The Sopranos

Season 1

S1E1 · Pilot

In June 1998, North Jersey mobster Anthony “Tony” Soprano, a captain in the DiMeo crime family, is referred to a psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Melfi, after having a panic attack. Tony tells Melfi he is a waste management consultant, but she hints that she knows what he actually does. After Melfi establishes what will and will not fall under doctor-patient confidentiality, Tony begins to partly open up.

Tony has recently been dealing with tensions between his wife Carmela and teenage daughter Meadow, as well as trying to keep his impulsive nephew, Christopher Moltisanti, in check. When a Czech-American criminal organization is bidding against Tony for a waste management contract, Christopher unilaterally murders one of the Czechs, Emil Kolar, resulting in the Czechs withdrawing their bid. Corrado "Junior" Soprano, Tony's uncle, resents his nephew's rise in the family hierarchy while he himself is in decline.

Junior wants to kill turncoat "Little Pussy" Malanga in a restaurant he frequents, owned by Tony's lifelong friend Artie Bucco. Thinking the murder would ruin the restaurant, Tony unsuccessfully tries to persuade Junior to carry out the hit at a different location. He then tries to get Artie to close the restaurant for three weeks by offering cruise tickets, but his wife Charmaine refuses them. Finally, Tony has his right-hand man Silvio Dante bomb the restaurant; Artie's reputation will not be damaged, and he will be able to claim insurance compensation.

Alex Mahaffey, an HMO employee and "degenerate gambler ", is in debt to Tony and Hesh Rabkin, an old Jewish associate of Tony's late father. While driving with Christopher, Tony spots Mahaffey and runs him down, breaking his leg. He then concocts a scheme to have Mahaffey's company make phony insurance claims payable to non-existent clinics in order to pay off his debts, with which Mahaffey is forced to comply.

Tony has a strained relationship with his elderly mother, Livia, who is resisting his advice to move into a retirement home. A confrontation with Livia triggers another panic attack, causing Tony to return to Melfi. He tells her about a family of ducks that had been living in his swimming pool but left when the ducklings fledged. Guided by Melfi, Tony realizes he is sad to see the ducks go because he dreads losing his own family; to his consternation, this makes him cry.

At a birthday party for Tony's adolescent son A.J., Christopher, frustrated about not receiving recognition for killing Kolar, tells Tony he is thinking of turning his life story into a Hollywood script, which Tony angrily forbids. Meanwhile, while driving Livia to the party, an embittered Junior says, "Something may have to be done about Tony." Livia does not say anything but shows a hint of a smile.

S1E2 · 46 Long

Chris and his friend Brendan Filone rob a trucking business that pays protection to Junior, who warns them to stop. Brendan accidentally kills a driver during the next robbery. Angry that Chris did nothing to stop him, Tony decides to let them both deal with the consequences. Tony's son Anthony Jr.'s teacher has his car stolen, so Tony sends soldiers Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero and Paulie Gualtieri to find those responsible. They track down the gay couple who stole it and force them to steal another car, giving it to the teacher.

After Livia injures her wrist driving, Tony moves her to the nursing home despite feeling guilt over not taking care of her, and almost has another attack while moving family photos out of her house. Despite Melfi trying to get him to stop displacing his anger towards Livia, Tony beats Georgie Santorelli, an employee at the Bada Bing, the strip club he runs, for mishandling the phone in a manner similar to her.

S1E3 · Denial, Anger, Acceptance

Chris and Brendan return the stolen truck and Tony is given credit for solving the issue, prompting Junior to go to Livia for advice. He has Chris mock executed and watches as Brendan is killed by soldier Mikey Palmice. Tony is hired by a Jewish man who is being extorted by his son-in-law, and he attacks the man when he tries to back out on the deal, who derides him as a " golem ". DiMeo boss Jackie Aprile is hospitalized with stomach cancer, and Melfi tries to get Tony to discuss his feelings on it, as well as asking if being compared to a monster upset him. He attends his daughter Meadow's choir recital and is moved to tears by her solo part, unaware that she has spent the past few days using speed sold to her by Chris to complete her schoolwork.

S1E4 · Meadowlands

Tensions rise after Tony beats Palmice for Brendan's murder and is unable to reach a compromise with Junior. After Aprile dies, Tony uses Melfi's advice on dealing with elders and backs Junior for boss of the family, allowing him to feel in control while Tony pulls the strings. He realizes his growing attraction to Melfi and has indebted police detective Vin Makazian tail her while she is on a date, but Makazian ends up beating up the man she is with. A.J. almost gets into a fight with a classmate, but the boy backs out because of who A.J.'s father is. Confused, he goes to Meadow, who reveals the true nature of Tony's work.

S1E5 · College

While taking Meadow to tour colleges, Tony spots Fabian Petrulio, a former DiMeo soldier who flipped on the family. Petrulio realizes he is being watched and follows Tony to his motel, where he almost kills him but is stopped by the presence of witnesses. The next day, Tony finds him at his place of business and strangles him. Meadow notices the bruises on Tony's hands, but he dodges her questioning. Tony's wife Carmela gets a call from Melfi, who Tony had told her was a man. Upset, she asks local priest Phil Intintola to stay when he comes over, confessing that she feels guilt over letting Tony commit crimes for her family. They almost kiss after some drinks, but Phil instead goes to the restroom and vomits. Carmela and Tony argue about Phil and Melfi when he returns.

S1E6 · Pax Soprana

Tony's Prozac begins negatively affecting his sex drive, and he finds himself increasingly attracted to Melfi. He tries to kiss her and has her car repaired, but she rebuffs his advances. At the same time, he convinces Carmela that he feels no attraction to Melfi, and they reconcile. After Junior's tailor's grandson dies while on drugs, Junior has the dealer hunted down and killed, angering a DiMeo capo, as the dealer was his top earner. Junior begins taxing Tony's Jewish mob associate Herman "Hesh" Rabkin at Livia's suggestion without distributing the money to his capos, forcing Tony to negotiate with him. Tony shares his portion of the payment with Hesh. At Junior's celebration dinner, a waiter covertly takes pictures of everyone present with a button camera provided by the FBI. Junior's position on a federal chart of the DiMeo hierarchy is updated to "boss".

S1E7 · Down Neck

After A.J. gets in trouble for being drunk in school, his parents learn that he may have ADD. Tony worries that his genes may have corrupted his son and that he will turn out to be like him, and so he tells Melfi a story from his childhood: His father Johnny would take his sister Janice somewhere often, but he was always excluded. Jealous, he hid in the trunk of Johnny's car and learned that he was taking Janice to a fair, but only so she could act as cover while he did illegal business. After young Tony watched Johnny get arrested, he felt a sense of pride that he realizes A.J. feels about him. When he learns that A.J. is a borderline case, he rejects any further testing. A.J. tells Livia that Tony is seeing a therapist.

S1E8 · The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti

Melfi and her ex-husband debate over whether or not she should continue treating Tony. Livia tells Junior that Tony is in therapy. The DiMeo family gets a tip that the FBI will soon be raiding them, so the capos hide and destroy any evidence of wrongdoing. Chris has nightmares about the man he killed, so he digs up the body and relocates it. As he struggles to write a mob screenplay and feels anger at not being recognized as a feared figure, he attacks a bakery employee and shoots him in the foot. He learns that his name is in the newspaper, which delights him.

S1E9 · Boca

Junior's girlfriend praises his cunnilingus talents against his wishes and word gets to Carmela; both Carmela and Tony make thinly veiled jokes about it around him. Furious, Junior breaks up with her, pulls his money out of her business, and reveals Tony's therapy to Palmice, who believes Tony is informing on them. Meadow's soccer coach makes plans to leave town for a better job, while the team's star player reveals to Meadow that the coach had sex with her. Tony prepares to have him killed until Artie tries to get him to change his mind. After drinking excessively, Tony calls off the hit, and the coach is arrested after one of the teammates reports on him.

S1E10 · A Hit is a Hit

Chris tries to fulfill his girlfriend Adriana La Cerva 's dream of being involved in music production by meeting with a gangster rapper, who is in a dispute with Hesh about royalties. When he and Hesh agree to sue each other, Tony's crew mocks the rapper for going through the legal system. Adriana's first recording goes poorly and Hesh rejects their material. Tony's neighbor Bruce Cusamano invites him to play golf with his friends. They make Tony uncomfortable with questions about mob life, and he tells Melfi about a boy from his childhood with a cleft palate he and his friends used to mock, only understanding his pain after being humiliated at the club.

As revenge, Tony pranks Cusamano by filling a box with sand and leaving it with him to hold on to, and he and his wife Jeannie nervously try to guess what illegal contents may be inside.

S1E11 · Nobody Knows Anything

The FBI raids a card game and arrest capo Jimmy Altieri. Pussy is caught but mysteriously released. Makazian informs Tony that he heard Pussy is wearing a wire. Tony sends Paulie to confirm the existence of the wire and Paulie takes Pussy to a bath house, but Pussy refuses to take his clothes off, citing high blood pressure. At the same time, Tony learns that Makazian, who kills himself after being caught in a brothel, may have had ulterior motives for implicating Pussy. Altieri is released and talks to Tony, who realizes from his strange behavior that he is the informant. Junior learns from Livia that the mothers of several of his capos have been placed in her nursing home, and he realizes they are meeting behind his back. He has his men organize a hit on Tony.

S1E12 · Isabella

Pussy disappears, leaving Tony depressed and listless. He meets Isabella, a young Italian exchange student watching over the Cusamanos' house while they are away, and fantasizes about her nursing a baby named Antonio. When she disappears, Melfi realizes the lithium she had him taking was causing him to hallucinate, and explains that Isabella was an idealized maternal figure. Chris unwittingly saves Tony's life when he checks on him, his car blocking the two hitmen who were sent to kill Tony. When the contractor jokes about Livia being responsible for the hit, Junior has Palmice kill him. The next day, the hitmen strike, but Tony survives after one of them accidentally kills the other. Junior and Livia go to check on him, where she feigns memory loss.

S1E13 · I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano

Tony almost attacks Melfi when she suggests that Livia may have borderline personality disorder, and warns her to go into hiding because of Junior's attempted hit. He reluctantly tells his men that he is seeing Melfi, but they accept and encourage him. He has Altieri and Palmice executed, as well as killing the man he suspects Junior will send after him next. The FBI arrest Junior using information from Altieri, although he refuses to inform on Tony. Carmela notices Phil getting close with Aprile's widow Rosalie and calls him out on his pattern of seducing "spiritually thirsty" married women.

Livia tells Artie that Tony was the one who burned Nuovo Vesuvio, and Tony convinces him while being held at gunpoint that he was not responsible. When Livia has a stroke and the FBI inform Tony that they taped her subtly convincing Junior to put out the hit, he goes to the hospital to kill her, but is stopped by the staff taking her away. A storm knocks out the power in the Soprano household, so the family goes to the rebuilt Nuovo Vesuvio, where Tony advises his children to "remember the little moments that were good."

Season 2

S2E1 · Guy Walks Into a Psychiatrist's Office

Four months after the events of the first season, Pussy returns, claiming he was getting his back treated, although Tony remains suspicious. He has Junior's successor Philly Parisi killed for talking about Tony trying to kill Livia. Janice comes to town to take care of Livia, but Tony gets angry when he realizes she may be trying to profit off of his selling their mother's house. He calls Melfi to tell her she can come out of hiding, and tries to continue seeing her when he has a panic attack while driving. Enraged that his putting her in danger led to one of her patients committing suicide, she rejects him.

S2E2 · Do Not Resuscitate

Junior is released from prison and placed on house arrest. He informs Tony that the director of Livia's nursing home is the one who is spreading the rumors about his attempt to kill her, so Tony has the man killed. Tony deals with black workers demanding jobs at his construction sites by colluding with the protestors' leader behind their backs. Janice decides to move in with Livia when she is released from the hospital. Tony and Janice sign a DNR for Livia, which A.J. reveals to her without knowing what it is. Junior slips in the shower and is taken to the hospital by Tony, and he urges him to make peace with his mother.

S2E3 · Toodle-Fucking-Oo

Meadow uses Livia's house for a party, but manipulates her parents into giving her a mild punishment. Janice initially takes her side, but changes her tune when she sees the state of the house, causing an argument between her and Carmela about the latter's parenting. Melfi has an awkward encounter with Tony at a restaurant, confiding in her own psychiatrist, Elliot Kupferberg, that she feels guilt over no longer wanting to treat him. She later has a nightmare about him passing out while driving and dying in a car crash. Jackie Aprile's older brother Richie is released from prison after ten years, claiming to have reformed but crippling a debtor that is under Tony's protection. As Tony goes to Livia's to get the locks changed, he is perplexed to find a guilty Meadow cleaning the floor inside.

S2E4 · Commendatori

Tony, Paulie and Chris go to Naples to negotiate the price of stolen cars with a crime family. Tony learns that the daughter of the family’s boss is running things. She tries to seduce him but he turns her down due to their business relationship, and he decreases the price on the cars in exchange for taking her best man, Furio Giunta. Paulie, excited to go to Italy for the first time, is frustrated to find that he does not fit in. Chris, determined to see Mount Vesuvius, instead spends the trip in his room, high on heroin.

Pussy is seen by an associate meeting with his FBI handler, so he tracks down the man and kills him. His wife Angie expresses her desire for a divorce to Carmela, but she guilts her into staying with him. Tony returns home and announces himself, and Carmela hesitates before going to him.

S2E5 · Big Girls Don't Cry

Furio is brought to America, prompting Tony to promote Paulie and their friend Silvio Dante, but not Pussy, angering him. Tony discovers that Janice and Richie have restarted their old relationship. While he learns from Hesh Rabkin that Johnny Soprano also had panic attacks, Kupferberg tries to get Melfi to see that she experiences a thrill from treating Tony, but she takes him back anyway. Adriana enrolls Chris in an acting class as a birthday present. He struggles until he performs the final scene of Rebel Without a Cause, wowing the class but causing him to storm out. In the next class, Chris beats up the actor who played his father. When Adriana suggests he hit him because he reminded him of his real father, Chris throws out all his writing.

S2E6 · The Happy Wanderer

Tony admits to Melfi that he feels an innate anger towards absentmindedly happy people he sees on the street. He takes over Junior's gambling game and is accosted by his non-mob friend, David Scatino, asking to play. Knowing that Scatino is a compulsive gambler, Tony tries to stop him but eventually relents, resulting in Scatino being in debt. As Scatino continues to stall, Tony beats him, forcing him to sell his son Eric's car to him as partial payment. Tony tries to give it to Meadow, but she recognizes it as Eric's and rejects it. At her cabaret night, Eric refuses to perform with her, giving her the solo she had wanted earlier. Carmela notes Meadow's luck and wonders what happened as Scatino and his wife leave the theater, and Tony shrugs.

S2E7 · D-Girl

Chris meets and begins sleeping with his cousin's fiancée Amy Safir, who works for Jon Favreau. Adriana, having saved a copy of Chris's screenplay, encourages him to show it to Favreau, who quickly takes a liking to Chris. Chris begins to ignore his duties towards Tony and spends more time with Favreau and Amy. Chris discovers that Favreau has written a confidential mob anecdote into his newest script, enraging him. Favreau returns to Hollywood and Amy does not answer Chris's calls, so he confronts her in person and she claims that there is no longer an interest in mob films.

A.J. begins to question the existence of God right before his confirmation, fueled when he has an existential talk with Livia. Pussy's handler orders him to wear a wire at the confirmation. Tony catches A.J. smoking marijuana after the ceremony, and Pussy encourages him to enjoy his life with his father, later becoming overcome with grief at wearing the wire. Tony learns of Chris's activities and orders him to choose between him and his writing, which Chris considers before choosing Tony.

S2E8 · Full Leather Jacket

Carmela asks Jeannie Cusamano to get her Georgetown University alumna sister to write a letter of recommendation for Meadow. When the woman refuses, Carmela talks to her directly, her status as Tony's wife intimidating her into writing it. After a fight with Chris, Adriana leaves him, but he goes to her and proposes engagement, which she accepts. Richie gives Tony a leather jacket that belonged to a feared mobster as a sign of respect, but Tony is not impressed. Later, Richie sees the Sopranos' housekeeper's husband wearing it. Chris's underlings, Matt Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte, continue to be shorted by Chris and Tony.

They take action after Chris does not show up to a meeting, attacking and shooting him. Sean is killed during the ambush, while Matt tries to seek shelter with Richie, who throws him out after he learns what he has done. The attack leaves Chris badly wounded, and he is hospitalized.

S2E9 · From Where to Eternity

Chris briefly dies on the operating table, but survives despite losing his spleen. When he wakes, he claims he saw Hell and that Satan told him he is destined for it, delivering a message to Tony and Paulie. While Tony dismisses this, Paulie is deeply frightened by it, going to a psychic who claims the spirits of those he killed are watching him. He complains to his priest that the donations he has made to the church should protect him, and declares he will no longer give money if they cannot preserve his soul.

Pussy and Tony track Matt down and kill him. Carmela asks Tony to get a vasectomy to prevent any children out of marriage, but he refuses. He eventually gives in, only for Carmela to reveal she has changed her mind, asking him to no longer practice infidelity and promising "all I want is you" before having sex with him.

S2E10 · Bust Out

A witness to Matt's murder identifies Tony to the police, but withdraws his statement when he learns who he is. Tony's crew runs a fraud on Scatino's store, and they use him to get scalped airline tickets. Angry with his reduced cut of the store, Richie suggests to Junior that Tony should be killed, reminding him that he tried to do the same thing when Junior admonishes him. Carmela meets Scatino's widowed brother-in-law Victor Musto, and the two develop an attraction to each other and kiss. He promises to come over the next day, but does not show up when he learns who Scatino is in debt to.

Feeling slighted when A.J. hangs out with his friends instead of him, Tony misses his swim meet. Pushed by Carmela to make it up to him, Tony takes A.J. out on their boat and lets him steer, their trajectory making a smaller boat capsize.

S2E11 · House Arrest

When Junior and Richie sell cocaine on Tony's legitimate garbage routes, Tony argues with Richie and has a panic attack, almost having another when Janice and Richie announce their engagement. Tony's lawyer advises him to keep his nose clean following Matt's murder, but he finds himself bored at his no-show job. Junior is released from the hospital but placed back on house arrest, and he gets his hand stuck down the kitchen disposal for hours. Melfi begins drinking more before her sessions with Tony, but continues to treat him despite Kupferberg's warnings to stop.

She suggests to Tony that he may have an antisocial personality and uses his criminal activities to distract himself from his immorality, but he shrugs her off. He returns to Satriale's, the deli he and his friends use as a front, and is welcomed back by them and a recently discharged Chris. A car crash happens out front and the men observe it before going about their day.

S2E12 · Knight in White Satin Armor

After another argument about the garbage routes, Richie goes to a capo to get approval for a hit on Tony. Junior, correctly suspecting Richie will not be able to turn him, instead rats him out. Tony confides in Silvio who suggests that there is nothing to be gained by keeping Richie alive. Separately, Richie and Janice have an argument, and Richie punches her in the face. In retaliation, she shoots him. Tony and his men clean up the body and arrange for Janice to leave New Jersey. Tony speaks to Livia for the first time since he tried to kill her, during which they argue about her parenting and she cries.

Her crying turns to quiet laughter when he trips while leaving the house. Pussy turns against Tony and tries to get in good with the FBI by busting Chris, but winds up in a car crash. Tony's comare Irina Peltsin attempts suicide after he leaves her, and Tony has Silvio pay her to leave him alone. Upset by this, Carmela visits Musto, but realizes he was a no-show for their lunch because of Tony. Tony returns home and Carmela announces her plans to go to Rome for three weeks with Rosalie. When Tony demands she not go, she states she may kill herself if he does not let her.

S2E13 · Funhouse

Fed up with Livia's stressing over her living situation, Tony gives her Scatino's airline tickets. He contracts food poisoning, having a series of intense fever dreams. In a delirious dream, Pussy, in the form of a fish, tells Tony that he is an informant because he was passed over for promotion. Tony wakes and goes to Pussy's house, pretending to be sick so he can search Pussy's room and find his wire. He takes Pussy, Silvio and Paulie out on a boat, where they kill Pussy and dump his body in the Atlantic Ocean.

Livia is detained after trying to use the tickets, and the FBI arrests Tony. After his release, Melfi tries to get him to talk about Livia's attempt on his life and if it corresponds to him giving her the tickets, but he leaves. At Meadow's high school graduation, Tony ejects Junior when he spots him talking to Meadow and speaks to a recently divorced Scatino, who reveals that he is moving out west and that Eric got accepted into his top college but cannot afford to go. As a montage of Tony's various illegal endeavors is shown, Tony smokes a cigar by himself at Meadow's party before the shot fades to the Atlantic.

Season 3

S3E1 · Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood

Three months after the events of the second season, the Sopranos are being monitored by the FBI. DiMeo soldier Patsy Parisi is depressed on his birthday due to the murder of his twin brother, having correctly suspected Tony as the man responsible. As the FBI watch Tony's house, they spot a drunken Patsy stumbling into his backyard and pointing a gun at the unsuspecting Tony, but finds himself unable to shoot and instead urinates in the family pool. The agents bug Tony's basement after learning that he tends to have his conversations there, but this fails when the basement floods. They then manage to sneak a bug into a lamp.

S3E2 · Proshai, Livushka

Tony meets Meadow's mixed race boyfriend, Noah Tannenbaum, and has a panic attack after arguing with him. He goes to visit Livia, trying to find out what she said after being detained, only for her to die from a stroke later that night. Tony admits to Melfi his relief at her being dead, only to immediately berate himself for thinking that way. He has to argue with Janice to get her to go to the funeral, and she forces Svetlana Kirilenko, Livia's caretaker, to move out so she can take the house.

At Livia's wake, Janice makes it a big event against Livia's wishes, and it falls apart when Carmela and her father Hugh DeAngelis begin insulting Livia because of the strain she put on their relationship. Later that night, Tony watches The Public Enemy and begins to cry when the main character's mother expresses excitement at him coming home from the hospital.

S3E3 · Fortunate Son

Chris is initiated as a made man, but finds that he still has to kick up to Paulie. Jackie Aprile Jr., looking to get into the game despite his late father's wishes, tips Chris off to a benefit concert he can rob. When Svetlana continues to refuse Janice her mother's record collection, she steals her prosthetic leg. Tony goes to Svetlana's house to try and broker peace, encountering her cousin Irina Peltsin, and feels a bout of anxiety looking at cuts of meat. He recounts to Melfi that as a child, he saw Johnny Soprano chop off the finger of the owner of Satriale's, and later had his first panic attack after seeing his parents dance when Livia became excited over meat.

Melfi realizes that Tony pulled meat out of the fridge after his fight with Noah, and establishes a connection between meat and his anxiety. A.J. is made defensive captain of his school's football team, but has a panic attack when his team praises him.

S3E4 · Employee of the Month

Richie's successor Ralphie Cifaretto begins dating Rosalie and takes Jackie out to collect from a debtor. Angry that he involved Jackie in his activities, Tony promotes soldier Gigi Cestone to capo instead of Ralphie. Men break into Janice's house, beat her, and force her to get Svetlana's leg. In the hospital, she reflects on her behavior and decides to devote herself to God. While walking to her car, Melfi is raped and her attacker is released after a mistake with the chain of custody. Eating at a fast food shop, she notices the rapist being lauded as the employee of the month there, and has a dream where a Rottweiler saves her from him.

She admits to Elliot Kupferberg that she is tempted to give the rapist's information to Tony, and abruptly cries in their next session. When Tony asks if there is anything she wants to say, she pauses before responding, "No."

S3E5 · Another Toothpick

Carmela and Tony attend a session with Melfi together, where they are unable to resolve their issues. As they drive home, Tony is ticketed by a cop that he fails to bribe. While visiting home, Meadow takes the bugged reading lamp, unknowingly halting the FBI's investigation. Adriana quits as a hostess at Nuovo Vesuvio, leading Artie to angrily express his attraction to her around Tony, who warns him to lay off. He and his wife Charmaine argue about his friendship with Tony, leading her to plan a divorce. Soldier Vito Spatafore 's brother is beaten into a coma by the godson of elderly hitman Robert Baccalieri, who takes Tony's order to take care of it.

He kills him, but dies in a car crash while leaving the scene. Junior is unable to bring comfort to his aide and Baccalieri's son Bobby Jr. due to his own recent stomach cancer diagnosis. Tony runs into the cop, having been demoted, and tries to offer him money, but he turns it down.

S3E6 · University

Tracee, a Bada Bing stripper who is having regular sex with Ralphie, has formed a friendly relationship with Tony and tells him that she is pregnant with Ralphie's child. Ralphie's behavior in the Bada Bing becomes increasingly reprehensible, and he eventually beats Tracee to death when she mocks him in front of his friends. Tony attacks Ralphie despite him being a made man, and admits to Melfi and Carmela in their next session that Tracee (without revealing her identity) dying young saddened him. Meadow's Columbia University roommate finds herself unhappy at college.

Noah attempts to cheer her up by inviting her to spend time with him and Meadow, but she soon attaches herself to them and interferes with his studying. After Meadow learns that Noah's father is placing a restraining order on her roommate, Noah breaks up with her, deciding that she is "too negative." As Meadow returns home in a foul mood, the strippers at the Bada Bing wonder what happened to Tracee.

S3E7 · Second Opinion

The tumor in Junior's stomach is only partially removed, necessitating subsequent chemotherapy. Junior begins to suffer from the effects. His surgeon does not return his calls, so Tony and Furio intimidate him into prioritizing Junior. Georgie Santorelli buys a Big Mouth Billy Bass for the Bada Bing. Tony, reminded of Pussy's execution, furiously beats him with it. Chris continues to delay his payments to Paulie. He catches Paulie sniffing Adriana's underwear during a search of Chris’s apartment and complains to Tony. Paulie warns him never to go to Tony again, but then shows him the Billy Bass and they both laugh.

Tony learns that Angie is supposedly struggling for money but observes a new Cadillac in her driveway. He damages it and warns her to ask only him for money in the future. Melfi passes Carmela along to a colleague, who bluntly tells her to take her children and leave Tony, refusing to accept her "blood money”. She informs Tony that she has agreed a $50,000 donation to Columbia, something he had not wanted to do. She insists that he must do this for her, and he reluctantly agrees.

S3E8 · He is Risen

Meadow and Jackie develop an attraction to each other and soon begin to date. When Ralphie refuses Tony's offer of a drink, he uninvites him and the Apriles from Thanksgiving. Ralphie gives him a halfhearted apology for his behavior, which Tony ignores. Cestone suffers a fatal heart attack while on the toilet, and Tony realizes nobody but Ralphie is qualified for capo, reluctantly promoting him. When he gratefully asks Tony to share a drink with him, Tony leaves. He meets one of Melfi's patients, car saleswoman Gloria Trillo, and goes to her place of work to test drive a car with her. She later calls Melfi from Tony's boat, telling her that she needs to reschedule her next appointment.

S3E9 · The Telltale Moozadell

Tony continues his affair with Gloria, and they both lie to Melfi about their recent bouts of happiness, although she is suspicious. A.J. and his friends vandalize their school, but the school chooses not to punish him because of the value he adds to the football team. Annoyed at the lack of consequences, Tony and Carmela ground him for a month. Chris takes over a club and gives it to Adriana to run, and she renames it "Crazy Horse." Jackie's drug dealer friend is caught dealing and thrown out, only for Jackie to assure him that he has Chris's permission, leading to the dealer being beaten. Chris ignores Jackie when he tries to settle things. Tony catches Jackie in an illegal casino and warns him to be on his best behavior if he wants to date Meadow.

S3E10 · To Save Us All from Satan's Power

As Christmas approaches, Tony has Bobby fill in for Pussy as Santa Claus, which prompts Tony's memories of Pussy in the role. Tony thinks about Christmas of 1995, where Pussy was sensitive about people touching his Santa costume. He suspects Pussy may have been wearing a wire under it, determining that the FBI must have turned him on a trip to Boca Raton earlier that year. Bobby takes the role, but is awkward and unappealing as Santa. When Janice complains about lasting pain in her wrist, Tony tracks down the man who beat her and brutalizes him, leaving Janice disturbed when she sees a report about it on the news.

Tony goes to a strip club, where he finds Jackie receiving a lap dance. He beats him, and Jackie later admits to Tony on Christmas that he flunked out of college. Meadow gives Tony a Billy Bass as a gift, which he fakes enjoyment of while his family laughs at it.

S3E11 · Pine Barrens

With Silvio out with the flu, Tony has Paulie collect from a Russian debtor, and he brings Chris along. Paulie starts a fight with the Russian, and believing he killed him, they take the body out to the New Jersey Pine Barrens, only for the Russian to attack them and flee into the woods. As his tracks vanish, Paulie and Chris realize they are lost. They take shelter in an abandoned truck for the night, and Paulie calls Tony for help, leading to a fight with Gloria where she throws a beef steak at Tony's head before he leaves with Bobby to find them.

Lured by Paulie firing his gun in frustration, the two groups meet up but find Paulie's car gone, along with the money he took from the Russian. As they drive back to north New Jersey, Tony warns Paulie that he will need to take care of the Russian if he ever turns back up. Meadow discovers Jackie cheating on her when she is too sick to have sex with him, and she breaks up with him. Tony admits to Melfi that he is seeing Gloria, and does not get the parallels she tries to draw between Gloria and Livia.

S3E12 · Amour Fou

As Carmela begins to fear the possibility of ovarian cancer, she becomes emotional at seemingly random things. She confesses her situation to a priest, who advises her to ignore Tony's immoral actions and live with the money he earns for her. She later discovers that she has a thyroid problem. After hearing how his father and Tony made names for themselves by robbing an elite card game, Jackie gathers his friends and they rob one themselves, unaware that several made men are inside. Jackie kills the dealer when he mocks him, leading to a gunfight that gets his friends killed.

The next day, Ralphie and Tony are unable to come to an agreement on what to do about Jackie, with Tony ready to have him killed and Ralphie wanting to give him a pass. When Gloria bumps into Carmela and discovers who her husband is, she calls the Soprano house. Tony tells her that they are through, but she goads him into nearly killing her by threatening to tell his family about their affair. He sends Patsy to threaten her with murder if she ever tries to contact Tony again.

S3E13 · Army of One

A.J. is expelled from school for stealing test answers, and Tony posits sending him to military school, which Carmela is against. Paulie is shorted money he is owed from Ralphie and is not helped by Tony, prompting him to talk to the underboss of the New York -based Lupertazzi family, Johnny Sacrimoni. The FBI has an agent befriend Adriana using a false identity. After another talk with Tony, Ralphie has Vito kill Jackie, and his death is framed as a drug deal gone wrong. His death prompts Carmela to change her mind and let A.J. go, only for him to have a panic attack while Carmela dresses him.

Tony decides to not have him go, bitterly espousing his hatred of his "putrid gene" to Melfi. After Jackie's funeral, a distraught Meadow repeats the drug deal story to his sister, who insists he was killed by Italians. At the wake at Nuovo Vesuvio, Junior, having been released from house arrest, sings " Core 'ngrato ". Drunk, Meadow heckles him, and leaves when Tony notices. He follows her outside, and she decries the funeral as "bullshit" and runs off.

Season 4

S4E1 · For All Debts Public and Private

Paulie calls Johnny from prison, having been arrested on a gun charge, and complains about Tony's lack of concern. Ralphie cheats on Rosalie with Janice while having dinner at Tony's house. Tony admits to Melfi that he feels the only ways out of his business are "dead or the can" and plans to have Chris take over. He gives Chris, who is using heroin regularly, the address of the retired cop he claims killed his father, but the man insists he was not responsible when Chris follows him home. He kills him anyway and takes a twenty dollar bill from his wallet, later pinning it to his mother's fridge after a conversation about his father.

S4E2 · No Show

Ralphie tells a joke regarding the weight of Johnny's wife, which Paulie's nephew repeats while visiting Paulie in prison. Chris is made temporary capo of Paulie's men, causing resentment between him and Patsy, which escalates when Patsy and Silvio steal from their no-work job against Tony's wishes. The FBI brings Adriana in and demand that she become an informant. Meadow has shown a lack of motivation since Jackie Aprile Jr.'s murder, so Melfi recommends a therapist for her to Tony. The therapist encourages Meadow's plans to take a year off of college and go to Europe, leading to an argument between Meadow and Tony about his work getting Jackie killed. Tony and Carmela return home one day to find Meadow gone, having returned to school.

S4E3 · Christopher

Junior's RICO trial begins. At a pro- Italian luncheon, the guest speaker makes a point of deriding Italians involved in mafia activity, leaving the mob wives insulted. Bobby's wife Karen is killed in a car accident. Rosalie becomes even more depressed by this news, prompting Ralphie to leave her and attempt to move in with Janice. Janice visits Bobby and is moved by his sincere grief, and decides to break up with Ralphie, doing so by starting a fight and kicking him down the stairs. Paulie tells Johnny about Ralphie's joke.

A Native American group protests against the local Columbus Day parade to the ire of Tony's men. The leader of the group is not moved by Ralphie's threats, and Tony is unable to convince a chief (actually a white man with a small amount of Native American blood) to stop the protest. As Silvio continues to complain, Tony annoyedly disparages the notion that everyone belongs to a victimized group.

S4E4 · The Weight

Johnny's anger at the joke begins to boil over into meetings between the DiMeo and Lupertazzi families. Boss Carmine Lupertazzi approves of killing Johnny, and Silvio and Chris arrange a hit on him while Johnny puts one out on Ralphie. Johnny goes to see his father, where he will be killed, but forgets something and discovers his wife cheating on her diet. Hurt that she lied to him despite never asking her to lose weight, he calls off the hit. Melfi's son begins acting out while at college, and Elliot Kupferberg suggests that he may still feel guilt over her rape.

He later bumps into Tony without knowing who he is. As Carmela and Tony argue about money, she finds herself increasingly attracted to Furio, helping him buy a house and dancing with him at his housewarming party. While Tony has sex with her, she imagines hearing the music she and Furio danced to.

S4E5 · Pie-O-My

The FBI presses Adriana for information, and she reluctantly gives them a tip about Patsy. Janice begins inserting herself into Bobby's home life, trying to pull him out of his grief lest Junior abandon him, as well as trying to get him to eat Karen's last baked ziti that he has been saving to honor her memory. When Chris is away, Adriana finds his stash of heroin and mainlines the drug for the first time. Ralphie's racehorse Pie-O-My wins all of her races. Tony begins demanding more and more of the winnings, and when the horse falls ill and Ralphie cannot pay, he gives the vet Tony's number. Tony goes to the stables, pays the vet, and sits with Pie-O-My to try and calm her.

S4E6 · Everybody Hurts

After discovering that Gloria Trillo committed suicide, Tony does several kind things for people in his life to distract himself from the guilt. Artie takes a loan from Tony so he can distribute Armagnac, only for his supplier to start ignoring his calls. The man beats Artie when he tries to get his money back, and he tries to overdose on pills and calls Tony apologetically, who realizes what is happening and calls 911. Tony agrees to forgive the loan so long as Artie drops his restaurant tab and gives him the money from the man, who Furio is sent to collect from.

A grateful Artie praises Tony for having apparently guessed what was going to happen from the start, which upsets him. A.J. visits the home of his new girlfriend and realizes how wealthy she is. When his friends ask him why he does not have " Don Corleone money," he responds with “I don’t know.”

S4E7 · Watching Too Much Television

Paulie is released from prison, resentful that Tony never contacted him. While watching television, Adriana gets the impression that spouses cannot be forced to testify against each other, and proposes to Chris. He storms out when she tells him she may not be able to have children, but accepts it after Tony and Silvio talk to him. Adriana learns that she was wrong about spousal privilege and joylessly unwraps her presents at her bridal shower. Carmela's cousin tips Tony off to a mortgage fraud scheme he can get in on, so he makes use of assemblyman Ronald Zellman to purchase several houses.

One of them has been turned into a crack house, so Zellman pressures his anti-violence friend into sending a group of armed teenagers to scare the occupants away. After the scheme pays out, Zellman and his friend wonder what happened to their morals. Tony learns that Zellman is dating Irina Peltsin, and though unbothered by it at first, he drunkenly barges into Zellman's house and beats him.

S4E8 · Mergers & Acquisitions

Furio goes to Naples for his father's funeral, where he confesses to his uncle that he is in love with Carmela. His uncle warns him that he will have to kill Tony if he wants to be with her. Paulie's mother Nucci moves into a retirement community, where she is ostracized by a group that one of her friends is in. Paulie pays off the woman's son, but when nothing changes, he has the man's arm broken. His wife threatens to pull his mother out of the home unless she is kinder to Nucci.

Ralphie's new girlfriend, Valentina La Paz, helps commission a portrait of Tony and Pie-O-My. They soon begin an affair, although he refuses to keep seeing her unless she breaks up with Ralphie, which she does. Carmela discovers one of Valentina's fake nails in Tony's clothes, and so she invests some of his money with a stockbroker and leaves the nail for him to find. He and Carmela try to get the other to admit what they have done, but neither folds.

S4E9 · Whoever Did This

As Junior's trial continues, Tony gets the idea to begin feigning memory loss and force a mistrial, which Junior passes off to an investigator, only to have a genuinely dazed conversation with his neighbor that he seems to forget. Ralphie's son is hit with an arrow while playing with his friend, leaving him with brain damage. Believing God is punishing his son in his stead, Ralphie asks Phil Intintola for advice and tries to do right by the Aprile family. The stable housing Pie-O-My burns down, resulting in her death. Realizing that the payout of the stable's insurance would cover Ralphie's medical bills, Tony confronts him in his home, leading to a lengthy struggle that ends when Tony strangles Ralphie to death. He and Chris dispose of the body.

S4E10 · The Strong, Silent Type

Chris accidentally kills Adriana's dog while high and gets robbed while trying to buy more heroin, and he hits Adriana when she suggests he go to rehab. Junior advises Tony to kill him, but he instead organizes an intervention that quickly deteriorates into Chris being beaten. Tony informs Chris that he is being moved to a rehab clinic. Tony has a hostile meeting with Johnny over the Lupertazzi family not being included in the mortgage scheme. Furio returns, and Carmela continually makes up excuses to see him. Junior's new nurse turns out to be supplied by Svetlana Kirilenko. Tony expresses admiration for her, and the two have sex. Tony openly cries to Melfi about losing Pie-O-My and orders their portrait to be destroyed when it arrives. Paulie saves it, hanging it on his wall and having it repainted to put Tony in a " Napoleon -like" uniform.

S4E11 · Calling All Cars

Tony dreams about Carmela driving Johnny Soprano's car with his father, Ralphie, and Gloria/Svetlana inside. Melfi suggests that it represents his desire to settle things with them, but he becomes frustrated with the seeming lack of progress in their sessions and decides to quit. Annoyed at Carmela forcing him to play with Bobby's kids, A.J. pranks them with a séance that leaves them terrified of Karen's ghost. Janice guides them to their ouija board, scaring them further. Bobby comes to her for advice, and she manipulates him into eating Karen's ziti.

Tony continues to refuse Johnny a satisfying cut of the mortgage scheme. He goes to Miami to deal with Carmine's son, "Little" Carmine, who agrees to talk to his father. Tony's dream continues: he arrives at a house, where he waits outside, claiming he is there for a stonemason job. A shadowy female figure descends the stairs before Tony wakes with a start.

S4E12 · Eloise

Bobby picks a juror at Junior's trial to have intimidated into holding out. Carmine refuses to compromise on the mortgage scheme, and Johnny meets with Tony and implies that he should be killed. Paulie encounters Carmine and realizes he has no idea who he is despite the good word Johnny apparently put in for him. He learns that Nucci's friend keeps her money in her house, and is forced to kill her while stealing it. He gives a large cut to Tony, putting them back on good terms. After Furio and Carmela almost kiss, he nearly pushes a drunken Tony into a helicopter rotor, leaving for Italy the next day despite Tony not remembering the incident clearly.

Carmela, in bad spirits, argues with Meadow about the homosexual themes in Billy Budd. The arguing continues at Meadow's birthday dinner, and she learns from A.J. about Carmela's interest in Furio. As Tony asks if Carmela is happy with Meadow growing into an independent woman, she stays silent for a moment, then murmurs "yes."

S4E13 · Whitecaps

Because of the one holdout juror, Junior's trial is declared a mistrial. Tony agrees to kill Carmine in exchange for all of the profit from the mortgage scheme, and has a clean Chris hire his former heroin dealers to do the job. Little Carmine reports that his father has conceded, and Chris has the dealers killed to prevent knowledge of the attempt from leaking. Tony purchases a house on the Jersey Shore for his family from owner Alan Sapinsly, only for Irina to call the house in revenge for Tony ending her relationship with Zellman and tell Carmela that he slept with Svetlana.

Tony and Carmela argue about his infidelities and she orders him to move out. He tells Sapinsly that he no longer wants to buy the house, but he refuses to release Tony from his contract unless he pays a fee. Tony argues with Carmela again and she reveals her feelings for Furio, almost causing him to hit her. He calls Melfi, but hangs up and blocks her number when she answers. Tony has speakers installed on his boat, which he drives outside Sapinsly's house and plays loud music from. His wife begs him to release Tony from the contract.

Season 5

S5E1 · Two Tonys

Ten months after the events of the fourth season, four men imprisoned for two decades are released on parole, while Carmine Lupertazzi has a stroke. Chris is increasingly frustrated with having to cover dinner bills for Paulie, who intentionally racks up an expensive one. They argue and are interrupted by a waiter upset by his meager tip. Chris throws a brick at him when he insults them, causing him to have a seizure. Paulie kills him and takes the money from the bill. Tony, now living in Livia's house, tries to start a romance with Melfi, but she rebuffs his advances despite admitting to Elliot Kupferberg that she initially felt attracted to him. Tony asks her why she will not be with him, but storms out when she brings up his morals. A black bear wanders into the Sopranos' backyard, and Tony goes there and takes over guard duty.

S5E2 · Rat Pack

A friend of Tony's, secretly an FBI informant, gifts him a painting of the Rat Pack. After receiving a tip that the man is working against him, Tony throws the painting into a river and the man is found dead the next day. Carmine dies, leaving Johnny determined not to let Little Carmine take over the Lupertazzi family. Tony's released cousin Tony Blundetto makes a joke about Tony's weight upon his return. Tony offers him a place in his criminal ventures, but Blundetto is happy with getting a legitimate job and wants to become a massage therapist.

When Tony catches him giving his men massages, he berates him for the joke, only to later apologize. Spending time with the other mob wives, Adriana notices that Angie never comes around. Rosalie explains that because of her husband's status as an informant, she is no longer invited. Adriana almost admits her predicament, only to flee and later give her handler information about a friend of hers that has been flirting with Chris.

S5E3 · Where's Johnny?

Released DiMeo capo Michele "Feech" La Manna brutalizes a local gardener while trying to get his nephew's business off the ground. Paulie beats up Feech's nephew in retaliation, and Tony decides to split the territory in half and give the gardener a meager payout, provided he mows his and Johnny's lawns for free. Lorraine Calluzzo, a loan shark working for Little Carmine, is attacked by released Lupertazzi capo Phil Leotardo, his brother Billy, and Joey "Peeps" Peparelli. While trying to resolve the situation, Tony brings Chris along to a meeting, who tanks it when he speaks out of turn.

As Junior's mental state erodes, he repeatedly insists that Tony "never had the makings of a varsity athlete." He drives to Newark, looking for Tony's deceased father until the police bring him back to Janice. Tony learns from Junior's neurologist that he has suffered several infarcts. He asks Junior why he insisted on repeating the athlete comment and asks "don't you love me?", causing both men to quietly become emotional.

S5E4 · All Happy Families...

As A.J.'s grades begin to slip, Tony and Carmela argue about how to deal with him, during which she points out that Tony has no real friends and that his men laugh at his jokes out of obligation, which he tests by telling a joke and finds her to be correct. Feech's men steal cars from the wedding of an associate of Tony's, and Tony remembers Feech did not laugh at his joke. He has Chris set Feech up to be caught by his parole officer with a load of stolen TVs, and Feech gazes longingly at the outside world on the bus back to prison.

Calluzzo is murdered by Peeps and the Leotardos. Carmela allows A.J. to go to a concert in New York, but he instead gets high with his friends in a hotel room. Carmela sends him to live with Tony. She goes to lunch with A.J.'s guidance counselor, Robert Wegler, who recommends the novel Madame Bovary on the grounds that she resembles the main character. She returns home to find her house empty.

S5E5 · Irregular Around the Margins

Tony has a mole removed that turns out to be skin cancer. He has a sexually tense moment with Adriana at the Crazy Horse, but he does not act, admitting to Melfi that he wanted to but understood it would be bad for everyone involved. While driving to buy cocaine with Adriana, Tony swerves to avoid hitting a raccoon and crashes. A rumor spreads that the accident happened because Adriana was performing fellatio on him, which Chris learns of when Vito jokes about it, almost starting a fight. He beats Adriana, relapses, and goes to the Bada Bing with a gun.

Tony prepares to kill him if he cannot accept the truth, but Blundetto instead convinces him to have Chris talk to the doctor who treated them after the accident, who explains that Adriana's injuries indicate she was sitting upright. Chris is satisfied, but still upset that everyone else believes the rumor, while Tony complains to Melfi that he may as well have had sex with Adriana. Tony, Chris, Adriana, and Carmela go to dinner together to publicly prove there are no issues between them, and Vito passes by and wishes Chris a pleasant evening.

S5E6 · Sentimental Education

A.J. is sent back to Carmela after he and Tony frequently argue. She and Wegler begin having sex, which she confesses to Phil Intintola but ignores his criticisms of her. Wegler pressures one of A.J.'s teachers to give him a passing grade on a paper and eventually concludes that Carmela is using him. He leaves, and Carmela laments to Hugh DeAngelis that her motives will always be questioned as Tony's wife. Blundetto and his Korean employer start off hostile, but they grow to respect each other and he offers to help fund Blundetto's massage parlor. Blundetto happens upon a bag of money discarded by drug dealers and gambles most of it away, and ends up beating his employer when the stress of his jobs gets to him. He asks Tony if he needs assistance with any of his operations.

S5E7 · In Camelot

Chris invites J.T. Dolan, a screenwriter he met in rehab, to a gambling game, which puts him in severe debt. Chris beats him up after he cannot pay, putting him back on heroin, and he sends Dolan back to rehab. Junior, still on house arrest, begins going to the funerals of anyone he vaguely knows to get out of the house, but weeps uncontrollably at the funeral of Tony's uncle and admits to his physician that the lack of purpose in his life depresses him. Tony meets Johnny Soprano's old comare and collects money that Hesh Rabkin and Phil owe her.

His friendship with the woman takes a turn when he learns that his father gave his childhood dog away to her son, and that he was with her when Livia had a miscarriage while Tony covered for him. Melfi encourages Tony to have more sympathy for Livia because of this, but he rejects the idea.

S5E8 · Marco Polo

Carmela's mother asks her not to invite Tony to Hugh's seventy-fifth surprise birthday, which Tony agrees to. Junior intentionally ruins the surprise, and Hugh demands Tony come. Tony gifts him a Beretta shotgun, but an upper-class guest devalues it by pointing out the best Berettas are not exported. Carmela realizes her mother wanted Tony not to come solely so he would not embarrass her in front of the guest, despite his good behavior throughout, and tells her off. Carmela and Tony have sex after everyone leaves. Blundetto's former cellmate and Lupertazzi consigliere Angelo Garepe tries to hire him to kill Peeps in revenge for Calluzzo, but Blundetto turns him down until he sees how much better Tony is living than him. He kills Peeps, but Peeps's car rolls over his foot as he flees the scene.

S5E9 · Unidentified Black Males

Tony has a panic attack after learning that both Blundetto and Peeps's killer have limps. Johnny suspects both Little Carmine's and Blundetto's parts in the hit, but Tony covers for Blundetto when confronted. In therapy, Tony admits the truth as to why he gives Blundetto so much leeway: on the night the Tonys were supposed to commit a robbery, Tony had a panic attack after arguing with Livia and injured himself, leaving Blundetto to go to jail. Tony gets Meadow's boyfriend Finn DeTrolio a job at a construction site. Finn arrives to work early one day and finds Vito fellating a man.

With Vito subtly threatening him, Finn plans to leave town, leading to a lengthy argument with Meadow that ends when he proposes to her. Carmela still plans to divorce Tony and obtain a fair share of their assets, but is distraught to learn that he has consulted all the divorce attorneys in the area to prevent them from taking her case. She returns home to find him relaxing in the pool, becoming tearful as Meadow calls to report her engagement.

S5E10 · Cold Cuts

Carmela and Tony argue about his actions, but when she encounters Wegler, she tells him that Tony is moving back in. Chris vents to Adriana about the favoritism Blundetto receives, but when Adriana suggests they start a new life somewhere, Chris insists he is with Tony for life. He and Blundetto are sent to their uncle's farm to dispose of bodies buried there, and the two bond. Tony shows up to oversee the last of the job, and the Tonys mock Chris's sobriety, leaving him to drive home in tears.

Janice, now married to Bobby, is arrested after attacking a mother at her stepdaughter's soccer game. Tony demands Bobby get her under control, and he requests she either take anger management classes or end their marriage. She takes the classes and makes significant progress, while at the Bada Bing, Georgie Santorelli remarks that "you've gotta live for today," causing Tony to beat him so badly he goes partially deaf. Paulie informs Tony that Georgie is quitting. He has dinner with the Baccalieris and becomes irritated when Janice no longer gets angry at minor annoyances, provoking her into attacking him and leaving with a satisfied smile.

S5E11 · The Test Dream

The Leotardos kill Garepe. Valentina La Paz is hospitalized with severe burns after trying to cook for Tony, and he goes to stay at the Plaza Hotel for the night. He learns of Garepe's death and tries to contact Blundetto, who ignores him. Tony falls asleep and dreams of the deceased people in his life. He has therapy with Gloria Trillo and is driven by his father to "the job." Tony and Carmela have dinner with Meadow, Finn, and Finn's parents, Vin Makazian and Annette Bening. In the dream, Blundetto kills Phil outside the restaurant and Tony is blamed for not stopping him, and Artie rescues him from a mob chasing him.

He has sex with Charmaine while Artie cheers him on, and is then riding Pie-O-My through his house, Carmela allowing him to move back in on the condition of "you can't bring your horse in here!" He arrives in the office of his high school football coach, who criticizes Tony for taking the easy way out by choosing the mob life. As Tony tries to shoot him, his gun falls apart and he wakes up. Chris visits to inform him that Blundetto wounded Phil and killed his brother Billy Leotardo. Tony calls Carmela and tells her he had "one of my Coach Molinaro dreams."

S5E12 · Long Term Parking

The body of a drug dealer is traced to the Crazy Horse, and surveillance footage reveals to the FBI that Adriana disposed of evidence from the murder. She convinces them that Chris can be made into an informant, but he nearly kills her when she admits the truth to him. He eventually agrees to start a new life with her, but hesitates when he notices an unhappy couple resembling them at a gas station. Tony tells Adriana that Chris attempted suicide and that Silvio will take her to the hospital, but Silvio instead takes her into the woods and kills her.

Tony later finds Chris, having sold her out, on heroin. When Chris tells him he is trying to cope with the pain, Tony beats him. Blundetto calls Tony to apologize, who tells him the truth about the night he was arrested and has the call traced to near their uncle's farm. He refuses to give Blundetto up to Johnny and Phil. He moves back in with Carmela and promises to help her build a spec house. Carmela takes him to the spot where she plans to build and notices that he looks troubled, but he brushes her off.

S5E13 · All Due Respect

Phil begins hunting Chris, and Tony insists to his men that he is protecting Blundetto like he would any of them, but dissent begins to grow amongst them after Phil brutalizes soldier Benny Fazio. Tony goes to Junior for help, but he is too dazed to give him advice. Both Melfi and Silvio warn him that he is protecting Blundetto out of guilt and pride, and he discovers the painting of him and Pie-O-My that Paulie had redone when he goes to visit him. Tony is perplexed and annoyed by it, but Paulie insists he had it made out of genuine respect.

Tony rips it off the wall, but stares forlornly at his painted face after he throws it in a dumpster. Knowing Phil will torture Blundetto, Tony goes to their uncle's farm and kills him quickly before giving Phil his location. He visits Johnny's house to negotiate peace. Just as they reach an agreement, the FBI arrives to arrest Johnny, and Tony gets rid of his gun and flees into the woods. A disheveled Tony arrives home hours later, and Carmela ushers him inside.

Season 6

S6E1 · Members Only

Sixteen months later, a DiMeo made man and FBI informant, Eugene Pontecorvo, tries to get permission from either Tony or the FBI to retire to Florida with his family, but he is denied. With his relationship with his family fraying, he commits suicide. Carmela's spec house has a stop order placed on it because of shoddy wood used by Hugh DeAngelis. Hesh Rabkin's son-in-law is brutalized by Lupertazzi men. Unable to get in contact with Phil, the acting boss, Tony is forced to go through an imprisoned Johnny to secure a meeting, where Phil agrees to pay the man.

As Junior continues to deteriorate, Melfi recommends he be put in a nursing home, but Tony, feeling guilt over doing the same thing to Livia, refuses. With Janice refusing to take care of Junior, Tony goes to his house, where a confused Junior shoots him in the stomach. Tony manages to dial 911 before passing out.

S6E2 · Join the Club

Tony awakens in a California hotel room, where he notices a light flashing in the distance. He realizes he has the belongings of a salesman named "Kevin Finnerty", who looks exactly like him. While looking for his items, Tony has dinner with a group and alludes to having a midlife crisis. As a woman from the group refuses to have sex with him because he is married, a helicopter spotlight hovers over them. Tony, actually in an induced coma after surviving being shot, rips out his breathing tube and has to be put back under.

A.J. initially avoids Tony's hospital room but gathers the courage to see him, vowing to kill Junior in revenge. He inadvertently disparages his family while talking to a reporter. Back in California, Tony is attacked by a pair of bhikkhus who believe he is Finnerty, and later falls down a flight of stairs. His MRI shows that he is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. Tony returns to his hotel room and picks up the phone, but puts it back down and stares at the flashing light.

S6E3 · Mayham

Paulie kills two drug dealers and takes a massive score from them, but Silvio, the acting boss, divides it between the crew in a way that frustrates them. Carmela tells A.J. that he is a burden after discovering what he said to the reporter, and admits to Melfi that while she does not feel guilt over Tony's work anymore, she does for mothering children with a criminal. Chris's interest in the movie industry resurfaces and he forces J.T. Dolan to write a mob- slasher film in exchange for paying off his debt.

They pitch it to Little Carmine, and Dolan titles it " Cleaver ". As Tony goes into cardiac arrest, he travels to a family reunion he found a flyer for in Finnerty's briefcase. He is stopped at the door by a man identical to Blundetto, who promises him he is "going home" but has to let go of his "business" as a shadowy female figure watches them. Meadow's voice calls to Tony and he wakes up. Chris excitedly tells Tony about Cleaver, only to notice an Ojibwe saying taped to the wall: "Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky."

S6E4 · The Fleshy Part of the Thigh

A recovering Tony befriends two other patients, a rapper and a physicist. He admits to the physicist that while in the coma, he realized that everyone is part of "something bigger." As he is being discharged, a paramedic he accused of stealing from him tries to pay him back, but Tony waives his debt. Outside for the first time since the shooting, he declares that "from now on, every day is a gift." Bobby overhears the rapper's friend wishing for similar notoriety and agrees to non-fatally shoot him for cash.

Paulie is horrified to learn from his dying nun aunt that she is actually his mother, having had an affair with a soldier that resulted in his birth. He skips her funeral and informs Nucci Gualtieri, actually his aunt, that he will no longer be providing for her, despite Tony reminding him that she loved him as her son. After the man who ran Tony and Johnny's legitimate sanitation business dies, his son plans to sell the company. Tony settles a price for his share with Phil and allows it to be sold, but Paulie attacks the son and demands a monthly payment that will cover Nucci's retirement bills.

S6E5 · Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request...

Johnny is granted temporary release to attend his daughter's wedding, where he asks Tony to kill Lupertazzi capo Rusty Millio, who may cause another power struggle. Johnny is escorted away from the venue before he can see the full ceremony, and he cries in front of the guests, leading Phil to voice his distaste for the supposed loss of masculinity. Junior is transferred to a private psychiatric facility as he awaits trial for the shooting. Vito is spotted by Lupertazzi men in a gay club and he goes into hiding.

As Tony refuses to talk to Melfi about the shooting, he notes that his men are giving him "certain looks" since his return from the hospital. She advises him to "act as if you are not feeling vulnerable," and so he picks a fight with his bodyguard in front of his men and wins, only to vomit blood in the bathroom afterwards.

S6E6 · Live Free or Die

Chris is told by a man in his addiction recovery group about Vito being spotted in the club. Tony admits to Melfi that while he has a religious objection to homosexuality, Vito is important to him and that, like himself, he deserves a second chance. After learning from Finn DeTrolio that Vito was fellating a man, Tony's crew is left disgusted and some members demand his death. Meadow, working as an intern for a law firm that specializes in white collar crime, argues with Finn about the treatment of financial criminals compared to those involved in the mob, storming out when he points out that Vito may be killed for his sexuality.

Vito flees the state when men are sent to collect him, but is forced to travel on foot when his car breaks down. He winds up in a small town in New Hampshire, where he decides to stay after becoming enamored with its friendly atmosphere.

S6E7 · Luxury Lounge

Artie confronts Tony after learning that he ate at a rival restaurant, but ignores his suggestions to improve Nuovo Vesuvio's declining quality. American Express stops doing business with him after Benny Fazio and a hostess he has been having an affair with run a credit card scam on Artie's customers, so he fires her and beats up Benny. Tony forces them to make peace and has Benny have dinner at Nuovo Vesuvio, but Artie references Benny's affair in front of his wife and Benny forces his hand into a vat of boiling sauce.

Tony suggests therapy to Artie but is angrily rejected. Chris organizes a successful hit on Millio before going to Los Angeles to cast actors for Cleaver. He meets with Ben Kingsley, who gets distracted by the hotel's luxury lounge, which offers him free items. When Chris tries to intimidate Kingsley into getting access to the lounge, he mentions that awards show presenters are given lounge goods worth thousands of dollars. Chris mugs Lauren Bacall and gives her items to Tony, who is annoyed with him for not being in New Jersey to stop Benny.

S6E8 · Johnny Cakes

Despite his parents offering him work, A.J. spends his time sitting around the house or in nightclubs. He takes a knife to Junior's facility, but drops it when Junior, mistaking him for Tony, begs him to take him home. He is arrested, Tony is forced to bail him out, and A.J. insists that he was trying to avenge Tony like in The Godfather. A friend asks A.J. to get Tony to help with a financial dispute, and he has a panic attack. Vito finds himself taken with local chef Jim Witowski and they kiss, but he instinctively punches Jim, leading to a fight that leaves Vito beaten.

Several days later, he apologizes to Jim and they have sex. Tony, sexually active for the first time since the shooting, is accosted by a realtor who offers to buy a local store to turn it into a Jamba Juice. He rejects the deals until the price reaches half a million, and they kiss after agreeing on the sale. Tony stops himself from having sex with her and redirects his frustration at Carmela when he returns home.

S6E9 · The Ride

Chris marries his girlfriend after learning that she is pregnant. While driving back from a business trip, he and Tony steal expensive wine from bikers who are robbing a liquor store. Chris breaks his sobriety when he and Tony toast his marriage with the wine, and they reminisce about their bond, as well as the day Chris gave up Adriana. Paulie refuses to donate the requested amount for the Feast of Elzéar of Sabran to the church. Chris spends the first night of the festival on heroin. The next day, a ride breaks down, and Paulie is blamed due to his cheapness.

Janice, on the ride, fakes a neck injury so Bobby can extort money from Paulie, and Tony orders them to settle the dispute. As Paulie learns that he may have prostate cancer, he curses at Nucci when she chastises him for his handling of the Feast. Early at the Bada Bing, he sees a vision of the Virgin Mary. Terrified, he reconciles with Nucci.

S6E10 · Moe n' Joe

Vito finds himself bored with everyday work. He steals Jim's car and leaves, only to crash into another car. When the owner refuses to take cash and goes to call the police, Vito kills him. After Bobby's eye is badly injured while making collections, Tony admits to Melfi that he treats him and Janice unfairly because of resentments he carries from their childhood, and Melfi points out that Janice may remind him of Livia. Knowing that a plea deal with the FBI would result in losing most of his assets, Johnny asks Tony to get the owners of a company Johnny is a partner in to sell.

Tony agrees so long as he sells his house to Janice at a discounted price. Johnny pleads guilty and admits in court that he is part of the mafia, earning universal contempt from his peers. Janice begins to cry while thanking Tony for getting her the house, and Carmela, assuming she is upset, comforts her while Tony rolls his eyes.

S6E11 · Cold Stones

Carmela discovers that A.J. has been fired from his job. Tony admits to Melfi that he wants to hit A.J., and she points out that Carmela protects A.J. as he wishes Livia protected him. He tries to speak civilly to A.J. about getting him a job, but smashes the windshield of his car when he complains. Vito meets with Tony and asks to return to the family, but Tony's men disapprove, and Phil, particularly hateful because he is related to Vito by marriage, demands his death.

Vito returns to his family and calls Jim, who rejects him. Phil and his men ambush Vito, killing and sodomizing him with pool cues. One of the made men who killed Vito, Dom Gamiello, comes to Satriale's while Silvio and capo Carlo Gervasi are there and begins joking about Carlo also being gay, and they kill him. Carmela goes to Paris with Rosalie and is enamored with the architecture. She dreams about Adriana walking her deceased dog near the Eiffel Tower, and a policeman comments that "someone needs to tell her she's dead."

S6E12 · Kaisha

Tony has Benny blow up Phil's wire room. Little Carmine hosts a sitdown to try and negotiate peace, but Phil storms out when he brings up Billy Leotardo. Suspecting Tony's role in Gamiello's disappearance, Phil begins plotting a revenge hit, only to have a heart attack. Tony visits Phil in the hospital, telling him about what he learned in his coma and encouraging him to instead focus on family, which moves him. Tony tries to seduce the realtor, unaware that she is seeing Chris. Having met in his recovery group, Chris begins using heroin with her.

Tony spots the two talking, and Chris is forced to admit the truth so he does not find out about the drugs. Tony acts indifferent, but expresses jealousy to Melfi, who commends his restraint. While at work, A.J. meets and starts dating single mother Blanca Selgado. A group of youths that regularly bother her hang out outside her house, and A.J. bribes them to leave her alone. After Adriana's mother tries to kill herself, Carmela posits hiring a private investigator to find her. Tony has Silvio get the stop order lifted, and she drops the idea. The Sopranos's relatives come to their house for Christmas, and A.J. brings Blanca and her son. As the families sit together, Carmela takes Tony's hand.

S6E13 · Soprano Home Movies

Eight months later, Phil returns from recovery and declares intent to enjoy life with his family. The gun Tony dropped is found on a drug user. He and Carmela travel to Bobby and Janice's upstate New York cabin to celebrate his birthday, where Bobby gifts him a customized assault rifle. He mentions the possibility of promoting Bobby, who has never killed before because his father wanted to keep him out of the mob. The four spend the night playing drunken Monopoly, but when Janice tells a humiliating story about Livia, Tony begins insulting her.

Bobby fights him and wins, and the next day, Tony orders him to travel to Montreal to complete a hit job over a custody dispute. As Bobby completes the hit, Tony returns home and is told that the FBI added the gun to their RICO case against him. As he watches Janice's gift, a compilation of old videos of him playing with his sisters, Bobby returns to the cabin and holds his young daughter as he looks out at the lake.

S6E14 · Stage 5

Cleaver premieres, and everyone but Tony seems to notice the parallels between the film and his, Chris, and Adriana's relationship. After Carmela points this out to him and confronts Chris, Chris forces Dolan to pretend as though he stole the plot from another film. Unconvinced, Tony tearfully admits his suspicion to Melfi that Chris hates him and Cleaver was his way of showing this. With Johnny dying of lung cancer in prison, Lupertazzi capo Faustino Santoro has Phil's successor killed at a dinner with Silvio. Little Carmine declines to get involved when Tony presses him, not wanting to risk his own life.

Johnny takes up smoking again and learns from an orderly that he may have longer to live than anticipated, only to die soon after. Phil celebrates Billy's birthday, but tells a capo that he was weak when he did not act after Billy's death and promises that he will not make that mistake again. At the baptism of Chris's daughter, he and Tony embrace, their expressions blank.

S6E15 · Remember When

The FBI discover the body of Tony's first murder, forcing him and Paulie to go to Miami and lay low. He takes a bridge loan out from Hesh to cover a series of lost bets, and learns that Jackie Aprile is being blamed for the murder. To celebrate, he takes Paulie out on a fishing boat, where he asks him if he told Johnny about Ralphie's joke. Increasingly annoyed with Paulie over the course of the trip, he considers killing him. Paulie has a nightmare upon returning home about Pussy, where he asks if he will "stand up" when "my time comes." He sends the Sopranos an expensive espresso machine the next day.

After Santoro takes food off Phil's plate at a dinner, Phil has him killed, making him the official boss of the Lupertazzi family. Junior gambles with the other patients in his facility, but is shut down by another patient. Junior attacks him, getting him put on a new set of medications. An ill-tempered young patient who he has befriended encourages him not to take them. He is threatened with transfer if he does not comply, disappointing Junior's friend, who he calls "Anthony" while trying to make up with him. He breaks Junior's arm and Junior later receives animal-assisted therapy, sitting apart from the other patients with his gaze vacant.

S6E16 · Chasing It

As Tony continues to lose his bets, he offers to pay Hesh a vig despite him not charging interest for the loan. When Hesh visits Tony and his crew, Tony makes several Jewish jokes at his expense. Carmela sells the spec house despite feeling guilt over the wood's quality, and Tony demands a cut of the profit so he can bet it, but she refuses. His bet pays off, leaving him enraged at the money he could have made, and they violently argue. They later make up and Carmela admits her fear about the threats in their lives, but Tony insists he is "way up" after surviving being shot.

Vito's son begins acting out and his mother requests money from Tony so they can relocate. When the boy is expelled from school for defecating in front of his bullies, Tony decides to pay, but gambles away the money and instead pays for him to be sent to a boot camp that allows the students to be beaten. A.J. proposes to Blanca and she initially accepts, but later breaks up with him. Hesh's girlfriend dies, and Tony finally pays back his loan, offering minimal condolences.

S6E17 · Walk Like a Man

A.J. falls into a depression and his parents send him to a therapist. Tony has him spend time with Carlo's son, and A.J. helps him abduct and torture a debtor. Tony tells Melfi that he intended to quit therapy, but feels he has to stay now that A.J. is suffering due to his "rotten genes." Chris notices that Tony is talking to him less, and he points out that Chris never comes to the Bada Bing or Satriale's anymore, despite his insistence that the alcohol there make him anxious.

Paulie's cousin steals from Chris's father-in-law's store and Paulie refuses him a cut of the profits, so Chris throws his cousin out a window. Paulie tears up Chris's lawn with his car, and Tony helps them make peace, during which Chris decides to drink with the crew. Paulie makes several crude jokes about Chris's daughter, and Chris leaves when he notices Tony laughing. With his sponsor out of town, Chris goes to Dolan's house and tries to give him mob stories to write about. Instead Dolan harshly says, “You're in the mafia!" Chris takes out his gun and kills Dolan, then returns home, where he rights a tree in his yard that Paulie knocked over.

S6E18 · Kennedy and Heidi

Phil learns that the waste Tony has been sending to the sanitation business contains asbestos, and he demands an increased cut of profits if he is to take more. Chris drives erratically with Tony while not wearing a seatbelt and crashes, severely injuring himself. Chris tells Tony to call a taxi instead as he will not pass a drug test. Realizing he is using heroin again, Tony suffocates him. He dreams of admitting relief to Melfi at the weight Chris's death took off him, as well as his role in the deaths of Blundetto and Pussy.

In the actual session, he claims he is not grieving. He is annoyed by the display of sorrow at Chris's wake, later attending the much less populated wake of Nucci with Carmela. A.J. seems to improve, but falls back into depression after his friends beat up a young black man. He forlornly asks his therapist "why can't we all just get along?" Tony impulsively leaves for Las Vegas after seeing Chris's widow breastfeed their daughter, where he has sex and takes peyote with Chris's former stripper comare. He has a winning streak in roulette, mumbles "he's dead," and collapses in a fit of laughter.

As the waste is dumped into a lake, Tony watches the sun rise over the Red Rock Canyon with the stripper. He sees a flash of light in the sky and cries "I get it!"

S6E19 · The Second Coming

After reading the poem " The Second Coming ", A.J. ties a cinder block to his ankle and jumps into his pool. The rope is too long to keep the block from drowning him but too short for him to escape. Tony finds and saves him, initially furious but trying to comfort A.J. after seeing how distressed he is. A guilty Carmela and Tony blame each other. In a therapy session with his parents, A.J. recounts upsetting memories of them going back to his childhood and mentions Livia's depressing words having an effect on him.

Tony rejects Melfi's idea that A.J.'s attempt could have been a cry for help, and mentions that, in Las Vegas, he realized that there is "something else" beyond the human experience, but does not want to look into it further. Elliot Kupferberg tells Melfi that a recent study shows sociopaths use therapy as a way to sharpen their skills. Phil rejects Tony's compromise about the asbestos. A Lupertazzi capo harasses Meadow, who has recently committed to law school and started to date Patsy 's son. When Tony finds out, he curb stomps the man. Little Carmine again tries to broker peace, but Phil refuses to see Tony.

S6E20 · The Blue Comet

Silvio kills Carlo's cousin for trying to defect to the Lupertazzis. Phil orders Tony, Silvio and Bobby killed. The FBI warns Tony, and he orders a hit on Phil. In inpatient, A.J. notices his friend's ex-girlfriend and the two begin seeing each other after they are discharged. Janice tells Tony that Junior's savings can no longer pay for his facility and asks him to help, but he refuses. Melfi, at a dinner with her colleagues, hears about the study again, and she later reads it and realizes it applies to Tony.

As he complains about his children in his next session, she becomes increasingly short and tells him she intends to stop treating him. He argues with her but she remains unmoved and closes the door after he leaves. The hitmen go to the house of Phil's comare and, mistaking her father for Phil, kill them both. Tony learns of the failed hit and orders everyone to go into hiding, but Bobby is killed and Silvio is shot, leaving him in a coma. Tony orders Carmela to go into hiding and tries to get A.J. to do the same, but when he begins to cry over Bobby, Tony drags him out of bed and throws him to the floor. Tony goes to a safe house and lies in bed, clutching the rifle Bobby gave him.

S6E21 · Made in America

Tony gives the FBI information on a pair of suspicious Muslim men who hang around the Bada Bing in exchange for Phil's general location on Long Island. Phil rejects peace and warns his underboss, Butchie DeConcini, that there will be consequences for failing to kill Tony. Butchie agrees to a truce with Tony in exchange for sanctioning Phil's death and paying Janice for Bobby's hit. Tony's men find Phil and kill him. A.J. announces his intent to join the army, but his parents convince him to work for Little Carmine's production company instead.

Meadow gets engaged to her boyfriend and is fully dedicated to becoming a white-collar crime lawyer, leaving Tony disappointed that she is not going to be a pediatrician. Carlo disappears after his son is arrested; Tony's lawyer suspects that he may have become an informant. Tony offers Carlo's position as capo of the Aprile Crew to Paulie, who reluctantly accepts. Janice visits Junior, now in a state facility, and tries to tell him of Bobby's death. When Tony learns that Janice is trying to find Junior's remaining money, he speaks to him for the first time since the shooting and tries to convince him to give it to Bobby's children, but Junior does not recognize him.

Tony reminds Junior of how "you and my father ran North Jersey," and departs emotionally when Junior murmurs, "Well, that's nice." Tony meets his family in Holsten's diner. While looking for music to play on a tabletop jukebox, he glances over several songs before deciding upon Journey 's " Don't Stop Believin' ". He tells Carmela that Carlo will be testifying against him, and A.J. reminds him to "remember the good times." A man who has been staring at them goes to the restroom near their table, and as Meadow enters the diner, Tony looks up and the shot cuts to black.