decision to eliminate the DiMeo family by wiping out its management. Even hawkish Butch is surprised, but Albie is the only one who shows reluctance and counsels against such a dangerously brazen move, saying they might lose respect from the other four families, yet Phil remains firmly adamant and orders them to "make it happen." Butchie and Albie then set up an after-hours meeting with their own subordinates at a closed beauty parlor and set Phil's plan in motion by ordering the murders of Tony Soprano, Silvio and Bobby Baccalieri, the boss, consigliere and underboss of the DiMeo Family respectively. Some mobsters express their surprise Bobby has climbed so high up in the organization, for he was only Junior's driver a few years prior. The plan, Butchie explains, is to kill all three of them in 24 hours and then create business ties with what is left of the crime family.
A.J. receives treatment in the hospital's mental health ward where he is regularly visited by his parents. At the hospital, A.J. runs into Rhiannon Flammer, an ex-girlfriend of his friend Hernan who also used to hang out with them. Rhiannon is now in the hospital for dietary problems, and A.J. starts a relationship with her. A.J. is eventually discharged from the hospital and is back at home, although under the watchful, but sympathetic eye of his family, who have already confiscated his belts.
Tony is once again visited at Satriale's by FBI Agent Dwight Harris. Harris at first only irritates Tony by telling him the Ahmed and Muhammad lead was not solid enough, but, when Tony leaves, Agent Harris hesitates for a moment before having a change of heart and he catches up to him walking down the street. Harris informs Tony of Phil's plan to murder him or those close to him, information he has gotten from a colleague's informant in the Lupertazzi crime family. Tony acts unimpressed with the news and Harris leaves, though after he does Tony looks ill at ease and disgustedly throws away a sandwich he was eating.
Tony and Silvio meet in the back office of the Bada Bing! where Silvio informs Tony that he took it upon himself to eliminate Burt Gervasi, after he had learned Burt was enlisted by the Lupertazzi family to work for them in the future and was giving them information about the Dimeos. Tony is surprised by the news of Burt's defection.
Tony, Silvio and Bobby convene at Nuovo Vesuvio where Tony breaks the news to them about Phil's plans to kill them and of his decision to have Phil murdered by acting first and fast. He suggests they should use the Italian hitmen which successfully performed the hit on Rusty Millio before.
At a dinner party with friends and colleagues, Dr. Jennifer Melfi hears again of a study that claims sociopaths take advantage of talk therapy to become better criminals, which highly irritates her and leads to confrontation with the other guests. Melfi's own psychiatrist, Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, then, indifferently breaking the doctor-patient confidentiality, also reveals to the party that Melfi is treating Tony Soprano, which upsets and embarrasses her. Later, back at home, she finally reads the study herself, thoroughly and in silence. The observations in the study, such as that the classic "criminal" only shows particular affection and sensitivity to "pets" and "babies," seem to describe Tony's character and statements in his sessions rather accurately.
At her next appointment with Tony, he rips out a steak grilling recipe from an issue of the Departures magazine while in the waiting room. Once the session starts, Melfi meets Tony with a noticeable hostile attitude and disgust. Tony talks about Meadow's change of heart concerning medical school and then A.J.'s depression, including the cost of his therapy, but Melfi keeps interrupting him, bitterly suggesting him his usual aggressive statements to finish his sentences. Tony takes offence and criticizes Melfi which suddenly only prompts her to suggest referring him to different therapists who do not use talk therapy, particularly those that use psychodynamics with psychiatric drugs. Tony attempts to defuse the argument, gingerly commenting that menopause might have influenced her judgment, but Melfi insists they are done and uses Tony's recent action of ripping a page out of the waiting room's magazine all for himself as an example of his disrespect and lack of seriousness to therapy. Although he quite recently said he wanted to finally quit therapy himself, Tony is still aghast that Melfi would end their professional relationship of more than seven years so abruptly at a time when his son had just attempted suicide and describes her as an "immoral" physician as he is showed out of the office. They separate with bad blood between them, and, before leaving, Tony demonstratively puts the ripped-out page back into the magazine and Melfi intently watches him leave, standing her ground, and ending her professional relationship with Tony Soprano once and for all by symbolically swinging closed her office door.
The order to kill Phil is passed down the chain of command of the family from Bobby to Paulie Gualtieri to Patsy Parisi to the associate Corky Caporale as a liaison with the Italian assassins once again. However, the hitmen stake out Phil's Ukrainian "goomah"'s house and confuse her visiting father for Phil, as they look similar. The man is shot dead in the foyer of her house and his daughter, who witnessed his murder, is also shot and killed, tumbling down a staircase. When Corky is told of the hit on the phone, he thinks little of the fact that the murdered man spoke Ukrainian, simply responding, "Whatever," and he calls Patsy Parisi to tell him that the job is done and wonders about Phil speaking Ukrainian. Patsy puts it off and just transmits, "It's done." to Paulie.
Tony and Carmela have dinner at Nuovo Vesuvio. Tony tells his wife he "quit" therapy, and she seems to support him, saying it was not helping him much lately anyway. The two soon put on a good face as they talk with Artie and Charmaine Bucco about A.J., Meadow's decision not to pursue medical school and her new boyfriend Patrick Parisi. Artie and Charmaine happily wish everyone luck.
At the Bada Bing!, Silvio and Paulie learn of the assassination mistake when "Murmur" by chance shows them a New York Post article on the murders of a Ukrainian father and daughter and the accompanying photos of the victims.
Janice visits Tony at his house and tries to persuade him to contribute with Bobby in paying for Junior's living arrangements at his mental institution or Junior will have to be moved to a state-run psychiatric facility, as he has run out of money; Tony angrily refuses to pay anything and expresses disgust at Bobby for continuing to show empathy for Junior even after he almost killed him. Tony is soon after visited by Silvio, who informs him of the failed murder of Phil and that the Lupertazzi boss has been hiding for days now, having already set his plans in motion. The failed hit which was presumed as successful cost their family a lot of time, and Tony immediately orders Silvio to inform everyone in the organization to break their routines and to go into hiding themselves until they can locate Phil.
However, Bobby has gone to a hobby store in Lynbrook, New York, to buy a rare model train and leaves his ringing phone behind in his car. Bobby is at a counter, buying a vintage model Blue Comet train, as two gunmen enter. Bobby wistfully discusses the merits of the original train and the model with the store clerk, and says his son isn't interested in model trains when the shopkeeper suggests it. With that he agrees to buy it. As Bobby looks up at the approaching men, they open fire, riddling him and a model train display with bullets. Bobby is violently thrown backwards onto the display, dead, as the store's owner and his customers cower in fear. The two gunmen drop their empty guns and leave.
Silvio and Patsy Parisi rush to pack up important documents from the Bada Bing!'s back office as well as money and a gun. While leaving the strip club's parking lot, Patsy and Silvio are intercepted by two Lupertazzi hit men in a car, "Ray-Ray" and Petey B. They cut off the escaping car and Ray Ray opens fire from his handgun, hitting Silvio, who is scrambling for a gun, multiple times. Patsy panics and shoots back aimlessly as he runs away for his life. Ray Ray runs out of ammunition and, noticing a crowd of witnesses (Bada Bing's staff, patrons and topless strippers), orders Petey to flee. Escaping, they also cause a traffic accident, wherein a motorcyclist on a sport bike falls off of it and it crashes into other moving vehicles. Patsy flees through bushes in a ravine behind the club. A bleeding and unconscious Silvio is left in the bullet-riddled car.
Tony arrives back at his house, already informed about the hits on Bobby and Silvio. He is protected by Dante Greco and a soon arriving Paulie. Tony informs a stunned Carmela of the news and tells her and the family to move away from the house for the time being, even though he says family members are not targeted by the mob. When A.J. professes his desperation to his father at the tragic news, which he says will now only exacerbate his depression, Tony bursts into fury, finally having enough of his son's behavior he slams A.J. to the ground, throwing his clothes on top of him, and tells him to pack and go with his mother and sister. Paulie updates Tony that Silvio is now in a medically-induced coma, from which doctors do not think he will awaken.
Carmela and Meadow visit the Baccalieris. Janice is in a state of immense shock while Bobby's children sadly sit nearby in silence.
At nightfall, Tony, carrying something long in a black plastic garbage bag, along with Paulie, Walden Belfiore, Carlo Gervasi, and Dante Greco, drive to a safe house—an older home in a residential neighborhood. Tony's men set up camp downstairs and order out for food. Tony then goes upstairs to get some sleep, unwrapping the item to reveal the AR-10 assault rifle that Bobby gave him for his 47th birthday. Tony remembers the moment Bobby told him that "you probably don't even hear it when it [your murder} happens". As "Running Wild" by Tindersticks starts playing, Tony lies down to sleep in the empty bedroom on the bare mattress, still dressed, clutching the assault rifle in his hands. The camera slowly zooms to the closed door to his dark room before fading out. [1][2]
Deceased[edit]
Burt Gervasi: garotted to death by Silvio Dante for betraying his crime family and working with the Lupertazzis.
Ukrainian mistress's father: shot dead in the head by Italo, the Italian hitman, who mistook him for Phil Leotardo, who he was supposed to murder on orders from Tony Soprano to eliminate the Lupertazzi threat to his crime family.
Phil Leotardo's Ukrainian mistress: shot in the abdomen and then shot dead in the head by Italo, murdered for being present at the failed Phil Leotardo hit.
Bobby Baccalieri: riddled full of bullets and shot dead by two Lupertazzi hitmen on orders from Phil Leotardo, as part of Phil's move to quickly wipe out the DiMeo family's management after continued long arguments and fights between the two families.
Final appearances[edit]
"The Blue Comet" marks the final appearances in The Sopranos of these main or longtime recurring characters:
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Tony Soprano's on-and-off psychotherapist ever since 1999. Originally contacted to help treat his panic attacks, Tony has also used his talk therapy sessions to deal with stresses in his life and gain advice on how to act in his personal and criminal life. Also, Melfi was, at times, Tony's romantic interest, though his advances were rebuffed.
Arthur "Artie" Bucco: a restauranteur, owner of Nuovo Vesuvio, a common mobster hangout, and Tony's old and close friend ever since their childhood. After the fall-out with Davey Scatino in 2000, essentially, Tony's only civilian friend left.
Charmaine Bucco: the wife of Artie Bucco and a childhood friend of Carmela and Tony Soprano. Throughout the series, she would urge Artie not to deal with the mobsters in his career and life, but eventually started to seemingly tolerate their gatherings in their restaurant.
Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: Dr. Melfi's own psychotherapist and mentor who would often urge her to drop Tony Soprano as a patient. Also, an enthusiast of the Mafia.
Title reference[edit]
The Blue Comet was a passenger train operated by the Central Railroad of New Jersey which ran between Atlantic City and Jersey City from 1929 to 1941. The train's locomotive and passenger cars, as well as its interior were stylized in blue color.[3][4] Bobby is buying a Blue Comet train model right when he is murdered.
The title could also refer to the DiMeo crime family as the original Blue Comet train was from Jersey. As Bobby is shot, the model train is also literally derailed by one bullet hitting it as well. It could refer to the DiMeo family now being derailed after sustaining heavy losses to its management (underboss Bobby and consigliere Silvio). The final scene is also cast in blue light and prominently features a blue closed door to Tony's room.
Production[edit]
Writing[edit]
The episode's general plot outline was developed collectively by the writing staff of The Sopranos, which for the second part of the sixth season consisted of showrunner and head writer David Chase, executive producer and co-showrunner[5][6] Terence Winter, executive producer Matthew Weiner and supervising producers and writing team Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.[7] After the main story had been outlined, the script for "The Blue Comet" was written by Chase and Weiner.[7] It is Chase's 29th writing credit for the series (including story credits) and Weiner's 12th and final. The penultimate episode marks the fifth time Chase and Weiner have collaborated on a The Sopranos script, following "The Test Dream" of season five and "Kaisha" (also with Winter), "Soprano Home Movies" (also with Frolov and Schneider) and "Kennedy and Heidi" of season six.[8]
The research study that Dr. Kupferberg introduces to Dr. Melfi, which she later carefully reads and which makes her decide to finally drop Tony Soprano as her patient, is an actual three-volume study called The Criminal Personality, written by Dr. Samuel Yochelson and Dr. Stanton Samenow, published between 1977 and 1986.[9][10] David Chase discovered the study when he and some Sopranos writers attended a psychiatric conference one time. Chase further asked forensic psychologist Nancy Duggan to analyze Tony Soprano's mental state and the progress of his psychotherapy with Melfi; Dugan also opined that talk therapy was enabling Melfi's patient to commit crime and justify his actions for himself. The Criminal Personality greatly impressed Chase after he read it and he decided that its introduction in the show would spell the end of Tony and Melfi's psychotherapy story arc in the series.[10] After the airing of the episode, psychotherapists reported an outpouring of questions and concern from their clientele about the ethics of dropping patients unilaterally.[10] Chase also commented about the seeming lack of finality in Tony Soprano's therapy, stating that its depiction was most realistic as psychotherapy most often is marked with moments of progress but is essentially an endless process until one party decides it has had enough of it.[11]
The cardboard cutout of the character Silvio Dante that appears near the end of the episode in the safehouse was added by the writers as a way to give the character some sort of presence in the scene. The writers created the safehouse as an unoccupied house the family keep for emergencies and where various items, such as the promotional cutout of Silvio for the Bada Bing!, are stored.[12]
Casting[edit]
Peter Bucossi, the stunt coordinator for the show for all of its six seasons, ever since the pilot episode, plays the role of Petey B. in this episode (a character also named after him), one of the Lupertazzi crime family hoodlums. Petey is the driver of "Ray Ray" D'Alesio's car that attacks Silvio and Patsy when they attempt to flee the Bada Bing!.
Filming[edit]



 Interior scenes set at the Soprano residence, back room of the strip club Bada Bing!, Italian restaurant Nuovo Vesuvio and Melfi's psychiatrist's office were filmed at Silvercup Studios.
"The Blue Comet" was directed by Alan Taylor and photographed by Phil Abraham. Both had worked intermittently on the show in the same capacities since the first season. The penultimate episode marks Taylor's ninth credit as director and Abraham's 47th credit as director of photography; it is the final credit of the series for both. Before filming commenced, David Chase and Taylor held a pre-production director's meeting—called a "tone meeting" by the crew—in which Chase explained how he envisioned the filming of the episode's scenes in great detail and provided directions for Taylor to follow during principal photography.[13][14]
"The Blue Comet" was filmed in January and February 2007, primarily at the show's usual filming locations: exterior and some interior scenes were filmed on location in New Jersey and New York while the majority of the interior scenes were shot at Silvercup Studios, New York City.[15][16] The Soprano residence, meat market Satriale's, strip club Bada Bing! and Italian restaurant Nuovo Vesuvio—four of the most frequently recurring and recognizable backdrops of the series—are all featured prominently in the episode.[1][2]
Some scenes were set in environments not typically featured in the series. The gunfire scene that takes place in a model railroading store was filmed on location at a store called Trainland in Lynbrook, New York.[17] Scenes set at the Averna Social Club, a meeting place for the Lupertazzi family in the context of the series, were filmed at a bar on Manhattan's Mulberry Street, New York City.[18] Janice and Bobby's residence, formerly owned by Johnny Sack, appears briefly in the episode; the scene was shot on location in North Caldwell, New Jersey.[19]
Post-production[edit]
The editing of "The Blue Comet" was done by William B. Stich in close consultation with Chase. During post-production, Chase selected the music for the episode, using previously recorded and released songs he saw fit for particular scenes and rearranged the filmed scenes into their final order.[20] Some filmed scenes were cut during editing. One such involved the character Burt Gervasi telling Silvio Dante that he has begun cooperating with the Lupertazzi family, a scene that was meant as a setup for the murder that ended up as the episode's opening.[15]
References to prior episodes[edit]
When Phil Leotardo starts listing his grievances about the DiMeo family, they include the beating of "Coco" in "The Second Coming," "Fat Dom" Gamiello's disappearance (murder) in "Cold Stones" and his brother Billy's murder ("Long Term Parking").
Tony quit his psychotherapy on his own will two times before: In "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano," he did so after he told Melfi to go into hiding as he was at war with Junior and, in "Calling All Cars," he quit it after citing a lack of progress in curbing his impulses. Also, in "Walk Like a Man," he seriously considered quitting it yet again. However, Melfi herself never dropped him as happened in this episode. Although she, for a time, refused to accept him back in the beginning of Season 2, angry at Tony because her forced move out of town allowed a patient of hers to commit suicide.
In the pilot episode, when Tony first comes to therapy, Dr. Melfi opens the door to her office and shows him in. In this episode, after dropping him, she opens the doors and shows him out.
Tony tells Carmela he "quit therapy" at an Italian Restaurant (Nuovo Vesuvio) over red wine. She says it was actually a good idea. In the pilot episode, Tony also first tells Carmela he is starting therapy in an Italian restaurant over glasses of red wine and Carmela thinks it is a wonderful idea.
A flashback scene from "Soprano Home Movies" where, in a boat on a lake, Bobby tells Tony that one probably does not even notice when one is killed is used at the end of the episode, before Tony goes to sleep. Additionally, Tony brings the assault rifle, which Bobby gave him as a birthday present in the same episode, to the hideout safehouse.
Bobby's interest in model trains was first shown in the Season 6 premiere episode, "Members Only."
Other cultural and historical references[edit]
In the mental-health ward, A.J. and other patients watch Metalocalypse.
When Cavalleria Rusticana starts playing on the radio during their meeting at Nuovo Vesuvio, Tony and Silvio begin mimicking boxing in slow motion. The intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana was used as the main theme of Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, a biographical film about the boxer Jake LaMotta.
Paulie's line, "I lived through the '70s by the skin of my nuts when the Colombos were going at it", alludes to a mob war in the 1970s that involved the Colombo crime family and in particular to the battles between Mafia factions led by Joseph Colombo and Crazy Joe Gallo.[15]
Tony calls Bobby an "Exile on Main Street" after Janice informs him he still cares about Junior.
Music[edit]
The Doors' "When the Music's Over" is playing in Bada Bing! when Bobby summons Paulie to the backroom to discuss the hit on Phil.
When Patsy and Silvio are packing up to leave the Bada Bing, "Antisaint" by Chevelle can be heard muffled in the background.
During the shootout at the Bada Bing's parking lot, Nat King Cole's "Ramblin' Rose" is playing on Patsy's car radio.
The song played in the final scene and over the end credits is an extended instrumental version of Tindersticks' song "Running Wild." Another one of Tindersticks' songs, "Tiny Tears," was previously prominently featured in the Season 1 episode "Isabella" during scenes of Tony's lethargic state prior to his assassination attempt.
Reception[edit]
Ratings[edit]
According to Nielsen ratings, "The Blue Comet" attracted an average of eight million American viewers when first broadcast in the United States on HBO on Sunday June 3, 2007. This was the show's second best ratings for the second part of the sixth season. Only the following week's series finale, which drew 11.9 million viewers, received higher numbers.[21][22]
Critical response[edit]
"The Blue Comet" received very positive critical reviews following its original broadcast and has since then frequently been named by critics as one of the best episodes of the series.[12][23][24][25][26] Much praise was directed at the episode's pacing and efficient build-up of suspense as well as the execution of the gunfire scenes toward the end of the episode. The episode was also praised for story elements concerning the escalation of the conflict between the rivaling Mafia families of the show and for the conclusion it brought to the professional and personal relationship between the characters Tony Soprano and Jennifer Melfi.
Tom Biro of television webblog TV Squad was impressed with the episode because of "the way we're beginning to close the door on the lives of some people and get an idea on who will be around at the end and who won't" and because "we're treated to something thrilling not only in story, but visually as well." Biro awarded "The Blue Comet" the site's highest score of 7.[27] Geoffrey Dunn of Metro Silicon Valley stated that "Chase orchestrated the tension to a full crescendo."[28] Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote "In this penultimate episode (which David Chase co-wrote), you can see the veil of surprise, of artistic feints, red herrings, theory-bating and any other cool narrative device totally vanish. It's as if things snuck up on us. Time is not just running out, it's almost all gone. Action needed to step forth and be counted. And so, true to form historically, the second to last episode had more than it's [sic] fair share of Big Moments." Goodman also called Bobby's death scene "priceless" and "Really well done."[29] Heather Havrilesky of Salon wrote "No sad music, no slow motion, no teary funeral, no time for condolences. When the blood-dimmed tide finally rolled in during last night's penultimate Sopranos episode, an eerie quiet settled in."[30] Matt Roush of TV Guide gave the episode a favorable review, writing "TV's landmark family crime drama went on a bloody rampage this week, just as we expected might happen in the next-to-last episode. [...] It was a sensational way to get us primed for Sunday's series finale."[31]
Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune wrote that "[The] second-to-last episode was certainly a classic" and praised it for its suspenseful storytelling.[32] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly offered "The Blue Comet" a favorable estimation, writing "Every moment in this bloody, bullet-riddled penultimate episode is about regular, familiar old ways that have now gone terribly, irreversibly awry. [...] In the last hours of this epic drama, every detail glitters with bitter meaning".[33] Matt Zoller Seitz of Slant Magazine described the episode as "the most atypically typical whack-fest the show has served up in quite some time" and "an orgy of Mafia mayhem". Zoller Seitz also praised the final therapy scene between Tony Soprano and Jennifer Melfi for its depth.[34] Alan Sepinwall of The Star Ledger called the penultimate episode "one of the best—and certainly one of the busiest—episodes in the history of The Sopranos," further describing it as "a superb, scary, thrilling episode." He also characterized Bobby's death scene as "a little masterpiece of editing".[35][36] Brian Tallerico of UGO called the episode "mind-blowing" and "intense", wrote that "[he] really didn't expect David Chase to take his show out with this much gunfire" and gave it an "A", the site's second-highest score.[37] Brian Zoromski of IGN awarded the episode a score of 9.1 out of 10, writing "Overall, 'The Blue Comet' was a very well done, sometimes shocking, build-up to next week's series finale."[38]
Awards[edit]
In 2007, Lorraine Bracco was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance in "The Blue Comet" but lost to Grey's Anatomy's Katherine Heigl at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards. Bracco had previously been nominated three times in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for playing Dr. Melfi.[39] In 2008, sound mixers Mathew Price, Kevin Burns and Todd Orr were nominated for a Cinema Audio Society Award in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing – Television.[40]
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External links[edit]
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"The Blue Comet" at the Internet Movie Database
"The Blue Comet" at TV.com


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The Second Coming (The Sopranos)
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"The Second Coming"
The Sopranos episode
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Tony, A.J. and Carmela in group therapy.

Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 19
Directed by
Tim Van Patten
Written by
Terence Winter
Cinematography by
Alik Sakharov
Production code
619
Original air date
May 20, 2007
Running time
53 minutes
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"The Second Coming" is the eighty-fourth episode of the HBO television series The Sopranos. It is the seventh episode of the second half of the show's sixth season, the nineteenth episode of the season overall. It was written by Terence Winter and directed by Tim Van Patten. It originally aired in the United States on May 20, 2007.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
2 Episode recap
3 Title reference
4 Production
5 References to prior episodes
6 Other cultural and historical references
7 Music
8 Awards
9 References
10 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti**
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr.*
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri*
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
Ray Abruzzo as Little Carmine Lupertazzi
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
Arthur Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
* = credit only ** = photo only
Guest starring[edit]
Peter Bogdanovich as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg
Gregory Antonacci as Butch DeConcini
Matt Servitto as Agent Dwight Harris
Cara Buono as Kelli Lombardo Moltisanti
Armen Garo as Salvatore "Coco" Cogliano
Michael Countryman as Dr. Richard Vogel
Daniel Sauli as Patrick Parisi
Frank John Hughes as Walden Belfiore
John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia as Albie Cianflone
John Cenatiempo as Anthony Maffei
Felix Solis as Edgar Ramirez
Michael Kelly as Agent Ron Goddard
Lindsay Campbell as Professor Kline
Dominic Chianese, Jr. as Dominic
Joey Perillo as John Stefano
Edward Furs as Driver
Taleb Adlah as Ahmed (photo only)
Donnie Keshawarz as Muhammad (photo only)
Episode recap[edit]
The episode begins with abandoned construction material and asbestos dust rising into the air in an area of scrubland near the New Jersey Meadowlands.
As Tony Soprano sleeps in his bedroom, a sleepless A.J. turns on some rap music, waking his father up. When Tony goes downstairs later, he finds that the gift he bought for Carmela in Las Vegas, an engraved watch, has arrived by courier. Carmela recalls that Tony said he went to Vegas to wrap up some of Christopher Moltisanti's business there and mentions that Christopher's widow, Kelli, will need financial support now. When Tony shows up at the office at Satriale's, a framed picture of Christopher, taken on the set of Cleaver, has been put up on the wall by the other mobsters. Tony wistfully tells the guys about the sex and the peyote experience in Vegas, but, when they do not seem to be that captivated by it, he changes the subject.
Tony is accompanied by Silvio Dante and Bobby Baccalieri as he goes to a sitdown with Phil Leotardo in New York. Tony tries to reach a compromise with Phil about the asbestos removal project, this time offering him a bigger percentage of the profits. Phil remains firm and refuses to consider anything else than his original position, 25%. Tony then tries appealing to his senses by publically reminding him of the talk they had while Phil was recovering in hospital. Phil coldly rejects Tony's offer out of hand and ostentatiously emphasizes the compromises he was already forced to make in his life the 20 years he spent in prison living in difficult conditions. No deal is reached yet again and a frustrated Tony leaves the meeting with his men. Tony retaliates to Phil's stubbornness by taking Phil's men "Coco" and Butch DeConcini off the payroll from another construction project. Butchie and "Coco" viciously beat the foreman and steal his wallet when he gives them the bad news.
FBI agents Harris and Goddard again visit Tony at Satriale's and ask him to look at some photos. Tony identifies Ahmed and Muhammad, and Harris says they may be financing terrorism, but that they are not sure.
A.J. despairs about the world and his future to his therapist, Dr. Richard Vogel. Vogel asks him to consider a connection between his breakup with Blanca, who he described as a poor immigrant, and the young black foreign man who was beaten up, which triggered the return of his depression. A.J. becomes interested in W. B. Yeats' poem The Second Coming and reads it in bed. He feels deeply disillusioned with the political and materialist status quo and talks pessimistically while Kelli is over for dinner. When Meadow comes to see her brother in his bedroom, he dismisses her cheeriness about the film Borat, telling her "it wasn't fair to the people involved" and dejectedly claims that "Bush will bomb Iran." He also tells her he has dropped out of college again. Meadow attempts to console him and, when he suggests their parents are fonder of her than him, reminds her brother that, since he is the son in an Italian family, "you'll always be more important." After Carmela leaves for a lunch date, A.J. attempts suicide in the family pool, jumping off the springboard with a plastic bag around his head and one foot tied by rope to a cinder block. He soon regrets the decision and manages to struggle back up to the surface since the rope is too long, but is not able to swim to safety. Tony comes home at that moment and hears his son's cry for help. When he realizes what is happening, he immediately jumps into the pool, still wearing his suit, and saves him from drowning. Tony tries shouting at and berating A.J., but when his son cannot stop crying hysterically, Tony consoles A.J., getting emotional himself. A.J. is put on Valium and admitted to a psychiatric ward in a local hospital. His family is in disbelief and great distress.
When Tony talks to his crime family about A.J.'s suicide attempt, he laments, "Where did I lose this kid?" Patsy, Silvio, and Carlo attempt to comfort him with stories of their own children's tough times, although, when pressed, they all have to admit none of them were serious enough for them to attempt suicide. When Tony tells Carmela he feels depressed, an argument between them erupts. Carmela blames A.J.'s condition on Tony's family's genetic predisposition towards depression, tells Tony he plays the "depression card," and throws the watch he bought for her in his face. In Dr. Melfi's office, Tony says he is ashamed of his son for attempting to commit suicide. In response to her suggestion that the long rope suggests A.J. subconsciously didn't really want to die, Tony responds that his son could have just been too stupid to even kill himself properly. Tony talks about the "Sopranos curse" that Carmela mentioned but refuses to shoulder all the blame. "His mother," he says, "she coddled him." Melfi tells him Tony should understand his son for he suffered/suffers from depression himself.
While Meadow has another "mystery date" with her new boyfriend at a cafe in New York City, a drunken "Coco" comes over to their table and makes several lewd comments. After Meadow tells Carmela what happened, she also reluctantly tells it to her father, and Tony manages to hide his rage. Meadow tells Carmela and Tony that her boyfriend is Patrick Parisi, Patsy's eldest son, who she met back at The Cleaver premiere. After Tony leaves, Meadow tells Carmela that she will not be going to medical school but instead to law school, inspired by Patrick's passion about the justice system.
When Dr. Melfi sees Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, he shares with her the results of a recent study which has shown that sociopaths are not helped by talk therapy but rather only further enabled by it, perhaps even "sharpening their skills as con-men" in the process. Melfi stays silent.
Meanwhile, Tony tracks down "Coco" and Butchie to a cafe in NYC. Tony then viciously pistol-whips "Coco" several times with a snubnose revolver and warns a protesting Butchie at gunpoint to remain seated at his table. After stomping "Coco"'s face into the stone step below the bar, knocking out his teeth, Tony leaves. At a group session with A.J.'s psychiatrist later that day with Tony and Carmela attending, A.J. recalls times when he felt humiliated by his mother and depressed by his visits to his grandmother Livia at her nursing-home. As Tony listens, he notices one of Coco's bloody teeth in the cuff of his pant leg. Carmela, for her part, is angry that the Yeats poem was on her son's curriculum.
At the office, Patsy talks warmly with Tony about the budding romance between Patrick and Meadow and hopes there will be a wedding one day. Little Carmine arrives to meet Tony and tells him he will once again broker a truce meeting with Phil regarding the beating Tony gave "Coco." Little Carmine also informs him Phil shut down one of their joint construction projects altogether and everyone is losing money now. Tony is angry he will have to make concessions to Phil, but agrees he overreacted, even if defending the honor of his daughter.
Tony is back at Dr. Melfi's office and discusses A.J.'s suicide attempt. Tony exclaims "Why me, huh?" Dr. Melfi proclaims, "Why not you?" Soon after, Tony gets philosophical and spiritual when retelling of his experience in Las Vegas with peyote.
Tony's beating of "Coco" has opened a deep rift between the DiMeo family and the Lupertazzis: to Phil, this latest incident in a string of perceived affronts to him makes him lose his temper dealing with the Jersey family and he refuses to even meet with Tony and Little Carmine when they show up at his home in Brooklyn offering concessions. After Butchie closes the door on Tony and Carmine, Phil yells from behind a second-floor window that there is "nothing left to discuss" between the families and only spews profanities down at them as they walk away from the house.
In the final scene, Tony goes to visit A.J. at the hospital, carrying a large pizza for him, his traditional offering to his son. The pizza is confiscated, and, with the glass doors to the mental-health ward sliding shut behind him, Tony walks down the hall to his son. He places his hand on his shoulder as they begin to walk and talk.[1]
Title reference[edit]
The Second Coming is a poem by W.B. Yeats, which A.J. is studying for college. Its bleak perspective seems to further A.J.'s depression which culminates in his suicide attempt. Parts of the poem's final lines ("what rough beast . . . Slouching towards Bethlehem") could be interpreted as being echoed in the final shot. A slouching, downcast Tony is seen walking down the halls of the mental hospital, or "Bethlehem", which was famously the name of the world's first psychiatric hospital.
Production[edit]
Arthur Nascarella (Carlo Gervasi) is promoted to the main cast and billed in the opening credits but only for this episode.
References to prior episodes[edit]
During their fight, Carmela angrily mentions the incident when Tony's father accidentally shot his mother through her beehive hairdo, as told to her by Janice in "Soprano Home Movies"; Tony hates the anecdote because it makes the Soprano family look "dysfunctional."
A.J. recalls being deeply affected by Livia's comments that life is a "big nothing" and, "in the end . . . you die in your own arms" when he visited her in the Season 2 episode "D-Girl." A.J. also recalls Carmela calling him an "animal" for smoking marijuana at his confirmation, which occurred in the same episode.
Tony appeals to Phil to negotiate and work together, in front of all the mobsters referring to the peace-making conversation they had in the hospital after he had suffered a heart attack, which happened in "Kaisha."
Dr. Melfi had previously quoted from Yeats' The Second Coming in "Cold Cuts", reciting two lines of the poem not heard in this episode: "The centre cannot hold" and "The falcon cannot hear the falconer".
Other cultural and historical references[edit]
Tony gives Carmela an engraved Baume et Mercier watch, as a present from his trip to Vegas. He FedExed the watch home.
When Agent Harris asks Tony to look at some photos, Tony jokingly asks him if any of them are of Angelina Jolie.
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is mentioned by Dr. Vogel. A.J. says he watches CNN and is later seen reading the Al Jazeera website. He also mentions Indonesian mujahideen.
As one reason to explain his constant interest in Melfi's mobster patient, Dr. Kupferberg says his father was a big Untouchables fan.
Music[edit]
The song "Ridin'", by Chamillionaire, is played by A.J. when he wakes up in the morning at the beginning of the episode.
The song "Please Mr. Postman", by The Marvelettes, is playing when Tony, Silvio, Paulie, Carlo, Walden, and Bobby discuss Tony's trip to Vegas and their respective drug experiences.
The song "Suspicious Minds", by Elvis Presley, is playing in the back room of Satriale's while Tony meets with Patsy and (later) Little Carmine.
The song "Into the Ocean", by Blue October, is playing during A.J. and Meadow's conversation in his room.
The song that is played over the closing credits is from a 1955 Smithsonian Folkways recording of Italian folk songs. It is credited in the liner notes and on the HBO website as "Ninna Ninna," a traditional song that has been covered by many different artists, though in this case, the names of the performers are unknown.
Awards[edit]
This episode was nominated for and won Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series at the WGA Awards.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Episode guide - Episode 84 - "The Second Coming"". HBO. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
External links[edit]
"The Second Coming" at HBO
"The Second Coming" at the Internet Movie Database
"The Second Coming" at TV.com


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"Kennedy and Heidi"
The Sopranos episode
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Tony and Christopher meeting with Phil Leotardo and Butchie.

Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 18
Directed by
Alan Taylor
Written by
Matthew Weiner
David Chase
Produced by
David Chase
Featured music
"Comfortably Numb" by
Roger Waters, Van Morrison and The Band
"The Adultress" by
The Pretenders
"Minas de Cobre (For Better Metal)" by
Calexico

Cinematography by
Alik Sakharov
Editing by
William B. Stich
Production code
S618
Original air date
May 13, 2007
Running time
52 minutes
Guest actors


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"Kennedy and Heidi" is the eighty-third episode of the HBO television series The Sopranos. It is the sixth episode of the second half of the show's sixth season, the eighteenth episode of the season overall. It was written by Matthew Weiner and series creator and showrunner David Chase, and was directed by Alan Taylor. The episode premiered in the United States on May 13, 2007.
Near the beginning of "Kennedy and Heidi", series protagonist Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) and Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli) are involved in a car accident that leaves Christopher incapacitated. In a subplot, A.J. (Robert Iler) continues with his college courses and reconsiders his relationship with his friends.
The episode is noted for its thematic complexity and the plot twist early in the episode. It was nominated for an Emmy Award for writing and won for directing.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
2 Episode recap
3 Deceased
4 Title reference
5 References to prior episodes
6 Other cultural and historical references
7 Music
8 Awards
9 References
10 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr. *
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
John Ventimiglia as Artie Bucco
Ray Abruzzo as Little Carmine Lupertazzi
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
Sharon Angela as Rosalie Aprile
Katherine Narducci as Charmaine Bucco
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Julianna Margulies as Julianna Skiff
Sarah Shahi as Sonya Aragon
Daniel Baldwin as Himself
Gregory Antonacci as Butch DeConcini
Max Casella as Benny Fazio
Cara Buono as Kelli Lombardo Moltisanti
Michael Countryman as Dr. Richard Vogel
Michael Drayer as Jason Parisi
Frances Ensemplare as Nucci Gualtieri
Frank John Hughes as Walden Belfiore
Marianne Leone as Joanne Moltisanti
Arthur Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
Dennis Paladino as Al Lombardo
Joseph Perrino as Jason Gervasi
Bambadjan Bamba as Cyclist
Al Roffe as Operations Manager
Phyllis Kay as Rita Lombardo
Mark La Mura as Alan Kaplan
Joey Perillo as John Stefano
Elizabeth Dennis as Andrea
Chris Bashinelli as Kevin
Lindsay Campbell as Professor Kline
Christiana Anbri as Heidi
Leah Bezozo as Kennedy
Gregory Zaragoza as Croupier
William DeMeo as Jason Molinaro
Artie Pasquale as Burt Gervasi
John Wu as Morgan Yam
Matt Sauerhoff as Victor Mineo
Edward Furs as Driver
Alexander Flores as Kid
Ray DeMattis as Gerry Gaultieri
Maureen Van Zandt as Gabriella Dante
Denise Borino-Quinn as Ginny Sacrimoni
Elizabeth Bracco as Marie Spatafore
Danielle Di Vecchio as Barbara Soprano Giglione
Anthony J. Ribustello as Dante Greco
John Cenatiempo as Anthony Maffei
John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia as Albie Cianflone
Jonathan LaPaglia as Himself
Vinnie Orofino as Bryan Spatafore
Ed Vassallo as Tom Ginglione
Joe Pucillo as Beppy Scerbo
Michelle Maryk as Jo Lewis
Dina Pearlman as Ellen Reinstein
Mickey Pizzo as Sal Pisano
Sejal Shah as Chandrakanta Pisano
Zuzanna Szadkowski as Elżbieta
Marc Wolf as Mark Lewis
Episode recap[edit]
Overlooking Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty, a late-evening meeting is taken between the heads of the Lupertazzi and DiMeo crime families regarding the removal of asbestos from a building project. Phil Leotardo is upset because he was unaware that Tony Soprano was dumping asbestos in one of his areas. Tony states he should have known that this type of activity is status quo, and suggests there should be minimal repercussions. Phil disagrees, asking for a 25% cut of what they get for the illegal dumping, but Tony rejects his proposal.
After the unsuccessful meeting, Tony and Christopher Moltisanti drive home in the dark along a winding road. Christopher suggests to Tony that he should concede to Phil's demands because "life is too short." Tony at first disagrees, saying it would be unwise to appear weak in accepting Phil's conditions just as he became the boss of his family, but then seems to support Christopher's idea. Christopher adds that Phil should enjoy life and "smell the roses," as he had told Tony he would, because "each day is a gift." Tony notices that Christopher avoids looking him in the eyes and is visibly agitated, as he complains about the Escalade's stereo, constantly changing the radio channels until putting on a CD of The Departed soundtrack. Tony eyes him suspiciously but keeps silent. As the dark road curves again and Christopher ups the stereo system's volume, Tony distracts him by asking him a question, and he swerves into the opposite lane, nearly hitting a suddenly emerging sedan driven by two teenage girls, who leave the scene as they are out after curfew on a learner's permit. Christopher immediately turns to the opposite direction to avoid the oncoming vehicle but is unable to control the Escalade as it veers off the road at high speed and violently rolls down a hill several times, hitting some tree branches before coming to rest upright.
Tony, who was wearing a safety belt, suffers only minor injuries to his face and knee and gets out of the vehicle. Christopher, who was not, is seriously injured and has trouble breathing as he coughs up blood. He asks Tony to help him. Tony exits the truck, limping around to the driver's side and smashes the driver's window to access Christopher, who says he will "never pass the drug test" and will lose his driver's license. Tony, immediately sulky, also notices that the infant carrier seat in the back had been impaled by a tree limb in the crash. Christopher once again pleads for help, asking Tony to "call [him] a taxi." Tony begins to dial 9-1-1 on his cell phone but then gives a bleeding and wheezing Christopher a morbid look and closes the phone instead. Tony reaches over and tightly pinches shut Christopher's nostrils, suffocating him. After wiping the blood off, he then calls in an ambulance.
Tony is rushed to the emergency room of Saint Clare's Hospital in Denville. A nurse calls Carmela and puts Tony on the phone. Carmela is horrified when he tells her about the accident and her cousin's death. Largely unscathed, Tony is home the next morning, and is visited by the members of his crime family who all lament the death of Christopher. Tony, however, is largely feigning his concern towards Christopher's passing. He has a dream in which he admits to Dr. Melfi that he has killed his best friends, Big Pussy and his cousin Tony, and that Christopher's murder is nothing compared to these losses. People express their sorrow for Christopher's death around Tony; Carmela feels remorse for ever accusing him of doing "those terrible things" to Adriana, and even Paulie Gualtieri regrets ever feuding with him. Tony finds himself unable to discuss his true feelings about Christopher's death with anyone, choosing to respond to his relatives' and friends' grief with comments pointing to Christopher being intoxicated and speeding during the incident and the mangled infant car seat. He also tries to subtly ask Carmela if she was "relieved" by her cousin's death, but when she passionately denies it, he backs down, assuring her she misunderstood his question. In a real session with Dr. Melfi, Tony largely reiterates to her the same feelings about Christopher from his dream, except not mentioning the murders. He also tells Melfi his own version of the Adriana situation, claiming that he saved Christopher from major trouble by helping him end his relationship with his fiancée and that Christopher was the one who never appreciated his help done for him. Tony describes Christopher as being worthless, a liability, someone who despised him and says he is absolutely glad a huge concern from his life had been lifted with his death.
During the preparations for Christopher's wake, Tony hears that Paulie's adoptive mother, Nucci, has died of a stroke. The family and crime family members gather in large numbers to attend Christopher's wake, including celebrities from Cleaver and AA and NA members, including Julianna Skiff. Now widow, Kelli and Christopher's mother Joanne are most grief struck by his death and Tony is noticeably disgusted by the ostentatious display of everyone's sorrow. Meanwhile, it appears that even in his death Christopher managed to pull a trick on Paulie, as Nucci's wake is poorly attended, deeply upsetting him. Tony and Carmela do make a courteous appearance at the ceremony, though, which Paulie appreciates.
A.J. continues to spend time with Jason Parisi, Jason Gervasi and their friends. The man they injured with sulfuric acid for not paying his gambling debts, Victor, is revealed to have had some of his toes amputated and, when they hear his own story of the incident, that the burns and amputation resulted from an accident with battery acid, it gives them a chuckle. The Jasons console A.J. upon Christopher's death, but it does not seem to have affected him much. A.J. impresses his therapist by telling him he had begun taking college courses at Rutgers again, studying English literature and world history. But when Jason Gervasi one time inadvertently causes a Somalian college student to crash his bicycle into his car doors, A.J.'s friends pick a fight with the bicyclist, racially insulting him and beating him up in addition to throwing his bike into the path of an oncoming vehicle where it is crushed. The incident greatly disturbs A.J., and he visibly and abruptly relapses back to severe depression, as noticed by his psychotherapist.
When one day Kelli and Joanne visit Tony's house and Kelli starts breast-feeding Caitlin, this is the last straw for Tony who can no longer tolerate the outpouring of grief over Christopher. He quickly arranges a flight to Las Vegas on a private plane and checks into a hotel. In Vegas, he at first enjoys the peace and quiet of being all alone in luxury but soon meets Sonya, a stripper college student with whom Christopher used to spend time there. He tells her that Christopher died, which upsets her. Sonya philosophizes that it is good he at least managed to leave someone behind (his daughter Caitlin) after himself. Sonya begins to accompany Tony during his Vegas trip, telling him that he reminds her of Christopher, as they come from the same line of business, a comparison that Tony is not too fond of.
Tony receives phone calls from a waste disposal manager, who informs Tony that the accumulated asbestos have to be dumped somewhere or they are at risk of an investigation by the authorities, and from Phil Leotardo, who mocks him by insincerely offering condolences for Christopher's passing, while providing no relief for the original asbestos impasse; Tony, irritated, announces he is hanging up but Phil responds by hanging up on Tony.
Tony and Sonya have sex, smoke marijuana, and then take peyote. After some vomiting by Tony, the inebriated couple then visit the casino floor where Tony manages to win a large amount of money on roulette while still high. Believing his recent bad luck has ended with Christopher's death, he repeatedly mumbles happily, "he's dead" and collapses in a laughing fit on the casino floor.
In Jersey, the asbestos is being dumped into a lake.
Tony and Sonya, still very intoxicated, drive up to the Red Rock Canyon and enjoy looking at the scenery. Sonya is aimlessly throwing pebbles into the air, as Tony sees the sun flicker in the distance. He suddenly mutters, "I get it," and stands up to walk towards the sun. Both crying and laughing he puts his hands on his head; looking at the sun, he exclaims from the top of his lungs: "I get it!"
Deceased[edit]
Christopher Moltisanti: seriously injured in a car crash and then murdered by suffocation by Tony by squeezing his nose shut when he was gasping for air; he dies after choking on his own blood pouring down his airways. According to Tony, killed for using drugs again, being a danger to him and his crime family and generally disappointing Tony in the last few years.
Marianucci Gualtieri: stroke.
Title reference[edit]
Kennedy and Heidi are the names of the teenage girls driving the car that nearly collides with Christopher's vehicle. Heidi refuses to stop after the accident for fear of losing her learner's permit for the curfew violation.
References to prior episodes[edit]
Tony and Phil mention the Barone Sanitation sale, which happened in "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh."
Tony has been involved in a number of car accidents in the past, and, as in this episode, was not harmed seriously in any of them. He crashed his truck when escaping hitmen in "Isabella," crashed it when passing out from a panic attack in "Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office...," and, in "Irregular Around the Margins", when a wild animal runs in front of an Escalade during a nighttime ride, Tony and Adriana flip the truck and it is totalled.
In the pilot episode, when Christopher is first introduced, he is wearing a baseball cap and driving Tony around. Right before he dies, he is wearing a baseball cap and driving Tony around. According to an article in TV Guide, Michael Imperioli states that he does not know if this is intentional or a coincidence.
Christopher dies in large part due to his drug addiction (it both contributed to him crashing the car, as he was intoxicated, and as one of the motives for his murder by Tony). Christopher struggled with his drug addiction for many years, most notably since the trip to Naples, Italy, seen in the Season 2 episode "Commendatori", where he picked up the habit of injecting heroin from the Italian gangster Tanno. Following the drug intervention in "The Strong, Silent Type" (Season 4) and his stay in rehab, Christopher's life was marked with periods of being clean and relapses after particularly stressful experiences. Additionally, in "The Strong, Silent Type," Tony asks Junior for advice on how he should deal with Christopher, after having learned of his addiction. Junior tells him that he should be "put out of his misery," as it used to be done by the mob in the old days.
In "The Strong, Silent Type", when Tony discovers during the intervention that Christopher accidentally sat on and suffocated Adriana's dog Cosette, he remarks that he "ought to suffocate" Christopher. Coincidentally, this is exactly what Tony does.
In "Long Term Parking," in one of his rants complaining about Tony in front of Adriana, Christopher says: "That’s the guy, Adriana. My uncle Tony. The guy I’m going to hell for." Throughout the series, Christopher did work for Tony and followed his orders, committing numerous criminal acts. Christopher was ultimately killed by Tony himself, upon his boss' decision. And if he did die, Christopher believed he would go to hell, as once, near death (clinically dead), in "From Where to Eternity" (Season 2) he said he already went to the afterlife, which he believed was hell.
Right after the scene when Christopher's death is confirmed to Kelli, a crow is heard cawing just prior to Silvio and Paulie's entering Tony's room to offer condolences. Christopher saw a crow after becoming a made man in "Fortunate Son", which he interpreted as a bad omen.
Carmela tells Tony that it was Christopher who comforted her in the hospital when Tony got shot by Junior ("Join the Club").
In "Chasing It", Carlo relates to Tony the Twilight Zone episode, "A Nice Place to Visit", in which a dead gangster, Rocky Valentine, finds himself unable to lose when gambling and able to have any woman or any other pleasure he desires. Originally, he believes himself in Heaven, until it is revealed he is actually in Hell. In this episode, Tony finds himself in a similar situation while in Las Vegas, winning at roulette and having sex while high on peyote. Also, at one point during this trip, he encounters a flashing red devil logo on a slot machine.
Other cultural and historical references[edit]
Al Lombardo, angry, says that Syracuse is losing a basketball game when in the family gathering after Christopher's death.
Hanging out with the Jasons, A.J. and a girl compare antidepressants Lexapro and Wellbutrin.
The English teacher at A.J.'s class talks about Wordsworth.
A.J. says he took a class about and is interested in the Arab-Israeli conflict. A.J. remarks that "nobody knew who started it."
Carmela is watching an old episode of The Dick Cavett Show where Cavett is interviewing Katharine Hepburn.
At Christopher's wake, Tony comments, "fucking James Brown" when Joanne breaks down crying. He also says the mourning Kelli looks like Jackie Kennedy with her appearance and the sunglasses.
After witnessing the savage beating of the unarmed black cyclist, A.J., distressed, asks his therapist, "Why can't we all get along?" This could be a reference to exactly the same famous phrase said by Rodney King, a black man beaten by Los Angeles police in an incident that sparked national protests and riots.
Music[edit]
The song that Christopher puts on the car stereo and on full volume as he is driving Tony right before the crash is Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb", performed by Roger Waters featuring Van Morrison & The Band, the first track from the soundtrack of The Departed.
The song playing when Tony is first being driven in a taxi in Las Vegas is "Are You Alright?" by Lucinda Williams.
The song playing in the background when Tony first meets Sonya is "Outta My Head" by M. Ward.
The song playing in the background as Tony and Sonya are having sex is "The Adultress" by The Pretenders.
The song playing in the background when Tony and Sonya are talking in bed is "Space Invader" by The Pretenders, which was also featured in the season 2 episode "House Arrest."
The song played over the end credits is "Minas de Cobre (for Better Metal)" by Calexico.
Awards[edit]
The episode's director, Alan Taylor, won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards.
References[edit]

External links[edit]
"Kennedy and Heidi" at HBO
"Kennedy and Heidi" at the Internet Movie Database
"Kennedy and Heidi" at TV.com


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"Walk Like a Man"
The Sopranos episode
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Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 17
Directed by
Terence Winter
Written by
Terence Winter
Production code
617
Original air date
May 6, 2007
Running time
55 minutes
Guest actors


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"Walk Like a Man" is the eighty-second episode of the HBO television series The Sopranos. It is the fifth episode of the second half of the show's sixth season, the seventeenth episode of the season overall. It was written and directed by executive producer Terence Winter in his directorial debut. It originally aired on May 6, 2007 and was watched by 7.16 million viewers upon its premiere.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
2 Episode recap
3 First appearances
4 Deceased
5 Title reference
6 Production
7 Connections to prior episodes
8 Other cultural and historical references
9 Music
10 References
11 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr.*
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
Carl Capotorto as Little Paulie Germani
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Tim Daly as J.T. Dolan
Max Casella as Benny Fazio
Cara Buono as Kelli Moltisanti
Michael Countryman as Dr. Richard Vogel
Michael Drayer as Jason Parisi
Arthur J. Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
Dennis Paladino as Al Lombardo
Joseph Perrino as Jason Gervasi
Dania Ramirez as Blanca Selgado
Matt Sauerhoff as Victor Mineo
Matt Servitto as Agent Dwight Harris
Danielle Di Vecchio as Barbara Soprano Giglione
Michael Kelly as Agent Ron Goddard
Greg Connolly as Stan
Nolan Carley as Mike
Frank Santorelli as Georgie
Marianne Leone as Joanne Moltisanti
Anthony J. Ribustello as Dante Greco
John Cenatiempo as Anthony Maffei
Frank John Hughes as Walden Belfiore
William DeMeo as Jason Molinaro
Mando Alvarado as Felix
Ed Vassallo as Tom Ginglione
Lawrence Bingham as Construction Worker
Madison Connolly as Alyssa Giglione
Anthony Piccolo as Thomas "Tommy" Giglione, Jr.
Episode recap[edit]
A.J. Soprano struggles with depression over his breakup with Blanca. She quits seeing him completely after he breaks down in tears every time they have a conversation, saying this embarrasses her. A.J. quits his job at the pizza parlor, sulks around the house, and disturbs Meadow with suicidal comments that remind her of a girl from college who threw herself out of a window. Tony and Carmela have disagreements about how to help A.J. They each try to have encouraging and consoling talks with him but to no avail.
In a psychotherapy session with Dr. Melfi, Tony tells her he has been once again seriously contemplating finally quitting therapy for good, saying he concluded it is useless. Melfi disagrees. Tony says he, in fact, intended to quit it in this meeting, but the situation with A.J.'s suicidal behavior has come up and stopped his plans. Tony gets teary as he tells Melfi he blames himself for what he believes is a hereditary condition of depression in his family he passed over to his son.
For lack of better options, Tony and Carmela assign A.J. to a therapist who prescribes an antidepressant. After Tony notices mobsters Carlo Gervasi and Patsy Parisi proudly talking about their sons, he tells the young men to invite A.J. to hang out with them. On his father's orders (and to the chagrin of his mother), A.J. goes to a party at the Bada Bing! with "the two Jasons" (Jason Gervasi and Jason Parisi) - fraternity members who are his age. As he accompanies them from one party to another, he begins to associate with their sports betting business they are running at school, from which they are profiting considerably. At one frat party, they use A.J.'s SUV to take a gambler who fails to pay his debts into the woods to beat and torture him by pouring sulfuric acid on his toes while A.J. helps hold him down. Carmela and Tony are content to find that A.J. is becoming more outgoing and spends less time at home.
Christopher Moltisanti and Paulie Gualtieri are selling stolen power tools via Al Lombardo's (Christopher's father-in-law's) hardware store at a discounted price which rakes in satisfying profits. Paulie, however, takes offense when Christopher cannot toast to the successful venture with alcohol and berates him for his weakness handling addictive substances. Christopher leaves, resenting his judging.
Tony finds FBI agents Harris and Goddard at Satriale's. Agent Harris mentions Phil Leotardo has become the boss of his crime family but comments he does not like him, as he once attempted to set up his colleague for a rape. Tony decides to provide them info on Ahmed and Muhammad, Christopher's Middle-Eastern associates he got suspicious of, after Harris tells him that if he is ever brought to trial, his aid to the FBI fighting terror could be reciprocated by arranging a reduced sentencing or the like. Tony passes the men's names and cell phone number to the agents.
Christopher and Kelli organize a barbecue party at their house, to which they invite various family members. As Chris and Tony talk, Tony tells Chris how his frequent absence from the crime family gatherings could be seen as his lack of commitment to it. Christopher reminds him he is avoiding the presence of alcohol and his absence from the strip club and Satriale's is what keeps his sobriety. He also adds he believes that he inherited his addiction from his parents. Tony disagrees with this, but Chris insists that his father Dickie Moltisanti (Tony's hero) was nothing more than a junkie and a drunk. Tony stays silent.
Little Paulie Germani begins breaking into Al Lombardo's hardware store along with Jason Molinaro and stealing his products, deceiving Al they are doing this with Christopher's knowledge, while in fact they are selling the goods to Paulie's Cuban contacts from Miami on his orders. After Christopher learns of this, he confronts Paulie at his house and demands an immediate compensation, but Paulie becomes likewise furious and throws him out of his home for his hostile and disrespectful tone. Christopher protests Paulie's actions to Tony, but he brushes him off, labeling his problem a minor concern when he is dealing with much bigger business matters.
Christopher finds himself increasingly sidelined in the criminal organization, with Bobby Baccalieri now apparently replacing his position in Tony's inner circle. He vents his passionate frustration about Tony's ingratitude and insensitivity at an AA meeting. In a private conversation with one AA member, Christopher adds that there was a woman he had to sacrifice for Tony (alluding to the murder of Adriana) and that his boss never appreciated this most painful act he did for him, saying that that exact moment was when his and Tony's relationship became permanently poisoned.
When Little Paulie continues to steal from Al Lombardo, this time conning one of his employees, Christopher gets fed up and, enraged, finds him at a poker game where he punches him before throwing him out of a window. Little Paulie survives the incident but suffers six broken vertebrae. Tony is furious about Christopher's move and harshly criticizes him in his office. Also, in retaliation, a visibly irate Paulie destroys Christopher's front garden by running over flower beds, crushing bushes, and doing doughnuts in the grass in his Cadillac CTS. Kelli is shaken and scared by the ordeal.
Tony mediates peace between Christopher and Paulie, and the money situation is worked out between them. The two then reconcile their differences over at the Bada Bing!. Going to toast, Paulie orders a club soda for Christopher, but he decides to have an alcohol drink to mark the occasion after all. Throughout the night, Christopher becomes drunk and begins to ramble about his daughter, causing an amused Paulie to make some off-color jokes about her to the gathered mobsters, including joking about Caitlin working at the Bing in twenty years. Christopher believes the group is mocking him, and he gets especially hurt when he notices Tony laughing at one of Paulie's jokes. Christopher abruptly leaves. Looking for someone to pour his heart out, he decides to visit J.T. Dolan, whom he originally met in AA. J.T. is annoyed to receive a very drunk Christopher in the middle of the night when has a Law & Order episode deadline to make. He is unenthusiastic about Christopher's problems and only takes further offence when the mobster mentions that he "let" him write Cleaver. Christopher then makes veiled references to the sacrifices he has made for the sake of his crime family, and implies that he knows sufficient information to bring it down if he wanted to. He attempts to tell J.T. about Adriana La Cerva and Ralph Cifaretto, but Dolan does not want to hear the details, telling him to get sober, see a sponsor and requests that he be kept in the dark, shouting that it is because Christopher is "in the Mafia." With this remark, Christopher appears to have just had about enough didactic from him, and, when he turns to leave the apartment, he suddenly pulls his pistol out and shoots J.T. in the head, instantly killing him. Christopher then leaves.
A.J. returns home as late as Tony and, by quickly driving up the driveway, even startles his father into thinking it is an ambush on his life, as he pulls a sawed-off shotgun from his truck's secret compartment. Tony conceals it back in its place when he recognizes it is A.J.'s car. The two walk into the house together to find Carmela and Meadow having a late night snack and they join the table. Carmela tells them Meadow had a new mystery date. A.J. teases her, causing warm smiles for his parents who share a look.
With "The Valley" by Los Lobos playing, Christopher arrives at his home, the front yard still completely ravaged by Paulie. He stops to prop up one of the partially destroyed trees and then staggers into his house.
First appearances[edit]
Jason Parisi: son of Patsy Parisi and a friend of A.J. Soprano and Jason Gervasi. He attends Rutgers University and is part of a small-time crew that runs sports book operations at his college. He and Jason Gervasi are known as "The Jasons".
Walden Belfiore: soldier in the Gervasi crew, seen at the Bada Bing! with the other mobsters.
Dr. Richard Vogel: A.J.'s psychotherapist.
Deceased[edit]
J.T. Dolan: shot dead in the head by Christopher Moltisanti, apparently for angering him at a very wrong time.
Title reference[edit]
The episode's title refers to the song "Walk Like a Man" by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, which is about a father telling his son to get over a woman who left him. Tony tries to pull A.J. out of his depression over breaking up with Blanca throughout the episode. Frankie Valli himself formerly had a role in the series as New York capo Rusty Millio, and an earlier episode ("Big Girls Don't Cry") was also named after a Valli song.
The title could refer to the act of trying to embolden someone to be "a man," to toughen him up, as done in this episode by Tony urging A.J. to get over Blanca and by Tony, Paulie and J.T. Dolan all telling Christopher to overcome his weaknesses, comments he deeply resents and which ultimately even get J.T. killed.
Production[edit]
Carl Capotorto (Little Paulie Germani) is promoted to the main cast and billed in the opening credits but only for this episode.
"Walk Like a Man" is the directorial debut of Terence Winter, a Sopranos writer and producer since the second season, who also wrote this episode. Winter, along with creator David Chase is one of only two screenwriters on the show to have both written and directed a single episode at the same time.
Georgie the bartender of Bada Bing! returns in this episode for a brief final appearance, despite having being severely abused by Tony in "Cold Cuts", which led to Georgie's resignation, and his insistence for Tony to stay away from him. He was apparently later reasoned with and convinced to come back after a pay-off from Tony.
The scene where Christopher observes mobsters laughing in slow-motion and looks for Tony's reaction in particular in similar to the scene from "All Happy Families..." where Tony observes the slowly laughing Mafiosi and gives most attention to Feech La Mana's reaction. Both Tony and Christopher seem to look for how these important people genuinely value them in the difficult-to-fake situation of immediate laughter.
Connections to prior episodes[edit]
Christopher and Paulie have feuded many times in the past, most notably in episodes "Fortunate Son" when Christopher became made, "Second Opinion" when Paulie harassed Christopher and sniffed Adriana's panties, "Pine Barrens" when they got lost in the woods, "The Strong, Silent Type" when Christopher's drug intervention took place, and "Two Tonys" when Christopher had to pay for Paulie's outrageous restaurant bills.
Tony turns down Dr. Melfi's offer to recommend a therapist to A.J., saying her previous referral for Meadow was "incompetent," referring to the pshychotherapist who encouraged her to take a gap year in college and go on a trip to Europe in "No Show".
Other cultural and historical references[edit]
At the start of this episode, A.J. is in the living room, watching a Tom and Jerry short, "Yankee Doodle Mouse" on TV.
A.J. is watching the movie Annapolis, when Tony comes downstairs at night.
While A.J. is switching channels, Tony spots the John Wayne movie Hellfighters.
Tony says A.J. could have died in Iraq when Carm protests about him going to a strip club.
Before Christopher murders J.T. Dolan, Dolan is writing a script for Law & Order. Michael Imperioli starred in five episodes of that show in a recurring role as Detective Nick Falco.
After Tony and A.J. arrive home to find Carmela and Meadow up, snacking, Carmela mentions that they stayed up to see Rachael Ray on Leno.
Music[edit]
Tony sings a few verses from "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd as he descends the stairs at the start of the episode.
"White Flag" by Dido is playing at the pizza parlor when A.J. watches a couple kissing and breaks down in tears.
The song playing while Tony is flirting with a stripper at the Bada Bing! is "Emma" by Hot Chocolate.
While Jason Parisi is talking to Tony at the Bada Bing!, "Body Burn" by Cubanate and "Supermassive Black Hole" by Muse are played.
The song played at the first frat party is "Hand On the Pump" by Cypress Hill.
The song playing in the VIP room of the Bing when Christopher reconciles with Paulie is "Mood Indigo" by Keely Smith.
The song played at the second frat party is "Salt Shaker" by Ying Yang Twins featuring Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz.
As Christopher exits the bar, Isaac Hayes' version of "Walk On By" can be heard playing.
Tony is listening to "Tom Sawyer", by Rush, on his way home from the bar.
The song played over the end credits is "The Valley" by Los Lobos.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://articles.latimes.com/2007/may/09/entertainment/et-tvratingstext9
External links[edit]
"Walk Like a Man" at HBO
"Walk Like a Man" at the Internet Movie Database
"Walk Like a Man" at TV.com


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Chasing It
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"Chasing It"
The Sopranos episode
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Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 16
Directed by
Tim Van Patten
Written by
Matthew Weiner
Cinematography by
Alik Sakharov
Production code
616
Original air date
April 29, 2007
Running time
50 minutes
Guest actors


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"Chasing It" is the eighty-first episode of the HBO television series The Sopranos. It is the fourth episode of the second half of the show's sixth season, the sixteenth episode of the season overall. It was written by executive producer Matthew Weiner and was directed by Tim Van Patten. It originally aired on April 29, 2007 and was watched by 6.76 million viewers upon its premiere.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring 1.1.1 Also guest starring

2 Episode recap
3 First appearance
4 Deceased
5 Final appearances
6 Title reference
7 Production
8 Connections to prior episodes
9 Other cultural and historical references
10 Music
11 References
12 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr. *
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri *
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
Max Casella as Benny Fazio
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Jerry Adler as Hesh Rabkin
Also guest starring[edit]
Nancy Sinatra as Herself
Tom Aldredge as Hugh De Angelis
Elizabeth Bracco as Marie Spatafore
Arthur J. Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
Dania Ramirez as Blanca Selgado
Suzanne Shepherd as Mary De Angelis
Brandon Hannan as Vito Spatafore, Jr.
Anthony J. Ribustello as Dante Greco
Taleb Adlah as Ahmed
Donnie Keshawarz as Muhammad
John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia as Albie Cianflone
Matthew Del Negro as Brian Cammarata
Paulina Gerzon as Francesca Spatafore
Geoffrey Cantor as Eli Kaplan
Tracey Silver as Beth Kaplan
Lanette Ware as Renata
Joseph Perrino as Jason Gervasi
John Cenatiempo as Anthony Maffei
Mason Pettit as Ted Yacanelli
Drew Wininger as Fan
Kobi and Kadin George as Hector Selgado
Heidi Dippold as Janine Cammarata
Episode recap[edit]
Tony Soprano is gambling with increasing ferociousness and frequency. He hits a particularly unlucky gambling stretch and his continuing losses begin to impact his financial obligations as boss. Vito Spatafore's widow, Marie, turns to Tony for help with her son, Vito Jr., who has become markedly antisocial following his father's murder. Vito, now a Goth, desecrates a graveyard, hangs a cat, and constantly misbehaves at school. Having been previously told by her late husband that she "would be taken care of" in case of his death, Marie approaches Tony with a request for $100,000 to move her family to Maine, where she believes her family could escape the contempt of the neighborhood for Vito's homosexuality and her son could be resocialized. Tony, to Marie's disappointment, resists and suggests that Phil Leotardo (Marie's cousin, who murdered her husband and who now, Tony believes, should compensate for any fallout of his actions) should get involved. Tony meets Phil in a party where he is celebrating becoming the boss of the Lupertazzi crime family, complete with a private singing performance of Nancy Sinatra. Phil agrees to talk to Vito's son. Both Phil and Tony each have a man-to-man talk with Vito Jr. to try to make him stop his delinquency, but their attempts seem to be fruitless and neither of them is willing to help with the move financially. However, Tony changes his tune after Vito Jr. publicly defecates in the school shower after being teased and is expelled from school. Tony proclaims to his closest subordinates that he will pay for the relocation of the Spatafores and receives their commendations for his claimed goodwill; Tony also angrily adds he will "never forgive" Phil for killing his capo without his permission. However, Tony soon gambles away the $100,000 he had reserved for the family's move to Maine on a football bet. In a change of plans, he offers Marie to pay her to sign her son up to a boot camp program in Idaho instead. He plays down Marie's worries that corporal punishment is permitted in such places, assuring her not to "worry" about the expenses as he would pay the $18,000 for it. Marie takes her time swallowing the disappointing offer but ultimately accepts it. Vito Jr. is then soon promptly taken away from his home against his will by the boot camp's representatives, leaving his mother and sister in tears at the sight.
At the same time, Hesh Rabkin begins to regret lending $200,000 to Tony as a bridge loan. Tony only grudgingly and disrespectfully pays Hesh his points, often making a show of the act. Hesh, increasingly worried and suffering from hypertension, later discusses with his son-in-law, Eli Kaplan, his concerns that Tony will find it easier to kill Hesh than pay him back and that debts end up destroying friendships. In fact, two of Tony's crime family's members, Bobby Baccalieri and Carlo Gervasi, encourage Tony to stiff Hesh, but Tony angrily responds that if Carlo earned as well as Vito had, he would not be in the financial situation he is in and that he has to maintain his public image of a boss paying his dues.
One day, from his car, Tony spots and eyes Ahmed and Muhammad mingling with traditionally dressed Middle-Easterners in a street.
A.J. proposes to Blanca, and she initially accepts, but later surprises him when she ends the relationship during the Puerto Rican Day Parade, citing her uncertainty whether she loves him.
Carmela and her father Hugh finally sell their spec house to her cousin Brian Cammarata. During the final inspection, Carmela worries about the sub-standard building materials her father used, going as far to call him during the night when a rain storm causes her to question the wood for the studs they used, but Hugh is not worried saying he has used the same material before. When she tells Tony that she has cleared $600K on the house, he passionately informs her about a "sure thing" gambling tip and encourages her to bet some of "his half" on a football game, but Carmela refuses, disappointed Tony would claim ownership of her earnings, although he quickly apologizes, accepting the money as hers. However, when Tony's pegged team does indeed win the football game, he gets furious Carmela did not bet and this way lost on winning big. They get into a heated and violent argument in which Tony brings up Carmela stealing money from his bird feed container to make market investments some years ago and reminds her of his contribution to her spec house venture by making the building inspector ignore the construction regulation shortcomings, for all of which he never got any proceeds. Carmela storms off when Tony speaks malice when he says her spec house's poor roof will collapse and kill Brian's unborn child.
In a session with Dr. Melfi, she confronts Tony about his habit of missing their meetings and only seeing them as his "vacation" time or a way to deal with his panic attacks he used to have. She says she has tolerated this enough, and tells him to either participate in therapy diligently or quit it altogether. Tony assures her he will attend the sessions. On the subject of his gambling fever, Melfi questions Tony if what he is "chasing" is really the money or the "high from winning." Tony admits there would be no attraction to gamble if the practice did not carry the inherent danger of losing.
Tony approaches Carmela to once again apologize to her. They seem to reconcile, and she expresses she feels their family is constantly vulnerable to various threats which never stops worrying her. Tony says that, although he lately lost a lot of money gambling, he survived a serious life-threatening gunshot wound and therefore, in the bigger picture, is "up" in life.
After Hesh's girlfriend suddenly dies of an apparent stroke,[2] Tony finally brings the full sum of owed money to a distraught Hesh, expressing his condolences.
First appearance[edit]
Jason Gervasi: Son of DiMeo capo Carlo Gervasi. He is seen greeting his father getting out of a car.
Deceased[edit]
Renata, girlfriend of Hesh Rabkin. Her cause of death is not revealed, but Hesh mentioned she was having migraines. Her death is attributed to a stroke in the official HBO website recap of the episode.
Final appearances[edit]
"Chasing It" marks the final appearances in the series of these longtime recurring characters:
Hesh Rabkin: Close associate of the Soprano/DiMeo crime family ever since the times of "Johnny Boy" Soprano.
Hugh De Angelis and Mary De Angelis: The parents of Carmela Soprano.
Title reference[edit]
The title refers to Tony's gambling addiction. "Chasing the vig" is common parlance in gambling vernacular for when one loses a bet(s) and then makes further wagers in order to either make up for the losses and/or keep up with any loan interest (the vig) accrued.
It could also refer to Hesh having to actively look for Tony's debt money.
It could also refer to the tendency of Tony to chase the thrill of winning in dangerous activities, as hypothesized by Dr. Melfi.
Production[edit]
Max Casella (Benny Fazio) is promoted to the main cast of the series and billed in the opening credits but only for this episode.
The character of Vito Spatafore Jr. was recast for this episode with Brandon Hannan replacing Frank Borrelli.
John Cenatiempo, a stuntman on The Sopranos since its first season, joins the ranks of show's actors as well, appearing as a mostly background Soprano crime family mobster character Anthony Maffei, beginning with this episode.
This episode in unique in that it almost throughout its entirety employs the shaky camera style, with the exception of Dr. Melfi's scenes and scenes in Tony's car. The style may represent the episode's theme of Tony's feverish gambling and losing spree.
The casino scenes were filmed at Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel and Casino.
The headstone that Vito Jr. knocks over in the cemetery is for a "David M. Hackel". Episode writer Matthew Weiner worked for David Hackel as a writer for the sitcom Becker.[3]
The harmonica player in Sinatra's band is Southside Johnny Lyon, an underground legend of New Jersey's music scene. Notably, he has worked extensively with Little Steven Van Zandt, who portrays the character of Silvio Dante. Van Zandt has written, produced and performed on four of Lyon's albums and was a founding member of his band, the Asbury Jukes, before leaving to join Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Both Springsteen and Van Zandt appear on the Asbury Jukes' Better Days album, on the song "It's Been a Long Time".
Blanca breaks up with A.J. at the New York Puerto Rican Day Parade, which is held every year in June. However, Tony wagers on several NFL football games when the NFL season (including preseason) takes place from August to February. Moreover, due to the format of the NFL schedule, two of the games he bets on, Buffalo Bills-Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Miami Dolphins-Philadelphia Eagles, cannot take place in the same season--both Miami and Buffalo play in the AFC East and would therefore play their inter-conference NFC games against teams from a single division, but Philadelphia is part of the NFC East and Tampa Bay the NFC South.
The Tampa Bay-Buffalo football game being watched at the Bing that Tony loses money on is actually footage from the film The Replacements.
Connections to prior episodes[edit]
While Tony lectures Vito Jr., he tells him he "goes about in pity for himself", which was the phrase he became intrigued with while in the hospital, and the same thing he said to Artie Bucco in the Season 6, Part I episode "Luxury Lounge"
"Johnny Boy" Soprano once, after he cut off Satriale's (who owed him money) finger, told Tony to never ever gamble for the debts could get a man into serious trouble. (A flashback in the Season 3 episode "Fortunate Son")
Tony brings up to Carmela she stole money from his bird feed stashes, which happened in the Season 4 episode "Mergers and Acquisitions."
Tony also mentions her about his leaning on her spec house building inspector ("Kaisha").
The ornament that Carmela throws at Tony and smashes against the wall is the Lladró figurine that she tells A.J. and his girlfriend is worth $3,000 in the Season 4 episode "Everybody Hurts".
Tony tries to give Hesh a cap from Cleaver, which was Christopher's movie from "Stage 5".
Other cultural and historical references[edit]
Silvio Dante is seen reading a newspaper with an advertisement for Filene's Basement.
The horse race Tony lost big on in Atlantic City was portrayed as being simulcast from Batavia Downs.
Christopher says Vito Jr. is probably planning another Columbine.
When Tony and Bobby drop by to take him for a ride, Hesh lies and tells Tony he was watching a piece on the Hezbollah on CNN.
The Twilight Zone episode that Carlo attempts to explain to Tony is entitled "A Nice Place to Visit." In that episode, a dead gangster, Rocky Valentine, finds himself unable to lose when gambling and able to have any woman or any other pleasure he desires.
Tony loses an NBA wager when Jerry Stackhouse hits a buzzer beater.
When Tony switches channels from the basketball game he was betting on as Carmela comes into the bedroom, the TV station shows a clip of then-president George W. Bush meeting the visiting Saudi king.
Music[edit]
Nancy Sinatra sings "Bossman", a track off her 2004 album Nancy Sinatra, to a gathering of the New York and New Jersey families celebrating Phil Leotardo becoming boss.
The song played in the Bada Bing! during the Buffalo-Buccaneers game is "Kernkraft 400" by Zombie Nation.
The guitar instrumental "Cavatina" is playing in the restaurant when A.J. proposes to Blanca.
The music A.J. listens to in his car, while driving to the Puerto Rican parade day, is "Rompe" by Daddy Yankee.
The music heard in the background when Blanca breaks up with A.J. is an instrumental version of Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca".
Song playing when Tony is driving in the Escalade is Bill Doggett's "Honky Tonk."
When Tony is in the back room of the Bing, talking to Silvio about Vito, Jr., "The Peppermint Twist" (1961) is playing. It is by Joey Dee & The Starlighters (from New Jersey).
The song played over the end credits is "Goin' Down Slow" by Howlin' Wolf.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/05/02/2007-05-02_sopranos_viewers_on_the_lam.html
2.Jump up ^ From the official Sopranos website synopsis: "...he finds her dead in bed - a stroke." http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/episode/season6/episode81.shtml
3.Jump up ^ http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-sopranos13may13,1,7364538.story?track=crosspromo&coll=la-headlines-entnews&ctrack=2&cset=true
External links[edit]
"Chasing It" at HBO
"Chasing It" at the Internet Movie Database
"Chasing It" at TV.com


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Tony Soprano ·
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 Christopher Moltisanti ·
 Junior Soprano ·
 Big Pussy Bonpensiero ·
 Silvio Dante ·
 Paulie Gualtieri ·
 Anthony Soprano, Jr. ·
 Meadow Soprano ·
 Adriana La Cerva ·
 Janice Soprano ·
 Bobby Baccalieri ·
 Livia Soprano
 

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Johnny Sack ·
 Artie Bucco ·
 Dwight Harris ·
 Hesh Rabkin ·
 Rosalie Aprile ·
 Phil Leotardo ·
 Ralph Cifaretto ·
 Tony Blundetto ·
 Richie Aprile ·
 Vito Spatafore ·
 Furio Giunta ·
 Patsy Parisi ·
 Carlo Gervasi ·
 Charmaine Bucco ·
 Carmine Lupertazzi ·
 Little Carmine ·
 Benny Fazio ·
 Ray Curto ·
 Eugene Pontecorvo ·
 Little Paulie Germani ·
 Jackie Aprile, Jr. ·
 Mikey Palmice ·
 Brendan Filone ·
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Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


Part II

"Soprano Home Movies" ·
 "Stage 5" ·
 "Remember When" ·
 "Chasing It" ·
 "Walk Like a Man" ·
 "Kennedy and Heidi" ·
 "The Second Coming" ·
 "The Blue Comet" ·
 "Made in America"
 



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"Remember When"
The Sopranos episode
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Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 15
Directed by
Phil Abraham
Written by
Terence Winter
Production code
615
Original air date
April 22, 2007
Running time
58 minutes
Guest actors


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"Remember When" is the eightieth episode of the HBO television series The Sopranos. It is the third episode of the second half of the show's sixth season, the fifteenth episode of the season overall. It was written by Terence Winter and was directed by Phil Abraham. It originally aired on April 22, 2007 and was watched by 6.85 million viewers upon its premiere.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring 1.1.1 Also guest starring

2 Episode recap 2.1 Tony and Paulie go into hiding
2.2 Phil becomes boss
2.3 Junior in asylum
3 Deceased
4 Title reference
5 Production
6 Connections to prior episodes
7 Other cultural and historical references
8 Music
9 References
10 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi *
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr.
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr. *
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano *
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri *
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Jerry Adler as Hesh Rabkin
Also guest starring[edit]
Vincent Pastore as "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero
Ken Leung as Carter Chong
Gregory Antonacci as Butch DeConcini
Frank Albanese as Pat Blundetto
Dan Conte as Faustino "Doc" Santoro
Paul Herman as "Beansie" Gaeta
Nashawn Kearse as Jameel
Jen Araki as Anika
Elizabeth Sung as Mrs. Chong
Gaston Renaud as Ramon
Herbert Rogers as Willie Overall
Charles Morgan as Prof. Brian Lynch
Stephen Singer as Dr. Mandl
Serafin Falcon as Esteban
Stink Fisher as Warren
Joe Pucillo as Beppy Scerbo
Donna Smythe as Gia Gaeta
Joseph Adams as Larry
Brian D. Coats as Itzhak
Joseph Conti as "Doc" Santoro's bodyguard
Kevin Kean Murphy as Ascot Man
Joseph Siravo as "Johnny Boy" Soprano (photo)
Rocco Sisto as Young Junior Soprano (photo)
Episode recap[edit]
Tony and Paulie go into hiding[edit]
On a suspected tip from the reincarcerated capo "Larry Boy" Barese, the FBI begin investigating an old murder of a small-time bookie named Willie Overall. Overall was Tony's first murder, which happened on Labor Day weekend of 1982 when Tony was 22. The hit was assigned to Tony by his father, DiMeo Family Capo "Johnny Boy" Soprano, and Paulie Gualtieri accompanied him on it. Paulie goes to Tony's house and informs him of the situation, and, after the Bureau starts digging for Willie's body, Tony and Paulie pack up and drive toward Miami, Florida, to lie low until the heat blows over. The FBI indeed manage to find Overall's remains.
On the trip down to Miami, Tony at first enjoys reminiscing old times with Paulie but soon grows weary of his annoying mannerisms and tendency to sometimes blab carelessly with strangers. Suspecting his previous disloyalty, Tony questions Paulie several times about the circumstance by which Johnny "Sack" became aware of Ralph Cifaretto's joke made at the expense of his wife, Ginny Sacrimoni, back in 2002 that caused great tensions between the two families, but Paulie denies any knowledge of it. The two visit "Beansie" Gaeta in Miami and all have dinner together with some women at a restaurant. Beansie and Paulie share old stories and joke and Beansie shows them some old photos: one of a younger Paulie and the other of Tony's father with Junior. Tony gets irritated by the incessant reminiscing and Paulie once almost mentioning mob crimes to civilians and resigns from the table, angrily dubbing "remember when" as "the lowest form of conversation." After having sex with one of the women, though, Tony learns she had an impression he was Paulie's best friend from all of Paulie's stories about him at the table. Tony admits Paulie used to be his role-model when growing up.
Tony phones Hesh Rabkin to ask him for some money in the form of a bridge loan from him, as he says he needs to pay back some gambling debts which he attributes to a run of bad luck. Hesh accepts to give him the money.
Paulie and Tony also manage to do some business while in hiding. They arrange a meeting with some Cuban contacts of Beansie, but when more men then expected suddenly arrive, Paulie charges to meet them unfazed, making Tony, who would have preferred more caution, follow him. The meeting goes well in the end, and the parties agree to trade stolen goods between them.
In a later conversation with Beansie, Tony expresses his concerns about Paulie, particularly his loose tongue, diminishing earnings and his vulnerability to the Feds due to his lack of legitimate income on his IRS tax returns. Beansie sticks up for Paulie, saying his peculiar behavior owes to him having no wife or children, since he only has Tony and his crew for friendship. Beansie adds Paulie has great respect for Tony, and the mob boss admits to once finding a painting of him as a general at Paulie's house which he did not think was a joke. Plus, Tony commends Paulie's ever-present boldness, remembering their very recent meeting with the Cubans as an example. Nevertheless, Tony still wonders whether Paulie's loyalty has ever been truly "put to the test."
Larry's misinformation about Willie Overall's murder leads the FBI to blame it on the deceased Jackie Aprile, Sr. Tony invites Paulie on a sport fishing trip to celebrate. Paulie has serious misgivings about going out alone on the open ocean with Tony, remembering how a boat trip was used to lure informant "Big Pussy" to his death, but ultimately joins him. While on the boat, Tony once again, this time aggressively, interrogates Paulie about the Ginny "Sack" joke leak, but Paulie again denies any involvement. Tony then gets up from his seat to fetch a bottle and spots a sharp bait-knife on the boat's floor and then glances at Paulie, who is standing at the edge of the boat with his back turned. Tony picks the bottle instead of the knife, though throws it at him with force. Paulie catches it and protests, but Tony insists the throw was a joke, with a contorted smile on his face.
Later that night, Paulie has a dream in which he gets home from the trip and finds Big Pussy at the stove, baking a meal. Paulie asks Pussy, "When my time comes, tell me? Will I stand up?" Paulie awakens startled and is then shown frantically lifting weights in his living room with a scowl on his face.
Once they return to Jersey, Paulie sends Tony and Carmela a $2,000 espresso machine. When she wonders why, Tony angrily defends Paulie, saying that they wouldn't live the "good life" without people like Paulie's hard work.
Phil becomes boss[edit]
Faustino "Doc" Santoro's reign as the new boss of the Lupertazzi crime family is very short lived - after leaving a massage parlor in New York, Doc and his bodyguard are shot and killed by multiple gunshots from hit men sent by Phil Leotardo. Santoro seemed to have sealed his fate when he insulted Phil by literally taking food off his plate during a sit down dinner in front of other mobsters, even after Phil recognized Faustino as the official boss. With Faustino gone, Phil officially becomes the boss of the crime family.
Junior in asylum[edit]
At the Wyckoff mental care center, Junior Soprano gets a visit from former soldiers from his crew, Pat Blundetto and Beppy Scerbo. They still "kick him up" money and Junior begs them to aid him in his escape from the Center. Pat suggests he make an appointment with an outside dentist so that he and Beppy could sneak Junior off in their car.
Junior seems to return to his old mob crime habits and customs even while being kept in the mental institution. He bribes one of the orderlies, Jameel, for special treatment and organizes a poker game one night, using colored buttons as chips and (banned) soda and candy as purchasable snacks for the gambler patients, the whole setup a la The Executive Card Game he once used to run. Junior entertains the patients with his off-color jokes, but the game ends prematurely when another patient, Prof. Lynch, who is resentful towards Junior, informs another orderly, who is not on the take, about it.
Junior finds an admiring follower in a much younger fellow patient Carter Chong. Carter, apparently in the institution for uncontrollable violent outbursts of anger (particularly displayed when he remembers his demanding father), serves as Junior's assistant. He brings him his tea, helps him write a letter to reinvestigate his legal case to Vice President Dick Cheney, among other things. Carter also picks up using profanity from Junior, which worries his visiting mother, who tells him to not socialize with the mobster.
When Pat calls Junior about his escape plan, Junior is both confused and unwilling to go ahead with it, preferring to stay in the mental care center after all.
One day, Junior is provoked by Professor Lynch, and gives him a beating in the presence of the staff. The physicians then prescribe Junior a new plan of meds which leaves him highly sedated most of the time. Carter devises a technique to distract the orderlies handing out the pills to Junior so that he can covertly throw them away. Unfortunately, some of the drugs were meant to combat Junior's incontinence, and he soon humiliatingly urinates on himself. Correctly suspected of receiving bribes, Jameel is fired, and Junior is confronted by the psychiatric doctor in charge who threatens to transfer him to a less pleasant, state-run mental facility if he does not take his medications. Junior decides to comply with the pharmaceutical treatment plan after all, much to the disappointment of Carter.
Junior tries to make amends with Carter, but refers to the young man as "Anthony." Later that day, during a sing-along in the recreation room, Carter throws a few wads of paper at the woman playing the piano, in hopes of getting a laugh out of Junior. But when he looks back at him and shakes his head disapprovingly, Carter becomes enraged and furiously attacks Junior, hitting him repeatedly and attempting to strangle him, before he is wrestled to the ground by the orderlies.
The episode ends with a scene of the mental patients engaged in some animal-assisted therapy outdoors. Junior is sitting in a wheelchair now, his arm is in a plaster cast and his broken eyeglasses are taped back together. Junior, in a catatonic-like state, is idly petting a cat.
Deceased[edit]
Willie Overall: shot dead by Tony Soprano with a revolver on orders from "Johnny Boy" Soprano. Tony's very first murder at the age of 22. (A flashback from 1982)
Faustino "Doc" Santoro: killed after leaving a massage parlor in New York City by multiple gunshots from a trio of gunmen on orders from Phil Leotardo to take over his Lupertazzi crime family boss's title and/or as a revenge for the Gerry Torciano murder and/or as payback for his insults done to Phil.
Unnamed Bodyguard: killed alongside "Doc" Santoro.
Title reference[edit]
Tony angrily describes "Remember when..." reminiscing as the lowest form of conversation.
Many stories from the past are told in this episode, particularly from Paulie, most of them beginning with the phrase "Remember when...?"
Junior briefly gets a taste of his old life while running his card game in the hospital.
Could also refer to Junior's advancing stages of dementia and his increasing memory loss.
A recurrent motif is Tony reminiscing about the disclosure of Ralph's insensitive joke to Johnny Sack.
Production[edit]
"Remember When" was the career directorial debut of Phil Abraham, a longtime Sopranos cinematographer ever since the first season of the show. Abraham initially started only as a camera operator for the TV series.
Connections to prior episodes[edit]
Paulie remembers the time Ralphie was obsessed with Gladiator and hit Georgie with a chain, which happened in the Season 3 episode "University."
Tony repeatedly asks Paulie if he told Johnny "Sack" about the off-color joke that Ralph told about a mole on Ginny "Sack"'s posterior (as seen in "No Show"). Paulie denies this (Paulie actually did tell it to Johnny "Sack," as shown in the episode "Christopher").
Beansie is a paraplegic and has to void "in a bag" due to his injuries sustained when he was run over by Richie Aprile, as seen in the Season 2 instalment "Toodle Fucking-Oo."
Tony remembers finding a painting of him as a general at Paulie's house (Season 5 finale "All Due Respect").
When Paulie boards a boat with Tony, this episode uses flashback scenes from the murder of Big Pussy on a boat, taken from the Season 2 finale "Funhouse."
Other cultural and historical references[edit]
During the times Junior is in his room, he watches television. Shows that he watched in this episode included a Weather Channel documentary hosted by Jim Cantore, and The $25,000 Pyramid.
When driving through Maryland near Washington, DC, Paulie asks, "Chevy Chase, whatever happened to him?" Paulie means the actor Chevy Chase but is actually looking at a road sign for the town Chevy Chase.
Paulie mentions an incident when, after being pulled over, Tony's father tricked him into insulting a cop by saying his cousin was "on the job" and his name was Barney Fife.
In his letter to Dick Cheney, Junior refers to the then-Vice President's 2006 hunting incident as an example of a gun discharge accident, which, Junior claims, is similar to his own "accidental" shooting of Tony Soprano.
Junior's orderly Jameel sells his autographed photos on eBay.
Tony, complaining about what a big mouth Paulie is, mutters "Gary Cooper," a reference to an actor known as the strong, silent type.
When Tony hears Paulie laughing loudly, he leans over his balcony and sees Paulie sitting on his bed, watching the 70's sitcom Three's Company.
As a diversion for Junior to covertly not take his drugs, Carter screams: "Where is my iPod?!"
The closing scene which depicts Uncle Junior sitting on an outdoor chair, lost in thought, as the screen slowly fades to black, is possibly a nod to the closing scene of The Godfather Part II, which shows Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in a similar pose. Michael Corleone's father Vito Corleone was memorably depicted stroking a cat in The Godfather.
In addition, Tony's tomato plants in his yard are highly reminiscent of the ones Vito Corleone used to have in his garden.
Music[edit]
The song playing on the radio as Tony and Paulie travel through the Fredericksburg, Virginia area (according to the station identification for WWUZ heard in this scene) was "Rock On", by David Essex.
The instrumental piece played in the bar during Tony and Paulie's stop in Virginia is an instrumental version of "I Just Wanna Stop" by Gino Vannelli.
The piano piece playing in the hotel canteen, when Tony tells Paulie off, is the theme for the movie Terms of Endearment, and was composed by Michael Gore.
The song that Junior is singing with the other patients is "Take Me Home, Country Roads", a song made famous in 1971 by John Denver.
The instrumental piece played over the end credits is "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" by the Benny Goodman Orchestra.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Huff, Richard (2007-04-27). ""Sopranos" ratings slip again". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
External links[edit]
"Remember When" at HBO
"Remember When" at the Internet Movie Database
"Remember When" at TV.com


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The Sopranos


Creator and crew
David Chase ·
 Writers
 

Related articles
Episodes ·
 Awards and nominations ·
 Music ·
 The Sopranos: Road to Respect ·
 Pinball game
 

Fictional universe
Soprano crime family ·
 Members of the Soprano crime family ·
 Lupertazzi crime family ·
 Friends and family ·
 Satriale's Pork Store ·
 Bada Bing ·
 Cleaver ·
 Family tree ·
 FBI
 

Characters


Primary
Tony Soprano ·
 Jennifer Melfi ·
 Carmela Soprano ·
 Christopher Moltisanti ·
 Junior Soprano ·
 Big Pussy Bonpensiero ·
 Silvio Dante ·
 Paulie Gualtieri ·
 Anthony Soprano, Jr. ·
 Meadow Soprano ·
 Adriana La Cerva ·
 Janice Soprano ·
 Bobby Baccalieri ·
 Livia Soprano
 

Secondary
Johnny Sack ·
 Artie Bucco ·
 Dwight Harris ·
 Hesh Rabkin ·
 Rosalie Aprile ·
 Phil Leotardo ·
 Ralph Cifaretto ·
 Tony Blundetto ·
 Richie Aprile ·
 Vito Spatafore ·
 Furio Giunta ·
 Patsy Parisi ·
 Carlo Gervasi ·
 Charmaine Bucco ·
 Carmine Lupertazzi ·
 Little Carmine ·
 Benny Fazio ·
 Ray Curto ·
 Eugene Pontecorvo ·
 Little Paulie Germani ·
 Jackie Aprile, Jr. ·
 Mikey Palmice ·
 Brendan Filone ·
 Matthew Bevilaqua ·
 Sean Gismonte ·
 Larry Barese ·
 Butch DeConcini ·
 Albie Cianflone
 


Episodes


Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
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 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

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 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

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 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

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Stage 5 (The Sopranos)
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"Stage 5"
The Sopranos episode
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Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 14
Directed by
Alan Taylor
Written by
Terence Winter
Cinematography by
Alik Sakharov
Production code
614
Original air date
April 15, 2007
Running time
56 minutes
Guest actors


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"Stage 5" is the seventy-ninth episode of the HBO television series The Sopranos. It is the second episode of the second half of the show's sixth season, the fourteenth episode of the season overall. It was written by Terence Winter, directed by Alan Taylor and originally aired on April 15, 2007.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring 1.1.1 Also guest starring

2 Episode recap
3 Deceased
4 Final appearance
5 Title reference
6 Production
7 References to prior episodes
8 Other cultural references
9 Music
10 References
11 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr. *
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Vincent Curatola as Johnny "Sack" Sacrimoni
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
Ray Abruzzo as Little Carmine Lupertazzi
Sharon Angela as Rosalie Aprile
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Jerry Adler as Hesh Rabkin
Also guest starring[edit]
Sydney Pollack as Warren Feldman
Peter Bogdanovich as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg
Daniel Baldwin as Himself/Sally Boy
Jonathan LaPaglia as Michael the Cleaver
Gregory Antonacci as Butch DeConcini
John Bianco as Gerry Torciano
Denise Borino as Ginny Sacrimoni
Cara Buono as Kelli Lombardo Moltisanti
John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia as Albie Cianflone
Dan Conte as Faustino "Doc" Santoro
Miryam Coppersmith as Sophia Baccalieri
Tim Daly as J.T. Dolan
Tony Darrow as Lawrence "Larry Boy" Barese
Michael Kelly as Agent Ron Goddard
Marianne Leone as Joanne Moltisanti
Geraldine LiBrandi as Patty Leotardo
Lou Martini, Jr. as Anthony Infante
Angelo Massagli as Bobby Baccalieri, Jr.
Christopher McDonald as Eddie Dunne
Cristin Milioti as Catherine Sacrimoni
Arthur J. Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
Dania Ramirez as Blanca Selgado
Anthony J. Ribustello as Dante Greco
Geraldo Rivera as Himself
Matt Servitto as Agent Dwight Harris
Caitlin Van Zandt as Allegra Marie Sacrimoni
Maureen Van Zandt as Gabriella Dante
Matthew Weiner as Manny Safier
John Wu as Morgan Yam
Seth Barrish as Dr. Uri Rosen
Jerry Capeci as Himself
Maulik Pancholy as Dr. Ajit Gupte
Kevin McKelvey as U.S. Marshal Lunt
Ariana DiLorenzo as Alexandra Lupertazzi
Jane Kim as Dominique
Allison Dunbar as Nicole Lupertazzi
Kobi and Kadin George as Hector Selgado
Guy A. Fortt as Guard
Susan Porro as J.T. Dolan's Girlfriend
Maria Iadonisi as Larry Barese's Wife
Sam Semenza as Carmine Lupertazzi III
Anna Mancini as Donna Parisi
Lenny Ligotti as Nicky
George Pogatsia as Frankie
Episode recap[edit]
Christopher Moltisanti and Little Carmine's Mafia-oriented slasher film Cleaver is completed, with Daniel Baldwin starring as the mob boss antagonist. They present the final cut of the movie to the investors who seem pleased with the way it looks. At the Soprano dinner table, Carmela states that the film's premiere and subsequent after-party will take place in the fashionable Meatpacking District of Manhattan. Meadow mentions her breakup with her fiancé Finn, but is unwilling to divulge any details. Carmela then mentions Christopher and Kelli are getting ready to baptize their infant daughter Caitlin. Meanwhile, there appears to be tension between A.J. and his girlfriend Blanca.
Tony is alarmed when FBI Agents Harris and Goddard surprise him while he is getting the morning paper in his driveway, but they simply indicate that Tony's work may expose him to information relating to terrorists and ask that he relate this information to them, as they now work on the Terrorism Task Force. Tony retreats back indoors and furiously insists to Carmela that the maid get the newspaper from now on.
Christopher and Little Carmine proudly present their film Cleaver to the audience at the premiere screening. In the movie, the mob boss, Sally Boy, is portrayed meeting his crew in his basement wearing a white robe and often displaying a vulgar attitude. He also has sex with the main protagonist's fiancée and other women. The film ends with the anti-hero Michael the Cleaver killing Sally by cutting his head open with his cleaver and this way getting his final revenge.
At the after party, Tony congratulates Christopher on his film and mingles with the film's stars and Lupertazzi crime family party guests. Larry Boy Barese is arrested by federal marshals for violating his house arrest.
Carmela approaches Tony to discuss Cleaver with him. She tells him she sees many similarities between Baldwin's character and Tony. Carmela is upset because the mob boss makes romantic advances on his subordinate's fiancée, which Carmela equates to Adriana La Cerva. She also warns Tony she sees the violent murder of Sally Boy as Christopher's "revenge fantasy" against Tony.
Christopher speaks to his latest Narcotics Anonymous sponsor, Eddie Dunne. He is congratulated for his diligent recovery from the latest drug relapse. Christopher reveals he no longer visits the Bada Bing! or other usual mob hangouts to avoid the tempting alcohol presence and any "old habits" returning, but says Tony and others do not understand the reason why he is doing this and believe he is purposely avoiding them.
Carmela confronts Christopher about Cleaver and, what she perceives to be, its caricaturization of Tony and states her disappointment in her cousin. Christopher denies any similarities between Tony and Sally Boy to her but remains worried about what his boss's conclusions about the character's fictional origin could be. He then therefore asks the film's screenwriter J.T. Dolan to claim to Tony that the character of Sally Boy was his idea. When J.T. refuses, Christopher hits him over the head with a Humanitas Prize trophy. J.T. then visits the Bada Bing! and explains to Tony that he stole the boss character's story, and the love triangle, from the film Born Yesterday with Broderick Crawford. Tony notices the bruise on J.T.'s head, but J.T. claims it resulted from a bump into a cabinet. Tony then watches the film on his TV at home. Tony painfully confesses to Dr. Melfi that he believes Christopher despises him and that Cleaver illustrates his hatred. He recalls being a father figure to Christopher just as Christopher's late father, "Dickie" was to Tony. Tony emotionally admits that he loved Christopher as if he were his own son. Melfi tries to ask Tony to cautiously evaluate if he is not "seeing into things," but her patient says his years of psychotherapy sessions with her have taught him enough about the human subconscious to know what the real truth is.
Johnny "Sack", the de jure boss of the Lupertazzi crime family, is revealed to be afflicted by an advanced form of stage IV small-cell lung cancer and is only given three months to live by his oncologist. He has been transferred to the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, where he is often visited by his family and where he befriends a former oncologist inmate Warren Feldman, who is a convicted murderer serving as a prison orderly. Warren tells Johnny he might live for "years" after the chemotherapy he received, and it seems to lift up his spirits. Johnny makes his family upset by continuing to smoke and regales Warren and other prisoners with real-life crime stories from the mob world. However, his health declines steadily and even Warren has to admit Johnny is dying. "Sack" spends his last days wondering what reputation "on the street" he leaves to be remembered by, and Anthony Infante tells him that, despite his allocution in court, he is still "well respected," even if at times known to have been hot-headed. Johnny finally dies surrounded by his wife and two daughters at his bedside.
Phil Leotardo seems to be unwilling to take the reins of being the official boss of the Lupertazzi crime family, after reevaluating his stressful life following his heart attack, and is stepping back to let his protégé Gerry Torciano take over. However, Gerry is soon audaciously murdered by a hitman while having dinner with Silvio Dante and some women in an Italian restaurant. Gerry is riddled with bullets and Silvio is splashed with his blood but left unhurt. The killing is believed to have been ordered by Faustino "Doc" Santoro, an aspiring New York made man, this way making an aggressive move to take the boss' title. Tony is furious Silvio was put in such danger during the assassination and used as a "decoy" without his knowledge or consent. Tony arranges a meeting with Little Carmine to urge him to vie for the Lupertazzi boss' position again, as he did in the past, saying he would much prefer Carmine being the boss rather than "Doc." Little Carmine refuses, though, saying his wife had convinced him the riches are not worth living their lives with the constant threat of danger to his life, all of which would come with the title. Tony seems to study his words thoughtfully.
On the day that would have been his late brother Billy's 47th birthday, Phil invites family and close friends to a New York bar hangout to honor his memory. He gives a birthday cake for the gathered children but seems disappointed when they seem to not know the answers to some Italian heritage questions he asks them. Phil talks to Butch DeConcini and expresses his fuming bitterness over having never taken vengeance for past injuries, including never avenging his brother's death at the hands of "that animal" Tony Blundetto. Phil wonders if his family is doomed to fail, revealing that his grandparents' surname was Leonardo but was changed to Leotardo by US immigration officials, which Phil believes was a deliberate attempt to undermine their Italian lineage. Phil says he compromised for too much in his life, and says the 20 years he served in prison without giving any incriminating information about the members of his crime family seem to have been for nothing. As "Evidently Chickentown" by John Cooper Clarke starts playing, Butch encourages Phil by saying he is "a man" and that these days it is highly significant in the organization, as Phil tells him he will no longer compromise in his life, his presence in the bar now overlooked over his head by hanging framed pictures of the deceased Billy, Johnny "Sack," and Carmine Lupertazzi.
In a church, Tony becomes the godfather to Chris' daughter, Caitlin, at her baptism. The tension between Tony and Christopher remains unspoken as they embrace firmly.
Deceased[edit]
Gerardo "Gerry" Torciano: shot multiple times to death in a restaurant by a hitman on orders from Faustino "Doc" Santoro to remove him from contention to the Lupertazzi family boss' position.
John "Johnny Sack" Sacrimoni: dies of lung cancer in prison.
Final appearance[edit]
"Stage 5" marks the final appearance of the character Lorenzo "Larry Boy" Barese, a DiMeo/Soprano family capo. Larry is only mentioned in future episodes.
Title reference[edit]
After being told that his cancer has advanced to stage IV, Johnny "Sack" guesses there is no stage V.
The title could also refer to the fifth stage of grief which is acceptance, as Johnny "Sack" accepts his fate after the doctor gives him his diagnoses.
It could also refer to Christopher's movie finally being completed.
Production[edit]
Series writer Matthew Weiner appears for the second time in the series as Mafia expert/author Manny Safier, this time on Geraldo Rivera's show.
HBO released a mockumentary "Behind the Scenes" look at Cleaver titled Making Cleaver the week before the episode was released. It featured in-character interviews with Christopher, Little Carmine, director Morgan Yam, and actors Daniel Baldwin and Jonathan La Paglia, and the head make-up specialist. The mockumentary is included in The Sopranos Season 6 Part 2 DVD set and the Complete Series DVD collection.
References to prior episodes[edit]
In what seems to be an Easter egg, in the climactic scene in Cleaver, just before Sally Boy is killed by Michael, there is a detailed camera shot of a car's rear-view mirror under which, along with the crucifix necklace, hangs the same key chain that Furio Giunta brought back from Italy for A.J. as a souvenir in the season 4 episode, "The Strong, Silent Type". Little Carmine explains to his daughter Alexandra that it represents "the sacred and the propane" (mistaking the common phrase "the sacred and the profane").
Christopher's new NA sponsor reminds Christopher in what a poor condition of drug use relapse he was that time when he came into an NA meeting "with a woman," referring to Christopher and Julianna Skiff's affair in "Kaisha" which ended when they broke up and decided to attend an NA meeting.
Carmela believes the character of Sally Boy had sex with the protagonist's fiancée in Cleaver because of Christopher's belief Tony had intercourse with Adriana La Cerva behind his back, which refers to the season 5 episode "Irregular Around the Margins."
Other cultural references[edit]
Blanca angrily asks A.J. if he wants to "sleep with Paris Hilton" when he says he would like to hang out with celebrities at the Cleaver's premiere.
Observing guys being photographed after the showing of Cleaver, Tony makes a wisecrack about "the family of early man," a reference to a 1955 exhibit of photographs at The Museum of Modern Art ("The Family of Man") -- also a book.
Christopher tells his Narcotics Anonymous sponsor he based his revenge-seeking character on Edward Scissorhands--with a cleaver replacing the scissors (although he had at one point consider a ball-peen hammer).
When toasting the memory of Johnny "Sack," Paulie says "Ride the painted pony, let the spinning wheel glide", which is a misquotation of a line from the song "Spinning Wheel" by Blood, Sweat & Tears.
At the country club, Little Carmine changes his drink order from ice tea to an "Arnold Palmer," a beverage made with half ice tea, half lemonade named after golfer Arnold Palmer.
Phil Leotardo asks children at his late brother's birthday commemoration about Leonardo da Vinci. One of the kids incorrectly guesses he was the one who wrote The Da Vinci Code.
Music[edit]
The song "Thank You" by Dido can be heard in the diner when Chris is talking to Eddie Dunne.
Paulie's ringtone, which is heard during the showing of Christopher's film, is the Paul Simon song "Cecelia".
The song/poem played at the end of the episode and over the credits is "Evidently Chickentown" by John Cooper Clarke, from the album Snap, Crackle & Bop.
References[edit]

External links[edit]
"Stage 5" at HBO
"Stage 5" at the Internet Movie Database
"Stage 5" at TV.com


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Soprano Home Movies
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"Soprano Home Movies"
The Sopranos episode
Tony Soprano Home Movies.jpg
Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 13
Directed by
Tim Van Patten
Written by
Diane Frolov
Andrew Schneider
David Chase
Matthew Weiner

Produced by
David Chase
Featured music
"This Magic Moment" by
Ben E. King and The Drifters
Cinematography by
Phil Abraham
Editing by
William B. Stich
Production code
S613
Original air date
April 8, 2007
Running time
51 minutes
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"Soprano Home Movies" is the thirteenth episode of the sixth season of the HBO television drama series The Sopranos and seventy-eighth episode overall. It served as the midseason premiere to the second part of the show's sixth season, the broadcast of which was split into two. It was written by supervising producers Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, series creator/executive producer David Chase and executive producer Matthew Weiner; it was directed by frequent series director Tim Van Patten. The episode first aired in the United States on April 8, 2007.
"Soprano Home Movies", which is set eight months after the preceding episode,[1] details a weekend that series protagonist Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) and his wife Carmela (Edie Falco) spend with his sister Janice (Aida Turturro) and brother-in-law Bobby (Steve Schirripa) at a lakefront vacation home in upstate New York and the complications that arise during this weekend.
The scenes set at the vacation home were filmed in Putnam Valley, New York. "Soprano Home Movies" was watched by 7.66 million American viewers. Critical reception of the midseason premiere was mostly favorable; critics praised the episode for its calm, contemplative storytelling. The episode garnered a number of award nominations and was the episode submitted to Emmy Award voters to represent the season, leading to a nomination for Outstanding Drama Series, an award the show subsequently won.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
2 Episode recap
3 First appearance
4 Deceased
5 Title reference
6 Production 6.1 Writing
6.2 Filming
6.3 Cast notes
7 References to previous episodes
8 Other cultural and historical references
9 Music
10 Reception 10.1 Ratings
10.2 Critical response
10.3 Awards
11 References
12 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi *
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr. *
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Vincent Curatola as Johnny "Sack" Sacrimoni
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
Gregory Antonacci as Butch DeConcini
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
John Bianco as Gerry Torciano
John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia Albie Cianflone
Dominic Chianese, Jr. as Dominic
Daniel P. Conte as Faustino "Doc" Santoro
Armen Garo as Salvatore "Coco" Cogliano
Robert LuPone as Bruce Cusamano
David Margulies as Neil Mink
Arthur J. Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
Dania Ramirez as Blanca Selgado
Saundra Santiago as Jeannie Cusamano
Avery Elaine and Emily Ruth Pulcher as Domenica Baccalieri
Philippe Bergeron as Denis
Christian Laurin as Normand
Marc Bonan as Rene LeCours
Patrena Murray as Mercedes
Jim Bracchitta as Peter Acinapura
Dan Castleman as D.A. Castleman
Eric Morace as Detective Gaudioso
Hunter Gallagher as Brad
Kadin and Kobi George as Hector Selgado
Episode recap[edit]
In a flashback to the winter of 2004, a neighborhood teenage boy witnesses Johnny "Sack"'s (Vincent Curatola) arrest by the FBI and Tony Soprano's dropping of a pistol in the snow as he flees the scene. The same teenage boy later picks up and accidentally fires the gun, and then takes it with him back into his house.
Over three years later, in August 2007, Essex County authorities arrest Tony on a gun charge based on the teenager's testimony as he was caught with the illegal weapon in his car as well as some drugs. Tony spends a short period of time in the Newark city jail, before appearing in court with his attorney, Neil Mink (David Margulies) who easily secures Tony's release on bail.
In Brooklyn, a party is held for Phil Leotardo (Frank Vincent), who has recently returned from the hospital after a long convalescence following a near-fatal heart attack. Phil tells the Lupertazzi mobsters he is ready to act with calm in his decisions and "enjoy [his] grandchildren" (as Tony advised him to).
Tony returns a few hours later to a warm welcome at home. Later, he and Carmela travel to Janice and Bobby's upstate New York lakefront cabin to celebrate Tony's forty-seventh birthday. On the way, Tony is happy to receive a call from his lawyer informing him that the gun charge has been dropped. Tony and Bobby start to bond and they fire Bobby's customized AR-10 assault rifle in the nearby woods. Bobby gives Tony the firearm as a birthday present. The two later relax by fishing on the lake in Bobby's antique motor boat. In a moment of frankness, Tony voices his thoughts to Bobby that there are likely only two ways a mobster's criminal activities might end: either in prison or by getting murdered. Tony tells Bobby that his plans to bring in a protégé, through which he would have given orders and shielded himself from the law enforcement scrutiny, has failed (referring to but not naming Christopher) and that Tony could now look for a higher position in the criminal organization for Bobby, who he says he trusts. Tony also raises the fact that Bobby has never "popped his cherry" in regards to murdering someone and juxtaposes this with the kill record of Bobby's father who Tony refers to as the "Terminator." Bobby replies that he has come close, but that his father never wanted it for him. In North Caldwell, New Jersey, A.J. (Robert Iler) opts to skip going to his new job at "Beansie"'s pizza parlor and uses his parents' bedroom to entertain his girlfriend while also having friends over for a party while his parents are away.
Tony, Carmela, Bobby, and Janice celebrate Tony's birthday with karaoke, drinking and a raucous game of Monopoly. As they all get increasingly drunk, an argument starts after a discussion of Monopoly's house rules. Over Tony's objections, Janice relates a childhood story, which embarrasses Tony, of their father and mother when once a gun accidentally discharged and shot through Livia's beehive; Tony then starts quipping remarks about Janice's looks and past promiscuity which insult Bobby who demands Tony to stop. Tony agrees, but soon resumes his quips at Janice again, making Bobby lose it and punch Tony in the face. The two have a chaotic fight, despite attempts to stop it by their spouses, which ends with Tony lying bloodied and bruised on the floor. Janice scolds Bobby for hitting his boss. Panicking, Bobby runs outside, where he drives off drunk in his Jeep Grand Cherokee and backs into a tree. He returns inside and apologizes to Tony and the two couples go to their beds. Tony wakes up in the middle of the night and tells Bobby and Janice that Bobby beat him fair and square. The next day, the couples seem to make amends, but, as the day progresses, Tony increasingly obsesses over losing the fight to Bobby, making angry comments to anyone who will listen.
Tony and Bobby leave for a prearranged business meeting with two Québécois, but inform their wives they are going to play golf. After a tense ride to the meeting, they find French Canadian gangsters who want to sell them a large amount of expired prescription medication. As a part of the deal, Tony agrees to arrange the murder of one of the Québécois' former brother-in-law and asks Bobby to personally take care of it. Bobby is compelled to accept the task. Carmela and Janice nervously wait for their husbands at the cabin and get into an argument when Carmela shows resentment at Janice's implications that Tony comes from a violent and vengeful family and behaves that way himself. Carmela maintains that Tony is not a "vindictive man." Once the men return to the house, Carmela and Tony leave for home and Bobby immediately sets off for Montreal, where the man he agreed to murder lives.
Bobby finds his target in the laundry room of an apartment building. Seemingly frenzied, Bobby kills him by shooting him in the chest and then in the forehead at point-blank range. The victim rips a part of Bobby's shirt out and the mobster then flees the bloody scene.
Back home, Tony watches the "Soprano Home Movies" DVD given to him by Janice as a birthday present. Mink calls, informing Tony that the gun charge, though dropped by Essex County, has been picked up by the FBI and could be used as a predicate for Tony's RICO case.
Bobby returns to his lakefront house, picks up his daughter and gazes out over the lake in silence as the sun sets.[2][3]
First appearance[edit]
Faustino "Doc" Santoro: a veteran made man, very likely a capo, of the Lupertazzi crime family, one of the mobsters who welcomes Phil Leotardo back from the hospital.
Deceased[edit]
Rene LeCours: shot dead by Bobby Baccalieri in Montreal on orders from Tony Soprano as an assassination contract for $15,000, which was ordered by the French Canadian gangster.
Title reference[edit]
The episode's title derives from Janice's birthday present to Tony: a DVD onto which she has had transferred old home movies of them and their sister during their childhood.
It could also refer to the dysfunctional Soprano family home life (described as such by Tony himself) as seen in the episode by the interactions between Tony and Janice and described in stories about their childhood and their parents by Janice.
Production[edit]
Writing[edit]
"Soprano Home Movies" was written by four of the show's five principal season six writers: supervising producers and writing team Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, series creator and showrunner David Chase and executive producer Matthew Weiner, who had been promoted from co-executive producer before the production of "Soprano Home Movies" began. The four developed the episode's story outline along with executive producer [4][5] Terence Winter.[6][7] "Soprano Home Movies" is Frolov and Schneider's fourth and final official writing credit for the series; it is Chase's twenty-seventh and Weiner's ninth. Chase and Weiner collaborated on two more of the season's episodes: "Kennedy and Heidi" and "The Blue Comet".
Filming[edit]
"Soprano Home Movies" was the first episode of the final nine episodes to be produced, following a six-month-long production hiatus. In preparation for shooting the episode, series creator/executive producer David Chase held several rehearsals with the lead actors.[8]
The scenes at the lakefront vacation home were filmed over two weeks in June 2006 in Putnam Valley, New York. Additional interior shots were filmed six months later at Silvercup Studios, New York, where a replica of the cabin had been built in a sound stage. The lake seen multiple times in the episode is Lake Oscawana. The scenes of Tony and Bobby fishing were filmed on location on the lake but much closer to the shore than it appears in the episode. The scenes set in Montreal were actually filmed in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Filming of the scenes set in New Jersey and the Soprano residence took place on location in Essex County, New Jersey and in Silvercup Studios. [8] While filming the cabin fight scene between Tony and Bobby in Silvercup Studios, Steve Schirripa accidentally headbutted James Gandolfini. The fight scene was choreographed but Gandolfini didn't step out of the way in time. His nose was bloodied but not broken. The real headbutting was kept in the episode.[9]
Cast notes[edit]
Gregory Antonacci, who plays Phil Leotardo's underboss Butch DeConcini on the show, is promoted to the main cast and billed in the opening credits, but only for this episode.
Dominic Chianese's son Dominic Chianese, Jr. joins the show as a mostly background character, New York mobster Dominic, one of the members of the Lupertazzi crime family who greets Phil upon his return from the hospital.
The role of Domenica Baccalieri was recast with twins Avery Elaine and Emily Ruth Pulcher replacing Kimberly and Brianna Laughlin.
References to previous episodes[edit]
The 2004 winter scene of Johnny "Sack"'s arrest is taken from the season 5 finale "All Due Respect."
Carmela mentions the house on the shore she and Tony once wanted to buy and Tony, irritated, changes the subject. Carmela refers to Whitecaps, the house on the Jersey Shore featured in the season four finale named after it whose purchase was abandoned right after Tony and Carmela's separation.
Janice describes to Carmela her previous boyfriend who once hit her and she "exploded" in anger against him, referring to the murder of Richie Aprile in the season two episode "The Knight in White Satin Armor."
Other cultural and historical references[edit]
When Tony sees Bobby wearing shorts and a sleeveless shirt at the lake house, Tony exclaims "National Lampoon's Vacation!" in reference to the 1983 movie starring Chevy Chase.
When Janice tells Tony he has changed and is "different" since the shooting, Tony responds: "Different how? How am I different?", which could be a throwback to Joe Pesci's character Tommy DeVito in the famous Goodfellas scene: "Funny how? How am I Funny?"
Monopoly's creators, the Parker Brothers, are mentioned by Bobby when he disagrees with digressing from the game's original rules.
Casualties of the Iraq War are mentioned in a radio broadcast.
Music[edit]
The song "Funk #49" by the James Gang is played on Tony's car radio as he and Carmela drive to the cabin.
The songs "Love Hurts" by The Everly Brothers, "Moonlight Mile" and "Out of Time" by The Rolling Stones are played during the karaoke scene at the cabin.
The song "Take Five" by The Dave Brubeck Quartet plays in the background as the two couples play Monopoly.
The song played over the end credits is "This Magic Moment" by Ben E. King.
Reception[edit]
Ratings[edit]
"Soprano Home Movies" drew an average of 7.66 million viewers when it first aired on HBO on Sunday April 8, 2007 in the United States. This estimate was done by Nielsen Ratings. This was a significant drop from the 2006 season premiere episode, "Members Only", which attracted 9.47 million viewers and the lowest ratings for a Sopranos premiere since the season two opening episode, "Guy Walks Into a Psychiatrist's Office...", which drew roughly the same number of viewers as "Soprano Home Movies" (7.64 million viewers).[10][11]
Critical response[edit]
The episode was generally well received by critics. Tom Biro of television webblog TV Squad gave the episode a favorable review, writing "All in all, big thumbs up from me."[12] Marisa Carroll of PopMatters called the midseason premiere "stellar" and wrote that "David Chase repeatedly re-imagines ordinary family scenarios—like a weekend trip to the mountains—in brutal, gangster terms. [...] Such signature exaggerations remain both hilarious and unsettling." She awarded the episode a score of 9 out of 10 (shared with the following two episodes).[13] Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Chronicle praised the episode, writing "the series remains as vital and interesting as ever [...] There may be no better (or realistic) way to go forward into this Sopranos swan song."[14] Kim Reed of Television Without Pity gave the midseason premiere an A−, writing "...while, on the surface, not much happened, I think there were a ton of callbacks to previous episodes and that familiar Soprano tension was used to good effect."[15] Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune wrote "this is loose, contemplative Sopranos storytelling at its best."[16] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly was impressed with the midseason premiere and wrote that, despite not being a very eventful episode on the surface, "everything happened".[17] Alan Sepinwall of The Star Ledger gave "Soprano Home Movies" a positive review and praised it for featuring the character of Bobby Bacala in a more prominent role, writing "The hour was largely a refresher course on Tony, Janice and their history, but it also gave Bacala the dignity he's so often been deprived by the writers."[18] Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times gave the episode a mixed review, calling it "solemn" and wrote that "even before last season the series had started to sag in places, a creative fatigue that matched the main characters' weariness and also the audience's."[19] Brian Zoromski of IGN awarded "Soprano Home Movies" a score of 9.5 out of 10, citing the calm, subtle storytelling as a great strength.[20]
Awards[edit]
In 2007, "Soprano Home Movies" was nominated in four categories for the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards. The episode was submitted for consideration in the category of Outstanding Drama Series. This led to a nomination and the show—which was judged by six episodes from the second part of the sixth season, including "Soprano Home Movies"—won.[21][22][23] It was also nominated but failed to win in the categories of Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (Phil Abraham), Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series (William B. Stich), and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (Aida Turturro).[24][25] The episode was also submitted for Emmy consideration in the categories of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Steve Schirripa) and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (David Chase, Diane Frolov, Andrew Schneider, and Matthew Weiner); however, it was not nominated.[26] In 2008, Tim Van Patten was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series, but lost out to Mad Men's Alan Taylor, also a director for The Sopranos, who happened to win the Emmy Award for directing "Kennedy and Heidi" at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards.[27][28]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Kaisha" ends with a Christmas Eve dinner at the Soprano residence, making the date December 24, 2006. In "Soprano Home Movies", they celebrate Tony's forty-seventh birthday. In "Another Toothpick", Tony's birth date is given as August 24, 1960. This means approximately eight months elapsed between the episodes.
Directed by Jack Bender; Written by Terence Winter (2001-03-25). "Another Toothpick". The Sopranos. Season 3. Episode 5. HBO.
Directed by Alan Taylor; Written by Terence Winter and David Chase & Matthew Weiner (2006-06-04). "Kaisha". The Sopranos. Season 6. Episode 12. HBO.
2.Jump up ^ "HBO: The Sopranos: S 6 EP 78 Soprano Home Movies: Synopsis". HBO. Retrieved 2011-03-07.
3.Jump up ^ O'Connor, Mimi (2007-10-30). "The Sopranos: Episode Guide". In Martin, Brett. The Sopranos: The Complete Book. New York: Time. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-933821-18-4.
4.Jump up ^ Sepinwall, Alan (2010-09-09). "Interview: 'Boardwalk Empire' creator Terence Winter". Hit Fix. Retrieved 2010-09-21.
5.Jump up ^ The Sopranos – The Complete Series: Alec Baldwin interviews David Chase (DVD). HBO. 2008.
6.Jump up ^ Lee, Mark (May 2007). "Wiseguys: A conversation between David Chase and Tom Fontana.". Written By (Writers Guild of America, West). Retrieved 2010-09-23.
7.Jump up ^ Lee, Mark (May 2007). "La Famiglia". Written By (Writers Guild of America, West): 22–31, 54–55.
8.^ Jump up to: a b Schirripa, Steve (2007). "Soprano Home Movies" commentary track (DVD). HBO.
9.Jump up ^ Clarke, Norm (2007-04-11). "NORM: Schirripa tackles Imus appearance". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
10.Jump up ^ Huff, Richard (2007-04-27). ""Sopranos" ratings slip again". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
11.Jump up ^ Ryan, Maureen (2006-03-14). "The comeback". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
12.Jump up ^ Biro, Tom (2007-04-09). "The Sopranos: Soprano Home Movies (midseason premiere)". TV Squad. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
13.Jump up ^ Carroll, Marisa (2007-04-25). "No Turning Back". PopMatters. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
14.Jump up ^ Goodman, Tim (2007-04-02). "A tidy finish? Fahgeddaboutit.". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
15.Jump up ^ Reed, Kim (2007-04-10). "The Sopranos – "Soprano Home Movies"". Television Without Pity. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
16.Jump up ^ Ryan, Maureen (2007-04-05). "Ari Gold and Tony Soprano return, and we can't look away". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
17.Jump up ^ Schwarzbaum, Lisa (2007-04-09). "Lake Effect". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
18.Jump up ^ Sepinwall, Alan (2007-04-08). "Sopranos Rewind: Livia's legacy, Bacala's broken heart". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
19.Jump up ^ Stanley, Alessandra (2007-04-08). "This Thing of Ours, It’s Over". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
20.Jump up ^ Zoromski, Brian (2007-04-09). "The Sopranos: Soprano Home Movies Review". IGN. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
21.Jump up ^ O'Neal, Tom (2007-06-30). "Report: Top 10 Emmy finalists for drama & comedy series". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
22.Jump up ^ "Emmy winners". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
23.Jump up ^ "Sopranos scores hat-trick at Emmys". RTE. 2007-09-17. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
24.Jump up ^ O'Neal, Tom (2007-07-24). "Finally! Your official Emmy episode cheat sheet!". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
25.Jump up ^ "The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards and Creative Arts Emmy Awards Nominees are...". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
26.Jump up ^ Boomer (2007-07-26). "2007 Emmys Confirmed Episode Submissions". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2007-08-22. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
27.Jump up ^ "DGA Announces Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in All Categories for 2007". Directors Guild of America. 2008-01-10. Retrieved 2008-02-20.[dead link]
28.Jump up ^ "DGA Award Winners and Special Award Recipients". Directors Guild of America. 2008-01-26. Retrieved 2008-02-20.[dead link]
External links[edit]
"Soprano Home Movies" at HBO
"Soprano Home Movies" at the Internet Movie Database
"Soprano Home Movies" at TV.com


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Kaisha
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"Kaisha"
The Sopranos episode
Ep77 01.jpg
A.J. with his girlfriend Blanca and her son Hector at the Soprano family's Christmas dinner.

Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 12
Directed by
Alan Taylor
Written by
Terence Winter
David Chase
Matthew Weiner
Cinematography by
Alik Sakharov
Production code
612
Original air date
June 4, 2006
Running time
59 minutes
Guest actors


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Episode chronology
"Kaisha" is the twelfth episode of the sixth season of the HBO television drama series The Sopranos and seventy-seventh episode overall. It served as the midseason finale to the first part of the sixth season, the broadcast of which was split into two parts. It was written by executive producer Terence Winter, series creator/executive producer David Chase and co-executive producer Matthew Weiner; it was directed by longtime series director Alan Taylor. It originally aired in the United States on June 4, 2006. It was watched by 8.9 million American viewers upon its premiere.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
2 Episode recap 2.1 Tension with New York
2.2 Tony, Julianna and Christopher
2.3 A.J. and Blanca
2.4 Phil becomes ill
2.5 Junior's Christmas
2.6 Carmela's concerns
3 First appearances
4 Title reference
5 Production
6 Connections to prior episodes
7 Other cultural references
8 Music
9 References
10 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr.
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano *
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
Ray Abruzzo as Little Carmine Lupertazzi
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Julianna Margulies as Julianna Skiff
Tom Aldredge as Hugh De Angelis
Gregory Antonacci as Butch DeConcini
Denise Borino as Ginny Sacrimoni
Cara Buono as Kelli Lombardo Moltisanti
Max Casella as Benny Fazio
Geraldine LiBrandi as Patty Leotardo
Arthur Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
Dania Ramirez as Blanca Selgado
Matt Servitto as Agent Harris
Suzanne Shepherd as Mary De Angelis
Lenny Venito as James "Murmur" Zancone
Angelo Massagli as Bobby Baccalieri, Jr.
Miryam Coppersmith as Sophia Baccalieri
John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia as Albie Cianflone
John Bianco as Gerry Torciano
Taleb Adlah as Ahmed
Donnie Keshawarz as Muhammad
Patty McCormack as Liz La Cerva
Jeffrey M Marchetti as Peter "Bissell" LaRosa
Brianna and Kimberly Laughlin as Domenica Baccalieri
Aasif Mandvi as Dr. Abu Bilal
Arabella Field as Amy
Matilda Downey as Yaryna
Anthony Garcia as Teenager #1
Kelvin Santos as Teenager #2
Jonathan Marino Cuellar as Teenager #3
Kadin and Kobi George as Hector Selgado
Samuel Smith as Orderly
Eric Zuckerman as Scott
Episode recap[edit]


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Tension with New York[edit]
Carlo Gervasi disposes of "Fat Dom" Gamiello's head down a sewer inlet in Connecticut, while Silvio Dante arranges for the body to be dumped at the shore. Phil Leotardo arrives with his mistress at the wire room in Brooklyn. As they approach the building, it explodes, knocking them to the street. Watching from his car nearby, Benny Fazio calls Tony Soprano to let him know the operation was a success. Tony is pleased to hear that Phil was so close when the bomb went off.
As in the unrest between Carmine Sr. and Tony back in 2002, Little Carmine once again serves as the intermediary between New York and New Jersey crime families during a truce meeting with Tony, Silvio, Phil, Gerry Torciano, and Butch DeConcini. Phil curses at Vito Spatafore, which seems to offend Tony. Tony reminds Phil that Vito was one of his highest-earning captains. Phil brings up "Fat Dom"'s disappearance, and Silvio and Tony feign ignorance. Little Carmine offers truce indicating that the dispute is costing both families, and him, money. Tony and Phil agree to stop the hostilities, but it all falls apart when Little Carmine continues to talk and mentions Phil's murdered brother Billy, which sends Phil into a rage about Tony Blundetto. Phil storms off, after insulting both Tony and Little Carmine. Later, Phil discusses Tony with his captains Albie Cianflone, Gerry, and Butch. The latter is particularly critical of Tony and even suggests killing him. Phil refuses to consider this and Butch then suggests picking "somebody over there."
Tony, Julianna and Christopher[edit]
Tony completes the Jamba Juice real estate deal and apologizes to realtor Julianna Skiff about his behavior when they last met. He makes another pass at her, but she turns him down. Meanwhile, Christopher and his wife Kelli discuss decorating a nursery for their expected child. Kelli asks him to put aside superstition and enjoy the time, reminding him she does not have the health worries of his ex, Adriana La Cerva.
While Tony, Christopher, Bobby, and A.J. watch football on Thanksgiving, Tony questions Christopher about his secret phone calls, and Christopher admits having a new mistress, "Kaisha." Tony criticizes Christopher's timing in starting an affair while he has a pregnant wife at home, but Christopher complains that the "playground is closed" and he has unmet sexual needs. When Bobby asks why Christopher has not brought Kaisha around, Christopher explains that she is black, and cites Paulie Gualtieri's racism as the reason he has kept her away.
However, Kaisha does not exist and Christopher is actually seeing Julianna Skiff. It is revealed that Christopher met her at an AA meeting, remembering her from her visit to Satriale's. The two started their relationship by having sex on their first date. Julianna asks Christopher how he could like a person who would sleep with a married man. He tells her he rushed into marriage with Kelli and does not want a family with her, as she "has no idea who [he is]". Oblivious to the situation, Tony continues to make passes at, and is rejected by Julianna. She continues her affair with Christopher, and the two relapse into drug use. Christopher is at times concerned about his new girlfriend having had a relationship with his boss Tony, even though Julianna insists she never had sex with him; according to Christopher, it does not matter as Tony "was there in his mind."
Eventually, near Satriale's, Tony notices Christopher talking to Julianna in her car down the block. He questions Christopher, who asks for Tony's version of what happened between them, and then pretends that Julianna is friends with Kaisha, the black mistress he made up at Thanksgiving. Christopher and Julianna continue smoking heroin, and discuss their, what they perceive to be, ability to control their use of drugs and integrate it into their lives. Both Christopher and Julianna seek advice on their relationship from their sponsors. "Murmur" calls Christopher's secret affair "movie of the week" and criticizes Christopher for seeing Tony's former mistress, as he could face severe punishment for such actions. "Murmur" additionally tells him how difficult it is to recover from substance abuse relapses and that the pair could be enabling each other to use drugs, but eventually still calls Christopher a "lucky cocksucker" for getting such a girlfriend. Julianna's sponsor, on the other hand, expresses her serious concern about the affair, especially after learning Christopher is "connected."
Christopher tells Julianna that he must reveal their relationship to Tony in order to prevent him from finding out that he is using again. Christopher catches up with Tony at the Bada Bing!, and tells the truth about his relationship with Julianna, saying the reason he concealed it was that he was not sure how things had ended between him and Julianna. Tony acts indifferent and says Christopher can do whatever he wants with her.
However, in therapy, Tony discusses his anger at being "rewarded" for his fidelity by Christopher's relationship with the woman Tony desired for himself. Dr. Melfi is pleased that Tony did not react to the situation violently, and that it is a corollary to Tony's view that each day is a gift—he does not need to sleep with every woman he meets. Tony brings up his realization that all the women he has pursued, including Dr. Melfi, share certain qualities, and that this must be the reason he continues seeing her, since "nothing changes with the therapy part."
Christopher and Julianna break up at a diner. They talk about the "higher power" that should motivate them to be sober, and Christopher says that he always thought the oath of the omertà, that he took, was his higher power, but that he is now disillusioned as no one is following it anymore. They agree to attend an AA meeting close to their location, taking separate cars to get there.
A.J. and Blanca[edit]
While working at the construction site, A.J. watches Paulie make a collection from a Dominican woman Blanca Selgado who works in the office at the site. A.J. is struck by her and introduces himself. Later, while out having drinks with his coworkers, A.J. notices Blanca dancing. She seductively approaches him and encourages A.J. to take her out, though warning him that she has a three-year-old son, Hector. She writes a part of her phone number on a napkin, stating that he will have to find out the last digit himself and work for a date with her. On their date, while they watch television at her apartment and her son sleeps, a group of youths begin playing loud music outside. She asks them to move, but they respond with profanity. She tells A.J. her ex used to beat them up, which prompts him to resolve the dispute in his own way; he bribes them with an expensive mountain bike that was a gift from his parents, which the youths calmly accept before leaving. Afterwards, A.J. and Blanca have sex. During pillow talk, A.J. asks whether their age difference bothers Blanca. She laughs it off, and asks him whether her having a son bothers him, to which A.J. responds that he loves kids.
Phil becomes ill[edit]
At the Leotardo house, Phil and his wife Patty discuss Christmas dinner and Phil becomes disgusted when his wife once again becomes emotional when she remembers Vito's death and his fatherless children. It is also revealed Phil's mistress is actually his maid. Phil complains of feeling ill. Phil and Patty go to the emergency room, where the doctor diagnoses Phil with gas, not a heart attack. However, that night, Phil wakes up hyperventilating, thinking he is dying and is rushed back to the hospital. "Murmur" brings news to Jersey that Phil has had a heart attack. Tony is pleased and orders a round of drinks, but Silvio and Paulie are critical of his joy, pointing out that Phil had been a manageable pain, and any replacement could mean further unrest. Tony disagrees, citing the insult-laden exchange at Little Carmine's.
Agent Harris invites Tony to have a conversation at Satriale's and tells him that his inside sources in the FBI say that someone in Tony's organization may be in danger from retaliation from the Lupertazzi family. The news seems to make Tony genuinely concerned and he thanks Harris. Tony later surprises the New York mobsters by visiting Phil at the hospital. When alone, Tony tells Phil about his coma, revealing that he went to a place that he never wants to visit again. Tony tells Phil to take his time recovering and enjoy his grandchildren and the good things in his life when he is better, at which point Phil begins to tear up. Tony then proceeds to leave the hospital, but is taunted by Butch DeConcini on his way out.
Junior's Christmas[edit]
Bobby visits Junior Soprano at his mental care facility and returns his Christmas gift (an envelope of money), saying he cannot accept it after his shooting of Tony. Junior is clearly not in his right mind, as he says the money was for Bobby's (dead) wife Karen and his kids, suggests he may not have been acting alone in the shooting, and that he is "mounting [his] case" with the help of an ex-lawyer, another patient in the institution. After Bobby leaves, Junior gives the envelope to an orderly, saying to him: "one hand washes the other."
Carmela's concerns[edit]
Carmela visits Liz La Cerva at the hospital to find that she is restrained in her bed, having apparently attempted suicide. Carmela returns home and tells Tony that Liz was set off by a letter from the Salvation Army, an organization to which Adriana donated each year. Tony suggests that Liz is an alcoholic who cannot accept the reality that Adriana moved away because she could not stand her mother. Carmela takes offense at that suggestion, on the heels of Meadow's moving to California two weeks prior. Carmela again complains about her spec house being stalled and her life in general, and Tony attempts to comfort her by pointing out that A.J. is doing better. Carmela disturbs Tony by suggesting they hire a private investigator to track Adriana down; Tony attempts to dissuade her, but she is not easily swayed. Tony's only recourse is to meet Silvio at the Bada Bing! and tell him to lean on the building inspector after all, in order to restart Carmela's spec house project, which he hopes will distract her. When the stop-work order on the spec house is lifted, she immediately realizes that it is Tony's work, and thanks him for the "Christmas gift" profusely.
At home, Carmela is going through paperwork and preparing Christmas dinner. Tony's hope that the spec house will distract her pays off, as she discards the business card of the private investigator she had wanted to hire to find Adriana and instead calls the roofing subcontractor. The Baccalieris, DeAngelis, and Moltisantis join the Sopranos at their home for the Christmas Eve. A.J. arrives with Blanca and Hector and introduces them to his family. Hugh remarks on Blanca's necklace, which A.J. bought for her. In another room, Carmela and Tony discuss Blanca. Carmela does not approve of her age or race, but Tony seems more accepting. When Tony suggests to A.J. that he could have helped with the necklace because he "[has] a guy," A.J. assertively dismisses him by saying, "I have a job." Meadow calls her family from California with the well wishes. Blanca compliments Carmela on their beautiful home, and she thanks Blanca and agrees. The entire extended family is gathered peacefully around the tree with Christmas music playing.
First appearances[edit]
Blanca Selgado: A.J.'s new Dominican girlfriend.
Butch DeConcini: a Lupertazzi family capo who is in favor of most aggressive action against the Jersey crime family, such as the murder of someone close to Tony or Tony himself.
Title reference[edit]
The episode's title, "Kaisha", is the name of Christopher's imaginary black girlfriend.
Production[edit]
"Sentimental Journey" was the working title for this episode.[citation needed]
The episode is dedicated to director John Patterson, who directed every season finale for the first five seasons and worked regularly on the series, but died after its fifth season.
The exploding storefront is an actual location in the Queens neighborhood of Ridgewood on Fresh Pond Road (one of the two main local shopping streets).
Connections to prior episodes[edit]
Christopher says Paulie would act racist if he were to mention his black girlfriend Kaisha to him. However, Paulie, in fact, had a black girlfriend himself in the season 2 episode "From Where to Eternity".
Christopher tells Julianna about the oath he took getting into the crime family, as seen in the season 3 episode "Fortunate Son."
High on heroin, Christopher starts caressing Julianna's hair in the same manner as he was stroking a stray dog in "The Ride," also in a drug-induced stupor.
Other cultural references[edit]
Christopher's comments about penguins spending a long time guarding an egg only to lose the chick inside refers to the documentary film March of the Penguins.
During his sit-down with Tony, Phil notes the disappearance of "Fat Dom" Gamiello and surmises that the Sopranos family killed him because Dom was last seen in Jersey. Tony denies that claim, emphasizing the lack of evidence to support it, and adds: "The Hindenburg was last seen in Jersey, too". The actual cause of the Hindenburg disaster remains unknown, although a variety of hypotheses have been put forward.
Patty Leotardo calls the grumpy Phil Ebenezer Scrooge when discussing Christmas dinner with him.
Julianna questions Christopher's intention to title his film "Cleaver" because of the possibility that people will think of Beaver Cleaver (Leave It to Beaver TV show).
Christopher mentions Saw and Hostel as examples of successful one-word horror movie titles.
A.J. and Blanca are watching the comedy film The 40-Year-Old Virgin before the noise outside wakes Hector up.
Blanca says A.J. was born on the same day as Jesse Ventura.
Christopher and Julianna are watching Hitchcock's Vertigo at the cinema after smoking heroin in the car.
In what appears to be a joke towards writer Terence Winter, Christopher mentions that the "50 Cent movie" aka Get Rich or Die Tryin' was being given away free at the car wash. Winter wrote the script for that film and co-wrote this episode.
Christopher tells Tony he told Julianna to buy a Luther Vandross boxed set for Kaisha for her birthday.
Christopher mentions The Jerry Springer Show when he walks and talks about his AA meetings. He tells "Murmur" that there is nothing but "white trash and narcotics" who talk about their problems, he recalls it as a "Fucking Jerry Springer Show!".
Junior references the JFK assassination when he says he "didn't act alone" in the shooting of Tony.
Carmela says the Christmas toy drive charity she participated in gave children an Xbox.
Bobby Jr. watches the film Scrooge on TV before starting to flip through channels. Scrooge was previously featured in the season 5 episode "The Test Dream."
Bobby Jr. is later prominently watching Casablanca. A reference to the film could be when Blanca admires Carmela's house ("casa" in Spanish or Italian). Additionally, romantic relationships is the main theme of this episode.
Music[edit]
The episode opens and closes with The Rolling Stones song "Moonlight Mile".
"Precious" by The Pretenders plays when A.J. gets Blanca's phone number at the bar.
The three street youths play the Latin hip-hop songs "Culo" and "Toma" by Pitbull.
The opening theme music to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo by Bernard Herrmann is heard during the montage of Chris and Julianna using heroin again and watching the movie at the theater.
The song playing at the Bada Bing! when Tony learns of Phil's heart attack is a version of "The Little Drummer Boy" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.
Frank Sinatra's version of "Silent Night" can be heard during the episode's final moments.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Collins, Scott (2006-06-07). "`Sopranos' season finale takes a hit in the ratings". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
External links[edit]
"Kaisha" at HBO
"Kaisha" at the Internet Movie Database
"Kaisha" at TV.com


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"Cold Stones"
The Sopranos episode
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Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 11
Directed by
Tim Van Patten
Written by
Diane Frolov
Andrew Schneider
David Chase
Production code
611
Original air date
May 21, 2006
Running time
56 minutes
Guest actors


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"Cold Stones" is the seventy-sixth episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the eleventh of the show's sixth season. It was written by Diane Frolov, Andrew Schneider and David Chase, directed by Tim Van Patten and originally aired on May 21, 2006.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
2 Episode recap 2.1 Tony and A.J.
2.2 Meadow
2.3 Carmela and Rosalie's Paris trip
2.4 Vito
3 Deceased
4 Title reference
5 Production
6 References to prior episodes
7 Other cultural references
8 Music
9 References
10 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr. *
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri *
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
Sharon Angela as Rosalie Aprile
Joseph R. Gannascoli as Vito Spatafore
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Drea de Matteo as Adriana La Cerva
John Bianco as Gerry Torciano
Elizabeth Bracco as Marie Spatafore
Ron Castellano as Terry Doria
John Costelloe as Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski
Tony Cucci as Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello
Louis Gross as Perry Annunziata
Geraldine LiBrandi as Patty Leotardo
Arthur Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
Vinnie Orofino as Bryan Spatafore
Lenny Venito as James "Murmur" Zancone
Frank Borrelli as Vito Spatafore, Jr.
Paulina Gerzon as Francesca Spatafore
Vincent Piazza as Hernan O'Brien
Emily Wickersham as Rhiannon
Nathalie Walker as Lori
Alexandre Varga as Michel
Michel Winogradoff as Head Waiter
Clyde Baldo as Photographer
Anne Assante as Caterina Cella
Doug Rand as Gendarme
Episode recap[edit]
Tony and A.J.[edit]
Carmela discovers that A.J. was fired from his job at Blockbuster for selling promotional items and has kept this a secret for three weeks. During the heated family argument that ensues, he complains that the job did not pay enough to sustain the lifestyle to which he had become accustomed, including regular nights out in expensive New York nightclubs. Tony tells A.J. that he should be grateful to his mother because, had Tony had his way, Tony would have "knocked out all his baby teeth with one shot." A.J. responds with an obscene gesture after his parents have left the room.
Tony sees A.J. barely dressed, giggling and instant messaging on his computer and stares in disgust. In therapy, Tony discloses that he has been feeling hatred towards his son, feeling that A.J. is wasting his life. Tony says his father would find this hilarious and tells her that if Carmela had not protected A.J., he would be a better person. Dr. Melfi uses this to approach Tony's personality since she sees his life as a product of his father's own brutality, taking his anger out on others and having a desperate need to dominate and control. Tony says he could not even hit A.J. because of his small size, which he says comes from Carmela's side of the family. Melfi then points out that what Tony accuses Carmela of (protecting A.J.) is exactly what he used to mention in their sessions that he wanted from his own mother Livia, but never received.
At the Soprano house, Hernan, Rhiannon, and A.J. play video games. Tony then asks A.J. to join him in the garage, where he announces that he has provided him with a construction job. Tony threatens A.J. to take away his car and other possessions and to kick him out of the house. A.J. rolls his eyes at this, instigating Tony to casually smash A.J.'s windshield with a football helmet and threaten to destroy the car entirely. Tony then warns his son, "Don't put me to the test." The next morning, A.J. gets up early to leave for work at the construction site.
Meadow[edit]
Meadow talks to her parents about following her fiancé Finn to California. She says gaining experience at his dental school would be useful in her application to a medical school, although she is still not sure if she will want to apply to one, or to a law school instead. Meadow bristles and dismisses Carmela's musings about what she had perceived as mounting friction between the couple.
Carmela and Rosalie's Paris trip[edit]
Over breakfast, Carmela discusses with Tony a trip to Paris she won at the silent auction she arranged for the Feast of St. Elzear, stating that she needs a break from her worries with the spec house and their children. Tony says he cannot accompany her because he is too busy and that "The Frogs (French) hate us (Americans)", but encourages her to take Rosalie Aprile instead, as she planned. Tony also presents Carmela with a purse full of money for her trip.
In Paris, Carmela reacts to the surroundings with emotional intensity and philosophy, unlike the more prosaic Rosalie, who is often distracted and later exchanges telephone numbers with a much younger local man, Michel. Over dinner, Carmela brings up Rosalie's grief over the loss of her husband and son, which they have never discussed in detail. Rosalie becomes angry that Carmela is spoiling their vacation with the morbid Jersey memories but does reveal that she feels her grief is futile. Rosalie then tells Carmela she is going out with Michel and invites her along. However, Carmela decides she will walk along the Seine instead.
One night in Paris, Carmela dreams of Adriana walking her dog, Cosette, by the Eiffel Tower. In the dream, a gendarme with an American accent asks Carmela to tell Adriana that she is dead.
With Carmela away, Tony cheats on his wife for the first time since his coma, receiving oral sex from a Bada Bing! stripper. Later, Tony welcomes Carmela back at the house.
Vito[edit]
Vito Spatafore approaches Tony at a mall while his brother, Bryan, stands guard. Vito tries to convince Tony he is not really homosexual, but that his blood pressure medication had temporarily confused him. Tony is unimpressed by this explanation and angered that Vito and Bryan have "sandbagged" him. Vito asks to buy his way back in, with $200,000 to appease Tony and operate a business in Atlantic City involving prostitution and methamphetamine trafficking. Tony appears willing to consider the offer and later discusses Vito with Silvio Dante, Christopher Moltisanti, and Paulie Walnuts. Silvio recommends that abandoning Vito would be the proper way to deal with the situation. Tony then relays Vito's request for consideration, and Paulie responds by silently leaving the room.
Vito has a reunion dinner out with his family in Rockefeller Center. He tells his children that he has been working as an undercover spy for the CIA in Afghanistan as an alibi for his absence and demands that his family keep quiet about his return. As Vito and Marie watch their children ice skate, she asks if he will seek therapy and speak with a priest. Vito scoffs at this and recommends they have another child. Later in a Fort Lee motel room, Vito calls an upset Jim who describes Vito as "seriously fucked up." Jim doesn't buy Vito's excuse that he missed his family and tells Vito it was the life of self-indulgence that he missed. Vito admits that is true and says he didn't want to drag Jim into his lifestyle. Jim tells Vito never to call him again and hangs up. Later, Vito meets with Terry Doria, and, willing to start building back his good name among mobsters, agrees to lend him $20,000 at 2½ points.
Tony and Phil Leotardo, who has now started making decisions as the acting boss of the Lupertazzi crime family and named Johnny "Sack" as boss "in name only," following his plea deal at the trial, disagree over "no-show" jobs on a new construction project. When they meet later at the statue of Lou Costello in Paterson, Phil is extremely angry after having learned Vito is back in town and confronts Tony about the matter. Annoyed at being called by Phil for a matter Tony perceives as none of Phil's business, Tony reiterates to Phil that Vito is his captain and that Phil should leave the situation alone. Unfazed, Phil continues his tirade while Tony walks away from the meeting. Tony later angrily discusses the situation with Silvio and finally decides Vito must be killed in order to appease Phil, who might otherwise harm their business and possibly start an unwanted war. Upset, Tony tries to relieve the guilt of the hit by saying the situation was Vito's fault, as he should have stayed away from Jersey. Silvio tells Tony not to blame himself for the decision. Both agree that Carlo would be the best choice for the job, due to Carlo's tendency to issue blistering, public derisions of Vito's sexuality.
Phil and his wife, Patty, discuss Vito's sexuality. Patty expresses her disappointment and resentment for having a homosexual in the family. She tells Phil that Vito "has to be made to face his problems squarely." Meanwhile, Vito phones Tony, who arranges a meeting at the mall the following morning, planning for Carlo to lie in wait there. However, Vito arrives at his motel, and, upon entering his room, is ambushed by New York mobsters "Fat Dom" and Gerry Torciano who knock him down and duct tape his mouth. Vito pleads to spare him as Phil literally comes out of the closet and watches Dom and Gerry beat Vito to death with batons, after telling Vito he is a "fucking disgrace."
The Soprano crime family learns from Bobby Baccalieri that Vito was found dead with a pool cue rammed up his rectum. The room falls silent as Tony deducts it was likely Phil Leotardo who killed his capo. Carlo comes in and states that "you have to admire Phil — it's not all talk with him." Patsy remarks that he wishes he had borrowed money from Vito as Terry subtly smiles to himself. Tony takes Silvio aside and tells him that the murder is not about Vito but about Phil's defiance of his authority, Tony believes Phil is sending the family a message that he can kill one of Tony's captains and Tony cannot do anything about it. Tony tells Silvio he does not want a war with Phil, as it would likely be protracted and cripple their earning capacity. He decides to hit back at Phil financially, noting that Phil has "a wire room in Sheepshead Bay."
Phil and Patty Leotardo console Marie Spatafore over her husband's death who is in tears and insists Vito was a good husband and father. Patty maintains that homosexuality is a sin but this time says that one has to "blame the sin and not the sinner" as she starts sobbing herself. Phil, on the other hand, remains firm and tells Marie that, although he loved Vito "as a brother-in-law," it may be for the benefit of her children not to have their father as their role model. However, Phil is later seen being unable to fall asleep in bed at night.
At Satriale's, Carlo and Silvio prepare a meal. "Fat Dom" arrives to make a payment but declines the meal, as he must visit his daughter. Dom, who was one of the men involved in the murder of Vito, starts making crude jokes. When he insults the entire Jersey family and jokes that Carlo was involved with Vito sexually, tempers snap and Silvio hits him in the head with a dustbuster and grabs him while Carlo repeatedly stabs him with a chef's knife until Dom falls over the kitchen table, motionless. Silvio tells Carlo to call the others and say the dinner is canceled; they then devise a plan on how to dispose of the body and evidence. As they wait for the night to fall and play cards, Tony arrives and enters despite Silvio's warning. When Tony sees what has happened, he furiously exits the store quickly, letting Silvio and Carlo deal with it. Silvio, likewise exasperated, promises to take care of the body and shouts blame at Vito for the unplanned incident.
At the Spatafore home, Francesca and Vito, Jr. read the news article about their father's death and realize that he lied about his involvement with the CIA. Elsewhere, Vito's Thin Club photographer recognizes his picture in the paper. He shows his assistant the cover photo he shot of Vito.
Deceased[edit]
Vito Spatafore: Beaten to death with batons by Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello and Gerry Torciano on orders from Phil Leotardo. His body is also reportedly mutilated.
Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello: Stabbed multiple times to death by Carlo Gervasi while being held by Silvio Dante in the back room of Satriale's.
Title reference[edit]
The title "Cold Stones" could refer to the Parisian statues, old stone buildings, and ruins Carmela sees on her trip to the city.
Carmela admires an ancient necklace made from precious stones.
The title could refer to a play on the 'stone-cold' concept and "stones" (testicles) as applied to Phil's audacious killing of Vito.
The title could refer to a gravestone and death (Vito's). Carmela philosophizes that people get "washed away" and only structures and history remains.
Production[edit]
During the shoot in Paris, Edie Falco had the flu which rendered her voice almost inaudible. Sharon Angela had difficulty reacting to Carmela's dialogue when filming the scenes, and Carmela's lines had to be replaced in post-production with Falco recording them only once she had gotten well, already back in the US.[1]
The motel where Vito is beaten to death was filmed on location at the former Howard Johnson's motor lodge in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
This episode continues the trend of sleeping characters realizing a truth they had been avoiding (Carmela's dream suggests to her that Adriana is dead). In Seasons 2 and 5, Tony's dreams tell him truths about Big Pussy working with the FBI and the need to kill his cousin, Tony Blundetto, respectively.
The Star-Ledger article reporting Vito's death being read by the photographer, contains more text than was read out by Vito Jr. to his sister. DVD freeze frame reveals that the same paragraphs are just repeated over and over.
Former series regular member Drea de Matteo reprises her role as Adriana La Cerva in this episode. This is her last appearance on the show.
References to prior episodes[edit]
Carmela mentions the time A.J. was being nihilistic and denying god's existence at the time of his confirmation, which happened in the season 2 episode "D-Girl."
Carmela mentions the time she and Rosalie planned to travel to Italy ("The Knight in White Satin Armor").
Carmela reads about Abelard and Heloise in her Paris guidebook and then thinks for a second. Robert Wegler prominently talked to Carmela about a book about Abelard and Heloise in the season 5 episode "Sentimental Education."
Carmela remembers what Tony spoke immediately after he woke up from his coma: "Who am I? Where am I going?" ("Join the Club").
Other cultural references[edit]
Carmela says she went to Blockbuster to rent Cinderella Man.
A.J. mentions the Forbes magazine.
A.J. says the promotional item for Wallace & Gromit cost many trees their lives.
When he and his crew are in the Bing, Tony points out Mickey Rooney on TV as a very hyper band leader in the movie Strike Up the Band.
In the same scene above, Paulie mentions how ashamed "Salvatore Lucania" would probably be of him and his cohorts. Lucaina was the birth name of iconic Mafia boss Charles Lucky Luciano.
The Star-Ledger that Tony is reading in the mall contains the headline "The Corzine Era Begins".
Vito is wearing a University of Notre Dame hat when he meets with Tony.
When Carmela tells Tony about her plans to visit Paris, he is watching Is Paris Burning? (1966) on television. Later, when Carmela calls from Paris, Tony jokes, "Is Paris burning?" When he hears it's been raining over there, he replies "When it drizzles!", a play on Paris When It Sizzles.
Tony presents Carmela with a Louis Vuitton purse.
The sights seen in Paris besides the Eiffel Tower are: The taxi is driving Carmela and Rosalie on the Champs-Elysees towards the Arc de Triomphe. Later, Notre Dame Cathedral is shown in the background. The Palais-Royal gardens and the Pont Alexandre III bridge are visited. The church where the candles were lit is St. Eustache. The women have dinner at Le Grand Véfour restaurant. Rosalie consoles Carmela at the Thermes de Cluny. Additionally, Carmela says they should visit the Louvre.
Rosalie Aprile sees a ferry in the Seine and says "Look! Just like Charade!"
Leaving the hotel, Rosalie remembers she forgot her Toulouse-Lautrec placemats.
Silvio Dante reacts to the repeated news of Vito's death by responding that Carlo Gervasi is a "regular Jimmy Olsen", a reference to Superman's photographer friend at the Daily Planet.
Tony tells Silvio that "Joe Bananas" fought a Mafia war with Carlo Gambino of retribution killings for seven or so years.
As Silvio and Carlo wait for nightfall after killing "Fat Dom," New York's popular sports radio talk show, Mike and the Mad Dog on WFAN, can be heard.
Music[edit]
"Ouvre Les Yeux" by PM (from their 2000 album "Les Petits Chefs"), a French rap group from the Paris suburbs, plays during the first scene in Paris.
"Knights in White Satin" by Giorgio Moroder is played while Tony is in the Bada Bing!.
"Back In Black" by AC/DC is playing on the car radio while Tony is receiving fellatio from a stripper while driving. That song was followed immediately by Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Simple Man", as Tony speaks to Vito on the phone.
The melody to "La Vie En Rose" is hummed by Rosalie as she consoles Carmela at the Gallo-Roman baths.
The ringtone of "Fat Dom"'s phone is Für Elise by Ludwig van Beethoven.
"Home" by Persephone's Bees plays in the beginning of the credits.
"As Time Goes By" from Casablanca plays through the rest of the closing credits. The city of Paris plays an important role in both Casablanca and this episode. This particular rendition is sung by Dooley Wilson.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Martin, Brett (2007-10-30). "Welcome to New Jersey: A Sense of Place". The Sopranos: The Complete Book. New York: Time. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-933821-18-4.
External links[edit]
"Cold Stones" at HBO
"Cold Stones" at the Internet Movie Database
"Cold Stones" at TV.com


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Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
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 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
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 "Isabella" ·
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Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


Part II

"Soprano Home Movies" ·
 "Stage 5" ·
 "Remember When" ·
 "Chasing It" ·
 "Walk Like a Man" ·
 "Kennedy and Heidi" ·
 "The Second Coming" ·
 "The Blue Comet" ·
 "Made in America"
 



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Moe n' Joe
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"Moe n' Joe"
The Sopranos episode
Ep75 07.JPG
Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 10
Directed by
Steve Shill
Written by
Matthew Weiner
Cinematography by
Alik Sakharov
Production code
610
Original air date
May 14, 2006
Running time
53 minutes
Guest actors


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Episode chronology
"Moe n' Joe" is the seventy-fifth episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the tenth of the show's sixth season. It was written by Matthew Weiner, directed by Steve Shill and originally aired on May 14, 2006.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
2 Episode recap
3 Deceased
4 Title reference
5 Production
6 Connections to prior episodes
7 Other cultural references
8 Music
9 References
10 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr. *
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr. *
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Vincent Curatola as Johnny "Sack" Sacrimoni
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
Joseph R. Gannascoli as Vito Spatafore
Toni Kalem as Angie Bonpensiero
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Sharon Angela as Rosalie Aprile
John Bianco as Gerry Torciano
Denise Borino as Ginny Sacrimoni
Cara Buono as Kelli Lombardo Moltisanti
Carl Capotorto as Little Paulie Germani
John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia as Albie Cianflone
Miryam Coppersmith as Sophia Baccalieri
John Costelloe as Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski
Danielle Di Vecchio as Barbara Giglione
Patrick Holder as Earl Bretanoux
Will Janowitz as Finn DeTrolio
Brianna and Kimberly Laughlin as Domenica Baccalieri
Jeffrey M Marchetti as Peter "Bissell" LaRosa
Angelo Massagli as Bobby Baccalieri, Jr.
Lou Martini Jr as Anthony Infante
Cristin Milioti as Catherine Sacrimoni
Adam Mucci as Eric DeBenedetto
Louis Mustillo as Sal Vitro
Arthur Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
William Russ as Paul Calviac
Caitlin Van Zandt as Allegra Sacrimoni
Maureen Van Zandt as Gabriella Dante
Ed Vassalo as Tom Giglione
Brad Zimmerman as Ron Perse
Rebecca Wisocky as Rene Cabot Moskowitz
Tony Cucci as Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello
Daniel Ahearn as Elliot
Jason Betts as Ron
Antony Hagopian as Emmerich
Chris McGarry as Pat
Guy Paul as Jeep Owner
Joe Forbrich as Federal Marshal
Qadir Forbes as Kid #1
Daveed Ramsay as Kid #2
Alex Mitchell as Kid #3
Matthew 'Matlok' Rullan as Kid #4
Brian Gilbert as Kid #5
Kate Buddeke as Nora Minter
Sal Di Piazza as Bookie
Episode recap[edit]
With a mountain of evidence against his client, attorney Ron Perse floats the possibility of Johnny "Sack" cooperating with the FBI. When that offer is met with passionate scorn, the attention turns to a plea agreement. Since such a deal would involve the government confiscating most of "Sack"'s assets, he sends his brother-in-law Anthony Infante to ask Tony Soprano to meet with two brothers from New Orleans, who have Johnny as a silent partner in their heavy equipment leasing company, and convince them to sell it so he can get his share. Tony would also get a cut from the deal. Tony reluctantly meets with them but Paul Calviac (the brother who had initially gotten into debt with Johnny) is unwilling to sell because of the potential profits of the influx of government money that will soon come to post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and walks out of the dinner.
Janice Baccalieri appeals to her brother to make her husband Bobby a captain and accuses her younger brother of treating her and Bobby unfairly, and blaming them for his shooting by Uncle Junior. Carmela is also not pleased with Tony for the way he has handled her house-building project. She pushes him again to meet with the building inspector to make him lift the work-stopping order. Tony finally hands the job to Silvio Dante.
In therapy sessions with Dr. Melfi, Tony discusses his difficulties with Carmela, and sees the spec house as a distraction for her. He describes their reconciliation as an understanding where he backs her project, and she turns a blind eye to his work and infidelity. He also brings up his conversation with Janice. He agrees that he is cruel to her and Bobby and that he takes pleasure in any misfortune that befalls them. Melfi points out that Tony has never gotten along with his sister. He then recalls moments of happy childhood with her, sneaking around, stealing cigarettes, playing house and he also remembers Janice standing up to his abusive mother, Livia, which he respected. Tony goes on to say a childhood Janice was smart, beautiful and attracted older boys who would suck up to Tony in order to get closer to Janice. When Melfi raises the possibility of an attraction between them as kids developing sexually, Tony becomes angry. He then recalls Janice using a tape recording of him fighting with his sister Barbara to painfully extort favors from him for a whole month. Melfi suggests to Tony that Janice's "misery" reminds him of Livia and Tony admits he is mistreating her in revenge for her leaving Jersey and leaving him alone to deal with his mother for many years.
Bobby goes to make collections in a particularly dangerous section of Newark. He is mugged by a gang of youths as he leaves a betting shop. They take his collections money and gun, and one of them fires Bobby's gun at him while looking away. The bullet hits the pavement in front of Bobby, sending concrete fragments into his right eye. Paulie Gualtieri calls Tony to give him the bad news, which he has already heard, and also reveals that he is having radiotherapy for early stage prostate cancer, but remains optimistic. Tony's initial reaction is to criticize Bobby in front of the guys at the Bada Bing!, despite Bobby's passing on his payments through Carlo Gervasi, but, when Silvio gives him a look, he stops. Later, Tony visits Bobby at his and Janice's home and watches a Giants game. Tony observes Bobby's broken furniture, his son's disappointment that they could not afford the "satellite package" for football, and Janice's commanding presence at the house, aggressively handling her husband and Bobby, Jr.
Ginny Sacrimoni's friends visit her home in Jersey to celebrate her birthday. Janice admires the house greatly.
Tony renegotiates the deal with Johnny "Sack" over the New Orleans company sale: Tony will guarantee the brothers will sell it, and in exchange, Tony will take a light cut and Johnny will sell his house at a discounted price to Janice and Bobby Baccalieri. Johnny reluctantly agrees, realizing he has few options left.
Tony finds a distressed Meadow - she is concerned about the souring of her relationship with Finn. Tony seems uncomfortable discussing this with Meadow. Tony makes the mistake of telling her she is "living in sin" with a man, which prompts her to curse at him and storm off. This leaves Tony irritated that Carmela is not around, as he yells at her to "talk to [her] mother about this shit!".
The next time Tony meets Silvio, he tells him to not speak to Carmela's building inspector after all. Tony lies to his wife that Silvio went and got no results and tells her it is time to walk away and sell the house once and for all. Carmela is dissatisfied.
Johnny "Sack"'s lawyer has negotiations with the prosecutor over the assets that would be left for Johnny's family and how much prison time he would get for a plea deal. Johnny learns he would also have to enter an allocution. In an agonizing decision, he chooses the plea deal over his chances at the court and also for his family to be provided for over staying firm to the Mafia principles of never accepting guilt or acknowledging its existence to outsiders. "Sack" receives a 15-year sentence and has to publicly admit that he was a part of a New York chapter of La Cosa Nostra. His statement is met with disdain by the New York mobsters, especially by Phil Leotardo, who stoically served 20 years in prison himself without ever pleading guilty. Tony and Silvio similarly discuss Johnny in disgust, although defending his name when talking in the presence of a gardener. Christopher Moltisanti is furious when a U.S. Marshal takes the Maserati Coupé that "Sack" sold to him. The purchase was not legal because Johnny's assets were frozen at the time.
Landscaper Sal Vitro has been taking care of the gardening at Johnny "Sack"'s house for free for over two years as payment for being allowed to continue working for his existing customers. At the beginning of the episode, Tony denies Sal's request to remove this obligation, citing the dire straits faced by Johnny's wife Ginny, while her husband is in prison, and derides him for being selfish. At the end of the episode, Sal is released from the obligation by Tony, after Johnny's trial plea.
Meanwhile, at Dartford, NH, Jim discovers Vito Spatafore (known as Vince to him) is not really a sports writer, and Vito confesses he left a family and a job in "contracting" in Jersey. Their relationship develops further, Vito moves in with Jim, helps his firefighter team on one rescue operation and gets a job working as a local handyman. In his home life, Vito starts cooking Italian food and says how much he misses it. He also seems to miss the faster pace of nightlife - while he is at the bar with Jim, everyone leaves to go home early when he is ready to gamble, drink and stay up. The following morning, Vito tries to stay focused at his handyman job, but is frustrated when he finds only an hour has passed. The morning after, Jim wakes up to find Vito has left with his belongings and car.
Drinking vodka and teary while driving, Vito rounds a blind corner on a wooded country road and crashes into a parked Jeep Wagoneer. When the owner refuses to take cash as compensation and walks towards his home to call the cops, Vito shoots him in the back of the head and drives away. Soon, he is back in New Jersey and slowly drives through the old neighborhood, stopping momentarily in front of Satriale's before speeding off.
The gift from Tony of being able to buy the Sacrimoni house cheaply leaves Janice in tears of gratitude when she visits her brother to thank him. Tony remains unemotional.
Deceased[edit]
Car accident civilian: Shot in the back of the head by Vito while walking to his house in an attempt to call the police after Vito damages his car.
Title reference[edit]
While playing with his model train set, Bobby asks his son to watch the "Moe 'n Joe action." The term "Moe and Joe" is in reference to a model flatcar from Lionel (which includes the Moe and Joe characters, a pair of workman) that, as shown in the episode, unloads wooden boards. [1] A model train reference as an episode title will be used again for the penultimate episode of the series, "The Blue Comet."
The title could also refer to Vito Spatafore who tries to be a workman in this episode. He works with lumber in a blue-collar construction job but ultimately finds it intolerable and quits it.
Production[edit]
This episode marks the final appearance of the character Finn DeTrolio.
This episode marks the first time we see Tony getting the newspaper at the end of his driveway this season. The "newspaper shot" is usually featured in the first episode of each season.
Following a love scene between Vito and Jim, the director cuts to the image of a train entering a tunnel (Bobby's Lionel) and later Vito sawing wood, metaphors for sex.
Connections to prior episodes[edit]
Sal Vitro was tasked with landscaping Johnny Sacrimoni's land during the Paulie - "Feech" La Manna feud in the season 5 episode "Where's Johnny?"
Vito kills the civilian the same way he murdered Jackie Aprile Jr. in "Army of One" - with a shot to the back of the head.
Other cultural references[edit]
Tony calls A.J. Prince Albert when speaking to Carmela.
The book Jim is reading in bed is The Devil in the White City.
Janice says Ginny's house reminds her of the Palladian villas.
Silvio puts a poster on the wall at the Bada Bing! office that spoofs the poster of the 2002 film Secretary. The more provocative poster is now titled as The Perfect Secretary.
When Paulie calls Tony to tell him about his cancer, Tony is watching the film The Quiet Man.
Carlo Gervasi says Bobby's eye patch makes him look like Hathaway, referring to Ogilvy and Mather's famous "man with an eye patch" advertising campaign for C. F. Hathaway Company.
The football game shown in the Soprano home in the penultimate scene is a Canadian Football League game with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, being called by Chris Cuthbert.
Music[edit]
The song played in the Dartford bar where Vito, Jim and the firefighters are drinking is "I Love This Bar", by Toby Keith.
The song played as Vito makes dinner for Jim is "That's Amore", by Dean Martin.
The song played on Vito's car radio as he crashes into the civilian's Jeep Wagoneer is "My Way", by Frank Sinatra.
The song played over the end credits is "Let It Rock" by Chuck Berry. It is about a hard work on a railroad as a train is headed down the tracks.
References[edit]
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External links[edit]
"Moe n' Joe" at HBO
"Moe n' Joe" at the Internet Movie Database
"Moe n' Joe" at TV.com


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"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


Part II

"Soprano Home Movies" ·
 "Stage 5" ·
 "Remember When" ·
 "Chasing It" ·
 "Walk Like a Man" ·
 "Kennedy and Heidi" ·
 "The Second Coming" ·
 "The Blue Comet" ·
 "Made in America"
 



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The Ride (The Sopranos)
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"The Ride"
The Sopranos episode
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Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 9
Directed by
Alan Taylor
Written by
Terence Winter
Production code
609
Original air date
May 7, 2006
Running time
54 minutes
Guest actors


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"The Ride" is the seventy-fourth episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the ninth of the show's sixth season. It was written by Terence Winter, directed by Alan Taylor and originally aired on May 7, 2006.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
2 Episode recap
3 First appearance
4 Title reference
5 Production
6 References to prior episodes
7 Other cultural references
8 Music
9 References
10 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr. *
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
John Ventimiglia as Artie Bucco
Ray Abruzzo as Little Carmine Lupertazzi
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Edoardo Ballerini as Corky Caporale
John Bianco as Gerry Torciano
Cara Buono as Kelli Lombardo Moltisanti
Carl Capotorto as Little Paulie Germani
Max Casella as Benny Fazio
John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia as Albie Cianflone
Miryam Coppersmith as Sophia Baccalieri
Tony Darrow as Larry Boy Barese
William DeMeo as Jason Molinaro
Jonathan Del Arco as Father Jose
Frances Ensemplare as Nucci Gualtieri
Louis Gross as Perry Annunziata
Will Janowitz as Finn DeTrolio
Brianna and Kimberly Laughlin as Domenica Baccalieri
Julianna Margulies as Julianna Skiff
Angelo Massagli as Bobby Baccalieri, Jr.
Patty McCormack as Liz La Cerva
Arthur Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
Artie Pasquale as Burt Gervasi
Lenny Venito as James "Murmur" Zancone
T.R. Shields III as Dale Hutchins
Vic Noto as Viper
Jeremy Schwartz as Biker #1
Sylvia Kauders as Mrs. Conte
Sal Darigo as Old Man
Tanya P. as The Virgin Mary
Lou Di Gennaro as Judge
Sonny Passero as Man in Crowd
Francis W. Erigo as Old Woman in Church
Liz Ross as Nurse (voice)
Barry Sigismondi as Dr. Cipolla (voice)
Crazy Legs Conti as Himself
Episode recap[edit]
In preparation for the annual Feast of Elzéar of Sabran, Paulie Gualtieri and Patsy Parisi visit their local church and learn that the new priest, Father José, wants to raise the fee provided to the parish. When Paulie considers it extortion and refuses to pay, Father José tells them they will not be able to use the golden hat worn by the Saint, a traditional part of the statue's garb.
Christopher Moltisanti's girlfriend, Kelli, tells him that she is pregnant. She nervously blames herself and assures him she will "take care of it" by going to a clinic. Christopher instead suggests they get married in Atlantic City and "make a day of it." Christopher mentions how much he wanted to have a child with Adriana and tells Kelli that his ex is probably having some "other guy's babies now." Later, Christopher enters the Bada Bing! and surprises the mobsters with the news that he is now newly married and is about to become a father. They offer a toast to him. He and Kelli impulsively purchase a large house as he anticipates starting a family.
On their way home from a trip to Pennsylvania, Christopher and Tony Soprano make an impromptu bathroom stop in what they think is a deserted parking lot. When they pull behind a building, they witness two bikers stealing crates of 1986 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande wine from a liquor store. As the two bikers go back into the store, Christopher and Tony plunder their wine, moving the crates into Tony's SUV. When the bikers re-emerge (carrying an ATM), Christopher holds them at gunpoint. As he and Tony speed away, one of the bikers starts firing his handgun. Christopher fires back and hits him. The pair celebrate their adrenalin-fueled escapade at a restaurant, cracking jokes about the bikers. Although Christopher initially abstains from drinking the wine, he eyes it enviously and Tony suggests toasting to his wedding and pours him a glass. Later, they drink more of the wine in the parking lot, remembering their times together: how Tony protected Christopher moving up the ranks of the organization and Christopher also recollects the time when he tearfully told Tony that his fiancée, Adriana, was an FBI informer, which led to her murder. Tony and Christopher both profess their love for one another.
Carmela Soprano encounters Liz La Cerva (Adriana's mother) at the feast, who claims Christopher killed her daughter, telling Carmela that the FBI told her as much. Carmela brushes off her suggestion initially but next day she asks Tony about it. He insists that it would have been impossible for Christopher to have gotten away with killing his fiancée.
At the feast, Tony and Phil Leotardo work out a deal where they agree to split the profits for the New York distribution of a trailer of Centrum multivitamins confiscated by Tony's crew. Phil's stipulation is that Johnny "Sack" be left out of the transaction in order to "spare John the stress of having to hear about this."
Christopher meets with Corky Caporale to pay him for the hit on Rusty Millio. Part of his payment includes some heroin. As Christopher watches Corky shoot up, he first recommends rehab to him, but then tells him he wants to snort a little himself. After watching Corky reach ecstasy, Christopher decides to inject himself as well and ends up spending the night vomiting and in a stoned stupor, bonding with a stray dog at the feast.
During the feast, several parishioners notice the missing gold hat and word begins to spread that Paulie scrimped on the planning of the festival. His frugal ways are blamed for an accident on a ride that left several people injured. Little Paulie Germani is left to deal with the police investigation. Janice and her daughter Domenica were also on the ride, and although apparently unhurt after the accident, Janice seems to develop a neck injury after, during Sunday dinner, Meadow makes the suggestion that the injured should be compensated monetarily. Janice presses her husband Bobby to get the money. After threatening the ride operator, Bobby learns Paulie was the one who chose to forgo financing the maintenance for the ride.
In Dr. Melfi's office, Tony laments about people lining up for thrill rides. "They pay money to almost puke." She asks if he's bored. Tony claims he continues to feel that every day is a gift, but "Does it have to be a pair of socks?"
Bad blood erupts between Bobby and Paulie after their verbal battle at the feast where Paulie refuses to pay Bobby. Paulie has other problems, including having a biopsy to determine if he has prostate cancer. At the feast, he runs into Nucci, the aunt who raised him as her son. She points out how his cheap spending was not only wrong but also a sin to allow St. Elzear go without his gold hat; Paulie, furious, swears at her and departs, leaving his adoptive mother crying in the street. At Christopher's belated bachelor party, held at Nuovo Vesuvio's, there is noticeable lingering tension between Paulie and Bobby, who excuses himself from the dinner early. In the restroom, Tony finds Paulie and demands he work things out with Bobby, which prompts Paulie to disclose his medical concerns to Tony. Tony tries to calm him down and tells him not to be pessimistic.
At the feast, Domenica Baccalieri cries, anxious to go on the tea cup ride again. As an exasperated Janice looks on, Tony placates Nica, picking her up into his arms, swinging her around as she giggles and laughs.
At home, Paulie is unable to sleep, then calls his urologist's answering service in the middle of the night. He is informed his doctor is out of town. The next morning, after seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary at the Bada Bing!, a shaken Paulie visits Nucci at Green Grove. She warns him that she does not want to argue; Paulie enters her room and sits down to watch The Lawrence Welk Show on TV with her.
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First appearance[edit]
Kelli Lombardo Moltisanti: Christopher's girlfriend who also becomes his wife and is pregnant with their child.
Title reference[edit]
The episode's title most directly refers to a faulty amusement ride at the feast, on which Janice, Bobby III, and Domenica were all riding.
Tony sees a happy Julianna Skiff on a ride.
Tony spins Domenica around as in a ride.
The title may also refer to the ride to Pennsylvania Tony and Christopher were taking when they stole the wine and bonded.
It may refer to Christopher's intoxicated trips (rides), first drinking wine with Tony and then, most notably, in a stupor high on heroin at the feast.
It may refer to the philosophical "thrill ride" discussed by Tony and Dr. Melfi - something people are ready to pay their money for and actively seek to temporarily escape their mundane lives.
Production[edit]
The episode includes a flashback scene of Christopher's emotional revelation to Tony that Adriana had been working for the FBI. That scene was originally shot as part of episode 5.12, "Long Term Parking" (directed by Tim Van Patten and photographed by Alik Sakharov), but had been cut to heighten the suspense surrounding Adriana's murder.
The feast depicted in the episode and named as the Feast of St. Elzéar is based on the annual Feast of St. Gerard, organized every October around the church of St. Lucy's in the Seventh Avenue of Newark, a historical neighborhood of Italian-Americans, which used to be known as the First Ward. In addition to the street procession with the dollar-bill-covered statue of the saint, the feast features light shows, street decorations with colors of the Italian flag, food stands, and music (including an orchestra). David Chase said that he wanted to create an episode about the feast ever since the first season.[1] [2] [3]
The theme of wind driving the characters (As per the Ojibwe saying written on a card in Tony's hospital room in the beginning of the season: "<..> And all the while, a great wind takes and carries me across the sky") is continued in this episode - the closing shot is of wind rustling autumn leaves as Paulie reconciles with Nucci.
Actor Tony Sirico, who plays Paulie, cited the final scene as probably his character's favorite thing to do with his mother as a child, going on to explain that he really has no one else who loves him, which explains Nucci's sudden change in mood and silence.[citation needed]
References to prior episodes[edit]
Paulie is not able to sleep and anxiously calls his doctor to learn the results of the prostate biopsy at 3 AM. In "From Where to Eternity" Christopher, awoken from coma, told Paulie a message from what he claimed to have been the afterlife he visited - "three o'clock." Paulie disavowed the Church in that episode. This time, Paulie curses at the statue of saint Elzéar, refuses to pay for its hat to be carried on it during the procession and insults his adoptive mother mentioning sinful deeds until he has a disturbing vision of the Virgin Mary at the Bada Bing!.
Other cultural references[edit]
Christopher is watching the movie Saw II at the start of the episode.
During the first scene of The Feast of San Elzear, the music playing is from the opera Cavelleria Rusticana.
Upon arriving at a house that he is looking at for a potential purchase, Christopher says, "This is what I'm talking about, stately Wayne Manor" (the residence of Bruce Wayne).
Following Tony and Christopher's heist of the wine (and again when Tony unloads the wine in his basement), Christopher comments that one of the bikers, with scraggly hair and a full mustache and beard, looked like "Grizzly Adams", a famed 19th Century mountaineer, later made popular as the title character in the 1977–1978 NBC television series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams.
The episode uses a reference to Hurricane Katrina. Tony runs into Paulie in the bathroom and says "you're doing a heck of a job there, Brownie", a reference to a similar statement made by George W. Bush to then-Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown. Bush's comment is often used to sarcastically praise someone who is doing a poor job.
Christopher calls Tony "The Bad Lieutenant". The film of that name is a 1992 Abel Ferrara tale full of religious undertones and Catholic iconography similar to this episode. In the film, the unnamed Lieutenant sees a vision of Christ just as Paulie sees a vision of the Virgin Mary at the Bada Bing!.
When Tony denies Christopher killed Adriana, he mentions O.J. Simpson and Scott Peterson to Carmela as examples of a lethal domestic violence case.
Music[edit]
The song playing in the background at the Bada Bing! while Christopher announces his marriage is "Flash and Crash" by 1960's Seattle garage rock band Rocky & The Riddlers.
The music playing while Christopher and Tony are driving and stealing wine is "All Right Now" by British rock band Free.
The song briefly heard while Christopher and Tony are driving home is "Midnight Rider" by The Allman Brothers Band.
The song playing throughout Christopher's high is "The Dolphins" by folk artist Fred Neil.
The song played when Tony Soprano and Phil Leotardo meet at the feast is "A Chi" by Italian singer Fausto Leali. The song is played again at the end of the episode when Tony and Carmela join the Baccalieris at the feast.
The song played when Tony Soprano lifts his niece and spins her around is "Red River Rock" by Johnny & The Hurricanes.
The polka played on accordion by Myron Floren on The Lawrence Welk Show during Paulie's visit to Nucci is the Norwegian children's song "Hompetitten" (presented as "Johnny Oslo Schottische"). The music was written by Gunnar Wahlberg and originally had lyrics by Alf Prøysen.
A live cover version of "Pipeline", performed by Johnny Thunders, plays over the episode credits.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Martin, Brett (2007-10-30). "Welcome to New Jersey: A Sense of Place". The Sopranos: The Complete Book. New York: Time. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-933821-18-4.
2.Jump up ^ "Saint Gerard Maiella at St. Lucy's Church website". Retrieved Oct 22, 2013.
3.Jump up ^ "Photos from the Feast of St. Gerard at St. Lucy's Church website". Retrieved Oct 22, 2013.
External links[edit]
"The Ride" at HBO
"The Ride" at the Internet Movie Database
"The Ride" at TV.com


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Johnny Cakes (The Sopranos)
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"Johnny Cakes"
The Sopranos episode
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Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 8
Directed by
Tim Van Patten
Written by
Diane Frolov
Andrew Schneider
Cinematography by
Alik Sakharov
Production code
608
Original air date
April 30, 2006
Running time
54 minutes
Guest actors


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Episode chronology

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Episode chronology
"Johnny Cakes" is the seventy-third episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the eighth of the show's sixth season. It was written by Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, directed by Tim Van Patten and originally aired on April 30, 2006.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
2 Episode recap 2.1 A.J.
2.2 Vito
2.3 Dr. Melfi
2.4 Julianna Skiff
3 First appearances
4 Title reference
5 Production
6 Other cultural references
7 Music
8 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr.
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri *
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano *
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri *
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
Joseph R. Gannascoli as Vito Spatafore
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Peter Bogdanovich as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg
Cameron Boyd as Matt Testa
Elizabeth Bracco as Marie Spatafore
John Costelloe as Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski
Joseph Leone as Vic Caputo
Julianna Margulies as Julianna Skiff
Artie Pasquale as Burt Gervasi
Vincent Piazza as Hernan O'Brien
Emily Wickersham as Rhiannon
Susan Blommaert as Betty Wolf
Frank Borrelli as Vito Spatafore, Jr.
Jayson Ward Williams as Coffeehouse Manager
Sylvia Kauders as Mrs. Conte
Nic Novicki as Little Person
Christopher Carley as Drew
Noah Keen as Otto
Nikki Dinki as Bibi
Stink Fisher as Warren
Jeff Keilholtz as Party Doctor
Richard Zekaria as Farhad
Piter Marek as Daryl
Elizabeth Meadows Rouse as Mom
Samuel Smith as Orderly
Malachy Cleary as Thad McCone
Daniel Ahearn as Elliot
Jason Betts as Ron
Antony Hagopian as Emmerich
Chris McGarry as Pat
Steve Stanulis as Desk Sergeant
Chris McGinn as Waitress
Rene Rosado as Hispanic Kid
Episode recap[edit]
A.J.[edit]
Uninterested in his job at Blockbuster or in going back to college, Anthony Soprano, Jr. is spending most of his time hanging out in nightclubs in New York City with Hernan, who he went to high school with, and his new friends, some of them underage girls. His club acquaintances are impressed with him because of who his father is. A.J. brags to one of the girls who inquires about revenge against his uncle Junior: "I'll probably have to do something," he says.
To get more money for clubbing ("living expenses"), A.J., to his father's disappointment, sells the drum kit Tony gave him as a gift. While the pair are fishing on Tony's boat, A.J. asks what they are going to do about uncle Junior shooting Tony. Tony tells A.J. he should not concern himself with Junior, saying, "He's incarcerated for the rest of his unnatural life."
At Dr. Melfi's, Tony complains about his son, saying all he does is "vegetate." He asks for advice about A.J. Melfi says the youth nowadays are overwhelmed with information and reach maturity later than previous generations. She suggests Tony and Carmela impose some concrete rules.
A.J. raises an idea for his parents to provide him a night club to manage but gets little support from them, especially Carmela who says he is not even of legal drinking age. His mother wants him to study event planning and his father offers to get him a place at "Beansie"'s pizza parlor to gain experience with the food service industry.
One day, A.J. tries to get up early but ends sleeping past noon; at Carmela's urging to do something important as he planned, A.J. takes a knife with him (with which he practiced combat moves at work) and visits Uncle Junior in the mental hospital. When Junior sees A.J., he begs him to take him home. Petrified, A.J. drops the knife and is tackled by several hospital staff members as he tries to escape. After calling on Assemblyman Zellman for a favor to have A.J. released from custody without criminal charges, Tony picks up A.J. at the police station and confronts him. In tears, A.J. calls his father a hypocrite because Tony admires Michael Corleone for avenging the attempted murder of his father in The Godfather. Tony, although touched by his son's intentions, tells him that he needs to grow up and that The Godfather is only a movie. A.J. almost throws up and Tony instructs him not to tell Carmela about the incident.
At A.J.'s next night out clubbing, one of Hernan's friends asks A.J. to get his father to intimidate his landlord. Retreating to the restroom, A.J. has a panic attack.
Vito[edit]
Vito Spatafore, pretending to be a writer named "Vince" writing a book on Rocky Marciano, spends more time at Jim's diner in Dartford, New Hampshire. One evening, he witnesses Jim (aka 'Johnny Cakes') performing a heroic rescue of a young child while working as a volunteer firefighter and later compliments him on his heroism. Jim, who is revealed to also be a father, takes an interest in Vito's book and questions him about the lonely life of a writer. Meanwhile, Vito manages to steal the cell phone of a fellow guest at the bed-and-breakfast where he has been staying and calls his wife. She begs him to come home and to get "treatment." Vito refuses and tells her not to trust Phil Leotardo. He also tells her where to find $30,000 cash in the house. Marie puts their son on the phone, and Vito has a brief, pained conversation with him.
Vito spends an evening with Jim and some of his volunteer firefighter colleagues at a local roadhouse. Later, after admiring Jim's motorcycle in the parking lot, Vito rejects his sexual advances. The two throw punches (Vito also attempting to use a metal pipe as a weapon), and Jim leaves Vito beaten. Days later, after some contemplation time, Vito goes back to the diner to make an attempt at reconciliation. Vito tells Jim that "sometimes you tell a lie so long, you don't know when you are safe" and the two decide to patch things up. They then take a motorcycle ride together that results in a romantic picnic and them making love in a secluded field.
Christopher Moltisanti reports lack of leads of Vito's location to Tony and suggests that Carlo Gervasi should kill him if he is ever found to appease "the crews." Phil Leotardo meets with Tony and asks what he is doing about finding Vito. Tony tells him he will take care of it his own way. This elicits a warning from Phil that he will not swallow his pride on this issue like he did when Tony Blundetto killed his brother Billy. Phil tells Tony that if his father "Johnny Boy" Soprano was around, there wouldn't be any discussion about Vito's fate. Phil then reiterates that Vito shamed his family by betraying his wife, Phil's cousin, and his young children. Tony responds by walking away in a huff.
Dr. Melfi[edit]
Melfi has her own psychotherapy session with Dr. Elliot Kupferberg. She tells him about her father's failing health, but is annoyed by Elliot's interest in Tony Soprano's therapy, accusing him of being interested in him on "tabloid level" only. Melfi blurts out her belief that Tony's unwillingness to talk about his feelings to his uncle will eventually make him "decompensate."
Julianna Skiff[edit]
Burt Gervasi and Patsy Parisi visit their controlled area's stores, including Caputo's Poultry, for their protection racket take. The pair then visit the neighborhood's new Starbucks-like coffee store, offering similar "protection". But when the manager explains that they are required by corporate to account for every dollar spent and that the company won't care about vandalism or loss of staff due to its many locations, Patsy and Burt retreat outside. "It's over for the little guy", Patsy says.
Tony, Silvio, and Christopher talk about Tony being able to have sex again and check out a woman outside Satriale's Pork Store. The woman is Julianna Skiff, a Century 21 Real Estate agent representing Jamba Juice who asks Tony if he is interested in selling a building he owns, the one he is renting to Caputo's Poultry. Tony rejects the deal, stating that the poultry store is part of the neighborhood.
Tony then takes a stroll through the neighborhood of the poultry, interacting with an elderly resident and learning that the domesticated fowl business is "better than ever."
Skiff next seeks out Tony at the Bada Bing! and makes an increased offer on the building. Tony again declines, but tells her he is interested in Skiff sexually and asks her out to dinner. Mentioning the new outlook on life brought about by the shooting, Tony tells her that he knows what he wants in life. Stating that she is engaged to another man, she turns him down.
Tony hints ideas about having an extramarital affair to Dr. Melfi, but then tells her he could not bring himself to do it because of Carmela's affection displayed to him during his recuperation after getting shot.
Julianna calls Tony with a third offer on the building of more than $400,000, which he accepts, but asks her to let him come to her apartment that evening, ostensibly to complete the paperwork. In his bedroom, while Tony is dressing for the encounter, Carmela helps pick out a shirt for him and assists him in buttoning it up. At Julianna's, after Tony signs the paperwork, the two start kissing passionately, and Julianna starts unbuttoning Tony's shirt. Tony makes her stop and abruptly departs, heading home to Carmela where he is on a tear, claiming his anger is due to the lack of smoked turkey in the fridge.
Burt and Patsy later revisit Caputo's Poultry to collect the weekly take, and Caputo, furious, informs the pair that Tony has sold the building to Jamba Juice. Outside, Patsy laments, "What the fuck is happening to this neighborhood?"
First appearances[edit]
Julianna Skiff: a real estate agent with whom Tony almost has an affair.
Rhiannon: an ex-girlfriend of Hernan O'Brien, hanging out with A.J. and others at the nightclub.
Title reference[edit]
The episode's title refers to a jonnycake, type of pancake that is a local specialty at a diner frequented by Vito.
"Johnny Cakes" also becomes Vito's pet name for Jim.
As Vito and Jim try to get to know each other over johnnycakes, the title may refer to similar scouting and bonding experiences displayed by characters in the episode (their johnnycakes), such as Tony and A.J. on board the Stugots II over beers and Tony and Julliana over drinks at the Bada Bing!, relationships all of which eventually took a turn for the worse during the episode.
Production[edit]
The setting for the East Haledon Police Department was filmed at the police headquarters in West Orange, New Jersey. It was filmed in the back of the building to give the look of a more rural and suburban town in Northern New Jersey.
Other cultural references[edit]
When discussing the revitalization of Newark, Julianna Skiff mentions a glove factory renovated into condominiums. This is likely an homage to American Pastoral, also based in New Jersey.[how?]
The film A.J. and his co-worker are watching and studying for the knife fight is The Hunted.
Jim's diner patron asks Vito what the year when Rocky Marciano fought Joe Louis was.
In a scene where Julianna Skiff enters the Bada Bing! to meet with Tony, a UFC event is playing on the TV.
One of Jim's firefighter friends teases another about emitting an "Yma Sumac scream" when a roof fell in.
The girl massaging A.J. and Dr. Elliot Kupferberg both erroneously reference the Omertà, the Mafia code of silence. The girl believes it instructs who exactly should carry out a revenge hit for an attacked Mafia member and Elliot thinks the Omertà precludes mobsters speaking out about their personal feelings.
In a scene where A.J. spends the afternoon being lazy at home (despite asking his mother to wake him at 10 AM), he watches Aqua Teen Hunger Force on the living room TV.
Music[edit]
The song playing in the New York club is "E Talking" by Soulwax.
The song that is played at the Bada Bing! during Julianna and Tony's conversation is "Family Affair" by Mary J. Blige.
The song played during the end credits is "I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town" by Ray Charles.
External links[edit]
"Johnny Cakes" at HBO
"Johnny Cakes" at the Internet Movie Database
"Johnny Cakes" at TV.com


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"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
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 "Isabella" ·
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"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

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"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
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 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

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Luxury Lounge
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"Luxury Lounge"
The Sopranos episode
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Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 7
Directed by
Danny Leiner
Written by
Matthew Weiner
Production code
607
Original air date
April 23, 2006
Running time
55 minutes
Guest actors


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Episode chronology
"Luxury Lounge" is the seventy-second episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the seventh of the show's sixth season. It was written by Matthew Weiner, directed by Danny Leiner and originally aired on April 23, 2006.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
2 Episode recap
3 First appearance
4 Deceased
5 Title reference
6 Production
7 References to prior episodes
8 Other cultural references
9 Music
10 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi *
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr. *
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr. *
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano *
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri *
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
John Ventimiglia as Artie Bucco
Ray Abruzzo as Little Carmine Lupertazzi
Katherine Narducci as Charmaine Bucco
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Ben Kingsley as Himself
Lauren Bacall as Herself
Frankie Valli as Rusty Millio
Edoardo Ballerini as Corky Caporale
Denise Borino as Ginny Sacrimoni
Elizabeth Bracco as Marie Spatafore
Max Casella as Benny Fazio
Manuela Feris as Martina
Arthur J. Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
Artie Pasquale as Burt Gervasi
Suzanne Shepherd as Mary De Angelis
Wilmer Valderrama as Himself
Maureen Van Zandt as Gabriella Dante
Lenny Venito as James "Murmur" Zancone
Nick Annunziata as Eddie Pietro
Carlo Giuliano as Italo
Peter Allas as Salvatore
Taleb Adlah as Ahmed
Donnie Keshawarz as Muhammad
Brian O'Neill as Detective Hollings
John Rue as Kloski
Merel Julia as Gianna Millio
Kristen Cerelli as Jen Fazio
Mario D'Elia as Benny Fazio, Sr.
Judy Prianti as Connie Fazio
Dierdre Friel as Sandy
Abigail Marlowe as Sarah
Enya Flack as Janine
Alicia Lorén as Eden
Sig Libowitz as Hillel Teittleman
John Bianco as Gerry Torciano
John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia as Albie Cianflone
Frank Borrelli as Vito Spatafore, Jr.
Paulina Gerzon as Francesca Spatafore
Ariana Delawari as Shelly
Jose Sanchez as Hector
Filippo Bozotti as Giovanni Coppito
Episode recap[edit]
Corky Caporale meets hitmen Italo and Salvatore and provides them with "clean" pistols and directions to Rusty Millio's location.
At Nuovo Vesuvio, Phil Leotardo and Tony Soprano host a joint celebration as "the books are opened" for two new members: Gerry Torciano is now officially a New York capo and Burt Gervasi becomes the newest DiMeo family made man. The event is not without tension, as Phil rants about his disgust at his still-missing homosexual cousin-in-law Vito Spatafore, and many people seem dissatisfied with the food and service. Phil speaks favorably of a new competitor to the restaurant, Da Giovanni, and informs Artie Bucco he should check it out. After the meal, Christopher Moltisanti, Tony, and Carlo Gervasi discuss the search for Vito. Tony tells them to be passive and only worry about the fugitive capo if he returns to Jersey, but Carlo is adamant to find Vito via his police detective contacts. Christopher asks Tony's permission to fly to Los Angeles with Little Carmine on a casting trip to enlist actors for their movie Cleaver, and Tony reluctantly gives his permission.
As Rusty Millio and his bodyguard Eddie Pietro are pulling out of Rusty's driveway, Italo and Salvatore pull up behind them in a small SUV, cutting them off at the end of the driveway. One of the Italians gets out and distracts the passengers' attention by feigning poor English and asking Rusty for directions to Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn while the second man slowly walks up near the driver's side. Both of them then start shooting, killing Rusty and Eddie. The pair drop their guns in the driveway and make a quick getaway as Rusty's Mercedes-Benz rolls out into the street.
Tony unwillingly has a meal at Da Giovanni to celebrate Phil's grandson's confirmation. Marie Spatafore is there with her children, who are being teased about their homosexual father. Carmela sings the restaurant's praises and discusses what she thinks is wrong with Nuovo Vesuvio. Privately, Phil approaches Tony to thank him on Johnny "Sack"'s behalf for the hit on Rusty. Tony denies any involvement, which Phil accepts as cautiousness.
"Murmur" makes rounds for Christopher that include buying credit card details from an Italian delicatessen and the Teittleman's hotel, and then delivering numbers to Ahmed and Muhammad, who operate in stealing money via the Internet.
Artie has a new Albanian hostess at his restaurant, Martina. She starts flirting with mobster Benny Fazio, which irks Artie, and he tells her that he cannot help expedite her green card process any further and keeps handing her work to keep her away from him. Benny questions the way Artie treats Martina, leading to increased tension between the two.
Artie's business is starting to lose its customers and, drunk, he laments his status as one without any privileges to Tony at the Bada Bing!. He confronts Tony about dining at Da Giovanni's recently, to which Tony apologizes. But when the mob boss offers some tips to increase the restaurant's popularity, such as changing its interior, making advertisements or offering two-for-one meal promotions, Artie angrily rebuffs him, insisting his luxury establishment would never subject itself to such lows and tells Tony to rather settle his outstanding tab at the restaurant. A mad Artie shoots dead a rabbit for eating an arugula plant from his garden and rejects his wife Charmaine's suggestions to stop bothering his restaurant guests with his stories, insisting he is a "warm host."
Christopher and Little Carmine land in Los Angeles and check into a hotel. They have a scheduled meeting with actor Ben Kingsley, arranged because his agent owed Little Carmine a favor. Away from his AA sponsor, Christopher soon partakes in drinking, drugs, as well as in sexual services of a female escort, before calling for "Murmur" to come out and help him get back on the wagon.
The meeting with Kingsley does not go well. The actor seems unimpressed and is uninterested in the producers' "The Ring meets The Godfather" film project. Kingsley interrupts Christopher and Carmine to speak poolside to Lauren Bacall, who states she is in town to be a presenter at an awards show. When she mentions the gifts associated with presenting, Kingsley remembers he has a walk-through scheduled in the "luxury lounge," a room set-up with free gifts handed out to celebrities. Christopher and Carmine tag along with Kingsley and Christopher is soon fascinated by the great quantity of free expensive luxury items offered to a casual-acting Kingsley. The mob capo later phones Kingsley asking him if he could get him his own entry into the Luxury Lounge, but the actor says he doesn't handle such arrangements.
While Christopher is away in California, Benny Fazio takes over the handling of the credit card data thefts. He hands Tony his cut, a fat bundle of cash, citing success with the operation.
Nuovo Vesuvio's financial woes continue when Artie gets a visit from American Express fraud investigators. They inform Artie someone has been stealing credit card numbers from his customers to run up bogus charges, and that they must suspend Vesuvio's card usage as a precaution. After an emotional staff meeting, Artie learns Martina was the one who has been helping Benny steal the credit card numbers from the restaurant and fires her. Then, furious, he goes to Benny's house in the middle of the night and they get into a fistfight. Artie leaves a bloody Benny at his porch.
Tony tries to patch things up between Artie and Benny, lecturing the two on how they both were at fault: He invites Charmaine and Artie onto The Stugots II with him and Carmela, and criticizes an unreceptive Artie, and he gives the revenge-minded Benny a direct order to make peace with Artie and to never "shit where you eat."
At Tony's insistence, Benny's parents have their anniversary dinner at Nuovo Vesuvio, which has now indeed started offering "two-for-one" special meal promotions and advertising them in newspapers. Artie makes a table-side visit during their meal. While asking if he can get anyone another drink, Artie makes a veiled comment referencing Benny's sexual activity with Artie's former hostess Martina. Benny follows him into the kitchen and forces Artie's right hand into a boiling pot of tomato sauce, burning him severely.
Little Carmine informs Christopher that Ben Kingsley turned down the role in Cleaver. "Murmur" arrives in L.A. and finds an intoxicated Christopher in his hotel room. Once he sobers up, the two find Ben Kingsley in an elevator and try to subtly intimidate/convince him to gain access into the Luxury Lounge. Kingsley admits lavish presents for celebrities are “obscene”, but says he gives almost all of them away to charity. He blurts out that award presenters get free goods worth around $30,000.
Before leaving Los Angeles, outside of an awards show, a masked Christopher mugs Lauren Bacall, punching her and stealing her gift bag. He flies back to East Coast on the same plane as Kingsley to the latter’s dismay. When he gets home, Christopher offers Tony some of the stolen goods, but Tony is more concerned with Christopher's lack of focus. He blames Christopher's absence for the Artie-Benny feud, stating that perhaps if he was around to keep a handle on his crew, the confrontation could have been avoided.
Tony has dinner at Nuovo Vesuvio with Carmela and her mother Mary, but Hugh is absent, still being hostile to Carmela. Tony urges Artie to enter therapy, telling him he goes "about in pity for himself." Artie responds with hostility, to which Tony responds by informing Artie that customers do not like his table-side chatter. Tony suggests to the shocked Artie that he stay in the kitchen and departs.
Charmaine seats a young couple just before closing time at the restaurant. Artie tells Charmaine to tell the guests they will have to eat whatever he prepares, since the staff has left for the evening and there are barely any food supplies left. With his right hand heavily bandaged, Artie methodically prepares a rabbit dish from his grandfather's weathered hand-written cookbook.
Italo and Salvatore fly back to Italy and comment on the luxury souvenirs they purchased in the U.S., which they say were much cheaper in America than in Italy due to the weak U.S. Dollar.
First appearance[edit]
Burt Gervasi: newly made DiMeo/Soprano family soldier and cousin to Carlo Gervasi.
Deceased[edit]
Rusty Millio: assassinated on orders from Johnny "Sack" via Tony Soprano's enlisted hit men from Italy for potentially trying to take power away from Johnny again.
Eddie Pietro: collateral damage from the Millio hit.
Title reference[edit]
Christopher and Little Carmine follow Ben Kingsley through a celebrity Luxury Lounge where many free gifts are offered to celebrities.
The title could refer to a luxury restaurant. Artie's fight for his restaurant against competitors and through hardships is one of the main storylines of the episode.
The title could refer to the higher status of free luxury, enjoyed by people such as Tony Soprano and Benny Fazio, that comes to be resented by Artie Bucco who tries to make a living by "honest work," as his father.
Production[edit]
Creator David Chase makes his second cameo appearance on the series as a passenger on the plane to Italy during the last scene. Previously, he appeared as a man in Italy in episode "Commendatori".
References to prior episodes[edit]
Tony reminds Artie about the time his family found refuge and happily dined at Nuovo Vesuvio during a heavy storm, which happened in "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano".
Christopher reminds Tony about his "huge sacrifice" made for him - Adriana. ("Long Term Parking").
Other cultural references[edit]
Italo and Salvatore talk about visiting the World Trade Center site.
Tony refers to Vito Spatafore as "La Cage aux Fat." La Cage aux Folles is originally a French comedy play later turned into a movie about gay lovers. An American film remake of it is the 1996 The Birdcage.
Tony says he saw CSI when Carlo starts talking about techniques that could track Vito.
When Tony denies having anything to do with Rusty's murder, Phil Leotardo says the deed can then be credited to The Headless Horseman.
Artie says the New Jersey Zagat described him as a "warm and convivial host."
Artie tells Tony he would never allow his restaurant to turn into an IHOP.
Potential directors for Cleaver were mentioned as Ridley Scott, Tobe Hooper or "the next James Wan" (Saw).
Christopher mentions Ben Kingsley's role as a villain in Sexy Beast.
Christopher lists J.T. Dolan's screenwriting credits to Ben Kingsley, which include Nash Bridges, Hooperman, and Law & Order: SVU (mistakenly referring to it as Law & Order: SUV).
Lauren Bacall says she will give awards at the ShoWest.
Christopher tells Lauren Bacall that she was great in "The Haves And Have-Nots" (To Have and Have Not).
In the Luxury Lounge, some of the displayed items were: an iRiver MP3 player, Oris watches, and the video game True Crime: New York City on a television.
Christopher tells Tony he and Little Carmine met Lindsay Lohan in LA.
Italo and Salvatore examine a Montblanc pen.
Music[edit]
The song being played at Nuovo Vesuvio when Artie surveys his mostly empty establishment is "La-La (Means I Love You)" by The Delfonics.
The song being sung by Murmur when making the credit card collection from the Jewish-owned hotel is "Daniel" by Elton John.
The song playing at the Bada Bing! where Ahmed and Muhammad get the stolen credit card numbers is "Dazz," a 1976 hit song by Brick.
The song playing at the Luxury Lounge when Christopher looks around at the swag is "Welcome to New York City" by Cam'ron, from the True Crime: New York City's intro, briefly shown in the TV.
When Artie meets the Benny Fazio party in his restaurant the song playing is "Whispering Bells" by The Del-Vikings.
Closing credits music is a classical guitar piece called "Recuerdos de la Alhambra," composed by Francisco Tarrega and played by Pepe Romero.
External links[edit]
"Luxury Lounge" at HBO
"Luxury Lounge" at the Internet Movie Database
"Luxury Lounge" at TV.com


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Live Free or Die (The Sopranos)
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"Live Free or Die"
The Sopranos episode
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Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 6
Directed by
Tim Van Patten
Written by
David Chase
Terence Winter
Robin Green
Mitchell Burgess
Cinematography by
Alik Sakharov
Production code
606
Original air date
April 17, 2006
Running time
55 minutes
Guest actors


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"Live Free or Die" is the seventy-first episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the sixth of the show's sixth season. It was written by David Chase, Terence Winter, Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, was directed by Tim Van Patten and originally aired on April 16, 2006.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
2 Episode recap
3 First appearances
4 Title reference
5 Production
6 Other cultural references
7 Music
8 References
9 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr. *
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri *
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
John Ventimiglia as Artie Bucco
Joseph R. Gannascoli as Vito Spatafore
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
Toni Kalem as Angie Bonpensiero
Sharon Angela as Rosalie Aprile
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Tom Aldredge as Hugh De Angelis
Edoardo Ballerini as Corky Caporale
Elizabeth Bracco as Marie Spatafore
Max Casella as Benny Fazio
Will Janowitz as Finn DeTrolio
Arthur Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
Anthony Ribustello as Dante Greco
Suzanne Shepherd as Mary De Angelis
Lenny Venito as James "Murmur" Zancone
Maureen Van Zandt as Gabriella Dante
Louis Gross as Perry Annunziata
John Costelloe as Jim Witowski
Selenis Leyva as Jill Dibiaso
Danny Mastrogiorgio as Kevin Mucci
Susan Blommaert as Betty Wolf
Ray Anthony Thomas as Flagman
Donna Villella as Rae 'Rafaella' Martino
Adam Trese as Michael Kardish
Jacqueline Antaramian as Mrs. Fahim Ulleh Khan
Afeefa Ayube as Afaf Khan
Laith Nakli as Mr. Fahim Ulleh Khan
Ron Castellano as Terry Doria
Amanda Magnavita as Babysitter
Michael Malone as Antique Store Owner
Frank Borrelli as Vito Spatafore, Jr.
Paulina Gerzon as Francesca Spatafore
James Hindman as Carty
Leo Daignault as Don
Robert Feeley as Rehab Patient
Cal Crenshaw as Local Man
Episode recap[edit]
Tony Soprano pays Perry Annunziata some money as a compensation for giving him a beating and his bodyguard apologizes for raising a hand against his boss as they make peace.
The New York wiseguys who spotted a leather fetish-clad Vito Spatafore dancing in a gay bar have spread the news. An associate, who said Sal Iaccuzzo from Yonkers, New York saw Vito at the gay bar, tells the story to Christopher Moltisanti and his friend "Murmur" outside an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, they then repeat it to Tony and his crew at the Bada Bing!. Paulie Gualtieri describes the news as slander, and Tony insists more proof is needed before they condemn him.
Benny Fazio, Dante Greco and Terry Doria visit Vito and his mistress at a beach house on the Jersey Shore, where he's been lying low. They try to escort him to see Tony but Vito speeds away. Vito returns to his home later that night, looks in on his sleeping children, grabs clothes, a couple of family pictures and a stash of money, and drives off into a stormy night, throwing his cell phone out on the way. After his car hits a downed tree branch, Vito proceeds on foot and finds himself stranded in a small town in New Hampshire. Exhausted, he checks into an inn.
Vito's hasty disappearance suggests to Christopher and others he has something to hide. Further testimony is gained from Silvio, who remembers Vito phoned him at night after he was spotted at the gay club. Also, Silvio, after speaking to the mobster's wife, Marie Spatafore, declares, "In my business, I'm around a lot of women, and that one ain't getting laid." All the while, Tony continues calling Vito, but to no avail. A road crew worker finds Vito's phone as it rings; after being offended and puzzled by Tony's questions, the worker throws the phone into the path of a steamroller, crushing it into the freshly laid asphalt.
The gossip soon spreads further, as Meadow reveals to Carmela and Rosalie that Finn witnessed Vito performing oral sex on a security guard of the construction site where Vito and Finn worked (in the season 5 episode "Unidentified Black Males"). Tony takes Finn to the back room of Satriale's and asks him to repeat the story for the assembled wiseguys. The mobsters are shocked and the fact that Vito was "catching" instead of "pitching" the favor seems even worse to the group, especially to Paulie. The reactions range from laughter from some members to immediate calls for Vito's execution by more conservative ones. Finn is terrified after the interrogation.
Meadow has her values and relationships questioned when she sympathizes at the South Bronx law center with an Afghan Muslim family whose son was detained by police on suspicion of terrorist activity, but can find no support at home: when she says George W. Bush's policies are eroding the society's "constitutional protections," Tony teases her while Carmela says she voted for him in the presidential election. Meadow starts a new internship at a law firm which handles white-collar crimes. She later discusses a case from her new job smoking marijuana with Finn, but they get into a bitter argument over John Sacrimoni's recent treatment by the government at his daughter's wedding with Meadow being enraged by what she considers to be harassment and Finn supporting the tough measures. Finn also challenges Meadow's rationalization of her father's business as Italian tradition. He tells her that her defense of what is going to happen to Vito is hypocritical, as she doesn't see any problem with how the mobsters are going to "mete out their own justice" on Vito over his sexual orientation. Meadow storms out.
Meadow's mention of terrorists prompts Tony to ask Christopher if his Arabic friends, Ahmed and Muhammad, are possibly "al-Qaedas". Christopher tells Tony the pair seem too tolerant and Americanized to be terrorists, but is somewhat concerned by the suggestion.
Paulie, feeling personally betrayed, leads the cries for Vito's head. After Tony gives Vito's construction business to Carlo Gervasi, the captain reveals rumors growing about how the fugitive Capo's crew won't follow his orders and some state their desire to kill Vito themselves. Tony, who expresses to Dr. Melfi his ambivalence over whether Vito's sexual orientation truly matters, manages to quell immediate calls for bloodshed while he considers the impact of Vito's death on Vito's wife and children and on his own income. After Tony suggests to Silvio he will not go after Vito, Silvio notes Tony's men will use clemency as an excuse to kick up even less money.
Phil Leotardo arrives to comfort his distraught cousin Marie, both of them now informed of the accusations against her husband Vito. Phil asks if Marie can help him locate Vito, ostensibly to get Vito "therapy."
Meanwhile, Carmela discovers that Angie Bonpensiero has secretly branched out into business with some members of Christopher's crew, putting money up for street loans and buying stolen car parts. Angie seems to be too preoccupied with her work to have dinner with the mobwives and donates a much-larger-than-anticipated sum of money for Carmela's charity auction. Rosalie Aprile concludes to Carmela Angie used to be one of the members of their circle but is now "one of them" (mobsters).
Carmela tries to pressure Tony into having the local building inspector allow her to move forward with work on her spec house, but to no avail; Tony seems to forget her request, and Carmela is appalled to find that her father Hugh De Angelis has set about selling materials salvaged from the construction site.
Tony informs Christopher two Italian hitmen will be sent over to the US from Europe to murder Rusty Millio as per his request and tells Christopher he must hire a "third party" to equip them with weapons and to act as an intermediary between the assassins and the DiMeo/Soprano crime family. This time, the capo says he now agrees with Tony's decision to distance themselves from the hit as much as possible. Christopher later meets Corky Caporale, a crime family associate who can speak Italian, and passes him the task, giving him heroin as an advance partial payment.
In his New Hampshire hideaway, Vito tries unsuccessfully to locate a cousin, and posing as a man from Scottsdale, Arizona socializes with the townsfolk and tourists, and notices a gay couple being welcomed warmly at a local diner. Among the peace and quiet, Vito stops by a picturesque whitewater river, then visits an antique shop. Vito notices the New Hampshire motto written on a car's license plates: "Live Free or Die." He picks up and admires a pot at the store. Its proprietor tells him he has "a good eye" and is "a natural," as it happens to be the most expensive piece in the shop.
First appearances[edit]
Corky Caporale: A DiMeo crime family associate and heroin addict who is tasked with serving as the "third party" intermediary between Christopher Moltisanti and the Italian hitmen coming to murder Rusty Millio.
Jim Witowski: Owner of a local diner at Dartford, New Hampshire, the town where Vito has taken refuge.
Title reference[edit]
The episode's title, "Live Free or Die", refers to the New Hampshire state motto, which Vito notices on a license plate while he is browsing an arts and crafts shop.
It also possibly refers to Vito's options: Live free (stay in New Hampshire) or die (return to New Jersey).
Production[edit]
Sharon Angela (Rosalie Aprile) is promoted to the main cast and now billed in the opening credits for the episodes in which she appears, with some exceptions.
"Live Free or Die" is the final episode written by the married writing team of Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess. They left the series, which they had been with since the first season, to produce a new project for HBO, which never took shape. This is also one of only three episodes in the entire series where four writers share credit for the script, the other being "Calling All Cars" of Season 4 and the Season 6 Part II premiere "Soprano Home Movies."
The scenes filmed for the fictional town of Dartford, New Hampshire were actually filmed in Boonton, New Jersey.[1]
The highway Vito was traveling on when his car broke down, New Hampshire Route 228, is also fictitious.
Other cultural references[edit]
In the opening scene, Tony is sitting by his pool reading Yachting.
When Christopher's friend "Murmur," standing outside the AA meeting, asks the guy from Yonkers if he's "lost," it recalls the title of the play and movie Lost in Yonkers.
Tony angrily calls Carlo, who talks about killing Vito, Judge Roy Bean.
When the highway department worker finds Vito's phone on the side of the road and is antagonized by Tony, Tony says "Oh, yeah? Telephone tough guy, eh?". Famous actor Joe Pesci, known for his mobster roles, says this exact line arguing with Mel Gibson's character in a scene from the film Lethal Weapon 4.
After Finn confirms to the Soprano crew that he caught Vito performing a sex act on a security guard ("Unidentified Black Males"), Christopher suggests that he should cut off his penis and "feed it to him." This same fate befell actor Michael Imperioli's character at the hands of the Viet Cong in the film Dead Presidents.
Also, in the scene where Finn confirms Vito's sexual preference, the table and the seating of the crew around the table suggests The Last Supper in placement, as well as mood, as "betrayal" is an oft-repeated suggestion by Christopher, Paulie among others.
In the scene with Dr. Melfi, Tony referenced the controversial comments made by Senator Rick Santorum (pronouncing his last name as "Sanatorium") who once claimed the government's allowance of gay marriage would be the first step in a slippery slope leading to tolerance of more taboo practices, including bestiality.
Also in the scene with Dr. Melfi, Tony referenced a Showtime series (The L Word) when talking about "that lesbian show with Jennifer Beals."
When discussing Ahmed and Mohammad with Tony, Christopher mentions their reaction to the "Danish cartoons" incident - the 2005 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.
After speaking with Carlo at the backroom of the Bada Bing, Tony starts reading the Robb Report magazine.
At a diner in Dartford, Vito is introduced to jonnycakes, pancakes made with white corn meal. "Johnny Cakes" is also the title of the eighth episode of the season.
Vito also tries to order some Jimmy Dean sausages.
Music[edit]
After Meadow tells Carmela and Rosalie Aprile about Vito and the security guard, Tony comes down the stairs singing the opening line of "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull.
The song playing in the background of the scene at the Bada Bing! when Tony promotes Carlo is "After" by Wide Open Cage.
The song played during the end credits is "4th of July" by X.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Martin, Brett (2007-10-30). "Welcome to New Jersey: A Sense of Place". The Sopranos: The Complete Book. New York: Time. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-933821-18-4.
External links[edit]
"Live Free or Die" at HBO
"Live Free or Die" at the Internet Movie Database
"Live Free or Die" at TV.com


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Tony Soprano ·
 Jennifer Melfi ·
 Carmela Soprano ·
 Christopher Moltisanti ·
 Junior Soprano ·
 Big Pussy Bonpensiero ·
 Silvio Dante ·
 Paulie Gualtieri ·
 Anthony Soprano, Jr. ·
 Meadow Soprano ·
 Adriana La Cerva ·
 Janice Soprano ·
 Bobby Baccalieri ·
 Livia Soprano
 

Secondary
Johnny Sack ·
 Artie Bucco ·
 Dwight Harris ·
 Hesh Rabkin ·
 Rosalie Aprile ·
 Phil Leotardo ·
 Ralph Cifaretto ·
 Tony Blundetto ·
 Richie Aprile ·
 Vito Spatafore ·
 Furio Giunta ·
 Patsy Parisi ·
 Carlo Gervasi ·
 Charmaine Bucco ·
 Carmine Lupertazzi ·
 Little Carmine ·
 Benny Fazio ·
 Ray Curto ·
 Eugene Pontecorvo ·
 Little Paulie Germani ·
 Jackie Aprile, Jr. ·
 Mikey Palmice ·
 Brendan Filone ·
 Matthew Bevilaqua ·
 Sean Gismonte ·
 Larry Barese ·
 Butch DeConcini ·
 Albie Cianflone
 


Episodes


Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


Part II

"Soprano Home Movies" ·
 "Stage 5" ·
 "Remember When" ·
 "Chasing It" ·
 "Walk Like a Man" ·
 "Kennedy and Heidi" ·
 "The Second Coming" ·
 "The Blue Comet" ·
 "Made in America"
 



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Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request...
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"Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..."
The Sopranos episode
Sopranos ep605.jpg
Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 5
Directed by
Steve Buscemi
Written by
Terence Winter
Production code
605
Original air date
April 9, 2006
Running time
52 minutes
Guest actors


see below

Episode chronology

← Previous
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" Next →
 "Live Free or Die"

Episode chronology
"Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." is the seventieth episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the fifth of the show's sixth season. It was written by Terence Winter, directed by Steve Buscemi and originally aired on April 9, 2006.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
2 Episode recap
3 First appearances
4 Final appearance
5 Title reference
6 Production
7 Other cultural references
8 Music
9 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr.
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri *
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Vincent Curatola as Johnny "Sack" Sacrimoni
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
Joseph R. Gannascoli as Vito Spatafore
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Sharon Angela as Rosalie Aprile
Denise Borino as Ginny Sacrimoni
Elizabeth Bracco as Marie Spatafore
Carl Capotorto as Little Paulie Germani
Max Casella as Benny Fazio
Will Janowitz as Finn De Trolio
Anthony Ribustello as Dante Greco
Frankie Valli as Rusty Millio
Maureen Van Zandt as Gabriella Dante
Louis Gross as Perry Annunziata
Caitlin Van Zandt as Allegra Sacrimoni
Adam Mucci as Eric DeBenedetto
Taleb Adlah as Ahmed
Donnie Keshawarz as Muhammad
Arthur J. Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
William DeMeo as Jason Molinaro
Josh Pais as Zev Charney
Brad Zimmerman as Ron Pearse
Jeffrey Joseph as Deputy Mayweather
Mike Pniewski as Deputy Featham
Robert Hirschfeld as Judge Holzer
Randy Barbee as Judge Whitney Runions
Alysia Reiner as Linda Vaughn
Dan Castleman as Prosecutor Castleman
Cristin Milioti as Catherine Sacrimoni
John Bianco as Gerry Torciano
John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia as Albie Cianflone
Merel Julia as Gianna Millio
Lenny Venito as "Murmur"
Jeffrey M. Marchetti as Peter LaRosa
Frank Borrelli as Vito Spatafore, Jr.
Paulina Gerzon as Francesca Spatafore
Joe Iacona as Johnny's Dad
Jean Marie Evans as Aunt Louise
Irma St. Paul as Aunt Grace
Erik Martin as Nurse Hasley
Joey Vega as U.S. Marshal #1
Teresa Meza as U.S. Marshal #2
Jimmy Smagula as Wise Guy #1 (Sal Iacuzzo)
Jared DiCroce as Wise Guy #2
Anthony Stropoli as Rick
David Coburn as Bartender
Carmine Parisi as Priest
Lou Martini, Jr. as Anthony Infante
Episode recap[edit]
John Sacrimoni, despite the opposition from the prosecution, is granted a six-hour supervised release from prison in order to attend his daughter Allegra's wedding ceremony. His release comes with several conditions, including heavy security paid for exclusively by Johnny. Even from prison, Johnny lords over the planning of the event and tries to keep his family focused on the big day.
Although still recovering from his gunshot wound, Tony is ready to go back to work. He has a new bodyguard and driver, Perry Annunziata, a former bodybuilder whom Tony calls "Muscles Marinara." Tony notices Perry's large arms on their first trip together and tries to impress him with tales of his previous athletic prowess. The bodyguard nearly accosts two truck drivers who cut him off and swear at him, but Tony calms the man down without incident.
Tony is welcomed back by Dr. Melfi to her office for their first psychotherapy session since his shooting recovery. Melfi inquires about his physical and mental condition and his position towards Junior Soprano, but Tony says he never again wants to talk about his uncle after he tried to kill him for the second time. They then talk about A.J. and Tony says he is disappointed in his son flunking-out of college and working a petty job. Nevertheless, Melfi makes him admit there are worse ways to making money "than stocking the shelves at Blockbuster."
Junior and his new public defender are summoned before the judge. He decides Junior's mental condition has deteriorated to the level where he should be held and treated in a psychiatric facility while awaiting his retrial. After checking into a mental center, Junior passionately tells his attorney that he is innocent: "He's my nephew, goddammit! Why would I shoot him? Why?" he asks. He also says it was a "gun malfunction" and woefully begs to go home.
Tony's first day back at work mostly involves playing cards at Satriale's and being waited on by his crime family. Tony proudly displays his surgery scar on his stomach to them, prompting Christopher Moltisanti to show his own, which he got from the Sean Gismonte and Matthew Bevilaqua assassination attempt. Tony starts telling the mobsters in detail about the surgical procedures he underwent, but they seem to get uncomfortable and change the subject. Phil Leotardo arrives and seeks a private talk with Tony. Phil informs Tony that Johnny "Sack" wants him to take care of killing New York capo Rusty Millio, fearing that with him in prison, Rusty may find himself another "puppet" to control and wage another power struggle, much like he did with Little Carmine; Tony refuses the request. Before Tony arrives home, Carmela walks down the driveway to fetch the Star-Ledger newspaper (as Tony has done in previous episodes) having been informed of the headline touting Junior Soprano's "cushy psych lockup." She throws that section in the trash before Tony can see it. Her husband returns home exhausted and has to take a nap.
At the Bada Bing, Ahmed and Mohammed pay Christopher for credit card numbers and security codes. The pair ask him about getting some Tec-9 semi-automatic weapons for their "family troubles".
As Allegra's wedding approaches, Tony asks Meadow about when she's getting married and giving him grandchildren. Tony tells her the shooting has changed the way he looks at things.
At the wedding, when asked by U.S. Marshals to remove his shoes at a security check point near the church's entrance (after he sets off the metal detectors), Tony collapses and seems embarrassed when guests jump to his aid. After the bride and the groom give their vows before the priest, the wedding reception party follows in another venue. There, Tony accepts an envelope of cash from Vito Spatafore from his latest successful venture and is later able to talk to Johnny "Sack" for the first time since Johnny was arrested. As a personal favor, Johnny asks Tony to perform the hit on Rusty. Surrounded by U.S. Marshals, Tony and Johnny join Johnny's father and elderly relatives at a large table and discuss the situation in code, to the bewilderment of Johnny's folks. Reluctantly Tony agrees to the hit. Johnny mentions to Tony the price tag for the wedding is $425,000, but says such an occasion is worth it as, in the end, days like these are what they (mobsters) "grind" for during their lives. Later, when Tony talks to Christopher about handing the Rusty Millio job to partners in Italy, Chris, to Tony's frustration, disagrees, saying they should keep the job in-house. Christopher also mentions that Johnny asking this favor is just like "the movie" (The Godfather) and Tony can not refuse since it is Johnny's daughter's wedding day. Tony corrects Christopher, explaining that in the movie the situation is reversed, that people ask the father of the bride for a favor. Chris suggests Tony should ask John to not have him make the hit.
The guests wine and dine at the wedding party to live music and the newlyweds perform traditional games and customs, including the bride's dance with her father. Johnny "Sack" is ecstatic but his mood is soon ruined when the Marshals inform him his time has run out and it is time to return to jail. Just as Allegra and her husband leave for their honeymoon, their departure is interrupted by the Marshals pulling up to return Johnny to prison. An emotional Johnny tears up and cries openly in front of all in attendance as Marshals haul him away. Attendees are angered by the treatment of Johnny, and Johnny's wife Ginny faints. After "Sack" is gone, members of Tony's crew discuss the scene with Phil and members of the New York family. Phil says he lost respect for John and that Johnny is weak and questions whether he can be made to talk by the government. Christopher sides with Phil, again disagreeing with Tony, who defends Johnny's display of emotion. Returned to custody, Johnny is back in his orange prison jumpsuit.
After an early departure from the wedding reception and once home, Vito informs his wife he's heading out to make collections, but instead goes to a gay club. Sporting leather fetish motorcycle garb, Vito dances with a bare chested man in nipple rings, and offers to buy him a drink, but on the way to the bar counter he runs into two New York associates who are there making collections. Although Vito tries to play it off as a joke, they call him a "fag" and leave. Vito returns home, gets a gun from his bedroom, a few thousand dollars hidden in a paint can, and checks into a motel. He makes a 3 AM call to a sleeping Silvio Dante to ask if everything is okay. Vito makes no further contact with anyone and does not return subsequent calls from Tony.
Tony talks to Dr. Melfi about his crime family members and their perception of him. "People misinterpret, they think you're weak, they see an opportunity," Tony complains. Melfi comments Tony tries to project himself as an alpha male. She suggests he should act as if he is fine, and do something to let the subordinates know he remains a decisive leader. Tony arrives at the pork store and sees the crew sunning themselves and playing basketball. Inside, Tony tries to bait Perry into a confrontation under the pretext that he slammed the refrigerator doors but he does not respond. With his crew looking on, Tony sucker punches his bodyguard, starting a one-sided fight that ends with Perry bleeding on the floor and Tony defiantly walking away, seemingly unscathed.
After the altercation, Tony retreats to the bathroom and vomits blood. Leaning on the bathroom sink and looking at himself in the mirror, Tony gives himself a twisted, satisfied smile. The moment is short-lived, however, as Tony violently vomits again in the toilet.
First appearances[edit]
Perry Annunziata: Tony's new driver and bodyguard.
Vito Spatafore, Jr.: Vito's young son.
Final appearance[edit]
Father Phil Intintola: Local Catholic priest and friend of Carmela's.
Title reference[edit]
The title refers to the first words on the wedding invitation for John and Ginny's daughter, Allegra.
It is also possibly a reference to John's request to his judge to be granted a leave from jail to attend his daughter's wedding...
and a reference to his request that Tony's family kill Lupertazzi capo, Rusty Millio.
Production[edit]
The location of the reception scene is at "Leonard's of Great Neck" on Northern Boulevard in Long Island, New York.
Despite sharing the same last name, Caitlin Van Zandt, who plays Johnny "Sack"'s daughter Allegra, is not related to Steven Van Zandt, who plays Silvio Dante.
Other cultural references[edit]
When dressing for his court appearance, it is specifically stated that Johnny "Sack" wears a Brioni suit.
Tony tells Melfi Tylenol helps him sleep.
When Dante Greco offers to set a timer to remind Tony to take his medications, Silvio derisively comments: "Nurse Betty over here."
Phil Leotardo when talking to Tony, refers to Rusty Millio as "the mayor of Munchkinland."
When Middle Eastern men meet Christopher to pay for stolen credit card numbers and order weapons, Christopher greets them with a reference to the Ali Baba story: "Where are the rest of the 40 thieves?"
Christopher also quips, when handing over the stolen credit card numbers: "Don't leave home without them!" This confuses the Middle Easterners, who are unfamiliar with the American Express advertising campaign Chris is referring to.
Johnny "Sack" angrily asks his lawyer if he read the latest GQ magazine after inspecting the dress shoes brought to him.
Christopher erroneously comments to Paulie that "Allegra" (as the bride's name) is a brand of cold medication. In fact, it is an anti-allergy drug brand.
Vito Spatafore calls the construction official interested in "playing ball" with the mob Joe DiMaggio.
Phil and Tony's men make "Cinderella" references (e.g., "his coach turned into a pumpkin" or "even Cinderella didn't cry") when the Marshals abruptly cut the festivities short to make an embarrassing public display of returning John to prison.
The movie Marie Spatafore is watching, when Vito leaves for the leather bar, is Imitation of Life.
Music[edit]
The song played at the Bada Bing! VIP room where strippers are dancing and Ahmed and Muhammad come in looking for Christopher is "I Need a Freak" by Sexual Harassment.
At Allegra's wedding party, the hired band plays and the singer sings: "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?" by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn.
"At Last" by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren
"Daddy's Little Girl" by Robert Burke and Horace Gerlach
"The Bride Cuts the Cake," which is based on the melody of "The Farmer in the Dell"
The song played at the New York gay bar, where Vito is outed, is "Flashing For Money" by Deep Dish.
As Vito checks into the motel, "The Three Bells" by The Browns is played — specifically, the second verse, about Jimmy Brown's marriage. The song is also used in the previous episode, "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh", though in that instance, the first verse (about Jimmy Brown's birth) is featured.
The song played over the end credits is "Every Day of the Week" by The Students.
External links[edit]
"Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." at HBO
"Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." at the Internet Movie Database
"Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." at TV.com


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The Sopranos


Creator and crew
David Chase ·
 Writers
 

Related articles
Episodes ·
 Awards and nominations ·
 Music ·
 The Sopranos: Road to Respect ·
 Pinball game
 

Fictional universe
Soprano crime family ·
 Members of the Soprano crime family ·
 Lupertazzi crime family ·
 Friends and family ·
 Satriale's Pork Store ·
 Bada Bing ·
 Cleaver ·
 Family tree ·
 FBI
 

Characters


Primary
Tony Soprano ·
 Jennifer Melfi ·
 Carmela Soprano ·
 Christopher Moltisanti ·
 Junior Soprano ·
 Big Pussy Bonpensiero ·
 Silvio Dante ·
 Paulie Gualtieri ·
 Anthony Soprano, Jr. ·
 Meadow Soprano ·
 Adriana La Cerva ·
 Janice Soprano ·
 Bobby Baccalieri ·
 Livia Soprano
 

Secondary
Johnny Sack ·
 Artie Bucco ·
 Dwight Harris ·
 Hesh Rabkin ·
 Rosalie Aprile ·
 Phil Leotardo ·
 Ralph Cifaretto ·
 Tony Blundetto ·
 Richie Aprile ·
 Vito Spatafore ·
 Furio Giunta ·
 Patsy Parisi ·
 Carlo Gervasi ·
 Charmaine Bucco ·
 Carmine Lupertazzi ·
 Little Carmine ·
 Benny Fazio ·
 Ray Curto ·
 Eugene Pontecorvo ·
 Little Paulie Germani ·
 Jackie Aprile, Jr. ·
 Mikey Palmice ·
 Brendan Filone ·
 Matthew Bevilaqua ·
 Sean Gismonte ·
 Larry Barese ·
 Butch DeConcini ·
 Albie Cianflone
 


Episodes


Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


Part II

"Soprano Home Movies" ·
 "Stage 5" ·
 "Remember When" ·
 "Chasing It" ·
 "Walk Like a Man" ·
 "Kennedy and Heidi" ·
 "The Second Coming" ·
 "The Blue Comet" ·
 "Made in America"
 



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The Fleshy Part of the Thigh
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"The Fleshy Part of the Thigh"
The Sopranos episode
Ep69.jpg
Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 4
Directed by
Alan Taylor
Written by
Diane Frolov
Andrew Schneider
Cinematography by
Alik Sakharov
Production code
604
Original air date
April 2, 2006
Running time
57 minutes
Guest actors


see below

Episode chronology

← Previous
 "Mayham" Next →
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..."

Episode chronology
"The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" is the sixty-ninth episode of the HBO original series, The Sopranos and the fourth of the show's sixth season. The episode was written by Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, directed by Alan Taylor and originally aired on April 2, 2006.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring 1.1.1 Also guest starring

2 Episode recap
3 First appearances
4 Deceased
5 Title reference
6 Production
7 Other cultural references
8 Music
9 References
10 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi *
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr. *
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Vincent Curatola as Johnny "Sack" Sacrimoni
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
Joseph R. Gannascoli as Vito Spatafore
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Jerry Adler as Hesh Rabkin
Also guest starring[edit]
Max Casella as Benny Fazio
Carl Capotorto as Little Paulie Germani
John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia as Albie Cianflone
Rob Devaney as Pastor Bob Brewster
Chris Diamantopoulos as Jason Barone
Frances Ensemplare as Nucci Gualtieri
Hal Holbrook as John Schwinn
Lord Jamar as Da Lux
Will Janowitz as Finn DeTrolio
Angela Pietropinto as Helen Barone
Turk Pipkin as Aaron Arkaway
Anthony "Treach" Criss as Marvin
MuMs da Schemer as Mop
Paul Schulze as Father Phil Intintola
Judith Malina as Aunt Dottie
Ron Leibman as Dr. Lior Plepler
Gina Tognoni as Catherine Lipman
Sandra Daley as Nurse Fiona Macken
Michael DeNigris as Charles Cinelli
Ash Roeca as Rudy Diaz
Alberto Vazquez as Julian
Gustavo Cunha as Armando
Chazz Menendez as Goon
Tracey Silver as Beth Kaplan
James Vincent Romano as Cary DiBartolo
Episode recap[edit]
Tony Soprano's condition is improving and he is awaiting surgery to close the opening in his abdomen while he numbs the pain with morphine. He tells a nurse he now sees life in a different way. An Evangelical Christian minister, Pastor Bob Brewster, and Aaron Arkaway later visit Tony and Carmela for a chat and the pastor invites them to pray for a good outcome of his operation.
After the surgery, with his condition now sufficiently stable, Tony is disgusted when he learns the insurance company representative wants to send Tony home as soon as possible. She tells him to be happy since if he had had no insurance card on him on the night he was shot, he would have been placed in an inferior health care facility. Tony spends the last remaining days at the hospital interacting with two patients on his floor, John Schwinn, a former Bell Labs scientist undergoing tests to investigate his enlarged sinuses, and Da Lux, a rapper who was shot while leaving a club. Da Lux expresses admiration for Tony, referring to him as an "Original G" (meaning "gangster"), though Tony is dismissive of it. Da Lux invites him to watch a boxing fight at his hospital room on satellite TV. While watching the prize fight, Paulie moans about how alone everyone is, Schwinn discusses the interconnectivity of all life, telling them how no event or entity can be understood independent from the rest of the world (referencing the work of Erwin Schrödinger, Quantum mysticism), and Da Lux agrees with Schwinn: "everything is everything, I'm down with that." Schwinn has ideas that are at odds with the beliefs of Pastor Bob, who again visits Tony later and tries to encourage him to find his spirituality. The next time, Tony confides to Schwinn he is starting to believe they are all part of something bigger, but Schwinn tells him the doctors found out that he has laryngeal cancer and Tony offers his condolences.
Tony learns Carmela and A.J. have reconciled and that his son got a job at Blockbuster.
Tony meets the paramedic that checked his wallet for his insurance card and accuses him of stealing $2,000 from it. The man denies taking any money for himself, but Christopher and others intimidate him to pay the money back if he does not want to get hurt.
Paulie Gualtieri visits his dying Aunt Dottie, a nun, in a convent, who informs him that she is actually his mother. Apparently, she was helping the USO during "the war" and had sex with a soldier named Russ. Because she was a nun and did not want to shame her family, she had her sister raise Paulie as if he were her son. He confronts Nucci, the woman who raised him, and his worst fears are confirmed. Devastated by the news and questioning his own identity, Paulie struggles to remain focused at work, to the anger of Tony. After Dottie's funeral, Paulie pays Nucci a visit at her retirement community room and tells her he will no longer support her financially, and, in a fit of rage, throws out her flat-screen TV out of a window, informing her he does not want to have anything to do with her anymore, leaving her crying. When Paulie confesses the news about his true mother to Tony, he urges him to reconcile with Nucci, saying his foster mother brought him up and helped him numerous times in his childhood.
Tony criticizes Bobby "Baccala" for his model train hobby. When Bobby says he is sorry for Tony getting shot by Junior, Tony gets enraged and tells him he does not want to hear his uncle being mentioned ever again and that Bobby should not expect any special treatment from Tony for being his brother-in-law, but that every person "is judged on his own merit." In the hospital, Bobby later meets rapper Marvin, a member of Da Lux's entourage, writing a song. Da Lux's injuries, many of his followers and colleagues believe, will help his career by providing him a huge boost in "street cred," while Marvin is struggling to attain fame. Bobby then proposes an idea to Marvin the next time he meets him: for $8,000, Bobby, who claims to be a "marksman," will help jump-start Marvin's career by shooting him in the "fleshy part" of the thigh. Marvin agrees but can only pay $7,000, which Bobby reluctantly accepts. Marvin also requests that he not be informed when the hit is about to take place. A few nights later, after leaving a fast food restaurant carrying bags with his girlfriend, Marvin gets instead shot in his buttocks. As the rapper cries in pain, Bobby flees the scene. Bobby later brings a hefty envelope of cash to Tony, saying he had "a good week."
Following Dick Barone's death, his son Jason takes over ownership of Barone Sanitation (for which Tony is a paid consultant), and tries to sell the company without first getting approval from Tony. After Tony, Paulie and Patsy Parisi make it clear that it will not be in his best interests to proceed with the sale, Jason discovers he is too far along in the process to back out. The company trying to buy Barone's routes, Cinelli Sanitation, is associated with Johnny Sack. After a violent encounter between two garbage crews trying to work the same route in which a man was brutally beaten in front of his underaged son, and after some back-and-forth negotiation between Tony and Sack (with Phil Leotardo working as the intermediary), Tony agrees with the more favorable offer from Sack and allows the sale to go through. "Truth be told, there's enough garbage for everybody," Tony tells Phil. Tony also acquiesces to Jason's mother, who begs Tony to make sure no harm comes to her son, saying Jason was ignorant of how the mob business works because she and his father had shielded him from it when he was growing up. The pleading of a mother for her son drives Paulie to leave the hospital room in tears.
On the day Tony is leaving the hospital, he passes Schwinn's, who now had his larynx removed, hospital room but does not stop to say goodbye to him. The EMT worker accused of stealing from Tony approaches him with an envelope of cash, but Tony does not take it. As he is wheeled outside, Tony takes a few moments to observe the bustle of life outside. He grabs Janice's hand and comments that "every day is a gift" to him now.
Back at home, Tony lounges at the patio, seemingly enjoying the elements of nature, listening to the wind rustle the tree leaves. At the bank of a river, Paulie finds Jason Barone getting ready to row in his boat and viciously beats him with a metal pole, calling him "a mama's boy." Paulie demands from Jason a monthly cut equal to the cost of Nucci's retirement home expenses warning him not to say a word to Tony as he brandishes his gun. Paulie walks away from the pier as the wind stirs the tree leaves around him.
First appearances[edit]
Albie Cianflone: Phil Leotardo's consigliere who, together with Phil, attends a meeting regarding Barone Sanitation with Tony and Paulie outside the hospital.
Deceased[edit]
Aunt Dottie: Paulie's biological mother, who dies of natural causes.
Title reference[edit]
When discussing ways to increase Marvin the rapper's popularity, Bobby proposes delivering to him a relatively benign gunshot wound to "the fleshy part of the thigh". This would be done to increase his reputation, popularity, and his appearance as a gangster to his fans.
The title could also obliquely reference a Native American story featuring Manabozho, an Ojibwe trickster figure. Common to various tellings of the story are Manabozho's initial encounter with a group of waterfowl and his use of song to convince them to dance with their eyes shut for an extended period of time during which he kills many of them. Before Manabozho lies down to rest after the remaining birds have escaped, he tells a part of his lower body, typically his thigh, to wake him if anyone comes to steal the bodies.[1][2][3]
Production[edit]
This is the first episode written by Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider who joined the series' writing staff for the final sixth season and also acted as supervising producers on it. They would write three more episodes. Frolov and Schneider previously collaborated with David Chase on Northern Exposure.
Other cultural references[edit]
When Aaron pays a visit to Tony in his ICU room, accompanied by Pastor Bob, he is wearing a shirt bearing the name of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who, being in a persistent vegetative state, was a center of controversy in the late-1990s and early-2000s (decade), in regards to sustaining her life through artificial means.
While having his wound dressed the day before surgery, Tony speculates that Janice is responsible for taping the Ojibwe saying introduced in "Mayham," "Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky," to his wall.
After learning that Pastor Bob and his followers oppose female contraception, Tony asks them if their God disapproves of Viagra too.
Tony's surgeon jokes to the surgical team that he found Jimmy Hoffa in Tony's abdomen.
Tony tells the insurance agent his doctors look like the United Colors of Benetton.
After moving to a regular hospital room after his surgery, Tony is watching the 1970s television series Kung Fu; Tony comments to Paulie that he used to watch that show "all the time" when he was a kid.
In Da Lux's hospital room, members of his crew tell Da Lux that he "only got two less shots than Fifty", a reference to rapper 50 Cent, who survived 9 gunshot wounds in 2000.
Pastor Bob presents Tony with a copy of the book Born Again by Charles Colson, a key figure in the Watergate scandal who would later become a born again Christian while in prison.
In addition, when Pastor Bob sees that Tony was reading a book on dinosaurs, he mentions that the Earth was created by God 6000 years ago, and not by evolution over billions of years—this is a reference to the belief in Young Earth creationism. Tony compares this to The Flintstones while Christopher does not believe Adam and Eve's paradise could have included T-Rexes.
Beth Kaplan says she has nothing against evangelical Christians as they revere Israel as the Holy Land.
Tony reminds Jason Barone that Tony, Jason's father, and Paulie had taken Jason to watch the New York Mets, Mookie Wilson and Dave Kingman, play at the Shea Stadium.
The character John Schwinn was a scientist for Bell Labs, which built the first active telecommunications satellite, Telstar. While watching the fight on a satellite television system, the signal breaks up and, at one time, Paulie asks him to fix the reception.
During the scene in the hospital as Tony and Paulie watch the fight, Schwinn makes a comment of everything being related to which Da Lux responds "Everything is everything, I can dig that." The actor playing Da Lux is Lord Jamar from the rap outfit Brand Nubian. Brand Nubian's third album is titled Everything Is Everything.
Bobby mentions a "Dr. Droop" to Marvin, a malapropism of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
Music[edit]
The song that plays as Jason Barone is rowing and Paulie and Patsy come to meet him is the first verse of "The Three Bells" by The Browns. The song would be used again in the next episode, "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request...".
The song that Tony plays on the stereo while meeting with Phil is "Foreplay/Long Time" by Boston.
The song playing during the end credits is a condensed version of "One of These Days" by Pink Floyd.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Thompson, Stith. "Tales of the North American Indians". Courier Dover Publications, 2000, p. 53.
2.Jump up ^ "Manabush and the Birds". Indian Country Wisconsin. Milwuakee Public Museum. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
3.Jump up ^ Dieterle, Richard J. "Trickster's Anus Guards the Ducks (§6 of the Trickster Cycle)". The Encyclopedia of Hočąk (Winnebago) Mythology. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
External links[edit]
"The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" at HBO
"The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" at the Internet Movie Database
"The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" at TV.com


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"Mayham"
The Sopranos episode
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Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 3
Directed by
Jack Bender
Written by
Matthew Weiner
Production code
603
Original air date
March 26, 2006
Running time
56 minutes
Guest actors


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"Mayham" is the sixty-eighth episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the third of the show's sixth season. It was written by Matthew Weiner, directed by Jack Bender and originally aired on March 26, 2006.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
2 Episode recap
3 First appearances
4 Deceased
5 Title reference
6 Production
7 Other cultural references
8 Music
9 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr. *
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
John Ventimiglia as Artie Bucco
Ray Abruzzo as Little Carmine Lupertazzi
Joseph R. Gannascoli as Vito Spatafore
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Tom Aldredge as Hugh De Angelis
Sharon Angela as Rosalie Aprile
Elizabeth Bracco as Marie Spatafore
Steve Buscemi as Man
Carl Capotorto as Little Paulie Germani
Max Casella as Benny Fazio
Timothy Daly as J.T. Dolan
Tony Darrow as Larry Boy Barese
Will Janowitz as Finn DeTrolio
Bill Kurtis as Himself
James Vincent Romano as Cary DiBartolo
Suzanne Shepherd as Mary De Angelis
Paul Schulze as Father Phil Intintola
Maureen Van Zandt as Gabriella Dante
Ed Vassalo as Tom Giglione
Danielle Di Vecchio as Barbara Soprano Giglione
Lenny Venito as "Murmur"
Geraldine LiBrandi as Patty Leotardo
Henry O as Monk #1
Ho Chow as Monk #2
Simon Sinn as Monk #3
Luis Ruiz as Superintendent
Angel Fajardo as Colombian #1
Chris Colombo as Colombian #2
Wendy Hammers as Fake Carmela (voice)
Ron Leibman as Dr. Lior Plepler
William DeMeo as Jason Molinaro
Edward Watts as Bartender
C. S. Lee as Dr. Ba
Matthew Stocke as EMT
Episode recap[edit]
On a tip from Vito Spatafore, Paulie Gualtieri and a member of his crew, Cary DiBartolo, attempt to burgle an apartment of Colombian drug dealers. When the pair arrive, however, they find the apartment is not empty as expected, and a fierce firefight ensues. The building superintendent is killed when he is used as a human shield by Cary and he and Paulie manage to slay the two drug dealers holed up in the apartment. During his struggle with one of the Colombians, Paulie is kicked hard in the testicles and injured. The mobsters succeed in finding a large amount of money hidden in a dishwasher.
Back at the hospital, Christopher Moltisanti and Bobby Baccalieri confront A.J. about his attempt to purchase a gun. They tell him that if they were in his place they would want to do the same thing, but that he cannot go after Junior, who is in custody. They assure him that Tony would not want him involved. A.J. reacts as though he feels they are talking down to him and treating him like a kid. Afterwards, he accuses Carmela of putting the two up to the talk, though she has no idea what he is talking about.
Tony's dream sequence from the previous episode continues: at his hotel room he receives a court summons from the Buddhist monks addressed to Kevin Finnerty, and he begins to question his actual identity. He seeks answers from the bartender as well as from the monks who initiated the summons, but does not get any answers.
Back in real life, tension is surging within the Soprano crime family. Although Gabriella Dante flatters husband Silvio and suggests he could replace Tony, the pressure of being acting boss makes his asthma worse to the point where he too ends up in hospital. In addition, his performance does not go down well with several members. He makes rulings on how Bobby and Vito are to split Eugene Pontecorvo's former revenue and on the cut to be given to Carmela on behalf of Tony from Paulie and Vito's Colombian drug raid score. None of the parties involved like his decisions. Paulie and Vito delay giving the $200,000 to Carmela, since they do not want to part with it in the event Tony does not recover. Vito quietly starts a campaign to position himself as a potential new leader, pointing to his recent weight loss, which he has been discussing a lot, as a sign of better health and maintaining a cordial relationship with the Lupertazzi acting boss Phil Leotardo, whose cousin Marie is his wife. He also happens to be in the hospital when Meadow's fiancé Finn turns up, and quickly makes a rather threatening pass at him.
Carmela bumps into Dr. Melfi at the supermarket, and receives an offer of help. Carmela later becomes livid when she sees an A&E special hosted by Bill Kurtis, in which he gave his own account of the Soprano shooting, including interpreting A.J.'s cursing at the media (from the previous episode) as a threat towards them. Carmela rushes home and drags A.J. out of bed, berating him for putting the entire affair on national television, and tells him that he is "a cross that the rest of his family has to bear." The next day, she has a session with Dr. Melfi in which she tearfully regrets insulting A.J., and later reminisces on her attraction to Tony since the two first met. She goes on to acknowledge that she had a choice in picking a husband but that children have no option in choosing their parents.
Christopher's passion about entering the movie industry is reborn, this time he plans to become a producer instead of a writer. Christopher has Benny Fazio and "Murmur" rough up the screenwriter J.T. Dolan, who has new debts from his continued gambling addiction, and orders him to write the script for a movie he wants to produce with the concept of it being a slasher mob film, "a cross between Saw and The Godfather II." Christopher seems to have in his mind a very clear idea of the plot line for the film - a "rising star" in the mob is betrayed and killed by his jealous boss who had also been having sex with his fiancée behind his back, but the protagonist comes back from the dead, after his pieces reassemble together, and he kills everyone who ever crossed him. Christopher later arranges a meeting with potential investors for the production, their chief adviser and partner being Little Carmine who produced five successful porn films back in Miami. J. T. comes up with the title, Cleaver, and explains the premise of the film, but the investors, which include Silvio, Vito and Larry Boy Barese, seem confused about its plot. Silvio is focused on keeping any references to real-life mob figures out of the script, Vito is perplexed about the supernatural elements, while Larry deduces its story is unrealistic because the Mafia would never dispose all of the pieces of a body in a single dump. Nevertheless, Christopher assures them the film is a guaranteed win, citing other similar movies who raked in fortunes for their makers.
Despite orders to allow only family to see Tony, Silvio and, later, Paulie are smuggled in by Carmela and Meadow. Silvio is quiet, standing at the doorway staring at his boss before walking over and clutching his hand. Paulie on the other hand is incapable of following Meadow's instructions to stay positive, and exclaims "he looks terrible" as he enters the room. Left alone with Tony, he then proceeds to treat his unconscious boss with an interminable and profanity-laden update of his current state of affairs, including the details of his injury, for which he is seeking medical attention, and his big score. Tony's heart-rate escalates steadily, but Paulie appears not to notice it until he goes into cardiac arrest. Hospital staff rush in and attempt to revive him.
In Tony's dream, Paulie's voice appears as muffled sounds from an adjoining room at his hotel, prompting him to bang on the wall and ask for some calm. Having found a flier for the Finnerty family reunion in his briefcase, he is greeted outside the venue by a man who looks like his cousin Tony Blundetto. The man tries to get Tony to enter the light-festooned house, assuring him that "everyone's here" and that he is "coming home"; but he also tells Tony that he must first let go of his "business" and hand over his briefcase. Tony is reluctant, replying that he had once already given away a briefcase which had "his whole life inside" and does not want to do the same with the one he has now. Standing at the steps of the house, Tony hesitates for some time. With the figure of someone similar to his mother Livia standing by the doorway in front of him, and the faint voice of a little girl coming from the trees behind him pleading with him not to go (in the hospital Meadow is calling to her father), Tony chooses not to enter the house and awakes in the hospital. His first words, after beckoning Carmela to come closer, are "I'm dead, right?"
Later, heavily sedated and still largely unable to talk, Tony sits in a chair at the foot of his bed and listens to an excited Christopher explain his movie venture to him; his nephew says he left a position for Tony to become a major investor in the project. Christopher then notices an Ojibwe saying taped onto the wall: "Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky."
With Tony now conscious, Paulie and Vito anxiously rush to get their cuts to Carmela. In the hospital lobby, when they hand over the cash, Carmela is initially grateful. However, before the elevator doors close, she turns around in time to see their facial expressions turn sour. Carmela arrives to tend to Tony's chapped lips and remarks to him her amazement about his ability to intimidate others without even uttering a word.
First appearances[edit]
Marie Spatafore: Vito Spatafore's wife
Patty Leotardo: Phil Leotardo's wife
Deceased[edit]
Building Superintendent: shot by Colombian #1
Colombian #1: shot by Cary DiBartolo and Paulie
Colombian #2: shot by Cary DiBartolo and then stabbed by Paulie
Title reference[edit]
After Vito gave Paulie bad information about the stick-up job (saying the place was empty), Paulie does not want to give him his full cut of the money, saying that the job was "mayham".
Disorder is within the ranks of the DiMeo/Soprano crime family as there are disagreements between some members, dissent is growing, and, at one point, both its boss and substitute acting boss are hospitalized.
Tony Soprano violently fights to stay alive.
Production[edit]
Ray Abruzzo (Little Carmine) is now promoted to the main cast and billed in the opening credits but only in the episodes in which he appears.
Lorraine Bracco's sister Elizabeth joins the show playing the character of Marie, the wife of Vito Spatafore.
Other cultural references[edit]
When confronted over his attempted purchase of a gun and told that he cannot get to his Uncle Junior anyway because he is in police custody, AJ says it's "difficult, not impossible" - these same words are spoken by Rocco Lampone in Godfather II in reference to assassinating Hyman Roth.
Vito greets Finn, who flew over from California, as "Phineas Fogg" at the hospital.
J.T. Dolan is discussing Beowulf when kidnapped from his writing class.
When pitching Cleaver, Silvio, Christopher, and J.T. Dolan compare and contrast the film to The Ring, the Friday the 13th franchise, and Freddie Kruger movies, and Halloween as well as to The Godfather II, Saw and Ghostbusters franchises.
Tom Giglione says he needs some Irish Spring to look fresh again after a night spent beside Tony's bed.
Phil Leotardo says everyone thought Vito looked like John Travolta when he married Phil's cousin Marie.
Paulie Gualtieri refers to Carmela Soprano as the "Princess of Little Italy". This is an homage to Steven Van Zandt and his band Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, who recorded a song by the same name.
In a rare session with Dr. Melfi, Carmela recalls her second date with Tony, in which he brought her father a $200 power drill as a gift. She says she knew there was "probably some guy with a broken arm" behind it and reflects on whether this made her like Tony less, or more. This mimics Bracco's own character's reaction in Goodfellas when she realized what Henry Hill really was early in their relationship.
Music[edit]
In one of the episode's first scenes "La Gata" by Nicky Jam is playing in the Colombians' office when Paulie enters.
Sheryl Crow's rendition of "The First Cut Is the Deepest" can be heard playing on Tony's stereo during his coma.
A rendition by The Mystics of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is being played while Carmela is wetting Tony's lips.
The mariachi music played in the country house when Tony Blundetto is welcoming Tony Soprano is "La Feria de las Flores" by Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán.
The instrumental piece played over the end credits is "The Deadly Nightshade" by Daniel Lanois.
External links[edit]
"Mayham" at HBO
"Mayham" at the Internet Movie Database
"Mayham" at TV.com


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Episodes ·
 Awards and nominations ·
 Music ·
 The Sopranos: Road to Respect ·
 Pinball game
 

Fictional universe
Soprano crime family ·
 Members of the Soprano crime family ·
 Lupertazzi crime family ·
 Friends and family ·
 Satriale's Pork Store ·
 Bada Bing ·
 Cleaver ·
 Family tree ·
 FBI
 

Characters


Primary
Tony Soprano ·
 Jennifer Melfi ·
 Carmela Soprano ·
 Christopher Moltisanti ·
 Junior Soprano ·
 Big Pussy Bonpensiero ·
 Silvio Dante ·
 Paulie Gualtieri ·
 Anthony Soprano, Jr. ·
 Meadow Soprano ·
 Adriana La Cerva ·
 Janice Soprano ·
 Bobby Baccalieri ·
 Livia Soprano
 

Secondary
Johnny Sack ·
 Artie Bucco ·
 Dwight Harris ·
 Hesh Rabkin ·
 Rosalie Aprile ·
 Phil Leotardo ·
 Ralph Cifaretto ·
 Tony Blundetto ·
 Richie Aprile ·
 Vito Spatafore ·
 Furio Giunta ·
 Patsy Parisi ·
 Carlo Gervasi ·
 Charmaine Bucco ·
 Carmine Lupertazzi ·
 Little Carmine ·
 Benny Fazio ·
 Ray Curto ·
 Eugene Pontecorvo ·
 Little Paulie Germani ·
 Jackie Aprile, Jr. ·
 Mikey Palmice ·
 Brendan Filone ·
 Matthew Bevilaqua ·
 Sean Gismonte ·
 Larry Barese ·
 Butch DeConcini ·
 Albie Cianflone
 


Episodes


Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


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"Join the Club"
The Sopranos episode
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Carmela sits by her comatose husband Tony's side in the hospital and talks to him.

Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 2
Directed by
David Nutter
Written by
David Chase
Cinematography by
Alik Sakharov
Editing by
William B. Stich
Production code
602
Original air date
March 19, 2006
Running time
54 minutes
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"Join the Club" is the second episode of the sixth season and sixty-seventh episode overall of the HBO television drama series The Sopranos, which premiered on March 19, 2006 in the United States. It was written by series creator/executive producer David Chase and directed by David Nutter.
The episode's narrative details the aftermath of the shooting of series protagonist Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) by his uncle Corrado "Junior" Soprano (Dominic Chianese). Tony, now in a comatose state and hospitalized, has a dream-like experience in which he envisions himself as a travelling salesman not involved with the Mafia. Meanwhile, Tony's family and associates adjust to the possibility of Tony not coming out of his coma, with Tony's wife Carmela (Edie Falco) struggling with the situation.
Most interior hospital scenes of the episode were filmed at the North Hollywood Medical Center, Los Angeles, with additional exterior and interior scenes filmed at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark. "Join the Club" is the only episode of the series directed by Nutter and the eighth of nine episodes for which Chase receives an individual writing credit. It attracted 9.18 million American viewers and was generally well-received critically, with particular praise directed at Falco's performance in the episode. Since its premiere, the episode has frequently been cited by critics[1][2][3][4] as one of the best of the series. It received two award nominations for directing.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
1.2 Also guest starring
2 Episode recap 2.1 Tony's coma
3 First appearances
4 Title reference
5 Production
6 References to prior episodes
7 Other cultural references
8 Music
9 Reception
10 References
11 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi *
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr.
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Joseph R. Gannascoli as Vito Spatafore
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
* = credit only
Guest starring[edit]
Jerry Adler as Hesh Rabkin
Also guest starring[edit]
Sharon Angela as Rosalie Aprile
Ho Chow as Monk #2
Tony Darrow as Larry Barese
Danielle Di Vecchio as Barbara Soprano Giglione
Robert Funaro as Eugene Pontecorvo
Will Janowitz as Finn DeTrolio
Michael Kelly as Agent Goddard
Sheila Kelley as Lee
C.S. Lee as Dr. Ba
Ron Leibman as Dr. Lior Plepler
Arthur J. Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
Henry O as Monk #1
Matt Servitto as Agent Harris
Maureen Van Zandt as Gabriella Dante
Wendy Hammers as Fake Carmela (voice)
Suzanne Di Donna as Deanne Pontecervo
Danny Johnson as Detective DeLeon
Ted Koch as Detective Klinger
Taleb Adlah as Ahmed
Donnie Keshawarz as Muhammad
Lee R. Sellars as Salesman
Christopher Evan Welch as ER Doctor
Jay Edwards as Psychologist
Edward Watts as Bartender
Emily Vaughan as Conference Center Host
Morgan Saylor as Young Meadow (voice)
Thomas Russo as Robbie Pontecorvo
Grace Van Patten as Ally Pontecorvo
Jason Loftus as Bell Hop
Amy Kean as TV Reporter
Brianna and Kimberly Laughlin as Domenica Baccalieri
Austin Jones as Omni Clerk
Anjali Bhimani as Dr. Budraja
Eli Harris as Camera Man
Episode recap[edit]
Tony Soprano is in critical condition, two days after being shot by Uncle Junior. The attending physicians in the Intensive Care Unit sedate Tony into an induced coma after he awakes and rips out his breathing tube. Several doctors comment on the complications of Tony's gunshot wound which damaged his liver, pancreas and gall bladder, the most dangerous of which is severe sepsis, and they encourage Carmela and others to talk to him and play him music he enjoys in the hopes of a recovery. However, they also warn his family members of the "obviously negative outcome", as well as the prospects of brain damage. Carmela asks Dr. Ba if Dr. Plepler is "aware that [Tony is] dying." A vigil of Tony's blood and crime family members has assembled in the ICU. A distraught Carmela, Christopher Moltisanti, Meadow and Barbara sleep in the hospital taking turns to watch over Tony, while Janice starts sobbing uncontrollably whenever she gets to see her brother. Carmela plays Tony some of his favourite rock music, gets emotional when remembering the times they spent together and encourages him to get better. Meadow reads her father an excerpt from a poem by Jacques Prévert.
Uncle Junior is being held in custody and is questioned about the shooting. He is confused about the situation, hostile towards his interrogator and does not remember that he has a new lawyer, replacing Harold Melvoin, who Junior dismissed after Melvoin's stroke. He denies that he shot his nephew and insists that if Tony was shot it must have been self-inflicted, because he is "a depression case."
Christopher, Paulie, and Vito vie for small opportunities to assist Tony's family during the crisis, such as sending presents to Tony's room and bickering over giving a ride home to A.J.
During the funeral wake of the late soldier Eugene Pontecorvo, an impromptu meeting of the crime family is held and Silvio Dante assumes Tony's responsibilities as acting Boss. The group is loyal to the incapacitated Tony and decide to support his family. Vito is especially active in voicing his thoughts, questioning why Bobby—traditionally Junior's de facto caretaker—was not in Junior's house that night, and also suggests murdering Junior altogether. Other mobsters are less open to the idea, disputing its necessity and commenting about the difficulty of such a hit. Ultimately, they decide on officially banishing Junior from the family and cutting off all contact with him, making Tony the official Boss of the DiMeo Crime Family. Vito makes a bid to take over Eugene's sportsbook responsibilities, but Silvio postpones solving individual matters to another time. Those who knew Eugene offer their theories about his possible motive for suicide, with Silvio saying he could have had an incurable form of cancer, Hesh observing predisposition to suicide is hereditary, Janice suggesting Eugene son's drug use, and Vito saying that perhaps Eugene had been a self-hating homosexual who had no one to talk to.
The mobsters chaperone the Soprano family from the hospital to their home, try to shield it from news reporters and provide food for them while at home.
Meanwhile, A.J. acts withdrawn, avoiding Tony's room, and shirking his familial and school responsibilities. To the chagrin of Carmela, he talks to a reporter just outside the hospital, but later curses the ones camped outside the Soprano home; he forgets to bring requested items to the hospital to assist in Tony's recovery. What he claims to be a stomach flu excuses him from a night shift at the hospital. A.J.'s avoidance of facing up to his father's condition worries Carmela, who voices her concerns to Rosalie Aprile. With the death of her own wayward son Jackie Aprile, Jr., Rosalie advises Carmela to engage in stricter parenting with A.J. In addition to the normal worries for her son, however, Carmela fears that A.J.'s deep esteem for his father is the source of his avoidance. A.J. admits to Meadow that he is embarrassed and angry by the actions of his family, especially Uncle Junior. A.J. finally gathers enough courage to talk to his comatose father once the two are alone, opting to chat about cars with him. Before leaving, though, A.J. emotionally vows to avenge his father by putting a bullet in Uncle Junior's "fucking mummy head." Immediately afterwards, he admits to Carmela that he flunked junior college, after earning a 1.4 grade point average; his counselor told A.J. that it would be pointless to go back. Carmela looks at her son in stunned disbelief but is unable to get angry and sends him away.
Christopher, now driving Johnny Sack's Maserati Coupé, which he bought from the financially challenged New York boss, again runs into FBI agents Harris and Goddard at Satriale's. The two ask him to provide them with any information regarding terrorist activities he might hear about anywhere, such as their financing or arms deal operations. The agents tell Christopher he would be doing his country a service, but Moltisanti says he has no such information. Christopher is later seen conversing briefly with two Middle Eastern men, Ahmed and Muhammad, at the Bada Bing!, but the mob capo chooses not to go into discussing his crime family's matters with them.
Tony's coma[edit]
While he is in a coma, Tony has a long dream-like experience that is woven throughout the episode. The experience begins with Tony's awaking in a hotel room at a Radisson Hotel in Costa Mesa, California. He is a mild-mannered precision optics salesman on a business trip, without his thick New Jersey accent. That night, he notices a strange light that glows on the horizon as he looks out the window and he also goes to the hotel's bar, where he notices a TV showing a brush fire in Costa Mesa; The next morning he goes to a convention and is asked for ID to gain admittance. Unfortunately, Tony has someone else's wallet and briefcase: one belonging to a man named Kevin Finnerty from Kingman, Arizona, to whom he bears a resemblance. Tony says that he must have unintentionally picked up these items the previous evening at a bar across the street from his hotel. He returns to the bar, where a group of business travelers overhear him telling his story to the bartender (when asked what Costa Mesa is like, the bartender replies, "Around here, it's dead"). The group invite Tony to join them for dinner, during which he discusses his 'life' in more detail, alluding to a midlife crisis by saying, "I mean, who am I? Where am I going?" As he and his group leave, Tony notices a commercial on TV, which displayed the question, "Are sin, disease and death real?", followed by the Cross. After dinner, outside the hotel, Tony makes a pass at a woman from the group. She responds at first but then cuts him off. She tells him she saw his face when he got off the phone with his wife (whose voice is not Carmela's). Suddenly, a helicopter spotlight shines on the pair, to which the woman says, "They must be looking for a perp". It is here that Tony awakens from his original coma, and rips out his breathing tube. He is moaning "Who am I? Where am I going?"
The dream resumes when he is placed in another coma, as he checks into a different hotel, the Omni, under Finnerty's name. Two Buddhist monks overhear him checking in and, thinking he is Finnerty, accost him saying they had a horrible winter at the monastery because of Finnerty's faulty heating system. Tony tells them that he's not Finnerty, which makes the monks angry; they scuffle briefly and the monks flee, leaving Tony shocked at the violence. The next morning, the hotel elevator is out of order, so Tony takes the stairs. As he is walking down the stairs, he slips and falls; when brought to an emergency room, the doctor tells Tony that aside from having a minor concussion, his CT scan shows some dark spots on his brain, which indicate lack of oxygen. The doctor states that this indicates early stages of Alzheimer's disease. When the doctor leaves him at his bed, Tony is seen saying, "I'm lost", to himself. After he returns to his hotel room, Tony picks up the phone, but hangs up before dialing, while the beacon of light flashes on the horizon.[5]
First appearances[edit]
Ahmed and Muhammad: Muslim associates of Christopher Moltisanti who hang out at the Bada Bing!.
Title reference[edit]
In Tony's dream, when Tony tells the businessmen at the bar that he is 46 years old and does not know where "[he] is going", Lee (the woman from the business group) tells Tony to "join the club."
Tony tried to join a convention in his dream, but lost his ID and briefcase with "[his] whole life in it" and was not let in.
A.J. has difficulties joining the ranks of relatives who have visited Tony in his hospital room.
Production[edit]
The exterior of the hospital is actually Fenster Hall at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).
The interior of the hospital lunch room is actually "The Highlander Club" (formerly called "The Pub") inside the Campus Center at NJIT.
The interior of the hospital is the same hospital from the TV show Scrubs.
The credits do not mention the actress providing the voice of Tony's wife in his dream, though the writers have stated the voice is of a generic New Jersey actress and not intended to be anyone previously featured on the series.[6] On the A&E syndication rebroadcast, the voice is credited on the closed captioning as 'Carmela's voice'.
This episode was shown at the season's premiere party instead of the first installment, "Members Only".
References to prior episodes[edit]
Carmela tells Tony that she regrets telling him that he would go to Hell when he dies. This occurred in the pilot episode.
Lee is curious how Tony made the jump from selling patio furniture to precision optics. Tony mentioned selling patio furniture on Route 22 as an alternative life during a conversation with Meadow in the season one episode "College", and in a therapy session with Dr. Melfi in season 1.
When Vito Spatafore talks about Eugene Pontecorvo's suicide, he notes that perhaps Eugene killed himself because of closeted homosexuality. This is a reference to Vito's own homosexuality, which was exposed in the season five episode "Unidentified Black Males".
Other cultural references[edit]
Vito says Junior "Marvin Gayed" his nephew, a reference to the murder of the singer Marvin Gaye by his own father.
A.J., who said he had stomach flu, angrily tells Meadow he took some Pepto-Bismol when she looks at him filling his plate at lunch.
Policemen tell Carmela they have to ask her about Tony's knowledge of the John Kennedy Assassination, after Junior mentioned some details about it to them.
When Christopher meets the FBI agents at the store, he says "Oh, Sheriff of Nottingham, my kingdom for a mortadell'." This is a reference to William Shakespeare's play Richard III, when, after Richard is unhorsed in the midst of battle, he desperately cries out "A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!"
Music[edit]
The song Carmela plays for Tony in the hospital first is "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple. This was the same song played in the series' second season premiere, "Guy Walks Into a Psychiatrist's Office...", in a scene where Tony crashed his truck into a barricade.
The song Carmela says she was playing in Tony's truck an entire weekend at Long Beach Island and now plays in his hospital room is "American Girl" by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.
When Tony is waiting at the bar, "The Happy Organ" by Dave "Baby" Cortez can be heard. This song was also used in the season 3 episode "Fortunate Son".
The song playing in Bada Bing is "Spitfire" by The Prodigy.
The song playing at the end of the episode, where Tony returns to his hotel room and picks up the phone but ceases dialing, is Moby's "When It's Cold I'd Like to Die" with vocals by Mimi Goese. Just before that, while Tony is kicking off his shoes, an instrumental version of "Day After Day" is heard.
Reception[edit]
"Join the Club" was watched by 9.18 million American viewers on its premiere date.[7]
Since its premiere, "Join the Club" has frequently been singled out by critics as one of the best episodes of the series.[1][2][3][4]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Poniewozik, James (2007-04-04). "Full List - The Sopranos - TIME". TIME. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Sepinwall, Alan (2007-06-06). "The Sopranos' Top 10 hits". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Cullin, Liam. "The Sopranos (The Complete Series) DVD / Blu-ray Review". Empire Movies. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
4.^ Jump up to: a b Meaney, Patrick (2007-06-07). "The Sopranos: The Top Ten Episodes". Blogcritics. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
5.Jump up ^ "Episode guide - Episode 67 - "Join The Club"". HBO. Retrieved 2007-11-11.
6.Jump up ^ Sepinwall, Alan (2006-03-20). "Tony checks into the Hotel California". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
7.Jump up ^ Kiley, David (2006-04-06). "Sopranos Ratings Slide Exposes Flaws in Ratings System". Business Week. Retrieved 2009-08-10.
External links[edit]
"Join the Club" at HBO
"Join the Club" at the Internet Movie Database
"Join the Club" at TV.com


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Season 1
"The Sopranos" ·
 "46 Long" ·
 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" ·
 "Meadowlands" ·
 "College" ·
 "Pax Soprana" ·
 "Down Neck" ·
 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" ·
 "Boca" ·
 "A Hit Is a Hit" ·
 "Nobody Knows Anything" ·
 "Isabella" ·
 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 

Season 2
"Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." ·
 "Do Not Resuscitate" ·
 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" ·
 "Commendatori" ·
 "Big Girls Don't Cry" ·
 "The Happy Wanderer" ·
 "D-Girl" ·
 "Full Leather Jacket" ·
 "From Where to Eternity" ·
 "Bust Out" ·
 "House Arrest" ·
 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" ·
 "Funhouse"
 

Season 3
"Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" ·
 "Proshai, Livushka" ·
 "Fortunate Son" ·
 "Employee of the Month" ·
 "Another Toothpick" ·
 "University" ·
 "Second Opinion" ·
 "He Is Risen" ·
 "The Telltale Moozadell" ·
 "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" ·
 "Pine Barrens" ·
 "Amour Fou" ·
 "Army of One"
 

Season 4
"For All Debts Public and Private" ·
 "No Show" ·
 "Christopher" ·
 "The Weight" ·
 "Pie-O-My" ·
 "Everybody Hurts" ·
 "Watching Too Much Television" ·
 "Mergers and Acquisitions" ·
 "Whoever Did This" ·
 "The Strong, Silent Type" ·
 "Calling All Cars" ·
 "Eloise" ·
 "Whitecaps"
 

Season 5
"Two Tonys" ·
 "Rat Pack" ·
 "Where's Johnny?" ·
 "All Happy Families..." ·
 "Irregular Around the Margins" ·
 "Sentimental Education" ·
 "In Camelot" ·
 "Marco Polo" ·
 "Unidentified Black Males" ·
 "Cold Cuts" ·
 "The Test Dream" ·
 "Long Term Parking" ·
 "All Due Respect"
 

Season 6



Part I

"Members Only" ·
 "Join the Club" ·
 "Mayham" ·
 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" ·
 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." ·
 "Live Free or Die" ·
 "Luxury Lounge" ·
 "Johnny Cakes" ·
 "The Ride" ·
 "Moe n' Joe" ·
 "Cold Stones" ·
 "Kaisha"
 


Part II

"Soprano Home Movies" ·
 "Stage 5" ·
 "Remember When" ·
 "Chasing It" ·
 "Walk Like a Man" ·
 "Kennedy and Heidi" ·
 "The Second Coming" ·
 "The Blue Comet" ·
 "Made in America"
 



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Members Only (The Sopranos)
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"Members Only"
The Sopranos episode
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Episode no.
Season 6
 Episode 1
Directed by
Tim Van Patten
Written by
Terence Winter
Production code
601
Original air date
March 12, 2006
Running time
52 minutes
Guest actors


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"Members Only" is the sixty-sixth episode of the HBO series The Sopranos, and the first of the show's sixth season. Written by Terence Winter and directed by Tim Van Patten, it aired originally on March 12, 2006.


Contents  [hide]
1 Starring 1.1 Guest starring
1.2 Also guest starring
2 Episode recap
3 First appearances
4 Deceased
5 Title reference
6 Production
7 References to prior episodes
8 Other cultural references
9 Music
10 Awards
11 References
12 External links

Starring[edit]
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr.
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri
Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
Vincent Curatola as Johnny Sack
Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
John Ventimiglia as Artie Bucco
Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
Joseph R. Gannascoli as Vito Spatafore
Toni Kalem as Angie Bonpensiero
Guest starring[edit]
Jerry Adler as Hesh Rabkin
Also guest starring[edit]
Drea De Matteo as Adriana La Cerva
Frankie Valli as Rusty Millio
Robert Funaro as Eugene Pontecorvo
Tom Aldredge as Hugh De Angelis
Sharon Angela as Rosalie Aprile
John Bianco as Gerry Torciano
Denise Borino as Ginny Sacrimoni
Joe Caniano as Teddy Spirodakis
Carl Capotorto as Little Paulie
Max Casella as Benny Fazio
Greg D'Agostino as Jimmy Lauria
Suzanne Di Donna as Deanne Pontecervo
Danielle Di Vecchio as Barbara Soprano Giglione
Will Janowitz as Finn DeTrolio
Michael Kelly as Agent Goddard
George Loros as Raymond Curto
Lou Martini, Jr. as Anthony Infante
Arthur J. Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
Matt Pepper as Agent Gosling
Anthony J. Ribustello as Dante Greco
Thomas Russo as Robbie Pontecorvo
Matt Servitto as Agent Dwight Harris
Daniel Stewart Sherman as Ron Senkowski
David Shumbris as Eli Kaplan
Tracey Silver as Beth Kaplan
Lenny Venito as James "Murmur" Zancone
Karen Young as Agent Robyn Sanseverino
Nick Annunziata as Eddie Pietro
Ai Kiyono as Sushi Waitress
Lisa Sue Miller as Bada Bing Waitress
Brianna and Kimberly Laughlin as Domenica Baccalieri
Grace Van Patten as Ally Pontecorvo
Episode recap[edit]
Nearly two years have passed since the end of the previous episode. Two FBI agents drive in a car, and the agent driving states: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public", paraphrasing a line by H.L. Mencken.[citation needed] The other FBI agent, Dwight Harris, is immediately affected by a bout of severe nausea and vomiting, during which an accompaniment soundtrack starts. The music, "Seven Souls" by Material, begins the opening narration, a shortened version of a spoken word essay ("The ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls...") by William S. Burroughs from his novel The Western Lands.[1] The narration is accompanied by snapshots of some of the characters' current lives, and each ancient Egyptian soul is ascribed to a certain character: Vito Spatafore (Ren, the Secret Name) has lost a great deal of weight and has become a spokesperson for Thin Club; Janice Soprano is breast feeding her and Bobby Baccalieri's daughter Domenica Baccalieri; Eugene Pontecorvo and Bobby (Sekem: Energy, Power, Light) - Eugene and his wife become joyous after reading an inheritance letter, while Bobby has taken up model railroading as a hobby; Meadow (Khu, the Guardian Angel) is sexy dancing for her fiancé Finn DeTrolio; Ray Curto (Ba, the heart, often treacherous) is exercising on a treadmill; Anthony Junior (Ka, the Double) is now attending college and snaps a picture of himself resembling his aunt Janice's tattoo; Adriana La Cerva (Khaibit, the Shadow, Memory) is remembered by a worrying Carmela Soprano; and Uncle Junior (Sekhu, the Remains) is being helped by Tony to locate the large amount of money Junior thinks he buried in his backyard 30 years before.
Phil Leotardo is now the acting boss of the Lupertazzi crime family, running the day-to-day tasks for Johnny Sack while John is in jail. After dining at a Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn, Hesh Rabkin and his son-in-law Eli, who had been working as a shylock in the area for Hesh, are assaulted by some New York Family associates. They force them to leave their car, break Hesh's nose, and beat up Eli, who, while trying to escape, is hit by a car. At the hospital, Hesh asks Tony for help settling the conflict. Tony tries to reach out directly to Johnny Sack through John's optometrist brother-in-law, Anthony Infante, but Johnny is too concerned with his immediate family's financial troubles (IRS asset freezes). Tony, Christopher Moltisanti, who has now become a caporegime in the family, and Vito then meet Phil and Gerry "The Hairdo" Torciano behind the Bada Bing!. Tony and Phil also had a disagreement about their respective cuts from their latest building project, but both incidents are resolved. Turns out the New York men were protecting Gerry's area and did not know Eli was working for Hesh and the Soprano family; therefore, they agree to compensate Eli $50,000. After the meeting, Tony observes to Christopher that Phil has impressed him a lot, as Phil changed greatly when he became the acting boss - no longer expressing the direct hostility he'd shown previously for his brother's death and showing willingness to make compromises. Christopher, however, remains wary and hostile, remembering Phil once wanted him dead.
Vito is not shy telling select people that he would be a competent candidate for the crime family boss' position if anything were to happen to Tony, since he is the best earner.
Eugene Pontecorvo has inherited a little over two million dollars from his aunt, and he and his wife Deanne wish to use the money to move to Fort Myers, Florida. Eugene goes to Tony with a gift of expensive watches and a request to retire to Florida. Tony tells Eugene he took an oath (as seen in the episode "Fortunate Son"), and retiring is not an option, but he will consider it. Eugene's wife is becoming restless, as they have found a desirable house for purchase in Florida, which could be soon bought by someone else. After Eugene kills a Boston man named Teddy Spirodakis, who was in debt to Christopher, and gives Tony his cut of the inheritance, Silvio Dante informs Eugene that Tony has denied his request. Unknown to the crime family, Eugene is a reluctant informant for the FBI, which has increased its pressure on Pontecorvo to produce information, having lost an asset when informant Raymond Curto died suddenly of a stroke while talking to Agent Robyn Sanseverino. The FBI, also denies Eugene's plans to move to Florida, where he will be less useful to them. Eugene and Deanne argue about Florida; Deanne refuses alternatives to moving to Florida (such as buying a vacation condo or finding a better place to live in New Jersey) and even suggests that Eugene kill Tony. She also reveals that their son has been using heroin. Eugene looks over a family photo album, touches a few sea shells, then hangs himself in the basement of his house.
Agent Dwight Harris shows up at Satriale's Pork Store and tells Tony he has been in Pakistan because he was transferred to counter-terrorism. It was also how he contracted a "parasite", which causes him to vomit at times, but he has missed the Italian foods offered by Satriale's.
Carmela's construction of her spec house is suspended, due to a "stop order" issued by the building inspector for the use of improper lumber. Her father, Hugh, protests and asks about an inspector he used to work with to have him waive the criteria, only to learn that his contact had retired. Carmela asks Tony to see if he can get the stop order lifted, but he puts it off.
Artie Bucco has reunited with his estranged wife, Charmaine. He tends to the table of Carmela and Angie Bonpensiero, who have patched up their quarrel. Both of them show off their new cars to each other: Carmela's, a Porsche Cayenne, which Tony had recently given her as a gift, and Angie's, a Chevrolet Corvette, which she bought from the money she made at the auto body shop she runs and her side jobs for Tony.
Junior's mental state has deteriorated significantly. He is convinced "Little Pussy" Malanga (who was killed six years ago) is out to get him, and Junior is afraid to answer his phone or go out. Tony talks to Dr. Melfi about him, and she suggests considering assisted living, which Tony rejects, saying it is the family's duty to look after Junior and not put him in a "nursing home". One afternoon, when Junior is particularly agitated, Tony's sister Barbara is unable to take care of her uncle due to a family emergency, whereas Janice and Bobby claim to be too busy applying to a pre-school for Nica, and so Tony ends up personally paying his uncle a visit. Tony begins to cook pasta for Junior and sends him upstairs to look for his misplaced dentures. Junior finds a gun instead and returns downstairs with it, after hearing Tony talking and becoming confused as to who is in his house. Uncle Junior yells, "Cazzata Malanga!" ("Stupid move, Malanga!"), and shoots Tony in the abdomen. Uncle Junior then runs up the stairs, hides the gun under his bed, and hides in a closet. Tony drags himself across the floor and manages to call 9-1-1 on the kitchen phone, just before losing consciousness.
First appearances[edit]
The episode marks the first appearances of:
Agent Ron Goddard: FBI Agent Harris' new partner working counter-terrorism.
Anthony Infante: Ginny Sacrimoni's brother, who owns an eyewear store.
Domenica "Nica" Baccalieri: Janice and Bobby's 12-month-old daughter.
James "Murmur" Zancone: Christopher's associate and Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor who Christopher says is also good at forging documents.
Gerry "The Hairdo" Torciano: soldier and acting capo in the Lupertazzi crime family and Phil Leotardo's protégé after his brother's death; responsible for Phil Leotardo's business in Brooklyn following his promotion to acting boss.
Deceased[edit]
Raymond Curto: stroke
Teddy Spirodakis: shot by Eugene in a restaurant in Boston
Eugene Pontecorvo: suicide by hanging
Dick Barone: (offscreen) owner of Barone Sanitation; died of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease).
Title reference[edit]
Eugene Pontecorvo is shown wearing a "Members Only" jacket and is made fun of for it by Vito Spatafore.
It could refer to the Mafia code of being a member only and never a retiree, just what Eugene Pontecorvo attempted to become.[citation needed]
Production[edit]
The "traditional" season premiere sequence involving The Star-Ledger newspaper is not featured. Instead, a montage of the characters is featured showcasing what has happened in the past two years. A new version of the scene with the delivered newspaper appears in the fifth episode of the season, "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request".
Frank Vincent (Phil Leotardo), Dan Grimaldi (Patsy Parisi), Joseph Gannascoli (Vito Spatafore), and Toni Kalem (Angie Bonpensiero) are promoted to starring cast and are now billed in the opening credits but only for the episodes in which they appear.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler is again billed by her original last name in the opening credits, following her separation from her agent and husband, A.J. DiScala, after Season 5 ended.
In the original broadcast of this episode (March 12, 2006), no previews for the next episode were shown in order to keep the aftermath of Tony's shooting a mystery.[citation needed]
References to prior episodes[edit]
Pussy Malanga, the man Uncle Junior was convinced is after him and whom he eventually mistakes Tony for is the same mobster Uncle Junior wanted to kill in Artie Bucco's first restaurant in the pilot episode.
Dr. Melfi recalls that Tony grabbed a pillow in order to smother his mother in "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano", but Tony denies this.
Dr. Melfi calls the home that Tony put his mother in a "retirement community" and Tony corrects her and calls it a nursing home. Before this, whenever somebody called it a nursing home, Tony always corrected them and called it a retirement community.
The appearance of Adriana La Cerva's ghost to Carmela in the spec house recalls Adriana's statement to FBI Agent Robyn Sanseverino in "Watching Too Much Television": "Why don't you go haunt a house or something"?
Other cultural references[edit]
Tony refers to his forgetful Uncle Junior as "Knucklehead Smiff".
Vito asks Agent Harris if he had lost weight due to the Atkins diet.
When Eugene proposes retiring, he cites the precedent set by "Joe Bananas" (Joseph Bonanno).
The movie Junior watches is Paths of Glory, a 1957 war movie directed by Stanley Kubrick.
When Junior says Pussy Malanga is prank calling his house Tony says they will get FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to investigate.
Music[edit]
The song featured in the opening scene and closing credits is "Seven Souls" by Material. It features William S. Burroughs reading from his novel The Western Lands. Creator David Chase describes the song as featuring a strong foreboding tone and themes touching the concepts of death and resurrection. Chase had originally tried to use this song for the pilot episode of The Sopranos back in 1997-1998. It finally ended up being used on the show in this episode, in the opening montage of the premiere of the final season, 8 years later.[1]
The song featured in the scene where Tony and Carmela are dining at the sushi restaurant is "Ride a White Horse" by Goldfrapp.
"Dreaming" by Blondie plays on the car radio when Eugene is returning home from his murder job.
The song playing when Junior shoots Tony is "Comes Love" by Artie Shaw, sung by Helen Forrest.
Awards[edit]
Terence Winter, the episode's writer, won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Drama series at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.[citation needed]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Martin, Brett (2007-10-30). ""This Thing of Ours": Creating The Sopranos Universe". The Sopranos: The Complete Book. New York: Time. p. 168, 169. ISBN 978-1-933821-18-4.
External links[edit]
"Members Only" at HBO
"Members Only" at the Internet Movie Database
"Members Only" at TV.com


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The Sopranos (season 6)
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Blu-ray cover art for Season Six, Part I and Season Six, Part II

Country of origin
United States
No. of episodes
21
Broadcast

Original channel
HBO
Original run
March 12, 2006 – June 10, 2007
Home video release
DVD release
Region 1
November 7, 2006 (Part 1)[1]
 October 23, 2007 (Part 2)[2]
Region 2
November 27, 2006 (Part 1)[3]
 November 19, 2007 (Part 2)[4]
Region 4
March 7, 2007 (Part 1)[5]
 February 6, 2008 (Part 2)[6]
Blu-ray Disc release
Region A
December 19, 2006 (Part 1)[7]
 October 23, 2007 (Part 2)[8]
Season chronology

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The sixth and final season of the HBO drama series The Sopranos was broadcast in two parts, the first beginning on March 12, 2006 and ending after twelve episodes on June 4, 2006. The first of the final nine episodes premiered on April 8, 2007 with the series finale airing on June 10, 2007. The season was initially meant to consist of twenty episodes, but creator David Chase asked for one more to properly round out the story.
Season Six: Part One focuses on the possibility of redemption as various members of the New Jersey crime family are offered chances to change their behavior, especially mob boss Tony Soprano, who confronts a spiritual awakening following a near-death experience. Season Six: Part Two focuses on the Sopranos crime family suffering through the tragic consequences of their actions as they come into a climactic conflict with their formidable New York enemies.
Ratings and critical reception were both strong during the sixth season of The Sopranos. Part One opened to rave reviews, but was criticized in the latter half for a subplot focusing on minor character Vito Spatafore. Part Two received approving reviews from television critics, but the ending of the final season was controversial. The Sopranos won Outstanding Drama Series at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards for the second part of season six.


Contents  [hide]
1 Cast and characters 1.1 Main cast
1.2 Recurring cast
2 Episodes
3 Reception 3.1 Critical reviews
3.2 Awards and nominations
4 References
5 External links

Cast and characters[edit]
Main cast[edit]
##James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano (21 episodes)
##Lorraine Bracco as Jennifer Melfi (15 episodes)
##Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano (21 episodes)
##Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti (18 episodes)
##Dominic Chianese as Corrado "Junior" Soprano (7 episodes)
##Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante (21 episodes)
##Tony Sirico as Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri (20 episodes)
##Robert Iler as Anthony "A. J." Soprano, Jr. (18 episodes)
##Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano (17 episodes)
##Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano (13 episodes)
##Steve Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri (19 episodes)
##Joseph R. Gannascoli as Vito Spatafore (9 episodes)
##Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi (18 episodes)
##John Ventimiglia as Artie Bucco (7 episodes)
##Vincent Curatola as Johnny "Sack" Sacrimoni (6 episodes)
##Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo (19 episodes)
##Ray Abruzzo as Little Carmine Lupertazzi (8 episodes)
##Toni Kalem as Angie Bonpensiero (3 episodes)
##Katherine Narducci as Charmaine Bucco (3 episodes)
Recurring cast[edit]
##Arthur J. Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi (17 episodes)
##Sharon Angela as Rosalie Aprile (11 episodes)
##Max Casella as Benny Fazio (11 episodes)
##Maureen Van Zandt as Gabrielle Dante (10 episodes)
##Greg Antonacci as Butch De Concini (9 episodes)
##Matt Servitto as Agent Dwight Harris (8 episodes)
##Dania Ramirez as Blanca Selgado (5 episodes)
##Drea de Matteo as Adriana La Cerva (2 episodes)
Episodes[edit]
See also: List of The Sopranos episodes

No. in
 series
No. in
 season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date

Part I

66
1 "Members Only" Tim Van Patten Terence Winter March 12, 2006
Eugene Pontecorvo is constrained by obligations when he attempts to retire to Florida. Hesh and his son-in-law become the victims of a brutal assault. The FBI loses an informant within Tony's network, and seek to gain a replacement. Uncle Junior's increasingly diminished mental state leads to shocking results.
67
2 "Join the Club" David Nutter David Chase March 19, 2006
Tony suffers a loss of identity during a journey through his subconscious. The family has to deal with the situation with him and Junior. A.J. comes through for his family, though he admits to Carmela his complete failure as a college student.
68
3 "Mayham" Jack Bender Matthew Weiner March 26, 2006
Silvio divides the spoils from Paulie's latest score and heads off a territorial impasse between Bobby and Vito. Carmela turns to Dr. Melfi for help with A.J. Christopher revisits his long-lost ambition of breaking into the film business. Tony regains consciousness.
69
4 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" Alan Taylor Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider April 2, 2006
Tony and Johnny Sack haggle over the future of Barone Sanitation. Tony finds humor and friendship among fellow hospital patients. Bobby Bacala makes a deal with an aspiring rapper. Paulie is shocked by an aunt's revelation; and he later circumvents Tony's authority in pursuit of money.
70
5 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." Steve Buscemi Terence Winter April 9, 2006
Johnny Sack files a petition to attend the wedding of his daughter. Tony hires a new driver and bodyguard, Perry Annunziata. Tony resumes his therapy with Dr. Melfi. At the wedding, Johnny pressures Tony for a favor.
71
6 "Live Free or Die" Tim Van Patten David Chase and Terence Winter and Robin Green & Mitchell Burgess April 16, 2006
Tony debates whether to give a top earner a second chance and looks abroad to settle a local dispute. Christopher makes arrangements to put Tony's deal with Johnny Sack into motion. After his sexual orientation becomes common knowledge, an outed Vito flees to New Hampshire to begin a new life.
72
7 "Luxury Lounge" Danny Leiner Matthew Weiner April 23, 2006
Artie's business is jeopardized by a rival restaurant and staff scandal provoked by Benny Fazio; Christopher and Little Carmine court Hollywood talent in order to get their film venture off the ground but find themselves out of their depth.
73
8 "Johnny Cakes" Tim Van Patten Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider April 30, 2006
Tony is tempted by a real-estate offer, and the saleswoman who is making the offer. Still in hiding, Vito is wowed by an act of heroism that introduces him to a kindred spirit. A.J. pays a visit to Uncle Junior, with surprising results for both him and his father.
74
9 "The Ride" Alan Taylor Terence Winter May 7, 2006
Christopher makes a surprise announcement regarding his new girlfriend, and falls back into old habits. Paulie pays a price for cutting costs at an Italian Street Fair and learns about a potential illness, leading to a reconciliation. Tony and Chris reminisce over past events after a chance encounter with some thieves.
75
10 "Moe n' Joe" Steve Shill Matthew Weiner May 14, 2006
Tony leverages Johnny's misfortune into a domestic upgrade for his sister; Bacala suffers vision impairment while out on collections. Vito comes clean to Jim about his other life and makes an important decision about his future, as does Johnny Sack.
76
11 "Cold Stones" Tim Van Patten Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider and David Chase May 21, 2006
A frenzy of borrowing money hits the crew; Carmela waxes philosophical on a trip with Rosalie to Paris, leading her to ask some difficult questions about a face from the past; Meadow announces plans to relocate to California. Vito returns to New Jersey, but his demise awaits him.
77
12 "Kaisha" Alan Taylor Terence Winter and David Chase and Matthew Weiner June 4, 2006
Tony helps Carmela get her spec house back on track while Chris picks up where Tony left off. A.J. gets a work perk as he begins a relationship with a colleague and an angered Phil Leotardo will not let well enough alone.
Part II

78
13 "Soprano Home Movies" Tim Van Patten Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider and David Chase and Matthew Weiner April 8, 2007
After a close call at home involving a gun charge, Tony and Carmela head to the Adirondacks for a weekend with Bobby and Janice to celebrate Tony's birthday. A game of Monopoly turns violent and Bobby does something he thought he would never do. Phil Leotardo returns to his crew.
79
14 "Stage 5" Alan Taylor Terence Winter April 15, 2007
Art imitates life at the premiere of Christopher's horror film Cleaver, leading Tony to evaluate his relationship with his nephew and his own legacy. Johnny Sack absorbs more bad news in prison as Phil analyzes his family history and his future. A dinner between Silvio and Gerry Torciano is rudely interrupted as various figures in New York vie for power.
80
15 "Remember When" Phil Abraham Terence Winter April 22, 2007
Tony and Paulie decide to head south to lie low when the heat turns up in Jersey. Tony grows frustrated with Paulie and begins to question his loyalty and reliability while Junior rediscovers some of his old passion when he sets up a poker game amongst his fellow patients. Phil decides to regain his position of prominence in New York.
81
16 "Chasing It" Tim Van Patten Matthew Weiner April 29, 2007
Tony hits an unlucky stretch with a series of gambling losses, creating difficulties between him and Hesh. A.J. makes a life-changing decision regarding his relationship with Blanca, who makes an important decision of her own. Vito's widow Marie turns to Tony for help with her troubled son. Carmela makes further progress with her spec house as Phil is inaugurated in New York.
82
17 "Walk Like a Man" Terence Winter Terence Winter May 6, 2007
A.J. struggles with depression. Christopher's father-in-law is the unwitting catalyst of a new feud between Christopher and Paulie.
83
18 "Kennedy and Heidi" Alan Taylor Matthew Weiner and David Chase May 13, 2007
An asbestos-disposal impasse raises tensions between Jersey and New York. A car accident leads to tragedy – and Paulie being upstaged. Tony, his family and friends cope with a tragic loss. A.J. reconsiders his friendship with the two Jasons. Tony travels to Las Vegas, where he meets an interesting woman and has a revelation.
84
19 "The Second Coming" Tim Van Patten Terence Winter May 20, 2007
Phil turns down Tony's offer of compromise regarding asbestos-disposal. A.J.'s despair about the world and his future deepens, driving him to the edge. Tony takes umbrage over an affront to Meadow by a member of the Lupertazzi crime family, the consequences of which further widen the rift between Tony and Phil Leotardo.
85
20 "The Blue Comet" Alan Taylor David Chase and Matthew Weiner June 3, 2007
Phil asks some of the members of the New Jersey family to switch sides, testing the allegiance of those closest to Tony. A case of mistaken identity has serious ramifications. The tense situation between the DiMeo and Lupertazzi crime families comes to a head. Dr. Melfi receives some new information and makes a difficult decision.
86
21 "Made in America" David Chase David Chase June 10, 2007
Tony seeks to negotiate a truce with the Lupertazzi family, while at the same time handling his family. Paulie gets a promotion. Meadow and Patrick plan their wedding. A.J. suffers a loss and turns his life in another direction with some help from his parents. Tony confronts Junior one last time.
Reception[edit]
Critical reviews[edit]
On the review aggregator website Metacritic, the sixth season scored 96 out of 100, based on 18 reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim".[9] In Time Out New York, Andrew Johnston placed The Sopranos at the top of his list of the best TV of 2007, stating: "Even before the final episode aired, the last half-season of David Chase’s Garden State gangland saga embodied everything that was great about The Sopranos. Then came the Chase-directed 'Made in America,' which miraculously restored Journey’s street cred and created the kind of zeitgeist moment that wasn’t supposed to be possible anymore in a fragmented, 600-channel cable universe. Lots of TV dramas are compared to novels these days, but few others (maybe only The Wire) have achieved the scope and substance of literary fiction while painting between the lines of small-screen convention."[10]
Awards and nominations[edit]
Part one of season six received eight Emmys nominations for the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards. Terence Winter won the series' only award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama series for "Members Only". The series received nominations for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-camera Series (Phil Abraham), Outstanding Costumes for a Series, Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series (Tim Van Patten and David Nutter, respectively), Outstanding Costumes for a Series, and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Michael Imperioli).[11]
The second part of the season received fifteen Emmy nominations for the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards. It won three out of the fifteen awards it was nominated for, including winning for Outstanding Drama Series, the series' second win that category; it was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series for every season. The other wins were for Alan Taylor for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for "Kennedy and Heidi" and David Chase for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for "Made in America". The series received two other writing nominations, Matthew Weiner and David Chase for "Kennedy and Heidi" and Terence Winter for "The Second Coming". The series received several acting nominations, including James Gandolfini for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Edie Falco for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Michael Imperioli for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Lorraine Bracco and Aida Turturro each for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and Tim Daly for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. Other nominations included, Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series, Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-camera Series, and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (one-hour).[11]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "The Sopranos: Season 6, Part 1 (2006)". Amazon.com. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
2.Jump up ^ "The Sopranos: Season 6, Part 2 (2007)". Amazon.com. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
3.Jump up ^ "The Sopranos: HBO Season 6 (Part 1) (DVD)". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
4.Jump up ^ "The Sopranos: HBO Season 6 (Part 2 - The Final Episodes) (DVD)". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
5.Jump up ^ "Sopranos, The - Season 6 Part 1". JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
6.Jump up ^ "Sopranos, The - Season 6 Part 2 (The Final Episodes)". JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
7.Jump up ^ "The Sopranos: Season 6, Part 1 (Blu-ray) (2006)". Amazon.com. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
8.Jump up ^ "The Sopranos: Season 6 Part 2 (Blu-ray) (2006)". Amazon.com. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
9.Jump up ^ "Critic Reviews for The Sopranos Season 6". Metacritic. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
10.Jump up ^ Johnston, Andrew (December 27, 2007). "The best (and worst) of TV 2007". Time Out New York. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
11.^ Jump up to: a b "The Sopranos". Emmys.com. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
External links[edit]
##Official website
##List of The Sopranos episodes at the Internet Movie Database


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